Meditations on a Cup
Beautiful blossoms, gleaming glass and scintillating sunlight are features of the still life paintings that illustrate this colorful book about symbolic cups.Many ways are given that cups can symbolize our lives, encouraging self reflection. What is the meaning of an empty cup in your life?The setting of the paintings of still life arrangements in a 1924 Craftsman Bungalow on a window shelf has a timeless quality and inviting ambiance. The story of the artist finding this house for a studio is on the back cover.
A Single Guy's Guide to Predatory Women (Vol. 1, Lipstick and War Crimes Series)
Vol. 1 of the Lipstick and War Crimes Series, male student edition is called A Single Guy's Guide to Predatory Women, and is the mirror edition of A Thinking Girl's Guide to Sexual Identity. This edition is the opposite of mysogynist, and calls for a return to respect of the natural feminine. The series calls on young people to discover their true make up in order to create a positive future, which older people are often too asleep to realize is in jeapordy. In Vol. 1 we enter the mind boggling world of gender sculpting and why this social engineering has been pushed on all young people globally. We start to discover who initiated this program, which is historically outlined in Vol. 2 of series. We follow the money. In Vol. 1 we meet the female icons of last 50 years and how they were used to warp girl's behavior today, and why finding a good relationship is now like walking through a mine field. Vol. 1 will explain why a dysfunctional social context surrounds young people today and begins to point toward the correction of this distortion.
Bob Ross 2027 Day-To-Day Calendar
A celebration of America's most beloved and iconic art instructor, Bob Ross. Delivering the true joy of painting every single day, this official happy little Bob Ross璽"[ 2027 Day-to-Day Calendar features nearly 300 of Bob Ross's signature landscapes and over 60 of his most inspiring quotes about painting, beauty, and life. A daily dose of Bob Ross's signature landscapes, complete with clouds, trees, squirrels, and inspiring quotes, shares the joy of painting and his colorful world of "happy accidents." Features inspirational quotes from Bob Ross and iconic paintings Full color tear-off pages Day/date reference on each page Includes official major world holidays Recyclable easel backer for desk or tabletop display
Bob Ross 2027 Wall Calendar with Poster
Add serenity and inspiration to your walls with this yearlong wall calendar that features the paintings and wisdom of America's most beloved art instructor, Bob Ross. Share the joy of painting and Bob Ross's colorful world of "happy accidents" with the official Bob Ross璽"[ 2027 Wall Calendar, which features 12 of Bob Ross's signature landscapes and a bonus poster--complete with happy little clouds, friendly trees, and inspiring quotes. Features inspirational quotes from Bob Ross and iconic paintings Includes poster! Bonus spread for September-December 2026 Generous grids for adding appointments and reminders Includes major official world holidays Opens to 12 inches x 24 inches
Unleashing Your Purpose
This book is about finding your purpose in life. It is written for those who want to achieve more from the lives; who want to fulfill God's purpose for their lives. The book looks at Pursuing Purpose, Planted and Positioned for purpose, identifying your purpose, Puirpose in the misdsts of Crsis, Purpose and Passion and It's Time to Make your move.
Sacrificial Bodies
The definitive retrospective exploring the innovative and conceptual terrain of artist David AdeyPublished to accompany Oceanside Museum's 2026 exhibition Sacrificial Bodies, this comprehensive survey celebrates the first few decades of David Adey's artistic exploration. Known for his myriad art forms that span a wide range of concepts and material--from ceramic, neon, custom electronics, raw meat, cast resin, cut and dissected photos, laser-cut paper, wood carved with firearms, drywall screws, human excrement, video, installation, laser cut acrylic, 3D scanning, 3D modeling, 3D printing, CNC routing, public art, and more--Adey invites reflection on a conceptual thread that ties his body of work together. The common thread of "sacrificial bodies" serves as a point of entry for each piece, taking on a variety of meanings, from religion and spirituality to science and technology, from the impact of advertising on our perception of our own bodies to themes of mortality and the existential quandary of the human experience. This monograph traces Adey's evolution through material, process, and philosophy, revealing a career defined by experimentation, provocation, and spiritual inquiry. This comprehensive survey of the artists' work includes: A rich collection of installation photographs from museum and gallery exhibitions, featuring the artist's multimedia works, collages, and sculpturesAn exploration of themes such as celebrity, consumerism, identity, spirituality, and deep time is brought to life through materials like pins, paper, ceramics, and neonBehind-the-scenes photographs documenting the creative processInsightful essays by renowned art critic Robert L. Pincus, gallerist and curator Mark Quint, and art historians Lauren Buscemi and G. James Daichendt Perfect for fans of Damien Hirst, Barbara Kruger, Ai Weiwei, Janine Antoni, and Jeff Koons.
