Art November 2013

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Luke Fowler - The Poor Stockinger, the Luddite Cropper and the Deluded Followers of Joanna Southcott Film And Video Umbrella 2013 ISBN 9781904270355 Acqn 22704 Pb 11x18cm 80pp 16ills 6col 7.50 This companion publication to Luke Fowlers film of the same name features essays by architecture critic and cultural commentator Owen Hatherley and historian Tom Steele. Lending additional context to Fowlers study of the activist/historian E.P. Thompson, it brings further illuminating insights to Thompsons life and times, and his lingering influence as a champion of workers education. Evoking the design of a Workers Educational Association textbook from a similar era, this illustrated pocket-sized publication acts as a resonant echo of Fowlers work.
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Mathew Hale - Cut In Cannes PAMBooks 2013 ISBN 9780980369670 Acqn 22892 Hb 30x25cm 96pp 43ills 37col 40 In UK artist Matthew Hales works, book pages, text fragments, graphic structures and figures in ink, as well as photographic moments of reality, are combined into new visual structures, according to the collage principle. Found and invented things are combined and confront each other as different layers of reality, directly entering into a narrative structure. These new combinations inevitably challenge the beholder to read the recoded visual elements in their (new) context. Through the combination of new content in the picture, creating a narrative by way of collage, Hale questions both their historical construction as well as current ways of functioning.
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Bill Jacklin - Paintings, Pastels & Prints Marlborough Fine Art 2013 ISBN 9781904373070 Acqn 22898 Pb 25x30cm 36pp 29col ills 12.50 New York City has inspired Jacklin since his arrival there in 1985. His work has explored much of New York including Grand Central Station, Roseland Ballroom, and Coney Island, among others. In the majority of Jacklins paintings, emphasis is on the essence of place, on the sensation of being in an environment rather than on the topography and details of the setting itself. In this exhibition, the multiple renderings of specific locations, such as Times Square, Little Italy, and the Rockefeller Center skating rink, allow the viewer to revisit these spaces. Yet placing these scenes in time is nearly impossible, as if it is only the memory of the location that is actually being depicted.
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Open Cube White Cube 2013 ISBN 9781906072803 Acqn 22899 Pb 20x20cm 124pp 51col ills 25 'Open Cube', was an international group exhibition organised by So Paulo-based curator Adriano Pedrosa. Invited by the gallery to curate an exhibition, Pedrosa launched a process of open submission under the title 'Call for entries: 'Open Cube' at White Cube Mason's Yard'. The only requirement was that the artist needed to be available for an interview in London with the curator, in March 2013. 'Open Cube' received over 2,900 applicants, of which Pedrosa interviewed 38 and selected a final group of 17 artists. Taking his cue from Brian O'Doherty's seminal book Inside the White Cube, the Ideology of the Gallery Space (1976), Pedrosa's exhibition challenged the identity of White Cube as an organisation, as a physical space and as a concept, questioning the complex relationships between existent notions of 'inside' and 'outside', value and economics. By opening up the curatorial selection process beyond his own networks and meeting with artists who were previously unknown to him, Pedrosa confronts what he perceives to be the standard gallery practice of seemingly closed systems that exist in the criteria for staging exhibitions. In the accompanying catalogue, which includes transcripts of the interviews Pedrosa conducted with the 17 selected artists, he suggests that the 'Open Cube' is a transparent cube and sets out to reveal what goes on behind the gallery doors. Pedrosa is himself interviewed by Pablo Leon de la Barra, in order to expose his own methods and the motivations behind this exhibition.
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Chantal Pontbriand - The Contemporary, the Common: Art in a Globalizing World Sternberg Press 2013 ISBN 9783943365481 Acqn 22683 Pb 16x22cm 432pp 145ills 115col 20.95 The essays in this collection were written in the first decade of the new millennium by the critic, editor, and curator Chantal Pontbriand. Pontbriand examines themes of being-in-common in todays world and their relation to the development of art practices. As these practices are implemented, other ways of seeing, understanding, and making appear. Contemporaneity functions as a flow, a space-time being that cannot be fixated. The body is in the forefronta thermometer of the world lived in and with, marked by dynamics of change and sharing. The work of Claire Fontaine, Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno, Ion Grigorescu, Carsten Hller, Mike Kelley, Sigalit Landau, Rabih Mrou, Yvonne Rainer, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Jeff Wall, among other artists, is examined in this book, together with Pontbriands insights into the seminal issues stirring the field of contemporary art.
