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Book SynopsisSeventy-two charcoal, pastel and oil crayon drawings and oil paintings of helicopters created by Sabine Moritz between 2003 and 2013.

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Book SynopsisPaperback edition profiling German artist Gerhard Richter's series of the same name - comprised of 54 ink drawings - so called due to their creation throughout the month of November in 2008. The book comprises facsimiles of the original semi-transparent works and a text by Dieter Schwarz, Director of the Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland.

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Book Synopsis'Interviews' collates, in a single volume, the major body of interviews conducted by the revered American critic and curator Robert Storr, encompassing engaging discussions with some of the most renowned names in the artworld over the last two centuries.

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Book SynopsisConor Harrington's works are 'magisterial canvasses which unite the luxuriant, shadowy intensity of Caravaggio with the provocative roughness of the street'. This monograph is the first to chart his output in full, from the nascent graffiti of his teenage years to the monolithic canvasses and outdoor murals of an internationally recognised career.

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Book SynopsisA full-colour collection of art work by Johnny Carroll-Pell, a young artist from Brighton who is diagnosed as severely autistic.Trade Review"Some people paint sunsets or animals, some people paint faces, some people paint ideas. Johnny paints that feeling you get when you finally jump off the diving board and whoosh towards the water, when a brilliant idea breaks into your head, when you say yes ok let's do this and you jump on a toboggan with your kid. I'm not sure there's a word for that feeling, but thanks to Johnny I now know what it looks like." - Frank Cottrell Boyce; "Johnny is a true artist: prolific, instinctive and with a profound and purposeful sense of space, shape and colour. His joyous work is intense and warm, describing his world and those in it with a love and simplicity that is both moving and truthful." - Jessica Hynes; "Painting is his chosen outlet of expression and this collection ... is testament to his talent. It depicts a dazzling, sensual world of intense colours and lights. There is a spontaneity and energy about his work that is compelling." - Veronica Groocock, Literary Life

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Book SynopsisMarie Duval (1847-1890) was a groundbreaking Victorian female cartoonist whose wide range of work, depicting an urban, often working class milieu, has been largely forgotten. This is a book for pleasure: the first to celebrate the life and work of an extraordinary and inventive artist.

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Book SynopsisThe Art of Mary Linwood is the first book on Leicester textile artist Mary Linwood (1755-1845) and catalogue of her work. When British textile artist and gallery owner Mary Linwood died in 1845 just shy of 90 years old, her estate was worth the equivalent of 5,199,822 in today's currency. As someone who made, but did not sell, embroidered replicas of famous artworks after artists such as Gainsborough, Reynolds, Stubbs, and Morland, how did she accumulate so much money? A pioneering woman in the male-dominated art world of late Georgian Britain, Linwood established her own London gallery in 1798 that featured copies of well-known paintings by these popular artists. Featuring props and specially designed rooms for her replicas, she ensured that her visitors had an entertaining, educational, and kinetic tour, similar to what Madame Tussaud would do one generation later. The gallery's focus on picturesque painters provided her London visitors with an idylliTrade ReviewHighly readable and beautifully researched, The Art of Mary Linwood restores this multifaceted artist to her rightful place in the history of art, offering a fascinating insight into the remarkable experience of a virtuosic embroiderer, entrepreneur, installation artist, mentor, and educator. Strobel’s rich assessment of Linwood’s oeuvre illuminates the many ways in which intermedial artforms flourished during this period. * Laura Engel, Professor of English, Duquesne University, USA *Heidi Strobel’s brilliantly researched and engaging study enriches and expands scholarship on women artists. This book deftly explores Linwood’s multiple roles as entrepreneur, educator, exhibition designer, and embroidery artist. Strobel’s book challenges common assumptions about art history, material culture, and gender. * Christina K. Lindeman, Associate Professor of Art History, University of South Alabama, USA *Situating Linwood’s unique artistic practice in the context of cultural patriotism and the London gallery scene, this long overdue biography and catalogue raisonné has fresh relevance today. * Kimberly Chrisman Campbell, author of Fashion Victims (2015), Worn on This Day (2019), and Skirts (2022). *This fascinating book repositions Mary Linwood at the center of London's vibrant gallery culture, delivering a comprehensive picture of Linwood's innovative work across exhibition making and the decorative arts. * Freya Gowrley, Lecturer in History of Art and Liberal Arts, University of Bristol, UK *This book makes an essential contribution to British art history, textile history, and the history of display. Its treatment of Linwood, who combined the roles of female artist, entrepreneur, curator, and educator, reveals new, vibrant paths of study. * Ryan Whyte, Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts & Science, OCAD University, Canada *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Plates List of Figures Introduction 1. Embroidery, Education, and Commerce: Linwood’s Early Years 2. The Pantheon and Hanover Square Exhibitions 3. Portraiture, Publications, and Promotion 4. The Leicester Square Gallery: Performing British Patriotism 5. Of Students and Studying: The Academic Tradition and the Scripture Room 6. Linwood’s Legacies Appendix: Catalogue of Linwood’s Textiles Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book dedicated to examining the marital relationships of Mary and George Watts and Evelyn and William De Morgan as creative partnerships. The study demonstrates how they worked, individually and together, to support greater gender equality and female liberation in the nineteenth century.

