ARTIST MONOGRAPHS

Joan Jonas

Museum Exhibition Catalogues, Monographs, Artist's Projects, Curatorial Writings and Essays


               

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Joan Jonas: Good Night Good Morning

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

Hbk, 9 x 10.5 in. / 208 pgs / 220 color. | 4/23/2024 | In stock
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Joan Jonas

DABA/THE DRAWING CENTER
Text by Joan Jonas, Laura Hoptman.

An extensive, Swiss-bound catalog dedicated to Jonas’ under-explored drawing practice

Pbk, 7 x 9 in. / 284 pgs / 319 color. | 3/19/2024 | Out of stock
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Joan Jonas: Moving off the Land

WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
Edited with text by Uta Meta Bauer. Text by Stefanie Hessler, Joan Jonas, Markus Reymann, Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza.

A multimedia meditation on the many meanings of the ocean across history

Flexi, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 272 pgs / 200 color. | 4/11/2023 | Out of stock
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Joan Jonas: Next Move in a Mirror World

DIA ART FOUNDATION
Preface by Jessica Morgan. Introduction and text by Barbara Clausen. Text by Adrienne Edwards, André Lepecki, Kristin Poor, Jeannine Tang. Interview with Douglas Crimp. Conversation with Heather Davis, Joan Jonas, Zoe Todd. Coda by Kelly Kivland.

A conceptually innovative take on Jonas’ performances and installations

Hbk, 7.5 x 10 in. / 176 pgs / 70 color / 15 bw. | 7/11/2023 | In stock
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Joan Jonas: The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things

DIA ART FOUNDATION
Preface by Jessica Morgan. Text by Joan Jonas, Lynne Cooke. Conversation with Jason Moran.

A 15th-anniversary edition of Jonas’ landmark monograph documenting her performance response to Aby Warburg

Pbk, 6.25 x 6.25 in. / 76 pgs / 26 color. | 2/15/2022 | In stock
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Joan Jonas Is on Our Mind

CCA WATTIS INSTITUTE FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS
Edited by Frances Richard. Foreword and Introduction by Anthony Huberman. Text by Lynne Tillman, et al.

Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 172 pgs / 64 color / 40 bw. | 7/25/2017 | In stock
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Joan Jonas: They Come to Us Without a Word

GREGORY R. MILLER & CO.
Foreword by Paul C. Ha. Text by Ute Meta Bauer, Joan Jonas, Ann Reynolds, Marina Warner. Interview by Ingrid Schaffner.

Clth, 12 x 8 in. / 160 pgs / 180 color. | 8/25/2015 | In stock
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In the Shadow a Shadow: The Work of Joan Jonas

GREGORY R. MILLER & CO.
Edited with text by Joan Simon. Text by Joan Jonas, Douglas Crimp, Johanna Burton, Barbara Clausen, Richard Serra, Susan Rothenberg.

Clth, 9.5 x 12.75 in. / 536 pgs / 840 color. | 11/24/2015 | In stock
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Joan Jonas: Five Works

QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART
Edited by Valerie Smith and Warren Niesluchowski. Foreword by Tom Finkelpearl.

Paperback, 10.5 x 8.5 in. / 176 pgs / 162 color / 177 bw. | 7/15/2005 | Not available
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Joan Jonas

HATJE CANTZ
Artwork by Joan Jonas. Edited by Johann-Karl Schmidt, Andrea Jahn. Contributions by Anja Zimmermann. Text by Chrissie Isles, Yvonne Spielmann.

Paperback, 8.75 x 10.75 in. / 160 pgs / 50 color / 80 bw. | 3/2/2001 | Not available
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Joan Jonas: Good Night Good MorningJoan Jonas: Good Night Good Morning

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.

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.



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Joan JonasJoan Jonas

Published by DABA/The Drawing Center.
Text by Joan Jonas, Laura Hoptman.

The installation, performance and video works of American artist Joan Jonas (born 1936) are emblematic of the ’70s–’80s downtown New York avant-garde. Jonas privileged form over content, generating rigorous pieces with thematic concerns such as time, space and feminine subjectivity. Significant as these works are, other parts of Jonas’ diverse and dynamic oeuvre deserve their due attention. This book is the first comprehensive catalog to elucidate an under-examined component of the artist’s practice. Fascinated by the tension between motion and transcription, Jonas developed “endless drawings” composed of lines that weave around themselves or through a grid. She also began to draw natural things—plants, animals, minerals—both from her own environment and from fiction.
Published in conjunction with the exhibition at the Drawing Center, this volume examines several decades of Jonas’ drawing practice, presented in chronological order. The drawings are accompanied by extensive images from the artist’s notable performances and exhibitions.



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Joan Jonas: Moving off the LandJoan Jonas: Moving off the Land

Published by Walther König, Köln.
Edited with text by Uta Meta Bauer. Text by Stefanie Hessler, Joan Jonas, Markus Reymann, Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza.

