Daniel Crews-Chubb - Out of Chaos
Highlights Daniel Crews-Chubb's mixed-media paintings that explore the human condition through figuration, abstraction, and diverse cultural references.Daniel Crews-Chubb (b.1984) is a London-based painter whose mixed-media works wrestle with the human condition and modes of self-expression. This monograph, Out of Chaos, is published to coincide with his solo exhibition at Timothy Taylor, New York, which brings together new paintings and works on paper. Crews-Chubb's paintings exist somewhere between figuration and abstraction. They draw on a wide variety of references, including ancient cosmologies, historic artefacts, and sculpture, pre-Columbian deities, Cubism, Abstract Expressionism, and Hellenic myth. He intertwines canonical sources and classical allusions in his paintings, creating a highly personal, idiosyncratic lexicon of human, celestial, and bestial figures.Out of Chaos takes its title from the ancient Greek notion that chaos is a state of undifferentiated matter from which the universe emerged. The paintings that form this series feature urgent, gestural marks and passages of vivid color, centred around the figure as a motif. The bodies that he depicts are ageless, non-gendered, and non-racial-- conduits for feeling, rather than signifiers of individuals. This publication reproduces a selection of Crews-Chubb's paintings from 2015 to 2024, starting with his early works and subsequently organised into seven series. Notable among these are the recent Immortals (2022-) and Out of Chaos, which is the focal point of his solo exhibition. The book also features an introduction by the writer Jennifer Higgie, an essay by art historian Matthew Holman, and an interview with writer Amah-Rose Abrams. Higgie considers Crews-Chubb's exploration of the human condition and the role of spirituality in it. In his essay "Death, the World and All Our Woe", Holman expands on the artist's references to myth and religion, describing him as a "creator who annihilates". Holman contextualises Crews-Chubb in an art-historical lineage, considering his work alongside that of Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, and Willem de Kooning. In an in-depth interview, Crews-Chubb and Abrams delve into the artist's time at art college, the development of his painting technique and the relationship between the past and present in his work. The book is edited by Matt Price and Lada Sorokopud, designed by Import/Export, and published by Anomie Publishing, London, in association with Timothy Taylor and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles. Daniel Crews-Chubb was born in Northampton in 1984. He completed his BA at Chelsea College of Arts, London, in 2009 and undertook the Turps Studio Programme, London, in 2013. He lives and works in London. His first solo museum exhibition will take place at the Long Museum, Shanghai, in November 2024.
Minami Kobayashi
Minami Kobayashi's The Song of Jujubes showcases surreal paintings exploring memory, nostalgia, and belonging.Minami Kobayashi (b.1989) is a Japanese artist based in London. Covering a significant period of development in her practice as a painter, this publication coincides with her second major solo exhibition, The Song of Jujubes, at Frestonian Gallery, London. Kobayashi's paintings depict familiar yet surreal scenes, created from an amalgamation of memories, places, and ordinary people. In her dream-like ambiguous narratives, nature, animals, and humans are given equal status; her realms are symbiotic societies with multiple creatures. She captures transitory and fluctuating moments, depicting her protagonists in states of flux, vulnerability, and openness. Rendered in a post-Impressionist palette, her compositions are a potent mix of playfulness and deeper themes of human and natural life. Bringing together eleven new canvases, The Song of Jujubes takes its title from a song that the artist used to sing as a teenager in her hometown of Nagoya, Japan. It begins with a girl eating one jujube fruit every night, wondering what she will do when they are all gone. Imbued with a sense of nostalgia and loss, the works consider what "home" means and the strong relationship between people and place. This publication documents Kobayashi's paintings chronologically, from her early works of 2016 to 2024. In a foreword, the Directors of Frestonian Gallery, Matt Incledon and Rollo Campbell introduce the inner world of the artist and the themes of The Song of Jujubes. In an interview with Lisa Wainwright, Kobayashi discusses her time studying at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, her unique painting technique, and the symbolism in her scenes. She also expands upon her artistic influences, including Ukiyo-e woodblock prints, the tenets of Buddhism, Tarot, and the Nabi painters, such as F矇lix Vallotton, ?douard Vuillard, and Pierre Bonnard. In her essay "Temperature of a Memory", Laura Allsop analyzes Kobayashi's recent paintings in relation to memory and place, particularly the artist's hometown of Nagoya. Edited by Incledon and designed by Joe Gilmore, the book is co-published by Frestonian Gallery and Anomie Publishing, London.Minami Kobayashi (b.1989, Nagoya, Japan) lives and works in London. She holds an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of The Art Institute of Chicago (2018) and a BA in Painting from Tokyo University of the Arts (2016). Kobayashi makes figurative paintings that combine intimacy and mystery through their depictions of ordinary people, animals, and places, that seem vaguely surreal and ever so slightly off-kilter.Recent solo or duo exhibitions include I Spell a Word to Free You (with Adrianne Rubinstein) at Et Al Gallery, San Francisco (2024), Place and Presence (with Patrick Procktor) at Frestonian Gallery (2023), and Somewhere not here at Goldfinch Gallery, Chicago (2022).
