Books written by John Yau

Paul Resika: Eight Decades of Painting

Produced in a large format with more than 220 color illustrations, this book reflects over eight decades of Resika's output, with scholarly essays that reveal his ongoing dialogue with Hofmann's sophisticated ideas about color and pictorial ...
Squeak Carnwath: Painting is No Ordinary Object

Over eighty full-color reproductions trace the development of the artist's distinctive style from the 1970s to the present, while essays by curator Karen Tsujimoto and art critic John Yau explore the personal, social, and artistic context ...
Louise Fishman

The fully illustrated volume includes two newly commissioned essays by Debra Singer and Josephine Halvorson, with republished essays by Aruna D'Souza, Andrew Suggs, Suzan Frecon, Bertha Harris and John Yau.
Charles Seliger: Chaos to Complexity : March 13-May 3, 2003

Charles Seliger: Chaos to Complexity : March 13-May 3, 2003
Roger Brown

Offers a profile of the Alabama-born artist, shows a selection of his paintings, sculpture, posters, and sketches, and discusses his use of topical themes
California Landscapes: Richard Diebenkorn / Wayne Thiebaud

Featuring the pairings of more than 50 paintings, this book shows the connection of these two artists like never before.
The New Response: Contemporary Painters of the Hudson River

Introduction to contemporary painters of the Hudson River, who both continue and react to the legacy of the nineteenth-century Hudson River School of painting.
Further Adventures in Monochrome

John Yau engages visual art, social theory, and syntactical dexterity to push the limits of language toward an expansive counter-poetics
Full Spectrum: Paintings by Raimonds Staprans

Published by the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, the book accompanies the museum's exhibition of the same name. Elegant design and superb reproductions reveal Staprans as a master of composition, color and existential nuance.
A Thing Among Things: The Art of Jasper Johns

This beautifully illustrated and profoundly original volume of essays by the New York poet and critic John Yau mounts one of the most eloquent defenses of the art and vision...
Jorge Tacla: Sign of Abandonment

Jorge Tacla: Sign of Abandonment
Swimmers

Her versatility working with marble, bronze, vinyl, and painted resins incorporates both ancient and contemporary methods. This gorgeous book presents a captivating glimpse at a transitory, contemplative moment in time."--Jacket flap.
Jorinde Voigt: Piece for Words and Views

Ein Endloses Geflochtenes Band' ('Go del, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid', 1979) as patterns for this work. Voigt transposes words from these classics into her encoded language of notation and collage technique.
Brice Marden: Recent Paintings & Drawings

Brice Marden: Recent Paintings & Drawings
Brice Marden

Brice Marden
Andreas Gursky: Bangkok

Andreas Gursky's new Bangkok series forms the basis of this book. Gursky's photos depict the dark, moving water of Thailand's Chao Phraya river, whose shimmering surface possesses the qualities of abstract painting.
Chuck Close: Recent Paintings

An engaging feature of the book is a mix-and-match Chuck Close self-portrait section. This hands-on component encourages the reader to create new and interesting combinations of Close's techniques and images.
Richard Artschwager: Into the Desert

Published on the occasion of the exhibition at David Nolan Gallery, New York, Dec. 10, 2014-Jan. 31, 2015.
Louisa Matthiasdottir: Selected Paintings : October 11-November 15, 2008

Press release "The Tibor de Nagy Gallery is pleased to present its fourth exhibition of works by the much-admired Icelandic painter Louisa Matthiasdottir (1917-2000).
Thomas Nozkowski

This book offers the first detailed account of the paintings of American artist Thomas Nozkowski (born 1944), creator of modestly-sized abstract works that swiftly convey what one writer described as 'a remarkable sense of freedom within ...