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| Edited by Sonja Fessel. Text by Ralf Beil, Aleida Assmann, Jan Assmann, Elisabeth Bronfen, Sonja Fessel, et al. A Japanese power plant, dilapidated slums, the patterned facades of an apartment complex in Paris--in the work of German art photographer Andreas Gursky, born in 1955 in Leipzig, both private dwellings and the domains of industrial and political power are made into sometimes awe-inspiring and always overpowering forces of urban life. Gursky's signature mix of epic sweep and extreme detail is ideally suited to the portrayal of large-scale architecture, eliciting its most salient features: The capacity to dwarf, to impress, to alienate and to daunt. Where many of us will habitually blank out architectural environments which cannot be accommodated by the naked eye, Gursky's approach is to photograph them in order to render them comprehensible: "My preference for clear structures is the result of my desire, perhaps illusory, to keep track of things and maintain my grip on the world." Architecture is a collection of breathtaking images by the world-famous photographer, taken between 1988 and the present day, and treating all aspects of architectural structure, from the inside out. Each of the 75 color photographs is accompanied by commentary by renowned German authors Aleida Assmann, Jan Assmann, Elisabeth Bronfen, Sonja Fessel, Paul Nizon, Alfred Nordmann, Mirjam Schaub, Rudolf Schmitz, Monika Schmitz-Emans, Peter Schneemann and Thomas Zaunschirm. The resulting conjunction of text and image attractively demonstrates the depth and breadth of Gursky's concept of architecture. PUBLISHED BY: Hatje Cantz FORMAT: Hardback, 11.75 x 9.75 in. / 112 pgs / 75 color. ISBN: 9783775721776 ISBN10: 3775721770 PUBLICATION DATE: 08/01/2008 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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| Text by Yve-Alain Bois, Raphaël Bouvier, Christian Derouet, Brigitte Hedel-Samson, Philippe Büttner. Fernand Léger (1881-1955) is one of the few Modernist artists that can be said to have anticipated both American Abstraction and American Pop, and to have made a deliberate relationship with American culture: He visited the U.S. several times, and during the Second World War, from 1940 to 1945, he lived in exile in New York. In America, Léger found much to admire--above all, a dynamic embrace of industry sympathetic to his own quasi-Futurist love of technological energies. An early critic of Léger described him as more of a "Tubist" than a Cubist, noting the cool metal cylinders that fill his early work. It was through such motifs that the artist approached modern life, viewing industry as a force for the good and its translation into art as a Modern vernacular. "Our pictures are our slang," he optimistically declared towards the end of his stay in New York. During that time, Léger had produced some of his most important works, which found a ready audience in the younger American artists surrounding him. Paris-New York covers the artist's entire oeuvre, from the Cubist-influenced early work to the later, cheerful large-format paintings. Special attention is paid to the American dimension of Léger's oeuvre, and the volume traces his impact on American artists--primarily on Roy Lichtenstein and Ellsworth Kelly, but also on other late twentieth-century artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Al Held, Jasper Johns, James Rosenquist, Frank Stella and Andy Warhol. PUBLISHED BY: Hatje Cantz FORMAT: Hardback, 10 x 12 in. / 208 pgs / 107 color / 3 b&w. ISBN: 9783775721615 ISBN10: 3775721614 PUBLICATION DATE: 09/01/2008 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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| Text by Robert Storr. Concerning his penchant for difficult or vulgar subject matter, San Francisco-born painter Peter Saul has stated, "Putting crime, war, sex, distortion and low class stuff into the picture is a way to take the decoration out of the picture--literally remove it from the dining room because no one is going to drink orange juice in the same room with it." Saul fuses his MAD Magazine-inspired humor with a Surrealist painting style to create difficult, funny and trenchant works--what Robert Storr, who has penned an essay for this volume, refers to as "sick jokes." Presaging Paul McCarthy and Mike Kelley and exerting noticeable influence on artists such as Barry McGee and Ed Templeton, Saul's oeuvre is long overdue for deeper examination and this comprehensive publication provides the first complete overview of his work over the past five decades--from his epic historical canvases to his homage to Thomas Hart Benton, his lampoons of art world sacred cows and works evidencing his particular take on the existential dilemmas of the aging American male. More recent works satirizing current affairs round this volume out. PUBLISHED BY: Hatje Cantz FORMAT: Hardback, 11.25 x 10 in. / 160 pgs / 65 color / 25 b&w. ISBN: 9783775722049 ISBN10: 3775722041 PUBLICATION DATE: 08/01/2008 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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| Text by Michael Baumgartner, Arnfinn Bø-Rygg, Richard Hoppe-Sailer, Ole-Henrik Moe, Osamu Okuda. Many call Paul Klee a magician. He was no such thing; he did not conjure up anything. He was a creator who found beauty in the world around him, wrote one of Klee's students from the legendary Bauhaus. The Swiss-born painter, like many of his contemporaries--Kandinsky among them--was interested in Transcendentalism and found nature an inexhaustible source of inspiration. Much of his oeuvre depicts gardens and parks--from real locations such as the Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Wörlitz in Germany or the Tunisian Hammamet to fantastic, fragmentary vegetal abstractions. An amateur naturalist, Klee would often collect flowers and leaves on walks, to later identify and store in an herbarium. With more than 200 color illustrations, this publication explores the spiritual, scientific and aesthetic manifestations of Klee's engagement with nature, revealing a complex approach, by turns coolly analytical and completely subjective. Born in 1879, Paul Klee belonged to the Munich-based proto-Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), which was active from 1911-1914. Members sought to express spiritual truths in their work, which--radically for the time--moved progressively towards complete abstraction. PUBLISHED BY: Hatje Cantz FORMAT: Hardback, 7 x 9.75 in. / 200 pgs / 220 color / 20 b&w. ISBN: 9783775721011 ISBN10: 3775721010 PUBLICATION DATE: 08/01/2008 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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The Market, Mexico City Edited by Kurt Hollander.Known locally as the “witchcraft market,” the Sonora Market in Mexico City undoubtedly has the cure for what ails you. According to pilotguides.com, Sonora has “rattlesnake skins, desiccated hummingbirds and dried fox skins as well as the live articles like iguanas, frogs and squirrels...” It