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The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989 Edited by Alexandra Munroe. Text by Vivien Greene, Harry Harootunian, Richard King, Alexandra Munroe, Ikuyo Nakagawa, David Patterson, Kathleen Pyne and D. Scott Atkinson, J. Thomas Rimer, Kristine Stiles, Bert Winther-Tamaki. The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989 illuminates the dynamic and complex impact of Asian art, literary texts and philosophical concepts on American artistic practices from the late nineteenth century through the present. Re >>more
Guggenheim Museum
ISBN 9780892073832
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Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 440 pgs / 355 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2009 Active/Not available

Sound and Fury: The Art of Henry Darger Foreword by Andrew Edlin. Text by Edward M. Gomez. Translated by Valérie Rousseau. Since his death in 1973, Henry Darger, janitor, orphan, writer and artist, has found increasing posthumous fame as an artist of influence, particularly for a generation of North American artists born in the late 60s >>more
Edlin Gallery
ISBN 9780977878345
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Hbk, 13 x 9 in. / 80 pgs / 128 color / 1 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/31/2009 Active/In stock

Contemporary African Art Since 1980 By Okwui Enwezor, Chika Okeke-Agulu. Contemporary African Art Since 1980 is the first major survey of the work of contemporary African artists from diverse situations, locations, and generations who work either in or outside of Africa, but whose practices engage >>more
Damiani
ISBN 9788862080927
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Pbk, 9.5 x 12.5 in. / 366 pgs / 250 color.
Pub Date: 11/30/2009 Active/In stock

Painting People Edited by Charlotte Mullins. Now available in paperback! After a century in which the lexicon of artists' materials expanded from the classic oil, canvas, stone and plaster to include photography, film, performance, found objects and concepts, the spotlight has >>more
D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
ISBN 9781933045832
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Paperback, 9 x 11 in. / 192 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 07/01/2008 Active/In stock

Compass in Hand: Assessing Drawing Now Edited by Christian Rattemeyer. Text by Gary Garrels, Christian Rattemeyer, Harvey S. Shipley Miller. Formed by Harvey S. Shipley Miller and donated to The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 2005, The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection was conceived to be the widest possible cross-section of contemporary >>more
The Museum Of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870707452
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Hbk, 9 x 11.25 in. / 320 pgs / 320 color / 845 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/01/2009 Active/In stock

Beautiful Losers Edited by Aaron Rose and Christian Strike. Interview with Agnes B. The greatest cultural accomplishments in history have never been the result of the brainstorms of marketing men, corporate focus groups or any homogenized methods; they have always happened organically. More often than not, these manifestations >>more
D.A.P./Iconoclast
ISBN 9781933045306
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Paperback, 8.5 x 11 in. / 288 pgs / 220 color / 200 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/15/2005 Active/In stock

The Quick and the Dead Text by Peter Eleey, Olaf Blanke, Ina Blom, Peter Osborne, Margaret and Christine Wertheim. Artists have always used their imaginations to see beyond visible matter--to posit other physics, other energies, new ways of conceiving the visible and new models for art--but the past century has seen an explosion of >>more
Walker Art Center
ISBN 9780935640939
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Clth, 6.75 x 9 in. / 352 pgs / 135 color / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/30/2009 Active/In stock

In & Out of Amsterdam Edited by Christophe Cherix. Text by Phillip van den Bossche, Cathleen Chaffee, Christophe Cherix, Rini Dippel, Paula Feldman, Christian Rattemeyer. During the 1960s and 70s, Amsterdam was a nexus of intense art activities, drawing artists from all over the world, including Stanley Brouwn, Gilbert & George, Sol LeWitt, Charlotte Posenenske, Allen Ruppersberg and Lawrence Weiner. >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870707537
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Hbk, 9 x 12 in. / 178 pgs / 400 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/31/2009 Active/In stock

The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Boxed Set Edited by Christian Rattemeyer. Text by Connie Butler, Gary Garrels, Scott Gerson, Isabelle Graw, Martin Herbert, Manfred Hermes, Harvey S. Shipley Miller, Christian Rattemeyer, Brian Sholis, Jan Tumlir.. Formed by Harvey S. Shipley Miller and donated to The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 2005, The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection was conceived to be the widest possible cross-section of contemporary >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870707650
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Slipcased 2 Volume Hbk, 9 x 12 in. / 616 pgs / 400 color / 845 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/31/2009 Active/In stock

Looking for Mushrooms: Beat Poets, Hippies, Funk, Minimal Art Foreword by Kasper König. Text by Barbara Engelbach, Friederike Wappler, Hans Winkler. The San Francisco Bay Area's legendary late-1960s counterculture--which included Allen Ginsberg, Bruce Nauman, Stan Brakhage, Yvonne Rainer and The Grateful Dead, as well as plentiful psychedelic drugs, free love, bell-bottoms, dashikis, daisies and radi >>more
Walther König
ISBN 9783865605481
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Pbk, 8.25 x 11 in. / 240 pgs / 141 color / 75 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/01/2009 Active/In stock

She: Images of Women by Wallace Berman & Richard Prince Edited by Kristine McKenna. The use of heterosexual pornography or soft erotica in collage and assemblage is often all too uncritical, but for a few of the California artists who came of age in the early 1950s, its applications >>more
Michael Kohn Gallery
ISBN 9781880086209
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Hbk, 10.5 x 9.75 in. / 110 pgs / 60 color.
Pub Date: 02/16/2009 Active/In stock

30 Americans Text by Franklin Sirmans, Glenn Ligon, Robert Hobbs, Michele Wallace. From its inception in the 1960s, the Rubell Collection has been able to boast a particularly fine range of African-American art. Recent New York exhibitions (such as the Harlem Studio Museum's Freestyle and Frequency, or >>more
Rubell Family Collection
ISBN 9780982119518
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Hbk, 9 x 12.25 in. / 232 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 08/31/2009 Active/Not available

Oranges and Sardines: Conversations on Abstract Painting Text by Gary Garrels. For Oranges and Sardines, curated by Gary Garrels of Los Angeles' Hammer Museum, six contemporary abstract painters--Mark Grotjahn, Wade Guyton, Mary Heilmann, Amy Sillman, Charline von Heyl and Christopher Wool--present a recent painting alongsid >>more
Hammer Museum
ISBN 9780943739342
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Hbk, 8.75 x 10.5 in. / 128 pgs / 125 color.
Pub Date: 02/01/2009 Active/In stock

Drawing Now Essay by Laura Hoptman. From John Currin's old-master-style Playboy bunnies to Elizabeth Peyton's fin-de-siecle portraits; from Julie Mehretu's dizzying, multilayered architectural landscapes to Shahzia Sikander's multipatterned miniature ones; from Yoshitomo Nara's angry and e >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870703621
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Paperback, 9.5 x 12 in. / 192 pgs / 130 color.
Pub Date: 10/02/2002 Active/In stock

Overspray: Riding High with the Kings of California Airbrush Art Edited by Norman Hathaway, Dan Nadel. Text by Mike Salisbury. Overspray is the conclusive account of the rise of airbrush art, and of the equally bright and glossy Los Angeles culture alongside which it came to prominence in the 1970s. Inspired by surf graphics, psychadelia >>more
PictureBox
ISBN 9780979415302
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Hardback, 10 x 11.5 in. / 226 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 12/01/2008 Active/Awaiting stock

Broken Screen: Expanding The Image, Breaking The Narrative Edited by Noel Daniel. Broken Screen is comprised of informal conversations between artist Doug Aitken and a roster of 26 carefully chosen artists, filmmakers, designers and architects. Part guidebook and part manifesto, the book takes a fresh look at >>more
D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 9781933045269
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Paperback, 7 x 9.5 in. / 288 pgs / 310 color / 65 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/15/2005 Active/In stock

The Tropics Edited by Alfons Hug, Peter Junge, Viola König. Text by Michael Taussig, Breyten Breytenbach. Western art has long nurtered an idyllic dream of "the tropics," absorbing larger cultural longings for exoticism, armchair travel, uninhibited sensuality and the rejection of industrialized civilization. Taking European constructions of tropicality as i >>more
Kerber
ISBN 9783866781665
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Hbk, 9 x 12.25 in. / 344 pgs / 221 color / 23 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/31/2009 Active/In stock

Demons, Yarns and Tales: Tapestries by Contemporary Artists Introduction by Sarah Kent. With the recent recuperation of knitting and embroidery in the work of Ghada Amer, Tracy Emin, Emily Jacir and in the pages of KnitKnit magazine and last season's monograph on the tapestries of Dieter Roth >>more
Damiani
ISBN 9788862080767
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Clth, 9 x 12.5 in. / 106 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 02/01/2009 Active/In stock

Dirt on Delight: Impulses That Form Clay Foreword by Claudia Gould. Text by Ingrid Schaffner, Jenelle Porter, Glenn Adamson. Dirt on Delight is the catalogue for the ICA Philadelphia's hit exhibit of 2009; in a rave review for The New York Times, Roberta Smith observed that this "close to groundbreaking" show, in its diversity, >>more
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
ISBN 9780884541172
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Pbk, 7.75 x 9.75 in. / 112 pgs / 80 col.
Pub Date: 10/31/2009 Active/In stock

Lucky Number Seven Edited by Sarah King. Text by Laura Heon, Liza Statton, Lance Fung. The curatorial premise behind Lucky Number Seven--SITE Santa Fe's seventh international biennial, curated by Lance Fung--is to invite a host of emerging artists, all sponsored by international institutions, to create new commissions that are ephem >>more
SITE Santa Fe
ISBN 9780976449287
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Magnet bound, 2 volumes, 8 x 11 in. / 396 pgs / 260 color.
Pub Date: 12/01/2008 Active/In stock

Brazil Contemporary Edited by Paul Meurs, Frits Gierstberg, Jaap Guldemond. Text by Paul Meurs, Frits Gierstberg, Jaap Guldemond, Bregje van Woensel, Ineke Holtwk, Luciano Figueredo. Brazil Contemporary celebrates the vibrancy of Brazilian culture through a diverse selection of art, architecture, pop culture and ephemera featuring the country's characteristic fusion of street aesthetics, high and low cultural references, polit >>more
NAi Publishers
ISBN 9789056626778
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 318 pgs / 400 color.
Pub Date: 10/31/2009 Active/In stock

Painting as a Weapon By Lynette Roth. Foreword Kasper König. The Cologne Progressives rejected the connection between art and radical politics embraced by other movements--such as the Neue Sachlichkeit--concurrently active in Weimar Germany. This collection examines the movement--which was declared degenerate duri >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865603982
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Hardback, 8 x 9.75 in. / 160 pgs / 105 color / 88 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/01/2008 Active/In stock

Icelandic Art Today Edited by Christian Schoen. Text by Halldór Björn Runólfsson, Hafgor Yngvason. Icelandic culture is so strongly oriented towards language that the visual arts didn't truly begin to develop until the early twentieth century--which is remarkable for a Western country. This unique situation may explain the nature >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775722957
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Hbk, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 336 pgs / 104 color.
Pub Date: 09/30/2009 Active/Not available

In Praise of Shadows Edited by Paolo Colombo. Text by Evamarie Blattner, Carolina López Caballero, Metin And, Lewis Hyde, William Kentridge, Enrique Juncosa, François Martin, Paolo Colombo. Juxtaposing the work of a selection of international contemporary artists such as William Kentridge, Kara Walker, Lotte Reiniger, Jockum Nordström and Nathalie Djurberg with the tradition of European shadow theater--particularly as it is practiced in >>more
Charta/Irish Museum of Modern Art
ISBN 9788881587148
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Hbk, 8.5 x 10.25 in. / 152 pgs / 143 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/09/2009 Active/In stock

The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection: Catalogue Raisonné Edited by Christian Rattemeyer. Text by Isabelle Graw, Scott Gerson, Manfred Hermes, Martin Herbert, Brian Sholis, Jan Tumlir. Formed by Harvey S. Shipley Miller and donated to The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 2005, The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection was conceived to be the widest possible cross-section of contemporary >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870707513
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Hbk, 9 x 12 in. / 296 pgs / 845 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/31/2009 Active/In stock

Art of Projection Text by Christopher Eamon, Mieke Bal, Beatriz Colomina, Thomas McDonough. This volume investigates the historical and contemporary use of projected images in art, from the screen to the exhibition space and back again. Ten essays, written by leading art historians and critics, including Stan Douglas, >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775723701
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Hbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 192 pgs / 84 color / 69 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/31/2009 Active/Awaiting stock

Psycho Buildings: Artists Take On Architecture Essays by Brian Dillon, Jane Rendell, Ralph Rugoff. Text by Francis McKee, Tumelo Mosaka, Midori Matsui, Brian Dillon, Paulo Herkenhoff, Francesco Manacorda, Tom Morton, Miwon Kwon, David Greene, Iain Sinclair. Psycho Buildings: Artists and Architecture marks the fortieth anniversary of London's Hayward gallery--itself an architectural icon, and one of the few remaining examples of the 1960s Brutalist style. The exhibition brings together the work of >>more
Hayward Publishing
ISBN 9781853322686
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Hardback, 10 x 10 in. / 200 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 08/01/2008 Active/In stock

No.1: First Works By 362 Artists Edited by Francesca Richer and Matthew Rosenzweig. Sincere and ironic. Hip and stodgy. Academic still lifes and ready to hang museum pieces. When you ask over 300 artists, “What was your first work of art?” the results are vast. An inspirational collection, >>more
D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 9781933045092
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Paperback, 7.75 x 9.25 in. / 424 pgs / 356 color / 142 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/15/2005 Active/In stock

Automatic Cities By Robin Clark. Text by Giuliana Bruno. The "architectural imaginary" describes architecture in its broadest sense: images of cities drawn from collective experience and imagination. Hailing from 11 countries, each of the 14 artists who have contributed to Automatic Cities engage the >>more
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
ISBN 9780934418713
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Clth, 9.25 x 8.5 in. / 160 pgs / 80 color / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/30/2009 Active/Awaiting stock

New York Graphic Workshop: 1964-1970 Edited by Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, Ursula Davila-Villa, Gina McDaniel Tarver. Text by Beverly Adams, Sylvia Dolinko, Andrea Giunta, Michael Wellen. Documenting the production of the New York Graphic Workshop (NYGW), a group founded in 1965 by three young Latin American artists in New York--Luis Camnitzer, José Guillermo Castillo and Liliana Porter--this is the first comprehensive >>more
Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin
ISBN 9780981573823
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Pbk, 8 x 11 in. / 128 pgs / 12 color / 85 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/31/2009 Active/In stock

Hello Meth Lab in the Sun Text by Liam Gillick, Alison de Lima Greene, David Hollander, Raimundas Malasauskas. Installation photography by Bill Diodato. Featuring a collaborative installation by Jonah Freeman, Justin Lowe and Alexandre Singh, the acclaimed 2008 Ballroom Marfa exhibition Hello Meth Lab in the Sun was comprised of diorama-like depictions of a hippie commune, a meth >>more
Ballroom Marfa
ISBN 9780981758626
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Slip, Hbk, 6 x 9 in. / 160 pgs / 124 color.
Pub Date: 07/31/2009 Active/In stock

Worlds Away Edited by Andrew Blauvelt. Text by John Archer, David Brooks, Robert Bruegmann, Beatriz Colomina, Malcolm Gladwell. The suburbs have always been a fertile space for imagining both the best and the worst of modern social life. Portrayed alternately as a middle-class domestic utopia and a dystopic world of homogeneity and conformity--with >>more
Walker Art Center
ISBN 9780935640908
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Paperback, 6.25 x 9 in. / 336 pgs / 150 color / 120 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/16/2008 Active/In stock

The Wizard of Oz Text by Jens Hoffmann, Rebecca Loncraine. L. Frank Baum's classic children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz--which captured an America rapidly changing in response to industrial, political and technological advances--is the impetus for this exquisitely designed catalogue for an exhibiti >>more
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
ISBN 9780980205541
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Clth, 7 x 9.25 in. / 76 pgs / 27 color / 1 b&w / 8 duotone.
Pub Date: 02/01/2009 Active/Awaiting stock

Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from L.A. Text by Ali Subotnick. Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from L.A.--an exhibition curated by Ali Subotnick at Los Angeles' Hammer Museum--features nine idiosyncratic Los Angeles-based artists spanning several generations, including Lisa Anne Auerbach, Julie Becker, Llyn Foulke >>more
Hammer Museum
ISBN 9780943739366
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Hbk, 9 x 6.5 in. / 200 pgs / 70 color.
Pub Date: 02/25/2009 Active/In stock

Home Lands-Land Marks: Contemporary Art from South Africa Text by Okwui Enwezor, Ivan Vladislavic, Tamar Garb. Focusing on the work of seven contemporary South African artists--David Goldblatt, Nicholas Hlobo, William Kentridge, Vivienne Koorland, Santu Mofokeng, Berni Searle and Guy Tillim--this scholarly and well-designed exhibition catalogue focuses on images >>more
Haunch of Venison
ISBN 9781905620258
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Hbk, 9.75 x 10.75 in. / 168 pgs / 131 color / 12 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2009 Active/Awaiting stock

Fractured Figure: Vol. II Edited by Urs Fischer. Jeffrey Deitch, curator of the groundbreaking Deste Foundation exhibition Fractured Figure, describes the concept thus: "If every period in art can be characterized by an approach to figuration that reflects the prevailing sense of the >>more
Deitch Projects
ISBN 9780981577128
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Pbk, 11.5 x 14.75 in. / 216 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 10/01/2008 Active/In stock

Now You See It Text by Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, Peter Eleey, George Stranahan, Jeremy Sigler, Paul Valéry. Drawing on unconventional means of transformation, such as alchemy and magic, as a way to examine the metaphysical changes that occur when materials are used to conceptualize complex ideas, Now You See It--which includes work >>more
Aspen Art Press
ISBN 9780934324472
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Hbk, 8 x 10 in. / 104 pgs / 74 color.
Pub Date: 02/01/2009 Active/In stock

For The Blind Man In The Dark Room Looking For The Black Cat That Isn't There By Anthony Huberman. Curated by Anthony Huberman at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, the group exhibition and catalogue For the Blind Man in the Dark Room Looking for the Black Cat That Isn't There explores the speculative >>more
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
ISBN 9780977752867
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Pbk, 8.5 x 13.5 in. / 176 pgs / 18 color / 160 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/31/2009 Active/Awaiting stock

Post-Tsunami Art Edited by Eleonora Battiston, Primo Marella. Introduction by Simon Soon. It seems that the destiny of South East Asia, at least as far as art is concerned, is inversely proportional to that of the international economic situation and to the consequent ability to react when >>more
Damiani
ISBN 9788862080903
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Hbk, 9.5 x 11.25 in. / 168 pgs / 140 color.
Pub Date: 10/31/2009 Active/In stock

The Puppet Show Edited by Ingrid Schaffner and Carin Kuoni. Text by Ingrid Schaffner, Carin Kuoni, Michael Taylor, et al. Acknowledgements by Claudia Gould. At first glance, The Puppet Show seems a flip title. Organized by Philadelphia ICA Senior Curator Ingrid Schaffner and Carin Kuoni, this exhibition catalogue focuses--with both humor and gravity--on the surprisingly prodigious amount of puppet >>more
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
ISBN 9780884541134
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Paperback, 7 x 9.5 in. / 128 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 05/01/2008 Active/In stock

Street Art, Street Life Edited by Lydia Yee, Whitney Rugg. Text by Lydia Yee, Katherine Bussard, Frazer Ward. Street Art, Street Life examines the street as subject matter, venue and source of inspiration for contemporary artists and photographers from the late 1950s to the present. This unique volume includes street photography; documentation of >>more
Aperture/Bronx Museum of the Arts
ISBN 9781597110785
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Flexibound, 9 x 10 in. / 112 pgs / 125 color.
Pub Date: 10/01/2008 Active/In stock

