The Shifting Foundation in association with SFMoMA 2002
120 pages Colour reproductions throughout. ISBN 0971861005
43 x 32 cm English text. Slipcased hardcover
Essays by Dave Hickey and Klaus Kertess. An Audio CD of music by Bill Frisell.
Includes poetry by Richard Howard, Jorie Graham, Robert Hass, Ann Lauterbach, Dean Young, Brenda Hillman, James McManus, Michael Palmer, Connie Deanovich, David Breskin, Paul Hoover, Edward Hirsch and W.S. Di Piero.
Gerhard Richter's abstractions are profound and beautiful, though perplexing. After all these years, they still present a curious challenge: what, exactly, are they? RICHTER 858 explores this question by focusing on one suite of extraordinary pictures painted in 1999, soon after his return to work after a silence caused by a stroke. Both investigation and celebration, this book brings together image, music and text in a uniquely compelling way: contributors include the great guitarist and composer Bill Frisell, two sharp-eyed critics, and a baker's dozen of prominent, award-winning poets. Housed in an aluminum slipcase, this lavish, oversized volume features the largest, most sumptuous, and most accurate reproductions of any Richter work. The eight paintings of the suite are shown at more than half-scale, and also, quite untraditionally, presented unbound on heavy paper in a pocket at the back of the book--allowing readers to mix, match, and re-present the work for themselves outside the confines of the printed volume. Forty details from the paintings are also reproduced in large-format, accompanied by the poems and texts. These brilliant passages--rich in incident and intervention, and ranging from the coolly sublime to the loudly riotous--make fascinating pictures in their own right. Additionally, a double gatefold opens to show all eight paintings in panoramic view. In essence, RICHTER 858 presents an elegant, if raucous, meeting ground for our most important contemporary artist and a diverse chorus of American music, poetry, and criticism. Price: £95.00
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 2002
112pages Colour Reproductions. ISBN 3883756342
17 x 24 cm English text. Hardcover
Long the 'enfant terrible' of the New York and international art scene, Jeff Koons presents a book showing a new perspective of his work over the last 20 years.
'I have always been a painter and I think like a painter' he said in 1992. He regarded one of his first works, The New Jeff Koons in 1980, which took the format of a childhood photograph in a light box, as a 'mechanical' painting. He even referred to his early sculptures, e.g. the New Hoover Celebrity series, with a vacuum cleaner and other Hoover household appliances, as 'three-dimensional' paintings.
This book features Koons' two-dimensional paintings from 1980 - 2002: photographs, prints and paintings as well as his most recent large-format canvas works. Price: £32.00
Black Dog Publishing 2002
192pp Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 1901033570
19.5 x 25.5 cm English text. Softcover
This book documents a series of performances that were made by 14 young British artists. With colour illustrations and photography by the leading arts photographer Hugo Glendinning, each project is presented alongside essays by artists and writers including musician Brian Eno. Topics include personal and community memories, anonimity, rumours, forgotten times and posssessions. With contributions from artists that span the range of performance practice - from electronic muscian Scanner, to the self-wounding of Keira O'Reilly, this book is an essential guide to performance today.
