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Somber silhouettes and screaming heads: rediscovering the work of a reclusive yet remarkable figurative painterThis landmark publication presents the work of Australian artist Keith Cunningham (1929-2014), a mysterious, reclusive and little-discussed 20th-century painter. His melancholy works, with patches of harsh impasto, evoke comparisons to his contemporaries Francis Bacon and Frank Auerbach.

A visual index of 1,000 NFTs generated to mimic the muralist's own bright and broad brushstrokesGerman street artist MadC's (born 1980) Color Rhythms comprises 1,000 unique NFTs produced by a generative algorithm. The complete series is reproduced in this substantial small-format book. Printed in a limited run of 500 copies, the book was designed in close collaboration with the artist herself and each copy is signed and numbered.

Bright and brilliant collages reflect Clarke's visionary approach to stained glassAn astonishing collection of 327 collages created by British artist Brian Clarke (born 1953), this monograph is a natural companion to his work in stained glass. Beginning with line drawings in white pencil on black paper, Clarke gradually builds an ephemera of hand-painted paper cutouts, similar to those by Matisse, to produce compositions in stunning color.

Hirst's latest project challenges art collectors to decide between NFTs and physical artworks, with surprising resultsFor the conceptual project The Currency, British artist Damien Hirst (born 1965) created 10,000 NFTs corresponding to 10,000 of his original artworks: painted with his signature enamel dots and titled with his favorite song lyrics. During a year-long period, buyers could purchase a piece for $2,000, and were then given the choice to either keep the NFT or exchange it for the physical artwork. At the end of the year, 5,149 collectors decided to keep the physical artworks, and 4,851 the NFTs. Hirst then publicly destroyed the rejected pieces by burning them in a furnace. Published on the conclusion of the series, The Currency book features 332 of the 10,000 artworks as well as installation shots of the final exhibition, prefaced with a conversation between Hirst and British actor and broadcaster Stephen Fry.

This limited edition of Paris Nude, published in an edition of 143 copies, includes a signed and numbered, handmade darkroom print, made from the original negative on traditional black-and-white resin-coated paper. In July 2016, English photographer and cookbook author Mary McCartney (born 1969) traveled to Paris for a special photo shoot. Over two days, McCartney would stay with her subject, Phyllis Wang, a New York-born stand-up comedian, at Wang's Saint-Germain apartment, photographing her in the nude. A mixture of black-and-white and color images, the photographs collected in this volume speak to the intimacy and trust between subject and photographer. Laid out sequentially, the photographs show the model increasingly relax in front of the camera over the course of the shoot; Wang assumes various poses and adopts various props, and an unspoken bond gradually develops between the two women. Inviting the reader into the session's humor and intimacy, the publication features Wang and McCartney's annotations alongside the photographs, each giving their own candid account of the two days.

A comprehensive survey of the YBA conceptualistOver the past 30 years, the Scottish-born, Welsh-based artist Craig Wood (born 1960) has developed a distinct body of work, ranging from large-scale floor-based installations to site-specific performances and socially engaged actions. Craig Wood: Catalogue Raisonné is the first published retrospective and definitive study of his career. This large-format paperback book covers over 30 years of Wood's impressive oeuvre, starting in 1987 when he was studying Fine Art at Goldsmiths College of Art, London. The book is illustrated with over 500 images and features an essay by art critic and Reader of Fine Art at Goldsmiths Michael Archer, and an interview by British artist Fiona Banner (aka The Vanity Press).Graduating in 1989, Wood was part of the Young British Artists, and his early exhibitions included Damien Hirst's seminal Modern Medicine in 1990. He would later have commercial representation through galleries in London, Paris and Turin.Throughout his career, Wood's artistic output has been site-specific, examining the properties of "site" or "context" and how this drives creative processes. He has received numerous national awards and several prestigious international residencies, with artworks in major collections such as Tate, Saatchi Gallery, the Victoria & Albert Museum and the UK Arts Council.

A bespoke mirrored publication, Us and Chem features all works from Blondey McCoy's (born 1997) fifth solo exhibition from 2017 at HENI Gallery, Soho. In this series of work, the London-based British artist openly addresses and confronts issues relating to mental health, in particular the country's treatment of depression and anxiety in young people and the over-reliance on prescribed antidepressants. The artworks with their mirror backgrounds (here reproduced on foiled paper) constantly change depending on their surroundings, the audience and the angle from which they are viewed, creating a dynamic, interactive experience. Us and Chem includes a work created in collaboration with Damien Hirst; Beautiful, Chemically Imbalanced Painting is an amalgamation of Hirst's Spin Paintings and Blondey's collage techniques. The book features the poem "Us and Them" by Olly Todd, inspired by the exhibition. A limited edition, each book is numbered and signed by Blondey and is presented in a custom-made cellophane prescription bag.

This superbly produced publication gathers over 100 watercolors made between 1972 and 2016 by Paris- and California-based Lebanese artist and publisher Simone Fattal (born 1942). Combining painting and collage, these works range from abstractions to near-abstract depictions of gardens and biomorphic forms.Fattal studied philosophy at the Ecole des Lettres, Beirut, and began painting in the late 1960s, eventually fleeing Beirut in 1980 with the outbreak of the Civil War. Having moved to California, Fattal founded the Post-Apollo Press, a publishing house dedicated to innovative literature. In 1988, she returned to art after enrolling at the Art Institute of San Francisco.Here, reproductions of her works are preceded by a discussion with Hans Ulrich Obrist in which Fattal ruminates on her childhood in Damascus, her earliest encounters with modernist and postwar art in Europe, her sculptural work and the themes that inspire her affinity for watercolor.

