Coffee Table Books
Hungary-born artist Ackermann set New York City's art world on fire in
the mid-'90s with her neo-expressionist mixed-media collages that
combined vibrant, almost violent oil paintings with precise, evocative
line drawings. The retrospective of her ever-evolving career is a
fitting tribute, pulling together her daring body of work with written
commentary from art-world staples including historian and curator of
Miami's Museum of Contemporary Art Bonnie Clearwater and filmmaker
Harmony Korine.A slew of current and upcoming coffee-table books run
the gamut from fine-arts retrospectives to architectural biographies to
backstage tour diaries
In 2002, Phaidon inaugurated its Vitamin series—a survey of the
contemporary art landscape featuring dedicated volumes for various
media, including sculpture, photography, and drawing—with Vitamin P, a look at the then-cutting-edge painters. Vitamin P2 revisits
the medium with a look at the work of 115 international artists hailing
from more than 30 countries. Compiled with the nominations of curators,
critics, and art historians, the book is a must-read.
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