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TODAY! Please join us through Monday, January 20, in the  Showroom at the Atlanta Gift Market to view a curated selectio...
01/17/2025

TODAY! Please join us through Monday, January 20, in the Showroom at the Atlanta Gift Market to view a curated selection of new books on art and culture for Winter and Spring 2025!⁠

To preview our full list of titles at the Atlanta Gift & Home Winter Market 2025 click on linkinbio! Or to shop our brand online with Aesthetic Movement, go to aestheticmovement.com/shopnow⁠

DATES & LOCATION⁠
Atlanta Gift & Home Market⁠
January 14–20, 2025⁠
9AM–6PM⁠

Aesthetic Movement Showroom⁠
AmericasMart, Building 1⁠
Suite #9–A15, 9th Floor⁠
240 Peachtree Street NW⁠
Atlanta, GA 30303

Vintage Los Angeles from ‘Robert Adams: Los Angeles Spring,’ published by ⁠⁠
01/17/2025

Vintage Los Angeles from ‘Robert Adams: Los Angeles Spring,’ published by ⁠

Legend. We will miss David Lynch, who has died at 78.⁠⁠American posters for Eraserhead, Blue Velvet (also Polish release...
01/16/2025

Legend. We will miss David Lynch, who has died at 78.⁠

American posters for Eraserhead, Blue Velvet (also Polish releases), Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive are from our most film-obsessed friends at ⁠

Thank you David Lynch.⁠

Thank you publisher Tony Nourmand⁠

“If brevity is the soul of wit, ambiguity is the essence of mystery: the familiar suddenly foreign, unmooring, and riddl...
01/16/2025

“If brevity is the soul of wit, ambiguity is the essence of mystery: the familiar suddenly foreign, unmooring, and riddled with intrigue. You think you know, until you are shown. This is where ‘Larry Sultan & Mike Mandel: Evidence’ (D.A.P. ) begins.”⁠

Miss Rosen reviews the new, definitive edition (featuring new scans—many made from the original negatives—plus refined croppings and the same jacketless, library-style binding as the 1977 original) in — via linkinbio.⁠

Text by Sandra S. Phillips, Robert F. Forth.⁠

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“I’m inclined to think that this is one of the points of the kind of painting I’m involved in—that the very nature of ab...
01/16/2025

“I’m inclined to think that this is one of the points of the kind of painting I’m involved in—that the very nature of abstraction, the very nature of abstract thought is to reduce the complexity of all of life and to bring it down to something very simple which embodies all of this complexity.” ⁠
—Adolph Gottlieb, 1962⁠

“Transfiguration #3” (1958) and “Petal” (1968) are from ‘Adolph Gottlieb: A Powerful Will to Art,’ a career-spanning monograph on a key member of the “first generation” of Abstract Expressionists.⁠

Foreword with chronology by Sanford Hirsch. Text by James Lawrence.⁠
Design by ⁠

The beautifully clothbound volume reproduces 200 of Gottlieb’s paintings covering the range of his career, showing his evolution from a 1926 self-portrait through the beginnings of the New York School and ending with his last major paintings in 1973. The book also contains a lavishly illustrated chronology of the artist’s career that draws from the archives of the ⁠

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TOMORROW! Thursday, January 16 from 7–8 PM,  Coral Gables presents an evening with Jeff and Patsy Tarr discussing ‘Opera...
01/15/2025

TOMORROW! Thursday, January 16 from 7–8 PM, Coral Gables presents an evening with Jeff and Patsy Tarr discussing ‘Operation Match: Jeff Tarr and the Invention of Computer Dating,’ the improbable and untold story of the college student who invented the world’s first computer dating service.⁠
This event is FREE and open to the public and books will be available for purchase the night of the event! Please RSVP via linkinbio!⁠

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Patsy Tarr met Jeff Tarr the old-fashioned way: through a blind date. She has been a lifelong enthusiast of dance and in 1988 founded the 2wice Arts Foundation to better support the field through the publication of two award-winning magazines, ‘Dance Ink’ and ‘2wice.’⁠

