Contents Spring Highlights 2 Film 28 Fashion & Limited Editions 30 Theory, Criticism & Writings 34 Children’s Art Books 41 Design & Decorative Arts 42 Architecture 52 Photography 64 Art History 92 Modern & Contemporary Art 100 Asian Arts & Culture 126 Contemporary Monographs & Catalogues 128 Journals 140 Artists’ Books & Projects 143 Previously Announced/Recently Released 157 Back in Stock/Backlist Highlights 159 Index 164 Ordering Information 168 www.artbook.com • Voice: 800.338.2665 • Fax: 800.478.3128 2 The Museum of Modern Art, New York Edvard Munch: The Modern Life of the Soul Edited by Kynaston McShine. Essays by Patricia Berman, Reinhold Heller, Elizabeth Prelinger and Tina Yarborough. In an exploration of modern existential experience unparalleled in the history of art, Edvard Munch, the internationally renowned Norwegian painter, print- maker and draftsman, sought to translate personal trauma into universal terms and in the process to comprehend the fundamental components of human existence: birth, love and death. Inspired by personal experience, as well as by the literary and philosophical culture of his time, Munch radically reconceived the given world as the product of his imagination. This book explores Munch’s unique artistic achievement in all its richness and diversity, surveying his career in its entire developmental range from 1880 to 1944. The comprehensive volume features a lavish selection of color plates, an introduction by Kynaston McShine, Chief Curator at Large at The Museum of Modern Art, and essays by Patricia Berman, Reinhold Heller, Elizabeth Prelinger, and Tina Yarborough, as well as in-depth documentation of Munch’s art and career. It will accompany the most extensive exhibition of Munch’s art in America in three decades. Edvard Munch was born in 1863 on a farm outside Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway. His early work was inspired by the art of the Norwegian naturalist painters, among them his mentor Christian Krohg, but it was not long before he began to look elsewhere for more evocative aesthetic models. He developed his psychologically resonant style in the 1890s and early 1900s, first in Paris and then in Berlin. The paintings from this period ultimately made up Munch’s Frieze of Life, a cycle of pictures that comprises many of his best-known motifs, including “The Scream” and “Madonna.”The Frieze drew largely on Munch’s personal memories, including the devastating losses of his mother and favorite sister Sophie to illness, in 1868 and 1877 respectively, as well as his doomed love affair with Milly Thaulow, a married woman. After several years of travel and illness, many spent in and out of sanatoriums, Munch returned to Norway in 1909, where he remained, barring brief trips, for the rest of his life. He sought solace in his native surroundings, turning to the Norwegian countryside and its inhabitants as subject matter for his art. However, as an artist, he never abandoned his interest in the human psyche, as evidenced by a late series of penetrating self-portraits. Munch lived his final years in relative seclusion and died at his estate at Ekely, Norway, in 1944. Edvard Munch: The Modern Life of the Soul ISBN 0-87070-455-9 U.S. $60.00 Clothbound, 9 x 12 in. / 232 pgs / 200 color and 60 b&w. February / Art Exhibition Schedule New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2/19/06-5/8/06 We want more than a mere photograph of nature. We do not want to paint pretty pictures to be hung on drawing-room walls. We want . an art that arrests and engages. An art created of one’s innermost heart. —Edvard Munch distributed art publishers, inc. Hatje Cantz Publishers 3 Gerhard Richter:Portraits SPR Essays by Stefan Gronert and Hubertus Butin. This first comprehensive overview of the place of the portrait in Gerhard I NG H Richter’s oeuvre assembles portrait paintings, photographs, watercolors, drawings and prints from the 1960s to the present—everything from classics like the strikingly honey-haired Betty to previously unknown works discovered IGH in the course of research for this project. Icons such as Ema (Nude on a LIGH Staircase), Uncle Rudi, Mister Heyde, 48 Portraits, Self-Portrait, Family at the Sea, Small Bathers,Reader and Moritz, settle once and for all that Richter’s emotional pull towards his material (“The subject matter is so important to TS me that I invest much time and effort in my search for it, so much that I just have to paint it.”) not only doesn’t hinder him from producing classics, but rather encourages it. Stefan Gronert’s essay follows the development of the portrait in the artist’s work, starting with the blurred black-and-white pictures of the 1960s and moving on to the colorful panels of recent years, while Hubertus Butin devotes his essay to Richter’s portrait photography of the 1960s. Portraits demonstrates that Richter pursues the theme of the portrait in not only all of the