Miami Contemporary Artists
Paul Clemence, Julie Davidow and Elisa Turner
Schiffer Publishing, 256 pages
The artists who are making today's Miami one of the world's leading cultural destinations fill the pages of MIAMI Contemporary Artists. With more than 300 color photos, this new book gives readers the significant highlights of the city's art history and presents the works of 100 contemporary artists who have helped bring the cultural evolution to fruition.
Non-members: $49.95
Members: $45
Continental Shifts: The Art of Edouard Duval Carrie
Edward J. Sullivan
Arte al Dia Publishing, 208 pages
This mid-career celebration of the art of Miami-based artist Edouard Duval Carrie reveals the artists concerns about spirituality, violence in contemporary society, the ravages of war, exile and displacement. It also details how themes of universal relevance emerge from his aesthetic, artistic and emotional investment is his native Haiti.
Non-members: $100
Members: $90
MiMo: Miami Modern Revealed
Eric P. Nash and Randall C. Robinson Jr.
Chronicle Books, 176 pages
MiMo: Miami Modern Revealed is the first comprehensive survey of the area's postwar buildings. Miami's vibrant strain of modern architecture combines attention to space, form, innovative design and subtropical exoticism particular to the region. From humble motels to sprawling oceanside resorts, this lively style also thrives in the city's civic, domestic, and commercial architecture. MiMo provides overviews of work by architects including Norman M. Giller, Morris Lapidus, Gilbert Fein, Alfred Browning Parker and others.
Non-members: $40
Members: $36
South Beach Architectural Photographs: Art Deco to Contemporary Paul Clemence and Michael Hughes
Schiffer Publishing, 98 pages
Miami Beach photographer Paul Clemence highlights the elements that create and define the Art Deco style in 64 black-and-white photographs that capture the emotion and express the spirit of South Beach. Showcasing the city's landmark hotels, residential buildings, and dazzling cityscapes, Clemence's work establishes South Beach's famed visual identity.
Non-members: $24.95
Members: $22.50
South Beach Deco: Step By Step
Iris Garnett Chase and Susan Russell
Schiffer Publishing, 128 pages
Literally a step-by-step guide to the famed Art Deco architecture of South Beach, this book provides walking tours along with insights into the heart and soul of this truly unique surfside community.
Nonmembers: $24.95
Members: $22.50
Kehinde Wiley: The World Stage-China
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, 40 pages
Kehinde Wiley's Passing/Posing series, in which Wiley recruited residents of New York City's Harlem to enact poses from paintings reproduced in art history books critiques the ways in which racism and sexism converge in stereotypes of African-Americans. Wiley confounds stereotyped expectations of black maleness with elements that are traditionally coded as feminine. The World Stage - China includes MAM's recently acquired Regard the Class Struggle as a Main Link in the Chain, 2007.
Nonmembers: $25
Members: $22.50
Arturo Herrera: You Go First
Friedrich Meschede, Editor
Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 120 pages
You Go First is devoted to the primary and most essential stage of Herrera's production: collage making. Other phases of his art-making process push further and further from the original found imagery, such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarves as seen in MAM's When Alone Again III, 2001, , to create completely abstract-seeming wall works and sculptures. You Go First features nearly 100 collages produced during 2002, sequenced and selected by the artist himself.
Non-members: $40
Members: $36
Wangechi Mutu: A Shady Promise
Damiani, 144 pages
Wangechi Mutu's first solo museum show occurred in MAM's New Work gallery.
Born and raised in Kenya, Mutu studied in the United Kingdom, and came to the United States in 1996, receiving a BFA from Cooper Union and MFA from Yale University. Mutu uses a combination of collage, ink, acrylic and other media to create fantastical images that reflect the collision in the mass media between fashion, glamour, the obsession with personal appearance and violence, conflict, and suffering. Her elegantly grotesque figures underscore the clash between Western ideals of beauty and well-being and African reality.
