In 1968, the coastal Arab emirates entered into an unprecedented phase of vulnerability: The British, who had protected the emirates for 150 years, suddenly announced their intention to withdraw from the region. Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the ruler of Abu Dhabi, knew there was only one way forward: the emirates had to unite under a single nation. In December of 1971, after a series of negotiations, the United Arab Emirates was born, and Sheikh Zayed, its founding father, was named the first President.
Under Sheikh Zayed’s leadership, the fledgling UAE grew to become a towering example of economic, social and political progression within the Middle East. But throughout his reign, Sheikh Zayed dedicated as much of himself to the welfare of his people as he did to his country’s progress. His benevolence, humility, and tolerance were legendary, and he was widely revered as a father figure to all. Sheikh Zayed’s profound care for his people extended to the environment, as he helped transform the Arab desert into an oasis for agriculture. He also became known as a champion of equality, advocating for women’s rights and preaching religious tolerance. A religious man himself, the teachings of Islam formed the core of his education and shaped his approach to both life and leadership.
In this compelling addition to the Ultimate Collection and Assouline’s first tome surrounding a notable Arab Royal figure, Myrna Ayad examines Sheikh Zayed’s enduring legacy through the pillars that defined his life—as a father, a unifier, a conservationist, a faithful man, and a modernist. The volume brings Sheikh Zayed to vivid life through archival photographs and exclusive interviews with politicians and family members who knew the ruler intimately, including HH Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, UAE Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, HE Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, UAE Minister of Tolerance, HH Sheikha Mariam bint Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation and granddaughter of Sheikh Zayed, HE Dr Zaki Anwar Nusseibeh, Chancellor of UAE University & Cultural Advisor to the President and many more.
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Myrna Ayad is an arts consultant, cultural strategist and editor, with a focus on visual art and culture from the Arab world, Iran and Turkey. She established her namesake consultancy in 2018 following her directorship of Art Dubai, the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia’s foremost international art fair. Myrna has written for The New York Times, CNN Online, The Art Newspaper, Artforum, Artsy, Artnet, Wallpaper* and The National, among others, and contributed to artist monographs and exhibition catalogues. From 2007- 2015, she served as Editor of Canvas, the premier magazine for visual art from the Middle East, where she oversaw the production of the title’s affiliate newspapers, catalogues and luxury art books. Over the years, Myrna has served both as a panelist and moderator and sits on the committees of cultural entities in the region. For almost four decades, Myrna has been based in Dubai, where she lives with her husband and two children.

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Kirsten Grimstad and Susan Rennie are the co-editors of The New Woman’s Survival Catalog (Berkeley Publishing Company, 1973) and The New Woman’s Survival Sourcebook (Knopf, 1975). They went on to co-found Chrysalis: A Magazine of Women’s Culture , published out of the Woman’s Building in downtown Los Angeles from 1977-1981.
Published in 1973, The New Woman’s Survival Catalog is a seminal survey of Second Wave feminist efforts, which, as the editors noted in their introduction, represented an “active attempt to reshape culture through changing values and consciousness.”
Assembled by Kirsten Grimstad and Susan Rennie, The New Woman’s Survival Catalog makes a nod to Stewart Brand’s influential Whole Earth Catalog to map a vast network of feminist alternative cultural activity in the 1970s. Grimstad and Rennie set out on a two month road trip in the summer of 1973, meeting and interviewing all the featured organizations and individuals, and gathering information and further references along the way to complete the publication.
From arts organizations to bookstores and independent presses, health, parenting, and rape crisis centers, and educational, legal and financial resources, this book provides crucial insight into feminist initiatives and activism nationwide during the Women’s Movement. Styled as a sales catalog, The New Woman’s Survival Catalog comprises listings and organizational descriptions, articles, and extensive illustrations, as well as a “Making the Book” section, detailing the publication’s production.
Published by Primary Information, 2019 Softcover, 210 pages Dimensions: 14 x 10 inches (35.56 x 25.4 cm)