An Artist's Guide to Drawing Clothed Characters
In this follow-up to the acclaimed Anatomy for Artists: Drawing Form & Pose (over 30,000 copies sold to date), figure-drawing maestro Tom Fox takes a deep dive into the subjects of clothing and drapery. Using his unique approach of simplified mannequins and dynamic figure sketches, Tom shares his process for improving your figures holistically, understanding fabric physics, and capturing the fold, stretch, and crumple of believable clothing.With over 300 pages packed with Tom's engaging drawings and accessible instruction, Drawing Clothed Characters is a perfect companion to Drawing Form & Pose, as well as an invaluable standalone resource in its own right.Available alongside this book is a companion publication called Workbook: Drawing Clothed Characters, which features 200 pages of accessible instructions and figures to draw over on the pages, allowing the reader to practise the theory put forth in this main book.
A Fictional Autobiography Pt. II
Long-awaited second part of the fictional autobiography of the renowned artist Rinus Van de Velde. Text in English, Dutch Flemish, French. Long-awaited second part of the fictional autobiography of the renowned artist Rinus Van de Velde Rinus Van de Velde (b. 1983) is one of the most intriguing contemporary artists. He gained recognition for his monumental charcoal drawings, but his oeuvre now encompasses a wide range of media, including installations, film, ceramics, sculptures, pencil drawings and oil pastels. Using all these diverse forms, Van de Velde continues to work on his fictional autobiography in which he blurs the boundaries between reality and imagination. A Fictional Autobiography II, featuring a text contribution by the American author A.M. Homes, provides an impressive and sparkling overview of his recent work Text in English, Dutch Flemish, French
The Art of Ramonn90: Life in Every Sketch
This is the hotly anticipated debut art book from renowned illustrator and comic artist, Ram籀n Nunez. With years of extensive experience working in the comic, animation, and video-game industries, Ramon has carved out a unique artistic style and earned himself a reputation for creating captivating visual concepts and character art. His previous clients include top production companies including Riot Games, Sony Pictures Animation, and Dreamworks, and he has built a following of 609K fans on Instagram.In this book, he offers an insight to his world of art, where he likes to portray characters doing everyday activities in everyday places, such as eating at home or riding the subway. He has built a relatability in his art that appeals to fans, as they see themselves in his work. That said, he isn't afraid to introduce a bizarre situation or something unexpected to push the viewers' imagination!The book will feature personal details about Ram籀n's early life, education, and career, as well as step-by-step tutorials for readers to learn from his incredible style and skills. For long-standing fans or those newly discovering his artwork, Ram籀n's art book will be one that our audiences jump to own.
African Celebrities
African Celebrities: The Rise, The Legacy and The Future is your ultimate backstage pass to the world of African fame. Forget the clich矇s, this book takes you beyond the glitter to reveal what it truly means to be a celebrity on the continent today. It's a bold, eye-opening journey into the lives, influence, and cultural power of the icons who shape Africa's identity and inspire millions.From social media sensations rewriting the rules to legendary figures whose impact spans generations, discover how fame is being redefined in the digital era. Explore the loyal fan communities that celebrate these stars, the conversations that trend across platforms, and the movements they ignite-social, economic, innovation, humanitarian and cultural. This is not just about fame; it is about influence, legacy, and the unstoppable rise of voices that matter.Packed with powerful stories and sharp insights, African Celebrities is both a tribute and a roadmap to the future of stardom. Whether you're a fan, a journalist, an aspiring star, or simply curious, this book invites you to experience the rise, the legacy, and the thrilling future of Africa's icons and maybe even imagine your own name in lights.
Set Sail: The Art and Making of One Piece
Embark on a journey to discover how the Straw Hat Pirates were brought to life in Netflix's One Piece live-action adaptation. Join Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates on their journey to find the fabled hidden treasure: the One Piece! This deluxe hardcover art book explores the making of seasons 1 and 2 of the hit Netflix live-action series One Piece, based on the hit manga series by Eiichiro Oda and serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump. Discover how the production team brought to life the expansive story beginning in the East Blue and continuing to Drum Island. Concept art and on-set photography illustrate how unique locations such as the 153rd Branch Marine Base, Baratie, Loguetown, Little Garden, and numerous pirate ships--including the iconic Going Merry--were constructed using a mix of stunning practical sets and striking visual effects. Filled with exclusive interviews and commentary, this book describes the meticulous work that went into the creation of the costumes, prosthetics, hair and makeup, sets, stunts, and much more.
Isaac Israels' Europe
A captivating journey through early 20th-century Europe as seen by artist Isaac Israels, exploring art, identity, and cultural change across a rapidly modernizing continent. This richly illustrated book follows the journeys of Dutch artist Isaac Israels (1865-1934), whose restless wanderlust took him across Europe and profoundly shaped his artistic vision. The son of painter Jozef Israels, Isaac immersed himself in the cultural life of cities such as Paris, London, and Berlin, and traveled extensively through Italy, Austria, Spain, Denmark, and Sweden. Even during the First World War, he continued to explore the continent, sketching the people and places he encountered. His dynamic paintings reveal a Europe in transition--vibrant, cosmopolitan, and increasingly modern. Through Israels' eyes, the book reflects on themes of migration, identity, and the visual expression of "Europeanness" at the dawn of the 20th century. Presented by the Kr繹ller-M羹ller Museum, home to one of the world's foremost collections of modern art, it offers an evocative journey through both art and history.
