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OUT OF STOCK Tom Friedman: REAM Tom Friedman is an American conceptual sculptor known for his work employing everyday material, such as toothpicks or sugar cubes in intricate geometric arrangements. Born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1965, Friedman has exhibited in major museums and galleries throughout the world, including South London Gallery, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. Made from a “ream” of paper, Friedman used standard letter-sized paper to create 500 unique drawings that would animate into a 500-frame film sequence. This flip-animation book provides another mode for viewing these drawings in action. CONTEMPORARY ART 2006, 7 x 4.5 inches, 500 page flip book in b&w Softcover, ISBN 1-932598-38-3 code: gag ream G-3

OUT OF STOCK Damien Hirst: The Elusive Truth These photo-realist paintings by rebellious British artist Damien Hirst range in subject from a mortuary, to a display of colorful pharmaceuticals, to a man with a bleeding facial wound. Each full-color work is accompanied by a short text. *MATURE CONTENT PAINTING 2006, 8 x 10 inches, 25 pp., color illus. Softcover, ISBN 1-904212-14-x code: gag hir L-4

OUT OF STOCK Richard Prince: Check Paintings American painter and photographer Richard Prince is often noted for the 1977 exhibition for which he re-photographed advertising images and presented them as his own. This body of work ushered in a new critical approach to art-making and questioned notions of originality. Appropriating images from popular culture—the Marlboro Man, muscle cars, biker chicks—Prince’s collage works at once celebrate and criticize American sensibility. This book features over a dozen paintings from the artist’s check series (in which he paints over copies of his bank checks or collages them with advertisements) and several of his nurse paintings (which are based on the covers of pulp romance novels). Essays by Bruce Wagner and John McWhinnie are also included. PAINTING 2005, 11 x 12 inches, 91 pp., full color illus. Hardcover, ISBN 1-932598-14-6 code: gag pri G-1

OUT OF STOCK Ed Ruscha: New Drawings Published in conjunction with the opening exhibition of Gagosian's Rome gallery, this book features ten recent word drawings by Ed Ruscha. Each of the exhibited works is reproduced in color, along with installation photographs of the gallery. Mark Francis writes in his catalogue essay: “All the drawings refer not only to a teleological philosophy but to the cinema as well, and in particular to mid-twentieth-century-era film noir, a period when Ruscha was in his formative years….The proportional format of the drawings is almost exactly that of a 35mm frame, and the artist’s technique, a fine spray of acrylic paint misted onto a stenciled paper surface, is a metonymic demonstration of the way the grain of film is beamed across the cinema to rest on the screen surface.” DRAWING 2005, 10 x 12 inches, 40 pp., full-color paste-down illus. Hardcover, ISBN 1-932598-19-7 code: gag rus G-3

OUT OF STOCK Richard Serra: Rolled and Forged In this volume, four distinct works by American sculptor Richard Serra are linked by a common theme: each is based on the relationship between the viewer and a horizontal or planar elevation on eye level. Elevations, Repetitions is a complex of 16 elements of different heights; Equal Weights and Measures is composed of six equal blocks of forged steel; No Relief consists of two 60-foot, six-inch-thick horizontal slabs flush to the wall on opposite sides of a narrow room, compressing the elongated space; and Round is a forged steel work with a diameter of 84 inches and a weight of 50 tons, set on an unnerving slope. Images of the works are accompanied by the text of a conversation with the artist. Serra's other recent projects include an eight-part permanent installation at the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao and a survey at the Museum of Modern Art. SCULPTURE 2006, 9.5 x 11 inches, 75 pp., 54 b&w images Hardcover, ISBN 1-932598-35-9 code: gag ser G-1

OUT OF STOCK Philip Taaffe: Rangavalli Glass Monotypes The Indian Rangavalli pattern is based on mathematical grid structures and is used to create sand and stone paintings and embroidery. This fold-out catalogue features 11 color reproductions in Taaffe’s Rangavalli series, as well as text by the artist. Taaffe has traveled widely in the Middle East, India, South America, Morocco, and Naples. His work has been included in numerous museum exhibitions, including the Carnegie International, two Sydney Biennials, and three Whitney Biennials. His work is also in numerous public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art; and the Reina Sofia, Madrid. PAINTING 1991, 7.5 x 12.5 inches, 10 pp. fold-out, color illus. Softcover, ISBN 1-880154-46-3 code: gag taa G-3

OUT OF STOCK Richard Hamilton: Protest Pictures In his Protest Pictures exhibition the seminal British painter focuses on political subversion and media interpretation. This catalogue includes a short text detailing the cultural significance of the work written by art theorist and luminary Hal Foster. CONTEMPORARY ART 2008, 7.5 x 8 inches, 48 pp, color illus. Softcover, ISBN 1-932598-76-6 code: gag pro L-4

OUT OF STOCK Richard Artschwager “Sculpture is for the touch, painting is for the eye. I wanted to make a sculpture for the eye and a painting for the touch.” This telling statement reveals Artschwager’s relationship with his sculpture-based painting (or painting-based sculpture) practice. Texture, color and tradition meld to form work with concurrent threads of minimalism, baroque painting, and a critique of the institutional frames that sustain both. CONTEMPORARY ART 2008, 11 x 12 inches, 56 pp, color illus. Hardcover, ISBN 1-932598-66-9 code: gag art G-1

OUT OF STOCK Living, Looking, Making This exhibition catalogue presents four major artists from the 20th century whose art works bridge formal strategies and materials. It considers the common bonds shared by Alberto Giacometti, Lucio Fontana, Cy Twombly, and Richard Serra, and elaborates on their individual lives. Letters and personal documents complement color images from the exhibition. SCULPTURE 2007, 9 x 12 inches, 116 pp, color illus. Hardcover, ISBN 1-932598-49-9 code: gag llm L-4

OUT OF STOCK A is for Umbrella: Michael Craig-Martin With a renowned international career, painter Michael Craig-Martin steps into new territory with A is for Umbrella, in which his paintings philosophize a particular understanding of language and color in which ontological simplicity and linguistic form converge. The catalogue introduction includes an interview with Craig-Martin and artist Liam Gillick. PAINTING 2008, 9.5 x 11.5 inches, 64 pp, color illus. Hardcover, ISBN 1-932598-64-2 code: gag umb L-4

OUT OF STOCK Georg Baselitz: Remix Paintings Throughout German artist Georg Baselitz’s long career, he has confronted the visceral realities of history with a cast of tragic anti-heroes. A traditional artisan, he works in equally traditional media—painting, drawing, printmaking, and wood sculpture—often on a monumental scale. Although his work questions what it is to be German and a German artist, his oeuvre owes as much to a broader range of influences, including art brut and the drawings and writings of Antonin Artaud, as well as sixteenth century German woodcuts and African sculptures. With the reunification of Germany in 1990, the angst seemingly ebbed from his vision and he produced a series of paintings that he refers to as "sentimental pictures" about his childhood, home, and family in the former East German province of Saxony (where he was born in 1938). In Remix Paintings, Baselitz revisits some of his most provocative works and makes new versions of them. Enlarged and rapidly painted with swathes of bright, transparent hues and explosive lines, the paintings are radical transubstantiations—part-caricature, part-ghost—of their muted, more ponderous predecessors. In addition to color images, the book contains an essay by curator Jill Lloyd and a comprehensive chronology of the artist’s work. PAINTING 2007, 10 x 12 inches, 72 pp, color and b&w images Hardcover, ISBN 1-932598-58-8 code: gag remix L-4

 

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