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Across the sands of time, Ethiopia has embodied fantasy and intrigue. The richly storied country has been a supporter of Christianity for the Crusaders in the Middle Ages, a symbol of resistance to European colonization in the late 19th century, and, most recently, a recipient of aid due to its extreme poverty. Ethiopian Highlands offers a striking look into this world of contrasts. These vibrant, intimate images captured by Lizy Manola, whose Greek nationality connects her implicitly to Ethiopia’s past, bring us to the very heart of the Christian culture of its Highlands. Seventy of Manola’s photos have also been collected for an exhibition entitled Ethiopia, Spiritual Imprints. These are images of Ethiopian people, places, and objects considered holy: churches in the Lalibela and Tigray regions, monasteries and monks of Lake Tana, and many more. The exhibition began in August 2014 at the Of cina dell’Arte Spirituale in Venice, Italy, and has now moved to the Byzantine Christian Museum in Athens, Greece, where it will be open until June 2015.

Ethiopian Highlands

Text by Okwui Enwezor. Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Interview with Chuck Close.
Excessive Exposure documents all the chocolate-colored portraits that Bronx-born artist Lyle Ashton Harris made with a large-format Polaroid camera over the past ten years. This sequence of approximately 200 paired front and back portraits, for which Harris has become so well known, has now come to a close, making this volume the definitive publication on the series. The portraits' subjects include Harris' family and friends, art-world personalities, noted cultural figures, celebrities and politicians. These images are further distinguished by a strategic blurring of conventional gender roles, sexual identities and racial categories, and by a refined use of light and shade. Okwui Enwezor contributes an essay analyzing Harris' portraits, situating these works in the context of the artist's work of the past 20 years, as well as in the broader history of the genre. The book also includes a conversation between Harris and artist Chuck Close that took place in 1999, when Harris was beginning the series. With a penetrating foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Excessive Exposure offers a wealth of superb portraiture and is destined to become a touchstone volume among photo-books.
Published by Gregory R. Miller & Co. 2010 Hardcover, 344 pages with 350 color and 10 black & white images Dimensions: 11 3/4 x 10 inches (29.84 x 25.4 cm)

Lyle Ashton Harris: Excessive Exposure The Complete Chocolate Portraits

Essays by Chrissie Iles, Thomas McEvilley, Sean Kelly, C. Carr, Roselee Goldberg, and Peggy Phelan.
For 12 days in November 2002, Marina Abramovic lived on three open platforms in the Sean Kelly Gallery in New York. She did not eat or speak, nor did have any privacy: the rooms were open and spectators were even invited to observe the artist through a high-powered telescope. She had no escape: the ladders leaning against bedroom, sitting room and bathroom had rungs made of large butcher knives. Throughout her 30-year career, Abramovic has used her body as her primary material, pushing it to extremes of altered consciousness, often putting herself in great physical peril. Her concern with creating works that ritualize the simple actions of everyday life like lying, sitting, dreaming and thinking focuses, in effect, on the manifestation of a unique mental state. Published by Charta in conjunction with Sean Kelly Gallery, 2004
Hardcover, 128 pages
Dimensions: 9 3/4 x 3/4 x 6 3/4
This catalog is out of print
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Yotam Ottolenghi, the New York Times bestselling author of Plenty joins up with Ixta Belfrage to reveal how flavor is created and amplified through more than a hundred innovative, super-delicious, plant-based recipes.
Chock-full of low-effort, high-impact dishes that pack a punch and standout meals for the relaxed cook, Ottolenghi Flavor is a revolutionary approach to vegetable cooking.
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Edited with text by Lowery Stokes Sims. Text by Dennis Carr, Janet L. Comey, Elliot Bostwick Davis, Aiden Faust, Nonie Gadsden, Edmund Barry Gaither, Karen Haas, Erica E. Hirshler, Kelly Hays L'Ecuyer, Taylor L. Poulin, Karen Quinn.
The story of African Americans in the visual arts has closely paralleled their social, political and economic aspirations over the last 400 years. From enslaved craftspersons to contemporary painters, printmakers and sculptors, African American artists have created a wealth of artistic expression that addresses common experiences, such as exclusion from dominant cultural institutions, and confronts questions of identity and community. This generously illustrated volume gathers more than 100 works of art in a variety of media by leading figures from the nineteenth century to the present—among them, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden, Lois Mailou Jones, Gordon Parks, Wifredo Lam, Kara Walker, Glenn Ligon and Kerry James Marshall—alongside many others who deserve to be better known, including artists from the African diaspora in South America and the Caribbean. Arranged thematically and featuring authoritative texts that provide historical and interpretive context, Common Wealth invites readers to share in a rich outpouring of art that meets shared challenges with individual creative responses.
Published by MFA Publications, 2015 Hardcover, 256 pages with 145 color images Dimensions: 11 x 9 1/2 inches (27.94 x 24.13 cm)

