Mary Engelbreit's Make Today the Best Day 2026 Day-To-Day Calendar
World-renowned artist Mary Engelbreit has spent years illustrating scenes of love, friendship, happiness, whimsy, and fun. For 2026, you'll find an abundance of these charming images paired with quotes encouraging you to take time and make today your very best day. Mary Engelbreit's Make Today the Best Day 2026 Day-to-Day Calendar is filled with beautiful, full-color artwork and uplifting quotes reaffirming that no matter the ups and downs we might experience each day, it's up to us to make it the best. Features include: No single-use plastic 5.3" x 4.4" page size Recyclable chipboard easel backer for desk or tabletop display Printed on FSC certified paper with soy-based ink Full-color tear-off pages Back of pages are blank for notes or shopping lists Day/Date reference on each page Combined weekend pages Official major world holidays and observances Full-color artwork on each page
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 beadworkRooted 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. This book was published in association with Remai Modern.
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.
Mimosa Echard
Using everything from sheet metal to moss and crushed-up pills, Echard's assemblages reckon with both the natural and artificial materiality of human lifeFrench artist Mimosa Echard (born 1986) draws from biological research, experimental cinema and personal experience to create works that intertwine sexuality, perception and artifice. Her assemblages and installations question the ability of language to grasp her objects, paying attention to the invisible (or latent) potential of the materials she employs. This book was published in conjunction with Galerie Chantal Crousel.
Dog Only Knows
A must-have gift book for every dog lover from a popular Instagram artist, featuring over 125 irresistible portraits--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. Capturing exactly--as Little Louis would tell you--the canine condition, though you've never seen it like this before.
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).
Ed Atkins
Ed Atkins is one of the most influential artists of his generation. Troubled by melancholy, undermined by bathos, and tempered with humor, his works pit a weightless digital life against a corporal world of craft and touch, allegorizing profound experiences of loss, intimacy, and love This ambitious publication provides a radical survey of his career, assembling a wide range of paintings, writing, embroideries, and drawings alongside the moving-image works for which he is best known.Essays from leading scholars, authors, and curators, alongside previously unpublished behind-the-scenes production photographs and a curated selection of new drawings, collectively probe Atkins's practice to ask: What kind of realism is at stake here?Accompanying Tate Britain's major exhibition of contemporary artist Ed Atkins, this career-spanning monograph is a must-have for all fans of Ed Atkins and contemporary art.
Jacqueline de Jong: Vicious Circles
Best known for her landmark publication, the Situationist Times, de Jong now receives a survey dedicated to her avant-garde practice beyond the printed page Until recently, Dutch artist Jacqueline de Jong (1939-2024) has primarily been recognized for her role as founder and editor of the seminal artist's magazine, the Situationist Times (1962-67). This exhibition catalog, marking the first institutional presentation since the artist's death last year, considers de Jong's dynamic practice beyond the 1960s, touching on her interpretations of movements such as CoBrA, Fluxus, Neo-Expressionism and more. Alongside examples of her paintings, drawings and sculptures, it also includes reproductions of unpublished ephemeral material held in de Jong's archive at Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, along with newly commissioned texts written in memoriam and de Jong's final interview.Vicious Circles highlights de Jong's engagement with diverse art movements and also addresses her legacy as a key figure within the history of counterculture publishing, highlighting her role as editor, publisher and designer.
Renoir Drawings
Drawings, pastels, prints and watercolors: Renoir's works on paper provide crucial insight into his instantly recognizable Impressionist paintingsPublished with RMN-Grand Palais, Mus矇e d'Orsay, and Morgan Library & Museum. The paintings of Pierre-Auguste Renoir have become icons of Impressionism. Although his works on paper are less widely known, drawing remained central to his artistic practice even as his interests and ambitions changed over the course of a long career. This book explores the ways in which Renoir used paper to test ideas, plan compositions and interpret both landscape and the human figure.Renoir Drawings features more than 110 drawings, pastels, watercolors, prints and a small selection of paintings, enabling readers to engage with Renoir's creative process while offering insights into his artistic methods over five decades.Thematic sections cover the full span of the artist's career, ranging from academic studies he made as a student, to on-the-spot impressions of contemporary urban and rural life, to finished, formal portraits, to intimate sketches of friends and family completed late in life. In-depth case studies of favored themes and preparatory work for landmark canvases further illuminate Renoir's drawing practice.Together with Claude Monet, Edgar Degas and Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) was a founder of the style that became known as Impressionism, and one of its most prolific exponents. He was described by Herbert Read as "the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau."
