By Pamela Parmal, Jennifer M. Swope, Lauren D. Whitley and Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
A mother stitches a few lines of prayer into a bedcover for her son serving in the Union army during the Civil War. A formerly enslaved African American woman creates a quilt populated by Biblical figures alongside celestial events. A quilted Lady Liberty, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln mark the resignation of Richard Nixon. These are just a few of the diverse and sometimes hidden stories of the American experience told by quilts and bedcovers from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Spanning more than 400 years, the 58 works of textile art in this book express the personal narratives of their makers and owners and connect to broader stories of global trade, immigration, industry, marginalization, and territorial and cultural expansion. Artists included: Faith Ringgold, Sanford Biggers, Irene Williams, Bisa Butler, Harry Tyler, Harriet Powers, Marie D. Webster, Marguerite Zorach, Dorothy Phillips Haagensen, Rachel Cary George, Florence Peto, Creola Pettway, Susan Hoffman, Molly Upton, Nancy Crasco, Agusta Agustsson, Edward Larson, Michael James, Virginia Jacobs and Carla Hemlock.
Published by MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2021 Hardcover, 240 pages Dimensions: 10 3/4 x 10 inches (27.30 x 25.4 cm)

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Author: Fausto Gilberti
Jackson Pollock was unlike any other painter. Instead of sitting in front of an easel with brushes, he poured paint over canvases rolled-out across the floor, moving, splashing, and making the vivid liquid run with energy and rhythm. Pollock’s story is told here with wit and eccentricity, perfectly paired with black-line illustrations – and splatters galore. Fausto Gilberti brings movement, life, and whimsy to the true life story of one of the most important contemporary artists of our time.
Published by Phaidon Press, 2019 Hardcover with 48 pages, full color illustrations throughout Dimensions 8 3/4 x 8 3/4 (22.22 x 22.22 cm) Reading age level 4 - 7 years old

Jackson Pollock Splashed Paint And Wasn't Sorry

Baby & Kids

Los Angeles-based artist-turned-designer Hannah Byun created Hansel from Basel in 2007 as a way to apply a sense of much-needed zest to everyday legwear. Originally inspired by Hannah’s childhood nickname (“Hansel”) and her fascination with Switzerland (therefore “from Basel”), the collection is forever and always finding inspiration in every nook and cranny of life, from the mundane to the magical. Cotton and nylon blend Made in Japan One size fits most Recommended women’s US size 6 - 9.5

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Limoges porcelain pot with scented candle is designed based on works by Andy Warhol "Flowers on White", 1964-65 Scent is called "Lily of the Valley" and is made by Givaudan Made in France by Ligne Blanche Candle is 6.29 inches in diameter with four wicks Comes in a gift box

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An artist book by Keren Cytter
A playful symbiosis of form and content, The Furious Hamster by Keren Cytter comprises a disgruntled pet who refuses to be boxed in by the physical boundaries of a book. Attempts to escape the pages and thwart the efforts of his creator, Keren Cytter, ensue, and lead him on a journey involving the companionship of fleas and the hardship of self-discovery. Ultimately, the book concludes its light-hearted narrative with a message of bravery for its readers: as with the hamster and his fleas, one should never be afraid to forge a path of their own.
Published by Pork Salad Press, 2018 Softcover, 56 pages Dimensions: 5 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches (15 x 15 cm) Edition 500 Out of print Condition: Clean flat copy with very light scuffs on cover

The Furious Hamster

Edited by Phillip Earenfight. Text by Nancy Princenthal, Phillip Earenfight.
Joyce Kozloff: Co-Ordinates considers the New York-based artist's paintings and works on paper--which employ the formal structure and conventions of cartography to examine issues of power, gender and global politics--from the late 1990s to the present. This is the first book to consider Kozloff's work since the late 1990s within the broader context of her career and the history of map-related art. Charting her influential contribution to the Pattern and Decoration movement--which was an integral part of the downtown New York art scene of the 1970s--the volume also explores Kozloff's later, large-scale public artworks.

Fifty full-color photo spreads are dedicated to key projects-- Targets, Boys' Art, American History and Voyages --and accompanied by an essay by critic Nancy Princenthal and an interview with the artist.

