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2 the museum of modern art new york edvard munch the modern life of the soul edited by kynaston mcshine essays by patricia berman reinhold heller elizabeth prelinger and tina yarborough in an exploration of modern existential experience unparalleled in the history of art edvard munch the internationally renowned norwegian painter printmaker and draftsman sought to translate personal trauma into universal terms and in the process to comprehend the fundamental components of human existence birth love and death inspired by personal experience as well as by the literary and philosophical culture of ...

hatje cantz publishers 3 gerhard richter portraits spring highlights essays by stefan gronert and hubertus butin this first comprehensive overview of the place of the portrait in gerhard richter s oeuvre assembles portrait paintings photographs watercolors drawings and prints from the 1960s to the present everything from classics like the strikingly honey-haired betty to previously unknown works discovered in the course of research for this project icons such as ema nude on a staircase uncle rudi mister heyde 48 portraits self-portrait family at the sea small bathers reader and moritz settle once ...

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 ...

ludion 5 bonnard spring highlights essays by yve-alain bois sarah whitfield and georges rocque among those painters who incontestably left their mark on twentiethcentury art bonnard rises to the top again and again museums scholars and viewers regularly return to his oeuvre for reinterpretation passionate and contradictory of what it means to be modern in having followed a very personal calling literally and figuratively interior particularly compared to the work of friends like matisse bonnard created work as innovative as any of his contemporaries his recurring themes the nude both classical ...

6 hatje cantz publishers klee and america edited by josef helfenstein and elizabeth hutton turner essays by jenny anger vivian endicott barnett michael baumgartner charles w hazxthausen and osamu okuda paul klee was a leading figure in european modernism and his acclaim at home was quickly matched in the united states where both private collectors and major museums sought out his work klee and america explores the reasons for that enthusiastic reception especially during the 1930s and 1940s while the artist was being targeted in hitler s campaign against entartete kunst degenerate art just as ...

guggenheim museum 7 david smith a centennial spring highlights essays by carmen giménez rosalind e krauss david anfam michael brenson and paul hayes tucker deemed the foremost sculptor of his generation by art critic clement greenberg david smith who lived from 1906 to 1965 is about to be celebrated in his first retrospective since 1969 to be held at the guggenheim museum new york from february through may of 2006 david smith a centennial features new photographs of nearly every selected sculpture 110 pieces dating from 1932 to 1965 including important examples from each period many rarely seen ...

8 aperture things as they are photojournalism in context since 1955 afterword by christian caujolle introduction by mary panzer preface by michiel munneke things as they are presents the story of photojournalism over the past five decades from 1955 until today published in collaboration with world press photo on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary the book takes us from the golden era of the illustrated press the heyday of life magazine and picture post and the moment of the museum of modern art s defining family of man exhibition to the twenty-first century s explosion of digital media this ...

aperture 9 william christenberry spring highlights essays by elizabeth broun howard n fox andy grundberg and walter hopps since the early 1960s william christenberry has plumbed the regional identity of the american south through his work in hale county alabama where he was raised although he is most often associated with and recognized as a pioneer in american color photography he also works in an unorthodox mix of media that includes sculpture drawing painting and found-object assemblage this comprehensive survey of his work considers all those practices together and in doing so gives readers ...

10 charta/musac shirin neshat the last word edited by octavio zaya essays by hamid dabashi and octavio zaya the first monograph to thoroughly document shirin neshat s video production the last word provides both a beautiful reminder of her work s color and intensity and a crucial tool for her increasing number of fans and scholars neshat who studied in the united states and has lived in new york for many years found international success following the explosive release of her images of muslim women wrapped in chadors with verses by rebel persian poetesses traced on their faces hands and feet she ...

les presses du reel/d.a.p 11 annette messager word for word spring highlights texts writings and interviews edited by marie-laure bernadac interviews with harald szeemann robert storr bernard marcadè and suzanne pagè texts and words are of crucial importance to annette messager s work for her words are images and so words at once autonomous from parallel to and the sources of her visual creativity are woven throughout her production she has looked directly at our diverse relationships to language in forms ranging from the early scrapbooks of the 1970s to the large sculpted words of the late 1990s ...

12 steidl/dangin guy bourdin a message for you edited by shelly verthime essay by nicolle meyer introduction by alber elbaz with the eye of a painter and the freedom of a photographer guy bourdin created images full of fascinating stories compositions and colors using fashion and fashion photography as his vehicle he explored the realms between the absurd and the sublime taking cues from the theater and surrealism along the way he became famous for his suggestive narratives and fantastic aesthetics he broke conventions of commercial photography with a relentless perfectionism and sharp humor given ...

steidl 13 warhol s world spring highlights edited by anthony d offay gregor muir and timothy hunt the power in warhol s portraits stems in part from the depth of his engagement with the society his subjects moved in nowhere is this involvement more clearly demonstrated than in his late photography these previously unpublished images from the andy warhol foundation reveal the reality behind the curtain at studio 54 and the factory and look into the bloodshot eyes of the endless throng of celebrities that came to make up the artist s social life if there had remained in warhol something of the true ...

14 fraenkel gallery/hasselblad foundation lee friedlander apples olives the master photographer best known for his extensive insightful documentation of the american social landscape from jazz musicians to factory hands to new york pedestrians and office workers zoning out at their keyboards has recently been spending more time looking at the literal natural landscape his monumental 2005 moma retrospective showed for the first time a new series of landscapes made in the american west while for olives and apples he has looked back over the last decade s work and culled a forest tree by tree his ...

steidl/icp 15 african american vernacular photography spring highlights selected from the daniel cowin collection essays by brian wallis and deborah willis these selections from the daniel cowin collection make up an extraordinary group of images of african americans in a variety of genres and poses including formal studio portraits casual snapshots images of children images of uniformed soldiers wedding portraits and so-called southern-views made for tourist consumption all dating from 1860 to 1960 while some of the sitters are celebrities of their day the majority are unnamed americans posing ...

