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William J. O'Brien Museum Of Contemporary Art Chicago 2013 ISBN 9781938922169 Acqn 22605 Pb 20x26cm 104pp 90ills 85col 25 This volume will be the first monograph on the work of Chicago-based artist William J. OBrien (born 1975), produced to accompany his first large-scale, solo exhibition opening at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in January 2014. The show demonstrates the broad range of OBriens work--from sculpture and ceramics to drawing, textiles and painting--and his guiding interest in physicality and the handmade. The catalogue expands the dominant narratives around his practice, which generally focus on his ceramics, to more accurately reflect his diverse, prolific practice as a whole. Exhibition curator Naomi Beckwith and contributing author and curator Trevor Smith contextualize the artists work in light of recent modes in contemporary art history-linforme, the handmade and semiotic play. Critic Jason Foumberg contributes a creative text inspired by the artists working process. Together, the contributing essays make a strong contextual case for OBriens work that counters canonical themes of media-specificity and traditional art materials, producing a catalogue as expansive as the breadth of OBriens practice itself.
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Pissaro Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza 2013 ISBN 9788415113423 Acqn 23296 Hb 23x28cm 208pp 166ills 138col 46.50 Humble and colossal, as his friend Czanne described him, Camille Pissarro is at once the most important and the least familiar of the leading Impressionist painters. As a mentor to that group, which he helped to convene, Pissarro was responsible for drafting the statutes of the artists cooperative that launched the famous Impressionist exhibitions, which were the first to take art outside the academic confines of Paris salon exhibitions; he was also the only painter to participate in all eight of those landmark shows, from 1874 to 1886, and was the first painter to develop and sustain the plein air practice for which the Impressionists are famed. This volume presents Pissarro as one of the great pioneers of modern art, appraising his career through five thematic and chronological chapters that offer a tour of his preferred landscapes and cities: "On the Road to Impressionism," "Louveciennes-London-Louveciennes 186972," "Pontoise Revisited 187282," "Eragny Landscapes 18841903" and "City Views." It includes essays by some of the most renowned Pissarro scholars: Richard R. Brettell, who writes on the artists involvement with anarchism; Joachim Pissarro (one of the authors of the Pissarro catalogue raisonn) on Monet and Pissarros relationship in the 1890s; and Guillermo Solana on the motif of the road in Pissarro.
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Multiple Occupancy - Eleanor Antin's "Selves" Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery 2014 ISBN 9781884919305 Acqn 23334 Pb 20x24cm 128pp 71ills 35col 17.95 From 1972 to 1991, Eleanor Antin (born 1935) created multiple personae of different genders, races, professions, historical contexts and geographic locations. The artist called this motley group--which includes a deposed king, an exiled film director, ambitious ballerinas and hardworking nurses--her "selves." The selves manifestations were as diverse as their stories: some were embodied by Antin and captured in photographs and on video; others had paper doll surrogates; at times their existence was known only through the drawings, texts and films they had ostensibly left behind. As she explored the fleeting nature of the self, Antin used fiction, fantasy and theatricality to examine the ways that history takes shape, scrutinizing the role that visual representation plays in that process. Multiple Occupancy: Eleanor Antins "Selves" is the first project to focus exclusively on this critical body of work. orders@artdata.co.uk www.artdata.co.uk
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Paul Laffoley - Premonitions Of The Bauharoque Henry Art Gallery 2013 ISBN 9780935558524 Acqn 23348 Pb 22x28cm 304pp 271ills 13col 32.50 For more than 40 years, the art of Paul Laffoley (born 1940) has synthesized a broad swath of disciplines--from art history, architecture and classical literature to science fiction and natural and occult sciences--offering alternative ways to understand and rethink the world that surrounds us. Laffoley combines diagrams, symbols and texts to create densely layered paintings that take anywhere from one to three years to paint. This sustained and intense focus on both image and content has produced a unique and complex body of work that combines theory and encrypted knowledge with visionary representation. Paul Laffoley: Premonitions of the Bauharoque reproduces in facsimile a series of handwritten journal entries that span Laffoleys career, alongside colour reproductions of the artists earliest mature work from 1965. These journal entries, which precede and form the basis of his paintings, explicate Laffoleys rich cosmology.
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Bruce Kurland - Illusion And The Little World Avocet Editions 2014 ISBN 9781938922428 Acqn 23359 Hb 23x23cm 184pp 90col ills 39.50 Bruce Kurland was an American still-life painter working from the early 1960s until his death in 2013. Born in New York in 1938, Kurland was initially influenced by earlier European practitioners of the still-life genre such as Fabritius, Chardin and Morandi, whose quiet reveries he inflected with a contemporary vision of mortality derived from the visceral imagery of Francis Bacon. Today, his work can be seen as part of a singular strain of twentieth-century North American painting that includes artists such as Walter Murch and Gregory Gillespie. Kurland infused his paintings with powerful attention to, and a tangible affection for, nature "red in tooth and claw," conjuring "a little world with which I could do anything I wanted, without losing the illusion." This handsome volume, with its cloth binding and tip-on cover, includes essays by poet Lisa Jarnot, gallerist Victoria Munroe and Chief Curator at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, Eliza Rathbone.
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Richard Aldrich Bortolami Gallery 2013 ISBN 9781467570435 Acqn 23362 Pb 23x28cm 96pp 88col ills 25 Brooklyn-based artist Richard Aldrich (born 1975) is best known for his seductive yet challenging paintings that often push the boundaries of the picture plane. His multimedia works are typically created in oil and wax, also incorporating elements such as pencil, collage, charcoal and metal. This new catalogue, published by Bortolami Gallery, is part traditional monograph and part artists book. It features a selection of 88 abstract, multimedia works made between 2003 and 2013, and as such is the most comprehensive survey of Aldrichs work to date. The plates have been laid out to wrap around from one page to the next, across the books French folds, so that, literally and figuratively, each painting is viewed with a part of the next painting in mind. This unusual design feature creates elegant and sometimes jarring juxtapositions that are entirely unique to the book itself.
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David Salle - Ghost Paintings The Arts Club of Chicago 2013 ISBN 9781891925382 Acqn 23365 Pb 23x26cm 64pp 27ills 12col 17.95 In the 1980s, American artist David Salle (born 1952) played a crucial role in the formulation of postmodernism in art, helping to re-establish painting as a dominant force. Often thought to use only found imagery, Salle actually derived much of his early work from live movement events that he staged specifically for the paintings. For his 1992 series Ghost Paintings, Salle took photographs of his long time model Beverly Eaby, creating graceful, improvised movements with a bed sheet, then printing the images on linen and painting over them with horizontal fields of intense colour. This new volume, with full-colour spreads of the 16 never-before-seen Ghost Paintings, reveals Salles practice of incorporating photography and performance art into his paintings. It includes the black-and-white photographs the artist took for this series, as well as documentation of other performances. Includes an interview with Hal Foster. orders@artdata.co.uk www.artdata.co.uk
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Yayoi Kusama - Obsesion Infinita Fondation Eduardo F Constantini 2013 ISBN 9789871271504 Acqn 23366 Pb 24x27cm 232pp 158ills 45col 39.50 Obsesin Infinita accompanies the first Latin American retrospective of Yayoi Kusama (born 1929), a massive survey of more than 100 works created between 1950 and 2013. It includes her abstract paintings of the 1950s, made just prior to her move to New York in 1957; the "soft sculptures" that followed her move, and her friendships with Donald Judd, Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg and Joseph Cornell; and the famous happenings of the late 60s. It was in these years that Kusama became known as "the Polka Dot Princess," for her obsessive use of polka dots in installations and performances. In 1973 she returned to Japan, and in 1977 settled voluntarily in a psychiatric clinic where she has continued to make performances and installations. Alongside color reproductions, this volume includes archival photographs of Kusama performances and portraits of the artist from the many periods of her career.
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Pigeons On The Grass Alas - Contemporary Curators Talk About The Field Pew Center for Arts 2014 ISBN 9780988710900 Acqn 23387 Pb 12x18cm 122pp 23col ills 10.95 This book is a unique convening of experts--unique because the "convening" only takes place within its pages. A roster of curators, affectionately dubbed "pigeons," were invited to respond to an evolving list of questions, what the editors called a "pigeonnaire," about their approach to their work. This pigeonnaire probed such topics as influences, daily practice, artistcurator relationships and the curators responsibility to society. Over the course of a year, the pigeons dropped by with their answers, and the editors then strung together the questions and answers in a continuous narrative that reads something like the transcript of a large meeting, providing a portrait of common ground and fissures in the field of curating now. The contributing curators are Glenn Adamson, Anne Barlow, Carlos Basualdo, Mark Beasley, Shana Berger, Dan Byers, Joseph del Pesco, Sean Dockray & Fiona Whitton, Christopher Eamon, Mai Abu El Dahab, Peter Eleey, Nicholas Frank, Eric Fredericksen, Daniel Fuller, Lance Fung, Cesar Garcia, Rita Gonzalez, Jennifer Gross, Andrea Grover, Pablo Helguera, Jens Hoffmann, Stuart Horodner, Hou Hanru, Ruba Katrib, Lisa Melandri, Helen Molesworth, Jessica Morgan, Aram Moshayedi, Valerie Cassel Oliver, Jenifer Papararo, Daniela Perez, Ralph Rugoff, Ingrid Schaffner, Paul Schimmel, Sarah Robayo Sheridan, Elizabeth Smith, Robert Storr, Astria Suparak, Claire Tancons, Nato Thompson, Gilbert Vicario and Namita Gupta Wiggers. Pigeons on the Grass Alas includes a bookmark with the Gertrude Stein poem after which the book is titled.
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Invalid Format - An Anthology Of Triple Canopy Triple Canopy 2014 ISBN 9780984734634 Acqn 23388 Pb 13x23cm 304pp 100ills 14.50 Invalid Format is an archive of the widespread activities of Triple Canopy, the New Yorkbased magazine and publisher. The book translates into print work that originally appeared in other forms. The third volume of Invalid Format includes artist projects and literary work published online in the third and fourth years of Triple Canopys existence, as well as documentation of public programs. In form and content, the book explores how works produced for the screen and live settings might be transposed to the codex in a way that recalls former contexts while also fully inhabiting the page. It includes contributions by Michael Almereyda, Kurt Beals, Mel Bochner, Daniel Bozhkov, Paul Chan, Joshua Cohen, Jordan Crandall, Simon Critchley, Moyra Davey, Roe Ethridge, Ellie Ga, Daniel Gordon, Vivian Gornick, David Graeber, Group Theory, Joseph McElroy, Tom McCarthy, Matt Mullican, Ken Okiishi, Eve Sussman, Lynne Tillman and McKenzie Wark, among others.
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Will Munro - History, Glamour, Magic Art Gallery York University 2014 ISBN 9780921972679 Acqn 23392 Pb 24x28cm 176pp 392col ills 38 Will Munro (19752010) was a multimedia visual artist, DJ and community builder based in Toronto. History, Glamour, Magic fully documents his activities as an artist with emphasis on his punk DIY sculpture and installation from 1998 to the end of his life.
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Julian Hoeber Blum & Poe 2014 ISBN 9780966350364 Acqn 23393 Hb 22x26cm 112pp 71ills 70col 38 Published on the occasion of his 2013 exhibition at Blum & Poe, this is the first monograph on Los Angelesbased multimedia artist Julian Hoeber (born 1974). Filtering the aesthetics of Minimalism, Op art and the Light and Space movement through a pop-cultural lens, Hoebers paintings and sculptures seek irrationality within rational systems, toying with space and perception, and examining how consciousness is affected under varying physical circumstances. As evidenced in his paintings, sculpture and installations, Hoeber displaces distinctions between high and low, conceptual and formal, and art and craft. Beautifully illustrated with 70 images of current and past works, this volume includes a checklist of the exhibition, and a complete bibliography, extensively documenting Hoebers past and current work. The book also includes new essays by Douglas Fogle and Jonathan Lethem written especially for this volume.
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Karl Wirsum Derek Eller Gallery 2013 ISBN 9781939799142 Acqn 23404 Pb 19x28cm 64pp 39ills 38col 19 American artist Karl Wirsum (born 1939) was a member of the legendary Chicago artist community The Hairy Who (whose other members included Art Green, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt and Suellen Rocca). Best known as a painter, he has also worked in printmaking, sculpture, digital art and marionettes. Pristine, cartoonish, flatly graphic and brightly chromatic, his paintings portray solitary, hallucinatory, often somewhat demonic characters, depicted against spare backdrops. This catalogue commemorates Wirsums fall 2013 exhibition at Derek Eller gallery in New York. It presents 25 new paintings and drawings accompanied by questions to the artist (and his answers) from an all-star roster of curators and artists, including Gary Panter, Carter E. Foster, Chris Ware, KAWS, Erik Parker, Jeff Koons, Mark Pascale, Robert Storr, Robert Cozzolino and Peter Saul.
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Richard Prince - White Paintings Skarstedt Fine Art 2014 ISBN 9780988930001 Acqn 23405 Pb 22x31cm 56pp 28ills 27col 29 Celebrated for his appropriation of advertising images and photographs during the early 1970s, Richard Prince (born 1949) began in the 1980s to explore the relationship between image and language, pairing jokes from books and magazines with referential and non-referential imagery. In the 1990s, his Joke paintings transformed from rigidly composed works into free-floating combinations of jokes and stripped-down layered imagery. The White Paintings are raw and energetic in comparison to his earlier work. Here, handwritten and printed jokes mingle with gestural marks, silk-screened imagery and graphic fragments, all strewn across a whitepigmented backdrop. Princes hand is present in these works, with their painterly white texture, spirited whorls and handwritten elements. In this series, he uses appropriation in a new way, as he pays homage to great American abstract painters such as Cy Twombly and Robert Rauschenberg. This volume reproduces a selection from this series.
