Egyptian Art
Unlock the mysteries of ancient Egypt with "Egyptian Art: Studies" by G. Maspero, a timeless masterpiece that has been out of print for decades and is now beautifully restored by Alpha Editions. This collector's item is not just a reprint; it's a cultural treasure, meticulously revived for today's and future generations. Dive into the captivating world of Egyptian art, where every page reveals the secrets of a civilization that has fascinated humanity for centuries. Maspero, a renowned Egyptologist, guides you through the intricate artistry and profound symbolism of ancient Egypt, offering insights that are as enlightening as they are engaging. Whether you're a casual reader or a classic literature collector, this book promises to enrich your understanding and appreciation of one of history's most enigmatic cultures. With its compelling narrative and exquisite restoration, "Egyptian Art: Studies" is a must-have for anyone passionate about art, history, and the enduring legacy of ancient civilizations. Don't miss the chance to own this extraordinary piece of literary and cultural history.
Chris Orr
Chris Orr, the well known British painter and printmaker, takes us on a tour of his prodigious and penetrating vision of the world over the last twelve years.
Mission to Kill
Classic Italian film poster art is renowned as being among the most accomplished, creative and dynamic of its kind. Throughout the 1960s, Italian artists consistently produced posters with stunning designs and imagery. At the same time, Italian cinema developed a distinct style which produced several unique genres, of which a popular example remains the Eurospy movie.MISSION TO KILL is a collection that showcases 80 film poster designs by a wide range of acclaimed Italian artists, all created for Eurospy, secret agent and super-criminal film productions and co-productions. These classic posters are presented in full-color, full-page images highlighting some of the world's most innovative and evocative promotional art.
A Glimpse of Me
This book of poetic thoughts blended with the simplicity of Haiku Syllables and Heartspur moments of reflection is intended to provide a glimpse of who resides within my soul. Writing poetry has been my sanctuary for many uninterrupted years, a space where words flowed effortlessly, wrapped in lyrical whispers revealing the depths of my inner world. Yet, in that relentless pursuit of creative expression, I had neglected a crucial aspect of my journey: soulful reflection.
Visual Feast
Clocking in at over 400 pages, Visual Feast contains ALL of the posters ever designed by this prolific artist. Sketches, and behind the scenes photos capture what went into the artwork are given further context through the stories about working with the many bands he's created posters for. Soundgarden, Queens of the Stone Age, Mot繹rhead, Pearl Jam, Mark Lanegan, Nick Cave, Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails and countless others have relied on Justin Hampton's bold designs to represent their diverse aesthetics. Hampton's illustration work for clients ranging from Rolling Stone and Spin magazines, to the Village Voice and Guitar World are also collected in this definitive retrospective. An introduction by long-time collaborator, the late, Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees) and foreword by renowned graphic designer Art Chantry are icing on the cake!
Margit Koppendorfer
During her 40-year career, Margit Koppendorfer has designed costumes for the greats of theater history: characters from Shakespeare, Brecht, and Handke, directed by Berghaus, Peymann, and Tabori, performed in Vienna, Zurich, and Berlin. Margit Koppendorfer: Costume Designs presents Koppendorfer's often life-sized mixed-media design sketches on transparent paper and reveals through these unique illustrations how the costume designer accords identity to the characters. By alienating the real in a visionary way, a latent truth emerges. While author Elfriede Jelinek and actress Maria Happel emphasize in their texts the masterful embodiment of the costumes, and of their characters, Margit Koppendorfer herself says of her work, "I dance into the set with my characters." Text in English and German.
El-Gazzar
El-Gazzar, born in 1925 in Alexandria, is a leading figure in modern Egyptian art of the 20th century. He enrolled in the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cairo in 1944 and then joined the Contemporary Art Group founded by Hussein Youssef Amin, his master. With an innovative and unique expressionist style, it portrays the people of Cairo in a folkloric way. Later, he tried his hand at abstraction by representing industrial machines and their effects on humans. Recognized during his lifetime, the production of El-Gazzar was exhibited in France from 1949, at the Venice Biennale in 1952 and at the S瓊o Paulo Museum in 1953. Today, his works are in private collections in Cairo, Alexandria, Rome, Paris and Brussels, but also in major institutions around the world, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York or the Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art. This catalogue raisonn矇, published in English, comprises two volumes. The first is dedicated to the artist's paintings and the second to graphic works, archives and photographs. It brings an understanding of the enigmatic work of the artist, but also of modern Egyptian art in general.
