Jeff Koons engages with distinguished art curator Sir Norman Rosenthal resulting in a revealing portrait of the life and art of the most foremost international working artist today Here is what happens when Jeff Koons, one of the most important and controversial artists of the twenty-first century, sits down with distinguished art curator Sir Norman Rosenthal. Published to coincide with his 2014–2015 retrospective, this new book provides the most revealing portrait that exists of Jeff Koons’ singular personality and artistic vision as he discusses works across his thirty-five -year career with his long-time friend and collaborator Rosenthal. Rosenthal’s masterful interviews, conducted over three years, give unparalleled access to the thoughts of one of the most influential minds in contemporary culture, disclosing the artist undistorted and in his own words. As well as examining all his major series in depth, from his first inflatables to his latest series on antiquities, the interviews shed new light on the artist’s interest in other artists’ works, reveal the significance of his youth and family life on his art, and explain the key concepts of his practice, such as his ideas on self-acceptance, ecstasy and sex. A book of historic importance, extensively and comprehensively illustrated throughout, it will become the reference point for all who want to understand Koons and creativity in the twenty-first century. 250 color illustrations

Jeff Koons: Conversations with Norman Rosenthal

Arts & Photography

Rosenthal, Norman

Koons, Jeff

History & Criticism

Thames&Hudson

The opening of the Sensation exhibition at the Royal Academy in the late 1990s caused a public furore and a media frenzy, with both broadsheet and tabloid journalists falling over themselves to comment on the shows controversial images, and unprecedented crowds queuing up to see for themselves what all the fuss was about. This catalogue of that seminal exhibition features the work of over forty artists including Turner prize winners Damien Hirst, Gillian Wearing and Rachel Whiteread, as well as penetrating essays by Norman Rosenthal, Lisa Jardine, critics Richard Shone and Brook Adams and painter and critic Martin Maloney, who survey a decade of creative explosion. This special edition of the book that rocked the art world, features a new jacket created by Mark Wallinger.

Sensation - Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection (Special Ed.) /anglais

Reference

Sensation is the first definitive survey of work by the younger generation of British artists that has captivated the international art world with its vitality and inventiveness. As a constant and prodigious collector and patron of young British artists, Charles Saatchi has been unique in his commitment to British art as it is now being produced. His support extends far beyond those such as Damien Hirst and Rachel Whiteread, whose work has acquired wide notoriety, to dozens of others at the cutting edge of the current art scene. Sensation features the work of forty-two of the most exciting and radical artists working in Britain today. Many of them--such as Jenny Saville, Rachel Whiteread, or Jake &amp; Dinos Chapman--are already internationally acclaimed; others are destined to be. The book's original and penetrating essays include the critical context of their work and trace the phenomenon of the British art scene since "Freeze," the 1988 exhibition that is now recognized as a defining moment in the story of British art. Cutting through tabloid headlines, controversial press coverage, and art-world debate, Sensation reveals the achievements of young British artists and the role played by courageous and imaginative patronage. Features art by: Darren Almond Richard Billingham Glenn Brown Simon Callery Jake &amp; Dinos Chapman Adam Chodzko Mat Collishaw Keith Coventry Peter Davies Tracey Emin Paul Finnegan Mark Francis Alex Hartley Marcus Harvey Mona Hatoum Damien Hirst Gary Hume Michael Landy Abigail Lane Langlands &amp; Bell Sarah Lucas Martin Maloney Jason Martin Alain Miller Ron Mueck Chris Ofili Jonathan Parsons Richard Patterson Simon Patterson Hadrian Pigott Marc Quinn Fiona Rae James Rielly Jenny Saville Yinka Shonibare Jane Simpson Sam Taylor-Wood Gavin Turk Mark Wallinger Gillian Wearing Rachel Whiteread Cerith Wyn Evans

Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)

Adams, Brooks

Saatchi Collection

Presenting the work of young British artists from the Saatchi Collection, this volume features work by over 40 of the most radical artists working in Britain in the 1990s.