BACKSTAGE - Behind the Curtains with the Greatest Entertainers of the 20th Century
BACKSTAGE - Behind the Curtains with the Greatest Entertainers of the 20th Century tells the remarkable story of Marty Harrell, a professional journey that began with his rise as a teenage bass trombone prodigy and carried him to the heart of the greatest stages of his era.From the swinging days of the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra to unforgettable performances behind legends like Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, and Sammy Davis Jr., Harrell's career placed him shoulder-to-shoulder with the most iconic entertainers of the 20th century.Told with intimacy and authenticity, BACKSTAGE is more than a chronicle of one man's musical career--it is a rare glimpse into the fun, excitement, banter and bluster behind the curtains, through the end of the big band era, the opening salvos of the British Invasion, and the height of the Rock & Roll epoch.
rosie
rosie is a handmade, mixed-media storybook following rosie the rabbit as she searches for safety in a quiet, ruined world. each illustration was drawn on reclaimed paper, each word is handwritten, and the past is faintly visible beneath the surface.rosie is a gentle survival tale blending softness with eerie stillness-it hints at strange things, such as the ones who still move beyond the grass.enter rosie's world and see what comes after the end through her eyes.
Samara Golden: If Earth Is the Brain Then Where Is the Body
Plunging the reader into the aquatic world of Golden's recent dazzling mirrored environmentPublished with Nasher Sculpture Center. For nearly 15 years, American artist Samara Golden (born 1973) has confounded viewers with her extraordinary and disorienting environments. Using mirrors to create the impression of vast spaces, which she populates with handmade figures and objects, Golden presents installations that can range from seemingly chaotic to quietly seething. if earth is the brain then where is the body commemorates her 2024 eponymous exhibition at the Nasher Sculpture Center, for which Golden conjured a rippling, glistening body of water, filled with aquatic life alongside human figures and their detritus. Encompassing the fetid as well as the paradisial, her piece became a place where memories, emotions, and thoughts converge in possibilities including the oceanic reaches of the unconscious. This volume invites the reader into Golden's world, offering vibrant, detailed photographs, taken by the artist, alongside a wide-ranging, evocative essay by curator Catherine Craft.
Cora Cohen
Cora Cohen (1943-2023) was an artist working in the lineage of American abstraction, creating paintings, drawings, altered X-rays and photographs. This expansive and fully illustrated volume collects works from throughout her decades-long career, and features new texts by leading critics and remembrances by artists, making it the definitive publication on Cohen's work.
Erin Shirreff
"If photography is about light and sculpture about material, Shirreff's work makes an unresolvable knot of the two that's as beautiful as it is puzzling." --Murray White, Boston GlobeA feeling of suspended animation haunts the work of Canadian artist Erin Shirreff (born 1975), melding historical reference and the present tense of live encounter. Shirreff favors the stark geometries of mid-20th-century abstraction, and often engages works of art--Donald Judd's concrete buildings, Tony Smith's monoliths--to ask broader questions about the act of looking. Contemplating what is lost and gained when art is filtered through the camera's eye, Shirreff's spare, evocative works compel new forms of attention. This is the first comprehensive monograph to capture the breadth of her studio practice, richly illustrated and featuring new scholarship by art historians Megan R. Luke, Kate Nesin, Taylor Walsh and Jeffrey Weiss, and an original text on Shirreff's experiments with cyanotype by author Rivka Galchen.
Frida Kahlo: Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair
A gift-worthy hardcover edition reexamining Kahlo's most subversive yet heart-wrenching self-portraitIn 1940, in the wake of a divorce from her husband Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo (1907-54) turned to self-portraiture to express her deepest emotional and psychological impulses, and completed a painting inscribed with the lyrics of a popular folk song, "La Pelona" "Look, if I loved you it was for your hair. Now that you're without it, I no longer love you." In Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair, Kahlo's usual lively and saturated palette is supplanted by neutral hues, her Tehuana dress by a man's suit and her plaited hair by shorn locks that appear to wriggle up from the floor and around her chair, strangely alive. Nevertheless, the painting remains unmistakably Kahlo's, intensely felt, dreamlike and displaying references that encompass both popular culture and details from the artist's private life. In this richly illustrated volume, which includes the artist's most celebrated self-portraits and other related images, art historian Jodi Roberts situates the painting in the context of the Mexican Revolution, the Surrealist tradition and Kahlo's own changing of her artistic identity. This expanded hardcover edition includes additional illustrations and photographs, and features a die-cut on the front cover.
