NEW YORK, NY.- Delmonico Books announces Making Strange: The Chara Schreyer Collection, a book that spans a century of defamiliarized art in celebration of the myriad ways in which artists challenge us to see the everyday world with fresh eyes.

This substantial volume brings together nearly 250 art works spanning more than 100 years that ask us to reconsider how we look at the world. Brought together by Chara Schreyer over the course of three decades, these works invite us to rethink our perception of the everyday in the wake of Duchamp’s radical reimagination of the art object and the Russian literary critic Viktor Shklovsky’s conception of “making strange.” Whether looking at the idea of “making strange” in the work of Marcel Duchamp and Georgia O’Keeffe, the legacy of Minimalism and its discontents in the sculptures of Donald Judd and Felix González-Torres, the idea of disaster in America as seen through the eyes of Andy Warhol and Glenn Ligon, the uses of language in the works of Lawrence Weiner and Jenny Holzer or the restaging of life through photography from Diane Arbus to Cindy Sherman, this catalog reevaluates the relationship between art and the world.

Making Strange is edited with text by Douglas Fogle, Hanneke Skerath and includes a foreword by Chara Schreyer with an introduction by Douglas Fogle. This volume includes newly commissioned essays by Geoff Dyer, Briony Fer, Russell Ferguson, Elena Filipovic, Bruce Hainley, Eungie Joo, Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Annie Ochmanek, Jenelle Porter, Joan Rothfuss, Lynne Tillman, and Mika Yoshitake.

Chara Schreyer is one of the world's leading collectors of modern and contemporary art. Her collection of over 600 works spans masterpieces of the 20th century to work by emerging 21st century artists. Based in San Francisco and Los Angeles,,Schreyer is committed to philanthropy in the spheres of art, education and health. She is a former longtime trustee of SFMOMA and a current trustee of MOCA Los Angeles and the Hammer Museum. The daughter of Holocaust survivors, Schreyer's history deeply informs her collecting and she is passionate about education.

Douglas Fogle and Hanneke Skerath are independent curators, writer and editors based in Los Angeles. Fogle spent over twenty years as a curator at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, where he organized Life on Mars, The 55th Carnegie International (2008); and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Together they have curated a wide range of exhibitions including Luisa Lambri: Autoritratto, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan (2021); Shio Kusaka (2020) and BLESS: Neutra Dasein (2018) both at the Neutra VDL Studio and Residences, Los Angeles; Mike Kelley: Fortress of Solitude at the Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens (2017–18); and Andy Warhol: Dark Star, Museo Jumex, Mexico City (2017). Fogle has contributed essays to numerous artist monographs.