Gabi Dziuba & Friends
Gabi Dziuba's jewellery is stringent, laid-back, fragile, minimalist, glamorous, and progressive. Collaboration with close artist associates is characteristic of her work, including those with Gu]nther F繹rg, Hans-J繹rg Mayer, Martin Kippenberger, Heimo Zobernig, Monika Baer, and Alexandra Bircken. Text in English and German. Gabi Dziuba's jewelry is stringent, laid-back, fragile, minimalist, glamorous, and progressive. Blister packs, coins, beans, or letters are turned into wilful creations. Collaboration with close artist associates is characteristic of her work, including those with G羹nther F繹rg, Hans-J繹rg Mayer, Martin Kippenberger, Heimo Zobernig, Monika Baer, and Alexandra Bircken, whose works are included in this monograph. This highlights the openness of Dziuba's artistic approach to new trends - Pop Art, Minimal Art, punk, fashion. A fascinating biography results in which the visual artist, musician, designer, and entrepreneur has freely experimented with the traditional assignment of roles since the 1970s. Gabi Dziuba & Friends is a vivid survey of her extraordinary working methods and the exhibition activities in her Berlin studio. Text in English and German.
Fran癟ois Le Moyne: Complete Works
The glorious paintings of a Versailles court artist beloved by Louis XVFirst Painter to King Louis XV for only a few months before his death, Fran癟ois Le Moyne (1688-1737) had a career as short as it was prolific. Teacher of Charles-Joseph Natoire and Fran癟ois Boucher, Le Moyne is today recognized as one of the major artists of the 18th century.
Thomas Putze
For Thomas Putze, performance is a snapshot of a moment, a play on possibilities, and at the same time a well-planned and sophisticated act to captivate the onlooker. Yet above all, it is thinking, drawing, sculpting, and realizing with and through the body, which he treats just as relentlessly as all the other materials in his works. He swings through trees, occupies church facades, and submerges himself in mud; frequently without clothing or scantily wrapped in plastic sheeting, he gauges and challenges the physical and thus social space between us bystanders. Thomas Putze typifies the risk of being human, with all its failings and plenty of humor. He not only holds us to account but rather invites us to do this ourselves: to partake in art and to reflect on the performance we call life. Text in English and German.
Paper Art III
Paper Art III explores the infinite possibilities of paper, an ancient and common material in daily life, allowing people to rediscover the breathtaking beauty of the ordinary and perceive the survival and growth of paper in art. Paper Art III contains the wonderful works of dedicated paper artists from all over the world since 2018, exploring the infinite possibilities of paper, an ancient and common material in daily life, allowing people to rediscover the breathtaking beauty of the ordinary and perceive the survival and growth of paper in art. The exquisite paper cutting, spectacular paper sculpture, collision of photography and paper art techniques... each piece of paper artwork will be cohesive in the work of the artist's time and effort to present the full extent of the work. In addition to existing as pure artwork, this book also shows how paper art can be used in a variety of applications. From house decoration to window decoration, to large-scale public space decoration, etc., these cases give readers the opportunity to understand and feel how the artist creates a rich sense of space, enhances environmental aesthetics, and even changes the urban temperament by changing the color and shape of the paper.
Nat Mayer Shapiro: Joy and Rigor
From optical illusions to genre scenes and dancing kites, Shapiro's protean output defies categorization From the 1950s until his death in 2005, Nat Mayer Shapiro created over 900 paintings, drawings, assemblages and sculptures. Though he drew from modernist movements such as Expressionism, Op art and pure abstraction, his work features Biblical vignettes, dancing kites, anthropomorphic sculptures and views into the fathomless cosmos.
