Kerry Brougher

Notorious - Alfred Hitchcock and Contemporary Art

Olivia Mattis

Traces the history of music's influence on the development of abstract and mixed-media visual art forms throughout the past century, describing the works of such creative minds as Wassily Kandinsky, Harry Smith, and Jennifer Steinkamp, in an account that is complemented by scholarly essays.

Synaesthesia in Art and Music Since 1900

Visual Music

Joel Sternfeld

Anne Tucker

Andy Grundberg

This is the definitive edition of Joel Sternfelds seminal American Prospects made from new printing plates and technology that did not exist at the time of the 2003 Steidl edition. The book is otherwise unchanged, except for the addition of one new image. The subjects of American Prospects include a fireman picking out a pumpkin at a farm stand while a classic American house burns in the background, a lone basketball hoop in a vast Southwestern desert reminiscent of the Creation, and whales beached in Oregon seemingly symbolic of ecological failure to come. These and other narrative pictures, helped open the gates for a new type of photography now practised by Gregory Crewdson, Rineke Dijkstra, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Ruff, Thomas Struth, and Jeff Wall, among many others By corrupting the purity of photography, Sternfeld played a pivotal role in moving the medium forward. (Kerry Brougher, Chief Curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.) A major figure in the photography world, Joel Sternfeld was born in New York City in 1944. He has received numerous awards including two Guggenheim fellowships, a Prix de Rome and the Citibank Photography Award. Sternfelds books published by Steidl include American Prospects (2003), Sweet Earth (2006), Oxbow Archive (2008), First Pictures (2011) and On This Site (2012).

American Prospects

Jonathan Crary

Bruce Jenkins

Kate Linker

Hall of Mirrors (World of Art)

Art and Film since 1945

Russell Ferguson

Dario Gamboni

Timely and wide-ranging, this volume explores in-depth the theme of destruction in international contemporary art. While destruction as a theme can be traced throughout art history, from the early atomic age it has remained a pervasive and compelling element of contemporary visual culture. Damage Control features the work of more than 40 international artists working in a range of media--painting, sculpture, photography, film, installation, and performance--who have used destruction as a means of responding to their historical moment and as a strategy for inciting spectacle and catharsis, as a form of rebellion and protest, or as an essential part of re-creation and restoration. Including works by such diverse artists as Jean Tinguely, Andy Warhol, Bruce Conner, Yoko Ono, Gordon Matta-Clark, Pipilotti Rist, Yoshitomo Nara, and Laurel Nakadate, the book reaches beyond art to enable a broader understanding of culture and society in the aftermath of World War II, under the looming fear of annihilation in the atomic age, and in the age of terrorism and other disasters, real and imagined.

Art and Destruction Since 1950

Damage Control

Weiwei Ai

Mami Kataoka

Charles Merewether

Offers an introduction to Weiwei's work--from photographs and sculpture to documentation of several of his most well-known projects, including his collaboration on the "bird's nest" stadium for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

According to What?

Ai Weiwei

In Joel Sternfeld's now-classic view of America, a fireman shops for a pumpkin while a house burns in the background; a group of motorcyclists stop at the side of the road to take in a stunning, placid view of Bear Lake, Utah; the high-tech world headquar.

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