Voids Edited by Matthieu Copeland, Clive Phillpot. Between Nietzsche's "death of God" and the ascent of Buddhism in twentieth-century America and Europe, the idea of "void" has permeated Western art and culture, and the means by which artists and thinkers have dismantled >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783037640364
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Hbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 528 pgs / 100 color / 200 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/30/2009 Active/In stock

China: Facing Reality In this volume the Viennese Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig collaborates with the National Museum of China to present an overview of contemporary art in China. The survey opens with an assessment of the Cynical >>more
Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg
ISBN 9783939738879
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Hardback, 8.75 x 11 in. / 206 pgs / 211 color / 21 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/01/2008 Active/In stock

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 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, >>more
Guggenheim Museum
ISBN 9780892073771
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Hardback, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 256 pgs / 85 color.
Pub Date: 10/01/2008 Active/In stock

Fortunate To Be An Artist Edited by Ingrid Mössinger. This large-format compilation brings together interviews between the respected Frankfurt art critic Peter Iden and 15 significant contemporary artists from Europe and America: Georg Baselitz, Anthony Cragg, Raimund Girke, Gotthard Graubner, Dennis Hopper >>more
Kerber
ISBN 9783866781740
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Hbk, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 256 pgs / 51 color.
Pub Date: 08/31/2009 Active/In stock

The Aesthetics of Terror Edited by Manon Slome. Text by Manon Slome, Joshua Simon, Eric Stryker, Sven Lütticken, Boris Groys. The Aesthetics of Terror examines how terror has permeated and impacted contemporary art. It includes works by the Chapmans, Blue Noses, Jenny Holzer, Jon Kessler and Martha Rosler. >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881587278
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Pbk, 8 x 10 in. / 104 pgs / 49 color / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2009 Active/In stock

No One is Innocent: Punk Text by Thomas Miessgang. Punk often seems best understood as an entirely historical term, signaling a stance or mood whose energies infused the arts of the 1970s across the board; as last year's popular ICA London show Secret Public >>more
Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg
ISBN 9783940748188
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Paperback, 8.75 x 11 in. / 250 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 09/01/2008 Active/In stock

Exile on Main Street Foreword by Alexander van Grevenstein. Text by Robert Storr. During Pop art's heyday in the 1960s, a small headstrong group presented themselves as artists' artists rather than media darlings. Renegade works by Richard Artschwager, William Copley, Steve Gianakos, Alfred Jensen, Peter Saul, John Tweedle, >>more
Walther König
ISBN 9789072251503
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Pbk, 8.5 x 10.5 in. / 256 pgs / 196 color.
Pub Date: 10/31/2009 Active/In stock

Wall Rockets Edited by Amy Mees. Text by Lisa Dennison, James Frey. Bill Powers. An all-star lineup of artists pay homage to Ed Ruscha, among them John Baldessari, Tom Friedman, Dennis Hopper, Richard Prince, Charles Ray and Lawrence Weiner. >>more
The FLAG Art Foundation
ISBN 9780982431504
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Pbk, 9 x 12 in. / 144 pgs / 105 color.
Pub Date: 10/31/2009 Active/Awaiting stock

Fractured Figure, Volume I Text by Jeffrey Deitch. Designed and edited by Urs Fischer with Cassandra MacLeod. A culture's body image, as refracted through its art, will usually provide a more telling account of its preoccupations than the most explicit political art; it seems that cultural symptoms leak more readily into depictions >>more
Deste Foundation
ISBN 9780977868674
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Paperback, 11.5 x 14.75 in. / 216 pgs. / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 02/01/2008 Active/In stock

The Poetics of Cloth: African Textiles/Recent Art Edited by Lynn Gumpert. Text by Kofi Anyidoho, Lynn Gumpert, John Picton. Contributions by Jennifer S. Brown, Lydie Diakhaté, Janet Goldner, Doran H. Ross. Accompanying the Grey Art Gallery's exhibition of the same name, The Poetics of Cloth: African Textiles/Recent Art brings some 60 contemporary paintings, sculptures, videos and photographs by artists living in Africa and abroad into dialogue >>more
Grey Art Gallery , New York University
ISBN 9780615220833
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 112 pgs / 48 color.
Pub Date: 07/31/2009 Active/In stock

Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity in Sports Foreword by Judith O. Richards. Text by Christopher Bedford, Peggy Phelan, Julia Bryan-Wilson. Despite all that has changed since sexual and social identity became hot-button topics in art production and discourse in the 1970s, 80s and 90s, one American stereotype still remains particularly entrenched--that of the aggressive, hypercompetitive, >>more
Independent Curators International
ISBN 9780916365813
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Pbk, 8 x 10 in. / 72 pgs / 44 color / 5 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/02/2009 Active/In stock

Pink Edited by Barbara Nemitz. Essays by Hideto Fuse, Karl Schawelka and Thomas von Taschitzki. From the rosy tint of wind-reddened cheeks to the first flush of arousal, from cherry blossoms to PeptoBismol, pink is a sweet, intimate, fragile and sickening shade. Few colors trigger more contradictory associations and emotions--tender, >>more
Hatje Cantz Publishers
ISBN 9783775717717
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Hardcover, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 283 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 08/15/2006 Active/Awaiting stock

Leben, Life Text by Katrin Bucher Trantow, Thomas Macho, Gloria Meynen, Peter Pakesch. Louise Bourgeois has said, "For me, sculpture is the body. My body is my sculpture."
This volume examines existential questions in contemporary sculpture via organic, biological and anthropomorphic forms which expand upon the concept of >>more
Walther König
ISBN 9783865605443
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Pub Date: 03/01/2009 Active/In stock

Fax Text by Joăo Ribas. Though the technology for transmitting information long-distance dates from the nineteenth century, it was the fax machine, made commercially available in the 1970s, that turned facsimiles into a primary form of communication. Artists readily exploited >>more
The Drawing Center/ Independent Curators International
ISBN 9780942324389
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Pbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 182 pgs / 150 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/31/2009 Active/In stock

Elevator to the Gallows Edited by Gerald Matt. Text by Gaby Hartel, Gerald Matt, Thomas Miessgang, Luc Sante, Harold Schechter, Norbert Schmitz. Interview by Gerald Matt, Banks Violette. Designed to mimic the look of dimestore crime novels, Elevator to the Gallows juxtaposes works by Banks Violette, Miles Davis, John Huston and Weegee with an essay by Luc Sante. >>more
Verlag Für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg
ISBN 9783941185357
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Pbk, 7.5 x 9.25 in. / 172 pgs / 31 color / 64 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/30/2009 Active/In stock

Arte No es Vida Edited by Deborah Cullen. Text by Claudia Calirman, Elvis Fuentes, Ana Longoni, Robert Neustadt, Gabriela Rangela. Arte No es Vida (Art Is Not Life) is the first comprehensive survey of the vast range of performative actions created over the last four decades by Latinos in the United States, Puerto Rico, the >>more
El Museo del Barrio
ISBN 9781882454259
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Paperback, 7.75 x 8.75 in. / 320 pgs / 112 color / 208 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/01/2008 Active/In stock

The Age of Discrepancies: Art and Visual Culture in Mexico, 1968-1997 Edited by Olivier Debroise. Text by Olivier Debroise, Cuauhtémoc Medina, Alvaro Vazquez Mantecón. This survey of artistic experimentation in late twentieth-century Mexico assesses fields as diverse as painting, photography, poster design, installation, performance, experimental theater, Super-8 film, video, music, poetry and popular culture. It also >>more
Turner/UNAM
ISBN 9789689056003
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Hardcover, 8.5 x 11 in. / 469 pgs / 900 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2007 Active/In stock

Above the Fold: Ayse Erkmen, Ceal Floyer, David Lamelas Text by Nikola Dietrich, Jacob Lillemose, Kassandra Nakas. This exhibition catalogue features Ayse Erkmen, Ceal Floyer and David Lamelas. Erkmen's installations interpret socially and historically implicit architecture, while Floyer's light projections, videos, photographs and sculptures seem to lack underlying >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775722292
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Hbk, 7.75 x 10 in. / 160 pgs / 80 color.
Pub Date: 02/01/2009 Active/In stock

The Book of Stamps Edited by Jeffrey Kastner, Sina Najafi. Introduction by George Pendle. The world's smallest and most widely reproduced work of art, the postage stamp was an official vehicle for extraordinary visual work for more than 100 years before twentieth-century artists and activists began to appropriate the >>more
Cabinet
ISBN 9781932698398
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Hardcover, 8.25 x 10.25 in. / 46 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 08/01/2008 Active/In stock

Friederike Tebbe: Color Spaces Edited by Christiane Fath. How consciously do we experience color, light and space? Does a room seem too wide or long because of its color? Does the outside color scheme of a building anticipate the inside? When do certain >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783939633532
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Pbk, 6.75 x 8 in. / 144 pgs / 100 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/31/2009 Active/In stock

Return to Function Text by Jane Simon, Martha Schwendener, Stephen Fleischman, Ami Barak. Return to Function surveys contemporary artists who make functional objects that verge on "the designed"--from vehicles to clothes to mobile studio units--which happily confirm that the once-firm line between fine art and the applied arts >>more
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
ISBN 9780913883358
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Pbk, 6.25 x 9 in. / 96 pgs / 25 color / 5 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/30/2009 Active/In stock

Heavy Metal Edited by Dirk Luckow. Text by Hanne Loreck, Thomas Wagner, Anke Dornbach, Dörte Zbikowski. Whether iron, steel, aluminum, lead, bronze, silver or gold, metal can be worked and shaped in a wide variety of ways, affording artists considerable scope for expression. Featuring work by Jasper Johns, Constantin Brancusi, Carl >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775723787
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Hbk, 9.75 x 12 in. / 240 pgs / 115 color / 68 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2009 Active/In stock

New Delhi, New Wave Edited by Jerome Neutres. Text by Radhika Jha. The recent Bollywood craze in the West might get more exposure, but contemporary Indian artists aren't far behind. New Delhi, New Wave is the best introduction to date to the work of established and emerging >>more
Damiani
ISBN 9788862080231
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Hardback, 9.5 x 12.5 in. / 288 pgs / 205 color / 45 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Active/In stock

Stray Alchemists: Matt Bryans, Amy Granat, Lim Tzay Chuen, Takeshi Murata, Robin Rhode, Sterling Ruby Edited by Kate Fowle. Text by Jérôme Sans. Stray Alchemists documents the first international exhibition put on by the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, which introduced six artists: Matt Bryans, Amy Granat, Lim Tzay Chuen, Takeshi Murata, Robin Rhode and Sterling >>more
Timezone 8/Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
ISBN 9789881752130
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Pbk, 7 x 10 in. / 140 pgs / 50 color / 15 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/01/2009 Active/In stock

Potentially Harmful: The Art of American Censorship Edited by Cathy Byrd. Essays by Cathy Byrd, Nina Felshin, Lisa Kincheloe, Michael Landau, Jon Lewis, Richard Meyer, Svetlana Mintcheva, Susan Richmond, Faith Wilding and Michelle Joan Wilkinson. What's too much for the public? What's too explicit, too violent, or just too unnerving? This survey of censorship from 1970 to the present outlines the history of a significant ongoing risk for contemporary artists. >>more
Georgia State University, Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design Gallery
ISBN 9780977689408
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Clothbound, 8 x 10 in. / 128 pgs / 50 color and 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/15/2006 Active/Awaiting stock

The Cinema Effect Text by Kerry Brougher, Kelly Gordon, Anne Ellegood, Kristen Hileman, Tony Oursler. This volume offers an in-depth exploration of contemporary moving-image art, examining the ways in which "the cinematic" has blurred cultural distinctions between reality and illusion. Cinema was the unrivaled art form of the twentieth century; >>more
Hirshhorn Museum/D Giles Limited
ISBN 9781904832508
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Hardback, 11 x 9.5 in. / 176 pgs / 126 color / 24 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/01/2008 Active/In stock

Africa Remix Edited by Jean-Hubert Martin. Essays by Salah Hassan, David Elliott, Mahmood Mamdani, Manthia Diawara, Jean Loup Amselle, Marie-Christine Eyen», and Charlotte Boudon. Africa Remix is one of the only comprehensive publications on young contemporary art of the last decade in and from Africa. It features more than 80 artists from nearly 30 countries, well representing the geographic >>more
Hatje Cantz Publishers
ISBN 9783775714723
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Paperback, 9 x 11 in. / 224 pgs / 240 color / 80 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/02/2005 Active/In stock

From Heaven to Earth Edited by Lorenzo Sassoli de Bianchi. A distinguishing characteristic of contemporary Chinese art is a fusion between traditional Asian forms and references to Western art and pop culture. From Heaven to Earth features the work of 16 Chinese painters who exemplify >>more
Damiani
ISBN 9788862080545
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Hardback, 9.5 x 12.5 in. / 300 pgs / 270 color.
Pub Date: 10/01/2008 Active/In stock

LeWitt x 2 Introduction by Stephen Fleischman. Essays by Dean Swanson and Martin Friedman. LeWitt x 2 offers a unique perspective on the work of renowned Minimalist and Conceptualist Sol LeWitt, documenting the arc of his career alongside his personal collection of contemporary art. LeWitt is one of the >>more
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
ISBN 9780913883334
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Hardcover, 9 x 12 in. / 84 pgs / 40 color and 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/15/2006 Active/Not available

Artists' Handbook Edited by Ronny Van de Velde. Text by Henri Focillon, Jan Ceuleers. George Wittenborn (1905-1974), legendary émigré bookseller, publisher, dealer and friend to artists ranging from Léger, Arp, Ernst, Picasso and Braque to Calder, Beuys, Warhol, Johns, Ono, Richter, Baldessari and Nauman, kept a guestbook over the >>more
Ludion
ISBN 9789055447190
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Hardback, 10 x 13 in. / 624 pgs / illustrated throughout
Pub Date: 08/01/2008 Active/In stock

Ad Absurdum: Energies of the Absurd from Modernism till Today Text by Jan Hoet, Michael Kröger, Jürgen H. Meyer. Taking the absurd as the point of rupture between art, society and observation, this 1,152-page volume features Beuys, Duchamp, Kippenberger, Magritte, Meese, Nauman, Oppenheim, Picabia, Polke, Man Ray, Dieter Roth, Schwitters, Trockel, Franz West and >>more
Kerber
ISBN 9783866781306
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Hbk, 3.5 x 5 in. / 1,152 pgs / 194 color / 15 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2009 Active/In stock

Magritte and Contemporary Art Essays by Michel Draguet, Dickram Tashjian, Sara Cochran, Theresa Papanikolas, Thierry de Duve and Stephanie Barron. Introduction by Stephanie Barron. Magritte's seminal painting "The Treachery of Images (This Is Not a Pipe)" is a Surrealist and Modernist masterpiece that has become an instantly recognizable pop culture icon. It's also an excellent image with which to >>more
Ludion/Los Angeles County Museum of Art
ISBN 9789055446216
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Clothbound, 9.25 x 12 in. / 256 pgs / 250 color and 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/15/2006 Active/Not available

The Paper Sculpture Book Edited by and introduction by Mary Ceruti, Matt Freedman and Sina Najafi. Essay by Frances Richard. Foreword by Judith Richards, Sina Najafi and Mary Ceruti. Drawing on (s)cul(p)tural paradigms as diverse as paper-doll books, Mad magazine fold-ins and exploded schematic diagrams, the artists in The Paper Sculpture Book offer a hands-on, self-contained art show. Artworks meant to be cut out >>more
Independent Curators International, New York
ISBN 9780916365691
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Paperback, 9.75 x 13.5 in. / 160 pgs / 116 color.
Pub Date: 08/02/2003 Active/In stock

Atlas of Contemporary Art for Use by Everyone Text by Denis Gielen, Laurent Busine. In the form of a geographic atlas, this volume initiates dialogue between art and other disciplines such as the sciences, sociology and politics. Four hundred pages of color images drawn from art, architecture and film >>more
Exhibitions International
ISBN 9782930368214
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Hardcover, 8.5 x 13.75 in. / 400 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Active/In stock

Mail Order Monsters Text by Kathy Grayson. This spectacular exploration of new trends in "fucked-up figuration" is the unconventional exhibition catalogue for Mail Order Monsters, the international traveling show put together by Kathy Grayson of New York's Deitch Projects. Bound in a >>more
PictureBox
ISBN 9780981562261
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Pbk with Prints, 9 x 12 in. / 46 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 09/01/2008 Active/In stock

Ease & Eagerness Edited by Annelie Lütgens, Esther Barbara Kirschner. Text by Markus Brüderlin, Dominic Eichler, Michael Glasmeier. This volume introduces seven young artists--Duncan Campbell, Marcel van Eeden, Friederike Feldmann, Sabine Hornig, Julian Rosefeldt, Tatiana Trouvé and Sascha Weidner. >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775724333
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Pbk, 8.25 x 9.75 in. / 176 pgs / 48 color / 60 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/30/2009 Active/In stock

Life On Mars Edited by Douglas Fogle. Text by Daniel Birnbaum, Richard Flood, Eungie Joo, Chus Martínez. 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 >>more
Carnegie Museum of Art
ISBN 9780880390514
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Hardback, 6.5 x 9 in. / 436 pgs / 160 color / 20 duotone.
Pub Date: 08/01/2008 Active/In stock

A Guide to Democracy in America Edited by Nato Thompson. This cultural reader, edited by Creative Time curator Nato Thompson, gathers more than 100 artists, thinkers and activists to reflect on the historical roots and current manifestations of democracy in the United States. Taking as >>more
Creative Time Books
ISBN 9781928570080
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 224 pgs / 80 color / 144 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/01/2008 Active/In stock

Nine Lives: The Birth of Avant-Garde Art in New China By Karen J. Smith. In 1993, 10 contemporary Chinese artists debuted at the 45th Venice Biennale. The reception was lukewarm: people wanted to know if and when the Chinese avant-garde would cut through certain quaint notions of oriental mystique >>more
Timezone 8
ISBN 9789881714336
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Paperback, 8.5 x 10.75 in. / 473 pgs / 270 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/01/2008 Active/In stock

Memorials of Identity: New Media from the Rubell Family Collection Edited by Mark Coetzee, Luisa Lagos. Text by Mark Coetzee, Luisa Lagos, Brooke Minto, Tami Katz-Freiman, Kate Kramer, Janicke Iversen, Muriel Hasbun, Mark Godfrey, Sebastian Cichocki. New media works by William Kentridge, Sigalit Landau, Jun-Nguyen-Hatsushiba, Sven Pĺhlsson, Anri Sala, Fiona Tan and Artur Zmijewski. >>more
Rubell Family Collection
ISBN 9780971634183
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Hbk, 6.5 x 9 in. / 175 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 08/31/2009 Active/In stock

After Nature Text by Massimiliano Gioni. Published to accompany the acclaimed summer 2008 After Nature exhibition at New York's New Museum, this unique catalogue pays tribute to the work of W.G. Sebald by repurposing existing copies of his 1988 three-part prose >>more
New Musuem
ISBN 9780915557929
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Pbk, 5.25 x 8 in. / 122 pgs / 25 color.
Pub Date: 11/01/2008 Active/In stock

The Old, Weird America Edited by Polly Koch. Foreword by Linda Shearer. Introduction by Toby Kamps. Borrowing its title from Greil Marcus' 1997 book The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes, this publication is produced in conjunction with an exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, which >>more
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
ISBN 9781933619125
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Hardback, 9.75 x 11.5 in. / 160 pgs / 120 color / 15 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/01/2008 Active/Awaiting stock

Observing Beast, Time, Evolution Edited by Sabine M. Kunz. Text by Elke Falat, Frederico Geller. Artists including Mark Dion, Jochen Lempert and Helen Mirra use the Hildesheim Museum's geological collection to employ scientific methodology for their own fictional documentations as amateur scientists. >>more
Kerber
ISBN 9783866782068
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9 in. / 128 pgs / 73 color / 9 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/31/2009 Active/In stock

