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Art books for the "Burned Out"-Part One
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DegasDegas by Werner Hofmann
Buy new: $50.62 / Used from: $42.50
The dance is in the details and the dream for me starts with dance.
Cy Twombly: Cycles and SeasonsCy Twombly: Cycles and Seasons by Nicholas Serota
Buy new: $34.65 / Used from: $33.98
One might forgo the entire list for the complete catalog of his paintings, but as a reminder of redolence and reconnaissance via color this takes the cupcake prize.
Beyond The Visible: The Art Of Odilon RedonBeyond The Visible: The Art Of Odilon Redon by Jodi Hauptman
Buy new: $32.55 / Used from: $24.99
"Redon Prince of Dreams" is to be preferred if one can afford or find it, but as color goes this is the vanishing point.
Joseph Cornell: Shadowplay...EternidayJoseph Cornell: Shadowplay...Eterniday by Lynda Roscoe Hartigan
Buy new: $46.80 / Used from: $34.92
How to vanish, where to begin to use the visual to loose the visual? To think as I grew up these boxes were being created within miles of where I dreamed or somewhere in the infinity I longed for...
GiacomettiGiacometti by Yves Bonnefoy
Buy new: $37.80 / Used from: $20.00
Better in the hardcover. Proof that if you go deep enough you come out the other side.
Eva Hesse: SculptureEva Hesse: Sculpture by Ms. Elisabeth Sussman
Buy new: $33.75 / Used from: $26.45
If there is another side what is the nature of the space surrounding it? Can space be tasted? if one can afford it the Catalog Raisonne is the place to resonate from. This is the essence of experiment or an experiment in essence.
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF MARCEL DUCHAMPTHE COMPLETE WORKS OF MARCEL DUCHAMP by Arturo Schwarz
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The essence of experiment as enigma in this case where to begin other than the ultimate? Choose your poison/concept in something more affordable, but can a Rose by any other name smell as sweet or complete the paradox?
Man Ray: Photography and Its DoubleMan Ray: Photography and Its Double by Alain Sayag
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The paradox being there is no complete catalog currently capturing the complexity and metamorphosis of this under appreciated adventurer, but this springs into how experiment is a sidekick of style, how fashion is nothing to be embarrassed by, is but a flickering image on a field of flickering images, dust motes, where beauty goes after Marcel has had its way with it.
Richard Avedon: Photographs 1946-2004Richard Avedon: Photographs 1946-2004
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Where beauty ends up an beyond beauty is evident here, in a still under appreciated master who should be present in this muster. This survey but skims the surface of the image pool.
Looking at Atget (Published in Association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art)Looking at Atget (Published in Association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art) by Peter Barberie
Buy new: $37.30 / Used from: $10.88
From Avedon back through Paris, skipping for the moment Latrigue and going straight to Atget and the roots of the journey, another who had to be rescued from obscurity to show how heart and eye are one, how craft is the true mirror of caprice.
Toulouse-LautrecToulouse-Lautrec by Daniele Devynck
Buy used from: $28.00
Caprice and Paris. Can a reputation, however high be denied it true altitude due to too much partying? Compare with Giacometti (painting) and Avedon portraits and beware of underestimation. This edition does justice to the vibrant colors and rhythms saturating the sublime.
Henri Matisse: Figure Color SpaceHenri Matisse: Figure Color Space by Stefan Grohe
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The sublime begins and ends here. The Pierre Schneider Rizzoli book is wonderful but out of print. This will do as a start...
Matisse PicassoMatisse Picasso by Anne Baldassari
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Only by comparison can one really see how genius can galavants through gyrations and where the grace notes fall, if they do fall.
Late Titian and the Sensuality of PaintingLate Titian and the Sensuality of Painting by Sylvia Ferino-Pagden
Buy new: $43.87 / Used from: $38.00
Where grace begins, the wellspring.
The Rembrandt BookThe Rembrandt Book by Gary Schwartz
Buy new: $40.95 / Used from: $26.99
Sometimes the future comes before its time and stays relevant after time has done what time does.
