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Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston - Paperback

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by Musa Mayer (Author)The classic, intimate memoir of the artist by Guston's daughter, with a new afterword by MayerPhilip Guston (1913-80) is one of the outstanding figures in 20th-century American art. Beginning as a muralist in the 1930s, Guston embraced the lyrical vocabulary of Abstract Expressionism in his paintings and drawings after his move to the East Coast. Following an artistic crisis in the mid-1960s, his return to figuration--focusing first on simple things of ordinary life, lat...

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by Astrid Kury (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Gabriele Ludescher (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Ann Muller (Text by (Art/Photo Books))In the artistic landscape, Atelier 10 is an unusual project in several senses. This art platform established both an atelier for artists and a gallery for exhibitions in a former baking factory. With the goal of filling a gap in the sponsoring and perceptual offerings of the art world, Atelier 10 primarily supports the artistic achievements of persons with health-r...

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Voices: Defining Moments in Music and Theater - Hardcover

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by Christine Cerletti (Editor), Thomas Voigt (Editor), James Jolly (Foreword by)Leading performers from Cecilia Bartoli to Anne Sofie von Otter share their memories of transformative encounters with music and theaterIn this volume, 70 performing artists share memories of those encounters with classical music and theater that forever altered their lives. These memories often served as a catalyst for their professional development or as a midcareer intervention--a nudge to follow an impulse and...

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by Daniel Richter (Artist), Eva Meyer-Hermann (Editor), Hella Pohl (Editor)Richter's colorful, epic paintings in dialogue with 17th-century works at a Venetian palazzoPublished for a unique exhibition at the historic Venetian palazzo Scuola Grande di San Fantin, this clothbound catalog showcases large-scale oil paintings by German artist Daniel Richter (born 1962). Installation shots display the unique display of Richter's intensely colorful paintings, interwoven with the palazzo's 17th-centu...

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Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt: Nichts Neues: Das Minsk Issue 2 - Paperback

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by Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt (Artist), Paola Malavassi (Editor)A retrospective on the work of a pioneering figure in mail artGerman artist Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt (born 1932) is known for her significant contributions to concrete poetry and her distinctive mail art. Published for a large retrospective on the artist, this volume explores Wolf-Rehfeldt's thematically diverse oeuvre of typewritings, prints, collages and paintings. Number of Pages: 104 Dimensions: 0.6 x 8.8 x 11.1 IN Publication Date: March ...

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The Flemish Masters: From Van Eyck to Bruegel - Hardcover

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by Matthias Depoorter (Text by (Art/Photo Books))A fresh look at the astounding innovations of Netherlandish Renaissance painting through 48 case studiesThis sumptuous publication opens our eyes afresh to the revolution that took place in the Low Countries in the 15th and 16th centuries, and which shaped the course of European art. In 48 lavishly illustrated analyses, Matthias Depoorter explores how painters such as Jan van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Quentin Massys, Hieronymus Bosch and Pie...

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Josef Albers: Homage to the Square: 1950-1976 - Hardcover

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by Josef Albers (Artist), Fritz Horstman (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Gottfried Boehm (Text by (Art/Photo Books))The essential account of Albers' enormously influential proto-Minimalist series, featuring studies and archival materialsMade over the course of a quarter century between 1950 and his death in 1976, Josef Albers' groundbreaking series Homage to the Square comprises 2,000 oil paintings. His quest for continuous reflection and refinement inspired numerous young Minimalist and Concept...

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by Wayne Thiebaud (Artist), Ulf Küster (Editor), Janet Bishop (Text by (Art/Photo Books))A mouth-watering celebration of Thiebaud's painterly world of pies, cakes and gumball machinesWayne Thiebaud's (1920-21) iconic still lifes of pies, cakes, gumball machines and lipsticks critically reflect on the promise of the American dream: a society of plenty where supply exceeds demand. Thiebaud depicted these objects as mass-produced commodities rather than idealized entities, updating the still lif...