Ute Eitzenh繹fer: Subtext
That Ute Eitzenh繹fer's jewelry is related to contemporary phenomena is beyond any doubt. The longevity of precious metals and stones is juxtaposed with the rapid development of social realities -- or with our increasingly overwhelmed perception of them. In particular, our power and powerlessness in dealing with meanwhile highly complex communication are a source of inspiration for her works. The seemingly timeless aesthetics of the minimalist-looking pieces of jewelry nevertheless open up to a variety of perspectives: when worn, they encourage us as wearers or beholders to engage in dialog and bring about an immediate exchange. Text in English and German.
Brendan Stuart Burns
Brendan Stuart Burns (b.1963) is a leading Welsh painter who draws inspiration from the natural world of his native country and beyond. Providing, for the first time, an overview of the artist's career to date, this important publication traces his work's evolution towards full artistic maturity. Addressing key aspects of Burns' oeuvre, such as the materiality of the work and its relationship to the environment, the book discusses the wider philosophical framework which underpins his painting while also considering its historical and contemporary influences. Written in close collaboration with the artist, Ian Massey's authoritative account of Burns' impressive career is essential reading for all those interested in contemporary British painting and new visual interpretations of landscape.
Andrea Blum: Biota
A 40-year overview of Blum's career working at the interface of art, architecture and design, leading up to her focus on our engagement with the natural worldPublished with Hunter College Art Galleries. Andrea Blum (born 1950) is a New York-based artist who has worked at the intersection of art, architecture and design since the 1970s. She has exhibited at a wide range of venues and has built projects in Europe and the United States that include public installations, furniture, exhibition design, libraries and other designs for living. Blum's work considers the relationship of the sociopolitical world to the private psychological one, zooming in and out of the conditions that organize us as a culture, with a focus on the "down time"--when one eats, reads and is in repose--as the time when the border between private behavior and public etiquette is most evidenced.Accompanying an expansive exhibition of the same name at Hunter College Art Galleries, Biota is lavishly illustrated with extensive photography of Blum's early sculpture, public works, exhibitions, installations and propositions of the past 40 years. The book includes new essays and a conversation between the artist and Allan Schwartzman, all of which explore Blum's practice and artmaking philosophy.
Spy X Family: The Official Anime Guide--Mission Report: 221001-1224
Uncover even more secrets behind the Forger family and their allies in Spy x Family: The Official Anime Guide--Mission Report: 221001-1224! Uncover even more secrets behind the Forger family and their allies in Spy x Family: The Official Anime Guide--Mission Report: 221001-1224! Discover all the behind-the-scenes secrets, twists, and trivia from episodes 13 through 25 of the incredibly popular Spy x Family anime, based on the manga series by Tatsuya Endo. What are your favorite characters hiding? Take a peek at Loid's disguises, learn all about Yor's assassination techniques, explore Anya's sneaky tricks, and dig into Bond's beautifully fluffy white fur.
How do you survive your fans when you’re famous?
How do you survive your fans when you're famous? That's the question Shawn, a talented young singer and musician, will have to answer more often than he ever thought possible! Come and follow his hilarious adventures with his fans, and join the Mendes Army if you feel like it!
Hellebore: The Art of Missupacey
In this fascinating Art of book, Colorado-born artist Ashleigh Izienicki reveals the process behind how she combines dark, macabre themes with a cute and feminine touch to create incredibly popular art. Ashleigh has accumulated a massive following online under her brand, Miss Upacey. She has over 603K followers on Instagram, a popular Patreon, and a successful online shop selling products such as pins, phone cases, stickers, and stationery. She now resides in California and works in traditional and digital mediums. Her book features tutorials in both, giving fans and art-lovers a glimpse behind the curtain into her process, studio set-up, and inspiration. She also talks about the challenges and joys that come with running an art business, and gives her invaluable advice to aspiring creatives.Miss Upacey: The Art of Ashleigh Izienicki has the unmatched production values that 3dtotal Publishing is known for - high-quality paper and a beautiful hardback cover with special cover finishes. This is a keepsake for Miss Upacey fans, and art fans in general, to display on their bookshelf for many years to come.
