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List of published works of Peter Schjeldahl, American poet and art critic.

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Books

• Schjeldahl, Peter (1968). White country. New York: Corinth Books.
• — (1971). An adventure of the thought police. London: Ferry Press.
• — (1973). Dreams. New York: Angel Hair Books.
• — (1978). Since 1964 : new and selected poems. New York: Sun.
• — (1981). The brute : new poems. Los Angeles: Little Caesar Press.
• — (1990). The 7 Days art columns, 1988–1990. New York: Figures Press.
• — (1991). Wilson, MaLin (ed.). The hydrogen jukebox : selected writings of Peter Schjeldahl, 1978–1990. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Thompson, Jon; Pier Luigi Tazzi & Peter Schjeldahl (1995). Richard Deacon. London: Phaidon.
• Schjeldahl, Peter & Marcia Tucker (1998). Liza Lou : essays. Santa Monica: Smart Art Press in association with the Santa Monica Museum of Art.
• Schjeldahl, Peter (2008). Let's see : writings on art from The New Yorker. New York: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-23845-5.
• — (4 June 2019). Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 100 Art Writings 1988–2018. Abrams Press. ISBN 978-1-4197-3438-0.

Exhibition catalogs

• Larson, Philip; Schjeldahl, Peter (1974). De Kooning : drawings, sculptures : an exhibition organized by Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, March 10-April 21, 1974. New York: Dutton. ISBN 0-525-47376-9.
• Schjeldahl, Peter (1980). Jean Dubuffet : recent paintings, October 31-29 November 1980, the Pace Gallery. New York: Pace Gallery.
• Samaras, Lucas (1981). Chambers, Marlene (ed.). Samaras pastels : Denver Art Museum, October 3-December 27, 1981. Organized by Dianne Perry Vanderlip; essay by Peter Schjeldahl. Denver: Denver Art Museum. ISBN 0-914738-22-4.
• Bernal, Louis Carlos; et al. (1984). 10 photographers, Olympic images. Essay by Peter Schjeldahl. Los Angeles: Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies. ISBN 0-914357-06-9. Exhibition held November 18, 1984 to January 6, 1985.
• Schjeldahl, Peter; Phillips, Lisa (1987). Cindy Sherman. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art. Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, July 9 to October 4, 1987.
• Edward Hopper : light years, October 1 to November 12, 1988. Essay by Peter Schjeldahl. New York: Hirschl & Adler Galleries. 1988. ISBN 0-915057-23-9.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
• McAllister, Gerry (1989). Richard Bosman, gifts of the sea : Mandeville Gallery, University of California, San Diego, May 19 through June 25, 1989. Essay by Peter Schjeldahl. San Diego: The Gallery. LCCN 89061187.
• Sobel, Dean (1991). Jackie Winsor. With essays by Peter Schjeldahl and John Yau. Milwaukee: Milwaukee Art Museum. Exhibition of the work of Jackie Winsor at the Milwaukee Art Museum, November 22, 1991 to January 19, 1992.
• Schjeldahl, Peter (1993). De Kooning and Dubuffet : the late works. New York: Pace Gallery.
• William Wegman. Essay by Peter Schjeldahl. Museo de Monterrey. 1993. LCCN 94237992.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) Exhibition held at the Museo de Monterrey, October 14, 1993 – January 2, 1994.
• Demetrion, James T. (1993). Jean Dubuffet 1943–1963 : paintings, sculptures, assemblages : an exhibition. Essays by Susan J. Cooke, Jean Planque, and Peter Schjeldahl. Washington, D.C.: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in association with the Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN 1-56098-298-5.
• Jenssen, Olav Christopher (1995). Olav Christopher Jenssen : Bilder 1990–1994. Text by Carsten Ahrens, Doris von Drathen and Peter Schjeldahl. Hannover: Kestner-Gesellschaft. LCCN 95112208. Exhibition held at the Kestner-Gesellschaft Hannover, Nov. 26, 1994-Jan. 22, 1995
• Prelinger, Elizabeth; Parke-Taylor, Michael (1996). The symbolist prints of Edvard Munch : the Vivian and David Campbell collection. Essay by Peter Schjeldahl. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-06952-9. Exhibition at Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 28 February-25 May 1997.
• Picasso's Dora Maar; de Kooning's women. Essay by Peter Schjeldahl. New York: C & M Arts. 1998.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) Catalog of an exhibition held at C & M Arts, New York, April 2-May 28, 1998.
• The inward eye : transcendence in contemporary art. Essays by Lynn M. Herbert, Klaus Ottmann, Peter Schjeldahl. Houston: Contemporary Arts Museum. 2001. ISBN 0-936080-71-X.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) Catalog of an exhibition held at Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Dec. 8, 2001-Feb. 17, 2002.

