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Richard Kern: Digital Kern

Charta, 2007

Richard Kern is renowned for his underground films, and for his pithy remark "If the model is the exhibitionist then I am the voyeur." The New York Times has called his pornography-influenced images "uncommonly visceral instances of the so-called male gaze." Some folks just call them porn: his publication credits include the magazines Barely ...
  
  











  



  
The Art Fair Age
Paco Barragán

Charta, 2008

We have officially entered the Age of the Art Fair. In this illustrated reader, the Madrid-based independent curator Paco Barragan analyzes the phenomenon in chapters like "The Art Fair as Urban Entertainment Center," "The Curated Art Fair and the Art Fair Curator," "The Advent of Expanded Painting" and "Art as Investment."
  
  











  



  
Neo Baroque!
Petah Coyne, Ann Craven, ...

Charta, 2006

Despite postmodernism's inclusive theory, much of its practice is aesthetically minimal. Enter the new Baroque, aglow with brilliant colors, dizzying arabesques and spectacular ornamentation in gold and sparkling crystals. It can also be a bit dark, with provocative narratives and difficult subject matter. The Neo Baroque is evolving radically ...
  
  











  



  
Darren Waterston: Representing The Invisible
Timothy Anglin Burgard, David Pagel, ...

Charta, 2007

Astonishing
Whatever I might write about this collection of Waterston's work will pale in comparison to its incredibly astonishing quality. Merely the deep core feeling that seems to exude from every painting would be enough to fill one's mind with a certain dark joy and wonder, ...
  
  











  



  
Breakout: Chinese Art Outside China

Charta, 2007

This first book to substantially focus on China's artistic diaspora--and to differentiate it from the artistic community inside China--assembles the work of 14 artists who emigrated in the lead-up to the 1989 protest at Tiananmen Square. Now settled in New York, Paris and Sydney, over the past decade these artists--including Cai Guo-Qiang, Xu ...
  
  











  



  
Monica Castiglioni & Natsuko Toyofuku: Anthias
Paola Antonelli, Monica Castiglioni, ...

Charta, 2008

In Milan's central railway station district, Monica Castiglioni and Natsuko Toyofuku collaborate on much-coveted, limited edition collections in their jewelry workshop, Anthias. Indifferent to the dictates of fashion, they choose to let their clients come to them-and as a result, over the course of their two decades of collaboration, they have ...
  
  











  



  
Green Parrots
Gino Strada, Howard Zinn

Charta, 2005

Beautiful Humanity Realized
"Green Parrots: A War Surgeon's Diary" is a remarkable book with frank reality coming from a true humanitiarian. Dr. Gino Strada has been been helping victims of war, 90% civilians, for over seventeen years. His experience has brought him to Afghanistan, Iraq, ...
  
  











  



  
Michele Oka Doner: Figures
Donald Kuspit, Michele Oka Doner

Charta, 2008

Michele Oka Doner is an internationally acclaimed artist and designer whose prolific career spans four decades and encompasses public art, sculpture, furniture, jewelry and functional objects. This book, designed by Massimo Vignelli, begins with the small tattooed porcelain torsos of the mid-60s, but focuses primarily on recent life-sized bronze ...
  
  











  



  
Francesco Clemente: The Sopranos

Charta, 2008

Featuring a gold embossed cover, this lovely volume was created in collaboration with Deitch Projects, and presents artist Francesco Clemente's portraits of eight contemporary opera stars who figure prominently in the Metropolitan Opera's 2008-09 season: Diana Damrau, Natalie Dessay, Renee Fleming, Angela Gheorghiu, Susan Graham, Karita Mattila, ...
  
  











  



  
Deutsche Wandstucke: Seven Senarios of New German Painting
Ulla Von Brandenburg, Katharina Grosse, ...

Charta, 2007

From the fresco to the mural, there is a long tradition in art history of work made directly on the wall. Collected here are wall works by a group of German artists including Katharina Grosse, Gregor Schneider, Norbert Schwontkowski, Dirk Skreber and Matthias Weischer.
  
  











  



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