ARTBOOK BLOGEventsStore NewsMuseum Stores of the MonthNew Title ReleasesStaff PicksImage GalleryBooks in the MediaExcerpts & EssaysArtbook InterviewsEx LibrisAt First SightThe Artbook 2023 Gift GuidesArtbook Featured Image ArchiveArtbook D.A.P. Events ArchiveDATE 8/10/2024 Martha’s Vineyard Museum presents Lyle Ashton Harris and Lauren Haynes on 'Our first and last love'DATE 8/4/2024 Join Artbook | D.A.P. at Shoppe Object New York 2024DATE 7/27/2024 Humanity searching for itself in 'Cecilia Vicuña: Dreaming Water'DATE 7/24/2024 'Cape Cod Modern' is a Summertime Staff Pick!DATE 7/22/2024 Explore the influence of Islamic art and design on Cartier luxury objectsDATE 7/18/2024 Join us at the San Francisco Art Book Fair, 2024!DATE 7/18/2024 History and healing in Calida Rawles' 'Away with the Tides'DATE 7/16/2024 Join us at the Atlanta Gift & Home Summer Market 2024DATE 7/15/2024 In 'Gordon Parks: Born Black,' a personal report on a decade of Black revoltDATE 7/14/2024 Familiar Trees presents a marathon reading of Bernadette Mayer's 'Memory'DATE 7/11/2024 Early 20th-century Japanese graphic design shines in 'Songs for Modern Japan'DATE 7/8/2024 For 1970s beach vibe, you can’t do better than Joel Sternfeld’s ‘Nags Head’DATE 7/5/2024 Celebrate summer with Tony Caramanico’s Montauk Surf Journals | IMAGE GALLERY DATE 7/27/2024 Humanity searching for itself in 'Cecilia Vicuña: Dreaming Water'“I want to begin talking about the creation of a transnational feeling in the nineteen-sixties. Now that may sound like an ideal, but in the sixties if you were a young artist like I was, a teenager, you were part of a shared feeling, it was a body sensation where you felt cosmically united with the heavens, with the earth, with everything that was happening in the world. The word ‘global’ didn’t exist, but that was how we existed—and this is because the military coup [in Chile] had not yet occurred. We didn’t have the sense that ‘this is Argentina, this is Chile, this is the border, that is Europe’; we had the feeling that there was just humanity searching for itself.” Featured spreads and this quote, from a 2020 dialogue between Valerie Fraser and Cecilia Vicuña, are from the beautifully produced, 364-page new release, Cecilia Vicuña: Dreaming Water: A Retrospective of the Future (1964–…)—the most thorough monograph on the Chilean artist, poet and ecofeminist to date. DATE 7/24/2024 'Cape Cod Modern' is a Summertime Staff Pick!Pictured here is the side view of Marcel Breuer's Stillman House (1953) in its original location, on the top of a dune on Wellfleet's Griffin Island. It is reproduced from Metropolis Books' perennial summer bestseller, Cape Cod Modern: Mid-Century Architecture and Community on the Outer Cape. Authors Peter McMahon and Christine Cipriani write, "Spanning hollows scooped out by glaciers, or dunes confronted by surf, Breuer's Cape Cod houses hover on their stilts like birds in shallow water, knowing they will have to retreat when the tide comes in. The Stillman House has, in fact, been moved twice due to storm-driven erosion, losing in the process its wood stilts and diagonal struts, its entry ramp, bridge, and porch, and its intended relationship with the landscape." DATE 7/22/2024 Explore the influence of Islamic art and design on Cartier luxury objectsThis 1924 Cartier vanity case—made of gold, platinum, mother-of-pearl, turquoise, emeralds, pearls, diamonds and enamel—is reproduced from sumptuous new release Cartier: Islamic Inspiration and Modern Design. According to essayist Judith Henon-Raynaud, the inspiration for this deluxe object—meant to store cosmetics or toiletries—has its design roots in an Islamic pattern on a nineteenth-century Iranian wooden and ivory casket pictured in the archives of the legendary Art Deco jewelry designer Charles Jacqueau, who traveled with Jacques Cartier to Persia, and was deeply influenced. Lovers of jewelry and decorative objects, Middle Eastern art and architecture and Islamic design history will be fascinated by the obvious pollination that this volume, published to accompany a recent exhibition at the Louvre Abu Dhabi, makes admiringly clear. |
