{"title":"Felix Gonzalez-Torres","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"felix-gonzalez-torres-photostats-book-felix-gonzalez-torres-9781938221262","title":"Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Photostats","description":"Felix Gonzalez-Torres’ text reveries on the intersections of the historical and the personal, gathered for the first time in this elegant clothbound volume  Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957-96) is one of the most significant artists to have emerged in the 1980s. An artist whose beautiful, restrained and often mutable works are abundant in compelling contradictions, Gonzalez-Torres was committed to a democratic form of art informed as much by the aesthetic and conceptual as by politics. His work challenges authority and our obeisance to it, dissolves the delineations between public and private, and creates a rich, open field into which the viewer is invited to complete works with her own inferences, imagination, and actions.  The photostats are a series of fixed works with white text on black fields framed behind glass to create a reflective surface bringing the viewers' reflection into the work. Made at the height of the AIDS crisis, these profoundly suggestive lists of political, cultural, and historical references disrupt hierarchies of information and linear chronology, asking how we receive and prioritize information, how we remember and forget, and how we continuously create new meaning. The photostats also recall the screens (the television, and now the computer) which furiously deliver information from which we must parse substance from surface and choose what to assimilate and what to reject.  This elegant volume is a discrete space in which to closely read the photostats with sustained attention: it opens from both sides, reproducing the framed photostats as objects on one, and from the other, details of the texts can be read as writing. In between the two, original writings by Mónica de la Torre and Ann Lauterbach, explore adjacent territories, signaling the multiple entry points for understanding the works.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49738797482257,"sku":"NGR9781938221262","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51055070380305,"sku":"NIN9781938221262","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52140839928081,"sku":"NLS9781938221262","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1938221265.jpg?v=1751348338"},{"product_id":"felix-gonzalez-torres-always-to-return-book-felix-gonzalez-torres-9798890181107","title":"Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Always to Return","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlways to Return\u003c\/i\u003e examines Felix Gonzalez-Torres's work in relation to portraiture and accompanies a major exhibition of the same name at the National Portrait Gallery and the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThis expansive project focuses on Felix Gonzalez-Torres's deep engagement with portraiture and the construction of identity, as well as how history is told and inherited. As one of the leading artists of the twentieth century, Gonzalez-Torres broadened the horizon of portraiture from a genre associated with static representations of individuals to one with the capacity to change, remain resonant, and encourage collaboration. With no formal beginning or end point, the exhibition and monograph unfold at the intersection of Gonzalez-Torres's groundbreaking work, the context of two Smithsonian collections, and the historically significant setting of Washington, D.C. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlways to Return\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e weaves together documentation of the exhibition with new scholarship by the exhibition's curators, Josh T Franco and Charlotte Ickes, essays by Julie Ault, and Joshua Chambers-Letson, and archival texts that shape the conceptual foundation for the exhibition. This in-depth look at the artist's relationship to portraiture and historiography provides  a new way into the practice of one the most significant artists of our time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres can be found in numerous public collections worldwide, including the Art Institute of Chicago; Baltimore Museum of Art; Brooklyn Museum; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Cleveland Museum of Art; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville; Dallas Museum of Art; Glenstone Museum, Potomac; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington; Institute of Contemporary Art Miami; Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Tate Modern, London; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlways to Return\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is co-published with the National Portrait Gallery and the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53636578771217,"sku":"NLS9798890181107","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9798890181107.jpg?v=1781001257"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-felix-gonzalez-torres.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}