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Features and Themes of the Fall 2010 D.A.P. Catalog

By Sharon Helgason Gallagher

This year D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. celebrates 20 years of meaningful work bringing books on art and culture to an ever-growing and ever-more engaged international audience of readers. Throughout, we have been honored to work with the world’s foremost publishers and booksellers, museums and curators, designers and critics, and, of course, artists across all media: we are grateful to all of our colleagues for entrusting us with the task of serving as the world’s single best source for intelligently edited, thoughtfully designed and superbly produced books on art, photography, architecture and design. D.A.P. is the bridge between the publishing industry and the art world, and transmitting information and meaning between the two has been an ongoing learning experience. D.A.P. is first and foremost a community of culture workers and we are proud to work with you all.
The D.A.P. catalogue has evolved over these two decades to become a publication in its own right, unique in serving both as a much-used tool for booksellers and as an international survey of emergent trends in the worlds of art and culture. Together the forthcoming titles gathered in the new Fall 2010 D.A.P. catalogue represent the work of more than 1,600 artists, photographers, architects, designers, musicians, filmmakers, dancers, curators, art historians, critics and, of course, editors and publishers.
With each publication of the D.A.P. catalogue, readers both encounter new individual titles and have the opportunity to step back and take a look at the big picture. This Fall 2010 season, we see a strong commitment among museums and publishers across the world to publishing time-based artwork in performance, installation, sound art, dance and theater. Forthcoming monographs and exhibition catalogues feature Bruce Nauman, Joan Jonas, Francis Alÿs, Robert Wilson, Renée Green, Cai Guo-Qiang, Ben Patterson and Stephan von Huene to name just a few. Time-based media invite us into a fourth dimension, time as the coordinate that enables us to describe an event--a performance, for example. Understanding time-based media retroactively transforms our understanding of traditional art forms and our cultural canon. Two intellectually adventurous catalogues from The Museum of Modern Art are a case in point: On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century and The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today. The former examines how line has stepped off the picture plane into sculpture, photography, film and dance; the latter documents the evolving interplay between sculpture and photography. Newly conceptualized from the fourth dimension, traditional notions of the two-dimensional picture and the three-dimensional sculpture have a new richness and inclusiveness and we now see that by exploring the limits of its own dimensionality, each art form necessarily bumps up against a higher dimension: the two-dimensional picture plane struggles with three dimensionality (either representationally or as surface), while the sculptural object tussles with the fourth--temporal--dimension, presenting multiple perspectives that the viewer can only occupy by moving around the work through time.
Exploring the fourth dimension of time incurs ethical demands: as Dorothea von Hantelmann eloquently writes in How to Do Things with Art, "it is of crucial significance whether a situational artwork enters history as a memory or as a document." The design of information transmission is also key to two visual manifestos this season: Cult-ure, by Rian Hughes, an intellectual toolbox for the digital era, and Sustainism by Joost Elffers and Michiel Schwartz, who question modernism’s espousal of unlimited progress.
One of the works that is featured in MoMA’s On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century, is an interactive artist’s book by Anna Maria Maiolino: it is easy to imagine this book as the kind of pedagogical aid Rudolf Steiner had in mind when writing his lectures, "The Fourth Dimension." Steiner’s influence, the increasing import of time-based artwork, a call to enlightened pedagogy and the need for mindful design of information transmission can be seen again and again in the new books offered this Fall.

