Internationally acclaimed as one of the most resourceful and engaging younger artists in Britain, Julian Opie has been exhibiting his diverse work since the early 1980s, and has steadily gained a reputation stretching from Europe to Japan and the United States. He first established himself with painted steel sculptures of ordinary objects - typewriters, books, food, luggage - and of Old Master canvases. Since then, he has worked in a proliferation of styles: colourful abstract sculptures; mysteriously pseudo-functional objects resembling air vents, light boxes and lavatory cubicles; space-filling wood constructions with cryptic titles. His latest pieces feature subjects from austere acrylic paintings and concrete models of motorways to miniature houses, castles and fortifications. Published on the occasion of a major exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London, this comprehensive publication on Opie illustrates each phase of his career, with large-scale colour reproductions of many works, together with preparatory sketches and models and comparative illustrations. Five commentators on modern art examine all aspects of his work and provide a complete aesthetic context for this eclectic, original artist.

Julian Opie

Cooke, Lynne

Herzogenrath, Wulf

Biographies & Memoirs

Thames&Hudson

With a radical change from painted panels to nailed objects in the 1950s, Gunther Uecker found the medium for his artistic intentions. It quickly became his trademark and made him one of the most significant artists of the era. His sense of the "vulnerability of people through people" eventually led him, in the 1980s, to create visual works and installations that touched upon ever darker and deeper existential questions. This comprehensive monograph, Twenty Chapters, presents choice works from throughout his career, from public and private collections around the world--early drawings, light media, permutations, nailed objects and kinetic work--as well as pieces from his private collection, some of which have never been exhibited.

Gunther Uecker: Twenty Chapters

Tolnay, Alexander

Reference

Hatje Cantz Publishers

With video installations regularly appearing on the shortlists for the major art prizes, many of us today take for granted the use of video as an artistic medium. The Korean-born artist Nam June Paik (1932–2006) was instrumental in the development of this revolutionary and controversial art form, devoting himself as early as the 1960s, as a member of the radical Fluxus movement, to exploring its interdisciplinary potential and, in so doing, reshaping our understanding of the moving image in contemporary art. This compelling collection of essays and video material explores Paik’s remarkable life and work, with contributions from friends, students and fellow artists. The result is an affectionate and lively tribute to the ‘father of video art’, including previously unpublished material and more than 4 hours of footage on the accompanying DVD.

Nam June Paik

Arts & Photography

Kreul, Andreas

Individual Artists

DuMont

Dive!Pipilotti Rist (*1962) is a seminal figure in the world of video art and has achieved international acclaim with her sensually unabashed video installations. Entertaining, ironic and self-assured, the artist tackles conventions and taboos. Kunsthaus Zurich presents a comprehensive exhibition including both key works from the beginnings of Rist's international career as well as new works created especially for this exhibition. The publication accompanying the exhibition is more than a classic exhibition catalog. The book is structured as a glossary and illuminates in an extraordinary way on the basis of short, alphabetically ordered contributions, the most important themes in Pipilotti Rist’s work with contributions by renowned authors such as Arno Camenisch, Martin Suter or Sibylle Berg. At the same time, artist friends and art historians, among them Änne Söll and Jacqueline Burckhardt, as well as representatives of other guilds and trades, and, last but not least, children also have their say. Furthermore, documents and photographs from the personal archive of the artist will be published for the first time—and Pipilotti Rist chips in with poems! As a special feature, there are twelve large plates that can be removed from the book.
Exhbition: Kunsthaus Zürich, 26/2–8/5/2016

Pipilotti Rist: Your Salvia is my Diving Suit in the Ocean of Pain: Cat. Kunsthaus Zürich

JELINEK, ELFRIEDE

Berg, Sibylle

Curiger, Bice

Suter, Martin

Enders, Giulia

Camenisch, Arno

Rist, Pipilotti

ONO, Yoko.

Aeschbacher, Kurt

History & Criticism

Snoeck Publishing Company

Unpublished works of the pioneer of sound art.

Stromzeichnungen / Electrical Drawings: Arbeiten / Works 1974-2008 (German and English Edition)

de la Motte-Haber, Helga

Metzger, Christoph

Kehrer Verlag

John Lennon was not only a brilliant musician and the creative driving force at the head of the Fab Four, he was also an artist of many talents who wrote short stories and lyrics, created drawings and photographs, and organized provocative performances and happenings. Though he studied at the Liverpool Art Institute from 1957 to 1960, it was his music that brought him international fame in the 1960's. This publication, long overdue, presents the other, previously unknown side of Lennon's creative output for the first time. John's widow, Yoko Ono, with whom he collaborated artistically after the Beatles' break-up in the 1970's and who has acted as the guardian of his estate since his death in 1980, has now decided to publish his artistic work. Reproduced here, in many cases for the first time, are his drawings and lithographs (including erotic works from the "Bag One" portfolio that was confiscated by the police at its first showing in 1970), his personal Japanese 'dictionary', his photos, his texts (lyrics, prose, songs), his record sleeve designs, first editions of his books, and documentary material on his performances. The book vividly recalls John Lennon as a visual artist. A lavishly illustrated book with a wealth of documentary and biographical material, this is a must-have for John Lennon fans everywhere.

John Lennon: Drawings, Performances, Films

Humor & Entertainment

Cantz

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