Romantic Conceptualism Edited by Ellen Seifermann, Christine Kintisch. Text by Jörg Hiser, Susan Hiller, Collier Schorr, Jan Verwoert. Featuring work by 23 international artists including Bas Jan Ader, Tacita Dean, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Rodney Graham, Louise Lawler, Yoko Ono and Frances Stark, this illustrated reader takes on romantic motifs (desire, melancholia) and methods (fragmenta >>more
Kerber
ISBN 9783866780736
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Hardback, 6.75 x 9 in. / 216 pgs / 30 color / 14 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Active/In stock

Electric Mud Text by David Pagel, Sara Cochran. Introduction by Claudia Schmuckli. "The sizzling, scintillating juice that flows between viewers and the works in this show may seem to be magic because none of them has to be plugged in," writes Los Angeles Times critic David Pagel, >>more
Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of the University of Houston
ISBN 9780941193443
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Pbk, 7 x 8.5 in. / 94 pgs / 36 color.
Pub Date: 07/31/2009 Active/In stock

Overcoming Dictatorships Text by Jutta Vinzent. Overcoming Dictatorships explores art produced in response to the collapse of political authoritarian systems, particularly that of the Soviet bloc in 1989. The 17 works (by ten artists from six different countries) deal with processes >>more
Kerber
ISBN 9783866781788
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.25 in. / 96 pgs / 51 color / 23 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/31/2009 Active/Awaiting stock

Munch Revisited: Edvard Munch And The Art Of Today Edited by Rosemarie E. Pahlke. Essays by Cornelia Gerner and Per Hovdenakk. Contemporary artists have been borrowing from Edvard Munch for years, as this book shows. Over 50 paintings and graphic works by Munch share a kinship with approximately 50 selected works by 30 contemporary artists. The >>more
Kerber
ISBN 9783938025093
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Hardcover, 8.5 x 11.25 in. / 184 pgs / 122 color.
Pub Date: 08/15/2005 Active/In stock

Surface Tension Supplement No. 3 Edited by Brandon LaBelle, Ken Ehrlich. Text by Octavio Camargo, Jennifer Gabrys. The product of an international collective of artists, architects and writers who create collaborative projects and publications, this third edition of Surface Tension's Supplement series documents three years of artistic research, site-spe >>more
Errant Bodies Press
ISBN 9780977259472
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Pbk, 8.25 x 11 in. / 70 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 06/30/2009 Active/In stock

Out of Beirut Edited by Suzanne Cotter. Text by Simon Harvey, Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, Stephen Wright. Beirut had been a renowned resort and a center of culture and style for hundreds of years, when, in the late twentieth century, it became the site of terrible violence and trauma. More than 15 >>more
"JRP|Ringier/Modern Art, Oxford UK"
ISBN 9783905701906
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Paperback, 7 x 9 in. / 112 pgs / 51 color / 7 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2007 Active/Awaiting stock

Little Theatre of Gestures Text by Nikola Dietrich. This volume examines how we display change through the theatricality of objects and bodies, both staged and in daily life. Artists include Kutlug Ataman, Ińaki Bonillas, Gerard Byrne, Rodney Graham, Hilary Lloyd, Kirsten Pieroth and >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775724364
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 164 pgs / 75 color.
Pub Date: 11/30/2009 Active/Awaiting stock

Santhal Family Edited by Anshuman Dasgupta, Monika Szewczyk, Grant Watson. Text by Will Bradley, R. Siva Kumar, Stephen Morton, et al. Taking as its starting point Ramkinkar Baij's 1938 "Santhal Family"--widely considered the first modern public sculpture in India--this book combines critical and fictional texts with specially commissioned pages by leading artists from India, Europe and >>more
MuHKA
ISBN 9789072828323
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 144 pgs / 67 color / 55 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/04/2009 Active/In stock

No Zoning: Artists Engage Houston Text by Toby Kamps, Cameron Armstrong, Meredith Goldsmith, Caroline Huber, Susanne Theis, Jack Massing, Michael Galbreth. Work by 21 artists--including Mary Ellen Carroll, Mel Chin and Sharon Engelstein--who have infiltrated the fabric of Houston. >>more
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
ISBN 9781933619194
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Pbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 136 pgs / 100 color / 50 b&w / 5 duotone.
Pub Date: 12/31/2009 Active/In stock

Made in France Edited and with text by Alexis Nolent. There is only one word for it in French: Bande dessinée. It includes graphic novels, comics, comic strips, comic book series, serial comics, mangas: All genres, without specifying size, format or quality, and without any >>more
nyehaus/foundation 20 21
ISBN 9781934171073
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Paperback, 6.25 x 9.25 in. / 96 pgs / 33 color / 36 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/30/2009 Active/In stock

Freeway Balconies Edited by Collier Schorr. Text by Nancy Spector, Dominic Eichler, Sarah Lewis. Published to accompany the 2008 Deutsche Guggenheim survey curated by American artist Collier Schorr, Freeway Balconies unfolds more as an artist's book than a straightforward exhibition catalogue. Borrowing from Allen Ginsberg, the title refers t >>more
Guggenheim Museum
ISBN 9780892073740
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Hbk, 8.25 x 11 in. / 128 pgs / 133 color.
Pub Date: 09/01/2008 Active/Not available

Daniel Guzmán & Steven Shearer: Double Album Foreword by Lisa Phillips. Text by Abraham Cruzvillegas, Guillermo Fadanelli, Richard Flood, Jim Lewis. Double Album brings together two artists--Daniel Guzmán, born in 1964 in Mexico, and Steven Shearer, born in 1968 in Canada--who use an array of visual mediums to explore the overwhelmingly male world of rock 'n' >>more
New Museum of Contemporary Art
ISBN 9780915557912
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Hardback, 6.5 x 9 in. / 224 pgs / 78 color / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/01/2008 Active/In stock

Maps and Legends Edited by Luca Cerizza. For this pleasingly compact introduction to the wilder shores of contemporary European and American art, the BSI Art Collection in Geneva invited several writers, critics, artists and scientists--including Luca Cerizza, Joachim Koester, Helen Mirra and >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783905829136
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Hbk, 5.5 x 7.25 in. / 280 pgs / 66 color / 13 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/31/2009 Active/In stock

Concepts of Love Introduction by Kathrin Jentjens, Anja Nathan Dorn. Text by Frauke Gust, Judith Hopf, Monika Rinck, Francesca Lacatena. This exhibition catalogue posits falling in love as a radical action. It includes supporting material from a wide range of writers--from Plato to Kathy Acker--and features artworks by Gerry Bibby, Bless, Keren Cytter, Ekkehard Ehlers, >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865604279
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Paperback, 5 x 7.5 in. / 144 pgs / 32 color.
Pub Date: 05/31/2009 Active/In stock

Light Art. Artificial Light Edited by Peter Weibel and Gregor Jansen Essays by Andreas Beitin, Dietmar Elger, Friedrich Kittler, Gnter Leising, Frank Popper, Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Sara Selwood, Peter Sloterdijk, Stephan von Wiese, Yvonne Ziegler and Daniela Zyman, One-hundred years ago, Einstein solved the elemental mystery of the nature of light: it is both an electromagnetic wave and a stream of particles. It is a form of energy that moves at a speed >>more
Hatje Cantz Publishers
ISBN 9783775717748
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Paperback, 8.5 x 11 in. / 700 pgs / 980 illustrations
Pub Date: 08/15/2006 Active/In stock

5th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art Edited by Elena Filipovic, Adam Szymczyk. In a supportive article covering the 4th Berlin Biennial, critic Steven Henry Madoff took a moment to question what many have termed "Biennial Fever," writing, "Are [biennials] here to capture trends or to advance artists' >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783905829587
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Paperback, 7.75 x 10.5 in. / 592 pgs / 400 color.
Pub Date: 09/01/2008 Active/In stock

Catholic No.1: Cats Edited by Jesse Pearson and Glynnis McDaris. Make us something about cats. This dictum, given to the artists and writers who participated in the 2003 Catholic exhibition at Guild & Greyshkul Gallery in New York, produced--beautiful, startling, thought-provoking, sweet, disturbing--results. A >>more
D.A.P./Evil Twin Publications
ISBN 9781933045153
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Hardcover, 7.5 x 8.5 in. / 112 pgs / 80 color / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/15/2005 Active/In stock

True North Text by Rebecca Solnit, Jennifer Blessing. True North features the work of contemporary artists whose photographic or video-based work evokes the formal conventions of Northern Romantic landscape painting as well as its legacy in later nineteenth-century photography. Yet unlike their Roman >>more
Guggenheim Museum
ISBN 9780892073702
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Hardback, 10 x 10 in. / 71 pgs / 23 color.
Pub Date: 04/01/2008 Active/In stock

The Undiscovered Country Essay by Russell Ferguson. Foreword by Ann Philbin. For painters faced with the metaphorical death of painting, the way forward has indeed been puzzling. nevertheless, the territory continues to be explored. As Luc Tuymans put it, “Painting is a way of thinking and >>more
Hammer Museum
ISBN 9780943739274
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Clothbound, 8.5 x 10.25 in. / 136 pgs / 84 color.
Pub Date: 02/15/2005 Active/In stock

Cut/Film As Found Object In Contemporary Video Edited by Stefano Basilico. Essays by Stefano Basilico, Lawrence Lessig and Rob Yeo. Introduction by David Gordon. The moving picture, film, and television have exerted an unmatched influence throughout the twentieth century, equally documenting and constructing our reality. It is the peculiar power of the moving image that while it may be >>more
Milwaukee Art Museum
ISBN 9780944110652
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Flexibound, 9 x 9 in. / 128 pgs / 60 color.
Pub Date: 11/02/2004 Active/In stock

Life After Death Edited and with essays by Mark Coetzee and Laura Steward Heon. Introduction by Ric Collier, Robin Held, Joe Thompson and Jack Rasmussen. In December 2000, a group of five young German artists, all recent graduates of the prestigious Leipzig Art Academy, organized a small exhibition of their works in Leipzig. Unsurprisingly, the exhibition attracted no notice from >>more
Rubell Family Collection/Mass MoCA
ISBN 9780971634145
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Hardcover, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 144 pgs / 122 color.
Pub Date: 08/15/2006 Active/Not available

Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking Edited by Fereshteh Daftari. Essays by Homi Bhabha and Orhan Pamuk. The attention currently directed from the West to the Islamic world has profound ramifications for the art made by those who come from the region but live elsewhere: that origin is increasingly becoming a defining >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870700859
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Paperback, 9 x 10.75 in. / 104 pgs / 98 color.
Pub Date: 02/01/2006 Active/In stock

Re-Object Edited and with foreword by Eckhard Schneider. Text by Sebastian Egenhofer, John Gray, Herbert Molderings. Urinals, vacuum cleaners, basketballs, glass sheets… livestock? This study of key moments in the history of ready-made and object-based art features Damien Hirst (London), Gerhard Merz (Munich), Jeff Koons (New York) and their shared historical >>more
Kunsthaus Bregenz
ISBN 9783865601810
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Hardcover, 9.75 x 11.25 in. / 160 pgs / 120 color.
Pub Date: 06/01/2007 Active/In stock

Surface Tension Supplement No.2 Edited by Brandon LaBelle, Ken Ehrlich. Text by Ava Bromberg, Mathias Heyden, Jesko Fezer, Fabianne Balvedi, Jennifer Gabrys. Continuing the work initiated in Surface Tension: Problematics of Site, this second in the Supplement series engages questions of location and performative interventionist practices through essays and creative projects. Probing the intersec >>more
Errant Bodies Press
ISBN 9780977259434
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 104 pgs / 12 color / 25 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/31/2009 Active/In stock

Access to Israel Foreword by Raphael Gross. Introduction by Eva Atlan. This volume (with DVD) brings together work by Adi Nes, Nir Hod, Barry Frydlender, Miki Kratsman & Boaz Arad, Gil Shachar, Gilad Ophir, Keren Amiran, Guy Ben-Ner, Tal Shochat, Yehudit Sasportas and Anat Manor--12 artists >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865604637
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Pbk, 8 x 9.5 in. / 116 pgs / 53 color / 11 b&w / DVD (PAL).
Pub Date: 09/01/2008 Active/In stock

Situation Comedy: Humor In Recent Art Essays by Dominic Molon and Michael Rooks. Excerpt by David Sedaris. Foreward by Judith Richards. Admit it: you've sometimes wanted to laugh at contemporary art. During the past decade, humor has turned up with increasing frequency in galleries and museums, perhaps as an acknowledgment of the urgent need among artists >>more
Independent Curators International, New York
ISBN 9780916365721
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Paperback, 8 x 10 in. / 72 pgs / 40 color.
Pub Date: 10/15/2005 Active/In stock

Saint Sebastian: Or A Splendid Readiness For Death Artwork by Luigi Ontani, Paul Schrader, Louise Bourgeois, Chris Burden, Francesco Clemente, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Fiona Tan. Photographs by Catherine Opie, David Wojnarowicz. Text by Wolfgang Tillmans. The cultural-historical starting point of Saint Sebastian: Or a Splendid Readiness For Death is found in Gabriele D'Annunzio's Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian: A Mystery in Five Acts, a musical play on which D'Annunzio collaborated with >>more
Kerber
ISBN 9783936646450
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Hardcover, 6.5 x 7.75 in. / 144 pgs / 700 color / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/02/2004 Active/In stock

Transactions Edited by Stephanie Hanor. Foreword by Hugh M. Davies. In a "post-Latin American" age, Latin American art has taken a postmodern tack, mindful of borders and identity politics but not determined by them. Many of the 42 artists featured here, including Francis Als, Felix >>more
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
ISBN 9780934418652
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Hardcover, 9 x 12 in. / 176 pgs / 100 color and 15 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/15/2006 Active/In stock

Radio Memory Edited by Brandon LaBelle. Text by Carmen Cebreros Urzaiz, Bastien Gallet. For the project documented in this volume, Brandon LaBelle invited people from around the world to send in radio memories--of songs overheard at special moments in their lives. Radio Memory contains contributions by Bastien Gallet, >>more
Errant Bodies Press
ISBN 9780977259465
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Paperback, 6.25 x 8.25 in. / 126 pgs / 8 color / Audio CD.
Pub Date: 10/01/2008 Active/In stock

Videodreams: Between The Cinematic And The Theatrical Edited by Peter Pakesch. Essays by Mieke Bal, Adam Budak, Laura Mulvey, Judy Radul and Kaja Silverman. The transition between a dream and reality is sometimes blurry and jagged--moments of panic, confusion, fear, joy, a trail of thoughts that carries emotions from one world to the next. This delicate, ever-shifting boundary between >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783883758381
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Flexibound, 8.5 x 11.25 in. / 196 pgs / 110 color.
Pub Date: 06/15/2004 Active/Awaiting stock

The Hugo Boss Prize 2008 This innovatively designed publication, which accompanies the announcement of the short list for the Hugo Boss Prize 2008, features special artist-designed pages by each of the finalists--Christoph Büchel, Patty Chang, Sam Durant, Emily Jacir, Joachim >>more
Guggenheim Museum
ISBN 9780892073733
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Paperback, 10.5 x 13.5 in. / 112 pgs / 114 color.
Pub Date: 10/01/2008 Active/In stock

Down the Garden Path: The Artist's Garden After Modernism Edited by Valerie Smith, Domenick Ammirati and Jennifer Liese. Essays by Julian Agyeman, Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn, Brigitte Franzen and Jamaica Kincaid. Foreword by Tom Finkelpearl. An international array of artists including Isamu Noguchi, Jenny Holzer and Vito Acconci have been using the garden as a vehicle for commentary on social and political issues, in both public and private realms. The >>more
Queens Museum of Art
ISBN 9781929641062
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Paperback, 9 x 12 in. / 176 pgs / 170 color.
Pub Date: 01/01/2006 Active/In stock

No Reservations: Native American History and Culture in Contemporary Art Text by Fergus Bordewich, Richard Klein, Paul Chaat Smith. This collection of work by both Native and non-Native artists speaks of the complexity of Native American historical and cultural influences in contemporary culture. Rather than focusing on artists who attempt to maintain strict cultural >>more
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
ISBN 9781888332308
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Paperback, 11.75 x 8 in. / 96 pgs / 40 color / 17 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2007 Active/Awaiting stock

Deutsche Wandstücke: Seven Senarios of New German Painting >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881586080
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Paperback, 8.5 x 11in. / 88 pages / 52 color / 56 b&w
Pub Date: 01/01/2007 Active/In stock

POZA: On the Polishness of Polish Contemporary Art Edited by Marek Bartelik. POZA presents a selection of both well-established and emergent Polish artists, resident not only in Poland but also in the United States, Brazil, Canada and France. These artists are proposed not as mere instances of >>more
Real Art Ways
ISBN 9780971785939
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Paperback, 6.5 x 8.5 in. / 168 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 04/01/2008 Active/In stock

The Way Things Are: Works from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection Preface by Stefan Mucha. Text by Francesca Von Habsburg, Daniela Zyman, Daniel Muzyczuk, Saskia Sassen, Andrzej Stasiuk. This volume explores artistic representation of today's increasingly precarious work and social spheres within advanced economies. It features work by Los Carpinteros, Julian Rosefeldt, Allan Sekula and Andreas Siekmann, among others. >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865604859
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Pbk, 8 x 10.25 in. / 216 pgs / 70 color / 32 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/01/2008 Active/In stock

Fiction Of Authenticity, A Edited by Shannon Fitzgerald and Tumelo Mosaka. Essays by Okwui Enwezor, Salah Hassan, Gilane Tawadros, Orlando Britto Jinorio, Ery Camara. Foreword by Paul Ha. A Fiction of Authenticity presents seminal moments for challenging prevailing notions about interculturalism and postcolonial subjects. This full-color catalogue features specially commissioned work by 11 contemporary artists of African descent--e >>more
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
ISBN 9780971219526
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Paperback, 7.5 x 9.75 in. / 200 pgs / 70 color.
Pub Date: 01/02/2004 Active/In stock

100 Artists See God Essays by John Baldessari, Meg Cranston and Thomas McEvilley. Foreword by Judith Richards. With a mix of irreverence and sincerity, artists John Baldessari and Meg Cranston here tackle nothing less than the question of God. Acting as curators, they have invited 100 artists to respond to one of >>more
Independent Curators International, New York
ISBN 9780916365684
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Paperback, 8.5 x 11 in. / 128 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 04/02/2004 Active/In stock

Still Points of the Turning World Introduction by Laura Heon. Essay by Klaus Ottmann. Intensity, experimentation and visceral presence are the hallmarks of the 13 significant installations documented in this slipcased two-volume set, which presents the works in SITE Santa Fe's Sixth International Biennial, curated by Klaus Ottmann. Sti >>more
Site Santa Fe
ISBN 9780976449232
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Slipcased, 7.5 x 11 in. / 272 pgs / 100 color and 13 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/15/2006 Active/Awaiting stock

Ils Sont Peintres Text by Luca Cerizza, Vincent Pécoil. Ils Sont Peintres (They are Painters) considers paintings that have avoided the figurative, narrative, Neo-Expressionist trends that have defined the medium in recent years. Artists include John Armleder, Robert Barry, Daniel Buren, Stéphan >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783905829235
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Hbk, 5.5 x 7.25 in. / 128 pgs / 33 color.
Pub Date: 08/31/2009 Active/In stock

Shifting Identities: (Swiss) Art Now Edited by Mirjam Varadinis. Text by Christoph Becker, Tan Wälchli, Kurt Imhof, Peter J. Schneemann. Here, 68 Swiss and international artists address changing values and shifting identities in the wake of contemporary globalization--including Adel Abdessemed, Erik van Lieshout, Mai-Thu Perret, Elodie Pong, David Renggli, Tino Sehgal, Andro Wekua, Brian >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783905829709
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Pbk, 8.25 x 11.75 in. / 240 pgs / 96 color / 106 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/01/2008 Active/In stock

