Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library Exhibition Files

description - Workshops of kimono artists used albums such as this exquisite sample book to demonstrate to potential patrons their skills in silk decorating motifs and techniques. Many of the intricately crafted images treat natural objects, a common aesthetic in… subject - Summer kimono / the color of blue sky... / morning pilgrimage (Exhibition : 2008) relation - Identifier - NK8884 J37 http://maca.contentdm.oclc.org/u?/p1325coll6,146

description - Adams' timeless photographs suggest the sublime grandeur of the American Western landscape. He was passionate about land conservation and a long-time board member of the Sierra Club, which utilized many of his images in their promotional and lobbying… subject - A Photographic Look at the New American West (Exhibition : 2008) relation - Identifier - NE2698 A211my http://maca.contentdm.oclc.org/u?/p1325coll6,140

description - Lee Friedlander has focused on a rich variety of subjects during his career, often working on a series of images that become joined into a book. A native of the Pacific Northwest, in 1990 Friedlander turned to pure landscape photography of the… subject - A Photographic Look at the New American West (Exhibition : 2008) relation - Identifier - NE2698 F911d http://maca.contentdm.oclc.org/u?/p1325coll6,139

description - Robert Adams has spent much of his career photographing the American West. An early proponent of the new topographics movement, Adams' approach to photography considers man's intervention in the modern landscape. This work, which takes the Missouri… subject - A Photographic Look at the New American West (Exhibition : 2008) relation - Identifier - NE2698 A216f http://maca.contentdm.oclc.org/u?/p1325coll6,138

description - The receipt of a 1937 Guggenheim fellowship afforded Weston the opportunity to return to his long-held interest in landscape photography, particularly of the American West. Weston summarized his highly personal aims for this genre in his statement of… subject - A Photographic Look at the New American West (Exhibition : 2008) relation - Identifier - NE2698 W5342f http://maca.contentdm.oclc.org/u?/p1325coll6,137

description - The images in this work of photofiction are a visual commentary on the contemporary American West and what Morris called "the transient ruins of [his] own culture." Architecture or other signs of man populate each photograph, yet all are devoid of… subject - A Photographic Look at the New American West (Exhibition : 2008) relation - Identifier - NE2698 M877.8i http://maca.contentdm.oclc.org/u?/p1325coll6,136

description - German installation artist Lothar Baumgarten’s work often has an anthropological bent. With this work, in both the original installation format and then as an artist’s book, Baumgarten uses the graphic logos of various rail companies and… subject - A Photographic Look at the New American West (Exhibition : 2008) relation - Identifier - NF588 B348 L67 1990 http://maca.contentdm.oclc.org/u?/p1325coll6,135

description - This exhibition included what is now commonly referred to as the first Pop image, Richard Hamilton’s collage on modern life, Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing? subject - Just What Was It That Made Yesterday's Art So Different, So Appealing? Early Pop (Exhibition : 2007) relation - Identifier - N6493 L65 1956 http://maca.contentdm.oclc.org/u?/p1325coll6,134

description - Jim Dine designed the cover for this catalogue. Alan Solomon's essay brilliantly defines the aims and objectives of the new figurative artists. Despite the name of the exhibition, the word Pop is not used to define the art or artists. In addition to… subject - Just What Was It That Made Yesterday's Art So Different, So Appealing? Early Pop (Exhibition : 2007) relation - Identifier - N6494 P6 W38 1963 http://maca.contentdm.oclc.org/u?/p1325coll6,131

description - Although this was artist and poet Ting's conception, it was under the guidance of Sam Francis that the monumental project took form. Francis assembled the group of artists to create the 68 lithographs that would accompany Ting's poems. The images… subject - Just What Was It That Made Yesterday's Art So Different, So Appealing? Early Pop (Exhibition : 2007) relation - Identifier - NE539 T55.8 http://maca.contentdm.oclc.org/u?/p1325coll6,128

description - This exhibition is an addendum to Six Painters and the Object. Lawrence Alloway selected the six California painters to represent the Pop movement as currently evolving on the West Coast. In his catalogue essay, Alloway stresses the adaptation of… subject - Just What Was It That Made Yesterday's Art So Different, So Appealing? Early Pop (Exhibition : 2007) relation - Identifier - 53241 http://maca.contentdm.oclc.org/u?/p1325coll6,122

