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  MFA Publications Jim Dine Printmaker: Leaving My Tracks Best known for his monumental images of bathrobes, tools and hearts that became icons of Pop art during the 1960s and 70s, Jim Dine remains one of the most inventive and prolific printmakers of our time. His prints currently number some 1,000 items, and at age 75, he continues to produce new works with remarkable zest and boundless energy. Dine’s prints are rooted in the spontaneous, gestural aesthetic of American Abstract Expressionism. Intensely physical in execution, they celebrate the artist’s touch. He supplements his energetic, full-body strokes not only by hand coloring but also by collaging with nontraditional media. He may also subtract, scratching or even gouging his surfaces, sometimes with power tools. The results show his great joy in working with the thick paper and rich inks and colors, or in the artist’s words, his love for leaving my tracks.” Jim Dine Printmaker: Leaving My Tracks explores Dine’s etchings, woodcuts, . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Clifford S. Ackley, Patrick Murphy. Hbk, 11 x 9 in. / 176 pgs / 160 color. Publication Date: 3/31/2012 List Price: US $55.00

  The Museum of Modern Art, New York Print/Out 20 Years in Print Over the past two decades, the art world has broadened its geographic reach and opened itself to new continents, allowing for a significant cross-pollination of post-conceptual strategies and vernacular modes. Printed materials, in both innovative and traditional forms, have played a key role in this exchange of ideas and sources. This catalogue, published in conjunction with an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, examines the evolution of artistic practices related to printmaking, from the resurgence of traditional printing techniques--often used alongside digital technologies--to the worldwide proliferation of self-published artist’s books and ephemera. Print/Out features focused sections on ten artists and publishers--Ai Weiwei, Edition Jacob Samuel, Ellen Gallagher, Martin Kippenberger, Lucy McKenzie, Aleksandra Mir, museum in progress, Robert Rauschenberg, Superflex and Rirkrit Tiravanija--as well as rich illustrations of additional printed projects from the last 20 years by major artists such as Trisha Donnelly, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Thomas Schütte and Kelley . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Christophe Cherix. Text by Christophe Cherix, Kim Conaty, Sarah Suzuki. Pbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 248 pgs / 521 color. Publication Date: 2/29/2012 List Price: US $50.00

  JRP|Ringier Christian Marclay: Cyanotypes Cyanotypes documents six series of cyanotypes by artist, performer and composer Christian Marclay. In the course of his career Marclay has often repurposed older or defunct audio technologies as works of collage, sculpture, installation, photography, video and performance. Here he reclaims and combines two near-obsolete technologies at once--the audio cassette and the cyanotype. Invented in the 1840s, and commonly known as a blueprint” because of its distinctive Prussian blue color, the cyanotype is created by a cameraless photographic process in which objects are placed directly onto a photosensitive surface, producing a silhouetted image similar to a photogram. Marclay’s cyanotypes, made in collaboration with Graphicstudio, record the abstract tangles made by cassette tapes unspooled onto the print surface, resulting in images and tones that equally evoke the paintings of Jackson Pollock and the monochromes of Yves Klein. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by David Louis Norr. Text by Noam Elcott, Margaret A. Miller. Flexi, 8.75 x 13 in. / 116 pgs / 68 color. Publication Date: 2/29/2012 List Price: US $55.00

  Four Corners Books Beauty Is in the Street A Visual Record of the May '68 Paris Uprising In May 1968, thousands of workers and students took to the streets of Paris, provoking an unprecedented wave of strikes, walkouts and demonstrations. The confrontations between police and protesters led to a general strike of eleven million workers that brought the country to a virtual standstill and nearly toppled Charles de Gaulle's government. The faculty and student body of the Ecole des Beaux Arts were among the strikers, and a number of the students met spontaneously in the college's lithographic department to produce the first poster of the revolt, which bore the declaration Usines, Universités, Union” (“Factories and universities unite,” loosely translated). From this initiative was born the Atelier Populaire (or popular workshop” ), a collective of print shops that produced hundreds of posters to encourage the protestors and to report on police brutality. These posters included many of the often Situationist-inspired mottos for which May '68 is remembered today, such . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Johan Kugelberg, Philippe Vermčs. Hbk, 9 x 11 in. / 272 pgs / 200 color / 100 b&w. Publication Date: 8/31/2011 List Price: US $40.00

