The first monograph on Sao Paulo–based painter Marina Perez Simao (born 1981), this stunning clothbound volume guides the reader through her riotously colorful visual journeys as she blends abstraction and figuration in depictions of abstract landscapes, visions and memories. Here, alongside a wealth of color plates, writers Diana Campbell and Osman Can Yerebakan highlight the various references in Simao’s painting, drawn from fields such as journalism, literature and philosophy, which help build the narratives that serve as the basis for her art.
Simao’s critically acclaimed recent exhibition at Pace Gallery in New York featured a series of paintings created during the . . . .go to book page >>

This substantial volume publishes for the first time a series of interviews conducted with seminal East Coast artists and their associates, including Kenneth Noland, Jim Dine, Roy Lichtenstein, Marcella Brenner, Helen Jacobson, Clement Greenberg, Helen Frankenthaler, Larry Poons, Frank Stella, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Claes Oldenburg, Barnett Newman, Leo Castelli, Andy Warhol, Gerard Malanga and Edie Sedgwick. These were produced in late 1965 and early 1966 for the documentary television series USA: Artists by famed curator Alan Solomon, who was a regular fixture in the New York art world of the time. This was a logical extension of Solomon's recent . . . .go to book page >>

The first monograph on Czech painter Vojt?ch Kova?ík (born 1993) documents the artist’s monumental and surreal compositions that deploy figures from Greek and Roman mythology. His work is examined in depth in texts by João Laia and Jeppe Ugelvig.