Publications

Shop AK offers a wide selection of publications, several of which are available for purchase online.

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RECENT RELEASES

The Last Frontier: Kelly Richardson

With a Foreword by Ryan Doherty (Southern Alberta Art Gallery)
An Introduction by Louis Grachos (AMOA-Arthouse)
And Essays by Kelly Gordon (Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden), Holly E. Hughes (Albright-Knox Art Gallery), and Alistair Robinson (Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art)

This volume surveys Kelly Richardson’s practice over fifteen years. It is the most extensive collection of her works in a single publication.

11.8 x 8.7 inches, 160 pages, full color, four different dustcovers (pictured above)

Published by the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art (NGCA) and Southern Alberta Art Gallery (SAAG), 2013

DECADE: Contemporary Collecting 2002–2012
With a Foreword by Louis Grachos
Texts by David Pagel and Heather Pesanti
And an Interview with Douglas Dreishpoon and Louis Grachos

This exhibition catalogue celebrates the Gallery’s intense collecting activity from 2002 to 2012. It features color plates of all of the works in the exhibition, an essay by the curator and art critic David Pagel, a conversation with Albright-Knox Director Louis Grachos and Chief Curator Douglas Dreishpoon, introductions to the exhibition’s themes by Curator Heather Pesanti, and a fully illustrated list of the more than 1,000 works of art that have entered the Collection since 2002.

9 1/2 x 12 1/4 inches, 431 pages, full color

© 2012 The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy

Extreme Abstraction Revisited
With a Foreword by Louis Grachos

Extreme Abstraction Revisited documents the Albright-Knox Art Gallery's 2005 exhibition Extreme Abstraction, including an extensive visual walk-through of the exhibition and a fully illustrated checklist of the more than 250 works of art in the exhibition.

9 1/2 x 12 1/4 inches, 192 pages, full color

© 2012 The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy

Albright-Knox Art Gallery: Highlights of the Collection
By Mariann W. Smith
With a Foreword by Louis Grachos
and Introductory Text by Douglas Dreishpoon

This new book—which features highlights from one of America’s finest collections—is a must-have for art enthusiasts. It showcases the Gallery’s recent acquisitions and cornerstone works, tracing the evolution of modern and contemporary art.

The last decade has seen unprecedented growth in art production, with artists exploring new media, new approaches, and new subjects. This book illuminates and illustrates the range and diversity of the Gallery’s Collection and reflects the experience of contemporary art. Visual conversations are rich in contrasts, with exciting discoveries at every turn.

9 x 7 inches, 168 pages, 150 full-color illustrations

© 2011 The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy
Published by Scala Publishers in association with Albright-Knox Art Gallery

The Long Curve: 150 Years of Visionary Collecting at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Essays by Douglas Dreishpoon and Susana Tejada
Texts on the Works by Mariann W. Smith
Timeline by Holly E. Hughes

This richly illustrated catalogue accompanies a major exhibition of works from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery’s Collection. Featuring eighty iconic paintings and sculptures from the late nineteenth century to the present, The Long Curve highlights the history of the Albright-Knox’s remarkable Collection by focusing on the pioneering benefactors and museum professionals who made it possible.

11 x 9 1/2 inches, 265 pages, 207 illustrations 

© 2011 The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy
Designed, printed, and produced by Skira, Milan, Italy
Published by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in association with Skira

EXHIBITION CATALOGUES AND OTHER BOOKS

An Adventure in Looking & Listening: Exploring Masterworks at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Written by Jennifer Bayles, Illustrated by Janet Barnett

This interactive book and audio CD provide the perfect art adventure for young ones with curious minds. An Adventure in Looking & Listening—featuring four fun characters—takes children on a journey through fifteen full-color masterworks from the Albright-Knox’s Collection and encourages them to look at art in a new and exciting way.

© 2003 The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy

Being & Time: The Emergence of Video Projection
With a Foreword by Douglas G. Schultz
Edited by Karen Lee Spaulding

This catalogue explores the Albright-Knox’s 1996 exhibition of the same name, which celebrated the role and development of new technology in art. The exhibition featured works by Willie Doherty, Gary Hill, Bruce Nauman, Tony Oursler, Diana Thater, Bill Viola, and more.

Paperback, full color, 95 pages

© 1996 The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy
Designed by Ingrid Castro, CASTRO/ARTS Baltimore

Beverly Pepper: Sculpture in Place
By Rosalind E. Krauss, with a Preface by Douglas G. Schultz

Beverly Pepper conquers technology to create large-scale sculptures that engage the areas surrounding them.

Paperback, 179 pages

© 1986 Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Abbeville Press

A Brief Inquiry
By Joshua Reiman, with an Essay by Holly E. Hughes

Joshua Reiman’s video work A Brief Inquiry was featured at the Albright-Knox in Beyond/In Western New York: Alternating Currents in 2010. The video installation and accompanying book detail an explorer’s obsessive quest for the sublime in Iceland.

