She chose seven paintings from the collection, and analysed them so brilliantly that reading her catalogue text made you see in quite unexpected ways what those painters saw.
(That said, Harvey's catalogue text stands as a monumental, often thrilling feat of detailed scholarship. She is a senior curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, where the show began last year).
The simpler mathematical equa tions included in Mr. Jen sen's catalogue text — and even in one or two quite handsome didactic paintings — are easy enough to fol low.
And yet Smiley's catalogue text focusses narrowly on its cartographic qualities — the fact that it got the relationship between the Connecticut and Merrimack Rivers right — and on its role in a boundary dispute between colonists.
As if understanding this, Ballard wrote in the catalogue text: "What cargo might have berthed at the Spiral Jetty?" He elaborated later to me in a letter: "My guess is that the cargo was a clock, of a very special kind.
The catalogue, wall texts and labels struggle to elaborate upon it, with sometimes tortured and occasionally absurd results.
Their words "intervene" at random throughout the catalogue's texts, arguing the relative merits of art for art's sake and art for the sake of society in ways that often suggest that the two are not so easily separated.
It is from this catalogue, with texts by Veronika Starodubova and Ekaterina Drevina, that Avril Pyman has translated the artists' 1933 autobiographical statements and an interview given to the journal Tvorchestvo by Drevin in the following year.
Catalogue and text by William C. Agee.
The idea is straightforward: customers browse the Argos website or catalogue and text the product numbers to the company.
