Published in conjunction with an exhibition of Max Ernst’s work in Turin, this book includes almost 150 reproductions of his sculptures and collages, from the 1930s on.

Julien Levy (1906-1981) was one of the most influential art dealers of the twentieth century. The Julien Levy Gallery, which opened in New York in 1931 and closed in 1949, played an essential role in the shift of the cultural avant-garde from Paris to New York. It was the first American gallery to sponsor a show on Surrealism and to champion Neoromanticism, Magic Realism, and Machine Abstraction. Luis Buñuel’s film Un Chien Andalou and Joseph Cornell’s Rose Hobart were first screened in the gallery. Among the artists Levy exhibited were Eugene Atget, Constantin Brancusi, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Joseph Cornell, Salvador Dali, Walt Disney, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Walker Evans, Leonor Fini, Naum Gabo, Alberto Giacometti, Arshile Gorky, Frida Kahlo, Fernand Léger, René Magritte, Lee Miller, Man Ray, Ben Shahn, and Dorothea Tanning. Levy also initiated the cocktail opening.This book, which accompanies a retrospective exhibition on the Julien Levy Gallery in New York, includes reproductions of paintings, photographs, and film stills from museum and private collections, as well as of art and ephemera from Levy’s own collection. The book offers recollections of Levy and his gallery from several angles. Dorothea Tanning reminisces about her lifelong friendship with her first dealer. Ingrid Schaffner surveys the evolution of Levy’s enterprise from combination curiosity shop, exhibition space, and performance site into a model for the contemporary art gallery. Steven Watson discusses Levy’s personal and professional affiliations with the “Harvard Moderns”–Alfred Barr, Jr., and A. Everett Austin among them. Carolyn Burke looks at Levy’s complex relationship with his mother-in-law, poet and painter Mina Loy, who acted as his agent and mentor in Paris. Finally, Lisa Jacobs provides a chronology of the events of the gallery and of Levy’s life.Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Equitable Gallery, New York.

Selections from the original six volumes of surrealist, erotic literature and illustration from 1931 available for the first time. Because of censorship laws, Edition 69 series was never for sale, nor was it made available to libraries. The books were exclusively for subscribers, collectors, and a circle of friends, the Czech avant-garde investigating the taboos of bourgeois culture. This volume includes the two most important texts in the series: * Nezval’s Sexual Nocturne * Styrsky’s Emilie Come to Me in a Dream * an original essay from psychoanalyst Bohuslav Brouk, a founding member of the Czechslovak Surrealist Group and much influenced by Max Ernst.

Photomontage was pioneered as a technique in central Europe in the 1910s, where it flourished as an art form through the end of World War II. While German artists such as John Heartfield, Max Ernst and Hannah Höch used the medium to respond to the atrocities of war, other areas of Europe were simultaneously experiencing a newfound political autonomy as the Austro-Hungarian Empire collapsed. For these artists, namely Polish and Czech, photomontage manifested itself in a Surrealist approach to cut-and-paste imagery that emphasized its potential for visual poetry. Photo/Montage in Print traces the explosion of photomontage art in book cover design and illustrated magazines in the interwar period. Documenting the remarkable contributions of Czech artists in the creation of the visual language of modern print media, the publication includes some of the leading artists of the Czech avant garde such as Karel Teige, Jindrich Styrsky, Toyen, Ladislav Sutnar and Frantisek Muzika.

A collection of artists’ books by: Marina Abramovic, Carl Andre, Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, Robert Morris, Ida Applebroog, Armando, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Jean Arp, Richard Artschwager, Enrico Baj, Guido Ballo, John Baldessari, Miroslaw Balka,Balthus, Georg Baselitz, Marius Bauer, Merina Beekman, Joseph Beuys, Marcel Broodthaers, David Bunn, Chris Burden, Eduardo Chillida, Catherine Claeyé, Francesco Clemente, Chuck Close, Jean Cocteau, George Hugnet, Bruce Conner, Michael Craig-Martin, Olafur Eliasson, Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy, Tristan Tzara, Anya Gallaccio, Ryan Gander, Alberto Giacometti, Gilbert & George, Pim van Halem, Jonathan Hammer, Sjoerd Hofstra, John Billingham, Jörg Immendorf, Xu Pei, Rein Jansma, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Paul Klee, Jannis Kounellis, Barbara Kruger, Stephen King, André Lanskoy, Henri Laurens, Richard Long, Kasper Andreasen, Tine Melzer, Christien Meindertsma, Sophie Calle , Constant Nieuwenhuys / Gerrit Kouwenaar, Guiseppe Penone, Sigmar Polke, Ken Price / Charles Bukowski, Robert Rauschenberg, David Sandlin, Koosje Schmeddes, Sean Scully, Kiki Smith, Nicolas de Staël, Antoni Tàpies, Andrea Tippel, Richard Tuttle, Damian van der Velden, herman de vries, Hans Waanders, Kara Walker, Alicja Werbachowska, Christopher Wool, Raymond Pettibon, Paul Éluard, Marino Marini, Alicia Martin, Paul McCarthy, Jason Roades, Jack Milroy, René Char, Henry Moore, Robert Motherwell, Octavio Paz, Roman Ondak, Henk Peeters, Edward Ruscha, Man Ray, Louise Bourgeois, Sonia Delaunay, Wassily Kandinsky, Ellsworth Kelly, Joan Miró, Fernand Leger, Sol LeWitt, Henry Matisse, A.R. Penck, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol and Lawrence Weiner.

