This three-volume publication is a visual journey through 40 years of Nancy Rubins' sculptures and drawings. The first two volumes begin with Rubins' student work, where her themes, methods and ambitions emerge. The first volume moves through numerous large-scale sculptures incorporating massive quantities of used electric appliances with concrete and rebar, then on to trailers, hot water heaters, mattresses, airplane parts and small boats held in suspended tension by webs of cables. The second volume explores Rubins' often gigantic and sculptural drawings, densely covered with graphite pencil marks that embody the intense and abundant energy of their making. A final booklet with a series of playful and candid self-portrait photographs taken at the Baltimore train station photo booth in 1972–4 completes Work .
Published by Steidl, 2012 Hardcover, Slip cased 3 volume set, 568 pages illustrated throughout Dimensions: 9 1/2 x 12 1/2 inches (24.13 x 31.75 cm)

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Text by Hubertus Butin, Serge Lemoine, Mari Carmen Ramirez, Britta Schröder, Dorothea Strauss.
The first publication to present the collection of Zürich-based Haus Konstruktiv, Complete Concrete surveys over 100 years of artwork dealing with the themes explored by the Constructive, Concrete and Conceptual art movements, exploring the work of artists Georges Vantongerloo, Tobias Madison and Magdalena Fernandez among others.

Published by Hatje Cantz, 2011
Hardcover, 304 pages, 897 color images
Dimensions: 12 x 10 inches (30.48 x 25.4 cm)
This title is out of print
Condition:  Clean flat copy, slight yellowing top of book jacket

Complete Concrete: Over 100 Years Of Constructive, Concrete And Conceptual Art

By Alex Pilcher
Over the last century, many artists have made works that challenge dominant models of gender and sexuality. The results can be sexy or serious, satirical or tender, discreetly coded or defiantly outspoken. This beautiful book illustrates the wide variety of queer art from around the world exploring bodies and identity, love and desire, and prejudice and protest through drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, and installation. Seventy outstanding works from 1900 to the present reveal how queer experiences have differed across time and place, and how art has been part of a story of changing attitudes and emerging identities. Featuring works by, among others, Egon Schiele, Duncan Grant, Claude Cahun, Hannah Höch, Frida Kahlo, David Hockney, Glenn Ligon, Zanele Muholi, Allyson Mitchell and Tomoko Kashiki, all of whom subverted the norms of their day via bold, new forms of expression, A Queer Little History of Art is a celebration of more than 100 years of queer creativity.
Published by Tate Publishing, 2017 Softcover, 160 pages with 75 color illustrations Dimensions: 5 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches (13.97 x 17.45 cm)

A Queer Little History Of Art

Edited by Melissa Blanchflower, Natalia Grabowska, Melissa Larner. Text by Michelle Wallace. Interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Exhibition catalogue: Serpentine Galleries, UK & Glenstone, Maryland
Famed for her narrative quilts and her brightly colored paintings of African American life, New York artist Faith Ringgold (born 1930) has consistently challenged perceptions of identity and gender inequality through the lenses of the feminist and the civil rights movements.
Publisher: Walther Konig, 2020 Paperback, 160 pages, 61 color/ 2 black and white images Dimensions 8.75 x 10.25 inches This book is out of print Condition: New still in original shrink wrap

Faith Ringgold

Forward by Christina Brungardt Acknowledgements and essay by Rebecca Matalon Interview with the artist and Huey Copeland

