Gean Moreno

For nearly six decades, Larry Bell has been capturing light - in glass, on paper, or with Mylar sheets. This book traces Bell's innovative experiments - from his roots in Venice Beach to this most recent forays into public sculpture. It pays special tribute to the architectural, spatial and design explorations Bell undertook during the 60s, 70s, and 80s - experiments that often took the form of ephemeral and immersive installations. Generously illustrated, this book reveals how Bell explored the technological possibilities made available in postwar America, and asserts his position as one of America's most adventurous living artists.

In the Mind, But Not From There: Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art considers how the Marxian concept of Real Abstraction--originally developed by Alfred Sohn Rethel, and recently updated by Alberto Toscano--might help to define the economic, social, political, and cultural complexities of our contemporary moment. In doing so, this volume brings together noted contemporary artists, literary critics, curators, historians, and social theorists who connect the concept of Real Abstraction with contemporary cultural production. Theoretical and artistic contributions from Benjamin Noys, Paul Chan, Joao Enxuto and Erica Love, Marina Vishmidt, Sven Lütticken, and many others help to map out the relationship between political economy and artistic production in the realm of contemporary, globalized cultural exchange. This anthology places economic and social analyses alongside creative projects and visual essays to consider the many angles of contemporary art, and how inquiry into the the production of abstraction through material and social processes can be used to better understand, and hopefully change, the conditions under which art is made, seen, and circulated today. Published in collaboration with [NAME] publications.