Essays by Sven Lutticken and Philip Monk
This book presents a screenplay for an installation of two 16mm films by Stan Douglas titled “Inconsolable Memories” as well as related essays and a series of photographs taken by Douglas as research for the project. The filmic installation revolves around a group of Cuban natives and moves fluidly through the cast of characters’ past and present memories. Overwhelmingly melancholic and majestic, the photographs taken by Douglas capture the slow architectural ruins of Cuba from a sweeping cinematic perspective. This book was published to coincide with the exhibition of “Inconsolable Memories” at the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha and the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver.
Published by Joslyn Art Museum and The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, 2005 Hardcover, 151 images illustrated throughout. Dimensions: 10 1/2 x 8 inches (26.67 x 20.32 cm)

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Robert Heinecken (1931–2006) has been called one of America’s most influential contemporary, conceptual photographers, and yet he rarely used a camera. His definition of photography encompassed everything related to the photo; rather than focusing on the photographic image as a creation derived solely from a camera, his interest was on the relation of methods and formalism – often in an irreverent and humorous way – to popular media.
This first large-scale monograph presents an overview of Heinecken’s work from the 1960–90s, highlighting his exploration of the material possibilities of the medium, and how he created new methods to record and produce photographic objects using collage, lithography, Polaroid, silver gelatin prints, color processes, digital prints and experimental uses of darkroom chemistry.
Text by Kevin Moore
Published by Ridinghouse 2012 in association with Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles; Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York and Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles Hardcover

Dimensions: 30.5 × 24.2 cm  |  12 × 9 1/2 in 144 pp, 150 colour illustrations
This catalogue is out of print and in perfect condition.

Robert Heinecken: Copywork

By Anna Katherine Brodbeck, editor Ken Allan and contributions by Hans Ulrich Obrist
Southern California–based painter Jonas Wood (b. 1977) depicts everyday scenes in a colorful, graphic style that references modernist and Pop aesthetics while remaining unquestionably contemporary. The first book to consider Wood’s work in a scholarly, art-historical context, this mid-career survey cements his place in the lineage of artists who similarly embraced quotidian imagery and pictorial flatness to tell deeper stories, such as David Hockney, Henri Matisse, and Philip Guston. While based on intense real-life observation, Wood’s paintings depict worlds that are ultimately fictive, subjected to a process of manipulation through preparatory photo collages. The authors hone in on Wood’s ability to compose scenes dense with objects, people, and places that have intense personal meaning yet function allegorically to suggest universal situations and themes. Striking illustrations of Wood’s pieces demonstrate how the personal has become public in the digital age, capturing the brilliance and depth of this artist on the rise.
Published by Dallas Museum of Art, 2019 Softcover, 108 pages Dimensions: 12 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches (31.11 x 26.03 cm) Out of print Condition: new, still in original shrink wrap

Jonas Wood

Aftermath is collection of photographs of all the inanimate objects in the Saloon, a shooting location for Paul McCarthy’s film DADDA Saloon. The photographs were taken after the shoot was finished, leaving various tableaus that suggest the actions and content of the film. Photographed as a document, the props and the set now create their own resonance after their role in the film has ended.
Published by Hesse Press, 2019 Soft cover, 64 pages Dimensions: 9 x 6 1/2 inches (22.86 x 16.51 cm) Edition of 500

Paul Mccarthy / Damon Mccarthy: Aftermath

"For over five decades, my most powerful and intense relationship has been with my work. As a graduate student at Yale in the '60s, I began to use the phallus as a metaphor for feminism and male posturing. At the time, Yale was an all-male undergraduate program. I became fascinated with explicit graffiti that I discovered in men's bathrooms, finding inspiration in raw humor and unedited scrawls. Aggression and humor are strongly connected in my work. This is epitomized in my piece "Supercock" (1966), a drawing of a comic superhero with huge genitals ejaculating through the world; and in "Fun-Gun" (1967), an anatomical drawing of a phallus shooting collaged live ammo. My "Fuck Vietnam" series was just the start. Graffiti influences can be traced throughout my entire body of work and in my scatological titles such as "Dicks of Death" (2015). I confront war with very graphic, in-your-face words and images. Stuffed phalluses, blood and semen juxtapose national imagery and the US flag. It's funny but it's dead serious! Charcoal is my favorite medium. Over the span of my career, the experience of working with charcoal has been extremely dynamic, raw and personal. There's a gritty and visceral quality to these political drawings. The charcoal works represent an amalgamation of anti-war, feminism and sexuality. Beyond these themes, my work delves into the multiple layers of the human psyche. My art confronts the viewer with the urgency and complexity of human relationships - issues that perpetually arise and tension that resonate from our origins to today." Judith Bernstein
Published by Patrick Frey Editions, 2017 Hardcover, 188 pages, illustrated throughout Dimensions: 13 3/4 x 9 inches (34.92 x 22.86 cm)

