"It's wonderful, but I wouldn't want it in my home" is a comment you might easily overhear in any museum showing contemporary art. This brilliant and original book asks "Why not?" Based on an exhibition of the same name developed by the Aldrich Museum, it tackles head-on the difficulties and pleasures of living with unusual art. Eleven unconventional artists--including Christian Boltanski, Mary Lucier, Andrea Zittel and others--were invited to install their work both in the museum and in homes (and one car) around the suburban New England town of Ridgefield. Living with Contemporary Art is both a catalogue and report from the residents of Ridgefield, on everything from consulting with the artists to working out practical issues like insurance, to reflecting on what it's really like to "to have it in my home."

Living With Contemporary Art

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The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art

Landscape remains a relevant genre in today's art, but it comprises such a colossal range of idioms that it's rarely addressed under that rubric. Landscape Reclaimed does this job, assembling 20 artists--among them Mira Schor, David Diao, Peter Schuyff, Komar &amp; Melamid, Scott Richter, Beverly Semmes, Gregory Green and John Baldessari--in order to appraise and reclaim its possibilities today.

Landscape Reclaimed

Robert Gober

This intimate catalogue presents Gober in the act of creation. New work is featured here as well as his famous sink pieces and his figurative work.

Individual Artists

"Pop Surrealism" highlights the recent explosion of pop-influenced surrealist art from an emerging generation of artists and a few key senior figures who have influenced their work. Designed in a special pocket format, this intriguing book offers a primer on the confluence of pop and surrealist iconography, and features work by over seventy artists, including Gregory Crewdson, Mariko Mori, Ashley Bickerton, Art Spiegelman, Tony Oursler, and Cindy Sherman. The book's informative essays consider such varied topics as the relation between comics and surrealism, Hollywood and surrealism, and the image of the grotesque body. Reviewing the exhibition for "ArtForum," Steven Henry Madoff wrote: "The mutant sensibility at work in this droll, smartly curated exhibition proposes the marriage of Surrealism's dream-laden fetish for the body eroticized and grotesque and Pop art's celebration of the shallower, corrosively bright world given over the packaged good."

Pop Surrealism

Klein, Richard

By Ann Lauterbach. Artwork by Ann Hamilton. Edited by Nancy Princenthal. Contributions by Harry Philbrick.

Ann Hamilton: Whitecloth

Lauterbach, Ann

Featuring work by a broad cross-section of contemporary artists, this exhibition catalogue from The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art explores one of art's oldest and most enduring themes--the nude. Academic painters and sculptors are set alongside installation and performance artists, in a unique survey that emphatically bridges the traditional and the avant-garde. The Nude in Contemporary Art includes works by Tina Barney, Lisa Bartolozzi, Paul Cadmus, Chuck Close, John Coplans, Meg Cranston, John Currin, Jeanne Dunning, Karen Finley, Lucian Freud, John O'Reilly, Spencer Tuick and Lisa Yuskavage, among many others.

The Nude In Contemporary Art

Contributions by Christian Eckart, Eleanor Heartney, Harry Philbrick, Osvaldo Romberg.

Faith: The Impact of Judeo-Christian Religion on Art at the Millennium

Heartney, Eleanor

Eckart, Christian

Romberg, Osvaldo

Glee is a uniquely designed volume dedicated to new developments in the world of contemporary painting--developments that engage advances in digital technology instead of fleeing from them. Including such already-renowned and up-and-coming painters as Peter Halley, Franz Ackerman, Ricci Albenda, Pedro Barbieto, Linda Besemer, Alex Blau, Greg Bogin, Alex Brown, Ingrid Calame, Sharon Ellis, Jeff Elrod, Carl Fudge, Wayne Gonzales, Jim Isermann, Sarah Morris, Stephen Mueller, Albert Oehlen, Monique Prieto, John F. Simon Jr. and Yek, Glee documents how these artists are innovating via the influence of styles as diverse as Op Art, Pattern &amp; Decoration, early computer graphics and late 1960s psychedelia. The catalogue was designed by the rising young firm COMA, and features a gatefold that divides the book into two halves: the first dedicated to the artworks themselves, and the second devoted to essays and artist biographies.

Glee: Painting Now

Travis, David

Morris, Sarah

Oehlen, Albert

Mueller, Stephen

Blau, Alex

Brown, Alex

Hough, Jessica

Ellis, Sharon

Wood, James N.

Halley, Peter

Cappellazzo, Amy

Brien, Sidney

Ackerman, Franz

Albenda, Ricci

Barbieto, Pedro

Besemer, Linda

Bogin, Greg

Calame, Ingrid

Elrod, Jeff

Fudge, Carl

Gonzales, Wayne

Isermann, Jim

Prieto, Monique

Simon Jr., John

History & Criticism

On the occasion of her receipt of the Larry Aldrich Foundation Award, Janine Antoni presents a new series of work focusing on the cow as subject and its metaphorical relationship to the mother. This book accompanies her exhibition of this series at The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, the first U.S. venue for this work. The new works are illustrated along with a group of related earlier pieces, and the three texts that run throughout the book are a Bahaman folk tale, the litany of Virgin Mary, and a prodigious list of products that are made from cattle by-products. Also included is a handmade silkscreen using the same milk paint used on the gallery walls during her exhibition.

Girl Made of Butter, The

Antoni, Janine

Art at the Edge of the Law examines the fine line that artists have often trod between the legal and the legally ambiguous. Frequently the transgression is conceptual rather than directly confrontational, as in Richard Prince's copyright infringements or Gregory Green's pirate station, though no less powerful for that (Barton Lidice Benes's assemblages involving his own HIV-infected blood, for example). Among the artists included are Janine Antoni, Gregory Green, Dennis Oppenheim, Richard Prince, Tom Sachs, Fred Tomaselli and Tom Friedman.

Art At The Edge Of The Law

Green, Gregory

Thompson, Michael

Oppenheim, Dennis

Friedman, Tom

Lombardi, Mark

Tomaselli, Fred

Sachs, Tom

PRINCE, Richard

Russ, Lawrence

Boggs, JSG

de Luna, Michael

Hatfield, Jeffrey

Kerbel, Janice

Tourlentes, Stephen

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