Essays, reporting and other contributions

• Schjeldahl, Peter (1987). "Interview with David Salle". In Salle, David (ed.). Salle. New York: Vintage.
• Whitney, David, ed. (1988). Eric Fischl. Essay by Peter Schjeldahl. New York: Art in America/Stewart, Tabori & Chang.
• Schjeldahl, Peter (1998). "Splendor in the grass : Liza Lou and the cultivation of beauty". In Schjeldahl, Peter and Marcia Tucker (ed.). Liza Lou. Santa Monica: Smart Art Press in association with the Santa Monica Museum of Art. ISBN 1-889195-12-X.
• — (November 9, 1998). "Fairies welcome : the Victorians' use of enchantment". The Critics. The Art World. The New Yorker: 90–91, 93.
• Pagliaro, John, ed. (2003). Shards : Garth Clark on ceramic art. Foreword by Peter Schjeldahl. New York: Distributed Art Publications.
• Schjeldahl, Peter (November 3, 2008). "Just for fun". The Critics. The Art World. The New Yorker. 38 (35): 114–115.
• — (November 24, 2008). "Come on down". The Critics. The Art World. The New Yorker. 84 (38): 128–129. Retrieved 16 April 2009.
• — (March 15, 2010). "Big time". The Critics. The Art World. The New Yorker. 86 (4): 71–75. Retrieved 16 January 2011.
• — (April 5, 2010). "Revision quest". Goings on About Town. Critic's Notebook. The New Yorker. 86 (8): 16.
• — (April 19, 2010). "Picture perfect : an Henri Cartier-Bresson retrospective". The Critics. The Art World. The New Yorker. 86 (9): 122–123.
• — (May 24, 2010). "One man's feat". Goings on About Town. Critic's Notebook. The New Yorker. 86 (14): 9.
• — (November 8, 2010). "Abstract exemplar". Goings on About Town. Critic's Notebook. The New Yorker. 86 (35): 14. Retrieved 2016-12-13.
• — (March 14, 2011). "Shapes of things". The Critics. The Art World. The New Yorker. 87 (4): 76–77. Retrieved 12 May 2014.
• — (November 7, 2011). "By Georges". Goings on About Town. Critic's Notebook. The New Yorker. 87 (35): 12. Georges Braque at the Acquavella Galleries.
• — (November 7, 2011). "Old and new : the reopening of the Islamic wing at the Met". The Critics. The Art World. The New Yorker. 87 (35): 88–89. Retrieved 2014-12-19.
• — (January 2, 2012). "The reign in Spain". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 87 (42): 74–77. Reviews Bailey, Anthony. Velázquez and The Surrender of Breda : the making of a masterpiece.
• — (November 26, 2012). "Time warp". The Critics. The Art World. The New Yorker. 88 (37): 82–83. 'Richard Artschwager!', a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
• — (December 3, 2012). "Life lines : the art of Saul Steinberg". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 88 (38): 104–108. Retrieved 2014-12-31.
• — (January 7, 2013). "Shapes of things". The Critics. The Art World. The New Yorker. 88 (42): 68–70. Retrieved 2014-10-24.
• — (February 11–18, 2013). "Dream acts". The Critics. The Art World. The New Yorker. 89 (1): 112–113. Surrealism exhibition at the Morgan Library.
• — (March 4, 2013). "Heaven on Earth : Piero della Francesca at the Frick". The Critics. The Art World. The New Yorker. 89 (3): 66–68. Retrieved 2015-05-08.
• — (March 18, 2013). "Clothes call". Goings on About Town. Critic's Notebook. The New Yorker. 89 (5): 8. Retrieved 2016-03-31.
• — (March 18, 2013). "Flower power : a Jay DeFeo retrospective". The Critics. The Art World. The New Yorker. 89 (5): 82–83. Retrieved 2016-04-20.
• — (April 22, 2013). "Song lines". Goings on About Town. Critic's Notebook. The New Yorker. 89 (10): 12. Retrieved 2016-04-21. Elizabeth Peyton.
• — (April 22, 2013). "New Amsterdam : the city remakes its signature museums". The Critics. The Art World. The New Yorker. 89 (10): 109–111. Retrieved 2016-04-22.
• — (May 6, 2013). "Poetic license". Goings on About Town. Critic's Notebook. The New Yorker. 89 (12): 10. Retrieved 2016-08-14. Retrospective of Jane Freilicher at the Tibor de Nagy gallery.
• — (June 3, 2013). "The seething hell : portraying the Civil War". The Critics. The Art World. The New Yorker. 89 (16): 70–71. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
• — (July 8–15, 2013). "Between the lines". Goings on About Town. Critic's Notebook. The New Yorker. 89 (20): 16. Retrieved 2016-12-13.
• — (August 5, 2013). "Earth angel". Goings on About Town. Critic's Notebook. The New Yorker. 89 (23): 8. Retrieved 2016-12-19. Kenneth Price retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• — (October 21, 2013). "Play time : the Carnegie International". The Critics. The Art World. The New Yorker. 89 (33): 106–107. Retrieved 2017-06-12.
• — (November 4, 2013). "Writing on the wall : a Christopher Wool retrospective". The Critics. The Art World. The New Yorker. 89 (35): 108–109. Retrieved 2017-10-20.
• — (December 2, 2013). "Views from the edge : an Isa Genzken retrospective". The Critics. The Art World. The New Yorker. 89 (39): 80–81. Retrieved 2017-07-09.
• — (February 3, 2014). "The outlaw : the extraordinary life of William S. Burroughs". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 89 (47): 70–74. Retrieved 2018-01-03.
• — (March 3, 2014). "Party lines : Futurism and Italian Fascism". The Critics. The Art World. The New Yorker. 90 (2): 80–81. Retrieved 2018-04-02.
• — (March 17, 2014). "Get with it : the Whitney Biennial". The Critics. The Art World. The New Yorker. 90 (4): 76–77. Retrieved 2018-05-10.
• — (March 24, 2014). "The Anti-Modernists : why the Third Reich targeted artists". The Critics. The Art World. The New Yorker. 90 (5): 96–97. Retrieved 2015-02-27.
• — (May 12, 2014). "Mutual-admiration society : revisiting the eighties exchange between Germany and New York". Goings on About Town. Art. The New Yorker. 90 (12): 12. Retrieved 2018-11-28.