  The Museum of Modern Art, New York What is a Print? What is a print? This volume aims to answer that question by exploring the four basic printmaking techniques--woodcut, intaglio, lithography and screenprint--that have been used to create some of the most iconic images in modern art, from Paul Gauguin's Noa Noa to Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe. Illustrated with works from The Museum of Modern Art's superlative collection of prints, the book is divided into four sections that provide an overview introduction to each technique. Each section presents approximately 40 prints that demonstrate the range and variety of a particular technique and illustrate its development over the last century. Extended captions highlight the distinctive visual effects unique to each technique, and examine issues specific to printmaking, such as democratic ideas about distribution and social and political function. Featured works range from Edvard Munch's radical woodcut experiments from the 1890s to Kelley Walker's digital experiments of the last several years, and include prints . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Sarah Suzuki. Hbk, 9 x 10.5 in. / 168 pgs / 151 color. Publication Date: 11/30/2011 List Price: US $35.00

  The Museum of Modern Art, New York German Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse The artists associated with German Expressionism in the early decades of the twentieth century took up printmaking with a dedication and fervor virtually unparalleled in the history of the genre. The woodcut, with its coarse gouges and jagged lines, is the preeminent Expressionist medium, but the movement also revolutionized etching and lithography, to alternately vibrant and stark effect. This graphic impulse can be traced from the formation of the artist group Die Brücke in 1905 through the war years of the 1910s and into the early 1930s, when individual artists continued to produce compelling work even as the movement was winding down. This volume, published in conjunction with an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, showcases the Museum's outstanding holdings of Expressionist prints, enhanced by a selection of drawings, paintings, and sculptures from the collection. Featuring approximately 260 works by some 30 artists, the book presents a diverse array of . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Starr Figura. Text by Starr Figura, Peter Jelavich, Heather Hess, Iris Schmeisser. Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 288 pgs / 295 color. Publication Date: 5/31/2011 List Price: US $60.00

  The Museum of Modern Art, New York Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now Prints from The Museum of Modern Art Encompassing black-and-white linoleum cuts made at community art centers in the 1960s and 1970s, resistance posters and other political art of the 1980s and the wide variety of subjects and techniques explored by artists in printshops over the last two decades, printmaking has been a driving force in contemporary South African artistic and political expression. Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now, published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, introduces the vital role of printmaking through works by more than 20 artists in the Museum's collection. The volume features prints by John Muafangejo and Dan Rakgoathe, whose vigorous, metaphoric linoleum cuts conveying social messages were cultivated at Rorke's Drift Art and Craft Centre in the 1960s and 1970s, posters produced for anti-apartheid coalitions in the 1980s, and political work by Sue Williamson, Norman Catherine and William Kentridge, representing periods of apartheid resistance. More recent projects, including traditional . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Judith B. Hecker. Pbk, 8 x 10 in. / 96 pgs / 72 color. Publication Date: 4/30/2011 List Price: US $29.95

  Hatje Cantz Elizabeth Peyton: Ghost Works on Paper Famed for her painted portraits, Elizabeth Peyton (born 1965) has also created a wide range of prints over the past two decades, including monotypes, lithographs, woodcuts and etchings. Experimenting with different techniques, she uses a variety of diverse paper stocks and handmade papers as well as various colored and monochromatic inks. In comparison to the diminutiveness of her paintings, the relatively large scale of these prints--in particular of the lithographs and monotypes--is remarkable. Her portrayed subjects here include historical figures such as William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde and his lover Lord Alfred Douglas (Bosie) and Richard Wagner; visual artists such as Frida Kahlo, David Hockney, Andy Warhol and Robert Mapplethorpe; pop stars such as Eminem and Kurt Cobain; as well as her friends. More recently, Peyton has turned to the genre of the still life to explore and renew its contemporary relevance. This monograph of Peyton's prints is the first in-depth exploration . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Hilton Als, Sabine Eckmann, Beate Kemfert. Hbk, 9.75 x 9 in. / 144 pgs / 60 color. Publication Date: 4/30/2011 List Price: US $85.00