...but i work here
"Visually stunning, formally innovative, and unlike anything I've ever read before."--Audrey T. Carroll, author of In My Next Queer Life, I Want to Be"In ...but i work here, Weiss renders sickness as a dense palimpsest of meaning and feeling. The reader is brought into a kitsch excess of chronic illness, bodily transformation, and cancer prevention from within the medical-industrial complex. Signposts of care are reminders of the uncanny; the reader is inside and outside of time; and medical documentation intertwines with incantations. All in all, this chapbook is triumphant refusal of the slick illness narrative."-Sarah Roth, writer & EIC of Tendon Magazine
Faces from the Past
Faces From The Past is a mesmerizing blend of art and storytelling that brings characters to life through intricate fabric appliqu矇 designs and Kaftans. Each piece of artwork is a tribute to the people who once crossed Lola's path-real or imagined-and the vivid memories or emotions they sparked. It is a stunning collection for lovers of art, creativity, and storytelling, celebrating the beauty of memory and the enduring power of human connection.
Louis de Niverville
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY NOTABLE BOOK, FALL 2025 Louis de Niverville (1933-2019) was a painter and collagist. His experimental and thought-provoking art, often mislabelled as "surrealist," defied simple categorization. The ninth of thirteen children, young Louis was sent to a sanatorium in Ottawa for treatment of spinal tuberculosis at age six. He remained there for four and a half years. This long-term confinement would become a major influence on his art. Hired as an illustrator by the CBC in the late 1950s, de Niverville quickly immersed himself in the burgeoning Toronto art scene. His work relied heavily on his dreams and daydreams, and explored aspects of the individual, culture and nature, and often featured surreal "inside-outside" spaces. At a time when Abstract Expressionism and its offshoots were dominant in the international art world, Louis's early exhibitions in Toronto quickly seized the attention of respected art critics, and de Niverville was flagged as an artist to watch. This reputation plus a number of private commissions, including large-scale murals for Pearson International Airport and Spadina subway station, both in Toronto, helped thrust de Niverville to the forefront of the Toronto scene in the 1960s and 1970s. Edited by Thomas Miller--de Niverville's partner of many decades and an artist in his own right--and international art dealer Philip Ottenbrite, Louis de Niverville: Pentimenti includes texts from renowned art critics and curators Tobi Bruce, Ihor Holubizky, and E.C. Woodley, which trace de Niverville's rise in the Toronto scene, and which also provide critical art historical context to the depth and breadth of his unique practice. Heather Bell's biographical piece on de Niverville's childhood illuminates a practice seemingly born of childhood trauma and whimsy. Featuring more than 140 art reproductions and archival images, this is an in-depth examination of an artist who, in his unique portrayals of the individual, encouraged the exploration of the universal.
Situated Listening
Situated Listening sets forth a collection of novel methodologies and creative proposals for listening, advancing the framework of situated listening as both a theoretical concept and a methodological practice.
Ribera's Repetitions
The seventeenth-century Valencian artist Jusepe de Ribera spent most of his career in Spanish Viceregal Naples, where he was known as "Lo Spagnoletto," or "the Little Spaniard." Working under the patronage of Spanish viceroys, Ribera held a special position bridging two worlds. In Ribera's Repetitions, art historian Todd P. Olson sheds new light on the complexity of Ribera's artwork and artistic methods and their connections to the Spanish imperial project.Drawing from a diverse range of sources, including poetry, literature, natural history, philosophy, and political history, Olson presents Ribera's work in a broad context. He examines how Ribera's techniques, including rotation, material decay (through etching), and repetition, influenced the artist's drawings and paintings. Many of Ribera's works featured scenes of physical suffering--from Saint Jerome's corroded skin and the flayed bodies of Saint Bartholomew and Marsyas to the ragged beggar-philosophers and the eviscerated Tityus. But far from being the result of an individual sadistic predilection, Olson argues, Ribera's art was inflected by the legacies of the Reconquest of Spain and Neapolitan coloniality. Ribera's material processes and themes were not hermetically sealed in the studio; rather, they were engaged in the global Spanish Empire.Pathbreaking and deeply interdisciplinary, this copiously illustrated book offers art history students and scholars a means to see Ribera's art anew.
Gina Proenza
Reminiscent of modernist sculpture and theatrical displays, Proenza's subtle and sophisticated installations propose a space for dreamlike thinkingPublished on the occasion of her solo exhibition at the Mus矇e Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, this monograph on French Colombian artist Gina Proenza (born 1994) encompasses her sculptural work drawing from specific narratives blending anthropological research, ancestral tales and literary influences. Through playful forms and theatrical displays, Proenza creates a sophisticated yet sensual visual language.
Monumental
As the creator of the 67-foot-tall "Big Sam" statue of Sam Houston that overlooks Interstate 45 just south of Huntsville, Texas, David Adickes is a pivotal, if sometimes enigmatic, figure in Texas art. Though he made many contributions to the early development of the Houston art scene and to Texas Modernism, which has experienced an upsurge in interest of late, Adickes's life and work have had no thorough examination. Monumental: The Art of David Adickes tells the story of how a young artist from rural Texas studied with Fernand L矇ger in Paris, traveled the world, and returned to Texas to become one of the founders of a thriving art scene. Consideration of his monumental sculptures of Sam Houston, the Beatles, and various US presidents affords readers the opportunity to reflect on the challenges of making public art and navigating its political, cultural, and bureaucratic restrictions. Monumental considers the artistic implications of history, popular culture, kitsch, and even social media while exploring the dichotomy between the frequent academic skepticism and the ongoing mass appeal of Adickes's oeuvre. Scholars and students of contemporary Texas art, as well as general readers interested in Adickes's well-known public works, will enjoy this first-ever comprehensive look at a popular Texas artist.
