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On the occasion of each major exhibition, The Irish Museum of Modern Art publishes an accompanying catalogue, monograph, or collaborative artist's book on the show, or, in the case of visiting exhibitions, makes available the publication that comes with it.

These books are lavish productions, and make exquisite gifts for art lovers, indispensable guides to the exhibitions, and important additions to the understanding of the artworks or artists that are their subject.

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Publications currently available for purchase online are :

Access All Areas NEW!
Alan Phelan ; Fragile Absolutes
Alex Katz: New York
Alexander Calder and Joan Miró
All Hawaii Entrées/Lunar Reggae
Anne Madden
Anne Tallentire: This and Other Things 1999-2010
Barry Cooke NEW!
Barry Flanagan: Sculptures 1965- 2005
Boulevard Magenta
Boulevard Magenta (II)
Boulevard Magenta (III)
Boulevard Magenta (IV) NEW!
Boulevard Magenta (V) NEW!
Calder Jewellery Sold Out
Carlos Garacoia: Overlapping
Cecil King: A Legacy of Painting
Janaina Tschäpe - Chimera
Curating Now
Cut-Outs and Cut-Ups: Hans Christian Andersen and William Seward Burroughs
Dorothy Cross
Elizabeth Peyton
Exquisite Corpse
Ferran Garcia Sevilla
Francesco Clemente: New Works
Francis Alys: Le temps du sommeil
Franz Ackermann
Fred Tomaselli: Monsters of Paradise
Georgia O'Keeffe: Nature and Abstractions
Graphic Studio: 50 Years in Dublin
Hughie O'Donoghue
In Praise of Shadows
Irish Museum of Modern Art - The Collection
Iran do Espírito Santo
Isaac Julien
Jack Pierson
James Coleman
João Penalva
Jorge Pardo
Juan Uslé: Open Rooms
Lucian Freud
Louis le Brocquy's The Head Image: Notes on Painting and Awareness
Lynda Benglis
McDermott & McGough - An Experience of Amusing Chemistry: Photographs 1990 ?1890
Michael Craig Martin
Miroslaw Balka: Tristes Tropiques
Order Desire Light
Parreno
Patrick Hall - Drawings
Philip Taaffe - Anima Mundi NEW!
Picturing New York: Photographs from the Museum of Modern Art
Post-War American Art: The Novak/O'Doherty Collection
Romuald Hazoumè NEW!
Terry Winters Signal to Noise
The Moderns NEW!
Thomas Scheibitz: About 90 Elements / TOD IM DSCHUNGEL
Traces: IMMA Limited Editions
Ulla von Brandenburg
Vertical Thoughts: Morton Feldman and the Visual Arts
Willie McKeown

Access All Areas NEW!

Authors, Editor and Contributors: Janusz Byszewski, Anna Colford, Carol Duncan, Victoria Hollows, Howard Hollands, Kaija Kaitavuori, Helen O’Donoghue, Davide Quadrio, Veronica Sekules, Luiz Guilherme Vergara

Price: €25.00

ISBN: 978-1-907020-02-5

Year of Publication: 2009

Description: Access All Areas addresses a wide range of institutional and personal ideologies governing access to art and artists and the national cultural frameworks that support them. Contributing texts in this publication stems from Access All Areas, the second in a series of international symposia hosted in 2006 by the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. Also included in this publication series are Curating Now (2004) and Museums21 (2008).

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Alan Phelan ; Fragile Absolutes

Authors, Editor and Contributors: Dušan I. Bjelic´, Seán Kissane, Medb Ruane and Tony White

Price: €35.00 (268 pages, 207 illustrations)

ISBN: 978-8-88158-763-6

Year of Publication: 2009

Description: Alan Phelan (b. Dublin, 1968) is an Irish artist known for his complex works which create relationships between quite disparate elements of political history, cultural theory, popular culture, science fiction, and modified cars. This publication documents Alan Phelan’s Fragile Absolutes exhibition of 15 works realised in a variety of materials and processes, from hand-carved marble, through to video and papier mâché sculpture.

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Alex Katz: New York

Authors, Editor and Contributors: Juan Manuel Bonet, Rachel Thomas, Alex Katz, Vincent Katz

Price: €37.00

ISBN: 8-8881586-34-9

Year of Publication: 2007

Description: This book brings together some of Alex Katz’s most striking image of the city of his birth, and pays special attention to his relationship to contemporary poets, whose portraits he painted and with whom he has often collaborated. A fully-illustrated catalogue with an essay by Juan Manuel Bonet and an interview with the artist, it also includes an anthology of poetry, selected by Alex and his son, the poet Vincent Katz.

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Alexander Calder and Joan Miró

Authors, Editor and Contributors: Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Alexander S.C. Rower, Emilio Fernandez Miró
Price: €16.00

ISBN: 978-1-90381-172-6

Year of Publication: 2007

Description: Calder and Miró met at the end of the 1920s and immediately responded to each other's sensibilities, striking up a friendship that lasted their entire lives. This publication explores that relationship against the backdrop of an exhibition of their outdoor sculptures in the famed courtyard of the Irish Museum of Modern Art.

