Contemporary Artists

Introduction

The following artists are representative of work currently being done in the United States and abroad. Each entry includes links to samples of their work, and suggested bibliographic references. These are not comprehensive guides.

For all artists be sure to check art reference books such as:

• The Dictionary of Art (34 volumes) R 703 DICTION
• Contemporary Artists (starting with most current volume) R 709.22 CONTEMP

To locate further information, please ask a reference librarian for assistance.

Artists currently included here:

Antoni, Janine Arneson, Robert Beuys, Joseph Bourgeois, Louise Burden, Chris Butterfield, Deborah Calle, Sophie Chia, Sandro Christo Coe, Sue Cohen, Harold Freud, Lucian Gehry, Frank Golub, Leon Hamilton, Ann Holzer, Jenny Horn, Rebecca Kiefer, Anselm

Koons, Jeff Laib, Wolfgang Lang, Gary Lucero, Michael Luna, James Nauman, Bruce Paik, Nam June Pfaff, Judy Rothenberg, Susan Rubens, Nancy Saar, Betye Salle, David Sherman, Cindy Smith, Jaune Quick-To-See Solberg, Ramona Wall, Jeff Viola, Bill Whitehorse, Emmy

If you are looking for information on artists not included here, or would like to suggest one to include, please let us know.

Ann Hamilton

Ann Hamilton: inscribing place.
Art in America. June 1999, pp 76-85+.

The body and the object: Ann Hamilton 1984-1996; Ann Hamilton: woven: Miami Art Museum;
Sculpture. Apr 1999, pp 70-2.

Scents and sensibility.
Art News. Dec 1998. pp 132-3.

Dissolving language: what the unreadable tells us about words.
Fiberarts. Jan/Feb 1997, pp 45-50.

Ann Hamilton: Ruth Bloom Gallery.
Flash Art. Oct 1994, pp 98-9.

Ann Hamilton: Tropos, 1993 (Book) 709.0407 hamilto

Breakthroughs: Avant Garde Artists in Europe and America 1950-1990. pp. 178-179, 208-213. 709.04 B74

“Indigo Blue” in Places With a Past: New Site Specific Art at Charleston's Spoleto Festival. pp. 70-77. 709.04 PLACES

Modern Contemporary: Art at MoMA since 1980. 709.04 MODERN Plate 419

Ann Hamilton--Biography and Links
http://www.the-artists.org/ArtistView.cfm?id=8A01F578%2DBBCF%2D11D4%2DA93500D0B7069B40

Art 21: Ann Hamilton
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/hamilton/clip2.html

Ann Hamilton: Guggenheim
http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_works_61C_0.html

"Linings"
http://www.mcasd.org/exhibitions/permcol/artists/hamilton.html

"Privation and Excesses"
http://www.getty.edu/artsednet/images/Ecology/privation.html

"Multiples"
http://www.gregkucera.com/hamilton.htm

Some image links are broken, but others still appear

Jenny Holzer

Jenny Holzer 709.2 holzer joselit

Jenny Holzer: Truth Before Power 709.22 Holzer

Art of the Twentieth Century. 709.04 ART OF V. 2 p. 611-612

Modern Contemporary: Art at MoMA since 1980. 709.04 MODERN Plate 417 (p. 378)

American Visionaries. 709.7307 WHITNEY p. 141

Edward Lucie-Smith. Artoday. 709.045 LUCIE-S Plate 104 p. 94

The Decade Show. 709.04 DECADE plate XXXV

Jenny Holzer on the Internet
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/holzer_jenny.html

äda 'web | jenny holzer
http://adaweb.walkerart.org/context/artists/holzer/holzer0.html

"Ceiling Snake"
http://www.hamburger-kunsthalle.de/seiten/en_holzer.htm

Interview with Jenny Holzer
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.02/holzer.html

Rebecca Horn

Rebecca Horn: Jamileh Weber.
Art News. Dec 2001, p168.

The feathered prison fan, der Eintanzer(1978). Artforum International. Summer 2001, p137.

