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Art Catalogue 2011:Layout 1 10/3/11 12:38 Page 1 art architecture YALE+ photography, fashion, decorative art, design Art Catalogue 2011:Layout 1 10/3/11 12:38 Page 2 new & recent titles ■ 43 American art ■ 12 Ancient & Medieval art ■ 48 Asian, Islamic & Pacific art ■ 38–39 British & Irish architecture ■ 37 British & Irish art ■ 11 Decorative art ■ 8–9 Fashion & Design ■ 40 French art ■ 45 General art & architecture ■ 44 General art & Museum Studies ■ 41 Netherlandish art ■ 42 Italian art ■ 7 Modern & Contemporary architecture ■ 1–6 Modern & Contemporary art ■ 46–47 National Gallery London ■ 39 Pevsner Guides ■ 10 Photography & Film ■ 49 Selected Forthcoming Titles yale art books The List ■ 13–35 A complete price list of our art publications, grouped by subject area for your convenience. For more detailed information on these and other Yale books, please visit our website at: www.yalebooks.co.uk Free p&p on all on-line orders within the UK ■ 36 Order Form Cover: Thomas Lawrence, Emilia, Lady Cahir, Later Countess of Glengall (detail). The Board of Trustees of the Chevening Estate. From: Thomas Lawrence: Regency Power and Brilliance, edited by Cassandra Albinson, Peter Funnell and Lucy Peltz. See page 37. Art Catalogue 2011:Layout 1 10/3/11 12:38 Page 1 new ••• modern & contemporary art & Four Honest Outlaws recent Sala, Ray, Marioni, Gordon Michael Fried In this characteristically original book, Michael Fried considers the work of four contemporary artists—video artist and photographer Anri Sala, sculptor Charles Ray, painter Joseph Marioni and video artist and intervener in movies Douglas Gordon. He shows how their respective projects are best understood as engaging in a variety of ways with some of the core themes and issues associated with high modernism, and indeed with its prehistory in French painting and art criticism from Diderot on. British Art Center for Exhibition: Yale 3 February – 2011 1 May May 2011 224 pp. 9 b/w + 70 colour illus. HB with DVD ISBN 978-0-300-17053-5 £30.00* The Independent Eye Rebecca Salter Contemporary British Art from the Into the Light of Things more like this? . see order form & website Collection of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie Edited by Gillian Forrester Edited by Eleanor Hughes and Angus Trumble With essays by Achim Borchardt-Hume, Richard Cork and Sadako Ohki This beautifully illustrated book takes This book explores Rebecca Salter’s ••• readers inside Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie’s dynamic private collection of work in the context of international contemporary British art, an intended Abstraction, and in relation to her gift to the Yale Center for British Art. experience of Japanese artistic practices, Distributed for the Yale Center for British Art aesthetics and ideas of space. 2011 144 pp. 105 colour illus. Published in association with the Yale Center for HB with CDROM ISBN 978-0-300-17139-6 £30.00* British Art 2011 280 pp. 200 colour illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-17042-9 £30.00* follow YaleBooks on follow YaleBooks Exhibition: Los Angeles County Museum ofExhibition: Los Angeles Art 13 March 2011 – 5 June Exhibition: JapanExhibition: New Society, York 12 March 2011 – 13 June Exhibition: Institute of Contemporary Art 25 March – 7 August 2011 Mint Museum of Craft + 1 October 2011 –Design 29 January 2012 Bye Bye Kitty!!! Vija Celmins Donald Judd Sheila Hicks Between Heaven and Hell in Television and Disaster, 1964–1966 David Raskin 50 Years Contemporary Japanese Art Franklin Sirmans and Michelle White This pioneering book addresses the whole Joan Simon and Susan C. Faxon David Elliott American artist Vija Celmins is widely breadth of Judd’s practices. Drawing on With an essay by Whitney Chadwick With a contribution by Tetsuya Ozaki admired and respected for her sublime documents found in nearly twenty A comprehensive look at fifty years of This fascinating book goes beyond images of night skies and ocean waves. archives, David Raskin explains why work by the internationally renowned manga and anime to offer an incisive This book looks closely at Celmins’s some of Judd’s works of art seem artist Sheila Hicks, who is celebrated for and wide-ranging view of contemporary early works, namely images of death and startlingly ephemeral while others remain her cross-disciplinary work: sculptures, Japanese art, seen through the creations disaster that she produced within the insistently physical. In the process of weavings, architectural commissions, of fifteen cutting-edge artists. context of L.A.’s dynamic art scene in answering this question, Raskin traces temporal projects and textile design. Judd’s principles from his beginnings as Published in association with Japan Society the 1960s. Published in association with the Addison Gallery of an art critic to his fabulous installations April 2011 136 pp. 3 b/w + 89 colour illus. Distributed for The Menil Collection American Art and designs in Marfa, Texas. PB-with Flaps ISBN 978-0-300-16690-3 £25.00* 2011 64 pp. 36 colour illus. 