Prospect / Retrospect : Europa 1946 - 1976

Jürgen Harten, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Rudi Fuchs, Konrad Fischer, John Matheson, Hans Strelow

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held October 20 - 31, 1976. Edited by Jürgen Harten, and organized by Benjamin Buchloh, Rudi Fuchs, Konrad Fischer, John Matheson, Hans Strelow. ... [details]

Psychedelic Art

Robert E.L. Masters, Jean Houston, Barry N. Schwartz, Stanley Krippner

Critical theory text by Robert E.L. Masters and Jean Houston discussing the prevalence of psychedelic drugs in art work. "The psychedelic artist is an artist whose work has been significantly influenced by psychedelic experience and who acknowledges the impact of the experience on his work. ... [details]

Sam Francis : Blue Forms, 1959 -1961

Sam Francis, Franz Schulze

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held 1997. Essay by Franz Schulze. Printed in color and black-and-white. [details]

Slant Step Book : The Mysterious Object and the Artworks It Inspired

Francesca Wilmott, Phil Weidman, Bruce Nauman, Steve Jongeward, Ron Peetz, Frank Owen, Dorothy Wiley, Bill Allan, William Witherup, William T. Wiley, Jack Edwards, Robert Leach, Richard C., Jack Ogden, Lawrence Dean Phillips, Peter Saul, Ray Johnson, Peetz, Jack Fulton, Stephen Kaltenbach, Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Dan Nadel, Jacob Stewart-Halevy, Terry Berlier, Gordon Hall, Corin Hewitt, Aay Preston-Myint, Jessi Reaves, Mungo Thomson, Angela Willetts

Two volume set of books housed in a clear plastic dust jacket: a facsimile reprint of the 1969 artists book "Slant Step Book" as well as a volume of essays and visuals responding to it. Edited by Phil Weidman and Francesca Wilmott. ... [details]

Stooge

No. 13 (Spring 1975)

John Baldessari, Geoffrey Young, Laura Chester, Francis Picabia, Stan Rice, Mowry Baden, Tom Clark, Kathy Acker, Anselm Hollo, David Benedetti, Stephen Rodefer, Jim Gustafson, Russell Edson, Summer Brenner, F. Keith Wahle, Don Cushman, Gene Frumkin, John Brandi, Ronald Koertge, Bill Tremblay, Robert Hahn, Gloria Frym, Paul Auster, Kathleen Fraser, Lyn Lifshin, Robert Glück, Judy Grahn, S.G. Perrin, Chris Petrakos, Jack Marshall, Howard McCord, Clayton Eshleman, Opal L. Nations, Julia Vose, James Minor, Richard Allen Morris

Spring 1975 issue of the arts and letters periodical Stooge. Edited by Geoffrey Young and Laura Chester. Contributions by Francis Picabia, Stan Rice, Mowry Baden, Tom Clark, Kathy Acker, Anselm Hollo, David Benedetti, Stephen Rodefer, Jim Gustafson, Laura Chester, Russell Edson, Summer Brenner, F. ... [details]

Sunshine & Noir : Art in L.A. 1960 - 1997

Lars Nittve, William R. Hackman, Mike Davis, Anne Ayres, Timothy Martin, Laura Cottingham, Terry R. Myers, Russell Ferguson, Peter Schjeldahl, Laura Aguilar, John Altoon, Michael Asher, John Baldessari, Larry Bell, Billy Al Bengston, Tony Berlant, Wallace Berman, Chris Burden, Vija Celmins, Richard Diebenkorn, Kim Dingle, Llyn Foulkes, Sam Francis, Joe Goode, David Hammons, Georg Herms, David Hockney, Dennis Hopper, Robert Irwin, Jim Isermann, Larry Johnson, Craig Kauffman, Mike Kelley, Edward Kienholz, Paul McCarthy, John McCracken, John McLaughlin, Ed Moses, Bruce Nauman, Catherine Opie, Jennifer Pastor, Raymond Pettibon, Lari Pittman, Ken Price, Stephen Prina, Charles Ray, Jason Rhoades, Nancy Rubins, Allen Ruppersberg, Edward Ruscha, Jim Shaw, Alexis Smith, Diana Thater, Robert Therrien, James Turrell, Bill Viola, Doug Wheeler, Christopher Williams

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, Summer 1997. Traveled to the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany, Fall 1997; the Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Italy, Spring 1998; and the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, Fall 1998. ... [details]

Synnyt : Nykytaiteen Lähteitä / Sources of Contemporary Art

Timo Valjakka, Juhana Blomstedt, Juhani Pallasmaa, Tor-Björn Hägglund, Yrjänä Levanto, Lauri Anttila, Mikael Enckell, Jaakko Lintinen, Peter von Bagh, Altti Kuusamo, Keijo Rahkonen

Critical theory text discussing themes and origins of contemporary art. The title, "Synnyt," refers to the Finnish word meaning 'birth' and 'to be born,' and also to Finnish mythology, in which the word alluded to a story that "explained the cause or origin of a given creature, disease or other phenomenon and it was believed that knowledge of the true 'synty' or origin gave its possessor power over the phenomenon in question. ... [details]

The Age of the Avant-Garde : An Art Chronicle of 1956 - 1972

[First Printing]

Hilton Kramer, J.M.W. Turner, Gustave Courbet, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Odlon Redon, Medardo Rosso, Simeon Solomon, Puvis de Chavannes, Aubrey Beardsley, Mary Cassatt, James McNeill Whistler, Lovis Corinth, Edvard Munch, Oskar Kokoschka, Egon Schiele, Lyonel Feininger, George Grosz, Emil Nolde, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Klee, Max Beckmann, Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, László Moholy-Nagy, Alexandr Rodchenko, Vladimir Tatlin, Oskar Schlemmer, Walter Sickert, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Jacob Epstein, Henri Matisse, Antoine Bourdelle, Edouard Vuillard, Pablo Picasso, Pierre Bonnard, Georges Braques, Juan Gris, Julio Gonzalez, Henri Laurens, Marc Chagall, Jacques Lipchitz, Chaim Soutine, Hans Arp, Joan Miró, Amedeo Modigliani, Alexander Archipenko, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, Salvador Dalí, Alberto Giacometti, Joaquin Torres-Garcia, Pierre Lachaise, Maurice Prendergast, Marsden Hartley, Arthur Dove, Alfred Maurer, Man Ray, H. Lyman Saÿen, Arnold Friedman, Charles Sheeler, John Storrs, John Graham, Edward Hopper, Saul Baizerman, Romaine Brooks, Arshile Gorky, Milton Avery, Abraham Walkowitz, David Smith, Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Ad Reinhardt, Willem de Kooning, Jean Dubuffet, Hans Hofmann, Josef Albers, Louise Nevelson, Joseph Cornell, Balthus, Francis Bacon, Saul Steinberg, Isamu Noguchi, José de Rivera, Helen Frankenthaler, Jean Hélion, Mark di Suvero, Anthony Caro, Frank Stella, Robert Morris, Claes Oldenburg, Matta, Jean Ipousteguy, Nicolas de Staël, Fairfield Porter, Jim Dine, Ernest Trova, George Segal, Philip Pearlstein, Ellsworth Kelly, Mary Frank, Richard Hunt, Leland Bell, Anne Arnold, Alex Katz, William King, David Hockney, Cecil Beaton, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Edward Weston, Paul Strand, Bill Brandt, Walker Evans, Diane Arbus, Clement Greenberg, Herbert Read, Harold Rosenberg, William Bailey, Andy Warhol

Anthology of the writings of art critic Hilton Kramer. "In the eight years since he became art news editor of The New York Times, Hilton Kramer has emerged as perhaps the most perceptive and influential art critic in America. ... [details]

The Artist Observed

Sidney B. Felsen, Constance W. Glenn, Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, Richard Serra, Frank Stella, David Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein, Sam Francis, Wallace Berman, Edward Kienholz, Vija Celmins, Michael Heizer, Elizabeth Murray, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, James Rosenquist, Allen Ginsberg, Ann Hamilton, Frank Gehry, Mark di Suvero, Philip Guston, Bruce Nauman, Henry Geldzahler, Robert Gober, Jonathan Borofsky, Dorothea Rockburne, Isamu Noguchi, William Burroughs, Ken Price, Brice Marden, Edward Ruscha, Susan Rothenberg, John Baldessari, Richard Diebenkorn, Robert Graham, Malcolm Morley

Photographs of artists at work. Essay by Constance W. Glenn, text by the artist. [details]