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All Hawaii Entrées/Lunar Reggae

Authors, Editor and Contributors: Rachael Thomas, Philippe Parreno, Kurt Vonnegut, Cory Doctorow, Grant Morrison, Liam Gillick, Hans Pruijt
Price: €39.00

ISBN: 978-8-8815857-9-0

Year of Publication: 2006

Description: An experimental project to fulfill a commitment to bring leading international contemporary artists to Ireland to collaborate alongside Irish counterparts, this book chronicles this 'model of sociability'. Over twenty artists, writers and thinkers participated: Doug Aitken, Carles Congost, Keren Cytter, Thomas Demand, Cory Doctorow, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Liam GIllick, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Douglas Gordon, Carsten Höller, Jim Lambie, Sarah Lucas, Sarah Morris, Grant Morrison, Jorge Pardo, Philippe Parreno, Paola Pivi, Eva Rothschild, Anri Sala, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Cerith Wyn Evans.

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Anne Madden

Authors, Editor and Contributors: Enrique Juncosa, Derek Mahon, Marcelin Pleynet, Anne Madden
Price: €39.00

ISBN: 978-0-857595-01-7

Year of Publication: 2007

Description: A lavish monograph covering Anne Madden's entire career, presenting works from the 1950s to the present, and including more recent works from the artist's studio. [Please note that a Limited Edition print made by Anne Madden for IMMA is available for purchase - click here]

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Anne Tallentire: This and Other Things 1999 - 2010 NEW!

Authors, Editor and Contributors: Charles Esche, Rachael Thomas, Vaari Claffey, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Enrique Juncosa

Price: €20.00

ISBN: 978-1-907020-25-4

Year of Publication: 2009

Description: A fully-illustrated catalogue will accompany Anne Tallentire’s 2010 exhibition at IMMA, including new essays by Charles Esche, Director of the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Rachael and an interview to the artist by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director, Exhibitions and Programmes and Director of International Projects at the Serpentine Gallery, London.

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Barry Cooke

Authors, Editor and Contributors: Brian Dillon, Dorothy Cross, Seamus Heaney, Enrique Juncosa, and Karen Sweeney.
Price: €35.00

ISBN: 978-1-843511-96-0

Year of Publication: 2011

Description: A hardcover comprehensive survey of Barrie Cooke’s career - with 82 colour plates across 162 pages – published on the occasion of the artist’s 80th birthday and the unveiling of a solo exhibition at IMMA. Barrie Cooke is one of Ireland's foremost painters to have emerged since the fifties (he has lived for the past fifty-five years), although he is widely travelled and his richly expressionist, semi-abstract paintings have been strongly influenced by time spent in Malaysia, Borneo and New Zealand for example, on his beloved fishing trips. Nature is his chosen environment and subject matter. He has collaborated with a number of prominent poets including Seamus Heaney, John Montague and Ted Hughes, all of who share his fascination with the elemental.

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Barry Flanagan: Sculptures 1965-2005

Authors, Editor and Contributors: Enrique Juncosa, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Mel Gooding, Bruce Arnold
Price: €35.00

ISBN: 978-1-903811-62-7

Year of Publication: 2005

Description: Barry Flanagan's sculptural presence has been both radical and independent since the 60s. This book is a very complete monograph of the artist's work, covering his early works since 1965, his bronzes from the 80s onwards, and his works in urban settings. [Please note that a Limited Edition print made by Barry Flanagan with poet Seamus Heaney for IMMA is available for purchase - click here]

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Boulevard Magenta

Authors, Editor and Contributors: Seán Kissane (editor), Enrique Juncosa (editor), Hans Ulrich Obrist, Philippe Parreno, Nalini Malani, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon, Sean Scully, Colm Tóibín, Miquel Barceló, Francesco Clemente, Nalini Malani, Sean Scully, Terry Winters, José Carlos Llop, Luis Antonio de Villena and others.
Price: €15.00

ISSN: 2009-1834

Year of Publication: 2009

Description: Boulevard Magenta, echoing early international avant-garde magazines, focuses on art practice without excluding any discipline. An interview with poet Czeslaw Milosz, a project from architectural firm Amanda Levete Architects, an excerpt from the script of the long-awaited new film by Tran Anh Hung, an early unpublished score by Kevin Volans, writing from John Ashbery, Adam Zagajewski, André Aciman and David Mitchell...this is a journal of cultural relevance intending in some way to underscore the work of the Irish Museum of Modern Art's exhibition policy.

