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Book SynopsisA critically acclaimed encounter between two American masters of threshold perception and color nuance This book brings together the work of abstract painter Ad Reinhardt (1913–67) and key figure of the Light and Space movement James Turrell (born 1943). Turrell first encountered Reinhardt at a lecture at Pasadena Museum in 1962, and paid homage to the influence Reinhardt had on his own work through the exhibition Ad Reinhardt: Color Out of Darkness, held at Pace Gallery in early 2022. As curator, Turrell designed the presentation and lighting concept to illuminate his chosen works from Reinhardt’s geometric, monochromatic “red,” “blue” and “black” paintings. This book documents this immersive exhibition through numerous installation photographs taken under different lighting conditions, accompanied by prose and poetry from a wide range of contributors, written in direct response to the visual experience of seeing the exhibition. Contemporary artists, writers, scientists and poets explore the experiential nature of both Reinhardt and Turrell’s work.

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Book SynopsisLate works from the abstract painter devoted to pictorial disruption and vivacious color work DC-based painter Sam Gilliam (1933–2022) paved a distinct course through abstraction by way of tireless formal, material and tonal experimentation. During the late 1960s, Gilliam advanced the processes and aesthetics employed by the Color Field painters while radically disrupting the Greenbergian ideal of the contained picture plane. This robust period of output yielded his canonical Beveled-edge and Drape series, which he spent decades elaborating upon. Sam Gilliam: The Last Five Years presents a suite of works created by the late artist in the final years of his life, encompassing arresting variations on his iconic tondos, drapes and beveled-edge paintings. Replete with photographs and foldouts as well as an essay by acclaimed art historian Lowery Stokes Sims, this volume offers an all-encompassing look at Gilliam’s dynamic, vibrant compositions.

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Book SynopsisElegant monochrome glamour in Katz's new print series This handsome clothbound catalog gathers Alex Katz’s recent titular print portfolio. The series of 25 prints features close-up, black-and-white portraits that remove the subjects from any contextual backdrop, emphasizing instead subtle shifts in expression. Rendered in bold lineation and tightly framed, the women depicted recall the models and celebrities featured in mid-20th-century fashion imagery, underscoring Katz’s ongoing fascination with perceptions of beauty and glamour that permeate the public sphere. The portraits are bookended by a pair of meditations on beauty: Carter Ratcliff imagines a comedically philosophical dialogue between himself and beauty, and Jarrett Earnest shares 31 encounters with beauty in art and life. Alex Katz (born 1927) is one of America’s most iconic and prolific artists. His work has been the subject of more than 250 solo exhibitions and 500 group exhibitions since 1951 and can be found in over 100 public collections worldwide. Katz is best known for his large-scale canvases of flatly rendered figures cast against a monochrome background.Trade ReviewIf Katz is an artist of distillation, this volume may be the purest shot yet. -- David O'Neill * Bookforum *

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Book SynopsisThe third book in the Toppi Gallery series features the master’s non-sequential, stand-alone illustration work (as opposed to his graphic novel stories featured in The Collected Toppi series). This volume focuses on themes of masculinity and femininity, showcasing images of soldiers and beautiful women from the artist’s fifty-year career in the field of illustration in many newspapers, magazines, and books worldwide. Featuring both black and white and full color works with captions and text about various subjects throughout.

