Pre-publication proof of Alexander Dumbadze's investigation of Bas Jan Ader. "On July 9, 1975, Dutch-born artist Bas Jan Ader set sail from Chatham, Massachusetts, on a thirteen-foot sailboat. He was bound for Falmouth, England, on the second leg of a three-part piece titled In Search of the Miraculous. ... [details]
History of New York's SoHo [South of Houston] district, where galleries and artists lived and existed in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s before they were priced out of the neighborhood. While the book doesn't touch on the radical real estate changes of the 90s it does dissect the formative element that lead to the development of the area and how the artists changed a derelict manufacturing district to a vital community for the arts. [details]
A collection of essays that provide a scholarly look at the subject of boredom throughout literature and society. [details]
"Andy Warhol is remembered as the artist who said that he wanted to be a machine and that no one need ever look further than the surface when evaluating him or his art. Arguing against this carefully crafted pop image, Reva Wolf shows that Warhol was in fact deeply emotionally engaged with the people around him and that this was reflected in his art. ... [details]
"A Guide to Chicago's Public Sculpture is the most comprehensive handbook of Chicago's public sculpture available and is an excellent companion to the heralded guide, Chicago's Famous Buildings. The product of prodigious research, including interviews with living artists, A Guide to Chicago's Public Sculpture provides individual entries on each of the works in the metropolitan area selected for the guide. ... [details]
Monograph on the work of Fred Sandback written by Edward A. Vazquez. Featuring illustrations throughout and a bibliography and index. [details]
First volume in a series of the collected writings by the staunch modernist critic Clement Greenberg. Essays and writings in the volume date between 1939 and 1944. Edited by John O'Brien. Includes an index. [details]
Second volume in a series of the collected writings by the staunch modernist critic Clement Greenberg. Essays and writings in the volume date between 1945 and 1949. Edited by John O'Brien. Includes an index. [details]
A compendium of essays by Lucius Annaeus Seneca published as part of the eight volume series "The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca," edited by Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch and Martha C. Nussbaum. ... [details]
Critical theory by Serge Guilbaut. Chapters include "New York, 1935 - 1941 : The De-Marxization of the Intelligentsia," "The Second World War and the Attempt to Establish an Independent American Art," "The Creation of an American Avant-Garde, 1945 - 1947" and "Success : How New York Stole the Notion of Modernism from the Parisians, 1948. ... [details]