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Ruth Asawa
All Is Possible Format: Hardback
by Ruth Asawa, Makeda Best, Taylor Davis, Ruth Erickson, Briony Fer, Jennifer L. Roberts, John Yau
Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2022 by Simon And Schuster
ISBN-13: 978-1-64423-078-7, ISBN: 1-64423-078-X

"A document of the breathtaking and surprising exhibition Ruth Asawa: All Is Possible, organized by Helen Molesworth, this book records and expands upon the show, offering new insight from writers and curators with a selection of sixty-four ..."

On Abstract Art(Updated)
by Briony Fer, John Ashbery
Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2000 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-08735-2, ISBN: 0-300-08735-7

"In Freud's terms, whilst mourning involves the loss of an actual object, melancholia involves some kind of loss of the self, or a part of one's self, which can result in a kind of narcissistic injury. Distinct in important ways, then, both mourning and melancholia involve the loss of an object, and for Kristeva, in Black Sun, loss is the founding fact of psychic life.50 Death cannot be represented in Freud's unconscious, but imprin ..."

Modernity and Modernism
French Painting in the Nineteenth Century (Modern Art Practices and Debates)
by Francis Frascina, Ms. Tamar Garb, Nigel Blake, Dr. Charles Harrison, Briony Fer, Nigel Balke, And Briony Fed, Christina Jacqueline Johns, Peter Blake
Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 1993 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-05513-9, ISBN: 0-300-05513-7

"This volume is part of a four-volume series about art and its interpretation in the 19th and 20th centuries. The books provide an introduction to modern European and American art and criticism that should be valuable both to students and to the general reader. This first volume focuses on aspects of Realism, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in Paris between 1848 and 1900. Discussing works by Courbet, Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Cezanne, ..."

Ed Ruscha(1st Edition)
A Reader
by Ed Ruscha, Jean-Pierre Criqui, Robert Dean, Briony Fer, Michel Gauthier, Anne Moeglin-Delcroix, Linda Norden, Margit Rowell, John Tain, Benoit Buquet, Larisa Dryansky, Lisa Turvey, Elizabeth A. Kessler, Cécile Whiting, Elisabeth A. Kessler
Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2019 by Jrp | Ringier
ISBN-13: 978-3-03764-538-3, ISBN: 3-03764-538-5

"Since the mid-1960s, Ed Ruscha (born 1937) has developed iconic bodies of work in painting, photography, bookmaking and film. Conceived as a reader to Ruscha's practice, this publication brings together original contributions and case studies by an international array of renowned art critics and writers, including Robert Dean, Lisa Turvey, Cécile Whiting, Jean-Pierre Criqui, Anne Moeglin-Delcroix, Benoît Buquet, Briony Fer, Linda Norden ..."

Ed Ruscha(1st Edition)
A Reader: (Französische Ausgabe)
by Ed Ruscha, Robert Dean, Briony Fer, Michel Gauthier, Elisabeth A. Kessler, Anne Moeglin-Delcroix, Linda Norden, Margit Rowell, John Tain, Lisa Turvey, Benoit Buquet, Jean-Pierre Criqui, Larisa Dryansky
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2019 by Jrp Editions Sa
ISBN-13: 978-3-03764-546-8, ISBN: 3-03764-546-6

Gordon Matta-Clark(1st Edition)
"You Are the Measure" (Whitney Museum of American Art)
by Ms. Elisabeth Sussman, Gordon Matta-Clark, Tina Kukielski, Spyros Papapetros, Briony Fer, Gwendolyn Owens, Christian Scheidemann, Joan Simon, Elizabeth Sussman
Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2007 by The Whitney Museum Of American Art
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-12395-1, ISBN: 0-300-12395-7

"Qualifying the ancient Greek saying Man is the measure,” Gordon Matta-Clark (19431978) asserted instead You are the measure,” conveying the defining theme in an oeuvre that would exert a powerful influence on fellow artists and architects. In artworks that combined minimalist, conceptual, and performative practices, Matta-Clark gave primary importance to the individual and considerations of everyday life. This comprehensive book inco ..."

