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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation

Titre conventionnel : [Exposition. Houston, The Menil collection. 2013]

Titre(s) : Forrest Bess [Texte imprimé] : seeing things invisible : [exhibition, the Menil collection, Houston, April 19 - August 18, 2013, Hammer museum, Los Angeles, September 29, 2013 - January 5, 2014, Neuberger museum of art, Purchase college, State university of New York, February 16 - May 11, 2014] / Clare Elliott ; with a contribution by Robert Gober

Publication : Houston : Menil collection, cop. 2013

Description matérielle : 1 vol. (111 p.) : nombreuses ill. en noir et en coul. ; 28 cm

Comprend : Foreword and acknowledgments / Josef Helfenstein ; Forrest Bess : seeing things invisible / Clare Elliott ; Artworks ; The man that got away / Robert Gober ; Primer of basic primordial symbolism.

Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 106-109
"The eccentric visionary artist Forrest Bess (1911-1977) spent most of his life on the Texas coast working as a commercial fisherman. In his spare time, however, he painted prolifically, creating an extraordinary body of work rich with enigmatic symbolism. Bess experienced hallucinations that both frightened and intrigued him, and he incorporated images from these visions into small-scale abstract paintings starting in the mid-1940s. His canvases attracted an underground following, and between 1949 and 1967, Betty Parsons organized six solo exhibitions of Bess's work at her prominent New York City gallery. Since then, the art world has periodically rediscovered his work, most recently through a 2012 Whitney Biennial installation by American sculptor Robert Gober, which further exposed Bess's psychological, medical, and religious theories. Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible is the artist's first museum retrospective with catalogue in the United States and offers a fresh look at Bess's work and a better understanding of this curious and complicated artist" ; "Accompanying the first museum exhibition of the work of Texas artist Forrest Bess (1911-1977) in over twenty years and featuring new analysis and an expansion of sculptor Robert Gober's project for the 2012 Whitney Biennial, this fully-illustrated catalogue provide a fresh look at this compelling but under-recognized artist"

Autre(s) auteur(s) : Elliott, Clare Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur
Gober, Robert (1954-....). Collaborateur Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur
Menil collection (Houston, Tex.). Éditeur scientifique Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur
Hammer museum (Los Angeles, Calif.). Éditeur scientifique Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur
Neuberger museum of art (Purchase, N.Y.). Éditeur scientifique Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur