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Lowell Boyers
Paintings

Text by Tom Healy

Publisher:

Von Lintel Gallery, New York
2011

32 pages

$27

Mark Sheinkman
2007

Essay by Michael Amy

Publisher:
Von Lintel Gallery, New York
2007

34 pages

$20

Joseph Stashkevetch
Plenty

Text by Nancy Clare Caponi

Publisher:
Von Lintel Gallery, New York
2006

38 pages,
15 duplex reproductions

$15.00

Joseph Stashkevetch's large-scale drawings are rendered in subtle shifts of monochrome black and white. Executed in conte-crayon on sanded-down rag paper, the artist's works possess a velvety texture that is both implied and real.

For his new series Plenty, the artist created two separate bodies of work that contradict and complement one another at once. Stashkevetch's virtuosic renderings of a tire-dump, rubbish piles and garbage scavengers serve as proxies for the rampant consumerism that leads to environmental degradation. Another group of works elegantly depicts water currents, rocks, and blossoms. These works are restorative and impart faith in the infinite eternity of the natural world.

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The Return of the
Fisherman to Paradise

Text by Peter Herbstreuth

Publisher:
Von Lintel Gallery, New York
2004

In German and English

44 pages, 12 color reproductions

$15.00

The Return of the Fishermen to Paradise is a series of paintings based on a newspaper photograph, which inspired SEO to deal with the conflict of reality versus her dreams. She believes our fast paced world needs a counter-balance, that the enormous speed of our time will catch up with us and that humanity will once again look to the values of the past. Not because all things of importance tend to repeat themselves, but because there can be no other solution. "For my inner balance I need this vision of a new - romantic - future."

Stephen Ellis

Paintings

Text by Lynne Tillman,
Aruna D'Souza and Tom McDonough

Publisher:
Edition Lintel & Nusser, Munich
2001

96 pages
40 color illustrations

ISBN 3-86136-065-9

$30.00

Stephen Ellis reevaluates the legacy of Minimalism and explores painting's reliance on a set of codes, as presented in this new and comprehensive monograph of works executed from 1989-2001. Placing Ellis at the forefront of contemporary art and abstract painting, this investigation reveals a rich œuvre of emotionally charged paintings.

Beautifully produced and fully illustrated in color, the book is an important resource to those interested in Ellis' work or the subject of abstract painting and its context in contemporary art and culture.

Stephen Ellis (born 1951, North Carolina) lives and works in New York City. He has exhibited extensively in Europe and the United States. His work has recently been featured at the Reina Sophia, Madrid; the Musée d'Art Moderne de Saint Etienne; and P.S. 1 in New York.

Izima Kaoru
Landscapes with a Corpse,
1999-2000

Text by Anne Doran

Publisher:
Edition Lintel & Nusser, Munich
2001

88 pages
36 color illustrations
ISBN 3-86136-057-8

$30.00.

Renowned fashion photographer Izima Kaoru collaborates with famous Japanese actresses to stage elaborate death scenes that remind us how variously the world's cultures handle the subjects of beauty and death. This new monograph of Kaoru's latest work poses the question, "Why can't a corpse be beautiful?"

Kaoru's narratives, which are generally suggested by the subject herself, present a heroine who is perfect in her demise. Clothed in Yohji Yamamoto or Jil Sander, the young beauty is captured from multiple viewpoints – each an elegant composition based on the figure in a landscape. Setting, cause of death and attire are key elements in Kaoru's unconventional photographs.

Izima Kaoru was born in Kyoto in 1954; he lives and works in Tokyo. He began his career as a fashion photographer and has contributed to numerous international magazines. He is the founder and editor in chief of the magazine zyappu.

Continuous Model:
The Paintings of David Row

Text by John Zinsser

Publisher:
Edition Lintel & Nusser, Munich
1997

128 pp. with 60 color
and 13 b&w illustrations.
4to, wraps
ISBN 3-86136-020-9

$40.00

When David Row arrived as a young artist in New York City in the mid-1970s, painting had been declared dead. But Row did not accept this fate: he knew "the task was not to bury modern painting, but to reinvigorate it and reinvent it."

Full of chromatic and structural tension, Row's seductive paintings lay the foundation for a dialogue about what a painting is and how it can be read. His influential contributions to the development of abstract painting are presented in this monograph of works executed from 1985-1997. Lavishly produced and illustrated in color, this book offers an in depth examination of Row's œuvre.

