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  | | William J. O'Brien by Naomi Beckwith, Trevor Smith M.D., Madeleine Grynsztejn, William O'brien, Jason Foumberg, Trevor Smith Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2014 by Museum Of Contemporary Art Chicago ISBN-13: 978-1-938922-16-9, ISBN: 1-938922-16-6 "This volume will be the first monograph on the work of Chicago-based artist William J. O'Brien (born 1975), produced to accompany his first large-scale, solo exhibition opening at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in January 2014. The show demonstrates the broad range of O'Brien's work--from sculpture and ceramics to drawing, textiles and painting--and his guiding interest in physicality and the handmade. The catalogue expands the ..." |
 | | Jimmy Robert (MCA Monographs) by Naomi Beckwith, Marie De Brugerolle, Ian White, Jimmy Robert, Madeleine Grynsztejn Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2012 by Museum Of Contemporary Art Chicago ISBN-13: 978-0-933856-95-0, ISBN: 0-933856-95-4 "This catalogue accompanies the first large-scale solo U.S. exhibition of the work of Brussels-based artist Jimmy Robert (born 1975). One of Europe's most dynamic younger artists, Robert works in a range of media, including photography, sculptural objects, film, video and collaborative performances. What unites these different threads is a concern for the body and a guiding interest in the poetic potential of ephemeral materials such as ..." |
 | | The Freedom Principle(1st Edition) Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now by Naomi Beckwith, Dieter Roelstraete Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2015 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31930-8, ISBN: 0-226-31930-X "On the South Side of Chicago in the 1960s, African American artists and musicians grappled with new language and forms inspired by the black nationalist turn in the Civil Rights movement. The Freedom Principle, which accompanies an exhibition on the topic at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, traces their history and shows how it continues to inform contemporary artists around the world. The book coincides with the fiftieth anniver ..." |
 | | Grief and Grievance Art and Mourning in America: PUBLISHED IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE NEW MUSEUM (F A GENERAL) by Okwui Enwezor, Naomi Beckwith, Massimiliano Gioni, Glenn Ligon, Mark Nash Hardcover, 264 Pages, Published 2021 by Phaidon Inc Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-83866-129-8, ISBN: 1-83866-129-8 "Featuring works by more than 30 artists and writings by leading scholars and art historians, this book -- and its accompanying exhibition -- gives voice to artists addressing concepts of mourning, commemoration, and loss and considers their ..." |
 | | Radical Presence Black Performance in Contemporary Art by Naomi Beckwith, Yona Backer, Bill Arning, Valerie Cassel Oliver, Franklin Sirmans, Clifford Owens, Tavia Nyong'o Hardcover, 165 Pages, Published 2013 by Contemporary Arts Museum Houston ISBN-13: 978-1-933619-38-5, ISBN: 1-933619-38-4 ""Radical Presence" chronicles the emergence of black performance practices in contemporary art. Where hegemony has tended to define black performance art as an extension of theater, this publication provides a critical framework for discussing the history of black performance within the visual arts over the last 50 years. Over five decades of performance art practices by such artists as Benjamin Patterson, David Hammons, Senga Nengudi, ..." |
 | | Sanford Biggers by Naomi Beckwith, Lisa Melandri, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Christa Clarke, Sanford Biggers, Kahlil Gibran Muhammad Paperback, 52 Pages, Published 2019 by Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis ISBN-13: 978-0-9977364-0-3, ISBN: 0-9977364-0-2 "In his BAM series, Harlem-based interdisciplinary artist Sanford Biggers (born 1970) uses sculpture, video and quilt paintings to honor and memorialize black victims of police gun violence in America. This catalog, the first publication to document the series, accompanies his solo exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. " |
