Theresa Hak Kyung Cha: Multiple Offerings
The most comprehensive volume to date on the life and legacy of the Korean American artist and writer best known for her 1982 novel, Dict矇e, featuring new scholarship and previously unseen documentation of her work and archivesPublished with Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. The first museum monograph dedicated to the artist since BAMPFA's 2001 out-of-print catalog, The Dream of the Audience, this volume spans the full breadth of Korean American artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's (1951-82) multifaceted career across conceptual art, mail art, film, performance and poetry. It features over 100 objects and ephemera drawn primarily from BAMPFA's collection and archives, distinguishing itself as the largest publication to date dedicated to the artist. Presenting aspects of Cha's practice that have never before been published--including early works in ceramics and fiber--Multiple Offerings highlights Cha's critical explorations into language, memory and diasporic identity. The volume also situates Cha's contributions within a constellation of artworks by contemporaries and peers, as well as those by artists working today who have directly responded to her legacy.
Kongkee: Warring States Cyberpunk
Cyborgs, electro rock, romantic reunions and dystopia--an exploration of Kongkee's multimedia narrative vision of Asian Futurism Published with Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. This volume explores the immersive world of Warring States Cyberpunk, a retro-futurist narrative exhibition conceived by London-based Chinese artist and animation director Kong Khong-chang (born 1977), known as Kongkee. Through multiscreen videos, wall projections, neon installations, vibrant graphic works, narrative texts and ancient Chinese objects, Kongkee unfurls his speculative odyssey centered on the legendary Chinese poet Qu Yuan, who lived during the Warring States Period (c. 481-221 BCE). His multimedia narrative traces the journey of Yuan's soul from the ancient Chu Kingdom to a retro-futuristic Asia where he is reborn as an android in an imagined psychedelic cyberpunk landscape--replete with cyborgs, electro rock and surprising romantic reunions. Warring States Cyberpunk elaborates upon the artist's worldmaking feat, probing the exhibition's thematic subject matter through four scholarly essays and an interview with Kongkee.
Basquiat: Headstrong
Using the head as a site of investigation, Basquiat's frenetic drawings of faces are at once immediate and contemplativeBetween 1981 and 1983, Jean-Michel Basquiat made between 50 and 100 drawings of heads. Working with oil stick on paper, he created a series far removed from his public paintings and collages filled with words and symbols--a more concentrated, private study whose pieces are rarely exhibited and seldom offered for sale. Stripped of external references, they read as intimate meditations on identity, perception and the fragile balance between presence and disappearance.Bringing this exceptional group together for the first time in decades in an oversize folio, Headstrong sheds new light on a lesser-known aspect of Basquiat's practice. Essays by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hilton Als and artists including George Condo and Julie Mehretu explore the drawings' formal invention and psychological intensity, showing how Basquiat transformed the head into a vessel for everything he was thinking and feeling--a space where imagination, history and lived experience converge.Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-88) is one of the most successful Black visual artists in history, despite his brief career. He emerged on the New York City arts scene in the late 1970s and quickly skyrocketed to international fame, becoming one of the most important artists of his generation. Basquiat's work and legacy continue to influence popular culture, especially art, music and fashion.
Alan & Jeanne Abel: Inside Sina
An unprecedented expos矇 of an infamous hoax campaign to clothe animals that, decades later, remains completely uproariousPerpetrated from the late 1950s through the mid-1960s, the Society for Indecency to Naked Animals (SINA) was a fabricated moralist campaign that received unimaginable amounts of international attention in newspapers, radio and on the TV news. Its goal? To clothe all animals higher than 4 inches and longer than 6 inches. Its leader? G. Clifford Prout, a bespectacled fuddy duddy with an inheritance to burn through and an even better catchphrase: "Decency Today Means Morality Tomorrow." A pioneering prank that lasted way longer than anyone would have expected, SINA was the comedic pipe dream of Alan and Jeanne Abel, a pair of anarchic lovebirds who perpetrated dozens of ambitious hoaxes and hysterical deceptions for well over 50 years. They were joined in this confounding crusade by their friend, Buck Henry, who served as the organization's honorable spokesman in the years before he became an acclaimed actor and screenwriter (The Graduate, To Die For). Together, they put pants on kangaroos, picketed the White House and pulled the wool over the eyes of mystified people everywhere.Inside SINA tells the whole crazy story through Alan Abel's words and an eye-popping array of original documents, news reports, correspondence and photos. As the first publication to compile the complete history of this legendary media hoax, this jam-packed book reveals, at long last, how these three jesters pioneered the perfect prank. SINA was a brilliant lampooning of traditional American values and hypocritical attitudes that remains strangely timely and forever funny.
Gilbert & George: 21st Century Pictures
Like stained glass windows onto a modern age, Gilbert & George's pictures encompass the full spectrum of human existenceThe dons of all artist duos, Gilbert & George have for five decades committed to their motto of "art for all," particularly through their method of "living sculpture." Their practice ranges from charcoal sketches to sculptural interventions; however, it is their expansive, vividly colored pictures that have become the signature facet of their oeuvre. Characterized by concise, often single-word titles emblazoned in bold capital letters, each picture becomes a stage for the exploration of societal norms and cultural taboos. With bespoke cover artwork designed by Gilbert & George themselves, 21st Century Pictures features selections from key series made since 2000. Lavishly produced, with red sprayed edges, it also includes an introduction by Rachel Thomas, an in-depth essay by Michael Bracewell and a new interview with the artists by Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Urs Fischer: Anti-Structure
Using Victor Turner's theory of states of limbo, Anti-Structure approaches an event horizon based on Urs Fischer's gravity-defying sculpturesNamed after a term coined by anthropologist Victor Turner, describing a state of limbo during a rite of passage, Anti-Structure places Urs Fischer's (born 1973) gravity-defying sculptures in dialogue with an eclectic assortment of artists from across time and genre including Nausica Pastra, George Lappas, Pantelis Xagoraris and Takis Zenetos.
