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Art
250 illustrations 29 x 24.5cm 288pp Hardback ISBN 978 0 500 025314 Thames and Hudson Ltd May £45.00
Peter Blake
Marco Livingstone A fully updated edition of the most comprehensive illustrated survey of the life and work of Peter Blake, one of Britain’s most popular artists.
- Published to coincide with Peter Blake’s 90th birthday. - This new edition of a book first published in 2009 is fully updated and includes a completely new chapter that brings the story up to date. - Considers the artist’s remarkable diversity, assessing his work across all media from the 1950s to the present.
500 illustrations 28 x 21.5cm 368pp Hardback ISBN 978 0 500 025208 Thames and Hudson Ltd January £45.00
Affinities
A Journey Through Images from The Public Domain Review
Adam Green An exploration of echoes and resonances across two millennia of visual culture, celebrating ten years of The Public Domain Review.
- Fascinating imagery, intelligent curatorship and a devoted following will appeal to a broad spectrum of creatives and collectors around the world. - A compelling art object and visual experience in its own right, the book provides a launchpad for further exploration and inventive engagement across all forms of visual culture and expression. - Launched to coincide with the 10th anniversary of The Public Domain Review, the book promises to give followers of the site more of the wonderful encounters they have come to expect, and to introduce a new audience to its creative vision.
125 illustrations 28 x 23cm 208pp Paperback ISBN 978 0 500 025420 Thames and Hudson Ltd May £28.00
Ruth Asawa: Citizen of the Universe
Emma Ridgway and Vibece Salthe A unique look at the visionary artist, educator and activist Ruth Asawa (1926–2013).
- Accompanies an exhibition at Modern Art Oxford from 28 May to 21 August 2022, and Stavanger Art Museum from 1 October 2022 to 22 January 2023. - Focuses on a dynamic and formative period from 1945 to 1980, giving readers a unique experience of the artist and her work. - A timely affirmation of Asawa’s relevance to current thinking in relation to racial justice, gender equality and self-identification, along with the vital role played by creativity in daily life, education and communities.
147 illustrations 24.6 x 18.6cm 384pp Hardback ISBN 978 0 500 518649 Thames and Hudson Ltd March £35.00
The Real and the Romantic
English Art Between Two World Wars
A fresh look at a period of English art that has surged in interest and popularity in recent years, authored by one of Britain’s leading art historians and critics.
Beautifully produced volume with full-colour illustrations throughout.
Frances Spalding is an art historian, critic and leading authority on 20th-century British art.
Frances Spalding
100 illustrations 24 x 17.5cm 180pp Paperback ISBN 978 3 775 750264 Hatje Cantz Verlag March £30.00
Leelee Chan’s Art Journey
Tokens from Time
In collaboration with the sculptor Leelee Chan, a world- and timespanning project has been selected for the 8th BMW Art Journey—an initiative of BMW and Art Basel. Chan explores old and new materials in order to enter them into a dialogue with the present day.
- Ingenious material history - Tradition and reinvention of sculpture - Cooperation between Art Basel and BMW
Leelee Chan
Keith Tyson: Iterations and Variations
Michael Archer, Ariane Koek, Mark Rappolt, Matthew Collings, Beatrix Ruf - A new and authoritative work on an important established contemporary artist. - Published to follow shortly after a major retrospective exhibition at Hauser and Wirth, New York. - An overview of the artist’s work in many media, with gallery installation views.
429 illustrations 30.9 x 25cm 400pp Hardback ISBN 978 0 500 023938 Thames and Hudson Ltd April £65.00
How Art Can Change Your Life
Susie Hodge Brimming with upbeat guidance, this accessible handbook shows how anyone can use art to enlighten, uplift, calm and ease stress and anxieties.
- Features over 70 artworks reflecting a wide range of expressions and emotions, by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Frida Kahlo, Katsushika Hokusai, Claude Monet and many others. - Written in an accessible, friendly voice by a bestselling author, art historian and artist.
