Russell Ferguson

Gary Garrels

Briony Fer

Suzanne Hudson

Ian Alteveer

To Fix the Image in Memory

Vija Celmins

Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.)

In Memory of My Feelings: Frank O'Hara and American Art is a reexamination of the relationship between art and poetry at a crucial moment in American art. It also offers new insights into the charismatic figure of Frank O'Hara and his world and interests, which included art, music, theater, dance, film, and mass culture.

Frank O'Hara and American Art

In Memory of My Feelings

Elizabeth A. T. Smith

Margaret Honda

Recto Verso : [exhibition]

Dario Gamboni

Kerry Brougher

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

Francis Alÿs

This book accompanies the first large-scale museum exhibition in the United States devoted to the work of Francis Alÿs, one of the most acclaimed artists working today. The central focus is Alÿss Rehearsal (Ensayo) series, but a significant number of important related works from throughout Alÿss career are also included. Alÿss video installation Ensayo 1, 19992000, shows a red Volkswagen bug attempting to ascend a steep hill in Tijuana. The cars attempts are synchronized with the soundtrack of a group of Mexican danzon musicians rehearsing. Ensayo 2, 2005, is a video that shows the rehearsal of a dancer practicing a strip-tease. Ensayo 3 will be a new work made by Alÿs specifically for the exhibition and further extending the series. Other works include When Faith Moves Mountains and Song for Lupita; along with paintings, photographs, and numerous drawings. The book, written by Russell Ferguson, organizer of the exhibition, will provide an in-depth exploration of Alÿss oeuvre, and in particular the theme of rehearsal that has run throughout his work, as well as related issues such as repetition, storytelling, and the conditions of performance.

Politics of Rehearsal

Douglas Kahn

Alan Licht

Christian Marclay

Sound, and our culturally determined reactions to it, are what drive Marclay's genre and media crossing art. Beginning in 1980, this volume explores his works within a variety of contexts that range from music and art history to popular culture.

John Slyce

Gillian Wearing

Michael Apted

Donna M. De Salvo

The most comprehensive book on the British artist's frank, affecting work.

Nikki S. Lee

Gilbert Vicario

For weeks, or even months she immerses herself in a cumminity or cultural milieu--lesbians, drag queens, Ohio Trailer- park dwellers, skateboaders, senior citizens, Hispanic or Japanese street kids-- meticulously adopting its codes of dress and behavior and its living habits. Maurice Berger, Art Journal

Projects

Larry Johnson

With a unique style that blends drawing, painting, photography, graphic design and text, Johnson creates photographic works that are sardonic, frequently melancholic or nostalgic, but always sharply focused and pitch perfect. Evoking a variety of artistic traditions, from Japanese woodblock prints to Pop Art, many of his pieces incorporate written texts, either original or appropriated from disparate sources, including gossip magazines, pulp fiction, black-box flight recorders and rock lyrics. Johnson's works reveal his fascination with celebrity culture and particularly the juncture of aspirations and fantasies with reality. Hollywood stars and rock musicians, political figures and heroes are often the subjects of his finely tuned visual narratives. Johnson casts his subtle, witty gaze on the seemingly mundane aspects of contemporary culture, particularly that of Southern California during the latter half of the twentieth century, and comes up with brilliant, thought-provoking observations. AUTHOR: Russell Ferguson is chair of the Department of Art at the University of California, Los Angeles and adjunct curator at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. ILLUSTRATIONS 100 colour images

Christoph Keller

Philipp Lachenmann

Some Scenic Views - the title of Philipp Lachenmann's first monograph - reflects his work's camouflage strategy. Presenting 80 photographs of unspectacular views, the book reveals the process of hiding complex meaning behind a surface of normalcy. With a series of short texts, Russell Fergusson brings to the fore those hidden facts of historical, political, natural, or scientific nature. He thus reveals Lachenmann's photographs for what they truly are: conceptual artworks. This book inscribes itself in the German artist's body of works as a kind of picture novel rather than a monograph. The publication is part of the series of artists' projects edited by Christoph Keller. English and German text.

Some Scenic Views

Jonathan Crary

Uta Barth

Holly Myers

Text by Jonathan Crary, Russell Ferguson, Holly Myers.

The Long Now

Cornel West

Martha Gever

Trinh T. Minh-Ha

Félix González-Torres

Images by Felix Gonzales-Torres Out There addresses the question of cultural marginalization - the process through which various groups are excluded from access to and participation in the dominant culture. It is a wide-ranging anthology that juxtaposes diverse points of view on issues of gender, race, sexual preference, and class. It takes up the fundamental issues raised when we attempt to define concepts such as "mainstream" and "minority," and it opens up new ways of thinking about culture and representation in our society.

Marginalization and Contemporary Cultures

Out There

Mark Wigley

Wolfgang Tillmans

Daniel Birnbaum

Dominic Molon

Lane Relyea

Julie Ault

Few artists have changed the manner in which photographic images are made, read, and received over the past two decades as dramatically as German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans (b. 1968). One of the most important and distinctive artists to emerge in the 1990s, Tillmans’s work is internationally recognized for its powerful reflections on the often overlooked objects and moments in everyday life. With images culled from the entirety of Tillmans’s career, this generously illustrated book accompanies the artist’s first retrospective exhibition in the United States and features the potent effects of his portraits, abstractions, and structural and sculptural motifs. Essays by leading scholars examine the context of the German art and pop cultural scene in which Tillmans first began working in the late 1980s; his use of magazines as both venue and source materials; his unique approach to portraiture; his ability to create a sense of intimacy between the viewer and subjects ranging from his friends to cultural figures and heads of state; and his distinctive approach to presenting his images in displays and installations. A fascinating loo�k at the breadth of Tillmans’s career to date, including his most recent new work, this book demonstrates the renowned abilities of one of the art world’s most revolutionary photographers.

Russell Ferguson

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