Ludovic Nkoth: What If
Nkoth's affectionate and dynamic portraits of Black subjects reclaim the legacy of the African diaspora in a French exhibition hall"It's important to acknowledge the conversation you're participating in...and also remembering that this conversation wasn't always open to everyone," says painter Ludovic Nkoth (born 1994) of his artistic practice. "Paint isn't neutral." Based in New York but born in Cameroon, Nkoth creates fluid and intimate portraits of Black subjects are all inspired by the country of his birth. His scenes capture the private lives of his subjects, in moments of thought, rest and recreation, inviting the viewer to imagine alternative narratives surrounding images of the Black experience. These paintings carried a special significance when they were exhibited within the Fondation Le Corbusier - Maison La Roche, a gallery intended for a collection of 20th-century abstract art, whose most famous figures borrowed the language of African art but assigned little merit to its creators.
Louis Fratino: Satura
Fratino's tender portraiture and intimate interiors evoke his own associations with the Italian landscape and cultural traditionThis volume presents a selection of work from American painter Louis Fratino, centered on his relationship with Italy, one of the artist's main cultural contexts of reference and a perspective through which to view both his artistic and his personal experience. His works evoke the landscapes, people and cultural context that animate the artist's everyday life, creating intense and erotically charged atmospheres. Alongside paintings, drawings, etchings and sculptures from the last decade, Satura includes new works providing a thorough investigation of the artist's practice. The title Satura comes from the Latin meaning of the word, referring to lanx satura, a dish filled with first fruits intended for the gods, from which descended a literary genre characterized by a variety of styles. In Italian, satura translates to "saturated" or "filled." Both Latin and Italian meanings resonate well with the richness and formal feast of Fratino's art.Louis Fratino was born in Maryland in 1993 and received his BFA in Painting with concentration in Illustration from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. He is currently featured in the 60th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, Stranieri Ovunque--Foreigners Everywhere, curated by Adriano Pedrosa. His work is included in the collections of the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the RISD Museum, Providence; and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Fratino lives and works in Brooklyn.
Cauleen Smith: Breaking Cinema
A compact introduction to Cauleen Smith's experimental, imaginative films incorporating science fiction, Afrofuturism and contemporary Chicago cultureSince making her first feature while a student at UCLA, Los Angeles-based artist Cauleen Smith (born 1967) has rooted her work firmly within the discourse of mid-20th-century experimental film. Drawing from structuralism, moving images and science fiction (combined with elements of the more recent Afrofuturist movement), her works offer a phenomenological experience for both its participants and its audience. A portable, introductory volume, Breaking Cinema is a quick yet thorough guide to Smith's filmmaking. It features stills from a decade of works, including Space Is the Place (her tribute to the Sun Ra Arkestra), Remote Viewing and Lessons in Semaphore. Art historian Romi Crawford, professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, elucidates this critical phase of the artist's career, and how Smith recasts film history in the context of the artistic and cultural ferment of Chicago's South Side.
Wassily Kandinsky
A revelatory collection of the artist's sketches and preparatory drawings, featuring many that have never been published before The great Russian modernist painter and theorist Wassily Kandinsky was one of the pioneers of abstraction in Western art. Few documents provide more insight into his evolution from figural to abstract art--or into the development of abstraction in the early twentieth century--than the pages of his sketchbooks. Featuring previously unpublished drawings, Wassily Kandinsky: The Sketchbooks is a comprehensive selection of hundreds of sketches from twelve notebooks Kandinsky kept between 1889 and 1935. Beginning with early figure studies, architectural sketches, and landscapes, the notebooks reveal a process of exploration that would lead Kandinsky from his first experiments in geometric abstraction to paintings that reshaped modernism. Demonstrating Kandinsky's mastery of color, line, shape, composition, and movement, the book includes notes and preparatory studies for major paintings, such as the "analytical drawing" for Composition VII (1913), the first study for Several Circles (1926), and Study for Composition IX, a preliminary working of his 1936 masterpiece. Visually stunning, the book offers a remarkable, intimate look at how Kandinsky sought to discover nothing less than a spiritually transcendent form of art.
Chagall
Featuring 100 works from throughout Chagall's career, this dazzling exhibition catalog focuses on the artist's engagement with life's most primal and universal themes. Steeped in tradition yet alive with imagination, Chagall's enormous body of work reflects a profound connection to cultural roots and to the boundless possibilities of creative expression. This monograph brings fresh eyes to the most relevant aspects of Chagall's oeuvre. It traces how, over eight decades, Chagall responded to his contemporaries' experimentations with cubism, fauvism, and surrealism by creating his own visual language.It offers a lively examination of overarching themes--love and romance; Jewish tradition and history; spirituality and the daily life, based on memory and nostalgia--and the ways they are reflected through repetition and variation over the years. And it reveals how Chagall's flexible use of symbols contributes to build a fantastic cosmos grounded on the "logic of the illogical".Readers will come to understand how Chagall was essentially a storyteller with an enormous gift for color and line, and a narrative artist who understood the power of symbolism in his own terms.
