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In the Making

Art On the Edge...and Over

Air Guitar

Robert Venturi: Complexity And Contradiction In Architecture

Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism

André Breton: Surrealism And Painting

Robert Adams: Why People Photograph

Vortex Of Silence

Futurist Manifestos

Paul Gauguin: Letters To His Wife And Friends

Worlds Away

Considering Forgiveness

It's Time for Action

Potentially Harmful: The Art of American Censorship

Black Is A Color

Broken Screen: Expanding The Image, Breaking The Narrative

The 1980s: An Internet Conference

Postmodernism: A Virtual Discussion

Global Art

A Brief History of Curating

Right About Now

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Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism Edited by Bryan Bell and Katie Wakeford. Foreword by Thomas Fisher. Texts by Steve Badanes, Roberta M. Feldman, Sergio Palleroni, John Peterson, Katie Swenson, et al. Expanding Architecture presents a new generation of creative design carried out in the service of the greater public and the greater good. Questioning how design can improve daily lives, editors Bryan Bell and Katie Wakeford map an emerging geography of architectural activism--or "public-interest architecture"--that might function akin to public-interest law or medicine by expanding architecture's all too often elite client base. With 30 essays by practicing architects and designers, urban and community planners, historians, landscape architects, environmental designers and members of other fields, this volume presents recent work from around the world that illustrates the ways in which design can address issues of social justice, allow individuals and communities to plan and improve their own lives and serve a much larger percentage of the population than it has in the past. This new inclusionary practice must define new services and new processes, and these are illuminated in the generously illustrated texts as well. Building on the momentum of Bell's Good Deeds, Good Design and other recent landmark publications such as Rural Studio and Design Like You Give a Damn, Expanding Architecture examines evolving notions of socially conscious practice and serves as a guide for designers who are willing to take on the social, economic and environmental challenges we face today. Bryan Bell is the Executive Director of the Raleigh, North Carolina-based Design Corps, which he founded in 1991 to provide community service through architecture. His other initiatives include the Design Corps Fellowship program, the Design Corps Summer Studio and the Structures for Inclusion annual conference. In 2007 he received a National Honor Award from the American Institute of Architects. Katie Wakeford received her M.Arch from North Carolina State University School of Architecture, where she became interested in community design. She began working with Design Corps in 2002, and currently serves as an intern architect with the North Carolina State College of Design's Home Environments Design Initiative, a research and community outreach endeavor focused on affordable and sustainable housing. LIST PRICE: U.S. $34.95 ISBN: 9781933045788 FORMAT: Paperback, 6.5 x 9 in. / 288 pgs / 120 color / 30 b&w. PUBLISHER: Metropolis Books PUBLICATION DATE: 10/1/2008 | Active DISTRIBUTION: | RETAILER DISC: TRADE

In the Making By Linda Weintraub. From the first page to the last, from Thomas Kinkaid (really!) to Matthew Barney, this book serves as a launching pad. Conclusions are perpetually delayed. Resolutions are continually postponed. The text is written for takeoff, not arrival. It is a first step for readers' explorations of current modes of art making and for their own future artistic achievements. The much-anticipated follow-up to Art on the Edge... and Over, Linda Weintraub's highly accessible introduction to contemporary art since the 1970s, In the Making: Creative Options for Contemporary Art explores essential but sometimes elusive facets of art making today. In her trademark writing style--straightforward and jargon-free--Weintraub sets out to itemize the conceptual and practical concerns that go into making contemporary art in all its endless permutations. In six clearly defined thematic sections--”Scoping an Audience,” “Sourcing Inspiration,” “Crafting an Artistic 'Self',” “Expressing an Artistic Attitude,” “Choosing a Mission,” and “Measuring Success”--Weintraub moves artist by artist, in 40 individual chapters, using each to explain a different aspect of art making. Isaac Julien makes work for a highly specific audience; Michal Rovner communicates through metaphor and symbol; Charles Ray disrupts the viewer's assumptions; Pipilotti Rist is inspired by female emotions; William Kentridge is moved by apartheid and redemption; Vanessa Beecroft epitomizes the biography of a smart, attractive, Caucasian woman; and Matthew Barney achieves success through resistance. Through a compelling combination of renowned and up-and-coming artists, Weintraub creates a complex understanding of how to make and look at contemporary art--but in a simple, easily digestible format and language. In addition to being a fine read for anyone who simply wants to understand how to look at contemporary art, In the Making is also an exceptional pedagogical tool, one that addresses what is fast becoming a huge gap in art education. Teaching artistic techniques no longer provides young artists with a sufficient education--a full range of conceptual issues needs to be considered in any well-rounded studio practice. Yet these very same conceptual issues are often those that are dealt with textually in art history and criticism classes. Weintraub persuasively offers a series of texts that fit squarely into this gap, addressing issues that concern anyone who is learning how to make art or how to understand it. In addition, In the Making includes a series of interviews in which many of the artists discuss the practical issues of their life's work. Conducted by Weintraub's students at Oberlin College, the interviews pose questions about the artists' schooling, their studio space, and how they support themselves if their main income doesn't come from their art--the kind of questions every art student has always wanted to ask the artists whose work they see on gallery walls. LIST PRICE: U.S. $35.00 ISBN: 9781891024597 FORMAT: Paperback, 8 x 10 in. / 415 pgs / 120 color. PUBLISHER: D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. PUBLICATION DATE: 7/2/2003 | Active DISTRIBUTION: | RETAILER DISC: TRADE

