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This collection, spanning two decades of artistic activity, features selections of writings tracing the intellectual influences and development of one of the more formidable and productive minds in the contemporary art world. The writings of Enrique Martínez Celaya comprise public lectures; essays; interviews; correspondence with artists, critics, and scholars; artist statements; blog posts; and journal entries. This selection of writings includes the six public lectures Martínez Celaya delivered during his three-year appointment as the second Visiting Presidential Professor at the University of Nebraska. Marked by an encyclopedic curiosity and considerable knowledge about the world, these lectures explore the nature of photography and painting, the role of the artist as prophet, the relationship of art to the university and the museum, as well as reflections on his own work. Enrique Martínez Celaya: Collected Writings and Interviews, 1990-2010 features seventy-nine photographs from Martínez Celaya's collection; an introduction by Klaus Ottmann, who teaches art history at the School of Visual Arts in New York and is the Robert Lehman Curator for The Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, New York; and a foreword by James B. Milliken, president of the University of Nebraska.
Contents
Foreword by James B. Milliken
Introduction by Klaus Ottmann
Notes, 1990
Notes, 1991
Notes, 1992
Notes, 1993
A Manifesto, 1994
Notes, 1994
Notes, 1996
From an interview with Christopher Miles, 1997
Notes, 1997
From an interview with M. A. Greenstein, 1998
Notes, 1998
Berlin, 1998
From a Conversation with Donald Baechler, 1999
Notes to Anne Trueblood Brodzky, 1999
From a Conversation with Amnon Yariv, 1999
From an interview with Howard N. Fox, 1999
Notes, 2
Notes, 2001
Making and Meaning, 2001
From a lecture at the Orange County Museum of Art, 2001
Notes, 2002
From a letter to Daniel A. Siedell, 2002
From an interview with L. Kent Wolgamott, 2003
From Twelve Thoughts on the October Cycle, 2003
Letter of Resignation, 2003
From a Letter to Lisa Tamiris Becker, 2003
From a Conversation with Roald Hoffmann, 2003
Schneebett, 2004
Notes, 2004
Letter to Leon Golub, 2004
From an interview with Richard Whittaker, 2004
From a lecture at the Berliner Philharmonie, 2004
Notes, 2005
Letter to the Editor of the New York Times, 2005
From "Currency for the Knowledge Economy," The Fuzzy Boundary: Science and Art, 2005
Shaping Language, 2006
Notes, 2006
Introductions to Projects, 2006
Photography as Grief, 2007
The Blog: Bad Time for Poetry, 2007
Sunday, August 26. Adorno as Cliché
Saturday, September 1. The Road
Wednesday, September 5. The end is important in all things (II)
Thursday, September 6. Criticism and Imitation
Saturday, September 8. A New Body of Work
Wednesday, September 12. In Favor of Speaking Up
Sunday, September 16. Complexity and Tidy Packages
Thursday, September 27. Reflections on a Return
Tuesday, December 4. Tall Words
A Personal Note on Art and Compassion, 2007
Notes, 2007
From Considering Painting and Meaning, 2007
Boy Raising His Arm, 2007
The Blog: Bad Time for Poetry, 2008
Thursday, February 7. Santa Monica Studio
Tuesday, February 12. Soul Searching
Monday, March 17. A Witty Age
Thursday, May 13. Being Cuban
Thursday, June 12. On Looking at the Work Done
Wednesday, July 16. The Hand
Tuesday, October 14. Unreasonable Pursuits: Moby-Dick
Tuesday, October 21. A Sentimental Education
Tuesday, December 2. Radical Doubting
Tuesday, November 11, 2008; Wednesday, December 17, 2008; Tuesday, December 23, 2008; Friday, January 9, 2009. Painting and Structure
Art and Museums, 2008
From an interview with Gillian Serisier, 2008
Systems, Time, and Daybreak, 2008
From an interview with Greg McComb, 2008
From an interview with Prue Gibson, 2009
The Blog: Bad Time for Poetry, 2009
Friday, January 23; Friday, January 30. Failure
Tuesday, February 3. Meltingly sweet, in autumn
Thursday, February 5. Innocent Fraud
Tuesday, April 28. You and the Kindle
Tuesday, May 12; Wednesday, May 13. Get Rid of Your Excuse
Art and the University, 2009
Notes, 2009
The Prophet, 2009
On Painting, 2010
