Daniel Birnbaum

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EXPLOSION! PAINTING AS ACTION
KöNIG BOOKS, LONDON
ISBN: 9783863351915 | US $44.95
Pub Date: 10/31/2012
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DUCHAMP & PICASSO: HE WAS WRONG
Edited by Daniel Birnbaum, Annika Gunnarsson. Text by Daniel Birnbaum, Ronald Jones.
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9783863352271 | US $24.95
Pub Date: 3/31/2013
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STURTEVANT: IMAGE OVER IMAGE
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783037642825 | US $24.95
Pub Date: 8/31/2012
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CURIOSITY AND METHOD: TEN YEARS OF CABINET MAGAZINE
Edited by Sina Najafi.
CABINET BOOKS
ISBN: 9781932698565 | US $40.00
Pub Date: 12/31/2012
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AI WEIWEI: FAIRYTALE
Edited by Salome Schnetz. Text by Daniel Birnbaum, Roger M. Buergel, Christian Höller.
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783037642108 | US $34.95
Pub Date: 1/31/2013
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GUILLERMO FAIVOVICH & NICOLáS GOLDBERG: THE CAMPO DEL CIELO METEORITES
Text by Daniel Birnbaum, Simon Starling, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev.
HATJE CANTZ
ISBN: 9783775727174 | US $60.00
Pub Date: 2/28/2011
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WHAT GOOD IS THE MOON?
Text by Daniel Birnbaum, Tacita Dean, Ingar Dragset, Michael Elmgreen, Hans Ulrich Obrist.
HATJE CANTZ
ISBN: 9783775726665 | US $60.00
Pub Date: 10/31/2010
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OLAFUR ELIASSON: INNER CITY OUT
Text by Daniel Birnbaum.
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9783865607652 | US $79.00
Pub Date: 8/31/2010
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AMY SIMON: A DIFFERENT STATE OF MIND
Text by Daniel Birnbaum, Amy Baker Sandback.
HATJE CANTZ
ISBN: 9783775726221 | US $45.00
Pub Date: 8/31/2010
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JORGE OTERO-PAILOS: THE ETHICS OF DUST
Edited by Eva Ebersberger. Text by Daniela Zyman, Daniel Birnbaum, Francesca von Habsburg.
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9783865606556 | US $33.00
Pub Date: 2/28/2010
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THE SPIRIT IN ANY CONDITION DOES NOT BURN
Text by Daniel Birnbaum, Claire Fontaine, Walter Guadagnini, Francesco Manacorda et al.
CHARTA
ISBN: 9788881587223 | US $39.95
Pub Date: 8/31/2009
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WILLIAM FORSYTHE: SUSPENSE
Edited by Markus Weisbeck. Text by William Forsythe. Interview by Daniel Birnbaum.
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783905829754 | US $55.00
Pub Date: 9/1/2008
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THE JULIA STOSCHEK COLLECTION
Text by Daniel Birnbaum, Kaye Geipel.
HATJE CANTZ
ISBN: 9783775722315 | US $70.00
Pub Date: 9/1/2008
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THEANYSPACEWHATEVER
GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM
ISBN: 9780892073771 | US $49.95
Pub Date: 10/1/2008
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LIFE ON MARS
Edited by Douglas Fogle. Text by Daniel Birnbaum, Richard Flood, Eungie Joo, Chus Martínez.
CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART
ISBN: 9780880390514 | US $39.95
Pub Date: 8/1/2008
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WOLFGANG TILLMANS: LIGHTER
Text by Julie Ault, Daniel Birnbaum, Joachim Jaeger.
HATJE CANTZ
ISBN: 9783775721875 | US $95.00
Pub Date: 8/1/2008
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OLAFUR ELIASSON & DAVID ADJAYE: YOUR BLACK HORIZON
Edited by Eva Ebersberger. Text by Daniela Zyman, Daniel Birnbaum.
WALTHER KöNIG/THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA ART CONTEMPORARY
ISBN: 9783865603043 | US $49.95
Pub Date: 3/1/2008
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MARTIN KIPPENBERGER: MODELL
Edited by Peter Pakesch. Text by Daniel Birnbaum, Martin Prinzhorn, Elisbeth Hirschmann.
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9783865603111 | US $49.95
Pub Date: 3/1/2008
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THOMAS BAYRLE: 40 JAHRE CHINESE ROCK N' ROLL
Edited and with text by Daniel Birnbaum, Udo Kittelmann, Hans Ulrich Obrist.
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9783865601001 | US $70.00
Pub Date: 3/1/2007
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SPENCER FINCH: WHAT TIME IS IT ON THE SUN?
Text by Susan Cross, Daniel Birnbaum, Suzanne Hudson.
MASS MOCA
ISBN: 9780976427650 | US $48.00
Pub Date: 8/1/2007
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THE BEST SURPRISE IS NO SURPRISE
Introduction by Daniel Birnbaum. Edited by Anton Vidokle. Interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist.
JRP|RINGIER/E-FLUX
ISBN: 9783905770056 | US $39.95
Pub Date: 3/1/2007
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SEAN SNYDER
Text by Daniel Birnbaum, Jerry Sheerin, Jan Verwoert.
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9783865600370 | US $35.00
Pub Date: 2/1/2007
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PARKETT NO. 68 EIJA-LIISA AHTILA, FRANZ ACKERMANN, DAN GRAHAM
PARKETT
ISBN: 9783907582183 | US $32.00
Pub Date: 10/2/2003
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MEDIA_CITY SEOUL 2000
MEDIA_CITY SEOUL 2000
ISBN: 9788995164501 | US $40.00
Pub Date: 11/2/2000
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JUTTA KOETHER
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9783865609816 | US $34.95
Pub Date: 9/30/2011
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CERITH WYN EVANS: VISIBLEINVISIBLE
Text by Daniel Birnbaum, Octavio Zaya.
HATJE CANTZ
ISBN: 9783775721318 | US $70.00
Pub Date: 7/1/2008
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PORTIKUS 2004-2007
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9783865604040 | US $32.00
Pub Date: 7/1/2008
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THE RAUSCH COLLECTION
Edited and with Text by Daniel Birnbaum.
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
ISBN: 9783865602947 | US $64.00
Pub Date: 1/15/2008
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DO IT
Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist. Essays by Daniel Birnbaum and Harold Garfinkel.
E-FLUX/REVOLVER
ISBN: 9783865880017 | US $29.95
Pub Date: 1/15/2005
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WINTER/HöRBELT
HATJE CANTZ PUBLISHERS
ISBN: 9783775712859 | US $35.00
Pub Date: 7/2/2003
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MICHAEL JOO
Essay by Daniel Birnbaum. Introduction by Jane Farver.
MIT LIST VISUAL ARTS CENTER
ISBN: 9780938437666 | US $30.00
Pub Date: 1/2/2004
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NEO RAUCH
Artwork by Neo Rauch. Text by Harald Szeemann, Daniel Birnbaum, Lynne Cooke.
HATJE CANTZ PUBLISHERS
ISBN: 9783775712439 | US $35.00
Pub Date: 10/2/2002
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UN STUDIO: UNFOLD
NAI010 PUBLISHERS
ISBN: 9789056622619 | US $40.00
Pub Date: 7/2/2002
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FREQUENCIES [HZ]
HATJE CANTZ PUBLISHERS
ISBN: 9783775711548 | US $39.95
Pub Date: 8/2/2002
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BERLIN BIENNALE
OKTAGON
ISBN: 9783896110978 | US $39.95
Pub Date: 8/2/2001
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GREGOR SCHNEIDER
Edited by Udo Kittelmann. Essays by Daniel Birnbaum and Udo Kittelmann.
HATJE CANTZ PUBLISHERS
ISBN: 9783775710442 | US $29.95
Pub Date: 9/2/2001
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PAINTING AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD
WALKER ART CENTER
ISBN: 9780935640670 | US $29.95
Pub Date: 3/2/2001
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TOBIAS REHBERGER: 005-000
HATJE CANTZ PUBLISHERS
ISBN: 9783775790468 | US $16.95
Pub Date: 3/2/2001
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JAMES TURRELL: THE OTHER HORIZON
HATJE CANTZ PUBLISHERS
ISBN: 9783775790628 | US $55.00
Pub Date: 3/2/2001
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JAMES TURRELL: THE OTHER HORIZON
CANTZ
ISBN: 9783893229680 | US $49.95
Pub Date: 5/2/1999
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Daniel Birnbaum

