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Recent and Forthcoming Publications

Luc Tuymans: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Volume 1: 1978–1994Alice Neel, Uptown Oscar Murillo Josef Albers: Midnight and NoonTell Me Something Good: Artist Interviews from The Brooklyn Rail

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Letters to a Young PainterSummoning Pearl HarborDegas and His ModelPissing Figures 1280–2014

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The first volume of a comprehensive record of paintings by the prolific Belgian artist Luc Tuymans highlights his generative early work.

Credited with a key role in the revival of painting in the 1990s, Tuymans continues to produce subtle, and at times unsettling, works that engage with history, technology, and everyday life. This first volume in a catalogue raisonné of Tuymans’s paintings surveys nearly two hundred works that were vital to his artistic development. The years 1978 to 1994 witnessed the maturation of his signature method of painting from preexisting imagery—such as magazine images, Polaroids, and television footage—as well as his first solo exhibitions. Also dating from this period are many of his seminal canvases, including Gaskamer and Schwarzheide (both 1986), which were part of the artist’s first gallery solo exhibition in 1988; Die Zeit (1988), a four-part work shown in his critically acclaimed Documenta presentation in 1992; along with Der diagnostische Blick (1992), a group of ten poignant portraits of the ailing human body.

The catalogue features an introductory essay by Eva Meyer-Hermann and an illustrated chronology with archival images and installation views of the works in this volume. It also includes brilliant new photography of each of the paintings. This publication is a testament to Tuymans’s persistent assertion of the relevance and importance of painting—a conviction that he maintains even in today’s digital world, when his work continues to be a touchstone for artists and scholars.

Luc Tuymans (b. 1958, Mortsel) is a Belgian artist who is internationally known for his paintings that engage equally with questions of history and its representation as with quotidian subject matter cast in unfamiliar and eerie light. Painted from preexisting imagery, his works often appear slightly out-of-focus and sparsely colored, like third-degree abstractions from reality. Whereas earlier works were based on magazine pictures, drawings, television footage, and Polaroids, recent source images include material accessed online and the artist’s own iPhone photos, printed out and sometimes re-photographed several times. Since the 1980s, Tuymans has steadily exhibited in the United States, Europe, and abroad, and his work is represented in major museum collections.

Eva Meyer-Hermann is a German art historian who has worked for international museums and major private collections for over twenty-five years. She was formerly a curator at the Krefelder Kunstmuseen, Krefeld, and was later director of the Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg. Afterwards, she was both director and curator of two private art collections in Switzerland, before becoming senior curator at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven. Since 2006, she has been an independent curator and writer.

Luc Tuymans

David Zwirner Books / Yale University Press2017Hardcover with slipcase9 1/4 × 12 in | 23.2 × 30.5 cm448 pages, 245 colorISBN 9781941701614$200 | £165

Edited with text by Eva Meyer-Hermann

Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings,Volume 1: 1978–1994

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Known for her portraits of family, friends, writers, poets, artists, students, singers, salesmen, activists, and more, Alice Neel created forthright, intimate, and, at times, humorous paintings that quietly engaged with political and social issues.

In Alice Neel, Uptown, writer and curator Hilton Als brings together a body of paintings and works on paper of African-Americans, Latinos, Asians, and other people of color for the first time. Highlighting the innate diversity of Neel’s approach, the selection looks at those whose portraits are often left out of the art-historical canon and how this extraordinary painter captured them; “what fascinated her was the breadth of humanity that she encountered,” Als writes.

The publication, which opens with a foreword by Jeremy Lewison, advisor to The Estate of Alice Neel, explores Neel’s interest in the diversity of uptown New York and the variety of people amongst whom she lived. This group of portraits includes well-known figures such as playwright, actress, and author Alice Childress; the sociologist Horace R. Cayton, Jr.; the community activist Mercedes Arroyo; and the widely published academic Harold Cruse; alongside more anonymous individuals of a nurse, a ballet dancer, a taxi driver, a businessman, and a local kid who ran errands for Neel.

In short and illuminating texts on specific works written in his characteristic narrative style, Als writes about the history of each sitter and offers insights into Neel and her work, while adding his own perspective. A contemporary and personal approach to the artist’s oeuvre, Als’s project is “an attempt to honor not only what Neel saw, but the generosity of her seeing.”

This catalogue is published on the occasion of the 2017 exhibitions of Neel’s paintings and drawings at David Zwirner, New York, and Victoria Miro, London.

Alice Neel was born in 1900 in Merion Square, Pennsylvania, and died in 1984 in New York. With a practice spanning the 1920s to the 1980s, Neel is widely regarded as one of the foremost American figurative painters of the twentieth century. Based in New York, Neel chose her subjects from her family, friends, and a broad variety of locals, and her eccentric selection was thus a portrayal of, and dialogue with, the city in which she lived. Although she showed sporadically early in her career, from the 1960s onwards her work was exhibited widely in the United States. In 1974, she had her first retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Hilton Als is an American writer based in New York. He became a staff writer at The New Yorker in 1994 and a theater critic in 2002. His first book, The Women, a meditation on gender, race, and personal identity, was published in 1996. His most recent book, White Girls, discusses various narratives around race and gender and was nominated for a 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. In 2017, Als was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. Als is an associate professor of writing at Columbia University’s School of the Arts and has taught at Yale University and Smith College, among other universities.

Jeremy Lewison is a British independent curator, writer, and lecturer. Since 2003, he has acted as the advisor to The Estate of Alice Neel. He began his career in the art world in 1977 as curator of Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge. In 1983, he joined Tate Gallery, London, where he became director of collections in 1998, and was responsible for publications and exhibitions on the works of Sol LeWitt, Brice Marden, Barnett Newman, and Jackson Pollock.

Alice Neel, Uptown

David Zwirner Books / Victoria Miro2017Hardcover8 1/2 × 10 1/2 in | 21.6 × 26.7 cm144 pages, 57 colorISBN 9781941701607$55 | £40See page 31 for distribution details.

Foreword by Jeremy Lewison

By Hilton Als

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With a body of powerful paintings, dynamic installations, and hauntingly poetic video works, Oscar Murillo has distinguished himself as one of his generation’s leading voices. Published on the occasion of Murillo’s 2017 solo exhibition at Haus der Kunst in Munich, this volume—the first dedicated overview of his astonishing career to date—presents the artist’s multifaceted practice from every angle.

Born in Colombia, Murillo became widely recognized in his early twenties for his large-scale paintings that drew freely on both personal as well as art-historical references and influences. Since then, Murillo has been consistently interested in approaches to art making that are not rooted in the dominant Western value system, while remaining guided by his own aesthetic, rather than political messages or other, more reductive narratives. With numerous exhibitions at major museums and galleries, as well as ambitious projects at lesser-known exhibition spaces in Anyang (South Korea), Baku (Azerbaijan), Marrakech (Morocco), and Sharjah (United Arab Emirates), Murillo puts his politics of inclusivity to work without needing to make the work itself overtly political. In positioning himself between worlds—the art world, his family and community, peripheral spaces he seeks to inhabit—Murillo has made room for a new visual language, one that draws as easily and subversively on his personal narratives and the narratives around the places he has visited, as it does on traditional vocabularies of painting, installation, and sculpture.

