Individual artists, art monographs Books
Valiz Rafaël Rozendaal: Everything, Always, Everywhere
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£23.75
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Art of WinnieThePooh
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£21.75
Parkstone Press USA, Limited Franz Marc
£34.88
Rizzoli International Publications Fairfield Porter Selected Masterworks
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive survey of the beloved figurative realist painter Fairfield Porter to be published in more than two decades. A figurative realist in the heyday of abstract expressionism, Fairfield Porter (1907–1975) painted himself, his family, and friends in New York City, in Southampton, Long Island, and on an island off the Maine coast, all depicting a relaxed and comfortable world that seemed to mirror his own affluent, well-connected existence. With virtually all of the artist’s previous publications now out of print, this much-anticipated volume is an important addition to the literature on this great American master. Porter graduated from Harvard in 1928 and then studied at the Art Students League in New York with Thomas Hart Benton. Along with months in Maine, Porter lived in New York and from 1948 on, in Southampton where he purchased a large, late Federal-style house for his own expanding family. Porter painted several artist friends, including Elaine de KoTrade ReviewThe Season's Outstanding Art Books "By turns awkward and graceful, these images dodge nostalgia but not the aching pleasure found in, among other things, the clotted light of a bunch of buttercups."—ArtForum"The comprehensive book is special because it includes many color reproductions of paintings otherwise seen only in black-and-white (and small) in the artist’s catalogue raisonné from 2001."—HyperAllergic.com"The spare elegance of the realist Fairfield Porter (1907-1975) never gets old. A monograph on the artist and his work, recently published by Rizzoli, provides an intense exploration of the intriguing and complex life of this important painter."—Art of the Times
£45.00
Thames & Hudson Ltd Agnes Martin
Book SynopsisWinner of the PEN Award for Biography 2016, this is the only biography of visionary artist Agnes Martin, one of the most original and influential painters of the postwar period.Trade Review'Thorough and illuminating' - Apollo (Shortlisted for Book of the Year)'Scholarly, thoroughly researched … an accessible and fascinating story' - Aesthetica'Doggedly researched and gracefully written… [Princenthal] shines in describing Martin’s earthy good humour and dedication to her art and in capturing the atmosphere in which the artist came of age … it will remain definitive for a good long while' - Wall Street JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction: Abstraction • 1. Northwest Passages • 2. Student/Teacher • 3. Reaching Harbor • 4. Lines of Thought • 5. As Shown • 6. Silence • 7. Departures • 8. Back to the World • 9. Contours Redrawn • Epilogue: Composure
£18.00
Hirmer Verlag Utrecht, Caravaggio and Europe
Book SynopsisWhat a shock it must have been for the Utrecht painters Hendrick ter Brugghen, Gerard van Honthorst and Dirck van Baburen when they first encountered the breathtaking and unconventional paintings of Caravaggio in Rome. This volume shows impressively how the young artists individually explored this role model and thereby developed their own individual style. In around 1600 Rome was the centre of the world. Attracted by Caravaggio’s spectacular success, young artists from all over Europe converged on the bus tling metropolis. The up-and-coming painters studied the same works, discussed matters with each other and used Caravaggio’s style to develop their own individual pictorial language. Tracing the careers of the three most important Utrecht Caravaggists, the authors describe the atmosphere of this artistic mood of renewal. Only in a comparison with their European fellow artists does it become evident how strongly the Dutch tradition, with its love of merciless realism, influenced the creative work of the Utrecht painters.
£36.00
Mandrake of Oxford Pans Daughter: The Magical World of Rosaleen
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£999.99
Flame Tree Publishing Mark Rothko: Break into the Light
Book SynopsisMark Rothko's awe-inspiring yet deceptively simple, iconic colour field paintings belie the mythical and emotional complexity behind them. Rothko put his heart and soul into creating works that were to act upon the viewer in an almost physical way, progressing from figurative and symbolist works to eventually using shimmering and enveloping colour to elevate you to a higher spiritual awareness. This gorgeous book enables you to discover the themes, thinking and methodology behind the oeuvre, from Greek tragedy and Nietzsche to music and colour, whilst experiencing his pieces displayed in full, free of clutter, for you to immerse yourself and be swept away.
£18.75
Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Sylvie Fleury: Exhibition History 1991-2023: Cat.
