Brian O'doherty: Collected Essays

Synopsis

This Long-awaited Volume Brings Together Much Of Brian O'doherty's Most Eloquent And Influential Writing, Including Essays On Major Figures Such As Edward Hopper, Mark Rothko, And Andy Warhol And A Substantial Follow-up To His Iconic Inside The White Cube. New Pieces Specifically Authored For This Collection Include A Meditation On O'doherty's Various Alternate Personae--most Notably Patrick Ireland--and A Reflection On His Seminal Highway To Las Vegas From 1972, Penned After A Return Visit In 2012. The Beautifully Written Texts, Many Of Which Have Been Unavailable In Print, Are Complemented By Forty-five Color Illustrations That Present Artwork Discussed In The Essays As Well As Documentary Photographs Of O'doherty And Other Major Art World Figures. Adventurous, Original, And Essentially O'doherty, This Book Is An Insightful Contribution To The Fields Of Writing, Art History, And Culture Writ Large--provided By Publisher. Preface : Field Notes At The Crossroads / By Liam Kelly -- Introduction : A Ship's Log Of/to Modernism / By Anne Marie Bonnet -- On The Nature Of Masquerade / By Brian O'doherty -- Hopper's Look -- Word And Image : A Reciprocal Arrangement -- Windows And Edward Hopper's Gaze -- Early Sunday Morning : A Forensic Examination -- Rothko's Dark Paintings : Tragedy And Void -- Rothko Chapel -- Rothko's Endgame -- Chamber Music In The Next Room -- The Politics And Esthetics Of Heart Transplants -- The Microscopic Vision -- Highway To Las Vegas -- Las Vegas, Revisited -- Miami Beach And The Iconography Of The Pompadour Style -- Kane's Welles : The Phantom Of The Opus -- Et In Arkadin Ego -- Barzyk-electronic Visionary -- Nam June : The Electronic Smile -- Hans Richter 1968 -- Facetime : Katherina Sieverding And (maybe) Oscar Wilde -- Narcissus In Hades -- Development Errors : Michner's Photographs -- James Coleman : What Waiting Can Do, Given Time -- Terrible Beauty : Steve Mcqueen's Hunger -- Nigel Rolfe : Two Drums -- Stella And Hesse : Dispatches From The Sixties -- Segal's Metropolis -- Warhol : The Medium As Cultural Artifact -- The Duchamp Portrait -- Morton Feldman : The Burgacue Years -- Divesting The Self : A Striptease -- Rauschenberg/counter-rauschenberg -- Wesley's Hip-pop -- William Scharf : The Long And The Short Eye -- Chamberlain : Projective Sculpture -- Peter Hutchinson : A Green Thought In A Green Shade -- Joseph Cornell : Innocence And Experience -- Boxes, Cubes, Installations, Whiteness And Money. Edited By Liam Kelly ; Introduction By Anne-marie Bonnet. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.