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Published on the occasion of the installation of Jeff Koons' Split-Rocker at Rockefeller Center in New York City in association with Gagosian Gallery, this colorful new book will appeal to any fan of Koons' work, as well as those interested in contemporary art and landscape architecture.

Consistent with Koons's persistent fascination with dichotomy and the in-between, the inspiration for Split-Rocker came when he decided to split and combine two similar but different toy rockers, a pony belonging to his son and a dinosaur ("Dino"). The slippage or "split" between the different halves of the heads gives an almost Cubist aspect to the composition. As the model was enlarged to the scale of a small house, the split became an opening, a profile, and a light shaft.

Jeff Koons is largely regarded as one of the most important yet controversial artists of the postwar era. His art has appeared at galleries and museums worldwide, and the subject of the beautiful new book is no exception. Since its creation in 2000, Split-Rocker has appeared at Palais des Papes, Avignon in 2000; and subsequently at Château de Versailles (2008) and Fondation Beyeler (2012). It is also in the collection of the Glenstone private museum in Potomac, Maryland, where it has been on view since June of 2013. This catalogue features images and discussions of all of these installations, including Split-Rocker's most recent exhibition at New York City's Rockefeller Center in 2014.

About the Author:

Jerry Speyer is the chairman and co-CEO at Tishman Speyer. Günther Vogt is the founder of VOGT Case Studio.

The most comprehensive monograph on figurative painter Jenny Saville, whose large-scale nudes continue to challenge accepted ideals of beauty.

Thirteen years after her first Rizzoli monograph, British artist Jenny Saville, an original member of the Young British Artists, releases her most definitive book, including never-before-published paintings from her most recent exhibition at Gagosian in New York. This much-anticipated volume unites new work with many of Saville's paintings and drawings to date, accompanied by essays that explore Saville's continuing fascination with the human body within a broad art-historical context. The book also features Saville in an extensive conversation with acclaimed American photographer Sally Mann. An illustrated chronology of Saville's career completes this elegant volume. This beautifully produced monograph is an important addition to the library on one of the world's most influential and enduring living painters.

About the Authors:

Jenny Saville received her B.A. Honors Fine Art from Glasgow School of Art, Scotland. Saville's works are featured in several public collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Broad, Los Angeles; and Saatchi Collection, London. Richard Calvocoressi is a director and senior curator at Gagosian Gallery, London. Previously, he was director of the Henry Moore Foundation and director of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh. Sally Mann's photographs have been the subject of major exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Her work can be found in many collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Mark Stevens is the former art critic of New York magazine. He is coauthor, along with Annalyn Swan, of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize-winning de Kooning: An American Master. Lauren Mahony organizes special exhibitions for Gagosian. She previously worked in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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Oxyrhynchus is a city in upper Egypt that was established in 332 BC and is considered one of the most important archaeological sites ever discovered. Saville references the layer upon layer of discoveries at Oxyrhynchus in her new body of work, the final effect being a mysterious narrative of layered bodies and images. The dozen new works presented are a combination of oil, charcoal, and pastel on canvas and a combination of landscape and figures weaving throughout each other.

About the Author:

John Elderfield, a consultant at Gagosian Gallery, is Chief Curator Emeritus of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, where he directed numerous celebrated exhibitions, among them Kurt Schwitters, Henri Matisse: A Retrospective, and De Kooning: A Retrospective. In 2005, Time magazine named him one of the 100 Most Influential People of the Year; and in 2006 he was made Officier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government.

A dazzling showcase of portable luxury for the Jazz Age: bejeweled vanity and cigarette cases, compacts, match boxes, watches, desk clocks, photography frames and more

One Christmas Eve, Prince Sanruddin Aga Khan gave to his wife a magnificent jeweled box made by Cartier in the 1930s. So began the making of perhaps the most remarkable jewelry collection of a remarkable era for jewelry – and for French jewelry in particular.

In the 1920s and 1930s, smoky night clubs, cocktails, a new acceptance of make up beyond the boudoir, décor for smart apartments and dinner tables, provided a new landscape for the designs of the great jewelry houses of Europe, with Paris as the superstar of cities. The gloom of war was replaced either by an explosion of coloured gemstones and enamel, with bold colour codes of blue, green and orange, or by the simplicity of black, white and gold as risqué black became newly chic. Zen rock gardens, Chinese dragons, Persian birds, Japanese plum blossom or Tutankhamun motifs provided the richest source of global influences in a triumph of hedonistic creativity. How this new world developed, the tastes and skills of its decorative shapers – above all, Cartier – the process of design and making, the rules of feminine elegance are explored by expert authors, with detailed descriptions of over 100 objects by Sarah Davis accompanying them, in a parade of the finest from the single most popular era for all those interested in jewelry and the decorative arts.

About the Authors:

Princess Catherine Aga Khan is wife of the late Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan.

Pierre Rainero is Image, Style and Heritage Director of Cartier.

The volume presents an extraordinary collection of jewels, jewellers and international maisons which, from the start of the twentieth century to the present day, have mirrored the changing taste worldwide. 

It is a global journey which takes us from France to Russia, from the United States to Italy, from Britain to Germany and from the Netherlands to Scandinavia. From the Art Nouveau masterpieces of Lalique, Vever and Fouquet to Art Deco elegance and the wonders of Cartier, Boucheron, Tiffany, Mario Buccellati and Fabergé. From the inventions of Van Cleef & Arpels and Bulgari in the 1950s to the Dutch avant-garde and the artist’s jewel of the 1960s, ending with illustrations of up-to-date and contemporary jewellery design. A brilliant historical-critical essay introduces a magnificent selection of pictures, designed to be an ideal gallery of masterpieces of twentieth-century jewellery, accompanied by technical explanations and an exhaustive glossary.

The book closes with the new millennium, with the intermingling of art and design and the introduction of new goldsmithery techniques like 3D printing and wearable technologies but also new creative, production, distribution and communication processes thanks to Internet open sources which are defining new future scenarios in jewellery design.

A brilliant historical-critical essay introduces a magnificent selection of pictures, designed to be an ideal gallery of jewellery masterpieces from the twentieth century to the present, accompanied by technical explanations and an exhaustive glossary.

The second volume of Jewelry International picks up where the first one left off, initiating the reader into the luxurious, ancient world of gold and precious jewels.

The history of gold is explored in depth, from its importance in antiquity and cultures all over the world ever since, to its use as currency, to its modern-day symbolism and cultural role, as well as its use in technology. Platinum and colored gold are also addressed. The other chapter, on emeralds, rubies, sapphires and diamonds, examines the role these stones have played throughout history, tells the stories of some particularly well-known examples, and touches on their physical properties.

The remainder of the book is devoted to the most exclusive brands in the world of Haute Jewelry: Bulgari graces the cover, and the Haute Jewelry collections of Andreoli, Audemars Piguet, Bayco, Chopard, de Grisogono, Guy Ellia, La Reina, Leviev, Montblanc, Oliva, Piaget, Waskoll and Yvel are all shown to dramatic effect.

About the Author

Tourbillon International has published five consecutive volumes of Watches International and remains an expert in the field.

Jewelry International is the most up-to-date publication on what is happening in the world of jewellery. Gorgeous photographs of stunning haute jewellery pieces and in-depth text on the history of jewellery make this book a must-have for anyone in love with jewellery.

The glamour and excitement of the world of haute jewellery is beautifully explored in the fourth edition of Jewelry International. The series brings together the world's most famous jewellers and presents their most luscious pieces for your delectation. Jewelry International, the only series of its kind, features the world's most exquisite jewels and the companies that craft them. The most fabulous names in the world of haute jewelry, such as Andreoli, Arunashi, Assael, Bayco, Bulgari, Cartier, Cora, Daniella Kronfle, David Webb, de Grisogono, Dior Joaillerie, Gumuchian, Jacob & Co., Jewels Emporium, Ralph Lauren, and Zorab, all have their own chapters, focusing on the history and significant pieces of each house.

About the Author

Tourbillon International is a privately owned company that has published numerous annual volumes of Jewelry International, Grand Complications, and Watches International. Their lavishly designed and produced volumes are essential reading for purveyors of fine and high-end collectibles.

Caroline Childers is the Chief Executive Officer and Publisher of Tourbillon International. She is the author of six volumes of Jewelry International, eight volumes of Grand Complications: High Quality Watchmaking, and several volumes of Watches International. Childers’ other publications include Designers of Time and Master Wristwatches (with Roberta Naas).

Jewelry’s Shining Stars: The Next Generation brings together 45 new women designers who have liberated the way we view and buy jewellery. This compilation of talented women, who hail from around the globe, use techniques such as enamelling, engraving, and creating nuanced textural details in wax models, to bend the rules and break with tradition. While some work with their own hands, whether schooled or self-taught, challenging themselves at the bench, others work alongside artisans to reinvigorate the old school into relevant yet enduring pieces.

The book’s stunning photographs offer a glimpse into each designer’s different aesthetic and are accompanied by the jeweller’s own words, revealing what drives their approach and giving us an insight behind these innovators. With reverence for quality, style, and technique, these 45 talented jewellers are creating today’s collectibles and shaping jewellery’s future.

About the Author:

Beth Bernstein is a jewellery historian, author, journalist, and one-time jewellery designer. Her books include The Modern Guide to Antique Jewellery (ACC Art Books, 2022), If These Jewels Could Talk (ACC Art Books, 2015), Jewelry’s Shining Stars (Fine Points Publishing, 2013) and a memoir, My Charmed Life (Penguin, 2012). Beth has contributed to many magazines, journals and publications including Forbes.com, Jewelry Connoisseur, Rapaport Magazine, The Jewellery Editor.com, Accent Magazine, Elite Traveler, Four Seasons Departures. She has worked as a senior editor for two leading national jewellery magazines, as well as launching her own online jewellery magazine, bejeweledmag.com, in 2017. She also lectures, runs and participates in seminars and educational events. Throughout the 1990s, Beth designed a jewellery collection under the brand name Bethany B, which sold to over 250 stores throughout the USA and abroad/

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An impeccably researched and inspiring insight into the evolution of jewellery through the ages, explored through exquisite photography of pieces drawn from the V&A’s outstanding collection

Jewels and Jewellery surveys splendid early medieval and Renaissance pieces and superb examples of Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau and 21st-century jewellery. Exquisitely detailed photography reveals both rare and precious stones as well as the elaborate techniques of the jeweller’s craft such as chasing, enamelling and cameo. Among the ‘star’ pieces are the diamond and sapphire coronet designed by Prince Albert for Queen Victoria, and the Papillon ring by London jeweller G, donated to the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2018 by Beyoncé, alongside a multitude of dazzling rings, brooches, earrings and tiaras.

Clare Phillips considers the history of Western jewellery in three parts, first exploring the materials used by jewellers, then turning to the development of styles in jewellery from the Middle Ages to today, before examining the ways in which jewellery has been hallmarked, distributed and worn over recent centuries. Showcasing pieces by Cartier, Tiffany and Liberty, this beautiful volume is the ultimate guide to the history of Western jewellery.

Contents List:

Introduction • 1. Part I: Materials • Part II: Chronology of Style: The Middle Ages to 1700 • The Eighteenth Century • The Nineteenth Century • The Twentieth Century • The Twenty-first Century • Part III: Manufacturing and Distribution

About the Author:

Clare Phillips is a curator in the Sculpture, Metalwork, Ceramics and Glass Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Her publications include Jewelry: From Antiquity to the Present and Jewels and Jewelry.

Історія світу — тріумфи й трагедії, прориви й розпади — через культові коштовності, які надихали й впливали з самого початку.

Від стародавніх скарбів до королівських весіль, великих пограбувань і червоних килимів, ця книга є приголомшливою, несподіваною та блискучою екскурсією історичними поворотними моментами та драматичною драмою, занурюючись у пристрасті й уподобання деяких із найцікавіших і незвичайних людей світу.

Починаючи з епохи Клеопатри й закінчуючи сучасними ювелірними висловлюваннями Дженніфер Лопес, Леді Гаги та Меган Маркл, Стеллен Воландес розповідає історії про те, як блискуче каміння та дорогоцінні метали визначали імперії, надихали експедиції та великі злочини, а також були комунікатором статусу та руїни з давніх часів. Кожен момент поміщається в історичний і актуальний контекст, а Воландес проводить захоплюючі паралелі між подарунком Наполеона Марії-Луїзі під час народження їхнього сина та сучасним подарунком або безтурботною історією, що стоїть за брошкою, яку Джекі Кеннеді надягла на державну вечерю з шахом Ірану в 1962 році. Ілюстрована поєднанням архівних зображень і чудових фотографій коштовностей, ця книга є гарним, інформативним і незамінним прочитанням для любителів історії, моди, знаменитостей і поп-культури, а також пристрасних любителів коштовностей.

