Contemporary Drawing: Key Monographs & Exhibition Catalogs

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  Blain|Southern and Acquavella Galleries Lucian Freud Drawings From his earliest years as a child prodigy, Lucian Freud prided himself on his virtuoso drawing skills. The interplay in his work between paper (for both drawing and etching) and canvas was a defining feature of his creative habits throughout his career, as Freud's foremost scholar and curator, William Feaver, establishes with this masterful overview of Freud's drawing output. The fruit of Feaver's privileged access to Freud's studio, Lucian Freud Drawings includes more than 100 drawings, around half of which have never been exhibited or published, from the 1940s up to the artist's death in July 2011. Examined here are portraits of Freud's mother and father, his children and close friends-among them the painter Francis Bacon and artist Leigh Bowery-as well as landscapes and studies of animals. Spanning more than seven decades, this beautifully produced volume illuminates the very foundations of this master draftsman's oeuvre. Lucian Freud was born in Germany in . . . . [see book details]

  Text by William Feaver, Mark Rosenthal. Clth, 11.75 x 11 in. / 256 pgs / 110 color. Publication Date: 4/30/2012 List Price: US $55.00

  D.A.P./Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía James Castle: Show and Store For more than six decades, James Castle (1899-1977) dedicated himself virtually full-time to the activity of making art, producing a vast and accomplished body of work, much of which he managed to preserve. Growing up in rural Idaho, Castle devised his own art materials and techniques, making ink for drawing by moistening soot from the family stove with his own saliva and using discarded paper and other materials. In the 1950s, through the efforts of family members, Castle's work came to the attention of the local art community, and it began to be exhibited in Idaho and the Pacific Northwest, often under the rubric of outsider or self-taught art. Not until the late 1990s, however, did it appear in mainstream art circuits. Castle's work poses numerous challenges for the art historian. He was born profoundly deaf and never adopted conventional means of communication and thus never commented on his art. His . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Lynne Cooke, Briony Fer, Zoe Leonard, Suzanne Hudson. Hbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 224 pgs / 220 color. Publication Date: 9/30/2011 List Price: US $55.00

  Hatje Cantz Robert Longo: Charcoal Robert Longo's mastery of charcoal drawing has made him one of America's most admired artists. With every new work he reinvests the tradition of history painting with fresh relevance and impact, rendering majestic, era-defining images in a sensuous and sculptural photorealism. Longo's sense of both literal scale and historical scope is monumental, as a survey of his numerous serial works soon reveals: the Freud Drawings cycle of 2000 with its large-format treatment of Edmund Engelmann's photographs of Sigmund Freud's Vienna apartment, taken days before Freud's departure for London; or the 2003 Sickness of Reasonseries, with its high-contrast images of atomic explosions, combining sublimity and terror; or the famous one-drawing-per-day Magellan sequence of the mid-1990s, a virtual atlas of the iconography of the 1990s, intermixed with images from Longo's immediate daily life. This handsome, chunky volume surveys Longo's drawings of the past two decades, from Magellan and the Freud cycle to Monsters . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Hal Foster. Clth, 10.5 x 12.25 in. / 256 pgs / 140 tritone. Publication Date: 6/30/2012 List Price: US $95.00

  Walther König, Köln Vija Celmins The many admirers and devotees of Vija Celmins (born 1938) at last possess a serious overview of the Latvian-born, New York-based artist's work in this volume. For more than a half-century, Celmins has quietly mined a narrow but infinitely rich range of theme and palette, extrapolating whole worlds of photorealist detail from four seemingly simple motifs: the surface of the sea, the night sky, the desert and the spider web. In oil paintings, prints and charcoal or graphite pencil drawings that revisit these motifs over and over, as if researching them to comprehend their infinities of detail, Celmins confines herself to the colors black, white and gray, preserving a spacious sobriety and calm exactitude for her potentially romantic subjects. This essential volume reproduces more than 60 variations of Celmins' precisely depicted seas, skies, deserts and webs, which in the artist's seemingly dispassionate renderings restore vastness and wonder to our sense of . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Julia Friedrich, Kasper König. Texts by Hubertus Butin, Julia Friedrich. Hbk, 8.75 x 9.75 in. / 152 pgs / 70 color. Publication Date: 9/30/2011 List Price: US $55.00

  Parrish Art Museum Dorothea Rockburne: In My Mind's Eye Dorothea Rockburne (born 1932) came to prominence in the late 1960s with Minimalist-inflected works pitched somewhere between painting and sculpture, that employed such materials as cardboard, sheet metal and crude oil. In the early 1950s Rockburne had studied at Black Mountain College with the mathematician Max Dehn, an encounter that helped to direct her early basis in Minimalism towards investigations of, among other themes, the Golden Section, the solar system and the writings of Pascal. This volume, the first comprehensive monograph on the artist, assesses Rockburne's career in the context of her peers such as Mel Bochner, Eva Hesse, Sol LeWitt and Agnes Martin, and elucidates the philosophical foundations of her abiding commitment to abstraction as a thinking tool. It includes works ranging from classic installation pieces such as "Scalar" (1971) and the folded paper Locus Etchings (1972) to the recent Astronomy Drawings (2009-2010). . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Alicia G. Longwell, David Anfam, Stéphane Aquin, Robert Lawlor, Terrie Sultan. Pbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 152 pgs / 78 color / 26 duotone. Publication Date: 9/30/2011 List Price: US $29.95

  Hatje Cantz Jorinde Voigt: Nexus In her drawings, German artist Jorinde Voigt (born 1977) develops a code of abstractionist signage that at first appears deeply subjective but soon reveals itself as the product of strict rules and systems. Blurring borders between science and art, these drawings analyze the structures of diverse cultural patterns via abstract parameters such as speed, frequency and orientation. . . . . [see book details]

  Pbk, 9.75 x 13.5 in. / 144 pgs / 200 color. Publication Date: 9/30/2011 List Price: US $55.00

  Hatje Cantz Amy Cutler: Turtle Fur Polite ladies in Victorian costume dancing on tabletops with chairs worn like hats on their heads; young girls with little foals strapped to their backs; a team of women dutifully mending docile tigers with needle and thread--all of these surreal antics depicted on a bare white ground--this is the jauntily disturbing imagery of Amy Cutler (born 1974), as clear-eyed in its execution as it is enigmatic in content. Cutler's gouaches and drawings on paper have won fans and collectors worldwide, and their winning amalgam of rich imagination and skillful execution, which together update lineages as various as Persian miniature painting, Surrealism, children's fairytale books and Japanese woodblock printing, offers satisfactions rarely found in contemporary art. More recently, Cutler has ventured into sculptural installation, realizing her idiosyncratic world in three dimensions with a work titled "Alteraciones," in which dozens of female figurines--produced from molds handmade by the artist--are gathered around a tabletop . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Laura Steward, Aimee Bender. Hbk, 9 x 11 in. / 160 pgs / 80 color. Publication Date: 5/31/2011 List Price: US $60.00