houses what is arguably the highest concentration of shamans, santeros, voodoo and natural remedies in the world. Stalls are flooded with a seemingly infinite variety of powders, sprays, soaps and incense that claim, through bright colors and delightfully kitschy illustrations, to help one find a job, money or love, to ward off evil spells or help children do well in school. Though much of the appeal of this volume comes from the numerous reproductions detailing the pop aesthetic that has been developed to advertise these aids, a look at the instructions and prayers that accompany the products reveals a darker world of extreme economic, spiritual and sexual suffering. The book contextualizes these advertisements within a culture where magical thinking offers hope to those in desperate search of a panacea. Editor and writer Kurt Hollander is originally from New York City, and has been living in Mexico City since 1989. He writes for The Guardian and The New York Times. He is also the author of El Super (2006), a visual study of Mexican consumer products. PUBLISHED BY: Editorial RM FORMAT: Hardback, 6 x 7.5 in. / 200 pgs / 161 color. ISBN: 9788493612344 ISBN10: 8493612340 PUBLICATION DATE: 11/01/2008 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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Architecture by Artists Essays by Brian Dillon, Jane Rendell, Ralph Rugoff. Text by Francis McKee, Tumelo Mosaka, Midori Matsui, Brian Dillon, Paulo Herkenhoff, Francesco Manacorda, Tom Morton, Miwon Kwon, David Greene, Iain Sinclair.Psycho Buildings: Artists and Architecture marks the fortieth anniversary of London's Hayward gallery--itself an architectural icon, and one of the few remaining examples of the 1960s Brutalist style. The exhibition brings together the work of artists--including Atelier Bow-Wow, Michael Beutler, Los Carpinteros, Gelitin, Mike Nelson, Ernesto Neto, Tobias Putrih, Tomas Saraceno, Do-Ho Suh and Rachel Whiteread--who create habitat-like structures and architectural environments that are mental and perceptual spaces as much as physical ones. The works in this book revisit and reanimate the history of Modernist design while reminding us that built spaces can be defined in social, political, psychological, physical and aesthetic terms. An invaluable exploration of this contemporary trend, the volume includes essays by Hayward Director Ralph Rugoff, Jane Rendell and Brian Dillon. In addition, each artist profile includes a text by a different author, including Francis McKee, Tumelo Mosaka, Midori Matsui, Brian Dillon, Paulo Herkenhoff, David Greene, Francesco Manacorda, Tom Morton, Miwon Kwon and Iain Sinclair. PUBLISHED BY: Hayward Publishing FORMAT: Hardback, 10 x 10 in. / 200 pgs / 200 color. ISBN: 9781853322686 ISBN10: 1853322687 PUBLICATION DATE: 08/01/2008 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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Still-Life Painting 1500-1800 Edited by Jochen Sander.Of painting's enduring genres, it may be the still life that offers the most brazen opportunities for virtuoso flourish, and that most closely approximates painting itself, as an art of arrangement of color, texture and light. Glistening dew drops on flower petals, contorted reflections of light on glass goblets and silver dishes, candied sweets heaped up in Chinese porcelain, the textures of fur, cloth, metal and bone--the rendering of such objects demands of an artist not only skill but an instinct for the thingness of things. Chardin, for example, was so gifted in this respect that certain admirers have been known to literally lick his paintings. However, skill, as always, is not the whole story: "One uses color but one paints with feelings," he once explained to a colleague hoping for tips on technique. For the viewer, the still life demands no extensive training in art theory, since its endless rewards are plain to the eye and mind--excepting the obvious symbolism that attends such items as skulls or fallen petals. This volume boasts a splendid selection of works by such masters of the genre as Jan Brueghel the Elder, Georg Flegel, Sebastian Stoskopff, Jan Davidsz de Heem, Abraham Mignon and Chardin, culled from first-class collections from the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, the Kunstmuseum Basel and the Hessisches Landesmuseum in Darmstadt. PUBLISHED BY: Hatje Cantz FORMAT: Hardback, 9.5 x 12 in. / 368 pgs / 246 color / 26 b&w. ISBN: 9783775722070 ISBN10: 3775722076 PUBLICATION DATE: 07/01/2008 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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| Edited by Achim Heine, Peter Koeln. Magnum Photos, founded in 1947 by Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger, David Seymour and Bill Vandivert, is perhaps the most famous photography agency and collective in the world today. Until recently it was thought that the earliest Magnum group show was the photographic scholar L. Fritz Gruber's 1956 exhibit, curated for the Photokina in Cologne. However, more than 50 years later, an even earlier show has been rediscovered. Magnum Photo: Gesicht der Zeit (The Face of Time) was organized by the Amateur Photographers' Club of Graz, Austria and was shown in the Graz Joanneum from January 21 to February 5 1955 before traveling to four other Austrian cities in 1955 and 1956. The show's main theme was "photographic humanism"--people and their living spaces, photographed without sensationalism by committed photojournalists who believed in educating and bettering the world through photographic documentation. With a total of 83 vintage prints by eight Magnum photographers--Werner Bischof, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Ernst Haas, Erich Lessing, Jean Marquis, Inge Morath and Marc Riboud--this is the first publication to offer complete documentation of the show. All photographs are featured in large-format reproductions. Magnum Photos was founded after the Second World War as a self-organized, independent cooperative composed of like-minded photographers--or as Henri Cartier-Bresson put it, "a community of thought, a shared human quality, a curiosity about what is going on in the world, a respect for what is going on and a desire to transcribe it visually." All of its members retain copyright to their work. Today Magnum has offices in New York, London, Paris and Tokyo. PUBLISHED BY: Hatje Cantz FORMAT: Hardback, 9.5 x 12.5 in. / 212 pgs / 83 color. ISBN: 9783775722155 ISBN10: 3775722157 PUBLICATION DATE: 07/01/2008 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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The Winery Boom Since the mid-1980s, Austrian wine production has been explosive--garnering stellar reviews, awards and record export revenues. Contemporary architects have found the country ripe with opportunity for further experimentation in the field of wine architecture, which emerged in Napa Valley in the 1990s and became renowned with the 2001 Pritzker Prize-winning, Herzog and de Meuron-designed Dominus Winery (deemed "a combination of sensorial and intellectual