Accumulated Vision: Barry Le Va

This is a fully illustrated catalogue featuring 300 images, four scholarly essays by exhibition curator Ingrid Schaffner, philosopher Paul Virilio and art historians Pamela Lee and Rhea Anastas, as well as Le Va's exhibition history and a bibliography. Le Va’s work stems from the conceptual process of destruction, happenstance, and minimalist gestures; glass, butcher knives, and drawings compliment documentation of drawings and written strategies. This is the definitive survey of Le Va's work.

CONTEMPORARY ART
2005, 9.5 x 11.5 in, 256 pp, color illus.
Softcover, ISBN 0-88454-106-1
code: ica leva E-6
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Biographies: Philadelphia Narratives

This exhibition featured artists in the Philadelphia area whose work deals with biography and autobiography in a variety of media, including photography, painting, fiber arts and film. It also examines the assumption that there has been a shift from conceptual art and abstraction to more personal, diaristic or narrative approaches.

CONTEMPORARY ART
PB, 36 pp., illus.
1999, ISBN 0-88454-092-8
code: ica bio A-5

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Nancy Davidson: Breathless

Davidson makes her sculptures from large, colorful, latex balloons that are traditionally used to take weather readings in the upper atmosphere. She pushes stereotypes about physical beauty, eroticism and desire to absurdity. Text by David Frankel and Judith Tannenbaum.

CONTEMPORARY ART
PB, 32 pp., illus.
1999, ISBN 0-88454-093-6
code: ica dav A-5

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Stacy Levy

In the forward accompanying this catalogue, Patrick T. Murphy writes that Levy's art utilizes the laws and paraphernalia of natural science to create witty and challenging installations and objects that motivate us to examine our relationship with nature, its poetry and practicality.

CONTEMPORARY ART
PB, 32 pp., illus.
1998, ISBN 0-88454-088-X
code: ica levy E-6

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Philadelphia Art Now: Artists Choose Artists

When 25 well-known Philadelphia artists were asked to invite another artist to participate in the ICA's latest show, they unleashed the excitement and fraternity of the local art scene.

CONTEMPORARY ART
PB, 126 pp., illus.
1991, ISBN 0-88454-075-8
code: ica phil D-1

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Charles LeDray, Sculpture 1989-2002

Documenting this American artist's first solo museum exhibition, Charles LeDray, Sculpture 1989-2002 focuses on his meticulously crafted miniature sculptures in a variety of media, including textiles, ceramics, seashells, and bone, that reflect on childhood, gender, and autobiography. It includes forty-three full-color illustrations, an interview with the artist by Claudia Gould, ICA Director, and an essay by Russell Ferguson.

SCULPTURE
2002, 8 x 10 inches, 116 pp, 43 color illus
Hardcover, ISBN 0884540995, ISBN-13: 9780884540991
code: ica ledr D-1

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Make Your Own Life: Artists In & Out of Cologne

Bringing together over twenty-five artists from Cologne, Los Angeles, New York, London, and Berlin, "Make Your Own Life" explores one of the defining legacies of this time: the privileging of the artist's life and context as a basis for understanding artistic practice. The open question of how one makes one's art in relation to a set of communities, histories, market conditions and social attitudes was at the core of the Cologne scene. It was fiercely debated, dramatized in exaggerated behavior, art works and exhibitions alike, and it contributed greatly to the impression that Cologne was a place of extreme self-consciousness and audacity. Artists included in this exhibition and catalogue are: Bernadette Corporation, Cosima von Bonin, Merlin Carpenter, Stephan Dillemuth, Michaela Eichwald, Andrea Fraser, Kim Gordon, Charline von Heyl, Gareth James, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Jutta Koether, Michael Krebber, Louise Lawler, Hans-Jorg Mayer, Lucy McKenzie, Nils Norman, Albert Oehlen, Christian Philipp Muller, Stephen Prina, Josephine Pryde, Blake Rayne, Reena Spaulings, Josef Strau, Rosemarie Trockel, Filmgruppe West, Christopher Williams, and Christopher Wool, among others. The catalogue contains two essays, excerpts from roundtable discussions held in conjunction with the exhibition, and thirty-four pages of black and white images documenting the artists’ work.

