Author: Kynaston McShine
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
Keywords: reflect, artists, muse, museum
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 1999-01
List price: $35.17
ISBN-10: 0870700928
ISBN-13: 9780870700927

Since public museums came into being in the late 18th century, artists have looked upon them with a mixture of reverence, complicity, suspicion, and disdain. In The Museum as Muse, artists of many persuasions speak their minds about museums, their functions and spaces, their practices and politics, and their relationship to the art they contain. More than 60 artists are represented by a wide range of works: photographs of museum patrons by Henri Cartier-Bresson and Elliot Erwitt; "personal museums" and "cabinets of curiosities" by Charles Wilson Peale, Marcel Duchamp, and Claes Oldenburg; fant

Authors:Kynaston McShine, Lynne Cooke, John Rajchman, Rich
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Keywords: years, forty, sculpture, serra, richard
Number of Pages: 420
Published: 2007-06-01
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0870707124
ISBN-13: 9780870707124

From ARTFORUM: Intended as a difinitive reference, the catalogue features essays by Lynne Cooke and art historians Benjamin H.D. Buchloh and John Rajchman. And because language is no less material for Serra than steel, it is fitting that the publication closes with an extensive interview conducted by McShine, allowing the artist’s words their due weight.

Author: David Kynaston
Publisher: Walker & Company
Keywords: britain, family
Number of Pages: 784
Published: 2009-12-22
List price: $47.50
ISBN-10: 0802717977
ISBN-13: 9780802717979

Family Britain continues David Kynaston’s groundbreaking series, telling as never before the story of Britain from VE Day in 1945 to the election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979. As in his highly acclaimed Austerity Britain, David Kynaston invokes an astonishing array of vivid, intimate and unselfconscious voices to drive his narrative of 1950s Britain. The keen-eyed Nella Last shops assiduously at Barrow Market as rationing gradually gives way to relative abundance; housewife Judy Haines, relishing the detail of suburban life, brings up her children in Chingford; the self-absorbed civil servan

Author: David Kynaston
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Keywords: party, birthday
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2010-04-05
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1408810115
ISBN-13: 9781408810118

On a hot morning in July 1898, the sporting world gathered at Lord’s to celebrate the fiftieth birthday of WG Grace, the greatest cricketer the game has ever seen. Grace was cheered onto the field by a packed crowd as he captained the Gentlemen, the privileged old guard of the Establishment. Their opponents in this annual match were the Players, cricketers for whom the sport was a precarious livelihood rather than a summer pastime. This three-day encounter represented the climax of cricket’s Golden Age, and the unstoppable arrival of the professional game that would dominate the tw

Author: David Kynaston
Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Keywords: jerusalem, new, tales, britain, austerity
Number of Pages: 704
Published: 2008-10-06
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0747599238
ISBN-13: 9780747599234

For the first time, the Sunday Times bestseller Austerity Britain is available in one complete paperback volume. Coursing through Austerity Britain is an astonishing variety of voices - vivid, unselfconscious, and unaware of what the future holds. A Chingford housewife endures the tribulations of rationing; a retired schoolteacher observes during a royal visit how well-fed the Queen looks; a pernickety civil servant in Bristol is oblivious to anyone’s troubles but his own. An array of working-class witnesses describe how life in post-war Britain is, with little regard for liberal nicetie