Per Diem: The Gerd Metzdorff Collection

Publisher: Griffin Art Projects, Vancouver, BC, 2023
Texts by: Lisa Baldissera, Emmett Hanly

Per Diem: The Gerd Metzdorff Collection chronicles the extensive art collection of Gerd Metzdorff. Ranging from drawing, painting, photography, installation and sculpture, Metzdorff’s collection was drawn together over a period of almost forty years. Metzdorff began collecting contemporary art while working as a flight attendant and his collection may be said to parallel his international travels. Originally derived from the per diem funds provided to him by the airline where he was employed as a steward, Metzdorff’s keen eye allowed him to amass a collection of some of the most important artists and movements in contemporary art.

82 pages
ISBN 978-1-7780952-1-4

COSMOS: The Art and Science of the Universe

Publisher: Reaktion Books Ltd, London, 2019
Authors: Roberta J.M. Olson and Jay M. Pasachoff

Since time immemorial, the nocturnal skies have mesmerized us, and heavenly bodies have inspired the imaginations of artists, poets, and scientists. Featuring paintings, sculpture, drawings, watercolors, prints, as well as plates from books, celestial diagrams, and astronomical photography, this book showcases the superstars of the firmament and the universe beyond in sumptuous illustrations. Cosmos: The Art and Science of the Universe charts the human love affair with the heavens in art and astronomy in a story based on sound science and insightful art and cultural history. With thrilling and seductive illustrations, Cosmos recounts in ten lively chapters the fascinating history of the human quest to unlock the mysteries of the universe. Showcasing works of art and new information, interpretations, and amusing anecdotes, this stunning book weaves a rich tapestry of celestial interconnections and our efforts to understand the universe, unveiling the beauty of the cosmos and its compelling story.

Hardback, 304 pages, 306 illustrations
ISBN: 978-1789140545

PEINDRE LA NUIT

Publisher: Centre Pompidou-Metz Editions , 2018
Authors: Jean-Marie Gallais, Michaël Foessel

Catalogue de l'exposition "Peindre la nuit," présentée Centre Pompidou Metz (13 Octobre 2018 – 15 Avril 2019). Source d’inspiration majeure de toute l’histoire de l’art, la nuit demeure aujourd’hui encore un terrain d’expériences fécond. Revenir à un sujet aussi vaste que la nuit permet de poser des questions essentielles sur notre condition et notre place dans l’univers, comme sur le rôle de l’art. La nuit permet, tant sur le plan physique que symbolique, ce « détachement du monde » si cher à la modernité. Le moment du crépuscule pourrait d’ailleurs être la parfaite métaphore de la volatile frontière entre figuration et abstraction. À travers une approche liée à la perception de la nuit plutôt qu’à son iconographie, l’exposition se présente elle-même comme une expérience nocturne, une déambulation qui transforme le visiteur en noctambule, et qui transmet ce vertige que procure la nuit : vertige des sens, un vertige intérieur, un vertige cosmique. Le catalogue de l’exposition est un riche ouvrage illustré qui dépasse le corpus exposé pour retracer une histoire des liens entre la peinture et la nuit au XXe siècle et aujourd’hui. Il comporte un essai inédit du philosophe Michaël Fœssel, Inévidences nocturnes, et une étude approfondie du sujet par Jean-Marie Gallais, commissaire de l’exposition.

Hardback, 240 pages
ISBN: 978-2359830521

UNIVERSE: Exploring the Astronomical World

Publisher: Phaidon, 2017
Author: Phaidon Editors
Contributors: David Malin, Paul Murdin

Explore the stars and planets and beyond through art over the ages – an international panel of experts take you on a journey through man's record of the universe – from ancient cave paintings to animation. "Universe" is a groundbreaking survey that celebrates the popular subject of astronomy through 300 images created by those who have tried to understand - or who have been inspired by – the beauty and mystery of stars, planets, and beyond. Carefully chosen by an international panel of experts and arranged to highlight thought-provoking contrasts and similarities, the selection includes paintings, photographs, sculpture, animation, prints, sketches, and digital renderings with iconic works by renowned photographers, artists, and astronomers alongside previously unpublished finds.

Hardback, 352 pages, 300 images
ISBN: 978-0-7148-7461-6

TAHOE: A Visual History

Publisher: Skira Rizzoli, 2015
Editor: Anne M. Wolf
Contributors: Kevin Starr Ph.D., Ann M. Wolfe, Marvin Cohodas Ph.D., Alfred C. Harrison Jr.

