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The House of Viktor and Rolf: Caroline Evans, Susannha Frankel

Updated Jul 9, 2008

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Famed for their high-concept catwalk shows and extravagant collections, the radical Dutch design duo Viktor & Rolf have taken the fashion world by storm over the last 15 years. This sumptuously produced book is the most comprehensive exploration of Viktor & Rolf’s work to date, and includes an essay by the fashion historian Caroline Evans, an interview with the designers, a detailed biography and perceptive texts on each collection. Particular attention is given to signature looks from such collections as Atomic Bomb and Russian Doll, which showcase the duo’s unique blend of cool irony and surreal beauty. Featuring style shots by some of the world’s most celebrated photographers, catwalk images, behind-the-scenes snapshots and portraits, The House of Viktor & Rolf is a stunning tribute to two of the most original designers in haute couture. (via Barbican Art Gallery)

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Balthus - Works, Interviews

Updated Jun 24, 2008

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Widely considered one of the greatest, and certainly one of the most mysterious and erotically daring, painters of the twentieth century, Balthus, or Balthazar Klossowski, the French/Polish Count de Rola, died in his adopted Switzerland in 2001 at the age of 93. Descended from Polish aristocracy and raised among important European intellectuals like Rainer Maria Rilke, Andre Gide and Jean Cocteau, Balthus went on to consort and collaborate with many of the most influential members of the Modern avant garde-including Breton, Picasso, Artaud, Giacometti, Camus, Masson and Lacan, to name a fraction. His disturbing and often erotically charged paintings remain enduringly enigmatic.
In this beautifully illustrated collection, Mieke Bal analyzes the way that the paintings emanate both reality and un-reality, creating the unique sense of eeriness at the heart of Balthus' work--which always invites viewers in and repels them at the same time. According to Bal, we are given access to a world that is in no way explained. Thus, the works must labor against assumptions of representation and appropriation, drawing us in to a world we know not to exist. In Bal's interpretation, this canny fictionality renders the typical allegations of erotic appropriation naive and censorious. Rather than reduce Balthus's work to the adolescent girls, Bal focuses on additional issues such as color, space, genre and history.

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Fades

Updated Nov 29, 2007

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Installation art and video art is my favorite fine art forms, it's always exciting to have access to the work, as most installation art seldom leaves the museum or gallery space.

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Fades is video installation for a specifically designed environment. Ultra fine sprays of mist are introduced into a space in which the white light of the projection manifests itself. These fades move in synchrony to the sound creating a variety of shapes and structures based on linear and logarithmic wave modulations. The main focus does not lie on the image projected, but on the light beam itself, which becomes a three-dimensional sculpture.

Similar to the essence of music the visual vocabulary of Fades establishes a kind of universal language that is able to communicate what is outside of our usual systems of understanding.

The book compiles a number of stills from the source movie of Fades along with some installation views and the text inside the black box by Daniel Klemm. The DVD includes the source movie of Fades as stereo or 5.1 version.

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Vb53

Updated Nov 29, 2007

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VB 53 provides documentation of Vanessa Beecroft's most recent performance at Pitti Immagine Uomo 66 in Florence's Horticultural Garden. Twenty-one models of varying appearance and race were planted in a mass of earth in the tepidarium. All were nude except for a single accessory: Helmut Lang shoes that wrapped around their ankles, separating their bare legs from the bare, rough earth. According to Beecroft, "The sole is reference to land art. Very dark and humid, like the rich foam of cultivated fields . . . The performance juxtaposes the purity of the female body, their nudity, with the dirty color of the soil and its material. Some models look like lillies, others like potatoes. Lilies and potatoes can also grow in filth." The 50 images in this book illuminate Beecroft's signature issues: the body, beauty, and identity.

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Walton Ford: Pancha Tantra

Updated Nov 29, 2007

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Walton Ford's art is deserving of a great book, and I'm happy to see Taschen Books take the time and care to present the work of Walton Ford in such a high quality art and collector’s edition.

