2020 has been a fine year for artists’ voices, exceptional art, scholarship, design, and bookmaking, all of which are at the heart of Hauser & Wirth Publishers’ mission. With the special access granted by artists to their writings and archives, the gallery’s publishing program features more than twenty-five titles per year while the backlist comprises monographs, artists’ books, and exhibition catalogs – often bringing new and overlooked aspects of an artist’s creative practice into focus. Here, Michaela Unterdörfer, Director of Publishing, chooses five definitive titles published this year.
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A highly comprehensive and in-depth title showcasing Hauser & Wirth's editorial approach to artists and their archives.
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This book features a handful of artists from the Hauser & Wirth family — Mark Bradford & Glenn Ligon —and presents a number of fresh curatorial voices.
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Connects to the forthcoming Hauser & Wirth biography of Maria Lassnig by Natalie Lettner, along with the 2009 H&W title ‘Maria Lassnig: The Pen is the Sister of the Brush, Diaries 1943–1997,’ which was edited and introduced by renowned art critic Hans Ulrich Obrist.
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In August 2020 we bid farewell to Luchita Hurtado, an artist associated with a vast network of internationally renowned artists and intellectuals, including members of the Dynaton group, the Mexican muralists, and the Surrealists. To mark her centenary, Hauser & Wirth have published an account of her extraordinary life, as related in a series of interviews with art critic Hans Ulrich Obrist, from beginnings in Venezuela, to New York, Mexico, and finally to California and New Mexico. Hurtado made the TIME list of 100 most influential people, and crossed paths with some of the most celebrated artists of the 20th century, such as Leonora Carrington, Marcel Duchamp, Arshile Gorky, Frida Kahlo, Lee Krasner, Agnes Martin, Robert Motherwell, Isamu Noguchi, Man Ray, Mark Rothko, and Rufino Tamayo, all of whom are referenced and remembered in this beautiful book, available via Hauser & Wirth Publishers.
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This title is as an addition to the definitive resources available on Philip Guston, complementing the numerous books that Hauser & Wirth Publishers has produced on the artist; it also highlights other artist voices—including Glenn Ligon—and how Guston’s work has inspired them.
1
A highly comprehensive and in-depth title showcasing Hauser & Wirth's editorial approach to artists and their archives.
2
This book features a handful of artists from the Hauser & Wirth family — Mark Bradford & Glenn Ligon —and presents a number of fresh curatorial voices.
3
Connects to the forthcoming Hauser & Wirth biography of Maria Lassnig by Natalie Lettner, along with the 2009 H&W title ‘Maria Lassnig: The Pen is the Sister of the Brush, Diaries 1943–1997,’ which was edited and introduced by renowned art critic Hans Ulrich Obrist.
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In August 2020 we bid farewell to Luchita Hurtado, an artist associated with a vast network of internationally renowned artists and intellectuals, including members of the Dynaton group, the Mexican muralists, and the Surrealists. To mark her centenary, Hauser & Wirth have published an account of her extraordinary life, as related in a series of interviews with art critic Hans Ulrich Obrist, from beginnings in Venezuela, to New York, Mexico, and finally to California and New Mexico. Hurtado made the TIME list of 100 most influential people, and crossed paths with some of the most celebrated artists of the 20th century, such as Leonora Carrington, Marcel Duchamp, Arshile Gorky, Frida Kahlo, Lee Krasner, Agnes Martin, Robert Motherwell, Isamu Noguchi, Man Ray, Mark Rothko, and Rufino Tamayo, all of whom are referenced and remembered in this beautiful book, available via Hauser & Wirth Publishers.
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This title is as an addition to the definitive resources available on Philip Guston, complementing the numerous books that Hauser & Wirth Publishers has produced on the artist; it also highlights other artist voices—including Glenn Ligon—and how Guston’s work has inspired them.
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