Explosion! Painting as Action

Edited by Ann-Sofi Noring, Daniel Birnbaum. Introduction by Magnus af Petersens. Text by Maguns af Petersens, Julia Robinson, Ming Tiampo.
Published by König Books, London

In the years following the Second World War, artists across the world began to attack the most basic premises of painting, in ways that were both aggressive and playful. The creative act itself was deemed as important as the painting that resulted from it, creating an energetic interzone between painting and performance in which chance procedures, the movement of bodies and the participation of spectators were all recruited as tools. Explosion! Painting as Action explores the connections and cross fertilizations between painting, performance and conceptual art from the late 1940s to the present. Examining painting, photography, video, performance, dance and sound art, this volume includes works by Lynda Benglis, Niki de Saint Phalle, Cai Guo-Qiang, the Gutai Group, Allan Kaprow, Yves Klein, Alison Knowles, Ana Mendieta, Rivane Neuenschwander, Yoko Ono, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Carolee Schneemann, Shozo Shimamoto, Lawrence Weiner and many others.

Duchamp & Picasso: He Was Wrong

Edited by Daniel Birnbaum, Annika Gunnarsson. Text by Daniel Birnbaum, Ronald Jones.
Published by Walther König, Köln

By many art history accounts, the art of the twentieth century was decided by Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp. In these versions, Picasso stands for prolific production, a fierce expressionism, endless research of the picture plane and a sense of voracious creativity; whereas Duchamp stands for cerebral brilliance, rejection of optical pleasure and a subtle but all-pervasive conceptual sabotage and irony. (Of course, they shared as many traits, including an appetite for provocation and the recognition of eros as a fundamental, animating life principle.) So who was right? This volume, published for a show at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, argues for both sides of the coin, looking at various aspects of both oeuvres, including Picasso’s fascination with the Minotaur and Duchamp’s Rrose Selavy alter ego. The book is appropriately divided in two halves separated by a reverse binding.

Sturtevant: Image Over Image

Edited by Fredrik Liew. Text by Daniel Birnbaum, Bruce Hainley, Fredrik Liew, Paul McCarthy, Stéphanie Moisdon, Beatrix Ruf, Elaine Sturtevant.
Published by JRP|Ringier

This new catalogue on legendary appropriation artist Elaine Sturtevant (born 1930) features 30 works, ranging from her repetitions of works by artists such as Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamp, Jasper Johns and Felix González-Torres, to four of her most recent large video installations.

