Stéphane Aquin - Böcker

The first and highly-anticipated monograph on one of the most successful, collected, and exciting painters today Swiss-born Nicolas Party, one of the most successful and critically acclaimed artists working today, is known for his color-saturated paintings of everyday objects, with distinctly personal yet very accessible and recognizable imagery - bright, graphic patterns applied to canvases, ceramics, furniture, floors, ceilings, doorways, and walls.He captures the essence of his subjects in surprising ways, heightening their physical and emotional resonance. Fascinated by the power of paint to alter our perception of the built environment and, within a gallery context, how we experience art, Party regularly paints murals, either as stand-alone works or as carefully orchestrated settings for his practice.This is the first book dedicated to his practice and the first to examine in totality his career to date - it will be a must-read for collectors and followers of the contemporary art scene.

The biggest collection book on the Hirshhorn in almost 50 years, capturing the full sweep of modern and contemporary art around the worldPublished with Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.Containing nearly 200 entries on individual artists, artworks and the richness and strengths of the museum’s collection—and lavishly illustrated with approximately 500 full-color and black-and-white images—this comprehensive book is bolstered by three major essays and new scholarship on topics ranging from the museum's collection history and its future to the museum's unique building and Garden to the Hirshhorn's groundbreaking conservation work.Delving into the museum’s prolific and far-reaching holdings—from 20th-century sculptural masterworks to the trailblazing works of midcentury to the new-media works of the contemporary era—the book is an ambitious scholarly assessment of 20th- and 21st-century modern and contemporary art.Artists include: John Akomfrah, Josef Albers, Karel Appel, Ed Atkins, Robert Barry, Constantin Brancusi, Nicolas De Staël, Marcel Duchamp, Thomas Eakins, Nicole Eisenman, Sam Francis, Paul Gauguin, Camille Henrot, Barbara Hepworth, Arthur Jafa, Jasper Johns, Jennie C. Jones, Donald Judd, On Kawara, Oskar Kokoschka, Alicja Kwade, Teresa Margolles, Henri Matisse, Joan Mitchell, Kent Monkman, Aliza Nisenbaum, Nicolas Party, Sondra Perry, Christina Quarles, Deborah Roberts, Auguste Rodin, Frances Stark, Hito Steyerl, Paul Thek, Cy Twombly, Lee Ufan, Charline von Heyl and Kiyan Williams.