JRP|Ringier

Peter Fischli & David Weiss: Sonne, Mond und Sterne

Sonne, Mond und Sterne is an 800-page artist's book consisting of just as many images, inspired by an international selection of magazine advertisements and compiled and organized into loose categories by the influential Swiss artistic collaborators Fischli & Weiss. Designed in collaboration with the rising Zurich design firm NORM, this volume reconfigures Fischli & Weiss' contribution to the Ringier AG Annual Report 2007. It is a revealing--and perhaps unnerving--look at the images and slogans that constitute our glutted contemporary media landscape. The viewer is plunged into a flood of imagery that, when taken out of its original commercial context, unfolds into unlikely open-ended narratives. Based in Zürich, Fischli & Weiss began collaborating in 1979 in a variety of media including photography, . . . . Paperback, 10 x 12.5 in. / 800 pgs / 800 color.

Edited by Beatrix Ruf.

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SKIRA

Cartier: Islamic Inspiration and Modern Design

Throughout modern history, Islamic art has influenced the production of jewelry and decorative objects in the Western world. The prestigious French luxury manufacturer Cartier is no exception to this rule. Spanning the early 20th century to the present day, Cartier: Islamic Inspiration and Modern Design charts the wellspring of inspiration found within Islam’s cultural output. It highlights artworks, drawings and manuscripts, linking their visual signifiers to those incorporated into Cartier creations. Sometimes easily identifiable, at other times recomposed to the point of rendering their source untraceable, these visual motifs of Islamic culture have been thoroughly integrated into the company’s repertoire. With a dazzling cover reminiscent of precious stones, the book pairs luminous photographs of the mandorlas, palmettes and sequins of Cartier . . . . Hbk, 8.5 x 10.75 in. / 248 pgs / 320 color.

Text by Evelyne Possémé, Judith Henon-Raynaud.

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Atelier Enfants

Pablo Dreams of Cats

Pablo dreams of painting cats. Will this painter ever be able to make the art he dreams of? Artist Timo Kuilder’s colorful board book, the inaugural title for Atelier Enfants, introduces us to an imaginative dog who is infatuated with cats, celebrating diversity and inviting all animals to conquer their misconceptions and embrace everyone.
Timo Kuilder is an Amsterdam-based illustrator and artist. His work has been published in Vogue and the New York Times. In 2019 he released an illustrated mobile game called Contrast.

. . . . Board book, 7.75 x 7.75 in. / 40 pgs / 23 color.

By Timo Kuilder.

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Hauser & Wirth Publishers

Glenn Ligon: Distinguishing Piss from Rain

Writings and Interviews

This long-awaited and essential volume collects writings and interviews by Glenn Ligon, whose canonical paintings, neons and installations have been delivering a cutting examination of race, history, sexuality and culture in America since his emergence in the late 1980s. No stranger to text, the artist has routinely utilized writings from James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Pryor, Gertrude Stein and others to construct work that centers Blackness within the historically white backdrop of the art world and culture writ large. Ligon began writing in the early 2000s, engaging deeply with the work of peers such as Julie Mehretu, Chris Ofili and Lorna Simpson, as well as with artists who came before him, among them Philip Guston, David Hammons and Andy Warhol. . . . . Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 400 pgs / 80 color / 20 b&w.

Edited by James Hoff. Introduction by Thomas (T.) Jean Lax. Text by Glenn Ligon.

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RM/MNBA, Santiago de Chile/MALBA/Pinacoteca de Sao Paulo

Cecilia Vicuña: Dreaming Water

A Retrospective of the Future (1964-…)

Beautifully designed, with a special reverence for her humanitarian heart, Dreaming Water is the most thorough monograph dedicated to the work of Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña to date. Vicuña coined the term Arte Precario” in the mid-1960s as a new category for her works composed of debris and structures that disappear in the landscape, and which also include her quipus (“knot” in Quechua), envisioned as poems in space. Dreaming Water brings together over 200 works—including paintings, drawings, screenprints, collages, textiles, videos, photographs, installations, poetry, artist books and performances—created throughout the artist’s remarkable career. It also features several stimulating texts—a lengthy epistolary piece by curator and editor Miguel A. López as well as new essays by anthropologist Elizabeth A. Povinelli, curator Catherine . . . . Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 364 pgs / 417 color.

Edited by Miguel A. López. Text by Cecilia Vicuña, Miguel A. López, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Catherine de Zegher, José de Nordenflycht, Marisol de la Cadena, Camila Marambio.

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Kaya Press

Song of Arirang

The Story of a Korean Revolutionary in China

First published in 1941 and long unavailable, Song of Arirang tells the true story of Korean revolutionary Kim San (Jang Jirak), who left colonized Korea as a teenager to fight against Japanese imperialism and fought alongside Mao's Red Army during the Chinese Revolution. This remarkably intimate memoir (as told to the American journalist Nym Wales, aka Helen Foster Snow) brings to vivid life some of the most dramatic events of the period.

