Enrique Martnez Celaya: Collected Writings and Interviews, 1990-2010

This collection, spanning two decades of artistic activity, features selections of writings tracing the intellectual influences and development of one of the more formidable and productive minds in the contemporary art world. The writings of Enrique Martinez Celaya comprise public lectures
essays
interviews
correspondence with artists, critics, and scholars
artist statements
blog posts
and journal entries. This selection of writings includes the six public lectures Martinez Celaya delivered during his three-year appointment as the second Visiting Presidential Professor at the University of Nebraska. Marked by an encyclopedic curiosity and considerable knowledge about the world, these lectures explore the nature of photography and painting, the role of the artist as prophet, the relationship of art to the university and the museum, as well as reflections on his own work. Enrique Martinez Celaya: Collected Writings and Interviews, 1990-2010 features seventy-nine photographs from Martinez Celaya's collection
an introduction by Klaus Ottmann, who teaches art history at the School of Visual Arts in New York and is the Robert Lehman Curator for The Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, New York
and a foreword by James B. Milliken, president of the University of Nebraska.