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The Secret World of Renaldo Kuhler - Hardcover

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by Brett Ingram (Author)A sumptuous monograph presenting for the first time the extraordinarily imaginative and delightful work of visionary artist Renaldo Kuhler (American, 1931-2013). The Secret World of Renaldo Kuhler catapults a thrilling new discovery into the pantheon of the most accomplished visionary--or "outsider"--artists. Like Henry Darger, Howard Finster, George Widener, and Adolf W lfli, Renaldo Kuhler was an exceptionally gifted artist and possessed an imagination all his own. B...

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The Early Ironwork of Charleston - Paperback

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by Alston Deas (Author), Richard J. Bryan (Illustrator)Historical explanations of the decorative ironwork of South Carolina. Number of Pages: 112 Dimensions: 0.32 x 11 x 8.54 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: March 01, 1997

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by Phil Collins (Photographer), Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Glasgow-based artist Phil Collins' film Soy Mi Madre examines the immigrant populations of Colorado's Roaring Fork Valley, a sizable percentage of which hail from northwestern Mexico. The region relies heavily on service and maintenance work provided largely through this population, who often commute to work in Aspen. Loosely inspired by Jean Genet's The Maids--a seminal example of Theatre of the Absurd that r...

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Woodcarving: Book 1: Basic Techniques - Paperback

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by Ian Norbury (Author)Using projects to demonstrate the various aspects and different styles of carving to the newcomer, this step-by-step guide shows how to approach the craft without the assistance of large machinery. Each project is specifically chosen to introduce new techniques. Projects are small, useful, fun to carve, and can be completed in a few days or over a weekend. Major techniques such as carving in the round, relief carving, knife work, and working with burrs and rasps are cov...

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by Amelie Von Wulffen (Artist), Cay Sophie Rabinowitz (Foreword by), Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Published on the occasion of her Aspen Art Museum exhibition, the artist's first solo presentation in an American museum, this catalogue focuses on Amelie von Wulffen's recent work, including paintings created during her time as the AAM's 2012 Jane and Marc Nathanson Distinguished Artist in Residence. The artist deploys a host of painterly techniques that--while departing f...

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Morgan Fisher: Conversations - Paperback

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by Morgan Fisher (Artist), Jacob Proctor (Editor), Jacob Proctor (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Los Angeles-based artist and filmmaker Morgan Fisher first achieved widespread recognition in the late 1960s and 1970s for a body of experimental films that deconstructed the language of cinema, both as raw material and as a set of production methods and technical procedures. Since the late 1990s, Fisher has focused primarily on painting (and the painting's environment), and this volume is published in...

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by Rodney McMillian (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Thomas Lax (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Heidi Zuckerman (Text by (Art/Photo Books))This monograph, published on the occasion of the Aspen Art Museum exhibition of Rodney McMillian, showcases a comprehensive survey of the artist's paintings, a section of his practice also encompassing sculpture, installation and performance. Incorporating and challenging the notion of art as social and historical critique, the works, essays and interview in this...

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Obata's Yosemite: Art and Letters of Obata from His Trip to the High Sierra in 1927 - Paperback

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by Chiura Obata (Artist), Janice T. Driesbach (Contribution by), Susan Landauer (Contribution by)Chiura Obata, a gifted Japanese-born artist from California, made his first trip to Yosemite in 1927. The trip left a lasting impression in a remarkable collection of sketches, postcards, and letters. This volume includes 80 full-color reproductions of Obata's pencil sketches, watercolor paintings, and day-by-day narratives woven through his correspondences. Named one of the "Best Fifty books of 1...

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Permanent Collection Issue I - Paperback

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by Sarah Stephenson (Editor), Anthony Huberman (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Laura Hoptman (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Permanent Collection is inspired by the idea that the Aspen Art Museum's exhibition program is constantly rotating and that the museum itself does not have a collection. This new publication series not only offers insight into the museum's programming, but also contributes to the larger field investigating and responding to visual culture. Focusing on the idea of the institutio...

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Alan Shields: Protracted Simplicity: 1944-2005 - Paperback

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by Alan Shields (Artist), Heidi Zuckerman (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Carter Ratcliff (Text by (Art/Photo Books))This monograph, published on the occasion of the Aspen Art Museum exhibition of Alan Shields (1944-2005) in summer 2016, showcases a comprehensive survey of the artist's expansive practice, which encompassed printmaking, painting, sculpture and installation. Moving easily between these different mediums, Shields, with his deep consideration of material and color, was interested in...

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by Nate Lowman (Artist), Jim Lewis (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Heidi Zuckerman (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Taking humanity and popular culture as his subject matter, Nate Lowman (born 1979) approaches these themes as an active participant in the collective American experience. Underscoring this is desire: a longing for something or someone, or a wish for something to happen. The duality inherent in desire is contained in Lowman's use of well-known images whose meanings are both instantly reco...