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Book SynopsisCurtis Cuffie (19552002) was an artist who lived and worked in and around the East Village from the mid-1980s until his untimely death in the early 2000s. He moved to New York from Hartsville, South Carolina, as a teenager and lived unhoused for long stretches of his adult life. Cuffie found local notoriety for the way he adorned the streets of downtown New York, collecting what the city provided, often sifting trash to stage on-the-spot sculptures along the Bowery and Cooper Square. His arrangements took the form of impossibly balanced towers, delicate shrines, and unwieldy processions up to thirty-feet in length installed along the walls, fences, and sidewalks of the Lower East Side. Nearly without fail they were removed by the police, inclement weather, the department of sanitation, or the grounds team at Cooper Union, which would later employ him. An enduring presence in the East Village, Cuffie staged sprawling tableaux outside the Village Voice offices that were admired by students and venerable artists alike. He was profiled by scene reporters, political writers, and folk-art journalists, all the while exhibiting in the neighborhood's famed alternative art spaces. While few of his sculptures remain today, a trove of photographs from the 1990s taken by Cuffie and his companion Katy Abel preserve the work he made in the city. This photobook, the first publication about Cuffie, seeks to honor the artist by collecting the efforts of two of his partners: Carol Thompson, who lived with Cuffie from 1996 to 2001 and archived a great number of his 35mm photographs, and Abel, a Cooper Square resident who took hundreds of snapshots of his art. Curtis Cuffie is designed by Julie Peeters, edited by Scott Portnoy and Robert Snowden with Ciarán Finlayson, and additionally includes writing by the artist, Finlayson, and critic Alan Moore, and images taken by Tom Warren and Margaret Morton. CURTIS CUFFIE (19552002) was an artist based in New York City's East Village. Originally from Hartsville, South Carolina, he moved to Brooklyn at fifteen and eventually settled in Manhattan, first near Bryant Park and later around the Bowery. Homeless for long stretches of time, Cuffie became well-known in the 1990s for the sculptures he made using found materials, which he installed in public spaces downtown. Artforum, the New York Times, and the Village Voice all profiled and reviewed his work. and he held solo exhibitions at Flamingo East, Tribes, and 4th Street Photo Gallery, all in the Lower East Side. In his lifetime, Cuffie was featured in nearly a dozen group shows across the US at venues including Exit Art, American Primitive, and the Jamaica Art Center in New York, and the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore. Most recently his work was included in Souls Grown Diaspora, curated by Sam Gordon, at Apexart in 2020 and Greater New York at MoMA PS1 in 202122, both in New York. New York City's East Village. Originally from Hartsville, South Carolina, he moved to Brooklyn at fifteen and eventually settled in Manhattan, first near Bryant Park and later around the Bowery. Homeless for long stretches of time, Cuffie became well-known in the 1990s for the sculptures he made using found materials, which he installed in public spaces downtown. Artforum, the New York Times, and the Village Voice all profiled and reviewed his work. and he held solo exhibitions at Flamingo East, Tribes, and 4th Street Photo Gallery, all in the Lower East Side. In his lifetime, Cuffie was featured in nearly a dozen group shows across the US at venues including Exit Art, American Primitive, and the Jamaica Art Center in New York, and the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore. Most recently his work was included in Souls Grown Diaspora, curated by Sam Gordon, at Apexart in 2020 and Greater New York at MoMA PS1 in 202122, both in New York. KATY ABEL is a New York City native. She became friends with Curtis Cuffie in 1994 and photographed his artwork for the next several years. CIARA?N FINLAYSON is a writer and editor from Houston, Texas. He is the managing editor of Blank Forms Editions and his long-form essay Perpetual Slavery is forthcoming from Floating Opera Press. ALAN WILLARD MOORE lived in New York City for thirty years. He worked with the artists' groups Colab and the cultural center ABC No Rio, and ran the MWF Video Club distribution project. He received a PhD in art history from the City University of New York in 2000 and has lived in Madrid since 2009. Moore is the author of Art Gangs: Protest and Counterculture in New York City (Autonomedia, 2011), Occupation Culture: Art & Squatting in the City from Below (Minor Compositions/Autonomedia, 2015), and the memoir Art Worker: Doing Time in the New York Artworld (JoAAP, 2022), and a coeditor of Making Room: Cultural Production in Occupied Spaces (JoAAP/Other Forms, 2015). He blogs at Art Gangs and Occupations & Properties. MARGARET MORTON (19482020) was a professor of photography and design at the Cooper Union School of Art in New York. In 1989, she began to document the lives of homeless people in New York. Her photos are the subjects of multiple books including The Tunnel: The Underground Homeless of New York City (Yale University Press, 1995) and Fragile Dwelling (Aperture, 2000). CAROL THOMPSON is a Harlem-based curator and historian of the ancient and contemporary art of Africa and the African diaspora. She has authored numerous publications and taught at Vassar, City College in Harlem, New York University, the Fashion Institute of Technology, and other institutions. From 198796, she was an integral member of staff at New York's Center for African Art, and from 2001 to 2019 she served as the Fred and Rita Richman Curator of African Art at the High Museum in Atlanta. Since July of 2019 Thompson has been an art adviser to the executor and curator of the Thomas G. B. Wheelock Collection of Art of Burkina Faso. TOM WARREN is a photographer from Lakewood, Ohio, who has lived in New York City since 1979. In the 1980s he became a portraitist of the downtown art scene, known for his contributions to the East Village Eye and artistic interventions into the neighborhood's vacant spaces. Warren is the author of The 1980s Art Scene in New York (Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2022)

