Redesigning Reality – Social Comment
“Making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.” – Barbara Kruger
An exhibition catalogue:
- Is an accompanying printed publication for a temporary exhibition or installation at a gallery or alternative
- Documents the contents of an exhibition, providing a forum for critical dialogue between curators, artists and critics. (Ontario College of Art & Design)
Art exhibition catalogues, often written as a collaboration between the artist, the writer and the gallery, have become important as documentation of artist/s, placing their body of creative work into a critical framework of time, place, and art practices.
“Book-sized exhibition catalogues in the West typically have a colour photograph of every item on display, and also of other relevant works not in the exhibition (these usually smaller and often in black and white). There will be a short formal catalogue description of each item, and usually interpretative text often amounting to one or more pages. The resulting book will have at least one introductory essay [Preface], often several, footnotes, bibliography and other critical apparatus… the intention – often successful – is to create a book which has a permanent usefulness.“ (Expedia)
Examples of an art exhibition catalogue
CHAT Catalogue (ANU)
But mostly Air (ANU)
Year 12 Perspectives 2016 (Art Gallery of WA)
WA Focus – Graham Miller (Art Gallery of WA) – useful for the Preface.
Sidney Nolan – Mt Erebus (Art Gallery of NSW) – great example of one entry.
Artists – Source material
There are many Library resources set aside for this assignment on a trolley.
Additionally, the following websites may provide you with a useful start to your research:
Barbara Kruger – ACCA Online; Art History Archive; The Art Story
Pablo Picasso – Biography.com; The Art Story; The Met (Metropolitan Museum)
Albert Tucker – Art Gallery of NSW; Australian Biography; National Portrait Gallery
Sidney Nolan – Art Gallery of NSW; National Gallery of Australia; Australian Dictionary of Biography
John Perceval – Design & Art Australia Online; Wikipedia
Arthur Boyd – Art Gallery of NSW; Bundanon Trust; Grafico Qld
Andy Warhol – TheArtStory.org; Biography.com; American Masters
Banksy – Smithsonian; Street art bio; Wired
Dorothea Lange – The Art Story; The Great Depression in Washington State; The Dust Bowl
Bill Henson – Bendigo Art Gallery guide; The Design Files; Artnet
Ken Unsworth – Sculpture; ABC; The Guardian
Shirin Neshat – TED talk; Artsy.net; Signs Journal
Misha Gordin – Photographers Biography; FreeYork; Verve Gallery
Jean-Michel Basquait – The Art Story; Biography.com; New York Times
Guan Wei – Arc One; Artlink; The Art Life
Gordon Bennett – National Gallery of Victoria; The Guardian; MCA
Fiona Hall – Australian Government; National Gallery of Australia; Australia Council
Lee Bul – Wikipedia; The Culture Trip; Mori Art Museum
Gu Wenda (or Wenda Gu) – National Gallery of Australia; Wikipedia; The Met (video)
Max Beckmann – The Art Story; Wikipedia; MOMA (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
George Gittoes – George Gittoes’ home page; ABC (includes video); The Sydney Morning Herald
Jenny Holzer – Artsy (use tabs for info.); Art History Archive; ACCA Education (Aust. Centre for Contemporary Art)
Mee Ping Leung – Wikipedia; Asia Art Archive; Flux Magazine
Simryn Gill – CCP (Centre for Contemporary Photography); The Australian; Artsy
Anselm Kiefer – The Art Story; The Royal Academy of Arts; The Met (Metropolitan Museum)
Frida Kahlo – The Art Story; The Guardian; Frida Kahlo Foundation
Kathe Kollwitz – Wikipedia; RO Gallery; Spartacus Educational
Jill Orr – Jill Orr home page; Monash; The Promised Land (YouTube clip)
Joseph Beuys – The Art Story; Walker Art; The Guardian
Do Ho Suh – Wikipedia; Wall Street Journal; Artnet