Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory

Gary Garrels, et al.

ISBN 10: 030023421X / ISBN 13: 9780300234213

Published by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in Association with Yale University Press, San Francisco/New Haven, 2018

About this Item

cloth, hardcover in dust jacket., no flaws or wear. clean. no markings. no bumps, tears, creases. strong tight binding. an unused copy.; english text.; 272pp., 209 illustrations. mostly color, though a number of the works were done without color. seven essays by various contributors. catalogue. reference section. a comprehensive retrospective. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Seller Inventory # 24035

Bibliographic Details

Title: Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory

Publisher: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in Association with Yale University Press, San Francisco/New Haven

Publication Date: 2018

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Edition: First Edition.

Book Type: Exhibition Catalogue

About this title

Synopsis:

The beautiful catalogue that accompanies the critically-acclaimed exhibition currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum 

Best known for her striking drawings of ocean surfaces, begun in 1968 and revisited over many years both in drawings and paintings, Vija Celmins (b. 1938) has been creating exquisitely detailed renderings of natural imagery for more than five decades. The oceans were followed by desert floors and night skies―all subjects in which vast, expansive distances are distilled into luminous, meticulous, and mesmerizing small-scale artworks. For Celmins, this obsessive “redescribing” of the world is a way to understand human consciousness in relation to lived experience.
 
The first major publication on the artist in twenty years, this comprehensive and lavishly illustrated volume explores the full range of Celmins’s work produced since the 1960s―drawings and paintings as well as sculpture and prints. Scholarly essays, a narrative chronology, and a selection of excerpts from interviews with the artist illuminate her methods and techniques; survey her early years in Los Angeles, where she was part of a circle that included James Turrell and Ken Price; and trace the development of her work after she moved to New York City and befriended figures such as Robert Gober and Richard Serra. 

Published in association with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Exhibition Schedule:

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
(12/15/18–03/31/19)

Art Gallery of Ontario
(05/04/19–08/04/19)

The Met Breuer, New York
(09/24/19–01/12/20)

About the Author:

Gary Garrels is Elise S. Haas Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.