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Book SynopsisChronicling an epic multimedia project 10 years in the making, A.K. Burns’ first monograph grapples with climate change, community and sociopolitical agency Deploying science fiction, material feminism, eco-anarchism, queer theory and technoscience, New York–based artist A.K. Burns (born 1975) explores the fraught relationships between humanity and nature in an epic multimedia work, Negative Space (2015–23). This nonlinear allegory provokes questions about marginalized bodies, environmental fragility and technology. Developed as a cycle of four video installations, Negative Space imagines new relationships to the spaces we occupy and the impact of our bodies in these spaces through imagery, research and critical and creative writings. Set in a speculative present, the tetralogy envisions a new materialist cosmology wherein hierarchical relations are transformed.

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Book SynopsisShe is famous throughout the world, but how many know her name? You can admire her figure in Washington, Paris, London, New York, Dresden or Copenhagen but where is her grave? She danced as a 'petit rat' at the Paris Opera. She was also a model, she posed for painters and sculptors - among them Edgar Degas. Taking us through the underbelly of the Belle Epoque, Laurens casts a light on those who have traditionally been overlooked in the study of art, and opens a space for essential questions. She paints a compelling portrait of Marie van Goethem and the world she inhabited, in the 1880s; a time when art unsettled the hypocrisy of society.Trade Review'"Which counts for more, the painting or the model, art or nature?" Society has no interest in the living subject represented; to pose for a sculpture is to submit oneself entirely to the artist's gaze (...) The book adeptly evokes the "canvas of suffering" endured by Marie and her ilk in a world dominated by the male gaze.' - iNews '[E]rudite investigation into the story behind Degas's masterpiece...[Laurens] provides a glimpse into the art world of 19th-century Paris.' - Moira Hodgson, The Wall Street Journal 'An evocative tribute to a model, a man, and a moment. Sensitive, human, and profound, this vivid recreation of the sights, sounds, and smells of the nineteenth-century art world is underpinned by solid research, and written in a style that is assured and decisive.' - Catherine Hewitt, author of Renoir's Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon 'Laurens is one hell of a writer. Beyond the facts, she reconstructs an era, the harshness of which brings a lump to your throat.' - ELLE (France) 'Laurens' project is not simply a matter of adding another voice to the myriad artistic critiques of Degas' work.(...) Under the pen of an author intent on uncovering all there is to be known of Marie's life, Little Dancer Aged Fourteen develops into a curious form of investigative literature, exposing the unspoken moral failings of nineteenth-century culture in its search for Marie. The criticism throughout, if implicit, is certain.(...) Its status as a passion project, though, takes nothing away from the achievement of Little Dancer Aged Fourteen. Reverting to the author's own life in its closing moments, this book wills its reader to look beyond the surface, to discover the writer behind the writing, and the girl behind the sculpture.' - The Arts Desk 'Part historical account, part imagining and part love letter (...) Laurens' deeply felt, even obsessive connection to the sculpture (...) is outlined through connections to Laurens' children, love of dance, her Parisian grandmother, and to present-day dialogues around race, class and representation. This is a revised edition. The first, published in 2018, bore the subtitle The True Story Behind Degas's Masterpiece. It is right that this has been removed, for as Laurens is at pains to impart, little is truly known about Van Goethem. We think we know the work intimately but we don't, not really.' - Art Quarterly 'Laurens' book arrives at a cultural moment when the morality of the artist-subject relationship has landed under heightened scrutiny....Laurens' scholarship seeks to amend history's gendered bias, undoing the persistent myth that a woman's greatest accomplishment is inspiring a man's creative genius. Her objective is simple: Treat van Goethem as a human rather than a catalyst....With Little Dancer, Laurens broaches the persistent contemporary problem: What do we do with beloved artworks with unsavory origin stories? Don't look away, Laurens urges by example. On the contrary, dig deeper into the work itself and the people who collaborated to create it. It's tempting to project fantasy onto history, casting humans as geniuses or monsters, temptresses or victims. But art history isn't as simple as canceling bad actors and celebrating unsung heroes. Little Dancer pierces through Degas' rose-tinted reputation to depict an artist who is no hero and a subject who is no ghost.' -Priscilla Frank, Huffington Post 'The essence of late 19th century art: Famous man paints nameless woman, her body and image becoming a mantle upon which his notoriety hangs. Who were these women? Typically, no one cares. So it's refreshing to see an author like Camille Laurens who does.' - Claire Fallon, Huffington Post 'Good artists transform private obsession into something that can be shared: Nicholson Baker on John Updike, John McPhee on geology, Karl Ove Knausgaard on himself, or the French writer Camille Laurens on Edgar Degas, the (sort of) subject of her new book, Little Dancer Aged Fourteen....a strange hybrid of art history and art appreciation, a personal narrative that reads like a novel ...She has not solved a mystery (even if she turns up some interesting tidbits from various archives), but Laurens has done something more challenging: she's captured what it feels like to think. Her enthusiasm, the million little connections that she makes between the dancer, the artist, and her own life, subsume the reader. Laurens tells of reading an article on Degas by Martine Kahane, the head librarian of the Paris National Opera. Though the article is twenty years old, Laurens contacts her immediately, asking questions about Marie. A few weeks ago, I was seated at a dinner next to a woman, also a librarian; when the conversation turned to art, she mentioned that her great-aunt had been the first collector to bring a work by Claude Monet to the United States. That great aunt was Louisine Havemeyer, and, in 1903, she tried to buy Little Dancer from Degas. He rebuffed her. Reading this in Laurens's book, I was seized with a desire to contact her immediately, to share this clue ....Unanswered are the questions of what art is for, who Marie was, and even whether or not Laurens likes Degas. I take this as a measure of her success as a critic. Some questions can't be answered, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be asked.' - Rumaan Alam, The New Yorker 'Part exegesis, part history, largely speculation, the book insightfully examines themes of gender, class, power, and beauty, against the backdrop of Belle Epoque Paris. The third act examines the author's own project, with inconclusive but absorbing results.' - The New Yorker, Briefly Noted 'Little Dancer turns our modern gaze toward the intersections of the art world, the bourgeoisie, and those living in poverty in Paris two centuries ago, and challenges the reader to balance questions about the wealth divide, social justice, and what an artist's role is in articulating 'the weight of the real.' - World Literature Today, Editor's Pick 'A thought provoking, if sadly realistic, story....The surprise in the project is how well Laurens' intoxicating and contagious point of view comes across even through translation, for which Wood deserves a standing ovation.' - New York Journal of Book 'A fascinating look at the girl who inspired Degas's Little Dancer sculpture... part historical chronicle, part artfully discursive personal response and part imaginative close reading of the sculpture's past and present....the book is full of thought-provoking insights and revelations....Laurens herself arguably displays similar ambition in this book, which acknowledges cruel truths, displays critical virtuosity and stimulates thought with observations that can be both intriguing and unsettling.' - Cella Wren, The Washington Post "Familiar to millions but understood by few, Camille Laurens takes readers behind the curtain, sharing the story of the dancer who inspired Edgar Degas's famous sculpture.' -instyle.com, These Are the Books You Won't Be Able to Put Down in November 'Not many people today look at Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, Degas' iconic sculpture of a young girl in tutu and point shoes, and think "criminal." But in 1880s Paris, that is exactly what the critics saw. In this nonfiction work about the anonymous young woman who posed for the famous impressionist artist, French novelist Laurens [] frankly explores "the louche world" of dance in nineteenth-century Paris, the exhausting and vulnerable job of the artist's model, and her own journey as an amateur researcher. In focusing on Degas' model, she spins a compelling and tragic tale of poverty, power, and the arts that raises questions about the artist's responsibility to his subject. Degas, Laurens argues, was fascinated not with the ravishing ballerina but with the laboring dancer, "the wearying work of rehearsals, the dancer's body bent and weighted down with effort." Degas' sculpture as well as his paintings of ballet dancers-or opera rats, as they were known-broke the rules of both polite society and academic art to powerful and lasting effect.' - Booklist, (starred review) 'Little Dancer Aged Fourteen is a particularly interesting kind of non-fiction. (...) the result is a piece that raises more questions than it answers, but in doing so shows how very contemporary the concerns of the work still are: the classism, prejudice, poverty and exploitation of women over a hundred years ago are uncannily close to our modern experience.' - Helen Vassalo 'The virtue of Little Dancer Aged Fourteen is this accumulation of uncertainties as a moral prerequisite to looking. It is curious to me how we talk so much about 'engagement' in criticism when moralising tends so quickly to the opposite: to condemn the Little Dancer on feminist grounds, or to defend it with reference to the creation's autonomy vis-a-vis the creator are all ways, not of engaging, but of being done with the work of art itself. Laurens presents the evidence such judgments would rely on without confining herself to a definitive verdict, because her question is how we dwell with a work of art, how we must at once approach and step back from it to permit it to remain a permanent object of curiosity and wonder. In this way, she touches on one of the most significant problems for fiction: the imperative of understanding others while honouring that inner secrecy they always possess and we never will be able to grasp' - Adrian Nathan West, Review 31

