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Contemporary Movements & Monographs
Adam Pendleton: Who Is Queen? Edited by Adam Pendleton with Alec Mapes-Frances. Introduction by Stuart Comer. Text by Adrienne Edwards, Mario Gooden, Danielle A. Jackson, Adam Pendleton, Lynne Tillman.

Adam Pendleton draws on visual culture and historical archives to explore the ways in which context influences meaning. Referencing a broad range of artistic and cultural currents—including Dada, Minimalism and Black Power—Pendleton reconfigures words, forms >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633451100
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Hbk, 8 x 10.25 in. / 272 pgs / 235 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/12/2021 In stock

Alice Mackler Text by Matthew Higgs, Kelly Taxter. Interview by Joanne Greenbaum.

Born in 1931, and living in New York, Alice Mackler today is still pushing forward not only her own art but also the boundaries of contemporary art across sculpture, painting, drawing and collage. While long >>more
Gregory R. Miller & Co./New York Consolidated
ISBN 9781941366332
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Hbk, 8 x 11 in. / 184 pgs / 134 color.
Pub Date: 02/23/2021 In stock

Allan McCollum: Works since 1969 Edited with text by Alex Gartenfeld, Stephanie Seidel. Text by Alex Kitnick, Jennifer Jane Marshall.

Since the late 1960s, the American artist Allan McCollum (born 1944) has created works that examine the art object’s relationship to uniqueness, context and value, as well as to the museum that collects, values and >>more
DelMonico Books/Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami
ISBN 9781942884934
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Hbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 208 pgs / 246 color / 35 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/10/2021 In stock

Arlene Shechet: Skirts Text by Rachel Silveri. Interview by Deborah Solomon, Michaela Mohrmann.

This volume brings together more than a dozen of New York–based artist Arlene Shechet’s (born 1951) most recent sculptures, colorful engrossing assemblages in wood, clay and bronze, include large-scale works and a monumental outdoor piece. >>more
Pace Publishing
ISBN 9781948701280
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Clth, 7.5 x 12 in. / 250 pgs / 50 color.
Pub Date: 05/25/2021 In stock

Arthur Jafa: MAGNUMB Edited by Lærke Rydal Jørgensen, Mathias Ussing Seeberg. Foreword by Poul Erik Tøjner. Introduction by Mathias Ussing Seeberg. Text by Nahum Chandler, Jared Sexton, NourbeSe Philip. Conversations with Arthur Jafa, Jacob Holdt, Faith Icecold.

Though he has worked in film and music for decades, American video artist Arthur Jafa only garnered acclaim in the art world in 2016 for his video work Love is the Message, the Message is >>more
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
ISBN 9788793659353
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Pbk, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 204 pgs / 100 color / 60 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/01/2021 Out of stock

Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You Edited with text by Peter Eleey, Robyn Farrell, Michael Govan, Rebecca Morse, James Rondeau. Foreword by Michael Govan, Glenn D. Lowry, James Rondeau. Essay by Zoé Whitley.

Since the mid-1970s, Barbara Kruger (born 1945) has been interrogating the hierarchies of power and control in works that often combine visual and written language. In her singular graphic style, Kruger probes aspects of identity, >>more
DelMonico Books/Los Angeles County Museum of Art
ISBN 9781942884774
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Hbk, 9 x 10.25 in. / 208 pgs / 316 color / 29 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/15/2021 In stock

Bruce Nauman: Contrapposto Studies Edited by Carlos Basualdo, Caroline Bourgeois. Text by Caroline Bourgeois, Erica Battle, Jean-Pierre Criqui, Damon Krukowski, Noé Soulier, Michael Taylor. Interview by Carlos Basualdo.

“Contrapposto” refers to a pose in which the human subject is turned slightly so that the bust is positioned off-axis from the lower body. American artist Bruce Nauman (born 1941) explores this ancient artistic concept >>more
Marsilio Editori
ISBN 9788829709267
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Slip, pbk, 2 vols, 9.5 x 13 in. / 320 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 09/28/2021 In stock

Christian Marclay: Index

Christian Marclay’s (born 1955) high-contrast black-and-white Xeroxes resemble scribblings in a notebook—the first stages of experimentation toward more finished works. “Maybe it’s because I’m not a very good draftsman, collage feels like a more natural >>more
Edition Patrick Frey
ISBN 9783907236086
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Pbk, 8.25 x 11.75 in. / 1200 pgs / 600 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/11/2021 In stock

David Hockney: Drawing from Life Text by Sarah Howgate.

