From the 1980s, many Chinese artists have experimented with a range of unconventional materials. Their works–in plastic, paper, silk, ash, and tobacco–form a major trend in Chinese art. "The Allure of Matter" offers the first serious consideration of...

Not for sale in Estonia! In the late 1970s Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015) was commissioned by architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to create an artwork for the lobby of a new office building underway in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. Kelly respond...

This richly illustrated volume offers an in-depth look into artist Sadie Benning's exhibition "Shared Eye", presented at the Renaissance Society and the Kunsthalle Basel. The forty mixed-media panels in "Shared Eye" defy easy categorization: they inc...

Not for sale in Estonia! Although it has been linked with distinct twentieth-century art practices – including abstraction, Minimalism and Conceptual art – Blinky Palermo's (1943-1977) diverse body of work defies easy classification. Throughout his...

This title takes an illuminating look at the unique work and artistic vision of Gerhard Richter. Born in Dresden in 1932, Gerhard Richter was first educated under the prevailing doctrine of Socialist Realism, but retrained after emigrating to West Ge...

Twenty-one-year-old Peter Heisterkamp began signing his colourful and playful abstract artworks "Palermo" in 1964, when peers noted his resemblance to the American gangster Frank "Blinky" Palermo. This handsome book, a historical and critical study o...