奈良美智解读奈良美智——

“读完这本书，能对我有多一点点的了解，那就好了！”

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奈良美智即将在上海举办中国内地首次大规模个展，这本书是他面向中国读者制作的首本书籍，也是他时隔多年的全新“自传”。

他的作品源自内心深处“空无一物被白雪覆盖的世界”，童年记忆、音乐、文学、在德国求学和生活的时光（1988—2000）、对自我的探索、来自欧洲和日本的当代艺术等都是他的灵感来源。在书中，奈良美智首次全面回顾自己的创作生涯，既是对自我的一次回顾与总结，也是面向未来的重新启程。

本书由自传《半生》、从七个角度（成长经历、美术、音乐、文学与电影、陶艺、旅行、与他人的联系）展开的深入访谈、近年展览、摄影作品、年表等内容组成，还收录了其生活照、经典及最新作品，是一本由奈良美智本人语言主导的史无前例的“奈良大全”。

Louise Bourgeois, dont l'œuvre est longtemps restée méconnue, est aujourd'hui considérée internationalement comme l'une des artistes essentielles du XXe siècle. Née à Paris en 1911, elle s'installa à New York en 1938 et commença à y exposer son travail peu après. Halle fut en 1982 la première artiste Femme à faire l'objet d'une rétrospective au Museum of Modern Art de New York, puis, en 1993, représenta les Etats-Unis à la Biennale de Venise. En 1995, elle fit l'objet d'une exposition rétrospective au Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris et ses dessins furent présentés au Centre Pompidou. En 2000, une grande installation de l'artiste dans le hall de la Tate Modern marqua l'ouverture à Londres de celte institution de l'art contemporain. Dessinatrice et surtout sculpteur, Louise Bourgeois use de matériaux divers : marbre, bronze, latex, tissu, miroirs... Ses installations, qui réunissent sculptures et objets trouvés, traitent de thèmes intimes liés à l'enfance, aux relations familiales, à la violence des relations entre les sexes. Élaboré en étroite collaboration avec l'artiste et accompagnant une exposition rétrospective itinérante, cet ouvrage offre un panorama complet de la carrière de Louise Bourgeois. Conçu comme un glossaire illustré, il permet d'approfondir ses thématiques récurrentes, de A comme Abandon à V comme Vêlement en passant par F (Famille, Figures paternelles, Féminisme) et S (Sexualité, Suicide). L'ouvrage réunit les contributions de figures majeures de la littérature et de la culture internationales, et une sélection d'écrits de Louise Bourgeois. Il s'agit de la publication la plus exhaustive et actualisée sur l'artiste.

Antonio Lopez Garcia is one of Spain's most revered contemporary artists. Bringing his profound visual sensitivity and mastery of light to bear on a range of deliberately quotidian subjects, Lopez Garcia imbues them with an extraordinary and haunting character. In 1993, his paintings and drawings were given a major retrospective at the Reina Sofia, Madrid, while Victor Erice's 1992 documentary about Lopez Garcia, "The Quince Tree of the Sun," received the Critics' Prize at that year's Cannes and top prize at the Chicago Film Festival. Yet Lopez Garcia's work has rarely been exhibited outside his native country. This book, published to accompany the first major exhibition of his art in the United States (in tandem with the MFA's monumental "El Greco to Velazquez" exhibition), offers the first comprehensive overview in English of this extraordinary oeuvre. An essay by curator Cheryl Brutvan discusses Lopez Garcia as a descendant of the great Spanish naturalists, as well as his indebtedness to Surrealism and "magic realism," while individual appreciations of some 50 paintings offer English-speaking readers their first opportunity to appreciate in depth the remarkable poetry and atmospheric density of this major world artist.