With an introduction by Okwui Enwezor and new scholarship by Anna Schneider and Emma Enderby, this publication offers critical insight into Murillo’s complex, vibrant body of work that continually offers enriching, powerful observations of the world around us.

Oscar Murillo’s practice is closely connected to a notion of community stemming from his cross-cultural ties to diverse cities and places in which he travels and works, and Colombia, where he was born in 1986. He addresses the conditions of display in the contemporary art world by engaging with a series of opposites—including work and play, production and consumption, and originality and appropriation. Murillo is well known for his large-scale paintings that imply action, performance, and chaos, but are in fact methodically composed of rough-hewn, stitched canvases, which often incorporate fragments of text as well as studio debris such as dirt and dust. His works and projects have been the subject of solo exhibitions at prominent institutions worldwide.

Okwui Enwezor is director of Haus der Kunst. He has served as artistic director of several international exhibitions, including the 56th Venice Biennale (2015); La Triennale 2012, Paris; 7th Gwangju Biennale (2008); 2nd Seville Biennial (2006); Documenta 11, Kassel (2002); and the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale (1997). He is the former dean of academic affairs and senior vice president of the San Francisco Art Institute, and has held the position of visiting professor at several universities including Columbia University and New York University.

Emma Enderby is curator of The Shed, New York’s newest art institution opening in 2019, as well as adjunct curator at Public Art Fund, where she was previously associate curator. She has contributed texts and edited a number of publications and periodicals, and also co-runs the London-based artist project space Rice + Toye.

Anna Schneider is assistant curator at Haus der Kunst, where she has curated and overseen numerous exhibitions. Her research interests are in interdisciplinary relationships of contemporary art and in cultural phenomena with regard to historical, economic, and political contexts.

Oscar Murillo

Haus der Kunst, in association with David Zwirner Books2017Hardcover9 x 11 1/4 in | 22.9 × 28.6 cm256 pages, 165 colorISBN 9781941701669$65 | £50

Edited by Okwui Enwezor and Anna Schneider. Introduction by Okwui Enwezor. Texts by Emma Enderby and Anna Schneider

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Using minimal means—paint straight from the tube, applied meticulously with a palette knife—and a focused selection of colors, Josef Albers’s sustained, serial investigation into rhythm, mood, and spatial movement is explored in this lavishly produced catalogue that looks solely at his respective grey and yellow paintings, exploring two distinct color palettes pervasive to his oeuvre.

Highlighting the rich diversity of effects Albers drew from a narrow range of colors, this publication centers around the groundbreaking Homage to the Square (A) (1950), the inaugural painting in the series that would occupy the artist until his death in 1976. The pairing of two palettes—black, white, and grey and an array of yellows—stems in part from Albers’s 1964 series of lithographs, Midnight and Noon, which brought together these two opposing color sets in a single portfolio. Together they address the limitless possibilities the artist found in color and form in relation to light. The impossible simultaneity of “midnight” and “noon” moreover speaks to Albers’s transcending of what he called

“factual facts” in favor of the play of perception and illusion possible in art.

Opening with an introduction by Nicholas Fox Weber, executive director of The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, that contextualizes these works and their color palettes, this volume also includes Albers’s own writing on Homage to the Square. Additionally, Elaine de Kooning’s historic text and Colm Tóibín’s recent writing explore this body of work from different perspectives and time periods. Published on the occasion of exhibitions at David Zwirner’s New York and London galleries in 2016 and 2017, this beautifully illustrated publication looks at one of the most influential abstract painters of the twentieth century.

Josef Albers (1888–1976) is considered one of the foremost abstract painters, as well as an important designer and educator noted for his rigorously experimental approach to spatial relationships and color theory. Born in Bottrop, Germany, Albers studied at the Weimar Bauhaus, later joining the school’s faculty in 1922. In 1933, he and Anni Albers emigrated to North Carolina, where they founded the art department at Black Mountain College. During this time, Albers began to show his work extensively within the United States. In 1950, the Alberses moved to New Haven, Connecticut, where Josef was invited to direct the newly formed Department of Design at Yale University School of Art. Albers retired from teaching in 1958, just prior to the publication of his important Interaction of Color (1963), which was reissued in two volumes in 2013. Albers became the first living artist to be the subject of a solo exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 1971.

Elaine de Kooning (1918–1989) was an American abstract expressionist and figurative painter active in New York during the post–World War II era. She wrote extensively on the art of the period and was an editorial associate for ARTnews. She married painter Willem de Kooning in 1943 and while retaining her own practice, she helped to promote his work.

Colm Tóibín is an Irish writer known for his award-winning novels, such as Brooklyn (2009), and his short-story collection The Empty Family (2010). In 2006, he was appointed to the Arts Council in Ireland, and he is currently the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University. He has written on a number of artists, including Gregor Schneider and Sean Scully.

Nicholas Fox Weber is executive director of The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation. He is also the author of thirteen books, among them The Art of Babar (1989), Patron Saints (1992), Balthus: A Biography (1999), The Clarks of Cooperstown (2007), and Freud’s Trip to Orvieto (2017).

Josef Albers

David Zwirner Books2017Hardcover 8 × 10 1/2 in | 20.3 × 26.7 cm144 pages, 75 color, 2 b&wISBN 9781941701621$55 | £40

Introduction by Nicholas Fox Weber. Texts by Josef Albers, Elaine de Kooning, and Colm Tóibín

Midnight and Noon

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Since 2000, The Brooklyn Rail has been a platform for artists, academics, critics, poets, and writers in New York and abroad. The monthly journal’s continued appeal is due in large part to its diverse contributors, many of whom bring contrasting and often unexpected opinions to conversations about art and aesthetics. No other publication devotes as much space to the artist’s voice, allowing ideas to unfold and idiosyncrasies to emerge through open discussion.

Since its inception, cofounder and artistic director Phong Bui and the Rail’s contributors have interviewed over four hundred artists for The Brooklyn Rail. This volume brings together for the fi rst time a selection of sixty of the most infl uential and seminal interviews with artists ranging from Richard Serra and Brice Marden, to Alex Da Corte and House of Ladosha. While each interview is important in its own right, offering a perspective on the life and work of a specifi c artist, collectively they tell the story of a journal that has grown during one of the more diverse and surprising periods in visual art. There is no unifi ed style or perspective; The Brooklyn Rail’s strength lies in its ability to include and champion difference.

Selected and coedited by Jarrett Earnest, a frequent Rail contributor, with Lucas Zwirner, the book includes an introduction to the project by Phong Bui as well as many of the hand-drawn portraits he has made of those he has interviewed over the years. This combination of verbal and visual profi les offers a rare and personal insight into contemporary visual culture.

