Michael Auping

Tadao Andō

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

The interviews reveal Ando's central belief that architecture is all about creating "exquisite and wonderful memories" which come about when a building allows its occupants to connect with themselves and make their intellectual dreams become possible. Ando also recognizes that the creation of such memories must involve the architect taking risks; in the case of Fort Worth, the building's double skin of concrete encased in a glass-skin box is entirely new. These concepts are discussed not only within the specific context of the Fort Worth building, but also within the context of Ando's wider underlying philosophy and beliefs.

Seven Interviews with Tadao Ando

Road Tested

Ed Ruscha

Robin Lee Clark

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego

“The Light and Space movement—of great importance to my development as a young artist—is far more than a valid art historical reference. It translates matters of psychology, phenomenology, criticality, emotional investment, and now-ness into an immaterial language that is both subversive and compelling. Light and Space is as contemporary as ever.” —Olafur Eliasson

California Light, Space, Surface

Phenomenal

Philip Guston

Philip Guston Retrospective

Susan Sontag

John Elderfield

Marla Price

Howard Hodgkin Paintings

Christoph Schreier

Paintings 1947-1979

The Buffalo and San Francisco Collections (Art & Design)

Clyfford Still 1904-1980

Catalogue of an exhibition held Oct. 9, 1985-March 29, 1987 at the Ringling Museum of Art and other museums.

Francesco Clemente

John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art

Jess

Jess, Paste Ups (and Assemblies), 1951-1983

Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein

Declaring Space

David Moos

Jonathan Lasker

Selective Identity : Paintings from the 1990s

Anselm Kiefer

A retrospective volume of Anselm Kiefer's work, this book addresses the artist's entire career through the lens of one compelling theme. From his earliest sculptures to his recent highly textured paintings, Anselm Kiefer has woven themes of heaven and earth into his work, exploring the polarities of these ideas while struggling to define the transcendent quality that places art squarely in between. Destruction and rebirth, glory and shame, sin and redemption all figure largely in Kiefer's often controversial depictions of Germany's physical and cultural landscape. This book of more than fifty reproductions includes Kiefer's first work, The Heavens, as well as numerous other rare early works and recent works being presented for the first time. It features an interview with the artist, which is accompanied by rich black-and-white photographs of his ongoing monumental installations on his property in Barjac, France.

Heaven and Earth

Sarah Howgate

John Richardson

Lucian Freud

Surveys seven decades of the noted British artist's portraits; chronicles his life and artistic development; and offers interviews that discuss the challenge of making self-portraits and paintings, often nude, of family and friends.

Lucian Freud Portraits

Adam D. Weinberg

Laura Owens

Jordan Kantor

A comprehensive look at the breadth and depth of the work of one of America s most influential abstract artists "

A Retrospective

Frank Stella

This book accompanies and celebrates the inaugural exhibition at the new Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, designed by the Japanese architect Tadao Ando. The central subject of and impetus for this building from the beginning has been art, with particular emphasis on the display of the permanent collection. Of the 153,000 square feet of space to support space that emphasizes art like few museums in the world. That the first exhibition in these pristine galleries is devoted to the collection is a testament of pride and priority. Works by approximately 150 artists, covering a wide range of movements, especially postwar Abstract Expressionism, Pop art, and Minimalism, are currently displayed over the Museum's three two-story gallery pavilions. Together they present a broad range of styles and media, from oil, acrylic, and mixed-media paintings and drawings to photography, sculpture, installation art, and video and digital imagery. In honor of the Museum's 110th anniversary, 110 of these artists have been chosen for inclusion in this publication. Each artist's work is presented in the form of a large color plate and a detailed text entry, together with footnotes and key artist information. A selection of the artists - notably Philip Guston, Anselm Kiefer, Gerhard Richter, and Robert Motherwell - are presented in the form of extended monographic essays, accompanied by up to eight works, as a reflection of their importance in the Museum's permanent collection and their wider importance in the development of postwar art.

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth 110

Explore Mark Bradford's career through his storied End Papers works. Drawing on the diverse cultural and geographic makeup of his South Los Angeles community, Mark Bradford is known for his wall-size collages and installations from scavenged materials. These artworks are responses to the impromptu networks--underground economies, migrant communities, or popular appropriation of abandoned public space--that emerge within a city. This book focuses on some of Bradford's earliest works which take the form of subtle abstract collages made from end papers, small translucent paper that protects hair from overheating, which he learned to use while working as a hairdresser in his mother's salon. Part painting and part collage, the colored End Papers works feature grids that contain various hues that pulsate across the surface. Begun when he was a student at the California Institute of Art in the 1990s, the End Paper paintings were the beginning of his process of combining paper and paint. Bradford said recently, "I learned my own way of constructing paintings through the End Papers--how to create space, how to use color. And how to provide a new kind of content. They were the beginning for me." The exhibition and book examine the use of end papers as a fundamental motif in Bradford's career and how he has returned to it in the past two decades. The essay by Auping discusses how these early works led to his use of merchant's posters, broadsides, and even billboards he found in downtown Los Angeles to make his paintings. Published with the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

End Papers

Mark Bradford

National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain)

Lucian Freud was one of the world's greatest realist painters. This new authoritative survey of his portraits and figure paintings explores his work across seven decades, from the early 1940s to his death in 2011.

Portraits

Vernon Fisher

With over 150 superb illustrations, this is the most current and comprehensive retrospective of the work of internationally acclaimed postmodern artist Vernon Fisher, whose bold and innovative multimedia work suggests stories with multiple meanings and indecipherable conclusions.

Michael Auping

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