ROBERT STORR

Robert Mangold is one of the most significant American painters to have emerged in the late twentieth century. His work is collected in the world’s finest museums (the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York), and he has exhibited internationally since the 1960s. This is the first and most comprehensive monograph on this extraordinary artist, with contributions by some of the most respected art critics writing today. Mangold was greatly influenced by the Abstract Expressionism, and his paintings maintain the large scale and bold immediacy associated with artists such as Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko. Emerging in the 1960s alongside such artists as Richard Serra and Sol LeWitt, Mangold is often associated with practices of Minimalism because of his straightforward and geometric compositions. In contrast to the hard-edged Minimlaists, however, Mangold’s gently curved paintings and subtle, evocative colours recall a variety of sources, from frescos to traditional Greek ceramics. With a beauty, quiet and sensitivity reminiscent of the work of Piero della Francesca, Mangold’s art investigates the state of painting today, resulting in over thirty years’ worth of important avantgarde art – and some of the most magnificent abstract paintings being produced today.

Louise Bourgeois A celebration of the extraordinary sculptor and her pioneering sculptures and drawings.Survey by Robert Storr, Interview by Paulo Herkenhoff (with Thyrza Goodeve), Focus by Allan Schwartzman, Artist's Choice text by Françoise Sagan, Writings by Louise Bourgeois Born in Paris, Louise Bourgeois (b.1911) is an extraordinarily influential sculptor equally admired for her intimate drawings and her highly personal writings Her career spans some 70 years and touches upon such key movements as Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and Feminism; after a lifetime of little artistic recognition, Bourgeois now enjoys cult status Themes such as the Other, the feminine and the masculine, and the body - as well as her own specific biography - spin a tangled and intense life-long body of work The Interview offers a rare glimpse into the mind of this notoriously reclusive artist Robert Storr is Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Formerly Senior Curator at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 2004 he curated the 5th SITE Sante Fe Biennial in New Mexico. Storr was a contributing author to Phaidon's Raymond Pettibon (2003), Alex Katz (2006) and Robert Mangold (2000). Paulo Herkenhoff is an independent curator and critic based in Rio de Janeiro. Formerly adjunct Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Herkenhoff was Artistic Director of the 24th Bienal de Sao Paulo (1999) and Curator of the Brazilian Pavilion of the 47th Venice Biennale (1997). Allan Schwartzman is an independent art critic who often contributes to The New York Times as well as many other journals and newspapers. Schwartzman is a longtime follower of Bourgeois' work.

Raymond Pettibon The signature ink-wash drawings of this significant innovator of figurative art.Survey by Robert Storr, Interview by Dennis Cooper, Focus by Ulrich Loock, Artist's Choice text by George Puttenham, John Ruskin and Laurence Sterne, Writings by Raymond Pettibon California-based artist Raymond Pettibon (b.1957) is known internationally for his signature ink-wash drawings, which combine cartoon-like images with short, enigmatic texts His irresistibly compelling and witty drawings reveal all the deviations within American culture - in film, crime, TV, sex, art, religion, sports, comic books and more A late 1970s underground fanzine artist and designer of record covers for Sonic Youth and Black Flag, Pettibon has risen to become a world-renowned figure Robert Storr is Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Formerly Senior Curator at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 2004 he curated the 5th SITE Sante Fe Biennial in New Mexico. He was a contributing author to Phaidon's Louise Bourgeois (2003), Raymond Pettibon (2001) and Robert Mangold (2000) and has written regularly for magazines such as Artforum, Art in America, Frieze and Parkett. Dennis Cooper, a novelist and critic, is a Contributing Editor to Artforum. He has published a number of novels, including Frisk (1991), as well as The Dream Police: Selected Poems 1969-93. Ulrich Loock is Director of the Kunstmuseum Luzern and previously Director of the Kunsthalle, Bern. In 1995 he organized a major exhibition of Raymond Pettibon. He has written extensively on Conceptual and contemporary art in general, including the Survey text for Luc Tuymans, also published by Phaidon.

The groundbreaking sculptor's most comprehensive monograph to dateJean-Michel Othoniel is an artist who creates sculptures that explore themes of fragility, transformation, and ephemerality. Using the repetition of such modular elements as bricks or beads, his work deploys various strategies that hint at loss and despair - cracks in his objects' perfect surfaces, negative spaces and, early in his career, transient materials such as sulfur. The most authoritative study of the artist's work to date, it includes intimate gallery pieces as well as monumental public commissions around the world.