"Born in Dresden in 1932, Gerhard Richter was first educated under the prevailing doctrine of Socialist Realism and retrained after emigrating to West Germany, thus uniquely embodying the division of Germany during the Cold War. This volume brings together new studies of his early career by an international group of scholars. The authors approach the context from a variety of angles including the social and political histories of a divid ..."
"From the 1980s, many Chinese artists have experimented with a range of unconventional materials. Their works–in plastic, paper, silk, ash, and tobacco–form a major trend in Chinese art. The Allure of Matter offers the first serious consideration of these ground-breaking material explorations, coining the term Material Art to describe works that place “matter” itself as the primary vehicle of investigation and expression. The book contai ..."
"This richly illustrated volume offers an in-depth look into artist Sadie Benning’s exhibition Shared Eye, presented at the Renaissance Society and the Kunsthalle Basel. The forty mixed-media panels in Shared Eye defy easy categorization: they include collage, painting, photography, and sculpture. The seriality of the installation also nods to the artist’s history with the moving image. Throughout the 1990s, Benning created an extraordin ..."
"The Bauhaus, the school of art and design founded in Germany in 1919 and shut down by the Nazis in 1933, brought together artists, architects and designers--among them Anni and Josef Albers, Herbert Bayer, Marcel Breuer, Lyonel Feininger, Walter Gropius, Johannes Itten, Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Lilly Reich, Oskar Schlemmer, Gunta Stolzl--in an extraordinary conversation on the nature of art in the industrial age. ..."
Ellsworth Kelly Color Panels for a Large Wall by ChristineMehring, Ellsworth Kelly Hardcover, 88 Pages, Published 2019 by Matthew Marks Gallery ISBN-13: 978-1-944929-14-5, ISBN: 1-944929-14-2
"In the late 1970s Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015) was commissioned by architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to create an artwork for the lobby of a new office building under way in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. Kelly responded with one of his most ambitious artworks to date, Color Panels for a Large Wall, an 18-panel painting executed in two versions. The larger, at over 125 feet wide, was the biggest painting he had ever made, and its ..."
"German-French artist Wols (Wolfgang Schulze -- 1913-1915) rose to fame in the post- 1945 Euopean art scene as the founder of Informel (or 'gestural abstraction') painting. His photography has previously been presented as studies for his art. Here they are presented as seminal works on their own. The portraits, fashion photographs, still lifes are accompanied by an essay on various printings, bibliography and translation of "The Photogra ..."
"Untitled, 1960 ink on board three drawings, 4 Vs x 3 in. each (11.2x7.6 cm) In the
mid-sixties, Carl Andre began creating the planar floor sculptures that have made
him one of the best-known minimalist artists today. But his preceding work, dating
back as early as 1958, is not well known. Because there was little critical interest
in or financial support for it at the time, much of it was destroyed or never
executed, and only a few ..."
"Described by The New York Times art critic Roberta Smith as a "precocious art star," German artist (Blinky) Palermo (1943-1977) has been associated with distinct twentieth-century art practices, from abstraction to Minimalism and Conceptual art. But his diverse body of work in fact defies easy classification. Throughout his brief and influential career-leading all the way up to his untimely death at the age of 33 - Palermo executed pain ..."
Wols Photographs(1st Edition) by ChristineMehring Paperback, 104 Pages, Published 1999 by Harvard Art Museums ISBN-13: 978-0-300-09266-0, ISBN: 0-300-09266-0
"German-French artist Wols (Wolfgang Schulze -- 1913-1915) rose to fame in the post- 1945 Euopean art scene as the founder of Informel (or 'gestural abstraction') painting. His photography has previously been presented as studies for his art. Here they are presented as seminal works on their own. The portraits, fashion photographs, still lifes are accompanied by an essay on various printings, bibliography and translation of The Photograp ..."
"Back in print, the essential, unsurpassed Bauhaus overviewThe Bauhaus, the school of art and design founded in Germany in 1919 and shut down by the Nazis in 1933, brought together artists, architects and designers--among them Anni and Josef Albers, Herbert Bayer, Marcel Breuer, Lyonel Feininger, Walter Gropius, Johannes Itten, Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Lilly Reich, Oskar Schlemmer, Gunta Stolzl--in an extraordinar ..."
"Published on the occasion of Richter's major exhibition at the Tate, Gerhard Richter: Panorama is the first and most complete overview of one of the greatest artistic achievements of our times. Where previous monographs have focused on a single genre within the artist's vast output, this stunningly illustrated survey encompasses his entire oeuvre, now stretching across more than a half-century of activity, including photo-paintings, abs ..."
Bitter Blessings by ChristineMehring Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2011 by Bonneville ISBN-13: 978-1-59955-523-2, ISBN: 1-59955-523-9
"Megan has the perfect life, but when her mother dies in an accident, everything spins out of control. With the rest of her family falling apart, Megan must confront her past to uncover the truths that will keep everyone together. Thought-provoking and heartfelt, this book shows that even in times of trial, you can often find blessings."
Sabine Moritz Limbo 2013 by ChristineMehring Hardcover, 124 Pages, Published 2013 by Goodman (Marian) Gallery,U.S. ISBN-13: 978-0-944219-21-8, ISBN: 0-944219-21-7
"The gravel crunched under my feet, and the Sandoval's dog barked as I walked
down the driveway. I dropped onto the curb a ... Somewhere it had been raining
because the breeze smelled of damp creosote, but the sky overhead was clear. A
bare sliver of moon hung over the mountains, and the street, between the circles
cast by dim yellow streetlights, was dark and empty. Down four puddles of light, ..."
"This extraordinary six-volume slipcased production offers a comprehensive account of a largely unexplored (though immensely popular) aspect of the practice of Gerhard Richter: the "Overpainted Photographs" series, which he began creating in the mid-1980s and still engages with today.These works begin with informal photographs--often snapshots of the artist's personal life--which are subsequently obscured under layers of paint. Richter's ..."
Blinky Palermo(1st Edition) Abstraction of an Era by ChristineMehring Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2009 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-12238-1, ISBN: 0-300-12238-1
"Twenty-one-year-old Peter Heisterkamp began signing his colorful and playful abstract artworks Palermo in 1964, when peers noted his resemblance to the American gangster Frank Blinkyâ Palermo. This handsome booka historical and critical study of Palermoâs painting from the time he entered Joseph Beuysâs now famous class at the Düsseldorf academy in 1964 to his death in 1977explores his significance for postwar and abstract art ..."
"First published on the occasion of the major retrospective exhibition that opened at Tate Modern in 2011, "Gerhard Richter: Panorama" is the most complete overview of the artist's entire career to date. This stunningly illustrated survey encompasses works from the late 1950s to the present--photo-paintings, abstractions, landscapes, seascapes, portraits, color charts, grey paintings, glass and mirror works, sculptures, drawings and phot ..."
"The first retrospective in 30 years on American maverick Donald Judd’s minimalist sculpture, architecture and furniture Published to accompany the major exhibition at MoMA, the first US retrospective of Donald Judd’s sculpture in more than 30 years, Judd explores the work of a landmark artist who, over the course of his career, developed a material and formal vocabulary that transformed the field of modern sculpture.Donald Judd was amo ..."
"Educated at the now legendary Leipzig Academy by the old school of Social Realist painters, Neo Rauch has become one of the Academy s most influential graduates. His fusion of industrial symbolism, painterly figuration, and unique brand of Neo-Romanticism are influenced in part by his exposure to Communist-era advertising in former East Germany. In his words, this atmosphere of permanent fear had a lasting effect on his work. The para ..."