Gregory R. Miller & Co./Aspen Art Press

Mark Bradford: Merchant Posters

This book gathers for the first time an extensive selection of American artist—or builder and demolisher,” as he describes himself—Mark Bradford's gorgeous, searing and heavily textured merchant posters.” The original printed posters, collected by Bradford from around his Central Los Angeles neighborhood, are brightly colored local advertisements that target the area's vulnerable lower-income residents. For Bradford, they serve as both the formal and conceptual underpinnings of his works on paper, décollages/collages that engage with the pressures of the cityscape. The sheer density of advertising creates a psychic mass, an overlay that can sometimes be very tense or aggressive,” he notes; If there's a 20-foot wall with one advertisement for a movie about war, then you have the repetition of the same . . . . Hbk, 11 x 9 in. / 160 pgs / 100 color.

Text by Malik Gaines, Ernest Hardy, Philippe Vergne, Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson.

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JRP|Editions

A Brief History of Curating

By Hans Ulrich Obrist

Part of JRP|Ringer's innovative Documents series, published with Les Presses du Réel and dedicated to critical writings, this publication comprises a unique collection of interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist mapping the development of the curatorial field--from early independent curators in the 1960s and 70s and the experimental institutional programs developed in Europe and the U.S. through the inception of Documenta and the various biennales and fairs--with pioneering curators Anne D'Harnoncourt, Werner Hoffman, Jean Leering, Franz Meyer, Seth Siegelaub, Walter Zanini, Johannes Cladders, Lucy Lippard, Walter Hopps, Pontus Hulten and Harald Szeemann. Speaking of Szeemann on the occasion of this legendary curator's death in 2005, critic Aaron Schuster summed up, "the image we have of the curator today: the curator-as-artist, a roaming, . . . . Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 200 pgs.

Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

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JRP|Editions

Jim Shaw: My Mirage

A bricoleur of uniquely American utopian/dystopian cosmologies, Jim Shaw (born 1952) weds themes from American religious history with motifs from 1960s and 70s counterculture, often coining rubrics--such as his invented religion of O--or series under which to unify these narratives. My Mirage is Shaw's earliest sequence of this kind. Conceived between 1986 and 1991, arranged in chapters and constituted of nearly 170 works--drawn, silk-screened, photographed, sculpted, filmed or painted in a different style--My Mirage recounts the wanderings of Billy, a white, middle-class American sucked into the whirlwind of the 1960s and 70s counterculture. An anxious and withdrawn youth consumed by psychotic hallucinations, Billy joins a psychedelic pagan cult, eventually and inevitably returning to the religion of his youth, reborn” as a . . . . Pbk, 8.25 x 10.25 in. / 240 pgs / 150 color.

Edited by Lionel Bovier, Fabrice Stroun. Text by Fabrice Stroun.

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JRP|Editions

A Brief History of Curating

By Hans Ulrich Obrist

Part of JRP|Ringer's innovative Documents series, published with Les Presses du Réel and dedicated to critical writings, this publication comprises a unique collection of interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist mapping the development of the curatorial field--from early independent curators in the 1960s and 70s and the experimental institutional programs developed in Europe and the U.S. through the inception of Documenta and the various biennales and fairs--with pioneering curators Anne D'Harnoncourt, Werner Hoffman, Jean Leering, Franz Meyer, Seth Siegelaub, Walter Zanini, Johannes Cladders, Lucy Lippard, Walter Hopps, Pontus Hulten and Harald Szeemann. Speaking of Szeemann on the occasion of this legendary curator's death in 2005, critic Aaron Schuster summed up, "the image we have of the curator today: the curator-as-artist, a roaming, . . . . Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 200 pgs.

Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

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Pomona College Museum of Art

It Happened at Pomona

Art at the Edge of Los Angeles 1969-1973

From 1969 to 1973, a series of radical art projects took place at the far eastern edge of Los Angeles County at the Pomona College Museum of Art, in Claremont, California. Here, Hal Glicksman, a pioneering curator in Light and Space art and former assistant to Walter Hopps, and Helene Winer, later the director of Artists Space and founder of Metro Pictures gallery in New York, curated landmark exhibitions by young local artists who bridged the gap between postminimalism and Conceptual art and presaged the development of postminimalism in the late 1970s. Among these artists were Bas Jan Ader, Michael Asher, Mowry Baden, Lewis Baltz, Chris Burden, Judy Chicago, Ger van Elk, Jack Goldstein, Robert Irwin, William Leavitt, John McCracken, Allen . . . . Pbk, 9 x 13 in. / 386 pgs / 120 color / 160 b&w.