Bees planetary map (Mixed media, 1998).
Sculpture. Nov 1998, pp 29

Rebecca Horn: Chorus of the locusts I and II, 1991;
Artforum International. Summer 1996, pp 88-9.

Rebecca Horn: delicacy and danger.
Art in America. Dec 1993, pp 58-67.

Rebecca Horn: the alchemist's tales.
Art News. Dec 1991. pp 94-9.

Rebecca Horn: drawings, sculptures, installations, films 1964-2006.
709.2 horn (Book)

Rebecca Horn, Cosmic maps
759 horn (Book)

Art of the Twentieth Century. 709.04 ART OF V. 2 p. 533, 601

Video Art: An Anthology. 791.45 V668 p. 70-71

Lucie-Smith, Edward. Art Today. 709.045 LUCIE-S Plate 154

Rebecca Horn--Biography and Links
http://www.the-artists.org

 

"The Contrary Concert"
http://www.dialnsa.edu/iat97/Sculpture/horn.html

Rebecca Horn
http://www.bartschi.ch/espace/horn.html

Page text is in French, with several photographs

"Untitled"
http://www.art-of-this-century.com/horn.htm

Entry from ArtCyclopedia.com
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/horn_rebecca.html

Anselm Kiefer

Anselm Kiefer: Heaven and Earth. 709.2 Kiefer

Modern Contemporary: Art at MoMA since 1980. 709.04 MODERN Plates 81, 101, 121, 385

Breakthroughs: Avant Garde Artists in Europe and America 1950-1990 709.04 B74 p. 139

Anselm Kiefer
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/kiefer_anselm.html

Works on Paper, 1969--1993
http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/KIEFER/el_kiefer_splsh.htm

Anselm Kiefer
http://www.artandculture.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist%3Fid=64

Anselm Kiefer: Images and Biographical Information
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/ftptoc/kiefer_ext.html

Jeff Koons

The Jeff Koons Handbook. 709.2 KOONS

American Visionaries. 709.7307 WHITNEY p. 168

Art of the Twentieth Century. 709.04 ART OF V. 1 p. 571

Modern Contemporary: Art at MoMA since 1980. 709.04 MODERN Plates 137, 158, 216

Art in the Eighties. 709.048 LUCIE-S p. 76

Edward Lucie-Smith. Artoday. 709.045 LUCIE-S Plate 336, p. 308-312

"A Collection of Pictures"
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Exhibit/9929/koons/

Jeff Koons on the Internet
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/koons_jeff.html

"St. John the Baptist"
http://www.staatsgalerie.de/frame.php?page=/de/sammlungen/gem/n45_koons.htm&logo=2

Jeff Koons
http://www.the-artists.org/eyestorm/koons.cfm

Wolfgang Laib

Wolfgang Laib A Retrospective
709.2 laib ottmann

Making the Ideal Real: A Conversation with Wolfgang Laib.
Sculpture. May 2001, p28-33.

Wolfgang Laib: Transcendent Offerings.
Art in America. March 2001, pp 88-95.

The Passageway: A Project for Artforum.
Artforum. April 1989, pp136-41.

Objects of Desire: The Modern Still Life. Plate 131 & text, p. 218-219 704.9435 ROWELL

Modern Contemporary: Art at MoMA since 1980. 709.04 MODERN Plate 197

Lucie-Smith, Edward. ArToday. 709.045 LUCIE-S Plate 125

Wolfgang Laib--Biography and Links
http://www.the-artists.org/ArtistView.cfm?id=239B627E%2DC5CF%2D11D4%2DA93800D0B7069B40

"Reismahlzeiten"
http://www.ifa.de/a/a1/kunst/da1laib.htm

Page text is in German; see also Aussieben von Blütenstaub von Kiefern, 1999

The Monk and His Milk
http://www.thestranger.com/2001-03-08/art2.html

"Somewhere else - la chambre des certitudes" 1996
http://www2.odn.ne.jp/kenjitaki/artists_e/laib_e.html

Gary Lang

Gary Lang: Paintings and objects, 1975-1997
759.13 lang

"Exhibit---Michael Klein, Inc.; New York"
Art in America. v 82 Mar 1994. p. 96-7.