  Hatje Cantz Al Taylor: Prints The delicate Postminimalist sculptures and drawings of the American artist Al Taylor (1948–1999) were for a long time better known in Europe than in the U.S., despite Taylor’s residing in New York. Laboring quietly from the mid-1980s until his premature death from cancer at the age of 51, Taylor made abstract drawings and sculptures derived from found materials that refresh both abstraction and Postminimalism with their gentle humor and lightness of touch. Working in a decade that favored less discreet gestures, Taylor never loomed large in the New York art world’s consciousness (despite his brief tenure as a studio assistant to Robert Rauschenberg). Alongside an increasing number of exhibitions, this publication helps to remedy that oversight, providing a catalogue raisonné of Taylor’s graphic works, thereby retrieving a previously little-known aspect of his oeuvre. Aside from the published prints, it also reproduces all of the artist’s proofs and variants, which often differ . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Michael Semff. Text by Debbie Taylor. Hbk, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 224 pgs / 30 color / 110 duotone. Publication Date: 6/30/2012 List Price: US $60.00

  Hatje Cantz Alex Katz: Prints Alex Katz (born 1927) is best known as a painter--specifically, as a painter of his family and his distinguished circle of friends, including poets, writers and artists. In the early 1950s, he began experimenting with printmaking, but it was not until the mid 1960s that he intensified his interest and production in the medium. Pushing at the limits of various printing techniques, Katz tested out pictorial ideas first conceived for his paintings, retaining planes of matte color but further simplifying his forms and dramatically cropping his images. These reduced compositions were wonderfully compatible with the graphic clarity of printmaking, and by effectively translating his paintings into prints, the artist achieved what he called the "final synthesis of painting." This publication provides insight into an often-neglected yet vital aspect of Katz's work, from the early 1950s to the present day. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Klaus Albrecht Schröder. Text by Felix Zdenek, Marietta Mautner Markhof, Werner Spies. Hbk, 9.75 x 12 in. / 240 pgs / 203 color. Publication Date: 11/30/2010 List Price: US $60.00

  The Museum of Modern Art, New York A Picasso Portfolio: Prints from The Museum of Modern Art Printmaking was fundamental to Pablo Picasso's artistic vision. Over his long career, he made well over 2,000 printed images, focusing on the intaglio techniques of etching, engraving, drypoint and aquatint, as well as on lithography and linoleum cut. This publication, published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, explores Picasso's creative process in printmaking starting in the early years of the twentieth century with his Blue and Rose periods, and extending up to the last years of his life. Divided into 12 thematic sections, the book presents highlights from the Museum's extraordinary collection of Picasso's prints. These include such celebrated masterworks as The Minotauromachy” and The Weeping Woman” from the 1930s, as well as evolving states that reveal how Picasso's imagery developed. One example of such metamorphosis is seen in a series of lithographs from the 1940s in which a progression is established from the realistic depiction of . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Deborah Wye. Hbk, 9.25 x 10.75 in. / 200 pgs / 168 color. Publication Date: 4/30/2010 List Price: US $40.00

  Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco-Legion of Honor/Jordan Schnitzer Family John Baldessari: A Print Retrospective from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation Conceptual art veteran John Baldessari (born 1931) began making prints in the mid-1970s, and has placed printmaking at the center of his appropriative practice, in which found photographs of people are amended with colorful dots that blot out the heads of the subjects, redirecting the viewer's attention towards marginal detail. In my work,” he says, I found that I could be the master of my own universe and control what people see and pay attention to.” For Baldessari, keen as he is to minimize or erase his own manual presence, printmaking also helps to flatten out these collaged additions and interventions, heightening their sense of estrangement and beguiling anonymity. Many of Baldessari's prints series have been extremely influential, such as the 1970s Raw Prints series, for which he amended photos of Santa Monica mallgoers with abstracted shapes printed above the images that replicate details from them; this series was pivotal in . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Hunter Drohojowska-Philip. Clth, 10 x 12 in. / 160 pgs / 140 color. Publication Date: 4/30/2010 List Price: US $59.95

