| | Welcome to ARTBOOK.COM, the artworld's favorite site for books on art and culture from the world's finest museums and independent publishers.Cory Reynolds | Date: 5/16/2012 Please visit our bookstore at ARTHK12, Hong Kong International Art Fair, May 17-20, Hall 3, Booth Z16! We are pleased to featured advance copies of The Future Will Be... China Edition: Thoughts on What's to Come and to present talks and book signings with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Paul Chan and others, in collaboration with Modern Media and Leap Magazine, moderated by Philip Tinari of UCCA Beijing.Cory Reynolds | Date: 5/10/2012 "ONE DAY Schindler was looking at the floor plan of a house that had just been developed in quarter scale from the rough plan he had made directly on the surveyor’s eight-scale contour map."Cory Reynolds | Date: 5/6/2012 Adam Yauch, pioneering co-founder of the hip-hop group the Beastie Boys, the non-profit Milarepa Fund and the influential experimental film company Oscilloscope Laboratories died of cancer on Friday, May 3, at the age of 47.Cory Reynolds | Date: 5/4/2012 ARTBOOK & Koenig Books present New York's largest temporary art bookshop ever, at FRIEZE New York. Please visit our booth May 4-7, at the South entrance to the fair.Cory Reynolds | Date: 4/30/2012 From May 3-7, ARTBOOK | D.A.P. and Koenig Books, Europe's leading specialist art bookstore, are collaborating to create new York City's largest-ever temporary art bookstore for the inaugural Frieze New York art fair on Randall's Island.Cory Reynolds | Date: 4/25/2012 Adelita's new book on Tommy Roberts: Mr. Freedom, the pioneering Carnaby Street designer responsible for backless "Bumster" jeans, Jimmy Hendrix's ruffled shirts and Mick Jagger's infamous "Zodiac" cape, worn at Altamont, is treated to a full page review in the May issue of W magazine. Cory Reynolds | Date: 4/13/2012 From April 14 - 29, ten Magnum photographers will live, work and exhibit together in Rochester, NY. The project, titled House of Pictures, is part of an ongoing series of collaborative attempts to investigate a fragmented and often anxious American landscape. Visual Studies Workshop's auditorium will serve as the photographers’ home base and an open studio, and ARTBOOK will create a one-of-a-kind bookstore with inventory tailored specifically to Magnum Photos and the House of Pictures project. Cory Reynolds | Date: 4/11/2012 We are pleased to present a preview of Violette Editions' extraordinary forthcoming collection of Louise Bourgeois' psychoanalytic writings, The Return of the Repressed.
| | |  FEATURED IMAGEFeatured image, Lucian Freud's 1944 ink drawing, "Dead Monkey," is reproduced from Blain|Southern and Aquavella Galleries' exquisite new monograph, Lucian Freud Drawings, which accompanies the exhibition currently on view at Aquavella in New York.
In her May 10 review in The New York Times, Karen Rosenberg writes, "According to many critics, Lucian Freud started making great paintings only after he let go of drawing: abandoning flat, crisply outlined figures for massively fleshy nudes nourished by a full brush. The quietly ravishing Lucian Freud Drawings at Acquavella Galleries, gives Freud’s works on paper a chance to speak for themselves, beginning with his childhood sketches and ending with the last etching plate he touched.
What they tell us is that Freud (1922-2011) kept on drawing, and that, to the last, energy still flowed between his paintings and his works on paper."
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| FEATURED PUBLISHER IMPRINT Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, is the only American museum whose collection is focused solely on contemporary and historic design. Its publications are noted for their scholarly rigor, curatorial adventurousness, design excellence and wealth of visual materials. |  FEATURED STOREWilliam Stout Architectural Books carries over 20,000 titles on two floors in the fields of architecture, art, urban planning, graphic and industrial design, furniture and interior design and landscape architecture. For over 30 years--20 in the current location--it has been a vital resource for architecture and design books, carrying American and international titles, both in and out of print.