Garrett Bradley works across narrative, documentary, and experimental modes of filmmaking to address themes such as race, class, familial relationships, social justice, southern culture, and the history of film in the United States. Her collaborative and research-based approach to filmmaking is often inspired by the real-life stories of her subjects. For Bradley, this research takes multiple forms—deep dives into historical archives, in-depth dialogues prompted by Craigslist want-ads, or an extended engagement with the communities and individuals she seeks to represent—and results in works that combine both scripted and improvisatory scenes. Bradley’s films explore the space between fact and fiction, embracing modes of working and of representing history that blur the boundaries between traditional notions of narrative and documentary cinema. Her rigorous explorations of the social, economic, and racial politics of everyday life—its joys, pleasures, and pains—are lyrically and intimately rendered on screen. An attention to daily life and its often slow, unremarkable unfolding runs through Bradley’s films, from her earliest works, such as Dante 9-5 (2014), in which we follow a United States Postal Service delivery man along his designated route, to her most recent films, America and AKA (both 2019).
In America, a multi-channel video installation, Bradley constructs a visual archive of early African American cinema. Inspired by a 2013 survey published by the Library of Congress proposing that 70 percent of silent films made between 1912 and 1929 have been lost, as well as the discovery and restoration of what is believed to be the earliest surviving film to feature a black cast ( Lime Kiln Club Field Day, 1913), America takes shape as a series of vignettes depicting the everyday, at times, quotidian lives of early-20th century African Americans. Shot in black and white, with a score by Trevor Mathison and Udit Duseja of the Black Audio Film Collective (1983-1998), Bradley’s film presupposes the existence of a body of cinema made by and for African Americans and since lost to history. Mixing found footage from Lime Kiln Club Field Day and newly shot performances by non-trained actors, America poignantly asks what it might mean to model a history of black visuality and representation that privileges depictions of pleasure over spectacles of pain.
Pleasure and joy—and their intersection within nuanced familial relationships— come further into focus in Bradley’s recent short-video, AKA. The first in a trilogy of films about relationships between women, in this case relationships between mothers and daughters born into inter-racial families or families of varying skin tones, AKA developed out of hours-long conversations between Bradley and her female protagonists. In this kaleidoscopic series of portraits, the artist points towards the multiplicity and intersectionality of identity, pushing against the binary of “either/or” and, instead, embracing the expansiveness of identity called forth by the work’s titular allusion to “also known as.” Equally of note is AKA ’s summoning of a long history of black sisterhood. The work’s title is also an acronym for Alpha Kappa Alpha, the first sorority established by African American college women in the United States.
Published by CAM, Houston, 2020
Softcover, 96 pages, illustrated throughout
Dimensions: 10 1/2 x 8 1/2 (26.67 x 21.59 cm)

Garrett Bradley: American Rhapsody

Yotam Ottolenghi is one of the world’s most beloved culinary talents. In this follow-up to his bestselling Plenty , he continues to explore the diverse realm of vegetarian food with a wholly original approach. Organized by cooking method, more than 150 dazzling recipes emphasize spices, seasonality, and bold flavors. From inspired salads to hearty main dishes and luscious desserts, Plenty More is a must-have for vegetarians and omnivores alike. This visually stunning collection will change the way you cook and eat vegetables. Stye #: BOK42

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This catalogue accompanies the exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum in 2015.  The exhibition included 26 paintings, all from recent months, made following the artist's visits to Israel. Quaytman's interest in Walter Benjamin and in Paul Klee's Angelus Novus (1920) at the collection of the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, provoked visits to the Gershom Scholem Library at the National Library of Israel. Here, she researched the tangled correspondence between Scholem and Benjamin about Klee's painting and, in one of Scholem's books, came upon the Hebrew word חקק Haqaq. The verb's meaning—"to engrave" as well as "to legislate"—in addition to its strange sound, made her choose it as the exhibition title. While in Israel, she traveled to the desert, where she took photographs to be used later in her paintings and extended her interest in Hebrew typography and the mystical view of the Hebrew alphabet in Kabbalah. All these sources of inspiration have convened into this new series of works. Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2015 Hardcover, 130 p., 47 colour ill., Hebrew/English Dimensions: 8 1/2 x 3/4 x 12 inches This catalog is out of print Condition: Very good, cover is protected

R.h Quaytman: Chapter 29

By Zoe Whitley Edited by Peter Eleey, Robyn Farrell, Michael Govan, Rebecca Morse and James Rondeau Forward by Barbara Kruger, Glenn Lowry and James Rondeau
Since the mid-1970s, Barbara Kruger (born 1945) has been interrogating consumer culture in works that often combine visual and written language. In her singular graphic style, Kruger probes aspects of identity, desire and consumerism that are embedded in our everyday lives. This volume traces her continuously evolving practice to reveal how she adapts her work in accordance with the moment, site and context. The book features a range of striking images―from her analogue paste-ups of the 1980s to digital productions of the last two decades, including new works produced on the occasion of the exhibition. Also featured are singular works in vinyl, her large-scale room wraps, multichannel videos, site-specific installations and commissioned works. The book also showcases how Kruger’s site-specific works have been reconceived for each venue, and includes a section of reprinted texts selected by the artist. Renowned for her use of direct address and her engagement with contemporary culture, Kruger is one of the most incisive and courageous artists working today. This volume explores how her pictures and words remain urgently resonant in a rapidly changing world.
Published by Del Monico Books and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2021 Hardcover with 208 pages Dimensions: 10 1/4 x 9 inches (26.03 x 22.86 cm)

Barbara Kruger: Thinking Of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You.

