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Happenings - New York 1958-1963Monacelli Press 2012 ISBN 9781580933070 Acqn 23160Hb 25x28cm 320pp 225ills 75col 33

In early October 1959, thirty-two-year-old Allan Kaprow presented a performance piece entitled"18 Happenings in 6 Parts." This unique conjunction of visual, aural, and physical events,performed for an intimate art world audience by his friends and colleagues, would change thecourse of art history. The genre of artwork that evolved from this debut would become known asHappenings. Author Mildred Glimcher, an art historian, author, and close observer ofcontemporary art for more than fifty years, provides a vivid and comprehensive look not only at

the events, but also at the culture and society that surrounded it.

This new volume provides a comprehensive look at this revolutionary art form. Prepared inconjunction with an exhibition at the Pace Gallery in New York, it focuses on the years that sawthe movement's birth in New York and Provincetown, Mass., and the artists who made the genrea legend: Red Grooms, Allan Kaprow, Robert Whitman, Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg, SimoneForti, Carolee Schneemann. Together, they created a new and outrageous art form with an"anything goes" attitude, one whose influence is still felt within the contemporary art world.

Glimcher visits the formative years of the movement in great detail, describing each performancepiece in words and photographs. The radical nature of the time and the works is evidenced byRed Grooms's The Burning Building, Claes Oldenburg's Ray Gun Spex, Jim Dine'sA ShiningBed, and many more. Happeningsis heavily illustrated with photographs from the era, many

drawn from a previously unpublished cache by Robert McElroy.


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Monika SosnowskaAspen Art Museum 2013 ISBN 9780934324601 Acqn 22092Pb 21x27cm 176pp 192ills 137col 40

This publication offers a definitive, career-spanning exploration of Polish sculptor MonikaSosnowska (born 1972), known for manipulating ordinary forms and spaces into fascinating andoften disorienting new configurations. Freed from their original functionality, her architectonicworks and environments evoke a moment when, as she puts it, architectural space begins totake on the characteristics of mental space. Optical illusions, shifts in scale, mazes, and othersuch techniques that challenge the intellect of the viewer are motifs throughout her oeuvre.Published for an exhibition at the Aspen Art Museum, this volume documents a decades worth ofSosnowskas objects, installations and exhibitions and features new scholarship by Maria Gough,

Adam Szymczyk and Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson. It is the most comprehensive book on the artistin English to date.


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Abstraction Over Time: The Paintings Of Michael GoldbergMOCA Jacksonville 2013 ISBN 9780981576213 Acqn 22609Hb 24x27cm 112pp 60ills 47col 21.95

Abstract Expressionist painter Michael Goldberg (19242007) was a generation younger than thecore group of New York School painters--Rothko, Pollock, de Kooning--and while he wasfrequently classified as a second-generation member of this illustrious group, the designationreferred more to the artists age than the quality of his paintings. Goldbergs ouevre is

characterized by only one constant: nimble, improvisational reinvention. While he remaineddeeply committed to abstraction, over the course of his long career--from the 1940s until hisdeath in 2007--Goldberg re-conceptualized the visual, aesthetic and material boundaries ofabstract painting.Abstraction over Timeincludes essays focussing on the artists stylisticevolutions while exploring what Goldbergs lengthy and prolific career can teach us about thesignificance of abstraction as a vital twentieth-century post-war American Art.


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Prix de Rome 2013nai010 publishers 2013 ISBN 9789462081055 Acqn 22716Pb 20x27cm 96pp 80ills 30col 15.95

The publication Prix de Rome 2013 presents portraits of four talented young artists nominated forthe prestigious Prix de Rome Award. Christian Friedrich, Falke Pisano, Remco Torenbosch andOla Vasiljeva were selected by an international jury because their work is surprising, enthrallingand makes you hungry for more.


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IndomaniaLudion 2013 ISBN 9789461301369 Acqn 23102Pb 23x28cm 192pp 200ills 100col 31.50

This book explores the place of India in the Western imagination. With the opening of seapassage to the subcontinent, the exotic products and stories of the newly discovered land flowedinto Europe, fascinating artists, craftsmen, and textile makers alike. Encompassing a widespectrum of visual representations and artworks spawned by the Wests cultural encounter withIndia, the book makes an exhaustive effort to chart the very diverse forms in which majorEuropean and American writers, painters, sculptors, filmmakers, photographers, architects and

musicians have made sense of the experience. With contributions by Jan Parmentier, AurlieSamuel, John Falconer, Deepak Ananth, Shanay Jhaveri, Max Pinckers, Sanjay Subrahmanyamand others.


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The Body In Indian Art And ThoughtLudion 2013 ISBN 9789461301338 Acqn 23103Pb 20x26cm 360pp 440ills 420col 37.50

The body is omnipresent in Indian art and culture, and this richly illustrated, comprehensiveintroduction to the plurality of approaches to the body reflects the many ways it is represented inthe artistic heritage of this vast and culturally diverse subcontinent. Through a selection of morethan 300 exceptional artworks from around 50 public and private collections, many reproducedhere for the first time, each chapter introduces a variety of aesthetic, philosophical andcosmological themes, revealing the body as not only the subject and inspiration of art, but alsothe repository of Indian values, preoccupations and aspirations, whether classical, mediaeval ormodern.


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F.R.David - Spring 2014. All Distinctions Are Mind, By Mind, Of MindDe Appel 2013 no ISBN Acqn 23168Pb 12x19cm 222pp 40ills 10.95

The eleventh edition of this reader about contemporary art practice is comparative, by way ofsharing and splitting, with the goal of understanding the rhetoric that surrounds how we describeourselves in both a fictional and professional sense. Included are a range of essays, poetry,analyses, diagrams and conversations that illustrate various perspectives on self-perception. Withcontributions by Abra Ancliffe, Robert Ashley, Ricardo Basbaum, Michael Gazzaniga, KenJacobs, Shane Krepakevich, John Latham, Ezra Pound, Kendra Sullivan, Sergei Tret'iakov,Marina Vishmidt, Rebecca Wilcox and Sarah Rose, and several more.


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Transcultural Modernisms - Model House Research GroupSternberg Press 2013 ISBN 9783956790126 Acqn 23221Pb 17x22cm 262pp 17.50

Contributions by Fahim Amir, Zvi Efrat, Eva Egermann, Ndia Farage, Gabu Heindl, Moira Hille,Rob Imrie, Monica Juneja, Christian Kravagna, Christina Linortner, Duanfang Lu, Anoma Pieris,Vikramditya Praksh, Marion von Osten, Susan Schweik, Felicity D. Scott, Chunlan Zhao

Based on the findings of an interdisciplinary research project, Transcultural Modernismsmaps outthe network of encounters, transnational influences, and local appropriations of an architecturalmodernity manifested in various ways in housing projects in India, Israel, Morocco, and China.Three case studies, realized in the era of decolonization, form a basis for the project, whichfurther investigates specific social relations and the transcultural character of building discourses

at the height of modernism. Rather than building on the notion of modernism as having movedfrom the North to the Southor from the West to the rest of the worldthe emphasis inTranscultural Modernismsis on the exchanges and interrelations among international and localactors and concepts, a perspective in which modernity is not passively received, but is aconcept in circulation, moving in several different directions at once, subject to constantrenegotiation and reinterpretation. In this book, modernism is not presented as a universalistand/or European project, but as marked by cultural transfers and their global localization andtranslation.


