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This volume on Tomma Abts (b. 1967) will be published in conjuction with the exhibition of the same name that will be on display at New York''s New Museum of Contemporary Art from 9 April to 29 June 2008. It explores how the artist creates forms that delight the eye and challenge the mind. While working within strict parameters, Abts has reinvented abstraction for the twenty-first century. This is the first monograph on Abts, providing an extensive overview of more than ten years of work. It includes illuminating essays by three top critics, as well as full color reproductions of virtually every painting and drawing made by the artist since 1997.

This stunning, authorized collection of works by legendary illustrator Vargas includes a large number of previously unpublished paintings and drawings. This is the first book on Vargas in more than a

Catálogo razonado que reúne cerca de 1.500 obras ordenadas cronológicamente, desde 1920 hasta 1996, procedentes de coleccionistas privados y de empresas e instituciones, y que se completa con textos biograficos y criticos de Luis Maria Caruncho y de Xose Anton Castro, asi como con una antologia de textos del propio Laxeiro y de coetaneos y amigos.

The author looks at the world Warhol inhabited as a young man - a post-war America on the brink of mass commercialism and mass production - to examine his iconic paintings and prints. She demonstrates how Warhol''s fascination with pop culture meshed perfectly with a cultural mood, at once reflective and rebellious. The innovative layout allows the artist''s brilliantly coloured prints and paintings to spring to life, while photographs from Warhol''s life in and out of the limelight offer a balanced appreciation of an artist who taught his audience how to appreciate his art.

Su dominio de la luz, sus escenas evocadoras, sus imágenes de la realidad social, su sensibilidad y una estética inconfundible convierten a Joaquín Sorolla en uno de los grandes maestros de la pintura de todos los tiempos. Este volumen recoge y analiza su variada y fructifera obra ordenada de manera cronologica, ademas de repasar su vida y sus in fluencias para concebir pinturas tan llenas de matices.

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Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (1863-1923) disfrutó de gran fama en sus dos visitas a los Estados Unidos, cuando los museos norteamericanos compitieron por hacerse con sus exposiciones monográficas en 1909 y 1911, y la adquisicion de sus obras era motivo de orgullo para las colecciones publicas y privadas. Este volumen estudia el entramado de relaciones personales que sustentaron aquella fascinacion colectiva por Sorolla, el artista español mas admirado fuera de España a comienzos del siglo XX. Varios tipos de personajes participaron esta exitosa historia: sus primeros clientes en aquel pais, que presentaron sus compras en publico para dar a conocer a Sorolla entre sus compatriotas; los directores de los recien creados museos de Saint Louis, Buffalo y Chicago, que organizaron las exposiciones multitudinarias y los actos sociales relacionados con la estancia del pintor en estas ciudades; grandes coleccionistas y mecenas como Archer M. Huntington quien no solo acogio la legendaria exposicion neoyorquina en la Hispanic Society, sino que asumio la mayor parte de los gastos de su gira triunfal americana y Thomas Fortune Ryan, otro entusiasta del maestro español, del que llego a poseer al menos 29 cuadros. Sorolla tuvo relacion profesional y amistad con varios pintores norteamericanos: John Singer Sargent, su mentor en L...

El libro ofrece una revisión de la obra y de los procesos creativos de uno de los artistas más versátiles y destacados de Mexico. Prestigioso arquitecto, Terrazas es tambien conocido como experto en diseño grafico, destacando su colaboracion en el equipo multidisciplinario que diseño la identidad Olimpica de los Juegos de 1968, que se convirtio en un hito del diseño internacional.Asimismo, es creador de dinamicas instalaciones y ha formado parte del grupo de artistas denominado "geometristas mexicanos". Sin embargo, definir a Terrazas como un artista "geometrico" es tergiversar la mayor parte de sus diversas contribuciones al ambito del arte bi-dimensional.El libro expone y evalua la trayectoria de Terrazas dentro del ambito de la imagen plastica, y probablemente contribuya a ampliar el debate acerca de las posibilidades y significados del arte abstracto como genero de larga duracion.

Dean Stockton (D*Face) began his career as a street artist fifteen years ago in London by hand-drawing stickers and posters, and is now a leading figure in urban contemporary art. With his fusion of pop culture and graffiti, he has become notorious for witty and veneered cultural critiques that conceal more malicious undertones. In rethinking and subverting popular imagery, he encourages us to grasp our cultural environment, especially with regard to our increasingly bizarre fascination with celebrity, fame, and consumerism. This book is published on the occasion of his very first museum show, at the CAC Malaga, and reviews his entire career through 39 selected works.

Mark Rothko, one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century, was born in the Jewish Pale of Settlement in 1903. He immigrated to the United States at age ten, taking with him his Talmudic education and his memories of pogroms and persecutions in Russia. His integration into American society began with a series of painful experiences, especially as a student at Yale, where he felt marginalized for his origins and ultimately left the school. The decision to become an artist led him to a new phase in his life. Early in his career, Annie Cohen-Solal writes, "he became a major player in the social struggle of American artists, and his own metamorphosis benefited from the unique transformation of the U.S. art world during this time." Within a few decades, he had forged his definitive artistic signature, and most critics hailed him as a pioneer. The numerous museum shows that followed in major U.S. and European institutions ensured his celebrity. But this was not enough for Rothko, who continued to innovate. Ever faithful to his habit of confronting the establishment, he devoted the last decade of his life to cultivating his new conception of art as an experience, thanks to the commission of a radical project, the Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas. Cohen-Solal's fascinating biography, based on considerable archival research, tells the unlikely story of how a young immigrant from Dvinsk became a crucial transforming agent of the art world-one whose legacy prevails to this day.

The first major monograph on Zhang Xiaogang (b.1958), the most important and influential Chinese contemporary artist of his generationThe art of Zhang Xiaogang is a fixture in many major museum collections works can be seen at MoMA, Tate Modern and the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney and commands millions of dollars at auctionA retrospective of his haunting, surreal paintings and a biography of his dramatic life, this book is a key resource for academia and art enthusiasts alikeNever-before-published correspondence offers an inside view of everyday life in China providing an important historical and political context for his artAn illustrated chronology meanwhile features personal photographs from the artists archive