Judith Bernstein: Dicks Of Death

Edited by Jeff Khonsary & Martine Sims
Belvedere is a continuation of David Hartt’s investigation of vernacular utopias—those places where the ideal has been forced to morph and adjust to the reality of the surrounding imperfect world. The book collects a suite of formally austere photographs taken at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Midland, Michigan. Hartt’s subjects cover a broad ideological spectrum that highlight the range and potential of the American experience. The work in Belvedere focuses on the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, originators of the Overton window, a policy framing device used to adjust public opinion on a particular subject by positing radical viewpoints and thereby shifting the frame of reference closer to an intended outcome.
Publishing in conjunction with Dominica and New Documents, 2013 Softcover, 13 pages Dimensions: 8 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches (21.59 x 17.14 cm) Edition 500

David Hartt: Belvedere

Edited with text by Isabella Maidment, Andrea Schlieker. Text by Elizabeth Alexander, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
Dramatically reinventing the lineage of Goya, Sargent and Manet, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye imbues the Black subjects in her paintings with atmospheric grace and elegance.
Taking inspiration from the techniques of historic European portraiture, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s oil paintings could almost be from a much older era if it were not for the contemporary details of the Black subjects that populate her work. Though her subjects are people conjured in her imagination, Yiadom-Boakye imbues her portraits with a near-tangible spirit through her deliberate brush strokes and rich dark tones. The result is paintings that seem to exist outside of time while still remaining grounded in reality. This lavishly illustrated volume of nearly 80 paintings and drawings—some of which have never been exhibited before—accompanies the first major survey of Yiadom-Boakye’s work, shown at Tate Britain. In addition to new fiction writing by the artist, this publication includes in-depth thematic essays on Yiadom-Boakye’s artistic development, reflecting the dual aspects of the artist’s career as both a painter and a writer and offering an intimate insight into her creative process.
Published by D.A.P & Tate Britain, 2020 Hardcover, 193 pages with 120 color images Dimensions: 10 3/4 x 9 inches (27.30 x 22.86 cm) This title is out of print Condition: Like new

Lynette Yiadom-boakye

From rural Japan to international icon – Yayoi Kusama has spent her remarkable life immersed in her art.
Follow her incredible journey in this vivid graphic biography which details her bold departure from Japan as a young artist, her embrace of the buzzing New York art scene in the 1960s, and her eventual return home and rise to twenty-first century super-fame.

Kusama The Graphic Novel

Brandon Jew trained in the kitchens of California cuisine pioneers and Michelin-starred Italian institutions before finding his way back to San Francisco's Chinatown and the food of his childhood. Through deeply personal recipes and stories about the neighborhood that often inspires them, this groundbreaking cookbook is an intimate account of how Chinese food became American food and the making of a Chinese American chef. Jew takes inspiration from classic Chinatown recipes to create innovative spins like Sizzling Rice Soup, Squid Ink Wontons, Orange Chicken Wings, Liberty Roast Duck, Mushroom Mu Shu, and Banana Black Sesame Pie. With more than a hundred photographs of finished dishes as well as moving and evocative atmospheric shots of Chinatown, this book is also an intimate portrait—a look down the alleyways, above the tourist shops, and into the kitchens—of the neighborhood that changed the flavor of America.

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The first major monograph ever published on the career of Larry Bell, iconic American artist and one of the stars to have emerged from the Light and Space movement in California in the 1960s. Creatively presented in two distinct halves that reflect his dual interest in two- and three-dimensional forms - the first collecting his works on paper, printed on a heavily textured uncoated stock, and the second collecting his glass and metal sculptures, printed in a high-gloss finish - the book itself aims to reflect Bell's close attention to materials. In each medium, Bell's work reflects a lifelong enthusiasm for the physical properties of light and the materials it hits, and an equally tangible passion for playing with those properties with an almost childlike reverence and a spontaneity that belies or even defies his understanding of every process. From his earliest monochrome paintings in the 1950s to the glass cubes and standing glass-panel sculptures of the 1960s and 1970s, to his experimentation with vapor drawings in the 1980s and his most recent 'mirage works' and 'light knot' sculptures, Bell's career reads as one long and beautiful experiment in the properties of light on surface, and the relationship of surface to space. With an essay by Robin Clark and an interview conducted by Cliff Lauson--and drawing on rarely published writings by the artist himself--this is the definitive survey of Larry Bell's career.
Published by Rizzoli, 2018 Hardcover with 224 pages Dimensions: 11 x 9 1/2 inches This book is out of print. Condition - very good

Larry Bell

Edited by Eva Meyer-Hermann, Andrew  Perchuk and Stephanie Rosenthal.

