Known internationally for her powerful drawings, the work of Chloe Piene has been called brutal, delicate, figurative, forensic, erotic and fantastic. Her large scale video works utilize the greater sensory impact of noise, time, darkness and misrecognition to visibly extend into the more subterranean levels of experience. This new monograph marks the most in-depth representation of her work to date. It includes 40 reproductions of drawings with details, a new arrangement of an installation in three parts, an essay by Barry Schwabsky and an interview of the artist by the artist herself. Piene has shown extensively at institutions such as the Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland, the Witte de With, the Netherlands and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York....

Los Angeles-based Mexican painter Yishai Jusidman is known for conceptually playful works that implicate the viewer, often by depicting an idealized gallery space and fictional viewers within the frame of the canvas. This book is a retrospective of the 11 series of works that he has produced from 1987 to the present....

This first monograph introduces one of the most promising Italian artists of the post-Cattelan generation. Roccasalva mixes conceptual rigor with hallucinatory extravaganza--always ending in a complex installation where the different elements act like characters performing an erratic script that probes art historical, philosophical, musical and literary references....

In the Fumetti series Stezaker continues his work with publicity film portraits. Instead of working with old bromides, however, he takes portraits from film annuals of the 1950s and 1960s and deconstructs perfect hair and makeup to make monstrous hybrids. Fumetti" is an Italian comic tradition using photos instead of illustrations."...