| GIFT GUIDES 2013
Gift IdeasArt books from 20th-century modernism to cutting-edge contemporary movements
This year's top selection of contemporary and modern 20th-century artists from the world's top museums and international publishers, beautifully illustrated with the highest-quality reproductions |
| | OUR TOP 10 CONTEMPORARY AND MODERN ART BOOKS AND CATALOGUESHATJE CANTZ  The years 1955–1965 saw artists wreaking havoc with the parameters of painting. If Abstract Expressionists had proposed art as the manipulation of paint on a flat plane, the American artist Dan Flavin further refined art as the manipulation of light itself. Starting out as a convert to Abstract Expressionism in the late 1950s, Flavin quickly disposed of painting’s frame,” as sculptural light object. He first used fluorescent light in a 1961 [more]
Hbk, 8.25 x 10.5 in. / 260 pgs / 200 color.
ISBN 9783775735230
Publication Date: 2/28/2013 THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK  Published in conjunction with the first large-scale, multi-medium, posthumous retrospective of Willem de Kooning's career, this publication offers an unparalleled opportunity to appreciate the development of the artist's work as it unfolded over nearly seven decades, beginning with his early academic works, made in Holland before he moved to the United States in 1926, and concluding with his final, sparely abstract paintings of the late 1980s. The volume presents approximately 200 [more]
Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 504 pgs / 725 color.
ISBN 9780870707971
Publication Date: 9/30/2011 D.A.P./DISTRIBUTED ART PUBLISHERS  Patterns represents a brilliant new adventure in image-making and book-making by Gerhard Richter, who in recent years has produced several fascinating explorations of the possibilities of the artist’s book. For this latest project, Richter took an image of his work Abstract Painting” (CR: 7244) and divided it vertically into strips: first 2, then 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1,024, 2,048, up to 4,096 strips. This process, involving twelve [more]
Hbk, 8.25 x 5.5 in. / 488 pgs / illustrated throughout.
ISBN 9781935202981
Publication Date: 8/31/2012 EDICIONES POLIGRAFA  I, too, asked myself if I could not sell something and succeed in life... Finally the idea of inventing something insincere came to me and I got to work immediately.” With this statement, penned for his first solo show in April, 1964, Marcel Broodthaers (1924-1976) announced his death as a poet and birth as an artist. In fact, he was to transform the category of artist completely, purging the vocation of [more]
Clth, 8.5 x 10.25 in. / 512 pgs / 98 color / 126 duotone.
ISBN 9788434312876
Publication Date: 5/31/2013 D.A.P./TATE  Published on the occasion of Richter's major exhibition at the Tate, Gerhard Richter: Panorama is the first and most complete overview of one of the greatest artistic achievements of our times. Where previous monographs have focused on a single genre within the artist's vast output, this stunningly illustrated survey encompasses his entire oeuvre, now stretching across more than a half-century of activity, including photo-paintings, abstracts, landscapes and seascapes, portraits, glass and [more]
Hbk, 9.75 x 11.5 in. / 288 pgs / 290 color.
ISBN 9781935202714
Publication Date: 10/31/2011 THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK  Published to accompany the first major survey of Cindy Sherman’s work in the United States in nearly 15 years, this publication presents a stunning range of work from the groundbreaking artist’s 35-year career. Showcasing approximately 180 photographs from the mid-1970s to the present, including new works made for the exhibition and never before published, the volume is a vivid exploration of Sherman’s sustained investigation into the construction of contemporary identity and [more]
Clth, 9.5 x 12 in. / 264 pgs / 153 color / 102 b&w.
ISBN 9780870708121
Publication Date: 2/29/2012 GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM  John Chamberlain rose to prominence in the late 1950s with energetic, vibrant sculptures hewn from disused car parts, achieving a three-dimensional form of Abstract Expressionism that astounded critics and captured the imaginations of fellow artists. For a seven-year period in the mid-1960s, the artist abandoned automotive metal and turned to other materials. Motivated by scientific curiosity, Chamberlain produced sculptures in unorthodox media, such as urethene foam, galvanized steel, paper bags, mineral-coated [more]
Hbk, 9.5 x 11.25 in. / 248 pgs / 210 color.
ISBN 9780892074259
Publication Date: 3/31/2012 D.A.P./DISTRIBUTED ART PUBLISHERS, INC.  The Spanish painter, draughtsman and sculptor Antonio López García is so widely celebrated for the staggering exactitude of his painterly realism that it's sometimes easy to neglect the magical, delicate atmospheres he conjures through his technical abilities. His paintings of what in anyone else's hands would seem the blandest subject matter imaginable--a blank wall, a coat hook, a kitchen sink, the interior of a refrigerator--teem with an infused, loving scrutiny that [more]
Hbk, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 288 pgs / 201 color / 8 b&w.
ISBN 9781935202653
Publication Date: 10/31/2011 D.A.P./UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY ART MUSEUM AND PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE  Published on the occasion of the first major survey of Barry McGee’s work, this monumental volume records more than two decades of incredible fecundity, over the course of which McGee has pioneered a new iconography of sharp street vitality and graphic snap. McGee began as a graffiti artist on the streets of San Francisco, working under such tags as Ray Fong, Twist and Twisto, and his work since then has hugely [more]
Hbk, 6.75 x 9 in. / 448 pgs / 450 color / 15 b&w.
ISBN 9781935202851
Publication Date: 10/31/2012 D.A.P./TATE  Accompanying the first major American retrospective exhibition of Yayoi Kusama's work, and an exhibition at Tate Modern in London, this volume offers a definitive monograph on Japan's most famous living artist. It features a wealth of works from all periods in Kusama's career, as well as essays by various international curators and critics, discussing Kusama's years in New York, her career after her return to Japan, her installation works and the [more]
Hbk, 8.75 x 10.75 in. / 208 pgs / 195 color / 51 b&w.
ISBN 9781935202813
Publication Date: 2/29/2012 |
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