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Eric Hattan: Five O'Clock Shadow - Paperback

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by Eric Hattan (Artist), Markus Stegmann (Editor)A site-specific installation juxtaposes found detritus with the opulent backdrop of a Belle Epoque villaSwiss conceptual artist Eric Hattan (born 1955) is known for his installations, performance art and artistic interventions in public spaces. This catalog accompanies his installation at a historic villa in Germany, which features tattered clothing and metal scraps juxtaposed against the lavish backdrop of the venue. Number of Pages: 60 Dimens...

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by Tom Hegen (Photographer), Nadine Barth (Editor), Annalena Erhardt (Text by (Art/Photo Books))New explorations in bird's eye photography from the author of Aerial Observations on AirportsThe extraction of sea salt is one of the oldest forms of human landscaping. Sea-salt production sites can be found all over the world, usually around shallow shorelines. But we rarely ask where salt comes from and how it is produced. German photographer Tom Hegen (born 1991) has explored these magical lands...

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Alex Katz: Prints: Catalogue Raisonné, 1947-2022 - Hardcover

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by Alex Katz (Artist), Gunhild Bauer (Editor), Marietta Mautner Markhof (Editor)An updated inventory of Katz's works across mediums, from book illustration to printmakingBefore the rise of Pop art, American artist Alex Katz (born 1927) developed an iconic style of figurative painting in the early 1960s--influenced by film, television and billboard advertising. Katz created seemingly detached and incredibly stylish portraits of New York's social and art scenes as well as idyllic landscapes. Pr...

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Rebecca Warren: The Now Voyager - Hardcover

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by Rebecca Warren (Artist), Axel Köhne (Editor), Stella Rollig (Editor)Oversized bronze sculptures from a British artist known for her often grotesque or comically exaggerated figurationBritish artist Rebecca Warren (born 1965) makes sculptures and assemblages using a wide variety of materials. Her distinctive and complex oeuvre blends tradition with the quotidian, seriousness with frivolity, mastery with mismatch. This publication accompanies Warren's recent exhibition in Vienna featuring ne...

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The Animal Within: Creatures in (and Outside): The Mumok Collection Vienna - Paperback

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by Manuela Ammer (Editor), Ulrike Müller (Editor), Fahim Amir (Text by (Art/Photo Books))How artists from Hans Arp to Mike Kelley have employed animal motifs to diverse endsWithin the visual arts, animals--as pets, in zoos or farms, or as stuffed animals--have evoked an array of thematic matter: sex, hunger and affection; family and gender relations; socialization and domestication; and the enduring impact of colonial history. Aided by numerous critical essays, The Animal Within explores the ...

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Amie Dicke: Handle: Collecting Alibis - Paperback

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by Amie Dicke (Artist), Amelia Groom (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Marieke Lucas Reijneveld (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Two decades of fashion editorial-inspired cutouts and collagesThis is a comprehensive monograph from Dutch artist Amie Dicke (born 1978), known for her appropriation and manipulation of photos from fashion magazines. Covering a period of 22 years, the two-volume publication includes her signature collagelike compositions alongside recent images made using her iPhone. Number of...

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by Maria Lassnig (Artist), Brigitte Hausmann (Editor), Jenny Graser (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Maria Lassnig (1919-2014) is one of the most important women artists in art after 1960. This book presents her works in the collection of Helmut Klewan, who accompanied her as a gallerist for over three decades. Text in English and German. Number of Pages: 96 Dimensions: 0.5 x 10.8 x 10.4 IN Publication Date: May 23, 2023

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by Alice Pawlik (Editor), Mona Suhrbier (Editor), Karin Bervoets (Text by (Art/Photo Books))The book opens up a polyphonic dialogue and offers possibilities for designing postcolonial, global coexistence and a healthy life in balance, presenting all the participating international artists in personal conversations and expanding the view to include interdisciplinary perspectives by international scholars and activists. Number of Pages: 256 Dimensions: 0.7 x 9 x 6.7 IN Publication Date: May 23,...

