KATZ, ALEX

Alex Katz: Seeing, Drawing, Making
Text by David A. Moos. Featuring a selection of 80 figurative works and landscapes in a wide range of materials and media including pencil, ink, oil stick and charcoal, drawings, prints and paintings, Alex Katz: Seeing, Drawing, Making demonstrates how >>more
Windsor Press
ISBN 9780974611648
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Hardback, 8.5 x 10.5 in. / 112 pgs / 75 color.
Pub Date: 12/01/2008 Active/In stock

Alex Katz: Faces and Names
Text by Luca Cerizza. Alex Katz is one of the most influential American painters of the twentieth century. Though he perversely pursued figurative work in the era of Abstract Expressionism, the influence of his stylized portraits of New York’s >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783905770797
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Hardback, 5.5 x 7.25 in. / 88 pgs / 40 color / 10 duotone.
Pub Date: 04/01/2008 Active/In stock

Alex Katz: The Sixties
Essay by Barry Schwabsky. Alex Katz: The Sixties offers readers a selection of works by the pioneering painter who redefined portraiture and landscape in the 1960s. Bridging Pop and Minimalist sensibilities, these prints, paintings and other works are quintessential >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881585939
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Paperback, 9.5 x 11 in. / 96 pgs / 36 color.
Pub Date: 09/15/2006 Active/In stock

Alex Katz: Collages
Essay by David Cohen. Foreword by Sharon Corwin. Alex Katz: Collages is the catalogue raisonnª of Katz's early collages, spanning the period from 1954 to 1960. It presents 85 color plates with complete catalogue entries and an essay by Katz scholar David Cohen, >>more
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine
ISBN 9780972848459
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Hardcover, 9.5 x 8.25 in. / 180 pgs / 85 color.
Pub Date: 02/01/2006 Active/In stock

Alex Katz in Maine
Essay by Sanford Schwartz. Alex Katz is one of the most important painters of our era. Having come of age in the 1950s, alongside the New York School of painters and poets, he still continues to influence generations of >>more
Charta/Farnsworth Art Museum
ISBN 9788881585083
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Hardcover, 11 x 9.5 in. / 96 pgs / 71 color.
Pub Date: 07/15/2005 Active/In stock

Alex Katz: First Sight
Essay by Jean-Christophe Ammann. In the more than 500 working drawings by Alex Katz reproduced here, we are able to look over the artist's shoulder at works in their nascent state--a rare experience essential to any understanding of the >>more
Peter Blum Edition
ISBN 9780935875201
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Hardcover, 11 x 8.25 in. / 470 pgs / 25 color.
Pub Date: 09/02/2003 Active/In stock

Alex Katz: The Woodcuts And Linocuts 1951-2001
Essay by Merlin James. Foreword by Peter Blum. Alex Katz's very first prints included wood- and linocuts, but it was not until 1986 that he finally returned to the technique he had used 30 years earlier. This book celebrates and reproduces in detail >>more
Peter Blum Edition
ISBN 9780935875195
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Paperback, 8.5 x 10.75 in. / 32 pgs / 9 color / 13 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/02/2002 Active/In stock

Alex Katz
Essays by Lena Maculan and Nikolaus Ruzicska. This group of classic works by the American painter Alex Katz from the 1980s shows how he kept the ideals of figurative painting alive during a time when abstraction was at the forefront of the >>more
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
ISBN 9783901935077
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Hardcover, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 52 pgs / 16 color.
Pub Date: 04/02/2003 Active/Awaiting stock

Alex Katz & Robert Creeley: Edges
By Robert Creeley. Artwork by Alex Katz. Text by Merlin James. Continuing Alex Katz's practice of collaborations with poets, Edges features reproductions of 13 etchings by Katz alongside the poem “Edges” by the great American poet Robert Creeley. In addition, the volume includes a tipped-in color >>more
Peter Blum Edition
ISBN 9780935875171
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Hardcover, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 60 pgs / 1 color / 13 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/02/1999 Active/In stock

Alex Katz: Cutouts
Edited by Zdenek Felix. Essay by Carter Ratcliff. One of the most important exponents of figurative realism, Alex Katz has been painting mainly portraits for more than 50 years. In his work, Katz records small incidents, momentary excerpts from reality. The people depicted >>more
Hatje Cantz Publishers
ISBN 9783775713047
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Hardcover, 6.25 x 10.5 in. / 96 pgs / 65 color
Pub Date: 07/02/2003 Out of print/Not available

Alex Katz
Artwork by Alex Katz. >>more
Hopefulmonster
ISBN 9788877571038
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Paperback, 9.05 x 10.62 in. / 304 pgs / 213 color
Pub Date: 05/02/2000 Out of print/Not available

