General Art
ANDY WARHOL: LIZ
Andy Warhol's iconic portraits of Elizabeth Taylor are images that have lost none of their explosive power in the decades that separate the present from the moment of their making. Frequently hailed as the greatest movie star of all time, Elizabeth Taylor was a friend of Andy Warhol in the 1970s and 1980s.
BETTY WOODMAN
An up-to-date monograph devoted to the leading American ceramist whose dazzling inventions have moved beyond the traditional domain of craft and consistently challenged the limits of the medium. Internationally recognized as one of today's most important ceramic sculptors, Betty Woodman started in the 1950s as a production potter with the aim of creating objects to enhance everyday life.
EMILIO VEDOVA SCULTORE
Emilio Vedova's artistic career began in Venice in the mid-1930s. He immediately felt the deep allure of grand Venetian painting and sculpture and, guided by the restless agitation and dynamic mobility of the baroque, was soon plunged into total and extreme three-dimensional involvement.
BERTIL VALLIEN: A RETROSPECTIVE
Written by Studio Berengo
Celebrating the inventor of sand-casted glass. "Glass offers opportunities like no other material. It has everything. For me--says Bertil Vallien--the blowing room is the center of everything. It's like ladling matter out of a volcano and watching the glowing lava turn to ice.
EDMUND DE WAAL: ATEMWENDE
Written by Gopnik, Adam
Though known primary for his best-selling novel The Hare with Amber Eyes, de Waal is primarily a ceramic artist. This beautiful catalogue documents his first show with the Gagosian Gallery, New York.
HANNE TYRMI: THE LOST THING
Written by Lund, Lotte Konow
Tyrmi's new sculptures and installations as well as a number of works realized during the last fifteen years. The Lost Thing uses the house as a metaphor in which the various rooms are images of mental states, memories and displacements.
ROBERT THERRIEN
Written by Rowell, Margit
Robert Therrien takes ordinary objects and makes them unfamiliar, removing functionality to reveal metaphoric associations in them. Such works include his series of monumental tables and chairs, giant-sized stacks of pots, plates and bowls, and fifteen-foot fake beards hanging on their stands, among other works.
RYAN TRECARTIN: ANY EVER
"What [Trecartin] has unleashed is larger than himself, which is why both his sudden appearance and continuing evolution are such cause for hope."--Roberta Smith, New York Times"The most consequential artist to have emerged since the nineteen-eighties, he is being hailed as the magus of the Internet century." -Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker
MARK TANSEY
Written by Tansey, Mark
A catalogue documenting two exhibitions and five years of new work, from 2007 to 2012, by American artist Mark Tansey, held at Gagosian Gallery, London, and Los Angeles. Mark Tansey constructs visual allegories about the nature and implications of perception, meaning, and interpretation in art.
TOULOUSE- LAUTREC AND LA VIE MODERNE: PARIS 1880-1910
Accompanying a major traveling exhibition, this catalogue celebrates the groundbreaking avant-garde artists whose works embody the spirit and decadence of fin de siècle and Belle Époque Paris.
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