Takashi Murakami is one of the most thoughtful-and thought-provoking-Japanese artists of the 1990s. His work ranges from cartoony paintings to quasi-minimalist sculptures to giant inflatable balloons to performance events to factory-produced watches, T-shirts, and other products, many emblazoned with his signature character, Mr. DOB. Murakami mixes and morphs on canvas, light boxes, posters, and other mediums. His rich body of work reflects his voracious appetite for postwar history, art, and popular culture from Japan and the West, and has attracted the attention of the international art world. 
Takashi Murakami is the first monograph on this important artist. With reproductions of dozens of Murakami's works, insightful essays, and an exuberant Tokyo-pop design, this book will appeal to contemporary art fans as well as people interested in anime (animation films), manga (comics), and other aspects of Japanese popular culture. 
110 illustrations, 93 in full color, 9 1/2 x 11 1/2" 
AMADA CRUZ is director of the Center for Curatorial Studies Museum at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. 
DANA FRIIS-HANSEN is chief curator at the Austin Museum of Art, Texas. 
MIDORI MATSUI is associate professor of American Studies at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.

Takashi Murakami: The Meaning of the Nonsense of the Meaning

Arts & Photography

Matsui, Midori

Friis-Hansen, Dana

Cruz, Amanda

Individual Artists

Harry N. Abrams

Circles, Cycles, Mud Stones

Long, Richard

Brettell, Richard

Distributed Art Pub Inc

Abstract painting, once removed

Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston

Visionary Apparatus: Michael Snow and Juan Geuer

Massachusetts Inst Technology

L.A. Hot & Cool: Mit List Visual Arts Center, December 19, 1987-February 7, 1988 ; La, Hot and Cool, Pioneers : Bank of Boston Art Gallery, November 23, 1987-January

Mit List Visual Arts Center

Bank of Boston Art Gallery

Rebecca Purdum: Paintings

Painting

22 to watch: New art in Austin

Austin Museum of Art

Mary Lee Bendolph’s extraordinary patchworks garnered national attention when they were featured among the works of other quiltmakers from her tiny, predominately African American community in the 2002 blockbuster exhibition and book, The Quilts of Gee’s Bend. This beautiful book examines Bendolph’s inspiration, creative process, and individual genius, as well as her profound connection to the cultural practices and expressive traditions out of which her work arises. It studies her artistic relationships with other artists her mother, Aolar Mosely; her daughter, Essie Bendolph Pettway; her daughter-in-law Louisiana P. Bendolph; and two self-taught Alabama artists, Lonnie Holley and Thornton Dial. Bendolph’s conception of herself as an artist is intimately connected to all of these aesthetic relationships, which together provide contexts for understanding the full scope and power of her work. As they intersect in Bendolph’s life and art, these deep social and aesthetic networks give rise to new pathways of artistic influence and exchange, to a body of work that is a powerful mixture of communal and individual creative energies.

Mary Lee Bendolph, Gee's Bend Quilts, and Beyond

Cubbs, Joanne

Arnett, Matt

History & Criticism

Tinwood Books

This book focusing on an ambitious new body of work by American artist Alexis Rockman (b. 1962) explores the past, present, and future of the Great Lakes, one of the world’s most emblematic and ecologically significant environments. Rockman’s series The Great Lakes Cycle celebrates the natural majesty and global importance of the Great Lakes while exploring how they are threatened by factors including climate change, globalization, invasive species, mass agriculture, and urban sprawl. Though positive action has been taken in recent decades to understand and counteract the environmental damage, this inspiring publication will serve to promote continued attention to these fragile ecosystems. The works in the series are based on Rockman’s research, travel in the Great Lakes region, and conversations with scientists, historians, and specialists. Included are large oil paintings, field drawings, a suite of watercolors, and documentary material. The book’s essays will relate this new work to historical and contemporary landscape art and will address the significance of the Great Lakes ecosystem and what it can teach us beyond the region.

Alexis Rockman: The Great Lakes Cycle

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Michigan State University Press

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