Photo by David Alexander Arnold
A selection of freshly assembled monographs devoted to modern masters and contemporary stars.
The Prints of Anni Albers: A Catalogue Raisonné 1963-1984
Edited by Nicholas Fox Weber
and Brenda Danilowitz
RM/The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation,
$70, October
Albers
was a pioneering textile artist and craftswoman. In 1963 she visited the Tamarind Lithography
Workshop, in Los Angeles, and was drawn to the printmaking process. Over the next 20 years, she
created a series of prints that mined her innovations in textile design. The Josef and Anni Albers
Foundation has now published a catalogue raisonné of these previously undocumented works.
Piero Manzoni: A Retrospective
By Germano Celant
Skira, $95, September
Curator Celant charts the career of the postwar Italian artist Piero Manzoni, who
died at the age of 29 in 1963. The book’s publication follows a retrospective of the
artist’s oeuvre at Gagosian Gallery in New York this past winter.
Joaquín Sorolla
By José Luis Diez and Javier Barón
Thaidigsmann
Thames & Hudson, $95, September
This tribute to Sorolla was written by
a pair of curators from Madrid’s Museo Nacional del Prado, which recently held an exhibition
devoted to the Spanish artist.
Jean Després: Jeweler, Maker and Designer of the Machine Age
By Melissa
Gabardi
Thames & Hudson,
$65, September
The French Art Deco designer, who died in
1980, brought a modern aesthetic to jewelry that made devotees of such prominent figures as Josephine
Baker and Andy Warhol. Here, his drawings and designs are reproduced, many for the first time.
Luc Tuymans
Edited by Madeleine Grynsztejn, Helen Molesworth. Text by Helen
Molesworth, Joseph L. Koerner, Ralph Rugoff, Bill Horrigan
San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art/Wexner Center for the Arts/D.A.P.,
$60, October
Coinciding with a show of the Belgian
painter at Ohio’s Wexner Center that opens on September 17, this survey of his output from 1978
to the present will be released in October.
Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction
Edited by Barbara Haskell
Yale
University Press, $65, October
This book positions O’Keeffe as one of the foremost
abstractionists of the 20th century. A related show of her work opens at New York’s Whitney
Museum of American Art on the 17th of this month.
Irving Penn: Small Trades
By Virginia A. Heckert and Anne Lacoste
J. Paul Getty
Museum,
$49.95, October
For the arresting portraits compiled here — executed
between 1950 and 1951 — Penn turned his camera on skilled tradespeople. An exhibition of the
series is at the J. Paul Getty Museum, in Los Angeles, from September 9 through January 10, 2010.
Anish Kapoor
By Homi K. Bhabha, Nicholas Bourriaud, Jean de Loisy and Sir Norman
Rosenthal
A Royal Academy of the Arts Publication, $60, September
This publication, which includes
both iconic and never-before-published sculpture by the Bombay-born London artist, accompanies a
significant U.K. show of his work opening on September 26 at the Royal Academy of Arts.
Gary Hume
Interview by Ulrich Loock; essay by Iwona Blazwick
Other
Criteria, $140, September
The first major monograph devoted to Hume, this book explores
the British painter and sculptor’s daring creations through 200 color illustrations, the
artist’s own words and those of Iwona Blazwick, the director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery, in
London.
Lillian Bassman: Women
Essay by Deborah Solomon
Abrams,
$50, October
More than 140 images by the 91-year-old fashion photographer, who worked beside
Richard Avedon at Harper’s Bazaar in the 1950s and whose prints are widely collected today, have
been gathered in this edition.
"10 Tomes" originally appeared in the September 2009 issue of Art+Auction. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Art+Auction's September 2009 Table of Contents.
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