ABOUT THE BOOK:
Walton Ford’s life-sized watercolors of animals could be mistaken for 19th-century natural-science illustrations or British colonial paintings. Except they’re not. Something strange and usually sinister is happening in each of Ford’s works, whether it’s a turkey crushing a small parrot with its claw, a collection of monkeys wreaking havoc on a formally set dinner table, or a buffalo surrounded by a pack of bloodied white wolves… in the middle of a proper French garden. Executed with the deft skill of a natural-history artist, Ford’s works vibrate with an intensity of uncanny familiarity; they are both reassuring in style and disturbing in content. With titles like Au Revoir Zaire, Dirty Dick Burton’s Aide de Camp, and Space Monkey, his paintings not only blur the lines between human and animal history, but also open the doors to a world of real-life fantasy, dreams, and nightmares.

For this hand-crafted, limited-edition volume, Ford’s paintings have been color-separated and reproduced in Pan4C, the finest reproduction technique available today, providing unequalled intensity and color range. The book includes 12 horizontal and 4 vertical foldouts, along with dozens of details, which present the work at a scale that practically allows the viewer to enter the ancient and peopled landscapes, feel the brush of a bird’s feathers against flesh, and experience the hot breath of a wild cat about to go for the jugular.

Collected together for the first ever in-depth exploration of Walton Ford’s œuvre, Ford’s bestiary takes its name from one of the texts he frequently cites in his work: The Pancha Tantra, the ancient Indian book of animal folktales collected from the 3rd to 5th centuries B.C. that is considered to be the precursor to Aesop’s Fables. Stories derived from many of the texts that served as the germinal seed for these paintings fill the book’s appendix; and an original essay by New Yorker staff writer Bill Buford substantiates the notion that this contemporary artist is more than just one to watch, but one who will stand the test of time. Available in an Art and a Collector’s Edition, Walton Ford: Pancha Tantra is limited to a total of 1,600 copies, signed by the artist and presented in a custom clamshell box.

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Jean-baptiste Mondino: Guitar Eros

Updated Aug 23, 2007

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Mondino presents his guitar photographs created over the past twenty years as commissioned works or his own projects. They portray famous rock and pop musicians such as Mick Jagger, Madonna, Tom Waits, and Keith Richards; models and celebrities with guitars; and numerous anonymous guitar players. Central subject and the undisputed star of each picture, however, is the guitar itself.

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Mondino: Two Much

Updated Aug 23, 2007

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Technically brilliant, with an equally rich and scin-tillating mix of black humor, glamour, and bizarre erotic visions, Two Much is an essential source of inspiration for all those who by profession or by passion deal with photography, advertising, and life style.

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Wallace Berman - Photographs

Updated Aug 17, 2007

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Until the 1999 discovery of an archive of his photographic negatives, very few people have known that Berman was also an extremely accomplished photographer.

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Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings by Yoko Ono

Updated Aug 8, 2007

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Yoko Ono's "Grapefruit" is whimsical, delightful, subversive, startling book of instructions for art and for life.

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Courtney Love by Hedi Silmane: Portrait of a Performer

Updated Aug 7, 2007

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Dior Homme designer Hedi Slimane has always stood at the intersection of fashion, art and music. Over the past 10 years, his slick, sexy designs and signature cut have revolutionized menswear. Several bodies of his photographic works London Birth of a Cult and his ongoing "Rock Diary" series for V magazine have documented underground rock culture at its loudest and most extreme. In this latest project, Slimane teams up with the editors of Visionaire and V to deliver Portrait of a Performer, an exclusive photojournal devoted to the provocative musician and muse, Courtney Love. Shot in New York in August of 2006, just before the release of Love's latest record, the intimate black-and-white studies capture the American pop icon, semi-nude, just before her return to the Billboard charts defiant, mesmerizing, flawed and vulnerable. Portrait of a Performer documents a highly charged encounter between two creative forces who have influenced rock and fashion, each on their own terms.

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Edward Weston - Book of Nudes

Updated Aug 2, 2007

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Edward Weston, simply a master poet of silver grey and the fine cursive questions of hair on skin

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Brian Oglesbee - Aquatique

Updated Aug 2, 2007

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The watery depths, photographs, evocative and magnificent sensual images of his "Water Series," captured here, these mysterious figures.

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Hans Bellmer - Death, Desire and the Doll

Updated Aug 2, 2007

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no matter how many times books on Hans Bellmer comes out, the ideas and images of Hans Bellmer's "Doll" are always compelling...