Rebecca Merlic: The City as a House
A record of the artist's nomadic living digital experiment in TokyoIn this interactive video art piece-turned-book, the German digital artist and architect Rebecca Merlic (born 1989) challenges the concept of the private home, taking her own nomadic lifestyle in Tokyo as her catalyst for inquiry. The book showcases various forms of data collected during her experiment.
Katherine Bradford
Bradford's figures swim, float and wander through the dark and dreamy landscapes of their canvasesSince the 1970s, painter Katherine Bradford has unapologetically blazed her own path in the art world: painting daily and building a community of like-minded artists in both Maine and New York. Bradford paints with a formal inventiveness and a shifting sense of figure and ground, giving narrative weight to her characters who may appear as heroes or lovers, families or couples, businessmen or isolated individuals. Her chromatic scenes, painted in many transparent layers of acrylic, transmit a light-filled quality and offer metaphorical possibilities as they veer between humor, pathos and abstraction.This reference monograph of her work features an essay by London-based art critic Allie Biswas that reflects on the metaphysical nature of Bradford's work, an interview with fellow artist and writer Daniel Gerwin, a narrative biography text by her children, Laura and Arthur Bradford, that offers a personal look at the artist's life and work, and an overview essay by Austrian curator Sandro Droschl. The book compiles over 100 artworks surveying Bradford's paintings from 2015 until today, focusing on her recent series entitled Swimmers and Mother Paintings dealing with her own vision of motherhood and womanhood.Katherine Bradford (born 1942) lives and works in New York City and Brunswick, Maine. She has exhibited at institutions such as the Brooklyn Museum and most recently in a solo exhibition at the Portland Museum of Art, which traveled to the Frye Museum in Seattle. Bradford was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2011 and a Joan Mitchell Fellowship in 2012.
Lovro Artukovic: Stagings
First-ever examination of the Croatian figurative painter who paints quietly evocative scenes of urban lifeThis publication offers the first comprehensive overview on the practice of Croatian artist Lovro Artukovic (born 1959), encompassing the past four decades. The volume explores his figurative paintings, drawings and graphics that tap into contemporary urban culture with immediate intimacy and lashing imagery.
S矇verin Guelpa: The Desert, the Glacier and the Superstructure
A three-part, meticulously designed documentation of Guelpa's ambitious international art installation projectThis book follows the cross-continental art project of Swiss artist S矇verin Guelpa (born 1974). Carried out in three major stages, the project implemented exhibitions and immersions in diverse locales including the Mojave Desert, the Aletsch Glacier and urban construction sites.
Philip Mueller: Palio Di Vita
Neo-Romantic emotional paintings where unconventional characters and surreal events convergeKnown for his cacophonous, large-scale paintings, Austrian artist Philip Mueller (born 1988) captivates viewers with intense colors and manipulation of forms. Palio di Vita chronicles Mueller's imaginary groups of characters amid seaside and island settings inspired by his sojourns in Southern Europe.
Ann Craven: Night
New compositions of earthly delights under the veil of night, from the painter known for her joyful depictions of birds, trees, flowers and moreThis catalog, accompanying Karma's three-part exhibition of new paintings by Ann Craven (born 1967), surveys major motifs of the artist's nearly 30-year-long practice. For the first time, she has set all of her scenes in the darkness of evening, creating a consistent chromatic background that intensifies her always-vibrant colors. These oils of moons, trees, birds, flowers and deer constitute the latest chapter in her systematic catalog of what she terms "revisitations," each of which is also a reinvention of her subject matter. In this body of work, and across her practice, figuration morphs into kaleidoscopic abstraction and back again, each canvas resisting easy categorization in favor of pure feeling. In addition to a lush plate section, this volume features an intimate conversation between the artist and curator Jay Sanders, an expansive art-historical essay by Richard Kalina and poems written and collected in dedication to Craven by Susan Howe.
Francesco Ciccolella: Between the Lines
A poetic meditation on mental health and the act of drawing as a conduit for processing griefA decade after a mental health crisis shook his family, Austrian illustrator Francesco Ciccolella (born 1990) began work on an autobiographical visual essay. Assembled from a series of sketchbook drawings, it explores the experience of observing a loved one locked in the grip of despair.
Magic Art
Breton's late treatise on magic and art appears for the first time in English, complete with citations, commentaries and a bibliographyWhat is "Magic Art"? In 1953, Andr矇 Breton, founder of the Surrealist movement, was invited by a prestigious French publisher to explore answers to this question. His resulting analysis is wide-ranging and evocative. Beginning with a literary review of magic and art, Breton draws upon Novalis and Baudelaire before considering the prehistoric rock art of Spain and France, the native art of the Pacific Northwest, the magical grimoires and alchemical symbolism of the Middle Ages, and the work of Hieronymus Bosch, Antoine Caron, Paolo Uccello, Gustav Moreau, Paul Gauguin and the Surrealists. Through these and other diverse sources, Breton traces a mystery that lies at the heart of our timeless fascination with otherness and seeks to place Surrealism as a successor to a magical sensibility that began with art itself.First published in 1957 as L'Art magique, this important text is offered here as an English translation for the first time. Working from manuscript notes for the original project, this edition presents the iconographic content as Breton intended, together with more than 300 new citations and a comprehensive bibliography that emphasizes sources found in Breton's own library.Andr矇 Breton (1896-1966) was one of the founders and most controversial exponents of Surrealism, defining the movement in his first Surrealist Manifesto as "pure psychic automatism." Fleeing from Europe during World War II, Breton traveled throughout North America staging Surrealist exhibitions and lending his voice to several political movements.
