Jeff Wall: Catalogue Raisonne 1978-2004 traces the gradual evolution of Wall's pictorial concept. In an allusion to Charles Baudelaire's dictum on Manet, Wall describes his work as the "painting of modern life," and that life is one fraught with tension but also with luminescent beauty. In 1978, Wall produced The Destroyed Room, which depicted a vandalized space, his first work in the format for ...
The Catalogue Raisonn of the Paintings of Ed Ruscha is a six-volume series of books co-published by Steidl and Gagosian Gallery. This is the second volume, which contains entries on 178 paintings completed between 1971 and 1982--from the artist's crisis at the onset of the 70s, when he "quits painting pictures," to his first major museum retrospective, which opened in March 1982 at the San ...
Ed Ruscha, one of the most influential artists working today, and one of the great West Coast Pop artists, didn't start out as a painter. It was under the influence of teachers including Robert Irwin, Richards Ruben and Emerson Woelffer that he gave up his original goal of becoming a commercial artist to focus on fine art. This third volume in the ongoing documentation of his entire corpus of ...
One of the most celebrated contemporary Japanese photographers, Daido Moriyama has explored a pioneering and innovative style of photography since his publication of Japan, A Photo Theater (1968). The Complete Works of Daido Moriyama chronologically presents all of his photographs first presented in books and magazines, each with a complete history. Print edition of 1000. .Number of volumes: 4 ...
WOW. This is a real work of research. The amount of detail and care that has gone into this study of Warhol's early paintings is not to be believed. The editors have compiled a completely staggering amount of information about each work shown here--and who knew there were so many original ...
If you get a chance to purchase this book set on the artist Gerhard Richter, do it. This book will be worth $1000 within 5 years - mark my words. I have been collecting Richter books for years and this is one of the most sought after Richter books on the world market. I used to see these books in ...
Duchamp was not an artist, but an alchemist. As a teen I had the opportunity to see Arturo Shwarz give a lecture on Duchamp, called "archetypal alchemical iconography & the work of Marcel Duchamp". Though much of what he said was lost on me, the bits I could make out spoke directly to my soul. A ...
+ Pettibon OPUS GRANDE + Raymond Pettibon complete works
A few years ago, Quimby's books in Chicago had a whole bunch of these little digest-sized, xerox-produced, hand stapled booklets by Raymond Pettibon. I never bought any, and always regretted it. Some savvy art-speculator probably snatched up the whole lot. They were selling them for a dollar or ...
It is the nature of the biz that catalogues raisonne need to be refined and updated over time. This is especially true of the attempts to catalogue the work of print artists. Some artists such as Warhol and Dali will likely never have definitive raisonnes of their legitimate work never mind that ...
The work of Eva Hesse (1936-1970) has been the focus of growing attention over the past few decades. With recent major exhibitions in San Francisco, London, and Wiesbaden, Hesse's tremendous contribution to the art world of the 1960s and 70s is now recognized by scholars and the general public alike. These two lavishly produced volumes are the first in a major new publishing initiative: a ...
In January 1964 Warhol moved his studio to East Forty-seventh Street and began to produce works in series, allowing him to create open-ended aggregations of boxes or canvases that could be combined, recombined, or left as single units. This volume of the catalogue raisonne reproduces the series "Thirteen Most Wanted Men"; seven distinct series of box sculptures, including "Brillo", "Heinz ...
The most surprising thing about Newman's output is how non-prolific he was,118 works on canvas in 25 years.Every painting is reproduced in superb color.The only detriment is that half a dozen of his large horizontal paintings are spread across the centrespread,spoiling the composition.Using fold ...
The book contained fewer pictures and more information than I had hoped for, but completely makes up for it by including all kinds of little doodles in the margins. The book gives good background of Owens, and the overall feel of the book gives you a real sense of her as an artist. It had enough ...
+ Essential Warholia + probably the best Screen Tests reference-not that I'd know
callie angell's expert volume 1 of the warhol film catalog raisonne (screentests) is a must for all libraries as the most authentic referrence manual for this ouvre. all information is from direct viewing of the films and interviews with actual participants. it is therefore the primary source for ...
"It is proper to the way of living," the author Jean Paul Richter once noticed, "that one is polite also against himself".
However, Mondrian painted manically compulsively out of a fear against the chaos of the world daily. Although it did not feed him, he could not quit this activity; he ...
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