This insightful book is the first to present a comprehensive survey of the Modernist movement as it emerged in America between 1920 and 1960 in various graphic media. It identifies and examines great works in advertising, information design, identity, magazine design, print, dimensional design, and posters that by mid-century had defined American graphic design. R. Roger Remington begins by discussing the emergence of Modernism and its major historical influences, including European avant-garde art movements, technology, geopolitical issues, popular culture, educational innovations such as the Bauhaus, architecture, industrial design, and photography. The heart of the book brings together the key works of mid-century Modernism, presenting them chronologically from the 1930s to the 1950s. The final section shows the impact of and reactions to these Modernist influences as graphic design in America matured into the 1960s and beyond. Handsomely designed and illustrated, American Modernism is destined to become,a classic text in the study of design and visual culture. Contents Preface The Basis for the New: The Cradle of Modernism, 1850-1899 A New World Forming: The Impact of Modernism, 1900-1919 American Design in Transition: Traditional to Modernism, 1920-1929 Into the Design Scene: Modernism Arrives in America, 1930-1939 At War and After: The Creative Forties in America, 1940-1949 A New Style: American Design at Mid-Century, 1950-1959 Design Since Mid-Century: Diversity and Contradiction, 1960-1999 Notes Bibliography Picture credits Acknowledgements Contains work by Alvin Lustig, Alvar Aalto, Dr. Mehemed Fehmy Agha, Constantin Alajalov, Josef Albers, Alexander Archipenko, Merle Armitage, Frank Barr, Hans Barschel, Saul Bass, Bauhaus, Willy Baumeister, Herbert Bayer, Lester Beall, Max Beckmann, Norman Bel Geddes, Morris Benton, Henryk Berlewi, Lucian Bernhard, Joseph Binder, Ernst Bohm, Will Bradley, Georges Braque, Frances Brennan, Marcel Breuer, Alexey Brodovitch, Max Burchartz, Will Burtin, Jean Carlu, David Carson, Melbert Cary, A. M. Cassandre, Ernest Caulkins, Cherryburn Press, Arthur Cohen, Charles Coiner, Container Corporation of America, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Louis Danziger, Claude Debussy, Rudolph De Harak, Fortunato Depero, Donald Deskey, De Stijl, Deutscher Werkbund, Walter Dexel, Otto Dix, Cesar Domela, Henry Dreyfuss, William Addison (W. A.) Dwiggins, Charles Eames, Milton Feasley, Gene Federico, Max Fleischer, Fortune Magazine, Dan Friedman, Leon Friend, Robert Gage, Sigfried Giedion, George Giusti, Milton Glaser, William Golden, Morton Goldsholl, Frederick Goudy, April Greiman, Glenn Grohe, Walter Gropius, George Grosz, Edmund Guess, Jay Hambridge, Richard Edes Harrison, Baron Georges Eugene Hausmann, Raoul Hausmann, John Heartfield, Hannah Hoch, Hans Hofmann, Gerald Holton, Clarence Hornung, Johannes Itten, Egbert Jacobsen, S. A. Jacobs, Robert Jensen, Philip Johnson, Bobby Jones, L. B. Jones, Wassily Kandinsky, Susan Kare, Edward McKnight Kauffer, Rockwell Kent, Gyorgy Kepes, Frederick Kiesler, Paul Klee, Knoll Furniture Company, Rudolph Koch, Willi Kunz, Le Corbusier, Fernand Leger, Alexander Liberman, Leo Lionni, El Lisstsky, George Lois, William Longhauser, Herb Lubalin, Katherine McCoy, Douglas McMurtrie, James Mangan, Man Ray, John Massey, Herbert Matter, Rollo May, Ludwig Meidner, R. Hunter Middleton, Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Otto Mueller, Otto Neurath, Olivetti, Maxfield Parrish, Art Paul, Paul Theobald & Company, Sir Joseph Paxton, Max Pechstein, Charles Pegay, John Pemberton, Edward Penfield, Pablo Picasso, Cipe Pineles, Giovanni Pintori, PM Magazine, Ezra Pound, Push Pin Studios, Paul Rand, Paul Renner, Frank Robinson, Bruce Rogers, Gilbert Rohde, Lester Rondell, George Salter, L. Sandusky, Paula Scher, Kurt Schwitters, Joseph Sinel, Mino Somenzi, Edward Steichen, Alex Steinweiss, Otto Storch, Paul Strand, Ladislav Sutnar, Walter Dorwin Teague, Bradbury Thompson, Karl Tiege, A. Tolmer, Jan Tschichold, Massimo Vignelli, Vogue Magazine, James Watt, Wolfgang Weingart, Westvaco, Wes Wilson, Henry Wolf, Frank Lloyd Wright, Piet Zwart, and others.

