"When this remarkable book first appeared in 1982, it introduced readers to Robert Irwin, the Los Angeles artist 'who one day got hooked on his own curiosity and decided to live it.' Now expanded to include six additional chapters and twenty-four pages of color plates, 'Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees' chronicles three decades of extraordinary conversation between Weschler and Light and Space master Irwin, taking us into the heart of what it can mean to be an artist. ... [details]
Artists' book comprised of black-and-white photographs. "A woman in a hospital bed. A postcoital couple. Two kids in the woods. A burlesque dancer. A group of flappers on the beach. A coal miner. An Afghan rebel with a machine gun. ... [details]
Artist's book of international advertisements and images collected by Peter Fischli and David Weiss. Edited by Beatrix Ruf. "Sonne, Mond und Sterne is an 800-page artist's book consisting of just as many images, inspired by an international selection of magazine advertisements and compiled and organized into loose categories by the influential Swiss artistic collaborators Fischli & Weiss. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held May 7 – September 1, 2008. Contributions by Andrew Bolton and Michael Chabon. "Winner of the prestigious American Institute of Graphic Arts design award, presented by the American Institute of Graphic Arts. ... [details]
Book on the actives of Jean Toche and the Guerrilla Art Action Group, with interview of Toche by Stephen Perkins. "This booklet, #84, is the fourth in our interview series Temporary Conversations. It provides some extremely hard to acquire information, numerous illustrations, and is one of very few interviews Toche has given with numerous personal biographical details he has never shared before. ... [details]
Collection of drawings by Josh Smith of varieties of Tennessee fish. Edited by Josh Smith and Todd Amicon. [details]
"In 2003 McSweeney's published Marcel Dzama's 'The Berlin Years,' bringing Dzama's elegant, enigmatic bears, bats, and sexy ladies to a slumbering nation. The first edition of that book was snapped up in a matter of minutes, and same with a second edition a couple years later. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue / monograph published in conjunction with show held at Susan Inglett Gallery, April 24 - May 24, 2008. Includes texts by Colby Chamberlain, Charles Danby, Karl N. David, Karim El-Tanamli, Beatrice Gross, Tom Healy, Jordan Hruska, Denzel T. ... [details]
"Zin Taylor''s The Crystal Ship tells the story of how a crystalline form was created using a series of landmarks in a neighborhood in Antwerp, Belgium. This story begins in the winter of 2006 when the artist finds an invitation for an exhibition by Marcel Broodthaers dated 1969. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at the Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, September 26, 2008 - February 1, 2009. Edited by Maria Lind and Hito Steyerl with primary texts by Hito Steyerl, Olivier Lugon, Jean-Pierre Rehm, Jörg Heiser, Okwui Enwezor, T. ... [details]
