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2011 STAFF HOLIDAY GIFT RECOMMENDATIONS!
It's nearly
impossible to choose favorites from all of the amazing books on
our shelves (and new ones are coming in every day) but our staff has
made some tough decisions in order to help you with your holiday shopping.
Herewith are our top suggestions for
2011 holiday
gift giving. Click on the titles to read more about each book, or just
scroll down to see them all.
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David Lynch: Works on Paper
"This exceptional book brings together a collection of more than
500 drawings dating from the 1960s by the renowned American film
director, David Lynch. His artwork was first unveiled to the
general public in March 2007 by the Fondation Cartier pour l’art
contemporain in Paris. Sketches, watercolours, or simple doodles,
this vast collection – carefully conserved by David Lynch since
his adolescence and regularly used by him as a source of
inspiration – offers a unique glimpse into the artist’s creative
process. Using all types of media, from Post-it notes to napkins,
the diverse and complementary nature of these drawings allows us
to dive into David Lynch’s universe and establish links between
his artwork and his films.
This exceptional book, both in terms of its format and the quality
of reproduction of the works, is a co-publication between the
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain and Steidl." |
David Lynch: Works on Paper
Fondation Cartier + Steidl
Hardcover, 528 pages
$ 195.00
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Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design
SAUL BASS: A LIFE IN FILM & DESIGN. "This is the first
book to be published on one of the greatest American designers of
the 20th century, who was as famous for his work in film as for
his corporate identity and graphic work. Saul Bass (1920-1996)
created some of the most compelling images of American postwar
visual culture. Having extended the remit of graphic design to
include film titles, he went on to transform the genre. His
best-known works include a series of unforgettable posters and
title sequences for films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo and
Otto Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm and Anatomy of a
Murder. He also created some of the most famous logos and
corporate identity campaigns of the century, including those for
major companies such as AT&T, Quaker Oats, United Airlines and
Minolta. Designed by Saul Bass's daughter Jennifer and written by
distinguished design historian Pat Kirkham, who knew Saul Bass,
this book contains more than 1,400 illustrations, many from the
Bass archive and never published before, providing an in-depth
account of one of the leading graphic artists of the 20th
century." |
Saul Bass: A Life
in Film & Design
By Jennifer Bass & Pat Kirkham
Laurence King Publishers
Hardback, 428 pages
$ 75.00
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Ernst Haas: Color Correction
"Ernst Haas is unquestionably one of the best-known, most
prolific and most published photographers of the twentieth
century. He is most associated with a vibrant colour
photography which, for decades, was much in demand by the
illustrated press. This colour work, published in the most
influential magazines in Europe and America, also fed a constant
stream of books, and these too enjoyed great popularity. But
although his colour work earned him fame around the world, in
recent decades it has often been derided by critics and curators
as “overly commercial”, and too easily accessible – or in the
language of curators, not sufficiently “serious”. As a result,
his reputation has suffered in comparison with a younger
generation of colour photographers, notably Eggleston, Shore and
Meyerowitz. Paradoxically, however, there was
also a side of his work that was almost entirely hidden from
view. Parallel to his commissioned work Haas constantly made
images for his own interest, and these pictures show an entirely
different aspect of Haas’s sensibility: they are far more edgy,
loose, complex and ambiguous – in short, far more radical than
the work which earned him fame. Haas never printed these
pictures in his lifetime, nor did he exhibit them, probably
believing that they would not be understood or appreciated.
Nonetheless, these works are of great complexity, and rival (and
sometimes surpass) anything done at the time by his fellow
photographers. This book is intended to correct the record."
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Ernst Haas: Color Correction
Steidl
Hardback, 200 pages
$ 65.00
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Peter Doig
"The most comprehensive monograph on Turner
Prize-nominated artist Peter Doig. In every generation of
artists, there are a few-or perhaps just one-who propose a new set
of questions and alter the way we understand art. Peter Doig is
such an artist. While stories of painting’s demise in the early
1990s deemed painters and their work quaintly anachronistic,
Doig-looking ahead as much as back for inspiration-forged a new
painterly language: an ironic mix of Romanticism and
post-impressionism to create haunting and sometimes dreamlike
landscape vistas.
In this lavish new volume devoted to his entire career-which
includes paintings, drawings, and reference material, such as
found photographs-art historians Richard Shiff and Catherine
Lampert mine the artist’s rich and varied work. Doig’s landscapes
have been inspired by the many places the artist has
lived-England, Canada, Trinidad. So, too, does memory, or the idea
of memory, inform much of his production.
This handsome slipcased volume is designed in close collaboration
with the artist, with Doig specially creating the cover and
various elements of the interior. Every facet of the painter’s
singular vision is explored, from his earliest paintings of the
early 1990s to the most recent series of works."
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Peter Doig
Rizzoli
Hardcover in slipcase, 400 pages
$ 150.00
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Deborah Turbeville: The Fashion
Pictures
"From internationally acclaimed photographer Deborah Turbeville
comes the first book on her highly influential visionary
avant-garde fashion photography. Celebrated for her poetic grace
and cinematic vision, Deborah Turbeville has produced fashion
tableaux that draw the viewer into her otherworldly environments.
A romantic and modernist, Turbeville bridges the boundaries
between commercial fashion and fine arts photography. In this
remarkable presentation, Turbeville reveals her highly
individualistic point of view of fashion photography and the
stories behind her photographs.
This first retrospective presentation of Turbeville's fashion
photography was selected by the artist herself. In addition, she
has designed the evocative layouts to create yet another
masterwork. The presentation includes Turbeville's most famous
photographs, among them the controversial Bathhouse series of 1975
for American Vogue with disturbingly isolated figures and
her Woman in the Woods series of 1977 for Italian Vogue
showing psychologically charged emotions, along with her numerous
photography campaigns for labels like Sonia Rykiel, Valentino,
Yamamonto, Ungaro, and Commes des Garçons, as well as commissions
for Chanel and work that has never been seen before. Her most
current project for Casa Vogue--Italian nobility dressed in
special couture outfits--evokes Turbeville's vision of everlasting
beauty.
Hall-Duncan's essay places Deborah Turbeville's non-conventional
work in the context of the history of fashion photography. She
discusses the important role that this artist has played in
shaping contemporary fashion and fine arts photography. She also
presents the broad range of disciplines of art, literature, and
architecture from the past that has inspired this important
artist--from the great silent-films by Eisenstein, Vertov, and
Murnau and the later cinematic work of Cocteau, Visconti,
Fassbinder, and Bertulucci to Diaghelev's ballet set drawings,
Russian literature, and the faded palaces of Europe."
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Deborah Turbeville: The Fashion Pictures
Written by Deborah
Turbeville, Introduction by Franca Sozzani
Rizzoli
Hardcover, 304 pages
$ 85.00
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Joel Sternfeld First Pictures
This is the first book of Sternfeld’s largely unseen early colour
photographs. In 1969 Sternfeld began working with a 35 mm camera
and Kodachrome film, and First Pictures contains works from this
time until 1980. Here Sternfeld develops traits that appear in his
mature work: irony, a politicised view of America, concern for the
social condition. But there are also pictures that bear little
relation to his later work: colour arrangements that parallel
those of Eggleston, as well as street photography which Sternfeld
ceased making in 1976. The photographs in First Pictures were made
at a time when colour photography was struggling to assert itself
against the authoritative black and white tradition, making this
book a revelation both in Sternfeld’s oeuvre and in the history of
contemporary photography. |
Joel Sternfeld First Pictures
Steidl
Hardcover, 320 pages
$ 78.00
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"A visual feast on ‘the
extravagance of the bohemian’, the homes in this collection are a
testament to personal style that readers will find inspiring and
influential. Since the 1970s, Oberto Gili has been one of the most
prolific lenses in the world of editorial photography, his lush
images of fashion and interiors gracing the pages of House &
Garden, Town & Country, and Vogue. This collection of his
signature interior photography spans this significant career.