Someday Is Now: The Art of Corita Kent
Four decades of impassioned art-activism from the beloved radical Catholic nun, educator and graphic artist--her definitive monograph available once morePublished with Tang Museum at Skidmore College. For Corita Kent, printmaking was a populist medium to communicate with the world around her. This activist spirit came most alive in the 1960s, when her posters and murals addressed subjects such as racism and poverty, US military brutalities in Vietnam and conflicts between radical and conservative positions in the Catholic Church. Her posters, murals and signature serigraphs combined messages of love and faith with images from popular culture and inventive use of type and color.Originally published in 2013 and long out of print, the most comprehensive monograph on Kent's work finally returns in a brilliant showcase of prints and ephemera from all phases of her life, revealing her importance as an activist printmaker and a stylistic innovator in graphic design. It includes not just the 1960s serigraphs for which she is best known, but also early abstractions and text pieces as well as lyrical works made in the 1970s and 1980s. Full of the lively, colorful work that is so iconically hers, this volume presents four decades of a life dedicated to serving others through and with the language of art. Someday is Now is punctuated by scholarship, selected writings by Kent herself, interviews with former students and collaborators, and responses to her work from a wide variety of artists, curators and designers.Artist, activist, teacher and devout Catholic Corita Kent (1918-86) eloquently combined her passions for faith and politics during her rich and varied career. As a teacher at Los Angeles' Immaculate Heart College, she fostered a creative and collaborative arts community and developed an interest in printmaking. By 1968, her art was enormously popular. She remained active in social causes until her death in 1986.
Chris Soal: To Sharpen Our Senses and Soften Our Touch
Made from artificial materials, Soal's "social abstractions" evoke natural phenomena through processes of aggregation, combination and erosionThrough his use of discarded ephemera such as toothpicks and bottle caps, along with concrete, rebar, sandpaper and other industrial materials, South African artist Chris Soal (born 1994) interrogates views of nature and culture as a binary concept while challenging societal preconceptions of value and hierarchy.
Brushstrokes for Change
Brushstrokes for Change is a brief biography of Canadian artist and women's rights activist, Mary Ella Dignam and includes many the artists who have enjoyed the benefits of her accomplishments, in the twenty first century.Born in 1857 in a small community she was a gifted visual artist, political activist and educator at a time in history where women were relegated to domestic roles. In spite of her enormous influence in Canadian Art and politics she remains unknown to most Canadians. Her legacy today, the Women's Art Association of Canada and the Dignam Gallery in Toronto, has hosted hundreds of artists and their work in the Dignam Gallery. Included in this book are over thirty diverse artists who have proudly exhibited in the Dignam as it moves ahead in the twenty first century.
Brushstrokes for Change
Brushstrokes for Change is a brief biography of Canadian artist and women's rights activist, Mary Ella Dignam and includes many the artists who have enjoyed the benefits of her accomplishments, in the twenty first century.Born in 1857 in a small community she was a gifted visual artist, political activist and educator at a time in history where women were relegated to domestic roles. In spite of her enormous influence in Canadian Art and politics she remains unknown to most Canadians. Her legacy today, the Women's Art Association of Canada and the Dignam Gallery in Toronto, has hosted hundreds of artists and their work in the Dignam Gallery. Included in this book are over thirty diverse artists who have proudly exhibited in the Dignam as it moves ahead in the twenty first century.
The Word for World
When Ursula K. Le Guin started writing a new novel, she would begin by drawing a map. The Word for World is the first publication focusing on maps by the celebrated author, publishing many for the first time together with writing from a variety of perspectives to enquire into the relationship between the world and its representation through creative dialogue with her fictions. Her maps offer starting points to reflect on the roles of architecture and placemaking in the creative process, worldbuilding, and paradigms of knowledge, exemplified by the map's edges and how a map is made. Through poems, stories, essays and theory, The Word for World reimagines her maps as carrying technologies of memory. Co-published by Spiral House and AA Publications to coincide with an exhibition of Ursula K. Le Guin's maps at the Architectural Association, London, opening on 10 October 2025.