Meriem Bennani: For My Best Family
Utilizing mediums as diverse as mechanized flip-flops and animated film, Bennani takes a playful, ultra-contemporary approach to the representation of global cultures on social mediaThis publication documents, analyzes and comments on new works by New York-based Moroccan artist Meriem Bennani (born 1988) in relation to her previous production and the cultural context in which she works. Bennani's works explore the potential of storytelling while amplifying reality through a strategy of fantastical imagery and humor, juxtaposing and mixing the language of YouTube videos, reality TV, documentaries and animation. Throughout her career, she has developed a shape-shifting practice of films, sculptures and immersive installations questioning contemporary society and its fractured identities, gender issues and dominance of digital technologies. Combining a new site-specific, large-scale installation with an art film codirected with Orian Barki, the project documented here, her most ambitious, explores ways of being together in public and intimate sociopolitical settings.
R. Crumb: Existential Comics
This volume brings together twenty-five of R. Crumb's most ambitious, acclaimed, and profound comics. One of the most influential and iconic cartoonists of our time, R. Crumb is celebrated for pushing the boundaries of representation, mass consumerism, and polite society. The comics in this volume exemplify Crumb's creative output over twenty-five years following his early experimentation in the 1960s and 1970s. The comics collected here depict characters searching for an understanding of the world around and within themselves. Through adaptation, autobiography, biography, and short fiction, Crumb--much like his subjects--demands we pay attention to our darkest desires, compulsions, fears, and obsessions. Existential Comics also features a new, introductory comic strip by Crumb, reflecting on his practice in the context of this volume. Editor Dan Nadel's essay further weaves together Crumb's life, career, and influences, delving into the creative environment that informed some of the artist's most outstanding comics.
Anna Freeman Bentley - Complete Reality
Showcases Anna Freeman Bentley's paintings exploring the tension between reality and fabrication in spaces.Anna Freeman Bentley (b. 1982) is an artist based in London. Her painting practice explores unpeopled architecture and interiors, the objects, decoration, and furniture inviting both narrative and abstruser consideration. This publication, Complete Reality, documents Freeman Bentley's latest series of paintings, which she created after visiting the film set for My Driver & I (2024), a coming-of-age drama set in the port city of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia.Over the course of the shoot, Freeman Bentley took over two thousand photographs, which she edited and worked from in her London studio. The paintings show lavish rooms, filled with fringed lamps, dusty chandeliers, vast mirrors, and ornate furniture, juxtaposed with the incongruous signs of a film set: screens, leads, computers, and plastic chairs. Exploring the relationship between "reality" and "fabrication", the series continues the artist's interest in spaces that have an inherent tension or transience.Alongside the paintings that comprise Complete Reality, the publication also includes a series of oil studies on paper that explore additional rooms, angles, and spaces from the film set. Installation images of the artist's most recent solo exhibitions - Video Village at MASSIMODECARLO Pièce Unique, Paris (2024), make shift at Monica de Cardenas, Zuoz (2024), and Complete Reality at Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles (2024-25) - showcase the works staged in different configurations and gallery environments.In her introduction, Jennifer Higgie considers the interiority of Freeman Bentley's elusive scenes, and her interest in temporary and unreal spaces. The curator and writer Elisabetta Fabrizi interviews Freeman Bentley about the interplay of reality and illusion in her paintings. They reflect on themes of authenticity and narrative tension, and discuss Freeman Bentley's earlier explorations of cinema, particularly Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker (1979). Kathryn Lloyd writes about the conceptual and historical relationships between cinema, photography, and painting. She analyzes how Freeman Bentley forges an interdependence between these three distinct media, creating an unmistakably painterly language that somehow distils the essence of both film and photography.In an interview with Michele Robecchi, the artist discusses her recent solo exhibition in Switzerland, make shift. Freeman Bentley reflects on her personal connections to the work, the significance of the temporary and transitory nature of the film set and her use of triptychs, mirrors, and fragmentation to disrupt conventional readings of space. In her contribution, the film producer Georgie Paget offers a speculative film script based on the exhibition Video Village at MASSIMODECARLO Pièce Unique, Paris.Edited by Matt Price and designed by Joanna Deans, the book is published by Anomie Publishing, London.
