"Air Guitar" is Dave Hickey's "memoir without tears"--a journey through the vernacular cultural landscape of the United States in the second half of the twentieth century. Looking back from the vantage-point of his adopted hometown of Las Vegas, Nevada, Hickey speculates on everything from jazz and rock-and-roll to basketball and professional ...
For the first time ever, "Playboy" has collected together every single Centerfold from every single issue. That's over 600 beauties. In this luxurious volume, we've reproduced these Centerfolds exactly as they appeared in the magazine (one foot by nearly two feet tall). Housed in a handsome linen-covered clamshell art box carrying case, this ...
A one-of-a-kind, over-the-top, one-stop-shopping overview of one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Culled from archives at the Warhol Museum and Warhol Foundation in addition to a variety of other private sources, "Andy Warhol Giant Size" provides an unprecedented look at the life and work of an endlessly fascinating figure. ...
Get up close and personal with the warriors of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC[registered]). Explore the work of photographer Kevin Lynch and track the evolution of the UFC[registered] over five years though 800 incredible photos of the fighters as they compete in this mixed martial arts sport. See these amazing warriors; from the tense ...
Dave Hickey's "The Invisible Dragon" exploded like a bomb in the world of art criticism when it was originally published in 1993. Championed by artists for its forceful call for attention to beauty, and savaged by more theoretically oriented critics who had long dismissed the very concept of beauty as naive, the book ignited a debate that has ...
As a teenager, artist Edmier remembers reading that his favorite TV star, Farrah Fawcett, was an artist. Twenty years later, he asked her to collaborate on a project--she accepted. After nine months in a studio together, the two produced this body of sculpture and photography. 200 illustrations.
One of the most significant art critics of the late 20th century, Christopher Knight has developed an entirely new approach to American culture. The subject of Knights jargon-free essays range from African-American textiles and the AIDS Memorial Quilt to the Vatican art collection and the NEA scandal; from Tun Ch'i-ch'and and Edouard Manet to Ed ...
The enigmatic language art of Ed Ruscha disorients the viewer by remaining purposely out-of-context, and thus Forever just beyond comprehension. In this new publication, New Paintings and a Retrospective of Works on Paper, the reader is confronted with an artistic identity that has remained singularly intact For close to four decades. Two in-depth ...
One of the most significant art critics of the late 20th century, Christopher Knight has developed an entirely new approach to American art and culture. His journalistic writings have a clear line of argument, humor, and a Pop sensibility. With a highly developed ethical code and historical depth, they assert that art is essential to a free and ...
For the very first time, American Edge brings together ninety of Schapiro's searing images, which can only be described as reportage in the classic tradition of Walker Evans, Robert Frank, and Diane Arbus. Schapiro's photographs of the 1960s show the collective American psyche torn apart by the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther ...
Looks at the pioneering American contemporary artist, Jennifer Steinkamp - an artist for the digital age - and her abstract projections and media installations.
The Art Guys have done it again! In a project exploring the connection between fashion, art, and commerce that only these irrepressible mavericks could have conceived, the two Houston-based artists spent a year crisscrossing the country wearing suits by designer Todd Oldham on which they had sold advertising space to 56 American companies. Suits ...
This book, the first survey of 13 years of the Art Guys imaginative collaboration, gathers 87 works in myriad forms and materials. Illustrated here, and discussed in four essays, are examples from the duo's sculpture, drawing, collage, installations, performance, and video.
All photographs are to some extent about light. The eighty-five stunning colour photographs in this book are a masterful exploration not only of the light falling on objects or filling spaces but of the very act of seeing. Whether he is photographing in a museum storage room in Washington DC, or a shrine in Myanmar, Richard Ross has an uncanny ...
In the early 1970s, Boystown was a collection of brothels along the border between Texas and Mexico, where cowboys and college boys, gang members and family men, drunkenly traveled desert highways to dance to six-piece Tejano bands, guzzle cheap liquor, and pay for sex. A group of photographers worked these clubs every night, shooting sharp, in ...
An irreverent document of Artspace's 15-year commitment to exhibitions, publications, performances, videos and film, this book challenges the notion of what an organization for and about artists can be at the dawn of the 21st century. Supported by Artspace grants, the guerilla artists of Survival Research Laboratories terrorized San Fransisco with ...
Whiz! Bang! Pop! Blam! Roy Lichtenstein has rendered everything from a comic-book cell and a warplane to a country landscape and a turkey in his trademark style drawn from printed advertisements and cartoons. A master mixer of popular culture and high art, Lichtenstein's painterly use of Benday dots and heavy outlines turned oil paintings into ...
This is the first book on a quintessential California artist who for over three decades has been an active force in shaping the art and culture of the West, from cast-resin sculpture, through sunset, ocean and airport images, to recent Las Vegas paintings.
A pioneer of infusing abstract painting with influences from popular culture and craft traditions, Mary Heilmann is one of the very few female abstract painters of her generation. Her deceptively simple, even off-hand approach to painting - at once expressing ease and complexity - now permeates contemporary abstraction, testifying to her broad ...
An expert and precisely selective journey through the sunshine noir of greater Los Angeles, Jeff Burton's first American publication documents a well-worn but little-known trail from the Hollywood sign to the San Fernando Valley: that of the porn industry in which he works. Burton's images, veritable picnics of fragmented flesh, feature figures ...
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