Mood River

by Geldin, Sherri; Kwinter, Sanford; Lavin, Sylvia; Pearlman, Chee; Oubrerie, Jose; Johnson, Philip

• ISBN13: 9781881390305
• ISBN10: 1881390306
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-01
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

From an i-MAC computer to a Karim Rashid trashcan to a Philippe Starck stool to an Issey Miyake coat to a Frank Gehry building, design shapes our sense of being in today's world. Mood Riverexamines the cornucopia of objects that form the complex visual fabric of our lives, titillate our senses, modulate our moods, and pique our desires. By scanning contemporary art and design, and loosely organizing thousands of sundry objects into four categories of moods--Bliss, Ecstasy, Rage, and Trauma--Mood Riveraims to arouse a deep respect for the complex economic, technical, and aesthetic processes that join the diverse elements of our material life into that most elusive of unities: a world.

Table of Contents

Foreword	11	(2)
Philip Johnson
Director's Preface	13	(4)
Sherri Geldin
Sponsor's Message	17	(1)
Carl F. Kohrt
Call Forward	18	(4)
Annetta Massie
Bliss	22	(10)
Hydraulic Vision	32	(2)
Sanford Kwinter
On Those who Step into the Same River...	34	(12)
Jeffrey Kipnis
Designing Desire	46	(4)
Chee Pearlman
Ecstasy	50	(24)
Plasticity at Work	74	(8)
Sylvia Lavin
Furniture	82	(6)
Trauma	88	(8)
Hussein Chalayan	96	(3)
Making The Visible...Visible...	99	(1)
Jose Oubrerie
Rage	100	(30)
Acknowledgements	130	(4)
Jeffrey Kipnis
Annetta Massie
Lenders to the Exhibition	134