Traces the history of music's influence on the development of abstract and mixed-media visual art forms throughout the past century, describing the works of such creative minds as Wassily Kandinsky, Harry Smith, and Jennifer Steinkamp, in an account that is complemented by scholarly essays.

Visual Music: Synaesthesia in Art and Music Since 1900

Arts & Photography

Kerry Brougher

Jeremy Strick

Ari Wiseman

Judith Zilczer

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Thames&Hudson

Hiroshi Sugimoto's images freeze time and space, revealing the workings of our own vision, slowing down the act of perception long enough that it becomes a palpable component of his work. His earliest photographs were images of decadent movie palaces built in the 20s and 30s. By timing the exposure of his photos to the exact length of the film being screened, he produced images that depict theater interiors bathed in the magical glare of an all-white screen: pure light. Next Sugimoto began a body of work that he continues to this day, photographing views of the sea from land, traveling around the world to make pictures that, despite their vastly different geographic origins, seem at first to be the same, with only slight variations. Their captions, however, confirm that each is of a different body of water: Caspian, Ligurian, Black. Other series include his out-of-focus impressions of landmark architectural monuments, wherein the Empire State Building, Le Corbusier's Chapel de Notre Dame du Haut, and Tadao Ando's Church of Light in Osaka, among others, are essentialized rather than documented. This volume presents a monographic retrospective of Hiroshi Sugimoto's complete body of work, including the projects described above and others. New, mostly unpublished images from his recent color work are featured: impressions of the impeccably proportioned shrine Sugimoto designed in Naoshima Island in Japan, as well as a series entitled Colors of Shadow. Specially commissioned essays by photography curators David Elliot and Kerry Brougher examine Sugimoto's work in depth, while an exhibition history and bibliography round out the volume.

Hiroshi Sugimoto

David Elliott

Individual Artists

Hatje Cantz Publishers/Hirschhorn Museum/Mori Art

One of the most consistently inventive artists of recent times, Los Angeles-based Ed Ruscha has been a pioneer in the use of language and imagery drawn from the popular media. From his early powerful word paintings to his influential artist books of the sixties and seventies to his recent colorful views of generic mountains, Ruscha has investigated the spaces between highways and journeys, images and words, abstraction and representation, public imagery and the contemporary landscape. In this publication, which accompanies a major retrospective exhibition organized by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. and the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, Neal Benezra, Kerry Brougher, and Phyllis Rosenzweig focus on all aspects of Ruscha's career, revealing him not merely as an artist closely linked with Los Angeles, but as an important international figure in contemporary art.

Ed Ruscha

Neal Benezra

Phyllis Rosenzweig

Scalo Verlag Ac

First edition, first printing. Soft cover. Photographically illustrated laminated stiff wrappers with French folds (published only in wraps). 206 pp. with 70 black and white plates. The reproductions are absolutely exquisite. 11 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches. Foreword by Luis Monreal and essays (in English and Portuguese) by Kerry Brougher, Peter Hay Halpert, Jacinto Lageira and John Yau. Also includes an interview with Hiroshi Sugimoto by Helena Tatay Huici, an exhibition history, bibliography and exhibition checklist. Includes an exceptional collection of Sugimoto's dioramas, wax museums, theaters, drive-ins, day seascapes, night seascapes and a selection of images from the artist's work Hall of Thirty-Three Bays. One of the finest catalogues of Sugimoto's work published to-date, with a broad selection of all the series that have informed Sugimoto's work since 1976 (some previously unpublished, particularly the diorama series).

Sugimoto

Reference

John Yau

Hiroshi, Sugimoto

Jacinto Lageira

Peter Hay Halpert

Helena Tatay Huici

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Fundación "la Caixa" and Centro Cultural de Belém

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