16 steidl inge morath the road to reno essay by lucy raven afterword by arthur miller inge morath s first trip across the united states followed a red grease-pencil line drawn by her traveling companion henri cartier-bresson in 1960 the two drove from new york through gettysburg memphis and albuquerque to reno they were among 18 photojournalists commissioned by magnum to document the nevada set of arthur miller s the misfits the destination was momentous for morath she took remarkable photographs and later married miller after his divorce from marilyn monroe but it is the trip the 18 days she spent ...

steidl 17 alec soth niagara spring highlights essays by richard ford and philip brookman by way of follow-up to his critically acclaimed debut monograph sleeping by the mississippi alec soth turns his eye to another iconic body of water niagara falls and as with his photographs of the mississippi these images are less about natural wonder than human desire i went to niagara for the same reason as the honeymooners and suicide jumpers says soth the relentless thunder of the falls just calls for big passion the subject may be hot but the pictures are quiet the rigorously composed and richly detailed ...

18 steidl aperture ed ruscha photographer edited by margit rowell ed ruscha s relationship to photography is complex and ambivalent the world-class painter and author of a 1972 new york times article called i m not really a photographer has been known to refer to his work in this second medium as a hobby despite considerable persistent critical interest whether he likes it or not the small albums of plainly-shot snapshot-sized images he produced in the 1960s and 70s including twenty-six gasoline stations intrigued his contemporaries and earned him an unshakable reputation how his subject matter ...

metropolis books 19 overlook exploring the internal fringes of america with the center for land use interpretation edited by matthew coolidge and sarah simons essay by ralph rugoff the center for land use interpretation is a research-based educational organization that produces public programs about the built landscape of the united states from its sites in los angeles utah and the mojave desert with an upstate new york location opening in 2006 the center s aim is to increase and diffuse information about how the nation s lands are apportioned utilized and perceived recent examples of their work ...

20 hatje cantz publishers aperture peter bialobrzeski heimat essay by ariel hauptmeier preface by peter bialobrzeski peter bialobrzeski s fascinating and disturbing collection of photographs from the skyscraper landscapes of asian megacities neon tigers enchanted many it was selected as one of the best-designed german books of 2004 and awarded the german photography book prize after his return from asia bialobrzeski spent more than two years traveling through his native germany heimat which is german for homeland is the result for germans heimat is a rather difficult term embodying conflicting ...

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 ...

22 la marca editora santiago melazzini s short moving pictures flip books of literally black-and-white and figuratively colorful mexican life are as lowtech as it gets watch the masked luchadores bounce off the wrestling-ring ropes and then fall to the mat watch the boxer punch the mariachi band play or the tequila have its way and then watch it all again backwards an elemental pleasure and an ideal gift chile isbn 950-889-116-5 u.s $5.99 sdnr 50 paperback 4 x 2.25 in 150 pgs 75 b&w february photography day of the dead isbn 950-889-118-1 u.s $5.99 sdnr 50 paperback 4 x 2.25 in 150 pgs 75 ...

editorial rm 23 el super spring highlights edited by kurt hollander photographs by adam wiseman if you are what you eat then it would follow that grocery shopping is the way you construct your identity and that markets and grocery stores are the laboratories in which whole cultures build theirs as well as an early place to spot changes this small chunky and completely charming gift book presents portraits of mexican consumer products alongside photographs of the supermarkets stores markets and street vendors where they are sold the accompanying text places all this graphically striking raw material ...

24 fuel publishing russian criminal tattoo encyclopedia volume ii introduction by anne applebaum drawings by danzig baldaev photographs by sergey vasiliev foreword by alexel pluster-sarno danzig baldaev s father was an academic an ethnologist who found himself imprisoned under soviet rule as an enemy of the people in fact much of baldaev s family moved through the soviet prison system while he became a guard at his father s suggestion he used his access to document and study the tattoos that were pervasive among the truly criminal portion of the prison population the vory v zakonye or legitimate ...

t adler books 25 surfing photographs from the seventies taken by jeff divine introduction by scott hulet as a teenager taking pictures of fellow surfers in 1960s la jolla jeff divine got to know the original alternative sport before the x-games were even a gleam in a producer s eye through this rare collection of photographs from the momentous decade that followed he conveys the feeling of being on the beach in its most creative era being present at the inception of a subculture too large and photogenic to stay down long the style the athleticism and the escapism in these images will be familiar ...

26 iconoclast thumbsucker photography from the film by mike mills edited by mike mills essays by aaron rose and mike mills justin cobb the main character of mike mills s directorial debut is still sucking his thumb at 17 he wants to stop but when he finally does thanks to hypnotherapy administered by his new-age orthodontist played by keanu reeves it throws his life and his family s into complete disarray thumbsucker which documents the eponymous film s production is art in itself packed with work from a group of super-hip internationally known young photographers including takashi homma ed templeton ...

28 dis voir dis voir dis voir peter greenaway nightwatching nightwatching is the screenplay for a new film written and directed by peter greenaway to be completed for the cannes film festival in may 2006 its release will coincide with the 400th anniversary of rembrandt s birth and with an installation of greenaway s work presented at the rijksmuseum in amsterdam alongside the film s subject rembrandt s the night watch nightwatching proposes that rembrandt s most famous painting eventually became the central focus of his existence and that it broke him even as it made him the night watch an enormous ...