Against a backdrop of corporate pageantry, state fireworks and bogus universalism 14 British artists have marked the personal and political resonances of the Millennium in a series of extraordinary performances, here transformed into works for the page, These dissident , idiosincratic and often private actions deal with unspoken and invisible aspects of contemporary experience: personal and community memories, itinerant life, anonymity, mental health, disability, rumours, forgotten times and possessions. Commissioned artists include Brian Catling, Bobby Baker, Graeme Miller, Ronald Fraser-Munro and Scanner. More than a catalogue of now lost performance events, Small Acts presents striking visual documents set alongside essays by key art and cultural commentators. Price: £16.95
Steidl Verlag 2002
176 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3882438126
21 x 29 cm English text. Hardcover
A Berlin Childhood, inspired by Walter Benjamin's memoir, A Childhood in Berlin Around 1900, reflects the coincidence of history and everyday life. Benjamin distills the poignancy of a lost childhood from vividly remembered places, things and experiences. Aura Rosenberg was introduced to these writings shortly after coming to Berlin with her husband and young daughter in 1991. In the daily routines of raising a child, she found herself moving through the very spaces Benjamin once had walked about. What she found was a city that had, although vastly altered, subtly remained the same. It held an uncanny attraction for Rosenberg. Her family, too, had fled Germany in the 1930s. Tracing Benjamin's childhood thus intermingled with reconstructing her own family history. Her goal became to produce photos to match each entry in Benjamin's book. This volume of about 160 pictures is the result of that quest. In each section Rosenberg also juxtaposes excerpts from Benjamin with accounts of her own investigation. What emerges is a multilayered allegory that offers a look back to the origins of modernity through the lens of contemporary Berlin. Price: £24.95
Kunsthalle Bern 2002
80 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3883756202
22 x 30 cm English/German text. Softcover
Glasgow-based artist Richard Wright’s work focuses on the interfaces of painting and space. He highlights walls as connectors between inside and outside, real and imaginary, world and white cube.
This book features Wright’s relief-like wall paintings since 1999 as shown at the Gagosian Gallery, London, Tate Liverpool and Kunsthalle Bern. Includes text by Rita Kersting, Roberto Ohrt, Cerith Wyn Evans, Frank Frangenberg and a conversation with the artist by Adam Szymzcyk. Also includes short biographical notes. Price: £20.00
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Phaidon 2002
160 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 071484036X
25 x 29 cm English text. Softcover
Young sculptor, photographer and installation artist Olafur Eliasson creates works that explore the relationship between nature and technology. Based in Berlin, the artist rebuilds in the gallery fragments of the environment: icebergs at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 'windmills' at the Louisiana Museum in Humlebaek, Denmark. For Eliasson, immaterial sensations such as temperature, smell, taste, air and magnetic waves become sculptural elements when presented in an art context.
Nominated in 2002 for the prestigious Hugo Boss prize, Eliasson has become a favourite in recent Biennales of contemporary art.
Scandinavian curator Daniel Birnbaum discusses with the artist the role of location and the immediate environment in both his gallery (indoor) and remote-site (outdoor) work. In her Survey curator Madeleine Grynsztejn examines the unique position of this new international art star who overlaps architectural, technological and artistic innovation. Architecture theorist Michael Speaks looks at the artist's Green River (1998), particularly in relation to Antonioni's 1964 film, Red Desert. For his Artist's Choice the artist has selected an extract from Henri Bergson's Creative Evolution (1907) dealing with our subjective, visual response to nature - a central theme in the artist's own work. Olafur Eliasson's writings include essays on such topics as the weather and colour, as well as an open letter entitled 'Dear Everybody', addressed to the viewers moving through his artwork. Price: £24.95
Buchhandlung Walther Konig
272 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 388375974
23.5 x 30 cm. Hardcover
Comprising nearly 60 years of Louise Bourgeois’ artistic work, this book, with its examination of 21 sculptures and 116 drawings, offers readers a unique survey of her different creative periods and key works
More than 50 drawings from 2001 - 2002, as well as recent key sculptures provide the reader with insight into Bourgeois’ current work.
Printed here for the first time, the book comprises an extensive comprehensive chronology of the artist’s life.
Also includes a comprehensive index of exhibitions and publications to date. Price: £45.00
160 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 0714841927
Turner-prize winning Wolfgang Tillmans is a superstar of 1990s photography. This is the only book to cover his entire career, from the best-selling debut portraits in 1995 at the age of 24, to his most recent, abstract works. Large colour photographs such as Lutz and Alex Sitting in the Trees (1992), of a couple - naked save for their incongruous raincoats - perched in a tree are emblems of his generation. Tillmans has more recently expanded his practice to include found photography as well as large installations reminiscent of the collage techniques of the 1960s Conceptual artists.
