Authors:Jean-Michel Basquiat, Luca Marenzi,
Publisher: Charta
Keywords: basquiat, michel, jean
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 1999-07-02
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 8881582392
ISBN-13: 9788881582396

Providing a serious and generous overview of Basquiat’s career, this monograph will please novice and fan alike, with its high-quality illustrations, including 50 works on canvas, 40 works on paper, two sculptures and 18 collaborations (15 with Andy Warhol).

Authors:Manon Slome, Joshua Simon, Eric Stryker, Manon Slome,
Publisher: Charta
Keywords: terror, aesthetics
Number of Pages: 104
Published: 2009-09-30
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 8881587270
ISBN-13: 9788881587278

Author: Kara Walker
Publisher: Charta/Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
Keywords: refugees, bureau, walker, kara
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2008-09-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 888158686X
ISBN-13: 9788881586868

After the success of the recent touring exhibition My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love, Kara Walker’s silhouetted cut-out figures are a now-familiar but still pungent presence in contemporary art, reenacting uncomfortable, often violent episodes in American race relations and reprising, in their formal simplicity, the ways in which marginalized identities are reduced and distorted into readily legible, caricatured forms. Walker’s art continues, in other words, to pose awkward questions straightforwardly. Her imagery derives from the visual language of the antebellum Sout

Authors:Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Matthew Barn
Publisher: Charta/Fondazione Pitti Immagine Discovery
Keywords: interviews, obrist, ulrich, hans, huo
Number of Pages: 1000
Published: 2003-10
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 888158431X
ISBN-13: 9788881584314

It is not an exaggeration to write that Hans-Ulrich Obrist is everywhere, has curated everything and has interviewed everyone. If "peripatetic" is the word most overused to describe him, it is not inappropriate. The Swiss-born, everywhere-based curator and head of the Programme Migrateurs at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris has an unstoppable wanderlust and a related symptom: his penchant for interviewing anyone and everyone who piques his curiosity, be they artist, scientist, writer, curator, composer, architect, thinker, etc. Since 1993, Obrist has conducted more than 300