Sarah Sze
Sze's mixed-media works for the Nasher Sculpture Center call into question the definition of artistic mediums and how memory marks time and spacePublished with Nasher Sculpture Center. Since the late 1990s, Sarah Sze (born 1969) has been making mesmerizing installations that challenge the static nature of art and transform the spaces they inhabit. Appearing at once arbitrary and meticulously planned, in the midst of coming together and falling apart, her work contains layered references to the world's rapidly changing, image-driven digital present. Working across painting, sculpture, sound, print, drawing, video and architecture, Sze's work amplifies the myriad ephemeral details of contemporary life, making palpable poetry of the often-ineffable aspects of human experience. Three new installations, created for the spaces of the Nasher Sculpture Center, emphasize how experience is continually reshaped by the constant stream of visual information around us, and the role of memory in forming our perception. This lavishly illustrated publication documents these works and the 2024 exhibition and features more than 850 color photographs.
Dan Basen
From gallery shows to philosophical musings, from queer eroticism to Dadaesque provocations, Basen's work reveals a complex artist who bridged genres with visionary intensityDan Basen (1939-70) was a captivating yet largely overlooked artist of the 1960s Manhattan scene. He helped introduce Allan Kaprow's Happenings to Baltimore, blurred the line between Pop art and Nouveau r矇alisme, and exhibited alongside icons Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg. Yet he resisted easy classification, criticizing commercial Pop, dabbling in folk art, surrealist film, performance and assemblage. This monograph is the first academic art historical treatment of Basen, the result of two years of research drawing on letters, diaries, archival footage, interviews and long-lost ephemera. With renewed scholarly interest in outsider and folk traditions, Basen's legacy, marked by raw experimentation and fierce independence, deserves a rightful place in the broader narrative of postwar American art.
Carol Bove
An expansive survey of Bove's conceptual practice, featuring her famed "collage sculptures" that incorporate found industrial materialsAccompanying the first museum survey of Carol Bove's multidisciplinary work, this two-volume catalog traces pivotal shifts across the artist's 25-year career, ranging from her fugitive early drawings to her compositions of scrap metal and manipulated steel tubing known as "collage sculptures." Bove's inventive work spans many mediums and formal approaches but is unified by an exacting play of material, scale, color and space. She places these elements in dialogue with cultural histories to create the conditions for a resonant perceptual encounter.The publication is housed in a die-cut slipcase inspired by Bove's distinctive use of geometry and color. For the first edition, these cases feature paper ephemera elements the artist has personally selected and hand cut into diamond shapes, making each copy a unique object. Contained within are two books that offer complementary but autonomous perspectives on Bove's ever-evolving body of work. The first contextualizes her practice across seven generously illustrated scholarly essays, accompanied by an extensive selected exhibition history and bibliography. The second, an artist's book conceived by Bove, features immersive photographic details of her works printed at the precise scale of the objects they represent, interleaved with a series of recent paper collages. Together, the two volumes present the first comprehensive survey of Bove's career in the form of a book-object, realized in tandem with the most expansive presentation of the artist's work to date.The work of Geneva-born American artist Carol Bove (born 1971) spans sculpture, drawing, collage, painting and installation. Bove has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Kunstverein in Hamburg (2003); Blanton Museum of Art, Austin (2006); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013-14); Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2021); and Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas (2021), among others.
Marcel Duchamp
An essential and lavishly illustrated visual compendium on the epoch-shifting artist whose radical vision reshaped art--and the museum--foreverMore than any other modern artist, Marcel Duchamp challenged and transformed the very definition of art. Published to accompany the first North American retrospective of his work in more than 50 years, the volume features the world's largest collection of Duchamp's work, bringing together such iconic works as Fountain and Nude Descending a Staircase for the first time in decades. Beautifully illustrated with more than 400 works spanning six decades--including painting, sculpture, readymades, film, photography and ephemera--and featuring a deeply researched chronology interwoven with archival and documentary material, Marcel Duchamp offers a new generation the first opportunity to experience the breadth of Duchamp's revolutionary and provocative work, strongly associated with the Surrealist and Dada movements. An expansive introduction by curators Ann Temkin, Michelle Kuo and Matthew Affron explores Duchamp's radical rethinking of art and the museum, transformation of authorship, innovative exhibition and installation displays, and lifelong dedication to changing the relationship between art and life. Revealing new dimensions of his conceptual brilliance, subversive wit and lasting impact on generations of artists, Marcel Duchamp is a rich visual compendium and an essential resource for anyone seeking to understand an artist who changed the course of modern art.Although Marcel Duchamp (American, born France, 1887-1968) defied definition or association with any single movement, he is perhaps the most impactful artist of the modern era in Europe as well as in the United States. Despite his place as a central figure in numerous artistic groups in both countries--including Cubism, Dada and Surrealism--Duchamp resisted categorization, prioritizing creative individuality. Though he is primarily remembered as an artist, he was also a curator, conservator, art advisor, professional chess player, writer, inventor and celebrity.