Published to accompany a major international exhibition, David Hockney: Drawing from Life features Hockney’s drawings from the 1950s to the present day, and focuses on his depictions of himself and a small group of sitters >>more
National Portrait Gallery, London
ISBN 9781855147973
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Hbk, 9.75 x 10.5 in. / 208 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 04/28/2020 In stock

El Anatsui: The Reinvention of Sculpture By Okwui Enwezor & Chika Okeke-Agulu.

Authored by two acclaimed scholars, Okwui Enwezor and Chika Okeke-Agulu, this is the most comprehensive and authoritative account yet on the work of El Anatsui, the world-renowned Ghanaian-born sculptor. The product of more than three >>more
Damiani
ISBN 9788862087636
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Hbk, 9.75 x 11.75 in. / 360 pgs / 320 color.
Pub Date: 06/14/2022 In stock

Ellsworth Kelly: Postcards Edited by Ian Berry, Jessica Eisenthal. Foreword by Ian Berry. Text by Jessica Eisenthal, Ellsworth Kelly, Lynda Klich, Tricia Y. Paik.

Over the course of more than 50 years, renowned American artist Ellsworth Kelly made approximately 400 postcard collages, some of which served as exploratory musings and others as studies for larger works in other mediums. >>more
DelMonico Books/Tang
ISBN 9781636810096
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Hbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 320 pgs / 230 color.
Pub Date: 03/15/2022 In stock

Ink Dreams: Selections from the Fondation INK Collection Edited with text and interview by Susanna Ferrell. Text by Britta Erickson, Stephen Little, Einor K. Cervone, Wan Kong, Celia Yang.

Including the work of more than 50 contemporary artists—from Xu Bing and Lin Tianmiao to Lee Ufan and Hiroshi Sugimoto—and featuring artists from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore to South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Europe >>more
DelMonico Books/Los Angeles County Museum of Art
ISBN 9781942884989
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Hbk, 8.5 x 11.75 in. / 256 pgs / 214 color.
Pub Date: 09/28/2021 In stock

Joan Jonas: The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things Preface by Jessica Morgan. Text by Joan Jonas, Lynne Cooke. Conversation with Jason Moran.

Reissued for the 15th anniversary of this volume and during Joan Jonas’ (born 1936) first major US museum show in 15 years, this catalog documents the deep, immersive performance The Shape, the Scent, the Feel >>more
Dia Art Foundation
ISBN 9780944521960
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Pbk, 6.25 x 6.25 in. / 76 pgs / 26 color.
Pub Date: 02/15/2022 In stock

Kara Walker: White Shadows in Blackface By Robert Hobbs.

In 2002, Kara Walker was selected to represent the United States at the prestigious São Paulo Art Biennial. Curator Robert Hobbs wrote extended essays on her work for this exhibition, and also for her show >>more
Karma Books, New York
ISBN 9781949172737
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Clth, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 176 pgs / 26 color / 21 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/29/2023 In stock

Light, Space, Surface: Art from Southern California Edited with text by Carol S. Eliel. Text by Kim Conaty, Michael Govan, Lawrence Weschler, Melinda Wortz, Katia Zavistovski. Photographic portfolio by Luisa Lambri.

This volume explores the art of Light and Space and related “finish fetish” pieces with highly polished surfaces. In the 1960s and 1970s, various artists in Southern California began to create works that investigate perceptual >>more
DelMonico Books/Los Angeles County Museum of Art
ISBN 9781942884996
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Hbk, 9.75 x 11 in. / 160 pgs / 115 color.
Pub Date: 11/02/2021 In stock

Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child Edited with text by Ralph Rugoff. Text by Lynne Cooke, Rachel Cusk, Julienne Lorz.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the fabric works from the last two decades in the career of legendary artist Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010). “I’ve always had a fascination with the needle,” she once said, >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775751490
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Pbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 208 pgs / 179 color.
Pub Date: 04/12/2022 In stock

Nick Cave: Forothermore Edited with text by Naomi Beckwith. Foreword by Madeleine Grynsztejn. Text by Romi Crawford, Antwaun Sargent, Malik Gaines, Krista Thompson, Meida Teresa McNeal. Interviews by Naomi Beckwith, Nick Cave, Nona Hendryx, Linda Johnson Rice, Damita Jo Freeman.