Published in conjunction with a travelling retrospective, which drew on the archive of the artist's papers held by the Getty Research Institute.  Famously known for inventing the art form called Happenings, a primary goal of this book is to extend the parameters of scholarly investigation of Kaprow's work beyond the roughly ten years of the classic Happenings.

Published by the Getty Research Institute, 2008
Hardcover, 358 pages, illustrated throughout.
Dimensions 9 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches (24.76 x 24.76 cm)

Allan Kaprow Art As Life

By Cheryl Brutvan
There is a quiet but rigorous beauty in the paintings and prints of the trees that Sylvia Plimack Mangold (born 1938) has observed in the landscape surrounding her home and studio over the last three decades. Although better known for her conceptual compositions of illusionary paintings of wooden floors and mirrors and, later, tapes and measures, Plimack Mangold acknowledges that there is no other subject that she has spent more time with than nature, which eventually led her to focus on individual trees, the subject of this publication and the exhibition it accompanies. This exceptional and varied body of work was brought together for the first time in 2012, and comprises more than 50 oil paintings, watercolors and prints from private and public collections. Landscape and Trees presents a rich survey of the artist’s 30-year engagement with the landscape.
Norton Museum of Art, 2013 Hardcover, 96 pages with illustrations throughout Dimensions: 10 x 8 1/4 inches (25.4 x 20.95 cm)

Syliva Plimack Mangold: Landscape And Trees

Brought together in one delightful and informative guide, 101 Cocktails to Try Before You Die runs the gamut from classics to lesser-known recipes.
Francois Monti takes you on a captivating tour through history's most famous (and infamous) cocktails, each with a detailed history, entertaining anecdotes, and ingredients list, as well as retellings of cocktail myths and legends.
Whether you are a spirits aficionado or simply enjoy a good drink, this is the must-have cocktail handbook.
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Author Amanda Benchley & Sharon Coplan Hurowitz
A behind-the-scenes look at leading contemporary artists at work, with original art projects to recreate at home.
Open Studio goes behind closed doors with a host of prominent visual artists to capture them in the act of creation as they draw, paint, sculpt, or design an original project for readers to then recreate themselves at home. Showcasing the artists' working environments and specific processes, this innovative book leads us step-by-step through each artist's project and supplies pull-out templates and other essential elements. The result is sure to inspire people everywhere to blaze their own creative trails.
Published by Phaidon Press, 2020 Hardback, 256 pages, 523 color illustrations Dimensions: 11 3/8 x 8 1/4 inches (290 x 236 mm)

