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Helen Molesworth
A renowned jewelry expert recounts her career working with nature's most extraordinary treasures-gemstones-and traces these rare jewels from ancient Egyptian records through the high-stakes auctions of today.
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An illustrated reader featuring a collection of essays from trailblazing curator and writer Helen Molesworth - the first book of her collected writings
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Renowned jewellery historian and gemmologist, Helen Molesworth traces the journey of gems, showing how their remarkable stories are a sparkling new way of exploring the history of humanity.
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Few jewellers are as widely known as Cartier, even fewer have instantly recognisable designs - many of which, such as the tank watch and trinity ring, have become iconic. Glamorous…
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Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Jareh Das, Helen Molesworth, Jason Rosenfeld, Drew Thompson
The first monograph on the internationally celebrated Nigerian American painter who blends her personal history and the African diasporic identity in layered compositions
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Tate Modern exhibition: 15 February - 1 September 2024 An extraordinary publication with new research and writing on world renowned Japanese multi-media artist, singer, songwriter and peace activist, Yoko Ono…
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Blair's painterly use of mise-en-scene evokes the influence of Edward Hopper's cinema-inspired tableaux
This volume builds on a developing body of scholarship linking the American painters Dike Blair (born 1952)…
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In this essay, curator Helen Molesworth pinpoints the significance of the return of the handmade in the later years of Duchamp’s oeuvre, positioning this paradigmatic shift away from the readymade…
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During the 1960s, artists such as Alan Kaprow, Yoko Ono and Andy Warhol stopped making art , they staged performances that mixed everyday life with theatre and challenged the system…
‘Part Object, Part Sculpture’ maps a geneology of postwar sculpture that challenges the Minimalist/Post-Minimalist sequence maintained in most accounts of the period.
The first major retrospective of Yoko Ono in a decade foregrounds her impact on activism and invites readers to engage dynamically with her work
Helen Molesworth,Bill Horrigan
Foreword by Sherri Geldin. Text by Bill Horrigan, Helen Molesworth, Robert Hobbs.
Ruth Asawa,Helen Molesworth
Known for her intricate and distinct artistic language, Asawa produced numerous sculptures, drawings, and prints that are built on simple, repeated gestures that accumulate into complex compositions. Her works on…
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Noah Davis,Helen Molesworth
Providing a crucial record of the painter Noah Davis’s extraordinary oeuvre, this monograph tells the story of a brilliant artist and cultural force through the eyes of his friends and…
One of the foremost American figurative painters of the twentieth century, it is not surprising that Alice Neel was a humanist-she was fascinated by people.
Known for her daringly honest…
Essays and interviews that examine the work of an artist whose witty, poignant, and trenchant photographs investigate the life cycle of art objects.
Looks at the work of influential women artists and at the import of feminism in their practices. Examining painters Lee Lozano (1930-1999), Sylvia Plimack Mangold (b 1938), and Joan Semmel…
A dynamic new look at the legendary college that was a major incubator of the arts in midcentury America
Todd Bradway,Helen Molesworth,David Rimanelli
With a career spanning over three decades, internationally acclaimed artist Alexis Rockman is well known for his complex, large scale paintings and works on paper depicting the collision between civilization…
Iain Kerr,Helen Molesworth,William Pope.L
A highly charged series revealing the absurdities and perversities of intentional racist language
When Pope.L shakes his head he makes drawings that keep him from laugh-crying to death, writes Helen…
Becky Suss (b. Philadelphia, PA in 1980; lives and works in Philadelphia, PA) explores ideas of intimacy, domesticity and memory. Her large-scale paintings of interiors are holistic representations of the…
Helen Molesworth,Ian Alteveer,Mark Grotjahn
The first monograph on a rising star who is one of contemporary art’s most celebrated painters
An opulent, joyful homage to the many ways of painting flowers, from Charles Burchfield to Amy Sillman
Flowers are always working in the service of the passage of time, writes…
A handsome and hefty clothbound compendium of Lozano’s explorations of gender through drawing
This 640-page volume comprises drawings from a critical six-year period in the development of American painter and…
Hilton Als,Douglas Fogle,Helen Molesworth
Long awaited, the first survey of the work of one of America’s foremost contemporary fine art photographers
Doing is living. That is all that matters. –Ruth Asawa
Mark Grotjahn,Helen Molesworth,Ian Alteveer
Louise Lawler
Works by one of the most important artists working in America today–photographs, collaborative projects, ephemeral objects, and trenchant and witty institutional critique.
After decades of working with gouache, Blair turns to oil paint for his most recent series of hyperrealist street scenes, tablescapes and windows
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A Decorated Chronology accompanies the first American museum exhibition of Los Angeles-based artist Lari Pittman in more than 15 years. It comprises a range of recent work and a selection…
Ian Alteveer,Helen Molesworth,Dieter Roelstraete,Abigail Winograd,Abigail Winograd
This is a monumental monograph covering the entire career of painter Kerry James Marshall, focusing on the last 35 years of work. Definitive monograph on contemporary African-American painter Kerry James…
Evelyn C. Hankins
This wide-ranging and definitive volume illustrates how Marcel Duchamp’s vision and practice influenced 20th-century art.
A new focus on the sublime landscapes in Lisa Yuskavage’s voluptuous figure paintings
Though she is arguably best known for the voluptuous female nudes that populate her paintings, Lisa Yuskavage’s…
This rich, colorful retrospective celebrates the offbeat, inspired, and highly original artistic career of San Francisco-born painter Joan Brown.
This exhibition catalog accompanies a retrospective exhibition of prolific San Francisco-born…
Connie Butler
The incredible detail and scale of Lari Pittman’s mesmerizing paintings are gloriously recreated in this lushly-illustrated retrospective book.
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, October 6, 2013-January 12, 2014, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 15-May 11, 2014, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, June 6-September 1, 2014…
Julie Rodrigues Widholm
A mountain of chairs piled between buildings. Shoes sewn behind animal membranes into a wall. A massive crack running through the floor of Tate Modern. This title includes, over one…
Noah Davis,Helen Molesworth,Franklin Sirmans,Thomas J. Lax,Glenn Ligon
Embedding his dreams on canvas and in the community, visionary American artist Noah Davis created a mighty legacy. - Rachel Willcock, ArtReview (2022)
Looking to literature, film, architecture, and art…
Hilma af Klint,Julia Voss
Revelatory and sublime…Her work remains conceptually open enough for viewers to draw their own conclusions, insert their own meaning and feel transported to other glorious worlds. -The New York Times
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Well-known art historians from Europe and the Americas discuss the influence of conceptualism on art since the 1970s.
Essays and interviews that span Mary Kelly’s career highlight the artist’s sustained engagement with feminism and feminist history.
