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  Asia Society Museum Sarah Sze: Infinite Line Sarah Sze erects vertiginous sculptural universes from common consumer products such as aspirin, foam, ladders, Q-Tips, plastic spoons, notepads, trash baskets, thimbles and wrapped candies. Always responsive to surrounding space, Sze’s rhizomatic works are sometimes described as installation rather than sculpture, but an equally close or closer relationship occurs with drawing, the focus of the Asia Society Museum’s major Sze exhibition opening in December 2011, and this new hardcover volume published for the occasion. Infinite Line is the first publication to address the relationship of Sze’s sculpture to drawing, and to explore the influence of East Asian artistic traditions on her sensibility. How do you make a sculpture that acts like a drawing?” Sze asks with these works. How do you make a drawing that acts like a sculpture?” Born in 1969 in Boston, Massachusetts, Sarah Sze was initially trained in architecture. She received a BA from Yale University (1991) and . . . . [see book details]

  Foreword by Vishakha Desai. Preface by Melissa Chiu. Text by Melissa Chiu, Miwako Tezuka, Saskia Sassen. Hbk, 9.25 x 12.25 in. / 144 pgs / 115 color. Publication Date: 10/31/2011 List Price: US $55.00

  Gregory R. Miller & Co./Blaffer Art Museum Tony Feher Bottles aligned on shelves or suspended in the air, jars of marbles and dye-filled tubes: form, substance and structure emerge from deceptively humble means in the sculpture of Tony Feher. His work uses gravity, light and repetition to isolate and animate everyday objects, creating a sculptural territory that Feher can rightfully claim as entirely his own. Published in conjunction with a major retrospective exhibition organized by the Blaffer Art Museum, this is the first publication to explore work from throughout the artist’s significant and influential career. This comprehensive book reproduces his many sculptures, site-specific installations and two-dimensional works and includes major new texts on Feher’s practice from Blaffer Director Claudia Schmuckli and curator and writer Russell Ferguson. Superbly realized by renowned New York design studio Matsumoto Incorporated, this publication is the definitive book on the work of a vanguard American artist. . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Claudia Schmuckli, Russell Ferguson. Clth, 8.25 x 11 in. / 264 pgs / 164 color. Publication Date: 6/30/2012 List Price: US $60.00

  Galleryske/Tilton Gallery Sudarshan Shetty: The More I Die the Lighter I Get A stool with a prosthetic limb; a row of vitrified eyeballs; pairs of marching, transparent thermoplastic shoes: from his earliest paintings to his recent installations and kinetic sculptures, Indian artist Sudarshan Shetty (born 1961) has leveled distinctions between bodies and furniture. This exceptionally well designed volume, with its inserts and paper changes, surveys his sometimes comic, sometimes grotesque works. . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Thomas McEvilley, Vyjayanthi Rao, Sharmistha Mohanty. Hbk, 10 x 12.5 in. / 379 pgs / 300 color / 30 b&w / 30 duotone. Publication Date: 6/30/2012 List Price: US $75.00

  Richter Verlag Heinz Mack: Kinetics The kinetic sculptures of Heinz Mack (born 1931) are some of the genre’s most enduring works. One of the three founding members of the Zero group, Mack created works that produce astounding effects of light, as well as motorized reliefs and outdoor installations that fuse natural and artificial light. This beautifully produced volume offers the definitive examination of Mack’s kinetic oeuvre. . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Anina Baum, Lisa Bosbach, Sabine Fabo, Julia Giebeler, Jee-Hae Kim, Heinz Mack, Eva Rieß, Raphael Smazoch, Susanne Titz, Francesca Valentini, Franziska Wagner. Clth, 9.25 x 12 in. / 320 pgs / 90 color / 165 duotone. Publication Date: 1/31/2012 List Price: US $60.00

  Guggenheim Museum Publications Maurizio Cattelan: All Hailed simultaneously as a provocateur, prankster and tragic poet of our times, Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan has created some of the most unforgettable images in recent contemporary art--most notoriously with The Ninth Hour,” his 1999 sculpture of Pope John Paul II struck by a meteorite. Cattelan's subjects range widely, being derived from popular culture, history and organized religion; while bold and irreverent, the work is also deadly serious in its scathing cultural critique. Maurizio Cattelan: All accompanies the Guggenheim Museum's retrospective survey of the artist. For the exhibition, the museum has devised a site-specific installation intended to sidestep the totalizing effect of a retrospective, and for this catalogue the museum has produced an equally unique response to this dilemma and to the conventions of the catalogue format. All is a faux-leather-bound hardcover with gold stamping and thin paper that is designed to resemble an old textbook or bible. The volume catalogues . . . . [see book details]

  By Nancy Spector. Faux leather, 6.25 x 9.5 in. / 255 pgs / illustrated throughout. Publication Date: 11/30/2011 List Price: US $45.00