This volume closely follows the development of Joan Jonas’ (born 1936) multiformat project Moving off the Land. The artist’s most recent body of work, it encompasses three years of research into the significance of the ocean throughout history, and features sculptures, drawings, sound and new video productions. Jonas combines poetry and prose by writers such as Emily Dickinson and Herman Melville with texts by Rachel Carson and Sy Montgomery, and with moving images filmed in aquariums and in Jamaica, where algae bloom and over-fishing pose urgent threats to the ecosystem. The monograph includes the complete script for the performance along with annotations, images of Jonas’ live performance, and a complete chronology with documentation of the performance’s history.



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Walther König, Köln

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Catalog: SPRING 2023 p. 30   

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Joan Jonas: Next Move in a Mirror WorldJoan Jonas: Next Move in a Mirror World

Published by Dia Art Foundation.
Preface by Jessica Morgan. Introduction and text by Barbara Clausen. Text by Adrienne Edwards, André Lepecki, Kristin Poor, Jeannine Tang. Interview with Douglas Crimp. Conversation with Heather Davis, Joan Jonas, Zoe Todd. Coda by Kelly Kivland.

Published in conjunction with the first major US museum show of Joan Jonas’ art in nearly 15 years, this volume breaks new ground by contextualizing and expanding understandings of Jonas’ body of work through three thematic approaches: the critical notions of gender, being and otherness; the politics of landscape and ecology; and new conceptions of medium specificity and un-specificity. These themes serve as a framework through which to address the rich vocabulary of Jonas’ performances, sculptures, drawings and installations from the early 1970s until today.
Inspired by the format of a reader, the monograph presents new writing and scholarship, excerpts from Douglas Crimp's final interview, as well as a selection of drawings and sketches from Jonas’ notebooks, including never-before-published drawings created during the coronavirus lockdown.
Born and based in New York, Joan Jonas (born 1936) has taught at UCLA School of the Arts, in Stuttgart, Germany, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she is a professor emerita. She has lived and worked in Greece, Morocco, India, Germany, Holland, Iceland, Poland, Japan, Italy, Hungary and Ireland.



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Catalog: SPRING 2022 p. 125   

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Joan Jonas: The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of ThingsJoan Jonas: The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things

Fifteenth Anniversary Edition

Published by Dia Art Foundation.
Preface by Jessica Morgan. Text by Joan Jonas, Lynne Cooke. Conversation with Jason Moran.

Reissued for the 15th anniversary of this volume and during Joan Jonas’ (born 1936) first major US museum show in 15 years, this catalog documents the deep, immersive performance The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things, originally commissioned by Dia Art Foundation and responding to German art historian Aby Warburg's essay on his visit to the American Southwest. The book includes a statement from the artist, scene-by-scene descriptions with photos, a conversation between Joan Jonas and Jason Moran (who composed music for the performance) and an essay by Lynne Cooke, a senior curator at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and former curator at Dia. With a new reflection from the artist looking back on this groundbreaking performance, the anniversary edition is a tangible manifestation of the ongoing significance of Jonas' work.



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Dia Art Foundation

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Joan Jonas Is on Our MindJoan Jonas Is on Our Mind

Published by CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts.
Edited by Frances Richard. Foreword and Introduction by Anthony Huberman. Text by Lynne Tillman, et al.

The CCA Wattis Institute in San Francisco dedicates year long seasons of discussions and public events to a single artist. In 2014–15, Joan Jonas (born 1936) was “on our mind.” This book brings together essays from writers, curators, art historians and artists that focus on a single work, from Jonas’ earliest films through her installation for the US Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale. The book also contains excerpts from readings and public lectures, and images by some of the other artists whose work was evoked in public and private conversation. Contributors include Jacqueline Francis, Renée Green, Quinn Latimer, Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Patricia Maloney, Elizabeth Mangini, Judith Rodenbeck and Lynne Tillman.

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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 172 pgs / 64 color / 40 bw.

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Catalog: SPRING 2017 p. 115   

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In the Shadow a Shadow: The Work of Joan JonasIn the Shadow a Shadow: The Work of Joan Jonas

Published by Gregory R. Miller & Co..
Edited with text by Joan Simon. Text by Joan Jonas, Douglas Crimp, Johanna Burton, Barbara Clausen, Richard Serra, Susan Rothenberg.