Supernova Dreams
Author of Metamorphosis: The Awakening (a Poetry book) comes a new inspiring collection of poems as Krystal continues to touch souls through art by inviting readers to release old patterns, trust God, and step into a life of authenticity, forgiveness, and breakthrough."Self-healing takes timeLife can be an emotional roller coaster rideHead face down while curled up in a ballFrom all the self-pity, pain, heartaches, losses and all Things aren't going my way.Tears flowing like a river down my faceFeeling like constant thunder and rainI've died a million times to things that I thought I once knewI can't even catch a break.Self-healing is a battle you have to face. Fight, don't be rattled!No one tells you about the struggles of the ugly duckling.Long warm showers for hoursTurned my attitude sour.We have the choice to pick ourselves up Break through and reclaim our power!-Supernova Dreams: The Rising of a StarAuthentic, heartfelt and timeless, Supernova Dreams: The Rising of a Star is s transformative journey through poetry, visual art, and self-reflection, guiding you to healing, forgiveness, and radical self-discovery. Each page blends raw, authentic poetry with evocative artwork, creating a space to pause, feel, and fully inhabit the present. Through guided prompts and reflective exercises, this book invites you to trust God, release limiting patterns, and embrace choices that your future self will thank you for. It is a sanctuary for self-expression, a mirror for personal growth, and a companion for cultivating resilience, authenticity, and a shifting your paradigm of thought, perception, and possibility."Supernova Dreams is full of very powerful and inspirational poems. As a teacher I encourage my students to dream "big" dreams, and this book is full of reasons for a child to dream those "supernova dreams". Krystal's pictures also bring her poems to life. The pictures are full of color. I feel that every school library should have this book to inspire young writers and artists. Adding the details at the end for a person to create their own story is a wonderful idea. Krystal adding her own experience as a child will inspire students of all ages. Thank you, Krystal, for being an inspiration. Keep up the excellent work."-Tina Drinkwater- Reading Interventionist at Odyssey Academy-Texas City, Texas
The Art Escapes Atlas
A curated guide to the most extraordinary places where art extends beyond the walls.The Art Escapes Atlas is a guide to the world's most captivating art destinations--tucked away in forests, woven into cityscapes, or standing in quiet solitude across remote landscapes. From the homes of iconic artists like Georgia O'Keeffe and Frida Kahlo to awe-inspiring land art and visionary architecture, this book reveals places where art breaks free from traditional museum spaces.A must-have for cultural explorers, it highlights the most remarkable sites where creativity and place seamlessly intersect--offering a fresh perspective on how, and where, we encounter art.
Winslow Homer in Watercolor
Resplendent watercolors of the 19th-century world by New England native Winslow Homer"You will see," said American artist Winslow Homer, "in the future I will live by my watercolors." From his early forays into pastoral landscapes to his more mature works encompassing the maritime scenes for which he is best known, Homer's watercolors are most remarkable for their reverence of nature and the people who thrive within its conditions--sketches that are both quaint and sublime in scope.Boasting one of the most significant collections of Homer's watercolors in the United States, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, presents a luminous collection of nearly 50 works that demonstrate the artist's mastery of the medium. Readers will be transported to the rugged Maine coast, the rivers and streams of the Adirondacks, the weathered shores of seaside England and the bright beaches of the Caribbean. The many facets of these environments--ecological, artistic, social and economic--are reflected in Homer's thoughtful compositions that, though more than 100 years old, shine with a modern effervescence.Winslow Homer (1836-1910) was born in Boston and apprenticed to a commercial lithographer. He taught himself painting while working as a freelance illustrator for Harper's and other magazines. In 1883 he moved into his permanent home and studio in Prouts Neck, Maine, but continued to find inspiration in his travels to Canada, Cuba, the Bahamas, Key West and the Adirondacks.
Carl Schuch and France
This exhibition catalog explores the profound influence of French art on Carl Schuch, one of the most intriguing painters of the late nineteenth century. A cosmopolitan artist who traveled between Austria, Germany, Italy, Holland, and France, Schuch absorbed diverse ideas that shaped his distinctive artistic vision. Bridging tradition and modernity, his work blends value painting with liberated brushwork, rich color contrasts, and a deep reverence for the natural world. Influenced by French masters like Courbet, Corot, Daubigny, Manet, Monet, and Cézanne, Schuch perfected his own fluid, rhythmic brushstrokes and luminous color. His still- life paintings and landscapes reflect meticulous explorations of light, and the materiality of paint. This volume features eight insightful essays covering a range of topics related to Schuch's development, and artistic environment. Research using the latest art technology provides insights into the genesis of his paintings. Juxtapositions with works by his French contemporaries highlight both shared techniques and Schuch's unique identity. Richly illustrated with numerous color plates, the book captures the essence of the artist's mastery and showcases his groundbreaking style and enduring legacy. Perfect for seasoned art lovers and newcomers alike, this volume offers an inspiring analysis of light, color, and form, by an artist who drew deeply from France's artistic traditions and redefined the possibilities of painting in his time.
