Ileana Sonnabend : ambassador for the new

Temkin, Ann, author.

Book 2013

During a career spanning half a century, Ileana Sonnabend (1914-2007) helped shape the course of postwar art in Europe and America. Both a gallerist and a noted collector, Sonnabend championed some of the most significant art movements of her time. Artists as varied as Vito Acconci, John Baldessari, Mel Bochner, Jeff Koons, Mario Merz, Robert Morris, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol worked with Sonnabend, whose support for difficult avant-gard...

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ISBN:

9780870708961

Description:

172 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 27 cm

Notes:

Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name held Dec. 21, 2013-Apr. 21, 2014 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
Includes bibliographical references (pages 168)

Contents:

Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry
A lasting legacy / Ann Temkin
"I am an amateur: Ileana Sonnabend and the art of her time / Leslie Camhi
Plates. Jasper Johns ; Robert Rauschenberg ; Jim Dine ; Roy Lichtenstein ; Andy Warhol ; Michelangelo Pistoletto ; James Rosenquist ; Claes Oldenburg ; Tom Wesselmann ; Larry Bell ; Robert Morris ; Gilberto Zorio ; John McCracken ; Giovanni Anselmo ; Mario Merz ; Gilbert & George ; Pier Paolo Calzolari ; Christian Boltanski ; Vito Acconci ; Mel Bochner ; Bernd and Hilla Becher ; Piero Manzoni ; Jannis Kounellis ; John Baldessari ; Bruce Nauman ; Castelli-Sonnabend tapes and films ; Jan Groover ; A.R. Penck ; Hiroshi Sugimoto ; Peter Fischli and David Weiss ; Terry Winters ; Haim Steinbach ; Ashley Bickerton ; Jeff Koons ; Carroll Dunham

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2013954163

Control Number:

2870746

Other Authors:

Lehmann, Claire, author
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

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