David Row (born 1949, Maine) lives and works in New York City. He has exhibited extensively in the United States and Europe. Row is the recipient of an NEA Grant in Painting and his work is found in numerous public collections.

Izima Kaoru
Landscapes with a Corpse

Text by Roy Exley, Yuko Hasegawa and
Peter Weiermair

2008

192 pp., 171 color ills.
11.5 x 14 in (35,30 x 29,00 cm)
halfcloth
German/English

ISBN 978-3-7757-2237-7

$85

Landscapes with a Corpse assembles for the first time all of the photographic epics created by Izima since 1993. Japanese film divas and models, but also European actresses such as Barbara Rudnik or Helena Noguerra, are posed in perpetual beauty in gowns by Prada, Gucci, and Dior.

The visual sources range from traditional Japanese Ukiyo-e woodcuts to Pop Art—and the results are always characterized by a bewitching melancholic beauty, and sadness.

Marco Breuer
Early Recordings

Photographs by Marco Breuer,
Essay by Mark Alice Durant

Publisher:
Aperture
2007

Hardcover
96 Pages
50 four-color images
10.375" X 13.25"

ISBN: 978-1-59711-033-4

$60

Marco Breuer: Early Recordings presents the first comprehensive look to date at work by the conceptually driven German artist. Boldly experimental, Breuer uses an extensive and continually evolving range of processes to extract abstract and visually compelling images from photographic paper.

Whether it involves placing burning coals on the photographic paper or repeatedly slicing into it or sanding away at the emulsion until holes appear, Breuer's work eviscerates the usual expectations of the cameraless image. The end results are exquisitely gorgeous and minimalist, and this volume reproduces them with attention to every slice, abrasion, and color shift. The images function as "recordings" of the artist's actions—only the trace of impact and expended energy remain.

Breuer's work has garnered significant critical acclaim and, as Vince Aletti describes it, has "the intelligence and wit of the mid-century modernist avant-garde and the anything-goes audacity of photography's earliest innovators."

Tim Maguire 

Tony Godfrey: Essay
Jonathan Watkins: Interview
Cate Blanchett: Foreword

Publisher:
Piper Press
2007

252 pages, 290x270 mm, 
200 colour images, hardback

ISBN 9780975190128
Piper Press

$100

Tim Maguire paints images of overwhelming beauty. Frequently cinematic in scale and distinctive for their rich colouration and technical skill, his works hover between realism and abstraction. The enormous scale of his still-life paintings make them simultaneously alluring and disorientating, and once captured, the viewer is drawn to the painted surface where layers of pure colour erupt. Maguire's work is embedded in the traditions of painting while also engaging with the contemporary world.

Writing about Maguire's painting is Tony Godfrey, renowned author of Conceptual Art and Painting Today (two Phaidon Press titles). Godfrey focuses on Maguire's exploration of light, his depiction of the metaphorical 'skin' of the painted surface and his preparedness to confront our perceptions of the role of beauty in contemporary art.

Jonathan Watkins, Director of Britain's Ikon Gallery and former Director of the Biennale of Sydney, interviews Maguire, discussing his practice and processes, including his use of digital technology.

Cate Blanchett's foreword describes Maguire's painting "unabashedly revelling in its own beauty yet charged with the promise of death and decay" as well as "the beguiling eroticism of a Maguire painting's surface".

Tim Maguire presents the substance and texture of a career spanning twenty-five years, providing an opportunity to appreciate a body of work that is compelling and unique. 

Arnold Helbling

Text by Claudia Spinelli, Richard Weihe,
and Joe Fyfe

Publisher:
Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel,
Fabian and Claude Walter Gallery, Zurich and
Von Lintel Gallery, New York
2005

German and English
82 pages, with 26 color illustrations
ISBN-10 3-856616-269-0 / ISBN-13 978-3-856-616-269-6

$25.00

Arnold Helbling expands the remnants of urban landscapes. In his paintings, everything that exists—space, time, matter, memories, experiences, and knowledge—is absorbed and simultaneously overcome.

Orientalia: Sex in Asia
Photographs by Reagan Louie

Essay by Tracy Quan

Publisher:
powerHouse Books
2003

126 four-color photographs
ISBN 1-57687-186-X

Price $ 35.00