Johanna Burton

FORTHCOMING & NEW RELEASES

DANA HOEY: THE PHANTOM SEX
Introduction by Corinna Ripps Schaming. Text by Johanna Burton.
UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM, UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY
ISBN: 9780910763448 | US $29.95
Pub Date: 3/31/2013
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PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED

IN THE SHADOW A SHADOW: THE WORK OF JOAN JONAS
Essay by Joan Simon. Text by Johanna Burton, Barbara Clausen, Douglas Crimp.
GREGORY R. MILLER & CO.
ISBN: 9780980024289 | US $75.00
Pub Date: 6/30/2013
Forthcoming

ACTIVE BACKLIST

CINDY SHERMAN
By Eva Respini. Text by Johanna Burton. Interview by John Waters.
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK
ISBN: 9780870708121 | US $60.00
Pub Date: 2/29/2012
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TROY BRAUNTUCH
Edited by Lionel Bovier. Text by Johanna Burton, Douglas Eklund.
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783905770810 | US $80.00
Pub Date: 7/31/2010
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MARILYN MINTER
Text by Johanna Burton, Matthew Higgs, Mary Heilmann, Sonia Campagnola.
GREGORY R. MILLER & CO.
ISBN: 9781616234966 | US $60.00
Pub Date: 8/31/2010
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ELLSWORTH KELLY: DIAGONAL
Text by Johanna Burton.
MATTHEW MARKS GALLERY
ISBN: 9781880146514 | US $45.00
Pub Date: 9/30/2009
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T.J. WILCOX: FILMS
Text by Hilton Als, Johanna Burton.
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783905701968 | US $45.00
Pub Date: 3/1/2007
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WADE GUYTON & KELLEY WALKER: THE FAILEVER OF JUDGEMENT
Edited by John Rasmussen. Essays by Joanna Burton and Fabrice Stroun.
JRP|RINGIER/MMCA
ISBN: 9783905701050 | US $29.00
Pub Date: 8/15/2005
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MARILYN MINTER
Interviews by Mary Heilmann, Matthew Higgs. Text by Johanna Burton.
GREGORY R. MILLER & CO.
ISBN: 9780974364865 | US $60.00
Pub Date: 5/1/2007
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WITNESS TO HER ART
BARD COLLEGE
ISBN: 9781931493550 | US $40.00
Pub Date: 3/1/2007
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THE UNCERTAINTY OF OBJECTS AND IDEAS: RECENT SCULPTURE
Introduction by Olga Viso. Text by Anne Ellegood, Johanna Burton.
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM AND SCULPTURE GARDEN
ISBN: 9780978906306 | US $37.95
Pub Date: 1/1/2007
Out of print | Not available

CARLA KLEIN: SCAPE
Essays by Heidi Zuckerman and Joanna Burton.
ARTIMO
ISBN: 9789085460565 | US $55.00
Pub Date: 3/1/2006
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Johanna Burton

Dana Hoey: The Phantom Sex

Introduction by Corinna Ripps Schaming. Text by Johanna Burton.
Published by University Art Museum, University at Albany

For more than 20 years, the photographer Dana Hoey (born 1966) has explored what it means to be female. Using both staged and directed photography, her meticulously constructed pictures often combine the sunny daylight and saturated color of commercial, digitally enhanced film stock with the iconography and framing of religious painting. Her early work claims influences as diverse as Bernini’s “Ecstasy of St. Teresa” and Philip Roth’s American Pastoral and reveals a fascination with corrupted idealism and the power of heedless actions. More recently, Hoey has explored scenarios in which older women play central roles and typically female activities take on elevated status. In her latest pictures, resin casts of her own and friends’ bodies, found sculptures and plastic tarps serve as stand-ins for human subjects. The Phantom Sex is the first comprehensive overview of this prominent female photographer in more than ten years.