E. Jane: Drenched in Light
Titled after a Zora Neale Hurston short story, E. Jane's musical multimedia installation celebrates the Black divaBrooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist E. Jane (born 1990), author of the viral NOPE Manifesto (2016), explores the labor and inner lives of Black women while questioning the future of Blackness and queerness. This catalog grows out of Jane's 2023 solo show at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and features recent work that considers the figure of the Black diva within contemporary and historical culture. Through video stills, performance shots and reproduced zine pages, this catalog serves as an entry point into Jane's multilayered and expansive practice. An essay by Legacy Russell, originally published in Glitch Feminism, contextualizes Jane's work within the spheres of Black, feminist and cyber theory. Additionally, new writing by Debra Lennard provides a framework for entering and understanding the artist's latest work, and past interviews by Lumi Tan and Hannah Girma illuminate the artist's biography and process.
Ruth Asawa: The Tamarind Prints
This exquisite publication features Asawa's vibrant, experimental lithographs of subjects ranging from delicate flowers to members of her family, and is the first to present her complete portfolio made at the renowned Tamarind Lithography WorkshopOver the course of just two months in 1965, at a residency at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los Angeles, the Japanese American artist Ruth Asawa produced a stunning portfolio of 54 lithographs, depicting organic forms and plants as well as family and friends. The Tamarind Workshop had been founded by artist June Wayne in Los Angeles in 1960 in an effort to revitalize lithography as a fine art, and offered artists the opportunity to work in collaboration with master printers. For Asawa, it was a rare chance to focus on a single medium and opened up a new chapter of artmaking for her. A testament to Asawa's radically experimental and collaborative ethos, the Tamarind prints present a discrete chapter of her oeuvre, encapsulating many of the artist's emblematic motifs. Published in celebration of the artist's centennial in 2026, this exquisitely produced book illustrates each lithograph made during her residency at the Tamarind Workshop, which have never been published as a complete series.Ruth Asawa (1926-2013) studied at Black Mountain College in the late 1940s before moving to San Francisco in 1949, where she produced a celebrated body of work that ranged from intricate wire sculptures to calligraphic ink paintings. Asawa continuously transformed materials and objects into subjects of sustained artistic contemplation, drawing on nature, science and craft to unsettle distinctions between abstraction and figuration, figure and ground, and negative and positive space.
Dike Blair: Drawings
Drawings of ash trays and cups from a modern chronicler of the everydayThis book from New York-based artist Dike Blair (b. 1952) showcases his drawings from the past two years. Exploring the same imagery as his oil paintings and gouaches--ash trays, cups, mugs--allowed Blair to make his drawings "more effortless and free.
Monet and Venice
In a significant traveling exhibition, many of Claude Monet's radiant and evocative Venice paintings are to be reunited for the first time in over a century. Monet's Venice paintings are high points in his lifelong engagement with the interplay of water and light. Monet and Venice--anchored by two masterworks from the collections of Brooklyn and San Francisco, The Doge's Palace and The Grand Canal, Venice--will be the first exhibition and English-language publication dedicated to this significant suite of paintings since their Parisian debut at the Bernheim-Jeune gallery in 1912. Monet keenly felt the burden of influence in a city that had so often been depicted and had long been an icon of waning, fragile beauty. Venice was--and is--a place where culture and nature are profoundly and uniquely entangled. Monet's images of Venice's buildings and canals dissolved in colorful mist and hazy light may be seen as meditations on human aesthetic interaction with a natural environment built upon for centuries. These tonally unifying atmospheres--which he referred to as the enveloppe--reveal Monet's essentially ecological understanding of the world in which he immersed himself. Air, light, water, and stone emerge together from a matrix of bold brushwork; buildings, reflections, and space are interconnected in luminous paintings that reinscribed and transformed the centuries-old Venetian landscape tradition. Including lush reproductions, newly commissioned texts, and maps of the artist's views, this book is an essential addition to any Monet lover's library.