media in which he works, but in every genre as well. Gerhard Richter was born in 1932 in Dresden, Germany. Since the early 1960s he has emerged as one of the essential painters of the postwar period, pioneering photorealism with paintings made from found photographs (amateur snapshots, advertisements and book and magazine illustrations) and then from his own photographs. His work has also profoundly engaged with and influenced such genres as Pop and abstract art. His recent retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art, one of the largest ever organized there for a living artist, traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Hirshhorn Museum. Gerhard Richter:Portraits ISBN 3-7757-1725-0 U.S. $35.00 Hardcover, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 224 pgs / 80 color and 30 b&w. July / Art Exhibition Schedule Flensburg: Museumsberg Flensburg, 5/4/06-7/2006 ALSO AVAILABLE: Gerhard Richter: 100 Pictures Hbk, ISBN 3775791000 U.S. $35.00 Hatje Cantz Publishers Now that we do not have priests and philosophers anymore, artists are the most important people in the world . .. Art is wretched, cynical, stupid, helpless, confusing. —Gerhard Richter www.artbook.com • Voice: 800.338.2665 • Fax: 800.478.3128 4 Hatje Cantz Publishers Henri Matisse: Figure Color Space Edited by Pia Müller-Tamm. Essays by Gottfried Böhm, Stefan Grohé, Peter Kropmanns, Rémi Labrusse, Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, Maria Müller, Margret Stuffmann, Beate Söntgen and Katharina Sykora. No other subject inspired Henri Matisse with such passion throughout his career as the female figure in interior settings. This is the most comprehensive publication to cover the topic of women in the work of the great regenerator of European painting, and in so doing, it covers the full spectrum of Matisse’s creative evolution, from the small, somber, early pictures to the masterly com- positions of his Fauvist phase, the intimate pictorial inventions of the Nice period, and finally the luminous paper cutouts of his late work. Many of the interiors show women reading, sleeping or daydreaming, passive figures enveloped in Oriental fabrics, costumed as odalisques or reclining on chaise longues. Additional motifs include the artist and his model, the artist’s studio, the portrait, the still-life, and the view from a window. Figure Color Space offers an in-depth survey of this important subject in Matisse’s work, through which he developed and continually explored his rich and imaginative repertoire of forms and colors. Along with paintings from all periods, it includes sculptures, drawings, cutouts and prints, as well as historical studio photographs by Cartier-Bresson, Brassaï, Hélène Adant and others. A richly illustrated biogra- phy completes this exquisite presentation. Henri Matisse was born in 1869 and grew up in northern France, near Belgium. As a young man he studied law and worked in the courts until, con- valescing after appendicitis, he began to paint. His work became some of the most important art made in the twentieth century. It is intensely composed and colored; he was the leader of the Fauvists and soon an acknowledged leader across the arts. His career was powerful and enduring by any standard, and 50 years after death in 1954, his work continues to rise in value. In 2003, The Museum of Modern Art organized “Matisse Picasso,” a show setting the two artists’ work side by side, and in 2005 Matisse’s son’s collection of his work appeared at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Henri Matisse: Figure Color Space ISBN 3-7757-1601-7 U.S. $65.00 Clothbound, 9.75 x 12 in. / 384 pgs / 200 color and 40 b&w. February / Art Exhibition Schedule Düsseldorf: K20 Kunstsammlung Noedrhein-Westfalen, 10/29/05-2/19/06 Riehen/Basel: Fondation Beyeler, 3/19/06-7/7/06 Basically, there’s only one: Matisse. —Pablo Picasso distributed art publishers, inc. Ludion 5 Bonnard SPR Essays by Yve-Alain Bois, Sarah Whitfield and Georges Rocque. Among those painters who incontestably left their mark on twentieth- I NG H century art, Bonnard rises to the top again and again. Museums, scholars and viewers regularly return to his oeuvre for reinterpretation, passionate and contradictory, of what it means to be Modern. In having followed a very IGH personal calling—literally and figuratively interior, particularly compared to LIGH the work of friends like Matisse—Bonnard created work as innovative as any of his contemporaries’. His recurring themes—the nude (both classical and erotic), the landscape, domestic life, and the self-portrait—evolve with him TS from the nineteenth century to the twentieth, from Paris to the south of France, alive with constant reinvention. Although for Bonnard the subject was always important, his work navigates a sophisticated dialectic between the givens of perception and memory, between the image before our eyes and all that it suggests.