Interviews with Vito Acconci, Ai Weiwei, Lynda Benglis, James Bishop, Chris Burden, Vija Celmins, Francesco Clemente, Bruce Conner, Alex Da Corte, Rosalyn Drexler, Keltie Ferris, Simone Forti, Andrea Fraser, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Suzan Frecon, Coco Fusco, Robert Gober, Leon Golub, Ron Gorchov, Michelle Grabner, Josephine Halvorson, Sheila Hicks, David Hockney, Roni Horn, House of Ladosha, Alfredo Jaar, Bill Jensen, Alex Katz, William Kentridge, Matvey Levenstein, Nalini Malani, Brice Marden, Chris Martin, Jonas Mekas, Shirin Neshat, Thomas Nozkowski, Lorraine O’Grady, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Joanna Pousette-Dart, Ernesto Pujol, Martin Puryear, Walid Raad, Dorothea Rockburne, Tim Rollins and K.O.S., Robert Ryman, Dana Schutz, Richard Serra, Shahzia Sikander, Nancy Spero, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Sarah Sze, Rirkrit Tiravanija, James Turrell, Richard Tuttle, Luc Tuymans, Kara Walker, Stanley Whitney, Jack Whitten, Yan Pei-Ming, and Lisa Yuskavage

Phong Bui is an artist, writer, independent curator, and former curatorial advisor at MoMA PS1, from 2007 to 2010. He is the cofounder and artistic director of The Brooklyn Rail, the publishing press Rail Editions, and the Rail Curatorial Projects, as well as the host and producer of “Off the Rail” on Art International Radio.

Jarrett Earnest is an American writer living in New York. Since 2014, he has been faculty at the free, experimental art school BHQFU and directs their MFU program. Earnest has been a monthly contributor to The Brooklyn Rail since 2011; his criticism and long-form interviews have also appeared in the Village Voice, Los Angeles Review of Books, Art in America, San Francisco Arts Quarterly, and many other publications.

Lucas Zwirner is editorial director at David Zwirner Books, where he recently began the ekphrasis series, dedicated to publishing short texts on visual culture by artists and writers, rarely available in English. He has also written on numerous contempo-rary artists and translated books from German and French.

Tell Me Something GoodArtist Interviews from The Brooklyn Rail

David Zwirner Books2017Softcover5 1/2 × 9 in | 14 × 22.9 cm648 pages, 55 colorISBN 9781941701379$29.95 | £24.95

Ai Weiwei

Kara Walker

Rirkrit Tiravanija

David Hockney

Luc Tuymans

Sarah Sze

Dorothea Rockburne

Richard Serra

Suzan Frecon

TELL ME SOMETHING

GOODARTIST INTERVIEWS FROM

Edited by Jarrett Earnest and Lucas Zwirner. Introduction and portraits by Phong Bui

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David Zwirner Books is pleased to present the ekphrasis series, specially dedicated to publishing rare, out-of-print, and newly commissioned texts as accessible paperback volumes. The series is part of David Zwirner Books’s ongoing effort to publish new and surprising pieces of writing on visual culture.

“Ekphrasis” is traditionally defined as the literary representation of a work of visual art. One of the oldest forms of writing, its meaning originated in ancient Greece where it referred to the practice and skill of describing people, objects, and experiences through vivid, highly detailed accounts. Today, ekphrasis is more openly interpreted as one art form, whether it be writing, visual art, music, or film, being used to define and describe another art form, in order to bring to the audience the experiential and visceral impact of the subject.

By bringing back into print important but overlooked books—often pieces by established artists and authors—and by commissioning emerging writers, philosophers, and artists to write freely on visual culture, David Zwirner Books aims to encourage a richer conversation between the worlds of literary and visual art. With an emphasis on writing that isn’t academic in the traditional sense, but compelling as prose, and more concerned with subject matter than historical reference, ekphrasis invites a broader and more varied audience to participate in discussions about the arts. Particularly now, as visual art becomes an increasingly important cultural touchstone, creating a series that encourages us to make meaning of what we see has become more compelling than ever. Books in the ekphrasis series remind us, with refreshing energy, why so many people have dedicated their lives to art.

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Summoning Pearl HarborAlexander Nemerov

Letters to a Young PainterRainer Maria Rilke

Degas and His ModelAlice Michel

Pissing Figures 1280–2014Jean-Claude Lebensztejn

Ramblings of a Wannabe PainterPaul Gauguin

Chardin and RembrandtMarcel Proust

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Summoning Pearl Harbor is a mesmerizing display of linguistic force that redefines remembering. How do words make the past appear? In what way does the historian summon bygone events? What is this kind of remembering, and for whom do we recall the dead, or the past?

In this highly original meditation on the past, renowned art historian Alexander Nemerov delves into what it means to recall a significant event—Pearl Harbor—and how descriptions of images can summon it back to life. Beginning with the photo album of a former Japanese kamikaze pilot, which is reproduced in this volume, Nemerov transports the reader into a different world through his engagement with the photographs and the construction of a narrative around them.

Through its lyrical prose, Summoning Pearl Harbor expands what we traditionally associate with ekphrastic writing. The kind of writing that can enliven a work of art is also the kind of writing that makes the past appear in vivid color and deep feeling. In the end, this timely piece of writing opens onto fundamental questions about how we communicate with each other, and how the past continues to live in our collective consciousness, not merely as facts but as stories that shape us. Here, Nemerov’s constant awareness of the power of language to make an experience—seen or remembered—become real reminds us that great ekphrastic writing is at the heart of every effective description.

Alexander Nemerov is department chair and the Carl and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities at Stanford University. Prior to joining Stanford, he was a professor of art history and American studies at Yale University. He has published several books and articles pertaining to the culture of American art dating from the eighteenth century to the 1970s. His writing often analyzes fiction and poetry alongside works of visual art.

David Zwirner Books2017Softcover4 1/4 × 7 in | 10.8 × 17.8 cm96 pages, 12 colorISBN 9781941701652$12.95 | £8.95

By Alexander Nemerov

Summoning Pearl HarborAlexander Nemerov

Summoning Pearl HarborNever before translated into English, Rainer Maria Rilke’s fascinating Letters to a Young Painter, written toward the end of his life between 1920 and 1926, is a surprising companion to his infamous Letters to a Young Poet, earlier correspondence from 1902 to 1908. While the latter has become a global phenomenon, with millions of copies sold in many different languages, the present volume has been largely overlooked.

In these eight intimate letters written to a teenage Balthus—who would go on to become one of the leading artists of his generation—Rilke describes the challenges he faced, while opening the door for the young painter to take himself and his work seriously. Rilke’s constant warmth, his ability to sense in advance his correspondent’s difficulties and propose solutions to them, and his sensitivity as a person and an artist come across in these charming and honest letters.

Writing during his aged years, this volume paints a picture of the venerable poet as he faced his mortality, through the perspective of hindsight, and continued to embrace his openness towards other creative individuals. With an introduction by Rachel Corbett, author of You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin (2016), this book is a must-have for Rilke’s admirers, young and old, and all aspiring artists.

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) was a poet and novelist, best known for his highly lyrical poetry. He was born in Prague, but spent significant portions of his life in Paris, where he initially served as the sculptor Auguste Rodin’s secretary before going on to produce much of his important early work. Throughout his life, Rilke was continuously inspired by works of visual art. His biography of Rodin and his Letters on Cézanne, published posthumously, provide insight into the way visual artists, and their art, figured into his creative approach, and establish him as one of the key twentieth-century poets to engage with visual culture.

Rachel Corbett is an American art journalist and editor in chief of Modern Painters. She is the author of You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin, which won the 2016 Marfield Prize, the National Award for Arts Writing. Her writing has appeared in The Art Newspaper, ARTnews, New York Magazine, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and many other publications.

