Item Number: 108434Title: ULRICH ERBEN
Author: Friese, Peter ; Gnevre Grigolo ; Giovanna Maria Accame
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 9788862081306
Record created on 06/25/2010
Description: Bologna: Damiani, 2010. 22cm., pbk., 104pp., 65 color illus. Publisher's summary: This monograph is devoted to the work of German painter Ulrich Erben (born 1940). Recalling his predecessor Mark Rothko, Erben explores the atmospheric possibilities of color through the softening of geometric abstraction. In Erben's work, fields of color serve to expand the qualities of texture and light.
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Item Number: 84452Title: ALVAR AALTO: Architecture, Modernity, and Geopolitics
Author: Pelkonen, Eeva-Liisa
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9780300114287
Record created on 03/29/2009
Description: New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. 26cm., hardcover, 228pp. illus.
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Item Number: 85345Title: MAGDALENA ABAKANOWICZ
Author: Ciscar, Consuelo ; Marga Paz (eds)
Price: $85.00
ISBN: 9788448249984
Record created on 03/17/2009
Description: Valencia: Generalitat Valenciana, Conselleria de Cultura i Esport, 2008. 30cm., hardcover, 119pp. illus., most in color. Spanish-English text. Exhibition held at Institut Valencia d'Art Modern, Valencia.
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Item Number: 103703Title: MAGDALENA ABAKANOWICZ : Space to Experience
Author: Vettese, Angela (ed)
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9788896132029
Record created on 10/27/2009
Description: Milano: Arnaldo Pomodoro, 2009. 28cm., pbk., 59pp. illus. text plus color plates. Italian-English text. Exhibition catalogue.
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Item Number: 105040Title: Engaged Observers : Documentary Photography Since the Sixties
Author: Abbot, Brett
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781606060223
Record created on 01/06/2010
Available July 2010
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Description: Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2010. 28cm., hardcover, 256pp., 70 color, 175 duotone illus. Publisher's summary : In the decades following World War II, an independently minded, critically engaged form of photojournalism began to flourish. It was not destined for the morning papers or exclusively for newsmagazines, and it did not attempt to be neutral. This kind of photojournalism was self-assigned. It declared its independence from the mainstream media's editorial control, and it was disseminated to the public through books, exhibitions, articles, and, more recently, the Web. Engaged Observers focuses on nine photographers who have participated in the development of this documentary approach. Surveyed are Leonard Freed (Black in White America), Philip Jones Griffiths (Vietnam Inc.), W. Eugene Smith (Minamata), Susan Meiselas (Nicaragua: June 1978-July 1979), Mary Ellen Mark (Streetwise), Larry Towell (The Mennonites), Sebastião Salgado (Migrations), Lauren Greenfield (Girl Culture), and James Nachtwey ("The Sacrifice"). Each section opens with an introductory essay that sets the work in its evolving historical context.
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Item Number: 100515Title: The Art of Devotion : Panel Painting in Early Renaissance Italy
Author: Abbott, Katherine R. Smith ; Wendy Watson ; Andrea Rothe ; Jeanne Rothe
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781928825067
Record created on 10/08/2009
Description: with an intro by Laurence B. Kanter. Middlebury: Middlebury College Museum of Art, distributed by University Press of New England, 2009. 26cm., pbk., 112pp. illus., most in color. Exhibition catalogue. At heart a collaborative venture, the creation of early fifteenth-century panel paintings in Italy depended upon a tight network of connections between patrons, painters, woodworkers, and gilders. The product of these interactions was an object that served both as a focus for devotion, and as an emphatic statement about wealth and status. This exhibition catalogue illustrates works in ten different collections and explores how these objects were made and what they reveal to us about those who produced and owned them. Featuring artists such as Giovanni del Biondo, Giovanni dal Ponte, Gentile da Fabriano, and Lippo d’Andrea, the catalogue essays and entries explore the ways in which these works—often described as “conservative,” or “late Gothic,” offer a more authentic view of the early Renaissance, one that balances our notion of a time and place characterized solely by departures from tradition.