  D.A.P./Ronald Feldman Fine Arts/The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Andy Warhol Prints A Catalogue Raisonné 1962-1987 In the 40 years since he first appeared on the New York art scene, Andy Warhol has become synonymous with Pop Aart--and with the wry definition of fame as something that never lasts more than 15 minutes. But Warhol spent his career working so prodigiously as to assure long lasting renown. In the printmaking field alone, his output was prolific, and his appropriation of silkscreen as a fine art medium forever altered the way prints look. This thoroughly revised and expanded fourth edition ofAndy Warhol Prints: A Catalogue Raisonne: 1962-1987 traces Warhol's complete graphic oeuvre from his first unique works on paper in 1962 through his final published portfolio in 1987. More than 1,700 works are illustrated, an increase of 500 from the previous edition of the catalogue raisonné, and complete documentation is provided for each. New additions include a section focusing on Warhol's popular portraits, with documentation of prints that . . . . [see book details]

  Artwork by Andy Warhol. Edited by Claudia Defendi, Frayda Feldman, Jŕrg Schellmann. Text by Arthur Danto, Donna De Salvo. Clothbound, 9.75 x 11.75 in. / 400 pgs / 1500 color / 20 b&w. Publication Date: 4/2/2003 List Price: US $85.00

  Kerber Arman: Works On Paper Inspired by the work of Kurt Schwitters, which he saw in Paris in 1954, Arman began experimenting with printmaking during the 1950s, and prints and other works on paper have been an essential part of his oeuvre since then. This is the first extensive retrospective and documentation of his works on paper, and as such, will be an essential publication on the artist's work. . . . . [see book details]

  Essay by Beate Reinfenscheid. Afterword Urs Roeber. Hardcover, 8.5 x 10.5 in. / 192 pgs / 114 color / 80 duotone. Publication Date: 2/2/2002 List Price: US $35.00

  The Museum of Modern Art, New York Artists and Prints Masterworks from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art The creativity of the most celebrated artists of the modern period has been enriched and expanded by their work in the print medium. Exploiting the potential of such techniques as woodcut, lithography, etching and screenprint, as well as other processes, these artists have added immeasurably to their expressive vocabularies. Many have availed themselves of the expertise offered by master printers in professional workshops and have benefited from the fruits of such collaboration. They have found inspiration in traditional printed formats, such as portfolios and illustrated books, and have used them to explore thematic interests. As a result of these experiences, printmaking has exerted influence on their work in other mediums and has become integral to their creative thinking as a whole. Finally, the fact that prints are made in editions rather than as single impressions has enabled these artists to reach a much broader audience than would otherwise be possible. This . . . . [see book details]

  Essay by Deborah Wye. Hardcover, 9.5 x 11 in. / 240 pgs / 275 color. Publication Date: 4/2/2004 List Price: US $49.95

  The Museum of Modern Art, New York Kiki Smith: Prints, Books and Things Well-known as a sculptor, Kiki Smith has also worked extensively as a printmaker--in fact her printed works and other editioned art, including books and multiples, are arguably as important as her sculpture. Smith emerged in the early 1980s as one of a generation of artists who returned to figurative imagery after a period in which American art had leaned to the abstract and conceptual. In Smith's case the interest in the figure was literal: She is fascinated by the anatomy of the human body, which is an immediate and emotionally powerful presence in much of her work. She is equally concerned with the natural world, and animals have become increasingly important in her recent imagery. The heart of printmaking is the ability to create more than one example of an artwork, and this appeals to Smith's interest in the public dissemination of imagery and information. Her work is politically sensitized but . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Wendy Weitman. Hbk, 9.25 x 11 in. / 150 pgs / 153 color / 19 b&w. Publication Date: 7/31/2009 List Price: US $45.00

