It speaks to me : art that inspires artists

Book 2019

"Imagine your favorite artist leading you through a museum to the very work of art they can't stop thinking about. That's the experience at the heart of It Speaks to Me. In lively and intimate interviews, some of today's most acclaimed artists share the compelling details that make an artwork memorable and meaningful to them. Together these artists bring to life a wide range of museum pieces, from celebrated masterpieces to little-known gems, or...

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ISBN:

9783791356594
3791356593

Description:

167 pages : colour illustrations ; 25 cm

Contents:

Marina Abramovi on Umberto Boccioni
Ai Weiwei on a Shang Dynasty jade from the tomb of Fu Hao
Leonor Antunes on John Knight
Ilit Azoulay on the Ivory pomegranate
John Baldessari on René Magritte
John Bock on Joseph Beuys
Mark Bradford on Mark Rothko
Pia Camil on an Aztec statue of Coatlicue
Nick Cave on Jasper Johns
Judy Chicago on Agnes Pelton
Jimmie Durham on Ernst Barlach
Mikala Dwyer on Percy Grainger and Ella Grainger
Teresita Fernández on Wifredo Lam
Lungiswa Gqunta on Liza Lou
Lynn Hershman Leeson on Amedeo Modigliani
Roger Hiorns on the Diego Velázquez workshop
David Hockney on Edgar Degas
Candida Höfer on Roy Lichtenstein
Gary Hume on Paul Cézanne
William Kentridge on Antoine Bourdelle
Suzanne Lacy on Andrea Bowers
Suzy Lake on Rebecca Belmore
Liz Magor on an eight-sided Tlingit box
Annette Messager on Nicolas Poussin
Beatriz Milhazes on Victor Meirelles de Lima
Yoshitomo Nara on Inges Idee
Shirin Neshat on Alice Neel
Tuan Andrew Nguyen on a Vietnamese sculpture of Buddha
Ahmet Öğüt on Jan Asselijn
Gabriel Orozco on the Aztec Sun Stone
Cornelia Parker on Paolo Uccello
Mai-Thu Perret on Sherrie Levine
Bernard Piffaretti on Antoine Watteau
Ana Prvački on Gustave Courbet
Pipilotti Rist on a Chola Dynasty statue of Shiva Nataraja
Julião Sarmento on Domenico Ghirlandaio
Mithu Sen on a n Indus Valley Civilization male torso
Stephen Shore on the Gubbio Studiolo
Shinique Smith on Robert Rauschenberg
Mounira Al Solh on a Palmyran funerary relief
Kishio Suga on Richard Long
Do Ho Suh on Jeong Seon
Diana Thater on Nam June Paik
Rikrit Tiravanija on Montien Boonma
Luc Tuymans on Jan van Eyck
Bill Viola on Dieric Bouts
Edmund de Waal on Pieter Jansz. Saenredam
Gillian Wearing on Rembrandt
Lawrence Weiner on Willem de Kooning
James Welling on Andrew Wyeth

LCCN:

2018047211

Control Number:

2728888

Other Authors:

translation of: Finkel, Jori. Interviews. Selections

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