ISMs13

Larry Warsh, Series Editor

The ISMs series distills the voices of an exciting range of visual artists and designers into captivating, beautifully-made books of quotations for a new generation of readers. In turn passionate, inspiring, humorous, witty, and challenging, these collections are published in association with No More Rulers and offer powerful statements on topics from contemporary culture, politics, and race, to creativity, humanity, and the role of art in the world.

  • Holzer-isms Holzer-isms: Artist's Edition Jenny Holzer
    Edited by Larry Warsh

    Jenny Holzer’s Truisms (1977–79), comprising over 250 single-sentence declarations, were written to resemble existing aphorisms, maxims, and clichés. Each sentence distills difficult and contentious ideas into a seemingly...
  • Neshat-isms Neshat-isms Shirin Neshat
    Edited by Larry Warsh

    Neshat-isms is an exciting collection of quotations from award-winning Iranian-American visual artist and filmmaker Shirin Neshat. Her experiences of loss and grief as an Iranian woman living in exile are central themes of her work in...
  • Judy Chicago-isms Judy Chicago-isms Judy Chicago
    Edited by Larry Warsh

    A fierce activist for women’s rights and against climate change, Judy Chicago defines herself best: “I’m Judy Chicago, and I’m an artist and a troublemaker.” A leader of the Women’s Art Movement of the 1970s, Chicago also...
  • Pharrell-isms Pharrell-isms Pharrell Williams
    Edited by Larry Warsh

    Rising to global fame with his hit single “Happy,” Pharrell Williams has influenced every corner of music, from cowriting and producing the monumental track “Alright” with Kendrick Lamar to composing music for the Academy...
  • Hirst-isms Hirst-isms Damien Hirst
    Edited by Larry Warsh

    Hirst-isms is a collection of quotations—bold, surprising, often humorous, and always insightful—from celebrated artist Damien Hirst, whose controversial work explores the connections between art, religion, science, life, and death....
  • Warhol-isms Warhol-isms Andy Warhol
    Edited by Larry Warsh

    One of the most influential artists of his time and ours, Andy Warhol is nearly as renowned for what he said as for what he did. Indeed, he is so quotable that things he never said are endlessly and plausibly attributed to him...
  • Arsham-isms Arsham-isms Daniel Arsham
    Edited by Larry Warsh

    The work of renowned contemporary artist Daniel Arsham blurs the lines between art, architecture, archeology, and design. In his distinctive style, he takes ancient art works and objects from twentieth-century pop culture and casts...
  • Abloh-isms Abloh-isms Virgil Abloh
    Edited by Larry Warsh

    Abloh-isms is a collection of essential quotations from American fashion designer, DJ, and stylist Virgil Abloh, who was a major creative figure in the worlds of pop culture and art. Abloh began his career as Kanye West’s creative...
  • Futura-isms Futura-isms Futura
    Edited by Larry Warsh

    Futura is a living legend—a world-renowned painter, designer, and photographer who was a pioneer of graffiti art and New York City’s “subway school.” His radical abstract work in the street and on canvas established him as a...
  • Haring-isms Haring-isms Keith Haring
    Edited by Larry Warsh

    Keith Haring remains one of the most important and celebrated artists of his generation and beyond. Through his signature bold graphic line drawings of figures and forms dancing and grooving, Haring’s paintings, large-scale public...
  • Basquiat-isms Basquiat-isms Jean-Michel Basquiat
    Edited by Larry Warsh

    One of the most important artists of the late twentieth century, Jean-Michel Basquiat explored the interplay of words and images throughout his career as a celebrated painter with an instantly recognizable style. In his paintings...
  • Humanity Humanity Ai Weiwei
    Edited by Larry Warsh

    Ai Weiwei (b. 1957) is widely known as an artist across media: sculpture, installation, photography, performance, and architecture. He is also one of the world's most important artist-activists and a powerful documentary filmmaker. His...
  • Weiwei-isms Weiwei-isms Ai Weiwei
    Edited by Larry Warsh

    This collection of quotes demonstrates the elegant simplicity of Ai Weiwei's thoughts on key aspects of his art, politics, and life. A master at communicating powerful ideas in astonishingly few words, Ai Weiwei is known for his...