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Contemporary Drawing




Compass in Hand: Assessing Drawing Now <br>Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
Drawing Now <br>Eight Propositions
Laylah Ali: Note Drawings <br>
Compass in Hand: Assessing Drawing Now
Edited by Christian Rattemeyer. Text by Gary Garrels, Christian Rattemeyer, Harvey S. Shipley Miller. Formed by Harvey S. Shipley Miller and donated to The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 2005, The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection was conceived to be the widest possible cross-section of contemporary >>more
The Museum Of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870707452
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Hbk, 9 x 11.25 in. / 320 pgs / 320 color / 845 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/01/2009 Active/In stock


Drawing Now
Essay by Laura Hoptman. From John Currin's old-master-style Playboy bunnies to Elizabeth Peyton's fin-de-siecle portraits; from Julie Mehretu's dizzying, multilayered architectural landscapes to Shahzia Sikander's multipatterned miniature ones; from Yoshitomo Nara's angry and e >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870703621
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Paperback, 9.5 x 12 in. / 192 pgs / 130 color.
Pub Date: 10/02/2002 Active/In stock


Laylah Ali: Note Drawings
Text by Dina Deitsch, Kevin Young. For the past decade, Laylah Ali has been interrogating the visual language of contemporary society through paintings and drawings inhabited by her subversive characters. The Note drawings presented in this catalogue reference Ali's earlier work, >>more
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park
ISBN 9780945506591
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Pbk, 8 x 10 in. / 64 pgs / 27 color / 12 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/01/2009 Active/In stock


Laylah Ali: Types <br>
John Currin <br>
Julie Mehretu: Black City <br>
Laylah Ali: Types
Artwork by Laylah Ali. Known for her cartoon-like characters engaged in ambiguous activities, Laylah Ali's paintings and drawings imply narratives that address a wide variety of political, cultural, and social concerns. Her carefully-created images are deceptive with their buo >>more
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
ISBN 9780971219564
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Paperback, 4.25 x 5.5 in. / 36 pgs / 7 color / 7 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/15/2005 Active/In stock


John Currin
Artwork by John Currin. Evocative, varied, sometimes vulgar and often styled in a deliberately retrograde manner, John Currin's depictions of women nearly always induce a sense of the familiar, of having been seen before--framed on the wall of a >>more
Taka Ishii Gallery
ISBN 9781564660985
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Hardcover, 8.75 x 11 in. / 124 pgs / 58 color.
Pub Date: 10/02/2002 Active/In stock


Julie Mehretu: Black City
Text by Agustin Perez Rubio, Marcus Steinweg, Cay Sophie Rabinowitz. Life has taken Julie Mehretu from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to New York the long way. Now the New York Times writes that her canvases--multilayered, futuristic visual worlds where historical and fictional landscapes meet--"make history painting >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775718639
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Hardcover, 11 x 11 in. / 208 pgs / 214 color.
Pub Date: 01/01/2007 Active/In stock


Shahzia Sikander <br>
Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love <br>
Amy Sillman: Works on Paper <br>
Shahzia Sikander
Foreword by Enrique Juncosa. Text by Sean Kissane and Homi K. Bhabha. Over the past 17 years, Shahzia Sikander has worked within the tradition of Indo-Persian miniature painting--creating a dialogue with a traditional form of art while engaging in a transformative task. Over the years, she has >>more
Charta / Irish Museum of Modern Art
ISBN 9788881586424
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Hardcover, 9.5 x 12.25 in. / 160 pgs / 107 color / 2 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/01/2007 Active/In stock


Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love
Text by Philippe Vergne, Sander L. Gilman, Thomas McEvilley, Robert Storr, Kevin Young, Yasmil Raymond. Kara Walker is among the most complex and prolific American artists of her generation. Over the past decade, she has gained international recognition for her room-sized tableaux, which depict historical narratives haunted by sexuality, violence >>more
Walker Art Center
ISBN 9780935640861
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Hardcover, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 432 pgs / 250 color / 60 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2007 Active/In stock


Amy Sillman: Works on Paper
Text by Wayne Koestenbaum. Description: Works on Paper marks the first major publication of the work of noted New York painter Amy Sillman, whose rapidly growing reputation and increasingly recognized influence on other artists make its timing ideal. Her >>more
Gregory R. Miller & Co.
ISBN 9780974364841
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Hardcover, 10 x 11 in. / 130 pgs / 75 color.
Pub Date: 06/01/2006 Active/In stock


Tacita Dean: Analogue <br>Drawings 1991-2006
Andrea Fogli: Diary of Shadows <br>
Karen Kilimnik <br>
Tacita Dean: Analogue
Interview by Theodora Vischer. Over the past 15 years Tacita Dean has created a body of work in film, photography and drawing that's impressive in its idiosyncratic handling of those media and striking in its contrary beauty. In combination >>more
Steidl/Schaulager
ISBN 9783865212894
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Paperback, 8 x 10 in. / 160 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 08/15/2006 Active/In stock


