Regular Price $45.00 SALE $41 Whitney Biennial 2000 by various authors (Whitney Museum of American Art/Abrams)
For the first Biennial of the millennium, the Whitney Museum of American Art has assembled a team of curators from around the country to ensure that this ever-controversial show reflects a national perspective. Headed by Whitney director Maxwell Anderson, the team includes Michael Auping, Valerie Cassel, Hugh M. Davis, Jane Farver, Andrea Miller-Keller and Lawrence Rinder. The works on view include painting, sculpture, photography, installation, film and video, performance and, for the first time, Internet art. Among the artists selected are Doug Aitkin, Sadie Benning, Petah Coyne, John Currin, Vernon Fisher, Joseph Grigely, Harmony Korine, Vik Muniz, Shirin Neshat, Nic Nicosia and Sarah Sze. The catalogue contains contributions by the curators and 163 illustrations, along with biographical and exhibition information on each artist. Every Whitney Biennial catalogue is an essential reference toot for tracking contemporary American art. Each of these three books was published to coincide with the millennial exhibition "MOMA 2000" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Making Choices is a profusely illustrated volume that focuses on the arts in the period 1920-1960, with particular emphasis on four key years: 1929, 1939, 1948 and t955. The illuminating texts uncover unexpected correspondences within the rich diversity of modernist works. Modern Art despite Modernism, containing more than 200 colorplates, examines the role of art in social, political and cultural conflicts of these decades. Walker Evans & Company is a lavish volume that explores radical works produced in the 1920s and '30s by the important American photographer and his contemporaries. It also looks at artists he influenced, from Stuart Davis to Andy Warhol.
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Regular Price $30.00 SALE $27 M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio by Peter Robb (Henry Holt)
Regular Price $2695 SALE $24 The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Picasso, Provence, and Douglas Cooper by John Richardson (Knopf)
COMBINED SALE $49
These two recently published books are rife with historical information that sheds new light on their subjects. Peter Robb's groundbreaking 570-page volume looks at the life of Michelangelo Merisi, a.k.a. Caravaggio, against the background of an Italy riven by the Inquisition and the Counter-Reformation. Robb traces the artist's tumultuous life and presents a startling new theory about his death that refutes standard accounts.
The Sorcerer's Apprentice by John Richardson, celebrated biographer of Picasso, is an entertaining memoir that focuses on Douglas Cooper, the wealthy Englishman who assembled the world's most important private Cubist collection, and the author's association with him. This 318-page book, with 124 black-and-white illustrations, is also a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at modern artists and their circle. Richardson's insightful prose brings to life such figures as Picasso, Braque, Leger, Jean Cocteau, Helena Rubenstein and Peggy Guggenheim.
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Regular Price $50.00 SALE $46 Jenny Saville: Territories Essays by Barry Martin Weintraub and Del LaGrace Volcano, interview by Martin Gayford (Gagosian Gallery/D.A.P.)
Regular Price $40.00 SALE $36 Cecily Brown Introduction by Robed Evren, essay by A.M. Homes (Gagosian Gallery/D.A.P.)
COMBINED SALE $80
These two remarkable British painters, each the subject of a recent show at Gagosian Gallery in New York, have received critical acclaim for their lush, large-scale works that offer radical depictions of the human body. Jenny Saville is known for her big, fleshy nudes that are both brutal and seductive. Cecily Brown's tantalizing slathers of paint roughly coalesce into chaotic, abstracted sex scenes. These pair of catalogues, published on the occasion of the artists' respective shows, also contain beautiful color reproductions of works that were not on public view. The Saville volume features fold-outs and full-page details. Both contain in-depth essays and biographical information on the artists and are essential additions to the collector's library of works on cutting-edge contemporary art.
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Regular Price $39.95 SALE $36 Unclassified: A Walker Evans Anthology Edited by Jeff L. Rosenheim, with essays by Rosenheim and Douglas Eklund (Scalo/Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Regular Price $65.00 SALE $59 Walker Evans Essays by various authors (Metropolitan)
Regular Price $19.95 SALE $18 Walker Evans: Florida Essay by Robert Plunket (J. Paul Getty Museum)
COMBINED SALE $110
Unclassified: A Walker Evans Anthology, published in conjunction with the first major Walker Evans retrospective in three decades, features mostly unpublished documentary material from the vast Walker Evans Archive in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. It also includes some 200 illustrations. Covering the range of Evans's career, the in-depth essays and 250 plates of Walker Evans explore how the photographer, through his iconic image