Robert Grosvenor: Flocked Snow
Grosvenor's photographs of color-coated snow investigate the stakes of altering the world around usIn a Patchogue, New York, parking lot, Robert Grosvenor (born 1937) photographed brightly colored flocking dropped into mounds of snow. Known for his subtle adjustments to readymade objects, Grosvenor makes the resulting images insistently abstract, depicting the aftermath of an action.
Emile Claus
- A major monograph on the artist widely regarded as one of the greatest Impressionist luminist painters Emile Claus (1849-1924, published to mark the anniversary of his death 100 years ago- This book is published on the occasion of the Emile Claus centennial exhibition in MUDEL Museum, Deinze, Belgium from September 28, 2024 to January 26, 2025Dive into the mesmerizing world of Emile Claus (1849-1924), a master of Impressionist Luminism, with this stunning monograph celebrating the artist's centennial. From his early works to his later masterpieces, this book offers a comprehensive overview of Claus's spectacular oeuvre, showcasing his mastery of light, color, and atmosphere. With insightful commentary and exquisite reproductions, one will be transported to the idyllic landscapes and enchanting scenes that defined Claus's legacy. Whether you're a seasoned art enthusiast or discovering Claus's brilliance for the first time, this volume is a must-have addition to any art lover's collection. Image (c) MUDEL, Deinze
John Scott
Raw, personal and political, John Scott: Firestorm presents an artist's searing critique of modernity's capacity for industrial warfare and the machines that enable it. John Scott (1949-2022) produced paintings, drawings, and sculptures of what he called "engines of history," the hyper-masculine military and civilian weapons of the past half-century. Surveillance aircraft, B-52 and stealth bombers, tanks, cruise missiles and rockets, as well as handguns, muscle cars, and motorcycles forcefully imprint themselves upon the viewer through Scott's fierce mark-making and large, rough sculptural gestures. Humanoid rabbits--often surrounded by numbers that fail to add up--represent those threatened by such technologies. The dichotomy between the death-dealing weaponry of the nuclear era and the vulnerability of human beings lies at the core of Scott's work. Scott deployed an idiosyncratic graphic language to represent apocalyptic machines and power imbalances, working in the tradition of Francisco Goya, K瓣the Kollwitz, Nancy Spero, and others. Scott grew up in Windsor, Ontario, across the river from Detroit, Michigan. Like many Canadian artists, writers, and intellectuals of his time, Scott was a close watcher of America, with a front-row seat on a sometimes rogue nation. Stylistically, his work is close to that of his contemporaries Jean-Michel Basquiat and William Kentridge, showing a kindred ferocity of mark-making and dark urgency. John Scott: Firestorm accompanies the exhibition of the same name organized by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, curated by Canadian art scholar John O'Brian. It is the first major exhibition of Scott's work to focus on his imagery of machines and modernity's capacity for industrial war--a body of work as meaningful today as it was when it first appeared in the 1970s. This publication features over 100 of Scott's works, a detailed biography, and new critical writings on the artist.
Sketching Hong Kong--The Drawings of Eddie Chau
Views of China through the paint strokes of Eddie Chau. Sketching Hong Kong--The Drawings of Eddie Chau is a panoramic record of Hong Kong by the Indonesian-Chinese painter Eddie Chau. A testament to geographical history, each painting is a passage in Hong Kong's story, each stroke a moment in time. This book serves as a retrospective of Chau's art through his early years in Bandung, his coming-of-age in Guangdong, and his final decades in Hong Kong.
Erwin Wurm
An exciting retrospective on Austrian artist and sculptor Erwin Wurm. With his sculptures of fat cars, tiny houses, cucumbers, bread rolls, and sausages, Erwin Wurm shines a critical spotlight on consumer society's manipulative mechanisms and their effects. Published to coincide with the artist's seventieth birthday, this extensive catalog documents the important stations of Erwin Wurm's artistic career to date. Wurm uses shifted proportions and new angles on objects of everyday life to gain new perspectives and insights into our world and our lives. Alongside his main works, this book also introduces the public to lesser-known but equally significant works and work groups. The resulting selection forms a dense network of artistic statements comprising sculptures, drawings, working instructions and documentation, videos, objects, photographs, and paintings.
Xanti Schawinsky
Discover the life and art of Xanti Schawinski. Xanti Schawinsky: Play Life Illusion refers to the title of a performance that Xanti Schawinsky developed in 1936 with students at Black Mountain College. The Swiss artist who worked at the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau emigrated in the 1930s via Italy to the United States. The volume assembles autobiographical texts and letters regarding the life's work of the multimedia artist and designer. During his time at the Bauhaus, Schawinsky learned that it is possible to be both an artist and a designer at the same time if your passion for and joy in experimentation are simply big enough. Thus, he repeatedly reinvented himself as a stage and exhibition designer, painter, graphic artist, teacher, and photographer. He made friends, allies, and colleagues who included not only Bauhaus artists like Walter Gropius and Herbert Bayer but also avant-garde artists like Marcel Duchamp. Texts, accompanying explanations, and lively illustrations recreate his life and times.
