Sophie Taeuber-Arp: The Rule of Curves
Tracing the development of Taeuber-Arp's kinaesthetic formal sensibility across her short but bounteous careerEdited with an essay by art historian Briony Fer, The Rule of Curves examines the work of leading 20th-century artist and designer Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Taeuber-Arp defied categorization during her brief career through her work as a painter, sculptor, architect, performer, choreographer, teacher, writer and designer of textiles, stage sets and interiors. Reconciling extremes with confidence--Dada and Geometric Abstraction, fine art and utilitarian objects--Taeuber-Arp's works boldly engaged with the intellectual context of international modernism.This bilingual clothbound volume is thematically driven, focusing on the formal logic that drove her innovative and wide-ranging creative production while revealing how working between mediums both expanded and crystallized her aesthetic. It particularly traces Taeuber-Arp's incorporation of curves into her geometric abstractions--a motif that elaborated upon Jean (Hans) Arp's biomorphic visual language. Alongside Fer's new critical insights into Taeuber-Arp's work, an essay by scholar Jenny Nachtigall explores the artist's "environments" and how notions of gravity, motion and the cinematic offer keys to understanding the artist's kinaesthetic sensibility.Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889-1943) began her applied arts practice in Zurich, where she also taught textile design and participated in the Dada movement. Starting in the late 1920s, Taeuber-Arp completed several architectural and interior design projects, most significantly the Aubette entertainment complex in Strasbourg. When she moved to Paris in 1929, she turned her attention to abstract paintings and painted wood reliefs.
Paula Rego: Visions of English Literature
The stories and folklore that populate the British imaginary are revitalized in the printmaking practice of Paula RegoThis beautiful hardcover showcases the remarkable printmaking practice of British artist Paula Rego (1935-2022), whose radical art drew inspiration from a vast range of sources--from traditional folklore and fairy tales, to literary classics and nursery rhymes. For Rego, these sources conveyed essential truths about the world. She connected with these literary works in deeply personal ways, using them to articulate the conditions of her own life as well as work through her own dreams, anxieties, desires and fears. Here, three of the artist's most ambitious series of graphic works--Jane Eyre, Nursery Rhymes and Peter Pan--are explored in essays by Marco Livingstone, Rosanna McLaughlin and Marina Warner. They offer an insight into how the artist transformed this material into startlingly original, rebellious and unexpected images.
Agnes Martin: On Beauty
An exploration of Martin's intuitive, idiosyncratic approach to beauty, as evinced through her written meditations and reproductions of several key paintings"When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life," wrote Agnes Martin in 1989. Edited by Milly Glimcher, this handsomely produced volume collects writings by the artist centered around the theme of beauty, as well as a range of subjects related to her life and work, from the workings of nature and politics to the inspiration to be found in solitude and silence. Poetic and reflective, these texts range from compact insights, as with "Underside of the Leaf" and "Awareness of Perfection," to longer meditations, such as "The Current of the River of Life Moves Us" and "The Untroubled Mind." On Beauty also includes reproductions of paintings such as Blessings (2000) and Tranquillity (2001), among others, while the front and back covers are debossed with reproductions of Affection (2001) and Little Children Playing with Love (2001). By providing a window into the thoughts and feelings that moved her, this title is the perfect companion for anyone who admires Martin's intuitive approach to art. Canadian American artist Agnes Martin (1912-2004) was one of the most influential painters of her generation and left an enduring mark on the history of modern and contemporary art. Characterized by austere lines and grids superimposed upon grounds of muted color, her paintings elegantly negotiate the confines of structure, space, draftsmanship and the metaphysical. Their underlying ideologies can be found in the writings she composed over the course of her career.
Matisse's Femme Au Chapeau: 1905 to Today
Charting the legacy of Matisse's pivotal Fauvist painting across 120 yearsPublished with San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Henri Matisse's Femme au chapeau (Woman with a Hat) was at the center of a rupture in the history of modern art. Its debut at the 1905 Salon d'Automne in Paris ignited passionate controversy, leading to its establishment as a key image of Fauvism, the first French avant-garde movement of the 20th century. The painting also marked a pivotal moment in Matisse's career, as it captured the attention of American collectors Leo and Gertrude Stein, who acquired the work on the last day of the exhibition. Woman with a Hat later made its way to the collection of their brother and sister-in-law, Michael and Sarah Stein, who brought it across the Atlantic to the Bay Area in 1935. Matisse's painting was shown in the United States for the first time early the next year, in an exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Art (now SFMoMA). Since entering the museum's collection in 1991, it has continued to influence contemporary artists, who derive inspiration from its bold approach to color and form.This publication examines in unprecedented depth how this portrait of Matisse's wife, Am矇lie, made its mark on art history. Positioning Matisse in dialogue with his predecessors, contemporaries, collaborators and successors, this volume probes the painting's historical context and impact over more than 120 years.Henri Matisse (1869-1954) was a pillar of the Parisian avant-garde. His innovations were the use of vibrant, arbitrary colors; bold brushstrokes; and a flattening of spatial depth. He often applied his thoroughly modern style to traditional subjects such as still lifes, landscapes and portraits that express a sense of timeless joy and stillness.
Carroll Dunham: Drawing Sculpture
In new works first seen in print here, Carroll Dunham transforms doodles into imaginary sculpturesDrawing has long been foundational to American painter Carroll Dunham's (born 1949) practice. In this collection of recent, never-before-shown works, we witness Dunham thinking about sculpture through a series of drawings produced over the course of a year. A sampling of his drawings across time offers a chart of his artistic evolution; the 80 drawings presented here are distinctive to a new page within that history. Spurred by a desire to explore the saggy, open-frame cubic boxes that he found himself doodling along the edges of a new series of paintings, Dunham began drawing fantasies of sculpture as a respite whenever he needed a break from working on the paintings. This turned into an ongoing practice that lasted until it unexpectedly segued into a material investigation with the making of sculpture in real space. Offering intimate access to Dunham's process, this book is the first to document his thinking about spatial relationships, presentation and materials for sculptures that don't exist.
Liu Shiming
Liu Shiming (1926-2010) is a revered Chinese artist whose works have had a distinct impact on the course of modern Chinese sculpture. Born in Tianjin in 1926, Shiming attended the prestigious Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing, where he was part of the first generation of sculptors trained by the People's Republic of China to study both traditional Chinese art and French modernist principles. Shiming received early recognition for his work, and his student project Measuring Land (1950) was one of the first works exhibited abroad following the establishment of the People's Republic of China. Though well respected in China, the sculptor, who died in 2010 at the age of eighty-four, is only now beginning to win the wider recognition he deserves. Meanwhile, contemporary competitors are numberless, most of them Instagram-friendly, while art history tends to focus on towering names and indisputably major movements and events: Braque and Picasso inventing Cubism, Duchamp's readymades redefining art itself, Warhol's mind-bending Brillo Boxes, and so on. So why examine an artist in the middle ground? Perhaps, first, because that is where the vast majority of us live, trying to make sense of our lives and grateful for the occasional insight, release, or enrichment that visual art can bring us. Second, because the story of Liu Shiming reveals a great deal about the forces that have shaped postwar art worldwide. He was a man who sought to lead a simple life, dedicated entirely to art, in the midst of China's epochal, dangerously complex twentieth-century social and political changes.
The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans
Visionary self-taught Southern folk artist Minnie Evans receives a long overdue encore of her mystical, divinely inspired drawingsPublished with High Museum of Art. American artist Minnie Evans (1892-1987) once said her drawings of harmoniously intertwined human, botanical and animal forms came from visions of "the lost world," or nations destroyed by the Great Flood as described in the Book of Genesis. As the visions she experienced in childhood became stronger, Evans produced a large body of work ranging from abstract to representational styles. When she turned 56, she transitioned from decades of employment as a domestic worker to collecting admissions at Airlie Gardens in Wilmington, North Carolina. She made art during idle moments and hung it on and near the Gardens' wrought-iron gate. Selling or giving away her drawings to visitors led to a wider reputation and eventually a 1966 exhibition at a New York church titled The Lost World of Minnie Evans.This publication reprises that 1966 title, honoring Evans' interest in biblical and ancient civilizations while foregrounding the spiritual and historical circumstances of her extraordinary life. More than 100 of her artworks are presented in a range of contexts, from the extrasensory experiences of her visions to the double-edged realities of her life in the Jim Crow South. Her drawings, beautiful and complex, thus become portals into her "lost world."
Maggi Hambling
The definitive illustrated monograph of trailblazing British artist, queer icon, and pioneer Maggi Hambling, on the occasion of her eightieth birthday. Featuring an exceptional range of reproductions of Maggi Hambling's work, including unique archival materials, this authoritative and visually stunning new volume offers the most comprehensive account of Hambling's oeuvre to date. Essays by leading critics, curators, and art historians trace Hambling's formative period from her time at the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing in the early 1960s, to her rise to fame in the '80s, the centrality of drawing to her eclectic practice, and the virtuoso series of paintings that have defined her output in recent decades. Hambling's work and legacy are explored in vivid detail here, emphasizing her importance to British art over the past half century, as well as her singular place in the global sphere of contemporary art. Love, death, and remembrance are revealed as her enduring themes, and are reflected in her intimate portraits as much as her epic-scaled evocations of war, the climate emergency, and the natural world. Shining a light on Hambling's fearless spirit, this tour-de-force publication takes you deep into the heart and mind of one of the most influential and provocative artists of her generation.
Tavares Strachan
The first comprehensive monograph on groundbreaking neo-conceptual artist Tavares Strachan, whose diverse practice speaks powerfully to today's cultural climateTavares Strachan is arguably one of the most important artists working today. His open-ended practice offers distinctive points of view on a broad range of urgent social and political themes: archaeology, history, geography, music, science, and extreme climatology are only a few of the subjects he has explored to create allegorical exhibitions that tell of colonialism and cultural displacement, human aspiration, mortal limitation, and the space race.Strachan's extensively researched projects are often monumental in scale and scope. Created in collaboration with thought leaders and organizations across a wide spectrum of fields, his projects are also expansive in reach - The First Supper, Strachan's massive sculpture at London's Royal Academy, was one of the most popular art pieces exhibited in 2024.In his birthplace Nassau, Strachan established the scientific research platform BASEC (Bahamas Aerospace and Sea Exploration Center). In 2018, in collaboration with LACMA, Strachan launched ENOCH, a 3-U satellite bringing to light the forgotten story of Robert Henry Lawrence Jr., the first Black astronaut to be selected for any national space program. ENOCH circled the earth for three years in a sun-synchronous orbit before re-entering on December 2021.This timely monograph, created in close collaboration with the artist, reveals the breadth and impact of Strachan's work. Part of Phaidon's acclaimed Contemporary Artists Series, the book includes a conversation with Strachan; text contributions from writers and experts including Emma Dabiri, Gavin Delahunty, and Michele Robecchi; a studio visit with specially commissioned photography; and a comprehensive chronology of Strachan's career.
Niki de Saint Phalle
A richly illustrated collection of previously unpublished drawings by the famed modern artist The French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle is best known for her Nanas--joyful and brightly colored monumental sculptures of goddess-like female figures. But her work, which was grounded in her visionary beliefs about social experiments and personal freedom, ranged much more widely--from painting, film, architecture, and books to theater sets, clothing, and jewelry. Niki de Saint Phalle: The Sketchbooks presents a beautiful collection of previously unpublished drawings, notes, and other preparatory work from Saint Phalle's private sketchbooks. Culled from a vast archive of never-before-seen materials, these drawings shed new light on Saint Phalle's fascinating artistic evolution, style, and interior life.
William Eggleston: The Last Dyes
This momentous publication catalogues the last major group of William Eggleston's photographs to ever be produced using the dye transfer method, the format in which he originally presented them. "Like finding a Beatles album that no one knew existed. Everything about it is mind-bogglingly good." --The Guardian Eggleston's vivid photographs transform the ordinary into distinctive, poetic images that eschew fixed meaning. One of the foremost practitioners in the medium's history, Eggleston is widely considered the father of color photography. He pioneered the use of dye-transfer printing for art photography in the 1970s. The technically advanced process--first developed by Kodak in the 1940s--allowed him to achieve the richness of tonal depth and color saturation that he had been searching for. In the early 1990s, Kodak stopped producing the dyes, paper, and film used in the process. With the necessary materials now discontinued, and the bulk of what remained being used for this exhibition, The Last Dyes marks the final presentation of new works completed in this medium. With a foreword by William Eggleston III and Winston Eggleston, and an essay by Jeffrey Kastner, this publication will offer critical insights into Eggleston's enduring influence at this turning point in the history of photography.
Wifredo Lam
This beautifully illustrated book, the first monograph on Wifredo Lam since 1989, provides a comprehensive retrospective of the iconic Cuban artist's life and work. With the quasquicentennial of his birth approaching, recent research and cataloging have deepened our understanding of Wifredo Lam (1902-1982) and his multifaceted contributions to 20th century art and politics. Following a long journey that began in Spain, where Lam studied the great European painters--Bosch, D羹rer, Vel獺zquez and Goya--this book traces defining moments in his artistic evolution. Encounters with Picasso and Breton in Paris shaped his distinctive style, which existed at the heart of modernity, distinguished also by the influences of surrealism, Matisse, and African art. Born in 1902 to a Chinese father and an African mother, Lam's work draws from both European and Afro-Caribbean visual culture in a unique synthesis of his multicultural heritage and formulative studies. Forced to flee Paris in 1940 by the Nazi occupation, Lam took refuge in Marseilles before returning to Cuba, where his visual language evolved into a powerful tool for confronting the social and political injustices of the newly globalized world. Through thoughtful interpretation of Lam's body of work, author Jacques Leenhardt sheds light on the originality of his language, both symbolic and pictorial, and the evolution of visual art in the 20th century.
Ellsworth Kelly
A look at Ellsworth Kelly's eight Spectrum Colors Arranged by Chance collages and how they set the foundation for his career-long exploration of abstract, minimalist art Revered for his iconic color field paintings, Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015) is one of the most influential artists in American Abstraction. His body of work, encompassing paintings, sculptures, and prints, illustrates his unprecedented experiments with form and color. Less well known are his eight collages, known as Spectrum Colors Arranged by Chance (1951), which led directly to some of the artist's most iconic early works. Made from papier gomette, or sticky squares of colored paper used by French schoolchildren, these collages represent Kelly's early exploration of non-compositional strategies. Created by using chance operations to place the gomette on grids, Spectrum Colors Arranged by Chance boldly anticipates the evolution of Kelly's innovative methods. Alongside brilliant photographs that bring the reader into intimate contact with Kelly's series of collages, a wide-ranging roundtable conversation with artist Jacqueline B. Humphries, art historian Hannah Higgins, and Kelly's widower, the photographer Jack Shear, explores the origins of these groundbreaking works and their continued resonance today, bringing to life the story of his bold, experimental designs. Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago
Tekla Aslanishvili: The Mountain Speaks to the Sea
Approaching infrastructure at both macro and micro scales, Aslanishvili's films assemble a fragmented history of the people who work with or sabotage sites of transit and extractionDelving into Georgian filmmaker Tekla Aslanishvili's (born 1988) experimental trilogy, The Mountain Speaks to the Sea investigates regimes of infrastructural governance and the disruptive impacts of large-scale energy and transportation projects on the ecologies of the South Caucasus.
Diana Al-Hadid: Unbecoming
Al-Hadid's allegorical panel paintings, architecture-inspired sculptures and intricate works on paper scrutinize notions of femininity through a historical and narrative lensPublished with Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. Working across large-scale sculptures, panel paintings, installations and works on paper, Syria-born, New York-based artist Diana Al-Hadid (born 1981) creates allegorical abstractions that draw from such sources as Greek mythology and global literature.unbecoming accompanies a 20-year survey organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, bringing together works that examine how these narrative sources have molded expectations for women. The accompanying catalog captures the arc of Al-Hadid's unique visual language to date, including a recent series of handmade paper works and a new panel realized for the exhibition. New essays and an artist interview take readers through Al-Hadid's process and address the way questions of gender have continually been at the heart of her practice.
What Do I Do with This Pain?
What Do I Do With This Pain was inspired by my own personal "twenty-first century psalms". Just like in the Psalms, the authors express themselves in lament and complaints. This concise collection of poems explores some of the difficult expressions and experiences of pain. Throughout time women have dealt with pain in different ways. I wouldn't say that there is only one way to deal with pain but I will say that finding an outlet for the pain you are feeling is important. I express what I'm feeling in various ways but I have to say that the arts is one of my favourites. I think that communicating how you feel creatively gives you the opportunity to produce something new and special from your broken places. I hope as you read this book, you can identify your own pain and find comfort in these pages.
Robert Therrien: This Is a Story
Moving beyond his well-known monumental installations of tables and chairs, this tribute to Robert Therrien analyzes his understudied later worksPublished with The Broad. This book presents a fresh, accessible and dynamic look at the work of American artist Robert Therrien (1947-2019), surveying over 40 years of his influential work, notably his underseen and understudied late works. Organized chronologically and thematically, emphasizing Therrien's iterative artistic practice of exploring sets of themes over time, the volume speaks to the nature of memory and how it is shaped by space, time and materials, placing his practice within the history of recent sculpture in Los Angeles and elsewhere. The book showcases Therrien's personal vocabulary of forms as they become a personal language of continuous creation for the artist over time. A single Therrien gesture can expand, contract, change materially or seamlessly transform into other images entirely. At the heart of Therrien's practice is a sense of artistic animation, by turns fun, playful and serious.
