A collection of the work of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988), whose meteoric and often controversial career lasted for only eight years until his death at the age of twenty-seven. Features exceptional reproductions of Basquiat's work, including many rarely exhibited pieces from private collections. Offers fresh new perspectives on Basquiat's achievements, explored in the contexts of the key influences on his work, including Picasso, Matisse and Twombly; the development of hip-hop culture; and the emergence of a multicultural society Explores many of Basquiat's individual works in detail, with particular reference to his working methods and techniques. Accompanies a major travelling exhibition.

Basquiat

Arts & Photography

Hoffman, Fred

Mayer, Marc

Basquiat, Jean-Michel

History & Criticism

Brooklyn Museum Bookshop

A critically acclaimed abstract painter, Nozkowski creates work that is characterized by innovative color and composition based on close observation of his surroundings and resulting in unexpected arrangements which can be jarring or beautiful but always strikingly original. This survey exhibition brings together some 50 works produced over the past 20 years and documents the largest exhibition to date devoted to his work. Thomas Nozkowski has exhibited at The Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington.

Thomas Nozkowski (English and French Edition)

STORR, Robert

Natl Gallery of Canada

This major monograph on the extraordinary career of the Canadian painter is published to accompany the first retrospective exhibition in over 35 years. Born in Montreal and raised in Toronto, Jack Bush (1909-1977) reinvented himself like very few artists moving from a close association with Canada's Group of Seven landscape painters to an even closer association with the great names of international modernist abstraction. Four experts in their fields outline Bush's ambitious trajectory from his years as an illustrator, through his membership in seminal art associations like the Canadian Group of Painters and Painters Eleven, to his career-changing meeting with the influential American art critic Clement Greenberg. The artist's enduring professional relationship with the art world's most prominent intellectual of the time would ignite his international career and place him alongside Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski and Frank Stella as one of the great Color Field artists. Jack Bush's singular transformation from provincial artist in the 1940s to celebrated figure on the New York and London gallery scenes in the 1960s and 70s is engagingly told through new photography, previously unpublished diary excerpts and fresh scholarship making this unprecedented survey of his life and work the definitive book on the artist to date. With more than 120 full-color plates, this superb publication features works that boldly burst through as the best in high modern art.

Jack Bush

Stanners, Sarah

"Through his judicious alteration of scale and function, Canadian based artist, Kim Adams, playfully manipulates everyday objects, toys, vehicles and mass-produced shelters into an art all his own. This tiny but action packed catalog opulently illustrates through extensive color reproductions two concurrent exhibitions: a major survey of Adam's work from 1983-2001 sponsored at The Power Plant and Bruegel-Bosch Bus, at Oakville Galleries. Featured essays by Tomas Pospiszyl and Marnie Fleming, along with an interview by curator Marc Mayer."

Kim Adams

Individual Artists

Power Plant

Born in Brooklyn in 1960, Jean-Michel Basquiat lived to the age of only twenty-seven. His meteoric career as an artist had lasted no more than eight years. The one-time teenage runaway and high-school dropout was first included in a group exhibition in 1980, and almost immediately knew considerable success, enjoying his first solo exhibition just two years later. Basquiat quickly became a notable figure on the international art scene, mixing with dealers and artists. Among these was Andy Warhol, with whom he established a close working relationship. Borrowing from graffiti and street imagery, cartoons, mythology and religious symbolism, Basquiat's drawings and paintings explore issues of race and identity, providing social commentary that is both shrewdly observed and biting. Characterized by their intensely personal nature and the raw, almost aggressive handling of paint, these works have an enduring power to move and to confound. Viewing the heady world of the 1980s art scene from the beginning of a new century, we are able to look at Basquiat's achievements with increasing objectivity. Rather than explore his persona, this book aims to demonstrate the lasting quality of Basquiat's work itself, as well as its uniqueness within modern art. It strives not only to reevaluate his principal works, but also to explain Basquiat's continuing interest as a major painter.

Merrell Publishers

Errata Editions' Books on Books series is an ongoing publishing project dedicated to making rare and out-of-print photography books accessible to students and photobook enthusiasts. These are not reprints or facsimiles but complete studies of the original books. Each volume in the series presents the entire content, page for page, of an original master bookwork which, up until now, has been too rare or expensive for most to experience. Through a mix of classic and contemporary titles, this series spans the breadth of photographic practice as it has appeared on the printed page and allows further study of the creation and meanings of these great works of art. Each volume in the series contains illustrations of every page in the original photobook, a new essay by an established writer on photography, production notes about the creation of the original edition and biographical and bibliographical information about each artist. In October of 1991, French artist Sophie Ristelhueber photographed the battle-scarred landscape of Kuwait following the end of the first Gulf War. The book, Fait, which in French means "fact" or "what was done," remains one of our least known but most powerful statements about the aftermath of war. Books on Books 3 presents all 71 black-and-white and color photographs as seen in the original artist's book as it was conceived and designed by Ristelhueber. Marc Mayer of the Musée d'art contemporain de Montreal contributes an essay that discusses Ristelhueber's disturbing yet beautiful achievement.

Sophie Ristelhueber: Fait: Books on Books No. 3

Ladd, Jeffrey

Errata Editions

One of the most interesting artistic personalities of his generation, Oliver Boberg has, since the late 80s, been making small models of urban settings, which he then photographs in such a way that their model quality almost totally disappears. The reality presented in his photographs of underpasses and flat-roofed buildings is one of a non-location, a place which is so familiar that it could be anywhere and nowhere. Boberg's videos from 2002 and 2003 show nocturnal landscape views which seem to be based on film scenarios, but these works, too, reproduce scale models. The 16mm films transferred to DVD show eerie situations which are devoid of people: a foreboding cliff or a country road seen at twilight during a dreary rainstorm. The model of this non-location here becomes a detail of a story which is rich in allusions, charged with a cinematic suspense and fearful expectation. This publication brings together for the first time the photographs, video stills, and drawings by this young German artist.

Oliver Boberg

Engler, Martin

Hatje Cantz Publishers

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Books by Mayer, Marc

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Basquiat

Thomas Nozkowski (English and French Edition)

Jack Bush

Kim Adams

Basquiat

Sophie Ristelhueber: Fait: Books on Books No. 3

Oliver Boberg