Big Books of Spring

One Work Series

50 primary works • 50 total works
The One Work series is a library of small books, each title focusing on a single artwork that has significantly shaped the way we understand art and its history. The books insist that a single contemporary work of art (in all its different manifestations) can affect our understanding of art in general. More than that, these books suggest that a sin…
Ilya Kabakov: The Man Who Flew into Space from his Apartment
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4.20 · 66 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2006 · 4 editions
An illustrated study of one of Ilya Kabakov's most…

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    Hollis Frampton: (nostalgia)
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    3.64     · 22 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2006 · 5 editions
    An extended illustrated account of the Hollis Fram…

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    Bas Jan Ader: In Search of the Miraculous
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    4.06     · 66 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 2006 · 6 editions
    In 1975 Bas Jan Ader disappeared at sea while tryi…

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    Joan Jonas: I Want to Live in the Country and Other Romances
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    3.88     · 8 Ratings · published 2006 · 6 editions
    An illustrated study of performance and video arti…

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    Richard Prince: Untitled (couple)
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    4.00     · 2 Ratings · published 2006 · 5 editions
    A year after Richard Prince's Untitled (cowboy) ph…

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    Mary Heilmann: Save the Last Dance for Me
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    4.19     · 21 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2007 · 6 editions
    An illustrated study of Mary Heilmann's seductive …

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    Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Celebration? Realife
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    4.50     · 4 Ratings · published 2007 · 5 editions
    A richly illustrated study of Marc Chaimowicz's gr…

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    Yvonne Rainer: The Mind Is a Muscle
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    3.89     · 19 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2007 · 5 editions
    "It is my overall concern to reveal people as they…

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    Fischli and Weiss: The Way Things Go
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    3.62     · 13 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2007 · 4 editions
    An illustrated discussion of Fischli and Weiss's f…

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    Blow Job
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    3.72     · 25 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2008 · 3 editions
    A critical close-up of Warhol's famous film and it…

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    Alighiero e Boetti: Mappa
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    3.50     · 6 Ratings · published 2007 · 7 editions
    A study of Boetti's 1988 work Map, a tapestry map …

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    Hanne Darboven: Cultural History 1880-1983
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    4.12     · 8 Ratings · published 2009 · 8 editions
    Hanne Darboven's Kulturgeschichte 1880-1983 (Cultu…

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    Chris Marker: La Jetee
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    4.06     · 33 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2009 · 8 editions
    Chris Marker's legendary "ciné roman" ("film novel…

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    Michael Snow: Wavelength
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    3.56     · 32 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2009 · 2 editions
    In 1966 Michael Snow made the film Wavelength, a m…

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    Sarah Lucas: Au Naturel
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    3.18     · 11 Ratings · published 2009 · 6 editions
    Does art have a sex? A study of Sarah Lucas's famo…

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    Richard Long: A Line Made by Walking
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    3.90     · 20 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2010 · 2 editions
    In 1967, Richard Long, then twenty-two years old a…

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    Marcel Duchamp: Etant Donnes
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    3.82     · 17 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2010 · 7 editions
    Duchamp's famous last artwork, seen not as a summa…

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    Dara Birnbaum: Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman
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    3.60     · 5 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2010 · 3 editions
    A critical examination of Dara Birnbaum's action-p…

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    General Idea: Imagevirus
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    4.08     · 12 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2010 · 4 editions
    An art project that spread AIDS consciousness like…

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    Gordon Matta-Clark: Conical Intersect
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    4.14     · 7 Ratings · published 2011 · 3 editions
    Gordon Matta-Clark's Conical Intersect (1975) was …

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    Jeff Wall: Picture for Women
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    4.04     · 23 Ratings · published 2011 · 7 editions
    Jeff Wall's Picture for Women (1979) marks the tra…

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    Jeff Koons: One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank
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    3.40     · 5 Ratings · published 2011 · 6 editions
    In Jeff Koons's One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (1…

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    Richard Hamilton: Swingeing London 67 (f)
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    4.29     · 7 Ratings · published 2011 · 4 editions
    An illustrated study of Richard Hamilton's famous …

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    Martha Rosler: The Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems
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    4.09     · 22 Ratings · published 2012 · 7 editions
    The first sustained critical examination of a work…

