AU/NZ THE D.A.P. CATALOG SPRING 2019 William Klein: Celebration Text by William Klein. Here, looking back from the perspective of his 90 years, William Klein selects his favorite works, those that he considers to be the very best he has made over the course of his long career, in order to pay homage to the medium of photography itself. This book, appropriately titled Celebration, provides a tour of his most emblematic works, traversing New York, Rome, Moscow, Madrid, Barcelona and Paris, in powerful black and white or striking color. The book also includes a text by the author in which he reflects upon the photographic art and explains what prompted him to make this director’s cut, this exceptionally personal selection. A small-format but high-voltage volume, in page after page Celebration makes it clear why Klein’s achievement is one of the summits of contemporary photography. Born in New York in 1928, William Klein studied painting and worked briefly as Fernand Léger’s assistant in Paris, but never received formal training in photography. His fashion work has been featured prominently in Vogue magazine, and has also been the subject of several iconic photo books, including Life Is Good and Good for You in New York (1957) and Tok yo (1964). In the 1980s, he turned to film projects and has produced many memorable documentary and feature films, such as Muhammed Ali, the Greatest (1969). Klein currently lives and works in Paris, France. His works are held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and the Art Institute of Chicago, among others. LA FÁBRICA 9788417048792 U.S. $39.95 CDN $55.00 Hbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 128 pgs / 17 color / 43 b&w. April/Photography Klein by Klein: the photographer’s homage to the medium artbook.com 1 A classic grand tour Walks to the Paradise Garden: A Lowdown Southern Odyssey Edited by Phillip March Jones. Text by Jonathan Williams. Photographs by Roger Manley, Guy Mendes. of Southern folk art, Walks to the Paradise Garden is the last unpublished manuscript of the late American poet, photographer, from Howard Finster publisher, Black Mountain alumnus and bon viveur Jonathan Williams (1929–2008). This 352-page book chronicles Williams’ road trips across the Southern United States with photographers Guy Mendes and Roger Manley in to Lonnie Holley search of the most authentic and outlandish artists the South had to offer. Williams describes the project thus: “The people and places in Walks to the Paradise Garden exist along the blue highways of America.… We have traveled many thousands of miles, together and separately, to document what tickled us, what moved us, and what (sometimes) appalled us.” The majority of these road trips took place in the 1980s, a pivotal decade in the development of Southern “yard shows,” and many of the artists are now featured in major institutions. This book, however, chronicles them at the outset of their careers and provides essential context for their inclusion in the art historical canon. Taking its name from the famous artwork by Howard Finster, Walks to the Paradise Garden brings to light rare images and stories of Southern artists and creators who existed in near anonymity during the last half of the 20th century. Organized in chapters devoted to each artist, the book features Banner Blevins, Henry Dorsey, Sam Doyle, Howard Finster, Lonnie Holley, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Sister Gertrude Morgan, William C. Owens, Vollis Simpson, Edgar Tolson and Jeff Williams, among many others. INSTITUTE 193 9781732848207 U.S. $45.00 CDN $55.00 Hbk, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 352 pgs / 100 color / 80 b&w. April/Art/Photography EXHIBITION SCHEDULE Atlanta, GA: High Museum of Art, 03/02/19-05/19/19 artbook.com 2 FULGUR PRESS is the leading independent publisher of esotericism and magic in visual culture. We are pleased to welcome this British-based publisher to our list. Touch Me Not A Most Rare Compendium of the Whole Magical Art Edited and translated by Hereward Tilton, Merlin Cox. Introduction by Hereward Tilton. Touch Me Not is an Austrian manuscript compendium of the black magical arts, completed c. 1795. Unique and otherworldly, it evokes a realm of visceral dark magic. As the co-editor of this volume Hereward Tilton notes, the manuscript “appears at first sight to be a ‘grimoire’ or magician’s manual intended for noviciates of black magic. Psychedelic drug use, animal sacrifice, sigillary body art, masturbation fantasy and the necromantic manipulation of gallows-corpses count among the transgressive procedures it depicts. With their aid hidden treasures are wrested from guardian spirits, and the black magician’s highest ambition—an infernal transfiguration and union with the Devil—can be fulfilled.” Hidden for decades within the Wellcome Library collection, Touch Me Not is published here as a full-color facsimile. The German and Latin texts have been translated by Hereward Tilton and Merlin