Hardcover, full color

© 2010 Joshua Reiman
Printed in Iceland by Oddi Printing

Brighter Buffalo: Renewing a City
By Maria Scrivani, with a Foreword by Bonnie Foit-Albert

Buffalo native and former Buffalo News reporter Maria Scrivani leads readers on a tour through Buffalo’s industrially driven and richly historical past, stopping at architectural landmarks and treasured cultural institutions along the way. Scrivani reminds us what Buffalo has to be proud of; it is a resourceful city that can stand on its own two feet with an entrepreneurial flame that continues to burn in the face of economic adversity.

Paperback, black-and-white, 192 pages

© 2009 Published by Western New York Wares, Inc.

Bruce Jackson: Cummins Wide, Photographs from the Arkansas Prison
With an Essay by Tom Rankin and an Interview by Douglas Harper

This book is a collection of fifty-three photographs taken at Cummins Prison near Pine Bluff, Arkansas, considered by many to be one of the worst prisons in the United States during the 1970s when these images were created. Buffalo-based photographer and distinguished scholar Bruce Jackson captures the social realities of prison life through the wide-angle lens of a Widelux F6B camera.

Paperback, black-and-white

© 2008 Bruce Jackson
Published by the Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University and Center Working Papers, State University of New York at Buffalo

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra: The BPO Celebrates the First 75 Years
By Raya Lee and Edward Yadzinski, with Contributions from Ron Daniels, Mary Kunz Goldman, Julius Korach, and Denise Prince

The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra has captivated audiences of Western New York and beyond for seventy-five years with their diverse programming and unique performances. This book celebrates the professional sounds that make the BPO one of Buffalo’s most prominent cultural envoys.

Paperback, full color, 126 pages

© 2010 Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
Published by Buffalo Heritage Unlimited

Chuck Close: Self-Portraits 1967–2005
Organized by Madeline Grynsztejn and Siri Engberg

This catalogue on the 2006 exhibition co-organized by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art examines the celebrated figurative painter Chuck Close’s body of portraiture over a period of forty-eight years. It features examples in an array of media, including photography, printmaking, and collage.

Hardcover, full color, 152 pages

© 2005 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Walker Art Center
Designed by Feel Good Anyway (FGA), Portland, Oregon

Circa 1900: From the Genteel Tradition to the Jazz Age
Essay by Helen A. Raye, with a Contribution by Claire Schneider and a Foreword by Douglas G. Schultz

Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name—which was organized by the Albright-Knox in honor of the centennial celebration of the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo in 1901—this catalogue offers discussions on the art admired around 1880 to 1920.

Paperback, 151 pages

© 2001 The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy

The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States
With an Essay by Ruth Fine

This book documents the donations that the avid art collectors Dorothy and Herbert Vogel made to fifty different art institutions—one in each of the fifty states—including the Albright-Knox. This lengthy, evolving project gives us a glimpse into the story of the Vogels’s lives with art.

Paperback, 242 pages

© 2008 National Endowment for the Arts
Produced by the National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C.

Edwin Dickinson: Dreams and Realities
With Essays by Douglas Dreishpoon, Francis V. O’Connor, and Mary Ellen Abell

The first Edwin Dickinson monograph published in twenty years, this beautifully executed catalogue contains full-color reproductions of sixty-eight paintings and twenty-seven drawings by the artist and in-depth engaging discussions and essays regarding some of his most compelling works.

Paperback, full color, 285 pages

© 2002 The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy

Francis Bacon in the 1950s
By Michael Peppiatt

Focusing on Francis Bacon’s most important period of development—1950 to 1960—this book includes paintings rarely or never before seen, and serves as a guide to understanding Bacon’s mysterious art.

Paperback, 200 pages

© 2006 Yale University Press

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Martin House Complex
Text by Lesley Neufield

Explaining the history behind the great American architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s Darwin D. Martin House complex, this book includes detailed illustrations, plan drawings, and high-quality photographs.

Paperback, full color, 34 pages

© 2012 The Martin House Restoration Corporation

Hamish Fulton: Selected Walks 1969–1989

An exhibition catalogue of Hamish Fulton’s work exhibited at the Albright-Knox in 1990, this book was conceived, from cover to cover, by the artist himself. It includes photographs revealing the artist’s poetic nature that were not a part of the exhibition.

Hardcover, 107 pages

© 1990 Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Herbin: The Plastic Alphabet
With an Introduction by Denise Rene

This book is a catalogue for the 1973 Albright-Knox exhibition that was composed of work from Auguste Herbin’s series “The Plastic Alphabet.”

Paperback

© 1973 The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy

Ingrid Calame: Constellations

This book features the work of Ingrid Calame on the occasion of two exhibitions: Constellations, at James Cohan Gallery in 2007, and Ingrid Calame: Traces of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, at the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 2008. Calame became the first Artist in Residence at the Albright-Knox in 2007–08. Her work, which directly transformed images gathered in and around the City of Buffalo, was exhibited in Ingrid Calame: Step on a Crack . . . in 2009–10.