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Book SynopsisEven if Invader's name doesn't ring a bell at first, there's a strong chance you've unknowingly come across his work. His mosaic pixel art has been adorning the streets of cities worldwide for years, delighting art lovers and urban adventurers alike.@invaderwashere: Ten Years on Instagram is a unique, substantial logbook that compiles a decade's worth of posts and stories, documenting Invader's artistic journey from 22 October 2013 to 22 October 2023. This insta-book' captures the evolution of his creative process and his artworks globally, offering an intimate look at his journey in the form of a visual diary.Featuring images of his urban installations, works in progress, studio shots and personal moments, the publication turns ephemeral digital data into a permanent physical archive likely to endure long after the app evolves beyond its recognisable form. With over 700k followers on Instagram, this publication is a must-have collectable for fans of Invader's work, his Instagram journey and those who appreciate the intersection of art and social media.

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Book SynopsisThis beautiful publication presents a catalogue raisonné of Léon Bonvin’s work published in both French and English. Introduced by several illuminating essays and accompanying an exhibition at the Fondation Custodia, this book enriches our understanding of the previously overlooked, yet immensely talented, French artist. Léon Bonvin never enjoyed the same notoriety as his half-brother, Francois (1817–1887), who was a well-regarded realist painter in the nineteenth century. He is characterised from the few remaining sources as misunderstood and ill-fated. As he was struggling to make a living, Bonvin took over his father’s inn in Vaugirard, while continuing to paint watercolours. His work, depicting wild flowers, still lifes and views of the still rural and working-class plain exhibit a deep sincerity.This catalogue raisonné is introduced by a series of essays, the outcome of intensive research that sheds new light on the life and art of Bonvin. Weisberg delivers two essays, a study of his career, and an exploration of contemporary receptions to his art. Luijten’s essay questions the artistic inspiration that Bonvin drew upon. Briggs considers the transatlantic appeal of Bonvin’s works whilst Guichané and Quentin explore his character and artistic practice. The catalogue documents all known works by the artist, which are scattered throughout public and private collections, mainly in the United States of America and France. Among these are many drawings which have never been published before. Together, the essays and comprehensive catalogue of his works, provide an essential foundational knowledge upon which an appreciation of Bonvin’s magnificent oeuvre may be built.

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Book SynopsisPhilippe Parreno (born 1964) undermines the notion of the discrete, ownable, copyrighted artwork through collaborations with artists such as Douglas Gordon and Pierre Huyghe, performances, dialogue and the cultivation of exhibitions as real-time encounters. This superbly produced monograph, designed by M/M, offers the first substantial inventory of Parreno''s work since the late 1980s, covering his multifarious production from film (such as the famous Zidane, a 21st Century Portrait, made with Douglas Gordon, 2006) to spectacle (Il Tempo del Postino, with Hans Ulrich Obrist, 2007). It also includes critical and fictional texts by Maria Lind, Charles Ars?ne-Henry, Enrique Juncosa and Simon Critchley, as well as an interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

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Book SynopsisDüsseldorf-based artist Mischa Kuball (born 1959) spent over a year photographing and interviewing 100 immigrants from 100 different nations in Germany''s Ruhr region. Together, the individual stories of these immigrants offer a cross-generational perspective on the area and the cultural and industrial transformations that are helping to define Western Germany as the New Pott or new melting pot.

