ASIA THE D.A.P. CATALOG SPRING 2019 artbook.com I 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 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 2 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 3 BACK IN PRINT Black Mountain An Interdisciplinary Experiment 1933–1957 Edited by Eugen Blume, Catherine Nichols, Matilda Felix, Gabriele Knapstein. Text by Gabriele Brandstetter, Brenda Danilowitz, Arnold Dreyblatt, Fabienne Eggelhöfer, Matilda Felix, Mary Emma Harris, Gabriele Knapstein, Annette Jael Lehmann, Catherine Nichols, Andi Schoon, Craig Schuftan, Alice Sebrell. Founded in North Carolina in 1933, Black Mountain College ranks alongside the Bauhaus as one of the most innovative schools of the 20th century. Inspired by the forward-thinking pedagogical ideas of philosopher John Dewey, the experimental, interdisciplinary college combined the ideas of radical European modernism with the philosophy of American pragmatism and teaching methods designed to encourage personal initiative as well as the social competence of the individual. Visual arts, economics, physics, dance, architecture and music were all taught on an equal footing, and teachers and students lived together in a democratically organized community. The second director of the school was Josef Albers, and John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Buckminster Fuller, Walter Gropius, Franz Kline and Charles Olson were among its teachers. As a result, the college played a foundational role in the development of a range of avant-garde practices, and exerted an enormous influence on the development of the arts in the second half of the 20th century. Briefly out of print and quickly becoming a sought-after book, this gloriously designed and illustrated volume was first published for the exhibition An Interdisciplinary Experiment, 1933–1957, held at the Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin. It remains unrivaled for its sympathetic design and fulsome documentation. A profusion of archival materials—including photographs of classes in progress and college housing with its Albers-designed furniture, and page spreads from college bulletins and issues of Robert Creeley’s Black Mountain Review—is presented alongside contemporary essays. Happily back in print, Black Mountain: An Interdisciplinary Experiment 1933–1957 traces the key moments in the history of this legendary school. SPECTOR BOOKS/NATIONALGALERIE, STAATLICHE MUSEEN ZU BERLIN 9783959052689 U.S. $50.00 CDN $67.50 Pbk, 7.25 x 9.5 in. / 464 pgs / 22 color / 450 b&w. April/Art From Josef Albers and John Cage to Charles Olson and Robert Rauschenberg, the teachers and students of Black Mountain shaped postwar culture artbook.com 4 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 5 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.