  Van Every/Smith Galleries, Davidson College Ewan Gibbs: America Using tiny hatches and dots derived from gridlike knitting patterns—a self-described "found language"—British artist Ewan Gibbs (born 1973) makes astounding pointillistic drawings whose imagery dissolves into abstraction when viewed at close range. Ewan Gibbs: America is the first monograph to compile the artist's drawings, including his renderings of the Brooklyn Bridge, Alcatraz Island Prison, various passersbys, and national pastimes both venerable and banal. Gibbs began working in his now-signature style in the early 2000s by cribbing imagery of hotel rooms from travel agency brochures. To this day, he continues to work from photographic sources. The publication includes months-long correspondence between Gibbs and art historian Richard Schiff, offering critical insight into the artist's technique and choice of subject matter. Gibbs' drawings are reproduced to the scale of the original works and bound in a gorgeous hardback linen cover with a slipcase. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Brad Thomas. Text by Jennifer D. Fletcher, Richard Shiff. Slip, Clth, 8.25 x 11.75 in. / 100 pgs / 40 duotone. Publication Date: 4/30/2011 List Price: US $50.00

  Hatje Cantz Sandra Vásquez de la Horra The intimately melancholic drawings of Chilean-born, Düsseldorf-based artist Sandra Vásquez de la Horra (born 1967) are saturated in artifactness,” in the atmospheric fragility of fugitive ephemera. They are also saturated in a more literal sense, in a melted beeswax that, when hardened, embalms them in a yellow-brown laminate that further heightens their artifact feel. De la Horra’s pencil drawing-documents usually consist of a single figure, often a hybrid creature of some kind, and a semi-explanatory motto or commentary; among her repertoire of themes are native religions, persecution, superstition, fairy tales and recollections of the Pinochet regime under which she was raised. Reminiscent of works by Munch, Louise Bourgeois and Herbert Pfostl, de la Horra’s drawings can be found in important collections such as the Centre George Pompidou in Paris, the Morgan Library in New York and the Museum Kunst Palast in Düsseldorf. This is the first monograph on her work. . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Jonas Storsve, Alexander van Grevenstein. Hbk, 10 x 13.25 in. / 184 pgs / 136 color. Publication Date: 10/31/2010 List Price: US $60.00

  Hauser & Wirth Ida Applebroog: Monalisa In 2009, a box of forgotten notebooks was rediscovered in the basement of Ida Applebroog's studio--Strathmore drawing tablets, with the words "Vagina Drawings" scrawled on the cover. Forty years prior, Applebroog took sanctuary from the pressures of the home in an evening bath. Her nightly soak offered her moments of meditation and, equipped with her drawing pad, she began drawing portraits of her crotch. Applebroog's newest body of work, Monalisa, is in many ways an extension of that ritual. The centerpiece of this project is a room-sized wooden structure covered with more than 100 new vagina drawings--reappropriations of the 1969 originals. In the catalogue essay, Julia Bryan-Wilson contends that the installation, "with its signature figural obsessions and urgent feminist force, feels like an epic culmination of [Applebroog's] entire oeuvre." Monalisa offers new insight into Applebroog's work with full-color reproductions of the never-before-seen 2009 drawings, images of the installation and an essay . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Julia Bryan-Wilson. Clth, 8.75 x 10.5 in. / 136 pgs / 44 color / 6 b&w. Publication Date: 4/30/2010 List Price: US $45.00

  D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. Antonio López García: Drawings The Spanish artist Antonio López García is revered worldwide not only for the extreme realism he brings to his paintings and drawings, but because he conveys through this extreme realism a wonderful sensitivity to light, color and space, enabling each to breathe with a tranquility that allows for the encroachments of everyday life. Interior scenes of dining tables, bathroom sinks, toilets, dressers are depicted in sober light that recall Chardin or the intimisme of Vuillard--though López García surpasses even these masters in his ability to make unforgivingly prosaic subject matter, such as a brick wall or a refrigerator, sparkle and throb with mood. The artist's statement that "you work until the whole surface has an expressive intensity equivalent to what you have before you, converted into a pictorial reality" conveys something of the labor he brings to his works: López García is not a prolific artist, and as a result shows . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Francisco Calvo Serraller, Antonio López García. Hbk, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 200 pgs / 200 color. Publication Date: 10/31/2010 List Price: US $75.00

  Hatje Cantz Rosemarie Trockel: Drawings The German artist Rosemarie Trockel (born 1952) adapts a variety of media to address contentious matters of gender. Trockel is perhaps best known for her "knit" canvases of the mid-1980s, in which lengths of knitted wool patterned with political and consumer motifs such as the hammer and sickle or the Playboy bunny were hung on stretchers to resemble conventional paintings. In a gently humorous work from 1988, Trockel fitted a steel cube with six hot plates, in a simultaneous nod to the pervasive masculinity of Minimalism and the feminine domain of cooking. Regardless of media, Trockel begins each new work with ink, charcoal, pencil, collaged, or computer drawings. These serve as studies, charting her observations and methods, and also constitute an independent body of work. This publication presents a selection of graphic prints and a series of drawings and collages made especially for this book, along with designs for the book . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Anita Haldemann, Christoph Schreier. Text by Gregory Williams, Brigid Doherty. Pbk, 9.75 x 11.75 in. / 164 pgs / 234 color. Publication Date: 11/30/2010 List Price: US $60.00

  The Museum of Modern Art, New York On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century explores the radical evolution of drawing that took place during the last century and through to the present day, as numerous artists subjected the traditional concepts of the medium to a critical examination. In a revolutionary departure from the institutional definition of drawing, and from reliance on paper as the fundamental support material, artists instead pushed the line across the plane and into real space, expanding the medium in relation to gesture and form and connecting it with painting, sculpture, photography, film and dance. Published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, On Line presents a discursive history of mark-making through nearly 250 works by 100 artists, including Aleksandr Rodchenko, Alexander Calder, Karel Malich, Eva Hesse, Anna Maria Maiolino, Richard Tuttle, Mona Hatoum and Monika Grzymala among many others. Essays by the curators illuminate individual practices and offer focused . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Catherine de Zegher, Cornelia H. Butler. Hbk, 9 x 10.5 in. / 216 pgs / 230 color. Publication Date: 12/31/2010 List Price: US $50.00

  DruckVerlag Kettler Marcel Dzama: The Infidels Marcel Dzama (born 1974) is one of contemporary art's hottest stars, and The Infidels is the most beautifully produced and substantial monograph on his work to date. Housed in a beige cloth cover featuring a tipped-in image, The Infidels contains fantastically sharp reproductions of paintings, drawings, film storyboards, collages and dioramas from the past two years, and installation shots from Dzama's exhibition of these works at Sies + Höke Gallery in Düsseldorf. The book also records an increased politicization in the artist's concerns,with references to American history and current events erupting in evocations of torture, terrorism and warfare (a partial result of Dzama's relocation from Winnipeg to New York). One special highlight of The Infidels is a new series of dioramas, housed in wooden boxes and vitrines,which transports Dzama's world of knife-wielding ghouls,mutant animal men and hooded, gun-toting girls into a three-dimensional wunderkammer, with figurines made of plaster, little cages with . . . . [see book details]

  Clth, 9.25 x 12 in. / 152 pgs / illustrated throughout. Publication Date: 2/28/2010 List Price: US $79.95