Baselitz: A Life in Print
The definitive anthology of Georg Baselitz's prints, with over 200 examples pulled from the artist's Munich archive and historic and new essays on his most notable seriesCelebrating six decades of practice, A Life in Print brings together more than 245 prints, woodcuts, linocuts, etchings and aquatints by Georg Baselitz (born 1938), from the Heroes of the mid-'60s to his famous Eagles to the many portraits of his wife and muse, Elke.
Sue Williamson: There's Something I Must Tell You
Called "a dynamic amazement" by New York Times critic Holland Cotter, Williamson confronts South Africa's legacy of slavery and apartheid through her incisive multimedia series Page by page, this striking catalog of South African artist Sue Williamson's (born 1941) major retrospective takes readers on a walk through 45 years of her work. Her politically charged and deeply feminist work spans several mediums, including drawing, printmaking, photography, video and installation.
Michael Jang: Jang
Spotlighting the subversive San Francisco street installations of the underground cult photographer Michael JangThis volume showcases the San Francisco-based photographer Michael Jang's stylized and self-aware street art from recent years. Early in 2021, when the city was still in the grip of Covid-19 and ugly instances of anti-Asian sentiment were on the rise, Jang clandestinely wheat-pasted some of the images from his black-and-white photographic series The Jangs (1973) over a boarded-up Goodwill storefront on Clement Street, in the heart of San Francisco's unofficial Chinatown. He branded his photographs with a JANG stencil logo--introducing the persona "Chef Jang," a chain-smoking wok master--and interspersed them with hand-designed posters and graphics that parody Asian product packaging and menus. Inserted into the visual landscape of this once bustling neighborhood, Jang's gesture was one of solidarity, belonging and ownership. In JANG, the artist captures his own ephemeral and ever-changing urban interventions in more than 100 new photographs. Throughout the '70s and '80s, American photographer Michael Jang (born 1951) accrued an extensive body of work, capturing family members, art school life and various Californian milieus--ranging from Hollywood high-life parties to the San Francisco punk scene. After 50 years as a commercial and portrait photographer, Jang decided to share these underground shots with the world, quickly garnering a reputation as a hidden gem of social documentary as well as a master of the deadpan self-portrait.
Anna Thommesen: Weavings
Spotlighting an under-recognized textile artist whose minimalist rugs helped shape the course of modernist design within Denmark and beyond This book is the first publication in English on the Danish weaver Anna Thommesen (1908-2004), who is best known for her minimalistic, geometric rugs. Although Thommesen has long been an established name in Danish modernism, the global significance of her work has never been fully explored until now.Lavishly illustrated, this anthology presents a large portion of Thommesen's oeuvre, examining it from different perspectives. The book offers a close look at Thommesen's creative practice, delving into the connection of her work to nature, and examines her worldview and artistic position in the light of biographical material and other sources. Special attention is paid to Thommesen's large-scale public commissions, including her weavings for the Danish Parliament (1968-72) and for Roskilde Cathedral (1975-77). The book also addresses the teaching she undertook for the Jutland Art Academy from 1965 to 1972, where she headed a weaving school, which became a unique environment for textile art in Denmark. Finally, the book takes a fresh look at Thommesen's position in art history, particularly in relation to both Danish modern design and the field of 20th-century textile art.
Steve Locke: I Said What I Said
Locke's career-long conceptual exploration into perceptions of the male figure and themes of racial violence, modernism and homosexualityPublished with MASS MoCA. The first career monograph of American artist Steve Locke (born 1963) captures the absurdity, curiosity, desire and rage that define contemporary American consciousness and its legacies of discrimination. Working in painting, drawing, installation and public art, Locke's work brings to light our dark past and present, looking closely at America's history of racial violence and spectacle. In his interdisciplinary practice, Locke engages issues of identity, desire, race, violence and memory, revealing as much tenderness and humor as he does brutality. Primarily concerned with how we ascribe meaning to portraiture while exploring the relationships between and among men, in recent years Locke has introduced a more personal, political and critical engagement with histories of racism and anti-Blackness, the Western canon of art history and American society.
Jacqueline de Jong: Disobedience
Playful, erotic, dark and radically contemporary, de Jong's idiosyncratic oeuvre exposed society's dark undercurrents in the hope of a more humane worldPublished with Kunstmuseum St. Gallen. Published to accompany the artist's retrospective at the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Disobedience encapsulates the oeuvre of Dutch artist Jacqueline de Jong (1939-2024), a member of the Situationist International who experimented with art brut, Pop art, New Figuration, postmodernism and countless other movements over her 60-year career. Her art was dedicated to revealing the hidden undercurrents--eroticism, violence, fear, agony and lust--and, with a sense of play and pleasure, reinterpreting them so that a radical, more honest version of humanity might emerge. This publication spans de Jong's entire artistic journey, from her editorial activities of the 1960s to her Billiards series in the 1970s, and her final works in the early 2020s. Organized through six sections entitled "Disobedience," "Publishing," "Chaos," "Pop," "Play" and "Politics," it underlines the challenging approach to art and life developed by de Jong formally, visually and conceptually from the early 1960s until 2024.
