general interest 5 guggenheim museum richard prince text by nancy spector glenn o brien jack bankowsky for 30 years now the american artist richard prince has been considered one of the most forward-thinking and innovative artists in the world in 1977 his deceptively simple act of rephotographing advertising images from the new york times magazine and presenting them as his own ushered in an entirely new critical approach to making art one that questioned notions of originality and the privileged status of the unique aesthetic object prince s technique involves appropriation and he pilfers freely from the vast image bank of popular culture to create works that simultaneously embrace and critique a quintessentially american sensibility with images stemming from the marlboro man muscle cars biker chicks off-color jokes gag cartoons and pulp fiction novels among many other sources organized by the solomon r guggenheim museum new york this major traveling retrospective brings together pri
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22 d a p www.artbook.com t:800.338.2665 f 800.478.3128 general interest 23 damiani aperture the modern japanese tea room by michael freeman the modern japanese tea room showcases chashitsus traditional japanese tea ceremony salons as reconceived by contemporary architects and designers the formal tea ceremony developed in the fifteenth century and its ritual is closely defined as is the space for it traditionally chashitsus include windows an alcove tokonoma with flowers and painted parchment bamboo beds tatami and a fireplace on the floor ro they do not include furniture in part because they are spaces for meditation more recently those traditions as closely associated with the upper class as high tea is in england and its colonies have been rediscovered by architects and designers as a perfect match for their contemporary work the modern japanese tea room includes projects from renowned japanese names including kengo kuma terunobu fujimori shigeru uchida arata isozaki chitosh
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38 d a p www.artbook.com t:800.338.2665 f 800.478.3128 general interest 39 la marca editora testify books previously announced this season d.a.p is pleased to announce seven new paperback flipbooks by la marca as well as an eighth special edition flipbook that comes with its own mini-cd attached to the cover suitable for use in either a mac or a pc this book features footage of a 1935 performance by argentine film star and chanteur charles romauld gardel of the classic romantic song volver recently made famous by the spanish filmmaker and oscar-winner pedro almodóvar the cd features gardel s biography a photo gallery lyrics the original film segment and a mastered recording at $9.95 this little gem is an adorable ipod-compatible treat a day in buenos aires 950-889-154-8 978-950-889-154-9 paperback 4 x 2.25 in 150 pgs 75 color u.s $6.99 cdn $8.00 sdnr 50 october/popular culture volver 950-889-152-1 978-950-889-152-5 pbk w cd-rom 4 x 2.25 in 128 pgs 64 b&w u.s $9.95 cdn $12.0
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56 d a p www.artbook.com t:800.338.2665 f 800.478.3128 highlights fashion 57 charta steidl vanessa beecroft vb lv edited by vanessa beecroft paris s louis vuitton store and 4306-square-foot exhibition space on the champs elysées just underwent a high-profile 20-month renovation to reopen bigger brighter and full of art at the end of 2006 vanessa beecroft marked the date with a performance in which as artforum described it 30 naked models black and white sat silently on shelves alongside classic louis vuitton handbags and luggage charta s vb lv documents beecroft s monumental inaugural performance in this one-foot-square glossy hardcover album according to new york s deitch gallery vanessa beecroft works in the gap between art and life the work is neither performance nor documentary but something in between her live events are recorded through photography and film but her conceptual approach is actually closer to painting beecroft is making contemporary versions of the complex fi
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72 d a p www.artbook.com t:800.338.2665 f 800.478.3128 highlights photography 73 hatje cantz verlag fÜr moderne kÜnst nÜrnberg czech vision avant garde photography in czechoslovakia edited by howard greenberg annette kicken rudolf kicken preface by suzanne pastor text by vladimir birgus et al when czechoslovakia finally threw off the communist regime that had isolated and controlled the country s artistic production from its inception in 1948 until its demise in 1989 a treasure trove of avant garde photography from just before the era of repression was suddenly rediscovered revealing a group of artists who were as experimental as they were fundamentally czech in fact there is hardly any other area in the history of photography that has received so little attention as the czech avant-garde work made between the end of world war i and the communist takeover shortly after world war ii this is particularly astonishing because the country produced such a large number of photography grou