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The Italian Journeys Of - Four Walks By Daniel Maier-Reimer, 20122013Sternberg Press 2013 ISBN 9783956790379 Acqn 23222Pb 25x19cm 118pp 64ills 4col 21

Through the city of Florence, along the Arno River, from the Tyrrhenian Sea to the Adriatic, andfrom Carrara to the Apennine mountain range: walking forms the basis of the Daniel Maier-Reimers practice. Fragmented maps, virtual tours, and public installations are some of thereinterpretations presented in this publication of the artists walks conducted during his residencyat the Villa Romana. The walk is redefined by Maier-Reimer from an isolated process to one ofcollaboration and integration. His proposals to artists, students, and a journalist to utilize his walksas a point of reference demonstrates this urgency and understanding for embedding a communityin his works, emphasizing the creation of a fresh perception of the world.

The publication, conceived by Clegg & Guttmann, is a response to Maier-Reimers invitation topresent his recent body of work for his contribution to the exhibition Villa Romana 19052013:Das Knstlerhaus in Florenz at the Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn. It features an introduction by Clegg& Guttmann, works by the students of IED Florence, David Brooks, Paolo Ermini, and Till Krause,a conversation between Maier-Reimer and Clegg, as well as a photo series Plates: Walks I III,20122013, four photographs selected by Maier-Reimer of his first three walks.


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Remy Zaugg - The Art Museum of My Dreams Or A Place For The Work And The HumanBeingSternberg Press 2013 ISBN 9783956790140 Acqn 23223Pb 21x28cm 90pp 15

Edited by Hinrich Sachs and Eva SchmidtWith texts by Hinrich Sachs and John C. Welchman

In his influential 1986 text, now translated into English for the first time, Swiss artist Rmy Zaugg(19432005) laid out fundamental ideas on the art museum. For him, the museum is an everydaytool that enables the encounter between viewer and workraising the question of the kind ofarchitecture appropriate for such a space. The text systematically addresses the floors, walls, andceilings, as well as the proportion of the rooms, the position of the entrances, and thearrangement of the halls in the building. Against the backdrop of the postmodern gimmickry of

new museums designed by self-obsessed architects, Zaugg advocates for a complete reflectionon the museums function in order to arrive at a suitable architecture.

Included in this publication are texts by John C. Welchman and Hinrich Sachs and an annotatedbibliography by Eva Schmidt, all of which contextualize the piece within Zauggs oeuvre, situatehim in the artistic tendencies of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and cast a contemporaryperspective onto his thought and work.


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Kim Gordon - Is It My Body? Selected TextsSternberg Press 2014 ISBN 9783956790386 Acqn 23224Pb 12x19cm 182pp 36ills 12.95

Edited by Branden W. Joseph

Ranging from neo-Conceptual artworks to cultural analyses, the writings collected in this volumechart Kim Gordons trajectory from art student to member of the influential rock group SonicYouth. They are compelling for their contribution to the discourse surrounding art, architecture,film, fashion, and rock music that catalysed art scenes from Los Angeles to Cologne at the end of

the twentieth century. Frequently gravitating to rock and roll and interior design, and the mannerin which the two come together, Gordon also casts a critical eye on key stakes withincontemporary art, whether the revival of Pop-art strategies, the persistence of formalistmodernism, or the vicissitudes of institutional critique.


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Red Grass - Boris VianTam Tam Books 2013 ISBN 9780966234695 Acqn 22064Pb 15x22cm 230pp 11.95

Boris Vian (19201959) was a magnificent jack-of-all-trades--actor, jazz critic, engineer,musician, playwright, songwriter, translator--not to mention the leading social light of the Saint-Germain-des-Prs scene. His third major novel, Red Grass is a provocative narrative about anengineer, Wolf, who invents a bizarre machine that allows him to revisit his past and erase

inhibiting memories. A frothing admixture of Breton, Freud, Carroll, Hammett, Kafka and Wells,Red Grassis one of Vians finest and most enduring works, a satire on psychoanalysis--whichVian wholly and vigorously disapproved of--that inflects science fiction with dark absurdity and theauthors great wit. Much in the novel can be regarded as autobiography, as our hero attempts toliberate himself from past traumatic events in the arenas of religion, social life and--of course--sex. Red Grassis translated by Vian scholar Paul Knobloch.