Frans Krajcberg: Rediscovering the Tree
Blending formal rigor with stringent activism, Krajcberg's six-decade-long oeuvre centers his deep connection to nature and his advocacy for the Amazon rainforestsA pioneer in the integration of art and ecology, Polish Brazilian artist Frans Krajcberg (1921-2017) was a trailblazer in raising visibility around environmental issues, working with remnants of tree trunks, vines and charred wood, denouncing forest fires and the violence of extractivism.
Lucian Freud: Drawing Into Painting
Tracing the British figurative master's evolving drawing practice throughout his lifetimeExamining the intimate dialogue between his sketches and paintings from the 1940s to the early 21st century, Drawing into Painting reveals Lucian Freud's lifelong focus on the human face and form. Featuring a gorgeously designed quarter-bound cover printed on uncoated paper, the volume explores how drawing remained central to Freud's artistic practice throughout his life. From quick sketches to finished works in charcoal, pastel and etching, his drawings offer a rare window into his process, revealing shifts in style, experimentation and his evolving mode of seeing. Spanning from his childhood to his final years, the book traces the unconventional path from his drawing practice to his painting, and back again. Alongside a selection of rarely seen drawings and key paintings by both Freud and others, the book includes conversations with David Dawson, Freud's close friend and assistant, and Bella Freud, the artist's daughter. Insightful essays by writer and curator Catherine Lampert, British Museum drawings curator Isabel Seligman, and acclaimed novelist Colm T籀ib穩n further illuminates Freud's world and legacy.Lucian Freud (1922-2011) is celebrated as one of the great figurative realist artists of the 20th century, who devoted his artistic life to portraiture. Famously stating that "everything is a portrait," he created intensely observed portraits of animals and plants, as well as his family members and those in his social circle and daily life.
Alex Katz: Out of Sight
A fresh look at one of the most influential American artists working today, revealing drawing as the little-known engine of his endlessly inventive creative practicePublished with Colby College Museum of Art. While widely celebrated for his large-scale paintings of family and friends as well as quotidian communions with the landscape, it is drawing that initially fueled Alex Katz's (born 1927) artistic ambitions and continues to permeate his practice in the present. Out of Sight considers the role drawing has played within the artist's oeuvre through focused attention on his preparatory sketches, drawings, collages, cartoon and scaling processes and a selection of closely related paintings spanning eight decades. Richly illustrated and featuring a range of contributors working across disciplines, the book reveals the extent to which this medium has facilitated Katz's singular vision.
Archie Moore: Kith and Kin
A portable, scholarly guide to Moore's Golden Lion-winning exhibition at the 60th Venice Biennale Published with Creative Australia. Kamilaroi-Bigambul artist Archie Moore (born 1970) works across mediums to create conceptual, research-based portrayals of self and national histories. This portable volume expounds upon his exhibition of the same name, which was awarded the Golden Lion at the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024. For the exhibition, Moore transformed the Australian Pavilion into an enveloping genealogical chart, hand-drawn in white chalk. Boldly displaying kinship ties that span 65,000 years and 2,400 generations, the artist evinced the common ancestry of all humans.In addition to ample installation photographs, kith and kin features reproductions of the archival materials sourced for the project alongside commentary from the artist. Texts from a host of writers, curators and scholars examine subject matter related to Moore's work, such as Indigenous language maintenance and the ongoing legacies of colonization.
Damien Hirst: Loves Moods
A luxurious presentation of Hirst's new series that elaborates upon his butterfly gloss paintingsSumptuously produced, featuring two gatefolds and section dividers printed with gold ink, Loves Moods showcases a captivating new subseries within the butterfly gloss paintings of British artist Damien Hirst (born 1965). Featuring all 100 works in the series, none of which have been exhibited publicly, the book presents Hirst's visual exploration of color, emotion and connection. In each painting, two colors blend, meet or collide at the center of the canvas. These interactions--sometimes harmonious, sometimes jarring--mirror the volatile oscillations of love. The series represents an elaboration of Hirst's iconic butterfly motif, a symbol he has long associated with themes of transformation, life and death. The introductory essay discusses the historical use of butterflies in art and their significance in Hirst's oeuvre, while also delving into how the Loves Moods paintings reflect on the art of loving, solitude and relationships.
Antony Gormley: Survey
An expansive view of Gormley's work, including new perspectives on its engagement with public space and its philosophical underpinningsPublished with Nasher Sculpture Center. Spanning the breadth of his career, from the late 1970s to the present day, this monograph surveys the development and evolution of British artist Antony Gormley's (born 1950) sculpture practice. Employing a wide-ranging use of organic, industrial and elemental materials over the years--including iron, steel, hand-beaten lead, seawater and clay--Gormley's kinetic sculptures interrogate the human body's relationship to space.Survey presents a chronology of 60 large-scale and commissioned projects exhibited across the world, as well as a new public project in which the artist affixed open-form sculptures on top of buildings surrounding the Nasher Sculpture Center. It also includes new scholarly essays on the artist's work by philosopher Thomas Nail and independent art historian and writer Amanda Gluibizzi, as well as an interview with the artist conducted by curator Jed Morse.
Monet's Ecology
The first book to examine Monet's landscapes as ecological systems and intricate microcosms of nature and societyKnown almost as much for his gardens as for his paintings, the Impressionist Claude Monet (1840-1926) held a fascination with nature that only deepened as his career progressed. Monet's Ecology is the first exhibition to investigate the artist's relationship to ecology and the environment. Illustrated with a dazzling array of landscapes, from his early coastal views of Le Havre to his "impressions" of Westminster Bridge and Gare Saint-Lazare, his Rouen Cathedral series and finally Water Lilies, each curatorial essay in the catalog examines a different aspect of Monet's "ecologies"--from the industrial biomes of London and Paris to the pastoralism of middle-class leisure and contemporary protests against climate change that directly invoke Monet's Giverny scenes--arguing that Monet's radical engagement with the natural world positioned him at the forefront of ecological awareness.
