4 hatje cantz publishers henri matisse figure color space edited by pia müller-tamm essays by gottfried böhm stefan grohé peter kropmanns rémi labrusse isabelle monod-fontaine maria müller margret stuffmann beate söntgen and katharina sykora no other subject inspired henri matisse with such passion throughout his career as the female figure in interior settings this is the most comprehensive publication to cover the topic of women in the work of the great regenerator of european painting and in so doing it covers the full spectrum of matisse s creative evolution from the small somber early pictures to the masterly compositions of his fauvist phase the intimate pictorial inventions of the nice period and finally the luminous paper cutouts of his late work many of the interiors show women reading sleeping or daydreaming passive figures enveloped in oriental fabrics costumed as odalisques or reclining on chaise longues additional motifs include the artist and his model the artist s studio
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steidlmack 21 hans van der meer european fields spring highlights the landscape of lower league football edited by michael mack essay by simon kuper at the beginning of the 1995 soccer season hans van der meer set out to take photographs of the game that dodged the clichéd traditions of modern sports photography in an attempt to record the sport in its original form a field two goals and 22 players he sought matches at the bottom end of the amateur leagues he avoided tight telescopic details and the hyperbole of action photography pulled back from the central subject of the pitch and set the playing field and its unfolding action in the context of local elements over the last 10 years van der meer has continued this project across the playing fields of europe traveling to every country with a significant history of the game the netherlands yielded 1998 s dutch fields and the odyssey that brings forth european fields has since taken him from bihariain romania to björkö sweden from torp
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mfa publications 37 art czar the rise and fall of clement greenberg theory criticism writings by alice goldfarb marquis in the years of his greatest dominance clement greenberg almost singlehandedly established jackson pollock and the new york school at the center of the american art world his work set the tone for art criticism for half a century to come this biography based on unpublished and previously unavailable documents interviews and archives presents a riveting story of imagination and grandiosity of vision and tragic excess with clarity and insight alice goldfarb marquis author of the widely acclaimed marcel duchamp the bachelor stripped bare which the washington times called the one indispensable duchamp companion and art lessons named best nonfiction book of the year by the san diego book awards explores greenberg s complex relations with numerous friends and lovers including pollock lee krasner helen frankenthaler and harold rosenberg it also recreates the heady art sc
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54 hatje cantz publishers hatje cantz publishers hatje cantz publishers atlas of shrinking cities essays by elke beyer anke hagemann philipp oswalt and tim rieniets between 1990 and 2000 every fourth city in the world was shrinking and this tendency is on the rise which urban areas are people leaving how is it happening and why now the atlas of shrinking cities answers these questions and many more in some 30 world maps 50 diagrams 30 city portraits and 15 encyclopedic essays documenting a global phenomenon in innovative cartography and graphics that make complex information and conclusions easily visually comprehensible four chapters of maps illustrations and statistics explain reasons for shrinkage ranging from demographic developments and migration flows to increasingly limited resources the destruction of nature and the evolution of the character of human settlements case studies on all continents shed light on the real effects of the global transformation process and the index lis
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70 trolley trolley trolley jarret schecter displaced in denan jan banning traces of war survivors of the burma and sumatra railways allied victory in the pacific celebrates its sixtieth anniversary in august among the celebrants will be a small largely forgotten group reliving nightmares of captivity dutch english australian and american prisoners of war worked among more than a quarter of a million asians so called romushas forced by the japanese to build railways in burma and sumatra conditions were desperate between 50 and 80 per cent of the romushas did not survive here jan banning has interviewed and photographed 24 dutch and indonesian survivors his haunting images show them as they worked naked from the waist up their words elicit with a matter-of-fact disinterest the misery of their constant understanding of death unsurprisingly they have hitherto been loath to discuss their ordeals jan banning traces of war isbn 1-904563-46-5 u.s $34.95 hardcover 9 x 9.75 in 144 pgs 24 duoto