CONTEMPORARY ART
2006, 8 x 11 inches, 96 pp, 76 b&w images
Softcover, ISBN: 0884541088, ISBN-13: 9780884541080
code: ica own D-3

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Fertilizers: Olin/Eisenman

This catalogue documents Laurie Olin and Peter Eisenman’s environmental installations. During their twenty-five years of collaboration, Olin and Eisenman have developed a unique approach to site development where neither the building nor the surrounding environment is given priority. Reminiscent of several key elements of the partners' many unbuilt projects, an abstract landscape of diverse forms and displaced ground filled the exhibition space. This publication includes color images and descriptions of twenty-three projects, two essays and excerpts from an interview and conversation with the curator and artists.

CONTEMPORARY ART/ARCHITECTURE
2006, 7 x 10 inches, 96 pp, 83 color illus
Softcover, ISBN 0884541096
code: ica fert D-3

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Forty Years at the Institute of Contemporary Art

This publication is a tribute to the past 40 years, documenting ICA exhibitions from 1963-2005 as well as six ICA public programs beginning in fall 2003 that brought back past directors to speak with, and of, the artists with whom they worked.

CONTEMPORARY ART
2005, 6 x 8 inches, 96 pp, b&w illus.
Softcover, ISBN 088454107X
code: ica 40 D-1

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The Big Nothing

The Big Nothing, an exhibition curated by Ingrid Schaffner, Bennett Simpson and Tanya Leighton, featured artists from all disciplines of art-making yet dealing with a similar subject; that which is banal or void of content, or simply an expression of absurdity. This catalogue features images from the exhibition and three essays by the curators.

CONTEMPORARY ART
2004, 5 x 7 inches, 88 pp, 40 b&w images
Softcover, ISBN 0884541053, ISBN-13: 9780884541059
code: ica big D-1

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Rudi Gernreich: Fashion Will Go Out of Fashion

The ICA was the only museum in the United States to present a major exhibition of the fashions of Rudi Gernreich, one of the most influential designers of the Twentieth Century. The Austrian-born designer moved from Vienna to Los Angeles, California in 1938 and lived in the United States until his death in 1985. Rudi Gernreich: Fashion Will Go Out of Fashion was a survey tracing his profound cultural impact through such prophetic creations as the "monokini" topless swimsuit, the transparent "no-bra bra," and androgynous separates and suits that blurred traditional boundaries between feminine and masculine. Published in conjunction with the exhibition, this catalog contains three essays and two interviews.

FASHION DESIGN
2001, 6 x 11 inches, 86 pp, 11 b&w photographs
Softcover, ISBN 0884541002
code: ica rudi D-3

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John Armleder: About Nothing. Works on Paper 1962-2007

John Armleder is a Geneva-based performance artist, sculptor, and painter, whose multi-faceted activities are connected by drawing. Affiliated with Fluxus in the late 1960s and 70s, the value of ephemerality and the notion that art is the conduction of creative energy are imperative to his work. The ICA exhibition and this corresponding catalogue present hundreds of Armleder’s drawings—hung wall-to-wall and floor-to-ceiling—an expansive and experimental view of drawing itself. Selected from private collections and from the artist's studio are works in pen and ink, watercolor, gouache, acrylic, oil, and collage on paper, as well as original books and a special edition of wallpaper created especially for the exhibition. The catalogue contains two short essays and a conversation with Armleder.

DRAWING
2006, 7.5 x 10 inches, 67 pp, 11 b&w installation photos
Softcover, ISBN 3905770261, ISBN-13: 9783905770261
code: ica arml D-1

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Karen Kilimnik

This catalogue documents the first American survey of the work of Karen Kilimnik (b. 1957, Philadelphia). Drawing correspondences between romantic tradition and consumer culture, Kilimnik's work brings a haunting and contrary sense of beauty to contemporary art. The world of the ballet and childhood, romantic painting and pop music, icons of film and fashion, signs of witchcraft, time-travel, and murder comprise an imagery that has been culled from the historic and recent past into an unsettling present. In a world where the forces of nature, youth, and terror have taken awesome hold, Kilimnik's art rematerializes a quest for the romantic sublime. The catalogue features an essay by the curator analyzing the development of the artist's work and its historic contexts, and a series of brief essays on related themes by dance historian Joel Lobenthal, art historian Scott Rothkopf and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, curator Dominic Molon..

