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To look inside this book, click here. By Anne Umland On first encountering Sophie Taeuber-Arp’s diminutive Head (1920), one might wonder whether it is an abstract sculpture, a playful portrait, or a functional object. Indicative of the artist’s pursuit to break down the conventional boundaries between the fine and applied arts, the work…
To look inside this book, click here. By Shamoon Zamir Helen Levitt’s photographs from the 1930s and ’40s are extraordinarily vivid evocations of New York City street life and its protagonists. Capturing evanescent configurations of gesture, pose, and expression, her images reveal the street as surreal theater, and everyday life as art and mystery. The…
By Emily Braun The unexpected encounter of a rubber glove, a green ball, and the head from a classical statue gives rise to one of the most compelling paintings in the history of modernist art: Giorgio de Chirico’s Song of Love (1914). This uncanny image exemplifies what de Chirico called “metaphysical” painting, which creates…
To look inside this book, click here. By Gwen Allen In 1981 Cindy Sherman was commissioned to contribute a special project to Artforum magazine. Given a two-page spread to work with, she chose to explore the erotic centerfold—a standard feature of men’s “lifestyle” magazines ever since it was established by Playboy in the mid-1950s….
To look inside this book, click here. By Leah Dickerman In the mid-1950s Robert Rauschenberg began making what he called “Combines”—radically experimental works that mix paint and other art materials with things found in daily life. These hybrid creations offered a dramatic counterpoint to the gestural abstraction that prevailed in contemporary American painting….
To look inside this book, click here. By Anne Monahan Ten adults—men and women, black and white—fight, flee, or die over the twelve-foot span of American People Series #20: Die as an interracial pair of children cowers unnoticed in their midst. While Faith Ringgold was painting this apocalyptic vision in a Manhattan studio in…
By Diane Radycki Paula Modersohn-Becker painted her last self-portrait in autumn 1907, while she was pregnant with her first child. In the painting she gazes straight at the viewer, holding up two flowers—symbols of the creativity and procreativity of women artists—and resting a protective hand atop her swelling belly. Modersohn-Becker would die three…
To look inside this book, click here. Edited by Paola Antonelli and Michelle Millar Fisher. With contributions by Luke Baker, Anna Burckhardt, Stephanie Kramer, Mei Mei Rado, and Jennifer Tobias Items: Is Fashion Modern? presents 111 items of clothing and accessories that have had a profound impact on global culture in the twentieth…
Edited by Laurence Kardish. With contributions by Ulrich Döge, Thomas Elsaesser, Laurence Kardish, Claudia Lenssen, Eric Rentschler, and Werner Sudendorff German cinema from the end of World War I to 1933—the years of the Weimar Republic—is widely appreciated for an Expressionist style of filmmaking characterized by anxiety, distorted narrative, and vivid plays of light…
Edited by Ana Janevski with Lilia Rocio Taboada. With contributions by Brandon Eng, Danielle Jackson, Piper Marshall, Chus Martínez, Jason Moran, Lilia Rocio Taboada, Molly Superfine, Gee Wesley, and Gillian Young. Photographic portfolio by Zoe Leonard When the portable video camera became available in the late 1960s, Joan Jonas was one of the first…
By Ana Elena Mallet “There is design in everything,” declared Clara Porset, one of the most innovative Latin American designers of the twentieth century. Throughout her long career, Porset—who was born in Cuba but spent much of her life in Mexico—pioneered the design of modern interiors and furnishings, succeeding in an era that offered…
“A very clever catalog, with wise and heartfelt contributions from Schütte’s fellow artists Charles Ray and Marlene Dumas.” —Jason Farago, The New York Times Edited by Paulina Pobocha. With contributions by Jennifer L. Allen, Marlene Dumas, Charles Ray, and André Rottman. Chronology by Caitlin Chaisson and Lydia Mullin. Published to accompany a retrospective…
Edited by Alicia Legg. With a contribution by Mary Beth Smalley This catalog of 3,260 entries represents The Museum of Modern Art’s holdings of paintings and sculpture, with selected works on paper, through December 21, 1987. The first four editions of a catalog of the whole collection, Painting and Sculpture in The Museum of Modern…
By Robert Venturi Winner of the AIA’s 1996 Classic Book Award (Seventh Annual International Architecture Book Awards) First published in 1966, this remarkable book has become an essential document in architectural literature. As Venturi’s “gentle manifesto for a nonstraightforward architecture” the book expresses in the most compelling and original terms the postmodern rebellion…
To look inside this book, click here. Edited by Thomas J. Lax. With contributions by Doryun Chong, Adrienne Edwards, Kathy Halbreich, Deborah Jowitt, Ralph Lemon, Andre Lepecki, Fred Moten, Okwui Okpokwasili, Katherine Profeta, Will Rawls, and Bartholomew Ryan Ralph Lemon is one of the most significant figures to emerge from New York’s downtown…
Selected for AIGA 50 Books | 50 Covers Award Edited by Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi. With contributions from Damasia Lacroze and Erica DiBenedetto Frédéric Bruly Bouabré (1923–2014) created an unmistakable and entirely unique body of work, first as a writer and linguist and then in dazzling series of colorful drawings on a multitude of…
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