Curiosity and Method: Ten Years of Cabinet Magazine

Edited by Sina Najafi.
Published by Cabinet Books

Since its launch in late 2000, Cabinet magazine has become a touchstone for a certain approach to understanding culture, one that shuns orthodox distinctions--high/low, serious/humorous, professional/amateur--in favor of a commitment to the idea that all objects, practices and discourses can, if read against the grain, teach us something important about the world. Its hybrid sensibility merges the visually engaging style of an arts periodical, the exuberance of a fanzine and the in-depth exploration of a scholarly journal to create a sourcebook of ideas for an international audience of readers, from artists and designers to scientists, philosophers and historians. Using essays, interviews and artist projects to present a variety of topics in language accessible to the non-specialist, Cabinet has aimed to encourage a new culture of curiosity. This anthology brings together some of the most interesting successes, and a few instructive failures, published in the first 40 issues of Cabinet, virtually all of which are sold out, along with essays specially commissioned for the volume. It includes contributions by more than a hundred writers and artists, including Jonathan Ames, Alain Badiou, Daniel Birnbaum, Matthew Buckingham, D. Graham Burnett, Paul Collins, Simon Critchley, Lorraine Daston, Mark Dery, Brian Dillon, Jeff Dolven, Spencer Finch, Joshua Foer, Leon Golub, Douglas Gordon, Anthony Grafton, Joseph Grigely, Shelley Jackson, Denis Johnson, Wayne Koestenbaum, Jonathan Lethem, Josiah McElheny, Helen Mirra, Albert Mobilio, Alexander Nagel, Francine Prose, Matthew Ritchie, Daniel Rosenberg, Luc Sante, Christopher Turner, Tom Vanderbilt, Marina Warner, Slavoj Zizek and many others.

Ai Weiwei: Fairytale

A Reader

Edited by Salome Schnetz. Text by Daniel Birnbaum, Roger M. Buergel, Christian Höller.
Published by JRP|Ringier

In 2007, Ai Weiwei (born 1957) presented a surprising new project titled Fairytale at Documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany. He invited 1001 Chinese citizens of different ages and from various backgrounds to travel to Germany, all expenses paid, to experience their own fairytale holiday for 28 days. The logistics for this project were complex and entailed a hefty budget, as the artist later recalled, enumerating the considerations: “to design the trip and activities for the tourists, to hope to get their passports, their visas, their insurance and air tickets, to organize the place where they can live in Kassel, to hire cooks, make products which are connected to the journey and would be needed for it...” Happily, Fairytale was a runaway success for the artist, the participants and for Documenta. It was judged by critics to be one of the most sensational artworks at Documenta that year, and led to an acclaimed documentary and global media coverage. This publication offers critical analyses of the project from Roger M. Buergel, Daniel Birnbaum, Christian Höller, Raphael Gygax and Ai Weiwei himself.

Jutta Koether

Edited by Iris Müller-Westermann. Foreword by Daniel Birnbaum. Text by Isabelle Graw, David Joselit, Iris Müller-Westermann.
Published by Walther König, Köln

Garish and chaotic, the paintings, music and performances of German-born, New York-based artist Jutta Koether (born 1958) ooze youthful energy and a punk brashness that found her well matched as a collaborator with Kim Gordon for a 2005 project at the Tate Modern. This publication features nearly 50 color plates, spanning her work from 2005 to the present day.

Guillermo Faivovich & Nicolás Goldberg: The Campo del Cielo Meteorites

Volume 1, El Taco

Text by Daniel Birnbaum, Simon Starling, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev.
Published by Hatje Cantz

Since 2006, Guillermo Faivovich and Nicolás Goldberg have been researching a 4,000 year-old meteorite shower. El Taco, one of the meteorites, was discovered in the 1960s and was divided between the Smithsonian and Buenos Aires' planetarium. Here, the artists reunite the parts.

Amy Simon: A Different State of Mind

Text by Daniel Birnbaum, Amy Baker Sandback.
Published by Hatje Cantz

This publication gathers the interior photographs of Amy Simon (born 1957). Like the apartment depicted in these images, the places where Simon works hold special significance for her, attuned as she is to the mood and suggestiveness of interiors. Further exploring Simon's engagement with issues of domesticity, the book features a series of new drawings and wallpaper designs recently exhibited at the Venice Biennale.

Olafur Eliasson: Inner City Out

Text by Daniel Birnbaum.
Published by Walther König, Köln

One of the most important artists of his generation, Olafur Eliasson (born 1967) creates immersive environments and spectacular public installations that probe the cognitive aspects of vision and transform the act of looking into a social experience. Merging art and science, Eliasson engages the observer as participant, challenging the passive viewing experience by utilizing such elements as temperature, smell, moisture and light to trigger physical sensations. Olafur Eliasson: Inner City Out documents the artist's first project in Berlin, where he has lived and worked for many years. Designed for the Martin-Gropius-Bau, and curated by Daniel Birnbaum, it examines the relationship between the museum and the city, bridging the two through ephemeral installations placed in various locations throughout the city as well as within the museum itself.

What Good is the Moon?

Exhibitions of the Trussardi Foundation

Text by Daniel Birnbaum, Tacita Dean, Ingar Dragset, Michael Elmgreen, Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Published by Hatje Cantz

What Good is the Moon? is the first book to chronicle the exhibitions of the Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, which stages ambitious shows at historic landmarks and unusual sites throughout Milan. Works by Darren Almond, John Bock, Martin Creed, Tacita Dean, Urs Fischer, Fischli and Weiss, Paola Pivi and Tino Sehgal are featured.

Jorge Otero-Pailos: The Ethics of Dust

Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary

Edited by Eva Ebersberger. Text by Daniela Zyman, Daniel Birnbaum, Francesca von Habsburg.
Published by Walther König, Köln

In Jorge Otero-Pailos' installations, the act of preservation is freed from its historic investment in stabilizing architecture. In The Ethics of Dust, he employs the cutting edge of conservation science to probe cultural, political, ethical and aesthetic definitions of architecture as it intersects with science and psychoanalysis.

The Spirit In Any Condition Does Not Burn

Premio FURLA, Young Italian Artists

Text by Daniel Birnbaum, Claire Fontaine, Walter Guadagnini, Francesco Manacorda et al.
Published by Charta

The Premio FURLA is Italy's premier art award. 2008 finalists include Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Meris Angioletti, Giulia Piscitelli, Alberto Tadiello and Ian Tweedy. The design and the title of this edition of the Award are by Marina Abramovic.

