"When I go to a place like Brittany or Houston, Texas, what I'm partly trying to do is go around in this very simple way, point to things and say, this is actually of value, I recognize this, it smells good, it tastes good, or something. I want you to taste this," writes Portland, Oregon-based artis...

New York-based Conceptual art pioneer Mel Bochner writes in this monograph, "What I try to do is stay open to the work as it develops, not impose myself on it, but permit it to take me somewhere. If I had a model, I suppose it would be those ancient Chinese artists who changed their name three times...

Born in 1925, the American Paris-based painter Shirley Jaffe has been producing flat, colorful abstract compositions that call to mind such artists as Stuart Davis, Jonathan Lasker and Hans Arp for more than 60 years. This volume collects works from the 1960s through the present....