DelMonico Books

Someday is Now: The Art of Corita Kent

Published with Tang Museum at Skidmore College.

For Corita Kent, printmaking was a populist medium to communicate with the world around her. This activist spirit came most alive in the 1960s, when her posters and murals addressed subjects such as racism and poverty, US military brutalities in Vietnam and conflicts between radical and conservative positions in the Catholic Church. Her posters, murals and signature serigraphs combined messages of love and faith with images from popular culture and inventive use of type and color.
Originally published in 2013 and long out of print, the most comprehensive monograph on Kent's work finally returns in a brilliant showcase of prints and ephemera from all phases of her life, revealing her importance as an activist printmaker and . . . . Hbk, 13 x 10 in. / 256 pgs / 330 color / 41 b&w.

Edited with text by Ian Berry, Michael Duncan. Text by Cynthia Burlingham, Alexandra Carrera, Megan Hyde. Contributions by Julie Ault, Jason Simon, Juliette Bellocq, Aaron Rose, Karen Carson, Ciara Phillips, Lorraine Wild, Lari Pittman, Deborah Kass, Roy Dowell, Andrea Bowers, Pae White, Steve Hurd, Carrie Moyer, Sheila Pepe, Jim Isermann, Mike Kelley, Barbara Loste, Frances Snyder, Jim Hodges.

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Letterform Archive Books

Lettres Décoratives: A Century of French Sign Painters’ Alphabets

Beginning in the 19th century, sign painters adorned the streets and storefronts of French cities with eye-catching letters in styles ranging from the elegant to the eccentric. Large chromolithographic portfolios supplied these artisans with an array of dazzling model alphabets for use as inspiration, teaching aids and shows of technical skill. Lettres Décoratives offers a definitive collection of plates from these portfolios originally published from the mid-1800s through the 1930s.
More than 150 large-scale reproductions of stunning alphabets, most reproduced for the first time ever, provide a wealth of inspiration and insight into sign painting styles and techniques. An extensively researched historical essay by expert sign painter and author Morgane Côme tells the fascinating story of French sign painting and explores the . . . . Hbk, 9.5 x 13 in. / 216 pgs / 210 color / 10 b&w.

Text by Morgane Côme.

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Kaya Press

On the Origin of Species and Other Stories

Longlisted for National Book Award in Translated Literature, 2021

Straddling science fiction, fantasy and myth, the writings of award-winning author Bo-Young Kim have garnered a cult following in South Korea, where she is widely acknowledged as a pioneer and inspiration. On the Origin of Species makes available for the first time in English some of Kim’s most acclaimed stories, as well as an essay on science fiction. Her strikingly original, thought-provoking work teems with human and non-human beings, all of whom are striving to survive through evolution, whether biologically, technologically or socially. Kim’s literature of ideas offers some of the most rigorous and surprisingly poignant reflections on posthuman existence being written today.

Bo-Young Kim (born 1975) won the inaugural Korean Science & Technology . . . . Pbk, 5 x 7.5 in. / 224 pgs / 5 b&w.

By Bo-Young Kim. Edited with afterword by Sunyoung Park. Translated by Sora Kim-Russell, Joungmin Lee Comfort.

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Hatje Cantz

Lake Verea: Modern Barragán

In this intimate archive, the contemporary Mexican photographer duo Lake Verea record their pilgrimages, made over the course of nearly two decades, to the house of Mexican architect Luis Barragán (1902–88). As devotees of the architect, the duo began photographing the modernist mecca in 2006, endeavoring to approach as closely as possible to Barragán's spirit. The artists sat in his chairs, opened his closets, listened in silence and kissed in the house's enchanted garden. Modern Barragán compiles the fruits of their reverent labor. The photographs capture the house across a myriad of atmospheric conditions—in daylight, under the light of the full moon, by streetlight and against stormy skies. Flash photography lends the house a spectral quality; rubbed with aluminum sheets, the . . . . Pbk, 7.75 x 9.75 in. / 240 pgs / 240 color.

Text by Francisca Rivero-Lake, Carla Verea Hernández.

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DelMonico Books

Woody De Othello: coming forth by day

Published with Pérez Art Museum Miami.

