Sarah Lucas: Sense of Human
Bawdy and irreverent, the work of Sarah Lucas deliberately misconstrues the semiotics of gender and the bodyIn her often provocative objects, photographs, sculptures and installations, English artist Sarah Lucas (born 1962) cobbles together everyday objects to question social norms and gender stereotypes. Full of puns and raunchy innuendos, her works isolate parts of the human body--breasts, legs and genitalia among her most frequent motifs--and place them in uncomfortable, uncanny situations to make light of their social ascriptions. This catalog, for the first institutional exhibition of Lucas' work in Germany since 2005, brings together work from almost four decades of her practice. With both a title and cover image that illustrate Lucas' tongue-in-cheek sensibilities, Sense of Human is a fresh reexamination of a Young British Artist enjoying a new cultural significance. This book was published in conjunction with Kunsthalle Mannheim
Michel Majerus: Progressive Aesthetics
Pop-like paintings that prophesize the influence of capitalism and cultural imperialism on American artCreated at the threshold of the 21st century, the paintings of Michel Majerus (1967-2002) reveal his passion for technology, youth culture and the power of institutions. This monograph provides a novel look at the artist's brief but dynamic career.
Catherine Goodman
Goodman's signature energetic brushstrokes take on a new, immersive power as she debuts a series of monumental abstract paintingsKnown for her expressionist landscape paintings, portraits and sketches united by their animated surfaces and a sense of vitality, Catherine Goodman (born 1961) here charts a course toward abstraction through a new series of monumental paintings.
Reggie Burrows Hodges: The Reckoning
Hodges' latest series, centered around the motif of reflective surfacesThis body of work from American painter Reggie Burrows Hodges (born 1965) takes reflection as its primary focus: a handheld mirror, the glimmer of a sliding door, a glistening pool. The series has developed over the past three years and comprises the artist's first solo show in Los Angeles. Built out from Hodges' signature black ground and rendered in acrylic and pastel, the scenes and figures here emerge through gestural-but-intimate marks of incandescent hues.Throughout the exhibition, as illustrated in this accompanying volume, mirrored surfaces multiply, operating as potent sites of transportation and slippery disappearance. The richly illustrated book, which features essays by curator Jaime DeSimone and writer and curator Hilton Als, breaks from the form of the traditional exhibition catalog to highlight the significance of this body of work as a painted world unto itself.As Als writes, Hodges "begins each work with a flat canvas that he washes in black, a black that is the black of infinity . . . I wonder if in looking into that black sphere--into that infinite--Hodges sees his paintings; that is, maybe his imagination rests in that darkness and rather like a figure out of Cocteau, he reaches into the darkness and pulls dreams out--dreams he realizes through painting."
Toba Khedoori
Meticulously drawn objects against blank backgrounds form liminal spaces devoid of human presence or context Australian-born artist Toba Khedoori's (born 1964) oeuvre incorporates both drawing and painting. She arranges large sheets of paper worked with wax to form monumental image carriers on which she produces precise drawings using graphite and oil paint, which captivate with their execution and fine detail.
Hans Josephsohn
As if pulled from an ancient ruin, Josephsohn's eroded, "existential" sculptures underscore the fragility of mankindIn the time of physical and moral devastation following World War II, Hans Josephsohn (1920-2012) developed an existential sculptural language characterized by ambivalent, almost abstract figures. Ancient-looking in their appearance, they speak to the fragile relationship of mankind with the surrounding world.
Merce Cunningham's Events: Key Concepts
Performance art theorist Claire Bishop delineates the history and significance of Merce Cunningham's public, participatory EventsFrom 1964 until his death, choreographer Merce Cunningham (1919-2009) produced over 800 Events. Each Event comprised a different sequence of excerpts from his repertory, parts of works in progress and new material; all lasted about 90 minutes. They were performed in museums, galleries, gymnasiums, theaters, public squares and on television.A dance history written from the perspective of art history, this book provides a new approach to understanding Cunningham's innovative format. Claire Bishop, professor at the CUNY Graduate Center, argues that the Events anticipate a contemporary culture of curating and remixing, while providing an ideal lens for tracing the Merce Cunningham Dance Company's history. In closing, she returns to the question of dance in museums, and what the Events open up in terms of spectatorship and contemporary developments in choreography.