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Item Number: 107128
Title: The Realisms of BERENICE ABBOTT : Documentary Photography and Political Action
Author: Weissman, Terri
Price: $60.00
ISBN: 9780520266759
Record created on 05/05/2010
Available November 2010
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Description: Berkeley: University of California Press, Co-published with the The Phillips Collection, 2010. 28cm., hardcover, 240pp., 81 b&w photos. Publisher's summary : The Realisms of Berenice Abbott provides the first in-depth consideration of the work of photographer Berenice Abbott. Though best known for her 1930s documentary images of New York City, this book examines a broad range of Abbott’s work—including portraits from the 1920s, little known and uncompleted projects from the 1930s, and experimental science photography from the 1950s. It argues that Abbott consistently relied on realism as the theoretical armature for her work, even as her understanding of that term changed over time and in relation to specific historical circumstances. But as Weissman demonstrates, Abbott’s unflinching commitment to “realist” aesthetics led her to develop a critical theory of documentary that recognizes the complexity of representation without excluding or obscuring a connection between art and engagement in the political public sphere. In telling Abbott’s story, The Realisms of Berenice Abbott reveals insights into the politics and social context of documentary production and presents a thoughtful analysis of why documentary remains a compelling artistic strategy today. (The Phillips Books Prize Series, 2.)
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Item Number: 107894Title: MARK ABRAHAMS
Author:
Price: $70.00
ISBN: 9788862081382
Record created on 06/09/2010
Available September 2010
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Description: Bologna: Damiani, 2010. 34cm., hardcover, 240pp., illus. Publisher's summary : One of the foremost fashion and magazine-cover photographers of the past two decades, American photographer Mark Abrahams has straddled the gap between fashion and celebrity portraiture with guileless simplicity and exacting care. A self-taught photographer, Abrahams portrays his subjects with an introspective depth and candor. His subjects run the gamut of the A-list: Julianne Moore, George Clooney, James Franco, Dakota Fanning, Sean Diddy Combs, Beyoncé Knowles, Ashley Olsen, Dennis Hopper, Lindsay Lohan, Larry Clark, Michelle Obama, Ed Ruscha, Philip Roth, Roberto Bolle, Evander Holyfield, Kate Winslet, Justin Timberlake, Tom Hanks, Rachel Weisz, Wyclef Jean and countless others. This volume provides a dazzling parade of the glitterati under Abrahams' lens, devoid of affectation or artifice. Abrahams is donating his portion of the proceeds from this book to benefit Hope For Haiti Now. Mark Abrahams was born in 1958 in Santa Ana, California. The gift of a Nikon FM from his mother ignited his passion for photography. Working as a truck driver by day, Abrahams transformed his tiny bathroom into a functioning darkroom to develop film, retouch negatives and manipulate surfaces at night. Against all odds, in the early 1990s Abrahams found himself shooting iconic musicians, jetting to Milan with supermodels and landing editorial shoots with L'Uomo Vogue, German Vogue and American GQ.
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Item Number: 105538Title: MARINA ABRAMOVIC and the Future of Performance Art
Author: Orrell, Paula (ed)
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9783791350288
Record created on 01/28/2010
Description: Munich: Prestel, 2010. 27cm., hardcover, 166pp. prof. illus., many in color. Exhibition held at The Pigs of Today Are the hams of Tomorrow, Plymouth Arts Centre. Publisher's summary : Abramovi ´c’s remarkable career as one of her generation’s most challenging performance artists has paved the way for younger artists who are interested in this complex and often radical art form. Lately Abramovi´c has turned her attention to exploring ways to encapsulate the art form after the performance is physically completed. This project explores the diversity of contemporary performance art through the works of exciting new artists from around the world. Their use of storytelling, virtual worlds, audience participation, sound, and the body are documented in this illustrated volume. An interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist with Abramovi´c outlines the challenges and goals of her new project while essays by leading curators in the field of performance art explore methods for preserving this unique art form, and brief profiles of each of the artists introduce readers to a new generation of challenging and innovative performance artists.
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Item Number: 105339Title: MARINA ABRAMOVIC : The Artist is Present
Author: Biesenbach, Klaus (ed)
Price: $50.00
ISBN: 9780870707476
Record created on 01/24/2010
Description: New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2010. 31cm., hardcover, 224pp. prof. illus., most in color. Exhibition catalogue.
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Item Number: 102453Title: Il colore della memoria : Ritratti in miniatura della Collezione Barocchi. The Colour of Memory : Miniatures from the Barocchi Collection
Author: Accrescimbeni, E
Price: $52.50
ISBN: 9788883474590
Record created on 08/03/2009
Description: Livorno: Sillabe, 2009. 27cm., pbk., 176pp., 150 color plates (Rosalba Carriera, Giambattista Gigola, Richard Cosway et al). Catalogue of miniatures on loan to the Museo degli Argenti, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze. Italian-English text.
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Item Number: 59767Title: Acta ad archaeologiam et artium historiam pertinentia, XXI (N.S. 7) : Mater Christi
Author:
Price: $125.00
ISBN: 9788888620626
Record created on 03/23/2009
Description: Roma: Bardi, Institutum Romanum Norvegiae, 2008. 27cm., pbk., 242pp., 87 b&w illus. Includes: A. Ahlqvist "Maria made di Cristo, e altri madri paresenti nell'arte funeraria paleocristiana," P.O. Folgero "The Sistine Mosaic of S. Maria Maggiore in Rome: Christology and Mariology in the Interlude between the Councils of Ephesus and Chalcedon," S. Sande "Egyptian and Other Elements in the Fifth-Century Mosaics of S. Maria Maggiore," J. Osborne "The Cult of Maria Regina in Early Medieval Rome," A. Themelly "Immagini di Maria nella pittura e nei mosaici romani dalla crisi monotelita agli inizi della seconda iconoclastica (638-819)," L. Hodne "The Bride and Groom of the 'Canticum novum'," M. Aronberg Lavin "Maria-Ecclesia and the Meaning of Marriage in the Late 13th Century," M. Bacci "La Madonna della Misericordia individuale," S. Kaspersen "'Die drei Marien': Menschwerdung als Andachtsbild - Neue Erwägungen über Grünewalds Isenheimer Altar," etc.
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Item Number: 104570Title: Arbiter of Elegance : A Biography of ROBERT ADAM
Author: Graham, Roderick
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781841588025
Record created on 12/09/2009
Description: Edinburgh: Birlinn, 2009. 24cm., hardcover, 382pp. illus. In this biography, Roderick Graham follows Adam's life and career from schooldays in Edinburgh through study in Italy and the establishment of his architectural practice in London. It explains his passionate ambition, not only to excel as an architect, but to be accepted as a gentleman in that most snobbish period of our history. No one contributed more to the artistic eminence of 'Age of Elegance' than Robert Adam (1728-92), the pre-eminent architect of his day whose expertise and imagination extended also to interior design, furniture and garden design. His legacy has echoed through design ever since, his name synonymous with elegance, the Enlightenment, of the best features of the eighteenth century.
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Item Number: 105307Title: ROBERT ADAMS : Tree Line : The Hasselblad Award 2009
Author:
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9783865219565
Record created on 01/24/2010
Description: Gottingen: Steidl, 2010. 28cm., hardcover, 128pp., illus. Publisher's summary : This volume commemorates Robert Adams’ receipt of the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography for 2009. Described by the Swedish foundation as “one of the most important and influential photographers of the last 40 years,” Adams joins a very distinguished line of contemporary photographers who have won the award, such as Graciela Iturbide (2008) and Nan Goldin (2007). The Foundation singled out Adams’ ability to consolidate the medium’s history: “as photography has altered and fragmented, he has refined and reaffirmed its inherent language, adapting the legacies of nineteenth-century and modernist photography to his own very singular purpose. Precise and undramatic, Adams’ accumulative vision of theWest now stands as a formidable document, reflecting broader, global concerns about the environment,while consistently recognizing signs of human aspiration and elements of hope, across a particular changing landscape”.
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Item Number: 102066Title: ROBERT ADAMS : Summer Nights, Walking Along the Colorado Front Range, 1976-1982
Author:
Price: $50.00
ISBN: 9781597111171
Record created on 07/01/2009
Description: New York: Aperture, Yale University Art Gallery, 2009. 23cm., hardcover, 1 vol., with numerous b&w photos. Publisher's summary : In this exquisitely produced book, the influential American photographer Robert Adams revisits the classic collection of nocturnal landscapes that he began making in the mid-1970s near his former home in Longmont, Colorado. Originally published by Aperture in 1985 as Summer Nights, this new edition has been carefully reedited and resequenced by the photographer, who has added 39 previously unpublished images. Illuminated by moonlight and streetlamp, the houses, roads, sidewalks and fields in Summer Nights, Walking retain the wonder and stillness of the original edition, while adopting the artist's intention of a dreamy fluidity, befitting his nighttime perambulations. The extraordinary care taken with the new reproductions also registers Adams' attention to the subtleties of the night, and conveys his appeal to look again at places we might have dismissed as uninteresting. Adams observes, "What attracted me to the subjects at a new hour was the discovery then of a neglected peace.".
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Item Number: 101089Title: ROBERT ADAMS : What We Bought : The New World : Scenes from the Denver Metropolitan Area, 1970-1974
Author:
Price: $24.00 Original Price: $60.00
ISBN: 9780300149630
Record created on 05/25/2009
Description: New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. 24 x 20cm., hardcover, 1 vol. with numerous b&w photos. American edition, orig. pub. Stiftung Niedersachsen, 1995.
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Item Number: 103807Title: ANSEL ADAMS in Color
Author: Callahan, harry M. (ed)
Price: $35.00
ISBN: 9780316056410
Record created on 10/28/2009
Description: New York: Little, Brown & Co, 2009. 26 x 21cm., hardcover, 159pp. with numerous color photos. Revised and expanded edition.
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Item Number: 108295
Title: A Meticulous Serenity : A Catalogue Raisonne of the Prints of CLINTON ADAMS, 1948-1997
Author: Conway, Robert P
Price: $50.00
ISBN: 9780826347725
Record created on 06/22/2010
Available December 2010
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Description: Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2010. 28 x 23cm., hardcover, 288pp., 365 color photos. Summary: Artist, scholar, writer, and educator, Clinton Adams (1918-2002) was recognized as one of the most important influences on the development of fine-art printmaking in America. He was one of the founders of the renowned Tamarind Institute, instrumental in reviving the art of lithography. Adams was also a prolific printmaker himself. His work was characterized by a mix of traditional representation and modernist abstraction, rendered, as the title of this catalogue suggests, with his incomparably meticulous serenity. Adams had more than thirty solo exhibitions, and his works are in the collections of major museums all over the country. This catalogue raisonne accounts for all of his work and traces the varieties of techniques and collaborations that make lithography a particularly complex medium to keep track of. It also includes numerous comments from the artist about the genesis of the work, the technical challenges he and his printers faced, and his own assessments of quality and significance. A lively biographical essay recalls Adams's extra-artistic skills as well, reminding us that he was a great administrator and teacher, and a formidable poker player.
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Item Number: 105072Title: MARCUS ADAMS : Royal Photographer
Author: Heighway, Lisa
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 9781905686209
Record created on 01/06/2010
Description: Berkshire: Royal Collection Publications, distributed by University of Chicago Press, 2010. 20cm., hardcover, 120pp., 146 color plates.
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Item Number: 107530Title: Where Sky Meets Earth : The Luminous Landscapes of VICTORIA ADAMS
Author: Hushka, Rock
Price: $21.95
ISBN: 9780924335303
Record created on 05/31/2010
Description: Seattle: University of Washington Press, distributed for Tacoma Art Museum, 2010. 26cm., hardcover, 79pp. illus., most in color. Exhibition catalogue. (Northwest Perspective Series)
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