  JRP|Ringier Allan McCollum Since the late 1970s, Allan McCollum (born 1944) has addressed the anthropology of art: its distribution, acquisition, display and interpretation. From his first Surrogate Paintings (1978-82) to his Individual Works (1987-89) or recent Shapes Project(since 2005), through his famous series of Plaster Surrogates (begun in 1982), Perpetual Photos (since 1981) and Perfect Vehicles (since 1986), McCollum has revealed art's mechanisms as a status-generating economy. In the 1990s, his art objects” were replaced by found objects belonging to a situated context and community, in an effort to explore local micro-politics and to develop projects with specific milieus. His use of multiples, of museums and display aesthetics as compositional elements, all stem from this displacement of context. Working with regional museums, heterogeneous audiences, and references going from paleontology to mineralogy, McCollum today has built a truly unique and intriguing body of work that receives its first comprehensive overview in this monograph. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Rhea Anastas. Text by Martha Buskirk, MaryJo Marks, Catherine Quéloz. Hbk, 11 x 10.75 in. / 144 pgs / 100 color / 30 b&w. Publication Date: 4/30/2012 List Price: US $80.00

  Charta/Galeria Nara Roesler Carlito Carvalhosa: Nice To Meet You The monumental installations of Brazilian artist Carlito Carvalhosa transform gallery spaces into immersive multisensory environments. For his 2010 installation A Soma Dos Dias,” presented at the Pinacoteca do Estado de Sao Paulo, Carvalhosa interlaced 1,400 meters of cloth with 264 light bulbs, 44 loud speakers, four microphones, two laptops and a piano, aiming to stimulate viewers on several levels simultaneously. In 2011, Carvalhosa makes his debut at The Museum of Modern Art, New York with a new large-scale work. This retrospective monograph spans Carvalhosa´s production of the past decade and is augmented with critical texts by João Bandeira, Beatriz Bracher, Paulo Herkenhoff, Arto Lindsay, Ivo Mesquita, Juliana Monachesi, Daniel Rangel and Paulo Venancio. Carvalhosa designed the volume, and has composed it to read as a compendium of his sketches, floor plans, maquettes and writings. . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Paulo Venancio, Daniel Rangel, Beatriz Bracher, Juliana Monachesi, Paulo Herkenhoff, João Bandeira, Arto Lindsay, Ivo Mesquita, Luis Pérez-Oramas. Hbk, 6.25 x 7.5 in. / 280 pgs / 200 color. Publication Date: 9/30/2011 List Price: US $55.00

  Walther Kˆnig, Kˆln Evan Penny: Re Figured Canadian artist Evan Penny (born 1953) makes the kind of sculpture that is so realistic, so detailed and so plainly a demonstration of virtuoso ability that it can literally stop people in their tracks. Modeled with tremendous craftsmanship in aluminium, silicone, epoxy resin and pigments, his freestanding nude figures and portrait heads invite the viewer to examine every fleshy imperfection and intimate crevice. The twist in this extreme realism is their anamorphically skewed perspective, so that what appears to be a conventionally dimensioned figure from one angle turns out to be wildly distorted from another. Penny uses electronic image editing and 3D scanning to create these effects, which transform an initial experience of ultra-realism into a vertiginous encounter massively mediated by artifice and technology. This volume surveys Penny's sculptural works of the past three decades. . . . . [see book details]

  Hbk, 9.25 x 12 in. / 160 pgs / 126 color. Publication Date: 9/30/2011 List Price: US $45.00

  Kunsthaus Bregenz Haegue Yang: Arrivals From mundane objects such as Venetian blinds, theatrical lights, infrared heaters, fans and metal stands, Korean artist Haegue Yang (born 1971) creates complex installations that trade on the immersive familiarity of domestic props to disquiet the viewer in the subtlest of ways. Artificial manipulations of intangible sensual experiences such as heat, odor and light further heighten the elusive spatial evanescence of her works. For her 2009 sculpture Sallim,” Yang created a full-scale model of her kitchen in Berlin, free from many of the things that are attributes of the ordinary concept of work in terms of social effectiveness/productivity,” as she describes it. What remains is more like the bare outline of a kitchen, with its structural and indeed conceptual solidity rendered provisional and strangely dubious. Haegue Yang: Arrivals presents a catalogue raisonné of the artist's works to date, revealing her to be one of today's most intriguing young artists. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Yilmaz Dziewior. Text by Marina Vishmidt, Anders Kreuger. Clth, 7.25 x 9.25 in. / 351 pgs / 200 color. Publication Date: 8/31/2011 List Price: US $65.00

  Albion Editions Xu Bing Xu Bing (born 1955) began his career at the crest of China's 1985 New Wave” art. He relocated to the U.S. after the Tiananmen Square massacre, and has since emerged on the stage of global art as a hugely popular figure. Xu's sculptural explorations of his Chinese cultural heritage have produced large-scale installations deploying, for example, hand-carved printing blocks inscribed with 4,000 characters invented by the artist (“Book from the Sky” ); in Where Does the Dust Collect Itself?” he arranged a handful of dust into a seventh-century Zen text. Xu's intercessions in the Chinese signifier's communication of meaning suggest the fragility of all cultural transmission within the continuum of history, and perhaps also point to the artist's own experience of displacement. With more than 400 reproductions of works from across Xu's career, this first complete retrospective is accompanied by critical commentary plus a full bibliography and exhibition chronology. . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Reiko Tomii, David Elliott, Robert E. Harriet, Jr. Clth, 9.75 x 11.75 in. / 280 pgs / 332 color / 95 b&w. Publication Date: 6/30/2012 List Price: US $85.00

  Walther König, Köln Absalon Israeli artist Absalon (1964-1993) built large white geometric sculptures that began as plain renderings of basic forms--rectangles, squares, triangles, circles--and developed into shapes resembling machine parts, eventually becoming contemplative dwelling units. This volume constitutes a catalogue raisonné of his works. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Susanne Pfeffer. Foreword by Hortensia Völckers. Pbk, 9 x 12 in. / 352 pgs / illustrated throughout. Publication Date: 6/30/2011 List Price: US $65.00

