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| Essay by Charlotte Mullins. After a century in which the lexicon of artists' materials expanded from the classic oil, canvas, stone and plaster to include photography, film, performance, found objects and concepts, the spotlight has finally swung back. A new generation of artists--as well as some who never abandoned figurative painting in the first place--is relishing the solitary, slow, subtle set of processes involved in not just painting, but painting people. They are choosing paint's unique ability to distill a lifetime of events rather than photography's glimpse of a frozen moment. Painting People, edited by the prominent London art historian and critic Charlotte Mullins, unites and contrasts the work of a key group of artists from around the world, and investigates their richly varied accomplishments in lucid text with detailed commentaries, accompanied by more than 150 reproductions. The list of contributing artists is stellar, ranging from photo-based painters like Luc Tuymans, Peter Doig and Marlene Dumas to Pop artists like Sigmar Polke and Alex Katz, photorealists like Chuck Close and Gerhard Richter, Neoexpressionists like Cecily Brown, and comics-inspired painters like Yoshitomo Nara, Inka Essenhigh and Takashi Murakami. There are erotic grotesques from John Currin and Lisa Yuskavage, meditations on the muse by Elizabeth Peyton and Lucian Freud, "Repro-realistic" work from Neo Rauch and of course self-portraits by Philip Akkerman and Marcel Dzama, among others. PUBLISHED BY: D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. FORMAT: Hardcover, 9 x 11 in. / 192 pgs / 150 color. ISBN: 9781933045382 ISBN10: 1933045388 PUBLICATION DATE: 09/15/2006 AVAILABILITY: Temporarily out of stock. Check your local bookstore or museum shop for copies. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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"I paint myself, and so I paint the whole of mankind." So says this Dutch artist, who has painted nothing but self-portraits since 1981. This 720-page volume includes all 2,314 of the artist's works to date. PUBLISHED BY: Veenman Publishers FORMAT: Hardcover, 9 x 9.5 in. / 720 pgs / 2414 color. ISBN: 9789086900022 ISBN10: 908690002X PUBLICATION DATE: 08/15/2006 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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| Artwork by John Currin. Evocative, varied, sometimes vulgar, and often styled in a deliberately retrograde manner, John Currin's depictions of women nearly always induce a sense of the familiar, of having been seen before--framed on the wall of a doctor's office, spread-eagled in father's nudie magazine, glimpsed in a drawing by Rubin, posing as a prop in some old advertisement, lying supine in a painting at the Metropolitan. Whether working in watercolor, gouache, charcoal, pencil, or pen and ink, his sometimes lurid images of women, with their elongated necks, oversized bosoms, and otherwise slightly distorted bodies, update the exaggerations of Italian mannerism with a breezy brushstroke or, alternately, a contemplative smudge of charcoal. PUBLISHED BY: Taka Ishii Gallery FORMAT: Hardcover, 8.75 x 11 in. / 124 pgs / 58 color. ISBN: 9781564660985 ISBN10: 1564660982 PUBLICATION DATE: 10/02/2002 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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| Artwork by Luc Tuymans. Edited by Stephan Berg. Text by Konrad Bitterli. Since the end of the 1980s, Belgian artist Luc Tuymans has been developing an extraordinarily complex work, combining the question of representation and representability--inherent in any kind of painting--with a radical charge of pictorial motives. Grounded in a structure that is coolly figurative and drawinglike, and materials that are always preprocessed and mediated (for example, Polaroid shots, newspaper clippings, film stills), Tuymans creates calm, small-format pictures of cropped landscapes, objects, architecture, and seemingly masked people. In their pastel haziness, often primed with white, his pictures evade concrete designation. This book presents a representative selection of Tuymans's works as well as a large group of specially created new works delimited by two central picture motifs: the cycle Die Zeit references the Holocaust, whereas Passion concerns the essence of religious belief. PUBLISHED BY: Hatje Cantz Publishers FORMAT: Hardcover, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 160 pgs / 70 color / 3 b&w. ISBN: 9783775712651 ISBN10: 3775712658 PUBLICATION DATE: 05/02/2003 AVAILABILITY: Temporarily out of stock. Check your local bookstore or museum shop for copies. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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| Text by Rudi Fuchs, Hans-Werner Schmidt. This small but excellent collection of early drawings, collages and paintings by Peter Doig, most of which have never been published before, by and large documents Doig's journey through the United States, at the age of 23, in the summer of 1982. Motifs include westerns, road movies and the urban metropolis. PUBLISHED BY: Walther Kˆnig FORMAT: Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 68 pgs / 32 color / 8 b&w. ISBN: 9783865601919 ISBN10: 386560191X PUBLICATION DATE: 07/01/2007 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: FLAT40 |
