Product Description: The radical metamorphosis of everyday objects has emerged as an increasingly prominent theme in contemporary art, demonstrating that the legacy of the Surrealist object has only gained in significance. This volume looks at "transformed objects" by John Bock, Jürgen Drescher, Rachel Harrison, Alicja Kwade, Thomas Rentmeister and Margret Wibmer...read more

Product Description: Irony is one of the defining characteristics of postmodernism, but is it a meaningful strategy today? The Fate of Irony addresses this question in works by Christian Jankowski, Werner Büttner, Marcel Dzama, Daniela Comani, Martin Kippenberger, Julia Oschatz, Roman Ondák, Julia Kissina, Ming Wong and Peter Jap Lim, among others...read more

Product Description: Alex Katz (born 1927) is best known as a painter--specifically, as a painter of his family and his distinguished circle of friends, including poets, writers and artists. In the early 1950s, he began experimenting with printmaking, but it was not until the mid 1960s that he intensified his interest and production in the medium...read more

Product Description: This young German-born artist creates overwhelmingly effective color images of improbable landscapes populated with warriors, and assembles them into timeless narratives of battle, decline, fall and resurrection--scenes that seem to come right out of Max Ernst, or a video game...read more

Product Description: Helmut Newton’s best photographic work from the 1960’s to the 1990’s traveled around Europe in a major retrospective in 1993. The catalogue of that show has now run to a 4th edition. It contains all the icons of Newton’s special fields of interest including fashion, nudes, portraits as well as works for which he became world famous – the sensational fashion photos for the British magazine Vogue, Liz Taylor with a parrot in a swimming pool, Helmut Berger naked at his fireplace, Helmut Kohl with a German oak, Salvador Dali on an IV drip, the "Big Nudes" and some of his later macabre wax figures… Newton was a genius for not being blinded by the glamour and the masquerade of pretence that were prevalent in the world in which he lived...read more

Product Description: Elizabeth Peyton paints portraits of people who matter to her. Be they the iconic faces of Princess Diana, Andy Warhol, Liam Gallagher, and Leonardo DiCaprio or the unfamiliar visages of her friends, lovers, and acquaintances, all appear delicate and painterly, glossy and jewel-like, small in format, and distinctly intimate--as if Peyton knew and loved them all equally...read more

Product Description: Globalization expands and contracts daily, as art and artists cross and recross borders. Motorcycles, fashion houses, and vacuum cleaners find themselves exhibited in art museums, complete with their corporate identities intact. Corporate collections grow in size and influence, while Saatchi & Saatchi and Altoids Curiously Strong Mints roll off gallery-goers' tongues...read more

Product Description: Cindy Sherman’s photographs are almost immediately recognizable. Using herself as the model, she assumes numerous disguises to portray "characters" both fictional and famous, or to reinvent situations both commonplace and extraordinary...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "All good thoughts and all good works of art run on their own as a perpetual motion machine, mentally and sometimes physically; they are very alive," says Jason Rhoades. Bearing witness to the animating possibilities of art, Jason Rhoades' recent installation, "Perfect World", is a monumental piece of work in all senses of the term...read more

Product Description: Contributions by Stuart Morgan, Carl Freedman. Text by Neville Wakefield.

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Product Description: This lavish title focuses for the first time on Picabia's late work consisting mainly of nudes, which is a break from the Dadaist work for which history has lauded him.

Product Description: Featuring a wonderful cross-section of Helmut Newton's work, this album includes fashion photographs for French Vogue, dating from the 1970s, his "big nudes", portraits of celebrities, including Elizabeth Taylor, Princess Caroline of Monaco, Salvador Dali, and Daryl Hannah, and his materful cityscapes, night scenes, and ballet images...read more