Starburst: The Art of Audra Auclair
This beautiful art book comes from Canadian artist Audra Auclair, whose work has spanned across many years and many mediums. Countless fans have fallen in love with her artwork thanks to her attempts to express the complexities of human emotion, and the merging of fantastical elements, nature, and stunning vibrant colours situations in her work. She has built up almost half a million followers on her Instagram account and runs a very popular Patreon, where she shares WIPs and access to her personal sketchbook. She also sells prints and products featuring her artwork from her online store. In this exclusive book, Audra takes readers on a journey through her creative history, opening up about her early years, childhood influences, struggles, and ambitions. She then shows us behind the scenes in her studio and discusses her personal techniques, including how she uses a sketchbook and conceptualizes. Then, presenting something a little different to other available 'Art of' books, Audra has written a chapter on an artist's relationship with art and provided some self-help-esque discussions for fellow creatives. From seeing creation as a spiritual force to being able to draw boundaries and maintain artistic confidence, this section is invaluable for artists of any ability. We then have beautiful galleries of Audra's complete work in various mediums, plus step-by-step tutorials for readers to follow - on topics including gouache painting, redrawing old art, creating digital art, drawing something in your own style, and mixing media. This is a highly interesting, ever-inspiring collection of art and writings from a thoughtful, hugely talented creative artist.
The Maisel's Murals, 1939
The murals fronting the entrance of Skip Maisel's Indian Jewelry and Crafts store at 510 Central Avenue SW in Albuquerque, New Mexico are a treasure of Native American painting and are of national importance. They represent some of the earliest and finest paintings by a seminal group of Southwestern native artists. Commissioned in 1939 by the store's founder, Maurice Maisel, the grandfather of the current owner, the murals are an extraordinary expression of fine arts, rarely seen on a commercial building. Despite their prominence on the building's fa癟ade, a fixture in downtown Albuquerque, they are essentially hidden in plain sight. The murals' subject matter demonstrates a unifying thematic context. Through the use of paired opposites, cultural themes and subjects can be compared and contrasted. In addition, the stylistic differences between artists, while showing the strong influence of training at "The Studio" art program at the Santa Fe Indian School established by Dorothy Dunn, they also demonstrate considerable differences in execution. The Maisel's building was designed by legendary New Mexico architect John Gaw Meem, popularizer of the Santa Fe Style. Meem hired well known Santa Fe artist Olive Rush for a total of $1,500 to paint the murals. She then hired eleven Native Americans to undertake the project and saw to it that they were paid a fair wage. Maisel's was to be Rush's last Native American project and she clearly wished the project to be a culmination statement of the mural work she had been engaged in with The Studio for nearly a decade. To that end, she included artists of varying ages, from forty-four year old Awa Tsireh of the first generation of Pueblo painters, to sixteen year old Popovi Da, a beginning Studio painter and the son of famous potters Maria and Julian Martinez, as well as including representatives of three principal Native American cultures in the Southwest: Pueblo, Navajo and Apache.
Google, Volume 2
An updated visual dictionary through the eyes of Google ImagesIn 2014, JBE Books and King Zog members Felix Heyes and Ben West published Google, Volume 1, using the dictionary and its 21,110 words as the basis for a visual compendium of the English language. The words and definitions have disappeared, replaced by the first result for each word on Google Images--the most widespread and comprehensive visual identification tool on the Internet, which is supposed to offer (as a founding principle) the most relevant and interesting images to our textual searches. Now, 10 years later, Google, Volume 2 provides an updated snapshot of what the world looks like through the eyes of Google Images. It asks: what is the most relevant image for each word in the dictionary--today? What is the most relevant image for a given word now, and will it remain the same in 2034? Flipping through the textless pages, one can see the evolution of our visual language in concert with our written one. Like its predecessor, Google, Volume 2 will be printed in a limited edition, making this eye-catching volume a true collector's item.
Daniel Crews-Chubb - Out of Chaos
Highlights Daniel Crews-Chubb's mixed-media paintings that explore the human condition through figuration, abstraction, and diverse cultural references.Daniel Crews-Chubb (b.1984) is a London-based painter whose mixed-media works wrestle with the human condition and modes of self-expression. This monograph, Out of Chaos, is published to coincide with his solo exhibition at Timothy Taylor, New York, which brings together new paintings and works on paper. Crews-Chubb's paintings exist somewhere between figuration and abstraction. They draw on a wide variety of references, including ancient cosmologies, historic artefacts, and sculpture, pre-Columbian deities, Cubism, Abstract Expressionism, and Hellenic myth. He intertwines canonical sources and classical allusions in his paintings, creating a highly personal, idiosyncratic lexicon of human, celestial, and bestial figures.Out of Chaos takes its title from the ancient Greek notion that chaos is a state of undifferentiated matter from which the universe emerged. The paintings that form this series feature urgent, gestural marks and passages of vivid color, centred around the figure as a motif. The bodies that he depicts are ageless, non-gendered, and non-racial-- conduits for feeling, rather than signifiers of individuals. This publication reproduces a selection of Crews-Chubb's paintings from 2015 to 2024, starting with his early works and subsequently organised into seven series. Notable among these are the recent Immortals (2022-) and Out of Chaos, which is the focal point of his solo exhibition. The book also features an introduction by the writer Jennifer Higgie, an essay by art historian Matthew Holman, and an interview with writer Amah-Rose Abrams. Higgie considers Crews-Chubb's exploration of the human condition and the role of spirituality in it. In his essay "Death, the World and All Our Woe", Holman expands on the artist's references to myth and religion, describing him as a "creator who annihilates". Holman contextualises Crews-Chubb in an art-historical lineage, considering his work alongside that of Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, and Willem de Kooning. In an in-depth interview, Crews-Chubb and Abrams delve into the artist's time at art college, the development of his painting technique and the relationship between the past and present in his work. The book is edited by Matt Price and Lada Sorokopud, designed by Import/Export, and published by Anomie Publishing, London, in association with Timothy Taylor and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles. Daniel Crews-Chubb was born in Northampton in 1984. He completed his BA at Chelsea College of Arts, London, in 2009 and undertook the Turps Studio Programme, London, in 2013. He lives and works in London. His first solo museum exhibition will take place at the Long Museum, Shanghai, in November 2024.
Marcel Broodthaers and Film
Marcel Broodthaers, one of the key figures of the postwar avant-garde, has been recognized and extensively studied as a poet who became a visual artist in 1964. However, years before creating his first sculptural objects and installations, Broodthaers made his debut as a filmmaker in 1957 with La Clef de l'horloge, embarking on a prolific cinema practice that yielded more than fifty films shot on 35mm and 16mm. Cinema, both as a medium and principle, was crucial to his artistry. Broodthaers' writings and visual works are interspersed with allusions to cinema, its history and its technology. Covering both well-known titles such as Le Corbeau et le renard (1967), La Pluie (1969), and Une Seconde d'矇ternit矇 (1970) as well as many lesser-known Broodthaers films, the essays in this book discuss his films as inseparable from his entire oeuvre while situating them in the larger history of experimental film. In addition, the book scrutinizes his experiments with cinepoetry and expanded cinema, as well as his interest in early cinema and his fascination with signs and inscriptions. Contributors: Andrew Chesher, Eric C. H. de Bruyn, Xavier Garc穩a-Bard籀n, Charlotte Friling, Steven Jacobs, Bruce Jenkins, Deborah Schultz, Christophe Wall-Romana, and Raf Wollaert
The Art of Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
Official art book revealing the process of making the Winter 2024 stop-motion animated film Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, featuring concept art, sketches, behind-the-scenes photography and interviews with Aardman's key creatives. In Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl, Gromit's concern that Wallace is becoming too dependent on his inventions proves justified when Wallace invents a "smart" gnome that seems to develop a mind of its own. When it emerges that a vengeful figure from the past might be masterminding things, it falls to Gromit to battle sinister forces and save his master... or Wallace may never be able to invent again!A story about the danger of letting technology compromise our humanity and get in the way of our relationships. Explore the wonderful world of Aardman's newest film with The Art of Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. This captivating book offers a behind-the-scenes look at the film's creation, featuring concept art, Nick Park's sketches, and interviews with key crew members. Explore the meticulous craftsmanship and boundless creativity that bring Wallace and Gromit's latest escapade to life and discover the magic behind stop-motion animation at its finest.
Minami Kobayashi
Minami Kobayashi's The Song of Jujubes showcases surreal paintings exploring memory, nostalgia, and belonging.Minami Kobayashi (b.1989) is a Japanese artist based in London. Covering a significant period of development in her practice as a painter, this publication coincides with her second major solo exhibition, The Song of Jujubes, at Frestonian Gallery, London. Kobayashi's paintings depict familiar yet surreal scenes, created from an amalgamation of memories, places, and ordinary people. In her dream-like ambiguous narratives, nature, animals, and humans are given equal status; her realms are symbiotic societies with multiple creatures. She captures transitory and fluctuating moments, depicting her protagonists in states of flux, vulnerability, and openness. Rendered in a post-Impressionist palette, her compositions are a potent mix of playfulness and deeper themes of human and natural life. Bringing together eleven new canvases, The Song of Jujubes takes its title from a song that the artist used to sing as a teenager in her hometown of Nagoya, Japan. It begins with a girl eating one jujube fruit every night, wondering what she will do when they are all gone. Imbued with a sense of nostalgia and loss, the works consider what "home" means and the strong relationship between people and place. This publication documents Kobayashi's paintings chronologically, from her early works of 2016 to 2024. In a foreword, the Directors of Frestonian Gallery, Matt Incledon and Rollo Campbell introduce the inner world of the artist and the themes of The Song of Jujubes. In an interview with Lisa Wainwright, Kobayashi discusses her time studying at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, her unique painting technique, and the symbolism in her scenes. She also expands upon her artistic influences, including Ukiyo-e woodblock prints, the tenets of Buddhism, Tarot, and the Nabi painters, such as F矇lix Vallotton, ?douard Vuillard, and Pierre Bonnard. In her essay "Temperature of a Memory", Laura Allsop analyzes Kobayashi's recent paintings in relation to memory and place, particularly the artist's hometown of Nagoya. Edited by Incledon and designed by Joe Gilmore, the book is co-published by Frestonian Gallery and Anomie Publishing, London.Minami Kobayashi (b.1989, Nagoya, Japan) lives and works in London. She holds an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of The Art Institute of Chicago (2018) and a BA in Painting from Tokyo University of the Arts (2016). Kobayashi makes figurative paintings that combine intimacy and mystery through their depictions of ordinary people, animals, and places, that seem vaguely surreal and ever so slightly off-kilter.Recent solo or duo exhibitions include I Spell a Word to Free You (with Adrianne Rubinstein) at Et Al Gallery, San Francisco (2024), Place and Presence (with Patrick Procktor) at Frestonian Gallery (2023), and Somewhere not here at Goldfinch Gallery, Chicago (2022).