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Wade Guyton, Peter Fischli, David Weiss - Hardcover

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by Wade Guyton (Artist), Peter Fischli (Artist), David Weiss (Photographer)Documenting Fischli and Guyton's exhibition-dialogue intertwining sculptures by Fischli & Weiss with Wade Guyton worksThis publication accompanies a 2017 collaboration at the Aspen Art Museum between Swiss artists Peter Fischli (born 1952) and David Weiss (1946-2012), known during their 33-year collaboration as Fischli and Weiss, and American artist Wade Guyton (born 1972). In this unprecedented exhibition, Fischli...

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Perspective as Symbolic Form - Paperback

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by Erwin Panofsky (Author), Christopher S. Wood (Translator)Erwin Panofsky's Perspective as Symbolic Form is one of the great works of modern intellectual history, the legendary text that has dominated all art-historical and philosophical discussions on the topic of perspective in this century. Finally available in English, this unrivaled example of Panofsky's early method places him within broader developments in theories of knowledge and cultural change. Here, drawing on a massive body of l...

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by Rashaad Newsome (Artist), Evan Danza (Text by (Art/Photo Books))This publication accompanies the presentation of Rashaad Newsome's Five, a multimedia performance presented at The Drawing Center in New York, that highlights the art of voguing--which is characterized by angular, linear and rigid body movements--as it relates to drawing. New York-based vogue dancers and musicians, including renowned opera singer Stefanos Koroneos and distinguished vogue commentator Kevin Jz Prodigy perform an...

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13th Century Colour Palettes - Paperback

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by Patricia Railing (Editor)A French collection of recipes for painting on parchment, On Making Colours, by a painter, Peter of St. Audemar, possibly of the Benedictine Abbey of St Bertin at St. Omer in northern France. St. Omer was an active centre of painters and scribes from the end of the 12th century and from it probably came The Aviary / De avibus by Hugo de Fouilloy (c. 1140) in the so-called Gloucester copy which is dated 1277. Plates and illustrations have been included in this handb...

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12th Century Colour Palettes - Paperback

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by Patricia Railing (Editor)Treatises on painting between the 1st and the 12th centuries A.D. may have been many but those preserved are found in two manuscripts from the 10th and 12th centuries: the Mappae Clavicula and Eraclius, On the Arts and Colours of the Romans - both of which probably date from c. 8th century. Of the 12th century itself there is On Divers Arts by Theophilus. All the passages on pigments from these three manuscripts are included in this handbook, and they include the e...

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by Patricia Railing (Author)A collection of all the historical pigments mentioned in the treatises included in the series, Colour Palettes, by century, complemented by recipes from other contemporary sources. The entries define the pigment - color, its source (animal, plant, mineral) and its name - and describe its method of preparation, with historical remarks tracing the pigment through the centuries. Recipes provide the documentary history of the pigment beginning with the earliest known t...

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by Stanley Whitney (Artist)Stanley Whitney has been exploring the formal possibilities of colour within ever-shifting grids of multi-hued blocks and all-over fields of gestural marks and passages, since the mid-1970s. His exhibition at Lisson Gallery, New York (8 September - 21 October 2017) is the first major presentation of his drawings, highlighting important works from 1989 to the present. Whitney's works on paper are a critical component of his practice, in which he develops his spatial ...

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by Lee Ufan (Artist), Hans Ulrich Obrist (Editor)Painter, sculptor, writer and philosopher Lee Ufan first came to prominence in the late 1960s as one of the major proponents of the Japanese avant-garde group Mono-ha. Japan's first contemporary art movement to gain international recognition, the Mono-ha school of thought rejected Western notions of representation, choosing to focus on the relationships of materials and perceptions rather than on expression or intervention. A new edition of a c...

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by Carmen Herrera (Artist), Dana Miller (Text by (Art/Photo Books))The definitive publication on Cuban-born artist Carmen Herrera's (b. 1915) Estructura works, this volume contains new works as well as sketches, plans, installation photographs from the exhibition and an essay by the curator of her recent travelling retrospective, Dana Miller. As three-dimensional extensions of the artist's stark, bright abstract paintings, the Estructuras were envisioned by Herrera in an environmental sense, ...

Remington: The Years of Critical Acclaim - Paperback

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by Melissa Webster (Author), Peter H. Hassrick (Author), Kellie Keto (Editor)The artists who came and formed the tight-knit northern New Mexican artistic community that flourished between the wars and later were as diverse as the styles they developed and brought with them. Not all, of course, were painting in the modern idiom, but it is undeniable that many of the most talented and interesting of these painters were. These diffuse elements fuse with a strong regional feeling in the art of th...

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Pousette-Dart: Predominantly White Paintings - Paperback

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by Richard Pousette-Dart (Artist), Dorothy Kosinski (Foreword by), David Anfam (Editor)During the early 1950s, Richard Pousette-Dart (1916-1992) created one of the most anomalous bodies of work of his career: graphite drawings on undercoats of blue or ocher painted over a titanium white ground. For an artist known for his love of color and impasto, these predominantly white paintings constituted quite a departure. Twenty-five works were shown at Betty Parsons Gallery in 1955, in an exhibition...

