from San Diego, CA
Luc Tuymans (b. 1958) is a painter engaged with figuration,” using imagery that he reworks in a critical or self-critical way. He combines images from various sourcesphotographs, film stills, mirror imageswith a spare palette, unexpected cropping, and blurring to reinforce the painted image’s statu...
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
128
Publisher
The Menil Collection
ISBN #
030019644X
EAN Code
9780300196443
ISBN #
5
Over the last century, many artists and filmmakers have used silence as subject matter and medium, exploring it as symbol, phenomenon, memorial device, and oppressive force. Silence examines the ways twenty-nine artists invoke silence to shape space and consciousness, most after John Cage's 4'33" (1...
Author
Toby Kamps, Steve Seid
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
112
Publisher
The Menil Collection
ISBN #
0300179642
EAN Code
9780300179644
ISBN #
4
This fascinating book introduces and explores the resonance of Gandhi’s (18691948)ethics of nonviolence in the visual arts. Taking the form of a reader, the texts range across influences on Gandhian philosophy and outgrowths from it. The accompanying images include Gandhi’s own iconography, photojou...
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
352
Publisher
The Menil Collection
ISBN #
0300208804
EAN Code
9780300208801
ISBN #
3
This catalogue for the traveling exhibition Space Is the Place (whose title refers to a movie about the super-experimental and influential jazz musician, Sun Ra) takes an inspired look at the theme of space exploration. Encompassing the concept of infinite potential, as well as historical outer-spac...
Author
Alex Baker, Toby Kamps, Svetlana Boym, Laurie Anderson
Binding
Paperback
Pages
80
Publisher
Independent Curators International
ISBN #
0916365743
EAN Code
9780916365745
ISBN #
10
John Wood (born 1969) and Paul Harrison (born 1966) fuse their aesthetic research with existential slapstick comedy. Working together since 1993, the British duo use a wide variety of props, including furniture, household utensils and their own bodies, setting up comical interactions with objects th...
Author
Toby Kamps
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
120
Publisher
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
ISBN #
1933619317
EAN Code
9781933619316
ISBN #
9
Borrowing its title from Greil Marcus' 1997 book The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes, this publication is produced in conjunction with an exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, which considers the work of 16 artists who explore American folk imagery and hist...
Author
Toby Kamps, Michael Duncan, Colleen Sheehy, Dario Robleto
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
160
Publisher
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
ISBN #
1933619120
EAN Code
9781933619125
ISBN #
8
Red Green Blue is almost the title of a 1963 painting by Ellsworth Kelly. Red Blue Green, a monumental rectangular oil work, considered a crucial fulcrum point in the artist's career, represents Kelly's concerns about the tension between the figure and the ground, offering two precisely shaped and b...
Author
Roberta Bernstein, Sarah Rich, Hugh Davies, Toby Kamps
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
128
Publisher
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
ISBN #
0934418624
EAN Code
9780934418621
ISBN #
2
William N. Copley (1919–96) was a multifaceted American artist and art-world catalyst. Creator of madcap narrative paintings, drawings and installations, Copley was a unique figure in postwar art history well known for his humorous and sarcastic imagery. Known by his nom de plume CPLY, he was a self...
Author
Gwen Allen, Paul Franklin, Alison Gingeras, Jonathan Griffin
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
400
Publisher
Fondazione Prada
ISBN #
8887029644
EAN Code
9788887029642
ISBN #
1
Author
Toby Kamps
ISBN #
0934418624