Product Description: Bite Your Tongue highlights key aspects of American figurative painter Leon Golub's (1922-2004) work drawn from his career of more than 50 years. From Golub's universal images of man, made in the 1950s, to his paintings, made from the 1990s until his death, that incorporated slogans, text and graffiti into dystopian urban scenes, Bite Your Tongue surveys Golub's most significant bodies of work...read more

Product Description: As the winner of the fourth Joan Miró prize, American artist Roni Horn (born 1955) received a monograph exhibition of her work at the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona and CaixaForum, which this volume accompanies. Though Horn considers drawing to be the activity unifying all strands of her work, she is prolific across multiple media, including sculpture, photography, books and works on paper...read more

The first of two volumes, Tell It to My Heart introduces the collection of artist, curator and editor Julie Ault (born 1957), along with detailed commentary from diverse voices. Ault cofounded the New York artists' collaborative Group Material, which explored the relationship between art, activism and politics. Over the course of her 35-plus years at the forefront of New York's art culture, Ault has amassed a superb collection of contemporary art, most of it given to her by artist friends and admirers. Almost more of an interiors book in the style of Apartamento magazine, Tell It to My Heart takes us through Ault's New York apartment, reproducing works by artists such as Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roni Horn, Tim Rollins & K.O.S., Andres Serrano, Nancy Spero and Danh Vo among many others. Together, and in situ, the artworks disclose a highly personal experience of an art community, initially centered in New York during Ault's formative years, but with a reach that has long since transcended regional classifications.

Product Description: In 1989, the members of Group Material―Doug Ashford, Julie Ault, Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Karen Ramspacher―were invited by the Matrix Gallery to address the subject of AIDS. The artists assembled their research into this timeline of the epidemic’s emergence as a national crisis...read more

Product Description: Since winning the Turner Prize in 2000 for his 1990s oeuvre of portraits and snapshots, German-born photographer Wolfgang Tillmans has increasingly gravitated towards the abstract and material-specific properties of his medium. Following Blushes, the Freischwimmer series and the monochromatic Silver series, his most recent abstract works--of which the creased and folded Lighter series is perhaps the most significant--treat the photograph, and especially photographic paper itself, no longer as a reproductive medium, but as a material object...read more

Product Description: At 18, Corita Kent (1918-86) entered the Roman Catholic order of Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Los Angeles, where she taught art and eventually ran the art department. After more than 30 years, at the end of the 1960s, she left the order to devote herself to making her own work...read more

Product Description: In 2005, the great New York cultural arts organization Creative Time brought together 39 artists, educators and thinkers over a series of intimate dinner parties. Critical conversations were initiated, ideas were discussed and challenged, and all of it was recorded for posterity in Who Cares...read more

A sweeping history of the New York art scene during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s reveals a powerful 'alternative' art culture that profoundly influenced the mainstream. Simultaneous. (Fine Arts) (view table of contents)

Product Description: The past decade has seen American culture deeply divided by debates over social identity, public morality, communal values and freedom of expression. A key focus of these polarizing discussions has been the role of visual arts in public life...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)