Edited by Dan Nadel
Joshua Abelow is a New York artist, curator, art blogger and gallerist.
Drawings Drawings consists of 96 drawings that were produced between 2004-2017, unsing a 6B pencil and identical in dimension, 30 x 22 inches.  The artist works typically in series and a typical Abelow drawing or is cartoonish in style.

Publisher: Freddy, 2018 Dimensions: 8.5 x 0.5 x 10 inches Hardcover 192 pages with 96 black and white images Book is signed by the artist

Joshua Abelow: Drawings Drawings

Clouds, electronics, fog, bugs, glass, cellophane, rust, weeds, waves, particles: Mike Slack (born 1970) delves into an overheated terrestrial ecosystem in his new book The Transverse Path (or Nature’s Little Secret), surveying a luminous topography of monumental details and mundane vistas alike with cosmic curiosity. Transcendental in mood, Slack’s vaguely sci-fi photographs envision a sun-blasted wilderness of synthetic and organic stuff tangled together, flourishing and disintegrating on its own terms, as if engaged in an ageless negotiation (or flirtation?) just beyond our grasp. Where does nature end and its opposite begin? And where do people figure into this balance?
Made primarily around the American Southwest from 2011 to 2017, these vivid photographs—like a series of thought bubbles in search of a narrative—are concise and direct, yet driven by an emotional ambivalence that hovers between stark environmental dread and calm intimate reverie.
Published by The Ice Plant, 2017 Hardcover, 100 pages Dimensions: 10 x 7 1/2 inches (25.4 x 19.05 cm)

Mike Slack: The Transverse Path (signed)

The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art
Edited with essay by Antwaun Sargent. Text by Graham C. Boettcher, Jessica Bell Brown, Connie H. Choi, Anthony Graham, Lauren Haynes, Jamillah James, Thomas J. Lax, Hallie Ringle, Adeze Wilford, Gordon Dearborn Wilkins, Matt Wycoff. Interview with Bernard Lumpkin by Thelma Golden
This book surveys the work of a new generation of Black artists, and also features the voices of a diverse group of curators who are on the cutting edge of contemporary art. As mission-driven collectors, Bernard I. Lumpkin and Carmine D. Boccuzzi have championed emerging artists of African descent through museum loans and institutional support. But there has never been an opportunity to consider their acclaimed collection as a whole until now. Edited by writer Antwaun Sargent (author of The New Black Vanguard: Photography Between Art and Fashion ), Young, Gifted and Black draws from this collection to shed new light on works by contemporary artists of African descent. At a moment when debates about the politics of visibility within the art world have taken on renewed urgency, and establishment voices such as the New York Times are declaring that “it has become undeniable that African American artists are making much of the best American art today,” Young, Gifted and Black takes stock of how these new voices are impacting the way we think about identity, politics and art history itself. Young, Gifted and Black contextualizes artworks with contributions from artists, curators and other experts. It features a wide-ranging interview with Bernard Lumpkin and Thelma Golden, director and chief curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem; and an in-depth essay by Antwaun Sargent situating Lumpkin in a long lineage of Black art patrons. A landmark publication, this book illustrates what it means (in the words of Nina Simone) to be young, gifted and Black in contemporary art. Artists include : Mark Bradford, David Hammons, Glenn Ligon, Kerry James Marshall, Julie Mehretu, Adam Pendleton, Pope.L, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Henry Taylor, Mickalene Thomas, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, Sadie Barnette, Kevin Beasley, Jordan Casteel, Jonathan Lyndon Chase, Bethany Collins, Noah Davis, Cy Gavin, Allison Janae Hamilton, Tomashi Jackson, Samuel Levi Jones, Deana Lawson, Norman Lewis, Eric N. Mack, Arcmanoro Niles, Jennifer Packer, Christina Quarles, Jacolby Satterwhite, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Sable Elyse Smith, Chanel Thomas, Stacy Lynn Waddell, D’Angelo Lovell Williams, Brenna Youngblood, and more.
Published by D.A.P, 2020 Hardcover, 256 pages illustrated throughout Dimensions: 11 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches (29.21 x 24.76 cm)

