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Yoshitomo Nara - Drawings 1984-2013

Blum & Poe 2014 ISBN 9780966350371 Acqn 23874
Pb 24x26cm 240pp 225col ills 37
Yoshitomo Nara: Drawings focuses on the internationally acclaimed Japanese artist's prolific
drawing output of the past 30 years. Rendered in coloured pencil and acrylic, Nara's drawings are
executed on a variety of paper types, such as found envelopes, stationery and inexpensive lined
sheets, and deftly fuse Japanese visual traditions such as manga and anime with Western
modernism and elements of American pop culture. The artist's ever-increasing cast of childlike,
vulnerable but sinister characters has won him a devoted following around the world. With an
abundance of colour plates, Yoshitomo Nara: Drawings includes reproductions of early works
never publicly exhibited and omitted from the artist's catalogue raisonn, as well as an essay by
Masue Kato. The volume is published in conjunction with a large-scale exhibition of Nara's
paintings, drawings and sculptures at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, in Spring 2014.
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Kaws - Final Days

CAC Malaga 2014 ISBN 9788494216916 Acqn 24204
Hb 23x29cm 84pp 43ills 42col 32
Brian Donnelly, professionally known as KAWS, is a New York-based artist and designer of
limited edition toys and clothing. His signature style of paintings, sculpture and figurative objects
includes repetitive imagery that is intended to be universally understood, surpassing languages
and cultures. Familiar childhood icons like Mickey Mouse and the Smurfs are reworked in his
representations, which display a fascination with the mechanisms of popular culture, infusing
them with suggestions of deeper human emotions and straddling the line between fine art and
global commerce. This book is published in conjunction with a solo exhibition of KAWS at CAC
Mlaga.
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Rebels Rebel - AIDS, Art and Activism in New York, 1979-1989

MER. Paper Kunsthalle 2014 ISBN 9789490693237 Acqn 24473
Pb 13x21cm 264pp 130ills 29.95
Rebels Rebel looks at the history of AIDS activism undertaken by various artistic collectives in
New York between 1979 and 1989. Among these once-controversial, now-legendary collectives
were Gran Fury (who scandalized the 1990 Venice Biennale with their billboards juxtaposing the
pope and his anti-contraception stance with a two-foot high penis), the Silence = Death Project
(who appropriated and inverted the Nazis' pink triangle), Gang and DIVA TV. These collectives
addressed concrete social problems using unconventional media, and in doing so helped to shift
the public and political perception of the AIDS crisis. Collating a wealth of materials and
perspectives, from graphic design to art works, and from sociopolitical to art-historical reflections,
Rebel Rebels is an important and thorough examination of a rare overlap between art and
activism during a time of heightened conservativism in America. It includes a full-colour poster.
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Julian Schnabel - Draw a Family

Karma 2014 ISBN 9781938560569 Acqn 24474
Hb 19x24cm 544pp 374col ills 41
Over the span of his 40-year career, Julian Schnabel has moved effortlessly across mediums,
working in film, design and the fine art world. Draw a Family returns our focus to Schnabel's
seminal career as a painter, reminding us that this is the field in which he has continuously thrived
since the 1970s. This massive, clothbound volume is comprised of paintings made between 1973
and 2013 and includes artwork from nearly every stage in the artist's oeuvrefrom his early oil
on canvas works to his most recent flag paintings. The nearly 400 colour images in Draw a
Family look back at the early genius that made Schnabel an international name and show why
this New York artist continues to redefine the parameters of painting.
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Kelley Walker
Paula Cooper Gallery 2014 ISBN 9780975392164 Acqn 24475
Pb 22x25cm 116pp 233col ills 44.50
This comprehensive catalogue was published on the occasion of New Yorkbased artist Kelley
Walker's (born 1969) solo exhibition at the Paula Cooper Gallery in 2014. The catalogue begins
with an essay by noted art historian Robert Hobbs, which examines the technical and conceptual
scope of Walker's art. Hobbs finds parallels between Walker's work and that of Robert
Rauschenberg and Symbolist poet Stphane Mallarm. The publication also includes 233 superb
full-colour reproductions which highlight the sharp digital imagery of Walker's multi-panel works,
the layered polychrome hues of his silkscreens and the complex spatial play at work in his
sculpture. Ten fold-out spreads spanning 40 pages give the reader a sense of the expansive
dimensions of his multi-panel silkscreen pieces, the first of which is comprised of 196 parts.
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Continue Without Losing Consciousness - Rob Churm, Raydale Dower, Tony Swain
Dundee Contemporary Arts 2014 ISBN 9780992709501 Acqn 24476
Pb 16x22cm 80pp 47ills 27col 10
Rob Churm creates drawings, collages and prints which take their inspiration from underground
comics and zines and from artists like Giovanni Battista Piranesi and William Blake. Raydale
Dower will install sound and sculptural works that play with duration, volume and void. Tony
Swain paints directly onto printed newspaper pages to create his works. All three have worked
with contemporary art and music in Scotland since the 90s. Rob Churm, Raydale Dower and
Tony Swain have previously worked together on an exhibition entitled Le Drapeau Noir as part of
the 2010 Glasgow International Festival. This exhibition explored avant-garde mythology, Dada,
caf culture anarchic history and underground music in a temporary artist caf. For Continue
Without Losing Consciousness we have worked with the artists to develop their original concept
into new projects for the DCA Galleries. The exhibition will include prints, paintings, sculpture and
sound works.
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Ntiense Eno Amooquaye - Artist Audio Recorder

