Artwork by Dennis Adams. Contributions by Peter Doroshenko.

Selling History, Dennis Adams

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston

Explores the interconnected relationships of photography, science, and the history of art.Hiroshi Sugimoto was born in Japan in 1948 and now divides his time between Japan and New York. Since the 1970s he has investigated issues of time, empirical reality, and metaphysics through his photography. His main series have been Theaters, Seascapes, Dioramas, Wax Museums (Madame Tussaud's wax figures), and Portraits, all of which explore temporal existence and our relationship to history. His work is held in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the Metropolitan Museum, among many others. In 2001 he won the prestigious Hasselblad Foundation Award.This book is dedicated to Sugimoto's last and hitherto unpublished series, and accompanied an exhibition at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain. 52 illustrations, 8 in color.

Sugimoto

SUGIMOTO

Abstract painting, once removed

Friis-Hansen, Dana

Nic Nicosia: Real Pictures: 1979-1999

Artwork by Janine Antoni, Matthew Barney, Robert Gober, Ann Hamilton, William Kentridge, Shirin Neshat, Fred Wilson. Edited by Lynn Herbert. Contributions by Rick Lowe, Dana Friis-Hansen. Text by Paola Morsiani, Marti Mayo.

Outbound: Passages From The 90'S

WILSON, FRED

Gober, Robert

Mayo, Marti

Morsiani, Paola

Neshat, Shirin

Kentridge, William

Hamilton, Ann

BARNEY, Matthew

Antoni, Janine

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

This illustrated book explores the existent imagery of the crowd, looking for a contemporary definition of the social experience. The works include images of crowds, as well as works that happen with a crowd, artists that address groups or that propose images of the crowded places we enjoy nowadays. Subject Plural: Crowds in Contemporary Art is organized by the Contemporary Arts Museum and is curated by Associate Curator Paola Morisani. Artists included in the exhibition are Francis Alÿs, Stephen Andrews, Vanessa Beecroft, Andrea Bowers, Kim Sooja, Nikki S. Lee, Glenn Ligon, Paul Pfeiffer, Michelangelo Pisotletto, Matthew Sontheimer, Beat Streuli, Do-Ho Suh, Grazia Toderi, Zhang Huan and Zhuang Hui.

Subject Plural: Crowds in Contemporary Art

Paola Morsiani

Peter Wollen

Beat Streuli

Do-Ho Suh

Grazia Toderi

ZHUANG HUI

Zhang, Huan

"Taking its title and cue from the Wordsworth poem ""I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,"" The Inward Eye assembles together a visceral and enigmatic array of contemporary work that involves looking and seeing on different, and often quite meaningful and personal, levels. From James Lee Byars' perfect ""Slit Moon"" and Vija Clemins engraving of the ocean surface, to Katharina Fritsch's vanitas and Howard Hodgkins' painterly memory of a dinner in Italy, the paintings, collages, drawings, sculptures, and installations included herein provide the viewer the opportunity to take pleasure in their beauty and meaning from their profundity."

The Inward Eye: Transcendence in Contemporary Art

Schjeldahl, Peter

Herbert, Lynn M.

"Roxy Paine's conceptual works are provocative, challenging our perceptions and biases through a combination of complex layering, serious humor, romanticism, and a touch of irony. Second Nature examines Paine's monumental art-making machines and his naturalistic, botanical environments, exploring how they illustrate a reversal between the artist, whose repetitive processes are machinelike, and machines, which are programmed to emulate human art making."

Roxy Paine: Second Nature

Volk, Gregory

Taking a critical and comprehensive look at the work Boetti made in the wake of his association with the Arte Povera movement--when he renamed himself Alighiero e Boetti--this volume addresses his explorations of convention in Western culture. Highlighted here are Boetti's conceptual exploration of mathmatical orders and language, his participatory method of working and his conception of the role of the artist in society as a "shaman showman."

When 1 Is 2: The Art of Alighiero e Boetti

Schwabsky, Barry

Splat--ouch--Boom--ouch--Pow! That hurts. Presenting work by 35 nationally and internationally recognized contemporary artists who have incorporated the imagery, technique, or style of the comics in their work, Splat Boom Pow! makes evident the shift from traditional literary narratives to a visual language of myth as seen in comic strips over the last 40 years. Taking an in-depth look at the current phenomenon of cartoon-referencing work, its connection to the pop art movement of the 1960s, and the social and cultural factors that have shaped our understanding of the comics as a form of popular communication, Splat Boom Pow! includes work by three generations of artists, among them Laylah Ali, Michael Ray Charles, Roy Lichtenstein, Takashi Murakami, Elizabeth Murray, Chris Ofili, Sigmar Polke, Peter Saul, Kenny Scharf, Jim Shaw and Andy Warhol.

Splat Boom Pow! The Influence of Cartoons in Contemporary Art

Sabin, Roger

Weldt, Bernard

History & Criticism

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