30 photology pierluigi on cinema essay by greta scacchi pierluigi praturlon was born in rome in 1924 and grew up to become a photographer in the city s cinematic golden age the prime of la dolce vita as fellini s on set collaborator shooting both stills and proto-paparazzi candids legend has it that pierluigi was the one to suggest that anita ekberg climb into the fontana de trevi before the 1950s and 60s were over he had collaborated with nearly every important italian director and with the scads of americans then making movies in italy this survey of pierluigi s work is also perforce a survey ...

32 map book publishers hatje cantz publishers le book publishing inc ma ke point one a designer and a story about chinese fashion while many readers will associate chinese textiles with low-end exports some may already know that the new generation of chinese young people who have grown up with greater and greater exposure to luxury goods and the brands of the west and japan are beginning to make fashion they are digesting an array of new influences and readying themselves to conquer the world ma ke who is considered the most important young fashion designer in china today founded her brand exception ...

34 exact change exact change exact change back in print back in print back in print in youth is pleasure i left my grandfather s house by denton welch foreword by william burroughs welch has achieved a curious kind of cult status his name bandied about by critics but little known among the public at large· this exquisitely designed reissue is an exhilarating literary event new york newsday first published in 1945 in youth is pleasure is a beautiful and unassuming coming-of-age novel by the english writer and painter denton welch 19151948 painfully sensitive and sad orville pym is 15 years ...

36 charta the institute of cultural inquiry just war by howard zinn introduction by gino strada photographs by moises saman from the author of the classic college campus favorite and perennial seller a people s history of the united states comes a short intense polemic on the political direction of those united states leading toward what seems to zinn like perpetual war just war is based on a lecture given in rome where as zinn addressed an italian audience a public known for its negative opinions of recent american foreign policy he could be direct about his own feelings i come from a country ...

38 nai publishers hatje cantz publishers darte publishing llc secret publicity essays on contemporary art by sven lüttiken these thought-provoking essays from the first laureate of the netherlands foundation for visual arts design and architecture s prize for art criticism consider the central role of publicity as both a subject of and a power in contemporary art and ask whether artists could create a publicity opposed to the mass media how open are such alternatives would art that attempts to develop its own counter-publicity become a secret society lütticken who teaches at the university of amsterdam ...

40 the museum of modern art new york looking at dada essays by sarah ganz blythe and edward d powers born in the midst of world war i dada posed a fundamental challenge to established social values and artistic norms the 1910s and early 20s marked the birth of the illustrated press and radio broadcasting the commercial cinema and the industrial assembly line phenomena that all contributed to shaping this extraordinarily dynamic movement which had an enormous influence on the art and culture of later decades looking at dada is intended as an accessible introduction to dada and its times the book ...

42 stichting kunstboek artimo richard hutten works in use essays by paola antonelli aaron betsky and brigitte fitoussi interviews with humberto campana konstantin grcic karl lagerfeld karim rashid et al the dutch designer richard hutten is barely 38 and has already made an indelible mark in the international design world in 2008 if everything goes according to plan a design academy carrying his name will open in seoul orders for his contemporary version of the berlage chair are difficult to keep up with and his domoor mug bronto chair and zzzidt chair also known as the skippy remain very successful ...

44 of related interest actar verb 1 flexi isbn 8495273551 u.s $29.95 actar verb connection flexi isbn 8495951061 u.s $29.95 actar verb natures edited by albert ferré tomoko sakamoto michael kubo ramon prat anna tetas and irene hwang colorful tactile dense and covered in a seductive semi-transparent rubber bookjacket verb matters remains devoted to cutting-edge issues in architecture and design in this issue the editors look at how buildings and cities grow are transformed and dissolve how can this evolution be generated controlled enhanced or imagined is our environment programmable how does the ...

46 artimo actar d/pictoplasma publishing actar d/pictoplasma publishing dutch touch edited by angelique westerhof essays by jan hoekema and angelique westerhof it s not just viktor rolf anymore when the dutch touch fashion showcase came to new york exhibits included dutch at the edge of design fashion and textiles from the netherlands stretching boundaries beyond fashion hermetica and finding netherland an atelier and showroom among the venues were the museum at the fashion institute of technology and the diane von furstenberg gallery previous events in rome and paris had been just as intense ...

la marca editora actar/archiv der jugendkulturen verlag 47 design decorative arts buenos aires city bus el libro de los colectivos edited by guido indij essay by carlos achával buenos aires s public transportation has never fared well under government control so today as for most of the last century since the stagecoach days its buses are owned and run by private companies the collectives not only do these ancient machines not come in a single municipal color scheme but also no one bus is the same as any other buenos aires city bus catalogues the painted motifs and altered hood ornaments that ...

48 nai publishers/stedelijk museum amsterdam valiz/werkplaats typografie nai publishers nest design for the interior proposal for municipal art acquisition edited by ingeborg de roode foreword by gijs van tuyl when the stedelijk museum put out a call for dutch design for the interior seeking items for its renowned permanent collection it got more than 500 entries the jury selected 51 designers or studios 94 pieces of work total from vacuum cleaners to linoleum to a mobile kitchen and the museum s final decisions were made based in part on the materials in these pages the title of the book nest ...

50 mfa publications mfa publications mfa publications new in hardcover american decorative arts future retro drawings from the great age of american automobiles essay by frederic a sharf afterword by richard arbib now in a hardcover edition this book of enchanting vintage drawings showcases the beauty and ingenuity of american automobile design in the landmark period from the 1940s to the 1960s the work ranges from rough revealing preliminary sketches to carefully drafted full-color illustrations which were the presentation drawings auto makers used to showcase concepts present new design ideals ...