88 illustrations 21 x 14.8cm 192pp Paperback ISBN 978 0 500 024935 Thames and Hudson Ltd April £14.99
Bridget Riley: Past into Present
Bridget Riley and Éric de Chassey Renowned British artist Bridget Riley’s paintings have provoked powerful sensations through their formally taut, abstract compositions over the course of her more than six-decade career. In this new body of work, Riley returns to earlier ideas and takes them into further and surprising directions.
- Known for pushing perception into many directions, Riley’s work is a feast for the eyes. The work presented in this catalogue is her newest work in black and white - Featuring working studies and the final paintings, this book highlights the process and the effect of changes in scale.
36 illustrations 30.5 x 24.4cm 80pp Hardback ISBN 978 1 644 230664 David Zwirner Books June £40.00
William Shakespeare × Rose Wylie: The Tempest
William Shakespeare and Rose Wylie As the third title in David Zwirner Books’s Seeing Shakespeare series, this book pairs a complex narrative with equally layered works by a contemporary artist who approaches the play and art-making from a unique perspective.
- The third volume in the budding series from David Zwirner Books pairing classic Shakespeare plays with renowned contemporary artists - Crossover appeal to both art and Shakespeare lovers. Suitable for readers at all levels, with select glossary of terms. - Rose Wylie created specially commissioned drawings for this edition.
31 illustrations 22.9 x 15.2cm 144pp Hardback ISBN 978 1 644 230619 David Zwirner Books April £22.00
Point Break: Raymond Pettibon, Surfers and Waves
Raymond Pettibon and Jamie Brisick - Raymond Pettibon is widely celebrated for his political, countercultural, large-scale and immersive drawings and paintings. - DIVE RIGHT IN: An endless summer on your coffee-table, perfect for the beach- and surf-lover. - The only in-print monograph devoted to Pettibon’s iconic ongoing Surfers series, including works from the 1980s to the present
165 illustrations 30.5 x 22.9cm 160pp Hardback ISBN 978 1 644 230350 David Zwirner Books June £45.00
EXPO 2020 Dubai
On the Book of Sceneries
Tarek Abou El Fetouh and Ala Younis The Book of Optics, written by the Arab scholar Ibn al Haytham in 1021 AD, formed the conceptual framework of the Public Art Program of EXPO 2020 in Dubai. Eleven renowned artists were invited to create newly commissioned, permanent artworks in public space to explore this central work of medieval science. The publication presents the works together with numerous text contributions.
150 illustrations 26 x 21cm 280pp Hardback ISBN 978 3 775 750486 Hatje Cantz Verlag May £44.00
The World of Music Video
Ralf Beil and Danielle Hodgson This catalogue to accompany the major exhibition at the Völklinger Hütte World Cultural Heritage Site (14 November 2021 – 24 July 2022) is devoted to the history and present of music videos. With numerous text contributions, musical, artistic and filmic quality are illuminated as well as current topics: AI, climate change, political, psychological and physical violence, and gender issues of all kinds.
The book brings together around 90 music videos from more than 30 countries. Among the musicians, artists and directors involved are: Laurie Anderson, Roger Ballen, Joseph Beuys, Björk, Childish Gambino, Chris Cunningham, Daft Punk, Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, Pussy Riot, Rammstein, Andy Warhol, Zoot Woman and many more.
530 illustrations 32 x 24cm 448pp Paperback ISBN 978 3 775 751902 Hatje Cantz Verlag April £58.00
Kinetismus
100 Years of Electricity in Art
Christelle Havranek and Christelle Havranek The catalogue Kinetismus: 100 Years of Electricity in Art, which accompanies the opening exhibition of Kunsthalle Praha, explores how electricity has transformed artistic practice from 1920 to the present day, including cinematography, sound, kinetic and mechanical sculptures, computer-based art and immersive installations.
- New exhibition space in Prague, 22 February – 20 June 2022 - Cybernetic art - The history of electricity
300 illustrations 31.5 x 23cm 350pp Paperback ISBN 978 3 775 751971 Hatje Cantz Verlag April £48.00
Matisse: The Red Studio
Ann Temkin and Dorthe Aagesen Published in conjunction with an ambitious dossier exhibition, presented at MoMA and the Statens Museum for Kunst in 2022 and 2023, on Henri Matisse’s The Red Studio from 1911, the catalogue tells the “biography” of the painting. Alongside work by Matisse and other artists, the publication includes a selection of archival materials such as photographs, catalogues, letters, and press clippings.
Exhibition details: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1 May – 10 September 2022; Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, 13 October 2022 – 26 February 20223
200 illustrations 27 x 23cm 224pp Hardback ISBN 978 1 633 451322 The Museum of Modern Art, New York May £40.00
Wolfgang Tillmans: To look without fear
Roxana Marcoci and Quentin Bajac This publication will offer the most comprehensive account of Tillmans’s career to date, while presenting new research and analytical frameworks through which to understand the artist’s contributions to contemporary art and the history of photography.
- Accompanies a major touring exhibition in the US and Canada Exhibition details: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 11 September – 31 December 2022; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto: late March/early April 2023 – end of Summer/September 2023; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, November 2023 – February/March 2024
400 illustrations 30 x 24cm 320pp Hardback ISBN 978 1 633 451117 The Museum of Modern Art, New York June £55.00
Southampton, New York
Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen and Tria Giovan Stained–glass windows are superb works of art, and the 45 stunning windows in St. Andrew’s Dune Church, a red–shingled 1879 structure nestled among the dunes in Southampton, New York, make this intimately scaled house of worship one of the most picturesque summer resort churches on the eastern seaboard.
- Features the works of artists such as Louis Comfort Tiffany, John La Farge, Heaton, Butler & Bayne, J. Gordon Guthrie, Henry Wynd Young, Wilbert Herbert Burnham, and the first stained–glass window by contemporary artist Stephen Hannock.
- Authoritative text by Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, a curator of American Decorative Arts at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, specialising in stained glass.
110 illustrations 30.5 x 23.5cm 208pp Hardback ISBN 978 0 865 654044 Vendome Press April £50.00
Käthe Kollwitz
A survey of her work 1867-1945
Hannelore Fischer “I want to have an effect during this age in which people are so perplexed and in need of help.”
This sentence, a diary entry from 1922, is the creed of a great artist. It is as topical today as it was then. Käthe Kollwitz (1867 – 1945) achieved worldwide respect with her drawings, printed graphics and sculptures even during her lifetime.
This new monograph presents with unprecedented density the life and work of Käthe Kollwitz, one of the most important German women artists of Classic Modernism.
180 illustrations 28 x 24cm 208pp Hardback ISBN 978 3 777 430799 Hirmer April £39.95
Imagining Sculpture
Stanley Abe There was no Sculpture in China. Imagining Sculpture is the story of this something that did not exist. With little text, the argument is made by the images. This book offers a new kind of visual narrative and offers a radically different way of seeing and knowing.
- A new critical approach to understanding Sculpture across cultures - Global and comparative, familiar but surprising - A cinematic tale of historical images and characters
Illustrated in colour throughout 23 x 17.5cm 384pp Hardback ISBN 978 3 777 437583 Hirmer June £39.95
Wolfgang Laib in Florence
Without Time, Without Space, Without Body…
Edited by Sergio Risalti, Corinna Thierolf, Gerhard Wolf
In 2019, Wolfgang Laib entered into a dialogue with masterpieces by Fra Angelico, Leon Battista Alberti, Filippo Brunelleschi and Benozzo Gozzoli in his philosophical and poetic installations of pollen and beeswax. The publication documents impressively this unique and spectacular art event.
66 illustrations 28 x 24cm 120pp Hardback ISBN 978 3 777 437699 Hirmer March £39.95
Paul Cézanne
Christoph Wagner His paintbrush set everything in motion: the landscape of Provence, the colourful still lifes, his portraits and the picturesque coast of southern France. More than any other artist, Paul Cézanne (1839 – 1906), the “Father of Modernism”, captured the light and the play of colours of the South in his pictures and lent them through his new pictorial language a liveliness and dynamism which continue to fascinate viewers to this day.
52 illustrations 20.5 x 14cm 72pp Hardback ISBN 978 3 777 438139 Hirmer June £9.95
Thomas Cole’s Studio
Memory and Inspiration
Franklin Kelly and A. Blaugrund This book brings new understanding to Cole’s last paintings and how they affected later artists.
- First exploration of Thomas Cole’s artistic and creative endeavors during the final phase of his influential career. - Includes an essay about Cole’s technique showing objects left in his studio when he died at age 47. - Paintings and drawings not seen in many years will illustrate Cole’s intentions for the future of American landscape painting. - Exhibition details : Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill, New York; 30 April – 30 October 2022
75 illustrations 25.4 x 20.3cm 144pp Hardback ISBN 978 3 777 436364 Hirmer April £29.95
Ai Weiwei
In Search of Humanity
Dieter Buchhart and Elsy Lahner
Silent Rebels
Symbolism in Poland around 1900
Roger Diederen and Albert Godetzky Ai Weiwei is not only one of the most important contemporary artists; he is also an untiring activist and critic of authoritarian systems. “Humanity” includes key works from all phases of the artist’s career and examines in detail the aspect of humanity and artistic responsibility in the oeuvre of Ai Weiwei.
The catalogue sheds light on concepts such as surveillance, censorship, human rights, freedom of expression, human displacement, radical responsibility, the power of beauty, and the truth of poetry.
Includes never-before exhibited or published works
Exhibition details: Abertina Modern, 13 March – 26 June 2022
180 illustrations 30 x 24cm 336pp Hardback ISBN 978 3 777 438641 Hirmer May £42.00
The turn of the century was a golden age for Polish art. The publication shows about 130 masterpieces of painting from this era between decadence and a new beginning and describes its roots in Polish history, culture and nature as well as the close connections with the European art scene.
Exhibition details: Kunsthalle München, Munich, 25 March – 31 July 2022
220 illustrations 29 x 24cm 272pp Hardback ISBN 978 3 777 438566 Hirmer May £42.00
Abstract Expression and Beyond
American Painting in the Collection Reinhard Ernst
Edited by Reinhard & Sonja Ernst Stiftung
Picasso
Women of His Life. A Tribute
Magrit Bernhard and Markus Müller
The Sounding Cosmos
A Study in the Spiritualism of Kandinsky and the Genesis of Abstract Painting
Sixten Ringbom This lavishly illustrated publication shows outstanding works of post-war American art prior to the opening of the Museum Reinhard Ernst in Wiesbaden. From Josef Albers via Helen Frankenthaler to Andy Warhol and Julian Schnabel, they illustrate an impressive variety of abstract positions. It is a colourful journey through 70 years of American art.
Exhibition details: Museum Reinhard Ernst, Wiesbaden, September 2022
111 illustrations 30.7 x 28.6cm 270pp Hardback ISBN 978 3 777 438740 Hirmer June £49.95
Learn about ten women who left their mark on Picasso’s life.
It is a widely held view that Picasso’s creative work received a fresh impetus with each new muse in his life. This volume does not discuss his biography or his stylistic phases, however, but pays tribute to the individual fates of the women who left their mark on the artist’s life. Personalities like Françoise Gilot and Dora Maar are among those whose entire life and creative work are acknowledged, not just the years they spent at Picasso’s side.
90 illustrations 28 x 22cm 192pp Hardback ISBN 978 3 777 437262 Hirmer June £32.00
For a long time, few people knew about spiritualism’s impact on the birth of abstract art. But when the Swedish art historian Sixten Ringbom’s book The Sounding Cosmos was published in 1970, the writing of history changed forever.
200 illustrations 24 x 17cm 350pp Hardback ISBN 978 9 189 425354 Stolpe Publishing May £25.00
