In 1904, the Worcester Art Museum became the first museum in the United States to exhibit photography as fine art. One hundred years later, the Museum is celebrating by hosting an exhibition of its finest photographs. This lavishly illustrated publication highlights the outstanding permanent collection of 4,000 photographs that includes seminal works by Margaret Bourke-White, Josef Sudek, Alfred Stieglitz, Dorothea Lange, and Ansel Adams.

Photography at the Worcester Art Museum: Keeping Shadows

David Acton

Snoeck Publishers

Using an array of media, from found photography, gouache and charcoal on paper and silkscreen to assemblage and installation, acclaimed New York–based artist Adam Helms (born 1974) explores social and military conflict and the continuities between past and present instances of injustice. Helms draws heavily on found imagery (such as online images or photographs from library archives), frequently superimposing contemporary images and drawings upon them to establish both the eerie remoteness and the relevance of the past. This volume, the artist’s first monograph, consists of full-page color spreads of installation views and details of the artist’s oeuvre from 2007 to the present, as installed at institutions such as The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Sister, Los Angeles; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York.

Adam Helms

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

Famous ArchitectureThe book includes 50 buildings photographed by Günther Förg in Moscow in Autumn 1995. Choosing from over 1,000 photographs—a few of which have already occasionally appeared individually at exhibitions—Günther Förg has put together a definite selection as an archive which was published in this book for the first time in its entirety. In addition to Konstantin Melnikov’s highly celebrated studio and its ground plan of a drum so often imitated in modern architecture, the book also includes photographs of extraordinary Constructivist and avant-garde architectural experiments from the twenties and early thirties of the 20th century. Exhibition: Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, 8/11/03–18/1/04

Günther Förg: Moscow

Klotz, Heinrich

Förg, Günther

History & Criticism

SNOECKS 2001

Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora considers the work of artists from North, South, East and West Africa who live and work in Western countries, including Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States. As its title indicates, Looking Both Ways refers to the artists' practice of looking at the psychic terrain between Africa and the West, a terrain of shifting physical contexts, aesthetic ambitions and expressions. It examines the relationship between physical contexts, emotional geographies, ambition, and freedom of expression while focusing on the increasing globalization of the African Diaspora. Looking Both Ways is not a survey, but rather an intimate consideration of the work of twelve artists: Fernando Alvim, Ghada Amer, Oladélé Bamgboyé, Allan deSouza, Kendell Geers, Moshekwa Langa, Hassan Musa, N'Dilo Mutima, Wangechi Mutu, Ingrid Mwangi, Zineb Sedira and Yinka Shonibare.

Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora

Europalia - Da Pompei a Roma(It ed): Europalia 2003 Italia

History

Guzzo, Pier Giovanni

COLLECTIF

Ancient Civilizations

Published to accompany the major international touring exhibition which comes to Chicago in the summer of 2008, this monumental volume features more than 500 stunning reproductions alongside important new scholarship on the prized sculptures and carvings of the Benin Kingdom of sixteenth- through nineteenth-century West Africa (pre-colonial Nigeria). It brings together for the first time masterpieces that have been scattered all over the world since the end of the nineteenth century, while simultaneously documenting the fall of the independent kingdom, its reconstitution in the twentieth century and its continued existence through today.From elaborate bas-relief plaques to stately commemorative king's heads and towering elephant tusks embellished with detailed figurative scenes illustrating life at court and the heroic deeds of kings and warriors, the artworks gathered here glorifiy the king as the political and spiritual head of his people and honored his ancestors. The detailed workmanship and outstanding aesthetic quality of Benin's royal sculptures have been compared to the work of the celebrated Renaissance artist Benvenuto Cellini. And their wealth of iconographic detail conveys the sumptuousness of the royal court and its historical importance as a regional powerhouse in the Benin (or Edo) era.

Benin: Kings and Rituals: Court Arts from Nigeria

Aspects of Belgian Art After 1945: Pt. 2

Willem Elias

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