Black and allegory / The high of style and the law of its fetishism : The incomist's morning : A twilight painting / Claudio Parmiggiani -- Method and taboo : The sexuality of images / Eric Fischl -- Salle's image-ing : collision and collusion : Ellipsis and conflation : Salle's imploded vision of art history / David Salle -- Conversations with demons and angels / Julian Schnabel -- The art naturalist / Terry Winters -- Historicity and archetypes : The flesh of the wood, the flood of the mask : Vanitas : the tailors vs. art & the oils / Ray Smith -- The seventh wheel of the chariot / Enzo Cucchi -- The father, the twins, and the holy spiral / Sandro Chia -- Portrait of the M'Other by himself / Francesco Clemente -- Who paints abstractly? / Nicola De Maria -- Mani di lampo : the painter of folly / Mimmo Paladino -- Six images in search of meaning / Lucio Pozzi -- Black and allegory / Claudio Parmiggiani -- Reconstructive painting / Richmond Burton, Moira Dryer -- Transapparitions : the infinite paintings of Sigmar Polke / Sigmar Polke -- The forest of symbols, on its head / Georg Baselitz -- The new Merzbau 1989 / Gerhard Merz -- Painting, action, and the silence of symbols / Günter Förg -- A kitchen for homeless painting / Rosemarie Trockel -- Painting as a well-tempered ruin / Michael Van Ofen -- The iconographic abstraction : Abstraction into iconography / Ross Bleckner ... [et al.] -- Art of darkness : The anxiety of images in a post-geometrical space : Falling birds, rising night ; Naming bodies visible and invisible / Ross Bleckner -- At onement with history : Painter in the autumn of the media age / Philip Taaffe -- Social geometry and the theorem of art : Painting at the end of painting : History's prisoner? / Peter Halley -- Reconstructive painting / Richmond Burton, Moira Dryer -- Portrait of the artist as/at a brick wall / Annette Lamieux -- Centrality, symmetry, wholeness : a quest and an anxiety 1989 : Painting : the eternal return of the same : painting : Index. Art at the end of nature? : Melancholia : an anatomy of painting / Richmond Burton -- The suspension of art and the R'existence of painting / Sherrie Levine -- Unique forms of deviation in space / Roni Horn -- Painting in the age of its meta-mechanical production : The comic (in) revolution / Meyer Vaisman -- The architect of the multiverse / Matt Mullican -- The art of history : The art of Sisyphus : Up against the work : Portrait of the artist as/at a brick wall / Annette Lamieux -- Illustrated works -- Appendix. List of illustrated works ; Photo credits ; Chronology ; Index.
Summary:
This volume collects texts written by Mario Diacono to accompany exhibitions held in his New York and Boston galleries.
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.