Roger Brown

Offers a profile of the Alabama-born artist, shows a selection of his paintings, sculpture, posters, and sketches, and discusses his use of topical themes

Arts & Photography

YAU, John

Brown, Roger

Lawrence, Sidney

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Individual Artists

George Braziller

As part of the Smithsonian Institution, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden belongs to the nation. Its distinctive circular building on the Mall is a Washington landmark, holding one of the world's finest and most comprehensive collections of twentieth-century art. This sumptuous volume highlights 150 works in full-color reproductions, creating a survey of the century that begins with Auguste Rodin's monumental Burghers of Calais of 1884-89 and comes to the present. It also serves as an introduction to the pleasures of the museum itself. Stimulating commentaries on the individual works by the museum's curators offer a wealth of information in an easy, informal style. James T. Demetrion, the director, contributes a brief history of the museum and its collection and how it evolved out of one man's passion for collecting new art. Many internationally known artists of the twentieth century are included in this selection, together with contemporary and emerging ones. Europe and America are equally well represented, as are painting and sculpture. This book presents a great museum and provides an overview of a century of creative energy. It is written for the general reader, but students and scholars will also find much in it to interest them.

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: 150 Works of Art

McAllister, Jane

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Hirschorn Museum & Sculpture

One of the leading artists of his generation, the Spanish sculptor Juan Muñoz (1953-2001) was known for his diverse and highly original body of work centering on the narrative possibilities of figures in environments. Juan Muñoz illustrates in full color approximately sixty works?including sculptures, drawings, and several major installations?which will be included in a major exhibition presented by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the Art Institute of Chicago in October 2001. Muñoz's early work focused on architectural objects that implied a transitory human presence. Then, defying the trend among progressive artists, he began to introduce figures into his work. Casting his figures in papier-mâché, resin, and eventually bronze, Muñoz limited their size and descriptive details to heighten their psychological impact. In the 1990s, Muñoz created his signature "conversation pieces," large ensembles of figures installed in indoor or outdoor settings. Calling upon a wide range of sources in literature, music, film, as well as painting and sculpture, Muñoz's work explores the nature of psychological interaction and engages the viewer on a variety of perceptual levels. Juan Muñoz includes essays by Neal Benezra, art critic Michael Brenson, and Olga Viso, as well as an interview with the artist by Paul Shimmel. Also featuring highlights from a 2001 installation commissioned by London's Tate Modern, Juan Muñoz is the most comprehensive overview of this challenging and exciting artist's work.

Juan Munoz

Muñoz, Juan

Benezra, Neal David

Art Institute Of Chicago

Study & Teaching

Art Inst of Chicago Museum Shop

Russkai͡a︡ i sovetskai͡a︡ zhivopisʹ 1900-1930 =: Russian and Soviet paintings 1900-1930 : selections from the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, and the State Russian Museum, Leningrad

Distributed by Smithsonian Institution Press

Book by Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Miró, selected paintings

Smithsonian Institution Press : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off

Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Des Moines Art Center, and traveling to other venues.

Robert Arneson : A Retrospective

Benezra, Neal

Portland Art Museum (Or.)

Des Moines Art Center

Arneson, Robert

The Hirshhorn Collects: Recent Acquisitions 1992-1996

Eickel, Nancy

Richard Lindner (1901-1978), a German-born refugee from Nazi oppression who settled in New York, created a bold and deeply disturbing body of work completely at odds with that city's vanguard of the 195Os. A former commercial artist, Lindner drew on personal memory and his emigre cultural heritage to fashion images of a bizarre and lurid humanity. Grotesque children, automaton couples, and denizens of the urban underworld populate his canvases. While his bold, precision-tooled figurative paintings found an appreciative audience in the 196Os with the advent of Pop Art, Lindner nonetheless remained a resolutely independent artist whose paintings speak to the alienation and moral crises of this century and evoke the absurdity of the human condition. Richard Lindner: Paintings and Watercolors, 1948-1977 includes 73 oil paintings and watercolors in full color, some of which have never before been exhibited or published. The book is based on the first exhibition of Lindner's work in a generation, organized by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, which reexamines Lindner's life and traces the unfolding thematic content of his art from the late 194Os until his death in 1978. Essays are by organizing curator Judith Zilczer, Curator of Paintings at the Hirshhorn Museum, and Peter Selz, Professor Emeritus of the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Zilczer explores the biographical and cultural sources for Lindner's figurative symbolism, while Professor Selz analyzes Lindner's controversial images of women.

Richard Lindner: Paintings and Watercolors 1948-1977

SELZ, Peter

Zilczer, Judith

Haus Der Kunst Munchen

Prestel Pub

This text examines 20 years of work by Canadian artist, Jeff Wall, whose constructed photographs of suburban landscapes and dramatic mise-en-scene explore the topography of everyday relations. He combines the scale and composition of the old masters with technology, to create huge transparencies which are exhibited on lightboxes. The book not only surveys his entire career to date, but also celebrates Wall's writings. Wall is to be the subject of surveys at MOCA, Chicago; Whitechapel, London; and Jeu de Paume, paris in 1995/1996. The book is part of a series of studies of important artists of the late-20th century. Each title offers a comprehensive survey of the artist's work, providing analyses and multiple perspectives on contemporary art and its inspiration.

Jeff Wall

Brougher, Kerry

Wall, Jeff

Museum of Co

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

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