Alex Katz
Contribution by Martin Maloney. Essays by Vittoria Coen, Lisa Liebmann. >>more
Marlborough Gallery
ISBN 9780897971591
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Hardcover, 11.5 x 10.5 in. / 44 pgs / 30 color
Pub Date: 03/02/2000 Out of print/Not available

Alex Katz
Artwork by Alex Katz. Contributions by Eric de Chassey. >>more
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
ISBN 9783901935008
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Paperback, 9.5 x 13 in. / 38 pgs / 22 color
Pub Date: 04/02/1999 Out of print/Not available

Alex Katz: Recent Paintings
Artwork by Alex Katz. This catalogue of Alex Katz's 1996 exhibition at the Marborough Gallery features reproductions of his most recent paintings, including including two screen-size landscapes. >>more
Marlborough Gallery
ISBN 9780897971157
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Paperback, 11.5 x 9.75 in. / 32 pgs / 25 color.
Pub Date: 08/02/1996 Out of print/Not available

Alex Katz: An American Way of Seeing
Text by Roland Mönig, Guy Tosatto, Timo Valjakka, Eric de Chassey. Alex Katz (born 1927) has become a leading chronicler of modern life in America, a model and forerunner to several schools of painting that came after him. Portraying in deadpan style the faces of New >>more
Kerber
ISBN 9783866782631
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Hbk, 8.5 x 10.75 in. / 136 pgs / 85 color / 11 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/31/2010 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock

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Alex Katz
Artwork by Alex Katz. >>more
Hopefulmonster
ISBN 9788877571038
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Paperback, 9.05 x 10.62 in. / 304 pgs / 213 color
Pub Date: 05/02/2000 Out of print/Not available

Alex Katz: The Sixties
Essay by Barry Schwabsky. Alex Katz: The Sixties offers readers a selection of works by the pioneering painter who redefined portraiture and landscape in the 1960s. Bridging Pop and Minimalist sensibilities, these prints, paintings and other works are quintessential >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881585939
US $34.95 CAN $42.00 TRADE
Paperback, 9.5 x 11 in. / 96 pgs / 36 color.
Pub Date: 09/15/2006 Active/In stock

Alex Katz: Cutouts
Edited by Zdenek Felix. Essay by Carter Ratcliff. One of the most important exponents of figurative realism, Alex Katz has been painting mainly portraits for more than 50 years. In his work, Katz records small incidents, momentary excerpts from reality. The people depicted >>more
Hatje Cantz Publishers
ISBN 9783775713047
US $29.80 CAN $36.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 6.25 x 10.5 in. / 96 pgs / 65 color
Pub Date: 07/02/2003 Out of print/Not available

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Features and Themes of the Spring 2010 D.A.P. Catalog

By Thomas Evans

For each season of the D.A.P. catalog, new themes and trends coalesce across the 600-odd titles announced therein, indicating emergent preoccupations and new areas of research in the arts. The Spring 2010 catalogue opens with an exciting and extremely significant culmination to that strain, in the form of The Museum of Modern Art's forthcoming appraisal of the female artists in its collection, Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art. This volume, and the occasion of its publication, marks a bold move on MoMA's part to initiate a reassessment of its collection, and will no doubt encourage other institutions to follow suit...

In the current catalogue, another set of strengths emerges (not that it lacks for new monographs on neglected female artists--see forthcoming titles on Angelika Hoerle, Mercedes Matter, Lee Lozano, Unica Zürn and Birgit Jürgenssen). As always, the General Interest section boasts many 'books for life,' with ambitious and superbly produced monographs on Ed Ruscha, Yves Klein, Marina Abramovic, Francis Bacon (already shipping), Henri Cartier-Bresson, Botticelli, Burne-Jones, Rousseau, Renoir, Robert Doisneau, Edweard Muybridge, Walker Evans and others; each of these titles presents its own particular stack of reasons to anticipate its publication with excitement.

Photography monographs are clearly more than well represented on the Spring 2010 Books for Life shelf, but a particular emphasis falls this season on innovative group catalogues, with Aperture's groundbreaking tome on the Düsseldorf School (the three generations of photographers schooled by Bernd and Hilla Becher, including Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Axel Hütte, Simone Nieweg, Thomas Ruff, Thomas Struth among others); Starburst, Hatje Cantz's fantastic survey of the color-photography boom of the 1970s, with William Eggleston, Stephen Shore, Joel Meyerowitz, Joel Sternfeld, William Christenberry, John Divola, Mitch Epstein and many others; and the Guggenheim's Haunted, which traces the presence and recurrence--the "haunting"--of contemporary photography and video art by specters of the past, in the form of defunct or outmoded technologies and subjects.

