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Authors
Clare Bell, Julia Blaut, and Germano Celant
Description
This book reproduces a broad selection of Jim Dine's early mixed-media works, paintings, and sculptures. Many of the works featured contain elements of the now-familiar themes of Dine’s career: tools, robes, hearts, palettes, and domestic interiors. Bringing together fascinating performance photographs with vivid full-color reproductions, the book is the first to explore the complex relationship between Dine’s mixed-media works and his environments and theater pieces.
With essays by Germano Celant, Clare Bell, and Julia Blaut; an interview with the artist, combined with a selection of his poetry and statements; and superb colorplates of the works themselves, Jim Dine: Walking Memory, 1959–1969 is an important addition to scholarship on the 1960s, perhaps the most significant period in American art. Also included are a detailed chronology and select bibliography.
Contents
14--“I Love What I’m Doing”: Jim Dine, 1959–1969, Germano Celant
24--The Self Possessed: Jim Dine’s Mixed-Media Works, 1959–1969, Clare Bell
32--A “Painter’s Theater”: Jim Dine’s Environments and Performances, Julia Blaut
47--Walking Memory: Interview, Catalogue, and Artist’s Writings, Jim Dine, Clare Bell, and Germano Celant
232--Chronology
238--Select Bibliography
244--Index of Reproductions
