Objects : USA 2020

Author:

Adamson, Glenn

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Imprint:

New York : Monacelli Press, [2020]

Subject:

Decorative arts - United States - History - 20th century - Exhibitions
Decorative arts - United States - Exhibitions
Art, American - 21st century - Exhibitions

Contributor:

Snyderman, Evan, writer of introduction
Meyers, Zesty, writer of introduction
Jackson-Beckett, Michelle, editor
Hugerth, Mina W., editor
Smith, Paul J., interviewee
Zemaitis, James, contributor
Vigna, Lena, contributor
Kenyon, Gloria, interviewer
R & Company, host institution

ISBN:

9781580935739 and 1580935737

Description:

231 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition at R & Company gallery, New York, Feb. 16-July 2021

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-228)

Contents:

Introduction / Evan Snyderman and Zesty Meyers -- A conversation with Paul J. Smith / Gloria Kenyon -- Unpacking objects: USA / James Zemaitis -- Arts/objects: USA fifty years later / Lena Vigna -- Historical objects -- Objects? USA? / Glenn Adamson -- Contemporary objects -- Artist CV -- Selected bibliography -- Contributors -- Credits -- Acknowledgements and Artists: Tanya Aguiniga - Daniel Arsham - Ebitenyefa Baralaye - Thomas Barger - Dana Barnes - Sharif Bey - Ashwini Bhat - Nicole Cherubini - Liz Collins - Amber Cowan - Jes Fan - Green River Project LLC - Rogan Gregory - The Haas Brothers - Marie Herwald Hermann - Cody Hoyt - Serban Ionescu - Doug Johnson - Hildur Asgeirsdottir Jonsson - Misha Kahn - Christopher Kurtz - Steven Young Lee - Joyce Lin - Nancy Lorenz - Roberto Lugo - Tiff Massey - Luam Melake - Jiha Moon - Jaydan Moore - Kiva Motnyk - William J. O'Brien - Jay Sae Jung Oh - Shin Okuda (WAKA WAKA) - Woody De Othello - Jovencio de la Paz - Monique Pean - Sarah Perkins - Jill Platner - Rowland Ricketss - Anders Herwald Ruhwald - Pamela Sabroso and Alison Siegel - Adam Silverman - John Souter - Katie Stout - Adejoke Tugbiyele - Anna von Mertens - Jesse Wine - David Wiseman - Thaddeus Wolfe - Jeff Zimmerman

Summary:

In 1969, an exhibition opened at the Smithsonian Institution that defined the American studio craft movement. "Objects: USA" united a cohort of artists inventing new approaches to art-making by way of craft media. Subsequently touring to twenty-two museums across the country, where it was viewed by over half a million Americans, and then to eleven cities in Europe, the exhibition canonized such artists as Anni Albers, Sheila Hicks, Wharton Esherick, Wendell Castle, and George Nakashima, and introduced others who would go on to achieve widespread art-world acclaim, including Dale Chihuly, Michele Oka Doner, J. B. Blunk, and Ron Nagle. "Objects: USA 2020" revisits this revolutionary exhibition and its accompanying catalog--which has become a bible of sorts to curators, gallerists, dealers, craftspeople, artists, and auction houses--by pairing fifty participants from the original exhibition with fifty contemporary artists representing the next generation of practitioners to use--and upend--the traditional methods and materials of craft to create new forms of art. Coinciding with an exhibition of the same title, and featuring essays by some of the foremost authorities on craft, including Glenn Adamson, curator and former director of the Museum of Arts & Design; James Zemaitis, curator and former head of twentieth-century design at Sotheby's; and Lena Vigna, curator of exhibitions at the Racine Art Musuem; an interview with Paul J. Smith, the cocurator of Objects: USA; archival photographs of the original exhibition and important historical works; and lush full-color images of contemporary works, "Objects: USA 2020" is an art historical reference that traces how craft was elevated to the status of museum-quality art, and sets its trajectory forward

Collection:

BGC Course Reserves

Call Number:

NK808 .A33 2020

Available

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Course Name:

693. Craft and Design in the USA, 1945 to the Present. BGC Spring 2023

Instructor:

Whalen, C.