52 walker art center hatje cantz publishers expanding the center walker art center and herzog de meuron edited by andrew blauvelt essays by andrew blauvelt steve dietz sarah schultz and robin dowden conversations with philippe vergne richard flood doryun chong pitor szhakski and rich shelton foreword by kathy halbreich the walker art center recently opened its expanded space which includes a new theater a new restaurant and more galleries but is best known for being herzog de meuron s first public building in the united states the project drew national coverage from media including the new york ...

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 ...

56 actar actar hatje cantz publishers massimiliano fuksas ferrari research center the ferrari industrial complex an extraordinary campus devoted to designing and testing ferrari cars has been testing some major design changes of its own world-renowned italian architect massimiliano fuksas s new research center built between the wind tunnel and the mechanics building will now host the offices of ferrari technical management its rectangular bamboo forest and ground-level reflecting pool are meant to offer a micro-climate for the realization of a dream the floor plans construction photos and renderings ...

58 actar/sci-arc actar/coac association of catalan architects actar fernando romero translation essay by aaron betsky fernando romero graduated from architecture school in mexico city in 1995 and then worked with enric miralles jean nouvel and rem koolhaas before setting up his own firm in 1999 called laboratorio de la ciudad de mexico lcm soon became influential as one of few offices if not the only one carrying out experimental projects in mexico city s economically vulnerable environment in 2005 romero founded the laboratory of architecture lar translation divides lcm and lar s projects into ...

60 nai publishers actar/sci-arc oro editions oase #68 home-land edited by pnina avidar and max cohen de lara essays by els verbakel raul bunschoten bert de muynck anil ramdas haroon saad and sophia vyzoviti oase considers the impact of migration on cities from an architectural perspective focusing on urban development and issues of identity subculture territory and tolerance oase #68 home-land isbn 90-5662-466-0 u.s $25.00 paperback 6.75 x 9.25 in 144 pgs 80 b&w march architecture andrew zago zago architecture and office da two installations edited by dora epstein jones julianna morais and martha ...

62 hatje cantz publishers hatje cantz publishers jovis gmp ideal city real projects architekten von gerkan marg und partner in china edited by winfried nerdinger essays by meinhard von gerkan bernd pastuschka zheng shiling and xu xiaofei over the last six years the hamburg firm of von gerkan marg and partners gmp for short has designed more than 100 projects for clients in china five of which have been completed and 20 of which are in planning or construction stages all are featured here gmp ideal city real projects isbn 3-7757-1667-x u.s $48.00 hardcover 9 x 12.5 in 192 pgs 37 color 279 b&w ...

64 aperture teun hocks essay by janet koplos though dutch artist teun hocks performer photographer painter is widely known and shown around the world this will be his first english-language book in it hocks plays his signature role which janet koplos describes as an innocent everyman in an always strange and often funny world in scenes that range from burlesque to tragicomic his lonely buster keaton-like persona perseveres through odd and unforgiving environments struggling to find stable ground in an unstable even absurd universe life s complications and challenges take the form of impossible ...

66 aperture regeneration 50 photographers of tomorrow introductions by jean-christoph blaser and nathalie herschdorfer preface by william a ewing what are young photographers up to at the outset of the twenty-first century how do they see the world how much do they respect build on or reject tradition are they busy in the darkroom or in the computer lab or both regeneration sets out to discover answers to these intriguing questions previewing the work of 50 photographers who may well emerge as some of the finest of their generation this remarkable book the broadest and most enterprising survey ...

68 steidl christopher morris my america edited and with essay by claudia christen over the past 20 years christopher morris has concentrated the greater part of his work on war correspondence documenting more than 18 foreign conflicts including the u.s invasion of panama the persian gulf war the drug war in columbia and the wars in afghanistan chechnya and yugoslavia for the last four years he has been home photographing the relative calm of the domestic side of george w bush s presidency on assignment for time morris describes this collection of his bush-era work as his personal journey into a ...

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 ...

72 jrp/ringier ari marcopoulos even the president of the united states sometimes has got to stand naked ari marcopoulos is best known for documenting boyish subcultures from the inside out his work on professional snowboarding appears in transitions and exits and his photos on hip-hop five years of images of the beastie boys in pass the mic aaron rose who showed marcopoulos at alleged gallery has said of the artist s uncanny connection with one set of subjects a crowd of new york skateboarders ten years his junior there was just something in his personality that said `hey man it s cool it shows ...

74 damiani man ray women edited by valerio deho man ray found the surreal in the commonplace particularly in the female form and this has made his photography some of the world s most accessible and recognizable his ubiquitous la violin d ingres creates a cello from a woman s torso with the addition of curliqued vents inked on her sides his classic image of shining cinematic tears glistening on a powdered cheek has been tucked into mirror frames all over the world this collection of more than 130 pictures dated between 1920 and 1950 covers not only ray s work as one of the world s leading avant-garde ...

76 damiani hatje cantz publishers hatje cantz publishers traffic snapshots collection edited by christian skrein essay by bodo von dewitz christian skrein who has also been known to airports stars foreword by vincenzo mollica introduction by walter weltroni from the publishers of spaghetti stars and cafè of stars comes the retro and prescient airports stars a collection of photographs of hollywood actors royalty and other celebrities from the golden age of italian film the 1950s and 1960s arriving in rome back when comings and goings were event enough to merit a flash and when the photographers ...

78 jovis torst torst jan langhans essay by pavel scheufler tono stano essay by magdalena jurikova tono stano and his fellow-students at the prague school of film photography and television burst onto the czech scene in the early 1980s with staged photographs full of expressive movement and metaphor influenced in part by performance art stano soon became the most striking figure of this slovak wave and from the playful exuberance and exaggeration of his early photographs gradually worked his way to brilliant black-andwhite work in which shadow and light turn female nudes into near-abstract forms ...