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£37.40
Aperture Im So Happy You Are Here
Book SynopsisA critical and celebratory counternarrative to what we know of Japanese photography today. I’m So Happy You Are Here presents a much-needed counterpoint, complement, and challenge to historical precedents and the established canon of Japanese photography. This restorative history presents a wide range of photographic approaches brought to bear on the lived experiences and perspectives of women in Japanese society. Editors Pauline Vermare and Lesley A. Martin, curator and writer Takeuchi Mariko, and photo-historians Carrie Cushman and Kelly Midori McCormick provide a critical historical and contemporary framework for understanding the work in three richly illustrated essays. Additional context is provided by an in-depth illustrated bibliography by Marc Feustel and Russet Lederman, and a selection of key critical writings from leading Japanese curators, critics, and historians such as Kasahara Michiko, Fuku Noriko, and o
£999.99
Spector Books Adrián Villar Rojas The End of Imagination
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£19.00
Spector Books Four Times Through the Labyrinth
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£14.19
Rizzoli International Publications Basquiat The Unknown Notebooks
Book SynopsisAccompanying a major traveling exhibition, this first-ever survey of the rarely seen notebooks of Basquiat features the artist’s handwritten notes, poems, and drawings, along with related works on paper and large-scale paintings. With no formal training, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) succeeded in developing a new and expressive style to become one of the most influential artists in the postmodern revival of figurative during the 1980s. In a series of notebooks from the early to mid-1980s, never before exhibited, Basquiat combined text and images reflecting his engagement with the countercultures of graffiti and hip-hop in New York City, as well as pop culture and world events. Filled with handwritten texts, poems, pictograms, and drawings, many of them iconic images that recur throughout his artwork—teepees, crowns, skeleton-like silhouettes, and grimacing masks—and these notebooks reveal much about the artist’s creative process and the importance of the writTrade Review"With illustrations of 160 notebook pages and numerous related works, the book provides exceptional insights into the life and works of Basquiat."-CRAVEONLINE.COM"With vibrant visuals and Basquiat's imaginative text, this book reinvigorates the interest for one of the truly great American artists." -PUBLISHERS WEEKLY"With over 150 notebook pages and numerous drawings and paintings, this important book sheds new light on Basquiat's career and his critical place in contemporary art history."-THE NEW AMERICAN
£29.95
Skira Beyond the Door of No Return: Confronting Hidden
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£21.25
Yale University Press James Ensor
Book SynopsisTrade Review“[A] very useful guide to Ensor’s life and art...Tricot has uncovered new data about Ensor’s life from memoirs and Ensor’s own letters.”—Alexander Adams, Alexander Adams Art
£28.50
Rizzoli Clyfford Still The Late Works
Book SynopsisAn exclusive look at the late work of one of the most influential and enigmatic painters, whose late-career paintings are virtually unknown to the public and many are published here for the first time.Clyfford Still (1904-1980) is a pioneer of Abstract Expressionism, along with Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and Willem de Kooning. This revelatory book, accompanying a groundbreaking exhibition, investigates Clyfford Still's late work, both in painting and in drawing, made after his move to rural Maryland in 1961. This marks a particularly fertile period for Still; he made over 375 works on canvas and a staggering 1,100 works on paper in Maryland before his death in 1980 at the age of 75. Given Still's especially reclusive posture later in life and the fact that none of the artworks in Still's estate were exhibited or made available to anyone before the opening of the Clyfford Still Museum in 2011, a full-scale presentation of these forty paintings and thirty wTrade Review"A revelatory monograph, Clyfford Still: The Late Works investigates Abstract Expressionist Clyfford Still's late works in painting and drawing. With essays by Dean Sobel and David Anfam, along with forewords by artists Alex Katz and Dorothea Rockburne on the notion of late work, Clyfford Still: The Late Works offers a thoughtful look at one the most influential and enigmatic painters of his time." —ARTDAILY.ORG
£999.99
Promopress Lygia Clark 1948 - 1958
Book SynopsisLygia Clark is primarily remembered for her participation in the Constructivist movement (leading abstract artist at the forefront of the Neo-Concretist movement in Brazil), her innovative approach to modular sculpture and the participatory art that made her a singularly pioneering force in the world of international art. This volume explores her production in the first decade of her career. Clark devoted her time to painting, constantly experimenting and testing new techniques, becoming an important avant-garde figure in Brazil. Her work in these early years oscillated between figuration and abstraction, creating geometric, system- based paintings which will articulate the visual language of her innovative career.
