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A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art

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Here is a list of recommended web links:

 A B Bibliography C D F G H J K L M N P R S T V W Z

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Abts, Tomma
http://www.tate.org.uk/onlineevents/webcasts/turner_prize_20...
Tomma Abts in conversation with Jan Verwoert, Turner Prize artist's talk, Tate website.

Alÿs, Francis
http://www.surrealismcentre.ac.uk/papersofsurrealism/journal...
S. Feeke, 'Francis Alÿs: Walking distance from the Studio', Papers of Surrealism, no. 3 (spring 2005)

Antin, Eleanor
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/7085/7085.antin.php
Eleanor Antin interview with Linda Montano.

Art Monthly
http://www.artmonthly.co.uk/about.htm
Website of Art Monthly, contemporary art magazine.

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Bach, Elvira
http://www.signandsight.com/features/773.html
C. Tittell, 'And then it went boom', Sign and Sight (8 June 2006)

Baer, Jo
http://www.diacenter.org/exhibitions/introduction/26
'Jo Baer: The Minimalist Years 1960-759: essay by Lynne Cooke on the Dia art foundation website.

Barney, Matthew
http://www.tate.org.uk/magazine/issue2/barney.htm
Interview with Matthew Barney, Tate Magazine, no. 2, Tate website.

Becher, Bernd
http://www.signandsight.com/features/338.html
C. Tittel, 'High Precision Industrial Age Souvenirs', Sign and Sight (2 September 2005)

Bissière, Roger
http://www.bissiere.net/index.html
The official website for the artist.

Bonvicini, Monica
http://www.flashartonline.com/interno.php?pagina=intervista_...
Monica Bonvincini interview with Massimiliano Gioni, 'Destroy she Says', Flash Art website.

Boty, Pauline
http://www.writing-room.com/NYSH.pdf
A. Smith Now you see her (2002), biography of Pauline Boty.

Browse, Lillian
http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/newsletter/spring_2006/p04browse....
Obituary of Lillian Browse by Dennis Farr in the Courtauld Institute of Art newsletter.

Buren, Daniel
http://www.danielburen.com/
The official website for the artist

Bibliography  Top

Bibliography
http://www.aaa.si.edu/
The Archives of American Art.
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/
Artcyclopaedia provides links to the most significant museum sites.
http://www.frieze.com/
Frieze an online journal of contemporary art.
http://www.oxfordartonline.com/public/
Grove Art Online.
http://www.manager-magazin.de/magazin/artikel/0,2828,590528,...
Kunstkompass. A methodologically sophisticated ranking system for contemporary artists noted but not followed slavishly by the present book.
http://www.photo.rmn.fr/cf/htm/Search_New.aspx
Reunion des Musées Nationaux. A valuable source for visual references.
http://www.moma.org/
Museum of Modern Art, New York.
http://www.tate.org.uk/
Tate.
http://www.ubu.com/concept/index.html
Ubu web is a useful source for Conceptual and Performance art.

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Camnitzer, Luis
http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/vpadvance/artgallery/gallery/luis...
Website of Lehman Gallery retrospective Camnitzer exhibition.

Christo
http://christojeanneclaude.net/index.shtml
The artists' official website.

Colquhoun, Ithell
http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=99999996...
A useful brief biography by Mathew Gale, Tate website.

Colville, Alexander
http://www.gallery.ca/exhibitions/past/alex_colville/english...
The site of a major exhibition held by the National Gallery of Canada in 2000.This link no longer works and we are unable to find a suitable alternative.

Cragg, Tony
http://www.tony-cragg.com/texte/Tony%20Cragg%20interviewed%2...
Tony Cragg interview with Jon Wood, on artist's website.

Craig-Martin, Michael
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/johntusainterview/craig_transcri...
Michael Craig-Martin interviewed by John Tusa, BBC website.

Cuevas, José Luis
http://www.museum.oas.org/permanent/figuration/cuevas/bio.html
Biography of Cuevas on the Art Museum of the Americas website.

Currie, Ken
http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~media/kcurrie.html
A site that provides illustrations of Currie's murals at the People's Palace.

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Davis, Ron
http://www.irondavis.com/c_words/c1_cat_essys/d16_rose_cat_e...
B. Rose 'Ronald Davis: Objects and Illusions', on the artist's website.

De Maria, Walter
http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/...
Interview with the artist on the website of the Smithsonian Institute Archives of American Art.

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Foujita, Tsugouharu
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/12/features/IDSIDE13.php...
C. Benfey, 'A Japanese Painter and his art de vivre', on the International Herald Tribune website.

