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Making It New: Essays, Interviews, and Talks

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Making It New: Essays, Interviews, and Talks

by Geldzahler, Henry; Hockney, David (Foreword by), and Sischy, Ingrid (Interview by)

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New York: Turtle Point Press, 1994. 368 pages, facsimile; 20 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust spotting/top edge, Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. Another copy available. Essays written over a period of thirty years. "For the past 35 years, Henry Geldzahler, controversial first curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Department of Twentieth Century Art, has been at the center of America's lively and vital art scene. Making It New is the first collection of his essays, interviews and talks, and includes work that has never been published. His style is disarmingly intimate, insightful and amusing. In this generous selection of writings Henry Geldzahler is always an enchanting guide to a world of innovative artistic activity. He is master of a particularly informal interview style which allows artists as diverse as Frank Stella, Alice Neel and Louise Bourgeois to reveal fresh insights to their methods and intentions. His essays on photography, on 'The Sixties' and his commencement address remind us of Calvin Tompkins' comment in 'The Scene' that Henry Geldzahler's effect (as teacher) was phenomenal." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Foreword, by David Hockney; An interview with Henry Geldzahler, by Ingrid Sischy; 1960s. The art audience and the critic; Happenings: theater by painters; Some notes on Sleep; Twelve stories for John Cage; Andy Warhol; Andy Warhol: a memoir; Robert Rauschenberg; An interview with Frank Stella; George Segal; An interview with Larry Poons; An interview with Ellsworth Kelly; Suite of twenty-seven color lithographs, 1964-1965; 1970s. Creating a new department; New York painting and sculpture: 1940-1970; David Hockney; A commencement address; 1980s. Approaching Clemente; Sandro Chia; An interview with Georg Baselitz; Jean-Michel Basquiat; Good-bye, Dali´; Isamu Noguchi: what is sculpture?; Willem de Kooning: abstract landscapes, 1955-1963; Alice Neel; Lichtenstein's Picassos: 1962-1964; Andy Warhol prints: catalogue raisonne´; Hockney: young and older; Pop art 1955-1970; 1990s. Louise Bourgeois; Myron Stout: pathways and epiphanies; An interview with John Chamberlain; Keith Haring; Dale Chihuly as of 1993; What I know about photography; The sixties: as they were; Andy Warhol: virginal voyeur. art audience and the critic; Happenings: theater by painters; Some notes on Sleep; Twelve stories for John Cage; Andy Warhol; Andy Warhol: a memoir; Robert Rauschenberg; An interview with Frank Stella; George Segal; An interview with Larry Poons; An interview with Ellsworth Kelly; Suite of twenty-seven color lithographs, 1964-1965; Creating a new department; New York painting and sculpture: 1940-1970; David Hockney; A commencement address; Approaching Clemente; Sandro Chia; An interview with Georg Baselitz; Jean-Michel Basquiat; Good-bye, Dali´; Isamu Noguchi: what is sculpture?; Willem de Kooning: abstract landscapes; Alice Neel; Lichtenstein's Picassos: 1962-1964; Andy Warhol prints: catalogue raisonne´; Hockney: young and older; Pop art 1955-1970; Louise Bourgeois; Myron Stout: pathways and epiphanies; An interview with John Chamberlain; Keith Haring; Dale Chihuly as of 1993; What I know about photography; The sixties: as they were; Andy Warhol: virginal voyeur.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo.

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This is Geldzahler's (longtime curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art) written legacy, a collection of essays, interviews, and talks covering three turbulent decades in which he and the artists he championed defined what was new and important in contemporary art. Foreword by David Hockney.

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Title
Making It New: Essays, Interviews, and Talks
Author
Geldzahler, Henry; Hockney, David (Foreword by), and Sischy, Ingrid (Interview by)
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
Fine
Edition
1st
ISBN 10
0962798762
ISBN 13
9780962798764
Publisher
Turtle Point Press
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1994
Size
8vo
Bookseller catalogs
American / 6. Late Modern, 1945-1999; Aesthetics; Movements / Pop Art & Happenings;

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