In the fall of 1962, Jeff Tarr, a teenager from a small town in Maine, began his freshman year at Harvard College. By the time he graduated, he had developed and launched the first ever computer dating service, upended courting rituals at colleges across the United States, and become a celebrity in his own right. ‘Operation Match’ is his story.⁠

Undated wallpaper designs from ‘Watercolors by Hans J. Wegner,’ published by ⁠⁠Author Anne Blond writes, “Around the tim...
01/15/2025

Undated wallpaper designs from ‘Watercolors by Hans J. Wegner,’ published by ⁠

Author Anne Blond writes, “Around the time Wegner was a student at The School of Decorative Art, the question of whether it was progressive to wallpaper one’s home or not was hotly debated. Functionalism prescribed clean, bright walls, so if wallpaper were to enter private homes again, it would have to be revolutionized – certainly from the point of view of architects, artists and designers. This gave rise to a small production of so-called ‘artist’s wallpapers’, which up through the 1930s was driven forward by competitions issued by, for example, The Danish Society of Arts and Crafts and Industrial Design or the wallpaper factories. The drafts for wallpaper designs we know from Wegner’s hand date either from his student days or from competitions in the late 1930s and early 1940s. As far as is known, none of them were put into production.”⁠

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A few featured titles from our booth at the Atlanta Gift & Home Winter Market! Please join us TODAY through Monday, Janu...
01/15/2025

A few featured titles from our booth at the Atlanta Gift & Home Winter Market! Please join us TODAY through Monday, January 20, in the Showroom at the Atlanta Gift Market to view more new books on art and culture for Winter and Spring 2025!⁠

To view our Atlanta Gift & Home Winter Market 2025 booklist online, click on linkinbio! Or to shop our brand online with Aesthetic Movement, go to aestheticmovement.com/shopnow⁠

DATES & LOCATION⁠
Atlanta Gift & Home Market⁠
January 14–20, 2025⁠
9AM–6PM⁠

Aesthetic Movement Showroom⁠
AmericasMart, Building 1⁠
Suite #9–A15, 9th Floor⁠
240 Peachtree Street NW⁠
Atlanta, GA 30303⁠

Invitation detail is from ‘Rachel Ruysch: Nature into Art,’ published by

No one did chairs better than midcentury Danish furniture designer Hans J. Wegner. That concept is pretty well establish...
01/15/2025

No one did chairs better than midcentury Danish furniture designer Hans J. Wegner. That concept is pretty well established. But it turns out, very few industrial designers could render in the unforgiving medium of watercolor as finely as Wegner, either. Pictured here, from new release Watercolors by Hans J. Wegner, out now from Strandberg Publishing, are his designs for a chair and bench with armrests, submitted to the Museum of Modern Art’s International Competition for Low-Cost Furniture Design in 1948. “We have to move forward. We cannot say that we only want to work in the old materials. There might be something new to be gained,” Wegner is quoted from 1974. “He was not afraid to think innovatively, including in terms of materials,” author Anne Blond writes. “In his chair designs submitted for the [MoMA] competition, Wegner used molded plywood, a light, industrially processed and cheap material. Wegner’s MoMA chairs never went into production, but they did serve as the starting point for his later shell chairs, including the Tripartite Chair from 1949 and the even more famous Shell Chair from 1963.”⁠


Text by Anne Blond, director of the future Wegner Museum in Denmark and author of Wegner’s biography on the centennial anniversary of his birth in 2014. ⁠

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STARTING TODAY! Please join us Tuesday, January 14–Monday, January 20, in the  Showroom at the Atlanta Gift Market to vi...
01/14/2025

STARTING TODAY! Please join us Tuesday, January 14–Monday, January 20, in the Showroom at the Atlanta Gift Market to view a curated selection of new books on art and culture for Winter and Spring 2025!⁠

To preview our full list of titles at the Atlanta Gift & Home Winter Market 2025 click on linkinbio! Or to shop our brand online with Aesthetic Movement, go to aestheticmovement.com/shopnow⁠

DATES & LOCATION⁠
Atlanta Gift & Home Market⁠
January 14–20, 2025⁠
9AM–6PM⁠

Aesthetic Movement Showroom⁠
AmericasMart, Building 1⁠
Suite #9–A15, 9th Floor⁠
240 Peachtree Street NW⁠
Atlanta, GA 30303⁠