Robert Longo: The Acceleration of History
Longo's latest charcoal drawings of dissent reflect American media's preoccupation with violenceOnce a part of the Pictures Generation and still making art today, Robert Longo (born 1953) creates large, hyperrealistic drawings rendered in charcoal, giving his compositions a black-and-white photographic effect. He has depicted everything from swimmers to fighter jets and from cathedrals to suits of armor. This survey of Longo's last 10 years of work centers on The Destroyer Cycle, a series he began after the 2014 Black Lives Matter protests in Ferguson, Missouri. Distilling scenes of power and violence across recent American history, Longo's glimpses range from the hyperlocal (streets in Memphis and Washington, DC) to the universal (a line of riot cops, a bullet hole in a glass window). These arresting images, eerily similar to photographs, underscore the journalistic angles adopted by US media when depicting social unrest.
Salvador Dal穩 the Persistence of Memory
A fascinating and detailed analysis of one of the most iconic works of SurrealismIn 1931, Salvador Dal穩 (1904-89) painted The Persistence of Memory, a work that has become virtually synonymous both with the artist and with Surrealism itself. In this bleak and infinite dreamscape, hard objects become inexplicably limp, while metal attracts ants like rotting flesh. Yet realistic details are included, too: the distant cliffs depict the coastline of Dal穩's native Catalonia. Tapping deep into the nonrational mechanisms of his mind--dreams, the imagination and the subconscious-- and utilizing what he called "the usual paralyzing tricks of eye-fooling," Dal穩 claimed that he made this painting with "the most imperialist fury of precision," but only "to systematize confusion and thus to help discredit completely the world of reality." Curator Anne Umland unpacks this uncanny masterpiece, placing it within Dal穩's long career as artist, author, critic, impresario and provocateur.
Art Celebrity Launch Collection September 2025 - Bette Ridgeway
Art Celebrity Magazine by Contemporary Art CollectorsLaunch Collection - Summer 2025Issue: Bette RidgewayWhere 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.
Sidney Goodman: Man in the Mirror
Since the 1960s, Sidney Goodman has helped to maintain the vitality of American figurative art. Making the figure in the modern urban landscape his ongoing subject, Goodman collages images into compositions that are both clear and disquieting. Man in the Mirror documents the first major exhibition of Goodman's works on paper.
Tobias Pils
Zeichnungen/Drawings is the first book dedicated exclusively to the painter Tobias Pils's (b. Linz, 1971; lives and works in Vienna) drawings. His graphical forms-- the lines, figurations, even the intervening spaces-- constantly change the direction in which they set out. Their ambivalence destabilizes any attempt at interpretation. One would think that the indeterminacy of Pils's visual idiom must torment him, yet in fact this state of existential tension fills him with absurd pleasure. Rather than conceiving his works with a clear objective in mind, he allows himself to fall into them. He-- his art-- remains open to everything that happens in the creative process. Taken together, Pils's drawings operate along the diffuse boundary between order and disorder, as though, acknowledging the disordered present (the life we lead), they came from an ordered past (the life we have constructed for ourselves).
Jaroslav J. Kr獺l穩k
Drawing on everything from the Old Masters to Surrealism, Kr獺l穩k applied his art historical influences to his monumental architectural designs and his portable handwritten or printed textsThis first monograph on painter and printmaker Jaroslav Kr獺l穩k (1924-99) restores him to the canon of 20th-century Czech art. Aesthetics of metaphysical painting, Surrealism and Symbolism echo throughout his work in tapestry, stained glass, collages, prints and handwritten texts.
Tarantino Town
From the creators of The Museum of Wes Anderson comes Tarantino Town, where dusty streets pulse with '70s soundtracks, diners dish out "Big Kahuna Burgers," and every corner brims with the swagger of one of cinema's most daring and original visionaries. This wildly creative book transforms the renowned filmmaker's iconic works into a fully immersive experience--a town teeming with grit, style, and more pop culture nods than you can count. Need a wardrobe upgrade? Stop by the local thrift shop to try on Reservoir Dogs' sharp suits or Beatrix Kiddo's unmistakable yellow jumpsuit. Hungry? Slide into a booth for a $5 milkshake or wander over to the bookstore to let pulp fiction and Robert Frost poetry feed your mind and spirit. Feeling cinematic? The theater's playing a double feature of Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! and Django. Packed with vibrant visuals, playful essays, and enough Easter eggs to thrill even the most passionate fans, Tarantino Town is more than a book--it's an invitation to step into the ultimate cinematic playground. Dive into the meticulous costumes, unforgettable personalities, and cult-classic scenes that define this legendary storyteller's universe. Ideal for film buffs, pop culture devotees, or anyone captivated by the bizarre and brilliant, Tarantino Town promises a one-of-a-kind adventure. Buckle up, turn up the music, and take a trip through the most wickedly entertaining town you'll ever encounter.