The definitive survey of art about this national treasure, from Albert Bierstadt to Ansel Adams. Located between California and Nevada, the vast body of water known as Lake Tahoe has lured artists to its shores for centuries. This lavishly illustrated, large-scale book celebrates Lake Tahoe, as well as Pyramid Lake, Donner Lake, and the surrounding Sierra Nevada region’s magnificent scenic beauty, through more than 350 paintings, photographs, buildings, and objects. This deluxe volume features lush landscape paintings by Albert Bierstadt, Marianne North, and Thomas Moran; photographs by Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Dorothea Lange, and Edward Weston; Native American Washoe baskets; historical maps and sketches by the region’s early explorers; ephemera related to Tahoe tourism of the 1940s–60s; and architectural drawings, such as Frank Lloyd Wright’s proposed cabin community in Emerald Bay and the historic Glen Alpine Springs Lodge design by Bernard Maybeck.

Hardcover, 468 pages
ISBN: 978-0-8478-4662-7

COMPASS IN HAND: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection

Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, NY, 2009
Author: Christian Rattemeyer
Interview: Harvey S. Shipley Miller by Gary Garrels

"Compass in Hand" brings together approximately 250 works from the Judith Rothschild Foundation's extraordinary gift of over 2,500 drawings to The Museum of Modern Art in 2005. Formed over two years by Harvey S. Shipley Miller (the Foundation's trustee), the collection was conceived to be a broad survey of contemporary drawing practive. It more than fulfills that goal, juxtaposing drawings of the 1960s and 1970s with major works of the past twenty years by such artists as Kai Althoff, R. Crumb, Peter Doig, Marcel Dzama, Mark Grotjahn, Charline von Heyl, Martin Kippenberger, Sherrie Levine, Agnes Martin, Fred Sandback, Paul Thek, and Andrea Zittel, among many others.

Hardcover, 320 pages, 408 color images
ISBN-10: 0870707450
ISBN-13: 978-0870707452

The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection CATALOG RAISONNE

Publisher: The Museum Of Modern Art, NY, 2009
By Christian Rattemeyer
Essays by Scott Gerson, Isabelle Graw, Martin Herbert, Manfred Hermes, Brian Sholis, Jan Tumlir

The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection was formed by Harvey S. Shipley Miller, trustee of the Foundation, and given to The Museum of Modern Art in 2005. This definitive volume presents the collection as a whole, with an introduction by Christian Rattemeyer, The Harvey S. Shipley Miller Associate Curator of Drawings at the Museum, a text on paper conservation by Scott Gerson, Assistant Paper Conservator at MoMA, and five essays each focusing on a different geographic area of artistic production.

Hardcover, 296 pages, 930 b/w images
ISBN: 978-0-87070-751-3

VITAMIN D: New Perspectives in Drawing

Publisher: Phaidon Press, 2005
by Emma Dexter

Drawing has recently experienced a renewal of importance in the art world and has rarely been as widely represented in 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-Z order, the work of 109 artists who have emerged internationally since 1990. All use drawing as a primary medium. 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 images traditionally associated with this medium, "Vitamin D" illustrates the complexity, variety, and relevance of the practice of drawing today.

Hardcover, 352 pages
ISBN-10: 0714845450
ISBN-13: 978-0714845456

NEW YORK, NEW DRAWINGS 1946-2007

Publisher: Museo De Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia Spain, 2009
Text by Elizabeth Finch
Interview by William Corbett

"New York: New Drawings 1946-2007" is a selection of 117 works on paper, mostly Minimalist and Post-Minimalist, from the famous Wynn Kramarsky drawings collection. This beautifully curated collection includes works by William Anastasi, Carl Andre, Robert Barry, Trisha Brown, Eva Hesse, Kristin Holder, Nancy Holt, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Win Knowlton, Barry Le Va, Sol Lewitt, Robert Mangold, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Robert Morris, Ed Ruscha, Robert Ryman, Fred Sandback, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson and countless others. Following an introductory essay by Elizabeth Finch and a conversation between Wynn Kramarsky and poet/art critic William Corbett, 27 artists from the collection contribute written responses and reflections – poems, interviews, aphorism, homages – on the drawings included.

Hardcover: 324 pages, 117 color images
ISBN-10: 8493600458
ISBN-13: 978-8493600457

ART AND TEXT

Publisher: Black Dog Publishing, 2009
Editor: Aimee Selby
Contributors: Dave Beech, Charles Harrison, Will Hill

"Art and Text" covers the development of the textual medium in art from the early combinations of text, lettering and image in the work of seminal artists such as El Lissitzky and Kurt Schwitters right up to the present day. The use of written language has been one of the most defining developments in visual art of the twentieth century. Art and Text is a unique and timely survey of this most contemporary and relevant artistic tool. Contemporary artists continue to use this medium and expand its possibilities, which range from being a most direct and immediate means of artistic expression, to an effective socio-political artistic mechanism.

Hardcover, 288 pages
ISBN-10: 1906155658
ISBN-13: 978-1906155650

MADE IN CALIFORNIA: Art, Image, and Identity 1900-2000

Publisher: University of California Press, 2000
Authors: Stephanie Barron, Ilene Susan Fort, Sheri Bernstein

This opulent and expansive volume, published in conjunction with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's monumental exhibition Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000, charts the dynamic relationship between the arts and popular conceptions of California. Displaying a dazzling array of fine art and material culture, "Made in California" challenges us to reexamine the ways in which the state has been portrayed and imagined. Unusually inclusive, visually intriguing, and beautifully produced, this volume is a delight throughout – both in image and in text – and will appeal to anyone who has lived in, visited, or imagined California.