Matisse's Femme Au Chapeau: 1905 to Today
Charting the legacy of Matisse's pivotal Fauvist painting across 120 yearsPublished with San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Henri Matisse's Femme au chapeau (Woman with a Hat) was at the center of a rupture in the history of modern art. Its debut at the 1905 Salon d'Automne in Paris ignited passionate controversy, leading to its establishment as a key image of Fauvism, the first French avant-garde movement of the 20th century. The painting also marked a pivotal moment in Matisse's career, as it captured the attention of American collectors Leo and Gertrude Stein, who acquired the work on the last day of the exhibition. Woman with a Hat later made its way to the collection of their brother and sister-in-law, Michael and Sarah Stein, who brought it across the Atlantic to the Bay Area in 1935. Matisse's painting was shown in the United States for the first time early the next year, in an exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Art (now SFMoMA). Since entering the museum's collection in 1991, it has continued to influence contemporary artists, who derive inspiration from its bold approach to color and form.This publication examines in unprecedented depth how this portrait of Matisse's wife, Am矇lie, made its mark on art history. Positioning Matisse in dialogue with his predecessors, contemporaries, collaborators and successors, this volume probes the painting's historical context and impact over more than 120 years.Henri Matisse (1869-1954) was a pillar of the Parisian avant-garde. His innovations were the use of vibrant, arbitrary colors; bold brushstrokes; and a flattening of spatial depth. He often applied his thoroughly modern style to traditional subjects such as still lifes, landscapes and portraits that express a sense of timeless joy and stillness.
Ben Thorp Brown: Cura's Garden
Expanding on the Roman myth of Cura, Brown's theatrical assortment of flora, fog, sculpture and sound coheres into a lush sensorial experiencePublished with Roma Publications and Kunsthal Gent. In 2023, American artist Ben Thorp Brown (born 1983) opened Cura's Garden, a long-term, immersive exhibition set in the medieval garden of Kunsthal Gent, a former Carmelite monastery. Expanding on the Roman myth of Cura, the project brings together a theatrical assortment of trees and other flora, fog, sculpture and sound--elements that cohere into a dense, indeterminate sensorial experience. This richly illustrated volume, organized around the seasons, features vivid documentation across two years of the garden's young life alongside linocut botanical prints by the artist's mother, Cary Thorp Brown.New essays by Laura McLean-Ferris, Laurie Cluitmans and Robert Wiesenberger explore the conceptual, formal, art historical and affective valences of Cura's Garden, and a roundtable conversation between Brown and Laura Herman, Jan Minne and Valentijn Goethals considers the history and development of the project, from the artist's 2019 film Cura, a precursor to the garden, through present concerns around the maintenance and unfolding nature of this site-specific work.
Louise Nevelson
Nevelson's monumental, monochromatic assemblages of everyday objects speak to both material and feminist sensibilities Ukrainian by birth and a naturalized US citizen, artist Louise Nevelson (1899-1988) anticipated the theme of recycling and memory through her work made of assembled objects and industrial scraps. By opposing the conventions traditionally imposed on the women of her time, she anticipated today's polarization regarding gender expectations and women's rights. This is the first volume in a new series from Silvana in concert with the Genesis Association that is dedicated to historical artists whose lives and/or work can be interpreted as prescient of the urgent social issues of today. It includes a critical text by the curator, Ilaria Bernardi and a chronology of Nevelson's life and key works accompanied by archival photographs and texts.
Carroll Dunham: Drawing Sculpture
In new works first seen in print here, Carroll Dunham transforms doodles into imaginary sculpturesDrawing has long been foundational to American painter Carroll Dunham's (born 1949) practice. In this collection of recent, never-before-shown works, we witness Dunham thinking about sculpture through a series of drawings produced over the course of a year. A sampling of his drawings across time offers a chart of his artistic evolution; the 80 drawings presented here are distinctive to a new page within that history. Spurred by a desire to explore the saggy, open-frame cubic boxes that he found himself doodling along the edges of a new series of paintings, Dunham began drawing fantasies of sculpture as a respite whenever he needed a break from working on the paintings. This turned into an ongoing practice that lasted until it unexpectedly segued into a material investigation with the making of sculpture in real space. Offering intimate access to Dunham's process, this book is the first to document his thinking about spatial relationships, presentation and materials for sculptures that don't exist.
Sophie Taeuber-Arp: The Rule of Curves
Tracing the development of Taeuber-Arp's kinaesthetic formal sensibility across her short but bounteous careerEdited with an essay by art historian Briony Fer, The Rule of Curves examines the work of leading 20th-century artist and designer Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Taeuber-Arp defied categorization during her brief career through her work as a painter, sculptor, architect, performer, choreographer, teacher, writer and designer of textiles, stage sets and interiors. Reconciling extremes with confidence--Dada and Geometric Abstraction, fine art and utilitarian objects--Taeuber-Arp's works boldly engaged with the intellectual context of international modernism.This bilingual clothbound volume is thematically driven, focusing on the formal logic that drove her innovative and wide-ranging creative production while revealing how working between mediums both expanded and crystallized her aesthetic. It particularly traces Taeuber-Arp's incorporation of curves into her geometric abstractions--a motif that elaborated upon Jean (Hans) Arp's biomorphic visual language. Alongside Fer's new critical insights into Taeuber-Arp's work, an essay by scholar Jenny Nachtigall explores the artist's "environments" and how notions of gravity, motion and the cinematic offer keys to understanding the artist's kinaesthetic sensibility.Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889-1943) began her applied arts practice in Zurich, where she also taught textile design and participated in the Dada movement. Starting in the late 1920s, Taeuber-Arp completed several architectural and interior design projects, most significantly the Aubette entertainment complex in Strasbourg. When she moved to Paris in 1929, she turned her attention to abstract paintings and painted wood reliefs.
Susan Rothenberg: The Weather
A clothbound tribute to Susan Rothenberg's emotionally-charged figurative paintings, with a detailed biography and essays by artists and curatorsThis new publication offers a holistic representation of Susan Rothenberg's (1945-2020) oeuvre, tracing her career from her monumental horse paintings of the 1970s, to the fragmented limbs that defined her production in the 1980s and through to the natural drama of New Mexico's desert landscape that infused her later work.
Robert Adams: The Plains, Remembered Again
Twenty-two new painted woodblocks from photographer Adams' recent print series on the landscapes of his childhoodDuring the lockdowns of the Covid pandemic, Robert Adams (born 1937) noticed the subtle markings on a small plank of wood, detecting the form of a landscape within its grain. Long celebrated as a photographer, Adams began working with wooden scraps and block-printing ink, creating pieces that allude to the quiet forms of the Coloradan prairies, where he spent time in his youth. Created using tools he inherited from his father and grandfather, and often highlighting the natural grain of the wood, the painted woodblocks are modest in size and painted in springlike hues. Following the 2022 publication of The Plains, From Memory, this book brings together 22 new works, which often feature a bright horizon formed by blue sky and green grass populated by simple painted forms. The woodblock paintings depict idyllic pastoral motifs such as sunflowers, a road stretching into the distance and towering clouds.
Liu Shiming
Liu Shiming (1926-2010) is a revered Chinese artist whose works have had a distinct impact on the course of modern Chinese sculpture. Born in Tianjin in 1926, Shiming attended the prestigious Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing, where he was part of the first generation of sculptors trained by the People's Republic of China to study both traditional Chinese art and French modernist principles. Shiming received early recognition for his work, and his student project Measuring Land (1950) was one of the first works exhibited abroad following the establishment of the People's Republic of China. Though well respected in China, the sculptor, who died in 2010 at the age of eighty-four, is only now beginning to win the wider recognition he deserves. Meanwhile, contemporary competitors are numberless, most of them Instagram-friendly, while art history tends to focus on towering names and indisputably major movements and events: Braque and Picasso inventing Cubism, Duchamp's readymades redefining art itself, Warhol's mind-bending Brillo Boxes, and so on. So why examine an artist in the middle ground? Perhaps, first, because that is where the vast majority of us live, trying to make sense of our lives and grateful for the occasional insight, release, or enrichment that visual art can bring us. Second, because the story of Liu Shiming reveals a great deal about the forces that have shaped postwar art worldwide. He was a man who sought to lead a simple life, dedicated entirely to art, in the midst of China's epochal, dangerously complex twentieth-century social and political changes.
The Lost World: The Art of Minnie Evans
Visionary self-taught Southern folk artist Minnie Evans receives a long overdue encore of her mystical, divinely inspired drawingsPublished with High Museum of Art. American artist Minnie Evans (1892-1987) once said her drawings of harmoniously intertwined human, botanical and animal forms came from visions of "the lost world," or nations destroyed by the Great Flood as described in the Book of Genesis. As the visions she experienced in childhood became stronger, Evans produced a large body of work ranging from abstract to representational styles. When she turned 56, she transitioned from decades of employment as a domestic worker to collecting admissions at Airlie Gardens in Wilmington, North Carolina. She made art during idle moments and hung it on and near the Gardens' wrought-iron gate. Selling or giving away her drawings to visitors led to a wider reputation and eventually a 1966 exhibition at a New York church titled The Lost World of Minnie Evans.This publication reprises that 1966 title, honoring Evans' interest in biblical and ancient civilizations while foregrounding the spiritual and historical circumstances of her extraordinary life. More than 100 of her artworks are presented in a range of contexts, from the extrasensory experiences of her visions to the double-edged realities of her life in the Jim Crow South. Her drawings, beautiful and complex, thus become portals into her "lost world."
Maggi Hambling
The definitive illustrated monograph of trailblazing British artist, queer icon, and pioneer Maggi Hambling, on the occasion of her eightieth birthday. Featuring an exceptional range of reproductions of Maggi Hambling's work, including unique archival materials, this authoritative and visually stunning new volume offers the most comprehensive account of Hambling's oeuvre to date. Essays by leading critics, curators, and art historians trace Hambling's formative period from her time at the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing in the early 1960s, to her rise to fame in the '80s, the centrality of drawing to her eclectic practice, and the virtuoso series of paintings that have defined her output in recent decades. Hambling's work and legacy are explored in vivid detail here, emphasizing her importance to British art over the past half century, as well as her singular place in the global sphere of contemporary art. Love, death, and remembrance are revealed as her enduring themes, and are reflected in her intimate portraits as much as her epic-scaled evocations of war, the climate emergency, and the natural world. Shining a light on Hambling's fearless spirit, this tour-de-force publication takes you deep into the heart and mind of one of the most influential and provocative artists of her generation.