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Boulevard Magenta II

Authors, Editor and Contributors: Enrique Juncosa (Editor), Seán Kissane (Editor), John Banville, Gerald Barry, Rabih Alameddine, Pedro Almodóvar, Francis Alÿs, Martin Assig, Roberto Bolaño, Cecily Brennan, Trisha Brown, Michel Butor, Anthony Cronin, Anju Dodiya, Theo Dorgan, Iran do Espírito Santo, Jordi Esteva, Wayne Koestenbaum, Fergus Martin, Jockum Nordström, Dennis O’Driscoll, Brian O’Doherty, Hans Ulrich Obrist, John Pawson, Gerard Smyth, Enrique Vila-Matas. 'Includes a CD of music by Gerald Barry'
Price: €15.00

ISSN: 9772009183008

Year of Publication: 2009

Description: Volume 2 of this arts and literary publication that is the brainchild of IMMA’s Director, Enrique Juncosa, himself a noted poet, bringing together a collection of works ranging across the visual arts, prose, poetry, music, film and architecture.

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Boulevard Magenta (III)

Contributors: Enrique Juncosa, Chris Abani, Thomas Ades, Ron Arad, Matthew Barney, Juan Manuel Bonet, Barnardo Carvalho, Horacio Coppola, Jessica Craig-Martin, Augusto de Campos, Walter Gam, Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzales-Foerster, Douglas Gordon, Alasdair Gray, Romesh Gunesekera, Robert Marteau, Neil Jordan, John Montague, Paul Muldoon, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Andrew O’Hagan, Philippe Parreno, Garrett Phelan, Barnard Plossu, Jeremy Reed, James Schuyler, Aleksandr Skidan, Michael Smith, Rirkrit Tirananija, Eliot Weinberger, Terry Winters
Price: €15.00

ISBN: 9781907020452

Description: A third volume of one of the decade’s finest and most international museum journals, maintaining its intention to focus on art practice without excluding any discipline: film, architecture, music composition, photography, fabric design, fiction, biography, poetry and visual art.

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Boulevard Magenta (IV) NEW!

Contributors: Pat Boran, Dorothy Cross, Barry Flanagan, Anne Haverty, Ranjit Hoskote, László Krasznahorkai, Nick Laird, György Ligeti, Mark Manders, Fergus Martin, Richard McNeff, Pedro Serrano, Philip Taaffe, Antoni Tàpies, Frederic Tuten, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, John Yau
Price: €15.00

ISBN: 978-1-907020-54-4

Year of Publication: 2011

Description: Boulevard Magenta is a magazine of the arts and letters, published quarterly by the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Focusing on creation rather than theory, Boulevard Magenta presents new, unpublished material, or work-in-progress from leading artists, writers, poets, architects, musicians and filmmakers.

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Boulevard Magenta (V) NEW!

Contributors: David Chipperfield, Rioji Ikeda, Olav Christopher Jenssen, Philip Taaffe, Guillermo Kuitca, Michael Craig-Martin, Susana Solano, Bernard Plossu, Edmund White, Katharine Weber, Anne Haverty, Fabio Morábito, Eugenio Montale, John F. Deane, Desmond Egan, Shuntaro Tanikawa
Price: €15.00

ISBN: 978-1-907020-58-2

Year of Publication: 2011

Description: Boulevard Magenta is a magazine of the arts and letters, published quarterly by the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Focusing on creation rather than theory, Boulevard Magenta presents new, unpublished material, or work-in-progress from leading artists, writers, poets, architects, musicians and filmmakers.

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Calder Jewellery

Authors, Editor and Contributors: Maria Robledo (photographs), Alexander S. C. Rower (editor), Holton Rower (editor), Mark Rosenthal (essayist), Jane Adlin (essayist)
Price: Sold Out

ISBN: 978-1-903811-08-5

Year of Publication: 2009

Description: Alexander Calder's jewellery has the same linear yet three dimensional quality as his famous wire sculptures. He produced more than 1800 pieces, and it became coveted by the Surrealist coterie. Today it is highly sought after by collectors and museums. This huge 288-page largely photographic narrative of his jewellery is edited by his grandson and includes essays by leading curators of the 2009 exhibition of which IMMA was the only European venue.

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Carlos Garacoia: Overlapping

Contributors: Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, Okwui Enwezor, Seán Kissane, Enrique Juncosa
Price: €57.00

ISBN: 978-8-881587-84-1

Description: Carlos Garaicoa belongs to a generation of artists emerging from Cuba whose multifaceted practice and challenging works negotiate between sculpture, photography, drawing, video, installation and urban interventions. The fully illustrated catalogue is published at the same time as Garacoia’s 2010 exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art.