PAINTING
2007, 7 x 9 inches, 207 pp, 87 color reproductions
Hardcover, ISBN 088454110x ISBN-13: 978088454113
code: ica kil L-5

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Polly Apfelbaum

Polly Apfelbaum creates what she calls "fallen paintings," hybrid works of rare beauty that exist in a contentious, ambivalent space between painting, sculpture, and installation. Often arranged on the floor, spreading around corners in indeterminate shapes, Apfelbaum's overall forms are comprised of intricate, nearly psychedelic layers of dyed fabric, as if myriad smaller paintings have accreted or grown from a central cluster of shapes and colors. Apfelbaum is known for her pallete of stunning, eye-popping colors and hues. Dusk red blobs fan rows of yellow leaves; teardrop shapes of black nudge indigo forms resembling paramecium, single-cells, or algae blooms. One of the most original artists working today, Apfelbaum's work calls for audiences to think about the pleasure of aesthetic experience—and to experience the pleasure of aesthetics. The catalogue includes an interview with the artist, and essays by art historian Irving Sandler and ArtForum Editor Tim Griffin.

CONTEMPORARY ART
2003, 8 x 10 inches, 80 pp, 98 color images, I color poster as cover
Paperback, ISBN 0884541037
code: ica apf D-3

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Eileen Neff: Between Us

This catalogue documents an exhibition of Neff’s analog and digital photograghs and installations. The artist weaves elements of both interior and exterior space to evoke a complex and sometimes chaotic experience. It includes an introduction by Ingrid Schaffner from ICA, a conversation with the artist and Patrick T. Murphy from the Royal Hibernian Academy and an essay by Jeremy Sigler, a New York-based poet.

PHOTOGRAPHY
2007, 10 x 9 inches, 64 pp, 47 color reproductions
Hardcover, ISBN 0884541118, ISBN-13: 9780884541110
code: ica neff D-1

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Dance With Camera

Against the backdrop of the histories of cinema, postmodern dance and performance art, Dance with Camera explores the crossover between artists and dancers who make choreography for the camera. Spanning seventy years of art and film, and featuring over thirty artists and filmmakers, Dance with Camera proposes a rich history of art works in film, video, and still photography that exemplify the ways dance has compelled visual artists (and choreographers turned visual artists) to record bodies moving in time and space. This fully illustrated catalogue, produced in conjunction with the exhibition, features an essay by curator Jenelle Porter, along with contextual essays by Arlene Croce, Edwin Denby, and Yvonne Rainer, text by filmmaker Sidney Peterson and dancer Marian Van Tuyl, and interviews with filmmakers Charles Atlas, Shirley Clarke, and Sharon Lockhart. Featured artists include Merce Cunningham, Tacita Dean, Maya Deren, William Forsythe, Mike Kelly, Babette Mongolte, Bruce Nauman and Christopher Williams, among many others.

FILM/VIDEO/POSTMODERN DANCE
2009, 6.5 x 9.5 inches, 176 pp, color images
Softcover, ISBN 978-0-88454-118-9
code: ica dwc L-5

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Dirt on Delight: Impulses that Form Clay

This fully illustrated catalogue documents Dirt On Delight: Impulses That Form Clay, the ICA’s recent exhibition of significant clay works by 22 artists spanning four generations. Ranging from modestly scaled pots to figurines to large sculptures, these objects cross a spectrum of conventional delineations among fine art, craft, and outsider practices. Clay is a base material; from potsherds to porcelain fixtures, clay is synonymous with the building of industries and cultures. At the same time, its very materiality—its tactile malleability, earthen sensuousness, and humidity—make it the medium of more elemental associations and expressions. Indeed, all of the works in the exhibition appear to be in some state of flux or growth. The immediacy with which clay allows one to build form and create ornament underlies its appeal (especially in relation to current modes that seem to take fabrication increasingly out of artists' hands). More specifically, this exhibition is an opportunity to examine not only clay's appeal, but craft in general. Featured artists include the current generation (Nicole Cherubini, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, and Paul Swenbeck), those who emerged during the 1990s (Ann Agee and Beverly Semmes), those who established clay as a critical material during the 1960s and 1970s (Viola Frey, Ron Nagle, and Betty Woodman), and historic and outsider figures (Lucio Fontana, Peter Voulkos, and Rudolf Staffel). The color imagery is accompanied by several essays.

