Closer to Life
Subtitle: drawings and works on paper in the Marieluise Hessel Collection, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College
By: edited by Tom Eccles and Amy Zion
Publisher: Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9781936192281
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Art collections; Exhibitions; Art; Private collections; Modern Art
Description: "For Marieluise Hessel, this early encounter with modern art in Vienna...set her on an astonishing pathway of artistic and personal discovery, patronage, and dedication to the visual arts and education, culminating in the creation of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard) in 1990"--introduction.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction and acknowledgments / -- Tom Eccles; title: What life can be  -- Marieluise Hessel; title: On keeping a notebook  -- Joan Didion; title: Drawing matters  -- Lynne Cooke; title: Artwork illustrations A-B --; title: Variation on 4.05  -- Paul Chan; title: Artwork illustrations C-O --; title: Detour-contour: On the drawings and notebooks of Gabriel Orozco  -- Gabriela Jauregui; title: Artwork illustrations O-Z --; title: Drawing in and out of history -- Michael Newman-- Back matter