Brett Littman Books

This publication accompanies the first major museum exhibition in the world to focus on the visualization and drawing practices of master chef Ferran Adrià. His complex body of work positions the drawing medium as both a philosophical tool--used to organize and convey knowledge, meaning and signification--as well as a physical object--used to synthesize over twenty years of innovation within the kitchen. Emphasizing the role of drawing in Adrià's quest to understand creativity, the book features an interview between Ferran Adrià and Brett Littman, and also includes a reprint of the artist Richard Hamilton's essay about the relationship of food to contemporary art and Adrià's participation in Documenta 12 that first appeared in Food for Thought: Thought for Food (2009).

Olaf Breuning: Drawings offers a comprehensive catalog of the drawings of Swiss-born, New York-based artist Olaf Breuning (born 1970) made over the past 20 years. Described by Roberta Smith as "the joking sculptor," Breuning is known for his videos, sculptures, installations and photo-collages which explore kitsch, cliché and popular culture in deliberately eclectic processes and forms. The artist has collaborated with the Public Art Fund, the LUMA Foundation and Art Basel on large public installations in New York, Gstaad and Miami, respectively, but he is also at home with the more intimate scale of the sketchbook page. Breuning's drawings, presented in this volume accompanied by texts from Elsy Lahner and Brett Littman, represent the artist's most concentrated engagement with the ideas and concerns that drive his larger practice, and thus offer an intriguing perspective on his work.