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The Queen Sonja Print Award Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing 2014 ISBN 9789187543494 Acqn 24248 Hb 22x24cm 176pp 110ills 100col £33 Her Majesty Queen Sonja of Norway has a degree in art history and has been a practicing visual artist for many years. Her work with glass, jewellery art, photography and printmaking – as well as her collaborations with painter Ørnulf Opdahl and Kjell Nupen – are documented in this book, which relates the fascinating history of the Queen’s artistic development. Sales of the book benefit the Queen Sonja Nordic Print Award, which promotes the development of paper-based art.

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Contemporary Sami Art And Design Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing 2015 ISBN 9789187543296 Acqn 24253 Pb 22x24cm 304pp 250ills 200col £30 This book is the first international presentation of contemporary artists and designers in the Sápmi region, an area spanning northern Norway, Sweden, Finland and north-western Russia. Sami traditions, both historically and from today, are inspirational sources for these contemporary artists and designers. This book presents works produced by 35 leading artists, both established and emerging – a reference book for anyone with an interest in expressions of contemporary art and design from Sápmi.

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Trenton Doyle Hancock - Skin And Bones Contemporary Art Museum Houston 2015 ISBN 9781933619507 Acqn 24609 Pb 24x29cm 152pp 138ills 100col £27.50 Best known for his exuberant paintings centered around semitragic fictional characters called the Mounds, Trenton Boyle Hancock (born 1974) is also a prolific draftsman. The first in-depth examination of his drawings, collages and works on paper, this comprehensive survey brings together works made between 1984 and 2014. Tracing the evolution of Hancock's vision by showing the genesis of his mythology, including that of the epic Mound saga, and his wide range of high and low influences (comics, graphic novels, cartoons, music and film, as well as visual art), this catalogue demonstrates the fundamental, continuing importance of drawing in Hancock's work up to the present day. Also included in this volume is a 32-page comic book.

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Richard Van Buren - The 1970s Garth Greenan Gallery 2015 ISBN 9780989890229 Acqn 24653 Hb 25x24cm 80pp 40ills 32col £40 This publication provides a survey of Maine-based artist Richard Van Buren's (born 1937) work during the 1970s—polyester biomorphs impregnated with materials as disparate as rock salt and wallpaper paste, which marked the beginning of Van Buren's fascination with the relationship between organic and manmade materials.

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Louise Nevelson Pace Gallery NY 2015 ISBN 9781935410669 Acqn 24885 Pb 23x20cm 50pp 31ills 30col £17.50 One of the most significant American artists of the twentieth century, Nevelson began producing collages in the mid-1950s. Inspired by her longstanding interest in Cubism and a correspondence with Jean Arp, these works signify an important turn in her approach to art, prompting her remark “the way I think is collage.”

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Antoni Tapies: 1923 – 2012 Pace Gallery NY 2015 ISBN 9781935410676 Acqn 24887 Pb 25x23cm 88pp 45ills 44col £26.50 In the nearly seven decades of his career, Tàpies created a prolific and singular body of work that redefined painting and influenced future generations of artists. Following the Spanish Civil War and World War II, Tàpies sought to develop a new kind of painting. In the 1950s he began making his first matter paintings using materials such as marble dust and resin. These paintings positioned Tàpies as a leading figure in Europe’s avant-garde and signalled the beginning of a lifelong investigation of materials and forms that made him one of the most influential post-war artists.