Cindy Sherman

By Eva Respini. Text by Johanna Burton. Interview by John Waters.
Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Published to accompany the first major survey of Cindy Sherman’s work in the United States in nearly 15 years, this publication presents a stunning range of work from the groundbreaking artist’s 35-year career. Showcasing approximately 180 photographs from the mid-1970s to the present, including new works made for the exhibition and never before published, the volume is a vivid exploration of Sherman’s sustained investigation into the construction of contemporary identity and the nature of representation. The book highlights major bodies of work including her seminal Untitled Film Stills (1977–80); centerfolds (1981); history portraits (1989–90); head shots (2000–2002); and two recent series on the experience and representation of aging in the context of contemporary obsessions with youth and status. An essay by curator Eva Respini provides an overview of Sherman’s career, weaving together art historical analysis and discussions of the artist’s working methods, and a contribution by art historian Johanna Burton offers a critical re-examination of Sherman’s work in light of her recent series. A conversation between Cindy Sherman and filmmaker John Waters provides an enlightening view into the creative process.
Cindy Sherman (born 1954) is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential artists in contemporary art. To create her photographs, she assumes multiple roles of photographer, model, makeup artist, hairdresser and stylist. With an arsenal of wigs, costumes, makeup, prosthetics and props, the artist has altered her physique and surroundings to create myriad tableaux, from screen siren to clown to aging socialite. Over the past 35 years, Sherman has sustained a provocative investigation into the nature of identity, drawn from movies, television, magazines, the Internet and art history. Sherman lives and works in New York City.

In the Shadow a Shadow: The Work of Joan Jonas

Essay by Joan Simon. Text by Johanna Burton, Barbara Clausen, Douglas Crimp.
Published by Gregory R. Miller & Co.

One of the most continuously influential figures of the past half century, Joan Jonas (born 1936) was among the first artists to embrace the forms of video, performance and installation. From her beginnings as a sculptor, and her emergence in the New York art and performance scenes of the 1960s and 70s (including the seminal "Vertical Roll" video piece of 1972, in which the titular television malfunction enacted a memorably fractured female identity), up through her performance at the Performa 09 biennial and recent collaborations with composer Alvin Lucier and the avant-garde theater company The Wooster Group, her work has always been surprising, groundbreaking and necessary. This extensively illustrated volume, containing hundreds of full-color images, presents the definitive collection of Jonas' work. The first career-spanning monograph of the multimedia pioneer, it covers more than 40 years of performances, films, videos, installations, texts and video sculptures. In addition to documentation of the artist's crucial projects, In the Shadow a Shadow includes individual essays by Douglas Crimp, Barbara Clausen and Johanna Burton, a major survey text by Joan Simon, and unpublished photographs and drawings from Jonas' archives. This intensively researched and authoritative book documents the range, breadth and depth of one of most prolifically original artists of the twentieth and twenty-first century.

Troy Brauntuch

Edited by Lionel Bovier. Text by Johanna Burton, Douglas Eklund.
Published by JRP|Ringier

A member of the so-called “Pictures Generation,” Troy Brauntuch (born 1954) makes appropriated works that, by removing or adding context, can, on one hand, empty out culturally charged icons, and on the other hand, supply seemingly innocuous material with massive charge. Brauntuch's work 1 2 3 provides a useful example of the tactics he likes to employ; it consists of screenprints of a set of fairly unremarkable sketches—a tank, a vestibule, a stage set—which turn out to have been drawn by one Adolf Hitler. This semiotic standoff between innocuous artwork and not-so-innocuous author compels the viewer to ponder the constructions of significance one so often unthinkingly performs when looking at art—constructions that Brauntuch has consistently sabotaged throughout his 30-year career. This first survey of Brauntuch's work includes essays by Johanna Burton and Douglas Eklund, curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's critically acclaimed 2009 Pictures Generation exhibition.

Marilyn Minter

Text by Johanna Burton, Matthew Higgs, Mary Heilmann, Sonia Campagnola.
Published by Gregory R. Miller & Co.