《ART TODAY当代艺术》阐释了当今世界主流艺术因网络的普及而充满活力。《ART TODAY当代艺术》同时审视和研究了20世纪后期和21世纪初当代艺术的主要争论观点，论述了网络、数码艺术对当代艺术的影响。 《ART TODAY当代艺术》还配有许多精美彩色插图和要事年表，是广大艺术爱好者探究当今前卫艺术的理想读物。

在线阅读本书 Book Description Multitude of strangely beautiful natural forms: Radiolaria, Foraminifera, Ciliata, diatoms, calcareous sponges, Siphonophora, star corals, starfishes, Protozoa, flagellates, brown seaweed, jellyfishes, sea-lilies, moss animals, sea-urchins, glass sponges, leptomedusae, horny corals, trunkfishes, true sea slugs, anthomedusae horseshoe crabs, sea-cucumbers, octopuses, bats, orchids, sea wasps, seahorse, a dragonfish, a frogfish, much more. Book Dimension length: (cm)27.7 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)20.7

Editorial Reviews Product Description "A compendium of cutting-edge art." - Miami HeraldThe summer forecast for contemporary art is decidedly "cooler" thanexpected.Massive cutting-edge international exhibitions including TheVenice Biennale, Documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany and Sculpture ProjectsMuenster are all scheduled for June 2007 and the art world will be abuzz. But what if you can't make it to these events and you want a piece of theaction?ICE CREAM: CONTEMPORARY ART IN CULTURE is an up to the minute collection ofthe most exceptional contemporary artists of tomorrow.It presents 100 ofthe world's top emerging artists selected by 10 esteemed curators includingJens Hoffman, Director of the CCA Wattis Institute in San Francisco; ShamimMomin, Associate Curator at the Whitney; Philippe Vergne, Chief Curator atthe Walker Art Center; and The Wrong Gallery, formally "the smallestexhibition space in New York" that is now housed within the Tate Modern.Continuing the phenomenon established by its predecessors Cream (1998)Fresh Cream (2000) and Cream 3 (2003) as in "one that rises to the top,"ICE CREAM identifies the cutting edge artists to watch in the future.Theprevious titles were a favorite among collectors as they accuratelypredicted a number of art stars including Tacita Dean, Olafur Eliasson andThomas Hirschhorn.Stylishly designed, ICE CREAM also upholds the series'heritage of innovative packaging by featuring a shiny iridescent cover. In ICE CREAM, each curator has selected 10 important new artists who haveeither emerged internationally over the past five years, or are stillrelatively unknown.Their definition of emerged means that an artist hashad solo shows, but nothing large-scale in a major institution (apart froma couple recent exceptions), has been reviewed in the international artpress, but not been the subject of a major monograph, and has been givensufficient exposure without yet becoming fully established. In the selection process, no limitations on geography or media wereimposed. Over 25 countries are represented including China (a currentfavorite with collectors), Brazil Russia, Canada, Slovenia, Korea, Israel,Kenya, Mexico and the U.S.Age was also not a factor.The Wrong Galleryeven went so far as to select the "most unlikely candidates."MassimilianoGioni explained, "In other words, we went for the wrong ones: artists whoare more than 60 years old; artists who are not emerging, but have emergedor simply stuck around long enough to make their voices heard by anyone whowould listen."They selected artists such as Maria Lassnig, David Medallaand Jiri Kovanda.ICE CREAM opens with a conversation between the contributors as they debatethe changing role of the curator and current trends in contemporary art,including: *The blurring of roles between artist and curator demonstrated by thefact that artists have recently been invited to make selections inexhibitions. For example, The Wrong Gallery curated the 4th Berlin Biennialfor Contemporary Art (2006) and presented an exhibition within the 2006Whitney Biennial. The ICA London also exhibited the "Artist's Favorites"show in 2004.*The shift in the conception of the exhibition that expands beyondmuseum walls. Inserting art in different environments.*The effect of private art spaces that are run by collectors todisplay their own collections.Jens Hoffman states, "This will have astrong impact on the overall landscape of contemporary art, since many ofthose collectors who are opening spaces are also the people who give moneyto public institutions, which they'll probably cease to do (once they havetheir own location)." *The impact of the booming art market on artists who seem deeplyaffected by the pressure to conform to market forces and adapt their work.Each of the 100 artists is featured over four pages with a selection oftheir work together with a commentary by the curator who selected them, anexhibition history, and a bibliography.Every curator also selects aSource Artist, namely any artist from any previous generat About the Author The 10 Curators of ICE CREAM -Sergio Edelsztein founded The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv in 1995, where he has been the Director since 1997. -Jens Hoffmann is a curator and writer based in San Francisco where he is the newly appointed Director of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. -Lisette Lagnado was the Chief Curator of the 27th São Paulo Biennial (2006) and, since 2001 she has been editor of the online journal, Trópico. -Midori Matsui is an art critic who has written extensively on Japanese and Western art for a wide variety of periodicals and catalogues. -Shamim Momin is an Associate Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She co-curated the Whitney Biennial (2004). -Pi Li is a lecturer at the Central Academy of Fine Arts and Curator at The Loft New Media Art Space, Beijing. -Gloria Sutton is a former Helena Rubinstein Fellow in Critical Studies at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, New York and is currently working with the Kunsthalle, Zurich. -Olesya Turkina is a critic, curator and Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Contemporary Art at the State Russian Museum, St Petersburg. -Philippe Vergne is the Chief Curator and Deputy Director at the Walker Art Center Minneapolis. He co-curated the Whitney Biennial (2006). -The Wrong Gallery, set up by the artist Maurizio Cattelan, and the curators Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick, was a tiny, not-for-profit, half-metre-square exhibition space located in a shallow doorway in Chelsea, New York's gallery district. Evicted in July 2005, the gallery space is currently housed at London's Tate Modern. The Wrong Gallery also curated the 4th Berlin Biennial (2006).