  The Museum of Modern Art, New York Lucian Freud: The Painter's Etchings One of the foremost figurative artists working today, Lucian Freud has redefined portraiture and the nude through his unblinking scrutiny of the human form. Although he is best known as a painter, etching is integral to his practice. This volume accompanies a major Museum of Modern Art exhibition that will present the full scope of Freud's etchings, including some 75 works--from the rare early experiments of the 1940s to the increasingly complex compositions he has created since rediscovering the medium in the early 1980s. Written by exhibition curator Starr Figura, it also includes a selection of paintings and drawings that illuminate the crucial, cross-pollinating relationship between Freud's etchings and his works on canvas. Freud is not a traditional printmaker: Treating the etching plate like a canvas, he stands the copper upright on an easel. He also typically depicts the same sitters in etchings as in paintings, demarcating their forms through meticulous . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Starr Figura. Clothbound, 9 x 12 in. / 144 pgs / 130 color. Publication Date: 12/1/2007 List Price: US $40.00

  Editorial Rm Manuel Manilla: Mexican Engraver Monograph of 598 Prints Horned, animated human skeletons, nineteenth century circus figures, devils, demons, card sharps, conjurers, bullfighters and boxers are just some of the 600 images that populate this exquisitely tactile first book in English devoted entirely to the Mexican engraver Manuel Manilla--a remarkably original artist in his own right, and an influence on his more famous colleague and successor, José Guadalupe Posada. Manilla's illustrations for newspapers, broadsides, posters, chapbooks, pamphlets and games are the work of a sensitive portraitist of Mexican social mores, an artist of magical imagination and a master engraver. Richly illustrated with examples of every aspect of Manilla's extremely diverse work, the volume includes an authoritative text on Manilla by Mercurio López Casillas. In addition to offering an overview of the work of this still little-known artist, the essay clarifies the often tangled publishing history of the images and deals with the difficult questions of authorship and attribution in the . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Mercurio López Casillas. Introduction by Jean Charlot. Paperback, 8.75 x 13 in. / 208 pgs / 63 color / 535 b&w. Publication Date: 12/15/2007 List Price: US $25.00

  Carnegie Museum of Art Modern Japanese Prints The Twentieth Century This volume presents more than 1,000 exemplary twentieth-century Japanese woodblock prints, from the collection of Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. Taken together, the collection reflects the stylistic movements, aesthetic directions and historic changes of the past century, with particular emphasis on two significant movements: sosakuhanga (creative prints), represented by in-depth selections by Hiratsuka Un'ichi, Onchi Koshiro and Munakata Shiko; and shin-hanga (new prints), with works by Kawase Hasui and Hashiguchi Goyo. Carnegie Museum of Art also possesses several complete series of prints produced in such limited numbers that they are rarely seen today, including One Hundred Views of New Tokyo created between 1929 and 1932. In addition, an essay on the history and significance of the collection provides a brief introduction to Japanese printmaking in the twentieth century, making this illustrated guide an invaluable reference for researchers, curators, collectors and general enthusiasts of Japanese art. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Amanda T. Zehnder. Pbk, 10 x 9 in. / 200 pgs / 1050 color. Publication Date: 7/31/2009 List Price: US $34.95

  Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin New York Graphic Workshop: 1964-1970 Documenting the production of the New York Graphic Workshop (NYGW), a group founded in 1965 by three young Latin American artists in New York--Luis Camnitzer, José Guillermo Castillo and Liliana Porter--this is the first comprehensive overview of this crucial, yet not so well-known, episode in the history of U.S. and Latin American Conceptual art. The mission of the NYGW was to redefine the practice of printmaking in Conceptual terms, focusing on the mechanical and repetitive nature of the medium rather than its traditional techniques. The NYGW functioned as a collective. It held unconventional exhibitions, including several by mail and one in a safe-deposit box on 57th Street, and it participated in The Museum of Modern Art's 1970 exhibition Information. The NYGW also produced prints by some of the leading contemporary artists of the period, including Michael Snow, Max Neuhaus, José Luis Cuevas and Salvador Dali. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, Ursula Davila-Villa, Gina McDaniel Tarver. Text by Beverly Adams, Sylvia Dolinko, Andrea Giunta, Michael Wellen. Pbk, 8 x 11 in. / 128 pgs / 12 color / 85 b&w. Publication Date: 7/31/2009 List Price: US $36.00