William Forsythe: Suspense

Edited by Markus Weisbeck. Text by William Forsythe. Interview by Daniel Birnbaum.
Published by JRP|Ringier

Around the world, the American-born avant-garde choreographer William Forsythe is considered one of the most significant and innovative figures in contemporary dance. As the Director of the Ballett Frankfurt from 1984 to 2004, he transcended the boundaries of the genre, creating abstract and geometric dances that were contorted, formal and difficult. Always a proponent of the use of text, he drew on architecture, art, linguistics, physics and philosophy, oftentimes presenting his work alongside distressingly stark lighting and electronic music scores. In 2005, Forsythe founded his own smaller and more flexible company, with which he has continued to redefine the parameters of the performing arts. Increasingly, he is working on multimedia collages--which he presents in art galleries and public spaces with the goal of destabilizing viewers and forcing them to acknowledge their bodies. This volume presents recent installation and film works alongside a text by Forsythe and a dialogue between Forsythe and critic-curator Daniel Birnbaum.

Theanyspacewhatever

Essays by Michael Archer, Jan Avgikos, Daniel Birnbaum, Ina Blom, Stefano Boeri, Francesco Bonami, Nicolas Bourriaud, Xavier Douroux, Patricia Falguieres, Heike Föll, Hal Foster, Massimiliano Gioni, Michael Govan, Dorothea von Hantelmann, Jens Hoffman, Chrissie Iles, Branden Joseph, Emily King, Christy Lange, Maria Lind, Tom Morton, Molly Nesbit, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Beatrix Ruf, Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen, Barbara Steiner, Rachael Thomas, Eric Troncy, Giorgio Verzotti, Thomas Wulffen, Olivier Zahm
Published by Guggenheim Museum

During the 1990s a number of artists claimed the exhibition as their medium. Working independently or in various collaborative constellations, they eschewed the individual object in favor of the exhibition environment as a dynamic arena, ever expanding its physical and temporal parameters. For these artists an exhibition can comprise a film, a novel, a shared meal, a social space, a performance or a journey. Their work engages directly with the vicissitudes of everyday life, offering subtle moments of transformation. This catalogue, which accompanies a major exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, is the first in the U.S. to examine the dynamic interchange among a core group of these artists--Angela Bulloch, Maurizio Cattelan, Liam Gillick, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Douglas Gordon, Carsten Höller, Pierre Huyghe, Jorge Pardo, Philippe Parreno and Rirkrit Tiravanija--a many-sided conversation that helped shape the cultural landscape of the 1990s and beyond.

Life On Mars

The 55th Carnegie International

Edited by Douglas Fogle. Text by Daniel Birnbaum, Richard Flood, Eungie Joo, Chus Martínez.
Published by Carnegie Museum of Art

Are we alone in the universe? Do aliens exist? Or are we, ourselves, the strangers in our own worlds? Conceived around the title Life on Mars, the 2008 Carnegie International, curated by Douglas Fogle, explores the increasingly relevant yet perplexing proposition of what it means to be human in the world today. The question, "Is there life on Mars?" is a rhetorical one, posing a metaphorical quest to explore humanity's response to a world where global events challenge and seem to threaten our everyday existence. Working in a range of media, from micro to macro levels of experience, from tragedy to comedy, the 40 artists from 17 countries in the exhibition explore the alien inside each of us. They include Doug Aitken, Kai Althoff, Vija Celmins, Bruce Conner, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Daniel Guzmán, Mike Kelley, Barry McGee, Wilhelm Sasnal, David Shrigley, Rudolf Stingel, Paul Thek, Wolfgang Tillmans and Andro Wekua, among others. In questioning the absurdity of our lives while demonstrating hopeful aspirations for the future of humankind, these artists foreground the poetic over the monumental and the intimate over the heroic. In the end, the exhibition asks if we ourselves are already on Mars.

The Julia Stoschek Collection

Number One: Destroy, She Said

Text by Daniel Birnbaum, Kaye Geipel.
Published by Hatje Cantz

Destroy, she said was the title of the first exhibition at the Düsseldorf-based Julia Stoschek Collection, which was widely acclaimed when it opened in 2007. Stoschek is a private collector, primarily of film and video, whose dramatic media-supportive gallery was designed by the Berlin architectural firm, Kühn Malvezzi. The collection includes classic works and newer pieces by sought-after and emerging artists. Among those represented in this volume are Doug Aitken, Paul Chan, Robert Smithson, Monica Bonvicini, Natasha Sadr Hagidhian, Dara Birnbaum, Klara Liden and Olafur Eliasson. The publication is rounded out by Daniel Birnbaum’s essay on contemporary time-based art and Kaye Geipel’s text exploring the history and architecture of the century-old industrial building that was completely gutted and custom designed to house the collection.

Portikus 2004-2007

Book of a Sleeping Village

Edited by Nikola Dietrich. Foreword by Charles Merewether. Text by Daniel Birnbaum, Nikola Dietrich, Christine Macel, Christine Wood.
Published by Walther König, Köln

Founded in 1987 at the initiation of Kasper König, Portikus is Frankfurt's hottest venue for contemporary art and has quickly become one of Germany's leading venues, with an impressive roster of shows by artists such as On Kawara, Luc Tuymans and Franz West. In 2004 Portikus gained a new curator, Nikola Dietrich, a prominent presence on the European art scene. Dietrich has done much to further energize Portikus, and this volume presents a survey of the gallery's last three years under her guidance. Dietrich has mounted more than 20 exhibitions with international artists, among them Koo Jeong-a, Felix Gmelin, Yoko Ono (in collaboration with students from the Städelschule), Olafur Eliasson, Matthew Ritchie, Chung Seoyoung, Sean Snyder, Mark Leckey, Marjetica Potrc, Tomas Saraceno, Dan Perjovschi, Francis Alÿs, John Baldessari, Daniel Buren and Maurizio Cattelan.

