Best Selling Books by Hal Foster

In the latest volume of Fantagraphics'' ambitious reprinting of Hal Foster''s immortal masterpiece, another milestone in the life of Prince Valiant.

Artist Adam Pendleton''s most ambitious catalog to date. Adam Pendleton: To Divide By, a fully illustrated catalog accompanying the exhibition of the same title, presents over 1,400 illustrations. It is edited by Meredith Malone, curator at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, in conjunction with the artist, and it features essays by Malone and the scholars Hal Foster and Joshua Chambers-Letson, a conversation between Pendleton and the critic Isabelle Graw, and complete transcripts of two of the artist''s recent film portraits, presented for the first time.

Our series of special slipcased gift sets of the most visually opulent comic strip in the medium''s history, based on the King Arthur mythos, continues with Vols. 16 - 18 (1967-1972).

Our series of special slipcased gift sets of the most visually opulent comic strip in the medium''s history, based on the King Arthur mythos, continues with Vols. 13-15 (1961-1966).

Preserving a monument goes hand in hand with destroying it. In order to preserve architecture, cultural monuments and relics, they are often re-located, allowing urban displacement to arise – leading to the disappearance of the concept of autonomous geography and archaeology.The dislocation of a monument does not only alter the history of its original location, but also leads to a radical re-interpretation of the monument itself.For his exhibition in 2011 at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Cyprien Gaillard created a new work containing complex implications, which will only be revealed through an act of complete defiance.Similar to public amnesia, lost in the hopeless interaction with the monument, the gradual destruction becomes a part of the aesthetic of resistance. This catalogue depicts the gradual destruction of the sculpture.Included is a conversation with Cyprien Gaillard and Susanne Pfeffer.English and German text.

American photographer Bing Wright (born 1958) marries modernist and conceptual leanings, creating highly formal work that explores the many roles of the photograph--as window or magnifying glass, marker of time or space for illusion. Known for his wide-ranging philosophical investigations and the stripped-down purity of his imagery, Wright can be simultaneously figurative and gorgeously abstract in his work, often calling on the gray light and rainy climate of his native Pacific Northwest. For example, in the Wet Windows series, part of his first body of work begun in 1988, random patterns of raindrops appear to pockmark the photographic surfaces. Deeply engaged with the technological and aesthetic history of the medium, Wright frequently references the work of other photographers from Edward Steichen''s roses to Man Ray''s tears. Bing Wright: Everyday Pictures surveys the artist''s work from 1989 to 2006 and includes a conversation between the artist and renowned art historian Hal Foster.

The action never lets up in the 27th volume of Fantagraphics'' exquisite reprinting of Hal Foster''s masterpiece, as Val embarks upon another treacherous journey that will test his mettle.

A landmark in art history and the most anticipated art publishing event of the new millennium. In this groundbreaking and original work of scholarship, four of the most influential and provocative art historians of our time have come together to provide a comprehensive history of art in the twentieth century, an age when artists in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere sought to overturn the traditions of the past and expectations of the present in order to invent new practices and forms. Adopting a unique year-by-year approach, Foster, Krauss, Bois, and Buchloh present more than 50 short essays, each focusing on a crucial event--the creation of a seminal work, the publication of an artistic manifesto, the opening of a major exhibition--to tell the story of the dazzling diversity of practice and interpretation that characterizes the art of the period. All the turning points and breakthroughs of modernism and postmodernism are explored in depth, as are the frequent and sustained antimodernist reactions that proposed alternative visions of art and the world. Illustrating the authors'' texts are more than 300 of the most important works of the century, many reproduced in full color. The book''s flexible structure and extensive cross-referencing allow readers to follow any one of the many narratives that unfold, whether that be the history of a medium such as photography or painting, the development of art in a particular country, the influence of a movement such as surrealism or feminism, or the emergence of a stylistic or conceptual category like abstraction or minimalism. Boxes give further background information on the important figures and issues. In their insightfulintroductions, the four authors explain the different methods of art history at work in the book, providing the reader with the conceptual tools for further study. A roundtable discussion at the close of the book considers the questions raised by the preceding decades and look ahead to the art of the future. A glossary of terms and concepts completes this extraordinary volume. 300 illustrations, 200 in color. This college edition also includes the Art 20 CD-ROM.

This expanded edition contains new essays on the De Stijl movement, the use of mannequins and the automaton in Dada, and modernist graphic design between the wars, as well as discussions of the global emergence of Chinese artists, the influence of gaming and social networking, and the impact of the market on current practice.

This wide-ranging lecture on Roy Lichtenstein is a gripping engagement with the multiple aspects of the artist''s work: the conjunctions of art and technology, the satirical playing with previous modernist styles, and the sinister background of the military-industrial complex.

"Acclaimed as the definitive work on the subject, Art Since 1900 is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the complexities of art in the modern age."--Page [4] of cover.