pleasure" by Pritzker judge Jorge Silvetti). This publication presents a selection of nearly 70 projects in Lower Austria, Burgenland and Styria, and discusses how the combination of ground-breaking architecture--like the striking silver façade of Steven Holl-designed Loisium winery in Langenlois--and emerging wineries have been changing the face of the Austrian countryside for the past two decades. As Martin Rauchbauer, Deputy Director of the Austrian Cultural Forum, has observed, "The quality of wine architecture in Austria is seen as more than a transitory phenomenon. A new architectural language has developed, which cautiously takes into account traditional forms of building and at the same time presents self-confident interpretations of the requirements of contemporary winemaking." PUBLISHED BY: Hatje Cantz FORMAT: Hardback, 8.25 x 10.75 in. / 224 pgs / 228 color. ISBN: 9783775721950 ISBN10: 3775721959 PUBLICATION DATE: 09/01/2008 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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| Text by Pamela Kort. A founding member of the early twentieth century German avant garde artists' group Die Brücke, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner moved to Berlin in 1912 and became enthralled by what he called "the symphony of the great city." He responded to the intensity of Berlin's street life by recording the urban spectacle around him--most notably in "Berlin Street Scene" (1913-14), which is widely considered one of the greatest German paintings of the twentieth century. This beautifully illustrated, scholarly volume--written and edited by the noted independent curator and art historian Pamela Kort--provides a full exploration of the history and significance of Kirchner's masterpiece. Featuring full reproductions and details of "Berlin Street Scene" and other related artworks, as well as plentiful documentary photographs and supporting materials, this volume illuminates the ominous force of nervous energy and sexual tension that Kirchner sensed lurking beneath the veneer of civilized life. PUBLISHED BY: Neue Galerie New York FORMAT: Hbk, 9 x 11 in. / 92 pgs / illustrated throughout. ISBN: 9781931794152 ISBN10: 1931794154 PUBLICATION DATE: 09/01/2008 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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| Text by Julie Ault, Daniel Birnbaum, Joachim Jaeger. Since winning the Turner Prize in 2000 for his 1990s oeuvre of portraits and snapshots, German-born photographer Wolfgang Tillmans has increasingly gravitated towards the abstract and material-specific properties of his medium. Following Blushes, the Freischwimmer series and the monochromatic Silver series, his most recent abstract works--of which the creased and folded Lighter series is perhaps the most significant--treat the photograph, and especially photographic paper itself, no longer as a reproductive medium, but as a material object. In Tillmans' "paper drop" photographs, the paper's physical folds and curves are photographed to produce geometric, tactile compositions. Other works oscillate more elusively between photograph and object, always thriving in the interplay. "For me, the abstract picture is already objective because it's a concrete object and represents itself," Tillmans observes; "the paper on which the picture is printed is for me an object, there is no separating the picture from that which carries it. That's why I like to show photographs sometimes framed and sometimes not, just taped to the wall." These most recent works are gathered for the first time in this book. Lighter also includes an extensive section of installation views--taken by Tillmans himself--that offers the reader a direct experience of the artist's visual cosmos as presented in recent exhibitions, including his last retrospective, which was seen at various major venues in the United States. PUBLISHED BY: Hatje Cantz FORMAT: Clothbound, 10 x 11.75 in. / 400 pgs / 210 color. ISBN: 9783775721875 ISBN10: 3775721878 PUBLICATION DATE: 08/01/2008 AVAILABILITY: Temporarily out of stock. Check your local bookstore or museum shop for copies. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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| Edited by Lisa Mark. Text by Bennett Simpson. A onetime philosophy student who's willing to get her hands dirty, Lisa Lapinski makes elaborate sculptures that embody a kind of cognitive dissonance. "Nightstand" (2005), a room-size construction that debuted at the 2006 Whitney Biennial, reconfigures traditional Shaker furniture to suggest the frenzied psychedelia of religious ecstasy found in Shaker gift drawings. The piece, her most ambitious to date, took more than a year to complete; to acquire the skills necessary to build it out of walnut, Lapinski entered a woodworking program at a junior college outside of Los Angeles. "The retired engineers felt sorry for me, because it took me so long to catch on," she recalled, "but I can build my own kitchen cabinets now." Critic Bruce Hainley has credited Lapinsky, who received a Guggenheim fellowship in 2004, with "providing new thought about what sculpture might be." PUBLISHED BY: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles FORMAT: Hardback, 7.5 x 10 in. / 60 pgs / 50 color. ISBN: 9781933751115 ISBN10: 1933751118 PUBLICATION DATE: 06/01/2008 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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| Text by Kia Vahland. During his lifetime, painter Sebastiano del Piombo (ca. 1485-1547) was considered, along with Giorgione, the great hope of the Venetian School. Sebastiano later became Raphael's biggest competitor in Rome--he was, in fact, the only Renaissance artist capable of painting in the style of both the Venetian and the Central Italian Schools, taking cues from Giorgione, Da Vinci and Michelangelo to create a uniquely discerning and colorful style. Sebastiano was an innovator as well--he was the first to discover a technique that made it possible to paint with oil on stone, which Michelangelo deemed only for "women and lazybones like Sebastiano." Michelangelo's poor opinion of the painter's abilities has perhaps shrouded Sebastiano's reputation for centuries. In his Lives of the Artists (1550), Giorgio Vasari reiterated Michelangelo's chastisement. A rediscovery of this Venetian portraitist is long overdue. PUBLISHED BY: Hatje Cantz FORMAT: Hardback, 6.75 x 9.75 in. / 96 pgs / 34 color. ISBN: 9783775721455 ISBN10: 3775721452 PUBLICATION DATE: 08/01/2008 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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| Text by Christian Viveros-Fauné. Following upon Neo Rauch's 2007 exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, this exquisite catalogue presents new work by the artist, as seen in his fourth solo exhibition at David Zwirner gallery in the spring of 2008. (The New York Times' Karen Rosenberg deemed the new work "more of a Fellini film than a costume drama," by comparison.) One of his generation's most influential painters, Rauch continues