Gili’s passion for the grand, bold, and quirky granted him access
to the inner sanctums of both high society and the bohemian
demimonde. The selection includes numerous homes of French and
Italian nobility, lords of the European and American creative
class, and the photographer’s own remarkable Piedmont farmhouse.
This volume of Gili’s best work is a sumptuous and voyeuristic
study of his most arresting interiors and emphasizes the
adventurous nature of both the homes and their occupants. These
homes exude in turns grandeur, whimsy, and tranquility, each
interior imbued with the unique style of its occupants.
The book features more than 40 homes throughout the world--from
New York penthouses and artist lofts to seventeenth-century
Italian villas and country homes in Morocco--each personally
selected by Gili and shown in full. Each house is accompanied by a
short descriptive text by Susanna Salk. Sprinkled throughout the
book are 10 short texts by selected homeowners (Isabella
Rossellini, Mary Randolph Carter, Muriel Brandolini, Marella
Caracciolo, Paul Fortune, and Beatrice Monti, among others)
describing a personal history of the individual spaces."
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Home Sweet Home - Oberto Gili
Written by Oberto Gili, Text by Susanna Salk
Rizzoli
Hardcover, 272 pages
$ 85.00
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Charlotte Dumas: Retrieved
"Immediately
following the attacks of 9/11, nearly 100 trained search dogs and
their handlers were deployed by FEMA to assist in the rescue
efforts at the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in
Washington, D.C. Enlisted from a network of 26 task forces in 18
states around the U.S., the dogs worked around the clock to locate
survivors in the rubble, alongside firemen and other teams sorting
through the debris. One decade later, Dutch photographer Charlotte
Dumas succeeded in tracking down 15 of the surviving dogs that
took part in these rescue operations, visiting and photographing
the dogs at their homes throughout the U.S., where they all still
lived with their handlers. Composed at close range in natural
light, Dumas' powerful portraits--reproduced here in a
thoughtfully designed paperback volume with Japanese
binding--offer an intimate view into the everyday lives of these
highly specialized working animals, now sharing the vulnerability
of old age as they once pursued a common heroic goal."
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Charlotte Dumas: Retrieved
The Ice Plant
Paperback, 48 pages
$ 29.95
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Fred Herzog: Photographs
"Fred Herzog’s bold use of colour in the 1950s and 60s set him
apart at a time when the only art photography taken seriously was
in black and white. His early use of color make him a forerunner
of "New Colour" photographers such as Stephen Shore and William
Eggleston, who received widespread acclaim in the 1970s. Herzog
images were all taken on Kodachrome, a slide film with a sharpness
and tonal range that, until recently, could not be reproduced in
prints, and his choice of medium limited his exhibition
opportunities. However, recent advances in digital technology have
made high-quality prints of his work possible, and in the past few
years his substantial and influential body of work has been
available to a wider audience.
Fred Herzog: Photographs showcases this innovative artist's
impressive oeuvre in a beautifully crafted volume of early color
and urban street photography. Providing authoritative texts are
four titans of the art community: Jeff Wall anchors Herzog's place
in the history of photography, Claudia Gochmann sets his work in
an international context and Sarah Milroy and Douglas Coupland
provide additional commentary."
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Fred Herzog: Photographs
by Douglas Coupland, Sarah Milroy, Jeff Wall and Claudia Gochmann
Douglas & McIntyre
Hardcover, 256 pages
$ 55.00
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Bill Gold: PosterWorks (Master Edition)
"In 1942, a young man at Warner
Bros. art department created a poster for Casablanca.
Over the next sixty-three years, posters for A Streetcar
Named Desire, Dial M For Murder, Bonnie and
Clyde, Bullitt, My Fair Lady, Get
Carter, Dirty Harry, The Untouchables and
Unforgiven became coveted items, cherished by
movie-goers all over the world.
The same artist is responsible for them all.
Bill Gold’s life’s work spans six decades and over two
thousand films. He is the man behind campaigns for the greatest
movies the world has ever seen.
Bill Gold: PosterWorks is a celebration of his
extraordinary and prolific talent. With a foreword from
long-time collaborator and friend, Clint Eastwood, Bill
Gold is a unique 450 page collector's opus detailing
the artist’s creative process, his army days, early career,
posters for Elia Kazan, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock,
Francois Truffaut through to his final work in 2003 on
Eastwood’s Mystic River. Archivist of his own work,
with a personal collection of unseen designs, alternative
versions, sketches, drafts, notes and photographs, Bill Gold’s
incredible history has never been accessible to the public until
now. A notoriously
cut-throat industry, Hollywood evolves with few constants yet
Bill Gold’s talent endures. At 89 years old, this is the
first time that the world is invited to see the full scope of
his life’s work in one breathtaking book.
The Master Edition (1250
copies) includes The Master Edition is presented in a
bespoke slipcase and
includes an art folio of six, numbered, limited edition prints
of unseen Bill Gold poster designs for A Clockwork Orange,
Catch-22, High Plains Drifter, All the
President's Men, The Way We Were and Get Carter
as well as a hand-signed letter from Bill Gold which has
been letter-pressed using traditional techniques."
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Bill Gold: PosterWorks
(Master Edition)
Reel Art Press
Hardcover in slipcase, 448 pages
$ 650.00
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"Joan
Mitchell is the first full-scale biography of the
abstract expressionist painter who came of age in the 1950s, ’60s,
and ’70s; a portrait of an outrageous artist and her struggling
artist world, painters making their way in the second part of
America’s twentieth century. Her work had an unerring sense
of formal rectitude, daring, and discipline, as well as delicacy,
grace, and awkwardness. Mitchell exuded a young, smoky,
tough glamour and was thought of as “sexy as hell.”
Albers writes about how Mitchell married her girlhood pal, Barnet
Rosset, Jr.—scion of a financier who was head of Chicago’s
Metropolitan Trust and partner of Jimmy Roosevelt. Rosset went on
to buy Grove Press in 1951, at Mitchell’s urging, and to publish
Henry Miller, Samuel Beckett, Jean Genet, Jack Kerouac, Allen
Ginsberg, et al., making Grove into the great avant-garde
publishing house of its time.
Mitchell’s life was messy and
reckless: in New York and East Hampton carousing with de Kooning,
Frank O’Hara, James Schuyler, Jane Freilicher, Franz Kline, Helen
Frankenthaler, and others; going to clambakes, cocktail parties,
softball games—and living an entirely different existence in Paris
and Vétheuil. In Joan
Mitchell, Patricia Albers brilliantly reconstructs the
painter’s large and impassioned life: her growing prominence as an
artist; her marriage and affairs; her friendships with poets and
painters; her extraordinary work. "
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Joan Mitchell: Lady Painter
by
Patricia Albers
Knopf
Hardcover, 544 pages
$ 40.00
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Rick Owens
"This luxurious large-format book documents the work of the
American designer Rick Owens, a transformational figure in
contemporary fashion. Defiantly antifashion, Rick Owens’s honest
and intensely personal approach to craft has ironically produced
some of the most sublime fashion of the last two decades,
propelling him to the front ranks of the international
avant-garde. Established in 1994, Owens’s subversive designs have
now become some of the most critically admired in the Paris
collections. Distinguished by an aesthetic that the designer has
himself described as “grunge meets glamour,” this gritty
elegance-tempered by a remarkable restraint-has won him a
fanatical international following, with admirers ranging from Kate
Moss to Courtney Love to Terence Koh. Debuting in New York in 2002
and relocating to Paris the following year, Owens cultivates an
elusive appeal-without any express advertising-that has developed
into something like an empire. Designed by Owens himself, this
volume is full of monumental images detailing all aspects of the
designer’s work and sensibility. The visual narrative of this book
provides an instructive look at the process of design from an
artist who is at once comfortable with innovation and respectful
of traditional approaches. " |
Rick Owens by Rick Owens
Contribution by Francesco Bonami, Olivier Zahm and Maria Luisa
Frisa
Rizzoli
Hardcover, 296 pages
$ 135.00
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Maurizio Cattelan: All
"Hailed simultaneously as a provocateur,
prankster and tragic poet of our times, Italian artist Maurizio
Cattelan has created some of the most unforgettable images in
recent contemporary art--most notoriously with "The Ninth Hour,"
his 1999 sculpture of Pope John Paul II struck by a meteorite.
