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Bet Ween is a selection from a 12-part series of large-scale monotype, print and pencil-on-paper works by German-born, New York-based artist Esther Kläs (born 1981). The book includes a story by Gary Indiana.

First published in 1997, "Herzog & de Meuron: Drawings" lays bare the working methods of one of today's greatest architectural firms, reproducing 320 black-and-white drawings from projects dating from 1984 through 1996. These drawings are complemented by 47 photographs of the maquettes and the realized projects.

New York-based British artist John Beech and New York playwright Edward Albee have known each other since 1991, when Albee acquired the first of several of Beech's works for his collection. In the summer of 2006, Beech set out for Montauk to meet with Albee about collaborating on a book. As Albee went through the images, Beech was struck by the poignant and poetic remarks Albee spoke in response, sometimes with just a single word, at other times with a short insightful phrase. These primary responses were the genesis of the facsimile-reproduced handwritten texts that appear in response to each of the 40 images reproduced in this stunning limited edition of 750 copies.

Over the last four decades, David Rabinowitch has made significant contributions to the field of sculpture. Rabinowitch ceased painting in 1962, having transitioned to the medium of sculpture in 1960 after exposure to the work of fellow artist David Smith. The 100 woodblock monotypes he created in 1962, shown here for the first time, represent the work of the artist at the very point that his first sculptural works were being formulated. They provide a fascinating insight into the process that produced Rabinowitch's early Mass Works in steel--but though these monotypes clearly precede and perhaps foreshadow the artist's early sculptures, they are by no means studies for them. The independence that the monotypes have from the sculptures is clearly apparent, but they are directly expressive of sculptural issues, many of which Rabinowitch was the first to introduce. Of major concern was the establishment of an abstract ideography of signs that conveyed nothing other than themselves; in these monographs, he created lively, colorful, almost calligraphic forms that dance along in endless, weightless, point and counter-point relationships.

In the fall of 1999, Dutch painter Robert Zandvliet produced, along with master printer Maurice Sanchez, a monotype project entitled The Varick Series. Zandvliet, one of the most-talented and innovative painters of his generation, specializes in the currently neglected field of landscape painting.

By Robert Creeley. Artwork by Alex Katz. Text by Merlin James.

This volume contains full-color plates of important works by Kasimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian, Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, Robert Ryman, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Helmut Federle and Joseph Marioni.