 | | The Propeller Group by Naomi Beckwith, Claudia Schmuckli, Cesar Garcia Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2016 by Museum Of Contemporary Art, Chicago ISBN-13: 978-0-9962116-2-8, ISBN: 0-9962116-2-4 "The Propeller Group--an artist team made up of Phunam, Matt Lucero and Tuan Andrew Nguyen, and based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam--blurs the boundaries between fine art and media production, in much the same way that this publication blurs the boundaries between a traditional exhibition catalogue and an artist’s book. The publication features essays by curators Naomi Beckwith and Cesar Garcia, as well as contributions by each of the mem ..." |
 | | Lynette Yiadom-Boakye(1st Edition) Any Number of Preoccupations by Naomi Beckwith Golden, Okuwi Enwezor, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Thelma Golden, Okwui Enwezor Paperback, 76 Pages, Published 2010 by The Studio Museum In Harlem ISBN-13: 978-0-942949-05-6, ISBN: 0-942949-05-6 |
 | | member(1st Edition) Pope.L, 1978-2001 by Adrian Heathfield, C. Carr, Malik Gaines, Ej Hill, Thomas J. Lax, Adrienne Edwards, Danielle A. Jackson, Martha Wilson, Martine Syms, Naomi Beckwith, Mark Bessire, André Lepecki, Stuart Comer, William Pope.L, Valerie Cassel Oliver, Yvonne Rainer, Andrã Lepecki, Darby English Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 2019 by The Museum Of Modern Art, New York ISBN-13: 978-1-63345-086-8, ISBN: 1-63345-086-4 "An absurdist provocateur and brilliant interventionist, Pope.L is a seditious force in contemporary American artPope.L is a consummate thinker and provocateur whose practice across multiple mediums―including painting, drawing, installation, sculpture, theater and video―utilizes abjection, humor, endurance, language and absurdity to confront and undermine rigid systems of belief. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Museum ..." |
 | | 30 Seconds Off an Inch by Naomi Beckwith, Thelma Golden Spiral, 73 Pages, Published 2009 by Studio Museum In Harlem ISBN-13: 978-0-942949-36-0, ISBN: 0-942949-36-6 "1st ed. Octavo. Spiral bound wraps. 73 pp, many illustrations. Fine." |
 | | Lorna Simpson Revised & Expanded Edition (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series) by Thelma Golden, Naomi Beckwith, Chrissie Iles, Kellie Jones, Beckwith /. Golden Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2022 by Phaidon Verlag Gmbh Apr 2022 ISBN-13: 978-1-83866-124-3, ISBN: 1-83866-124-7 "This landmark book documents Simpson's career in its entirety, up to her most recent work. In doing so, it sheds light on the remarkable path that Simpson paved to global critical acclaim and art-world stardom"--Publisher's description." |
 | | Casa Tomada by Irene Hofmann, Jose Blondet, Candice Hopkins, Ruba Katrib, Naomi Beckwith, Magali Arriola, Evan Williams Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 2019 by Site Santa Fe ISBN-13: 978-0-9856602-7-7, ISBN: 0-9856602-7-9 "This SITElines.2018 Biennial catalog, Casa tomada (House Taken Over), features 23 artists from eight countries and ten new commissions and is organized by a team of three curators: Jose Luis Blondet, Candice Hopkins and Ruba Katrib, with Naomi Beckwith as Curatorial Advisor. SITElines.2018: New Perspectives on Art from the Americas is the third installment in SITE Santa Fe’s reimagined biennial series with a focus on contemporary art of ..." |
 | | Howardena Pindell(1st Edition) What Remains To Be Seen by Naomi Beckwith, Valerie Cassel Oliver, Charles Gaines, Grace Deveney, Lowery Stokes Sims, Brian Wallis Hardcover, 276 Pages, Published 2018 by Prestel ISBN-13: 978-3-7913-5737-9, ISBN: 3-7913-5737-9 "This retrospective volume celebrates five decades of Howardena Pindell's art, including works on paper, collage, photography, film, and video. Born in middle-class Philadelphia in the 1940s, Howardena Pindell came of age during the Civil Rights movement. As an African-American woman artist, making her way in the world provided Pindell with source material to inspire her work. This book examines every facet of Pindell's impressive career ..." |
 | | The Best of Keren Cytter/The Worst of Keren Cytter by Naomi Beckwith, Jacob Fabricius, Keren Cytter, Jesper Fabricius, Michael Jensen Paperback, 900 Pages, Published 2015 by Kunsthal Charlottenborg/Museum Of Contemporary Art Chicago ISBN-13: 978-87-88944-52-5, ISBN: 87-88944-52-2 "The Best of Keren Cytter/The Worst of Keren Cytter is the first comprehensive publication of the video screenplays written by Keren Cytter (born 1977). Cytter has been widely heralded for her video work, which challenges conventions of narrative cinema through its pared-down style, deliberately kitschy effects, knowing manipulation of familiar genres and fractured storylines. For her exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, ..." |
