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Publications

Selected Exhibition Catalogues
The Time of Our Lives; 1999
Bad Girls; 1994
A Labor of Love; 1996
Markus Raetz; 1988
The Decade Show; 1990
Mary Kelly: Interim; 1990
Robert Morris; 1970
Richard Tuttle; 1970
Anti-Illusion:Procedures/Materials; 1969

Anthologies
Discourses; 1990
Documentary Sources in Contemporary Art; 1985 - 99  (New Museum Bookstore)

Different Voices; 1992

 

 
   
TheTime of Our Lives
Essays by Marcia Tucker, Anja Zimmermann, Philip Koplin, Anne Ellegood, Anne Barlow and Xochitl Dorsey

This catalogue critically addresses the ways in which aging has traditionally been portrayed as a narrative of decline in Western society. By focusing on visual representations that subvert the prevailing ideologies of age and ageism, The Time of Our Lives looks at these issues from varied perspectives and offers creative alternatives to the conventional imagery of aging that pervades our culture.

1999; softcover; 120 pages; 31 b/w, 19 color illustrations; ISBN 0-915557-83-5.
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.

 
   
A Labor of Love
Essay by Marcia Tucker

Sixty artists challenge the definitions and categorizations which have separated decorative and hobby arts, craft, outsider, and folk art from the fine arts.

1996, softcover; 96 pages; 49 b/w, 1 color illustration; ISBN 0-915557-79-7.
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.

 

 

 
   
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Bad Girls
Essays by Marcia Tucker, Marcia Tanner, Linda Goode Bryant, and Cheryl Dunye

Unconventional, humorous, and distinctly unladylike, Bad Girls presents the work of forty-five artists who confront gender, race, class, and age issues and question methods of visual representation.

1994; softcover; 144 pages; 73 b/w, 9 color illustrations ISBN 0-262-70053-0.
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.

 
   
Markus Raetz: In the Realm of the Possible
Essay by Marcia Tucker

Examining themes relating to the senses, memory, language, and the relationship between nature and the body, this catalogue covers fifteen years of Swiss artist Markus Raetz's work.

1988; softcover; 64 pages; 29 b/w illustrations by the artist; ISBN 0-915557-62-2.
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.

 

 
   
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Discourses: Conversations in Postmodern Art and Culture
Edited by Russell Ferguson, William Olander, Marcia Tucker, and Karen Fiss

This anthology of interviews, symposia, and dialogues documents critical debate in a range of areas including: the relationship between theory and practice; the representation of stereotypes; the viability of the term "postmodern"; the role of art in the community; and the relationship between high art and popular culture.

1990; hardcover; 488 pages; 40 b/w illustrations; ISBN 0-262-06125-2.
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.

 
   
The Decade Show
Essays by David Deitcher, Thelma Golden, Julia P. Herzberg, Lowery Stokes Sims, et. al.

A provocative examination, by fourteen essayists, of artistic production in the 1980s, this catalogue looks at 113 artists and artists' groups that are critical to an understanding of the period.

1990; softcover; 364 pages; 193 b/w, 78 color illustrations; ISBN 0-915557-68-1. The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.

 

 
   
Mary Kelly: Interim
Essays by Marcia Tucker, Norman Bryson, and Griselda Pollock; Interview by Hal Foster

This catalogue investigates one of Kelly's most ambitious installations and the related debates on feminism since the 1970s.

1990; softcover; 67 pages; 14 b/w, 8 color illustrations; ISBN 0-915557-67-3.
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.

 
   
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Different Voices
Edited and with an Introduction by Marcia Tucker. Essays by Carol Becker, James Clifford, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Amalia Mesa-Baines, John Kuo Wei Tchen, Irene J. Winter, and Tomas Ybarra-Frausto

This collection of essays by well-known writers and thinkers articulates current ideas and
processes in art historical scholarship and options for institutional engagement in a clearly
more diverse and culturally challenging age.

1992; softcover; 148 pages; 11 b/w illustrations; ISBN 1-880974-00-2.
Association of Art Museum Directors, New York.

 

 
   
Robert Morris
Essay by Marcia Tucker

This catalogue presents an extensive background of the artist's work up to 1970, while providing
a context for the installation, to which the public was invited as part of the ongoing process.

1970; softcover; 63 pages; 43 b/w illustrations; Library of Congress Card Catalog number: 73-120069.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

 
   
Richard Tuttle
Essay by Marcia Tucker

The catalog and essay were made expressly for the exhibition.

1970; softcover; 63 pages; 83 b/w, 1 color illustration; ISBN 0-87427-020-0.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

 
   
Anti-Illusion: Proceedures/Materials
Essays by Marcia Tucker and Jim Monte

The catalog and accompanying essay covers work by a now reknowned group of artists,
including Eva Hesse, Lynda Benglis, Richard Serra, Phillip Glass, Bruce Naumann
Robert Ryman
Steve Reich and Robert Morris

1969; softcover; 63 pages; 50 b/w illustrations.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

 
   

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