80 artimo/poc editions artimo/poc editions artimo/poc editions charles fréger 2nelson essay by bill kouwenhoven charles fréger finds his favorite portrait subjects clustered in social crowds work teams or collective structures or communities and in fact those structures are as much his subjects as the people in them where better to look for the forces that draw people together and set them against one another than among children being coached to wrestle united in purpose and set against one another on the mat fréger s subjects seem to struggle against one another in soundless tension the squeak ...

82 hatje cantz publishers contemporary art museum st louis holzwarth publications cindy sherman working girl daido moriyama shinjuku 19xx-20xx essay by zdenek felix daido moriyama who was born near osaka in 1938 is one of the most influential representatives of contemporary japanese photography his unmistakable style influenced by the work of weegee william klein and andy warhol has been evolving since the 1970s his images often made with a small handheld camera draw viewers in with their diffuse suggestive layers of gray moriyama is aptly characterized as a hunter of light and his preference ...

84 kerber steidl steidl taiji matsue landscapes anyone who has clicked through from google maps to a satellite image of his or her destination will grasp immediately the appeal of tokyo-born taiji matsue s photographs which look down from high points in natural and manmade landscapes the artist is a geologist by training and his work examines the skin of the earth with no horizon and no form other than the undulating shapes beneath it and the tracery of roads buildings plants and people on it matsue observes houses farms construction sites wetlands and cities from perches tens to hundreds of feet ...

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 ...

88 steidl/edition 7l steidl steidlmack pretty powerful perishable photographs from the prince ernst august of hanover collection edited by bodo von dewitz state portraits have always been a powerful means of royal self-promotion for centuries painting was largely sustained by court patronage the permanent glamorous representation of each commissioning head of state helped to safeguard his dominance then along came photography and everyone could afford to be immortalized nonetheless the royal court around the welfen dynasty in hanover let itself be photographed repeatedly the royals contracted ...

90 artimo damiani damiani olaf nicolai the blondes the titular blondes are the 43 subjects of this series of after pictures taken during the month that olaf nicolai ran a beauty parlor at the center of tilburg in the netherlands he offered to bleach visitors hair free of charge in exchange for permission to use images of them in his work other things about the salon were a bit off too instead of the usual product advertisements the walls were decorated with prints of artworks involving blondes by artists ranging from andy warhol to vanessa beecroft karen kilimnik and many others olaf nicolai ...

92 exhibitions international/b.a.i ilya repin 1844-1930 this first comprehensive survey of ilya repin s work to be overseen by a western art historian features a wealth of previously unseen paintings eye-catching and dramatic works that bring to life russian society in the last years of the tsars repin who lived from 1844 to 1930 was the finest and most celebrated painter of his generation and an important influence in shaping a distinctly russian school within nineteenth-century realism his often-controversial works addressed subjects including the hard lives of the peasants the fates of revolutionary ...

94 hatje cantz publishers otto dix hommage à martha essay by karin schick between 1921 and 1933 while painter otto dix was in his 30s and early 40s in the years following the great war in which he had fought for germany at the somme and which had driven him to make some of the most controversial violent art of his generation dix put much of his artistic energy into portraits of his lover and later wife martha the paintings watercolors drawings and humorous sketches brought together here show martha dix advancing through roles as a sophisticated emancipated woman as lover muse and intellectual companion ...

96 hatje cantz publishers exhibitions international/b.a.i eugeen van mieghem antwerp-new york emigrants of the red star line 1875-1930 essay by erwin joos growing up in the harbor of antwerp in the late nineteenth century van mieghem could see the red star line from his parents café he sketched harbor views and portraits of travelers often in the midst of historic departures antwerp-new york intermixes that work with historical material eugeen van mieghem antwerp-new york isbn 90-76704-99-6 u.s $27.50 paperback 7 x 9.75 in 112 pgs 167 color james ensor edited by max hollein and ingrid pfeiffer ...

98 richter verlag rodin beuys edited by pamela kort and max hollein essays by claude keisch helene pinet josephine gabler and dieter koepplin between 1947 and 1964 joseph beuys produced a swath of works on paper that in their style technique and formal vocabulary echo those of auguste rodin by way of his teacher and mentor sculptor wilhelm lehmbruck although beuys s work remains very different from his predecessors it does take up themes they had pursued including the idea of the torso as an autonomous enclosed form and of the fragment as the simplest and most elementary embodiment of immutability ...

100 walker art center andy warhol/supernova stars deaths and disasters 1962-1964 edited by douglas fogle essays by francesco bonami douglas fogle and david moos in the age of mass media american culture has displayed an unequaled fascination with both celebrities and disasters andy warhol was one of the first artists to investigate these twin obsessions beginning in the mid-1960s as he shifted his practice from hand-painting to the mechanical photo silkscreen process andy warhol/supernova brings together more than 50 examples of the artist s early silkscreen work juxtaposing his iconic serial images ...

102 mitchell-innes nash charta roy lichtenstein conversations with surrealism essays by charles stuckey and frederic tuten foreword by jack cowart charles stuckey writes in his essay lichtenstein and surrealism that searching for a worldwide audience in the 1930s the surrealists nowhere received more welcome than in the united states with important exhibitions at the wadsworth atheneum in hartford and the museum of modern art in new york the julien levy gallery quickly became something of an official new york headquarters by the 1940s when lichtenstein attended art school at ohio state university ...