在线阅读本书 Drawing has recently experienced a renewal of importance in the art world; in fact, it has rarely been as widely represented in the biennials, art fairs, and exhibitions as it is now. Similar in concept, scope and structure to Phaidon's successful volume Vitamin P, Vitamin D presents, in A to Z order, the work of 109 artists who have emerged internationally since 1990 using the medium of drawing. Whether representational or abstract, small or large in scale, using only one line or rich in colors and pattern, drawings have a highly descriptive and meticulously detailed quality that is being explored by an increasing number of contemporary artists. Extending beyond the traditional image associated with this medium, Vitamin D hopes to illustrate the complexity, variety, and relevance of the practice of drawing today.

Contemporary art, continued Unless you regularly trawl the Chelsea galleries, hang out at the Tate Modern, peruse the Pompidou, attend every Biennale, and religiously read Artforum, you could probably use a primer on the art scene in the world today. Fortunately we've created our second Art Now volume to keep art fans abreast of the latest trends and hottest names. Featuring over 130 artists in A-Z entries with biographical information and exhibition history as well as images of important recent work—plus a bonus illustrated index of current auction prices—Art Now II is the guide to what's happening and who's who in contemporary art.

Contemporary art in a nutshell (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) This Art Now 25th anniversary special edition brings together recent work and biographical information for over 80 of today's most influential artists, forming a broad and vibrant spectrum of the work that has shaped the art world in recent years. Featured artists include: Matthew Barney, Maurizio Cattelan, John Currin, Tacita Dean, Thomas Demand, Rineke Dijkstra, Douglas Gordon, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Hirschhorn, Damien Hirst, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Jeff Koons, Sharon Lockhart, Won Ju Lim, Paul McCarthy, Mariko Mori, Sarah Morris, Vik Muniz, Takashi Murakami, Shirin Neshat, Albert Oehlen, Chris Ofili, Gabriel Orozco, Jorge Pardo, Elizabeth Peyton, Thomas Ruff, Cindy Sherman, Thomas Struth, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Luc Tuymans, Jeff Wall, and Andrea Zittel.

The Teller family business produces small parts for string instruments. Juergen Teller has taken photographs of company employees, his uncle and his uncle's collection of hunting trophies. He has also shot pictures in dripstone caves, of Kate Moss during her pregnancy and of himself. In the world of Juergen Teller, it somehow all fits together. Werkstatt--a studio or creative environment--collects, as Juergen Teller does, people and places. It combines scenes from the world he grew up in with selections from the world of beautiful images that he travels in today. Candid, subjective and completely without superficial affect, Teller offers a peek or two into his world. How it all fits together is left up to the viewer.

