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20+ Years Witte De With Witte De With 2012 ISBN 9789073362932 Acqn 21022 Hb 23x30cm 358pp 400ills 200col 37.95 Witte de With is an internationally-oriented contemporary art institution, based in Rotterdam, that assumed several identities over the years. It is often seen as an authored space, wrought by the personalities and passions of its directors. '20+ Years Witte de With' includes essays by the Dutch journalist Koen Kleijn, the British scholar and curator Andrew Renton and the Canadian artist Ken Lum offering distinct hypotheses on the institutions past, present and future from three art world agents who have engaged with Witte de With on different levels. These external perspectives are followed by a year-by-year account in images and texts of every exhibition, book, education project and public event produced by Witte de With to this date.

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Alan Cohen Earth With Meaning Gregg Museum Of Art & Design 2011 ISBN 9780983121732 Acqn 20700 Hb 26 x 29cm 260pp 100 b+w ills 44.95 An encounter with Aaron Siskind inspired American photographer Alan Cohen (born 1943) to abandon his doctoral program in thermodynamics and instead pursue a career in photography under Siskinds tutelage. For the past two decades Cohen has travelled the world, using the medium of black-and-white photography to record places marked by the political acts or the covert actions of others; places marked by time through the course of natural and often catastrophic occurrences. Crumbling stone walls and other near-invisible demarcations of political boundaries are among the mute witnesses he chooses as his subjects. I have come to understand that history, in a contemporary image, can be sited, Cohen writes. Events can--and do--become geography. This book tracks the evolution of Cohens work over a 40-year career, reflecting the artists belief in photography as both a social document and a meditative art.

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Dead Flowers Vox Populi/Participant Press 2011 ISBN 9780980232424 Acqn 20306 Pb 17x23cm 280pp 150col ills 30 Based on the work of director and cult legend Timothy Carey (1929-1994), Dead Flowers features new scholarship on this brilliant actor and filmmaker. Carey wrote, produced, directed and starred in the 1962 feature The World's Greatest Sinner, which was scored by Frank Zappa. Although the film did not have wide commercial release, it built its fervent fan base through repeated screenings at the midnight movies in Los Angeles in the 1960s. This publication will certainly appeal to film audiences but also interprets Carey's cultural contributions through the lens of contemporary art, in works by Charles Atlas, Alvin Baltrop, Johanna Constantine, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Marti Domination, Scott Ewalt, Georg Gatsas, Brandon Olson, Kembra Pfahler, Cynthia Plaster Caster, Tabboo! (Stephen Tashjian) and Paul Thek. It contains texts by Gary Indiana, Antony Hegarty, Max G. Morton, Bruce LaBruce, Vaginal Davis, Eileen Myles and Ed Halter.

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Rob Johannesma Spots of Time ROMA Publications 2012 ISBN 9789077459775 Acqn 21102 Hb 17x24cm 128pp 107ills 32col 19.95 In his videos, collages and photo works, Dutch artist Rob Johannesma (1970) dissects the hidden constructions and interconnections behind a variety of images, from contemporary press photos to Renaissance paintings. In 'Spots of Time', Rob Johannesma takes a closer look at images of war and violence which have appeared in the daily international press.

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Marc Nagtzaam Reissue ROMA Publications 2011 ISBN 9789077459706 Acqn 21038 Pb 24 x 32cm 128pp 200 b+w ills 31 Nagtzaams meticulous graphite-gray pencil drawings are often abstract, geometric but also seek to be representations of a concrete reality or space. His drawings take up the entire page and appear almost impenetrable. After a series of artist publications this book is the first monograph with a broad selection of his work from 1995 to today.

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Elspeth Pratt Emily Carr Univ. Press 2011 ISBN 9780921356370 Acqn 20701 Hb 15x21cm 128pp 55col ills 29.95 This attractive clothbound monograph surveys the career of Vancouver artist Elspeth Pratt, whose colourful sculptures using poor materials such as cardboard, polystyrene, balsa wood and vinyl occupy a terrain somewhere between architectural maquettes and the abstractions of Richard Tuttle.

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Veilleurs Du Monde 3 ( Worldwatchers 3 ) Black Jack editions 2011 ISBN 9782918063186 Acqn 20867 Pb 17x23cm 176pp 100col ills 22.50 Seven artists (the duo Art Orient Objet, Amy Balkin, Gilles Bruni, Seamus Farrell, Romain Pellas, and Akira Sunrise) explore the issues of the ecological crisis and how humanity is endangering itself, from a reflection on the territory of the bucolic valley of the Lot in France.

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Jonas Wood A History of the Met Volume 1 Eighth Veil 2011 ISBN 9780982617205 Acqn 20275 Hb 18x23cm 24pp 15 b+w ills 27.50 Since 2007, Los Angeles artist Jonas Wood (born 1977) has been sketching Greek, Oceanic and African vessels at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. His relationship with the Met began as a child accompanying his sisters and parents, and when he began to make regular visits to New York from L.A. in 2007, he resumed his relationship with the museum, acquiring the habit of sketching the Met's ceramic holdings using a ballpoint pen on hotel stationary. Following each of these visits, Wood then created large-scale versions of the drawings in his studio back in L.A., reworking them in charcoal or pencil on paper. A History of the Metis the first instalment in the artist's multi-volume homage to the Met, a project that accords with his well-known visual diary style and his fondness for portraying objects and places related to friends and family.

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Christopher Wool Holzwarth Publications 2012 ISBN 9783935567596 Acqn 21217 Pb 20x24cm 120pp 38col ills 28.50 Gestures go viral, escaping one painting and contaminating another. A work recurs outside of itself, sometimes in a partial or fragmented way, always coming back remotely as another imagethicker, faster, sharper. This is how John Kelsey describes the recent work of Christopher Wool. In his essay, he digs into the artists intense work on painting process and abstract motifs with all the side effects involved. He shows an abstract painter who continues to challenge the boundaries of his medium like hardly any other. Wools aesthetic is stark, the paintings mostly in black on a white ground, and even where colours appear they are applied in clear-cut abstractionserasures, overpaintings, recurring motifswhich frees the painting process to incorporate technological media like silkscreen or digital imaging.

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