The Art of Richard Tuttle

✍ Scribed by Tuttle, Richard S

• Book ID: 109303716
• Publisher: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 247 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0971089736

✦ Synopsis

In conjunction with a forthcoming traveling retrospective of Richard Tuttle's work, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has produced this major catalogue—the definitive publication on the artist and a lasting contribution to the art-historical field. Featuring more than 260 beautiful reproductions, this book offers an extensive visual record of Tuttle's artwork and creative process. Presented here are full-sized plates of the works in the exhibition, documentary images of the artist's working methods and previous installations, a complete exhibition history, and an authoritative bibliography. The catalogue addresses the far-reaching implications of Tuttle's creative output for contemporary art, and examines his complicated relationship to Postminimalism, the movement with which he is commonly identified. An essay by exhibition curator Madeleine Grynsztejn traces the trajectory of Tuttle's 40-year career. Cornelia H. Butler discusses Tuttle's expanded notion of drawing and the role of line within his oeuvre, while Richard Shiff focuses on Tuttle's "handmade abstraction" and diverse historical precedents for his artistic practice. Robert Storr situates Tuttle's work and its critical reception vis-à-vis the various currents of Postminimalism in Europe and America, and Katy Siegel explores the multifaceted relationship of Tuttle's art to written language, examining the artist's numerous collaborations with poets, and the ways in which shapes of individual typographical characters inform his personal vocabulary of glyph-like forms. Finally, Tara McDowell, Elizabeth A.T. Smith, Adam D. Weinberg and Charles Wylie contribute "case studies" that address, respectively, thesubtle interplay between Tuttle's frames and his drawings, his distinctive furniture designs, his controversial 1975 exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and his first museum show in 1971. Edited by Madeleine Grynsztejn.

Essays by Cornelia Butler, Richard Shiff, Katy Siegel, and Robert Storr.

Texts by Tara McDowell, Elizabeth Smith, Adam D. Wienberg and Charles Wylie. Clothbound, 11 x 12 in./320 pgs / 226 color and 40 b&w.