The first accessible guide to the key artists and uses of photography in contemporary art since the mid-1980s. An ideal introduction to this popular subject in contemporary culture, this highly readable book surveys work by more than 150 artist-photographers: Andreas Gursky, Nan Goldin, Philip-Lorca di Corcia, Richard Billingham, Jurgen Teller, Thomas Demand, Yinka Shonibare, Thomas Ruff, Jeff Wall, Wolfgang Tillmans, and many more. More than 200 examples of the most important works are illustrated. Themed chapters consider subjects such as narrative and storytelling in art photography, photographing the everyday and the insignificant, the use of photography in conceptual art, and the cool, detached, objective aesthetic prevalent in current art photography. 210 illustrations, 100 in color.

Through their inimitable mixture of eroticism, subdued elegance and decadent luxury, Newton's pictures reflect in the highest aesthetic quality an obsession with human vanity - from female exhibitionism to male voyeurism. With technical perfection, an extremely detailed style and a relentless directness, Newton staged the neverending psychodrama that contrasts glamour with the need for admiration, self-confidence with the desire for self-presentation, and Eros with Thanatos. Private Property was originally a three-part portfolio containing 45 b&w photographs. It includes Newton's best work from the period 1972-1983 - an exquisite assortment of fashion shots, portraits and erotic motifs which are all based on real location and luxurious lifestyles. The entire sequence of pictures from the Private Property portfolio is included in our book which first appeared in 1989.

In the previous century, photography helped shape art; in the current one, it has begun to dominate it. Not only are major international museums and galleries mounting blockbuster exhibitions, but art photographers are also being celebrated as contemporary masters and their work commands unprecedented prices. This indispensable survey presents the work of 76 of the most important and best-known art photographers in the world: Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Wall, Sophie Calle, Wolfgang Tillmans, Nan Goldin, Martin Parr, Allan Sekula, Boris Mikhailov, Inez van Lamsweerde, Stephen Meisel, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Sam Taylor-Wood, and many more are featured in its pages. Susan Bright, former Curator of Photographs at London's National Portrait Gallery, has organized the book into seven sections--City, Portrait, Document, Object, Landscape, Fashion, and Narrative--and provides an introductory essay for each. Along with each photographer's works, presented in sequence within those divisions, Bright's commentaries provide context and depth, and quotations from the artists themselves offer valuable insights into the motivation, inspiration, and intentions behind the work. Following in the tradition of Photography Past/Forward: Aperture at 50 and the Photography Speaks series, this volume will become an essential resource for curators, collectors, scholars, practitioners, and anyone who wants comprehensive, up-to-date exposure to the state of the medium today.

From phallic statues and racy antique urns to homoerotic etchings and orgiastic paintings, the pieces portrayed in this eclectic collection of images pay homage to men—and men on men—via a very special voyage through the history of art.

The Art of War meets "The Artist's Way" in this no-nonsense, profoundly inspiring guide to overcoming creative blocks of every kind.

Why would a smart New York investment banker pay $12 million for the decaying, stuffed carcass of a shark? By what alchemy does Jackson Pollock’s drip painting No. 5, 1948 sell for $140 million? Intriguing and entertaining, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark is a Freakonomics approach to the economics and psychology of the contemporary art world. Why were record prices achieved at auction for works by 131 contemporary artists in 2006 alone, with astonishing new heights reached in 2007? Don Thompson explores the money, lust, and self-aggrandizement of the art world in an attempt to determine what makes a particular work valuable while others are ignored. This book is the first to look at the economics and the marketing strategies that enable the modern art market to generate such astronomical prices. Drawing on interviews with both past and present executives of auction houses and art dealerships, artists, and the buyers who move the market, Thompson launches the reader on a journey of discovery through the peculiar world of modern art. Surprising, passionate, gossipy, revelatory, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark reveals a great deal that even experienced auction purchasers do not know.

