Published on the occasion of the 2020 Cy Twombly exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where a careful selection of the American abstractionist’s paintings and sculptures was displayed alongside classical works of art. The juxtaposition of Twombly’s work with his sources of inspiration draws parallels between the artist’s dramatic gestural vocabulary and the myths and heroes of antiquity that fascinated him and were often enigmatically infused into his lush and energetic works. Accompanied by 170 color illustrations, the catalog features essays by Anne Carson, Jennifer R. Gross, Brooke.....
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Published on the occasion of the 2010 exhibition at Xavier Hufkens, Brussels. Curated by contemporary multimedia artist Sterling Ruby, the exhibition featured hand-selected photographs by American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe alongside Ruby’s assemblages of collages, ceramics and sculptures. Through this joint presentation, Ruby attempts to engage in a conversation with the deceased artist, contemplating the relationship between autobiography and biography while exploring the ways in which new pairings can generate irrational, unexpected and out-of-context readings of both artists’ work. A revised, second edition was released in 2020. This.....
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Filled with hundreds of Matthew Barney's fantastical images, this comprehensive volume, which accompanied the major exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, surveys the popular artist's CREMASTER cycle, the epic five-part film project that uses the biological model of sexual difference as its conceptual departure point. Three essays by Barney experts articulate the series' diverse themes and explore the artist's innovative aesthetic vocabulary; interviews with key collaborators— composer, costume designer, make-up artist, technicians, and actors—reveal his working process. In addition to stills from the five films — including the final.....
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The iconic first major survey that Celant published on the Arte Povera movement. Celant coined the term "Arte Povera," a style and movement in art originating in Italy in the 1960s combining aspects of conceptual, minimalist, and performance art, and making use of common materials such as stones or newspapers, in the hope of subverting the commercialization of art. With hundreds of full-bleed black and white illustrations. A key book of the genre.

Condition: Very Good in a VG dust jacket, top right corner bump visible on interior pages; some.....
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Published on the occasion of the 2010 Picasso exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery, London, the exhibition highlighted works from Picasso’s most prolific creative period, when he spent increasing time in the French Riviera after World War II. The exhibit was curated by Picasso's grandson, Bernard Ruiz-Picasso ,and Picasso’s biographer, Sir John Richardson. This return to the South of France introduced notable influences on Picasso’s work, drawing on Mediterranean sources of inspiration and reflecting a newfound closeness with his family. These elements are evident in the expansion of his sculptural.....
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The revised and expanded catalogue raisonné of Picasso’s sculptural work, featuring more than 740 pieces ranging in scale from miniature to monumental and spanning a wide array of mediums, from metal and paper to found objects. With an introduction by Picasso specialist Werner Spies and informed by conversations with the artist, the collection offers renewed insight into Picasso’s complex and varied sculptural oeuvre, which stands alongside his renowned paintings and drawings in both ambition and innovation. Due to size/weight and additional shipping fee of $4 will be.....
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Signed and personalized with a drawing on the pastedown and front endpaper. Accompanying the 2012 exhibition of the same name, this monograph documents Matsuyama’s bold paintings and whimsical sculptures. Matsuyama, a contemporary visual artist from Japan, utilizes brightly colored, highly stylized forms that combine traditional Japanese aesthetics with his unique perspective as a New York–based artist. His work often sits at the intersection of American and Japanese cultures, exploring themes of bicultural identity. Out of print.

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From the publisher: International artist Andrei Roiter, born in Moscow in 1960 and trained as an architect, has called both Amsterdam and New York his home since 1990, while continuing to visit family in Moscow. This exhibition catalog from the Stedelijk Museum is a survey of his ironic yet somehow romantic paintings, sculpture and works on paper from the last 20 years. Roiter is a ceaseless traveler who erects the decor of his own life as a passer-by and lends it the power of metaphor. His drawings and models of.....
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A catalog for the artist projects that occured in 1983 at the important outdoor art park and residency program in upstate New York near Niagra Falls. The 1983 artists included Vito Acconci, James Casebere, Scott Burton, Susan Lyman and Wendy Clarke, among others. With a business card for Thomas P. Honan, Associate Director of Artpark, laid in.

Condition: Very Good, light scuffing to covers and wrapper edges.
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Book-length catalog from the American sculptor's 1984 Malmö Konsthall exhibit of large-scale steel and kinetic works. Some photographs by Christopher Rauschenberg. Text in English and Swedish. With a silver-printed and die-punched cover in a custom-made protective mylar dust jacket.

Condition: Near Fine, slight rubbing to edges of wraps.
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