Andrea Fogli: Diary of Shadows
Introduction by Jan Hoet, Graziella Lonardi Buontempo. Text by Bruno Corà, Peter Weiermair, Evelyn Weiss. "Andrea Fogli's drawings are like poetic gifts for the eyes that give us something we can only experience on the surface of the paper." The 106 fantastical drawings collected here, made between 2000 and 2006, >>more
Kerber
ISBN 9783866780095
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Hardcover, 9.25 x 12.2 in. / 168 pgs / 106 color / 8b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2007 Active/In stock


Karen Kilimnik
Essays by Dominic Molon and Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith. In the 1980s, critics compared Karen Kilimnik's narrative and jumbled installations to the previous decade's "scatter art," they have since become cult favorites of a new generation of artists and curators. Her drawings and paintings >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783905701234
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Paperback, 9.5 x 11.25 in. / 160 pgs / 120 color.
Pub Date: 09/15/2006 Out of print/Not available


Carroll Dunham: Line That Never Ends <br>Drawings 1984-2004
Bea Emsbach: Beutezüge Im Bodensatz Der Wissenschaften <br>
Silvia Bächli: Linien <br>
Carroll Dunham: Line That Never Ends
Essay by Klaus Kertess. Introduction by Juerg Judin. Exploration and radical change have distinguished New York painter Carroll Dunham's drawings and works on canvas since the beginning of his career. Drawings 1984-2004 documents 20 years of controlled yet delirious lines wrapping around biomorphic >>more
Galerie Judin and Nolan/Eckman Gallery
ISBN 9783906801056
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Hardcover, 12 x 9.75 in. / 61 pgs / 86 color and 9 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/15/2006 Active/Awaiting stock


Bea Emsbach: Beutezüge Im Bodensatz Der Wissenschaften
Essays by Beate Ermacora, Verena Kuni, Annelie Pohlen and Edwin Schâfer. In the intersection of comics, biotechnology, fairly tales and science fiction lies the work of Bea Emsbach. Through the characteristic precision of her blood-red ink drawings, Emsbach creates scenarios--both real and unreal--that serve to perturb >>more
Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst Nurnberg
ISBN 9783933096920
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Hardcover, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 160 pgs / 130 color.
Pub Date: 03/15/2005 Active/In stock


Silvia Bächli: Linien
Essay by Markus Stegmann. Silvia Bächli's lineup of large-scale drawings is the most comprehensive to date from the important Swiss artist. Marked by Bächli's characteristic purity of form and drawn by hand, the lines, in grids or other manifestations, >>more
Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst Nurnberg
ISBN 9783936711592
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Hardcover, 8.5 x 12.5 in. / 80 pgs / 32 color.
Pub Date: 08/15/2005 Active/In stock


Mark Lombardi: Global Networks <br>
On Line <br>
Nog a Dod: Prehistoric Canadian Psychedoolia <br>
Mark Lombardi: Global Networks
Artwork by Mark Lombardi. Edited by Judith Richards. Text by Robert Hobbs. In drawings both small and monumental, Mark Lombardi creates visual narratives of the way money flows in our postimperial, transnational economy: from corporations to political organizations, from individuals to various ad hoc groups, most of >>more
Independent Curators International, New York
ISBN 9780916365677
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Paperback, 9 x 11 in. / 136 pgs / 25 color.
Pub Date: 07/02/2003 Active/In stock


On Line
Edited by Michael Juul Holm and Anders Kold. Drawing, whether by hand or onscreen, has become a striking expressive element in contemporary art--an independent discipline beyond the classic sketch. This collection of work from 10 young European and American artists checks in with >>more
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
ISBN 9788791607189
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Paperback, 11 x 15.5 in. / 48 pgs / 2 color and 12 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/15/2006 Active/In stock


Nog a Dod: Prehistoric Canadian Psychedoolia
Edited by Marc Bell. Like their contemporaries and friends in the Royal Art Lodge (some of whom are featured here), this loosely affiliated group of Vancouver-based artists draw with and about each other, working on one another's pieces, creating >>more
PictureBox
ISBN 9781894994163
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Paperback, 6 x 7.5 in. / 224 pgs / 112 color and 112 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/15/2006 Active/In stock


Contemporary Erotic Drawing <br>
Contemporary Erotic Drawing
Essays by Wayne Koestenbaum and Sue Taylor. Foreword by Harry Philbrick and Sara Kellner. Introduction by Stuart Horodner. Encompassing the subjects of sexuality and erotica, The Aldrich Contemporary Museum presents this catalogue from the Contemporary Erotic Drawing exhibition, featuring more than 35 artists. In describing the immediacy and intimacy of drawing, Josep >>more
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art
ISBN 9781888332247
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Hardcover, 9 x 11.75 in. / 100 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 03/15/2005 Active/In stock




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