Product Description: An architect interested in ephemeral structures, a photographer who has grown increasingly suspicious of pictures, Jaar's most telling gesture is to relinquish the camera by placing it, figuratively and sometimes literally, in the public's hands...read more

Two insiders provide powerful insight into this often controversial government program, revealing how artists are selected for awards and discussing the numerous success stories of artists whose careers were enhanced by its support. (view table of contents)

Product Description: After leaving Cal Arts in 1990, Gary Simmons (born 1964) moved to New York and set up his studio in a former school building where he found himself clearing away blackboards to make space for his sculpture. Soon after, Simmons began his first series of chalk drawings on blackboards...read more

Product Description: Seen from a certain perspective, or at a certain magnification, all that is solid melts into air -- or clouds of atoms, or drifts of luminous vapor. Bodies, whether of land, water, or flesh, are unstable aggregates; they are accidents, caught only by coincidence in forms we recognize...read more

Product Description: Book by Princenthal, Nancy

Product Description: Landscape remains a relevant genre in today's art, but it comprises such a colossal range of idioms that it's rarely addressed under that rubric. Landscape Reclaimed does this job, assembling 20 artists--among them Mira Schor, David Diao, Peter Schuyff, Komar & Melamid, Scott Richter, Beverly Semmes, Gregory Green and John Baldessari--in order to appraise and reclaim its possibilities today...read more

Product Description: This large-scale volume features color photographs, drawings, original sketches and plans chronicling the work of Larry Kirkland, a Washington, D.C.-based designer of public art installations. Larry Kirkland’s projects include marble sculptures, fountains, hanging sculptures, wall engravings and entire urban plazas and parks...read more

Product Description: Published on the occasion of an exhibition organized by the Albright-Knox Gallery, and traveling to other venues.

Product Description: This volume considers Pondick's hybrid sculptures in detail, illuminating their historical relation to art's originating impulses and offering an alternative model for understanding sculpture.