I have already said it, and I repeat: November is Sunday of the year. And taking into account the particularly intense Sunday scrutiny that has reached us, we keep our list of short and soft artistic reading this time, with what, hopefully, will act as antidotes appropriate to a deluge of dark news. In artistic biographies, Julia Warhola (Andy Warhol's mother) finally obtains a learned exploration worthy of her multifaceted life, while a study of the neo-plus sold of São Paulo during the Brazilian dictatorship provides an energizing roadmap to strengthen social movements. We also bring you an overview of new monographs and catalogs that you will want to add to your collection, and perhaps your list of vacation wishes …Lakshmi Rivera Amin, deputy editor -in -chief
Hokusai by Andreas Marks
This bulky book is undoubtedly the most complete study of Hokusai's work to date. It contains an impressive volume of works of the deep well of the long career of the Japanese artist and engraving, far beyond his omnipresent representations of Mount Fuji. There is an endless magic at the “masterful images of Hokusai in the floating world”. It is a wonderful heritage well treated and well wrapped in this heavy monograph. –Bishara judge
Buy on the bookstore | Bags, November 2024
Andy Warhol's mother: the woman behind the artist By Elaine Rusinko
Andy Warhol is the fabric of the Pittsburgh legend, even before Heinz Ketchup and the bridges in the demands of my hometown to glory. I visited her homonymous museum so many times when I was a child I knew, intuitively, to go to the Silver clouds Gambade among the inflated metal balloons. But the chief among his personal and artistic influences is a figure whose long-awaited biography will be published this month (by the University of Pittsburgh Press, no less): his mother, Julia Warhola. After her life of her youth in current Slovakia in Pittsburgh in New York, where she supported the emerging artistic practice of her son, the learned Elaine Rusinko offers a necessary fix to the stories that mention either Warhola by passing or relegated to the tired category of “women who have made possible successful male artists”. Rusinko examined the letters and other archive documents to give life to her for readers: Warhola was mentor, artist and calligrapher, Catholic Byzantine and fierce defender of his family and his immigrant colleague. She deserves a textured portrait worthy of her work and her rich inner life, and this book finally grants him. –THE
Buy on the bookstore | University of Pittsburgh Press, November 2024
The São Paulo Neo-Avant-Garde: Radical Art and Mass Print Media in Cold War Brazil By husband Rodríguez Binnie
During the military dictatorship of two decades of Brazil in the 1970s and 80s, when the power regime murdered, tortured, disappeared and silent of the dissidents, a group of artists from São Paulo designed techniques that allowed them to criticize authority by stealing under the radar. They largely relied on photocopying, printing of compensation and other mass printing distribution strategies whose simplicity and accessibility have denied their subversive potential – MEIRELES CILDO interventions in conservative Brazilian newspapers via classified advertisements at the appropriation of rubber stamps by Carmela Gross for satire. These are the many works of this type discussed in The São Paulo Neo-Avant-Garde: Radical Art and Mass Print Media in Cold War Brazil, An opportune book that will appeal to the two researchers interested in this central period of the history of Latin American art and to anyone inspired by alternative methods of resistance as the spectrum of censorship becomes more worrying with the rise of political authoritarianism in the world. –Valentina di Liscia
Buy on the bookstore | University of Texas Press, October 2024
Cézanne/Renoir: Masterpieces from the Musée de l'Orangerie and the Musée d'OrsayPublished by Cécile Girardeau and Stefano Zuffi
What are Paul Cézanne and Pierre-Auguste Renoir in common? A lot! Although their styles are different, the two Impressionists shared a real friendship based on the admiration of the other's work, and their careers crossed in bad way, sometimes even by painting exactly the same landscape or the same subject. They also shared one more thing: the art merchant Paul Guillaume, whose massive collection of masterpieces The two painters, now separated between the Musée d'Orsay de Paris and the Musée de l'Orangerie, are the subject of this book. A pleasant reading, the book illuminates the less known parallels and similarities between the two men who will make you see each one in a new light. –Hb
Buy on the bookstore | Skira, October 2024
The Dance of Life: Figure and Imagination in American Art, 1876-1917edited by Mark D. Mitchell
The hours, the goddesses of the seasons and time in Greek mythology, common in a shimmering sky in a sumptuous oil study around 1909. Edwin Austin Abbey produced it in preparation for a larger wall painting, installed on the dome of the Chamber of Room of Representatives of the Capitol of the State of Pennsylvania after his death. This study (and all the contradictions he evokes) decorates the cover of The Dance of Life: Figure and Imagination in American Art, 1876-1917. The catalog accompanies a show at the art gallery of the University of Yale including dozens of artists' studies responding to an era of political troubles in the United States – a familiar seems? – by figuration. Inviting us to consider our body as sites of domination and multifaceted work, but also self -expression, joy and autonomy, this book arouses information which is also urgent now that they were when the studies were sketched for the first time. –THE
Buy on the bookstore | Yale University Art Gallery, distributed by Yale University Press, June 2024
New monographs and catalogs
