Art Institute of Chicago/Thames and Hudson, 1991. A new hardback copy in dust jacket, still in publisher's shrinkwrap. 160 pp. Published for a major exhibition of Puryear's sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1991, curated by Neal Benezra. Price includes delivery ID.

Martin Puryear

Arts & Photography

Robert. Storr

Sculpture

Thames and Hudson

A retrospective look at the achievements of oneof the best-known contemporary African artists. Born in 1956, Cheri Samba lives and works in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. After leaving school in 1972, he earned his living painting advertising billboards, and at the same time created comic strips for his publication Bilenge Info. In 1975, he began to put his comic strips onto canvas, thus inaugurating African painting with word bubbles. His work illustrates social life: customs, sexuality, AIDS, social inequalities, corruption. Along with the painter Moke, he is one of the principal founders of the movement in painting known as "Popular Zairean." His acrylic paintings, imbued with political awareness, are always representational, realistic, and colorful. "My painting focuses on people's lives. I'm not interested in myths or beliefs. I appeal to people's consciences. Artists must make people think." From the 1980s on, he himself became the main subject of his paintings, "so that people would not only know my name, but also my face." Distributed on behalf of the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain. 150 color photographs.

J'aime Cheri Samba

Andre Magnin

History & Criticism

Thames&Hudson

Ode to Joy 2001-2013

Arnold Lehman

The Bruce High Quality Foundation

Robert Mangold

Robert Mangold's gently curving, majestic paintings are among the most beautiful abstract works of the late twentieth century. Emerging in the 1960s, Mangold is often associated with Minimalism for his non-hierarchical compositions and use of simple geometric forms. His subtle colours and soft, hand-drawn figures also recall other sources, from traditional Greek pottery to the frescoes of Piero. Among the most accomplished painters working today, Mangold is collected in the world's pre-eminent museums.
This first comprehensive monograph assesses Mangold's contribution to contemporary painting, with essays by some of the most distinguished writers on contemporary art. Richard Shiff, Chair in Art at the University of Texas, Austin, interprets Mangold's art in the context of its broad cultural history; Robert Storr, curator at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, analyses the work in relation to late twentieth-century painting; Arthur C Danto, Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, New York, examines in depth the Zone Paintings series; and art critic Nancy Princenthal presents a chronological history of the concepts in the work. Also included is a conversation with the artist's wife, painter Sylvia Plimack Mangold, on the sources behind his work, and artist's statements accompanied by photographs of the artist in his studio by their son, the noted filmmaker James Mangold.

Richard Shiff

Arthur C. Danto

Nancy Princenthal

Phaidon Press

Provides color plates of Bourgeois' sculptures and installations, essays, an interview, critical analysis, and Louise Bourgeois' writings on her art.

Louise Bourgeois

Paulo Herkenhoff

Allan Schwartzman

Individual Artists

Zhang Huan, born in 1965 in the Chinese province Honan, was among the first artists in China who turned to performance art at the beginning of the 1990s. His artwork continues to explore the tragedies of the human condition and the spiritual essence of Buddhism.

Zhang, Huan (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)

RoseLee Goldberg

Zhang, Huan

Yilmaz Dziewior

A Museum of Modern Art Book Throughout the 20th century, the evolution of mainstream modernism in the arts has been shadowed and complicated by alternative expressions, intended either to set back the clock or to redirect the stream of "progress." This book, published in conjunction with the second of three cycles of millennial exhibitions (MoMA2000) at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, explores the anti-modernist impulse as exhibited in painting and sculpture through the social, political, and cultural conflicts of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. 
Curator Robert Storr reminds the reader of the strengths of some of this work-by Otto Dix, Lucien Freud, Francesco Clemente, and even Pablo Picasso-and of the enduring popularity of such artists as Pavel Tchelitchew, whose Hide and Seek, along with Andrew Wyeth's Christina's World, are among the public's favorite pictures. Storr also discusses taste and vulgarity and their implications, both past and present, for institutions like The Museum of Modern Art that are thought of as canon-builders. 
More than 200 illustrations in full color, 9 x 12" 
ROBERT STORR is curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. His previous books, also available from Abrams, include Tony Smith and Chuck Close. 
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE The Museum of Modern Art, New YorkMar. 15-Sept. 6, 2000

Modern Art Despite Modernism

Harry N. Abrams

Franz West-Ite : Works from 1973-2003

Ulrich Loock

Nicolas Bourriaud

Kristine Stiles

Whitechapel Art Gallery

Chuck Close

Museum of Modern Art

Presenting nine critical essays by leading scholars--among them T.J. Clark, Robert Storr, James Coddington, Rosalind Krauss, and Kirk Varnedoe--this collection offers dramatically different ways of understanding Jackson Pollock's art and influence. Revealing not just the richness of Pollock's work, but also the vitality and diversity of contemporary criticisms, these texts discuss the crisis of easel painting, Pollock's relationship with his wife, artist Helen Frankenthaler, the Americanization of Europe, and the place of chaos in Pollock's work. Based on a symposium held in 1999 during The Museum of Modern Art, New York's retrospective exhibition of Pollock's oeuvre, this volume is a companion to Jackson Pollock: Key Interviews, Articles, and Reviews, a collection of older texts by or about the artist.

Jackson Pollock: New Approaches

Rosalind Krauss

Jeremy Lewison

T.J. Clark

James Coddington

Carol Mancusi-Ungaro

Anne Wagner

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

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