Edited by Rebecca G. McGrew, Glenn R. Phillips, Marie Shurkus. Text by Thomas Crow, David Pagel.

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The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Marcel Duchamp

More than any other modern artist, Marcel Duchamp challenged and transformed the very definition of art. Published to accompany the first North American retrospective of his work in more than 50 years, the volume features the world's largest collection of Duchamp's work, bringing together such iconic works as Fountain and Nude Descending a Staircase for the first time in decades. Beautifully illustrated with more than 400 works spanning six decades—including painting, sculpture, readymades, film, photography and ephemera—and featuring a deeply researched chronology interwoven with archival and documentary material, Marcel Duchamp offers a new generation the first opportunity to experience the breadth of Duchamp's revolutionary and provocative work, strongly associated with the Surrealist and Dada movements. An expansive introduction by curators Ann . . . . Hbk, 9 x 10.5 in. / 360 pgs / 1000 color.

Edited with text by Matthew Affron, Michelle Kuo, Ann Temkin. Text by Danielle Cooke, Alexandra Drexelius, Helena Klevorn, Julia Vazquez.

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National Portrait Gallery

Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting

Examining the intimate dialogue between his sketches and paintings from the 1940s to the early 21st century, Drawing into Painting reveals Lucian Freud's lifelong focus on the human face and form. Featuring a gorgeously designed quarter-bound cover printed on uncoated paper, the volume explores how drawing remained central to Freud's artistic practice throughout his life. From quick sketches to finished works in charcoal, pastel and etching, his drawings offer a rare window into his process, revealing shifts in style, experimentation and his evolving mode of seeing. Spanning from his childhood to his final years, the book traces the unconventional path from his drawing practice to his painting, and back again. Alongside a selection of rarely seen drawings and key paintings by . . . . Hbk, 9 x 11.5 in. / 224 pgs / 208 color / 2 b&w.

Edited with text by Sarah Howgate. Text by David Dawson, Bella Freud, Colm Tóibín, Tanya Bentley, Catherine Lampert, Isabel Seligman.

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MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Gardens and Imagination

Framing Nature in Art

A plot of land, a relaxing retreat, a formal landscape, a place of work: gardens carry a range of associations for individuals, communities and cultures alike. Spanning from the ancient Mediterranean to Renaissance Europe to the Edo period in Japan to the Qing dynasty in China to today, Gardens and Imagination considers how gardens have remained a source of artistic inspiration for millennia. Drawn from the holdings of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, this lush volume features both iconic representations of gardens as well as undersung depictions across a range of mediums, eras and cultures. Thematically organized, Gardens and Imagination features essays that probe the human impulse to influence, master and celebrate the natural world through cultivation, care and labor—all . . . . Hbk, 6.75 x 7.75 in. / 224 pgs / 150 color.

Text by Karen E. Haas, Courtney Leigh Harris, Meghan Melvin, Elizabeth Dospel Williams.

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siglio

three six five: prompts, acts, divinations (an inexhaustible compendium for writing)

Though there are 365 exercises for writing in this book, three six five is not simply a book of writing exercises. It is a "how-to" book of questions rather than answers, a diary of contemplation and imagination, an ars poetica of expanding possibility. Tracing the lineage of Yoko Ono's Grapefruit and Raymond Queneau's Exercises in Style, Lucy Ives here offers encouragement, candor and a deep appreciation for the vagaries, wonders and challenges of writing life. These prompts—in alchemical combinations with drawings by Nick Mauss—offer ways to become a (better) writer through observation, reorientation, inquiry, play and engagement with the world and its inhabitants. They invite the writer to learn and unlearn, to mine memory and forgetting, to enter impossible spaces and . . . . Hbk, 6 x 7.75 in. / 416 pgs / 42 b&w.

By Lucy Ives. Illustrations by Nick Mauss.

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MW Editions

Michael Jang: JANG

This volume showcases the San Francisco–based photographer Michael Jang's stylized and self-aware street art from recent years. Early in 2021, when the city was still in the grip of Covid-19 and ugly instances of anti-Asian sentiment were on the rise, Jang clandestinely wheat-pasted some of the images from his black-and-white photographic series The Jangs (1973) over a boarded-up Goodwill storefront on Clement Street, in the heart of San Francisco's unofficial Chinatown. He branded his photographs with a JANG stencil logo—introducing the persona "Chef Jang," a chain-smoking wok master—and interspersed them with hand-designed posters and graphics that parody Asian product packaging and menus. Inserted into the visual landscape of this once bustling neighborhood, Jang's gesture was one of solidarity, belonging and ownership. . . . . Hbk, 6.75 x 9 in. / 160 pgs / 150 color.

