Robert Storr Book order (chronological)

Reflections on diversity and inclusion issues from one of the most influential American art critics Previously published by the Andy Warhol Foundation of the Visual Arts in 1994, Between a Rock and a Hard Place is the focus of the third volume of Robert Storr's Focal Points series. In this two-part essay, Storr examines the lack of diversity among the highest levels of the museum world: drawing on situations he encountered in his own career as a curator at MoMA as well as enumerating the "aesthetic, political and practical" obstacles on the path toward inclusion both in the museum world and society at large. The work is presented with new introductory text by the author and the book's editor, art historian Francesca Pietropaolo. These fresh contributions add more context to Storr's view on the crucial subject of race division in American culture and society. Storr illustrates his arguments by addressing the work of a great breadth of American artists, including David Hammons, Byron Kim, Glenn Ligon and Adrian Piper, among others.

Bruce Nauman's work surveyed by the former Museum of Modern Art curator who organized his major 1995 retrospective American artist Bruce Nauman (born 1941) has worked across a wide range of mediums including neon, sculpture, video, installation, performance and drawing to pursue his question of what it means to create art. Edited by art historian Francesca Pietropaolo, this book brings together for the first time a selection of essays and articles on Nauman by the eminent art critic, art historian and curator Robert Storr. The first volume of Storr's Focal Points series, featuring introductory essays by Storr and Pietropaolo, this richly illustrated book gathers six texts on Nauman previously published in the art journals Parkett (1986), Modern Painters (2009) and Art Press (2009 and 2016), and in the exhibition catalogs Bruce Nauman (1994) and A Rose Has No Teeth (2007). Robert Storr (born 1949) formerly served as Senior Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York from 1990 to 2002, where he curated a seminal retrospective exhibition on Bruce Nauman in 1995. He is currently Dean Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Art at the Yale University School of Art.

A scholarly meditation on Reinhardt's work, bringing together his abstract painting, comics and slide lecture series The second volume of Focal Points takes as its subject the work of American artist Ad Reinhardt (1913-67). An American abstract painter, he worked in New York alongside artists including Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning. Renowned art critic and historian Robert Storr curated the award-winning 2013 exhibition of Reinhardt's work at David Zwirner gallery. This book brings together, for the first time, Storr's writings on Reinhardt's abstract painting--for which the artist became hugely influential on the younger generations of Minimal and Conceptual practitioners--his satirical cartoons addressing political and social issues and advocating for abstract art, and his famous slide lecture series. With introductory texts by Storr and art historian Francesca Pietropaolo, this book features an essay previously published in How to Look: Ad Reinhardt, Art Comics (2013) and a companion text, also written in 2013, that appears in print for the first time.

Louise Bourgeois's artistic journey spanned nearly 75 years, showcasing her profound inner struggles through innovative and candid works. Her 1982 MoMA retrospective marked a vibrant late career, solidifying her influence in modern art until her passing in 2010. Primarily a sculptor, Bourgeois explored various materials and contributed to movements like Surrealism and Postminimalism, while maintaining her unique style. "Intimate Geometries" features over 1000 illustrations and offers a deep, personal analysis of her life and art by Robert Storr, a close friend.

This concluding volume of Robert Storr's writings offers a comprehensive look at his insights as a prominent American art critic and curator. It encapsulates his reflections and analyses on art, providing readers with a deeper understanding of his influential perspectives. This collection is a significant contribution to art literature, rounding out Storr's extensive body of work and enriching the discourse surrounding contemporary art.

R. Crumb's obsessions—spanning sex, the Bible, music, politics, and the absurdities of daily life—are explored in this comprehensive collection of the renowned American comic artist's work. A pivotal figure in the underground comics movement of the 1960s and 1970s in San Francisco, Crumb has pushed the limits of graphic arts, redefining comics and cartoons as vital countercultural expressions. This volume presents a diverse selection of printed materials from Crumb's five-decade career, including original drawings and comics from various publications, comic book covers, and broadsides from the 1960s and 1970s, alongside tabloids from Haight-Ashbury, Oakland, and the Lower East Side. It also features historical works from the 18th and 19th centuries that influenced Crumb, as well as pages from his rarely seen sketchbooks from the 1970s and 1980s, showcasing his exceptional drafting skills. Documenting the acclaimed exhibition "Drawing for Print: Mind Fucks, Kultur Klashes, Pulp Fiction & Pulp Fact" at David Zwirner in New York in 2019, curated by Robert Storr, this publication invites readers to delve into Crumb's distinctive worldview. Storr's accompanying text examines the provocative nature of Crumb's art and the significance of artists challenging the status quo.