Publisher: The Trout Gallery, Dickinson College (2009)
Hardcover, 132 pages with 132 color images
Dimensions: 10.5 x 12 inches

Joyce Kozloff: Co-ordinates

By Margaret Steele and Cindy Estes For children and grown-ups alike, MOCA’s popular Art of… books use contemporary artwork from the museum’s permanent collection to illustrate shapes, colors, and the human body. The Art of Colors features artwork by Mark Rothko, Betye Saar, Jean Michel Basquiat, Sam Francis, Barbara Bloom, Andy Warhol, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Louis Nevelson, Jasper Johns, Hirokazu Kosaka, Richard Diebenkorn, and Doug Wheeler. Published by Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Board book 24 pages 2 years + 5 1/2 x 6 1/2 x 1 inches (13.97 x 16.51 x 2.54 cm)

The Art Of Colors

By Joan Banach, Jeremy Melius, Laura Stamps, Benno Tempel and Lee Bontecou
Since the 1960s, American artist Lee Bontecou (born 1931) has been internationally praised for her intriguing sculptures and installations.
The rich, organic shapes of her sculptures seem to originate from a mysterious universe in which fears and desires are condensed.
Recently the artist created “Sandbox,” a new installation in which she combines elements from her work from the 1960s to the present. A picture essay by Joan Banach, artist and friend of Bontecou, focuses on the genesis of “Sandbox” and maps the rich network of Bontecou’s inspirations: pictures range from extracts from geological and historical books to images of works by old masters.
Beautiful, detailed photographs of the artist’s studio―including her inspirational “wall of drawings”―are featured alongside reproductions from Bontecou’s sketchbooks. This book is an intimate insight into the creative process of the artist.
Published by Walther Konig, 2017 Hardcover, 136 pages, illustrated throughout Dimensions 11 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches (29.84 x 24.76 cm)

Lee Bontecou

Text by Megan Ratner
American artist Glenn Ligon’s latest monumental screen-printed paintings draw upon Minimalist composer Steve Reich’s taped-speech work Come Out. Ligon’s series recontextualises the phrase ‘Come out to show them’ from the testimony of one of the badly beaten Harlem Six, which Reich isolated for his 1966 work. Whilst Reich repeats the refrain on two channels that gradually become out of sync, Ligon continually superimposes the words onto the canvas to form densely layered landscapes of text. Echoing Reich's music, the artist increases the number of silkscreen layers in each painting until the words verge on abstraction. Bringing together illustrations of new studies and paintings originally exhibited at Thomas Dane Gallery, London, an essay by Megan Ratner examines the relationship between the paintings, the phrase and history.
Published by Ridinghouse, 2014 Hardcover 48 pages with 25 color images Dimensions: 12 x 11 1/4 inches (30.48 x 28.57 cm) This title is out of print Condition: New.  In original shrinkwrap

Glenn Ligon Come Out

Edited with introduction by Matthew Simms
In 1969 curator, critic and former Jewish Museum director Alan Solomon interviewed Craig Kauffman, Larry Bell, James Turrell and Robert Irwin in conjunction with an exhibition he was organizing. They are the earliest in-depth interviews with each artist. Because of his untimely death they have remained in his archives and are published here for the first time. The interviews provide a rare glimpse into the early careers of these seminal artists, documenting their critical, aesthetic and intellectual concerns at a pivotal moment, allowing readers new insight into an important era of American postwar art. Solomon rose to prominence in the 1960s as a curator at the Jewish Museum in New York, where he organized a series of first solo exhibitions for the likes of Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. He also curated several major international surveys, including the 1964 Venice Biennale, where Rauschenberg won the Golden Lion. In 1968 Solomon left New York to take up a position at the fledgling University of California campus in Irvine, which was home to a dynamic group of young faculty and students. There he became acquainted with Kauffman, Bell, Turrell and Irwin, who have since been recognized as canonical participants in California Light and Space art of the 1960s. With this volume his engagement with these artists, and their roles in this important art historical episode, has finally been brought to light.
Published by Circle Books, 2019 Softcover, 224 pages Dimensions 5 x 7 1/2 inches (12.70 x 19.05 cm)

The Los Angeles Tapes Alan Solomon's Interviews With Kauffman, Bell, Turrell, And Irwin