Features

NEW RELEASES THIS WEEK

John Cage: Every Day is a Good Day: The Visual Art of John Cage
John Cage: Every Day is a Good Day: The Visual Art of John Cage
Charles Burchfield: Fifty Years as a Painter
Charles Burchfield: Fifty Years as a Painter
Richard Phillips & Adolf Dietrich: Painting and Misappropriation
Richard Phillips & Adolf Dietrich: Painting and Misappropriation
Robert Rauschenberg & Jean Tinguely: Collaborations
Robert Rauschenberg & Jean Tinguely: Collaborations
Yves Klein By Himself
Yves Klein By Himself
Yves Klein: The Foundations of Judo
Yves Klein: The Foundations of Judo
Daniel Spoerri: Eaten By
Daniel Spoerri: Eaten By
Gert & Uwe Tobias: Drawings and Collages
Gert & Uwe Tobias: Drawings and Collages
Ernesto Neto: The Edges of the World
Ernesto Neto: The Edges of the World
Belkis Ayón: Nkame
Belkis Ayón: Nkame
Carlos Garaicoa
Carlos Garaicoa
The Malaspina Expedition
The Malaspina Expedition
The New Décor
The New Décor
Life After Death
Life After Death
The Other Leipzig School
The Other Leipzig School
Book Art Object
Book Art Object
Hamra Abbas: Object Lessons
Hamra Abbas: Object Lessons
Bani Abidi: Videos, Photographs and Drawings
Bani Abidi: Videos, Photographs and Drawings
Björn Braun: Nest
Björn Braun: Nest
Alan Uglow
Alan Uglow
Allen Jones: Showtime
Allen Jones: Showtime
Ann Wolff: Live
Ann Wolff: Live
Bettina van Haaren: Paintings and Drawings
Bettina van Haaren: Paintings and Drawings
Heinz Mack: Light of the Zero Era
Heinz Mack: Light of the Zero Era
Martin Schnur: Bipolar
Martin Schnur: Bipolar
Robert Schad: Through the Line
Robert Schad: Through the Line
Jadranka Kosorcic: Blind Date
Jadranka Kosorcic: Blind Date
Christiaan Bastiaans: Club Mama Gemütlich
Christiaan Bastiaans: Club Mama Gemütlich
Jürgen Durner: Disappearance
Jürgen Durner: Disappearance
Michal Budny
Michal Budny
Antoni Clavé: A World of Art
Antoni Clavé: A World of Art
Sebastián: Sculptor
Sebastián: Sculptor

BESTSELLERS

Tim Burton
Tim Burton
Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn, 2nd Revised Edition
Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn, 2nd Revised Edition
Design Revolution: 100 Products That Empower People
Design Revolution: 100 Products That Empower People
Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume I
Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume I
Bauhaus 1919-1933
Bauhaus 1919-1933
Design Like You Give A Damn: Architectural Responses To Humanitarian Crises
Design Like You Give A Damn: Architectural Responses To Humanitarian Crises
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century
Andrew Moore: Detroit Disassembled
Andrew Moore: Detroit Disassembled
Lee Friedlander: America by Car
Lee Friedlander: America by Car
William Eggleston's Guide
William Eggleston's Guide
The Family Of Man
The Family Of Man
Kandinsky
Kandinsky
The Photographer's Eye
The Photographer's Eye
Sargent's Daughters
Sargent's Daughters
Mark Ryden: The Tree Show
Mark Ryden: The Tree Show
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting
Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting
Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art
Modern Women: Women Artists at The Museum of Modern Art
Painting People
Painting People
The Autobiography and Sex Life of Andy Warhol
The Autobiography and Sex Life of Andy Warhol

CURATED LIBRARIES

A Dada Library
A Dada Library
A Bauhaus Library
A Bauhaus Library
Nouveau Realisme
Nouveau Realisme
A Feminist Art Bookshelf
A Feminist Art Bookshelf
New Topographics Photography
New Topographics Photography
The Pictures Generation
The Pictures Generation
A Relational Aesthetics Bookshelf
A Relational Aesthetics Bookshelf
Pop Art Bookshelf
Pop Art Bookshelf
Beautiful Losers
Beautiful Losers
A Curator's Bookshelf
A Curator's Bookshelf
A Library of Women Artists
A Library of Women Artists
Contemporary Figurative Painting
Contemporary Figurative Painting
Contemporary Sculpture Library
Contemporary Sculpture Library
Modern and Contemporary Drawing
Modern and Contemporary Drawing
A Print Collector's Library
A Print Collector's Library
An Essential Photography Library
An Essential Photography Library
Photojournalism Library
Photojournalism Library
Polaroid Library
Polaroid Library
Performance Art Bookshelf
Performance Art Bookshelf
Film & The Performing Arts Bookshelf
Film & The Performing Arts Bookshelf
A Sound Art Bookshelf
A Sound Art Bookshelf
Collage & Photomontage Bookshelf
Collage & Photomontage Bookshelf
Essential Architecture Books
Essential Architecture Books
An Urban Studies Bookshelf
An Urban Studies Bookshelf
A Sustainable Design Bookshelf
A Sustainable Design Bookshelf
An Essential Design Bookshelf
An Essential Design Bookshelf
Key Writings on Photography
Key Writings on Photography


     
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