• — (August 4, 2014). "Sharp focus : Christopher Williams's sophisticated pictures". The Critics. The Art World. The New Yorker. 90 (22): 72–73. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
• — (October 20, 2014). "Local heroes : the Brooklyn Museum surveys recent art from the borough". Goings on About Town. Art. The New Yorker. 90 (32): 10. Retrieved 2014-12-22.
• — (October 20, 2014). "Shapes of things : the radicalism of Matisse's cutouts". The Critics. The Art World. The New Yorker. 90 (32): 102–103. Retrieved 2014-12-24.
• — (December 22–29, 2014). "The shape we're in : the timely sculpture of Rachel Harrison". The Critics. The Art World. The New Yorker. 90 (41): 68–75. Retrieved 2015-03-23.
• — (February 9, 2015). "Change artist : the works of Piero di Cosimo". The Critics. The Art World. The New Yorker. 90 (47): 70–71. Retrieved 2019-09-21.
• — (February 16, 2015). "A painting a day : On Karawa's extraordinary project". The Critics. The Art World. The New Yorker. 91 (1): 74–75. Retrieved 2015-06-09.
• — (March 16, 2015). "Moving pictures : Plains Indian art at the Metropolitan Museum". The Critics. The Art World. The New Yorker. 91 (4): 86–87. Retrieved 2019-10-02.
• — (April 20, 2015). "Telling the whole story : Jacob Lawrence's 'The Migration Series'". The Critics. The Art World. The New Yorker. 91 (9): 80–82. Retrieved 2020-05-07.
• — (May 25, 2015). "Native soil : what Frida Kahlo cultivated". The Critics. The Art World. The New Yorker. 91 (14): 78–79. Retrieved 2020-05-22.
• — (August 3, 2015). "Go figure : a Chelsea gallery surveys the weird in the wilds beyond New York". Goings on About Town. Art. The New Yorker. 91 (22): 8. Retrieved 2016-03-19.
• — (August 3, 2015). "Shapes and colors : Stanley Whitney at the Studio Museum in Harlem". The Critics. The Art World. The New Yorker. 91 (22): 66–68. Retrieved 2016-03-23.
• — (February 29, 2016). "Light heavyweights : a Swiss duo brings their carefree approach to the Guggenheim". Goings on About Town. Art. The New Yorker. 92 (3): 10. Retrieved 2016-09-16.
• — (February 29, 2016). "We all scream : the unsung importance of Edvard Munch". The Critics. The Art World. The New Yorker. 92 (3): 74–75. Retrieved 2016-10-14.
• — (March 21, 2016). "Laughter and anger : a David Hammons retrospective". The Critics. The Art World. The New Yorker. 92 (6): 86–88. Retrieved 2016-10-25.
• — (June 20, 2016). "This is America : a Stuart Davis retrospective". The Critics. The Art World. The New Yorker. 92 (18): 82–83. Retrieved 2017-05-26.
• — (November 7, 2016). "The better life : a Kerry James Marshall retrospective". The Critics. The Art World. The New Yorker. 92 (36): 78–79. Retrieved 2017-04-22.
• — (December 19–26, 2016). "Of late : the Pace gallery zeroes in on the dark final years of an Abstract Expressionist". Goings on About Town. Art. The New Yorker. 92 (42): 27.
• — (January 30, 2017). "A woman's view : a Marisa Merz retrospective". The Critics. The Art World. The New Yorker. 92 (47): 72–73.
• — (February 27, 2017). "New lives : shows of work by Alexei Jawlensly and Vija Celmins". The Critics. The Art World. The New Yorker. 93 (2): 72–73.
• — (April 24, 2017). "The XX factor : women and abstract art". The Critics. The Art World. The New Yorker. 93 (10): 100–101.
• — (May 8, 2017). "Looking and seeing : a Louise Lawler retrospective". The Critics. The Art World. The New Yorker. 93 (12): 72–73.
• — (October 30, 2017). "Think big : Laura Owens explores what painting can do". Onward and Upward with the Arts. The New Yorker. 93 (34): 28–33.
• — (February 12–19, 2018). "Brotherhood : Francisco de Zurbarán's 'Jacob and His Twelve Sons'". The Critics. The Art World. The New Yorker. 94 (1): 102–103. Retrieved 2018-06-20.
• — (April 2, 2018). "Living color : the bodies on display in the Met Breuer's sculpture show". The Critics. The Art World. The New Yorker. 94 (7): 92–93. Retrieved 2018-07-11.
• — (January 7, 2019). "Abstract inflation : the canon in question at the Met". The Critics. The Art World. The New Yorker. 94 (43): 70–71. Retrieved 2019-04-17.
• — (February 11, 2019). "'Lucio Fontana' : Met Breuer". Goings on About Town. Art. The New Yorker. 94 (48): 10.
• — (March 4, 2019). "Guesswork : Jasper Johns and Siah Armajani". The Critics. The Art World. The New Yorker. 95 (2): 64–65. Retrieved 2019-08-16.
• — (May 20, 2019). "". Goings on About Town. At the Galleries. The New Yorker. 95 (13): 14.
• — (May 27, 2019). "Not waving : the Whitney Biennial in an age of anxiety". The Critics. The Art World. The New Yorker. 95 (14): 70–71. Retrieved 2019-09-13.
• — (June 3, 2019). "Of nature : Thomas Cole and Brice Marden in the Hudson Valley". The Critics. The Art World. The New Yorker. 95 (15): 68–69. Retrieved 2019-08-23.
• — (December 23, 2019). "The art of dying". The New Yorker. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
• — (September 21, 2020). "Waves of change : Goya and the art of survival". The Critics. Books. The New Yorker. 96 (28): 61–64.
• — (December 21, 2020). "The fix we're in : drawing through the pandemic". The Critics. The Art World. The New Yorker. 96 (41): 78–79.
• — (December 28, 2020). "What are artists for? The Constructionists, at MOMA". The Critics. The Art World. The New Yorker. 96 (42): 92–93.
• — (April 5, 2021). "Life force : Niki de Saint Phalle at MOMA PS1". The Critics. The Art World. The New Yorker. 97 (7): 66–67.
• — (September 27, 2021). "". Goings on About Town. At the Museums. The New Yorker. 97 (30): 10.

