This fascinating book reveals the full range of William Wegman's art. Beloved by the general public for signature photographs of his troupe of Weimaraners, Wegman is also an immensely important figure in the contemporary art world. A pioneer video-maker, conceptualist, performer, photographer, painter, draftsman and writer, Wegman moves fluidly among various media: from conceptual works to commissioned magazine shots; from videos shown in museums to television segments made for Sesame Street and Saturday Night Live; from artist's books parodying nineteenth-century naturalist studies to children's books revealing tongue-in-cheek portraits of town and country life; from photographic 'landscapes' employing his canine muses to his most recent cycle of landscapes combining found scenic souvenir postcards with drawing, collage and painting. Underlying all his creations is the light humour of 'funny' mediating the darker human comedy of 'strange'. Speaking to the absurdities of daily life, Wegman's work is universally appealing. William Wegman: Funney - Strange is illustrated with some 250 images and accompanied by an exclusive DVD showing highlights of Wegman's video work. It is the first retrospective volume to consider the artist's entire career from the 1960s to the 2000s and is an essential book for any fan of Wegman's work. Features exclusive DVD with highlights of artist's video. Exhibition schedule: The Brooklyn Museum of Art, 10 February to 28 May 2006; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., 4 July to 9 October 2006; Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, 18 November 2006 to 18 February 2007; Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, 7 April to 31 July 2007.

William Wegman: Funney-Strange

Arts & Photography

Simon, Joan

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

A comprehensive and intriguing look at the witty and sophisticated art of William Wegman, beloved by the general public and held in critical esteem within the international art world This fascinating book reveals the full range of William Wegman’s art. Beloved by the general public for signature photographs of his troupe of Weimaraners, Wegman is also an immensely important figure in the contemporary art world.
 A pioneer video-maker, conceptualist, performer, photographer, painter, draftsman, and writer, Wegman moves fluidly among various media: from conceptual works to commissioned magazine shots; from videos shown in museums to television segments made for Sesame Street and Saturday Night Live; from artist’s books parodying nineteenth-century naturalist studies to children’s books revealing tongue-in-cheek portraits of town and country life; from photographic “landscapes” employing his canine muses to his most recent cycle of landscapes combining found scenic souvenir postcards with drawing, collage, and painting. Underlying all his creations is the light humor of “funny” mediating the darker human comedy of “strange.” Speaking to the absurdities of daily life, Wegman’s work is universally appealing.
 William Wegman: Funney—Strange is illustrated with some 250 images. It is the first retrospective volume to consider the artist’s entire career from the 1960s to the 2000s and is an essential book for any fan of Wegman’s work.

William Wegman: Funney/Strange

Wegman, William

Photography & Video

Sheila Hicks (born 1934) is a pioneering artist noted for objects and public commissions whose structures are built of color and fiber. This volume accompanies the first major retrospective of Hicks’s work; it documents the remarkable versatility and dramatically divergent scale of her textiles as well as her distinctive use, and surprising range, of materials. Hicks deliberately and provocatively engages what are often considered mutually exclusive domains, rethinking and pushing the limits of generally accepted contexts, conditions, and frameworks. These include distinct objects and temporal, performative actions; studio works and commissions for public buildings; and textiles made in artisanal workshops as well as for industrial production in places as different as Chile, France, Germany, India, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, Sweden, and the United States.
Three essays analyze the progression of Hicks’s art and technique and her many modes of working. Among other topics, they examine the artist’s relationship to the “expanded fields” of the “new sculpture” and the “new tapestry” beginning in the 1960s, the reclamation of craft as subject and technique for artists in many media, the integrated influences of international cultures, and the aesthetic, pedagogical, conceptual, and historical framework from which Hicks’s work has developed. This publication reveals the full extent of Hicks’s work, from exquisite miniature weavings to major sculptural pieces to such large-scale commissions as The Four Seasons of Fuji. Exquisitely designed and lavishly illustrated, this book demonstrates that Hicks’s pioneering work with textiles has embraced yet reinvented tradition, successfully navigating the terrain between art, design, and architecture.

Sheila Hicks: 50 Years

Faxon, Susan C.

In 1926, Alexander Calder (18981976) moved from New York to Paris and began to use time and motion as "materials" for animating line and space. Calder’s years in Parisan understudied part of the artist’s careeris the focus of this marvelous publication.
A team of international scholars discusses Calder’s many innovations of this period, chief among them his abstract, motorized, and mobile works. They analyze the extended cast of Calder’s animated Circus, made in Paris between 1926 and 1931, and include previously unpublished photographs by Brassaï and Kertesz of Calder and this beloved performative sculpture. The essays critically explore the intellectual, cultural, and artistic milieu of Paris in the late 1920s and early 1930s and the contexts of Calder’s friendships with Miró, Mondrian, Duchamp, and Man Ray, among others. What emerges in this fascinating book is a nuanced and detailed understanding of how Calder’s distinctive career first took flight.

Alexander Calder: The Paris Years, 1926-1933

Léal, Brigitte

Biographies & Memoirs

The Whitney Museum of American Art

This book discusses educational developments during a crucial period of English history.

Education and Society in Tudor England

History

Europe

Cambridge University Press

This book discusses educational developments during a crucial period of English history in their social context, revising a long-standing interpretation of the effect of Reformation legislation. Tracing trends from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, it is in three parts. The first considers the pattern in the later maiddle ages and the conditions favouring the spread of humanist ideas which were to be adapted and applied at the Reformation. In Part II there is a detailed survey of measures takeen under Henry VIII and during the reign of Edward VI when state intervention to control the organisation and curriculum of schools and universities laid the foundations of the modern system of education. Finally, after a review of the relation between educational and social change, the focus is on three main aspects during the conservative Elizabethan age: consolidation of the school system, the pattern devised for the institution of the gentleman; the extension of the popular education fostered by the puritan ethic and the pressure of practical needs - forecasting the next major move for educational reform in the mid-seventeenth century.

This revised and greatly expanded edition of the book originally published on the occasion of Holzer's celebrated exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1989 is a comprehensive document of the artist's career. A complete collection of the artist's writings, up to and including her 1996 text for a monument in Erlauf, Austria, is accompanied by color photography of the entire range of Holzer's installations and projects.

Jenny Holzer (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)

Joselit, David

Salecl, Renata

Phaidon Press

Recounts the life of the modern American painter, and describes her work and how it developed

Susan Rothenberg

Individual Artists

Harry N. Abrams

Now available in a well-priced paperback edition, this award-winning study explores the life and work of Susan Rothenberg, "a major talent" (Robert Hughes, Time) who is "one of the best artists of her generation" (Michael Kimmelman, The New York Times) and "our best painter's painter" (Peter Plagens, Newsweek).
Illustrated with original documentary photographs and nearly 90 colorplates, including three gatefolds, the book puts Rothenberg's arresting images of horses, body fragments, dancers, and spinners in context -- and examines how her personal emblems and experiences figure in her work.

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

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William Wegman: Funney-Strange

William Wegman: Funney/Strange

Sheila Hicks: 50 Years

Alexander Calder: The Paris Years, 1926-1933

Education and Society in Tudor England

Education and Society in Tudor England

Education and Society in Tudor England

Jenny Holzer (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)

Susan Rothenberg

Susan Rothenberg