Brian O'doherty

Collected Essays

By: Brian O'Doherty, Liam Kelly (Editor), Anne-Marie Bonnet (Introduction by)

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Paperback | 29 June 2018 | Edition Number 1

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This long-awaited volume brings together much of Brian O'Doherty's most eloquent and influential writing, including essays on major figures such as Edward Hopper, Mark Rothko, and Andy Warhol, among others. Along with sections on film and video, visual culture, and a substantial follow-up essay to his iconic Inside the White Cube, much of this work has been unavailable in print. New pieces specifically authored for this collection include a meditation on O'Doherty's various alternate personae - most notably, Patrick Ireland - and a reflection on another seminal essay 'Highway to Las Vegas'? (from Art in America, 1972) penned after a return visit in 2012. Complementing the beautifully written texts are over 45 color illustrations, reflecting artwork discussed in the essays and documentary photographs of O'Doherty and other major art world figures. Adventurous, original, and essentially O'Doherty, this book is an insightful contribution to the fields of writing, art history, and culture writ large.

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"O'Doherty shifts between active participant and detached speculative mind with a fluidity and stylistic grace that propels you forward, even as it tugs at your sleeve and asks you to stop, reread, and give it more thought. O'Doherty wants us to inhabit what we perceive, to be an acute looker while fully engaging in the conundrums and contradictions that art puts to us. It is not an easy task, but it is one that he has managed admirably these many years." * Art in America *
"O'Doherty is a gifted writer whose Irish-honed literary skills are placed at the service of New York's cosmopolitan visual culture." * artcritical.com *
"The present volume of this polymath's criticism is perhaps most notable for its collection of O'Doherty's writings on Edward Hopper and Mark Rothko, two painters whom the writer befriended and knew well. It also contains his latest word on the "white cube" (he coined the now-ubiquitous phrase) from 2009, an update to his influential 1976 Inside the White Cube, an early critique of institutional Modernism." * The New Criterion *

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