Parallel Practices: Joan Jonas & Gina Pane (2013)

“Parallel Practices: Joan Jonas & Gina Pane considers the works of two pioneers of performance art. Jonas (born 1936) and Pane (1939-1990) lived and worked in the United States and France respectively. Each artist worked multidisciplinarily, producing sculpture, drawings, installations, film and video in addition to live actions. Notably, Jonas and Pane have been lauded for their foundational work in performance, a field in which both of these artists blazed trails. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Parallel Practices explores the trajectory of these artists’ practices to reveal shared and complementary aspects, as well as to highlight the significant divergences and differences that characterize each artist’s work. It includes texts by curator Dean Daderko, Elisabeth Lebovici and Anne Tronche and Barbara Clausen.”

Edited by Dean Daderko
Publisher Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, 2013
ISBN 9781933619439
160 pages
via CAM Houston

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Robert Rauschenberg: Work From Four Series (1985)

“The relationships between four of Rauschenberg’s mature series—the Kabal American Zephyrs, Cardboards, Hoarfrosts and Bifocals—are explored in this exhibition. The artist has always worked in series, but they are often seen as discrete directions, unrelated to one another. This exhibition and accompanying catalogue demonstrate that the artist returns to similar themes and uses the same formal devices across his seemingly disparate oeuvre.

Includes essays by Donald Barthelme and Linda L. Cathcart; a chronology of the period covered by the four series by Marti Mayo; and documentation on the artist’s career subsequent to his 1976 retrospective.”

Publisher Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, 1985
ISBN 0936080159
86 pages
via CAM Houston

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Persona (1981)

Features the work of nine artists who, in making or presenting their work, assume specific alter-egos or personae (human or animal, fictitious or historical) that serve as vehicles for greater freedom of expression. With essay by the curators Lynn Gumpert and Ned Rifkin, and artists’ statements.

Artists: Eleanor Antin, Mr. Apology, Colin Campbell, Bruce Charlesworth, Colette, Redd Ekks, Lynn Hershman, James Hill, Martial Westburg.

Preface by Marcia Tucker
Publisher The New Museum, New York, 1981
57 pages
via New Museum

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