Edited with text by Ana Janevski, Lilia Rocio Taboada. Text by Danielle Jackson, Piper Marshall, Chus Martínez, Jason Moran, Molly Superfine, Gee Wesley, Gillian Young. Photographs by Zoe Leonard.
A comprehensive retrospective of work from one of the foremost performance artists to emerge from the 1970s
Since her earliest performances in the late 1960s, Joan Jonas has concerned herself with animation and moving images, asking what it means to move images, or to be moved by them. The artist constantly returns to her ever-expanding archive of images, sounds, gestures, ideas and places, reworking materials into new forms across the decades. Published in conjunction with the artist’s most comprehensive retrospective in the United States, presented by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Good Night Good Morning spans more than 50 years of her remarkable career and features works in all mediums—including videos, drawings, notebooks, photographs and major installations and performances. The abundantly illustrated publication features essays by curators and scholars that delve into the political, social and historical impact of Jonas’ working method, a suite of oral histories gathered specifically for this project and a new photographic portfolio by the artist Zoe Leonard. Featuring extensive archival materials, many previously unpublished, this monograph sheds new light on Jonas’ unique role as a trailblazing figure of video and performance, and highlights her enduring multimedia legacy for generations of younger artists. Born in New York City in 1936, Joan Jonas is a pathmaking figure in video and performance art, and one of the most important artists to emerge from the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 2015 she was the sixth woman artist to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale. She lives and works in New York and Nova Scotia, Canada.
Featured image is reproduced from 'Joan Jonas: Good Night Good Morning.'
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The New York Times: Arts
Susan Dominus
In the process of being curated, she had revealed herself to be, as she is in her art, both visible and impossible to find.
The New York Times: Arts
Holland Cotter
Her installations, visually complex and textured, are dynamically personable on their own.
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Featured spreads are from Joan Jonas: Good Night Good Morning, published to accompany the pioneering performance and video artist’s career retrospective on view now at MoMA. Perhaps the most written-about exhibition of the spring season, Good Night Good Morning collects five decades of playful and poetic videos, drawings, notebooks, photographs, major installations and performances at a moment when the culture is finally ready to stop, watch and listen to the elusive artist, who has been feeding back prolifically from the sidelines—and the frontlines—virtually undetected, while simultaneously influencing everybody and saying everything—but quietly. continue to blog
FORMAT: Hbk, 9 x 10.5 in. / 208 pgs / 220 color. LIST PRICE: U.S. $60.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $86 ISBN: 9781633451605 PUBLISHER: The Museum of Modern Art, New York AVAILABLE: 4/23/2024 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: In stock TERRITORY: NA ONLY
Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Edited with text by Ana Janevski, Lilia Rocio Taboada. Text by Danielle Jackson, Piper Marshall, Chus Martínez, Jason Moran, Molly Superfine, Gee Wesley, Gillian Young. Photographs by Zoe Leonard.
A comprehensive retrospective of work from one of the foremost performance artists to emerge from the 1970s
Since her earliest performances in the late 1960s, Joan Jonas has concerned herself with animation and moving images, asking what it means to move images, or to be moved by them. The artist constantly returns to her ever-expanding archive of images, sounds, gestures, ideas and places, reworking materials into new forms across the decades. Published in conjunction with the artist’s most comprehensive retrospective in the United States, presented by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Good Night Good Morning spans more than 50 years of her remarkable career and features works in all mediums—including videos, drawings, notebooks, photographs and major installations and performances.
The abundantly illustrated publication features essays by curators and scholars that delve into the political, social and historical impact of Jonas’ working method, a suite of oral histories gathered specifically for this project and a new photographic portfolio by the artist Zoe Leonard. Featuring extensive archival materials, many previously unpublished, this monograph sheds new light on Jonas’ unique role as a trailblazing figure of video and performance, and highlights her enduring multimedia legacy for generations of younger artists.
Born in New York City in 1936, Joan Jonas is a pathmaking figure in video and performance art, and one of the most important artists to emerge from the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 2015 she was the sixth woman artist to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale. She lives and works in New York and Nova Scotia, Canada.