Miami-born artist Woody De Othello (born 1991) presents coming forth by day, a new body of work exploring the primordial earth through ceramic and wood sculptures, tiled wall works and a large-scale bronze. The installation integrates grounding elements such as clay-painted walls, potted flora and concealed herbal scents to evoke a sensorial experience of place. Rooted in precolonial and diasporic African traditions, Othello draws on spiritual practices, nkisi power figures, Dogon ritual objects and Egyptian pyramids. His anthropomorphic forms and richly glazed finishes suggest a charged presence—objects that lean, rest or embrace as if shaped by memory and emotion. Known for stretching everyday objects into expressive, bodily forms, Othello blurs the line between figure and vessel. . . . . Hbk, 8.5 x 11.5 in. / 176 pgs / 150 color.

Edited with text by Jennifer Inacio. Foreword by Franklin Sirmans. Text by Jareh Das. Interview by Dionne Lee, Larry Ossei-Mensah.

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THE ICE PLANT

To Photograph Is to Learn How to Die

An Essay with Digressions

Drawing on the writings of Wallace Stevens, Marilynne Robinson and other poets, artists, musicians and thinkers, Brooklyn-based photographer Tim Carpenter (born 1968) argues passionately—in one main essay and a series of lively digressions—that photography is unique among the arts in its capacity for easing the fundamental ache of our mortality; for managing the breach that separates the self from all that is not the self; for enriching one’s sense of freedom and personhood; and for cultivating meaning in an otherwise meaningless reality.
Printed in three colors that reflect the various voices” of the book, the text design follows several channels of thought, inviting various approaches to reading. A unique and instructive contribution to the literature on photography, Carpenter’s research offers both a . . . . Pbk, 4.25 x 7 in. / 288 pgs.

By Tim Carpenter.

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Art Issues Press

Air Guitar

Essays on Art and Democracy

The 23 essays (or "love songs") that make up the now classic volume Air Guitar trawl a "vast, invisible underground empire" of pleasure, through record stores, honky-tonks, art galleries, jazz clubs, cocktail lounges, surf shops and hot-rod stores, as restlessly on the move as the America they depict. Air Guitar pioneered a kind of plain-talking in cultural criticism, willingly subjective and always candid and direct. A valuable reading tool for art lovers, neophytes, students and teachers alike, Hickey's book--now in its eighth printing--has galvanized a generation of art lovers, with new takes on Norman Rockwell, Robert Mapplethorpe, Stan Brakhage, Andy Warhol and Perry Mason. In June 2009, Newsweek voted Air Guitar one of the top 50 books that "open a window . . . . Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 208 pgs / 1 color / 15 b&w.

Text by Dave Hickey.

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Hauser & Wirth Publishers

Jack Whitten: Notes from the Woodshed

A Black man who grew up in the Jim Crow South, Jack Whitten arrived in New York in 1959 and began a wide-ranging exploration into the nature of painting and artmaking that would sustain more than five decades of work. Early in his career, in 1970, Whitten experienced his breakthrough moment: when he lifted a thick slab of paint off its support, he realized he could experiment within the physical, dimensional space of the paint itself. Approaching abstraction as scientist and mystic, Whitten probed the expressive and material possibilities of painting. He constantly changed styles, developed new methods and took up new subject matter, but it is precisely this spirit of curious inquiry that unites his relentlessly experimental career.
Notes from the . . . . Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 568 pgs / 73 color / 1 b&w.

Text by Jack Whitten. Edited by Katy Siegel. Afterword by Glenn Ligon, Matilde Guidelli-Guidi, Zoé Whitley.

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The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Vincent van Gogh: Starry Night

Van Gogh’s The Starry Night” is one of the touchstones of the modern period. This essay by art historian Richard Thomson looks in depth at the artist’s career—from his turn to art at a relatively late age to the difficult days at the end of his life—and the making of this luminous painting.

. . . . Hbk, 9 x 10.5 in. / 56 pgs / 31 color.

By Richard Thomson.

