Books For The Collector's Library - Bibliography

1 Regular Price $35 SALE $32 Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980 Essays by dint of Okwui Enwezor, Terry Smith, Margarita Tupitsyn, Peter Wollen and others. (Queen Museum)

Regular Price $5000 Sale $45 Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology edited by the agency of Alexander Alberro and Blake Stimson (MIT)

COMBINED SALE $75

Global Conceptualism is a profusely illustrated, 280-page, softcover whirl which accompanies an ambitious exhibition of Conceptual art organized by dint of Jane Farver, Luis Camnitzer, Rachel Weiss and Stephen Bann. The present to view appears at New York's Queen Museum this summer and travels to the Walker Art Center Minneapolis, later this year. Arranged geographically, the work takes a look at 30 years of Conceptual art practices and artifacts created by the agency of over 100 artists from around the world. Each section is written by dint of a noted critic who is an clever in the field,

Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology is a land mark work containing over 600 pages of body and numerous illustrations. It includes many artists' statements and other lock opener documents of the Conceptual art movement

2 Regular Price $4995 SALE $45 The Pritzker Architecture Prize: The First Twenty Years through Colin Amery, J. Carter Brown William JR Curtis, Bill N Lacy, and Martha Thorne (Abrams)

Regular Price $2995 SALE $27 The Un-Private House by dint of Terence Riley (MOMA/Abrams)

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For the past 20 years, the prestigious Pritzker Prize, considered the Nobel Prize of architecture, has been awarded to leading architects, among them Tadao Ando, Frank Gehry Philip Johnson Richard Meier and I.M. Pei. A new exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago celebrated the prize and the accomplishments of the awardees. The 208-page catalogue charts the evolution of the Pritzker and provides insight into the selection proces in addition to discussing individual architects' works. chooseed buildings and projects are beautifully illustrated with photographs, sketches and plans.

The Un-Private House, published in conjunction with the in every one's mouth exhibition at New York's MOMA, highlights 12 contemporary dwellings and examines by what mode current architectural theory reflects changing attitudes toward domesticity. Included are throws by Rem Koolhaas, Herzog + de Meuron Kazuo Seijima, and others. The 152-page catalogue contains 250 illustrations and an in-depth essay through curator Terence Riley.

3 Regular Price $1995 SALE $18 Examining Pictures through Francesco Bonami and Judith Nesbitt (Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago)

Regular Price $5000 SALE $45 The Museum as Muse: Artists throw back by Kynaston McShine (MOMA/Abrams)

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generally at the Chicago MCA, "Examining Pictures: Exhibiting Paintings" not aways the work of 56 painters of different generations--from Andy Warhol and Francis Bacon to Richard Prince and Damien Hirst--whose works reveal stylistic or thematic tendency to meets The 80-page catalogue contains an illuminating essay by means of the show's curators, Francesco Bonami of the Chicago MCA and Judith Nesbitt of London's Whitechapel Art Gallery.

"The Museum as Muse," the thought-provoking exhibition lately on view at New York's MOMA, scaned the ways in which 20th-century artists have addressed the universal and function of museums. This to the full illustrated volume includes 233 reproductions of works by dint of some 60 artists, among them Duchamp, Cornell, Oldenburg Ruscha, Christo and Komar and Melamid. Kynaston McShine's insightful introductory essay is supporting cushioned by numerous entries by various writers.

4 Regular Price $ 5000 SALE $45 Sigmar Polke: Works upon Paper 1963-1974 by Margit Rowell, with essays by dint of Michael Semff and Bice Curiger (MOMA/Abrams)

Regular Price $ 3000 SALE $27 David Salle by dint of Arjen Mulder with an introduction through Rudi Fuchs and an interview by dint of Frederic Tuten. (Ludion/Stedelijk)

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single of the most influential contemporary German painters, Sigmar Polke works [i]or[/i] part of to the other many of his ideas upon paper. This book focuses upon the large body of drawings and watercolors that the artist produc during his formative years in the '60 and '70 Lavishly illustrated with nearly 300 color plates and including in-depth essays, the 200-page hardbound convolution accompanies an extensive exhibition which first appearanceed at New York's MOMA and appears this summer at the Hamburger Kunsthalle.

The American painter David Salle is known for his enigmatic, mixed compositions. This fully illustrated, 128-page softcover work accompanies a touring European take a view of of the artist's work of the past 20 years. Included is an interview, insightful essays and numerous color plates of a certain quantity of of his best-known images, like as Tennyson and His Brain.

5 Regular Price $12500 SALE $118

Young British Art: The Saatchi Decade Essays by means of Sarah Kent, Richard Cork and Dick Price (Booth-Clibborn/Abrams)

The '90 was a banner decade for British art. The careers of many YBAs, or Young British Artists, were nurtur by means of their inclusion in the collection of Charles Saatchi. With above 600 color reproductions, this stunning contemplate thoroughly documents the YBA phenomenon. Arranged chronologically, the work includes usual suspects, such as Jake and Dinos Chapman, Damien Hirst, Chris Ofili and Rachel Whiteread, alongside their lesser-known on the other hand equally engaging peers. Interspersed with the art is documentation of pres coverage garnered by the agency of the often controversial Saatchi and the artists he musters The catalogue's bold graphic manner of writing reflects the wild energy and hip esthetic of novel British art. This will be an indispensible respect for some of the greatest in quantity exciting and influential art of our time.