The 21st&amp;hyphen;Century Art Book is an A&amp;hyphen;to&amp;hyphen;Z guide of contemporary artists featuring established art&amp;hyphen;world figures – Maurizio Cattelan, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Wall – alongside rising stars of the next generations. Global in scope, the book features work from 50 countries across a variety of mediums, from painting, drawing, and sculpture to digital art, video installation, and performance.
Each of the 280 artists included has a dedicated page pairing a significant artwork from his or her oeuvre with lively and informative text. An international directory of major art events along with a helpful glossary round out the package, making this both a must&amp;hyphen;have resource and a beautifully illustrated celebration of contemporary art.

The Twenty First Century Art Book

Arts & Photography

Williams, Eliza

Trigg, David

Griffin, Jonathan

History & Criticism

Phaidon Press

Collected Poems: 001

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Natl Poetry Foundation

Collected Poems: 002

Collected Poems (002)

Artists studios have been burning down for centuries. In Paper Monument s newest publication, On Fire, author Jonathan Griffin asked ten contemporary artists how they recovered after their studios went up in flames. Talking to them, he gained surprising insights into their working methods, their relationship to their chosen profession, and their reasons for making art. On Fire is at once an oral history of the phenomenon of the studio fire a catastrophic but potentially transformative event in the lives of a surprising number of artists and a behind-the-scenes look at daily life in the artist s studio. As Griffin writes in his introduction, For each of these artists there was an instant when time spun on its axles, when they realized that the tiny refuge of safety and freedom that they had won for themselves was gone. It would take months and years, resources and resolve to claim it back. But in the process, something unexpected and valuable career-altering, in many cases was revealed to them about the stakes and the possible rewards of their lives as artists. On Fire includes writing on Matthew Chambers, Anthony Pearson, Christian Cummings, Catherine Howe, Erik Van Lieshout, JP Munro, William J. O Brien, Kate Ruggeri, John Riepenhoff, and Brendan Fowler.

On Fire

Paper Monument

Poetry. Poets as different from each other as Ted Hughes, George Oppen and Jeff Nuttall have expressed admiration for Jonathan Griffin's work. According to the American poet and critic Eliot Weinberger, Griffin is "perhaps the finest unknown poet in our language. His is a poetry of planetary consciousness--the poet's response both ecstasy and rage. The intense lyrics in celebration of natural beauty - some of the loveliest in the language - are almost eclipsed by the bleak and apocalyptic meditations. Griffin is one of the few poets writing today who is confronting, in the poem, this earth of pesticides, deforestation, chemical waste."

In Earthlight: Selected Poems

Menard Press

Eric Bainbridge: Collages

Snoddy, Stephen

New Art Gallery Walsall

William N. Copley (1919–96) was a multifaceted American artist and art-world catalyst. Creator of madcap narrative paintings, drawings and installations, Copley was a unique figure in postwar art history well known for his humorous and sarcastic imagery. Known by his nom de plume CPLY, he was a self-taught artist pushing the limits of art-world decorum, as well as a collector, gallerist and connector of some of the most important artists of the 20th century, in particular European Surrealists and Dadaists such as Max Ernst, Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp, and American Pop artists. William N. Copley assembles works from all phases of the artist’s creation, from the Parisian years to the last period spent mostly in solitude in his home in Sugarloaf Key, Florida, tracing the development of his painterly style and continual experiments with line, color, pattern and allegory. In Paris in the early 1950s, Copley developed a unique, ribald figurative style that bucked prevailing trends toward abstraction, taking inspiration from Surrealist painting, American, cartoon and silent-movie imagery. Throughout his career, he repeatedly returned to subjects like nudes, cars and nationalism; later works reveal his abiding interest in political and psychosexual themes, surrealist visual punning and vaudevillian Americana, making Copley a link between European Surrealist and American Pop circles. Featuring approximately 250 paintings and works on paper, the volume accompanies the first comprehensive presentation of the artist’s work in an American museum, also scheduled to travel to Italy.

William N. Copley

Franklin, Paul

Gingeras, Alison

Allen, Gwen

Individual Artists

Fondazione Prada

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