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Order. Desire. Light. Contemporary Drawing
William McKeown
In Praise of Shadows Publications 2008
Cecil King: A Legacy of Painting
Jack Pierson: Angel Youth
Cut-Outs and Cut-Ups: Hans Christian Andersen and William Seward Burroughs
Ulla von Brandenburg: whose is beginning is not, nor end cannot be
Janaina Tschäpe: Chimera Publications 2007
Thomas Demand: L’Esprit D’Escalier
Alex Katz: New York
Georgia O’Keeffe: Nature and Abstraction
Shahzia Sikander
Lucian Freud
Anne Madden
Nalini Malani
Patrick Hall: Drawings
Thomas Scheibitz: About 90 Elements / Tod Im Dschungel
Miroslaw Balka: Tristes Tropiques
James McKenna Publications 2006
João Penalva
.all hawaii eNtrées / luNar reGGae Previous Publications
Isaac Julien
Leon Golub: Echoes of the Real The list of Publications can be viewed here
Publications: The CollectionIrish 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
Published: IMMA. ISBN 1-903811-48-1
Price: €25.00
Publications 2008
McDermott & McGough – An Experience of Amusing Chemistry: Photographs 1990 – 1890
This is a substantial hardback fully-illustrated catalogue, with a foreword by Enrique Juncosa, Director, IMMA, and texts by Matthew Higgs, Director, White Columns, New York, and Seán Kissane, Curator, IMMA. The catalogue is supported by Marie Donnelly.
Publishers: IMMA and CHARTA. ISBN 978-88-8158-672-1
Price €58.00 Cecil King: A Legacy of Painting
A significant monograph published by IMMA, which includes texts by Seán Kissane, Curator, IMMA; writer and critic Medb Ruane and artist Richard de Marco, and a chronology by Oliver Dowling. A selection of poems by major Irish writers, such as Seamus Heaney and Michéal Ó Siadhail, with whom King collaborated are also included.
Publishers: IMMA. ISBN 1-903811-08-5
Price €39.00 Jack Pierson
A fully-illustrated catalogue with texts by Richard D Marshall, curator of the exhibition and former curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Rachael Thomas, Senior Curator: Head of Exhibitions, IMMA, and writer Wayne Koestenbaum.
Publishers: IMMA and CHARTA. ISBN 8881586770
Price €34.00 Cut-Outs and Cut-Ups: Hans Christian Andersen and William Seward Burroughs
Contributors include notable Andersen and Burroughs scholars Jens Andersen, Francine Prose, Raymond Foye and José Ferez Kuri. The catalogue also includes texts by Hans Christian Andersen and William Seward Burroughs, an essay by the curator of the exhibition Hendel Teicher, independent curator and art historian, and a foreword by Enrique Juncosa, Director, IMMA.
Publishers: IMMA. ISBN 978-1-903811-81-8
Price €45.00 10,000 to 50: Contemporary Art from the Members of Business2Arts
A publication, with texts by Christina Kennedy, Senior Curator: Head of Collections, IMMA, and art critic Gemma Tipton, reflects on the nature of corporate support of the visual arts and the ways by which companies acquire and commission artworks, and includes a documentation of artist Ronan McCrea’s new artwork.
Publishers: IMMA. ISBN 978-1-903811-83-2
Price €30.00
Ulla von Brandenburg: whose beginning is not, nor end cannot be
An illustrated catalogue with an interview with the artist by Rachael Thomas, Senior Curator: Head of Exhibitions, IMMA, texts by curator and critic Beatrix Ruf and writer Declan Long, and a foreword by Enrique Juncosa, Director, IMMA.
Publishers: IMMA and CHARTA. ISBN 978-88-8158-693-6
Price €39.00 Miquel Barceló: The African Work
A fully-illustrated catalogue with texts by Irish novelist Colm Tóibín and the Spanish poet and novelist José Carlos Llop. Also included is a chronology of Barceló’s time in Africa compiled by Amelie Aranguren, former assistant of the artist, and an interview between Enrique Juncosa, Director, IMMA, and Barceló. The catalogue has been produced with the assistance of Marie Donnelly.
Publishers: IMMA/Turner. ISBN 978-1-903811-87-0
Price €30.00 Janaina Tschäpe: Chimera
A fully-illustrated catalogue with texts by Rachael Thomas, Brazilian artist Vik Muniz, curator Angela Kingston and writer/curator Germano Celant. A discussion between the artist and curator is also included.
Publishers: IMMA. ISBN 978-1-903811-89-4
Price €39.00 Order. Desire. Light. Contemporary Drawing
A fully-illustrated catalogue produced to accompany the exhibition Order. Desire. Light. An exhibition of contemporary drawing with texts by Paolo Colombo, former Curator at the MAXXI-Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome; Catherine Lampert, former Director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, and Enrique Juncosa, Director, IMMA.
Publishers: IMMA. ISBN 978-1-903811-90-0
Price €30.00 In Praise of Shadows
In Praise of Shadows is a fully-illustrated catalogue designed and produced by CHARTA, with texts by the following authors: Metin And, Evamarie Blattner, Paolo Colombo, Lewis Hyde, Enrique Juncosa, William Kentridge, Carolina Lopez, Francois Martin and Lotte Reiniger.
Publishers: IMMA and CHARTA. ISBN 978-88-8158-714-8
Price €42.00
William McKeown
A fully-illustrated colour catalogue designed and produced by CHARTA in close collaboration with William McKeown and IMMA curators. Includes essays by Enrique Juncosa, Director, IMMA, Declan Long, art historian at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, and London-based art historian and critic Corinna Lotz.
Publishers: IMMA and CHARTA. ISBN 978-88-8158-715-5
Price €29.00
Exhibition Guides
Free Exhibition Guides published by IMMA accompany the following exhibitions:
Carlos Amorales: Dark Mirror Three: Callum Innes, Maria Simonds-Gooding, Charles Brady The Burial of Patrick Ireland (1972 – 2008) Self as Selves Exquisite Corpse ISBN 978-1-903811-94-8
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.
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