Meret Oppenheim: My Exhibition
By (Author) Nina Zimmer
Edited by Natalie Dupcher
Edited by Anne Umland
Text by Lee Coln
Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art
10th February 2022
28th October 2021
United States
General
Non Fiction
Individual photographers
Exhibition catalogues and specific collections
709.2
Hardback
184
Width 230mm, Height 270mm
1100g
Published in conjunction with an internationally touring retrospective exhibition on the full scope of Meret Oppenheim's long and diverse career, the first such exhibition in the United States, this publication surveys work from the artist's precocious debut in 1930s Paris, the period during which her notorious fur-lined Object in MoMA's collection was made, through her post-World War II artistic development, which included engagements with international Pop, Minimalism, and Conceptual art, and up to her death in 1985. Essays by curators from Kunstmuseum Bern, The Menil Collection, and The Museum of Modern Art critically examine the artist's active role in shaping the narrative of her life and art, providing the context for her pre- and post-World War II oeuvre.
Offers new scholarly perspectives and a rich body of imagery (more than 160 plates), assuring that the artist's renown will go beyond Object affording and the greatest pleasure for the reader.--Barbara Stehle "Women's Art Journal"
Meret Oppenheim's quasi-functional Surrealist objects violate quotidian logics in uncanny ways.--Emily Watlington "Art In America"
Nina Zimmer is the Director of the Kunstmuseum Bern. Natalie Dupcher is Assistant Curator of Modern Art at The Menil Collection, TX. Anne Umland is The Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Lee Coln is a Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Painting and Sculpture, MoMA.