CONTEMPORARY ART
2009, 8 x 9.5, 112 pp, color images
Softcover, ISBN 978-0-88454-117-2
code: oca clay L-5

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Douglas Blau

Douglas Blau creates picture epics and episodes from uniformly framed collages of printed matter. Postcards, film stills, images of paintings and photographs—pictures of all kinds—are cut and pasted into individual collage elements. As curator Ingrid Schaffner writes in her catalogue essay, “what holds these pictures together is the power of association. Correspondences between gestures, faces, colors, certain details, and entire images spark connections between fragments and between frames.” Since the 1980s, Blau has used words and pictures interchangeably to create a unique body of work. After first emerging as a critic and curator, his writings—in which invented characters, travelogues, and indexes form a literary account of contemporary art’s place in Western art history—took on the qualities of narrative; the image series (non-linear though they may be) are a further development of this narrative drive. In addition to Schaffner’s informative essay, the book features installation views and an illustrated checklist.

CONTEMPORARY ART
2009, 10 x 8.5 inches, 88 pp, color illus
Softcver, ISBN 978-0-88454-115-8
code: ica blau L-5

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Trisha Donnelly

This fully illustrated catalogue documents San Francisco-based artist Trisha Donnelly's first solo museum exhibition in the United States. Using sculpture, drawing, photographs, text, sound, video, and painting, Donnelly composed an installation using works made between 1998 and 2007. Twenty-four pieces were closely hung on a horizontal line in the gallery space. Time, literally and metaphorically, is a signature of the artist’s work: a drawing may require slowness, a sound piece may stretch a phrase interminably, a video presents an action in slow motion, a photograph freezes a turn of the torso. Her lexicon of imagery and action relies on the power of suggestion: what precise, economical gesture can evoke a moment, a place, a feeling? How does sound create form? This fold-out catalogue reproduces the sequence of works as they were installed in the exhibition space. It also includes an essay by curator Jenelle Porter, as well as descriptions of each of the twenty-four works.
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2008, 8 x 11 inches, no page numbers, color images
Softcover fold-out, ISBN 978-0-88454-114-1
code: ica tdon L-5

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The Puppet Show

This catalogue documents The Puppet Show, the ICA’s recent group exhibition examining the imagery of puppets in contemporary art. International in scope, the exhibition brought together 29 artists and several generations, as reflected by works ranging from a 1974 installation by Dennis Oppenheim to a new animation by the Swedish artist Nathalie Djurberg. Some of the art works involve actual puppets (marionettes, shadow puppets, hand puppets) and artists performing as puppeteers; others evoke topics associated with puppetry (manipulation, miniaturization, agency, control). Collectively, the works—representing the disciplines of sculpture, video and photography—reveal puppets to be a provocative and relevant form of imagery, moving deep into social, political and psychological terrains. The catalogue contains a number of essays; images of works from the exhibition alongside biographical information on each artist; and installation views of a structure dubbed Puppet Storage—designed specifically for the exhibition—which was filled with pictures, props and other source material collected from artists’ studios, as well as a historic and cross-cultural collection of puppets. Featured artists include Louise Bourgeois, Maurizio Cattelan, Anne Chu, Dan Graham, Pierre Huyghe, Christian Jankowski, Mike Kelley, William Kentridge, Annette Messager, Paul McCarthy, Bruce Nauman, Laurie Simmons, Kiki Smith and Kara Walker, among others.

Please note: although puppets are often associated with (and appealing to) children, this catalogue’s content is best suited for adults.

CONTEMPORARY ART/PUPPETRY
2008, 7 x 9.5, 128 pp, color images
Softcover, ISBN 978-0-88454-113-4
code: ica show L-4

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Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World)

Published in conjunction with the ICA’s 2010 exhibition—the first major museum survey of the work of Maira Kalman—this catalogue features a selection spanning thirty years of original works on paper and design production, along with less widely seen aspects of Kalman's work in photography, embroidery, textiles, and performance. An illustrator, author and designer, Kalman illuminates contemporary life with a profound sense of joy and unique sense of humor. Born in 1949 in Tel Aviv, and a New Yorker since the age of four, Kalman received no formal training as an artist. She has created covers for The New Yorker magazine and illustrations for The New York Times; published twelve books for children; designed fabrics for the fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi, and stage sets for the choreographer Mark Morris; and collaborated with composer Nico Muhly on a site-specific opera for the New York Public Library. Along with extensive color imagery (including photographs of an installation of objects Kalman created for the exhibition), the catalogue contains numerous essays.

CONTEMPORARY ART/ILLUSTRATION
2010, 8 x 10.5 inches, 144 pp, color images
Hardcover, ISBN 978-3-7913-5035-6
code: ici kalm L-5