Common Wealth: Art By African Americans In The Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston

By Patrick Pardo and Robert Dean
Compiling four-hundred-plus unique works of art, this volume traces the shifts and developments in conceptual artist John Baldessari’s work from 1975-86. It covers his photo-based works such as the “Strobe,” “Word Chain,” and “Pathetic Fallacy” series from 1975; the “Violent Space” and the seminal “Concerning Diachronic/Synchronic Time: Above, On, Under (With Mermaid),” from 1976; and the “Blasted Allegories” series from 1977-78, which drew heavily from the artist’s vast collection of photo stills taken from commercial television.
In the 1980s, Baldessari’s art took a different direction, beginning with the expansive “Fugitive Essays” triptychs from 1980 and leading to 1982’s photographic interpretations of Grimm’s Fairy Tales. Building on these themes, Baldessari began producing a body of work that was inspired in part by dreams, psychology, film, and popular culture. Ensuing works were more formal, elaborate, and large-scale. From 1984 to 1986 Baldessari created a number of works that employed his soon-to-be-signature colored discs painted over people’s faces in the photos.
An introductory essay will provide a close reading of selected works and a historical context for understanding Baldessari’s art from this period. A detailed chronology and exhibition history and bibliography are also included. This is the second of a projected four-volume catalogue raisonne.
Published by Yale University Press, 2014 Hardcover, 496 pages Dimensions: 12 x 10 1/2 inches (30.48 x 26.67 cm)

John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonné: Volume Two 1975–1986

Essay by Peter Pakesch
The ceramics by the American artist Liz Larner are multi-layered: their shape and weight are reminiscent of antique tablets, the richness of color of the glazes gives them the effect of a painting, while the often torn and broken surfaces tell of the process of their production. Breaks can also be read as a theme from the titles of the works: caesura as a pause between two halves, subduction based on the pushing of two layers of earth in plate tectonics, calefaction as the heating of added minerals that crystallize or dissolve in the clay, porcelain melt as renewed wear and tear on the already designed material. Above the cracks, however, lie the deeply shimmering surfaces of Larner's precisely nuanced colored glazes.
The book shows this work as part of an exhibition in 2016 at the Max Hetzler Gallery in Berlin. Two strands come together: Larner's personal development, whose conceptual interest led her to ceramics around the turn of the millennium, and the role that the material plays in the history of modernism through artists such as Picasso, Fontana, Asger Jorn and Peter Voulkos.
Published by Holzwarth Publications, 2017 Hardcover, 53 pages, fully illustrated Dimensions: 11 1/2 x 11 inches (29.21 x 27.94 cm)

Liz Larner

Written by Sarah Howgate with contributions by Dawn Ades

This beautifully illustrated book draws together for the first time the work of French artist Claude Cahun (1894–1954) and British contemporary artist Gillian Wearing (b. 1963). Although they were born almost a century apart, their work shares similar themes―gender, identity, masquerade, and performance. In 2015, Sarah Howgate traveled with Wearing to the island of Jersey, in the English Channel, where Cahun lived and worked until her death, and where her archive is housed. In examining Cahun's photographs, Wearing was struck by the remarkable parallels with her own explorations of the self-image through photography. Cahun was a contemporary of André Breton and Man Ray, but her work was rarely exhibited during her lifetime. Wearing, who has exhibited extensively and is a recipient of Britain’s prestigious Turner Prize, was no stranger to Cahun’s work when she made the trip to Jersey―her 2012 self-portrait, Me as Cahun holding a mask of my face , is a reconstruction of Cahun’s iconic Self-portrait , made in 1927. In this book, Howgate examines the work of both artists, investigating how their cultural, historical, political, and personal contexts have affected their interpretations of similar themes. This book features stunning reproductions of more than ninety key works, presented thematically by artistic evolution, performance, masquerade, and memento mori, among others. Also included are new works by Wearing, a revealing interview with her by Howgate, and an illuminating essay on Cahun by writer and curator Dawn Ades.
Published by Princeton University Press, 2017 Hardcover, 176 pages with images throughout Dimensions: 10 x 8 1/2 inches (25.4 x 21.59 cm)