Niki de Saint Phalle
A richly illustrated collection of previously unpublished drawings by the famed modern artist The French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle is best known for her Nanas--joyful and brightly colored monumental sculptures of goddess-like female figures. But her work, which was grounded in her visionary beliefs about social experiments and personal freedom, ranged much more widely--from painting, film, architecture, and books to theater sets, clothing, and jewelry. Niki de Saint Phalle: The Sketchbooks presents a beautiful collection of previously unpublished drawings, notes, and other preparatory work from Saint Phalle's private sketchbooks. Culled from a vast archive of never-before-seen materials, these drawings shed new light on Saint Phalle's fascinating artistic evolution, style, and interior life.
Wifredo Lam
This beautifully illustrated book, the first monograph on Wifredo Lam since 1989, provides a comprehensive retrospective of the iconic Cuban artist's life and work. With the quasquicentennial of his birth approaching, recent research and cataloging have deepened our understanding of Wifredo Lam (1902-1982) and his multifaceted contributions to 20th century art and politics. Following a long journey that began in Spain, where Lam studied the great European painters--Bosch, D羹rer, Vel獺zquez and Goya--this book traces defining moments in his artistic evolution. Encounters with Picasso and Breton in Paris shaped his distinctive style, which existed at the heart of modernity, distinguished also by the influences of surrealism, Matisse, and African art. Born in 1902 to a Chinese father and an African mother, Lam's work draws from both European and Afro-Caribbean visual culture in a unique synthesis of his multicultural heritage and formulative studies. Forced to flee Paris in 1940 by the Nazi occupation, Lam took refuge in Marseilles before returning to Cuba, where his visual language evolved into a powerful tool for confronting the social and political injustices of the newly globalized world. Through thoughtful interpretation of Lam's body of work, author Jacques Leenhardt sheds light on the originality of his language, both symbolic and pictorial, and the evolution of visual art in the 20th century.
William Eggleston: The Last Dyes
This momentous publication catalogues the last major group of William Eggleston's photographs to ever be produced using the dye transfer method, the format in which he originally presented them. "Like finding a Beatles album that no one knew existed. Everything about it is mind-bogglingly good." --The Guardian Eggleston's vivid photographs transform the ordinary into distinctive, poetic images that eschew fixed meaning. One of the foremost practitioners in the medium's history, Eggleston is widely considered the father of color photography. He pioneered the use of dye-transfer printing for art photography in the 1970s. The technically advanced process--first developed by Kodak in the 1940s--allowed him to achieve the richness of tonal depth and color saturation that he had been searching for. In the early 1990s, Kodak stopped producing the dyes, paper, and film used in the process. With the necessary materials now discontinued, and the bulk of what remained being used for this exhibition, The Last Dyes marks the final presentation of new works completed in this medium. With a foreword by William Eggleston III and Winston Eggleston, and an essay by Jeffrey Kastner, this publication will offer critical insights into Eggleston's enduring influence at this turning point in the history of photography.
Ellsworth Kelly
A look at Ellsworth Kelly's eight Spectrum Colors Arranged by Chance collages and how they set the foundation for his career-long exploration of abstract, minimalist art Revered for his iconic color field paintings, Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015) is one of the most influential artists in American Abstraction. His body of work, encompassing paintings, sculptures, and prints, illustrates his unprecedented experiments with form and color. Less well known are his eight collages, known as Spectrum Colors Arranged by Chance (1951), which led directly to some of the artist's most iconic early works. Made from papier gomette, or sticky squares of colored paper used by French schoolchildren, these collages represent Kelly's early exploration of non-compositional strategies. Created by using chance operations to place the gomette on grids, Spectrum Colors Arranged by Chance boldly anticipates the evolution of Kelly's innovative methods. Alongside brilliant photographs that bring the reader into intimate contact with Kelly's series of collages, a wide-ranging roundtable conversation with artist Jacqueline B. Humphries, art historian Hannah Higgins, and Kelly's widower, the photographer Jack Shear, explores the origins of these groundbreaking works and their continued resonance today, bringing to life the story of his bold, experimental designs. Distributed for the Art Institute of Chicago
Tekla Aslanishvili: The Mountain Speaks to the Sea
Approaching infrastructure at both macro and micro scales, Aslanishvili's films assemble a fragmented history of the people who work with or sabotage sites of transit and extractionDelving into Georgian filmmaker Tekla Aslanishvili's (born 1988) experimental trilogy, The Mountain Speaks to the Sea investigates regimes of infrastructural governance and the disruptive impacts of large-scale energy and transportation projects on the ecologies of the South Caucasus.
Diana Al-Hadid: Unbecoming
Al-Hadid's allegorical panel paintings, architecture-inspired sculptures and intricate works on paper scrutinize notions of femininity through a historical and narrative lensPublished with Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. Working across large-scale sculptures, panel paintings, installations and works on paper, Syria-born, New York-based artist Diana Al-Hadid (born 1981) creates allegorical abstractions that draw from such sources as Greek mythology and global literature.unbecoming accompanies a 20-year survey organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, bringing together works that examine how these narrative sources have molded expectations for women. The accompanying catalog captures the arc of Al-Hadid's unique visual language to date, including a recent series of handmade paper works and a new panel realized for the exhibition. New essays and an artist interview take readers through Al-Hadid's process and address the way questions of gender have continually been at the heart of her practice.