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On the Threshold of Beauty Origins of Dutch Electronic Music 1925-1965nai010 publishers 2013 ISBN 9789462080652 Acqn 22244Pb 16x23cm 316pp 200ills 60col 31

On the Threshold of Beauty. Philips and the Origins of Electronic Music in the Netherlands 1925-1965is a lavishly illustrated book by Kees Tazelaar which meticulously reconstructs the birth andevolution of electronic music in the Netherlands from 1925 to 1965. It is the compelling story ofthe development of electronic music at the Philips research laboratory, the collaboration betweenXenakis, Le Corbusier and Varse on the now legendary Philips Pavilion at the 1958 World Expo,and the first studios for electronic music in the Netherlands with key figures like Dick Raaijmakersand Gottfried Michael Koenig.

On the Threshold of Beauty is an extremely well-documented, lavishly illustrated and highlyreadable study. Based on new and original research, it serves the needs of both specialists and abroad audience. It describes a period of musical history in which an entirely new world ofelectronic sounds and compositional attitudes was developed and explored, ranging from avant-garde extremes to the earliest experiments in electronic pop, from the music for the iconic PhilipsPavilion at the 1958 World Expo to electronic soundtracks for film.


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Jean Ferry - The Conductor And Other Tales

Wakefield Press 2013 ISBN 9781939663016 Acqn 22566Pb 12x18cm 144pp 22ills 10.50

First published in French in 1950 in a limited edition of 100 copies, then republished in 1953 (andenthusiastically praised by Andr Breton), The Conductor and Other Talesis Jean Ferrys onlypublished book of fiction. It is a collection of short prose narratives that offer a blend ofpataphysical humour and surreal nightmare: secret societies so secret that one cannot know ifone is a member or not, music-hall acts that walk a tightrope from humour to horror, childhoodmemories of a man never born, and correspondence from countries that are more states of mindthan geographical locales. Lying somewhere between Kafkas parables and the prose poems ofHenri Michaux, Ferrys tales read like pages from the journal of a stranger in a familiar land.Though extracts have appeared regularly in Surrealist anthologies over the decades, TheConductorhas never been fully translated into English until now. This edition includes four storiesnot included in the original French edition and is illustrated throughout with collages by ClaudeBallar.Jean Ferry (19061974) made his living as a screenwriter for such filmmakers as Luis Buueland Louis Malle, cowriting such classics as Henri-Georges Clouzots Le Quai des orfvresandscript-doctoring Marcel Carns Les Enfants du paradis. He was the first serious scholar andexegete of the work of Raymond Roussel (on whom he published three books) and a member ofthe Collge de Pataphysique.


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Nilbar GuresOsmos 2013 ISBN 9780988340459 Acqn 22612Hb 28x22cm 152pp 129ills 122col 43.95

Nilbar Gres (born 1977) is a Turkish multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the politics andconstruction of female identity in relation to geography and religion. The launch of her first

monograph, Nilbar Gres: Who Is the Subject?, published by OSMOS Books, coincides with anintimate first exhibition in New York, entitled, Pink Is the New Blackat OSMOS Address includingphotography, collage, video and drawing. In the series Unknown Sports, Gres depicts women intheir private spaces transforming them, as the artist remarks: "high jumpers instead of windowcleaners, sprinters instead of shop keepers, shot-putting instead of holding our siblings in theirarms." The artist leads the viewer to reevaluate and reconsider the conventional relationshipbetween women, their domestic environments and public space, sexual politics and theperception of Muslim women in Europe.


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David AltmejdXavier Hufkens 2013 ISBN 9789491245053 Acqn 22926Pb 21x26cm 80pp 47col ills 30

The catalogue for a solo exhibition of artist David Altmejd at Xavier Hufkens in Brussels, whosework often mixes seemingly random objects to create sculptures that enact open-endednarratives and are brimming with symbolic potential. Gathering his most recent artworks, whichuse materials like epoxy clay, plaster, found objects and fruit, the exhibition takes on nightmarishproportions with malformed, half-human shapes and anthropomorphic standing figures, full of

motion, which are in turn countered by mirrored towers, inscrutable in their static, reflectivegeometric forms that seem to disappear into the gallery space. With a text by Oscar van denBoogaard.