Non-members: $50
Members: $45
Beatriz Milhazes Christian Lacroix , Federic Paul, Simon Wallis, Beatriz Milhazes
Domaine de Kerguehennec, 136 pages
The art of Beatriz Milhazes draws from Brazilian folk art, crafts, jewelry, tropical nature, and the splash of carnival, all funneled through a modernist sensibility. Vibrant swirls, bold stripes, and intricate rosettes show both delicacy and sweep in a practice situated somewhere between figuration and abstraction.
Non-members: $27.50
Members: $24.75
NeoRauch: Neue Rollen
Dumont, 192 pages
Rauch gathers figures from the past in surreal landscapes and interiors to tell enigmatic stories about the present. Rauch riffs on the once-mandated styles of his youth and on western abstraction from the second half of the twentieth century, all in coloration and figuration that directly allude to the Socialist past. Between cartoon styling and historic technique, he has found a distinctive style.
Non-members: $50
Members: $45
Martin Puryear
Michael Auping, John Elderfield, Richard Powell, Elizabeth Reede and Martin Puryear
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 192 pages
Martin Puryear's work combines Modernist abstraction with the traditions of crafts and woodworking, in shapes informed by the natural and by ordinary objects, made with materials such as tar, wood, stone and wire. His sculpture is both meticulously crafted and completely unbound, evoking the most elemental forms of nature and landscape.
Non-members: $60
Members: $54
Murakami
Takashi Murakami, Dick Hebdige, Midori Matsui, Scott Rothkopf, Mika Yoshitake, Paul Schimmel, Lisa Gabrielle Mark
Rizzoli, 330 pages
Takashi Murakami draws from street culture, high art, and traditional Japanese painting, producing original paintings and sculptures as well as mass-produced consumer objects such as toys, books, and most famously, a line of handbags for Louis Vuitton. Murakami traces the artist's global impact socially, culturally, and art historically and also considers the implications of Murakami's working methods within the tradition of the Western avant-garde.
Non-members: $65
Members: $58.50
Malick Sidibe: Chemises
Jerome Sother and Malick Sidibe
Steidl , 168 pages
The "chemises" of Malick Sidibe are the administrative folders that held the index prints on his studio walls, which allowed his customers the opportunity to browse through his photography. Sidibe's work photography focuses on the explosion of youth culture and music in Mali. Beginning in Bamako of the 1960s Sidibe documented everything from football matches, weddings and Christmas Eve celebrations to parties at clubs.
Non-Members: $40
Members: $36
The Alchemy of Building - DVD
Visit some of the groundbreaking buildings by Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, designers of MAM's new home in Miami's Museum Park, in Europe and Japan. This documentary explores their capacity to astonish through transforming ordinary shapes, materials and surfaces through new treatments and techniques. Their collaborations with others, particularly artists, will all be brought into focus to give a fascinating insight into the cutting edge of architecture today.
Non-Members: $25.95
Members: $23.40
Herzog & de Meuron Tate Modern - DVD
Herzog & de Meuron's conversion of a former power station into the Tate Modern was applauded by professionals and art. This documentary retraces some fascinating insights into the architecture of the Tate Modern, demonstrating how significant even an apparently unimportant detail can be for the work as a whole.
Non-Members: $39.95
Members: $36
Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting
Phaidon Press, 352 pages
Illustrating the richness, eclecticism and dynamism of painting today, Vitamin P is an image-filled book that provides an international overview of the state of painting. It includes artists such as Fabian Marcaccio and Arturo Herrera represented in MAM's permanent collection.
Non-Members:$39.95
Members: $36
Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography
Phaidon Press, 352 pages
The definitive book on contemporary photography, Vitamin Ph provides a global, up-to-the-minute survey of new developments in contemporary photography. It features 500 photographs by 121 artists who have made a fresh and innovative contribution to international art photography in the last few years.
Non-Members:$69.95
Members: $63
Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing
Phaidon Press, 352 pages
Vitamin D, features drawings by more than 100 artists. Among them are artists featured in recent MAM New Works exhibitions: Russell Crotty, Wangechi Mutu and Shahzia Sikander. Drawing is being explored by an increasing number of contemporary artists. Extending beyond the traditional image associated with this medium, Vitamin D hopes to illustrate the complexity, variety, and relevance of the practice of drawing today.
Non-Members:$69.95
Members: $63
