Lorenzo Vitturi, from Money Must Be Made, published by SPBH Editions. See page 125. Featured Releases 2 Limited Editions 102 Journals 109 CATALOG EDITOR Thomas Evans Fall Highlights 110 DESIGNER Photography 112 Martha Ormiston Art 134 IMAGE PRODUCTION Hayden Anderson Architecture 166 COPY WRITING Design 176 Janine DeFeo, Thomas Evans, Megan Ashley DiNoia PRINTING Sonic Media Solutions, Inc. Specialty Books 180 Art 182 FRONT COVER IMAGE Group Exhibitions 196 Fritz Lang, Woman in the Moon (film still), 1929. From The Moon, Photography 200 published by Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. See Page 5. BACK COVER IMAGE From Voyagers, published by The Ice Plant. See page 26. Backlist Highlights 206 Index 215 Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future Edited with text by Tracey Bashkoff. Text by Tessel M. Bauduin, Daniel Birnbaum, Briony Fer, Vivien Greene, David Max Horowitz, Andrea Kollnitz, Helen Molesworth, Julia Voss. When Swedish artist Hilma af Klint died in 1944 at the age of 81, she left behind more than 1,000 paintings and works on paper that she had kept largely private during her lifetime. Believing the world was not yet ready for her art, she stipulated that it should remain unseen for another 20 years. But only in recent decades has the public had a chance to reckon with af Klint’s radically abstract painting practice—one which predates the work of Vasily Kandinsky and other artists widely considered trailblazers of modernist abstraction. Her boldly colorful works, many of them large-scale, reflect an ambitious, spiritually informed attempt to chart an invisible, totalizing world order through a synthesis of natural and geometric forms, textual elements and esoteric symbolism. Accompanying the first major survey exhibition of the artist’s work in the United States, Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future represents her groundbreaking painting series while expanding recent scholarship to present the fullest picture yet of her life and art. Essays explore the social, intellectual and artistic context of af Klint’s 1906 break with figuration and her subsequent development, placing her in the context of Swedish modernism and folk art traditions, contemporary scientific discoveries, and spiritualist and occult movements. A roundtable discussion among contemporary artists, scholars and curators considers af Klint’s sources and relevance to art in the 21st century. The volume also delves into her unrealized plans for a spiral-shaped temple in which to display her art—a wish that finds a fortuitous answer in the Guggenheim Museum’s rotunda, the site of the exhibition. Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) is now regarded as a pioneer of abstract art. Though her paintings were not seen publicly until 1987, her work from the early 20th century predates the first purely abstract paintings by Kandinsky, Mondrian and Malevich. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM PUBLICATIONS 9780892075430 U.S. $65.00 CDN $87.00 Hilma af Klint’s daring Hbk, 8.5 x 11.25 in. / 244 pgs / 220 color. October/Art abstractions exert a mystical magnetism EXHIBITION SCHEDULE New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 10/12/18–01/27/19 artbook.com 3 Yayoi Kusama: Festival of Life The Moon: From Inner Worlds to Outer Space Text by Jenni Sorkin. Edited by Lærke Rydal Jørgensen, Marie Laurberg. Foreword by Poul Erik Tøjner. Text by Marie Laurberg, Anja C. Andersen, In a unique style that is both sensory and utopian, Yayoi Kusama’s work—which spans paintings, performances, Stephen Petersen, Ed C. Krupp. Myths of the room-size presentations, sculptural installations, literary works, films, fashion, design and interventions within The moon has long furnished humankind with an artistic icon, an image of longing and object of scientific “Kusama’s vitality existing architectural structures—has transcended some of the most important art movements of the second inquiry. Encompassing art, film, literature, architecture, design, natural history and historical objects, and moon in the arts is infectious.” half of the 20th century, including pop art and minimalism. As Roberta Smith wrote in the New York Times, published on the 50th anniversary of the first manned landing (July 20, 1969), The Moon surveys the “These paintings form a great big infinity room of their own, but one in which each part is also an autonomous iconography of the moon, from Romantic landscape paintings to space-age art. It takes the 1969 landing as a and sciences, –ROBERTA SMITH work of art, its own piece of wobbly, handwrought infinity … their vitality is infectious.” thematic fulcrum and a culmination of the deep-rooted cultural conceptions invested in the space race in the 50 years after Yayoi Kusama: Festival of Life documents the artist’s exhibition at David Zwirner’s Chelsea location in New 1960s, from David Bowie to Disney. York in late 2017, featuring a selection of paintings from her iconic My Eternal Soul series, new