John Yau

"The remarkable plein air paintings of Liu Xiaodong (b.1963), which chronicle everyday lives within our diverse modern world, are the focus of this first monograph of his career to date. Immersing himself in communities around the globe, Xiaodong seeks to present people who often sit on the fringes of society who find themselves marginalised within a contemporary world striving for homogenisation. At first glance a traditional realist painter, closer...

John Ashbery is known foremost as a poet, but he has been creating collages for nearly as long as he s been writing poetry. He began working in the medium when he was an undergraduate at Harvard, more than seventy years ago. Now, for the first time ever, this volume compiles a comprehensive selection of Ashbery's collage work, accompanied by a selection of collage-related poems. Like his poetry, Ashbery's collage work combines art historical and pop...

Lee Krasner, a pioneer of Abstract Expressionism, has been one of the few female artists to be given a retrspective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. This volume features a selection of the artist's most important paintings, collages, and works on paper; essays on her life and art by Eleanor Nairne, Katy Siegel, John Yau, and Suzanne Hudson, an interview with her biographer Gail Levin; and a fully illustrated chronology. From back cover.