the rich tradition of Leipzig figurative painting. Transforming typical industrious scenes into veritable dreamscapes, he transports viewers to a deeply personal and enigmatically symbolic universe. Rauch does not rely on existing imagery or models for his paintings, and while some begin as tiny sketches, he works his imagined scenes directly onto the canvas. He likens his process to reading a novel, with the paintings unfolding as surprisingly for their maker as for any viewer. Springing from dreams and shaped by experience both past and present, Rauch's instinctive imagery and automatic approach exceed straightforward Surrealist concerns and restrictive artistic practice. Neo Rauch was born in 1960 in Leipzig, East Germany, where he continues to live and work. PUBLISHED BY: Steidl/David Zwirner FORMAT: Hbk, 8.75 x 10 in. / 48 pgs / illustrated throughout. ISBN: 9783865217431 ISBN10: 3865217435 PUBLICATION DATE: 09/01/2008 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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| Introduction by Paul Ha. Text by Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, Laura Fried. Epilogue by Matthew Thompson. Combining classical cinematic devices with a distinctively jarring, low-tech sensibility, New York-based Aïda Ruilova creates dark, narrative video work. Her short video loops often feature characters performing cryptic and physically uncomfortable actions, revealing her fascination with the conjunction of horror movie aesthetics and the sublime. This volume accompanies the artist's first one-person museum exhibition, which originated at the Aspen Art Museum and was co-curated by Paul Ha and Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson. PUBLISHED BY: Aspen Art Museum/Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis FORMAT: Hbk, 7.5 x 9.5 in. / 120 pgs / illust. throughout. ISBN: 9780977752843 ISBN10: 0977752844 PUBLICATION DATE: 09/01/2008 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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| Edited by Sina Najafi. Site of hidden infrastructure, source of material and energy, home to clandestine activity, buried landscape of darkness and silence: the physical and emotional space of the underground is at once prosaic and uncanny, rich with both functional potential and metaphorical meaning. Cabinet issue 30, with its special section on The Underground, features Irene Cheng on Thomas W. Knox's 1876 book Underground, or Life Below the Surface and the vogue for underground tourism; an interview with Michel Siffre, a scientist who spent six months isolated in utter darkness in a cave; Jeffrey Kastner on the metaphor of the mole in revolutionary texts; and essays on the evolution of the mining industry, subterranean storage and political resistance movements. Elsewhere in the issue: Christopher Turner on the history of Day-glo; Christine Wertheim on the fabricated Australian Modernist poet Ern Malley; Tirdad Zolghadr on in-flight magazines; and Moyra Davey on the color maroon. This issue also features artist projects by Josiah McElheny and San Keller. PUBLISHED BY: Cabinet FORMAT: Paperback, 7.75 x 9.75 in. / 112 pgs / 80 color / 20 b&w. ISBN: 9781932698282 ISBN10: 1932698280 PUBLICATION DATE: 09/01/2008 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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Art in a Dark Age Text by Tom McCarthy, Magnus af Petersens.Eclipse, an astrological phenomenon that occurs when one celestial body casts its shadow on another, is used as metaphor in this volume to describe, as Jacques Derrida has theorized, a contemporary revision of certain tenets of Enlightenment thought--a line of inquiry widely criticized by colonialist and postcolonialist scholars. The artists collected in this exhibition catalogue, Lucas Ajemian, Michaël Borremans, Nathalie Djurberg, Ellen Gallagher, Tom McCarthy's International Necronautical Society, Paul McCarthy, Mike Nelson, Anri Sala and Dana Schutz, offer a glimpse into the darkness--of our times and of the existential shadows of the human soul--guided by a contemporary revision of Enlightment thinking. Insisting on the right of art to be contradictory, politically incorrect and to use poetic license to speculate and experiment, these works are characterized by absurdity and dark humor. The book is published concurrently with an exhibition curated by Magnus af Petersens at Sweden's esteemed Moderna Museet. PUBLISHED BY: Steidl/Swedish Books/Moderna Museet FORMAT: Paperback, 6.75 x 9 in. / 160 pgs / 100 color. ISBN: 9783865216434 ISBN10: 3865216439 PUBLICATION DATE: 10/01/2008 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: FLAT40 |
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| Edited by Ralf P. Seippel. In the early 1950s, Berlin-born photographer Jürgen Schadeberg captured Nelson Mandela, (then a young attorney), singer Miriam Makeba and the nightlife in Sophiatown, a dynamic black neighborhood in Johannesburg. Revealing the poverty endemic to the majority of South Africa's black population became Schadeberg's chief focus. He arrived there in 1950, at the advent of apartheid, to work for Drum, the first magazine for black readers. In 1964, when Drum was banned, Schadeberg left South Africa for Europe and the United States, creating a body of portraits unique in their ability to cut across race, class and social standing. In 1994, Schadeberg created an iconic image of Nelson Mandela, by then the first black President of South Africa, standing at the window of his former prison cell on Robben Island, where he had been detained on charges of conspiracy from 1964-1982. Schadeberg, whose work has been highly influential to younger artists, now lives and works near Paris. This substantial volume collects 250 images from across his career. PUBLISHED BY: Hatje Cantz FORMAT: Hardback, 12.75 x 12.75 in. / 288 pgs / 250 duotone. ISBN: 9783775721509 ISBN10: 3775721509 PUBLICATION DATE: 08/01/2008 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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Contemporary German Export Architecture Edited by Peter Cachola Schmal, Anna Hesse.An increasing number of young German architects are taking off--becoming key players in global architecture. The firms selected for this publication, Architekturbüro Deutschland, Barkow Leibinger Architekten, Behnisch Architekten, BeL, Carsten Roth Architekt, Gerber Architekten, Gewers Kühn und Kühn Architekten, Ingenhoven Architekten, J. MAYER H., Kirsten Schemel Architekten, KSP Engel und Zimmermann Architekten, KSV Krüger Schuberth Vandreike, Pysall Ruge Architekten, sauerbruch hutton, Staab Architekten and Wandel Hoefer Lorch + Hirsch, are all currently working on their first large projects outside of Germany. These firms have in common the ability to innovate, to integrate designs into existing urban contexts and to maintain exacting technical standards--crucial skills for winning highly competitive competitions and contracts. In this volume, each firm, along with its engineering partner, presents a current commission from outside of