La Panadería: 1994-2002 Edited by Yoshua Okon. Essays by Carlo McCormick, Cuauhtémoc Medina, and Eduardo Abaroa, and Guillermo Fandanelli. Introduction by Miguel Calderňn. Throughout eight years of existence, La Panadería served Mexico City as a vibrant non-profit space for exhibitions, residencies, and cultural events involving local and international artists. This retrospective catalogue exists as a collective testimony >>more
Turner
ISBN 9788475066493
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Flexibound, 8.75 x 10 in. / 350 pgs / 350 color.
Pub Date: 08/02/2004 Active/In stock

Amateurs Edited by Ralph Rugoff. Curated by Ralph Rugoff--former Director of the Wattis Institute and current Director of the Hayward Gallery in London--and featuring work by Johanna Billing, Jennifer Bornstein, Andrea Bowers, Phil Collins, Jeremy Deller, Harrell Fletcher, Josh Greene, >>more
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
ISBN 9780980205510
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Paperback, 7.5 x 9.75 in. / 112 pgs / 88 color / 13 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/01/2008 Active/In stock

The New Normal Foreword by Judith Richards. Text by Michael Connor. The New Normal brings together 15 recent artworks by Sophie Calle, Mohamed Camera, Hasan Elahi, Eyebeam R & D/Jonah Peretti & Michael Frumin, Kota Ezawa, Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher, Guthrie Lonergan, Jill Magid, Jennifer >>more
Independent Curators International/Artists Space/Centro Huarte
ISBN 9780916365790
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Paperback, 7 x 10 in. / 144 pgs / 50 color / 5 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/01/2008 Active/In stock

Unpacking Europe Edited by Iftikhar Dadi and Salah Hassan. Artists include: Willem Boshoff, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Heri Dono, Jimmie Durham, Coco Fusco, Ni Haifeng, Ken Lum, Keith Piper, Yinka Shonibare. How European is Europe? In Rotterdam, the 2001 Cultural Capital of Europe, curator Salah Hassan posed this question to 18 international artists. Yinka Shonibare, Jimmie Durham, Willem Boshoff, Heri Dono, Coco Fusco, Ni Haifeng, Ken >>more
NAi Publishers
ISBN 9789056622336
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Paperback, 9.5 x 6.75 in. / 224 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 03/02/2002 Active/Not available

Walk Ways Essay by Stuart Horodner. Foreword by Judith Richards. The agency of pedestrianism in the realm of civic creativity has become a major tool for contemporary art, particularly since the 60s. Walk Ways explores this theme of walking as an action and a metaphor. >>more
Independent Curators International, New York
ISBN 9780916365653
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Paperback, 8 x 10 in. / 72 pgs / 26 color / 4 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/02/2002 Active/In stock

Live Through This: New York 2005 Edited by Jeffrey Deitch and Kathy Grayson. Essays by Cory Arcangel, Jeffrey Deitch, Philip Guichard and Lawrence Rinder. Live Through This brings together more than 30 of the most exciting art, music and fashion personalities who are changing art making in New York. New art practice is now intimately tied to the lived >>more
Deitch Projects
ISBN 9780975324332
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Paperback, 11.5 x 11.5 in. / 96 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 06/15/2005 Active/In stock

Art From The Uk Contributors include Michael Archer, Francesco Bonami, Neal Brown, Angela Bulloch, David Bussel, Willie Doherty, Tracey Emin, Carl Freedman, Paul Fryer, Ingvild Goetz, Douglas Gordon, Mona Hatoum, Abigail Lane, Sarah Lucas, Dirk Snauwaert, Nancy Spector, Featuring interviews with, and artwork by, such hot British artists as Mona Hatoum, Sam Taylor-Wood, Rachel Whiteread, Willie Doherty, Tracey Emin, Douglas Gordon, Abigail Lane, Angela Bulloch and Sarah Lucas, Art from the UK documents >>more
Sammlung Goetz
ISBN 9783980526739
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Hardcover, 7 x 9.75 in. / 171 pgs / 88 color / 21 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/02/2001 Active/In stock

China Edited by Lorenzo Sassoli de Bianchi. Essays by Lorenzo Sassoli de Bianchi and Shu Yang. Foreword by Francesca Jordon. Afterword Vittoria Coen. China: The New Contemporary Painting presents the works of 18 artists working in the medium today. Some of the paintings shown in this volume provide insight into China's current cultural, social, and political climate while >>more
Damiani
ISBN 9788889431078
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Hardcover, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 272 pgs / 304 color.
Pub Date: 03/15/2005 Active/In stock

My Private Heroes Edited by Jan Hoet. Essays by Anne Marie Bonnet, Boris Groys and Jan Hoet. For the opening exhibition in Frank Gehry's gleaming new MARTa Herford Museum in Germany, Artistic Director Jan Hoet, longtime director (from 1975 to 2001) of the Stedelijk Museum, rounded up images and objects representing (his >>more
Kerber
ISBN 9783938025123
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Hardcover, 9.5 x 12 in. / 288 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 08/15/2005 Active/In stock

The Shape Of Color: Excursions In Color Field Art, 1950-2005 Edited by David Moos. Essays by Mark Cheetham, Robert Hobbs, Sarah K. Rich and Raphael Rubinstein. Introduction by Matthew Teitelbaum. Color field art covers more acreage than you might expect. In this major reappraisal cataloguing an exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, the definition is extended to include both contemporaneous works in >>more
Art Gallery of Ontario
ISBN 9781894243452
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Paperback, 9 x 10.5 in. / 112 pgs / 35 color / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/15/2005 Active/In stock

Loyal And His Band Edited by Martin Lilja, Kristian Bengtsson and Amy Giunta. The creators of Loyal magazine and its eponymous gallery celebrate five years with this, their first book. Loyal And His Band brings together a stunning variety of work from more than 20 artists--it's a collection >>more
Loyal
ISBN 9789163175008
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Hardcover, 9.5 x 12.25 in. / 96 pgs / 167 color.
Pub Date: 01/01/2006 Active/In stock

Blur of the Otherworldly: Contemporary Art, Technology, and the Paranormal Edited by Mark Alice Durant and Jane D. Marsching. Essays by Marina Warner and Lynne Tillman. As technology has burgeoned in recent years, so have ghosts in the machine, or so the 29 artists featured here suggest. All use existing gadgets--photography, film, video, radio, Internet, and digital media--to explore age-old questions >>more
Center for Art and Visual Culture, UMBC
ISBN 9781890761080
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Paperback, 7 x 9.75 in. / 198 pgs / 75 color / 25 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/01/2006 Active/In stock

Visible/Invisible Edited by Jan Leaming, Ma Rong. Text by Gao Minlu, Liu Libin. Visible/Invisible explores contemporary Chinese abstraction through the work of nine prominent artists: Xu Hongming, Zhang Fan, Tan Ping, Wang Guangle, Zhou Yangming, Li Yang, Chen Ruo Bing, Tang Kaizhi and Lin Yan. This volume explores >>more
Timezone 8
ISBN 9789889926571
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Clothbound, 11.25 x 11.25 in. / 240 pgs / 174 color / 86 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Active/In stock

When Humour Becomes Painful Edited by Heike Munder and Felicity Lunn. Essays by Slavoj Zizek and Simon Critchley. From Dada to Fluxus through Sensation to today, humor is at the heart of much of the most-beloved--and least comfortable--art out there. Humor's ambivalence, its ability to shift between the utopian and the destructive, and >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783905701043
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Hardcover, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 224 pgs / 50 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2006 Active/In stock

Landscape Confection Essay by Helen Molesworth. Foreword by Sherri Geldin. Landscape Confection brings together a group of emerging and mid-career artists involved in expanding the historical practice of landscape painting. Long considered one of the primary categories of Western painting, landscape has traditionally bee >>more
Wexner Center for the Arts
ISBN 9781881390367
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Clothbound, 7 x 9 in. / 100 pgs / 40 color.
Pub Date: 01/02/2005 Active/In stock

Neo Baroque! Edited by Micaela Giovannotti and Joyce B. Korotkin. Conversation with Robert Storr, Marianne Boesky, Shamin Momin, Alexis Rockman and Nicola Verlato. Despite postmodernism's inclusive theory, much of its practice is aesthetically minimal. Enter the new Baroque, aglow with brilliant colors, dizzying arabesques and spectacular ornamentation in gold and sparkling crystals. It can also be a bit >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881585663
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Paperback, 8.25 x 11 in. / 112 pgs / 26 color / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/01/2006 Active/Awaiting stock

On Line Edited by Michael Juul Holm and Anders Kold. Drawing, whether by hand or onscreen, has become a striking expressive element in contemporary art--an independent discipline beyond the classic sketch. This collection of work from 10 young European and American artists checks in with >>more
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
ISBN 9788791607189
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Paperback, 11 x 15.5 in. / 48 pgs / 2 color and 12 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/15/2006 Active/In stock

Skulptur Projekte Münster 07: Public Sculpture Introduction by Kasper König, Brigitte Franzen. Been to enough biennials? Skulptur Projekte Münster only happens every 10 years. This, its fourth iteration (following 1977, 1987 and 1997), invites artists from all over the world--many of whom are returning to the city >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865602343
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Paperback, 7.25 x 10.25 in. / 470 pgs / 315 color / 190 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 Active/Not available

China Under Construction Edited and with introduction by Maya Kóvskaya. Aiming to change the exoticized, politicized stereotype of Chinese art familiar to Western viewers, this volume offers a fresh look at the complex realities of a nation undergoing profound transformation through the eyes of 27 >>more
Futurista Arts
ISBN 9780979810916
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Paperback, 9.75 x 11 in. / 140 pgs / 120 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Active/In stock

Family Ties Edited by Trevor Fairbrother. Essays by Sarah Vowell, Foreword by Dan L. Monroe. Introduction by John R. Grimes. If family is often considered the backbone of civilization, it has undergone serious rethinking over the past few decades. Most disciplines, from sociology to psychotherapy to economics, have had their turn at analyzing, theorizing and >>more
Marquand Books, Inc.
ISBN 9780970639479
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Flexibound, 9.75 x 11 in. / 136 pgs / 110 color / 15 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/02/2003 Active/In stock

Imaginary Coordinates Text by Jessica Dubow, Rhoda Rosen, Ilana Segal. Imaginary Coordinates, published on the occasion of an exhibition originating at Chicago's Spertus Museum, juxtaposes the museum's extensive collection of antique Holy Land maps with contemporary artwork by Israeli and Palestinian women (including >>more
Spertus Press, Chicago
ISBN 9780935982664
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Hardback, 7.5 x 10 in. / 108 pgs / 71 color.
Pub Date: 07/01/2008 Active/In stock

It's Time for Action Edited by Heike Munder. Text by Amelia Jones, Mercedes Bunz, Maria Elena Buszek, Katy Deepwell. This text-heavy exhibition catalogue focuses on self-confident, nonconformist Feminist positions, pointing out that new role models and strategies are being requested. Essayist Amelia Jones contests the notion of a current Postfeminism and, using the exa >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783905770537
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Hardback, 6 x 9.25 in. / 164 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Active/In stock

Sculptors Drawing Text by Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, Anne Chu, Teresita Fernández, Keith Edimer, Thomas Scheibitz, Tobias Rehberger, Katy Schimert, Ricky Swallow. Although drawing is often thought of as a preparatory medium for sculptors, oftentimes it is, in fact, a more primary mode of expression and investigation. Featuring works on paper by Matthew Barney, Anne Chu, Keith >>more
Aspen Art Museum
ISBN 9780934324410
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Paperback, 8.75 x 8.75 in. / 48 pgs / 25 color.
Pub Date: 02/01/2008 Active/In stock

Sound & Vision Text by Luca Beatrice, Alberto Campo. Music and art have gone together at least as long as there's been singing in church, but Sound & Vision opens in 1967, when the covers of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Peter Blake) >>more
Damiani
ISBN 9788889431986
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Paperback, 8 x 11 in. / 260 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 09/01/2007 Active/In stock

China Art Book Edited by Uta Grosenick, Caspar H. Schübbe. Chinese art has never been so prominent and ubiquitous as in recent years, and in China Art Book we have the definitive guide to the country's leading lights. Massive in size and thorough in its >>more
DuMont Buchverlag
ISBN 9783832177690
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Flexi, 9 x 9 in. / 670 pgs / 850 color.
Pub Date: 02/28/2010 Active/In stock

Fast Forward: Media Art Edited by Stephan Urbaschek. Text by Fernanda Arruda, Andrea Buddensieg, Michael Clifton, Anne Erfle, Barbara Filser, Peggy Gale, Ulrike Havemann, Sabine Himmelsbach, Michael Hirsch, Anke Hoffmann, Petra Kaiser, Katrin Kaschadt, Jorg Leupold, Petra Meyer, Mark Nash, Margit Rosen, et al. In our accelerated era of "faster," "better," "farther," "higher," this comprehensive catalogue of the media art of the world-renowned Goetz Collection in Munich offers not only a survey of much of the most important film >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775718653
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Hardcover, 9.75 x 11.5 in. / 532 pgs / 1932 color.
Pub Date: 12/01/2006 Active/In stock

The African Sniper Reader Edited by Fernando Alvim, Heike Munder, Ulf Wuggenig, Essays by Oladélé Bamboyé, Mounir Fatmi, Kendell Geers, Loulou Cherinet, Simon Njami and Olu Oguibe. This anthology emerged from a series of solo exhibitions by Kendell Geers, Olu Oguibe, Oldadélé Bamgboyé, Mounir Fatmi and Loulou Cherinet--all artists with connections to Africa and living abroad. Reaching beyond the dialectic of difference >>more
JRP|Ringier/Migros Museum fr Gegenwartskunst Zurich
ISBN 9783905701227
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Hardcover, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 160 pgs / 50 color.
Pub Date: 08/15/2005 Active/Awaiting stock

Ecomedia Edited by Sabine Himmelsbach. Text by Sabine Himmelsbach, Karin Ohlenschläger, Yvonne Volkart, Christoph Spehr, Roger I. Malina. In recent years the idea of ecology as a communications system in which humans, animals and organic materials occupy equivalent status has gained in authority. To whose advantage and disadvantage are ecosystems destroyed? What consequences >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775720489
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Hardback, 6.5 x 8.5 in. / 232 pgs / 90 color.
Pub Date: 02/01/2008 Active/In stock

Karkhana: A Contemporary Collaboration Edited by Hammad Nasar. Essays by Qamar Adamjee, Salima Hashima, Jessica Hough, Sandhya S. Jain, John Seyller and Virginia Whiles. Karkhanas were first established in the fourteenth century as art and artisan collectives to produce textiles, weaponry and other objects for South Asian sultanates, particularly of the Mughal empire. This current project, initiated and organized >>more
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum/Green Cardamom
ISBN 9781888332261
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Hardcover, 10 x 11 in. / 112 pgs / 145 color.
Pub Date: 08/15/2005 Active/Awaiting stock

Black Is A Color By Elvan Zabunyan. In Black is a Color, contemporary art historian and curator Elvan Zabunyan proposes a new approach to contemporary art and its history through the practice of Black American artists from the Harlem Renaissance to today. >>more
Dis Voir
ISBN 9782914563208
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Paperback, 6.5 x 8.5 in. / 288 pgs / 67 color / 69 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/15/2006 Active/In stock

Comfort Essays by Kristin Chambers, Michael Sorkin, Foreword by Jill Snyder. Artists include Franz Ackerman, Peter Land, Sarah Morris, Jorge Pardo, Tobias Rehberger, Gregor Schneider, Andrea Zittel. Comfort accompanies an exhibition of work by eight of today's most engaging international artists: Franz Ackermann, Peter Land, Sarah Morris, Gabriel Orozco, Jorge Pardo, Tobias Rehberger, Gregor Schneider and Andrea Zittel. Through a variety of >>more
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art
ISBN 9781880353189
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Hardcover, 6.25 x 9.5 in. / 80 pgs / 25 color / 10 b&w / 10 duotone.
Pub Date: 04/02/2001 Active/In stock

Poetics of the Handmade Text by Alma Ruiz, Henri Focillion, Maria Hummel, Cara Baldwin, Dianna Marisol Santillano, Elena Shtromberg. While many of their contemporaries seem to be working in the post-studio vein with collaborators producing their work, the Latin American contemporary artists in Poetics of the Handmade explore the close relationship that exists between >>more
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
ISBN 9781933751009
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Flexibound, 7 x 9.75 in. / 112 pgs / 80 color.
Pub Date: 04/22/2007 Active/In stock

Shoot the Family Foreword by Judith Olch Richards. Family photographs are a universally familiar genre, and an intimate one, which makes this collection an accessible entry point for its deceptively simple but deeply complex social and representational issues. In turning their cameras on >>more
Independent Curators International, New York
ISBN 9780916365738
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Hardcover, 8 x 10 in. / 64 pgs / 37 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2006 Active/In stock

Funny Cuts Preface by Christian von Holst. Essays by Andreas Schalhorn, Kassandra Nakas and Ulrich Pfarr. As its point of departure,Funny Cuts takes, as its point of departure, Pop art's revolutionary referencing of comics and concludes with the most current trends in contemporary art, reflecting in many diverse ways its dialogue >>more
Kerber
ISBN 9783938025017
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Pub Date: 03/15/2005 Active/In stock

Heart of Darkness Foreword by Kathy Halbreich. Introduction by Philippe Vergne. Heart of Darkness centers on three large-scale installations by artists Kai Althoff, Ellen Gallagher and Thomas Hirschhorn. Working with fairy tales, science fiction and sensational imagery, these artists invite us to enter an uncanny world >>more
Walker Art Center
ISBN 9780935640854
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Paperback, 9.25 x 11.5 in. / 96 pgs / 60 color and 24 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/15/2006 Active/In stock

An Aside: Works Selected By Tacita Dean Texts by Tacita Dean. Afterword by Roger Malbert. This beautiful artist's book accompanies the Hayward Gallery travelling exhibition curated by artist and filmmaker Tacita Dean. Dean approached the task of selecting the works for this exhibition and this book as she does the >>more
Hayward Gallery
ISBN 9781853322471
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Paperback, 7.75 x 9.5 in. / 80 pgs / 40 color.
Pub Date: 05/15/2005 Active/In stock

Untitled (Experience Of Place) Edited by Gregor Neuerer. Essays by Steven Jacobs, Tacita Dean, Michael AshkinJohannes Wohnseifer, Luisa Lambri, Liisa Roberts, Jonathan Hill, Inventory, Kirsti Reskalenko, Claudia Wegener, and Anita Witek. Introduction by Jan Verwoert. This collection of projects, texts and visual essays by contemporary artists and authors questions how the individual's experience creates a new and changing understanding of place. Participants include Matthew Buckingham, Luisa Lambri, Tacita Dean and >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783883757926
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 256 pgs / 74 color / 148 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/02/2004 Active/Awaiting stock

40 years Videoart.de Edited by Rudolf Frieling and Wulf Herzogenrath. Essays by Dieter Daniels, Boris Groys and Hans Dieter Huber. This book--accompanied by a DVD containing excerpts of all featured works and additional materials--tracks 40 years of German video art, from 1963 to the present. It offers a comprehensive overview of historical and current tendencies >>more
Hatje Cantz Publishers
ISBN 9783775717182
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Hardcover, 7.5 x 9.75 in. / 400 pgs / 350 color.
Pub Date: 06/01/2006 Active/In stock

Generali Foundation Exhibitions 1989-2008 Edited and with text by Sabine Breitwieser. Foreword by Dietrich Kramer. Over the past 20 years, the Vienna-based Generali Foundation has established itself as an internationally distinguished institution, with countless must-see exhibitions of conceptual and critical intermedia art to its name. The exhibition history tells i >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865604132
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Paperback, 9.5 x 7.75 in. / 600 pgs / 600 color / 5 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/01/2008 Active/Not available

