Proof: Francisco Goya, Sergei Eisenstein, Robert Longo

by Kate Fowle (Contributor)

Featuring works by Francisco Goya, Sergei Eisenstein and Robert Longo, Proof offers insight into the singularity of vision through which artists can reflect the social, cultural and political complexities of their times. Spanning eras and continents, each of these artists witnessed the turbulent transition from one century to another, experiencing the seismic impacts of revolution, civil rights movements and war.While Goya served church and king, Eisenstein the state, and Longo emerged during the rise of the contemporary art market―the dominant benefactors of each period―they all rose to prominence through developing nuanced practices that challenged expectations. With commissioned essays by journalist, activist and author Chris Hedges, artist Vadim Zakharov, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation Artistic Director Nancy Spector, and Garage Chief Curator Kate Fowle, plus an interview with Longo, this book is published to accompany the exhibition of the same name.

256 pages, Hardcover

Published August 22, 2017

About the author

Kate Fowle is the Executive Director of Independent Curators International (ICI) in New York. Prior to this she was the inaugural International Curator at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing. From 2002-07 she was the Chair of the MA Program in Curatorial Practice at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, which she co-founded with Ralph Rugoff. Before moving to the United States in 2001, Fowle was co-director of smith + fowle, a curatorial partnership based in London that developed exhibitions and commissions across the U.K. Between 1994-1996 Fowle was a curator at the Towner Art Gallery in Eastbourne, East Sussex.

Reviews

[Wendy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Saw this exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, and I'm so glad I picked this book up afterward -- I think it presents the triptych concept a little more clearly, offers some helpful essays that really frame the exhibit nicely, and of course presents some of the great pieces of artwork that were on display. My only sadness is that one of the Longo charcoal pieces shown in Brooklyn (a lamassu statue in Iraq recently destroyed by ISIS) wasn't included in the book - but maybe it wasn't part of the initial exhibit.