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Artistic License: The Philosophical Problems of Copyright and Appropriation by
Contents:
Culture clashes -- Ontology, copyright, and artistic practice -- The myth of unoriginality -- Authorship, power, and responsibility -- Toward an ontology of authored works -- The rights of authors -- The rights of others -- Appropriation and transformation -- Afterword
Hilma Af Klint: Seeing Is Believing by
This unique volume contains the last abstract images series made by Hilma af Klint in the 1920's which are previously unpublished in their entirety. These images are followed by groundbreaking essays based on lectures given in conjunction to the exhibition "Hilma af Klint - Painting the Unseen" at Serpentine Galleries in 2016. Briony Fer, David Lomas, Branden Joseph, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Daniel Birnbaum shed new light on the pioneering abstract artist af Klint and her importance for artists today. They also address a need for an evolved understanding of art history in the 21st century.
Howardena Pindell: What Remains To Be Seen by
Contents: ... Opening thoughts / Naomi Beckwith, Valerie Cassel Oliver -- Clearly seen : a chronology / Sarah Cowan -- Synthesis and integration in the work of Howardena Pindell, 1972-1992 : a (re)consideration / Lowery Stokes Sims -- Body optics, or Howardena Pindell's ways of seeing / Naomi Beckwith -- The tao of abstraction : Pindell's meditations on drawing / Valerie Cassell Oliver -- Howardena Pindell : negociating abstraction / Charles Gaines -- Interrupting the broadcast : Howardena Pindell's video drawings / Grace Deveney -- Coming to Voice : Howardena Pindell's free, white and 21 / Brian Wallis -- Roundtable discussion on the work of Howardena Pindell / Naomi beckwith, Valerie Cassel Oliver, Marilyn Minter, Lorna Simpson, Molly Zuckerman-Hartung -- The Howardena Pindell Papers : -- Kellie Jones : Howardena Pindell interview -- On making a video -- On planning an exhibition -- Review of an exhibition -- Who do you think you are? One of us? -- Biography -- Exhibition checklist -- Exhibition lenders and sponsors -- Catalogue contributors.
Janaina Tschäpe by
The paintings, drawings, photographs and video installations of Janaina Tschäpe are inspired by the female body. The artist's subject complexes are landscape, death, renewal and transformation. Viewers of her multi-layered works feel as if they have been transported into a dream world of primeval landscapes, ambiguous signs and exotic vegetation.
Mark Bradford: Tomorrow Is Another Day by
The official U.S. presentation at the 57th Venice Biennale. Contents: Introduction: tomorrow is another day / Christopher Bedford and Katy Siegel -- Architecture and Black autonomy / Peter James Hudson -- Speaking truth / Anita F. Hill -- Biography of a painting / Katy Siegel -- The art of productive dissent / Sarah Lewis -- Niagara / Zadie Smith -- Like a loose shawl / Christopher Bedford and Mark Bradford -- Black reconstruction in America / W.E.B. Du Bois -- Go tell it on the mountain / James Baldwin -- Works.
More Dimensions Than You Know: Jack Whitten, 1979-1989 by
More Dimensions Than You Know takes as its focal point nearly 25 paintings created in the years from 1979 to 1989, highlighting Whitten's propensity for pushing the technical and aesthetic boundaries of painting as a medium. The catalogue includes an essay by Richard Shiff, curator of the exhibition and Effie Marie Cain, Regents Chair in Art at The University of Texas at Austin. Parsing various aspects of Whitten's practice, Shiff's engaging essay speaks to the irreducible aspects of Whitten's work, establishing his invaluable contributions to the narrative of postwar American painting. Exhibition: Hauser & Wirth, New York, USA (28.01.-08.04.2017).
Otobong Nkanga: Luster and Lucre
Published following the exhibitions "Crumbling through powdery air" held at the Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, July 16 - September 6, 2015; "Comot your eyes make I borrow you mine", KADIST, Paris, September 27 - December 20, 2015 ; "Bruises and Lustre", M HKA, Antwerpen, October 16, 2015 - January 17, 2016.
Practices of Abstract Art: Between Anarchism and Appropriation by 
Shiva Ahmadi by
Growing up in the Islamic Republic of Iran, the artist Shiva Ahmadi recalls, she knew more about Jackson Pollock than Behzad, the master miniature painter of the Safavid court. Indeed, Ahmadi's distinct painterly style seems to combine the detailed precision of Behzad's hand with the fluid action painting of Pollock. What emerges is part miniature, part abstract expressionism--a decidedly 21st century art form that is both bold and contemporary.
The Truth Is Always Grey by
"Frances Guerin argues that painters select grey to respond to a key question of modernist art: What is painting? Presenting an impressive range of canonical paintings across centuries, this book is a treatise on color that allows us to see something entirely new in familiar paintings and encourages our appreciation for the innovation and dynamism of the color grey"
Walasse Ting: the Flower Thief by
Born in Shanghai, and working successively in Paris, New York and Amsterdam, Walasse Ting (1928-2010) forged a unique path in postwar abstract and figurative painting. His early creations were close to those of the CoBrA group (with whom he was friendly), but he eventually developed a style inspired by the language of Chinese painting and the spontaneity of American action painting.
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