Gillian Wearing And Claude Cahun: Behind The Mask, Another Mask

Essays by Anita Hill, Cornelia H. Butler, Sebastian Smee and Mark Bradford
This timely entry in the Contemporary Artists series focuses on Mark Bradford, the Los Angeles-based artist best known for his large-scale abstract paintings that examine the class, race, and gender-based economies that structure urban society. His collages and installations, made of materials scavenged from the streets, have created a unique body of work that still stands as a strong response to the impromptu networks that emerge within a city. In this new title, his life and work are explored as never before.
Published by Phaidon Press, 2018 Softcover, 160 images, illustrated throughout Dimensions: 11 1/2 x 10 inches (29.21 x 25.4 cm)

Mark Bradford

Written by a man many consider to be the best bread baker in the United States: Chad Robertson, co-owner of Tartine Bakery in San Francisco. 100 photographs from years of testing, teaching, and recipe development provide step-by-step inspiration, while additional recipes provide inspiration for using up every delicious morsel.

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Text by Thomas Lax, Rodney McMillian, Heidi Zuckerman
This monograph, published on the occasion of the Aspen Art Museum exhibition of Rodney McMillian, showcases a comprehensive survey of the artist's paintings, a section of his practice also encompassing sculpture, installation and performance. Incorporating and challenging the notion of art as social and historical critique, the works, essays and interview in this publication examine issues of race, identity and commerce in contemporary society. The book contains images of almost every painting produced by McMillian since, and including, his graduate thesis exhibition, demonstrating a fuller comprehension of the impetus of his work and an insight into the development of the artist's practice. It also features texts by Thomas Lax and Rodney McMillian as well as an interview between the artist and Heidi Zuckerman.
Published by Aspen Art Museum, 2015 Hardcover, 152 pages with 60 color images Dimensions: 11 x 8 inches (20.32 x 27.94 cm)

Rodney Mcmillian Landscape Paintings

Half experimental catalogue and half living curriculum, Mirror/Echo/Tilt is one part of a four-year pedagogical project created by artists Melanie Crean, Shaun Leonardo, and Sable Elyse Smith. The publication documents the artists' examination of the language and gestures used to describe experiences of arrest and incarceration and looks to counter culturally embedded conceptions of criminality.

Published by Pacific, 2019
Hardcover board, spiral bound 178 pages
Dimensions: 8 × 10 ½ inches
Edition of 300

Mirror Echo Tilt

Essay by curator Klaus Kertess, who considers the many themes the artist draws from, the book includes a poetic contribution by artist Roni Horn and an insightful text by Adam Phillips,a noted psychoanalyst.
In this exhibition and accompanying catalogue, one hundred of the artist’s most important drawings are presented from his major series of works—including “The Cremaster Cycle,” “The Drawing Restraint” series, and most notably “Ancient Evenings,” the body of work that has occupied the artist in the last few years (and is based on Norman Mailer’s ancient Egyptian-inspired novel of the same name). This exhibition and catalogue also represent a unique collaboration between the artist and the august Morgan Library, in which he was invited by the institution to mine their extensive holdings in order to include objects (drawings, manuscripts, etc.) in the installation of his work, to create an interesting framework around the many ideas the artist is exploring.
Published by Skira Rizzoli 2013
Hardcover: 244 pages
Dimensions: 9 11 1/2 inches

