Pattern and decoration : ornament as promise

Boehle, Esther, (editor.). Ammer, Manuela, (editor.). Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, (host institution.). Museum Moderner Kunst (Austria), (host institution.).

Summary: The publication undertakes a comprehensive reappraisal of a hitherto nearly overlooked US-American art movement: Pattern and Decoration (1975-1985). By reclaiming color, variation of forms as well as sensuality, artists such as Valerie Jaudon, Robert Kushner and Miriam Schapiro radically distinguished themselves from the predominant Minimal Art and Concept Art at that time. Pattern and Decoration questioned not only traditional notions of art, but also addressed broader political and social issues like the position of women or ethnic minorities in the global art scene. Exhibition: Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany (21.09.2018-13.01.2019) / mumok, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung, Vienna, Austria (22.02.-01.09.2019).

Record details

ISBN: 3960984006
ISBN: 9783960984009
ISBN: 9783902947604
ISBN: 3902947608
Physical Description: print
177 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 27 cm
Publisher: Cologne : Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, [2018]
Copyright: ©2018

Content descriptions

General Note:	Published on the occasion of exhibition, at the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, September 21, 2018-January 13, 2019 and at mumok- Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wien, February 23-September 8, 2019.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	More than what meets the eye : The continued relevance and legacy of pattern and decoration / Michael Duncan -- Pattern and decoration and feminism / Anne Swartz -- Pattern and decoration revisited--Matisse and the politics of art history in the postwar USA / Holger Otten -- 1975 - Patterns, grids, and painting / Amy Goldin -- 1977 - Art hysterical notions of progress and culture / Valerie Jaudon and Joyce Kozloff -- 1979 - A re-elevation of the decorative? / Harald Szeemann -- "Something new. Bright. Brassy. Positive." / Manuela Ammer and Esther Boehle -- Joyce Kozloff, Kim MacConnel, Valerie Jaudon, and Robert Kushner reply to a questionnaire... and Robert Zakanitch makes a statement -- Works: Brad Davis -- Frank Faulkner -- Tina Girouard -- Valerie Jaudon -- Joyce Kozloff -- Robert Kushner -- Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt -- Kim MacConnel -- Mriam Schapiro -- Kendall Shaw -- Ned Smyth -- Robert Zakanitch -- Joe Zucker.