  JRP|Ringier Valentin Carron Valentin Carron's sculptures mark a three-dimensional renewal of appropriationism, through the re-employment of vernacular forms that are neither authentic nor kitsch. His objects play with the ambiguities of fake wood, concrete and bronze, and with the iconography of power and authority in public sculptures or commemorative monuments. This volume offers an overview. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Lionel Bovier. Text by Andrea Bellini, Christy Lange, Fabrice Stroun. Pbk, 9.25 x 11.25 in. / 160 pgs / 100 color. Publication Date: 9/30/2011 List Price: US $55.00

  Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College/Whitechapel Gallery/Portikus Rachel Harrison: Museum With Walls Rachel Harrison (born 1966) is one of the most exciting artists making sculptures today. Her assemblages of found and constructed objects carry a provisional quality, a wry sense of humor and an all-embracing intelligence. Playing with materials ranging from plinth, pedestal and corrugated cardboard to plastic ketchup bottles, insulated travel mugs and Barbie's wheelchair-bound friend, Harrison creates colorful, canny, thought-provoking constructions that are worthy peers of Rauschenberg's Combines. This volume, the most comprehensive monograph of Harrison's sculpture, video and painting to date, provides documentation of the past 15 years of her work and includes essays by Tom Eccles, David Joselit, Iwona Blazwick and Jack Bankowsky, plus contributions from Paul Chan, John Kelsey, Allan McCollum, Lucy Raven, Amy Sillman and Steven Stern. . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Tom Eccles, Iwona Blazwick, Jack Bankowsky, David Joselit, Paul Chan, John Kelsey, Allan McCollum, Lucy Raven, Amy Sillman, Steven Stern. Hbk, 9.5 x 12.25 in. / 272 pgs / 245 color. Publication Date: 8/31/2010 List Price: US $65.00

  Hatje Cantz Peter Fischli, David Weiss Swiss duo Fischli & Weiss have been collaborating since 1979 on clever, charming works that recruit everyday detritus—from stuffed animals and beer bottles to sausages and magazine advertisements—into witty scenarios of balance, collapse and blissful silliness. Their best-known work remains their film The Way Things Go, in which household items are arranged in a domino sequence to fall, catch fire and roll along, with dizzying hilarity and always flouting any distinction between high and low. All of the duo's projects are permeated with this delight in testing and demonstrating the wondrousness of the world. Hatje Cantz's new survey looks back at Fischli & Weiss' sculptures, installations, photographs and films of the past 30 years, presenting such early works as the photo series Wurstserie (Sausage Series) from 1980 and their popular installation "Question Projection" (1981–2002), which gathered such plaintive musings as "Will happiness find me?" . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Ingvild Goetz, Stephan Urbaschek, Karsten Löckemann. Hbk, 7 x 9.75 in. / 192 pgs / 211 color. Publication Date: 4/30/2011 List Price: US $55.00

  Blaffer Art Museum Gabriel Kuri: Nobody Needs To Know the Price of your Saab Over the past decade, Gabriel Kuri (born 1970) has been ransacking the paradoxes of material consumption, extracting both visual and linguistic value from the tracking systems and trivial marketing mechanisms that fill our daily lives. Kuri's sculptures and collages are often fashioned from the residue of monetary exchanges and consumed goods that the artist collects on a daily basis, but their richness lies in their unusual calibration of manual and conceptual properties: his works reward eye and mind equally. "Model for a Victory Parade," for example, consists of a conveyor belt with a crumpled energy-drink can trapped and perpetually tumbling at one end. The visual appeal of this work quickly opens out into speculations on the ironies of humankind's energy consumption. Nobody Needs to Know the Price of Your Saab is presented in conjunction with Kuri's survey at Blaffer Art Museum. . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Claudia Schmuckli, Elena Filipovic, Abraham Cruzvillegas. Pbk, 6.75 x 9.75 in. / 130 pgs / illustrated throughout. Publication Date: 3/31/2011 List Price: US $39.99

  The Museum of Modern Art, New York The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today Since its birth in the first half of the nineteenth century, photography has offered extraordinary possibilities of documenting, redefining and disseminating works of art. Through crop, focus, angle of view, degree of close-up and lighting, as well as through expostfacto techniques of dark room manipulation, collage, montage and assemblage, artists not only interpret the works they record but create stunning reinventions of them. The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today presents a critical examination of the intersections between photography and sculpture, exploring how the one medium has become implicated in the understanding of the other. Through a selection of nearly 300 outstanding pictures by more than 100 artists from the nineteenth century to the present, The Original Copy looks at how and why sculpture became a photographic subject and how photography at once informs and challenges our knowledge of sculpture. The images range in subject from inanimate objects to . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Roxana Marcoci. Text by Roxana Marcoci, Geoffrey Batchen, Tobia Bezzola. Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 242 pgs / 120 color / 180 b&w. Publication Date: 8/30/2010 List Price: US $55.00