Subliming Vessel: The Drawings Of Matthew Barney

By Susanne Gaensheimer, Antonia Hoerschelmann and Udo Kittelmann
Exhibition: MMK Frankfurt am Main
Over the course of a half-century, Sturtevant (1924-2014) developed what is perhaps the most radical oeuvre of her generation. Concerned more with changing mental attitudes than with the reception of her art, she provoked the art world and the individual spectator by repeating the original works of contemporary artists. Astonishingly soon after the "originals" were made, she used them as source and catalyst, her intention being to, as she said, "expand and develop our current notions of aesthetics, probe originality and investigate the relation of origins to originality and open space for new thinking." She is most famous for these repetitions, but her early drawings, particularly the so-called "composite drawings" of the 1960s, also provide important clues for understanding the artist's radical conceptual work. This publication accompanies the first survey of Sturtevant's drawings, a focused exploration of her graphic work from 1964 to 2004.
Published by JRP|Ringier 2015 Hardcover/192 pages/ 8.9" x 6.6"/1.6 lbs
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Essays by Sally Yard and Carol Mavor and two interviews by Robert Walsh

Patricia Patterson’s work is a symbolic metaphor for life’s ordinary things. Each piece evokes the transitory aspects of life, which normally remain unremarked. Patterson deals with an existence that has no place in history; a conversation, a dream in bed, a dog rolling on a lawn. For Patterson, art equals life and domestic life equals art.

Published by California Center for the Arts, 2011 Softcover, 173 pages illustrated throughout Dimensions: 10 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches (26.67 x 24.13 cm)

Patricia Patterson: Here And There, Back And Forth

Introduction by Jacqueline Francis, Stephen G. Hall. Foreword by David Adjaye. Contribution by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
American sociologist, historian, author, editor and activist W.E.B Du Bois (1868–1963) was the most influential Black civil rights activist of the first half of the 20th century. He was a protagonist in the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909, and his 1903 book The Souls of Black Folk remains a classic and a landmark of African American literature.
At the 1900 Paris Exposition the pioneering sociologist and activist W.E.B. Du Bois presented an exhibit representing the progress of African Americans since the abolition of slavery. In striking graphic visualisations and photographs (taken by mostly anonymous photographers) he showed the changing status of a newly emancipated people across America and specifically in Georgia, the state with the largest Black population.
Published by Redstone Press, 2019 Flex cover, 144 pages, 50 color /54 bw Dimensions 9.75 x 12.5 inches

Black Lives 1900: W.e.b. Du Bois At The Paris Exposition

The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné, covers some 15,000 works produced by Warhol between 1948 and 1987. Additionally, there is an incredible array of rarely published source material, including newspaper scraps and movie star publicity stills that inspired Warhol's boundlessly fascinating life and career.
Initiated in 1977 by Thomas Ammann, editors Georg Frei and Neil Printz began primary research for Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné in 1993.They have been advised throughout the project by the distinguished curators and art historians Kynaston McShine and Robert Rosenblum. Experts from the Andy Warhol Foundation personally examined Warhol's works and began a thorough review of his archive, which at his death consisted of some 1,500 cardboard boxes, flat files, and trunks filled with source material, memorabilia, correspondence and junk mail.
The editors examined works in museum conservation facilities and discussed them with conservators, submitted works for review by the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board, and interviewed Warhol's assistants and colleagues to assemble a customized database of works unparalleled in Warhol scholarship. All of their findings are documented in this unprecendented project.
Each annotated catalogue entry includes the works title, date, medium, dimensions and present owner, followed by a record of inscriptions, provenance, exhibitions and literature while related works are linked by general introductory texts that explore historical circumstances, shared themes and studio practices. Supplementary figures to the texts illustrate source materials that Warhol appropriated for his works: newspaper articles and advertisements, soup cans and publicity stills, as well as related drawings, works by other artists, and studio and exhibition views. Volume 1 includes classic and much-prized Warhols such as the Campbell Soup paintings, images of the iconic figures of Marilyn, Liz and Elvis, and early self-portraits.
Hardcover, 512 pages
827 illustrations
10.5 x 2.5 x 12 inches
Phaidon Press