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Book SynopsisBeckett was deeply engaged with the visual arts and individual painters, including Jack B. Yeats, Bram van Velde, and Avigdor Arikha. In this monograph, David Lloyd explores what Beckett saw in their paintings.

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Book SynopsisThis collection offers the first place for the importance of Brainard's poetry, collaborations and art to be recognised for their contribution and influence, all in one place.

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Book Synopsis Gavin Parkinson is Professor of European Modernism, The Courtauld Institute of Art, UK.Trade ReviewParkinson’s expansive study opens up poetic, allusive, and sometimes political layers in Rauschenberg ’s works, unearthing important responses from Parisian critics and writers. This approach unexpectedly establishes Rauschenberg’s Surrealist inflected roots, whilst contributing to the recent wave of expanded consideration of post-war, later Surrealism. * Lewis Kachur, author of Displaying the Marvellous: Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dali, and Surrealist Exhibition Installations (2001), and Professor of Art History, Kean University, USA *With remarkable precision, thoroughness, and generative energy, Parkinson’s book offers an authoritative account of the French surrealist reception of Rauschenberg’s work in the 1960s. Analysing little-known and untranslated texts, Parkinson shows just how enmeshed the aesthetic and political registers were for these writers and artists. * Edward Krcma, Associate Professor of Art History, Department of Art History and World Art Studies, University of East Anglia, UK *This impressive book is more than a study on Rauschenberg and Surrealism, more specifically on the largely unnoticed or forgotten link between them. It is also a reflection on the way we write art history today, as a strange mix of theory, thoroughly documented archival research and, above all, an obsession with linear periodization. -- Jan Baetens * Leonardo Reviews *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Poet: Allegory and Metaphor in US Art History and Criticism 2. In the Surrealist Domain: Bed and Target with Plaster Casts 3. Opposer: The Poetics and Politics of Canyon in Paris and New York, 1961 4. Surrealist of the Re-Found Object: Monogram in Front unique 5. Resistance Artist: Bed at Anti-Procès 6. The Constantin Guys of the Atomic Era: Alain Jouffroy, Talisman and Barge 7. Choisiste: ‘Things’ in French and US Art Criticism in the 1960s 8. Surrealist in Irony: José Pierre and Trophy III (for Jean Tinguely) Concluding Remarks: On Robert Rauschenberg, Surrealism and Art History

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Book SynopsisA new 1,000 piece puzzle from Flow, the international brand that celebrates mindfulness, creativity, and the simple pleasures in life. This puzzle, featuring an exclusive illustration by Dutch artist Valesca van Waveren, is inspired by the words All good things are wild and free, written by Henry David Thoreau in Walking. As you complete the puzzle, piece by piece, you may be reminded of the simple joys of being in nature: a traveling snail, a fruiting tree, the hum of a grasshopper, sparkling constellations, the strong trunk of an oakFeaturing: 1,000 full-color interlocking pieces Art print with puzzle image Finished puzzle is 26 3/8'' x 18 7/8''The full All Good Things Are Wild and Free stationery line includes: 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle, sticker book, stationery set, daily tracker, wrapping paper and gift tags, sticky notes, sketchbook, and notebook set.