Alois Riegl
Alois Riegl (1858-1905) was one of the founders of art history as a discipline. This is the first general introduction to the work of the celebrated Austrian who brought complex philosophical considerations to bear on art and its history. Ranging easily over diverse fields and among a large group of thinkers, Margaret Iversen establishes Riegl's relevance to recent critical thinking while clearly delineating his extraordinary critical powers. Iversen contextualizes Riegl's thought among the wider cultural crosscurrents of his time, pointing for example to his denunciation of the sub-Semperians and his profound influence on Walter Benjamin. She is equally concerned to relate Riegl's work to contemporary theoretical interests, arguing that he pioneered an approach to art history that took into consideration the role of the spectator. She devotes a chapter to Riegl's theory of spectator/depiction relationships, comparing it with more recent writing on the subject by commentators like Fried, Foucault, and others. In a sympathetic reading of Riegl, Iversen interprets his theory of Kunstwollen or artistic volition, as a concept that ran counter to narrowly empiricist and determinist histories of art that were dominant in his time. She provides extended critical commentary on his most important works, Questions of Style, Late Roman Art Industry, and The Dutch Group Portrait, enriched by explorations of the theoretical background of his systematic art history, including the work of Kant, Hegel, Herbart, and Hildebrand. Iversen also details Erwin Panofsky's early response to Riegl, arguing that Panofsky's search for an authoritative viewpoint collapsed Riegl's multiple typology of style into an art history constructed around a single aesthetic norm.
The Art of the Legend of Vox Machina
The adventure begins in the hit TV series The Legend of Vox Machina! Follow Vex'halia, Vax'lidan, Keyleth, Grog Strongjaw, Scanlan Shorthalt, Pike Trickfoot, and Percy de Rolo as they set off to save Exandria from dark forces. Experience Exandria again with character breakdowns, concept art, and a behind-the-scenes look into the creation of the show with Legend of Vox Machina writer Meredith Kecskemety, along with special commentary from the cast.
Jules Schmalzigaug
- Brilliantly introduces Jules Schmalzigaug, Belgium's sole Futurist artist - Features the world's largest collection of Schmalzigaug's works from KMSKA (Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp) - Explores his artistic journey from the academy to 'panchromy' - Covers Schmalzigaug's travels from Bruges to Venice to The Hague - Comparable to collections of renowned artists like Ensor and Rik Wouters A brilliant introduction to the work of Jules Schmalzigaug (1882-1917), Belgium's sole representative of the Futurist movement. The Royal Museum of Fine Arts (KMSKA) in Antwerp, like it does with James Ensor and Rik Wouters, boasts the world's largest collection of Schmalzigaug's works. This collection book provides ample reason to explore it, thoroughly documenting the evolution of Schmalzigaug's creative process. It traces his journey from the academy to 'panchromy', and from Bruges to Venice to The Hague.
To Everything There Is a Season
Emma Haworth is a painter of the urban scene. Her art is built upon meticulous observation of the ebb and flow of modern metropolitan life - in the streets, the parks, the squares of London, New York, Paris and other great cities: it is a constantly shifting drama of moving people and changing light, played out in a great arena that is both architectural and natural. In To Every Thing There is a Season, Emma shows us an overview of her oeuvre and working practices.
Alberto Garutti
Charting Garutti's visual language through his assessment of the location, history and realities through his public art spacesConceived by the late Germano Celant, this monograph provides the most complete overview of Italian artist Alberto Garutti (1948-2023), including a selection of artist statements and a critical timeline of his sculptures, installations and public art.
Elmgreen & Dragset: Spaces
The first comprehensive publication to focus solely on Elmgreen & Dragset's spatial alterationsSince the early days of their collaboration, Elmgreen & Dragset have reconfigured conventional exhibition spaces, transforming them into uncanny settings within a gallery context. Populated with their sculptural works, these environments invite exploration and allow visitors to complete the narrative fragments offered within. By juxtaposing exhibition spaces with incongruous settings or situations, the duo encourages visitors to investigate the social, cultural and political structures embedded within everyday settings. Spaces is unique in its scope in that it focuses on the holistic spacial alterations that Elmgreen & Dragset create, rather than the installations and public art that have been previously studied. Texts and a chronology of past spatial alterations provide academic context and an insightful overview of this important aspect of the artists' oeuvre.
Olivia Erlanger: If Today Were Tomorrow
Outer space-inspired sculptures reckon with the structures of suburbiaIn our age of "polycrisis," wherein multiple seismic events occur simultaneously, how do we visualize our place in a world that is no longer recognizable? If Today Were Tomorrow reimagines what it means to inhabit a planet. Shifting between notions of home--as an architecture, a neighborhood, a world or a feeling--American artist Olivia Erlanger (born 1990) continues her decade-long disruption of what she refers to as the "semiotics of suburbia," or the symbols and myths of suburban life. In this new body of work, the artist expands our understanding of home as a planetary cosmos, containing not only houses but also their interiors and surrounding infrastructure. If Today Were Tomorrow documents Erlanger's debut solo museum exhibition in the US, showcasing her sculptures, film and installation-based work. It includes essays on her work by authors Chris Kraus and Mark von Schlegell.
