| 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 CATALOGUESD.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 SIGLIO  The Address Book, a key and controversial work in Sophie Calle's oeuvre, lies at the epicenter of many layers of reality and fiction. Having found a lost address book on the street in Paris, Calle copied the pages before returning it anonymously to its owner. She then embarked on a search to come to know this stranger by contacting listed individuals--in essence, following him through the map of his acquaintances. Originally [more]
Hbk, 5.25 x 7.5 in. / 104 pgs / 2 color / 26 b&w.
ISBN 9780979956294
Publication Date: 9/30/2012 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 RADIUS BOOKS/DAVID ZWIRNER  Alice Neel (1900–1984) is widely considered one of the greatest portraitists of the twentieth century. Published on the occasion of a solo exhibition at David Zwirner, New York, this beautifully designed book presents a selection of portraits and still lifes from the last two decades of the artist’s life. Called the pre-eminent painter-chronicler of New York bohemia” by Deborah Solomon of The New York Times, Neel remains a hero to many [more]
Clth, 10 x 11 in. / 72 pgs / 24 color.
ISBN 9781934435557
Publication Date: 8/31/2012 MODERNE KUNST NüRNBERG  Situated in that explosive mini-era from 1978 to 1982 in New York, this monograph explores the early and most experimental period in the career of Keith Haring (1958–1990). Its narrative commences with a portrait of the vigorous studio practice Haring had already established after enrolling in New York’s School of Visual Arts, and tracks his metamorphosis into an ultra-prolific artist creating political public art on downtown streets and responding to the [more]
Pbk, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 256 pgs / 200 color.
ISBN 9783869843131
Publication Date: 8/30/2012 THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK  Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde explores the extraordinary convergence of artists and other creators in Japan’s capital city during the radically transformative postwar period. Examining works from a range of media--painting, sculpture, photography, drawing, printmaking, video and film, as well as graphic design, architecture, musical composition and dance--this is the first publication in English to focus in depth on the full scope of postwar art in Japan. During this period, Tokyo [more]
Hbk, 9 x 10.5 in. / 264 pgs / 215 color.
ISBN 9780870708343
Publication Date: 11/30/2012 HATJE CANTZ  Frank Stella is abstraction’s greatest living champion--the artist who, more than any other, has merged abstract painting with sculpture and architecture, pursuing the implications of his what you see is what you see” stance. A forceful clarity of purpose and vision has characterized his art and his career from the start: he dominated the New York art scene of the late 1950s with his Black Paintings composed of stripes, which famously [more]
Hbk, 9.5 x 12.25 in. / 311 pgs / 662 color.
ISBN 9783775734073
Publication Date: 12/31/2012 WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN  Bauhaus: Art as Life explores the diverse artistic production and turbulent 14-year history of the modern world’s most famous art school. Accompanying the biggest Bauhaus exhibition in the United Kingdom in more than 40 years, this catalogue features a rich array of painting, sculpture, design, architecture, film, photography, textiles, ceramics, theatre and installation, ranging from the school’s Expressionist beginnings to its pioneering utopian model of uniting art and technology in order [more]
Hbk, 8.25 x 11.75 in. / 272 pgs / 250 color.
ISBN 9783863351632
Publication Date: 8/31/2012 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 MODERNE KUNST NüRNBERG  The influence of William Burroughs on popular culture has been enormous: the Beatles, the Stones, Andy Warhol, the Velvet Underground, David Bowie, Keith Haring, David Cronenberg and Sonic Youth have all paid homage to the Beat writer in various media. While Burroughs’ life story and sexual/narcotic proclivities have had their own legacy, the cut-up” method that he developed in the 1960s with his friend Brion Gysin has proved his most generative [more]
Hbk, 7.5 x 9.5 in. / 176 pgs / illustrated throughout.
ISBN 9783869843155
Publication Date: 9/30/2012 |
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