Library: David Salle

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This library selection is inspired by David Salle’s exhibition at The Brant Foundation Art Study Center in Greenwich, CT (November – April 2022)

About The Brant Foundation Library

The Brant Foundation’s library program was established in 2009 to facilitate the appreciation and understanding of contemporary art and to advance our mission of promoting arts education. As both a museum and art study center, the Foundation’s library serves as a crucial resource for students, scholars, and educators by providing access to a unique collection of hard-to-find materials. After noticing the difficulties of obtaining contemporary art publications, typically as a result of rarity or expense, the Foundation was inspired to make efforts to broaden their holdings and increase accessibility to the public.

By reaching out to the surrounding arts community for help, the Foundation has accumulated an actively growing, rich collection of contemporary art books. With the contributions from the many organizations and institutions that share our vision, the public gains access to a wider range of materials used for the scholarly study and examination of contemporary art. Housing over 1,000 volumes – from exhibition catalogs and artist monographs to art criticism texts and periodicals – the library reflects the Foundation’s collection and admiration of contemporary art. Because of the rarity and value of the materials, our library is non-circulating, but we welcome and encourage the public to make use of the study center during operating hours. Please contact info@brantfoundation.org to make an appointment to visit The Brant Foundation’s library

How to See: Looking, Talking, and Thinking about Art by David Salle

A master class in contemporary art by one of the preeminent painters of our time.

How does art work? How does it move us, inform us, challenge us? Internationally renowned painter David Salle’s incisive essay collection illuminates the work of many of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Engaging with a wide range of Salle’s friends and contemporaries―from painters to conceptual artists such as Jeff Koons, John Baldessari, Roy Lichtenstein, and Alex Katz, among others―How to See explores not only the multilayered personalities of the artists themselves but also the distinctive character of their oeuvres.

Salle writes with humor and verve, replacing the jargon of art theory with precise and evocative descriptions that help the reader develop a personal and intuitive engagement with art. The result: a master class on how to see with an artist’s eye. (Amazon)

David Salle 1979-94

by David Whitney and Lisa Liebmann

1994

223 pages

Texts in English.

Pastoral

by Ronald Jones (Author), David Salle (Author), Donald Kennison (Editor)

This catalogue examines David Salle’s recent Pastoral series, the central focus of which is a seemingly generic scene of two tentative lovers done in the classical style. Using this scene as a basis, Salle floats images which are painted, silk-screened or drawn, on the same canvas, on adjacent panels, or inserted as separate canvases into the painting’s surface. (Amazon)

David Salle: Ghost Paintings

by Karen Marta (Editor), David Salle (Artist), Janine Mileaf (Foreword), Hal Foster (Contributor)

In the 1980s, American artist David Salle (born 1952) played a crucial role in the formulation of postmodernism in art, helping to reestablish painting as a dominant force. Often thought to use only found imagery, Salle actually derived much of his early work from live movement events that he staged specifically for the paintings. For his 1992 series Ghost Paintings, Salle took photographs of his longtime model Beverly Eaby, creating graceful, improvised movements with a bedsheet, then printing the images on linen and painting over them with horizontal fields of intense color. This new volume, with full-color spreads of the 16 never-before-seen Ghost Paintings, reveals Salle’s practice of incorporating photography and performance art into his paintings. It includes the black-and-white photographs the artist took for this series, as well as documentation of other performances.

David Salle: Ice Flow

by Robert Hullot-Kentor (Author), Kay Heymer (Editor)

Published on the occasion of the exhibition David Salle: Paintings and Drawings

September 7 – October 27, 2001

Jablonka Galerie

David Salle: Debris

by David Salle (Artist), Peter Doroshenko (Foreword)

Debris assembles paintings and ceramics made by American artist David Salle (born 1952) over the past five years. Regarded as one of the originators of postmodernism in painting, Salle employs his recognizable style of juxtaposition and visual simultaneity in these most recent works. A number of paintings make use of highly abstracted photographic silk-screens that reveal, upon closer inspection, tightly cropped tangles of wire and wood washed up on a beach near the artist’s Long Island home. Though Salle has often affixed ceramic objects to the canvas in the past, here the smashed or collapsed vessel and platter shapes begin for the first time to take on the agency and autonomy of independent art objects.
Including an interview with the artist, this elegant volume is a tribute to Salle’s merging of figurative tradition with abstraction, and to the dialogue he creates between disparate elements.

David Salle: The Vortex Paintings

Presented by Mary Boone and Jeffrey Deitch

November 5 – December 17, 2005

Essay by Jeffrey Deitch