B. H. D. Buchloh

Francesca Woodman

Photographs, 1975-1980

Andy Warhol

On the occasion of what would have been Andy Warhol's eightieth birthday, in 2008, this exquisitely produced volume examines one essential but miraculously under-studied element of the artist's work: The shadow. Beginning with photographic still lifes of skulls and taxidermied animals, then moving on to male nudes, tabletops and table settings, celebrity portraits, gems, fruits and many amazing still lifes of hammers, sickles, shoes and other ordinary objects that presage Fischli & Weiss' Equilibres by several years, Shadows and Other Signs of Life concludes with Warhol's photographs of actual shadows and an outstanding selection of abstract silkscreens, stenciled works and piss paintings. Published to accompany the eponymous exhibition at Paris' Galerie Chantal Crousel, this volume contains illuminating short texts--Anniversary Notes for Andy Warhol--by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh.

Shadows and Other Signs of Life ; Anniversary Notes for Andy Warhol

Marcel Broodthaers

Rainer Borgemeister

This book presents a selection of Broodthaers' own writings, interviews with the artist, 90 illustrations of his work, a complete bibliography, and critical essays.

Writings, Interviews, Photographs

Broodthaers

Gerhard Richter

Dieter Schwarz

This up-to-the-minute volume presents new, large-scale works by Gerhard Richter, most of which have never before been published. Four 2005 drawings reproduced at 1:1 scale complete the picture.

Paintings from 2003-2005

Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Molly Nesbit

Abraham Cruzvillegas

Gabriel Kuri

Damian Ortega

Museo Rufino Tamayo

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey

The book is the most complete monograph of artist Orozco (b.Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico,1962) published to date, covering his career with a selection of his most representative works from the late 1980's to the present. Contents include essays by art historians Yve-Alain Bois and Benjamin H. D. Buchloh and a long interview by Briony Fer, where the artist shares his motivations and thoughts regarding conceptual art, culture and the philosophy behind his work. Benjamin H.D. Buchloh refers to the different forms of sculpture during the 20th century and the culture of market economy and their manifestations since the transformations to object-subject. Finally Yve-Alain Bois explores the recent return to painting of Orozco critically analyzing the formal and structural logic of his canvas. With a nomadic lifestyle and a permanent changing and varied artistic practice that includes sculpture, drawing, photography, installation, collage, painting and video, noted Orozco is an artist that defies any categorization.

Ausstellungskat

Didier Semin

Laurent Busine

Daniela Lancioni

Ruggero Penone

Giuseppe Penone's work is characterized by the beauty of its form and materials as well as the existential questions it raises. Associated with the Arte Povera movement and focusing as much on the creative process as on the work itself, the artist identifies himself with the river, the breath, and, more abstractly, movement and life. His works have been exhibited around the world, including his famous l'Arbre des voyelles (1999) in the Tuileries Gardens in Paris. In 2013, Penone will be exhibiting as Guest of Honour in the Chateau de Versailles. Combining historical, scientific, and poetic approaches, this handsome volume is structured around seven key themes in Penone's work: breath, eyes, skin, heart, blood, memory, and speech. Giuseppe Penone includes documentation of the artist's sculptures, drawings, photographs, and writings, and provides a fascinating overview of one of today's major international artists.

Forty Years of Creation

Giuseppe Penone

Painting After the Subject of History

Armin Zweite

Jean-François Chevrier

Rainer Rochlitz

This publication brings together four texts which analyze Gerhard Richter's monumental project Atlas, an assemblage of photographs that he has collected since 1962. Atlas, which at present comprises more than 5,000 images -- ranging from political portraits to landscapes and from found photojournalistic pictures to photographs taken by the artist himself -- constitutes an ordered collection of personal visual memories from which Richter draws the themes and motifs for his ongoing exploration of the possibilities of painting. Buchloh examines Atlas as a mnemonic device, comparing Richter's assemblage to Aby Warburg's 1927 monumental project on collective memory; Chevrier distinguishes European and American uses of photography and art and positions Richter's work in contrast to that of the Photorealists and American Pop artists; Zweite discusses Atlas as a response to the tension between semantics and semiotics in Modernism; and Rochlitz analyses the complex relationship between photography and painting in contemporary art with specific reference to Richter's works Ema and Betty.

Four Essays on Atlas

Photography and Painting in the Work of Gerhard Richter

The first collection of essays on Gerhard Richter, who has been called "the greatest modern painter."

Hélène Cixous

Manuel J. Borja-Villel

Mignon Nixon

Nancy Spero

Nancy Spero (born in Cleveland, Ohio, 1926) is a pioneer of feminist art and a key figure in the new York protest scene of the 1960s and 70s, as highly regarded as famed artists Martha Rosler and Adrian Piper. With a career spanning over 50 years, Spero continues even today to engage, questoin, and defy our current political, social and cultural scene. her work has recently been exhibited throughout the US and Europe, including the last edition of the Venice Biennial. This book focuses on the artist's search to create her own language, featuring the best of her work, from early student works on paper to her latest presentation at the Venice Biennial. --

Dissidances

Andy Warhol (1928-1987) was one of the most celebrated artists of the last third of the 20th century. The essays in this volume address his relation to and effect on mass culture and the recurrence of disaster and death in his art.

Gabriel Orozco

Briony Fer

Serpentine Gallery

Rochelle Steiner

Considered to be one of the greatest conceptual and installation artists of his generation, this text surveys key aspects of the practice of Gabriel Orozco.

Whitney Museum of American Art

Walker Evans

Allan Sekula

Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen

Musée Cantini

"Si l'oeuvre de Walker Evans (1903-1975) est strictement photographique, la photographie ne constitue qu'un aspect, mais très important, de celle de Dan Graham. Pour ces deux artistes américains, la photographie représente une manière d'approfondir leur intérêt pour l'architecture, la vie urbaine et la culture vernaculaire. Walker Evans réalisa l'essentiel de son oeuvre dans les années 1930, réunissant un ensemble d'images qui préfigurent le Pop Art. Dan Graham s'est manifesté dans l'art conceptuel des années 1960, comme l'un des artistes qui ont repris le plus consciemment l'héritage du Pop Art. L'exposition a été conçue par l'historien d'art Jean-François Chevrier. Les photographies et les textes du livre qui l'accompagnent devraient mettre en évidence les constantes formelles et culturelles communes à l'histoire des arts visuels et à l'histoire de la photographie."--Page 4 de la couverture.

Walker Evans & Dan Graham : exposition Rotterdam, 1992, Marseille, Musée Cantini, Münster, Westfalisches Landesmuseum, 1993, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1994

Ellsworth Kelly

Matrix

Leading art critic and theoretician Buchloh discusses post-World War 2 avant-garde artists from both formalist and socio-historical perspectives in this collection of essays.

Essays on European and American Art from 1955 to 1975

Neo-avantgarde and Culture Industry

Hal Foster

David Joselit

Rosalind Krauss

Yve-Alain Bois

Five of the most influential and provocative art historians of our time have come together to provide a comprehensive history of art in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries

1945 to the Present

Art Since 1900

B. H. D. Buchloh

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