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Beginning as a low-budget, oversized fanzine in 1996, index
magazine quickly became one of the most influential small
publications in the United States. index had a smart and irreverent
voice that epitomized the late '90s indie ethos. Featuring
conversations between architects, artists, celebrities, designers,
filmmakers, musicians and writers, the magazine brought together
some of the most relevant cultural figures who were at that time
young and often unknown, yet have since become cultural icons or
celebrities. Some of these names include Bjork, Scarlett Johansson,
Alexander McQueen, Rem Koolhaas, and David Sedaris, and photographs
by cutting-edge photographers such as Leeta Harding, Terry
Richardson, Juergen Teller, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Ryan McGinley.
Paying homage to Generation X's it glossy, index A to Z features
the best interviews and photographs by the most celebrated artists
and celebrities that were featured in the iconic index magazine.
This A to Z index captures the spirit of an era, with F for
Fashion, featuring designers Kate Spade and Marc Jacobs, and I for
Indie with Harmony Korine and John Waters, and other sections
including Royalty,Vanished, and X-Rated, this volume is packed with
index's most memorable interviews and greatest photos of the time,
including previously unpublished outtakes and party pictures. A new
interview with Halley and Nickas, a reminisence by Bruce LaBruce,
and a historical overview by Wendy Vogel offer further looks behind
the scenes. Index A to Z celebrates the uncompromising
personalities, humor, and DIY brilliance of the indie generation.
The first major publication dedicated to one of Norway's most
important photographers Working in a signature modulating gray
scale, the late Norwegian photographer Tom Sandberg spent decades
rendering the world according to an exacting vision, training his
eye on the shapes and forms of the everyday-dark abstractions of
asphalt and sea, the hard edges of an automobile, an ominously
curved tunnel, an anonymous figure casting a shadow-to plumb the
nature of photographic seeing. His pictures are subtle yet
transformative, studies of stillness that radiate mystery. A
perfectionist in the darkroom, Sandberg was acutely sensitive to
the rich spectrum of black and white, and his handmade prints, at
times printed on aluminum and canvas, project a powerful physical
presence. Although Sandberg is esteemed in his native Norway and
throughout Scandinavia and Europe, his oeuvre is less known in the
United States and other parts of the world. This monograph,
produced in close collaboration with the Tom Sandberg Foundation in
Oslo, is a long-overdue celebration of this distinguished artist.
In the Belgian artist Harold Ancart's rich new body of work, he
turns an immersive landscape of trees, mountains, and seas into a
meditation on painting itself. Harold Ancart often paints subjects
that naturally invite contemplation, such as the horizon, clouds,
flowers, flames, and icebergs. His newest body of work captures the
experience of landscape seen in motion or from a distance: trees
blurred while driving past, an inky-black sea seen from a distance,
an evocative Martian mountain range. Recalling Rene Magritte, Egon
Schiele, Gustav Klimt, and Piet Mondrian, who approached this
subject matter in distinct ways, Ancart blurs form and color,
figure and ground, and figuration and abstraction. Reproduced here
in magnificent foldouts, two multipanel canvases situate the viewer
between a mountainscape and a seascape, both monumental in scale.
Ancart segments the seascape with a stark horizon line, dividing
sky and ocean. Like other comparable motifs within the artist's
oeuvre, the vividly colored cloudy sky functions in an
anthropomorphic way, alluding to the endless possibilities and
personalities of organic forms. Including an interview with Bob
Nickas, this catalogue offers insight into Ancart's frank
reflections on painting, writing, nature, and more. The publication
also features a new essay by Laura McLean-Ferris. Taken together,
the works in Harold Ancart: Traveling Light meditate on the
expansive possibilities of painting.
In the words of Peter Schjeldahl, writing in The New Yorker about
the exhibition No Problem: Cologne/New York 1984-1989 at David
Zwirner in New York, "the show's cast of artists amounts to a
retrospective shopping list of what would matter and endure in art
of the era." With an eye to canonizing that moment, this seminal
publication examines the latter half of the 1980s through the lens
of international art scenes that were based in Cologne-arguably the
European center of the contemporary art world at that time-and New
York. While a number of established Cologne-based gallerists,
including Karsten Greve, Paul Maenz, Rolf Ricke, Michael Werner,
and Rudolf Zwirner, had already begun shaping the European
reception of American art in the previous decade, the 1980s marked
a period during which art being produced in and around Cologne
gained international attention. A burgeoning gallery scene
supported the emerging work of artists based in the region, with
gallerists such as Gisela Capitain, Rafael Jablonka, Max Hetzler,
and Monika Spruth showing artists such as Walter Dahn, Martin
Kippenberger, Albert Oehlen, Rosemarie Trockel, and others. The
works of these German artists were exhibited along with the latest
contemporary art from the US by artists like Robert Gober, Jeff
Koons, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, and Christopher Wool.
Conversely, the works of German artists were presented in New York,
with breakout exhibitions at galleries such as Barbara Gladstone,
Metro Pictures, Luhring, Augustine & Hodes, and other
significant venues. Important museum exhibitions that explored work
being produced and exhibited on both sides of the Atlantic also set
the tone for this ongoing dialogue, among them Europa / Amerika
(Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 1986) and A Distanced View: One Aspect of
Recent Art from Belgium, France, Germany, and Holland (New Museum,
New York, 1986). Big, bold, and vibrant, this Pentagram-designed
publication revives the conversation, reproducing in full color
over one hundred immensely varied artworks by the twenty-two
international artists included in this massive exhibition-one of
the largest in David Zwirner's history. Beyond its stunning visual
components, the book features crucial new scholarship by Diedrich
Diederichsen and Bob Nickas, and an illustrated chronology of the
decade by Kara Carmack. The book also includes an arsenal of
compelling archival material, from documentary photographs from the
period to reproductions of Cologne's culture magazine Spex. Taken
as a whole, this ambitious exhibition catalogue encapsulates the
energy, heart, and "dissonance of styles"-in the words of
Schjeldahl-embodied by this fascinating and fecund moment in global
art history. Artists featured in the book include Werner Buttner,
George Condo, Walter Dahn, Jiri Georg Dokoupil, Peter Fischli/David
Weiss, Gunther Foerg, Robert Gober, Georg Herold, Jenny Holzer,
Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger,
Sherrie Levine, Albert Oehlen, Raymond Pettibon, Richard Prince,
Cindy Sherman, Rosemarie Trockel, Franz West, and Christopher Wool.
The most comprehensive overview of artist Josh Smith's
radicaltechnicolor paintings. Josh Smith: Emo Jungle looks at the
artist's vigorous repetition of particular motifs, illuminating his
approach to painting as an exploratory medium for image production.
Published on the occasion of Smith's critically acclaimed first
exhibition at David Zwirner, this catalogue features a new body of
work that marks an important evolution for the artist. In these
paintings, Smith sets the stage for a new mode of self-reflective
commentary on image making, acknowledging that "the meaning perhaps
arises in the making." A new essay by Bob Nickas treats the Reaper,
Turtle, and Devil figures from Emo Jungle as ciphers through which
to understand Smith's work. Nickas demonstrates how these new
paintings restage and personalize the artist's more abstract
earlier works and illuminates the ways in which repetition
functions within Smith's practice. With more than one hundred
illustrations, this book serves as the ideal introduction to
Smith's disruptive oeuvre.
* American artist Chris Johanson has built a loyal following with
his vibrant and sometimes hilarious take on the universe and our
place in it. This monograph offers a panoramic view of Johanson's
practice from his roots as a street artist in San Francisco to his
celebrated exhibitions.
For one year, respected critic and curator Bob Nickas put his money
where his eyes are: He decided to become a collector, someone who
takes art off gallery walls instead of hanging it there. His ground
rules dictated that he would buy one work per month from an artist
he had never written about or exhibited before. In this fascinating
diary of his year on the market, he tracks the changes in his
relation to art, when the commitment becomes one of the wallet and
not just the mind and words. "It has affected the way I look at
art," he writes. "On the one hand, if I am unwilling to part with
my hard-earned money, how worthy can the art really be? On the
other, there are certainly works far above my humble means . . . .
For this project, I have had to pay to have my say."
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Alan Uglow (Hardcover)
Bob Nickas
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Working in series that evolved slowly over decades, British-born,
New York-based painter Alan Uglow (1941-2011) always remained
faithful to his central vision; his practice was unaffected by the
increasingly commercial demands of the art scene in the 1980s and
1990s, earning him the "artist's artist" tag. His paintings revolve
around a subtle dialogue between notions of center and edge, and
are executed gradually, with several layers of paint. They appear
at once calm and dynamic, and simultaneously suggest emptiness and
ground. Published to coincide with a 2013 exhibition organized by
Bob Nickas at David Zwirner, New York, this indispensable catalogue
includes all-new photography of paintings created from the early
1990s through 2011, archival interviews and images, and an
exhibition chronology illustrated with images of museum and gallery
invitation cards.
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Robert Grosvenor (Hardcover)
Robert Grosvenor; Text written by Suzan Frecon, Rachel Kushner, Bob Nickas
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Philippe Decrauzat - Delay (Hardcover)
Philippe Decrauzat; Text written by Jimena Canales, Lydie Delahaye, Michel Gauthier, Peter Kubelka, …
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Victorian women in masks, sheep dominating young boys, hooded
figures popping out of the long grass, demented cherubs and aroused
attack dogs are just some of the darkly humorous figures that
populate the work of rising New York artist Kent Henrickson.
Employing many media and techniques--including drawing, embroidery
on linen, wallpaper and sculpture--Henrickson produces rich and
crafty artworks that create peculiar psychosexual worlds while
balancing classical references with a contemporary sensibility.
"There is an absurdist quality attached to my imagery, as boys
become cloaked or as hooded executioners or young girls dance and
play with ghosts while they themselves are bound. At first glance
these scenarios appear to be completely inappropriate and
preposterous, but upon further scrutiny they can allude to
psychological games and/or individual power struggles." This first
monograph features paper changes, lots of full-bleed images and a
host of excellent essays and interviews.
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