Illustration by Michael Mazur

A unique collection that revisits Dante's classic with translations by former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky and full-color artwork by internationally renowned artist Michael Mazur. This rare and stunning collaboration is sure to be sought by both collectors and readers alike.

This book focuses on three contemporary painters who have found profound inspiration in Chinese art. Brice Marden, Michael Mazur, and Pat Steir have engaged in passionate relationships with various art forms from China and responded quite differently in their paintings. The successful hybridization of East and West witnessed in the work of these three artists has considerably extended the life of modernism by reemphasizing its latent Asian component. The recent work of these three artists is examined in depth, as are other American artists with an interest in Asian art, among them James McNeill Whistler, Georgia O'Keeffe, Mark Tobey, and Agnes Martin.

Equally gifted as a painter and graphic artist, steeped in the history of printmaking. Mazur has balaned experimentation, technical virtuosity, and a wealth of unforgettable images. Four essays and a comprehensive catalogue raisonne.

This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name as the book title. The art is a retrospective of Michael Mazur's work.

Writing by Michael Mazur

Michael Mazur describes the methods of monotyping as well as the exhilarations and frustrations it can produce for the printmaker. Working with special paper, inks and paints, multiple plates, and images altered in sequence, artists have expanded a personal and experimental medium into a brilliant means of exploring their ideas.

By John Yau, Michael Mazur

Illustration by Michael Mazur

Charles Baudelaire’s 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex love, death, the corrupting and oppressive power of the modern city and lost innocence, Les Fleurs Du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) remains powerful and relevant for our time.

The Want Bone, "It’s largely about making, which is also destroying. Civilization in all of its horror and ugliness and its beauty consists of, you know, it’s really all the work of Shiva, the Hindu god with the hammer who makes and breaks any artifact you look at."

— Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky

Illustration by Michael Mazur

Beginning with an oblique nod toward memory, Sheer moves quickly into a territory where personal loss and global violence merge, allowing the poet to explore through highly nuanced language and insight the psychological roots and social manifestations of war. Gradually the book moves beyond destruction and loss to a transcendent but earth-embracing vision that acknowledges the unbreakable bonds between death and life, darkness and light, where words are golden light, on the dark of the water.

By Gail Mazur
Illustration by Michael Mazur

Widely acclaimed for expanding the stylistic boundaries of both the narrative and meditative lyric, Gail Mazur’s poetry crackles with verbal invention as she confronts the inevitable upheavals of a lived life.

By Gail Mazur
Illustration by Michael Mazur

At the heart of Gail Mazur's The Common is the refusal to simplify what is paradoxical in our world and a recognition of the tensions in our own divided nature. These unflinching poems create a place where wisdom and foolishness, fear and courage, rage and pity, love and diffidence, naturally co-exist.

By Gail Mazur
Illustration by Michael Mazur

In this series of new poems Gail Mazur takes stock-of the complexity of relationships between parents and children, the desires of the body as well as its frailties, the distinctions between memory and history, and the hope of art to capture these seemingly inscrutable realities.

42 Etchings by Michael Mazur

Two volumes, complete. Text excerpts in Italian and English, with 41 original large folio etchings. (sheet size: 25 x 19 inches) by Michael Mazur. Edition limited to 25 numbered copies of the bound issue (50 unbound sets were also issued), with an additional pencil-signed etching by Mazur laid in. Printed on fine wove paper. Elephant folio. Bound in quarter black Niger morocco by the Harcourt Bindery.

By Gail Mazur

Illustration by Michael Mazur

In Land’s End, Gail Mazur writes with the kind of lyric authority, emotional range, and broad intellectual and social scope that her readers have come to expect. Beautifully crafted elegies meet with reflections on her own life, her family, and artists who have come and gone. In the title poem, she leads readers through a garden, where new and old growth twists together in an “almanac of inheritances” that conjures the rich memory of poets who have passed on. In this space of remembrance, Mazur also charges us with the responsibility of nurturing art and artists of the future, especially in the face of the disheartening absurdities of contemporary politics.