Air Guitar Text by Dave Hickey. The 23 essays (or "love songs") that make up the now classic volume Air Guitar trawl a "vast, invisible underground empire" of pleasure, through record stores, honky-tonks, art galleries, jazz clubs, cocktail lounges, surf shops and hot-rod stores, as restlessly on the move as the America they depict. Air Guitar pioneered a kind of plain-talking in cultural criticism, willingly subjective and always candid and direct. A valuable reading tool for art lovers, neophytes, students and teachers alike, Hickey's book--now in its third edition--has galvanized a generation of art lovers, with new takes on Norman Rockwell, Robert Mapplethorpe, Stan Brakhage, Andy Warhol and Perry Mason. In June 2009, Newsweek voted Air Guitar one of the top 50 books that "open a window on the times we live in, whether they deal directly with the issues of today or simply help us see ourselves in new and surprising ways," and described the book as "a seamless blend of criticism, personal history, and a deep appreciation for the sheer nuttiness of American life." Dave Hickey (born 1939) is one of today's most revered and widely read art writers. He has written for Rolling Stone, Art News, Art in America, Artforum and Vanity Fair among many others. LIST PRICE: U.S. $19.95 ISBN: 9780963726452 FORMAT: Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 208 pgs / 1 color / 15 b&w. PUBLISHER: Art Issues Press PUBLICATION DATE: 8/2/1997 | Active DISTRIBUTION: | RETAILER DISC: TRADE

Robert Venturi: Complexity And Contradiction In Architecture Foreword by Arthur Drexler. Introduction by Vincent Scully. First published in 1966, and since translated into 16 languages, this remarkable book has become an essential document of architectural literature. A "gentle manifesto for a nonstraightforward architecture," Venturi’s Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture expresses in the most compelling and original terms the postmodern rebellion against the purism of modernism. Three hundred and fifty architectural photographs serve as historical comparisons and illuminate the author's ideas on creating and experiencing architecture. Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture was the winner of the Classic Book Award at the AIA's Seventh Annual International Architecture Book Awards. LIST PRICE: U.S. $19.95 ISBN: 9780870702822 FORMAT: Paperback, 11 x 8.5 in. / 136 pgs / 35 reproductions. PUBLISHER: The Museum of Modern Art, New York PUBLICATION DATE: 7/2/2002 | Active DISTRIBUTION: | RETAILER DISC: TRADE

André Breton: Surrealism And Painting Introduction by Mark Polizzotti. Originally published in 1928 and augmented throughout the author's life, Surrealism and Painting is the single most important statement ever written on Surrealist art. While many pages have been devoted to visual Surrealism, this is the only book on the subject by the movement's founder and prime theorist. It contains André Breton's seminal treatise on the origins and foundations of artistic Surrealism, with his trenchant assessments of its precursors and practitioners, and his call for the plastic arts to "refer to a purely internal model," to excavate the "dark continent" of consciousness. Also included are essays--many of them classics in their own right--on Picasso, Duchamp, Kahlo, Dali, Ernst, Masson, Gorky, Picabia, Miro, Magritte, Kandinsky, Hantai and others, as well as pieces on Gallic art, outsider art and the folk arts of Haiti and Oceania. But above and beyond the subject matter, what makes this book so enduringly compelling is Breton's signature mixture of rigorous erudition and visceral passion, his sense of art as adventure, and his discoveries of many of Modernism's most prominent figures early in their careers. Long unavailable in English, Surrealism and Painting is not only a supremely exciting work of art criticism, but also one of the three or four indispensable references for any serious discussion of modern art. LIST PRICE: U.S. $29.95 ISBN: 9780878466283 FORMAT: Paperback, 8.25 x 10.5 in. / 448 pgs / 34 b&w. PUBLISHER: MFA Publications PUBLICATION DATE: 9/2/2002 | Active DISTRIBUTION: | RETAILER DISC: TRADE

