Vija Celmins

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To Fix the Image in Memory

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Vija Celmins showcases the extensive and exquisite works of the artist, renowned for her detailed renderings of ocean surfaces, desert floors, and night skies. This beautifully illustrated catalogue accompanies the acclaimed exhibition at major museums including the Metropolitan Museum and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Spanning over five decades, it features drawings, paintings, sculpture, and prints, alongside scholarly essays and interviews illuminating Celmins's unique approach to depicting vast natural scenes on small scales, reflecting on human consciousness and experience.
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This book is ideal for art enthusiasts, students, and professionals interested in contemporary art and the meticulous craft of Vija Celmins.

"I believe if there is any meaning in art, it resides in the physical presence of a work."--Vija Celmins

Description

The beautiful catalogue that accompanies the critically-acclaimed exhibition currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum

Best known for her striking drawings of ocean surfaces, begun in 1968 and revisited over many years both in drawings and paintings, Vija Celmins (b. 1938) has been creating exquisitely detailed renderings of natural imagery for more than five decades. The oceans were followed by desert floors and night skies—all subjects in which vast, expansive distances are distilled into luminous, meticulous, and mesmerizing small-scale artworks. For Celmins, this obsessive “redescribing” of the world is a way to understand human consciousness in relation to lived experience.

The first major publication on the artist in twenty years, this comprehensive and lavishly illustrated volume explores the full range of Celmins’s work produced since the 1960s—drawings and paintings as well as sculpture and prints. Scholarly essays, a narrative chronology, and a selection of excerpts from interviews with the artist illuminate her methods and techniques; survey her early years in Los Angeles, where she was part of a circle that included James Turrell and Ken Price; and trace the development of her work after she moved to New York City and befriended figures such as Robert Gober and Richard Serra.

Published in association with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Exhibition Schedule:

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
(12/15/18–03/31/19)

Art Gallery of Ontario
(05/04/19–08/04/19)

The Met Breuer, New York
(09/24/19–01/12/20)

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"The beautifully produced catalog provides a thorough overview of Celmins's life and artistic development." – Susan Tallman, New York Review of Books

"An excellent catalog." – Charles Desmarais, San Francisco Chronicle

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780300234213

Publisher: Yale University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 13 November 2018

Country: United States

Imprint: Yale University Press

Illustration: 230 color illus., including 4 gatefolds

Contributors:

Contributions by Briony Fer
Contributions by Nancy Lim
Contributions by Meredith A. Brown
Contributions by Suzanne Hudson
Edited by Gary Garrels
Contributions by Russell Ferguson
Contributions by Ian Alteveer
Contributions by Frances Jacobus-Parker

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 241.0mm

Height: 295.0mm

Weight: 1905g

Pages: 272

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Gary Garrels is Elise S. Haas Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.