It is impossible to overstate the importance of Lincoln Kirstein (1907-1996) to the arts in America. One of the rare talents who touched the entire artistic field of his time - ballet, film, literature, theater, painting, sculpture, photography, architecture he is perhaps best known for bringing the choreographer George Balanchine to the United States, and for founding with him the supremely influential School of American Ballet and the New York City Ballet. Kirstein was also a persuasive and lucid writer who published over 500 books, articles and monographs. Now, in honor of the centennial of Kirstein's birth, Eakins Press presents the most comprehensive bibliography ever of his huge literary output, annotated, indexed and categorized into Fiction; Poetry; Drama and Ballet Libretti; On Dance; On Drawing, Painting, Sculpture and Architecture; On Photography; On Film; On Literature, History, Politics and other Subjects; and Memoir. This impressive work includes selected excerpts and a chronology of a life which, as Hilton Kramer wrote in the New York Times, has helped to shape some of the most valuable parts of our culture.

Lincoln Kirstein - A Bibliography of Published Writings, 1922 - 1996

Arts & Photography

Peter Kayafas

History & Criticism

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For artists, images are indeed dear in both senses of the word: they arecherished, and also valuable. This indispensable compendium from the superbBritish publisher collects essays by international experts on many vital issuesrelated to the ownership of art - who does it belong to, who can use it, what valuedoes it have. The articles cross borders, considering international copyrightconventions, fair use, the internet, concepts of originality, public access to art inmuseums and digitization, by international experts. A fascinating collection lookingat issues from moral rights to the artist as a -brand.

Dear Images: Art, Copyright and Culture

Karsten Schubert

Daniel McClean

German critic Robert Kudielka met British painter Bridget Riley in 1967 and hasproved her keenest observer and a close friend ever since. With a unique insightinto Riley's working methods and styles - he lauds her uncompromising visualintelligence - he has documented her career with the rigor of an academic and thesympathy of a friend. This fascinating volume brings together for the first time alarge collection of Kudielka's essays and interviews. Illustrated with many of Riley'smajor works; includes biographical notes, an exhibition history and bibliography.

Robert Kudielka on Bridget Riley: Essays and Interviews 1972-2003

Robert Kudielka

After years out of print, this re-issue of the 1995 Dreams once again reveals internationally renowned artist/writer Jim Shaw's innermost fears, obsessions and sexual fantasies. This bizarre journal takes the reader into the imagination of the Los Angeles-based artist through painstaking pencil drawings that bring the nocturnal world of this inventive, anti-elitist artist to life. Shaw is known for his preoccupation with dream imagery, pop culture and odd-ball, even pornographic, subject matter; his works span drawings, sculpture, prints and photos. This massive, diary-like picture book is an in-depth look at one of the most important facets of this seminal artist's work.

Dreams

Jim Shaw

This delightful, large-format monograph by contemporary artist Jason Jagel features over 200 images from Jagel's career, spanning childhoodsketches and family snapshots, but largely focusing on his currentpractice, his sometimes-loose, sometimes-tight narrative paintings andworks on paper. Hip-hop influences, family life, and the humming buzzof the street are often found in a single work. Jagel's work has beenincreasingly influenced by the music he listens to; this connection hasbeen strengthened by his record cover designs for the LA-based hiphoplabel Stones Throw. One of Stones Throw's major artists, Madlib,has three tracks that appear on a companion 10-inch vinyl record, anunexpected feature included in this artists' book.

Seventy-Three Funshine - Bonus 10" Record Included

Jason Jagel

What do you do with a dead or ailing shopping mall? Can it be reinvigorated, and if so, how? Dead Malls documents a competition that addresses just this question. The results were quite amazing, producing compelling strategies and ideas along with research about the symptoms that lead to malls' sickness and death. A comprehensive and constructive look at an urban issue that has now become applicable around the world

Dead Malls

Warren Techentin

Techentin, Warren

Architecture

Annual 2004 celebrates the relaunch of Los Angeles Forum's publication series after a five-year hiatus. After realizing the community had lost its main publication to discuss and critically debate the rapidly evolving issues facing contemporary architecture and urbanism, Annual was reinstated. In its return, Los Angeles once again connects to its rich history in critical thinking first established with the area academics and practicing professionals with all benefit from this periodical's rebirth.

Forum Annual 2004

Kazys Varnelis

Varnelis, Kazys

The cityworksLosAngeles handbook came out of a desire to extend the discussion about Los Angeles community design work which began in an exhibition of the same name at the A+D Architecture and Design Museum in 2004. Cityworks is a volunteer-based forum from the architecture and design community acting as a catalyst for real-world solutions in Los Angeles.

CityWorksLosAngeles: Handbook

ELIZABETH MARTIN

Contemporary artist Zoe Crosher takes the viewer on an exploratory journey inside the impersonal and transient travel world surrounding the mega international airport, LAX. She finds a landscape packed with identical hotel chains pushed up against giant billboards, where the words hotel and taxi are understood by nearly everyone. Crosher methodically settled into a different hotel room each day and photographed out the window. The only requirement was that the view from each room must duplicate the one she inhabited before. The pattern of the drapes change, the color of the stucco exterior changes and the airplanes caught in mid flight move through the atmosphere, but the basic view stays the same. There is a haunting familiarity that one has never really left the first room, a feeling of complete déjà-vu. Time and identity almost cease to exist. For Crosher, her very quiet, minimal images create huge questions about place, identity, the homogenization of global cultures.

Zoe Crosher - Out the Window [LAX] (Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design)

Zoe Crosher

Individual Artists

Reyner Banham once observed that in Los Angeles "mobility outweighs monumentality". What was true for the automobile is fast becoming true for the home. It is possible today to live on wheels, to be completely transient and yet remain completely connected. Noted contemporary architect Ted Kane takes a critical look at how city life predicated on total mobility and utterly dependent upon the corporate-controlled wireless world is expanding the meaning of urbanity while constricting the bedrock virtue of citizenship. It is possible today to live on wheels, to be completely transient and yet remain completely connected. In Polar Inertia, Ted Kane's snapshot-like photographs accompanied by his critical writing examine the transformative qualities of cell phones, satellite dishes, RV's, and taco trucks on urban form. An absolute "must have" handbook to anyone thinking of an alternative lifestyle while still connected to their Blackberry. Introduction by Greg Goldin. Published by L.A. Forum for Architecture and Urban Design.

Polar Inertia: Migrating Urban Systems (LA Forum)

Ted Kane

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