Germany in addition to a finished building in Germany, providing an in-depth look at its development. PUBLISHED BY: Hatje Cantz FORMAT: Hardback, 8.5 x 12 in. / 208 pgs / 270 color. ISBN: 9783775721462 ISBN10: 3775721460 PUBLICATION DATE: 10/01/2008 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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| Edited by Theodora Vischer. Text by Monika Sosnowska. Recent upheavals and rapid changes in Eastern Europe have clearly left their mark on Monika Sosnowska's work. The traces of bygone utopias and recent cultural fissures in cities like Warsaw have proven a fertile ground for the materials from which the sculptor formulates her walk-in installations--as seen in recent exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and at London's Serpentine Gallery. The digital photographs and sketches included in this book offer a selection of the impressions, ideas and notes which have influenced Sosnowska's spatial compositions. They offer fascinating insight into the ways in which the artist perceives her surroundings and conveys that perception in her sculptures. Monika Sosnowska was born in Ryki, Poland, in 1972. Since completing her studies in Amsterdam, she has been living in Warsaw. Her work has been exhibited at major international institutions, including the 52nd Venice Biennale, where she represented Poland in 2007. PUBLISHED BY: Steidl & Partners FORMAT: Pbk, 7.75 x 9.75 in. / 112 pgs / 71 color. ISBN: 9783865217233 ISBN10: 3865217230 PUBLICATION DATE: 09/01/2008 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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| Text by Anselm Franke, Katerina Gregos, David Thorp. Julian Rosefeldt's films are permeated with slapstick and satire. According to critic Stephan Berg, they avoid political correctness while playing with vocabularies of kitsch, inappropriateness and exaggeration. They "distort--in the best sense of the word--the world to a point where it is no longer recognizable." PUBLISHED BY: Hatje Cantz FORMAT: Clothbound, 9 x 11 in. / 176 pgs / 120 color. ISBN: 9783775721714 ISBN10: 3775721711 PUBLICATION DATE: 08/01/2008 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: SDNR30 |
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| Text by Ulrike Muenter, Maggie Tapert. A well-conceived artist's book by French-born Mathilde ter Heijne--who uses a special effects dummy as a stand-in for herself in her video and sculptural installations--this volume includes interviews with experts on esoteric themes as well as excerpts from literature, film and art historical texts. PUBLISHED BY: Hatje Cantz FORMAT: Hardback, 9.25 x 11.75 in. / 144 pgs / 100 color. ISBN: 9783775722506 ISBN10: 3775722505 PUBLICATION DATE: 10/01/2008 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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| Edited by Zdenek Felix. Berlin-based artist Thomas Helbig's early drawings, paintings and sculptures are a bit claustrophobic--like they've emerged from a Hieronymus Bosch tableau. His sculptural works are crafted from found objects that he shatters and reconfigures to create hybridized assemblages. The violent gestural surfaces of these works extend into his two-dimensional pieces, which allude to the unwieldy forces of nature through the use of stylistic devices as diverse as the political subtexts of abstraction and the spiritual aspects of Romanticism. Helbig's paintings of the past two years--the focus of this volume--have gained a little breathing room. His brightly colored chalk drawings, for example, feature pared down and less overtly aggressive Japanese scroll-like imagery. The title Homo Homini Lupus references Thomas Hobbes' well-known--rather jaundiced--view of the horrors of which human beings are capable when left to their own devices, which seems to suggest that Helbig's vision is as dark as ever. PUBLISHED BY: Hatje Cantz FORMAT: Clothbound 10 x 12.5 in. / 208 pgs / 150 color. ISBN: 9783775721646 ISBN10: 3775721649 PUBLICATION DATE: 10/01/2008 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: SDNR30 |
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| Edited by Carola Kemme. Text by Ralf Beil. Beginning with archival materials and his own photographs and drawings, German artist Heribert C. Ottersbach paints subjects--often architectural--that allow him to reevaluate Modernism. He calls his paintings "abstract, geometric figurations of a society disciplined by 'education.'" PUBLISHED BY: Hatje Cantz FORMAT: Hardback, 9.75 x 12 in. / 176 pgs / 100 color. ISBN: 9783775721752 ISBN10: 3775721754 PUBLICATION DATE: 08/01/2008 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: SDNR30 |
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| Edited by Veit Görner, Frank Thorsten Moll. Text by Kay Heymer, Roland Meyer, Frank-Thorsten Moll. Painter Francesco Clemente once said of Eric Fischl, "If life is what happens to you as you make other plans, then 'life' is Eric Fischl's subject matter." Though Fischl is best known for his figurative paintings, this monograph presents a 2007 series of 13 sculptures and corresponding large-format gouache works. Cast in polyester and resin, the life-sized, three-dimensional nudes enter into tense dialogue with the drawings, depicting the same element of human struggle that we find in Fischl's paintings. Naked bodies without context or reference, engaged in no specific narrative, offer any number of possible interpretations. They allow the viewer to indulge in careful observation, daring us to penetrate the surface patina of the sculptures to see if anything lies beneath. A special section includes a complete catalogue raisonée of the sculptural work from 1975 through 2007. PUBLISHED BY: Kerber FORMAT: Hardback, 9 x 12 in. / 144 pgs / 68 color / 22 b&w. ISBN: 9783866781160 ISBN10: 3866781164 PUBLICATION DATE: 08/01/2008 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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| Introduction by Jack Pierson. Text by Enrique Juncosa, Wayne Koestenbaum, Rachael Thomas, Richard D. Marshall. This publication--at once a daybook, a survey (it accompanies the artist's first exhibition in Ireland) and an artist's book--collects eight previous publications on the American artist Jack Pierson, several of which are long out of print. Pierson was among the first photographers to print pages with the imagery bleeding out of its usual white frame, and to deploy a bleached-out and overexposed style of photography that connotes a longing for a recent but already dimming past, littered with the props and players of yesterday's parties. By small increments, an emotional tone builds that is both warmly homoerotic and unabashedly wistful. All of these books were designed by the artist and are here reproduced in their original size and in chronological order. Jack Pierson makes photographs, word sculptures, installations, drawings and artist's books that excavate the emotional undercurrents of everyday life, from the intimacy of romantic attachment to the remote idolizing of the famous. Pierson has