Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

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THEASTER GATES: 12 BALLADS FOR HUGENOT HOUSE
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9783863352035 | US $59.95
Pub Date: 10/31/2012
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DORA GARCíA: MAD MARGINAL NUMBER 3
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9783863352158 | US $37.50
Pub Date: 3/31/2013
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NALINI MALANI: IN SEARCH OF VANISHED BLOOD
Text by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Andreas Huyssen, Livia Monnet.
HATJE CANTZ
ISBN: 9783775732260 | US $55.00
Pub Date: 10/31/2012
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CAROLYN CHRISTOV-BAKARGIEV, DARIO GAMBONI, MICHAEL PETZET: ON THE DESTRUCTION OF ART - OR ART AND CONFLICT, OR THE ART OF HEALING
HATJE CANTZ
ISBN: 9783775728898 | US $10.00
Pub Date: 4/30/2012
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DOCUMENTA 13: CATALOG I/3, THE BOOK OF BOOKS
HATJE CANTZ
ISBN: 9783775729512 | US $95.00
Pub Date: 9/30/2012
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DOCUMENTA 13: CATALOG III/3, THE GUIDEBOOK
HATJE CANTZ
ISBN: 9783775729543 | US $40.00
Pub Date: 8/31/2012
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DOCUMENTA 13: CATALOG II/3, THE LOGBOOK
HATJE CANTZ
ISBN: 9783775729529 | US $45.00
Pub Date: 11/30/2012
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CAROLYN CHRISTOV-BAKARGIEV: LETTER TO A FRIEND
By Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev.
HATJE CANTZ
ISBN: 9783775728522 | US $10.00
Pub Date: 7/31/2011
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JANET CARDIFF & GEORGE BURES MILLER: THE MURDER OF CROWS
Text by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Catherine Crowston, Janet Cardiff.
HATJE CANTZ
ISBN: 9783775731775 | US $60.00
Pub Date: 12/31/2011
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NEDKO SOLAKOV: ALL IN ORDER, WITH EXCEPTIONS
Text by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Iara Boubnova, Christy Lange.
HATJE CANTZ
ISBN: 9783775731720 | US $60.00
Pub Date: 12/31/2011
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GUILLERMO FAIVOVICH & NICOLáS GOLDBERG: THE CAMPO DEL CIELO METEORITES
Text by Daniel Birnbaum, Simon Starling, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev.
HATJE CANTZ
ISBN: 9783775727174 | US $60.00
Pub Date: 2/28/2011
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MIROSLAV TICHY: DEDICATED TO THE WOMEN OF KYJOV
Text by Clint Burnham, Roman Buxbaum, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Harald Szeemann.
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9783865604590 | US $80.00
Pub Date: 9/1/2008
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MARIO MERZ: THE MONOGRAPH
Essays by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Pier Giovanni Castagnoli, et al.
FONDAZIONE MERZ
ISBN: 9788877571847 | US $65.00
Pub Date: 1/2/2005
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MICHAEL RAKOWITZ: CIRCUMVENTIONS
Interview by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. Afterword by Giuliana Carusi Setari.
ONESTAR PRESS
ISBN: 9782915359046 | US $19.95
Pub Date: 3/2/2004
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ANIMATIONS
P.S.1 CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER
ISBN: 9783980426503 | US $20.00
Pub Date: 12/2/2003
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ZERO TO INFINITY
WALKER ART CENTER
ISBN: 9780935640694 | US $50.00
Pub Date: 7/2/2001
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JOHN WESLEY: PAINTINGS
Essays by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Alanna Heiss, Brian O'Doherty.
P.S.1 CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER
ISBN: 9780970442819 | US $27.50
Pub Date: 4/2/2001
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LA VILLE, LE JARDIN, LA MEMOIRE
Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist. Text by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Laurence Bossé.
CHARTA
ISBN: 9788881581818 | US $60.00
Pub Date: 1/2/1999
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THE PAINTING OF MODERN LIFE
Text by Ralph Rugoff, Kaja Silverman, Barry Schwabsky, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Martin Herbert.
HAYWARD PUBLISHING
ISBN: 9781853322631 | US $50.00
Pub Date: 2/1/2008
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JANET CARDIFF: A SURVEY OF WORKS, INCLUDING COLLABORATIONS WITH GEORGE BURES MILLER
Essay by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. Foreword by Alanna Heiss, Glenn Lowry and Marcel Brisebois.
P.S.1 CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER
ISBN: 9780970442826 | US $49.95
Pub Date: 1/2/2002
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JANET CARDIFF: A SURVEY OF WORKS, INCLUDING COLLABORATIONS WITH GEORGE BURES MILLER
Essay by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. Foreword by Alanna Heiss, Glenn Lowry and Marcel Brisebois.
P.S.1 CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER
ISBN: 9780970442833 | US $27.50
Pub Date: 1/2/2002
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JOHN WESLEY: PAINTINGS
Essays by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Alanna Heiss, Brian O'Doherty.
P.S.1 CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER
ISBN: 9780970442802 | US $49.95
Pub Date: 4/2/2001
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CHEN ZHEN
Artwork by Chen Zhen. Text by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev.
HOPEFULMONSTER
ISBN: 9788877571083 | US $18.00
Pub Date: 10/2/2000
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WILLIAM KENTRIDGE
Artwork by William Kentridge. Text by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev.
SOCIETE DES EXPOSITIONS DU PALAIS DES BEAUX-ARTS DE BRUXELLES
ISBN: 9789074816090 | US $39.00
Pub Date: 4/2/1999
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Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

