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INTERPRETING CONTEMPORARY ART Critical Views In the same series The New Museology edited by PeterVergo RenaissanceBodies editedby Lucy Gent and Nigel Llewellyn Modernism in Design edited by Paul Greenhalgh INTERPRETING CONTEMPORARY ART Edited by Stephen Bann and William Alien REAKTION BOOKS PublishedbyReaktionBooksLtd 1-5 MidfordPlace,TottenhamCourtRoad London WIP 9HH, UK FirstPublished 1991 Copyright© ReaktionBooksLtd1991 Allrightsreserved. Nopartofthispublication maybereproduced,storedinaretrievalsystem,or transmitted,inanyform orbyanymeans,electronic, mechanical,photocopying,recordingorotherwise, withoutthepriorpermissionofthepublishers. DesignedbyHumphreyStone PhotosetbyWilmaset,Birkenhead,Wirral ColourprintedinGreatBritainby BaldingandMansellplc,Wisbech, Cambridgeshire PrintedandboundinGreatBritainby RedwoodPressLtd,Melksham,Wiltshire BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Interpretingcontemporaryart. 1.Visualarts, 1970- I.Bann,Stephen II. Alien,William I967- 7°9·°47 ISBN0-948462.-15-9 ISBN0-948462.-14-0pbk Contents Photographic Acknowledgements VI Notes on the Artists vii Colour Illustrations IX Notes on the Editors and Contributors XVll Introduction Stephen Bann andWilliam Alien I Art and Literature: Robert Motherwell's Riverrun I Marcelin Pleynet I I 2 The Shining Cuckoo Wystan Curnow 27 3 Jannis Kounellis and the Question of High Art Stephen Bann and William Alien 47 4 David Reed: An Abstract Painter in the Age of 'Postmodernism' David Carrier 67 5 Romance of the Real: Jonathan Lasker's Double-Play Rainer Crone and DavidMoos 85 6 Susan Smith's Archaeology Yve-Alain Bois 102 7 Perverse Space Victor Burgin 124 8 'Salle/Lemieux': Elements of a Narrative Paul Smith 139 9 Echo and Reflections David Reason 162 10 From World to Earth: Richard Deacon and the End of Nature Michael Newman 177 References 205 Select Bibliography 224 Index 227 Photographic Acknowledgements Alinari p. 78 bottom, Richard Deacon pp. 198, 199, 200, Ruth Kaiser p. 59, LissonGallery, Londonpp. 188,196,MassimoAudielloGallery,NewYorkpp. xiii, 96 top and bottom, 97, 98, Sue OrmerodlWhitechapel ArtGalleryp. 182, RichardStoner p. 144. Notes on the Artists ROBERTMOTHERWELLwasbornin1915inAberdeen,Washington,USA.After studyingliterature,philosophyandaestheticsatStanfordandHarvardUniversi ties, he beganto paintin 1940.Through theencouragementofMeyerSchapiro hemetmanyEuropeanexilesinNewYork,andhisownfirstone-manshowwas presented by Peggy Guggenheim at the Art of This Century Gallery in 1944. Since then he has exhibited regularly in the United States and Europe. A retrospective exhibition of his work opened at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, in 1983 and subsequently travelled to Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle,WashingtonandNewYork.Thisconfirmedhisstatureasoneofthemost imaginativeandproductivepaintersofthesecondhalfofthetwentiethcentury. COLIN MCCAHON was born inTimaru in 1919 and died in Auckland in 1987, havinglivedinNewZealandallhislifeapartfromvisitstoAustralia(1951) and the United States (1958). Always a painter of powerful images, these were sometimes abstract, landscape or of text, and later a combination of all three. Death and the problem of beliefwere his abidingsubjects. JANNIS KOUNELLIS was bornin 1936inPiraeus, Greece. In 1956hemoved to Rome where he still lives. In the last two decades he has exhibited widely. International institutions that have produced catalogues accompanying their one-manshowsoftheartistincludeARC/Museed'ArtdelaVilledePa~·is(1980); Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Amsterdam (198crl, travelled); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1986). DAVIDREED,whohaslivedfortwentyyearsinTribeca,NewYork,continuesto paint through various 'deaths of painting'. Before moving to New York, he painted the landscapes of the American southwest. Inspired by the space and light of the desert, he thought the Grand Canyon 'the source and home of American painting'. More recently he has travelled extensively in Italy, tracing the influences on and ofthe Carracci. JONATHAN LASKERwasborninJerseyCity,NewJersey,in 1948.Hestudiedat the School of Visual Arts, New York, and the California Institute of the Arts (1975-7).Inthelastdecadehisworkhasbeenshowninanumberofgalleriesin EuropeandAmerica: hehasheldsoloexhibitions,mostrecentlyintheMassimo Notes on the Artists VIU Audiello Gallery, New York (1988, 1989), the Gian Enzo Sperone Gallery, Rome (1988), and Michael Werner, Cologne (1980). He is represented in a number of public collections including the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, and the HirshhornMuseum, Washington. SUSAN SMITH was born in Greensberg, Pennsylvania, and lives and works in New York. She has had solo exhibitions at a number of New York galleries, including most recently the Margarete Roeder Gallery (1989). Her pictorial workhasalwaysdealtwitharchitecture- assite,asconstructionandasmemory. She has been involved with the type ofassemblages discussed here, which take theirstartingpointin found demolition material, sincethe mid-I 980s. HELMUT NEWTON was born in Berlin in 1920. He emigrated to Australia and workedasafreelancephotographerinSydneyinthemid-1940S. Laterhesettled in Paris and Monaco. His photographs have appeared regularly in the German magazineStern andtheFrenchandAmericaneditionsof Vogueinrecentyears. AmonghisbooksofphotographsareSleeplessNights (1978),47Nudes (1982) andWorld withoutMen (1986). DAVID SALLEwasborninNorman, Oklahoma,in 1952andlivesandworksin New York. His one-man shows have been seen at the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, the Museum Boy mans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam (in 1983) and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (in 1988). ANNETTE LEMIEUXwasborninNorfolk,Virginia,in1957,studiedatHartford ArtSchool,Connecticut(BFA,1980)andnowlivesandworksinNewYork.She hasexhibitedintheCash/NewhouseGallery,NewYork(1984and1986),andin HollySolomonGallery'sgroupshow'57St.BetweenA& D' (1985,NewYork). Homecoming, 1985, was exhibitedin the 1987Whitney Museum ofAmerican ArtBiennial, New York. HAMISH FULTONwasbornin1946andlivesnearCanterburyinKent,England. HamishFulton:SelectedWalks I969-89 (1990) (withessaysbyMichaelAuping and David Reason) was recently published on the occasion of an exhibition organizedbytheAlbright-KnoxArtGallery,Buffalo,NewYork.Theexhibition travelled to the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, and the Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City. RICHARD DEACONwas bornin 1949inBangor,Wales, andlivesandworks in London. He is represented by the Lisson Gallery, London, and the Marian Goodman Gallery, New York. Among his one-man exhibitions were the FruitmarketGallery, Edinburgh (1984, travelled),Tateand SerpentineGallery, London (1985), Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, and Museum of Con temporary Art, Los Angeles (1988), Whitechapel Art Gallery (1988--9), Kunst nirnes Hus, Oslo, and Saatchi Collection (1990). In 1987 he was awarded the TurnerPrize.

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