Marilyn Minter

Minter's ever-expanding reputation was established during the 1980s, when her work engaged formal aspects of painting as well as subject matter that remain central to her practice today. This publication features work from every period of a career that now spans over 40 years, and reproduces in full color nearly every painting Minter has made, along with a wide selection of her painterly photographs of the last several years. It also includes the seminal and haunting Coral Ridge Towers series of black-and-white photos that Minter took of her mother in 1969.

Art historian Johanna Burton contributes a substantial essay that analyzes and elucidates all aspects of Minter's work; her text is complemented by a lengthy conversation between Minter and her friend, painter Mary Heilmann, as well as by "Twenty Questions," a project assembled by Matthew Higgs to which a wide range of artists, curators, friends and others with a unique connection to Minter have contributed. The design and production of this expanded edition have been superbly realized by the award-winning New York- and Amsterdam-based design studio, COMA. This monograph firmly establishes Minter's important and central position in contemporary art.

216 pages
Hardcover
Gregory R. Miller & Co.; 1ST edition
May 1st, 2007
28.5 x 22 cm

 

Marilyn Minter (Expanded Edition)

This expanded edition of the first ever career spanning monograph on Marilyn Minter features new works created over the past three years, including images from Minter's 2009 video “Green Pink Caviar,” shown in New York's Times Square and featured in Madonna's recent Sticky and Sweet concert tour. Minter is considered one of today’s most important artists, her reputation widely established during the 1980s, when her work engaged formal aspects of painting as well as subject matter that remain central to her practice today. This comprehensive book reproduces in full color nearly every painting Minter has made in her nearly 40 year career, along with a wide selection of her painterly photographs of the last several years. The book also includes the seminal and haunting Coral Ridge Towers series of black-and-white photos Minter took of her mother in 1969.

Art historian Johanna Burton contributes a substantial essay that analyzes and elucidates all aspects of Minter’s work. Burton’s text is complemented by a lengthy “conversation” between Minter and painter and friend Mary Heilmann, as well as by “Twenty Questions,” a project assembled by Matthew Higgs and posed by a wide range of artists, curators, friends and others with a unique connection to Minter. The expanded edition also includes a new essay by art critic and curator Sonia Campagnola that explores many of the themes central to Minter's practice.

This publication, vividly realized by New York- and Amsterdam-based design studio, COMA—with its combination of beautiful reproductions of Minter’s work, Burton's and Campagnola's powerfully argued essays, and revealing interviews—firmly establishes Minter’s important and central position in contemporary art history.

240 pages
Gregory R Miller & Co; Expanded Edition
August 31st, 2010
28.2 x 21.8 cm