Walter Hopps

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF CURATING
Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist.
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783905829556 | US $24.95
Pub Date: 10/1/2008
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WILLIAM CHRISTENBERRY
Essays by Elizabeth Broun, Howard N. Fox, Andy Grundberg and Walter Hopps.
APERTURE
ISBN: 9781931788892 | US $50.00
Pub Date: 6/1/2006
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JAMES ROSENQUIST: A RETROSPECTIVE
Essays by Julia Blaut, Ruth E. Fine, Walter Hopps and Sarah Bancroft.
GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM
ISBN: 9780892072675 | US $65.00
Pub Date: 5/2/2003
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PHOTOGRAPHS OF SHARON TATE BY WALTER CHAPPELL
Essay by Richard Howard.
ROTH HOROWITZ ANDERSON
ISBN: 9780967077475 | US $50.00
Pub Date: 2/2/2002
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SEMINA CULTURE: WALLACE BERMAN & HIS CIRCLE
D.A.P./SANTA MONICA MUSEUM OF ART
ISBN: 9781933045108 | US $50.00
Pub Date: 9/15/2005
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GEORGE HERMS: THEN AND NOW
Artwork by George Herms. Contributions by Walter Hopps, Charles Simic. Text by Anthony Seraphin.
SERAPHIN GALLERY
ISBN: 9780971928909 | US $45.00
Pub Date: 4/2/2003
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POP ART: US/UK CONNECTIONS
Essays by David E. Brauer, Jim Edwards, Christopher Finch, Walter Hopps. Foreword by Ned Rifkin.
HATJE CANTZ PUBLISHERS
ISBN: 9783775710237 | US $39.95
Pub Date: 2/2/2001
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CORNELL/DUCHAMP...IN RESONANCE
HATJE CANTZ PUBLISHERS
ISBN: 9783893224319 | US $80.00
Pub Date: 11/2/1998
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Walter Hopps

A Brief History of Curating

By Hans Ulrich Obrist

Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Published by JRP|Ringier

Part of JRP|Ringer's innovative Documents series, published with Les Presses du Réel and dedicated to critical writings, this publication comprises a unique collection of interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist mapping the development of the curatorial field--from early independent curators in the 1960s and 70s and the experimental institutional programs developed in Europe and the U.S. through the inception of Documenta and the various biennales and fairs--with pioneering curators Anne D'Harnoncourt, Werner Hoffman, Jean Leering, Franz Meyer, Seth Siegelaub, Walter Zanini, Johannes Cladders, Lucy Lippard, Walter Hopps, Pontus Hulten and Harald Szeemann. Speaking of Szeemann on the occasion of this legendary curator's death in 2005, critic Aaron Schuster summed up, "the image we have of the curator today: the curator-as-artist, a roaming, freelance designer of exhibitions, or in his own witty formulation, a 'spiritual guest worker'... If artists since Marcel Duchamp have affirmed selection and arrangement as legitimate artistic strategies, was it not simply a matter of time before curatorial practice--itself defined by selection and arrangement--would come to be seen as an art that operates on the field of art itself?"

William Christenberry

Essays by Elizabeth Broun, Howard N. Fox, Andy Grundberg and Walter Hopps.
Published by Aperture

Since the early 1960s, William Christenberry has plumbed the regional identity of the American South through his work in Hale County, Alabama, where he was raised. Although he is most often associated with--and recognized as a pioneer in--American color photography, he also works in an unorthodox mix of media that includes sculpture, drawing, painting and found-object assemblage. This comprehensive survey of his work considers all those practices together, and in doing so gives readers access to the full scope and complexity of his vision. In every medium, Christenberry's theme is unified: the history, the story of place, is at the heart of his project. His poetic documentation of vernacular architecture, signage and landscape captures moments of quiet beauty in a sometimes mythic terrain that, with its worn iconography and buildings turned ramshackle, evokes the form and power of the passage of time. Since relocating to Washington, D.C., in 1968, Christenberry has dutifully returned to photograph the same locations annually--the green barn, the palmist building, the Bar-B-Q Inn--fulfilling a personal ritual and documenting the physical changes wrought by the passing of a year. More than half the photographs in this comprehensive survey are previously unpublished, including new and vintage images and a stunning selection of never-before-seen Kodachrome work. An essay by Walter Hopps, the artist's lifelong friend and the founding director of the Menil Collection, who passed away in 2005, will draw attention as well.