Intoart 2014 ISBN 9780948835537 Acqn 24492
Documenting Ntiense Eno Amooquaye's first solo exhibition 'Hera Master Come Down' at The
Saison Poetry Library in 2014, and her wide wide-ranging explorations of print, text, image and
performance. Foreword by Chris McCabe, Poetry Librarian at The Saison Poetry Library: 'There
are few artists that can create genuinely beautiful work that also embodies, and foregrounds, their
working processes. Perhaps this is because artists would like to appear as if their inspirations
arrive readily formed and fully realised as 'finished' work. As if the thinking, research and
inspiration behind the work are simply aspects to be boxed-up, shelved and hidden from public
view. We are fortunate that there are some artists who bring us into their world of creation and
allow us to see how they arrived at their end point. Ntiense Eno Amooquaye is one of those
artists.' Chris McCabe.
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Odd Nerdrum - The Nerdrum School

Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing 2014 ISBN 9789187543043 Acqn 22986
Norwegian artist Odd Nerdrum (born 1944) was a student at the Academy of Art in Oslo when
Modernism first made its delayed entry to Norway. He broke away from his peers who rallied
around Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, and became a follower of Rembrandt and a painter in
the classical tradition. Art students from all over the world have since sought out his teachings,
and many have become internationally known in their own rights. This book documents the
influence of Odd Nerdrum, and his followers who went on to become some of the leading artists
of todays figurative painting.
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John Buck
Marquand Books Inc. 2014 ISBN 9780615864525 Acqn 23396
Over the past ten years, Iowa-born sculptor John Buck (born 1946), known for his woodblock
prints, wall reliefs and three-dimensional freestanding works, has experimented with the addition
of mechanical components to his wooden sculptures. This publication presents Bucks kinetic
sculptures.
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Anton Alvarez - Thread Wrapping Machine

Hb 17x24cm 224pp 195ills 175col 24.95
Anton Alvarez has spent two years developing a machine that spins thousands of metres of
brightly coloured thread around pieces of wood and metal to join them, producing solid benches,
stools and lamps without traditional joints of any kind. The thread acts as an joining element,
allowing the raw material being wrapped to be extremely elaborate without appearing so.
Alvarezs work has been exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum and is represented by Libby
Sellers Gallery in London. In photos, interviews and essays, this book presents the evolution of
the thread wrapping technique, with an essay by UglyCute founder Andreas Nobel and a
foreword by legendary British artist and curator Richard Wentworth. The book is produced in
collaboration with Gustavsbergs Konsthall.
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Alice Neel - My Animals And Other Family

Victoria Miro Gallery 2014 ISBN 9780992709259 Acqn 24340
Pb 20x24cm 52pp 24ills 22col 25
Neel was a keen observer of life, and in addition to her penetrating studies of people, she focused
her attention on her surroundings, be it in the form of still life, landscape or impromptu vignette.
Within the domestic habitat of her family, animalsespecially cats and dogswere a part of her
daily life. As a result, over the course of her career from the 1930s until her death in 1984, we find
fascinating examples of works that include or focus on particular animals. This exhibition features
a group of paintings and drawings in which Neel captures the character and spirit of people and
of animals. In her animal portrayals as in her other work, Neel responded directly to what was in
front of her. With all her subjects, human and animal, Neel had a talent for identifying particular
gestures and mannerisms that reveal the singular and unique identities of her sitters. Neels
portrayal of animals in her work was varied. In some paintings they were presented in conjunction
with a person in a portrait, other times as a vignette of daily life, sometimes they were rendered
from memory and occasionally they were presented as an actual, very individual portrait.
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Wangechi Mutu - Nguva na Nyoka

