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Uniform title:	Transmissions (Whitney Museum of American Art)
Imprint:	Brooklyn, New York : Dancing Foxes Press ; New York : Whitney Museum of American Art, [2020] ©2020
Description:	190 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 x 30 cm + 1 folded sheet (19 x 87, folded to 19 x 29 cm)
Language:	English
Subject:	Art and dance -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions. Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century -- Exhibitions. Art and dance. Avant-garde (Aesthetics) New York (State) -- New York. Exhibition catalogs. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12241121

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Other uniform titles:	Container of (work): Mauss, Nick. Works. Selections. Sussman, Elisabeth, 1939- Container of (work): Rothkopf, Scott, 1976- Nick Mauss's Transmissions. Container of (work): Lubin-Levy, Joshua. Relâche. Container of (work): Tepper, Allie. Legacies of exchange.
ISBN:	9780300246841 0300246846
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:	"An aesthetic and social history of art and dance in mid-20th-century New York interpreted by contemporary artist Nick Mauss Over the past decade, Nick Mauss (b. 1980) has pursued a hybrid mode of working that melds the roles of curator, artist, and scholar. This catalogue leans heavily into the scholarship side of his practice, building on his 2018 Whitney Museum exhibition with a closer look at the relationship between modernist ballet and the New York avant-garde. In the 1930s through 1950s, ballet was introduced to a popular audience in New York and was simultaneously influenced by developments in Europe in painting, photography, fashion, music, and poetry. Mauss reflects on this period of rich cross-media production and synergy, ultimately arguing for the inseparability of dance and art history. Reproductions of texts and artworks-by Paul Cadmus, George Platt Lynes, Dorothea Tanning, Carl Van Vechten, and others-are included along with historical images and installation photography of Mauss's Whitney exhibition. Three other distinguished authors contribute essays on the subjects of ballet and the body, Mauss's work as an artist and curator, and performance within museum spaces. Nick Mauss is an artist based in New York"--

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Summary:	An aesthetic and social history of art and dance in mid-20th-century New York interpreted by contemporary artist Nick Mauss <br> <br> <br> <br> Over the past decade, Nick Mauss (b. 1980) has pursued a hybrid mode of working that melds the roles of curator, artist, and scholar. Following his highly acclaimed 2018 Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition Transmissions , this volume elaborates on the artist's complex portrait of mid-century New York as seen through the prism of modernist ballet. By pairing installation views of the exhibition and photographs of its daily performances by Paula Court and Ken Okiishi with reproductions of artworks, ballet programs, and fashion magazines, Transmissions animates the vividly enmeshed social and artistic networks that shaped both modern art and modern ballet. Through his emphasis on the collaborations and intimacies between models, dancers, photographers, choreographers, painters, sculptors, filmmakers, publishers, critics, amateurs, and devotees, Mauss re-calibrates the standard narrative of American modernism to locate performance, spectatorship, and the eroticized body at its center.<br> <br> <br> <br> Transmissions features reproductions of documents and artworks--a number published here for the first time--by Paul Cadmus, George Platt Lynes, Dorothea Tanning, Carl Van Vechten, Isamu Noguchi, Pavel Tchelitchew, Walker Evans, Ilse Bing, PaJaMa, Man Ray, Maya Deren, Marcel Duchamp, Elie Nadelman, Eugene Berman, Peter Hujar, and many more. Additional texts address the subjects of ballet and the body, Mauss's work as an artist and curator, and performance within museum spaces, while an extensive conversation with the sixteen dancers who participated in the Whitney exhibition brings rare insight into the labor of making performance-based work while negotiating diverging legacies of embodiment.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Distributed for the Whitney Museum of American Art and Dancing Foxes Press
Physical Description:	190 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 x 30 cm +
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	9780300246841 0300246846