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Richard Serra - Double Rifts Gagosian Gallery (NY) 2013 ISBN 9781935263814 Acqn 22764 Pb 23x17cm 28pp 11col ills 33 Published in 2013, on the occasion of the exhibition "Richard Serra: Double Rifts" at Gagosian Gallery Beverly Hills. Richard Serra was born in San Francisco in 1938. His bodies of work in sculpture and drawing have been celebrated with retrospectives at The Museum of Modern Art twenty years apart: Richard Serra/Sculpture, (1986) and Richard Serra Sculpture Forty Years, (2007). Other major recent exhibitions include Richard Serra Drawings: Work Comes Out of Work, Kunsthaus Bregenz (2008); Richard Serra Drawings: A Retrospective, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2010, traveled to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Menil Collection, Houston in 2012). Serra has produced large-scale, site-specific sculptures for architectural, urban and landscape settings spanning the globe, from Iceland to New Zealand.
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Gerhard Richter Tapestries Gagosian Gallery (NY) 2013 ISBN 9781935263838 Acqn 22765 Hb 29x22cm 66pp 30col ills 66 Gagosian Gallery presents a group of four tapestries entitled Abdu, Iblan, Musa, and Yusuf (all 2009) by Gerhard Richter. These works are based on Abstract Painting (724-4) (1990), a key example of Richters distinctive approach to non-representational painting. The visual effect of the tapestries is a Rorschach-like multiplying of the forms and colours of the original canvas.
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Art Production Beyond The Art Market? Sternberg Press 2013 ISBN 9783943365948 Acqn 22869 Pb 13x20cm 260pp 17ill 20 Edited by Karen van den Berg, Ursula Pasero Texts by Karen van den Berg, Pascal Gielen, Ursula Pasero, John Roberts, Stephan SchmidtWulffen, Kerstin Stakemeier, Hergen Wbken and Friederike Landau, Ulf Wuggenig and Steffen Rudolph, Merav Yerushalmy; interviews with Hans Haacke, Pablo Helguera, Caroline Jones, Oliver Ressler, Christoph Schfer, Gregory Sholette, Apolonija uteri Much evidence suggests that a fundamental reordering of artistic production and a transformation of the art field are about to take place. Heated debates have been sparked over new forms of work, public subsidies, and the expanding impact of the creative industries. Independent education programs, self-organized urban planning, artistic practices in the outer field of scientific research, and similar initiatives have unfolded over the last few years. This publication addresses this wide field, focusing on theoretical reflections and exemplary insights into alternative artistic working models. The anthology assembles expert studies and artists interviews, in order to reflect on new forms of practices that have been established beyond the exhibition-gallery nexus and hegemonic market activity. These strategies in particular are investigated concerning their self-images, organizational structures, networks, and economiesand the potential for usurpation.
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Gelatin Loch Sternberg Press 2013 ISBN 9783956790195 Acqn 22902 Pb 19x24cm 192pp col ills 24.95 Edited by Agnes Husslein-Arco and Alfred Weidinger Texts by Maximilian Geymller, Liam Gillick, Agnes Husslein-Arco & Alfred Weidinger, Dieter Roelstraete, Jan Verwoert Gelatin's exhibition Loch, and the week-long performance that preceded it, form the basis for this book. The catalogue comprehensively documents the Austrian art collectives elaborate sitespecific performance at the 21er Haus in Vienna (June 5September 29, 2013). The four artists, together with a group of friends from around the globe, wrested amorphous sculptures from the massive Styrofoam cube located in the middle of the museum. Before an audience, and accompanied by music, food, and drink for all, the performers spent the week digging, quarrying, and rappelling down the vast block, using the hollows dug out as molds for sculptures, which little by little filled the room. The catalogue visually records the transformation of the 21er Haus into a hybrid museum, studio, stage, residency, and exhibition space, and includes texts about the artist group, their artistic strategy, and this remarkable exhibition project.
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Yuko Shiraishi Signal Annely Juda Fine Art 2013 ISBN 9781904621522 Acqn 22975 Hb 23x25cm 64pp 39col ills 25 Known for her abstract paintings with remarkable but balanced use of colour Shiraishi's new paintings have an especially gestural quality. Whereas most of Shiraishi's earlier paintings incorporate lines and geometrical shapes, these works have a much freer quality. The painterly background colour, which often almost resembles a wash, is accentuated by seemingly randomly placed coloured dots on the surface of the paintings.
