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Author:

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), author.

Title:

The artist project : what artists see when they look at art / The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Publisher:

Phaidon Press Limited ;

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

271 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 32 cm

Subject:

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)--Catalogs.
Art appreciation.
Art criticism.
Art, Modern--21st century.
Artists--Interviews.
Art--New York--New York--Catalogs.

Contents:

Foreword / Thomas P. Campbell -- How artists see art / Christopher Noey -- The artist project. Vito Acconci: Gerrit Rietveld's Zig Zag Stoel -- Ann Agee: Villeroy Harlequin Family -- Njideka Akunyili Crosby: George Seurat's Embroidery; The Artist's Mother -- Ghada Amer: Garden Gathering -- Kamrooz Aram: Ancient arts of Iran -- Cory Arcangel: Harpsichord -- John Baldessari: Philip Guston's Stationary Figure -- Barry x Ball: Egyptian fragment of a queen's face -- Ali Banisadr: Hieronymous Bosch's The Adoration of the Magi -- Dia Batal: Syrian tile panel with calligraphic inscription -- Zoe Beloff: Édouard Manet's Civil War (Guerre Civile) -- Dawoud Bey: Roy Decarava's photographs -- Nayland Blake: Power Object (Boli) -- Barbara Bloom: Vilhelm Hammershøi's Moonlight, Strandgade 30 -- Andrea Bowers: Howardena Pindell's works on paper -- Mark Bradford: Clyfford Still's paintings -- Cecily Brown: Medieval sculptures of the Madonna and child -- Luis Camnitzer: Giovanni Battista Piranesi's etchings -- Nick Cave: Kuba cloths -- Alejandro Cesarco: Alberto Giacometti and Balthus in gallery 907 -- Enrique Chagoya: Goya's Los Caprichos -- Roz Chast: Italian Renaissance painting -- Willie Cole: Ci Wara sculpture -- George Condo: Claude Monet's The Path through the Irises -- Petah Coyne: Japanese outer robe with Mount Hōrai -- John Currin: Ludovico Carracci's The Lamentation -- Moyra Davey: Rosary terminal bead with lovers and death's head -- Edmund De Waal: Ewer in the shape of Tibetan monk's cap -- Thomas Demand: Studiolo from the Ducal Palace in Gubbio -- Teresita Fernández: Pre-Columbian gold -- Spencer Finch: William Michael Harnett's The Artist's Letter Rack --
Eric Fischl: Max Beckmann's Beginning -- Roland Flexner: Jacques de Gheyn II's Vanitas Still Life -- Walton Ford: Jan van Eyck's The Last Judgment -- Natalie Frank: Käthe Kollwitz's prints -- Latoya Ruby Frazier: Gordon Park's Red Jackson -- Suzan Frecon: Duccio di Buoninsegna's Madonna and Child -- Adam Fuss: Marble grave stele of a little girl -- Maureen Gallace: Paul Cézanne's still life paintings -- Jeffrey Gibson: Vanuatu slit gongs -- Nan Goldin: Julia Margaret Cameron's photographs -- Wenda Gu: Robert Motherwell's Lyric Suite -- Diana Al-Hadid: Cubiculum, Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale -- Ann Hamilton: Bamana marionette -- Jane Hammond: Snapshots and vernacular photography -- Jacob El Hanani: Master of the Barbo Missal's Mishneh torah -- Zarina Hashmi: Arabic calligraphy -- Sheila Hicks: Prayer book: Arganonä Maryam -- Rashid Johnson: Robert Frank's photographs -- Y. Z. Kami: Egyptian mummy portraits -- Deborah Kass: Greek vases -- Nina Katchadourian: Early Netherlandish portraiture -- Alex Katz: Franz Kline's Black, White, and Gray -- Jeff Koons: Roman sculpture -- An-My Lê: Eugène Atget's Cuisine -- Il Lee: Rembrandt's portraits -- Lee Mingwei: Chinese ceremonial robes -- Lee Ufan: Moon jar -- Glenn Ligon: The Great Bieri -- Lin Tianmiao: Alex Katz's Black and Brown Blouse -- Kalup Linzy: Édouard Manet's paintings --