The origins of the bookstore date back to when Bill Stout was a practicing architect and would go to Europe and bring back hard to find European architectural books. His colleagues and friends would ask him to bring them back additional copies and thus the shop was born. About 10 years ago, he started William Stout Publishers, which puts out a few books a year, mainly on architecture and landscape in the Bay Area, but also including books on architectural theory and reprints of important, out of print titles.
>>visit bookstore website | | | FEATURED LIBRARY The Bauhaus school of art and design, which operated from 1919 to 1933, gathered a staggering array of talent--some of the twentieth century’s foremost artists, architects and designers--and offered a laboratory in which to completely overhaul the look and feel of modern life, from textiles to typography, from painting to photography, from epic architectural projects right down to the design of a door handle. continue
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| | D.A.P. | Distributed Art Publishers is the world's top distributor of art books and exhibition catalogs published by leading museums and independent publishers specializing in titles on art, photography, architecture, design, aesthetic theory, curatorial studies, and visual culture.SEARCH ARTBOOKBOOKSTORE QUICK LINKS | TITLE SELECTIONSTRADE CUSTOMERSPUBLISHER DISTRIBUTION |  Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed Edited by Philip Larratt-Smith. Text by Louise Bourgeois, Elisabeth Bronfen, Donald Kuspit, Juliet Mitchell, Mignon Nixon, Paul Verhaeghe with Julie de Ganck, Meg Harris Williams. Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) invented a new kind of language for sculpture--a language that was essentially psychoanalytic, uniquely capable of expressing oedipal struggle, ominous forces of repression, sexual symbolism and material uncanniness. Famed fo >>more
Violette Editions
ISBN 9781900828376
US $75.00 CAN $75.00 TRADE
Slip, Hbk, 2 vols., 7.5 x 10 in. / 500 pgs / 113 color.
Pub Date: 05/31/2012 Active/In stock Anselm Kiefer: Alkahest Edited by Arne Ehmann. Poem by Christoph Ransmayr. Among the many artists who have broached the motifs and themes of alchemy, Anselm Kiefer (born 1945) is pre-eminent in his concern with the transformation of earthly elements such as oil, straw, lead, mercury, stone, >>more
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
ISBN 9783901935459
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Hbk, 13 x 10 in. / 144 pgs / 74 color / 8 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/31/2012 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock Toilet Paper: Issue 5 Edited by Maurizio Cattelan, Pierpaolo Ferrari. Made by Maurizio Cattelan in collaboration with fellow countryman Pierpaolo Ferrari, Toilet Paper 5 is a brilliant new creation from the aberrant, animated mind of the Italian-born provocateur, mischief-maker and macabre witness to our times. >>more
Le Dictateur Press
ISBN 9782840665311
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Pbk, 8.25 x 11.75 in. / 40 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 05/31/2012 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock Maurizio Has Left the Building Edited by Pierpaolo Ferrari, Sebastiano Mastroeni. Drawings by Matteo Nuti. Text by Caroline Corbetta. Hailed simultaneously as a provocateur, prankster and tragic poet of our times, Maurizio Cattelan (born 1960) has created some of the most unforgettable images in recent contemporary art. Upon the occasion of his 2011 Guggenheim >>more
Le Dictateur Press
ISBN 9782840665175
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Boxed, pbk, 11.5 x 16 in. / 72 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 05/31/2012 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream Edited and with text by Barry Bergdoll, Reinhold Martin. Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream is an exploration of new architectural possibilities for American cities and suburbs in the aftermath of the recent foreclosure crisis in the United States. During the summer of 2011, five >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870708275
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Pbk, 8 x 10 in. / 188 pgs / 170 color.
Pub Date: 05/31/2012 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock | | SEARCH ARTBOOK
"As a curator, I am often asked about the future of art. And because compiling thoughts about the future is to take a snapshot of the contemporary moment, my answer is always that we have to listen to artists."
–Hans Ulrich Obrist, excerpted from the forthcoming volume, The Future Will Be… China Edition: Thoughts on What’s to Come.
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