The musician's tender and nuanced tribute to the life and work of her deceased brother
This volume is an intimate consideration of musician Kim Gordon's brother's life and art featuring personal photographs and pages from his journals. Following Keller Gordon's death in 2023, his sister collected mementos--relics from a shared existence spent dipping in and out of one another's lives over decades--including drawings, photos, poems and the diaries he kept at various stages of lucidity. The Sonic Youth frontwoman also authored a diaristic essay about their childhood, the complexities of family dynamics and the double-edged sword of creating and maintaining legends about those we love and admire. "I know exactly when the myth of my brother started," she writes. Designed to evoke the format of Keller's diaries, this volume features facsimiles of his writings, offering insight into the complicated figure of Keller Gordon as well as his sister's life. Through Kim's prose and Keller's own words, Keller extends and destabilizes the form of the biography, foregrounding the fragmented and the imperfect, echoing how memories themselves dissolve and take new shape over time.
Kim Gordon is an artist and cofounding member of the bands Sonic Youth and Body/Head, and the author of the memoir Girl in a Band.
Ce beau catalogue toilé rassemble un travail moins connu d'Alex Katz : une série de 25 gravures récentes, des portraits de femme en noir et blanc, en plan rapproché et détachés de tout contexte, assez différents de ses habituelles couleurs vives.
Limbs twist and fold around each other in this delightfully queer cyanotype alphabet made up of nude male bodies
For this playful and intimate artist's book, American artist Peter McGough shaped nude male models into sculptural renderings of each letter of the English alphabet, creating 26 lush, deeply queer cyanotype images of their poses. The cyanotype, a slow and cameraless photographic process--and one of the oldest ways of making photos--engages light only in the spectrum of ultraviolet and blue, creating spectral, painterly images that reflect what cannot be perceived by the naked eye. The result is an inky photo transfer, which appears much like a black-and-white image, but on a bluescale. The 26 images in McGough's Alphabet draw on Hellenistic sculpture, queer histories and the material quality of the cyanotype to create a graphic language all McGough's own.
Peter McGough (born 1958) has collaborated with David McDermott since 1980 as part of the artist duo McDermott & McGough, which is known for their anachronistic "time experiments." He is also the author of the 2019 memoir I've Seen the Future and I'm Not Going: The Art Scene and Downtown New York in the 1980s.
Ce volume toilé présente les premières années de création, de 1982 à 1988, de Tabboo!, performeur, peintre, designer, marionettiste et muse devenu légendaire. Il rassemble des flyers annonçant ses performances, ses peintures, ainsi qu'un essai sur ses liens à la scène drag new-yorkaise et aux "5 de Boston", Nan Goldin, Jack Pierson, Mark Morrisroe, David Armstront et Philip Lorca DiCorcia.
Ce volume massif comprend plus de 80 interviews publiées sur une période de 13 ans de la carrière de Lauren O'Neill Butler en tant qu'écrivain, éducateur, rédacteur et cofondateur du magazine November. On y retrouve des femmes artistes, compositrices et écrivains de premier plan comme Judy Chicago, Anohni et Lynne Tillman, Lynda Benglis, Sturtevant, Agnès Varda, Ellie Ga, Tauba Auerbach et Renee Green.
Un hommage joyeux et coloré aux multiples façons de peindre les fleurs : ce volume relié et toilé rassemble des peintures de fleurs de plus de 50 artistes, de Charles Burchfield à Amy Sillman, de Joe Brainard à Lisa Yuskavage, qui ont exploré l'attrait éternel de ce sujet si riche et pourtant si simple. Il démontre la capacité de l'humble motif botanique à nous guider à travers des périodes de deuil, de célébration et de renaissance. Les écrivains Hilton Als, Helen Molesworth, Sarah Nicole Prickett et David Rimanelli contribuent à méditer sur les nombreuses résonances des fleurs dans l'art.
Themes and motifs in the art of Kara Walker, from blackface to abjection, by a leading art historian.
In 2002, Kara Walker was selected to represent the United States at the prestigious São Paulo Art Biennial. Curator Robert Hobbs wrote extended essays on her work for this exhibition, and also for her show later that year at the Kunstverein Hannover. Because these essays have not been distributed in the US and remain among the most in-depth and essential investigations of her work, Karma is now republishing them in this new clothbound volume.
