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Doomed and Famous
An obituarist opens his archive to celebrate the obscure and the eccentric. In Doomed and Famous, an obituarist opens his archive in celebration of the most marginal and improbable characters, creating a meta-fiction of extinction and obscurity. For many decades Adrian Dannatt tracked and dredged the dead, with a macabre disregard for the etiquette of mortality. His specialty, much in demand among even the most mainstream publications, was to memorialize those whose eccentricity or criminality made them unlikely candidates for the fleeting immortality of a newspaper necrology. Dannatt maintained a veritable lust, perverse certainly, for capturing and celebrating such wayward existences. This...
Alexander the Great
Alexander Iolas, the influential intercontinental art dealer active between 1945 and 1987, with galleries in Athens, Rome, Geneva, Madrid, Milan, New York, and Paris, is honored in this show displaying examples from Iolas's collection.
Francois-Xavier and Claude Lalanne: In the Domain of Dreams
The Lalannes' charming, dreamy, and surrealistic body of functional sculptures, once a guarded secret for exclusive collectors such as Yves Saint Laurent and the Agnellis, is celebrated in full in this stunning new book. The legendary husband-and-wife artist team has been the inspiration for high-society collectors and decorators, such as Pierre Bergé, Serge Gainsbourg, Peter Marino, Jane Holzer, and Reed Krakoff for over five decades. Crossing over many audiences - from interior design to fine art to high society, the works of the Lalannes have aspirational yet broad appeal. Their surreal flock of sheep sculpture is now de rigeur for any important collection, while their functional hippopotamus wet bar sells for millions of dollars at auction. Highly collected and promoted by an important group of art insiders, Lalanne works are often the focus of the well-curated room, as seen in many magazine covers. This book on their work will appeal to decorators, designers, artists, and all those who love beautiful art objects.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum Aid
A detailed survey of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Promenade
Santi Moix's work is characterized by accumulation and fragmentaion, sensuality and an acute sense of form. He mines literature and Art History for scenes that provide points of departure for his fantastical absrtractions. He has created work in a wide variety of media, though he is known as a printmaker and painter. He was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship in 2002. Born 1960 in Barcelona, he now lives and works in New York.
Robert Indiana
Text by Adrian Dannatt.
This is what We Do
A mixture of manual and monograph which outlines the working practices and projects of muf, a high-profile collaborative art and architecture practice committed to working in public spaces. An all-women practice with a string of innovative urban projects and the glory of having been sacked from the Millennium Dome, muf have obtained a certain notoriety, largely through media interest often focused on gender rather than their work as architects.
Turn and Face the Strange
Bringing together photographs taken during the mid 1970s through to the early 1980s, "Turn and Face the Strange" covers the eclectic range of subjects that passed in front of Jane England s camera. Initially inspired by photographers such as Diane Arbus and Guy Bourdin, England photographed friends and associates at a time when marginalised groups and sub-cultures merged and came together with a shared sense of nihilism and decadence. Her images range from carefully choreographed portraits to street photographs, encompassing the early years of London s Punk era and the birth of New Romanticism. Her depictions of non-conformist urban tribes provide an intimate portrayal of sophistication and ...
Hélène Cixous, Rootprints
Helene Cixous is undoubtedly one of the most brilliant and innovative contemporary thinkers. Published here in English for the first time Helene Cixous, Rootprints is an ideal introduction to Cixous's theory and her fiction, tracing her development as a writer and intellectual whose remarkable prespicacity and electrifying poetic force are known world-wide. Unprecedented in its form and content this collection breaks new ground in the theory and practice of auto/biography. Cixous's creative reflections on the past provide occasion for scintillating forays into the future. The text includes: * an extended interview between Cixous and Calle-Gruber, exploring Cixous's creative and intellectual processes * a revealing collection of photographs taken from Cixous's family album, set against a poetic reflection by the author * selections from Cixous's private notebooks * a contribution by Jacques Derrida * original 'thing-pieces' by Calle-Gruber.
