Exhibitions and Permanent Collections Publications

Hiroshi Sugimoto

Essays by David Elliott, Kerry Brougher and Hiroshi Sugimoto

Hiroshi Sugimoto's images freeze time and space, revealing the workings of our own vision, slowing down the act of perception long enough that it becomes a palpable component of his work. His earliest photographs were images of decadent movie palaces built in the 1920s and 1930s. By timing the exposure of his photos to the exact length of the film being screened, he produced images that depict theater interiors bathed in the magical glare of an all-white screen: pure light. Next Sugimoto began a body of work that he continues to this day, photographing views of the sea from land, traveling around the world to make pictures that, despite their vastly different geographic origins, seem at first to be the same, with only slight variations. Other series include his out-of-focus impressions of landmark architectural monuments, wherein the Empire State Building, Le Corbusier's Chapel de Notre Dame du Haut, and Tadao Ando's Church of Light in Osaka, among others, are essentialized rather than documented.

This volume presents a monographic retrospective of Hiroshi Sugimoto's complete body of work, including the projects described above and others. New, mostly unpublished images from his recent color work are featured: impressions of the impeccably proportioned shrine Sugimoto designed in Naoshima Island in Japan, as well as a series entitled Colors of Shadow. Specially commissioned essays by photography curators David Elliot and Kerry Brougher examine Sugimoto's work in depth, while an exhibition history and bibliography round out the volume.


Hatje Cantz Publisher
Hardcover: 400 pp, with color plates
Retail Price: $125.00 / Art Museum Book Shelf $90.00
ISBN 978-3775724128

Knave of Hearts

By Jack Woody and Danny Lyon

Knave of Hearts is a visual memoir in which Danny Lyon recounts his adventures as a photographer. It is illustrated with his color photo-montages and unpublished pictures from his three classic photodocumentary works: The Bikeriders, Conversations with the Dead, and The Destruction of Lower Manhattan. The autobiographical text tells his family's history, beginning with the 1905 revolution in Russia, and covers the unrest of 1960s America and the social radicalism of New Mexico in the 1970s. In words and photographs Lyon memorializes the friends, family, and adventures of his life.


Twin Palms Publishers (1999)
Hardcover: 148 pages, 64 four-color plates
Retail Price: $155.00 / Art Museum Book Shelf $60.00
ISBN 978-0944092637

Lee Friedlander: Sticks & Stones

By James Enyeart and Lee Friedlander

In Sticks & Stones, Lee Friedlander offers his view of America as seen through its architecture. In 192 square-format pictures shot over the past 15 years, Friedlander has framed the familiar through his own unique way of seeing the world. Whether he's representing modest vernacular buildings or monumental skyscrapers, Friedlander liberates them from our preconceived notions and gives us a new way of looking at our surrounding environment. Shot during the course of countless trips to urban and rural areas across the country, many of them made by car (the driver's window sometimes providing Friedlander with an extra frame), these pictures capture an America as unblemished by romanticized notions of human nature as it is full of quirky human touches. Nevertheless, man's presence is not at stake here; streets, roads, façades and buildings offer their own visual intrigue, without reference to their makers. And in the end, it is not even the grand buildings themselves that prick our interest, but rather the forgettable architectural elements--the poles, posts, sidewalks, fences, phone booths, alleys, parked cars--that through photographic juxtaposition with all kinds of buildings help us to discover the spirit of an Architectural America.


D.A.P./Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco (2004)
Hardcover: 216 pages, 192 duotone reproductions
Retail Price: $85.00 / Art Museum Book Shelf $70.00
ISBN 978-1891024979

The History of Photography

Beaumont Newhall

Since its first publication in 1937, this lucid and scholarly chronicle of the history of photography has been hailed as the classic work on the subject. No other book and no other author have managed to relate the aesthetic evolution of the art of photography to its technical innovations with such an absorbing combination of clarity, scholarship and enthusiasm. Through more than 300 works by such master photographers as William Henry Fox Talbot, Timothy O'Sullivan, Julia Margaret Cameron, Eugène Atget, Peter Henry Emerson, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Man Ray, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Ansel Adams, Brassaï, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Harry Callahan, Minor White, Robert Frank and Diane Arbus, author Beaumont Newhall presents a fascinating, comprehensive study of the significant trends and developments in the medium since the first photographs were made in 1839. New selections added to the fifth edition include photographs made in color, from hand-tinted daguerreotypes of 1850 to turn-of-the-century autochromes by Edward Steichen, to works by contemporary masters such as Eliot Porter, Ernst Haas, William Eggleston, Stephen Shore and Joel Meyerowitz.