NYC Storefronts
Now available in a handy, pocket-sized edition to accompany readers as they discover Manhattan's most cherished and intriguing stores. Every New Yorker has a favorite place to shop--whether it's for pizza or flowers, to grab a beer, or slurp down soup dumplings. When the coronavirus crisis hit in 2020, illustrator Joel Holland began drawing storefronts near his apartment as a way of memorializing an element of city life that seemed suddenly precarious. He posted them on Instagram and they quickly drew an avid following. Eventually, Holland's collection grew to include shops recommended by friends or strangers online. This book showcases 225 of his delightful illustrations and runs the gamut, from delis and bodegas to dive bars, bookstores, bakeries, newsstands, cafés, restaurants, and more. Each image is paired with engaging text written by journalist David Dodge and filled with the historical, cultural, and architectural details that have earned these stores a place in people's hearts. Also included is a foreword by beloved Instagrammer New York Nico, who is known for chronicling the city's independent businesses. The perfect gift for New Yorkers of all ages--as well as an insider's guide to everything from bagels to late-night jazz--this treasury of iconic shops belongs in the library of anyone who loves NYC.
What Art Can Do
When Heather Sanderson and Janet Morgan sat down for a podcast interview an hour flew by. Heather's natural curiosity and skill at listening brought out many stories from a long life in art. Here they have added more than eighty images of Janet's work to bring the words and stories to life.Inspired by a podcast conversation between Janet Morgan and Heather Sanderson, this book explores what art is and what it can do both personally and collectively.Janet talks about her creative process and shares the wisdom that making and teaching art has brought to her (and to others through her). In exploring the outrageous, the foolish, and the divine, Janet shares how some of her best work started with a failure, rejection, and/or making a mess and what that means in art and in life! She also shares a vision of the healing and inclusive power of art, especially to build community.Worksheets to aid in creating your own deity, commitments to your art, and other calls to action are included to make this book an immersive and interactive experience, so that you can contribute to the conversation in your own way. Together, the future is possible!
Albrecht D羹rer - Der Mann und das Werk
Albrecht D羹rer (1471-1528) war ein deutscher Maler, Grafiker, Mathematiker und Kunsttheoretiker von europ瓣ischem Rang. Das gesteigerte Selbstbewusstsein und die vielschichtige Selbstreflexion deutet sich in D羹rers zahlreichen Selbstportr瓣ts an. In ihnen thematisiert der K羹nstler seinen eigenen gesellschaftlichen Stand und dar羹ber hinaus die hohe Wertigkeit der bildenden Kunst als intellektuelle Disziplin in einer Zeit, als diese noch zum gemeinen Handwerk gez瓣hlt wurde. Wie den Holzschnitt, so perfektionierte und revolutionierte D羹rer auch die Techniken des Kupferstichs. Neben seinem k羹nstlerischen Schaffen schrieb D羹rer Werke 羹ber das Perspektivproblem in der Malerei, darunter Underweisung der Messung, und bet瓣tigte sich mit der Befestigung von St瓣dten. Ein wichtiger Ratgeber war ihm hierbei der r繹mische Architekt und Architekturtheoretiker Vitruv mit seinen zehn B羹chern de Architectura. Als Mathematiker, geht er deduktiv und systematisch vor und ist sich des grundlegenden Unterschieds zwischen exakten L繹sungen (er nennt sie "demonstrative") und n瓣herungsweisen ("mechanice") L繹sungen stets bewusst, was ihn sogar von den meisten Mathematikern seiner Zeit abhebt. Willy Pastor (1867-1933) war ein deutscher Kunsthistoriker, Kunst- und Kulturkritiker sowie v繹lkischer Schriftsteller.
