BOOKS

"Enclosure" by Andy Goldsworthy
Since 1995, Andy Goldsworthy has created a series of artworks in Northwest England in sheepfolds: stone enclosures found across the countryside that have been used for assembling, sheltering, and washing sheep for hundreds of years. After working on and off for more than a decade, he completed thirty-five folds, often rebuilding them in the process; many of them can now once again serve their intended purpose.
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"Giacometti, le jamais vu" by Marcelin Pleynet
Giacometti suggests, through his figures extracted from emptiness, a new image of the man and his relationship with the world. He investigates through these figures the place of the Human being in space.
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"The Red Carpet: 20 Years of Fame and Fashion" by Frank Trapper
Celebrity photographer Frank Trapper has had a front row seat to nearly every major star-studded Hollywood event for the past three decades. Now he shares this very exclusive point of view for the first time in "Red Carpet", an unending runway show of images that capture high fashion and fabulous footwear, style dos and don'ts, glitzy gowns and immaculate grooming, and the public-private lives of the entertainment industry's most celebrated personalities.
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Eizo Sakata, Passivité active (active passivity)
In situ creations by Eizo Sakata are not only an aesthetic expression, they always refer to the same process that the artist calls "passivité active" (active passivity). It is his way to express his concern on ecology, to reconcile himself with nature. In his works, water, the source of life, is always present. He proposes to record rain on blue squares, an original way to record a specific date and place. Eizo Sakata has a permanent openness and his ephemeral creations stem from his immersion in natural and cultural environment.
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"A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932" by John Richardson
As he magnificently combines meticulous scholarship with irresistible narrative appeal, Richardson draws on his close friendship with Picasso, his own diaries, the collaboration of Picasso's widow Jacqueline, and unprecedented access to Picasso's studio and papers to arrive at a profound understanding of the artist and his work. 800 photos.
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Tania Linares: "Out of Frame"
"Artistic creation is like making bread or gardening": Phrases such as the one above, written on each of a new series of paintings by Tania Llinares, form part of an astonishing declaration. An artist but first and foremost a writer. Her first painting, at sixteen, sprang from her discovery of Baudelaire's poetry. Writing by Goethe, Jarry and more than anyone else Rimbaud, have acted as both inspiration and motivation. Since then, Tania has been writing on anything and everything that she comes across; spiral bound notebooks, scraps of paper and even the tarmac of the streets. Sometimes she goes as far as to cover several thousand square metres with words that campaign constantly in favour of the right to freedom of existence.
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"Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World" by Timothy Brook
In the hands of an award-winning historian, Vermeer’s dazzling paintings become windows that reveal how daily life and thought—from Delft to Beijing—were transformed in the seventeenth century, when the world first became global.
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"Delicious: Art and Life of Wayne Thiebaud" by Susan Goldman Rubin
One of the giants of American art, Wayne Thiebaud was at first unappreciated because of the everyday subject matter of his paintings. His tasty hot dogs, delectable cakes, dizzy streets, and sleepy deltas have since become icons of twentieth century art. Now young readers have the chance to explore the development of a fascinating artist while delighting in the very child-friendly art that has made him so acclaimed. With her deft touch, critically-acclaimed non-fiction author Susan Rubin tells the story of the man behind the masterpieces.
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