£33.25
The University of Chicago Press Mark Rothko
Book SynopsisThis is a full-length biography of Mark Rothko, arguably one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. Drawing on exclusive access to his personal papers and over 100 interviews with artists, patrons and dealers, the author tells the story of a life in art.
£29.45
Tuttle Publishing The Art and Technique of Sumi-e: Japanese Ink
Book SynopsisJapanese Sumi-e brush painting combines the techniques of calligraphy and ink painting to produce compositions of rare beauty.This art has its roots in the Zen Buddhist practices of mindfulness and meditation—serving as a means not just for describing wonders of nature, but as a method for training our minds to view the world in its essential grace and simplicity.This book is the product of many years of study with Ukai Uchiyama—a master Japanese calligrapher and artist. Kay Morrissey Thompson shares the knowledge she gained from this association, presenting a thorough discussion of the artist's work along with a series of practical lessons based on Mr. Uchiyama's instruction.The informative text is accompanied by over fifty illustrations, many in color, reproducing works by Ukai Uchiyama and enabling aspiring artists to understand how each painting was created.With a smaller size and new cover, this timeless Tuttle Classic (originally published in 1960), has been reformatted for a new generation of readers.
£999.99
Distributed Art Pub Synnøve Anker Aurdal Through the Threads
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£47.47
David Zwirner Lisa Yuskavage: Babie Brood: Small Paintings
Book SynopsisLisa Yuskavage: Babie Brood is the first up-to-date survey of the artist’s small-scale paintings. Known primarily for larger canvases, these intimate works offer a new window into Yuskavage’s transgressive paintings.Based on the artist’s imagination, live models, and maquettes, among other things, the small paintings in this book demonstrate Yuskavage’s methodical exploration of how images come into existence, and where they come from. Some of the small works are studies for large paintings, while others revisit pre-existing images. Yet others are one-of-a-kind compositions only created on this intimate scale. As places for experimenting with color, form, and characters as well as a variety of formats—including stretched and unstretched linen, canvas boards, wood, and paper—these works, play a remarkably dynamic and role within her oeuvre. This catalogue presents the paintings to scale so readers can explore them as if seeing them in person.Documenting the artist’s exhibition at David Zwirner in New York in 2018, this catalogue includes an essay by Jarrett Earnest illuminating Yuskavage’s early influences and exploring the constant, often surprising, themes that can be found throughout her oeuvre.
£36.00
National Gallery Company Ltd Bartolomé Bermejo: Master of the Spanish
Book SynopsisPainted in 1468, Saint Michael Triumphant over the Devil is the first documented work by Bartolomé Bermejo (c. 1440–c. 1501), a 15th-century Spanish artist by whom only about 20 paintings are known. Acquired by the National Gallery in 1995, the painting depicts the Archangel Michael defeating Satan, in the form of a hybrid monster, with Antoni Joan, feudal lord of Tous, kneeling nearby. The work is remarkable for its mastery of the oil-painting technique, influenced by Netherlandish painting and unrivaled by Bermejo’s contemporaries in Spain. Following the painting’s detailed technical examination and restoration, the authors provide a fascinating account of this rare work, accompanied by high quality new photography and placing the painting in the broader context of Bermejo’s career in 15th-century Aragon.Published by National Gallery Company/Distributed by Yale University PressExhibition Schedule:National Gallery, London (06/12/19–09/29/19)
£999.99
Kerber Verlag Faig Ahmed
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£40.00
Hirmer Verlag Jacoba van Heemskerck: Truly Modern
Book SynopsisIn less than two decades, Jacoba van Heemskerck (1876–1923) created a powerful oeuvre comprising paintings, woodcuts, glass works and mosaics. Her expressive subjects, including landscapes, townscapes and harbour scenes, are characterised by luminosity and increasing transparency, by rhythmical compositions of the pictorial space, black contours and an intensive use of colour. After her artistic beginnings in the circle around Mondrian and elsewhere, Jacoba van Heemskerck belonged to the centre of the avant-garde movement emanating from the “Sturm” of Herwarth Walden in Berlin – the gallerist and publisher who made artists like Marc, Kandinsky and Jawlensky famous. Her work is shaped by her orientation towards Anthroposophy, which bears witness to her interest in the elemental effect of light and colour on the viewer. Her creative work is highly topical today thanks to her understanding of nature and the cosmos as a world viewed as a whole.Trade Review“Recommended for all art libraries.” * ARLIS/NA Reviews *