The Disappeared Edited by Laurel Reuter. Text by Lawrence Weschler. An ominous transitive verb entered the language in 1970s South America: to "disappear" someone. Some of these artists had family disappeared; others resisted or were forced into exile. Their work fights amnesia, serving as a >>more
Charta/North Dakota Museum of Art
ISBN 9788881586042
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 112 pgs / 37 color and 38 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/15/2006 Active/In stock

The Big Nothing Essays by Ingrid Shaffner and Bennett Simpson. Foreword by Claudia Gould. Conceptions of “nothing” are one of the driving themes of twentieth-century art. One thinks of Piet Mondrian's reductivist approach to abstraction, Marcel Duchamp's contention that art resides in ideas, not objects, Mark Rothko's painterly reach >>more
ICA Philadelphia
ISBN 9780884541059
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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 80 pgs / 40 b&w / 10 duotone.
Pub Date: 06/02/2004 Active/In stock

Contemporary Erotic Drawing Essays by Wayne Koestenbaum and Sue Taylor. Foreword by Harry Philbrick and Sara Kellner. Introduction by Stuart Horodner. Encompassing the subjects of sexuality and erotica, The Aldrich Contemporary Museum presents this catalogue from the Contemporary Erotic Drawing exhibition, featuring more than 35 artists. In describing the immediacy and intimacy of drawing, Josep >>more
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art
ISBN 9781888332247
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Hardcover, 9 x 11.75 in. / 100 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 03/15/2005 Active/In stock

Situation Kunst für Max Imdahl Edited by Silke von Berswordt-Wallrabe. Text by Max Imdahl, Alexander von Berswordt-Wallrabe, Friederike Wappler. The influential German art gallery Situation Kunst (Art as Situation) was founded in the 1980s to present contemporary art as a sensory experience, alongside objects from Asia and Africa. This volume collects work by artists >>more
Richter Verlag
ISBN 9783937572871
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Hardback, 8.5 x 11 in. / 224 pgs / 80 color / 20 duotone.
Pub Date: 08/01/2008 Active/In stock

Six Feet Under: Autopsy of Our Relationship to the Dead Text by Elisabeth Bronfen, Bernhard Fibicher, Helga Lutz, Thomas Macho, Regula Tschumi. Six Feet Under collects an international array of contemporary and historical artworks, some dating back to the sixteenth century, that take on the topic of death and decay. In art, death is a universal subject. >>more
Kerber
ISBN 9783866780194
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Pub Date: 03/01/2007 Active/In stock

Yalós Text by Luca Massimo Barbero. Glass is so malleable that it seemingly eludes the formal principles obeyed by most solid materials; it can be used to create a delicate windowpane or formed into a massive unbreakable block, translucent or opaque, >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881586691
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Pub Date: 08/01/2008 Active/In stock

Touching the Stones Edited by Waling Boers, Pi Li, Brigitte Oetker. In a 2007 article in The New York Times, David Barboza wrote about recent record-breaking auctions of Chinese art, "With auction prices soaring, hundreds of new studios, galleries and private art museums are opening in >>more
Walther Konig/Jahrbuch Fur Moderne Kunst
ISBN 9783865601759
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 278 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 12/15/2007 Active/In stock

The Air is Blue Introduction by Hans Ulrich Obrist. Edited by Pedro Reyes. Text by Liam Gillick, Rem Koolhaas. When architect Luis Barragán (1902-1988) won the Pritzker Prize in 1980, he marveled that "publications devoted to architecture have banished from their pages the words Beauty, Inspiration, Magic, Spellbound, Enchantment, as well as the concepts >>more
Trilce Ediciones
ISBN 9781933045597
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Fliexibound, 6.5 x 9 in. / 228 pgs / 138 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2007 Active/Awaiting stock

Citizens and Subjects Edited by Rosi Braidotti, Charles Esche, Maria Hlavajova. In 2007, Aernout Mik represented the Netherlands at the Venice Biennale. Rather than produce a standard catalogue to accompany Mik's acclaimed three-part video installation, curator Maria Hlavajova organized this dense and galvanizing critical reader. In >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783905770735
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Paperback, 6.5 x 8.75 in. / 336 pgs / 90 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/15/2007 Active/In stock

Thin Skin: The Fickle Nature Of Bubbles, Spheres, And Inflatable Structures Artwork by Lee Boroson, Ray Eames, Marit Folstad, Dorothee Golz, Sutee Kunavichayanont, Ann Lislegaard, Miri Segal, Annika von Hausswolff, James Lee Byars, Olafur Eliasson, Tom Friedman, Pipilotti Rist, Piero Manzoni. Edited by Carin Kuoni. Contributions by Ernesto Neto, Charles Eames. Text by Barbara Clausen. Bubbles (and related forms) seem to be springing up everywhere lately in contemporary art. Thin Skin brings together some of the most interesting contemporary work involving malleable, inflatable materials, including pieces by James Lee Byars, >>more
Independent Curators International, New York
ISBN 9780916365646
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Paperback, 9 x 12 in. / 84 pgs / 20 color / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/02/2002 Active/In stock

Slightly Unbalanced Text by Susan Hapgood and Susan Andersen. Foreword by Judith Richards. Slightly Unbalanced surveys the prevalence of psychological neurosis as a subject in contemporary art. During the past 15 years, inspired by the work of several prominent older artists, a younger generation has expanded the contemporary >>more
Independent Curators International
ISBN 9780916365783
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 72 pgs / 40 color.
Pub Date: 02/01/2008 Active/In stock

Recent Pasts: Art In Southern California From The 1990S To Now Edited by John C. Welchman. Essays by Connie Butler, Brian Butler, Matthew Coolidge, Dennis Cooper, Mike Davis, Dave Muller, Diana Thater and Frances Stark. This first volume of a series of anthologies, each based on a symposium held in Los Angeles by a consortium of the art schools of Southern California, brings out some heavy hitters for its inaugural >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783905701203
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 160 pgs / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/15/2005 Active/In stock

Art in Chicago: Resisting Regionalism, Transforming Modernism Text by Robert Cozzolino. Chicago is known as a center of innovation in architecture, literature and music, but Art in Chicago is the first broad overview of its twentieth-century fine art. It focuses on three distinct but overlapping generations >>more
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
ISBN 9780943836294
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Paperback, 8.5 x 11 in. / 80 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 02/01/2007 Active/In stock

Fugitive Sites Artwork by Gustavo Artigas, Judith Barry, Arturo Cuenca, Roman de Salvo, Mauricio Dias, Rita Gonzales, Silvia Gruner, Diego GutiŞrrez, Jonathan Hernandez, Norma Iglesias, Alberto Caro LimÄn, Iěigo Manglano-Ovalle, Allan McCollum, Monica Nador, Ugo PalaviPhotographs by Lorna Simpson. Edited by Alfredo Jaar, Osvaldo Sanchez. Contributions by Carmen Cuenca, Michael Krichman. Text by David Joselit, David Avalos, Susan Buck-Morss, Nestor Garcia Cancini, David Harvey, Mary Jane Jacob, Ivo Mesquita, Masao Miyoshi, Nelson Brissac Peixoto, Sally Yard, George Ydice, Serge Guilbaut. Taking the city as a laboratory, Fugitive Sites challenges the predictable radicality of global art projects, the usual notions of site specificity, community engagement, artistic practice and public space. Initiated in 1992 as a collaborative >>more
Installation Gallery
ISBN 9780964255449
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Paperback, 8.5 x 10 in. / 272 pgs / 241 color.
Pub Date: 03/02/2003 Active/In stock

Nouveau Réalisme Essays by Edelbert Kŕb, Matthias Koddenberg and Susanne Neuburger. From a party that never happened (the Cityrama II tour of Cologne planned by Wolf Vostell and Stefan Wewerka for March 2, 1962, which almost all the Nouveau Realisme artists were invited to), to a >>more
Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst Nurnberg
ISBN 9783938821084
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Paperback, 7.25 x 9.5 in. / 272 pgs / 91 color / 71 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/01/2006 Active/Awaiting stock

Appearance Artwork by Luigi Ontani, Andres Serrano, Tony Oursler, Mariko Mori. Photographs by Yasumasa Morimura. >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881582723
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Paperback, 8.5 x 11 in. / 152 pgs / 60 color / 60 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/02/2000 Active/In stock

Behind The Facts Edited by Gloria Moure. Essays by Friedrich Wolfram Heubach and Birgit Pelzer. Interfunktionen, an art journal which published 12 issues between 1968 and 1975 in Cologne, was founded in 1968 as a form of protest by artists who had no affinity with the critical lines that were >>more
Poligrafa
ISBN 9788434310179
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Clothbound, 6.5 x 9 in. / 416 pgs / 248 color / 108 duotone.
Pub Date: 05/02/2004 Active/In stock

Animations Edited by Klaus Biesenbach. Essays by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Norman Klein, Anthony Huberman, Giannalberto Bendazzi, John Canemaker, Larissa Harris and, Karyn Riegel. Foreword by Alanna Heiss. The works in Animations endow unlikely objects with unexpected and uncanny life. During its century-plus history, animation has continually absorbed, hybridized, mutated and melded disciplines and techniques, undergoing both commercial exploitatio >>more
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
ISBN 9783980426503
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Paperback, 10 x 13 in. / 191 pgs / 79 color / 3 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/02/2003 Active/In stock

Moving Parts: Forms Of The Kinetic Essays by Guy Brett, Rolf Pfeifer, Britta Glatzeder, Peter Weibel and Christian Theo Steiner Foreword by Guido Magnaguagno. Introduction by Peter Pakesch. “Modern technology is anonymous, all-embracing and discreet,” said twentieth-century master of kinetic art Jean Tinguely in 1966, and he sought to expose its mechanisms. He and his successors, including Paul McCarthy, Bruce Nauman, Jason Rhodes, >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783883758510
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Paperback, 8.75 x 11.25 in. / 288 pgs / 105 color / 136 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/15/2005 Active/In stock

Laughing in a Foreign Language Text by Mami Kataoka, Simon Critchley. What is the role of laughter and humor in contemporary art? In a time of increasing globalization, this book questions whether humor can only be appreciated by people with similar cultural, political or historical backgrounds >>more
Hayward Publishing
ISBN 9781853322662
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Paperback, 7.5 x 9.25 in. / 152 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Active/In stock

Monuments For The Usa Essay by Ralph Rugoff. Featuring works created by over 60 international artists who were invited by the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts to devise plans for a monument for the United States of America. Freed from contextual, budgetary >>more
CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art
ISBN 9780972508049
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Paperback, 8.25 x 10.5 in. / 162 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 07/15/2005 Active/In stock

Wonderland Artwork by Janet Cardiff, Pipilotti Rist, Joep van Lieshout. Contributions by Teresita Fernndez, Ernesto Neto, Rochelle Steiner. Text by Brent Benjamin. Accompanying the St. Louis Museum of Art's installation art exhibition, Wonderland is as impressive in form as in content: it comes with a special insert containing photographs of the on-site installations, reproduced in full-color posters. >>more
The Saint Louis Art Museum
ISBN 9780891780823
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Slipcased, 10 x 9 in. / 192 pgs / 42 color / 55 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/02/2000 Active/In stock

What Sound Does A Color Make? Essay by Kathleen Forde. Foreword by Judith Richards. Interviews with Naut Humon and Steina Vasulka. Synesthesia is the condition where stimulation of one sense (aural, for instance) triggers another (visual), so hearing a G minor chord might literally make you see red. This rare natural phenomenon seems less anomalous in >>more
Independent Curators International, New York
ISBN 9780916365714
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Paperback, 6.25 x 8 in. / 64 pgs / 30 color / 7 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/15/2005 Active/In stock

China Welcomes You Edited by Peter Pakesch. Foreword by Katrin Bucher Trantow. In this text-heavy volume, works by Ai Weiwei, Cao Fei, Duan Jianyu, Feng Mengbo, Guo Fengyi, Hu Xiaoyuan, Liu Wei, Lu Hao, Sun Yuan & Peng Yu, Wang Jianwei, Xie Nanxing, Xu Zhen, Yang Fudong, >>more
Walther König/Kunsthaus Graz
ISBN 9783865602718
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Paperback, 11.5 x 8.75 in. / 175 pgs / 40 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/15/2008 Active/In stock

Ethnic Marketing Edited by Tirdad Zolghadr. Text by Tirdad Zolghadr, Charlotte Bydler, Michaela Kehrer. How to assess the vicissitudes of the gradually "globalizing" art circuit without repeating recent curatorial clichés? Having watched one example of critical internationalism after another reduce itself to postcolonial platitude or self-congratulating ad >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783905701883
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Paperback, 5.5 x 8 in. / 112 pgs / 42 color / 12 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2007 Active/In stock

Post-Hypnotic Artwork by Peter Halley. Edited by Barry Blinderman. Contributions by Tom Moody. Text by Dave Hickey. >>more
University Galleries of Illinois State University
ISBN 9780945558293
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Paperback, 10 x 9 in. / 88 pgs / 56 color / 12 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/02/1999 Active/In stock

Date Line Text by Rhana Devenport, Karen Stevenson, Alexander Tolnay. This overview of developing artistic trends in the Pacific tracks a new generation’s conflicts between tradition and modernity. The spiritual heritage of the region, a post-colonial break with tradition, the consequences of enforced migration and >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775720434
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Hardback, 9.5 x 9.5 in. / 144 pgs / 104 color.
Pub Date: 02/01/2008 Active/In stock

In Geneva No One Can Hear You Scream Edited by Marc Jancou. Short story by Emilio Coccimiglia. In Geneva No One Can Hear You Scream documents an exhibition, organized by New York gallerist Marc Jancou for Geneva's Blondeau Fine Art Services, which raises its voice against the current state of contemporary art--the >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783905829570
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Hardback, 6.5 x 9 in. / 208 pgs / 162 color.
Pub Date: 08/01/2008 Active/In stock

Dzine: Punk Funk Edited by Ivy Cooper. Essay by Shannon Fitzgerald. Foreword by Paul Ha. Self-taught, Chicago-based artist Dzine (born Carlos Rolon in 1970) has gone from graffiti on the streets to showing in the galleries of Tokyo, Paris, Madrid and New York. His vibrant canvases--some in neon colors with >>more
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
ISBN 9780971219571
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Paperback, 10.5 x 7 in. / 44 pgs / 36 color.
Pub Date: 07/15/2005 Active/In stock

Going Staying Text by Volker Adolphs. Are you staying or are you going? The question encapsulates a range of physical actions, intellectual concerns and emotional wranglings--whether over a late-night decision to remain at a party or a tortuous choice to end >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775721189
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Hardback, 8.5 x 11 in. / 232 pgs / 113 color / 6 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Active/In stock

Half Square Half Crazy Edited by Éric Mangion. Text by Lili Reynaud Dewar, Elisabeth Wetterwald, Vincent Pécoil. This provocative publication explores the reexamination and the redeployment of forms and devices drawn from Minimal art by numerous contemporary artists. Taking into account their present adoption by the culture and design industries, the featured >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783905829068
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 176 pgs / 80 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Active/In stock

Glee Essays by Amy Cappellazzo, Jessica Hough, Foreword by Harry Philbrick. Glee is a uniquely designed volume dedicated to new developments in the world of contemporary painting--developments that engage advances in digital technology instead of fleeing from them. Including such already-renowned and up-and-coming painter >>more
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art
ISBN 9781888332148
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Hardcover, 5 x 6.5 in. / 84 pgs / 20 color.
Pub Date: 12/02/2000 Active/Awaiting stock

Two Asias, Two Europes Edited by Gu Zhenqing. Introduction by Gu Zhenqing, Harro Schmidt, Tomasz Wendland. Foreword by Zhang Yonglin. Two Asias, Two Europes explores and demonstrates the dialogue between Asian and European cultures. Divided in half, the publication includes work by Asian artists (like Xu Tan and Sookoon Ang) in the front and European >>more
Timezone 8
ISBN 9789889960940
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Paperback, 8.25 x 10.25 in. / 215 pgs / 415 color / 12 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Active/In stock

To Each His Own Edited by Gu Zhenqing. During the 2005 Beijing Biennale, To Each His Own was installed in the alternative art space, OO Factory. A critique of the value system espoused by global capitalism and the consumerist frenzy of the art >>more
Timezone 8
ISBN 9789889926434
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Paperback, 8.5 x 11.5 in. / 151 pgs / 85 color / 25 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Active/In stock

Human Game: Winners and Losers Edited by Francesco Bonami, Maria Luisa Frisa and Stefano Tonchi. Essays by Ashley Heath, Andrea Lissoni, Mathilda McQuaid, Toby Miller, Peter de Potter, Stefano Pistolini, Olivier Saillard, Roberta Sassatelli, Nick Sullivan, et.al. How did sports grow from primeval playground games into the worldwide business we know today? This reflection on athletics and their increasingly central role in contemporary society examines their metamorphosis from purely social activities into >>more
Charta/Fondazione Pitti Immagine Discovery
ISBN 9788881585953
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Paperback, 5.5 x 8 in. / 500 pgs / 600 color.
Pub Date: 09/15/2006 Active/Awaiting stock

Collateral: When Art Looks At Cinema Edited by Adelina von Fürstenberg. Text by Anna Daneri, Andrea Lissoni. This evaluation of recent artistic practice connected to the moving image uses 15 emblematic international artists--and Steve McQueen--to understand where this kind of work stands and what's next. The selected pieces confront myths and traditions >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881586219
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Paperback, 6 x 8.25 in. / 128 pgs / 80 color.
Pub Date: 06/01/2007 Active/In stock

Bunker Museum of Contemporary Art, Kinmen Island Edited by Cai Guo-Qiang. Essays by Bridget Goodbody and Cai Guo-Qiang, et.al. For much of the twentieth century, Kinmen was a key beachhead in Cold War campaigns to "Reclaim the Mainland" or "Liberate Taiwan." Although those tensions persist in other arenas, the island has slowly been relieved >>more
Charta/Bunker Museum, Kinmen Island
ISBN 9788881585984
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Paperback, 9 x 11 in. / 168 pgs / 145 color.
Pub Date: 09/15/2006 Active/In stock

Chinese Artists: Texts and Interviews Edited by Gu Zhengqing. Essays by Uli Gigg, Harald Szeemann, Alanna Heiss, Hou Hanru. The Contemporary Chinese Art Awards (CCAA) are intended both to enhance public awareness of what Chinese artists contribute to contemporary culture and to encourage the development of the country's most promising talent. This compendium includes >>more
Timezone 8
ISBN 9789889868093
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Paperback, 8.5 x 11.25 in. / 181 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 08/15/2006 Active/In stock

On The Wall Essays by Judith Tannenbaum and Charles F. Stuckey. Foreword by Judith Tannenbaum. Introduction by Marion Boulton Stroud. No longer the Muzak of the decorative arts world, wallpaper has lately fallen back into fashion. Though once derided by Modernists and Minimalists alike for its loud co-option of architectural space, the potential of wallpaper >>more
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design/Fabric Workshop
ISBN 9780911517750
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Paperback, 7.75 x 11 in. / 60 pgs / 61 color.
Pub Date: 07/02/2004 Active/In stock

Threads Of Vision Edited by Larry Gilman. Essays by Kristin Chambers. Introduction by Jill Snyder.Interviews by Roxana Marcoci. This book examines the shared preoccupations of five celebrated female artists from around the world, whose work mines the fertile fields of politics, patriarchy, religion and culture: Ghada Amer, Nicole Eisenman, Shahzia Sikander, Lin Tianmiao >>more
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art
ISBN 9781880353196
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Paperback, 8 x 12 in. / 64 pgs / 30 color / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/02/2001 Active/In stock

The Architectural Unconscious Artwork by Glen Seator, James Casebere. The Architectural Unconscious brings together two artists with differing but complementary attractions to architecture. James Casebere is known for his photographs of small-scale, tabletop models reminiscent of prisons, monasteries, tunnels or fac >>more
Addison Gallery of American Art
ISBN 9781879886469
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Paperback, 9 x 12 in. / 80 pgs / 60 color / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/02/2000 Active/Awaiting stock