  Kettler Verlag Christo & Jeanne-Claude: Early Works 1958-64 The monumental but temporary interventions of Christo and Jeanne-Claude, now beloved by millions across the world, began in a very different era, in late-1950s Paris, amid the antics of Yves Klein and the assemblage art of the Nouveaux Réalistes. Composed in close co-operation with Christo and Jeanne-Claude, just prior to Jeanne-Claude's death in November 2009, Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Early Works 1958-64, is the first publication in almost 40 years to deal in depth with the early work of the duo. Previously unpublished works and photographs from the artists' archives narrate the road from Christo's arrival in Paris (from his native Bulgaria) in 1958 to his and Jeanne-Claude's relocation to New York in 1964. Along with an introductory text by Matthias Koddenberg, art historian and longstanding friend of Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the book contains an extensive interview with the artists and a detailed chronology for the years 1935 to 1964. . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Matthias Koddenberg. Pbk, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 192 pgs / 57 color / 50 b&w. Publication Date: 6/30/2010 List Price: US $35.00

  DuMont Buchverlag Erwin Wurm Austrian artist Erwin Wurm has continually found inventive and witty answers to the question what is sculpture?” Over the course of 25 years, Wurm has built up a multifaceted oeuvre that might be described as a research enterprise into the medium's expanded possibilities—but which is a lot more pointedly witty than such a description suggests. He became known to a wider audience in the late 1980s, through his absurdist one-minute sculptures, in which the artist or other performers (often volunteers solicited through newspaper ads) acted out strange feats in unusual settings—diving headlong into a crate, legs flailing, doing push-ups balancing on four teacups, or simply standing with asparagus stuffed in each nostril. Wurm has also garnered acclaim for his fascinatingly grotesque fat sculptures” of overweight houses and bulging cars. Wurm's humor is akin to Roman Signer or Fischli and Weiss in its swiftness of impact and its almost childlike simplicity. Now . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Helmut Friedel, Franz Schuh, Stephan Berg, et al. Hbk, 9.5 x 12.5 in. / 336 pgs / 400 color. Publication Date: 2/28/2010 List Price: US $75.00

  D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. Louise Bourgeois: La Famille The fear of being born into the world an unwanted girl; the fear of becoming a pawn in the lives of her parents; the fear of failing as a wife, mother and artist: Over the course of her 70 years as an artist, Louise Bourgeois, born in 1911 in Paris, has always placed the psychology of family at the center of her work. Bourgeois left her homeland in 1938, without a degree, to live in New York with her husband, Robert Goldwater, a curator at The Museum of Modern Art. In 1940, the couple adopted their first son, and in 1941 Bourgeois gave birth to two more boys. Her artistic oeuvre deals almost exclusively with the fear of not being able to live up to the roles she was born into and took on. Most of her early works consisted of paintings on the theme of family, many of which have . . . . [see book details]

  Essay by Thomas Kellein. Text by Louise Bourgeois. Hardcover, 7 x 9.5 in. / 242 pgs / 150 color / 20 b&w. Publication Date: 8/15/2006 List Price: US $45.00

  Kerber James Lee Byars: Im Full of Byars James Lee Byars--who was born in Detroit in 1932 and died in Cairo in 1997--was one of the twentieth-century art world's most unusual and elusive figures. Enamored with the imaginary and fleeting, pitting the immaterial against the material, Byars was not just an artist, he was a visionary and a dandy, who, always seeking perfection, knew how to cast a spell over his audience through his enigmatic performances, installations and sculptures. Using sandstone, marble, glass and gold, Byars created classical sculptural forms like spheres, circles, gates and columns. Im Full of Byars reveals his work to be a symbiosis of Fluxus, Minimalism and Conceptualism, that has lost none of its mystery or poetry with time. The volume includes a selection of sculptures, installations and never-before-seen documentation of his performances. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Susanne Friedli, Matthias Frehner. Text by Thomas McEvilley, Viola M. Michely, Peter J. Schneemann, Nicola Müllerschön. Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 264 pgs / 100 color / 48 b&w. Publication Date: 3/1/2009 List Price: US $55.00

  Yerba Buena Center for the Arts/D.A.P. Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth Critic Roberta Smith has written about Chicago-based artist Nick Cave, Whether Nick Cave's efforts qualify as fashion, body art or sculpture, and almost regardless of what you ultimately think of them, they fall squarely under the heading of Must Be Seen to Be Believed...” Meet Me at the Center of the Earth features sculptures that Cave calls Soundsuits, to evoke the sense of movement, rattles and rustles inherent in the design of the pieces—which are composed of manufactured and handmade fabrics, such as beads, sequins, bottle caps, old toys, twigs and hair, and seem poised to explode into ritual dance. Exploring issues of ceremony, ritual, identity and myth, they embrace various traditions, as well as cultural and historical references, from African fetish objects to Japanese Butoh dance. . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Dan Cameron, Kate Eilertsen, Pamela McClusky. Hbk, 9.75 x 13 in. / 240 pgs / 200 color. Publication Date: 1/31/2010 List Price: US $49.95

  Walker Art Center Bruce Conner: 2000 BC Bruce Conner (1933-2008) first came to prominence in the late 1950s as a leader of the assemblage movement in California. Conner had close ties with poets of the San Francisco Renaissance (particularly Michael McClure) as well as with artists such as Wallace Berman, George Herms, Jess and Jay DeFeo. Conner's use of nylon stockings in his assemblages quickly won him notoriety, and saw his work included in Peter Selz's classic 1961 Art of Assemblage show at MoMA. Around this time, Conner also turned to film-making, and produced in swift succession a number of short films that helped to pioneer the rapid edit and the use of pop music among independent film-makers. Conner's innovative editing techniques and decidedly dark vision of American culture laid the foundation for later Hollywood directors such as Dennis Hopper (a friend and collaborator of Conner's, who frequently acknowledged his influence) and David Lynch. A long overdue and . . . . [see book details]

