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The second volume cataloguing the Danish artist's iconic brick sculptures.
Beginning in 1966, Per Kirkeby created more than 150 brick sculptures throughout his lifetime. Initially, Kirkeby was drawn to the…
Tiffany Bell,Robert Storr
Catalog of the exhibition held at David Zwirner, New York, September 13-October 21, 2017.
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Jim Moske
Starving Artist Knifed to Death in Village Room... Famous Artist Dies Penniless and All Alone...
Deep in the archives of The Metropolitan Museum of Art are two strange scrapbooks packed…
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Robert Storr
Focal Points is a new book series of essays, articles and reviews, by acclaimed curator and critic Robert Storr. Expertly edited by art historian and curator Francesca Pietropaolo, and richly…
How can we interpret the work of contemporary artists? Focal Points is a new book series of essays, articles and reviews by acclaimed curator and critic Robert Storr. Expertly edited…
‘Interviews’ collates, in a single volume, the major body of interviews conducted by the revered American critic and curator Robert Storr, encompassing engaging discussions with some of the most renowned…
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Ron Mueck
On the occasion of the exhibition of artist Ron Mueck in June 2023, the Fondation Cartier publishes an expanded edition of the comprehensive reference book first published in 2013, covering…
Kristen Hileman
This catalogue is published on the occasion John Waters: Indecent Exposure, an exhibition presented at The Baltimore Museum of Art, October 7, 2018-January 6, 2019, and at the Wexner Center…
Bicycle wheels, bottles and more are bound together in Simms' large yet intricate assemblages
Staten Island-based artist Arthur Simms (born 1961) makes innovative assemblages out of repurposed materials, often bound…
With more than 100 illustrations – approximately 48 in full color – this innovative series offers a fresh look at the most creative and influential artists of the postwar era…
OKAY = America!All-over gestural abstraction is a quintessentially American type of painting. Such a statement might inspire uneasiness or even alarm in a period of our nation’s history more chauvinistic…
The artist Elizabeth Murray has radically altered the structure of modernist painting. This monograph presents an overview of Elizabeth Murray’s career. It offers the reader a detailed examination of Murray’s…
A must-have for the core contemporary art audience: Robert Storr’s singular and long-awaited book is unprecedented in treating the full range of Louise Bourgeois’s artistic achievement.
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An authoritative and comprehensive survey of the life and work of the visionary and influential painter Philip Guston, with more than 850 illustrations
Robert Storr’s Watson Gordon Lecture of 2015.
Robert Storr,Charles Stuckey
This long-overdue monograph rediscovers the fifty-year career of Robert De Niro, Sr., an important New York School painter and poet.
The accompanying volume to an exhibition of Robert Rauschenberg’s personal collection, held at Gagosian Gallery, New York. Expanding upon the exhibition at Gagosian Gallery in New York (2011), this book…
Philip Pearlstein
In the 1950s, American painter Philip Pearlstein completed his MA thesis, 'The Paintings of Francis Picabia 1908-1930'. When his research coincided with Picabia's death in 1953, Pearlstein became the authority…
Gerhard Richter,Robert Storr
Gerhard Richter’s Cage paintings pay homage to the American avant-garde composer John Cage (1912-92) and were first displayed at the Venice Biennale in 2007. Leading critic Robert Storr considers the…
Robert Storr,Richard Shiff
Published on the occasion of the twenty-five year anniversary at David Zwirner, this book paints a picture of the gallery’s growth and development through the lens of the artists that…
R. Crumb,Robert Storr
Published … on the occasion of Drawing for Print: Mind Fucks, Kultur Klashes, Pulp Fiction & Pulp Fact by the Illustrious R. Crumb … David Zwirner, … February 21-April 13…
Brian Clarke,Robert Storr
A vivid and diverse series of meditations on Clarke’s most recent subject, The Night Orchid
Robert Storr,Judith Tannenbaum
The Way of Improvement Leads Home traces the short but fascinating life of Philip Vickers Fithian, one of the most prolific diarists in early America. Born to Presbyterian grain-growers in…
Drawn from a critical period of Tony Smith’s career, when the artist lived in Germany from 1953-55, the Louisenberg series is named after a German geological site. Containing paintings and…
Alexander Van Grevenstein,Robert Storr
Foreword by Alexander van Grevenstein. Text by Robert Storr.
Gerhard Richter is one of the most influential artists of modern times. His painting September is a response to the bombing of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001…
Peter Benson Miller,Robert Storr
Features essays about Philip Guston. This volume illustrates the enduring power of his work, particularly the fireworks generated by expressive contradictions embodied in his last paintings.
The highly anticipated concluding volume of Robert Storr’s writings collection, completing the first comprehensive series of writings on art by the leading American art critic and curator.
From essays on gender in the work of Louise Bourgeois to a review of Art Spiegelman’s comix memoir Maus, Writings on Art is expertly curated from his prolific output and…
The highly anticipated first volume of the complete catalogue of works by John Baldessari
Gay Gassmann,Robert Storr,Catherine Grenier
The groundbreaking sculptor’s most comprehensive monograph to date
Yilmaz Dziewior,RoseLee Goldberg,Robert Storr
A look at the remarkable Chinese performance artist, sculptor and painter.
This catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition, Transfigurations: Modern Masters From The Wexner Family Collection, Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, September 21 -…
Robert Storr (Open University),Joan Simon
Working in mediums such as sculpture, video, film, installation, performance, and printmaking, the author connects you to physical realities of violence, sex, and death with visceral, spiritual messages, like an…
Since the Renaissance, most art has been prized because of the prodigious skills that went into its making. Why would any artist choose to work with slides? Is the development…
Robert Storr,Laura Cumming,Elena Geuna
Copublished with Skira and Gagosian, this comprehensive monograph collects over 300 of Kami’s works in color along with essays by curator, critic, and writer Robert Storr, Guardian art critic Laura…
Richard Shusterman,Catherine Millet,Robert Storr
Text by Catherine Millet, Robert Storr, Tatiana Trouve.
Peter Schjeldahl
A collection of the essays of art critic and poet Peter Schjeldahl, which explores his thoughts on individual contemporary artists, their work, events and ethics in the art world and…
This third publication in the Fundacion Cisneros’ Conversaciones/Conversations series puts Brazilian conceptual artist Jac Leirner in dialogue with art historian Adele Nelson. Leirner (born 1961) emerged in the early 1990s…
Garth Greenan
Chicago-based artist Gladys Nilsson (born 1940) combines drawings in ink and colored pencil with elements of collage and gouache watercolor for her large-scale compositions. Her figurative characters often appear contorted…
A monograph exploring 30 years of research by Paolo Canevari, the author of ironic and disturbing works. Text in English and Italian.
On the late post-conceptual paintings of the influential artist and educator
The Barbados-born, Seattle-based painter Denzil Hurley (1949-2021) was a quietly influential figure in the art world throughout his life…
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Luc Tuymans (b 1958) is a painter engaged with figuration , using imagery that he reworks in a critical or self-critical way. He combines images from various sources with a…
Richard Salter Storrs
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
Lisa Le Feuvre,Paul Schimmel,Kristine Stiles,Robert Storr,Robert Storr
Chris Burden is a seminal figure in contemporary art. A monograph on Burden, this book gives an overview of his art, illuminated by searching texts by some of the most…