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Book SynopsisA 1,000 piece puzzle from America's premier fantasy artist. Boris Vallejo begins with an old master's gift of understanding every bone, muscle, tendon, and sinew in the human body, and ends somewhere beyond the reaches of time and space. The vision is pure audacity: a warrior astride her three-headed dragon, curved blade at the ready, in a swirl of fire and ice. Follow her, piece by piece, and imagine yourself in a world transformed. Featuring: 1,000 interlocking pieces Mini-poster (9 3/8 x 6 3/4) for reference or framing Completed puzzle size: 26 3/4 x 18 7/8

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Book SynopsisWhat did it mean for painter Lee Krasner to be an artist and a woman if, in the culture of 1950s New York, to be an artist was to be Jackson Pollock and to be a woman was to be Marilyn Monroe? With this question, Griselda Pollock begins a transdisciplinary journey across the gendered aesthetics and the politics of difference in New York abstract, gestural painting. Revisiting recent exhibitions of Abstract Expressionism that either marginalised the artist-women in the movement or focused solely on the excluded women, as well as exhibitions of women in abstraction, Pollock reveals how theories of embodiment, the gesture, hysteria and subjectivity can deepen our understanding of this moment in the history of painting co-created by women and men. Providing close readings of key paintings by Lee Krasner and re-thinking her own historic examination of images of Jackson Pollock and Helen Frankenthaler at work, Pollock builds a cultural bridge between the New York artist-women and their other, Marilyn Monroe, a creative actor whose physically anguished but sexually appropriated star body is presented as pathos formula of life energy.Monroe emerges as a haunting presence within this moment of New York modernism, eroding the policed boundaries between high and popular culture and explaining what we gain by re-thinking art with the richness of feminist thought.Trade Review‘With theoretic acuity, Griselda Pollock revisits New York Abstract Expressionism to propose a feminist reading of the Jewish-American artist Lee Krasner that is as astonishing as it is compelling. Seeking to discover inscriptions of feminine sexual difference, these psychoanalytically inspired essays revolve around a conceptual triangulation, in which Krasner’s position as a painter-woman in abstract art is conceived as a third position, interrogating and reworking two competing components of her creative energy – with Jackson Pollock as an iconisation of her identity as an artist and Marilyn Monroe as an iconisation of her identity as a woman. The triptych that emerges is utterly riveting.’ Elisabeth Bronfen, Professor of English and American Studies, University of Zurich‘Killing Men & Dying Women represents an exciting new development for Griselda Pollock’s work. She deconstructs the misogyny of 1950s America as well as an art establishment that critically ignored and institutionally marginalised the women artists of Abstract Expressionism. Making an unflinching use of feminist psychoanalytic theory, she argues for a more significant maternal relation in the human psyche’s development than traditional psychoanalysis allows. This perspective brings into visibility occluded modes of feeling and understanding that women’s art, fragilely, preserves. The image and the story of Marilyn Monroe is woven into the texture of the argument, upsetting the decade’s transcendent image of “woman” and revealing the patriarchal insecurities it represented.’Laura Mulvey, Professor of Film Studies, Birkbeck, University of London‘A book that reveals art history as a concerted and difficult and passionate business – a contest, a battle, in short, a lived experience.’Alexander Nemerov, Carl and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities, Stanford University -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Prophecy, 19562 Five essays on sexuality (and art)3 What did Greenberg not say, or dare to think?4 Is the gesture male?5 Is the artist hysterical?6 Massacred women do not make me laugh, nor do the agonies of Marilyn Monroe’s body7 Dancing space: Prophecy to Sun Woman I8 Three memories: Rosenberg and MonroeAppendix: Sexual differenceIndex

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Book SynopsisScoundrels, Cads, and Other Great Artists examines the lives of 12 great artists who were less than exemplary human beings in their lives outside of their art. It explores the question, “Why do we like magnificent art from artists who were awful human beings?” For example, the great Baroque painter, Caravaggio, who developed the chiaroscuro style of painting, was in constant trouble with the law, even having killed a man in a dual. Frederick Remington, the great painter of the American West, was an incredible racist and bigot. His evocative paintings of native Americans on the trail on horseback give no hint of Remington’s enmity toward them or other ethnic groups in America. John James Audubon? He mostly shot the birds he painted; if in doing so, he damaged a part that he wanted to paint, he shot another one. Whistler and Courbet were philanderers and libertines. Scoundrels introduces people to great art by showing the more salacious side of the personal lives of great artists over time. The book not only tells the stories of a dozen artists, but explores how to look at art and the separation between art and artist. This lively narrative is enhanced by over 100 full-color reproductions of great paintings and details from them.

