Inside the 19 pound box....
Here is a list of all the wonderful new things we got inside the 19 pound box yesterday (they can all be found on the new shelf in the library):
1. DVD Cartune Xprez (not yet cataloged but at the circulation desk.)
A compilation of up-and-coming animators. Loops by Takeshi Murata, Philippe Blanchard, Christopher Doulgeris, Michael Bell-Smith, Peter Burr. Shorts by Peter Burr, Christopher Doulgeris, Cassandra C. Jones, Paper Rad, Luke Meeken and Andrew Negrey, Francine Spiegel, Drew Pavelchak, Gretchen Hogue, Hooliganship, Amy Lockhart, Philippe Blanchard, Shana Moulton.
www.cartunexprez.com
2. DVD Joan Jonas Study of the Artist with Dog
This is a documentary film about the artist Joan Jonas as she works on her most recent pieces. The film culminates with footage of Jonas’ recent performance at Dia:Beacon in 2005 entitled, “The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things”. A film by Brigitte Cornand.
3. FUKT: A Magazine for Contemporary Drawing (The Animation Issue) DVD included.
An annual magazine showcasing work from various emerging and more established artists. Included in this issue are James Paterson, Bjørn Hegardt, Rui Tenreiro and Lars Nilsson.
www.fukt.de
4. Pipilotti Rist, Essay by Änne Söll
Pipilotti Rist continually reinvents the art of installation. With her multimedia audio and video installations, the Swiss-born artist creates and innovatively transforms big and small spaces, activates machines and produces serial video stills filled with her very individual and vivid imagery. Supplemented with short interviews on each of the pieces highlighted, Änne Söll’s introduction offers the first systematic overview of the works of Pipilotti Rist. Beautifully designed and unusally engaging text.
5. Marina Abramovic: Balkan Epic
This volume documents Abramovic’s Balkan series of video installations and performances created in the period from 1997 to 2005. In her latest work, Balkan Erotic Epic, Abramovic creates new, surprising perspectives on archaic rituals that used erotic powers to influence fate and fortune.
6. Diary of a Body, 1969-1973 Vito Acconci
This publication traces the development of Acconci’s early work through his own writings and documentations from that time.An introduction by Gregory Volk provides historical context and addresses the issues of body art and performance still relevant today.
7. A Book of D’s, Danica Phelps
For 10 years, Danica Phelps has been documenting and drawing her life. In this book, calendars chart the daily comings and goings of an artistic existence and graphite line drawings record intimacy between Phelps and her lover Debi. 81 b&w illustrations
8. Yoshitaka Amano: M (Text by Ralf Christofori)
Best known for his commercial design work, for example his character designs for the video game Final Fantasy, this artist’s book published in co-operation with the Galerie Michael Janssen, Köln, explores Amano’s paintings and sketches which remove these characters from their usual narratives, freezing them in series of emotional and heroic works.
9. Justin Lieberman
Artist, Critic and Cultural Theorist Justin Lieberman presents a publication outlining several of his exhibitions and special projects, including paintings, drawings, photography, sculptures, video, and sound installations.
10. Lu Shengzhong: First Encounter
This catalogue was produced for the first major show in the USA of Lu Shengzhong at Chambers Fine Art. In his introduction Wu Hung, has stated, “among a small group of contemporary Chinese artists who have obtained world-wide renown, Lu Shengzhong is unique in his quest to express individuality and contemporaneity through a Chinese vernacular art form – the art of paper cutting.”
11. Laura Horelli Interviews, Diaries and Reports
Texts by Silvia Eiblmayr, Paula Toppila, Machiko Harada and interview by Marius Babias.
Laura Horelli works with montage to confront the reality of “official” images and messages from society, politics, the media or economics with those from her own perspective.
12. Wilhelm Sasnal: Paintings and Films
This small volume presents highlights from Sasnal’s early career along with several extraordinary new canvases and a series of 16mm films and video work from the artist’s recent travels in the U.S. and Brazil.
13. One to One Visions Recent Photography from China
In One to One curator Feng Boyi has selected eight young photographers to showcase their work, which ranges in style and theme. This catalog includes an essay by the independent curator Feng Boyi and artist biographies. Text in Chinese and English.
14. Shi Jinsong, Na Zha – Baby Care Guide
This catalogue, designed by the artist himself, contains work that was produced for Shi Jinsong’s first solo exhibition at Chambers Fine Art. With Na Zha Baby Boutique Shi Jinsong presents razor-sharp stainless steel sculptures, blueprints and photographs representing an outrageously unsafe line of baby products. This catalogue includes a foreword by Christophe W. Mao and essay by John Tancock. Text in Chinese and English.
15. Session Work, Rasus Knud and Soren Andreasen
Session Work is a book representing the collaborative art practice of Rasmus Knud & Søren Andreasen. In sixteen illustrated essays they discuss contemporary art practice as part of the everyday.
16. Rocks and Art Nature Found/Made
In Rocks and Art – Nature Found and Made, Chinese Scholar’s Rocks from the Ming and Qing Dynasties are juxtaposed with works by contemporary artists from China and America who are responsive in widely different ways to this venerable Chinese tradition. Among the contemporary artists in the exhibition are Qiu Deshu, Sui Jianguo, Martin Kline, Roy Lichtenstein, Brice Marden and Zhan Wang.
17. Intersection: Contemporary Oil Painting and Photography
This catalogue includes work by two painters – Chen Danqing and Shi Chong – and three photographers Hong Lei, Han Lei and Liu Zheng – all of whom find inspiration outside the parameters of their chosen medium. This catalog includes an essay by Wu Hung, Professor of Chinese Art History at the University of Chicago and artist biographies. Text in Chinese and English.
Descriptions from http://www.newmuseumstore.org
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