Open Studio- Do-it-yourself Art Projects From Contemporary Artists

By Mark Godfrey, Allie Biswas and Zoe Whitley
A comprehensive compendium of artists and writers confronting questions of Black identity, activism and social responsibility in the age of Malcolm X and the Black Panthers, based on the landmark traveling exhibition.
What is “Black art”? This question was posed and answered time and time again between 1960 and 1980 by artists, curators and critics deeply affected by this turbulent period of radical social and political upheaval in America. Rather than answering in one way, they argued for radically different ideas of what “Black art” meant. Across newspapers and magazines, catalogs, pamphlets, interviews, public talks and panel discussions, a lively debate emerged between artists and others to address profound questions of how Black artists should or should not deal with politics, about what audiences they should address and inspire, where they should try to exhibit, how their work should be curated, and whether there was or was not such a category as “Black art” in the first place. Conceived as a reader connected to the landmark exhibition Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, which shone a light on the vital contributions made by Black artists over two decades, this anthology collects over 200 texts from the artists, critics, curators and others who sought to shape and define the art of their time. Exhaustively researched and edited by exhibition curator Mark Godfrey, who provides the substantial introduction, and Allie Biswas, included are rare and out-of-print texts from artists and writers, as well as texts published for the first time ever. Contributors include: Lawrence Alloway, Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, Tomie Arai, Ralph Arnold, Dore Ashton, Malcolm Bailey, Amiri Baraka, Romare Bearden, Fred Beauford, Cleveland Bellow, LeGrace G. Benson, Dawoud Bey, Camille Billops, Gloria Bohanon, Claude Booker, Frank Bowling, David Bradford, Peter Bradley, Gwendolyn Brooks, Kay Brown, Milton Brown, Vivian Browne, Linda Goode Bryant, Margaret G. Burroughs, Debbie Butterfield, Steve Cannon, Yvonne Parks Catchings, Elizabeth Catlett, Dana Chandler, Claudia Chapline, Charles Childs, Edward Clark, A.D. Coleman, Dan Concholar, John Coplans, Hugh M. Davies, Douglas Davis, Bing Davis, Alonzo Davis, Dale Davis, Melvin Dixon, Jeff Donaldson, Robert Doty, Emory Douglas, John Dowell, Louis Draper, David C. Driskell, Tony Eaton, Eugene Eda, Melvin Edwards, Ray Elkins, Ralph Ellison, Marion Epting, Elton Fax, Elsa Honig Fine, Frederick Fiske, Babatunde Folayemi, Clebert Ford, Edmund Barry Gaither, Addison Gayle, Henri Ghent, Ray Gibson, Sam Gilliam, Robert H. Glauber, Lynda Goode-Bryant, Allan M. Gordon, Earl G. Graves, Carroll Greene, Abdul Alkalimat, David Hammons, David Henderson, Napoleon Henderson, M.J. Hewitt, Richard Hunt, Sam Hunter, Josine Ianco-Starrels, Nigel Jackson, Jay Jacobs, Jae Jarrell, Wadsworth Jarrell, Daniel LaRue Johnson, Marie Johnson, Walter Jones, Lois Mailou Jones, Barbara Jones-Hogu, Cliff Joseph, Paul Keene, Martin Kilson, Wee Kim, April Kingsley, Hilton Kramer, Jacob Lawrence, Carolyn Lawrence, Don L. Lee, Hughie Lee-Smith, Samella Lewis, Tom Lloyd, Al Loving, Howard Mallory, Earl Roger Mandle, Jan van der Marck, Phillip Mason, James Mellow, Paul Mills, Evangeline J. Montgomery, Toni Morrison, Keith Morrison, Larry Neal, Cindy Nemser, Senga Nengudi, Robert Newman, Lorraine O'Grady, Ademola Olugebefola, John Outterbridge, Joe Overstreet, Marion Perkins, Marcy S. Philips, Howardena Pindell, Mimi Poser, Helaine Posner, Noah Purifoy, Ishmael Reed, Gary Rickson, Clayton Riley, Faith Ringgold, Mark Rogovin, Barbara Rose, Victoria Rosenwald, Joseph Ross, Bayard Rustin, Betye Saar, Raymond Saunders, Robert Sengstacke, Jeanne Siegel, Lowery Stokes Sims, Steve Smith, Beuford Smith, Frank Smith, Val Spaulding, Edward Spriggs, Nelson Stevens, James Stewart, Edward K. Taylor, Alma Thomas, Ruth Waddy, William Walker, Francis and Val Gray Ward, Timothy Washington, Burton Wasserman, Diane Weathers, John Weber, JoAnn Whatley, Charles White, Jack Whitten, Roy Wilkins, William T. Williams, Gerald Williams, Randy Williams, William Wilson, Hale Woodruff and Cherilyn C. Wright.
Publisher: Gregory R. Miller & Co, 2021 Softcover, 628 pages Dimensions: 9 x 7 1/2 inches (22.86 x 19.05 cm)

Soul Of A Nation Reader: Writings By And About Black American Artists, 1960-1080

On Onions is a photographic study of onions by Israeli-born artist Elad Lassry (born 1977). Characteristically highlighting the spectrum of hues and shapes for the vegetable, Lassry’s selected taxonomy includes sections on red, yellow and white onions, each of which possesses its own distinct taste and benefits. On Onions is Lassry’s first artist’s book, and the work will exist only in book form; it is at once wry, refreshing and disorienting in its biology workbook style, which makes fruitful use of “the confusion that results when there is something just slightly wrong in a photograph” (as the artist has described his practice in general). Composed by the artist and arranged by Stuart Bailey, the book includes an essay written by Angie Keefer about the effects of sliced onions on human tear ducts.

Publisher: Primary Information, 2012 Dimensions: 5.25 x 8.5 inches Paperback 240 pages with 30 color images First Edition 1,500 copies Signed by the artist

Elad Lassry: On Onions

By Vito Acconci, Doug Aitken, Sarah Morris, Lawrence Weiner, Cerith Evans, Peter Zumthor.  Edited by Cristina Bechler, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Beatrix Ruf
The Engadin region in Switzerland has always attracted artists, writers, film-makers and thinkers. In this unique historico-cultural context, Cristina Bechtler, Beatrix Ruf and Hans Ulrich Obrist initiated the E.A.T Engadin Art Talks.
It is a compilation of previously unpublished thoughts and dialogues, ideas and projects from well-known artists, architects, designers, film-makers and researcher who are rethinking the Alpine and thus contributing new insights into the mountainous regions not only of Switzerland, but worldwide.
Published by JRP l Ringier, 2014 Softcover, 264 pages Dimensions: 8 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches (20.95 x 14.60 cm)

Engadin Art Talks

Jasper Johns Vs Brian Ramnarine is a facsimile publication that includes falsified correspondence between bronze manufacturer Brian Ramnarine and Johns, created by the former, as well as evidence used by the United States Government to convict Ramnarine of forgery. The document outlines fake letters of authenticity, forged correspondence from Johns, and images of the artist’s work that Ramnarine wrongfully produced and sold. Ramnarine was convinced and jailed in 2014 by the United States Government. This publication is in the collection of the New York Public Library and the Whitney Museum.

Published by Pacific, 2018
Saddle stitch within envelope 36 pages
Dimensions: 8 ½ × 11 inches (21.59 x 27.94 cm)
Edition of 100
This title is out of print
Condition: New.  In original shrink wrap

Jasper Johns Vs Brian Ramnarine

Artist, choreographer, and dancer, Simone Forti is a pivotal figure in both postmodern dance and minimalist art. Through such works as the celebrated Dance Constructions, which incorporated minimalist objects made of plywood and ropes, she has created radically new ways of looking at dance, approaches that continue to be influential today. This book documents nearly two hundred of Forti’s works, using more than five hundred color images that represent the incredible diversity of her output. Showcasing her work across holograms, drawings, sound, video, and live performance, the book documents her incredible career and makes a case for the unprecedented nature of her achievement. Published by Hirmer, 2013 Hardcover 304 pages 11 x 9 ½ s 1 ¼ inches (27.94 x 24.13 x 3.18 cm)

Simone Forti Thinking With The Body

Essays from David Ullen & Kevin Starr
From the first known photograph taken in Los Angeles to its most recent sweeping vistas, this photographic tribute to the City of Angels provides a fascinating journey through the city’s cultural, political, industrial, and sociological history. It traces the city’s development from the 1880s real estate boom, through the early days of Hollywood and the urban sprawl of the late 20th century, right up to the present day. With over 500 images, L.A. is shown emerging from a desert wasteland to become a vast palm-studded urban metropolis.
Events that made world news―including two Olympics, Bobby Kennedy’s assassination, and the Rodney King riots―reveal a city of many dimensions. The entertainment capital of the world, Hollywood, and its celebrities are showcased along with many other notable residents, personalities, architects, artists, and musicians. The city’s pop cultural movements, its music, surfing, health food fads, gangs, and hot rods are included, as are its notorious crimes and criminals. This book depicts Los Angeles in all its glory and grit, via hundreds of freshly discovered images including those of Julius Shulman, Garry Winogrand, William Claxton and many other superb photographers, culled from major historical archives, museums, private collectors, and universities.

Los Angeles Portrait Of A City

Deana Lawson is one of the most compelling photographers of her generation. Over the last ten years, she has created a visionary language to describe identities through intimate portraiture and striking accounts of ceremonies and rituals. Using medium- and large-format cameras, Lawson works with models she meets in the United States and on travels in the Caribbean and Africa to construct arresting, highly structured, and deliberately theatrical scenes animated by an exquisite range of color and attention to surprising details: bedding and furniture in domestic interiors or lush plants in Edenic gardens. The body—often nude—is central. Throughout her work, which invites comparison to the photography of Diane Arbus, Jeff Wall, and Carrie Mae Weems, Lawson seeks to portray the personal and the powerful. Deana Lawson: An Aperture Monograph features forty beautifully reproduced photographs, an essay by the acclaimed writer Zadie Smith, and an expansive conversation with the artist Arthur Jafa.
Clothbound 11 5/8 x 13 3/4 inches (29.7 x 35 cm) 104 pages Published by Aperture First Edition