  Photographs by Bruce Conner. Edited by Joan Rothfuss. Contributions by Kathy Halbreich, Bruce Jenkins, Peter Boswell. Hardcover, 10 x 13 in. / 272 pgs / 75 color / 175 b&w. Publication Date: 11/2/1999 List Price: US $59.95

  Walther König, Köln Eva Hesse: Transformations - The Sojourn In Germany 1964/65 & Datebooks 1964/65 Eva Hesse is best known for the ethereal sculptures she created out of latex and fiberglass, a body of work that shows affinities with the concerns of Minimalism but cannot be easily characterized under any particular art movement. The majority of publications about her too-brief oeuvre have focused almost exclusively on the sculptures she produced after 1965. This slipcased, two-volume edition offers the first pronounced consideration of the transformative time prior to that year. Volume I documents Hesse's production from 1962 to 1966 through reproductions of drawings, collages, sculptures, and plastic reliefs. Volume II presents, for the first time ever, her notebooks from 1964 and 1965, a watershed year in her artistic practice. This primary material is reproduced in its original English (alongside German translations). . . . . [see book details]

  Introduction by Gerald Matt. Essays by Sabine Folie and Georgia Holz. Slipcased, 9.75 x 8.25 in. / 240 pgs / 160 color / 36 b&w. Publication Date: 5/2/2004 List Price: US $60.00

  Hatje Cantz Anish Kapoor: Shooting Into the Corner Widely admired for his artfully shaped mounds of vibrantly colored powder pigment, Bombay-born, London-based sculptor Anish Kapoor won the Turner Prize in 1991. Since the 1970s, Kapoor--through poetically abstract works in materials as diverse as stone, steel and glass--has explored the themes of spirituality and transcendence, a preoccupation that has its roots in his native India. This volume introduces three performative wax pieces, unlike any he has previously produced: a technician loads a nine-foot-long cannon, which sends a 40-pound blood-red wax blob shooting into the corner. The resulting trace has been described as "a giant gunshot wound." Also included is an essay by Vito Acconci, and published together here for the first time are Kapoor's works in wax from 1992 to the present and his print work from 1987 onward, enabling a closer exploration of the interplay between painting and sculpture in his oeuvre. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Peter Noever. Pbk, 9.75 x 12.5 in. / 200 pgs / 183 color. Publication Date: 9/30/2009 List Price: US $60.00

  Editions Xavier Barral Jeff Koons: Versailles This volume presents a marriage made in camp heaven--the splendid extravagance of the palace of Versailles as a backdrop for the gregarious, loud and equally extravagant sculptures of contemporary American Pop artist Jeff Koons, who mounted the first contemporary art exhibition ever in the apartments of the king in September 2008. What other artist could match Louis XIV's love of the saccharine gesture? Sugared up to the max, Koons here counterposes Versailles' rich detail with his more simplified forms, including a monumental red chocolate-box-style heart, balloon dog and suspended red aluminum lobster. Other works outdo Versailles for kitsch, such as Koons' marble self-portrait, playfully sited amid busts of Louis XIV, his infamous "Michael Jackson and Bubbles" sculpture and his ever-cryptic bare-breasted blonde clutching the Pink Panther. Yet others, such as the large vase of flowers, blend seamlessly with the decor. Needless to say, accusations of irreverence have abounded, but Koons avows . . . . [see book details]

  Foreword by François Pinault. Text by Jena-Pierre Criqui, Edouard Papet, Michel Houellebecq, Béatrix Saule. Clth, 11 x 13 in. / 192 pgs / 97 color. Publication Date: 3/1/2009 List Price: US $85.00

  ICA Philadelphia Charles Ledray Sculpture 1989-2002 Documenting this American artist's first solo museum exhibition, Charles LeDray will focus on his obsessively crafted miniature sculptures in a variety of media, including textiles, ceramics, seashells, and bone, that reflect on childhood, gender, sexuality, and autobiography. . . . . [see book details]

  Essay by Ralph Rugoff. Interview by Claudia Gould. Hardcover, 7.5 x 9.75 in. / 80 pgs / 20 color / 5 b&w. Publication Date: 6/2/2002 List Price: US $25.00

  Turner Josiah McElheny:A Space for an Island Universe In his works, the American artist Josiah McElheny questions the legacy of modernity from the standpoint of his practice as a master of glass, starting from the confluence of design, science and art. McElheny studied art at the Rhode Island School of Design, and increased his knowledge of traditional glass manufacturing techniques by studying with such masters as Ronald Wilkin. This book presents "Island Universe," an installation composed of five chromed aluminium and blown glass sculptures. The structures form spheres that depict the grouping of galaxies in the universe and lights symbolizing quasars (the most brilliant objects known to man). The starting point of this work are the chandeliers inside the New York Metropolitan Opera House, designed by Lobmeyr in 1965, the same year in which the first data in support of the Big Bang theory were made public. The work functions as a model of that theory of the origin . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Lynne Cooke, Josiah McElheny. Hbk, 9.25 x 12 in. / 136 pgs / 50 col. Publication Date: 8/31/2009 List Price: US $30.00

