Artist's book by Tod Lippy featuring photographs of private spaces within commercial galleries. The first book in a series of books to be published once a year by Mirrorical Books, Tod Lippy's newest publishing project following the conclusion of his long-running artist magazine ESOPUS. ... [details]
Revised edition of "The Banquet Years : The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France : 1885 to World War I," by Roger Shattuck. Artists include Alfred Jarry, Henri Rousseau, Erik Satie, and Guillaume Apollinaire. ... [details]
Artist's book composed of images and texts. "The photographs for this piece were taken in a period of thirty-six seconds during a trip to the island of Curacao, where Papiamento—a tropicalization of cold-weather languages —is spoken. ... [details]
"In 1979, the artist collective Group Material opened a storefront at East 13th Street on New York's Lower East Side, from which they launched exhibitions—45 in all—that radically overhauled curatorial thought, setting art alongside artifacts, documentary material and storebought objects, within exhibitions that were oriented around topical social concerns. ... [details]
Monograph about Colin De Land and his gallery American Fine Arts. Chiefly composed of photographs from the Colin De Land Photo Archive documenting art, installations, and activities at the gallery. Edited by Dennis Balk. ... [details]
Autobiographic graphic novel with text by David Wojnarowicz, artwork by James Romberger, and color by Marguerite Van Cook.
"7 Miles a Second is the story of legendary artist David Wojnarowicz, written during the last years before his AIDS-related death in 1992.
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Survey of young artists of the school of New York edited and with an introduction by B.H. Friedman. Contents include: "Helen Frankenthaler," by B.H. Friedman; "Robert Goodnough," by Barbara Guest; "Grace Hartigan," by Emily Dennis; "Jasper Johns," by Ben Heller; "Alfred Leslie," by James Schuyler; "Joan Mitchell," by Irving Sandler; "Raymond Parker," by Bill Godden; "Robert Rauschenberg," by David Harrison Myers; "Larry Rivers," by Frank O'Hara; "Jon Schueler," by Alastair Reid; and "Richard Stankiewicz," by Fairfield Porter. ... [details]
Compendium of two essays: "Venus in Furs," by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, along with appendices, and "Coldness and Cruelty," by Gilles Deleuze, an essay on the work of Sacher-Masoch and the relationship between Sadism and Masochism. ... [details]
Compendium of essays originally presented as part of a conference "The Invention of Pornography," held at the University of Pennsylvania in October 1991. Edited and with an introduction by Lynn Hunt. Essays by Paula Findlen, Joan DeJean, Rachel Weil, Margaret C. ... [details]
Critical theory book about Robert Rauschenberg and the artworld of 1950s and 1960s New York by Calvin Tomkins. Illustrated in black-and-white. Includes an appendix and index. "Calvin Tomkins, cultural connoisseur and best-selling author of Living Well Is the Best Revenge," celebrates one of the most fascinating and adventurous art crowds in history - and a high point in American art - in Off the Wall. ... [details]