Robert Longo: Jackson Pollock's Autumn Rhythm (Number 30) -- Nicola López: Works on paper -- Nalini Malani: Hanuman Bearing the Mountaintop with Medicinal Herbs -- Kerry James Marshall: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres's Odalisque in Grisaille -- Josiah McElheny: Horace Pippin's paintings -- Laura McPhee: Pieter Bruegel the Elder's The Harvesters -- Josephine Meckseper: George Tooker's Government Bureau -- Julie Mehretu: Velázquez's Juan de Pareja -- Alexander Melamid: Ernest Meissonier's 1807, Friedland -- Mariko Mori: Botticelli's The Annunciation -- Vik Munoz: The Henry R. Luce Center for the Study of American Art -- Wangechi Mutu: Egon Schiele's drawings -- James Nares: Chinese calligraphy -- Catherine Opie: Louis XIV's bedroom -- Cornelia Parker: Robert Capa's The Falling Soldier -- Izhar Patkin: Shiva as Lord of the Dance -- Sheila Pepe: European armor -- Raymond Pettibon: Joseph Mallord William Turner's paintings -- Sopheap Pich: Vincent van Gogh's drawings -- Robert Polidori: Jules Bastien-Lepage's Joan of Arc -- Rona Pondick: Egyptian sculptural fragments -- Liliana Porter: Jacometto's Portrait of a Young Man -- Wilfredo Prieto: Auguste Rodin's sculptures -- Rashid Rana: Umberto Boccioni's Unique Forms of Continuity in Space -- Krishna Reddy: Henry Moore's sculptures -- Matthew Ritchie: The Triumphs of Fame over Death -- Dorothea Rockburne: Ancient Near Eastern head of a ruler -- Alexis Rockman: Martin Johnson Heade's Hummingbird and Passionflowers -- Annabeth Rosen: Ceramic deer figurines -- Martha Rosler: The Met Cloisters --
Tom Sachs: Shaker retiring room -- David Salle: Marsden Hartley's paintings -- Carolee Schneemann: Cycladic female figures -- Dana Schutz: Balthus's The Mountain -- Arlene Shechet: Bronze statuette of a veiled and masked dancer -- James Siena: Buddha of Medicine Bhaishajyaguru -- Katrín Sigurdardóttir: Hôtel de Cabris, Grasse, France -- Shahzia Sikander: Persian miniature painting -- Joan Snyder: Florine Stettheimer's Cathedrals paintings -- Pat Steir: Kongo power figure -- Thomas Struth: Chinese Buddhist sculpture -- Hiroshi Sugimoto: Bamboo in the Four Seasons -- Eve Sussman: William Eggleston's photographs -- Swoon: Honoré Daumier's The Third-Class Carriage -- Sarah Sze: Tomb of Perneb -- Paul Tazewell: Anthony van Dyck's portraits -- Wayne Thiebaud: Rosa Bonheur's The Horse Fair -- Hank Willis Thomas: Daguerreotype button -- Mickalene Thomas: Seydou Keïta's photographs -- Fred Tomaselli: Guru Dragpo -- Jacques Villeglé: Georges Braque's and Pablo Picasso's paintings -- Mary Weatherford: Goya's Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga -- William Wegman: Walker Evans's postcard collection -- Kehinde Wiley: John Singer Sargent's paintings -- Betty Woodman: Minoan terracotta larnax -- Xu Bing: Jean-François Millet's Haystacks: Autumn -- Dustin Yellin: Ancient Near Eastern cylinder seals -- Lisa Yuskavage: Édouard Vuillard's The Green Interior -- Zhang Xiaogang: El Greco's The Vision of Saint John -- Artists biographies -- Captions and credits.

Summary:

Since The Metropolitan Museum of Art's founding in New York City nearly 150 years ago, generations of artists have found boundless inspiration in its galleries. "The Artist Project" celebrates the role that great art plays in spurring creativity in the twenty-first century. Interviews with 120 international contemporary artists discussing works from The Met's collection that spark their imagination offer new insights into art, museums, and the creative process. Images of the works from The Met appear alongside images of the contemporary artists' work, allowing readers to discover a rich web of visual connections that spans cultures and millennia.

ISBN:

0714873543
9780714873541

OCLC:

(OCoLC)972082677

LCCN:

2017446895

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)