Book Description
Outbound: Passages from the 90's presents ten seminal works of art that have particularly resonated across the last decade: Janine Antoni's Swoon (1997), Matthew Barney's The Ehrich Weiss Suite (1997), Cai Guo-Qiang's The Dragon has Arrived (1997), Robert Gober's Untitled (1997), Ann Hamilton's (bearings) (1996), Jim Hodges' You (1997), William Kentridge's History of the Main Complaint (1996), Rick Lowe and Deborah Grotfeldt's Sharing the Wealth (1999-2000), Shirin Neshat's Rapture (1999) and Fred Wilson's Guarded View. Selected by the exhibition curators with the idea of sharing ten works that, like passages from a journal, reflect their most memorable encounters with art of the 1990's, these works provide a view of the art of these past ten years. The works presented here are characterized by a rigorous intelligence, a rewarding sensuality, and a sincere engagement with social, political, and spiritual issues-and they resound with the kind of material, physical, technological, and narrative sophistication of truly great art. Featuring full-color reproductions and perceptive essays, Outbound also includes an illustrated fifty-page timeline of the 90's.