Migration Essays by Vil»m Flusser, George Brecht and Roberto Ohrt. Foreword by Friedemann Malsch and Christiane Meyer-Stoll. The confrontation of two artistic generations contributes to a clarification of the changes wrought through and in the unceasing and ever global population migrations of the twentieth century. With work by Joseph Beuys, Alighiero Boetti, >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783883757452
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Paperback, 6.25 x 8.5 in. / 255 pgs / 52 color / 3 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/02/2003 Active/In stock

Neen Edited by Miltos Manetas. As the Neen Manifesto has it, "Neen stands for Neenstars: a still-undefined generation of visual artists. Some of them belong to the contemporary art world; others are software creators, web designers, and video game directors >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881586011
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Paperback, 7.75 x 9.25 in. / 168 pgs / 186 color.
Pub Date: 09/15/2006 Active/In stock

Nog a Dod: Prehistoric Canadian Psychedoolia Edited by Marc Bell. Like their contemporaries and friends in the Royal Art Lodge (some of whom are featured here), this loosely affiliated group of Vancouver-based artists draw with and about each other, working on one another's pieces, creating >>more
PictureBox
ISBN 9781894994163
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Paperback, 6 x 7.5 in. / 224 pgs / 112 color and 112 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/15/2006 Active/In stock

Chikaku: Time and Memory in Japan Edited by Christine Frisinghelli and Peter Pakesch. Essays by Yoko Tawada, Ryuta Imafuku, Krystyna Wilkoszewska, Toshihara Ito, Makoto Sei Watanabe and Lrystyna Wilkoszewska. As Japan sped through modernization and technological advancement in the late twentieth century, complex influences shaped its Modern and contemporary art. Chikaku mixes media and generations in exploring that history through themes of time and >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783883759661
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Paperback, 8.75 x 11.25 in. / 236 pgs / 54 color / 54 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2006 Active/In stock

Site Specific Projects Edited by Gloria Moure. Foreword by Kathy Halbreich. Introduction by Rudi Fuchs. Between October 1989 and September 1995, 14 site-specific artist's projects were installed in the city of Barcelona, at the initiation of the Espai Poblenou Foundation. The artists were Christian Boltanski, John Cage, Jan Dibbets, Rodney >>more
Poligrafa
ISBN 9788434309951
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Hardcover, 6.75 x 9 in. / 224 pgs / 128 color / 14 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/02/2003 Active/In stock

The Promise, The Land Essays by Stella Rollig, Thomas Edlinger, Roland Schčny, Barbara Lorey De Lacharričre, and Sergio Edelsztein. How are dissidence, resistance and mental destabilization expressed within the means of fine art? What kind of visual vocabulary can be used to supplement or counter mass-media representations? The Promise, The Land, an exhibition and >>more
Folio
ISBN 9783852562612
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Paperback, 8.25 x 10.5 in. / 160 pgs / 165 color.
Pub Date: 08/02/2004 Active/In stock

Je Veux Artwork by John Gossage, Jimmie Durham, Jannis Kounellis, Christian Marclay, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Annette Messager, Haim Steinbach, Franz West, Erwin Wurm. Photographs by Christopher Wool. Onestar Press asked 20 artists and editors to invite other artists to contribute a one-page project to Je Veux. 231 artists responded to the idea of “I want,” including Paolo Canevari, Experimental Jetset, Sylvie Fleury, >>more
Onestar Press
ISBN 9782915359039
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Paperback, 5.5 x 8.75 in. / 238 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 03/02/2004 Active/In stock

Phantasmania Edited by Michelle Bolton King. Foreword by Rachael Blackburn Cozad. Text by Elizabeth Dunbar, Christopher Cook, Becca Ramspott. Phantasmania examines a distinct new undercurrent in contemporary artistic consciousness, brought on by today’s pervasive climate of war, disaster and globalization, along with the rise of mediated information and experience. Displaying a proclivi >>more
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
ISBN 9781891246159
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Hardback, 8.75 x 9.75 in. / 96 pgs / 50 color / 5 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Active/In stock

Faith: The Impact of Judeo-Christian Religion on Art at the Millennium Contributions by Christian Eckart, Eleanor Heartney, Harry Philbrick, Osvaldo Romberg. >>more
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art
ISBN 9781888332124
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Paperback, 7 x 9 in. / 120 pgs / 30 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/02/2000 Active/In stock

Lateral Thinking: Art Of The 1990S Essays by Toby Kamps. Introduction by Hugh M. Davies. Lateral Thinking assesses the artistic achievements of the 1990s, concentrating on work by 40 contemporary artists from North, South, and Central America, Cuba, Africa, China and Europe. These include Matthew Barney, Vanessa Beecroft, Roman de >>more
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
ISBN 9780934418614
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Paperback, 9 x 12 in. / 200 pgs / 70 color.
Pub Date: 10/02/2002 Active/In stock

Don Juan Essays by Gerald Matt, Gaby Hartel, Michael Haneke, Peter Handke, Elfriede Jelinek and Olga Neuwirth. This study of Don Giovanni, alias Don Juan, includes work from 15 contemporary artists working in video, including Tracey Moffatt, Ugo Rondinone, Erwin Wurm and Sam Taylor-Wood. As E. T. A. Hoffmann would have it, >>more
Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst Nurnberg
ISBN 9783938821367
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Hardcover, 6 x 8 in. / 144 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 08/15/2006 Active/In stock

Art At The Edge Of The Law Edited by Megan Luke. Essays by Lawrence Russ and Richard Klein. Foreword by Harry Philbrick. Art at the Edge of the Law examines the fine line that artists have often trod between the legal and the legally ambiguous. Frequently the transgression is conceptual rather than directly confrontational, as in Richard >>more
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art
ISBN 9781888332179
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Paperback, 7.5 x 12.5 in. / 56 pgs / 25 color / 5 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/02/2001 Active/In stock

Esprit Sphérique: From the Legler Collection Edited by Marisa Bertoldini. Text by Brahim Alaoui, Marisa Bertoldini, Giorgio Israel, Lilian Llanes, Tomás Maldonado, Christoph Riedweg, Philip Rylands, et al. Esprit Sphérique offers a joyful profusion of globes, from Christmas ornaments, croquet balls and ammunition to magical, religious and artistic talismans. This rich and surprising selection, gathered obsessively by the Collezione Legler and augmen >>more
Charta/Galleria Gottardo
ISBN 9788881586196
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Hardcover, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 400 pgs/ 312 color/ 61 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/01/2007 Active/Awaiting stock

Conventions In Contemporary Art Edited by Valentijn Byvanck. Essays by Iwona Blazwick, Catherine David, Anthony Dunne, Fiona Raby and Bart Lootsma. Conventions In Contemporary Art arose from the highly entertaining and much-discussed series of debates organized by Witte de With in 2001. Without lapsing into dull theoryspeak, it explores and questions the routines and fashions that >>more
Witte de With
ISBN 9789073362543
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 192 pgs.
Pub Date: 04/02/2003 Active/Awaiting stock

Naughty Kids Edited by Fang Fang and Lee Ambrozy. Essay by Karen Smith. Between them, the stars of Naughty Kids have shown at nearly every museum and gallery in China, national and private. While almost all have received traditional training, they work in media ranging from digital photography >>more
Timezone 8
ISBN 9789889868048
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Hardcover, 11.25 x 11.25 in. / 320 pgs / 118 color.
Pub Date: 08/15/2006 Active/In stock

Shahrzad: History Edited by Shirana Shahbazi and Emily Cone-Miller. "Welcome to History," reads one of the endless opening pages of this dense paperback. The Shahrzad collective (Shirana Shahbazi, Manuel Krebs, Tirdad Zolghadr) once again tackles geopolitical aesthetics via idiosyncratic linkages of metonymy and allegory >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783905701500
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Paperback, 4.75 x 6.75 in. / 320 pgs / 40 color and 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/15/2006 Active/In stock

Goethe / Grcic: Quotidian Objects Essays by Cornelia Lauf, Ludovico Pratesi. Up-and-coming designer Konstantin Grcic works with everyday objects--everyday objects that just happen to have belonged to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. These apparently banal objects--which lost their importance and were forgotten after Goethe's death ove >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881583102
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Paperback, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 104 pgs / 39 color / 4 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/02/2001 Active/In stock

Imagination Becomes Reality: Part II Essays by Ingvild Goetz and Rainald Schumacher. Description: Imagination Becomes Reality is the catalogue for an exhibition cycle at the renowned Goetz Collection, conceived and planned by Ingvild Goetz to present visitors with a selection of the wide variety of forms and >>more
Sammlung Goetz
ISBN 9783980806367
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Hardcover, 7 x 9.75 in. / 152 pgs / 50 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2006 Active/In stock

After the Reality Text by Kentaro Ichihara. This slim but explosive glossy-magazine-sized paperback, designed by the talented Japanese art collective, Enlightenment, and edited by the Tokyo-based curator and gallerist, Hiromi Yoshii, collects new work by a small and tightly interrelated group of >>more
Deitch Projects
ISBN 9780975324387
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Paperback, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 52 pgs / 52 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2007 Active/In stock

Evn Sammlung: 95-05 Essays by Peter Trummer, Brigitte Huck, Georg Kargl, Paul Katzberger, Heike Maier, Wolfgang Kos and Hans Ulrich Obrist. Foreword by Edelbert Kŕb. Ten years ago, EVN Sammlung, an Austrian power company, set itself the task of collecting the most intensely contemporary art it could lay hands on, without concern for how the work would mature. Its first >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783883759708
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Clothbound, 8 x 10 in. / 428 pgs / 165 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2006 Active/In stock

Surface Tension Supplement No.1 Edited by Ken Ehrlich and Brandon LaBelle. Essays by Jennifer Gabrys, Robin Wilson, Michael Rakowitz, Claudine Isé, Octavio Camargo, Kathy Battista, Brandon Lattu, Simparch, e-Xplo, James O'Leary, Kristin Kreider, et al. "Following the success of Surface Tension: Problematics of Site, Surface Tension: Supplement No. 1 presents contemporary site-based practices in art, architecture and performance through writing, documentation and projects. It offers reader >>more
Errant Bodies Press
ISBN 9780977259403
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 125 pgs / 25 color.
Pub Date: 06/01/2006 Active/In stock

Exorcism/Aesthetic Terrorism Artwork by Arman, Louise Bourgeois, Bruce Nauman, Tony Oursler, Pipilotti Rist, Thomas Schutte. Contributions by Atelier van Lieshout, Wilma Suto, Chris Dercon. Inspired by recent critical/philosophical work re-addressing Kant’s notion of "radical evil" (e.g. Richard J. Bernstein’s Radical Evil: A Philosophical Interrogation), Exorcism/Aesthetic Terrorism is a primal scream against deterioration, r >>more
NAi Publishers/Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
ISBN 9789056621469
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Paperback, 8.26 x 11.61 in. / 96 pgs / 51 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/02/2000 Active/In stock

Unnaturally Essays by Mary Kay Lombino and Barbara Kingsolver. Foreword by Judith Richards. Employing artificial materials to create simulations of nature, the 18 artists featured in UnNaturally explore the ways in which the boundaries between nature and culture are sometimes blurred. Works by Tim Hawkinson, Iěigo Manglano-Ovalle, Roxy >>more
Independent Curators International, New York
ISBN 9780916365660
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Paperback, 11 x 8.5 in. / 72 pgs / 36 color.
Pub Date: 04/02/2003 Active/In stock

Imagining Prometheus Edited by Franco Laera. Essays by Dario del Corno, Moni Ovidio, Catherine PerlŔs, Wole Soyinka, Salvatore Natali, Vittorio Storaro and Tadashi Susuki. In Greek mythology, Prometheus is the Titan who dared steal fire from the gods. The spark he snuck from the sun gave man the ability to produce fire and create light, and thus began his >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881584390
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Paperback, 8.25 x 11 in. / 112 pgs / 76 color / 64 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/02/2004 Active/In stock

Invisible Might: Works from 1965-1971 Edited by Tim Nye. Text by Adrian Dannatt. A modern-day meditation on the beauty, rigor, luxury and understated power of high Minimalism. Featuring just one important and iconic piece each by Larry Bell, Craig Kauffman, John McCracken, Fred Sandback and James Turrell, and >>more
Foundation 20/21
ISBN 9781891027215
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Paperback, 9.25 x 12 in. / 20 pgs / 7 color.
Pub Date: 09/01/2006 Active/In stock

Speculation Edited by Brian Butler. Text by Christina Barton, Brian Butler, Emma Budgen, Natasha Conland, Heather Galbraith, Danae Mossmann, Justin Paton, Mercedes Vicente. After participating in the 2001, 2003 and 2005 Venice Biennales, the New Zealand Arts Council discovered that the state government might not grant sufficient funding to send an artist to the 2007 edition of the >>more
JPR Ringier
ISBN 9783905770759
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 224 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 12/15/2007 Active/In stock

Young Artists In Italy At The Turn Of The Millennium Essays by Roberto Daolio, Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, Alessandra Galasso, Giulio di Gropello, Andrea Pagano di Melito, Maria Grazia Tolomeo and Sabrina Zannier. This is the sixth and final edition of work from the Italian Studio Program at P.S.1/MoMA, the most prestigious scholarship for young Italian artists. Chosen by a panel of respected Italian art critics, 44 artists >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881585250
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 256 pgs / 110 color.
Pub Date: 09/15/2005 Active/In stock

The Best Surprise is No Surprise Introduction by Daniel Birnbaum. Edited by Anton Vidokle. Interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist. 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 >>more
JRP|Ringier/e-flux
ISBN 9783905770056
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Paperback, 8.5 x 11 in. / 296 pgs / 296 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2007 Active/In stock

Luna Moon Edited by Danilo Eccher. Essays by Danilo Eccher and Claudia Gioia. An attentive, thoughtful reading of key passages in the history of Italian contemporary art through the work of some of its liveliest practitioners. From Conceptual art and Arte Povera in the 60s to tableaux vivants >>more
Charta/Arcos
ISBN 9788881585595
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Hardcover, 8.75 x 11 in. / 196 pgs / 98 color / 2 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/01/2006 Active/In stock

Away From Home Edited by Annetta Massie. Essays by Jeffrey Kipnis, Jan Augikos and Mark Cousin. Foreword by Sherri Geldin. At least since the biblical Exodus, stories of establishing a home, leaving home either voluntarily or by force, and homecoming have collectively formed one of the great organizing subjects of Western civilization. Away From Home >>more
Wexner Center for the Arts
ISBN 9781881390336
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Paperback, 7 x 9.5 in. / 112 pgs / 55 color / 9 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/02/2003 Active/In stock

Abstrakt Contributions by Christine Buci-Glucksmann. Abstrakt surveys new works in the field of abstract painting that subvert the principles of Modernism and reflect on the status of painting in a post-Duchampian universe. >>more
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
ISBN 9783901935046
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Paperback, 9 x 11.8 in. / 84 pgs / 52 color / 1 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/02/2000 Active/In stock

Personal Affects: Volume Ii Edited by Sophie Perryer. Essay by Steven Nelson. This 128-page supplement to the Personal Affects catalogue features photographs and an essay documenting the exhibition and performances at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine and the Museum for African Art, New York. >>more
Museum for African Art/Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine
ISBN 9780945802440
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Paperback, 9 x 11.25 in. / 96 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 06/15/2005 Active/In stock

Apocalyptic Wallpaper Edited by Annetta Massie. Text by Donna deSalvo. This publication borrows critic Harold Rosenberg's memorable phase “apocalyptic wallpaper” to describe the work of contemporary artists who have created wallpaper of their own design or appropriated the patterns of others, finding entirely new possibilit >>more
Wexner Center for the Arts
ISBN 9781881390169
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Paperback, 7 x 9 in. / 56 pgs / 15 color / 12 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/02/1997 Active/In stock

The Ideal City Edited by Luigi Settembrini. Essays by Lóránd Hegyi, Luigi Settembrini, Will Alsop, and Bruce McLean. The 2nd Valencia Biennial explores, together with leading international artists and creators, a central problem facing the world today: the destiny of diversity. Specially commissioned projects question the power and potential of the city, of >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881584376
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Paperback, 10.5 x 10.5 in. / 516 pgs / 425 color.
Pub Date: 09/02/2003 Active/In stock

Barcelona Sculptures Essay by Jaume Capo. Artists include: Alexander Calder, Anthony Caro, Frank O. Gehry, Rebecca Horn, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Joan Miro, Juan Munoz, Claes Oldenburg, Richard Serra, Antoni Tapies, James Turrell and Lawrence Weiner. Barcelona may be famous for its architecture and its history, but in amongst those Romanesque churches, winding Gothic streets and Gaudi apartment buildings lurks a museum full of permanent outdoor sculptures. More than 50 of >>more
Poligrafa
ISBN 9788434309814
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Hardcover, 9.75 x 11.75 in. / 208 pgs / 140 reproductions.
Pub Date: 02/02/2002 Active/In stock

Water (without you I am not) Edited by Luigi Settembrini with Francesca Sorace, Franck Gautherot and Seungduk Kim. Essays by Luigi Settembrini, Franck Gatherot, Seungduk Kim, Ana Maria Torres, Leonardo Santos and Mara Calabuig. In organizing the third Valencia Biennial, luigi Settembrini sought out and fostered work that demonstrated two kinds of communication--interdisciplinary and outward--and addressed the topic of water, its properties, its state and its dialectics. Partici >>more
Charta/Generalitat Valenciana
ISBN 9788881585700
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Paperback, 10.75 x 10.5 in. / 264 pgs / 207 color / 35 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/01/2006 Active/In stock

M City: European Cityscapes Edited by Peter Pakesch. Foreword by Peter Pakesch. Essays by Ernst Hubeli, Bart Lootsma, Marco De Michelis and Karin Bucher. Description: M City inquires into medium sized European cities through a mix of hematically defined sections (Mapping, Shopping, Migration) and a sampling of six cities, including Basel, Krakow and Trieste. Artists, architects and urban theorists >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865600103
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Paperback, 8.5 x 11 in. / 374 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2006 Active/In stock

Family Foreword by Harry Philbrick. Essay by Jessica Hough. How have artists reacted to and documented the changing role of the family? Family explores these questions and others in an effort to understand how humanity's oldest social structure has evolved and adapted to life >>more
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art
ISBN 9781888332193
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Hardcover, 6.5 x 9 in. / 96 pgs / 35 color.
Pub Date: 06/02/2002 Active/In stock

Generations of Art: 10 Years at FAR Essays by Annie Ratti, Giorgio Verzotti, Angela Vettese, Giacinto Di Pietrantonio and Anna Daneri. This catalogue, album and diary chronicles 10 years of human--as well as artistic--experiences at Fondazione Antonio Ratti's Advanced Course in Visual Arts, and it issues a challenge to all comers, to gamble one's time on >>more
Charta/FAR, Como
ISBN 9788881585465
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Paperback, 5.5 x 7.25 in. / 152 pgs / 89 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2006 Active/In stock

Follow Your Shadow Edited by Chiara Bertola and Dede Auregli. Essays by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, Carlos Basualdo, Luca Cerizza, Laura Cherubini, Cloe Piccoli, Marcello Smarrelli, Synapser and Barbara Casavecchia. Consider it the Turner Prize for Italian artists. Fashion house Furla sponsors this prestigious award for contemporary Italian art, now in its fifth incarnation. This volume, with graphics designed by Kiki Smith (one of the >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881585137
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Paperback, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 128 pgs / 36 color / 51 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/15/2005 Active/In stock

Id: An International Survey on the Notion of Identity in Contemporary Art >>more
NAi Publishers/Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum
ISBN 9789070149598
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 127 pgs / 29 color / 18 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/02/1999 Active/In stock