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Brian Dillon - Objects in This Mirror Sternberg Press 2013 ISBN 9781934105795 Acqn 22676 Pb 12x19cm 250pp 25ills 16.50 Like Roland Barthes and Virginia Woolf, Brian Dillon pays lavish attention to curious byways that usually go without saying. In sentences at once playful and majestic, he plumbs the intellectual depths of his subjects, and reveals a perverse, nearly dandyish love for odd facts and iconoclastic vistas. There is more than a touch of W. G. Sebaldthe Wordsworthian wanderer, the romantic itinerantin Dillons melancholy yet mood-spiked attitude toward the material objects that greet his sober, ever-evaluating eye. Reading Objects in This Mirror, we participate in Dillons restless perambulations, and we are delighted to be thus transported. Wayne Koestenbaum Objects in This Mirror is a collection of essays on contemporary art, literature, landscape, aesthetics, and cultural history. Beginning with a polemical and personal defense of generalism and curiosity, Brian Dillon explores the variety of themes it is possible today to corral within the rubric of the critical essay. These pieces engage with the work of such artists as Tacita Dean, Gerard Byrne, Andy Warhol, and Sophie Calle; with the ruinous territories that haunt the work of Robert Smithson and Derek Jarman; with the ambiguous figures of the charlatan, the vandal, the hypochondriac, and the dandy. Taking seriously the playful remit of the essay as form, Dillon treats of compelling obscurities: gesture manuals of the nineteenth century, the history of antidepressant marketing, the search for a cure to the common cold. Whether his topic is the nature of slapstick, his love of the writings of Roland Barthes, or the genre of the essay itself, he is as much concerned with the form of criticism today as with its varied and digressive subjects.
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Munch By Others Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing 2013 ISBN 9789198075632 Acqn 22756 Hb 25x27cm 202pp 212col ills 50 Many of Edvard Munch's iconic images have become universally understood cultural metaphors. The Scream is one of the most widely known art works in the world, but is reproduced as much in adapted and interpreted versions as Munch's original version. This book presents a large number of artists from our time who have been influenced by Munch, and all carry forward a heritage from the Norwegian master in their own interpretations and adaptions. The many ways Munch is seen by others are unexpected and reveal both his constant relevance and deep impact on modern art.
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The Artist's House - From Workplace To Artwork Sternberg Press 2013 ISBN 9783943365306 Acqn 22868 Pb 328pp 224ills 183col 20 The artists house is a prism through which to view not only the artistic practice of its inhabitant, but also to apprehend broader developments in sculpture and contemporary art in relation to domestic architecture and interior space. Based on a series of interviews and site visits with living artists about the role of their home in relation to their work, Kirsty Bell looks at the house as receptacle, vehicle, model, theater, or dream space. In-depth analyses of these contemporary examplesincluding Jorge Pardo, Mirosaw Baka, Danh Vo, Gregor Schneider, Frances Stark, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pawe Althamer, Mark Leckey, Monika Sosnowska, Gabriel Orozco, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Andrea Zittelare contextualized by key artists of the twentieth century such as Kurt Schwitters, Alice Neel, Edward Krasiski, Carlo Mollino, and Louise Bourgeois. A two-way flow from the domestic arena to the exhibition space becomes apparent, in which the everyday has a significant role to play in the merging of such developments as installation art, relational aesthetics, expanded collage, and performance art.
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Brian O'Doherty - The Crossdresser's Secret Sternberg Press 2013 ISBN 9783943365962 Acqn 22867 Pb 13x20cm 496pp 20 The eighteenth century was an era of violent contrasts and radical change, intellectual brilliance and war, spies and diplomatic intrigue, elegance and cruelty. One of the centurys most mysterious figures was the Chevalier dEon, who lived as both man and woman, French spy and European celebrity. Written from the perspective of this historical figure, the novel by Brian ODohertyartist and author of, among others, the critical milestone Inside the White Cube and the Booker Prize-shortlisted The Deposition of Father McGreevyreveals dEons radical modernity, certified by his attitudes to gender and his examination of his own nature. He ponders the social determinants of sexual identity and studies the manners and conventions governing discourse between the sexes. At the same time, as diplomat and spy, he is involved in the power politics of nations. The novel holds close to historical facts and reproduces some of dEons comments as recorded in his voluminous journals. Apparently his life did not become real to him until he had rehearsed it in writing.