  MFA Publications Rhythms of Modern Life British Prints, 1914-1939 It is little known that interbellum Britain hosted a generation of Modernist artists who absorbed the wealth of Continental avant-garde idioms and adapted them to their own unique ends. Some of this work was done under the rubric of Vorticism, the Neofuturist movement spearheaded by Wyndham Lewis, while other artists were closely associated with London’s Grosvenor School of Art (and so came to be known collectively as the Grosvenor School), breaking new ground in the practice of linocut. Rhythms of Modern Life examines the impact of Cubism and Futurism on British printmaking in the years between the First and Second World Wars, focusing in particular on the dynamic imagery of 13 artists, including C.R.W. Nevinson, Paul Nash, Edward Wadsworth and David Bomberg, all early followers of Italian Futurism and British Vorticism, and on the works of Grosvenor School artists Claude Flight, Sybil Andrews, Cyril Power and Lill Tschudi. All of these . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Clifford S. Ackley, Stephen Coppel, Thomas E. Rassieur, Samantha Rippner. Hardback, 8.5 x 9.5 in. / 224 pgs / 162 color. Publication Date: 1/10/2008 List Price: US $60.00

  Hatje Cantz Richard Paul Lohse: Prints Documentation and Catalogue Raisonné This second volume of the important Swiss Constructivist Richard Paul Lohse's catalogue raisonné documents 172 original prints and multiples created between 1941 and 1986. With meticulous historical documentation of each print, this book is an indispensable standard reference for art historians, dealers and collectors. Preface and introductory essays are in English; catalogue raisonné and historical texts are in German only. . . . . [see book details]

  Foreword by Johanna Lohse James. Text by Hans Joachim Albrecht, Felix Wiedler. Clth, 9.5 x 12 in. / 472 pgs / 754 color. Publication Date: 4/1/2009 List Price: US $120.00

  Addison Gallery of American Art Richard Serra: Large Scale Prints By Richard Serra Richard Serra began making prints in 1972. Since then, his continued investigations into printmaking have produced an innovative body of work that is as large as it is varied. While Serra's prints explore the perceptual possibilities suggested by his sculptural work, they are not merely illustrative, but rather autonomous works of art that constantly push the medium to its limits. Conveying a sense of weight, instability, and potential motion, Serra's graphic works possess a physical presence that provokes reactions similar to those experienced in the presence of his sculptures. Rounding out the publication's visuals, two essayists explore the many ramifications of presence in Serra's work. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Joseph N. Newland. Essays by Allison N. Kemmerer and Richard H. Axsom. Introduction by Adam D. Weinberg. Hardcover, 6.75 x 6.75 in. / 80 pgs / 36 color. Publication Date: 2/2/2004 List Price: US $24.95

  Richter Verlag Richard Serra: Prints 1972-2007 Richard Serra has pursued a keen dialogue with the possibilities of printing since 1972, in the early stages of his work as an artist, and has now amassed a print oeuvre to rival his sculptural achievement. As with the sculptures, what he has sought to elicit from printing's potential is not simply the duplication of imagery on paper, but a furtherance of each technique's intrinsic material character. Whether the technique is etching, lithograph or silkscreen, the aim is to make an insistent physical presence to be encountered by the viewer's entire body--and consequently some of these works reach up to 80 inches square in surface area. Implementing such basic forces as gravity, instability and potential motion, Serra's graphic works assert space, and human activity in space. They may also be occasioned politically, as works referencing Malcolm X, Bill Clinton and, more recently, Abu Ghraib indicate. The printwork gathered in Catalogue of . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Silke von Berswordt-Wallrabe. Hardback, 12 x 10 in. / 216 pgs / 217 b&w / 17 duotone / 72 tritone. Publication Date: 8/1/2008 List Price: US $95.00

