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Anthony James
Anthony James
$50.00
The Los Angeles-based British artist Anthony James captures the imagination of all who see his kaleidoscopic light sculptures at museums and art fairs around the globe. Anthony James, a 160-page volume published by Melissa Morgan Fine Art, surveys more than a decade of the artist’s work, including his ongoing series of Portals, which give viewers a vehicle to transcend the here and now and experience the possibilities of infinity and the divinity within themselves. The full-color publication includes an interview with the artist by art writer and longtime Palm Springs Life editor Steven Biller, as well as commentary from Martyn Lawrence Bullard, Anthony Haden-Guest, Craig McDean, Glenn O’Brien, Jordan D. Schnitzer, Michael Slenske, and Magnus Walker. The book also includes a timeline of the artist’s work, as well as listings of solo and group exhibitions, publications, and articles.
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Morphic Fields
Anthony James
$40.00
Multimedia artist Anthony James (born 1974) likes to work with heavy equipment, using a chainsaw to cut birch trunks and arranging them in glass boxes with mirrors, or setting his beloved Ferrari 355 Spider on fire and exhibiting the gutted wreck. Morphic Fields offers an overview of his oeuvre.
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Sculpture
Carole A. Feuerman
$105.00
Carole A. Feuerman’s sculpture combines breathtaking superrealist technique with a humanist approach to her subjects. This first monograph on her work is filled with David Finn’s dramatic photographs covering two decades of her work, including many enlarged details and multiple views, providing a cinematic, almost three-dimensional experience. The work– in resin, cast marble, bronze, and other materials, often painted– ranges from early erotic reliefs through full-scale sculptures of athletes and nudes. Her women at their toilette are sculptural tours-de-force, yet their intimacy recalls Degas’ works on similar themes. Recent fragments and body mappings are experiments with abstraction, deconstruction, and conceptualism, at the same time that they explore the emotional life of their subjects, penetrating to their spirit.
All of Feuerman’s work reflects the two aspects of her vision. Her work is motivated by questions about the nature of reality, and her remarkable skill as an artist leads the viewer to the same questions. Yet beyond the simulacrum of reality, Feuerman also manages to convey the feeling behind the intense physicality, the passion and sensuality behind the seemingly mundane pose.
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Swimmers
Carole A. Feuerman
$70.00
Realist sculptor Carole Feuerman's human-figure sculptures express a refreshing perspective on the mundane but intensely personal activities of modern life. Her powers of observation and versatility are expressed through various materials that include marble, bronze, vinyl and painted resins; she also incorporates both ancient and contemporary methods in the creation of her works. In this new collection, Feuerman's treatment of the figure on paper is also explored for the first time. In an accompanying essay, John Yau describes Feuerman's exquisitely rendered subjects as "caught in a moment of transition that radiates an intense eroticism." Her figures evoke an inward life that invites our speculation while revealing a chasm between the figures and the viewer. Feuerman's sculpture and prints provide us with a fleeting glimpse into private and isolated environments--women stepping out of the shower, in the rain, or swimming--that suggest a meditative bliss.
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50 Years of Looking Good
Carole A. Feuerman
$70.00
The most comprehensive monograph to date on major American artist Carole A. Feuerman, a pioneer of hyperrealism in sculpture lavishly illustrated and covering Feuerman’s entire career spanning five decades, featuring more than 200 works Carole A. Feuerman is celebrated as a pioneer and one of America’s major pioneers of Hyperrealism in sculpture, alongside Duane Hanson and John De Andrea. Born 1945 and educated in New York and Philadelphia, she began as an illustrator before turning to sculpture in the 1970s, soon gaining much recognition and early success. Her work has been displayed in many group shows and solo exhibitions at private galleries and public museums, as well as at major art fairs, in America, Europe, and Asia. Over five decades, Feuerman has created visual manifestations of stories telling of strength, survival, and balance. Her subject matter is the human figure, most often a woman in an introspective moment of exuberant self-consciousness shaded by erotic lassitude. Feuerman’s works represent a female state of mind rather than an alluring body meant to attract the male gaze. They suggest that women look at themselves differently from men looking at them, that a woman is more innately creative than a man. This book is the most comprehensive survey of Feuerman’s oeuvre to date. Lavishly illustrated in color throughout, it demonstrates the variety of materials and media she uses and highlights the specific qualities of her figures.