Detail is from ‘Rachel Ruysch: Nature into Art,’ published by

A few featured titles from our booth at the Atlanta Gift & Home Winter Market! Please join us TODAY through Monday, Janu...
01/14/2025

A few featured titles from our booth at the Atlanta Gift & Home Winter Market! Please join us TODAY through Monday, January 20, in the Showroom at the Atlanta Gift Market to view more new books on art and culture for Winter and Spring 2025!⁠

To view our Atlanta Gift & Home Winter Market 2025 booklist online, click on linkinbio! Or to shop our brand online with Aesthetic Movement, go to aestheticmovement.com/shopnow⁠

DATES & LOCATION⁠
Atlanta Gift & Home Market⁠
January 14–20, 2025⁠
9AM–6PM⁠

Aesthetic Movement Showroom⁠
AmericasMart, Building 1⁠
Suite #9–A15, 9th Floor⁠
240 Peachtree Street NW⁠
Atlanta, GA 30303⁠

Invitation detail is from ‘Rachel Ruysch: Nature into Art,’ published by ⁠

YOSH*TOMO NARA is published by
ANDY WARHOL: PRINTS is published by D.A.P.
PANTON: ENVIRONMENTS, COLORS, SYSTEMS, PATTERNS is published by
THE QUEEN OF THE DOLOMITES: LIVING IN CORTINA D’AMPEZZO is published by
DENIM: THE FABRIC THAT BUILT AMERICA, 1935–1944 is published by
RACHEL RUYSCH: NATURE INTO ART is published by
COCKTAILS AT LARRY’S is published by
NIKE: FORM FOLLOWS MOTION is published by
SHEILA HICKS: RADICAL VERTICAL INQUIRIES is published by &

Mood: Ed Ruscha, “Jumbo,” 1986. ⁠From ‘Ed Ruscha / Now Then: A Retrospective’ published by  ⁠⁠
01/11/2025

Mood: Ed Ruscha, “Jumbo,” 1986. ⁠
From ‘Ed Ruscha / Now Then: A Retrospective’ published by ⁠

Los Angeles, we love you.⁠⁠David Stephenson, “Los Angeles-from Griffith Observatory,” 2010. From ‘David Stephenson: Ligh...
01/10/2025

Los Angeles, we love you.⁠

David Stephenson, “Los Angeles-from Griffith Observatory,” 2010. From ‘David Stephenson: Light Cities,’ published by ⁠



Out now from  !! ‘Dafi Kühne: Poster Cult!’⁠⁠Since the 2017 release of his debut publication, ‘True Print,’ Swiss poster...
01/08/2025

Out now from !! ‘Dafi Kühne: Poster Cult!’⁠

Since the 2017 release of his debut publication, ‘True Print,’ Swiss poster artist (born 1982) has amassed an ever-expanding cult following. In his varied works, Kühne plays with the contrast between analog production tools and modern layouts. Since 2018, he has been working with larger print formats, which is made possible by the use of one of the largest one-person letterpress printing machines with inking unit ever produced. ‘Poster Cult’ aims to build on this development and document Kühne’s work over the last decade. The more than 60 posters illustrate simultaneous balance and tension between poster culture and poster cult, between the romanticization of the craft and the integration of digital tools. A glossary enumerates printing procedures and processes, thus enabling experts and poster enthusiasts alike to access the work.⁠

Text by Angelina Lippert, Dafi Kühne, Christian Brändle. Photographs by Peter Hauser.⁠

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Kara Walker, “A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby, an Homage to the unpaid and overworked Artisans who have refined ...
01/07/2025

Kara Walker, “A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby, an Homage to the unpaid and overworked Artisans who have refined our Sweet tastes from the cane fields to the Kitchens of the New World on the Occasion of the demolition of the Domino Sugar Refining Plant,” 2014. From ‘More Than the Eyes: Art, Food and the Senses’ by Ellen Mara De Wachter and published by / D.A.P. ⁠

