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RB Kitaj started painting The Architects in August of 1979 to celebrate the remodelling of his home by MJ Long. Painted largely without the models themselves present, this portrait of his friends against the backdrop of the stepped bookcase designed for him by MJ marks a transition in Kitaj’s development as an artist. Breaking with his earlier graphic work, Kitaj(...)
Kitaj: the architects Colin St John Wilson and MJ Long
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RB Kitaj started painting The Architects in August of 1979 to celebrate the remodelling of his home by MJ Long. Painted largely without the models themselves present, this portrait of his friends against the backdrop of the stepped bookcase designed for him by MJ marks a transition in Kitaj’s development as an artist. Breaking with his earlier graphic work, Kitaj experimented with technique in search of a renewed artistic vision, arriving at an awkwardness of composition reminiscent of Manet and a colouration inspired by van Gogh. Kitaj: The Architects collects the diary entries of his subjects through each sitting session, from the first preliminary sketches to the final delivery of the painting in late 1981. Providing a revealing insight into Kitaj’s artistic method, Colin St John Wilson and his wife MJ Long’s observations capture the creative process through the explorations of initial ideas, happy accidents, compositional struggles and dissatisfactions, to the finished artefact.
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February 2008, London
Contemporary Art Monographs
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This is the first publication to explore the role of mirrors, spinning, and "neurotic" architecture: a feeling of psychological breakdown in the work of one of Americas most important contemporary artists, Paul McCarthy (b. 1945). The book is published in conjunction with a major exhibition at the Whitney, for which McCarthy is creating two new installations to appear(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
August 2008, New York, New Haven, London
Paul McCarthy central symmetrical rotation movement
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This is the first publication to explore the role of mirrors, spinning, and "neurotic" architecture: a feeling of psychological breakdown in the work of one of Americas most important contemporary artists, Paul McCarthy (b. 1945). The book is published in conjunction with a major exhibition at the Whitney, for which McCarthy is creating two new installations to appear alongside his Bang Bang Room (1992) and two recently rediscovered film loops (1966, 1971).
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This publication accompanies the exhibition 'Martin Kippenberger: The Problem of Perspective', organized by Ann Goldstein and presented at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 21 September 2008 - 5 January 2009.
Contemporary Art Monographs
October 2008, Los Angeles, Cambridge, London
Martin Kippenberger: the problem perspective
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This publication accompanies the exhibition 'Martin Kippenberger: The Problem of Perspective', organized by Ann Goldstein and presented at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 21 September 2008 - 5 January 2009.
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The book mixes intense visual content with critical commentary, an interview with the artist, a concentrated section on West's working methods, an artist's response to the work through words and images, and an extensive chronology and bibliography.
Contemporary Art Monographs
November 2008, Cambridge, London
Franz West work 1972-2008: to build a house you start with the roof
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The book mixes intense visual content with critical commentary, an interview with the artist, a concentrated section on West's working methods, an artist's response to the work through words and images, and an extensive chronology and bibliography.
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Anish Kapoor is one of a highly inventive generation of sculptors who emerged in London in the early 1980s. Since then he has created a remarkable body of work that blends a modernist sense of pure materiality with a fascination for the manipulation of form and the perception of space. This book - the first major American publication on Kapoor's work - surveys his work(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
September 2008, Boston
Anish Kapoor : past, present, future
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Anish Kapoor is one of a highly inventive generation of sculptors who emerged in London in the early 1980s. Since then he has created a remarkable body of work that blends a modernist sense of pure materiality with a fascination for the manipulation of form and the perception of space. This book - the first major American publication on Kapoor's work - surveys his work since 1979, with a focus on sculptures and installations made since the early 1990s. With more than ninety color images of these ambitious and complex works, three original essays, an extended interview with Kapoor, and selections from his sketchbooks, this book confirms Anish Kapoor's place as one of the most remarkable sculptors working today. Kapoor's work has evolved into an abstract and perceptually complex elaboration of the sculptural object as at once monumental and evanescent, physical and ethereal - as in his famous Cloud Gate (2004) in Chicago's Millennium Park. The works in Anish Kapoor include such striking works as Past, Present, Future (2006), 1000 Names (1979-1980) and When I Am Pregnant (1992). Includes an interview with the artist by Nicholas Baume. Copublished with the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
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World art studies
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This timely volume challenges the narrow Western-centrism of most art historical models. Archaeologists have found that, for tens of thousands of years, all human cultures have shared a desire for visual representation or expression. Yet the study of art history has traditionally focused on Western artworks of the past few centuries. World Art Studies examines the(...)