John T. Spike is an American-born distinguished art historian, curator, author and lecturer specializing in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art, and an eminent critic of contemporary art. Additional essays by John Yau and Claudia Moscovici.
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My Hyperrealist Life and Legacy
Carole A. Feuerman
$22.00
"This book dives deep into my experiences as a woman artist. It highlights my struggles to survive the odds through balance, perseverance, and independence on my journey to fulfilling my true calling. Art has always been my saving grace," says Carole Feuerman.
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Sculpture by Bruce Beasley: A 45-year Retrospective
Bruce Beasley
$100.00
A 304 page hardcover book published by the Oakland Museum of California in honor of Bruce Beasley's 45-year retrospective. This large, hardcover book features articles by Albert Elsen and Peter Frank, as well as an interview with the artist.
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Sundoor
Slater Bradley
$50.00
Moving between painting, photography and installation, the work of Los Angeles–born, Berlin-based artist Slater Bradley (born 1975) examines themes of science, faith and cosmology. At this center of his latest book are his most recent installation works, exhibited between 2016 and 2018, in which collective spiritual experience, sacred sites, personal history, cosmology, philosophy and mythology all merge into one vast edifice.
With beautiful gilt stamping and page edges, and abundant full-color plates of superbly photographed works, Sundoor also features an essay by the Mayan calendar systems expert John Major Jenkins, and a link to original music created by Oscar-nominated composer Dustin O'Halloran for Bradley's Sundoor at World's End installation at the Church of Mary Magdalene in Venice, Italy, in 2017.
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Richard Erdman
Richard Erdman
$75.00
With over 200 color plates, spanning nearly three decades of the artist's career, the book includes essays by noted art critic Peter Frank and a DVD with both a documentary about the artist, produced by Emily Lau (History Channel, Discovery Network), as well as a newly edited version of the award winning documentary "Passage."
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Jospeh McDonnell
Joseph McDonnell
$65.00
Joseph McDonnell started out as a figurative sculptor studying under renowned Yugoslav sculptor Ivan Mestrovic, but his major works vary from stark geometric forms to others more loosely connected. They range in size from small to monumental and include mobiles, wall reliefs, and, more recently, an exquisite series McDonnell calls "Ice Cubes." He has a flawless sense of mass and speace that produces an inner logic in the forms he creates. His work in bronze and granite contains overtones of ancient civilizations and their symbolism deals with the primordial objects of life: the sun, the column, the arch.
With an in-depth text by the well-known art critic Donald Kuspit and photographs by world-famous photographer of sculpture David Finn and his granddaughter, Rebecca Binder, this book brings McDonnell's unique vision to life through exquisite detail shots that explore the sculptures from many angles.
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Under the Volcano
Steinunn Thorarinsdottir
$50.00
Steinunn Thorarinsdottir's sculpture monograph includes the essay, "Under The Volcano" by Lilly Wei, with several full-page color images and the artist's biography.
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Surmatants - Mars Rising
Andréa Stanislav
$50.00
“Surmatants - Mars Rising” includes a 12" translucent red vinyl LP, exhibition catalogue booklet, and digital download code with music, catalog PDF and video composite of artist’s three channel video from Andréa Stanislav’s 2021 immersive media installation “Surmatants - Mars Rising”, The Mattress Factory Museum of Contemporary Art, Pittsburgh. Original music composed and recorded by Jesse Gelaznik for the installation. Catalog essay by Charlotta Kotik and interviews on the making of the installation with Andréa Stanislav (Artist and Director), Jesse Gelaznik (Composer), and Zeljko Jergan (Choreographer). The video features dance performances by the Tamburitzans Dance Troupe.
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Sculpture 1971 - 2012
Boaz Vaadia
$60.00
This monograph of Israeli-born sculptor Boaz Vaadia takes the reader on a journey from his early days growing up on a small farm in Israel to his copious stone sculptures.
