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general interest 19 aperture jock sturges misty dawn portrait of a muse over the course of his career jock sturges long-term engagement with his subjects has been a cornerstone of his work misty dawn one of his primary and most popular muses is one such subject he has photographed her for 25 of her 28 years lithe beautiful classically proportioned she is the personification of sturges philosophy of being at home in one s body this volume follows her growth from a shy tomboyish child to a gorgeous confident young woman taken as a whole this series of images presents a unique fully realized portrait of a blossoming individual and explores a rare and beautiful relationship between photographer and subject misty dawn portrait of a muse presents iconic images as well as previously unpublished material mined from sturges older contact sheets and newest work jock sturges born in new york in 1947 received a b.a in perceptual psychology and photography from marlboro college in vermont in 19
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36 d a p www.artbook.com t:800.338.2665 f 800.478.3128 d.a.p trilce back in print lourdes grobet lucha libre masked superstars of mexican wrestling edited by alfonso morales text by carlos monsiváis carlos rodriguez sexo y violencia now available again in paperback take one part mexi-monster cinema one part teenage mutant ninja turtles throw in a little zoro the wwf and the knit-costume-wearing performance art collective forcefield and you come up with the raw vivid and psychologically unhinged world of lucha libre the sports-entertainment phenomenon that first swept mexico and now the world photographer lourdes grobet s penentrating study of mexican professional wrestling culture features more than 500 photographs of luchadores like blue demon santo the witch adorable rub el solitario and hurricane ramirez as well as pictures of their families friends and fans onstage backstage and even at home lucha libre also includes photographs of stickers flyers postcards stills from mexi-luc
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general interest 53 free news projects heartworm press dis voir fuel publishing a.s.a.p in pursuit of treasure island by raul ruiz behind each children s book behind each bestseller a sacred text is hidden stevenson s novel has been scrutinized read and re-read a thousand times it has been used as a model for a map that leads us in search of an island where a cave that represented the sky was located and in that sky the stars and planets were represented by diamonds real diamonds both a prelude and a continuation to raoul ruiz s film treasure island made in 1984 in pursuit of treasure island presents itself as the follow-up or rather a pursuit of stevenson s novel it is a formidable example of the way ruiz parodies the text and plunges the story inside the story before losing the reader in a labyrinth of strange images in pursuit of treasure island isbn 978-2-914563-41-3 paperback 6.5 x 8.5 in 112 pgs u.s $25.00 cdn $26.00 november/film video/nonfiction criticism three stories by
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70 d a p www.artbook.com t:800.338.2665 f 800.478.3128 torst torst torst josef sudek still lifes from the mid-1920s until his death in 1976 czech photographer joseph sudek shot gothic and baroque architecture street scenes and still lifes usually leaving the frame free of people and capturing a poetic and highly individualistic glimpse of prague the still lifes are the best known aspect of his oeuvre indeed his graceful depictions of drinking-glasses and eggs are familiar to those who don t necessarily even know his name acceding to his reclusive nature sudek began the window of my studio series in the 1940s it allowed him to capture street scenes without going outside and helped him discover a particular fondness for how glass refracts light the still lifes emerged from the informal arrangements sudek would make on his windowsill and occupied him for a number of years depicting a range of quotidian objects with a marked artfulness some were made in homage to favorite painters like
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highlights 87 art charta/change performing arts hatje cantz walker art center peter greenaway leonardo s last supper edited by franco laera since 2006 iconoclastic british filmmaker peter greenaway has been engaged in a project to reinvigorate some of the most iconic paintings in the history of art in an attempt to get people to look at them again in a new way using audio and projectors greenaway barrages the selected paintings with imagery cinema poetry and special effects of his 2006 intervention with rembrandt s the nightwatch 1642 the filmmaker recalls we burned it flooded it and covered it in blood but if you go there today you will find it completely untouched this volume is published concurrently with greenaway s performance of leonardo s last supper 2008 in the refectory of the santa maria delle grazie friary where leonardo da vinci painted his famous masterpiece this multi-media event will take place on the occasion of the 2008 milan furniture fair da vinci expert martin
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104 d a p www.artbook.com t:800.338.2665 f 800.478.3128 la marca valiz asterisk press eight books mvd montevideo popular graphics edited by guido indij in montevideo popular graphics argentine photographer guido indij responsible for several collections exploring south american graffiti turns his eye towards uruguay s street culture i can t believe the things i see when out walking the streets of montevideo posters from our childhood signage from our parents days archaeological traces of the last letristas signwriters bestiaries carlos gardels fish and more fish after walking extensively through the city indij notes that through these graphics we can reach an understanding of our identity much like the surrealists who found inspiration in the posters signs and ads that papered the streets of paris in the 1920s indij mines the language of the street for clues to our collective unconscious indij s previous books on street graphics incude hasta la victoria stencil 2005 and 1000 s
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highlights 121 journals bard college esopus foundation ltd conjunctions 51 the death issue edited by david shields as cormac mccarthy wrote death is the major issue in the world for you for me for all of us it just is to not be able to talk about it is very odd for the fall 2008 issue of conjunctions editor bradford morrow invited awardwinning writer david shields author of the 2008 new york times bestseller the thing about life is that one day you ll be dead to gather work from a diverse cross-section of contemporary authors to address the theme of death the subject prompted responses ranging from the profound to the jocular from philosophy to consciousness fear doom irony and even humor the death issue features innovative essays and meditations by dave eggers joyce carol oates tom robbins dr pauline w chen david gates mark doty robin hemley albert goldbarth joe wenderoth daphne merkin dr lauren slater greg bottoms susan daitch john d agata richard stern mary ruefle and christophe
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138 d a p www.artbook.com t:800.338.2665 f 800.478.3128 walther kÖnig hatje cantz walther kÖnig eva grubinger spartacus edited by matthias ulrich max hollein in spartacus german artist eva grubinger investigates manifestations of power and impotence of observing and being observed her installations are formal abstractions of complex modes of social communication by means of allegorical compression they visualize spatial and psychological representations of power eva grubinger spartacus isbn 978-3-86560-385-2 pbk 8.5 x 10.75 in 56 pgs 12 color 13 b&w u.s $28.00 cdn $29.00 flat40 july/art joanne greenbaum painting in new york painter joanne greenbaum s work geometric and organic shapes intersect within a complex visual space that echoes of constructivism and cartoon aesthetics this is the first comprehensive book on greenbaum s work joanne greenbaum painting isbn 978-3-7757-2180-6 hardcover 9 x 11.75 in 120 pgs 51 color u.s $55.00 cdn $58.00 flat40 july/art marcel odenbach seized
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more new books 155 group exhibitions collections jrp|ringier errant bodies press walther kÖnig a crime against art a film by hila peleg with charles esche liam gillick maria lind inspired by andré breton s mock trials of the 1920s and 30s a crime against art is a film based on a staged trial at the 2007 arco art fair in madrid set as a television courtroom drama this dvd condenses the trial to 100 minutes starring jan verwoert vasif kortun chus martinez and charles esche a crime against art isbn 978-3-905829-37-2 dvd video 5.5 x 7.5 in dvd ntsc u.s $35.00 cdn $37.00 august/art/film video radio memory edited by brandon labelle text by carmen cebreros urzaiz bastien gallet for the project documented in this volume brandon labelle invited people from around the world to send in radio memories of songs overheard at special moments in their lives radio memory contains contributions by bastien gallet carmen cebreros urzaiz and others as well as a cd of audio works by labelle radio memo
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