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Inside the Studio: Two Decades of Talks with Artists in New York

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BESTSELLER Edited with an introduction by Judith Olch Richards. Inside the Studio shares for the first time the invaluable archive of recordings made during ICI’s studio visits with artists including Janine Antoni, Mel Bochner, Louise Bourgeois, Leon Golub, Robert Mapplethorpe, Vik Muniz, Laurie Simmons, Richard Tuttle, Fred Wilson, and Andrea Zittel. It provides an exceptional record of these artists’ thoughts on their working processes, conceptual issues, the art world, and artists whose work they personally admire.
Richards, Judith Olch, Inside the Studio: Two Decades of Talks with Artists in New York, Independent Curators International (ICI), New York, 2004. 296 pages, 104 color and 37 black-and-white illustrations, 6.5 x 9.5 in., softcover. ISBN: 0-916365-70-0. $29.95
Introduction by Judith Olch Richards; contributions by Richard Tuttle, Janine Antoni, David Levinthal, Louise Bourgeois, Leon Golub, Mel Bochner et al.