The art of the 20th century can be understood fully only from a perspective that ignores boundaries between countries and continents. Werner Spies (b. 1937), teacher, critic, curator of major international exhibitions, and close friend to many major artists, has always had an open eye and mind. His critical appraisals of trends in both Europe and the United States continue to stimulate art lovers around the globe. Spies's collected writings first appeared in German in 2008, and sold out immediately. Now these 10 volumes, beautifully printed with over 1,400 color illustrations and presented in a slipcase designed by Andreas Gursky, are being made available in English for the first time. The subjects addressed include Picasso, Ernst, Pop and Op Art, Surrealism, and much more. In their wealth of detail, and in their reflection of personal encounters and impressions, Spies's writings constitute an important resource on modern art.

Werner Spies: The Eye and the Word: Collected Writings on Art and Literature, The Gagosian Edition

Arts & Photography

Spies, Werner

GURSKY, ANDREAS

History & Criticism

Abrams

During the late 1960s and 70s, a paradigm shift occurred within visual culture: photography and the moving image were absorbed into critical art practices. In particular, these mediums were used to record ephemeral or performative events and to render visible conceptual systems or to question the supposed objectivity of representation itself. This volume focuses primarily on artworks from the last decade and proposes that the extensive use of reproducible mediums in today's art has its roots in an earlier formative period. By the end of the 70s, many artists turned to photography as a vehicle through which to critique photographic representation and to subvert an art system premised on the notion of the original. While this practice came to define much of the 80s postmodern art, its legacy for the 90s was essentially the license to indulge in photographic fantasy, image construction, and cinematic narrative. Artists working today freely manipulate their representations of the empirical world or invent entirely new cosmologies. They process their subject matter through conceptual systems or use digital processes to alter their images. Some directly intervene in the environment, subtly shifting components of the found world and establishing their quiet presence in it; others fabricate entire architectural environments for the camera lens. This current state of the arts and its recent history are represented via more than 150 works by 55 artists, including Nam June Paik, Kara Walker, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Marina Abramovic, Vito Acconci, Ana Mendieta, Bruce Nauman, Robert Smithson, Christian Boltanski, Sophie Calle, Fischli &amp; Weiss, Ann Hamilton, Robert Mapplethorpe, Annette Messager, Cindy Sherman, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Elger Esser, Andreas Gursky, Candida H fer, Thomas Ruff, J rge Sasse, Thomas Struth, Olafur Eliasson, Roni Horn, Gabriel Orozco, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Matthew Barney, Gregory Crewdson, Anna Gaskell, Sam Taylor-Wood, Oliver Boberg, James Casebere, Thomas Demand, Vanessa Beecroft, Wolfgang Tillmans, Patty Chang, Trisha Donnelly, Stan Douglas, Pierre Huyghe, William Kentridge, Steve McQueen, Shirin Neshat, John Pilson and Gillian Wearing.

Moving Pictures: Contemporary Photography and Video from the Guggenheim Collection

Abramovic, Marina

Walker, Kara

Nauman, Bruce

Acconci, Vito

Gonzalez-Torres, Felix

Hanhardt, John G.

Smithson, Robert

BARNEY, Matthew

Paik, Nam June

Young, Joan

Villaseñor, Maria-Christina

Guggenheim Museum

Andreas Gursky: November 13, 1998-January 3, 1999 (Perspectives)

Contemporary Arts Museum

Andreas Gursky

Hayward Gallery Publishing

Exhibition catalogue for the large-scale color photographs of Andreas Gursky. Preface by Nicholas Serota and Lewis Biggs; introduction by Fiona Bradley; essays by Biggs and Greg Hilty. 72 pages; 32 full-page or full-spread color plates; 11.75 x 9.5 inches. List of plates, bibliography, exhibition history.

