Lists presents almost seventy artifacts, including to do lists, membership lists, lists of paintings sold, lists of books to read, lists of appointments made and met, lists of supplies to get, lists of places to see, and lists of people who are 'in'. Lists includes rarely seen specimens by Hans Hofmann, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Mark Rothko and Andrew Wyeth.

Lists: To-Dos, Illustrated Inventories, Collected Thoughts and Other Artists' Enumerations
Author: Liza Kirwin
9781568988887 16.99 PB
Princeton Architectural Press
Pubdate: March 2010
Available from PGUK Enfield 

Cartographies of Time is the first comprehensive history of graphic representations of time in Europe and the United States from 1450 to the present. Presented in a lavishly illustrated edition, Cartographies of Time is a revelation to anyone interested in the role visual forms have played in our evolving conception of history.
 
Cartographies of Time
Authors: Anthony Grafton and Daniel Rosenberg
9781568987637 30.00 HB
Princeton Architectural Press
Pubdate: March 2010
Available from PGUK Enfield

The definitive survey of Koons' Hulk Elvis paintings, including an extensive interview with the artist in his studio

From the outset of his controversial career, Jeff Koons has turned the traditional notion of the work of art and its context inside out. Choosing surprising yet banal objects as models for his work, he shuns traditional standards of 'good taste,' instead embracing what he perceives as conventional middle-class values to underscore the vulnerabilities of artistic hierarchies and value systems. Foremost, Koons seeks to render art beautiful, to strive for objectivity, to give back the familiar, and to reflect--and thus empower--the viewer.

The works of Koons' new series Hulk Elvis blaze with energy yet mystify with their complex depictions of figurative and abstract elements. A charged fusion of inflatable monkeys, geishas, birds, The Incredible Hulk, and The Liberty Bell jostle against realistic landscapes, gestural paintings, negative silhouettes, and underlying dot screens.

Jeff Koons: Hulk Elvis
Authors: Scott Rothkopf & Hans Ulrich Obrist
9780847833597  50.00 HB
Rizzoli
Pubdate: January 2010
Available from Marston Book Services

This is an artist's book by one of the most respected indie-underground cultural icons of our time: Kim Gordon. A dreamy and intoxicating volume filled of watercolours, paintings, drawings, collages, and photographs that combine to create a portrait of the artists' work

Kim Gordon: Performing/Guzzling will be a true artist's book, designed and curated by Gordon and Zurich based cult-publisher, Nieves. Visual artist and legendary indie rocker Kim Gordon goes beyond showing her work as a traditional monograph by designing an intoxicating portrait of her ethereal and dreamy world. This book opens with her haunting watercolor portraits that are inspired by Gordon's actual experience of looking into an audience and seeing abstracted faces. The watercolors lead into her large-scale paintings and then finish with a section of her ephemeral photographs and snapshots. Gordon's original writings and poetry are sprinkled throughout the book which serve to create a cadence between portfolios. Gordon has a deep art world background.

Kim Gordon: Performing/Guzzling
Author: Kim Gordon. Contributors: Hilton Als & Jutta Koether
9780847833412 HB 40.00
Rizzoli
Pubdate: November 2009
Available from Marston Book Services