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Zin Taylor - Lichen Voices/Stripes and Dots Sternberg Press 2013 ISBN 9783956790218 Acqn 22990 Pb 15x21cm 120pp 58ills 18.95 Edited by Rosemary Heather and Nicolaus Schafhausen Contributions by Zo Gray, Robin Simpson, Patrick Staff, Saelan Twerdy Writing is central to Zin Taylors practice. Parallel to a number of artist books, Taylor has made a series of sculptural works the artist proposes as a form of storytelling. How else to understand his project The Story of Stripes and Dots but to read the eponymous objects he makes to propel it forward? Taylor conceives of his sculptural componentsstripes and dots in many variationsas words in a sentence, the articulation of which can be ongoing. By substituting objects for words, Taylor seeks not to assert equivalence between the two so much as establish the essentially spatialized perception he has of the way language functions. A striking clarity defines the artists vision. Taylor sees in languagein artthe highly defined dimensions of a world he can work within. This catalogue accompanies Taylors exhibition The Story of Stripes and Dots (Chapter 5) at Fogo Island Gallery (September 27, 2013March 23, 2014), which follows his two-part residency with Fogo Island Arts in 2010 and 2012. Featuring essays by Zo Gray and Saelan Twerdy, and Taylor in conversation with Patrick Staff and Robin Simpson, the book also presents the artists portfolio An Index Describing the Individual 19 Thoughts about Stripes and Dots Arranged on a Vitrine Made of Brass and Glass.
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Ferreira Gullar in Conversation with Ariel Jimenez Fundacion Cisneros 2013 ISBN 9780982354452 Acqn 20299 Hb 15x23cm 278pp 68ills 25col 18.50 As an art critic, political essayist, playwright and poet, Ferreira Gullar (born 1930) has been a key figure in the Brazilian cultural scene of the last 60 years. His extensive poetic output has been closely intertwined with his work as an art critic, from his first major collection of poems in 1954, through his Concrete and Neoconcrete poems from 1957 to 1959 and the Neoconcrete Manifesto and the Theory of the Non-Object of 1959. All are now essential reference texts in Brazilian and Latin American literature, deeply influencing generations of artists. This publication presents conversations conducted over the past two years between Gullar and art historian Ariel Jimnez. Gullar discusses everything from his childhood and early education in San Luis to his current writing, providing a full picture of this influential Brazilian poet and intellectual.
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Radical Presence Contemporary Art Museum Houston 2013 ISBN 9781933619385 Acqn 21423 Pb 24x28cm 166pp 90ills 50col 30 Radical Presence chronicles the emergence of black performance practices in contemporary art. Where hegemony has tended to define black performance art as an extension of theater, this publication provides a critical framework for discussing the history of black performance within the visual arts over the last 50 years. Over five decades of performance art practices by such artists as Benjamin Patterson, David Hammons, Senga Nengudi, Lorraine OGrady, Adrian Piper and Ulysses Jenkins are presented along representatives of subsequent generations such as Carrie Mae Weems, William Pope.L, Terry Adkins, Sherman Fleming, Danny Tisdale, Lyle Ashton Harris, Clifford Owens, Kalup Linzy and Adam Pendleton, among others. This publication includes a DVD compilation of performance excerpts and is an essential tool for any understanding of the field.
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Kara Walker - Dust Jackets For The Niggerati Gregory R. Miller & Company 2013 ISBN 9780982681367 Acqn 22054 Hb 24x31cm 144pp 78col ills 33.50 African-American artist Kara Walker (born 1969) has been acclaimed internationally for her candid investigations of race, sexuality and violence through the lens of reconceived historical tropes. She had her first solo show at The Drawing Center in New York City in 1994 and, at the age of 28 in 1997, was one of the youngest people to receive a MacArthur Fellowship. This publication documents Dust Jackets for the Niggerati--and Supporting Dissertations, Drawings Submitted Ruefully by Dr. Kara E. Walker, a major series of graphite drawings and hand-printed texts on paper that grew out of Walkers attempts to understand how interpersonal and geopolitical powers are asserted through the lives of individuals. In scenes that range from the grotesque to the humorous to the tragic, these works vividly and powerfully explore the themes of transition and migration that run through the African-American experience. The accompanying essays take us through Walkers saga of American experience--the dual streams of renewal and destruction that trace parallel lines through the last centurys rapid urbanization and the complementary emergence of a New Negro identity. Fully illustrated with reproductions of the entire series, and designed by award-winning design studio CoMa with Walkers close collaboration, Dust Jackets for the Niggerati represents a major contribution to the career of one of our most significant and complex contemporary artists.