American artist and theorist Peter Halley discusses with the artist his rapidly changing role, from mid 1990s Wunderkind to established master of the 'new photography' today. German critic Jan Verwoert surveys the artist's many genres and styles, spanning abstract and figurative imagery. Japanese critic and curator Midori Matsuri analyses in her Focus a single project, Concorde (1997), a room-size installation and artist's book which records the daily passing of this epoch-making aeroplane. Extracts from a nineteenth-century Quaker text by Caroline Stephen on divine inspiration comprise the Artist's Choice. In the Artist's Writings Wolfgang Tillmans' art is reflected in his diary entries, fragments of text from his installations and project notes. Price: £24.95
Modern Art Oxford 2002
100 pages B&W reproductions.ISBN 1901352153
17 x 21 cm English text. Softcover
'notebook-style' title published alongside Emin's exhibition of new work at Modern Art Oxford. This is Emin's first solo show in a British public gallery since 1997
THIS IS ANOTHER PLACE is an exhibition of new work by one of Britain's leading contemporary artists. In her first solo exhibition in a public gallery in Britain since 1997, Tracey Emin explores a world in which memories merge with the present and future. For Emin, her life and her art are her family history, her sexual experiences, her desires and her fears, expressed with compelling frankness. Imbued with a sense of the intimate and the hand-made, Emin draws on a wide range of media, from etching and appliqué to film, neon and sculpture. Her work speaks with passion, honesty and intelligence. Price: £12.95
CCAC Wattis Institute 2002
96 pages Audio CD Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 0972508007
15 x 21 cm. English text. Softcover
Following his projects with coal miners, The Battle of Orgreave and with marching bands (Acid Brass), Deller spent much of the past year in residency in California at the CCAC Wattis Institute. The result of his stay is an unlikely art project: a playful, unorthodox but thoroughly usable guidebook to the Golden State. The book is a ninety-six page collection of colourful maps, history, first-person stories, drawings, photographs and an audio CD, presenting a practical guide that also serves as an interactive social history and treasure-hunt map. Topics addressed include the gold rush and ghost towns, the dot com phenomenon, the Black Panther movement in Oakland, Ronald Reagan, Thomas Kinkade, juvenile delinquency in small towns, SUVs, the desert as a place of retreat and exile, old age, and organized religion. Price: £12.99
Book Works 2002
Audit is the result of conducting a personal poll during which the artist asks –
"What am I worth?" Combining techniques from business analysis and other disciplines, this book uses material gathered from a specially designed questionnaire, measuring a broad range of values, such as emotional and social worth, as well as financial and economic outcomes. Published as part of Book Works New Writing Series.
Price: £9.95
Groninger Museum/Museum Kunst Palast 2002
120 pages Colour Reproductions. ISBN 3883756113
19.5 x 24.5 cm English/German text. Softcover
British artists Jake and Dinos Chapman create satiric caricatures and symbols that are documented here in this book. It includes documentation of their earlier works (e.g. Zygotic Acceleration and McDonald's Environments) right up to their current works - the Africa McDonald's Sculptures, where fetishes and masks reveal the features of their McWorld characters.
Also includes etchings produced specifically for the book. Price: £35.00
Deutsche Guggenheim 2002
152 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 0810969378
23 x 27.5 cm English text. Hardcover
Widely recognized as the leading video artist of our time, Bill Viola employs sophisticated state-of-the-art technologies to create installations that envelop the viewer in image and sound. In his newest and most evocative work - on display at the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin and in this accompanying catalogue - an ordered sequence of allegorical fresco-like images immerse the viewer in a total aesthetic, sensory, and philosophical experience. Including an interview with the artist - who represented the United States at the 1995 Venice Biennale and whose career was the subject of a major 1997 travelling exhibition organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art - this is a mesmerizing volume. Price: £30.00
Jablonka Galerie 2002
Price: £20.00