Artists have always explored new media, and computer-based artists are no exception. Generative art, an emerging technique where print or onscreen images are created by use of computer algorithms, finds the artistic intersection between programming, computer graphics, and individual expression. Generative Art presents both the technique and the beauty of algorithmic art. In it, you'll find dozens of high-quality examples of generative art, along with the specific programmatic steps author and artist Matt Pearson followed to create each unique piece. The book includes concise tutorials for each of the technical components required to create the book's examples, and it offers countless suggestions for how you can combine and reuse the various techniques to create your own works.

在房地產市場與股票市場之間，藝術品更像房地產。部分安迪．沃荷（Andy Warhol）的作品就像坐南朝北的建築叢中的套房；部分作品則像有三百六十度視野的閣樓。要在藝術市場賣得高價，作品的「估價」更勝於「評價」。要知道，炙手可熱的藝術品並非突然冒出，它是藝術家、畫商、策展人、藝評家、經紀人、收藏家聯合「製造」出來的。作者桑頓花了5年的時間，走訪5城6國，將其280次貼身採訪整理成7篇故事，為大家探索藝術世界的秘密，是了解現代藝術的最佳指南。 2008年《紐約時報》、《星期日泰晤士報》最佳藝術書籍 炙手可熱的藝術品並非突然冒出，它是藝術家、畫商、策展人、藝評家、經紀人、收藏家聯合「製造」出來的。 桑頓花了5年的時間，走訪5城6國，將其280次貼身採訪整理成7 篇故事，為大家探索藝術世界的祕密，是了解現代藝術的最佳指南。 藝術品價值全看你願意付多少錢決定 在房地產市場與股票市場之間，藝術品更像房地產。部分安迪．沃荷（Andy Warhol）的作品就像坐南朝北的建築叢中的套房；部分作品則像有三百六十度視野的閣樓。要在藝術市場賣得高價，作品的「估價」更勝於「評價」： 1. 棕色的畫不如藍色或紅色的畫；憂鬱的畫不如讓人愉快的畫。 2. 男性的裸體畫通常不如大胸脯女性的畫。 3. 超過電梯大小的作品，只在市場的特定角落有銷路。 4. 繪畫是最受歡迎的藝術品。 5. 新興、年輕的當代藝術家作品容易受到高度注意。 6. 藝術品是否在市場中初次亮相，或已轉手過好幾次，對搶手程度亦有衝擊。 7. 藝術品跟過哪些收藏家，不僅為人津津樂道，無形中也提高了它的價值。 8. 獲得泰納獎提名，作品售價會提高1/3，得獎則會使售價暴增一倍。 藝術拍賣讓人有藝術品可以變現的錯覺，但別以為價格只會朝一個方向飆漲，在一個神秘、時髦、無價、誘惑、上癮的世界，藝術品價值全看你願意付多少錢決定！ 本書特色 1.一種置身藝術世界的感受：作者鮮活地描述了一個特殊社會的人生百態，讓人體會到其中的割喉競爭、它的奇特、它的光鮮亮麗，以及其中的神祕運作方式。 2.挑動讀者的思考與反應：藝術世界是由不同的次文化交集而成，每一種文化對藝術的定義都有不同的主張，書中每一個有聲音的人都同意，藝術應該挑起人的思考與反應。

The art market has been booming. Museum attendance is surging. More people than ever call themselves artists. Contemporary art has become a mass entertainment, a luxury good, a job description, and, for some, a kind of alternative religion. In a series of beautifully paced narratives, Sarah Thornton investigates the drama of a Christie's auction, the workings in Takashi Murakami's studios, the elite at the Basel Art Fair, the eccentricities of Artforum magazine, the competition behind an important art prize, life in a notorious art-school seminar, and the wonderland of the Venice Biennale. She reveals the new dynamics of creativity, taste, status, money, and the search for meaning in life. A judicious and juicy account of the institutions that have the power to shape art history, based on hundreds of interviews with high-profile players, Thornton's entertaining ethnography will change the way you look at contemporary culture.