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Raymond Pettibon:
Whuytuyp
JrP|rInGIer
edited and with text by Lynn kost.
Whuytuyp compiles work by raymond
pettibon (born 1957) done over the
past five years, from artist’s books and
prints to animations and installations.
Since 2001, several changes in pettibon’s
style have been increasingly evident,
most notably in his use of
broader brushes, even more expressive
brushstrokes and a shift towards
bolder color. these developments became
consolidated around 2006, in the
earliest drawings included in this volume.
also apparent throughout Whuytuyp
is a more philosophical tone to
the language used, and more overt social
commentary—as well as an expansion
of the range of references to
include film, illustration and cartoons.
What continues to characterize pettibon’s
art is its ability to break and recombine
discourses, liberating those
sidelined, repressed and taboo aspects
of american culture and creating his
unique visual-linguistic polyphony.
978-3-03764-290-0
Hbk, 8 x 11.25 in. / 64 pgs / 40 color.
U.S. $35.00 CDn $35.00
September/art
exHIBItIon SCHeDULe
Luzern, Switzerland: museum of art
Luzern, 03/24/12–07/22/12
Laylah Ali: The
Greenheads Series
wILLIAMs CoLLeGe MuseuM of ArT
edited by deborah rothschild.
Introduction by katy kline. Text by
Julia bryan-wilson, kevin Young.
Interview by deborah rothschild.
this book is the first complete documentation
of the Greenheads series by
Laylah ali (born 1968), created between
1996 and 2005. Consisting of over 80
works, ali’s exquisitely rendered
gouache-on-paper paintings chronicle
the dystopian world of her enigmatic
green-headed figures. this provocative
imagery is open-ended, darkly humorous
and triggers a range of associations
through their references to the media,
historical events and racial and gender
tropes. the catalogue allows viewers to
examine the evolution of the critically
acclaimed series, from the early paintings,
which focus on charged exchanges
between groups of figures, to
the later works, where the events and
figures are radically and starkly pared
down. The Greenheads Series includes
texts by art historian and critic Julia
Bryan-Wilson and poet Kevin Young,
as well as an interview with the artist by
curator Deborah rothschild.
978-0-913697-30-6
Flexi, 9.25 x 11 in. / 128 pgs / 100 color.
U.S. $20.00 CDn $20.00
august/art/african american art &
Culture
exHIBItIon SCHeDULe
Williamstown, ma: Williams College
museum of art, 08/18/12–11/25/12
minneapolis, mn: Frederick r.
Weisman art museum, University of
minnesota, 03/02/13–06/30/13
Ithaca, nY: Herbert F. Johnson museum,
Cornell University, 09/07/13–12/22/13
Thom deVita: de-
Vita Unauthorized
hArdY MArks PubLICATIons
edited by nick bubash. foreword by
don ed hardy. Text by nick bubash,
don ed hardy, scott harrison,
Michael Malone. Afterword by Teddy
varndell.
as a youth, thom devita (born 1932)
mingled with famous new York School
painters at the Cedar tavern, and exhibited
his paintings at open-air art
fairs in Washington Square park. In
the 1960s he began tattooing, not long
after it was declared illegal in new
York (the ban was overturned in 1997).
Devita’s eccentric style and sophistication
significantly influenced the emergence
of tattooing as an art from the
1970s on, and today he is something of
a legend in this community. But alongside
his 40-year underground career in
tattooing, devita has produced drawings
and montages using acetate stencils,
as well as constructions. these
works, gathered in this volume, combine
the energy and visual diffusion of
a Larry rivers painting with the street
mayhem of tattoo iconography. DeVita
Unauthorized reproduces a loose-leaf
portfolio issued in a unique limited
edition in 2002.
978-0-945367-80-2
Hbk, 10.75 x 16 in. / 48 pgs / 48 color.
U.S. $30.00 CDn $30.00
July/art
The Art of Team
Macho: The
Merlin Years
nArwhAL ProJeCTs
Text by Maggie Macdonald,
Ann Marie Peña, A. James bradley.
Comprised of nicholas aoki, Stephen
appleby-Barr, Christopher Buchan,
Lauchie reid and Jacob Whibley, the
Canadian collective team macho
spans the worlds of both fine art and illustration,
producing work for both audiences.
team macho’s surreal, colorful
and cartoonish drawings, paintings
and installations playfully juxtapose
styles and motifs with a strongly DIY
flavor. the group’s idiosyncratic approach
to collaboration cultivates both
competitiveness and cooperation, as
they celebrate, thwart and subvert each
other’s contributions. needless to say,
this approach results in often humorous,
jarring conjunctions: two aliens
dancing over an otherwise Hopperesque
scene of houses in twilight;
nuns mutilating monsters; a painting
of some unspecified, hairy psychedelic
lump with the caption “and thus life
became awesome.” The Art of Team
Macho: The Merlin Years compiles the
group’s output of the past five years,
and includes texts and interviews.
