"The dynamic relationship between rock music and visual art crosses continents, generations, and cultures. Beginning with Andy WarholÂ's involvement with The Velvet Underground in 1967, artists have maintained a strong connection to rock. Artists such as Slater Bradley, Mike Kelley, and Raymond Pettibon have created album covers and music videos for rock bands, while rock musicians such as Bryan Ferry, John Lennon, and Peter Townsend hav ..."
"Winner, 2008 AIGA "50 Books / 50 Covers" Design Competition. Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997) is a special case in art. His life and works were inextricably linked in a remarkable practice that centered on the role of the artist within both the culture and the system of art. With his larger-than-life persona, Kippenberger cast himself as impresario, entertainer, curator, bohemian, collector, architect, and publisher. He collected art, se ..."
"Jutta Koether's translucent color fields, expressive brushstrokes and female subjects--as well as her use of poetry, art history and Mylar--can make her seem like a feminist answer to the Cologne art scene, a counterpart to artists like Martin Kippenberger, Sigmar Polke and Albert Oehlen. In fact, she is a central contemporary painter in her own right, as well as a performance artist, a musician and a critic. She collaborates musically ..."
"Through films and installations, Ursula Mayer (born 1970) explores questions of individualism and consumerism. This monograph documents her films "Gonda" (2012) and "Pheres" (2013), and a 16-mm installation referencing Michael Snow's "Two Sides to Every Story.""
""In Stipe's startling photographs and 12 brief written homages, Patti Smith is depicted as a down-to-earth goddess, a part of and apart from her evolving entourage of musicians, artists, poets (Allen Ginsberg makes an appearance), and friends. This isn't a traditional book of portraits . . . The overwhelming mood is one of disjunction, claustrophobia, exhaustion, temporariness--and the effect is raw and intimate . . . And [Stipe] is no ..."
"Many contemporary artworks evoke the human figure: consider the omnipresence of the mannequin in current installations of artists like John Miller, Thomas Hirschhorn, Heimo Zobernig, or David Lieske. Or consider the revival of a minimalist vocabulary, which embraces anthropomorphism as in the works of Isa Genzken and Rachel Harrison. This book brings together contributions from the eponymous conference, all of which seek to speculate on ..."
"Conceptions of "nothing" are one of the driving themes of twentieth-century art. One thinks of Piet Mondrian's reductivist approach to abstraction, Marcel Duchamp's contention that art resides in ideas, not objects, Mark Rothko's painterly reach for the sublime, Andy Warhol's affirmations of the vacuity of Pop culture. "The Big Nothing" will focus on themes of nothing, nothingness and negation in contemporary art and culture, surveying ..."
"The inspiration for this book can be found in the question posed in its subtitle. Aiming to define a new way of grasping the concept of reality, EXTRA plays with the idea that it is never really grasped. In a new realm of gliding over, through and between the surfaces of reality, art takes on diverse forms to reveal the extreme elasticity of the real. Twentyeight artists have come together to graft their layers onto reality pending its ..."
"Kai AlthoffGebärden und Ausdruck
Edited by Nicolaus Schafhausen, Frankfurter Kunstverein
Texts by Michaela Eichwald, Anke Kempkes, Bernd Koehler, Jutta Koether
Gebärden und Ausdruck (Gestures and Expression) is the first comprehensive publication on the work of German artist Kai Althoff (*1966).
Fully illustrated and conceived by the artist, the book traces the evolution of the work from the early nineties until today. The texts dis ..."
Martin Kippenberger(1st Edition) I Had a Vision. [exhibition] San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, [June 13 - August 25, 1991] by Martin Kippenberger, JuttaKoether Paperback, 178 Pages, Published 1991 by The Museum ISBN-13: 978-0-918471-21-5, ISBN: 0-918471-21-4
"Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art."
"A limited-edition auction catalog-style artist's book for Jutta Koether's Lévy Gorvy exhibition Mimicking an auction catalog format, this artist's book accompanies an exhibition of German artist Jutta Koether (born 1958), centering on ..."
"Seasons and Sacraments demonstrates Jutta Koether's distinct and powerful style and is inspired by two important series of paintings by the 17th century French artist Nicolas Poussin (1594 1665). Koether reinterprets The Seven Sacraments as a series of dynamic installations. Confirmation presents everyday objects encased in clear liquid acrylic, attached to vast sheets of glass; while Baptism is represented by a painted canvas featuring ..."
"A limited-edition artist’s book by one of the most respected indie-underground cultural icons of our time. An artist’s book by visual artist and legendary indie rocker Kim Gordon, this volume is an intoxicating look into Gordon’s dreamy visual world. Watercolors, paintings, photographs, and written word combine to create a portrait of an artist’s work inspired by popular culture. The first 3,000 copies include a beautifully printed, lim ..."
""Lots of painters are obsessed with inventing something," American painter Joan Mitchell (1925-92) said in 1986. "When I was young, it never occurred to me to invent. All I wanted to do was paint." Throughout her life Mitchell remained committed to totally autonomous abstract painting, always driven by this fundamental love for the craft and technique of painting. In a career spanning more than four decades, Mitchell's painting style ma ..."
"New from the ongoing publication series from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna,Pink Labor addresses the crossover of form and politics in visual representationsof gender, sexuality and desire. Contradictory standpoints of queer art practices,conceptions of the body, and ideas of queer abstraction, a term coined byUSC gender studies professor Judith Jack Halberstam, are of particular interestin several essays on artworks and art practices ..."
"Jo Baer (born 1929) was a key figure among the pioneers of Minimalist painting in New York in the 1960s and early 1970s, regularly exhibiting alongside Andre, Judd, LeWitt, Flavin, Morris and Martin. During this period, she executed her iconic series of variously sized squares and vertical and horizontal rectangles, sometimes colorful and sometimes white with black borders, which she later expanded into diptych and triptych arrangements ..."