| ARTBOOK BLOGBY ALEX GALANCelebrity and fashion photographer Tom Munro was feted by Moet & Chandon in West Hollywood on Oscars eve. The occasion was the launch of Munro's first book, beautifully printed by Damiani, and the opening of an exhibition of silkscreened prints produced by Box Studios mastermind Pascal Dangin benefitting Madonna's charity Raising Malawi and M.E.A.K. Madonna along with Dustin Hoffman and Justin Timberlake were amongst those in attendance setting off megawatts of star power and flashbulbs befitting a Tom Munro photo shoot. Please visit our
blog to see pictures of the event. ARTBOOK IS PLEASED TO OFFER FREE UPS GROUND SHIPPING IN THE U.S.CURATED LIBRARIES Library of Women ArtistsAfter centuries of suppression and marginalization, women artists have at last begun to attain some parity in the art world. Below is a selection of titles on both historical and contemporary women artists including both monographs and surveys.WORDS ON PICTURESHans Ulrich Obrist & Cedric Price: The Conversation SeriesThe nice thing about art galleries is that they automatically distort time—whether it's a distortion of place, or whether it's a new place, and not necessarily a distortion. Immediately, as someone looks at a painting, it's a distortion, automatically. I used to describe museums as a convenient distortion, but it must be more than that. It's nice on a wet Thursday to go and look at a rich museum and see ten thousand years of Egyptian history, but the second wet Thursday you're going to see it, it's different from the first. You've distorted the contents of the museum through familiarity, which only occurs through going twice rather than once. So the distortion is twofold: it's the compilation of old bits of history in a convenient place for the receiver or consumer. But then, I distorted Tate Modern when we visited together the other day, because going there with you was quite different from going there alone…Visionary architect Cedric Price, speaking with Hans Ulrich Obrist, excerpted from The Conversation Series. | | | |  | In Bridget Riley: Flashback, Michael Bracewell writes, "Initially brought to prominence by the Op art movement during the first half of the 1960s, the art of Bridget Riley has been aesthetically and art historically iconic for almost 50 years. Unlike the work of many Op artists, however, Bridget Riley's enquiries (a term she favors to describe both her methods and her motivation) have always been less related to research into the psychology of ocular effect, and more to the evolving artistic relationships between looking, seeing and representation, as developed from the nineteenth century to the twentieth through Impressionism and abstract art." Image is "Study for Cataract Series," 1967. | FEATURED PUBLISHER IMPRINT | HATJE CANTZThe publishing program of Hatje Cantz features art, photography, design, and architecture, with a focus on contemporary art. With nearly eight hundred titles in print, the company has become one of the most important suppliers to the international market for art books. |  St. Mark's Bookshop was established in 1977 in New York's East Village, a community of students, academics, arts professionals and other eclectic readers. Their specialties include Cultural Theory, Graphic Design, Poetry & Small Press Publishers, Film Studies and Foreign & Domestic Periodicals &
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| | D.A.P. / DISTRIBUTED ART PUBLISHERS ARTBOOK presents the complete D.A.P. catalog of more than 8,500 books on art and visual culture from the world's most distinguished museums and fine art publishers.D.A.P. FEATURED TITLES Energizing Architecture
Edited by Claudia Lühling. The harnessing of solar energy via photovoltaic (i.e. solar electrical) technology has become one of the world's highest priorities, as dwindling oil resources compel nations all over the world to reconsider their energy policies. Soon, >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783939633716
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.25 in. / 192 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 12/31/2009 Active/In stock
 Design Revolution: 100 Products That Empower People
By Emily Pilloton. Foreword by Allan Chochinov. In January of 2008, with a thousand dollars, a laptop and an outsized conviction that design can change the world, rising San Francisco-based product designer and activist Emily Pilloton launched Project H Design, a radical >>more
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Pbk, 8 x 8 in. / 304 pgs / 250 color.
Pub Date: 10/31/2009 Active/Awaiting stock
 On Curating: Interviews with Ten International Curators
By Carolee Thea. Edited by Thomas Micchelli. Foreword by Hans Ulrich Obrist. On Curating, Carolee Thea's second volume of interviews with ten of today's leading curators, explores the intellectual convictions and personal visions that lay the groundwork for the most prestigious and influential exhibitions in the world >>more
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 144 pgs / 50 color.
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FEATURED ARTISTKara WalkerKara Walker was born in Stockton, California in 1969. She received a BFA from the Atlanta College of Art in 1991 and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1994. The artist is best known for exploring the raw intersection of race, gender, and sexuality through her iconic, silhouetted figures. Walker's work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. A 1997 recipient of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Achievement Award, Walker was the United States representative to the 2002 São Paolo Bienal in Brazil. A full-scale museum survey opened at the Walker Art Center in February 2007. ARTIST / TITLE / PUBLISHER SEARCHD.A.P. and ARTBOOK155 Sixth Avenue
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