£23.96
Last Gasp,U.S. Fevolution
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£35.96
Princeton University Press Verrocchio
Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of The Art Newspaper's Favourite Books of 2019""[A] catalog whose attributions and speculations on who painted what will keep connoisseurs debating for years."---Jason Farago, New York Times"I am fascinated by artists like Verrocchio who work in all media and that’s shown very well in the exhibition and catalogue. He started as a jeweller and you can see the relation to his later work: something intimate and precious in the way he paints, draws and sculpts. Edited by Andrew Butterfield, who wrote the monograph on Verrocchio and has worked on the subject for so long, this catalogue proves that if you want to make a good exhibition, you also need good research."---Taco Dibbets, The Art Newspaper"This book is a necessary addition to any library of the Renaissance art of Florence."---Alexander Adams, The Jackdaw
£56.00
Dis Voir Ryoji Ikeda: Dataphonics
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£22.50
Parkstone Press USA, Limited Russian Painting
£34.95
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd Eric Ravilious: Artist and Designer
Book SynopsisMore popular than ever, the work of Eric Ravilious (1903-42) is rooted in the landscape of pre-war and early wartime England. This best-selling book by Alan Powers, the established authority on Ravilious, provides the most comprehensive overview to date of the artist's work in all media - watercolour, illustration, printmaking, graphic design, textiles and ceramics - and firmly positions Ravilious as a major figure in the history of early 20th-century British art.Now available in paperback, the accessible and engaging text, copiously illustrated with reproductions of work drawn from a range of sources, discusses the part Ravilious' work played in creating an English style, positioned between tradition and modernism, and borrowing from naive and popular art of the past. The book analyses Ravilious' different spheres of activity in turn, covering his education and formative influences, his mural painting, his printmaking and illustration, his work as leader in forming a new style of watercolour painting between the wars and his final period as an official War Artist. In a career curtailed by an early death, Ravilious also played a significant role as a designer; Powers argues that Ravilious showed how decoration and historical reference could find a place in the reform of the applied arts whilst simultaneously renewing a sense of national identity.Eric Ravilious will be welcomed by all those with an interest in an artist whose imagination was backed by great skill and a sharp eye for the unusual.Trade Review‘the most informative and well-crafted account of all aspects of this remarkable artist's achievement.’ Andrew LambirthTable of ContentsContents: Preface; 1. 'Slightly somewhere else': The formation of an artist; 2. 'A clear mental image: Books and prints; 3. 'Distilled out of the ordinary experience': Paintings in watercolour; 4. 'Frankly and happily ornamental': Eric Ravilious and design; 5. The war through artists' eyes; Conclusion: English Eden with 'a biting edge'; Chronology; Public Collections; Bibliography; Acknowledgements and Image Credits; Index.
£26.99
MACK Paul Pfeiffer: Prologue to the Story of the Birth
Book SynopsisComprehensive publication on the work of multidisciplinary artist Paul Pfieffier, spanning twenty-five years of practice, and including interviews and new scholarship. Accompanies a survey exhibition at MOCA, Los Angeles.
£52.25
HENI Publishing Picabia Inside Out
Book SynopsisIn the 1950s, American painter Philip Pearlstein completed his MA thesis, ‘The Paintings of Francis Picabia 1908–1930’. When his research coincided with Picabia’s death in 1953, Pearlstein became the authority on the work of Picabia and his influence in European modernism that set the stage for modern art in America. Of course, it is impossible to discuss Picabia without also considering the work of Marcel Duchamp. At different intervals in his career, Pearlstein wrote three subsequent essays on Picabia for major arts journals: ‘The Symbolic Language of Francis Picabia’ for Arts magazine, 1956; ‘Hello & Goodbye, Francis Picabia’ for Art News, 1970, and ‘When the Dada Daddies Got Real; Or, How I Turned Picabia Inside Out’ for Brooklyn Rail, 2017. Pearlstein’s articles present a fascinating comparison between Picabia, Duchamp and Pearlstein himself. Picabia Inside Out brings together Pearlstein’s articles in full, published in an illustrated paperback book with a facsimile of the 1955 MA thesis presented as an historical document showing all the nuances of his typewriter. A foreword by Robert Storr highlights the broader art historical context and Pearlstein’s importance as a precursor to what became known as postmodernism.
