Known for film making, assemblage, drawing, painting, collage, photographs, and conceptual events, Bruce Conner has been a hard working artist who has spent much of his life searching for artistic... Read full biography
Known for film making, assemblage, drawing, painting, collage, photographs, and conceptual events, Bruce Conner has been a hard working artist who has spent much of his life searching for artistic truth. He is best known for his assemblage, but turned to other mediums after 1964 because he did not... Read full biography
Known for film making, assemblage, drawing, painting, collage, photographs, and conceptual events, Bruce Conner has been a hard working artist who has spent much of his life searching for artistic truth. He is best known for his assemblage, but turned to other mediums after 1964 because he did not want to be only associated with one style. He has achieved much fame but shows little interest in its trappings. In fact, he has refused to be photographed and often does not sign his work. As a... Read full biography
Known for film making, assemblage, drawing, painting, collage, photographs, and conceptual events, Bruce Conner has been a hard working artist who has spent much of his life searching for artistic truth. He is best known for his assemblage, but turned to other mediums after 1964 because he did not want to be only associated with one style. He has achieved much fame but shows little interest in its trappings. In fact, he has refused to be photographed and often does not sign his work. As a prank, he sent a notice of his death to "Who's Who in American Art," and exhibited a series of his collages under the name of his friend, Dennis Hopper. However, a Walker Art Gallery retrospective in 2000 has given him much public exposure. In the early... Read full biography
Known for film making, assemblage, drawing, painting, collage, photographs, and conceptual events, Bruce Conner has been a hard working artist who has spent much of his life searching for artistic truth. He is best known for his assemblage, but turned to other mediums after 1964 because he did not want to be only associated with one style. He has achieved much fame but shows little interest in its trappings. In fact, he has refused to be photographed and often does not sign his work. As a prank, he sent a notice of his death to "Who's Who in American Art," and exhibited a series of his collages under the name of his friend, Dennis Hopper. However, a Walker Art Gallery retrospective in 2000 has given him much public exposure. In the early 1960s, he became a key figure among artists in San Francisco, a city where he and his wife, Jean, arrived in 1957 from his childhood home... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (53)
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 360 Views on the Collection (Exhibition catalog)
2016
Block, Judy and Suzanne Stein, Editors
360 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Sculpture From the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
2005
Janovy, Karen O. (Editor); David Cateforis (Intro)
246 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
Ed Ruscha (Exhibition catalog)
2000
Benezra, Neal; Kerry Brougher
192 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 195 Works of Art
1996
Demetrion, James T (Introduction)
166 pages (color)
Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being
1995
Fineberg, Jonathan
496 pages (color)
Sculpture An Illustrated Catalogue (Exhibition catalog)
1994
National Gallery of Art
283 pages
Masters of American Sculpture: The Figurative Tradition From the American Renaissance to the Millenium
1994
Reynolds, Donald Martin
275 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
75 Works, 75 Years Collecting the Art of California (Exhibition catalog)
1993
Laguna Art Museum
139 pages (color)
Art in the Age of Aquarius, 1955-1970
1992
Seitz, William C
250 pages (color)
Secret Exhibition Six California Artists of the Cold War Era (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Solnit, Rebecca
145 pages
First Impressions Early Prints by Forty-six Contemporary Artists (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Armstrong, Elizabeth
149 pages (color)
Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition)
1989
Naylor, Colin (editor)
1,059 pages
The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
1988
Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy
376 pages (color)
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
Varieties of Visual Experience (3rd edition)
1987
Feldman, Edmund Burke
528 pages (color)
Made In U S A An Americanization in Modern Art '50s & 60s (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Stich, Sidra
280 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Rose Art Museum Selected 20th Century Paintings
1986
Rose Art Museum
147 pages (color)
Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980/An Illustrated History
1985
Albright, Thomas
349 pages (color)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection
1985
DuPont, Diana, K Holland
402 pages (color)
American Artists: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporary Americans
1985
Krantz, Les
347 pages (color)
Movements in Art since 1945 New Revised Edition
1984
Lucie-Smith, Edward
288 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Sculptors: 18th Century to Present
1984
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
656 pages
The Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum
1984
Orr-Cahill, Christina
199 pages (color)
California Museums The Los Angeles Times Book of
1984
Wilson, William
288 pages (color)
The First Show (1940-1980) Painting and Sculpture from Eight Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Museum of Contemporary Art
293 pages (color)
American Art Since 1945
1982
Ashton, Dore
224 pages (color)
The Americans/The Collage (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Contemporary Arts Museum
143 pages (color)
The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Art
1981
Osborne, Harold
656 pages (color)
The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art
1981
Rugoff, Milton
669 pages (color)
American Drawing A Guide to Information Sources
1979
Doumato, Lamia
246 pages
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 1 (Sculpture, the West etc)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
730 pages
Perceptions of the Spirit in Twentieth-Century American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1977
Dillenberger, Jane & John
175 pages (color)
American Drawings The 20th Century
1976
Cummings, Paul
207 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976
Jaques Cattell Press
756 pages
Painting & Sculpture in California The Modern Era
1976
San Francisco Mus Modern Art
272 pages (color)
Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection
1975
Editor, Smithsonian
0 pages
Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection
1974
Baur, John I H
235 pages (color)
Poets of the Cities New York and San Francisco 1950-1965 (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Dallas Museum of Fine Art
174 pages
Sunshine Muse Contemporary Art on the West Coast
1974
Plagens, Peter
200 pages (color)
West Coast 1945-1969 (Exhibition catalog)
1969
Coplans, John
60 pages
Human Concern/Personal Torment The Grotesque in American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1969
Doty, Robert
72 pages (color)
Kompas 4 Westkust USA/West Coast USA (Exhibition catalog)
1969
Eindhoven, Abbemuseum
50 pages (color)
A Memorial Exhibition The Nathanial Saltonstall Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1969
Phillips, Michael/Andrew Hyde
60 pages (color)
Modern American Sculpture
1967
Ashton, Dore
130 pages (color)
Collage: Personalities, Concepts, Techniques
1967
Janis, Harriet/Rudi Blesh
342 pages
Nebraska Art Today A Centenial Invitational Exhibition (Exhibition catalog)