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Wakefield Press

Bar Nicanor

Collected Writings

After entering the literary world under the pseudonym Julius Krekel, the Belgian poet Clément Pansaers underwent a series of revelatory events that resulted in his rebirth as a Dadaist poet writing under his own name. Pansaers went on to produce a body of poetic work that earned the admiration of everyone from Ezra Pound to Tristan Tzara.
Bar Nicanor collects all of the reborn Pansaers' work, including the "Lent Meditations" and Apology for Laziness; the even more radical books published under the banner of Dada, such at the titular Bar Nicanor; and the posthumous I Blennorrhage and Programmatic Fermata for Young Orangutan. Also included are the essays he published in various journals, including "DADA and Me," in which he signaled of the . . . . Pbk, 5.5 x 8 in. / 296 pgs / 10 b&w.

By Clément Pansaers. Introduction and translation by Terry Bradford.

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Silvana Editoriale

Jenny Saville

The internationally lauded British painter Jenny Saville transcends the boundaries of classical figuration and modern abstraction in her depictions of the human form. Colossal naked bodies dominate her oeuvre, rendered with all the imperfections” of flesh intact. Indeed, Saville is deeply interested in the resilience and fragility of the human body, as well as its societal implications and taboos. Collecting material from pathology textbooks, plastic surgery manuals, chronicles of injuries and burns and similar publications, Saville often adds an observational perspective to her work by attending surgery demonstrations and visiting butcheries. She expresses this perspective through an aggressive use of scale, brushy, wide strokes and textures that extend long figurative traditions in painting, linking her to the forceful modernist style of . . . . Hbk, 9.5 x 12.25 in. / 304 pgs / 152 color.

Edited by Sergio Risaliti.

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Walther König, Köln

Wolfgang Tillmans: Concorde

According to photographer Wolfgang Tillmans (born 1968), for the chosen few, flying Concorde is apparently a glamorous but cramped and slightly boring routine while to watch it in air, landing or taking off is a strange and free spectacle, a super modern anachronism and an image of the desire to overcome time and distance through technology.” With no text other than the inner-front flap’s description, this fifth printing of Tillmans’ now iconic artist’s book (first published in 1997) consists of 62 color photographs of the Concorde airplane—taking off, landing or in flight, and sometimes as just a tiny, birdlike silhouette in the sky. The photographs speak of both the beauty and the environmental devastation produced by this fabled French airplane, both . . . . Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 128 pgs / 62 color.

Text by Wolfgang Tillmans.

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Silvana Editoriale

Giorgio Morandi

Works from the Antonio and Matilde Catanese Collection

Antonio and Matilde Catanese were avid collectors of Giorgio Morandi (1890–1964). Acquiring his works in the 1930s, the Milanese couple became among the first to contribute to his fame. The Catanese collection, presented in this monograph, functions as a microcosm of the artist’s oeuvre, thanks to its quantity and chronological spread covering almost all the years of the artist’s activity as well as the breadth of techniques and themes represented in its holdings. The collection includes 15 paintings made between 1914 and 1959, and three watercolors representing the abiding themes of Morandi’s work, as indicated by titles such as Still Life, Landscape and Flowers. Also included is a Self-Portrait of 1914. Another integral part of the collection is its almost complete . . . . Clth, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 240 pgs / 215 color.

Edited with text by Mariella Gnani. Foreword by Giorgio Calcagnini, Lorenzo Balbi, Teodoro, Domenico, Raffaela Catanese. Text by Maria Cristina Bandera, Stella Seitun, Luca Cecchetto, Federica Buccolini, Sabrina Burattini, Laura Valentini, Paolo A.M. Triolo.

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Walther König, Köln

David Chipperfield Architects

1985–2014: 2015–2025

This new monograph celebrating 40 years of practice by David Chipperfield Architects is published in double-volume format and covers a cross section of both built and unbuilt work. The monograph highlights several activities led by British Pritzker Prize Laureate Sir David Chipperfield (born 1953) throughout his career. In 1985 he established David Chipperfield Architects, which grew into a global practice with offices in London, Berlin, Milan, Shanghai and Santiago de Compostel. Around 100 design entries are accompanied by 10 critical essays and a series of articles that have been published over the years by various commentators, including Joseph Rykwert and Barry Bergdoll. Richly illustrated, both volumes feature contributions by renowned visual artists such as Candida Höfer, Thomas Struth and Friederike von . . . . Pbk, 2 vols, 9.75 x 12.5 in. / 664 pgs / 500 color / 300 b&w.