World art studies
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This timely volume challenges the narrow Western-centrism of most art historical models. Archaeologists have found that, for tens of thousands of years, all human cultures have shared a desire for visual representation or expression. Yet the study of art history has traditionally focused on Western artworks of the past few centuries. World Art Studies examines the phenomenon of art through a broader cultural, global and temporal perspective, bringing together a uniquely exhaustive range of perspectives on art and borrowing approaches from the study of neuroscience, evolutionary biology, anthropology and geography as models--alongside more conventional art historical perspectives. In musicology or linguistics, using such diverse viewpoints for reflection and research is considered part of the normal process. In that spirit, this volume goes beyond abstract models, using case studies to demonstrate and examine specific methods of investigation.
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Catalogue d'exposition au centre d'art contemporain de Malaga.
November 2008, Malaga
Rodney Graham: a glass of beer
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Catalogue d'exposition au centre d'art contemporain de Malaga.
Lucy Skaer
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Published on the occasion of the exhibition Lucy Skaer at the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh from may 17 to july 9 2008.
Lucy Skaer
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Published on the occasion of the exhibition Lucy Skaer at the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh from may 17 to july 9 2008.
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Michalis Pichler Hearts
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A collection and archival documentation of discarded commodities, which carried depictions of hearts, found in public space mostly in Berlin, but also in Greece and New York City. The photo documentation is accompanied by transcriptions of every text carried by the found objects. A solid piece of conceptual photography and concrete poetry. This book is volume 2 of an(...)
Michalis Pichler Hearts
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A collection and archival documentation of discarded commodities, which carried depictions of hearts, found in public space mostly in Berlin, but also in Greece and New York City. The photo documentation is accompanied by transcriptions of every text carried by the found objects. A solid piece of conceptual photography and concrete poetry. This book is volume 2 of an encyclopedia (volume 1: stars & stripes aka 'new york garbage flag profile' / ISBN 978-3-865880-94-9)
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contributions: AA Bronson, Anonymus*, Inaki Bonillas, Mel Bochner, Marcel Broodthaers*, Heath Bunting, Alice Creischer, Brad Downey, Kenneth Goldsmith, Ellen Harvey, Burkhard Holdorff, Douglas Huebler*, Deborah Kelly, Sol LeWitt*, nature*, Akim Nguyen, Edgar Orlaineta, Grisha Perelman*, Michalis Pichler, Peter Piller, Adrian Piper, Johannes Raether, Allen Ruppersberg,(...)
Michalis Pichler working drawing and other visible things on paper not neccesarily meant to be viewed.
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contributions: AA Bronson, Anonymus*, Inaki Bonillas, Mel Bochner, Marcel Broodthaers*, Heath Bunting, Alice Creischer, Brad Downey, Kenneth Goldsmith, Ellen Harvey, Burkhard Holdorff, Douglas Huebler*, Deborah Kelly, Sol LeWitt*, nature*, Akim Nguyen, Edgar Orlaineta, Grisha Perelman*, Michalis Pichler, Peter Piller, Adrian Piper, Johannes Raether, Allen Ruppersberg, Stefan Schuster, Andreas Siekmann, Evgenia Tsalagrada, Xerox*, Haegue Yang, Adam Zaretsky * “found” material The title is a paraphrase of Mel Bochners landmark project from 1966 as organized with the SVA. The last two words "As Art" have been omitted from the title. put together by Michalis Pichler
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