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As a guest of The Standard, you will enjoy a 25% discount off all purchases at ARTBOOK.com (excluding special and limited editions) when you visit our site from designated links at The Standard's Culture Site. You will also receive FREE UPS Ground shipping throughout the continental U.S. Your discount will be calculated upon checkout when you shop through The Standard @ ARTBOOK. Should you wish to enter your discount manually without linking from the Standard Culture Site, the discount coupon code is: STANDARD30. This discount offer does not apply to limited editions and other short discount titles or to titles that are not in stock at time of order. Thank You!  In 1977, curator and critic Douglas Crimp organized a groundbreaking exhibition of rising American artists whose work in photography, film, video and performance cracked wise and appropriated from existing media imagery. The show, mounted at the influential downtown alternative gallery, Artist’s Space, featured Robert Longo, Jack Goldstein, Sherrie Levine, Troy Brauntuch and Philip Smith. It was called, simply, Pictures. Subsequently, many of the most important and challenging artists of the era—including John Baldessari, Dara Birnbaum, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Thomas Lawson, Matt Mullican, Richard Prince, David Salle, Laurie Simmons, Cindy Sherman, Michael Smith and James Welling—were added to the loose-knit group now known as the "Pictures Generation."
 Possibly the most abused word in the art lexicon, “conceptual” refers to any art work in which the idea is the work’s most important aspect. “When an artist uses a conceptual form of art,” wrote Sol LeWitt in his 1967 “Paragraphs on Conceptual Art,” “it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.” While the question of whether the idea outweighs the work’s execution can often only be answered intuitively, conceptual art is nonetheless associated with a certain look: serial forms (since the idea often generates serial examples of itself), industrial/nono-manual production and the use of graphically emphatic language (as in Lawrence Weiner). Weiner, LeWitt, Mel Bochner, Joseph Kosuth and the Art & Language collective were among the first generation of conceptualists; included in our conceptualism library are examples from subsequent generations of artists who have extended their legacy.
 In 1996, French theorist and curator Nicolas Bourriaud put together a show called Traffic, in which he advanced a new kind of art that he named “Relational Aesthetics.” The artists Bourriaud convened under this rubric--among them Liam Gillick, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Philippe Parreno, Pierre Huyghe, Carsten Höller and Vanessa Beecroft--all envisage their audience as potential collaborators and a potential community, so that the work’s meaning is generated collectively rather than individually (as with a traditional observer/artwork encounter). Bourriaud himself describes Relational Aesthetics as “a set of artistic practices which take as their theoretical and practical point of departure the whole of human relations and their social context, rather than an independent and private space.” Rirkrit Tiravanija’s 1990s installations, in which meals were cooked for visitors, provide a classic instance of Relational Aesthetics in action; Vanessa Beecroft’s use of models and audience involvement are another. Our Artbook Curated Library is a selection of the finest monographs available on these artists.
 In the 1960s and 70s, obscure Happenings and early performances by such avant garde pioneers as Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg, Yvonne Rainer, Yoko Ono and Vito Acconci challenged object-oriented art production and changed the terms of contemporary art forever. In the ensuing decades, Performance Art has come so thoroughly into its own that it has its own biennial, which draws visitors and participants from around the world. Here is a selection of indispensable books for any Performance Art Library.
 Alfred Stieglitz wrote, "Portrait painting is doomed. Painting portraiture will become obsolete when the time arrives that photographers will have learned something about portraiture in its deeper sense and when the public is weaned from the stupid superstition that a thing painted is necessarily better than a thing done through the new medium, photography." Over the past century, the Constructivists, Futurists, Dadaists and Conceptualists all announced their intention to kill painting, and indeed the death of painting continues to be championed and dissected by such contemporary critics as Douglas Crimp and Yve-Alain Bois. And yet… today, figure painting is experiencing an unprecedented revival, with artists like John Currin, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, Lucian Freud, Wangechi Mutu, Elizabeth Peyton, Neo Rauch,
Gerhard Richter,
Dana Schutz and Luc Tuymans among the leaders of the charge. Our Artbook Curated Library on Contemporary Figurative Painting selects the key titles on contemporary figurative painters.