104 richter verlag colby college museum of art pratt exhibitions sol lewitt seven basic colors and all their combinations in a square within a square essay by heinz liesbrock josef albers and sol lewitt are split by fundamentally different understandings of their work but united by a powerful overarching and defining goal the avoidance of emphatic ideas of authorship and the de-emphasis even of the star system inside an author s own oeuvre both keep their works from getting uppity by making each one part of a serial long-term study rather than an individual potential masterpiece lewitt acknowledges ...

106 hatje cantz publishers richter verlag john chamberlain papier paradisio edited by dieter schwarz essays by robert creeley and fielding dawson when chamberlain began his career in the late 1950s his twisted metal sculptures eventually created a new three-dimensional abstract expressionism this collection of his two-dimensional works brings him back to that starting point and suggests other directions he might have taken john chamerlain papier paradisio isbn 3-937572-41-4 u.s $55.00 hdcvr 8.25 x 11 in 160 pgs 156 color 10 b&w march art fred sandback being in a place edited by friedemann malsch ...

108 the museum of modern art new york douglas gordon essay by klaus biesenbach throughout his career douglas gordon has engaged in an ongoing reflection on the motion picture examining the relationship between the movies and our common knowledge and perception of them in altering monumentalizing and alienating our collective understanding of film he visualizes pictures and sculpts time douglas gordon which was organized by moma curator klaus biesenbach collects images and texts from the past 40 years a nod to gordon s birth date of 1966 all of which deal with ideas of visual memory shared visual ...

110 walker art center house of oracles a huang yong ping retrospective edited by philippe vergne and doryun chong essays by hou hanru fei dawei huang yong ping and philippe vergne foreword by kathy halbreich this first monograph to look back over huang yong ping s work to date finally brings the full range of his accomplishments to an international audience as a contemporary artist in china working with diverse traditions and new and ancient media huang has built an artistic universe comprised of provocative installations that challenge the viewer to reconsider everything from the idea of art to ...

guggenheim museum 111 william kentridge black box/chambre noire modern contemporary art essays by maria-christina villaseñor and william kentridge in the course of designing his recent production of mozart s the magic flute artist and animated filmmaker william kentridge created a mechanized theater maquette when he saw the miniature stage s potential as sculpture projection site and installation he began to imagine black box the freestanding structure whose development and installation are documented here a movement-filled visually charged piece it is peopled with two-dimensional mechanical figures ...

112 jrp/ringier kunsthaus bregenz walther könig steidl janet cardiff george bures miller the secret hotel edited by eckhard schneider essays by jörg heiser and matthias lilienthal this renowned canadian duo s audio and video works and installations examine the complexity and vertiginous nature of subjectivity in a technological world where man is caught between present and the loss of self between memory and experience perception and imagination cardiff and miller create interactive pieces in which the visitor is invited to touch listen smell and move about freely this new catalogue presents five ...

114 hatje cantz publishers steidlmack/artangel charta gregor schneider cube venice 2005 art in the age of global terrorism essays by amine haase and friedhelm mennekes introduction by eugene blume when rosa martinez in her role as a co-curator of the 2005 venice biennale commissioned gregor schneider s cube venice a 50-foot-square tower of veiled scaffolding designed in tribute to the ka aba in mecca a sacred and undocumented site forbidden to non-worshippers she and schneider agreed that piazza san marco the plaza in front of the conversely very touristy cathedral of san marcos was the ideal place ...

116 steidl art gallery of york university hatje cantz publishers gunnar a kaldewey artist books for a global world essays by wayne hammond and robert l volz the catalogue raisonné of exquisite limited editions by master bookmaker kaldewey artists include jonathan lasker and richard tuttle texts from beckett duras and joyce gunnar a kaldewey artist books for a global world paul ruscha s full moon paul ruscha s home is a monument to the compulsions of collecting he has been amassing everything from appliances to office supplies since he was a child typewriters toasters hair dryers cameras cocktail ...

118 zach feuer gallery/volume editions zach feuer gallery/grinnell college the rose art museum danica phelps a book of d s for 10 years danica phelps has been documenting and drawing her life in visual codes that tracked first her monetary and then later also her erotic activity calendars chart the daily comings and goings of an artistic existence watercolors illuminate amounts spent and gained and sinuous graphite line drawings record quotidian intimacy between phelps and her lover debi as julie caniglia wrote in artforum there s a mild voyeuristic thrill in scanning the minutae of her daily ...

120 loyal baltic centre for contemporary art charta/indianapolis museum of contemporary art loyal and his band edited by martin lilja kristian bengtsson and amy giunta the creators of loyal magazine and its eponymous gallery celebrate five years with this their first book loyal and his band brings together a stunning variety of work from more than 20 artists it s a collection of drawings paintings photographs humorous poignant stories and interviews with many who have been part of the loyal family including jules de balincourt matt leines taylor mckimens misaki kawai wes lang eddie martinez jockum ...

122 charta hatje cantz publishers turner/ramis barquet jorge galindo elixir essay by omar pascual over the past 20 years spanish painter jorge galindo s work has evolved into a figurative and on occasion almost clean style having left behind the collage galindo is working with calendar-like midcentury images of women and painting in dispro paul waldman eros art and magic essays by carol strickland carter ratcliff and john nunley this first monograph to focus on painter paul waldman tackles a great deal of work his highly regarded career spans more than four decades to do the job the editors have ...

124 jrp/ringier hatje cantz publishers hatje cantz publishers cory arcangel beige edited by raphael gygax twenty-five years ago the first 8-bit nintendo console went on the market now most home computers have hundreds of thousands of times that power arcangel who is 27 this year is a full-fledged member of the generation that grew up on home video games with beige a collective of fellow programmers he has embarked on a hacker s nostalgia trip his return to super mario brothers removes all of the action to leave a landscape of blue sky and puffy clouds shoot andy warhol is a working video game in ...