Theaster Gates: 12 Ballads for Hugenot House

Foreword by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Madeleine Grynsztejn. Text by Michael Darling, Theaster Gates, Matthew Jesse Jackson, John Preus. Conversation with Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev.
Published by Walther König, Köln

12 Ballads for Huguenot House chronicles a project by American installation artist Theaster Gates (born 1973), in which he united two disused buildings--one in Chicago and the other in Kassel, Germany--by dismantling parts of each to reuse in the rebuilding of the other. Huguenot House, in Kassel, was built in the early nineteenth century by migrant workers, as were so many of the houses in Gates’ own neighborhood in Chicago, and today is in a state of disrepair. Gates therefore proposed an architectural exchange, transporting materials from a dilapidated building in Chicago to renovate Huguenot House, while reusing materials from Huguenot House to reconstruct the Chicago building.

Dora García: Mad Marginal Number 3

Klau Mich

Foreword by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Yolanda Romero. Text by Claire Bishop, Ellen Blumenstein, Eva Fabbris, Chus Martinez, Carmen Roll.
Published by Walther König, Köln

The third in a trilogy of books addressing marginality and outsider art as an artistic position, Mad Marginal Number 3 looks at the work of Spanish artist Dora García (born 1965), who explores the limits of art discourse in her text-based works.

Nalini Malani: In Search of Vanished Blood

Text by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Andreas Huyssen, Livia Monnet.
Published by Hatje Cantz

One of India’s most influential contemporary artists, Nalini Malani (born 1946) creates paintings, wall drawings, theatrical works, video and shadow plays. Inherited iconographies and cherished cultural stereotypes are challenged from a contemporary urban, internationalist point of view. This catalogue accompanies her show at Documenta 13.

Documenta 13: Catalog II/3, The Logbook

Published by Hatje Cantz

The Documenta Logbook volume reveals Artistic Director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev's working methods for the 2012 Documenta, from the earliest planning stages in 2010 right up to the opening of Documenta in 2012, in writings and photographs. A second section of photographs documents the installation of artist's works in Kassel, plus a schedule of the various public events, from concerts to performances. With its emphasis on the provisional and the processual and the provisional, the Logbook expresses Christov-Bakargiev's guiding strategy and philosophy for Documenta 13: "to exercise imagination as a space of accuracy in which to practice and challenge our definition of the political." Christov-Bakargiev is a curator and writer based in Rome, Kassel and New York. After organizing exhibitions as an independent curator in different countries, from 1999 to 2001 she was senior curator of exhibitions at MoMA P.S.1. She was the chief curator at the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art in Turin from 2002 to 2008 (and interim director of the museum in 2009). She was the co-curator of the first Turin Triennial in 2005 and artistic director for the 16th Biennale of Sydney in 2008.

Documenta 13: Catalog III/3, The Guidebook

Published by Hatje Cantz

The Guidebook is entirely devoted to the artists participating in Documenta 13. Each one is introduced in an illustrated essay written by one of the Documenta's agents, in close collaboration with the artists-who also contribute illustrations, which are as diverse as the projects themselves. These essays are individual visual statements, ranging from drawings to notes. Narrative introductions to the various venues combine factual details with Carolyn Christov-Barkargiev's key ideas and concepts, which are connected to each of the venues. Containing a map of the exhibition and brief descriptions of all of the sites and projects, this short guide is an indispensable tool both for those attending Documenta 13 and anyone unable to visit the show in person.

