"Robert Irwin began his career in the 1950s as an abstract painter. As a pioneer of the Light and Space movement in Los Angeles in the 1970s and early ‘80s, Irwin focused on exploring aesthetic perception as the fundamental feature of art, culminating in what he terms “conditional art” or “site-conditioned work.” In addition to being a prolific artist, Irwin has been an active writer throughout his career. This book includes previously p ..."
"Cezanne's watercolors exhibit not only kaleidoscopic arrays of translucent color but also very light graphite pencil lines that contrast strikingly with the soft watery touches of color. These drawn lines have been largely overlooked in previous studies of Cezanne's watercolors. In this ravishing book, Matthew Simms argues that it was the dialogue between drawing and painting--the movement between the pencil and the paintbrush--that att ..."
"Born in Riverside, California in 1937 and profoundly affected by World War II, Ed Bereal made significant contributions to assemblage and performance arts in Los Angeles during the early 1960s through 1980s. A consummate draftsman and object maker, Bereal found inspiration in such divergent sources as Norman Rockwell's illustrations and the tableaux of Ed Kienholz. His "political cartoons" are unique portraits of America filtered throug ..."
"Robert Irwin: Untitled (Dawn to Dusk) is a new publication devoted to the titular work by the legendary San Diego–based light and space artist Robert Irwin (born 1928), the most recent addition to the Chinati Foundation’s permanent collection. The artwork was inaugurated in July 2016 after 17 years of planning. Irwin’s building-cum-artwork is a career-defining summation of his pioneering art and fulfills a longstanding intention of Chin ..."
The Los Angeles Tapes Alan Solomon's Interviews with Kauffman, Bell, Turrell, and Irwin by Alan Solomon, MatthewSimms Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2019 by Circle Books ISBN-13: 978-0-692-08276-8, ISBN: 0-692-08276-X
"In 1969 curator, critic and former Jewish Museum director Alan Solomon interviewed Craig Kauffman, Larry Bell, James Turrell and Robert Irwin in conjunction with an exhibition he was organizing. They are the earliest in-depth interviews with each artist. Because of his untimely death they have remained in his archives and are published here for the first time. The interviews provide a rare glimpse into the early careers of these seminal ..."
"Previously unpublished interviews with some of America's leading postwar artists--including Frankenthaler, Johns, Oldenburg, Rauschenberg, Stella and Warhol--originally conducted for TV in the mid-'60s by famed curator Alan Solomon This ..."
"A comprehensive study of one of the most significant and prolific American postwar artists. Frequently associated with California Light and Space Art, Robert Irwin (b. 1928) began as an abstract painter in the 1950s. Since that time, he has worked in architectural and outdoor interventions, developing and expanding what he terms a “conditional” art practice. He employs a wide range of media, such as scrim veils, chain link fencing, Co ..."
"Robert Irwin began his career in the 1950s as an abstract painter. As a pioneer of the Light and Space movement in Los Angeles in the 1970s and early 80s, Irwin focused on exploring aesthetic perception as the fundamental feature of art, culminating in what he terms “conditional art” or “site-conditioned work.” In addition to being a prolific artist, Irwin has been an active writer throughout his career. This book includes previously p ..."
"A beautiful presentation of fifty masterworks of late 19th- to mid-20th-century avant-garde European art from one of America's most distinguished private collections "Cezanne and the Modern"showcases fifty masterworks of late 19th- to mid-20th-century avant-garde European art from the Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection, one of the most distinguished private collections of modern art in the United States. Among the iconic images represe ..."
The New Makers of Modern Strategy From the Ancient World to the Digital Age (Hardback or Cased Book) by Hal Brands Hardcover, 1,184 Pages, Published 2023 by Princeton University Press, New Jersey ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20438-3, ISBN: 0-691-20438-1
Count Julian or, The Last Days of the Goth (A Project of the Simms Initiatives) by William Gilmore Simms Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 2015 by University Of South Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61117-575-2, ISBN: 1-61117-575-5
Poems Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary, and Contemplative (A Project of the Simms Initiatives) by William Gilmore Simms, Mathew C. Brennan Paperback, 736 Pages, Published 2013 by University Of South Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61117-055-9, ISBN: 1-61117-055-9
Pelayo A Story of the Goth (A Project of the Simms Initiatives) by William Gilmore Simms, David Moltke-Hansen, W. Matthew Paperback, 296 Pages, Published 2015 by University Of South Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61117-574-5, ISBN: 1-61117-574-7
"This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) an ..."
"This book examines the genesis Cezanne's great works took through his drawings and sketches. Like many artists, Paul Cezanne started his great paintings by sketching his ideas on paper. This book recreates some of Cezanne's sketchbooks as it delves into the Kunstmuseum Basel's collection of drawings by Cezanne--the most comprehensive and significant collection of the artist's drawings in the world. Rarely presented in exhibitions, these ..."
"This book explores four decades of Robert Irwin's outdoor environment projects through his drawings and architectural models. Over the course of a storied career, Robert Irwin has come to regard art as site determined, or something that works in and responds to its surroundings. This book opens with his projects on college campuses between 1975 and 1982. These are followed by Irwin's major, yet never realized, commission for the Miami I ..."
"This book is devoted to the installation at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas, by the great light and space artist Robert Irwin. After seventeen years of preparation the artwork opened to the public in July 2016. Along with the building―developed by Irwin, with its directed lighting filling the space―the design of the courtyard forms an apex in the body of work by this pioneer of contemporary American art. At the same time, it fulf ..."
"Vom Skizzenbuch zur LeinwandGebundenes BuchDas Buch zur großen Ausstellung ist zugleich der Sammlungskatalog der Cézanne-Zeichnungen im Kunstmuseum Basel.Als Begründer der Moderne ist Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) heute der wichtigste und berühmteste Maler des ausgehenden 19. Jahrhunderts. Weniger bekannt ist, dass er auch ein wegweisender Zeichner war. Mit 154 Blättern befindet sich im Kupferstichkabinett des Kunstmuseum Basel die weltweit ..."
"This generously illustrated book chronicles Steve Kahn's "The Hollywood Suites" series, which is comprised of photos taken in rent-by-the-hour apartments in a run-down section of Hollywood from 1974 to 1977, featuring porn industry models and the architecture of the rooms themselves.In 1974 the photojournalist and art photographer Steve Kahn began a series of provocative black-and-white Polaroids of porn-industry models posing in seedy ..."
"Robert Irwin, one of the most influential postwar American artists and a pioneering figure of California Light and Space Art, is the subject of this book that traces his development and remarkable accomplishments in the 1960s. The first publication to focus exclusively on Irwin's extraordinary trajectory during the 1960s, this book explores how the artist moved from creating small-scale abstract paintings to temporary installations that ..."