Tina Girouard: Sign-In
A sweeping retrospective of Tina Girouard's pioneering contributions across video, performance, textile and community-based art and morePublished with Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought. From the 1970s until her death, Louisiana-born artist Tina Girouard (1946-2020) was a dedicated experimental artist, collaborator and art worker. Alongside her individual creative endeavors, she nurtured and was a part of numerous influential artist communities and organizations in New York, Louisiana and Haiti, including the Anarchitecture Group, the interdisciplinary cohort of 112 Greene Street, the restaurant Food, the Kitchen, P.S. 1 and the Festival International de la Louisiane. Her acts of upkeep, including domestic labor traditionally associated with "women's work," blurred the boundaries between artmaking and what she called life-making. Sign-In is the first comprehensive monograph on her interdisciplinary oeuvre. It gathers documentation of her work in video, performance, drawing, textile, wall works and installation, tracing Girouard's practice and legacy across genres and geographies.
Art Celebrity Launch Collection October 2025 - Global Icon of Mystical Art, Dr. Harpal Sodhi
Art Celebrity Magazine by Contemporary Art CollectorsLaunch Collection - Autumn 2025Issue: Dr. Harpal SodhiWhere contemporary art meets culture, style, and influence.Art Celebrity Magazine breaks away from the traditional art world. It is fresh, bold, and made for today's audience, celebrating artists not just as creators but as the new influencers and cultural celebrities.Created by Contemporary Art Collectors, this magazine highlights a new generation of talent who are shaping trends, defining direction, changing how we see, value, and experience art today, and redefining what it means to be seen in the art world.Art is no longer hidden in galleries. It is everywhere, and it is shaping the world around us.
Reverend Joyce McDonald: Ministry
Tender and devotional figures in clay from an ordained minister and self-described testimonial artistBorn and based in Brooklyn, sculptor Reverend Joyce McDonald (born 1951) crafts moving testimonies to themes that have shaped her life: hope, grace and serenity, but also hardship, loss and devotion. As an ordained minister in the Church of the Open Door, spirituality and service are integral to McDonald's life and work. Her work often depicts figures in repose or embrace, embodying the strength, support and unconditional love that has sustained her life.The first museum exhibition devoted to her work, Ministry surveys the McDonald's prolific output since the 1990s, bringing together early works in air-dry clay and found materials with recent glazed ceramics. It presents a nuanced view of McDonald's biography, incorporating archival materials that trace her family and upbringing in Brooklyn's Farragut houses as well as her decades of exhibiting art as a member of Visual AIDS. The catalog features critical essays by Kyle Croft, the exhibition's curator, and Jareh Das, as well as an interview with McDonald conducted by artist Rafael S獺nchez.
Pop-Up Chanel
Explore the story of Coco Chanel, the iconic 2.55 bag, Chanel N簞5 perfume, two-tone shoes and more in this pop-up book. Fashion Unfolded: Pop-Up Chanel is a captivating pop-up book that celebrates the history, legacy, and most celebrated creations of one of the world's most influential fashion houses. Dive into the visionary world of Coco Chanel, a pioneer who revolutionized not only clothing and accessories but also transformed perfume and jewelry with her innovative and unconventional spirit.Each intricately designed pop-up spread brings Chanel's legendary designs to life in a stunning three-dimensional format, combining masterful paper engineering with detailed illustrations. From her timeless style to the stories behind her most iconic creations, this book offers an immersive experience into the heritage of the Chanel brand.With its luxurious hardcover design and matching slipcase, Fashion Unfolded: Pop-Up Chanel is the perfect gift and a must-have collectible for fashion enthusiasts, design lovers, and anyone inspired by the legacy of a true fashion icon.
Pop-Up Dior
Discover Christian Dior's legacy, the revolutionary New Look, Lady Dior bag, legendary runway shows, and more in this pop-up book.Fashion Unfolded: Pop-Up Dior is a captivating pop-up book that celebrates the history, legacy, and most celebrated creations of one of the world's most iconic fashion houses. Immerse yourself in the dreamlike world of Christian Dior, a visionary designer who redefined elegance, femininity, and romance, transforming fashion with his groundbreaking designs and timeless artistry.With intricate paper engineering and stunning illustrations, each spread brings Dior's masterpieces to life in a magical three-dimensional format. From the revolutionary "New Look" to the floral inspirations behind his haute couture, and from the timeless Lady Dior bag to the iconic Rouge Dior lipstick, this book offers an enchanting journey into the stories and heritage of the Dior brand.Encased in a beautiful hardcover design with a matching slipcase, Fashion Unfolded: Pop-Up Dior is a must-have collectible and a perfect gift for fashion lovers, dreamers, and anyone captivated by the romance of Dior.
Water of the Sky
A breathtakingly elegant visual dictionary of 2000 Japanese words for rain, with 100 drawings in indigo. In Water of the Sky, artist Miya Ando offers us a beautifully rich, bilingual visual dictionary for rain. Through a collection of 2,000 Japanese words, their English interpretations, and 100 drawings, Ando describes the breadth and diversity of rain's many expressions: when it falls, how it falls, and how its observer might be transformed physically or emotionally by its presence. The words range from prosaic to esoteric, extending from the meteorological (mukaame, or "very fine rain that falls in spring") to the mystical (bunryūu, or "rain that splits a dragon's body in half") and from the minute (kisame, or "raindrops that fall off the leaves and branches of trees") to the vast (takuu, or "blessed rain that quenches all things in the universe"). Ando's visual interpretations of these terms are not so much illustrations as evocations, attempts to embody or imagine each rain's precise and essential quality. The book presents 100 of these 2,000 drawings of rain accompanied by the full index of 2,000 Japanese words and their approximate English equivalents, presented alphabetically using a hybrid Japanese-English alphabetization rubric.
