- Summary
- "Working in the wake of postwar trauma and traversing European and American avant-gardes, the prolific Polish-born painter Maryan (né Pinkas Bursztyn, 1927-1977) forged an iconoclastic type of figurative painting. Spanning four decades of his practice, across painting, drawing, sculpture, and film, this publication documents Maryan's unique approach to art-making through the lens of struggle. My Name is Maryan explores the totality of Maryan's career: how his work was impacted by his firsthand experiences of the Holocaust; his early training in Jerusalem and dialogue with the newly emergent state of Israel; his interactions with peers on both sides of the Atlantic, from CoBrA artists such as Asger Jorn and Pierre Alechinsky to his American circle of artist friends, particularly Leon Golub, June Leaf, and H. C. Westermann; his black-and-white works of the 1950s; and a recreation of his studio at the Chelsea Hotel, where he made his groundbreaking film Ecce Homo (1975) and his late works."-- Back cover.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Maryan, 1927-1977, artist.
- Published
- North Miami, FL : Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami ; [Tel Aviv-Yafo] : Tel Aviv Museum of Art ; Köln : Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, [2023]
©2023
- Contents
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Preface / Chana Budgazad Sheldon
Foreword / Tania Coen-Uzzielli
My name is Maryan : introduction / Alison M. Gingeras
My name is Maryan (1976) / Maryan S. Maryan
Rock and roll after Auschwitz : Maryan at the Chelsea Hotel / Alison M. Gingeras
On Ecce homo / Alison M. Gingeras
Transcript of Ecce homo (1975) / Maryan S. Maryan
Maryan's earliest testimonies of the Holocaust in geohistorical motion : Nowy Sącz, Auschwitz, Jerusalem, Paris / Piotr Slodkowski
The human menagerie : on demonic dogs and other animals / Noa Rosenberg
Catalogue / with commentaries by Alison M. Gingeras
Early work
Shoah and Jewish identity
Maryan in the 1950s
Birth of the personnage
La ménagerie humaine
Maryan in black and white
1960s : immigration to America
About Maryan (1977) / June Leaf
Art history as muse
Napoleon drawings
Maryan's Napoleon drawings : an anti-colonial perspective / Marlene L. Daut
1971-72 notebooks
The quiet ones and screaming ones
Chelsea Hotel studio
Maryan and African art in the Chelsea Hotel : two perspectives / Erica Moiah James and MacKenzie Moon Ryan
1977 notebook
After Goya.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Gingeras, Alison M., editor, writer of added commentary.
Museum of Contemporary Art (North Miami, Fla.), host institution.
Muzeʼon Tel Aviv le-omanut, host institution.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references.
Preface / Chana Budgazad Sheldon -- Foreword / Tania Coen-Uzzielli -- My name is Maryan : introduction / Alison M. Gingeras -- My name is Maryan (1976) / Maryan S. Maryan -- Rock and roll after Auschwitz : Maryan at the Chelsea Hotel / Alison M. Gingeras -- On Ecce homo / Alison M. Gingeras -- Transcript of Ecce homo (1975) / Maryan S. Maryan -- Maryan's earliest testimonies of the Holocaust in geohistorical motion : Nowy Sącz, Auschwitz, Jerusalem, Paris / Piotr Slodkowski -- The human menagerie : on demonic dogs and other animals / Noa Rosenberg -- Catalogue / with commentaries by Alison M. Gingeras -- Early work -- Shoah and Jewish identity -- Maryan in the 1950s -- Birth of the personnage -- La ménagerie humaine -- Maryan in black and white -- 1960s : immigration to America -- About Maryan (1977) / June Leaf -- Art history as muse -- Napoleon drawings -- Maryan's Napoleon drawings : an anti-colonial perspective / Marlene L. Daut -- 1971-72 notebooks -- The quiet ones and screaming ones -- Chelsea Hotel studio -- Maryan and African art in the Chelsea Hotel : two perspectives / Erica Moiah James and MacKenzie Moon Ryan -- 1977 notebook -- After Goya.