Semina Culture: Wallace Berman & His Circle

Edited by Michael Duncan and Kristine McKenna. Essays by Michael Duncan and Kristine McKenna and Stephen Fredman.
Published by D.A.P./Santa Monica Museum of Art

The quintessential visual artist of the Beat era, Wallace Berman (1926-1976) remains one of the best kept secrets of the late twentieth century. A crucial figure in California's postwar underground, Berman was a catalyst who traveled through many different worlds, transferring ideas and dreams from one circle to the next. His larger community is the subject of Semina Culture: Wallace Berman & His Circle, a catalogue to the exhibition organized by the Santa Monica Muesum of Art including previously unexhibited works by 52 artists. Anchoring this publication is Semina, a loose-leaf art and poetry journal that Berman published in nine issues between 1955 and 1964. Although privately made and distributed to a mere handful of friends and sympathizers, Semina is a brilliant compendium of the most interesting artists and poets of its time. Showcasing the individuals who came to define a still potent strand of post-war beat counterculture, Semina Culture subtly outlines the energies, values, and foibles of this fascinating circle. Also reprduced here are works by various artists and writers who appear in Berman's own photographs--approximately 100 of which were recently developed from vintage negatives, and will be seen here for the first time.

James Rosenquist: A Retrospective

Essays by Julia Blaut, Ruth E. Fine, Walter Hopps and Sarah Bancroft.
Published by Guggenheim Museum

Lipsticks, automobiles, dishwashers, men in business suits, spaghetti, rockets, airplanes, hairdryers, ice cream cones and pigtailed girls. James Rosenquist has always known how to combine these seemingly disparate but always all-American elements into whirlwind, billboard-sized collages of airbrushed surreal euphoria, slamming colors, patterns and objects into one another with the eye of an advertising man and the heart of a Pop artist. This momentous catalogue, published to accompany the first in-depth survey of the artist's work since 1972, will give long-overdue, in-depth attention to Rosenquist's singular achievement in American art. Extensive illustrations cover major works in diverse media, including work on paper that reveals the artist's process, as well as extensive new and archival photography. Essays focus on areas that have only been superficially addressed in the literature to date, bringing the level of Rosenquist scholarship up to that of his Pop art contemporaries. Curator Walter Hopps provides an overview of the artist's career; Julia Blaut considers the artist's source collages in the context of twentieth-century collage; Ruth E. Fine addresses Rosenquist's prints; art collector and former aeronautics researcher Eugene E. Epstein relates the artist's work to scientific phenomena. Also included are a definitive biography, exhibition history and illustrated chronology.

George Herms: Then And Now

Fifty Years of Assemblage

Artwork by George Herms. Contributions by Walter Hopps, Charles Simic. Text by Anthony Seraphin.
Published by Seraphin Gallery

One of the founding members of the California Assemblage movement in the 1950s (alongside Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner and Jess), George Herms uses the most weather-worn, battered, junked-up materials for his assemblages, forging a style that was to greatly influence Pop art in America and presage Nouveau Realisme in France. Herms pushes the limits of assemblage to exciting extremes, making gentle, sometimes funny statements. Then and Now surveys his earliest documented work alongside recent works, and is the most substantial publication on Herms.

Photographs Of Sharon Tate By Walter Chappell

Essay by Richard Howard.
Published by Roth Horowitz Anderson

In Big Sur, in 1964, Walter Chappell shot a series of photographs of Sharon Tate that freeze her as she has since been frozen by fate, as a tragically and eternally young heroine. For 35 years those photographs remained hidden; here they appear in all their gauzy, morbid beauty.

Pop Art: Us/Uk Connections

1956-1966

Essays by David E. Brauer, Jim Edwards, Christopher Finch, Walter Hopps. Foreword by Ned Rifkin.
Published by Hatje Cantz Publishers

Pop Art: US/UK Connections 1956-1966 examines the critical transatlantic cultural exchange that led to the decade-long development of classic Pop Art. This publication explores the impact on British and American artists of post-World War II American popular culture as disseminated in the mass media of film, recorded music, advertising and television. While Pop Art drew its influences from many sources, include abstract and figurative modes in painting and advertising, assemblage, and early happenings, it is these mass cultural influences that are the most crucial. The main emphasis of the book is on the resultant ''pure'' aspects of Pop--its hard-edged imagery and its use of photographic media and reproduction processes. Pop Art: US/UK Connections 1956-1966 is the first major American publication focusing on how a dialogue between British and American artists provided the genesis of Pop Art. Many readers will be surprised by this full account of the complex history of Pop Art, which involved a series of successive developments, first in London and subsequently in New York and Los Angeles. Featuring extensive documentation of works from all of Pop Art's major figures--British and American, famous and less well-known--Pop Art: US/UK Connections 1956-1966 also presents essential essays and interviews devoted to all things Pop.

Cornell/Duchamp...In Resonance

Artwork by Joseph Cornell, Marcel Duchamp. Contributions by Walter Hopps. Text by Susan Davidson, Ann Temkin.
Published by Hatje Cantz Publishers

This book chronicles the friendship and working relationship between two of the twentieth century's most innovative and influential artists--Joseph Cornell and Marcel Duchamp. The focus of this book is the box compiled by Cornell and dedicated to his friend Duchamp: the Duchamp Dossier, c. 1934-53, a hitherto publicly unknown artwork discovered in the artist's estate following his death.