© MURAKAMI Piero di Cosimo featuring essays by Louis Menard

featuring essays by Louis Menard

this prescient image has gained new resonance and topicality

A new essay by Andrew Winer explores the artist’s subversive transfiguration of the markers of painterly authenticity and an in-depth conversation between Brown and curator Massimiliano Gioni offers insight into the artist’s practice

as well as numerous studio shots illustrating Baselitz’s works in progress

that subsequently traveled to Gagosian

© MURAKAMI Piero di Cosimo featuring essays by Louis MenardThis book was published on the occasion of MURAKAMI, the first comprehensive survey of Takashi Murakamis work, which originated at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and subsequently traveled to the Brooklyn Museum, New York; Museum fr Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; and Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain. Organized by Paul Schimmel in 200708, the retrospective featured key selections from across the artists career, including early