"Exhibit---Annina Nosei Gallery."
Art News. Oct 1989, p 206+.

"Exhibit--Mark Quint Gallery, San Diego."
Art News. Dec 1986, pp 27-8.

"Exhibit--Baskerville; Watson Gallery."
Arts Magazine. June 1984, pp 35-6.

"Mirrors"
http://www.artnet.com/ag/fineartthumbnails.asp?gid=484&cid=7293

See also http://www.artvault.com/1055/1057/10464/11199.asp and http://www.sfada.com/sfada/briangross/lang.html

Gary Lang
http://www.briangrossfineart.com/artists/glang/

Gary Lang
http://www.galeriezurcher.com/Z/lang.html

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Michael Lucero

Michael Lucero: Sculpture 1976-1995 (Book) 730.92 lucero leach

"Chimeras of Clay: The Work of M. Lucero."
Art in America. June 1997, pp 92-7.

"Sapphire (Glazed earthenware)."
American Ceramics. Spring 2000, p 1.

"Michael Lucero: Dorothy Weiss Gallery."
Sculpture. Mar 2000, pp 65-6.

"Michael Lucero: homage to ancient arts."
American Craft. Feb/Mar 1995, pp 32-7.

"Venus (1997)."
American Craft. v 58 no2 Apr/May 1998. p 31.

"Pink nude dreamer;1994."
Sculpture. May/June 1996, p 3.

"Conquistador & Lady with two curls."
Art News. Apr 1996, p. 12.

"Anthropomorphic jug form with leaping frog (1994)."
American Craft. Apr/May 1995, p 38.

"Zoomorphic (male dog teapot)."
American Ceramics. v.10 no.1, 1993, p 1.

Lady With Roots
http://www.kemperart.org/mlsie.htm

"Greek"
http://www.cmoa.org/html/art/frame3.htm

Michael Lucero: Sculpture 1976-1995
http://www.carnegiemuseums.org/cmag/bk_issue/1998/marapr/feat6.htm

James Luna

The Decade Show. 709.04 DECADE Plate IL

James Luna: Emendatio (Book) 700.92 luna lowe

Mixed Blessings. 704.0693 L664M p. 198

"Take a Picture With a Real Indian"
http://www.heard.org/education/resource/rna.html

"Half Indian, Half Mexican"
http://www.mcasd.org/exhibitions/permcol/artists/luna.html

Gallery
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/artists/luna_img.html

Chapel of the Sacred Colors
http://www.usask.ca/snelgrove/exhibit/002luna/01.html

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James Luna
http://www.northcounty.com/arts/luna.htm

Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman: Theaters of Experience 700.92 nauman

The Decade Show 709.04 DECADE Plate LVII

Art of the Twentieth Century. 709.04 ART OF V. 2 p. 604-605, 551, 552, 598, 615

Modern Contemporary: Art at MoMA since 1980 709.04 MODERN Plates 73, 94, 172, 213, 240

Lucie-Smith, Edward. ArToday. 709.045 LUCIE-S Plate 99

Bruce Nauman--Biography and Links
http://www.the-artists.org/ArtistView.cfm?id=239B627E%2DC5CF%2D11D4%2DA93800D0B7069B40

Entry from ArtCyclopedia.com
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/nauman_bruce.html

Bruce Nauman
http://www.artnet.com/magazine/features/nauman/nauman11-26-96.asp

Article and illustrations

"Punch and Judy II Birth & Life & Sex & Death." ( 1985)
http://www.moma.org/collection/drawings/nauman_punch.html

"Vices and Virtues"
http://stuartcollection.ucsd.edu/nauman/

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MLA Style

Citing Sources

A collection of links, handouts, and class guides dealing with citing print and online sources in MLA style

Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format

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Electronic Reference Formats Recommended by the APA

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Using American Psychological Association (APA) Format

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_apa.html