Art Institute of Chicago

Mark Benjamin Godfrey

Offers a survey of the key artists of the 1960s and 1970s who used photography to new and inventive ends, including such acclaimed international artists as Vito Acconci, John Baldessari, Mel Bochner, Sol LeWitt, Bruce Nauman and Ed Ruscha.

Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964-1977

Light Years

Kathy Halbreich

Lanka Tattersall

Magnus Schaefer

Working across an unusually broad range of media, including painting, photography, film, drawing and sculpture, Sigmar Polke (German, 1941-2010) is widely regarded as one of the most influential and experimental artists of the post-war generation. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, this richly illustrated publication provides an overview of Polke's cross-disciplinary innovations and career. It features more than 500 illustrations and 18 contributions by scholars and artists that examine the full range of Polke's exceptionally inventive oeuvre. Authors such as exhibition curators Kathy Halbreich, Mark Godfrey and Lanka Tattersall, artists John Kelsey and Jutta Koether, and renowned professors Benjamin Buchloh and Christine Mehring discuss a wide range of topics that include Polke's engagement with German history, abstraction and the paranormal, his continuous questioning of conventional artistic disciplines and social norms, and his experiments with materials and tools as diverse as toxic pigments, patterned fabrics, images taken from a vast range of sources, and the Xerox machine. Four lead essays trace broad themes in Polke's work across mediums and across his career, while twelve shorter texts each focus on a single work or aspect of Polke's practice, which allows for a concentrated consideration of critical issues such as Polke's use of language or textiles that have never been discussed before in any depth. A richly illustrated chronology presents a cultural frame for Polke's work and an interview with Benjamin Buchloh offers insight on Polke's first retrospective, held in 1976. The catalogue includes contributions by a wide range of authors with great expertise, most of whom have never published on Polke before, thus broadening the scope of scholarship on Polke and offering new thinking about this chameleon-like artist.

Sigmar Polke 1963-2010. Supplement

Alibis

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

Tate Modern (Gallery)

Francis Alÿs

Klaus Peter Biesenbach

Francis Alys, born in Belgium in 1959, is one of the world's leading contemporary artists. After studying architecture in Venice, in 1986 he moved to Mexico City, where he has lived ever since. Alys works at scales ranging from the humblest drawing to the creation of epic events involving hundreds of participants, in media including video, photography, painting and performance. With an introductory essay by Mark Godfrey and comments on over sixty key works by Alys and Cuauhtemoc Medina, this book features a dictionary of quotes from the artist as well as responses to his work from a range of international contributors, including artists, critics, poets and urban theorists.

A Story of Deception

Zoé Whitley

Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name held at Tate Modern, London, July 12-October 22, 2017; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, February 3-April 23, 2018; and Brooklyn Museum, New York, September 7, 2018-February 3, 2019.

Art in the Age of Black Power

Soul of a Nation

Christopher Williams

Roxana Marcoci

"Chronologically examining the nature of his art within the context of mass media and photojournalism, this handsome volume charts the thirty-year career of the artist and photographer Christopher Williams (b. 1956). Featuring 100 color illustrations, the book also includes a trio of essays by authors Mark Godfrey, Roxana Marcoci, and Matthew S. Witkovsky that demonstrate how Williams, with high craft and a critical eye, deliberately engages yet reinterprets the conventions of photojournalism, picture archives, and commercial imagery through uncanny mimicry. Committed to the history of photography as a medium of art and intellectual inquiry, Williams's current series tackles the interplay of photography and cinema, upending viewer expectations and the role of spectacle"--

The Production Line of Happiness

Mark Benjamin Godfrey

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