Gilbert & George: 21st Century Pictures
Like stained glass windows onto a modern age, Gilbert & George's pictures encompass the full spectrum of human existenceThe dons of all artist duos, Gilbert & George have for five decades committed to their motto of "art for all," particularly through their method of "living sculpture." Their practice ranges from charcoal sketches to sculptural interventions; however, it is their expansive, vividly colored pictures that have become the signature facet of their oeuvre. Characterized by concise, often single-word titles emblazoned in bold capital letters, each picture becomes a stage for the exploration of societal norms and cultural taboos. With bespoke cover artwork designed by Gilbert & George themselves, 21st Century Pictures features selections from key series made since 2000. Lavishly produced, with red sprayed edges, it also includes an introduction by Rachel Thomas, an in-depth essay by Michael Bracewell and a new interview with the artists by Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Kongkee: Warring States Cyberpunk
Cyborgs, electro rock, romantic reunions and dystopia--an exploration of Kongkee's multimedia narrative vision of Asian Futurism Published with Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. This volume explores the immersive world of Warring States Cyberpunk, a retro-futurist narrative exhibition conceived by London-based Chinese artist and animation director Kong Khong-chang (born 1977), known as Kongkee. Through multiscreen videos, wall projections, neon installations, vibrant graphic works, narrative texts and ancient Chinese objects, Kongkee unfurls his speculative odyssey centered on the legendary Chinese poet Qu Yuan, who lived during the Warring States Period (c. 481-221 BCE). His multimedia narrative traces the journey of Yuan's soul from the ancient Chu Kingdom to a retro-futuristic Asia where he is reborn as an android in an imagined psychedelic cyberpunk landscape--replete with cyborgs, electro rock and surprising romantic reunions. Warring States Cyberpunk elaborates upon the artist's worldmaking feat, probing the exhibition's thematic subject matter through four scholarly essays and an interview with Kongkee.
Basquiat: Headstrong
Using the head as a site of investigation, Basquiat's frenetic drawings of faces are at once immediate and contemplativeBetween 1981 and 1983, Jean-Michel Basquiat made between 50 and 100 drawings of heads. Working with oil stick on paper, he created a series far removed from his public paintings and collages filled with words and symbols--a more concentrated, private study whose pieces are rarely exhibited and seldom offered for sale. Stripped of external references, they read as intimate meditations on identity, perception and the fragile balance between presence and disappearance.Bringing this exceptional group together for the first time in decades in an oversize folio, Headstrong sheds new light on a lesser-known aspect of Basquiat's practice. Essays by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hilton Als and artists including George Condo and Julie Mehretu explore the drawings' formal invention and psychological intensity, showing how Basquiat transformed the head into a vessel for everything he was thinking and feeling--a space where imagination, history and lived experience converge.Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-88) is one of the most successful Black visual artists in history, despite his brief career. He emerged on the New York City arts scene in the late 1970s and quickly skyrocketed to international fame, becoming one of the most important artists of his generation. Basquiat's work and legacy continue to influence popular culture, especially art, music and fashion.
Marisol
A sweeping retrospective for radical Pop artist Marisol, an enigmatic and overlooked figure of the 1960sMarisol (1930-2016) was one of the most radical and visionary artists of her generation. Combining found objects, plaster casts of her own body, and a singular blend of Pop and folk art, she created large tableaux that were by turns unsettling and humorous, colorful and dark. Her works posed sharp existential questions and made powerful statements on entrenched gender roles and equality. A close friend of Andy Warhol and a fixture in his early experimental films, Marisol enjoyed critical acclaim in the United States during the 1960s. In the following decade, she turned away from Pop toward more overtly political art, challenging the public and critics alike. Undeterred by changing tastes, she pursued an uncompromising practice across sculpture, drawing, printmaking and photography.This book accompanies the first major European presentation of Marisol's work, reclaiming her position as a forgotten classic through a swath of pieces spanning her career. Essays explore her place among female Pop artists, the gendered readings of her sculptures and the remarkable breadth of her creative vision.
Shanzhai Lyric: Endless Garment
A poetry book repurposes the found nonsense language of mass-produced T-shirts manufactured in ChinaDrawn from a decade-long archival project by the artist collective Shanzhai Lyric, this book revels in and reveals the readymade lyricism of fast fashion, transforming the language of T-shirts into poetry. Shanzhai is the Chinese word for counterfeit or copy. The term, literally meaning "mountain hamlet," derives from a Song Dynasty tale about rebel bandits who stockpile goods stolen from the imperial center to share with people on its margins, finding new ways to relate to property, authorship and each other. Transcribing hundreds of mass-produced garments manufactured in China and circulating around the world, Endless Garment stitches together the many aphorisms, mistranslations, marketing slogans and textual fragments that adorn garments into a single unfolding poem.
Edgar Degas Masterpieces of Art
Art books for the modern consumer - short, considered, and beautiful, this one features the joyful impressionism of Degas. French artist Edgar Degas was famous for his drawing, painting, sculpture and printmaking. Although a member of the Impressionists, with Monet, Pissaro and Renoir his work focused on indoor subjects, particularly his acutely observed pieces on ballerinas. His masterful studies of real life resonate still today and he remains one of the most popular painters in the world. This beautiful new book showcases all of his major works (including Ballet Rehearsal, The Star and The Ballet Class), with detailed captions, and a long essay on life, art and influences.
