L'ouvrage le plus complet consacré à l'artiste français JR, dans une nouvelle édition augmentée de ses derniers projets
JR : L'art peut-il changer le monde ? rassemble tous les projets artistiques collaboratifs réalisés par JR à travers le monde. Cette monographie exhaustive est illustrée de plus de 350 photographies de ses projets, de ses oeuvres exposées en galerie et des coulisses de son travail. Réalisé en étroite collaboration avec l'artiste, ce livre inclut ses oeuvres récentes. Chaque chapitre présente une oeuvre majeure, depuis Expo 2 Rue, qui a lancé sa carrière, à The Chronicles of Miami, une immense fresque murale composée de plus de 1 000 portraits, exposée à Miami entre décembre 2023 et janvier 2024. Préfacé par George Lucas, l'ouvrage inclut également une bande dessinée de Joseph Remnant, une introduction de Nato Thompson et un texte de la réalisatrice italienne Alice Rohrwacher, qui retracent l'histoire fascinante de JR.
La monographie la plus comple`te a` ce jour sur Willem de Kooning, figure de proue de l'expressionnisme abstrait aux E´tats-Unis.
Une façon de vivre : l'art de Willem de Kooning est l'ouvrage le plus complet sur l'un des peintres les plus influents du XXe siècle. Ponctuée de citations de l'artiste, cette e´le´gante monographie retrace la vie personnelle et artistique de Willem de Kooning, de ses ce´le`bres Woman a` ses dernie`res toiles, a` travers de nombreuses photographies personnelles et reproductions qui remettent son oeuvre en contexte.
Judith Zilczer est autrice et commissaire d'exposition honoraire au Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden de la Smithsonian Institution, a` Washington. Elle est conside´re´e comme une spe´cialiste de premier plan de l'art de Willem de Kooning.
Dieter Rams est l'un des designers les plus influents du XXe siècle. Ses créations pour des marques comme Braun et Vitsoe ont influencé la vie de millions de personnes. Pendant plus de soixante ans, il a défini les caractéristiques esthétiques, techniques et fonctionnelles de certains des produits de consommation les plus appréciés au monde. Mais Dieter Rams s'est aussi distingué par sa manière de regarder les objets qui nous entourent et par sa capacité à reconnaître leur valeur et leur utilité. Rédigé par l'historien du design Klaus Klemp et réalisé en étroite collaboration avec Dieter Rams lui-même, ce livre est le premier catalogue raisonné de l'ensemble des oeuvres du designer, qui incarne - tant esthétiquement que fonctionnellement - sa vision unique du design. Les produits, présentés de manière chronologique, sont accompagnés d'une description détaillée et d'une légende complète indiquant notamment leur taille et leur poids. Cet ouvrage est un guide de référence incontournable et se veut un hommage à la contribution fondamentale de Dieter Rams à l'histoire du design industriel.
La collection complète des photographies de fleurs de Robert Mapplethorpe dans une superbe nouvelle édition
Connu pour son oeuvre avant-gardiste et provocatrice, Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) est l'un des artistes les plus importants du xxe siècle. Il a étudié la peinture, le dessin et la sculpture à Brooklyn dans les années 1960, avant d'acquérir un Polaroid en 1970 et de se lancer dans la photographie. À partir de 1973 et jusqu'à sa mort, en 1989, il a exploré le monde des fleurs selon divers procédés, dont le Polaroid et le tirage Dye-transfert. Ses compositions de roses, d'orchidées, de marguerites, de tulipes et de nombreuses espèces communes ou rares, soigneusement élaborées, ont bouleversé la façon dont nous percevons habituellement le thème, classique et familier, des fleurs dans l'art. Cette oeuvre magnifique et surprenante est rassemblée dans cet élégant ouvrage, avec un avant-propos de Dimitri Levas, ami proche de Mapplethorpe, et une introduction d'Herbert Muschamp.
Cette étude très complète de l'art du jardin japonais prend en compte plus de 800 ans d'histoire de ce genre. Écrivaine et paysagiste, Sophie Walker apporte un éclairage nouveau, grâce à un ensemble de textes et à la présentation de plus de 100 jardins, allant de ceux des anciens sanctuaires shinto aux jardins zen contemporains, en passant par les jardins impériaux. Des artistes, des architectes et d'autres spécialistes de premier plan livrent également leurs points de vue.
Une étude exhaustive du jardin japonais, de ses principes et de la philosophie qui en a inspiré la conception.
- Explore l'infl uence qu'a toujours exercée le jardin japonais, ainsi que les éléments clés de sa conception, tels le chemin, les notions esthétiques de wabi sabi et de mitate, le bouddhisme zen et la poésie des plantes.
- Un ouvrage illustré de photographies récentes et d'images inédites de créateurs renommés, tels Yves Klein, Isamu Nobuchi et Dan Pearson.
- Des textes d'artistes, d'architectes et d'essayistes importants donnant une vision nouvelle du jardin japonais et de son infl uence.
- La présence d'un appendice de plantes japonaises illustré.
Une biographie visuelle spectaculaire et inédite de deux pionniers de l'art et du design modernes.
Le couple Albers, Josef peintre, designer et professeur et Anni artiste textile, tisseuse et graveuse comptent parmi les artistes abstraits les plus importants du XXe siècle. Cette superbe monographie célèbre pour la première fois leur incroyable créativité et la relation forte qui liait ces deux maîtres. Cet ouvrage présente leur vie et leur travail comme jamais, de leurs années de formation au Bauhaus en Allemagne à leur influence remarquable au Black Mountain College aux États-Unis en passant par leur période extrêmement productive dans le Connecticut.
Annie Leibovitz : Portraits 2005-2016 fait suite à deux ouvrages cultes, Annie Leibovitz 1970-1990 et La Vie d'une photographe 1990-2005. Pour cette nouvelle collection de portraits, Annie Leibovitz a photographié des personnages mondialement connus, avec ce style unique qui a fait d'elle l'une des photographes les plus admirées et infl uentes de notre époque. Avec esthétisme et intelligence, Annie Leibovitz parvient à faire ressortir la personnalité intime des célébrités qu'elle photographie, même celle d'icônes que tout le monde croit connaître.
- Un texte d'Annie Leibovitz elle-même retrace l'évolution de son travail depuis 2005, avec des anecdotes sur des séances de prises de vue particulières.
- Des photographies, reproduites en grand format, de fi gures de la scène culturelle contemporaine.
- Des clichés inédits se mêlent à des photographies plus emblématiques.
- Une notice biographique de chaque personnage célèbre photographié.
A never-before-seen look at the striking thematic parallels between KAWS and Andy Warhol, two of the most iconic artists of our time
As celebrated artists that draw from popular culture, KAWS and Andy Warhol are known for creating art that is approachable beyond the confines of the traditional art world. While at first glance, both artists' works often appear celebratory and joyful, they share a number of dark common threads beneath the surface: tragedy as spectacle and meditations on death and dying. When these two bold bodies of work are juxtaposed, that connection is made explicit and powerful.
This book highlights the artistic intersection of KAWS and Warhol, featuring their takes on death and disaster, advertising, nostalgia, abstraction, skulls, and self-portraiture. Accompanying a major exhibition at The Andy Warhol Museum that will travel internationally, it presents some of the most standout and analogous works from two of the most popular artists of all time.
The bestselling and critically acclaimed monograph on one of the most influential painters of the twentieth century.
Willem de Kooning was a leading exponent of Abstract Expressionism. MoMA's 2011 de Kooning retrospective drew record crowds, and his prodigious achievements continue to provoke and inspire subsequent generations of artists such as Cecily Brown, Rebecca Warren, and Jonathan Lasker.
This is the most wide-ranging and comprehensive monograph available on this artist. Sumptuously illustrated and produced, the book encompasses his major works and periods, including his controversial 'Woman' paintings, as well as a wealth of accompanying sketched and preparatory drawings.
An illustrated chronology maps de Kooning's life, career, and work, with photographs from the artist's archive interspersed throughout the book, enriching the reader's understanding of the wider art-historical context of his paintings. Judith Zilczer's critically acclaimed monograph is an essential addition to the libraries of a new audience of readers and de Kooning enthusiasts, offering an unprecedented and compelling examination of his body of work.
The most comprehensive survey to date of the legendary feminist artist Judy Chicago.
One of the most important contemporary American artists, Judy Chicago is known for multimedia works that embrace an explicitly feminist methodology. Accompanying a major retrospective at the New Museum, this book showcases Chicago's tremendous impact on American art and presents the full breadth of her career across installation, sculpture, drawing, textiles, photography, stained glass, and printmaking. Featuring an extensive selection curated by Chicago of works by women artists across history, the book also highlights her critical role as an activist and cultural historian who has reshaped the canon. This dedicated section features Chicago's 'personal museum' of women artists and historical figures whom she has placed within her own alternative canon, including Hilma af Klint, Simone de Beauvoir, Leonora Carrington, Elizabeth Catlett, Emily Dickinson, Barbara Hepworth, Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe, Virginia Woolf, and many others. The book presents works from across her sixty-year career, from her experiments with Minimalism to her revolutionary feminist artworks and her later works on themes of social inequity, environmentalism, and the construction of masculinity.
