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Exhibition Books
Christopher Jones
Christopher Jones is the Stanton B. and Nancy W. Kaplan Curator of Photography and Media Arts at The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art. Accompanies the major exhibition Metadata: Rethinking Photography in the 21st Century at The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida, from 6 March to 28 August 2022.
What’s behind a picture? The term ‘metadata’ is used to describe the information that travels with a digital image file but is unseen within the image itself. In our moment, we are becoming increasingly aware that understanding the information that circulates unseen around photographic images is just as important as seeing what they represent. This fascinating, fully illustrated publication explores the ecology of the photographic image through the work of an international selection of contemporary artists and visual activists.
Featuring work by internationally renowned artists: Mohsen Azar, Viktoria Binschtok, Mladen Bizumic, Joy Buolamwini, Ali Feser and Jason Lazarus, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Lilly Lulay, Trevor Paglen and Penelope Umbrico.
Toni Dove: Embodied Machines
134 pages; hb 290×229 mm 978 1 78551 118 9 £26 / $39.95
Re:Purposed
128 pages; pb 222×222 mm 978 1 85759 937 4 £25 / $35
R. Luke DuBois: Now
144 pages; pb 222×222 mm 978 1 85759 877 3 £25 / $35
Halim Flowers: Love is the Vaccine
Ted Vassilev, Eleanor Heartney and Lilly Wei
Ted Vassilev is an art dealer, author of books on art and owner of DTR Modern Galleries, with locations in Boston, New York City, Palm Beach, Washington, DC and Nantucket.
Eleanor Heartney is an art critic, author and editor based in New York City. She is the author of numerous books, articles and monographs, including Postmodernism, Postmodern Heretics and Art & Today. Lilly Wei is a New York-based independent curator, writer, journalist and critic whose area of interest is global contemporary art, in particular emerging art and artists.
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Known for his colourful, irreverent and politically charged paintings, as well as his human rights advocacy and uplifting mantra ‘Love is the Vaccine’, Halim Flowers has become one of the hottest newcomers in the contemporary art scene. This stunning volume provides the first full treatment of Flowers’s artistic vision, with insightful interpretation from leading scholars of this star on the rise. 2021_03_18_Slonem_Case_Final.indd 1
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Hunt Slonem
128 pages; hb 305×305 mm 978 1 78551 369 5 £45 / $65
Mr. Brainwash: Franchise of the Mind
128 pages; hb 305×305 mm 978 1 78551 175 2 £45 / $65
Futurelics: Robert Mars Past is Present
128 pages; hb 305×305 mm 978 1 78551 163 9 £45 / $65
For six decades, sculptor Bruce Beasley has worked in a range of media to build complex, resonant arrangements from simple shapes that communicate the primacy of form and express the complexity of human emotion. This richly illustrated volume, published to accompany a major retrospective at Grounds For Sculpture in Hamilton, New Jersey, includes monumental and intimate works in aluminum, acrylic, stainless steel and bronze, and will serve as the definitive treatment of Beasley’s distinguished career.
Bruce Beasley: Sixty Year Retrospective
Bruce Beasley, Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue, Tom Moran and Lawrence Weschler
Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue
is Professor of Art History at Otis College of Art and Design. Since 2017 she has been the Director of the Bruce Beasley Foundation. Tom Moran served as the Chief Curator at Grounds For Sculpture from 2011 to 2020.
Lawrence Weschler is a former staff writer at the New Yorker.
Accompanies the major exhibition Bruce Beasley: Sixty Year Retrospective, 1960–2020 at Grounds For Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey, from 3 May 2020 to 9 January 2022.
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Michael Rees: Synthetic Cells: Site and (Para)site
120 pages; hb 280×280 mm 978 1 78551 317 6 £45 / $65
ALEXIS SMITH
The American Way
Alexis Smith: The American Way
Anthony Graham, Cecile Whiting, Elliott Hundley
Anthony Graham is Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. Cecile Whiting is Chancellor’s Professor of Art History at the University of California, Irvine. Elliott Hundley is an artist based in Los Angeles. Accompanies a major retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, from 1 October 2022 to 26 February 2023.
This fully illustrated catalogue is the first comprehensive monograph on Alexis Smith in 30 years and presents the full range of the artist’s dynamic artistic output, from her intimate artist books and collages to large wall paintings and installations. Providing new insights into Smith’s work, this volume connects the themes that have persisted throughout the artist’s career, from her exploration of identity and self-invention to her preoccupation with stereotypes and clichés in film and literature. This publication will introduce Smith’s expansive body of work to a new generation of viewers. Situated alongside movements of conceptual and pop art and shaped by the feminist movements of the 1970s, Smith’s singular career expands our understanding of American art and provokes us to think critically on the culture we share.
This richly illustrated volume presents outstanding Old Master paintings from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries from the Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III Collection, presented at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, including works by renowned Dutch, Flemish, French, Italian and English masters. Works by Brueghel, Hals, Rubens, Canaletto, Lawrence and others are presented with an accessible text examining how artists fused careful observation with the imagination to create beautiful and thought-provoking paintings.
With Observation and Imagination: Still Lifes, Genre Scenes, Portraits, and Landscapes from the Saunders Collection
Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. Contributions by Sylvain Cordier, Robert Evren, Molly R. Harrington and Colleen Yarger
Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. is the former Curator of Dutch and Flemish Paintings at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and Senior Adviser to The Leiden Collection, New York.
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Virginia Museum of Fine Arts: Visitor Guide
80 pages; pb 228×152 mm 978 1 85759 971 8 £6.50 / $9.95
The inaugural volume of the exciting new Masterpiece in Residence series highlights the stunning painting Still Life with Quince, Cabbage, Melon, and Cucumber by Juan Sánchez Cotán (1602) from the San Diego Museum of Art. Celebrating masterpieces of Spanish art in US collections, each book in this exciting new series focuses on a single work of art on the occasion of its exhibition at the Meadows Museum in Dallas, Texas. Meadows Museum Masterpiece in Residence series: Sánchez Cotán’s Quince, Cabbage, Melon, and Cucumber Peter Cherry
Peter Cherry is Associate Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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Meadows Museum: A Handbook of the Collections
316 pages; pb 228×152 mm 978 1 78551 314 5 £19.95 / $24.95
From Rodin to Plensa: Modern Sculpture at the Meadows Museum
168 pages; hb 305×235 mm 978 1 78551 105 9 £35 / $55
Theyyam is a 2,000-year-old ritual of worship found only in the northern region of Kerala, India, in which empowered men temporarily manifest as deities. Once the face is transformed by intricate make-up and the body fantastically costumed, the deity’s complex ritual procedure begins. Pepita Seth’s decades-long association with Theyyam’s practitioners gave her unprecedented access to their culture. This book is the culmination, in her words and photographs, of her commitment to this extraordinary subject.
In God’s Mirror: The Theyyams of Malabar
Pepita Seth
Pepita Seth first visited India in 1970. After several years she became drawn to Kerala and eventually based herself in Thrissur, where she now lives. She has written and lectured extensively on Kerala’s traditions and had exhibitions of her photographs in India, Britain and the United States. In 1981 she received official permission to enter Kerala’s temples, and she has been photographing Theyyam since the early 1990s. Her book Heaven on Earth: the Universe of Kerala’s Guruvayur Temple was published in 2009. In 2012 the Indian Government awarded her the Padma Shri. She has also published two novels, The Spirit Land (1994) and The Edge of Another World (2015).