Cattelan's subjects range widely, being derived from popular
culture, history and organized religion; while bold and
irreverent, the work is also deadly serious in its scathing
cultural critique. Maurizio Cattelan: All accompanies the
Guggenheim Museum's retrospective survey of the artist. For the
exhibition, the museum has devised a site-specific installation
intended to sidestep the totalizing effect of a retrospective, and
for this catalogue the museum has produced an equally unique
response to this dilemma and to the conventions of the catalogue
format. All is a faux-leather-bound hardcover with gold
stamping and thin paper that is designed to resemble an old
textbook or bible. The volume catalogues almost every work of
Cattelan's from the late '80s to the present within a
double-column page format, reproducing them in full color with
accompanying entries. One of the wittiest and most beautiful art
books of recent years, All includes a detailed critical
overview by Nancy Spector, documenting not only Cattelan's
artistic output but also his ongoing activities as a curator,
editor and publisher, plus a comprehensive exhibition history and
bibliography. Needless to say, All is indeed the definitive
Cattelan bible." |
Maurizio Cattelan: All
Guggenheim Museum Publications
Hardcover, 255 pages
$ 45.00
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"Jabba the Hut lurks
in the shadows of a decrepit, abandoned warehouse, his toady eyes
glowing; Boba Fett looms up from the fluorescent glare of an
indoor car park, poised to kill; Yoda peers out inquiringly from
the window ledge of some otherwise untenanted institutional
building; Han Solo's cryogenically frozen form on a slab stands,
installed bizarrely in an anonymous concrete plaza. Of the many
scenarios to which Star Wars fans have dispatched the
films' protagonists over the years, none--not even Seth
McFarlane's Family Guy homages--are as unlikely as Cédric
Delsaux's. In Dark Lens, Delsaux transports Darth Vader and
the whole gamut of Star Wars iconography to a
post-apocalyptic, urban-suburban landscape of endless parking
lots, highrises and wasteland interzones, vacant of ordinary human
life. Delsaux's “mythology of banality” (as he describes it)
produces images that are not just funny or preposterous, but also
weirdly compelling; in their photographic plausibility they
successfully incorporate Star Wars into an everyday reality
that we can all recognize, but in ways that make both worlds seem
strangely real and absurdly false. Delsaux's Dark Lens will
captivate both film and photobook fans alike with its
fantastically bizarre recasting of Star Wars on planet
Earth after the apocalypse."
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Cédric Delsaux: Dark Lens
Introduction by George Lucas
Éditions Xavier Barral
Hardcover,
118 pages
$ 75.00
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Hella Jongerius:
Misfit "Hella Jongerius:
Misfit is a detailed survey of the work of Dutch product
designer Hella Jongerius (b. 1963). Jongerius studied Industrial
Design at the Eindhoven Design Academy and graduated in 1993. She
came to prominence very soon after graduating, with a series of
her designs being produced by the influential Dutch conceptual
design collective Droog Design. She started her own design
company, Jongeriuslab, in 1993 in Rotterdam, and in 2008 moved to
Berlin. She has collaborated with many prestigious manufacturers,
including Vitra, Royal Tichelaar Makkum and Swarovski, and her
work is held in the collections of MoMA, the Stedelijk Museum and
the Design Museum in London, amongst many others. Jongerius
designs a range of products, including furniture, lighting,
textiles and glassware but has a particular interest in ceramics.
Her work combines the traditional with the contemporary, she is
interested in new technologies and processes, and in older
techniques. An extreme example of this is her ‘Red White Vase’,
the shape is based upon an amalgamation of medieval pottery
shards, glued together to form an archetype, put into serial
production, and decorated with a type of paint usually used to
paint car bodies. Jongerius is also fascinated by the value of the
individual character and qualities that objects can assume, and in
how individuality can be incorporated into manufactured products.
For example her ‘B-Set’ of porcelain crockery, produced for Royal
Tichelaar Makkum since 1997, is fired at too high a temperature
during the manufacturing process, ensuring that the clay deforms
slightly and giving each set a completely unique shape." |
Hella Jongerius: Misfit
Phaidon
Hardback, 308pp
$ 49.95
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Melvin Sokolsky: Paris 1963 / Paris 1965
"This
volume is the definitive collection for all 74 of legendary
fashion photographer Sokolsky’s printed images from the iconic
Bubble and Fly series, including more than a dozen previously
unreleased and alternate visions of the series, behind the scenes
documentary photos, and outtakes, and an intimate insight into
Sokolsky’s process and inspiration as he developed his
incomparable Fly series. Each copy is signed and numbered by the
artist and is delivered with an etched Lucite slipcase designed by
Sokolsky himself. Paris 1963 /1965 is printed in three editions:
The Bubble Edition of 100 copies includes a 12.5" x 11 silver
gelatin print of “Bouquet Seine," The Fly Edition, also 100
copies, includes a 12.5" x 11 silver gelatin print of “Dior
Wings," and The Signature Edition, 800 copies, is signed and
numbered."
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Melvin Sokolsky: Paris 1963 /
Paris 1965
Leafcar Editions
Hardbound in slipcase, 160pages
Signature edition: $ 125.00, Bubble + Fly Edition: $ 1500.00
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Sigmar
Polke: We Petty Bourgeois! Comrades and Contemporaries, The 1970s
"In the postwar dawn of late capitalism, options for political
address in painting seemed to polarize themselves into, on one
hand, the cool critiques of image truth found in the art of
Gerhard Richter or Andy Warhol--and on the other, the decidedly
hotter and messier rhetoric of a Sigmar Polke. Polke's
energetically sprawling painting traversed many idioms, and its
anarchic character expressed the ascent of a new leftism in
western Germany. Perhaps the supreme instance of Polke's political
art is We Petty Bourgeois!, the ambitious series at the
heart of this volume. Made between 1974 and 1976, and loosely
based on Hans Magnus Enzensberger's 1976 essay “On the
Inevitability of the Middle Class,” it consists of ten large-scale
canvas-mounted works on paper, reproduced here in foldout color
plates, in which densely inscribed layers of figures, traceries,
sigils and quotation derived from the pop culture of the era
narrate an epic vision of the scars and aspirations of postwar
Europe. Hippie culture, terrorism, the first gleamings of punk,
the women's movement, leftist tracts, imagery from underground
comics and ethnographic studies all parade across Polke's chaotic
picture planes. This beautifully produced volume recuperates this
series and Polke's art of the 1970s in an energetic compendium of
paintings, collages, photographs and archival materials." |
Sigmar Polke: We Petty
Bourgeois! Comrades and
Contemporaries, The 1970s
D.A.P./Walther König
Hardbound, 512 pages
$ 75.00
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George Harrison: Living
in the Material World
"Drawing on George Harrison’s personal archive of photographs,
letters, diaries, and memorabilia, Olivia Harrison reveals the arc
of his life, from his guitar-obsessed boyhood in Liverpool, to the
astonishment of the Beatles years, to his days as an independent
musician and bohemian squire. Here too is the record of Harrison’s
lifelong commitment to Indian music, and his adventures as a movie
producer, Traveling Wilbury, and Formula One racing fan. The book
is filled with stories and reminiscences from Harrison’s friends,
including Eric Clapton, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Paul McCartney,
Ringo Starr, and many, many others. Among its previously
unpublished riches are photographs taken by Harrison himself
beginning in the mid-1960s. It is a rich tribute to a man who died
far too young, but who touched the lives of millions." |
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The Family Meal: Home Cooking with Ferran Adria
"While Ferran Adrià is better known for his innovative and
ground breaking gastronomic creations, this highly anticipated new
book reveals, for the first time, his secrets for creating
delicious, seasonal, and simple home cooked meals.
