Multimedia Collection
A Ruling Passion
(Art City series)
DVD
58 minutes
NX165 .A766 2002 v.2 DVD
Many artists use the pain, exhilaration and resolution of private desires to express themselves. ART CITY: A Ruling Passion focuses on intense personalities who've used their art to explore the emotional impact, or dark humor of psychological truths. Everything that Louise Bourgeois creates - whether in wood, marble, fabric or bronze - comes from memory of past experience. Michael Ray Charles investigates the marketing of black memorabilia, using early American illustrations and advertising imagery. Elizabeth Peyton reinvents portraiture, using her friends - as well as historical, and pop culture, royalty - as subjects. Ed Ruscha's literary landscapes burst from the physical world around him - the world 'right outside the window.' The comic spirit of Lari Pittman contrasts with his graphic and painterly declarations. Tucked away in a landmark house, Richmond Burton remembers his dreams to build "psychic fields" of abstraction. The telescopic vistas and Pantheon-like arrays of featureless faces by David Deutsch are stimulated by sub-conscious sensations.
Along with writer/curator Dave Hickey, New Museum founder Marcia Tucker, actor/collector David Alan Grier, and others, ART CITY: A Ruling Passion plumbs issues that affect artists - preoccupations of startling universality - like community, motivation and controversy, finding one's audience, and just "getting it right."
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