Egon Schiele
This book highlights the intimate relationship between landscape and portraiture in the work of the Austrian Expressionist artist Egon Schiele (1890-1918). Plants, natural environments, and townscapes determine the spaces Egon Schiele created in his paintings, and they also reflect the rich symbolism he employed that is centered around the human condition. In particular, plants are often endowed with an allegorical meaning. Flowers and trees assume the role of portrait subjects and convey an almost human appearance. Schiele's landscapes always represent more than their apparent subject matter. His portrayal of nature and his rendering of towns and trees epitomize the life cycle and the human condition.This catalogue, accompanying a spectacular exhibition on view at the Neue Galerie New York, will investigate the importance of landscape in the artist's work. The contributing authors are internationally distinguished experts on Schiele's landscapes and representatives of museums and universities in Europe and the United States.
Living Jewish Art
The art of Itshak Holtz (1925-2018) is an intimate guide to the Jewish world, approached with a sensitivity, confidence, and thorough familiarity that only someone living and breathing it could attain. Holtz was born in a small town near Warsaw and moved with his family to Jerusalem when he was ten years old; he pursued his artistic training there and in New York, at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design.From the beginning of his artistic career, Holtz was drawn to depict the life of the Orthodox communities of which he himself was a part, in both New York and Jerusalem. His subjects were not idealized memories of the imagined past, but the real people around him, continuing an ancient way of life today. Holtz's work envelops the viewer with its warmth and offers a sympathetic and honest insight into the inner world of his subjects, whom he pictures in their prayer houses, on their streets, engaged in their daily affairs. This lavishly illustrated volume surveys Holtz's incomparable paintings, drawings, and prints of Jewish life. Organized by subject matter, it presents his scenes of worship, celebration, work, and everyday life, as well as his landscapes and portraits. An introductory essay by Richard McBee, the noted critic of Jewish art, traces Holtz's biography and artistic development.
Goya's the Forge
New volume in the Frick Diptych series features an illuminating essay by Frick deputy director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator Xavier F. Salomon paired with a text by award-winning author Hisham Matar.Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) is among the most important Spanish artists of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. A late masterpiece, his Forge derives from the mythological theme of the forge of Vulcan, the metalworker of the Olympian gods. The figures in Goya's monumental, haunting painting are instead muscular laborers at work around a blacksmith's anvil. Salomon's deeply researched text is complemented by a poetic piece by Matar.Designed to foster critical engagement and interest specialist and non-specialist alike, each book in the Frick Diptych series illuminates a single work in the Frick's rich collection with an essay by a Frick curator paired with a contribution from a contemporary artist or writer.
Stone Cube
Stone Cube is a captivating art book that delves into the innovative world of artist Stone Chun Shi and his groundbreaking Stonecube technique. This visually stunning publication features 15 masterpieces, most of which were created in the past two years. Among them is the iconic Renminbi No. 5, a landmark work completed in 2013, representing the beginning of the internationalization of Stone Chun Shi's Stonecube series.In addition to showcasing these remarkable artworks, the book provides an in-depth introduction to Stone Chun Shi's artistic journey and philosophy. It also offers a detailed exploration of the Stonecube technique, a pioneering method that transforms individual color cubes into a cohesive whole. This approach reflects a profound fusion of Eastern calligraphic precision and Western oil painting textures, symbolizing balance, harmony, and cultural exchange.Stone Cube is more than a collection of art; it is a journey through the creative mind of an artist redefining contemporary art. It invites art enthusiasts, collectors, and scholars to immerse themselves in the emotional depth and cultural resonance of Stone Chun Shi's transformative work.
The Insomnia Drawings
Bourgeois' thought-provoking collection of more than 200 works, produced during sleepless nights, provides inimitable insight into her psycheInsomnia was a lifetime companion for Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010). Between November 1994 and June 1995, she committed to paper whatever thoughts, memories and images surfaced during her long, sleepless nights. The resulting 220 drawings are the quintessence of all the impulses, sources and motifs that inspired her work. The Insomnia Drawings shows Bourgeois' total mind at work: drawings and sketches alternate with poems and aphorisms in both French and English, interspersed with notes referring to the hustle and bustle of everyday life. The resulting series is a unique mirror of an extraordinary woman's life and work: beautiful, disquieting, passionate, inquiring and imbued with a quirky sense of humor.As soon as the artist agreed to entrust The Insomnia Drawings to the Daros Collection, it was clear that this extraordinary work should be presented as a book. The result is a handsome paper-bound and slipcased two-volume publication. The first volume contains facsimiles of both the recto and verso of the 220 drawings. The second volume provides the reader with valuable background information on this complex and exhilaratingly beautiful work of art. Marie-Louise Bernadac, a leading Bourgeois scholar, places The Insomnia Drawings in the context of Bourgeois' oeuvre, providing biographical references for many notes, and pointing out the leitmotifs of Bourgeois' imaginary universe. In a lucid and beautifully written essay, Elisabeth Bronfen traces the nocturnal mysteries of insomnia and places this work of art in a larger cultural context. Meanwhile, the second volume offers a chronology and annotated transcriptions of all texts and notes. This gorgeous collection of work is a must for anyone wanting to take part in the imaginative journey through Louise Bourgeois' psyche. A portion of the proceeds from Louise Bourgeois: The Insomnia Drawings will support the Easton Foundation and its ongoing work to preserve and promote the artist's legacy. This book is made newly available thanks to the Easton Foundation and Hauser & Wirth Publishers
Rachel Ruysch: Nature Into Art