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88 d a p www.artbook.com t:800.338.2665 f 800.478.3128 highlights art history decorative arts 89 poligrafa poligrafa hatje cantz hatje cantz exhibitions international exhibitions international velázquez text by santiago alcolea like his dutch contemporary vermeer diego velázquez 1599-1660 had little reputation outside of his native land until the nineteenth century when the spanish royal painting collections became state property and were installed in the prado museum in madrid the year was in 1819 and several private and official collections in london and paris also benefited unlike vermeer however velázquez had a fairly large oeuvre waiting to be rediscovered and rediscovered it was with great rapidity and enthusiasm goya and manet are almost inconceivable without the precedent of velázquez s portraiture and in fact manet even called the spaniard the painter of painters his impact on french impressionism was colossal and two of the twentieth century s most famous artists paint
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106 d a p www.artbook.com t:800.338.2665 f 800.478.3128 new books architecture urban studies design 107 jovis wasmuth jovis nai publishers nai publishers nai publishers jovis hugh stubbins fifties american modernism in berlin the american architect hugh stubbins 1912 2006 who began his career as walter gropius assistant at harvard was one of the most important international architects of post-war modernism his soaring high-rises including the angle-topped citicorp building in new york brought him fame worldwide this monograph centers on the swooping 1957 kongresshalle in berlin and is the first detailed publication on stubbins and his oeuvre hugh stubbins fifties american modernism in berlin 3-939633-24-0 978-3-939633-24-2 pbk 7 x 9 in 192 pgs 200 b&w u.s $35.00 cdn $42.00 november/architecture they laid the foundation lives and works of german-speaking jewish architects in palestine 1918-1948 by myra warhaftig translated by andrea lerner beginning in the 1920s more than 130
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122 d a p www.artbook.com t:800.338.2665 f 800.478.3128 new books photography 123 hatje cantz exhibitions international/bai hatje cantz turner damiani veenman publishers frank darius tunichtgut the melancholy images of the berlin-based photographer frank darius born in 1963 provide a genuine view of reality whether urban or rural landscapes people or objects details are discovered humorous tales told some erotic motifs are also captured with great humanity this reissue provides a strong cross-section of darius work frank darius tunichtgut 3-7757-1958-x 978-3-7757-1958-2 hardcover 13 x 10 in 68 pgs 60 color u.s $35.00 cdn $42.00 september/photography dieter telemans troubled waters foreword by ricardo petrella each year a different united nations agency is selected to coordinate all of the international events surrounding world water day and a different theme is chosen to reflect the many facets of freshwater resources in 2006 unesco ran the show selecting belgian photojournalis
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140 d a p www.artbook.com t:800.338.2665 f 800.478.3128 new books writings critical investigations 141 walther kÖnig walther kÖnig walther kÖnig veenman publishers hatje cantz jrp ringier hatje cantz turner/a&r press art&idea 10 years edited by robert punkenhofer haydée rovirosa art&idea set up shop in 1995 and soon expanded its mexico city gallery to include a nomadic project space that has operated in new york madrid berlin and vienna this biography of a young institution and anthology of its projects bundles in interviews with its founders statements from artists and curators and documentation of 10 years of experimental work art&idea 10 years 3-7757-2001-4 978-3-7757-2001-4 hdcvr 6 x 9.5 in 160 pgs 140 color u.s $40.00 cdn $48.00 september/art plataforma puebla 2006 institutional critique and after soccas symposium vol iii aesthetics of risk edited by john c welchman text by jane blocker douglas crimp rachel greene richard shiff this anthology of essays images and dialogues
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156 d a p www.artbook.com t:800.338.2665 f 800.478.3128 new books monographs artists books more 157 walther kÖnig/schlebrÜgge.editor onestar press/galerie laurent godin errant bodies press walther kÖnig/lenbachaus mÜnchen walther kÖnig/bywater editions toronto hatje cantz a defense of the real by david quigley in this intellectual biography an epoch is portrayed the american writer david quigley maps out the stages and positions of the radical early twentieth-century german writer and art historian carl einstein who posited political philosophical and aesthetic arguments for a new art as the basis for a new society a defense of the real 3-85160-083-5 978-3-85160-083-4 hardcover 9 x 6.5 in 316 pgs illustrated throughout u.s $34.00 cdn $41.00 sdnr 40 july/nonfiction criticism henrik samuelsson 4 paintings north-east-south-west text by olle granath this artist s book features new paintings and related cartoony ephemera by the stockholm artist henrik samuelsson born in 1960 ga
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