Xavier X Atencio
From apprentice animator on Pinocchio to the lyricist behind "Yo Ho, Yo Ho A Pirates Life for Me," Xavier "X" Atencio's Disney career was diverse and spectacular. Now for the first time his talent, humor, and creativity come to life in a book celebrating the body of work and the legacy of one of Walt's original and most versatile Imagineers. Xavier "X" Atencio: The Legacy of An Artist, Imagineer, and Disney Legend depicts the life, art, and lasting legacy of X, detailing how he put himself into his work and used his talents, passion, humor, and creativity to inspire generations. It is the most comprehensive look to date at the one of Walt's original and most versatile Imagineers. Featuring previously unpublished artwork and photographs from X's personal collection, this book grants readers the unique opportunity to discover the true depths of influence X attained on his life journey. For while it was rare to become a Disney Imagineer, it was even rarer to end a career at Disney with as diversified a resume as X's--from "small-town Colorado boy" to art school attendee, Disney animator, attraction scriptwriter, lyricist, voice-over artist, and finally Disney Legend. Set against the historic and cultural evolutions of The Walt Disney Company, Xavier "X" Atencio: The Legacy of An Artist, Imagineer, and Disney Legend provides a deeply personal perspective into the life and career of a Disney Legend whose story, until now, had remained largely untold.
Friedrich Kunath
The most comprehensive book to date on contemporary artist Friedrich KunathBorn in former East Germany and now based in Los Angeles, Friedrich Kunath makes work whose core lies in the fusion of the two cultures. Kunath's paintings combine the sublime aesthetic of German Romanticism with motifs from western popular culture, incorporating lyrical references, cartoon imagery, and album covers with his signature style combining pathos and a witty sense of humor.This unique monograph features works from the past 30 years. A dedicated section of the book documents one of Kunath's immersive installations, constructed by the artist to house his paintings and sculptures, along with books, record albums, DVDs, posters, and trinkets, all individually inventoried in the book.Accompanying the paintings is a visual narrative that follows Kunath along his travels around the world, encapsulating his many identities as artist, tennis coach, car enthusiast, and consummate collector.
Tom Sachs Guide
The definitive exploration of the prolific material, intellectual, cultural, and commercial output of inimitable artist Tom SachsA 21st-century creative force, Tom Sachs's critically acclaimed practice spans sculpture, installation, painting, film, ceramics, and industrial design. The Tom Sachs Guide is the most comprehensive-to-date look at his work, documenting decades of rigorous and visionary artmaking.Vividly illustrated with more than 650 images and organized into thematic chapters, the book includes work across mediums, as well as longstanding collaborations with Nike and immersive reinterpretations of NASA missions. A rich appendix includes essential lists and charts, offering insights into the artist's creative process and studio practice.An object direct from the hands of the artist, Tom Sachs Guide is a printed tour through his studio, his body of work, and the unique worlds he creates, designed and written in close collaboration with Sachs himself.
Theseus Chan: Steidl-Werk No. 32
Chan's collaborative, unpredictable magazine returns for its latest issue with a playful look into SteidlFounded by Theseus Chan (born 1961) in 2000, Werk magazine burst forth as a radical vision in the world of publication design. Featuring new drawings and texts by Chan interpreting and recasting the sights and sounds of Steidl Publishers, Manifest embraces spontaneity, imperfection, humor, play and the unpredictable.
Crossing A Threshold
Image making itself, can become a tool for learning similar to the reading of a book. The acquisition of the basic skills required for the paint/draw process are outlined as they aid the artist/reader in building awareness. Image search and process unite to philosophically change one's point of view about life. In Crossing A Threshold, artist Ian Garrioch unpacks visual language, this other mode of knowing. Through a gathering of his paintings and text, he charts a journey through the visual alphabet, including colour, shape, and value. Decades of thought about life, art, history, the environment and political trends solidify into points of view-all this and more is explored through over seventy images of the artist's work accompanying the text.Crossing A Threshold will be of interest to anyone that is curious about journeys in general. It is a personal journey with pictures about the trip. A travelogue. Young artists may find that it helps them solidify their journey no matter which path they eventually choose. For those that just like art, it is another point of view in that genre. Art is not just an object, but rather it is a highway searched for new places to see and know.
Crossing A Threshold
Image making itself, can become a tool for learning similar to the reading of a book. The acquisition of the basic skills required for the paint/draw process are outlined as they aid the artist/reader in building awareness. Image search and process unite to philosophically change one's point of view about life. In Crossing A Threshold, artist Ian Garrioch unpacks visual language, this other mode of knowing. Through a gathering of his paintings and text, he charts a journey through the visual alphabet, including colour, shape, and value. Decades of thought about life, art, history, the environment and political trends solidify into points of view-all this and more is explored through over seventy images of the artist's work accompanying the text.Crossing A Threshold will be of interest to anyone that is curious about journeys in general. It is a personal journey with pictures about the trip. A travelogue. Young artists may find that it helps them solidify their journey no matter which path they eventually choose. For those that just like art, it is another point of view in that genre. Art is not just an object, but rather it is a highway searched for new places to see and know.