The Museum of Modern Art, 2010
Paperback: 320 pages, 287 duotone reproductions
Retail Price: $40.00 / Art Museum Book Shelf $33.00
ISBN 978-0870703812

Van Deren Coke: Scholar as Collector
An Exhibition of Photographs

Preface by Peter Walch, essay by Kathleen Howe

Generously illustrated exhibition catalogue that honors Van Deren Coke’s legacy to the University of New Mexico Art Museum as its founding director in 1962 along with illustrations of some of his most significant gifts to the museum’s photography collection. Reproductions include works by Julia Margaret Cameron, Wm. Henry Fox Talbot, Édouard Baldus, Nadar, Eugene Atget, Alfred Stieglitz, Carelton Watkins, Edward Steichen, Laura Gilpin, Bernice Abbott, Henry Cartier-Bresson, Lee Friedlander, Danny Lyon, August Sander, Charles Sheeler, Walker Evans and Ralph Eugene Meatyard.

University of New Mexico Art Museum
79 pages, 47 plates
Paperback $14.95 ISBN 0-944282-26-1

From Here to There: Alec Soth's America

Edited by Siri Engberg. Interview by Bartholomew Ryan. Text by Geoff Dyer, Barry Schwabsky, Britt Salvesen, Siri Engberg, August Kleinzahler.

From Here to There: Alec Soth's America is the first exhibition catalogue to feature the full spectrum of the work of Alec Soth, one of the most interesting voices in contemporary photography, whose compelling images of everyday America form powerful narrative vignettes. Featuring more than 100 of the artist's photographs made over the past 15 years, the book includes new critical essays by exhibition curator Siri Engberg, curator and art historian Britt Salvesen and critic Barry Schwabsky, which offer context on the artist's working process, the photo-historical tradition behind his practice and reflections on his latest series of works. Novelist Geoff Dyer's "Riverrun"--a meditation on Soth's series Sleeping by the Mississippi--and August Kleinzahler's poem "Sleeping It Off in Rapid City" contribute to the thoughtful exploration of this body of work. Also included in the publication is a 48-page artist's book by Soth titled The Loneliest Man in Missouri, a photographic essay with short, diaristic texts capturing the banality and ennui of middle America's suburban fringes, with their corporate office parks, strip clubs and chain restaurants. This full-color publication includes a complete exhibition history, bibliography and interview with the artist by Bartholomew Ryan.


Walker Art Center, 2010
Hardcover: 288 pages
Retail Price: $60.00 / Art Museum Book Shelf $50.00
ISBN 978-0935640960

Richard Deacon: The Missing Part

Richard Deacon

This book surveys the work of Welsh artist Richard Deacon (born 1949), spanning the 1970s to the present. It includes never-before-published photographs of Deacon's earliest performances, along with many images from the artist's personal archive, and also looks closely at his sculptural practice, where biomorphic forms emerge as a dynamic blend of poetic metaphor and physical experience.


Walther Konig, Cologne
268 pages, 250 color pages
Hardcover: $65.00 ISBN 978-3865607935

Eva Hesse Spectres 1960

E. Luanne McKinnon, ed.
Essays by Elisabeth Bronfen, Louise S. Milne, Helen Molesworth,
and E. Luanne McKinnon

In 1960 Eva Hesse (1936–70) created an unusual and powerful campaign of oil paintings that, when considered in contrast to her sculptural assemblages from 1965 to 1970, foretell her desire to embody emotional states in abstract form. The paintings comprise two distinct categories. In one, loosely rendered figures are positioned in vacant pictorial spaces that portray an apparent disconnection between one body and another; and the second group imbues a more perplexing psychological state, as characters alternately take on the forms of alien-like creatures or as close resemblances to the artist herself in veritable self-portraits. Through an enlightening assessment of these underappreciated works, readers will gain new insights into their pivotal role in Hesse’s oeuvre.

