Chryssa & New York
ISBN: HB: 9780300271980,
Yale University Press,
March 2023
184 pp., 27,9x25,4 cm, 130 colour illus.
184 pp., 27,9x25,4 cm, 130 colour illus.
The first major publication in more than thirty years on contemporary artist Chryssa, an innovator of light art.
"Chryssa & New York" offers a timely reassessment of Greek-born artist Chryssa (Chryssa Vardea-Mavromichali, 1933-2013). Chryssa was a l...
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Niki de Saint Phalle in the 1960s
ISBN: HB: 9780300260106,
Yale University Press,
September 2021
248 pp., 25,4x18,4 cm, 135 colour and black&white illus.
248 pp., 25,4x18,4 cm, 135 colour and black&white illus.
This volume is a focused look at two bodies of work, the Tirs ("shooting paintings") and Nanas ("dames"), in the experimental 1960s practice of the French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002). Alongside a poetic response to the work, four...
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Allora & Calzadilla
Specters of Noon
ISBN: HB: 9780300254464,
Yale University Press,
January 2021
170 pp., 30,5x22,9 cm, 140 colour and black&white illus.
170 pp., 30,5x22,9 cm, 140 colour and black&white illus.
The Puerto Rico–based collaborative duo Allora & Calzadilla created "Specters of Noon" as a group of seven large-scale works specifically for the Menil Collection. The ensemble is orchestrated around the idea of solar noon, a notion derived from Surr...
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Cy Twombly, Treatise on the Veil, 1970
ISBN: HB: 9780300244571,
Yale University Press,
May 2019
80 pp., 35,6x27,9 cm, 42 colour illus.
80 pp., 35,6x27,9 cm, 42 colour illus.
One of the most important American postwar artists, Cy Twombly (1928-2011) engaged with mythological and poetic source material, setting him apart from other artists of his generation. In 1970, Twombly revisited his 1968 painting Treatise on the Veil...
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Roni Horn
When I Breathe, I Draw
ISBN: HB: 9780300233155,
Yale University Press,
March 2019
130 pp., 24,1x19,0 cm, 55 colour and black&white illus.
130 pp., 24,1x19,0 cm, 55 colour and black&white illus.
Describing drawing as her "primary activity", for over thirty years, Roni Horn (b. 1955) has created innovative and experimental works on paper marked by both conceptual and technical complexity. This carefully curated survey of the artist's drawings...
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Mona Hatoum
Terra Infirma
ISBN: HB: 9780300233148,
Yale University Press,
February 2018
192 pp., 30,5x24,1 cm, 289 colour and black&white illus.
192 pp., 30,5x24,1 cm, 289 colour and black&white illus.
The work of London-based artist Mona Hatoum (b. 1952) addresses the growing unease of an ever-expanding world that is as technologically networked as it is fractured by war and exile. Best known for sculptures that transform domestic objects such as...
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As Essential as Dreams
Self-Taught Art from the Collection of Stephanie and John Smither
ISBN: HB: 9780300218411,
Yale University Press,
September 2016
112 pp., 24,8x29,2 cm, 114 colour illus.
112 pp., 24,8x29,2 cm, 114 colour illus.
This stunning book examines the collection of works by self-taught artists assembled by Stephanie and John Smither over the last thirty-odd years. A team of prominent curators, writers, critics, and art historians focuses on key works by twelve artis...
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Strange Eggs
ISBN: HB: 9780300197853,
Yale University Press,
February 2015
56 pp., 35,6x27,9 cm, 18 black&white illus.
56 pp., 35,6x27,9 cm, 18 black&white illus.
In 1957-1958, after he moved to New York's Lower East Side, Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929) began making collages he has described as "mostly done in an uncontrolled and intuitive dream mode". Made from found, printed photographic imagery, the "Strange Egg...
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Lee Bontecou
Drawn Worlds
ISBN: PB: 9780300204131,
Yale University Press,
June 2014
120 pp., 27,9x22,9 cm, 82 colour images, 9 black&white illus.
120 pp., 27,9x22,9 cm, 82 colour images, 9 black&white illus.
Lee Bontecou (b. 1931) established a significant reputation in the 1960s with pioneering sculptures and reliefs made of raw and expressionistic materials. Her art is simultaneously organic and mechanical, and infused with biological, geological and t...
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Richard Serra Drawing
A Retrospective
ISBN: HB: 9780300169379,
Yale University Press,
March 2011
176 pp., 30,6x25,0 cm, 160 illus.
176 pp., 30,6x25,0 cm, 160 illus.
As the focal point of numerous high-profile exhibitions, the sculpture of Richard Serra (b. 1939) has drawn international acclaim. Yet even those who have marvelled at Serra's intellectually rigorous and large works of sculpture may not be familiar w...
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