Publishers such as Metropolis and NAi are doing important work to publish imaginative responses to ever-more-pressing issues around climate change and sustainability, and the General Interest section contains several extremely innovative titles on this subject: an expanded edition of Fritz Haeg's bestselling "attack on the front lawn," Edible Estates, which includes several new projects and a manifesto by Will Allen, the founder of the famous Growing Power project in Wisconsin; Reading the American Landscape, an amazing and epic-scaled survey of the typologies and taxonomies of the American landscape, "from verandas to concert halls, individual plants to entire parks, highways to railroads, indoor exhibition spaces to public sculptures, desert horizons to secluded gardens"; On the Water, Guy Nordenson's sobering but imaginative exploration of the impact of rising currents on the New York and New Jersey shorelines; and two great titles from Hatje Cantz--Arium, which tackles the porousness and interaction between weather and architecture, and Migropolis, a psychogeographic survey of Venice's recent transformation under the twin pressures of climate change and tourism. A related publication in the Highlights section is Radical Nature, which collects utopian and ecological strategies devised by artists and architects from the 1960s to now, such as Buckminster Fuller, Joseph Beuys, Robert Smithson, Luke Fowler and others; also worth mentioning in relation to these titles are two impressive photography books on the collapse and decay of Detroit: Andrew Moore's Detroit Disassembled and Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre's The Ruins of Detroit.

D.A.P. has long supported publications on artist's books, and both books on artist's books and broader surveys of printed matter are notable presences in the Spring 2010 catalogue. The highlight title here must be JRP's In Numbers, edited by Andrew Roth and Philip Aarons, whose subtitle--"Serial Publications by Artists Since 1955"--both announces its premise and draws the reader into further inquiry. "Serial Publications" refers to publications by artists with innovative and prominent design qualities--publications that don't quite fit the 'artist's book' category, and several of which D.A.P. has distributed or does distribute in both original and facsimile editions: Wallace Berman's Semina, The Situationist Times, Joe Brainard's C Comics, General Idea's File magazine, Vito Acconci and Bernadette Mayer's 0-9, Provoke, the Fluxus annual boxes, Art-Language, North Drive Press, Donald Parsnips Daily Journal, LTTR, Permanent Food and many others. The publisher Primary Information has made a specialty of this realm, and this season will be issuing a timely facsimile edition of Willoughby Sharp and Liza Bear's Avalanche, the New York-based magazine that handed the critical reins over to artists and which was a crucial touchstone publication for American artists in the 1970s. Primary Information also brings us two further facsimile editions: Lee Lozano's best-known works, her notebooks, and Coffee Coffee, Aram Saroyan's influential collection of Concrete/Minimalist poems, first published by 0-9 in 1967. Other titles on artists' books include the first surveys of book works by Sol LeWitt and Olafur Eliasson, and Four Corners' wonderfully designed survey of Eduardo Paolozzi's text and collage contributions to Ambit magazine, The Jet Age Compendium. A D.A.P. staff favorite that cannot go unmentioned here is Ellsworth Kelly's Thumbing Through the Folder, which supplied the Highlights divider spread for this catalogue, and which is comprised of a conversation between Kelly and Hans Ulrich Obrist, interleaved with reproductions of collaged postcards by Kelly--a previously unseen and very charming body of work that is beautifully housed in this volume.

A large portion of our theory list this season also clusters around a common topic. "The Educational Turn" is an expression heard with increasing frequency in the art world, especially in art pedagogy and curatorial theory, and several titles address how art is studied, mediated, encountered and sold: Rethinking the Contemporary Art School, Curating and the Educational Turn, A Manual for the 21st Century Arts Institution, Arts in Society and The Murmuring of the Artistic Multitude. At the slightly friendlier end of our writings list, two strong new titles on Pop art deserve note: a much overhauled reprint of John Wilcock's The Autobiography and Sex Life of Andy Warhol, first published in 1971, and unique in its insider angle on the early days of Warhol's coterie and career. Publisher Chris Trela has worked hard to make this the book it should have originally been, and greatly expands our sense of the era and of Warhol himself by reprinting it. Published by MFA Publications, The Pop Revolution is the late Alice Goldfarb Marquis' social history of Pop art--a group portrait," as she describes it, "of both the artists and the people who made some of them rich and famous in just a few years, while setting in motion the drastically altered way art has been marketed and appreciated--in the monetary and aesthetic sense--up to the present day." This book is certainly as readable and as superbly written as her previous works on Duchamp and Clement Greenberg.