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      • The Last Days of Mankind
        Individual artists, art monographs
        January 2019

        The Last Days of Mankind

        A Visual Guide to Karl Kraus’ Great War Epic

        by artwork by Deborah Sengl; contributions by Marjorie Perloff, Matthias Goldmann, Anna Souchuk and Paul Reitter

        "Eye-catching": Top 10 Anticipated Art Books Publishers Weekly   Garnering critical success over the past four years, Viennese artist Deborah Sengl has exhibited taxidermied rats, drawings and paintings to restage Karl Kraus’ infamous, nearly-unperformable play The Last Days of Mankind (Die Letzten Tage der Menschheit, 1915–22). Featuring Sengl’s entire installation, this edition includes essays that examine her ambitious dramaturgy, which condenses the 10-15 hour drama into an abridged reading of its themes: human barbarism, the role of journalism in war, the sway of popular opinion and the absurdities of nationalism. The Last Days of Mankind offers an agit-prop protest envisioning human folly through animal actors, who become more than human, while confronting a violence particular to humankind, laced with selfishness and greed.   The work is a hundred years old, but for me it is still current. We may not have war in the immediate vicinity, but the war within us is as strong, if not stronger, as it was then.– Deborah Sengl

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      • The Artist, The Censor, and The Nude
        The Arts: General Issues
        September 2017

        The Artist, The Censor, and The Nude

        A Tale of Morality and Appropriation

        by Glenn Harcourt, Pamela Joseph, Francis M. Naumann

        Thoughtful and rigorous, the book provides an excellent survey of contemporary censorship. – Publishers Weekly   This hybrid book examines the art and politics of “The Nude” in various cultural contexts, featuring books of canonical western art censored in Iran. Featuring American artist Pamela Joseph’s feminist appropriation of these images as well as Iranian and other Middle Eastern contemporary artists Aydin Aghdashloo (Iran), Boushra Almutawakel (Yemen), Ana Lily Amirpour (Great Britain/USA), Gohar Dashti (Iran), Daryoush Gharahzad (Iran), Shadi Ghadirian (Iran), Bahman Ghobadi (Iranian Kurdistan), Tanya Habjouqa (Jordan), Katayoun Karami (Iran), Hoda Katebi (USA), Simin Keramati (Iran/Canada), Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Iran/ Great Britain), Shohreh Mehran (Iran), Houman Mortazavi (Iran), Manijeh Sehhi (Iran), and Newsha Tavakolian (Iran/USA).

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      • Paul T. Frankl
        History of architecture
        October 2013

        Paul T. Frankl

        Autobiography

        by Christopher Long and Aurora McClain (eds)

        A page-turner that captures this leading Modernist in his own words. – Bennett Johnson, Chicago Art Deco Society Magazine   Viennese émigré Paul T. Frankl was a pioneer of early modern design in America, known for his “Skyscraper” furniture of the 1920s and work for Hollywood celebrities. His autobiography, thought for decades to be lost, is annotated by design scholar Christopher Long and accompanied by previously unpublished photographs and drawings. Hand-sewn with a linen cover, this book won the “Most Beautiful Book” design award in Austria.

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      • Movements
        Individual artists, art monographs
        April 2016

        Movements

        Liat Yossifor

        by Karen Lang, Christopher Michno, Stella Rollig and Ed Schad

        Liat Yossifor’s first monograph focuses on a series of ever-evolving grey paintings from 2011–2016 that utilize a time-based process where she continuously scrapes, sculpts, and reworks the paint until it hardens. Of these works, she has said, “The grey is the result of color being consumed, of constant editing. The grey is the result of a thousand paintings that got destroyed in the process of making a single one.” The writers explore the archeology and embedded meaning of Yossifor’s work in light of place, person, gesture, and theory.