...but i work here
"Visually stunning, formally innovative, and unlike anything I've ever read before."--Audrey T. Carroll, author of In My Next Queer Life, I Want to Be"In ...but i work here, Weiss renders sickness as a dense palimpsest of meaning and feeling. The reader is brought into a kitsch excess of chronic illness, bodily transformation, and cancer prevention from within the medical-industrial complex. Signposts of care are reminders of the uncanny; the reader is inside and outside of time; and medical documentation intertwines with incantations. All in all, this chapbook is triumphant refusal of the slick illness narrative."-Sarah Roth, writer & EIC of Tendon Magazine
Louis de Niverville
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY NOTABLE BOOK, FALL 2025 Louis de Niverville (1933-2019) was a painter and collagist. His experimental and thought-provoking art, often mislabelled as "surrealist," defied simple categorization. The ninth of thirteen children, young Louis was sent to a sanatorium in Ottawa for treatment of spinal tuberculosis at age six. He remained there for four and a half years. This long-term confinement would become a major influence on his art. Hired as an illustrator by the CBC in the late 1950s, de Niverville quickly immersed himself in the burgeoning Toronto art scene. His work relied heavily on his dreams and daydreams, and explored aspects of the individual, culture and nature, and often featured surreal "inside-outside" spaces. At a time when Abstract Expressionism and its offshoots were dominant in the international art world, Louis's early exhibitions in Toronto quickly seized the attention of respected art critics, and de Niverville was flagged as an artist to watch. This reputation plus a number of private commissions, including large-scale murals for Pearson International Airport and Spadina subway station, both in Toronto, helped thrust de Niverville to the forefront of the Toronto scene in the 1960s and 1970s. Edited by Thomas Miller--de Niverville's partner of many decades and an artist in his own right--and international art dealer Philip Ottenbrite, Louis de Niverville: Pentimenti includes texts from renowned art critics and curators Tobi Bruce, Ihor Holubizky, and E.C. Woodley, which trace de Niverville's rise in the Toronto scene, and which also provide critical art historical context to the depth and breadth of his unique practice. Heather Bell's biographical piece on de Niverville's childhood illuminates a practice seemingly born of childhood trauma and whimsy. Featuring more than 140 art reproductions and archival images, this is an in-depth examination of an artist who, in his unique portrayals of the individual, encouraged the exploration of the universal.
Faces from the Past
Faces From The Past is a mesmerizing blend of art and storytelling that brings characters to life through intricate fabric appliqu矇 designs and Kaftans. Each piece of artwork is a tribute to the people who once crossed Lola's path-real or imagined-and the vivid memories or emotions they sparked. It is a stunning collection for lovers of art, creativity, and storytelling, celebrating the beauty of memory and the enduring power of human connection.
Situated Listening
Situated Listening sets forth a collection of novel methodologies and creative proposals for listening, advancing the framework of situated listening as both a theoretical concept and a methodological practice.
Ribera's Repetitions
The seventeenth-century Valencian artist Jusepe de Ribera spent most of his career in Spanish Viceregal Naples, where he was known as "Lo Spagnoletto," or "the Little Spaniard." Working under the patronage of Spanish viceroys, Ribera held a special position bridging two worlds. In Ribera's Repetitions, art historian Todd P. Olson sheds new light on the complexity of Ribera's artwork and artistic methods and their connections to the Spanish imperial project.Drawing from a diverse range of sources, including poetry, literature, natural history, philosophy, and political history, Olson presents Ribera's work in a broad context. He examines how Ribera's techniques, including rotation, material decay (through etching), and repetition, influenced the artist's drawings and paintings. Many of Ribera's works featured scenes of physical suffering--from Saint Jerome's corroded skin and the flayed bodies of Saint Bartholomew and Marsyas to the ragged beggar-philosophers and the eviscerated Tityus. But far from being the result of an individual sadistic predilection, Olson argues, Ribera's art was inflected by the legacies of the Reconquest of Spain and Neapolitan coloniality. Ribera's material processes and themes were not hermetically sealed in the studio; rather, they were engaged in the global Spanish Empire.Pathbreaking and deeply interdisciplinary, this copiously illustrated book offers art history students and scholars a means to see Ribera's art anew.
Monumental
As the creator of the 67-foot-tall "Big Sam" statue of Sam Houston that overlooks Interstate 45 just south of Huntsville, Texas, David Adickes is a pivotal, if sometimes enigmatic, figure in Texas art. Though he made many contributions to the early development of the Houston art scene and to Texas Modernism, which has experienced an upsurge in interest of late, Adickes's life and work have had no thorough examination. Monumental: The Art of David Adickes tells the story of how a young artist from rural Texas studied with Fernand L矇ger in Paris, traveled the world, and returned to Texas to become one of the founders of a thriving art scene. Consideration of his monumental sculptures of Sam Houston, the Beatles, and various US presidents affords readers the opportunity to reflect on the challenges of making public art and navigating its political, cultural, and bureaucratic restrictions. Monumental considers the artistic implications of history, popular culture, kitsch, and even social media while exploring the dichotomy between the frequent academic skepticism and the ongoing mass appeal of Adickes's oeuvre. Scholars and students of contemporary Texas art, as well as general readers interested in Adickes's well-known public works, will enjoy this first-ever comprehensive look at a popular Texas artist.
