Michael Auping Author (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: New. Gorgeous oversized hardcover with silver fabric and photo inset with black lettering to spine and front cover. Folio (10.02 x 1.18 x 12.82 inches). Clean text free of marks or underlining. Full color photos and illustrations on heavy paper. Art exhibition catalog from Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. 262 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Accompanying a major survey of the American artist Laurie Simmons, this generously illustrated book features every important step of her ever-evolving career--from small black-and-white photographs of miniature furniture to large-scale, full color images featuring life-sized Japanese dolls. Gender roles and identity, reality and its distortion, and the psychologically loaded myth of "normal life" are recurrent themes in Laurie Simmons's work. Taken chronologically, her career has followed a trajectory from miniature to full size, black-and-white to color, mechanical to human. Over more than four decades, the artist's authentic gaze has remained unflinching, whether she is composing tableaux of plastic figurines and props, or painting the eyelids of glamorous models and transforming them into doll-like humans with an unsettling stare. Her well-known series, such as "Walking and Lying Objects" and "The Instant Decorator," are featured here along with lesser-known series that explore underwater photography, self-portraiture, and a feature film starring Meryl Streep and a plastic dummy. The book includes an essay on Simmons's early iconic photographs, while other writings take closer looks at specific and more recent series. Renowned art historian and curator Michael Auping's interview with Simmons rounds out this book. Copublished by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and DelMonico Books.…

First edition. 12 x 9 inches. 250 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original printed boards; original slipcase. "This landmark catalogue presents a retrospective study of Frank Stella (b. 1936), one of the most important figures in 20th-century American art. Showcasing works from all of his major series, the book surveys the full sweep of Stella's career, from his artistic beginnings in high school and college to today. The book's spectacular plate section comprises more than 100 works, including paintings, sculptures, reliefs, and works on paper. Notable inclusions are his seminal Black Paintings, recent high-relief aluminum works, and a selection of drawings, maquettes, and digital renderings--many of which are reproduced here for the first time--that offer fresh insight into Stella's thinking and process. Essays discuss topics such as the artist's early years at Phillips Academy in Andover and Princeton University, and his late-career architectural pieces created with the aid of computer software. An interview with Stella conducted by American painter Laura Owens allows Stella to illuminate his artistic practice in his own words. Additional resources include a chronology with extensive bibliographic and exhibition references. This definitive publication is the most thorough examination to date of Stella's astounding contributions in all media, which cement his role as one of the most important practitioners of modern abstraction" (the publisher). A clean copy.…

Paperback. Condition: near fine(-). First Paperback Edition. 245 pages: illustrations (some color); 26 x 29 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Albright-Knox Art Gallery, and at other museums from Sept. 12, 1993 to Sept. 22, 1994./ Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-238). An impressive book with many full-color reproductions of this talented artist's work.Printed on coated stock. / Jess, 1923-2004 -- Exhibitions. Collage. Paintings. Found objects. Exhibition catalogs. Exhibition catalogs. Exhibition catalogs. Catalogues d'exposition. San Francisco artists, Robert Duncan. Gay artists. San Francisco Renaissance. Very minor wear to exterior and half title; else overall near fine to near fine(-).…

12 x 9.75 inches. 272 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original wrappers. First edition. A near-fine copy.