Autumn 2009 Catalogue 4 pdfing:1 - Yale University Press

The Photographs of Homer PageThe Guggenheim Year: New York, 1949–50Art 53Keith F. DavisThis book—the first on this brilliant but little-known documentary photographer—focuses on Homer Page’s New York photographs taken while he was a GuggenheimFellow during the late ‘40s.Exhibition The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 14/2 – 7/6/09Keith F. Davis is Curator of Photography at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. He is theauthor of An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Plate to Digital, The HallmarkPhotographic Collection along with The Art of Frederick Sommer: Photography,Drawing, Collage and The Origins of American Photography: From Daguerreotype toDry-Plate, 1839–1885: The Hallmark Photographic Collection at The Nelson-AtkinsMuseum of Art, both published by Yale.Distributed for The Nelson-Atkins Museum of ArtJuly 144 pp. 279x279mm. 98 tritone illus. ISBN 978-0-300-15443-6 £38.00*Translation rights: Nelson Atkins Gallery, Kansas CityMURA barstool, 2005, produced by PLANK. Photo: Florian Böhm.Konstantin GrcicDecisive DesignZoë RyanThe hip, functional and versatile furniture and products of Konstantin Grcic—widely recognisedas one of the most important designers working today—are transforming the landscape ofcontemporary design. This book accompanies the first exhibition in North America of Grcic’swork, highlighting the innovative archetypes of form and concept that have marked hisremarkable output since 2004.Grcic delights in creating fresh takes on familiar industrial objects, whether desks, chairs, benches,stools, a range of kitchen equipment, lamps, a set of salad servers, or Krups coffee makers. In hisrecent work, he has blended his characteristic simplicity and distinctiveness with the use of newtechnologies and materials—for example, a cantilevered stacking chair, Myto (2008), is made from a strong, fluid plastic typicallyused by the automotive industry.Exhibition The Art Institute of Chicago, 17/10/09 – 10/1/10Zoë Ryan is the Neville Bryan Curator of Design in the Department of Architecture and Design at the Art Institute of Chicago.A+D Series • Distributed for the Art Institute of ChicagoNovember 96 pp. 215x234mm. 90 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15104-6 £12.99*Translation rights: The Art Institute of Chicago, ChicagoChaotic HarmonyContemporary Korean PhotographyAnne Wilkes Tucker and Karen Sinsheimer • With Bohnchang KooRecently contemporary Korean art has garnered significant international recognition, in part forthe work of photographers Atta Kim and Bae Bien-U. Now, this richly illustrated book bringstheir work together with that of forty other up-and-coming Korean artists, each working tostretch the bounds of the photographic medium. One of the first books on the subject,Chaotic Harmony features essays by Anne Wilkes Tucker and Karen Sinsheimer exploring thenotions of urbanisation, politics, identity, community, globalisation, tradition and fantasy intoday’s Korean photography. A chronology of recent developments, prepared by notedphotographer Bohnchang Koo, also accompanies brief biographies of the artists, as well as acomplete checklist of the exhibition. This catalogue sheds a new light on Korean photographers’ little-known contributions to theworld arena of contemporary art.Exhibition schedule The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 18/10/09 – 3/1/10; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 16/5/10 – 21/8/10Anne Wilkes Tucker is the Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. She is theauthor of The Great Wall of China: Photographs by Chen Changfen and coauthor of The History of Japanese Photography,both published by Yale. Karen Sinsheimer is the curator of photography at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.Distributed for The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Santa Barbara Museum of ArtOctober 128 pp. 266x222mm. 65 colour illus. Paper ISBN 978-0-300-15753-6 £25.00*Translation rights: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston