Book of the Day Posted Aug 20, 2019

Book of the Day > Lyle XOX: Head of Design

Book of the Day > Lyle XOX: Head of Design. Published by Rizzoli. "Lyle Reimer has captivated Instagram fans with his strangely beautiful self-portraits where his face serves as a blank canvas for decorative facial collages that bring his otherworldly online personas to life. His love of makeup, fashion, and storytelling is evident in his Instagram posts where he styles the makeup, wigs, and assembles his elaborate facial sculptures made up of found and recycled objects. Always pushing the boundaries of beauty, Reimer explores a multiplicity of characters à la Cindy Sherman, combined with the subversive edge of performance artist Leigh Bowery, and the glamorous theatrics of Moulin Rouge!In his debut book, designed by the renowned art director Fabien Baron, Reimer has curated a collection of his favorite Instagram personas. For Reimer's spectacular facial collages, inspiration comes from the most quotidian things--from feathers, soy sauce packets, Pellegrino water labels, bleached turkey bones, and mattress foam to ripped pages from Vogue and deconstructed Gucci purses--to create beautiful pieces of facial art. Truly a must-have for makeup and beauty aficionados and those interested in online popular culture, this one-of-a-kind volume captures Reimer's work as he breaks the boundaries of beauty, embraces self-expression, and celebrates the ever-changing nature of an individual's sense of style."
 
Book of the Day Posted Aug 18, 2019

Book of the Day > Living with Charlotte Perriand

Book of the Day > Living with Charlotte Perriand. Published by Skira. "Living with Charlotte Perriand presents a catalog of the great designer’s work, object by object. Her chairs, tables and bookshelves in all their different iterations are seen here both up close and "at home," as installed in the living spaces of collectors. Photographs of both historical and contemporary settings show how Perriand’s furniture stands the test of time and taste. Essays by François Laffanour and Cynthia Fleury provide a deeper insight into Perriand's work and retrace her life and collaboration with other great artists, designers and architects of her time, such as Le Corbusier and Jean Prouvé. Additionally, quotes from Perriand and the collectors who live with her designs are interpersed throughout the book. "

Book of the Day Posted Aug 17, 2019

Book of the Day > The Enduring Legacy of Weimar Graphic Design & New Typography 1919-1933

Book of the Day > The Enduring Legacy of Weimar Graphic Design & New Typography 1919-1933. Published by Prestel. "This vibrant book tells the history of the Modernist design movement and how it completely revolutionized graphic design. A completely new aesthetic approach to graphic design and typography was created in Europe between 1919 and 1933. An avant-garde group of Dadaists, Futurists, and Constructivists created a brilliantly innovative language of design. This comprehensive volume shows how the work of pioneering artists such as El Lissitzky, Jan Tschichold, and László Moholy-Nagy broke conventions in color, typography, and composition, setting new standards in graphic design that are still in use today."
Book of the Day Posted Aug 16, 2019

Book of the Day > Urs Fischer: Paintings

Book of the Day > Urs Fischer: Paintings. Published by Kiito-San. "Housed in a slipcase, this three-volume retrospective of the paintings of Urs Fischer (born 1973) offers the viewer an intimate look at every painting produced from the beginning of his career up to 2017.Fischer’s two-dimensional works elegantly encapsulate some of his greatest strengths: color, precision and juxtaposition. His inventive approach to painting capitalizes on the relationship between photography and painting in many works, exploring two-dimensional texture.The images in this book are printed to scale relative to one another. Selected works are also printed 1:1, providing the reader with a detail view not available in any other context. This retrospective includes fresh documentation of early collage works, many of which have not been exhibited for years."
Book of the Day Posted Aug 15, 2019

Book of the Day > Enghelab Street: A Revolution Through Books, Iran

Book of the Day > Enghelab Street: A Revolution Through Books, Iran 1979-1983. Published by Spector Books. "Enghelab Street, or Revolution Street, is located in the center of the Iranian capital Tehran—a main artery in the city’s cultural life with a host of bookshops. This book presents a variety of rarely seen photographic and propaganda books collected by Iranian-born, Paris-based artist Hannah Darabi (born 1981), drawing on works published between 1979 and 1983—years corresponding to the short period when freedom of speech prevailed at the end of the Shah’s regime and the beginning of the Islamic government. Darabi takes us to the heart of an intense artistic and cultural period in Iranian history in a visual essay accompanied by a critical essay by Chowra Makaremi. With its revelatory landscape of publications, Enghelab Street gives us the opportunity to look at rare printed matter for the first time."
Book of the Day Posted Aug 14, 2019

Book of the Day > Gerrit Rietveld: Wealth of Sobriety

Book of the Day > Gerrit Rietveld: Wealth of Sobriety. Published by LecturaCultura. "A huge monograph dedicated to Gerrit Rietveld, perhaps the most well-known Dutch architect. Besides his iconic Schröder House, very little is known about the roughly 100 houses Rietveld designed and built during his career. These houses are characterised by light and space, and sobriety is a basic principle in his approach. Only a small group of intellectual clients commissioned him to design an avant-garde residence. Photographer Arjan Bronkhorst went in search of these unknown houses, photographing their interiors and residents, while authors Willemijn Zwikstra, Marc van den Eerenbeemt and Ida van Zijl explored archives and interviewed current residents about living in a Rietveld house."
 