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Cecil King: A Legacy of Painting

Authors, Editor and Contributors: Seán Kissane (editor)
Price: €39.00

ISBN: 978-1-903811-08-5

Year of Publication: 2007

Description: Cecil King's entire career is covered in this publication, with a particular emphasis on his later paintings (for which he is better known). His distinctive hard-edge minimalist style, and its influences in the avant-garde movement in Ireland, are explored in detail. Approx 75 colour illustrations

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Janaina Tschäpe - Chimera

Authors, Editor and Contributors: Germano Celant, Angela Kingston, Rachael Thomas, Marie Heaney, Vik Muniz
Price: €39.00

ISBN: 978-1-903811-89-4

Year of Publication: 2008

Description: German-Brazilian artist Janaina Tschäpe held a solo exhibition in the Irish Museum of Modern Art in the Summer of 2008, structured around the genetics of the fabled beast from ancient myth Chimera. With bright botanical notations, intertwined with extraordinary film and photographic works, she created an environment of dream and fantasy--where the everyday world metamorphosed into a mythical place populated by fabricated creatures and florescent vegetation. This book recorded the exhibitions and gave it context and commentary. [Please note that a Limited Edition print made by Janaina Tschape for IMMA is available for purchase - click here]

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Curating Now NEW!

Authors, Editor and Contributors: Iwona Blazwick, Douglas Fogle, Ivo Mesquita, Fumio Nanjo, Hans Ulrich Obrist, James Rondeau, Rachael Thomas
Price: €25.00

ISBN: 978-1-907020-01-8

Year of Publication: 2009

Description: Curating Now investigates issues around curatorship in international galleries and museums exploring different models and the importance of particular contexts. This publication stems from the Curating Now symposium, the first in a series of international symposia hosted in 2004 by the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. Also included in this publication series are Access All Areas (2006) and Museums21 (2008).

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Cut-Outs and Cut-Ups: Hans Christian Andersen and William Seward Burroughs

Authors, Editor and Contributors: Jens Andersen, José Ferez Kuri, Raymond Foye, Francine Prose, Hendel Teicher
Price: €45.00

ISBN: 978-1-903811-81-8

Year of Publication: 2008

Literary giants Hans Christian Andersen and William Seward Burroughs shared a second common practice: visual art. Both were experimental writers of radically different styles, but both found themselves using scissors to create art. This sumptuous book, edited by Hendel Teicher, is a comprehensive chronicle of their second talent.

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Dorothy Cross

Authors, Editor and Contributors: Enrique Juncosa, Marina Warner, Ralph Rugoff, Patrick T Murphy, Tom and Dorothy Cross
Price: €44.00

ISBN: 88-8158-533-2

Year of Publication: 2005

One of Ireland’s leading artists, Dorothy Cross works in a variety of media from photography to video and from opera to object, her art a poetic amalgamation of found and constructed objects, often humorous, sometimes disturbing, always intellectually stimulating and physically arresting. This books contains over 240 illustrations and essays by Marina Warner, Ralph Rugoff, and Patrick T Murphy.

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Elizabeth Peyton

Price: €39.95

ISBN: 978-1-907020-11-7

Year of Publication: 2009

Description: Elizabeth Peyton is one of the most outstanding artists of her generation, known for her intimate portraits of youthful, romantic individuals ranging from friends to historical figures and celebrities. Peyton’s first solo exhibition in Ireland 'Reading and Writing' (Spring 2009) explored the very nature of existence through an intimate presentation of paintings, drawings, and prints. The works are all bound by their varying and ties to literature. The book contains the artist’s selection of texts, poems and songs that have inspired her art including Shakespeare, Bob Dylan, Oscar Wilde, Gustave Flaubert and François Truffaut. [Please note that a Limited Edition print made by Elizabath Peyton for IMMA is available for purchase - click here]

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Exquisite Corpse

Authors, Editor and Contributors: Christina Kennedy, Dawn Ades, Gerald Barry, Jonathan Carroll, Aileen Corkery, Michael Craig-Martin, Mark Garry, Jaki Irvine, Nicola Lees, Tony Magennis, Lisa Moran, Frances Morris, Deirdre Ni Argain, Colm Toibin and Mick Wilson
Price: €5.00

ISBN: 978-1-903811-94-8

Year of Publication: 2008

Description: Using the Surrealist poetry-and-drawing game Exquisite Corpse as a conceptual framework, each contributor makes a contribution to a sequential collage--unaware of what the others have chosen. Artworks by Madge Gill, Rebecca Horn, Lee Jaffe, Kathy Prendergast, Vik Muniz, Barrie Cooke, Caroline McCarthy, Richard Hamilton, William Scott, Carl Zimmerman, Dorothy Cross, John Ahearn, Mary Lohan and Shusaku Arakawa are selected. This publication explores the results.

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Ferran Garcia Sevilla

Contributors: Dan Cameron, Greg Hilty, Enrique Juncosa, Se? Kissane, Kevin Power, John Yau, Cristina Fontaneda Berthet
Price: €20.00

ISBN: 978-1-907020-38-4

Description: Co-inciding with Ferran Garcia Sevilla’s first solo exhibition in over a decade, this publication chronicles his works from 1980 until the present day, including a wealth of works that have never been seen.