The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné, Volume 1

The first anthology to assemble the writings of the groundbreaking art historian, critic, and curator Marcia Tucker. These influential, hard-to-obtain texts—many of which have never before been published—by Marcia Tucker, founding director of New York’s New Museum, showcase her lifelong commitment to pushing the boundaries of curatorial practice and writing while rethinking inherited structures of power within and outside the museum. The volume brings together the only comprehensive bibliography of Tucker’s writing and highlights her critical attention to art’s relationship to broader culture and politics. The book is divided into three sections: monographic texts on a selection of the visionary artists whom Tucker championed, among them Bruce Nauman, Joan Mitchell, Richard Tuttle, and Andres Serrano; exhibition essays from some of the formative group shows she organized, such as Anti-Illusion: Procedures/Materials (1969) and Bad Girls (1994), which expanded the canons of curating and art history; and other critical works, including lectures, that interrogated museum practice, inequities of the art world, and institutional responsibility. These texts attest to Tucker’s tireless pursuit of questions related to difference, marginalization, access, and ethics, illuminating her significant impact on contemporary art.
Co-published by Getty Research Institute & The New Museum, 2019 Softcover, 288 pages Dimensions: 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches (21.59 x 16.51 cm)

Out Of Bounds: The Collected Writings Of Marcia Tucker

This stunning tritone reproduction of a rare Arbus portfolio represents the only selection of photographs chosen by the artist in her lifetime.
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Real Worlds: Brassaï, Arbus, Goldin at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, March 4 through September 3, 2018.
Publisher: Aperture, 2018 Dimensions: 11 x 14 inches Hardcover enclosed in a slipcase 110 pages 44 tritone and four-color images

Diane Arbus: A Box Of Ten Photographs

Author: James Meyer
In this innovative work, James Meyer turns to art criticism, theory, memoir, and fiction to examine the fascination with the sixties and contemporary expressions of these cultural memories across the globe. Meyer draws on a diverse range of cultural objects that reimagine this revolutionary era stretching from the 1950s to the 1970s, including reenactments of civil rights, antiwar, and feminist marches, paintings, sculptures, photographs, novels, and films. Many of these works were created by artists and writers born during the Sixties who were driven to understand a monumental era that they missed. These cases show us that the past becomes significant only in relation to our present, and our remembered history never perfectly replicates time past. This, Meyer argues, is precisely what makes our contemporary attachment to the past so important: it provides us a critical opportunity to examine our own relationship to history, memory, and nostalgia.

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2019 Dimensions: 7 x 10 inches Hardcover 302 pages 94 color plates 38 halftones Signed by the author

Art Of Return:  The Sixties & Contemporary Culture

Edited by David Blamey & Brad Haylock
For those who would seek to influence others, the distribution of ideas is paramount. Similarly, for those holding ambition to secrete knowledge for reasons of authority, or to protect the fruits of intellectual labour for reasons of profit or ethical concern, dissemination is key. Certainly before, but more importantly since, the Gutenberg Bible, the predicament of the power of knowledge has lain not with its generation but with the control of its dispersion. This new volume in the Occasional Table series of critical anthologies focusses attention on the act of distribution as a subject for serious creative consideration and one of great social and economic importance. Contributors from a variety of backgrounds paint a big picture that embraces the actions of the individual along-side the workings of global markets. From the attention-seeking impulse of the poseur to the democratisation of art and knowledge through books, digital networks, pop music and self-organised libraries, and to the question of what can be known and by whom, the urge to disseminate is explored here as an elemental phenomenon of our time.
Published by Open Editions, 2018 Softcover, 252 pages Dimensions: 8 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches (21.59 x 15.87 cm)

Distributed

Contemporary art through the lens of African-American artists: Adrian Piper, David Hammons, Renée Green, Faith Ringgold, Senga Nengudi, Pat Ward Williams, Lorraine O’Grady, Carrie Mae Weems, Lorna Simpson, Fred Wilson, Dany Tisdale, June Clark and Gary Simmons.
In Black is a Color , contemporary art historian and curator Elvan Zabunyan proposes a new approach to contemporary art and its history through the practice of Black American artists from the Harlem Renaissance to today. Combining a historical study with probing critical analysis, Black is a Color depicts an America marked indelibly by its slavery past, out of which Afro-American contemporary artists have been able to build a singular and engaged body of work to protest against the cultural and political consequences of racial discrimination. In chapters covering notions of "Black conscience," the relation of "attitude" to form, and women Afro-American artists, Zabunyan traces the emergence of artistic identity in various forms of representation (painting, sculpture, photography, video and performance). Close readings of the oeuvres of David Hammons, Adrian Piper, and others uncover the place of the body, urban space and memory in the works of Black artists, who are represented with more than 130 images.
Published by Dis Voir, 2006 Softcover, 288 pages with 67 color and 69 black & white images Dimensions: 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches (16.51 x 21.59 cm)

