ARTBOOK BLOGEventsStore NewsMuseum Stores of the MonthNew Title ReleasesStaff PicksImage GalleryBooks in the MediaExcerpts & EssaysArtbook InterviewsEx LibrisAt First SightThe Artbook 2024 Gift GuidesArtbook Featured Image ArchiveArtbook D.A.P. Events ArchiveDATE 1/14/2025 Join us at the Atlanta Gift & Home Winter Market 2025DATE 1/2/2025 Wishing You the Beauty of the MysteriousDATE 12/31/2024 Happy New Year from Artbook | D.A.P.DATE 12/26/2024 An ode to holiday pleasuresDATE 12/24/2024 Happy Holidays from Artbook | D.A.P.DATE 12/18/2024 BMCM+AC presents David Silver on 'The Farm at Black Mountain College'DATE 12/17/2024 Good news for open mindsDATE 12/14/2024 A fascinating new study of Helen Frankenthaler & Co.DATE 12/12/2024 Donlon Books presents the London launch of 'More Than the Eyes: Art, Food and the Senses'DATE 12/12/2024 A fresh new take on Black Mountain CollegeDATE 12/8/2024 The Primary Essentials presents a book signing with JJ ManfordDATE 12/8/2024 ‘Larry Sultan & Mike Mandel: Evidence’ is back in print at last!DATE 12/7/2024 Artbook at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles Bookstore presents Chloe Sherman on 'Renegades San Francisco: The 1990s' | IMAGE GALLERY DATE 1/2/2025 Wishing You the Beauty of the MysteriousIn Particles and Waves: Southern California Abstraction and Science, published to accompany the PST exhibition on view now at Palm Springs Museum of Art, Michael Duncan notes that “art is ultimately not science but something that can use science to create the indefinable, ineffable, and other.” He cites Albert Einstein’s 1930 essay, The World As I See It. “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. It was this experience of mystery—even if mixed with fear—that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds—it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity: in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man.” Pictured here, a still from John and James Whitney’s 16mm film Five Film Exercise #4 (1943–45). DATE 12/31/2024 Happy New Year from Artbook | D.A.P.At the dawn of the new year, we find ourselves looking back at Robert Delaunay’s luminous 1930 painting Circular Forms, reproduced from Harmony and Dissonance, published by Guggenheim Museum to accompany its current sleeper blockbuster on the Orphist movement in Paris, 1910–1930. Championed by the great French poet Guillaume Apollinaire for its movement away from Cubism towards an abstraction that he perceived as “physically and spiritually unlimited,” Orphism radiates positivity to us even now, through its “transcendent qualities of light and color, and its expression of inner authenticity, dynamism, harmony and simultaneity,” in the words of essayist and Guggenheim curator Tracey Bashkoff. DATE 12/26/2024 An ode to holiday pleasuresDetail is from Jacques-Henri Lartigue: The Proof of Color. A lovely hardcover with tipped-on cover image, this new release from Atelier EXB collects previously unpublished double-view autochromes by the early-twentieth-century French photographer Jacques-Henri Lartigue—beloved for his sporty portraits of friends and family enjoying moments of leisure at the beach, in the country and on the slopes of the French Alps. Much as we hate to imagine wearing them ourselves, how we love to see women skiing in long skirts! This particular photograph includes Lartigue himself, second from right in his iconic “tango” orange sweater, photographed with his own camera by Victor Folletête in Chamonix, January 21, 1914. |
