Bøger udgivet af Contemporary Art Museum St Louis

Ghostly silhouettes and lush, surreal landscapes from a young painter focused on representations of Black leisure and introspectionThis is the first monograph for American artist Dominic Chambers (born 1993), whose vibrant paintings engage art historical models, such as Color Field painting and gestural abstraction, while simultaneously addressing contemporary concerns around race, identity and the necessity of leisure and reflection.

Multimedia works from an artist imagining a radically collective and borderless futureThis is the first major monograph for Montréal-based artist Hajra Waheed (born 1980). Her multidisciplinary practice explores the legacies of colonial and state violence with a uniquely poetic approach across collage, sound, video, sculpture and installation.

A multimedia excavation of the many meanings of resistance in art and culture across the globe todayThrough the perspectives of international artists working across mediums, Stories of Resistance sheds light on the situations from which acts of resistance emerge and identifies themes and motifs that recur across history, cultures and regions. Resistance may be found in the rewriting of history, exposing or filling in the blatant absences of the dominant narrative; resistance emerges from within governmental, corporate or institutional structures and systems of power; resistance takes shape in labor movements and in actions to protect water, land and other natural resources. Artists include: Bani Abidi, Andrea Bowers, Banu Cennetoglu, Torkwase Dyson, Emily Jacir, Glenn Kaino, Bouchra Khalili, Candice Lin, Jen Liu, Guadalupe Maravilla, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Trevor Paglen, PSA: (Jen Everett, Aida Hasanovic, Simiya Sudduth), Wendy Red Star, Dread Scott, Kemang Wa Lehulere and Wide Awakes (Maryam Parwana, Combo, Otherward).

A monumental installation from the American artist known for her fusion of art and scienceThis book accompanies New York-based artist Christine Corday's (born 1970) site-specific installation at CAM St. Louis. Corday's 12 monumental sculptures--made from 10,000 pounds of compressed elemental metal--are arranged throughout the gallery in constellations, exhibited alongside a painting series.

Hovering in the space between sculpture and painting, the work of New York-based Wyatt Kahn (born 1983) reinvigorates the legacy of minimalism.His large-scale paintings collapse figuration and abstraction, encapsulate dynamic energy into geometric form and embrace imperfections and raw surfaces in an entirely human way.Wyatt Kahn: Object Paintings features work from Kahn's first solo museum exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. With an essay by scholar Robert Slifkin, the book also includes an interview between the artist and exhibition curator Jeffrey Uslip. Slifkin places Kahn in a "vitalist tradition of modernism" that includes Ad Reinhardt, Frank Stella and Donald Judd. But in contrast to those more pristine artists, Kahn allows imperfection in his work. "Every part of my work is made by my hand, which is a flawed hand," he tells Uslip, "I embrace my natural flaws, and that vulnerability becomes empowerment."

Foreword by Paul Ha. Edited by Ivy Cooper. Text by Katie Holten, Shannon Fitzgerald, James Trainor, Elizabeth Kolbert, James Kunstler, A. M. Homes.

Witty, provocative and searching, this lively catalogue of female roles inspired by the movies crystallizes widespread concerns in our culture, examining the ways we shape our personal identities and the role of the mass media in our lives.