Young, Gifted And Black: A New Generation Of Artists

Text by Em Rooney and John Yau

This is a hybrid artist’s book and drawing monograph by the Massachusetts–based painter Xylor Jane (born 1963), whose works based on or derived from numbers and other systems of order have found critical acclaim among curators and artists internationally. Her often brightly colored, immaculately constructed and executed paintings run parallel to, and are informed by, a drawing activity that is much about notating her daily life as it is comprehending the role of numbers and their history.
Published by CANADA Parrasch Heijnen, 2019
Softcover, 176 pages, illustrated throughout
Dimensions: 11 x 8 1/2 inches (27.94 x 21.59 cm)

Xylor Jane Notebooks

By Elisabeth Susman, David Joselit Contributions by Johanna Burton, Darby English, Maggie Nelson and Alexander Nemerov
In her sculptures, room-sized installations, drawings, photographs, and artist’s books, Rachel Harrison (b. 1966) delves into themes of celebrity culture, pop psychology, history, and politics. This publication, created in close collaboration with the artist, explores twenty-five years of her practice and is the first comprehensive monograph on Harrison in nearly a decade. Its centerpiece is an in-depth plate section, which doubles as a chronology of Harrison’s major works, series, and exhibitions. Objects are illustrated with multiple views and details, and accompanied by short texts. This thorough approach elucidates Harrison’s complicated, eclectic oeuvre—in which she integrates found materials with handmade sculptural elements, upends traditions of museum display, and injects quotidian objects with a sense of strangeness. Six accompanying essays cover Harrison’s earliest works to her most recent output. The book also includes a handful of photo-collages that the artist created specifically for this project. Published here for the first time, these pieces superimpose found images with reproductions of Harrison’s own past work.
Published by Whitney Museum of American Art, 2019 Hardcover, 282 pages, illustrated throughout Dimensions: 12 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches (31.11 x 24.76 cm)

Rachel Harrison: Life Hack

Monograph focusing on Xu Bing's most ambitious works of art, Book from the Sky and Book from the Ground.  The artists method and motivation are presented in the artists own words.  An accessible yet academic insight into this innovative internationally renowned Chinese artist.
Published by ACC Art Books, 2020 Hardcover, 204 pages, 171 Color and 7 B&W images Dimensions: 6 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches (17.14 x 24.76 cm)

Xu Bing Book From The Sky To Book From The Ground

Oaxaca is the culinary heart of Mexico, and since opening its doors in 1994, Guelaguetza has been the center of life for the Oaxacan community in Los Angeles. Founded by the Lopez family, Guelaguetza has been offering traditional Oaxacan food for 25 years. The first true introduction to Oaxacan cuisine by a native family, each dish articulates their story, from Oaxaca to the streets of Los Angeles and beyond. Showcasing the "soul food" of Mexico, Oaxaca offers 140 authentic, yet accessible recipes using some of the purest pre-Hispanic and indigenous ingredients available. From their signature pink horchata to the formula for the Lopez's award-winning mole negro, Oaxaca demystifies this essential cuisine.
Dimensions: 10.85" H x 9" W x 1.2" D
Hardcover : 288 pages
Language : English
Publisher: Abrams; Illustrated edition (October 22, 2019)

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A brand-new revised and updated edition of Phaidon's accessible, acclaimed A-Z guide to the most important artists of all time
Updated for only the third time in its 16-year history, this new edition of the award-winning landmark publication has been refreshed with more than 40 important new artists, including many previously overlooked and marginal practitioners. The new edition spotlights more than 600 great artists from medieval to modern times. Breaking with traditional classifications, it throws together brilliant examples from all periods, schools, visions, and techniques, presenting an unparalleled visual sourcebook and a celebration of our rich, multifaceted culture.
Artists featured for the first time in this edition include: Berenice Abbott, Hilma af Klint, El Anatsui, Romare Bearden, Mark Bradford, Cao Fei, Cecily Brown, Judy Chicago, John Currin, Guerrilla Girls, Lee Krasner, Jacob Lawrence, Kerry James Marshall, Joan Mitchell, Zanele Muholi, Takashi Murakami, Louise Nevelson, Clara Peeters, Jenny Saville, Wolfgang Tillmans, and more
Hardback
9 5/8 x 8 1/4 inches (24.5 x 21 cm)
592 pages, 575 illustrations