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Lesley VanceXavier Hufkens 2013 ISBN 9789491245039 Acqn 22927Pb 21x26cm 72pp 33col ills 26.50

Lesley Vances surreal and challenging paintings of colour fields sliced or interrupted by abstractforms move well beyond the traditional still life, spatially speaking, yet retain an interest in thegenres paradoxical notion of temporality. Published in conjunction with a solo exhibition of workby Vance at Xavier Hufkens in Brussels, this richly illustrated catalogue showcases hercontemporary approach to painting in which she reproduces compositions of natural formscreated in her studio. Disguising and adding information, masking figuration and opening orclosing spaces are just a few of her trademarks. With a text contribution by Michael Ned Holte.


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Otherwise Than KnowingAalto 2013 ISBN 9789526051826 Acqn 23035Pb 13x19cm 208pp 21

Finnish philosopher Juha Varto offers ten meditations on a theme inspired by Harri Laakso, whosuggested we should stop talking about the different types of knowing and admit that in art we

are dealing with something that is otherwise-than-knowing. Although art is seen as the ability tochange the world by transforming our sensory perception of reality, it also results in a change inideas, understanding and insight. Why is it important that art remains art, and why are weinterested in research that takes arts own way of operating seriously? Varto discusses thesefundamental questions and more in his examination of the methods of conveyance and receptionin art today.


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Heimo Lattner - A Voice That Once Was In One's MouthErrant Bodies 2013 ISBN 9780982743997 Acqn 23229Pb 14x21cm 176pp 65ills 12.50

This publication assembles six conversations recorded in Berlin between Heimo Lattner and

colleagues. The conversations explore key issues in Lattners work, from Greek theater to citydevelopment and ancient forms of communication threatened by political interests.Heimo Lattner is an artist working with film, video, performance, audio-play, room installation,installation and intervention in public space, drawing, cartography and writing. Since the late 90she has also worked in the collective e-Xplo with Erin McGonigle and Rene Gabri, developinginterventions in public space. Lattner is a founding member and co-operator of the project spaceGeneral Public in Berlin. He is a guest lecturer at several universities in the fields of research-based art, public art and creative writing.


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Rosa BrunCAC Malaga 2013 ISBN 9788494083617 Acqn 23234Pb 22x25cm 72pp 23col ills 29.95

Produced in conjunction with an exhibition of Madrid-based artist Rosa Brun, in which minimalpaintings share space with the sculptures that represent her most recent output. Influences suchas Donald Judd, Barnett Newman and Frank Stella are readily apparent in her work, the evolutionof which arises from her fluid approach to various disciplines and media. As a professor of plasticarts, her manipulation of space, colour and materials is exceptional: painting and sculpture seemto mimic each other, becoming interchangeable while simultaneously existing in an area beyondboundaries, impacting the frontiers of logic. With texts by Fernando Francs and Ivn de la Torre.


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Jonathan Monk AlakazamCAC Malaga 2013 ISBN 9788494083662 Acqn 23235Pb 22x25cm 128pp 51ills 48col 32.95

British-born artist Jonathan Monk lives and works in Berlin. Based in conceptualism, Monks bodyof work poses questions about the meaning of art from a formal standpoint, yet in such a way asto engage a certain curiosity and childlike playfulness. Published in conjunction with a soloexhibition at CAC Mlaga, this catalogue opens with a reflective essay by Jess Palomino thatshows how the starting point for Monks work allows for an experience of communication andencounter, and how it searches for a human touch far from the formal rigidity and conceptualaridity often inherent to this approach. Numerous images of artworks and installation views