Cox, scholars who have explored the sources for the various elements and provided copious references. Tilton provides an introduction that lays out the context for the survival of this extraordinary manuscript. FULGUR PRESS 9781527228832 U.S. $49.95 CDN $67.50 Hbk, 9.25 x 12.5 in. / 160 pgs / 111 color. May/Art/Occult artbook.com 3 ATELIER ÉDITIONS is a London-based publishing house that, in collaboration with distinguished cultural institutions worldwide, creates beautiful contemporary art books and catalogues raisonnés. Sun Seekers The Cure of California By Lyra Kilston. Edited by Ananda Pellerin. Since the mid-19th century, the idea of California has lured many waves of migrants. Here, writer and editor Lyra Kilston explores a less examined attraction: the region’s promise of better health. From ailing families seeking a miracle climate cure to iconoclasts and dropouts pursuing a remedy to societal corruption, the abundance of sunshine and untamed nature around the small but growing Los Angeles area offered them refuge and inspiration. In the wild west of medical practice, eclectic nature-cure treatments gained popularity. The source for this trend can be traced to the mountains and cold-water springs of Europe, where early sanatoriums were built to offer the natural cures of sun, air, water and diet; this sanatorium architecture was exported to the West Coast from Central Europe, and began to impact other types of building. Sun Seekers: The Cure of California constitutes the second volume of The Illustrated America (following 2016’s Old Glory), Atelier Éditions’ ongoing series excavating America’s cultural past. Lyra Kilston is a writer and editor focused on architecture, history, design and urbanism. Her work has appeared in Artforum, Los Angeles Review of Books, Time, Wired and Hyperallergic, among other publications. She was on the curatorial team of Overdrive: LA Constructs the Future, 1940–1990, exhibited at the J. Paul Getty Museum and the National Building Museum. ATELIER ÉDITIONS 9780997593587 U.S. $29.95 CDN $45.00 Pbk, 7 x 9.25 in. / 192 pgs / 60 b&w. February/Architecture & Urban Sunshine and nature: California as a beacon of better health artbook.com 4 Gio Ponti: Archi-Designer Introduction by Olivier Gabet. Text by Salvatore Licitra, Ugo La Pietra, Sophie Bouilhet-Dumas, Angelica Ponzio, Cristina Moro, Paolo Tuminelli, Chiara Spangaro, Laurence Bartoletti, Silvia Bignami, Ugo Rossi, Marta Nezzo, Giacinta Cavagna di Gualdana. With more than 100 buildings and scores of design objects to his name, Italian architect and designer Gio Ponti revolutionized postwar architecture and opened up prospects for new ways of life. Gio Ponti: Archi-Designer covers Ponti’s entire career from 1921 to 1978, highlighting the many aspects of his work: from mechanical production to handicraft, from architecture to industrial design, from furniture to lighting, from the creation of magazines to his forays into the fields of glass, ceramics and goldsmithing. His work exemplified a certain tendency identified by his fellow architect Ernesto Rogers in 1952, an interest in designing dal cucchiaio alla città (“from the spoon to the town”)—giving equal attention and applying the same innovative design thinking to small spoon and skyscraper alike. Featuring more than 500 pieces, this book traces Ponti’s multidisciplinary journeys through architecture, furniture and design in his work for private homes and public buildings, including universities and cathedrals. Regarded as one of the most influential architects and designers of the 20th century, Giovanni “Gio” Ponti (1891– 1979) established his architectural firm in 1921 and was extraordinarily prolific from that point on, working as an architect, industrial designer, artist, furniture designer, teacher and writer. In 1928 he founded the magazine Domus, which he would direct for most of his life, helping to spread his vision of a revitalized modern aesthetics in Italian industrial production, architecture, interior design and the decorative arts. The prolific architect, designer SILVANA EDITORIALE 9788836641253 U.S. $75.00 CDN $105.00 and Domus editor reinvented the Hbk, 9.75 x 12.5 in. / 312 pgs / 530 color. February/Architecture & Urban look of everyday life from the EXHIBITION SCHEDULE spoon to the cathedral Paris, France: Musèe des Arts Dècoratifs, 10/19/18–02/10/19 artbook.com 5 Malachite, Kidney Haematite, Madder Root, Byaku Gunjo Toluidine, Tyrian Purple, Naples Yellow, and more BACK IN PRINT An Atlas of Rare & Familiar Colour The Harvard Art Museums’ Forbes Pigment Collection Foreword by Victoria Finlay. Introduction by Narayan Khandekar. Text by Kingston Trinder. Contributions by Pascale Georgiev. The Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies at the Harvard Art Museums encompasses over 2,500 of the world’s rarest pigments. Museum director Edward Forbes started the collection at the turn of the 20th century, in order to preserve the early Italian paintings he had begun to collect.