Article Archive for November 2009
Ballistic Publishing Announces EXOTIQUE 5–The World’s Most Beautiful CG Characters
In its fifth edition, EXOTIQUE 5 elevates digital character art to its rightful place as the most exciting medium for new artists pushing the boundaries of their creativity. Like preceding editions, EXOTIQUE 5 is a snapshot of the best character art produced in the previous year, and each page is full of inspirational work from a wide variety of genres. An updated layout style refreshes the series which incorporates a number of spreads containing higher concentrations of characters on white ... Read More
Contemporary Artists Books for Auction
Bonhams New York is pleased to present the Arnold Smoller Collection of Contemporary Livres d’Artiste. A wonderfully astute and varied assemblage of nearly 200 volumes, the collection spans several decades of American and international art. It includes experimental works made of such surprising materials as lead, hair, plastics, and rubber. The works range in date from the Jasper Johns exhibition catalogue with original screenprint wrappers and the rare, beautiful Lee Bontecou ULAE ... Read More
George Eastman House Camera book illustrates history of photography from daguerreotype to digital
For the first time in the two centuries of photographic history, a book has been produced that celebrates both the camera and the art of the photograph — displaying images alongside the cameras that created them. George Eastman House International Museum of Photography & Film launches this month “Camera: The History of Photography from Daguerreotype to Digital” (Sterling Innovation, 2009, 368 pp., $45). The world’s oldest museum of photography, Eastman House is home to a ... Read More
Jane Wilson: Horizons Comprehensive Monograph
DC Moore Gallery announced that the first comprehensive monograph on the American artist, Jane Wilson, has been published by Merrell, London. Jane Wilson: Horizons celebrates her sixty-year career, from her immersion in the vibrant New York art world of the 1950s and 1960s to her current work, which has brought her recognition as one of the leading landscape painters of our time. In conjunction with the publication of the book, an exhibition of Wilson’s new paintings will be held at DC ... Read More
Royal Collection Publications Appoints New US Distributor
Royal Collection Publications has appointed the University of Chicago Press as their new distributor in the United States and Canada. From 1 January 2010, UCP will be responsible for the fulfilment of all new and backlist trade titles. The Royal Collection produces between ten and twelve new publications a year, including exhibition catalogues, gift books and scholarly catalogues raisonnés. The Royal Collection launched its own imprint in the 1990s. In 2002 it created an inhouse publishing ... Read More