Paperback, 344 pages, 389 color images, 162 duotones
ISBN-10: 0520227654
ISBN-13: 978-0520227651

DRAWING FROM THE MODERN: 1975-2005

Publisher: Museum of Modern Art, NY, 2005
Jordan Kantor and Gary Garrels

The final installment in a series of catalogues of MoMA's drawings collection, "Drawing from the Modern, 1975 - 2003" tells the story of the years from 1975 to the present day as reflected through the Museum's unparalleled collection of works on paper. Featuring works from firmly established modern masters to the newest figures emerging in the art world today, it will serve as an essential resource for aficionados of works on paper and anyone interested in current trends in art today.

Hardcover, 232 pages, color and b/w images
ISBN 0870706659

THE DRAWING BOOK: A Survey of the Primary Means of Expression

Publisher: Black Dog Publishing
Editor: Tania Kovats
Contributors: Charles Darwent, Kate Macfarlane and Katharine Stout

The works in "The Drawing Book," by artists, architects, sculptors, scientists, filmmakers and thinkers of all descriptions, attest to the versatility and immediacy of drawing. From first thoughts to finely wrought, elaborate artworks, from the lightest sketch in pencil to bold, gallery-wall installations, the medium is shown as an essential vehicle for creativity. The recent prominence of artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, Chris Ofili, Rachel Whiteread, Ellen Gallagher, and a host of others who use drawing as a final means of expression, is addressed in both the works shown and essays by curators Kate Macfarlane and Katharine Stout, and art historian Charles Darwent. The Drawing Book takes us on a journey through five themes — measurement, nature, the city, dreams, and the body. Each is richly illustrated with a diverse range of images, from the old masters — Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Dürer — through great Modernist pieces by Rodin, Picasso, Matisse, and on to the contemporary artists who are reviving drawing today.

Paperback, 320 pages, 260 b/w and color images
ISBN10: 1 904772 81 1
ISBN13: 978 1 904772 81 1

CONTEMPORARY DRAWING
FROM THE 1960'S TO NOW

Publisher: Tate Publishing, 2014
Author: Katharne Stout

Drawing is at the very forefront of contemporary art practice. The radical shift in the treatment and development of drawing since the 1960s has resulted in a renewed status and relevance for it within current practice, with some of the most exciting artistic ideas of the last fifty years indebted to its use. This brand new study into contemporary drawing structures itself around three broad subjects: abstraction and drawing, looking at the way drawing really came into its own at a time when notions of art and the employment of media were radically challenged; drawing as narrative, borrowing and developing ideas on illustration and cartoon art, and investigating the use of drawing with the moving image; and drawing as engagement, with its role in offering a visual description of our environment, as well as the notion of its own physical presence, particularly in relationship to landscape. Including work by artists such as Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, Richard Serra, Philip Guston, Claes Oldenburg, Len Lye, Gordon Matta-Clarke and Richard Long, the book explores how practitioners have addressed and redefined notions of medium specificity in relation to drawing, and how it has been particularly significant for artists pursuing an interdisciplinary practice.

Paperback, 160 pages
ISBN10 1854379704
ISBN13 9781854379702

SURF CULTURE: The Art History of Surfing

Publisher: Gingko Press, 2002

Designed by David Carson and published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Laguna Art Museum in July 2002, "Surf Culture" examines the history of modern surfboard design from 1900 to the present and features over 100 surfboards. It is the most comprehensive examination to date of surfing’s impact on western culture and its cultural bleed into mainstream. Both exhibition and book will explore surfing related activities and by-products such as skateboarding, surf photography, film, clothing, and music and make an assessment of their socio-economic impact. Works of art featured are all surf-influenced and by artists/surfers who have achieved prominence in either the art world or popular culture — Craig Kauffman, Billy Al Bengston, and Robert Irwin to name just a few. Guest curator for the exhibition is Craig Stecyk of Dysfunctional fame.

Paperback + hardcover, 240 pages, 250 color images
ISBN-13: 978-1-58423-113-4
ISBN-10: 1-58423-113-0

STOKED! A History of Surf Culture

by Drew Kampion
Publisher: Gibbs Smith, 2003

In "Stoked: A History of Surf Culture," surf journalist Drew Kampion traces the evolution of the modern beach culture and the challenging, beautiful sport that gave rise to it. From its Polynesian origins and the early days of Duke Kahanamoku's beach boys, to the California-style surfing cult that exploded in the 1960s, to the international pro circuits and radical big-wave contests of today, Stoked tells the compelling story that has inspired entire genres of music, movies, fashion, and art.

Hardcover: 224 pages, 150 color images
ISBN-10: 1586852132