In addition to the following publications available online, Cindy Lisica Gallery has produced ten print exhibition catalogs, including CAST OF CHARACTERS (2012), CY GAVIN: FUGUE STATES (2014), GREAT WAVES II (2014), THE ENDURING SKULL (2014), POP PRESENCE (2016), DEBORAH NEHMAD: TARGETED DISSONANCE (2017) and wrote contributions to publications by The Andy Warhol Museum, Gateway to the Arts, Tate Modern, WICE-Paris, and Long Beach Museum of Art, among others.
‘The Great Wave off Kanagawa’ by Hokusai
SCADclass Ep. 109
In the late Edo period, master artist Katsushika Hokusai created his most iconic collection of woodblock prints, “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji,” and what would go on to become one of the most reproduced artworks in history: “The Great Wave off Kanagawa.” Join SCAD President and Founder Paula Wallace and SCAD professor of art history Cindy Lisica, Ph.D., and dive into the wave that revolutionized art across the globe. (2024)
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES IN MODERN ART:
TURNING POINTS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Cindy Lisica's account of twentieth-century art presents an inclusive overview of Modernism that acknowledges the "big hits" while illuminating artists across the globe. This interactive e-book covers major movements from Impressionism to Street Art and new media, re-envisioning existing narratives with a contemporary eye toward gender, cultural analysis, and socio-political concerns. Global Perspectives in Modern Art: Turning Points of the 20th Century identifies trailblazers ad pioneers of the art world(s) and recognizes established traditions — and the groundbreakers who challenged them. (2024)
PAPERCITY: Looking Back at the Dallas Art Fair – the First-Timers Tell AlL:
An Art Historian Weighs In
Lisica told PaperCity via phone that she traveled to Dallas (her first visit to the city) specifically for the Fair, and labeled the entire experience as “impressive.” In a follow-up email, the art historian-gallerist-curator singled out some of her favorite moments from Fair week… (May 2018)
PAPERCITY: The Unknown Andy
Cracking Open Warhol’s Time CapsuleS
'I got to know the person — not the celebrity, the famous artist, the New York socialite, or the “King of Pop,” but the funny, insecure, shy, obsessive, thoughtful, sometimes heartbroken, and caring human being that he was…' (October 2017)
CAA REVIEWS: We Chat
A Dialogue in Contemporary Chinese Art
As a generation, they are similar to their Western peers, accused of possessing a sense of entitlement. More importantly, however, they share anxieties about the impact of pollution, the generation gap, and the increasingly capitalistic world in which their future lies… (July/Aug 2017)
INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR POPULAR CULTURE: Imaginary Japan
Generation Superflat: Fashion Fusions and Disappearing Divisions in the 21st CenturY
Many rising artists are focused on creating a body of work that leaves a lasting impression through commerce, and the synthesis of ideas and layering of identities via cross-cultural exchange have produced a new form of hybrid and hyper Pop art, often as high fashion items and other retail products. (2010)
Beyond Consumption:
The Art, Merchandise, and Global Impact of Takashi Murakami and a Superflat GeneratioN
Images of anxiety and destruction are disguised as playful and marketable characters, and three-dimensional animation figures become cultural icons. Superflat explores the simulated, sensuous, colourful and obsessive “realities” that we inhabit on a global scale and captures a twenty-first century aesthetic... (PhD Thesis, University of the Arts London, 2010)