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With pleasure : pattern and decoration in American Art 1972-1985 / edited by Anna Katz ; essays by Elissa Auther [and 6 others].

Contributor(s): Publisher: Los Angeles : The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, [2019]Description: 328 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780300239942
  • 0300239947
Subject(s):
Contents:
Director's Foreword -- Curator's Acknowledgements -- Lessons in Promiscuity: Patterning and the New Decorativeness in Art of the 1970s and 1980s / Anna Katz -- Miriam Schapiro and the Politics of the Decorative / Elissa Auther -- Infinite Progress: Criss-Cross and the Gender of Pattern Painting / Rebecca Skafsgaard Lowery -- A Meeting of Two Minds: Oleg Grabar and Amy Goldin on the Met's Islamic Art Galleries, 1975 / Sarah-Neel Smith -- Rebecca Morris and the Revenge of P & D / Hamza Walker -- Pattern Consciousness: Counterculture-Influenced Interior Design / Kayleigh Perkov -- Cosmopolitanism and Antagonism: On Public Art, Postmodern Architecture, and P & D / Alex Kitnick -- Historical Reprints -- Patterns, Grids, and Painting (1975) / Amy Goldin -- Negating the Negative (An Answer to Ad Reinhardt's "On Negation") (1976) / Joyce Kozloff -- On Affirmation / Joyce Kozloff -- Issues in Pattern Painting (1977) / John Perreault -- An Intuitive Analysis of Decoration and Pattern Painting (1977) / Susan Michod -- Artists Biographies -- Exhibition History / Frances Lazare -- Bibliography / Frances Lazare.
Summary: The Pattern and Decoration movement emerged in the 1970s as an embrace of long-dismissed art forms associated with the decorative. Pioneering artists such as Miriam Schapiro (1923-2015), Joyce Kozloff (b. 1942), Robert Kushner (b. 1949), and others appropriated patterns, frequently from non-Western decorative arts, to produce intricate, often dizzying or gaudy designs in media ranging from painting, sculpture, and collage to ceramics, installation art, and performance. This dazzling book showcases an astonishing array of works by more than 40 artists from across the United States, examining the movement's defiant adoption of art forms traditionally viewed as feminine, craft-based, or otherwise inferior to fine art. In addition to offering an overview of the Pattern and Decoration movement as it is commonly recognized, this volume considers artists of the period who are not typically associated with the movement. Rethinking the significance of patterns and the decorative in postwar American art, this panoramic view provides new insights into abstraction, feminism, and installation art. Essays explore the movement's feminist methods and values, including Miriam Schapiro's "femmage" practice; its impact on contemporary abstract painting; and its relationship to postmodern architecture and design. Artists include: Neda Alhilali; Emma Amos; Ralph Bacerra; Tony Bechara; Lynda Benglis; Billy Al Bengston; Cynthia Carlson; Lia Cook; Brad Davis; Merion Estes; Sam Gilliam; Tina Girouard; Nancy Graves; Mary Grigoriadis; Diane Itter; Valerie Jaudon; Jane Kaufman; Joyce Kozloff; Robert Kushner; Pat Lasch; Al Loving; Kim MacConnel; Constance Mallinson; Susan Michod; Ree Morton; Judy Pfaff; Howardena Pindell; Faith Ringgold; Tony Robbin; Sandra Sallin; Lucas Samaras; Miriam Schapiro; Dee Shapiro; Kendall Shaw; Alan Shields; Arlene Slavin; Sylvia Sleigh; Ned Smyth; Frank Stella; Franklin Williams; William T. Williams; Betty Woodman; Takako Yamaguchi; Robert Zakanitch; Barbara Zucker.

Published to accompany an exhibition held at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles from 27 October 2019 - 11 May 2020 and Hessel Museum of Art, New York from 20 June - 11 December 2020.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-309) and index.

Director's Foreword -- Curator's Acknowledgements -- Lessons in Promiscuity: Patterning and the New Decorativeness in Art of the 1970s and 1980s / Anna Katz -- Miriam Schapiro and the Politics of the Decorative / Elissa Auther -- Infinite Progress: Criss-Cross and the Gender of Pattern Painting / Rebecca Skafsgaard Lowery -- A Meeting of Two Minds: Oleg Grabar and Amy Goldin on the Met's Islamic Art Galleries, 1975 / Sarah-Neel Smith -- Rebecca Morris and the Revenge of P & D / Hamza Walker -- Pattern Consciousness: Counterculture-Influenced Interior Design / Kayleigh Perkov -- Cosmopolitanism and Antagonism: On Public Art, Postmodern Architecture, and P & D / Alex Kitnick -- Historical Reprints -- Patterns, Grids, and Painting (1975) / Amy Goldin -- Negating the Negative (An Answer to Ad Reinhardt's "On Negation") (1976) / Joyce Kozloff -- On Affirmation / Joyce Kozloff -- Issues in Pattern Painting (1977) / John Perreault -- An Intuitive Analysis of Decoration and Pattern Painting (1977) / Susan Michod -- Artists Biographies -- Exhibition History / Frances Lazare -- Bibliography / Frances Lazare.

The Pattern and Decoration movement emerged in the 1970s as an embrace of long-dismissed art forms associated with the decorative. Pioneering artists such as Miriam Schapiro (1923-2015), Joyce Kozloff (b. 1942), Robert Kushner (b. 1949), and others appropriated patterns, frequently from non-Western decorative arts, to produce intricate, often dizzying or gaudy designs in media ranging from painting, sculpture, and collage to ceramics, installation art, and performance. This dazzling book showcases an astonishing array of works by more than 40 artists from across the United States, examining the movement's defiant adoption of art forms traditionally viewed as feminine, craft-based, or otherwise inferior to fine art. In addition to offering an overview of the Pattern and Decoration movement as it is commonly recognized, this volume considers artists of the period who are not typically associated with the movement. Rethinking the significance of patterns and the decorative in postwar American art, this panoramic view provides new insights into abstraction, feminism, and installation art. Essays explore the movement's feminist methods and values, including Miriam Schapiro's "femmage" practice; its impact on contemporary abstract painting; and its relationship to postmodern architecture and design. Artists include: Neda Alhilali; Emma Amos; Ralph Bacerra; Tony Bechara; Lynda Benglis; Billy Al Bengston; Cynthia Carlson; Lia Cook; Brad Davis; Merion Estes; Sam Gilliam; Tina Girouard; Nancy Graves; Mary Grigoriadis; Diane Itter; Valerie Jaudon; Jane Kaufman; Joyce Kozloff; Robert Kushner; Pat Lasch; Al Loving; Kim MacConnel; Constance Mallinson; Susan Michod; Ree Morton; Judy Pfaff; Howardena Pindell; Faith Ringgold; Tony Robbin; Sandra Sallin; Lucas Samaras; Miriam Schapiro; Dee Shapiro; Kendall Shaw; Alan Shields; Arlene Slavin; Sylvia Sleigh; Ned Smyth; Frank Stella; Franklin Williams; William T. Williams; Betty Woodman; Takako Yamaguchi; Robert Zakanitch; Barbara Zucker.