Damion Searls is an American translator and writer. He has translated thirty books from German, French, Norwegian, and Dutch, including The Inner Sky: Poems, Notes, Dreams (2010), a selection of writings by Rainer Maria Rilke. He is also the author of three books, most recently The Inkblots (2017), a scientific and cultural history of the Rorschach test and biography of its creator, Hermann Rorschach.

David Zwirner Books2017Softcover4 1/4 × 7 in | 10.8 × 17.8 cm64 pagesISBN 9781941701645$12.95 | £8.95

By Rainer Maria Rilke. Introduction by Rachel Corbett. Translated by Damion Searls

Letters to a Young PainterRainer Maria Rilke

Letters to a Young Painter

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There are many myths about the artist Edgar Degas—from Degas the misanthrope to Degas the deviant, to Degas the obsessive. But there is no single text that better stokes the fire than Degas and His Model, a short memoir published by Alice Michel, who purportedly modeled for Degas.

Never before translated into English, the text’s original publication in Mercure de France in 1919, shortly after the artist’s death, has been treated as an important account of the master sculptor at work. We know that Alice was writing under a pseudonym, but who the real person behind this account was remains a mystery—to this day nothing is known about her. Yet, the descriptions seem too accurate to be ignored, the anecdotes too spot-on to discount; even the dialogue captures the artist’s tone and mannerisms.

What is found in these pages is at times a woman’s flirtatious recollection of a bizarre “artistic type” and at others a moving attempt to connect with a great, often tragic man. The descriptions are limpid, unburdened; the dialogue is lively and intimate, not unlike reading the very best kind of gossip, with world-historical significance. Here in these dusty studios, Degas is alive, running hands over clay, complaining about his eyes, denigrating the other artists around him, and whispering salaciously to his model. And during his mood swings, we see reflected the model’s innocence and confusion, her pain at being misunderstood and finally rejected. It is an intimate portrait of a moment in a great artist’s life, a sort of Bildungsroman in which his model (whoever she may be) does not emerge unscathed.

Alice Michel is the pseudonym used by the unknown author of Degas and His Model.

Jeff Nagy is a translator, critic, and historian of technology based in Palo Alto, California. His research focuses on networks pre- and post-Internet and the development of digital labor.

David Zwirner Books2017Softcover4 1/4 × 7 in | 10.8 × 17.8 cm88 pagesISBN 9781941701553$12.95 | £8.95

By Alice Michel. Translated by Jeff Nagy

Degas and His ModelAlice Michel

Degas and His Model Jean-Claude Lebensztejn’s history of the urinating figure in art, Pissing Figures 1280–2014, is at once a scholarly inquiry into an important visual motif, and a ribald statement on transgression and limits in works of art in general. Lebensztejn is one of France’s best-kept secrets. A world-class art historian who has lectured and taught at major universities in the United States, his work has remained almost entirely in French, his American audience limited to a small but dedicated group of cognoscenti.

First introducing the Manneken Pis—the iconic little boy whose stream of urine supplies water to this famous fountain and is also the logo for a Belgian beer company—the author takes the reader through a semi-scatological maze of cultural history. The earliest example is a fresco scene located directly above Cimabue’s Crucifixion from around 1280 at the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi, in which Lebensztejn’s careful eye locates an angel behind a pillar who looks like he is about to urinate through a hole in his garment. He continues to navigate expertly through cultural twists and turns, stopping to discuss Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1968 film Teorema, for example, and Marlene Dumas’s 1996–1997 homage to Rembrandt’s pissing woman. At every moment, Lebensztejn’s prose is lively, his thinking dynamic, and his subject matter entertaining.

In this short and poignant cultural history, readers not only find the care for detail that has made Lebensztejn into one of the greatest European art historians, but also the rebelliousness that makes him one of the most interesting intellectuals of our time. The first widely distributed book of Lebensztejn’s in English, Pissing Figures 1280–2014 is simultaneously published in France by Éditions Macula.

Jean-Claude Lebensztejn is a French art historian, critic, and honorary professor of the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. His interests range from the art of the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, to film, music, human animality, and more generally, the question of frontiers and boundaries. In addition to his Études cézanniennes (2006) and a scholarly edition of fifty of Cézanne’s letters (2011), Lebensztejn has recently published a collection of essays titled Déplacements, a translation of Lao-tseu, a study of Pygmalion, a conversation with Malcolm Morley, and numerous texts concerned with questioning norms of taste and aesthetic values in general. His most recent book on transgression in the works of Franz Kafka, Marquis de Sade, and Comte de Lautréamont has just been published.

Jeff Nagy is a translator, critic, and historian of technology based in Palo Alto, California. His research focuses on networks pre- and post-Internet and the development of digital labor.

By Jean-Claude Lebensztejn. Translated by Jeff Nagy

David Zwirner Books2017Softcover4 1/4 × 7 in | 10.8 × 17.8 cm168 pages, 130 color, 25 b&wISBN 9781941701546$14.95 | £11.95

Pissing Figures 1280–2014Jean-Claude Lebensztejn

Pissing Figures 1280–2014

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Previously Announced

One of the most beloved painters of the twentieth century, Giorgio Morandi created works that continue to exert their mysterious power on viewers worldwide.

This publication focuses on the period from 1948 to 1964, during which Morandi developed and refined his investigations of serial, reductive, and permutational forms and compositions, a body of work that has had a profound influence on twentieth-century art and painting. Included here are five of the ten iconic “yellow cloth” paintings from 1952, a series featured prominently in the historic 1998 exhibition at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, and numerous late paintings by the Italian master. Lavishly reproduced, these immersive plates draw attention to the idiosyncratic perspectival and color-driven decisions that give the work its abstract power. The catalogue is published on the occasion of the 2015 exhibition of Morandi’s paintings from this period at David Zwirner, New York—which, according to The New York Times, represent “lucid perfection, at once cerebral and impassioned.” It marked the first major presentation of the artist’s late work in America since the acclaimed 2008 retrospective at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

In addition to an essay by Laura Mattioli and a foreword by David Leiber, who organized the exhibition, this catalogue includes a fantastic array of contributions by contemporary artists: John Baldessari, Lawrence Carroll, Vija Celmins, Mark Greenwold, Liu Ye, Wayne Thiebaud, Alexi Worth, and Zeng Fanzhi. They offer their personal responses to Morandi’s work and to the Zwirner exhibition in particular. Working in different media across many disciplines, this diverse list of contributors is a testament to the reach of Morandi’s paintings and their influence on contemporary art.

Giorgio Morandi was born in 1890 in Bologna, Italy, where he lived until his death in 1964. Over the course of his five-decade career, Morandi was most prolific during the postwar years from the late 1940s until the 1960s, when he executed more than half of his entire output of paintings. Remaining dedicated to the repertoire of subjects that had occupied him since the early 1910s, including tabletop still lifes of bottles, boxes, vases, and flowers, as well as occasional landscapes, his variations on a given compositional motif became more persistent, nuanced, and abstract in the later part of his life. Through subtle shifts in color, tone, scale, composition, and mark making, Morandi was able to convey the ever-changing perceptual understanding and memory of the objects and spaces one encounters. In 1993, the Museo Morandi was established in Bologna, Italy, and is currently located in the Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna.

