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William Wegman. Paintings, drawings, photographs, videotapes. Exhibition catalogue, Kunstmuseum Luzern, May 5 - June 17, 1990 (Traveling exhibition: ICA, London, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase NY, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, John and Mable Ringling Museum, Sarasota, Florida, and Whitney Museum, New York). Edited by Martin Kunz. Texts: Martin Kunz, David Ross, Peter Schjeldahl, Alain Sayag, and Peter Weiermair. (softcover and hardcover edition)
Whitney Museum is not mentioned on the tour list, because it was not known yet as a venue.
The Centre Pompidou used a special dust jacket with its proper ISBN 2-85850-599-3
. New York, NY: Abrams, 1990.
224 pages : color, black and white illustrations ; 28 x 21,5 cm.
ISBN 0-8109-3951-7 (hardcover); 0-8109-2463-3 (paperback)
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224 pages : color, black and white illustrations ; 28 x 21,5 cm.
ISBN 0-8109-3951-7 (hardcover); 0-8109-2463-3 (paperback)
The German and English editions of the catalogue respectively bear the titles William Wegman Malerei, Zeichnung, Fotografie, Video and William Wegman. Paintings, Drawings, Photographs. They were produced for a group of ten European and American art museums that included Kunstmuseum Luzern, Centre Pompidou, London’s ICA, and Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum. The curatorship, concept and supervision of the catalog and the relative retrospective in 1990 of the work of William Wegman was entrusted to Martin Kunz, ex-director of Kunstmuseum Luzern and the founding director and curator of the New York Kunsthalle. (The Kunsthalle was in the near vicinity of Wegman’s studio, and Martin Kunz was able to visit it frequently, and thus to follow the course of the development of the artist’s work.) Two publishing companies were involved: Du Mont and Abrams, of which the later, along with Martin Kunz, developed the concept for the graphic and editorial layout of the two editions of the book. The printing presented on the occasion of the exhibition at Centre Pompidou bore a different cover, but the content remained the same. The exhibition visited the ten museums in the period from 1990 (the year of its first presentation, at Kunstmuseum Luzern) to 1992: Kunstmuseum Luzern; ICA, London; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; ICA, Boston; Whitney Museum, New York; Museum of Contemporary Arts, Houston; Ringling Museum, Sarasota; Neuberger Museum at the State University of New York, Purchase, N.Y. At the end of the tour, the show had been seen by more than one hundred thousand visitors at the Whitney Museum alone, and thirty thousand catalogues had been sold. The success of the show was so great as to lead several times to its renewed presentation, and it presented Wegman’s work (this was his first retrospective at an American museum) in the light of all the various fields in which he operated, inclusive of painting. The success of the catalogue was further confirmed by the decision of the part of Du Mont and Abrams to issue a hardback version as well, for exclusive distribution in bookstores.
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Bilingual German and English catalog with the subtitle "Paintings, Drawings, Photographs and Videos" on artist William Wegman, published by seven European and American art museums including the Lucerne Museum and the Pompidou Center. Curatorship, conception and supervision of the catalog and retrospective on Wegman by Martin Kunz, then director of the Lucerne Museum. Two publishing houses involved Du Mont and Abrhams. The second conceived together with Martin Kunz the graphic and editorial design of this bilingual edition. Only variant of cover, but not of content, by the Pompidou Center. The exhibition was offered in the seven museums from 1990 (when it debuted in Lucerne) until 1992. It was so successful that it was repeated several times and made the artist William Wegman known, even in America, in the various fields in which he worked, including painting. The last presentation was at the Whitney Museum in New York.
text by EM
Bilingual German and English catalog with the subtitle "Paintings, Drawings, Photographs and Videos" on artist William Wegman, published by seven European and American art museums including the Lucerne Museum and the Pompidou Center. Curatorship, conception and supervision of the catalog and retrospective on Wegman by Martin Kunz, then director of the Lucerne Museum. Two publishing houses involved Du Mont and Abrhams. The second conceived together with Martin Kunz the graphic and editorial design of this bilingual edition. Only variant of cover, but not of content, by the Pompidou Center. The exhibition was offered in the seven museums from 1990 (when it debuted in Lucerne) until 1992. It was so successful that it was repeated several times and made the artist William Wegman known, even in America, in the various fields in which he worked, including painting. The last presentation was at the Whitney Museum in New York.
Exhibition catalogue, Kunstmuseum Luzern, May 5 - June 17, 1990 (Traveling exhibition: ICA, London, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase NY, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, John and Mable Ringling Museum, Sarasota, Florida, and Whitney Museum, New York). Edited by Martin Kunz. Texts: Martin Kunz, David Ross, Peter Schjeldahl, Alain Sayag, and Peter Weiermair. (softcover and hardcover edition)
Whitney Museum is not mentioned on the tour list, because it was not known yet as a venue.
The Centre Pompidou used a special dust jacket with its proper ISBN 2-85850-599-3
Whitney Museum is not mentioned on the tour list, because it was not known yet as a venue.
The Centre Pompidou used a special dust jacket with its proper ISBN 2-85850-599-3
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William Wegman. Malerei, Zeichnung, Fotografie, Video = William Wegman. Paintings, drawings, photographs, videotapes. Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland, 1990 (TRAVELED: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1990; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/Main, 1990; Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1991; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 1991; The John and Mable Ringling Museum, Sarasota, 1991; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1992; Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, 1992; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 1990; Neuberger Museum, Purchase, 1991).
from May 5, 1990
to June 17, 1990
William Wegman. Paintings, drawings, photographs, videotapes. Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK, 1990.
from July 11, 1990
to Aug. 26, 1990
William Wegman. Paintings, drawings, photographs, videotapes. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1990.
from Sept. 14, 1990
to Nov. 4, 1990
William Wegman. Paintings, drawings, photographs, videos. Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, 1991.
from Feb. 27, 1991
to April 7, 1991
William Wegman. Outdoor photographs. Neuberger Museum, Purchase, USA, 1991.
from April 28, 1991
to June 30, 1991
William Wegman. Paintings, drawings, photographs, videos. Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA, 1991.
from Aug. 11, 1991
to Sept. 22, 1991
William Wegman. Paintings, drawings, photographs, videos. The John and Mable Ringling Museum, Sarasota, USA, 1991.
from Nov. 8, 1991
to Jan. 5, 1992
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