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Francesco Clemente: New Works

Authors, Editor and Contributors: Enrique Juncosa, Lisa Phillips, Vincent Katz
Price: €25.00

ISBN: 1-903811-27-9

Year of Publication: 2004

Description: A fully-illustrated catalogue with more than 60 plates, this publication chronicles works (paintings, pastels, watercolours) made between 2001 and 2004 in which the ‘Vanitas’ has become the central subject. Essays by Enrique Juncosa, Lisa Phillips, and Vincent Katz complete the text.

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Francis Alys: Le temps du sommeil

Contributors: Catherine Lampert, Enrique Juncosa
Price: €30.00

ISBN: 978-88-8158-777-3

Description: Le temps du sommeil, a series of tiny paintings begun in 1996, are visual ‘diaries’ of Francis Alys’s interactions with locations all over the world. Assembled into a series (and accompanied by instructions and postcards), this book is chronicles the performance of a compulsive wanderer. In 2010 they are exhibited in IMMA before going on to Tate Modern.

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Franz Ackermann

Authors, Editor and Contributors: Rachael Thomas, Daniel Birnbaum, Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith
Price: €5.00

ISBN: 978-1-903811-49-X

Year of Publication: 2005

Description: Franz Ackermann's practice explores the changing nature of cities in the continual globalisation of society with trademark brightly coloured paintings and installations. This publication explores an exhibition that took place in Dublin in 2005, an event which came about as a result of a terrorist scare on a flight which was forced to land in the city.

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Fred Tomaselli: Monsters of Paradise

Authors, Editor and Contributors: Jonathan Lethem, Fred Tomaselli, John Yau, Fiona Bradley
Price: sold out

ISBN: 0947912835

Year of Publication: 2005

Description: Drawing on influences from Indian miniatures to punk rock, Tomaselli’s collaged paintings are remarkable compendia of natural and unnatural worlds. A companion to the 2005 exhibition ‘Monsters of Paradise’, which comprises some 15 works made from a dazzling array of materials to create rich and beautiful paintings.

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Georgia O'Keeffe: Nature and Abstraction

Authors, Editor and Contributors: Richard D. Marshall, Yvonne Scott, Achille Bonito Oliva, Kathleen S. Bartels, Enrique Juncosa
Price: €27.00

ISBN: 978-8-861301-28-3

Year of Publication: 2007

Description: On the occasion of a joint exhibition in Canada and then Ireland, this book centres around Georgia O'Keeffe's consistent determinations to transform known or recognizable things into painted, abstract entities; it also uses the opportunity to survey her entire career; and to concentrate on the most dominant and inspiring aspect of her legacy--transforming nature into abstraction.

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Graphic Studio: 50 Years in Dublin

Authors, Editor and Contributors: Eimear O?aw, Aidan Dunne, Jackie Ryan, Enrique Juncosa
Price: €10.00

ISBN: 978-1-907020-51-3

Year of Publication: 2010

Description: The exhibition celebrates the 50th anniversary of Graphic Studio Dublin. The exhibition shows the range of the studios scope by way of the earliest works from the five founders right through to a diverse selection of artists from different practices and backgrounds.

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Hughie O'Donoghue

Authors, Editor and Contributors: Seán Kissane, Enrique Juncosa, Gerard Smyth
Price: €20.00

ISBN: 978-1-907020-00-1

Year of Publication: 2009

Description: Accompanying the second major solo exhibition of Hughie O'Donoghue at IMMA, this publication gives particular emphasis to the series of some 36 works donated by The Ireland Fund. Contextualised by some recent works showing developments in O'Donoghue's practice, this celebrates the close-knit relationship between the artist and the Irish Museum of Modern Art over the years. [Please note that a Limited Edition print made by Hughie O'Donoghue for IMMA is available for purchase - click here]

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In Praise of Shadows

Authors, Editor and Contributors: Paolo Colombo, William Kentridge, Metin And, Enrique Juncosa, Evamarie Blattner, Francois Martin, Carolina Lopez Caballero, Lewis Hyde
Price: €42.00

ISBN: 978-8-881587-14-8

Year of Publication: 2008

Description: This publication revolves around shadows, shadow theatre and silhouettes as well as stories based on traditional folklore, contemporary short stories, literary works and simple narratives, all expressed with economy of means. The central metaphor of this book is the shadow theatre in Turkey and Greece, but it also highlights some examples of great animation classics, namely the works of Ladislas Starewitch and Lotte Reiniger, as well as reinterpretations by noteworthy contemporary artists such as Haluk Akakçe, Nathalie Djurberg, William Kentridge, Katariina Lillqvist, Jockum Nordström, Christiana Soulou, Andrew Vickery and Kara Walker. 152 Pages, 173 illustrations

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Irish Museum of Modern Art - The Collection

Authors, Editor and Contributors: Enrique Juncosa, Catherine Marshall
Price: €25.00

ISBN: 978-1-903811-48-1

Year of Publication: 2005

Description: The first full-colour publication on the Museum? Collection presents more than 180 artworks selected to give a sample of the quality, range and international nature of the works acquired by the Museum since its foundation in 1991.

