fb pixcode

ARTIST MONOGRAPHS

PUBLISHER
Hunters Point Press

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.75 x 9.75 in. / 104 pgs / 70 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Active

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: FALL 2020 p. 128   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9780578634302 TRADE
List Price: $49.95 CAD $69.95 GBP £44.99

AVAILABILITY
In stock

TERRITORY
WORLD

THE FALL 2024 ARTBOOK | D.A.P. CATALOG

Artbook | D.A.P. Catalog Cover Link
Preview our FALL 2024 catalog, featuring more than 500 new books on art, photography, design, architecture, film, music and visual culture.
  

HUNTERS POINT PRESS

B. Wurtz: Pan Paintings

Edited by Barney Kulok. Text by Erica Cooke.

B. Wurtz: Pan Paintings

Gorgeous abstractions on roasting pans and takeout containers from a beloved figure of the New York art world

For nearly five decades New York-based artist B. Wurtz (born 1948) has transformed humble materials and discarded objects into humorous and wryly beautiful works of art. This full-color, Swiss-bound monograph focuses on the artist’s iconic series of “pan paintings” made on disposable aluminum roasting pans and to-go containers. In 1990, Wurtz discovered patterns stamped in the bottom of these mass-produced products and grasped their potential as “readymade abstract paintings.” In the three decades since, he has worked across a wide variety of pan shapes and sizes, applying dazzling combinations of color using the patterns as predetermined compositions. Pan Paintings provides the first overview of the various permutations in color and shape that comprise this long-term series. The book includes an essay by art historian and curator Erica Cooke which considers this critically acclaimed body of work and its deep entanglement with the craft-oriented ethos and amateur culture of postwar America.


Featured image is reproduced from 'B. Wurtz: Pan Paintings.'

PRAISE AND REVIEWS

Forbes: Media

Natasha Wolff

Edited by artist and publisher Barney Kulok with an essay by art historian and curator Erica Cooke, this monograph centers on the work of New York-based artist B. Wurtz. The artist is famous for transforming nondescript disposable aluminum roasting pans and to-go containers into works of art by painting on them.

B. Wurtz: Pan Paintings

in stock  $49.95


Free Shipping

UPS GROUND IN THE CONTINENTAL U.S.
FOR CONSUMER ONLINE ORDERS

FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/25/2020

Rethinking Thanksgiving with 'B. Wurtz: Pan Paintings'

Rethinking Thanksgiving with 'B. Wurtz: Pan Paintings'

Featured spreads are reproduced from B. Wurtz: Pan Paintings, a new release from Hunters Point Press collecting 70 out of more than 500 abstract paintings made by the artist on disposable aluminum roasting pans and to-go containers since 1990. Essayist Erica Cooke writes, "In salvaging these throwaway pans for works of art, Wurtz underscores the American tradition of making do with what we have by investing in quotidian items—of drawing out their life-affirming qualities. While his application of bold color vivifies the industrial templates—and, in turn, the anonymous designers behind them—there is equal vitality in the act of viewing these Pan Paintings in substantial groupings on the gallery wall or in the pages of this book. The variety of sizes and shapes in aluminum pans, from small circles to large ovals and perfect squares to subdivided rectangles, registers the breadth of contexts in which such containers might appear: single-serve TV dinner, backyard barbecue, Thanksgiving potluck, restaurant delivery, unfussy wedding buffet, leftover lunch at work, book-club spread, or church-basement support gathering. Whether providing food for one or many, in public or in private, these containers attest to daily nourishment; their capacity to also exist as ready-made abstractions reminds us that art partakes in such everyday sustenance, deepening our access to body and soul—and to each other." continue to blog


ART BOOKS & MUSEUM EXHIBITION CATALOGS: FORTHCOMING AND RECENT RELEASES

Sophie Calle: Overshare

SOPHIE CALLE: OVERSHARE

Walker Art Center

ISBN: 9781935963301
USD $50.00
| CAD $71 UK £ 45

Pub Date: 11/12/2024
Active | In stock


Kehinde Wiley: Colorful Realm

KEHINDE WILEY: COLORFUL REALM

Roberts Projects

ISBN: 9781957920979
USD $45.00
| CAD $62 UK £ 40

Pub Date: 11/19/2024
Active | In stock


Ordinary People: Photorealism and the Work of Art since 1968

ORDINARY PEOPLE: PHOTOREALISM AND THE WORK OF ART SINCE 1968

DelMonico Books/The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

ISBN: 9781636811000
USD $69.95
| CAD $99.95 UK £ 59.99

Pub Date: 11/5/2024
Active | In stock


David Hockney: Paper Trails

DAVID HOCKNEY: PAPER TRAILS

SKIRA

ISBN: 9788857252728
USD $65.00
| CAD $95

Pub Date: 10/1/2024
Active | In stock


Gran Fury: Art Is Not Enough

GRAN FURY: ART IS NOT ENOUGH

Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand/KMEC Books

ISBN: 9786557770504
USD $39.95
| CAD $56.95 UK £ 34.99

Pub Date: 3/4/2025
Forthcoming


Vital Signs: Artists and the Body

VITAL SIGNS: ARTISTS AND THE BODY

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

ISBN: 9781633451650
USD $50.00
| CAD $71

Pub Date: 11/12/2024
Active | In stock


Sci-Fi, Magick, Queer L.A.: Sexual Science and the Imagi-nation

SCI-FI, MAGICK, QUEER L.A.: SEXUAL SCIENCE AND THE IMAGI-NATION

Inventory Press/ONE Archive

ISBN: 9781941753699
USD $39.95
| CAD $56.95 UK £ 34.99

Pub Date: 10/22/2024
Active | In stock


Magic Art

MAGIC ART

Fulgur Press

ISBN: 9781399971188
USD $95.00
| CAD $140

Pub Date: 3/25/2025
Forthcoming


Matisse: Invitation to the Voyage

MATISSE: INVITATION TO THE VOYAGE

Hatje Cantz

ISBN: 9783775757805
USD $75.00
| CAD $115

Pub Date: 12/10/2024
Active | In stock


Helen Frankenthaler: Painting without Rules

HELEN FRANKENTHALER: PAINTING WITHOUT RULES

Marsilio Arte

ISBN: 9791254632192
USD $39.95
| CAD $56.95 UK £ 34.99

Pub Date: 12/24/2024
Active | In stock


Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930

HARMONY AND DISSONANCE: ORPHISM IN PARIS, 1910–1930

Guggenheim Museum Publications

ISBN: 9780892075645
USD $65.00
| CAD $95 UK £ 52

Pub Date: 12/10/2024
Active | In stock