American Monuments - Finding New Dimensions
From 1982 to 2022, John Van Alstine created and installed eighteen large sculptures in the United States and abroad while developing another eighteen proposals that remain unrealized. Although these monumental projects are fewer compared with the over 800 studio works he produced during this 40-year period, they represent a significant part of his career and important contributions to public art that cannot be overlooked. American Monuments: Finding New Dimensions chronicles this aspect of Van Alstine's art and highlights the significance of large-scale works in his career. Known primarily for work created in the studio and exhibited in galleries and museums, Van Alstine's public works reveal a distinct and vital facet of his legacy. The book delves into a series of works that go beyond what many people typically know about Van Alstine, providing an even more insightful perspective on one of the masters of American sculpture, offering a fresh angle to the previous two books on his life and career, John Van Alstine Sculptures 1971-2018 and American Vistas: The Art and Life of John Van Alstine. What emerges is an artist who used scale to expand his overall object-making aesthetic. Van Alstine's art is about engaging, elevating and balancing heavy, earthbound materials like stone and steel, infusing them with a sense of weightlessness and animation. By breathing life into these otherwise inert materials, he tells deeply humanistic stories. On a larger scale, his sculptures radiate energy and intensity, bringing his artistic vision to life.
Domenico Ghirlandaio
An accessible life of the fifteenth-century painter and instructor of Michelangelo. Domenico Ghirlandaio (1448-94) was a master of Renaissance art, celebrated for his vivid frescoes and detailed portraits. Teacher to Michelangelo and admired by Lorenzo de' Medici, Ghirlandaio's work reflects the vibrant artistic culture of fifteenth-century Florence. This book examines Ghirlandaio's career in the context of the craft traditions, guilds, and workshops that shaped his art. It also analyses his famous works, such as the Santa Maria Novella frescoes and the portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni, revealing the creative and technical processes behind them. By uncovering the social and cultural influences on Ghirlandaio's art--including family ties and religious affiliations--the book offers a rich portrait of an artist whose work continues to inspire today.
Christine Sun Kim: All Day All Night
"[Her] poetic and political art pushes viewers to consider the limits, and misunderstandings, that come with communication in any language." --Andrew Russeth, the New York TimesThis volume surveys Christine Sun Kim's works across painting, sculpture, drawing, moving image, performance, large-scale murals and collaborations with other artists made between 2011 and 2024. Kim's practice considers how sound operates in society, deconstructing the politics of sound and exploring how oral languages operate as social currency. Identifying as Deaf and Korean American, Kim draws on musical notation, written language, infographics, American Sign Language (ASL) and the use of the body, strategically deploying humor to examine communication with her family and her community and to create new channels of dialogue with wide audiences.Published alongside the traveling exhibition, All Day All Night is brimming with supplementary texts from curators, artists and scholars, including an interview between Christine Sun Kim and exhibition curators Tom Finkelpearl, Jennie Goldstein and Pavel S. Pys; scholarly contributions by Seth Kim-Cohen, Jeffrey Yasuo Mansfield and Park McArthur; and an intimate artist timeline compiled by Brandon Eng and Rose Pallone. A substantial plate section follows these enriching text contributions.Christine Sun Kim (born 1980) is an American artist based in Berlin. Her work explores her relationship to spoken and signed languages, to her built and social environments and to the world at large. Kim has exhibited and performed internationally, including at the Queens Museum, New York (2022); the Drawing Center, New York (2022); Whitney Biennial, New York (2019); Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (2019); and the Art Institute of Chicago (2018).
Miguel Chevalier
Real, digital, universal: Miguel Chevalier's inspiring virtual and digital art. Miguel Chevalier (b. 1959) is one of the pioneers of virtual and digital art. For his multifaceted work, he uses the latest technologies, including the newest developments in artificial intelligence (AI), while always keeping up a dialogue with art and cultural history. Since the 1980s, the artist has been exploring the possibilities of the computer as a creative means of expression. This richly illustrated volume presents his sculptures and drawings, which he produced by using 3D printing and robotics, videos, and expansive installations. The book is dedicated to the relationship between the digital and analog worlds, astonishing connections between nature and technology, as well as human intervention in the environment.