Book of the Day Posted Aug 11, 2019

Book of the Day > BB Gunn: Seventeen Hollywood Palm Trees

Book of the Day > BB Gunn: Seventeen Hollywood Palm Trees. "This is a continuation of Ed Ruscha’s A Few Palm Trees, celebrating seventeen contemporary palms, presented in the exact same format in regard to size, typeface, and layout. However, the palms of today face the threat of erasure due to infection, draught, wildfires, and natural lifespan. Because they don’t provide shade, the City of Los Angeles has declared they are against planting any new palm trees, making the ones in this book both iconic symbols of California’s past and its perilous future in the face of climate change."
Book of the Day Posted Aug 10, 2019

Book of the Day > Touch Me Not: A Most Rare Compendium of the Whole Magical Art

Book of the Day > Touch Me Not: A Most Rare Compendium of the Whole Magical Art. Published by Fulgur Press. "Touch Me Not is an Austrian manuscript compendium of the black magical arts, completed c. 1795. Unique and otherworldly, it evokes a realm of visceral dark magic. As the co-editor of this volume Hereward Tilton notes, the manuscript 'appears at first sight to be a ‘grimoire’ or magician’s manual intended for noviciates of black magic. Psychedelic drug use, animal sacrifice, sigillary body art, masturbation fantasy and the necromantic manipulation of gallows-corpses count among the transgressive procedures it depicts. With their aid hidden treasures are wrested from guardian spirits, and the black magician’s highest ambition—an infernal transfiguration and union with the Devil—can be fulfilled.' Hidden for decades within the Wellcome Library collection, Touch Me Not is published here as a full-color facsimile. The German and Latin texts have been translated by Hereward Tilton and Merlin Cox, scholars who have explored the sources for the various elements and provided copious references. Tilton provides an introduction that lays out the context for the survival of this extraordinary manuscript."
Book of the Day Posted Aug 09, 2019

Book of the Day > Trenton Doyle Hancock: Mind of the Mound

Book of the Day > Trenton Doyle Hancock: Mind of the Mound. Published by Prestel. "Trenton Doyle Hancock has created a world of characters through drawings, paintings, and installations and this “field guide” immerses readers in his creative process and inspirations.Trenton Doyle Hancock has transformed his childhood love of comic books, toys, and superhero culture into his own creation myth. That mythology and the fascinating, multimedia iterations that it has sparked are told in this captivating and revealing book. Accompanied by images of his paintings, drawings, and installations alongside pictures of his own vast toy and popculture collections as well as pages from his forthcoming graphic novel, the artist traces the birth of the Mounds and Vegans—the plants and mutants that are forever at war—through which he explores good, evil, authority, race, moral relativism, and religion. Hancock takes readers inside his largest exhibition yet at MASS MoCA—a multi-media work that blends sculpture, painting, and installations to bring the Mounds’ world to life. Included in this book are contributions by the exhibition curator Denise Markonish, an art historical essay about Hancock’s paintings, and illuminating conversations between Hancock and some of his influences, including Frank Oz. With this book, Hancock merges his personal history with his imagination to create a rich panoply of color, image, and language."
Book of the Day Posted Aug 08, 2019

Book of the Day > Juergen Teller: Handbags

Book of the Day > Juergen Teller: Handbags. Published by Steidl. '“Friends of my girlfriend were asking me what kind of a photographer I am, what I photograph,” Juergen Teller says, apropos of his latest book. “I replied: ‘Actually, come to think of it, mostly handbags.’ I always like their astonished and disappointed faces! I realized through the 30 years of my career, I photographed a hell of a lot of handbags within my fashion work.” This enormous 600-page book of photographs of handbags depicts the accessory as you might imagine it through the lens of Teller, colorful and well lit, but nonetheless as you have never seen handbags before. Numerous models, actors and infamous individuals are featured here, including Michael Clark, Cindy Sherman, Kate Moss, Vivienne Westwood, Sofia Coppola, Tilda Swinton, John Malkovich and Victoria Beckham. Teller himself sees the book as akin to his 1999 volume Go-Sees, in its direct serial character. Demonstrating how Teller has reshaped the field of fashion photography since he first emerged in the 1990s, Handbags will delight the aficionado of contemporary fashion and of photography alike."

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