Offers a look at the work and life of the American artist who uses such materials as glass, metal, wood, paper, ink, paint, and wax in her work

Kiki Smith (LITTLE, BROWN A)

Arts & Photography

POSNER, Helaine

Frankel, David

Smith, Kiki

History & Criticism

Bulfinch Pr

An unprecedented look at women’s everyday clothes—from Sylvia Plath’s Girl Scout uniform to psychedelic microminis, modern suits, and fast-food workers’ uniforms—this fascinating volume shows how American women from every background have lived, worked, and dressed for 200 years.\nGroundbreaking in its focus on the everyday clothing of ordinary American women—a subject neglected in most fashion histories—Real Clothes, Real Lives highlights over 300 garments and accessories from the Smith College Historic Clothing Collection. This unique survey honors countless lives, tracing through the lens of dress how women’s roles have changed over the decades. Each piece holds colorful stories about the woman who wore it, the one who made or bought it, and her context in place and time. Whether homemade or ready-made, many of the garments are modest and inexpensive. Some are one-of-a-kind pieces; others are examples of clever making-do, which seems particularly relevant today; and most reflect the popular styles of their era. Among the many extraordinary examples are a rare World War I uniform worn by an American woman working behind enemy lines and a 1970s go-go dancer’s costume. Exceptional photography and rich archival visuals accompany the highly readable texts, which offer a wealth of historical and social analysis of a side of fashion and feminism rarely considered.

Real Clothes, Real Lives: 200 Years of What Women Wore (Smith College Historic Clothing Collection)

Graphic Design

Rizzoli Electa

poetry & drawings in collaborative artists' book

Endocrinology

Literature & Fiction

Berssenbrugge, Mei-Mei

Poetry

Kelsey Street Pr

Poetry. Art. CONCORDANCE is a new collaborative work by three acclaimed contemporary artists: poet Mei-mei Berssenbrugge and sculptor Kiki Smith, working with book artist, Anne McKeown. Inspired by Smith's image of a dandelion, whose floating silks she compares to reading, the poem traces agreements and embeddings of human and animal bodies, ideas, dreams and emotion in a concordance of parallel and contingent contexts. "Then it's possible to undo misunderstanding from inside by tracing the flight or thread of empty space running through things." Then what if, in that bond, "images were Eros as words?" In Smith's etchings, reading, as Eros, is drawn as seeds, feathers, star-like explosions, pods, wide-eyed, unblinking owls. "Animals...open their eyes, and a mirror forms on the ground." The effects of the verbal images and gray-blue inked drawings are stunning and other-worldly.

Concordance

Kelsey Street Press

Kiki Smith: Telling Tales accompanies a major exhibition at the International Center of Photography. Smith, best known for her sculptures of the human body, presents her recent photographic and multimedia work on the theme of fairy tales. The centerpiece of this book is the full-color visual essay of her renditions and investigations of the characters of Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf, the biblical Eve juxtaposed with Snow White, and various enigmatic female puppets. Through these symbolic female figures, the artist explores themes of temptation and sexuality, attraction and danger, and the impact of knowledge. Myths, fairy tales, and childhood fantasies predominate.

Kiki Smith: Telling Tales

Individual Artists

International Center of Photography

Kiki Smith: Sojourn in Santa Barbara

Brown, Elizabeth A.

Univ of California Santa

How braces came to be: A myth for modern mortals

Starflower Books

Kiki Smith's aesthetic vocabulary encompasses concerns with external mythological themes, feminity, sexuality and nature, in work that has expanded the very parameters of sculpture. Contains 30 removable postcards. Size 6 7/8 x 4 3/4 inches.

Kiki Smith Postcard Book

Artpost

Dots Spots and Chickenpox: Version II

Children's Books

Action & Adventure

Independently published

In "Grand Street #70: Against Nature", the pastoral meets the perverse. Jean-Jacques Schuhl describes chanteuse Ingrid Caven's debut as the voice of porn star Linda Lovelace. Abdourahman A. Waberi explores the French colonialist legacy in Djibouti and the midst of a future terrorist. Pedro Lemebel recounts the last definant act of a dying transvestite. Stephen Trombley's first-hand account of the execution of a friend accompanies Lucinda Devlin's stark photographs of death chambers. Victor Pelevin explains Pepsi's influence on Russia's first post-Glasnost generation, and Durs Grunbein and Via Lewandowsky catalogue six bizarre accidental deaths. Other highlights include short stories by emerging writers Terezia Mora and Shelley Jackson, a dialogue between Professor of Comparative Literature and music critic Edward Said and pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim, and poetry by Mahmoud Darwish, Volker Braun, and Sharon Olds. Also featuring Cornelia Hesse-Honegger's meticulously detailed paintings of mutated insects collected in the vicinity of nuclear power plants, photographs by Kiki Smith, and fog sculptures by Fujiko Nakaya. Essays by Daniel Barenboim, Durs Grunbein, Edward Said, Stephen Trombley. Fiction by Shelley Jackson, Pedro Lemebel, Terezia Mora, Victor Pelevin, Jean-Jacques Schuhl, Abdourahman A. Waberi. 
 8.25 x 9.5 in. 40 color, 25 b/w illustrations

Grand Street #70: Against Nature

SAID, EDWARD W.

Pelevin, Victor

Grünbein, Durs

Waberi, Abdourahman A.

TROMBLEY, Stephen

Schuhl, Jean-Jacques

BARENBOIM, DANIEL

Lemebel, Pedro

Grand Street Pr

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