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Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980-95
Thinking Print Books to Billboards 198095 Author:Deborah Wye, Glenn D. Lowry From Barbara Kruger's screenprinted feminist billboards to Felix Gonzalez-Torres's stacks of posters featuring head shots of people killed by guns; from Elizabeth Murray's colorful abstract lithographs to Anselm Kiefer's woodcuts embedded in Germany history; from Lucian Freud's moody figure study etchings to Donald Judd's rigid, monochromatic, s... more »erially geometric woodcuts--Thinking Printis a broad, ambitious, and varied survey of printed art from the last two decades . Exploring the role of prints, deluxe illustrated books, inexpensive artist's books, and editioned multiples in contemporary art, this exceptionally comprehensive volume covers 235 works by some 147 artists, and includes essays on techniques, formats, and themes, as well as biographic notes on all of the artists and publishers. Originally published on the occasion of a 1996 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Artists Include: Richard Artschwager, Luis Cruz Azaceta, Judith Francisca Baca, John Baldessari, Richard Long,Robert Mangold, Matthias Mansen, Brice Marden, Annette Messager, Yang Soon Min, Marilyn Minter, Richard Mock, Matt Mullican, Brice Marden, Annette Messager,Marilyn Minter,Matt Mullican, Elizabeth Murray, Claus Oldenburg, AR Penck, Howardina Pindell, Marc Quinn, Robert Rauschenberg, Tom Rollins + K.O.S., Kay Rosen, James Rosenquist, Susan Rothenberg, Ed Ruscha, Alison Saar, Joel Shapiro, Silence=Death Project, Lorna Simpson, Kiki Smith, Joan Snyder, Nancy Spero,Art Spiegelman, Frank Stella, Rosemarie Trockel, Lawrence Weiner, and David Wojnarowicz amongst many others. Essay by Deborah Wye.