The Art Book, Revised Edition

Interview by Aliza Hoffman, Bennett Simpson
Pope.L: Proto-Skin Set explores early works the artist (William) Pope.L (born 1955) made between 1979 and 1994 exploring materiality and language. Published in this volume for the first time are the artist’s Proto-Skin Sets , a selection of mixed-media collages and assemblages that the artist began making as a student in the 1970s engaging the social constructions of language, race and gender. Treating language as an image and images as a language, these works anticipate his ongoing project Skin Sets, text-based works that employ language to construct pointed, absurd and layered messages about the vagaries of color. The publication also includes a five-part document from 1979 that is part of an open-ended set of written works titled Communications Devices , and a new interview with the artist conducted by Pope.L’s studio administrator Aliza Hoffman and curator Bennett Simpson.
Published by Mitchell-Innes & Nash, 2018 Paperback, 80 pages with 48 color & 1 black and white images. DImensions: 12 x 9 1/2 inches (30.48 x 24.13 cm)

Pope L. Proto Skin Set

Seasonally inspired drinks & snacks
From Geoff Dillon, founder of Dillon's Small Batch Distillers and leader of the craft distilling movement, a collection of cocktails for every season and the perfect snacks to enjoy with them.
Featuring 100 recipes divided by season range from the classics, like a warm-weather Whisky Sour and a cool-weather Manhattan, to custom creations inspired by seasonal produce and local barkeeps.
Whether you're craving a Plum Sparkler to refresh you on a sticky summer afternoon, or a Hot Toddy to enjoy by the fire on a cold winter night, this complete collection of cocktails has the perfect recipe for every occasion and every season.
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Craft Cocktails

By George Melrod, Amelia Jones, Jillian Hernandez and Rachel Lachowicz
Los Angeles–based conceptual artist Rachel Lachowicz (born 1964) is known for turning her acerbically witty eye on the decidedly male realm of modernism, and for making radical incursions into the art-historical canon by reconfiguring certain of its key works. A mid-career survey as well as comprehensive monograph, Rachel Lachowicz presents an overview of 20 years’ worth of art-making. Labeled a “lipstick feminist” by the art world--she once recast Yves Klein’s “Blue Venus” in cherry-red lipstick, and frequently uses cosmetics in her work--Lachowicz’s art falls under many headings: appropriationist, conceptual, feminist, postminimalist. Her work is always visually lush and often sexually provocative; through it, she explores the crisscrossing relations between identity and the politics of mark-making.
Published by Marquand Books, 2013 Hardcover, 128 pages, 116 images in color Dimensions: 11 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches (29.21 x 26.03 cm) This book is out of print Condition: still in original shrink wrap

Rachel Lachowicz

Volume 4 of The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné comprises of 607 paintings and one sculpture produced during a less than three year period from late 1974 through early 1977. Just like Volumes 2 and 3, Volume 4 is identified with a studio. This particular studio being on the third floor of 860 West Broadway.
Volume 4 features Warhol's portraits of celebrities such as Mick Jagger, his American Indian paintings and iconic Ladies and Gentlemen series. Accompanying works are Warhol's Polaroids, source materials, works by other artists in Warhol's personal collection and exhibition views.
Hardcover, 608 pages
740 illustrations
10.6 x 3 x 12 inches
Phaidon Press

The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné, Volume 4

A critical examination of the work of one of the most significant and original sculptors and installation artists living today
Jamaican-born Nari Ward is best known for his large-scale sculptures and installations, many of which are created from unexpected materials collected around his urban neighborhood. His incisive works frequently comment on issues surrounding race, poverty, consumerism, and diasporic identity in American culture.
This book accompanied Ward's retrospective at the New Museum in 2019.