The Family Meal’s mouth-watering recipes are inspired by the
dishes eaten by the staff of Ferran’s restaurant, the legendary
elBulli, four-time recipient of the World’s Best Restaurant Award.
Every day at 6pm, Ferran’s team stops what they are doing to sit
down to eat a three-course dinner together - this is known as the
‘family meal’.
Featuring 31 meals (each made up of 3 recipes) and providing the
quantities of ingredients needed for servings of 2, 6, 20 and 75
people, this book is a great way to pick up new ideas whether you
are cooking at home or in a restaurant." |
The Family Meal: Home Cooking with Ferran Adria
Phaidon
Hardbound, 384 pages
$ 29.95
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"Artists who arrive fully formed at a young age always dazzle, and
Francesca Woodman was one of the most gifted and dazzling artist
prodigies in recent history. In 1972, the 13-year-old Woodman made
a black-and-white photograph of herself sitting at the far end of
a sofa in her home in Boulder, Colorado. Her face is obscured by
her hair, light radiates from an unseen source behind her out at
the viewer through her right hand. This photograph typifies much
of what would characterize Woodman's work to come: a semi-obscured
female form merging with or flailing against a somewhat bare and
often dilapidated interior. In an oeuvre of around 800 photographs
made in just nine years, Woodman performed her own body against
the textures of wallpaper, door frame, baths and couches,
radically extending the Surrealist photography of Man Ray, Hans
Bellmer and Claude Cahun and creating a mood and language all her
own. In the 30 years since her untimely death, Woodman has gained
a following among successive generations of artists and
photographers, a testament to her work's undeniable immediacy and
enduring appeal Amid a renewed intensification of interest in
Francesca Woodman, this volume is published for a major touring
exhibition of her photographs and films at the San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim. Containing many
previously unpublished photographs, it is the definitive Francesca
Woodman monograph."
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Francesca Woodman
Edited by Corey Keller. Text by Julia Bryan-Wilson, Jennifer
Blessing.
D.A.P./San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Hardcover, 224 pages
$ 49.95
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India
"They say India changes lives. More than a country, it is a state
of mind. Come on a fascinating journey with Andreas H. Bitesnich
as he explores all aspects of Indian existence. With sensitive
understanding and unique vision, Bitesnich uncovers the
contradictions at the core of the nation’s soul. He deftly probes
both the subcontinent’s ongoing changes and lingering hardships.
Bitesnich documents all facets of life, death, and the daily
struggle. His muted shades, wide-ranging subjects, and subtle
colorization are reminiscent of a bygone travel album. This isn’t
merely a book of compelling photographs, but a tribute to a great
nation that embraces modernity and tradition with equal fervor." |
India
Andreas H. Bitesnich
Te Neues
Hardcover, 256 pages
$ 98.00
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Los
Carpinteros Handwork: Constructing the World
"The Havana-based duo of Marco
Antonio Castillo Valdés (born 1971) and Dagoberto Rodríguez
Sánchez (born 1969) are two of the most exciting artists in Cuba
today. Formed in 1991, and working since 1994 under the moniker of
Los Carpinteros, which they adopted as a nod to traditional
craftsmen's guilds, the team renounces individual authorship to
sabotage the disciplines of design and architecture from within.
Their elegant and mordantly humorous sculptures, which attain high
standards of craftsmanship assert a deadpan non-functionality: a
crazily undulating wooden bookshelf, a filing cabinet with an
impossibly deep drawer, or stereo speaker cones transformed into
billboard hoardings. By putting functional and serious disciplines
to nonfunctional and humorous ends, Los Carpinteros offer a
preposterized world in which objects seem to have swapped bodies
with other objects. For the first time, that world is presented in
depth, in this excellent monograph."
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Los Carpinteros Handwork:
Constructing the World
Walther König
Hardcover, 380 pages
$ 79.00
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Edward Weston: One Hundred and Twenty-Five
Photographs "Celebrating the 125th
birthday of one of America’s most important and influential
photographers, AMMO Books is proud to introduce this exquisitely
produced limited edition, featuring the work of one of the
medium’s greatest master craftsmen. This lavish hardcover book is
wrapped in European gold cloth, debossed with Weston’s signature,
and set inside an elegant slipcase box. This numbered, limited
edition book contains 125 of Weston’s iconic images, including
many lesser known gems. Additionally, a detailed introduction,
along with reproductions of many unseen photographs and ephemera
help round out this ultimate tribute to a legendary photographer.
Edward Weston (1886-1958) is an icon of American photography. His
black-and-white photographs are considered among the most
important images of the 20th century. Today, Edward Weston’s
photographs are highly coveted at auction and are exhibited by
countless museums throughout the world. Printed on lush and
heavy paper stock, EDWARD WESTON: ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE
PHOTOGRAPHS is destined to become a valuable collector’s item and
necessary addition to any serious art library. Its duotone
reproductions are of the highest grade possible, made from newly
created digital scans direct from the master images within the
vaults of the Edward Weston Archive at the Center for Creative
Photography in Tucson, Arizona. Only 2,000 numbered copies
of this special, limited edition book will be released worldwide."
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 Edward
Weston: One Hundred and
Twenty-Five Photographs
by Steve Crist
Ammo Books
Hardcover Book in Cloth Clamshell Case,
262 pages
$ 250.00
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BALS: Legendary Costume Balls of the Twentieth Century
BALS:
LEGENDARY COSTUME BALLS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. Another
sumptuous stunner (in the vein of last year's Cecil Beaton
Scrapbooks) from Assouline. "From the twilight of the Romanov
dynasty through les années folles of
Art Deco Paris to
the jet-set seventies, Bals explores the nine most exceptional
private costume parties of the twentieth century. The most lavish,
beautiful book ever produced on the subject, Bals features social
commentary both by and about the colorful characters—Truman
Capote, Cecil Beaton, and others—who immortalized these
extraordinary events, as well as first-person narratives by
Jacqueline de Ribes, Hélène David-Weill, and Marisa Berenson."
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BALS: Legendary Costume Balls of the Twentieth
Century
Assouline
Hardbound in Slipcase, 308 pages
$ 175.00
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Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
"An unusual collaboration among
distinguished art historians, historians of science, and their
students, this book demonstrates how printmakers of the Northern
Renaissance, far from merely illustrating the ideas of others,
contributed to scientific investigations of their time. Hans
Holbein, for instance, worked with cosmographers and instrument
makers on some of the earliest sundial manuals published; Albrecht
Dürer produced the first printed maps of the constellations, which
astronomers copied for over a century; and Hendrick Goltzius’s
depiction of the muscle-bound Hercules served as a study aid for
students of anatomy. The book features fascinating reproductions
of woodcuts, engravings, and etchings; maps, globe gores, and
globes; multi-layered anatomical 'flap' prints; and paper
scientific instruments used for observation and measurement. Among
the 'do-it-yourself' paper instruments were sundials and
astrolabes, and the book incorporates a facsimile of globe gores
for the reader to cut out and assemble." |
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Harvard Art Museums
Paperback, 442 pages
$ 60.00
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Gary Cooper: Enduring Style "Gary Cooper: An Enduring Style is the first ever monograph
focused on the timeless fashion and allure of this leading man who
was a fashion inspiration to his Hollywood peers, clothing
designers then and now, and generations of stylish men of every
social strata, across the globe. Compiled of unpublished,
never-before-seen personal photographs, shot primarily by his wife
Rocky, Gary Cooper captures the cars, the mansions and
ranches, the guns and gear, and of course the endless outfits for
every occasion that this Hollywood icon ensconced himself in
throughout the years. Whether hunting with close friend Ernest
Hemingway, lounging with Cary Grant, horseback, poolside, or on
the beach, on-set or after-hours, in the company of royalty or
cowboys, Cooper had the perfect outfit for every occasion,
embodying a type of refined masculinity rarely seen and in high
demand to this day." |
Gary Cooper: Enduring Style
by G. Bruce Boyer and Maria Cooper Janis
powerHouse
Hardcover, 200 pages
$ 60.00
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Vitamin P2: New Perspectives in Painting "The first volume of Vitamin P, published in 2002,
inaugurated a vibrant period for painting. Since its publication,
a whole new generation of painters has emerged, some inspired by
the artists who appeared in that book, others taking cues from new
sources. Vitamin P2 introduces this new wave of painters
to the world.
