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Richard Phillips & Adolf Dietrich: Painting and Misappropriation

Since 2003, American artist Richard Phillips (born 1964) has made numerous appropriations of paintings by the Swiss artist Adolf Dietrich (1877-1957). Phillips shares with Dietrich a fondness for such subjects as animals, people and landscapes, stylized into an extreme degree of artifice. Phillips' appropriations and quotations of Dietrich's motifs orient his own aims firmly within the logic of art history (specifically the modernist canon), and Dietrich, known in his day as "the German Rousseau," and winning acclaim under the constrained terms of "naïve," also proves to be a sophisticated modernist artist. In this volume, published to accompany an exhibition at the Swiss Institute in New York, Phillips' works are presented alongside Dietrich's, accompanied by an essay on Dietrich by Phillips, a conversation between Beatrix Ruf and Phillips, a text by Dietrich scholar Dorothee Mesmer and an introduction by Gianni Jetzer and Markus Landert.  > more

RICHARD PHILLIPS & ADOLF DIETRICH: PAINTING AND MISAPPROPRIATION
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Francis Alÿs: Le Temps du Sommeil

The Belgian-born artist Francis Alÿs (born 1959) is known for his walks and tales executed in a wide range of media (documentary film, painting, photography, performance, video and installation) that marry humor and sensitivity, banality and spontaneity, personal and political. A compulsive wanderer, many of his works involve intense observation and recording of the social, cultural and economic conditions of urban life. This beautifully designed volume presents an ongoing series of paintings that function as kind of a storyboard and archive of the artist's oeuvre to date. Begun in 1996, Le Temps du Sommeil ("The Time of Sleep") comprises over 100 paintings accompanied by instructions and postcards related--sometimes obliquely--to the artist's past performative actions. The instructions and paintings are presented en face, giving birth to a text-image dialogue that is sometimes witty and always fascinating. Le Temps du Sommeil affirms Alÿs yet again as an artist always able to surprise.  > more

FRANCIS ALYS: LE TEMPS DU SOMMEIL
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John Miller: A Refusal to Accept Limits

Using well-used genres like figurative painting, travel photography and landscape, John Miller has, since the 1970s, challenged the function of the author and the concomitant loss of aura for the artwork. He has regularly shifted his practice, actively resisting the reduction of his work to any critical tag. This volume remaps Miller's oeuvre.  > more

JOHN MILLER: A REFUSAL TO ACCEPT LIMITS
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CURATED LIBRARIES | FEATURED SELECTIONS A Dada Library A Bauhaus Library Nouveau Realisme A Feminist Art Bookshelf The Pictures Generation A Relational Aesthetics Bookshelf A Curator's Bookshelf A Library of Women Artists Contemporary Figurative Painting Contemporary Sculpture Library Modern and Contemporary Drawing A Print Collector's Library Collage & Photomontage Bookshelf

FEATURED TITLES THIS SEASON Jean-Michel Basquiat Neo Rauch: Paintings On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918-1936 Rudolf Steiner and Contemporary Art Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Art to Hear Kirchner Caravaggio: The Complete Works Michelangelo: The Drawings of a Genius Antonio López García: Drawings Lucian Freud: The Studio Raymond Pettibon: Front Row Center Thurston Moore: In Silver Rain With a Paper Key David Lynch: Lithos David Lynch: Dark Splendor Julian Schnabel: Art and Film Barry McGee Beautiful Losers: A Film By Aaron Rose Ed Templeton: The Cemetery of Reason Dr. Lakra Drawings On Hands Jason Logan: Festus Yuichi Yokoyama: Garden Yves Klein By Himself Of Bridges & Borders Personal Structures: Time-Space-Existence

BESTSELLERS | CORE ART TITLES Andy Warhol Prints The Autobiography and Sex Life of Andy Warhol Bauhaus 1919-1933 Beautiful Losers Cy Twombly: Cycles and Seasons Dada: Zurich, Berlin, Hannover, Cologne, New York, Paris Drawing Now Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting Edward Hopper El Greco to Velázquez Frida Kahlo Gabriel Orozco Gerhard Richter: 100 Pictures Gerhard Richter: Forty Years Of Painting Gustave Courbet James Ensor Jean-Michel Basquiat Jeff Koons: Versailles Kandinsky Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love Kiki Smith Kiki Smith: Prints, Books and Things The Klee Universe Luc Tuymans Lucian Freud: The Painter's Etchings Magritte: Attempting the Impossible Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present Mark Rothko Mark Ryden: The Tree Show Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave Martin Puryear Mike Mills: Graphics Films Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth No.1: First Works By 362 Artists Painting People Paul Klee: Hand Puppets Peter Doig A Picasso Portfolio: Prints from The Museum of Modern Art Picasso: The Monograph, 1881-1973 Plane Image: A Brice Marden Retrospective Rembrandt's Journey Renoir in the 20th Century Richard Prince Sophie Calle: Take Care of Yourself The Art Of Richard Tuttle Sound and Fury: The Art of Henry Darger Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night Women Impressionists Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers