奈良美智解读奈良美智——

“读完这本书，能对我有多一点点的了解，那就好了！”

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奈良美智即将在上海举办中国内地首次大规模个展，这本书是他面向中国读者制作的首本书籍，也是他时隔多年的全新“自传”。

他的作品源自内心深处“空无一物被白雪覆盖的世界”，童年记忆、音乐、文学、在德国求学和生活的时光（1988—2000）、对自我的探索、来自欧洲和日本的当代艺术等都是他的灵感来源。在书中，奈良美智首次全面回顾自己的创作生涯，既是对自我的一次回顾与总结，也是面向未来的重新启程。

本书由自传《半生》、从七个角度（成长经历、美术、音乐、文学与电影、陶艺、旅行、与他人的联系）展开的深入访谈、近年展览、摄影作品、年表等内容组成，还收录了其生活照、经典及最新作品，是一本由奈良美智本人语言主导的史无前例的“奈良大全”。

Louise Bourgeois, dont l'œuvre est longtemps restée méconnue, est aujourd'hui considérée internationalement comme l'une des artistes essentielles du XXe siècle. Née à Paris en 1911, elle s'installa à New York en 1938 et commença à y exposer son travail peu après. Halle fut en 1982 la première artiste Femme à faire l'objet d'une rétrospective au Museum of Modern Art de New York, puis, en 1993, représenta les Etats-Unis à la Biennale de Venise. En 1995, elle fit l'objet d'une exposition rétrospective au Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris et ses dessins furent présentés au Centre Pompidou. En 2000, une grande installation de l'artiste dans le hall de la Tate Modern marqua l'ouverture à Londres de celte institution de l'art contemporain. Dessinatrice et surtout sculpteur, Louise Bourgeois use de matériaux divers : marbre, bronze, latex, tissu, miroirs... Ses installations, qui réunissent sculptures et objets trouvés, traitent de thèmes intimes liés à l'enfance, aux relations familiales, à la violence des relations entre les sexes. Élaboré en étroite collaboration avec l'artiste et accompagnant une exposition rétrospective itinérante, cet ouvrage offre un panorama complet de la carrière de Louise Bourgeois. Conçu comme un glossaire illustré, il permet d'approfondir ses thématiques récurrentes, de A comme Abandon à V comme Vêlement en passant par F (Famille, Figures paternelles, Féminisme) et S (Sexualité, Suicide). L'ouvrage réunit les contributions de figures majeures de la littérature et de la culture internationales, et une sélection d'écrits de Louise Bourgeois. Il s'agit de la publication la plus exhaustive et actualisée sur l'artiste.

Antonio Lopez Garcia is one of Spain's most revered contemporary artists. Bringing his profound visual sensitivity and mastery of light to bear on a range of deliberately quotidian subjects, Lopez Garcia imbues them with an extraordinary and haunting character. In 1993, his paintings and drawings were given a major retrospective at the Reina Sofia, Madrid, while Victor Erice's 1992 documentary about Lopez Garcia, "The Quince Tree of the Sun," received the Critics' Prize at that year's Cannes and top prize at the Chicago Film Festival. Yet Lopez Garcia's work has rarely been exhibited outside his native country. This book, published to accompany the first major exhibition of his art in the United States (in tandem with the MFA's monumental "El Greco to Velazquez" exhibition), offers the first comprehensive overview in English of this extraordinary oeuvre. An essay by curator Cheryl Brutvan discusses Lopez Garcia as a descendant of the great Spanish naturalists, as well as his indebtedness to Surrealism and "magic realism," while individual appreciations of some 50 paintings offer English-speaking readers their first opportunity to appreciate in depth the remarkable poetry and atmospheric density of this major world artist.

《ART TODAY当代艺术》阐释了当今世界主流艺术因网络的普及而充满活力。《ART TODAY当代艺术》同时审视和研究了20世纪后期和21世纪初当代艺术的主要争论观点，论述了网络、数码艺术对当代艺术的影响。 《ART TODAY当代艺术》还配有许多精美彩色插图和要事年表，是广大艺术爱好者探究当今前卫艺术的理想读物。

在线阅读本书 Book Description Multitude of strangely beautiful natural forms: Radiolaria, Foraminifera, Ciliata, diatoms, calcareous sponges, Siphonophora, star corals, starfishes, Protozoa, flagellates, brown seaweed, jellyfishes, sea-lilies, moss animals, sea-urchins, glass sponges, leptomedusae, horny corals, trunkfishes, true sea slugs, anthomedusae horseshoe crabs, sea-cucumbers, octopuses, bats, orchids, sea wasps, seahorse, a dragonfish, a frogfish, much more. Book Dimension length: (cm)27.7 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)20.7

Editorial Reviews Product Description "A compendium of cutting-edge art." - Miami HeraldThe summer forecast for contemporary art is decidedly "cooler" thanexpected.Massive cutting-edge international exhibitions including TheVenice Biennale, Documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany and Sculpture ProjectsMuenster are all scheduled for June 2007 and the art world will be abuzz. But what if you can't make it to these events and you want a piece of theaction?ICE CREAM: CONTEMPORARY ART IN CULTURE is an up to the minute collection ofthe most exceptional contemporary artists of tomorrow.It presents 100 ofthe world's top emerging artists selected by 10 esteemed curators includingJens Hoffman, Director of the CCA Wattis Institute in San Francisco; ShamimMomin, Associate Curator at the Whitney; Philippe Vergne, Chief Curator atthe Walker Art Center; and The Wrong Gallery, formally "the smallestexhibition space in New York" that is now housed within the Tate Modern.Continuing the phenomenon established by its predecessors Cream (1998)Fresh Cream (2000) and Cream 3 (2003) as in "one that rises to the top,"ICE CREAM identifies the cutting edge artists to watch in the future.Theprevious titles were a favorite among collectors as they accuratelypredicted a number of art stars including Tacita Dean, Olafur Eliasson andThomas Hirschhorn.Stylishly designed, ICE CREAM also upholds the series'heritage of innovative packaging by featuring a shiny iridescent cover. In ICE CREAM, each curator has selected 10 important new artists who haveeither emerged internationally over the past five years, or are stillrelatively unknown.Their definition of emerged means that an artist hashad solo shows, but nothing large-scale in a major institution (apart froma couple recent exceptions), has been reviewed in the international artpress, but not been the subject of a major monograph, and has been givensufficient exposure without yet becoming fully established. In the selection process, no limitations on geography or media wereimposed. Over 25 countries are represented including China (a currentfavorite with collectors), Brazil Russia, Canada, Slovenia, Korea, Israel,Kenya, Mexico and the U.S.Age was also not a factor.The Wrong Galleryeven went so far as to select the "most unlikely candidates."MassimilianoGioni explained, "In other words, we went for the wrong ones: artists whoare more than 60 years old; artists who are not emerging, but have emergedor simply stuck around long enough to make their voices heard by anyone whowould listen."They selected artists such as Maria Lassnig, David Medallaand Jiri Kovanda.ICE CREAM opens with a conversation between the contributors as they debatethe changing role of the curator and current trends in contemporary art,including: *The blurring of roles between artist and curator demonstrated by thefact that artists have recently been invited to make selections inexhibitions. For example, The Wrong Gallery curated the 4th Berlin Biennialfor Contemporary Art (2006) and presented an exhibition within the 2006Whitney Biennial. The ICA London also exhibited the "Artist's Favorites"show in 2004.*The shift in the conception of the exhibition that expands beyondmuseum walls. Inserting art in different environments.*The effect of private art spaces that are run by collectors todisplay their own collections.Jens Hoffman states, "This will have astrong impact on the overall landscape of contemporary art, since many ofthose collectors who are opening spaces are also the people who give moneyto public institutions, which they'll probably cease to do (once they havetheir own location)." *The impact of the booming art market on artists who seem deeplyaffected by the pressure to conform to market forces and adapt their work.Each of the 100 artists is featured over four pages with a selection oftheir work together with a commentary by the curator who selected them, anexhibition history, and a bibliography.Every curator also selects aSource Artist, namely any artist from any previous generat About the Author The 10 Curators of ICE CREAM -Sergio Edelsztein founded The Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv in 1995, where he has been the Director since 1997. -Jens Hoffmann is a curator and writer based in San Francisco where he is the newly appointed Director of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. -Lisette Lagnado was the Chief Curator of the 27th São Paulo Biennial (2006) and, since 2001 she has been editor of the online journal, Trópico. -Midori Matsui is an art critic who has written extensively on Japanese and Western art for a wide variety of periodicals and catalogues. -Shamim Momin is an Associate Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She co-curated the Whitney Biennial (2004). -Pi Li is a lecturer at the Central Academy of Fine Arts and Curator at The Loft New Media Art Space, Beijing. -Gloria Sutton is a former Helena Rubinstein Fellow in Critical Studies at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, New York and is currently working with the Kunsthalle, Zurich. -Olesya Turkina is a critic, curator and Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Contemporary Art at the State Russian Museum, St Petersburg. -Philippe Vergne is the Chief Curator and Deputy Director at the Walker Art Center Minneapolis. He co-curated the Whitney Biennial (2006). -The Wrong Gallery, set up by the artist Maurizio Cattelan, and the curators Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick, was a tiny, not-for-profit, half-metre-square exhibition space located in a shallow doorway in Chelsea, New York's gallery district. Evicted in July 2005, the gallery space is currently housed at London's Tate Modern. The Wrong Gallery also curated the 4th Berlin Biennial (2006).