126 timezone 8 timezone 8 timezone 8/galerie urs meile xie nanxing paintings 1992-2004 zhang xiao tao dream factory rubbish heap edited by kanshima takahiro essay by snejana krasteve these softly colored oils of copulating frogs melting birthday cakes lobster claws and faces reflected in used condoms accumulate layers fast cells swim over their surfaces as if across a slide or are those drops of blood and tropical fish flit through the debris all against idyllic blue-green this first monograph on the young beijing artist includes images of zhang working in his studio pictures of his sculptural ...

128 jrp/ringier valiz verlag für moderne kunst nürnberg euan macdonald everythinghappensatonce essays by barbara fischer ann mcdonald and stephanie roesenthal everythinghappensatonce brings together rebecca warren edited by beatrix ruf essays by carl freedman and gregorio maghani this first monograph features rebecca warren s first u.s solo show at matthew marks gallery where her rough unfired clay works reconfigured works by an array of masters among them degas rodin boccioni picasso fontana and the german expressionists warren connects to the work of more recent artists and their curvy muses ...

130 hatje cantz publishers charta ingvild goetz flashback revisiting the art of the eighties edited by philipp kaiser conversations with benjamin h.d buchloh werner büttner isabelle graw kasper könig and thomas ruff the last decade of the cold war era left a legacy greater than legwarmers flashback takes a close and critical look at what many see as the decade of painting or the decade of the art-market boom or as cindy sherman once called it the decade of media criticism is it any wonder that what emerges from the diversity of artistic approaches in flashback is an extraordinarily heterogeneous ...

132 jrp/ringier verlag für moderne kunst nürnberg dumont literatur und kunst verlag le magasin 1986-2006 edited by yves aupetitallot essay by laura cottingham le magasin the national contemporary art center of grenoble was an early and excellent model of the rehabilitation of an abandoned industrial site for contemporary art it is now emerging from a secondary period of renovation and this book celebrates its renewal its history and its ongoing role in expanding the domain of curatorial experimentation among those projects presented here many of which have never before been published are works ...

134 jrp/ringier center for art and visual culture umbc errant bodies press when humour becomes painful edited by heike munder and felicity lunn essays by slavoj zizek and simon critchley from dada to fluxus through sensation to today humor is at the heart of much of the mostbeloved and least comfortable art out there humor s ambivalence its ability to shift between the utopian and the destructive and its refusal of absolute values distinguish many of those twentieth century movements that continue to exert an influence this catalogue of work from more than 30 artists including bruce nauman and ...

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 ...

138 errant bodies press plexifilm onestar/version magazine/idea one reason to live conversations about music with julius nil edited by seth kim-cohen conversations with esther leslie eric roth seth kim-cohen andrew mcgettigan julius nil david toop scanner brandon labelle ken vandermark kaffe matthews steven connor john parish ben watson et al if it all came down to one piece of music what would you choose how would you justify your choice on live radio these are the questions julius nil asked every other sunday for a year on london s resonance fm before going to work at yale under his given name ...

140 cabinet cabinet bard college cabinet #20 ruins edited by brian dillon and sina najafi cabinet 20 focuses on decay and desuetude the history aesthetics and politics of the fragment the remnant and the rubble of once-proud edifices at what historical remove from its prime does a ruin come to seem respectably picturesque are there ruins that are unrecoupable to an aesthetics of attractive decay or sublime rot cabinet 20 treats the ruin as an unruly rubric not just pertaining to the ruins of buildings fortifications industrial plants monuments and engineering works but also to the ruins of ...

142 parkett also available parkett collaborations editions since 1984 new postcard set of all artists editions with text booklet from parkett s moma show boxed isbn 3907582233 u.s $39.00 parkett parkett #74 bernard frize katharina grosse richard serra twenty years of unparalleled exploration and discussion of important international contemporary artists continue in parkett #74 which features collaborations by bernard frize katharina grosse and richard serra frize s most recent paintings are created by teams of performers following intricate scores for the intertwining and knotting of ribbons ...

144 verlag der buchhandlung walther könig köln verlag der buchhandlung walther könig köln verlag der buchhandlung walther könig köln david shrigley worried noodles ugly cunts songbook worried noodles ugly cunts songbook connects the three spheres of shrigley s work art books and music with satisfying ease his lyrics show a thriving will to understand a simple ambiguous poetry ironic and honest david shrigley worried noodles ugly cunts songbook isbn 3-86560-028-x u.s $32.00 sdnr 30 paperback 12.5 x 12.5 in 48 pgs 48 b&w march art les débuts de chéri samba foreword by karola grässlin as a self-taught ...

146 verlag der buchhandlung walther könig köln verlag der buchhandlung walther könig köln verlag der buchhandlung walther könig köln michel majerus installations 1992-2002 edited by peter pakesch essays by tilman baumgärtel raimar stange günter holler-schuster veit loers ralf christofori and robert fleck the tech-inspired and enabled painting and multimedia installations of a young star of the late 1990s who died in an accident in november 2002 michel majerus installations 1992-2002 isbn 3-88375-930-9 u.s $45.00 sdnr 30 pbk 8.5 x 11.25 in 250 pgs 200 color 30 b&w available art michael krebber ...

148 verlag der buchhandlung walther könig köln verlag der buchhandlung walther könig köln verlag der buchhandlung walther könig köln rainer ganahl road to war rainer ganahl is a man obsessed which he reveals in ways viewers tap into immediately he covers white canvases with the text of his google searches starting with terroroism he traces the borders on the front page of the new york times filling in only the headlines that catch his eye he videotapes the hundreds of hours he spends studying arabic he asks what knowledge can do good question rainer ganahl road to war isbn 3-88375-959-7 u.s $25.00 ...

