I stand in my place with my own day here : site-specific art at The New School / conceived and produced by Silvia Rocciolo, Lydia Matthews, and Eric Stark ; edited by Frances Richard ; a collaboration between The New School Art Collection and Parsons Curatorial Design Research Lab.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rocciolo, Silvia, conceptor.

Matthews, Lydia, conceptor.

Stark, Eric (Curator), conceptor.

Richard, Frances (Frances M.), editor.

New School Art Collection, organizer.

Parsons School of Design. Curatorial Design Research Lab, organizer.

New School University, organizer.

Parsons School of Design, organizer.

Smidt Family Modern and Contemporary Art Collection Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New School University.

Site-specific art--New York (State)--New York--21st century.

Site-specific art.

Site-specific art--New York (State)--New York--20th century.

Art and society.

New School University--Art collections.

Art museums.

New York (State)--New York.

Physical Description:

303 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm

Distribution:

Durham, NC : Distributed worldwide by Duke University Press.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : The New School, [2019]

Summary:

Features essays by more than fifty renowned international writers who consider thirteen monumental works of art created for The New School between 1930 and the present. The nucleus of The New School's Art Collection, these commissions--ranking among the finest site-specific works in New York City--range from murals by José Clemente Orozco and Thomas Hart Benton to installations by Agnes Denes, Kara Walker, Alfredo Jaar, Glenn Ligon, Sol LeWitt, and Martin Puryear + Michael Van Valkenburgh, among others. Providing a kaleidoscopic view into these works, this richly illustrated volume explores each installation through three to four essays written by critics, poets, and scholars from diverse fields including anthropology, mathematics, art history, media studies, and design. Their texts are complemented by three additional essays reflecting on each piece's art historical significance; the architectural contexts in which the works reside on the university's campus; and The New School's relationship to adventurous art practice. Also included is a roundtable discussion among leading arts educators and artists who reflect on the pedagogical potential of a campus-based contemporary art collection. The book's final section presents a history of each commissioned work, highlighted by archival images never before published.

Contents:

Foreword: co-designing a kaleidoscope / Lydia Matthews

Introduction / Silvia Rocciolo and Eric Stark

Various, humane, political / Holland Cotter

Schooled in the new: the arts as social research / Julia L. Foulkes

Living an learning from the University Center to 66 West 12th Street; or, Arendt in Mar-a-Lago / Reinhold Martin. Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall, 66 West 12th Street. Thomas Hart Benton: America today, 1930-31 : From The New School to The Motropolitan Museum of Art: the odyssey of Thomas Hart Benton's "Ameria Today" / Randall Griffey

The ghost of progress past / Luc Sante

Paid in eggs / Mira Schor. José Clemente Orozco: Call to revolution and table of universal brotherhood (The New School mural cycle), 1930-31 : Orozco's New School murals: activating revolutionary thought / Anna Indych-López and Lynda Klich

The chains in Orozco's murals / Otto Von Busch

Center of gravity: Orozco / Roberto Tejada. Camilo Egas: Ecuadorian festival, 1932 : A celebration of dance / Michele Greet

Celebration as resistance / Heather Reyes

New School desires: "poised precisely between fantasy and reality" / Jasmine Rault. Gonzalo Fonseca: Untitled, 1961 : Gonzalo Fonseca and universality modernism / Edward J. SUllivan

Solve et coagula / Hugh Raffles

When a mural is a blueprint / Mónica de la Torre. Martin Puryear + Michael Van Valkenburgh: Vera list courtyard, 1997 : Vera list courtyard: a brief history / Kathleen Goncharov

Inside out: outside in / Sarah E. Lawrence

Seats of tension: collaboration, access, security, expression / Laura Y. Liu

Vera list courtyard and the cultural wars / Olu Oguibe. Dave Muller: Interpolations and extrapolations, 2002-03; Extensions (interpolations and extrapolations), 2008 : INterpolating and extrapolating / Stefano Basilico

Brand new / Jeffrey Kastner

Identity interpolated and extrapolated / Jamer Hunt. Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th Street. Sol LeWitt: Wall drawing #1073, Bars of color (New School), 2003 : #1073 / Tan Lin

LeWitt's problem(s) / Jennifer Wilson

One sentence for Sol LeWitt / Saul Anton. Kara Walker: Event horizon, 2005 : HIstory's worth of fictions / Mabel O. Wilson

On Kara Walker's Event horizon / Maggie Nelson

Black Atlantis / Naomi Beckwith. Brian Tolle: Threshold, 2006 : The gendle wind doth move visibly / Shannon Mattern

Unsettled / Victoria Hattam

Of two minds / Carin Kuoni

Quiet possibilities of the subjunctive / G.E. Patterson. University Center, 63 Fifth Avenue. Rita McBride: Bells and whistles, 2009-14 : Mnemonics and pneumatics / Robert Kirkbride

Ringing bells, blowing whistles / Daniel A. Barber

Breaking out of school / Elizabeth Ellsworth. Alfredo Jaar: Searching for Africa in Life, 1996/2014 : Searcing blindly / Radhika Subramaniam

An absence that conjures a presence / Omar Berrada

Alfredo Jaar: dialectic of sight / Jennifer A. González

The blink of failure: imagining life in Africa / Tisa Bryant. Glenn Ligon: For comrades and lovers, 2015 : Democractic vistas of space / Carl Hancock Rux

Among the throng: Glenn Ligon situates Whitman / Wendy S. Walters

Incantations / Luis Jaramillo

For comrades and lovers; a dialogue / Claudia Rankine. Agnes Denes: Pascal's perfect probability pyramid and the people paradox

the predicament (ppppppp), 1980/2016 : In formation / Aruna D'Souza

The one who is the one who is the one who is not many. Thoughts called forth by Agnes Denes's Pascal's perfect probability pyramid and the people paradox

the predicament (ppppppp

Agnes Denes: Promethea of paradox / Lucy R. Lippard. "Organized by fascination": a roundtable conversation on art, institutions, and pedagogy / Carol Becker, Gregg Bordowitz, Pablo Helguera, and Lydia Matthews; moderated by Frances Richard

Histories of the commissions

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

"Published on the occasion of The New School Centennial."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Smidt Family Modern and Contemporary Art Collection Fund.

ISBN:

9781478008088

1478008083

OCLC:

1090749826