Main entry:

Szeemann, Harald, author.

Title & Author:

Harald Szeemann : selected writings / Harald Szeemann ; edited by Doris Chon, Glenn Phillips, and Pietro Rigolo ; translated by Jonathan Blower and Elizabeth Tucker.

Publication:

Los Angeles : Getty Research Institute, [2018]

Description:

x, 406 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
"This volume translates Harald Szeemann, Museum der Obsessionen (Berlin: Merve Verlag, 1981), and Harald Szeemann, Individuelle Mythologien (Berlin: Merve Verlag, 1985)."
"This volume accompanies the exhibition Harald Szeemann: Museum of Obsessions, held at the Getty Research Institute from 6 February 2018 to 6 May 2018."
"Harald Szeemann: Selected Writings is an anthology of over seventy texts by Harald Szeemann (1933-2005) that brings the ideas of this important curator of twentieth-century art to an English-speaking readership for the first time."--ECIP Data View.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: My ray is my castle / Doris Chon, Glenn Phillip, and Pietro Rigolo -- Part 1: Museum of Obsessions. -- SPACESHIT -- Identity kit -- O joyful, O holy thematic exhibition -- Culture cake Frau as folio -- The First International Perfume Exhibition -- Pullups from Luepolis -- Dossier G. P. -- When attitudes become form -- How does an exhibition come into being? -- Foreword to the documenta 1972 catalog -- Look back almost without anger: interview by Pietra Kipphof -- Individual mythologies -- Grandfather: a pioneer like us -- A rewarding retreat into the private realm -- The Museum of Obsessions: proposal for an exhibition at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin -- The Agentur für geistige Gastarbeit in the service of the vision for a Museum of Obsessions -- Museum of Obsessions -- Bachelor machines -- A bachelor's obsession--and what it has cost him -- The Museum of Obsessions: suggestions for a future documenta -- A correspondence -- Monte Verità--Mountain of Truth -- Truth has many breasts: a conversation with Theo Kneubühler -- Tendency toward the Gesamtkunstwerk -- Part 2: Individual mythologies. -- Collision + Harmony (Prayer): the honors pertaining to the profession of curating for the 1980s looking toward the year 2000 -- In the Jardin d'amour: letter to James Ensor -- Anselm Kiefer, Parsifal, 1973 -- Halos in the firmament of pictures: on Sigmar Polke -- East/West: where do you stand?: on Jörg Immendorff -- Immendorff at the crossroads -- Étienne-Martin -- Étienne-Martin: "That remains quite mysterious to me" -- Colossus in motion: Guy Harloff -- "Pathological processes often, and often only, show us enlarged images of normal conditions": (Otto Gross, 1907) -- No catastrophe without an idyll; No idyll without a catastrophe -- Adolf Wölfli -- (Dis)Ordered world picture: can the mentally ill be artists? -- Untitled: text for the one-man performance The new city, 1956 -- Emma Kunz: Swiss primal mud, Swiss mysticism of light -- A new museum in Lausanne: the Collection de l'Art Brut -- A mystic always goes against the grain -- Not once in his evil was he original: the destruction of art in the Third Reich -- Thanks owed to Paul Thek -- Conversation with Paul Thek: Duisburg, 12 December 1973 -- Ex voto -- On the exhibition Ex voto -- The discrete charm of the bourgeoisie: the Necropolis of Staglieno -- Bruno Müller -- Piotr Kowalski--technician or artist? -- George Sugarman -- Exploring myths by video -- Outline: length x width x height x depth + 150 arches. Bern's Münstergasse, the most autonomous street in Bern -- Mentality space = Climate -- Dieter Roth, Gobelin (Bertorelli B) 1974-76 -- Exhibition making -- Poem for Johannes Cladders -- Conversation with Cathérine Millet -- Energy amalgam litany -- Plates -- Part 3: From vision to nail: writings 1986-2003. -- Giant sketch for a future hope -- Freedom in patience: mystical traces in the work of Wolfgang Laib -- Mario Merz -- Timeless [Zeitlos] -- A visit to Weinrebenpark is like a breath of fresh air -- Piet Mondrian on Monte Verità -- To stage is to love -- The outside sets the scale, the inside determines the form -- Conversation: for Franz West (Indirectly) -- Joseph Beuys: the Heat time machine -- Museum of Obsessions: interview with Gerhard Theewen -- Tatlin's tower for Marx-Engels-Platz -- The other [L'autre] -- Beware of exiting your dreams: you may find yourself in somebody else's -- The gallantry of extremism -- Preface to Chen Zen: invocation of washing fire -- Making things possible: a conversation with Harald Szeemann (interview by Beti Žerovc).

Summary:

"Harald Szeemann: Selected Writings is an anthology of over seventy texts by Harald Szeemann (1933-2005) that brings the ideas of this important curator of twentieth-century art to an English-speaking readership for the first time."--ECIP Data View.

ISBN:

9781606065549 paperback
1606065548 paperback

Subject:

Szeemann, Harald Translations into English.
Szeemann, Harald, 1933-2005 Traductions anglaises.
Szeemann, Harald.
Art criticism.
Critique d'art.
art criticism.
20.07 art criticism, art review.

Form/genre:

Translations into English.
Exhibition publications.
Art criticism.
Translations.
Critiques d'art.

Added entries:

Chon, Doris, editor.
Phillips, Glenn, 1974- editor.
Rigolo, Pietro, editor.
Blower, Jonathan, translator.
Tucker, Elizabeth, 1977- translator.
Getty Research Institute, issuing body.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 300440
Call No.: BIB 246623
Status: Available