Gina Proenza
Reminiscent of modernist sculpture and theatrical displays, Proenza's subtle and sophisticated installations propose a space for dreamlike thinkingPublished on the occasion of her solo exhibition at the Mus矇e Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, this monograph on French Colombian artist Gina Proenza (born 1994) encompasses her sculptural work drawing from specific narratives blending anthropological research, ancestral tales and literary influences. Through playful forms and theatrical displays, Proenza creates a sophisticated yet sensual visual language.
Katherine Bradford
Bradford's figures swim, float and wander through the dark and dreamy landscapes of their canvasesSince the 1970s, painter Katherine Bradford has unapologetically blazed her own path in the art world: painting daily and building a community of like-minded artists in both Maine and New York. Bradford paints with a formal inventiveness and a shifting sense of figure and ground, giving narrative weight to her characters who may appear as heroes or lovers, families or couples, businessmen or isolated individuals. Her chromatic scenes, painted in many transparent layers of acrylic, transmit a light-filled quality and offer metaphorical possibilities as they veer between humor, pathos and abstraction.This reference monograph of her work features an essay by London-based art critic Allie Biswas that reflects on the metaphysical nature of Bradford's work, an interview with fellow artist and writer Daniel Gerwin, a narrative biography text by her children, Laura and Arthur Bradford, that offers a personal look at the artist's life and work, and an overview essay by Austrian curator Sandro Droschl. The book compiles over 100 artworks surveying Bradford's paintings from 2015 until today, focusing on her recent series entitled Swimmers and Mother Paintings dealing with her own vision of motherhood and womanhood.Katherine Bradford (born 1942) lives and works in New York City and Brunswick, Maine. She has exhibited at institutions such as the Brooklyn Museum and most recently in a solo exhibition at the Portland Museum of Art, which traveled to the Frye Museum in Seattle. Bradford was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2011 and a Joan Mitchell Fellowship in 2012.
Ouattara Watts
The multimedia artist's first-ever thorough monograph, teeming with cosmograms, numerals and other relics This volume is the first comprehensive monograph on the work of Ouattara Watts (born 1957). Over the course of nearly four decades, the Abidjan-born, New York-based artist has developed a painting practice that places cosmograms, numerals, cloth and other symbols and relics from around the world into relation with each other, leveling hierarchies and creating new relations in the process. Alongside traditional mediums such as acrylic and gouache, the artist embeds materials from a kaleidoscopic range of sources in his monumental, densely layered canvases: papier-m璽ch矇, fallen leaves, textiles gleaned from flea markets and photographic reproductions, among others. This volume features essays by writer Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, curator Lawrence Rinder and artist Dieter Buchhart, as well as a conversation between the artist and curator-critic KJ Abudu--the first longform interview with the artist since his 1995 dialogue with Okwui Enwezor.
Lovro Artukovic: Stagings
First-ever examination of the Croatian figurative painter who paints quietly evocative scenes of urban lifeThis publication offers the first comprehensive overview on the practice of Croatian artist Lovro Artukovic (born 1959), encompassing the past four decades. The volume explores his figurative paintings, drawings and graphics that tap into contemporary urban culture with immediate intimacy and lashing imagery.
S矇verin Guelpa: The Desert, the Glacier and the Superstructure
A three-part, meticulously designed documentation of Guelpa's ambitious international art installation projectThis book follows the cross-continental art project of Swiss artist S矇verin Guelpa (born 1974). Carried out in three major stages, the project implemented exhibitions and immersions in diverse locales including the Mojave Desert, the Aletsch Glacier and urban construction sites.
Philip Mueller: Palio Di Vita
Neo-Romantic emotional paintings where unconventional characters and surreal events convergeKnown for his cacophonous, large-scale paintings, Austrian artist Philip Mueller (born 1988) captivates viewers with intense colors and manipulation of forms. Palio di Vita chronicles Mueller's imaginary groups of characters amid seaside and island settings inspired by his sojourns in Southern Europe.
Francesco Ciccolella: Between the Lines
A poetic meditation on mental health and the act of drawing as a conduit for processing griefA decade after a mental health crisis shook his family, Austrian illustrator Francesco Ciccolella (born 1990) began work on an autobiographical visual essay. Assembled from a series of sketchbook drawings, it explores the experience of observing a loved one locked in the grip of despair.