Sensation No. 9 Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection /anglais

Depression; General; History; Non-Fiction Psychology; Seasonal affective disorder; Self-Help

Seasons of the Mind: Why You Get the Winter Blues and What You Can Do About It

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Bantam]

An international authority on seasonal affective disorder discusses the symptoms of SAD, possible causes of the problem, and diverse treatments for coping with its debilitating effects

Seasons of the Mind

A Royal Academy of Arts Publication 
Apocalypse accompanies one of the most exciting art events of the year. Concentrating on themes inspired by the coming of the 21st century, this internationally significant exhibition-the successor to the controversial "Sensation" exhibition shown at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York-will include installations, paintings, sculptures, and videos, many specially created for the exhibition by 15 internationally renowned and controversial artists whose identities are a closely guarded secret. 
For the catalogue, the talented young photographer Norbert Schoerner has photographed the artists at work in their studios. Norman Rosenthal, exhibitions secretary at the Royal Academy and curator of the exhibition, contributes an introduction explaining his personal vision of the arts at this turning point in history. Thought-provoking and authoritative essays on each artist have been provided by leading art writers. Sure to attract international attention, Apocalypse is an essential purchase for anyone interested in contemporary art. 
NORMAN ROSENTHAL is exhibitions secretary at the Royal Academy of Arts. 
NORBERT SCHOERNER is a London-based photographer whose photographs have appeared in major fashion magazines. 
MICHAEL ARCHER is a contributor to Art Monthly and ArtForum, and a lecturer at Chelsea College of Art &amp; Design and Goldsmiths' College, London. 
JAMES HALL is a contributor to ArtForum and the Times Literary Supplement (London), and the author of The World of Sculpture. 
NATHAN KERNAN is a frequent contributor to Modern Painters and The Burlington Magazine. 
200 illustrations in full color, 11 x 115/8"

Apocalypse

Schoerner, Norbert

Royal Academy Books

A catalog documenting an exhibition at Gagosian Gallery, New York, in 2013. It includes several bodies of recent work, including Antiquity paintings, Venus sculptures, and work from the renowned Hulk Elvis and Celebration series, the latter of which Koons has been working on for twenty years. With sources as diverse as children’s art, comic-book characters, and figures from classical antiquity, Koons continues to draw a common thread through cultural history, creating works that attempt to touch the core of the human psyche. Working through conceptual constructs including the new, the banal, and the sublime, he has taken his work from its literal, deadpan beginnings in ready-mades to baroque creations that extol innocence, beauty, sexuality, and happiness in confounding combinations of abstraction, figuration, sumptuous effect, and pure spectacle.In the newest series of work, the Antiquity (2009–13) series, the paintings pulse with complex layerings of image, reference, and chromatic nuance as Koons explores the historical oscillation of form in painting and sculpture. Two outsized Venus sculptures in mirror-polished stainless steel are the first sculptures to be completed in this series; one is Koons’ interpretation of one of the world’s earliest known sculptures, the Venus of Willendorf. The book includes 39 full-color plates, as well as installation photos and a fully illustrated index.

Jeff Koons: New Paintings & Sculpture

Individual Artists

Gagosian / Rizzoli

A groundbreaking catalogue of the largest collection of Kiefer works in North America. Anselm Kiefer ranks among the best-known post–World War II European artists. Published to coincide with a new exhibition at the NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale and a long-term installation at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, this is the first survey of one of the world’s largest collections of works by Anselm Kiefer. The Hall and Hall Art Foundation collections include major Kiefer artist books, works on paper, paintings, sculptures, and large-scale installations from the late 1960s to the present day—many of which have never before been reproduced. Among the earlier treasures are Kiefer’s artist’s books, which are reproduced here in unprecedented depth and which contain in their rough directness so much of the lyricism with which he approaches scale and material complexity. With original texts by Norman Rosenthal, Bonnie Clearwater, and Joseph Thompson, this is a beautiful document of a significant collection and a definitive celebration of one of the most important artists working anywhere today.

Anselm Kiefer: Works from the Hall Collection

Clearwater, Bonnie

Thompson, Joe

Skira/Rizzoli

Joseph Beuys selected the drawings which make up The Secret Block for a Secret Person in Ireland from his prolific output between 1936 and 1976. For anyone seeking to understand Beuys and his art, these images are the most concise overall introduction to the enigmatic and pioneering work of this most influential of German postwar artists. Last shown in this country in 1974 at the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford, all 456 drawings which now comprise The Secret Block for a Secret Person in Ireland are shown together in the Royal Academy's 1999 exhibition. Illustrated throughout in full colour, this book contains thought-provoking essays by Norman Rosenthal and the renowned Beuys expert Heiner Bastian, a chronology of Beuys's life, and the complete, illustrated text of a historic speech given by Beuys at the opening of his exhibition 'Drawings 1946-1971' in the Haus Lange Museum, Krefeld, on 19 May 1974.

Joseph Beuys: A Secret Block for a Secret Person in Ireland

BASTIAN, Heiner

Art Books Intl Ltd

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