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Lee Lozano - Lozano c. 1962

Karma 2017 ISBN 9781942607588 Acqn 26990
Hb 20x27cm 96pp 41ills col 36.50

Interest has steadily grown in the career of the American painter Lee Lozano (193099) over the
last decade, specifically in her move toward conceptual art that culminated in her boycott of
women for nearly the last 30 years of her life. Lozanos early work, however, is markedly different.
In the early 60s, she developed a painting method that coalesced several styles in order to relate
her radical imagery to the feminist ideas that comprised the overarching beliefs in her life.
Imagine, writes curator Bob Nickas, a fluid intermingling of Abstract Expressionism in terms of
a figurative disfiguration (after de Kooning), Pop comic rendering (pre-Guston), a heady
Surrealism that anticipates the mind-expansion of the Wave series and a cubism that is
circular rather than faceted by geometry. Packed with humour, sexual imagery and a heaviness
of spirit, the 31 paintings in this book are intimate works, difficult to assign to an obvious tradition
of painting. Essays by Helen Molesworth and Nickas further illustrate that, even when Lozano
was using traditional material to make her art, her career was anything but.

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Lee Lozano - Private Book 1

Karma 2017 ISBN 9781942607557 Acqn 26991
Pb 8x13cm 136pp 17

Before her self-imposed exile from the art world, Lee Lozano (193099) was a highly regarded
painter who defined a generation of American artists infusing conceptualism with a new intensity.
A prolific writer and documenter of both her art and her relationships, the public and private,
Lozano kept a series of personal journals from 1968 to 1972 while living in New Yorks SoHo
neighborhood.

Eleven of these private books survive, containing notes on her work, detailed interactions with
artist friends and commentary on the alienations of gender politics, as well as philosophical
queries into arts role in society and humorous asides from daily life.

In the decade before her infamous dropout piececulminating in a move to Dallas where she
would remain until her deathLozano returned to these notebooks, editing the entries,
sometimes blacking out entire pages. Private Book 1 is the first in the series of 11 pocket-sized
books, which are printed as facsimiles.

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Bendix Harms - Chosen Ones

Karma 2017 ISBN 9781942607281 Acqn 26343
Hb 23x31cm 368pp 320ills 300col 36.50

Chosen Ones is a comprehensive monograph on the work of German painter Bendix Harms
(born 1967), spanning over 15 years of work. A repertoire of motifs recurs throughout the nearly
400-page volume: birds, trees, airplanes, cars and the artist's profile, all rendered in loose,
exuberant strokes of grey and muddy orange. Drawing on elusive autobiographical references,
the paintings--whether of grotesque figures or more surrealistic scenes--are often humorous and
suggestively narrative, compelling in their apparent disregard for and liberation from concept. I
love artists late works, he has said, when they display a completely free style because it no
longer matters whether their work will earn them applause or a rap over the knuckles.

The first major monograph on the artist, Chosen Ones features texts by Gisela Corleis and Grace
Dunham as well as black-and-white photographs by Harms, in addition to reproductions of more
than 300 paintings.

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Michael Williams - How to Ruin an Omelet

Karma 2017 ISBN 9781942607502 Acqn 26996
Pb 21x29cm 64pp 60col ills 31.50

How to Ruin an Omelet is the third in a series of artists books by Los Angelesbased painter
Michael Williams (born 1978), following California Land for Sale!! and Yoga Online. Using a
fashion sketchbook with figurative templates as its foundation, How to Ruin an Omelet is a lively
amalgam of text and image.

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Torey Thornton - Sail Yeller

Karma 2017 ISBN 9781942607496 Acqn 26997
Hb 27x28cm 64pp 28col ills 51

Sail Yeller brings together a collection of 29 photographs by the Brooklyn-based artist Torey
Thornton (born 1990) that were made between 201216 to further explore the language of
photography.

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Walter Price - Crystal Black

Karma 2017 ISBN 9781942607472 Acqn 26998
Pb 28x22cm 80pp 38col ills 25

The first publication by American artist Walter Price, Crystal Black compiles 38 ink and coloured
pencil drawings that illuminate the figures and scale of Prices colourful, figure-in-landscape
acrylic paintings and offer their own social critique through earnest, youthful imagery.

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