By Nancy Doll, Nancy Princethal and Xandra Eden
Featuring visually stunning works from one of today’s most innovative sculptors, this comprehensive volume is the first critical survey of Nancy Rubins’s entire career. Considered one of the most important sculptors working today, Nancy Rubins has been the subject of few scholarly or critical writings. This book fills that void as it considers the relationship between the artist’s works on paper and her sculpture. Called the "California genius of junk" by critic Peter Schjeldahl, Rubins has a unique talent for transforming industrial materials into weightless, delicate objects. She incorporates pre-fabricated boat and plane parts, mattresses, discarded appliances and other recycled items into visually stunning, gravity-defying installations that encourage viewers to reconsider the pieces’ original elements and how they should behave. Dazzling color illustrations explore these muscular yet graceful pieces while thoughtful essays consider previously unexamined aspects of Rubins’ work, such as its relationship to that of other artists, its physiological and psychological impact on the viewer, and its feminist underpinnings. Fans of Rubins’s sculptures will find this volume a satisfying and enriching exploration of her process and artistic vision.
Published by Prestel, 2014 Hardcover, 168 pages Dimensions: 12 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches (35.11 x 24.76cm)

Nancy Rubins: Drawing Sculpture Studies

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By Sheena Wagstaff, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Briony Fer, Hal Foster, Peter Geimer, Brinda Kumar, André Rottmann
This lavishly illustrated monograph explores Richters complex relationship to figuration, abstraction and memory through more than 100 key canvases.

New essays by eminent scholars address a variety of themes: Sheena Wagstaff evaluates the conceptual import of the artist’s technique; Benjamin H. D. Buchloh discusses the poignant Birkenau paintings (2014); Peter Geimer explores the artist’s enduring interest in photographic imagery; Briony Fer looks at Richter’s family pictures against traditional painting genres and conventions; Brinda Kumar investigates the artist’s engagement with landscape as a site of memory; André Rottmann considers the impact of randomization and chance on Richter’s abstract works; and Hal Foster examines the glass and mirror works. As this book demonstrates, Richter’s rich and varied oeuvre is a testament to the continued relevance of painting in contemporary art.

Publication Date: March 10, 2020 Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2020
Hardcover, 270 pages
Dimensions: 9 1/2 x 10 1/2 277 color illus.

Gerhard Richter Painting After All

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Edited by Suzanne Cotter, Achim Hochdörfer, Tonio Kröner. Text by Manuela Ammer, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, et al.

This chronological overview of the painting, performances and music of Jutta Koether (born 1958) reaches back to her beginnings in Cologne's neo-expressionist circles of the early and mid-1980s, tracing her move to New York in the early 1990s and her large-scale paintings that layer motifs from pop culture, literature and art history.
Published by Walther Konig, 2018 Hardcover 304 pages with 250 color images
Dimensions: 11 3/4 x 10 inches (29.84 x 25.4 cm)

Jutta Koether: Tour De Madame

Edited by Christophe Cherix, Cornelia Butler, and David Platzker. with texts by Christophe Cherix, Cornelia Butler, David Platzker, and Adrian Piper. Backmatter compiled by Tessa Ferreyros
Adrian Piper has consistently produced groundbreaking work that has profoundly shaped the form and content of conceptual art since the 1960s. Strongly inflected by her longstanding involvement with philosophy and yoga, her pioneering investigations into the political, social, psychological and spiritual potential of conceptual art have had an incalculable influence on artists working today.
Published in conjunction with the most comprehensive exhibition of her work to date, this catalog presents more than 280 artworks that encompass the full range of Piper’s mediums: works on paper, video, multimedia installation, performance, painting, sound and photo-texts. Essays by curators and scholars examine her extensive research into altered states of consciousness; the introduction of the Mythic Being—her subversive masculine alter-ego; her media and installation works from after 1980, which reveal and challenge stereotypes of race and gender; and the global conditions that illuminate the significance of her art. Previously unpublished texts by the artist lay out significant events in her personal history and her deeply felt ideas about the relationship between viewer and art object. This publication expands our understanding of the conceptual and post-conceptual art movements and Piper’s pivotal position among her peers and for later generations.
Published by Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2018 Hardcover 352 pages with 373 color images Dimensions 12 x 9 1/2 inches (30.48 x 24.13 cm)

Adrian Piper A Synthesis Of Institutions

by Sue Lowell Gallion with illustrations by Lisk Feng A read-aloud introduction to geography for young children that, when opened and folded back, creates a freestanding globe. Children are invited to identify and experience the Earth's amazing geography through rhyming verse and lush illustrations: from rivers, lakes, and oceans deep, to valleys, hills, and mountains steep. Secondary text offers more detailed, curriculum-focused facts and encourages readers to consider their own living environments, making the reading experience personal yet set within a global backdrop. This informative homage to Earth is sure to inspire readers to learn more about their planet – and to engage with the world around them. Published by Phaidon Press, 2020 Board book 26 pages 2 – 5 years 12 5/8 x 5 1/4 inches (32.1 x 13.3 cm)