£19.99
Skira Not Vital: Sculpture 1964-2021
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£999.99
Editions Skira Paris Omar Ba
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£28.05
Other Press LLC The Undercurrents: A Story of Berlin
Book SynopsisHumane, thought provoking, and moving, this hybrid literary portrait of a place makes the case for radical close readings: of ourselves, our cities, and our histories.The Undercurrents is a dazzling work of biography, memoir, and cultural criticism told from a precise vantage point: a stately nineteenth-century house on Berlin’s Landwehr Canal, a site at the center of great historical changes, but also smaller domestic ones. The view from this house offers a ringside seat onto the city’s theater of action. The building has stood on the banks of the canal since 1869, its feet in the West but looking East, right into the heart of a metropolis in the making, on a terrain inscribed indelibly with trauma. When her marriage breaks down, Kirsty Bell—a British-American art critic, adrift in her midforties—becomes fixated on the history of her building and of her adoptive city. Taking the view from her apartment window as her starting point, she turns to the lives of the house’s various inhabitants, to accounts penned by Walter Benjamin, Rosa Luxemburg, and Gabriele Tergit, and to the female protagonists in the works of Theodor Fontane, Irmgard Keun, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. A new cultural topography of Berlin emerges, one which taps into energetic undercurrents to recover untold or forgotten stories beneath the city’s familiar narratives.
£15.60
Hatje Cantz Verlag Sigalit Landau Salt Years
Book SynopsisSigalit Landau (* 1969, Jerusalem), one of the most important contemporary artists in Israel, lives and works in Tel Aviv. Her works have been shown in many venues in Israel, the US, and Europe, including documenta and at the Venice Biennale.
£36.00
Art / Books Daniel Buren Underground
Book SynopsisThis book tells the story of the first permanent artwork in the UK by the renowned artist Daniel Buren (born 1938), widely considered France?s greatest living artist and one of the most significant contributors to the conceptual art movement. Commissioned by Art on the Underground, Buren has created a new permanent installation at Tottenham Court Road station in the center of London, famously the location of extensive 1980s mosaics by Eduardo Paolozzi. The artwork, which is set to be completed in late 2016, will become a major feature of the two new entrances and ticket hall of the redesigned station. His interventions play with simple shapes, colors and, of course, his trademark stripes. The result sits firmly within his illustrious practice, and yet presents the public with something wholly new and unexpected. The book includes stunning installation shots of the work in situ, behind-the-scenes photos of the project in progress, architects? drawings and plans, and the artist?s notes and sketches. A conversation between Buren and Tim Marlow walk the reader through the Tottenham Court Road installation and discuss it alongside his other public transport works, while a text by Hans Ulrich Obrist places the work in the context of Buren?s wider practice since the 1960s. More than a rare monograph in English on one of the most influential international artists of recent decades, this volume also takes the reader on the fascinating journey from initial artistic concept through to realized physical form in the public realm.
£999.99
Silkworm Books / Trasvin Publications LP The Cycle of Life in the Paintings of Thai Artist
Book SynopsisThe paintings of contemporary Thai artist Pichai Nirand (b. 1936) are a vivid exploration of the interplay between Thailand’s Buddhist roots and its modern aspirations and struggles. Pichai engages fully with the world and belief system around him. Accompanying the full-color paintings is an incisive examination of the Thai moral and social themes of Pichai’s paintings in terms of the Buddhist cycle of life. Philip Constable’s sensitive analysis of the social, political, economic, and moral dimensions affecting the artist, coupled with careful reference to other contemporary Thai artists, illuminates the deep meaning and expression behind each painting. This book showcases a celebrated Thai artist who has spent a lifetime providing a Thai Buddhist perspective on the dilemmas and contradictions of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
£27.99
Getty Trust Publications Spectacular Rubens – The Triumph of the Eucharist
Book SynopsisThis lavishly illustrated volume offers a fascinating glimpse into Ruben's artistic process. The six glorious scenes that make up the Triumph of the Eucharist series by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) are highlights of the Museo Nacional del Prado's superb collection of Remish paintings. Completed in 1626, these brilliantly detailed sketches were painted at the behest of the Infanta Isabel Clara Eugenia in preparation for a series of monumental tapestries that are now considered among the finest made in Europe in the 17th-century. Unfortunately, additions to the wooden supports, introduced after the paintings were created, made the panels considerably larger than Rubens intended and over time caused serious damage to the original sections. With the aid of the Getty Foundation's Panel Paintings Initiative, the panels have been restored and returned to their original dimensions by the Prado, and the magnificent oil sketches can once again be placed on public view. This exquisitely illustrated volume provides new insight into the history of the Eucharist series of paintings and tapestries and attests to Rubens' exhilarating art.