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Videonal 15 - Festival For Contemporary Video Art Revolver Publishing by VVV 2015 ISBN 9783957632487 Acqn 24971 Pb 24x21cm 168pp 90ills 70col £18 With VIDEONALE.15 the 30th anniversary of the Videonale is celebrated. The festival is one of the most important and well-known festivals for video art in Germany and Europe. To this day Videonale considers itself as a festival for both young emerging artists and established positions of national and international video art. The VIDEONALE.15 exhibition in the Kunstmuseum Bonn with 38 artistic positions from 19 countries out of the international call for entries under the topic „The Call of the Wild“. The exhibition is accompanied by the anniversary show „30 Years – 30 Voices, part 2“ including historical video works from 1983 to 2013. Artists VIDEONALE.15 Janina Arendt, Udita Bhargava, Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz, Jenny Brady, Karolina Bregula, Wim Catrysse, Jos Diegel, Wojtek Doroszuk, Mahdi Fleifel, Christoph Faulhaber, Fabien Giraud & Raphaël Siboni, Shaun Gladwell, Philipp Gufler, Amina Handke, Constantin Hartenstein, Kerstin Honeit, Vika Kirchenbauer, Thomas Kneubühler, Ihra Lill, Lieux fictifs (diverse artists), Elin Magnusson, Rachel Mayeri, Marianna Milhorat, NEOZOON, Shelly Nadashi, Erkka Nissininen, Francois Nouguies, Alan Phelan, Christina Picchi, Florian Pugnaire & David Raffini, Mateusz Sadowski, The Otolith Group, Koen Theys, Gerhard Treml & Leo Calice, Anna Zett, Mikhail Zheleznikov, Tobias Yves Zintel.

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Ugo Rondinone - Artists And Poets. Secession Revolver Publishing by VVV 2015 ISBN 9783957632531 Acqn 24972 Hb 25x31cm 164pp 134ills 126col £26 "poets and artists express a view of the world as a collage of passing fragments. there is no bigger picture or a linear logic here, only transitory images and words, seen as if rushing past the windows of a train." (Ugo Rondinone) Ugo Rondinone is not only one of the most successful Swiss artists working today; in recent years, he has also made a name for himself with curatorial projects that he conceives primarily as an extension of his artistic practice. After the third mind (Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2007) and the spirit level (Gladstone Gallery, New York, 2011), Artists and Poets is Rondinone’s third exhibition dedicated to a wide-ranging exploration of the relationship between visual art and lyric poetry and the articulation of his conviction that the arts possess a spiritual and transcendental power. Rondinone takes it for granted that “art” and “poetry” naturally go together, emphasizing what both lines of work have in common: he firmly believes that creativity, whether it takes the form of a poem, a sculpture, or a painting, can affect us deeply. Yet the visitor to Artists and Poets will look (almost) in vain for a “literal” implementation of what the title proposes. With the exception of John Giorno’s Dial-A-Poem, the exhibition features neither works of concrete poetry nor other linguistic or textual pieces. As in his earlier shows, Rondinone postulates that works of art—like poems—can be understood through feeling, intuitively, and require no prepackaged interpretation. "any explanation will reduce the poem and the artwork to the sayable, and every poem and artwork holds what is essentially unsayable."

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Touch And Go: Ray Yoshida And His Spheres Of Influence Corbett vs. Dempsey 2015 ISBN 9780990469636 Acqn 24612 Pb 19x24cm 144pp 142ills 140col £26.50 Ray Yoshida (1930–2009) taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for 40 years, where, with his students—among them, Jim Nutt, Philip Hanson and Christina Ramberg—he fostered a scene of artists that would become known as the Chicago Imagists. Touch and Go is the first book to comprehensively examine Yoshida's work in relation to his life in an educational institution, both as a student and a teacher. The Chicago arts scene of the 1960s and 1970s is explored here as a community of mutual influence, with Yoshida as a figure of particular importance. As John Corbett writes in his essay: "He was influential. He was influenced. He was part of the nuanced series of relays that has produced the unique art scene in Chicago, open to input from elsewhere, but in many ways a world quite hermetic and almost perversely eccentric."

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Albert York Matthew Marks 2015 ISBN 9781880146866 Acqn 24614 Hb 26x29cm 184pp 92ills 90col £39 Dubbed by Calvin Tomkins "the most highly admired unknown artist in America," Albert York (1928–2009) painted some of the most quietly transcendent pictures of his time over the course of a three-decade career. Because he lived reclusively on the east end of Long Island, far from the contemporaneous artistic foment of Manhattan, his art and its eloquence remained something of a secret, albeit one with extremely devoted followers, such as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lauren Bacall, as well as numerous artists, notably Fairfield Porter, Edward Gorey and Susan Rothenberg. They also include Matthew Marks, who began collecting York's work in 1983. Now, with the cooperation of Davis & Langdale, York's representatives for several decades, Matthew Marks Gallery has created the most comprehensive monograph ever published on the artist. With full-color plates of over 60 works spanning York's career, plus reprints of essays by Tomkins and Porter and a new essay by Bruce Hainley, the book provides the first substantial overview of this beloved artist.

