ARTBOOK BLOG

RECENT POSTS

DATE 9/26/2023

Turn-of-the-century typographic revolution in 'Die Fläche'

DATE 9/23/2023

Artbook @ MoMA PS1 presents Theo Deutinger and Sharon Helgason Gallagher launching 'Joy and Fear: An Illustrated Report on Modernity'

DATE 9/22/2023

Mindblowing info-design in Theo Deutinger's 'Joy and Fear: An Illustrated Report on Modernity'

DATE 9/21/2023

Hot book alert! ‘Chloe Sherman: Renegades’ is NEW from Hatje Cantz

DATE 9/20/2023

Groundbreaking and expansive: 'Simone Leigh'

DATE 9/18/2023

'Rob Wynne: Obstacle Illusion' is NEW from Gregory R. Miller & Co.

DATE 9/15/2023

'Ed Ruscha / Now Then' is a book for life

DATE 9/14/2023

Rizzoli Bookstore presents Cynthia Carlson and Thomas Mellins launching 'Cynthia Carlson: Sixty Years'

DATE 9/14/2023

Highly anticipated 'Cynthia Carlson: Sixty Years' is NEW from D.A.P. Publishing

DATE 9/11/2023

Rizzoli Bookstore presents Tina Barney and James Welling on 'The Beginning'

DATE 9/11/2023

'Publish Your Photography Book' third edition… at last!

DATE 9/7/2023

Photo book joy in 'Corita Kent: Ordinary Things Will Be Signs for Us'

DATE 9/6/2023

Spiritualist and art historical revelations in ‘Anna Cassel: The Saga of the Rose’


IMAGE GALLERY

"Red Signs of Transformation" (2015) is reproduced from
CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 2/23/2020

Betye Saar featured today on CBS Sunday Morning

Visit cbsnews.com to view correspondent Serena Altschul's profile of the pioneering 93-year-old artist. Featured image, "Red Signs of Transformation" (2015) is reproduced from Betye Saar: Still Tickin', published by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. "My creative process is a sort of ritual," Saar says to curator Sara Cochran. "And that ritual is first in the hunting and gathering because that's great fun to go to the flea markets and thrift stores, and just finding the materials, and finding out what objects and images speak to me, like they almost beckon and say, 'Take me home. I'll be a piece of art for you.' And so the hunting and gathering is the beginning. The next process is the physical manipulation of those materials by combining things and sorting things, and deciding which objects will strengthen an idea that I'm really not quite sure of until I get it all together. And the next part of the process would be to glue it, to paint it, to saw parts off, to glue pieces on. And then, the final part of the ritual, as I see it, is the release of it. I've done it, and there it is, and send it out to the world."

Betye Saar: Still Tickin'

Betye Saar: Still Tickin'

SCOTTSDALE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
Hbk, 6.5 x 9 in. / 272 pgs / 172 color / 5 b&w.





Heads up!

DATE 8/13/2023

Heads up!

Salt of the Earth

DATE 4/22/2023

Salt of the Earth

Welcome, Spring!

DATE 3/20/2023

Welcome, Spring!

Pure Couture

DATE 2/9/2023

Pure Couture

Into the meat grinder

DATE 1/21/2023

Into the meat grinder

Why Omaha?

DATE 1/10/2023

Why Omaha?