Rosa Barba
The first comprehensive monograph on visual artist and filmmaker Rosa Barba, one of the most critically acclaimed artists working todayRosa Barba is a Berlin-based artist whose work offers a crucial deconstruction of film and sculpture and how the two relate to each other. While her installations and site-specific interventions challenge and reconstitute the viewer's notions of cinema and its staging vis-?-vis gesture, genre, documents, and information, her films settle at an ambiguous point between experimental documentary and fictional narrative, thriving in a contemporary moment while hinging on fleeting memory and encroaching uncertainty.Predicated by extensive study in a variety of places, and occasionally enhanced by live performances conceived to activate her pieces, Barba's art provides an experience that brings back the audience to the bewildered, complex reality that surrounds us every day.Extensively illustrated with more than 150 photographs, this first monograph on the groundbreaking artist includes essays and texts from art-world luminaries, an illuminating new interview with Barba, studio photography, and more.
Dyani White Hawk: Love Language
A landmark mid-career survey for the famed Lakota artist known for her monumental geometric paintings and installations incorporating traditional quillwork and beadworkPublished with Remai Modern. Rooted in intergenerational knowledge, the art of Dyani White Hawk centers on connection--between one another, past and present, earth and sky. By foregrounding Lakota forms and motifs, she challenges prevailing narratives surrounding abstract art. Accompanying White Hawk's major mid-career survey exhibition, this publication gathers new scholarship examining 15 years of the artist's work across multimedia paintings, sculpture, video, works on paper and more.Opening with early pieces that combine quillwork, lane stitch beadwork and painting, the artist examines, dissects and reassembles elements of her own Sic獺ngu Lakota and European American ancestries, putting these in active conversation with histories of abstract painting. In other works, she marries traditional techniques with outsize scale, highlighting her ongoing commitment to formal and material experimentation. The book features a new group of these works, from her monumental Wopila Lineage paintings to a new series of towering columnar sculptures made from loomed beads, assembled in dizzying arrays of pattern and color. Made in collaboration with a skilled team of studio beadworkers, these shimmering surfaces invite close inspection of both their material construction and their cultural and historical underpinnings.Dyani White Hawk (born 1976) was raised in Madison, Wisconsin, and received her BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has been the recipient of prestigious awards, most recently including a Guggenheim Fellowship (2024), Creative Capital grant (2024) and MacArthur Foundation Fellowship "Genius Grant" (2023). Her work has been exhibited at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Denver Art Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among many others. She lives and works in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Erich Heckel
Explore the oeuvre of Erich Heckel, one of the most important German Expressionist painters of the twentieth century. Erich Heckel, 1883-1970, was one of the co-founders of the Künstlergruppe Brücke (Artists' Group Bridge), established in Dresden in June 1905. He remained part of the group until it disbanded in May 1913. Despite his seminal role in the establishment of this critical early manifestation of German Expressionism, he has not garnered the same acclaim as his fellow Die Brücke artists such as Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. As a result, there is a dearth of literature available on him in English and he has never had a solo exhibition in an American museum. This important publication, which accompanies a show at the Neue Galerie New York, aims to redress this oversight. The texts presented in this lavishly illustrated monograph will focus on Heckel's early career and cover topics ranging from his involvement with Die Brücke; the works he created during his idyllic summers in the Friesian beach resort of Dangast; his military service during World War I; and his bold and expressive woodcuts. Emphasis is placed on his portrait and landscape paintings and his vibrant pictures of bathers, which merge both genres. The authors will address the work he made in Dresden, Berlin, and northern Germany, in addition to his output while serving in Flanders during the war.
Edvard Munch in the National Museum
The close relationship between Edvard Munch and the National Gallery of Oslo, today part of the National Museum, is a subject well worthy of a detailed publication. Reproductions of works in the collection are included in this book. Text in English and Norwegian. The close relationship between Edvard Munch and the National Gallery of Oslo, today part of the National Museum, is a subject well worthy of a detailed publication. The first Munch painting acquired by the museum was Night in Nice, purchased in 1891. Today the collection encompasses 57 paintings and 186 works on paper. The paintings include masterpieces such as The Sick Child, The Scream, Madonna, The Girls on the Bridge, and Man in the Cabbage Field. How did the museum come by all these works? And what is the story behind the famous 'Munch Room'? Answers to these and many other questions can be found in this book, which contains reproductions of all the works in the collection. The book contains texts by Karin Hindsbo, Nils Messel, Sidsel Helliesen, Gerd Woll, Thierry Ford, Mai Britt Guleng, ?ystein Ustvedt, Wenche Volle and Vibeke Waallann Hansen. Text in English and Norwegian.
Anna-Eva Bergman
This volume explores Norwegian artist Anna-Eva Bergman (1909-1987) and her paintings from the period 1950-1975. Text in English and Norwegian. The book deals with Norwegian artist Anna-Eva Bergman (1909-1987) and her paintings from the period 1950-1975. She left behind an exceptional collection of works and had a career that stands out in Norwegian art history. This book brings together several of her best-known monumental paintings. The simplified depictions of mountains, seas, moons and horizons speak to us today. "The way to art goes through nature and our attitude towards it", Bergman wrote in 1950. Today, the statement has renewed relevance in view of a vulnerable nature and humankind's footprint on the planet. Through her pictures, she continues to engage and create space for reflection on this subject. Furthermore, the book examines, among other things, Bergman's techniques, her relationship with architecture, as well as her abstract artistic expression. Text in English and Norwegian.
Carroll Dunham
Published on the occasion of a generous donation of 161 prints to The National Museum from the American artist Carroll Dunham (b. 1949, all presented in this publication. Accompanying book to the exhibition Carroll Dunham. Grafikk / prints 1985-2022 at the The National Museum in 2023. Text in English and Norwegian. Carroll Dunham. Grafikk / prints 1985-2022 is published on the occasion of a generous donation to The National Museum from the American artist Carroll Dunham (b. 1949). The entire gift, consisting of 161 prints, is presented in this publication. The book shows the artist's fondness for series and contains some of his most known and iconic motifs. Dunham's prints show considerable range in their expressiveness, motifs, and themes. Inspired by art history, pop culture, and his personal experience, he directs his gaze at everything from the infinity of the universe to the physical body and the representation of leaves on a tree. Text and interview by Wenche Volle and Geir Haraldseth. Text in English and Norwegian.