large-scale The book also accounts for the science of the moon throughout the ages, from Galileo to NASA, addressing the first manned flower sculptures, a polka-dotted environment and two Infinity Mirror Rooms. The monograph includes new the many lunar myths that have existed throughout time. Also explored here is moonlight, an important theme landing scholarship on the artist by Jenni Sorkin, as well as a special foldout poster. in the Romantic nocturnal landscapes of Caspar David Friedrich, J.C. Dahl and Carl Julius von Leypold. Another Yayoi Kusama (born 1929) presented her first solo show in her native Japan in 1952. Her work has since powerful artistic genealogy is associated with science fiction, a genre that has on occasion influenced space been featured widely in both solo and group presentations. In the mid-1960s, the artist established herself programs: Jules Verne’s From the Earth to the Moon (1865), for instance, famously inspired NASA’s Apollo in New York by staging groundbreaking and influential happenings, events and exhibitions. Her work gained programs. Film pioneers such as Georges Méliès and Fritz Lang created cinematic lunar voyages, and in the widespread recognition in the late 1980s after a number of international solo exhibitions, including shows at 1930s, surrealist artists such as Joseph Cornell, Salvador Dalí and Max Ernst explored the moonlit landscape the Center for International Contemporary Arts, New York, and the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England, as psychological allegory. Later, during the Cold War, superpowers on both sides of the Iron Curtain worked both taking place in 1989. She represented Japan in 1993 at the 45th Venice Biennale, to much critical acclaim. closely with artists to orchestrate and interpret the space race: Robert Rauschenberg, for example, was one of eight artists invited by NASA to witness Apollo 11, while artists in the Soviet Union played a central role in DAVID ZWIRNER BOOKS 9781941701812 U.S. $70.00 CDN $92.50 building the cult of the cosmonaut. Hbk, 9.75 x 12 in. / 152 pgs / 65 color. The Moon looks at all these lunar themes and myths, in a thrilling and inspirational gathering for anyone who September/Art/Asian Art & Culture has felt the moon’s pull on their imagination. LOUISIANA MUSEUM OF MODERN ART RELATED EXHIBITIONS Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 07/09/18–09/30/18 ALSO AVAILABLE 9788793659087 U.S. $35.00 CDN $47.50 ALSO AVAILABLE Atlanta, GA: High Museum of Art, 11/18/18–02/17/19 Yayoi Kusama: Give Me Love Hbk, 8.5 x 10.25 in. / 128 pgs / 150 color / 50 b&w. The Moon 1968–1972 9781941701218 October/Art 9781942884057 Hbk, U.S. $55.00 CDN $72.50 Hbk, U.S. $18.00 CDN $25.50 EXHIBITION SCHEDULE David Zwirner Books T. Adler Books Humlebæk, Denmark: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 09/13/18–01/20/19 4 artbook.com artbook.com 5 Led Zeppelin by Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin by Led Zeppelin is the first and only official illustrated book ever to be produced in full collaboration with the members of the band. Celebrating 50 years since their formation, this definitive 400-page volume charts the group’s unparalleled musical career from the very first performance in a tiny club, to their performance at London’s O2 Arena, when 20 million fans broke the world record for highest demand for tickets for a single concert. The book features over 300 photographs—many seen here for the first time—of Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and John Bonham from photographers around the world, and photographs from the band members’ personal collections. The band are seen on and off stage, in candid moments and in the recording studio. Accompanying the photographs is rare and unseen artwork from the Led REEL ART PRESS Zeppelin archives, and fascinating documents and images 9781909526501 U.S. $69.95 CDN $92.50 from the Atlantic Records vaults. Clth, 9.75 x 12 in. / 400 pgs / 150 color / 160 b&w. October/Music/Biography Page, Plant and Jones have collaborated with Reel Art Press to publish the first illustrated book celebrating 50 years since Led Zeppelin formed 6 artbook.com artbook.com 7 Shape of Light 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art Edited by Simon Baker, Emmanuelle De L’Ecotais with Shoair Mavlian. Shape of Light tells the intertwined stories of photography and abstract art from the early 20th century to the present day, looking at historic works in a variety of mediums from painting and sculpture to montage and kinetic installations. Beginning with the works of cubism and vorticism, it then highlights the key contributions of Bauhaus, constructivist and surrealist artists of the 1920s and 1930s. From there it proceeds to the “subjective photography” of the 1940s and 1950s, exploring the global scope of this movement through works by artists from Latin America and Asia, before considering the impact of photography on abstract expressionism, op art and minimalism in Europe and the US.