Benjamin West and the Death of a Stag
Benjamin West's The Death of a Stag, a tour de force of pictorial theater and his own unique Scottish masterpiece, has been the focus of high drama for over two centuries. Painted for the Clan Mackenzie in 1786, the gigantic canvas, measuring twelve by seventeen feet, is still the largest in the collection of the National Galleries of Scotland. The painting almost moved to America, but after a successful campaign, it was purchased in 1987. In 2004, the work was conserved in situ in the National Gallery of Scotland and this book tells the story of the picture, both in terms of its history and the conservation process.
Elegies of Love
Never reprinted since their first, posthumous appearance in 1935, these woodcuts were the only printed versions of his work to receive Rodin's full approval. Mostly self-educated, Rodin was a passionate re-reader of his favorite books, and Ovid's Love Elegies occupied a special place in his imagination. These woodcut illustrations were taken from the astonishingly free and improvisatory life drawings he made in his later years. For many people these are the most entrancing manifestation of his genius. Privately published in 1939 in a very strictly limited edition, these 31 beautiful images are very rarely seen. This edition marries Rodin's illustrations to Christopher Marlowe's glittering translation, which was ceremonially burnt by the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1599.
Douglas Gordon
This book will accompany the first major solo exhibition of Douglas Gordon's work in Scotland since he presented his now celebrated work, 24 Hour Psycho at Tramway in Glasgow in 1993. Gordon is one of a number of Glasgow-trained artists who came to prominence in the 1990s. He has gone on to achieve huge international recognition, marked by major awards, including the Turner Prize in 1996, and by exhibitions in museums in Europe and America. Gordon works with film, video, photographs, objects and texts, examining issues such as memory and identity, good and evil, life and death. He makes great play with the doubling of images often in positive and negative or in mirrored form. This book will show all the important aspects of Gordon's work, both past and present. In addition, it will be specially tailored to bring out the particularly Scottish nature of Gordon's ideas and practice. The exhibition book will contain essays by the exhibition curator, Keith Hartley, senior curator at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; Dr Holger Broeker, Kunstmuseum; Dr Jaroslav Andel of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Prague and an essay by the renowned Scottish author, Ian Rankin.
The Art of Mercy in Middle-earth
J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium provides twenty-first century readers with a much-needed haven from the busy world around them. In his mercy, Tolkien generously balances scenes of high drama with unforgettable pauses for the refreshment of both characters and readers. His work remains true to the themes of "recovery, escape, and consolation" described in his seminal lecture and essay, "On Fairy-Stories."This book offers a visual portal to these three merciful themes, which form the central subject of Miriam Ellis's body of Tolkien paintings. Ellis's artwork strives for faithful accuracy to the texts which she has been reading since childhood. The quieter moments in Tolkien are sometimes neglected in portrayals, but in them resides the beauty of Middle-earth. Focusing on those moments, this book is a treasury with which readers can relax and enjoying both the paintings and the brief but evocative essays drawn from the artist's contemplation of memorable scenes in the legendarium and the many details of the paintings. Like The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion, this book should be a source of recovery, escape, and consolation for the reader.