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Book SynopsisHow many female artists can you name? Frida Kahlo, Georgia O’Keefe, Marina Abramovic? How about female artists who lived prior to the Modern era? Maybe Artemisia Gentileschi and then… even a regular museum-goer might run out of steam. What about female curators, critics, patrons, collectors, muses, models and art influencers? This book provides a 360 degree look at the role, influence, and empowerment of women through art—including women artists, but going beyond those who have taken up a brush or a chisel. In 1971, Linda Nochlin published a famous essay, “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” This book responds to it by showing that not only have there been scores of great women artists throughout history, but that great women have shaped the story of art. The result is a book that sheds light on the art world in a very new way, finally celebrating the great women artists and influencers who deserve to be much better known. The entire history of art can be told as a herstory of art.Trade ReviewWithout patronizing, without flattery, without teary penitence, Noah Charney writes about women artists throughout global history, searching for the ‘herstory’ of art. Precise, informative, within context and with perspective, he is a witty and unreserved lover of art and a lover of creative women. This is a precious book, at once passionate and informative. -- Svetlana Slapšak, professor of Classics, University of LjubljanaWith characteristic wit and élan, Charney takes us on a romp through centuries of art, focusing his scrutiny on the women who “have shaped the story of art.” This highly readable and engaging “herstory” of art offers a sweeping bird’s eye view, a personal and passionate panorama that introduces the reader to a wide range of artists, periods, and styles. Famous female artists are joined by myriad others, who have been forgotten or never properly acknowledged and yet, whose contributions deserve recognition. Charney also tells us about “influencers”: muses, patrons, collectors, critics, and scholars—women who each in their way have left a lasting mark on art. As we learn about their work and their lives, Charney regales us with a cornucopia of tasty—and memorable—tidbits. -- Véronique Plesch, professor of art history and chair of the art department at Colby CollegeFeminist art historian Noah Charney broadens the landscape about the roles women have played in art history. Traversing time and location, Charney’s trailblazing globe-trotting narrative challenges the established and now settled tropes surrounding the feminist movement that developed in the late 1960s and 1970s. Inclusive of collectors, commissioners, curators, and critics, alongside the art makers themselves, Charney presents a narrative through a new lens which has formerly been the coveted domain of female art historians. Thus, his book is valuable by presenting a paradigm shift in terms of how art history is understood and delivered. -- Penelope Jackson MNZM, author of The Art of Copying Art, Females in the Frame: Women, Art, and Crime, and Art Thieves, Fakers & Fraudsters: The New Zealand StoryThe Herstory of Art is not only a brilliant volume, full of anecdotes straight from the art world, from which you won’t be able to tear yourself away, but it is also a game changer in how we look at the past. As we dive into Charney’s words, we are challenged to ask ourselves to what extent were men the protagonists of the realm of art: was it really Jackson Pollock the one who created the dripping technique? Or rather a female figure overshadowed by Pollock and almost entirely forgotten? Isn’t Artemisia Gentileschi at least as good as other celebrated baroque painters? -- Anna Sumislawska, painterOne wonders what wonders she would have wrought," writes Noah Charney in his story of the herstory of art. At last we have a proper herstory! This book is an admirable, fully-fledged overview of great women in the story of art. -- Meta Grgurevic, kinetic artist

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Book Synopsis'Some can be active to a great age but enjoy little,' observed the Canadian artist Emily Carr shortly before her death in 1945. 'I have lived.' The impressive scope of Carr's art and her unorthodox life are the subjects of this book. In a text that skilfully blends selections from Carr's own writings with illustrated commentary, Newlands creates a delightful look at one of Canada's best-known artists. This book will transport you to British Columbia, where Carr spent much of her life in a world of richly drawn First Nations villages and totems, dark haunting forests, wild beaches and vast skies. There, you will meet the unconventional woman - 'the little old lady on the edge of nowhere,' as she called herself - who helped define the face of Canadian art.

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Book Synopsis“To all the young girls in care and women in corrections, never give up hope. I was once where you are. Life gets better. Be blessed.”- Jackie TraverseSacred Feminine is a colouring book by Anishinaabe artist Jackie Traverse.The beautiful and intricate works of art within depict images of strength, resilience and empowerment. With each image, the artist explains the symbolism and meaning represented. The first of its kind, Sacred Feminine is intended to heal and educate readers and colourers of all ages.