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Théâtre de la Mode: Fashion Dolls: The Survival of Haute Couture - Paperback

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by Edmond Charles-Roux (Author), Herbert R. Lottman (Author), Stanley Garfinkel (Author)Harnessing the romance of the world of fashion and high art, this fascinating story of a collection of miniature mannequins describes the birth of Theatre de la Mode, the Theater of Fashion. Full of stars such as Robert Ricci (Nina Ricci's son), filmmaker Jean Cocteau, and other members of the 1944 haute couture industry, the story follows 237 miniature fashion dolls through their epic tour of Europe and N...

Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia, Volume 1 - Hardcover

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by Danzig Baldaev (Artist), Sergei Vasiliev (Photographer), Fuel (Author)The first installment of the tattoo collection that became a publishing phenomenonOccasionally a book is published that reveals a subculture you never dreamt existed. More rarely, that book goes on to become a phenomenon of its own. The 2004 publication of the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia was such a phenomenon, spawning two further volumes and alerting a fascinated readership worldwide to the extraordinary and h...

The Art of Film Projection: A Beginner's Guide - Hardcover

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by Paolo Cherchi Usai (Editor), Catherine Surowiec (Editor), Spencer Christiano (Editor)A gorgeous gift for every cinephile, The Art of Film Projection celebrates this enduring analog artA New York Times 2019 holiday gift guide pick The Art of Film Projection: A Beginner's Guide is a beautifully produced, comprehensive outline of the materials, equipment and knowledge needed to present the magic of cinema to an enthralled audience. Part manual and part manifesto, The Art of Film Projection co...

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Creative Form Drawing: Workbook 1 - Paperback

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by Rudolf Kutzli (Author), Roswitha Spence (Foreword by)The author's three workbooks offer a thorough, step-by-step guide to form drawing. As Brunelleschi, the Renaissance architect said, "The lines and forms are visible signs of divine gestures. Learn to understand them and you will comprehend how God created the world."Anyone wanting to develop their drawing skills, including artists, teachers, and students, will enjoy the creative challenge of form drawing. Regular practice can help discov...

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Strut: The Peacock and Beauty in Art - Paperback

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by Laura L. Vookles (Editor), Hudson River Museum (Author)Strut: The Peacock and Beauty in Art explores our fascination with that most glamorous of birds. The peacock, strutting in its sapphire-blue and emerald-green plumage, symbolizes all things vain and beautiful in centuries of painting and sculpture, in books, and on clothes that swirl and shine like the iridescent bird itself. Intrigued by the exotic art of Asia that prized and portrayed the peacock and its trail of an emblazoned train ...

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Cement Eclipses: Small Interventions in the Big City - Hardcover

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by Isaac Cordal (Artist)Isaac Cordal ...is a sculpture artist from London. His sculptures take the form of little people sculpted from concrete in 'real' situations. Cordal manages to capture a lot of emotion in his vignettes, in spite of their lack of detail or colour. He is sympathetic toward his little people and we empathise with their situations, their leisure time, their waiting for buses and their more tragic moments such as accidental death, suicide or family funerals. His sculptures ...

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Tommy Kane: An Excuse to Draw: Tommy Kane Sketches the World - Hardcover

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by Tommy Kane (Artist)An illustrated travelogue from comic-inspired artist Tommy KanePerched on a little camping stool, artist Tommy Kane draws what he sees. His remarkable career has taken him around the world, and he has documented the people and places he's encountered in his unique painting and drawing style--on location--wherever he goes. He calls New York home, but has a growing international following. Tommy Kane: An Excuse to Draw is the first book-length collection of Kane's work, an...

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by Ingrid Beazley (Author)Street Art, Book Art follows on from 2014's acclaimed Street Art, Fine Art--a collection of classic works of fine art reinterpreted by some of today's most cutting-edge street artists. Following the acclaimed publication of 2014's Street Art, Fine Art which documented the pioneering works and ethos of the Dulwich Outdoor Gallery project, 15 of the original 17 artists involved accepted the commission by its author and curator Ingrid Beazley to produce a series of uniq...

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by Damon Murray (Editor), Stephen Sorrell (Editor), Olesya Turkina (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Celebrating the dogs that conquered the final frontier, in ephemera and collectiblesThis book is dedicated to the Soviet Space Dogs, who played a crucial part in the Soviet Space program. These homeless dogs, plucked from the streets of Moscow, were selected because they fitted the program's criteria: weighing no more than 15 pounds, measuring no more than 14 inches in length, robust, photogenic and ...

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by Danzig Baldaev (Artist), Sergei Vasiliev (Photographer), Damon Murray (Editor)Communism's winners and losers: drawings expressing the absurdities of Soviet life, from the archive of Russian Criminal Tattoo's Danzig BaldaevSoviets features unpublished drawings from the archive of Danzig Baldaev. Made in secret, they satirize the Communist Party system and expose the absurdities of Soviet life. Baldaev touches on a wide range of subjects, from drinking (Alcoholics and Shirkers) to the Afghan...