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GLENN BROWN
Etchings (Portraits)
John-Paul Stonard
Come face-to-face with 22 arresting duotone etchings: the most recent “portraits” by British artist Glenn Brown. This oversized exhibition catalogue is printed on heavy coated stock and features striking, fullbleed endpapers. On display in 2009 at Karsten Schubert in London, Brown’s etchings were composed over portraiture by Urs Graf, Rembrandt, and Lucien Freud. Engaging with concepts of duplication and appropriation, the complex, beautifully layered portraits are at once recognizable and completely unfamiliar. An essay by John-Paul Stonard, contributing editor of The Burlington Magazine, applauds Brown’s work as a brilliant and bold reaction to the 19th-century tradition of copying the work of the “Old Masters” as a learning tool.
9 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches / 56 pp / 22 color
ISBN: 978-1-905464-21-0
Retail Price: $35.00
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MARC CAMILLE CHAIMOWICZ
As Ever What? (1972 – 2008)
Alexis Vaillant
French-born artist Marc Camille Chaimowicz was a pioneer in mixing the genres of installation art and performance art. In the 1970s, he distinguished himself with his playful and subtly seductive “environments,” immersive installations that can be read as a consciously messy and ambivalent reaction to the clean concepts of Conceptualist and post-Minimalist tendencies. Edited by curator Alexis Vaillant, this book gathers together the artist’s writings, including interviews, letters, art texts, and criticism. The texts highlight the mental backdrop of an artist known for his idiosyncratic dandyism and reveal that his oeuvre owes as much to glam rock, modern French literature, architecture, and decorative arts as it does to art theory and practice.
ISBN: 978-1-933128-48-1
Retail Price: $24.95