Louise Bourgeois
Paintings (Hardback)
by Clare Davies, Briony Fer
Paperback, 172 Pages, Published 2022 by Metropolitan Museum Of Art, United States, New York
ISBN-13: 978-1-58839-748-5, ISBN: 1-58839-748-3

"Informed by new archival research and the artist's extensive diaries, Louise Bourgeois: Paintings explores Bourgeois's relationship to the New York art world of the 1940s and her development of a unique pictorial language, adding a key ..."

Anni Albers(1st Edition)
by Ann Coxon, Maria Muller-Schareck, Tate Publishing, Anni Albers, Briony Fer, Aa.Vv.
Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2018 by Tate Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-1-84976-568-8, ISBN: 1-84976-568-5

"Anni Albers (1899-1994) was a textile designer, weaver, writer and printmaker, who was among the leading pioneers of twentieth-century modernism. Throughout her fruitful career she inspired a reconsideration of fabrics, both in their functional roles and as wall hangings, truly establishing thread and weaving as a valid medium for art. In her later years, Albers took up print-making, translating many of her persistent themes and ideas i ..."

Bruce Nauman
Disappearing Acts
by Kathy Halbreich, Magnus Schaefer, Taylor Walsh, Thomas Beard, Briony Fer, Rachel Harrison, Ute Holl, Suzanne Hudson, Julia Keller, Liz Kotz, Ralph Lemon, Glenn Ligon, Catherine Lord, Roxana Marcoci, Nicolàs Guagnini, Bruce Nauman, Isabel Friedli, Heidi Naef, David Frankel, Halbreich Kathy/Frie, Basel. Schaulager, New Yor
Hardcover, 356 Pages, Published 2018 by The Museum Of Modern Art, New York
ISBN-13: 978-1-63345-031-8, ISBN: 1-63345-031-7

"With a magician’s sleight of hand, Nauman’s art makes disappearance visibleAt 76 years old, Bruce Nauman is widely acknowledged as a central figure in contemporary art whose stringent questioning of values such as good and bad remains urgent today. Throughout his 50-year career, he has explored how mutable experiences of time, space, sound, movement and language provide an insecure foundation for our understanding of our place in the wo ..."

Art as Worldmaking(1st Edition)
Critical Essays on Realism and Naturalism
by Malcolm Baker, Professor Andrew Hemingway, Briony Fer, Prof Joshua Shannon, Prof Adrian Rifkin, Dr Martina Droth, Caroline Arscott, Prof Anne Wagner, Andrew Hemmingway
Hardcover, 416 Pages, Published 2018 by Manchester University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-1490-7, ISBN: 1-5261-1490-9

"Art as worldmaking is a response to Alex Potts's provocative 2013 book Experiments in modern realism. Twenty essays by leading scholars test Potts's recasting of realism through examinations of art produced in different media and periods, ranging from eighth-century Chinese garden aesthetics to video work by the contemporary Russian collective Radek Community. While the book does not neglect avatars of pictorial realism such as Menzel a ..."

Louise Bourgeois
To Unravel a Torment
by Briony Fer, Philip Larratt-Smith, Emily Wei Rales, Louise Bourgeois, Ali Nemerov
Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2018 by Glenstone Museum
ISBN-13: 978-0-9998029-1-5, ISBN: 0-9998029-1-7

"Celebrated for her singular contributions to 20th-century sculpture, drawing, painting, printmaking, installation and writing, French-born American artist Louise Bourgeois' (1911–2010) explorations of the human condition originated from her own lived experience. "My goal is to relive a past emotion," Bourgeois explained. "My art is an exorcism." Psychologically, emotionally and often sexually charged, Bourgeois' works intermingle the ab ..."

Anni Albers
by Ann Coxon, Briony Fer, Maria Müller-Schareck, Magdalena Droste, Brenda Danilowitz, Priyesh Mistry, T'ai Smith, María Minera, Nicholas Fox Weber, Jennifer Reynolds-Kaye, MarãA Minera, Maria Mueller-Schareck
Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2018 by Yale University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-23725-2, ISBN: 0-300-23725-1

"A long-overdue reassessment of one of the most important and influential woman artists working at midcentury Anni Albers (1899–1994) was a German textile designer, weaver, and printmaker, and among the leading pioneers of 20th-century modernism. Although she has heavily influenced generations of artists and designers, her contribution to modernist art history has been comparatively overlooked, especially in relation to that of her husba ..."

Here & There
Lisa Milroy
by Briony Fer, Ziba Ardalan, Hanneke Grootenboer, Lisa Milroy, Et Al.
Paperback, 87 Pages, Published 2018 by Parasol Unit Foundation For Contemporary Art
ISBN-13: 978-0-9573518-7-5, ISBN: 0-9573518-7-9

"The term ?still life? signals the fundamental experience of painting for Milroy, encapsulating her fascination with the relation between stillness and movement, contemplation and action.0In 'Here & There', motifs of clothing and shoes are ..."

Rachel Whiteread(1st Edition)
by Ann Gallagher, Molly Donovan, Brian Dillon, Mark Godfrey, Briony Fer, Harald Krejci, James Lingwood, Linsey Young, Lynn Zelevansky, Gallagher A/Donovan
Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2017 by Tate Publishing
Ilustrado
ISBN-13: 978-1-84976-464-3, ISBN: 1-84976-464-6

"Born in London in 1963, Rachel Whiteread is one of Britain's most exciting contemporary artists. Her work is characterised by its use of industrial materials such as plaster, concrete, resin, rubber and metal. With these she casts the surfaces and volume in and around everyday objects and architectural space, creating evocative sculptures that range from the intimate to the monumental. Whiteread came to prominence in 1990 with her work ..."

Richard Serra 2016
by Briony Fer
Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 2017 by Gagosian / Rizzoli
ISBN-13: 978-0-8478-6119-4, ISBN: 0-8478-6119-8

"This catalogue documents Richard Serra's three concurrent exhibitions at Gagosian in 2016 and offers an in-depth look at his most recent work. This book will attract admirers of Serra, as well as contemporary art enthusiasts. This beautiful volume highlights new work by the pioneer of large-scale, site-specific sculptures, Richard Serra. With stunning black-and-white photographs and an insightful text, Serra's awe-inspiring sculptures a ..."

Gordon Matta-Clark(1st Edition)
The Beginning of Trees and the End: Drawings and Notebooks
by Briony Fer, Sarah Sze, Gordon Matta-Clark, Jessamyn Fiore
Hardcover, 184 Pages, Published 2016 by David Zwirner Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-941701-25-6, ISBN: 1-941701-25-6

"Well known for his radical “anarchitectural” interventions throughout the 1970s, Gordon Matta-Clark was always deeply, though less publicly, committed to drawing. His works on paper—which span three-dimensional reliefs, calligraphy, and notebook entries—capture the interdisciplinary spirit that defined the art world in the 1970s. Intricate and concise, they testify to his interest in the crossovers between visual and performance arts, a ..."

Gabriel Orozco - Suisai
by Gabriel Orozco, Briony Fer
Hardcover, Published 2016 by White Cube
ISBN-13: 978-1-910844-12-0, ISBN: 1-910844-12-8

"Orozco developed his method of working in the early 1990s: he would select materials that were local and to hand, often found or ready-made, and decide on a few basic 'rules' to adopt, as if he were setting himself a kind of fictional ..."

Cy Twombly -
( New York, London, Twombly's Time )
by Briony Fer, Cy Twombly
Hardcover, 178 Pages, Published 2016 by Gagosian Gallery
ISBN-13: 978-1-938748-27-1, ISBN: 1-938748-27-1

AGNES MARTIN
by Frances Morris, Tiffany Bell, Marion Ackermann, Rachel Barker, Jacquelynn Baas, Christina Bryan Rosenberger, Briony Fer, Lena Fritsch, Anna Lovatt, Maria Muller-Schareck, Richard Tobin, Rosemarie Trockel, Agnes Martin
Paperback, Published 2015 by Tate Publishing Ltd./ Guggenheim
ISBN-13: 978-0-89207-532-4, ISBN: 0-89207-532-5

Agnes Martin HC(1st Edition)
by Tiffany Bell, Frances Morris, Briony Fer, Maria Muller-Scharek, Lena Fritsch, Agnes Martin
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2015 by Tate
ISBN-13: 978-1-84976-268-7, ISBN: 1-84976-268-6

"Canadian-born Agnes Martin was one of the pre-eminent painters of the second half of the twentieth century, whose work has had a significant influence both on artists of her own time and for subsequent generations. A contemporary of the abstract expressionists though often identified with minimalism, Martin was of the few woman artists who came to prominence in the predominately masculine art world of the late 1950s and 1960s, and becam ..."