Ileana Sonnabend
Subtitle: ambassador for the new
By: Ann Temkin and Claire Lehmann
Contributors: Temkin, Ann; Lehmann, Claire; Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Museum Of Modern Art
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780870708961
Subjects: Art; Art collections; Modern Art; Exhibitions; Private collections
Description: During a career spanning half a century, Ileana Sonnabend (1914-2007) helped shape the course of postwar art in Europe and America. Both a gallerist and a noted collector, Sonnabend championed some of the most significant art movements of her time. Artists as varied as Vito Acconci, John Baldessari, Mel Bochner, Jeff Koons, Mario Merz, Robert Morris, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol worked with Sonnabend, whose support for difficult avant-garde work was legendary. Among the many important works that Sonnabend owned is Rauschenberg's painting, Canyon (1959), which the Sonnabend family generously donated to The Museum of Modern Art in 2012. In celebration of this extraordinary gift, Ileana Sonnabend: Ambassador for the new accompanies an exhibition exploring her legendary eye through approximately 30 works presented in her eponymous galleries in Paris and New York from the early 1960s through the late 1980s. A biographical essay by Leslie Camhi, artists' recollections and individual entries on the selected works provide further reflection on Sonnabend's taste and lasting influence. Exhibition: Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (21.12.2013-21.04.2014).
Notes: Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name held Dec. 21, 2013-Apr. 21, 2014 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 168).
Table of contents: title: Foreword / -- Glenn D. Lowry; title: A lasting legacy  -- Ann Temkin; title: "I am an amateur: Ileana Sonnabend and the art of her time  -- Leslie Camhi -- Plates.; title: Jasper Johns ;; title: Robert Rauschenberg ;; title: Jim Dine ;; title: Roy Lichtenstein ;; title: Andy Warhol ;; title: Michelangelo Pistoletto ;; title: James Rosenquist ;; title: Claes Oldenburg ;; title: Tom Wesselmann ;; title: Larry Bell ;; title: Robert Morris ;; title: Gilberto Zorio ;; title: John McCracken ;; title: Giovanni Anselmo ;; title: Mario Merz ;; title: Gilbert & George ;; title: Pier Paolo Calzolari ;; title: Christian Boltanski ;; title: Vito Acconci ;; title: Mel Bochner ;; title: Bernd and Hilla Becher ;; title: Piero Manzoni ;; title: Jannis Kounellis ;; title: John Baldessari ;; title: Bruce Nauman ;; title: Castelli-Sonnabend tapes and films ;; title: Jan Groover ;; title: A.R. Penck ;; title: Hiroshi Sugimoto ;; title: Peter Fischli and David Weiss ;; title: Terry Winters ;; title: Haim Steinbach ;; title: Ashley Bickerton ;; title: Jeff Koons ;; title: Carroll Dunham.