2010 256 pp. 76 b/w + 174 colour illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-16612-5 £15.99* 2010 220 pp. 10 b/w + 110 colour illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-12164-3 £45.00* HB ISBN 978-0-300-16276-9 £35.00* 1 Art Catalogue 2011:Layout 1 10/3/11 12:38 Page 2 ••• modern & contemporary art recent Kandinsky and the Harmony of Silence & Painting with White Border Edited by Elsa Smithgall • With contributions by new Tracey Bashkoff, Gillian McMillan and Elizabeth Steele Vasily Kandinsky was a significant figure in 20th- century abstraction. His masterwork Painting with White Border, emerged during an intensely creative period in his development. This book presents an in-depth examination of the painting and more than fifteen preparatory studies. Exhibition: The Phillips Collection, 11 June – 4 September 2011 Exhibition: The Metropolitan Museum of Art 11 April – 28 August 2011 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 15 October 2011 – 16 January 2012 The Menil Collection, 2 March – 2012 10 June The Guggenheim Museum, 4 November 2011 – 29 January 2012 Exhibition: Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden 24 February – 2011 15 May and CCS Bard, NewDia: Beacon, New York York –25 June 31 October 2011 Published in association with The Phillips Collection Richard Serra Drawing July 2011 128 pp. 75 colour illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-17078-8 £28.00* Blinky Palermo A Retrospective Retrospective 1964–77 more like this? . see order form & website Edited by Gary Garrels, Bernice Rose and Edited by Lynne Cooke, Karen Kelly Michelle White • With contributions by and Barbara Schröder • With essays by Lizzie Borden, Magdalena Dabrowski, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Lynne Cooke, Gary Garrels, Bernice Rose, Richard Serra, Suzanne Hudson, Susanne Küper ••• Richard Shiff and Michelle White and James Lawrence This book brings together for the first A major exploration of the work of one time Serra’s drawn work, considering the of the most important postwar abstract artist’s investigation of medium as an painters. activity both independent from and linked Published in association with the Dia Art Foundation to his pioneering sculptural practice. 2010 192 pp. 150 colour illus. Distributed for The Menil Collection HB ISBN 978-0-300-15366-8 £35.00* May 2011 176 pp. 160 tritone illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-16937-9 £35.00* Exhibition: Museo Nazionale delle Arti Rome del XXI Secolo, 3 March – 2011 26 June Exhibition: Princeton University Art Museum 26 March – 2011 5 June University of California Berkeley Art Museum & Film Archive,Pacific 3 August – 27 November 2011 Salvador Dalí Kurt Schwitters Michelangelo Pistoletto Dieter Roth, Björn Roth The Late Work Color and Collage From One to Many, 1956–1974 Work Tables and Tischmatten Edited by Elliott H. King Edited by Isabel Schulz • With contributions Edited by Carlos Basualdo Edited by Barry Rosen • With an introduction With contributions by William Jeffett, by Leah Dickerman, Clare Elliott, Essays by Carlos Basualdo, Jean-François by Björn Roth, an essay by Andrea Büttner Montse Aguer Teixidor and Hank Hine Isabel Schulz and Gwendolen Webster Chevrier, Claire Gilman, Gabriele Guercio, and an afterword by Paul McCarthy A handsomely illustrated look at Dalí’s A major new retrospective on the Suzanne Penn and Angela Vettese A new interpretation of Roth’s under-appreciated post-1940 works, influential German avant-garde artist A thorough new study of one of influential yet often misunderstood exploring the artist’s embrace of best known for his merz collages that Europe’s most influential contemporary Tischmatten—table mats on which he www.yalebooks.co.uk classicism and Catholicism as well as his combine seemingly worthless objects artists, renowned for his leadership role incorporated drawings, photographs and influence on Andy Warhol and other into masterful ‘visions of the world’. in the Arte Povera movement and his ephemeral materials, with an emphasis Pop artists. Distributed for The Menil Collection profound influence on participatory on symmetry and mirror images. Published in association with the High Museum of Art 2010 176 pp. 14 b/w + 129 colour illus. artistic practice today. 2010 238 pp. 114 b/w & colour illus. 2010 176 pp. 30 b/w + 121 colour illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-16611-8 £35.00* Published in association with the Philadelphia HB ISBN 978-0-300-17079-5 £35.00* visit us at HB ISBN 978-0-300-16828-0 £25.00* Museum of Art 2010 404 pp. 100 b/w + 130 colour illus. Paper over Board ISBN 978-0-300-16616-3 £50.00* 2 Art Catalogue 2011:Layout 1 10/3/11 12:38 Page 3 new ••• modern & contemporary art & In Giacometti’s Studio recent Michael Peppiatt This deeply engaging book introduces the reader to the creative chaos of the tiny Parisian studio of the great sculptor Alberto Giacometti, from the moment he and his brother, Diego, arrived in 1927, with all their possessions in a wheelbarrow, until Alberto’s death in 1966.
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