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The interview has become a quintessentially twentieth-century form of historical narrative, writes co-editor Patricia Bickers in this rich collection of interviews with artists from the British magazine Art Monthly. From the interview with constructivist Naum Gabo, done just a few months before his death, this weighty volume (without illustrations) includes more than 60(...)
Contemporary Art Monographs
September 2008, London
Talking Art interviews with artists since 1976
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The interview has become a quintessentially twentieth-century form of historical narrative, writes co-editor Patricia Bickers in this rich collection of interviews with artists from the British magazine Art Monthly. From the interview with constructivist Naum Gabo, done just a few months before his death, this weighty volume (without illustrations) includes more than 60 influential artists of the last quarter of the twentieth century. The importance of the artists is unmistakable, including Frank Stella, David Hockney, Robert Motherwell, Jasper Johns, Barbara Kruger, Brice Marden, Gilbert & George, George Segal, Richard Serra, Claes Oldenburg, Sol LeWitt and John Baldessari. With an outstanding index of artists and others cited by the interviewees.
Contemporary Art Monographs
Rivka Rinn
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Rivka Rinn is an artist on the go: this handsome, limited-edition color volume presents four new series of photographs documenting the artist's travel over the past ten years. Rinn's narrative-based, hyper-intense digital photos are often produced with ink-jet printer on glass and mounted in beautifully lit displays; the book shows many of them in context, adding another(...)
Rivka Rinn
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Rivka Rinn is an artist on the go: this handsome, limited-edition color volume presents four new series of photographs documenting the artist's travel over the past ten years. Rinn's narrative-based, hyper-intense digital photos are often produced with ink-jet printer on glass and mounted in beautifully lit displays; the book shows many of them in context, adding another way of appreciating the Israel-born, Europe-based photographer's work Certainly, Rinn's photos, whether of crowded streets in Japan or a heavenly, cloud-studded sky juxtaposed with a Renaissance dome, add an unexpected dimension to our view of the world. With an insightful introduction by curator Barbara Wally.
Photography monographs
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This issue examines the impartation of meaning through visible language, whether informative, instructive, transformative, narrative, or other. Contributions include Peter Culley’s restructuring of a botanical text as lyrical poetry, a vignette by Octavia E. Butler, a preface to ‘The Art of Science Writing’ by Worsley and Mayer, Daniel Victor’s report on an Oxford comma(...)
F.R. David autumn 2018 : '' What I mean is-''
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This issue examines the impartation of meaning through visible language, whether informative, instructive, transformative, narrative, or other. Contributions include Peter Culley’s restructuring of a botanical text as lyrical poetry, a vignette by Octavia E. Butler, a preface to ‘The Art of Science Writing’ by Worsley and Mayer, Daniel Victor’s report on an Oxford comma dispute, a wall text for ‘High Speed Geology’ at Museum für Naturkunde, ‘In the Shadow of the American Dream’ by David Wojnarowicz, ‘26 Theses on Craft’ by Sharon H. Poggenpohl, a report Charles and Ray Eames drew up for the Indian government to promote quality in small industries, and much more.
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Adam Pape: Dyckman haze
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In the city there are ways to escape the grid and walk along lines unseen. The city parks of New York offer this escape, eliciting both alienation and intoxication. They allow citizens and nature both a space for growth, a second city away from eyes on the street. Adam Pape's photographs utilize the city parks in Washington Heights and Inwood as the backdrop for a(...)
Adam Pape: Dyckman haze
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In the city there are ways to escape the grid and walk along lines unseen. The city parks of New York offer this escape, eliciting both alienation and intoxication. They allow citizens and nature both a space for growth, a second city away from eyes on the street. Adam Pape's photographs utilize the city parks in Washington Heights and Inwood as the backdrop for a narrative that unfolds in between day and night. These monochromatic images, directed by Pape and artificially lit, depict an ongoing exchange between humans, animals, and the landscape. In the furthest reach of Manhattan, sectioned off from further development, history and myth are at play.
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Wassily Kandinsky: Sounds
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Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) was a Russian pioneer of abstract painting whose work has influenced generations of artists. His "Sounds" (Klänge) of 1912 is one of the earliest, most beautiful examples of a 20th-century artist’s book. Its “sound poems” are alternately narrative and expressive, witty and simple in form. They treat questions of space, color, physical design,(...)
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October 2019
Wassily Kandinsky: Sounds
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Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) was a Russian pioneer of abstract painting whose work has influenced generations of artists. His "Sounds" (Klänge) of 1912 is one of the earliest, most beautiful examples of a 20th-century artist’s book. Its “sound poems” are alternately narrative and expressive, witty and simple in form. They treat questions of space, color, physical design, and the act of seeing in a world that offers multiple and often contradictory possibilities. The woodcut illustrations that accompany the poems range from representational designs to abstract vignettes. In its fusion of image and word, "Sounds" epitomizes the artist’s move toward abstraction and his aspiration to a synthesis of the arts.