  The Museum of Modern Art, New York Drawing Now Eight Propositions 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 enigmatic little girls to Kara Walker's stereotypical negresses; and from Barry McGee's caricatures of urban graffiti to Matthew Ritchie's cosmological diagrams--drawing is back, if it ever went away. In contrast to the digitized, multimedia direction that much of contemporary art has taken in the past decade, drawing has become the major mode of expression for many of today's most important young artists. Drawing Now, published to accompany the first major survey of contemporary drawings at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 15 years, contains more than 100 color reproductions of work by 26 international artists, both well-known and emerging, that demonstrate the fascinating variety of methods and approaches, mediums and scales, apparent in this old-again, new-again art. Accompanying essays by . . . . [see book details]

  Essay by Laura Hoptman. Paperback, 9.5 x 12 in. / 192 pgs / 130 color. Publication Date: 10/2/2002 List Price: US $34.95

  The Museum Of Modern Art, New York Compass in Hand: Assessing Drawing Now Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection 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 drawing made primarily within the past 20 years, surveying gestural and geometric abstraction, representation and figuration, systems-based and Conceptual work, as well as appropriation and collage. While the collection primarily focuses on the work of artists living and working in what are widely regarded as five major centers of visual art today--New York, Los Angeles, London/Glasgow, Berlin and Cologne/Düsseldorf--it also includes artists from 30 countries throughout Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa. Established artists such as Jasper Johns are represented through examples of recent work, while others, such as Joseph Beuys and Philip Guston, are highlighted through core historic groupings, and still others are shown in a comprehensive overview of their careers, including Alighiero e Boetti, . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Christian Rattemeyer. Text by Gary Garrels, Christian Rattemeyer, Harvey S. Shipley Miller. Hbk, 9 x 11.25 in. / 320 pgs / 320 color / 845 b&w. Publication Date: 5/1/2009 List Price: US $65.00

  The Museum of Modern Art, New York The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Boxed Set 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 drawing made primarily within the past 20 years, surveying gestural and geometric abstraction, representation and figuration, systems-based and conceptual work, as well as appropriation and collage. While the collection primarily focuses on the work of artists living and working in what are widely regarded as five major centers of visual art today--New York, Los Angeles, London/Glasgow, Berlin and Cologne/Düsseldorf--it also includes artists from 30 countries throughout Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa. Established artists such as Jasper Johns are represented through examples of recent work, while others, such as Joseph Beuys and Philip Guston, are highlighted through core historic groupings, and still others are shown in a comprehensive overview of their careers, including Alighiero e Boetti, . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Christian Rattemeyer. Text by Connie Butler, Gary Garrels, Scott Gerson, Isabelle Graw, Martin Herbert, Manfred Hermes, Harvey S. Shipley Miller, Christian Rattemeyer, Brian Sholis, Jan Tumlir.. Slipcased 2 Volume Hbk, 9 x 12 in. / 616 pgs / 400 color / 845 b&w. Publication Date: 7/31/2009 List Price: US $120.00

  Hayward Publishing The End of the Line Attitudes in Drawing The End of the Line: Attitudes to Drawing features 11 internationally acclaimed artists, including Jan Albers, Michaël Borremans, Marc Brandenburg, Fernando Bryce, Kate Davis, Monika Grzymala, David Haines, Kim Hiorthøy, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, Garrett Phelan and Naoyuki Tsuji. As a group, their work represents a vast range of possible interpretations of drawing, from meticulously rendered quotidian scenes to three-dimensional drawings that merge with and respond to architectural space. Though drawing foundered in art schools during the 1970s, tainted by academicism, recently it has undergone a resurgence of popularity, partly because of its accessibility as a tool for communicating personal visions and ideas. Each of these artists treats drawing as a primary means of expression and a practice in its own right. Writer and Cabinet magazine editor Brian Dillon explores these ideas and the context of drawing within contemporary art. . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Brian Dillon. Pbk, 7.75 x 8.75 in. / 120 pgs / illustrated throughout. Publication Date: 7/31/2009 List Price: US $35.00

  Louisiana Museum of Modern Art On Line 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 Barry McGee, Julie Mehretu, Paul Noble and Wilhelm Sasnal, among others. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Michael Juul Holm and Anders Kold. Paperback, 11 x 15.5 in. / 48 pgs / 2 color and 12 b&w. Publication Date: 8/15/2006 List Price: US $20.00

  The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art Contemporary Erotic Drawing 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, Joseph Beuys once stated, Drawing is thinking,” and indeed, for many artists, drawing is a highly personal and revealing process in which raw ideas are expressed, allowing spontaneous imagery or thoughts to emerge. And so, to examine the subject of eroticism and human sexuality, it seems appropriate to examine these 100 drawings. Many of the images seem to work against images in the media, and so define what is erotic and titallating in their own terms. This 204-page catalogue includes drawings in varyious media by artists such as Ida Applebroog, Cecily Brown, Leon Golub, Tracy Nakayama, Mark Dean Veca and Su-en Wong; features two essays by Sue Taylor and Wayne Koestenbaum; and biographical information on the artists. . . . . [see book details]

  Essays by Wayne Koestenbaum and Sue Taylor. Foreword by Harry Philbrick and Sara Kellner. Introduction by Stuart Horodner. Hardcover, 9 x 11.75 in. / 100 pgs / 100 color. Publication Date: 3/15/2005 List Price: US $24.95

  Walther König, Köln Based on Paper: Marzona-Marzona Collection Spanning from Minimalism to Land Art, this selection of the most important drawings from the Marzona Collection at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin features key American and European works, as well as all sorts of related studies and ephemera. . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Andreas Schalhorn, Michael Lailach. Paperback/ 10.75 x 9.25 in/ 176 pgs/ 75 color/ 60 b&w. Publication Date: 7/1/2007 List Price: US $53.00

  J&L Books Drawings on Writing As we spend our days increasingly glued to our computers and handheld devices, rapidly tapping keywords into Google, cutting and pasting Word docs and texting urgently truncated messages, it is becoming increasingly rare to pen anything by hand. No wonder hand-written fonts are all the rage in the world of graphic design. Writing, like drawing, has become an endangered act. Drawings on Text--which explores the idea that when a hand-written note is illegible, it becomes a drawing--is the third book in this series, edited by Dutch artist Serge Onnen. The handwritten can take many forms, from an illegibly scrawled letter to initials carved into a tree with a knife. A catholic selection of the hand-written-as-drawing is included in this innovative volume, which was first published in Zing magazine. Included are pieces by John Cage, Napoleon Bonaparte, Olav Westphalen, Roland Barthes, Gustave Flaubert and Victor Hugo, among others. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Serge Onnen. Hardback, 8 x 9.5 in. / 140 pgs / 132 b&w. Publication Date: 4/1/2008 List Price: US $15.00

  Aspen Art Museum Sculptors Drawing Although drawing is often thought of as a preparatory medium for sculptors, oftentimes it is, in fact, a more primary mode of expression and investigation. Featuring works on paper by Matthew Barney, Anne Chu, Keith Edmier, Teresita Fernández, Jorge Pardo, Tobias Rehberger, Thomas Scheibitz, Katy Schimert and Ricky Swallow, this concise volume examines the different ways these sculptors use drawing--both as a compliment to and a divergence from their artistic practice. In addition to a handsome plate section, it features short texts by each of the artists on the function of drawing in his or her work, condensed biographies and an insightful introductory essay by the Aspen Art Museum's Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson. . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, Anne Chu, Teresita Fernández, Keith Edimer, Thomas Scheibitz, Tobias Rehberger, Katy Schimert, Ricky Swallow. Paperback, 8.75 x 8.75 in. / 48 pgs / 25 color. Publication Date: 2/1/2008 List Price: US $29.95

