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DATE 3/2/2025

Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore presents Spencer Gerhardt launching 'Ticking Stripe'

DATE 3/2/2025

Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore presents Spencer Gerhardt launching 'Ticking Stripe'

DATE 3/2/2025

Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore presents Spencer Gerhardt launching 'Ticking Stripe'

DATE 2/15/2025

Palm Springs Modernism Week presents Christopher Rawlins on 'Fire Island Modernist,' new edition

DATE 2/15/2025

Artbook at MoMA PS1 Bookstore presents Charles Gaines and Huey Copeland launching 'The Theater of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism'

DATE 2/13/2025

Rizzoli Bookstore presents John Dolan and Peter Hermann on 'The Perfect Imperfect'

DATE 2/12/2025

Join Artbook | D.A.P. at the 2025 CAA National Conference

DATE 2/11/2025

Skira presents Bonnie Clearwater, David Mirvish and Eric N. Mack launching 'Glory of the World: Color Field Painting'

DATE 2/9/2025

'Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal' opens at the Hammer!

DATE 2/7/2025

CARA presents Simone Fattal launching her new monograph in conversation with Negar Azimi

DATE 2/5/2025

A book like no other: 'Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery'

DATE 2/2/2025

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DATE 2/1/2025

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Featured spreads are from
CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/18/2020

In 'JB Blunk,' art, life and spirituality fully merge

Featured spreads are reproduced from the gorgeous, foil-stamped first monograph on California sculptor and ceramicist JB Blunk, whose sublime, organic and all-encompassing work is only now getting the recognition it has long deserved. "Artists can ignore borders, ask impolite questions, and reveal unknown connections," Lucy Lippard writes. "As in nature itself, acknowledgement of a vast and invisible tangle of origins is crucial. JB Blunk understood this. His ceramics studies, his training in Japan, his friendships with sculptor Isamu Noguchi and Surrealist Gordon Onslow Ford and, above all, his profound love of place, led him out of the gates from the limited ‘world’ of art to a wide-open field influenced by cultures in which there is no ‘art’ in the contemporary sense, where art and life and spirituality are fully merged."

JB Blunk

JB Blunk

Blunk Books/Dent–de–Leone
Hbk, 8.25 x 10.25 in. / 226 pgs / 71 color / 73 b&w.





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