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Frank Frazetta has reigned as the undisputed lord of fantasy art
for 50 years, his fame only growing in the 12 years since his
death. With his paintings now breaking auction records (Egyptian
Queen sold for $ 5.4 million in 2019) he's long overdue for this
ultimate monograph. Born to a Sicilian immigrant family in
Brooklyn, 1928, Frazetta was a minor league athlete, petty criminal
and serial seducer with movie star looks and phenomenal talent. He
claimed to only make art when there was nothing better to do - he
preferred playing baseball - yet began his professional career in
comics at age 16. Strip work led him to the infamous EC Comics,
then to oils for Tarzan and Conan pulp covers. Both characters were
interpreted by many before him, but as he explained in the 1970s,
"I'm very physical minded. In Brooklyn, I knew Conan, I knew guys
just like him," and he used this first-hand knowledge of muscle and
macho to redefine fantasy heroes as more massive, more menacing,
more testosterone-fueled than anything seen before. As
counterbalance he created a new breed of women, nude as censorship
allowed, with pixie faces and multiparous bodies: thick thighed,
heavy buttocked, breasts cantilevered out to there, yet still, with
their soft bellies and hints of cellulite, believably real. Add in
the action, the creatures, the twilit worlds of haunting shadow and
Frazetta's art is addictive as potato chips. This monograph is the
biggest and most complete ever produced on the artist, done in
collaboration with the Frazetta family and with top collectors.
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Dana Schutz
Hamza Walker, Dan Nadel, Lynne Tillman
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R959
Discovery Miles 9 590
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The first comprehensive monograph on one of today’s most
innovative and successful painters – made in close collaboration
with the artist Defined by bold brushstrokes, a dynamic use of
color and imaginative compositions, the paintings of Dana Schutz
are panoramic expanses that offer visions of humanity in all its
complex facets. Her deeply subjective approach, untethered from
realism, translates into images that seem to exist in a place that
transcends time while celebrating the intrinsic qualities of her
medium of choice with freedom and intelligence. As the artist
herself stated, ‘I’m interested in painting as an affective
place where the hierarchies of the world can be rearranged within
the space of a painting.’ This first comprehensive monograph on
her work was created in close collaboration with the artist and
features a number of never-before-seen paintings and drawings.
The first major exhibition and catalog dedicated to the work of
groundbreaking painter and filmmaker Mike Henderson. Mike Henderson
(b. 1944) is a painter, filmmaker, and professor emeritus at
University of California, Davis. Published to accompany his first
museum retrospective, this catalog surveys Henderson's paintings
and films from 1965 to 1985, which are rooted as much in Francisco
Goya's horror of humanity as in Sun Ra's hope for a new Black
future. In the work of that time, Henderson depicted scenes of
racial violence, heteromasculinity, and abject social conditions
with force and unflinching directness. In 1985, a studio fire
damaged much of Henderson's output from the previous two decades,
obscuring vital ideas about a time of tumult and change, often
referred to as a world on fire. Mike Henderson: Before the Fire,
1965-1985 addresses Henderson's multifaceted art of that period,
which examined and offered new ideas about Black life in the visual
languages of protest, Afrofuturism, and surrealism. Published in
association with the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of
Art, University of California, Davis Exhibition dates: Jan Shrem
and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art January 29-June 25, 2023
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Jim Shaw - The End Is Here (Hardcover)
Massimiliano Gioni, Gary Carrion-Murayari; Text written by Natalie Bell, Dan Nadel, Tony Oursler
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R1,610
R1,267
Discovery Miles 12 670
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Over the past thirty years, Jim Shaw has become one of America's
most visionary artists, moving between painting, sculpture, and
drawings, while building connections between his own psyche and the
larger political, social, and spiritual history of America. Shaw's
imagery is mined from comic books, record covers, conspiracy
magazines, obscure religious pamphlets, and other cultural refuse
to produce a portrait of the American subconscious out of his
personal obsessions. Shaw, along with fellow Michigan native Mike
Kelley, moved to California in the 1970s to attend Cal Arts and was
one of a number of notable artists to emerge from the school in the
early 1980s. Shaw's work is distinguished by rigorous formal and
structural analyses of neglected forms of vernacular culture.
Accompanying a major exhibition, this is the first major monograph
devoted to the entirety of the artist's unique, multifaceted
career.
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Suellen Rocca (Hardcover)
Dan Nadel, Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer; Contributions by Suellen Rocca
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R1,514
R1,211
Discovery Miles 12 110
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Carroll Dunham: Green Period.
Carroll Dunham; Edited by Dan Nadel; Text written by Mary Simpson
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R1,109
Discovery Miles 11 090
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This surreally lyrical, sexually charged book collects Jimmy
DeSana's earlier work, made from 1980 to 1983. For his series
Suburban, DeSana staged photos of nude subjects in various
evocative poses, entwined with everyday objects and lit with
gel-covered tungsten lights. Rather than constructing a space, the
"suburban" was a place of examining stereotypes and norms. Of this
series, DeSana told Laurie Simmons, his contemporary and longtime
roommate, "I don't really think of that work as erotic. I think of
the body almost as an object. I attempted to use the body but
without the eroticism that some photographers use frequently. I
think I de-eroticized a lot of it. Particularly in that period, but
that is the way the suburbs are in a sense." Interest in DeSana is
at a renewed high: Salon 94 represents his estate and mounted a
well-received exhibition in 2012, and art and photography from the
early 1980s is enjoying a renaissance across all media. There is a
special interest now in queer artists and the legacy of a
generation destroyed by AIDS, with regard to contemporary
photography and queer culture and Jimmy DeSana: Suburban is an
essential contribution to this evolving canon.
One third of the artist collective Paper Rad and the Creative
Director of Fox's forthcoming late night animation block "ADHD,"
Ben Jones (born 1977) makes work that harks back to the Saturday
morning cartoons and video games of the 1980s. Jones' previous
book, "New Painting and Drawing," quickly sold out, making "Men's
Group: The Video" the only currently available collection of his
work. The book's theme is maleness; it includes the last five years
of the artist's paintings, comics, drawings, products and videos,
and is published on the occasion of the artist's solo exhibition,
"The Video," at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles,
November 3, 2012-February 24, 2013. Also included is a series of
texts about manhood commissioned from men the artist admires,
including artists Peter Saul, Gary Panter and Joe Bradley, writers
Keith McCulloch and Byron Coley and gallerist Phil Grauer, with a
rebuttal by Nicole Rudick. Topping it all off are two lengthy
interviews with Jones conducted by Dan Nadel and David Kramer. All
of this work is showcased in an innovative format--multiple paper
sizes and stocks bound together with a spiral wire and wrapped
between thick chipboard covers.
Ben Jones has exhibited or performed at museums and galleries
including Deitch Projects, New York (solo), Foxy Production, New
York, Loyal Galleri, Malmo (solo), The Modern, Fort Worth (solo),
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Tate Britain, London. He is a
founding member of Paper Rad. Ben Jones lives in Los Angeles and is
the Creative Director of Fox's forthcoming late night animation
block, "ADHD."
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Chris Martin (Hardcover)
Dan Nadel, Nancy Princenthal, Trinie Dalton
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R1,922
R1,441
Discovery Miles 14 410
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