  The Museum of Modern Art, New York Drawing from The Modern, Volume 2: 1945-1975 Visual art in the period following World War II witnessed landmark transformations. Today, drawing provides a powerful and vigorous device for reexamining the art of that period, and for renewing appreciation of the extraordinary achievements of well-known artists--and for discovering others. Even though the art of these years saw radical departures and shifts, drawing, which is among the most traditional of media, played a crucial and consistent role in the work of a great majority of the most significant artists. Drawing from the Modern, 1945-1975, surveys the drawing of the period through the unparalleled holdings of the drawings collection of The Museum of Modern Art. The postwar period saw the development of Abstract Expressionism in New York, followed by Pop art, Minimal art, and Conceptual art, and the Museum's collection has exceptional strength in these areas. Abstract drawings by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Barnett Newman open this volume, followed . . . . [see book details]

  Essay by Gary Garrels. Hardcover, 8.25 x 10.25 in. / 224 pgs / 160 color / 5 b&w. Publication Date: 3/15/2005 List Price: US $39.95

  The Museum of Modern Art, New York Drawing from The Modern, Volume I: 1880-1940 Many of the key achievements in art of the last 125 years have been worked out on paper. From pictorial investigations that expanded the possibilities of vision to the invention of entirely new kinds of media, drawing has been the perfect laboratory for avant-garde experimentation. Drawing from the Modern traces such groundbreaking innovation through the unparalleled holdings of the drawings collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Drawing has historically been understood as a mark or line on paper--the record of a bodily gesture, an inscription of the action of the hand, an expression of the mind. Since the 1880s, however, artists have sought to interrupt these seemingly unbreakable links between mark, hand and imagination. Defying long-held definitions of drawing and rejecting traditional materials, modern artists invented a host of practices, altering not only the field of drawing but artmaking in general. Examining masterworks from the Museum's collection of nearly 7,000 . . . . [see book details]

  Essay by Jodi Hauptman. Flexi, 8.25 x 10.5 in. / 224 pgs / 155 color / 20 duotone. Publication Date: 11/2/2004 List Price: US $40.00

  Matthew Marks Gallery Jasper Johns: Drawings 1997-2007 In this stunning collection of works on paper made between 1997 and 2007, most of which have never been reproduced before, Jasper Johns "preempts the tendency of commentators to cite his productions of decades past by doing the job himself," according to essayist Thomas Crow. The works are filled with autobiographical references and allusions to art-historical precursors. They often combine early motifs like flags, maps, numerals or cross-hatchings with newer ones like the Harlequin's costume, pieces of string or flagstones. Says Crow, "This recursivity is habitual. There is virtually no motif or device that Johns has ever used that can be regarded as safely forgotten or discarded. When asked about the longevity of certain of these motifs, Johns replies half-seriously that he would like to get rid of them, but they will not go away. In his gradually expanding network of emblems and objects, any one of them, it seems, can . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Thomas Crow. Hardback, 9.25 x 11.75 in. / 100 pgs / 45 color. Publication Date: 7/1/2008 List Price: US $60.00

  Hatje Cantz Maria Lassnig: In the Mirror of Possibilities Watercolors and Drawings from 1947 to the Present There are few enough female artists who have maintained an international reputation across the entire second half of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, but fortunately the Austrian painter Maria Lassnig (born 1919) is one of them. Lassnig has painted and drawn for over 60 years, and the freshness of her work only increases as she continues to give body (or bodies) to her emotions--sometimes seriously, sometimes humorously--on canvas and on paper. In the Mirror of Possibilities focuses on her very personal drawings and watercolors, from early drawings of the 1940s and her "body sensation drawings," to the New York animations and the more painterly forms found in her watercolors of the 1980s and 1990s. But the bulk of this volume is devoted to Lassnig's most recent works, in which the artist combines simple pencil drawing with strangely lurid backgrounds, advancing her admirable will to reconstrue the body by means . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Julia Friedrich. Text by Elisabeth Bronfen, Julia Friedrich, Oswald Wiener. Clth, 8.5 x 9.75 in. / 248 pgs / 76 color / 31 b&w. Publication Date: 9/30/2009 List Price: US $60.00

  Kunsthaus Bregenz Richard Serra: Drawings-Work Comes Out of Work Work Comes Out Of Work With 2007's monumental retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art, New York Richard Serra's work in steel sculpture was affirmed as a decisive contribution to contemporary art. For more than 40 years he has been creating massive structures that guide and coerce the space around them, operating on equal terms with their environments instead of vanishing into them. But alongside these sculptures he has produced a large body of drawings whose specific material qualities and processual execution on flat surfaces suggest a material density and a physical presence comparable to sculpture. Serra sees drawing as one of the few activities in which he can comprehend the sources of his work-it allows him to "grasp the world." The exhibition Drawings-Work Comes Out of Work presents six groups of works from the last 10 years in large-format illustrations and includes tantalizing photographic glimpses of the artist at work in his studio. Art historian . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Eckhard Schneider, James Lawrence. Hardback, 9.75 x 12 in. / 234 pgs / 80 color. Publication Date: 9/1/2008 List Price: US $90.00

  Damiani Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawings Sol LeWitt, who once worked as a draftsman for I. M. Pei, has said of his own directions for drawings executed by collaborators that, "The contribution brought by the draftsman may not be predicted by the artist, even when the artist is also the draftsman." This separation of the plan, the written score for a work, from its execution and the finished piece lies at the center of the work for which LeWitt is best known, whose execution he entrusts to strangers. Wall Drawings tracks the creation of one recent work, beginning with the plan, so spare that it looks as though it might have arrived at the gallery by fax, and continuing through to a schematic drawing on the wall, then figures on stepladders drawing intently, their faces clear but their pencils blurred. Close-ups of their scribbles and images of the completed work are followed by a picture of the . . . . [see book details]

  Essay by Giovanni Maria Accame. Essay by Ester Coen. Paperback, 11 x 11 in. / 102 pgs / 24 color and 40 b&w. Publication Date: 8/15/2006 List Price: US $28.00

  Windsor Press Alex Katz: Seeing, Drawing, Making Featuring a selection of 80 figurative works and landscapes in a wide range of materials and media including pencil, ink, oil stick and charcoal, drawings, prints and paintings, Alex Katz: Seeing, Drawing, Making demonstrates how the artist explores and elaborates the same image through diverse media. The volume reveals how Katz's repetitive method of working results in the distillation of form for which he is famous. Whether portraying a dancer at full stride or a secluded landscape seen at sunset, Katz's iconic stylization is the result of careful preparation, beginning with intuitive sketches, continuing with pencil drawings and large-format charcoal cartoons and concluding with completed canvases. A series of works from the mid-1980s entitled Last Look, after choreographer Paul Taylor's eponymous piece, evidences Katz's nuanced approach to human form and gesture. This volume offers a fascinating glimpse into the hard work that goes into making a Katz painting look effortless. . . . . [see book details]

  Text by David A. Moos. Hardback, 8.5 x 10.5 in. / 112 pgs / 75 color. Publication Date: 12/1/2008 List Price: US $45.00