The first monograph in over 70 years on the celebrated female protagonist of Dutch floral paintingAt the end of the 17th century and beginning of the 18th, Rachel Ruysch was celebrated across Europe for her sumptuous floral still lifes, admired both for their artistry and for their accurate depictions of flowers, fruit and insects. Often placed on stone ledges and against dark backgrounds, her sumptuous bouquets seem to spill over with all manner of colorful flowers and plants, as bees and butterflies flit to and from their petals. Ruysch's star faded after the close of the Dutch Golden Age, but late 20th- and early 21st-century interest in women artists has returned her to the forefront of the art historical canon.Nature into Art introduces today's audiences to Ruysch's achievements while also exploring the pioneering role of women artists and scientists in the Dutch Republic in the 17th and 18th centuries. Brilliantly illustrated with detailed reproductions of Ruysch's intricate paintings, the essays touch upon Ruysch's career and her immediate legacy while also widening their scope to consider the role of botany in the early modern era and the storied tradition of botanical illustration. The catalog also includes an index of the various flora and fauna depicted within Ruysch's work, which feature both native and nonnative species.Rachel Ruysch (1664-1750) produced hundreds of the floral still lifes for which she is best known. She was an apprentice in the studio of Willem van Aelst and the daughter of famed scientist Frederick Ruysch, meaning she had access to a wider world of Dutch flower painters and botanists. From 1708 until 1716 she served as court painter to Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine.
Manoucher Yektai: Landscapes
Lyrical landscapes are rendered in liberal swaths of impasto in Yektai's soft yet dynamic paintingsIranian American artist and poet Manoucher Yektai (1921-2019) was a founding member of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism. His practice was shaped by his interactions with de Kooning, Pollock and Rothko as much as by Iranian modernism. This second monograph on the understudied midcentury artist spans works from what he called his Body of Landscape series, including brushy, vibrant depictions of Positano, Italy and views of 95th Street in Manhattan. As poet James Schuyler wrote of this series in 1959: "Nothing is literally described but all is there: openness, greenness, the pink and wrecked look of New York as it often shows itself nowadays, Berlin-on-Hudson, glamorous and condemned." This volume features a plate section that highlights the lushness of Yektai's signature impastos, as well as essays by Suzanne Hudson and Paul Galvez.
Cut & Collage 3
Unleash your creativity with Cut & Collage 3, the ultimate resource for artists, designers, and enthusiasts who want to explore the boundless possibilities of collage. This third edition from Vault Editions presents a curated collection of meticulously restored vintage illustrations ready to inspire your next project. From anatomical engravings and botanical wonders to surreal sea creatures, bizarre inventions, and mystical creatures, this book combines a wealth of captivating imagery for physical and digital art.Bonus Features: Print at home PDF version of the bookThis book includes a downloadable, print-at-home PDF version of Cut & Collage 3, ensuring that you have unlimited access to the images you need without the hassle of repurchasing. This collection encourages experimentation and is perfect for beginners and seasoned collage artists, making it an ideal companion for anyone looking to craft distinctive and imaginative compositions.Beginners guide to digital collage courseCut & Collage 3 also includes a beginner's guide to digital collage course, offering access to bonus images and exclusive content that will help you master the essentials of digital collage and take your creations to the next level.Step into a world of inspiration where each image opens doors to new ideas and narratives. With Cut & Collage 3, the only limit is your imagination. Embrace your creativity-order your copy today and start creating!
Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine)
A gorgeously illustrated book documenting acclaimed artist Kara Walker's major new installation--"a groundbreaking collaboration merging art and technology" (New York Times) Kara Walker is renowned for her bold examinations of the dynamics of power and the exploitation of race and sexuality through her profound work that has appeared in exhibitions around the world. She has created monumental sculptures, including A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby (2014), for the former Domino Sugar refinery in Brooklyn, and Fons Americanus (2019) for Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. This beautifully designed book documents the creation of Walker's major new commission, Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine) (2024), at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The installation features eight Black automatons, including the seven-foot-tall prophetess, Fortuna, who responds to each visitor with a choreographed routine and a printed fortune fresh from her mouth. Situated in fields of obsidian--a volcanic glass with deep spiritual properties--the other robotic dolls, or Gardeners, rise and fall, gesture, turn, and clamor--trapped in a never-ending cycle of ritual and struggle. Evoking wonder, reflection, respite, and hope, the work explores the memorialization of trauma, the objectives of technology, and the possibilities of transforming the negative energies that plague contemporary society. This book presents Walker's working drawings and paintings, photographs of her creative process with collaborators, and detailed images of the final installation. Also included are an illuminating text by Walker, an essay by product designer David A. M. Goldberg, a selection of fashion designer Gary Graham's notebook pages, an excerpt from Donna Haraway's influential essay "A Cyborg Manifesto," experimental short fiction by writer Damani McNeil, and a conversation between Walker and curator Eungie Joo. Exhibition ScheduleSFMOMA, San FranciscoJuly 1, 2024-Spring 2026 Published by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in association with Princeton University Press
Godzilla: The Official Cookbook
The official cookbook inspired by the Toho Godzilla movies and creatures, featuring a wide variety of fun, kaiju-themed food and drink recipes to suit all tastes and skill levels, including the scrumptious Guaczilla, the delicious Gigan's Wings and the awesome Mechagodzilla Head cake! Get ready to unleash the culinary power of monstrous flavors with Godzilla: The Official Cookbook! This officially licensed hardback cookbook features over 60 jaw-dropping recipes inspired by the iconic Godzilla and other kaiju creatures such as the scrumptious Guaczilla, the delicious Gigan's Wings and the awesome Mechagodzilla Head cake! Embark on a gastronomic journey like never before, exploring a menu as vast as the Pacific Ocean. From fiery drinks that erupt with flavor to starters that capture the essence of destruction, every recipe is crafted to unleash your inner food monster. Whether you crave meaty creations or prefer vegetarian and vegan options that still pack a punch, this cookbook has something for every kaiju-loving palate--and stunning photography showcases the finished dishes in all their towering glory. Each page will transport you to the heart of epic culinary battles that will leave you craving more, so put on your chef's hat and prepare to embrace some unique creativity in the kitchen. Godzilla: The Official Cookbook is a must-have for fans of all ages, perfect for themed parties, family gatherings, or just indulging your monstrous cravings!