Christian Krohg
The catalogue sheds light on Christian Krohg's period of study in Berlin and its impact on him, his relationship with Georg Brandes, the novel Albertine and Krohg's own use of photography as a model for his work and a medium. Text in English and Norwegian. Christian Krohg was a key figure in the Norwegian art community of the 1880s and 1890s, and was strongly influenced by the ideology of realism. In his view, art should have meaning for a broad segment of the population, not merely serve as wall decorations for the bourgeoisie. Three types of motifs were recurrent themes for Krohg during this period: the working-class hero, scenes from family life and "the fallen woman". Many people responded to his literary and visual representations of the poverty-stricken girl Albertine. He depicted members of the working class with great sympathy in paintings such as Errand Boy Drinking Coffee and Woman Cutting Bread. The Gaihede family, fishermen from Skagen in Denmark, are portrayed in many everyday situations, as are members of Krohg's own family. The catalogue sheds light on the subject matter of the exhibition, Krohg's period of study in Berlin and its impact on him, his relationship with Georg Brandes, the novel Albertine and Krohg's own use of photography as a model for his work and a medium. Text in English and Norwegian.
Out of the Real World
This book explores the long and fruitful collaborations between the artist Robert Rauschenberg and Donald J. Saff, founder of Graphicstudio in 1968.Out of the Real World: Robert Rauschenberg at USF Graphicstudio is the first comprehensive and scholarly publication to explore the significance of Robert Rauschenberg's work at Graphicstudio, University of South Florida's renowned atelier. Contributors detail Rauschenberg's collaborative projects at Graphicstudio that pushed boundaries and redefined our understanding of printmaking. The legacy of the Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange (ROCI) project, operationally headquartered at USF Graphicstudio and overseen by Saff as artistic director, is examined and reconsidered both geopolitically and through the lens of its resonance with host countries.
Henri Rousseau
Two of the greatest collections of Rousseau's work come together in a new exhibition that offers fresh insights into the painter's art and life The Barnes Foundation is home to the world's largest collection of works by the self-taught artist Henri Rousseau (1844-1910). Many of them were bought by Dr. Albert C. Barnes from the Paris art dealer Paul Guillaume, also an avid collector of Rousseau's works. This publication offers a comprehensive study of the eighteen works at the Barnes and places them in dialogue with works from around the globe, including those from Guillaume's collection (now housed at the Mus矇e de l'Orangerie in Paris). This unprecedented overview of the artist's work reunites paintings that have been apart for more than one hundred years, marking the first time that works from the Foundation's galleries will form part of an exhibition devoted to Rousseau. Working closely with Barnes Foundation conservation staff, Christopher Green and Nancy Ireson consider Rousseau's novel artistic practice and explore his process of adapting works to new purposes. They also examine how Rousseau navigated the art world, driven by the need to market his works in the hope of furthering his career. Richly illustrated with Rousseau's idiosyncratic jungle scenes, landscapes, portraits, and still lifes, this volume presents new findings and includes essays that discuss the market for the artist in the 1920s and the veiled eroticism of the painter's jungle scenes. Distributed for the Barnes Foundation Exhibition Schedule: Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (October 19, 2025-February 22, 2026) Mus矇e de l'Orangerie, Paris (March 24-July 20, 2026)
Byzantine Bemb矇
This brand-new bi-lingual Spanish/English volume celebrates the art and career of the Bronx-born (b. 1956), Nuyorican artist, Manny Vega.Manny Vega's art can be found in the form of mosaics and murals adorning street walls, subway stations, cultural centres, and business facades throughout New York's East Harlem. This lushly illustrated volume covers the full range of Vega's artistic output, from carefully crafted mosaics, including female figures and stylized album covers, to prints and works on paper. This bi-lingual Spanish/English study also incorporates essays that explore Vega's relationship with New York, murals as a medium, and the links between his work and music. Throughout the volume, Vega's focus on the Puerto- Rican experience in New York shines through and highlights the influence of the city's cultural mix on his unique art.
Dog Only Knows
A NATIONAL BESTSELLER! Dog Only Knows is the perfect gift for dog lovers, featuring over 125 irresistible portraits by acclaimed artist Alison Friend--each uniquely mischievous, funny, and full of personality. Meet Midge, who keeps her mind sharp with a Rubik's Cube. Alan, who looks like a million dollars in his new harness. Lola, whose motto is "People to see, bums to sniff." Chupa Chops--how did he unwrap that lollipop? The oh-so-earnest Clive, who does everything--biscuit eating, squirrel chasing, ball fetching--with a single-minded focus. Irrepressible Debbie, who loves cocktail night, and Little Louis, a chain-smoking existentialist who can't stop chewing over the canine condition. Usually with an espresso. Welcome to Alison Friend's world of dogs, a singular and very special place created by an artist with a unique gift for depicting that ineffable thing we call "character"--dog characters, actually--using oil paint, empathy, techniques of the Old Masters, and an imagination like no other. With their big expressive eyes and Mona Lisa smiles, charming habits and childlike pleasures, the subjects of these portraits seem all too human yet fantastically doglike. Perfectly capturing--as Little Louis would tell you--the canine condition, like you've never seen it before.