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    Dan Graham: Rock My Religion
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    3.74     · 19 Ratings · published 2012 · 9 editions
    An illustrated exploration of a groundbreaking wor…

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    Michael Asher: Kunsthalle Bern 1992
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    4.67     · 3 Ratings · published 2012 · 3 editions
    An examination of a major 1992 installation by a p…

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    Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirror Room--Phalli's Field
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    3.63     · 41 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2012 · 8 editions
    A study of Kusama's era-defining work, a “sublime,…

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    Sanja Ivekovic: Triangle
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    3.75     · 8 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2012 · 5 editions
    The first sustained examination of a canonical and…

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    Hélio Oiticica and Neville D'Almeida: Block-Experiments in Cosmococa - Program in Progress
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    3.71     · 7 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2012 · 12 editions
    An illustrated study that casts a new light on Oit…

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    Rodney Graham: Phonokinetoscope
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    4.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2013 · 8 editions
    An examination of the complex and subtle world on …

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    Philip Guston: The Studio
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    3.56     · 25 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 2014 · 10 editions
    An illustrated examination of Philip Guston's comi…

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    Lee Lozano: Dropout Piece
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    4.31     · 81 Ratings · 7 Reviews · published 2014 · 8 editions
    The artist Lee Lozano (1930--1999) began her caree…

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    Thomas Hirschhorn: Deleuze Monument
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    3.53     · 17 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2014 · 6 editions
    An illustrated examination of one of Hirschhorn's …

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    Mike Kelley: Educational Complex
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    4.44     · 18 Ratings · 2 Reviews · 5 editions
    An illustrated examination of a 1995 work by Mike …

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    Lee Friedlander: The Little Screens
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    4.29     · 7 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2015 · 5 editions
    An illustrated examination of an early photo-essay…

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    Sturtevant: Warhol Marilyn
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    3.45     · 11 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 3 editions
    An illustrated examination of a work—a Warhol that…

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    Agnes Martin: Night Sea
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    4.25     · 16 Ratings · 2 Reviews · 4 editions
    A close examination of Agnes Martin's grid paintin…

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    Sigmar Polke: Girlfriends
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    4.60     · 5 Ratings · 2 editions
    An illustrated exploration of Girlfriends (1965/66…

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    David Hammons: Bliz-aard Ball Sale
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    4.55     · 67 Ratings · 4 Reviews · published 2017 · 5 editions
    Drawing on unpublished documents and oral historie…

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    Glenn Ligon: Untitled
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    4.20     · 5 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 3 editions
    An illustrated examination of Glenn Ligon's iconic…

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    Walker Evans: Kitchen Corner
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    4.12     · 8 Ratings · 3 Reviews · 2 editions
    An examination of one of Walker Evans's iconic pho…

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    Mark Leckey: Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore
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    4.10     · 21 Ratings · 3 Reviews · 1 edition
    An illustrated examination of Mark Leckey's celebr…

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    Sharon Lockhart: Pine Flat
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    0.00     · 1 edition
    A nuanced reading of an artwork that explores a pl…

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    Beverly Buchanan: Marsh Ruins
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    4.31     · 29 Ratings · 4 Reviews · 2 editions
    An illustrated examination of Beverly Buchanan's 1…

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    Pierre Huyghe: Untitled (Human Mask)
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    3.67     · 6 Ratings · 2 editions
    An examination of Pierre Huyghe's post-apocalyptic…

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    Helen Chadwick: The Oval Court
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    3.80     · 5 Ratings · 2 editions
    An illustrated exploration of Helen Chadwick’s ero…

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    Donald Rodney: Autoicon
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    5.00     · 1 Ratings · 2 editions
    An illustrated examination of Donald Rodney’s semi…

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    Alfredo Jaar: Studies on Happiness
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    5.00     · 1 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 2 editions
    A richly illustrated survey of Alfredo Jaar’s Stud…

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    Isa Genzken: Fuck the Bauhaus
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    4.50     · 2 Ratings · 2 editions
    A strikingly original analysis of Isa Genzken’s mo…

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    Adrian Piper: Funk Lessons
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    0.00     · 1 edition
    On Adrian Piper's radical pedagogy of transgressio…

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