A handsomely illustrated look at the landscape paintings of a contemporary American master Over the course of a seven-decade career, American artist Alex Katz (b. 1927) has conveyed his singular vision of the world through paintings that fuse realism and abstraction, allowing details to dissolve into bold swaths of color. Though perhaps best known for his portraits, Katz has consistently painted the natural world throughout his career, particularly over the past decade. This beautiful publication takes a fresh look at his landscape paintings through the themes of nature, perception, the passage of time, and contemporary notions of the sublime. These works reveal the American painter’s virtuosic control of materials and the absolute clarity and power of his vision, made evident by stripping away unnecessary information to capture the essence of his subjects. Featuring works of art from the 1950s to today, Alex Katz, This Is Now is the most extensive look at Katz’s treatment of landscape in nearly 20 years. The book includes essays by curator Michael Rooks, art critic Margaret Graham, and David Salle—an artist whose own work is influenced by Katz—and poems by John Godfrey and Vincent Katz, who is an art critic as well as the artist's son, providing a timely and important new assessment of the work of this renowned artist.

Alex Katz: This Is Now

Arts & Photography

Godfrey, John

Salle, David

Katz, Vincent

Rooks, Michael

Graham, Margaret

History & Criticism

High Museum of Art

This anthology offers a panoramic snapshot of poetic practice today, showcasing both leading and emerging poets connected through their appearances at Dia's reading series.  For over three decades, Dia Art Foundation has gathered renowned and visionary poets to present their work in conversation with one another in monthly events through its Readings in Contemporary Poetry series. This collection anthologizes ninety-four poets who gave readings between 2010--when the program resumed under the direction of Vincent Katz after a short break--and 2016. Each poem is accompanied by an insightful introduction. Readings in Contemporary Poetry presents work by emerging and established poets at the forefront of innovation. It showcases the multidisciplinary atmosphere established in the series, and the diverse resulting works embrace collaborations with or interventions from other fields. Together they present a panoramic snapshot of poetic practice today, exploring some of the patterns, lineages, and divergences present in contemporary poetry. This highly engaging collection will offer its readers the latest ideas in contemporary poetry through some of the best work by poets who are changing how we think about their art form and the world.

Readings in Contemporary Poetry: An Anthology

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Dia Art Foundation

Broadway for Paul: Poems

Friendship, love, and the potential energy of change animate these poems of walking through New York City. Broadway, the famous artery, both off the grid and definitive of Manhattan as it cuts its way downtown, is a metaphor for Katz's path through these poems: from Lincoln Plaza on the Upper West Side to the African Burial Ground and the courthouses downtown, Katz mines his native city for the deep humanity that undergirds its streets. His title, with its implication that one could give something as large and undefinable as Broadway to a single person, courts an impossibility that generates the possibility of friendship, as well as the largesse Katz wants to find in our civic discourse. In poems such as "Ivanka Skirting" and "This Beautiful Bubble" we encounter his reckoning with a divisive culture that can, he suggests, be healed through our daily acts--through a kind of alert graciousness that also defines his poetry. In this moving collection, we enter Katz's world, both public and private, and experience poetry as a way of seeing that can change hearts and minds.

Genre Fiction

KNOPF

Stopping time on the page to discover the poetic moment where past and present are one, Vincent Katz (called a poet of "vibrant cinematic hunger" by Eileen Myles) opens himself to the fleeting beauty of both culture and nature in this stunning gathering of new work. With his painterly eye and disarming concision on the page, Katz opens this book with a powerful image of "all time sequestered in the fold of a daffodil," setting the stage for an encounter with the immediacy we must embrace to see the world around us with clarity. At the center of this collection are his captivating poems about animals-"The hope in fear / In thrill to run" of the rabbit, the snapping turtle "nestled // Next to brother rock"-as the poems continually engage with the heady passage of days and years, and the promise to honor a life in the here and now, to walk the street with the sense that, "It's not about buying / But rather about feeling the air." "Whether in nature, or on a crowded or empty city street, was all a dream?" Katz writes, considering Daffodil. "Surely, there was and is still someone close, and that continues, as animals, despite war, despite incursions, continue. New York is a place of return, where we're aware of faces and other things; there, or in a field of flowers, in places in the distant past and present, love has some inexorable way of continuing." These poems evoke the exact scenes that command our daily thoughts, that usher in grace and beauty, with their quietly urgent moral qualities, which, Katz suggests, can shape our days if we allow them to.