Our World: A First Book Of Geography

Los Angeles-based artist-turned-designer Hannah Byun created Hansel from Basel in 2007 as a way to apply a sense of much-needed zest to everyday legwear. Originally inspired by Hannah’s childhood nickname (“Hansel”) and her fascination with Switzerland (therefore “from Basel”), the collection is forever and always finding inspiration in every nook and cranny of life, from the mundane to the magical. Cotton and polyester blend Made in Japan One size fits most Recommended women’s US size 6 - 9.5

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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 2,500 copies

Lee Lozano: Private Book 5

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By Ben Street
200 Words to Help You Talk About Art is designed to demystify jargon-based art language and make you at ease holding a conversation on the topic. Art can be intimidating to the uninitiated, but with Ben Street’s help you’ll know your Dada from your diptych in no time. The book is written with digestible text enabling a quick and easy understanding of various topics while broadening your artistic vocabulary.
Published by Laurence King Publishing, 2020 Hardcover, 128 pages Dimensions 7 1/4 x 5 inches (18.41 x 12.7 cm)

200 Words To Help You Talk About Art

Edited with text by Helen Molesworth. Interviews with Lindsay Charlwood, Dagny Corcoran, Daniel DeSure, Thomas Houseago, Deana Lawson, Henry Taylor, and Venus X by Helen Molesworth
This catalogue is born of the unique relationship between Davis and Helen Molesworth, whom Davis entrusted to be the curator of his work. It is published on the occasion of the 2020 exhibition at David Zwirner, New York, which travels to The Underground Museum in Los Angeles, a space that Davis founded with his wife, artist Karon Davis. In her introduction, catalogue essay, and interviews with important figures in Davis’s life, Molesworth shows how the artist’s generosity and sense of responsibility galvanized a uniquely supportive artistic community, culture, and vision. Together with color illustrations and archival photographs, the book features heartfelt testimonials that unfold in the intimate yet expansive spirit of studio visits with people close to him.
Published by David Zwirner Books and The Underground Museum, 2020 Hardcover, 176 pages. 95 color images Dimensions 10 x 12 inches (25.4 x 30.5 cm)

Noah Davis

Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal presents a survey of the artist’s prolific and extraordinary interdisciplinary career, with a particular focus on the work’s relationship to the photographic image and to issues of representation and perception. At the core of Hank Willis Thomas’s practice, is his ability to parse and critically dissect the flow of images that comprise American culture, with particular attention to race, gender, and cultural identity.
This extensive presentation of his work contextualizes the material with incisive essays from Portland Art Museum curators Julia Dolan and Sara Krajewski and art historian Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, and an in-depth interview between art historian Kellie Jones and the artist that elaborates on Thomas’s influences and inspirations.
Published by Aperture, 2018 Hardcover, 256 pages 300 images Dimensions: 9 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches (24.1 x 29.2 cm) First edition

Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal

By Jan Herman
A time capsule made of words, this fascinating and thoroughly entertaining collection of 21 short vignettes shines a personal and penetrating light on a score of mainstream and countercultural figures, including William Burroughs, Norman Mailer, Mary Hemingway, Paul Theroux, John Cheever, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, James Michener and Nelson Algren. As one enviably close to the originators of the Beat Generation as well as post-Beat and Fluxus writers and artists, author Jan Herman offers invaluable insights and historic perspective gained from his involvement in the avant-garde underground of the 1960s. Including an essay on his own life titled My Adventures in Fugitive Literature Or, How I got to San Francisco, clerked at City Lights, started a little magazine, published William Burroughs, and landed in Vermont as Editor of Something Else Press.
Published by AC Books, 2015 Softcover, 240 pages Dimensions: 8 x 5 inches (20.32 x 12.70 cm) This book is out of print Condition: New

The Z Collection: Portraits And Sketches

By Jo Ann Callis, with contributions by Francie Prose
Other Rooms , the first publication to comprehensively feature Jo Ann Callis’ mid-1970s investigation of the nude body and sexuality, is a revelation; the work is provocative, seductive and remarkably fresh. The artist’s playful, evocative use of constrictions and overlays on the human form, including twine, belts, tape and other everyday materials, are both humorous and fraught, offering an intensely personal assessment of the variable meanings of pleasure and the female nude as a staple of fine art photography. Callis has been an active artist since the 1960s, working in painting, sculpture and photography, among other media, and is known for capturing complex and often opposing emotions in a single piece. Jo Ann Callis: Other Rooms is an exquisitely produced artist’s book containing Callis’ photographs of the human form from her 1976-77 provisionally titled series Early Color, as well as a selection of black-and-white photographs from the same period.
Published by Aperture, 21014 Hardcover, 88 pages. Dimensions: 11 x 8 3/4 inches (27.94 x 22.22 cm)