The first in-depth publication to uncover the long relationship Francis Bacon enjoyed with France, Monaco and French culture. Martin Harrison, the foremost expert on Bacon, brings a new light to a somewhat unexpected side of the artist's life and work. It was in Paris in 1927, at an exhibition dedicated to Picasso, that Francis Bacon grasped his vocation as a painter. In 1946, he moved to Monaco on the French Riviera where he lived for four years, his time in the Principality marking a turning point in his art; with his "popes" series, he became a painter of the human figure. In Paris he befriended artists and intellectuals, such as Giacometti and Leiris, whilst the city would become the setting for the crystalisation of his reputation in 1971 with the retrospective at the Grand Palais. In 1975, Bacon would take a studio in the Marais district. This bilingual publication--co-published by Albin Michel and The Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation--tells of Bacon's deep ties with France and Monaco, and has been overseen by Martin Harrison, author of Francis Bacon: Catalogue Raisonné.

Seventy Two presents a dynamic body of artwork by Lucy Liu, comprising 72 paintings in ink and acrylic, the series is inspired by the 72 Names of God - esoteric sequences of Hebrew letters that some believe help in the journey to find enlightenment for mind, body, and spirit. Liu's art practice sits at the interface of Eastern and Western traditions of art, referencing a variety of styles, from Abstract Expressionism to Chinese calligraphy. With a freshness, vitality, and energy of its own Seventy Two is a must for anyone with an interest in abstract art and spirituality.The Limited Edition version of Seventy Two is produced in an edition of just 72 copies and is accompanied by a signed print of one of Liu's paintings from the series, presented together in a silkscreened cloth-covered solander box.

Following her 2010 publication dedicated to roses, Cologne-based artist Sabine Moritz (born 1969) here turns her attention to lilies, which she first began depicting in the mid 1990s. Working on paper to produce fifty-nine charcoal, pastel and oil pastel drawings, similiarly she often approaches works as studies or exercises in observation and representation.During the development of this publication, which was originally conceived as a collection of Moritz's drawings of lilies, the artist had the idea to introduce another ongoing body of work--drawings of objects--alongside the lilies. These objects are primarily statues, statuettes and figurines--handmade works of art from different periods in history such as a classical torso, an African figurine and a Buddhist head.Moritz's drawings of objects reflect a range of ideas and registers, moods and sentiments. Together with the objects alongside, the lilies open up questions of time, life, death, belief, truth, human psychology and the very process of making art. What drives us to make art and what does it tell us about ourselves and the civilizations we create?

This artist's book presents 84 reproductions of sketches taken from a notebook made by Gerhard Richter between 2004 and 2009. Some sketches feature figurative motifs, human forms and faces, while others appear as purely abstract shapes, configurations and patterns.

Following the success of English and German editions of Cage: Six Paintings by Gerhard Richter, a French-language edition is now available, translated by Christian-Martin Diebold. The Cage Paintings were conceived as a single coherent group, and displayed for the first time at the Venice Biennale in 2007. Their titles pay homage to the American avant-garde composer John Cage (1912 1992). In his "Lecture on Nothing," Cage famously declared "I have nothing to say and I'm saying it." Richter is equally suspicious of ideologies and prefers to allow viewers and critics to make up their own minds. Leading critic Robert Storr considers the importance of The Cage Paintings within Richter's practice and within the wider context of abstract art. A series of extraordinary, detailed photographs document the development of each painting, day by day, and show the artist at work on these monumental canvases, giving unique insight into his working methods.

This publication presents 37 charcoal, pastel and oil pastel drawings of roses created by Cologne-based artist Sabine Moritz (born 1969) between 2004 and 2009. The drawings are accompanied by poems by Adam Zagajewski and William Blake.With a regularity that approaches an everyday activity, Moritz makes studies of flowers in her home and studio: in part as a discipline to practice and explore observation and techniques of representation, in part a way to reflect, contemplate and simply enjoy the flowers.These studies are an important aspect of Moritz's wider practice, which addresses themes such as man and nature, man and machine, and the military and the landscape.

Exiles at the gateway to England: portraits of refugees in a suspended temporalityBetween 2006 and 2020, French photographer and artist Bruno Serralongue (born 1968) conducted a prolonged engagement with the community of refugees on their last stop in a long journey to reach England. The resulting photographs, which formed the basis for an exhibition at Paris's Centre Pompidou in 2019, are published here for the first time.Serralongue captured disparate moments in the lives of the exiles, their attempts to reach England and their provisional camps that were dismantled by the French government in 2020. Serralongue's images employ a suspended temporality that contradicts the sensationalized images broadcast by the mass media, recalling the visual traditions of history painting more than photojournalism.The slowness of his photography, a characteristic of working with a view camera, requires both a distance from and a proximity with the subjects photographed, achievable only due to a relationship of trust built with the inhabitants of the "Jungle."

On the progression of motifs and mediums in the art of Sabine MoritzIn Jena Dusseldorf, first published in 2011, the artistic development of Sabine Moritz (born 1969) unfolds, from early drawings to vibrant works in a variety of mediums including oil, acrylic, charcoal and pencil. The book also features a conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist in which Moritz talks about her personal life, her memories and makes reference to specific works. The modest and compact book, packed with over 150 color illustrations, shows by way of example her search for an artistic position on her route from Jena to Du?sseldorf.

Perched on a little camping stool, artist Tommy Kane draws what he sees. His remarkable career has taken him around the world, and he has documented the people and places he's encountered in his unique painting and drawing style - on location - wherever he goes. He calls New York home, but has a growing international following. An Excuse to Draw is the first book-length collection of Kane's work, and it is filled with full-page illustrations and reproductions of pages taken from his sketch books.