The vast medium of painting continues to be a central pillar of
artistic practice, and Vitamin P2 presents the outstanding artists
who are currently engaging with and pushing the boundaries of the
medium. Over 80 international critics, artists and curators have
nominated the 115 artists who have made a fresh, unique or
innovative contribution to recent painting. All of the artists in
Vitamin P2 have recently emerged onto the international scene, and
none appeared in the first Vitamin P.
An introduction by Barry Schwabsky, who also wrote the
introduction for Vitamin P, provides a broad overview of recent
developments in the medium while also looking towards its future." |
Vitamin P2: New Perspectives in Painting
by Phaidon Press, Peio Aguirre and Negar
Azimi with An introduction by Barry Schwabsky
Phaidon
Hardcover, 352 pages
$ 69.95
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The New York
Times Magazine Photographs "For
over 30 years, The New York Times Magazine has been
synonymous with the myriad possibilities and applications of
photography. The New York Times Magazine: Photographs
reflects upon and interrogates the very nature of both photography
and print magazines at this pivotal moment in their history and
evolution. Edited by Kathy Ryan, longtime photo editor of the
Magazine, and with a preface by former editorial director
Gerald Marzorati, this volume presents some of the finest
commissioned photographs worldwide in four sections: reportage,
portraiture, style and conceptual photography, including photo
illustration. Diverse in content and sensibility, and consistent
in virtuosity, the photographs are accompanied by reproduced tear
sheets to allow for the examination of sequencing and the
interplay between text and image, simultaneously presenting the
work while illuminating its distillation to magazine form. This
process is explored further through texts offering
behind-the-scenes perspective and anecdotes by the many
photographers, writers, editors and other collaborators whose
voices have been a part of the magazine over the years. Issues of
documentary photography are addressed in relation to more
conceptual photography; the efficacy of storytelling; and what
makes an image evidentiary, objective, subjective, truthful or a
tool for advocacy; as well as thoughts on whether these matters
are currently moot, or more critical than ever. As such, The
New York Times Magazine: Photographs serves as a springboard
for a rigorous, necessary and revitalized examination of
photography as presented within a modern journalistic context."
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The New York Times Magazine Photographs
Edited by Kathy Ryan. Preface by Gerald Marzorati.
Aperture
Hardcover, 448 pages
$ 75.00
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Antonioni's Blow up
"Michelangelo Antonioni's 1966 film Blow-Up is a masterfully
constructed and paced exploration of the enigmas that challenge
our interpretations of both the moving and the still image.
Photography plays a key role at the very core of the film,
providing the metaphorical site for the director's questioning of
the relationship between reality and perceptions.
This book provides a fresh and stimulating study of Antonioni's
masterpiece. It reassembles and re-tells - through onset stills
and the original blow-ups - the film's key narrative and pictorial
strands in a focused visual investigation that is complemented by
the authors' analytical essays. These texts draw on new research
and effectively situate the film in the social and creative
contexts that informed Antonioni's screenplay and art direction -
on the one hand through an account of the milieu of fashionable
photographers and models and the media through which they became
so vivid a phenomenon, and on the other hand through the
revelation of the artistic and literary reference points that so
pervasively enrich the film." |
Antonioni's Blow up
by Philippe Garner + David Allan
Mellor
Steidl
Hardcover, 144 pages
$ 49.00
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Dealer's Choice: At Home With
Purveyors Of Antique And Vintage Furnishings
"Dealers of antiques and vintage furnishings are the ultimate
design trendsetters, setting the styles that are followed by
decorators, manufacturers and, ultimately, consumers. With
extensive knowledge of design history and an instinct for sniffing
out undiscovered treasures and diamonds in the rough, the leading
dealers hand-pick the furniture, artwork and objects that
personalize the spaces we inhabit.
In their own homes, these dealers have the opportunity to let
their imaginations run wild and to display what is, for them, the
cream of the crop. With exquisite samples of rare furniture;
exhaustingly curated collections of art and objects; an innate
sense of taste, color, scale and proportion; and a bit of humor,
the dealers design environments for themselves that can serve as
compelling examples to anyone striving to create a singular home.
Dealer’s Choice: At Home with Purveyors of Antique and Vintage
Furnishings features lush color photographs of the homes of
the world’s foremost antiquaires. Included are the houses,
apartments, lofts, and even castles of dealers specializing in
mid-century modernist furniture and objects, antiquities and
antique European decorative works. These residences in New York,
Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, East Hampton, Paris, Istanbul
and elsewhere illustrate the finest and most personal creations of
the leading tastemakers in interior design." |
Dealer's Choice: At Home With Purveyors Of
Antique And Vintage Furnishings
by Craig Kellogg,
Carolyn Horwitz, Anthony Iannacci
and Michael Bruno
Hardcover, 384 pages
$ 75.00
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Now Dig This! Art and
Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980
"This comprehensive, lavishly illustrated catalogue
offers the first in-depth survey of the incredibly vital but often
overlooked legacy of Los Angeles’s African American artists,
featuring many never-before-seen works, some of which were
previously considered lost. Now Dig This! will feature artists
including Melvin Edwards, Fred Eversley, David Hammons, Maren
Hassinger, Senga Nengudi, John Outterbridge, Alonzo Davis, Dale
Brockman Davis, Noah Purifoy, Betye Saar, and Charles White,
connecting their work to larger movements, trends, and ideas that
fueled the arts during this important era of creative, cultural,
and political ferment. The publication also explores the
significant network of friendships and collaborations made across
racial lines, while underscoring the influence that African
American artists had on the era’s larger movements and trends. Now
Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960–1980 is part of Pacific
Standard Time, an initiative of the Getty."
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Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles, 1960-1980
by Kellie Jones
Prestel + The Hammer Museum
Hardcover,
352 pages
$ 60.00
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Vivian Maier: Street Photographer
"A good street photographer must be possessed of many talents: an
eye for detail, light, and composition; impeccable timing; a
populist or humanitarian outlook; and a tireless ability to
constantly shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot and never miss a moment. It
is hard enough to find these qualities in trained photographers
with the benefit of schooling and mentors and a community of
fellow artists and aficionados supporting and rewarding their
efforts. It is incredibly rare to find it in someone with no
formal training and no network of peers.
Yet Vivian Maier is all of these things, a professional nanny,
who from the 1950s until the 1990s took over 100,000 photographs
worldwide— from France to New York City to Chicago and dozens of
other countries—and yet showed the results to no one. The photos
are amazing both for the breadth of the work and for the high
quality of the humorous, moving, beautiful, and raw images of all
facets of city life in America’s post-war golden age.
It wasn’t until local historian John Maloof purchased a box of
Maier’s negatives from a Chicago auction house and began
collecting and championing her marvelous work just a few years ago
that any of it saw the light of day. Presented here for the first
time in print, Vivian Maier: Street Photographer collects
the best of her incredible, unseen body of work.
There is still very little known about the life of Vivian Maier.
What is known is that she was born in New York in 1926 and worked
as a nanny for a family on Chicago’s North Shore during the 50s
and 60s. Seemingly without a family of her own, the children she
cared for eventually acted as caregivers for Maier herself in the
autumn of her life. She took hundreds of thousands of photographs
in her lifetime, but never shared them with anyone. Maier lost
possession of her art when her storage locker was sold off for
non-payment. She passed away in 2009 at the age of 83."