often engaged celebrity culture, refusing ironic treatment of the subject to instead confess, or seem to confess, his own attraction to the fantasy life depicted in his artworks. He has had recent solo exhibitions at Cheim & Read, New York; Alison Jacques Gallery, London and Regen Projects, Los Angeles. His work is held in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. PUBLISHED BY: Charta/Irish Museum of Modern Art FORMAT: Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 436 pgs / 384 color / 21 b&w. ISBN: 9788881586776 ISBN10: 8881586770 PUBLICATION DATE: 09/01/2008 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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Edizioni Corraini's Bruno Munari Workshop series focuses on a variety of creative tasks and skills that inspire the active involvement of adults and children alike--flower arranging, in this case. In A Flower with Love, the beloved Italian artist and designer lets us in on the secret: "...what really matters is the love with which a little daisy, a lavender sprig or some moss are chosen, that one there in particular and not that other one." With full-color images of Munari's whimsical and inventive creations in each spread, we learn that flower arranging is not an obscure art but a natural gesture requiring more care and imagination than money. Munari's examples are not to be copied slavishly; they represent examples to aid the reader in uncovering their own natural aesthetic sensibilities. PUBLISHED BY: Edizioni Corraini FORMAT: Paperback, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 68 pgs / 35 color / 8 b&w. ISBN: 9788875701369 ISBN10: 8875701369 PUBLICATION DATE: 08/01/2008 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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A one-of-a-kind xerograph is the result of an image or object that is moved while the photocopy machine is in motion so that a new--impossible-to-replicate--image is produced. The resultant image is, then, not a copy of the original image or object but an original in its own right. This rigorous process of exploiting the photocopier's potential was developed by the quixotic Italian artist and designer Bruno Munari in the series Quaderni di Design (1977), and is reproduced here--flying in the face of digital technology--for a new generation of xerography enthusiasts. Every phase of the copy-making process, from reading limits to toner concentration has been systematically tested (to exacting 1970s standards) by Munari. The result is a witty series of samples that exhaustively detail every imaginable potential of the machine, some of which are quite unexpected. PUBLISHED BY: Edizioni Corraini FORMAT: Paperback, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 100 pgs / 14 color / 131 b&w. ISBN: 9788875701345 ISBN10: 8875701342 PUBLICATION DATE: 08/01/2008 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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| Text by Kara Walker. After the success of the recent touring exhibition My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love, Kara Walker's silhouetted cut-out figures are a now-familiar but still pungent presence in contemporary art, reenacting uncomfortable, often violent episodes in American race relations and reprising, in their formal simplicity, the ways in which marginalized identities are reduced and distorted into readily legible, caricatured forms. Walker's art continues, in other words, to pose awkward questions straightforwardly. Her imagery derives from the visual language of the antebellum South and the tradition of the minstrel show, which she directs to more disquieting ends. Where her source material parodied African-American culture with a terrifyingly casual jocularity--permitting white Americans to vicariously transgress their own taboos by depicting social chaos and unbridled sexuality--Walker applies that jocularity to her depictions of violence against African-Americans, lending them a hollow, almost slapstick character that is very much at odds with their original function. This latest book features work from a new series that addresses, among other themes, the atrocities committed against former slaves after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 and the Reconstruction program implemented by Congress between 1866 and 1877. These narratives are elaborated into or against geometric scenarios more abstract and compacted than previous sequences by Walker, and with a more extensive use of color. PUBLISHED BY: Charta/Sikkema Jenkins & Co. FORMAT: Paperback, 8.5 x 9.5 in. / 120 pgs / 44 color / 50 b&w. ISBN: 9788881586868 ISBN10: 888158686X PUBLICATION DATE: 09/01/2008 AVAILABILITY: Temporarily out of stock. Check your local bookstore or museum shop for copies. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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| Foreword by Frank Gehry. Conversation with Gregory Amenoff, Dave Hickey, Fred Hoffman, Charlotte Jackson, Charles Arnoldi. The Los Angeles painter and sculptor Charles Arnoldi has been described as an artist who “draws in space” to create his unique assemblages. Throughout his long career, he has been fascinated with shape and pattern as they apply to advanced formal concerns, from his 1970s paintings made entirely of natural forms to his current work, of which the architect Frank Gehry has said, “the maturing Arnoldi has a secure color sense and the ability to work at large scale as well as to produce tiny, exquisite watercolors.” Gehry, who provides the introduction for this first comprehensive monograph, also cites Arnoldi as an influence in his own work, saying, “this is an artist whose best is yet to come, who…is still experimental and still willing to risk.” Charles Arnoldi is represented by Charles Cowles Gallery in New York, Modernism in San Francisco, and Charlotte Jackson Fine Art in Santa Fe. PUBLISHED BY: Radius Books FORMAT: Hardback, 11.25 x 12.25 in. / 360 pgs / 160 color. ISBN: 9781934435076 ISBN10: 1934435074 PUBLICATION DATE: 07/01/2008 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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Designing the European Tradition of Garden and Landscape Architecture 1600-2000 Text by Erik de Jong, Christian Bertram, Michel Lafaille.A garden is not an object but a process, as the artist and gardener Ian Hamilton Finlay once observed, and one particular fascination of landscape architecture is its very real negotiation of that rocky terrain between conception and cultivation. The labors of the former, however, are not often seen by the public that experiences its material outcome. Published on the occasion of the 2008 Landscape Architecture Triennial for the exhibition at Paleis Het Loo, Apeldoorn, Landscapes of the Imagination presents landscape architecture as a design discipline, recognizing it as a dialogue with an especially unruly and impermanent form. A selection of 40 original designs and sketches from the rich European heritage of garden and landscape architecture forms the core of this book. Spanning from 1600-2000, these