Hardcover, full color, 64 pages

Kenneth Snelson
With a Foreword by Robert T. Buck and an Essay by Howard N. Fox

This catalogue of an exhibition held at the Albright-Knox explores the world of structure in Kenneth Snelson’s work, which obscures the boundaries between science and art.

Paperback, 88 pages

© 1981 The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy

Landscape at the Millennium: Installations by Tobi Kahn and Pat Steir, Nineteenth-Century Works from the Parrish Art Museum and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery
With a Foreword by Douglas G. Schultz

This 2000 exhibition catalogue showcases classic works from the collections of the Albright-Knox and the Parrish Art Museum. Interviews with Tobi Kahn and Pat Steir are included.

Paperback, 47 pages

© 2000 The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy

The Paintings of Sylvia Plimack Mangold
With a Foreword by Douglas G. Schultz

The work of Sylvia Plimack Mangold, both a Realist and an Illusionist, is shown in this catalogue, which accompanied a retrospective exhibition held at the Albright-Knox in 1994.

Paperback, 142 pages

© 1994 Hudson Hills Press, in association with the Albright-Knox Art Gallery

The Panza Collection: An Experience of Color and Light
With a Foreword by Louis Grachos, Conversations with Giuseppe Panza di Biumo and Douglas Dreishpoon, and an Essay by David Bonetti

Focusing on minimalistic works concerned with color and light, this 2007 exhibition catalogue for The Panza Collection: An Experience of Color and Light at the Albright-Knox includes works by notable artists such as Dan Flavin, Bruce Nauman, and James Turrell.

Hardcover, 119 pages

© 2007 The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy

Petah Coyne: Above and Beneath the Skin
By Douglas Dreishpoon
With Essays by Nancy Princenthal, and Eleanor Heartney
Edited by Sarah Hezel

Petah Coyne: Above and Beneath the Skin is the Albright-Knox Art Gallery's most recent exhibition catalogue. It accompanies a comprehensive, nineteen-year survey of Petah Coyne's work that was organized by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery's Senior Curator Douglas Dreishpoon. After touring the United States, the exhibition will return to the Gallery from June 9 to September 17, 2006.

131 pages, 29 color plates, 49 illustrations

© 2005 The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy
Designed and produced by Studio Blue, Chicago
Published by Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Distributed by Fotofolio, New York, New York  

Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art
By Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo

Investigative reporters Laney Salisbury and Aly Sujo recount the true story of one of art history’s most elaborate swindles. This well-researched, thrilling tale of forgery follows John Drewe and his many (sometimes unknowing) accomplices on their trail of deception stretching from London to New York.

Hardcover, 327 pages

© 2009 The Penguin Press, New York

Rodin: A Magnificent Obsession
By Kirk Varnedoe

Published on the occasion of Rodin: A Magnificent Obsession, Sculpture from the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Foundation, which traveled to the Albright-Knox in 2004, this catalogue details the importance and influence of the work of Auguste Rodin, who stands at the origins of modern sculpture.

Softcover, 192 pages

© 2001 Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Foundation

The Triumph of French Painting: Masterpieces from Ingres to Matisse
By Sona K. Johnston

This collaborative exhibition between Baltimore’s two premier art institutions, The Walters Art Gallery and The Baltimore Museum of Art, was on view at the Albright-Knox from November 3, 2001, through January 6, 2002. The exhibition covered every major artistic movement and school of the nineteenth century, from Neoclassicism to Impressionism, combining the finest works of French art from both Baltimore museums.

Hardcover, 156 pages, full color

© The Walters Art Gallery and The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2000

The Tumultuous Fifties:
A View from The New York Times Photo Archives
Introduction by Luc Sante
(Reprinted from The New York Times Magazine)
Essays by Douglas Dreishpoon and Alan Trachtenberg
Chronology by Holly E. Hughes 

272-pages, 200 illustrations

Albright-Knox Art Gallery and Yale University Press, 2001

The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art
By Gao Minglu
With Essays by Douglas Dreishpoon and Bingyi Huang

The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art is the most ambitious exhibition of contemporary Chinese art to travel beyond China. Organized by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the University at Buffalo Art Galleries, in conjunction with the Millennium Art Museum, it marks the first collaboration between American and Chinese art museums to focus on contemporary Chinese Art.

© 2005 The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy and The Millennium Art Museum
Designed, printed, and produced by Sunvale Culture, Beijing, China

The Wayward Muse: A Historical Survey of Painting in Buffalo
By Susan Krane, with Contributions by William H. Gertis and Helen Raye
Preface by Douglas G. Schultz

This exhibition, held at the Albright-Knox from March 23 through May 24, 1987, presented the first historical survey of painting in Buffalo since the 1950s.

Paperback, 208 pages

© 1987 Albright-Knox Art Gallery

ARTGAMES CD

An interactive CD designed for kids. Have creative fun while learning about art, featuring masterworks from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.