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86 steidl hatje cantz publishers visual arts center of richmond ann mandelbaum thin skin françois-marie banier perdre la tête essays by richard peduzzi erri de luca and patrice chéreau every day françois-marie banier leaves home with his camera and no preconceived notions just an interest in what the world looks like that morning surveying the street from his moped he focuses on faces and figures bearing the marks of a life with the power to touch his viewers emotions a street cleaner with the demeanor of a heroic mythological warrior lonely figures out for a stroll passers-by couples all have lived through trials at which we can only guess banier s largely blackand-white work has been seen throughout europe including at the centre pompidou and in asia and latin america in addition to his work as a photographer he is a novelist and playwright françois-marie banier was born in paris in 1947 a novelist and playwright since the 1970s he has also been taking photographs of public figures
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charta holzwarth publications guggenheim museum 103 modern contemporary art mimmo paladino edited by flavia scotton and enzo di martino introduction by umberto vattani this extensive collection of sculptures by painter sculptor and printmaker mimmo paladino including some of his most significant work makes a case for sculpture as the great public art of the twenty first century paladino who is well aware that art is rooted in history suspects that sculpture may be the only medium brawny enough to compete with the expansive scale of contemporary architecture that dominates today s urban environment the work included here does not tolerate indifference nor does it strive for acceptance or complacency paladino s extraordinary ability to transfigure materials and his belief in their power sets a solid true course mimmo paladino isbn 88-8158-557-x u.s $34.95 paperback 7.5 x 9.5 in 96 pgs 58 color and 19 b&w february art dieter roth dorothy iannone essays by dietmar elger oliver koerner
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gregory r miller company hatje cantz publishers david zwirner 119 modern contemporary art amy cutler essay by lisa freiman amy sillman works on paper essay by wayne koestenbaum works on paper marks the first major publication of the work of noted new york painter amy sillman whose rapidly growing reputation and increasingly recognized influence on other artists make its timing ideal her paintings and drawings are at once narrative and decorative filled with quirky figures and diminutive patterned elements her works on paper which she considers particularly central to her art-making practice and her wider portfolio are often made up of multiple components they create the feeling of an extended and meandering sequence of events and have been described as reminiscent of both film loops and long letters to her viewers works on paper consists of four major series of sillman s drawings all recent and documented by brilliant full-color photographs it also includes an essay by acclaimed writ
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136 hatje cantz publishers photology hopefulmonster marcello levi portrait of a collector from futurism to arte povera essays by maria centonze robert lumley and francesco manacorda the outstanding collection of marcello levi includes futurist drawings and the work of surrealist masters like man ray as well as early arte povera includes a conversation curated by maria centonze author of marcello levi a collector and the laws of chance and works by mario merz alghiero boetti joseph beuys andy warhol paul klee and kurt schwitters marcello levi portrait of a collector isbn 88-7757-195-0 u.s $32.00 paperback 8.5 x 12 in 160 pgs 65 color march art ed ruscha course of empire essays by joan didion linda norden frances stark and donna de salvo inspired by the symmetrical jeffersonian layout of the american pavilion s neoclassical architecture and by thomas cole s cycle of the same name ed ruscha installed this ten-painting exhibition titled course of empire at the 2005 venice biennale five
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152 smithsonian national museum of the american indian washington d.c and new york hatje cantz publishers holzwarth publications james luna emendatio essays by truman t lowe paul chaat smith and lisbeth haasand w richard west jr foreword by w richard west jr of the three works covered here which the national museum of the american indian brought to the venice biennale one offers a tribute to a luiseno indian who traveled from luna s tribal home in california to rome to study for the priesthood in 1834 luna oscillates between shaman and showman a duality highlighted by this book s lenticular cover james luna emendatio isbn 0-9719163-6-5 u.s $20.00 pbk 6.5 x 9.5 in 112 pgs 42 color 12 b&w february art sislej xhafa edited by marla hurov and adrienne drake essays by luk lambrecht and edi muka prefaces by andi tepelena and cecila tirelli when sislej xhafa mowed the word benvenuto into a tuscan hillside european immigration-policy wonks squirmed a bit his pleasure our flowers decorated
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