An overview of John Stezaker’s film still collages, this book showcases the evolution of the artist’s relationship with a specific material. Leading British collage and appropriation artist John Stezaker began his ongoing series of film still collages in 1979 – the result of a period that marked a crucial change in the direction of the artist’s work, which had previously been centered around a text-based ‘conceptualism’. The series moves with Stezaker’s changing interests, using stills from clas...
The Century of the Bed
by Beatriz Colomina, Andreas Rumpfhuber, and August Ruhs
Parrallel Converges brings together for the first time the work of two artists-one Polish and the other Russian-who both belong to the generation that received its training during the decisive transition from the communist to the post-communist period in Russia and Eastern Europe in the early nineties, and whose work has developed along many interesting parallel lines. Notwithstanting the different forms and media adopted-ranging from sculpture, installation and video to more politically engaged...
Artists have always been early adopters of emerging media technologies, from Albrecht Dürer and his use of the printing press in the 16th century to Nam June Paik’s experiments with video in the 1960s. The advent of the internet as a popular medium catalyzed a global art movement that began to explore the cultural, social, and aesthetic possibilities of such new communication technologies—the web, CCTV surveillance cameras, cell phones, hand-held computers, and GPS devices. Focusing on New Media...
A series of photographic diptychs that investigate the behavior of images and offer an account of American precarity. Ambulance Chasers offers a series of photographic diptychs by the artist Abraham Adams: on the left, the faces of personal injury lawyers photographed from roadside billboards; on the right, the landscapes they survey. The gesture is a double rotation: each photograph is imagined as the spectator of the other, and in each pairing, the exorbitant promises of the animated lawyers...
“New babies just home from the hospital, children cavorting under the Christmas tree; weddings, receptions, birthday parties—these and many other happy memories live on through the magic of color slides.” —Kodak instruction manual, 1967 Interview with Darsie Alexander, Curator, BMA, August 2004 Since the Renaissance, most art has been prized because of the prodigious skills that went into its making. Why would any artist choose to work with slides? It’s tempting to see slide projection as...
Delve into the world of Marvel's Avengers in this extraordinary collection of art. Packed with concept art, final designs, storyboards, and artist commentary. Marvel's Avengers: The Art of the Game features intimate studies of the Avengers, their designs, outfits, gear, and abilities, plus a detailed look at the different environments and missions in the game. Unmasking the artistry behind the hotly anticipated videogame, this showpiece hardback book contains exclusive concept sketches, charac...
Published on the occasion of the Piero Manzoni exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, this volume documents the artist's entire career and contains many images previously unpublished.
Marina Abramovic: the House with the Ocean View
by Marina Abramovic, Sean Kelly, Thomas McEvilley, Susan Sontag, Cindy Carr, S.H. Madoff, and Chrissie Iles
For 12 days in November 2002, Marina Abramovic lived on three open platforms in the Sean Kelly Gallery in New York. She did not eat or speak, nor did have any privacy: the rooms were open and spectators were even invited to observe the artist through a high-powered telescope. She had no escape: the ladders leaning against bedroom, sitting room and bathroom had rungs made of large butcher knives. Throughout her 30-year career, Abramovic has used her body as her primary material, pushing it to ext...