Documenta 13: Catalog I/3, The Book of Books

Published by Hatje Cantz

The Book of Books offers an overview of Documenta 13's guiding themes through a compilation of art projects and essays. Documenta 13's Artistic Director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev has proposed the 2012 festival as a refusal of conceptual unity, instead "choreographing many different kinds of materials, methodologies and forms of knowledge." Responding to the political and economic uncertainty of our times, Christov-Bakargiev declares that "Documenta must aspire, by contrast, to instead exercise imagination as a space of accuracy in which to practice and challenge our definition of the political." The Book of Books reproduces the entire 100 Notes-100 Thoughts series of publications (either as facsimiles or with entirely new layouts), and is supplemented by essays from Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Chus Martínez, Franco Berardi and others, plus statements by some of the festival's agents and advisors. Illustrated short biographies of all participating artists are included, along with a catalogue of the works on display.

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Dario Gamboni, Michael Petzet: On the Destruction of Art - Or Art and Conflict, or the Art of Healing

100 Notes, 100 Thoughts: Documenta Series 040

Published by Hatje Cantz

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev reflects on the relationship between destruction and art, and on art's converse capacity for healing. Guiding us through a web of etymological, historical, philosophical, personal and art historical references, she takes the reader from Melanie Klein's ideas on the dyadic relationship between mother and child and Walter Benjamin's reflection on Klee's "Angelus Novus," to Man Ray's metronomes and Objects of Destruction, Lee Miller's photographs from the end of World War II, Gustav Metzger's "Manifesto of Auto-Destruction" and the destroyed Bamiyan Buddhas, which are accompanied by Michael Petzet's report of ICOMOS's response to the monuments. Also included are artworks by Michael Rakowitz, drawings and poems by Anna Boghiguian and a postscript by art historian Dario Gamboni on the concept of "world heritage" and its attendant legislation. For Christov-Bakargiev, "the sphere of art is poised on the edge of the private and of history, and becomes the location where one can experiment the possibilities of being on the edge of the anthropocentric, where the rubble lies."

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev: Letter to a Friend

100 Notes, 100 Thoughts: Documenta Series 003

By Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev.
Published by Hatje Cantz

Through stories, diaries, critical reflection and letters, Documenta 13's artistic director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev describes some of the key issues around the 2012 exhibition.

Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller: The Murder of Crows

Text by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Catherine Crowston, Janet Cardiff.
Published by Hatje Cantz

Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller's “The Murder of Crows” is a surrealistic sound installation inspired in part by Goya's famous etching “The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters.” This hallucinatory work depicts a man asleep with owls and bats swooping menacingly around his head; Cardiff and Miller's title also refers to the habit among crows of flocking to a dead crow and cawing collectively, often for over a day, in a “crow funeral.” The installation is composed of 98 speakers that visually mimic the flocking crows and issue both ambient and musical sounds, and a desk (mimicing Goya) with a megaphone from which Cardiff's voice relays a series of dreams. This artist's book account of the project--as well as selected earlier projects--includes documents, interviews with the artists, ornithological and literary texts referring to crows, plus a DVD and 3-D reproductions with glasses.

Nedko Solakov: All in Order, with Exceptions

Text by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Iara Boubnova, Christy Lange.
Published by Hatje Cantz

Bulgarian artist Nedko Solakov (born 1957) is a storyteller who roots his themes in melancholic, humorous reflections on everyday life. His ambitious new installation at Ikon Gallery in the U.K. combines drawings, paintings, video and objects, and includes works made prior to 1989 (when Bulgaria was under Communist rule) alongside later pieces for which he is better known.

Guillermo Faivovich & Nicolás Goldberg: The Campo del Cielo Meteorites

Volume 1, El Taco

Text by Daniel Birnbaum, Simon Starling, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev.
Published by Hatje Cantz

Since 2006, Guillermo Faivovich and Nicolás Goldberg have been researching a 4,000 year-old meteorite shower. El Taco, one of the meteorites, was discovered in the 1960s and was divided between the Smithsonian and Buenos Aires' planetarium. Here, the artists reunite the parts.