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Oscar Niemeyer buildings
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Oft-overshadowed by the imposing buildings that line the River Thames, the bridges of London are an intriguing part of the capital, past and present. This book traces the history of all 33 Thames bridges within Greater London, exploring the fascinating architecture and unique stories from Hampton Court Bridge in the west to the iconic Tower Bridge in the east. Accompanied(...)
Oscar Niemeyer buildings
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Oft-overshadowed by the imposing buildings that line the River Thames, the bridges of London are an intriguing part of the capital, past and present. This book traces the history of all 33 Thames bridges within Greater London, exploring the fascinating architecture and unique stories from Hampton Court Bridge in the west to the iconic Tower Bridge in the east. Accompanied throughout by colour photographs of the present bridges, as well as detailed paintings and engravings of the earlier structures that once stood in their place, this is a fully illustrated and absorbing narrative for anyone with an interest in the history of London.
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Bad couples
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"The book consists of a series of repeated gestures, often neglected and/or obliterated. Hastily drawn expressionistic heads and faces inspired by grotesques, caricatures, cosmic characters, urban nowheres, classical sculptures, and personal experience. Also there are a couple of abstracts obtusely rendered with marker pen, which integrate in the open narrative structure.(...)
Bad couples
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"The book consists of a series of repeated gestures, often neglected and/or obliterated. Hastily drawn expressionistic heads and faces inspired by grotesques, caricatures, cosmic characters, urban nowheres, classical sculptures, and personal experience. Also there are a couple of abstracts obtusely rendered with marker pen, which integrate in the open narrative structure. The aim is to create psychedelic melancholia. I try to keep a balance between the crudely drawn and the more soft stuff, like being on an abandoned traffic island surrounded by lush vegetation." Nicola Pecoraro Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Bad Couples" at fette's gallery, Los Angeles. May 30th – July 5th, 2008
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January 2008, Zürich
Contemporary Art Monographs
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Every day, throughout that tumultuous spring of 2020, Dutch artist Erik Kessels and French artist Thomas Sauvin sent one another idiosyncratic, uncaptioned photographs, catalyzing an organic, free-associative exchange of some 120 archival images. Author Kingston Trinder then composed an equally free-associative, altogether-whimsical narrative with which to further entwine(...)
Talk soon: Erik Kessels and Thomas Sauvin
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Every day, throughout that tumultuous spring of 2020, Dutch artist Erik Kessels and French artist Thomas Sauvin sent one another idiosyncratic, uncaptioned photographs, catalyzing an organic, free-associative exchange of some 120 archival images. Author Kingston Trinder then composed an equally free-associative, altogether-whimsical narrative with which to further entwine the duo’s eclectic photographs. These two archives of vernacular photography, one from the East, the other from the West, achieve a dialogue through the recurrence of photographic practices, aesthetics and subjects.'Talk Soon', a tearaway postcard book with a spiral binding, allows readers to endlessly juxtapose the delightful photographs selected by the two quarantined artists.
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On tyranny, graphic edition
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Timothy Snyder’s New York Times bestseller 'On Tyranny' uses the darkest moments in twentieth-century history, from Nazism to Communism, to teach twenty lessons on resisting modern-day authoritarianism. In this graphic edition, Nora Krug draws from her highly inventive art style - at once a graphic memoir, collage-style scrapbook, historical narrative, and trove of(...)
On tyranny, graphic edition
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Timothy Snyder’s New York Times bestseller 'On Tyranny' uses the darkest moments in twentieth-century history, from Nazism to Communism, to teach twenty lessons on resisting modern-day authoritarianism. In this graphic edition, Nora Krug draws from her highly inventive art style - at once a graphic memoir, collage-style scrapbook, historical narrative, and trove of memories - to breathe new life, color, and power into Snyder’s riveting historical references, turning a quick-read pocket guide of lessons into a visually striking rumination. In a time of great uncertainty and instability, this edition of 'On Tyranny' emphasizes the importance of being active, conscious, and deliberate participants in resistance.
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Smokehouse Associates
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Between 1968 and 1970, the artist collective Smokehouse Associates transformed Harlem with vibrant, community-oriented abstract murals and sculptures. Established by William T. Williams and including Melvin Edwards, Guy Ciarcia, and Billy Rose, Smokehouse grew to encompass a range of creative practitioners united around the revolutionary potential of public(...)
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Smokehouse Associates
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Between 1968 and 1970, the artist collective Smokehouse Associates transformed Harlem with vibrant, community-oriented abstract murals and sculptures. Established by William T. Williams and including Melvin Edwards, Guy Ciarcia, and Billy Rose, Smokehouse grew to encompass a range of creative practitioners united around the revolutionary potential of public art. Published over fifty years after the collective’s founding, this volume offers the first critical examination of the group’s work. With previously unpublished images and ephemera and a rich chronology, it serves as a sourcebook that expands the narrative of public art and social practice in the United States to include the contributions of artists of African descent.