  Editions Dilecta Alexander Calder: Animal Sketching Animal Sketching was Alexander Calder's first book, published in New York in 1926 shortly before he left for France. It is a study of about ten animals and their movements, illustrated by numerous drawings, and with short commentaries by Calder on individual species and on problems of caricature, action and pose (or lack thereof). Animal Sketching also provides some insight into his ingenious sculptural work, foreshadowing as it does his famous Miniature Circus of 1927, in which these animals achieved full dimensionality. Following the Whitney Museum's 2008 exhibit on Calder's Paris years, ditions Dilecta here provides a facsimile of a foundational publication by one of America's most beloved artists. This edition adds a postface by Arnauld Pierre, Calder expert and member of the Calder Foundation board. Beautifully and modestly designed, Animal Sketching is a giftworthy gem that will tickle adults and children alike. . . . . [see book details]

  Preface by Arnauld Pierre. Hbk, 6.25 x 9 in. / 104 pgs / 140 b&w. Publication Date: 10/31/2009 List Price: US $45.00

  Mitchell-Innes & Nash The Artist's Hand: Willem De Kooning Drawings, 1937 To 1954 The artistic development of Willem de Kooning is explored here through a focus on his early drawings, many of which have never before been published, and most of which have not been on public view in decades. An accompanying text and chronology provide insight into de Kooning's ideas and the exhibitions and artists that might have influenced him during the 1930s-1950s. . . . . [see book details]

  Essay by Amy Schichtel. Paperback, 8.5 x 11 in. / 64 pgs / 33 color. Publication Date: 10/2/2002 List Price: US $30.00

  Edizioni Corraini Bruno Munari: Drawing the Sun The books in the new workshop series describe different methods of learning, from educational activities to explanatory pamphlets to poetic play. The illuminating, gentle genius of the Italian artist and designer Bruno Munari (1907-1998) offers basic instructions and plenty of stimuli, suggestions and illustrative pictures to get adults and children, teachers and students working together. In Drawing the Sun, Munari suggests: When drawing the sun, try to have on hand colored paper, chalk, felt-tip markers, crayons, pencils, ballpoint pens--you can draw a sun with any one of them. Also remember that sunset and dawn are the back and front of the same phenomenon: when we are looking at the sunset, the people over there are looking at the dawn.” . . . . [see book details]

  Artwork by Bruno Munari. Paperback, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 66 pgs / 64 color. Publication Date: 7/2/2004 List Price: US $21.95

  Edizioni Corraini Bruno Munari: Drawing A Tree The books in the new workshop series describe different methods of learning, from educational activities to explanatory pamphlets to poetic play. The illuminating, gentle genius of the Italian artist and designer Bruno Munari (1907-1998) offers basic instructions and plenty of stimuli, suggestions and illustrative pictures to get adults and children, teachers and students working together. These three books, the first in the series, are classics from the hand of a magician. For drawing a tree, Munari suggests: When drawing a tree, always remember that every branch is more slender than the one that came before. Also note that the trunk splits into two branches, then those branches split in two, then those in two, and so on, and so on, until you have a full tree, be it straight, squiggly, curved up, curved down, or bent sideways by the wind.” . . . . [see book details]

  Artwork by Bruno Munari. Paperback, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 88 pgs / 88 color. Publication Date: 7/2/2004 List Price: US $21.95

  The Ice Plant Charles Gute: Revisions and Queries Works on Paper For many years, Brooklyn-based Charles Gute has worked with text as a primary material both as a conceptual artist and as a freelance editor of art books. These separate activities--studio practice and day job--unexpectedly overlapped when Gute hit upon the idea of taking corrected publisher's proofs and stripping out all content except for his own revisions, queries and proofreader's notations, reframing the results as line drawings. Displacing the editorial process with a purely visual agenda, these abstract constellations of marks resonate with their original subject matter in unpredictable ways, while playfully engaging the textual legacy of artists like Joseph Kosuth, Lawrence Weiner and Allen Ruppersberg. Featuring more than 50 drawings, Revisions and Queries is an art book about art books; it offers an amusing glimpse behind the scenes of both the art world and art book publishing. . . . . [see book details]

  Hardback, 8.75 x 11.25 in. / 96 pgs / 53 color. Publication Date: 10/1/2008 List Price: US $35.00

  Carré d'Art-Musée d'Art Contemporain de Nîmes Chloe Piene Carré d'Art - Musée d'Art Contemporain de Nîmes Known internationally for her powerful drawings, the work of Chloe Piene has been called brutal, delicate, figurative, forensic, erotic and fantastic. Her large scale video works utilize the greater sensory impact of noise, time, darkness and misrecognition to visibly extend into the more subterranean levels of experience. This new monograph marks the most in-depth representation of her work to date. It includes 40 reproductions of drawings with details, a new arrangement of an installation in three parts, an essay by Barry Schwabsky and an interview of the artist by the artist herself. Piene has shown extensively at institutions such as the Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland, the Witte de With, the Netherlands and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Barry Schwabsky. Hardback, 8.75 x 10.25 in. / 104 pgs / 15 color / 40 duotone. Publication Date: 8/1/2008 List Price: US $45.00

  Walther König/Idea Design & Print, Cluj Dan Perjovschi: Postmodern Ex-Communist In 2007, Bucharest artist Dan Perjovschi drew darkly political line drawings on the main atrium wall of New York's Museum of Modern Art during public hours, so visitors could view the work in progress--his first U.S. museum installation. This book of drawings includes work made for Public Art Bucharest. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Sabine Hentzsch. Paperback, 6.25 x 9 in./ 96 pgs /90 b&w Publication Date: 12/15/2007 List Price: US $34.00

  kurimanzutto Daniel Guzmán: Lost & Found Daniel Guzmán, born in Mexico City in 1964, is one of the most important artists of his country's internationally acclaimed new generation, as well as one of the first to be shown by the influential Mexico City gallery, kurimanzutto, in 1999. Known for his revealing drawing installations, which have figured such diverse figures as Robert DeNiro's Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver, Cupid and Gene Simmons of Kiss, he combines abstract and figurative works with freewheeling comic strip-like texts that hint of love and hate, violence and sexuality, chaos and magic. Guzmán's work will be subject of a major touring exhibition, curated by Richard Flood, that begins in 2008 at the highly anticipated SANAA-redesigned New Museum in New York. Lost & Found, a beautifully printed, oversized collection of Guzmán's trademark drawings and clippings constitutes a concise self-portrait in 64 pages. It is the first book to make Guzmán's work widely available internationally. . . . . [see book details]

  Paperback, 10.5 x 13.5 in. / 64 pgs / illustrated throughout. Publication Date: 7/1/2007 List Price: US $30.00

  University Galleries of Illinois State University Dennis Oppenheim: Drawings And Sculpture . . . . [see book details]

  Artwork by Dennis Oppenheim. Paperback, 10 x 10 / 56 pgs / 4 color / 24 duotone. Publication Date: 9/2/1992 List Price: US $15.95