Ann Craven: Night
New compositions of earthly delights under the veil of night, from the painter known for her joyful depictions of birds, trees, flowers and moreThis catalog, accompanying Karma's three-part exhibition of new paintings by Ann Craven (born 1967), surveys major motifs of the artist's nearly 30-year-long practice. For the first time, she has set all of her scenes in the darkness of evening, creating a consistent chromatic background that intensifies her always-vibrant colors. These oils of moons, trees, birds, flowers and deer constitute the latest chapter in her systematic catalog of what she terms "revisitations," each of which is also a reinvention of her subject matter. In this body of work, and across her practice, figuration morphs into kaleidoscopic abstraction and back again, each canvas resisting easy categorization in favor of pure feeling. In addition to a lush plate section, this volume features an intimate conversation between the artist and curator Jay Sanders, an expansive art-historical essay by Richard Kalina and poems written and collected in dedication to Craven by Susan Howe.
Rebecca Merlic: The City as a House
A record of the artist's nomadic living digital experiment in TokyoIn this interactive video art piece-turned-book, the German digital artist and architect Rebecca Merlic (born 1989) challenges the concept of the private home, taking her own nomadic lifestyle in Tokyo as her catalyst for inquiry. The book showcases various forms of data collected during her experiment.
Robert Grosvenor: Flocked Snow
Grosvenor's photographs of color-coated snow investigate the stakes of altering the world around usIn a Patchogue, New York, parking lot, Robert Grosvenor (born 1937) photographed brightly colored flocking dropped into mounds of snow. Known for his subtle adjustments to readymade objects, Grosvenor makes the resulting images insistently abstract, depicting the aftermath of an action.
Emile Claus
- A major monograph on the artist widely regarded as one of the greatest Impressionist luminist painters Emile Claus (1849-1924, published to mark the anniversary of his death 100 years ago- This book is published on the occasion of the Emile Claus centennial exhibition in MUDEL Museum, Deinze, Belgium from September 28, 2024 to January 26, 2025Dive into the mesmerizing world of Emile Claus (1849-1924), a master of Impressionist Luminism, with this stunning monograph celebrating the artist's centennial. From his early works to his later masterpieces, this book offers a comprehensive overview of Claus's spectacular oeuvre, showcasing his mastery of light, color, and atmosphere. With insightful commentary and exquisite reproductions, one will be transported to the idyllic landscapes and enchanting scenes that defined Claus's legacy. Whether you're a seasoned art enthusiast or discovering Claus's brilliance for the first time, this volume is a must-have addition to any art lover's collection. Image (c) MUDEL, Deinze
The Anatomy of the Horse
- This presentation of George Stubbs' The Anatomy of the Horse is taken from the 1853 printing, the last to use original plates, includes Stubb's full commentary- Complemented by essays from Constance Anne Parker and Oliver Kase place Stubbs' work in the context of his life and times, and of 18th-century medical science"The subtle forms and modelled curves and planes in a skeleton were to George Stubbs what a symphony is to a musician." -- Oxford Companion to Art "The most unique thing of its kind ever compiled. This heroic effort, an epic of the eighteenth century, is as great and unselfish a work as anything could be." -- Sir Alfred Munnings George Stubbs was one of the most original artists Britain has produced, and it is easy to forget how much his success was based on rigorous scientific observation. In 1756 he rented a farmhouse where he erected scaffolding to hold the cadavers of horses as he dissected and drew. After 18 months, Stubbs produced the drawings for The Anatomy of the Horse, which he later etched. The result was sensational. Scientists from all over Europe sent their congratulations, amazed at the perfection of the work. The Anatomy remained a textbook for artists and scientists for over a century, and its strange, spare beauty continues to fascinate. This edition is taken from the 1853 printing, the last to use Stubbs' original plates. The full Stubbs' commentary is included for the veterinarially minded. Extensive texts by Constance Anne Parker and Oliver Kase place Stubbs' work in the context of his life and times, and of 18th-century medical science.
John Scott
Raw, personal and political, John Scott: Firestorm presents an artist's searing critique of modernity's capacity for industrial warfare and the machines that enable it. John Scott (1949-2022) produced paintings, drawings, and sculptures of what he called "engines of history," the hyper-masculine military and civilian weapons of the past half-century. Surveillance aircraft, B-52 and stealth bombers, tanks, cruise missiles and rockets, as well as handguns, muscle cars, and motorcycles forcefully imprint themselves upon the viewer through Scott's fierce mark-making and large, rough sculptural gestures. Humanoid rabbits--often surrounded by numbers that fail to add up--represent those threatened by such technologies. The dichotomy between the death-dealing weaponry of the nuclear era and the vulnerability of human beings lies at the core of Scott's work. Scott deployed an idiosyncratic graphic language to represent apocalyptic machines and power imbalances, working in the tradition of Francisco Goya, K瓣the Kollwitz, Nancy Spero, and others. Scott grew up in Windsor, Ontario, across the river from Detroit, Michigan. Like many Canadian artists, writers, and intellectuals of his time, Scott was a close watcher of America, with a front-row seat on a sometimes rogue nation. Stylistically, his work is close to that of his contemporaries Jean-Michel Basquiat and William Kentridge, showing a kindred ferocity of mark-making and dark urgency. John Scott: Firestorm accompanies the exhibition of the same name organized by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, curated by Canadian art scholar John O'Brian. It is the first major exhibition of Scott's work to focus on his imagery of machines and modernity's capacity for industrial war--a body of work as meaningful today as it was when it first appeared in the 1970s. This publication features over 100 of Scott's works, a detailed biography, and new critical writings on the artist.