Among the most celebrated artists of the past three decades, with over 93 solo exhibitions to her credit, including a major survey at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Walker is known for her tough, critical, provocative and highly imaginative representations of African Americans and whites reaching back to antebellum times. In his analysis, Hobbs looks at the five main sources of her art: blackface Americana, Harlequin romances, Julia Kristeva's concept of abjection, Stone Mountain's racist tourist attraction and the minstrel tradition.
Robert Hobbs (born 1946) has written more than 50 books and catalogs, focusing on such artists as Milton Avery, Alice Aycock, Lee Krasner, Robert Smithson and Kehinde Wiley. Since 1991 he has held the Rhoda Thalhimer Endowed Chair of American Art in the School of Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University. Since 2004 he has served as a visiting professor at Yale University.
Now based in New York, Kara Walker was born in Stockton, California, in 1969. She received her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1994; soon afterward, Walker rose to prominence for her large, provocative silhouettes installed directly onto the walls of exhibition spaces.
Ce beau volume illustré et toilé rassemble les peintures de cartes postales à petite échelle réalisées par Matthew Wong au cours de la dernière année de sa vie en 2019.
The multimedia artist's first-ever thorough monograph, teeming with cosmograms, numerals and other relics
This volume is the first comprehensive monograph on the work of Ouattara Watts (born 1957). Over the course of nearly four decades, the Abidjan-born, New York-based artist has developed a painting practice that places cosmograms, numerals, cloth and other symbols and relics from around the world into relation with each other, leveling hierarchies and creating new relations in the process. Alongside traditional mediums such as acrylic and gouache, the artist embeds materials from a kaleidoscopic range of sources in his monumental, densely layered canvases: papier-mâché, fallen leaves, textiles gleaned from flea markets and photographic reproductions, among others. This volume features essays by writer Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, curator Lawrence Rinder and artist Dieter Buchhart, as well as a conversation between the artist and curator-critic KJ Abudu--the first longform interview with the artist since his 1995 dialogue with Okwui Enwezor.
Ceci est le quatrième volume sur 11 du projet Private Book de Lee Lozano, une des grandes figures de l'art conceptuel américain. Il s'agit principalement d'un calendrier des événements personnels, artistiques et chimiques de Lee Lozano en 1969-1970. Écrivaine et documentariste prolifique, tant sur le plan artistique que sur celui des relations entre le public et le privé, la peintre Lee Lozano (1930-1999) a tenu une série de journaux personnels de 1968 à 1970 alors qu'elle vivait dans le quartier de SoHo à New York. En 1972, elle a édité elle-même ces livres avec rigueur.
Il s'agit du cinquième volume de l'impression en fac-similé en 11 volumes du projet Private Book de Lee Lozano par Karma. Onze de ces livres subsistent, contenant des notes sur le travail cette artiste conceptuelle américaine, des échanges détaillés avec des amis artistes et ses réflexions sur les aliénations de la politique de genre, des questions sur le rôle de l'art dans la société et des aspects humoristiques liés à sa vie quotidienne.
Boats Crosses Trees Figures 197778 est une étude des premiers travaux sur papier réalisés par Peter Halley (né en 1953) au cours de ses années d'études de troisième cycle à l'Université de la Nouvelle-Orléans.
Ceci est le sixième volume sur 11 du projet Private Book de Lee Lozano, une des grandes figures de l'art conceptuel américain. Il s'agit principalement d'un calendrier des événements personnels, artistiques et chimiques de Lee Lozano en 1969-1970. Écrivaine et documentariste prolifique, tant sur le plan artistique que sur celui des relations entre le public et le privé, la peintre Lee Lozano (1930-1999) a tenu une série de journaux personnels de 1968 à 1970 alors qu'elle vivait dans le quartier de SoHo à New York. En 1972, elle a édité elle-même ces livres avec rigueur.
