Robert Storr

An authoritative and comprehensive survey of the life and work of the visionary and influential painter Philip Guston. Driven and consumed by art, Philip Guston painted and drew compulsively. This book takes the reader from his early social realist murals and easel paintings of the 1930s and 1940s, to the Abstract Expressionist works of the 1950s and early 1960s, and finally to the powerful new language of figurative painting, which he developed in the late 1960s and 1970s. Drawing on more than thirty years of his own research, the critic and curator, Robert Storr, maps Guston's entire career in one definitive volume, providing a subtantial, accessible, and revealing analysis of his work. With more than 800 images, the book illustrates Guston's key works and includes many unpublished paintings and drawings. An extensive chronology, illustrated with photographs, letters, articles, publications, and other ephemera drawn from the artist's archives and other sources, contextualizes Guston's life and provides in-depth coverage of his life at home, his work in the studio, his relationship with fellow artists and his many exhibitions. Guston was able to speak about art with unrivalled passion and fluency. In celebration of this, the book features Guston's own thoughts on his drawings and his great heroes of the Italian Renaissance.

A Life Spent Painting (The First Complete Survey of the Work of the Influential New York School Painter)

Philip Guston

Kirk Varnedoe

Deborah Wye

Chuck Close

Provides an assessment of the American artist's work

Hans Ulrich Obrist

Per Kirkeby

Rudolf Sagmeister

Kasper König

Nicholas Serota

Caroline Ballegaard (editor)

ichard Armstrong

Per Kirkeby: The Complete Bricks, Vol. 2: The Unrealised Projects

Gerhard Richter

Forty Years of Painting

Rosalind Krauss

Jackson Pollock

Anne Wagner

Jeremy Lewison

T.J. Clark

Carol Mancusi-Ungaro

James Coddington

New Approaches

In a career spanning nearly 75 years, Louise Bourgeois created a vast body of work that enriched the formal language of modern art while it expressed her intense inner struggles with unprecedented candor and unpredictable invention. Her solo 1982 retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art launched an extraordinarily productive late career, making her a much-honored and vivid presence on the international art scene until her death in 2010 at the age of 98. Trained as a painter and printmaker, Bourgeois embraced sculpture as her primary medium and experimented with a range of materials over the years, including marble, plaster, bronze, wood, and latex. Bourgeois contributed significantly to Surrealism, Postminimalist, and installation art, but her work always remained fiercely independent of style or movement. With more than 1000 illustrations, Intimate Geometries: The Art and Life of Louise Bourgeois comprehensively surveys her immense oeuvre in unmatched depth. Writing from a uniquely intimate perspective, as a close personal friend of Bourgeois, and drawing on decades of research, Robert Storr critically evaluates her achievements and reveals the complexity and passion of one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century.

The Art and Life of Louise Bourgeois

Intimate Geometries

Rod Mengham

Boris Groys

Ilya Kabakov

Oskar Batschmann

Catalogue Raisonne 1983-2000

Ilya Kabakov: Installations

Iwona Blazwick

Carter Ratcliffe

Alex Katz (Contemporary Artists)

Robert de Niro, Sr.

Louise Bourgeois

Paulo Herkenhoff

Allan Schwartzman

Interview - Survey - Focus - Artist's choice - Artist's writings - Chronology.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Gary Garrels

Willem De Kooning

Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and scheduled to appear as well in museums in Bonn, Rotterdam, and New York during 1996 and 1997. Until now, the 1980s paintings have been seen only in a handful of gallery exhibitions or in the context of large museum surveys; this presentation allows study of the distinguishing qualities of these late paintings, and the thoroughly researched essays explore the complex issues surrounding de Kooning's affliction with Alzheimer's disease. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Late Paintings, the 1980s

Willem de Kooning

John Keenen

Architect, Painter, Sculptor ; [Ausstellung] Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2.7.1998-22.9.1998

Tony Smith

An examination of the drawings of this prodigious maverick.

Raymond Pettibon

From essays on gender in the work of Louise Bourgeois to a review of Art Spiegelman's comix memoir Maus, Robert Storr: Writings on Art is expertly curated from his prolific output and illustrated with 175 images to accompany the texts. Written with Storr's signature intellect and wit, the book is the definitive collection of his multi-faceted writing and features the best of Storr's criticism, reviews, essays, and other writings from the 1980s to the mid 2000s. A must read for curators, students, artists, exhibition-goers and all those interested in the art and culture of today.

Writings on Art 1980-2005

Richard Shiff

Published on the occasion of the twenty-five year anniversary of David Zwirner, this book paints a picture of the gallery’s growth and development through the lens of the artists that have shaped it. Since its founding in 1993, David Zwirner has above all else been guided by its artist-centric ethos. Beginning with the gallery's early days on Greens Street in SoHo, to its transition and expansion to Chelsea, London, the Upper East Side, and Hong Kong, this book captures David Zwirner's devotion to its inimitable roster of artists and estates. The heart of the publication is a wide-ranging, dynamic selection of the gallery's standout exhibitions—in many cases handpicked by David Zwirner himself. Many of these exhibitions highlight the countless works that ended up in major museum and private collections around the world. Also featured is an extensive gallery history that details all of the exhibitions by every artist and estate presented at David Zwirner, accompanied by archival imagery. With contributions by Richard Shiff and Robert Storr, as well as a foreword by David Zwirner, this publication offers rare insights into the growth of a commercial gallery through its long-term commitment to artists.

David Zwirner: 25 Years

Paul McCarthy

Jennifer Higgie

Maria Lassnig

Born in 1919, Viennese artist Maria Lassnig--who coined the phrase "body-awareness painting"--uses bold forms and strong colors to create portraits and semi-figurative abstractions. This volume, with texts by Robert Storr, Jennifer Higgie and Paul McCarthy, includes a selection of sensational, fresh and vibrant works from the last three years.

Accompanies the Exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, London [25 Apr - 8 Jun 2008]

This volume offers the first and most complete overview of the art of Berkeley-based painter John Zurier (born 1956). The book contains 97 full-color reproductions of his abstract oil paintings, with an essay by Robert Storr.

Paintings, 1981-2014

John Zurier

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

Essay by Robert Storr. Foreword by Glenn D. Lowry.

Modern Art Despite Modernism

The gardens of the Palace of Versailles are graced with a permanent, site-specific installation, Les Belles Danses by Jean-Michel Othoniel, who won an international competition with the landscape designer Louis Benech to revitalize the Water Theater Grove. For this commission, Jean-Michel Othoniel created three fountain sculptures in gilded glass, inspired by the work of choreographer Raoul-Auger Feuillet, dancing master for the court of King Louis XIV.

Les Belles Danses : Versailles : In the Water Theater Grove Redesigned by Louis Benech

Jean-Michel Othoniel

Catherine Grenier

Gay Gassmann

The groundbreaking sculptor's most comprehensive monograph to date Jean-Michel Othoniel is an artist who creates sculptures that explore themes of fragility, transformation, and ephemerality. Using the repetition of such modular elements as bricks or beads, his work deploys various strategies that hint at loss and despair - cracks in his objects' perfect surfaces, negative spaces and, early in his career, transient materials such as sulfur. The most authoritative study of the artist's work to date, it includes intimate gallery pieces as well as monumental public commissions around the world.

Robert Storr

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