Kategoria BISAC: Art >> Individual Artists - Monographs

Dutch artist Erik van Lieshout (born 1968) first became known in the early 2000s for his visceral videos shot within installations whose rough, bricolaged forms belie their sophistication. This monograph showcases his provocative work.

This publication gathers more than 120 works by American abstract painter Frederic Matys Thursz (1930-92), most of which are reproduced for the first time, alongside a collection of Thursz's lectures, interviews and journal entries. Emphasis is placed on the lectures he gave in 1983 at the New York Studio School.

Austrian Brigittie Kowanz (born 1957) is one of the most prominent artists working in the field of light art. This catalog presents Kowanz's installation for the Austrian Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale.

The massive fired-clay cube sculptures of Mexican artist Bosco Sodi (born 1970) resemble the proportions of the human body and at the same time suggest an architecture reduced to the essential. This richly illustrated publication explores the course of his experiments.

Mahlon Blaine had a 50-year bumpy career as an artist. From newspaper cartoons, to menus, to Hollywood set design, to a 5-year award-winning vocation in New York book and magazine illustration, he was rarely without a pencil, pen, or brush in his hand. His subjects ranged from history to literature, adventure to anthropology, politics to humor, and children's books to erotica. His best friends included John Steinbeck, Joseph Dunninger, and John Carradine. He grew up in Albany, Oregon and died, forgotten and destitute, in midtown Manhattan, New York. Best known for his extraordinary...

A founding member of Brazil's Neo-Concrete movement, Lygia Pape (1927-2004) made art that favored the primacy of the viewer's sensorial experience. Pape's geometric abstractions explore rich territory through sculpture, drawing, engraving, filmmaking and installation. This publication brings together works spanning 1955 to 2001. The precise incised lines of Pape's Tecelares woodcut prints and drawings of the 1950s and '60s marry pure geometry with organic patterns. Her subsequent Tteia installations (begun in the late 1970s and continued throughout her career) present...