WRITINGS BY EMC


BOOKS

The Nebraska Lectures: 2007 – 2010. (Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press), 2010. Foreword by James B. Milliken, Text by Enrique Martínez Celaya. Edition of 500, 68 pages, Hardcover.

Collected Writings & Interviews: 1990 – 2010. (Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press), 2010. Introduction by Klaus Ottmann, Foreword by James B. Milliken, Text by Enrique Martínez Celaya. 272 pages, Paperback.

The Blog: Bad Time for Poetry. (Delray Beach, Florida: Whale & Star Press), 2009. Text by Enrique Martínez Celaya. 159 pages, Softcover.

The Return of the Storks. (Berlin, Germany: Akira Ikeda Gallery), 2008. Text in English and German by Lorie Karnath and illustrated by Enrique Martínez Celaya. 32 pages, 12 illustrations, Hardcover.

Guide. (Los Angeles, California: Whale & Star Press in collaboration with Griffin Editions and Mark Hasencamp), 2002. Text and photographs by Enrique Martínez Celaya. Volume I, the text, 140 pages. Volume II, a suite of 10 original black and white photographs. Edition of 60, Hardcover volumes and slipcase.

October. (Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Cinubia), 2001. Poetry and photographs by Enrique Martínez Celaya. 64 pages, 34 illustrations, Softcover.

Berlin. (Los Angeles, California: Stephen Cohen Gallery), 1999. Text by Stephen Cohen and Enrique Martínez Celaya. Poems by Enrique Martínez Celaya. 84 pages, 26 illustrations, Hardcover.

ESSAYS AND STATEMENTS

“Thank You for the Not-Art.” Beyond Kandinsky Symposium, sponsored by the School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York, New York, February 2011.

“Art and Museums.” Journal of Aesthetic Education, 41/2, Summer 2007: 17-21.

“Boy Raising His Arm.” Excerpt from a statement to curator Klaus Ottmann for the work, Boy Raising His Arm, for OPEN e v+a –a sense of place, March 30-June 24 in Limerick, Ireland, 2007.

“A Personal Note on Art and Compassion.” works + conversations, No. 14 (May 2007), 10 April 2007: 24-25.

“Introductions to Projects.” Martínez Celaya. Early Work (Delray Beach, Florida: Whale & Star Press), 2006.

“Shaping Language.” How I Learned English, ed. Tom Miller (Washington D.C.: National Geographic Society, 2007) August 2006: 111-114; “Conformar un lenguaje,” Como Aprendí Inglés, ed. Tom Miller (Washington D.C.: National Geographic Society, 2007) August 2006: 111-114.

“Schneebett.” Translated into German and published in a booklet for the presentation of Schneebett (2004), at the Berliner Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany, October 17, 2004-January 1, 2005, September 2004.

“Twelve Thoughts on the October Cycle.” Enrique Martínez Celaya: The October Cycle, 2000-2002. (Seattle, Washington: Marquand Books in association with Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, University of Nebraska in Lincoln, 2003), 2003: 81-83.

“Preface.” Selections from Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal, with the original etchings by Odilon Redon. (Venice, California: Whale & Star Press, 2001), 7 December 2000: 1-2.

“Notes to Anne Trueblood Brodzky.” Unbroken Poetry: The Work of Enrique Martínez Celaya. (Venice, California: Whale & Star Press, 1999), 1999: 21; 25; 32; 41.

Greenstein, M.A. “Why Hegel.” Enrique Martínez Celaya: Berlin, The Fragility of Nearness. (Venice, California: William Griffin Editions), 1998: 73-80.

“A Manifesto.” Black Paintings: Poems and Visual Works. (Santa Barbara, California: University Art Museum), May 1994.

SELECTED LECTURES

University of California Santa Barbara, “On Worth.” Sponsored by the UCSB Department of Art, 19 April 2011, Santa Barbara, California. A later version was presented at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Aspen, Colorado as part of the Featured Artists Lecture Series, 23 June 2011.

