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 Text by Jenni Sorkin. In a unique style that is both sensory and utopian, Yayoi Kusama’s work—which spans paintings, performances, room-size presentations, sculptural installations, literary works, films, fashion, design and interventions within “Kusama’s vitality existing architectural structures—has transcended some of the most important art movements of the second is infectious.” half of the 20th century, including pop art and minimalism. As Roberta Smith wrote in the New York Times, “These paintings form a great big infinity room of their own, but one in which each part is also an autonomous –ROBERTA SMITH work of art, its own piece of wobbly, handwrought infinity … their vitality is infectious.” Yayoi Kusama: Festival of Life documents the artist’s exhibition at David Zwirner’s Chelsea location in New York in late 2017, featuring a selection of paintings from her iconic My Eternal Soul series, new large-scale flower sculptures, a polka-dotted environment and two Infinity Mirror Rooms. The monograph includes new scholarship on the artist by Jenni Sorkin, as well as a special foldout poster. Yayoi Kusama (born 1929) presented her first solo show in her native Japan in 1952. Her work has since been featured widely in both solo and group presentations. In the mid-1960s, the artist established herself in New York by staging groundbreaking and influential happenings, events and exhibitions. Her work gained widespread recognition in the late 1980s after a number of international solo exhibitions, including shows at the Center for International Contemporary Arts, New York, and the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England, both taking place in 1989. She represented Japan in 1993 at the 45th Venice Biennale, to much critical acclaim. DAVID ZWIRNER BOOKS 9781941701812 U.S. $70.00 CDN $92.50 Hbk, 9.75 x 12 in. / 152 pgs / 65 color. September/Art/Asian Art & Culture RELATED EXHIBITIONS Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 07/09/18–09/30/18 ALSO AVAILABLE Atlanta, GA: High Museum of Art, 11/18/18–02/17/19 Yayoi Kusama: Give Me Love 9781941701218 Hbk, U.S. $55.00 CDN $72.50 David Zwirner Books 4 artbook.com The Moon: From Inner Worlds to Outer Space Edited by Lærke Rydal Jørgensen, Marie Laurberg. Foreword by Poul Erik Tøjner. Text by Marie Laurberg, Anja C. Andersen, Stephen Petersen, Ed C. Krupp. The moon has long furnished humankind with an artistic icon, an image of longing and object of scientific Myths of the inquiry. Encompassing art, film, literature, architecture, design, natural history and historical objects, and moon in the arts published on the 50th anniversary of the first manned landing (July 20, 1969), The Moon surveys the iconography of the moon, from Romantic landscape paintings to space-age art. It takes the 1969 landing as a and sciences, thematic fulcrum and a culmination of the deep-rooted cultural conceptions invested in the space race in the 50 years after 1960s, from David Bowie to Disney. The book also accounts for the science of the moon throughout the ages, from Galileo to NASA, addressing the first manned the many lunar myths that have existed throughout time. Also explored here is moonlight, an important theme in the Romantic nocturnal landscapes of Caspar David Friedrich, J.C. Dahl and Carl Julius von Leypold. Another landing powerful artistic genealogy is associated with science fiction, a genre that has on occasion influenced space programs: Jules Verne’s From the Earth to the Moon (1865), for instance, famously inspired NASA’s Apollo programs. Film pioneers such as Georges Méliès and Fritz Lang created cinematic lunar voyages, and in the 1930s, surrealist artists such as Joseph Cornell, Salvador Dalí and Max Ernst explored the moonlit landscape as psychological allegory. Later, during the Cold War, superpowers on both sides of the Iron Curtain worked 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 building the cult of the cosmonaut. The Moon looks at all these lunar themes and myths, in a thrilling and inspirational gathering for anyone who has felt the moon’s pull on their imagination. LOUISIANA MUSEUM OF MODERN ART 9788793659087 U.S. $35.00 CDN $47.50 ALSO AVAILABLE Hbk, 8.5 x 10.25 in. / 128 pgs / 150 color / 50 b&w. The Moon 1968–1972 October/Art 9781942884057 EXHIBITION SCHEDULE Hbk, U.S. $18.00 CDN $25.50 Humlebæk, Denmark: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, T. Adler Books 09/13/18–01/20/19 artbook.com 5 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 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 artbook.com 7 “My work is more James Turrell: Extraordinary Ideas—Realized about your seeing For more than 50 years, James Turrell has devoted himself to the treatment of immateriality, materiality and perception, making light a sensual and spiritual experience. Turrell floods rooms with light that is experienced as than it is about gentle seas of color or as an intensely glowing fog, taking observers to the very limits of their perception. Turrell eliminates the possibility of orienting one’s location by means of an object or spatial limits. The artist himself my seeing.” constantly emphasizes that his work is best described as “perceptual art.” –JAMES TURRELL This comprehensive volume, published for the artist’s exhibition at Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden, Germany, combines key works from Turrell’s various phases.