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Vivian Maier: Street Photographer
Photographs by Vivian Maier. Edited by John Maloof
Foreword by Geoff Dyer
powerHouse Books
Hardback, 136 pages
$ 39.95
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Mountain
"An inspiring collection of evocative images collected by lifelong
mountaineer Sandy Hill, who has a singular knowledge,
understanding, and experience of the world’s highest places.
Powerful, beautiful, wild, sublime, and forbidding, the world’s
summits are often considered the last real frontier. Mountain
is a luxuriously illustrated celebration of mountains and of the
sense of wonder and awe that the sight of this geography can
evoke. In this stunning collection of photographs and art, the
very personal relationship that people have with mountains is
conveyed in exceptional images from around the world. Spanning two
centuries, this book contains rarely seen images from such
legendary nature photographers as Galen Rowell, Peter Beard, Ansel
Adams, and Frank Smythe and photographs taken by daring
mountaineers who celebrate the beauty, wonder, and spectacle of
the heights, making this a unique and spectacular tribute to the
mountains of the world. A portion of the book’s proceeds go to the
American Alpine Club Library. Text contributors include: Raul
Barrenche, Jennifer Jordan, Erling Kagge, Ellen Lapham, Robert
McFarlane, Nando Parrado, Phil Powers, and Jack Tackle." |
Mountain
Written by Sandy Hill, Text by Raul
Barrenche, Robert Macfarlane, Jennifer Jordan and Nando Parrado
Rizzoli
Hardcover, 352 pages
$ 85.00
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Famous Diamonds
"The history of
great diamonds is intimately interwoven with the lives of emperors
and conquerors, great kings and queens, with statesmen and
soldiers, the rich and famous - but also, inevitably, with those
who lead more shadowy lives. Diamonds have been objects of
passion, sometimes of war, violence and theft.
As well as being objects of exceptional beauty and rarity, they
were once thought to possess magical properties that protected
their owners from enemies. Initially a male prerogative reflecting
status and authority, these incredible gems later adorned the
wives of powerful men, and at times were offered as influential
gifts. Few were immune to the temptation of diamonds; many
sacrificed their lives and souls to them.
In Famous Diamonds, Ian Balfour tells the fascinating
stories of almost 80 of these remarkable gems including the
famous: Koh-i-Noor, which is set in the British Crown Jewels; the
infamous: the deep blue Hope Diamond, which is said to bring bad
luck to all who handle it; the biggest: The Cullinan; and the
Hollywood romantic: the Taylor-Burton Diamond. Some have detailed
histories that can be traced from the present day back to the
moment they were mined, while others have a more mysterious past
or have disappeared from view. Also included are shorter entries
on a further selection of some forty notable diamonds." |
Famous Diamonds
by
Ian Balfour
Antique Collectors Club
Hardcover, 336 pages
$ 95.00
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Project Japan; Metabolism Talks by Rem Koolhaas & Hans Ulrich
Obrist
"'Once there was a nation that went to war, but after they
conquered a continent their own country was destroyed by atom
bombs... then the victors imposed democracy on the vanquished. For
a group of apprentice architects, artists, and designers, led by a
visionary, the dire situation of their country was not an obstacle
but an inspiration to plan and think… although they were very
different characters, the architects worked closely together to
realize their dreams, staunchly supported by a super-creative
bureaucracy and an activist state... after 15 years of incubation,
they surprised the world with a new architecture—Metabolism—that
proposed a radical makeover of the entire land... Then newspapers,
magazines, and TV turned the architects into heroes: thinkers and
doers, thoroughly modern men… Through sheer hard work, discipline,
and the integration of all forms of creativity, their country,
Japan, became a shining example... when the oil crisis initiated
the end of the West, the architects of Japan spread out over the
world to define the contours of a post-Western aesthetic....' —Rem
Koolhaas / Hans Ulrich Obrist
Between 2005 and 2011, architect
Rem Koolhaas and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist interviewed the
surviving members of Metabolism—the first non-western
avant-garde, launched in Tokyo in 1960, in the midst of Japan’s
postwar miracle. Project Japan features hundreds of
never-before-seen images—master plans from Manchuria to Tokyo,
intimate snapshots of the Metabolists at work and play,
architectural models, magazine excerpts, and astonishing sci-fi
urban visions—telling the 20th
century history of Japan through its architecture, from
the tabula rasa of a colonized Manchuria in the 1930s to
a devastated Japan after the war, the establishment of Metabolism
at the 1960 World Design Conference in Tokyo, to the rise of Kisho
Kurokawa as the first celebrity architect, to the apotheosis of
Metabolism at Expo ’70 in Osaka and its expansion into the Middle
East and Africa in the 1970s. The result is a vivid documentary of
the last moment when architecture was a public rather than a
private affair." |
Project Japan; Metabolism Talks by Rem Koolhaas & Hans Ulrich
Obrist
Taschen
Softcover, 720 pages
$ 59.99
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"Founded over half a millennium ago by Sultan Mehmet the
Conqueror, the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul has quite a story to tell,
surviving fires and earthquakes over the centuries, each time
rising renewed from its ashes like a phoenix. With thousands of
stores, stalls, workshops, and storehouses, along with cafés,
change offices, banks, and fountains—even a post office, a police
station, and a mosque—the Grand Bazaar is a city unto itself. In
this comprehensive overview of the history and legacy of luxury
art crafts in Turkey, the vibrant spirit of the Grand Bazaar is
revealed through stories by Ottoman art expert Serdar Gülgün and
dazzling images by esteemed photographer Laziz Hamani. Presented
in a luxury slipcase, this volume showcases the wonders of the
Grand Bazaar’s most singular boutiques.
This luxury slipcase edition takes a comprehensive look at the
world’s most vibrant and inspiring marketplace, replete with
dazzling images by esteemed photographer Laziz Hamani and texts by
an Istanbul-born Ottoman art expert and collector. Discover
jewels, furniture, fabrics, silver, spices, antiques,
collectibles, and much more in nearly 300 pages in this
once-in-a-lifetime Assouline objet." |
The Grand Bazaar Istanbul
Assouline
Hardbound in Slipcase, 284 pages
$ 250.00
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Ed Panar: Animals That Saw Me
"Roaming the natural and urban world with a camera
for over 16 years, often alone, on foot and keeping a low profile,
Ed Panar has repeatedly been caught in the act of photography--not
by other people, but by a random assortment of familiar animals:
cows, cats, frogs, dogs, turtles, deer, geese. The animal sees Ed;
Ed sees the animal. An unspoken message passes between them. If
the photographer is lucky, the moment is captured on film,
cataloged and tagged for future reference. In Animals That Saw
Me (Volume One), Panar brings together the first collection of
his most surprising and unexpected encounters with ordinary
beasts--a brief, beautifully deadpan field study of the uncanny
moment of recognition between species. What exactly have these
animals seen? Panar's photographs serve as a reminder that we must
appear at least as strange to them as they do to us." |
Ed Panar: Animals That Saw Me
The Ice Plant
Flexible Boards, 80 pages
$ 29.95
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Odd Nerdrum: Kitsch, More than Art
"Kitsch is Odd Nerdrum's luxuriously produced
apologia for the enduring relevance of the old master style.
