D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. is an American company that distributes and publishes books on art, photography, design, and visual culture.
ARTBOOK website, March 10, 2011.

Founding

D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers was founded in New York in 1990 (and incorporated in 1992) by Sharon Helgason Gallagher (B.A., Yale University; M.A. Columbia University), who had previously worked as rights director and managing editor at

Abbeville Press Abbeville Publishing Group is an independent book publishing company specializing in fine art and illustrated books. Based in New York City, Abbeville publishes approximately 40 titles each year and has a catalogue of over 700 titles on art, arc ...

. It started out as a partnership between Gallagher and Daniel Power, with an office supplied by

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, but Power left fairly soon afterwards and Gallagher moved the company to new quarters.Ward, Sue. "Sharon Gallagher, DAP (Distributed Art Publishers) New York City, Talks to Sue Ward". ''The Art Book'', vol. 10, no. 2 (March 2003), p. 62. Gallagher remains the president and publisher of the firm she created with the goal of bringing international art books to North American readers."The Future of Art Book Publishing - Margaret Chace, Paul Chan, Sharon Gallagher, Chul R. Kim, Arezoo Moseni"
New York Public Library website, Feb. 12, 2013. In 2011, Gallagher was one of 30 women leaders and artists honored at a gala at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, by ArtTable, an American association of professional women in the arts.Brown, Luke

ARTBOOK website, April 20, 2011.

Areas of activity

D.A.P. is primarily an exclusive distributor of art books and special editions from publishers, museums, and cultural institutions including the

Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of ...

(New York), the

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) is a contemporary art museum with two locations in greater Los Angeles, California. The main branch is located on Grand Avenue in Downtown Los Angeles, near the Walt Disney Concert Hall. MOCA's o ...

, the

Walker Art Center The Walker Art Center is a multidisciplinary contemporary art center in the Lowry Hill neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The Walker is one of the most-visited modern and contemporary art museums in the United States and, t ...

, the

Guggenheim Museum The Guggenheim Museums are a group of museums in different parts of the world established (or proposed to be established) by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. Museums in this group include: Locations Americas * The Solomon R. Guggenhei ...

, Aperture, Hatje Cantz,

JRP-Ringier JRP, Ringier, formerly JRP Editions, is a Swiss publisher of high-quality books on contemporary art. Founded by Lionel Bovier in Zurich, Switzerland, the company has more than 400 titles in active distribution worldwide, including artists’ ...

, and Walther Koenig Publishers. Since its founding, D.A.P. has offered over 12,000 titles in the areas of visual arts, architecture, design, art theory and criticism, and visual culture. Gallagher has also inaugurated a publishing program under which D.A.P. publishes or co-publishes art books and illustrated works of fiction. One of the firm's publishing imprints is Metropolis Books, which focuses on urban design and architecture. In the mid-1990s, D.A.P. launched a website to sell books directly to consumers. In 2008, the web operation was named ARTBOOK (artbook.com).Artbook & D.A.P. / Distributed Art Publishers Store Profile
Apartment Therapy website. ARTBOOK/D.A.P. also sells directly to the public through a bookstore located in MoMA P.S.1 and a showroom in Los Angeles, and at book fairs such as Frieze New York, Art Basel Miami, Los Angeles Art Book Fair, and Hong Kong International Art Fair. The firm usually issues a catalog twice a year and keeps an active backlist available through the website. Recent publications and co-publications include

Doug Aitken Doug Aitken (born 1968) is an American artist. Aitken's body of work ranges from photography, print media, sculpture, and architectural interventions, to narrative films, sound, single and multi-channel video works, installations, and live perf ...

’s ''Idea of the West'', a reprint of

Otto Neurath Otto Karl Wilhelm Neurath (; 10 December 1882 – 22 December 1945) was an Austrian-born philosopher of science, sociologist, and political economist. He was also the inventor of the ISOTYPE method of pictorial statistics and an innovator in mu ...

's ''The Language of the Global Polis'', and

Robert Rauschenberg Milton Ernest "Robert" Rauschenberg (October 22, 1925 – May 12, 2008) was an American painter and graphic artist whose early works anticipated the Pop art movement. Rauschenberg is well known for his Combines (1954–1964), a group of artwor ...

's ''Photographs''.

References

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External links

Distributed Art Publishers' ARTBOOK website
Book publishing companies based in New York (state) Publishing companies established in 1990 Visual arts publishing companies