What Do I Do with This Pain?
What Do I Do With This Pain was inspired by my own personal "twenty-first century psalms". Just like in the Psalms, the authors express themselves in lament and complaints. This concise collection of poems explores some of the difficult expressions and experiences of pain. Throughout time women have dealt with pain in different ways. I wouldn't say that there is only one way to deal with pain but I will say that finding an outlet for the pain you are feeling is important. I express what I'm feeling in various ways but I have to say that the arts is one of my favourites. I think that communicating how you feel creatively gives you the opportunity to produce something new and special from your broken places. I hope as you read this book, you can identify your own pain and find comfort in these pages.
Robert Therrien: This Is a Story
Moving beyond his well-known monumental installations of tables and chairs, this tribute to Robert Therrien analyzes his understudied later worksPublished with The Broad. This book presents a fresh, accessible and dynamic look at the work of American artist Robert Therrien (1947-2019), surveying over 40 years of his influential work, notably his underseen and understudied late works. Organized chronologically and thematically, emphasizing Therrien's iterative artistic practice of exploring sets of themes over time, the volume speaks to the nature of memory and how it is shaped by space, time and materials, placing his practice within the history of recent sculpture in Los Angeles and elsewhere. The book showcases Therrien's personal vocabulary of forms as they become a personal language of continuous creation for the artist over time. A single Therrien gesture can expand, contract, change materially or seamlessly transform into other images entirely. At the heart of Therrien's practice is a sense of artistic animation, by turns fun, playful and serious.
Tina Girouard: Sign-In
A sweeping retrospective of Tina Girouard's pioneering contributions across video, performance, textile and community-based art and morePublished with Rivers Institute for Contemporary Art & Thought. From the 1970s until her death, Louisiana-born artist Tina Girouard (1946-2020) was a dedicated experimental artist, collaborator and art worker. Alongside her individual creative endeavors, she nurtured and was a part of numerous influential artist communities and organizations in New York, Louisiana and Haiti, including the Anarchitecture Group, the interdisciplinary cohort of 112 Greene Street, the restaurant Food, the Kitchen, P.S. 1 and the Festival International de la Louisiane. Her acts of upkeep, including domestic labor traditionally associated with "women's work," blurred the boundaries between artmaking and what she called life-making. Sign-In is the first comprehensive monograph on her interdisciplinary oeuvre. It gathers documentation of her work in video, performance, drawing, textile, wall works and installation, tracing Girouard's practice and legacy across genres and geographies.
Reverend Joyce McDonald: Ministry
Tender and devotional figures in clay from an ordained minister and self-described testimonial artistBorn and based in Brooklyn, sculptor Reverend Joyce McDonald (born 1951) crafts moving testimonies to themes that have shaped her life: hope, grace and serenity, but also hardship, loss and devotion. As an ordained minister in the Church of the Open Door, spirituality and service are integral to McDonald's life and work. Her work often depicts figures in repose or embrace, embodying the strength, support and unconditional love that has sustained her life.The first museum exhibition devoted to her work, Ministry surveys the McDonald's prolific output since the 1990s, bringing together early works in air-dry clay and found materials with recent glazed ceramics. It presents a nuanced view of McDonald's biography, incorporating archival materials that trace her family and upbringing in Brooklyn's Farragut houses as well as her decades of exhibiting art as a member of Visual AIDS. The catalog features critical essays by Kyle Croft, the exhibition's curator, and Jareh Das, as well as an interview with McDonald conducted by artist Rafael S獺nchez.
Art Celebrity Launch Collection October 2025 - Global Icon of Mystical Art, Dr. Harpal Sodhi
Art Celebrity Magazine by Contemporary Art CollectorsLaunch Collection - Autumn 2025Issue: Dr. Harpal SodhiWhere contemporary art meets culture, style, and influence.Art Celebrity Magazine breaks away from the traditional art world. It is fresh, bold, and made for today's audience, celebrating artists not just as creators but as the new influencers and cultural celebrities.Created by Contemporary Art Collectors, this magazine highlights a new generation of talent who are shaping trends, defining direction, changing how we see, value, and experience art today, and redefining what it means to be seen in the art world.Art is no longer hidden in galleries. It is everywhere, and it is shaping the world around us.
Pop-Up Chanel
Explore the story of Coco Chanel, the iconic 2.55 bag, Chanel N簞5 perfume, two-tone shoes and more in this pop-up book. Fashion Unfolded: Pop-Up Chanel is a captivating pop-up book that celebrates the history, legacy, and most celebrated creations of one of the world's most influential fashion houses. Dive into the visionary world of Coco Chanel, a pioneer who revolutionized not only clothing and accessories but also transformed perfume and jewelry with her innovative and unconventional spirit.Each intricately designed pop-up spread brings Chanel's legendary designs to life in a stunning three-dimensional format, combining masterful paper engineering with detailed illustrations. From her timeless style to the stories behind her most iconic creations, this book offers an immersive experience into the heritage of the Chanel brand.With its luxurious hardcover design and matching slipcase, Fashion Unfolded: Pop-Up Chanel is the perfect gift and a must-have collectible for fashion enthusiasts, design lovers, and anyone inspired by the legacy of a true fashion icon.