include designs by such familiar luminaries as Le Nôtre, Humphrey Repton, Peter Joseph Lenné, Ernst Cramer, Gunnar Asplund and Bernard Tschumi, as well as less famed designers--including one seventeenth century amateur/commissioner. These sketches, virtually unknown among the general public or even professional circles, emphasize garden and landscape architecture as a highly skilled conceptual art. Reference materials (engravings, photographs and text) offer the reader some insight into the design of these landscapes and elucidate the process of composition. Six plans are documented in their current state in a photographic essay. PUBLISHED BY: NAi Publishers FORMAT: Paperback, 10.25 x 7.75 in. / 144 pgs / 150 color. ISBN: 9789056620295 ISBN10: 9056620290 PUBLICATION DATE: 09/01/2008 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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| Text by Doris von Drathen, Rebecca Horn. German-born artist Rebecca Horn has, since the early 1970s, been engaged in a diverse and prolific practice. Her process-oriented performances, films, sculptures, installations, drawings and photographs are, literally or metaphorically, extensions of the body--and often serve as mechanical replacements for it. Referencing mythical, historical, literary and spiritual imagery, Horn invokes these bodily concerns with such objects as violins, ladders, pianos, feather fans, metronomes and drawing machines. She is best known for works like "Pencil Mask" (1972), which looks like an instrument of torture, but which actually transforms the wearer's head into an instrument for drawing; and "Unicorn" (1970), a performance in which the artist transforms herself, by means of a prosthetic horn, into an awkward version of the mythical creature. This exceptionally printed volume contains a concentrated collection of Horn's drawings and includes an essay by German art historian Doris von Drathen. PUBLISHED BY: Charta/Sean Kelly Gallery FORMAT: Hardback, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 128 pgs / 62 color / 17 b&w. ISBN: 9788881586851 ISBN10: 8881586851 PUBLICATION DATE: 08/01/2008 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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| Essay by Regina Hackett. Interview by Alison Nordstrom. The Dutch saying “a Jan Steen household” originated in the seventeenth century and has come to refer to a home in disarray, full of rowdy children and boisterous family gatherings. The paintings of Steen, along with those of other Dutch and Flemish genre painters, are the direct inspiration behind the layered domestic scenes of Julie Blackmon’s photographic work. Raised as the oldest of nine children, and the mother of three herself, Blackmon takes an approach to her work that is at once autobiographical and fictional. According to Anne Wilkes Tucker of The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Blackmon has “taken a subject that is ripe for cliché--mother photographing children--and through the subtle, digital manipulations, the use of color and highly graphic images, she’s given it humor and edge and taken the subject somewhere fresh.” PUBLISHED BY: Radius Books FORMAT: Hardback, 11 x 11 in. / 96 pgs / 40 color. ISBN: 9781934435045 ISBN10: 193443504X PUBLICATION DATE: 07/01/2008 AVAILABILITY: Temporarily out of stock. Check your local bookstore or museum shop for copies. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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Photographs 1990-1890 Text by Enrique Juncosa, Séan Kissane, Matthew Higgs."People thought we were just Victorian queens who wanted to make little kitten paintings on pillows and be kitschy," quipped Peter McGough, one half of the collaborative duo McDermott & McGough, as he reminisced about the East Village art scene in the 1980s--where the artists met and honed their inimitable style--in a 2003 Artforum interview with Bob Nickas. The artists have since become known for their performative fusion of art and life--namely dressing like Victorian dandies 24 hours a day and embracing archaic photographic techniques such as palladium, gum, salt and cyanotype printing. They are not escapists, however, as Roberta Smith has pointed out. "The allusions to turn-of-the-century dandyism are combined with often explicit references to homoeroticism and to the artists' own sexuality. The implication is that the moral hypocrisies of the Victorian era are still in effect today." Featuring more than 120 images, this volume, released on the occasion of McDermott & McGough's retrospective exhibition at The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin examines two decades worth of the team's photographic work and includes texts by Matthew Higgs, Director of White Columns in New York, and Séan Kissane, Curator of Exhibitions at The IMMA, Dublin. PUBLISHED BY: Charta/Irish Museum of Modern Art FORMAT: Leather bound, 9.75 x 13.5 in. / 224 pgs / 128 color / 28 b&w. ISBN: 9788881586721 ISBN10: 888158672X PUBLICATION DATE: 09/01/2008 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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The World Art Directory This handy pocket-sized volume is the world's most comprehensive art guide, packed with 600 pages of up-to-date contact information for art venues, artists, critics and collectors. Ideal for traveling, this edition contains new entries for Asia and Latin America. PUBLISHED BY: Giancarlo Politi Editore FORMAT: Paperback, 4 x 8 in. / 570 pgs / 200 color. ISBN: 9788818161458 ISBN10: 8818161458 PUBLICATION DATE: 09/01/2008 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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Graphic Design Introduction by Adrian Shaughnessy. Text by Simon Worthington, Damian Jaques, Pauline van Mourik Broekman.In the early 1990s, long before the Internet became an integral part of life, a handful of pioneering magazines took it upon themselves to imagine it into existence. Using fiction, interviews, speculative theory and experimental graphic design, these periodicals helped create a lexicon and iconography every bit as powerful as the architecture of the World Wide Web. London-based Mute occupied a central position among these pioneering publications, offering a platform to authors and artists ranging from Bruce Sterling to Geert Lovink, Keith Tyson and VNS Matrix. As new technologies forced a collapse of disciplinary boundaries and the intermingling of communities, Mute featured many of the artists, writers and photographers that came to epitomize London's status as a creative capital in the 1990s. This book presents a full overview of the magazine over that decade, showing its entire output from logos to covers to spreads. PUBLISHED BY: Eight Books FORMAT: Paperback, 8.75 x 8.75 in. / 144 pgs / 250 color. ISBN: 9780955432224 ISBN10: 0955432227 PUBLICATION DATE: 08/01/2008 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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Works from the Ringier Collection Edited by Beatrix Ruf.The Ringier Collection, one of Europe's most informed