Amy Cutler: Turtle fur
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Polite ladies in Victorian costume dancing on tabletops with chairs worn like hats on their heads; young girls with little foals strapped to their backs; a team of women dutifully mending docile tigers with needle and thread--all of these surreal antics depicted on a bare white ground--this is the jauntily disturbing imagery of Amy Cutler. Cutler's gouaches and drawings(...)
Amy Cutler: Turtle fur
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Polite ladies in Victorian costume dancing on tabletops with chairs worn like hats on their heads; young girls with little foals strapped to their backs; a team of women dutifully mending docile tigers with needle and thread--all of these surreal antics depicted on a bare white ground--this is the jauntily disturbing imagery of Amy Cutler. Cutler's gouaches and drawings on paper have won fans and collectors worldwide, and their winning amalgam of rich imagination and skillful execution, which together update lineages as various as Persian miniature painting, Surrealism, children's fairytale books and Japanese woodblock printing, offers satisfactions rarely found in contemporary art.This volume, published for the artist's 2011 exhibition at SITE Sante Fe, is Cutler's second monograph , and draws from private and public collections to offer a thorough survey of her work from the late 1990s to the present.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Again and again, Levine's works pose questions of aura, authoriality and, perhaps most importantly, value. Pairs and Posses is the first monograph to focus exclusively on the sculptural duos and trios that the artist has been making since 1992. Here, objects found on eBay and in junk or antique shops might be cast in black glass, crystal or bronze. The transposition of(...)
Sherrie Levine: Paris and posses
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Again and again, Levine's works pose questions of aura, authoriality and, perhaps most importantly, value. Pairs and Posses is the first monograph to focus exclusively on the sculptural duos and trios that the artist has been making since 1992. Here, objects found on eBay and in junk or antique shops might be cast in black glass, crystal or bronze. The transposition of these objects into worthier material automatically renders kitsch objects works of "high" art. Where Levine's early work debunked modernism's aura of irrefutability, the pieces in Pairs and Posses perform an opposite inversion of cultural worth.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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What is a photographic image? Can a photograph ever tell the truth? These are some of the questions artist Walid Raad has been investigating for the past 20 years, in a practice that encompasses photography, film and video, sculpture, installation and performance. This publication brings together three major bodies of work, and includes an exchange between the artist and(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
March 2011
Walid Raad: Miraculous beginings
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What is a photographic image? Can a photograph ever tell the truth? These are some of the questions artist Walid Raad has been investigating for the past 20 years, in a practice that encompasses photography, film and video, sculpture, installation and performance. This publication brings together three major bodies of work, and includes an exchange between the artist and curator Achim Borchardt-Hume; an essay on conceptions of truth by poet and writer Alan Gilbert; a text on Raad's use of photography and its ties to Beirut by Blake Stimson; and an essay by Hélène Chouteau-Matikian.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Starting out as a Fluxus-oriented maker of objects and participatory conceptual compositions, Mary Bauermeister (born 1934) had her first solo show at the Stedelijk Museum in 1962. Bauermeister promptly relocated to New York, and began to make works protesting the Vietnam war and critiquing consumer culture. Her "lens boxes"--wooden or aluminum boxes containing layers of(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
March 2011
Mary Bauermeister: Worlds in a box
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Starting out as a Fluxus-oriented maker of objects and participatory conceptual compositions, Mary Bauermeister (born 1934) had her first solo show at the Stedelijk Museum in 1962. Bauermeister promptly relocated to New York, and began to make works protesting the Vietnam war and critiquing consumer culture. Her "lens boxes"--wooden or aluminum boxes containing layers of often bubble-like glass with collaged elements--were soon bought up by major American museums, and have become the works for which she is best known today. Here, for the first time, Bauermeister's enigmatic objects are surveyed and contextualized.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Anselm Kiefer's Die Argonauten series was inspired by a casual dinner with friends. At the end of a meal, the artist noted the table's resemblance to a battlefield, and this quickly led him to delve into the Greek myth of Jason and the Argonauts. Despite the unlikely informality of the original prompt, Kiefer's choice to reinterpret the hero Jason's quest for the golden(...)
