The Swiss artist Heidi Bucher was a major feminist figure on the international neoavantgarde art scene, whose work is characterized by a unique performative, yet material concept of sculpture. As early as the 1970s Bucher was experimenting with unusual materials such as latex, breathing life into them. She would pour liquid rubber onto surfaces and then pull it off again with great physical force, literally coming to grips with the world of things she experienced and pressing forward into psychological border zones. By transforming materials in ways that were as radical as they were sensual, she explored forms of human existence and how they are embedded in societal and private power structures. This monograph presents Bucher's oeuvre from her early days as a student in Zurich in the 1940s, to her experimental phase in New York and Los Angeles of the 1960s and 1970s, to her major works of "skinning" architecture and people, all the way to the pieces she created during her final years on Lanzarote.

Sculpture Victorious highlights the diversity, originality, and ubiquity of sculptural production during the reign of Queen Victoria. This lavishly illustrated book examines how colorful marbles, bronzes, finely wrought silver, and exquisitely detailed electrotypes, as well as gems, cameos, and porcelain, related to and contributed to the contemporary world. In an age of unprecedented territorial expansion, sculpture reflected the power of the British empire; at the same time, increased access to materials and resources facilitated artistic production and innovation. The partnership between art and industry was equally generative and creative, enabling daring explorations of sculpture's possibilities, both political and aesthetic. Bringing to bear a range of materials including statuary, reliefs, models, drawings, and objets d'art, as well as prints, photographs, and paintings, this stunning tome assembles, for the first time, the vibrancy, inventiveness, and modernity of Victorian sculpture. Published in association with the Yale Center for British Art Exhibition Schedule: Yale Center for British Art (09/11/14-11/30/14) Tate Britain (02/24/15-05/24/15)

"Edmier's work celebrates popular culture's intrusion into our dreams, the way media images insinuate themselves into our unconscious, like uninvited guests."--"Contemporary Magazine"
This unique publication showcases the work of one of America's foremost young sculptors. Each comes with a specially created plastic rose in honor of his work capturing the cultural and emotional significance of flowers. Also included is a loose leaflet showing the installation "Bremen Town," which was part of the comprehensive exhibition "Keith Edmier 1991-2007" at Bard college in New York from October 2007 through February 2008. The installation featured a full-scale reproduction of the interior spaces from the home in which Edmier grew up in Tinley Park, a suburb of Chicago.