David Zwirner Books (11 kníh )

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  Alice Michel Degas and His Model

  There are many myths about Edgar Degas—from Degas the misanthrope to Degas the deviant to Degas the obsessive. But there is no single text that better stokes the fire than Degas and His Model, a short memoir by Alice Michel, who purportedly modeled for Degas. Never before translated into English, the text’s original publication in Mercure de France in 1919, shortly after the artist’s death, has been treated as an…

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  Dawn Ades, Olivier Berggruen, J. Patrice Marandel Endless Enigma

  Endless Enigma: Eight Centuries of Fantastic Art explores the ways in which artists have sought to explain their world in terms of an alternate reality, drawn from imagination, the subconscious, poetry, nature, myth and religion...

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  Laura Mattioli, John Baldessari Giorgio Morandi

  This publication focuses on the period from 1948 to 1964, during which Morandi developed and refined his investigations of serial, reduct ive, and permutational forms and compositions, a body of work that has had a profound influence on twentieth ...

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  John Ruskin Giotto and His Works in Padua

  In 1303, Giotto, then considered the preeminent painter in Italy, was commissioned to paint the Arena Chapel in Padua. The resulting Chapel and its panels, detailing the history, birth, life and death of Christ, rank among the greatest artworks ever ...

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  Rainer Maria Rilke Letters to a Young Painter

  Never before translated into English, Rainer Maria Rilke’s fascinating Letters to a Young Painter, written between 1920 and 1926 toward the end of his life, is a surprising companion to his infamous Letters to a Young Poet, earlier correspondence from 1902 to 1908. While the latter has become a global phenomenon, with millions of copies sold in many different languages, the present volume has been largely overlooked…

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  Jean-Claude Lebensztejn Pissing Figures 1280–2014

  Jean-Claude Lebensztejn’s history of the urinating figure in art, Pissing Figures 1280–2014, is at once a scholarly inquiry into an important visual motif, and a ribald statement on transgression and limits in works of art in general. Lebensztejn is one of France’s best-kept secrets. A world-class art historian who has lectured and taught at major universities in the United States, his work has remained almost…

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  Alexander Nemerov Summoning Pearl Harbor

  Summoning Pearl Harbor is famed art historian Alexander Nemerov’s mesmerizing display of linguistic force that redefines remembering. How do words make the past appear? In what way does the historian summon bygone events? What is this kind of remembering, and for whom do we recall the dead, or the past? In this highly original meditation on the past, Nemerov delves into what it means to recall a significant…

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  Jarrett Earnest Tell Me Something Good

  The legendary Brooklyn Rail has been a platform for artists, academics, and writers in New York and abroad for almost twenty years. No other publication devotes as much space to the artist’s voice, allowing ideas to unfold through open discussion...

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  Oscar Wilde The Critic as Artist

  In The Critic as Artist—arguably the most complete exploration of his aesthetic thinking, and certainly the most entertaining—Oscar Wilde harnesses his famous wit to demolish the supposed boundary between art and criticism...

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  Vernon Lee The Psychology of an Art Writer

  An openly lesbian, feminist writer, Vernon Lee―a pseudonym of Violet Paget―is the most important female aesthetician to come out of nineteenth century England. Though she was widely known for her supernatural fictions, ...

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  William Shakespeare, Marlene Dumas (ilustrácie) Venus and Adonis

  At once comic, tragic, and erotic, Venus and Adonis (1593) is a poem by William Shakespeare based on passages from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. This new translation by Hafid Bouazza of Shakespeare’s text is illustrated by Marlene Dumas, ...