An autobiography in collage. Forty-five quirky true stories from the life of the artist written in collage format.
Excerpts from some of the stories: I grew up in the shadow of the Iron Curtain during the Cold War.
Every year my mother gets two turkeys and names one Thanksgiving and the other Christmas.
My mother would tell me to think pretty thoughts, so I would think about tulips.
If I wanted to get back at her for something I had to do it in a pre-meditated covert manner.
After dinner we would sit on the deck, drink scotch, smoke cigars, and throw our table scraps over the edge to attract the bears.
These lessons were usually prefaced with, "don't tell your mother."
Her scream probably woke up half the campground.
I didn't realize that she was a madam and her name was a play on her occupation.
I always thought they were stupid. Surely they knew the babies weren't real.

Winner Bronze Medal 2009 Independent Book Publishers Award - Essay/Creative Non-fiction
Finalist 2009 Indie Excellence Award - Art

Great exhibition catalog featuring new photography from Japan. 100 black and white illustrations of photographs by Japanese photographers - most are full-page illustrations. Artists / Photographers include: Yasuhiro Ishimoto Ken Domon, Shomei Tomatsu, Kikuji Kawada, Ikko, Masahisa Fukase, Hiromi Tsuchida, Ken Ohara, Bishin Jumonji, Ryoji Akiyama and other photographers. Includes brief biographies of each photographer. Published by the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Sofcover. Umpaginated - 120 pages. Measures 9 by 10 inches. Interesting exhibition catalog, nicely illustrated.

Written in the form of letters to an aspiring artist, Letters to a Young Artist includes Julia Cameron's hints on how to become an artist and encourage the creative flow. Full of exercises - she suggests, for example, writing 14 pages on anything every morning - and advice on an artist's approach to many aspects of life, including work and play, rest and exercise, adventure and security, relationships and sex, personal appearance. There are inspiring ideas on what to write about and invaluable encouragement in dealing with creative blocks and temporary failure.

"Born April 25, 1879, Eddie Poferl came to the United States in 1887. Eddie worked at many jobs, including being a tattoo artist in a Seattle waterfront tattoo place and was known as Professor Eddie. The book contains his business cards, catalogs, early tattoo machines, and dozen of flash sheets, some of the earliest known flash in existence."

From prehistoric statues to modern resonance imaging, the human body - idealized or abused, naked or clothed, beautiful or distorted, male or female, young or old, black or white, still or moving - has been a continual source of inspiration for artists and scientists alike. Touching upon the whole human condition, these representations express a range of emotions - fear, love, hatred - and often excite strong passions. Whether intended as works of art or medical illustrations, political acts or erotic displays, advertising gimmicks or documentary evidence, these images celebrate the human form in its many guises.

Amazing reprints and color plates on every page. This auction is the second half of the important works of art from old masters. Includes European works from the early 2007 sale.

Known since the 1960s for his transformative use of neon in sculpture, Antonakos through the decades has similarly advanced the formal possibilities of abstract geometry with his drawings.
This hand-sized book contains a 151 page photographic essay of Antonakos' famous neons and drawings spanning five decades of work, plus a new essay by Nathan Kernan.
The artist's two newest neon Panels, Oath and Arrival, appear at the beginning of the book. Both works extend Antonakos's engagement with Panels constructed of related planar segments with, for the first time, sections set on the diagonal -- an innovation which gives more presence to their internal areas of reflected neon color. Antonakos has said, I considered using this kind of diagonal in the early 1990s, but first I wanted to make a certain number of the sectioned Panels with straight horizontal and vertical elements for myself . . . . By 2007, I was ready for the diagonal element, and I placed the first one, Entry, in the Athens retrospective.
Also reproduced in the book are series of Antonakos's newest colored pencil on vellum drawings from the Winter Series, whose various treatments -- cutting, folding, crumpling -- take them into the realm of sculpture.
An Incomplete Blue Neon Square from the mid-1970s and models and drawings for large-scale neon sculptures from the late 1960s are vivid reminders of Antonakos's long involvement with the interactions of geometry, color, scale, light, and space.
The book is published on the occasion of the exhibition at David Krut Projects and Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, Stephen Antonakos: Here and Beyond. Opening September 17, 2008 and September 18, 2008.
With special thanks to James Casey, Book Designer, Benjamin Tiven for Digital Imaging, and Domine Press Ltd. Singapore, Dominie Press Pte Ltd., Singapore, notably: Emma Neubronner, Eugene Oh and Mr. Oh Teng Hin, for their generous help with this project.
Publication@ David Krut Publishing, Johannesburg, New York 2008
All images@ Stephen Antonakos 2008