David Leiber is a partner at David Zwirner and organized the exhibition Giorgio Morandi at the gallery.

Laura Mattioli is the founder and president of the Center for Italian Modern Art in New York, and serves on its advisory committee. An art historian, curator, and collector, Mattioli specializes in twentieth-century art and has served since 1983 as the curator of the Gianni Mattioli Collection, considered one of the most important holdings of Italian avant-garde and modern art.

Giorgio MorandiLate Paintings

David Zwirner Books2017Hardcover 9 x 10 1/2 in | 22.9 x 26.7 cm96 pages, 33 color, 2 b&w ISBN 9781941701560$45 | £35

Text by Laura Mattioli. Contributions by John Baldessari, Lawrence Carroll, Vija Celmins, Mark Greenwold, Liu Ye, Wayne Thiebaud, Alexi Worth, and Zeng Fanzhi. Foreword by David Leiber

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This new publication marks the first comprehensive survey of a seminal body of work that helped make Fred Sandback into the internationally celebrated artist he has become known as today.

This catalogue, published on the occasion of the exhibition at David Zwirner, New York, in the fall of 2016, takes its lead from a 1987 mid-career presentation of Sandback’s work at Westfälischer Kunstverein in Münster, also called Vertical Constructions. With a mixture of archival imagery of the sculptures in situ in Münster, and new photography of these works installed at Zwirner, this publication is both a historical document and a source of renewed attention to this body of work. It also features an expanded selection of sculpture, going beyond what was presented in the 1987 and 2016 exhibitions, to include key examples of vertical constructions spanning Sandback’s career.

New scholarship by Yve-Alain Bois revisits his leading argument that was put forth in his essay for the 2005 Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein catalogue about the power of Sandback’s immateriality—its ability to linger in our memories—in the context of the vertical constructions. Lisa Le Feuvre, a longtime scholar of sculpture, offers a more historical treatment of the show in relation to the artist’s writings and other works. Also included is a text by David Gray, who responds to Marianne Stockebrand’s original essay about the Münster installation; he reveals the dialogues around Sandback’s practice at the time and helps us reconstruct the way the influence of his vertical works has continued to grow in the thirty years since.

Fred Sandback (1943–2003) was an American artist known for sculptures that outlined planes and volumes in space. Though he employed metal wire and elastic cord early in his career, the artist soon dispensed with mass and weight by using acrylic yarn to create works that address their physical surroundings, the “pedestrian space,” as Sandback called it, of everyday life. By stretching lengths of yarn horizontally, vertically, or diagonally at different scales and in varied configurations, the artist developed a singular body of work that elaborated on the phenomenological experience of space and volume with unwavering consistency and ingenuity.

Yve-Alain Bois is a professor of art history at the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Bois has written widely on modern and contemporary art, and his 2005 essay on Sandback’s work has remained one of the most influential pieces of scholarship on the artist to date.

David Gray is an editor and art historian. He is presently a board member at the Fred Sandbank Archive; project director, Robert Ryman Catalogue Raisonné; and executive director, The Greenwich Collection, Ltd., a nonprofit foundation. He has contributed to catalogues raisonnés for John Cage, Dan Flavin, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres.

Lisa Le Feuvre is head of sculpture studies at the Henry Moore Foundation. Le Feuvre has taught at numerous academic organizations, including Chelsea College of Art, Goldsmiths, Royal College of Art, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, San Francisco Art Institute, and Städelschule, among many others.

Fred SandbackVertical Constructions

David Zwirner Books2017Hardcover 10 1/2 x 12 1/2 in | 26.7 x 31.8 cm132 pages, 92 color, 4 b&wISBN 9781941701577$55 | £40

Texts by Yve-Alain Bois, David Gray, and Lisa Le Feuvre

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Dzama / Pettibon:Let us compare mythologies

David Zwirner Books2016Softcover (staple-bound) 8 1/2 × 11 in | 21.6 × 27.9 cm52 pages, 42 colorEdition of 500 numbered copiesIncludes special foldout posterISBN 9781941701386$30 | £20Available only at davidzwirnerbooks.com

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Donald Judd Writings

Edited by Flavin Judd and Caitlin Murray

Judd Foundation / David Zwirner Books2016Softcover4 1/2 × 7 1/4 in | 11.1 × 18.4 cm 1,056 pages, 137 color, 47 b&wISBN 9781941701355$39.95 | £28

Promesse du Bonheur

Poems by Michael Fried. Photographs by James Welling

David Zwirner Books / nonsite.org2016Softcover 7 × 8 ¾ in | 17.8 × 22.2 cm 152 pages, 36 b&wISBN 9781941701430$25 | £18

ArtCenter Talks:Graduate Seminar, The First Decade 1986–1995

Edited with an introduction by Stan Douglas

David Zwirner Books / ArtCenter Graduate Press2016Softcover 6 × 9 1/2 in | 15.2 × 24.1 cm 368 pages, 262 color, 16 b&wISBN 9781941701522$39.95 | £28

Selected Backlist

Art & Beauty Magazine: Drawings by R. Crumb

Introduction by Paul Morris

David Zwirner Books2016Hardcover7 x 10 in | 17.8 x 25.4 cm132 pages, 6 color, 109 b&wISBN 9781941701348$35 | £24

Art & Beauty Magazine: Drawings by R. Crumb (Limited Edition)

Introduction by Paul Morris

David Zwirner Books2016Hardcover7 x 10 in | 17.8 x 25.4 cm132 pages, 6 color, 109 b&wSlipcased edition of 400 copies with signed bookplateISBN 9781941701362$150 | £100

Chardin and Rembrandt

By Marcel Proust. Afterword by Alain Madeleine-Perdrillat. Translated by Jennie Feldman

David Zwirner Books2016Softcover 4 1/4 × 7 in | 10.8 × 17.8 cm 64 pages, 8 colorISBN 9781941701508$12.95 | £8.95

Ramblings of a Wannabe Painter

By Paul Gauguin. Translated with an introduction by Donatien Grau

David Zwirner Books2016Softcover 4 1/4 × 7 in | 10.8 × 17.8 cm 56 pagesISBN 9781941701393$12.95 | £8.95

Artist Projects

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Collected Writings and Interviews

Marcel Dzama: The Book of Ballet (La chose la plus incroyable dans le monde)

Interview with Marcel Dzama and Justin Peck by Lucas Zwirner

David Zwirner Books / New York City Ballet2016Softcover9 x 6 in | 22.9 x 15.2 cm 48 pages, 37 colorISBN 9781941701270$20 | £13

Oscar Murillo: Frequencies

Texts by Belisario Caicedo, Clara Dublanc, and Oscar Murillo

David Zwirner Books2015Hardcover6 1/2 x 9 1/2 in | 16.5 x 24.1 cm 608 pages, 513 color, 2 b&wISBN 9781941701225$65 | £42

Frequencies Oscar Murillo

Raymond Pettibon: Surfers 1985 – 2015

Foreword by Adam Lindemann. Text by Carlo McCormick

David Zwirner Books / Venus Over Manhattan2014. Reprint edition 2015Softcover8 1/2 x 11 in | 21.6 x 27.9 cm136 pages, 92 colorISBN 9781941701157$39.95 | £27

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Poems by Michael Fried

Photographs by James WellingMichael Fried is a poet of the utmost integrity.J. M. Coetzee

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Poems by Michael FriedPhotographs by James Welling

About Michael Fried’s previous book of poems, The Next Bend in the Road, J. M. Coetzee wrote: “Michael Fried is a poet of the utmost integrity. His new poems are above all a tribute and offering to the god-force of poetry itself.” About an earlier collection, Allen Grossman wrote: “In America today there is no lyric work more compelling and well made than To the Center of the Earth.” The pres-ent book, Promesse du Bonheur, breaks new ground by combining eighty-two poems, a mix of lyrics and prose poems, with thirty-four photographs, most of them made, all of them chosen by the photographer James Welling. More often than not, the photographs stand in oblique relation to the poems, as comple-mentary pieces of a mesmerizing whole.

