Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth 2003
272 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 0500093083
24.5 x 30.5 cm English text. Hardcover
Philip Guston (1913–1980) had been a successful abstract painter for almost two decades when he boldly returned to figurative work in the late 1960s. His uncompromising late paintings, which broke taboos, baffled his admirers, and shocked the art establishment, ultimately inspired succeeding generations of artists, invigorating painting with a new sense of mission.
This book, the most comprehensive survey of Guston’s art to date, brings together for the first time the different aspects of the artist’s work, exposing the connective threads between them. In-depth essays by a group of noted critics and art historians explore Guston’s early influences and the emergence of symbols that resurfaced and played prominent roles in his late work. Here is real insight into Guston’s philosophy regarding abstraction, his role within its development, and the social and art historical context from which his so-called ‘Klan’ paintings emerged. Also included are one of Guston’s own essays on art and innovation, selections of drawings that act as both prelude and restatement at each stage of the artist’s career, and a number of works from Guston’s Estate that have never been exhibited before and that shed new light on his development.
With essays by Dore Ashton, Michael Auping, Bill Berkson, Andrew Graham-Dixon, Philip Guston, Joseph Rishel, Michael E. Shapiro . Foreword by Marla Price Price: £35.00
Ikon Gallery 2002
208 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 0907594816
21 x 30 cm English/Spanish text. Softcover
The work of Santiago Sierra pushes at the limits of political possibility. As pragmatic as it is transgressive, it is a welcome contribution to a very current conversation about the place of art in a world where, increasingly, we are certain of uncertainty, and where notions of universal order are more clearly, and rightly, regarded with suspicion. Sierra's is thus a tough, but not unsympathetic proposition. [Jonathan Watkins]
This catalogue is published alongside Mexican artist Santiago Sierra's first major solo exhibition in a public gallery in Europe (Ikon Gallery Feb - April 2002). Sierra's performances explore the value of labour. The exhibition features video and photographic documentation of his recent works, as well as a new commission. Sierra chooses his locations and recruits carefully. From Lima, Mexico City and Havana to Berlin, Helsinki and Birmingham, Sierra pays a standard wage to refugees, illegal workers, prostitutes or homeless people to perform set tasks. Repetitive, obtrusive and often pointless, these remunerated actions, stand as harsh yet poetic metaphors for the modern world.
This comprehensive catalogue documents all Sierra's work to date. Price: £12.95
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320 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 0500976198
24 x 31 cm English text. Hardcover
Dieter Roth was the quintessential artist's artist, highly revered by his peers, but nonetheless something of a dark horse. With the collaboration of Philipp Buse, Roth created and curated his own private museum, which, at the time of his death in 1998 housed a remarkable 550 original works, 1400 prints, around 250 artist's books and all the multiples and specially designed editions he had ever created.
This book - the first in a three-volume series - is a visually stunning survey of Roth's 'Unique Pieces' as well as an unparalled insight into his life and work.
Dirk Dobke, Curator at the Dieter Roth Foundation, explores the artist's 25-year friendsip with Philipp Buse, as well as the history and development of the museum.
Unique Pieces is accompanied by a spectacular CD-ROM that enables the reader to experience in full the magic of the Chocolate Gnomes, the Spice Objects and much more. . . Price: £35.00
Walther Konig 2002
86 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3883756016
6 x 11 cm English/German/French text. Hardcover
This small-format artist’s book was originally published for an exhibition at Nietzsche House in 1992 and is now available in a new edition with some minor changes. Richter’s series of painted-over photographs of mountain peaks and valleys in all seasons, with titles such as Val Fex, Piz Tremoggia, and Rosatsch, was created during his holidays in the region over many years.
Includes text by Peter André Bloch and Hans Ulrich Obrist. Price: £16.00
Bergen Kunsthall, Norway 2004
140 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 8230301972
22 x 26.5 cm English text. Hardcover
This impressive monograph, with a major new essay by Andrea Schlieker, entitled ‘moving mountain’ accompanies Anne Katrine Dolven's Festival Exhibition 2004 at Bergen Konstall and documents her most recent body of work including her 35 mm film installations and paintings. Dolvens unique ability to work across artistic media is clearly evident. The absence of any narrative creates a link between the film and paintings. Being difficult to understand at a glance, Dolvens work demands the viewers' time. Perception of the apparently monochrome films changes markedly as the viewer begins to comprehend small details. The same is true for the large abstract paintings, which gain in visual strength as nuances between the pale colours become apparent.
Anne Katrine Dolven has collected themes from amongst other things north Norwegian nature, more precisely Lofoten, where the artist lives for long periods of the year. The films are unedited and depict human figures, which almost without movement become a part of their magnificent surroundings. Other themes are taken from more closed and intimate contexts where the voyeuristic aspect becomes striking. By paying attention to changes in immaterial elements such as lights and sound, time also becomes important, not only for the viewers perception, but also for the content of much of the work. The sparse use of themes and references gives extra weight to these significant elements. Elements that in spite of their simplicity can both cognitively and thematically move mountains.
Having lived in Berlin and more recently London, Anne Katrine Dolven has over the past years established herself as one of Norway's most sought after contemporary artists. She has had a number of major solo exhibitions with significant international institutions and received awards for her work, one of these being the Fred Thieler-award. Dolven has also been important to the Norwegian arts scene, active both as an artist and politically. Price: £29.95
Edited by Peter Noever
MAK, Vienna 2002
254 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3883755729
18 x 23.5 cm English/German text. Hardcover
Richard Artschwager )is one of the pioneers of contemporary object and installation art. In the 1960s he started using Formica in his work whilst working at a New York joiner’s workshop.