The definitive volume on the ever-evolving and shape-shifting work of the Chicago-based artist, Nick Cave: Forothermore highlights the way Cave’s practice has shifted and continues to shift in response to our history and current moment >>more
DelMonico Books/Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
ISBN 9781942884965
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Hbk, 9 x 11 in. / 304 pgs / 250 color.
Pub Date: 06/21/2022 In stock

Pòtoprens Edited with text by Leah Gordon, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro. Text by Katelyne Alexis, Karim Bléus, Myrlande Constant, Lhérisson Dubréus, Edouard Duval-Carrié, Ronald Edmond, André Eugène, Richard Fleming, Celeur Jean Hérard, Jean Salomon Horace (Ti Pelin), Frantz Jacques (Guyodo), Michel Lafleur, Evel Romain, Jean Claude Saintilus, Yves Telemaque, Gina Athena Ulysse.

Published after a landmark 2018 exhibition at Pioneer Works—the first major survey of the astonishing artists of Haiti’s capital city—Pòtoprens is at once a portrait of a place, a celebration of its arts and a >>more
Pioneer Works Press
ISBN 9781945711060
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Clth, 9 x 12 in. / 416 pgs / 425 color / 35 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/22/2022 Out of stock

Renée Green: Pacing Foreword by Dan Byers. Text by Renée Green, Nicholas Korody, Fred Moten, Nora M. Alter, Mason Leaver-Yap, William S. Smith, Yvonne Rainer, Gloria Sutton.

American artist Renée Green (born 1959) spent two years engaged with the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, during which she presented a series of interlinked public programs and exhibitions, culminated with >>more
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University
ISBN 9781735230504
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Pbk, 9 x 11.75 in. / 300 pgs / 266 color.
Pub Date: 01/12/2021 In stock

Robert Houle: Red Is Beautiful Edited with foreword and text by Wanda Nanibush. Text by Alanaise Onischin Ferguson, David Penney, Duke Redbird, Faye HeavyShield, Gerald Vizenor, Jamelie Hassan & Ron Benner, Jessica L. Horton, Kay WalkingStick, Mark A. Cheetham, Michael Bell, Stephen Borys.

An extensive survey spanning more than 50 years, Robert Houle: Red Is Beautiful celebrates Houle’s ongoing career as an internationally recognized Indigenous artist, curator and writer, calling attention to First Nations and settler-colonialist histories through >>more
DelMonico Books/Art Gallery of Ontario
ISBN 9781636810379
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Clth, 10.25 x 10.25 in. / 252 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 03/29/2022 In stock

Sadie Barnette: Legacy and Legend Edited with introduction by Rebecca McGrew and Ciara Ennis. Foreword by Ciara Ennis, Victoria Sancho Lobis. Text by Sadie Barnette, Rujeko Hockley.

Oakland-based multimedia artist Sadie Barnette (born 1984) has made groundbreaking explorations of her own family’s history and archives. She situates her father Rodney Barnette’s activism, including his founding of the Black Panther chapter in Compton, >>more
Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College/Pitzer College Art Galleries
ISBN 9780997930658
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Hbk, 7.25 x 9.5 in. / 96 pgs / 75 color.
Pub Date: 01/11/2022 Out of stock

Sam Gilliam Text by Courtney J. Martin, Fred Moten. Interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Including paintings, sculpture and works on paper, this book documents new works by DC-based color-field painter Sam Gilliam (born 1933). A new interview with the artist brings insight into his life and practice, as well >>more
Pace Publishing
ISBN 9781948701389
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Hbk, 9.75 x 10.75 in. / 160 pgs / 60 color.
Pub Date: 01/26/2021 Out of stock

Somaya Critchlow: Paintings Text by Amanda Renshaw.