Written under the aegis of Emerson in “Self-Reliance”—“Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of contemporaries, the connection of events”—the poems engage diverse subjects: from the high modernist art world of the 1960s to a major poet’s tragic loss of memory, from exemplary works such as Edgar Degas’s The Fallen Jockey, Heinrich von Kleist’s Prince of Homburg, and Adolf Menzel’s drawings, from the lives of figures such as Edouard Manet, Anna Akhmatova, Jacques Derrida, Stanley Cavell, Iris Murdoch, Ian Hamilton, and John Harbison to erotic love, late fatherhood, the death of parents and friends, and the onset of age. Beginning with the memory of an uncle serving in the Pacific theater during World War II and ending with the searing “In the Time of the Migrants,” Promesse du Bonheur seeks to hold the reader/viewer in its grip from first page to last.

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Michael Fried is a poet, art critic, art historian, and literary scholar. His many books include Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot, The Moment of Caravaggio, and Art and Objecthood: Essays and Reviews. Previous books of poems are Powers, To the Center of the Earth, and The Next Bend in the Road.

James Welling is a photographer whose work has been exhibited widely and is held in major museum collections, including the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

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Jordan Wolfson: California

Text by Jordan Wolfson. Photographs by Andreas Laszlo Konrath and Gaea Woods

David Zwirner Books2015Softcover9 1/2 x 14 1/2 in | 24.1 x 36.8 cm 136 pages, 64 color, 24 b&wISBN 9781941701065$50 | £35

Michael Riedel: Oskar

Texts by Daniel Baumann, Roberto Ohrt, and Michael Riedel

David Zwirner2014Softcover10 1/2 x 10 1/2 in | 26.8 x 26.8 cm 492 pages, 1,251 b&wISBN 9780989980951$65 | £40

Michael Riedel: Poster—Painting—Presentation

Text by Tina Kukielski

David Zwirner Books2016Hardcover9 1/4 x 12 1/4 in | 23.5 x 31.1 cm176 pages, 140 color, 22 b&wISBN 9781941701324$45 | £30

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Dan Flavin: Corners, Barriers and Corridors

Texts by Michael Auping and Alexandra Whitney

David Zwirner Books2016Hardcover 9 1/2 × 12 in | 24.1 × 30.5 cm 96 pages, 52 color, 12 b&wISBN 9781941701188$50 | £35

Carol Bove: Polka Dots

Text by Johanna Burton. Photographs by Andreas Laszlo Konrath

David Zwirner Books2016Softcover 8 × 10 in | 20.3 × 25.4 cm 74 pages, 29 color, 31 b&wISBN 9781941701515$45 | £35

Concrete Cuba: Cuban Geometric Abstraction from the 1950s

Text by Abigail McEwen. Interview with Pedro de Oraá by Lucas Zwirner. Illustrated chronology by Susanna Temkin

David Zwirner Books2016Hardcover 9 ¾ × 11 in | 24.8 × 27.9 cm 192 pages, 122 color, 55 b&wISBN 9781941701331$55 | £40

Franz West: The 1990s

Texts by Eva Badura-Triska, Veit Loers, and Bernhard Riff

David Zwirner Books 2016Hardcover 9 × 11 1/2 in | 22.9 × 29.2 cm 140 pages, 134 color, 2 b&wISBN 9781941701102$65 | £42

De Wain Valentine: Works fromthe 1960s and 1970s

Text by Robin Clark

David Zwirner Books2016Hardcover9 ¾ x 11 1/2 in | 24.8 x 29.2 cm 96 pages, 45 color, 6 b&wISBN 9781941701201$45 | £30

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Donald Judd: Cor-ten

Texts by Claudia Jolles, Flavin Judd, and Ellie Meyer

David Zwirner Books2016Softcover8 x 10 1/2 in | 20.3 x 26.7 cm 72 pages, 33 color, 1 b&wISBN 9781941701195$45 | £30

Fred Sandback: Decades

Text by James Lawrence

David Zwirner / Radius Books2013Hardcover10 x 12 in | 25.4 x 30.5 cm 128 pages, 80 colorISBN 9781934435588$60 | £35

Gordon Matta-Clark: The Beginning of Trees and the End, Drawings and Notebooks

Text by Briony Fer. Interview with Sarah Sze by Jessamyn Fiore

David Zwirner Books2016Hardcover12 x 9 in | 30.5 x 22.9 cm 184 pages, 153 color, 1 b&wISBN 9781941701256$55 | £35

James Bishop

Text by Carter Ratcliff

David Zwirner Books2015Hardcover9 ¾ x 11 1/4 in | 24.8 x 28.6 cm 80 pages, 36 colorISBN 9781941701034$50 | £32

Jan Schoonhoven

Text by Antoon Melissen

David Zwirner Books2015Hardcover8 x 10 in | 20.3 x 25.4 cm 126 pages, 130 colorISBN 9781941701041$50 | £32

Jason Rhoades: PeaRoeFoam

Contributions by Julien Bismuth, Dylan Kenny, Linda Norden, David Zwirner, and Lucas Zwirner

David Zwirner Books2015Hardcover8 1/2 x 12 1/4 in | 21.6 x 31.1 cm 112 pages, 55 color, 3 b&wISBN 9781941701072$55 | £32

Al Taylor: Early Paintings

Text by John Yau. Interview with Stanley Whitney and Billy Sullivan by Mimi Thompson

David Zwirner Books2017Hardcover 9 × 11 1/2 in | 22.9 × 29.2 cm 96 pages, 38 color, 6 b&wISBN 9781941701584$45 | £35

Alan Uglow

Text by Bob Nickas. Interviews with the artist by Alain Kirili and Bob Nickas

David Zwirner / Radius Books 2013Hardcover10 1/2 x 12 1/2 in | 26.7 x 31.8 cm 96 pages, 48 colorISBN 9781934435649$60 | £43

Exhibition Catalogues and Monographs

Al Taylor: Pet Stains, Puddles, and Full Gospel Neckless

Text by Mimi Thompson

David Zwirner Books2015Hardcover9 x 11 1/2 in | 22.9 x 29.2 cm 104 pages, 50 colorISBN 9781941701126$50 | £32

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Alice Neel: Drawings and Watercolors 1927 – 1978

Texts by Jeremy Lewison and Claire Messud

David Zwirner Books2015Hardcover9 x 11 in | 22.9 x 27.9 cm 120 pages, 127 color, 1 b&wISBN 9781941701133$45 | £30

