Books For The Collector's Library. - Review - book reviews

Art in America, Oct, 1999 by Robed Fitzpatrick

1 Regular Price $75.00 SALE $69

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Edited by Franklin Sirmans, with contributions by Hilton Als. Keith Haring, Glenn O'Brien and others (Tony Shafrazi Gallery/D.A.P.)

Regular Price $45.00 SALE $41

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Texts by Bruno Bischofberger, Luca Marenzi, Francesco Clemente, Keith Haring and others (Charta)

COMBINED SALE $107

Jean-Michel Basquiat quickly rose to prominence in New York in the 1980s with his graffiti-inspired paintings. Since his tragic death at the age of 27 in 1988, he has become world famous. The recent Basquiat exhibition at the Museo Revoltella in Trieste, Italy, was the artist's largest in Europe and his first in Italy. This accompanying 192-page catalogue contains over 100 color illustrations of his works. Aisc included are interviews with the artist by Henry Geldzahler, Isabelle Graw and others.

The Tony Shafrazi Gallery has shown works by Basquiat since 1983. A new exhibition of his paintings and drawings at the gallery coincides with the publication of this 250-page monograph. Filled with rich reproductions, the book also includes enlightening essays by Hilton Als, Keith Haring, Richard Marshall, Glenn O'Brien and Francesco Pellizzi, as well as a poem by Ted Joans and an interview with graffiti artist Fab Five Freddy.

2 Regular Price $75.00 SALE $69

Clemente: A Retrospective

by Lisa Dennison with contributions by Robert Creeley, Gus van Sant, Raymond Foye, and others (Guggenheim)

Regular Price $65.00 SALE $59

Life Is Paradise: The Portraits of Francesco Clemente

Essay and interview by Vincent Katz (powerHouse) Regular Price $45.00 SALE $41

Francesco Clemente: Art and Life

Photos by Luca Babini, essay by Rene Ricard (Aperture)

COMBINED SALE $166

Clemente: A Retrospective is a scholarly volume, profusely illustrated with 350 colorplates, that accompanies Francesco Clemente's major survey show opening at the Guggenheim in New York this fall and subsequently traveling to the Guggenheim Bilbao. The lavishly illustrated, oversized book Life Is Paradise focuses on Clemente's colorful and imaginative portraits of his famous and not-so-famous friends. The sumptuous photographs in Art and Life offer a private visit with the artist at work in his studios in New York, Italy and New Mexico, as well as an intimate glimpse of Clemente at home with his family.

3 Regular Price $29.95 SALE $27

Mike Kelley

by John C. Welchman, Isabelle Graw and Anthony Vidler (Phaidon)

Regular Price $29.95 SALE $27

William Kentridge

by Dan Cameron, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, J.M. Coetzee (Phaidon)

COMBINED SALE $52

Phaidon continues its series on contemporary artists with these two excellent volumes on LA. iconoclast Mike Kelley and South African animation whiz William Kentridge. The generously illustrated book on Kelley includes a survey of his work since the '70s by John C. Welchman, who contextualizes the artist in the tradition of anti-art movements like Dada. Aisc included are an interview by Isabelle Graw, an essay by Anthony Vidler and literary selections by Kelley, as well as some of the artist's own writings.

Kentridge gained widespread attention with his inclusion in the 1997 editions of the Johannesburg and Havana Biennials and in Documenta X in Kassel, Germany. Through drawings and animated films, he addresses political and social issues in South Africa. This volume includes contributions by Dan Cameron and South African novelist J.M. Coetzee, an interview by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and texts by the artist.

4 Regular Price $195.00

SALE $185

Georgia O'Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonne

by Barbara Buhler Lynes

(Yale University Press/National Gallery of Art)

Georgia O'Keeffe's lyrical landscape paintings, flower studies and abstractions are among the best-known images of this century. This beautiful two-volume catalogue raisonne contains more than 2,000 lush color illustrations of her paintings, drawings, watercolors and sculptures, many never before reproduced, along with pertinent factual information, a full bibliography, an exhibitions listing and a chronology of O'Keeffe's life. Barbara Buhler Lynes, curator of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, fully explores the artist's working methods, stylistic development and contributions to American modernism. This important resource will be an essential tool for scholars and lovers of 20th-century American art.

5 Regular Price $55.00 SALE $50

Modern Starts: People, Places, Things

Edited by John Elderfield, with Peter Reed, Mary Chan and Maria del Carmen Gonzalez (Museum of Modern Art)

Regular Price $60.00 SALE $54

The American Century: Art & Culture, 1950-2000

by Lisa Phillips (Whitney Museum of American Art/Norton)

COMBINED SALE $101

To celebrate the new millennium, New York's MOMA and the Whitney Museum are embarking upon ambitious, multipart exhibitions to take stock of the art of the last century. "ModernStarts," the first of three cycles of centennial exhibitions at MOMA, focuses on the period from 1880 to 1920. The exhibition draws from the invaluable collection of the museum. The accompanying 360-page catalogue contains 450 reproductions, and informative texts that provide a stimulating look at the beginnings of modernism.