Mark Grotjahn: Skulls
A painterly meditation on corporality and mentality, infused with Post-Impressionist influencesIn 2016, American painter Mark Grotjahn (born 1968) began a series of intimately scaled, thickly impastoed skulls. Made with brushes rather than his historically favored palette knife, these paintings affirm the influence of Post-Impressionists on the artist. After 15 years of Face Paintings and more than 100 Mask Sculptures, Grotjahn has stripped back the disguise and the skin and arrived at the 22 bones that structure the human visage. By introducing a symbol of life's inevitable end into his visual vocabulary, Grotjahn sets his sights on his own corporeality. As a result, the Skulls are his most intimate paintings to date.This catalog presents the entirety of his series, alongside a singular essay by Alison M. Gingeras in which she posits that the skull is the origin of portraiture, charting the motif's emergence throughout art history.
About Glass
A new contribution to the discourse on glass as a material in contemporary art. In its feel, plasticity, luminosity, and narrative quality, glass is a material like no other, captivating us with its immediacy. Artists such as Monica Bonvicini, Erwin Eisch, Carlos Garaicoa, Mona Hatoum, Shirazeh Houshiary, Laure Prouvost, Kiki Smith, and Ann Wolff have appreciated the unique physicality of glass, inspiring them to create sensational works. Often categorized under crafts or as a design material, glass has become an important medium for fine art in recent decades, which the Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung has supported through exhibitions, scientific work, and the establishment of a collection. This book presents a selection of around fifty artists from different geographical and cultural backgrounds who demonstrate the diverse artistic practice of working with glass, from spectacular small objects to installations. Featured artists include Niko Abramidis & NE, Philip Baldwin/Monica Guggisberg, Monica Bonvicini, Kristi Cavataro, Dale Chihuly, Tony Cragg, Jimmie Durham, Erwin Eisch, Jes Fan, Carlos Garaicoa, Donghai Guan, Jens Gussek, Mona Hatoum, Shirazeh Houshiary, Tao Hui, Ann Veronica Janssens, Hassan Khan, Ki-Ra Kim, Yoshiaki Kojiro, Raimund Kummer, Alicja Kwade, Glenda Le籀n, Antoine Leperlier, Silvia Levenson, Stanislav Libensk羸/Jaroslava Brychtov獺, Jessica Loughlin, Haroon Mirza, Kim Namdoo, Masayo Odahashi, Sibylle Peretti, Laure Prouvost, Colin Reid, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Gizela Sab籀kov獺, Anri Sala, Masahiro Sasaki, Alejandra Seeber, Eric Sidner, Kiki Smith, Jana Sterbak, Jenna Sutela, Neringa Vasiliauskaite, Frantisek V穩zner, Janusz Walentynowicz, Qin Wang, Pae White, and Terry Winters. Other contributors to this volume include Tina Oldknow, Alexandra Bahringer, Ayseg羹l Cihangir, J繹rg Garbrecht, Julia H羹rner, Barbara Kunze, Katharina Wenkler, and Sally Oey.
The Last Caravaggio
A focus on Caravaggio's last work, The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula, telling the story of an empowered female saint In early May 1610, Caravaggio finished painting The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula. Two months later, he was dead, having been disfigured in a brawl and become ill while trying to return from exile to Rome. Caravaggio is one of the most famous and instantly recognisable artists in the world. His paintings open a vivid and startlingly modern window onto the seventeenth century, while his own turbulent life story, characterised by violence, murder, exile, and untimely death, remains a source of fascination. Few paintings are better placed to tell this story than The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula. Here, violence takes place at uncomfortably close quarters as Caravaggio, whose own self portrait is included, looks on helplessly. Published by National Gallery Global/Distributed by Yale University Press
Simnikiwe Buhlungu: Besides Puleng; Dontsa-Ring and Roving Preoccupations
Buhlungu's installation creates a porous space where both water and scientific knowledge can move freelyDelving into microbiology through the disciplines of art, science, geography and history, Simnikiwe Buhlungu (born 1995) uses the ubiquitous water puddle as the basis for her mixed-media installation hygrosummons, exploring encounters with scientific knowledge.