Miroslav Tichy: Dedicated to The Women of Kyjov

Text by Clint Burnham, Roman Buxbaum, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Harald Szeemann.
Published by Walther König, Köln

After studying at the Academy of Arts in Prague, Miroslav Tichy, born in 1926 in the former Czechoslovakia, withdrew to a life of isolation in his hometown of Kyjov. In the late 1950s, he stopped painting and, during his daily walks, began to take photographs of women with cameras he made by hand. He mounted his prints on handmade frames and added finishing touches in pencil, shifting from photography to drawing. Disregarding the rules of photography, for four decades Tichy created a large oeuvre of poetic, dreamlike views of female beauty.
A former neighbor, Roman Buxbaum, discovered Tichy's hidden work in the 1980s and has been documenting and collecting it ever since. In 2004, the esteemed international curator Harald Szeemann mounted the first solo exhibition of the nearly 80-year-old artist. That same year, Tichy was given the Rencontres d'Arles Photographie Discovery Award and the Kunsthaus Zurich organized a large retrospective. Solo exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Museum of Modern Art (MMK) Frankfurt followed in 2008. Tichy does not see his exhibitions, for he no longer leaves his house. This beautifully produced, thorough volume collects the work--perfectly.

The Painting of Modern Life

1960s to Now

Text by Ralph Rugoff, Kaja Silverman, Barry Schwabsky, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Martin Herbert.
Published by Hayward Publishing

Andy Warhol’s silk screens, Gerhard Richter’s blurred images, Vija Celmins’ hyperrealism: some of the most influential developments in the history of contemporary art hinge on the use of photographs as source material. Beginning in the early 60s, with seminal works by the aforementioned artists, The Painting of Modern Life charts the 45-year evolution of the translation of photographic images to paint--revealing an extraordinary breadth of stylistic and thematic diversity. This volume features 22 painters whose sources range from snapshots to commercial media, among them Richard Artschwager, Robert Bechtle, Celmins, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Thomas Eggerer, Judith Eisler, Franz Gertsch, Richard Hamilton, Eberhard Havekost, David Hockney, Johannes Kahrs, Johanna Kandl, Martin Kippenberger, Liu Xiaodong, Malcolm Morley, Elizabeth Peyton, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Richter, Wilhelm Sasnal, Luc Tuymans and Warhol. Essays by curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, writer and critic Martin Herbert, Hayward Director Ralph Rugoff and poet and critic, Barry Schwabsky lend insight to issues of translation, context and content.

Mario Merz: The Monograph

Essays by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Pier Giovanni Castagnoli, et al.
Published by Fondazione Merz

Mario Merz, the late, great proponent of Arte Povera, envisioned the contemporary artist as a nomad, ever mediating and meditating on the relationship between nature and culture. He began to make work after his arrest in 1945 for anti-fascist activities; confined to jail, he drew incessantly on whatever material he could find. After his release, he painted first in oil on canvas, then began to pierce the canvas--as well as objects such as bottles, umbrellas and raincoats--with neon tubes, symbolically infusing them with energy. In 1968, Merz adopted one of his signature motifs, the igloo, symbol of the transitory artist. At base a metal skeleton, the igloo could be covered with site-specific fragments of clay, wax, mud, glass, burlap, or bundles of branches, and decorated with political or literary phrases in neon tubing. Merz's iconography later came to incorporate the Fibonacci formula of mathematical progression (1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34...), stacked newspapers, archetypal animals, motorcycles and the table, symbol of the human need for fulfillment and interaction. This posthumous monograph is the most complete publication on the artist. It includes documentation of his entire artistic production, including paintings, sculptures, installations, drawings, neon and Fibonacci series work, plus many previously unpublished materials. With a comprehensive history of Merz's career, a bibliography, a biographic chronology and critical essays, it offers a deep and deserving reflection of the artist and his significant role in twentieth-century art.

Michael Rakowitz: Circumventions

Interview by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. Afterword by Giuliana Carusi Setari.
Published by Onestar Press

To circumvent is to get around the rules, to find loopholes, to initiate idiosyncratic solutions, to employ subtle metaphor to highlight problematic situations. Michael Rakowitz does just that, combining architecture, design, agitational techniques and a poetic sensibility to create installations and performances that touch on issues of power, visibility and memory. His paraSITe shelters are custom-built tents for homeless people that attach to the hot exhaust vents of buildings, creating not only a heated abode but one much more visible than a cardboard box. Rise conducts the smell of Chinese pastries from a Chinatown bakery to the decidedly un-local art exhibition in an adjacent building. And in Minaret, Rakowitz uses an alarm clock bought in Jordan to broadcast the adhan, the Muslim call to prayer, to a city where minarets are otherwise quieted.