Edited with text by Rik Nys. Text by Barry Bergdoll, David Chipperfield, Anatxu Zabalbeascoa.

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The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Duchamp on Tape: The Janis Family Interviews

Over six sessions between September 1951 and November 1952, Marcel Duchamp sat down with collectors and gallerists Harriet and Sidney Janis for a wide-ranging conversation about his inspirations and working processes, and his many opinions on the workings of the modern art world and its histories. The Janises, owners of the influential Sidney Janis Gallery, were ardent supporters of modern art and close friends with Duchamp. Harriet, an accomplished author, led the interviews with an eye toward writing a monograph on Duchamp, though this was never realized. Now, this previously unknown chronicle is available for the first time through the efforts of Carroll Janis, Sidney and Harriet's son. Under Harriet's expert guidance, Duchamp holds forth on his artistic philosophies, his career, . . . . Pbk, 6.25 x 9.25 in. / 150 pgs / 45 color.

Edited by Ann Temkin. Introduction by Carroll Janis.

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Kaya Press

Blue Dragon, White Tiger

A Têt Story

The year is 1967. Tran Van Minh, a Massachusetts professor recruited by the CIA, is sent home to Vietnam in the midst of war. While teaching at Hue University, Minh becomes more sympathetic to the Viet Cong—and increasingly skeptical of America's military involvement. Over the span of a decade and across three continents, Minh joins a communist sleeper cell, works underground at a Vietnam People's Army/North Vietnam command post and flies to Paris as a delegate of the National Liberation Front. As the country of his childhood changes before his eyes, he must find a way to live beyond its shores—and the past that it holds. Reprinted for the first time in over 40 years as part of Ink & Blood, . . . . Pbk, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 288 pgs.

By Tran Van Dinh.

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Spector Books

Paul Virilio: Bunker Archeology

In the second half of the 1950s, Paul Virilio began photographing abandoned World War II bunkers along France's Atlantic coast. In 1966, he presented his photographs to the public for the first time in the magazine architecture principe, which he coedited. At the time, he was particularly interested in the architectural aspects of these wartime installations. He saw the bunkers as "harbingers of a new architecture," which he sought to capture in the term "cryptic architecture." The first exhibition of Virilio's Bunker Archeology photographs was staged at the Centre Pompidou in 1975, while the museum was still in the process of being established. His seminal book was published in conjunction with this. It laid out all the motifs of his philosophical . . . . Hbk, 8.75 x 10.5 in. / 212 pgs / 102 duotone.

Edited by Florian Ebner, Sophie Virilio, Jan Wenzel. Text and photographs by Paul Virilio.

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The Ice Plant

Odette Elix England: Isn't X Beautiful!

Writer and artist Odette Elix England (born 1975) first crossed paths with photography—and, crucially, the letter X—as a child on her family's 200-acre dairy farm in Southern Australia, watching her sharecropping father make SX-70 Polaroids of cattle in the springtime. In Isn't X Beautiful!, an autobiographical reckoning with family memory, the fate of that plot of land and the history of photography are tangled and bound at every turn with the ubiquitous letter X: shadowy character, placeholder for nothing and everything, age-old stand-in for the indefinable. Teeming with free-associative factoids, humor and philosophical tangents, and written with the obsessive idiosyncrasy of Tim Carpenter's To Photograph Is to Learn How to Die, England's ambling 10-chapter tale is an extended meditation on the . . . . Pbk, 4.25 x 6 in. / 208 pgs / 11 b&w.

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Spector Books

Wolfgang Tillmans: Nothing Could Have Prepared Us – Everything Could Have Prepared Us

Published with Centre Pompidou.

This catalog traces German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans' unique 2025 project at the Centre Pompidou, for which he was given a generous carte blanche. The result occupied the entire second floor of the Public Information Library, where Tillmans' experimental installation transformed the space, establishing a dialogue with the former library and questioning it both as architecture and as a locus for the transmission of knowledge. The work explores over 35 years of artistic practice through various photographic genres and constitutes another very personal representation of his universe, whose order and logic are activated in response to the library space. With 600 images, an index of the works alternates with numerous installation shots that show how the artist made this . . . . Pbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 272 pgs / 600 color.

Edited with text by Florian Ebner, Olga Frydryszak-Rétat. Text by Julie Jones, Peter Szendy, Ji-Yoon Han, Valentin Gleyze, Jonathan Pouthier, Peter Szendy, Wolfgang Tillmans, Matthias Pfaller, Damarice Amao, Taous Dahmani, Boaz Levin.

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