Stinkhorn
A meditation on sound, inviting us to listen through the nose and open the mind to the musical potential in unpleasant odors. The stinkhorn mushroom is one of the weirdest wonders of the fungal world, certainly the smelliest. Ever since it was described by a Dutch doctor in a sixteenth-century pamphlet, the stinkhorn has been reported to emit odors resembling damp earth, dung, rotting cheese, decaying flesh, and even semen. It also happens to look like a phallus, bursting out of a subterranean egg to poke above the ground, where it lures insects towards its slimy, fetid cap. In Stinkhorn, artist, musician, and writer Si繫n Parkinson asks: What can the pervasive stench of this mushroom and the droning noise of the flies compelled towards it reveal about how sounds and smells are combined in the imagination? A heady mix of natural history, science writing, musicology, philosophy of the senses, and illness memoir, Parkinson uses examples of so-called bad smells to argue for a theory of Stink as a kind of "smelling sound." Alongside images and insights from the author's search for stinkhorn fungi in nature, the book expands upon the philosophy of listening to consider the role of the nose and the "nasal imaginary" in how we make sense of sound. In this treatise on malodors and how they can transform the conditions for listening, Parkinson considers John Cage's silent fungal forays, Brian Eno's compositions with perfumes, the hum note of a vibrating bell, the "eggy" odor of space, and the author's own hallucinated stench as the result of an epileptic seizure. What links these disparate ideas and sensory experiences can be found in a single encounter with a ripe stinkhorn mushroom. Includes 16-page insert of a facsimile of the Neo-Latin-English translation of The Description of the Phallus by Hadrianus Junius, translated by Caroline Spearing.
A Dream Deferred
The first full-length biography of one of South Carolina's most significant African American visual artists Excluded from the Charleston Renaissance because of his race and pushed to the edges of the Harlem Renaissance by geography and circumstance, Edwin Augustus Harleston was an artist caught between worlds. Despite being marginalized within his hometown of Charleston, South Carolina, during his lifetime, Harleston nonetheless pursued his career as a painter, first at Charleston's Avery Institute, later at Atlanta University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Harleston received commissions and had gallery exhibitions that received critical praise in northern cities. When the demands of family pulled him back to Charleston, where he struggled to find the same freedom or acclaim that he had enjoyed in the North. In A Dream Deferred, Akua McDaniel offers the first comprehensive biography of Harleston. McDaniel considers not only his efforts to redefine the image of Black life in American visual culture, but she also examines Harleston's life as a social and political activist, including his role in founding the first NAACP chapter in South Carolina. McDaniel offers a full portrait of Harleston's life and career, one that had an outsized impact on the American art world, and beyond.
Discover Degas & Miss La La
The extraordinary story behind Degas's groundbreaking painting of the African-American circus performer Miss La La. Edgar Degas's Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando (1879) is one of only two paintings by the artist representing people of colour. Miss La La, born Anna Albertine Olga Brown to a white Prussian mother and African-American father, was a renowned performer of extraordinary daring in fin-de-si癡cle Paris. Exploring the fascinating story behind Degas's painting, this is the first in-depth study to focus on the sitter's identity, presenting new research on her life and career, as well as unpublished photographic material tracing her tour across Europe. The book also analyses the genesis of Degas's work, from his rapid sketches completed on the spot to his more elaborate preparatory drawings and pastels. The son of a Creole mother from New Orleans, Degas travelled to Louisiana in 1872-73, which was to have a lasting impact on his art. This book examines the artist's complex attitudes to ethnicity in relation to his own family background, and the representation of multiracial people in late nineteenth-century France. Published by National Gallery Global/Distributed by Yale University Press Exhibition Schedule: National Gallery, London (June 6-September 1, 2024)
Hilma AF Klint and Wassily Kandinsky: Dreams of the Future
An important exploration of the lives and art of Hilma af Klint and Wassily Kandinsky, two pioneers of abstraction at the turn of the twentieth century The Swedish artist Hilma af Klint is one of the art world's major rediscoveries of the twenty-first century. While the Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky has famously been credited for creating the first abstract artwork, this designation has been called into question with the resurfacing and renewed study of af Klint's non-figurative paintings. In this captivating volume, the af Klint biographer and scholar Julia Voss and the curator and writer Daniel Birnbaum convey in depth the two artists' nearly parallel development away from figuration and into the liberating, mystical vision of art. In this engrossing account of the affinities and divergences between af Klint and Kandinsky's lives and work, supported by more than 100 illustrations, we are invited to witness the conditions in which the art world was forever changed.
