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	Goble's Fairy Tale Illustrations: 86 Full-Color Plates Readers of all ages will cherish this unique book and its splendid combination of art and literature. Eighty-five stunning images by a master of watercolor techniques depict scenes from Japanese, Bengali, and Italian folklore. Other subjects include the works of Shakespeare and Tennyson, plus familiar characters such as Cinderella and Puss in Boots....
	Robert Rauschenberg: Transfer Drawings of the 1960s Featuring 42 of Robert Rauschenberg's pioneering Transfer Drawings of the 1960s, this book reproduces almost half of the works that were made in that tumultuous decade. The historical watershed of 1968 is especially well represented by 23 drawings, at least 15 of which were shown in the influential Ileana Sonnabend Gallery, Paris, in October of that year. They have never been seen before now in the U.S. The imagery in these drawings suggests a growing political consciousness, first engaging the ...
	Lee Bontecou: A Retrospective New in paperback Artist Lee Bontecou (b. 1931) became widely known in the 1960s and 1970s for her welded steel sculptures and plastic and epoxy molded assemblages—powerful constructions that evoked natural phenomena and organic biological life as well as machines and instruments of war. This critically acclaimed book—available for the first time in paperback—reevaluates the career of this highly influential artist and focuses not only upon the impact of her early work but also on the imp...
	500 Metal Vessels: Contemporary Explorations of Containment (500 Series) Juried by Fred Fenster, a distinguished presence in the field, 500 Metal Vessels features page after page of superbly crafted bowls, teapots, vases, chalices, urns, and other exquisite handmade hollowware. Made from diverse metals and techniques (forging, raising, casting, forming, soldering, and welding), these eye-catching pieces also display gorgeous applied surface embellishments, from enamel to repoussé. Explore Sarah Perkin’s luminous enamel bowls; the monumental vessels, made by Kim Cr...
	Yesterday's Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American Future Enormous skyscrapers will house residents and workers who happily go "for weeks" without setting foot on the ground. Streamlined, "hurricane-proof" houses will pivot on their foundations like weather vanes. The family car will turn into an airplane so easily that "a woman can do it in five minutes." Our wars will be fought by robots. And our living room furniture -- waterproof, of course -- will clean up with a squirt from the garden hose. In Yesterday's Tomorrows Joseph J. Corn and Brian Horrig...
	Painting a New World: Mexican Art and Life, 1521-1821 In the spring of 2004, the Denver Art Museum opened the largest exhibition of Mexican colonial painting ever assembled outside of Mexico. It included sixty masterpieces from public and private collections in Europe, Mexico, and the United States. This catalogue of the exhibit provides a much-needed basic yet comprehensive text on the subject. The paintings featured in this fully illustrated volume reflect Aztec traditions, imported Asian arts, and artistic styles from various regions of Spain...
	Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art Was it Joseph Cornell's dossiers on ballerinas and artists that first proposed the model of the archive as a creative storehouse, a vehicle for the ordering of chaotic fragments? Over the past 30 years, successive generations have taken wide-ranging approaches to archives, most of them (like Cornell) concentrating on photographic and filmic collections. Organized and written by renowned scholar and ICP Adjunct Curator Okwui Enwezor, and taking its title from Jacques Derrida's book of the same na...
	Voids Between Nietzsche's "death of God" and the ascent of Buddhism in twentieth-century America and Europe, the idea of the "void" has permeated Western art and culture. The means by which artists and thinkers have dismantled conventions of reality and perception with acts of emptying, removing, destroying, or emphasizing nothingness, are numerous, as this massive survey testifies. This paperback edition of Voids serves as a catalogue to the Centre Pompidou's retrospective of empty exhibitions, curat...
	Adorn: New Jewelry This showcase of new jewelry offers a global view of exciting work from nearly 200 cutting-edge jewelry designers. It highlights the diverse forms that contemporary jewelry takes from simple wedding or commitment rings to elaborate body jewelry that blurs the boundaries between art and adornment to catwalk jewelry specially commissioned for couture collections. Adorn includes pieces made using the latest industrial technologies and processes as well as more traditional methods and materials...