Rachel Whiteread Drawing

Published in conjunction with the first museum retrospective of drawings by British artist Rachel Whiteread, this fully-illustrated catalogue contains essays by exhibition curator Allegra Pesenti and Ann Gallagher of London’s Tate Museum. While her sculpture is well known and widely published, Whiteread's work on paper has remained largely behind the scenes. "My drawings are a diary of my work," she explains, and like the passages in a diary her drawings range from fleeting ideas to labored reflections. Variegated textures, subtle nuances of tone over colored graph paper, and the play of imagery in collaged constructions are some of the distinctive characteristics of Whiteread's works on paper. A crucial aspect of her artistic practice, they are produced independently of the sculpture yet evoke similarly poignant notions of presence and absence.

DRAWING
2010, 8.5 x 10 inches, 224 pp, color illus.
Hardcover, ISBN 978-3-7913-5038-7
code: ham whit D-1
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Mathias Poledna: Crystal Palace

Mathias Poledna is a video artist who works with ideas of archiving, anthropology, museology, and the Other. In his recent work, Crystal Palace (named for the large greenhouse-like structure designed for the Great Exhibition of London in 1851), Poledna filmed the tropical rain forest landscape of Papua New Guinea. This catalogue contains three fold-out color stills, two essays on the film and the cultural history of the tropical environment, as well as fifteen black and white images referencing the documentation of indigenous cultures by Western society, the Crystal Palace in London, and rain forests. It concludes with an artist’s bibliography, exhibition history and five black and white stills of Poledna’s films.

CONTEMPORARY ART/FILM
2007, 9 x 10 inches, 58 pp, 3 color and 20 b&w images
Hardcover, ISBN 943739306
code: ham pol C-6

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Francis Alÿs: Politics of Rehearsal

The Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden is one of the great treasures of the UCLA campus. Serving as a model for sculpture gardens internationally since its dedication in 1967, the Murphy Sculpture Garden features seventy-two important modern and contemporary sculptures on a five-acre site designed by landscape architect Ralph Cornell. Among the artists represented in the garden’s collection are Deborah Butterfield, Alexander Calder, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Henry Moore, Isamu Noguchi, Auguste Rodin, and David Smith. This fully illustrated catalogue documents the entire Murphy Sculpture Garden collection, including a scholarly entry devoted to each artist and photographs of the sculptures and their setting. Essays by Victora Steele, Cynthia Burlingham, and Marc Treib focus, respectively, on the role of Franklin Murphy in the garden’s planning and execution, the acquisition of the sculptures, and the garden’s significance within the history of sculpture garden design. Along with a site map, the catalogue features historical photographs that show the garden’s development and use over the last forty years. James Welling, an artist and faculty member in UCLA’s Department of Art, has also contributed a new series of photographs that convey a sense of the garden’s role in contemporary campus life.

SCULPTURE
2007, 10 x 9 inches, 192 pp, 143 color and 74 b&w images
Hardcover, ISBN 9780943739335, ISBN-13: 9780943739335
code: ham scul C-5

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Vija Celmins: Dessins / Drawings

This publication and the exhibition it accompanies bring together close to seventy drawings produced by the postwar American artist of Latvian origin, Vija Celmins, including her delicate renderings of lunar, ocean, and desert surfaces as well as clouds, galaxies, and nocturnal skies. Depicted with exquisite, mesmerizing detail, her works often present a spatial ambiguity that challenges notions of realism while engaging with larger questions of perception and knowledge. In addition to a study of her drawing work by exhibition curator Jonas Storsve, the volume features a text specially written for the occasion by Irish novelist Colm Tóibín. This comprehensive publication devotes 69 pages to reproductions of Celmins’s drawings in pencil. There are also four black and white images of the artist and her studio.

DRAWING
2006, 8 x 9 inches, 168 pp, 74 b&w images
Softcover, ISBN 2844263119, ISBN 13:9782844263117
code: ham vija C-5

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The Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden at UCLA

The Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden is one of the great treasures of the UCLA campus. Serving as a model for sculpture gardens internationally since its dedication in 1967, the Murphy Sculpture Garden features seventy-two important modern and contemporary sculptures on a five-acre site designed by landscape architect Ralph Cornell. Among the artists represented in the garden’s collection are Deborah Butterfield, Alexander Calder, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Henry Moore, Isamu Noguchi, Auguste Rodin, and David Smith. This fully illustrated catalogue documents the entire Murphy Sculpture Garden collection, including a scholarly entry devoted to each artist and photographs of the sculptures and their setting. Essays by Victora Steele, Cynthia Burlingham, and Marc Treib focus, respectively, on the role of Franklin Murphy in the garden’s planning and execution, the acquisition of the sculptures, and the garden’s significance within the history of sculpture garden design. Along with a site map, the catalogue features historical photographs that show the garden’s development and use over the last forty years. James Welling, an artist and faculty member in UCLA’s Department of Art, has also contributed a new series of photographs that convey a sense of the garden’s role in contemporary campus life.

