ARTBOOK BLOGEventsStore NewsMuseum Stores of the MonthNew Title ReleasesStaff PicksImage GalleryBooks in the MediaExcerpts & EssaysArtbook InterviewsEx LibrisAt First SightThe Artbook 2023 Gift GuidesArtbook Featured Image ArchiveArtbook D.A.P. Events ArchiveDATE 6/2/2024 Green-Wood Cemetery presents Eugene Richards launching 'Remembrance Garden: A Portrait of Green-Wood Cemetery'DATE 6/1/2024 There's no such thing as being extra in June! Pride Month Staff Picks 2024DATE 5/24/2024 Beautifully illustrated essays on Arab ModernistsDATE 5/19/2024 Of bodies and knowing, in 'Christina Quarles: Collapsed Time'DATE 5/17/2024 192 Books presents Robert Storr and Lloyd Wise launching Heni 'Focal Points' seriesDATE 5/17/2024 Lee Quiñones signing at Perrotin Store New YorkDATE 5/15/2024 A gorgeous new book on Bauhaus textile innovator Otti BergerDATE 5/13/2024 Rizzoli Bookstore presents Tony Caramanico and Zack Raffin launching 'Montauk Surf Journals'DATE 5/12/2024 Black Feminist World-Building in LaToya Ruby Frazier’s ‘Monuments of Solidarity’DATE 5/10/2024 Artbook at MoMA PS1 Bookstore presents Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez and Juan Ferrer on 'Let's Become Fungal!'DATE 5/8/2024 The World of Tim Burton in rare, archival materialsDATE 5/5/2024 Eugene Richards' eloquent new photobook documenting Green-Wood CemeteryDATE 5/5/2024 Artbook at Hauser & Wirth LA Bookstore presents Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez and David Horvitz on 'Let's Become Fungal' | AT FIRST SIGHTTHOMAS EVANS | DATE 3/18/2011Done.Book: Picturing the City of SocietyThe methodological models for urbanism are plentiful, ranging from the recent revival in cartography to the boom in infrastructure theory, but Wolfgang Scheppe’s Done.Book: Picturing the City of Society offers a wonderfully original take on the city he has made his ongoing object of study, Venice. Migropolis, Scheppe’s massive two-volume saturation job on Venice from 2010, adopted an impressive and thorough but not unfamiliar psychogeographic method for excavating the city’s layers, in which various mappings were undertaken through walks around the city. Done.Book is a more eccentric enterprise. Described by Scheppe as “an inquiry into the depth of visual archives,” it assembles a portrait of Venice through two sets of archival materials: the notebooks used by the Victorian art writer John Ruskin (1819-1900) for his legendary 1851 study Stones of Venice and the photographic archive of one Alvio Gavagnin, a Venetian market seller and non-professional photographer who bequeathed Scheppe his archive after they met at Gavagin’s stall. |