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Claes Oldenburg’s commitment to familiar objects has shaped accounts of his career, but his associations with Pop art and postwar consumerism have overshadowed another crucial aspect of his work. In this revealing reassessment, Katherine Smith traces Oldenburg’s profound responses to shifting urban conditions, framing his enduring relationship with the city as a critical(...)
The accidental possibilities of the city: Claes Oldenburg's urbanism in postwar America
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Claes Oldenburg’s commitment to familiar objects has shaped accounts of his career, but his associations with Pop art and postwar consumerism have overshadowed another crucial aspect of his work. In this revealing reassessment, Katherine Smith traces Oldenburg’s profound responses to shifting urban conditions, framing his enduring relationship with the city as a critical perspective and conceiving his art as urban theory. Smith argues that Oldenburg adapted lessons of context, gleaned from New York’s changing cityscape in the late 1950s, to large-scale objects and architectural plans. By examining disparate projects from New York to Los Angeles, she situates Oldenburg’s innovations in local geographies and national debates. In doing so, Smith illuminates patterns of urbanization through the important contributions of one of the leading artists in the United States.
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Locating Sol Lewitt
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A pioneer of minimalism and conceptual art, Sol LeWitt (1928–2007) is best known for his monumental wall drawings. LeWitt’s broad artistic practice, however, also included photography, artist’s books, sculpture, and printmaking. From the familiar to the underappreciated aspects of the artist’s oeuvre, this book examines the ways that LeWitt’s work was multidisciplinary,(...)
Locating Sol Lewitt
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A pioneer of minimalism and conceptual art, Sol LeWitt (1928–2007) is best known for his monumental wall drawings. LeWitt’s broad artistic practice, however, also included photography, artist’s books, sculpture, and printmaking. From the familiar to the underappreciated aspects of the artist’s oeuvre, this book examines the ways that LeWitt’s work was multidisciplinary, humorous, philosophical, and even religious.
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Donald Judd was one of the most important exponents of American Minimal Art. Among the lesser-known aspects of his work are the numerous built architectural projects in which he explores the relationship between architecture art, furniture, and landscape. One particular location was of great significance to Judd’s architectural work: Fort D.R. Russell, a former US(...)
Donald Judd: Architecture in Marfa, Texas. 2nd edition
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Donald Judd was one of the most important exponents of American Minimal Art. Among the lesser-known aspects of his work are the numerous built architectural projects in which he explores the relationship between architecture art, furniture, and landscape. One particular location was of great significance to Judd’s architectural work: Fort D.R. Russell, a former US military base in the Chihuahuan desert on the southern edge of the pioneer town of Marfa, Texas. Judd acquired the fort and other structures in Marfa which he systematically converted into one of the largest ensemble collections of contemporary art in the world.
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Yinka Shonibare CBE makes colourful fabrics with presumed African origins into the trademark of his multimedia artworks. At the same time he examines complex themes like hybrid identities, colonialism and power structures with unique irony. This catalogue focuses on three decades of his fascinating artistic oeuvre.
Yinka Shonibare CBE: End of empire
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Yinka Shonibare CBE makes colourful fabrics with presumed African origins into the trademark of his multimedia artworks. At the same time he examines complex themes like hybrid identities, colonialism and power structures with unique irony. This catalogue focuses on three decades of his fascinating artistic oeuvre.
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Chihuly and Architecture
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Forty years of Dale Chihuly’s spectacular site-specific glass installations are captured in this large-format publication examining architectural commissions, temporary art installations, and museum exhibitions around the world. Chihuly’s installations on walls, windows, ceilings, stairways, courtyards, and fountains are closely examined. "Chihuly and architecture"(...)
Chihuly and Architecture
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Forty years of Dale Chihuly’s spectacular site-specific glass installations are captured in this large-format publication examining architectural commissions, temporary art installations, and museum exhibitions around the world. Chihuly’s installations on walls, windows, ceilings, stairways, courtyards, and fountains are closely examined. "Chihuly and architecture" explores entire rooms and galleries, glasshouses and castles, and travels from the canals of Venice to the Citadel in the Old City of Jerusalem, providing rare insight into Chihuly’s inspiration and global footprint.
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Dans '' Rouge feu, bleu Klein, vert mélèze,'' Éva Prouteau parcourt l’ensemble de la pratique artistique d’Eva Taulois, abordant de concert son rapport à la couleur, à la sculpture et à la circulation des œuvres dans l’espace d’exposition. Elle revient également sur l’emploi de supports habituellement négligés car jugés purement décoratifs, tels que les textiles, les(...)
Rouge feu, bleu Klein, vert mélèze
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Dans '' Rouge feu, bleu Klein, vert mélèze,'' Éva Prouteau parcourt l’ensemble de la pratique artistique d’Eva Taulois, abordant de concert son rapport à la couleur, à la sculpture et à la circulation des œuvres dans l’espace d’exposition. Elle revient également sur l’emploi de supports habituellement négligés car jugés purement décoratifs, tels que les textiles, les tapis ou des formes de mobilier (étagères, table et assises). Réalisé à partir de plusieurs entretiens menés à l’automne 2017 dans l’atelier d’Eva Taulois, le livre articule les réflexions de l’auteure avec des extraits de ces entretiens retranscrits directement dans le corps du texte, ainsi que de nombreuses reproductions d’œuvres en couleur.
