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Orozco
Published
by the Council of the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford
in 1981, was the first on Orozco to be published in
Great Britain and coincided also with the first UK
retrospective exhibition of the work of Orozco, which
took place in the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford in
1981. This catalogue to the exhibition , of which
Desmond Rochfort was the principal consultant and
advisor, contains a major essay by him, entitled A
Terrible Beauty: Orozco’s Murals in Guadalajara
1936-1938.
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Pendulum
Pendula
Pendulum Pendula is an exhibition
of the work of the painters Sandy Haeseker and John Hall held
at the Kowlona Art Gallery in Kowlona in British Columbia
from November 2002 to January 2003, and which was preceded
by venues in Mexico, including Guadalajara, Monterrey and
Guanajuato. Hall and Haeseker both spend a significant part
of each year living in Mexico and the work that forms the
exhibition Pendulum Pendula, is a collection of collaborative
paintings that the two artists undertook together, which dwells
on subject matter and content drawn principally from their
experiences of Mexican culture. The catalogue features a major
essay on these works by Desmond Rochfort entitled Pendulum
Pendula - Creative Synthesis, in which he discusses the issues
surrounding the dynamics collaborative creative work and comments
on the content of the paintings in relation to his own extensive
knowledge and experience of Mexican culture.
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Design
and the Social Sciences - Making Connections
Published by Taylor
and Francis and edited by Professor Jorge Frascara, is a compilation
of papers delivered at the international design conference
on design and the social sciences held at the University of
Alberta in October 1999. Amongst the chapters is one byt Desmond
Rochfort entitled Design and the Social Sciences - Making
Connections which deals with the differences between notions
of fine art and the idea of design, arguing for an approach
to the education of the designer that reflects those differences
and utilizing disciplines associated with design practice
such as those within the realm of the social sciences.
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