In 2013 picture researcher and former publisher Stephen Ellcock began selecting imagery and posting them on his Visual Rapture Facebook page. Five years and 300,000 followers later, Ellcock has an international following who avidly await his daily uploads and his carefully curated and sequenced albums of images.
"Maso's incantatory description of her conjured-up subject's embrace takes on extraordinary power . . . Like Frida Kahlo's painting--impossible to look away from." --Kai Maristed, Los Angeles Times
Donald Judd Interviews presents sixty interviews with the artist over the course of four decades, and is the first compilation of its kind.
A radically new perspective on Francis Bacon’s art, analyzing the ways in which literature inspired the artist’s work.
This timely and original study transforms our understanding of the relationship between art and economics
Bearing witness to the changing economic landscape amid the Cold War, artists in the 1960s created works that critiqued, reshaped, and sometimes reinforced the spirit of capitalism.$24.95ISBN: 9780262537926Availability: Coming Soon - Available for Pre-Order NowPublished: Mit Press - February 4th, 2020Reflections on the cultural and political complexities of translation in global contemporary artistic practices.
$49.95ISBN: 9781644420034Availability: Click Title for IN STOCK LocationPublished: Six Foot Press - November 5th, 2019"Astounding... extraordinary... Jumping between highlighting his indie cult status as an artist and the mindset behind the abstraction of some of comics most beloved characters, the collection ultimately acts as a stunning visual love letter to one of comics most revered artists." -- Comics Beat
$17.00ISBN: 9781984897787Availability: Click Title for IN STOCK LocationPublished: Vintage - September 24th, 2019A modern classic cherished by many of the greatest artists of our time, The Gift is a brilliant, life-changing defense of the value of creative labor.
$45.00ISBN: 9780500021903Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Thames & Hudson - October 22nd, 2019A generously illustrated collection of essays on drawing as a vital intellectual, artistic, and life practice—by the artists of the Royal Drawing School.
$28.00ISBN: 9783956794674Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Sternberg Press - December 3rd, 2019Essays consider the temporality and the aesthetics of "standstill."
$35.00ISBN: 9780691156521Availability: Click Title for IN STOCK LocationPublished: Princeton University Press - September 3rd, 2019An authoritative history of art history from its medieval origins to its modern predicaments
$35.00ISBN: 9781644230176Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: David Zwirner Books - September 3rd, 2019Over the course of his three-decade career, Thomas Ruff has taken up many approaches to photography in his investigation into the status of the image in contemporary culture.
In Thomas Ruff, the artist presents new work that continues his ongoing probe into the history, processes, techniques, and technology of photography.