description - The Independent Group was composed of artists, architects, and critics who would meet to discuss issues such as the role of mass media in contemporary fine arts. In fact, they used the term Pop art to refer to images created by and for the mass… subject - Just What Was It That Made Yesterday's Art So Different, So Appealing? Early Pop (Exhibition : 2007) relation - Identifier - N8217 M32 N48 1955 http://maca.contentdm.oclc.org/u?/p1325coll6,121

description - Janis selected a very international group of artists, which he exhibited under the anglicized term New Realists in reference to the contemporaneous French movement, Nouveau Réalistes. This show is recognized as the first major group exhibition of… subject - Just What Was It That Made Yesterday's Art So Different, So Appealing? Early Pop (Exhibition : 2007) relation - Identifier - 26675 http://maca.contentdm.oclc.org/u?/p1325coll6,120

description - The title of this exhibition reflects the idea that the art being created by this new generation was uniquely American. In fact, the artists are referred to as the "new patriots of American art." Interestingly, the word Pop appears nowhere in this… subject - Just What Was It That Made Yesterday's Art So Different, So Appealing? Early Pop (Exhibition : 2007) relation - Identifier - 61503 http://maca.contentdm.oclc.org/u?/p1325coll6,119

description - The museum divided the material for this exhibition into three sections; mixed media, works by Johns and Rauschenberg, and Pop Art. Although part of the Pop movement, Johns and Rauschenberg were already seen as something apart and earlier from the… subject - Just What Was It That Made Yesterday's Art So Different, So Appealing? Early Pop (Exhibition : 2007) relation - Identifier - N6494 P6 B84 1963 http://maca.contentdm.oclc.org/u?/p1325coll6,118

description - This exhibition was the creation of Lawrence Alloway, one of the people responsible for This is Tomorrow. The six artists in the exhibition, Dine, Johns, Lichtenstein, Rauschenberg, Rosenquist, and Warhol, form the core group of Pop painters and are… subject - Just What Was It That Made Yesterday's Art So Different, So Appealing? Early Pop (Exhibition : 2007) relation - Identifier - ND212 G8 1963 http://maca.contentdm.oclc.org/u?/p1325coll6,117

description - The 32nd Venice Biennial was the breakout point for American artists on the international art scene. The U.S. pavilion was organized by the Jewish Museum and featured eight key contemporary artists, who would become among the recognized core group of… subject - Just What Was It That Made Yesterday's Art So Different, So Appealing? Early Pop (Exhibition : 2007) relation - Identifier - 53234 http://maca.contentdm.oclc.org/u?/p1325coll6,116

description - This retrospective of Hamilton's Pop works begins with his 1956 Just what is it… collage, and proceeds on to images that were inspired by Playboy articles, pin-ups, and even the work of Roy Lichtenstein. Hamilton writes in the catalogue that what… subject - Just What Was It That Made Yesterday's Art So Different, So Appealing? Early Pop (Exhibition : 2007) relation - Identifier - ND497 H25 H35 1964 http://maca.contentdm.oclc.org/u?/p1325coll6,115

description - This very early major European show of "American Pop Art" appeared even before the important Venice biennial. Here the key pieces of Pop painting and sculpture are already in place. Pontus Hultén arranged this seminal exhibition and its beautiful… subject - Just What Was It That Made Yesterday's Art So Different, So Appealing? Early Pop (Exhibition : 2007) relation - Identifier - N6494 P6 S86 1964 http://maca.contentdm.oclc.org/u?/p1325coll6,114

description - Roy Lichtenstein was commissioned to create the cover for Art in America's New York issue. It depicts a fantasy panorama of the World's Fair that was then being held in New York. Lichtenstein was one of the young artists hired to produce a mural for… subject - Just What Was It That Made Yesterday's Art So Different, So Appealing? Early Pop (Exhibition : 2007) relation - Identifier - N1 A68 http://maca.contentdm.oclc.org/u?/p1325coll6,113