Sketching Hong Kong--The Drawings of Eddie Chau
Views of China through the paint strokes of Eddie Chau. Sketching Hong Kong--The Drawings of Eddie Chau is a panoramic record of Hong Kong by the Indonesian-Chinese painter Eddie Chau. A testament to geographical history, each painting is a passage in Hong Kong's story, each stroke a moment in time. This book serves as a retrospective of Chau's art through his early years in Bandung, his coming-of-age in Guangdong, and his final decades in Hong Kong.
Xanti Schawinsky
Discover the life and art of Xanti Schawinski. Xanti Schawinsky: Play Life Illusion refers to the title of a performance that Xanti Schawinsky developed in 1936 with students at Black Mountain College. The Swiss artist who worked at the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau emigrated in the 1930s via Italy to the United States. The volume assembles autobiographical texts and letters regarding the life's work of the multimedia artist and designer. During his time at the Bauhaus, Schawinsky learned that it is possible to be both an artist and a designer at the same time if your passion for and joy in experimentation are simply big enough. Thus, he repeatedly reinvented himself as a stage and exhibition designer, painter, graphic artist, teacher, and photographer. He made friends, allies, and colleagues who included not only Bauhaus artists like Walter Gropius and Herbert Bayer but also avant-garde artists like Marcel Duchamp. Texts, accompanying explanations, and lively illustrations recreate his life and times.
Erwin Wurm
An exciting retrospective on Austrian artist and sculptor Erwin Wurm. With his sculptures of fat cars, tiny houses, cucumbers, bread rolls, and sausages, Erwin Wurm shines a critical spotlight on consumer society's manipulative mechanisms and their effects. Published to coincide with the artist's seventieth birthday, this extensive catalog documents the important stations of Erwin Wurm's artistic career to date. Wurm uses shifted proportions and new angles on objects of everyday life to gain new perspectives and insights into our world and our lives. Alongside his main works, this book also introduces the public to lesser-known but equally significant works and work groups. The resulting selection forms a dense network of artistic statements comprising sculptures, drawings, working instructions and documentation, videos, objects, photographs, and paintings.
Alois Riegl
Alois Riegl (1858-1905) was one of the founders of art history as a discipline. This is the first general introduction to the work of the celebrated Austrian who brought complex philosophical considerations to bear on art and its history. Ranging easily over diverse fields and among a large group of thinkers, Margaret Iversen establishes Riegl's relevance to recent critical thinking while clearly delineating his extraordinary critical powers. Iversen contextualizes Riegl's thought among the wider cultural crosscurrents of his time, pointing for example to his denunciation of the sub-Semperians and his profound influence on Walter Benjamin. She is equally concerned to relate Riegl's work to contemporary theoretical interests, arguing that he pioneered an approach to art history that took into consideration the role of the spectator. She devotes a chapter to Riegl's theory of spectator/depiction relationships, comparing it with more recent writing on the subject by commentators like Fried, Foucault, and others. In a sympathetic reading of Riegl, Iversen interprets his theory of Kunstwollen or artistic volition, as a concept that ran counter to narrowly empiricist and determinist histories of art that were dominant in his time. She provides extended critical commentary on his most important works, Questions of Style, Late Roman Art Industry, and The Dutch Group Portrait, enriched by explorations of the theoretical background of his systematic art history, including the work of Kant, Hegel, Herbart, and Hildebrand. Iversen also details Erwin Panofsky's early response to Riegl, arguing that Panofsky's search for an authoritative viewpoint collapsed Riegl's multiple typology of style into an art history constructed around a single aesthetic norm.
Charles Atlas: About Time
Scintillating and significant, Atlas' genre-defying, collaborative video art is on full display in this extensive surveyAmerican artist Charles Atlas (born 1949) is a leading figure in film and video art known for his pioneering work at the intersections of moving image, dance and performance. Alongside the artist's first retrospective, About Time surveys 50 years of groundbreaking work through immersive multichannel video installations Atlas describes as "walk-through experiences." These monumental installations reimagine his collaborations with artists such as Marina Abramovic, Michael Clark, Merce Cunningham and Yvonne Rainer in dynamic new spatial configurations. Taking in themes of performance and portraiture, gender and sexuality, and collaboration and friendship, About Time presents significant new scholarship on the artist's work and legacy from some of today's leading voices, foregrounding a diverse group of artists reflecting on Atlas' influence.
Jules Schmalzigaug
- Brilliantly introduces Jules Schmalzigaug, Belgium's sole Futurist artist - Features the world's largest collection of Schmalzigaug's works from KMSKA (Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp) - Explores his artistic journey from the academy to 'panchromy' - Covers Schmalzigaug's travels from Bruges to Venice to The Hague - Comparable to collections of renowned artists like Ensor and Rik Wouters A brilliant introduction to the work of Jules Schmalzigaug (1882-1917), Belgium's sole representative of the Futurist movement. The Royal Museum of Fine Arts (KMSKA) in Antwerp, like it does with James Ensor and Rik Wouters, boasts the world's largest collection of Schmalzigaug's works. This collection book provides ample reason to explore it, thoroughly documenting the evolution of Schmalzigaug's creative process. It traces his journey from the academy to 'panchromy', and from Bruges to Venice to The Hague.
