Iwona Blazwick Boeken

A brief and lively guide to the Tate Modern, using an unusual fold-out format that aims to maximize the impact of the images and clearly highlight different displays.

Celebrating the opening of the new Tate at Bankside, London, this book introduces readers to the building, the collection and the new approach to modern and contemporary art. The gallery presents 20th-century art through four classic themes: the nude, landscape, still life and history painting.

This publication explores the intersection of art, ecology, and community through the works of Spanish artist Cristina Iglesias. Her sculptures and installations, crafted from various materials and often incorporating water, invite contemplation and discussion on art's social and ecological impact in diverse environments.

At 12 x 17 inches, this giant monograph with an excellent bright green cover is a pleasure to hold and behold. It features Fritsch's most recent graphic and sculptural work, silhouetted on the page and in installation shots at Matthew Marks Gallery, New York. As essayist Bice Curiger writes, "It's almost mental Rococco."

This is the catalogue of Tate Modern's first major exhibition, due to open in February 2001. The modern city provides the social, aesthetic, historical and political framework within which to explore the arts and ideas of the 20th century. The book focuses on nine cities across the world, which, at specific moments in the 20th century, have all acted as cauldrons of innovation to visual culture. It examines a multitude of artistic practices including architecture, design, film, performance art, philosophy, poetry, literature, and music, as well as painting, photography, and sculpture. Among the cities considered is Paris (1905-1915), as the centre of an international avant-garde where Cubist masterpieces evolved in parallel with dance and literature generated by the habitues of cafes or garrets; 1920s Moscow, where Russian Contructivism focused art, architecture, design, and cinema into a grand utopian vision; post-colonial Lagos, where "high life" music provided the ambience for artists and intellectuals to create a cultural ferment; and Tokyo in the 1970s, where conceptual and performance-based strategies and New Wave cinema flourished.