הוצאת Charta
הספרים של הוצאת Charta
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Gathered in this volume is work from the past five years by Mexican artist Raymundo Sesma, focusing on the artist's graphically bold multidisciplinary interventions. These works are site-specific responses to particular architectural elements....
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Bruna Esposito creates environmental interventions in urban contexts, inserting destabilizing elements--often through food, odors, or sounds--whose tones range from the ironic to the poetic. A participant in the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center Studio Program, her work has been shown at Documenta 10 an...
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Beirut-born artist Mona Hatoum has been known, since the early 1990s, for large-scale poetic and politically-minded installations in which she transforms domestic objects such as chairs, cots and kitchen utensils into implements that connote torture or incarceration. This volume documents Hatoum's w...
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Gabriele Di Matteo's artist's book takes over 70 photographs of Jackson Pollock from a 1982 Paris Musee national d'art moderne catalogue on the artist, and subjects them to a reproduction process that translates them into painted portraits....
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New York-based Dennis Oppenheim has been active in many realms: conceptual and performance art, earthworks and photography. He was recently recognized with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2007 Vancouver Sculpture Biennale. Following his early earthworks, Oppenheim began creating the whimsical, a...
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Shoes made from discarded rubber, a knife grinder made from a bicycle wheel, an organ made from water pipes, a lamp made from plastic bottle bottoms and a clock made from old flip-flops are a few of the ingenious recycled Kenyan products covered in this fascinating volume....
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Merce Cunningham (1919-2009) pioneered the contemporary conception of dance as a moving image of life. His innovations in the field date back to the 1940s, when, after meeting composer John Cage, he proposed the separation of music and dance and applied chance procedures to the structure of his danc...
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In this dreamy first monograph on photographer Sandi Haber Fifield, the artist culls through her image bank as we scan our imaginations," according to essayist Tom O'Connor, "following lines of thought that are rarely linear, exploring connections and chasing memories, drawing on books read, films s...
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In the introduction to this volume, Chicago-based photographer Sandro Miller writes, The people of Cuba provided me with faces that told a million stories--stories of war, of love, of heartache and pain, of hard work and determination--faces beaten up by the sun and the heat, but most of all faces t...
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Written and illustrated (in watercolor) by American conceptualist Patricia Cronin, this is the only catalogue raisonne of Hosmer (1830-1908), the first professional woman sculptor....
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The Aesthetics of Terror examines how terror has permeated and impacted contemporary art. It includes works by the Chapmans, Blue Noses, Jenny Holzer, Jon Kessler and Martha Rosler....
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Heads and Tales presents photographic documentation of 30 sculptures by Heide Hatry, in which fake skin appears to have been grafted on top of real faces. Each sculpture represents an imaginary woman for whom an invited female writer has created a biography. Writers include Jessica Hagedorn, ...
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