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How To: The Art of Deborah Oropallo
Deborah Oropallo
$25.00
"How-to manuals, whether instructions for safety, military, or magic codes, have served as source material throughout the body of Deborah Oropallo's work. Long admired in the Bay Area, Oropallo has achieved renown for her remarkable ability to transform mundane objects into striking images of poetic resonance. In the past twenty years her work has evolved from richly saturated paintings of image and text to larger, somewhat abstract silkscreen canvases of untraditional subject matter such as rope, doormats, and railroad tracks. In her most recent work, Oropallo incorporates digital imagery, creating monumental canvases of industrial containers, buckets and pipes that we often overlook everyday. The San Jose Museum of Art is particularly pleased to present this survey at a crucial moment of the painter's career."
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Shimmering Zen
James Stanford
$70.00
James Stanford utilizes the latest in digital art technique to create mesmerizing mandala designs from digital photos of historic Las Vegas neon signage, and architectural elements from the 1950s and 1960s. Stanford's group of intriguing digital montages convey and respond to the potency of the mandala as a symbol, and its influence and importance to Asian culture worldwide. Shimmering Zen is 264 pages and consists of over 150 of Stanford's original works created over the past 15 years. Includes comprehensive essays by the artist, the curator Elizabeth Herridge and a foreword by Jeff Rosen, Vice President, The Higher Learning Commission, Evanston, Illinois. Author interview by Laura Henkel. The launch of the book is supported by an exhibition of Stanford's visually stunning and intricately constructed modern mandala series, entitled "Indra's Jewels."
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Ceramic and Bronze Sculptures
Marek Zyga
$35.00
Marek Zyga began working with clay in 2003. His beautiful bronzes and ceramic sculptures are based on the male and female form, he often uses abstract symbols and patterns to express thoughts and feelings. Zyga is an inspirational, thought-provoking artist, who moulds and shapes human emotions into every sculpture.
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Ciels: Photographs by Olivier Dassault
Olivier Dassault
$15.00
For Olivier Dassault, aviation and photography are like compelling passions. Both come together and respond to a need that has become vital: to go and catch our breath and vision at the extreme edge of the atmosphere, and thereby access the territory of the most obvious beauty. The images captured, doubly captured in flight, are those of a pilot navigating between earth and sky, aiming only at the highest, focusing his gaze only on the shores of space.
The wonder wants that these skies seen from the sky, so magnetized by infinity, nevertheless appear as the reflections of our intimate dreams, of our buried fears, of our secret dazzlings.
Because the objective here is not neutral, nor insensitive. It responds to an almost mystical intoxication. He is exalted at the spectacle of the most ephemeral of vertigo. It has, it seems, a supplement of emotion and soul.
And in the text that accompanies the photographs, André Velter explores precisely what this tearing from the ground, this take-off, has given rise to as unheard of and unprecedented among painters, poets and musicians.
This book thus invites, through its high-speed magic and the wonder it transmits, to take stock of the real revolution in perceptions and the way of seeing that the pioneers of aviation imposed in their
wake.
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Resin Heads
Richard Dupont
$30.00
A catalogue of the artist's "Resin Heads" series, spanning 2011 - 14. The resin heads began, in part, as a practical response to a real situation. Some 10,000 pounds of material by-product, the accumulated result of a decade of art making and living, had begun to pose a problem. The solution, beginning in late 2010, was to use all of that collected material to create a new series of works.
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Landscapes for the End of Time
Stephen Hutchings
$40.00
This book is based on a major exhibition of Stephen Hutchings monumental landscape paintings organized by the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, Alberta. The paintings and the two videos included in the exhibition examine ideas of temporality, permanence and eternity. The book is illustrated with the paintings from the Landscapes for the End of Time exhibition as well as with many other examples of Hutchings work. The accompanying essays provide insight and context, and offer an understanding and appreciation for his art as a whole. Also included is a discussion of the innovative techniques and methods he employs in his creative process and the significant role that contemporary music plays in the development of his work. Each publication includes a DVD containing both video works from the exhibition.
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In Search of Clear Lines
Philip Baldwin and Monica Guggisberg
$80.00
Philip Baldwin and Monica Guggisberg's first book; a comprehensive portrait of the first sixteen years of their artistic collaboration, with essays by Suzanne K. Frantz and Jean-Luc Olivié.
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