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Paul Sietsema Wexner Center For The Arts 2013 ISBN 9781881390510 Acqn 22097 Hb 18x23cm 114pp 72ills 50col 33.50 The work of Paul Sietsema (born 1968) might be described as a sequence of multimedia suites, each of which begins with a phase of intensive research into historicalpolitical themes, and which results in a body of interrelated sculptures, photographs, drawings, collages and films that propose an exploded model of historical progress. In general, these suites, such as Empire (2003) and Figure 3 (2008), have been discussed and exhibited individually. This publication, by contrast, brings together major elements from projects of the past decade, along with new works, which are being facilitated by the support of a Wexner Center Artist Residency Award in visual arts. The publication, like the exhibition it accompanies, is the most comprehensive survey of Sietsemas work to date. It includes his most recent sequence, Chinese Box, done through the support of the Wexner Artist Residency Award.
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A Handbook For The Perfect Adventurer Pierre Mac Orlan Wakefield Press 2013 ISBN 9781939663009 Acqn 22565 Pb 12x18cm 104pp 9.95 Pierre Mac Orlans 1920 Handbook for the Perfect Adventurer was at once a paean to the adventure story, a tongue-in-cheek guidebook to the genres real-life practitioners and a grim if unspoken coda to the disasters of World War I. It must be established as a law that adventure in itself does not exist, Mac Orlan stipulates. Adventure is in the mind of the one who pursues it, and no sooner is he able to touch it with his finger than it vanishes, to reappear much farther off in another form, at the limits of the imagination. This handbook outlines two classes of adventurer: the active adventurer (sailors, soldiers, criminals) and the passive adventurer (sedentary parasites who draw sustenance from the exploits of the former). Roaming from battlefields to pirate ships to port-town taverns, and offering advice on reading, traveling and eroticism, Mac Orlans Handbook is ultimately a how-to manual for the imagination, and a formulation of the stark choice all would-be adventurers must face: to live or write. Generally known as the author of Le Quai des brumes (the basis for Marcel Carns film of the same name), Pierre Mac Orlan (18821970) was a prolific writer of absurdist tales, adventure novels, flagellation erotica and essays, as well as the composer of a trove of songs made famous by the likes of Juliette Grco. A member of both the Acadmie Goncourt and the Collge de Pataphysique, Mac Orlan was admired by everyone from Raymond Queneau and Boris Vian to Andr Malraux and Guy Debord.
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Jan Svankmajer - Dimensions of Dialogue. Between Film And Fine Art Arbor Vitae 2013 ISBN 9788074670169 Acqn 22588 Pb 20x28cm 508pp 500ills 350col 63 Dimensions of Dialogue celebrates the world-renowned Czech filmmaker Jan vankmajer (born 1934), responsible for some of the most memorable and unique animated films ever realized, and who has strongly influenced filmmakers like Tim Burton and The Brothers Quay. This publication presents vankmajer not only as a filmmaker but also as an outstanding fine artist, experimenter, poet and a militant surrealist. Through explorative and informative essays, scholars Bertrand Schmitt and Frantiek Dryje illuminate the various aspects of his output, including puppet theatre, Mannerism, Surrealism and his many collaborations with his wife, Eva vankmajerov (1940 2005), a surrealist painter, filmmaker and ceramicist. The monograph, named after his 1982 film (noted for its brilliant display of claymation) includes a number of reproductions of vankmajer's art work, film stills, photographs from plays and a selection of documentary images from the life of this internationally respected and multitalented artist.
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Yes, No, Maybe - Artists Working At Crown Point Press National Gallery Art Washington 2013 ISBN 9780894683831 Acqn 22593 Hb 22x26cm 240pp 152col ills 33.50 Masterpieces, the story goes, spring fully formed from the dark imaginings of temperamental geniuses moved by intuition, inspiration and epiphany. Such revelations can certainly fuel the creative process, but so too can auspicious accidents, false starts and even failures. In printmaking, occurrences ranging from mishaps to premeditated changes are typically recorded in preliminary impressions known as working proofs. Each proof offers an artist the chance to assess and adjust the course of the project; whether it represents the revelation of a crisis, a crossroads or a potential new direction, each proof demands a decision: yes, no, maybe. Featuring 125 working proofs and edition prints produced by 25 artists between 1972 and 2010 at Crown Point Press in San Francisco, one of the most influential printmaking studios of the last half-century, Yes, No, Maybe goes beyond celebrating the flash of inspiration and the role of the imagination to examine the artistic process as a sequence of decisions. Among the artists represented here are those with long ties to Crown Point Press and its founder Kathan Brown-Richard Diebenkorn, John Cage, Chuck Close, Sol LeWitt, Pat Steir and Wayne Thiebaud--and those whose association is more recent, such as Mamma Andersson, Julie Mehretu, Jockum Nordstrm, Chris Ofili, Amy Sillman and Fred Wilson.
