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Ed Ruscha: Tom Sawyer Paintings documents the 2022 exhibition of
ten new paintings and a new hologram at Gagosian Paris. The
exhibition brought together naturalistic paintings of simple wooden
slats, which at once represent a new direction in Ruscha s work and
extend his long-standing interest in realism, modernist
abstraction, and the American vernacular. The catalogue includes
plate photography of the ten paintings and one hologram as well as
installation views of the exhibition. Ed Ruscha was born in 1937 in
Omaha, Nebraska and lives and works in Los Angeles. A
career-spanning retrospective, ED RUSCHA/NOW THEN, will open at the
Museum of Modern Art, New York, in September 2023 and travel to the
Los Angeles County Museum of Art in April 2024. Since 1993,
Gagosian has presented twenty-five major exhibitions of Ruscha s
work in the United States and Europe. New, illustrated essays by
Mark Godfrey and Ralph Rugoff, offering critical and historical
contexts for the work, are included in this bilingual English and
French catalogue.
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Philip Guston Now 2020 (Hardcover)
Philip Guston; Text written by Mark Godfrey, Alison De Lima Greene, Kate Nesin
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Volume 79 of the influential international art journal "Parkett"
features Jon Kessler, Marilyn Minter and Albert Oehlen. In the
tinkered gadgetry of Kessler's retro sci-fi installations, we peek
through surveillance cameras to see our own image among his analog
programs crammed with detritus of all kinds. Kessler's vista of
(d)evolved cyberstuff is in a manic state of accumulation, as this
data-diving artist masters the ecology of pure information. Within
Marilyn Minter's fetishistic, flawless pictures, we find a painter
obsessed with the clear articulation of magnified sweat beads and
pore-smeared glitter. In each successive lip-smacking painting,
Minter sets out to perfect beauty's disguise, affirming both her
pleasure in fashion imagery, and an appreciation of its vulgar
mishaps--say, a drag queen's eyelashes clumped together with too
much mascara. According to essayist John Kelsey, Albert Oehlen's
collage-paintings "seem almost bored of their own shock-value." And
yet this artist, one of the most significant German painters of the
past 20 years, can make boredom look like a rigorous, if not
delirious experiment. Also featured: Spencer Finch, Gelitin and
Mark Wallinger, as well as essayists Paul Bonaventura, Mark
Godfrey, Glenn O'Brien, Katy Siegel, Andrea Scott and Pamela Lee,
to name a few.
We become like the river reflected, both light and dark. Struggling
artist Sylvia is offered an unusual commission by the mysterious
Victor, acting on behalf of a secret sponsor, who wants to engage
her for a year to produce art depicting the Holocaust. She accepts
the project on trust and discovers an enigmatic thirteen-year-old
girl, Nina, who becomes her model and pupil. As the months pass,
Sylvia begins to unravel the truth about Victor, the secret sponsor
and Nina, while unearthing more about history and identity than she
was ever prepared for. A family drama that champions the structures
and beliefs that underpin a civilised society, The River Reflects
faces the darkest shadows of human nature. With the Thames winding
relentlessly through this compelling story, Sylvia, Victor, Nina
and those around them progress from fear and isolation to seek love
and fortitude and the redemptive power of the human spirit.
Soul of a Nation shines a bright light on the vital contribution of
Black artists to a dramatic period in American art and history. In
the period of radical change that was 1963 to 1983, young Black
artists at the beginning of their careers in the USA confronted key
questions and pressures. How could they make art that would stand
as innovative, original, formally and materially complex, while
also making work that reflected their concerns and experience as
African Americans? This significant new publication surveys this
crucial period in American art history, bringing to light
previously neglected histories of twentieth-century Black artists,
including Frank Bowling, Sam Gilliam, Melvin Edwards, Bettye Saar,
Jack Whitten and William T. Williams. This book presents
era-defining artworks that changed the face of art in America, and
features substantial essays from curators Mark Godfrey and Zoe
Whitley, writing on abstraction and figuration respectively. It
also explores art historical and social contexts with subjects
including black feminism; AfriCOBRA and other artist-run groups;
the role of museums in the debates of the period; and where visual
art sat in relation to the Black Arts Movement.
Since Tate Modern opened, the Turbine Hall has hosted some of the
most memorable and acclaimed site-specific art installations of the
twenty-first century, reaching an audience of millions. This book
is published to accompany the inaugaral Hyundai Commission, the
first in a new series of annual exhibitions that will give renowned
international contemporary artists an opportunity to create new
work for one of the world's most iconic museum spaces. Abraham
Cruzvillegas (b.1968), one of the key figures to have emerged in
Mexico among a new wave of conceptual artists, is best known for
his sculptural works made from local found objects and materials.
He has titled this body of work autoconstruccion or
'self-construction'. This term usually refers to the way Mexicans
of his parents' generation, arriving in the capital from rural
areas in the 1960s, self-built their houses in stages, improvising
with whatever materials they could source. His approach to
sculpture continues the principles of autoconstruccion, recycling
locally found objects and improvising new ways to build, design and
create. As an artist he is also concerned with how a strong
community spirit and hope can be maintained in precarious economic
and political conditions. These ideas have led to projects staged
in Glasgow, Paris, Oxford, Gwangju, Kassel and many other places.
During a residency at Cove Park in Scotland, Cruzvillegas gathered
discarded materials such as wool, fencing, a rubber buoy and bits
of wood to create a dynamic installation of sculptures. In Glasgow
he created a modified bicycle which he pedalled through the city
while playing music created in collaboration with local bands. In
recent years his work has been exhibited at Haus der Kunst, Munich
(2014); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2013); Modern Art Oxford
(2011) and The New Museum, New York (2011). Created in close
collaboration with the artist, the book will feature a fully
illustrated survey of Cruzvillegas's life and work and an in-depth
interview with curator Mark Godfrey. Exploring in fascinating
detail the artistic processes involved in creating this monumental
new work, it will include stunning photographs of the awe-inspiring
installation to be revealed in the Turbine Hall in October 2015.
A beautifully produced, comprehensive examination of acclaimed
American artist Sarah Sze's painting practice Since the late 1990s,
Sarah Sze has developed a signature visual language that challenges
the static nature of art with a dynamic body of work spanning
sculpture, painting, drawing, printmaking, video and installation.
In recent years, Sze has returned to painting, the medium in which
she was first trained. Comprising constellations of painted and
collaged elements, her expansive abstract landscapes explore a
visual world that is constantly evolving, degrading, and generating
new ways of seeing. This book, created in close collaboration with
Sze, is the first monograph devoted to her painting practice.
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Anri Sala (Paperback)
Mark Godfrey, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Liam Gillick
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- Anri Sala (b.1974) is a young artist whose haunting videos,
photographs and installations have been applauded by critics and
curators the world over
- Though his work employs straight documentary practices, it also
weaves its formal concerns (light and darkness, monochrome and
colour, sound and silence) into a poetic investigation of its
medium
- Among other distinctions, Sala was awarded the Young Artist Prize
at the 49th Venice Biennale (2001) and nominated for the
Guggenheim's prestigious Hugo Boss Prize (2002)
- This is the first monograph of this scale and scope on Anri
Sala's work
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Eileen Quinlan: Good Enough (Hardcover)
Eileen Quinlan; Edited by Cay Sophie Rabinowitz; Text written by Mark Godfrey, Tom McDonough
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Robert Rauschenberg (Hardcover)
Robert Rauschenberg; Edited by Leah Dickerman, Achim Borchardt-Hume; Contributions by Yve-Alain Bois, Andrianna Campbell, …
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By presenting original research into British legal history, this
volume emphasises the historical shaping of the law by ideas of
authority. The essays offer perspectives upon the way that ideas of
authority underpinned the conceptualisation and interpretation of
legal sources over time and became embedded in legal institutions.
The contributors explore the basis of the authority of particular
sources of law, such as legislation or court judgments, and
highlight how this was affected by shifting ideas relating to
concepts of sovereignty, religion, political legitimacy, the nature
of law, equity and judicial interpretation. The analysis also
encompasses ideas of authority which influenced the development of
courts, remedies and jurisdictions, international aspects of legal
authority when questions of foreign law or jurisdiction arose in
British courts, the wider authority of systems of legal ideas such
as natural law, the authority of legal treatises, and the
relationship between history, law and legal thought.
"Speak, Memory" is a critical reader accompanying Los Angeles-based
Kerry Tribe's (born 1973) exhibition at the Power Plant. It
includes artwork reproductions, an annotated script from her film
"There Will Be _______"(2012), as well as texts by Eli Horwatt,
Mark Godfrey and Melanie O'Brian.
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