£999.99
Yale University Press Bouguereau and America
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£38.00
Flame Tree Publishing Vincent van Gogh: Wheat Field with Cypresses
Book SynopsisPart of a series of exciting and luxurious Flame Tree Sketch Books Combining high-quality production with magnificent fine art, the covers are printed on foil in five colours, embossed, then foil stamped. The thick paper stock makes them perfect for sketching and drawing. These are perfect for personal use and make a dazzling gift. This example features Van Gogh's Wheat Field with Cypresses. Vincent Van Gogh composed this painting while he was in the Saint-Rémy mental asylum, near Arles. The bold use of impasto and the beauty of the towering trees have made this one of his most recognisable works. There are various other versions of the painting, one of which features a closer view of the cypresses painted vertically, as well as a replica of this version that Van Gogh painted for his mother and sister.
£12.81
Skira Parallels: Gustav Vigeland and his Contemporaries
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£33.60
Parkstone Press USA, Limited Ivan Aivazovsky
£34.88
RM Verlag SL Cordiox
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£24.38
Duke University Press Leaving Art
Book SynopsisA collection of thirty texts written by the internationally renowned conceptual and performance artist Suzanne Lacy between 1974 and 2007.Trade Review“For nearly 40 years Ms. Lacy’s collaborative, community-based art projects, some involving hundreds of people, have been grappling with matters of race, class and possible social change with a hands-on audacity that few artists can match. This book, with a persuasive introduction by the artist-historian Moira Roth, at last puts Ms. Lacy’s own fluent accounts of her life and work between covers. The result is a moving and feisty document of a committed life, one that students of the art of our time will be grateful for in the years ahead.” - Holland Cotter, New York Times“Reflection in and on the present moment–rather than a concern for prestige or posterity–defines and sets apart Lacy’s experimental documents as in some way ‘live’ themselves, making Leaving Art a strong resource for public and live artists working now.” - Becky Hunter, Whitehot Magazine“The book, then, performs best as an archive of methods. One text explicitlyoutlines how to develop a media strategy for a feminist campaign, with excellent practical tips on structuring an event and how to convey its meaning to the media. But, more subliminally, we can gauge throughout how certainty wavers and how uncertainty, when viewed in retrospect, is ultimately productive.” - Sally O’Reilly, Art Monthly“Lacy remains close in spirit to the feminism that emerged in the late '60s. Many of her most significant performances directly addressed women's issues, especially rape, prostitution, pornography and physical aging. With a canny understanding of mass communications. Lacy calibrated her staged actions to garner media attention, and to be readily comprehensible to those outside the art world. One of the most consistent elements of her activity is its emphasis on forming multiracial alliances under the banner of ‘Women.’” - Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Art in America“As both artist and theorist, Suzanne Lacy has pioneered the field of collaborative and socially engaged art. Over the past several decades, she has refigured artistic practice as a means for the production of new publics. This book is an incomparable toolbox for anyone seeking a renewal of art’s social and political potential today.”—Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director of Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects at the Serpentine Gallery, London“Suzanne Lacy is the most important public artist working today, in part because she is also an inspired organizer, writer, and public intellectual. Multicultural and multicentered, and devoted to civic dialogue, she balances esthetics and politics, pragmatics and imagination, while collaborating with those living inside the issues. Her feminist energy infuses this book. It will turn many heads.”—Lucy R. Lippard, author of The Pink Glass Swan: Selected Feminist Essays on Art“Suzanne Lacy’s work is a communal improvisation inviting life to happen in all its drama, absurdity, pain, and danger. At its best, it has the passion and complexity of Action Painting.”