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Sean Scully - Change And Horizontals The Drawing Center 2013 ISBN 9780942324686 Acqn 22596 Pb 15x23cm 92pp 34col ills 13.50 Sean Scullys move from London to New York City in 1975 marked a stylistic breakthrough to a period in which he became more engaged with the textures of the metropolis that surrounded him. Culled from two distinct series, the Change and Horizontals drawings--executed in London and New York respectively--highlight the primacy of color and form in Scullys abstractions. Impressions of each city are fundamental to these drawings, as location plays a key role in the artists oeuvre; as the artist stated in 2006, People tend to think of abstraction as abstract. But nothing is abstract: its a self-portrait. A portrait of ones condition. This publication accompanies an exhibition organized by The Drawing Center. The works, reproduced as full-color plates, are comprised of acrylic, ink, graphite and masking-tape drawings from 197475, as well as two large-scale paintings from the same period and the artists notebooks.
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Sarah Sze - Triple Point Gregory R. Miller & Company 2013 ISBN 9780982681381 Acqn 22603 Hb 17x25cm 160pp 64col ills 33.50 Sarah Sze (born 1969) has earned deserved acclaim since the late 1990s for her intricate assemblages of everyday consumer products, painstakingly arranged by hand into immense, site-specific installations that engage the viewer in a dizzying play of perspective and scale. Often every crevice of an architectural space is utilized in her complex constructions, composed of thousands of objects, works that converge at the intersection of drawing, sculpture and architecture. Sarah Sze: Triple Point is a major new publication on the work of this celebrated artist, documenting Szes ambitious, large-scale exhibition at the U.S. Pavilion of the 2013 Venice Biennale, with 64 pages of full-color plates and several significant new texts on Sze and her practice. Included is a conversation between the artist and Pulitzer Prize winning author Jennifer Egan, along with a short story by Egan entitled Black Box. Curator and scholar Johanna Burton contributes a compelling new examination of Szes practice, and 2013 Biennale CoCommissioners Holly Block and Carey Lovelace provide an introduction to the project and artist. Elegantly realized by award-winning designer Takaaki Matsumoto, Sarah Sze: Triple Point is certain to be a lasting testament to the continued development of this exciting and original artist.
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Tracey Emin - I Followed You To The Sun Lehmann Maupin Gallery 2013 ISBN 9780615768687 Acqn 22617 Hb 23x30cm 56pp 28col ills 41 Regarded as one of the worlds leading contemporary artists, Tracey Emin (born 1963) has gained international acclaim for her blunt, personal and revealing style, which elicits a broad spectrum of emotions ranging from shock to empathy to self-reflection. Drawing on personal experience, Emin often reveals painful situations with brutal honesty and poetic humor. I Followed You to the Sun features a very personal collection of works titled the Lonely Chair drawings, which are published here for the first time. In this series of self-portraits, Emin depicts a solitary female in her signature gestural style. The images are drawn from photographs that Emin took of herself and convey poignant emotions of longing and sadness. Emins musings on love and loneliness are interspersed throughout the book and further illustrate the subconscious nature of the drawings. This artists book is published on the occasion of Emins exhibitions at both of Lehmann Maupins New York locations.