De Wachter writes: “‘The Sugar Baby,’ as the work came to be known, was a sphinx with the kerchiefed head of a ‘mammy,’ the stereotyped black nursemaid who nurtures white children, and exaggerated breasts, buttocks, and v***a reminiscent of highly sexualized images of black women in popular media. She was 75 ft long by 35½ ft tall and constructed from 40 tons of refined sugar, whose pale hue contrasted with the dark, molasses-coated walls of the former sugar shed she occupied at the Domino Sugar Refinery. The factory had been active in Williamsburg since 1882 and was due to be demolished shortly after the sculpture was dismantled. Every weekend between May and July, the “Sugar Baby” and her coterie of sugar candy attendants were New York’s hottest attraction. People lined up outside the factory to visit the sweet sphinx, and as the temperature rose the sugar began to ferment, simultaneously decaying and breeding new life. The smell of rot combined with the sickly sweet aroma of the walls produced an odor that Walker described as ‘grassy, pungent, almost nauseating.’ Some 130,000 people made the pilgrimage to the “Sugar Baby,” responding with a mixture of tears, worship, surreptitious tasting, selfies, and mockery. The food from which she was made enticed visitors to use all their senses in experiencing, exploring, and understanding the work, promoting a multi-sensory approach similar to that of the early museum.”⁠

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“Food is a radical tool. If you want to bring up difficult issues, involve food. If you want to know what’s going on in ...
01/07/2025

“Food is a radical tool. If you want to bring up difficult issues, involve food. If you want to know what’s going on in a culture, look at what is happening with food. Food is an arena in which the dialogues between the individual and community play out with intensity.” So begins ‘More Than the Eyes: Art, Food and the Senses,’ London-based writer Ellen Mara De Wachter’s highly engaging and beautifully designed new study of food as social ritual, personal liberation and spiritual alchemy, as witnessed in contemporary art. “In this period, artists handled and sculpted food, they put it on and in their bodies, they cultivated it and served it and stitched it—all in the name of art. It was a time when working with food was unheard of in many circles, which gave the material a potent experimental charge. These experiments confronted and seduced audiences, producing a range of reactions and behaviors. They nourished the culture of their time, and subsequent generations of artists have fed from them…” ⁠

Pictured here, a 1995 view of Zoe Leonard’s NYC studio, during which she was working on ‘Strange Fruit,’ a group of almost 300 fruit skins that Leonard repaired, after peeling, with materials ranging from thread and buttons, to sinew, zippers and more. ⁠

Published by ⁠/ D.A.P. ⁠

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Nosferatu fans, go deep! Images here are from ‘Vampire Cinema: The First One Hundred Years,’ which covers all the greats...
01/06/2025

Nosferatu fans, go deep! Images here are from ‘Vampire Cinema: The First One Hundred Years,’ which covers all the greats, from F.W. Murnau’s haunting 1922 original to Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski’s 1979 epic reimagining to all of Hollywood’s many Dracula and progeny. ⁠

By Edited by ⁠
Published by ⁠

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Robert Frank lovers, a treat. ‘Robert Frank: Portfolio’ is out now from ⁠⁠When Robert Frank (1924–2019) emigrated from Z...
01/05/2025

Robert Frank lovers, a treat. ‘Robert Frank: Portfolio’ is out now from ⁠

When Robert Frank (1924–2019) emigrated from Zurich to the United States in 1947, the aspiring young photographer brought along his portfolio of 40 photos to help him secure employment. This eponymous volume is the facsimile of that very object. It contains Frank’s earliest original photographs, taken between 1941 and 1946, as well as the images of other photographers that he had retouched. We see images of rural landscapes in Switzerland juxtaposed alongside street scenes, antique shops, fine fabrics and the glowing lights of a cinema. ‘Portfolio’ thus contains the seeds of a career of such scope and influence which even the ambitious, 23-year-old Robert Frank could not have anticipated. Designed by the artist in collaboration with Gerhard Steidl, the facsimile’s softcover presentation in a cardboard envelope mimics the way Frank would have originally stored this crucial selection of his work. It is also, in a sense, his first photobook, providing a glimpse into his sequencing process that would produce such acclaimed publications as ‘The Americans’ and ‘The Lines of My Hand.’⁠

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