“Artist/Novelist” Exhibition
The Museum of Modern Art
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This exhibition presents a selection of experiments with novels from throughout the past hundred years. Early in the 20th century, modern artists illustrated canonical novels, while others conceived works of their own. In subsequent decades, artists and writers continued to integrate texts and images. In the 1960s and 1970s, a period of bold experimentation with books as an art form, practitioners engaged with conceptual, formal, and political aspects of the novel. In the 1980s, the novel became a site of critical interrogation through appropriations, “altered books,” and parodies. New fusions of image and text appeared in the graphic novels and photobooks of the 1990s. Today, artists continue to reinvent the novel, exploring the implications of digital texts, reimagining the traditional book, and playing with literary conventions.
[Image: René Crevel “Mr. Knife, Miss Fork, ‘Paris: Black Sun’” (1931) book cover]
Media
Schedule
from January 08, 2014 to March 31, 2014
Artist(s)
Frans Masereel, René Crevel, André Breton, William Wallace Cook, Giorgio De Chirico, Lynd Ward, Azuela, Mariano, Max Ernst, Bruno Schulz, Leonora Carrington, Michel Butor, Raymond Queneau, Andy Warhol, Georges Perec, Madeline Gins, Dieter Roth, Dorothy Iannone, Walter Abish, Yayoi Kusama, Martha Hawley, Lucy Lippard, Tom Phillips, Rodney Graham, Sherrie Levine, W. G. Sebald, Doug Huston, Daniel Jewesbury, Chris Ware, Veronique Aubouy, Sophie Calle, Allen Ruppersberg, Joseph Scanlan, Bernadette Corporation, Nick Thurston, Ciprian Muresan, Evan Connell, Hu Fang, Joanna Neborsky, Jill Magid, Olivier Debroise, Richard Prince, Aaron Krach, Michèle Bernstein, Joy Drury Cox, LAb[au] et al.