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Iran do Espírito Santo

Authors, Editor and Contributors: Enrique Juncosa, Lilian Tone, Paolo Colombo
Price: €35.00

ISBN: 978-1-903811-65-1

Year of Publication: 2006

Description: Reflecting the past decade of the artist's practice, including sculpture, drawings and installations. Espírito book will allow international readers to assess the scope of Espirito Santo's achievements.

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Isaac Julien

Authors, Editor and Contributors: Giuliana Bruno, Jose Esteban Munoz, Marie-Hélène Laforest, Seán Kissane, Enrique Juncosa
Price: €36.00

ISBN: 1-903811-52-X

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Description: A fully-illustrated catalogue, including an interview with Nobel Prize laureate Derek Walcott, capture the work of one of Britain’s foremost artist film-makers as it unfolded in an exhibition at IMMA of three of his films: Omeros (2002), Vagabondia (2000) and The Long Road to Mazatlan (1999).

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Jack Pierson

Authors, Editor and Contributors: Enrique Juncosa, Richard D. Marshall, Rachael Thomas, Wayne Koestenbaum, and Jack Pierson
Price: €44.00

ISBN: 978-8-88158-677-6

Year of Publication: 2008

Description:Drawn to stardom, melodrama, loneliness and emotional narrative as subject, Jack Pierson is one of the most influential artists working today. This publication on his work since 1992 is an artist's book that contains an amalgamation of eight previous publications (all out of print). 436 pages, 405 illustrations. [Please note that a Limited Edition print made by Jack Pierson for IMMA is available for purchase - click here]

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James Coleman

Authors, Editor and Contributors: Jacques Rancière, Jean Fisher, Luke Gibbons, Dorothea von Hantelmann
Price: €25.00

ISBN: 978-1-903811-96-2

Year of Publication: 2009

Description:James Coleman’s solo exhibition in 2009 sees his works simultaneously shown at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Project Arts Centre and Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin. This publication documents and accompanies the show.

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João Penalva

Authors, Editor and Contributors: João Penalva, João Fernandes, Enrique Juncosa
Price: €30.00

ISBN: 972-739-154-0

Year of Publication: 2006

Description:This catalogue, with texts in English and Irish, is a characteristic Penalva production, comprising of an interview with the artist by João Fernandes, Director, Museu de Arte Contemporánea de Serralves, Portugal, and including a sketchbook-style collage of the artist’s writings and images.

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Jorge Pardo

Authors, Editor and Contributors: Jorge Pardo, Rachael Thomas, Eimear O’Raw, Jorge Pardo Sculpture, Enrique Juncosa
Price: €5.00/Download

ISBN: 978-1-907020-30-B

Year of Publication: 2010

Description: An accompanying catalogue for the Jorge Pardo exhibition is present as a series of nine tables within the exhibition and also as an eBook available to download. It was created through a series of interviews that took place via the online communication program Skype. The participants were Jorge Pardo; Rachael Thomas, Senior Curator: Head of Exhibitions, IMMA; Alex Coles, art critic; Shumon Basar, architect, writer and curator; and Shamim M Momin founder/director of the recently formed Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND). The catalogue features texts by Rachael Thomas and Enrique Juncosa, Director, IMMA, and it reproduces ‘What Is An Apparatus?’ by philosopher Giorgio Agamben.

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Juan Uslé: Open Rooms

Authors, Editor and Contributors: Enrique Juncosa, Jan Hoet, David Carrier, Eva Wittocx
Price: €37.00

ISBN: 8-8496008-39-7

Year of Publication: 2003

Description:In 2003 Juan Uslé was given a long-awaited retrospective in Madrid and Dublin, which established him as one of the most personal voices of Spanish painting, incorporating both penetrating observations and fleeting sensory impression into his works. This books captures this exhibition and discusses the artist’s practice up to this show.

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Lucian Freud

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Lynda Benglis

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McDermott & McGough - An Experience of Amusing Chemistry: Photographs 1990 ?1890

Authors, Editor and Contributors: Enrique Juncosa, Matthew Higgs, Seán Kissane
Price: €79.00

ISBN: 888158672X

Year of Publication: 2008

Description: This is a substantial hardback fully-illustrated book showing two decades of photographic work by two of the least conventional and most fanciful protagonists of contemporary art—David McDermott and Peter McGough, who have reconstructed their lives as late 19th Century and early 20th Century artists who are fully dedicated to the practice of living historicity.

