"Basil Hyman, a keen amateur photographer, took hundreds of photographs of everyday life in Britain during the 1950s. The Lost Album is a nostalgic look back at this long-gone era, filled with photographs made during a time of enormous social change - just after World War II and before the "Swinging Sixties" - and a wealth of ephemera: theater tickets and playbills, newspaper advertisements, ration books, and much more. Special inserts i ..."
"This is a portrait of Simone Signoret, the actress who died in 1985. In France, she was a national figure who symbolized political and intellectual courage as well as glamour. The book also looks at her 36-year marriage to Yves Montand."
"How can artists maintain the tension between globalization’s paradoxes and history’s turbulences and their individual sensibilities and voices? In light of recent tumultuous historical developments, this book, accompanying an exhibition at WIELS, Brussels, discusses the striking absence of art museums in urgent, public debate. Although museums–especially those devoted to contemporary art–have never been as popular as they are today, the ..."
Documenta X A Preview by CatherineDavid 19 Pages, Published 2005 by Cv Publications ISBN-13: 978-1-904727-80-4, ISBN: 1-904727-80-8
"Recorded at a Goethe Institut conference in 1996, Catherine David presents her strategy as selector for the imminent Documenta X in Kassel to a sceptical audience of UK journalists."
"A mind-expanding discussion of millenarianism by four brilliant thinkers -- now in paperback. There is nothing special about the year 2000, yet the start of the third millennium proved a focus for many deep anxieties and expectations. Four of the world's boldest and most celebrated thinkers offer a vast range of insights into how we make sense of time: paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould on dating the Creation, evolutionary "deep time," a ..."
"Catalogue of exhibition held Oct. 17, 1999 - Jan. 23, 2000, Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.) Contents: Open up: an introduction / Alma Ruiz -- The experimental exercise of freedom / Rina Carvajal -- Molding a contemporary soul, the empty-full of Lygia Clark / Suely Rolnik -- Gego, outside in, inside out / Rina Carvajal -- Mathias Goeritz, the ministries of space / Osvaldo Sánchez -- Hélio Oiticica, Brazil experiment / Ca ..."
"One of the most important figures in global modernism, Cuban artist Wifredo Lam (1902–1982) traveled extensively in Europe in the 1930s, where he intersected with many of the 20th century’s greatest artists, most significantly Picasso. He returned to Cuba in 1942, where he nurtured his personal connection to Afro-Cuban iconography and spirit, combining modernism with the vitality and force of the native culture. Initially viewed as “dan ..."
The Beauty of Gesture(1st Edition) The Invisible Keyboard of Piano and T'ai Chi by CatherineDavid, Alison Anderson Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 1996 by North Atlantic Books ISBN-13: 978-1-55643-219-4, ISBN: 1-55643-219-4
"In this society in which the essential is generally considered incidental (which is reflected in the unbearable dullness of the contemporary man), Catherine David picks the essence from inconspicuous corners where it has been gathering dust and shows us how she uses it to unlock the gates leading to inner beauty. In this remarkable series of 26 linked meditations, The Beauty of Gesture, subtitled "The Invisible keyboard of Piano and T'a ..."
Simone Signoret by CatherineDavid, Sally Sampson Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1995 by Overlook Tp International Edition ISBN-13: 978-0-87951-581-2, ISBN: 0-87951-581-3
"This is a portrait of Simone Signoret, the actress who died in 1985. In France, she was a national figure who symbolized political and intellectual courage as well as glamour. The book also looks at her 36-year marriage to Yves Montand."
"An illuminating look at one of the Middle East’s most fascinating contemporary artists, this survey is the first to explore the extraordinary life and work of Saudi artist Dr Ahmed Mater. Mater’s work, exhibited at the Venice Biennale and in the collections of the British Museum and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is informed by his education and life as a medical doctor, as well as by his traditional religious upbringing and Saudi cu ..."
"This discussion of some millennial themes consists of interviews with the principals followed by a certain amount of mutual comment and some final conclusions. Gould does his standard act about the arbitrariness of the millennium and the importance of the growth of awareness of deep time--a sense of the vast age of the world and the universe is important to that perspective which might help us behave decently to each other. Carriere, a ..."
"The Good Earth is the product of collaboration between the content rigor provided by Earth Science specialists (McConnell, Steer) and the results of research on learning as contributed by pedagogical experts (Knight, Owens). The Good Earth has been explicitly designed to be compatible with inquiry-based, active learning in the college classroom. The structural elements of this text will allow the instructor to incorporate these stude ..."
"'Drag Diaries' pulls back the curtain on a campy, vivacious, underground society of high heels and attitude, complete with extravagant cross dressing, glittering exposure and fabulous costumes. Today, drag is everywhere, exerting a major influence on designers and photographers, models and stylists, movies and theatre."