150 richter verlag richter verlag richter verlag bernd koberling stony road essay by bera nordal the painter bernd koberling who lives in berlin first began to work in watercolor 10 years ago in iceland that productive encounter with the harsh solitude of the north to which he returns and where he continues to paint has left its mark on this substantial and growing portion of his oeuvre this single summer season s worth of bright pulsating abstract work was all created between august and october 2004 in remote lodmundarfjödur bernd koberling stony road isbn 3-937572-30-9 u.s $35.00 hardcover 8.5 ...

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 ...

154 turner a&r turner a&r hopefulmonster miguel calderón `till the day i die edited by alexandra garcia ponce texts by guillermo fadanelli and philip roth when calderón s grandfather died he left the artist a box of unexplained photographs and newspaper cut-outs of a man with various women calderon s republication of that material intermixes it with aphorisims from mexican writer guillermo fadanelli and excerpts from philip roth s sabbath s theater miguel calderón `till the day i die isbn 84-7506-730-1 u.s $40.00 hardcover 6.5 x 8.5 in 220 pgs 200 color march art/latin american terence gower ...

156 charta/galleria poggiali e forconi arte contemporanea firenze charta charta giovanni rizzoli edited by achille bonita oliva giovanni rizzoli venetian to the core crossbreeds sculpture installation painting and drawing in an intense linguistic and disciplinary mix as achille bonito oliva writes the richness of this iconographic universe positively encompasses the incoherence of formally contrasting poetics the mediterranean vitality of the baroque and the lenten spirituality of nordic literature giovanni rizzoli isbn 88-8158-554-5 u.s $34.95 paperback 7.5 x 10.5 in 80 pgs 55 color and 1 b&w ...

metropolis books d.a.p distributed art publishers inc steidl/edition 7l 157 previously announced design like you give a damn architectural responses to humanitarian crises edited by architecture for humanity the first book to bring the best of humanitarian architecture and design to the printed page design like you give a damn showcases 80 projects from the past two decades and includes narrative descriptions of each project along with detailed photographs illustrations and architectural drawings design like you give a damn architectural responses to humanitarian crises isbn 1-933045-25-6 u.s $30.00 ...

158 d.a.p backlist highlights back in stock recently released a flash of art hbk isbn 8888359117 u.s $95.00 photology arcana musicians on music pbk isbn 188712327x u.s $34.95 granary augustus f sherman ellis island portraits hbk isbn 193178860x u.s $40.00 aperture beautiful losers pbk isbn 1933045302 u.s $39.95 d.a.p iconoclast chasing the perfect by natalia ilyin hbk isbn 1933045213 u.s $27.50 metropolis books david lachappelle hbk 8888359141 u.s $25.00 photology education of a stoic by fernando pessoa pbk isbn 1878972405 u.s $13.95 exact change joseph cornell s dreams pbk isbn 1878972413 u.s ...

160 d.a.p backlist highlights art monographs surveys writings air guitar by dave hickey pbk isbn 0963726455 u.s $19.95 art issues andy warhol motion pictures hbk isbn 3980426548 u.s $35.00 kw institute for contemporary art on the edge and over by linda weintraub pbk isbn 0965198812 u.s $23.50 art insights chuck close self portraits 1967-2005 hbk isbn 0935640800 u.s $34.95 walker art center dada zurich berlin hanover colonge hbk isbn 1933045205 u.s $65.00 national gallery/d.a.p donald judd hbk isbn 1891024892 u.s $65.00 tate d.a.p drawing now hbk isbn 0870703625 u.s $34.95 the museum of modern ...

162 d.a.p backlist highlights photography monographs surveys adam broomberg oliver chanarin ghetto hbk isbn 1904563007 u.s $49.95 trolley alan ginsberg beat pieces hbk isbn 8888359168 u.s $75.00 photology alec soth sleeping by the mississippi hbk isbn 3865210074 u.s $45.00 steidl art photography now hbk isbn 193178891x u.s $50.00 aperture bygone days the photographs of john penor family hbk isbn 193304523x u.s $85.00 d.a.p cindy sherman the complete untitled film stills hbk isbn 0870705075 u.s $39.95 the museum of modern art new york diane arbus pbk isbn 0893816949 u.s $39.95 aperture gregory ...

164 d.a.p backlist highlights film fashion popular culture d.a.p backlist highlights literature poetry film catholic no 1 cats hbk isbn 1933045159 u.s $25.00 evil twin publications/d.a.p dora lives the authorized story of miki dora hbk isbn 1890481173 u.s $45.00 t adler books film as a subversive art by amos vogel pbk isbn 1933045272 u.s $25.00 c.t editions/d.a.p fuzz one by vincent fedorchak hbk isbn 0972592016 u.s $32.00 testify matthew vescovo instructoart lesson 1 pbk isbn 0974261505 u.s $25.00 jorge pinto instructoart raf simmons hbk isbn 888158543x u.s $75.00 charta i remember by joe ...

166 index gober robert god is dad gonzalez-torres felix gordon douglas gore gower terence granet andré greenaway peter griffa giorgio grosse katharina gruen victor 113 145 109 108 117 154 75 28 154 142 56 jodice mimmo john wesley works on paper johns jasper join jongstra claudy julie jurassic pork ii just war zinn howard 90 100 101 151 42 72 153 36 93 116 35 107 147 105 32 58 73 156 111 81 28 75 6 6 153 150 87 146 149 88 90 107 116 84 78 150 152 151 34 10 32 132 125 125 147 61 65 87 90 144 38 152 104 102 90 63 41 104 40 154 louisiana museum lovett john loyal and his band lucas maï lucas sarah ...

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