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by Gary Garrels, Jim Lewis, Abigail Solomon-Godeau

Catalogue of an exhibition held at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, January 18-April 30, 1995.
"Robert Frank, Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, Edward Ruscha, John Baldessari, Dan Graham, Martha Rosler, Larry Clark, Jeff Wall, James Coleman, Chantal Akerman, Nan Goldin, Stan Douglas, Cady Noland, Felix Gonzalez-Torres"--Cover.

Texts by Gary Garrels, Sandra Phillips, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Jim Lewis, Christopher Phillips, Robert Riley and John Weber.

188 pages, Paperback

First published January 2, 1995

About the author

Gary Garrels is an independent curator who lives and works on the North Fork of Long Island. He previously held curatorial positions at the Dia Art Foundation, New York; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Reviews

[elsie ☮︎ · Rating 5 out of 5]

(in reference to understanding warhol’s early work)
“….‘effective being’ now belongs not to the individual but to the series, to plurality, to reproducibility. in a world driven by the tempo of mass production and consumption, that which cannot be conceived, produced, and disseminated in multiple form can not longer have significant existence. or, as anders ironically puts it, we have come to inhabit a world based on the ‘commodity character of all appearances,’ where ‘reality arises first from reproductions.’”