Bøger udgivet af CONTEMPORARY ARTS MUSEUM HOUST

Over the past three decades, Houston-based Amy Blakemore (born 1958) has created a rich body of photographic still lifes, portraits and everyday vignettes. A champion of the worn, the awkward and the plain, Blakemore wrests beauty from the commonplace.

Houston-based artist Thedra Cullar-Ledford (born 1970) pairs humor with feminist statements, exploring mastectomy as an area in which women's bodies are modified by men. This book collects her paintings concerning breasts in art history.

Korean artist Jae Ko (born 1961) works in fiber, transforming ordinary materials like paper and vinyl cords into extraordinary sculptural objects. Her work ranges from discrete wall reliefs and small sculptures to monumental installations. Flow includes an interview with the artist and documents her eponymous installation.

Human colonization of Mars is expected to begin in the coming decades as NASA and independent space ventures partner with private investors to explore the future of life on the red planet. The Interview: Red, Red Future is the culmination of more than three years of multidisciplinary artist MPA's investigation of Mars and human colonization. Published to accompany an exhibition of works commissioned by the CAM Houston, this artist's book includes lush, full-color images that speak to MPA's engagement with Mars, the politics of power and colonization, light and minimalist aesthetics. The signed and numbered volume includes an essay by the exhibition's curator Dean Daderko and three interviews with MPA: by authors Stephano Harney and Fred Moten; investigative journalist Linda Moulton Howe; and architect Vicente de Szyszlo. Edition of 450 signed and numbered copies.

Mark Flood: Gratest Hits is the first survey of the work of Houston-based artist Mark Flood (born 1957) dating from the 1970s to 2016. Described by The New York Times as a "painter and punk propagandist," Flood has, despite remaining barely visible at the museum level, maintained an active and influential career for decades in painting and, increasingly, exhibition practice, producing work characterized by deep wisdom and trenchant humor. With Gratest Hits, Flood--an artist so absolute in his judgments that one 2012 painting featured the words "Whore Museums, Gutless Collectors, Blind Dealers, So-Called Artists" emblazoned on it--finally gets the monographic museum treatment in his hometown, and a career-spanning catalogue to boot. This fully illustrated, full-color volume features texts by Carlo McCormick, Alison Gingeras, El Topito, Scott Indrisek and Bill Arning, the exhibition's curator and director of the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston.

Parallel Practices: Joan Jonas & Gina Pane considers the works of two pioneers of performance art. Jonas (born 1936) and Pane (1939-1990) lived and worked in the United States and France respectively. Each artist worked multidisciplinarily, producing sculpture, drawings, installations, film and video in addition to live actions. Notably, Jonas and Pane have been lauded for their foundational work in performance, a field in which both of these artists blazed trails. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Parallel Practices explores the trajectory of these artists' practices to reveal shared and complementary aspects, as well as to highlight the significant divergences and differences that characterize each artist's work. It includes texts by curator Dean Daderko, Elisabeth Lebovici and Anne Tronche and Barbara Clausen.

In 1914, Marcel Duchamp purchased a bottle rack, called it a sculpture, put his name to it and the "readymade" artwork was born. It Is What It Is. Or Is It? considers the legacy of the readymade in contemporary artistic practice as the form approaches its 100th anniversary and attempts to recuperate the radicality of Duchamp's foundational gesture. Taking stock of the readymade's simple materiality and its economy of means, this catalogue includes work by 18 artists working in a variety of media from sculpture to photography, painting, video and installation-based works. It Is What It Is. Or Is It? includes works by Ellen Altfest, Fayçal Baghriche, Bill Bollinger, William Cordova, Latifa Echakhch, Daphne Fitzpatrick, Claire Fontaine, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Rachel Hecker, Jamie Isenstein, Luis Jacob, Patrick Killoran, Jirí Kovanda, Klara Lidén, Catherine Murphy and Pratchaya Phinthong.

Catalog of an exhibition held at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, August 19-November 26, 2017, and at Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, November 16, 2018-March 10, 2019.

Text by Toby Kamps, Cameron Armstrong, Meredith Goldsmith, Caroline Huber, Susanne Theis, Jack Massing, Michael Galbreth.