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Mungo Thomson - Time People Money CricketsSite Santa Fe 2013 ISBN 9780985660215 Acqn 22620Hb 22x28cm 200pp 150ills 140col 32.95

Mungo Thomson (born 1969) is a Los Angelesbased artist whose work explores mass cultureand cosmology. Thomsons work addresses the small, everyday voids that exist within culture--the gaps, digressions and mistakes that are an inevitable part of institutions and everyday life.The artists first catalogue overview, Time People Money Cricketsconsists of a selection of nineworks in a range of media including film, video, artists books and installations. The publication isinspired by 1960s popular science compendiums.


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Roman SignerAll'Aperto 2013 ISBN 9788867490431 Acqn 23232Pb 17x24cm 80pp 56ills 32col 22.50

Invited by Barbara Casavecchia and Andrea Zegna, curators of the AllAperto project, to create apublic work for the area around Trivero, Swiss visual artist Roman Signer delivered Horloge, afour-metre-high time sculpture, for the events fourth edition. This catalogue deals with the

artists coming to terms with his first permanent public commission, illustrating the project througha selection of images and texts that narrate the genesis, production and installation of the site-specific piece. The book includes extensive documentation, a conversation with the artist,contributions from the curators, plus texts by Anna Zegna, Giovanni Carmine, and Signer himself.


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Le Surrealisme Et L'Object ALBUMCentre Georges Pompidou 2013 ISBN 9782844266378 Acqn 22643Pb 27x27cm 60pp 54ills 33col 9.50

Objects played a crucial role in Surrealist experiments from the outset, whether natural ormanufactured, banal or exotic, discovered fortuitously or through the realm of dreams. By re-appropriating their initial literal significance in order to release their poetic conscience, theseincongruous objects with a symbolic function, these precipitates of our desires, were turned intooverwhelming thinking machines, tailored to extol the psychic forces that epitomised theSurrealist movement and to blur the frontiers between dreams and reality. Includes work by

Breton, Bellmer, Man Ray, Dali, Oppenheim, Giacometti and Duchamp.


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Les Maries De La Tour EiffelCentre Georges Pompidou 2013 ISBN 9782844266347 Acqn 22647Hb 15x21cm 176pp 10ills 8col 17.95Text in French

For the first time, ten writers were given carte blancheto write a story inspired by one of the keyworks from the Musee national dart moderne collection at the Pompidou Centre. Paintings byChagall, Magritte, Modigliani and Pollock, installations by Calle and Messager, photography byMan Ray, performance work by Orlan and Bretons wall have all given birth to new creations byJoanne Anton, Marie Darrieussecq, Nicolas dEsteinee dOrvres, Simonetta Greggio, StephaneJanicot, Gilles Laurendon, Scolastique Mukasonga, Patrick Poivre dArvor, Tatiana de Rosnayand Alice Zeniter.


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Edmund de Waal - Atemwende CatalogueGagosian Gallery (NY) 2013 ISBN 9781935263852 Acqn 22951Hb 27x31cm 80pp 46col ills 82

Atemwende comprises a series of vitrines containing thrown porcelain vessels arranged inspecific groupings. From simple pairs of pots to complex multitudes in their hundreds, theseminimalist dichotomies in black and white suggest the sequences and patterns of a musicalscore, while titles cite the poetry of Paul Celan, Wallace Stevens and others. De Waal's artspeaks to his enduring fascination with the nature of objects and the attendant history of theircollection and display. His poignant memoir The Hare with Amber Eyes(2010) is a familybiography whose recurring motif through five generations is a large collection of netsuke. A pottersince childhood and an acclaimed writer, de Waals studies of the history of ceramics have takenhim from ancient Japan to late modernism. Confronting European and Asian traditions of intimatecraftsmanship with the scale and sequence of minimalist art and music, his new ensemblesevoke at once the delicate measure of Agnes Martin's sublime abstract paintings, and therhythmic pulses of the music of Philip Glass and Steve Reich.