With its first-hand account of early 20th-century guerilla insurgency and radical cross-pollination, this rare, behind-the-scenes look into what Wales describes as "the psyche of a dedicated and thoughtful revolutionary" gives voice to the brutality, betrayal and alliances that rocked East Asia at the beginning of the last century and continue . . . . Hbk, 5 x 7 in. / 512 pgs / 7 b&w.

By Nym Wales, Kim San. Edited with afterword by Dongyoun Hwang. Introduction by Arlif Dirlik. Text by George O. Totten III.

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SYNC SYNC Press

All City Writers

An Oral History in Times of Change

First published in 2009, All City Writers: An Oral History in Times of Change set a new standard for books on graffiti writing. With a revolutionary approach, the book reconstructed the story of the graffiti diaspora”: how writing spread from New York City across the globe, to mix with new cultures and produce greater variants in street art. Even today, the youth-led counterculture, which had seemingly peaked in the mid-’80s, is far from dead. On the contrary, old dogmas are overturned, new formal languages become popular and artists continue to experiment with techniques and inventions. Now in a fresh graphic guise, this expanded second edition of All City Writers features 50% more pages than the original, including 190 pages of new . . . . Pbk, 9.5 x 13 in. / 616 pgs / 1500 color / 100 b&w.

Edited by Andrea Caputo.

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Valiz

Wicked Arts Assignments

Practising Creativity in Contemporary Arts Education

The almost 100 arts assignments compiled in this instructive new volume are designed to foster cross-disciplinary creativity in the visual arts, performance, theater, music and design. Everyone who teaches the arts knows the value of the assignment that is seemingly simple but which nonetheless challenges participants, students and pupils to the maximum. In Wicked Arts Assignments the tasks are organized around the following themes: Go Public, Narrate, Remix, Explore Nature, Engage, Soul Search, Make Some Noise, Localize, Build & Move, Keep in Time and Hack.

The assignments can be carried out in various contexts, from primary schools to higher education, from home to online. They are intended to spark the imagination of both teachers and students, contributing to new, topical educational and . . . . Pbk, 6 x 8.75 in. / 304 pgs / 140 color / 30 b&w.

Edited with text by Emiel Heijnen, Melissa Bremmer. Interviews by Pavèl van Houten, Jorge Lucero, Nina Paim, Erik Schrooten, Stephanie Springgay.

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The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Dorothea Lange: Migrant Mother

MoMA One on One Series

The US was in the midst of the Depression when Dorothea Lange (1895–1965) began documenting its impact through depictions of unemployed men on the streets of San Francisco. Her success won the attention of Roosevelt's Resettlement Administration (later the Farm Security Administration), and in 1935 she started photographing the rural poor under its auspices. One day in Nipomo, California, Lange recalled, she "saw and approached [a] hungry and desperate mother, as if drawn by a magnet." The woman's name was Florence Owens Thompson, and the result of their encounter was seven exposures, including Migrant Mother. Curator Sarah Meister's essay provides a fresh context for this iconic work.

. . . . Pbk, 7.25 x 9 in. / 48 pgs / 35 color.

Text by Sarah Hermanson Meister.

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Steidl

Edward Burtynsky: Extraction/Abstraction

According to curator Marc Mayer, photographer Edward Burtynsky has three main facets to his identity: The Technician,” The Journalist,” The Artist.” Published on the occasion of Burtynsky’s largest and most comprehensive exhibition to date at the Saatchi Gallery in London, Extraction/Abstraction looks deeply at the key subjects and signature images spanning his 45-year career. The catalog and related exhibition present a dichotomy of Burtynsky’s image-making imperative: the lucid and informed documentation of large-scale extractive processes, and how, through his practice, Burtynsky transforms the landscape of industry into complete abstraction. Other essential themes in his oeuvre, such as agriculture, manufacturing, infrastructure and waste, also find their rightful place here.
With more than 130 color plates, the book also has a special section, the . . . . Hbk, 12 x 9.25 in. / 240 pgs / 165 color / 5 b&w.

Text by Edward Burtynsky, Marc Mayer, Simon Schama.

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Thaddaeus Ropac

Donald Judd

This catalog follows the first solo exhibition of Donald Judd’s work in South Korea for nearly 10 years. Judd (1928–94) had a personal connection to Korea, having been stationed in Seoul in 1947. The Korean concept of pungsu, similar to the Chinese Feng shui, was instrumental to his visualization of space. Curated by Flavin Judd, the artist’s son and artistic director of the Judd Foundation, the exhibition presented more than three decades of the artist’s work, and features his experiments in Minimalism across multiple mediums. These works are documented in this publication, which has been conceived in close collaboration with Flavin Judd. The design is a reflection of Donald Judd’s aesthetic values. Its unique binding and layout, which investigate the relationship . . . . Hbk, 10.25 x 10.25 in. / 272 pgs / 64 color.

