A lavish, gorgeously designed full-color collection that showcases the designs of Dorothy and Otis Shepard, two groundbreaking giants of early twentieth-century American advertising.
Dorothy and Otis Shepard are the unsung heroes of early twentieth-century North American visual culture. Together, they were the first American graphic designers to work in multiple mediums and scales with equal skill and vision, and their work remains brilliant; yet their names are little known today.
Dorothy and Otis chronicles their story in detail for the first time. It explores the Shepards’ penchant for abstraction and modernism, and shows how the advent of billboard advertising inspired their creativity—large campaigns that matched the grandeur of their lifestyle. Throughout, it demonstrates how their influence touched all aspects of consumer culture—from collaborating on the packaging for Wrigley’s Gum and designing uniforms and logos for the Chicago Cubs to planning and promoting the resort island Catalina, where Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Clark Gable, and other celebrities frequented.
Dorothy and Otis illuminates their personal lives as well, from their origins and early years to the eventual dissolution of their marriage. As it brings to life these pioneering artists and their momentous partnership, it elevates them to their rightful place in popular culture and makes clear how their legendary work reflected and exemplified the American Dream.

Dorothy and Otis: Designing the American Dream

Arts & Photography

Nadel, Dan

Hathaway, Norman

History & Criticism

Harper

Kathy Goodell: Infra-Loop: Selections 1994-2020 explores the through-lines in the artist's work across painting, drawing, and sculpture; examining a mystic language that loops between disciplines, coasts, and generations. In addition to reproductions of Goodell's work, are essays and interviews from critics and artists that expand Goodell's work and artistic practice over the last three decades.

Kathy Goodell: Infra-Loop, Selections 1994-2020

Woolbright, Andrew

King, Elizabeth

Individual Artists

Distribution Partners

Before there was Robert Crumb, there was Herbert Crowley. If you don’t recognize that name, you’re not alone. Crowley is one of nearly 30 American cartoonists featured in this eclectic anthology, artists whose work―created between 1900 and 1969―was overshadowed by more successful contemporaries. Art Out of Time at last gives these pioneers the showcase they deserve, reprinting―in most cases for the first time since their initial publication―complete comic books and strips by such visionaries as Raymond Ewer, Howard Nostrand, Ogden Whitney, and Dick Briefer. These under-recognized artists often deviated from the thematic and graphic conventions of the comics medium―and influenced Crumb, Art Spiegelman, and others―making this superb anthology a true “counter history,” the untold story of an underground that wasn’t.

Art Out of Time: Unknown Comics Visionaries, 1900-1969

Abrams

Art In Time is a companion to Dan Nadel’s previous book, Art Out of Time. In this engaging and smart volume, Nadel focuses on the lesser-known comic works by celebrated icons of the industry, like H.G. Peter (the artist behind Wonder Woman), John Stanley (the writer and artist for Little Lulu), Harry Lucey (one of the artists behind Archie), Jesse Marsh (the artist for Tarzan), and Bill Everett (best know for his characters Sub Mariner and Dr. Strange). Art In Time reprints a wonderful selection of complete comic book stories that represent some of the best, but obscure adventure stories from the 1940s through the 1980s. Each comic highlights the fully developed style unique to each artist and celebrate these little known comic gems. Art In Time is designed as a reading book, allowing fans to catch up on some of best, but forgotten, work in comics’ history.

Art in Time

History

Harry N. Abrams

The Ganzfeld 4: Art History features a 20 page suite of recent drawings by legend Gary Panter, the most comprehensive American release of work by Japanese comic great, Shigeru Sugiura, and an article on 1970s record cover design including Led Zeppelin’s "Presence". It also features work by other leading cartoonists such as Marc Bell, Leif Goldberg, and Ted Stearn. A special section devoted to the artist H. C. Westermann presents a biographical story told in pictures by painter David Sandlin, plus never before published images of Westermann’s work and his handcrafted studio environment. Other eclectic entries include a selection of rare Renaissance maps of the universe and a posthumous contribution by Harry Smith, author of the American Anthology of Music, which carries a commentary by renowned Beat photographer John Cohen.

The Ganzfeld 4: Art History?

Gingko Pr Inc

The first comprehensive monograph on one of today’s most innovative and successful painters – made in close collaboration with the artist 
Defined by bold brushstrokes, a dynamic use of color and imaginative compositions, the paintings of Dana Schutz are panoramic expanses that offer visions of humanity in all its complex facets. Her deeply subjective approach, untethered from realism, translates into images that seem to exist in a place that transcends time while celebrating the intrinsic qualities of her medium of choice with freedom and intelligence. As the artist herself stated, ‘I’m interested in painting as an affective place where the hierarchies of the world can be rearranged within the space of a painting.’ This first comprehensive monograph on her work was created in close collaboration with the artist and features a number of never-before-seen paintings and drawings.

Dana Schutz (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)

TILLMAN, Lynne

Walker, Hamza

Humor & Entertainment

Phaidon Press

KAWS (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)

LILLEY, CLARE

Crow, Thomas

Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life

Scribner

Carroll Dunham: Green Period; Prints, Drawings, and Paintings, 2018-2022

Simpson, Mary

Jrp Ringier Kunstverlag Ag

Frank Frazetta has reigned as the undisputed lord of fantasy art for 50 years, his fame only growing in the 10 years since his death. With his paintings now breaking auction records (Egyptian Queen sold for $ 5.4 million in 2019) he’s long overdue for this ultimate monograph.\nBorn to a Sicilian immigrant family in Brooklyn, 1928, Frazetta was a minor league athlete, petty criminal and serial seducer with movie star looks and phenomenal talent. He claimed to only make art when there was nothing better to do – he preferred playing baseball - yet began his professional career in comics at age 16. Strip work led him to the infamous EC Comics, then to oils for Tarzan and Conan pulp covers. Both characters were interpreted by many before him, but as he explained in the 1970s, “I’m very physical minded. In Brooklyn, I knew Conan, I knew guys just like him,” and he used this first-hand knowledge of muscle and macho to redefine fantasy heroes as more massive, more menacing, more testosterone-fueled than anything seen before. As counterbalance he created a new breed of women, nude as censorship allowed, with pixie faces and multiparous bodies: thick thighed, heavy buttocked, breasts cantilevered out to there, yet still, with their soft bellies and hints of cellulite, believably real. Add in the action, the creatures, the twilit worlds of haunting shadow and Frazetta’s art is addictive as potato chips.\nThis monograph is the biggest and most complete ever produced on the artist, done in collaboration with the Frazetta family and with top collectors.

The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta

Smith, Zak

Taschen America, LLC

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