Individual Artists - Essays
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Jack Whitten: Notes from the Woodshed
$35.00 Add to cartA classic collection of Whitten’s writings and process notes, updated to include additional transcriptions and a new afterword
A Black man who grew up in the Jim Crow South, Jack Whitten arrived in New
- Author: Whitten, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 568
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 3907493117
- Language: English
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Magic Art
$95.00 Add to cartBreton’s late treatise on magic and art appears for the first time in English, complete with citations, commentaries and a bibliography
What is “Magic Art”? In 1953, Andr? Breton, founder of the Surrea
- Author: Breton, Andre
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1399971182
- Language: English
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Glenn Ligon: Distinguishing Piss from Rain: Writings and Interviews
$38.00 Add to cartAn expansive volume featuring over two decades of incisive reflections on race, art and pop culture by one of the greatest artists working today
This long-awaited and essential volume collects writings
- Author: Ligon, Glenn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 3906915883
- Language: English
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Any Day Now: Toward a Black Aesthetic
$15.00 Add to cartA comprehensive and inspiring collection of essays by Larry Neal, a founder of the seminal Black Arts Movement
“The Black Arts Movement is radically opposed to any concept of the artist that alienates- Series: Ekphrasis
- Author: Neal, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1644231204
- Language: English
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Marcel Duchamp
$125.00 Read moreDuchamp’s historic 1959 catalogue raisonn?-cum-artist’s book now back in print in a facsimile edition
A New York Times critics’ pick Best Art Books 2021
Marcel Duchamp, the artist’s first legendary mon- Author: Duchamp, Marcel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: December 14 2021
- ISBN10: 3906915514
- Language: English
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ISA Genzken
$50.00 Add to cartGenerously illustrated essays consider Isa Genzken’s remarkable body of work, from her early elegant floor pieces to her later explosive assemblages.
Since the late 1970s, the Berlin-based contemporary
- Series: October Files #17
- Author: Lee, Lisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: January 30 2015
- ISBN10: 0262527111
- Language: English
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John Craxton: A Modern Odyssey
$40.00 Read moreA celebration of the life and work of the artist John Craxton, a rebellious figure in British art history
Spanning a rich variety of works from the 1940s to the 2000s, this book celebrates the life a- Author: Martin, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1869827716
- Language: English
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Painting Is a Supreme Fiction: Writings by Jesse Murry, 1980-1993
$32.00 Read moreArt writing, theory, poetry and more from a leading champion of “painting as a poetic act”
This unprecedented collection compiles the writings of artist and poet Jesse Murry (1948-93), an extraordinary
- Author: Murry, Jesse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 28 2021
- ISBN10: 1940190304
- Language: English
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Amy Sillman: Faux Pas: Selected Writings and Drawings
$24.95 Add to cart“Sillman is in a thin crowd (with, let’s say, Andrea Fraser, Hito Steyerl, Matias Faldbakken, David Salle) of artists who can really write. The evidence is in Faux Pas … her writings display the sam
- Author: Sillman, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 2492650049
- Language: English
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On Homo Rodans and Other Writings
$17.95 Add to cartAn updated, expanded edition of Remedios Varo’s translated writings, including pieces never before published in any language
With the 2018 publication of Letters, Dreams, and Other Writings, Wakefield
- Author: Varo, Remedios
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: July 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1939663911
- Language: English
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Looking Up: The Skyviewing Sculptures of Isamu Noguchi
$44.95 Read moreThe Western Gallery is the site a major collection of outdoor sculpture, one of which – called Skyviewing Sculpture – by Noguchi forms the starting-off point of the exhibit, to be curated by Dakin Har… [more below]
- Author: Yngvason, Hafthor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1911282611
- Language: English
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The Dance of Moon and Sun: Ithell Colquhoun, British Women and Surrealism
$49.95 Add to cartEssays on the art and writings of the long-neglected British occultist and Surrealist
Straddling the worlds of Surrealism, occultism and modernist literature, Ithell Colquhoun (1906-88) was widely resp
- Author: Colquhoun, Ithell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1399936484
- Language: English
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Encounters with Artists
$34.95 Add to cartIn Encounters with Artists, Richard Cork turns his impeccable skills as a critic and writer to tell the story of his encounters with some of the world’s most influential artists. From a serendipitous
- Author: Cork, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 050002510X
- Language: English
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Eva Hesse: Diaries
$45.00 Read moreWith a beautiful clean design befitting Eva Hesse’s aesthetic, this voluminous collection tracks the artist’s insights, doubts, process and personal life
“Giving life to a once white piece of linen str
- Author: Hesse, Eva
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 904
- Publish Date: May 12 2020
- ISBN10: 3906915581
- Language: English
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Artists’ Lives
$39.95 Add to cartPraised by The Art Newspaper as “the best art writer of his generation,” Michael Peppiatt has encountered many European modern artists over more than fifty years. This selection of some of his best bi
- Author: Peppiatt, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0500021961
- Language: English
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The Andy Warhol Diaries
$30.00 Add to cartThe classic, scandalous, and bestselling tell-all-and-then-some from Andy Warhol–now a Netflix series produced by Ryan Murphy.
This international literary sensation turns the spotlight on one of the- Author: Warhol, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1538739186
- Language: English
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The Little Book of Tom. Cops & Robbers
$20.00 Add to cartTom’s taste for police officers and felons–and for sexual tension between the two–developed late in his career. “I’ve never been to prison,” he told a class at the California Institute of the Arts i
- Author: Of Finland, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 15 2022
- ISBN10: 3836588676
- Language: English
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The Little Book of Tom. Blue Collar
$20.00 Add to cartAs a boy, Tom’s first crush was a strapping young farmhand who worked the fields around his family home. Finland is a land of tough physical men, catching fish in the icy sea; cutting logs in the endl
- Author: Of Finland, Tom
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 15 2022
- ISBN10: 383658865X
- Language: English
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The Andy Warhol Diaries
$40.00 Add to cartThe classic, scandalous, and bestselling tell-all-and-then-some from Andy Warhol–now a Netflix series produced by Ryan Murphy.
This international literary sensation turns the spotlight on one of the- Author: Warhol, Andy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: December 02 2014
- ISBN10: 1455561452
- Language: English
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What Artists Wear
$30.00 Add to cartFrom Yves Klein’s spotless tailoring to the kaleidoscopic costumes of Yayoi Kusama and Cindy Sherman, from Andy Warhol’s denim to Martine Syms’s joy in dressing, the clothes worn by artists are tools
- Author: Porter, Charlie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1324020407
- Language: English
