Art Books
Julia Christensen’s Upgrade Available
By Hall W. RockefellerThe new media artist addresses the subject of technological obsolescence through the form of the book, undoing our assumptions and undermining our seemingly unwavering belief that more information is always better.
Ryan Debolski’s LIKE
By Sarah MorozThe photobook documents the laborers in the Persian Gulf with an affable eye, estranged from the grueling and under-compensated work that shapes their days, paired with an impassioned postscript to the images by the publisher that is critical of this exploitative socio-economic system.
Nele Wynants’s When Fact Is Fiction: Documentary Art in the Post-Truth Era
By Tiernan MorganThe anthology’s thirteen contributors, among them artists, photographers, broadcasters, and filmmakers, analyze projects that exemplify the discursive and rhetorical value of blurring the distinction between fiction and reality. But, despite its title, the contemporary context of online culture, populism, and “fake news” are almost entirely absent from its pages.
Sol LeWitt: Not to Be Sold for More Than $100 and Sol LeWitt: Folds & Rips
By Megan N. LibertyTwo new books document the artist’s lesser-known practice of making ripped and folded drawings, making the case that they deserve the attention and scholarship of two books, and many more.
![Sol LeWitt, <em>The Area of Manhatten </em>[sic]<em> Between The Places Where I Have Lived Is Removed</em>, 1980. Silver gelatin print, 19 1/4 × 15 1/4 in. (48.9 × 38.7 cm). Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA, gift of Suzanne Hellmuth and Jock Reynolds (PA 1965), 1995.65.](https://brooklynrail-web.imgix.net/article_image/image/27984/liberty-lewitt-rips-and-folds-konig-2.jpg?w=200&q=80&fit=max)