"Eva Hesse's early works are not simply a prelude to her later sculpture but an intense investigation of the possibilities of figuration in painting in the early sixties. Spectres offers a brilliant and groundbreaking study of her self-inscription—full of blind eyes, blurrings and doublings—with radical implications for our understanding of Hesse's entire body of work."
—Briony Fer, Professor of History of Art, University College London


Yale University Press
88 pages, 30 color illustrations
Hardcover: $40.00 ISBN 978-0-3001-6415-2

Roadcut: The Architecture of Antoine Predock

Christopher Curtis Mead

“The roadcut is a diagram of the investigative process for the making of architecture.”
--Antoine Predock

In 2006, the American Institute of Architects awarded its Gold Medal to Antoine Predock, a New Mexico architect known around the world for having “asserted a personal and place-inspired vision of architecture with such passion that his buildings have been universally embraced.” Rejecting easy stylistic formulas, Predock conceives his buildings as poetic landscapes made from the same collision between land and machine, geologic time and technological change, found in the highway roadcut.

Through ten case studies Mead's, Roadcut traces Predock’s career over forty years of work, from the regionalism of La Luz, a housing complex in Albuquerque, to the embrace of our common humanity celebrated in Winnipeg’s Canadian Museum for Human Rights. The Rio Grande Nature Center, the American Heritage Center and Art Museum at the University of Wyoming, the Turtle Creek House in Dallas, Austin City Hall, George Pearl Hall at the University of New Mexico, and the Southern Branch of the National Palace Museum in Taiwan document how the architect has held to his formative grounding in New Mexico even as he has responded to the increasingly global scope of his practice.

Christopher Mead is Regents’ Professor of Architecture and Professor of Art History at the University of New Mexico.


University of New Mexico Press
224 pages, 102 illustrations, 140 color photographs
Hardcover: $75.00 ISBN 978-0-8263-5009-1

Cady Wells and Southwestern Modernism

Lois P. Rudnick, ed.
Essays by Robin Farwell Gavin, Sharyn R. Udall, and Lois P. Rudnick
Foreword by E. Luanne McKinnon

Cady Wells (1904-54) was one of the most innovative modern artists working within the artistic milieus of Santa Fe and Taos in the 1930s and ‘40s, if not one of this country’s most accomplished watercolorists in any period.  Wells was included in important contemporary watercolor exhibitions, including the Whitney Museum of Art and “Abstract and Surrealist Art” at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1947, both of which were influential in defining the nature of the new American avant-garde. Wells was regularly touted in the media alongside Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Adolph Gottlieb, and Jackson Pollock as an important representative of this advanced group. This groundbreaking publication restores Wells to his place as a significant figure in modern American abstraction. 

Many books are hyped as a revelation, but this one really is. Working as a cultural historian unprejudiced by art history’s conventional bias toward already famous names, Lois Rudnick has rediscovered a mid-century American artist whose work easily stands comparison with any of his contemporaries.
— Christopher Reed, author of Bloomsbury Rooms: Modernism, Subculture, and Domesticity 

Cady Wells and Southwestern Modernism recuperates the art and career of this fascinating painter and contributes in significant ways to the growing literature on region and twentieth-century American modernism. Rudnick presents Wells’ southwestern landscapes as inhabiting a queer space expressive of his sexuality and an apocalyptic post-World War II terrain haunted by Los Alamos...
— Donna  M. Cassidy, author of Marsden Hartley: Race, Region, and Nation

Museum of New Mexico Press
160 pages, 74 color illustrations
Hardcover: $39.95 ISBN 978-0-89013-558-7

Through a Narrow Window: Friedl Dicker-Brandeis
and Her Terezín Students

Linney Wix ed.
Foreword by Vera John-Steiner;
Contributions by Lerke Foster, Edith Kramer, E. Luanne McKinnon and Kristina Yu

Friedl Dicker-Brandeis (1898-1944) spent approximately two years (1942-1944) in the Terezín Concentration Camp, in northwest Czechoslovakia, designated by the Nazis as a “model camp” to promote art, music and other creative activities. During her internment, Dicker-Brandeis, used methodologies she learned as a student at the famed Bauhaus, to teach and mentor scores of young students.  This publication accounmanied, the exhibitionheld at tht University of New Mexico Art Museum in January 2011,that brought together examples of Dicker-Brandeis’s own artistic works with the many sketches, drawings and collages made by her students during their incarceration, most of whom were subsequently deported to and died at Auschwitz-Birkenau, including Dicker-Brandeis. 