The first serious study on the work of one of the most iconoclastic artists living today.
An aesthetic outlier and artistic maverick, Cameron Jamie is a Los Angeles-born, Paris-based American artist whose critically acclaimed art has been exhibited worldwide in some of the most prestigious exhibitions and institutional venues. Over the course of more than three decades, Jamie has established a multi-faceted practice defined by cultural exploration and formal experimentation that resists categorizations.
His artwork encompasses a wide range of artistic cross-disciplines including drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, printmaking, photography, performance, filmmaking, music, and independent publishing. Jamie's groundbreaking work has explored, investigated, and analysed how the structures of mythology and rituals in popular and vernacular cultures are shaped and shared, and the extent to which they participate in the creation of individuals' fictional worlds and fictional selves.
Made in close collaboration with the artist, this fascinating and long-overdue book will be the first comprehensive monographic publication dedicated to one of the most significant artistic visionaries working today.
The first serious study on the paintings of the female icon and one of the most celebrated British artists, Tracey Emin
Tracey Emin CBE is known for her frank, confessional style and for transforming her inner world into intimate works of art. She has become one of the most celebrated artists in the world, a household name, and part of the Art establishment.
Her practice includes painting, drawing, film, photography, sewn appliqué, sculpture, and neon, but in recent years she has focused on painting. Inspired by artists Egon Schiele and Edvard Munch, her paintings are provocative, confrontational, and vulnerable. They are at once deeply personal and universal, and it's for this reason her work is revered around the world, and she has become an international icon.
The book features more than 300 images of Emin's gestural and expressive figurative paintings, from the 1990s to today, as well as a conversation with close friend David Dawson and an essay by Australian writer Jennifer Higgie.
Made in close collaboration with the artist, this special book is the first publication dedicated to Emin's emotive paintings and showcases her soulful work like never before.
Bruce Nauman (b. 1941) is one of the most innovative, provocative and influential artists working today. His pioneering explorations of sculpture, performance, sound, video and installations - always questioning the role of the artist - have broken new ground and inspired innumerable artists' careers.
Confronted with what to do in his studio soon after graduating, Nauman had the simple but profound realization that 'If I was an artist and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art. At this point art became more of an activity and less of a product.' Exploring Nauman's relationship to the place where he creates his strikingly original works, Bruce Nauman: The True Artist retraces back to the artist's youth in Fort Wayne, Indiana, his graduate work at the University of California, Davis, through to the present day. Nauman's continual search for new means and sources of expression have led him to experiment with a very wide variety of medium (photography, performance, sculpture, installations, video, neon sign, and sound) as well as to explore the relationship between words and images. Nauman's apotheosis as one of the world's most highly lauded artists came as he was ranked No. 1 in the world by Artfacts.net in 2006, and he was the sole US representative in the American Pavilion at the 2009 Venice Biennale.
Peter Plagens, best known to the general public for his work as art critic at Newsweek, has known Nauman for over forty years, and in his own words describes this book as 'about my trying to get at the real truth of Bruce Nauman's work'. They first met in 1970, when their studios were a block apart in Pasadena, California, and they played basketball together every Sunday. Since then Plagens has pursued a real understanding of his friend's art and in this book presents it from his uniquely insightful perspective, including chronicling as it happened the creation of works in Nauman's studio in Galisteo, New Mexico, and the organization, installation and reception of his exhibitions. Throughout, Plagens is a savvy and engaging guide to the work, using his own attempts to puzzle out the meaning of the pieces, and the artist's conversations about them, to offer the reader a vivid, personal and enlightening take on one of the key figures in contemporary art.
The first comprehensive monograph on one of today's most innovative and successful painters - made in close collaboration with the artist.
Defined by bold brushstrokes, a dynamic use of color and imaginative compositions, the paintings of Dana Schutz are panoramic expanses that offer visions of humanity in all its complex facets. Her deeply subjective approach, untethered from realism, translates into images that seem to exist in a place that transcends time while celebrating the intrinsic qualities of her medium of choice with freedom and intelligence. As the artist herself stated, 'I'm interested in painting as an affective place where the hierarchies of the world can be rearranged within the space of a painting.' This first comprehensive monograph on her work was created in close collaboration with the artist and features a number of never-before-seen paintings and drawings.
Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) - sculptor, painter, draughtsman, teacher, theorist and political activist - ranks among the most radical and influential artists to emerge during the second half of the twentieth century. An enigmatic figure whose complex imagination drew on his research across a wide range of themes - including mythology, zoology, botany and the spiritual theories of Rudolf Steiner - Beuys strove to establish a truly democratic approach towards artistic creativity, and prove that modern art need not be confined to the museum or the gallery.
This book illustrates how from Beuys's provocative 'Actions' of the 1960s and 1970s, to his ambitious environmental project 7000 Oaks - which would lead to the mass planting of trees in a series of events that continued after his death - he was never one to shun controversy. His anti-authoritarian approach gained him respect and notoriety in equal measures. As Antliff effectively demonstrates, the ecological and political issues that informed much of Beuys's art can be considered as relevant today as they were in his own lifetime.
The definitive monograph on the work of one of the most prolific, versatile, and exciting artists of the last three decades.
Over the past 30 years, Swiss-born, New York-based artist Ugo Rondinone has developed a distinct body of work: vibrant paintings, immersive installations, sculptures, and text-based works, all united by a poetic quality and an enduring preoccupation with such universal themes as time and cosmic cycles. Profoundly interested in the contemplation of everyday life, Rondinone reconciles the visual language of psychedelia and advertising with meditative, intimate reflections on personal and collective experiences. This book brings fresh perspective to his remarkable life and career and is a must-have for his huge global following.
The only complete career retrospective of this visionary painter, including all her most iconic works, which are prized for their exquisite visual poetry, together with personal letters and facsimiles, reprinted in Martin's own hand, adding intimacy to this classic book Agnes Martin's career spanned over seven decades, with a profile that has skyrocketed since the 2015-17 major exhibition at Tate Modern, London that travelled globally to great acclaim. Though a major influence on Minimalist painters, Martin saw her own work more closely related to Abstract Expressionism, her paintings being 'meditations on innocence, beauty, happiness and love.' This much-anticipated reissue of Martin's exhibition manager and close friend Arne Glimcher's highly-acclaimed book presents 130 of her paintings and drawings alongside her previously unpublished writings and lecture notes. Glimcher's illuminating introduction, his personal memories of visits to Martin at her studio, and their correspondence throughout her career, reveal many insights into the artist's life and work.
The first monograph dedicated to one of today's leading and thought-provoking Indian visual artists.
Shilpa Gupta is internationally known for her profound and socially engaged multi-faceted practice. Her work is an ongoing exploration of how human actions and interactions are subjected to a range of external and internal biddings, from socio-political constructs to personal relationships and technology. The synaesthetic nature of her practice is rooted in the post-liberalizing city of Mumbai in India, where she grew up in the 1990s, and the complex political landscape in South Asia.
Gupta's work has been championed by many art luminaries and high-profile curators, including David Elliott, Massimiliano Gioni, Geraldo Mosquera, and Hans Ulrich Obrist. She is the first artist from the Asian sub-continent - a region with a booming art scene - to be chosen to be profiled in the Contemporary Artists Series. A keen observer of the everyday, Gupta creates videos, interactive installations, sculptures, and participatory performances, stimulating in the viewer a reflection on how places and people are defined and the meaning of belonging. This is the first comprehensive monograph of her work.
Ellsworth Kelly will forever be remembered as one of the most distinctive and influential artists of our time. This book, the last created in close collaboration with the artist, maps his prolific and diverse oeuvre from the 1940s to his final projects before his death in late 2015. Featuring a newly designed cover, this hardback edition brings Tricia Paik's critically acclaimed volume to a new audience of readers.
- Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015) was an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker who became known, post-WWII, as one of the country's premier abstract artists. His work is internationally known, exhibited, awarded, auctioned, and celebrated to this day.
Tricia Paik is director of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum in Massachusetts. She was previously curator of contemporary art at the Indianapolis Museum of Art and has held positions at the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Key Selling Points - Includes all of Kelly's major works and periods, from his early figurative art to his distinctive paintings featuring blocks of single flat and silhouetted shapes, from his prints and drawings to his large-scale outdoor sculptures - A survey text and narrative chronology by Kelly expert Tricia Paik features insights from the artist following in-depth interviews, as well as images, sketches, and other material from his personal archives first published in this book's original format - Features additional short essays by leading art historians, curators, and writers: Robert Storr, Richard Shiff, Gary Garrels, and Gavin Delahunty