Daffodil: And Other Poems

Artist Janet Fish is well known for her richly executed oil paintings and watercolors of glass, fruit, and flowers, through which she "captures the beauty of everyday objects." The true subject of her paintings, however, is the movement of light and color from one object to the other, and critics have continually praised her art, labeling it "beyond realism." The only previous monograph on her paintings, long out of print, is today a collector's item. Now, Abrams is proud to present this new and completely up-to-date survey of her work. The introduction gives way to page after page of Janet Fish's beautiful and engaging paintings, filled with life and light, color and fascinating detail. In all, more than 100 works are reproduced in full color, including gorgeously outsize details and four gatefolds. An illustrated chronology as well as selected exhibition history and bibliography round out the book.

Janet Fish: Paintings

Individual Artists

Harry N. Abrams

The poet John Ashbery wrote of Rudy Burckhardt in 1980: "Before there was an underground, there was Rudy Burckhardt. The genial, Swiss-born jack-of-all-trades and master of several has remained unsung for so long that he is practically a subterranean monument." Since that time Burckhardt's reputation has steadily grown - as photographer, filmmaker, and painter - beyond Manhattan's downtown community of artists in which he lived and worked. For six decades Rudy Burckhardt (1914-1999) was a discreet, but enduring, and ultimately important figure in New York's avant-garde art world. Born in Basel, Switzerland, Burckhardt immigrated to the United States in 1935 to escape the Swiss Army and stultifying cultural and social atmosphere, to look for adventure far from home. He soon found himself sharing a loft with then companion and lifelong friend, the poet and dance critic, Edwin Denby. Willem de Kooning lived next door. (Together with Denby, Burckhardt was one of the first serious collectors of de Kooning's work.) Aaron Copland, Virgil Thompson, and Paul Bowles were good friends of his. And soon Burckhardt was embarking on a profound photographic portrait of New York City: the midday crowds in midtown Manhattan, storefronts and standpipes, Astor Place, Times Square, the Flatiron Building, the gray, water-towered regions of Chelsea, the great swath of Sixth Avenue, humble curbs, fleeting shadows, a modest studio in Brooklyn, as well as the existentialist landscapes of Astoria and Laurel Hill in Queens - with its anonymous factory buildings, empty lots, broken sidewalks, and girdered highways over cement gardens against the great veil of the Manhattan skyline. He also photographer the great painters of the New York School, from Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko to Philip Guston, Larry Rivers, and Brice Marden. As well as the now classic images of New York, Burckhardt photographed London, Paris, Mediterranean cities, the segregated American South, Haiti, Trinidad, Mexico, and the forest and ferns of his summer retreats in Maine. Over the course of his life, Burckhardt was a link between succeeding generations of artist, poets, dancers, and filmmakers. Gradually, his standing as a cultural force has been acknowledged, not only as a photographer, bur also as a maker of underground films, and, in his later years, as a painter. This book is the first comprehensive monograph on Burckhardt's photography. Author Phillip Lopate, a long-time friend of the photographer, provides an insightful and thought-provoking homage to the quiet brilliance of a national treasure. And the poet and curator, Vincent Katz, has contributed an essay further elaborating on Burckhardt's photographic achievement. Illustrated with almost three hundred photographs, Rudy Burckhardt presents the remarkable depth and range of the artist's work. The book will fascinate anyone interested in the New York art world and offers a revelation for all those interested in photography.

Rudy Burckhardt

LOPATE, Phillip

Red Grooms: The Graphic Work

Red Grooms is one of the most inventive and prolific artists working today. His antic humor, imaginative vision, and often raucous view of an extensive range of subjects are legendary. In this comprehensive collection of his graphic work from 1956 to 1999, his mastery of an array of printmaking techniques is revealed, whether in delicate, soft-ground etchings, spray-painted stencils, or an over six-foot-tall woodblock print.
Walter Knestrick, a boyhood classmate of the artist and owner of the definitive Grooms print archive, tells of their lifelong friendship. The 241 illustrations -- 171 in splendid color -- are a testament to the witty and discerning sensibility of an artist who, as Vincent Katz notes in his essay, "keeps devising ways to refresh techniques, working at breakneck speed, molding and reshaping the world he sees".

Knestrick, Walter

Cabal of Zealots

Religion & Spirituality

Hanuman Books

From the celebrated Tibor de Nagy Editions Line, Boulevard Transportation is an artists' collaboration between renowned photographer and legendary Downtown filmmaker Rudy Burckhardt and noted art critic and poet Vincent Katz.

Boulevard Transportation

Burckhardt, Rudy

Tibor de Nagy Editions

Exotica: Paintings and Installation by Hunt Slonem - Colby Museum of Art Catalogue

Architecture

Hunt Slonem

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