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Seven Rooms
Dominic Jaeckle, Jess Chandler; Afterword by Gareth Evans; Contributions by Mario Dondero, Erica Baum, Jess Cotton, Rebecca Tamás, Stephen Watts, Helen Cammock, Salvador Espriu, Lucy Mercer, Lucy Sante, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Ryan Choi, John Yau, Nicolette Polek, Chris Petit, Sascha Macht, Amanda DeMarco, Mark Lanegan, Vala Thorodds, Richard Scott, Joshua Cohen, Hannah Regel, Nick Cave,, Daisy Lafarge, Holly Pester, Matthew Gregory, Olivier Castel, Emmanuel Iduma, Joan Brossa, Cameron Griffiths, Imogen Cassels, Hisham Bustani, Maia Tabet, Raúl Guerrero, Velimir Khlebnikov, Natasha Randall, Edwina Atlee, Matthew Shaw, Aidan Moffat, Lesley Harrison, Oliver Bancroft, Lauren de Sá Naylor, Will Eaves, Sandro Miller, Jim Hugunin,, …
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Seven Rooms brings together highlights from Hotel, a magazine for
new approaches to fiction, non-fiction & poetry which, since
its inception in 2016, provided a space for experimental reflection
on literature's status as art & cultural mediator. Co-published
by Tenement Press and Prototype, this anthology captures, refracts,
and reflects a vital moment in independent publishing in the UK,
and is built on the shared values of openness, collaboration, and
total creative freedom.
British painter William Tillyer (born 1938) is regarded as one of
the most accomplished and consistently inventive artists working in
watercolor. His work luxuriates in translucent color and sensuous
brushwork. Some of his pieces, in their untrammeled expressive zeal
and readily apparent love of color as a pure quality call to mind
the canvases of Morris Louis; in other paintings, flamboyantly
voluptuous shapes confront geometric abstractions and Minimalist
blocks of color. With 224 full-color images, "William Tillyer:
Watercolours" provides a comprehensive look at the titular aspect
of Tillyer's oeuvre, looking back over nearly 40 years of work. It
includes three texts by the American poet and art historian John
Yau, an essay describing the development of Tillyer's watercolors
and linking his work to the tradition of the English watercolor, an
essay on the latest body of work and an interview with the artist.
Far-ranging and thought-provoking essays on the relation of art and
ethnic identity. This first collection by award-winning author John
Yau, drawn from decades of work, includes essays about Black,
Asian, Latinx, and Native American artists: sculptors Luis Jimenez
and Ruth Asawa; "second generation Abstract Expressionists" such as
the Black painter Ed Clark and the Japanese American painter
Matsumi Kanemitsu; the performance artists James Luna and Patty
Chang; the photographers Laurel Nakadate and Teju Cole; and a
generation of Asian American artists that has emerged during the
last decade. While identity is at the fore in this collection,
Yau's essays also propose the need for an expansive view of
identity, as in the essay "On Reconsidering Identity," which
explores the writings of Lydia Cabrera and Edouard Glissant, and
the possibilities of creolisation versus the reductiveness of Aime
Cesaire's Negritude. Please Wait by the Coat Room is for serious
readers interested in the art and artists of color that many
mainstream institutions and critics misrepresented or overlooked.
It presents a view guided by the artists' desire for autonomy and
freedom in a culture that has deemed them undesirable or invisible.
Anton van Dalen: Community of Many chronicles the historic artist
Anton van Dalen's lifelong visual investigation informed by the
influences of war, religion and migration, his devotion to nature,
and his dedication to documenting the technological and cultural
evolutions within our society across a variety of mediums, from
drawing and sculpture to collage and painting. Born in the
Netherlands in 1938 to a conservative Calvinist family, Anton
witnessed first-hand the terrors of both technological and human
destruction during the Second World War. Since he immigrated to New
York in 1966 and settled in the East Village, Anton has served as
witness, storyteller and documentarian of the dramatic cultural
shifts in the neighbourhood through his masterfully honed and
singular iconography. Featuring critical essays by John Yau and
Tiernan Morgan, this heavily illustrated publication is the first
comprehensive monograph on Anton van Dalen's work that provides a
language by which to discuss the consequences of human brutality
towards nature and our entanglement with technology. Anton has been
included in group exhibitions at notable institutions including the
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; New Museum, New York;
Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati; and the New-York Historical
Society. He has also been the subject of solo exhibitions at Temple
Contemporary, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple
University, Philadelphia; University Museum of Contemporary Art,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst; and Exit Art, New York. His
Avenue A Cut-Out Theatre has toured since 1995 both nationally and
internationally and has been shown at numerous institutions
including The Drawing Center, the Museum of Modern Art, and The
New-York Historical Society.
