Product Description: Abstract Expressionism emerged in New York in the years immediately following the Second World War and quickly became one of the most powerful and influential movements in the history of modern art.  Building on developments in European avant-garde art of the preceding decades, a wave of artists such as Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman and Clyfford Still developed a new abstraction that was simultaneously elemental and sophisticated...read more

Product Description: In the late 1960s, the New York art world was, famously, an exhilarating place to be. New forms, including performance and video art, were making their debuts, and sculpture was developing in startling ways. In the midst of it all, experimental abstract painting was pressing art's most iconic medium to its limits and beyond...read more

Product Description: This first book of Dana Schutz's paintings is just catching up with her rave reviews--the New York Times said one recent show was "outstanding," and Artforum agreed, "far greater than the sum of its parts." Schutz's ecstatically imaginative work, executed in a vibrant, subjective palette, has made an impact since she began exhibiting five years ago...read more

Product Description: Gregory Crewdson's photographic series capture a particularly American state of normalcy--in dissolution. The viewer, at first seduced by what appears to be an idyllic scene, soon discovers subtle off-kilter elements more akin to Film Noir than an NBC comedy...read more

Product Description: Over the past four decades, Richard Tuttle has thrown into question nearly every conceivable artistic convention and critical category to create an enormously inventive body of abstract work-one that embraces and intermingles drawing, painting, collage, book-making, sculpture, and design...read more

Product Description: New painting and drawing is the subject of Remote Viewing, which accompanies an exhibition at the Whitney Museum. The book brings together eight artists, some well known, others emerging, all of whom create new worlds that exist somewhere between abstraction and representation...read more

Product Description: This unique 'exhibition in a book' presents some of the most challenging art to deal with the place and function of money in the contemporary world. Arranged into themed 'rooms', it reflects a wide range of artistic attitudes and practices...read more

Product Description: Features projects by forty-five internationally acclaimed artists whose installations in New York City were made possible by the Public Art Fund. It examines the deverse ways in which artists have created a participatory experience of contemporary art in public spaces. Art Fund.

Product Description: The last five years has been a period of explosive activity in the American art scene. This definitive survey of its most exciting and ebullient contemporary artists was shown at London's Barbican Art Gallery. Respected British curator Mark Sladen explored both East and West Coasts to select new work by emergent and cult figures, from Keith Edimier's silicone cast of himself in his mother's womb to Amy Adler's portraits of teen icons, Sarah Sze's sprawling installations to Paul Pfeiffer's intricate laser-fused powder sculptures...read more