Books For The Collector's Library

Art in America, Sept, 2001

[1] Regular Price $65.00 SALE $59

Dan Graham: Works 1965-2000 Essays by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Thierry de Duve and others (Richter Verlag/D.A.P.)

Regular Price $29.95 SALE $27

Dan Graham Essays by Birgit Pelzer, Beatriz Colomina, interview by Mark Francis (Phaidon)

COMBINED SALE $84

These two new books provide a thorough account of the varied output of American innovator Dan Graham, from his early Conceptual pieces to his more recent large-scale pavilions that pose questions about public versus private space. Also covered are his films, videos and photographs, as well as his critical writings. Published to accompany a current retrospective traveling in Europe, organized by the Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Serralves, Porto, Dan Graham: Works 1965-2000 provides extensive chronological documentation of 165 works and a thorough bibliography. The 384-page volume includes over 300 images, 100 in color. Phaidon's Dan Graham includes texts by Belgian critic Birgit Pelzer and architectural theorist Beatriz Colomina, an interview by Mark Francis, as well as the artist's own writings and texts by Philip K. Dick, selected for inclusion by Graham The material is supplemented by 150 images of his work since the `60s.

[2] Regular Price $40.00 SALE $36

Oyvind Fahlstrom By Jean-Francois Chevrier, Immanuel Wallerstein, Octavi Rofes and Suely Rolnik (MACBA)

Brazilian-born artist Oyvind Fahlstrom (1928-1976) led a peripatetic life that included years in Sweden, Italy, France and New York. His work, heavily inspired by comic books and avant-garde music, includes drawings and three-dimensional installations using flat cutouts. Though often classified as Pop--many of his works presage trends that were later embraced by Pop artists such as Warhol and Lichtenstein--it does not belong exclusively to this genre. He also used elements associated with Conceptualism and political art. This 368-page generously illustrated catalogue was published on the occasion of a major international traveling retrospective, now on view at MASS MoCA, North Adams. It contains informative essays on this underrated artist, a large selection of his writings and a thorough documentation of Fahlstrom's incredibly complex output.

[3] Regular Price $35.00 SALE $32

Malcolm Morley by Jean-Claude Lebensztejn (Reaktion)

Regular Price $29.00 SALE $26

Leon Golub by Jon Bird (Reaktion)

COMBINED SALE $56

Malcolm Morley and Leon Golub are painters, who, in recent decades, changed the meaning of figurative art. An originator of the Photo-Realist movement in the early 1960s, the London-born Morley established his career with a group of meticulous paintings of ocean liners and battleships. He eventually adopted a looser painting style, becoming one of the leaders of the Neo-Expressionist movement in the 1980s. Written by art historian Jean-Claude Lebensztejn, Malcolm Morley: Itineraries is a fully illustrated, 256-page volume, whose publication coincides with a survey of the artist's work at the Hayward Gallery in London this summer.

Leon Golub's monumental works propose a unique merger of Abstract Expressionism and Classical ideals of history painting. His complex narratives encompass an exploration of social and political upheavals of our turbulent era. The thoroughly illustrated volume Leon Golub: Echoes of the Real coincides with a touring museum retrospective of the artist's work, and it includes an in-depth text by Jon Bird covering the broad range of his unique achievement.

[4] Regular Price $60.00 SALE $54

Out of the Ordinary: Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Associates By David Brownlee, David De Long and Kathryn B. Hiesinger (Yale)

Regular Price $75.00 SALE $69

Frank Gehry, Architect By Jean-Louis Cohen, Beatriz Colomina, Mildred Friedman, William J. Mitchell and J. Fiona Ragheb (Guggenheim/D.A.P.)

COMBINED SALE $121

Published on the occasion of a traveling exhibition organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Out of the Ordinary provides an excellent overview of the building projects by the husband-and-wife team Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. Their well-known projects include the Sainsbury Wing at London's National Gallery and the Seattle Art Museum, as well as furniture and decorative arts, all of which are included in this 296-page volume that contains 300 illustrations. Also included is a project list of the firm's work since 1957, comprising finished and unfinished projects and hypothetical studies.

With such celebrated buildings as the Guggenheim Bilbao, Frank O. Gehry has made an indelible mark on late 20th-and early 21st-century architecture. This impressive 500-page catalogue accompanies a major retrospective of his designs at the Guggenheim in New York this summer.

[5] Regular Price $50.00 SALE $46

Minimalism: Art and Polemic of the Sixties by James Meyer (Yale)

Regular Price $50.00 SALE $46

New Art in the `60s and `70s: Redefining Reality by Anne Rorimer (Thames & Hudson)

Regular Price $45.00 SALE $41

Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera 1962-1972 by Frances Morris and Richard Flood (Tate)