  Marquand Books, Inc./Museum of Art/Washington State University Roy Lichtenstein: Prints 1956-1997 From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and Family Foundation Think Roy Lichtenstein” and you probably conjure up comic strip-based paintings and the colorful dots that comprise them. Lichtenstein intended his now iconic depictions of characters in tense, dramatic situations as commentaries on modern man's plight, in which the media--magazines, television and advertisements--shapes everything, including our emotions. Many of the same concepts behind the artist's paintings apply to the significant number of prints he produced in the latter part of this life. Focused on works created from the mid-50s until his death in 1997, this exhibition catalogue gives a full overview of Lichtenstein's printmaking accomplishments. Accompanying reproductions of the artist's works are essays by two outstanding scholars: Dave Hickey, a MacArthur Award-winning writer on art and culture; and Elizabeth Brown, who wrote her thesis on Lichtenstein at Columbia University, under the tutelage of the late Kirk Varnedoe. Approximately 40 prints are illustrated in this elegant, intimately-scaled book, which highlights a specific . . . . [see book details]

  Essays by Dave Hickey and Elizabeth Brown. Introduction by Chris Bruce. Hardcover, 8 x 10 in. / 80 pgs / 50 color / 3 b&w. Publication Date: 10/15/2005 List Price: US $24.95

  Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine Terry Winters: Prints & Sequences The Colby College of Art is the sole repository of Terry Winters's entire archive of prints. Prints & Sequences presents selections from that collection, spanning two decades and a variety of media including lithography, etching, aquatint, woodcut, linoleum cut and Mixografia. Serial practice is at the core of Winters's art, and Prints & Sequences offers insight into the artist's diverse printing techniques as well as a perspective on his serial processes within individual groupings. The catalogue essay by Clifford S. Ackley, Chair, Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, and Ruth and Carl Shapiro Curator of Prints and Drawings, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, offers an insightful account of Winters's printmaking within the history of the medium. . . . . [see book details]

  Essay by Clifford S. Ackley. Foreword by Sharon Corwin. Paperback, 7 x 10 in. / 124 pgs / 56 b&w / 82 duotone. Publication Date: 1/1/2006 List Price: US $20.00

  The Museum of Modern Art, New York The Printed Picture The Printed Picture traces the changing technology of picture-making from the Renaissance to the present, focusing on the vital role of images in multiple copies. The book surveys printing techniques before the invention of photography; the photographic processes that began to appear in the early nineteenth century; the marriage of printing and photography; and the rapidly evolving digital inventions of our time. From woodblocks to chromolithographs, from engravings to bar codes, from daguerreotypes to contemporary color photographs, the book succinctly examines the full range of pictorial processes. Exploring how pictures look by describing how they are made, author Richard Benson reaches fascinating and original conclusions about what pictures can mean. Although many of the techniques he discusses have been used to create exceptional works of art, Benson concentrates on the typical, everyday pictures that have played and continue to play such a prominent role in our lives. In conjunction with the . . . . [see book details]

  By Richard Benson Hardback, 8 x 10.5 in. / 308 pgs / 326 color. Publication Date: 10/1/2008 List Price: US $60.00

  RM/The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation The Prints of Anni Albers: Catalogue Raisonné Catalogue Raisonné Anni Albers (1899-1994) was one of the twentieth century's greatest textile pioneers, and a versatile artist/craftswoman who could turn her hand with ease to jewelry, writing or printmaking. Of her work in printmaking, American audiences had a glimpse when the Brooklyn Museum organized a survey in 1977. Several years previously, in 1963, Albers had visited the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los Angeles, and was immediately attracted to the printing process and the potentials of lithography. Over the next 20 years, she created a series of prints that translated her textile innovations and her Bauhaus sensibility into this medium, introducing Mexican colors into her palette and exploring new lithography techniques, offset printing, photographic processes and silkscreen. Now, RM Verlag and The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation have collaborated on a catalogue raisonné of these prints, creating at last a definitive collection of this extremely significant and previously underdocumented portion of Albers' output. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Nicholas Fox Weber, Brenda Danilowitz. Clth, 9.25 x 12.25 in. / 200 pgs / 200 color / 30 b&w. Publication Date: 10/31/2009 List Price: US $70.00