Pictures Generation

Renewing our understanding of Ruscha's art.

A study of the Pictures Generation that considers the feelings provoked by sensational images manipulated by these artists.

The fascinating story of Jack Goldstein, the beginnings of CalArts, and some of the illustrious fellows who, in the 1970s and 1980s, led the transition from conceptual art to the Pictures Generation, paints an uncompromising picture of the art world then and now.

An inventory: Bibliothèque d'un Amateur. Richard Prince's Publications takes a look at Richard Prince's library and production of artist's books published between 1980 and 2020. (new expanded edition).

New monograph, highlighting the topicality of the issues that run through all of Ericka Beckman's work over some forty years.

This issue of Flash Art explores a sort of archeology of images, aiming to reflect on issues of appropriation and authenticity in their most contemporaneous sense, whereby any original or preexisting artwork, image, or product can be invested with a multiplicity of meanings.

This artist's book is the book-form of a work by Matt Mullican, "The Meaning of Things (who feels the most pain?)" (2014), con sisting of 676 collages and texts on sheets of standard printing paper.

First comprehensive monograph dedicated to minimalist pioneer and postcolonial artist Rasheed Araeen. The publication gives an overview of 60 years of career, encompassing Araeen's visual art, writing, editing, and curatorial work. It includes scholarly essays, surveys, and documentation spanning every aspects of the artist's oeuvre, from his early works to his political engagement to today's ongoing Homecoming series.

This catalogue brings together a selection of early paintings by the american artist, accompanied by an essay illustrated with archival images.

Retrospective monograph on all Beckman's video works since the 1970s.

One of Matt Mullican's central and most consequential inventions, the so-called “Rubbings,” are a kind of “frottages,” a technique the artist uses to produce specific pictures. The book presents a catalogue of the Rubbings on canvas from 1984 to 2015. It comprises around 500 works, documented by images and catalogue entries (the book also contains an essay by Dieter Schwarz).

Details from Heaven and Hell is the new chapter of Matt Mullican's cosmology, whose first models dates from 1973, and has evolved over the years and materialized in various media and performances.

A large selection of drawings from Brauntuch's early carreer, based upon iconographic resources from the Third Reich.

First monograph.

New monograph.

First French translation of the 1983 artist's fiction book by Richard Prince.

A new work based on a series of photographs made by Richard Prince when he was student in France (artist's book): a window into Prince's formative period.

This first volume of complete John Baldessari's writings traces the genesis and development of the artist's understanding of art in the early 1960s.

This second volume of complete John Baldessari's writings traces the genesis and development of the artist's understanding of art in the early 1960s through to the present.

Issue dedicated to John Baldessari.

Ericka Beckman's Super-8 Piaget trilogy: We Imitate; We Break Up (1978); The Broken Rule (1979); and Out of Hand (1980).

The production/reception dialectic.

This first retrospective monograph, edited by Rhea Anastas, offers, through original contributions by MaryJo Marks, Martha Buskirk, and Catherine Quéloz, alongside extensive visual documentation of many unpublished works, a new reading on McCollum's work.

Artists' book.

Monograph based on an ambitious project that revisits forty years of Californian post-conceptual artist's work, between symbolism of representation and exploration of the subconscious under hypnosis, with two essays and an interview.

Writings and interviews.

Including newly commissioned essays, this reference monograph attempts to remap Miller's entire oeuvre by articulating its development through various series, media, and aesthetic strategies.

Retrospective monograph: the first survey of Troy Brauntuch's work, including newly commissioned essays by Johanna Burton and Douglas Eklund.

The poetic of the fragment (artist's book).

Artist's book based on Mullican's notebooks.

Deluxe edition of Mullican's artist book based on his notebooks: signed and numbered edition in a box set including an original drawing.

John Miller's photographic diary.

The live recording of the performance given by the artists at NBK, Berlin, 17 August 2008

Conditions, procedures, framing and circulation of art works.

An anthology of the artist's important essays, published between 1978 and today in the pages of Artforum, Flash Art and Lawson's own magazine Real Life.

Retrospective catalogue featuring a chronology of the artist's works, an introduction by Yves Aupetitallot and Lionel Bovier, texts by Mike Kelley, John Miller, and Nancy Spector, and an interview with the artist by Robert Nickas

Photography signed by Richard Prince, 25 copies limited edition. Natalie Portman portrait.

Poem by Sherrie Levine; texts by Susanne Anna, Christian Bernard, Michel Assenmaker, Erich Franz and Susan Kandel.

An artist's book focusing on the question of copy (reproductions of Huysmans and Degas' works).

An unprecedented insight into Louise Bourgeois' art by Jenny Holzer.

A portrait of the artist as an inspiring teacher: this publication focuses on Baldessari's practice at the intersection between pedagogy and art. Visually organized in alphabetical order, Learning To Read features essays, artworks, a chronology, and personal insights on Baldessari's teaching and influence by a group of the artist's former students and CalArts collaborators such as Ashley Bickerton, Liz Craft, Meg Cranston, Matt Mullican, and Tony Oursler.

The first catalogue raisonné of editions and multiples by Matt Mullican.

The transcript of the under-oath deposition of Richard Prince, sued for copyright violation.

Artist's book.

First monograph.

Baldessari's cinema works on DVD.

Unique publication bringing together raw material of artist's well-known “Joke Paintings”.

A series of poems by Henri Cole used by conceptual artist Jenny Holzer for her monumental “signs” installations.

Conceived by the artist, this book gathers unpublished manuscripts, well-known as well as unshown works from his personal collection, erotic cartoons, fan's photographs, photographs of “white trash” suburbs and studio shots.