  D.A.P./Les Presses du Reel Annette Messager: Word for Word Texts and words are of crucial importance to Annette Messager's work--for her, "words are images." And so words--at once autonomous from, parallel to, and the sources of her visual creativity--are woven throughout her production. She has looked directly at our diverse relationships to language in forms ranging from the early scrapbooks of the 1970s to the large sculpted words of the late 1990s, and others including personal diaries, letters, calligraphy, alphabets and primers. She works with the repeated, drawn, framed and sculpted word; newsprint, collage and montage of texts and photographs; and handwritten texts. Plays on words and palindromes turn up in her exhibition titles and, more recently, in her children's books. All of these uses of language stem as much from Dada and Surrealism as from the aesthetics of the banal and the everyday, and they give rise to unclassifiable texts, which call somewhere between a literature of the news . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Marie-Laure Bernadac. Interviews with Harald Szeemann, Robert Storr, Bernard Marcadé and Suzanne Pagé. Hardcover, 7.75 x 10.25 in. / 416 pgs / 280 color / 20 b&w. Publication Date: 6/1/2006 List Price: US $65.00

  Verlag Für moderne Kunst Nürnberg Ree Morton: Works 1971-1977 Casting aside the orthodoxies of 1970s Minimalism in favor of a wittier, decorative, more "impure" art, Ree Morton (1936-1977) synthesized a vast repertoire of materials and erudition to produce sculptures, drawings and installations that have delighted an ever-swelling army of fans. Between 1971 and 1977, Morton made signature use of celastic, a material that resembles fabric when sculpted, and which enabled her to devise bizarre takes on domestic crafts of the "bless this house" variety. Yet none of her work is kitsch or folksy, and an Eva Hesse-style biomorphism and relish of surface and mass always prevails (Hesse was a crucial touchstone for Morton). Works 1971-1977, which accompanies a survey at the Generali Foundation, Vienna (the first since the New Museum's 1980 exhibit) is the first thorough monograph on Morton. Alongside the work itself, it reproduces the artist's numerous notebooks and sketchbooks, and an immense number of her own documentary photographs, . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Sabine Folie. Text by Sabine Folie, Diana Baldon, Helen Molesworth, Susanne Neubauer. Pbk, 8 x 9.25 in. / 208 pgs / 320 color. Publication Date: 11/30/2009 List Price: US $60.00

  The Museum of Modern Art, New York Gabriel Orozco Gabriel Orozco emerged at the beginning of the 1990s as one of the most intriguing and original artists of his generation, one of the last to come of age during the twentieth century. His work is unique in its formal power and intellectual rigor, resisting confinement to one medium and roaming freely and fluently among drawing, photography, sculpture, installation and painting. Orozco deliberately blurs the boundary between the art object and the everyday environment, situating his work in a place that merges art and reality, whether through exquisite drawings made on airplane boarding passes or sculptures composed of recovered trash. This publication examines two decades of the artist's production year by year, from 1989 through 2009. Each section is richly illustrated and includes a short text, based on interviews with the artist, that combines biographical information with a brief and focused discussion of selected works. Critical essays by Ann Temkin, Benjamin . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Ann Temkin, Anne Byrd, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Briony Fer, Paulina Pobocha. Hbk, 9.75 x 12.25 in. / 256 pgs / 435 color. Publication Date: 12/31/2009 List Price: US $55.00

  The Museum of Modern Art, New York Martin Puryear Over the last 30 years, Martin Puryear has created a body of work that defies categorization, creating sculpture that examines identity, culture and history. Departing from the impersonal and machined aesthetic of Minimalism, Puryear's work combines Modernist abstraction with the traditions of crafts and woodworking, in shapes informed by the natural and by ordinary objects, made with materials such as tar, wood, stone and wire. It is quiet but deliberately associative, encompassing wide-reaching cultural and intellectual experiences and drawing on a huge and varied reserve of images, ideas and information. As a high school and college student, the artist studied ornithology, falconry and archery, and in the 1960s he volunteered with the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone, where he schooled himself in the region's indigenous crafts; these are only a few of the influences and methods that have embedded themselves in his work. And the sources of his works are no . . . . [see book details]

  Text by John Elderfield, Elizabeth Reede, Richard Powell, Michael Auping. Clothbound, 9.5 x 12 in. / 192 pgs / 130 color. Publication Date: 11/1/2007 List Price: US $60.00

  Guggenheim Museum Robert Rauschenberg: Gluts In the mid-1980s, Robert Rauschenberg's creative attentions turned toward the visual and plastic properties of junk metal when he began to assemble found metal objects and screenprint his photographic images onto aluminum, bronze, brass and copper. His first body of work in this vein was Gluts, a series begun in 1986 and continued intermittently until 1995, in which ornate metalwork seemingly derived from a bedpost might attach to a slice of mesh wire, or twisted petals of yellow metal might sprout from the remains of an eviscerated toaster. Asked to comment on his novel use of the word "gluts," Rauschenberg said, "It's a time of glut. Greed is rampant... I simply want to present people with their ruins... I think of the Gluts as souvenirs without nostalgia." Published to accompany the Peggy Guggenheim Collection's exhibition Robert Rauschenberg: Gluts (the first show to focus on Rauschenberg's sculpture since 1995), this fully illustrated . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Susan Davidson. Text by Trisha Brown, Mimi Thompson. Preface by Philip Rylands. Flexi, 11.5 x 10 in. / 120 pgs / 70 color. Publication Date: 7/31/2009 List Price: US $45.00

  Fondazione Prada Tom Sachs This comprehensive survey of the work of the young and influential American sculptor Tom Sachs is the first of its kind, and long overdue. Sachs appropriates elements from American popular culture, including fast food, skateboarding and hip-hop music, and mixes them with overt references to luxury fashion labels, as well as icons of Modernist art and design. Even as Sachs's work maintains an overt antagonism toward consumerism and globalization, it reveals an inherent idealism, championing transparency of production and homespun craftsmanship. Produced on the occasion of the artist's solo exhibition at the Fondazione Prada, Milan, this book illustrates the prolific and innovative nature of Sachs's career, highlighting his fascination with weapons, conformity, cultural imperialism and craft. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited and with essay by Germano Celant. Preface by Miuccia Prada and Patrizio Bertelli. Hardcover, 9.5 x 12.25 in. / 196 pgs / 400 color. Publication Date: 7/15/2006 List Price: US $145.00

  The Museum of Modern Art, New York Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years The art of Richard Serra is internationally admired for its powerful material qualities and its searching exploration of the relationship between the work, the viewer and the site. Indeed, since his emergence in the mid-1960s, Serra is widely understood to have radicalized and extended the very definition of sculpture. Quite simply the most complete view to date of the work of one of the most important artists of the last half-century, Richard Serra Sculpture: Forty Years offers a detailed visual presentation and documentation of Serra's entire career, from his early experiments with materials like rubber, neon and lead to the environmentally scaled steel works of recent years--including three monumental new sculptures created for The Museum of Modern Art's 2007 retrospective, for which this volume was produced. The book contains major scholarly essays on the artist's work by Benjamin Buchloh, Lynne Cooke and John Rajchman, as well as an interview with the . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Kynaston McShine, Lynne Cooke, John Rajchman, Benjamin Buchloh. Clothbound, 10.5 x 10 in. / 500 pgs / 450 duotone. Publication Date: 6/1/2007 List Price: US $85.00

  JRP|Ringier Gedi Sibony In Gedi Sibony's sculptural work, cardboard, wood, carpets, plastic sheets and latex paint are embedded into the exhibition rooms' architectural context. His spatial collages oscillate between objectlike appearance and installation-esque ensembles. One could describe them as low-key high art. Born in 1973 in New York, Sibony showed his work at New York's New Museum in 2007. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Giovanni Carmine. Text by Giovanni Carmine, François Quintin, Philippe Vergne. Hbk, 8 x 11.25 in. / 64 pgs / 40 color. Publication Date: 5/31/2009 List Price: US $35.00

  Walker Art Center Kiki Smith Widely considered to be one of the most engaging and fascinating artists of our time, Kiki Smith has, over the past 25 years, developed into a major figure in the world of twenty-first-century art. Her subject matter is as wide-ranging as the materials her work has encompassed. In the 1980s, with her earliest figural sculptures in plaster, glass and wax, Smith developed an elaborate vocabulary around the forms and functions of the body and its metaphorical as well as physical relationship to society. By the early 1990s, she began to engage with themes of a more religious and mythological nature. Her re-imaginings of biblical women as inhabitants of physical bodies--rather than as abstract bearers of doctrine--led her to make series of sculptural works related to the figure of the Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene, Lilith and others. The artist has more recently considered fairy tales and folk narratives as well as nurturing . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Siri Engberg. Essays by Siri Engberg, Linda Nochlin and Marina Warner. Interview by Lynne Tillman. Foreword by Kathy Halbreich. Hardcover, 10 x 13 in. / 320 pgs / 200 color / 130 duotone. Publication Date: 11/15/2005 List Price: US $65.00

  Charta Haim Steinbach Haim Steinbach (born 1944) is a leading figure in American art. Since the 1970s he has been conceiving structures and framing devices for the presentation of objects. Steinbach displays already existing objects, carefully chosen and placed on shelves, ranging from the natural to the common, the artistic to the ethnographic, giving form to artworks which illuminate the aesthetic and social qualities of objects. By exploring the psychological, cultural and ritualistic context of the artwork, and its role in the production of meaning, Steinbach has radically redefined the status of the object in art. This book is the expanded and revised edition of the monograph published in 1995 and documents the artist’s activity over the past 30 years. . . . . [see book details]

  Artwork by Haim Steinbach. Edited by Ida Gianelli. Text by Mario Perniola, Giorgio Verzotti. Hardcover, 9.5 x 11 in. / 272 pgs / 115 color / 60 b&w / 44 duotone. Publication Date: 4/2/1999 List Price: US $59.95

  Marquand Books, Inc./Blaffer Gallery/Weatherspoon Art Museum Jessica Stockholder: Kissing The Wall Works 1988-2003 Through her use of color and assemblage, Jessica Stockholder challenges familiar generic boundaries between painting and sculpture, while de-familiarizing the experience of the exhibition space--not to mention giving the impression of a K-Mart store that's been bulldozed by a group of feminist abstract expressionists. In 1988, Stockholder created the self-contained assemblage Kissing the Wall No. 2 an old-fashion projector screen wrapped in newspaper and plaster that stands like a bad child facing a florescent lamp secured to the wall. This seminal work, from which this exhibition and catalogue take their name, uses the gallery wall as a screen kissed by various objects in what the artist calls an emotionally charged event.” This work, in which found objects become actors in the drama of space and color, is exemplary of the many objects gathered together for this retrospective look at Stockholder's self-contained assemblages since 1988. Includes an interview with the artist, scholarly . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Nancy Doll and Terrie Sultan. Essays by Elspeth Carruthers and Miwon Kwon. Hardcover, 11.25 x 9 in. / 96 pgs / 75 color. Publication Date: 9/2/2004 List Price: US $24.95

