Martin Herbert

This collection of essays by Martin Herbert considers various artists who have withdrawn from the art world or adopted an antagonistic position toward its mechanisms (essays on Lutz Bacher, Stanley Brouwn, Christopher D'Arcangelo, Trisha Donnelly, David Hammons, Agnes Martin, Cady Noland, Laurie Parsons, Charlotte Posenenske, and Albert York).

Tell Them I Said No

Uncertainty Principle

Psychology for Social Workers

Kate Zambreno

Laura McLean-Ferris

The most comprehensive survey of the celebrated Dutch artist Michael Raedecker's work spanning his 30-year career Michael Raedecker, the acclaimed Dutch artist, records the memories held within spaces and objects in his enigmatic and dream-like paintings. Suburban homes, tree houses, and empty rooms and vacant chairs, all float in haunting isolation. Muted hues are penetrated with thread and needle where the artist hand-sews forms into textural materiality. Since the beginning of his career as a painter, Raedecker has incorporated embroidery into his works as a visual counterpoint to his washed-out paint application. This survey of his work, designed by the acclaimed Dutch graphic designer, Irma Boom, is the most comprehensive published to date, featuring essays by a unique and diverse group of critics, curators, artists, and academics.

Michael Raedecker

Martin Herbert's latest book provides an interesting and informative account of the child's journey from the womb to the world outside, through childhood and into adolescence. It is based on the belief that it is vital for those training to work with children who have problems to understand what is typical or atypical in children's development. Herbert deliberately links developmental and clinical psychology approaches in order to help readers connect their theoretical understanding of the physical and psychological problems of childhood with the practicalities of assessment, rehabilitation and treatment. 'Although many have attempted to write a developmentally based book on child and adolescent behavior problems, few have achieved this lofty and elusive goal. Professor Herbert does so, however. He nicely bridges the gap or, some would say, chasm between developmental psychology, educational psychology, and clinical child and adolescent psychology.' Thomas H. Ollendick, PhD, University Distinguished Professor, Virginia Tech

From Conception to Adolescence

Typical and Atypical Development

Armen Eloyen

Timothy Taylor Gallery is pleased to present a new series of paintings by the Armenian born painter Armen Eloyan, in his first solo exhibition at the gallery. In 2007 Eloyan was the subject of an acclaimed solo show at Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art in London, and will soon be the subject of a solo exhibition at the Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Switzerland in April 2008.

Bookstore Cure

Hans Ulrich Obrist

Ornela Vorpsi

Edi Rama

This volume collects doodles from Rama, an Albanian artist and the leader of the Socialist Party of Albania, made on printouts of his daily agenda, office notes, protocols, faxes, and other official correspondence.

Work

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

Barry Schwabsky

Ralph Rugoff

Text by Ralph Rugoff, Kaja Silverman, Barry Schwabsky, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Martin Herbert.

1960s to Now

The Painting of Modern Life

Darren Almond

In "All Things Pass," London-based artist Darren Almond (born 1971) explores the passage of time, juxtaposing a six-channel video installation filmed on the steps of Chand Baori, a spectacular ninth-century well in India, with number paintings, sculptures of stacked timepieces, and photos of a strangely modernist Neolithic stone circle.

All Things Pass

Fiona MacDonald

Matilda Strang

The sculptural object has spent much of the recent past being made to disappear from view. The word sculpture might still carry connotations of weight, scale and material, yet none of these things may necessarily be present in any particular work. Whether lost into a void, left behind in an expanded field or exploded to occupy the architectural space that once simply contained it, the sculptural object as the flotsam of an artist's engagement with process and materials, seems to have been in a continual state of crisis since first becoming detached from its plinth. As for the sculptor, the artist as maker, they can often be seen performing as magician, orchestrating events and actions which culminate in the object of our desire, the decorative assistant, simply vanishing from the stage. This book questions both the presence and absence of the object and its maker within contemporary British sculpture.

Presence and Absence in Contemporary Sculpture : the Mark Tanner Sculpture Award

Thinking is Making

An eclectic, polyphonic and interdisciplinary artist, Clegg’s oeuvre stretches from painting, drawing and printmaking to sculpture, installation and beyond. With his erudite, surprising and striking repertoire, and his diverse materials and methods of fabrication, Clegg offers the viewer a complex, sometimes playful, other times moving journey into existential and ontological notions of objecthood and matter, images and signs, language and communication, creation and being.

Oliver Clegg

Discusses the changes brought on by adolescence, describes common problems teenagers face, and offers advice about antisocial behavior, sexuality, alcohol and drug abuse, and problems at school

Living with Teenagers

Working with Children and the Children Act is, above all, a practice guide. The new legislation of the Children Act 1989 has had considerable implications for all those who work in the social, health or educational services. The emphasis on the child's welfare, on children in need and the responsibilities of parents, together with the strong commitment to client participation, directly affects the role of such workers.

A Practical Guide for the Helping Professions

Working with Children and the Children Act

Catherine Ince

Michael Bracewell

The most comprehensive monograph to date on the British artist and writer loved for his witty book-cover-inspired canvases Harland Miller's creativity as both artist and novelist culminates in his iconic paintings of battered book covers with cleverly invented titles. Initially appropriating the classic Penguin paperback before devising his own unique designs, Miller combines aspects of pop art, abstraction, and figurative painting to create highly coveted artworks that have won him a cult following. This monograph covers nearly 20 years of his paintings, and features newly commissioned essays by eminent art writers exploring different aspects of his practice.

Harland Miller: In Shadows I Boogie

Cornelia H. Butler

Linda Yablonsky

Elmgreen & Dragset's constructed environments have been celebrated all over the world for their mischievous, cerebral, and accessible nature. This is the first comprehensive presentation of the duo's work, from their early performative pieces in the late 1990s to their most recent public projects Drawing from disciplines as divergent as institutional critique, social politics, performance, design, and architecture, Elmgreen & Dragset's work reconfigure the familiar with characteristic and subversive wit. Their sculptures and installations, also known as 'Powerless Structures', have redefined what it means to experience art - the cover features their work Van Gogh's Ear, a sculpture in the form of a swimming pool, which is located on Fifth Avenue in New York at the entrance to the Rockefeller Center. This book includes all of their most significant projects, from the transformation of New York's Bohen Foundation into a subway station in 2004, to the siting of a fake Prada boutique in the Texan desert in 2005, and the installation of the statue of a child on a rocking horse on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square in 2012. Elmgreen & Dragset is the latest addition to the acclaimed Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series.

Martin Herbert

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