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Tony Matelli - New Gravity The Davis Museum at Wellesley 2015 ISBN 9780985824914 Acqn 24648 Pb 17x23cm 416pp 350ills 250col £40 Published in conjunction with the artist's first solo exhibition at a US museum, this book features recent and site-specific works by New York–based artist Tony Matelli (born 1971), accompanied by hundreds of found images. Matelli's work reorients the viewer's relationship to objects, upending forms and bodies to challenge and redefine perception.

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Emil Salto - Light Forms Revolver Publishing by VVV 2015 ISBN 9783957632654 Acqn 24969 Pb 16x23cm 84pp 46ills 10col £15.50 This publication delves into the manipulation of light, time and material by Danish artist Emil Salto, on the occasion of Light Forms, his first solo museum show in the United States. Salto’s light experiments trace the borderland of expanded photography. Directed by his awareness that perception is an embodied act, Salto deliberately uses a blind process of image making in the darkroom. There, his body movements and light produce unforeseeable afterimages. Once released from that temporal lapse and the darkness of that setting, Salto extends his experiments with light and form to kinetic armatures, spatial environments and to the viewer. Essays by Curator Cora Fisher and Robin Clark identify connections between Emil Salto’s phenomenological, material sensibility and historical lineages including the Bauhaus, Group Zero, and the American Light and Space movement. Their texts also place his work in the wider context of contemporary light art, expanded photography and performativity. Salto’s work allies itself with modernism’s perception-bending formalism while it compels us to cultivate presence and attention, bracing us against the speed of contemporary consciousness.

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Joyce Pensato - I Killed Kenny Santa Monica Museum of Art 2014 ISBN 9780983967224 Acqn 24608 Hb 24x32cm 110pp 94col ills £31 For more than 30 years New York–based artist Joyce Pensato (born 1941) has transformed America's most iconic cartoon characters into psychologically charged enamel paintings and charcoal drawings. Her subjects, such as Mickey Mouse, Felix the Cat, Donald and Daisy Duck, the Simpsons, Batman and South Park's Kyle and Stan, oscillate between comedic representation and menacing abstraction. I Killed Kenny is the first museum exhibition devoted to Pensato's work and features the monumental wall painting "Running Mickeys," created on-site for CAM. Presenting a selection of key paintings and works on paper spanning Pensato's career—from being mentored by Joan Mitchell and Mercedes Matter at the New York Studio School in the 1970s to her most recent metallic painting, "Gold Batman"—this book reveals her work's evolution.

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Norbert Prangenberg - The Last Works Garth Greenan Gallery 2015 ISBN 9780989890236 Acqn 24652 Hb 26x22cm 72pp 30col ills £40 This publication focuses on the last works that Norbert Prangenberg (1949–2012) completed before his premature death. During a 2012 residency at Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of the Arts he produced a diverse body of small-scale ceramics, most of which are abstractions based on either landscapes or portrait heads.

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Art Green - Certain Subjects Garth Greenan Gallery 2015 ISBN 9780989890212 Acqn 24654 Hb 22x26cm 72pp 48col ills £40 For over 35 years, Ontario-based artist and former member of the Hairy Who Art Green (born 1941) has carefully honed his personal iconography—idealized, archetypal images of ice cream cones, wood grain patterns, burning candles, moonlit landscapes and perfectly polished fingernails. This publication traces the development of Green's work from 1975 to 2013.

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Paul Feeley - 1957 – 1962 Garth Greenan Gallery 2015 ISBN 9780989890205 Acqn 24656 Hb 22x26cm 80pp 48ills 39col £40 The years between 1957 to 1962 were a time of intense innovation for American abstract painter Paul Feeley (1910–66). Although classically derived, Feeley's paintings from this period are looser and less emblematic than his better-known work from the mid-1960s. This volume examines this fertile phase.

