Strong Women
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Ed. 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 – ... -
Rolf Sachsse
Anna Atkins
Blue PrintsThe English illustrator Anna Atkins (1799–1871) was in every respect a modern woman. For the publication of her plant collections she used the latest technology, the recently invented cyanotype. In 1843 she used the process to create the ... -
Ed. Gilbert Vicario
Agnes Pelton
Desert TranscendentalistAgnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist will be the first survey of this under recognized American painter in over 22 years. Her distinctive paintings could be described as metaphysical landscapes rooted in the California desert near Cathedral City. ... -
Barbara Bloemink
Florine Stettheimer
A BiographyThis first full biography confirms Florine Stettheimer as one of the 20th century’s most significant, progressive artists whose work remains highly relevant today. Stettheimer was a feminist and a multi-media artist who painted several ... -
Ed. Gonzalo Casals
Tamara Kostianovsky
Rapacious BeautyLatinx artist Tamara Kostianovsky began using her discarded clothes as artistic material shortly after immigrating to the United States, addressing cultural and physical displacement, assimilation and identity, and the brutal history of Latin America. ... -
Ed. Gunnar B. Kvaran et al.
Yoko Ono
Liberté Conquérante. Growing Freedom.Yoko Ono is a leading experimental and avant-garde artist. In Tokyo during the 1950s, she introduced original questions about the concept of art and the art object, breaking down the traditional boundaries between branches of art. She has since ... -
Ed. Staci Bu Shea et al.
Barbara Hammer
Evidentiary BodiesBarbara Hammer (b. 1939) is an American feminist artist known as a pioneer of queer experimental and documentary film. The monograph accompanies an extensive exhibition at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, celebrating the depth and ...