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Michael Craig Martin

Authors, Editor and Contributors: Richard Cork
Price: €35.00

ISBN: 978-0-500286-46-9

Year of Publication: 2006

Description: Published on the occasion of the 2006 retrospective of Michael Craig Martin's work at IMMA, it covers more than 40 years of innovative and radical artistic practice by one of the most influential artists in Europe, and provides us with a significant monograph to assess his achievements and give us a comprehensive biography. With 261 Illustrations click here]

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Miroslaw Balka: Tristes Tropiques

Authors, Editor and Contributors: Claude Levi-Strauss, Enrique Juncosa, Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith
Price: €34.95

ISBN: 978-1-903811-78-9

Year of Publication: 2007

Description: Internationally renowned Polish artist Miroslaw Balka was celebrated with a solo exhibition of 26 works surveying the past two decades of his career. His practice - a bare, elegiac, careful minimalist placement of objects and the gaps and pauses between them - relate to his upbringing and the experience of Poland's fractured history.

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Order Desire Light

Authors, Editor and Contributors: Enrique Juncosa, Paolo Colombo and Catherine Lampert
Price: €30.00

ISBN: 978-1-903811-90-0

Year of Publication: 2008

Description: An exhibition of over 250 works on paper from artists all over the world--that came from a single private collection belonging to Mercedes Vilardell--was shown at IMMA in 2008. It gives us an insight into a collection of truly international scope, and admires the discipline and practice of drawing by some of the world's leading contemporary artists.

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Parreno

Authors, Editor and Contributors: Enrique Juncosa, Christine Macel, Maria Lind, Simon Critchley, Charles-Arsène Henry, Hans Ulrich Obrist
Price: €45

ISBN: 978-2-84426-385-8

Year of Publication: 2009

Description: A comprehensive survey catalogue of Philippe Parreno’s work– produced by Centre Pompidou Editions – this publication accompanies Parreno’s 2009-2010 exhibition in IMMA titled ‘November’, a plentifully illustrated publication, including critical essays and the first complete list of the artist's works from 1989 to 2008. It is accompanied by ‘Parade?’ is a children's tale written by Parreno and illustrated by Johan Olander.

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Patrick Hall - Drawings

Authors, Editor and Contributors: Enrique Juncosa, Michele C.Cone, Karim White, Karen Sweeney
Price: €29.95

ISBN: 978-1-903811-77-1

Year of Publication: 2007

Description:Patrick Hall as a painter is both tremendously influential and well known. His works on paper not so: over 100 of them, made in the last 25 years, are bought to you in this book.

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Philip Taaffe - Anima Mundi

Contributors: Enrique Juncosa, Colm Tóibín, David Brody
Price: €30.00

ISBN: 978-1-907020-60-5

Year of Publication: 2011

Description: Philip Taaffe is no doubt one of the most significant painters working in America today and he is certainly responsible, with a handful of other artists, for the renewed interest in abstraction Taaffe’s work has evolved during the years but he developed his distinctive style quite early in his career. Multiple cultural references from present and past times appear in his work creating multilayered final images of great complexity and extraordinary beauty. Taaffe’s work goes well beyond formalism. Acknowledging the great tradition of Abstract Art initiated by Wassily Kandinsky, František Kupka and Piet Mondrian, Taaffe does not consider form as an end in itself. His paintings are equally well rooted in the present time, and somehow could not have been imagined before the world we now live in, bombarded as we are by information technology.
The catalogues is 128 pages, 80 full colour images.

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Picturing New York: Photographs from the Museum of Modern Art

Authors, Editor and Contributors: Enrique Juncosa, Michele C.Cone, Karim White, Karen Sweeney
Price: sold out

ISBN: 978-0-87070-772-8

Year of Publication: 2009

Description:A fully-illustrated 153-page catalogue comprises some 150 black and white photographs from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art in New York featuring work from the 1880s to the present day, by such influential photographers as Berenice Abbot, Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, Lisette Model, Alfred Stieglitz and Cindy Sherman.

We are sold out of this title, but it can be purchased direct from MoMA

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Post-War American Art: The Novak/O'Doherty Collection

Authors, Editor and Contributors:
Price: €30.00

ISBN: 978-1-907020-48-3

Year of Publication: 2010

Description: A result of Brian O’Doherty and Barbara Novak’s friendship with outstanding artists in the New York Milieu , particularly of the 60s and 70s, this book includes works by artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Christo, Edward Hopper, Sonja Sekula, Sol Lewitt, Mel Bochner, George Segal, Hans Namuth, John Coplans, Diana Mitchener and many others.

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Romuald Hazoumè NEW

Contributors: Enrique Juncosa, Sean Kissane, Andre Magnin, Gerard Houghton, Yacouba Konaté
Price: €25.00

ISBN: 9781907020520

Year of Publication: 2011

Description:One of the most prominent African artists working today, Hazoumè constructs his sculptures from everyday materials, transforming oil cans into masks and sculptures that reflect on both the black market economy of Benin and the historical signification of the mask within African culture. He documents his surroundings through his photographic and filmic works providing a view of the informal economy that has emerged from the exploitation of African resources.

