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The Museum Shop has a large selection of books, exhibition catalogues, DVDs, postcards, and posters on modern and contemporary art. The shop also carries CDs, artist-crafted jewelery, design items, and imaginative toys.

Hirshhorn Annual Circle Members and Smithsonian Associates enjoy a 10% discount on all items.

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Anne Truitt

Anne Truitt: Perception and Reflection

 

$55.00 (hard cover)
Although her work was compared to that of artists labeled “post-painterly” (or “Color Field”) and “minimal,” Anne Truitt (b. Baltimore, Maryland, 1921; d. Washington, DC, 2004) pursued a course uniquely independent from such contemporaries as Donald Judd, Morris Louis, Robert Morris, and Kenneth Noland. She strove to liberate her meticulously executed and nuanced painted compositions from the limits of a two-dimensional medium and, at first produced sculpture suggestive of fences, tombstones, and other architectural elements from her native Eastern Shore of Maryland. She eventually evolved the powerful columnar format that became the hallmark of her work. Yet throughout her career, Truitt continued to create works on paper and canvas to investigate further relationships of form, color, and space. This volume accompanies the first major exhibition of Anne Truitt’s art since her death in 2004 and the single comprehensive survey of the artist’s work since her 1973–74 retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. To date, the only monograph on Truitt, this book provides new documentation and analysis of her life and work, featuring color plates of her sculpture, drawings, paintings, and complex late works, and significantly enhances our understanding of American abstraction after 1960. With essays by Kristen Hileman and James Meyer, and including an illustrated chronology of the artist's life.

The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image

$55.00 (hard cover)
This lavishly illustrated catalogue accompanies the two-part exhibition on view at the Hirshhorn in 2008 from February 14 through May 11 and June 19 through September 7. The exhibition offered the first in-depth exploration of contemporary moving-image art and examined the ways in which the cinematic has blurred cultural distinctions between reality and illusion. This catalogue includes essays by Hirshhorn curators Kerry Brougher, Anne Ellegood, Kelly Gordon, and Kristen Hileman, as well as a chronology of the cultural development cinema by artist Tony Oursler, whose work is also included in the exhibition.

Isamu Noguchi: Master Sculptor

$29.95 (paperback)
In this 240-page catalogue, the main essay by Dr. Valerie Fletcher situates Noguchi’s sculptures in the context of their time, notably the artist’s utopian aspirations, his relationship to Surrealism, his daring sexual themes and his remarkably prescient globalist approach. Additional essays by Dana Miller, associate curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and by Bonnie Rychlak, curator of the Isamu Noguchi Foundation Museum, address Noguchi’s relevance for land art of the 1970s and his relationship to Zen.

Ana Mendieta: Earth Body, Sculpture and Performance 1972-1985

$29.99 (hardcover)
This fully illustrated, 288-page catalogue is the most definitive monograph to date on the work of Cuban-born artist Ana Mendieta (b. 1948; d. United States, 1985). Mendieta is celebrated for using her own body to explore issues of gender and identity, and her work has significantly influenced subsequent generations of artists. The catalogue was published in conjunction with a major traveling survey of the artist's career from 1972 until her death, and was on view at the Hirshhorn October 14, 2004 through January 2, 2005. It contains biographical, analytical, and interpretive essays by Olga Viso, curator of the exhibition; Chrissie Iles, curator of contemporary art, Whitney Museum of American Art; art historian Julia Herzberg; and art critic Guy Brett. Additionally, art historian Laura Roulet contributed an extensive chronology of the artist’s life.

The Panza Collection

$12.98 (soft cover)
In 2008, The Hirshhorn Museum presented "The Panza Collection," featuring 39 artworks by pivotal artists of the late 1960s and early 1970s that were acquired by the Museum from Count Giuseppe Panza di Biumo, one of the world’s foremost collectors of American and European contemporary art. Comprised of works by sixteen international artists, this acquisition substantially strengthens the Hirshhorn’s holdings of art from this period. This catalogue accompanies the exhibition, which was on view at the Museum October 23, 2008 through January 11, 2009.

A Garden for Art: Outdoor Sculpture at the Hirshhorn

$15.95 (soft cover)

In this 96-page, lavishly illustrated text, curator Valerie J. Fletcher describes the history of the Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden. Her commentary on works on view in the garden and her discussion of major art movements places the Museum's remarkable sculpture collection in context.

Hirshhorn Museum postcard book

$9.95 (soft cover)
Includes 30 postcards of iconic works from the Hirshhorn's collection, including those by Constantin Brancusi, Alexander Calder, Joseph Cornell, Edward Hopper, Yves Klein, Ron Muec, Sigmar Polke, Ed Ruscha, and Andy Warhol, among others.