Wolfgang Tillmans: Lighter

Text by Julie Ault, Daniel Birnbaum, Joachim Jaeger.
Published by Hatje Cantz

Since winning the Turner Prize in 2000 for his 1990s oeuvre of portraits and snapshots, German-born photographer Wolfgang Tillmans has increasingly gravitated towards the abstract and material-specific properties of his medium. Following Blushes, the Freischwimmer series and the monochromatic Silver series, his most recent abstract works--of which the creased and folded Lighter series is perhaps the most significant--treat the photograph, and especially photographic paper itself, no longer as a reproductive medium, but as a material object. In Tillmans' "paper drop" photographs, the paper's physical folds and curves are photographed to produce geometric, tactile compositions. Other works oscillate more elusively between photograph and object, always thriving in the interplay. "For me, the abstract picture is already objective because it's a concrete object and represents itself," Tillmans observes; "the paper on which the picture is printed is for me an object, there is no separating the picture from that which carries it. That's why I like to show photographs sometimes framed and sometimes not, just taped to the wall." These most recent works are gathered for the first time in this book. Lighter also includes an extensive section of installation views--taken by Tillmans himself--that offers the reader a direct experience of the artist's visual cosmos as presented in recent exhibitions, including his last retrospective, which was seen at various major venues in the United States.

Cerith Wyn Evans: Visibleinvisible

Text by Daniel Birnbaum, Octavio Zaya.
Published by Hatje Cantz

In the 1980s, London-based Welsh artist Cerith Wyn Evans, born in 1958, worked as an assistant to filmmaker Derek Jarman, soon gaining a reputation for his own experimental shorts and his collaborations with the dancer Michael Clark. Since the 1990s, Wyn Evans has also been creating installations, often inspired by cinema history or literature, that incorporate elements like philosophical texts, mirrors, neon lights, fireworks, plants and Morse code to form a constellation of meanings that unravel into myriad poetic associations. Evans' desire to animate knowledge and reconceive the materials of the past make him analogous to Marcel Broodthaers, his erstwhile mentor Derek Jarman or even William Blake. This publication includes essays that delve into the artist's use of language and his experiments with time and perception. On the subject of Evans' purposeful inscrutability, critic Jens Asthoff has written, "Evans wants to go beyond that which we describe as understanding, to reach the untranslatable elements hidden in all experience. 'I hate the idea of being accessible,' he says." This volume includes nearly 200 images of the artist's installations, films, wall texts and sound works.

Olafur Eliasson & David Adjaye: Your Black Horizon

Art Pavillon

Edited by Eva Ebersberger. Text by Daniela Zyman, Daniel Birnbaum.
Published by Walther König/Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary

Olafur Eliasson, one of today’s most acclaimed contemporary artists, and David Adjaye, a rising architecture star, have engaged in a unique collaboration. Eliasson’s light installation “Your Black Horizon,” which debuted at the 2005 Venice Biennale, was conceived from the start as a hybridization of both of their practices. The piece consists of a light, representing a horizon line, that emanates through a narrow gap in an architectural structure. This is the only light source, and it runs around the entire dark gallery space, without any visual obstruction. The optical illusion that is achieved is that of a reversed horizon line. This publication is presented in conjunction with the installation of this project in Croatia. Critic and curator Daniel Birnbaum, writer Eva Ebersberger and curator Daniela Zyman contribute in-depth essays, which are accompanied by large-scale spreads of the project.

Martin Kippenberger: Modell

Utopia for Everyone

Edited by Peter Pakesch. Text by Daniel Birnbaum, Martin Prinzhorn, Elisbeth Hirschmann.
Published by Walther König, Köln

Painter Christopher Wool has written, “Some of the best stand-up performance I ever saw was Martin [Kippenberger] telling jokes in the back of some bar or restaurant.” Which is not to dismiss the legendary German artist, who was at the forefront of the much-storied Cologne art scene of the early 1990s--Kippenberger, who died in 1997, used humor like a laser, to illuminate power structures and taboos. One of the most important artists of the twentieth century, he not only worked in a variety of media--painting, sculpture, books and multiples--but, taking a cue from Joseph Beuys, actively tried to conceive new possibilities on which to model an art practice. This volume, published for an exhibition at Austria’s acclaimed Kunsthaus Graz, includes incisive essays by curator and critic Daniel Birnbaum and linguist and writer Martin Prinzhorn, which examine the softer, more utopian side of the artist.

The Rausch Collection

It Takes Something to Make Something

Edited and with Text by Daniel Birnbaum.
Published by Walther König, Köln

Hartmut Rausch is a janitor at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, Germany. Over the past 12 years he has collected works by alumni and professors including Hermann Nitsch, Thomas Bayrle and Per Kirkeby, changing his living room into an art space. This inventory is beautiful, funny and impressive.

Thomas Bayrle: 40 Jahre Chinese Rock n' Roll

Edited and with text by Daniel Birnbaum, Udo Kittelmann, Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Published by Walther König, Köln

Thomas Bayrle, born in 1937 in Berlin, has always been obsessed with Mao's China. He remembers seeing, as a young man, photographs of stadium-wide choreographed events there, where thousands of participants held up a sign on command, each sign a pixel in a giant picture. Of replicating that mass choreography in his early moving figurines--including Western figures who shaved or ate ice cream collectively--and of mixing Communist and capitalist elements in his work, he says, "irreconcilable ideological opposites thus become ever more similar--and down through the years become blurred--to the point of the global rock 'n' roll today." This volume drops viewers straight into Bayrle's prescient globalism through bright graphic works featuring repeating soldiers, Maos, chairs and chickens, in old-school silkscreen and recent digitized photographs. Softcover binding wraps all sides of the book, and pages are printed at full bleed, without text, except for the interview section.

