Celebrating modern art
Subtitle: the Anderson Collection
By: with essays by Neal Benezra ... [et al.] ; and contributions by Michael Auping ... [et al.] ; [edited by Gary Garrels]
Contributors: Benezra, Neal David, 1953-; Auping, Michael; Garrels, Gary; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Publisher: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; University of California Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: San Francisco; Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 397
Subjects: Anderson, Harry W. -- Art collections -- Exhibitions; Anderson, Mary M. -- 1932- -- Art collections -- Exhibitions; Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Exhibitions; Art -- Private collections -- California -- Atherton -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions
Description: "Celebrating Modern Art: The Anderson Collection documents one of the most important private collections of modern and contemporary art in the United States. This volume, published in conjunction with an exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, features large-scale color plates of over 250 artworks by 140 artists of international renown, such as Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Alberto Giacometti, Richard Diebenkorn, and many others. The book also provides a series of in-depth essays by leading art critics and scholars including Jack Flam, Bill Berkson, Neal Benezra, Michael Brenson, and John Elderfield. In addition, curator Gary Garrels has written an introductory essay discussing the Anderson Collection as a whole and its pivotal role within the tradition of art patronage in postwar America."--Jacket.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Oct. 7, 2000-Jan. 15, 2001

Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Foreword and acknowledgments / David A. Ross; title: The Anderson collection: an introduction / Gary Garrels; title: A modern touch: the history of the Anderson collection / Rachel Teagle; title: A look back / William Rubin; title: New York school. The New York school / Jack Flam ; Jackson Pollock's Lucifer / T.J. Clark ; Pedestrian colors: Robert Rauschenberg's Collection / Branden W. Joseph ; Philip Guston: perpetual mutation / Michael Auping; title: California art. Ceremonial surfaces: California art in the Anderson collection / Bill Berkson ; Frank Lobdell: on the edge of abstraction / Walter Hopps ; Bruce Conner: black-and-white mysteries / Peter Boswell ; Robert Therrien: what is close by / Julia Brown; title: Contemporary art. Renewing modernism / Neal Benezra ; Elizabeth Murray: a new way of painting / David Cateforis; title: Modern sculpture. Sometimes out of sight, never out of mind: the story of the hand in modernist sculpture / Michael Brenson ; Blaze and power: David Smith's Five Ciarcs / Valerie Fletcher; title: Works on paper. Works on paper / John Elderfield ; Vija Celmins's vision of nature and the nature of surface / Carolyn Kastner