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Known for her life-size sculptures madeentirely of beads, Liza Lou has had audiences and critics spellbound since her debut exhibition fifteen years ago. Liza Lou’s sculptures, room-size installations, and performances have been at the center of the art world’s bewilderment and awe since the unveiling of her first masterpiece, Kitchen, in 1996. A true-to-size replica of a kitchen in the midst of a museum gallery would hardly cause a stir, were it not for one important fact: the work is made entirely of beads. Eschewing the well-traveled path in art school to embrace the traditional mediums of painting or sculpture, Lou embarked on forging a body of work unlike any that had been seen before in the art world. In the nearly fifteen years since her auspicious debut, Lou’s work has developed from realistic room-size tableaux taken from everyday life—such as Backyard and Trailer, among others—to works no less monumental in construction and more sober in their themes, such as Security Fence and Cell.In this comprehensive volume devoted to her work, illustrated with two hundred photographs, writers, critics, and scholars explore her work in depth. ... Read more

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Eric Fischl is the first great painter of the U.S. in national decline. His morally ambitious, tragi-comic images reflect the frittering away of American expansiveness, American economic and cultural swagger, American star turns on world stages. After a decade of pace-setting for U.S. visual arts--projecting local projects as universal goods--the U.S. has in Fischl a major artist so homegrown in root and branch as to be practically untranslatable.--Peter Schjeldahl
In the 1980s, American painter Eric Fischl mercilessly captured moments in the lives of the American middle classes. Among the painters of his generation, which most notably include David Salle and Julian Schnabel, Fischl is widely recognized as engaging particularly intensely with this typical national theme. As Fischl himself tells it, painting is a process that turns thoughts into feelings, and that uses form and color to create meaning: "...That is always what I am doing now when I paint: making meaning." Fischl's urge to go beyond formal painterly parameters and to allow subjectivity and content onto his canvases links him to younger painters like Luc Tuymans and Elizabeth Peyton, painters credited with a revival of the medium. In the 1990s, Fischl found new impulses and topics: foreign culture, religious rituals, age, and death now take center stage in his compositions. The motifs in his most recent series are based on digitally manipulated photographs of a sparsely furnished room. This catalogue presents an overview of Fischl's work, illustrating approximately 45 paintings and an equal number of drawings, all made between 1979 and 2001.

Essays by Carolin Bohlmann, Jörg S. Garbrecht, Annelie Lütgens,Peter Schjeldahl andVictoria von Flemming. Interview by Frederic Tuten.~Preface by Gijs van Tuyl.

Hardcover, 9.75 x 11.5 in./136 pgs / 63 color and 30 b & w. ... Read more

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A collection of Dubuffet's mature works (daily life and popular culture in Paris); whimsical paintings; imaginary landscapes; and caricatures of well-known French writers, literary critics, and artists. Companion to an exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. 103 illustrations, 93 in color. ... Read more

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In Search of a Cow Done by Dubuffet
I have been looking forever for a print of a particular cow done by Dubuffet.I have a biography written in German with photos of very strange sculptures, no cows.I have another exhibition (Dallas?) catalog which has absolutely NO pictures.Both came from catalogs with very little description.The bio wasn't even marked as being in German.

This one was put together for the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.IT HAS PICTURES.It also tells about Dubuffet and art in the 20th century, including a timeline.I now know how the cow paintings came to be and how many are in the series.My cow unfortunately was not exhibited at Hirshhorn.It is a textured brown cow on a green background.Have you seen it somewhere?

The exhibit includes portraits and caricatures (some in the vein of "my 5-year can draw better"), cows, landscapes.There are some pearls.There are 2 persons done in butterfly wings that is quite clever.Overall, the exhibit was representative of his work. ... Read more