Paola Antonelli

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

Peter Hall

Hugh Aldersey-Williams

Rebecca Roberts

In the past few decades, individuals have experienced dramatic changes in some of the most established dimensions of human life: time, space, matter, and individuality. Minds today must be able to synthesize such transformations, whether they are working across several time zones, travelling between satellite maps and nanoscale images, drowning in information, or acting fast in order to preserve some slow downtime. Design and the Elastic Mind focuses on designers ability to grasp momentous advances in technology, science and social mores and convert them into useful objects and systems. The projects included range from nanodevices to vehicles, appliances to interfaces and building facades, pragmatic solutions for everyday use to provocative ideas meant to influence our future choices. Designed by award-winning book designer Irma Boom, this volume also features essays by Paola Antonelli; design critic and historian Hugh Aldersey- Williams; visualization design expert Peter Hall; and nanophysicist Ted Sargent that further explore the promising relationship between design and science.

Design and the Elastic Mind

Kirk Varnedoe

Catalogus, uitg. bij een overzichtstentoonstelling, gewijd aan de beeldende kunst van eind 19e, begin 20e eeuw in Wenen

Art, Architecture & Design

Vienna 1900

Photography at MoMA

Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.)

Cornelia H. Butler

Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.)

Marlene Dumas

In her expressionistic drawings and paintings of the last three decades, acclaimed South African artist Marlene Dumas has focused on the human figure, probing themes of love, despair, desire and confusion in order to critique social and political attitudes towards women, children, people of colour and others who have been historically victimized. This substantial, fully illustrated volume, published on the occasion of Dumas's first major American survey, features a newly commissioned essay by renowned scholar Richard Schiff, placing the artist's work in relation to both American figurative painting since the 1980s and Abstract Expressionism. The book also includes curator Cornelia H. Butler's examination of Dumas's photographic sources and shorter texts by Lisa Gabrielle Mark and Matthew Monahan. Writings by the artist, as well as an extensive illustrated exhibition history and bibliography, complete this comprehensive examination of the work of one of the most thought-provoking artists working today.

Measuring Your Own Grave

Sarah J. S. Suzuki

Illuminates a wide range of printmaking techniques, featuring short overviews and illustrations of more than 130 works from The Museum of Modern Art's print collection

Selections from the Museum of Modern Art

What is a Print?

Riva Castleman

Jim Dine - David Hockney - Jasper Johns - Roy Lichtenstein - Robert Rauschenberg - James Rosenquist - Frank Stella.

Innovations in the Eighties, from the Lilja Collection

Seven Master Printmakers

Ellsworth Kelly

E. C. Goossen

Biographical and critical information about one of America's foremost modern artists is accompanied by pictures of many of his works/.

Kiki Smith

Wendy Weitman

John Coletti

Kiki Smith: Prints, Books, and Things is the most complete survey yet of Smith's printed art. Published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in the winter of 2003-4, it contains 137 color plates documenting her work in the medium, beginning with her first screenprint, made in 1980, and including works that were in progress as this book was being written. Also featured is an eight-page printed work that Smith created especially for the book. An innovative experimenter, Smith has investigated many kinds of printmaking, from traditional techniques such as etching and lithography to newer, simpler processes such as rubber stamp and photocopy, not to mention artist's books and multiples including blankets and fabric dolls. The reader aware of her sculpture will find much to recognize in these works, with their imagery of the body, of animals and birds, and of the iconography of women, but her printed art develops these themes in ways unique to itself - as Wendy Weitman, Curator in the Museum's Department of Prints and Illustrated Books and the organizer of the exhibition, explains in a comprehensive essay. Kiki Smith: Prints, Books, and Things offers a crucial record of an underacknowledged side of Smith's work. In doing so, it argues powerfully for the importance of printmaking in contemporary art.