Hardback 13 x 9 inches (33 x 23 cm) 224 pages with 150 illustrations Published by Phaidon

Nari Ward: We The People

By Marilyn Chase
This is the story of a woman who wielded imagination and hope in the face of intolerance and who transformed everything she touched into art. In this compelling biography, author Marilyn Chase brings Asawa's story to vivid life. She draws on Asawa's extensive archives and weaves together many voices—family, friends, teachers, and critics—to offer a complex and fascinating portrait of the artist. Born in California in 1926, Ruth Asawa grew from a farmer's daughter to a celebrated sculptor. She survived adolescence in the World War II Japanese-American internment camps and attended the groundbreaking art school at Black Mountain College. Asawa then went on to develop her signature hanging-wire sculptures, create iconic urban installations, revolutionize arts education in her adopted hometown of San Francisco, fight through lupus, and defy convention to nurture a multiracial family.
Published by Chronicle Books, 2020 Hardcover, 224 pages, illustrated throughout Dimensions 9 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches (23.49 x 18.41 cm)

Everything She Touched: The Life Of Ruth Asawa

Text by Esther Adler
The Chicago-born artist Charles White (1918–79) was celebrated during his lifetime for depictions of African-American men, women and children that acquired the name “images of dignity. White’s draftsmanship, his direct address of the social and political concerns of his time, and his commitment to media that gave his art wide circulation established him as a major artist, and one with significant influence both on his contemporaries and on later generations. Beginning with White’s early days as an artist in the Chicago of the 1930s and ’40s, moving through his time spent developing his craft in New York in the late 1940s and ’50s, and closing with his final decades as a revered figure in Los Angeles, Charles White: Black Pope explores the artist’s practice and strategies through consideration of key works. It devotes particularly close examination to his late masterwork Black Pope (Sandwich Board Man)," in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art. By creating visually compelling, ideologically complex works that engage audiences on many levels, White established himself as a key figure of his time, one whose work continues to resonate today."
Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2017 Hardcover, 72 pages with 35 color images Dimensions 10 1/2 x 9 inches (22.86 x  26.67 cm)

Charles White: Black Pope

By Adrienne Edwards, Philip Hoare and Ellen Gallagher

Accidental Records includes new paintings and drawings by Ellen Gallagher (born 1965) that continue her exploration of the complex histories of the Black Atlantic and the afterlives of the Middle Passage. Widely associated with a resurgence in this diasporic critical space, Gallagher has developed her own genre of history painting which makes us question our geographies. The slowly layered surfaces of her work become a kind of reckoning, the way sailors mark their locations at sea, determined to return. Alongside views of Gallagher’s artworks and portraits of the artist working in her studio, texts are included by Adrienne Edwards, curator at Performa and the Walker Art Center, and Philip Hoare, a writer whose books include Leviathan or, The Whale and The Sea Inside .

Published by Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2018
Paperback, 100 pages with 34 color and 5 black & white images
Dimensions 9 x 6 1/2 inches (22.86 x 16.51 cm)

Ellen Gallagher: Accidental Records

Published by Blum & Poe and Anton Kern Gallery on the occasion of the exhibition Mark Grotjahn held at Blum & Poe Los Angeles, September 8 - October 8, 2005. This catalog features 62 lavish full color images of some of Mark Grotjahn's most well known works, including many from his famous butterfly series.
Published by Blum & Poe and Anton Kern Gallery, 2006 Hardcover, 63 pages 9 x 12 inches

Mark Grotjahn Drawings

Visionaire 37 replicates the memos of Diana Vreeland from 1966 - 1972.  A fun exploration into the mind of one of the fashion worlds most important icons.
Published: Visionaire, New York, 2001 Edition size: 4,000 edition number stamped on back of the box Dimensions: 9.75 x 10.75 inches, 150 pages Linen box, book is sewn quartos without a cover

Visionaire 37 Diana Vreeland

This publication has been conceived and produced on the occasion of the inaguration of The Menil Collection, a museum established by the Menil Foundation and other benefactors in Houston, Texas. The exhibition Warhol Shadows was presented at Richmomd Hall, The Menil Collection.
This book contains laser-scan reproductions of Andy Warhol's Shadows. Afterword by Walter Hopps.
Published by Menil Collections, 1987 Softcover, 62 pages Dimensions: 8 1/2 x 9 inches Printed in an edition of 2,500 This title is out of print