Animations

Edited by Klaus Biesenbach. Essays by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Norman Klein, Anthony Huberman, Giannalberto Bendazzi, John Canemaker, Larissa Harris and, Karyn Riegel. Foreword by Alanna Heiss.
Published by P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

The works in Animations endow unlikely objects with unexpected and uncanny life. During its century-plus history, animation has continually absorbed, hybridized, mutated and melded disciplines and techniques, undergoing both commercial exploitation and artistic exploration. The latter is documented here, focusing on the cross-continental exchange of artists from around the world who are dialoguing in the collective languages of animation. 28 artists are featured here, including Haluk Akakce, Francis Alÿs, William Kentridge, Kristen Lucas, Pierre Huyghe, Liam Gillick and Liliana Porter, demonstrating the unique ways in which contemporary visual practitioners address animation as a medium and subject.

Janet Cardiff: A Survey Of Works, Including Collaborations With George Bures Miller

Essay by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. Foreword by Alanna Heiss, Glenn Lowry and Marcel Brisebois.
Published by P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

Shifting between fact and fiction, between the experience of the real and our projections, fantasies, and desires, Janet Cardiff's audio-video and multimedia installations explore the complexity and vertiginous nature of subjectivity in a highly technological world. They are interactive pieces where visitors are asked to touch, listen, smell, and often move through an environment shaped both by our perceptions and by the artist's alteration of them. With references to film noir, science fiction, cyber-punk and various other filmic genres, her works, often created in collaboration with husband George Bures Miller, address the constant need to negotiate between presence and loss of self, memory and experience, sensation and imagination.

Janet Cardiff: A Survey Of Works, Including Collaborations With George Bures Miller

Essay by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. Foreword by Alanna Heiss, Glenn Lowry and Marcel Brisebois.
Published by P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

Zero To Infinity

Art Povera: 1962-1972

Essays by Francesco Bonami, Giorgia Bottinelli, Germano Celant, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Corinna Criticos, Judith Kirshner, Robert Lumley, Karen Pinkus. Artists include Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero e Boetti, Giorgia Bottinelli, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Lu
Published by Walker Art Center

Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera, 1962-1972 focuses on one of the most innovative and influential art movements of the postwar era. Arte Povera came of age in the context of the ''Italian miracle'' economic boom and the subsequent student and workers revolts of 1968, motivated by an urge to revolt not only against the primacy of painting in the postwar period, but also against the emerging consumer culture. This exhibition and its accompanying catalogue provide a highly comprehensive retrospective of the Arte Povera movement as a historical and aesthetic phenomenon that crossed a wide range of disciplines, including sculpture, installation, drawing, photography, film and performance. The exhibition traces Arte Povera's genesis within the artistic and political context of Italy to its positioning within the broader international context of postwar artistic practices, a moment marked by the participation of the Arte Povera group in the 1972 Documenta V exhibition in Kassel. This essential new catalogue is designed by the Walker Art Center's award-winning design department, and includes a wide range of essays by international scholars and curators, as well as rare historical documentation, in an unprecedented re-examination of the Arte Povera movement.

John Wesley: Paintings

1961-2000

Essays by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Alanna Heiss, Brian O'Doherty.
Published by P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

John Wesley: Paintings

1961-2000

Essays by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Alanna Heiss, Brian O'Doherty.
Published by P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

Accompanying a retrospective at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in New York, this new monograph documents the work of painter John Wesley, covering his entire career from 1961 until today. Wesley is known for his consistency of palette--baby blues and cotton pinks--his use of painted "frames" within his pictures, his early emblem paintings, his cartoon Bumstead works--and ultimately for his representations of an inner erotic voyage where the viewer is both voyager and voyeur. Initially considered in alignment with pop artists of the early 60s, Wesley consistently produced works of such a subtle and subversive nature as to put him in a category of his own. He used the early tools of advertising production--like tracing paper and stock photography--and was the subject of a wide range of influences, from Surrealism to Art Nouveau, from ancient Greek poetry to Matisse. The result is an oeuvre that has challenged and rewarded viewers for forty years.

Chen Zhen

Artwork by Chen Zhen. Text by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev.
Published by Hopefulmonster

William Kentridge

Artwork by William Kentridge. Text by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev.
Published by Societe des Expositions du Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles

La Ville, Le Jardin, La Memoire

1998-2000

Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist. Text by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Laurence Bossé.
Published by Charta