Containing writings and interviews by and with Nerdrum alongside
hefty plate sections of both Nerdrum's own paintings and those by
painters he sees as exemplars of a certain kind of figurative art,
it is a bold attack on the foundations of modernism. In Nerdrum's
view, what we call "kitsch" art is a consequence of modernism's
"make it new" ethic. For Nerdrum, this insistence on novelty has
permeated the thinking of institutions, critics, artists and the
public, and has effectively suppressed what Nerdrum most values in
a work of art: sentimentality, passion, pathos and the
self-evident skill and emotion of sheer craft. By this latter
value in particular, the kitsch painter is able to work according
to knowable standards that painting prior to modernism has
established--standards that are "more than art," for, as Nerdrum
puts it, "the kitsch painter commits himself to the eternal: love,
death and the sunrise." Kitsch is a manifesto that recruits
figurative painters both old and new, such as William Dyce, Paul
Fenniak, Sampo Kaikkonen, Isaac Levitan, Osiris Rain, Ilya Repin,
Giovanni Segantini, Valentin Serov, George Tooker, George
Frederick Watts and Anders Zorn, and situates their work alongside
more than 70 of Nerdrum's recent paintings. Alongside essays,
poems and plays by the artist, Kitsch contains an extended
dialogue on the topic between Nerdrum and Maria Kreyn." |
Odd Nerdrum: Kitsch, More than Art
by Jan-Ove Tuv, Bjørn Li, Dag Solhjell and Odd Nerdrum
Hardcover, 376 pages
$ 75.00
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Hussein Chalayan
"The comprehensive book on the visionary Hussein Chalayan, one of the most
innovative, experimental, and conceptual fashion designers working
today. Internationally acclaimed, Hussein Chalayan is known for
his inventive use of materials and integration of new technology
into his designs. He is also celebrated for putting the creative
process itself on view. Some of his best-known designs include a
paper dress that can be folded into an envelope and airmailed,
armchair covers that transform into dresses, and a coffee table
that reveals itself to be a wooden skirt. Original and
groundbreaking, his designs are also pretty and modern, and this
book explores that continuum. Featuring Chalayan’s complete body
of fashion and creative work—including his installations, videos,
and photographs—this unique and beautiful volume is as
thought-provoking as it is stunning and is sure to be coveted by
fashion, art, and design connoisseurs." |
Hussein Chalayan
Edited by Robert Violette, Contribution by Judith Clark, Susannah
Frankel, Emily King and Sarah Mower
Rizzoli
Hardcover, 276 pages
$ 85.00
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Marisa Berenson: A Life
in Pictures
"A captivating selection of images by the world’s leading
photographers celebrating one of the most recognized faces in
fashion and film. Dubbed an “It Girl” by Yves Saint Laurent in
the early 1970s, Marisa Berenson is the original modern
muse-inspiring fashion designers, photographers, stylists, and
fashion editors for over thirty years. Born of noble lineage-and
the granddaughter of the famed fashion designer Elsa
Schiaparelli-Berenson’s meteoric rise began formally at age
sixteen, leading to numerous covers and editorials in Vogue,
Harper’s Bazaar, and countless other high-end fashion and
society magazines. Her timeless beauty and chameleonlike talent
for transformation soon led to her entry into film, where she
landed leading roles in the period films Cabaret, Death
in Venice, and Stanley Kubrick’s lavish production of Barry
Lyndon.
This captivating collection of fashion editorials, magazine
covers, film stills, and candid photos were captured by the
leading photographers and filmmakers of the day, including Richard
Avedon, Irving Penn, David Bailey, Hiro, Helmut Newton, Henry
Clarke, Norman Parkinson, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Steven Meisel,
among many others. This lavish yet intimate volume details a
visual biography of Berenson, and demonstrates the lasting
resilience that continues to make her an enthralling and legendary
visage."
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Marisa Berenson: A Life in Pictures
by Marisa Berenson, Steven Meisel, Jason
Duzansky andLina Bey
Rizzoli
Hardcover, 240 pages
$ 60.00
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"In a 2003
conversation with then-Interview magazine editor Ingrid
Sischy, French designer Hedi Slimane (born 1968) described his
beginnings as a photographer: "I started taking pictures before I
even began in fashion. I didn't start with clothes until I was 16,
but I had my first camera when I was 11. I've always taken
pictures, almost like some people take notes or write down their
thoughts." As Hedi Slimane: Anthology of a Decade reveals,
Slimane's photographs, which traverse the music scene, the New
York art scene, street fashion and haute couture, are as fresh as
his groundbreaking work in fashion. Drawing on photographs taken
throughout the past decade, this volume records Slimane's early
years in the fashion industry, before, during and after his
tenures at Yves Saint Laurent and Christian Dior. It was during
this decade that Slimane brought to men's fashion an androgynous,
rock verve that influenced couture worldwide. This selection of
845 color photographs lays bare Slimane's inspirations for this
look, evidencing his attention to both youth culture and more
historical groundings in photography; in their composition, these
pictures also affirm that the designer's major contribution to
contemporary haute couture has been his continual refinement of
line and silhouette. Anthology of a Decade is revelatory
both as a hitherto little-known instance of Slimane's many
talents, and as an elucidation of his work in fashion."
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Hedi Slimane: Anthology of a Decade
2000-2010
JRP Ringier
4 Softbound books in a Slipcase, 240 pages
Out of Print Already! $600.00
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The New York Times, 36 Hours: 150
Weekends in the USA & Canada To travel in North
America is to face a delicious quandary: over these vast spaces,
with so many riches from glittering cities to eccentric small
towns and heart-stoppingly beautiful mountains and plains, how to
experience as much as possible in limited time? One answer is the
quick hit, a jam-packed adventure that delivers a full sense of a
single place’s opportunities and personalities over a well-plotted
two-night stay.
The New York Times has been offering up
dream weekends with practical
itineraries in its popular weekly "36 Hours" column since
2002. The many expert contributors, experienced travelers and
accomplished writers all have brought careful research, insider's
knowledge, and a sense of fun to hundreds of cities and
destinations, always with an eye to getting the most out of a
short trip. Want to read what Sam Sifton suggests in his beloved
borough of Brooklyn, or David Carr advises in Minneapolis, Mark
Bittman in Death Valley, or Ariel Kaminer in Lower Manhattan? Here
is where to do it, with full-color photographs to entice you and
handy maps to guide you.
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The New York Times, 36 Hours: 150 Weekends
in the USA &
Canada
Taschen
Hardcover, 700 pages
$ 39.99
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Warhol : Bardot
Brigitte Bardot was one of the first women to be really modern and
treat men like love objects, buying them and discarding them. I
like that. —Andy Warhol
"Produced in conjunction with "Warhol Bardot" at Gagosian
Gallery Davies Street, this profusely illustrated
catalogue accompanied the exhibition of portraits, with essays
by Warhol collaborator and writer Glenn O'Brien and Purple
Magazine editor Olivier Zahm.
Bardot was the original sex kitten, a superstar of French New
Wave cinema, and the embodiment of liberated feminine
sensuality. In these portraits of her, based on an iconic
magazine photograph taken by Richard Avedon in 1959, Warhol
applied similar formal techniques to those he used in the 1964
and 1965 portraits of Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor — a
cropped frontal viewpoint and contrasting palette (blue/red,
pink/purple, green/black) with vivid primary accents on eyes and
lips. In each of the paintings, Bardot's carnal beauty fills the
square canvas in the manner of a record cover, her voluptuous,
leonine features framed by abundant, tousled hair."
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Warhol : Bardot
Gagosian Gallery
Hardcover, 45 pages
$ 80.00
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Vittorio Storaro: Writing With Light,
Colors, And The Elements
"Storaro says 'Writing with light isn't just a book, it's a
lifelong project, to try and understand how much philosophers,
painters and scientists all over the world have achieved with
their research into the mystery of vision. It's a set of articles
and images, the result of about 30 years of experience, divided
into three main parts, containing a single reasoning for life.'