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Book SynopsisIn August 1946, Marcel Duchamp spent five weeks in Switzerland, and stayed at the Hotel Bellevue (today, Le Baron Tavernier) near Chexbres, on Lake Geneva. It was here that he discovered the Forestay waterfall, which was to become the starting point for (and ultimately the landscape of) his enigmatic and final masterpiece, ?tant donn?s: 1? la chute d''eau, 2? le gaz d''?clairage (Given: 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas). Now, for the first time, the full significance of the choice of this waterfall is explored. Among the contributors to this volume are Caroline Bachmann, Stefan Banz, Etienne Barilier, Lars Blunck, Ecke Bonk, Paul B. Franklin, Antje von Graevenitz, Dalia Judovitz, Michael L?thy, Bernard Marcad?, Herbert Molderings, Adeena Mey, Stanislaus von Moos, Francis M. Naumann, Mark Nelson, Molly Nesbit, Dominique Radrizzani, Roman Signer, Michael R. Taylor, Hans Maria de Wolf and Philip Ursprung.

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Book SynopsisThis publication unites recent collages, drawings, posters and sculptural works by Jakob Kolding (born 1971), examining different concepts of architectural space. Starting from an early fascination with modernist planning, the Danish artist shifted his focus toward a more general interest in the complex socio-economic and political conditions of city life, and more recently to more psychological conceptions of such spaces.

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Book SynopsisThis monograph revolves around Daria Martin's new film Sensorium Tests (2011), which uses the recently diagnosed condition of mirror-touch synesthesia to explore how sensations are transmitted, shared and created in film--raising the question, can a spectator experience a bodily reaction to film? The publication includes related texts selected by Martin, by writers and thinkers from Mary Shelley to Maurice Merleau-Ponty.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on genres such as fantasy, sci-fi and horror, Andro Wekua (born 1977) creates fantastical, macabre tableaux that explore personal, collective and fictional memory. This book includes works from the artist's 2012 exhibition at Gladstone Gallery--large colorful abstractions--as well as Wekua's signature collages and portraits.

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Book SynopsisThis two-volume publication presents 300 recently realized collages by Czech artist Eva Kotatkova (born 1982). This new body of work is presented as having been compiled from an imaginary schoolbook from the 1980s, when the artist was growing up in Prague, under the totalitarian regime of that decade. The images--which often feature drawn embellishments by Kotatkova--largely consist of children playing games or interacting with various other collaged components, such as anatomical parts, or being manipulated as puppets. Kotatkova thus dramatizes relationships between people, ideas and objects in elaborate psycho-physical dramas redolent of the writings of Franz Kafka or Miroslav Holub. Interspersed among the collages are installation photographs and related documentation. Kotatkova studied at the San Francisco Art Institute, and was acclaimed in The Guardian (UK) as a highlight of the 2013 Venice Biennale (The Encyclopedic Palace). Note that that text on the rear of the black volume is printed upside down.

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Book SynopsisLygia Pape (19272004) was a founding member of Brazil''s Neo-Concrete movement. Her early work developed out of European geometric abstraction (Concrete art), but Pape expanded these idioms, drawing on the visual traditions of her native country. Her paintings, sculptures, books and films have made a defining contribution to Brazil''s artistic identity, as well as to the field of artist''s books. Pape was closely affiliated with artists such as Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica and enjoyed comparable prominence and acclaim in Brazil. Outside of Brazil, however, Pape has remained less well known than her contemporaries, until the Reina Sofia and Serpentine Gallery''s landmark show of 201112. The catalogue for that exhibitionthe first English-language monograph on the artistquickly went out of print and is now a rarity. This expanded, revised edition of that catalogue reveals her oeuvre for an English-speaking audience for the first time.

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Book SynopsisIn his lifetime, Xanti (Alexander) Schawinsky (1904-79) was best known for his work in the theater department at the Bauhaus. Fleeing Germany before the beginning of the Second World War, he landed at Black Mountain College in North Carolina, where in the 1930s he developed his theory of the Spectodrama. Involving multimedia productions examining elementary phenomena such as space, motion, light, sound or color from scientific, technical and performance-based perspectives, the Spectodrama represents an early form of the happening. Beyond the avant-garde utopias of the Bauhaus and his proto-happening art, Schawinsky also worked as a painter and graphic designer.Protracted legal disputes over the artist''s estate meant that Schawinsky''s work was until recently almost inaccessible; Xanti Schawinsky is the first survey of Schawinsky''s extraordinarily prolific output over the course of five decades, and a long-overdue resource on the work of this key figure.

