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Rizzoli - Skira

Known for her life-size sculptures made entirely of beads, Liza Lou has had audiences and critics spellbound since her debut exhibition fifteen years ago. Liza Lou's sculptures, room-size installations, and performances have been at the center of the art world's bewilderment and awe since the unveiling of her first masterpiece, Kitchen, in 1996. A true-to-size replica of a kitchen in the midst of a museum gallery would hardly cause a stir, were it not for one important fact: the work is made entirely of beads. Eschewing the well-traveled path in art school to embrace the traditional mediums of painting or sculpture, Lou embarked on forging a body of work unlike any that had been seen before in the art world. In the nearly fifteen years since her auspicious debut, Lou's work has developed from realistic room-size tableaux taken from everyday life—such as Backyard and Trailer, among others—to works no less monumental in construction and more sober in their themes, such as Security Fence and Cell. In this comprehensive volume devoted to her work, illustrated with two hundred photographs, writers, critics, and scholars explore her work in depth.

Annie Kelly
Rizzoli

Splash provides the inspiration for anyone designing, or dreaming about, their own pool.

This celebration of the style, design, and joy that pools bring to us brims with over 200 glamorous photographs. It is organized by swimming pool design--from glimmering infinity pools with a view of the ocean to dramatic cascading waterfall pools and those in lush garden settings. Ranging from beautifully landscaped backyards to dramatic beaches and tropical paradise surroundings, the stunning pool locales show creative examples of pools as architecture and organic forms. In the mix are seductive pools owned by such celebrities as Cher and Dianne Keaton and leading designers Bunny Williams and Carolyne Roehm, as well as masterpieces by famed architects Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, and Luis Barragán. Splash concludes with a section on poolside elements, from tiled steps, patterned surfaces, and Jacuzzis to pool houses with outdoor showers, landscaping, furnishings, and much more. Every example evokes the enduring and irresistible appeal of the swimming pool.

Bruno Munari, Valeria Montaldi
Edizioni L'Agrifoglio

Ryan Gander
Dent De Leone

David Moos
Skira Editore

Julian Schnabel is regarded as one of the most important artists of our time. Working in many media, he first became known for his paintings on collaged shards of smashed plates. This volume includes an account of his output and describes the personality of a metamorphic artist and his bold, somewhat confrontational style.

Simonetta Coppa, Anna Bernardini
Silvana Editoriale

Edoardo Massucci
Automobilia

Cristina Giannini
Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki

Lanfranco Scorticati
Musei civici

Dario Succi
Umberto Allemandi & C.

Salvatore S. Nigro
Edizioni Costa & Nolan

Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio
Colpo di fulmine edizioni

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Bramante Editrice / Edizioni Lativa

Taher Sabahi
Karta Editrice

AA.VV
Perotto

Mario De Micheli
Feltrinelli

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Paolo Ripamonti Carpano

Lucrezia De Domizio, Buby Durini, Italo Tomassoni
Starkmann Books

Elisa Debenedetti
Bonsignori editore

Luigi Cavallo
Edizioni Arte Borgogna

AA.VV.
Искусство

Michela Manservisi
Cooper & Castelvecchi

Lo scopo della presente pubblicazione è quello di dare voce alla creatività africana, rimasta a lungo misconosciuta. Una guida con immagini, profili e interviste ai più importanti creativi della moda d'oggi, in bilico tra innovazione estrema e tradizioni locali. In Africa, come in ogni altra parte del mondo, la storia delle arti tessili e del costume rappresenta uno degli indicatori del cambiamento sociale e dell'influenza culturale.

Robert Rosenblum
Harry N. Abrams

Cristina Bechtler, Dora Imhof
JRP/Ringier

Museums of contemporary art are expanding and in crisis. They attract ever-larger audiences, architects constantly redesign them, and the growing number of artists is producing more massively than ever; at the same time museum funds are dwindling in the economic crisis and an overheated art market. The question of which art is to be collected is also becoming a more openly discussed topic in a globalized art world. How do curators meet these challenges? What opinion do the artists have of their relationship to the museum? How do practitioners navigate between ideas, ideals, and realities? This publication gathers together interviews with international artists, architects, and curators of the contemporary art world, such as John Baldessari, Ute Meta Bauer, Suzanne Cotter, Bice Curiger, Chris Dercon, Charles Esche, Liam Gillick, Michael Govan, Katharina Grosse, Yuko Hasegawa, Jacques Herzog, Thomas Hirschhorn, Philipp Kaiser, Rem Koolhaas, Lars Nittve, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Thierry Raspail, Tobias Rehberger, Beatrix Ruf, among others. Their different answers bring visibility to the complexity of the topic, but also to the deep pleasure and intellectual stimulation museums provide, as well as to their relevance to culture today.--Publisher.