Victoria Miro Gallery 2014 ISBN 9780992709266 Acqn 24341
Mutu's practice has been described as engaging in her own unique form of myth-making. This
exhibition, Nguva na Nyoka (meaning "Sirens and Serpents" in Kiswahili) presents Mutu's latest
body of collage, video and sculptural works. Drawing on such diverse references as East African
coastal mythologies (particularly of nguvas, or water women), gender and racial politics, Western
popular culture, Eastern and ancient beliefs and autobiography, in her works Mutu proposes
worlds within worlds, populated by powerful hybridised female figures.
Mutu's latest collage-paintings are defined by a shift away from her much-documented use of
Mylar as a substrate to a use of vinyl and linoleum as the basis for the works, allowing for a more
densely textured and sculptural ground. Painterly techniques are employed alongside Mutu's
signature construction of images comprised of deftly cut-out and collaged forms. In addition,
Mutu's visual language is further enriched in these works by her use of unexpected materials
such as tea, batik fabrics, synthetic hair, Kenyan soil, feathers, and sand, amongst other media many of which are imbued with their own cultural significations.
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Stan Douglas
Fruitmarket Gallery 2014 ISBN 9781908612311 Acqn 24423
Hb 17x23cm 160pp 80ills 30col 17.95
Stan Douglas came to international prominence in the mid-1990s when his film installation Der
Sandmann was one of the highlights of Documenta X in 1997. Born in 1960, Vancouver, Canada,
Douglas is known for films, photographs and installations which use new and outdated
technologies, the tropes of cinema, TV and photography, the conventions of various Hollywood
genres, and classic literary texts to examine the intersection of history and memory in evocative,
mesmerising artworks.
The exhibition includes the video installation Vido, a reimagining of both Orson Welless film The
Trial (itself based on Kafkas novel of the same name) and Becketts film Film; photographs from
Midcentury Studio, a recent series of photographs taken by Douglas posing as a fictional North
American post-war press photographer; Corrupt Files, a sequence of large, beautiful, abstract
images; and Hogans Alley a companion piece to The Second Hotel Vancouver.
Together, these works provide both a rich introduction to and a reminder of practice of Stan
Douglas whose investigations into mistaken identity and unstable memory, reconstruction,
reinvention and the long shadows the past cast into the present, make him one of the most
interesting and important artists of our time.
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Studio Talks: Thinking Through Painting

Hb 15x12cm 418pp 21col ills 26.50
Thinking Through Painting is an on-going investigation of contemporary painting since
2009, involving numerous discussions and studio visits. The book was initiated after a
discussion between Swedish artist Jan Rydn and curator Jonatan Habib Engqvist about
how the contemporary institutional and theoretical art scene often seems to be uneasy, and
at times even lost in its relationship to painting. Together with the artists Kristina Bength
and Sigrid Sandstrm, they embarked on a project that would investigate painting as a
way of thinking with a group composed of a curator/philosopher and three theoretically
minded painters who all have different points of departure and dissimilar painting practices.
Taking the artists perspective as a point of departure, the book collects over 400 pages of
commissioned texts and transcribed conversations between artists, theorists, curators and
critics active in Stockholm, Oslo and New York.
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Robert Devriendt - Unsolved Cases

Marlborough Fine Art 2014 ISBN 9781909707139 Acqn 24463
Devriendts work depicts the gaze of an alter ego, moving through reality like a peeping Tom.
Most of the disturbing events taking place in the paintings in fact do not appear in the works but
are implied by the narrative connections between them. As a result, it remains unclear if anything
actually happens or whether the observer is simply being misled by the suggestive combination of
the paintings. The works are therefore unsolved cases in which the interpretation of the observer
is crucial, as they attempt to infer and unravel meaning through their own interpretations.
Devriendts work is based on a solid conceptual framework; he contemplates how stories come
into existence and the ways in which the fragmentised painted image plays a part in this process.
Devriendt prioritises the representation of selected images as a strategy for examining the
motives of perception.
Devriendts precise and sensual style of painting incorporates a complex layering, both technical
and thematic. His paintings refer to realist styles spanning the breadth of art history. These
include references not only to early Flemish painting, but also to glossy magazines, film and other
forms of contemporary imagery.
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Paula Rego - The Last King Of Portugal And Other Stories

