John Riegert - Couverture rigide

Eric Lidji; Brett Yasko; John Riegert

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0998644005 ISBN 13 : 9780998644004

Editeur : Ongoing History, 2017

Synopsis

In February 2015, Brett Yasko asked 252 Pittsburgh artists to each make a portrait of the same John Riegert. What followed was a journey through studios, coffee shops, parks, museums, riverbanks, universities, cemeteries, artists' homes and John's own home. The culmination was an exhibition in the summer of 2016 where, among the portraits, John acted as docent—telling stories of each artist and their work, as well as stories of his own. This book documents the project with an essay by Eric Lidji, photographs and captions by Brett Yasko, artwork and words by John Riegert, and photographs of each portrait.

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Review

"Riegert is both an engaging and fearless subject. Yasko photographs him interacting with artists whose goal is to transform a fellow artist into art. The result is a fascinating hodgepodge of the inspired, the brilliant and the mundane. Lidji's book-length essay provides indispensable context for the explosion of John Riegert art that follows. This is a fascinating and oddly moving portrait of an artist by other artists. What could have easily disintegrated into an egocentric display of aesthetic voyeurism has emerged as an invaluable meditation on making art that matters in the early decades of the 21st century. It isn't Proust, but it may have more relevance for artists in Pittsburgh than any 19th-century man of letters ever could." -- Tony Norman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"The 2016 SPACE gallery exhibit "John Riegert" was a Pittsburgh first: some 250 portraits of the same person, by 250 different artists. So why not commemorate it with a 700-page book? Most of this gorgeous, coffee-table-sized hardcover is a long essay by Eric Lidji, documenting the exhibit's making -- mostly local character Riegert's encounters with many of the contributing artists. Lidji shadowed Riegert for more than a year, and his writing is clear, funny and sensitive. These sketches of the artists, and ruminations on the nature of art, themselves comprise a group portrait of a cross-section of Pittsburgh's contemporary art community. But if the book's principal project is a literary portrait of the charming, guileless and sometimes troubled Riegert, a moving subplot recounts the growing relationship between him and Lidji." -- Bill O'Driscoll, Pittsburgh City Paper

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ongoing History
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0998644005
• ISBN 13: 9780998644004
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Nombre de pages: 700
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible