This beautifully illustrated book documents Pickett’s Charge, an ambitious and timely project by renowned artist Mark Bradford. Eight new paintings extend nearly four hundred feet to form a 360-degree experience encircling an entire floor of the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C. Bradford’s monumental installation is inspired by the 1883 cyclorama painted by Paul Philippoteaux to commemorate the Battle of Gettysburg, which has been considered the critical turning point of the Civil War and, consequently, of American history. Elements from Philippoteaux’s paintings are among multiple layers of collaged paper that Bradford has scraped through to reveal hidden textures and complexities, and this interplay—between past and present, between the legible and the mysteriously evocative—encourages a reconsideration of history’s conventional linear narratives. The catalogue features an interview with the artist by Stéphane Aquin and an essay by Evelyn Hankins that situates the site-specific project within a broader art historical context. With lavish images of the paintings and their installation, including two gatefolds, this book records a significant new contribution to socially engaged American art.

Mark Bradford: Pickett’s Charge

Arts & Photography

Aquin, Stéphane

Hankins, Evelyn

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

Dorothea Rockburne (born 1932) came to prominence in the late 1960s with Minimalist-inflected works pitched somewhere between painting and sculpture, that employed such materials as cardboard, sheet metal and crude oil. In the early 1950s Rockburne had studied at Black Mountain College with the mathematician Max Dehn, an encounter that helped to direct her early basis in Minimalism towards investigations of, among other themes, the Golden Section, the solar system and the writings of Pascal. This volume, the first comprehensive monograph on the artist, assesses Rockburne's career in the context of her peers such as Mel Bochner, Eva Hesse, Sol LeWitt and Agnes Martin, and elucidates the philosophical foundations of her abiding commitment to abstraction as a thinking tool. It includes works ranging from classic installation pieces such as "Scalar" (1971) and the folded paper Locus Etchings (1972) to the recent Astronomy Drawings (2009-2010).

Dorothea Rockburne: In My Mind's Eye

Sultan, Terrie

Lawlor, Robert

Longwell, Alicia

Individual Artists

Parrish Art Museum

The first and highly-anticipated monograph on one of the most successful, collected, and exciting painters today Swiss-born Nicolas Party, one of the most successful and critically acclaimed artists working today, is known for his color-saturated paintings of everyday objects, with distinctly personal yet very accessible and recognizable imagery - bright, graphic patterns applied to canvases, ceramics, furniture, floors, ceilings, doorways, and walls. He captures the essence of his subjects in surprising ways, heightening their physical and emotional resonance. Fascinated by the power of paint to alter our perception of the built environment and, within a gallery context, how we experience art, Party regularly paints murals, either as stand-alone works or&nbsp; as carefully orchestrated settings for his work. This is the first book dedicated to his practice and the first to examine his career to date - it will be a must-read for collectors and followers of the contemporary art scene.&nbsp; &nbsp;

Nicolas Party (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)

Banz, Stefan

Subotnick, Ali

Hyde, Melissa

Humor & Entertainment

Phaidon Press

Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde

Gumpert, Lynn

Dellheim, Charles

PARKER, ROBERT

GAUTHIER, AMBRE

LE MORVAN, Marianne

Grace, Anne

Bernardi, Claire

ELOY, SOPHIE

BUICK, KIRSTEN PAI

Flammarion

Marc Séguin Survol

Enright, Robert

400 COUPS

Georg Baselitz

On the occasion of the 80th birthday of Georg Baselitz (born 1938)―one of the most influential painters and sculptors of our time―the Fondation Beyeler is devoting an extensive retrospective to the artist, gathering many of Baselitz’s most important paintings and sculptures from the past six decades for the first time. By displaying key works together over the course of more than 200 richly illustrated pages, the great wealth of his formal innovation becomes evident.

Schulz-Hoffmann, Carla

Rosenthal, Norman

Fuchs, Rudi

Madoff, Stephen Henry

Mongi-Vollmer, Eva

Hatje Cantz

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