Stephanie Weissberg – författare

An outstanding exploration of a photographer, educator, and curator whose work both documented and created change in post-Revolutionary MexicoThis stunning and lyrical volume highlights the personal work of Lola Álvarez Bravo (1903–1993), one of Mexico’s foremost photographers. Álvarez Bravo worked as a photojournalist, commercial photographer, portraitist, and educator and played a critical role in her country’s cultural renaissance. In the years following the Mexican Revolution, she captured a profoundly transformative moment for the country’s land, architecture, and people. She remains best known for these works and for her portraits of prominent modernists working in Mexico, including Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and David Alfaro Siqueiros. Lola Álvarez Bravo delves into a lesser-known body of work, in which attention to pattern, light, and abstraction guides the artist’s depictions of urban and rural landscapes and their inhabitants. It also addresses her role in building and securing the legacy of the post-Revolutionary period, her dialogue with modernist photographers, and her place within the broader cultural sphere, offering new insight into the mutual influence she shared with prominent painters, filmmakers, and literary figures of her time.Published in association with the Pulitzer Arts FoundationExhibition Schedule:Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis(09/14/18–02/16/19)

A new retrospective of the work of trailblazing artist Barbara Chase-RiboudBarbara Chase-Riboud is a bestselling novelist, an award-winning poet, and a renowned visual artist whose sculpture and drawings are in museum collections around the world. Among her best-known sculptural work is the Malcolm X series of flowing cast bronze forms combined with braided fiber elements. Barbara Chase-Riboud Monumentale traces this pioneering artist’s remarkable career from the 1950s to the present, providing the most comprehensive account of her important body of work to date.The book features both celebrated and never-before-seen artworks that highlight Chase-Riboud’s groundbreaking contributions to contemporary sculpture. In addition to some forty sculptures, the book presents nearly twenty works on paper, a selection of Chase-Riboud’s poetry, and excerpts from an interview with the artist.Exploring the many different aspects of Chase-Riboud’s artistic practice, Barbara Chase-Riboud Monumentale provides unprecedented insights into her meditations on form, memory, and monument, while revealing the rich array of inspiration she has drawn from global art history and literature.Published in association with the Pulitzer Arts Foundation

A richly illustrated history of the creation and first quarter century of St. Louis’s world-renowned museum of contemporary and historical art Since opening in 2001, the Pulitzer Arts Foundation has become a must-see American museum, winning acclaim for its stunning architecture, innovative exhibitions, and deep engagement with its Midtown neighborhood of St. Louis. Marking the museum’s twenty-fifth anniversary, this is a comprehensive illustrated history of its founding and evolution into an internationally recognized institution.Founded by Emily Rauh Pulitzer, the Pulitzer Arts Foundation has been a pioneer since its inception. The museum is housed in the first public building in North America designed by Pritzker Prize–winning Japanese architect Tadao Ando, and represents a major investment in St. Louis’s urban center. Through its innovative exhibitions and programs, the museum has offered opportunities for curatorial and scholarly experimentation while shedding light on groundbreaking artists who deserve wider recognition. In recent years, the addition of new public outdoor spaces has transformed both the Pulitzer and the neighborhood around it, highlighting art and nature.This book gathers the voices of many individuals who have played key roles in the museum’s story. It includes an interview with Emily Rauh Pulitzer conducted by longtime board member Jim Cuno, former president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust; new essays by Tadao Ando and the artist Glenn Ligon; recollections by the artists Ellsworth Kelly and Richard Serra, both of whom created work permanently on view at the museum; and contributions by executive director Cara Starke, senior curator Stephanie Weissberg, and assistant curator Heather Alexis Smith, among others.The result is a rich portrait of a visionary arts organization that serves as a model for how cultural investment can transform our civic and art-historical landscapes.Distributed for the Pulitzer Arts Foundation

Three decades of Jones' minimalist explorations of visual and aural resonances, featuring her never-before-compiled writings on Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, Louise Nevelson and Alma ThomasFor three decades, American artist Jennie C. Jones (born 1968) has probed the boundaries between visual art and sound through her multimedia works. Treating abstract geometric forms and a restrained range of colors as her aesthetic base, Jones incorporates nontraditional materials such as felt, acoustic panels and instrument strings to create paintings and sculptures that modify the acoustics of their environments.The publication of this slim, smartly designed volume accompanies two concurrent exhibitions centered on Jones—one of the artist's work and one curated by her. It casts particular emphasis upon Jones' repertoire of avant-garde influences, compiling, for the first time ever, her writings on artists Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin, Louise Nevelson and Alma Thomas. A new text by Jones—in which she meditates on the unexpected aesthetic and social links between multiple artists featured in her curated exhibition—also figures.