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Helmut Federle - The Ferner Paintings Peter Blum Edition 2014 ISBN 9780615860428 Acqn 23407 Hb 19x26cm 112pp 35ills 23col 47.95 This publication details the most recent series by Swiss painter Helmut Federle (born 1944), titled The Ferner Paintings, each depicting dark circles. The circles are not painted but stained, the result of carefully applied vegetable oil.
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Lisa Oppenheim - Works 20032013 Sternberg Press 2014 ISBN 9783956790409 Acqn 23594 Pb 24x33cm 160pp 92col ills 24.95 Edited by Florence Derieux, Krist Gruijthuijsen, Bettina Steinbrgge Texts by Karen Archey, Angie Keefer, Lisa Oppenheim, Christian Rattemeyer Over the past decade, artist Lisa Oppenheim has steadily developed a unique body of work exploring the usage of (historical) imagery. Balanced between appropriation and reconstruction, her work relies on substitutions applied to photographic and filmic records through which the historical and the present are transmitted and constituted through a language of today. One could define her work as an archaeology of time and visual culture. By exposing, or even re-exposing, archival material, Oppenheim bridges the past and the present by introducing new meaning to these historical images, often resulting in film and photographic projects.
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Melissa Gordon - Material Evidence Sternberg Press 2014 ISBN 9783956790331 Acqn 23595 Pb 22x28cm 64pp 41ills 13col 15.95 Contributions by Mina Loy, Marina Vishmidt; interview by Marie-Anne McQuay Material Evidence expands on the formal concerns and critical debates developed through Melissa Gordons exhibition of the same name, following a joint residency with Spike Island and Spike Island Print Studio in Bristol, in the summer of 2013. Gordons work as a painter and printmaker follows the relationship between representation and abstraction; she often enlarges details to reveal hidden structures, zooming in until textual or pictorial information is reduced to dots and lines. The publication navigates through four concurrently exhibited and ongoing series (Structures for Viewing, Blow Up Modernists, The Daily News RIP, and Material Evidence) installed at Spike Island. This monograph contains a reprint of the early modernist play Collision by Mina Loy, a source that contextualizes Gordons concern with spatial arrangements and pictorial staging. An essay by Marina Vishmidt reflects on the legacies of modernism and the particular politics of abstraction found within Gordons practice, and the conversation between Spike Islands curator Marie-Anne McQuay and Gordon investigates how each new body of work stages a reconfiguration of histories, surfaces, and iconographies.
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Antony Gormley - According To A Given Mean Xavier Hufkens 2014 ISBN 9789491245060 Acqn 22918 Pb 21x26cm 104pp 41ills 32col 30 Mathematics reveal the hidden patterns that help us to understand the world around us. To what extent are these principles which are based on logic, data, measurements and observations and are thus foreign to the human body capable of evoking emotional responses? Mathematician and philosopher Jean Paul Van Bendegem addresses this question in his essay on Antony Gormleys exhibition according to a given mean. Henry Moores daughter, Mary Moore, discusses geometry with Gormley and analyses its importance as a starting point for an investigation of space, place and reflexive architecture.
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Anne Truitt Threshold Matthew Marks 2014 ISBN 9781880146705 Acqn 23353 Hb 24x29cm 144pp 70ills 65col 32 Threshold is an in-depth look at a pivotal decade in the career of Anne Truitt (19212004): the 1970s. An authoritative essay by acclaimed art historian Anne M. Wagner delivers new insights into the artist and her work, while extensive excerpts from the artists writings--including some previously unpublished--open a new window on Truitts creative process and its preoccupation with perceptual experiences that hover along an invisible edge--a threshold, as Truitt often called it, or "the point at which the abstract nature of events becomes perceptible." In the 1970s this idea was an ongoing preoccupation, which she repeatedly attempted to define. The plates section includes generous illustrations of works from the period, including drawings, paintings and the sculptures for which she has been heralded as a key figure in post-war American art.
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Gary Hume - The Wonky Wheel Matthew Marks 2014 ISBN 9781880146712 Acqn 23367 Hb 22x28cm 112pp 57ills 54col 25 In Gary Hume: The Wonky Wheel, the renowned British artist updates the genre of history painting for the twenty-first century. With the 18 paintings and three sculptures gathered in this volume--all new and never before published--Hume unveils colourful abstractions rooted in contemporary conflict and the fragility of human life. If these most recent works are, as Hume himself stresses, a form of history painting--representations of a series of "pregnant moments" connected to one of the great historical dramas of our time--Hume short-circuits this notion by rendering their historical scenes all but invisible, thus apparently declaring his disinterest in any narrative whatsoever. Nonetheless, these moments form the building blocks of the work. Historys forward progress is constant, Humes art proposes, but it is always wonky.
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Natacha Nisic Echo Actes Sud 2014 ISBN 9782330023799 Acqn 23399 Pb 18x24cm 204pp 154ills 130col 28.95 This first monograph of the work of French artist Natacha Nisic (born 1967) chronicles several video installations produced since 1995. The piece f, for Fukushima, created for the exhibition, observes Fukushimas landscapes, villages and inhabitants who suffered the effects of the tsunami and the nuclear reactor disaster.
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Y Z Kami Paintings Gagosian Gallery (NY) 2014 ISBN 9781935263951 Acqn 23500 Hb 24x33cm 164pp 80col ills 63.50 Kamis portraits of introspective subjects, often with eyes closed as though in meditation, project a broad and inviting spiritual presence. With his own photographs of family, friends and strangers as source material, he uses faces as vessels to convey an almost sacred and universal atmosphere of reflection. The matte surfaces of the canvases resemble fresco, while the closely cropped, centered compositions evoke El Faym portraits of ancient Egypt. Beginning with a primary paint layer in warm terra cotta, Kami renders these figures in a uniform sfumato that evokes a light tremor, imparting to the paintings a striking effect of movement. This sense of vitality may stem from our own associations with photographed subjects in motion, but it transcends the veracity of photographs. Kami does not aim to create photorealistic portrayals; rather, he seeks to make his subjects uncannily present in spirit. orders@artdata.co.uk www.artdata.co.uk
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Ronald De Bloeme, Dan Van Golden, J C J Vanderheyden - Juxtaposed, Simultaneous Lecturis 2013 ISBN 9789462260580 Acqn 23552 Pb 21x25cm 104pp 80col ills 21 Ronald de Bloeme (1971) , Daan van Golden (1936) and JCJ Vanderheyden (1928-2012) are handling related visual languages in which the perception of reality is central, shown in a reduced, abstracted form. In the work of Van Golden focus is on the the choice of the image and a meticulous process of painting. In the works of Vanderheyden perception is linked to a certain order within the painting. And Bloeme makes reinterpretations of logos, advertisement and other expressions of our consumer society. In this book, the work of the artists is presented alongside each other in different ways, in which not only remarkable affinities, but also the uniqueness of everyone's work is visible. These properties form the common theme in the book that can be read as a "visual essay" on the affinities and differences between the oeuvres. Attention is drawn to the role of perception, appropriating and edit existing images and the act of painting itself.
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Isabel And Alfredo Aquilizan - In-Habit. Project Another Country 21st Century Museum Kanazawa 2014 ISBN 9784907490010 Acqn 23555 Hb 16x22cm 96pp 50col ills 18 Project Another Country, a project begun in 2006 by Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan after moving from the Philippines to Brisbane, Australia, comprises a series of installations made from cardboard boxes and dealing with the idea of home/land. It implies being in the middle of two places, and reflects upon the global phenomenon of migration and of living in foreign lands, unsure what to call home. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the 21st Century Museum of Art, Kanazawa, this book diligently documents all aspects of the project through interviews, childrens workshops, sketches, numerous construction and installation views, and an essay by curator Hiromi Kurosawa.
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Tama-chan - Smiling Sushi Roll Little More 2014 ISBN 9784898153840 Acqn 23590 Pb 18x13cm 88pp 150col ills 13.95 Nowadays, sushi is a universally recognised aspect of Japanese culture, and sushi rolls are often made for fun. Takayo Kiyota (Tama-chan) goes a step further, crafting specialty rolls that become artworks in themselves. Whether reproducing masterworks like Vermeers Girl with a Pearl Earring or Munchs The Scream, making cartoonish pictures, or actually creating a changing pictorial narrative with each successive slice, her skill in structuring sushi rolls from basic ingredients like rice, seaweed, cucumber, pickles, peppers and cheese is simply astonishing. Kiyota also conducts workshops promoting the importance of food culture and the enjoyment of craft through the sushi roll.

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