I stand in my place with my own day here : site-specific art at The New School / conceived and produced by Silvia Rocciolo, Lydia Matthews, and Eric Stark ; edited by Frances Richard ; a collaboration between The New School Art Collection and Parsons Curatorial Design Research Lab.
"Published on the occasion of The New School Centennial." Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Foreword: co-designing a kaleidoscope / Lydia Matthews -- Introduction / Silvia Rocciolo and Eric Stark -- Various, humane, political / Holland Cotter -- Schooled in the new: the arts as social research / Julia L. Foulkes -- Living an learning from the University Center to 66 West 12th Street; or, Arendt in Mar-a-Lago / Reinhold Martin. Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street. Thomas Hart Benton: America today, 1930-31 : From The New School to The Motropolitan Museum of Art: the odyssey of Thomas Hart Benton's "Ameria Today" / Randall Griffey -- The ghost of progress past / Luc Sante -- Paid in eggs / Mira Schor. José Clemente Orozco: Call to revolution and table of universal brotherhood (The New School mural cycle), 1930-31 : Orozco's New School murals: activating revolutionary thought / Anna Indych-López and Lynda Klich -- The chains in Orozco's murals / Otto Von Busch -- Center of gravity: Orozco / Roberto Tejada. Camilo Egas: Ecuadorian festival, 1932 : A celebration of dance / Michele Greet -- Celebration as resistance / Heather Reyes -- New School desires: "poised precisely between fantasy and reality" / Jasmine Rault. Gonzalo Fonseca: Untitled, 1961 : Gonzalo Fonseca and universality modernism / Edward J. SUllivan -- Solve et coagula / Hugh Raffles -- When a mural is a blueprint / Mónica de la Torre. Martin Puryear + Michael Van Valkenburgh: Vera list courtyard, 1997 : Vera list courtyard: a brief history / Kathleen Goncharov -- Inside out: outside in / Sarah E. Lawrence -- Seats of tension: collaboration, access, security, expression / Laura Y. Liu -- Vera list courtyard and the cultural wars / Olu Oguibe. Dave Muller: Interpolations and extrapolations, 2002-03; Extensions (interpolations and extrapolations), 2008 : INterpolating and extrapolating / Stefano Basilico -- Brand new / Jeffrey Kastner -- Identity interpolated and extrapolated / Jamer Hunt. Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th Street. Sol LeWitt: Wall drawing #1073, Bars of color (New School), 2003 : #1073 / Tan Lin -- LeWitt's problem(s) / Jennifer Wilson -- One sentence for Sol LeWitt / Saul Anton. Kara Walker: Event horizon, 2005 : HIstory's worth of fictions / Mabel O. Wilson -- On Kara Walker's Event horizon / Maggie Nelson -- Black Atlantis / Naomi Beckwith. Brian Tolle: Threshold, 2006 : The gendle wind doth move visibly / Shannon Mattern -- Unsettled / Victoria Hattam -- Of two minds / Carin Kuoni -- Quiet possibilities of the subjunctive / G.E. Patterson. University Center, 63 Fifth Avenue. Rita McBride: Bells and whistles, 2009-14 : Mnemonics and pneumatics / Robert Kirkbride -- Ringing bells, blowing whistles / Daniel A. Barber -- Breaking out of school / Elizabeth Ellsworth. Alfredo Jaar: Searching for Africa in Life, 1996/2014 : Searcing blindly / Radhika Subramaniam -- An absence that conjures a presence / Omar Berrada -- Alfredo Jaar: dialectic of sight / Jennifer A. González -- The blink of failure: imagining life in Africa / Tisa Bryant. Glenn Ligon: For comrades and lovers, 2015 : Democractic vistas of space / Carl Hancock Rux -- Among the throng: Glenn Ligon situates Whitman / Wendy S. Walters -- Incantations / Luis Jaramillo -- For comrades and lovers; a dialogue / Claudia Rankine. Agnes Denes: Pascal's perfect probability pyramid and the people paradox--the predicament (ppppppp), 1980/2016 : In formation / Aruna D'Souza -- The one who is the one who is the one who is not many. Thoughts called forth by Agnes Denes's Pascal's perfect probability pyramid and the people paradox--the predicament (ppppppp) -- Agnes Denes: Promethea of paradox / Lucy R. Lippard. "Organized by fascination": a roundtable conversation on art, institutions, and pedagogy / Carol Becker, Gregg Bordowitz, Pablo Helguera, and Lydia Matthews; moderated by Frances Richard -- Histories of the commissions -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary:
Features essays by more than fifty renowned international writers who consider thirteen monumental works of art created for The New School between 1930 and the present. The nucleus of The New School's Art Collection, these commissions--ranking among the finest site-specific works in New York City--range from murals by José Clemente Orozco and Thomas Hart Benton to installations by Agnes Denes, Kara Walker, Alfredo Jaar, Glenn Ligon, Sol LeWitt, and Martin Puryear + Michael Van Valkenburgh, among others. Providing a kaleidoscopic view into these works, this richly illustrated volume explores each installation through three to four essays written by critics, poets, and scholars from diverse fields including anthropology, mathematics, art history, media studies, and design. Their texts are complemented by three additional essays reflecting on each piece's art historical significance; the architectural contexts in which the works reside on the university's campus; and The New School's relationship to adventurous art practice. Also included is a roundtable discussion among leading arts educators and artists who reflect on the pedagogical potential of a campus-based contemporary art collection. The book's final section presents a history of each commissioned work, highlighted by archival images never before published.
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.