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Puddle, Pothole, Portal Sculpture Center 2014 ISBN 9780989338929 Acqn 24658 Pb 23x28cm 110pp 43ills 40col £30 Thinking through early twentieth-century cartoons, the kaleidoscopic drawings of Saul Steinberg, the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and other children's entertainment, Puddle, Pothole, Portal explores the coexistence of disparate elements within shared spaces. Gags betray complex meanings and sociopolitical satire, and unrelated objects, locales and avatars interact in the same dimension. As screens, passageways and shadows populate both physical and virtual realms, we question whether they are reflections or traces of the objective world, obstructions, fantasies or entryways into other realms. Contributing artists are Olga Balema, Joachim Bandau, Camille Blatrix, Teresa Burga, Antoine Catala, Abigail DeVille, Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, Judith Hopf, Jamian Juliano-Villani, Allison Katz, Mark Leckey, Maria Loboda, Win McCarthy, Danny McDonald, Marlie Mul, Mick Peter, Chadwick Rantanen, Lucie Stahl, Saul Steinberg, Keiichi Tanaami, Lina Viste Grønli and Jordan Wolfson.

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Alyson Shotz Derek Eller Gallery 2015 ISBN 9780977900244 Acqn 24649 Hb 25x32cm 80pp 60col ills £35 This volume documents recent sculptures and installations by Alyson Shotz (born 1964), including major public commissions and works from an array of gallery and museum exhibitions. Through a range of materials and processes, Shotz seeks to make perceptible two imperceptible forces: time and gravity.

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Pistonhead Venus Over Manhattan 2014 ISBN 9780990358602 Acqn 24658 Pb 20x26cm 126pp 99col ills £30 Looking at automobiles transformed into sculptures by leading modern and contemporary artists working since 1970, Piston Head includes pieces by Ron Arad, Dan Colen and Nate Lowman, Keith Haring, Damien Hirst, Richard Phillips, Richard Prince, Tom Sachs, Salvatore Scarpitta, Kenny Scharf and Franz West

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Schone Aussichten - Der Blaue Reiter und der Impressionismus Schirmer Mosel Verlag 2015 ISBN 9783829607070 Acqn 24802 Hb 25x23cm 200pp 149ills 129col £36 Text in German Before forming the Blaue Reiter group, Marc, Kandinsky, Jawlensky, Münter, Macke, and Klee explored plein-air painting in Bavaria, liberating and re-interpreting this tradition towards abstraction and Expressionism. With texts by Isabelle Jansen, Cathrin Klingsöhr-Leroy, Marlene Bielefeld, Angela Lampe, Annegret Hoberg.

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Roger Ackling - Simple Gifts Annely Juda Fine Art 2015 ISBN 9781904621645 Acqn 24960 Pb 22x28cm 32pp 21col ills £15 For more than forty years Roger Ackling created small intimate sculptures using the same meticulous method. Ackling directed sunlight through a small hand-held magnifying glass, burning images of the sun in lines directly on to the wood in geometric patterns. Like his contemporaries that graduated from St Martins School of Art in the late 1960’s, Roger challenged the traditional understanding of sculptural production by taking art out of the studio and into the everyday world. He collected bits of driftwood, found and rescued materials from the margins of our everyday lives and, using his ritualistic and repetitive process of burning, created works that are quiet and simple yet powerful. The works in this exhibition were his last works. They were mainly collected by friends and family along the beaches of Norfolk and given to Roger as simple gifts, for him to make them into his beautiful works of art.

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Tadashi Kawamata – Stairs Annely Juda Fine Art 2015 ISBN 9781904621652 Acqn 24962 Pb 22x25cm 48pp 55col ills £15 Tadashi Kawamata is an artist who transforms our environment, he works in the midst of demolition and construction. Usually using scrap or reclaimed materials, mostly wood, Kawamata sets about building new and unusual structures; a bridge between an apartment block and a museum, a wooden walkway that leads from a town centre to a lakeside, slum dwellings constructed in a picturesque park. Kawamata’s aim is to turn these environments inside out, and present the viewers with a completely fresh view of their surroundings.