Prints, Books & Things

Pepe Karmel

Based on a symposium held in 1999 during The Museum of Modern Art's retrospective, this volume presents nine critical essays offering dramatically different ways of understanding Pollock's art and influence. The essays reveal not just the richness of Pollock's work, but also the vitality and diversity of contemporary criticism. The essays were written by Robert Storr, Pepe Karmel, James Coddington and Carol Mancusi-Ungaro, Kirk Varnedoe, T. J. Clark, Jeremy Lewison, Rosalind Krauss, and Anne Wagner.

New Approaches

Jackson Pollock

Antonio Monda

Mary Lea Bandy

Gramercy Theatre

The Hidden God: Film and Faith, which accompanies a MoMA Film at the Gramercy Theatre program in the winter of 2003-2004, offers a range of approaches to cinema's explorations of a hidden God. Its thirty-five authors include filmmakers, magazine and newspaper critics, film scholars, curators of The Museum of Modern Art's Department of Film and Media, and others; together they discuss over fifty films, some more or less explicitly religious in theme, others from a gamut of genres not always connected with questions of faith: the western, the thriller, the policier, the costume drama, science fiction, horror, comedy. The films come from Africa, the Middle East, and Japan as well as Europe and the United States, but even so, the book and exhibition are intended not as an encyclopedic anthology but, more humbly, as starting points in the study of an eternal theme.

Film and Faith

The Hidden God

John Szarkowski

Eugène Atget

Revered photographer John Szarkowski draws from an exquisite selection entirely from his collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and discusses each photograph with intelligence and humor in the clear and entirely accessible language for which he is known. 100 tritone photos.

Atget

Alvar Aalto

Juhani Pallasmaa

Marc Treib

Kenneth Frampton

Pekka Korvenmaa

Published to accompany exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 19/2 19/5 1998.

Between Humanism and Materialism

Klaus Biesenbach

Marina Abramović

Jovana Stokic

Since the beginning of her career in Belgrade in the late 1960s, Marina Abramovic has been a pioneer of performance art, creating some of the most important works in the field. Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present accompanies an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art that documents approximately fifty of the artist's ephemeral, time- and media-based works from throughout her career. The book will also discuss a unique element of the Museum's retrospective, live performance: a new work created for the occasion, and performed by the artist herself; and recreations of Abramovic's works by other performers - the first such to be undertaken in a museum setting. The book spans over four decades of Abramovic's early interventions, and sound pieces, video works, installations, photographs, solo performances and collaborative performances made with the Dutch artist Ulay (Uwe Laysiepen). Its essays examine Abramovic's ideas of time, duration, and the reperformance of performance art as a way to extend it into posterity. Marina Abramovic also includes a CD, an audio recording of the artist's own voice, guiding the reader through the publication. The artist is present not only in the exhibition but also in the experience of the book.

The Artist is Present

Christophe Cherix

Kim Conaty

Catalog of an exhibition held at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Feb. 19-May 14, 2012.

Print Out

250 Works from the Museum of Modern Art, New York

MoMA Highlights Since 1980

Kynaston Mc Shine

Richard Serra

Kynaston McShine

Lynne Cooke

"This book offers a detailed presentation of Richard Serra's entire career, from his early experiments with materials like rubber, neon, and lead to the environmentally scaled steel works of recent years, including three monumental new sculptures created for the exhibition that this book accompanies."--BOOK JACKET.

Forty Years

Richard Serra Sculpture

Art Institute of Chicago

Max Ernst

Fifty Years of His Art

Picasso

Alfred H. Barr (Jr.)

This book surveys Picasso's work from from the early student paintings, done in Barcelona and Paris at the turn of the century, through his varied styles and periods: Blue, Rose, and the first classic periods, Cubism, neoclassicism, metamorphism, and Surrealism. It also gives an account of Picasso's courageous activities during the Nazi occupation in Paris and his controversial position after the war.

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, May 22-Sept. 8, 1957; the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 29-Dec 8, 1957. [Catalogue]

The Picasso: 75th Anniversary Exhibition

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

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