Phaidon Press presents "Carl Andre: Things in Their Elements" by Alistair Rider

Phaidon Press has launched an enlightening monograph offering a comprehensive and insightful look at the career of groundbreaking American minimalist sculptor Carl Andre.

With unique access to Andre’s studio and personal archives, its author, academic and Carl Andre expert Alistair Rider, examines Andre’s role as a sculptor and installation artist.
The book "Carl Andre: Things in Their Elements" includes never before published sketches and writings, many contemporary installation photographs, and works in private collections and those in major international museums.

Rider also presents the artist's rarely seen poetry and photography that form an integral part of his oeuvre.
Andre's concrete poetry has exhibited in the United States and Europe, part of which is in the collection of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

Born in Quincy, MA, on September 16, 1935, Carl Andre studied art at Phillips Academy in Andover, MA. There he became friends with Hollis Frampton who later introduced him to Constantin Brâncuşi.
From 1958 to 1960, Andre shared a studio with former classmate from Phillips Academy, Frank Stella.
Although his early work in wood may have been inspired by Brâncuşi, his conversations with Stella about space and form led him in a different direction.


Recognized both for his ordered linear format and floor-based grid-like formations of breeze blocks, Carl Andre makes his first public debut in 1965, in ‘Shape and Structure’ curated by Henry Geldzahler at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery.
The following year, New York’s Jewish Museum included his controversial LEVER in its important exhibition ‘Primary Structures’.



In 1969 Andre helped organize the Art Workers Coalition.
His first solo show takes place at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1970.
Carl Andre lives and works in New York, and his work features in leading collections worldwide.

Alistair Rider is a Lecturer in Art History at the University of St Andrews. He teaches classes on modern sculpture, critical theory, New York modernism and experimental art of the 1960s.

Irish Women Artists, 1800-2009: Familiar but Unknown

Throughout centuries women artists haven't enjoyed the deserved recognition as their male counterparts, and still today that is evident through acution results.

Names like Sofonisba Anguissola (also spelled Anguisciola), Rosalba Carriera, Rachel Ruysch were important precursors for women's emancipation as artists and the quality of their work conquered due recognition in their time, maybe more than it would in more modern periods.

But we could go further back in time and mention Helena of Egypt, daughter of Timon of Egypt.

Edited by Éimear O’Connor and published by Four Courts Press, the book "Irish Women Artists, 1800-2009: familiar but unknown" seeks to familiarise a wide-ranging readership with the work of many women artists who resided in Ireland, including the names of Miss Battersby, Sister Concepta Lynch OP, Evelyn Gleeson, Gabriel Hayes, Louisa Marchioness of Waterford, Margaret Clarke, Moyra Barry and Nano Reid.

Discussing subjects like the access to professional training, the concept of the ‘amateur’, class structure, the use of feminized language as a means to privilege the work of male artists and artistic concerns with the concepts of Celtic, Irish, national and international, this publication presents an overview about women and the visual arts in Ireland and the critical treatment of Anglo-Irish women artists between 1962 and 1984, as well as the importance of databases in nowadays, offering an insightful information for any art lover and especially for those interested in the development of the arts in Ireland from 1800 to the present.

The Trinity Irish Art Research Centre (triarc) and Four Courts Press will host a public reception to mark the publication of Irish Women Artists at 5.30pm on Tuesday 30 November in the Trinity Long Room Hub, Fellows Square, Trinity College Dublin.

Ms Fiona Ross, Director of the National Library, will launch the book.

ABC 3D POP-UP BOOK

Roaring Brook Press, a publisher of quality books for young readers, brings us a book with a 3D pop-up alphabet.
The book is called ABC3D and the author is Marion Bataille.
Although the concept of books with pop-up elements is not new, in this case the result is worth taking a look.

Turning the Pages of Famous Books

The British Library offers online the possibility to leaf through and magnify details of famous books.

Using the "Turning the Pages" system, readers have the chance to see the original version of "Alice's Adventures Underground", the Leonardo's "Notebook" and The Mercator Atlas of Europe, only to name a few.