University of New Mexico Press
128 pages, 17 halftones, 58 color photographs
Hardcover: $39.95 ISBN 978-0-8263-4827-2

Tamarind Touchstones: Fabulous at Fifty /
Celebrating Excellence in Fine Art Lithography

Marjorie Devon, ed.
With contributions by E. Luanne McKinnon, Faye Hirsch,
Arif Khan and Bill Lagatutta

In 1960, in an effort to generate interest in fine art lithography and make it accessible to artists, June Wayne founded Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Inc., in Los Angeles and by 1971 its permanent home resided at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque where it thrives today.

Fifty years and many thousands of prints later, it is difficult to imagine what lithography in the United States would be without the influence of the renowned Tamarind. Showcasing the broad aesthetic capabilities of lithography, Tamarind Touchstones demonstrates the diversity of the artists who have embraced lithography over five decades. In a richly illustrated, full-color publication, artists included are Josef Albers, Elaine de Kooning and Philip Guston from the ‘60s to the recent works of Jim Dine, Ed Ruscha and Kiki Smith, among others.

University of New Mexico Press
216 pages, 138 color reproductions
Hardcover: $55.00 ISBN 978-0-8263-4739-8 
Paperback: $29.95 ISBN 978-0-8263-4740-4

Desire For Magic: Patrick Nagatani 1978-2008

Michele M. Penhall, ed.
Essays by Jasmine Alinder, Kirsten Pai Buick, Barbara Hitchcock, Kathleen S. Howe, Ruthie Macha, Maria A. Pelizzari & Michele M. Penhall 

This distinctive, beautifully designed monograph by Christopher Kaltenbach, associate with the Tokyo Design studio, is the first publication to survey the major photographic campaigns of photographer Patrick Nagatani (b.1945) created during his long and still unfolding career.

Included are seven essays by distinguished scholars addressing Nagatani’s projects from unique critical perspectives, a comprehensive bibliography and exhibition record, and previously unpublished texts significant to particular series of works. The publication is lavishly illustrated with one hundred twenty-two color plates and five gate folds providing the reader the opportunity to see the breadth and range of Nagatani’s work in color and to see into the elaborately constructed worlds of his imagination.

Distributed by University of New Mexico Press
260 pages, 122 color reproductions
Hardcover: $75.00  ISBN 978-0-944282

To Form From Air:
Music and the Art of Raymond Jonson

Robert Ware
with MaLin Wilson-Powell

The American artist Raymond Jonson (1891–1982) was by his 25th birthday an internationally respected figure in the art of theatre design. At the same time, he was just beginning to achieve fame as one of Chicago’s most daring avant-gardists. What tied these two disciplines together and guided Jonson through a labyrinth of theories and practices of modern art was his love and respect for music. The artist’s move to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1924 saw this development in a series of works dedicated to musical ideas which are explored in two ground-breaking essays about the artist by Robert Ware and MaLin Wilson-Powell. To Form from Air explores the importance of music for Jonson’s development of his version of American nonrepresentational painting, especially as it evolved from the tenets of abstraction begun by Wassily Kandinsky whom he was greatly influenced by as a young man while still in Chicago.

Museums of New Mexico Press
107 pages, 50 color reproductions
Hardcover: $29.95  ISBN 978-089013-571-6

Vision and Spirit:
The Transcendental Painting Group

Ed Garman
Introduction by Tiska Blankenship

The catalog includes biographies and full-color reproductions of selected works by TPG members, as well as information on the noted philosopher, writer, and composer Dane Rudhyar who, though not an official member, was the group’s principal theorist and spokesperson.

This group is not a mere coterie or an accidental association of friends.  It hopes to become a focal point for the development of a type of art vitally rooted in the spiritual need of these times…and…aims to stimulate in others through deep and spontaneous emotional experiences of form and color, a more intensive participation in the life of the spirit.
—Dane Rudhyar, from the TPG Statement of Purpose, 1938.

