Contemporary Voices: Works from The UBS Art Collection - Hardcover

Temkin, Ann

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0870700898 ISBN 13: 9780870700897

Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2005

Synopsis

HardCover. Pub Date: 2005 Pages: 264 This visually in my field adequately book presenting a selection of signature works by European and American artists of the postwar generations. is drawn from the UBS Art Collection. one of the richest and most varied holdings of international contemporary art in the United States. The Collection was begun in 1970 by Donald B. Marron. UBS's American Chairman. a Vice Chairman and former President of the Museum. and a Trustee of the Museum since 1975. This unique publication accompanies an exhibition of 74 of these outstanding works of art. including 44 works that were a gift to the Museum in 2002. The works reproduced here include paintings. sculptures. drawings. photographs. and mixed-media works by a wide and varied array of important artists. including Joseph Beuys. Chuck Close. Jasper Johns. Anselm Kiefer. ice Marden. Robert Rauschenbe...

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Synopsis:

This visually exciting book presents a selection of signature works by European and American artists of the postwar generations, drawn from the UBS Art Collection, one of the richest and most varied holdings of international contemporary art in the United States. This unique publication accompanies an exhibition of seventy-four of these outstanding works of art, including forty-four works that were a gift to The Museum of Modern Art in 2002. The works reproduced here include paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs and mixed-media works by a wide and varied array of important artists, including Joseph Beuys, Chuck Close, Jasper Johns, Anselm Kiefer, Brice Marden, Robert Rauschenberg, Susan Rothenburg, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol and others. In addition, Ann Temkin has interviewed eleven of these artists for the book, producing illuminating conversations about how they work, the origins of their ideas and other topics. The artists interviewed include Vija Celmins, Damien Hirst, Susan Rothenburg, Ed Ruscha, Robert Ryman, Lorna Simpson and others. Finally, the book also contains an interview with Donald B.

Marron, a former President of MoMA and the person who as Chairman of UBS began the collection.

About the Author:

Ann Temkin is a curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0870700898
• ISBN 13: 9780870700897
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 264