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Alex Katz by Alex Katz
Category: Art and Photography | Series: Contemporary Artists Series
Alex Katz is a towering figure in contemporary painting, a key New York-based artist since the early 1960s. Katz was an independent figure during the heyday of Abstract Expressionism and Pop when he first emerged -- and remains a unique, though highly influential figure to this day. Alex Katz is best kn ...Show more
Antony Gormley by John Hutchinson
Category: Art | Series: Contemporary Artists Series
Recipient of the 1994 Turner Prize, Antony Gormley is an internationally acclaimed artist who has revitalized the human figure in sculpture. His public sculpture projects, such as the "Angel of the North", have continued to grow in scale and ambition, as well as popularity. This book is published to coi ...Show more
Chris Johanson by Jens Hoffmann
Category: Art and Design | Series: Contemporary Artists Series
A comprehensive look at the thought-provoking, eye-catching and mind-expanding work of this visionary West Coast artist.
Jeff Wall by Thierry de Duve
Category: Photography | Series: Contemporary Artists Series
Jeff Wall (b.1946) adopts the nineteenth-century poet Baudelaire's famous description of one of his contemporaries as 'a painter of modern life' to describe his own very different work: huge transparencies mounted on to light boxes that diffuse a brilliant glow of white light evenly through his photogra ...Show more
Jorge Pardo Contemporary Artists by Christina Vegh
Category: Art | Series: Contemporary Artists Series
Jorge Pardo (b. 1963, Havana, Cuba) is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work trespasses the boundaries of sculpture to explore art-related disciplines such as architecture and design. His work employs a range of media to revisit the aesthetics of modernism and put it in a new light. Traditional and radi ...Show more
Lorna Simpson by Thelma Golden
Category: Art Books | Series: Contemporary Artists Series
Lorna Simpson's well-known fragmented photographs combining with fragments of text create mysterious and quiet works that reflect the silence of a portion of society - African-American women - rarely if ever represented in art. Simpson is credited for being among the first to bring the ideas and forms o ...Show more
Marlene Dumas by Dominic Van Den Boogerd
Category: Art | Series: Contemporary Artists Series
Marlene Dumas is celebrated around the world for her highly charged depictions of the human form. In her oil paintings, drawings and watercolours she captures the body in all its states, from pain to pleasure, eroticism to pathos, birth to death. These works often focus on the body as a contested site w ...Show more
Monica Bonvicini by Monica Bonvicini
Category: Art | Series: Contemporary Artists Series
The most comprehensive monograph on the work of Monica Bonvicini
Nancy Spero by Jo Bird
Category: Art | Series: Contemporary Artists Series
This text examines three decades of work by the artist, Nancy Spero. Her subject matter, the depiction of women, has ranged from the writings of Artaud to the Vietnam war. She collages and imprints her images of contemporary goddesses onto long papyrus-like friezes that scroll around walls, combining to ...Show more
Nigel Cooke by Marie Darrieussecq
Category: Art and Design | Series: Contemporary Artists Series
An in-depth look at the work and career of this fascinating artist, who is having a profound impact on contemporary painting Nigel Cooke is known for his complex paintings, which thematically explore the meeting point between creative labour, consciousness, art history, consumer culture, and nature. Pri ...Show more
Paul McCarthy by Paul McCarthy
Category: Art | Series: Contemporary Artists Series
Definitive monograph on America's most challenging and influential artist Los-Angeles-based artist Paul McCarthy (b.1945) creates Disneyesque installations, sculptures of animal/vegetable/human hybrids and slapstick performances in a purge of a national subconscious. The psycho-sexual desires and anxiet ...Show more
Sarah Sze by Benjamin H D Buchloh
Category: Art and Design | Series: Contemporary Artists Series
The first substantial monograph on an artist whose sculptures capture the proliferation of information and objects in contemporary life.