Reza Aramesh
Decontextualized scenes of violence explore art historical notions of iconography and representationWorking across a wide range of materials, Reza Aramesh (born 1970) examines simultaneously the history of Western European art and contemporary commentary on the politics and history of global conflict zones, merging a unique visual language to address the contemporary conditions of violence and its precarious relation to mediation.
Choi Jongtae
Christian sculptures and paintings shaped by traditional Korean aesthetics that transcend cultural boundariesChoi Jongtae (born 1932) is a beloved figure in South Korea's contemporary art scene, having played a pivotal role in the modernization and nativization of religious sculpture within the country. This monograph, encompassing both sculpture and painting, is a testament to his unique artistic language.
The Sweet Life
An entirely new exploration of the life and career of the expat American artist Julius LeBlanc Stewart (1855-1919), who spent nearly all his life in Paris, and whose oil paintings feature in private collections and those of many major museums on both sides of the Atlantic.Stewart's paintings are highly engaging and attractive, covering a broad cross-section of later nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American Expat Parisian high society, its genteel past-times, and travel, in a style of painting that was uniquely his own, and that was lauded in both Europe and America. This new volume presents over seventy major paintings, pastels and drawings across thematic sections, with a new introduction to Stewart's life, career, and world through essays by major specialists on nineteenth and early twentieth century American art and history.The authors look variously at Stewart's early career and training at the ?cole des Beaux-Arts, his later tutelage under French and Spanish masters, Eduardo Zamaco簿s, Jean-L矇on G矇r繫me, and Raimundo Madrazo, his family's involvement in the production of sugar; then the world of the American Expat society in which Stewart circulated, and the evolution Stewart's later style, in the mid 1880s towards multi-figured, narrative scenes of his family, friends and meticulous depictions of their costumes; then for a brief period later the sensuous Arcadian nudes bathed in sunlight, celebrating the attributes of Diana and the Bachenates. Collectively these provide the first major exploration of Stewart's world and work with, new contribution to our understanding of the importance and legacy of his art, and his advocation for his community of fellow American artists in France.
Alberto Abate
A rare figurative painter amid the 20th-century Italian avant-garde sceneThe catalogue raisonn矇 of Alberto Abate (1946-2012) constitutes a new overview of his entire career. It analyzes the mythological themes that distinguish his 1980s paintings, his symbolic works of the 1990s and beyond, creating a dialogue between figures and geometric forms in a consolidated Cubist-Futurist and Neoconstructivist tradition.
Miguel Chevalier
Monumental digital installations changing colors and patterns that explore the possibilities and perils of technologyTaking references from art history and reformulating them using computer tools, French multimedia artist Miguel Chevalier (born 1959) investigates recurrent themes such as nature, artifice, cities and networks. His work is a rich source of insight into ourselves and our relationship with the world.
Alexander Kluge: The Dragonfly's Eye
The figurehead of New German Cinema meditates on the next leap forward in visual aestheticsIn The Dragonfly's Eye, author and filmmaker Alexander Kluge (born 1932) tests out the cooperative capacities of the Stable Diffusion model, which uses AI to process images. As a filmmaker, he has years of experience dealing with the camera and its ways of seeing. As a result, he is particularly curious about the different images that AI can generate. Here, Kluge reflects on the idiosyncrasies of these new types of images, in which chance factors and errors create subjective forms, resulting in open images that are hard to place. He establishes rules for using the "virtual camera" and thus contributes to a debate on how AI should be handled. In a series of stories combining images and text--ranging from cases of phantom pregnancy in East Germany to the mercenary Yevgeny Prigozhin--he examines how the "virtual camera" uncovers a new lens within which stories can be framed.
Rebecca Horn
Whether through painting, installation or performance, Horn uses theories of movement to transform her own body or the physical space it inhabitsGerman artist Rebecca Horn (born 1944) sees herself first and foremost as a choreographer. From her 1960s works on paper to her performance pieces and installations of later decades, Horn consistently employs the language of dance in her works, all exploring the body's position in space.