Bridget Riley: The Stripe Paintings 1961 – 2014

Texts by Robert Kudielka, Paul Moorhouse, and Richard Shiff. Interview with the artist by Robert Kudielka

David Zwirner Books2014Hardcover10 x 12 in | 25.4 x 30.5 cm 180 pages, 92 color, 7 b&w, 2 gatefoldsISBN 9780989980975$55 | £35

Bridget Riley: Works 1981–2015

Texts by Robert Kudielka and Richard Shiff

David Zwirner Books2016Hardcover 9 × 12 in | 22.9 × 30.5 cm 96 pages, 56 color, 2 b&wISBN 9781941701232$50 | £32

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Jeff Koons: Gazing Ball

Text by Francesco Bonami

David Zwirner2014Hardcover9 ¾ x 12 1/2 in | 24.8 x 31.8 cm 80 pages, 31 colorISBN 9780989980913$50 | £32

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Kerry James Marshall: Look See

Text by Robert Storr. Interview with the artist by Angela Choon

David Zwirner Books2015Hardcover10 x 12 in | 25.4 x 30.5 cm 112 pages, 74 colorISBN 9781941701089$65 | £42

Luc Tuymans: Exhibitions at David Zwirner

Interviews with Peter Schjeldahl, Robert Storr et al., by Lynne Tillman. Interview with the artist by David Zwirner

David Zwirner / Ludion2012. Reprint edition 2013Hardcover9 ¾ x 11 1/2 in | 24.8 x 29.2 cm 224 pages, 220 colorISBN 9789461300720$55 | £30

John McCracken: Works from 1963 – 2011

Text by Robin Clark. Interview with the artist by Anne Reeve

David Zwirner Books / Radius Books2014Hardcover11 1/2 x 13 in | 29.2 x 33 cm 194 pages, 110 color, 11 b&wISBN 9781934435755$75 | £45

Marlene Dumas: Against the Wall

Text by Marlene Dumas

David Zwirner Books2010. Reprint edition 2014Hardcover9 1/2 x 12 1/2 in | 24.1 x 31.8 cm 72 pages, 30 colorISBN 9781941701003$45 | £27

Neo Rauch: At the Well

Text by Norman Rosenthal

David Zwirner Books2014Hardcover10 x 12 1/2 in | 25.4 x 31.8 cm 80 pages, 62 colorISBN 9781941701119$50 | £32

No Problem: Cologne /New York 1984 – 1989

Foreword by David Zwirner. Texts by Diedrich Diederichsen and Bob Nickas. Illustrated chronology by Kara Carmack

David Zwirner Books2015Hardcover9 x 11 1/4 in | 22.9 x 28.6 cm 276 pages, 151 color, 88 b&wISBN 9781941701027$60 | £40

Palermo: Works on Paper 1976 – 1977

Texts by Christine Mehring and Christoph Schreier

David Zwirner / Radius Books2014Hardcover8 1/2 x 10 ¾ in | 21.6 x 27.3 cm 134 pages, 104 colorISBN 9781934435748$50 | £30

Raoul De Keyser: Drift

Text by Ulrich Loock

David Zwirner Books2016Hardcover7 1/2 x 10 in | 19.1 x 26.7 cm 143 pages, 66 color, 6 b&wISBN 9781941701287$40 | £28

Richard Serra: Forged Steel

Texts by Richard Serra and Richard Shiff

David Zwirner Books / Steidl2016Hardcover 9 1/2 × 12 in | 24.1 × 30.5 cm 144 pages, 93 tritone ISBN 9781941701171$50 | £35

Raymond Pettibon: Homo Americanus, Collected Works

Texts by Ulrich Loock, Raymond Pettibon, and Lucas Zwirner

David Zwirner Books / Deichtorhallen Hamburg – Sammlung Falckenberg2016Hardcover7 x 10 1/4 in | 17.8 x 26 cm 692 pages, 575 colorISBN 9781941701263$65 | £40

Raymond Pettibon: To Wit

Text by Lucas Zwirner. Interview with the artist by Kim Gordon. Photographs by Andreas Laszlo Konrath

David Zwirner 2014Hardcover9 1/4 x 12 1/2 in | 23.5 x 31.8 cm 188 pages, 97 color, 13 b&wISBN 9780989980944$45 | £30

Suzan Frecon: oil paintings and sun

Texts by David Cohen and Suzan Frecon

David Zwirner Books2015Hardcover10 1/2 x 12 1/2 in | 26 x 31.8 cm 91 pages, 43 color, 5 b&wISBN 9781941701096$55 | £35

William Eggleston: The Democratic Forest, Selected Works

Text by Alexander Nemerov

David Zwirner Books / Steidl2016Hardcover 11 ¾ × 12 1/4 in | 29.8 × 31.1 cm 120 pages, 73 colorISBN 9781941701423$55 | £38

Who is sleeping on my pillow: Mamma Andersson and Jockum Nordström

Texts by Paolo Colombo and Anders Krüger. Interview with Nordström by Marcel Dzama. Poem by Stig Claesson

David Zwirner Books2010. Reprint edition 2014Hardcover9 1/2 x 11 1/2 in | 24.1 x 29.2 cm 247 pages, 200 color, 62 b&wISBN 9781935202264$75 | £45

Yayoi Kusama: I Who Have Arrived In Heaven

Text by Akira Tatehata. Poem by Yayoi Kusama

David Zwirner 2014Hardcover12 1/2 x 12 1/2 in | 31.8 x 31.8 cm 108 pages, 60 colorISBN 9780989980937$55 | £35

Yayoi Kusama: Give Me Love

Text by Akira Tatehata. Poem by Yayoi Kusama

David Zwirner Books2016Hardcover10 x 12 in | 25.4 x 30.5 cm 120 pages, 47 color, 1 b&wISBN 9781941701218$55 | £35

Richard Serra: Vertical and Horizontal Reversals

Text by Gordon Hughes

David Zwirner Books / Steidl2015Hardcover10 x 12 1/4 in | 25.4 x 31.1 cm 88 pages, 115 colorISBN 9781941701010 $65 | £42

Richard Serra: Early Work

Text by Hal Foster

David Zwirner / Steidl2014Hardcover9 1/2 x 12 in | 24.1 x 30.5 cm 340 pages, 19 color, 175 tritoneISBN 9780989980906$85 | £54

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112 Greene Street: The Early Years (1970 – 1974)

Interviews compiled by Jessamyn Fiore.Introduction and selected texts by Louise Sørensen

David Zwirner / Radius Books2012Hardcover8 1/2 x 12 in | 21.6 x 30.5 cm 198 pages, 44 color, 53 b&wISBN 9781934435410$50 | £30

Ad Reinhardt: How to Look,Art Comics

Text by Robert Storr

David Zwirner / Hatje Cantz2013Hardcover11 1/4 x 14 1/4 in | 28.6 x 36.2 cm 92 pages, 43 colorISBN 9783775737685$35 | £24

Al Taylor: Early Works

Text by Robert Storr. Interview with the artist by Ulrich Loock

Steidl / Zwirner & Wirth2008Hardcover9 x 11 1/4 in | 22.9 x 28.6 cm 143 pages, 78 color, 1 b&wISBN 9783865216366$65 | £40

