Review
The book is a welcome, deferential consideration of Pelton’s work. At last, artists like her, who come from outside the mainstream traditions of 20th century art, are getting the art history they deserve.
MutualArt
The catalogue is a commendable display of prints, sketches, sculptures, and photographs by contemporary artists.
Hyperallergic Magazine
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newEd. Andrew Eschelbacher
Monuments and Myths
The America of Sculptors Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Daniel Chester French"Monuments and Myths" is the first publication to examine the intersecting careers of Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Daniel Chester French, the leading American sculptors of the Gilded Age. With rich new thinking and stunning photographs, ... -
newEd. Erik Eising et al.
Hugo van der Goes
Between Pain and BlissHugo van der Goes (c. 1440–1482) was the most important Netherlandish artist of the second half of the 15th century. His innovative pictorial compositions are characterised by monumental figures and realistic narrative moments. They paved the ... -
newEd. Robert Ferry et al.
Land Art as Climate Action
Designing the 21st Century City ParkA beautiful regenerative landscape emerges within a city park, integrating clean energy in ways that improve human thriving. Land Art as Climate Action: Designing the 21st Century City Park expands the realm of the possible using existing clean ... -
newEd. Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft
Re-Orientations
Europe and Islamic Art from 1851 to TodayThe art and architecture of the Islamic world strongly influenced the development of Western modernism. Some 170 works from the mid-19th century to the present day illustrate this fascinating cultural exchange. Beguiling examples of fine and ... -
newEd. Kristin Bauer et al.
Kristin Bauer
This Is Like That 2017-2020"This Is Like That" is a conceptually designed book as art object that archives the artist’s work from 2017 to 2020, including essays and dialogue from collaborating curators and writers exploring historic and contemporary ... -
newAmanda Malmstrom et al.
Women Reframe American Landscape
Susie Barstow & Her Circle – Contemporary PracticesIlluminating the artistic contributions and perspectives of women, this book reinserts the important 19th-century American artist Susie Barstow into the history of the Hudson River School and presents contemporary artists who expand how we think ... -
newEd. Julia Tulovsky
Komar & Melamid
A Lesson in HistoryAmong the most compelling artists in the history of conceptual art, the Russian-Americans Komar and Melamid used humour and irony to lambaste Soviet officialdom. With new scholarship and full-color illustrations, the book explores their journey ... -
newHelmut Friedel
Arnulf Rainer
Rosarot HimmelblauThe art of Arnulf Rainer (*1929) is baffling. The “black overpainting”, with which he covers previous work, is world famous. We overlook the fact that overpaintings in red, blue, green and white also exist and thus that colour always ... -
newWiebke Steinmetz et al.
Ruth Baumgarte
Werkverzeichnis / Catalogue Raisonné Vol. I-IIIThe artistic oeuvre of Ruth Baumgarte (1923–2013) is firmly rooted in the representational tradition. On the basis of the latest scientific research it is presented here with a complete catalogue raisonné in an opulent, three-volume edition. ... -
newEd. Simon Kelly
Monet / Mitchell
Painting the French LandscapeMonet / Mitchell is the first US exhibition to examine the complex relationship between two of the most experimental painters of the twentieth century: The worldfamous paintings of the preeminent French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840–1926) ... -
newEd. Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy
Funk You Too!
Humor and Irreverence in Ceramic SculptureFunk You Too! arrives at a moment when clay has unprecedented currency in the art world as a sculptural medium. It is the first book to connect the history of Funk Art to contemporary ceramic practice through an exploration of the enduring role of ... -
newEd. Alex Gartenfeld et al.
Chakaia Booker
The Observance"Chakaia Booker: The Observance" is the first comprehensive monograph on this important yet understudied American artist. Illuminating more than three decades of Booker’s practice, the publication explores her signature form – ... -
newEd. Manuela Beer
Cooler and harder than glass, but softer than a diamond: rock crystal has always been regarded as an unusual material. Countless legends have grown up around its origins and its remarkable strengths. At the latest since Antiquity, rock crystal has ... -
newEd. Sabine Hoffmann et al.
Olga Costa
Dialogues with Mexican ModernismIn her elective home country of Mexico, the artist Olga Costa (1913–1993), a native of Leipzig, has long been established as an important female voice of Mexican Modernism. This volume presents impressively her autonomous artistic work ... -
new ebookDorothy Moss et al.
Kinship
E-BookRecent events have pushed artists to visualize ideas of closeness in a new light. "Kinship", published on the occasion of the National Portrait Gallery’s next “Portraiture Now” exhibition, features the work of eight ... -
newEd. Astrid Ihle et al.
Street Life
Die Straße in der Kunst von Kirchner bis Streuli - The Street in Art from Kirchner to StreuliThe significance of the street is complex: it is a place of representation, self-dramatisation and communication, of resistance and protest. In this lavishly illustrated volume we encounter the bandwidth of this highly topical subject and its ... -
newStanley Abe
Imagining Sculpture
A Short Conjectural HistorySculpture is just a word, an English word, which elicits an image in the mind’s eye. Sculpture is a European idea. In China, on the other hand, statues, stele, and other figural objects were made for millennia without being thought of as Sculpture. ... -
newEd. Ralf Burmeister et al.
Magyar Modern
Hungarian Art in Berlin 1910-1933Important artists of Hungarian Classical Modernism lived and worked temporarily on the banks of the Spree and were present in the Berlin avant-garde. The publication presents a brilliant overview of the close links between the culture of the Weimar ... -
newEd. Ilka Voermann
Chagall
World in TurmoilMarc Chagall (1887–1985) is regarded as the poet amongst modernist artists. His works from the 1930s and 1940s are less well known. In them, his bright colour palette became darker. Even in the early 1930s, Chagall addressed the ... -
newEd. Ilka Voermann
Chagall
Verden i opprørMarc Chagall (1887–1985) is regarded as the poet amongst modernist artists. His works from the 1930s and 1940s are less well known. In them, his bright colour palette became darker. Even in the early 1930s, Chagall addressed the ... -
newEd. Yvette Deseyve
Johann Gottfried Schadow
Embracing FormsJohann Gottfried Schadow’s "Princess group" has gone down in the annals of art history. As the first statue of two female historical personalities it testifies to the innovation, enormous artistry and productivity of sculpture ... -
newEd. Synagoge Stommeln - Stadt Pulheim
One Site - One Space - One Work
30 Years of Art Projects in Stommeln SynagogueIn 1991, the town of Pulheim initiated the Stommeln Synagogue art project, a permanent process of examination of this historically significant location. Since then it has continued to make a contribution to a culture of remembrance. A wide-ranging ... -
newEd. Debra Diamond et al.
A Splendid Land
Paintings from Royal UdaipurHow and why did painters centre sensory experience, enchanting emotions and cultural landscapes in South Asia? "A Splendid Land" is the first book to address this question through dazzling paintings made over a period of two hundred years ... -
newEd. Susanne Gaensheimer et al.
Reinhard Mucha
An Initial Suspicion… For me, things only become interesting when they contain some mysterious corner somewhere which continues to elude us. And so I am really rather sorry that Mucha was not included, because he is formally incredibly good and is nonetheless ... -
newEd. Franziska Leuthäußer et al.
STOA169
The Artist Columned HallA hall of art surrounded by nature, supported by 121 individually designed pillars created by famous artists from all over the world: Bernd Zimmer has been pursuing this idea and its realization for over 30 years. The volume is lavishly illustrated ...