Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Chon, Doris
2. Phillips, Glenn, 1974-
3. Rigolo, Pietro
4. Blower, Jonathan
5. Tucker, Elizabeth, 1977-
6. Getty Research Institute, issuing body.

Description

1. x, 406 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Summary

1. "Harald Szeemann: Selected Writings is an anthology of over seventy texts by Harald Szeemann (1933-2005) that brings the ideas of this important curator of twentieth-century art to an English-speaking readership for the first time."--ECIP Data View.

Uniform title

1. Works. Selections. English. 2018

Alternative title

1. Works. 2018

Subject

1. Szeemann, Harald
2. Szeemann, Harald > Translations into English
3. Translations
4. Art criticism

Genre/Form

1. Translations.

Contents

1. Introduction: My ray is my castle / Doris Chon, Glenn Phillip, and Pietro Rigolo -- Part 1: Museum of Obsessions. -- SPACESHIT -- Identity kit -- O joyful, O holy thematic exhibition -- Culture cake Frau as folio -- The First International Perfume Exhibition -- Pullups from Luepolis -- Dossier G. P. -- When attitudes become form -- How does an exhibition come into being? -- Foreword to the documenta 1972 catalog -- Look back almost without anger: interview by Pietra Kipphof -- Individual mythologies -- Grandfather: a pioneer like us -- A rewarding retreat into the private realm -- The Museum of Obsessions: proposal for an exhibition at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin -- The Agentur für geistige Gastarbeit in the service of the vision for a Museum of Obsessions -- Museum of Obsessions -- Bachelor machines -- A bachelor's obsession--and what it has cost him -- The Museum of Obsessions: suggestions for a future documenta -- A correspondence -- Monte Verità--Mountain of Truth -- Truth has many breasts: a conversation with Theo Kneubühler -- Tendency toward the Gesamtkunstwerk -- Part 2: Individual mythologies. -- Collision + Harmony (Prayer): the honors pertaining to the profession of curating for the 1980s looking toward the year 2000 -- In the Jardin d'amour: letter to James Ensor -- Anselm Kiefer, Parsifal, 1973 -- Halos in the firmament of pictures: on Sigmar Polke -- East/West: where do you stand?: on Jörg Immendorff -- Immendorff at the crossroads -- Étienne-Martin -- Étienne-Martin: "That remains quite mysterious to me" -- Colossus in motion: Guy Harloff -- "Pathological processes often, and often only, show us enlarged images of normal conditions": (Otto Gross, 1907) -- No catastrophe without an idyll; No idyll without a catastrophe -- Adolf Wölfli -- (Dis)Ordered world picture: can the mentally ill be artists? -- Untitled: text for the one-man performance The new city, 1956 -- Emma Kunz: Swiss primal mud, Swiss mysticism of light -- A new museum in Lausanne: the Collection de l'Art Brut -- A mystic always goes against the grain -- Not once in his evil was he original: the destruction of art in the Third Reich -- Thanks owed to Paul Thek -- Conversation with Paul Thek: Duisburg, 12 December 1973 -- Ex voto -- On the exhibition Ex voto -- The discrete charm of the bourgeoisie: the Necropolis of Staglieno -- Bruno Müller -- Piotr Kowalski--technician or artist? -- George Sugarman -- Exploring myths by video -- Outline: length x width x height x depth + 150 arches. Bern's Münstergasse, the most autonomous street in Bern -- Mentality space = Climate -- Dieter Roth, Gobelin (Bertorelli B) 1974-76 -- Exhibition making -- Poem for Johannes Cladders -- Conversation with Cathérine Millet -- Energy amalgam litany -- Plates -- Part 3: From vision to nail: writings 1986-2003. -- Giant sketch for a future hope -- Freedom in patience: mystical traces in the work of Wolfgang Laib -- Mario Merz -- Timeless [Zeitlos] -- A visit to Weinrebenpark is like a breath of fresh air -- Piet Mondrian on Monte Verità -- To stage is to love -- The outside sets the scale, the inside determines the form -- Conversation: for Franz West (Indirectly) -- Joseph Beuys: the Heat time machine -- Museum of Obsessions: interview with Gerhard Theewen -- Tatlin's tower for Marx-Engels-Platz -- The other [L'autre] -- Beware of exiting your dreams: you may find yourself in somebody else's -- The gallantry of extremism -- Preface to Chen Zen: invocation of washing fire -- Making things possible: a conversation with Harald Szeemann (interview by Beti Žerovc).

Call number

1. JQE 18-467

Note

1. "This volume translates Harald Szeemann, Museum der Obsessionen (Berlin: Merve Verlag, 1981), and Harald Szeemann, Individuelle Mythologien (Berlin: Merve Verlag, 1985)."
2. "This volume accompanies the exhibition Harald Szeemann: Museum of Obsessions, held at the Getty Research Institute from 6 February 2018 to 6 May 2018."
3. "Harald Szeemann: Selected Writings is an anthology of over seventy texts by Harald Szeemann (1933-2005) that brings the ideas of this important curator of twentieth-century art to an English-speaking readership for the first time."--ECIP Data View.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Szeemann, Harald, author.

Title

1. Harald Szeemann : selected writings / Harald Szeemann ; edited by Doris Chon, Glenn Phillips, and Pietro Rigolo ; translated by Jonathan Blower and Elizabeth Tucker.

Publisher

1. Los Angeles : Getty Research Institute, [2018]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added author

1. Chon, Doris, editor.
2. Phillips, Glenn, 1974- editor.
3. Rigolo, Pietro, editor.
4. Blower, Jonathan, translator.
5. Tucker, Elizabeth, 1977- translator.
6. Getty Research Institute, issuing body.

Translation of:

1. Translation of: Szeemann, Harald. Museum der Obsessionen. Berlin : Merve Verlag, 1981 3883960209 (DLC) 81189338 (OCoLC)8953569
2. Translation of: Individuelle Mythologien. Berlin [West] : Merve Verlag, ©1985 (OCoLC)19548713

LCCN

1. 2017036175

ISBN

1. 9781606065549 paperback
2. 1606065548 paperback

Research call number

1. JQE 18-467