Fried, Michael
http://www.jhu.edu/~jhumag/0698web/arts.html
Interview with Michael Fried in John Hopkins Magazine, June 1998.

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Goldstein, Jack
http://www.slate.com/id/2081320/
J. Lewis, 'Why you should know the name Jack Goldstein', Slate website.

Glazunov, Ilya
http://context.themoscowtimes.com/print.php?aid=136284
R Everleigh 'People's Artist' in Moscow Times 17 September 2004. This link no longer works and we are unable to find a suitable alternative.

Graham, Dan
http://www.jca-online.com/graham.html
Dan Graham interview with Peter Doroshenko, Journal of Contemporary Art website.

Graham, Rodney
http://www.whitechapel.org/content.php?page_id=461
Rodney Graham interview with Anthony Spira, Whitechapel Art Gallery website.

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Haacke, Hans
http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/...
Hans Haacke interview with Thomas Messer, giving his side of story of cancellation of Guggenheim exhibition., on the website of the Smithsonian Institute Archives of American Art.
http://www.tate.org.uk/onlineevents/webcasts/talking_art/han...
Hans Haacke lecture at Tate Gallery (23 June 2007).

Hatoum, Mona
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/johntusainterview/hatoum_transcr...
Mona Hatoum interview with John Tusa, BBC website.

Hazoumé, Romuald
http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/gfx/18romuald.pdf
Article by Niamh Coghlan on Romuald Hazoumé, Aesthetica magazine website.

Head, Tim
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/timhead/selbiog.htm
The artist's website, with many excellent pictures of his work.

Heisig, Bernhard
http://www.signandsight.com/features/92.html
H. Rauterberg, 'The only thing I can really paint well is anger', Sign and Sight (8 April 2005)

Hide, Peter
http://www.sharecom.ca/hide/hide1z.html
The artist's own website.

Höller, Carsten
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/carstenholler/inte...
Interview with Höller, Tate website.

Horn, Rebecca
http://www.surrealismcentre.ac.uk/papersofsurrealism/journal...
S. Kent et al., 'Drawing the Line: A Round Table on Rebecca Horn' (2007)

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Jaar, Alfredo
http://www.tate.org.uk/onlineevents/webcasts/alfredo_jaar/de...
A talk given by the artist in 2008, Tate website.

John Moores Liverpool Exhibition
http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/history...
Part of the exhibition's official website, providing the history of the event.

K  Top

Kabakov, Ilya
http://www.artmargins.com/content/feature/boym2.html
S. Boym, 'Ilya Kabokov: The Soviet Toilet and the Palace of Utopias', on the Art Margins website.

Kantor, Tadeusz
http://www.culture.pl/en/culture/artykuly/os_kantor_tadeusz
M. Kitowska-Lysiak, 'Tadeusz Kantor', on the culture.pl website.

Kawara, On
http://www.diacenter.org/exhibitions/introduction/86
'On Kawara': essay by Lynne Cooke on the Dia art foundation website.

Kosice, Gyula
http://www.kosice.com.ar/eng/novedades.php
The artist's website.

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Lartigue, Jacques-Henri
http://www.lartigue.org/us2/jhlartigue/index.html
The website of the Donation Jacques Henri Lartigue.

Latham, John
http://www.tate.org.uk/learning/artistsinfocus/apg
Resource on the Artist Placement Group on the Tate website.

Lawrence, Jacob
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/remember/jan-june00/lawrence_...
Online News Hour, Remembering Jacob Lawrence (13 June 2000)

M  Top

McCall, Anthony
http://www.serpentinegallery.org/Anthony%20Mccall%20intervie...
Interview by Julia Peyton-Jones and Hans Ulrich Obrist, on the Serpentine Gallery website.

Mehretu, Julie
http://www.bombsite.com/issues/91/articles/2714
L. Chua, 'Julie Mehretu', in BOMB magazine (spring 2005)

Mestrovic, Ivan
http://www.mdc.hr/mestrovic/home/home-eng.htm
The official website of the Ivan Mestrovic Foundation.

Modern Art, Oxford
http://www.modernartoxford.org.uk/about-us/our-history/
The official history of the organization.

Morandi, Giorgio
http://www.museomorandi.it/english/sec_pag.htm
The website of the Morandi museum.
http://www.museomorandi.it/english/museo/studio_testo.htm
W. Haftmann, 'The Studio', on the Morandi museum website.

Mori, Mariko
http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/FEATURES/itoi/itoi11-20-01.asp
K. Itoi, 'Tea with Mariko', interview in the artnet online magazine.