Berthe Morisot Masterpieces of Art
Art books for the modern consumer - short, considered, and beautiful, this one features the much neglected Impressionist Berthe Morisot. Regarded by her fellow impressionists as a 'virtuoso colourist', Berthe Morisot (1841-95) strove to be considered an equal among her male peers - an uphill struggle at a time when women were generally forbidden from taking formal artistic training. Nevertheless, she succeeded in forging a career, gaining respect, becoming a key player and creating a body of work that has stood the test of time. Her impressionism vibrates with light and spontaneity and yet possesses a density of form through the deft use of colour. Inevitably she painted what she experienced: scenes of intimate domestic and family life, gardens, flowers, landscapes - representing the real, unfiltered day-to-day life of 19th-century women - from the tender depiction of maternal love in The Cradle to the Far-Eastern inspired Julie with her Greyhound La禱rte. This gorgeous book introduces the reader to the background, life and work of the artist, followed by a curated selection of her best work in exquisite full-page reproductions.
Salt and Flickers
Debuting as an Amazon #1 new release in Philosophy and top-10 across Running, Art Books, and Poetry, Salt & Flickers is a crossover sensation with runners, dreamers, artists, and seekers alike. With early praise from HuffPost, BuzzFeed, Like the Wind, Esquire, Peloton, New York Times and LA Times bestselling authors, and Olympians, this rising book and movement sits at the crossroads of running, art, and healing, called "a celebration of movement itself" and "a tailwind in life's race" written by "the Ram Dass of Running", Howie Goldklang and "iconic LA artist and muralist" Eric Junker.Salt and Flickers is an art-forward coffee table book, but more like a sacred object, a devotional artifact to motion, madness, and meaning because life is, too, when you let it be. Born on the cracked streets of Los Angeles and stitched together through the long strides and longings from running in and around the world, this large-format work - featuring a foreword by Travis Barker - fuses original illustrations, essays, meditations, icon portraits, and open-ended prose on what it means to move through this world with purpose and pain, a little grit and a little grace.Created by writer and Silver Lake Track Club founder Howie Goldklang, and artist-provocateur Eric Junker, Salt and Flickers is a living portrait of a culture in motion. This book is for the seekers: the ones who run, create, move, and meditate to understand themselves. The ones who believe running can be art, and art can be salvation. It is for the ones who lost something and decided to go find it through the forced meditation of movement. With Eric's visceral imagery and Howie's raw reflections, Salt and Flickers doesn't just tell a story--it cracks you open and reminds you: the path forward is also the path inward.Whether you're an artist, an athlete, or dreamer -- this is your invitation to let go and begin again and again.
Dan Basen
From gallery shows to philosophical musings, from queer eroticism to Dadaesque provocations, Basen's work reveals a complex artist who bridged genres with visionary intensityDan Basen (1939-70) was a captivating yet largely overlooked artist of the 1960s Manhattan scene. He helped introduce Allan Kaprow's Happenings to Baltimore, blurred the line between Pop art and Nouveau r矇alisme, and exhibited alongside icons Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg. Yet he resisted easy classification, criticizing commercial Pop, dabbling in folk art, surrealist film, performance and assemblage. This monograph is the first academic art historical treatment of Basen, the result of two years of research drawing on letters, diaries, archival footage, interviews and long-lost ephemera. With renewed scholarly interest in outsider and folk traditions, Basen's legacy, marked by raw experimentation and fierce independence, deserves a rightful place in the broader narrative of postwar American art.
Dieter Hall: A Naked Chair
Whether of a chair, a flower or a nude form, Hall's confrontational still lifes and portraits are photographic in their intensity yet candid in their intimacyReacting to the psychological realism of Alice Neel's paintings and the intimate compositions by Peter Hujar and David Armstrong, Dieter Hall (born 1955) paints man thrown back on himself--often nude, without any social attributes, in splendid isolation. The resulting works, minimally yet minutely arranged, tell of a deep-seated need for connection.
Steve Locke: I Said What I Said
Locke's career-long conceptual exploration into perceptions of the male figure and themes of racial violence, modernism and homosexualityPublished with MASS MoCA. The first career monograph of American artist Steve Locke (born 1963) captures the absurdity, curiosity, desire and rage that define contemporary American consciousness and its legacies of discrimination. Working in painting, drawing, installation and public art, Locke's work brings to light our dark past and present, looking closely at America's history of racial violence and spectacle. In his interdisciplinary practice, Locke engages issues of identity, desire, race, violence and memory, revealing as much tenderness and humor as he does brutality. Primarily concerned with how we ascribe meaning to portraiture while exploring the relationships between and among men, in recent years Locke has introduced a more personal, political and critical engagement with histories of racism and anti-Blackness, the Western canon of art history and American society.