Sad Songs Edited by Barry Blinderman. Essays by Richard Hell and Martin Patrick. Foreword by Bill Conger. In this volume, contemporary visual artists investigate sadness through painting, sculpture, photography, and video. Sad Songs features a diverse collection of works unified by their melancholic tone and characterized by isolation, nostalgia and e >>more
University Galleries of Illinois State University
ISBN 9780945558361
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Paperback, 5 x 7 in. / 48 pgs / 28 color.
Pub Date: 09/15/2005 Active/In stock

Iconica: Contemporary Art And Archeology Edited by Alessandro Riva. Essays by Paolo Moreno, Mario Torelli, Sebastiano Tusa, Vincenzo Tusa and Giuseppe Zanetto. Juxtaposing contemporary artworks with the archeological wonders of Sicily may sound gimmicky, but the result, intelligently overseen by noted Italian art critic Alessandro Riva, provides some fascinating correspondences. The compositional style of a mos >>more
Charta/Italian Factory
ISBN 9788881585359
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Paperback, 6.5 x 8.75 in. / 288 pgs / 120 color / 114 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/15/2005 Active/In stock

Narratives Edited by Peter Pakesch. Text by Katrin Bucher Trantow, Wieland Schmid, Katja Schurl. Narrations features a cross-generational sampling of works by artists from Austria and its neighboring countries. The publication, in association with an exhibition at Kuntzhaus Graz, weaves together the narratives of artists younger than 35 and >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865601841
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Pbk, 8.75 x 11.5 in. / 176 pgs / 45 color / 60 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Active/In stock

The Nude In Contemporary Art Artwork by Karen Finley. Contributions by Harry Philbrick, David McCarthy. Featuring work by a broad cross-section of contemporary artists, this exhibition catalogue from The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art explores one of art's oldest and most enduring themes--the nude. Academic painters and sculptors are set >>more
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art
ISBN 9781888332100
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Paperback, 6 x 5.5 in. / 128 pgs / 40 color / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/02/1999 Active/Awaiting stock

Do It Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist. Text by Bruce Altschuler. Based on the concept of a do-it-yourself manual, Do It provides step by step instructions for producing actions, artworks and events that can be constructed and conducted either at home or at a museum. >>more
Independent Curators International, New York
ISBN 9780916365516
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Paperback, 4.25 x 8.5 in. / 104 pgs / 19 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/02/1998 Active/Not available

Will/Power Contributions by Papo Colo. Papo Calo, Jimmie Durham, David Hammons, Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds, Adrian Piper and Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson address history, race and cultural identity in their powerful and disturbing multimedia pieces. >>more
Wexner Center for the Arts
ISBN 9781881390039
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Paperback, 8.5 x 11 in. / 94 pgs / 25 color / 13 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/02/1993 Active/In stock

Making It Real Artwork by Vik Muniz. Contributions by William Mitchell. Text by Luc Sante. Tina Barney, David Levinthal, Laurie Simmons and the other artists in this collection approach the question of photographic truth through a simulated reality that deliberately exposes props and artifice. The results are simultaneously deceptive and >>more
Independent Curators International, New York
ISBN 9780916365493
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Paperback, 9 x 10 in. / 72 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 02/02/1997 Active/In stock

Living With Contemporary Art Contributions by Harry Philbrick. “It's wonderful, but I wouldn't want it in my home” is a comment you might easily overhear in any museum showing contemporary art. This brilliant and original book asks “Why not?” Based on an exhibition >>more
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art
ISBN 9781888332001
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Paperback, 8 x 8 in. / 72 pgs / 39 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/02/1996 Active/In stock

Looking Both Ways Edited by Laurie Ann Farrell. Essays by Okwui Enwezor, Laurie Ann Farrell, Jos» Antonio B. Fernandes Dias, Laurie Firstenberg, Steven Nelson, Salah Hassan and John Peffer. Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora considers the work of artists from North, South, East and West Africa who live and work in Western countries, including Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Portugal, >>more
Snoeck Publishers, Ghent
ISBN 9789053494431
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Hardcover, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 184 pgs / 182 color.
Pub Date: 03/02/2004 Active/Awaiting stock

Pixerina Witcherina Essays by Bill Conger, Maria Porges, Jan Susina, and Maria Tatar. In the typology of fairy tales, women are routinely reduced to caricatures of innocence or evil, either impossibly saintly and self-sacrificing or malevolent in ways that only the male sex would project. That said, fairy >>more
University Galleries of Illinois State University
ISBN 9780945558316
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Paperback, 11 x 8.5 in. / 64 pgs / 30 color.
Pub Date: 03/02/2002 Active/In stock

The Culture Of Violence Essays by James Cain, Henry Jenkins, Helaine Posner, Geoffrey Canada, Donna Harkavy and Michael Leininger. The Culture of Violence presents a broad interdisciplinary approach to the subject of violence as it arises in the media, the lives of children and their families, and in the work of artists such as >>more
University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
ISBN 9780929597157
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Paperback, 8.5 x 11 in. / 104 pgs / 36 color / 9 duotone.
Pub Date: 10/02/2002 Active/In stock

Shine Essays by Bas Heijne, Wilma Suto and Michel Onfray. Foreword by Chris Dercon and Hugo Bongers. Shine revels in the happy sheen, presenting wishful fantasies and visions of the future by 18 contemporary artists whose work offers different gleams of optimism. Reflecting the desire to transcend the conflicts of life, to >>more
NAi Publishers/Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
ISBN 9789056623081
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Hardcover, 8.5 x 10.5 in. / 136 pgs / 48 color / 26 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/02/2003 Active/In stock

The Future Has A Silver Lining Edited by Tom Holert and Heike Munder. Essays by Ian Penman and Terre Thaemlitz. This anthology gives glamour an extreme makeover. To talk about glamour is to wrestle with one of the central aesthetic paradigms of our society as the political economy of capital achieves a space for performances >>more
JRP|Ringier/Migros Museum fr Gegenwartskunst Zurich
ISBN 9782940271504
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 244 pgs / 120 color.
Pub Date: 08/15/2005 Active/In stock

The East Village Scene Reviewing the fertile melting pot of downtown New York in the late 1970s and early 1980s, The East Side Scene excavates the nightclubs and galleries where that decade's defining art was first exhibited. Featuring Jean-Michel >>more
ICA Philadelphia
ISBN 9780884540373
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Paperback, 9 x 9.5 / 64 pgs / 53 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/02/1984 Active/In stock

The UFO Show Artwork by Keith Haring, Panamarenko. Edited by Barry Blinderman. Contributions by Claire Jervert, Oliver Wasow. Text by Paul Lafolley, Bill McBride, Rudy Rucker. Appearances of blinking ellipsoids, whirling orbs and other such sinister sightings have been reported throughout history, but nowhere has the idea of contact with extraterrestrials taken hold so powerfully as in the postwar United States. >>more
University Galleries of Illinois State University
ISBN 9780945558309
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Paperback, 9 x 9 in. / 88 pgs / 40 color / 25 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/02/2001 Active/In stock

Pollution Artwork by Dennis Oppenheim, Ashley Bickerton. Edited by Claudia Gian Ferrari. Contributions by Manlio Brusatin. >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881581511
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5in. / 72 pgs / 24 color.
Pub Date: 07/02/1998 Active/In stock

Painting Zero Degree Contributions by Judith Richards, Ellen Tepfer, Carlos Basualdo. >>more
Independent Curators International, New York
ISBN 9780916365578
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Paperback, 9.5 x 9.5 in. / 84 pgs / 30 color.
Pub Date: 03/02/2000 Active/In stock

The Event Horizon Artwork by Michelangelo Pistoletto. Contributions by Declan McGonagle, Pat Murphy. Screenplay by Atom Egoyan. Text by Michael Tarantino. Featuring poems, artist's projects, film stills and photographs, The Event Horizon presents the work of over 15 European artists and is based on an exhibit held at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. The title >>more
Irish Museum of Modern Art
ISBN 9781873654491
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Hardcover, 6 x 8.5 in. / 184 pgs / 60 color / 39 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/02/1998 Active/In stock

Devil On The Stairs: Looking Back On The Eighties >>more
ICA Philadelphia
ISBN 9780884540649
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Paperback, 9 x 11 / 96 pgs / 42 color / 19 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/02/1991 Active/In stock

Bibbidi, Bobbidi, Boo! Edited by David Hunt. When Cinderella's fairy godmother transforms her, the magic words are "bibbidi, bobbidi, boo!" Much to the chagrin of jealous stepmothers and mean trolls everywhere, not to mention the vagaries of the market, good has prevailed, >>more
Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst Nurnberg
ISBN 9783938821350
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Hardcover, 8.5 x 11.25 in. / 100 pgs / 40 color.
Pub Date: 08/15/2006 Active/In stock

Viaggiatori Senza Bagaglio Contributions by Achille Bonito Oliva, Angela Tecce. >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881582242
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Paperback, 8.25 x 10.75 in. / 120 pgs / 60 color / 32 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/02/2000 Active/In stock

Landscape Reclaimed Edited by Nancy Princenthal. Contributions by Harry Philbrick. Landscape remains a relevant genre in today’s art, but it comprises such a colossal range of idioms that it’s rarely addressed under that rubric. Landscape Reclaimed does this job, assembling 20 artists--among them Mira >>more
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art
ISBN 9781888332032
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Paperback, 10 x 8 in. / 72 pgs / 14 color / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/02/1996 Active/In stock

Land Art In Livigno Essays by Gianni Perotti, Luca Rendina. Land Art in Livigno documents the event of the same name, which brought together sculptors from all over Europe. Enza Tamborra's pictures immerse the reader in the emotional experience of the project: we witness the >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881583133
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Paperback, 9.5 x 6.5 in. / 80 pgs / 43 color / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/02/2001 Active/In stock

Extra: How Many Extra Layers Can We Graft Onto Reality Before It Collapses? Edited by Marc-Olivier Wahler. Essays by Bob Nickas, David Deutsch, Seth Lloyd and Martin Tupper. Foreword by Dieter von Graffenried. The inspiration for this book can be found in the question posed in its subtitle. Aiming to define a new way of grasping the concept of reality, Extra plays with the idea that it is >>more
Swiss Institute/Christoph Merian Verlag
ISBN 9781884692079
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Paperback, 6.25 x 8.25 in. / 440 pgs / 340 color / 45 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/02/2003 Active/In stock

La Ville, Le Jardin, La Memoire Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist. Text by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Laurence Bossé. >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881581818
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Boxed , 9.25 x 13 in. / 318 pgs / 85 color / 226 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/02/1999 Active/In stock

For Real Essay by Martijn van Nieuwenhuyzen. Essays by Arjen Mulder, Hripsimé Visser. For Real presents the work of thirty up-and-coming Amsterdam artists, including Germaine Kruip, Rob Johannesma, De Rijke/De Rooij, Julika Rudelius, Meschac Gaba, Yvonne Dröge-Wendel, Per Strömberg, Lonnie van Brummelen, Gabriel Lester and Barbara >>more
NAi Publishers/Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
ISBN 9789056621773
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Paperback, 12 x 9.5 in. / 128 pgs / 60 color.
Pub Date: 02/02/2001 Active/In stock

New Italian Space Text by Fabio Cavallucci, Giovanna Nicoletti, Giorgio Verzotti. This book documents an exhibition conceived by the Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea in Trento and the MART Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Trento and Rovereto, Palazzo delle Albere, that inaugurates a new collaborative >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881584093
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 128 pgs / 96 color.
Pub Date: 03/02/2003 Active/In stock

Nudo & Crudo Edited by Claudia Gian Ferrari. Contributions by Manlio Brusatin. This compelling catalogue brings together works by Larry Clark, Nan Goldin, Robert Mapplethorpe and others, revealing highly individualistic conceptions of sexuality and nudity. >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881580620
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 64 pgs / 26 color / 11 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/02/1996 Active/In stock

American Dream Essays by Martina Batan, Sean Elwood and Ronald Feldman An exhibition catalogue with a twist, a who's who of today's socially concerned artists, Ameri©an Dre@m is a document of a timely, topical, and controversial exhibition presented in the format of an annual report to >>more
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts
ISBN 9781564661135
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Paperback, 11 x 9.5 in. / 52 pgs / 114 color.
Pub Date: 01/02/2004 Active/In stock

Social Music Edited by Brandon LaBelle. Essays by Achim Wollscheid, Minoru Sato, Giuseppe Ielasi and Michel Henritzi. Foreword by Barbara Schroeder. A collaborative sound-art project by artists from Europe, North America and Japan, Social Music documents a 2001 series of broadcasts on Kunstradio in Vienna. Brandon LaBelle, Minoru Sato and others were commissioned to question, rethink >>more
Errant Bodies Press
ISBN 9780965557054
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Slipcased, 6 x 8.5 in. / 48 pgs / CD with booklet / 12 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/02/2002 Active/In stock

Embedded Metaphor Edited by Nina Felshin. Since the 1980s, with the advent of multiple public crises such as AIDS, homelessness, the politics of sexual identity and abortion rights, the bed has taken on a greater symbolic weight, becoming a pivotal metaphor >>more
Independent Curators International, New York
ISBN 9780916365486
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Paperback, 9 x 10.5 in. / 78 pgs / 12 color / 19 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/02/1997 Active/In stock

Skulptur Projekte Münster 07: Vorspann / Interviews Text by Brigitte Franzen, Kasper König, Carina Plath. In late 2006, the Münster Art Academy initiated a discussion on public sculpture with 12 of the 35 artists featured in Skulptur Projekte Münster 07. In a series of interviews, Guy Ben-Ner, Martin Boyce, Dominique >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865602091
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Paperback, 3.25 x 10.25 in. / 192 pgs / 98 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 Active/Not available

Borne Of Necessity Essays by Carol Becker and Ron Platt. Foreword by Nancy Doll. Contemporary art, with its inherent contradictions, ambiguities, and market alliances, is an idiosyncratic--even problematic--lens through which to examine situations borne of economic necessity. Nevertheless, some artists do challenge their own system, >>more
Weatherspoon Art Museum
ISBN 9781890949075
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Paperback, 8.5 x 11 in. / 80 pgs / 43 color / 11 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/02/2004 Active/Awaiting stock

Dire Aids By Angela Vettese. Artwork by Enzo Cucchi, Sara Cochrane. Text by Giorgio Verzotti. This volume gathers a number of contemporary artists who have courageously addressed the AIDS epidemic in their work: Keith Haring, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Nan Goldin, Michelangelo Pistoletto and Wolfgang Tillmans, among many others. >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881582808
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Pub Date: 08/02/2000 Active/In stock

Empty Dress Edited by Nina Felshin. 30 artists use the theme of clothing to reflect on gender, social status, desire and fetishism. Artists include Polly Apfelbaum, Joseph Beuys, Sarah Charlesworth, Maureen Connor, Nancy Davidson, Constance DeJong, Lesley Dill, Suzan Etkin, Steven >>more
Independent Curators International, New York
ISBN 9780916365394
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Pub Date: 10/02/1993 Active/In stock

Talent/Um, Tolerare Essays by Chiara Bertola, Gail Cochrane, Roberto Daolio, Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, Cristina Parrellla, Giorgio Verzotti, Angela Vettese. The Querini Stampalia Foundation (one of Italy’s oldest cultural institutions) and the fashion firm FURLA have come together to promote the first invitation-only prize for Italian artists, serving to bring attention to today's young Italian >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881582938
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Paperback, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 112 pgs / 26 color / 79 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/02/2001 Active/In stock

Synthetic Reality Edited by Zhu Jia, Ni Haifeng. Essays by Marianne Brouwerand Els Van Der Plas. Synthetic Reality is the most comprehensive media-based or video installation show of its kind in China. Organized by artists instead of curators, it provides true insight into the processes, theories and ideas behind China's contemporary >>more
Timezone 8
ISBN 9789889726201
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 112 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 03/15/2005 Active/In stock

Terence Gower: Ciudad Moderna Essays by Craig Buckley, Priamo Lozada and Itala Schmelz. Terence Gower is Canadian, but he lives and works between New York and Mexico City. Ciudad Moderna, which includes photography, painting and video stills from his eponymous short film, is his homage to Mexican modernist >>more
Turner/ A&R
ISBN 9788475067278
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Hardcover, 8.75 x 9.5 in. / 80 pgs / 45 color / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2006 Active/In stock

On Dialogue: Contemporary Australian Art Contributions by Anne Marie Freybourg, Bernice Murphy, Les Murray, Ann Stephen. Text by Juliana Engberg. >>more
Jovis/Haus Am Waldsee
ISBN 9783931321611
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Paperback, 7.25 x 10 in. / 216 pgs / 52 color / 48 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/02/1999 Active/In stock

Indoor Contributions by Anne Bertrand, Jan Hoet, Andreas Lindermayr, Marianna Neri, Thierry Raspail. >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881582419
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 256 pgs / 51 color / 77 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/02/2000 Active/In stock

Fantastic Prayers Artwork by Tony Oursler. Contributions by Constance DeJong, Stephen Vitiello. >>more
Dia Art Foundation
ISBN 9780944521380
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CD ROM.
Pub Date: 09/02/2000 Active/In stock

Open Air Sculptures Essays by Roberta Ridolfi, Armando Ginesi. In an ideal marriage between art and nature, the great sculptures of esteemed Italian artists are here immersed in the splendid landscape that surrounds the Furlo Gorge, in the province of Pesaro and Urbino. >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881583393
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Paperback, 8.25 x 11 in. / 64 pgs / 4 color / 21 duotone.
Pub Date: 02/02/2002 Active/In stock

Post Nature: 10 Dutch Artists Edited by Marente Bloemheuvel and Jaap Guldemond. As a part of the 49th Venice Biennale, an exhibit of ten internationally known Dutch artists was held at the Palazzo Ca' Zenobio. With artists such as Aernout Mik, Michael Raedecker, Mariijke van Warmerdam and >>more
NAi Publishers/Mondriaan Foundation
ISBN 9789056622176
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Hardcover, 10.25 x 8.75 in. / 160 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 08/02/2001 Active/Awaiting stock

Tempo Edited by Paulo Herkenhoff. Essays by Miriam Basillio and Roxana Maroci. Artists have always struggled to represent the ephemeral phenomenon that is time, but since the beginning of the twentieth century it has become almost a fixation: in recent decades alone, consider On Kawara's series of >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870706868
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Paperback, 8.75 x 10 in. / 80 pgs / 85 color.
Pub Date: 07/02/2002 Active/In stock

Fractured Tales From The Heartland Edited by Barry Blinderman, David Hodges. In their own highly individualistic styles, Illinois natives Mark Forth and David Hodges combine the mundane and the absurd, producing paintings that vividly conjure Middle America. >>more
University Galleries of Illinois State University
ISBN 9780945558187
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Paperback, 11 x 8.5 in. / 56 pgs / 16 color / 24 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/02/1993 Active/In stock

Adriatic: The Two Coasts Essays by Angela Vettese, Nenad Velickovic, Dobrila Denegri, Ana Devic, Artists include: Eva Marisaldi, Mimmo Paladino, Annie Ratti, Sisley Xhafa. Even in these nomadic times art can still be steeped in the character of a specific region--and without being in the least provincial. The 52nd edition of the Michetti Prize, curated by Angela Vettese, asked >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881583423
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 152 pgs / 52 color / 3 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/02/2002 Active/In stock

Skulptur Projekte Münster 07: Short Guide By Frank Frangenberg. This pocket-sized guide to Skulptur Projekte Münster 07 offers a complete tour of the exhibition, with the insightful comments of the rising German critic Frank Frangenberg printed alongside detailed site maps and important topographical information. >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865602817
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Paperback, 4.25 x 7.25 in. / 100 pgs / 50 color.
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 Active/Not available

Gogh Modern Essays by Jan-Hein Sassen, Andreas Blühm, Melanie Verhoeven and Nathalie Heinrich. The paintings of Vincent van Gogh remain as relevant as ever, exerting an ever-profound influence on generations of artists. Gogh Modern attempts to explain this influence through example, presenting an overview of major postwar artists >>more
NAi Publishers/Van Gogh Museum
ISBN 9789056623159
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Paperback, 7.75 x 10 in. / 128 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 08/02/2003 Active/Awaiting stock

