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The Sick Rose

Disease and the Art of Medical Illustration

Published by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers.
By Richard Barnett.

Bizarre and captivating images, including close-up details and revealing cross-sections, make all too clear the fascinations of both doctors and artists of the time

PUBLISHER
D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 256 pgs / 250 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 5/31/2014
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Catalog: SPRING 2014 p. 181   

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ISBN 9781938922404 TRADE
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The Anatomical Venus

Wax, God, Death & the Ecstatic

Published by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers.
By Joanna Ebenstein.

"Ebenstein, founder of the Morbid Anatomy Museum in Brooklyn, finds her peculiar subject at the intersection of science and art in 18th-century Florence." –Publishers Weekly

PUBLISHER
D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 224 pgs / 250 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 5/24/2016
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Catalog: SPRING 2016 p. 45   

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ISBN 9781938922916 TRADE
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Frankenstein: The First Two Hundred Years

Published by Reel Art Press.
By Christopher Frayling.

Frankenstein lives! 200 years of the book, the movies and the monster in pop culture and beyond

On New Year’s Day 1818, Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein was first published in an anonymous three-volume edition of 500 copies. Some thought the book was too radical in its implications; a few found the central theme intriguing; no-one predicted its success.

Since then, there have been many, many adaptations—120 films alone, at the last count—on screen, stage, in novels, comics and graphic novels, in advertisements and even on cereal packets. From a Regency nightmare, Frankenstein became a cuddly childhood companion—thoroughly munstered, so to speak. The story has been interpreted as a feminist allegory of birthing, an ecological reading of mother earth, an attack on masculinist science, the origin of science fiction, an example of “female gothic,” a reaction to the rise of the industrial proletariat and much else besides. Frankenstein lives! The F word has been applied, since the 1950s, to test-tube babies, heart transplants, prosthetics, robotics, cosmetic surgery, genetic engineering, genetically modified crops and numerous other public anxieties arising from scientific research. Today, Frankenstein has taken over from Adam and Eve as the creation myth for the age of genetic engineering.

This book, celebrating the 200th birthday of Frankenstein, traces the journey of Shelley’s Frankenstein from limited-edition literature into the bloodstream of contemporary culture. With text by renowned Gothic scholar Sir Christopher Frayling, it includes new research on the novel’s origins; a facsimile reprint of the earliest-known manuscript version of the creation scene; visual material on adaptations for the stage, in magazines, on playbills, in prints and in book publications of the 19th century; visual essays on many of the film versions and their inspirations in the history of art; and Frankenstein in popular culture—on posters, advertisements, packaging, in comics and graphic novels.

PUBLISHER
Reel Art Press

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9 x 11 in. / 208 pgs / 125 color / 75 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 11/21/2017
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Catalog: FALL 2017 p. 9   

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ISBN 9781909526464 TRADE
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California Infernal: Anton LaVey & Jayne Mansfield

As Portrayed by Walter Fischer

Published by Trapart Books.
Foreword by Carl Abrahamsson, Alf Wahlgren. Introduction by Kenneth Anger.

Satanism and the silver screen: the bizarre friendship of Anton LaVey and Jayne Mansfield

PUBLISHER
Trapart Books

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8.25 x 9.75 in. / 152 pgs / 12 color / 130 bw.

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Pub Date 9/26/2017
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ISBN 9789198324310 TRADE
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Fischerspooner: New Truth

Published by Damiani.
Edited with introduction by Meredith Mowder. Text by Klaus Biesenbach, Gavin Brown, Jeffrey Deitch, Warren Fischer, Casey Spooner.

A chronicle of Fischerspooner’s quest to merge art, music and performance

PUBLISHER
Damiani

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.75 x 12 in. / 336 pgs / illustrated throughout.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 10/31/2014
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Catalog: FALL 2014 p. 57   

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ISBN 9788862083287 TRADE
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Cindy Sherman: Untitled Horrors

Published by Hatje Cantz.

An in-depth look at the disturbing and abject sides of the American photo artist’s oeuvre

PUBLISHER
Hatje Cantz

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 8.5 x 11 in. / 220 pgs / 150 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 9/30/2013
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Catalog: FALL 2013 p. 93   

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ISBN 9783775734875 TRADE
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Mari Sunna: Ichduersiees

Published by Kerber.
Edited by Silke Opitz, Holger Saupe.

The young Finnish figurative painter Mari Sunna tends to depict grotesque or fragile figures--strange, fearful, governed by the unconscious, but other times joyful or exuberant. This volume accompanies her first solo exhibition, in Germany.