  JRP|Ringier Dieter Roth: Drawings/Zeichnungen Sculptor, poet, pioneer of artist's books, performer, publisher and musician--Dieter Roth (1930-1998) has long been beloved as an artist's artist. Constantly trying to undo his art education, he would set up systems that discouraged the conventional and the consistent: he drew with both hands at once, preserved the discarded and reveled in the transitory. Grease stains, mold formations, insect borings and rotting foodstuffs were just some of the materials used, both out of a fascination with their painterly, textural aspects and for their innate ability to make time visible and play to chance. This oversized, faux-leather-bound book collects some 260 never-before-published drawings from the famous Copy Books group, heretofore hidden away in the late artist’s archive. Organized in series, these works span from 1977 to 1998. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Eva Presenhuber. Text by Veit Loers. Hardcover, 8.5 x 13 in. / 336 pgs / 150 color / 150 duotone. Publication Date: 3/1/2008 List Price: US $80.00

  PictureBox Donald Baechler: Early Drawings and Working Slides Never before printed or exhibited, Donald Baechler's early drawings--casually sketched, mostly in bars and restaurants--are loose, informal records of the artist working out his characteristic iconography: trees, globes, heads... One hundred images are presented in this sumptuous volume--including the fascinating hand-constructed slides Baechler uses as reference. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Dan Nadel. Text by Naomi Fry, Donald Baechler. Hbk, 7 x 10 in. / 120 pgs / 100 color. Publication Date: 11/30/2012 List Price: US $40.00

  Editorial RM Dr. Lakra: Health & Efficiency The art of embellishing popular reproduction usually entails irreverence, whether it be Duchamp's famous additions to a postcard of the Mona Lisa or the kinds of tweaking seen on subway advertisements. The Mexican artist known as Dr. Lakra embellishes 1950s pinup-magazine reproductions to introduce a content not only irreverent but uncomfortable (and certainly contrary to the intentions of his soft-porn source material)--mortality. The series of works that comprise this velvet-bound volume began with a collection of vintage magazines about nudist camps that Lakra bought at the Sunday market on Brick Lane in London. He set to work despoiling the hygienically upbeat sensuality of these nude models with a morbid parade of skeletons and ghouls, who paw and loom at their prey with crude, lascivious glee, dragging both sex and death down to the level of earthy fact. Lakra's ghouls are not mere doodles; in their visual character, these creatures draw on . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Abraham Cruzvillegas. Velvet-bound, 7.25 x 9.5 in. / 88 pgs / 41 color. Publication Date: 7/31/2009 List Price: US $45.00

  J&L Books Serge Onnen: Drawings on Geology Drawings on Geology is Dutch/French artist Serge Onnen's collection of black-and-white drawings based on the concept of the horizon. Onnen has drawn on works by artists from across history to the present, as well as on anonymous ephemera, to elaborate this theme. The artists included here are David Shrigley, Paul Noble, Mark Dion, MVRDV, Hans Broek, Sebastiaan Bremer, Matthew Monaham, Olav Westphalen, Robert Longo, Raymond Pettibon, Leonardo DaVinci, Satoru Eguchi, Le Corbusier, Daragh Reeves, Marla Bussmann, Ellen Harvey, Alice Smit, Ben Polsky, Mathilde ter Heijne, Seurat, Paul Nassenstein, Toba Kedoori, Hannes Kater, Serge Onnen, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Aam Solleveld, Carlos Roque, Caspar David Friederich, Albrecht Dürer, Arnoud Holleman, Napoleon Bonaparte, William Wegman, Christine Rusch, Grandville, Pope sixtus, Roy McMakin, Marc Smeets, Geert Dekkers and others. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Serge Onnen. Paperback, 7.5 x 9.5 in. / 150 pgs / 125 b&w. Publication Date: 6/1/2007 List Price: US $15.00

  Matthew Marks Gallery Ellsworth Kelly: Self Portrait Drawings 1944-1992 Think of an Ellsworth Kelly: an abstract consideration of the relationship between figure and ground; a conscious questioning of the conditions that underlie perception; an exploration of the relationship of painting and wall, sculpture and space, viewer and work. Now think of Ellsworth Kelly: a man, born in the 1920s in New York state, who has been recording his own appearance in ink and graphite over the years, capturing himself as his attitudes changed, his self-perception changed, his face and body aged. Collected here are five decades of Kelly's self-portraits, drawn between 1944 and 1992. The artist sketches himself in all variety of poses: bust, standing, sitting, clothed, nude, laughing, serious, self-possessed. The style of drawing changes as frequently, from line drawing to cubist to comic to naturalistic. Taken together, they present a marvelous portrait of the artist as a man. . . . . [see book details]

  Essay by Harry Cooper. Hardback, 6.5 x 9 in. / 120 pgs / 53 color reproductions. Publication Date: 9/2/2003 List Price: US $30.00

  Richter Verlag Fred Sandback: Drawings 1968-2000 Fred Sandback wanted from the beginning to make sculpture, but sculpture with neither volume nor mass, neither interior nor exterior. For more than half his life he succeeded in that impossible-sounding task, solving its riddle with lines in the form of steel wire and acrylic string. He described spaces, constructed perspectives, and demarcated borders, visible and invisible. The drawings on paper collected here, while closely allied to his exhibition work, were seldom mere drafts or working sketches; they are autonomous and self-confident signs. . . . . [see book details]

  Essay by Gianfranco Verna. Paperback, 8.25 x 10.25 in. / 32 pgs / 26 color / 1 duotone. Publication Date: 3/1/2006 List Price: US $25.00

  Richter Verlag Gerhard Richter: Drawings 1964-1999 . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Dieter Schwarz. Essay by Birgit Pelzer. Hardcover, 11.45 x 8.85 in. / 320 pgs / 100 color / 420 b&w. Publication Date: 5/2/2000 List Price: US $80.00

  Jovis Gerhard Trieb: Drawings Variations on the theme of the square have consumed Austrian minimalist sculptor Gerhard Trieb for more than two decades. The volume here reproduces nearly all his freehand drawings, in ink on transparent paper, which complement his works of starkly monumental marble. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Peter Dittmar. Hardcover, 9.45 x 12.25 in. / 192 pgs / illustrated throughout. Publication Date: 8/15/2005 List Price: US $65.00

  Radius Books John McCracken: Sketchbook Since the mid-1960s, Southern California artist John McCracken--a contemporary of Donald Judd--has been a leading voice of Minimalist sculpture. His monochromatic fiberglass and resin sculptures, which are worked to a high and nearly translucent polish, are iconic pieces of this genre. Sketchbook, published concurrently with an exhibition at David Zwirner gallery in New York, presents the first volume of two treasured sketchbooks that McCracken used from the mid-60s until the mid-70s. Its pages contain working sketches that show the thought processes and insights that pre-date and presage his later work. The format, paper and reproduction quality of this exquisitely produced facsimile edition were chosen for their ability to faithfully reproduce the original pages from this fascinating document, while a supplemental booklet of color photographs shows the sketches in their realized form. Pushing the boundaries between art and architecture while manipulating the psychological and physiological processes inherent in abstraction, McCracken has carved . . . . [see book details]

  Interview with Neville Wakefield. Hbk, 11 x 14 in. / 160 pgs / 157 color. Publication Date: 10/1/2008 List Price: US $65.00

  Dia Art Foundation Joseph Beuys: Drawings Based On The Codices Madrid By Da Vinci . . . . [see book details]

  Artwork by Joseph Beuys. Contributions by Martin Kemp. Text by Ann Temkin, Cornelia Lauf. Hardcover, 9.25 x 12.25 in. / 200 pgs / 98 color / 44 b&w. Publication Date: 5/2/1999 List Price: US $60.00