Monet's Ecology
The first book to examine Monet's landscapes as ecological systems and intricate microcosms of nature and societyKnown almost as much for his gardens as for his paintings, the Impressionist Claude Monet (1840-1926) held a fascination with nature that only deepened as his career progressed. Monet's Ecology is the first exhibition to investigate the artist's relationship to ecology and the environment. Illustrated with a dazzling array of landscapes, from his early coastal views of Le Havre to his "impressions" of Westminster Bridge and Gare Saint-Lazare, his Rouen Cathedral series and finally Water Lilies, each curatorial essay in the catalog examines a different aspect of Monet's "ecologies"--from the industrial biomes of London and Paris to the pastoralism of middle-class leisure and contemporary protests against climate change that directly invoke Monet's Giverny scenes--arguing that Monet's radical engagement with the natural world positioned him at the forefront of ecological awareness.
Lucian Freud: Drawing Into Painting
Tracing the British figurative master's evolving drawing practice throughout his lifetimeExamining 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 both Freud and others, the book includes conversations with David Dawson, Freud's close friend and assistant, and Bella Freud, the artist's daughter. Insightful essays by writer and curator Catherine Lampert, British Museum drawings curator Isabel Seligman, and acclaimed novelist Colm T籀ib穩n further illuminates Freud's world and legacy.Lucian Freud (1922-2011) is celebrated as one of the great figurative realist artists of the 20th century, who devoted his artistic life to portraiture. Famously stating that "everything is a portrait," he created intensely observed portraits of animals and plants, as well as his family members and those in his social circle and daily life.
Mildred Howard: Poetics of Memory
A vital critical resource on the artist who helped transform the landscape of the Bay Area with her public artworksPublished with Oakland Museum of California. The American artist Mildred Howard (born 1945) is best known for her mixed-media assemblages and sculptural installations that engage with memory, place, identity and the Black experience. Her work has been associated with the Black Arts Movement and distinctly Californian aesthetics such as Bay Area expressionism, West Coast conceptual art and San Francisco funk. In recent decades, Howard has produced numerous large-scale public artworks both within the Bay Area and throughout the country. These installations vary from site-specific outdoor environments, to architecturally integrated surface treatments, to stand-alone sculptural objects and structures.This compendium covers the entire scope of Howard's multifaceted, politically engaged practice, featuring a selection of works that represent different aspects of her oeuvre alongside essays and an interview with the artist. Poetics of Memory also includes photographs of Howard's archive and studio commissioned specifically for the volume.
George Condo: The Mad and the Lonely
Probing the many sites and sources of inspiration for Condo's vivid, paranoiac paintings and totemic sculpturesThis catalog documents Condo's (born 1957) exhibition The Mad and The Lonely, the site-specific installation at the DESTE Foundation's Project Space at the Slaughterhouse on the island of Hydra in Greece, which included a number of small-scale paintings and sculptures selected from the artist's long career and recontextualized in the storied space. With a vivid 40-page leporello, this square hardcover book includes a text by Dakis Joannou and an essay by Condo himself that probes the many sites and sources of inspiration for The Mad and The Lonely.
Frans Krajcberg: Rediscovering the Tree
Blending formal rigor with stringent activism, Krajcberg's six-decade-long oeuvre centers his deep connection to nature and his advocacy for the Amazon rainforestsA pioneer in the integration of art and ecology, Polish Brazilian artist Frans Krajcberg (1921-2017) was a trailblazer in raising visibility around environmental issues, working with remnants of tree trunks, vines and charred wood, denouncing forest fires and the violence of extractivism.
Carol Bove
Each copy of this two-volume overview of Bove's work is made unique through a different diamond-shaped paper element hand-cut by the artist.Accompanying the first museum survey of Carol Bove's multidisciplinary work, this two-volume catalog traces pivotal shifts across the artist's 25-year career, ranging from her fugitive early drawings to her compositions of scrap metal and manipulated steel tubing known as "collage sculptures." Bove's inventive work spans many mediums and formal approaches but is unified by an exacting play of material, scale, color and space. She places these elements in dialogue with cultural histories to create the conditions for a resonant perceptual encounter.The publication is housed in a die-cut slipcase inspired by Bove's distinctive use of geometry and color. For the first edition, these cases feature paper ephemera elements the artist has personally selected and hand cut into diamond shapes, making each copy a unique object. Contained within are two books that offer complementary but autonomous perspectives on Bove's ever-evolving body of work. The first contextualizes her practice across seven generously illustrated scholarly essays, accompanied by an extensive selected exhibition history and bibliography. The second, an artist's book conceived by Bove, features immersive photographic details of her works printed at the precise scale of the objects they represent, interleaved with a series of recent paper collages. Together, the two volumes present the first comprehensive survey of Bove's career in the form of a book-object, realized in tandem with the most expansive presentation of the artist's work to date.The work of Geneva-born American artist Carol Bove (born 1971) spans sculpture, drawing, collage, painting and installation. Bove has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Kunstverein in Hamburg (2003); Blanton Museum of Art, Austin (2006); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013-14); Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2021); and Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas (2021), among others.
