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Cy Twombly and the American Critics, 1951-1995 - A Reception History

Gagosian Gallery 2023 ISBN 9781951449483 Acqn 33631
Pb 21x28cm 188pp col ills £65

This in-depth study by Richard Leeman, professor of art history at Universite Bordeaux
Montaigne, Pessac, France, analyzes the reception of Cy Twombly's works by American critics
from the artist's first exhibition in 1951 through 1994-95, the year of his comprehensive
retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Originally published in French by Les
editions du Regard, Paris, this newly translated account offers fresh perspectives on Twombly's
career and on developments in American art criticism over the course of more than four decades.

Leeman considers Twombly's status as an American who worked primarily in Italy, and charts
interpretations and misunderstandings of the artist's work in relation to contemporaneous artistic
production. Delving into the reception of Twombly's gallery exhibitions and institutional
retrospectives, he evaluates these assessments within the context of the critical frameworks that
emerged around Abstract Expressionism, Post-Minimalism, Neo-Expressionism, and other
movements. Benjamin H. D. Buchloh contributed the book's foreword.

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Rachel Feinstein – Mirror

Gagosian Gallery 2023 ISBN 9781951449490 Acqn 33452
Hb 18x25cm 88pp col ills £80

This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Rachel Feinstein: Mirror at Gagosian,
Davies Street, London. The exhibition featured a series of paintings in oil, acrylic urethane, and
charcoal on mirror that reference carved wood sculptures and altarpieces by sixteenth-century
German artists Tilman Riemenschneider and Gregor Erhart as well as a single sculpture, Metal
Storm (2021), that interprets a drawing by Hans Baldung Grien. Shifting between two- and three-
dimensional modes of representation, these works use historical and religious symbolism to
embody worldwide anxieties of the unknown.

The catalogue's design is inspired by a vintage art historical book on Riemenschneider, with
intimate dimensions recalling a devotional volume. It includes an essay by art historian Yvonne
Owens ("Time Traveling in Rachel Feinstein's Mirror") and a conversation between the artist and
Jungian analyst Miriam Stein ("Archetypal Visions"), as well as a series of never-before-exhibited
pastel and charcoal studies.

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Hurly-burly - Phyllida Barlow, Rachel Whiteread, Alison Wilding

Gagosian Gallery 2023 ISBN 9781951449506 Acqn 33629
Pb 25x32cm 114pp col ills £62

This book was published on the occasion of Hurly-burly: Phyllida Barlow, Rachel Whiteread,
Alison Wilding at Gagosian, rue de Ponthieu, Paris. The exhibition featured sculptures by British
artists Phyllida Barlow, Rachel Whiteread, and Alison Wilding that together illuminated their
diverse but interconnected approaches. Its title, which references Macbeth's opening scene of the
alliance between the three witches, also alludes to the mercurial character of the art world.

The bilingual (English/French) publication includes color plates and details of the eighteen
exhibited works as well as photographs of the installation. It also features "Trouble," an illustrated
essay by art historian and critic Briony Fer; "Hurly-burly: Battles Lost and Won," a conversation
between the artists and author and journalist Louisa Buck; and a selected solo exhibition history
for each artist.

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To Bend the Ear of the Outer World - Conversations on Contemporary Abstract Painting
Gagosian Gallery 2023 ISBN 9781951449469 Acqn 33630
Hb 24x26cm 172pp col ills £120

This book was published on the occasion of To Bend the Ear of the Outer World: Conversations
on contemporary abstract painting at Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill and Davies Street, London.
Curated by Gary Garrels, this expansive exhibition-presenting new and recent works by more
than forty artists-examines the significance of abstract painting today, from Garrels's perspective.
Juxtaposing a diverse range of approaches to contemporary abstraction, it brings together
paintings by three generations of artists from the Americas, United Kingdom, and Germany.

This fully illustrated catalogue contains reproductions of the exhibited paintings paired with
remarks on abstraction and process by the artists, along with biographies for each. It includes a
preface by Larry Gagosian and an essay by Garrels in which he recounts his own lifetime
engagement with abstraction and offers insights into the organization of the exhibition. The cover
features the title of the exhibition, which was derived from a verse by Frank O'Hara, intaglio
printed in nine colors.

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