In this exhibition catalogue Jörg Heiser outlines his artistic development, focussing on the meaning of the surface quality of the object as well as of the paintings. He goes on to compare Artschwager’s work with the important art movements of his time - Minimal, Pop and Conceptual Art - discussing similarities and differences.
This catalogue is fully illustrated throughout and includes text by the artist plus a catalogue of works.
Texts by Richard Artschwager, Jörg Heiser, Anthony Vidler, John Yau Price: £32.00
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
Autograph 2002
136 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 1899282750
20.5 x 26 cm English text. Hardback
Janette Parris’s work is something of an anomaly in recent contemporary art trends by focusing on narrative and the relatively unspectacular aspects of inner city living. Using a wide range of media from text and video, to animation and theatre, Parris’s stories combine fictional accounts with personal experiences that are as droll as they are dark in their view of the Everyday. This is the first book to be published on Parris’s work.
Includes an introduction by Richard Hylton, essay by Patricia Ellis and interview with the artist, as well as a biography. Price: £16.95
Abrams 2002
112 pages Colour reproductions throughout. ISBN 0810910039
30 x 26 cm English text. Hardcover
Twilight: in that zone between the certainty of day and fear of the dark, Gregory Crewdson sets his eerie, enigmatic photographs. A woman floats in her flooded living room, a cow appears to have fallen from the sky onto a front lawn, a gang of teenagers, seemingly hypnotized, pile up household objects for a bonfire. Created as elaborately staged tableaux, this series of images suggests the bizarre yet beautiful surrealities behind deceptively familiar suburban facades.
Published to accompany three simultaneous gallery exhibitions earlier this year and a subsequent retrospective at Mass MoCA, this book chronicles the completion of the Twilight series, which Crewdson began in 1998. Including both production stills and the 40 finished images, all in full color, it also features an essay by Rick Moody, a novelist equally renowned for exposing the underbelly of small-town, middle-class America. Price: £24.00
Punishment Exercise in Gothic
Oktagon 2002
236 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 3896111027
19 x 15.5 Softcover
In this artist's book Douglas Gordon has now self-reflectively processed his conceptual approach, which is always aimed at the viewer as an artistic subject. The always identical hard shot of his own face after a 'demolished night' - inclusive of a laceration - is confronted with a minimalist prose. It dives into the depth of this wounded face/this seemingly wounded psyche, sometimes the drugs are mentioned, then the feelings, the jokes the combinations are left to chance.
Limited edition of 1000 copies each numbered and signed. Price: £31.00
Book Works 2002
64pp Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 1870699548
21.5 x 26 cm English text. Softcover
Active Genital is a picture story. It starts from home, charting McCail¹s own development between ages four to twelve with a drawing for each year, rendered in the artist's characteristic graphic style. Edited by Jeremy Akerman. Price: £16.00
K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf 2002
120 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3933040949
24 x 30 cm English/German text. Hardcover
Figurative paintings from the young Hamburg artist Daniel Richter.
In these new narrative paintings Daniel Richter brings his work into direct contact with contemporary reality. He once again shows that in all modern art all conceivable media and methods can equally exist at the same time and together in a combination. Price: £24.00
Kerber Verlag 2002
256 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3933040884
21.5 x 26.5 cm English text. Hardcover
Alongside Tom Wesselmann, Andy Warhol and Allen Jones, Mel Ramos belongs to a group of artists who deal intensively with the subjects of eroticism, sex, fetishism and obsession. Ramos's paintings and graphic art use bright, provocative, seductive and sometimes vulgar imagery of women, sex enjoyment and entertainment. His libidinous message often makes art purists blush with shame, and seems to hurt the sense of decency of self-proclaimed art moralisers. In vulgar energetic positions, Mel Ramos drapes his pin-up-girls on painted products. At first sight his works may appear to be a typical product advertisement. However, there is something stranger and surrealistic about them as Ramos parodies the hollow commercialisation of sex drive satisfaction. Price: £28.00
Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld 2002
120 pages colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3933040914
16 x 24 cm English/German text. Hardcover
Since participating in documenta X and the sculpture projects in Munster in 1997 Craig has become one of the most important exponents of architectural sculpture.
Influenced by the work of Buster Keaton, Duchamp, Tatlin and Frank O. Gehry, Craig's work moves in a state of precarious equilibrium between sculpture and architecture, using colour and mobile elements.
In the past two years Craig has been working on several new colour mounted sculptures that combine architectural and narrative elements. Price: £24.00
Consorcio, Salamanca 2002
144 pages Colour and B&W reroductions. ISBN 8495719207
24 x 30 cm Englsih text. Softcover
The full range of Hatoum's work is represented in this retrospective. Rugs, cages, photographs, video installations, beds, kitchenware and chairs are all included, many photographed in situ, and featured full page in this catalogue. As is her new installation of a revolving door with no exit, designed for permanent display at the Salamanca space (previously a prison). Price: £22.00
Hatje Cantz 2003
216 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3775713018
24. 5 x 34.5 cm English/German text. Softcover
This publication is the first to focus solely on the famous portraits Julian Opie has produced during the last six years. Composed of his characteristically simplified lines and shapes, Opie's portraits are rendered through computer technology. Beginning with a photo, he then uses computers and software to edit the images down to their graphic essentials. The fascinating results become icons that serve to identify the individuals with the least information possible. Whereas most of Opie's portraits are of rather unknown persons from his personal background, in some commissioned works he features public figures like Kate Moss or Jacques Villeneuve, but by titling the pictures only with their first name the celebrities lose their iconic fame and are reduced to the everyday shape of their face. Price: £29.95