This book offers the only current retrospective of the influential American artist Philip Guston, featuring over 300 images, including many previously unpublished works. It presents a comprehensive overview of Guston's visionary art, showcasing his most famous pieces alongside lesser-known works and personal photographs.

Featuring works from over sixty-five renowned artists, this volume showcases Robert Rauschenberg's personal collection, displayed at Gagosian Gallery in New York. It includes contributions from art historian Robert Storr, who explores Rauschenberg's inspirations and relationships within the art world. Complementing the illustrations are biographies by Mimi Thompson, which highlight the significance of each artist's work and its impact on Rauschenberg's artistic vision, alongside rare archival photographs that enrich the narrative of this unique collection.

Interview - Survey - Focus - Artist's choice - Artist's writings - Chronology

Robert Storr's is one of the sharpest minds in American art museums. The New York Review of Books[Gerhard Richter is] Europe's most challenging modern painter. Michael KimmelmanGerhard Richter is widely recognized as one of the most significant painters working today, and he is certainly among the most influential. He has worked in a wide range of manners since the early 1960s, producing abstractions, landscapes, images derived from the mass media and photographs, and more. Seen together, these works call into question such widely held assumptions as the importance of stylistic consistency, individual artistic sensibility and spontaneous creativity. They also explore the impact of technology and media imagery on the traditional methods and formats of painting. The Museum of Modern Art has published two important books on Richter, both written by Robert Storr: one covering 40 years of his painting, and published to accompany the museumis large Richter retrospective in spring 2002, and one focusing on a single crucial series, October 18, 1977, which Richter painted in 1988. This new publication brings together the essays, an interview and bibliography from both of those books in a single volume--an ideal service for the student who wants both texts at hand at a relatively low price.

Ranging from photo-based pictures to gestural abstraction, Gerhard Richter's diverse body of work calls into question many widely-held attitudes about the importance of stylistic consistency and the relationship of technological means and mass media imagery to traditional studio methods and formats. Unlike many of his peers, he has explored these issues through the medium of painting, challenging it to meet the demands posed by new forms of conceptual art. In every level of his varied output--from his austere photo-based realism of the early 60s, to his brightly colored gestural abstractions of the early 80s, to his notorious cycle of black-and-white paintings of the Baader-Meinhof group--Richter has assumed a critical distance from vanguardists and conservatives alike regarding what painting "should" be. The result has been one of the most convincing renewals of painting's vitality to be found in late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century art. With an extensive and insightful critical essay by curator Robert Storr, a recent interview with the artist, a chronology, an exhibition history and nearly 300 color and duotone reproductions, Gerhard Forty Years of Painting marks a significant contribution to the understanding of contemporary art in general, and Gerhard Richter in particular.

A Museum of Modern Art Book This splendidly illustrated panorama of the arts from 1920 to 1960 focuses on four landmark years-1929, 1939, 1948, and 1955. Published to accompany the second of three cycles of millennial exhibitions (MoMA2000) at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Making Choices presents cross-sections of modern art in all its many aspects during this period, and shows how the concept of simultaneity was essential to the concept of early modernism. The sheer diversity of work made in this period becomes clear as readers survey the different types of film, photography, design, painting, sculpture, drawing, and printmaking-all from the Modern's collections-reproduced here. But the richly variegated artistic texture revealed by such an across-the-board look also brings to light unexpected correspondences among distinct objects and images. Making Choices points toward modern art's heterogeneity even as it invites readers to search out and discover imaginative correlations. Approximately 350 illustrations, 220 in full color, 9 1/2 x 12"

Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) is one of the most highly regarded of contemporary artists, and his series of 15 paintings known as October 18, 1977, is one of the 20th century's most famous works on a political theme. It commemorates the day on which three young German radicals, members of the militant Baader-Meinhof group, were found dead in a Stuttgart prison; they were pronounced suicides, but many people suspected that they had been murdered. Richter's paintings, created 11 years after this traumatic event, are among the most challenging works of the artist's career.These hauntingly powerful images, derived from newspaper and police photography, are now in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and will be on view beginning in September 2000 as part of the MoMA2000 series of exhibitions. In this book, Robert Storr provides necessary political background to the series, but his approach is art historical, offering insight into the complexities of "history painting" in the modern era.