Ben Shahn, on Nonconformity
A richly illustrated new exploration of the painting, photography, and illustration of the politically progressive American artist Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity offers a fresh and wide-ranging account of the work of Ben Shahn (1898-1969), a Jewish immigrant from Russian-controlled Lithuania who became one of America's most prominent and prolific "social viewpoint" artists from the Great Depression through the Vietnam War. Revealing why Shahn remains so relevant today, the book examines his commitment to progressive political causes, from combating fascism to fighting for civil rights. Incorporating international perspectives, it investigates his World War II poster art, labor-related work, and engagement in postwar artistic debates. It brings new insights to Shahn's social realist and documentary styles and their evolution into allegorical, lyrical, and often abstract idioms that embrace the philosophical and the spiritual. And it demonstrates the underappreciated complexity of Shahn's layered visual language and how he experimented with modernist conceptual strategies--often involving photography--to create his paintings, murals, drawings, prints, posters, illustrated books, and commercial designs. Shahn's guiding credo--formulated in the Cold War--asserted that nonconformity was the precondition for all significant art and great social change. Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity illuminates why the artist's work should be seen as a series of "nonconformities" driven by his steadfast dedication to social justice and humanistic values. Published by the Jewish Museum, New York and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sof穩a, Madrid, in association with Princeton University Press Exhibition ScheduleThe Jewish Museum, New YorkMay 23-October 12, 2025
Parmigianino
An exploration of Parmigianino's greatest Roman painting, illuminating his dynamic process of invention and the dramatic story around its creation. Parmigianino (1503-1540), whose nickname means "little man of Parma," was the leading painter in Parma after Correggio, and is celebrated as one of the originators of Mannerism. The Vision of Saint Jerome is his first, and only, major public undertaking from his brief period in Rome. This book explores the artist's time in the city until the dramatic events of the Sack of Rome in 1527, and places The Vision of Saint Jerome in the context of Parmigianino's career and legacy. Featuring a selection of key surviving preparatory drawings for this altarpiece, the publication reveals Parmigianino's inspired artistic process. Tracing the history of Parmigianino's masterpiece after its arrival in England, the texts also provides an illuminating account of the painting's conservation and of the artist's reception in nineteenth-century Britain. Published by National Gallery Global/Distributed by Yale University Press
Zeng Fanzhi: Near and Far/Now and Then
Astonishing new works from a painter often considered China's greatest living artistPublished with Los Angeles County Museum of Art. One of the most discussed exhibitions during the 2024 Venice Biennale, by renowned Chinese artist Zeng Fanzhi (born 1964), is captured in this sumptuous volume. Shedding light on Zeng's ambitious practice of redefining the abstract, this book features two recent bodies of work--oil paintings and works on handmade paper. Emerging from the artist's decades of research in color theory, Zeng's new oil paintings draw on and challenge Impressionist and pointillist practices, with layers of brushwork creating figurative elements that are readily recognizable from afar but dissolve when viewed up close. In a world inundated with machine-rendered images, Zeng's boundary-pushing experiments inspire viewers to experience the beauty and time-honored art and craft of painting. Zeng's works on handmade paper, rendered in ink, graphite, chalk, gold dust and other mineral pigments, point to a new direction in his practice.
Ryan Preciado & Manuel Sandoval: So Near, So Far
By re-creating Manuel Sandoval's furniture designs for a Rudolph M. Schindler house, Preciado initiates a multigenerational dialogue encompassing architecture, authorship and the built environment Published with Palm Springs Art Museum. In 2020, artist Ryan Preciado (born 1989) began a conversation across time with the life and work of carpenter Manuel Sandoval, who was born nearly 100 years before the artist and worked with architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Rudolph M. Schindler. Preciado had been asked to re-create a dining set made by Sandoval for the Ralph G. Walker House, a Los Angeles home designed by Schindler. Working from chairs made in the 1940s, Preciado undertook a kind of forensics to understand how to achieve Sandoval's deeply technical design. Along the way, Preciado engaged in an imagined discourse with Sandoval--about the latter's craft, life and how he navigated a crucial chapter in American architectural history. The culmination of nearly five years of research into this under-historicized figure, So Near, So Far presents work by Preciado in dialogue with Sandoval's story, breaking open established narratives about authorship and the built environment.
You and Me
Like a comforting sip of tea amidst life's chaos, these delightful illustrations celebrate the small joys of existence. You and Me is an uplifting, heart-warming collection from the inimitable @JangandFox. A celebration of everyday joy to spread hope, light and positivity told through the beautiful friendship of popular characters Eleph and Little Fox. This is the perfect gift to lift a loved one's spirits and remind them that you have their back. 'Even in the thickest forest, the light always finds its way.' 'Look at the magical moments that we are so used to, that we call them "ordinary days"'. 'On the days you feel invisible, know you're a treasure worth finding.' Including exclusive, never-before-seen comics.
Sungi Mlengeya
Whether infused by movement or stillness, Mlengeya's black-and-white portrait paintings radiate both power and peaceBorn in 1991 in Dar es Salaam, Sungi Mlengeya captures the essence of Black womanhood in her haunting monochromatic acrylic portraits. The meticulously painted figures are set against a minimalist white background, creating a striking contrast that emphasizes skin texture and form. Her portraits, whether infused by movement or stillness, radiate both power and peace, offering the viewer intimate moments of strength and serenity. In this first monograph dedicated to Mlengeya, the curator Tandazani Dhlakama brilliantly analyzes how African, Black and feminist conditions are intertwined in her work, and the intimate conversation between Sungi and her model, Jemima Michael, takes us behind the scenes of a work in the making.