Jonson Gallery of the University of New Mexico Art Museum
71 pages, color and black and white illustrations
Paperback, $12.00

Man Ray, African Art and the Modernist Lens

Wendy A. Grossman
With an essay by Ian Walker and additional contributions by Yaëlle Biro, Poul Mørk, Rainer Stamm, and Tomás Winter

This groundbreaking analysis spotlights a select group of Man Ray’s photographs within the context of modernist photographic history and the “discovery” of African art by the early twentieth-century avant-garde. Featuring more than seventy photographs by Man Ray—some never before reproduced—alongside many rarely seen photographs of African art by his European and American contemporaries, Man Ray, African Art, and the Modernist Lens uncovers a virtually unknown chapter in both the inventive activities of this celebrated artist and in this overlooked facet of photographic history.

Meticulously researched and compellingly presented, Wendy A. Grossman raises thought-provoking questions about the role photographs played in shaping perceptions of African art and, in turn, how such images led to distinctive modernist viewpoints across racial and geographic boundaries. Particularly notable is the treatment of the African pieces both as integral components of the modernist history to which they contributed and, as elucidated by original scholarship by African art experts, as objects with their own independent cultural histories. Revealing a more complex engagement with African art by Man Ray and his contemporaries than has been previously known, Grossman provides a rich and nuanced study that makes an important addition to our understanding of critical issues in modernism that continue to influence the way we see African art today.

Man Ray, African Art and the Modernist Lens single-handedly resuscitates the photograph as a critical and almost completely overlooked medium in promoting the popularity and understanding of l'art negre for a western audience. The monumental studies of Robert Goldwater and William Rubin—comprehensive and engaging though they may have been—overlooked the influential role played by the photograph in this context, a regrettable lacunae this endeavor seeks to fulfill. Not only does this exhibition and catalogue complete a chapter in our understanding of Man Ray's work, but its cross-cultural approach allows us to see how the medium of photography influenced the infusion and comprehension of African and other non-western arts in the west, not only among artists, but by the general public as well.
— Francis M. Naumann

International Arts and Artists
200 pages, 263 illustrations
Paperback $39.95 ISBN 978-0816670178

Land Art / New Mexico

Introduction by Bill Gilbert and Kathleen Shields
Essays by Lucy Lippard, William L. Fox, Nancy Marie Mithlo
and MaLin Wilson-Powell

The “land art” movement emerged in the 1970s when some adventurous artists departed the New York gallery scene to make art in the open landscapes of the American West. Some of the most famous examples include Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, James Turrell’s Roden Crater, and Walter De Maria’s The Lightning Field. Since then, the land art genre has been subsumed under the more general term “environmental art,” which has broadened to include the global community, microscopic worlds, cyber space and suburban sprawl, as well as wilderness and the urban environment.

In the summer and fall of 2009 a group of New Mexico arts organizations joined together to present LAND/ART, a large-scale collaboration, which explored the relationship between land, art, and community through exhibitions, site-specific art works, lectures, and performances. Focusing on “environmental” or “land” art, the collaborationoffered new or previously unconsidered understandings of the places in which we dwell. This book is the culmination and documentation of this six-month project, and features the work of over forty artists including Michael
Berman, Erika Blumenfeld, David Taylor, Basia Irland, Patrick Dougherty, Catalina Delgado Trunk, and Shelley Niro.

Radius Books
170 pages, 110 four-color illustrations
Hardcover $45.00 ISBN 978-1-934435-17-5

University of New Mexico Art Museum:
Highlights of the Collection

Peter Walch

Selected important and master works from the museum’s permanent collection of prints, photographs, sculpture, early modern art from Europe and the United States, mid-century work including Raymond Jonson’s transcendental paintings, and later twentieth-century art,  annotated by Peter Walch, former long-time director of the UNM Art Museum.

University of New Mexico Art Museum
160 pages, black and white and color illustrations
Hardcover: $29.95 ISBN 0-944282-22-9
Paperback $19.95 ISBN 0-944282-22-9

Nineteenth Century Photographs at the University of New Mexico Art Museum

Preface: Photographs and Ideas by Eugenia Parry Janis
Introduction and catalogue by Robert Ware

Comprehensive catalogue of the museum’s 19th-century photography holdings up to 1989. It is an important reference book in which all entries include thumbnail images.

University of New Mexico Art Museum
191 pages, black and white illustrations
Paperback $39.95 ISBN 0-944282-09-1