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Book SynopsisThe first monograph on the architectural sculptor and installation artist and long-time collaborator with the New York School poets Best known for creating large-scale installation work inspired by American vernacular architecture, Dennis finds beauty in places shaped by ordinary people, which become repositories for memory and feelings. Her seemingly familiar yet often darkly mysterious sites evoke memories, encourage reflection, and allude to the transient nature of life. This book contextualizes Dennis’s work within contemporary art and the women’s movements and traces the arc of her career, tracing the evolution of her architectural sculpture over more than forty years, exploring her artistic collaborations with poets, and presenting her most recent work, a series of gouaches and dioramas, for the first time. A conversation between Dennis and painter Rackstraw Downes brings to life the artist’s influences through her own words. With insightful text by feminist art scholar Helaine Posner, plus commentary from Dennis on the sources and process of creating the work, this book is an essential addition to the libraries of collectors and art historians interested in the architectural sculpture movement of the 1970s, and all those interested in feminism in art.

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Book SynopsisA fascinating look at an extraordinary collection of ceramic masterpieces by celebrated French ceramicist Ernest Chaplet. Over the last forty years, architect and collector Peter Marino has acquired a remarkable collection of pieces by French ceramicist, Ernest Chaplet. This collection is a precious testimony of a rare production - a new line of ceramics created by Chaplet in 1883 for the Limoges-based factory Haviland & Co. Ernest Chaplet sheds deserved light on this great artist, whose career exemplifies the evolution of artistic ceramics at the turn of the 20th century, and whose work entered the collections of many museums during his lifetime.

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Book SynopsisThe first monograph of the hundreds of billboards by artist-led coalition For Freedoms, the largest public creative collaboration in American history

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Book SynopsisA decade's worth of spectacular works by renowned glass artist Jeff Zimmerman, a maker at the height of his creative power

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Book SynopsisThis work contains murals for the Teamsters, the Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers, the Communications Workers, United Electrical Workers, and the United Farm Workers. Other works respond to events such as the 1984 strike of P-9 workers in Austin, Minnesota.

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Book SynopsisDepicting more than 220 African species, the stunning large-scale mural African Menagerie is artist Brian Jarvi s masterwork. Lavishly reproduced in an oversize format with a gatefold, this book brings this landscape masterpiece to the conservationist, lover of Africa, and fan of wildlife art. In oversized colour reproductions, the book African Menagerie offers readers a look at the finer details of the realist renderings of the animals and birds across the seven panels and thirty feet. There are also reproductions of the animal studies Jarvi created in the seventeen years leading up to the final work. Measuring 28 feet across and a full one-story tall, and connected via seven interlocking panels, Brian Jarvi s painting includes more than 200 different African wildlife species, presented as if they are looking at us, the human viewers, seemingly challenging us to save this planet. Many of the species featured in Jarvi s painting are, according to experts, expected to be extinct in the wild by the middle of this century unless humankind takes bold action to ensure their continued existence. In oversized colour reproductions, African Menagerie brings the masterpiece home in an accessible manner. The studies offer a glimpse into the work and mind of a creative genius. In addition, the book tells the story of the work, and tracks the evolution and unlikely journey of Jarvi from once being a Duck Stamp artist to becoming one of the most notable wildlife painter of this generation.

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Book SynopsisDiscover the uniquely dynamic work of acclaimed artist Jock, from his groundbreaking comics art to his stunning posters for the pop culture company Mondo and his evocative concept illustrations for a range of acclaimed films. Mark Simpson, known by his pen name, Jock, is an internationally recognized three-time New York Times best-selling artist and Eisner Award nominee. Over the last two decades, Jock has become one of the most distinguished illustrators in comics, with credits that include titles with DC Comics/Vertigo (The Losers, Batman: The Black Mirror, Green Arrow: Year One), Marvel (Savage Wolverine, Daredevil), and his runaway success, Wytches (co-created with Scott Snyder for Image Comics). He is also known for his extensive work with Mondo—the renowned pop culture company famous for its iconic poster designs and collectibles—including electrifying posters that offer unique interpretations of fan-favorite movies such as Shaun of the Dead, The Thing, Pan’s Labyrinth, The Dark Knight Trilogy, Halloween, and many more. In the movie world, Jock’s concept art has defined the look of major films such as Dredd, Ex Machina, and Star Wars Episode VIII. Made in collaboration with Mondo, The Art of Jock delves into the prolific artist’s catalog, showcasing not only the best of his sketches and published images but also personal notes from Jock himself that provide insight into the inner workings of his creative process. Featuring commentary from long-time collaborators, including Scott Snyder and Alex Garland, this look into the mind and method of one of the most critically acclaimed illustrators working today is a must-have for fans of comic book and pop culture art, as well as aspiring artists and illustrators.  Features two gatefolds, plus excusive vellum and acetate overlays that further illuminate Jock’s creative process.