Black Is A Color (a History Of Contemporary African American Art)

At Nike, the desire to be the best is a journey, not a destination—better is always temporary.
Phaidon commemorates the company’s influence with Nike: Better is Temporary , a landmark publication that charts Nike’s transformation from rebellious upstart to global phenomenon.
This immersive visual survey offers an unprecedented, behind-the-scenes exploration into Nike's ethos-driven design formula, placing industry-defining innovations and globally recognized products alongside previously unpublished designs, prototypes, insider stories, and more.
Beginning with “Breaking2,” an introduction detailing Nike’s 2017 attempt to facilitate a sub-two-hour marathon, the book lays out in five thematic chapters Nike’s focus on performance, brand expression, collaboration, inclusive design, and sustainability.​
The book's extraordinary design also nods to its contents. The striking cover features overlapping silkscreened layers of Nike’s proprietary Volt yellow and Hyperpunch pink colors overlaying an image of world-champion marathoner Eliud Kipchoge printed in a half-tone dot pattern. The book’s spine, visible through the clear jacket, showcases a series of colored tabs that extend from its interior pages and which are referenced in the book’s bonus chapter, “Crafting Color.”​
Combining 500 color illustrations with stories, insights, knowledge, passion, and history shared by Nike's remarkable team, ​ Nike: Better is Temporary ​will serve as a manual of innovation and inspiration for generations to come.
Hardback 9 × 12 ¼ inches (31 × 23 cm) 320 pages 500 color illustrations Published by Phaidon January 2021

Nike: Better Is Temporary

In Full Flower features more than twenty of the most influential and celebrated floral artists across the United States. Combining traditional techniques with organic forms, unusual pairings, and personal artistic visions, each piece is uniquely crafted and inspiring. Gorgeously photographed by Gemma and Andrew Ingalls, In Full Flower captures the arranging processes and final works, as well as wanderlust-inducing gardens and interiors that exhibit the simple yet luxurious living these artists embody.
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In Full Flower

Small essay by David Anfam
In materials as diverse as wood, steel, bronze, latex, marble, plaster, resin, hemp, lead, ink, pencil, crayon, woodcut, watercolor and gouache, Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) investigates every imaginable manifestation of the spiral, from graphic patterns to graphite whorls, wobbly orbits to chiseled vortices, twisted columns to coiling snakes, staircases and pyramids. The cursive blue-paper word drawings also included, in English and French, complement the purely visual works by conveying the spirit of Bourgeois’ writing in extraordinary pictorial forms.
Published by Damiani, 2019 Hardcover with 86 pages with 35 color plates Dimensions: 12 x 9 1/4 inches (30.48 x 23.49 cm)

Louise Bourgeois: Spiral

By M.C Huhne
A look at the glamour of the Jet Age and the graphics that sold it.
Airline Visual Identity 1945-1975 looks at the most imaginative, influential designs of the airlines' commercial art from the “golden age of flying.” It provides an unprecedented, systematic outline of the development of the visual identities of thirteen pioneering airlines, combining research and presentations of hundreds of aviation posters, photos and illustrations. Conceived by some of the world's top creative minds, such as Ivan Chermayeff, Otl Aicher, Massimo Vignelli, Saul Bass, and advertising titan Mary Wells Lawrence, the designs found in the book's case studies also illustrate the shift from traditional methods of corporate design and advertising to comprehensive modern branding programs which took place in the same period. To reproduce all of the images as precisely as possible, a total of seventeen different colors, five different varnishes, and two different methods of foil printing and embossing were used.
Published by Callisto Publishers, 2015 Hardcover, 436 pages, 200g Fedrigoni paper Dimensions: 12 x 2 x 16 inches

Airline Visual Identity 1945-1979

Contributors:  Michael Sanchez, Wade Guyton and Franz Thalmair
This catalogue was published in conjunction of the exhibition under the same name at the Secession in Vienna 2011.
Published by Wiener Secession and Revolver Publishing (2011) Dimensions: 9.2 x 0.4 x 12.2 inches, 78 pages, softcover This catalogue is out of print, fine condition.

