Lydia Yee

Collaborators and friends, Laurie Anderson, Trisha Brown, and Gordon Matta-Clark were at the cutting edge of Manhattan's burgeoning downtown art scene during the 1970s. This catalogue examines the crossover of these artists' practices and the influence of their work on each other.

Pioneers of the Downtown Scene, New York 1970s

Laurie Anderson, Trisha Brown, Gordon Matta-Clark

Francesco Manacorda

Corinna Gardner

"This exhibition is founded on a simple conceit: a group of anthropologists from outer space set out on a mission to understand life on Earth. After examining some basic aspects of terrestrial life, they investigate the phenomenon that human beings call 'contemporary art'"--Page 7.

Illustrating 175 Objects with 250 Plates in Full Colour

Catherine Ince

Juliette Desorgues

From expressionist beginnings to a pioneering model uniting art and technology, this catalogue explores the Bauhauss utopian vision to change society in the aftermath of the First World War. Bauhaus: Art as Life presents the diverse artistic production that made up its turbulent fourteen-year history and delves into the subjects at the heart of the school: art, culture, life, politics and society, and the changing technology of the age. Bauhaus: Art as Life reproduces a rich array of painting, sculpture, design, architecture, film, photography, textiles, ceramics, theatre and installation. Exemplar works from such Bauhaus Masters as Josef and Anni Albers, Marianne Brandt, Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius, Johannes Itten, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Hannes Meyer, László Moholy-Nagy, Oskar Schlemmer, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Gunta Stölzl, are illustrated alongside works by lesser-known Bauhaus artists and students.

Art as Life

Bauhaus

Tomie Arai

Double Happiness

Briony Fer

Mary Heilmann studied ceramics and poetry before moving to New York in 1968 and taking up painting. A pioneer of infusing abstract painting with influences from craft traditions and popular culture--especially rock music and California beach culture--Heilmann is one of the most important yet under-recognized artists working today. Mary Heilmann: Looking at Picturesexplores the artist’s approach to abstraction from two distinct but interrelated perspectives: the formal and the personal. The autobiographical dimension of the artist’s work is clear in her pieces related to friendships, memories and places; while the formal aspect of her oeuvre is evident in her paintings of grids and squares rendered in primary colors and in works based on architectural planes. As well as a new essay by Briony Fer and writings on key works by the artist, the volume features over 100 beautiful full-color illustrations of paintings, works on paper, furniture and ceramics from Heilmann’s five-decade career.

Looking at Pictures

Mary Heilmann

Exploring more than a dozen personal collections of contemporary artists, this unique and revealing book probes the aesthetic and psychological dimensions of collecting and shows how objects can influence and reflect their owners' work. A lead essay examines the reasons why artists collect, attempting to understand the relationship between the objects artists amass and the works they make, and contributions by or on each of the artists reflect on the personal significance of collecting habits.

The Artist As Collector

Magnificent Obsessions

Accompanying the first major UK solo exhibition of her work, this comprehensive publication charts five decades of Brazil-based artist Anna Maria Maiolino, one of the defining female voices of her generation. Born in Calabria, Italy, in 1942, Anna Maria Maiolino's extraordinary multi-dimensional career is presented by Whitechapel Gallery in the first major UK solo exhibition of the artist's work. Bringing together emotive clay sculptures, politically-charged films and performances, drawings, photography and installations, the large-scale survey will feature highlights of Maiolino's work from the late 1960s to the present. Drawing inspiration from the everyday female consciousness, Maiolino's work considers speech, language and the body, and frequently takes inspiration from her experience as an immigrant coming of age under Brazil's military dictatorship in the 1970s and 80s. From her personal perspective as a woman, a feminist and a mother, she charts half a century of political, military and cultural shifts in Brazil, with her work embracing a wide range of languages and media to study the underlying difficulty in communication, expresssion and human relationships. The catalogue will feature essays by Michael Asbury, Catherine de Zegher and Paolo Miyada. Exhibition Whitechapel Gallery, London: 24 September 2019 - 12 January 2020 Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Sao Paolo: September - December 2020

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