This and That
TERADA KATSUYA'S THIS AND THATCovering a 42-year career as an artist, this collection features recent illustrations drawn for exhibitions by the illustrator and manga artist Katsuya Terada, who is popular both in Japan and internationally. This book is filled with Katsuya Terada's latest works, created using everyday art materials such as pencils, ballpoint pens, the iPad and more, and includes commentary by the artist on those materials, which are a must-read for anyone who is interested in art even just a little bit. Known for making full use of analog art materials while also continuously incorporating new gadgets, Katsuya Terada's work always offers new surprises and inspiration. This collection offers the latest from this prolific master artist whose creative work continues to inspire."Find the equipment that best enables you to explore in search for your own style. All you really need to start is a pencil and a sheet of paper, of course. From there, as you grope around in the darkness, try out different tools."― from the afterwords
Frida Kahlo at Home
Discover the intimate spaces that shaped one of the world's most iconic artists. Frida Kahlo at Home reveals how the places she inhabited-- and especially the famed Blue House--nurtured her creativity, identity, and extraordinary body of work. This compelling visual biography traces Kahlo's life through the places she loved, from her childhood in Coyoac獺n and her student years in Mexico City, to her time in the United States, and her final return to La Casa Azul. Drawing on archival photographs, family images, personal artefacts, and Frida's own paintings, the book uncovers how home was not merely a backdrop but a central force in her art and self-expression. For example, you'll uncover: Frida's formative years in the Blue House and how her environment shaped her earliest artistic impulses. The dynamic cultural and political landscape of Mexico and its influence on Frida's evolving identity. The contrasting worlds of Mexico and 'Gringolandia', and how travel transformed her worldview and aesthetic. The creative partnership between Kahlo and Diego Rivera, explored through the homes and studios they shared. How domestic space and landscape became essential themes throughout her work. A vibrant portrait of art and identity, Frida Kahlo at Home invites readers to step inside the spaces that inspired a legend and to see her paintings and her life anew.
Sanam Khatibi
This is the first international monograph on Belgian artist Sanam Khatibi. Khatibi's timeless and allegorical works are set in fantastical, utopian landscapes where humans and beasts exhibit little emotional or physical distinction. She plays with ambivalence to juxtapose dualities such as animal versus human, past versus present, and cruelty versus seduction. Her subjects live on their impulses in alluring, exotic landscapes. They are ambiguous in their relationship to power, violence, sensuality, and each other. The recurrent themes in her work question our connection to chaos, destruction, excess, loss of control, bestiality, domination, and submission. Wildlife and animals are an integral part of her practice, and her subjects are often depicted within the same plane as the flora and fauna. Channeling magical naturalism through paintings, embroideries, tapestries, sculptures, and installations, Khatibi both exalts and cautions against the fine line between triumph and failure, peace and brutality, and, ultimately, civilization and destruction. Khatibi's recent solo shows include Mendes Wood DM, S瓊o Paulo (2022); Groeninge Museum, Bruges (2021); Kunsthal Gent (2020); Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels (2019); Mus矇e d'art de la Province de Hainaut, BPS22, Charleroi (2019); and P.P.O.W, New York (2019). Her work has also been part of institutional group shows at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (2022); Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort (2022); Centraal Museum, Utrecht (2021); S.M.A.K., Ghent (2021); Kortrijk Triennial (2021); Kunstverein Dresden (2020); Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA) (2020); and 16th Istanbul Biennial (2019).
Th矇o Tobiasse: Paintings
A treasure trove of paintings from the 20th century expressionist greatFrench artist Th矇o Tobiasse (1927-2012) was known for his vibrant use of color and his expressionist paintings depicting Judeo-Christian iconography. This volume showcases nearly 6,000 works from the artist's archive--painted between 1958 and 2012--on canvas, cardboard and paper.
Vaginal Davis: Magnificent Product
Welcome to the wondrous world of Vaginal Davis: visual artist, punk rocker, "drag terrorist" and genderqueer iconPublished with Moderna Museet, Stockholm. In Vaginal Davis' pioneering and incredibly diverse oeuvre, punk meets glamour, queer activism meets racial justice and resistance meets joy. An icon of contemporary queer history, Vaginal Davis has made scenes for a living: through personas as diverse and outrageous as Rayvn Cymone McFarlane or John Dean Egg III, and as a part of bands including Cholita! The Female Menudo and the Afro Sisters. Since then, she has achieved cult status as a self-proclaimed "sexual repulsive" and a "drag terrorist"--shattering notions of mainstream conformity and the sanitization of Black, queer and Chicano cultures for appropriation by white audiences.An uproarious celebration of Davis' work and cultural legacy, this bilingual English/Swedish catalog is Z-bound (English on one side, Swedish on the other) and takes readers on a whirlwind tour across the artist's protean output spanning music, performance, installations, lectures and visual art: from her early punk shows to her recent "fantasy library" imagined as a teenager's bedroom. A final section, "Dear Ms. Davis," includes heartfelt tributes to the artist from fellow "colleagues, concubines and coconspirators."Vaginal Davis was born intersex in Los Angeles to parents of Black Creole, Mexican, Jewish and German descent. Naming herself after radical Black feminist Angela Davis, she emerged in the queer punk scenes of Bushwick and Los Angeles in the 1980s before moving to Berlin in the early 2000s.
My Heart Is This
Known for her raw and irreverent artwork, Tracey Emin is one of the most widely admired artists working today. In a vivid and intimate portrait of her life and work, in her own words through conversation with author and art critic Martin Gayford, Tracey Emin reflects on painting--how she approaches it, why it matters to her, and how it connects to her life--and how everything has changed since her cancer diagnosis four years ago.Richly illustrated with photographs of the artist and her work, this book is a beautifully captured record of Tracey Emin about her inspirations, her working environment, and her relationship with other artists from the past and present."Drawing is an extension of the soul. You have a vision in your mind, then it comes through your hand, out onto the paper, and back into your mind again. It's a very good therapeutic exercise. It's quite cleansing. There's alchemy involved."Offering a uniquely personal insight into the artist's extraordinary life and career, Emin expresses herself in her characteristically frank confessional style that is so familiar to anyone who has seen her paintings. This is Tracey Emin on her own terms: on learning to paint, how to live her life after cancer, and relearning why painting matters above everything else.