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Book SynopsisJodi Hauptman examines the procedures and context behind Kelly''s formative 1951 abstractionEllsworth Kelly?s landmark 1951 work Colors for a Large Wall is the culmination of an extraordinarily productive moment in the artist?s early career, a time when he developed his singular form of abstraction. After serving in the US Army during World War II, he returned to France in 1948 and lived and worked there until 1954. Connecting with artists of an earlier generation, discovering Paris with his peers, and surveying monuments of the past, Kelly began an audacious creative journey in which, paradoxically, he sought to eliminate "invention" from the process of making art. In this volume of the MoMA One on One series, curator Jodi Hauptman looks closely at the evolution of Colors for a Large Wall, unpacking Kelly?s toolbox of close observation of the world, chance procedures, collage and the monochrome, and examining his ambition to create art on a public, architectural scale.

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive retrospective of work from one of the foremost performance artists to emerge from the 1970sSince her earliest performances in the late 1960s, Joan Jonas has concerned herself with animation and moving images, asking what it means to move images, or to be moved by them. The artist constantly returns to her ever-expanding archive of images, sounds, gestures, ideas and places, reworking materials into new forms across the decades. Published in conjunction with the artist?s most comprehensive retrospective in the United States, presented by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Good Night Good Morning spans more than 50 years of her remarkable career and features works in all mediums?including videos, drawings, notebooks, photographs and major installations and performances.The abundantly illustrated publication features essays by curators and scholars that delve into the political, social and historical impact of Jonas? working method, a suite of oral histories gathered specifically for this project and a new photographic portfolio by the artist Zoe Leonard. Featuring extensive archival materials, many previously unpublished, this monograph sheds new light on Jonas? unique role as a trailblazing figure of video and performance, and highlights her enduring multimedia legacy for generations of younger artists.Born in New York City in 1936, Joan Jonas is a pathmaking figure in video and performance art, and one of the most important artists to emerge from the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 2015 she was the sixth woman artist to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale. She lives and works in New York and Nova Scotia, Canada.

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Book SynopsisA revelatory trove of innovative photo collages, photograms, photographs and photocopies—many never before published—most reproduced at the size DeFeo printed them This monograph on the legendary and influential artist Jay DeFeo features over 150 photographic works—many never before published—most reproduced at the size the artist printed them. After the completion of her monumental masterpiece The Rose in 1966, DeFeo moved from the heart of artistic activity in San Francisco to a small house in Marin County, California. There she embarked on a focused and rigorous exploration with the camera. For much of the 1970s, she used the camera as a tool to look and think with, creating a wide range of black-and-white photographs she processed in her darkroom. The artist used experimental photographic techniques to produce extraordinary artworks, alongside documentary images of her studio and paintings in process. Her contact sheets, some of which are reproduced here, are often filled with multiple views of one object, revealing the way DeFeo looked and sketched with the lens. In 1972 she wrote: "My interest in photography has always paralleled my expression as a painter." Essays by Hilton Als, Judith Delfiner, Corey Keller, Justine Kurland, Dana Miller and Catherine Wagner survey the rich materiality, sculptural layering and illusionistic devices of DeFeo’s playful and enigmatic photographic works, illuminating her astonishing range and daring experimentation with the medium. Jay DeFeo (1929–89) was a Bay Area artist who created an original and provocative body of work, including the iconic painting The Rose (1958–66). In the 1970s and 1980s, DeFeo continued her visionary work in a range of mediums, including works on paper, photography, collage and photocopies. Among many other exhibitions, a retrospective of her work was organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and traveled to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2012.