Anselm Kiefer: Die Argonauten
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Anselm Kiefer's Die Argonauten series was inspired by a casual dinner with friends. At the end of a meal, the artist noted the table's resemblance to a battlefield, and this quickly led him to delve into the Greek myth of Jason and the Argonauts. Despite the unlikely informality of the original prompt, Kiefer's choice to reinterpret the hero Jason's quest for the golden fleece continues central motifs in his work of violence, chauvinism and systems of power--derived, as ever, from the artist's assiduous study of poetry, mythology and cultural history. The project evolved into an installation composed of various totemic objects and weathered remnants, left over, so it appears, from Jason's quest. Die Argonauten reproduces this ambitious series for the first time, along with a text by the artist.
Contemporary Art Monographs
Roni Horn: Well and truly
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Roni Horn's art engages a variety of media to elicit uplifting minimalist effects from sober materials, to scrutinize identities in the passage of time across a person's face, to make poetical effects in language and to track minute alterations in nature. Published for Horn's major retrospective at the Kunsthaus Bregenz in Austria, Roni Horn: Well and Truly gathers the(...)
Roni Horn: Well and truly
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Roni Horn's art engages a variety of media to elicit uplifting minimalist effects from sober materials, to scrutinize identities in the passage of time across a person's face, to make poetical effects in language and to track minute alterations in nature. Published for Horn's major retrospective at the Kunsthaus Bregenz in Austria, Roni Horn: Well and Truly gathers the artist's major works of recent years, from artist's books to drawings, photographs and sculptures, and supplies a broad overview of her career.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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In 2010, Kapoor's tinted "Sky Mirror" disc planted in the Serpentine lake transformed the grey London sky into a dramatic and luminous red; a fluted, conical, mirrored structure seemed to suck up the earth and siphon it into the sky. Illustrated with full-color plates of these works in situ, Turning the World Upside Down in Kensington Gardens is also the first Kapoor(...)
Anish Kapoor: Turning the world upside down in Kensington Gardens
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In 2010, Kapoor's tinted "Sky Mirror" disc planted in the Serpentine lake transformed the grey London sky into a dramatic and luminous red; a fluted, conical, mirrored structure seemed to suck up the earth and siphon it into the sky. Illustrated with full-color plates of these works in situ, Turning the World Upside Down in Kensington Gardens is also the first Kapoor monograph to offer a comprehensive overview of all of the artist's stainless steel sculptures.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Gilbert & George Art Titles offers a spin on the catalogue raisonné: a complete catalogue of the titles of all of the duo's works, from 1970 to the present, in the form of a continuous poetical index. Designed by the artists, it begins with their first performance at Nigel Greenwood Gallery in 1970. The catalogue of works is also printed alphabetically, and each title is(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
February 2011
Gilbert & George: Art titles 1969-2010 in alphabetical order
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Gilbert & George Art Titles offers a spin on the catalogue raisonné: a complete catalogue of the titles of all of the duo's works, from 1970 to the present, in the form of a continuous poetical index. Designed by the artists, it begins with their first performance at Nigel Greenwood Gallery in 1970. The catalogue of works is also printed alphabetically, and each title is identified with an acronym indicating its format.
Contemporary Art Monographs
Kirstine Roepstorff
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Kirstine Roepstorff uses materials such as felt, fabric, sequins and glass beads for her collages, in a process she terms "appropriarranging." This publication features a series of large-scale collages created for an exhibition at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basel, as well as a wunderkammer curated by the Danish artist, containing various artifacts and curiosities.
Contemporary Art Monographs
March 2011
Kirstine Roepstorff
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Kirstine Roepstorff uses materials such as felt, fabric, sequins and glass beads for her collages, in a process she terms "appropriarranging." This publication features a series of large-scale collages created for an exhibition at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basel, as well as a wunderkammer curated by the Danish artist, containing various artifacts and curiosities.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Thorsten Passfeld constructs wooden cabins and interiors that both exploit and refute the comforts of dwelling. As extensions of the domestic idiom, he also constructs colorful wooden assemblages that resemble demented cuckoo clocks or neo-folk art. It's Me Again presents Passfeld's recent wall objects and his temporary wooden houses.
Thorsten Passfeld: It's me again
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Thorsten Passfeld constructs wooden cabins and interiors that both exploit and refute the comforts of dwelling. As extensions of the domestic idiom, he also constructs colorful wooden assemblages that resemble demented cuckoo clocks or neo-folk art. It's Me Again presents Passfeld's recent wall objects and his temporary wooden houses.
Contemporary Art Monographs