Alberto Garutti
Charting Garutti's visual language through his assessment of the location, history and realities through his public art spacesConceived by the late Germano Celant, this monograph provides the most complete overview of Italian artist Alberto Garutti (1948-2023), including a selection of artist statements and a critical timeline of his sculptures, installations and public art.
To Everything There Is a Season
Emma Haworth is a painter of the urban scene. Her art is built upon meticulous observation of the ebb and flow of modern metropolitan life - in the streets, the parks, the squares of London, New York, Paris and other great cities: it is a constantly shifting drama of moving people and changing light, played out in a great arena that is both architectural and natural. In To Every Thing There is a Season, Emma shows us an overview of her oeuvre and working practices.
Egon Schiele
This book highlights the intimate relationship between landscape and portraiture in the work of the Austrian Expressionist artist Egon Schiele (1890-1918). Plants, natural environments, and townscapes determine the spaces Egon Schiele created in his paintings, and they also reflect the rich symbolism he employed that is centered around the human condition. In particular, plants are often endowed with an allegorical meaning. Flowers and trees assume the role of portrait subjects and convey an almost human appearance. Schiele's landscapes always represent more than their apparent subject matter. His portrayal of nature and his rendering of towns and trees epitomize the life cycle and the human condition.This catalogue, accompanying a spectacular exhibition on view at the Neue Galerie New York, will investigate the importance of landscape in the artist's work. The contributing authors are internationally distinguished experts on Schiele's landscapes and representatives of museums and universities in Europe and the United States.
Elmgreen & Dragset: Spaces
The first comprehensive publication to focus solely on Elmgreen & Dragset's spatial alterationsSince the early days of their collaboration, Elmgreen & Dragset have reconfigured conventional exhibition spaces, transforming them into uncanny settings within a gallery context. Populated with their sculptural works, these environments invite exploration and allow visitors to complete the narrative fragments offered within. By juxtaposing exhibition spaces with incongruous settings or situations, the duo encourages visitors to investigate the social, cultural and political structures embedded within everyday settings. Spaces is unique in its scope in that it focuses on the holistic spacial alterations that Elmgreen & Dragset create, rather than the installations and public art that have been previously studied. Texts and a chronology of past spatial alterations provide academic context and an insightful overview of this important aspect of the artists' oeuvre.
Living Jewish Art
The art of Itshak Holtz (1925-2018) is an intimate guide to the Jewish world, approached with a sensitivity, confidence, and thorough familiarity that only someone living and breathing it could attain. Holtz was born in a small town near Warsaw and moved with his family to Jerusalem when he was ten years old; he pursued his artistic training there and in New York, at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design.From the beginning of his artistic career, Holtz was drawn to depict the life of the Orthodox communities of which he himself was a part, in both New York and Jerusalem. His subjects were not idealized memories of the imagined past, but the real people around him, continuing an ancient way of life today. Holtz's work envelops the viewer with its warmth and offers a sympathetic and honest insight into the inner world of his subjects, whom he pictures in their prayer houses, on their streets, engaged in their daily affairs. This lavishly illustrated volume surveys Holtz's incomparable paintings, drawings, and prints of Jewish life. Organized by subject matter, it presents his scenes of worship, celebration, work, and everyday life, as well as his landscapes and portraits. An introductory essay by Richard McBee, the noted critic of Jewish art, traces Holtz's biography and artistic development.
Olivia Erlanger: If Today Were Tomorrow
Outer space-inspired sculptures reckon with the structures of suburbiaIn our age of "polycrisis," wherein multiple seismic events occur simultaneously, how do we visualize our place in a world that is no longer recognizable? If Today Were Tomorrow reimagines what it means to inhabit a planet. Shifting between notions of home--as an architecture, a neighborhood, a world or a feeling--American artist Olivia Erlanger (born 1990) continues her decade-long disruption of what she refers to as the "semiotics of suburbia," or the symbols and myths of suburban life. In this new body of work, the artist expands our understanding of home as a planetary cosmos, containing not only houses but also their interiors and surrounding infrastructure. If Today Were Tomorrow documents Erlanger's debut solo museum exhibition in the US, showcasing her sculptures, film and installation-based work. It includes essays on her work by authors Chris Kraus and Mark von Schlegell.
Stone Cube
Stone Cube is a captivating art book that delves into the innovative world of artist Stone Chun Shi and his groundbreaking Stonecube technique. This visually stunning publication features 15 masterpieces, most of which were created in the past two years. Among them is the iconic Renminbi No. 5, a landmark work completed in 2013, representing the beginning of the internationalization of Stone Chun Shi's Stonecube series.In addition to showcasing these remarkable artworks, the book provides an in-depth introduction to Stone Chun Shi's artistic journey and philosophy. It also offers a detailed exploration of the Stonecube technique, a pioneering method that transforms individual color cubes into a cohesive whole. This approach reflects a profound fusion of Eastern calligraphic precision and Western oil painting textures, symbolizing balance, harmony, and cultural exchange.Stone Cube is more than a collection of art; it is a journey through the creative mind of an artist redefining contemporary art. It invites art enthusiasts, collectors, and scholars to immerse themselves in the emotional depth and cultural resonance of Stone Chun Shi's transformative work.