PUBLISHER
Kerber

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8 x 10 in. / 88 pgs / 38 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 3/1/2009
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Catalog: SPRING 2009 p. 165   

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Goya: Order & Disorder

Published by MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Text by Stephanie Loeb Stepanek, Frederick Ilchman, Janis A. Tomlinson, Clifford S. Ackley, Jane E. Braun, Manuela B. Mena Marqués, Gudrun Maurer, Elisabetta Polidori, Sue W. Reed, Benjamin Weiss, Juliet Wilson-Bareau.

Francisco Goya has been widely celebrated as the most important Spanish artist of the late-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the last of the old masters and the first of the moderns, and an astute observer of the human condition in all its complexity. The many-layered and shifting meanings of his work have made him one of the most studied artists in the world. Few, however, have made the ambitious attempt to explore his work as a painter, printmaker and draftsman across media and the timeline of his life. This book does just that, presenting a comprehensive and integrated view of Goya's most important paintings, prints, and drawings through the themes and imagery that continually challenged or preoccupied the artist. They reveal how he strove relentlessly to understand and describe human behavior and emotional states, even at their most orderly or disorderly extremes, in elegant and incisive portraits, dramatic and monumental history paintings, and series of prints and drawings of a satirical, disturbing and surreal nature. Derived from the research for the largest Goya art exhibition in North America in a quarter-century, this book takes a fresh look at one of the greatest artists in history by examining the fertile territory between the two poles that defined the range of his boundlessly creative personality.

Francisco José Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828) was born in Fuendetodos, Aragón, in the northeast of Spain. Goya was court painter to the Spanish Crown, and famously documented the Peninsular War (1807–1814) between France and Spain in his harrowing Disasters of War series. An important bridge to the modernist era, Goya's oeuvre provided a crucial precedent for artists such as Manet, Picasso and Francis Bacon.

PUBLISHER
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 9.25 x 11 in. / 400 pgs / 260 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 10/31/2014
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ISBN 9780878468089 TRADE
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Axel Hoedt: Once a Year

Published by Steidl.
Contributions by Heike Geissler.

It is carnival time in south-western Germany, and on the streets of Endingen and Sachsenheim, Kissleg and Singen, Wilfingen and Triberg, the elaborate costumes of the Swabian-Alemannic tradition are broken out for the parades. In this volume, eschewing the clichés and conventions of carnival iconography, the fashion and portrait photographer Axel Hoedt depicts the carnival revelers and their costumes posed in front of bright backgrounds, in a forest or in front of buildings, mingling classic studio shots, Polaroid snapshots and still life images.

PUBLISHER
Steidl

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 7.25 x 9 in. / 103 pgs / illustrated throughout.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 4/15/2013
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Catalog: FALL 2014

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Imponderable: The Archives of Tony Oursler

Published by JRP|Ringier.
Edited with text by Tom Eccles, Maja Hoffmann, Beatrix Ruf. Text by Jordan Bear, Karen Beckman, Branden Joseph, Fred Nadis, Stephanie O'Rourke, Jim Steinmeyer, Chris Turner, et al.

Now in an English-only edition published for two parallel exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art and Bard College, Imponderable features highlights from the incredible magic and occult collection of New York–based artist Tony Oursler (born 1957). Since the late 1990s, Oursler has been amassing a vast personal archive of objects and ephemera relating to magic, the paranormal, film, television, phantasmagoria, pseudoscience and technology. For Oursler, the archive functions as an open visual resource, historical inquiry and—most intriguingly—a family history. One of the collection’s many digressions records the friendship between the artist’s grandfather Charles Fulton Oursler (a famous early 20th-century author and publisher) and magician and escapologist Harry Houdini, and a historic interaction with Arthur Conan Doyle, who, beyond his Sherlock Holmes series, was an important advocate for spiritualism and the paranormal.

This beautifully produced publication features up to 1,500 objects from Oursler’s collection, including photographs, prints, historic manuscripts, rare books, letters and objects. Additional topics include stage magic, thought photography, demonology, cryptozoology, optics, mesmerism, automatic writing, hypnotism, fairies, cults, the occult, color theory and UFOs. Thirteen essays by renowned art historians, science specialists and international scholars provide a deep insight into this unique material.

PUBLISHER
JRP|Ringier

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 8 x 10 in. / 520 pgs / 552 color / 110 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 7/26/2016
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Catalog: SPRING 2017 p. 68   

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