Irish Museum of Modern Art
Publications 2005
Past Things and Present: Jasper Johns since 1983
A catalogue to accompany the exhibition at IMMA with an
introduction by Kathy Halbreich, Director, Walker Art Centre, and
essays by Joan Rothfuss, Richard Schiff, University of Texas and
Victor I. Stoichita, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
ISBN 0-935640-77-0
Price: €25.00
Laurie Anderson: The Record of the Time (out of stock)
An illustrated catalogue, with essays by Thierry Raspail and Laurie
Anderson.
ISBN 2-906461-57-1
Price €20.00
Fred Tomaselli: Monsters of Paradise
A publication, produced by the Fruitmarket Gallery in association
with James Cohan Gallery, New York, and Jay Jopling/White Cube,
London.
ISBN 0-947912835
Price €28.00
Mark Manders: Parallel Occurrence
A publication, with essays by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Curator of
Contemporary Art, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris,
Rachael Thomas, Senior Curator: Head of Exhibitions, IMMA, and
Marta Kuzma, Curator of Manifesta 5, accompanies the exhibition.
ISBN 1-903811-43-0
Price: €25.00
Irish Museum of Modern Art
The Collection
The first full-colour publication on the Museum’s Collection presents
more than 180 artworks selected to give a sample of the quality,
range and international nature of the works acquired by the Museum
since its foundation in 1991. Short texts accompany each work,
together with an introduction on IMMA’s collecting policy by
Director Enrique Juncosa, and essays on the history of the Collection
and the Royal Hospital building by Catherine Marshall, Senior
Curator: Head of Collections. The publication is designed to give the
Museum visitors, sister institutions at home and abroad, scholars and
the ever-increasing number of groups and individuals interested in
the Museum’s work a greater insight into the treasures it contains
IMMA ISBN 1-903811-48-1
Price: €45.00
Dorothy Cross
Dorothy Cross is one of Ireland's leading artists, with a long
established international reputation. Working in a variety of media
from photography to video and from opera to object, her art is a
poetic amalgamation of found and constructed objects, sometimes
humorous, sometimes disturbing, always intellectually stimulating
and physically arresting. This large publication comprises a
foreword by Enrique Juncosa, Director, IMMA, and essays by Marina
Warner, writer and critic, Ralph Rugoff, Director, CCA Wattis
Institute of Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, and Patrick T
Murphy, Director, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, accompanies
the exhibition. It is published in association with Charta, Milan.
CHARTA/IMMA ISBN 88-8158-533-2
Price €36.00
Catherine Lee
This catalogue presents a comprehensive overview of the work of
celebrated American sculptor Catherine Lee. It focuses on the artist's
work since 1985 and explores the point at which her work began to
deploy pure three-dimensional space through the powerful use of
materials, colour and form. The catalogue comprises essays by
Enrique Juncosa, Director, IMMA; Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith,
curator and critic; Lorand Hegyi, Director, Musee d’Art Moderne,
Saint Etienne, France, and Nancy Princenthal, critic and curator.
CHARTA/IMMA ISBN 88-8158-539-1
Price €44.00
The White Stag Group
A significant, fully-illustrated catalogue, written by S B Kennedy,
former Keeper of Art at the Ulster Museum, Belfast, with an essay by
Bruce Arnold, critic and art historian, and a CD on the work of the
composer Brian Boydell, accompanies the exhibition. Published by
the Museum, it serves as an important record of the group’s
activities, as no such publication previously existed. The catalogue is
supported by Mason Hayes & Curran Solicitors.
IMMA ISBN 1-903811-50-3
Price €32.00
Franz Ackermann
Franz Ackermann's work comprises a series of large brightly
coloured paintings and installations which reflect the changing
nature of todays increasingly globalised society. A publication with
essays by Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith, curator and art critic, Daniel
Birnbaum, Director of Portikus, Frankfurt, and Rachael
Thomas, Senior Curator: Head of Exhibitions, IMMA, accompanies
the exhibition.
IMMA ISBN 1-903811-49-X
Price €25.00
Isaac Julien
A fully-illustrated catalogue, with texts by scholars Giuliana Bruno
and Jose Esteban Munoz, Seán Kissane, Curator: Exhibitions, IMMA,
Enrique Juncosa, Director, IMMA, and an interview with Nobel Prize
laureate Derek Walcott by Marie-Hélène Laforest, accompanies the
exhibition.
IMMA ISBN 1-903811-52-X
Price €36.00
The Hours: Visual Arts of Contemporary Latin America
The Hours is the first major exhibition of Latin American art in
Ireland. Drawn from the Daros-Latinamerica Collection, it reflects
the ambitious undertaking made by Daros to form one of the most
important collections of contemporary Latin American art in the
world. Daros-Latinamerica was set up in 2000 by Hans-Michael
Herzog and is already a representative collection with works by some
90 artists from almost every country in Latin America. This fullyillustrated hard-back publication, comprises a foreword by Enrique
Juncosa, Director, IMMA, essays by Sebastian Lopez, curator of this
exhibition and former Director of GATE Foundation, Amsterdam,
and the Curator of the Shanghai Biennale 2004, Hans-Michael
Herzog, Director of the Daros-Latinamerica Collection and Eugenio
Valdés, curator.
Daros-Latinamerica AG ISBN 3-7757-1710-2
Price €36.00
Tony O'Malley
This publication was produced on the occasion of a major
retrospective of the work of the Irish painter Tony O’Malley, one of
the most important and best-loved Irish artists of the past 100 years.
The catalogue covers O’Malley’s early years as an amateur artist
painting the landscape of his native Co Kilkenny, through his years
in St Ives and the Bahamas and his return to Ireland in 1990, to some
of his last works, created shortly before his death in 2003. Essays by
Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith, curator of the exhibition, and Catherine
Marshall, Senior Curator: Head of Collections, IMMA, are included
in the catalogue.
IMMA ISBN 1-903811-53-8
Price €29.00
Siar 50: 50 Years of Irish Art from the Collections of the
Contemporary Irish Art Society
This publication, accompanies the exhibition to celebrate 50 years of
collecting by the Contemporary Irish Art Society. SIAR 50, which
takes its name from the Irish word for back or looking back,
comprises some 100 works by such well known artists as Louis le
Brocquy, Patrick Scott, Camille Souter, Barrie Cooke, Robert Ballagh
and Sean Scully. The works are drawn from the private and corporate
collections of CIAS members and also from works purchased over
the years by the Society for donation to public collections. The
publication comprises a foreword by Enrique Juncosa, Director,
IMMA and essays by Aidan Dunne, art critic, The Irish Times,
Catherine Marshall and Professor Campbell Bruce, accompanies the
exhibition.
IMMA ISBN 1-903811-51-1
Price €20.00
Exhibition Guides published by IMMA accompany the following
exhibitions:
Tír na nÓg: Younger Irish Artists from the IMMA Collection
ISBN 1-903811-42-2
Pierre Huyghe
ISBN 1-903811-45-7
The Hours: Visual Arts of Contemporary Latin America
ISBN 1-903811-55-4
Precaution: Youngfringe at the Irish Museum of Modern Art
ISBN 1-903811-54-6
Prices range from €1.00 to €5.00
Information Brochures
An Education and Community information pack is available free of
charge.
An Information Brochure on the Heritage of the Royal Hospital
Kilmainham is available free of charge.