| THE GIFT GUIDE New & Forthcoming Exhibition CatalogsBarry McGee • Inventing Abstraction • Tokyo 1955-1982 • The Postcard Age • Charles Dellschau • Keith Haring • Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction • Skyscraper • Fast Forward: Modern Moments 1913-2013 • Josiah McElheny
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| | Highlights from the Fall 2012 ListD.A.P./University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive Barry McGeeEdited by Lawrence Rinder, Dena Beard. Text by Alex Baker, Natasha Boas, Germano Celant. 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 expanded the terms of both street art and contemporary art. The freshness of McGee’s work stems in part from his virtuoso handling and consolidation of a whole panoply of influences, ... Hbk, 6.75 x 9 in. / 448 pgs / 450 color / 15 b&w.  FREE UPS GROUND SHIPPING IN THE US
$49.95 The Museum of Modern Art, New York Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925By Leah Dickerman. Text by Matthew Affron, Yve-Alain Bois, Masha Chlenova, Ester Coen, Christoph Cox, Hubert Damisch, Rachael DeLue, Hal Foster, Mark Franko, Matthew Gale, Peter Galison, Maria Gough, Jodi Hauptman, Gordon Hughes, David Joselit, Anton Kaes, David Lang, Susan Laxton, Philippe-Alain Michaud, Jaroslav Suchan, Lanka Tatersall, Michael Taylor. In 1912, in several European cities, a handful of artists--Vasily Kandinsky, Frantisek Kupka, Francis Picabia and Robert Delaunay--presented the first abstract pictures to the public. Inventing Abstraction, published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, celebrates the centennial of this bold new type of artwork. It traces the development of abstraction as it moved through a network of modern artists, from Marsden Hartley and Marcel Duchamp to Piet Mondrian and Kazimir Malevich, sweeping across nations and across media. This richly illustrated publication covers a wide range of artistic production--including paintings, drawings, books, sculptures, film, photography, sound poetry, atonal ... Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 376 pgs / 446 color.  FREE UPS GROUND SHIPPING IN THE US
$75.00 The Museum of Modern Art, New York Tokyo 1955-1970Edited by Doryun Chong. Text by Doryun Chong, Michio Hayashi, Miryam Sas, Mika Yoshitake. 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 was a vibrant hub that attracted such critical artistic figures as Taro Okamoto, Hiroshi Nakamura, Ay-O, Yoko Ono, Mieko Shiomi and Tetsumi Kudo; photographers Daido Moriyama, Eikoh Hosoe and Shomei ... Hbk, 9 x 10.5 in. / 264 pgs / 215 color.  FREE UPS GROUND SHIPPING IN THE US
$55.00 MFA Publications The Postcard AgeText by Lynda Klich, Benjamin Weiss. Preface by Leonard A. Lauder. In the decades around 1900, postcards were Twitter, email, Flickr and Facebook, all wrapped into one. A postcard craze swept the world, and billions of cards were bought, mailed and pasted into albums. Many famous artists turned to the new medium, but one of the great pleasures and enigmas of postcards is how some of the most beautiful and interesting examples were made by artists whose names we barely know. Drawing on the riches of the Leonard A. Lauder Postcard Collection (probably the finest and most comprehensive collection of its type), this gorgeous book traces the historical and cultural themes--enthralling, exciting, ... Clth, 8.5 x 9.5 in. / 256 pgs / 370 color.  FREE UPS GROUND SHIPPING IN THE US
$45.00 Marquand Books/D.A.P. Charles DellschauForeword by Thomas McEvilley. Text by Tracy Baker-White, James Brett, Roger Cardinal, Tom Crouch. In the fall of 1899, Charles A.A. Dellschau (1830–1923), a retired butcher from Houston, embarked on a project that would occupy him for more than 20 years. What began as an illustrated manuscript recounting his experiences in the California Gold Rush became an obsessive project resulting in 12 large, hand-bound books with more than 2,500 drawings related to airships and the development of flight. Dellschau’s designs resemble traditional hot air balloons augmented with fantastic visual details, collage and text. The hand-drawn Aeros” were interspersed with collaged pages called Press Blooms,” featuring thousands of newspaper clippings related to the political events and ... Clth, 10 x 10 in. / 304 pgs / 250 color.  FREE UPS GROUND SHIPPING IN THE US