This expanded edition of Gregory R. Miller's hugely successful first-ever monograph on Marilyn Minter from 2007 brings her public up to speed with the inclusion of works created over the past three years, including images from Minter's 2009 video “Green Pink Caviar,” shown in New York's Times Square and featured in Madonna's recent Sticky and Sweet concert tour. Minter's ever-expanding reputation was established during the 1980s, when her work engaged formal aspects of painting as well as subject matter that remain central to her practice today. This publication features work from every period of a career that now spans over 40 years, and reproduces in full color nearly every painting Minter has made, along with a wide selection of her painterly photographs of the last several years. It also includes the seminal and haunting Coral Ridge Towers series of black-and-white photos that Minter took of her mother in 1969. Art historian Johanna Burton contributes a substantial essay that analyzes and elucidates all aspects of Minter's work; her text is complemented by a lengthy conversation between Minter and her friend, painter Mary Heilmann, as well as by “Twenty Questions,” a project assembled by Matthew Higgs to which a wide range of artists, curators, friends and others with a unique connection to Minter have contributed. The design and production of this expanded edition have been superbly realized by the award-winning New York- and Amsterdam-based design studio, COMA. This monograph firmly establishes Minter's important and central position in contemporary art.

Ellsworth Kelly: Diagonal

Text by Johanna Burton.
Published by Matthew Marks Gallery

As spacious and sleek as the work itself, this monograph reproduces two sculptures from 2004 and 2005, along with 17 new paintings dating from 2007 and 2008, eight of which consist of a black or white rectangle with a contrasting black, white or colored rectangle placed diagonally on top and extending beyond the boundary of the canvas below. In the catalogue, Johanna Burton writes, "What Kelly is producing does not end at the edge... a shadow is thrown, but rather than demarcating the shape and space of the work more clearly, it works to utterly confuse what is being looked at: these are paintings that, in places, don't end or, perhaps, refuse to show how they begin. Rather than a perceptual fluke or an experiment in phenomenology, however, this is, I think, a part of the painting." The book accompanies the exhibition held at the Matthew Marks Gallery in the Spring of 2009. All plates are full color.

T.J. Wilcox: Films

Text by Hilton Als, Johanna Burton.
Published by JRP|Ringier

This comprehensive monograph illuminates Wilcox's work in collaged movie and television footage and handmade animation--mythical romantic mini-narratives--with essays from Johanna Burton and New Yorker critic Hilton Als. Wilcox shoots in Super 8, both original footage and preexisting film from a video monitor, transfers his work to video for editing, and then to 16 millimeter for presentation. When it is shown, the sound of the projector dominates the gallery space, while the silence of the film itself indexes the impossibility of hearing the silent voices. There is no illusion of transparency, of believing one might share any kind of simple present with the characters on the screen. Instead, the transfers between formats give the collected imagery a sort of patina, suggesting not only temporal distance--the weight of history--but also a shift in the equilibrium of the senses. As seen at The Museum of Modern Art and the 2004 Whitney Biennial in New York.

Marilyn Minter

Interviews by Mary Heilmann, Matthew Higgs. Text by Johanna Burton.
Published by Gregory R. Miller & Co.

Marilyn Minter is the first book published about the work of the highly respected and influential contemporary artist Marilyn Minter. This retrospective publication features work from every period of Minter's career spanning nearly forty years. Minter is considered one of today's most important artists. Her perennially expanding reputation was widely established during the 1980s, when her work engaged formal aspects of painting as well as subject matter that remain central to her practice today. This comprehensive book reproduces in full color nearly every painting Minter has made along with a wide selection of her painterly photographs of the last several years. The book also includes the seminal and haunting Coral Ridge Towers series of black-and-white photos Minter took of her mother in 1969. Art historian Johanna Burton contributes a substantial essay that analyzes and elucidates all aspects of Minter's work. Burton's text is complemented by a lengthy "conversation" between Minter and painter and friend Mary Heilmann, as well as by "Twenty Questions," a project assembled by Matthew Higgs and posed by a wide range of artists, curators, friends and others with a unique connection to Minter. The book's concept, design, and production have been vividly realized by the award-winning New York- and Amsterdam-based design studio, COMA. This publication-with its combination of beautiful reproductions of Minter's work, Burton's powerfully argued essay, and revealing interviews-firmly establishes Minter's important and central position in contemporary art history.