Robert Adams: Why People Photograph Text and essays by Robert Adams. A now classic text on the art, Why People Photograph gathers a selection of essays by the great master photographer Robert Adams, tackling such diverse subjects as collectors, humor, teaching, money and dogs. Adams also writes brilliantly on Edward Weston, Paul Strand, Laura Gilpin, Judith Joy Ross, Susan Meiselas, Michael Schmidt, Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange and Eugène Atget. The book closes with two essays on “working conditions” in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century American West, and the essay “Two Landscapes.” Adams writes: “At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands in front of the camera, to honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.” LIST PRICE: U.S. $14.95 ISBN: 9780893816032 FORMAT: Paperback, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 189 pgs / 29 reproductions throughout. PUBLISHER: Aperture PUBLICATION DATE: 6/15/2005 | Active DISTRIBUTION: | RETAILER DISC: TRADE

Vortex Of Silence By Doris von Drathen. German art historian and critic Doris von Drathen has here produced a collection of 24 texts on 24 of the world's famous contemporary artists. In it, she proposes nothing less than a new method of art criticism: an anti-criticism that goes above and beyond aesthetic categories, and against the colonization of art. Paradoxically, the more famous an artist, the more their works seem obscured by inflexible classifications, wild misreading and deceptive labels; von Drathen's analysis instead shows that every one of these artists is driven by an existential and ethical research. Artists from whom von Drathen raises this vortex of silence include: Marina Abramovic, Jean-Pierre Boltanski, Louise Bourgeois, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Ann Hamilton, Rebecca Horn, Anish Kapoor, Agnes Martin, Giulio Paolini, Giuseppe Penone and David Tremlett. LIST PRICE: U.S. $39.95 ISBN: 9788881584475 FORMAT: Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 304 pgs / 80 b&w. PUBLISHER: Charta PUBLICATION DATE: 4/2/2004 | Active DISTRIBUTION: | RETAILER DISC: TRADE

Futurist Manifestos Edited by Umbro Apollonio. Afterword by Richard Humphreys. On February 20th, 1909, a belligerent manifesto announcing the birth of the Futurist movement appeared on the front page of the Paris newspaper Le Figaro and sent immediate shockwaves throughout Europe. The author, a young Italian poet named F.T. Marinetti, demanded that writers and artists reject the classic art of the past and celebrate the dynamic technology of modern city life. Joined by a group of like-minded artists, over the following years Marinetti pioneered an art that would eulogise speed and industry, in a reaction against the stasis of the classics, and even against contemporary movements such as Cubism. Available in English for the first time in over 20 years, the Futurist Manifestos are fiery, explosive and witty, and crucial to any full appreciation of modern art. LIST PRICE: U.S. $17.95 ISBN: 9780878466276 FORMAT: Paperback, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 240 pgs / 56 b&w. PUBLISHER: MFA Publications PUBLICATION DATE: 10/2/2001 | Active DISTRIBUTION: | RETAILER DISC: TRADE

In the Making	Art On the Edge...and Over	Air Guitar	Robert Venturi: Complexity And Contradiction In Architecture	Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism	André Breton: Surrealism And Painting
Robert Adams: Why People Photograph	Vortex Of Silence	Futurist Manifestos	Paul Gauguin: Letters To His Wife And Friends	Worlds Away	Considering Forgiveness
It's Time for Action	Potentially Harmful: The Art of American Censorship	Black Is A Color	Broken Screen: Expanding The Image, Breaking The Narrative	The 1980s: An Internet Conference	Postmodernism: A Virtual Discussion
Global Art	A Brief History of Curating	Right About Now