With its title taken from a signature work by Bruce Nauman, Life, Death, Love, Hate ,Pleasure, Pain presents a selection of approximately 190 works from the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. A wide-ranging, insightful survey, arranged in roughly chronological order, it features work by such artists as Vito Acconci, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Francis Bacon, Matthew Barney, Joseph, Beuys, Christo, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, KerryJames Marshall, Mariko Mori, Martin Puryear, Richard Serra, Yinka Shonibare, and H. C. Westermann. In an introductory essay, chief curator Elizabeth Smith discusses key trends in art from World War II to the present and provides a brief history of the MCA and its collection. Additional, accessible short texts by the curatorial staff of the MCA focus on individual works. Artists Include: Ann Hamilton, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Jenny Holzer, Max Ernst, Cady Noland, Jeanne Dunning, Jean Dubuffet, Chuck Close, Christo , Alexander Calder, Joseph Beuys, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Matthew Barney, Francis Bacon, Dan Flavin, Adrian Piper and Vito Acconci, amongst many others. Essays by Lynne Warren, Elizabeth A. T. Smith, Alison Pearlman, Julie Rodrigues, Francesco Bonami, Staci Boris, Sylvia Chivaratanond, Monika Gehlawat, Lela Hersh, Dominic Molon, Heather Ring, Michael Rooks, Jenni Sorkin, and Tricia Van Eck. Foreword by Robert Fitzpatrick.

Among his many facets, Alexander Iolas (1907-1987) is recognized as a great champion of Surrealism in America, and for mounting Andy Warhol’s first gallery exhibition and Ed Ruscha’s first solo show in New York. A fantastic character and passionate art lover, Iolas built deep personal relationships and facilitated intercontinental connections among artists, gallerists and collectors via his galleries in Athens, Geneva, Madrid, Milan, New York and Paris. Noted for the pivotal role he played in the building of the Menil Collection in Houston, Iolas operated according to his own taste and discerning eye. This fully illustrated publication includes archival photographs and installation views documenting the artworks, movements, personalities and friendships spanning critical periods in the art of the twentieth century. It includes work by Giorgio de Chirico, William Copley, Joseph Cornell, Max Ernst, Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, René Magritte, Ed Ruscha, Niki de Saint Phalle, Takis, Dorothea Tanning, Paul Thek and Andy Warhol.

Post Scriptum is the largest monograph to date on one of Sweden’s most beloved photographers. Founder of the legendary photography school Fotoskolan in Stockholm in 1962, and an inspiration to two generations of photographers, Christer Strömholm (1918–2002) was one of the first Swedish photographers to attain international prominence. Living in both Sweden and France, he first won acclaim with his photo book Poste Restante, which he followed up with Vännerna från Place Blanche (The Friends from Place Blanche)–portrayals of transsexuals in 1960s Paris. His images from his travels in Japan, Spain and the United States are also widely admired. This volume includes these and numerous other bodies of work, including his portraits of artists such as Duchamp, Breton, Ernst, Giacometti, Klein, Rauschenberg, Spoerri and others, compiling nearly 270 of Strömholm’s best photographs.