Wade Guyton: Drawings For A Small Room

Text by Denis Gielen, Joanna Leroy, Jean-Marc Prévost
Photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier (born 1982) grew up in Braddock, PA, a borough in the American Rust Belt ravaged by the steel-industry crisis that hit the US during the Reagan administration. In this former bastion of the steel industry, the artist was raised in her Afro-American family, whose story she told in The Notion of Family . Her 2016 residency at Grand-Hornu allowed her to pursue her work on postindustrial society in Belgium, turning her camera to the Borinage, a mining region whose intense activity in the 19th century was diminished by a series of crises that led to the closure of the last mine in 1976. Testimonies gathered by Frazier from the former miners and their families have resulted in And from the Coaltips a Tree Will Rise , an extensive collection of portraits, landscapes and still lifes.
Published by Musee des Arts Contemporains au Grand-Hornu, 2017 Softcover, 160 pages with 6 color & 60 black & white images Dimensions: 10 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches (27.30 x 24.76 cm) Text in French and English

Latoya Ruby Frazier: And From The Coaltips A Tree Will Rise

Foreword by Sherri Geldin. Text by Nicole R. Fleetwood, Michael Goodson, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Antwaun Sargent
Presenting paintings of some of the artist's key models and muses, I Can't See You Without Me illuminates the work of Brooklyn painter Mickalene Thomas (born 1971). Culling from art history and popular culture, Thomas creates scintillating portraits that deconstruct the highly charged connections between sitter, artist and viewer. Whether depicted as classically composed 19th-century odalisques, Afro-adorned vixens of blaxploitation films or as a powerful maternal figure yearning for social mobility, the recurring models in Thomas' compositions (almost exclusively women of color) convey a spirit of strength and self-confidence. Across this archetypal array, it is both their contradictions and kinships that make the black female body such fertile terrain for the artist's ongoing investigations. By casting herself, her late mother and other formidable women in her life as models, muses and collaborators, Thomas particularizes her distinctive oeuvre of portraiture. Focused yet expansive, the catalog both reasserts and further contextualizes issues of identity, sexuality and agency in Thomas' work that have only become more nuanced and palpable over time.
Published by Wexner Center for the Arts, 2018 Softcover, 128 pages with 40 color images Dimensions: 11 x 8 1/2 inches (27.94 x 21.59 cm)

Mickalene Thomas: I Can’t See You Without Me

This is the sixth volume in Karma’s 11-volume facsimile printing of Lee Lozano’s “Private Book” project. A prolific writer and documenter of both her art and her relationships, the public and private, the painter Lee Lozano (1930–99) kept a series of personal journals from 1968 to 1970 while living in New York’s SoHo neighborhood. In 1972 she rigorously edited these books, thus completing the project. Eleven of these private books survive, containing notes on her work, detailed interactions with artist friends and commentary on the alienations of gender politics, as well as philosophical queries into art’s role in society and humorous asides from daily life.
Published by Karma, 2019
Spiral-Bound softcover
Dimensions: 5 x 3 inches (12.7 x 7.62 cm)
Edition of 3,000 copies

Lee Lozano: Private Book 6

Nopalito is a collection of recipes for regional Mexican food from Gonzalo Guzman — head chef at San Francisco restaurant (and one our favorites) Nopalito. The book includes fundamental techniques of Mexican cuisine, insights into Mexican food and culture, and favorite recipes from the restaurant.

Nopalito

An intimate and revealing collection of photographs of astonishingly beautiful, iconic, and undiscovered mid-century interiors. Compelling homes by influential designers, such as Russel Wright, George Nakashima, Harry Bertoia, Charles and Ray Eames, and Eva Zeisel, among others.

Handcrafted Modern

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)

Stan Douglas Inconsolable Memories

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.