Abstract America: New Painting - Saatchi Gallery

 

The twentieth anniversary of the Saatchi Gallery was celebrated in 2005 with 'The Triumph of Painting', a landmark exhibition. This book accompanying the exhibition, makes the disparate currents of the painting coherent. It is devoted to the new American abstract painters, few of whom appeared in the original 'Triumph of Painting' book.

Action Abstraction

Pollock, De Koonig, And America Art, 1940-1976

The abstract paintings of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, Lee Krasner, Clyfford Still, Helen Frankenthaler and others revolutionized the art world in the 1940s and 1950s and continue to inspire passionate arguments to this day. What were these artists trying to achieve? Who were the critical voices of the time that rallied public interest in Abstract Expressionism and sparked rancorous debate?

Action Painting Jackson Pollock

 

In-depth survey of one of the most important art movements of the twentieth century and its founder, Jackson Pollock. (Dit boek is niet beschikbaar in het Nederlands)

Actions: What You Can Do With the City

 

This publication will explore how the design of contemporary cities can be described and informed by four key human actions: gardening, recycling, playing, walking.

Adriaen Coorte

De stillevens van Adriaen Coorte

Deze uitgave is verschenen naar aanleiding van de tentoonstelling 'Ode aan Coorte' in Den Haag. Omdat er de laatste jaren diverse schilderijen zijn teruggevonden, is in deze publicatie een volledige beschrijving van zijn oeuvre opgenomen, de eerste die sinds 1977 verschijnt.

Adrian Ghenie

 

Raised amid the propaganda of Ceausescu’s Romania, Adrian Ghenie (*1977) has created quite a stir in art circles due to his extremely unique compositions and stupendous technique. In his visual journeys, he confidently navigates through representational and abstract art, his grand narrative style affording the viewer a look at his interpretation of history.

Adrian Ghenie

 

Catalogue of the exhibition at the Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp. 'Ghenie's most recent series passes by history with a capital H - or pretends to do so -. This time is the subject of Elvis Presley, the first pop and rock icon of the previous century which is laboured'. (Jos Van den Bergh)

Aernout Mik

 

Published to accompany a retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art—Mik's first in the United States—this volume is a vivid exploration of the artist's work and process.

Aglaia Konrad. Desert Cities

 

Aglaia Konrad focuses a direct gaze on programmed city extensions of Cairo such as 10th of Ramadan City, 15th of May City, Dreamland etc. This is not classic architectural or documentary photography: her way of seeing things is unadorned and draws our attention straight to the history of the real setting. The photographs show the application of "modernist" principles to architectual development in desert landscapes. They spotlight an improbable dialogue between imported models and vernacular elements, constructions and sites, desert and communities, modernity and tradition. (Dit boek is niet verkrijgbaar in het Nederlands.)

Ai WeiWei

 

The first comprehensive monograph on this key figure in China’s burgeoning art scene.