Про автора:

Стеллен Воландес – всесвітньо відомий експерт із ювелірних виробів. Окрім того, що вона пише про ювелірні вироби для Town & Country (де вона також є головним редактором), вона веде серію на 92nd Street Y про коштовності та їх історію. Її перша книга «Ювелір» була опублікована Rizzoli у 2016 році.

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The first major monograph on Turner Prize–nominated Glasgow artist Jim Lambie.

This long-awaited volume surveys the career of Glasgow-based contemporary sculptor Jim Lambie. From his distinctive floor works, striped from wall to wall with vibrant electrical tape, to his paint-soaked mattresses, Lambie adroitly sculpts humor and pathos from the clutter of modern life. Working with items immediately at hand, as well as those sourced in secondhand and hardware stores, he resurrects record decks, speakers, clothing, accessories, doors, and mirrors to form sculptural elements in larger compositions.

Lambie prioritizes sensory pleasure over intellectual response. He selects materials that are familiar and have a strong personal resonance, so that they offer a way into the work as well as a springboard to a psychological space beyond. This volume not only serves as a definitive mid-career survey but also as a major reframing of the artist’s work. Lambie’s practice has long been understood through the lens of punk and rock music, a frequent theme of his works’ titles. Here the artist and new essays instead trace his approach to the rich material histories he mines and the scrappy, resourceful spirit of his hometown, Glasgow.

About the Author:

Daniel Baumann is the director of Kunsthalle Zürich. He previously served as curator of the Adolf Wölfli Foundation, located at the Museum of Fine Arts in Bern, Switzerland.

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Thinking the Unthinkable documents Jim Shaw’s inaugural exhibition with Gagosian and features an essay by Jessica Beck, new fiction from Jonathan Lethem, and a conversation between the artist and Rachel Kushner.

For over three decades, Jim Shaw has found inspiration in comics, pulp novels, album covers, and amateur paintings. His densely layered and humorous works span painting, drawing, and sculpture, and juxtapose images of friends, family, and dreams, with world events, pop culture, and alternative realities.

Published to coincide with Thinking the Unthinkable (2023) in Beverly Hills, Shaw’s first exhibition with Gagosian, this expansive and vibrantly illustrated catalogue delves into the secret histories of psychedelic therapy, Hollywood legend, and nuclear war—themes that all coalesce in the artist’s recent works.

An essay by Gagosian director Jessica Beck discusses Shaw’s hallucinogenic depictions of Cary Grant, Esther Williams, and Jeff Chandler. A conversation with author Rachel Kushner ranges from the artist’s formative years to the early weaponization of LSD. In Jim Shaw Kills, new fiction written by Jonathan Lethem, a miniaturized version of Shaw is dispatched into the comatose body of an ex-president.

About the Authors:

Jim Shaw (b. 1952) lives and works in Los Angeles. He has had exhibitions at museums including CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, France; MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA; and New Museum, New York. His work is held in the collections of the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museo Jumex, Mexico City; and Centre Pompidou, Paris, amongst others.

Jessica Beck is a director at Gagosian. Formerly, she was the Milton Fine curator of art at the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, where she curated many projects, most notably Andy Warhol: My Perfect Body (2016).

Rachel Kushner is the author of Telex from Cuba (2008), The Flamethrowers (2013), and The Mars Room (2018). She won the Prix Médicis Etranger (2018), was a Guggenheim Fellow (2013), and the recipient of the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2016).

Jonathan Lethem is a novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is the author of The Fortress of Solitude (2003), Chronic City (2009), The Feral Detective (2018), and The Arrest (2020).

«У зміст цієї книги я хотів включити елементи з мого особистого архіву, які відігравали важливу роль у моїй кар’єрі протягом 60 років, щоб проілюструвати деталі за деталями». - Джиммі Пейдж

З перших днів молодого сесійного музиканта, протягом років на світовій сцені з Led Zeppelin, до його сольних робіт і співпраці, Джиммі Пейдж прожив вражаюче музичне життя. Протягом всього цього він зібрав великий приватний архів знакових гітар, сценічних костюмів та особистих пам’яток.

Тепер у The Anthology Джиммі Пейдж уперше надає ексклюзивний доступ до свого архіву та розповідає внутрішню історію своєї феноменальної кар’єри.

У новому тексті, що складається з понад 70 000 слів, Джиммі Пейдж проводить читача через сотні рідкісних предметів, багато з яких раніше не бачили, а також інші міфічного статусу, як-от гітара Гібсона з подвійним грифом, його костюм із емблемою дракона, його білий вишитий костюм із маками та костюм, який носили у фільмі-концерті The Song Remains the Same.

Також включено рукописні щоденники, листування, рідкісні вінілові видання, раніше неопубліковані фотографії та багато, багато іншого. Джиммі Пейдж особисто вибрав кожну частину для фотографії в цій книзі, яка була створена за його повної участі.

Результат — Jimmy Page: The Anthology. І рефлексивний, і показовий, це просто найповніший і захоплюючий опис життя легендарного музиканта на сьогоднішній день.

Про автора:

Джиммі Пейдж, OBE, вважається одним із найвидатніших і найвпливовіших гітаристів усіх часів, а також одним із найважливіших продюсерів і авторів пісень в історії року. Пейдж вперше взяв до рук гітару у 12 років і виступав з Нілом Крістіаном і Crusaders, щойно закінчив школу. Він відточував свою майстерність як сесійний музикант у Лондоні і до середини шістдесятих став одним із найпопулярніших гітаристів у Британії. Він був учасником Yardbirds у 1966-1968 роках, а потім, наприкінці 1968 року, заснував Led Zeppelin, одну з найуспішніших і найтриваліших рок-груп, яка на сьогоднішній день продала понад 300 мільйонів записів.

Слідом за Led Zeppelin у 1980-х роках Пейдж створив саундтрек до фільму «Death Wish II», гастролював з Еріком Клептоном і Джеффом Беком у рамках збору коштів A.R.M.S. тур, створив гурти Firm і Coverdale Page і випустив сольний альбом Outrider. У 1994-1998 роках Пейдж возз’єднався з колегою по Led Zeppelin Робертом Плантом для запису двох альбомів і двох турів під назвою Пейдж і Плант. Відтоді Пейдж співпрацював у багатьох проектах, зокрема виступав із Шоном Кумбсом, Black Crowes і на церемонії закриття Олімпійських ігор у Пекіні 2008 року з Леоною Льюїс. Джиммі Пейджа двічі входив до Зали слави рок-н-ролу: один раз як учасник Yardbirds (1992) і один раз як учасник Led Zeppelin (1995). У 2005 році Пейдж отримав ступінь OBE від королеви, а потім отримав ступінь почесного доктора Університету Суррея (2008); у 2012 році він отримав найвищу американську нагороду в галузі мистецтва, відзнаку Центру Кеннеді, від президента Барака Обами в Білому домі та ступінь почесного доктора Берклі-коледжу, Бостон (2014). Нещодавно Пейдж продюсував і ремастерингував дев’ять студійних альбомів Led Zeppelin із супутніми дисками, перевиданими в 2014 і 2015 роках, а в 2019 році на чудовій виставці «Грай голосно» в Метрополітен-музеї були представлені деякі з його найвідоміших гітар.

A revealing look at the evolution of male iconography in the work of one of the foremost painters of his generation.

Since raising the ire of the early-1990s arts establishment with his deliberately provocative portrayals of women, John Currin has been best known for his brazen, militantly incorrect female iconography. Yet Currin has represented a range of masculine identities throughout his career as well.

This volume is the first to focus exclusively on this aspect of his work, examining the evolution of his equally provocative depictions of men. It ranges from little-known early works on paper and a series of kitschy paintings of men with beards to signature eccentric figures such as the elderly reader in the painting 2070 (2005) and his more baroque genre scenes featuring male couples. Published to accompany the exhibition John Currin: My Life as a Man at the Dallas Contemporary, it offers a revealing new assessment of Currin's pictorial examinations of sexual politics.

About the Authors:

Alison M. Gingeras is a curator and writer based in New York and Warsaw. Naomi Fry is a staff writer at the New Yorker. Jamieson Webster is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York.

The Architecture of Empathy is the title of a marble statue by John Isaacs and at the same time the basic attitude and raw material of all his works. The British artist made a name for himself as a Young British Artist around Damien Hirst in the 1990s with his hyper-realistic wax sculptures. Conscious about not locking himself into one style, he experiments with a wide variety of materials and techniques, from ceramics, neon, bronze, marble and sculpture to photography. This richly illustrated publication is the first comprehensive overview of his work from the 90s to the present, and reveals not just his broad reaching multifaceted technical scope, but also his psycho-anthropological poetic through numerous essays and conversations with companions.