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Back Into the Light: Four Artists: Their Works, Their Paths - Hardcover

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by Eva Sabrina Atlan (Editor), Mirjam Wenzel (Editor), Monica Bohm-Duchen (Text by (Art/Photo Books))With the exhibition catalogue Back into the Light: Four Artists - Their Works, Their Paths, the Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt has dedicated itself to four rediscovered women artists, who shaped the artistic life of the 1920s in Frankfurt am Main and were also noticed supra-regionally before National Socialist threatened their work and their lives. Number of Pages: 176 Dimensions: 1 x 11.2 x 9.2 I...

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Legends of the DC Universe: Carmine Infantino: Hc - Hardcover - Hardcover

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by Various (Author), Carmine Infantino (Illustrator) Number of Pages: 408 Dimensions: 1.5 x 9.7 x 7.2 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: May 02, 2023

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Legends of the Dark Knight: Jose Luis Garcia Lopez: Hc - Hardcover - Hardcover

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by Len Wein (Author), Jose Luis Garcia Lopez (Illustrator), Nunzio Defilippis (Author)Author BiographyComics, TV and movie writer Len Wein began his career in comics 40 years ago. He was editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics, Disney Comics and Top Cow, as well as a senior editor at DC Comics. He was the co-creator of comic book series Swamp Thing, Human Target, Brother Voodoo, Wolverine and X-Men. Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez is widely considered an "artist's artist" in the comics field. Best known for ...

Meeting Valentino Molina: Lifting the Veil on the Incredible Life of a Savannah Artist - Hardcover

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by Patricia Carson (Author)Valentino Molina was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1879. He was a talented and insecure young man whose life took a positive turn when his nude painting Cleopatra caught the attention of two elegant ladies who became his mentors. It then became a colorful roller coaster of events during the volatile late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Valentino became successful as a portraitist and lived in Canada, Spain, aristocratic London, Gay Paris, and southern Fran...

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Handbook of Tyranny: Expanded Edition - Hardcover

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by Theo Deutinger (Author), Brendan McGetrick (Text by (Art/Photo Books))An updated edition of the essential guide to the 21st century's new infrastructure of oppression and surveillanceNow in a new edition with updated statistics, texts and other materials, Handbook of Tyranny portrays the routine cruelties of the 21st century through a series of detailed nonfictional graphic illustrations. None of these cruelties represent extraordinary violence--they reflect day-to-day implementation of la...

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The Artistic Legacy of Buck Schiwetz: Volume 26 - Hardcover

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by William E. Reaves (Author), Linda J. Reaves (Author), Sarah Beth Wilson (Contribution by)E. M. (Buck) Schiwetz (1898-1984) could be called a "favorite son" among Texas artists working in the twentieth century. Schiwetz ranks among the state's best-known early artists, having left behind an important body of iconic Texas imagery produced over a prodigious career spanning some seven decades. Educated as an architect at A&M College of Texas, he parlayed this training with natural acumen t...

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Didier Fiúza Faustino: Architecture for Disquiet Bodies - Hardcover

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by Didier Fiuza Faustino (Author), Christophe Le Gac (Editor), Marie-Hélène Fabre (Text by (Art/Photo Books))"Faustino has anticipated numerous contemporary trends and operating methods, pushing the boundaries of architecture as a whole." -Elle DécorThis monograph offers a comprehensive overview of more than 25 years of unique creations by French Portuguese artist-architect Didier Fiúza Faustino (born 1968), who works at the intersection of the body and architectural space. Since 1995, Fausti...

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Sylvie Fleury: Double Positive - Paperback

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by Sylvie Fleury (Artist), Fredi Fischli (Editor), Niels Olsen (Editor)Published on the occasion of Sylvie Fleury's 'Double Positive' exhibition at the Bechtler Stiftung in Zurich (October 2022-March 2023), this book offers an unprecedented insight into the artist's 1990s fashion collection, which she confronts with Walter de Maria's monumental 'The 2000 Sculpture' (1992). Eccentric avant-garde garments created by Thierry Mugler, Vivienne Westwood, and Jean Paul Gaultier have been shot for th...

