Hard cover with dust jacket. Guggenheim museum exhibition by famed curator Germano Celant.

The Italian Metamorphosis, 1943-1968

Arts & Photography

Celant, Germano

History & Criticism

Guggenheim Museum

In/sight: African photographers, 1940 to the present

Presenting the work of 30 diverse photographers from throughout Africa since 1940, this is the complete catalogue of an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Studio portraits of the 1940s by photographers such as the Ivory Coast's Cornelius Yao Azaglo Augustt, Senegal's Salla Casset and Meissa Gay, and Mali's Seydou Keita depict a period of great transformation in Africa. Examples of the 1950s include work by Bob Gasani, Peter Magubane and Lionel Oostendorp for the magazine "Drum", and featured photographers of the 1960s and 1970s include Samuel Fosso (Central African Republic), David Goldblatt (South Africa), Ricardo Rangel (Mozambique) and Malick Sidibe (Mali). These more recent photographs chronicle the development of independent countries and the emergence of Africa as part of the modern world. Contemporary artists in North Africa and Nigeria are represented by work on new themes.

In/Sight: African Photographers, 1940 to the Present

Tilkin, Danielle

Zaya, Octavio

Bell, Clare

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Photography & Video

A Century in Crisis: Modernity and Tradition in the Art of Twentieth-Century China

New Lower Price Between 1850 and today, China has undergone an unprecedented series of shocks and transformations. This dramatic period--which has seen urban industrialization, conquest by foreign powers, civil wars, changing governments and, more recently, a gradual opening to the international community--has also marked an explosion of artistic experimentation and innovation. Spanning 150 spectacular years of artistic production, A Century in Crisis offers the first systematic exploration of modern and contemporary Chinese art. Essays by leading scholars show the ways in which Chinese artists have grappled with modernity, tradition, self-definition and the adoption and rejection of Western convention. Sumptuous color plates showcase a dazzling array of achievements--including Shanghai School paintings, modern calligraphy, commercial art, 1920s and 1930s woodblock prints, modern guohua (traditional ink and color paintings), socialist realist paintings and other contemporary wor

Shen, Kuiyi

Andrews, Julia F.

Jim Dine (b. 1935) is one of America's best-known image-makers. This book, published to accompany the first major exhibition of Dine's work from the 1960s, reproduces a broad selection of his early mixed-media works, paintings, and sculptures. Many of the works featured in this volume contain elements of the now-familiar themes of Dine's career: tools, robes, hearts, palettes, and domestic interiors. Bringing together fascinating performance photographs with vivid full-color reproductions, the book is the first to explore the complex relationship between Dine's mixed-media works and his environments and theater pieces.

Jim Dine: Walking Memory, 1959-1969

Reference

Celant, Germano and Clare Bell

Catalogs & Directories

Among the foremost textile designers of the 20th century, Anni Albers was a central figure of the Weaving Workshop at the Bauhaus in prewar Germany. Accompanying a centennial retrospective of her work, this volume contains full-color reproductions of Albers's most important weavings, drapery materials and wall coverings, as well as scores of her highly influential commercial textile designs. Anni Albers had an enormous effect on the design of yard materials worldwide. A comprehensive illustrated chronology details her fascinating life and career in Germany and in the United States, where she moved in the 1930s with her husband, the famed painter and instructor Josef Albers.

Anni Albers (Guggenheim Museum Publications)

Weber, Nicholas Fox and Pandora Tabatabai Asbaghi

Individual Artists

Amazons of the Avant-Garde

Some of the most outstanding exhibitions organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum have been those that have presented the art of the Russian avant-garde. In Amazons of the Avant-Garde: Alexandra Exter, Natalia Goncharova, Liubov Popova, Olga Rozanova, Varvara Stepanova, and Nadezhda Udaltsova the work o six legendary Russian women artists is poignantly explored, offering a refreshing look at this important period of art. Celebrating the vital role that each artist played in the formation of the radical art of the Russian avant-garde, the book looks at the evolution of the Russian painting from the 1900's through the early 1920's. It brings together the brilliant masterpieces of the period, including many that have not been in the West since they were created. The work of these pioneering women artists is expressed as tremendously influential in the world of the Russian avant-garde and important in capturing the Modernist as a whole.

Bowlt, John E. and Matthew Drutt (eds)

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

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

Nancy Spector

Tracey Bashkoff

Joseph Beuys

Tisdall, Caroline

Masterpieces from the Guggenheim: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, September 22, 1991-January 12, 1992

Krens, Thomas

Catalogue for a 1992 exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, with 318 color plates and numerous black and white illustrations. A stunning collection of art, graphic design, photography, and sculpture from one of the most fertile and inventive periods in the history of Russian art. Works by artists such as Lizitsky, Malevich, Rodchenko, and Tatlin are included.

The Great Utopia: The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde, 1915-1932

GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM

Wood, Paul, et al.

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