Böcker utgivna av Paul Kasmin Gallery

"Puckette has taken something that seems so simple and demonstrated its true complexities--the line ... the artist's work redefines the traditional role that geometry plays in art." -CulturedThis is the first major monograph on Brooklyn-based painter and sculptor Elliott Puckette (born 1967), long acclaimed for her abstract paintings of elegant lines wandering freely through sparse, monochromatic space. "I was always interested in graphology," she told a recent interviewer, "not necessarily what someone was writing but reading into the psychology of how it's written." In recent years, the artist has also experimented with sculpture, lifting her tangling lines off the canvas and suspending them in the air. This catalog charts Puckette's career in painting and sculpture, including photographs from her foundry as well as installation images of her sculptures. Texts by art historian David Anfam, one of the most significant voices in scholarship on abstraction, and curator Stephanie Cristello and artist Maya Lin also figure in the book, as well as a rare interview with the artist herself.

A concise introduction to the later work of the self-taught American Surrealist artist and authorAmerican Surrealist artist Dorothea Tanning (1910‿2012) worked across painting, sculpture, printmaking, installation and writing over the course of seven decades, producing one of the 20th century‿s most enigmatic oeuvres. Tanning‿s work conjures dreamlike worlds that straddle the hazy border between figuration and abstraction, pioneering a unique prismatic formal language that resonates keenly today. This fully illustrated catalog highlights Tanning‿s works created between the 1950s and ‿90s, a particularly fruitful period in the artist‿s career, and traces her stylistic arc through over 20 significant paintings drawn from interrelated phases of the artist‿s practice. Scholars Mary Ann Caws, Victoria Carruthers and Kate Conley contribute essays to the volume; additionally, it reproduces Tanning‿s 1986 essay “To Paint,â€? a poetic and impassioned manifesto on painting and Surrealism. The catalog takes its title from the last line of this text.