Witness to Her Art

Art and Writings by Adrian Piper, Mona Hatoum, Cady Noland, Jenny Holzer, Kara Walker, Daniela Rossell and Eau de Cologne

Edited by Rhea Anastas, Michael Brenson. Foreword by Tom Eccles. Text by Adrian Piper, Kara Walker, Daniela Rossell, Mona Hatoum, Cady Noland, Jenny Holzer, Monika Sprüth, Rhea Anastas, Michael Brenson, Norton Batkin, Johanna Burton, Aruna D'Souza, Pamela Franks, Janet Kraynak, David Levi Strauss, Cuauhtémoc Medina, Ann Reynolds, Hamza Walker.
Published by Bard College

This radical new study aims to change the way that some of the most influential artists of the past 40 years are seen--all of them women. Emphasizing questions of autonomy, critical intelligence and artistic intention, Witness to Her Art presents works by Adrian Piper, Mona Hatoum, Cady Noland, Jenny Holzer, Kara Walker, Daniela Rossell and Eau de Cologne, a magazine published by gallerist Monika Sprüth. The artworks are accompanied by original writings by the artists, contemporaneous criticism and newly commissioned essays by Pamela Franks, Aruna D'Souza, Johanna Burton, David Levi Strauss, Hamza Walker and Cuauhtémoc Medina. The ambitious works presented and interpreted herein invite us to consider the impact of the feminist revolution across generations while rendering obsolete any stigma associated with shows or catalogues limited to women artists. Taking its lead from Conceptualism, feminism, and from its included artists, Witness to Her Art reaches for art history's capacity as a medium of world-making.

The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas: Recent Sculpture

Introduction by Olga Viso. Text by Anne Ellegood, Johanna Burton.
Published by Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

This thematic selection of recent work from nine established and emerging international sculptors--the eldest born in 1947 and the youngest in 1974--collects the ways they are giving shape to the fleeting, ephemeral, theoretical and difficult-to-explain. From Charles Long's delicate, poetic and personal debris assemblages to Björn Dahlem's quirky, elegant models of black holes and Andrea Cohen's styrofoam and packing-peanut networks, their works are inspired by and address the history of their medium, as they explore how it can continue to challenge and expand our ways of seeing. The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas is not only a look at current trends, but a tool in placing this new work within the history of Modern sculpture. It notes responses to the formal and material concerns of groundbreaking twentieth-century experiments such as Cubist collage, Dada and Fluxus, from 1960s California's "junk" sculptures to Robert Rauschenberg's postmodern Combines. Includes work from Isa Genzken, Mark Handforth, Rachel Harrison, Evan Holloway, Mindy Shapero, Franz West, as well as Cohen, Dahlem and Long.

Carla Klein: Scape

Essays by Heidi Zuckerman and Joanna Burton.
Published by Artimo

Airports, bridges, corridors, architectural models, icebergs--Carla Klein paints non-places. She makes quick work of the border between painting and photography, straddling the worlds of fiction and reality, illusion and transparency, abstraction and representation. Carla Klein documents five years of the artist's work, from 2000 forward.

Wade Guyton & Kelley Walker: The Failever Of Judgement

Edited by John Rasmussen. Essays by Joanna Burton and Fabrice Stroun.
Published by JRP|Ringier/MMCA

The first publication to feature these two up-and-coming New York artists originally from Tennessee focuses on their recent collaborations. Call Guyton and Walker “neo-formalists” or “appropriationists” or just remarkably accomplished, but their photo-label paint-can pyramids, their use of Ketel One Gothic-lettered ad copy and their serrated knife serial paintings seem Warholian without being derivative.