SCULPTURE
2007, 10 x 9 inches, 192 pp, 143 color and 74 b&w images
Hardcover, ISBN 9780943739335, ISBN-13: 9780943739335
code: ham mur C-5

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Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love

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Kara Walker is among the most complex and prolific American artists of her generation. Over the past decade, she has gained international recognition for her room-sized tableaux, which depict historical narratives haunted by sexuality, violence and subjugation and are made using the paradoxically genteel eighteenth-century art of cut-paper silhouettes. Set in the antebellum American South, Walker's compositions play off of stereotypes to portray, often grotesquely, life on the plantation, where masters, mistresses and slave men, women and children enact a subverted version of the past in an attempt to reconfigure their status and representation. Over the years, the artist has used drawing, painting, colored-light projections, writing, shadow puppetry, and, most recently, film animation to narrate her tales of romance, sadism, oppression and liberation. Her scenarios thwart conventional readings of a cohesive national history and expose the collective, and ongoing, psychological injury caused by the tragic legacy of slavery. Deploying an acidic sense of humor, Walker examines the dialectics of pleasure and danger, guilt and fulfillment, desire and fear, race and class. This landmark publication accompanies Walker's first major American museum survey. It features critical essays by Philippe Vergne, Sander L. Gilman, Thomas McEvilley, Robert Storr and Kevin Young, as well as an illustrated lexicon of recurring themes and motifs in the artist's most influential installations by Yasmil Raymond, more than 200 full-color images, an extensive exhibition history and bibliography, and a 36-page insert by the artist.

CONTEMPORARY ART
2007, 6.5 x 9.5 pp, 432 pp, b&w and color images
Hardcover, ISBN 9780935640861
code: ham kara C5

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Oranges and Sardines: Conversations on Abstract Painting

This exhibition catalogue approaches art through the eyes and minds of artists. Six contemporary abstract painters—Mark Grotjahn, Wade Guyton, Mary Heilmann, Amy Sillman, Charline von Heyl and Christopher Wool—each were asked to select one or two of their own recent paintings to be shown with works by other artists who have had a significant impact on their thinking and the development of their own work. The result is a constellation of diverse works by, among others, Paul Klee, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, Eva Hesse, Pablo Picasso and Dieter Roth. Oranges and Sardines is a testament to the persistence of the visual art object and particularly abstract painting. As curator Gary Garrels writes, “It is a reckoning with an abiding question: what is the necessity of a work of art? Abstract painting amplifies this question a hundredfold. What is the claim of abstract painting to our attention, to our lives? Why should it continue to persist a century after its emergence?” The book includes in-depth interviews between Garrels and each of the six contemporary artists.

PAINTING
2009, 9 x 10 inches, 128 pp, color illus.
Hardcover, ISBN 9780943739342
code: ham abst A-4

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Larry Johnson

Larry Johnson’s work addresses death, celebrity, class, camp, lust, nostalgia, and obsolescence by combining a commercial print style, text, landscape and pop culture references. His text- and photography-based works push back against their apparent meanings, letters treated as merely decorative through the use of shifting bright colors, fragments of images removed from their original contexts. Johnson uses found text from a range of sources—from airplane black boxes to advertisements—while his subjects (such as movie stars Marilyn Monroe and James Dean) offer a critique of celebrity culture. Indeed, he considers celebrity to be the language of our time: "to master celebrity is to master language," he has said. Johnson’s interests are shared by the major artists of his era, including Andy Warhol, Richard Prince, and Edward Ruscha. In this catalogue from the Hammer Museum’s 2009 retrospective, extensive color imagery is accompanied by essays by Lee Edelman, Esther Leslie, and exhibition curator Russell Ferguson, as well as an interview with Johnson by David Rimanelli,.

CONTEMPORARY ART
2009, 9.75 x 12 inches, 128 pp, color illus.
Hardcover, ISBN 978-3-7913-4391-4
code: ham john D-1