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Anselm Kiefer - Morgenthau PlanGagosian Gallery (NY) 2013 ISBN 9781935263821 Acqn 22988Hb 30x34cm 128pp 75ills 48col 97.50

Born at the close of World War II, Kiefer reflects upon and critiques the dangerous myths thatpropelled the Third Reich to power. Fusing art and literature, painting and sculpture, the artistengages German history and the ancestral epics of life, death, and the cosmos to reinforcelessons of the past. The Morgenthau Plan is an apt metaphor for a common pitfall of the creativeprocessnamely, works that put forth beauty without any other detectable motive. Kieferpresents the short sighted, wrong-minded initiative as a representation of ideasartistic andpoliticalthat ignore the complexity of things. Proposed in 1944 by United States TreasurySecretary Henry Morgenthau, the plan was conceived to transform post-war Germany into a pre-industrial, agricultural nation, allegedly in order to limit the countrys ability to wage war.Morgenthau sought to divide Germany into two independent states, annexing or dismantling allGerman centres of industry in an arrangement that may have led to the death of millions bypestilence and starvation. Although the Morgenthau Plan was never realized in its original andmost extreme form, it represented an alternative post-war Germany potentially occupied more by

farmland and plant-life than industry. In his latest paintings, Kiefer explores the landscape of thisdouble-sided initiative. Flowersone of his central leitmotifsbloom through the devastation.Revisiting a process used earlier in his career, Kiefer paints directly onto colour photographs offields in bloom that he took near his property in southern France, then printed to fit canvases ofvarious sizes. Der Morgenthau Plandepicts an area overgrown with flowers, rendered in thickimpasto that completely obscures the original photograph.


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Jean Dubuffet - The Last Two YearsThe Pace Gallery 2012 no ISBN Acqn 23176Hb 24x28cm 16pp 23ills 22col 24.50

Jean Dubuffet (1901-1985) began painting at the age of seventeen and studied briefly at theAcadmie Julian, Paris. After seven years, he abandoned painting and became a wine merchant.During the thirties, he painted again for a short time, but it was not until 1942 that he began thework which has distinguished him as an outstanding innovator in post-war European painting.Dubuffet's interest in art brut, the art of the insane, and that of the untrained person, whether acaveman or the originator of contemporary graffiti, led him to emulate this directly expressive anduntutored style in his own work. During the final two years of Jean Dubuffets life, his canvasesexploded with raw emotion. The artists mental landscapes described a non-place, madeperceptible by fluid intertwining lines and radiant colours that seem drawn from an alternatereality. To see the last works, Murphy writes, is to see all of Dubuffet, his theories contractedinto an energetic force comprised of wild, fluid brushstrokes that appear as if they could escapefrom the confines of any boundaries imposed upon them. With an essay by curator HarmonyMurphy.


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Eric Bainbridge - Steel Sculptures

Camden Arts Centre 2013 ISBN 9781907208386 Acqn 23186Pb 20x18cm 66pp 33ills 29col 10

Eric Bainbridge presents a series of new works made from reclaimed steel and other moreincongruous materials, drawing himself closer to the modernist abstraction of the 1950s and 60sembodied by sculptors David Smith and Anthony Caro. The sculptures extend his practice ofcollage, combining both formal and unexpected elements and reveal the duality which has runthroughout his career. Bainbridge has always been interested in the surface of things andprevious sculptural works have incorporated materials such as fake fur and wood-effectmelamine. Often described as kitsch, his preferred materials are found in second hand shops,scrap metal yards and DIY stores; his sculptures reconsider the value of the readily available andcheap. He has blown objects up to outsize proportions, covered them and piled them up in avariety of balancing acts. Bainbridge incorporates multiple components and reference points,

including concepts and inspiration from art history and todays cultural field. Working across awide array of media spanning video, installation and collage, Bainbridges interests continuouslyexpand to absorb societys constant changes in style, thought, fashion and taste.