Spencer Finch: What Time is it on the Sun?

Text by Susan Cross, Daniel Birnbaum, Suzanne Hudson.
Published by MASS MoCA

Housed in a unique slipcase of Spencer Finch's design, this first monograph is as visually stunning and thought-provoking as the work within. The confounding question of the title refers to Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophical "propositions," and reflects the inquisitive nature of Finch's practice and his interests in the limits of thought and vision. What Time is it on the Sun? presents 120 color photographs and accompanying texts documenting 40 varied works, plus three essays on the literary, philosophical and scientific inspirations that drive Finch's intelligent and quixotic musings. A conceptual artist and a romantic, he examines the problems of representation through subjects as elusive as the Milky Way and wind, rendered in unexpected materials ranging from Tang to invisible ink. Working with light and color, Finch often focuses on historically charged locales as he explores the shifting terrain of desire and memory, highlighting the role subjectivity plays in shaping our perceptions.

The Best Surprise is No Surprise

Introduction by Daniel Birnbaum. Edited by Anton Vidokle. Interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Published by JRP|Ringier/e-flux

Using an archive of electronic announcements distributed by e-flux, The Best Surprise is No Surprise documents significant recent developments in art-related media releases, which are now global, instantaneous and linked coming and going. Readers can track the dissemination of information about exhibitions, publications, events and symposia organized and selected by some of the most active international curators, artists, critics and art historians of our time. That information is accompanied by brilliant color images of the events themselves, so that the book becomes a resource documenting recent contemporary exhibitions as well as the evolution of their self-portrayal and promotion. With an introductory essay by Daniel Birnbaum, an interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist, and 250 e-flux announcements selected by Zdenka Badovinac, Ariane Beyn, Mircea Cantor, Binna Choi, Hedwig Fijen, Elena Filipovic, Liam Gillick, Jens Hoffmann, Eungie Joo, Samuel Keller, Francesco Manacorda, Viktor Misiano, Naeem Mohaiemen, Jessica Morgan, Molly Nesbit, Ernesto Neto, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Natasa Petresin, Brian Sholis, Nancy Spector, Christine Tohme, Tirdad Zolghadr and many more.

Sean Snyder

Text by Daniel Birnbaum, Jerry Sheerin, Jan Verwoert.
Published by Walther König, Köln

This first monograph on the young Berlin-and-Tokyo-based American Conceptual artist features photography, video and text projects that question urban space and its representations in the media. In the densely-grouped systems of reference included here, Snyder uses original and reprocessed archival materials.

Do It

Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist. Essays by Daniel Birnbaum and Harold Garfinkel.
Published by e-flux/Revolver

The Do It book contains artworks by more than 100 international artists in the form of do-it-yourself text instructions to be completed by the reader. Based on the traveling exhibition and e-flux online project curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, the book also includes a selection of essays and interviews, and offers comprehensive material on the groundbreaking show. Do It began in 1993 with a discussion among friends Christian Boltanski, Bertrand Lavier and Hans Ulrich Obrist. All three had been interested in various forms of instructional procedures since the early 1970s, and that evening they spoke of the instructions contained within their own work. From this discussion arose the idea of an exhibition of do-it-yourself descriptions and procedural instructions. Since 1993, the exhibition has taken place in venues in more than 40 cities worldwide, including Palo Alto, Pittsburg, Calgary, Atlanta, Toronto, Andover, Glasgow, Reykjavik, Helsinki, Bangkok, Copenhagen, Edmonton, Paris, Mexico City and Costa Rica. Meaning has been multiplied as various interpretations of the text accumulated while the exhibition traveled from venue to venue. The online component, which invites participants to upload images of the results of their chosen project, is less concerned with copies, images or reproductions of artworks than with human interpretation.

Michael Joo

Essay by Daniel Birnbaum. Introduction by Jane Farver.
Published by MIT List Visual Arts Center

Exploring how science, religion and the media shape consciousness, Michael Joo's artworks knit together the physical and the metaphysical. Matter and subject matter, energy and waste, the visible and that which cannot be seen--this is the stuff of Joo's sculptures. His densely layered works are accretions of meaning brought about by succinctly-handled conjunctions and disjunctions in a space. This publication is the first monograph on the artist and will feature the first compilation of his own writings.

Winter/Hörbelt

Edited by Friederiek Wappler. Essays by Marianne Brouwer and Florian Matzner. Foreword by Klaus Bumann.
Published by Hatje Cantz Publishers

Wolfgang Winter and Berthold H‡rbelt use plastic bottle-crates as their main structural material, transforming a banal, familiar and generally neglected item of our commercial and transportation landscape into a versatile building block. Their "box houses" can be found throughout the world: plastic public seating areas await loiterers in the parks and city streets of Hokkaido, Freiburg, Liverpool, Frankfurt, New York State and Houston; a plastic lighthouse stands bright on a rock island in Sweden; and plastic pavilions provide information access and rest/reading rooms at exhibitions like Skulptur: Projekte in Mnster and the 1999 Venice Biennale. But Winter and H‡rbelt's oeuvre is not just boxes. The artists have created useful, breathable structures from metal mesh (the gratings used for scraping dirty shoes), building a ticket booth in the Hamburger Kunsthalle; and their humorous cast objects and play structures provide some of the most accessible, pleasurable, creative explorations of sculpture today.