  Kerber K.H. Hödicke: Charcoal Drawings 1975-1982 On the occasion of his seventieth birthday, K.H. Hödicke--a pioneer of German New Figuration in the 1970s--here presents large-format charcoal drawings from 1975 to 1982. Filled with erotic, urban energy, these drawings capture the style that was so influential to the 80s generation of Berlin artists. . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Beat Wyss, Durs Grünbein, Jochen Hörisch. Hbk, 8.75 x 11.75 in. / 212 pgs / 88 duotone. Publication Date: 3/1/2009 List Price: US $65.00

  Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis Laylah Ali: Types 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 buoyant color, yet at the same time delve into some of the more disturbing impulses revealed in the workings of individuals and groups. Often creating characters that represent the many facets of social and racial identity, this special artist book, Types, includes new drawings that are representative of the different types” of characters Ali creates. Keeping with the intimate scale of her works, this 36-page book includes 14 new black and white color drawings. Each image is juxtaposed next to a solid block of color in order to heighten the intricate details of these new depictions. . . . . [see book details]

  Artwork by Laylah Ali. Paperback, 4.25 x 5.5 in. / 36 pgs / 7 color / 7 b&w. Publication Date: 1/15/2005 List Price: US $10.00

  Independent Curators International, New York Mark Lombardi: Global Networks 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 them acting outside of and transcending national boundaries. Using graphite and colored pencil, and information culled from newspaper accounts, TV and other sources in the public domain, Lombardi has developed a new type of history painting that maps the economic underpinnings of our global society. . . . . [see book details]

  Artwork by Mark Lombardi. Edited by Judith Richards. Text by Robert Hobbs. Paperback, 9 x 11 in. / 136 pgs / 25 color. Publication Date: 7/2/2003 List Price: US $29.95

  Hatje Cantz Matthias Weischer: The Garden Works on Paper The works that have brought Leipzig painter Matthias Weischer international recognition depict interiors--often sparsely furnished and unpopulated rooms--in which decorative elements and tweaked perspectives unsettle our perceptions of space and skew the viewer’s capacity to orient. Weischer’s drawings represent a second and stylistically quite independent strand of his work, being more crudely executed and less exacting in their surfaces. The genres do overlap at times: occasionally the drawings will pick up on ideas previously realized in paintings or will allude to visual elements that can later be traced in the painted works. This first catalogue of Weischer’s drawings is presented in a generous, oversized publication, the apparently disorganized feel of which lends the volume the intimacy and rough energy of an artist’s sketchbook. Born 1973 in Rheine, Germany, Weischer is often grouped with Neo Rauch as one of the most important painters of the New Leipzig School. . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Wolfgang Holler. Paperback, 9.5 x 13 in. / 138 pgs / 40 color. Publication Date: 2/1/2008 List Price: US $60.00

  Regency Arts Press Michael Smith: Drawings Simple, Obscure and Obtuse This artist's book chronicles a lifetime of drawings by the performance/video/installation artist Michael Smith. Smith is best known for his alter ego, "Mike," whose blend of satisfaction and yearning, humor and pathos, makes him an all-American anti-hero. Smith's wide range of art activities in television, performance, stand-up and puppet shows, as well as installation, sculpture and video, have influenced a generation of young artists. This book is composed of mostly-unseen material from private notebooks: sketches, notations, diagrams and storyboards, as well as finished and childhood drawings, giving the reader a fly-on-the-wall view into Smith's mind and creative process. Smith's newest video work, created at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT, will show at P.S. 1/MoMA in February of 2007, and a traveling exhibition begins at the Blanton Museum in Austin, Texas in August of the same year. . . . . [see book details]

  Paperback, 9.5 x 7.25 in. / 144 pgs / 143 color. Publication Date: 4/1/2007 List Price: US $35.00

  Ludion Michaël Borremans: Whistling a Happy Tune This monograph offers the first survey of Belgian painter Michaël Borremans' drawings. Like the paintings, the drawings favor absurd fragmentary figures that inhabit an indeterminate time. Because of Borremans' drab palate, these figures dwell in a gloomy universe that only heightens the uncanny subject matter. Critic David Coggins has noted, "Michaël Borremans' portraits of somber young men, elusively posed before muted backgrounds, create a tone of uncertainty that becomes a virtue, not an evasion. Working both large and small, he grounds his paintings (all oil on canvas) in traditional Realism, achieving finely rendered details, soft light and surfaces that are delicate and painterly." The drawings envelop viewers in a similarly surreal, ambiguous and unreliable universe, depicted with a subdued combination of pencil, watercolor, ballpoint, white ink and coffee washes. They make use of newspapers, books, magazines and turn-of-the-century photographic archives as source material. This volume includes an essay by critic and . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Michael Amy. Hardback, 10 x 11.25 in. / 200 pgs / 120 color. Publication Date: 9/1/2008 List Price: US $75.00

  The Ice Plant Pat O'Neill: Another Kind of Record The Merger, The Indictment, and The Girl Pat O'Neill has been deeply involved in Los Angeles culture since the late 1960s. A founding father of the city's avant-garde film scene, an influential professor at CalArts and an optical effects pioneer, he is best known for experimental films like Let's Make a Sandwich (1982), Water and Power (1989), Trouble in the Image (1996) and The Decay of Fiction (2002)--playful but technically rigorous works that fit comfortably alongside those of Stan Brakhage and David Lynch. Whatever the medium, O'Neill's work often hinges on a "perceptual ambiguity" achieved through layers of image, sound and texture. This first artist's book, Another Kind of Record, compiles dozens of superb collage drawings, found texts and digital composite prints O'Neill has gathered and altered over the last several years. Intersecting his own elaborate pencil drawings with graphic and textual fragments of bygone print media (educational illustrations, advertising, reference charts, sheet music), this recent work occupies . . . . [see book details]

  Paperback, 8 x 10 in. / 96 pgs / 17 color / 40 b&w. Publication Date: 6/1/2008 List Price: US $30.00

  Gregory R. Miller & Co. Peggy Preheim New York-based artist Peggy Preheim is known for her minutely detailed, miniscule graphite drawings on otherwise blank sheets of paper, creating a mood and atmosphere specific to her work. Her drawings are influenced by the small sixteenth century panel paintings of the Low Countries, while their lush black-and-white tonalities evoke early found photographs on which they are often based. Published on the occasion of Preheim's first retrospective, which originates at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Connecticut, this monograph is the artist's first and features rich reproductions of works from throughout her 20-year career, including sculpture and photography. Noted designer Daphne Geismar's elegant design perfectly captures the uncanny qualities of Preheim's style. The volume includes essays by curator Carter Foster and critic Gregory Volk, as well as a collection of poems and imaginary letters written in response to selected works by Aldrich Director Harry Philbrick. Published in collaboration with The Aldrich. . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Gregory Volk, Harry Philbrick, Carter Foster. Clothbound, 9.75 x 12.25 in. / 144 pgs / 95 color / 24 b&w. Publication Date: 10/1/2008 List Price: US $60.00

  Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg Dan Perjovschi & Nedko Solakov: Walls and Floor (Without the Ceiling) From their Southeastern European bases in Bucharest and Sofia, artists Dan Perjovschi and Nedko Solakov have taken the international art world by storm over the course of the last 15 years, showing their work either solo or jointly at such prestigious venues as the 2007 Venice Biennale, Documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany and The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Both artists work with pictures, texts and biting irony to comment on the social, political and cultural status quo. Early this year, Perjovschi and Solakov took over Vienna's BA-CA-Kunstforum, drawing all over the walls, floors and surrounding architecture with felt-tipped markers and pencils. Political, witty, subversive and fresh, this winning exhibition is documented here. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Kluturkontakt Austria. Paperback, 6.75 x 9 in. / 96 pgs / 65 color Publication Date: 9/1/2008 List Price: US $40.00

  Walther König, Köln Richard Prince: 3rd Place A Children's Colouring Book Within this children's coloring book for grown-ups, readers will find 72 messy, funny, sometimes risqué black-and-white line drawings of people, monsters, robots and flowers. Is there a nude, bearded guy with peace symbols for eyes? Sure. A mummy? Yes again. How about a stick figure with ears that grow up over the top of his head or a female nude with a crude black pirate patch over one demonic eye? Check, and check again. For lovers of Richard Prince, one of the foremost American artists of the Pictures generation, or for anyone with an off-beat sense of humor, this is a must-have artist's book, produced on the occasion of Prince's 2008 Serpentine Gallery exhibition. As Roberta Smith wrote in her 2007 review of Prince's major mid-career survey at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, "Practically every last American could find something familiar, if usually a bit unsettling, in his work." Adults--and . . . . [see book details]

  Pbk, 8.5 x 10.75 in. / 82 pgs / 72 b&w. Publication Date: 9/1/2008 List Price: US $30.00

  Kerber Robert Longo: The Freud Drawings On June 4, 1938, having paid the German Reich Escape Tax” and the Jew Property Tax,” Sigmund Freud left his apartment at 19 Berggasse forever. A few days before his emigration from Vienna to London, photographer Edmund Engelmann courageously and secretively recorded Freud's legendary residence, documenting it in photographs that were eventually published. An old volume of these photographs was presented to artist Robert Longo in 1993, acting as the catalyst and primary source material for the 30 large-size charcoal works that constitute The Freud Drawings. Via Longo's charcoal, Freud's deserted rooms become an admonition of a destroyed world, tension-filled reminiscences of a place both momentous and monstrous, eclipsed and strange. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Klaus Albrecht Schroder and Martin Hentschel. Essays by Werner Spiess and Rainer Metzger. Hardcover, 9.5 x 12 in. / 122 pgs / 58 color. Publication Date: 7/2/2003 List Price: US $55.00

  Jonathan O'Hara Gallery Robert Rauschenberg: Transfer Drawings of the 1960s Featuring 42 of Robert Rauschenberg's pioneering Transfer Drawings of the 1960s, this book reproduces almost half of the works that were made in that tumultuous decade. The historical watershed of 1968 is especially well represented by 23 drawings, at least 15 of which were shown in the influential Ileana Sonnabend Gallery, Paris, in October of that year. They have never been seen before now in the U.S. The imagery in these drawings suggests a growing political consciousness, first engaging the civil rights movement, followed by the Vietnam War and other events of the stormy era. This small but exquisite volume is an absorbing sequel to the 2005-06 international touring exhibition of Rauschenberg's Combines, taking up where those multi-media constructions left off. Among the featured works are "Mainspring" (1965), the largest of the transfer drawings, and selections from the artist's own collection. . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Lewis Kachur. Foreword by Jonathan O'Hara. Hardcover, 9.5 x 9.25 in. / 72 pgs / 45 color / 6 b&w. Publication Date: 6/1/2007 List Price: US $40.00

  Oktagon Roman Signer: Drawings Charming in conception and sober in execution, Roman Signer's drawings beg to be expanded upon by the viewer's imagination. They offer construction guides and stage directions for the sculptures--works with titles like "After Observations of the Wind," "Volcano," and "Waiting for the Fall"--which entail often comical experiments pursued with an almost Beckett-esque sense of humorous futility. . . . . [see book details]

  Essays by Christoph Vogele, Otrud Westheider. Paperback, 12.25 x 8.25 in. / 144 pgs / 56 color. Publication Date: 10/2/2001 List Price: US $45.00

  Regency Arts Press Sean Landers: Cartoons Whether you're a fan of Sean Landers's prolific, varied, purposely self-aggrandizing and simultaneously self-puncturing career or not (and no one is neutral), there's one thing that's indisputable: He's wickedly funny. And nowhere is his humor sharper than in these previously uncollected drawings from 1991-92, in which a cast of art-world strivers, including gallerists, painters and groupies, parade across the page with all their hilarious insecurities on display. The most prominent form in which Landers delivers his witty apercus through these characters is the T-shirt slogan: I used to show in the 80s”; I went to Yale too”; or I emerged as an artist during the Gulf War.” In a drafting style that resembles a cleaned-up R. Crumb and with his trademark hand-lettered misspellings, Landers takes on all art types, exposing the shallowness of the successful artist and the flop, the egotism of the collector and critic, in sometimes bawdy and frequently . . . . [see book details]

  Artwork by Sean Landers. Paperback, 4.5 x 6 in. / 140 pgs / 134 b&w. Publication Date: 6/15/2005 List Price: US $25.00

  The Ice Plant Tamara Shopsin: C'est Le Pied II C'est le Pied II is New York-based artist and illustrator Tamara Shopsin's follow up to her well-received 2007 book, C'est le Pied. Volume two is similarly filled with Shopsin's whimsical line drawings and deadpan conundrums that play on everyday mishaps. An eclectic gem, this small giftworthy paperback comprises a series of 49 elegant doodles that combine Shopsin's familiar handsome design with a New Yorker-esque--or Fischli and Weiss, or Ernie Kovacs--sense of humor, and a touch of Raymond Pettibon's edge: a broomstick-riding witch and a genie traveling by magic carpet share airspace, a battered-looking armored truck is jacked up on three sets of cinderblocks and a fully-suited knight sips soda from a straw through his helmet. Shopsin is an east coast graphic artist, line cook and the daughter of New York food legend Kenny Shopsin, whose restaurant--a long-term West Village mainstay--features a famously over-stuffed menu. Father and daughter recently collaborated on the . . . . [see book details]

  Pbk, 4.5 x 6.5 in. / 96 pgs / 49 b&w. Publication Date: 7/31/2009 List Price: US $14.95

  The Ice Plant Tamara Shopsin: C'est le Pied! Handsomely designed and illustrated by Tamara Shopsin, this small paperback leads the reader through a series of visual puns and subtle wordplay in the form of 45 simple line drawings. An odd gem in the vein of certain McSweeney's publications with a bit of Raymond Pettibon thrown in, it highlights an absurdist humor that can also be found at her newest venture, Shopsin's General Store online, where one can find such eclectic staples as an Honest Abe cloisonné lapel pin featuring the emotional sixteenth President of the United States, a wooden tongue depressor silk-screened with the phrase, "I was born on a pirate ship," various darkly adorable letterpress notecards and a scarf with red and white marbling that is designed to look like a long, soft strip of bacon. A regular contributor to The New York Times Op-Ed page among other cosmopolitan publications, Shopsin is a cook and graphic artist based . . . . [see book details]

  Paperback, 6.5 x 4.5 in. / 64 pgs / 45 b&w Publication Date: 8/1/2007 List Price: US $14.95