Margaret Hooks
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Surreal Eden: Edward James & Las Pozas: Traces the trajectory of Edward James, the English surrealist, poet, patron of Dalí and Magritte, who created 'Las Pozas' -a homage to surrealism, on a swathe of rainforest in the mountains of Mexico. The story of how a frustrated artist attempts to build an earthly paradise and ends up creating an outstanding work of art. Photographs by Sally Mann, Graciela Iturbide, Chris Rauschenberg & others. 'Surreal Eden' does what many good art biographies and histories do: remind us of what gets forgotten and left out of 'official' canons." - RainTaxi "James's architectural art had no use beyond its own fantastic forms. It was both process and spectacle, and inspiration for inspiration." - The New York Times "a visually luscious book, the art writer ... Margaret Hooks provides a monument to James's fantastical life and works and a blueprint for his subconscious ..." - Vogue Living Also published in a Spanish edition: Edward James y Las Pozas: Un sueno surrealista en la selva mexicana Tina Modotti: Photographer & Revolutionary: Nominated for the ICP’S prestigious Infinity Award and prize winner in the Kraszna-Kraus Book Awards. Now available in seven languages and in a new edition titled Tina Modotti: Radical Photographer. "Tina Modotti's life had a great trajectory and Margaret Hooks traces that arc with grace ... This is a definitive biography." -- Robin Lippincott, New York Times Book Review "Riveting stuff about the beautiful, old-fashioned, romantic idealist whose purity of intention ruled her life (and who got an extremely bad press for it), who suffered and starved, and may ultimately have died for her ideals." -- Lesley Cunliffe, Vogue "The gaps and ellipses in Tina Modotti's story have now been filled out by Margaret Hooks's carefully researched and fascinating biography ... a vivid picture of a Bohemian milieu in Mexico City in the twenties." -- Laura Mulvey, The Guardian Frida Kahlo: Portrait of an Icon: Examines Kahlo's complex relationship with the medium of photography and it's influence on her art and life. A Spanish edition Frida is available in paperback. "This selection of superb gelatin silver prints constructs a narrative, from the first portrait in the book... to the last. The photographs all show her carefully crafted self-image, and are mesmerising works of enduring quality. The excellent text is by Margaret Hooks, an authority on Latin-American photography and the Mexican artistic milieu of the 1920s and '30s." -- Kirkus Review "Portraits of an Icon is not another book featuring Kahlo's beloved, tortured self-portraits. Rather, it offers another kind of portrait of the artist, a means of seeing her through the eyes of those who surrounded her: modern masters of the camera such as Edward Weston, Imogen Cunningham, Manuel Alvarez Bravo... -- Goodreads Manel Armengol: Seeing the World in a grain of sand. This monograph text discusses the practice of Catalan artist Manel Armengol, who works in a variety of media, primarily photography and sculpture. "There are elements in much of Armengol’s work that echo Beckett in his paring away of the superfluous from his lexicon of images to expose only the essential. His work is deceptively simple, devoid of artifice and the materials he utilizes extremely sparse... His work is propelled by a force that prohibits a mimetic art, a force that is in constant pursuit of innovative forms that in a seamless melding of eye and camera brings to light the invisible, revealing the complex in the uncomplicated, the sublime in the simple and the magical in the mundane." -- Margaret Hooks |
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