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Title: Diane Arbus Revelations by DOON ARBUS ISBN: 0-375-50620-9 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $100.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Revealing, revalatory
Comment: I own two Arbus monographs and have lived with them for over 20 years. Many of those works are reproduced in this volume. There is a lot of talk about "the human condition" and I suppose all artists in one way or another wrestle with the notion. Arbus has always meant to me someone who seemed to reveal who we are beneath the fashion, the roles, the sex, the culture. I used one of her images as a means to illuminate a poster for a Sam Shepard play called Icarus' Mother - it was of a very young New York boy holding a toy hand grenade in a threatening way during play in Central Park - once seen never forgotten.
Nor will I forget her self portrait, naked pregnant, in this latest volume. So much. So much. This is the volume Arbus lovers have been waiting for. Printed in Germany, beautifully bound, positively packed with images, diary entries, extracts from letters, comment. A bargain.
Rating: 4
Summary: Arbus according to Arbus
Comment: This is the catalog for a show that opened this week at SFMOMA. It is also a document of considerable authority and very little of the cult shrine that is part of the show. There is no doubt that this is a thorough assessment of Arbus' place in the history of her medium. The first chapter of of the written material is scholarly and completely devoid of the overstatement usually plastered on Diane Arbus. Instead, the author relates her work to that of her various teachers and influences, Lisette Model, Gary Winogrand, Lee Friedlander, August Sander, and many others. There are numerous references to and from her notebooks as well as the notes of others but the writing is neither superfluous nor voyeuristic. It is art history at its best.
The selection of her photographs is comprehensive and well organized as you would expect from her estate which owns them all. No doubt the Fraenkel Gallery near SFMOMA had a lot to do with the quality of the show and book. Read it before you attend the show and you will learn a lot even if you've never heard of her.
Coupled with the detailed chronology of her life, the images give a clear picture of a character which has been obscured by mythology and rumor for 30 years. I am not a fan of Diane Arbus (and certainly not a detractor) but I gained a lot of respect for her as an artist as I read her notes and quotes about her own work.
If you are looking for a biography of a brave young woman artist in the mid-twentieth century, this one is good. It is thorough and not editorialized with adjulation. The only gratuitious facts that I would have left out are the cold details of her death in the coroner's reports at the end of the book. Yet I get the impression this is the way she would have wanted it. This is the book she would have written. Absent some equal scholarship to the contrary, this is the truth about Diane Arbus.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Powerful Book
Comment: Thank you Doon Arbus for publishing it.
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Title: Diane Arbus: Family Albums by Anthony W. Lee, John Pultz ISBN: 0300101465 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: What Remains by Sally Mann ISBN: 0821228439 Publisher: Bulfinch Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Robert Frank: London/Wales by Robert Frank, Philip Brookman ISBN: 3908247675 Publisher: Scalo Verlag Ac Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Devil's Playground by Nan Goldin ISBN: 0714842230 Publisher: Phaidon Press Inc. Pub. Date: 18 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $95.00 |
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Title: Cindy Sherman: Film Stills by Cindy Sherman, Peter Galassi ISBN: 0870705075 Publisher: Museum of Modern Art, New York Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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