Permanent Collection Publications

Blinky Palermo: To the People of NYC
Shortly before his death in 1977, German painter Blinky Palermo created his most significant cycle of paintings, dedicating it "to the people of nyc." The work consists of 15 parts, composed from 40 painted aluminum panels arranged in combinations of cadmium red, cadmium yellow and black. Recalling Piet Mondrian's late series New York City (1941-42), and works by such American artists as Robert Ryman and Brice Marden, To the People of New York City (1976) is distinguished by its prescribed hanging and pacing, and its rhythmically changing formats, which also bring to mind the Jazz performances that Palermo sought out during his time in New York, where he had maintained a studio from 1973 to 1975. This handsome edition discusses To the People of New York City--today in the collection of New York's Dia Art Foundation--within this context and alongside works by his former teacher Joseph Beuys, and his long-time friends and colleagues Imi Knoebel and Gerhard Richter, among others.
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Lynne Cooke
Dia Art Foundation
ISBN: 9783937572529
hardcover
208 pages
2009

Robert Smithson : Spiral Jetty
Thirty years after his untimely death, Robert Smithson (1938-1973) remains one of the most influential artists of his generation. His complex ideas took root in many forms, including drawings, projects, proposals, sculpture, earthworks, films, and critical writings. Although made in a brief span from the mid-sixties to the early seventies, Smithson's provocative works redefined the language of sculpture
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L. Cooke & K. Kelly
Dia Art Foundation
hardcover
208 pages
2005

Dan Flavin : A Retrospective
Dan Flavin (1933-1996) is considered one of the most important and innovative artists of the late twentieth century. The simplicity and systematic character of his extraordinary work, along with his relentless exploration and ingenious discovery of an art of light, established him as a progenitor and chief exponent of Minimalism.
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M. Govan & T. Bell
Dia Art Foundation
softcover
208 pages
2004

Dan Flavin: The Complete Lights 1961-1996
A highly anticipated, complete study of the stunning light works by Dan Flavin.
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M. Govan & T. Bell
Dia Art Foundation
hardcover w/ slipcase
400 pages
2004

Dia:Beacon
Dia:Beacon Riggio Galleries, Dia Art Foundation's new museum, presents one of the world's most distinguished collections of contemporary art. The museum, which opened in May 2003, occupies a 300,000-square-foot former industrial building situated on the banks of the Hudson River in Beacon, New York. Here Dia presents a vast range of artworks by a focused group of some of the most significant artists of the last half century.
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Cooke & Govan
Dia Art Foundation
hardcover w/ slipcase
336 pages, 216 illustrations
2003

Joseph Beuys: Drawings After the Codices Madrid of Leonardo da Vinci
A group of drawings, part of the "raw material" for a multiple that the German artist Joseph Beuys had produced four years earlier, was purchased by Dia Center for the Arts in 1979. One of a number of major pieces in Dia's collection by this seminal postwar German artist, it forms the object of study and documetation in this publication.
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Beuys, Cooke, Kelly, etc.
Dia Art Foundation
hardcover
204 pages
1998

Joseph Beuys: Arena-where would I have got if I had been intelligent!
Edited by Lynne Cooke and Karen Kelly. Comprised of one hundred panels, two stacks of fat and metal plates, and an oil can, Arena-where would I have got if I had been intelligent! (1970/72), a major autobiographical work by Joseph Beuys, is documented here in this comprehensive, scholarly book for the first time in detail.
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Cooke, Kelly & Beuys
Dia Art Foundation
hardcover
294 pages
1994

Joseph Beuys : Arena (paperback)
Edited by Lynne Cooke and Karen Kelly. Comprised of one hundred panels, two stacks of fat and metal plates, and an oil can, Arena-where would I have got if I had been intelligent! (1970/72), a major autobiographical work by Joseph Beuys, is documented here in this comprehensive, scholarly book for the first time in detail.
out of print
Cooke, Kelly &Beuys
Dia Art Foundation
softcover
294 pages
1994