Text by Michael Govan, Donald Judd, Flavin Judd, Jinsang Yoo.

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Royal Academy of Arts

Frank Bowling

Over the past decade, Frank Bowling (born 1934) has enjoyed belated attention and celebration, including a major Tate Britain retrospective in 2019. This comprehensive monograph, published in 2011, is now available in an updated and expanded edition. Born in British Guiana, Bowling arrived in England in his late teens, going on to study at the Royal College of Art alongside David Hockney and Derek Boshier. By the early 1960s he was recognized as an original force in the vibrant London art scene, with a style that brilliantly combined figurative, symbolic and abstract elements.

Dividing his time between New York and London since the late 1960s, Bowling has developed a unique and virtuosic abstract style that combines aspects of American painterly abstraction with . . . . Hbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 192 pgs / 124 color / 16 b&w.

Text by Mel Gooding.

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Kasmin Books

Lee Krasner: The Edge of Color

The early works of Abstract Expressionist pioneer Lee Krasner (1908–84), in her first solo exhibition in 1951, emphasized geometric relations. But during this same period, Krasner would often destroy or paint over her canvases to create new works. In a special and ambitious exhibition, Kasmin reunites the only two surviving paintings from her first solo show, displayed together for the first time in over 70 years. Replete with 18 color plates, related archival material and newly commissioned texts, The Edge of Color foregrounds a rarely examined chapter of Krasner’s five-decade career. Beyond the scope of an exhibition catalog, the book takes its reader behind Krasner’s paintings to provide never-before-published visual evidence regarding these early paintings. It positions these works, realized in . . . . Flexi, 9.5 x 11.25 in. / 88 pgs / 35 color / 12 b&w.

Text by Adam D. Weinberg, Jason Drill.

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Walther König, Köln

Resist!

The Art of Resistance

This volume illuminates 500 years of anticolonial resistance in the Global South, examining colonial violence and oppression and its ongoing repercussions, and paying homage to the people who resisted it in various ways and whose stories have hardly ever been told or heard to this day. The works of more than 40 contemporary artists from the Global South and the diaspora tell stories of rebellion and war, violence and trauma as well as survival and resilience. Their stories are complemented by historical documents and numerous objects from the RJM collection in Cologne.
Artists include: Florisse Adjanohoun, Christie Akumabor, Osaze Amadasun, Kader Attia, Roger Atikpo, Belkis Ayón, Marcel Djondo, Omar Victor Diop, Nwakuso Edozien, Robert Gabris, Jimoh Ganiyu, Anani Gbeteglo, Ayrson Heráclito, indieguerillas, . . . . Pbk, 9 x 12.5 in. / 200 pgs / 450 color / 50 b&w.

Edited by Ricardo Márquez García, Nanette Snoep, Vera Marušic, Lydia Hauth. Text by Nanette Snoep, Vera Marušic, Lydia Hauth.

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GRAY

Alex Katz: Collaborations with Poets

Ruminating on his long and extensive interactions with American poets, Alex Katz (born 1937) recently stated that the "poetry scene in New York turned out to be a big event" in the late 1950s and 1960s. This volume surveys his numerous collaborations with writers of the New York School and beyond. It reproduces covers and images from his book collaborations with Frank O’Hara, Michael Brownstein, John Ashbery, James Schuyler, Kenneth Koch, Bill Berkson, Kenward Elmslie, Vincent Katz, Alice Notley, Harry Mathews, Susie Timmons, Robert Creeley, Michael Lally, Carter Ratcliff and Ron Padgett. Also featured are his print collaborations with Kenneth Koch, William Dunas, Ted Berrigan, Kenward Elmslie, John Godfrey, Ted Greenwald, Michael Lally, Ann Lauterbach, Gerard Malanga, Alice Notley, John Perreault, . . . . Hbk, 8 x 11 in. / 210 pgs / 176 color.

Text by Debra Bricker Balken.

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Pace Publishing

Chuck Close: Red, Yellow, and Blue

The Last Paintings

Since the 1970s, Chuck Close (1940–2021) has been known for his innovative approach to conceptual portraiture, systematically transposing his subjects’ likenesses from photographs into gridded paintings. Published on the occasion of Pace Gallery’s first exhibition of the artist’s work since his death in 2021, Red, Yellow, and Blue spotlights Close’s final body of paintings, which employ a palette of only three colors. Layering transparent glazes of red, yellow and blue paint, Close created an effect of abstract likeness entirely different from that of his previous work. Alongside studio photography and images of Close’s mosaic works, this volume features a previously unpublished 2018 interview between Close and Cindy Sherman—originally commissioned by the Brooklyn Rail—as well as a new critical essay by Carter . . . . Pbk, 11.75 x 14.25 in. / 88 pgs / 63 color.

Introduction by Phong Bui. Text by Carter Ratcliff, Barbara Knappmeyer. Interview by Cindy Sherman.

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