German edition's title: Meret Oppenheim : mon exposition.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references. Exhibition: Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland (22.10.2021-13.02.2022) / The Menil Collection, Houston, USA (25.03-18.09.2022) / The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (30.10.2022-04.03.2023). "A German-language edition of this book has been published in collaboration with Hirmer Publishers, Munich, under the title Meret Oppenheim: Mon exposition."--Page 187.
Contents:
Directors' foreword -- Acknowledgements -- "Finally! Freedom!": The work of Meret Oppenheim, 1932-1954 -- Meret Oppenheim as a contemporary artist: five close-ups, 1966-1982 -- The art of retrospection Meret Oppenheim's "Imaginary exhibition" drawings, 1983 -- Plates M.O.: My exhibition.
Summary:
Over the course of her protean career, Meret Oppenheim produced witty, unconventional bodies of work that defy neat categorizations of medium, style and subject matter. "Nobody will give you freedom," she stated in 1975, "you have to take it." Her freewheeling, subversively humorous approach modeled a dynamic artistic practice in constant flux, yet held together by the singularity and force of her creative vision. Published in conjunction with the first ever major transatlantic Meret Oppenheim retrospective, and the first in the United States in over 25 years, this publication surveys work from the radically open Swiss artist's precocious debut in 1930s Paris, the period during which her notorious fur-lined Object in MoMA's collection was made, through her post-World War II artistic development, which included engagements with international Pop, Nouveau Realisme and Conceptual art, and up to her death in 1985. Essays by curators from the Kunstmuseum Bern, the Menil Collection and the Museum of Modern Art critically examine the artist's wide-ranging, wildly imaginative body of work, and her active role in shaping the narrative of her life and art, providing the context for her creative production pre- and post-World War II.
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