 | | Duro Olowu(1st Edition) Seeing Chicago by Naomi Beckwith, Valerie Steele, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Ekow Eshun, Helen Molesworth, Ekow Eschun Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2020 by Prestel ISBN-13: 978-3-7913-5948-9, ISBN: 3-7913-5948-7 "Fashion world leader Duro Olowu applies his creative process and cosmopolitan eye to a major exhibition drawn from Chicago's great art collections.Nigerian-born British fashion designer Duro Olowu is internationally renowned for his womenswear label launched in 2004 that speaks to a cosmopolitan sensibility informed by his international background and a confident eye for visual disciplines from art to film to popular culture. Olowu's gl ..." |
 | | Nick Cave Forothermore Freeman, Damita Jo; Hendryx, Nona; Rice, Linda Johnson; Beckwith, Naomi; Cave, Nick; Grynsztejn, Madeleine; Crawford, Romi; Thompson, Krista; Sargent, Antwaun; Gaines, Malik and McNeal, Meida by Nick Cave, Naomi Beckwith, Damita Jo Freeman, Madeleine Grynsztejn, Romi Crawford, Krista Thompson, Antwaun Sargent, Malik Gaines, Meida Mcneal, Nona Hendryx, Linda Johnson Rice Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2022 by Yayun ISBN-13: 978-1-942884-96-5, ISBN: 1-942884-96-6 "The definitive volume on the ever-evolving and shape-shifting work of the Chicago-based artist, Nick Cave: 'Forothermore' highlights the way Cave's practice has shifted and continues to shift in response to our history and current moment of ..." |
 | | Nari Ward Sun Splashed by Diana Nawi, Philippe Vergne, Naomi Beckwith, Erica Moiah James, Ralph Lemon Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2015 by Prestel ISBN-13: 978-3-7913-5518-4, ISBN: 3-7913-5518-X "This book accompanies the largest exhibition to date of Nari Ward’s groundbreaking sculptures, videos, works on paper, and installations, which tackle themes of African- American history and culture, the dynamics of power and politics, and the Caribbean diaspora. Featuring work from the 1990s to today, this mid-career survey of Nari Ward explores the artist’s best-known work in assemblage and installation, as well as his multimedia inve ..." |
 | | Lynette Yiadom-Boakye by Naomi Beckwith, Donatien Grau, Jennifer Higgie, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Hardcover, 136 Pages, Published 2014 by Prestel Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-3-7913-4967-1, ISBN: 3-7913-4967-8 "This beautiful volume celebrates and explores Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s enigmatic paintings. Based in London, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye has emerged in recent years as a major talent in the international art scene, winning widespread acclaim for her large-scale, luminous portraits. Working in a luxuriously dark, muted palette offset by bursts of radiant color, Yiadom-Boakye paints subjects from her imagination, whose stories she sometimes elab ..." |
 | | Lorna Simpson(1st Edition) (French Edition) by Joan Simon, Naomi Beckwith, Marta Gili, Elvan Zabunyan, Thomas J. Lax, Beckwith Simon, Jeu De Paume Hardcover, 216 Pages, Published 2013 by Prestel ISBN-13: 978-3-7913-5267-1, ISBN: 3-7913-5267-9 "This comprehensive catalogue of Lorna Simpson's critically acclaimed 30-year body of work highlights her photo-text pieces as well as film and video installations to reveal how the artist explores identity, memory, gender, history, fantasy, and reality. Lorna Simpson is a conceptual artist who uses her camera and words to construct new worlds and deconstruct the worlds we know. This monograph opens with her earliest documentary photogra ..." |
 | | Lorna Simpson(1st Edition) by Joan Simon, Marta Gili, Naomi Beckwith, Elvan Zabunyan, Thomas J. Lax, Thomas Lax Hardcover, 216 Pages, Published 2013 by Prestel ISBN-13: 978-3-7913-5266-4, ISBN: 3-7913-5266-0 "This comprehensive catalogue of Lorna Simpson's critically acclaimed 30-year body of work highlights her photo-text pieces as well as film and video installations to reveal how the artist explores identity, memory, gender, history, fantasy, and reality. Lorna Simpson is a conceptual artist who uses her camera and words to construct new worlds and deconstruct the worlds we know. This monograph opens with her earliest documentary photogra ..." |
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