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by Christian Marclay (Artist), Jean-Pierre Criqui (Editor), Laurent Le Bon (Foreword by)With sampling, shuffling, and montage taking centre stage, the practice of Swiss-American artist Christian Marclay (*1955) has been anchored in the universe of sound since the end of the 1970s. An eminent conceptual artist and recipient of the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale for his landmark 24-hour video installation 'The Clock' (2010), he is equally fascinated by all aspects of popular music and avant...

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Trinh T. Minh-Ha: The Twofold Commitment - Paperback

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by Trinh T. Minh-Ha (Artist)An inventive reimagining in book form of the revered filmmaker and theorist's cinematic meditation on Vietnam's originsAt once an artist's book and an interview collection by Vietnamese filmmaker, writer and feminist and postcolonial theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha (born 1952), The Twofold Commitment centers on Trinh's 2015 feature film Forgetting Vietnam, which takes up one of the myths surrounding the creation of Vietnam: a fight between two dragons whose intertwined b...

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Primetime Contemporary Art: Art by the Gala Committee as Seen on Melrose Place - Paperback

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by Mel Chin (Author)A facsimile of the GALA Committee's mock auction catalog for an artistic intervention into the props and plots of Melrose PlaceOriginally published in a limited run in 1998, Primetime Contemporary Art documented In the Name of the Place, a radical two-year intervention by a group of artists, initiated by Mel Chin and known as the GALA Committee, on the primetime television show Melrose Place. This extremely rare artist's book is reproduced for the first time as a facsimile...

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by Henni Alftan (Artist), Elizabeth Buhe (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Hermione Hoby (Text by (Art/Photo Books))A 10-year survey of a Finnish painter's close-up depictions of everyday life, now back in printParis-based Finnish painter Henni Alftan (born 1979) uses tight framing of close-range photography to explore the similarities between painting and image-making. This reprint of her comprehensive catalog, first published in 2020, gathers a selection of Alftan's works from the past 10 years....

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Tabboo!: Cityscapes: 1992-2022 - Hardcover

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by Stephen Tashjian (Artist), Jonathan Katz (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Eileen Myles (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Three decades of luminous cityscapes from downtown New York's legendary painter-performerMultidisciplinary performer, designer and artist Tabboo! (born 1959) rose to prominence during the 1980s through New York City's underground drag scene. When Tabboo! first moved to the city at age 23, he fell in love with the electrifying, scrappy downtown environment and began to paint citysca...

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by Kohei Nawa (Artist), Brett Littman (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Ethereal sculptures and installations meditating on our sensory experiencesJapanese artist Kohei Nawa (born 1975) explores scientific and digital phenomena, focusing on the perceptual possibilities of his practice, which centers ethereality and sensory effects. This survey presents a selection of Nawa's new and recent works spanning sculpture, painting and mixed-media installation. Number of Pages: 168 Dimensions: 0.9 x 14 x 10....

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Living with Ghosts: A Reader: Writings on Coloniality, Decoloniality, Hauntology and Contemporary Art - Paperback

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by Kj Abudu (Editor), Bouchra Khalili (Interviewer)New and classic texts on Africa's unfulfilled project of decolonizationFeaturing republished texts by seminal theorists of the 20th and 21st centuries and newly commissioned essays by some of today's leading artists and writers, Living with Ghosts: A Reader explores the ways that Africa's unresolved colonial traumas and its unfulfilled project of decolonization haunt the present global order. This reader expands on these complex ideas through...

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Richard Pousette-Dart: 1950s: Spirit and Substance - Hardcover

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by Richard Pousette-Dart (Artist), Joanna Pousette-Dart (Interviewer), Lowery Stokes Sims (Interviewer)An immersive window into the artistic world of a founding member of the New York SchoolAbstract Expressionist Richard Pousette-Dart (1916-92) forged a unique artistic path through a lexicon of biomorphic and totemic forms. This volume provides a detailed look at his influential career, featuring extensive archival material alongside a selection of work since the 1950s spanning painting, draw...