Deana Lawson: An Aperture Monograph

A rich trove of contemporary global Jewish cuisine, featuring hundreds of stories and recipes for home cooks everywhere
The Jewish Cookbook is an inspiring celebration of the diversity and breadth of this venerable culinary tradition. A true fusion cuisine, Jewish food evolves constantly to reflect the changing geographies and ingredients of its cooks. Featuring more than 400 home-cooking recipes for everyday and holiday foods from the Middle East to the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa - as well as contemporary interpretations by renowned chefs including Yotam Ottolenghi, Michael Solomonov, and Alex Raij - this definitive compendium of Jewish cuisine introduces readers to recipes and culinary traditions from Jewish communities the world over, and is perfect for anyone looking to add international tastes to their table.

Hardback, 10 5/8 x 7 1/8 inches (27 x 18 cm) 432 pages, 93 illustrations Published by Phaidon

The Jewish Cookbook

Cocktails features more than 150 of our best recipes - from classic drinks to contemporary craft cocktails - all from America's most innovative bartenders. A must-have collection for the home bartender, the book includes essential tips, tools, and techniques, plus 24 menu ideas for drinks and bites. Join the editors of FOOD & WINE as they showcase the art of mixing a proper cocktail and offering hospitality with the finest in food and drink.
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Cocktails Book

By Yve-Alain BoisInformed by both structuralism and poststructuralism, these essays by art critic and historian Yve Alain Bois seek to redefine the status of theory in modernist critical discourse. Warning against the uncritical adoption of theoretical fashions and equally against the a priori rejection of all theory, Bois argues that theory is best employed in response to the specific demands of a critical problem. The essays lucidly demonstrate the uses of various theoretical approaches in conjunction with close reading of both paintings and texts.
Published by October Books (1993) Binding: Softcover Dimensions: 7 x 9 inches, 358 pages

Painting As Model

Essays by Ernest Hardy, Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, Philippe Vergne & Malik Gaines
This book gathers for the first time an extensive selection of American artist―or “builder and demolisher,” as he describes himself―Mark Bradford's gorgeous, searing and heavily textured “merchant posters.” The original printed posters, collected by Bradford from around his Central Los Angeles neighborhood, are brightly colored local advertisements that target the area's vulnerable lower-income residents. For Bradford, they serve as both the formal and conceptual underpinnings of his works on paper, décollages/collages that engage with the pressures of the cityscape. “The sheer density of advertising creates a psychic mass, an overlay that can sometimes be very tense or aggressive,” he notes; “If there's a 20-foot wall with one advertisement for a movie about war, then you have the repetition of the same image over and over―war, violence, explosions, things being blown apart. As a citizen, you have to participate in that every day. You have to walk by until it's changed.” Eagerly anticipated, this is the first large-scale publication by a major publisher about the work of this important and increasingly influential artist. Artist and writer Malik Gaines considers Bradford's play with signs in relation to literary and performative theories of African-American forms; writer and cultural critic Ernest Hardy addresses social issues, in Los Angeles and more broadly, raised by Bradford's source material; Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson examines the language in the work as it relates to Concrete poetry; and Dia Art Foundation Director Philippe Vergne looks at the surface of the work and Bradford's processes of mining and excavation.
Published by Gregory R. Miller & Co, 2010 Hardcover, 160 pages Illustrated throughout Dimensions: 9 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches ( 23.49 x 28.57 cm)

Mark Bradford Merchant Posters

By Christina Weyl
A timely reexamination of the experimental New York print studio Atelier 17, focusing on the women whose work defied gender norms through novel aesthetic forms and techniques In this important book Christina Weyl takes us into the experimental New York print studio Atelier 17 and highlights the women whose work there advanced both modernism and feminism in the 1940s and 1950s. Weyl focuses on eight artists—Louise Bourgeois, Minna Citron, Worden Day, Dorothy Dehner, Sue Fuller, Alice Trumbull Mason, Louise Nevelson, and Anne Ryan—who bent the technical rules of printmaking and blazed new aesthetic terrain with their etchings, engravings, and woodcuts. She reveals how Atelier 17 operated as an uncommonly egalitarian laboratory for revolutionizing print technique, style, and scale. It facilitated women artists’ engagement with modernist styles, providing a forum for extraordinary achievements that shaped postwar sculpture, fiber art, neo-Dadaism, and the Pattern and Decoration movement. Atelier 17 fostered solidarity among women pursuing modernist forms of expression, providing inspiration for feminist collective action in the 1960s and 1970s. The Women of Atelier 17 also identifies for the first time nearly 100 women, many previously unknown, who worked at the studio, and provides incisive illustrated biographies of selected artists.
Published by Yale University Press, 2019 Hardcover, 296 pages with illustrations throughout Dimensions: 10 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches (26.03 x 20.95 cm)

The Women Of Atelier 17: Modernist Printmaking In Midcentury New York

A spectacular and unprecedented visual biography of the leading pioneers and protagonists of modern art and design Josef – painter, designer, and teacher – and Anni Albers – textile artist and printmaker – are among the twentieth century's most important abstract artists, and this is the first monograph to celebrate the rich creative output and beguiling relationship of these two masters in one elegant volume. It presents their life and work as never before, from their formative years at the Bauhaus in Germany to their remarkable influence at Black Mountain College in the United States through their intensely productive period in Connecticut. Published by Phaidon, 2020 Hardcover 512 pages 750 illustrations 12 x 9 3/8 in (30.5 x 23.8 cm)

Anni & Josef Albers Equal And Unequal

By Susanne Gaensheimer and Kathrin Beßen With contributions Cao Fei, Klaus Biesenbach, Lauren Cornell and Philip Tinari
The Beijing artist Cao Fei creates works that lie on the threshold between reality and fiction, reflecting the urban realities and societal moods of China. In her works, which vary between the aesthetics of documentary, film, and virtual reality, Cao Fei explores the nation’s ongoing transformations by drawing on her personal life and surroundings in Beijing. As an artist, she addresses questions that are universal to urban dwellers: Where is the development in big cities leading? What is the individual’s place within a rapidly changing urban society? Is it possible to be a critical observer of gentrification processes and at the same time be a part of the problem? The videos, photographs, drawings, and multimedia installations assembled in this stunning volume capture the entire oeuvre of this internationally acclaimed artist, and embark at the same time on a critical study of gentrification and urban living.
Published by Hirmer Publishers, 2019 Bilingual edition Paperback, 192 pages, illustrated throughout Dimensions:  9  1/2 x 8 inches (24.13 x 20.32 cm)

Cao Fei

Text by Heather Pesanti, Julia V. Hendrickson, Adrienne Edwards, Bennett Simpson, Cherise Smith
Blending the personal with the political, Los Angeles–based artist Rodney McMillian (born 1969) has worked in a range of mediums and materials, including sculpture, painting, video, performance and immersive environments, to explore themes of class, gender, race, social history and culture. His work frequently incorporates “post-consumer” and found objects as well as techniques of interactivity and performativity.
This volume surveys McMillian’s performance-based work to date and documents the artist’s new site-specific project for The Contemporary Austin. McMillian, inaugural recipient of the Suzanne Deal Booth Art Prize, has been invited to work in The Contemporary Austin’s downtown site, the Jones Center on Congress Avenue, taking over the entire space physically and psychologically inverting viewer assumptions with entire floors transformed into immersive spaces of sound, video and color.
Published by Radius Books, 2018 Hardcover , 372 pages with 280 color Dimensions: 10 3/4 x 9 inches (27.30 x 22.86 cm)

Rodney Mcmillian History Is Present Tense

The perfect book for oyster lovers everywhere.
Experience a taste of the sea from the Pacific Coast. From California to British Columbia, the Pacific Coast produces much of the nation's oysters. As you savor half-shell oysters with Rice Vinegar-Ginger Mignonette or Hangtown Hash with Fried Eggs, consider the natural and cultural stories of oysters on the West Coast. Seattle food expert Cynthia Nims relates the delicious bivalve's biography in this gorgeous cookbook. Included are shucking instructions, drink pairing suggestions, and thirty tasty ways to love eating oysters.
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Oysters - Recipes That Bring Home The Taste Of The Sea

By Thomas Houseago with contributions from Rudi Fuchs and Lisa Le Feuvre
Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Thomas Houseago: What Went Down" at the Modern Art Oxford and Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology. This exhibition is the first major UK museum exhibition of the artists work and spans 15 years of work.  Thomas Houseagos' work is represented in the collection of MOCA.  The cover was printed in three different colors and is printed on linen.  We have a pink cover available to sell.
Published by Modern Art Oxford and Lund Humphries, 2011 Dimensions 9 3/5 x 13 1/2 inches 240 pages and fully illustrated This catalogue is out of print

Thomas Houseago: What Went Down Exhibition Catalogue

Taryn Simon: A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I-XVIII, on view from October 21, 2012 to January 7, 2013.

