Meret Oppenheim

FORTHCOMING & NEW RELEASES

OPPENHEIM: OBJECT
Text by Carolyn Lanchner.
THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK
ISBN: 9780870708473 | US $14.95
Pub Date: 6/30/2013
Forthcoming

MERET OPPENHEIM
Text by Elisabeth Bronfen, Heike Eipeldauer, Christiane Meyer-Thoss, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, et al.
HATJE CANTZ
ISBN: 9783775735117 | US $60.00
Pub Date: 6/30/2013
Forthcoming

PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED

MERET’S SPARKS
Text by Kathleen Bühler. Preface by Matthias Frehner.
KERBER
ISBN: 9783866786783 | US $55.00
Pub Date: 9/30/2013
Forthcoming

ACTIVE BACKLIST

MERET OPPENHEIM: FOUNTAIN STORIES
Edited by Simon Baur, Martin A. Bühler. Text by Belinda Grace Gardner, Annemarie Monteil.
HATJE CANTZ
ISBN: 9783775725903 | US $40.00
Pub Date: 10/31/2010
Active | In stock

MERET OPPENHEIM: FROM BREAKFAST IN FUR AND BACK AGAIN
Edited by Thomas Levy. Essay by Belinda Grace Gardner. Interview by Daniel Spoerri.
KERBER
ISBN: 9783936646290 | US $35.00
Pub Date: 3/2/2004
Active | In stock

MERET OPPENHEIM: BEYOND THE TEACUP
Artwork by Meret Oppenheim. Edited by Bice Curiger. Text by Jacqueline Burckhardt.
INDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL, NEW YORK
ISBN: 9780916365462 | US $29.95
Pub Date: 6/2/1997
Active | In stock

OUT OF PRINT LISTING

MERET OPPENHEIM: RETROSPECTIVE
HATJE CANTZ
ISBN: 9783775718837 | US $65.00
Pub Date: 4/1/2007
Out of print | Not available

MERET OPPENHEIM: BEYOND THE TEACUP
D.A.P./DISTRIBUTED ART PUBLISHERS, INC.
ISBN: 9780916365455 | US $45.00
Pub Date: 6/2/1996
Out of print | Not available

MERET OPPENHEIM: THE BOOK OF IDEAS
Text by Christiane Meyer-Thoss.
GACHNANG & SPRINGER
ISBN: 9783906127514 | US $65.00
Pub Date: 9/2/1996
Out of print | Not available

Meret Oppenheim

Meret’s Sparks

The Contemporary Art Collection at the Kunstmuseum Bern, Part 2

Text by Kathleen Bühler. Preface by Matthias Frehner.
Published by Kerber

On the centenary of her birth, this volume assesses the legacy of the great Swiss Surrealist Meret Oppenheim. Here, Oppenheim’s works are placed in dialogue with works by Maya Bringolf, Vidya Gastaldon, Tatjana Gerhard, Elisabeth Llach and Francisco Sierra.

Oppenheim: Object

Text by Carolyn Lanchner.
Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York

In 1936, invited by André Breton to contribute to an exhibition of Surrealist objects, Meret Oppenheim (1913–1985) decided to act upon a café conversation she had recently had with Pablo Picasso and his then-companion Dora Maar. Commenting on a fur-covered bracelet that Oppenheim had made for the designer Schiaparelli, Picasso remarked that one could cover just about anything in fur, to which Oppenheim responded, “Even this cup and saucer.” The resulting sculpture was “Object,” a teacup, saucer and spoon purchased from a department store and lined with Chinese gazelle fur. An essay by Carolyn Lanchner, retired Curator of Painting and Sculpture at MoMA, discusses the enigmatic, sensually disturbing nature of this transformed tea set, its sensational impact on its first audiences and its enduring fascination as an icon of Surrealism.

Meret Oppenheim

Text by Elisabeth Bronfen, Heike Eipeldauer, Christiane Meyer-Thoss, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, et al.
Published by Hatje Cantz

Over the course of the past hundred years or so, as sculpture has increasingly come to signify objecthood as much as carved or modeled form, Meret Oppenheim (1913-1985) stands out retrospectively as one of the twentieth century's most influential artists. Oppenheim has also long been an icon to feminist artists and art historians, in her self-transformation from "muse" of Man Ray to leading Surrealist, and her fearless insistence on her right to creativity throughout her life. Her fur teacup, titled "Breakfast in Fur" (1936) was inspired by a conversation between Oppenheim and Picasso at a Paris café; admiring a fur-covered bracelet she was wearing, Picasso remarked that one could cover anything with fur, to which she replied, "Even this cup and saucer." Today this work, the definitive Surrealist Object, seems to articulate and inaugurate a whole tradition of its own, in a psychosexual-sculptural vocabulary that has been developed by artists such as Louise Bourgeois and Eva Hesse. Oppenheim's oeuvre, ranging freely across sculpture, painting, design and poetry, shows preoccupations not only with gender-inflected objects and gender roles, but also with Surrealism's enduring concerns-dream, myth, imagination, games. Published for the centenary of her birth, this generous retrospective illuminates Oppenheim's work in all genres, tracing its influence on later generations of artists and exploring her importance as a precursor of feminism.

