Individual artists, art monographs

This book follows Chagall's life through his art and his understanding of the role of the artist as a political being.

This book follows Chagall's life through his art and his understanding of the role of the artist as a political being.

Fur diesen Band wurden Texte von Daniel Buren ausgewahlt, die seine kunstlerische wie theoretische Arbeit seit 1967 besonders anschaulich dokumentieren.

Fur diesen Band wurden Texte von Daniel Buren ausgewahlt, die seine kunstlerische wie theoretische Arbeit seit 1967 besonders anschaulich dokumentieren.

This book examines Theodore Gericault's images of black men, women and children who suffered slavery's trans-Atlantic passage in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including his 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa.

This book examines Theodore Gericault's images of black men, women and children who suffered slavery's trans-Atlantic passage in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including his 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa.

Play and the Artist's Creative Process explores a continuity between childhood play and adult creativity.

As children, our passions came easy.

"e;A sumptuous, beautiful collection of cyborgs, sushi, and monstersthis book is a feast for the eyes and a phosphorescent display of creativity.

Over the course of his 20-year career, Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997) cast himself alternately as hard-drinking carouser and confrontational art-world jester, thrusting these personae to the forefront of his prodigious creativity.

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Caroline Walker (b.

A selection of writings and performances by visual artist, Silvia Ziranek, produced 1976-2011, including ICI VILLA MOI (1990) and NOT UNDIRTY (2011).

From his earliest work with glass to the stunning aerial panoramas of Maine islands that have gained him far-reaching fame, Eric Hopkins has consistently explored boundaries-of medium, of space, of vision.

Composed of stories that sketch the resonant heights and depths of an auto- biography, Subject to Change is a series of portraits along the road of a life well lived.

John Singer Sargents renowned portrait The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit is examined in an aesthetic, philosophical, and personal tour de force that has been called thoroughly absorbing (New York Times Book Review); brilliant and insightful?

People will see themselves in these stories about real men and women overcoming adversity with prayer.

Diagnosed with schizophrenia in the 1950s, German writer and artist Unica Z rn produced a wealth of remarkable textual and visual material within psychiatric institutions across Germany and France.

Known for - and even overshadowed by - his brutal and spectacular building cuts, Gordon Matta-Clark's oeuvre is unique in the history of American art.

Highly respected by her peers and hugely influential on the subsequent generation of artists, the British artist Helen Chadwick produced a wideranging body of work in a variety of media, which shifted from early institutional and architectural critique to operatic installations, and to photographic projects and sculptures.

Rain machines; alarmed kosher pickle jars filled with gemstones; replica corn flakes boxes; 'disco decor'; time capsules; art bombs; birthday presents; perfume bottles and floating silver pillows that are clouds; paintings that are also films; museum interventions; collected and curated projects; expanded performance environments; holograms.

In four decades of abstract art practice, Lynda Benglis has not merely challenged the status quo.

In four decades of abstract art practice, Lynda Benglis has not merely challenged the status quo.

Rain machines; alarmed kosher pickle jars filled with gemstones; replica corn flakes boxes; 'disco decor'; time capsules; art bombs; birthday presents; perfume bottles and floating silver pillows that are clouds; paintings that are also films; museum interventions; collected and curated projects; expanded performance environments; holograms.

Diagnosed with schizophrenia in the 1950s, German writer and artist Unica Zürn produced a wealth of remarkable textual and visual material within psychiatric institutions across Germany and France.

Joseph Beuys is one of the most legendary figures of twentieth century art; his work and ideas continue to impact on artists today.

Alberto Giacometti's attenuated figures of the human form are among the most significant artistic images of the twentieth century.

Highly respected by her peers and hugely influential on the subsequent generation of artists, the British artist Helen Chadwick produced a wideranging body of work in a variety of media, which shifted from early institutional and architectural critique to operatic installations, and to photographic projects and sculptures.

In this illuminating collection of new interviews, some of the most important women artists practising in Britain today talk about their work, their influences and their relationships, sometimes ambivalent, with the art historical canon.

This extraordinary examination of the work of 'colour field' painter Helen Frankenthaler overturns assumptions about the artist, whose work has been burdened by its label as 'the bridge between Pollock and what was possible'.

Known for - and even overshadowed by - his brutal and spectacular building cuts, Gordon Matta-Clark's oeuvre is unique in the history of American art.

Here is an important new examination of the work of American German Jewish artist Eva Hesse, one of the most significant figures in twentieth century art.

Clarence Major is an award-winning painter, fiction writer, and poet-as well as an essayist, editor, anthologist, lexicographer, and memoirist.

Equal under the Sky is the first historical study of Georgia O'Keeffe's complex involvement with, and influence on, US feminism from the 1910s to the 1970s.

In 1906 George Shiras III (18591942) published a series of remarkable nighttime photographs in National Geographic.

The first full-length critical analysis of the paintings of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, this book focuses on Smith's role as a modernist in addition to her status as a wellknown Native American artist.

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Ana Mendieta, a Cuban-born artist who lived in exile in the United States, was one of the most provocative and complex personalities of the 1970s' artworld.

Andy Warhol was queer in more ways than one.

Henry Darger (1892-1973) was a hospital janitor and an immensely productive artist and writer.

In 1972 the artist Adrian Piper began periodically dressing as a persona called the Mythic Being, striding the streets of New York in a mustache, Afro wig, and mirrored sunglasses with a cigar in the corner of her mouth.

Often featuring lighthouses, bridges, or quaint country homes, Thomas Kinkade's soft-focus landscapes have permeated American visual culture during the past twenty years, appearing on everything from Bibles to bedsheets to credit cards.

Child of the Fire is the first book-length examination of the career of the nineteenth-century artist Mary Edmonia Lewis, best known for her sculptures inspired by historical and biblical themes.

Since the 1970s, the performance and conceptual artist Suzanne Lacy has explored women's lives and experiences, as well as race, ethnicity, aging, economic disparities, and violence, through her pioneering community-based art.

Creator of such acclaimed works as the performance Meat Joy and the film Fuses, for decades the artist Carolee Schneemann has saved the letters she has written and received.

The performance artist Joanna Frueh has emerged over the past twenty-five years as a wildly original voice in feminist art.

Robert Morris, a leading figure in postwar American art, is best known as a pioneer of minimalist sculpture, process art, and earthworks.

One of the youngest recipients of a MacArthur "e;genius"e; grant, Kara Walker, an African American artist, is best known for her iconic, often life-size, black-and-white silhouetted figures, arranged in unsettling scenes on gallery walls.