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An exploration of decolonial, feminist and personal themes in the West Texas landscape through Huanca's painting and sculptureThe latest volume from Chicago-born, Berlin-based multimedia artist Donna Huanca (born 1980) engages with the landscape of West Texas, while also drawing on visual, cultural and mythological cues informed by feminism, decolonialism and the artist's personal histories. Documenting the exhibition of the same name at Ballr...

Cut, paste and Riot Grrrl: on the gloriously energetic paintings of Molly Zuckerman-HartungComic Relief is the first museum monograph of the work of artist Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, reviewing over twenty years of her art and life. Created as a catalogue for a major survey of Zuckerman-Hartung 's practice at the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston, the book acts as both a record of the exhibition and the artist's wide-ranging body of work--from her in...

The first full-length monograph of Houston-based visual artist Jamal Cyrus (born 1973), this publication features an overview of Cyrus' practice of cobbling modern artifacts that trace the evolution of Black identity as it migrates across the African Diaspora, Middle Passage, jazz age and civil rights movements from the 1960s to now. Published to accompany Cyrus' first career survey exhibition at the Blaffer Art Museum, the catalog includes ma...

In the early 1980s, a group of artists, writers and activists came together in New York City to form Artists Call Against US Intervention in Central America, a creative campaign that mobilized nationwide in an effort to bring attention to the US government's violent involvement in Latin American nations such as Nicaragua and El Salvador. Together the group staged over 200 exhibitions, concerts and other public events in a single year, raising ...

Matt Keegan interviews artists and commissions writing to reassess the 1990s as the moment when the Democratic Party abandoned its New Deal values and swung to the rightIn the wake of the Trump election, artist Matt Keegan (born 1976) began investigating the Democratic Party's shifts over recent decades. In the late '80s, members of the Democratic Leadership Council successfully moved the party's platform to the right by including a pro-busine...

Ant Farm, the conceptual architectural practice turned art collaborative, is known for such distinctive works as House of the Century (1971-73), Cadillac Ranch (1974), and The Eternal Frame (1975). -- Of equal notoriety is Media Burn, Ant Farm's legendary 1975 performance, in which a radically customized Cadillac was driven through a wall of burning television sets. Media Burn: Ant Farm and the Making of an Image is a vibrant assessment of the...

Building upon the 2017 Ballroom Marfa exhibition Strange Attractor organized by sound artist and curator Gryphon Rue, this book brings together an interdisciplinary group of artists and practitioners to investigate the chaos, connections and interpretations that narrate everyday experiences. Strange Attractor includes artworks from Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Thomas Ashcraft, Robert Buck, Alexander Calder, Beatrice Gibson, Phillipa Horan, Channa Horw...

The first monograph for Los Angeles-based artist Pearson documents nearly 15 years of monochromatic photographs, sculptures, and multimedia works. The book highlights his studio and includes artist's reflections and a curatorial essay tracing his varied cultural influences--including music and the culture of Southern California.rnia.

The Pragmatism in the History of Art traces the questions that modern art history has used to make sense of the changes overtaking both art and life. The questions combine with case studies as a story unfolds: the work of Meyer Schapiro, Henri Focillon, Alexander Dorner, George Kubler, Robert Herbert, T. J. Clark and Linda Nochlin is scrutinized, the philosophy of Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze and the films of Chris Marker and Jean-Luc Go...

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Beloved by collectors and scholars alike, Leiber's beautiful bookseller catalogs shaped the canon of publications. The pioneering San Francisco art dealer, collector, and gallerist who specialized in the dematerialized art practices of the 1960s and 1970s and the ephemera and documentation spawned by conceptual art and other postwar movements, produced a series of 52 iconic catalogs between 1992 and 2010.

In this volume, theorist and sound artist Micah Silver addresses the impact of sound on human behavior and social space. Silver's research ranges from Yves Klein's Air Architecture to La Monte Young's Dream House, and culminates in a discussion of historically significant sound systems, from discos, Monterey and Woodstock to the GRM studio, and their physical and experiential impacts, such as the Grateful Dead's famous Wall of Sound custom PA....

Endless Shout' asks how, why, and where performance and improvisation can take place inside a museum. The book documents a six-month series of experimental performances organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, where five participants Raâul de Nieves, Danielle Goldman, George Lewis, The Otolith Group, and taisha paggett collectively led a series of encounters and unfolding improvisation experiments. These include Miya Masao...

Bio documents a 365-day project by US-based artist, poet and theorist Maryam Monalisa Gharavi, during which she updated the biography section of her Twitter account, the only untraceable and non-archived part of the program's superstructure, raising questions of power, self-deletion and visibility in the internet era.

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Packaged in a resealable plastic envelope, Reusable Universes serves as an instruction manual to the immersive kinetic art of Taiwanese artist Shih Chieh Huang (born 1975), showing how nature, technology and everyday materials inspire Huang's practice.

Mary Corse (born 1945) earned acclaim in the 1960s for pieces ranging from shaped-canvas paintings to ingenious light works. Corse has dedicated the decades since to establishing a unique practice at the crossroads of abstract expressionism and minimalism. Despite her now-frequent association with California's Light and Space movement, the Los Angeles-based artist evolved independently of the region's dominant personalities, philosophies and s...

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Established in 2007 by Marc Fischer, and featured in the 2014 Whitney Biennial, Public Collectors encourages collectors of material culture--the kind that most museums won't exhibit--to 'open' their collections to the public. Extending the popular website of the same name, this book presents a wide array of collections--some featured on the website, most newly assembled for publication--interspersed with commentary and essays exploring the pro...

Published in tandem with the exhibition at the James Fuentes Gallery, NY, 2015.