$50.00 Moderne Kunst Nürnberg Keith Haring: 1978-1982Edited by Gerald A. Matt, Raphaela Platow. Preface by Gerald A. Matt. Text by Pedro Alonzo, Bill Arning, Synne Genzmer, Raphaela Platow. 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 city’s graffiti culture, intent on making art that would thrive outside the boundaries of institutions. Reproduced throughout are rarely seen drawings and sketchbooks, video stills, flyers, posters, photographs, subway drawings, ... Pbk, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 256 pgs / 200 color.  FREE UPS GROUND SHIPPING IN THE US
$45.00 Guggenheim Museum Publications Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction and the Guggenheim, 1949-1960Text by Tracey Bashkoff, Megan M. Fontanella, Joan Marter. The pioneering artists of the post–World War II era embraced artistic freedom and gesture-based styles, nontraditional materials and countercultural references. French art critic Michel Tapié even declared the existence of un art autre” (art of another kind)--an art that entailed a radical break with all traditional notions of order and composition, in a movement toward something wholly other.” This catalogue accompanies the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum exhibition Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction and the Guggenheim, 1949–1960, which especially highlights works that entered into the collection during the tenure of then-director James Johnson Sweeney. Featuring nearly 100 works by Carla Accardi, ... Clth, 9 x 10 in. / 200 pgs / 137 color.  FREE UPS GROUND SHIPPING IN THE US
$65.00 Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago SkyscraperForeword by Madeleine Grynsztejn. Text by Michael Darling, Joanna Szupinska, Owen Hatherley. Gathering a wide range of art from around the world, Skyscraper: Art and Architecture Against Gravity explores the enduring human desire to build farther and farther into the sky. Examined here are themes such as verticality, personification, urban critique, improvisation and the vulnerability of landmark buildings. Skyscraper features the work of about 50 artists, including Francis Al˙s, Ziad Antar, Fikret Atay, Erica Bohm, Jennifer Bolande, Marie Bovo, Roe Ethridge, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Cyprien Gaillard, Jakob Kolding, Vera Lutter, Claes Oldenburg, Gabriel Orozco, Thomas Ruff, Andy Warhol, Peter Wegner, Wesley Willis, Catherine Yass, Yin Xiuzhen and Shizuka Yokomizo. Skyscraper also features documentation of ... Hbk, 8.25 x 13.25 in. / 96 pgs / illustrated throughout.  FREE UPS GROUND SHIPPING IN THE US
$35.00 The Museum of Modern Art, New York Fast Forward: Modern Moments, 1913-2013Edited by Jodi Hauptman. Text by Jodi Hauptman, Samantha Friedman, Michael Rooks. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of masterworks from The Museum of Modern Art at the High Museum, Atlanta, this catalogue features artwork produced during six key years between 1913 and 2013. Concentrating on groundbreaking moments when major modern movements and radical new strategies emerged, the book provides an overview of the innovations and achievements of the last century, including the new visual languages of Cubism and Futurism (1913), the convergence of Surrealism and New Vision photography between the wars (1929), the large-scale abstract painting of midcentury (1950), the merging of art and life in the early 1960s (1961) and the ... Hbk, 9 x 10 in. / 192 pgs / 203 color.  FREE UPS GROUND SHIPPING IN THE US
$50.00 Hatje Cantz Josiah McElheny: Some Pictures of the InfiniteForeword by Helen Molesworth. Text by Maria Gough, Gregg Bordowitz, Moyra Davey, Andrea Geyer, Zoe Leonard, R. H. Quaytman, Amy Sillman, Taylor Walsh. Interview with Doug Ashford, Bill Horrigan, Helen Molesworth. Josiah McElheny (born 1966) explores representations of time and space through the medium of glass. Some Pictures of the Infinite looks at 15 years of his work and his ongoing investigation of twentieth-century conceptions of infinity and utopia. McElheny combines the methodologies and mathematics of science with the craftsmanship of artisan glassmaking, and translates the imaginings of Jorge Luis Borges, the utopian endeavors of Bruno Taut and Paul Scheerbart, the futuristic thinking of R. Buckminster Fuller and the sculptural sensuality of Isamu Noguchi into a range of kaleidoscopic scale models for the infinite--most notably in his recent collaboration with a cosmologist ... Hbk, 8.5 x 8.5 in. / 100 pgs / 144 color.  FREE UPS GROUND SHIPPING IN THE US
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