  Walther König, Köln Tatiana Trouvé This is the most complete monograph of Paris-based Tatiana Trouvé's multifaceted oeuvre, which consists of mixed media sculptures and drawings made from such materials as vinyl and copper. Trouvé was awarded the 2007 Prix Marcel Duchamp. This volume features an essay by Robert Storr. . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Catherine Millet, Robert Storr, Tatiana Trouvé. Clothbound, 11.25 x 9.75 in. / 256 pgs / 200 color. Publication Date: 7/1/2008 List Price: US $85.00

  Giles Anne Truitt: Perception and Reflection Anne Truitt (1921-2004) is a heroine of American Minimalism, an increasingly admired artist whose journals (Daybook, Prospect, Turn) have a longstanding and devoted readership, but whose art has not previously been the subject of a substantial monograph. Perception and Reflection remedies this historical oversight superbly and decisively. The evolution of Truitt's sensibility is at once a classic Minimalist story and the tale of a truly independent spirit: following an encounter with the black paintings of Ad Reinhardt at the Guggenheim in 1961, she abandoned her earlier sculptural style and began to make stark, columnar works inscribed with bands of sometimes bright and sometimes quiet color. Truitt's account of this transition betrays her rare clarity and sensitivity: "I thought to myself, 'If I make a sculpture, it will just stand up straight and the seasons will go around it and the light will go around it and it will record time.'" . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Kristen Hileman, James Meyer. Hbk, 9.75 x 11.25 in. / 176 pgs / 150 color / 12 b&w. Publication Date: 11/30/2009 List Price: US $55.00

  D.A.P./San Francisco Museum of Modern Art The Art Of Richard Tuttle Over the past four decades, Richard Tuttle has thrown into question nearly every conceivable artistic convention and critical category to create an enormously inventive body of abstract work--one that embraces and intermingles drawing, painting, collage, book-making, sculpture and design. From his spare yet enigmatic forms of the 1960s to his complex, multi-faceted assemblages and installations of more recent years, Tuttle's primary impetus throughout has been to craft unique objects, using everyday, often ephemeral materials, that demand to be confronted on their own terms. The relentless individuality of his aesthetic vision has earned him standing as one of the most provocative and influential artists of his day. This richly illustrated and strikingly designed catalogue, the most authoritative volume ever published on this prolific artist, presents nearly 400 reproductions of artworks from across his oeuvre and documentary photographs of his creative process. Essays by a distinguished group of writers trace the arc of . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Madeleine Grynsztejn. Essays by Madeleine Grynsztejn, Cornelia Butler, Richard Shiff, Katy Siegel, and Robert Storr. Texts by Tara McDowell, Elizabeth Smith, Adam D. Weinberg and Charles Wylie. Clothbound, 11 x 12 in. / 392 pgs / 265 color / 45 b&w. Publication Date: 7/15/2005 List Price: US $65.00

  Schirmer/Mosel Cy Twombly: Catalogue Raisonne Of Sculpture Volume I 1946-1997 Cy Twombly is one of the most prominent artists of our time. Although primarily known for his paintings and drawings, which have been exhibited widely throughout the world, he has been engaged in sculpture making from the outset of his career. This volume presents 117 sculptures and 30 casts spanning the years 1946 to 1997, many of which have never been seen before. It represents the entirety of Twombly's sculptural output, which includes bronzes as well as pieces made in wood, plaster and other materials. These works have come to the attention of the public through a recent exhibition that travelled to the Menil Collection in Houston during 2000. Also included is an essay by the philosopher and art critic Arthur Danto, as well as comprehensive biographic, exhibition and bibliographic information. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Nicola Del Roscio. Essay by Arthur Danto. Hardcover, 10 x 13.75 in. / 352 pgs / 179 color / 7 b&w / 2 duotone. Publication Date: 10/2/2001 List Price: US $225.00

  Kunsthaus Bregenz Franz West: We'll Not Carry Coals What Franz West began in the early 1970s with his hand-size body growths”--the Adaptive--has since then mutated into a fertile living environment of sculptures, collages, furniture ensembles, walk-in rooms, and rooms to sit in. Organized into five chapters, each of which corresponds to a floor of the Kunsthaus Bregenz, where a surreal retrospective of West's work was recently mounted, We'll Not Carry Coals offers a serene presentation of the artist's witty, tongue-in-cheek body of work. From Haini, 60 squeaky blue-green plastic armchairs modeled on a carved-out tree stump, to Corona, a giant outdoor sculpture modeled, perhaps, on bendable drinking straws, West's work tickles the viewer somewhere between the diaphragm and the retina. Published in close cooperation with the Franz West Atelier, this book also features 50 heretofore unpublished collages from the artist's personal collection. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Eckhard Schneider. Essays by Gudrun Ankele, Rudolf Sagmeister, Ludwig Seyfarth and Andrea ãberbacher. Foreword by Eckhard Schneider. Clothbound, 8.25 x 11.25 in. / 285 pgs / 180 color. Publication Date: 3/2/2004 List Price: US $60.00