Product Description: This beautifully produced catalog surveys the past thirty years of Ursula von Rydingsvard s immense abstract sculptures, often shaped from cedar beams. Von Rydingsvard's massive sculptures reveal the trace of the human hand and resemble wooden bowls, tools, and walls that seem to echo the artist's Polish heritage...read more

Product Description: For more than 30 years, Los Angeles-born artist Daniel Joseph Martinez has been honing his politically-inflected practice, which critic Jeffrey Kastner has characterized as "unapologetically prob[ing] uncomfortable issues of personal and collective identity, seeking out threadbare spots in the fabric of conventional wisdom...read more

Product Description: During a three-week residency at Portland, Oregon's Small A Projects in 2007, New York-based artist Corin Hewitt, born in 1971, constructed an elaborate workspace within the gallery, complete with a kitchen, photo studio and theater in which the apron-wearing artist performed a series of tasks--cooking, sculpting, eating and weaving--as gallery visitors viewed him through a peephole...read more

Product Description: New York City is the undisputed center of the North American art world, and its public art is one of the most evident signs of its cultural wealth. For more than 30 years, Creative Time has been an avatar of public art in the city, working to engage art and the environment, artists and the public...read more

Product Description: Acts of Engagement brings together writings spanning the extraordinarily eventful ten-year after the author left The New York Times, where he had been an art critic from 1982 to 1991. The writings fall into three broad areas: art, art criticism, and arts and cultural institutions...read more

Product Description: Gillian Jagger’s complex and moving sculptures are documented in the Elvehjem’s (now Chazen's) catalogue of the first museum-organized exhibition of her work. Installation pieces and works on paper are featured, including Jagger’s Matrice—a deer carcass found on the road near her studio, stabilized by resin, and suspended with dairy cow stanchions and metal rigging, all hanging above broken stones from a New York quarry...read more

Three decades of federal funding for the arts is chronicled in this revealing look at the NEA and its controversial role in promoting American art. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The most comprehensive presentation ever published of the work of preeminent American sculptor Joel Shapiro--who came of age with the Post-Minimalist generation of the 1970s. Shapiro is especially known for his work for the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book addresses one of the most troubling questions of contemporary art theory and practice: Who is contemporary art for? Although the divide between contemporary art and the public has long been acknowledged, this is the first time that artists, critics, and the public have come together to debate the problem and to make artmaking, criticism, and public reaction part of the same process...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Artwork by David Smith. Contributions by Dore Ashton. Text by Michael Brenson, Matthew Marks.