Antony Gormley: Body Buildings
Exploring the relationship between the human body and the built environment through Antony Gormley's sculptures and drawingsIn significant recent works that interrogate our relationship to the built environment, British sculptor Antony Gormley (born 1950) uses clay and iron, two ubiquitous materials of the built world, "to think and feel the body" in the increasingly high-rise world we rarely escape. This publication illustrates the work through extensive installation photography, guiding readers from Gormley's new installation Resting Place II (2024) to a series of sculptures investigating the relation of body to building, and finally to a group of drawings published here for the first time. Scholars Hou Hanru and Stephen Greenblatt trace the development of this body of work and Gormley's 30-year engagement with China and the surrounding region, and a photo essay by the artist tracks his ongoing dialogue with the region through a series of archival photographs of his first research trip to China in 1995.
Kishio Suga: Writings
The collected writings of a pioneering figure in Japan's Mono-ha movementJapanese artist Kishio Suga (born 1944) was a key figure in Japan's pivotal Mono-ha phenomenon of the late 1960s and early 1970s, and is known for his ephemeral, site-specific installations and performative interventions into the everyday environment. This volume presents his collected writings from 1980 to 1989.
Wayne Thiebaud
The first critical look at the artist's work since his death, focusing on his deep connections to California and his distinctive approach to realism, by those who knew him well. This book examines the extraordinary career of Wayne Thiebaud (1920-2021) and highlights his iconic representations of everyday scenes. Born in Mesa, Arizona, Thiebaud's formative years in Southern California and his long-term residence in Northern California crucially influenced his work. Renowned for his vibrant portrayals of commonplace objects--dessert pastries, bow ties, paint cans, and hot dogs--as well as his figure studies and landscapes, Thiebaud is reexamined through the lens of his lifelong engagement with historical and contemporary art movements, as well as his California surroundings. The radical realism of Thiebaud treats its subjects--isolated still life objects, decontextualized people, and skewed landscapes--unnaturally, keeping them familiar but disturbingly distorted. Essays offer fresh perspectives on how Thiebaud's work infuses familiar scenes with both humor and depth, while capturing the dramatic spirit of the region. Thiebaud's teaching career and the influence of California's unique light, culture, and landscape on his art are also explored, offering a comprehensive understanding of how place and profession shaped his creative vision.
Roni Horn
A comprehensive look at the celebrated work of contemporary artist Horn, whose innovative exploration of water as a medium and metaphor has established her as a vital voice in the discourse on identity, perception, and the environment. This book is a captivating exploration of Horn's decades-long fascination with water, both as a material and a metaphor. Known for her provocative approach to perception, identity, and the mutability of form, Horn uses water to mirror human experience and emotion. Born in 1955 in New York, Horn has spent decades pushing the boundaries of art to explore the complexities of identity, perception, and nature. Horn's body of work spans photography, cast glass, and installation, consistently returning to the theme of fluidity. Her iconic series You Are the Weather--100 photographs of Icelandic artist Margr矇t Haraldsd籀ttir Bl繹ndal submerged in water--reveals how water can both obscure and define identity. Similarly, her "liquid" glass sculptures play with the tension between solidity and fluidity, their colors ranging from turquoise to black. In an era marked by climate change and water scarcity, Horn's works pose urgent questions about water as a shared resource and a symbol of impermanence and survival. This volume not only offers a retrospective of her water-centered works but also connects them to broader global challenges with critical and poetic texts by Nora Burnett Abrams, Jarrett Earnest, Anne Carson, and the artist herself.
Through the Long Desert: Georgia O'Keeffe and Frank Lloyd Wright
A richly illustrated exploration of newfound connections between American cultural icons Georgia O'Keeffe and Frank Lloyd Wright. This groundbreaking volume places the artist and architect side by side, shedding light on their lives, work, and mutual love of the American desert. Georgia O'Keeffe and Frank Lloyd Wright were neither competitors nor direct collaborators. Yet these romantic heroes of twentieth-century art and architecture largely operated in parallel. In this seminal book, Rovang weaves together their compelling life stories, examining newly discovered links between them and, in the process, offering a fresh perspective on their work, their intermittent yet poignant friendship, and their closeness to the desert.  Starting in 1933, O'Keeffe and Wright exchanged roughly two dozen letters in which they expressed admiration for one another but also their passion for the places that informed them--many of which they had in common. Both were born in rural Wisconsin and built their careers in Chicago and New York. However, both sought inspiration and fulfillment in places farther afield, including in Japan and the desert landscape of the American Southwest. Juxtaposing images highlighting shared aspects of their individual biographies and work, this unique take on American creative expression explores the nature of artistic friendship and the idea of "home." Rovang's text gives rich context to the allure and romance of her visual subject, offering readers new ways to appreciate O'Keeffe's and Wright's monumental contributions to American culture.  
The Marvel Comics Covers of Jack Kirby Volume 2
A full-color hardcover art book collecting Jack Kirby's Marvel Comics cover art from 1965 to 1968! Jack Kirby (1917-1994) stands as one of the most iconic and influential figures in the history of comic books, with his cover work for Marvel Comics earning particular acclaim. The Marvel Comics Covers of Jack Kirby presents a chronological collection of his Marvel Comics cover art in an oversized hardcover edition. The second volume in this series showcases over 200 of Kirby's legendary covers from 1965 to 1968, including from The Avengers, Fantastic Four, Daredevil, Thor, Captain America, and The X-Men. Includes a new essay featuring original art and an introduction by Kevin Eastman. Long live the KING!
Charles Molina
Abrupt subjects, scraped layers of paint, splashes, torn-off sections: Molina's works reflect an almost chaotic, sometimes violent spontaneityCharles Molina (2001-21) was an up-and-coming artist who made his mark on the Miami scene with paintings at the crossroads of abstract expressionism and street art. His works are characterized by a superimposition of materials, techniques and supports, including walls, doors, cars, wood panels and canvas.
Jenny Saville
This volume spans Saville's illustrious career, showcasing sixty paintings and drawings, many of which have not previously been displayed in public. Jenny Saville, an original member of the acclaimed Young British Artists, is one of today's leading painters. Her large-scale portraits and nudes challenge accepted ideals of beauty and celebrate the human form. Published to coincide with a major international exhibition, this handsome retrospective is designed to be accessible and appeal to a broad audience. In-depth essays evaluate Saville's development of her technique, marking key moments and her strong connections to art history and the influence of forerunners including Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Titian, Vel獺zquez, Van Dyck, and Rembrandt, as well as twentieth-century artists Picasso, De Kooning, Bacon, Freud, and Auerbach. Spanning the full spectrum of her career, this volume includes around sixty paintings and drawings, many on a monumental scale, as well as many that have never previously been published.
To Be - A Process of Becoming - second edition
Introducing the 2nd edition of our first book: "To Be - A Process of Becoming" With improved visuals, a number for each layer (1 through 11) on the upper corner, and some minor edits, the second edition brings a more refined visual to our first artist book./> Life is a layered journey. There is no black or white, and in many cases, things are different than they seem. Sometimes we make a choice only to worry we've messed up. Other times things just feel right. Many times it feels much more complex. In our experience, we've learned there is not one 'right' answer. In a world with many truths, among many perceptions, a seemingly new adventure unfolds. Join us on a visual journey as we create 11 art pieces. Look carefully to find new layers and watch them evolve into the art they become. As a self-taught author the process is new to us, be we feel like we're getting the hang of it. Thank you for joining us on this journey!
Prompt-Brush 1.0
In response to the rise of AI-generated art, designer Pablo Delcan takes a human-centered approach in this interpretive, illustrative collection of humorous, poignant, and universal ideas based on text prompts from the public. Unlike AI tools that automatically generate art based on text prompts, Prompt-Brush 1.0 celebrates the creativity and sensibility of the artist's work. In this project, graphic designer and art director Pablo Delcan invited the public to submit prompts, which he then manually interpreted and translated into images. This book is a curated selection of submitted prompts and original artwork personally created by Delcan. Every piece has a unique, human touch. In Delcan's quirky and clever sensibility, prompts like "5 Second Rule" become an ice cream cone embedded with cigarette butts and debris. The project offers a stark contrast to the instant, automated process typical of AI art models, with a personal and nuanced interpretation of the prompts. Delcan's hand-drawn interpretations and deliberate, individual style emphasize the value of human creativity and effort over the speed and efficiency of AI models. The collection of diverse, often humorous artworks has gained popularity for its distinctive approach and attracted attention and praise, with Fast Company calling it "infinitely more layered than its AI-generated counterpart." The simplicity of the black ink drawings is direct and childlike, offering a refreshing departure from the increasingly detailed and hyperrealistic outputs of AI art generators. This handsome slipcased volume makes an outstanding gift for artists and art advocates, graphic designers, creative professionals, educators, students, and anyone who values the creative process and is wary of AI's impact on the art world.
Hirschfeld's Sondheim
This national bestseller presents 25 favorite Al Hirschfeld portraits drawn from Stephen Sondheim's musicals. The art prints in this oversize poster book can be easily removed and framed, making it an ideal gift for Sondheim fans. This first volume in a series of deluxe Hirschfeld poster books contains art drawn from life before the opening night of each of Sondheim's productions. On the reverse side are rare, ancillary images from the archives, as well as an introduction by Bernadette Peters, an essay by Ben Brantley, and text by David Leopold, Hirschfeld's archivist and creative director of the Al Hirschfeld Foundation.Hirschfeld's images capture the essence of the performances even better than the photographs of the shows. All of Sondheim's best-known plays are included--West Side Story, Follies, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Sweeney Todd, Merrily We Roll Along, and Sunday in the Park with George.Al Hirschfeld drew his first Sondheim show in 1957--West Side Story. In his iconic, illustrative style, Hirschfeld captured almost all of Sondheim's Broadway shows and several films featuring the composer's songs and scripts.Sondheim was a Hirschfeld collector, acquiring drawings directly from the artist and through his friends and collaborators like Hal Prince. In his last interview just five days before his death on November 26, 2021, the New York Times ran a photo of Sondheim in his home with an image of Hirschfeld's Putting it Together in the background.All images for this book have been scanned from the archives of the Al Hirschfeld Foundation, ensuring the highest possible quality.
Adeline de Monseignat: Motherhood in Four Acts
Explores de Monseignat's sculptures reflecting matrescence, birth, intimacy, and maternal transformation.Motherhood in Four Acts is a publication about the sculptures and sculptural installations of Mexico-based artist Adeline de Monseignat (b. 1987, Monaco). It is also a publication about the artist's experiences of matrescence--the process of becoming a mother--and how these experiences are interwoven with her recent sculptural works.Inspired by a theatrical production or play, the publication is structured in four acts. The first, titled "Earth" presents the work Seedscape, which takes the form of smooth, rounded "seeds" carved from sand-colored travertine, exploring themes of the seed and its potential for life, the earth and fertility, pregnancy and the womb. The publication features documentation of three presentations of the work, culminating on the rooftop terrace of the Museo MARCO in Monterrey, Mexico, in Monseignat's exhibition Enceinte (Pregnant).The second act, entitled "Fire", presents the sculpture Uketamo, which considers the experience of giving birth, the emptiness of the womb post-partum, and coming to terms with the newborn's separation from the umbilical cord. Comprising an outdoor sculptural installation launched in 2024 at Casa Wabi Foundation's Sabino site, the artist employs tezontle--a volcanic rock--to create mounds with empty spaces inside and mirrors at their bases, reflecting the sky. Seeming to emerge out of the gravel-covered ground, these mounds and cavities resemble volcanoes after an eruption, bringing fertile minerals out of the fires deep underground and into the air of the earth's surface.The third act, "Air", documents the body of work Skin to Skin, presented at Colector Gallery in Monterrey in 2023-24. The works evoke notions of a mother's intimate first contacts with their baby, the proximity between them, the bringing together of their flesh, and breathing together. The sculptures that comprise this series juxtapose white travertine--a form of sedimentary rock--and polished bronze, as if mother and newborn are holding each other's bodies close, almost wrapped around one another.The final act, "Water", revolves around the work Aurum, representing breastfeeding and the sense of the mother's body producing and releasing milk and other fluids. In the work, a mother's breasts take the form of a fountain, both a vessel and provider. "I remember feeling like I was liquifying, no exaggeration. My body had transmuted into one big vessel", explains the artist. A bronze version of the work, replete with basin and flowing water, was on show at MASA Galer穩a in Mexico City in 2023.The four bodies of work are discussed in a thoughtful and thought-provoking essay by Andr矇e Bober, curator and founding director of Landmarks, the public art program of the University of Texas at Austin. Along with a foreword by Adeline de Monseignat, each act features text entries providing background information to the works and contexts in which they have been shown. Edited by Katharine Jaensch and designed by Gabriela Bustillos, this hardback publication features texts in both English and Spanish, with translations by Jimena Lechuga. The publication was made possible with the support of Colector, Monterrey, Houston, Dallas.
Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking? A Patchwork Journey Through My Life... So Far
Kenneth Radley's Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking? A patchwork journey through my life... so far - is a richly layered, deeply personal memoir told in an engaging patchwork style - weaving together reflections from across six decades of an expansive life.From his early life we are taken through some rapid development in the 1960s. Then the tectonic socio-cultural shifts throughout the 1970s. And later appearing in more than 30 feature films, performing as B1 in the highly successful and culturally iconic Bananas in Pyjamas, to selling wine, cab driving, fronting a hard-hitting rock band in the Melbourne pub scene, teaching, building houses, playing and umpiring Australian football and navigating family life within the creative industries - Radley crafts a collection of vivid vignettes that balance wit, philosophical inquiry, and grounded realism.Kenneth's voice is conversational, witty, and unpretentious - a creative balance that allows for intimacy without self-indulgence. He welcomes the reader in as though catching up with an old friend over a long afternoon.The non-linear, episodic structure reflects the book's emotional honesty and thematic complexity. Like memory itself, the narrative flows from place to place - sometimes abrupt, and like life, unpredictable. This style both engages the reader and reveals the depth of Radley's inner and outer worlds.Readers interested in Australian cultural history, performance, and television and film will find rare, behind-the-scenes gems throughout. Anecdotes involving the Bananas years, working on set from an actor's perspective, creative struggles, the joy and passion in his work. The reader is treated to some fascinating encounters with industry characters that offer unique insights and deep reflections.Even in its few heavier moments - including grief, insecurity, the exploration of some trauma, cause, effect, confusion and eventual development in behaviour - the book maintains genuine warmth and humility. The regular moments of humour feel lived-in rather than performed, full of well-timed understatement and irony. Radley offers keen observation and generosity of spirit throughout.This work offers so much more than a timeline of events; it becomes a meditation on memory, cultural change, identity, work, and the intersections between art, family life and self-discovery.It is a fascinating, authentic and heartfelt piece reflecting the complexity, fun and humour of a man that is truly thankful for his life and filled with genuine love and appreciation of those close to him.it is quite a journey... so far.
Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking? A Patchwork Journey Through My Life... So Far
Kenneth Radley's Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking? A patchwork journey through my life... so far - is a richly layered, deeply personal memoir told in an engaging patchwork style - weaving together reflections from across six decades of an expansive life.From his early life we are taken through some rapid development in the 1960s. Then the tectonic socio-cultural shifts throughout the 1970s. And later appearing in more than 30 feature films, performing as B1 in the highly successful and culturally iconic Bananas in Pyjamas, to selling wine, cab driving, fronting a hard-hitting rock band in the Melbourne pub scene, teaching, building houses, playing and umpiring Australian football and navigating family life within the creative industries - Radley crafts a collection of vivid vignettes that balance wit, philosophical inquiry, and grounded realism.Kenneth's voice is conversational, witty, and unpretentious - a creative balance that allows for intimacy without self-indulgence. He welcomes the reader in as though catching up with an old friend over a long afternoon.The non-linear, episodic structure reflects the book's emotional honesty and thematic complexity. Like memory itself, the narrative flows from place to place - sometimes abrupt, and like life, unpredictable. This style both engages the reader and reveals the depth of Radley's inner and outer worlds.Readers interested in Australian cultural history, performance, and television and film will find rare, behind-the-scenes gems throughout. Anecdotes involving the Bananas years, working on set from an actor's perspective, creative struggles, the joy and passion in his work. The reader is treated to some fascinating encounters with industry characters that offer unique insights and deep reflections.Even in its few heavier moments - including grief, insecurity, the exploration of some trauma, cause, effect, confusion and eventual development in behaviour - the book maintains genuine warmth and humility. The regular moments of humour feel lived-in rather than performed, full of well-timed understatement and irony. Radley offers keen observation and generosity of spirit throughout.This work offers so much more than a timeline of events; it becomes a meditation on memory, cultural change, identity, work, and the intersections between art, family life and self-discovery.It is a fascinating, authentic and heartfelt piece reflecting the complexity, fun and humour of a man that is truly thankful for his life and filled with genuine love and appreciation of those close to him.it is quite a journey... so far.
Steve Halford's Artistic Creations
The Artistic Creations of Steve Halford Sculptor, Potter, Pen & Ink Artist, Political Illustrator, Parade Float Designer, Historian, Writer and a career Art Educator. Steve Halford passed away on May 4, 2024. Steve was a 'one of a kind' human being that had so many amazing talents and traits, plus compassion and humor which he enjoyed sharing with others.
Klimt
Gustav Klimt's visionary talent comes alive in this sumptuous book that features 90 impeccably reproduced works including 6 stunningly detailed fold-out spreads. This stunning volume offers readers an unparalleled opportunity to explore Klimt's artistry through iconic works such as The Kiss, The Three Ages of Woman, Judith I, and Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. These large-scale fold-outs reveal intricate details, transforming the book into an immersive journey through Klimt's extraordinary use of color, pattern, and ornamentation. Philippe Thiébaut's insightful text incorporates the latest research on Klimt and the historical context of his work, adding depth and perspective. Elegantly designed with a canvas cover, colored edges, and exceptional production quality, the book showcases Klimt's groundbreaking vision with remarkable clarity. From the golden brilliance of Hope II to the ethereal beauty of Water Serpents I, each page invites readers to explore the textures and emotional resonance that define his style. With its thoughtful design and captivating imagery, this volume brings Klimt's artistic world to life, illustrating how he transformed portraiture and landscapes into striking symbolic masterpieces. Perfect for both devoted fans and those discovering Klimt for the first time, it offers an essential and unforgettable look at one of Modernism's most celebrated figures.
Crooked Timber
Joe Dolce is an Italian-American- Australian, born in Painesville, Ohio. He emigrated to Australia in 1979. He is known internationally for writing and performing the most successful song in Australian music history, "Shaddap You Face", which has been translated into fifteen languages, including the Western Australian aboriginal dialect of Yindjibarndi. He has been a prolific poet and writer for the past two decades and has been Quadrant magazine's film review editor since 2018. He was included in Best Australian Poems 2014 & 2015, winner of the 2017 University of Canberra Health Poetry Prize and a 2021 City of Melbourne Poet Laureate. He is a winner of the 25th Launceston Tasmania Poetry Cup and arecipient of Advance Australia Award.He lives in Carlton, Victoria.Have a look at some of [these] essays and you'll notice his knowledge spans a breadth inconceivable for most people.'-Dr Naomi Stekelenburg'That piece you wrote on Westerns [Yellowstone]... was on a level with the strongest papers I have heard at academic conferences, and I do include overseas scholars. This is no exaggeration.'- Dr Christopher HeathcoteATEGORY HERE'Along with the rest of the world, I first heard Joe Dolce's song, "Shaddap You Face", many times and delighted in Joe's vivid performance. Sometime after, I realised that the Joe Dolce who wrote entertaining and informative articles in Quadrant magazine was, astonishingly, the writer and singer of a song that was a No. 1 hit in 15 countries. Re-reading dozens of Joe Dolce's witty and informative articles has tied me up for weeks (this was NOT an ordeal) while preparing this introduction to Crooked Timber. He has won numerous prizes for his verse, and his latest collection, At the Noisy Cafe Selected Poems 2017-2023, contains some of the most touching poems - including the title poem - that I have ever read. I look forward to more songs, more stories, more essays, more reviews, more poems, and more recipes from the energetic, charismatic Joe Dolce.' - from the introduction by Academy Award winning film director, Bruce Beresford.
Julia Chiang
Chiang's meditative process creates detailed paintings with intricate webs of forms and vibrant ceramics fluctuating between fragility and strength New York-based artist Julia Chiang (born 1978) is known for her paintings and ceramics, which use abstract compositions and organic forms to evoke a connection to the vastness of the universe. Her bulbous ceramics transport us through their sensual shapes and her organic imagery borrows from the physical--medical scans, internal body liquids and environments--as well as the psychological. A sense of connectivity, of the body in nature and the environment that surrounds us, has always been part of the artist's approach and is fundamental to her work. "I'm always interested in our bodies as vessels, what we contain and what we cannot. All that comes out of us, all that is within us," says Chiang. This first monograph on Chiang presents her work from the late 1990s to the present and features an essay by Eugenie Tsai, writer and former senior curator at the Brooklyn Museum.
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At its carbon-based core, C繹d.eXɘ.b繹ↄ represents an intent to communicate between man and machine, with squid as proxy. The Ↄalamari Arↄhive in-house designer (in8 iD) prompted the cyborg 5carLit.11.22 with analog book art from various prior publications (Ark Codex 簣0 in particular) + 5carLit translated the pages into encrypted source code on-the-fly, rendering them back as machine-readable crypto art (for posthuman consumption), curated and compiled by in8 iD into this archival manifest/vision statement--an Ai artist portfolio composed of non-fungible, block-chained pages that serve as Ↄalamari stock certificates to crowdfund future projects.Self-described from the horse's mouth as: imagery, arranged meticulously at 90-degree angles, conveying a mechanical yet organic feel, as if peering into a dreamlike archive of obsolete technology and ancient alphabets. Using a collage style, it invites the viewer into a layered experience, where words dissolve into symbols and text becomes a visual form, all bound together with an aesthetic of decay and discovery. This book is a celebration of the abstract, built from a conversation between creator and machine, producing a final work that feels both timeless and on the brink of digital collapse.
Tom Lloyd
A milestone publication shedding light on the groundbreaking contributions of an under-recognized artist whose art and activism resonates in contemporary culturePublished with Studio Museum in Harlem. Collaborating with an engineer at the Radio Corporation of America, American artist Tom Lloyd developed a highly experimental and technologically advanced art practice in the 1960s that challenged popular understandings of the work and role of Black artists. In 1968 his pioneering artwork was the focus of the inaugural exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Electronic Refractions II.Based on extensive new scholarship and intensive conservation work, this publication accompanies a landmark retrospective exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem exploring 20 years of the artist's career, including his pivotal contributions to the intersection of art and technology, and paying tribute to his activism. This is the first-ever comprehensive catalog on the artist and features an exclusive selection of never-before-seen images that chronicle Lloyd's career, including photographs of the artist collaborating with engineer Alan Sussman, nonextant works and past installations.Designed by Miko McGinty and richly illustrated with full-color reproductions of artworks, studio photographs and an illustrated chronology, Tom Lloyd also includes new essays by former Studio Museum curator Connie H. Choi, conservator Reinhard Bek, historian Krista Thompson, Studio Museum senior curatorial assistant Habiba Hopson, and artists Paul Stephen Benjamin, Nikita Gale and Glenn Ligon.Artist, activist and community organizer Tom Lloyd (1929-96) was an early pioneer of using electric light as an artistic medium. Born and raised in Jamaica, Queens, he was the founder of the Store Front Museum/Paul Robeson Theatre, Queens's first art museum.
Randy Wray
Forms and shapes multiply and mutate over time in Wray's biomorphic abstractions, which the artist views as "living organisms" in their own rightTransplanting shapes evocative of anatomical fragments, cellular transformations and other biological phenomena, American artist Randy Wray (born 1965) builds his paintings slowly, over the course of years. The body of work represented in this volume, the artist's first monograph, has its origins in nearly a decade of undisturbed experimentation in the studio.
Richard Wilson R.A
Richard Wilson R.A. offers a detailed examination of the life and work of Richard Wilson, a prominent figure in 18th-century British art. This volume explores Wilson's contributions to landscape painting and his influence on the development of British artistic traditions. Beaumont Fletcher's account provides insights into Wilson's artistic techniques, his role in the Royal Academy, and his legacy as one of Britain's most significant painters. A valuable resource for art historians and enthusiasts, "Richard Wilson R.A." celebrates the enduring appeal of Wilson's art and its place in the canon of European painting.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Rauschenberg and the Twentieth Century
Reappraising Rauschenberg across the 20th century, with a particular focus on his relationship to Italy and its most salient artistic movements Italy has always been entwined with the work of Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008)--from his first visit at the age of 26 to his capturing of the International Grand Prize in Painting at the 1964 Venice Biennale. He continued to reference the country in his oeuvre, whether through found objects and scrap metal picked up in Venice and Naples or through more metaphorical references such as his Bellini print series. In celebration of the centenary of his birth, the Museo del Novecento staged an exhibition to an artist who without hyperbole can be considered one of the 20th century's most revolutionary artists. This bilingual English/Italian catalog interweaves his tireless decades-long experimentation--across sculpture, painting, assemblage, installation and more--with the movements that shaped his philosophy, from Futurism to Arte Povera.
Vika Kirchenbauer: Compassion and Inconvenience
In the spirit of (and inspired by) 18th-century visual culture, Kirchenbauer's longform video examines the origins of artistic self-fashioning, philosophy and moralityThrough a 30-minute video work, Berlin-based artist Vika Kirchenbauer (born 1983) engages with the historical context of mid-18th-century London's cultural scene, a setting inextricably entangled with early capitalism, British imperialism and an emergent artistic elite.
Scenes from the Passion
A monograpgh dedicated to the leading German Reformation artist, Lucas Cranach, who was one of the most influential northern Renaissance printmakers. His Passion series has drama and pathos rivalling his contemporary D羹rer. The leading artist of the German Reformation, and close collaborator of Martin Luther, Lucas Cranach was one of the most influential and prolific printmakers of the northern Renaissance. His spare and eloquent images of the Passion series, begun in 1509, are among his finest creations; they have a drama and pathos that rival the work of his exact contemporary D羹rer.
Fabienne Lasserre: Entre Chien Et Loup
Titled after the French expression for twilight, Lasserre's first monograph is a fitting expression of her ambiguous colorblocked compositions blending painting with sculptureBrooklyn-based artist Fabienne Lasserre (born 1973) describes her practice as "a stubborn action on materials"--creating freestanding objects made of clay, hand-dyed fabric, paper and metal that hover between painting and sculpture. For Lasserre, abstraction is a means to privilege lived and felt experience, implying powerful and fertile political metaphors. Entre chien et loup (a French expression for twilight), speaks to the way Lasserre's work defies easy categorization. This catalog-cum-artist's book includes contributions by curators Camila Marambio and Dean Daderko, art historian Nell Andrews and artist Kristine Woods (all presented in both English and French) providing intimate and lyrical weaving of viewpoints on materials, the senses, resistance and queer and feminist perspectives.
Noemi Pfister: Heart on Sleeve
By intertwining the familiar with the uncanny, Pfister's paintings probe the kinds of communities we might inhabit in the futureThe dreamlike landscapes of Swiss painter Noemi Pfister (born 1991) are inhabited by distorted subjects lounging on skateboards or scrolling on their phones. While her formal language borrows from Old Master works, the figures' clothing, postures and props are unmistakable motifs of contemporary youth culture.
Jim Shaw: The Ties That Bind
Saturated with literary allusions, pop culture staples and celebrity caricatures, Shaw's bombastic satirical works are almost "too weird for the art world" (Cultured Magazine)Since the 1970s, Los Angeles-based artist Jim Shaw (born 1952) has been developing an exciting body of work that includes photographs, drawings, paintings, sculptures, installations, films and musical performances. The Ties That Bind addresses the commitments and obsessions that drive Shaw's practice: morality, fictional narratives, conspiracy theories and forms of cultural production, to name a few. Popular cultural formats such as comics, Hollywood films and caricatures constitute an essential part of his work, as do religion, folk beliefs, leisure culture and amateur arts. His profound critical exploration of the construction of values and beliefs is complemented by an incredibly rich visual imagery. In recent decades, his body of work has increasingly highlighted the growing tension between conservative and progressive ideologies. The Ties That Bind brings to light the core motifs of Shaw's practice, presenting his latest work alongside a selection of earlier works.
The Art of George Wilson
What made many of the great adventure comics of the 1960s so attractive were their fantastic painted covers by artist George Wilson. Wilson also turned in hundreds of painted covers for paperback books that range from The Phantom and Flash Gordon to romance, adventure and war titles, all illustrated in the extensive survey of his work. Unlike the majority of comic book covers of the era, Wilson's covers harkened back to the era of pulp magazines and were spectacularly eye-catching. He turned in efforts for literally hundreds of comics titles -- this important monograph on the artist provides examples of every genre he worked in. Presented are cover paintings scanned from the original artwork from Classics Illustrated, The Twilight Zone, Ripley's Believe It or Not, Doctor Solar, Magnus Robot Fighter, Turok, Son of Stone, Star Trek, Korak, Son of Tarzan, Mighty Samson, Brothers of the Spear, Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery, Space Family Robinson, Dark Shadows, and The Occult Files of Doctor Spektor to name but a few. This new art book focuses on over 300 examples of his cover art accompanied by an introduction by famed artist Joe Jusko, an exhaustive essay by Anthony Taylor and the only interview Wilson ever gave. This is the ultimate, definitive art book about one of the most important cover artists of the Silver and Bronze ages.
Roy Kuhlman: Reluctant Modernist
The legacy of Grove Press is well known within literary circles: how Barney Rosset bought a fledgling but failing publishing company in the early 1950s and changed the world of letters in America, and perhaps the very culture as well. Grove Press brought to national prominence the writers, art, and artists of the avant-garde. Equally innovative, and ultimately as influential, Grove Press book covers reflected not only the work inside, but also the prevailing zeitgeist. The iconoclastic writing was echoed in the packaging, a marriage of imagery and the written word that had not been seen before, or, perhaps, since. The covers, the work of a young artist named Roy Kuhlman, who arrived on Grove's doorstep in 1951, contributed invaluably to the company's image as a distinguished and innovative publishing house. Work from all of Kuhlman's oeuvre is included in this handsome volume, over 300 in all, with an emphasis on the Grove covers. To date, the public has seen little of Kuhlmans's total creative output. It is all assembled here for the first time, displaying depth, variety, and innovation. It is at once illustrative, abstract, conceptual, comical, serious and revolutionary. This book is a celebration of and a tribute to this important designer's creative m矇tier.
The Magical Realism of Alyce Frank
The Magical Realism of Alyce Frank features a painter who characterizes her own work as "Taos Expressionism." She cites Van Gogh, the Fauvists, and the Taos School as important early influences.Though Frank has been painting for thirty years, she did not become a painter until she moved to New Mexico. "New Mexico was so powerful and demanding that the way I made peace with it was to paint it."When Alyce paints it is with a partner, and they take a picnic. They paint outside and "if you were there, you would know it was the place, though my paintings are not 'realistic.'" A brilliant palette of rich primary and secondary colors embellish her large (36' x 48') landscapes in a way that makes you acutely conscious of the seasons, the life in the trees, fields, and mountains. She could only have created these paintings in New Mexico, and yet their appeal is universal, primitive, mythic. A title in the New Mexico Magazine Artist Series
Untitled Harsh Noise Graphic Novel
Harsh Noise album in paperback form. Pixel noise art generated using various generative and/or expressionist processes in the ancient Mac software LightningPaint. 300 pages 6" x 9" paperback book. More images and info at http: //www.cementimental.com/noisebook/index.html
Henri Matisse
A fascinating introduction to the life and work of Henri Matisse, a leading artist of the modern age whose radical and innovative techniques demonstrate his lifelong commitment to celebrating dynamic forms and bold, expressive color Henri Matisse (1869-1954) was a leading figure in early-20th-century modern art and one of the most significant colorists of all time. In a prolific career that spanned over half a century, he created a large and diverse body of work, encompassing drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, and the decorative arts. This concise book is a captivating introduction to the life and work of this remarkable artist. It contextualizes Matisse's career, from his informal training in Paris to his early study of the impressionists, and the pivotal point when he created his first fauvist painting, marking his singular interest in experimenting with flatness of color, simple shapes, and sinuous loose lines. Highlighting the artist's revolutionary technique with paper cutouts, which became his chosen medium after ill health confined him to bed and prevented him from painting, this book demonstrates the relentless passion and incredible creative drive of a modern master.
Alberto Giacometti
A lively introduction to the life and work of Alberto Giacometti, whose unique style and innovative vision make him one of the most significant and internationally acclaimed sculptors of the postwar era Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) is best known for his elongated, wraithlike sculptures. Instantly recognizable and inescapably associated with the existentialist despair of his time, these unusual figures presented a vulnerable image of humanity in which a generation traumatized by the war recognized itself, but they also continue to remain intensely meaningful to contemporary society today. This book is a key introduction to the life and work of Giacometti. It follows the story of his artistic evolution, from his first sketchbooks and paintings inspired by his father's colorful postimpressionist style to his formative experience with death that shaped his obsession with the subject throughout his career. Exploring the artist's move toward curious surrealist compositions and the emergence of his mature style, it celebrates the enduring power of one of the most internationally acclaimed sculptors of the postwar era.
The Heart of A Lioness
​Can you imagine fleeing your country, and crossing borders to a strange land? As the lioness in this story, I left my warm habitat due to the civil war in Sudan. I encountered insurmountable obstacles as I grappled with social isolation and cultural adjustment in the new country. As a tropical being, the lioness couldn't tolerate the frigid climate and excruciating loneliness in Canada. As a result, I hopped on a plane, again. This memoir will inform those who are facing the unknown how to navigate roadblocks.​
The Heart of A Lioness
​Can you imagine fleeing your country, and crossing borders to a strange land? As the lioness in this story, I left my warm habitat due to the civil war in Sudan. I encountered insurmountable obstacles as I grappled with social isolation and cultural adjustment in the new country. As a tropical being, the lioness couldn't tolerate the frigid climate and excruciating loneliness in Canada. As a result, I hopped on a plane, again. This memoir will inform those who are facing the unknown how to navigate roadblocks.​
Jadwiga Maziarska: Assembly
Working alongside Tadeusz Kantor as part of the Krakow Group, Maziarska's "matter paintings" and other avant-garde explorations blend fine art with politics and mass mediaA member of the first Krakow Group and Cricot 2 Theatre, Jadwiga Maziarska (1913-2003) created "matter paintings," collages, wax reliefs and sculptures that were influenced by science, phenomenology, mass photography and newspaper clippings. This comprehensive monograph reintroduces one of the most important voices of the Polish avant-garde.