Rodin: His Art and His InspirationRodin: His Art and His Inspiration by Catherine Lampert
Buy new: $57.37 / Used from: $60.00
Nothing quite like seeing it in person at the Rodin museum, but like Rembrandt its relevance lurks awaiting the next leap.
Mark RothkoMark Rothko
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Where abstraction meets something else which mirrors an afterlife in air.
Andy Warhol: Giant SizeAndy Warhol: Giant Size by Editors of Phaidon Press
Buy new: $78.75 / Used from: $58.94
Where Duchamp meets something that goes beyond being there.
Cornelia Parker: Perpetual Canon (German Edition)Cornelia Parker: Perpetual Canon (German Edition) by Cornelia Parker
Buy used from: $154.64
Making one's way through the new... (There are better books in English if one can afford same,)
Sigmar Polke: Miracle of Siegen, The Lens Paintings/ Wunder Von Siegen, Die LinsenbilderSigmar Polke: Miracle of Siegen, The Lens Paintings/ Wunder Von Siegen, Die Linsenbilder by Eva Schmidt
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Playing with the playing field.
John CurrinJohn Currin by Alison M. Gingeras
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Taking the way of saying towards....
Gerhard Richter: Overpainted PhotographsGerhard Richter: Overpainted Photographs by Botho Strauss
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And beyond towards...
Kiki Smith: A Gathering, 1980-2005Kiki Smith: A Gathering, 1980-2005 by Siri Engberg
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The better to...
Studio Olafur Eliasson: An Encyclopedia (Extra Large Series)Studio Olafur Eliasson: An Encyclopedia (Extra Large Series) by Philip Ursprung
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See you with...
Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own GraveMarlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave by Cornelia Butler
Buy new: $34.65 / Used from: $28.00
My dear...
Richard PrinceRichard Prince by Nancy Spector
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Said the wolf.
Sarah Moon: CoincidencesSarah Moon: Coincidences by Sarah Moon
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That is if you are into fairy tales.
Alexander Calder: The Paris Years, 1926-1933 (Whitney Museum of American Art)Alexander Calder: The Paris Years, 1926-1933 (Whitney Museum of American Art) by Joan Simon
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Or someone who also knew the value of a circus...
Ed RuschaEd Ruscha by Richard D. Marshall
Buy used from: $25.00
Or the many forms that reality comes from...
Anselm Kiefer: Heaven And EarthAnselm Kiefer: Heaven And Earth by Michael Auping
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Sorted metaphysically...
Giorgio de Chirico: A Metaphysical JourneyGiorgio de Chirico: A Metaphysical Journey by Gerd Roos
Buy new: $43.76 / Used from: $36.00
From beginning....
Magritte and Contemporary ArtMagritte and Contemporary Art by Stephanie Barron
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Through the enigma of creation- (Here again the five volume catalog raisonne is preferred.)
A Life in LightA Life in Light by James Turrell
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As in the beginning there was light...
Bill Viola: Catalogue Hatsu-Yume First DreamBill Viola: Catalogue Hatsu-Yume First Dream by edited
Buy new: $59.50 / Used from: $97.06
And light...
Anish Kapoor: My Red HomelandAnish Kapoor: My Red Homeland by Yehuda Safran
Buy used from: $400.00
And light as color... (There is more for much less on Kapoor.)
Hiroshi SugimotoHiroshi Sugimoto by Kerry Brougher
Buy used from: $185.00
Or on the sea...
J.M.W. TurnerJ.M.W. Turner
Buy used from: $70.00
Or in the work of Turner who voiced "The sun is god."
Cezanne in ProvenceCezanne in Provence by Philip Conisbee
Buy used from: $84.00
Or the mountain on which light...
Una Grande Storia Italiana. Valentino GaravaniUna Grande Storia Italiana. Valentino Garavani
Buy new: $1,800.00 / Used from: $1,362.99
Though one might find that style for style's sake is also a journey well worth taking...
Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (Bachelard Translation Series)Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (Bachelard Translation Series) by Gaston Bachelard
Buy new: $18.00 / Used from: $13.95
To recover and go beyond what the conflagration took- (Part Deux to follow.)