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Dave Hickey
From the legendary and iconoclastic critic Dave Hickey, a collection of twenty of his most emblematic essays on art
"We really don't need to know the aesthetic and moral parameters…
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Illustrates the finalists in the first Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. Selected from more than 4,000 entries - from every state in the union - by a jury of experts, this…
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The 23 essays (or love songs) that make up the now classic volume Air Guitar trawl a vast, invisible underground empire of pleasure, through record stores, honky-tonks, art galleries, jazz…
When Dave Hickey was twelve, he rode the surfer’s dream: the perfect wave. And, like so many things in life we long for, it didn’t quite turn out—-he shot the…
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A collection of essays by American art critic Dave Hickey, nicknamed "The Bad Boy of Art Criticism."
When Dave Hickey was twelve, he rode the surfer's dream: the perfect wave…
Newsweek calls him exhilarating and deeply engaging. Time Out New York calls him smart, provocative, and a great writer. Critic Peter Schjeldahl, meanwhile, simply calls him My hero. There’s no…
Dave Hickey examines contemporary art phenomena, from super-collectors to the trope of the biennale, in essays from 1999 to 2013.
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Roni Horn was born in New York where she continues to live and work. Recent solo exhibitions of her work include the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Tate…
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War Is Beautiful is a photo essay and deconstruction of a major news organisation’s use of combat photography during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Gary Hume (born 1962) first found acclaim in London in the late 1980s, when his bold paintings of hospital doors, rendered at life-size scale in high-gloss hardware store paints on…
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The bestselling visual biography of one of the twentieth century’s most innovative, influential artists
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An expanded edition of Hickey's controversial and exquisitely written apologia for beauty-championed by artists, reviled by art critics, and as powerful as ever 30 years on
All photographs are to some extent about light. The eighty-five stunning colour photographs in this book are a masterful exploration not only of the light falling on objects or filling…
Vanessa Place
This book is a text version of Vanessa Place’s live performance I’ve got this really great joke about rape, in which the artist recites rape jokes for 45 minutes to…
Since the mid-1970s, New York-based photographer David Levinthal (born 1949) has been exploring the relationship between photographic imagery and the fantasies, myths, events and characters that shape contemporary America’s mental…
On the history of a pioneering installation-art space
Long before it became commonplace, Rice Gallery was one of a handful of spaces in the US devoted to commissioning site-specific installation…
The definitive monograph on the wide-ranging career of a pioneering sculptor and musician
Years in the making, this definitive monograph presents nearly six decades of work by the pioneering San…
Los Angeles painter Albert Contreras (born 1933) first won public acclaim in the early 1960s, with monochrome paintings featuring a central disc motif. By the early 1970s, with the dematerialization…
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The best articles by the Rolling Stone and Village Voice writer whose commentaries on movies and music set the standard for cultural reporting in the New Journalism of the Sixties…
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Lavishly illustrated and beautifully made, this four-volume collector’s box set contains three books of plates illustrating all of Levinthal’s major series to date–from Hitler Moves East (1972-75) to History (2010-15)–in…
This landmark book reflects on almost 70 years of works by Bridget Riley (b.1931), from some of her earliest to very recent projects, providing a unique record of the work…
A unique record of almost 70 years of Bridget Riley’s work. This beautiful landmark book is the authority on new thinking around Riley’s practice.