Warhol Shadows

uh by Ernie Stomach was first published in 1971 by Genesis : Grasp Press in New York. Stomach’s aim was a version of the Roman alphabet in which the glyphs correspond in their differentiations to lower-case block-lettered forms, but stripped to the naked elliptical minimum so that they would be not only sexy, but hard to distinguish from each other (facilitating misreadings and forcing the reader to pay attention). The letterform contents of that book were created crudely by the author using X-Acto knifed mylar templates and a felt-tip pen. Now, with the advent of font software, Stomach has been able to recreate the book as he would have done it at the time were such technology available. This book’s design differs from the original edition only in the improved technology and materials used.
Published by Cuneiform Press, 2018 (redesigned from 1st edition) Paperback, 64 pages. b&w throughout Dimensions: 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (21.59 x 13.97 cm) Edition of 500, out of print Condition: New

Ernie Stomach: Uh

By Laerke Jorgensen, Mathias Seeberg, Jacob Holdt, Faith Icecold, Arthur Jafa, Mathias Ussing Seeberg, Poul Erik Tojner, Nahum Chandler, NourbeSe Philip and Jared Sexton
An essential overview of Jafa's sweeping, dynamic and disquieting video portraits of Black American life.
Though he has worked in film and music for decades, American video artist Arthur Jafa only garnered acclaim in the art world in 2016 for his video work Love is the Message, the Message is Death. Composed of found images and videos, his oeuvre revolves around Black American culture, the history of slavery, and ongoing structural and physical violence against Black Americans. As Jafa put it in his 2003 text “My Black Death”: “The central conundrum of black being (the double bind of our ontological existence) lies in the fact that common misery both defines and limits who we are. Such that our efforts to eliminate those forces which constrain also function to dissipate much which gives us our specificity, our uniqueness, our flavor by destroying the binds that define we will cease to be, but this is the good death (boa morte) to be embraced.” This essential overview presents Jafa’s best-known works, such as Love is the Message, the Message is Death and its 2018 follow-up piece The White Album, alongside never-before-seen projects and essays by notable scholars.
Published by Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2021 Hardcover, 204 pages Dimensions: 11 3/4 x 9 inches (29.84 x 22.86 cm)

Arthur Jafa: Magnumb

By Vesela Sretenovic with contributions by Carla Acevedo-Yates, Mercedes Cortazar, Ingrid W. Elliot, Abigail McEwen and Alyson Cluck
Cuban artist Zilia Sánchez often says, “Soy isla” (“I am an island”), expressing her desire for solitary, uncompromising practice. It also serves as a metaphor for her experience as an islander—connected to and disconnected from both the mainland and mainstream art currents, such as concretism, gestural abstraction, and minimalism. Characterized by reductive forms, clean lines, and sensuous curves suggestive of the female body, Sánchez’s work frequently references protagonists from ancient mythology and lunar motifs while embracing ambiguity. This groundbreaking volume examines her paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and graphic illustrations together with archival ephemera. It traces Sánchez’s artistic journey from her early years in Cuba through her travels in Europe and residence in New York in the 1960s to her move to Puerto Rico, where she still lives and works. With spectacular illustrations of more than 75 artworks, insightful essays situating Sánchez within the context of global modernism, and a conversation with the artist, this is the most comprehensive publication on Sánchez’s art to date.
Published by Yale University Press, 2019 Hardcover, 200 pages with illustrations throughout Dimensions: 10 1/4 x 10 inches (26.03 x 25.4 cm)

Zilia Sanchez: Soy Isla

In this highly anticipated cookbook, culinary instructor and baker David Norman explores the European breadmaking traditions that inspire him most - from the rye of France to the saltless ciabattas of Italy to the traditional Christmas loaves of Scandinavia. Norman also offers recipes for traditional foods to accompany these regional specialties, so home bakers can showcase their freshly made breads alongside a traditional Swedish breakfast spread, oysters with mignonette, country pate, and more. Also included are recipes for Texan breads and dishes from David's cult favorite bakery and beer garden, Easy Tiger in Austin, Texas. With rigorous, detailed instructions plus showstopping photography, this book will surprise and delight every baker. STYLE #: BOOK205

Bread On The Table Book

In 1973, American artist Barbara Kasten (born 1936) began experimenting with various photographic and printing techniques, resulting in a series of 24 diazotypes--a process used to produce architectural blueprints. For these staged mise-en-scène works, produced while Kasten lived in California, a female student was hired by the artist to pose in various photographs on a chair outdoors. In them, a kind of performance unfolds, in which the body becomes entangled in forms and shapes, the overlaid printed grid on the photographs emphasizing the human figure against a determined space.
These images--with their clear Bauhaus influence, insistence on the two-dimensional plane and determined staging--initially appear to be totally unlike the abstract conceptual photography for which Kasten has become known, but are nonetheless a visible precursor to her later work. This unique artist's book marks the very first publication of the Diazotypes series, with each copy signed and numbered by Kasten. It includes an interview with the artist conducted by curator Alex Klein, who organized the first major survey of Kasten's work at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, in 2015. This highly collectible publication is a wonderful tribute to the lesser-known work of an interdisciplinary artist and offers readers a glimpse into the continuities throughout her ongoing practice.