Al Taylor: Pass the Peas and Can Studys

Text by Klaus Kertess

David Zwirner / Steidl2014Hardcover9 x 11 1/2 in | 22.9 x 29.2 cm 144 pages, 90 color, 2 b&wISBN 9783869307152$50 | £30

Al Taylor: Rim Jobs and Sideffects

Texts by Ulrich Loock and Philip Ording

David Zwirner / Steidl2011Hardcover10 x 12 1/2 in | 25.4 x 31.8 cm 171 pages, 113 color, 2 b&wISBN 9783869303895$65 | £40

Chris Ofili: Devil’s Pie

Texts by Klaus Kertess and Cameron Shaw

David Zwirner / Steidl 2007Hardcover9 ¾ x 11 ¾ in | 24.8 x 29.8 cm 168 pages, 66 color, 1 b&wISBN 9783865216298$50 | £32

Dan Flavin: Series and Progressions

Texts by Tiffany Bell, Anne Rorimer, Richard Shiff, and Alexandra Whitney. Interview with Dan Graham

David Zwirner / Steidl2010Hardcover9 1/4 x 12 in | 23.5 x 30.5 cm 156 pages, 94 color, 20 b&w, 3 gatefoldsISBN 9783869301464$68 | £40

Dan Flavin: The 1964 Green Gallery Exhibition

Text by Jeffrey Weiss

Steidl / Zwirner & Wirth2008Hardcover9 x 10 1/4 in | 22.9 x 26 cm 72 pages, 24 color, 18 b&wISBN 9783865216793$45 | £28

Donald Judd

Text by Richard Shiff. Interview with the artist by Jochen Poetter

David Zwirner / Steidl2011Hardcover10 x 11 1/4 in | 25.4 x 28.6 cm 144 pages, 61 colorISBN 9783869303901$65 | £45

Diana Thater: Dreamland

Text by Diana Thater

David Zwirner / Zwirner & Wirth2005Softcover10 1/2 x 9 in | 26.7 x 22.9 cm 39 pages, 28 colorISBN 9780970888471$45 | £28

Fred Sandback

Text by Pamela M. Lee. Interview with the artist by Kimberly Davenport

Zwirner & Wirth2007Hardcover10 x 12 in | 25.4 x 30.5 cm 141 pages, 65 color ISBN 9780977356850$80 | £50

The Helga and Walther Lauffs Collection

Texts by Jeffrey Weiss, Béatrice Gross, and Gila Strobel

Steidl / Zwirner & Wirth2010Hardcover9 1/2 x 11 1/2 in | 24.1 x 29.2 cm 520 pages, 390 color, 86 b&w2 volumes in slipcaseISBN 9783865218506$175 | £115

James Welling: Flowers

Edited by Denise Bratton. Text by Lynne Tillman

David Zwirner2007Hardcover8 1/2 x 11 in | 21.6 x 27.9 cm 64 pages, 31 color ISBN 9780976913689 $50 | £32

Jordan Wolfson: Ecce Homo / le Poseur

Texts by Esther Leslie, Linda Norden, and Philippe Van Cauteren. Interview with the artist by Aram Moshayedi

REDCAT / S.M.A.K. / Walther König, in association with David Zwirner Books2013. Reprint edition 2015Hardcover9 x 13 in | 22.9 x 33 cm 136 pages, 90 colorISBN 9783863354145$55 | £37

Luc Tuymans: Proper

Text by Gerrit Vermeiren

David Zwirner2005Softcover8 x 11 ¾ in | 20.3 x 29.8 cm 60 pages, 29 color, 5 b&wISBN 9780976913634$45 | £28

Marcel Dzama: Behind Every Curtain

David Zwirner2011Softcover6 x 7 ¾ in | 15.2 x 19.7 cm 80 pages, 80 color, 25 b&wISBN 9781935202622$20 | £12

Marcel Dzama: The Course of Human History Personified

Texts by Jason Rosenfeld and Jason Tougaw

David Zwirner2005Hardcover8 x 10 in | 20.3 x 25.4 cm 96 pages, 50 colorMulti-page foldoutISBN 9780976913610$60 | £36

Marcel Dzama: Puppets, Pawns, and Prophets

Text by Deborah Solomon

David Zwirner / Hatje Cantz2013Hardcover9 1/4 x 11 in | 23.5 x 27.9 cm 184 pages, 154 colorISBN 9783775737326$50 | £28

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Raymond Pettibon: Here’s Your Irony Back, Political Works 1975 – 2013

Text by Benjamin H. D. Buchloh

David Zwirner / Hatje Cantz / Regen Projects2013Hardcover10 ¾ x 12 1/2 in | 27.3 x 31.8 cm 212 pages, 122 colorISBN 9783775737333$60 | £36

Robert Graham: Early Work 1963 – 1973

Text by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp

David Zwirner / Steidl 2011Hardcover8 x 10 in | 20.3 x 25.4 cm 128 pages, 43 color, 4 b&wISBN 9783869309859$68 | £40

Suzan Frecon: paper

Text by Sarah Eckhardt

David Zwirner / Lawrence Markey / Radius Books2013Hardcover9 ¾ x 11 1/4 in | 24.8 x 28.6 cm 144 pages, 68 colorISBN 9781934435618$60 | £36

Suzan Frecon: paintings 2006 – 2010

Text by Joachim Pissarro

David Zwirner / Radius Books2010Hardcover10 1/4 x 12 ¾ in | 26 x 32.4 cm 48 pages, 22 color ISBN 9781934435298$55 | £33

Toba Khedoori

Text by Julien Bismuth

David Zwirner / Radius Books2013Hardcover10 x 12 ¾ in | 25.4 x 32.4 cm 96 pages, 26 color, 2 gatefoldsISBN 9781934435656$55 | £33

Michaël Borremans: Horse Hunting

Text by Hans van Heirseele

David Zwirner2006Hardcover7 1/4 x 10 in | 18.4 x 25.4 cm 40 pages, 16 colorISBN 9780976913641$35 | £27

Neo Rauch

Text by Christian Viveros-Fauné

David Zwirner / Steidl 2008Hardcover8 1/4 x 9 ¾ in | 21 x 24.8 cm 44 pages, 17 colorISBN 9783865217431$28 | £16

Neo Rauch: Renegaten

Text by Christine Mehring

David Zwirner2005Softcover8 ¾ x 11 1/4 in | 22.2 x 28.8 cm 40 pages, 20 colorISBN 9780976913603$40 | £25

On Kawara: Paintings of 40 Years

Texts by Shiuji Inomata, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Osho

David Zwirner2004Hardcover6 ¾ x 9 in | 17.1 x 22.9 cm 80 pages, 26 color ISBN 9780970888440$45 | £28

Raoul De Keyser: Recent Work

Text by Wendy White

David Zwirner2006Softcover8 1/4 x 9 in | 21 x 22.9 cm 72 pages, 31 colorISBN 9780976913666$25 | £16

Raoul De Keyser: Terminus, Drawings (1979 – 1982) and Recent Paintings

Text by Robert Storr

David Zwirner / Steidl2011Hardcover9 ¾ x 12 1/4 in | 24.8 x 31.1 cm 144 pages, 103 color, 11 b&wISBN 9783869300542$75 | £45

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