I Want to Know What Love Is

Bob Richardson

Published by Damiani.
Edited by Terry Richardson.

Fashion photographer Bob Richardson (1928-2005) first began to publish his powerful, transgressive and emotionally charged black-and-white images in the high-fashion press of the 1960s, highlighting the new freedoms and attendant disillusions of the era in a distinctive, maverick style that matched his own edgy way of life. According to Cathy Horyn of The New York Times, ""Mr. Richardson's pictures were radical because, more than showing youthful fashion in a liberated way, they sought to expose the life dramas that were then consuming young people."" They were dark and conflicted, abject and suggestive, fleeting, broken, knowing and yearning. Always a cult photographer (and widely credited with influencing such peers as Peter Lindbergh, Steven Meisel and Bruce Weber), Richardson was also plagued by schizophrenia, and he lived hard-experimenting freely with sex and drugs throughout a life of extreme highs and lows. For example, he is perhaps most famous for the profoundly compelling portraits he made of his then-partner and muse Angelica Houston in the 1970s, while the 1980s found him homeless and living on the streets of Los Angeles. This highly-anticipated, beautifully-produced volume is the first ever dedicated to Richardson's oeuvre. Put together by his son, the equally renowned photographer Terry Richardson, it collects what remains of the original work, much of which was destroyed over the course of Richardson's unpredictable career.

PUBLISHER
Damiani

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.5 x 13 in. / 352 pgs./ 200 duotone.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 9/1/2007
Out of print

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Catalog: FALL 2007 p. 7   

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ISBN 9788889431931 TRADE
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Sophie Calle: Take Care of Yourself

Published by Dis Voir/Actes Sud.
Text by Sophie Calle.

One hundred and seven women respond to Sophie Calle’s "breakup” email through the lens of their respective professions

PUBLISHER
Dis Voir/Actes Sud

BOOK FORMAT
Hardback, 8.25 x 12 in. / 424 pgs / 108 color / DVD (PAL).

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 12/15/2007
Out of stock indefinitely

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Catalog: SPRING 2008 p. 61   

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ISBN 9782742768936 TRADE
List Price: $125.00 CAD $170.00 GBP £105.00

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Things I Love: The Many Collections Of William I. Koch

Published by MFA Publications.
Essays by George T.M. Shakelford, Elliot Bostwick Davis, R.L. Wilson, et al.

Perhaps best known as the man whose boat America3 won the 1992 America's Cup race, businessman William I. Koch has been a discerning speculator in his world-class collections of art, wine, and firearms. This lavishly illustrated catalogue includes major nineteenth-century artworks by Monet, Renoir, Degas, Cézanne and Bunker; images of the American West by Remington and Russell; marine paintings and maritime arts, including an outstanding selection of ship models; and great works of the twentieth century by Matisse, Picasso, Dalí, Modigliani, Maillol, Arp and others--as well as such rarities as a bottle of Chateau Lafitte once owned by Thomas Jefferson and the pistol that shot Jesse James. Featuring critical discussions of each aspect of the Koch Collection, and reproductions of nearly 200 objects, Things I Love showcases the substance and personality that run through this vast and eclectic collection, one that places Koch in the heady company of American cultural benefactors like Isabella Stewart Gardner, Peggy Guggenheim and John Pierpont Morgan.

PUBLISHER
MFA Publications

BOOK FORMAT
Clothbound, 11 x 11.5 in. / 160 pgs / 240 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 11/15/2005
Active

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Catalog: FALL 2005 p. 163   

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ISBN 9780878466955 TRADE
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Jacob Holdt's America: Faith, Hope and Love

Published by Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.
Text by Sandra Ruffin, Erik Steffensen, Geoff Dyer. Interview by Mette Markus.

Danish photographer Jacob Holdt is internationally revered for his vision of America, as portrayed in classic volumes like American Pictures and United States 1970-1975. It is a vision which has inspired many, both in its extremity (the director Lars von Trier is reputedly a fan) and in its tenacity. Holdt arrived in the U.S. in the early 70s with almost no money, and hitchhiked all over the U.S., earning a living by selling blood, and proceeded to build an amazing portrait of the margins of America over the course of his 100,000-mile journey. This monograph continues Holdt's fascination with American society, with a portfolio of photographs from the 70s to the present. Holdt's photographs document the social realities of the people he travels with, spanning the demographic from poor families to millionaires, junkies and even members of the Ku Klux Klan.

PUBLISHER
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 9.75 x 10.75 in. / 152 pgs / illustrated throughout.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 2/28/2010
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Catalog: FALL 2009 p. 67   

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ISBN 9788791607677 TRADE
List Price: $35.00 CAD $47.50 GBP £30.00

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Jeff Koons: Celebration

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Text by Anette Hüsch, Peter-Klaus Schuster.

Jeff Koons' spectacular October 2008 exhibition at Berlin's Neue Nationalgalerie presented the infamous series of sculptures and paintings known collectively as Celebration, a project whose fabrication has involved so much labor (both manual and computer-aided) that Koons seemed to almost vanish from the art world radar in the 1990s, when he first undertook the series. At present, Celebration's best-known work may be the 10-foot-tall, stainless-steel "Balloon Dog," typical of the outsize scale and remarkably clean sheen of Koons' sculptures, in which the sensory joys of childhood object relations are revisited and espoused. Such works wear their playroom origins on their sleeves, but their gargantuan proportions, with their attendant sense of menace, establish them firmly in the adult world as infant objects retrieved and rebuilt with adult strength. "The work tries to gain support from the confidence of the gesture," Koons says, "to be kind of in the moment, and to have confidence within the self." Inasmuch as such observations could be true of much art, Koons is unusually open about what drives his work, all the while preserving its self-sufficiency as art. This monograph documents these mammoth installations in the Neue Nationalgalerie's Upper Hall, an exhibition that without doubt constitutes a milestone in the artist's career.

