On Kawara -- silence / Jeffrey Weiss with Anne Wheeler ; essays by Daniel Buren, Whitney Davis, Maria Gough, Ben Highmore, Tom McCarthy, and Susan Stewart.
Publisher:
Guggenheim Museum Publications,
Copyright Date:
2015
Description:
261 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 x 33 cm
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition 'On Kawara -- Silence,' organized by Jeffrey Weiss with Anne Wheeler, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York February 6-May 3, 2015"--Colophon. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Introduction / Jeffrey Weiss -- Bounded infinity / Jeffrey Weiss -- Works / Anne Wheeler -- Paris-New York drawings -- Early New York paintings -- Codes -- Today -- Journals -- I read -- I got up -- I met -- I went -- I am still alive -- One hundred years calendars -- One million years -- Pure consciousness -- Everyday meditation -- Annal and existence: On Kawara's Date inscriptions / Susan Stewart -- The first Date painting: On Kawara at Altamira / Whitney Davis -- Eighteen semiconnected thoughts on Michel de Certeau, On Kawara, fly fishing, and various other things / Tom McCarthy -- The newsreader / Maria Gough -- "I make love to the days": accounting for On Kawara / Ben Highmore -- A moment's footprint / Daniel Buren.
Summary:
"This exhibition marks the first full museum overview of the work produced by On Kawara after 1963. It has been organized in close collaboration with the artist, who proposed most of the sections that comprise the final structure of the show..."--Introduction, page 19.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.