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Book SynopsisLying deep within the urban metropolis of Hong Kong, Happy Valley is one of the most iconic racecourses in the world. It is also the chief source of inspiration for a new body of work by American artist Marcel Dzama. Jockeys ride through waves and cathedrals, Chinese symbols pulled from racing paraphernalia adorn the edges of paper, and bats swoop, hunting for prey. Dzama’s distinct visions of the racetrack come alive through a series of large-scale paintings and drawings, transposing imagery from his prolific oeuvre into this adrenaline-filled sporting arena. His new works reflect on the culture of horseracing and how the track has become not only a symbol of sport, but also of commerce, class, and wealth. This publication includes a conversation between Dzama and Laila Pedro. Published on the occasion of his solo exhibition at David Zwirner, Hong Kong, in 2019, Marcel Dzama: Crossing the Line is available in both English only and bilingual English/traditional Chinese editions.

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Book SynopsisThe renowned American artist Sherrie Levine engages her ongoing practice of appropriating artworks from the Western art historical canon—this time taking Ad Reinhardt’s Blue Paintings as a point of departure.Monochromes After Reinhardt: 1–28 (2018) continues the artist’s ongoing investigation of color separated from its representational function. Inspired by the exhibition Ad Reinhardt: Blue Paintings held at David Zwirner, New York in 2017, Levine has created abstract restatements of the 28 works that were on view, making use of pixilation to consolidate the range of blue tones in each painting into a single, truly monochromatic value. This work revisits a technique first employed by Levine in her 1989 group of woodcut prints Meltdown, where an averaging algorithm was used to create a checkerboard composition based on modernist artists’ iconic paintings.Sherrie Levine: After Reinhardt is published on the occasion of Levine’s eponymous solo exhibition at David Zwirner’s Upper East Side location in New York in 2019. The publication features full color reproductions of Monochromes After Reinhardt: 1–28 and includes the 1965 text “Reinhardt Paints a Picture,” in which Reinhardt famously interviewed himself.

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Book SynopsisRoy DeCarava: the sound i saw is the pictorial equivalent of jazz. Here the visionary photographer turns his gaze on legendary jazz icons John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington and Ornette Coleman, among many others. “This is a book about people, about jazz, and about things. The work between its covers tries to present images for the head and for the heart and, like its subject matter, is particular, subjective, and individual,” writes DeCarava. A master of poetic contemplation and of sensual tonalities in black and white, DeCarava is, above all, a photographer of people. A member of the post–World War II generation that sought a new modernist vocabulary, he was first recognized for his innovative images of life in Harlem (the subject of The Sweet Flypaper of Life, his 1955 collaboration with poet Langston Hughes) and extraordinary portraits of jazz musicians like John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, and Billie Holiday. It is these two themes—New York and jazz—interwoven and inseparable, that are the ostensible subject of the sound i saw. However, the seemingly casual yet deeply felt compositions and the rich, gradient tones of DeCarava’s photographs stir emotions that resonate far beyond one neighborhood and one era.Conceived, designed, written, and made as an artist maquette by DeCarava in the early 1960s, the sound i saw went unpublished for almost half a century until it was printed by Phaidon in 2001. At its core is a visual and philosophical journey to plumb the meaning of a creative life. The artist’s intention in proposing a complex relationship between vision and music moves his comprehensive, decade-long reflection to the status of a magnum opus. This new edition, co-published by First Print Press and David Zwirner Books, includes new scholarship by Radiclani Clytus, and reflections by Sherry Turner DeCarava.

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Book SynopsisThe most comprehensive overview of artist Josh Smith’s radicaltechnicolor paintings.Josh Smith: Emo Jungle looks at the artist’s vigorous repetition of particular motifs, illuminating his approach to painting as an exploratory medium for image production. Published on the occasion of Smith’s critically acclaimed first exhibition at David Zwirner, this catalogue features a new body of work that marks an important evolution for the artist. In these paintings, Smith sets the stage for a new mode of self-reflective commentary on image making, acknowledging that “the meaning perhaps arises in the making.”A new essay by Bob Nickas treats the Reaper, Turtle, and Devil figures from Emo Jungle as ciphers through which to understand Smith’s work. Nickas demonstrates how these new paintings restage and personalize the artist’s more abstract earlier works and illuminates the ways in which repetition functions within Smith’s practice. With more than one hundred illustrations, this book serves as the ideal introduction to Smith’s disruptive oeuvre.

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