Jackson Pollock, the son of a farmer of Scots-Irish origin, was born in 1912 in Cody, Wyoming. He first came to public notice at the age of 30 when, under the auspices of Peggy Guggenheim, he exhibited 14 paintings of such power and originality that they created an immediate sensation in art circles worldwide. Within a few years Pollock was recognized as a major artist, whose work seemed to embody the energy and emotional intensity of America itself. In 1956 he died in a car crash. This biograph...
"A Singular Vision: The Art of Fred Williams" looks at the life work of an artist regarded by many as one of Australia's greatest modern landscape painters. This study pays close attention to the development of Williams's oils, gouaches and prints. It also chronicles his life from his early days at the National Gallery of Victorian Art School to his successful career as an established artist. The book attempts to capture Williams's spirit and personality by making use of the artist's personal di...
Ali Banisadr's first major monograph delves into the Iranian painter's influences and practice. Preeminent Iranian-American artist Ali Banisadr's canvases depict a complex swirl of action and abstracted figuration across a stagelike picture plane. Varied histories inform these paintings, ranging from the artist's synesthesia, to Persian miniatures, to the multi-figure works of Brueghel and Bosch, and the gestural imaginations of Willem de Kooning and Max Ernst. Born in Tehran in 1976, Ali Bani...
This catalogue of the works of Athens artist Art Rosenbaum accompanies his first major retrospective exhibition and is fully illustrated, with fifty-one full-page color images reflecting the entire checklist of the exhibition. Rosenbaum's paintings show many influences, from the American Scene to self-taught art to German Expressionist prints, and their large scale, complexity, and vivid color draw the viewer in. Dennis Harper (Georgia Museum of Art curator of exhibitions), Paul Manoguerra (Geor...
About Bridget Riley
by Nadia Chalbi, Eric de Chassey, Lynne Cooke, Jonathan Crary, John Elderfield, Lucius Grisebach, Martin Hentschel, Dave Hickey, and Robert Kudielka
Elliott Erwitt (Paris, 1928) is one of the most important and most brilliant photographers of the 20th century. He has been a member of Magnum Photos since 1953. This volume retraces the work of Elliott Erwitt through 136 black & white photographs he has personally selected. His is a sharp and original gaze capable of gently bringing out the humorous, unusual or even ridiculous side of certain aspects of life, especially through street snapshots: "It is a matter of reacting to what you see, wi...