Claude Cahun: Cancelled Confessions (or Disavowals)
Back in print after over a decade: the playful and genre-shattering memoir of a beloved surrealist known for her gender-bending portraitureFirst published in 1930 by anti-fascist, avant-garde publisher ?ditions du Carrefour in Paris as Aveux non Avenus, Cancelled Confessions (or Disavowals) is Claude Cahun's wildly radical answer to an invitation to write a memoir. Shattering the very premise of the "memoir"--the singularity of identity--into sharp and prismatic fragments, Cahun assembles an ever-mutating inquiry into the instability of "self" and its many masks.Using a multitude of forms (fables, jokes, aphorisms, letters, dialogues, dreams, hymns, pronouncements, etc.), to plumb the subjects of desire, love, gender, sex, fear, faith, religion and vanity (among others), Cancelled Confessions (or Disavowals) is a tour-de-force work of resistance: it provokes the reader to enter the capacious, provocative, playful and deeply imaginative space constructed by Cahun in defiance of all categorization, to repudiate a delimited, censured world and embrace, instead, the outcasts and cast-offs, the unknowable and the unknown.Thoughtfully redesigned to emulate the original artist's book, this revised edition of the out-of-print English translation by Susan de Muth--originally published in the UK by the Tate in 2007 and in the US by MIT Press in 2008--includes novelist and critic Pierre Mac Orlan's original 1930 preface along with contemporary essays by scholar Amelia Groom and translator de Muth. Almost 100 years old, Cancelled Confessions is not only prescient, but urgent: "It is not enough to be vanquished, you also have to turn defeat to your advantage."Born in France in 1894, Claude Cahun (n矇e Lucy Ren矇e Mathilde Schwob) was a writer, artist and anti-fascist activist, associated with the Surrealists, yet who was obscure for decades. Cahun's shape-shifting, gender-bending, "self" portraits--made in collaboration with Marcel Moore (n矇e Suzanne Malherbe, aka l'autre moi, "the other me")--feature Cahun in androgynous garb with shaved head, or elaborately costumed and adorned with makeup or masks, often with mirrors or doubling, always multiplying the "I." These are the most recognizable works in a highly subversive, multiform oeuvre that includes Aveux non Avenus (Cancelled Confessions) as well as more untranslated writings. Now embraced as a pioneer of queer and feminist expression and heralded for a daring and inventive, years-long resistance to the Nazi occupation of the Isle of Jersey, Cahun created art--and a life--that aimed to disrupt societal, political and artistic orthodoxies with courage, wit and imagination.
Orna Ben-Ami, Displacement and Memory
An entirely new retrospective survey of the work of Israeli artist Orna Ben-Ami, including her monumental public works, from the early 1990s to the present day.Orna Ben-Ami sculpts by cutting and welding iron. She also creates unique artworks by attaching her iron sculptures to flat photographic prints. The artist first started to learn gold and silversmithing at the Jerusalem Technological Centre, before studying sculpture at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC between 1990 and 1992. She became fully engaged in sculpture in 1994, using iron as the principal raw material both for her artistic expression and for the preservation of private and collective memories, particularly the memories of transient and displaced people.This retrospective volume presents 195 key artworks covering the major influences Ben-Ami has drawn upon since the early 1990s. These include Jews in Europe that were forced to leave to the Ghetto during WWII, Syrian and African refugees from the last 30 years, the destruction of life and houses in the Israeli villages around the Gaza Strip during and post October 7, 2023, and Palestinian child refugees within the Gaza Strip.Accompanies the opening of a major exhibition of Ben-Ami's work at the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, in Washington DC.
Goya: The Disasters of War
Based on the original 1863 edition, this presentation of Goya's 80 etchings decries the consequences of war through his bleak, gruesome and unflinching imageryFollowing his tenure as court painter for the Spanish royal family, Francisco de Goya's art took on darker subjects and a more expressive style, especially during the Peninsular War (1808-14). Much can be gleaned from the fraught and visceral work of this period, including his series of etchings known as The Disasters of War.Concerned about the state of the world as much as his own failing health, Goya spent 10 years on what he personally titled Fatal Consequences of Spain's Bloody War with Bonaparte, and Other Emphatic Caprices. Starvation, sickness, looting, assault, torture, execution--each image confronts the shattered lives of everyday soldiers and civilians, accompanied by brief, ambiguous captions such as "Y no hay remedio" ("And there is no remedy") and "Yo lo vi" ("This I saw").This clothbound book faithfully reproduces the first edition of the complete set of 80 works which was published in 1863, 35 years after Goya's death. It features exquisite printing quality on paper that closely resembles the texture of the original engravings, in a similar format and scale. War is still a condition of human existence today; Goya's etchings are timeless for their vehement denunciation of its atrocities committed by all combatants, regardless of their national affiliations.Born in Fuendetodos, Spain, Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) trained in Zaragoza and later moved to Madrid. In 1789 he was appointed as a court painter by Charles IV. Considered "the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns," his art blended elements of Romanticism with a deeply personal and often critical vision of society.