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The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Claude Monet: Water Lilies

In 1955 MoMA became the first US museum to acquire one of Monet’s paintings of his garden in Giverny. This volume by Ann Temkin, Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at MoMA, recounts the history of Monet’s Water Lilies paintings at the Museum and underscores their resonance with the art of the last half-century.

. . . . Hbk, 9 x 10.5 in. / 56 pgs / 35 color.

By Ann Temkin.

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DREAMER FTY

Myungah Hyon and Chang Yuchen: Book Book

Now in its fifth edition, Book Book is a portable, uncomplicated guide to learning how to bind books. Written by Myungah Hyon and illustrated by Chang Yuchen, the diagrammatic instruction book walks readers through the basics of books, from grain direction and imposition to folding and cutting paper. The types of bindings covered include perfect bound books, accordion books, pamphlet stitch, long stitch binding, flat-back casebound books and several stab bindings (Japanese four-hole, noble binding, tortoise-shell binding, hemp-leaf binding). Alongside the book, Book Book also includes a book-board hole-punching cradle. All the pieces are housed in a plastic drawstring bag.
Myungah Hyon is a Chicago-based artist and educator. She is an adjunct professor in the Department of Printmedia at the School of . . . . Pbk, 6.25 x 11 in. / 62 pgs / 62 b&w.

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Lars Müller Publishers

Mini Cigarillos

Working with Oscar Niemeyer for Two Months

In 1999, having just finished his studies, Swiss architect Martino Pedrozzi (born 1971) was able to realize his dream: to work at Oscar Niemeyer's studio in Copacabana. Over 20 years later, he presents his memories of the two months spent learning from the legendary Brazilian architect.

. . . . Pbk, 4.5 x 6.5 in. / 64 pgs / 28 b&w.

By Martino Pedrozzi.

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DelMonico Books

Sarah Sze

Published with Nasher Sculpture Center.

Since the late 1990s, Sarah Sze (born 1969) has been making mesmerizing installations that challenge the static nature of art and transform the spaces they inhabit. Appearing at once arbitrary and meticulously planned, in the midst of coming together and falling apart, her work contains layered references to the world's rapidly changing, image-driven digital present. Working across painting, sculpture, sound, print, drawing, video and architecture, Sze's work amplifies the myriad ephemeral details of contemporary life, making palpable poetry of the often-ineffable aspects of human experience. Three new installations, created for the spaces of the Nasher Sculpture Center, emphasize how experience is continually reshaped by the constant stream of visual information around us, and the role of memory . . . . Hbk, 9.5 x 12.5 in. / 164 pgs / 860 color.

Edited with foreword and interview by Jed Morse. Text by Rochelle Steiner.

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Forlaget Press

Playing with Fire

Edmund de Waal and Axel Salto

Renowned artist and writer Edmund de Waal (born 1964) meets acclaimed Danish ceramist Axel Salto (1889–1961), considered one of the greatest masters of 20th-century ceramic art. Salto was a poet and critic, artist and textile designer, whose work—much like de Waal's—plays on the memorial, the expressible and the intangible, and the ability or lack of language to define these feelings. Both men's multifaceted practices interact in harmony in this delicate, thoughtful book. Playing with Fire begins with excerpts from Salto's writings, including poems, design treatises and more, illustrated by archival copies of his publications from the 1930s and 1940s. In the latter part of the book, de Waal responds to Salto's life and legacy in a meditative essay, while we watch . . . . Pbk, 6 x 9.5 in. / 256 pgs / 146 color / 8 b&w.

Text by Axel Salto, Edmund de Waal, Sanne Flyvbjerg. Conversation with Edmund de Waal, Sanne Flyvbjerg. Afterword by Reidar Fuglestad, Pia Wirnfeldt.

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Lars Müller Publishers

A Collection of Latin American Modern Architecture

Volume 2

Brazilian photographer Leonardo Finotti continues his exploration of the genre with case studies from Buenos Aires, Santiago, Rio de Janeiro, Brasília, Quito, San José, Caracas, Guatemala City and Guadalajara.

. . . . Hbk, 11.75 x 9.5 in. / 160 pgs / 111 color / 2 b&w.

By Leonardo Finotti. Text by Alexia Tala, Marco Antonio Nakata.

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