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Book SynopsisLos Angelesbased artist and writer Walead Beshty (born 1976) started his Industrial Portraits series in 2008. He realizes them wherever he goes, asking all the art people he works with to pose in their working environment and working clothes: studio assistants, gallery staff, curators, lab technicians, critics, fellow artists, collectors, art handlers and even the machines, which contribute to an artwork's progress from studio to gallery and beyond. Captioned first as framer, Fedex courier or darkroom assistant and then identified with the location and date of the shoot, together his models form a nonhierarchical, kaleidoscopic yet very detailed facebook of the art world, following in part the tradition of great American anthropological photographic surveys. This publication gathers together the Industrial Portraits created between 2008 and 2012. A second volume will be published to span the subsequent years.

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Book SynopsisThis first retrospective monograph of Los Angelesbased artist Sam Falls (born 1984) spans his work from his beginnings in the 2000s to his most recent exhibitions.Following the traditions of minimalism and land art while pursuing a path toward abstraction, his photographs, paintings, public installations and sculptures have undoubtedly been influenced by nature and the Los Angeles environment in which he lives. Previously a student of physics, linguistics and aesthetics, he has long been interested in how natural phenomena such as light, rain and wind might impact his abstract paintings and sculptures. The idea of a controlled change on materials ranging from steel to cloth creates extraordinary time-based hybridities. The book brings together new essays by writer and curator Trinie Dalton, French critic Donatien Grau, and Los Angeles Hammer Museum Curator Aram Moshayedi, as well as a special portfolio conceived by the artist.

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Book SynopsisThis publication on the French-Bosnian artist Maja Bajevic accompanies her comprehensive exhibition at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst and focuses on her most recent bodies of works. Since the mid-1990s she has explored a wide variety of issues related to globalization and migration, inclusion and exclusion, exploitation, neoliberalism and the interactions between these notions. Bajevic also consistently investigates her own identity, and the meaning of home and what this constitutes. Her oeuvre is part of a tradition in art that deals with social and educational issues, that aims to shake up the prevailing social consciousness. In this respect, Bajevic's approach is all-encompassing; for example, when she compiles an archive of political slogans, she focuses on the entire political spectrum.By bringing together the core of Bajevic's oeuvre with specially commissioned essays by art historians and curators, this publication reflects on her main artistic strategies and themes, standing as a reference monograph covering the last ten years of her work. The book is divided into three chapters: Power, Governance and Labor, and includes essays by Barbara Biedermann, Manuel Borja-Villel, Boris Buden, Raphael Gygax, and Ana Janevski.Maja Bajevic (born 1967) lives and works in Paris and Sarajevo. In recent years her work has been shown in a number of solo exhibitions in European institutions, e.g. at Daad Galerie in Berlin (2012), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid (2011), Kunsthaus Glarus (2009), and the National Gallery of Bosnia-Herzegovina in Sarajevo (2006). Bajevic has also been represented in group exhibitions, notably at the 56th Venice Biennale All the World''s Futures (2015), the 4th Thessaloniki Biennale in Greece (2013), the Royal Academy of Arts in London (2010), and Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw (2010).

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Book SynopsisAmerican-born artist, performer, poet, essayist and activist Jimmie Durham (born 1940) is one of the most influential voices of the contemporary art world, reflecting on encounters between the human being, technology and nature from different cultural perspectives.With an oeuvre spanning sculpture, drawing, collage, printmaking, painting, photography, video, performance and poetry, Durham became internationally famous in the 1980s for his sculptures made from materials such as wood, stone and the bones and skulls of animals, incorporating Native American elements into contemporary art. This monograph, conceived in close collaboration with the artist, features a text by Durham, with contributions by curator and art historian of the Cree Indians Heritage Richard W. Hill, and Migros Museum Director Heike Munder.

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Book SynopsisIn this volume compiling Ugo Rondinone's Stripe paintings (19992011), artist and writer Phong Bui retraces the genealogy of stripe paintings from Barnett Newman to Rondinone, while art critic Bob Nickas thoroughly examines the making and meaning of painting in his work.

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Book SynopsisThe third volume in JRPRingier's Ugo Rondinone series is dedicated to the Landscapes paintings (19892011).Critic and curator Bice Curiger proposes a historical and poetical reading of this body of work, while Kunsthalle Bremen Curator of Prints Anne Buschhoff offers an iconographic perspective on them.