Jo Ann Callis: Other Rooms

By Andrea Miller-Keller, Stephen Melville, Marc Blondeau and Philippe Davet
Louise Lawler focuses her camera on high art and its spaces, from the rarefied white cube to the windowless storeroom, from the collector’s luxurious bedroom to the featureless boardroom. Part institutional critique, part social commentary and part wandering gaze, Lawler’s glossy photographs redirect the viewer’s attention from the artworks to their environs, exposing a set of supple relationships surrounding the presentation and marketing of art and its role in conferring and reflecting power. Lawler’s emphasis on context as a defining factor in the assignment of an object’s value throws her own sumptuous photographs into a state of eloquent suspension. In 1984, Lawler was granted access to the homes of visionary collectors Burton and Emily Tremaine, and she has since tracked the works she photographed there as they have wended their way through museums and auction houses. With texts by Stephen Melville and Andrea Miller-Keller, this publication gathers almost all the Tremaine Pictures produced between 1984 and 2007.
Published by JRP | Ringier, 2008 Softcover, 108 pages Dimensions: 9 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches (24.76 x 24.76 cm)

Louise Lawler: The Tremaine Pictures

Iconoclast and artist Pope.L uses the body, sex, and race as his materials the way other artists might use paint, clay, or bronze.  His work problematizes social categories by exploring how difference is marked economically, socially, and politically. Working in a range of media from ketchup to baloney to correction fluid, with a special emphasis on performativity and writing, Pope.L pokes fun at and interrogates American society’s pretenses, the bankruptcy of contemporary mores, and the resulting repercussions for a civil society. Other favorite Pope.L targets are squeamishness about the human body and the very possibility of making meaning through art and its display. Published to accompany his wonderfully inscrutable exhibition Forlesen at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Pope.L: Showing Up to Withhold is simultaneously an artist’s book and a monograph. In addition to reproductions of a number of his most recent artworks, it includes images of significant works from the past decade, and presents a forum for reflection and analysis on art making today with contributions by renowned critics and scholars, including Lawrie Balfour, Nick Bastis, Lauren Berlant, and K. Silem Mohammad.

William Pope.l: Showing Up To Withhold

Edited by Peter Pakesch. Text by Adam Budak
Diana Thater's video "gorillagorillagorilla," continues the artist's merging of fictive cinematic space and the physical exhibition space in order to disrupt the viewer's position and perception of identity.
The large-format video installations analyses the complexity of nature and its relationship with mankind. Her new work, Gorillagorillagorilla is a study of human and animal behavior and the artist's further investigation of the medium of video as an image production tool. The pictorial section comprises both installation shots from the Kunsthaus Graz and a photographic essay by Diana Thater with pictorial material generated during the filming of Gorillagorillagorilla in Cameroon.

Published by Walther König, 2009
Softcover, 168 pages with illustrations throughout
Dimensions: 11 x 8 3/4 inches (27.94 x 22.22 cm)
Text in English and German
Out of print
Condition: light scuffs, minor wear on bottom, otherwise clean flat copy

Diana Thater: Gorillagorillagorilla

An accessible introduction to the rich language and culture of Japan, this tote-able Japanese language collection makes an artful addition to any library, as well as an ideal travel primer and companion for aspiring Japanese speakers. Pairing words and characters with whimsical illustrations, each section features examples of word pronunciation, the three main Japanese writing systems (kanji, hiragana, and katakana), and common Japanese elements. At once instructive and a joy to behold, Let's Learn Japanese is a go-to gift for the world traveler and language learner.
Dimensions: 8 x 8 inches (20.3 x 20.3 cm) Hardcover 48 pages Appropriate for all ages!

Let's Learn Japanese, First Words Book

On the occasion of a mid career survey, the Whitney presents ALPHABET featuring 33 panels that comprise a single work of art created by Laura Owens. Unique in the world of children's books as it features unadulterated reproductions of fine art without additional text or caveat, ALPHABET is both a traditional children's ABC book and an artist book for adults to enjoy.
Publisher: Whitney Museum of Art, 2017 Hardcover 66 pages