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      • Hungarian Art
        History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -
        January 2017

        Hungarian Art

        Confrontation and Revival in the Modern Movement

        by Éva Forgács

        “I was unable to put down [this book]; one that will be used by those interested in the field for a long time to come.”– Dr. Oliver Botar, Hungarian Cultural Studies   Insightful essays, monographic texts, and rarely-seen images trace from birth to maturation several generations of Hungarian Modernism, from the avant-garde to neo-avant-garde. Éva Forgács corrects long-standing misconceptions about Hungarian art while examining the work and social milieu of dozens of important Hungarian artists. The book also paints a fascinating image of twentieth-century Budapest as a microcosm of the social and political turmoil raging across Europe up to and beyond the collapse of the Soviet Era.

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      • Sting in the Tale
        Art & design styles: Conceptual art
        August 2021

        Sting in the Tale

        Art, Hoax, and Provocation

        by Antoinette LaFarge

        An illustrated survey of artist hoaxes, including impersonations, fabula, cryptoscience, and forgeries, researched and written by an expert “fictive-art” practitioner.   The shift from the early information age to our 'infocalypse' era of rampant misinformation has given rise to an art form that probes this confusion, foregrounding wild creativity as a way to reframe assumptions about both fiction and art in contemporary culture. At its center, this “fictive art” (LaFarge’s term) is secured as fact by employing the language and display methods of history and science. Using typically evidentiary objects such as documentary photographs and videos, presumptively historical artifacts and relics, didactics, lectures, events, and expert opinions in technical language, artists create a constellation of manufactured evidence attesting to the artwork’s central narrative. This dissimulation is temporary, with a clear “tell” often surprisingly revealed in a self-outing moment. With all its attendant consequences of mistrust, outrage, and rejection, this genre of art with a sting in its tale is a radical form whose time has come.

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      • The Private Adolf Loos
        Memoirs
        March 2020

        The Private Adolf Loos

        Portrait of an Eccentric Genius

        by Claire Beck Loos; Translated by Constance C. Pontasch and Nicholas Saunders

        An intimate literary portrait of the infamously eccentric and influential modern architect, told in lively, snapshot-like vignettes. The Private Adolf Loos reveals the personality and philosophy that helped shape Modern architecture in Vienna and the Czech lands. Includes an introduction, supplemental texts, writings by Loos and photographs. The Loos' trip to the French Riviera and his work in France are a significant part of the story.   Recommended to all those interested not only in architecture but also in the dynamic era of twenties and thirties. Not only a recollection of an extraordinary and controversial personality, Claire’s book is also an excellent literary work. She has captured with a brilliant lightness and humor the tedious, but not boring, life beside a somewhat self-centered genius. […] We still feel Loos’ charisma.– “Annoyed on Vacation and Misunderstood on Site: Loos, We Do Not Know Him,” Lidovk.cz   What makes the book most valuable is the fine-grained portrait it provides us of Loos’ last years, of his activities and his preoccupations. […] The English translation of her book, made by Constance C. Pontasch [and Nicholas Saunders], is fluent and accurate, conveying well the tone of Claire Loos’ original (which, in turn, to some extent mimics Loos’ own writing style). Paterson’s introduction and afterword, along with some forty previously unpublished family photographs, add to the story and help flesh it out. It is a richly informative.– Christopher Long, West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture

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      • Dingbat 2.0
        History of architecture
        March 2016

        Dingbat 2.0

        The Iconic Los Angeles Apartment as Projection of a Metropolis

        by Thurman Grant and Joshua G. Stein (eds)

        The first critical study of the most ubiquitous and mundane Los Angeles building type best known for its mid-century decorative facade and parking under a soft second story that was a critical enabler of Los Angeles’ rapid post-war expansion. Including essays by leading architects, urbanists, and cultural critics; photographic series and speculative designs from architects around the world, Dingbat 2.0 considers how qualities of the inarguably flawed housing type can foreground many crucial issues facing global metropolises today. Essays by Barbara Bestor, Aaron Betsky, James Black, John Chase, Dana Cuff, Thurman Grant, John Kaliski, John Southern, Joshua G. Stein, Steven A. Treffers, and Wim de Wit. Photographic series by Judy Fiskin, Paul Redmond and Lesley Marlene Siegel.

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