Janet Dawson
Celebrates the work of an artist who is a trailblazer of abstraction yet has a distinct realist styleBorn in Sydney in 1935, Janet Dawson has moved between abstraction and figuration, formalism and realism over six decades. Consistent to her practice is her investigative vision: her art derives from an immense curiosity about material existence and states of the natural world.The first major monograph on Dawson, this book features new scholarship by exhibition curator Denise Mimmocchi and assistant curator Monique Leslie Watson (both Art Gallery of New South Wales) and by Australian art critic Jennifer Higgie. An archival text by British-born Australian art critic Virginia Spate on Dawson's first solo exhibition at Gallery A, Melbourne, in 1961, is also reproduced. Published in association with a major retrospective at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Faraway, So Close features over eighty works created from 1951 to 2018, as well as archival and recent photographs.Exhibition Dates: July 19, 2025-January 18, 2026Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Botello
The first ever monograph of Spanish painter and sculptor ?ngel Botello's work presents the artist's most illustrious works in a collector's edition. Text in English and Spanish. In this first published monograph devoted to the work of the Spanish painter and sculptor ?ngel Botello, the artist's most illustrious works curated from private collections, museums and the artist's estate are presented in a collector's edition. Text in English and Spanish.
Margret Eicher: It's a Digital World!
Eicher's large-scale tapestries swap royals for celebrities to riff on art history and contemporary visual cultureWhile tapestries have historically been used by nobility to celebrate their exploits, Margret Eicher (born 1955) revives the genre with a surprising topicality, depicting today's most recognizable celebrities and characters. Eicher thus provides a critical dimension to tapestry making, presenting the consequences of the digital revolution.
Sam Gilliam: Sewing Fields
Dedicated to Gilliam's late-career sewn and collaged fabric works, this colorful catalog embraces the artist's restless creativity and visionary approach to abstractionA pioneering artist who redefined the boundaries of painting, Sam Gilliam (1933-2022) transformed the medium with his radical approach to color, material and space. Sewing Fields focuses on a lesser-known yet crucial period in Gilliam's later career: that of his sewn and collaged works. His residency at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in 1993 reshaped his artistic practice. Far from his Washington, DC, studio, Gilliam embraced new materials, working with pre-stained fabrics that he shipped to Ireland, cutting and layering them into sculptural compositions. A collaboration with a local dressmaker further expanded his process, reinforcing his innovative fusion of painting and textile techniques. Sewing Fields brings these groundbreaking works back to the Irish Museum of Modern Art, nearly 50 years after Gilliam's first Dublin exhibition, positioning him within a broader transatlantic dialogue on abstraction.
Death of Species
Death of Species is a lyrical, speculative journey across a sea of collapsing institutions and emerging possibilities. In these pages, the world is an archipelago of fragile islands-fortresses of power, shifting territories of tradition, and swirling oceans brimming with technological change. As the tide of AI-driven media and radical innovation rises, once-mighty islands crumble, revealing the tensions beneath their rigid surfaces: hierarchies upended, pirate-like dissenters flourishing in hidden coves, and new, amphibious ways of living that slip effortlessly between land and sea. Through vivid metaphors and deft storytelling, the book invites readers to witness the death of old species-outdated modes of creation, power, and governance-while tracing the emergence of astonishing new forms. From the fortresses that cling to rusted authority to the renegade pirate ships deftly navigating uncharted waters, every chapter brims with transformative ideas about collaboration, fluid institutions, and creative evolution. Weaving in tales of young visionaries, archivists on the brink, and communities unshackled by digital transformations, Death of Species is at once a reflection on the fragile illusions of permanence and a clarion call to embrace what comes next. Anyone curious about how we might thrive in a fluid, fast-changing world will find here both cautionary tales and exhilarating prospects for the future. https: //hyperdense.digital/