Moses, Grandma
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0907....
'Grandma Moses is dead at 101', New York Times (14 December 1961)

Muehl, Otto
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/38/muhl1.htm
Interview with Otto Muehl ('An Actionist Begins to Sing'), Bright Lights Film Journal.

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Nussbaum, Felix
http://www.felix-nussbaum.de/werkverzeichnis/archiv.php?lang...
A catalogue raisonné of Nussbaum's work, available online.

Nutt, Jim
http://www.artnet.com/magazine/features/saltz/saltz11-12-03.asp
Review of Jim Nutt exhibition in the artnet online magazine.

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Panamarenko
http://www.diacenter.org/exhibitions/introduction/32
' Panamarenko: Orbit': essay by Lynne Cooke on the Dia art foundation website.

Pane, Gina
http://artecontexto.com/www/007/gina_pane_engb.pdf
J. V. Aliaga, 'The Folds of the Wound: on Violence, Gender, and Actionism in the work of Gina Pane', on the Artecontexto website.

Penalba, Alicia
http://penalba.com/English/index.htm
The artist's website.

Phillips, Duncan
http://www.phillipscollection.org/about/index.aspx
The website of the Phillips Collection.

Piper, Adrian
http://www.carnegiemuseums.org/cmag/bk_issue/2001/marapr/awm...
T. Sokolowski 'Adrian Piper: A Conversation', in Carnegie Magazine (2001)

Pistoletto, Michelangelo
http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/people/stallabrass_julian/essays/...
J. Stallabrass, 'Reflections on Art, Time and Poverty; An interview with Michelangelo Pistoletto', on the Courtauld website.

Prince, Richard
http://nymag.com/nymetro/arts/art/11815/
Karen Rosenberg, 'Q & A with Appropriation Artist Richard Prince' (25 April 2005), on the New York Magazine website.

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Ramos, Mel
http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/...
Interview with the artist on the website of the Smithsonian Institute Archives of American Art.

Rego, Paula
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/johntusainterview/rego_transcrip...
Paula Rego interview with John Tusa, BBC website.
http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&w...
Commentary by Elizabeth Manchester on The Firemen of Alijo, Tate website.

René, Denise
http://www.deniserene.com/historique.html
Daniel Abadie on Denise René, on the website of the Galerie Denise René.

Rustin, Jean
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/1980866.stm
J. Toledo, 'Jean Rustin's artistic solitude', on BBC website.

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Saint Phalle, Niki de
http://www.nikidesaintphalle.org/
Website of the Niki Sainte Phalle Foundation.

Sze, Sarah
http://publicartfund.org/pafweb/projects/06/sze/sze-06.html
Article on Corner Plot on the Public Art Fund website.

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Taslitzky, Boris
http://www.humaniteinenglish.com/article62.html
M.-J. Sirach, 'A time when Boris Taslitzky drew the unspeakable', in L'Humanité (12 December 2005)

Thek, Paul
http://www02.zkm.de/thek/index.php?option=com_content&task=v...
Paul Thek biography.

Tillmans, Wolfgang
http://www.tate.org.uk/magazine/issue5/casualbeauty.htm
J. Millar 'Casual Beauty', in Tate, no. 5

Toyen
http://www.kinokultura.com/specials/4/toyen.shtml
P. Hames, 'Jan Nemec: Toyen', 2006, on the Kinokultura website.

Tübke, Werner
http://www.panorama-museum.de/
The official website devoted to the Frankenhausen Panorama.

Tucker, Albert
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/jan2000/tuck-j08.shtml
J. Christian, 'Artist of a Turbulent Era dies' (8 January 2000), World Socialist Website.

Taslitzky, Boris
http://www.humaniteinenglish.com/article62.html
M.-J. Sirach, 'A time when Boris Taslitzky drew the unspeakable', in L'Humanité (12 December 2005)

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Vasarely, Victor
http://www.vasarely.com/site/intro.htm
The artist's website.

Vettriano, Jack
http://www.jackvettriano.com/biography/
The artist's website.

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Winogrand, Garry
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/essays/vanRiper/0...
F. Von Riper, 'Garry Winogrand: Huge Influence, Early Exit', on the Washington Post website.

Witkin, Isaac
http://www.isaacwitkin.com/vitae.htm
The artist's website. This site is currently under construction.

Wyeth, Andrew
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/10022061.html
H. Adams, 'Wyeth's World', The Smithsonian (June 2006)

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Zenderoudi, Charles-Hossein
http://www.zenderoudi.com/english/english.html
The artist's website.