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Terry Winters Signal to Noise

Authors, Editor and Contributors: Enrique Juncosa, Francine Prose, David Levi Strauss, Peter Lamborn Wilson
Price: €40.00

ISBN: 978-8-881587-52-0

Year of Publication: 2009

Description:Terry Winters belongs to a generation of artists who have taken painting beyond the constraints of Minimalism. Following his investigations of the 1980s—which centered on botanical and biological processes—Winters explores the cerebral spaces of information technology and issues of cognition and narration as they relate to abstraction. His forcefully made paintings and drawings invoke networks and systems of modular forms and structures in an instinctive, unruly symbolic language that sets out to encapsulate entire worlds.

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Louis le Brocquy's The Head Image: Notes on Painting and Awareness

Authors, Editor and Contributors: Louis le Brocquy
Price: €17.00

ISBN: 978-8-881586-16-5

Year of Publication: 2006

Description: Louis le Brocquy offers a series of meditations on his art practice on the occasion of his 90th birthday. 50 pages including 15 illustrations.

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Thomas Scheibitz: About 90 Elements / TOD IM DSCHUNGEL

Authors, Editor and Contributors: Rachael Thomas, Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith, Hans Ulrich Obrist
Price: €49.00

ISBN: 978-3-937572-82-6

Year of Publication: 2007

Description:German painter Thomas Scheibitz selected 30 of his works to be exhibited in London and Dublin in 2007, paintings, works on papers and sculptures which represent his tantalizing fascination with the boundaries between abstraction and representation.

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The Moderns

Contributors: Bruce Arnold, Brian Cass, Theo Dorgan, Aidan Dunne, Luke Gibbons, Enrique Juncosa, Christina Kennedy, David Lloyd, Robert O’Byrne, Ellen Rowley
Price: €70.00

ISBN: 978-1-907020-49-0

Year of Publication: 2011

Description: Irish artists and writers have played a fascinating role in the story of modernism, and The Moderns traces this by bringing together exceptional examples of painting and sculpture, photography, film, architecture, literature, music and design, of Irish significance, in an exploration of the development of modern Ireland through its arts in the period from the 1900s to 1970s. Its broad interdisciplinary context proceeds from the recognition that art forms are not mutually exclusive and that the understanding of one may inform another. 596 pages; 647 illustrations, including 508 in colour.

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Traces: IMMA Limited Editions

Authors, Editor and Contributors: Christina Kennedy, Séamus McCormack
Price: €10.00

ISBN: 978-1-907020-18-6

Year of Publication: 2009

Description:Produced to coincide with the exhibition Traces, this illustrated publication presents each print from the IMMA limited Edition series. Accompanied by a text and quotes from the artists involved, the publication catalogues the series since its development in 2003. The series includes works by Franz Ackermann, Michael Craig-Martin, Dorothy Cross, Gary Hume, Isaac Julien, Alex Katz, Louis le Brocquy, William McKeown, Elizabeth Peyton, Patrick Scott, Camille Souter Sean Scully and Terry Winters.

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Ulla von Brandenburg

Authors, Editor and Contributors: Rachael Thomas, Declan Long, Beatrix Ruf
Price: €20.00

ISBN: 978-8-881586-93-6

Year of Publication: 2008

Description: German artist Ulla von Brandenburg (b.1974) plays with notions of reality and artifice in multilayered works employing film, drawing, installation, wall painting and performance. This stunning publication documents recent works and reflects the imaginative loops through time and recurring themes that characterise Brandenburg's work. [Please note that a Limited Edition print made by Ulla von Brandenburg for IMMA is available for purchase - click here]

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Vertical Thoughts: Morton Feldman and the Visual Arts NEW!

Essayists and contributors: Dore Ashton, Juan Manuel Bonet, Enrique Juncosa, Bunita Marcus, Barbara Monk Feldman, Brian O'Doherty, Francesco Pellizzi, Kevin Volans, Francesco Pellizzi, Sebastian Claren.
Price: €30.00

ISBN: 978-1-907020-08-7

Description: Morton Feldman is widely considered one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. Revolving around a project he curated in 1967 entitled Six Painters, this catalogue considers the impact that modern abstract art had on Feldman's own musical compositions, tracing direct links and hidden meanings. Featuring works from the original six painters - Philip Guston, Franz Kline, Piet Mondrian, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko - this publication also includes works by many other artists whom Feldman admired.

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William McKeown

Authors, Editor and Contributors: Enrique Juncosa, Declan Long, Corinna Lotz, Chris Arthur, Caroline Hancock, Dominic Echlin
Price: €29.00

ISBN: 978-8-881587-15-5

Year of Publication: 2008

Description: With a remarkable and refined sense of colour and extremely subtle tonal gradations, William McKeown captures the essence of a place and a time in his work. This publication recalls his 2008 solo exhibition at the Irish Museum of Modern Art with over 60 rich colour illustrations, and offers interpretations of his career. [Please note that a Limited Edition print made by William McKeown for IMMA is available for purchase - click here]

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