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Egon Schiele: Erotic Sketches / Erotische Skizzen (Erotic Sketchbook)

Updated Aug 2, 2007

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Once I removed the ribbon that treads trough the cover I discovered a hidden work which is precious to view, yet is even more desired as a gateway into Egon Schiele line-work. (via Hennessey + Ingalls Bookstore)

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Minipops : Famous People Drawn Really Small: Books: Craig Robinson

Updated Jul 24, 2007

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Welcome to the itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny, carefully constructed, pop-tastic, strangely addictive world of minipops from Craig Robinson's hit cult website, Flip Flop Flyin'. This is the definitive minipops collection: over 800 celebrities in all their pixellated glory. Any fan of popular culture will love poring through Robinson's ever-expanding army of miniature pixellated people (including international popstars, actors, comedians, and historical figures). Leaf through the pages and identify as many minipops as you can; should you get stuck, the answers appear in the back in Robinson's own inimitable, witty words. (via Flip Flop Flyin')

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Wim Crouwel - Mode En Module

Updated Jul 23, 2007

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This capacious volume examines the life and work of Wim Crouwel (Groningen, 1928) who began his career in 1952 as a designer of stands and exhibitions but is now best-known as a graphic designer. It describes how, under the spell of modernism, architecture and Swiss typography, he decided to make design his profession. This led in 1963 to the founding of the influential design office whose name says it all: Total Design, of which Crouwel was a partner, as well as co-director until well into the eighties. This monograph shows how Total Design conquered the Netherlands and became a yardstick for companies and cultural organisations. The book ends with a lavishly illustrated list of works comprising more than 1000 works from 45 productive years: high and low culture, commercial and cultural commissions, subtle booklets and arresting posters, together with fashionable and neutral product design - an uncommonly multi-faceted and rich body of works that reveals more with each fresh examination.

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TATTOO ICONS

Updated Jul 23, 2007

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An ingenious collaborative project by top designers, illustrators and artists from all over the world. If you are bored with the prevalent zodiac, tribal, floral or dark tattoo motifs, Tattoo Icons offers you a selection of about 300 fresh and unique symbols, characters, icons and even typo treated as tattoo. With a free extra section of removable tattoos for trial, are you ready for some tattoo action? (via magma books)

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Wolfgang Tillmans: Manual

Updated Jul 23, 2007

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At just over 430 pages, this monumental and beautifully designed new monograph presents the most comprehensive view of the London-based photographer Wolfgang Tillmans' work to date, featuring many photographic works and abstract "paintings" from the past five years that have never been published before. When he is working on an exhibition or a publication, Tillmans displays and combines pictures on long tables in his studio so that the images are "held in position only by their own weight. The method of laying out two-dimensional objects on a table produces 'clarity' and allows perspective. A new text emerges through the combination of intrinsically different pieces of paper. The issues dealt with on these tables do not claim to be fully comprehensive and the items chosen do not profess to be definitive examples of their kind. Rather, this multivocal process allows me to amplify voices I feel need strengthening, contrasting them with their opposites and their neighbors." This method has become a concept. In Manual the artist combines his own photographs, painterly works and texts together with already existing newspaper articles to create an associative, comprehensive view. The material is condensed into a complex artistic dialogue with various social and political themes, like AIDS or the question of absolute truth, which the artist has been exploring for years.

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Chris Burden

Updated Jul 18, 2007

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This comprehensive overview, the first to appear in almost a decade, examines an artistic career, that now must be viewed as one of the most fascinating in the history of Contemporary art. From his highly controversial and seminal performance works of the early 1970s, to his complex, imaginative installations and monumental sculptures, the art of Chris Burden uniquely informs as well as incorporates the major artistic undercurrents of the last three decades. Not only has the artist made a major contribution to the history of body-related performance art, but the artist's fascination with systems of power, societal organization, architectural structure and technological systems, have resulted in an extraordinary body of sculptural objects and environmental installations over the last 35 years. In compiling this publication the artist has worked closely with curator and long time associate Fred Hoffman, taking this opportunity to re-examine his work afresh and revealing images that are unpublished or rarely seen.

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Extreme Canvas: Movie Poster Paintings from Ghana

Updated Jul 13, 2007

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The movie posters within this collection indirectly illuminates how the images of rigidly enforced corporate Hollywood iconography can be stretched, distorted, played with and re-imagined through the cultural translation of illustrators and artists who's vision and style are not controlled by the Hollywood system (or even popular and accepted American or European advertising and media design). As in Thai, Polish and Czech poster history the movie poster artist of Ghana provide a visual expression which is often more interesting in than the movies they are commissioned to represent.

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