Taryn Simon continues to work on the borderline between fine art and documentary photography. Frequently relying on text to avoid any ambiguities in content, she applies methods of advertising photography to journalism, creating carefully staged and manipulated tableaux that gain their force from the friction between their visual perfection and the unsettling subject matter.
Mono.Kultur is a Berlin based interview magazine from Berlin that deals with art and culture.  Each issue features one artist.  Mono.Kultur 15 features the work of Taryn Simon.  Included in this issue is a reprint of Mono.Editionen #03 which is 10 Plates from A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters, which also includes an eight page addendum.

Publisher: Mono.Kulture
Softcover, enclosed in glassine envelope/ 8" x 6"/ 32 pages, 8 page addendum, 10 color plates
This publication is out of print

Taryn Simon: Kaleidoscope Of Entropy (mono.kultur #15)

Edited with text by Emily Liebert. Foreword by Deborah Cullen. Text by Huey Copeland, Malik Gaines, Alexandro Segade, Henry Sayre. Interview by Emily Liebert.
From 1972 to 1991, Eleanor Antin (born 1935) created multiple personae of different genders, races, professions, historical contexts and geographic locations. The artist called this motley group--which includes a deposed king, an exiled film director, ambitious ballerinas and hard-working nurses--her "selves." The selves’ manifestations were as diverse as their stories: some were embodied by Antin and captured in photographs and on video; others had paper doll surrogates; at times their existence was known only through the drawings, texts and films they had ostensibly left behind. As she explored the fleeting nature of the self, Antin used fiction, fantasy and theatricality to examine the ways that history takes shape, scrutinizing the role that visual representation plays in that process. Multiple Occupancy: Eleanor Antin’s "Selves" is the first project to focus exclusively on this critical body of work.

Published by The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, 2014
Softcover 128 pages with 59 color and 12 black & white images
Dimensions: 9 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches (24.76 x 19.05 cm)

Multiple Occupancy: Eleanor Antin's "selves"

This artist book was created by Laura Owens to document her exhibition, Ten Paintings. The 2016 exhibition was held at the CCA Wattis Institute in San Francisco.

Publisher: Gavin Brown's Enterprise, 2018 Dimensions: 12 x 9 inches Paperback 138 pages Three over-sized bookmarks included Edition of 1500 This catalogue is out of print

Laura Owens: Ten Paintings

Edited by Thea Liberty Nichols, Ann Goldstein, Mark Pascale with contributions from Tyler Blackwell, Richard Hull, Lydia Mullen, Laura Owens and Antonia Pocock
This generously illustrated catalogue explores the history and significance of the Hairy Who, a group of six Chicago artists who transformed imagery from popular culture into highly personal works of art in a variety of media. New scholarship based on documentary materials—including exhibition checklists, installation views, and artist-made ephemera—reconstructs the group’s six exhibitions, held between 1966 and 1969, and offers a reassessment of the Hairy Who’s idiosyncratic place within the cultural and political context of its time and place. Insightful essays examine the distinctive features of the Hairy Who’s art and collaboration, explain how the group’s work diverges from contemporaneous movements such as Pop and Funk, and provide biographical information on the artists themselves. Contributions from acclaimed contemporary artists Richard Hull and Laura Owens reflect on the Hairy Who’s sources and influence, exploring how the group remains relevant in today’s art world in significant and unexpected ways.
Published by Art Institute of Chicago, 2018 Hardcover with 256 pages Dimensions: 11 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches (27.30 x 20.95 cm)

Hairy Who? 1966–1969

Edited by Carolina Nitsch. Essays by Carol Squiers and Laurie Simmons.
Laurie Simmons has been dealing with issues from In and Around the House since the mid-1970s. Her seminal early work was some of the first to use set-up photography to create images with intensely psychological subtexts and forcefully feminist content. The 1950s-style constructed interiors used dolls, dollhouse furnishings, miniature props, postcards, interior decoration books, pamphlets and magazines to create images that questioned female stereotypes and American clichés with humor and charm. Published by Carolina Nitsch Editions, 2003 Hardcover, 104 pages. Dimensions: 9 3/4 x 11 1/2 inches (24.76 x 29.21 cm)