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Rarely seen together, the artworks of Josef Albers (1888–1976) and Giorgio Morandi (1890–1964) share many similarities. Although they never met, both artists worked in series as they explored difference and potential through their distinctive treatment of color, shape, form, and morphology. They were also both influenced by Cezanne. As master illusionists and experts in(...)
Albers and Morandi: never finished
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Rarely seen together, the artworks of Josef Albers (1888–1976) and Giorgio Morandi (1890–1964) share many similarities. Although they never met, both artists worked in series as they explored difference and potential through their distinctive treatment of color, shape, form, and morphology. They were also both influenced by Cezanne. As master illusionists and experts in proportion, they tackled similar conceits from different perspectives. Albers focused on the effects of subtle or bold changes and interactions in color, while Morandi made still lifes that treat simple objects as a cast of characters on a stage, exploring their relationship in space. Published on the occasion of the critically acclaimed exhibition ''Albers and Morandi: Never Finished'' at David Zwirner New York in 2021, the book illuminates the visual conversation between these two artists.
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This volume brings together the paintings and drawings of Elizabeth Murray (1940–2007) and the work of New York–based sculptor Jessi Reaves (born 1986). Despite the generations that separate Murray and Reaves, this publication highlights each artist’s lyrical, playful, and rigorous engagements with the decorative, domestic, and bodily. Published to accompany an exhibition(...)
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March 2021
Wild Life: Elizabeth Murray & Jessi Reaves
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This volume brings together the paintings and drawings of Elizabeth Murray (1940–2007) and the work of New York–based sculptor Jessi Reaves (born 1986). Despite the generations that separate Murray and Reaves, this publication highlights each artist’s lyrical, playful, and rigorous engagements with the decorative, domestic, and bodily. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, this book explores Murray’s and Reaves’s often ambiguous conceptions of the body and the home, wherein both body and home are continuously coming together and falling apart. The publication features a newly commissioned conversation between Reaves and Johanna Fateman, as well as a reprint of a historical interview between Murray and Kate Horsfield, which together chart the two artists’ irreverent plays with color and form, high and low cultural references, and notions of masculinity and femininity.
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Born in Kinngait (Cape Dorset) in 1961, Shuvinai is part of a famed dynasty of artists that includes her grandmother Pitseolak Ashoona and her Sobey Art Award–winning cousin, the late Annie Pootoogook. Shuvinai is recognized as a member of a new generation of artists that engage with drawing in innovative ways. Her highly imaginative work combines aspects of traditional(...)
March 2019
Shuvinai Ashoona : life & work
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Born in Kinngait (Cape Dorset) in 1961, Shuvinai is part of a famed dynasty of artists that includes her grandmother Pitseolak Ashoona and her Sobey Art Award–winning cousin, the late Annie Pootoogook. Shuvinai is recognized as a member of a new generation of artists that engage with drawing in innovative ways. Her highly imaginative work combines aspects of traditional Inuit culture and mythology with influences derived from the non-Arctic world. This publication explores the world of an artist whose rich graphic imagery conveys an intricate and textured personal vision. Using pencil, pen and ink, and markers to render dense, highly imaginative drawings, Shuvinai creates art that reflects the intersection of values between the traditional and the contemporary in the North.
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Créé en 1993 par l'artiste allemand Martin Kippenberger, le MOMAS (Museum of Modern Art Syros) est un musée d'artiste ouvert jusqu'en 1996 et situé sur l'île de Syros dans les Cyclades. Installé dans un bâtiment inachevé, Kippenberger y invitait ses amis artistes à y faire des projets et à y déposer des œuvres. Cosima von Bonin, Hubert Kiecol, Stephen Prina, Christopher(...)
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February 2021
Martin Kippenberger : MOMAS Project
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Créé en 1993 par l'artiste allemand Martin Kippenberger, le MOMAS (Museum of Modern Art Syros) est un musée d'artiste ouvert jusqu'en 1996 et situé sur l'île de Syros dans les Cyclades. Installé dans un bâtiment inachevé, Kippenberger y invitait ses amis artistes à y faire des projets et à y déposer des œuvres. Cosima von Bonin, Hubert Kiecol, Stephen Prina, Christopher Wool (qui en réalisa la signalétique), Lukas Baumewerd, Michel Majerus, Michael Krebber, Heimo Zobernig furent parmi les artistes invités à intervenir dans un lieu destiné à un public fort réduit (une dizaine de personnes tout au plus). Le MAMCO conserve la quasi-totalité de ce qui a été produit dans le cadre de cette utopie muséale. Cet ouvrage en restistitue pour la première fois l'historique complet tant du point de vue de l'économie générale de l'art de Kippenberger (Daniel Baumann), que de la logique propre à ce bureau des projets et à ses relations avec le MAMCO (Thierry Davila). On y découvre notamment comment le musée alternatif peut être un outil de travail pour le musée institué.
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