Notes

1. Retrospectives of Franz West and Mary Heilmann.
2. The New Orleans Biennial.
3. "Skin Fruit" at the New Museum, New York.
4. Thomas Nozkowski at the Pace Gallery.
5. "Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925" at the Museum of Modern Art.
6. Online version is titled "William S. Burroughs, outlaw and Beat".
7. Online version is titled "Great art of the Great Plains".
8. Title in the online table of contents is "Picturing the Great Migration".
9. Title in the online table of contents is "What grew in Frida Kahlo's garden?".
10. Online version is titled "Kerry James Marshall's America".
11. Reviews Rothko: Dark Palette at the Pace gallery.
12. Online version is titled "Marisa Merz's factory of dreams".
13. Online version is titled "The beautiful and the unexpected".
14. Title in the online table of contents is "Women artists in a man’s world".
15. Online version is titled "Louise Lawler’s beguiling institutional critique".
16. Online version is titled "The radical paintings of Laura Owens".
17. Online version is titled "Francisco de Zurbarán's Biblical vision".
18. Online version is titled "'Like Life' shows seven hundred years of the body".
19. Online version is titled "The inflation of abstraction". Reviews the exhibition 'Epic Abstraction : Pollock to Herrera'.
20. Online version is titled "Jasper Johns and the question of meaning".
21. Online version is titled "The Whitney Biennial in an age of anxiety".
22. Online version is titled "Timelessness in works by Thomas Cole and Brice Marden".
23. Online version is titled "Goya and the art of survival".
24. Online version is titled "The melancholy gestalt of isolation".
25. Online version is titled "The pioneering feminism of Niki de Saint Phalle".

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