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| Essay by Marlene van Niekerk. A blue-black topless woman stakes her claim on the Upper East Side. A stripper displays her behind next to six brides posing in a row. A dead man with a bound jaw asks the viewer to confront three blindfolded prisoners and three mysteriously somber children. The paintings and drawings collected here demonstrate Marlene Dumas's enduring fascination with image-making as a force for objectification, and simultaneously express her desire to pry the act of figurative painting loose from that history. Her lushly painted work recalls the immediacy of Expressionism in its gestures, the critical distance of Conceptual art in its idea-driven intensity, and the pleasures of eroticism in both its subjects and its lavishly applied paint. The complexity of Dumas's conceptual preoccupations is belied by her formal mastery--both command the viewer's attention, and the chemistry between them makes her one of our most important living figurative painters. PUBLISHED BY: Zwirner & Wirth FORMAT: Hardcover, 7 x 10 in. / 94 pgs / 35 color. ISBN: 9780970888488 ISBN10: 0970888481 PUBLICATION DATE: 08/15/2006 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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| Foreword by Enrique Juncosa. Text by Juan Manuel Bonet. Interview by Rachael Thomas. New York brings together painter Alex Katz's most striking images of his hometown and the dear friends with which he made it his own. Coming of age during the triumph of the New York School of painting, Katz synthesized its influences with wide-ranging interests shared by many of the New York School poets. Of the more than 40 paintings and aquatints gathered here, many depict that distinguished circle, as well as the iconic skyline where they changed the world. Katz is best known as a painter of people, and the wide cross-section of portraits here demonstrates the variety he brings to the genre, along with dramatic variations in scale, abrupt cropping and subtle artifices such as luxuriant backdrops that turn out to be earlier Katz paintings. Along with an essay and interview, New York includes an extraordinary selection of poems from friends of the artist, including some of the most important American poets of the late twentieth century, among them Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch, John Ashbery and Robert Creeley. Katz was born in Brooklyn in 1927 and studied at the Cooper Union and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. His work has been the subject of nearly 200 international solo exhibitions. PUBLISHED BY: Charta / Irish Museum of Modern Art FORMAT: Hardcover, 9.5 x 12 in. / 88 pgs / 43 color / 18 b&w. ISBN: 9788881586349 ISBN10: 8881586347 PUBLICATION DATE: 08/01/2007 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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| Essay by BjØrn Li. Themes is the most comprehensive collection of Odd Nerdrum's works ever published. Its 500 pages are filled with sketches, drawings and studies, along with excellent reproductions of the artist's most important and most recent finished works. A wide selection of close-up details offers the tightest possible view of Nerdrum's brushstrokes, which will be of particular interest to students--those who wish to learn his modern take on the Old Master style just as they would learn from the work of the Old Masters themselves. The selection is the artist's own, divided into 20 chapters devoted to space, nudes, portraits and other topics, and presented chronologically within each chapter to show the development of specific motifs over the course of his career. This structure and the wide range of work present provoke new insights into the central themes in Nerdrum's work, and his treatment of them from first sketches to final canvases. Nerdrum's latest works--more than 40 paintings in all, dating from the last five years--are presented here for the first time. They complete an unprecedented overview of his oeuvre, a must for everyone interested in the how and why behind one of today's most controversial and celebrated painters. PUBLISHED BY: Press Publishing FORMAT: Clothbound, 11 x 12.25 in. / 550 pgs / 450 color. ISBN: 9788275472265 ISBN10: 8275472261 PUBLICATION DATE: 04/15/2007 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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| Essays by Stefan Gronert and Hubertus Butin. This first comprehensive overview of the place of the portrait in Gerhard Richterís oeuvre assembles portrait paintings, photographs, watercolors, drawings and prints from the 1960s to the present--everything from classics like the strikingly honey-haired Betty to previously unknown works discovered in the course of research for this project. Icons such as Ema (Nude on a Staircase), Uncle Rudi, Mister Heyde, 48 Portraits, Self-Portrait, Family at the Sea, Small Bathers, Reader and Moritz, settle once and for all that Richterís emotional pull towards his material (ìThe subject matter is so important to me that I invest much time and effort in my search for it, so much that I just have to paint it.