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general interest 23 gary panter is the most important graphic artist of the post-psychedelic punk period mike kelley picturebox inc gary panter foreword by mike kelley text by robert storr richard gehr dan nadel karrie jacobs bryon coley an intimate look at the work and life of a legendary artist gary panter has been one of the most influential figures in visual culture since the mid-1970s from his era-defining punk graphics to his cartoon icon jimbo to his visionary design for pee-wee s playhouse he has left his mark on every medium he s touched working in close collaboration with the artist picturebox has assembled the definitive volume on panter s work from the early 1970s to the present this monumental slipcased set is split into two 350-page volumes the first is a comprehensive monograph featuring over 700 images of paintings drawings sculptures posters and comics alongside essays by robert storr mike kelley richard klein richard gehr karrie jacobs and byron coley as well a subs
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44 d a p www.artbook.com t:800.338.2665 f 800.478.3128 steidl partners the museum of modern art new york saul leiter preface by agnčs sire interview by sam stourdzé i started out as a fashion photographer one cannot say that i was successful but there was enough work to keep me busy i collaborated with harper s bazaar and other magazines i was constantly aware that those who hired me would have preferred to work with a star such as avedon but it didn t matter i had work and i made a living at the same time i took my own photographs strangely enough i knew exactly what i wanted and what i liked since the 1940s saul leiter an inveterate walker has trawled the streets of new york capturing its colors and spirit his liking for disarray solitude and elusiveness make him a unique artist quite unconcerned about joining the throng i spent a great deal of my life being ignored i was always very happy that way being ignored is a great privilege that is how i think i learned to see what ot
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general interest 65 exact change back in print last nights of paris by philippe soupault translated by william carlos williams written in 1928 by one of the founders of the surrealist movement and translated the following year by william carlos williams the two had been introduced in paris by a mutual friend last nights of paris is related to surrealist novels such as nadja and paris peasant but also to the american expatriate novels of its day such as day of the locust the story concerns the narrator s obsession with a woman who leads him into an underworld that promises to reveal the secrets of the city itself and in williams wonderfully direct translation it reads like a lost great american novel a vivid portrait of the city that entranced both its native writers and the americans who traveled to it in the 20s last nights of paris is a rare collaboration between the literary circles at the root of both french and american modernism last nights of paris isbn 978-1-878972-05-7 pa
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86 d a p www.artbook.com t:800.338.2665 f 800.478.3128 poligrafa goya text by josé gudiol goya the name alone evokes countless masterpieces both painted and printed the raw and brutal third of may 1808 the nightmarish caprichos etchings with the famous motto the sleep of reason produces monsters the compellingly erotic nude maja and clothed maja the savage disasters of war series and of course the late black paintings with their murky forebodings of public unrest and private turmoil although goya s influence on his contemporaries was minimal eclipsed as he was at the time by artists trained in the classical style of david and ingres it can now be traced clearly from manet through picasso to surrealism polke the chapman brothers and on nobody expressed the ravages of warfare and the extremes of human experience like goya it made him the envy of picasso who as a young artist copied his signature over and over as though to absorb the personality and abilities of his one suprem
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106 d a p www.artbook.com steidl musÉe de l elysÉe lausanne t:800.338.2665 f 800.478.3128 ellis press knoedler company new york veenman publishers ray k metzker text by william a ewing interview by nathalie herschdorfer from his early education at the art institute of chicago in the late 50s ray k metzker inherited the rich vocabulary of avant-garde photography between the wars photomontage solarization multiple printing of negatives unique perspectives diagonals etc from his first exposure to photography metzker never lost the urge to experiment with the grammar and syntax of the medium whether it was games played within the camera itself the doubleframes for example or complex manipulations in the darkroom the celebrated composites he has drawn inspiration from the neighborhoods where he has lived mainly chicago and philadelphia and increasingly from nature though the vegetation he depicts might be a weed-clogged vacant city lot as easily as the vast open plains of the american
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highlights 127 architecture urban studies stichting kunstboek veenman publishers jovis jovis parckdesign let s hug trees edited by lise coirier let s hug trees this volume collects the impressive roster of entries for belgium s 2007 parkdesign competition which invited a host of international designers to imagine and create innovative urban furniture for the historical jardins du fleuriste park in brussels the five winners will have their designs installed in the park for a minimum of three years they include a series of green squared and undulating benches by alexandre moronnoz a variety of space-age yet organic-looking curvy flexible white benches by micha l bihain cédric callewaert dark and sprawling benches that mimic the shadow of a tree s leaves on the ground by anika perez brice genre a wooden tower modeled on a tree by frédéric beauthier and a set of tree-circling seating platforms meant to bring humans as close as possible to the actual tree bark by emmanuel gardin parckd
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148 d a p www.artbook.com t:800.338.2665 f 800.478.3128 walther kÖnig walther kÖnig hatje cantz walther kÖnig previously announced hans-peter feldmann buch/book no 9 text by inka schube martin clark martin hochleitner düsseldorf-based hans-peter feldmann is a passionate collector of images and stories an original thinker and one of the first conceptual artists this is feldmann s most personal book a racy parcours through images before and behind the retina clouds and strawberries women in graceful poses pants that don t fit the longing of retired civil servants flying people christmas decorations soccer images collections of countrycode plates and much more these images are at once common strange smart stupid and human of his focus on the poetic moments of the ordinary a 2003 review in artforum said it is precisely this continual everexpanding reflection on and skepticism about the various functions and values of images their truth content and modes of employment that make feldma
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more new books 169 monographs artists projects jrp ringier jrp ringier jrp ringier daniel buren prospettive edited by luca cerizza sometimes classified as an abstract minimalist daniel buren is known for using regular contrasting maxi stripes to integrate visual surface and architectural space in historical architecture this volume documents a site-specific commission for bsi banca della svizzera italiana daniel buren prospettive isbn 978-3-905701-49-4 hardcover 5.5 x 7.25 in 72 pgs 25 color u.s $15.00 cdn $17.00 march/art robert barry real personal text by luca cerizza since 1967 the american conceptualist robert barry has taken his work to the limits of immateriality and invisibility creating installations with wire and nylon thread performing actions with inert gasses and radioactive materials and going on to work with acoustic frequencies sounds and language this volume documents a recent site-specific work robert barry real personal isbn 978-3-905701-48-7 hardcover 5.5
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190 d a p www.artbook.com t:800.338.2665 f 800.478.3128 walther kÖnig galleri riis/p.s.1 hatje cantz walther kÖnig previously announced gabriele heidecker art affairs back in print tom sandberg photographs 19892006 edited by alanna heiss text by bob nickas tom sandberg s photographs made a splash at new york s p.s.1 contemporary art center in february of 2007 though previously almost unknown to the american public sandberg born in 1953 has quietly produced over three decades a superb oeuvre of austere large-scale black-and-white photography focusing on a single object or person in each photograph and steeping them in a murky wintry light sandberg draws out soft tones and moody atmospheres from his subjects to create a pervasive complicity between them and the surrounding landscape but he is an exacting image-maker too and an involved one insisting as he does on clarity amid darkness and on the viewer s emotional approach to his images co-designed by the artist this beautifully-made
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