ledochowicz.com

Contemporary Art

Tale of Today Nate Young and Mika Horibuchi

Sumah Kekeli

ISBN: PB: 9780578657356, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, July 2020
100 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 colour plates

The second exhibition in the Driehaus Museum's initiative to bring contemporary art into the Gilded Age era Nickerson Mansion focuses on two Chicago-based artists: Nate Young and Mika Horibuchi, whose works engage our expectations of the 1883 buildin...

PB:

£20,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Contemporary Art

TO LOSE YOUR HEAD (IDOLS) Catalonia in Venice

Azara Pedro

ISBN: PB: 9788494423444, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, July 2020
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 200 halftones

For their 2019 Venice Biennale pavilion, Catalonia presented an exhibition exploring the life of public statues and reflecting on the capacity of artworks to possess agency. The project considers the often-intense relationship that forms between huma...

PB:

£20,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Contemporary Art

Transmissions

Mauss Nick

ISBN: PB: 9780300246841, Yale University Press, April 2020
160 pp., 29.8x24.1 cm, 200 colour illus.

Over the past decade, Nick Mauss (b. 1980) has pursued a hybrid mode of working that melds the roles of curator, artist, and scholar. This catalogue leans heavily into the scholarship side of his practice, building on his 2018 Whitney Museum exhibiti...

PB:

£25,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Contemporary Art

Think of Them as Spaces Brice Marden's Drawings

Montana Kelly, Helfenstein Josef

ISBN: FLEXI: 9780300233131, Yale University Press, February 2020
128 pp., 24.7x19.6 cm, 120 colour illus.

In 1979, Brice Marden (b. 1938) asked that his drawings be thought of "as spaces", reflecting the idea that drawing is a medium that is much more than its two physical dimensions. Looking closely at six series of drawings that span nearly the entiret...

FLEXI:

£30,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Contemporary Art

Thinking in Thin Air Anthology of a Decade Engadin Art Talks

Bechtler Cristina, Canonica Finn

ISBN: PB: 9783037786246, Lars Muller Publishers, February 2020
312 pp., 21x15 cm, 87 illus.

E.A.T. / Engadin Art Talks, the forum in Zuoz in the crystalline winter-wonderland of the Swiss Alps, takes place at the end of January each year and has become famous as a meeting point for thought leaders and disruptive minds. The event is curated...

PB:

£25,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Contemporary Art

Traces of Modernism Art and Politics from the First World War to Totalitarianism

Cioli Monica, Ricciardi Maurizio, Schiera Pierangelo

ISBN: PB: 9783593510309, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, January 2020
222 pp., 21.2x13.9 cm, 6 colour plates, 4 halftones

"Traces of Modernism" surveys the competing social and political visions that marked the transition from the nineteenth century to the twentieth, and the complex relationships and connections between these visions. A host of international contributor...

PB:

£55,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Contemporary Art

Theater of Operations The Gulf Wars 1991-2011

Eleey Peter, Katrib Ruba

ISBN: FLEXI: 9780996893084, DAP, MoMA PS1, December 2019
275 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 100 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! The 1991 Gulf War marked the start of a lengthy period of American-led military involvement in Iraq that led to more than a decade of sanctions, the 2003 Iraq War, and ongoing repercussions throughout the region. Though the...

FLEXI:

£40,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Contemporary Art

Teatro Ojo At Night, Lightning

Medina Cuauhtemoc, Chavez-Mac Gregor Helena, Villarreal Patricio

ISBN: PB: 9788417047542, Prestel Publishing, Editorial RM, November 2019
256 pp., 21.8x15.7 cm, 337 colour and black&white illus.

In 2002, as part of Draft – an initiative for exploring the critical possibilities of contemporary art – the experimental theatre group Teatro Ojo was founded. The group produced a symposium and short ads for public television and Youtube, aiming to...

PB:

£18,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Contemporary Art

Teresita Fernandez Elemental

Cruz Amada, Sirmans Franklin

ISBN: HB: 9783791358840, Prestel Publishing, October 2019
256 pp., 30x24 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.

Teresita Fernandez's dazzling large-scale sculptures and installations employ diverse materials – charcoal, ceramics, chrome, steel, onyx, wood, resin, and enamel – with an utterly immersive effect. Accompanying a retrospective of Fernandez's career,...

HB:

£39,99

QTY:

add books to the list

Contemporary Art

True Grit American Prints from 1900 to 1950

Schrader Stephanie, Glisson James, Nemerov Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9781606066270, Getty Publications, October 2019
112 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.

In the first half of the twentieth century, a group of American artists influenced by the painter and teacher Robert Henri aimed to reject the pretenses of academic fine art and polite society. Embracing the democratic inclusiveness of the Progressiv...

HB:

£28,00

QTY:

add books to the list