î) not only doesnít hinder him from producing classics, but rather encourages it. Stefan Gronertís essay follows the development of the portrait in the artistís work, starting with the blurred black-and-white pictures of the 1960s and moving on to the colorful panels of recent years, while Hubertus Butin devotes his essay to Richterís portrait photography of the 1960s. Portraits demonstrates that Richter pursues the theme of the portrait in not only all of the media in which he works, but in every genre as well. PUBLISHED BY: Hatje Cantz Publishers FORMAT: Hardcover, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 224 pgs / 80 color / 30 b&w. ISBN: 9783775717250 ISBN10: 3775717250 PUBLICATION DATE: 07/01/2006 AVAILABILITY: In Stock: Order below or contact your local bookstore or museum shop. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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| Edited by Robert Storr. Essays by Kirk Varnedoe and Deborah Wye. Foreword by Glenn D. Lowry. This volume, the most comprehensive assessment of Chuck Close's work yet published, accompanied a mid-career retrospective exhibition that opened at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, on February 25, 1998. A leading figure in the New York art world since the early 1970s, Close has recently concentrated on portraits of his artist friends and colleagues, characterized by colorful patterning and vivid brushwork. Subjects include Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Alex Katz, Kiki Smith, Lucas Samaras, and Lorna Simpson. Here, more than 90 paintings, prints, drawings, and photographs are reproduced, along with details and comparative illustrations. PUBLISHED BY: The Museum of Modern Art, New York FORMAT: Hardcover, 9.75 x 12 in. / 224 pgs / 113 color / 75 b&w. ISBN: 9780870700668 ISBN10: 0870700669 PUBLICATION DATE: 09/02/2002 AVAILABILITY: Temporarily out of stock. Check your local bookstore or museum shop for copies. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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| Introduction by Jeff Fleming. Edited by Ellen Feldman. Text by Jeff Fleming, Linda Nochlin, Linda Norden. Known for her lush surfaces, vivid color, and energetic brushwork, Cecily Brown inhabits her torrid, atmospheric paintings with life forms that swim amongst swells of color and gesture. Often cast in sensual situations, her figures advance and recede into painterly abstraction. With her various references to art history-- from the seventeenth-century French Classicism of Nicolas Poussin to the Baroque flamboyance of Peter Paul Rubens and the living gestures of Willem de Kooning, among other Abstract Expressionists--Brown reinvigorates twenty-first-century painting. Working alongside the traditions of the medium, and borrowing freely from them, Brown absorbs formerly male-dominated approaches to painting, unapologetically infusing a feminine viewpoint. This publication, which accompanies the first one-person museum survey of Brown's work in the United States, features three major new essays by Jeff Fleming, Linda Norden and Linda Nochlin, as well as a series of key color reproductions. PUBLISHED BY: Des Moines Art Center FORMAT: Paperback, 8 x 10 in. / 80 pgs / 19 color. ISBN: 9781879003446 ISBN10: 1879003449 PUBLICATION DATE: 03/01/2007 AVAILABILITY: Out of Print. Check the Stores tab to locate a shop that may have copies. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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| Essays by Stephan Trescher and Banana Yoshimoto. At first sight, the childlike figures for which Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara is now famous seem altogether cute and appealing. On closer examination his creations are robust, angry, and vulnerable creatures, standing up defiantly to the world of adults--self-confident, stubborn, and sometimes violent. Nara's work is influenced by Japanese comic books but he is unique in the contemporary art scene for tapping into horror through the medium of the innocent child--this is particularly poignant in Japan's controlled society of rigid language and social structures, especially considering recent shockingly violent crimes in Japan involving children as the aggressors. Nara's work instills the viewer with a juxtaposition of the innocence of children and the evil nature of humanity, or the fall from grace. Like Kurt Cobain's music, Nara's Pop art, too, aims to lend expression to his generation's concerns, encouraging it to meet the constraints of high achievement. Self-determination, individuality, and freedom are themes that infuse Nara's voice that is clearly heard in Japan and America, where the dividing line between "low" and "high" culture is less stringently drawn than in Europe. In addition to Nara's signature paintings, sculptures, and drawings; (poems and diary entries by the artist); this 204-page book includes texts by the art critic Stephan Trescher and the Japanese cult author Banana Yoshimoto. PUBLISHED BY: Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst Nurnberg FORMAT: Hardcover, 8.5 x 9.5 in. / 204 pgs / 264 color. ISBN: 9783933096593 ISBN10: 3933096596 PUBLICATION DATE: 03/15/2005 AVAILABILITY: Temporarily out of stock. Check your local bookstore or museum shop for copies. Bookseller Price Code: TRADE |
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