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|  FEATURED IMAGES Cory Reynolds | Date: 5/29/2013 Siglio and 192 Books invite you to a book signing and reception on Friday, May 31 at 7 p.m. to celebrate the publication of Karen Green’s Bough Down, which Maggie Nelson, of the Los Angeles Review of Books, calls "an astonishment." She writes, "It is one of the most moving, strange, original, harrowing, and beautiful documents of grief and reckoning I’ve read. The book consists of a series of prose poems, or individuated chunks of poetic prose, interspersed with postage-stamp-sized collages made by Green, who is also a visual artist. Collectively the text bears witness to the 2008 suicide of her husband, the writer David Foster Wallace, and its harrowing aftermath for Green. The book feels like an instant classic, but without any of the aggrandizement that can attend such a thing. Instead it is suffused throughout with the dissonant, private richness of the minor, while also managing to be a major achievement." For the event, space is limited, so please RSVP at 212-255-4022 or info@192books.com. Featured image is reproduced from Bough Down.
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 FEATURED IMAGES Cory Reynolds | Date: 5/23/2013 This Saturday, May 25 at 5PM, Greenlight Bookstore presents artist Laura Anderson Barbata, author of Transcommunality: Interventions and Collaborations in Stilt Dancing Communities, in conversation with some of her artistic collaborators, including Najja Codrington and Ali Sylvester, founders of the Brooklyn Jumbies, artist Tim Rollins, curator and art historian Edward Sullivan, participating photographers Frank Veronsky, Stefan Falke and Stefan Hagen, and Liz Galván, Director of Centro de Diseño de Oaxaca. This event, timed to coincide with BAM’s DanceAfrica festival, will conclude with a book signing and perhaps… Moko Brooklyn Jumbies! Featured image, "Intervention: Halloween" (2008), by Stefan Falke, is reproduced from Transcommunality. more
  FEATURED IMAGES Cory Reynolds | Date: 5/20/2013 In Art / Books illuminating new monograph on the late, great, British fashion photographer Terence Donovan (who never allowed a book of his photographs to be published in his lifetime), the artist is quoted, "Photography is an elusive craft. I don’t consider it art because it is very specific and finite – not like painting, which evokes emotion beyond what you see. Nevertheless, it is a very difficult thing to make work. It is a curious combination of precision and chaos. A photographer must have a grasp of a complex cockpit drill in order to overpower the technical density which is very evident the more you understand photography." Featured image, of model Hiroko Matsumoto posing for "Ces Collections romantiques Pierre Cardin" in the March 3, 1966, edition of French Elle, is reproduced from Terence Donovan Fashion. For a slideshow of additional images from the book, see The New York Times Lens blog. more
 FEATURED IMAGES Cory Reynolds | Date: 5/17/2013 Featured image, "Ginevra" ("Geneva"), from the Atmosfera 1933 series (originally published in the early- and mid-century Italian contemporary art annual, Almanacco Letterario) is reproduced from Bruno Munari: My Futurist Past, just published by Silvana Editorale. In her catalog essay, Miroslava Hajek writes, "The use of paradox was central to all aspects of Munari's activity, not only that of an artistic nature. He employed it in order to undermine banal stereotypes and to stimulate mental agility. In visual terms it was reflected in his juxtaposition of geometric shapes and organic forms." more
 FEATURED IMAGES Cory Reynolds | Date: 5/15/2013 This Friday, May 17 from 7-10 pm, artist/photographer Thomas Campbell and former-pro-turned-surf-ambassador Dan Malloy will present a slideshow and booksigning for Campbell's glorious photography book, Slide Your Brains Out, at the Patagonia Cardiff Surf Shop (founded by Malloy and his equally legendary brothers, Keith and Dan, in 2006) with music by The Mattson 2. Featured image is "Joel Tudor color quiver," Del Mar, California, 2003. more
 FEATURED IMAGES Cory Reynolds | Date: 5/13/2013 Featured image, the 1964 enamel on canvas, "Untitled (Nude)," is reproduced from Points of Power, the first publication to trace the figurative impulse in the work of Abstract Expressionist David Smith. In her catalog essay, Candida Smith, the artist's daughter, writes, "The artist... kept his distance. He gave his 'models' no direction. The women here have no more concern for the artist or his view of them than would a horse or a leopard, and thus they have the same animal power and unconscious sensuality. They ask to be seen as something other than 'figures'" more
 EVENTS Cory Reynolds | Date: 5/13/2013 Together with Chip Kidd, The Standard and PictureBox, we invite you to join Gengoroh Tagame in celebrating the release of his new book, Wednesday, May 15 from 6-9PM at The Shop @ The Standard, High Line. Tagame and Kidd will sign books: get 'em while they're hot! more
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