The first comprehensive monograph on the master contemporary Korean
American sculptor, from his seminal wire sculptures to his
never-before-seen early works formed of steel. John Pai (b. 1937)
is a prolific multimedia artist whose handmade three-dimensional
sculptures are, paradoxically, still objects that seem to exist in
a state of movement and transformation. This full-career survey of
Pai s inventive work consists of his rarely seen early work up to
the present. Pai s incredibly intricate, three-dimensional abstract
'drawings in space' are made of endless lengths of individual steel
or copper rods and textured sheets made from hundreds of rods
welded together. Unlike many contemporary sculptors who draw a
sketch and let metalworkers do the actual construction, Pai
continues to do all his work himself?from choosing the materials to
the labor-intensive process of welding and bending the metals into
complex and sometimes massive forms. Immigrating from Korea to the
US at age 11, Pai showed his prodigious talent for art at a young
age. He received a scholarship to attend Pratt Institute, and in
the 1960s, Pai became the youngest professor appointed to the
faculty at Pratt. Leading its fine arts and sculpture programs for
nearly four decades, Pai proved a talented and beloved educator,
nurturing generations of sculptors and fostering the burgeoning
Korean artistic community in New York with those such as his
contemporary Nam June Paik, reflecting a sensibility outside the
mainstream of American art.
Realist sculptor Carole A. Feuerman's human-figure sculptures
express a refreshing perspective on the mundane but intensely
personal activities of modern life. Her powers of observation and
versatility find unique expression through various materials that
include marble, bronze, vinyl, and painted resins, while she
incorporates both ancient and contemporary methods in the creation
of her works. Swimmers: By Carole A. Feuerman is a shimmering
glimpse at transitory, contemplative moments in time, often
captured in a veil of clear resin that replicates tumbling water
droplets. In this new collection of Feuerman's work, her printwork
and treatment of the figure on paper is also explored for the first
time. In his astute and insightful essay, John Yau describes
Feuerman's exquisitely rendered subjects as being "caught in a
moment of transition that radiates an intense eroticism." Her
figures seem capable of thought, evoking an inward life that
invites our speculation while revealing a mysterious provocative
chasm between the figures and the viewer. Feuerman's sculpture and
prints provide us with a fleeting glimpse into private and isolated
environments - women stepping out of the shower, in the rain, or
swimming - that suggest a meditative bliss. Feuerman museum
retrospectives have included exhibitions at The State Hermitage in
St. Petersburg, Russia; The Palazzo Strozzi Foundation in Florence,
Italy; and the Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, among others. Her
work is featured in public, private, and corporate collections,
including Grounds for Sculpture, Trenton, NJ; the El Paso Museum of
Art, El Paso, Texas; the Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL; and
art-st-urban, Lucerne, Switzerland. Her large-scale Olympic Swimmer
was featured in the Olympic Fine Arts exhibition at the 2008 Summer
Games in Beijing.
The remarkable plein air paintings of Liu Xiaodong (b.1963), which
chronicle everyday lives within our diverse modern world, are the
focus of this first monograph of his career to date. Immersing
himself in communities around the globe, Xiaodong seeks to present
people who often sit on the fringes of society who find themselves
marginalised within a contemporary world striving for
homogenisation. At first glance a traditional realist painter,
closer examination reveals an artist exploring a range of media
while interrogating the opportunities presented by modern
technology. The result is an outstanding body of work, often
monumental in scale, that examines, reconsiders, and extends
observational painting in fresh directions, while bringing into
question the lines between fact and fiction, the traditional and
the contemporary, to create a wholly original vision.
This is the first major look at the work of the renowned yet
intensely private and reclusive artist William Tillyer (b. 1938),
best known for his abstract oil paintings, watercolours, and
prints. Tillyer s skill and hugely varied body of work make him one
of Britain s most respected artists, in the same generation as
Lucian Freud and David Hockney. Tillyer is finally getting the
recognition he deserves. While Tillyer s paintings are largely
abstract, they are based on the landscape of North Yorkshire, where
he has lived and worked for most of his life. The book covers
Tillyer s experiments with nontraditional materials and techniques
his 3D panels, cut canvases, constructed works with found objects,
printmaking with a wide range of processes, and paintings on wire
mesh.
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Richard Hunt (Hardcover)
Richard Hunt; Introduction by Courtney J. Martin; Text written by John Yau, Jordan Carter, Leronn Brooks; Interview by …
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The newest monograph dedicated to the striking new work of
internationally acclaimed abstract painter Suzan Frecon Suzan
Frecon features new paintings, which highlight the artist's ongoing
exploration of the interaction of shape, color, texture, and light.
Painted over long periods of time, these works are the result of a
deliberative process guided by a deep understanding of color and
the properties of paint. Frecon has been exploring the issues of
horizontality and verticality, asymmetrical balances, and
interacting arrangements of color for over five decades. The result
is an ongoing dialogue that yields new and surprising paintings at
every turn. Frecon's knowledge of color is deeply rooted in art
history; her selection of color brings with it an understanding of
the scientific properties of pigments as well as their use by
Renaissance painters. Esteemed poet and critic John Yau explores
this inspiration in his illuminating essay, in which he teases out
the connections between these bold abstract works and historic
figurative paintings. Highlighting Frecon's interest in these
paintings for their form and color rather than their narrative, Yau
offers a new and intriguing way of looking at both present and
past.
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Keltie Ferris: >>A>decade (Hardcover)
Keltie Ferris; Edited by Courtney Willis Blair, Miles Champion, Isabelle Hogenkamp; Text written by Wayne Koestenbaum, …
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The Schulhofs were unique among American collectors, as they sought
art with a truly international dimension; Milan, Rome, Paris,
Dusseldorf, Basel, London, Kassel, Venice, Pittsburgh, and New York
were just a few of the many destinations for the late Hannelore and
Rudolph Schulhof in over fifty years of collecting art. Starting in
the early 1950s, together they built a collection that continues to
inspire and educate future generations-from the powerful elegance
of Richard Serra's Schulhof's Curve to Eduardo Chilida's exquisite
ironworks and works on paper by artists such as Robert Smithson,
Mark Rothko, and Cy Twombly. The collectors' interest in minimalism
is reflected in works by Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Mangold, Agnes
Martin, and Robert Ryman. This handsome volume showcases the
thoughtful and highly personal texture of the Schulhof Collection.
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Kim Tschang-Yeul (Hardcover)
Kim Tschang-Yeul; Text written by John Yau, Yeon Shim Chung
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Carole A. Feuerman is celebrated as one of America's major
hyper-realistic sculptors, alongside Duane Hanson and John De
Andrea. Born 1945, she was educated in New York and Philadelphia
and began as an illustrator before turning to sculpture in the
1970s, which soon earned her much recognition and early success. A
pioneer of hyper-realism in sculpture, her work has been displayed
in many group shows and solo exhibitions at private galleries and
public museums, as well as at the major art fairs, in America,
Europe, and Asia. Over five decades, Feuerman has created visual
manifestations of stories telling of strength, survival, and
balance. She works in marble, bronze, vinyl, painted resins, and
stainless steel. Her work is marked by her thorough understanding
of materials' characteristics and her ability to control them in
the studio. Her subject matter is the human figure, most often a
woman in an introspective moment of exuberant self-consciousness
shaded by erotic lassitude. Feuerman's works represent a state of
female mind rather that an alluring body meant to attract the male
gaze. They suggest that women look at themselves differently from
men looking at them, that a woman is more innately creative than a
man. Many of Feuerman's figures have a fragmented quality,
recalling those by Auguste Rodin, and the aesthetics of Surrealism.
This is the most comprehensive survey of Feuerman's work in
sculpture to date. Lavishly illustrated in colour throughout, it
demonstrates the variety of materials and media she uses and
highlights the specific qualities of her figures.
This book presents a comprehensive view of the work of American
painter Philip Taaffe (b.1955), who has expanded the parameters of
painting through his use of silkscreen, linocuts, collage,
stencils, gouache, chine-colle, marbling, acrylic, enamel,
watercolour and gold leaf. Possessing many technical skills, Taaffe
has moved decisively between unique pictorial inventions and
appropriations, as well as overlaying divergent modes of
representation, through cultural patterns found in ornament, and
biomorphic abstraction. John Yau's insightful text is the first to
look at every part of Taaffe's artistic development, from the works
he made at Cooper Union while a student of Hans Haacke, to the
present. It pays special attention to Taaffe's acquisition of
different techniques, as well as investigating his various sources
of inspiration, which include the work of experimental filmmakers
Stan Brakhage, Bruce Conner and Harry Smith, the Natural History
illustrations of Ernst Haeckel, and the ancient art of paper
marbling.
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Don Gummer (Hardcover)
John Yau; Contributions by Peter Plagens, Linda Wolk-Simon
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Don Gummer's career as a sculptor began in New York City in the
late 1970s with his wall reliefs of painted wood, carefully layered
geometric works exhibiting a strong architectural influence. Moving
beyond wood to stone, bronze, stainless steel, aluminium, and glass
as his primary materials, his artworks have evolved into subtly
inventive, often monumental, freestanding sculptures that
demonstrate his unfailing attention to craftsmanship and detail.
This new monograph is the first survey on the artist and his highly
acclaimed body of work. Gummer has described his interest in
sculpture as "the recontextualization of natural phenomena, of
unaltered things brought into aesthetic balance by choosing and
placing." Using balance, proportion, and his unique sense of
harmony, the artist makes durable materials seem almost buoyant.
Negative space is an intrinsic element in his work, imparting a
sense that his exquisite, seemingly permanent forms are ultimately
as fleeting as any of nature's creations would be. The artist's
works can be found in many public collections including the Butler
Institute of American Art; the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary
Art; and the Chase Manhattan. He has received awards from
prestigious organisations such as the Louis Comfort Tiffany
Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, and he was
Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome.
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Tell it Slant
John Yau
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Poems that consider doubleness and truth-telling through the voice
of an Asian American poet, while referencing a range of writers and
pop culture figures. Emily Dickinson begins one of her
poems with the oft-quoted line, “Tell all the truth but tell it
slant." For Asian Americans, the word “slant” can be heard and
read two ways, as both a racializing and an obscuring term. It is
this sense of doubleness—culminating in the instability of
language and an untrustworthy narrator—that shapes, informs, and
inflects the poems in John Yau’s new collection, all of which
focus on the questions of who is speaking and who is being spoken
for and to. Made up of eight sections, each exploring the idea of
address—as place, as person, as memory, and as event —Tell It
Slant does as Dickinson commands, but with a further twist. Yau
summons spirits who help the author “tell all the truth,” among
whom are reimagined traces of poets, movie stars, and science
fiction writers, including Charles Baudelaire, Thomas de Quincey,
Philip K. Dick, Li Shangyin, and Elsa Lanchester.
Robert Motherwell, who died in 1991, was the youngest member of the
first wave of Abstract Expressionists known as the New York School
(a phrase he coined), which also included Jackson Pollock, Mark
Rothko, Willem de Kooning and Barnett Newman. An articulate writer,
Motherwell was pegged early on as the intellectual of the group.
"Robert Motherwell: Open" is the first examination of the painter's
"Open" series, which preoccupied him from 1967 until the last years
of his life. Pared down and minimal, these paintings differ greatly
from his more dynamic and monumental "Elegies" series, for which he
is perhaps best known. Containing many previously unpublished
paintings as well as works in public collections, this
monograph--the most comprehensive and best-illustrated book on
Motherwell currently in print--introduces a series of texts by
critics and art historians John Yau, Robert Hobbs, Matthew
Collings, Donald Kuspit, Robert Mattison, Mel Gooding and Saul
Ostrow.
H is here, in the truest sense, the alpha and omega. Helmut Federle
uses the first letter of his first name as a format-filling,
artistic matrix on canvases measuring between forty and fifty
centimetres. Since his early days as an artist in the late 1970s,
he has created seventy variations of Liegendes H (Reclining H). The
basic form of three lines and two squares enumerates the variations
of expressions in painting. Their synopsis plays with figure and
ground, forming an inventive collection of painterly techniques and
the atmospheres they evoke. At the same time, the subtitles for the
individual works seem to hint at the specific horizons of
experience in their creation. They lend each work a poetic
dimension, as one tries to imagine the artist's world in the planes
of colour. Thus, each picture represents Helmut and is, in its
mysterious originality, a fascinating haiku.
Sean Scully (born 1945) is known for rich, painterly abstractions
in which stripes or blocks of layered color are a prevailing motif.
The delineated geometry of his work provides structure for an
expressive, physical rendering of color, light, and texture.
Scully's simplification of his compositions and use of repetitive
forms--squares, rectangles, bands--echoes architectural motifs
(doors, windows, walls) and in this way appeals to a universal
understanding and temporal navigation of the picture plane.
However, the intimacy of Scully's process, in which he layers and
manipulates paint with varying brushstrokes and sensibilities,
results in a highly sensual and tactile materiality. His colors and
their interactions, often subtly harmonized, elicit profound
emotional associations. Scully does not shy away from Romantic
ideals and the potential for personal revelation. He strives to
combine, as he has said, "intimacy with monumentality." This volume
surveys works of the past three years.
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