Meret Oppenheim: Fountain Stories

Edited by Simon Baur, Martin A. Bühler. Text by Belinda Grace Gardner, Annemarie Monteil.
Published by Hatje Cantz

More than any other Surrealist, the Swiss artist Meret Oppenheim (1913-1985) embraced, pursued and defined Surrealism's cult of the object, fashioning such classic works as the famous fur cup (at the age of 23!) and the trussed high-heels, infusing everyday domestic objects with a concise eroticism. Yet many facets of her innovative and wide-ranging practice remain unknown to this day, including her extraordinary fountain projects. From the late 1960s until her death, Oppenheim designed and produced models for a series of freewheeling aquatic sculptures. Only three of these have been realized: the "Meret Oppenheim Fountain" in Bern in her native Switzerland, the "Spiral (Nature's Course)" in Paris and the "Hermes Fountain" located in the garden of artist and onetime collaborator Daniel Spoerri in Seggiano, Italy. Fountain Stories is the first to gather all of Oppenheim's fountain projects, including her drawings and unrealized models, into a single definitive publication.

Meret Oppenheim: Retrospective

An Enormously Tiny Bit of a Lot

Edited by Therese Bhattacharya-Stettler, Matthias Frehner. Text by Simon Baur, Therese Bhattacharya-Stettler, Matthias Frehner, Wanda Kupper, Isabel Schulz, Nicole Schweizer, Werner Spies, Lisa Wenger.
Published by Hatje Cantz

Much more than "just" the fur cup: this lavishly illustrated monograph presents the multifaceted work and colorful life of the great artist and Surrealist muse, Meret Oppenheim (1913-1985). Once enmeshed in scandal, known as a mysterious model and a mythical personality, she emerged among the most far-sighted artists of her epoch. Her oeuvre, which includes painting, sculpture, photography, poetry, drawings and design objects, constitutes an important contribution to twentieth-century art. Alongside the legendary Breakfast in Fur, from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York and important pieces from Vienna, Paris and Stockholm, Retrospective: An Enormously Tiny Bit of a Lot includes many never-before seen works from private collections. While Oppenheim's works forbid formal classification, major themes can be distinguished: borders and connections between nature and culture; man and woman; day and night; and, as befits a Surrealist, dream and reality. Here, art historical writing and detailed analyses shed light on gender-specific issues in Oppenheim's work, along with broader concerns and major artistic advances. In addition, previously unpublished fragments of Oppenheim's own writing recollect many of her companions and artistic colleagues, and an illustrated biography completes the picture.

Meret Oppenheim: From Breakfast In Fur And Back Again

Edited by Thomas Levy. Essay by Belinda Grace Gardner. Interview by Daniel Spoerri.
Published by Kerber

One of the most unusual women of the twentieth century, Meret Oppenheim most famously created the legendary Le Déjeuner en Fourrure, her 1936 assemblage of a tea cup and a fur. But Oppenheim was not just a Surrealist mouthful--though she provided the movement with one of its most recognizable symbols. Like her counterparts Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, André Breton and Man Ray, she used found materials freely in her artworks, often to the point of creating a critical alienation of the viewer from an otherwise familiar object. Her greater oeuvre has often been subsumed by the dominance of the ubiquitous fur cup, a situation which this publication aims to remedy, presenting a career-spanning selection of witty drawings, paintings, objects, collages, poems and designs for “applied artworks”--fantastic clothes, jewelry and furniture. Shortly before her death, Oppenheim and editor Thomas Levy developed the idea of realizing some of her applied artworks; those that were made to appear here through photo documentation. Also included are scholarly essays, an exhibition list, a bibliography and a filmography.

Meret Oppenheim: Beyond The Teacup

Artwork by Meret Oppenheim. Edited by Bice Curiger. Text by Jacqueline Burckhardt.
Published by Independent Curators International, New York

This landmark volume examines the life and work of the extraordinary Swiss Surrealist Meret Oppenheim. Although she became famous at the age of 23 for her fur-covered teacup, she subsequently suffered years of critical neglect, and her subversive work has only recently begun to receive the acclaim it deserves. This beautiful catalogue covers the full range of her art, embracing sculpture, painting, drawing, collage, assemblage, photography, fashion and jewelry design, and a selection of Oppenheim's poems. Now available to the trade in a paperback edition.

Meret Oppenheim: Beyond The Teacup

Published by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.

Meret Oppenheim: The Book Of Ideas

Sketches & Designs for Fashion & Jewelry

Text by Christiane Meyer-Thoss.
Published by Gachnang & Springer