Publisher: Graham Foundation & DAP, 2015 Dimensions: 12 x 9 inches Paperback 56 pages Numbered and signed by the artist This book is out of print Perfect condition

Barbara Kasten: The Diazotopes

Forward by Agnes Husslein-Arco Essay by Mario Codognato
The Los Angeles–based artist Sterling Ruby (born 1972) works prolifically in a wide range of media, from glazed biomorphic ceramics and poured urethane sculptures to large-scale spraypainted canvases, nail polish drawings, collages and videos. Ruby's exhibition in the richly decorated Baroque rooms of the former residence of Prince Eugene of Savoy, the Winterpalais in Vienna, is particularly extraordinary in the contrast between the two aesthetics. This volume, and the exhibition it accompanies, offers a survey of the artist’s oeuvre, including his ceramics, bronze, steel and urethane sculptures, mobiles, soft works and tapestries.
Published by Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst, 2016 Hardcover, 112 pages/ 66 color images Dimensions: 8.75 x 12.75 inches This catalog is out of print Condition: New

Sterling Ruby Winterpalais

With contributions by Anselm Berrigan, Michael Brenson, A.K. Burns, Dan Byers, Ruth Erikson, Rochelle Goldberg, Fanny Howe, Richard Klein, Ann Lauterbach, Catherine Lord, Helen Molesworth, Ulrike Müller, Jenelle Porter, Conny Purtill, Lucy Raven, Leslie Scalapino, Nancy Shaver, Oliver Strand, and David Levi Strauss
This comprehensive monograph of Davis's sculptures, paintings, and collages includes texts from 19 contemporary artists, activists, art historians, critics, curators, designers, and poets, who chose and responded to specific works.
Published by Arbor Press, 2018 Hardcover, 192 pages with images throughout Dimensions: 10 x 7 inches (25.4 x 17.78 cm)

Taylor Davis: Selected Works 1996 - 2018

By Jan Tumlir
Jennifer Pastor (b. 1966) reinterprets common yet curiously unexpected subjects in her sculpture and drawings, which reflect influences as varied as Claes Oldenburg and pop cultural phenomena. Accompanying an exhibition at the Whitney Museum, this book explores Pastor's installation The Perfect Ride, which comprises a large sculpture inspired by the Hoover Dam; a sculptural rendering of the human ear; and a line-drawn animation of a cowboy on a bucking bull. Pastor's style lies somewhere between kitsch and Pop art, but without the ironic intention. The products of meticulous research and painstaking craftsmanship, her pieces evoke an improbable sense of enchantment, relating both to the physical world and the surreal world of dreams. Jennifer Pastor: The Perfect Ride sheds new light on the work of this intriguing young artist.
Published by Whitney Museum, 2005 Hardcover, 52 pages with illustrations throughout Dimensions: 11 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches (28.57 x 19.05 cm)

Jennifer Pastor: The Perfect Ride

By David Anfam
Originally published in 1998 and still in print, this quintessential volume presents an overview of Mark Rothko’s stunning corpus of paintings on canvas and panel. With all works reproduced in color, the book includes the images for which Rothko is most famous—the large, hypnotic, poignant fields of color—along with almost 400 additional paintings that are far less well known and reveal an artist who was attuned by turns to realism, expressionism, surrealism, and the avant-garde issues of his era.

David Anfam is a leading authority on modern American art. A regular contributor to The Burlington Magazine, he is the curator of several major Rothko exhibitions. His publications include Abstract Expressionism and Franz Kline: Black & White, 1950-1961.

Published by Yale University Press in conjunction with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998 Hardcover (slipcased), 708 pages, 850 color images/ 100 b/w images
Dimensions: 11 x 11 inches

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