978-0-9783568-5-9
pbk, 8 x 10 in. / 180 pgs / 150 color.
U.S. $29.95 CDn $29.95
July/art
Sarah Crowner:
Format
PrIMArY InforMATIon
the paintings of new York artist Sarah
Crowner (born 1974) have offered a
new slant on the constructedness of
the abstract-geometric painting as developed
by max Bill, ellsworth Kelly,
agnes martin and elizabeth murray.
Crowner sews together painted panels
of canvas, raw linen and monochromatic
fabrics, introducing a handmade
touch to modernist aesthetics that
often espoused the minimizing of the
artist’s hand. Crowner’s first large-scale
artist’s book extends this instinct for
materiality to her vast archive of
ephemera (magazines, publications,
posters) from the 1920s through the
1940s, which she deploys here as a
source material for the creation of new
images that are built up through imposition,
extraction, collaging and printing.
much like her paintings, the
resulting works are geometrical and
optical abstractions that bring fresh
vigor to the tradition on which
Crowner draws.
978-0-9851364-0-6
pbk, 8 x 10 in. / 64 pgs / 21 color /
43 b&w.
U.S. $20.00 CDn $20.00
September/art
Ghost Knigi
By Benjamin Sommerhalder.
nIeves
this adorable, limited-edition
children’s book written and illustrated
by the editor and publisher of the
super-cool artist book/zine publisher,
nieves, follows a young ghost named
Knigi on his quest to learn to read.
readers of this ideal gift book will
not be able to decide which is more
endearing: the story—of the ghost’s
frustrations when his first book will
not reveal its secrets, and later his
wonder when “a miraculous explosion
of colors and shapes leapt out from
the pages!”; or Sommerhalder’s
spot-on illustrations, which are clear,
humorous and true in the manner
of a modern-day Leo Lionni or Bruno
munari.
978-3-905999-05-1
Clth, 7.75 x 10 in. / 20 pgs / 3 color /
7 b&w.
U.S. $24.00 CDn $24.00
July/artists' Books/Children’s
Previously Announced.
Jake & Dinos
Chapman:
Bedtime Tales for
Sleepless Nights
fueL PubLIshInG
edited by damon Murray, stephen
sorrell.
In Bedtime Tales for Sleepless Nights,
the Chapman Brothers reconceive the
victorian morality tale for less sanctimonious
(and more misanthropic)
times. Bearing on its cover the motto
“Sticks and stones may break thy
bones but words will surely maim you,”
this volume offers fans and younger
readers alike a darker take on the children’s
bedtime book, with gruesomely
illustrated rhymes that stray far from
the saccharine-coated songs typical of
the genre: “this hideous armature/
that hides and seeks/Will outlast the
flesh/Its turn to reek/Hung out for
death/on spiny barb/Your birthday
suit/now an ill-fitting garb.” the etchings
and stories have been made by
the artists specifically for this project
and are reproduced exclusively in this
volume.
978-0-9558620-9-0
Clth, 9.5 x 12.5 in. / 32 pgs / 12 color.
U.S. $34.95 CDn $34.95
June/art
Also Available:
Jake Chapman:
The Marriage of
reason & squalor
9780955862007
Pbk, u.s. $32.95
Cdn $32.95
fueL Publishing
David Shrigley:
Pass the Spoon
A Sort-Of Opera About
Cookery
hAYwArd PubLIshInG
foreword by david shrigley,
david fennessy, nicholas bone.
Pass the Spoon is the libretto for David
Shrigley’s wildly popular “sort-of
opera.” Here, Shrigley applies his mordant
humor to this tale of a surreal
cooking show gone awry. Described as
“daft and instantly lovable” by The
Guardian, Pass the Spoon features two
tv chefs (June Spoon and philip
Fork), a manic-depressive alcoholic
egg, a Latino banana and a host of
other bizarre characters. this publication
accompanies the artist’s first
major retrospective at Yerba Buena
Center in San Francisco, and the
opera’s first performance in London.
978-1-85332-307-2
pbk, 4.25 x 7.25 in. / 96 pgs / 10 b&w.
U.S. $12.50 CDn $12.50
may/art
exHIBItIon SCHeDULe
San Francisco, Ca: Yerba Buena
Center for the arts, 06/22/12–09/22/12
Also Available:
david shrigley:
brain Activity
9781853322976
hbk, u.s. $40.00
Cdn $40.00
hayward Publishing
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