Phillip and Patricia Frost Art Museum. Lecture presented as part of Art Basel’s Official Annual Event, “Breakfast in the Park”, 5 December 2010, Miami, Florida.

School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Lecture cosponsored by the Department of Art History and the Department of Painting and Drawing, 29 October 2010, Chicago, Illinois. An earlier version was presented at the Museum of Biblical Art in New York in conjunction with the exhibition The Wanderer: Foreign Landscapes of Enrique Martínez Celaya, 4 November 2010.

Sheldon Museum of Art, “On Painting.” Lecture given in conjunction with Martínez Celaya’s appointment as Visiting Presidential Professor at the University of Nebraska, 21 April 2009, Lincoln, Nebraska. Published in Collected Writings and Interviews, 1990-2010: Enrique Martínez Celaya (Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press), 2010: 240-247.

Joslyn Art Museum, “The Prophet.” Lecture given in conjunction with
Martínez Celaya’s appointment as Visiting Presidential Professor at the University of Nebraska, 2 October 2009, Omaha, Nebraska. Published in Collected Writings and Interviews, 1990-2010: Enrique Martínez Celaya (Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press), 2010: 231-239.

University of Nebraska-Omaha, “Art & the University.” Lecture given in conjunction with Martínez Celaya’s appointment as Visiting Presidential Professor at the University of Nebraska, 7 April 2009, Omaha, Nebraska.

Kaneko, “Systems, Time and Daybreak.” Lecture given in conjunction with Martínez Celaya’s appointment as Visiting Presidential Professor at the University of Nebraska, 7 October 2008, Omaha, Nebraska.

Sheldon Museum of Art, “Art and Museums.” Lecture given in conjunction with Martínez Celaya’s appointment as Visiting Presidential Professor at the University of Nebraska, 15 April 2008, Lincoln, Nebraska. Originally published as “The Parting of the Exemplary Museum,” works + conversations, 15 November, 2007: 34-35, 45; and as “Now What?” Journal of Aesthetic Education, Vol. 41 No. 2, Summer 2007: 17-21.

Sheldon Museum of Art, “Photography as Grief.” Lecture given in conjunction with Martínez Celaya’s appointment as Visiting Presidential Professor at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska. An earlier version was presented at the Miami Art Museum, 8 December 2006, Miami, Florida. Published as “Photography as Grief (Fragments)” artUS, 24/25 (Fall/Winter 2008): 68-71. Also published in Collected Writings and Interviews, 1990-2010: Enrique Martínez Celaya (Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press), 2010: 141-146.

UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, “Art and Compassion.” Lecture presented in conjunction with the traveling exhibition The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama, 2006. Published as “A Personal Note on Art and Compassion,” works + conversations, No. 14 (May 2007), 10 April 2007: 24-25.

Education Summit, Hope Center, “Idea Generation: Currency for the Knowledge Economy The Fuzzy Boundary: Science and Art.” 14 November 2005, Richmond, Virginia.

American Academy in Berlin, Berliner Philharmonie. Lecture co-sponsored by the Stiftung Berliner Philharmoniker, the Forum Zukunft Berlin, and the American Academy in Berlin, 19 October 2004, Berlin, Germany.

Aspen Institute, “Poetry and Process.” Lecture presented in conjunction with the exhibition Poetry in Process at the CU Art Museum, Boulder, Colorado, 2004, Aspen, Colorado.

New York University, “New Work.” 2002, New York, New York.

University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, Artist Lecture. Lecture given in conjunction with Martínez Celaya’s appointment Distinguished Visiting Artist, September 2001, Honolulu, Hawai’i.

Orange County Museum of Art, 4 December 2001, Newport Beach, California. An earlier version was presented at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, 4 September 2001. Both lectures were given on the occasion of the travelling exhibition, Enrique Martínez Celaya: 1992-2000.