Edward de Bono invented the term "lateral thinking" and defined it as such: "1.You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper. 2.Lateral Thinking is for changing concepts and perceptions instead of trying harder with the same concepts and perceptions. 3.In self-organizing information systems, asymmetric patterns are formed; Lateral Thinking is a method for cutting across from one pattern to another." As the title of this book, Lateral Thinking refers to the non-traditional approach that the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, has applied to building its collection. Curatorially independent, striking a balance between the regional and the global, the emerging artist and the established figure, the MCA has always worked to represent important developments in mainstream art while also identifying significant developments that fall outside of conventional categories. The museum's efforts to illuminate a new axis mapping the contemporary art world--one running north and south through North, Central, and South America instead of east and west through the United States and Europe. Featuring the work, in virtually all media, of more than 65 artists including Matthew Barney, José Bedia, Vanessa Beecroft, John Currin, David Hammons, Gary Hill, Gabriel Orozco, Edward Ruscha, Cindy Sherman, and Lisa Yuskavage. Artsist Include: Barney, Yuskavage, Beecroft, Currin, Hammons, Hill, Hirst, Kentridge, Orozco, Ruscha,Sherman, amongst amny others. Essays by Toby Kamps. Introduction by Hugh M. Davies.

Lateral Thinking: Art of the 1990s

Toby Kamps

Museum of Contemporary Art San

<p>Borrowing its title from Greil Marcus' 1997 book <i>The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes</i>, this publication is produced in conjunction with an exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, which considers the work of 16 artists who explore American folk imagery and history from the time of European settlement to the 1960s. Dylan, Marcus argues, was influential because he explored an older, half-forgotten world of American legend that seemed at once stranger and more telling than anything found in the mainstream. The artists featured in this volume, all of whom came to prominence in the last decade, include Jeremy Blake, Sam Durant, Barnaby Furnas, Brad Kahlhamer, Margaret Kilgallen, Dario Robleto, Allison Smith and Kara Walker, among others. As a group, they draw on folklore for its ability to illuminate American cultural life in its strange mixture of civilization and barbarism, enlightenment and madness.</p>

The Old, Weird America

Michael, Duncan

Colleen Sheehy

Dario Robleto

Arts & Photography

Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston

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