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Book SynopsisThis monograph dedicated to New York artist Wyatt Kahn (born 1983) encompasses his painting production from 2011 to 2017 and introduces his recent exploration of photography. Trained as a sculptor, Kahn works with assemblages of raw canvas, individual panels in various sizes, shapes and geometric forms. By juxtaposing them, he plays with the flatness and the illusion of depth and alters the viewer's perception of dimensionality. Rather than tracing the lines and shapes directly onto the canvas itself, he turns them into physical components of the artwork. His works constantly oscillate between painting and sculpture, drawing inspiration from the body, urban architecture, and the natural world. In his essay, Terry R. Myers puts the emphasis on the reuse of the past in Kahn's work. As the artist says, I lean back on history not to reference artists, but rather specific time periods, referencing that period as to where we are now.

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Book SynopsisEchoing the visual character of abstract expressionism and modernist geometric painting, the work of Norwegian painter Fredrik V?rslev (born 1979) is characterized by an insistent focus on the painting process. This publication offers an overview of the artist''s oeuvre from the past decade.

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Book SynopsisFor almost 50 years, New Yorkbased artist Charles Atlas (born 1949) has been a leading figure in film and video art, creating seminal works documenting dance and performance art, involving choreographers such as Merce Cunningham and Michael Clark, as well as the fashion designer and performance artist Leigh Bowery. His network of collaborators and associates largely coincides with his circle of friends: many of his works from the 1980s and 1990s are portraits of fellow protagonists of the New York underground scene and the contemporary milieu, employing a sub- and pop-cultural idiom to scrutinize aspects of bio-power and the politics of bodies and identity. The publication features commissioned essays by art historians and curators, reflecting on Atlas' strategies and the themes that have shaped his oeuvre over the years.

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Book SynopsisInformed by the Swiss tradition of geometric abstraction and monochrome, Swiss painter Sylvain Croci-Torti (born 1984) is building a cogent body of works dealing with architecture and renewing the eternal parameters of painting. This publication encompasses his last six years of work.

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Book SynopsisEach copy of this opulent survey on John Armleder features a uniquely treated cover by the artistThe work of influential Swiss artist John Armleder (born 1948) has spanned many mediums, from his distinctive Furniture Sculptures to his Fluxus performances with the Écart collective, from his diverse painting series to his drawing practice, from his striking installations and wall paintings to his numerous collaborative works. Published to accompany two simultaneous exhibitionsone a rare retrospective, and one an exhibition of installation and total environmentsJohn Armleder: The Grand Tour immerses the reader in the artist's world. Each copy of the book features a unique cover by the artist, treated with special color inks and glitter.An extensive interview with the artist, an essay about Armleder's painting and its historical relevance by curator Heidi Zuckerman, and a complete biography and bibliography supply a grand synthesis of Armleder's influential oeuvre.As Zuckerman puts it in her essay, underlining how Armleder has served as a role model for generations of younger contemporary artists: In a time when the attempt to categorize as a means to understand as well as self-locate is prevalent in both life and art, John Armleder remains known for having no restrictions or fixed ways of working.

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Book SynopsisThe first monograph on the influential Romanian artist and teacherThis is the first comprehensive monograph on the Romanian-born, UK-based artist Paul Neagu (19382004), whose oeuvre transcends traditional artistic disciplines, and who was for several decades an important source of inspiration for young artists, curators and intellectuals. Neagu''s philosophical approach led him to push the boundaries of the Western abstract tradition, which he first discovered clandestinely in Communist Romania. He continued to explore abstraction after relocating to London in 1971, where he became an influential teacher at the Slade, Chelsea School of Art and the Royal College (among his students were Antony Gormley, Anish Kapoor and Rachel Whiteread).Neagu''s practice included performance, sculpture, drawing, painting, video, photography and poetry. He often promoted physical engagement with his more tactile works, underlining one of his enduring aims: to refute what he perceived as the primacy of visuality in art.

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Book SynopsisInterrogating painterliness: the first monograph on the photoshopped art of Louisa GagliardiSwiss artist Louisa Gagliardi (born 1989) makes photoshopped works printed on canvas that draw on painting as well as graphic design and advertising to rethink questions of flatness and depth, dimensionality and translucence, the enigmatic and the banal, the digital imagery and the painterly marks.

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Book SynopsisThis is the first comprehensive monograph on French artist François Ristori (19362015), a lesser-known artist of the French postwar abstraction generation. He was known for employing a systematic motif of blue, red and white hexagon-like shapes he named Trace-Forme across painting, drawing and public interventions.

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