PUBLISHER
Hatje Cantz

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.75 x 11.75 in. / 120 pgs / 57 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 4/1/2009
Out of print

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Catalog: SPRING 2009 p. 22   

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ISBN 9783775723114 TRADE
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Otto Dix: Hommage à Martha

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Essay by Karin Schick.

Between 1921 and 1933, while painter Otto Dix was in his 30s and early 40s--in the years following the Great War, in which he had fought for Germany at the Somme, and which had driven him to make some of the most controversial, violent art of his generation--Dix put much of his artistic energy into portraits of his lover and later wife, Martha. The paintings, watercolors, drawings and humorous sketches brought together here show Martha Dix advancing through roles as a sophisticated, emancipated woman; as lover, muse, and intellectual companion; and then as mother and heart of the family. The painter's widely varying attitudes toward his most frequent model, which range from admiration and intimacy to increasing distance, transpose themselves into a myriad of styles. The titles of the works, which range from emotionally charged imagery to matter-of-fact description, underscore this shift. Martha Dix's portraits, organized here by the Otto Dix Foundation she helped to found, document the urbanity, shifting gender roles, fashions, arts and artistic and social freedoms that bloomed in the 1920s, as well as Otto Dix's shifting perspectives and techniques. Comes with a sexy garter-esque ribbon page-marker.

PUBLISHER
Hatje Cantz

BOOK FORMAT
Clothbound, 7.5 x 10 in. / 128 pgs / 68 color / 23 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 2/1/2006
Out of print

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Catalog: SPRING 2006 p. 94   

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ISBN 9783775716208 TRADE
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John Currin: The Dogwood Thieves

Published by A.S.A.P..
Text by John Currin.

In 2004, John Currin (born 1962) began a large-scale painting that would eventually be titled “The Dogwood Thieves.” What ensued was six years of humorous missteps, uncomfortable second-guesses and painterly faux pas, all visually presented here in 39 previously unreproduced and no longer extant iterations of a single painting. John Currin: The Dogwood Thieves is an entertaining portrait of the sometimes agonizing artistic process, and follows the artist’s initial inspiration from the photograph of a magazine advertisement to what would become dozens of paintings atop paintings. Currin shows how he went about changing night skies into ocean horizons, how a Russian bra evolved upon a pair of bare breasts and why his wife’s face underwent a lengthy transformation and traded features with a 1980s newscaster and then a 1970s Danish porn star. It also displays the delicate balancing act Currin maintains more generally in his work as he maneuvers between a broad range of cultural references, from women’s magazine photography and photorealist kitsch to Renaissance oil painting drapery and personal narrative. Combining visual documentation with a lecture Currin gave at the Acadia Summer Arts Program in 2010, this book is, as the artist puts it, “partly just to show kind of what I go through to make a painting,” but “also to dispel any notion that it’s a good thing to work on a painting for six years.”

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BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 6.75 x 9 in. / 88 pgs / 40 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 6/30/2012
Out of stock indefinitely

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Catalog: SPRING 2012 p. 76   

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ISBN 9780979764257 TRADE
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Franco Mondini-Ruiz: High Pink

Tex-Mex Fairy Tales

Published by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers.
Introduction by Sandra Cisneros.

Stepping into Franco Mondini-Ruiz's world, one would have to be very, very careful not to trip over his porcelain figurine collection. The Tejano artist creates intricate vignettes composed of a vast array of found objects and knick-knacks such as costume jewelry, plastic cakes and treats, used ice-cream cups, miniature ceramic figurines, cigarette butts and much, much more. Some of his works toy with language to make witty one-liners about cultural biases. For example, in his piece titled “Cheeses of Nazareth”--among the most playful and pointed of his assemblages--a wedge of cheese propped up by a toothpick-sized stake provides shelter for a tiny plastic Nativity scene that sits upon a larger Parmesan round. One of many verbal-visual puns, “Cheeses of Nazareth” creates a hilarious confrontation of ritual and subversion through its gesture toward traditional altarpieces found in Mexican folk art. Viewers might peer closely at his installations as if to ask: “Why is that nineteenth-century woman with the broken arm bathing in a martini glass?,” or, “Are those pancakes?,” or maybe just to indulge in the pieces' playfulness. Mondini-Ruiz's art is truly a clever meeting of high and low, but the real insight of his work is the ability to expose sober meaning through laughter.
High Pink further illustrates the meanings behind and within his visual works with 56 often-hilarious stories by the artist that illuminate the cultural divides and bonds that he faced and created during his Tex-Mex childhood. Each story is accompanied by an image of one of Mondini-Ruiz's installations, and this pairing, along with sparkling original text from author Sandra Cisneros, creates an entertaining book with broad cultural, artistic and linguistic appeal.

PUBLISHER
D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 7 x 7 in. / 126 pgs / 58 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 7/15/2005
Out of print

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Catalog: SPRING 2005 p. 16   

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ISBN 9781933045122 TRADE
List Price: $20.00 CAD $25.00

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