Somaya Critchlow’s canvases and sketchbooks log an ongoing process of world building. The artist fashions these realms by drawing upon her expansive knowledge of picture-making traditions ranging from the Renaissance to the Rococo. In charting >>more
skira
ISBN 9788857244815
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Hbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 144 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 03/22/2022 In stock

Sophie Calle: The Hotel

In 1981 Sophie Calle took a job as a chambermaid for the Hotel C in Venice, Italy. Stashing her camera and tape recorder in her mop bucket, she not only cleans and tidies, but sorts >>more
Siglio
ISBN 9781938221293
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Clth, 6 x 8 in. / 224 pgs / 12 color / 180 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/07/2021 In stock

Tauba Auerbach — S v Z Introduction and text by Joseph Becker, Jenny Gheith, Linda Dalrymple Henderson. Afterword by Neal Benezra.

Tauba Auerbach studies the boundaries of perception through an art and design practice grounded in math, science and craft. Published in conjunction with the first major survey of the artist’s work, this volume, designed by >>more
D.A.P./SFMOMA
ISBN 9781942884552
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Hbk, 8.25 x 11.75 in. / 256 pgs / 485 color.
Pub Date: 04/21/2020 In stock

Theaster Gates: A Clay Sermon Edited by Lydia Yee, Cameron Foote.

This publication accompanies a major new Theaster Gates exhibition at London’s Whitechapel Gallery, focusing on his clay-based work.
The transformation of clay—from geological substance into utilitarian and artistic material—is the basis for much of Gates' art >>more
Whitechapel Gallery
ISBN 9780854882960
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Hbk, 9.75 x 11.25 in. / 200 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 06/24/2025 Awaiting stock

Troy Montes-Michie: Rock of Eye Text by Andrea Andersson, Tina Campt. Interview by Brent Edwards. Afterword by Cameron Shaw.

To tailor a garment by “rock of eye” is to rely on the drape—on experience over mathematical measurement—in the fitting process. It is a kind of drawing in space—a freehand, an intuition, a trust of >>more
SIGLIO/RIVERS INSTITUTE/CAAM
ISBN 9781938221323
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Hbk, 8.5 x 11.5 in. / 128 pgs / 80 color.
Pub Date: 12/07/2021 In stock

Wangechi Mutu: I Am Speaking, Are You Listening? Edited Claudia Schmuckli. Conversation with Wangechi Mutu, Isaac Julien and Claudia Schmuckli.

Wangechi Mutu takes viewers on journeys of material, psychological and sociopolitical transformation; this volume explores her most recent groundbreaking work. Over the past two decades, Mutu has created chimerical constellations of powerful female characters, hybrid >>more
DelMonico Books/Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
ISBN 9781636810058
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Hbk, 8.5 x 10.5 in. / 176 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 11/02/2021 In stock

Wolfgang Tillmans: To look without fear Edited with text by Roxana Marcoci. Text by Quentin Bajac, Yve-Alain Bois, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Clément Chéroux, Durga Chew-Bose, Stuart Comer, Keller Easterling, Paul Flynn, Sophie Hackett, Michelle Kuo, Oluremi C. Onabanjo, Phil Taylor, Wolfgang Tillmans. Chronology by Phil Taylor, Andrew Vielkind.

A visionary creator and intrepid polymath, Wolfgang Tillmans unites formal inventiveness with an ethical orientation that attends to the most pressing issues of life today. While his work transcends the bounds of any single artistic >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633451117
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Clth, 9.5 x 12 in. / 320 pgs / 400 color.
Pub Date: 08/30/2022 In stock

Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists Edited with essay by Antwaun Sargent. Text by Graham C. Boettcher, Jessica Bell Brown, Connie H. Choi, Anthony Graham, Lauren Haynes, Jamillah James, Thomas J. Lax, Hallie Ringle, Adeze Wilford, Gordon Dearborn Wilkins, Matt Wycoff. Interview with Bernard Lumpkin by Thelma Golden.

A New York Times 2020 holiday gift guide pick

This book surveys the work of a new generation of Black artists, and also features the voices of a diverse group of curators who are on the >>more
D.A.P.
ISBN 9781942884590
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Hbk, 9.5 x 10.5 in. / 256 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 09/22/2020 In stock