One of the most continuously influential figures of the past half century, Joan Jonas 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 six appearances at Documenta and her performance at the Performa 13 biennial, her work has always been surprising, groundbreaking and necessary. This extensively illustrated volume, containing hundreds of full-color photographs, drawings, scripts and diagrams, presents the definitive collection of Jonas' work. The first and authoritative career-spanning monograph of the multimedia pioneer, it covers more than 40 years of performances, films, videos, installations, texts and video sculptures. Art writer Joan Simon has painstakingly researched every one of Jonas' works and includes notes on each piece, along with new and never-before-published writings by the artist that provide extensive background. In the Shadow a Shadow also contains essays by Douglas Crimp, Barbara Clausen and Johanna Burton, and unpublished photographs and drawings from Jonas' archives. With a detailed production and exhibition history of the video and performance works, as well as the first comprehensive bibliography and biography of the artist, this intensively researched and authoritative book documents the range, breadth and depth of one of the most prolifically original artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

New York–born and based, Joan Jonas (born 1936) has taught at UCLA School of the Arts, in Stuttgart, Germany and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she is a professor emerita. She has lived and worked in Greece, Morocco, India, Germany, Holland, Iceland, Poland, Japan, Italy, Hungary and Ireland.

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Clth, 9.5 x 12.75 in. / 536 pgs / 840 color.

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Catalog: SPRING 2015 p. 43   

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Joan Jonas: They Come to Us Without a WordJoan Jonas: They Come to Us Without a Word

Published by Gregory R. Miller & Co..
Foreword by Paul C. Ha. Text by Ute Meta Bauer, Joan Jonas, Ann Reynolds, Marina Warner. Interview by Ingrid Schaffner.

They Come to Us without a Word documents Joan Jonas' (born 1936) project for the US Pavilion of the 56th Venice Biennale, an installation that incorporates multiple components, including projected videos (with music by Jason Moran), drawings and photographs. Each section of the pavilion represents a particular creature (bees, fish) or natural condition. Recited fragments of ghost stories sourced from the oral tradition of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, form a continuous narrative linking one room to the next. Designed with Jonas' close collaboration, this book features an extensive collection of images selected by the artist, including stills, drawings and photographs. Also included is a major new text by Jonas herself, as well as significant texts from Ann Reynolds and Marina Warner, and an interview with the artist by Ingrid Schaffner.

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Clth, 12 x 8 in. / 160 pgs / 180 color.

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Catalog: FALL 2015 p. 136   

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Joan JonasJoan Jonas

Published by Charta.
Foreword by Annie Ratti, Fabio Cavallucci. Text by Marina Warner, Joan Jonas, Anna Daneri, Roberto Pinto, Cristina Natalicchio, Andrea Mattiello.

Born in New York in 1936, Joan Jonas has been a towering figure in postwar Conceptual and experimental Performance art since the 1960s, when she began her pioneering exploration of gender and identity through a combination of myth, choreography and new media. In 2007, she was a visiting professor at the world-famous Ratti Foundation in Como, Italy. While there, she turned to a text by art historian Aby Warburg (whose writings on Hopi imagery and ritual inspired Jonas’ 2005 performance “The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things”) to create “The Hand Reverts to Its Own Movement…,” a solo performance centered on the act of drawing. This substantial new monograph spans 40 years of the artist’s groundbreaking output and introduces her new performance on the occasion of its world premiere in Como.

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Paperback, 5.75 x 8.5 in. / 136 pgs / 46 color / 19 bw.

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Joan Jonas: Five WorksJoan Jonas: Five Works

Published by Queens Museum of Art.
Edited by Valerie Smith and Warren Niesluchowski. Foreword by Tom Finkelpearl.

Five Works presents a much broader look at the American artist's oeuvre than its name suggests. This first major exhibition of Jonas's work in a New York museum includes a selection of the artist's works in installation and video, drawings, photographs and sketchbooks. Curated by Valerie Smith, QMA Director of Exhibitions, the show brings together five key works (aha!) from Jonas's career including Organic Honey's Visual Telepathy, Organic Honey: Vertical Roll (1972-1994), The Juniper Tree (1976-1978), Volcano Saga (1985-1994), Revolted by the Thought of Known Places... (1992-2003), and Lines in the Sand (2002) . Also included are her portable My New Theater series (1997-1999), drawings and sketches. All of the works in the exhibition are presented in color and this catalogue which also includes an interview with Jonas and poet/scholars Susan Howe and Jeanne Heuving.

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Queens Museum of Art

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Paperback, 10.5 x 8.5 in. / 176 pgs / 162 color / 177 bw.

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Catalog: SPRING 2005 p. 119   

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Joan JonasJoan Jonas

Performances Film Installations 1968-2000

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Artwork by Joan Jonas. Edited by Johann-Karl Schmidt, Andrea Jahn. Contributions by Anja Zimmermann. Text by Chrissie Isles, Yvonne Spielmann.

Artist Joan Jonas is one of the most groundbreaking pioneers in the fields of video and performance, having worked in these media since the 1960s. This catalogue documents her work with an interview, numerous performance and film stills, installation drawings and photographs, many of them published here for the first time.

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Hatje Cantz

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Paperback, 8.75 x 10.75 in. / 160 pgs / 50 color / 80 bw.

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