Parkett No. 68 Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Franz Ackermann, Dan Graham

Essays by Daniel Birnbaum, Jan Avgikos, Dan Cameron, Rudi Fuchs, James Rondeau, Jens Hoffmann, Daniel Pinchbeck and Paul Bonaventura, et al.
Published by Parkett

Presenting unparalleled investigations and discussions of important international contemporary artists by esteemed writers and critics for 20 years, Parkett's investigations continue in issue No. 68, which features collaborations by German painter Franz Ackermann, Finnish artist and filmmaker Eija-Liisa Ahtila, and American Conceptual artist Dan Graham. Studies in the multiple perspectives of several simultaneous vantage points mark the pages of this volume. Authors include Joshua Decter, Douglas Fogle, and Raimar Stange on Ackermann; Gertrud Koch and Taru Elfving on Ahtila, with a conversation between Chrissie Iles and Ahtila; Marie-Paule MacDonald, Nicolas Guagnini & Karin Schneider, and Massimiliano di Bartolomeo on Graham, and an interview with Graham by Carmen Rosenberg-Miller. Also in this issue: Gregor Jansen on Dirk Skreber, Jens Hoffmann on Tino Sehgal, Bernard Frize interviewed by Hans Ulrich Obrist, and an insert by Jonathan Monk. For Parkett No. 69, the featured collaboration artists are Belgian Conceptual artist Francis Alÿs, German sculptor and mixed-media artist Isa Genzken, and the Indian-born, London-based sculptor Anish Kapoor. Authors include Saul Anton, Robert Storr, and Kitty Scott on Als; Pamela Lee and Jörg Heiser on Genzken, and an interview with Genzken by Michael Krajewski; and Norman Bryson, Marina Warner, and Kurt Forster on Kapoor. Other features include Philip Kaiser on Amelie von Wulffen, Stuart Comer on Swetlana Heger, and a special Parkett Inquiry on consensus in contemporary art world entitled, “The Economy of Attention.” The twentieth-anniversary issue, Parkett No. 70, will be published in summer 2004, with special collaborations and projects to be announced.

Neo Rauch

Artwork by Neo Rauch. Text by Harald Szeemann, Daniel Birnbaum, Lynne Cooke.
Published by Hatje Cantz Publishers

One of the most original artists of his generation, Neo Rauch's paintings appear disturbingly detached and yet familiar, their figures, objects, and mood seemingly borrowed from old advertising posters, dusty book jackets, and forgotten comics. Rauch's formulistic visual symbols suggest a more profound meaning, yet it is difficult to decipher their message. The tension lurking under their almost frozen surfaces, washed with dusky, sinister colors, is fueled by paradox: as vivid as the structure of the work comes across, the impression is rigid; as powerful as the strokes of broken colors are, they appear faded, from bygone times.

Frequencies [Hz]

Edited by Max Hollein and Jesper N. JØrgensen. Essays by Nicolas Bourriaud, Will Bradley, Diedrich Diedrichsen, Russell Haswell, Blazenka Perica, Martin Pesch and Daniel Birnbaum.
Published by Hatje Cantz Publishers

Beyond the scope of the defining non-material characteristics of sound, sound becomes a formal material, a kind of audible sculpture accompanied by discourse on its constructive, societal, philosophical, and emotional aspects. At least, it does for the contemporary artists represented in Frequencies [HZ], each of whom works with sound within the context of visual art--Angela Bulloch, Farmersmanual, Ryoji Ikeda, Daniel Pflumm, Ultra-red, Mika Vainio, and others. With an audio CD ingeniously integrated into the book's cover design, and reproductions of sculptural and visual art, as well as specific, often minimalistic installations and interventions which employ sound or electronic experiments with sound, Frequencies [HZ] explores how sound impacts upon the perception of architecture and otherwise influences the components of individual experience. Participating artists reflect on the institutional context and the situation that evolves between the work of art and the viewer.

Un Studio: Unfold

Edited and with texts by Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos. Essay by Aaron Betsky, Mark Wigley, Neal Leach, and Lidewij Edelkoort. Interview with Caroline Bos and Ben van Berkel by Greg Lynn and Daniel Birnbaum.
Published by nai010 publishers

An hour by train north of Rotterdam, Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos preside over the 45-person UN Studio they founded in 1998. To the tune of one partner's proclamation that "the box is dead," they have spent the intervening years conducting a network of researchers and specialists in architecture, urban development, and infrastructure, whose goal it is to create perceptive projects which seamlessly weld together brief, construction, infrastructure, circulation, form, and space. Their Erasmus Bridge, a sinuous arc of roadway suspended from a single soaring pylon, · la Star Wars, has become the icon of a new Rotterdam. Their science center for Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh, holds itself erect with a Euclidean grid of beams and columns, a structure van Berkel describes as "a sock being pulled back on itself." Following the success of their three-volume publication Move, and in search of new perspectives and concepts, UN Studio presents UNFOLd. Complete with documentation of the firm's most recent projects, UNFOLd takes a critical look at a welter of hitherto unpublished designs, including the restructuring of the station area in Arnhem, the generating station in Innsbrck, the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance laboratory in Utrecht, and the competition-winning design for the Ponte Parodi in Genoa. Draped with an ultra-personal layer, UNFOLd offers an immersion in the firm's design process through texts by Bos, and experiments in association and out-of-the-rut architectural photography.

Berlin Biennale

Artwork by Fiona Banner, Inka Essenhigh, Parastou Forouhar, Kendell Geers, Renee Green, Tsuyoshi Ozawa, Dan Peterman, Rosangela Renno, Adi Rosenblum, Carlos Amorales, Alicia Framis, Liam Gillick, Christian Jankowski, Aernout Mik, Jonathan Monk, Anri Sala. Edited by Saskia Bos. Contributions by Charles Esche, Joseph Grigely. Text by Nicolas Bourriaud, Annie Fletcher, Daniel Birnbaum.
Published by Oktagon

This two-volume catalog offers essays, artist texts, and interviews, as well as documentation of every installation included in the Berlin Biennale. Featured artists include Carlos Amorales, Joseph Grigely, Inka Essenhigh, Aernout Mik, Jonathan Ocampo, Surasai Monk, Alicia Framis, Liam Gillick, and Renee Green.

