This volume documents the most important conceptual photography of the past 30 years, from the collection of the Metropolitan Bank and Trust.

Photography Transformed: The Metropolitan Bank and Trust Collection

Arts & Photography

Kertess,klaus

Photography & Video

Harry N. Abrams

158 illustrations, including 133 plates in color. Bound in publisher's original white cloth. Dust jacket.

Brice Marden: Paintings and Drawings

Individual Artists

Abrams

Joan Mitchell (1926-1992) was one of the most distinguished artists to be associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement. Winning a place for herself in the heavily male-dominated New York art world of the 1950s, she soon achieved recognition as a leading exponent of the gestural style. Yet her work is not as widely appreciated in the United States as it deserves to be, in part because she chose to live in France during the later decades of her life. This volume is the first comprehensive presentation of Mitchell's work since her death. In her will, she directed that a longtime friend, Klaus Kertess, write the accompanying text. Kertess provides a richly textured account of Mitchell's life and work, tracing her evolution from her earliest efforts as a young artist in Chicago and her arrival in New York in the 1940s. He gives special attention to the array of gifted painters and poets in the legendary New York art scene of the 1950s, when Mitchell first made her mark, and discusses at length Mitchell's friendships with artists such as Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline and writers such as Frank O'Hara.

Joan Mitchell

Biographies & Memoirs

This book offers a comprehensive view of Jane Freilicher's distinguished career. Klaus Kertess has written a revealing and analytical discussion of her life and work, which is accompanied by an illustrated chronology; an introduction by the poet John Ashbery, an admirer of Freilicher's work and a friend for many years; and a note of appreciation by the contemporary painter Thomas Nozkowski. Illustrated with photographs of Freilicher's work, many taken especially for this book, and a number of documentary photographs of the artist's life, Jane Freilicher will be an indispensable addition to the library of anyone with an interest in American art, or a love of first-rate painting.

Jane Freilicher

Acclaimed in the art world for his room-size installations of paintings, sculpture, and digital projections, Matthew Ritchie’s work investigates architecture and the dynamics of culture. Named by Time magazine in 2001 as one of 100 innovators for the new millennium, his rich work draws from subjects as diverse as ancient myth and medieval alchemy to cutting-edge physics and contemporary politics. This artist-designed book will explore Ritchie’s large-scale artistic "interventions" in buildings designed by Morphosis among others, including the Guggenheim Museum and MIT.

Matthew Ritchie: More Than the Eye

LETHEM, Jonathan

Mayne, Thom

Ritchie, Matthew

Grady, Elizabeth M.

History & Criticism

Rizzoli

Presenting a world that pulses with excesses and appetites, Cecily Brown explores the breadth of human experience in her tactile oil paintings. Broadly inspired by the history of painting—from Rubens and Veronese to the muscular expressionism of Willem de Kooning—Cecily Brown’s personal vision transcends classical notions of genre and narrative, freeing her subject matter from its original context and positioning it within a new aesthetic reality. Submerged within her vigorous gestural abstractions are scenes in which tangles of flesh dissolve into sensuous textures. Eschewing fixed meaning, Brown’s paintings reflect the flux of life through fragmentary glimpses of form. This volume is published on the occasion of an exhibition of new paintings by the artist held in November 2011 at the Gagosian Gallery in Rome.

Cecily Brown

Gagosian / Rizzoli

This accompanying catalogue to largest exhibition of Matthew Barney’s extraordinary drawings to date explores this central aspect of the artist’s important body of work. Drawing has always been an incredibly important part of Matthew Barney’s practice: his first major work—completed while still at Yale Art School—involved him creating a wall drawing while harnessed to the ceiling of his studio. In this exhibition and accompanying catalogue, one hundred of the artist’s most important drawings are presented from his major series of works—including “The Cremaster Cycle,” “The Drawing Restraint” series, and most notably “Ancient Evenings,” the body of work that has occupied the artist in the last few years (and is based on Norman Mailer’s ancient Egyptian-inspired novel of the same name). This exhibition and catalogue also represent a unique collaboration between the artist and the august Morgan Library, in which he was invited by the institution to mine their extensive holdings in order to include objects (drawings, manuscripts, etc.) in the installation of his work, to create an interesting framework around the many ideas the artist is exploring. In addition to a major essay by curator Klaus Kertess, who considers the many themes the artist draws from, the book includes a poetic contribution by artist Roni Horn and an insightful text by Adam Phillips, noted psychoanalyst.

Subliming Vessel: The Drawings of Matthew Barney

Horn, Roni

Phillips, Adam.

Skira/Rizzoli

Barry Le Va, 1966-1988

Carnegie-Mellon University Press

Catalog for exhibition at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art and the Arkansas Art Center. Essays by Klaus Kertess, Emily Kass, and Angela Fritz. Beautiful color plates. Checklist. Bibliography. Biography. Measures 9.5 inches square.

John Newman: Sculpture and works on paper

Fort Wayne Museum of Art

Catalog for an exhibition, guest curated by Klaus Kertess, which was held at the Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY from June 25 to July 31, 1994.

Willem De Kooning: Selected Paintings and Sculpture

Guild Hall Museum

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