—Eleanor Antin, artist and Professor Emeritus, University of California, San Diego“For nearly 40 years Ms. Lacy’s collaborative, community-based art projects, some involving hundreds of people, have been grappling with matters of race, class and possible social change with a hands-on audacity that few artists can match. This book, with a persuasive introduction by the artist-historian Moira Roth, at last puts Ms. Lacy’s own fluent accounts of her life and work between covers. The result is a moving and feisty document of a committed life, one that students of the art of our time will be grateful for in the years ahead.” -- Holland Cotter * New York Times *“Lacy remains close in spirit to the feminism that emerged in the late '60s. Many of her most significant performances directly addressed women's issues, especially rape, prostitution, pornography and physical aging. With a canny understanding of mass communications. Lacy calibrated her staged actions to garner media attention, and to be readily comprehensible to those outside the art world. One of the most consistent elements of her activity is its emphasis on forming multiracial alliances under the banner of ‘Women.’” -- Abigail Solomon-Godeau * Art in America *“Reflection in and on the present moment–rather than a concern for prestige or posterity–defines and sets apart Lacy’s experimental documents as in some way ‘live’ themselves, making Leaving Art a strong resource for public and live artists working now.” -- Becky Hunter * Whitehot Magazine *“The book, then, performs best as an archive of methods. One text explicitlyoutlines how to develop a media strategy for a feminist campaign, with excellent practical tips on structuring an event and how to convey its meaning to the media. But, more subliminally, we can gauge throughout how certainty wavers and how uncertainty, when viewed in retrospect, is ultimately productive.” -- Sally O’Reilly * Art Monthly *Table of ContentsIllustrations ix Preface xiii Acknowledgments xv Introduction. Suzanne Lacy: Three Decades of Performing and Writing/Writing and Performing / Moira Roth xvii Part 1. Learning to Look: The Seventies Introduction 2 1. Prostitution Notes (1974) 5 2. Falling Apart (1980) 20 3. Body Contract (1974) 30 Photo Essay. Learn Where the Meat Comes From (1976) 43 4. Cinderella in a Dragster (1977) 48 5. The Bag Lady: On Memory (1982) 52 6. The Life and Times of Donaldina Cameron (with Linda Palumbo and Kathleen Chang) (1978) 57 7. In Mourning and In Rage (With Analysis Aforethought) (1978) 64 8. Learning to Look: The Relationship between Art and Popular Culture Images (with Leslie Labowitz) (1970) 72 9. Feminist Artists: Developing a Media Strategy for the Movement (with Leslie Labowitz) (1981) 83 10. Time, Bones, and Art: Anatomy of a Decade (1995) 92 Part 2. Political Performance Art: The Eighties Introduction 108 11. Broomsticks and Banners: The Winds of Change (1980) 109 12. The Greening of California Performance: Art of Social Change—A Case Study (1982) 114 13. Made for TV: California Performance in Mass Media (1982) 120 14. Battle of New Orleans (1980) 126 15. Beneath the Seams (1982) 137 16. In the Shadows: An Analysis of The Dark Madonna (1990) 144 17. Political Performance Art: A Discussion by Suzanne Lacy and Lucy R. Lippard (1985) 151 Part 3. Debated Territory: The Nineties Introduction 160 18. The Name of the Game (1991) 161 19. Debated Territory: Toward a Critical Language for Public Art (1994) 172 20. Affinities: Thoughts on an Incomplete History (1994) 185 21. Love, Cancer, Memory: A Few Stories (1996) 194 22. Cancer Notes (with Leslie Becker) (1995) 211 23. What It Takes (with Ann Wettrich) (2002) 222 Part 4. Leaving Art: After 2000 Introduction 236 24. The Skin of Memory/La Piel de la Memoria (with Pilar Riaño-Alcalá) (2006) 237 25. Seeking an American Identity (Working Inward from the Margins) (2003) 250 26. Cop in the Head, Cop in the Street (2006) 267 27. Having It Good: Reflections on Engaged Art and Engaged Buddhism (2005) 284 28. Hard Work in a Working-Class Town (2006) 300 29. Tracing Allan Kaprow (2007) 319 Afterword: In|ter|ceptions and In|tensions—Situating Suzanne Lacy's Practice / Kerstin Mey 327 Appendix. Chronology and Selected Performances and Installations 339 Notes 343 Index 369
£27.90
McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S. Marina Abramovic Art Love Friendship Marina
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£21.85
Parkstone Press USA, Limited Chaïm Soutine
£34.88
National Gallery Singapore Latiff Mohidin: Pago Pago (1960−1969)
Book SynopsisSeen as a step toward addressing this gap, this catalogue seeks to position Mohidin within Berlin art circles of the 1960s, and unravel what could be contingently described as painting from within the tradition. The catalogue also explores the formative role of Mohidin’s Pago Pago series not only in his oeuvre, but also in our very ability to write about Southeast Asian history.
£29.75
Yale University Press Picturesque and Sublime
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£25.00