Gregor Schneider

Venice Biennale 2001

Edited by Udo Kittelmann. Essays by Daniel Birnbaum and Udo Kittelmann.
Published by Hatje Cantz Publishers

Chosen to represent Germany in the 2001 Venice Biennale, Gregor Schneider has, since the 1980s, dedicated himself to building rooms as an expression of his art. The focus of his work has been an ordinary tenement building in Germany, known as "Haus u r," where he has lived while transforming it into a building of great atmospheric density though the process of continuous rebuilding.This book documents Schneider's work on the German Pavilion for the Venice Biennale.

Media_City Seoul 2000

Includes Ryu Byounghak, Anne-Marie Duguet, H.D. Gadamer, Udo Kittelmann, Alexander Kluge, Rem Koolhaas, Barbara London, Geert Lovink, Lev Manovich, Jeremy Millar, Paul D. Miller, Nam June Paik, Marian Pastor Roces.
Published by media_city seoul 2000

Featuring an astonishing array of work by such artists and architects as Nam June Paik, Rem Koolhaas, Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Chantal Akerman, Matthew Barney, Pierre Bismuth, Stefano Boeri, Christian Boltanski, Marco Brambilla, Angela Bulloch, Cai Guo-Qiang, Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, Dan Graham, Rodeny Graham, Lynn Hershmann, Gary Hill, Arthur Jafa, Joan Jonas, Kim Young-Jin, Charles Long and Stereolab, Bruce Nauman, Tony Oursler, Chan-Kyong Park, Paul Pfeiffer, Pipilotti Rist, Sam Taylor-Wood and Bill Viola--as well as a number of emerging Korean artists--media_city seoul 2000documents the recent international cultural festival in the South Korean capital city of Seoul.media_city seoul 2000 takes as its focus today's increasingly media-defined and media-centered cultural and physical landscape, and presents multimedia and video art along with architectural projects, as well as essays by Barbara London and Hans Ulrich Olbrist, and interviews with Nam June Paik, Rem Koolhaas and the philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer.

James Turrell: The Other Horizon

Edited by Peter Noever. Essays by Daniel Birnbaum, Georges Didi-Huberman, Michael Rotondi, Paul Virilio.
Published by Hatje Cantz Publishers

In 1967, when 23-year old James Turrell created his first light projection, he broke new ground in a way that would decisively influence his generation and the development of art. Though Turrell worked in the context of Minimalism and the Earthwork movement, his art at this early stage displayed--as it still does--a sensibility all its own. This book reveals the ways in which Turrell's art has developed, and offers an extensive overview of his work from its earliest stages to the present. Turrell is above all preoccupied with the phenomenon of light--and his architectural projects and installations often transform their surroundings into transluscent sculptural bodies. From his first Projection Pieces to the Roden Crater Project in the Arizona desert, this volume presents over 30 years of this seminal artist's work, and includes critical essays by Daniel Birnbaum, Georges Didi-Hubermann, Michael Rotondi, and Paul Virilio.

Tobias Rehberger: 005-000

Pocket Dictionary

Edited by Florian Matzner. Essays by Daniel Birnbaum, Francesco Bonami, Markus Muller, Pier Luigi Tazzi.
Published by Hatje Cantz Publishers

This is the first full-length publication devoted to Tobias Rehberger, a shooting star on the German art scene. Born in 1966, Rehberger studied at the Frankfurt St‚delschule, and has worked in a dizzying variety of media--architecture and sculpture as well as painting, design, and film--over the past five years. Rehberger is a new breed of artist--one whose work combines a future-oriented modernist ethic with a postmodern sense of play and disdain for categorical distinctions.Tobias Rehberger: 005-000 provides an overview of the artist's exhibition activities in museums and galleries as well as in public spaces, including the Tsutsumu garden, his recent installation at the Hanover EXPO 2000. This publication, one of the first books devoted to Rehberger alone, features personal and critical texts by such artists and scholars as Daniel Birnbaum, Francesco Bonami, Florian Matzner, Markus Mller, and Pierluigi Tazzi.

Painting At The Edge Of The World

Essays by Daniel Birnbaum, Andrew Blauvelt, Jörg Heiser, Paulo Herkenhoff, Reinaldo Laddaga, Midori Matsui, Frances Stark, Yve-Alain Bois, Introduction by Douglas Fogle.
Published by Walker Art Center

With the hotly discussed resurgence of painting at the dawn of the new century, it is clear that reports of the medium's death have been greatly exaggerated. Painting at the Edge of the World explores the possibilities of a redefinition and ''hybridization'' of painting begun in the 1960s, examining the manifestations of these new artistic vistas in the present day. This full-color catalogue features illustrations and a variety of critical texts by some of the most exciting established and emerging critical voices working today, in addition to work by an international and intergenerational group of artists hailing from places as diverse as Brazil, Ethiopia, Germany, South Africa, Scotland, Japan, Belgium, Iran, Italy, and the United States. Designed in two sections--a gatefold plate section containing reproductions of the work, and a french-folded section containing critical essays--the book brings together a wide range of contemporary views on painting from a diverse array of disciplines, including the visual arts, film, architecture, design, and music in an attempt to assess the relevance of painting in the contemporary global context. In addition, Painting at the Edge of the World includes documentation of each artist's work and an examination of their artistic methodology.

James Turrell: The Other Horizon

Artwork by James Turrell. Edited by Peter Noever. Contributions by Georges Didi-Huberman. Text by Daniel Birnbaum, Paul Virilio.
Published by Cantz