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Starving Artist Knifed to Death in Village Room... Famous Artist Dies Penniless and All Alone...
Deep in the archives of The Metropolitan Museum of Art are two strange scrapbooks packed…
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Robert Storr
Focal Points is a new book series of essays, articles and reviews, by acclaimed curator and critic Robert Storr. Expertly edited by art historian and curator Francesca Pietropaolo, and richly…
How can we interpret the work of contemporary artists? Focal Points is a new book series of essays, articles and reviews by acclaimed curator and critic Robert Storr. Expertly edited…
‘Interviews’ collates, in a single volume, the major body of interviews conducted by the revered American critic and curator Robert Storr, encompassing engaging discussions with some of the most renowned…
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Ron Mueck
On the occasion of the exhibition of artist Ron Mueck in June 2023, the Fondation Cartier publishes an expanded edition of the comprehensive reference book first published in 2013, covering…
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With more than 100 illustrations – approximately 48 in full color – this innovative series offers a fresh look at the most creative and influential artists of the postwar era…
A must-have for the core contemporary art audience: Robert Storr’s singular and long-awaited book is unprecedented in treating the full range of Louise Bourgeois’s artistic achievement.
An authoritative and comprehensive survey of the life and work of the visionary and influential painter Philip Guston, with more than 850 illustrations
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The artist Elizabeth Murray has radically altered the structure of modernist painting. This monograph presents an overview of Elizabeth Murray’s career. It offers the reader a detailed examination of Murray’s…
Robert Storr’s Watson Gordon Lecture of 2015.
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Robert Storr,Charles Stuckey
This long-overdue monograph rediscovers the fifty-year career of Robert De Niro, Sr., an important New York School painter and poet.
Brian Clarke,Robert Storr
A vivid and diverse series of meditations on Clarke’s most recent subject, The Night Orchid
This lovely catalogue was published following the Timothy Taylor London exhibition of Alex Katz's Coca-Cola Girls series, which ran from November 2 to December 21, 2018. The catalogue transports the…
Robert Storr,Richard Shiff
Published on the occasion of the twenty-five year anniversary at David Zwirner, this book paints a picture of the gallery’s growth and development through the lens of the artists that…
Philip Pearlstein
In the 1950s, American painter Philip Pearlstein completed his MA thesis, 'The Paintings of Francis Picabia 1908-1930'. When his research coincided with Picabia's death in 1953, Pearlstein became the authority…
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Tiffany Bell,Robert Storr
Catalog of the exhibition held at David Zwirner, New York, September 13-October 21, 2017.
R. Crumb,Robert Storr
Published … on the occasion of Drawing for Print: Mind Fucks, Kultur Klashes, Pulp Fiction & Pulp Fact by the Illustrious R. Crumb … David Zwirner, … February 21-April 13…
Robert Storr,Judith Tannenbaum
The Way of Improvement Leads Home traces the short but fascinating life of Philip Vickers Fithian, one of the most prolific diarists in early America. Born to Presbyterian grain-growers in…
Drawn from a critical period of Tony Smith’s career, when the artist lived in Germany from 1953-55, the Louisenberg series is named after a German geological site. Containing paintings and…
Peter Benson Miller,Robert Storr
Features essays about Philip Guston. This volume illustrates the enduring power of his work, particularly the fireworks generated by expressive contradictions embodied in his last paintings.
Gerhard Richter is one of the most influential artists of modern times. His painting September is a response to the bombing of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001…
From essays on gender in the work of Louise Bourgeois to a review of Art Spiegelman’s comix memoir Maus, Writings on Art is expertly curated from his prolific output and…
The highly anticipated concluding volume of Robert Storr’s writings collection, completing the first comprehensive series of writings on art by the leading American art critic and curator.
The highly anticipated first volume of the complete catalogue of works by John Baldessari
This third publication in the Fundacion Cisneros’ Conversaciones/Conversations series puts Brazilian conceptual artist Jac Leirner in dialogue with art historian Adele Nelson. Leirner (born 1961) emerged in the early 1990s…
Gay Gassmann,Robert Storr,Catherine Grenier
The groundbreaking sculptor’s most comprehensive monograph to date
Herrera's work has remained uncompromisingly abstract and minimal throughout her career - although the hard-edge, rectilinear qualities of her paintings are, on closer inspection, belied by their obviously hand-painted expanses…
Since the Renaissance, most art has been prized because of the prodigious skills that went into its making. Why would any artist choose to work with slides? Is the development…
Robert Storr (Open University),Joan Simon
Working in mediums such as sculpture, video, film, installation, performance, and printmaking, the author connects you to physical realities of violence, sex, and death with visceral, spiritual messages, like an…
Robert Storr,Laura Cumming,Elena Geuna
Copublished with Skira and Gagosian, this comprehensive monograph collects over 300 of Kami’s works in color along with essays by curator, critic, and writer Robert Storr, Guardian art critic Laura…
Peter Schjeldahl
A collection of the essays of art critic and poet Peter Schjeldahl, which explores his thoughts on individual contemporary artists, their work, events and ethics in the art world and…
On the late post-conceptual paintings of the influential artist and educator
The Barbados-born, Seattle-based painter Denzil Hurley (1949-2021) was a quietly influential figure in the art world throughout his life…
A monograph exploring 30 years of research by Paolo Canevari, the author of ironic and disturbing works. Text in English and Italian.
Lisa Le Feuvre,Paul Schimmel,Kristine Stiles,Robert Storr,Robert Storr
Chris Burden is a seminal figure in contemporary art. A monograph on Burden, this book gives an overview of his art, illuminated by searching texts by some of the most…
This title is the catalogue for an exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art from 15 May to 22 August 2004.
Kristen Hileman
This catalogue is published on the occasion John Waters: Indecent Exposure, an exhibition presented at The Baltimore Museum of Art, October 7, 2018-January 6, 2019, and at the Wexner Center…
Matthias Haldemann,Ilya and Emilia Kabakov,Robert Storr
Today Ilya and Emilia Kabakov are recognised as the most important living Russian artists. Their multidisciplinary practice, spanning drawing, painting, sculpture and installation, modifies our perceptions of everyday life. Including…
Fei Dawei,Andre Magnin,Robert Storr,Michel Casse,Bruce Albert
Inaugurated on October 20, 1984, the Fondation Cartier pour lart contemporain celebrates its thirtieth anniversary in 2014. Featuring interviews with the major figures of the history of the Fondation Cartier…
Roberta Bernstein,Edith Devaney,Hiroko Ikegami,Morgan Meis,Robert Storr
A beautifully illustrated overview of the work of one of the most important American artists of the last 60 years.
Jennifer Farrell
Richard Brown Baker (1912-2002) began collecting works by emerging artists in the 1940s, becoming one of the first collectors to actively embrace both Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art and eventually…
A complete overview of the most recent paintings of Ilya Kabakov’s (*1933), one of the former Soviet Union’s most important and influential international artists today.
Kate Ganz
Inspired by the 1976 exhibition Drawing Now at The Museum of Modern Art, Drawing Then investigates revolutionary developments in the practice of drawing that emerged in the United States during…
Mary L. Beebe
In 1981, The Stuart Foundation, a not-for-profit foundation dedicated to funding experimental public sculpture, and the University of California, San Diego formed an extraordinary partnership to create a major public…
Robert B. Northrop (University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA)
The boundaries between simple and complicated, and complicated and complex system designations are fuzzy and debatable, even using quantitative measures of complexity. However, if you are a biomedical engineer, a…
Written for students and professionals in the fields of biomedical engineering, systems biology, biophysics, and physiology, this unique reference covers complexity issues within living systems. Topics explored include human responses…