John Hafen
A meticulously researched, comprehensive biography showcasing the work of Utah artist John Hafen, including over 200 images of the artist's work, along with 50+ photos and historical clippings.In his short life as an artist, John Hafen (1856-1910) earned the title of Utah's "poet painter." He was a Latter-day Saint artist in a philosophical and evangelical sense, although he was not a painter of Christian genre, themes, or content. Rather, he searched for the universal and eternal beauty underlying the mountains and rural nature. While he vigorously eschewed commercialism in art, because of dire poverty and a large family (10 children) he was continually "forced" to paint quick pictures for the trade just to get by from day to day. But taken all together, he was still the clearest voice of the aesthetic conscience of Utah fine art in his day. His capo d'opera was the equal of the best Utah artists and fared well nationally. His contributions to Utah art were profound and long-lasting. He was the instigator of the Paris art mission and the lead painter of the murals in the Salt Lake Temple. He began the art department at Brigham Young Academy (now BYU), was president of the Utah Art Institute, and cofounded the Springville Museum of Art. Because of the lyrical nature of his landscapes and the poignancy of his short life and career, John Hafen is remembered as Utah's "poet painter."
Antoni Miralda: Booom
Finding solace in visual art during his boot camp training, Miralda's photographs and sketches of army life served as the basis for his critically acclaimed anti-war sculpturesSpanish artist Antoni Miralda (born 1942) found in drawing and photography a refuge from his required military service, which left him feeling physically exhausted and emotionally repressed. From this hostile wasteland would emerge the seeds of works that would distinguish him within the Parisian avant-garde of the mid-1960s. Booom is a heretofore unpublished compilation of Miralda's photographs and notebook sketches, made while at boot camp, which are at the root of his antiwar sculptures--a body of work that led the artist to become internationally celebrated. It is an essential publication for gaining a deeper understanding of Miralda's remarkable ability to transform everyday elements into powerful instruments of critique and provocation. Booom, of course, does not arrive at just any moment. It comes at a time when the world is witnessing the most severe escalation of potential armed conflict since World War II.
Dogs & Art
A celebration of some of the world's greatest dog paintings as well as an enlightening look at the history of dog breeds by art historian Susie Hodge, the book features 50 great paintings from throughout history, each depicting a different dog breed.With an essay about the work of art and the artist as well as a separate piece about the individual dog breeds, the author analyzes the dogs featured in the works of art, explaining the original human uses of specific breeds - such as herding, hunting, defending or lap dogs - and how those dog breeds have changed over time - sizes, color and uses. It reveals how certain breeds were very popular in history and how the fashions for different breeds changed over time.Featuring many of the world's best-loved works, including Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife by Jan van Eyck, Venus of Urbino by Titian, and The Luncheon of the Boating Party by Renior, this informative and attractive new book will appeal to both art and dog lovers alike and form part of a new series.Gemini MasterpiecesA treasured series celebrating 50 of the world's greatest paintings throughout history, each on the theme of your favorite animal or plant to bring the story of the breeds and artworks to life.
Cats & Art
A celebration of some of the world's greatest cat paintings as well as an enlightening look at the history of cats by art historian Susie Hodge, this book features 50 great paintings from throughout history, featuring our feline friends.With an essay about each work of art and the artist as well as a separate piece about the individual cat and its breed, the book gives new perspective and depth to many of the world's best-loved pieces.Featuring notable works such as The Angora Cat, by Jean Honor矇 Fragonard and Marguerite G矇rard and Girl with a Kitten by Lucian Freud, this informative and attractive new book will appeal to both art and cat lovers alike and forms part of a new series.Gemini MasterpiecesA treasured series celebrating 50 of the world's greatest paintings throughout history, each on the theme of your favorite animal or plant to bring the story of the breeds and artworks to life.
