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Winner of the AIGA 50 Books | 50 Covers 2020 competition Edited by Klaus Biesenbach and Bettina Funcke. With contributions by Phil Aarons, Marina Abramovic, Sarah Arison, agnès b, Linda Blumberg, Janet Cardiff, Chris Dercon, Peter Eleey, Fred Fisher, Tony Guerrero, Larissa Harris, Alanna Heiss, Jonathan Lill, Glenn D. Lowry, Warren Niesluchowski, Carolee Schneemann,…
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Edited by Inés Katzenstein and María Amalia García with Karen Grimson and Michaëla de Lacaze. With contributions by Inés Katzenstein, María Amalia García, Mónica Amor, Irene V. Small. Interview with Luis Pérez-Oramas, Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, and Glenn D. Lowry Sur moderno: Journeys of Abstraction explores the abstract and Concrete art movements that flourished…
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To look inside this book, click here. Selected by the New York Times as one of the Best Photography Books of 2019 Edited by Sarah Hermanson Meister. With a contribution by LaToya Ruby Frazier In 1899 Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864–1952) was commissioned to photograph Virginia’s Hampton Institute, and her mesmerizing images of…
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To look inside this book, click here. Edited by Samantha Friedman and Jodi Hauptman. With contributions by Samantha Friedman, Lynn Garafola, Michelle Greet, Michelle Harvey, Richard Meyer, and Kevin Moore Lincoln Kirstein (1907–1996) was a true polymath—writer, critic, curator, and impresario—and an indefatigable catalyst, whose contributions to American cultural endeavors in the 1930s…
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Edited by Sarah Hermanson Meister Published in conjunction with the first major museum exhibition of Brazilian modernist photography outside of Brazil, Fotoclubismo presents the groundbreaking creative achievements of the Foto-Cine Clube Bandeirante, an amateur photography club founded in São Paulo in 1939. The vast majority of FCCB members pursued photography as a hobby: they…
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Edited by Stuart Comer. With contributions by Naomi Beckwith, Mark H.C. Bessire, C. Carr, Valerie Cassel Oliver, Adrienne Edwards, Malik Gaines, Danielle A. Jackson, Adrian Heathfield, EJ Hill, Thomas J. Lax, André Lepecki, Yvonne Rainer, Martine Syms, and Martha Wilson Pope.L is a consummate thinker and provocateur whose practice across multiple mediums—including painting, drawing,…
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To look inside this book, click here. Finalist for the Association of American Publisher’s 2021 PROSE Award for Best Art Exhibition Catalogue Edited by Starr Figura, Isabelle Cahn, and Philippe Peltier. With contributions by by Cécile Bargues, Yaelle Biro, Anna Blaha, Megan Fontanella, Claudine Grammont, Joan U. Halperin, Charlotte Hellman, Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel, Patricia Leighten,…
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Edited by Esther Adler. Featuring interviews with thirteen artists who have worked with Jacob Samuel The Los Angeles-based master printer and publisher Jacob Samuel collaborated with some of the most influential artists of our time, introducing painters, sculptors, photographers, and even performance artists to etching, a printmaking technique with a five-hundred-year history. The results—the…
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By Terence Riley Yoshio Taniguchi was selected from among an elite field of international architects to design The Museum of Modern Art’s new building—his first commission outside his native Japan. This volume, which accompanies an exhibition of the same name at MoMA in 2005, highlights the project and eight others. Designed by Massimo…
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Edited by Juliet Kinchin. With contributions by Tanya Harrod, Medea Hoch, Juliet Kinchin, Francis Luca, Maria Paola Maino, Amy Ogata, Aidan O’Connor, David Senior, and Sarah Suzuki Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900–2000 brings together an unprecedented collection of objects and concepts from around the world in order to investigate the fascinating…
Josef Albers Interaction of Color is a masterwork in art education. Conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for artists instructors and students this influential book presents Albers’s singular explanation of complex color theory principles. Originally published by Yale University Press in 1963 as a limited silkscreen edition with 150 color plates Interaction of Color…
By Anne Umland A fascinating and detailed analysis of one of the most iconic works of Surrealism In 1931, Salvador Dalí (1904–89) painted The Persistence of Memory, a work that has become virtually synonymous both with the artist and with Surrealism itself. In this bleak and infinite dreamscape, hard objects become inexplicably limp, while metal…
By Cara Manes and Dominika Tylcz Ruth Asawa’s vibrant and experimental lithographs, made at the renowned Tamarind Lithography Workshop In autumn 1965, the artist Ruth Asawa (1926–2013) produced a remarkable suite of fifty-four prints at the storied Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los Angeles. Asawa, well-known for her intricate looped-wire sculptures, was new to lithography,…
By Evangelos Kotsioris Standing high over Tokyo’s Ginza district, the iconic Nakagin Capsule Tower (1970–72), designed by the office of the Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa, was an architectural marvel. Its two steel-and-concrete towers supported 140 prefabricated living “capsules,” as sleekly and compactly outfitted as sailing cabins, intended as restorative cocoons for commuting businessmen. Kurokawa planned…
Edited by Barry Bergdoll and Peter Christensen. With contributions by Barry Bergdoll, Ken Tadashi Oshima, and Rasmus Wærn Today, with the digital revolution reorganizing the relationship between the drafting board and the factory, prefabrication continues to spur innovative manufacturing and imaginative design, and its potential is not yet fulfilled. But the mass-produced, factory-made home…
Edited by Salah Hassan Sudanese artist, writer, critic, and cultural diplomat Ibrahim El-Salahi (born 1930) is one of the critical figures of African and Arabic modernism. While serving as Sudan’s Undersecretary of Culture in 1975, El-Salahi was imprisoned without trial and endured six months of deprivation in the notorious Cooper (now Kober) Prison. During…