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Utopia 1900 - 1940 Visions on a New World nai010 publishers 2013 ISBN 9789462081024 Acqn 22714 Pb 21x27cm 176pp 245ills 230col 31.50 Utopia 1900-1940. Visions of a New World sheds light on the utopian ideals of expressionism and constructivism the two most important avant-garde movements of the early twentieth century featuring work from famous artists such as El Lissitzky, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Kazimir Malevich and Theo van Doesburg. Edited by Doris Wintgens Htte, Utopia 1900-1940 discusses the whole artistic spectrum covered by the expressionists and the constructivists, from painting and sculpture to modern dance, theatre, photography, film, fashion and architecture. Utopia 1900-1940 traces the way expressionists and constructivists throughout Europe dedicated their art and their inspiring work to the cause of bringing about a wholesale change in society. These radical artists broke through the boundaries of art, everyday life and respectability; they formed societies, wrote political pamphlets, staged exhibitions and published magazines whose influence extended far beyond national borders. They were bent on penetrating every aspect of everyday life and creating a new visual idiom designed for a new man in a new world. With essays by Judit Bozsan, Gregor Langfeld and Christina Lodder, Doris Wintgens Htte, and many surprising works of art and artists - well-known and unknown - including El Lissitzky, Kazimir Malevich, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Theo van Doesburg, Hendrik Wijdeveld, Mary Wigman, Bla Kdr, Georg Tappert, Hug Scheiber, Wenzel Hablik, Ivan Klyun, Lajos Kassk and Gustav Klutsis.
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Pierre-Joseph Redoute - Botanical Artist to the Court of France nai010 publishers 2013 ISBN 9789462080706 Acqn 22879 Pb 21x27cm 168pp 248col ills 30 Pierre-Joseph Redout (1759-1840) is the undisputed master of botanical art. His illustrations of flowers occupy the intersection of art and science, and they represent a unique fusion of botanical precision with artistic elegance. This richly illustrated publication presents a wide selection of Redouts books, drawings and watercolours. Several short essays by Dutch and French specialists deal with different aspects of his art. As court artist to Queen Marie-Antoinette and Empress Josphine, Redout drew extraordinary flowers and plants from the Jardin des plantes and the gardens of Malmaison, which made him the darling of Parisian society. Napoleon Bonaparte presented his books as gifts to the crowned heads of Europe, and his pictures illustrated the works of the most eminent scientists of his day. His most famous books, Les Liliaces and Les Roses, are among the milestones of botanical literature. The Teylers Museum is presenting the first retrospective of this artists work in the Netherlands.
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Zingmagazine Issue 23 2013 Zingmagazine 2013 no ISBN Acqn 22931 Pb 22x28cm 420pp 325ills 250col 19.95 Featuring projects by Agathe Snow, Andrea Zittel, Barry Stone, WELCOMEPROJECTS, Jene Highstein, Thomas vlisen, Walter Robinson, Kelly Richardson, Marcel Dzama, William E Jones, Phillip E Shaw & Nick Sumida / Brandon Johnson, J Parker Valentine, Heather Pesanti & Shasti OLeary Soudant, Mary Ellen Carroll, Okay Mountain, Graham Fagen, Sebastiaan Bremer, Nils Folke Anderson, Elisabeth Kley, Graldine Postel, Willard Boepple, Rainer Ganahl, Chad Dawkins, Brad Kahlhamer, Michael Ballou, Aubrey Mayer / Margaret Lee, a poster by Kenny Scharf, and a book The Zenobia Scandal by Patricia Cronin.
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Martin Gerboc - Une Saison En Enfer Arbor Vitae 2013 ISBN 9788074670275 Acqn 22937 Hb 29x33cm 284pp 250ill 200col 44.50 This monograph, a selection of Martin Gerbocs more than two decades of work as a painter, alludes in its title to Arthur Rimbauds Une saison en enfer, and just as the poetry of the doomed poet contrasts beauty and ugliness, in Gerbocs work horror and delight stand shoulder to shoulder. The point at which these two characteristics meet is for Gerboc the spot to dwell on, he is fascinated by it and explores it as a kind of danger zone of solitude and fear. He makes his medium of expression the punk aesthetics of ugliness, or preferably even the aesthetics of terrorism, and while the explicitness of his work initially gives rise to repugnance and dislike, it has an enigmatic quality that makes it appealing. The almost monochrome colour scheme he uses references the colours of the body, inside and outside, blood, skin, pancreas, fire, and decay. Thematically, Gerboc looks to the cabaret milieu of Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s the melting pot of decadent cultural traditions in central Europe and to pornography and sexuality versus eroticised religious motifs and the paintings of Francisco Goya. The artists work is often a reflection of several coinciding events. Put in the middle of this clash the viewer is forced to confront his or her own subconscious, secret longings, and forbidden pleasures. The book is published as a bilingual, Czech-English edition.
