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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 figurative compositions that have challenged painters from the renaissance onwards she sets up a structure for the participants in her live events to create their own composition presenting themselves according to their own internalized aesthetic system beecroft was born in 1969 in genoa italy she currently lives between new york and los angeles vanessa beecroft vb lv 88-8158-615-0 978-88-8158-615-8 hardcover 12 x 12 in 60 pgs 23 color u.s $45.00 cdn $54.00 september/art guido mocafico movement edited by patrick remy text by françois-paul journe stephen forsey antoine simonin time is naturally marked by repeating astronomical phenomena by the daily cycle and the seasons as nights and months come and go to slice it into finer fractions our forbears invented sundials which track the movement of the shadows projected by the sun or clepsydra hourglass-like devices that count time based on a consistent rate of water flow but ever since 1657 when the first watch was created we have used the oscillatory movements of a mechanical system to do that job the photographer guido mocafico whose previous books include venenum medusa and serpens sets out in this new project movement to observe these systems he chose complex and rare mechanisms physically mechanical rather than electronic which led him into a world of traditional knowledge controlled by master watchmakers to remove the back from one of their tiny creations is to plunge into an unknown world these images of the tiny springs levers screws and gears that drive the hands of time forward etched with the slightest texture possible and engraved in the smallest type possible present an abiding mystery of the everyday representative of all of the technologies we have come to take for granted mocafico was born in switzerland in 1962 a specialist in still life he works for international magazines such as vogue french vogue the face and wallpaper based in paris he has also undertaken numerous advertising campaigns for gucci yves saint laurent clinique shiseido and hermès guido mocafico movement 3-86521-455-x 978-3-86521-455-3 hardcover 14 x 14 in 96 pgs 60 color u.s $85.00 cdn $102.00 november/fashion/decorative arts steidl/dior paris damiani guido mocafico victoire de castellane belladone island edited by eric troncy who says real should be boring asks victoire de castellane after 14 years designing costume jewelry for chanel de castellane moved to dior in 1998 to create that house s first fine jewelry collection where her eccentricity energy and love of fantasy have made her a standout amid the sometimes staid world of haute joaillerie inspired by dior s enchanted world she has transformed ribbons feathers bows and flowers into fantastic bijoux in this volume she dreams up belladone an imaginary island conducive to the growth of belladonna a toxic plant whose essence renaissance italian women used to dilate their pupils dilated pupils being one of the signs of sexual arousal each of the pieces in the collection is named after a plant from the island s imaginary ancestral herbarium including reina magnifica sangria poisono misterius spinella carnivora fluora eternita dracula spinella devorus and carnivo papidevorus among others the first section of belladone island is generously illustrated with guido mocafico s photographs of the collection mocafico has also photographed jewelry for bulgari gucci hermes and harry winston his best-selling photo books include venenum serpens and medusa the second section here follows the unveiling of the collection starting with promotion in the virtual world second life and carrying through to the live presentation in the nymphéas de monet hall at the musée de l orangerie in paris guido mocafico victoire de castellane belladone island 3-86521-478-9 978-3-86521-478-2 hardcover 10 x 15.75 in 80 pgs illustrated throughout u.s $80.00 cdn $96.00 july/fashion/decorative arts omega sportswatches edited by john goldberger text by giampiero negretti omega was entrusted with timekeeping at the los angeles olympic games in 1932 and has since been the official timekeeper at 22 olympics that association has led to more than half a century of pioneering developments in timers and watches from the first water-resistant photoelectric cell to the first photo-finish camera an innovation that resolved the problem of group finishes in track events and contact pads inside the pool at swimming competitions they have continued to innovate most recently with real time results online available as soon as a swimmer hits the pool wall at the end of a lap yet it is the most tangible touchable wearable results of all this that brings omega watches from the workplaces of athletes including michelle wie and michael phelps into the homes of design aficionados john goldberger the editor of omega watches and longines watches here presents more than 50 years of rare and beautiful sport designs from the omega line omega sportswatches 88-89431-70-9 978-88-89431-70-2 hardcover 8.5 x 11.5 in 144 pgs 450 color u.s $89.00 cdn $107.00 september/fashion/decorative arts

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