contemporary art collections, includes key pieces ranging from John Baldessari (whose seminal 1978 work lends it's title to this book) to Richard Prince, Fischli & Weiss, Urs Fischer, Rodney Graham, Karen Kilimnik and Trisha Donnely. Published concurrently with an exhibition at Kunstmuseum Luzern, Blasted Allegories functions as a visual essay rather than an exhaustive account of the last four decades of contemporary art. Illustrations of more than 200 works loosely map the contemporary art scene, following both mainstream and alternative currents. Edited by Beatrix Ruf, Director of Kunsthalle Zürich and Curator of the collection, this publication compiles essays that are particularly relevant to the changing meaning and value of art within the increasingly important contexts of globalism and the market. PUBLISHED BY: JRP|RINGier FORMAT: Clothbound, 8 x 10.25 in. / 300 pgs / 200 color. ISBN: 9783905829402 ISBN10: 3905829401 PUBLICATION DATE: 08/01/2008 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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This comprehensive volume reproduces in loving detail all of Delvoye's preliminary drawings for his infamous Cloaca project--in which a giant machine replicates the human digestive system by "eating" twice a day, digesting and eliminating. PUBLISHED BY: Rectapublishers FORMAT: Hardback, 8.75 x 11.5 in. / 288 pgs / 288 color. ISBN: 9789080721746 ISBN10: 9080721743 PUBLICATION DATE: 08/01/2008 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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Four Centuries of Landscape Painting by Dutch Masters Edited by Henk van Os, Huigen Leeflang, Jenny Reynaers. Text by Louise Fresco, Henk van Os.Published concurrently with Holland's inaugural Apeldoorn Garden and Landscape Architecture Triennial, The Discovery of the Netherlands explores how the genre of Dutch landscape painting has played a role in the viewer's appreciation of the landscape. Editor Henk van Os, Department Chair of Art and Society at the University of Amsterdam, contends that the function of landscape painting is to educate the viewer to appreciate, through the artists' skill, the view that the artist has chosen to portray. Van Os echoes a key tenet of nineteenth century landscape painting--that framing nature frees it for aesthetic appreciation. This volume explores how the diverse Dutch landscape has been fervently idealized by generations of Dutch artists, literally leading to the discovery of its aesthetic virtue. The publication features works by Hendrik Chabot, Jacob Maris, Anton Mauve and Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch, among others. Also included is an essay on the subject of contemporary conservation by Louise Fresco. PUBLISHED BY: NAi Publishers FORMAT: Hardback, 10.5 x 8.25 in. / 128 pgs / 40 color. ISBN: 9789056620271 ISBN10: 9056620274 PUBLICATION DATE: 09/01/2008 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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| Text by Gabriel Kuri, Mercedes Vicente, Marcella Becaria. Gabriel Kuri's sculptural work is sometimes mistakenly associated with the spirit of Arte Povera, doubtless because of his use of household materials and commonplace objects. But it is a wider dailiness, rather than a specific humility or poverty, that his work asserts; it sits between the familiarity of the readymade sculpture and the sculpturally built. Consequently his materials can range from store receipts to fabric or rock. "Going back home with two big bags of shopping: that sensation for me is sculpture," he says. And Thanks in Advance shows works completed between 2006 and 2007 at the Govett-Brewster Artist in Residence program in New Zealand. Critical essays by the curators of the Govett-Brewster gallery and the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art in Turin shed light on Kuri's artistic vision within the context of contemporary art practice. PUBLISHED BY: Turner/A&R Press FORMAT: Paperback, 8.75 x 12.75 in. / 50 pgs / 21 color / 9 b&w. ISBN: 9789689056324 ISBN10: 9689056328 PUBLICATION DATE: 08/01/2008 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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| Edited by Alanna Heiss. Text by Bob Nickas. Tom Sandberg’s photographs made a splash at New York’s P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in February of 2007. Though previously almost unknown to the American public, Sandberg, born in 1953, has quietly produced, over three decades, a superb oeuvre of austere, large-scale black-and-white photography. Focusing on a single object or person in each photograph, and steeping them in a murky, wintry light, Sandberg draws out soft tones and moody atmospheres from his subjects to create a pervasive complicity between them and the surrounding landscape. But he is an exacting image-maker too, and an involved one, insisting as he does on clarity amid darkness, and on the viewer’s emotional approach to his images. Co-designed by the artist, this beautifully-made catalogue--with essays by visionary curator Bob Nickas and P.S. 1’s Alanna Heiss--serves as an important primer on one of Norway's foremost practitioners of photography. PUBLISHED BY: Galleri Riis/P.S.1 FORMAT: Hardback, 9 x 11 in. / 84 pgs / 40 b&w. ISBN: 9788299727525 ISBN10: 8299727529 PUBLICATION DATE: 03/01/2008 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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Since 1997, Belgian conceptualist Wim Delvoye has been inking live pigs with all manner of tattoos--from luxury goods logos to Disney princesses--and exhibiting them as his artwork. He recently moved the production end to China. This book documents the project to date. PUBLISHED BY: Rectapublishers FORMAT: Hardback, 9 x 11.75 in. / 208 pgs / 208 color. ISBN: 9789080721739 ISBN10: 9080721735 PUBLICATION DATE: 08/01/2008 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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You Can Also Weave What You Do Not See Text by Karin Schick, Stephan Kunz, Ingrid Wiener.Between 1974 and 1998, the legendarily prolific, contrarian and super-experimental printmaker and mixed-media artist Dieter Roth worked with Austrian artist Ingrid Wiener (and initially also Valie Export) to produce five woven wall tapestries-presented here together for the first time, alongside 25 years worth of drawings, photographs, letters and "flat trash" like receipts and packing material. The tapestries can be interpreted in many ways. Whether seen through the lens of concept and implementation or idea and interpretation, they portray private lives and everyday objects while also making communication concrete. They supply narratives "woven" in time. They are witnesses to an artistic process. And, of course, they are symbols of an especially powerful joint creativity. PUBLISHED BY: Kerber FORMAT: Hardback, 8.5 x 12 in. / 248 pgs / 239 color / 54 b&w. ISBN: 9783866781047 ISBN10: 3866781040 PUBLICATION DATE: 08/01/2008 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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