This new single-volume edition of his trilogy about light, colors
and the elements (which have always constituted the basis for his
research), contains Storaro's reflections about his career in
cinematography, after more than 30 years' experience, including
accounts of what happens behind the scenes, the secrets and the
magic of the man who is probably the world's most important
cinematographer. The book is accompanied by a DVD: a tribute from
the master who accompanies us behind the sets, explains 'live' the
tricks of the trade and explains how he incorporates inspiration
drawn from the great masters of Italian art in his films. It also
offers his spectators a real lesson on film-making, interviews
with key players (actors and film directors) and clips from his
films." |
Vittorio Storaro: Writing With Light, Colors, And The
Elements
Mondadori Electa
Hardcover, 219 pages
$ 160.00
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Federico Fellini The Book of Dreams
"Federico Fellini is one of the most beloved and revered
filmmakers of the twentieth century, having entertained audiences
worldwide with his ability to breathe life into imagery normally
confined to human memory and emotion. His insights into the world
of dreams have contributed to his many famous cinematic creations,
including La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, and La Strada. A
unique combination of memory, fantasy, and desire, this
illustrated volume is a personal diary of Fellini’s private
visions and nighttime fantasies. Fellini, winner of four Oscars
for Best Foreign Language Film, kept notebooks filled with unique
sketches and notes from his dreams from the 1960s onward. This
collection delves into his cinematic genius as it is captured in
widely detailed caricatures and personal writings. This dream
diary exhibits Fellini’s deeply personal taste for the bizarre and
the irrational. His sketches focus on the profound struggle of the
soul and are tinged with humor, empathy, and insight. Fellini’s
Book of Dreams is an intriguing source of
never-before-published writings and drawings, which reveal the
master filmmaker’s personal vision and his infinite imagination." |
Federico Fellini The Book of Dreams
by Tullio Kezich, Vittorio Boarini and Vincenzo Mollica
Rizzoli
Hardcover, 584 pages
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Fab Gear: The Beatles and Fashion
"The Beatles' incomparable fashion sense takes center stage in
this unique look at how the world's most popular band influenced
the fashion of the times. The Beatles knew how much image mattered
in the 1960s, and whether it was Nehru jackets, skinny ties,
granny glasses, or the Cuban heel boot--if John, Paul, George, or
Ringo wore it, the rest of their millions of fans followed.
Renowned music and fashion author Paolo Hewitt takes readers on a
fashion tour of the Beatles' career and the trends they co-opted.
From their Hamburg debut in sunglasses, leather, and black
sweaters to the conservative suits they were ordered to wear by
their manager Brian Epstein; from their infatuation with Pierre
Cardin's collarless jackets to their more casual corduroy; from
their Mod madness to psychedelic spaciness to faux-military attire
to hippy-chic--each style is revealed as a reflection of the music
they made and the world views they embraced. Filled
with fabulous photographs and with an appealing retro feel, the
book features numerous images, many of which have never been
published before. It offers insights into how the band's meteoric
rise and enduring success shaped their fashion choices. There's
even a chapter devoted to their hairstyles. Fans of all ages, as
well as anyone interested in fashion, will be enthralled with this
first ever Beatles stylebook that proves the Fab Four were as
timely as they were timeless." |
Fab Gear: The Beatles and Fashion
by
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Paolo Hewitt
Prestel
Hardcover, 240 pages
$ 45.00
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"More than 25 years after Italian artist Alighiero Boetti's
death, 2011 marks the opening of a major international
retrospective of the work of the Arte Povera master, sponsored by
MoMA NY, the Tate Modern and Madrid's Reina Sofia. Adding to the
new appreciation of Boetti's joyous work is this dazzling,
multi-layered photo essay on the unseen story behind the making of
his seminal arazzi (embroidered works). For the first time, the
international web of artisans who made the arazzi comes into
focus, through the work of American photographer Randi Malkin
Steinberger.
In 1990, Steinberger traveled to Peshawar, Pakistan, with Boetti's
blessing, to document how the Afghan refugee women realized the
embroideries which Boetti had outlined. Steinberger, traveling
with a Boetti assistant, followed ''the journey of the cloths''
into the craftswomen's workrooms as they brought color to these
spectacular works. When Steinberger returned to Rome, she and
Boetti worked together to choose 55 color photographs for a future
book. Now, two decades after the photos were taken, they are being
published for the first time in this beautiful edition.
Boetti often said that he considered his art a way to communicate
across the globe, and that the resulting works were owned as much
by the women who realized the embroidery as by the artist himself.
Now, their story is revealed, and their work can be celebrated as
Boetti intended."
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Boetti By Afghan People: Peshawar, Pakistan 1990
- Photographs by Randi Malkin Steinberger
Ram Publications
Hardcover, 128 pages
$ 49.95
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Julius Shulman: Palm Springs
"Through Julius Shulman’s lens, the architecture of Southern
California became iconic images of modernism. His photographs
heralded the glamor and casual elegance of a lifestyle and
architecture that has become revered worldwide. Focusing on the
desert paradise of Palm Springs, which was his seminal crucible,
this book presents his masterpieces. Images range from Richard
Neutra’s Kaufmann House and Albert Frey’s Raymond Loewy House, to
Paul R. Williams’ house for Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, Frank
Sinatra’s house, John Lautner’s house for Bob Hope, as well as
other famous landmarks. The book features more than sixty
buildings by fifteen of the most notable mid-twentieth-century
architects. With new photography and images culled from his
personal collection as well as the Getty Center, this book
includes many images never before seen."
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Julius Shulman: Palm Springs
by Michael Stern and Alan Hess
Rizzoli
Hardcover, 208 pages
$ 55.00
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The Empire of Death: A Cultural
History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses
"From bone fetishism in the
ancient world to painted skulls in Austria and Bavaria: an unusual
and compelling work of cultural history.
It is sometimes said that death is the last taboo, but it was
not always so. For centuries, religious establishments constructed
decorated ossuaries and charnel houses that stand as masterpieces
of art created from human bone. These unique structures have been
pushed into the footnotes of history; they were part of a dialogue
with death that is now silent.
The sites in this specially photographed and brilliantly original
study range from the Monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie in
Palermo, where the living would visit mummified or skeletal
remains and lovingly dress them; to the Paris catacombs; to
fantastic bone-encrusted creations in Austria, Cambodia, the Czech
Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Germany, Greece, Italy, Peru, Portugal,
Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, and elsewhere.
Paul Koudounaris photographed more than seventy sites for this
book. He analyzes the role of these remarkable memorials within
the cultures that created them, as well as the mythology and
folklore that developed around them, and skillfully traces a
remarkable human endeavor." |
The Empire of Death: A Cultural History of
Ossuaries and Charnel Houses
by
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Paul Koudounaris
Thames and Hudson
Hardcover, 224 pages
$ 50.00
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Exotic Taste: Orientalist Interiors
"As trade with the exotic East grew in the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries, through the activities of English,
French, Portuguese, and Dutch merchants, Chinese-inspired
design—Chinoiserie—became highly fashionable in the French
court, and in its many imitators throughout Europe. Since
then, stylistic influences from the Far East, India, and the
Islamic world have been a significant factor in the
decorative arts and interior design of Europe and America.
Exotic Taste explains
the link between foreign adventures, such as Napoleon’s
invasion of Egypt or the British conquest of the Indian
princely states, and the subsequent fashion for Egyptian
Revival, Indian, Chinese, Near Eastern, or
Japanese-influenced interiors. European and American
writers, artists, and thinkers were drawn to the “mysterious
East” and commissioned the leading architects and designers
of the day to create rooms, even entire houses, modeled upon
Oriental examples. The costly extravagance of the Prince
Regent’s Chinese-inspired Royal Pavilion caused a
constitutional crisis, while the Empress Catherine blithely
spent a fortune on the construction of a Chinese village at
Tsarskoe Selo, her Imperial palace outside St. Petersburg.
In the nineteenth century the houses of Lord Leighton, the
British Orientalist painter, and Mark Twain, were famed for
their “Syrian” rooms, and Pierre Loti, the French novelist
and adventurer, posed in Arab robes in his Moroccan-themed
villa. Fantastic, elaborate, and often kitschy, it is no
wonder that the taste for the exotic appealed equally to the
mad King Ludwig and Anglo-American tycoons.
Exotic Taste
celebrates the flowering of Orientalism, and, in more than
200 images, shows its development through the nineteenth and
into the twentieth century. Packed with color, the book
creates a visual source for anyone involved with interiors,
collecting, architecture and design."
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Exotic Taste: Orientalist Interiors
by
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Emmanuelle Gaillard and Marc
Walter
Vendome
Hardcover, 240 pages
$ 75.00
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