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Journal De Janmari L'Arachneen 2013 ISBN 9782954105925 Acqn 22946 Hb 22x29cm 194pp 90ills 40col 37 Jean-Marie Jonquet (Janmari) was an autistic, mute individual who lived for 25 years in the care network Fernand Deligny created at Monoblet, in the Cvennes region of France. From a young age, Janmari was offered sheets of paper and pencils, which he used to trace repetitions of broken lines and rough circles. Over time, the tracing sessions became regular. Towards the end of his life, social worker Gisle Durand proposed Janmari to draw his patterns in a sketchbook, helping him to create frames and new forms for his gestures. The complete sketchbook is reproduced here, with commentary by Durand. Its progression is mesmerising, as it closely follows the rhythm of life.
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Lara Almarcegui - Venice Biennale 2013 Turner 2013 ISBN 9788415832645 Acqn 22955 Hb 21x29cm 224pp 135col ills 31 The production of Spanish artist Lara Almarcegui stems from a heightened awareness of the city, with series of works taking demolitions, modern ruins and vacant urban spaces as their themes. Almarcequi was selected to present an installation at the Spanish Pavilion of the Venice Biennale in 2013, a work which reflects upon the landscape and the city with a cold, minimalist feel. In many ways, it is a denunciation of the mishaps that have occurred in urban development over the past decades. This catalogue to the installation tells the story of the project, with text contributions and analysis by Ole Bouman, Philip Ursprung, Octavio Zaya and Cuauhtmoc Medina.
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Do Ho Suh - Perfect Home 21st Century Museum Kanazawa 2013 ISBN 9784903205403 Acqn 23011 Hb 24x32cm 184pp 150ills 75col 75 The catalogue for Korean sculptor and installation artist Do Ho Suhs exhibition at the 21st Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, this large-format book does ample justice to his work, which deals with the ways we occupy and inhabit public space. His site-specific installations reflect an interest in the malleability of space, both in physical and metaphorical manifestations, addressing links between the individual, collective and anonymous. In this case, he created huge houses using transparent fabric. Full perspectives of these and other works are shown. Includes contributions by curator Hiromi Kurosawa, Yoshikazu Nango and Felicity D. Scott.
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Paris LA 10 DoPe Press 2013 no ISBN Acqn 23024 Pb 22x28cm 96pp 90ills 80col 10.95 This special, tenth anniversary issue takes art as its theme and is dedicated to the city of Los Angeles. In this context, both French and American contributors were invited to express ideas and perspectives on this city of movement and change that occupies a landscape so overwhelming that it opens people to new contingencies. For instance, the American artist Jennifer West, who alters films and photographic prints with a variety of substances, or the Public Fiction collective, which blurs the lines between graphic design and art. With contributions by Neil Beloufa, Andrew Berardini, Pentti Monkkonen, Pierre-Franois Letu, Oscar Tuazon, Dorothe Perret and others.
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Attention Economy - Jahresring #60: Jahrbuch Fur Moderne Kunst Sternberg Press 2013 ISBN 9783956790249 Acqn 23028 Pb 17x24cm 238pp 21.50 Edited by Brigitte Oetker and Nicolaus Schafhausen Interviews with Sadane Afif, Thomas Bayrle, Michael Beutler, Monica Bonvicini, Mike Bouchet, Ulla von Brandenburg, Angela Bulloch, Andrea Bu ttner, Keren Cytter, Simon Denny, Thea Djordjadze, lafur Elasson, Harun Farocki, Dani Gal, Katharina Grosse, Eberhard Havekost, Florian Hecker, Christian Jankowski, Susanne Kriemann, Antje Majewski, Olaf Metzel, Carsten Nicolai, Olaf Nicolai, Marcel Odenbach, Silke Otto-Knapp, Willem de Rooij, Cornelia Schleime, Michael Stevenson, Hito Steyerl, Haegue Yang, Tobias Zielony The 60th Jahresring takes the form of a compilation of artist interviews and offers a snapshot of a highly active art scene that stretches from Berlin, as a new international center for art. Nicolaus Schafhausen put a series of questions to thirty-one art practitioners, less geared toward the artists respective praxis and more toward the conditions under which it arises. The focus in these interviews is on the respective self-positioning by the artists in an era shaped by such farreaching changes. What emerges are temporally fixed positions within an activity that is, for the most large part, associated with precarious working conditions and the logistics of the market more than ever before. This book offers insight into this other dimension of an artists existence and registers attention economy as a central component of contemporary art production.

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