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19 reviews
Editors of Phaidon Press, Dave Hickey

Phaidon Press, 2006

Great book
This is a real great (and large ;-) ) book with beatiful reproductions of Andy Warhol. My children love to go through it. It was also for sale on the Warhol exhibition in the "Stedelijk Museum" in Amsterdam last year.

Elizabeth Peyton

7 reviews
Elizabeth Peyton

Rizzoli, 2005

A great portraitist.
A wonderful book that traces Elizabeth Peyton's career back to the early nineties when she started making works on paper depicting celebrities or historical figures in an intimate style up to 2005 with recent oil paintings, mostly on board, of friends or unknown, always capturing what is human and intimate in her models, whether famous or not. The quality of the reproductions shows what a great ...

The Book on Vegas
Dave Hickey

Greybull Press, 2006

In celebration of Las Vegas's centennial, Greybull Press has put together the ultimate visual tribute to sin city. An exceptional collection of images of the city as seen through the eyes of many of the most important photographers, artists and filmmakers of the past 50 years, it also includes classic archival images that capture the true essence of what makes Vegas the high/low pleasure capital of the world: its entertainers and celebrities, ...

Invisible Dragon, The

1 review
Dave Hickey

Art Issues Press/Foundation for Advanced Critical Studies, 1993

Smart book about the nature of beauty and desire
and the role of parental organizations in contemporary society. Hickey's basic premise is that beauty is the agency of visual pleasure. This notion puts Hickey in opposition with a lot of art criticism which is largely concerned with how art is "good for you." Most theorists and scholars are primarily interested in what the art is "saying" -- i.e., interested in art's virtue and ethics but not ...

Playboy: The Complete Centerfolds

11 reviews
Robert Coover, Maureen Gibbon, ...

Chronicle Books, 2007

buy it cheaper
Just as Taschen are releasing a 2nd edition of the massive 'Stanley Kubrik Archives' on October 8, so too are Chronicle Books, releasing a 2nd edition of this huge book of Playboy centrefolds with a $50 retail and $36.50 Amazon pre-order price. - Oct.4 At this moment, Amazon has a very large discount ($150, not $500) on the first printing, probably due to the spreading awareness of the future ...

Optic Nerve: Perceptual Art of the 1960s

2 reviews
Joe Houston

Merrell, 2007

An Op Art retrospective
The publication of "Optic Nerve" was designed to coincide with the exhibition of Op Art at the Columbia Museum of Art in Columbus, Ohio last year. As such it is a retrospective on a curious cultural phenomenon that those of us who came of age in the sixties remember well. It was a time of irreverence in many ways as many Americans protested against the war in Vietnam and against racial ...

Roy Lichtenstein: Prints 1956-1997
Elizabeth Brown, Dave Hickey, ...

Marquand Books, Inc./Museum of Art/Washington State University, 2005

Think "Roy Lichtenstein" and you probably conjure up comic strip-based paintings and the colorful dots that comprise them. Lichtenstein intended his now iconic depictions of characters in tense, dramatic situations as commentaries on modern man's plight, in which the media--magazines, television, and advertisements--shapes everything, including our emotions. Many of the same concepts behind the artist's paintings apply to the significant number ...

Cautionary Tales: Critical Curating

1 review
Jean-Hubert Martin, Sara Arrhenius, ...

apexart, 2007

Curation on the move
I bought this collection for the essay by Geeta Kapur, in conjunction with my work as curator of the forthcoming exhibition 'New Art from South Asia' scheduled to open at the Herbert, Coventry, in January 2009, to coincide with the opening of the new galleries. [...] Kapur's presence in this collection is essential; as her position highlights the narrowness of approaches anchored in Western ...

Stardumb

1 review
Dave Hickey

Artspace Books, 2000

A Kid's Book for Grown-ups
A perfect balance of story, illustration, and book design. It takes as much time to read these hilarious, melancholy, knowing portraits as it does to contemplate the intricate and cynical drawings that accompany them, each based on the twelve signs of the zodiac. The pleasures of this 88 page book come too soon to their end. Characters are vivid and may or may not be based on real art ...

Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy

17 reviews
Dave Hickey

Art Issues Press, 1997

Another Guest for the Ideal Dinner Party
"Air Guitar" is Hickey's characterization of critical writing, it's direct relationship to its subject(s) being of approximately equal import as a person playing air guitar in his living room is to a rock concert. In the words of Vladimir Horowitz, the concert pianist, it is "the words without the music." That being said, it's damned interesting, all the same, especially when approached this ...

Ed Ruscha: Catalogue Raisonne of the Paintings
Lawrence Weiner, Dave Hickey, ...

Steidl The Masters, 2007

Ed Ruscha, one of the most influential artists working today, and one of the great West Coast Pop artists, didn't start out as a painter. It was under the influence of teachers including Robert Irwin, Richards Ruben and Emerson Woelffer that he gave up his original goal of becoming a commercial artist to focus on fine art. This third volume in the ongoing documentation of his entire corpus of paintings captures him in his stride. As throughout ...

Prior Convictions: Stories from the Sixties (Southwest Life and Letters)

3 reviews
Dave Hickey

Southern Methodist University Press, 1989

Just like I was there
A outstanding compilation of life as it was and still is for many. Having lived in the atmosphere of that setting, I found the reading chilling and personal, as if it hit home. The lasting impression of his thoughts and recollection continue to allow me to relive that memorable time in life when we all thought everything was so simple. Like so many, I often fail to put myself in an author's ...

All Tomorrow's Parties: Billy Name's Photographs of Andy Warhol's Factory

6 reviews
Billy Name, Dave Hickey, ...

Distributed Art Publishers (DAP), 1997

best sixties new york color photography-a work of art!
a surprisingly refreshing view of the warhol sixties. shots of lou reed and the velvet underground very initmate. name was really decades ahead of current popular art photographers with his brilliant surrealistic color and funky format!

Charles Arnoldi: 1972-2008
Charles Arnoldi

Radius Books, 2008

The Los Angeles painter and sculptor Charles Arnoldi has been described as an artist who "draws in space" to create his unique assemblages. Throughout his long career, he has been fascinated with shape and pattern as they apply to advanced formal concerns, from his 1970s paintings made entirely of natural forms to his current work, of which the architect Frank Gehry has said, "the maturing Arnoldi has a secure color sense and the ability to work ...

Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury

3 reviews
Elizabeth Armstrong

Prestel USA, 2007

Cool!
This is a wonderful book, beautiful looking and a delight to read. The credits above omit several of the contributors who make it so good. These include Thomas Hine, Bruce Jenkins, and Elizabeth A.T. Smith, who wrote essays, and Lorraine Wild, who wrote an essay and was one of the book's designers.

Sigmar Polke: History of Everything, Paintings and Drawings 1998-2003
Dave Hickey

Dallas Museum of Art, 2003

No artist has come up with anything to match History of Everything , Sigmar Polke's profound response to the age of Osama bin Laden, and this book does a flawless job of illuminating his headspinningly bold associative leaps. Solid reproductions and remarkably lucid essays by art star Dave Hickey and cocurator Chalres Wylie guide us through what obviously was a knockout show at the Dallas and Tate museums. Known as Richter's rival, Germany's ...

Jennifer Steinkamp

1 review
Joanne Northrup

Prestel Publishing, 2006

The Cutting Edge of Visual Art Today
As far as I know, this is the only book so far on Steinkamp's impressive work. She creates mostly abstract video animations (using a program appropriately called Maya) and then projects them on a large scale, often creating complete room-size environments in this way. Their actual experience is of immersing oneself in a strange space or "landscape" of constantly moving, weaving colors, often with ...

Keith Haring, Andy Warhol, and Walt Disney
Bruce Hamilton, Geoffrey Blum, ...

Prestel-Verlag and the Phoenix Art Museum, 1992

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