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China has emerged as the next frontier for contemporary art. Chinese artists, such as Zhang Xiaogang, Yue Minjun, Wang Guangyi, and Shen Shaomin, are producing some of today’s most provocative new work. With China set to host the world at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2010 Shanghai World’s Fair, enthusiasm for recent Chinese art continues to grow. This volume fills an important gap and provides badly needed context for the collector or connoisseur. Charles Saatchi, one of the savviest figures in the contemporary art scene, has built an unparalleled collection of new Chinese art which is presented here in glorious color reproduction on the eve of the opening of the new Saatchi Gallery in London’s Chelsea. Not only is this the seminal book on the subject, it is the first book to bring contemporary Chinese art into focus..
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Kevin Roberts’ groundbreaking book LOVEMARKS: THE FUTURE BEYOND BRANDS injected a powerful dose of emotion into the world of advertising and marketing Despite the extraordinary uptake of the concept, Roberts was determined to go one step further after receiving a provocative and irresistible challenge: to turn the book itself into a Lovemark. The end result is LOVEMARKS: THE SAATCHI & SAATCHI DESIGNERS’ EDITION, a sublime rendering of the original book that will both challenge the mind and delight the eyes. Collectively produced by Saatchi & Saatchi designers and art directors from across the globe, the book reflects the diverse, eclectic, and vibrant visions of its creators. LOVEMARKS: THE SAATCHI & SAATCHI DESIGNERS’ EDITION celebrates the central role design plays in creating emotional connections with consumers..
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This third volume documenting Saatchiís substantial collection of twentieth and twenty-first century painting includes Matthias Weischerís echoing architectural grids, Eberhard Havekostís barrenly unpeopled snapshots, Dexter Dalwoodís midcentury-inspired interiors, Dana Schutzís emotions personified, Michael Raedeckerís dark fairytale suburbs, and Inka Essenhighís otherworldly whorls. With a foreword by Meghan Dailey..
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Charles Saatchi's collection of young British artists is one of the most celebrated collections of contemporary art in the world. 'But is it art?' was a frequent cry during the mid-90s, when he exhibited the works of artists such as Damien Hirst, Marc Quinn, Gavin Turk and Marcus Harvey. Artists such as these soon fulfilled their promise and consolidated their reputations, vindicating Saatchi's enthusiasm and their inclusion in this eclectic group. The book explores the ideas, aspirations and attitudes that inform each artist and the way that they are manifested in the end product. This publication, long out of print, remains an essential record of 35 artists that were collected by Charles Saatchi during the 1990s and is being reprinted to celebrate the opening of the new Saatchi Gallery later this year.

Artists Featured: Glenn Brown * Simon Callery * Rod Dickinson * Katharine Dowson * Simon English * Rose Finn-Kelcey * John Frankland * John Greenwood * Alex Hartley * Marcus Harvey * Damien Hirst * Gary Hume * Alex Landrum * Abigail Lane * Langlands & Bell * David Leapman * Brad Lochore * Sarah Lucas * Stephen Murphy * Renato Niemis * Hadrian Piggott * Joanna Price * Marc Quinn * Fiona Rae * Emma Rushton * Jenny Saville * Jane Simpson * Kerry Stewart * Marcus Taylor * Gavin Turk * Mark Wallinger * Carina Weidle * Rachel Whiteread * John Wilkins * Richard Wilson
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The Saatchi Gallery, a great supporter and advocate of contemporary art, reveals a collection of work that interprets the modern world around us. I Am a Camera presents primarily photographic work organized into three themes: "True Life Adventures," "Fiction and Artifice," and "Places Portraits Still Lives Tableaux." This collection highlights the importance of photography in contemporary art: "Within a brief space of time photography challenged the authority of painting to report the world or look at its own history. Photography has come a long way from its humble origins of documentary ordinariness. A form that was not worthy to be called art ... has been radically transformed."