Marlborough Fine Art 2014 ISBN 9781909707122 Acqn 24464
The Last King of Portugal is a series of pastels focusing on the life of Manuel II, who was
crowned king in 1908 at the age of 19 following the assassination of his father King Carlos I. He
was known as The Patriot and his reign lasted only two years, ending in 1910 with the Republican
revolution and resultant dissolution of the monarchy. He fled to Britain, where he remained in
exile for the rest of his life. The second series of paintings is based on The Relic, an 1887 novel
by Portuguese author Ea de Queirz, which tells the story of anti-hero Teodorico Raposo who
deceives his wealthy, pious aunt in order to ensure her riches are bequeathed to him. To please
his aunt and to rid himself of his unfaithful mistress, he embarks on a journey to the Holy Land in
search of the religious relic after which the series is named. For the third group of works Paula
Rego illustrates a new book in which her daughter
Caroline Willing retells the traditional folktale Stone Soup, which has existed in numerous
incarnations around the world for centuries. In it a young female protagonist saves herself from
starvation by outwitting a group of villagers into providing her with ingredients for a soup that in
the end is able to feed them all. Rego and Willings version is re-imagined in a new context by
thirteen watercolour and ink paintings that are suggestive of Portuguese landscapes and
architecture.
Much of Regos work concerns folk tales, their consistent ability to endure and renew. In these
works, a cast of expressive figures negotiate the boundary between caricature and figurative
abstraction in a manner that is typical of Regos double-edged satirical style. The frequent
inclusion of animal figures in the works also provides compelling and ambiguous foils to the
human cast.
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Jenni Tischer PIN

Sternberg Press 2014 ISBN 9783956791116 Acqn 24499
Edited by Manuela Ammer
Texts by Manuela Ammer, Barbara Kapusta, Ines Kleesattel, Karola Kraus
Pin is published on the occasion of Jenni Tischers eponymous exhibition at mumok in Vienna. As
this publication vividly captures, her work weaves an unlikely bond between minimalist sculpture
and the frayed, human history of textile work.
Unlike conventional exhibitions, Tischers gallery arrangement blurs the boundary between
display and artwork: walls and floor interlock, open cubes intertwine with Viennese netting
recalling Thonet chairs, and architectural objects allude to looms and pin cushions. Display
elements such as pedestals or frames are integral narrative elements, while colorful fabric
pedestals, reminiscent of unrolled scrolls, pepper the room. Here, minimalist sculpture is
unraveled to reveal hidden histories.
This publication ponders the impact of Tischers anachronistic practice: What is a medium, and
what kind of information can it convey? How are work processes and human labor inscribed into
materials and surfaces? And why are textiles, as fields of discourse and practice, gaining
momentum in the digital age? Between pins (needles) and PINs (personal identification
numbers), this book considers the memory of materials and the digital encoding of identities,
staking out a space for the human in a polished design world.
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Chuck Close Nudes

Pace Gallery NY 2014 ISBN 9781935410522 Acqn 24306
A survey of Chuck Closes Polaroid and daguerreotype nudes and Big Nude (1967), a 10-by-21
foot painting never before publicly exhibited in New York
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Kenneth Noland - Paintings 1975-2003

Kenneth Noland: Paintings 1975 2003 surveys 30 years of work that followed the artists
Guggenheim retrospective, beginning with the most recent painting from that exhibition, the
asymmetrical, shaped canvas Vault (1976). In Paces exhibition, Nolands returns to the chevron,
an iconic shape and pattern that he first explored in the 1960s. In Comet (1983) and Songs:
Indian Love Call (1984) the vertical v-shape is utilized to hold a range of colour applied in various
depths, thick and thin.
Nolands melding of shape and colour is evident in a selection of work on view from his Flares
and Doors series. Flares: Homage to Matisse (1991) is an acknowledgement of the 20th century
masters brilliant use of colour. In his own carefully considered approach to painting, Noland
showed admiration for Matisse, having once said, I think that when you experience art I
mean really have that experience when youre looking at it, it tends to lose gravity. It tends to
float...Its true of Matisse as an example I mean, Matisses really float. And I think content comes
from this experience, from kinetic experience.
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Kiki Smith Wonder

Hb 23x27cm 48pp 24col ills 28.95
In a series of works from 2011 to 2014, Smith again explores the rich terrain of expressions of
human and animal forms as well as celestial bodies and nature. Decay, rebirth, and eternal
cycles of the seasons, nature, and eclipses recur throughout Kiki Smith: Wonder in works that
illustrate Smiths ability to move fluidly between materials with vastly different characteristics and
properties.
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Yoshitomo Nara - Drawings 1984-2013

Kaws - Final Days

Rebels Rebel - AIDS, Art and Activism in New York, 1979-1989

Julian Schnabel - Draw a Family

Ntiense Eno Amooquaye - Artist Audio Recorder

Odd Nerdrum - The Nerdrum School

Anton Alvarez - Thread Wrapping Machine

Alice Neel - My Animals And Other Family

Wangechi Mutu - Nguva na Nyoka

Studio Talks: Thinking Through Painting

Robert Devriendt - Unsolved Cases

Paula Rego - The Last King Of Portugal And Other Stories

Jenni Tischer PIN

Chuck Close Nudes

Kenneth Noland - Paintings 1975-2003

Kiki Smith Wonder

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