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Marcel Van Eeden - Tales Of Murder And ViolenceStroom Den Haag 2013 ISBN 9789073799776 Acqn 23196Pb 23x30cm 296pp 600ills 100col 26.50

Dutch draftsman and painter Marcel van Eeden is known for his characteristic work reminiscent offilm noir, wherein the use of black and white contrast is prominent. Employing charcoal andcoloured pencils, as well as watercolour paint, his stylised and tightly cropped images visualisedramatic scenes. Like a sprawling graphic novel, this visual compendium of his most recent

series of drawings concocts compelling fictions based on historical facts, interweaving severalchronologies and narratives. Subjected to unforeseen experiences, the protagonists lives beginto converge as their stories gradually expand across this ingenious labyrinth of gripping tales andthrilling twists.


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Matisse - The Essence Of Line. Selected Prints 1900-1950Marlborough Fine Art 2013 ISBN 9780897974530 Acqn 23227Pb 20x27cm 164pp 108ills 87col 25

As the art historian Marilyn McCully explains in her introductory essay, the essence of line in aprint, if achieved in the way Matisse wanted, could thus provide all the information that is needed:the presence and character of a model, the definition of spatial relations within a composition,including both interior and exterior views, and details of a particular setting.This catalogue is divided into four sections including the themes of poetry, dance and music.Many of the prints were acquired, in part from the Matisse family collection, including the estate ofthe artists grandson, Pierre-Noel Matisse. With an essay by Marilyn McCully and a printchronology by McCully and Michael Raeburn.


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Lilliane Tomasco VestigeTimothy Taylor Gallery 2013 ISBN 9780992659301 Acqn 23228Hb 25x30cm 56pp 25col ills 18.75

Drawn to liminal spaces and materials with their innate sense of possibility and transformation,

Tomasko begins her process by taking photographs using a Polaroid camera, selecting the mostemotive images as the basis for her paintings. Choosing overlooked domestic settings andobjects, she deliberately presents them as cropped, claustrophobic vistas, absolving them of theirfunctionality and familiarity and dissolving in the process the psychological and physical boundarybetween the abstract and the formally recognizable.


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Beauty Revealed - Images Of Women In Qing Dynasty Chinese PaintingUniversity of California 2013 ISBN 9780971939714 Acqn 23230Hb 24x29cm 126pp 86ills 82col 36

Beauty Revealed: Images of Women in Qing Dynasty Chinese Paintingbrings together some ofthe worlds finest examples of meiren hua(paintings of beautiful women), a largely neglected andmisunderstood genre of Chinese painting spanning the countrys last imperial dynasty (16441912). Often dismissed as decorative or misinterpreted as highbrow portraits of ladies, theseenigmatic and relatively unexamined works are the subject of close scholarly scrutiny in thispublication. The corresponding exhibition includes works from the collection of the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive as well as loans from the BritishMuseum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Art Institute ofChicago, as well as a number of other American museums and private collections in England,Sweden and France.


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Andy Warhol - The American Indian Paintings And DrawingsSkarstedt Fine Art 2013 ISBN 9780957529700 Acqn 23231Hb 23x30cm 54pp 23ills 21col 26

By the mid-1970s, Andy Warhol was veering away from his earlier focus on mainstreamcelebrities and toward more eclectic subjects, such as the cross-dressers in his Ladies andGentlemenseries. In 1976, he made a series of paintings and drawings of the Native American

actor and activist Russell Means. Starting with popular publicity shots, Warhol transferred theseimages to silkscreen and then printed them on canvases. Warhol presents Means withexaggerated, glamorized features; some of the canvases include hand-painted embellishmentsand decorations that distinguish this series from the mechanical approach of Warhols earliercelebrity portraits. Through a combination of mass technology and ornamental technique, Warholtransforms a commonplace image into a dignified and majestic portrait that pays tribute to both anindividual and his people.

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