Amin Gulgee: No Man's Land
A rich tapestry of techniques and themes informs Gulgee's imposing yet intricate metal sculpturesPakistani artist and curator Amin Gulgee (born 1965) creates copper and bronze totemic sculptures inspired by Buddhist and Islamic religious figures, inviting viewers to immerse themselves in both the grandeur of subject matter and the richness of the material.
Synn繪ve Anker Aurdal: Through the Threads
Blending Norwegian weaving traditions with modernist impulses, Anker Aurdal tested the materials, imagery and critical reception of textile artBy combining traditional craft techniques and the language of painterly abstraction, Synn繪ve Anker Aurdal (1908-2000) created a new space for modern textile art. Her works take on an effervescent character by featuring materials such as copper thread, polyester, fiberglass, nylon, chains and synthetic dyes, challenging both aesthetic hierarchies and modernist assumptions about weaving.
Sean Scully: Dark Yet
Scully's signature, earth-toned horizontal strata find new, shimmering depths when painted on aluminum and rendered in aquatintThis book, Dark Yet, presents recent abstractions by Sean Scully (born 1945) that build on two decades-long series with a new painterly freedom: Walls of colored blocks vibrantly stacked on the picture plane, and Landlines forming strata of gloriously earthy colors. Graphic works based on a loose netlike pattern add a more pervious kind of visual delicacy. This book was published in conjunction with Galerie Max Hetzler
Hiroshige
From the author of Hokusai: A Life in Drawing comes an illuminating account of Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858), the last great artist of the ukiyo-e tradition. Ukiyo-e, meaning "images of the floating world," was a ubiquitous genre of Japanese woodblock prints during Japan's Edo period, often depicting popular actors, sumo wrestlers, beautiful women, and majestic landscapes. Hiroshige's serene, atmospheric prints stood out from his predecessors, capturing the essence of the world around him, and eventually gained widespread acclaim in Europe and America, influencing western European artists like Manet, Monet, and Van Gogh. This book offers a fascinating look at Hiroshige's life and work, tracing the journey of a fire warden who turned to printmaking later in life. It invites readers to follow in Hiroshige's footsteps through 19th-century Tokyo, discovering the iconic landscapes he immortalized while traveling the famed Tokaido and Kiso Kaido roads. This book features an exceptional selection of works accompanied by vivid text, drawing from Hiroshige's diaries, his talent for humorous poetry, taste for travel (with all its pleasures and challenges), and deep affinity for the natural world. This volume makes accessible a deep understanding of Hiroshige's body of work, and transports readers to Edo, Japan via his timeless prints.
Blanche Hosched矇-Monet in the Light
The first major monographic publication in English on the work of Blanche Hosched矇-Monet (1865-1947), the step-daughter, and later, daughter-in-law, of Claude Monet.Accompanying an eponymous exhibition, Blanche Hosched矇-Monet in the Light is the first volume to introduce this important woman artist, whose life and work were shaped by the artistic community she helped build at Giverny, and is the result of a long-term collaboration between French and American scholars. Across four essays, the authors approach Hosched矇-Monet's art and life through a variety of viewpoints. Drawing on previously unpublished sources, including Blanche's sketchbook, and new photography of Hosched矇-Monet's largely unknown artworks, this new book constitutes a definitive account of her life and art.The volume brings together approximately forty-six paintings from both French and American public and private collections, the vast majority of which have never been on seen in the United States. Three paintings by Claude Monet-- Le Bassin d'Argenteuil (1874), Cliff Walk at Pourville (1882), and Morning on the Seine, Giverny (1897) illustrate points of comparison and divergence between Claude Monet and Blanche Hosched矇, the only one of the Hosched矇 or Monet children to pursue painting.