Multiples by: John L. Tancock, Abe Ajay, Otmar Alt, Arman, Jean Arp, Richard Artschwager,Enrico Baj, Mary Bauermeister, Miguel Berrocal, Joseph Beuys, Max Bill, Mel Bochner, Sandro Bocola, Hartmut Bohm, Agostino Bonalumi, Victor Bonato,Davide Boriani, Derek Boshier, Martha Boto, David Bradshaw, K.P. Brehmer,Marcel Broodthaers, Robert Bryant, Ursula Burghardt, Pol Bury, John Cage,Alexander Calder, Malcolm Carder, Enrico Castellani, Alik Cavaliere, Mario Ceroli, Thomas Chimes, Christo, Chryssa, Genevieve Claisse, Gianni Colombo,Kenelm Cox, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Bill Culbert, Allan D’Arcangelo, Sandro de Alexandris, Lucio Del Pezzo, H.R. Demarco, Walter De Maria, Jim Dine, Herbert Distel, Francesco Marino di Teana, Piero Dorazio, Angel Duarte, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Michel Fadt, Rafael Ferrer, Robert Filliou, Lucio Fontana,Horacio Garcia-Rossi, Karl Gerstner, Gilbert & George, Ludwig Gosewitz, Hans Haacke, Raymond Hains, Etienne Hajdu, Richard Hamilton, Maurice Henry,Eva Hesse, Charles Hinman, Karl Horst Dodicke, Douglas Huebler, Fritz Hendertwasser, Jean Ipousteguy, Allen Jones, Howard Jones, Donald Judd,Iwao Kagoshima, Stephen Kaltenbach, Pierre Keller, Milan Knizak, Piotr Kowalski, David Lamelas, Fernand Leger, Julio Le Parc, Sol LeWitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Shoji Lida, Liliane Lijn, Richard Lindner, Yuan-Chia Li, Bernard Luginbuhl, Adolf Luther, Rene Magritte, Piero Manzoni, Enzo Mari, Marisol,Gino Marotta, Henri Matisse, Paul Matisse, Rory McEwen, Tomio Miki, Marcello Morandini, Francois Morellet, Robert Morris, Bruno Munari, Bruce Nauman,Louise Nevelson, Kazuo Okazaki, Claes Oldenburg, Dennis Oppenheim, George Ortman, Claus Paeffgen, Palermo, Pavlos, Henry Pearson, David Pelham, Alicia Penalba, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Sigmar Polke, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Gio Pomodoro, William Pye, Edival Ramosa, Robert Rauschenberg, May Ray, Martial Raysse, Paul Reich, George Rickey, Larry Rivers, James Rosenquist, Dieter Rot [Dieter Roth], Mimmo Rotella, Gerhard Rühm, Edward Ruscha, Lucas Samaras,Remo Saraceni, Pedroni Sarenco, Alan Saret, Nicholas Schoffer, Peter Sedgley,George Segal, Richard Serra, Richard Smith, Tony Smith, Robert Smithson,Kenneth Snelson, Francisco Sobrino, Keith Sonnier, Jesus Raphael Soto, Daniel Spoerri, Klaus Staeck, Klaus Staudt, Joel Stein, Saul Steinberg, Kumi Sugai,George Sugarman, Takis, Paul Palman, Takao Tanabe, Andre Thomkins, Joe Tilson, Jean Tinguely, Luis Tomasello, David Tremlett, Ernest Trova, Michael Tyzack, Raoul Ubac, Gunther Uecker, De Wain Valentine, Gregorio Vardanega,Victor Vasarely, Wolf Vostell, Andy Warhol, Willy Weber, Lawrence Weiner,Gunter Wesler, Ludwig Wilding, Jean Pierre Yvaral

Enigma Helvetia indaga il rapporto complesso che, dalla fine dell’ottocento ai giorni nostri, intercorre tra la produzione artistica, la storia, la cultura e l’immaginario del singolare laboratorio che è la Svizzera. Nel secolo appena trascorso si sono susseguiti profondi cambiamenti sociopolitici, al cospetto dei quali il paese ha profilato la propria identità e la propria posizione internazionale, condizionando inevitabilmente – per reazione o identificazione, rottura o assimilazione –, anche le espressioni di creatività. L’arte e gli artisti che per nascita, elezione, eventi storici e vicende personali si sono confrontati in qualche modo con la Svizzera e con la “Swiss way of life”, sono stati protagonisti nel mondo lungo tutto il XX secolo. La mostra, documentata nel catalogo, propone un’esplorazione avventurosa, curiosa e persino divertente dentro l’enigma elvetico, affiancando alle straordinarie opere d’arte provenienti dai più importanti musei svizzeri, immagini e oggetti del quotidiano, delle tradizioni e della produzione industriale svizzera. Artisti in mostra: Albert Anker, Ferdinand Hodler, Cuno Amiet, Giovanni, Augusto e Alberto Giacometti, Paul Klee, Jean Arp e Sophie Täuber-Arp, Le Corbusier, Max Bill, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Hermann Scherer, Jean Tinguely, Fischli&Weiss, Franz Gertsch, Markus Raetz, Roman Signer, Daniel Spörri, Ben Vautier, Not Vital.