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Ken Kiff - The Hill Of Dreams Marlborough Fine Art 2015 ISBN 9781909707160 Acqn 24966 Pb 24x30cm 48pp 55ills 52col £12.50 From the 1980s printmaking became increasingly important to Ken Kiff. The variety of techniques allowed him to explore his own visual language through the different media. Kiff relished the collaboration with technicians and master-printers producing a rich array of woodcuts, lithographs, etching, monotypes and encaustics.

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Eduardo Chillida I (1948-1973) Catalogue Raisonne Of Sculpture Nerea 2014 ISBN 9788415042853 Acqn 24484 Hb 24x35cm 376pp col ills £118 First volume of a major work in five volumes that offers, for the first time, the complete catalogue of the sculptures by the Basque artist Eduardo Chillida (1924-2002). The catalogue is a painstakingly designed publication under the scientific direction of the owners and curators of the Chillida-Leku Museum. The product of arduous and extensive documentation and analysis, this publication identifies 274 of Chillida’s sculptures between 1948 and 1973. Each piece includes detailed information on materials, owners, exhibitions and further reading, and is illustrated with one or more photographs.

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International Pop Walker Art Center 2015 ISBN 9781935963080 Acqn 24571 Hb 23x29cm 352pp 345ills 230col £66 This dynamic new volume is the first major survey to chronicle the emergence and migration of Pop art from an international perspective, focusing on the period from the 1950s through the early 1970s. Including original texts from a diverse roster of contributors, this catalogue provides important new scholarship on the period, examining production by artists across the globe who were simultaneously confronting radical cultural and political developments that would lay the foundation for the emergence of an art form embracing figuration, media strategies and mechanical processes with a new spirit of urgency and/or exuberance. International Pop amplifies the scope and tenor of what we understand to be "Pop," exposing the tremendous variety and complexity of this pivotal period and subject matter, and revealing how artists alternatively celebrated, cannibalized, rejected or assimilated some of the presumed qualities of Pop advanced in the US and Britain. Anchored by an expansive 48-page visual chronology, the book features in-depth essays by a range of scholars examining developments in Britain, Japan, Brazil, Argentina, Italy and Hungary as well as Western Europe and the US. The volume includes some 320 illustrations, including full-colour plates of each work in the exhibition, which integrates many classics of Pop art with numerous rarely seen works. Among the artists included are Evelyne Axel, Peter Blake, Raymond Colares, Antônio Dias, Rosalyn Drexler, Erró, León Ferrari, Richard Hamilton, David Hockney, Jasper Johns, Tanaami Keiichi, Yves Klein, Jirí Kolár, Yayoi Kusama, Nelson Leirner, Ana Maria Maiolino, Antonio Manuel, Marisol, Marta Minujín, Claes Oldenburg, Wanda Pimentel, Michaelangelo Pistoletto, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Mimmo Rotella, Ed Ruscha, Niki de Saint Phalle, Okamoto Shinjiro, Yokoo Tadanori, Wayne Thiebaud, Jean Tinguely, Shinohara Ushio and Andy Warhol. X Edited by Darsie Alexander, Bartholomew Ryan. Text by Godfre Leung, Darsie Alexander, Maria Jose Herrera, Claudia Calirman, Erica Battle, Dávid Fehér, Luigia Lonardelli, Hiroko Ikegami, Ed Halter, Charlotte Cotton, Martin Harrison, Tomá Pospiszyl.

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Nigel Peake - Through Along And Above Nigel Peake 2015 ISBN 9780957213753 Acqn 24979 Hb 17x24cm 160pp 140col ills £18.95 An exploration of the 1956 Jean Tschumi building in Place de Milan, Lausanne in a series of graphite, ink and watercolour drawings. In 1956, Vaudoise Assurances inaugurated its new head office built by architect Jean Tschumi (1904-1962). This major project in the architect's career is the first example of 'Corporate Architecture,' in French speaking Switzerland in the immediate post-war period.

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