Presents an interview with the Italian artist, best known for his satirical and controversial sculptures.

Maurizio Cattelan (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)

Arts & Photography

Francesco Bonami

Nancy Spector

Barbara Vanderlinden

Massimiliano Gioni

History & Criticism

Phaidon Press

A Guggenheim Museum Publication 
Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto is renowned for his elegant photographic series of seascapes, theaters, museum dioramas, and Buddhist statuary. His new series presents life-size, black-and-white portraits of historical figures-Henry VIII and each of his wives, Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin, Oscar Wilde, and Emperor Hirohito, among others-photographed in wax museums, isolated against black backgrounds, and dramatically lit so as to create haunting Rembrandtesque images. The series, which also includes a 25-foot, five-panel photograph of a wax effigy of Leonardo's Last Supper, emulates the grand tradition of portraiture and recalls the wax figures' sources in famous paintings by Holbein, David, van Dyck, and Vermeer. 
This book, published to accompany an exhibition of commissioned work for the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin that also travels to the Guggenheim Museo Bilbao, includes texts by a team of art historians and an interview with Sugimoto, offering fresh insights into the work of this contemporary artist. 
Tracey Bashkoff is assistant curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Nancy Spector is curator of Contemporary Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. 
75 duotone photographs, 11 x 12"

Sugimoto Portraits

Tracey Bashkoff

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Guggenheim Museum

Filled with hundreds of Matthew Barney's fantastical images, this comprehensive volume, which accompanies a major exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, surveys the popular artist's CREMASTER cycle—an epic five-part film project that uses the biological model of sexual difference as its conceptual departure point. 
Three essays by Barney experts articulate the series' diverse themes and explore the artist's innovative aesthetic vocabulary; interviews with key collaborators— composer, costume designer, make-up artist, technicians, and actors—reveal his working process. In addition to stills from the five films—including the final episode, CREMASTER 3, which will premiere at the exhibition—the book features related sculptures, photographs, drawings, and storyboards. For anyone intrigued by this Wagner of contemporary art, this is an atlas to his enticingly hypnotic worlds.

Matthew Barney: The Cremaster Cycle

Neville Wakefield

Individual Artists

Guggenheim Museum Publications

First edition, first printing. Soft cover. Photographically illustrated matt laminated wrappers. Essays by Jennifer Blessing, Carole-Anne Tyler, Sarah Wilson, Nancy Spector, Judith Halberstam and Lyle Ashton Harris. Photographic works by Janine Antoni, Matthew Barney, Cecil Beaton, Brassaï, Claude Cahun, Marcel Duchamp, Nan Goldin, Lyle Ashton Harris, Hannah Höch, Jürgen Klauke, George Platt Lynes, Man Ray, Robert Mapplethorpe, Christian Marclay, Annette Messager, Pierre Molinier, Yasumasa Morimura, Catherine Opie, Lucas Samaras, Cindy Sherman, Katharina Sieverding, Inez van Lamsweerde, Andy Warhol and Madame Yevonde. Includes artists' biographies (with bibliographies), an index of reproductions and notes on the contributors. Designed by Bethany Johns Design, New York. 224 pp., with 156 color and black and white illustrations. 13 x 9-7/8 inches. Published on the occasion of the 1997 exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, New York. From the publisher: "This important volume, whose title combines Gertrude Stein's famous motto "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose," with the name of Marcel Duchamp's feminine alter ego, Rrose Sélavy, features portraits, self-portraits and photomontages in which the gender of the subject is highlighted through performance for the camera or through technical manipulation of the image. In many of the works, photography's strong aura of realism and objectivity promotes a fantasy of total gender transformation. In other pieces, the photographic representation articulates an incongruity between the posing body and its assumed costume."

Rrose is a Rrose is a Rrose: Gender Performance in Photography

sarah-wilson

Jennifer Blessing

Judith, Halberstam

Lyle Ashton, Harris

Carole-Anne, Tyler

The Solomon R.Guggenheim Foundation

Matthew Wong

Julian Cox

Winnie Wong

Art Gallery of Ontario

The Cremaster Cycle.

Matthew Barney

Hatje Cantz Verlag

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