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Maria Lassnig: How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?

Robert Storr
Parkett
"Some people simply lack a talent for acting their age. Or at least they show themselves incapable of acting the way "society" considers appropriate to their years. This discrepancy has long been a staple of satire in which anti-bourgeois wildness is rendered with indulgent bourgeois mildness and sensible folk get to chuckle at an elder's folly content in the knowledge that nothing the antic ancient does will ever truly upset the decorum in which solid citizens swim like amniotic fluid. Jean Giraudoux's "The Madwoman of Chaillot" (1945) is the high-style incarnation of such a zany crone and Bertolt Brecht's "The Shameless Old Lady" (1965) is the impish lower-class version of the geriatric rebel without a pause..."

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Modern and Contemporary Drawing
Important surveys and monographs on contemporary drawing including artists Julie Mehretu, Shahzia Sikander, Amy Sillman,and Heide Fasnacht.


Contemporary Figurative Painting
New and bestselling surveys, monographs and exhibition catalogs on recent trends in contemporary figurative painting includes books on John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Yoshitomo Nara, and Luc Tuymans.


Design Revolution: 100 Products That Empower People By Emily Pilloton
Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume I
Ron Arad
In & Out of Amsterdam Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960-1976
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
Metropolis Books
ISBN 9781933045955
US $34.95 CAN $42.00 TRADE
Pbk, 8 x 8 in. / 304 pgs / 250 color.
Pub Date: 10/31/2009 Active/In stock


Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume I
Edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell. Foreword by Alexei Plutser-Sarno. Text by Danzig Baldaev. Photographs by Sergei Vasiliev. Occasionally a book is published that reveals a subculture you never dreamt existed. More rarely, that book goes on to become a phenomenon of its own. The 2004 publication of the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia >>more
FUEL Publishing
ISBN 9780955862076
US $32.95 CAN $40.00 TRADE
Clth, 5 x 8 in. / 400 pgs / 350 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/31/2009 Active/In stock


Ron Arad
Edited by Paola Antonelli. Text by Paola Antonelli, Judith Benhamou-Huet, Jonathan Safran Foer, Marie-Laure Jousset, Ingeborg de Roode. Even among the most influential designers of our time, Ron Arad stands out for the versatile nature of his work and his daredevil use of materials and technology. Idiosyncratic, surprising and always visually arresting, Arad's >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870707599
US $45.00 CAN $54.00 TRADE
Hbk, 8 x 10 in. / 216 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 09/30/2009 Active/In stock


In & Out of Amsterdam
Edited by Christophe Cherix. Text by Phillip van den Bossche, Cathleen Chaffee, Christophe Cherix, Rini Dippel, Paula Feldman, Christian Rattemeyer. During the 1960s and 70s, Amsterdam was a nexus of intense art activities, drawing artists from all over the world, including Stanley Brouwn, Gilbert & George, Sol LeWitt, Charlotte Posenenske, Allen Ruppersberg and Lawrence Weiner. >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870707537
US $55.00 CAN $66.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 12 in. / 178 pgs / 400 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/31/2009 Active/In stock


The Possible Life of Christian Boltanski
Every Thing Design The Collections of the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich
Art of Projection
Josef Albers: Observation and Formulation A Foundation Course
The Possible Life of Christian Boltanski
Text by Christian Boltanski, Catherine Grenier. Forword by Luc Sante. Christian Boltanski's votive installations, archives and objects, revolving around the fragile polarities of memory and amnesia, identity and anonymity, have made him one of the world's most renowned contemporary artists. And yet, despite the centrality >>more
MFA Publications
ISBN 9780878467464
US $35.00 CAN $42.00 TRADE
Clth, 5.5 x 8 in. / 242 pgs / 3 color / 13 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2009 Active/In stock


Every Thing Design
Edited by Christian Brändle, Verena Formanek. Text by Christian Brändle, Glenn Adamson. The great Dutch book designer Irma Boom designed this handsome, hefty gem, which features 700 prints, posters and other objects from the collection of Zurich's Gestaltung Museum. It is a collection renowned worldwide for its >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775723312
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Hbk, 4.75 x 6 in. / 800 pgs / 600 color / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2009 Active/In stock


Art of Projection
Text by Christopher Eamon, Mieke Bal, Beatriz Colomina, Thomas McDonough. This volume investigates the historical and contemporary use of projected images in art, from the screen to the exhibition space and back again. Ten essays, written by leading art historians and critics, including Stan Douglas, >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775723701
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Hbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 192 pgs / 84 color / 69 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/31/2009 Active/Awaiting stock


Josef Albers: Observation and Formulation
Text by Martin Krampen. During the winter of 1953/54, former Bauhaus professor Josef Albers (1888-1976) taught a three-part introductory course on drawing, material studies and color studies at the newly founded Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG) in Ulm--courses which anticipated >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775723527
US $30.00 CAN $36.00 TRADE
DVD (NTSC and PAL), with booklet, 5.5 x 7.5 in.
Pub Date: 09/30/2009 Active/Awaiting stock


Ellsworth Kelly: Diagonal
Candida Höfer: On Kawara, Date Paintings in Private Collections
Gerda Taro
Robert Capa at Work: This is War! Photographs 1936-1945
Ellsworth Kelly: Diagonal
Text by Johanna Burton. As spacious and sleek as the work itself, this monograph reproduces two sculptures from 2004 and 2005, along with 17 new paintings dating from 2007 and 2008, eight of which consist of a black or >>more
Matthew Marks Gallery
ISBN 9781880146514
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Clth, 10.75 x 13 in. / 56 pgs / 27 color.
Pub Date: 09/30/2009 Active/In stock


Candida Höfer: On Kawara, Date Paintings in Private Collections
From 2004 to 2007, the noted German art photographer Candida Hofer traveled the world to photograph Japanese-born, New York-based Conceptual artist On Kawara's iconic Date Paintings in the homes of private collectors. Because this series >>more
Walther König
ISBN 9783865605306
US $95.00 CAN $114.00 TRADE
Clth, 10 x 11 in. / 256 pgs / 138 color.
Pub Date: 08/31/2009 Active/Awaiting stock


Gerda Taro
Gerda Taro was a pioneer photojournalist--the first woman to photograph in the heat of battle--whose legacy, cut short by her untimely death at the age of 27, consists almost exclusively of photographs from the very >>more
Steidl/ICP
ISBN 9783865219459
US $28.00 CAN $33.00 TRADE
Pbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 176 pgs / 98 tritone.
Pub Date: 10/31/2009 Active/In stock


Robert Capa at Work: This is War!
Text by Richard Whelan, Christopher Phillip, Willis E. Hartshorn. The original "photo-journalist," Robert Capa left behind a body of war photography that today remains outstanding in its courageousness and honesty. This volume offers a detailed survey of six of Capa's most important war reportages, >>more
Steidl/ICP
ISBN 9783865219442
US $48.00 CAN $58.00 TRADE
Pbk, 9.75 x 11 in. / 288 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 09/30/2009 Active/In stock



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