Some of the works included are from emerging and unknown artists, while most are full-fledged art stars. Sam Taylor-Wood's panoramic views of contemporary domestic life; Jessica Craig-Martin's cropped close-ups of high-society social life revealing nameless wrinkles and age spots on the rich and famous; Andreas Gursky's exaggerated images of urban existence, a sterile display of Nike sneakers or the endless grid of a hotel's balconies, show modern life with barely a trace of human existence. The works vary greatly, but each offers a compelling interpretation of how we live. The book includes an essay by Martin Maloney tying the artists' work together. --J.P. Cohen.
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A radical new generation of American abstract painters has emerged in the twenty-first century. Whereas their predecessors advanced abstraction in the shadow of the Cold War, this new generation arose at the cusp of the transition to the digital era and is marked by the traumatic events surrounding 9/11 and its ongoing social and political aftermath. In these shifting times the artist’s alter ego might well be the DJ—brushstrokes are replaced by "riffs" while "old school" palettes are discarded for "Teletubby purple" or "bubble gum pink". This is the age of "the remix" where raw material is downloaded and "Photoshopped". Contemporary artists have irony at their disposal and switch to tie-dye aesthetics or psychedelia as fast as they can quote Malevich. This next wave is thrilling. Painted loops, reminiscent of Jackson Pollock, are revealed to be motorcycle skid marks—bringing new meaning to Abstract Expressionism. Even though traditions are "deconstructed" and paintings can echo "grunge", historical continuity remains. As Max Henry writes in his introduction, "The American Dream does not exist any more. It is itself an abstraction." Abstract America is being published in conjunction with the opening of one of today’s most important institutions collecting and exhibiting contemporary art—the new Saatchi Gallery in London..
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Sensation is the first definitive survey of work by the younger generation of British artists that has captivated the international art world with its vitality and inventiveness. As a constant and prodigious collector and patron of young British artists, Charles Saatchi has been unique in his commitment to British art as it is now being produced. His support extends far beyond those such as Damien Hirst and Rachel Whiteread, whose work has acquired wide notoriety, to dozens of others at the cutting edge of the current art scene. Sensation features the work of forty-two of the most exciting and radical artists working in Britain today. Many of them--such as Jenny Saville, Rachel Whiteread, or Jake & Dinos Chapman--are already internationally acclaimed; others are destined to be. The book's original and penetrating essays include the critical context of their work and trace the phenomenon of the British art scene since "Freeze," the 1988 exhibition that is now recognized as a defining moment in the story of British art. Cutting through tabloid headlines, controversial press coverage, and art-world debate, Sensation reveals the achievements of young British artists and the role played by courageous and imaginative patronage.

Features art by:
Darren Almond Richard Billingham Glenn Brown Simon Callery Jake & Dinos Chapman Adam Chodzko Mat Collishaw Keith Coventry Peter Davies Tracey Emin Paul Finnegan Mark Francis Alex Hartley Marcus Harvey Mona Hatoum Damien Hirst Gary Hume Michael Landy Abigail Lane Langlands & Bell Sarah Lucas Martin Maloney Jason Martin Alain Miller Ron Mueck Chris Ofili Jonathan Parsons Richard Patterson Simon Patterson Hadrian Pigott Marc Quinn Fiona Rae James Rielly Jenny Saville Yinka Shonibare Jane Simpson Sam Taylor-Wood Gavin Turk Mark Wallinger Gillian Wearing Rachel Whiteread Cerith Wyn Evans.
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A detailed examination of the advertising mogul and art collector Charles Saatchi, a man who is estimated to spend 2 million a year buying contemporary art, displaying it in his own gallery in north London and, famously, at the 'Sensation' exhibition which opened at the Royal Academy before touring to Berlin and the Brooklyn Museum, an event that provoked an extraordinary clash between art and politics. Regarded by many as a modern Medici, Saatchi exercises tremendous power in the international contemporary art market. He can make and break artists' reputations, and he has had the power to define the character and direction of recent British art. Surprisingly, this is the first book to look at Charles Saatchi as art collector. While it quotes a range of opinions, the book is primarily a critique written from a socialist standpoint, applying ideas derived from a number of sociologists including Marx, Moulin and Veblen..
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