Andreas Gursky: Images

Biggs, Lewis

Bradley, Fiona

Hilty, Greg

Individual Artists

Tate Gallery Liverpool

Description: "The Eye Club," unofficially founded around 1975, was the nickname given to the loose conglomeration of individuals who found themselves among the first new collectors of photography. Operating purely on instinct and the love of seeing, these few dozen people (including Sam Wagstaff, Andre Jammes and other now-legendary collectors) shared a distaste for established pantheons and veered instead toward the lesser-known, the anonymous, the outr or any photograph emanating sparks of electricity. Photography was their perfect vehicle and they were startled to find themselves in so much unchartered territory. The nearly 100 surprising pictures in The Eye Club have been assembled in a similar spirit of adventure. Photography persists as an unruly medium, and this book is comprised of an unruly group of photographs, brought together in the open-eyed spirit of the Eye Club to mark the 25th anniversary of San Francisco's esteemed Fraenkel Gallery. Printed with exceptional fidelity to the original prints, this publication assembles little-known images by some of the most important artists in the history of photography, chosen with an eye toward the unexpected and including as-yet-unpublished work by Diane Arbus, Chuck Close, Constantin Brancusi, Robert Adams, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Nan Goldin, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Andy Warhol, among many others. A significant number of works by "Photographer Unknown" are included among gems by Richard Avedon, Nadar, Andreas Gursky, Lee Friedlander, Alfred Stieglitz, Adam Fuss, Helen Levitt, Paul Outerbridge and Robert Frank. The combination is fresh and surprising.

The Eye Club

BRANCUSI, Constantin

Photography & Video

Fraenkel Gallery

Publié par la Fondazione MAST, ce catalogue accompagne la première exposition en Italie consacrée à l'artiste allemand Andreas Gursky. Les images grand format de Gursky encadrent le paysage contemporain et définissent notre expérience du monde. Cette exposition a été conçue en référence aux paramètres de la collection MAST - Manifattura di Arti, Sperimentazione e Tecnologia / Manufacture d'art, d'expérience et de technologie. Les quarante et une photographies spectaculaires de grand format ouvrent des perspectives particulières sur le monde du travail, l'économie et la mondialisation, révélant des vues saisissantes de sites de production, de centres de manutention de marchandises, de temples de la consommation, de centres de transport, de production énergétique et alimentaire, et de l'industrie financière. Ce volume, publié à l'occasion du dixième anniversaire de la Fondazione MAST, comprend les quarante et une photographies exposées, ainsi qu'un essai critique du commissaire Urs Stahel, qui jette un nouvel éclairage sur la recherche et la pratique d'un artiste international de premier plan dont le travail repousse les limites de la photographie tout en approfondissant notre compréhension de notre époque.

VISUAL SPACES OF TODAY ANDREAS GURSKY

MACK BOOKS

Featuring established and emerging photographers including Thomas Ruff, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Beat Streuli, Thomas Struth, Nobuyoshi Araki, Anna and Bernhard Blume, Baltasar Burkhard, Gnter Farg, Andreas Gursky, Candida Hafer, Axel Htte, Martin Liebscher, Inge Rambow, and Jarg Sasse, XL-Photography presents the photography collection of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, assembled by Jean-Christophe Amman, Director of the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt. XL-Photography presents close to 200 large-format works by the 14 aforementioned photographers, with pieces that range from the ironic pictorial narratives of Anna and Bernhard Blume to Htte's landscape images; from Candida Hafer's interior shots to Araki's provocative erotic stagings; from Ruff's deconstructions of subjectivity to Streuli's urban views. Much more than a simple collection catalogue, this smartly designed and lavishly illustrated book presents some of the essential positions taken in photographic art over the past ten years.

XL-Photography: Art Collection Neue Borse

WEISS, David

Hütte, Axel

Fischli, Peter

Ammann, Jean-Christophe

Araki, Nobuyoshi

Sasse, Jörg

Förg, Günther

Snauwaert, Dirk

Bernhard

Liebscher, Martin

Rambow, Inge

Scherf, Jone Elissa

Lorenz, Gunter

Hatje Cantz Publishers

Published on the occasion of the 1999 exhibition Räume: Lucinda Devlin, Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, at the Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria.

Lucinda Devlin/Andreas Gursky/Candida Hofer

Devlin, Lucinda

Höfer, Candida

Verlag De Buchhandlung Walter

In his large-format colour photos Gursky usually portrays vast panoramic views: "complete" townscapes, "endless horizons", huge factory halls and packed rooms, frequently from a bird’s eye view, always from a great distance. The people in these tableaux, reminiscent of the landscape paintings of romanticism in terms of composition and lighting, are reduced to the size of tiny decorative figures, whose "individuality" seems to drown in the "ornamentation of the masses." Devoid of any trace of reproach or intention to psychologize, Gursky’s portraits of exteriors and interiors capturing scenes of work and leisure are subtle descriptions of the condition of our society. Our book, the first major monograph of Gursky’s photographic work since 1984, is now available again.

Andreas Gursky: Photographs

Schirmer/Mosel Verlag Gmbh

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