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Philip Johnson was for many years the most powerful figure in the society and politics of his profession. The impressively illustrated book “Philip Johnson, A Visual Biography” traces his seven decades of larger-than-life influence, innovation, and controversy in the realm of architecture and beyond. The book covers his early travels …
New York in the 1970s was the global epicenter of the fledgling new art form, with artists such as Nam June Paik, …
The concept of sculpture, of what constitutes the sculptural, is more complex and ambiguous than almost any other in art theory, even …
Park Chan-Kyong is the second artist selected for the “MMCA* Artist Studies” series. Since the late 1980s, Park has been a member …
From the end of World War II until the mid-1960s, exciting things were happening in American architecture. Emerging talents were focusing on …
Haegue Yang’s body of work is characterized by the extraordinary diversity of its media and methods, yet at the same time, it …
Jean-Michel Othoniel is an artist who creates sculptures that explore themes of fragility, transformation, and ephemerality. Using the repetition of such modular …
In the construction industry, cardboard tubes have been widely used since the 1950s as molds for concrete columns. More recently, however, they …
Over a period of six decades, Gerhard Richter has built up a stylistically heterogeneous and conceptually complex body of painting, photography, sculpture …
The monograph “Anatomy of Minimum” is the latest volume in Phaidon’s documentation of John Pawson’s career, hones in on the essential details …
Postmodernism began as a critique. By the late 1960s and early 1970s, Modernism was no longer seen as radical or even relevant. …
“Appearance Stripped Bare” is the first book to explore two of the biggest names in modern and contemporary art side by side, …
Francis Bacon’s disturbing images (his portrayals of friends and fellow artists, and the deformations and stylistic distortions of classical subjects) radically altered …
“SuperDesign: Italian Radical Design 1965-75” charts the Italian Radicals’ bold experimentation in modern design from its birth through its continued influence on …
In 1950s New York, before he became one of the most famous names of the 20th century, Andy Warhol was already a …
Teresita Fernández creates elaborate installations that pull viewers into other worlds and environments, playing with scale, material and how we understand and …
To coincide with his solo exhibition, Blain|Southern “New Paintings” Blain|Southern has published “Michael Simpson: Paintings and Drawings 1989-2019”. This new monograph offers …
Credited with a key role in the revival of painting in the 1990s, Luc Tuymans continues to produce subtle, and at times …
The biography “Piero Manzoni: An Artist’s Life” published by Gagosian in collaboration with the Fondazione Piero Manzoni and authored by Flaminio Gualdoni, …
In 1958, when Columbia Records commissioned Roy DeCarava to shoot the cover photograph for Miles Davis’s “Porgy and Bess”, most sleeve photographers …
The monograph “Robert Gober: Tick Tock” borrows it’s name from exhibition of the same name (Gober’s first since his 2014 survey at …
Inspired by the spirit of the pocketbook, this publication features installation views from the exhibition “Growing Freedom: The Instructions of Yoko Ono …