Ceci est le septième volume sur 11 du projet Private Book de Lee Lozano, une des grandes figures de l'art conceptuel américain. Il s'agit principalement d'un calendrier des événements personnels, artistiques et chimiques de Lee Lozano en 1969-1970. Écrivaine et documentariste prolifique, tant sur le plan artistique que sur celui des relations entre le public et le privé, la peintre Lee Lozano (1930-1999) a tenu une série de journaux personnels de 1968 à 1970 alors qu'elle vivait dans le quartier de SoHo à New York. En 1972, elle a édité elle-même ces livres avec rigueur.
Alex Katz illustrates Hawthorne's classic gothic tale of Puritan New England.
While enrolled in an illustration course at Cooper Union in 1948, Alex Katz (born 1927) created nine ink drawings to accompany Nathaniel Hawthorne's gothic romance, The House of the Seven Gables. Published a century earlier, in 1851, Hawthorne's classic novel is a solemn study of greed, guilt and atonement under the Puritan moral code of 19th-century New England, inspired by the curse pronounced on Hawthorne's own family by a condemned woman during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692.
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-64) was one of the most influential American writers of the 19th century, known for his darkly romantic stories and novels such as The Scarlet Letter. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, and belonged to a prominent circle of New England-based writers and philosophers including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Louisa May Alcott.
Alex Katz (born 1927) is a New York-based artist known for his large-scale Pop-inspired canvases of two-dimensional figures set against monochrome backgrounds. For over seven decades, his work has been the subject of hundreds of solo and group exhibitions worldwide.
Alex Katz celebrates an old friendship, illustrating Brainard's 1970s journals with charcoal flower drawings.
In this tender posthumous collaboration initiated by Alex Katz (born 1927), the artist embellishes journal entries by his old friend Joe Brainard (1941-94) with a new series of exquisite charcoal drawings of flowers (a popular motif in Brainard's own art). Katz and Brainard often collaborated with poets--particularly those of the New York School, such as Ted Berrigan, Anne Waldman and Ron Padgett--on artists' books, poetry publications, book covers, writings and paintings. Brainard's journal entries in this volume, written between 1971 and 1972, express this milieu, with accounts of conversations and expeditions with Waldman and Padgett as well as frequent mention of his appreciation for Katz's work: "How Alex has remained so pure all these years is beyond me," he notes in one entry, enumerating his favorite Katz works. Katz's charcoal drawings are simple and clear in execution, matching the serene clarity that famously characterizes Brainard's prose.
Ce livre rassemble des images qu?Anne Collier (née en 1970), artiste basée à New York, a initialement présenté sous forme de diaporama de 80 diapositives 35 mm illustrant des images trouvées de sujets féminins en train de se photographier. Allant des années 1970 au début des années 2000, ces reliques de l?âge analogique ont été ignorées par leurs propriétaires d?origine puis rassemblées par Anne Collier qui leur redonne une pertinence et une cohésion.
Un demi-siècle de changement social en Amérique, documenté dans les écrits de Danny Lyon, photographe et auteur de The Bikeriders et The Destruction of Lower Manhattan.
A painterly meditation on corporality and mentality, infused with Post-Impressionist influences.
In 2016, American painter Mark Grotjahn (born 1968) began a series of intimately scaled, thickly impastoed skulls. Made with brushes rather than his historically favored palette knife, these paintings affirm the influence of Post-Impressionists on the artist. After 15 years of Face Paintings and more than 100 Mask Sculptures, Grotjahn has stripped back the disguise and the skin and arrived at the 22 bones th
Ann Craven (born 1972) superimposes source photographs, historical works and her own paintings, creating mediated images that feature layer upon layer of referentiality-a collage of her most treasured curios. Peacocks showcase their plumage, birds perch on a branch, a trio of horses pose just so. Through these acts of creation and recreation, Craven becomes both master and copyist, citing herself in her own art historical lineage.Animals, birds, flowers, moons: Craven's motifs are in themselves an incantation-a wish to repeat, reencounter, relive. In keeping with this process of revisitation, Craven's paintings are repeated in threes throughout this fully illustrated catalog, mimicking the tripartite structure of her Animals Birds Flowers Moons exhibition. The book is divided into three parts, each paired with one of three texts: two newly commissioned essays by Durga Chew-Bose and Keith Mayerson, and a 2021 interview between Craven and Lois Dodd.