Nature's Effect Edited by Mariuccia Casadio. Essays by Henrik Hakansson, Florian Huttner, Paul Morrison and Richard Woods. Nature provides inexhaustible pretext for the construction of imagery in art, from the truthful to the fantastical, the documentary to the visionary, the biomorphic to the stylized. The four installations that constitute Nature's Effect never >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881583621
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Paperback, 8.25 x 10.5 in. / 64 pgs / 19 color / 28 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/02/2002 Active/In stock

Ciphers Of Identity Artwork by Barbara Kruger. Edited by Maurice Berger. Ciphers of Identity includes work by Thomas Allen Harris, Barbara Kruger, Elaine Reichek, Yvonne Rainer and Mark Rappaport. Maurice Berger's careful essay explores the politically charged climate of America in the 1990s. >>more
Center for Art and Visual Culture, UMBC
ISBN 9780962456541
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Hardcover, 8.5 x 10.5 in. / 46 pgs / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/02/1993 Active/In stock

Metamorphosis Edited by Claudia Gian Ferrari. Contributions by Manlio Brusatin. Hatched from a reconsideration of Kafka's short story “Metamorphosis,” and from a 1931 painting by Alberto Savinio (brother of de Chirico) called Idylle Marine, a number of contemporary artists here explore themes of mutation and >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881581092
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 80 pgs / 22 color / 3 b&w / 6 duotone.
Pub Date: 06/02/1997 Active/In stock

Oreste At The Venice Bienniale Edited by Emilio Fantin, Giancario Norese, Cesare Pietroiusti. Oreste was founded two years ago as a residency program in Paliano, Italy, and has since spawned a group of Italian artists and fellow travelers who work together with the aim of creating spaces of >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881582792
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Paperback, 4.5 x 9 in. / 240 pgs / 229 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/02/2000 Active/In stock

Firewall Edited by Martin Henatsch and Gail Kirkpatrick. Essays by Andrea Jahn, Ralf Christofori, Helmuth Gauczinski, David Lyon, Martin Henatsch and Evrim Sen. 25 years ago, a firewall was a real, tangible wall used to prevent the spread of fire. Today, it is a virtual protection system in an electronic data system. In Firewall, the exhibition, the term >>more
Kerber
ISBN 9783936646863
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Paperback, 9.5 x 9.5 in. / 120 pgs / 128 color / 5 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/15/2005 Active/In stock

Meisterschule Contributions by Marco Meneguzzo, Angela Veteese, Claus Brunsman, Brigitte Dams. >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881581696
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 48 pgs / 18 color / 12 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/02/1998 Active/In stock

D'Io Contributions by Gerardo Dicrola, Patricia Feraru. >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881581733
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Pub Date: 01/02/1999 Active/In stock

Ballkünstler Foreword by Theo Zwanziger. Edited by Hans-Werner Schmidt, Jan Nicolaisen. Text by Andreas Höll, Klaus Theweleit, Jan Nicolaisen, Franz-Joachim Verspohl. A selection of artworks that deal with European football, presented by the Museum of Modern Art in Leipzig, Germany--home of the now-famous art academy. Features Leipzig artists like Christoph Ruckhäberle and Albrecht Tübke, as well >>more
Kerber
ISBN 9783938025987
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Hardcover, 9.5 x 12 in. / 168 pgs / 52 color / 21 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2007 Active/In stock

Giants Essays by Ludovico Pratesi, Alessandra Maria Sette and Angela Vettese. To bring contemporary art to the ancient heart of Rome is to afffirm the city's constant evolution. Among the archeological ruins of the Fori Imperiali, five artists--Joseph Kosuth, Domenico Bianchi, Maurizio Mochetti, Marina Abramovic and >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881583669
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 56 pgs / 5 color.
Pub Date: 08/02/2002 Active/In stock

The Body >>more
The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago
ISBN 9780941548236
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Pub Date: 04/02/1991 Active/Awaiting stock

Private Publicity Essays by Necmi Sonmez, Hubertus Butin and Wolfgang Meyer. With cell-phone users publicly engaging in private conversations and talk-show hosts and guests airing their intimate lives for all to see, concepts of “private” and “public” increasingly beg redefinition. Private Publicity looks at how young >>more
Richter Verlag
ISBN 9783933807762
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Paperback, 6.5 x 10 in. / 72 pgs / 48 color.
Pub Date: 07/02/2003 Active/In stock

The People's Art / A Arte Do Povo Artwork by Anneke de Boer, Gerco de Ruijter, Aloysius Donia, Florian Gottke, Hein Hage, Mathilde ter Heijne, Jeroen Hoegen, Rob Johannesma, Jeroen Jongeleen, Laurent Malherbe, Jeroen Offerman, Vanessa Jane Phaff, Jan Rothuizen, Julika Rudelius, Peter SteContributions by Bartomeu Mari. Text by Carel Blotkamp. The People's Art invokes the Dutch tradition of intense social organization, spread across every aspect of government, interest groups and human relations. This extreme degree of organization even extends to the Dutch landscape itself, which >>more
Witte de With
ISBN 9789073362505
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Paperback, 5 x 7 in. / 128 pgs / 20 color.
Pub Date: 03/02/2002 Active/In stock

Restless Empathy Text by Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, Christian Rattemeyer, Matthew Thompson, Hamza Walker. Restless Empathy examines the complex process of projecting into the interior world of another—whether artist, viewer or object—and seeking to make a connection. For the exhibition, the Aspen Art Museum has invited eight artists—Allora & >>more
Aspen Art Press
ISBN 9780934324496
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Pbk, 7.75 x 10 in. / 192 pgs / 80 color.
Pub Date: 08/31/2010 Active/In stock

Accento Acuto: Young Italian Art Between Subtlety And Emphasis Artwork by De Blasi e Moscara, Loredana Longo, Andrea Malizia, Daniele Pario Perra, Simone Racheli, Carlo Michele Schirinzi, Carlo Schiuma, Marta Valenti. Edited by Augusto Pieroni. Text by Ludovico Pratesi. Eight young artists from eight different regions in Italy are linked to one another by a distinctive use of irony and hyperbole. De Blasi e Moscara, Loredana Longo, Andrea Malizia, Daniele Pario Perra, Simone Racheli, >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881583881
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 48 pgs / 8 color / 18 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/02/2003 Active/In stock

Laboratorium Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Barbara Vanderlinden. Texts by Bruno Latour, Peter Galison, Jonas Mekas and others. Interviews with Carsten Holler, Odalele Ajiboye Bamgboye, Okwui Enwezor, and others. At first glance, the artist and the scientist don't seem to have very much in common. One deals with aesthetics, emotions, and visual power, while the other works with facts, verifiable proof, and academic rigor. >>more
Dumont
ISBN 9783770153121
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Paperback, 7.75 x 9.75 in. / 496 pgs / 263 color / 118 b&w
Pub Date: 08/02/2001 Active/Awaiting stock

Conflicting Tales Text by Daniel Kurjakovic, Robert Pfaller, Manuel Cirauqui, Jörg Volbers. This lavish publication takes a fresh approach to the curating of a private collection, the Hong Kong-based Burger Collection. Engaging with the relations between the works themselves and curatorial concerns, this book interweaves the works >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783037640708
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Hbk, 8.75 x 11.5 in. / 228 pgs / 184 color / 27 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/31/2010 Active/In stock

Deterioration, They Said Edited by Raphael Gygax. Text by Thomas Beard, Ed Halter. The works of young American artists Cory Arcangel, Shana Moulton, Jessica Ciocci & Jacob Ciocci of Paper Rad, and Ryan Trecartin & Lizzie Fitch are all characterized by an overwhelming color-charged aesthetic, unhinged narratives and >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783037640760
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Clth, 8.5 x 11.5 in. / 92 pgs / 150 color / 37 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/31/2010 Active/In stock

Forde 1994-2009 Edited by Véronique Yersin. Text by Lionel Bovier, Christophe Cherix, Julien Fronsacq. Since 1994, the influential independent Geneva art space Forde has provided an open environment for experimental curatorial programming, encouraging critical dialogues across disciplines. This volume gathers descriptions, texts and photographs documentin >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783037640821
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Pbk, 8.25 x 11 in. / 522 pgs / 240 color / 60 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/31/2010 Active/In stock

Land/Art: New Mexico Introduction by Bill Gilbert. Text by Lucy Lippard, William L. Fox, Nancy Marie Mithlo, Malin Wilson. Land Art emerged in the 1970s when a handful of New York's more adventurous artists departed the gallery scene to make work in the open landscapes of the American West--Robert Smithson, James Turrell and Walter >>more
Radius Books
ISBN 9781934435175
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Hbk, 11.5 x 10.5 in. / 196 pgs / 110 color.
Pub Date: 06/30/2010 Active/In stock

Magic Show Text by Jonathan Allen, Sally O'Reilly. Magic Show demonstrates how artists adopt the perception-shifting tactics of theatrical magic to explore creative agency, the power of suggestion and the fragility of belief. This richly illustrated book contains essays on the intersections betwee >>more
Hayward Publishing
ISBN 9781853322815
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Pbk, 7.25 x 9.75 in. / 116 pgs / 103 color / 13 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/28/2010 Active/In stock

Kiosk: Modes of Multiplication Edited by Christoph Keller. Text by Michael Lailach, Anita Kühnel, Daniel Baumann. Kiosk, Christoph Keller's famous art publications archive, has been exhibited at 27 institutions and biennials internationally since 2001, including the ICA (London), the Witte de With (Rotterdam), Artists' Space (NY), the Emily Carr Institute (Vancouver >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783037640753
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 344 pgs / 70 color / 115 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/31/2010 Active/In stock

Not to Play with Dead Things Edited by Marie de Brugerolle. Text by Catherine Wood, Patricia Brignone, Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux. From its Futurist and Dadaist origins to the body art of the 1970s and more recent developments in the genre, the history of Performance art is oriented around a fairly consistent set of elements: movements, >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783037640715
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Flexi, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 176 pgs / 79 color.
Pub Date: 03/31/2010 Active/In stock

In Numbers Edited by Andrew Roth, Philip Aarons. Text by Clive Phillpot, Neville Wakefield, Nancy Princenthal, William S. Wilson. In Numbers is the first volume to address an overlooked art form that is neither artist's book nor ephemera, but is entirely its own unique entity: the artist's serial publication. Across such groundswell moments as >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783037640852
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Slip Hbk, 8.75 x 12.25 in. / 504 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 03/31/2010 Active/In stock

Warhol Wool Newman: Painting Real Edited by Peter Pakesch. Text by Giuliana Bruno, Achim Hochdörfer, Christian Höller, Hans Dieter Huber, Peter Pakesch, Wolfram Pichler, Ferninand Schmatz, Gabriel Ramin Schor, Marc Siegel, Ian White. In the 1960s, this volume argues, Andy Warhol was looking to Barnett Newman as Wool looked to Warhol in the 1980s, to produce his “Word Paintings,” a particular focus of this volume. >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865606938
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Pbk, 8.75 x 11 in. / 204 pgs / 80 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/31/2010 Active/In stock

Manifesto Marathon, Serpentine Gallery Foreword by Julia Peyton-Jones, Hans Ulrich Obrist. Manifesto Marathon is the third in Hans Ulrich Obrist's series of Marathon events at London's Serpentine Gallery. Coming at a moment when manifestos, having ceased to spearhead artistic movements, seem ripe for reinvention, Manifesto Marathon >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865606945
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Pbk, 8.25 x 11.75 in. / 284 pgs / 141 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/31/2010 Active/Not available

Entre Deux Actes, Loge de Comédienne Foreword by Karola Kraus. Text by Yves Badetz, Nairy Baghramian, Vivian Rehberg, David Riedel. For more than 70 years Janette Laverričre has made furniture as art; the starting point for this book is the wardrobe she designed for an actress in 1947. Using photographs of the work and installations, >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865606815
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Pbk, 8.5 x 10.75 in. / 112 pgs / 70 color / 6 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/31/2010 Active/In stock

Rock, Paper, Scissors: Pop Music as Subject of Visual Art Edited by Peter Pakesch, Diedrich Diederichsen. Text by Diedrich Diederichsen, Dirck Linck, Nora Sdun, Christian Höller. Introduction by Peter Pakesch. Rock, Paper, Scissors brings together artists whose works have kept a close relationship with pop music: Saâdane Afif, Cory Arcangel, Art & Language, Kim Gordon & Jutta Koether, Renée Green, Mike Kelley, Lucy McKenzie, Dave >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865606570
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Pbk, 8.75 x 11 in. / 140 pgs / 48 color.
Pub Date: 02/28/2010 Active/In stock

Collect/Recollect Contributions by Arno van Roosmalen. >>more
NAi Publishers/Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
ISBN 9789056621124
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Paperback, 6.5 x 8.9 in. / 176 pgs / 104 color / 80 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/02/2000 Active/Not available

Nl: Contemporary Art from the Netherlands >>more
NAi Publishers/Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum
ISBN 9789070149697
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9 in. / 128 pgs / 16 color / 32 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/02/1999 Active/In stock

Global Art Edited by Irene Gludowacz, Silvia von Bennigsen, Susanne van Hagen. Through nearly 40 interviews with art world luminaries from North and South America, Europe and Asia--including John Baldessari, Eli Broad, Maurizio Cattelan, Lisa Dennison, Ingvild Goetz, Dakis Joannou, Anish Kapoor, Thomas Krens, Oleg Kulik, Ernesto >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775722018
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 312 pgs / 91 color.
Pub Date: 01/31/2010 Active/In stock

Dance with Camera Edited by Jenelle Porter. Text by Jenelle Porter, Edwin Denby, Shirley Clarke, Yvonne Rainer, Charles Atlas, et al. Against the backdrop of the histories of cinema, postmodern dance and performance art, Dance with Camera focuses on the myriad ways visual artists use dance to explore broader themes. Spanning six decades, works by 35 >>more
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania
ISBN 9780884541189
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 176 pgs / 50 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/30/2010 Active/In stock

Very Funny Edited by Erik Kessels, Ralf Herms. On the trail of Dada and Fluxus, satire and the grotesque, the new issue of the award-winning Rosebud magazine is titled “Very Funny!” and compiles humorous contributions by designers, photographers, writers and illustrators including Paul >>more
Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg
ISBN 9783941185746
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Pbk, 4.75 x 7.25 in. / 600 pgs / 600 color.
Pub Date: 04/30/2010 Active/In stock

Modernism As A Ruin Edited by Sabine Folie. Text by Philip Ursprung, Juli Carson, Kai Vöckler, Sabeth Buchmann, Sabine Folie, Ylse Later, Lisa Lee, Doris Leutgeb. Reflecting on the decline of modernist utopianism, this volume surveys those artists who have explored and embraced its decay: Yona Friedman, Giuseppe Gabellone, Cyprien Gaillard, Isa Genzken, Dan Graham, Gordon Matta-Clark, Florian Pumhösl, Jeroen de >>more
Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg
ISBN 9783941185821
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Hbk, 8.5 x 11.25 in. / 236 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 04/30/2010 Active/Awaiting stock

Born To Be Wild: Homage to Steven Parrino Text by Konrad Bitterli, Georg Gatsas, Stefanie Kasper, Oliver Mosset, Roland Wäspe. The New York artist and musician Steven Parrino (1958–2005) was enormously influential for the 1990s art scene in America. In homage to Parrino, his network of friends and his love of Harley Davidsons, this volume >>more
Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg
ISBN 9783941185555
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Flexi, 6.5 x 8.75 in. / 96 pgs / 58 color.
Pub Date: 04/30/2010 Active/In stock

See a World in Grain of Sand Artist Lu Hao curated the China Pavilion at the 2009 Venice Biennale, and, bringing an artist's eye to the occasion, selected artists both known and unknown outside China: Fang Lijun, Zeng Hao, He Sen, Qiu >>more
Timezone 8/China Youth Press
ISBN 9787500687306
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Hbk, 9.75 x 11.75 in. / 168 pgs / 168 color.
Pub Date: 05/31/2010 Active/In stock

Haunted: Contemporary Photography, Video, Performance Edited by Jennifer Blessing, Nat Trotman. Text by Jennifer Blessing, Peggy Phelan, Lisa Saltzman, Nancy Spector, Nat Trotman. Much of contemporary photography and video seems haunted by the past, by ghostly apparitions that are reanimated in reproductive media, as well as in live performance and the virtual world. By using dated, passé or >>more
Guggenheim Museum
ISBN 9780892073986
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Hbk, 9 x 11 in. / 208 pgs / 160 color.
Pub Date: 03/31/2010 Active/In stock

Over The Edges Contributions by Jan Hoet, Giacinto Pietrantonio. The wonderfully imaginative starting point for Over the Edges is the corners of city buildings. Corners are a city’s structural accents, reference points in the orientation of the city; a place to meet, and a >>more
Merz
ISBN 9789080559516
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Hardcover, 9 x 11 in. / 312 pgs / 120 color / 180 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/02/2001 Active/In stock

Carnival Within Edited and text by Sabine Russ, Gregory Volk. As a medium of critical analysis, can art reflect America's present situation? This volume features sculptures, installations, painting, photography and videos that address the U.S. now. Artists include Janine Antoni, Joe Amrhein, Spencer Finch, David >>more
Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg
ISBN 9783941185203
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Pbk, 6.5 x 8.75 in. / 298 pgs / 40 color / 95 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/30/2010 Active/In stock

Squatters Contributions by Bartomeu Mari. In 2001, Rotterdam and Porto, the cultural capitals of Europe for that year, were besieged by international artists invited to design projects that explored these two cities and their spaces. The singular nature of each >>more
Witte de With
ISBN 9789073362536
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Paperback, 9 x 11 in. / 96 pgs / 36 color / 9 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/02/2002 Active/In stock

Instant Book: Italian Artists-New York Edited by Renato Miracco. This “instant survey” is a snapshot of a dynamic art scene that is constantly transmuting itself: New York's Italian contemporary art community. Intended as platform for artists born after 1960, Instant Book features among many >>more
Charta/Italian Cultural Institute, New York
ISBN 9788881587476
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Flexi, 6.75 x 8.5 in. / 152 pgs / 68 color / 68 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/28/2010 Active/In stock

Witnesses/Testigos Essays by Jimena Blazquez Abascal and others. Nine international artists created site-specific works in and around the Fundacion NMAC in Spain. The works examine issues of territory, collective identity and nation building in modern Europe. Artists include Adel Abdessemed, Maja Bajevic, Jeppe >>more
Charta/Fundaci€n NMAC
ISBN 9788881586073
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Paperback, 8 x 10 in. / 80 pgs / 112 color.
Pub Date: 10/15/2006 Active/In stock

Moby Dick Text by Jens Hoffmann, Alexander Nemerov. Designed as an homage to the classic 1930 Random House edition of Moby-Dick, with its illustrations by Rockwell Kent, this investigation of present-day America through the lens of Herman Melville's great novel convenes artists and >>more
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
ISBN 9780980205527
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Clth, 5.25 x 7 in. / 136 pgs / 40 color / 20 duotone.
Pub Date: 03/31/2010 Active/In stock

Douane Edited by Filomeno Fusco and Ulrich Gerster. Essays by Till Briegleb, Robert Fleck, Manfred Geier, Jan Koneffke, Christoph Seibt. Borders are artificial constructs, but can be deadly to cross. They present one of the central social and cultural themes of our time. A group of 30 international artists, including Raul Cordero, Wang Fu, Christoph >>more
Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst Nurnberg
ISBN 9783936711639
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 112 pgs / 48 color / 3 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/15/2005 Active/In stock

Chinese Ink Painting Now Text by Jason C. Kuo. China's brush-and-ink traditions remain vital in contemporary Chinese art; the genre is continually under renewal by successive generations of artists. The first book-length survey in English on recent trends in this discipline, Chinese Ink Painting >>more
D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
ISBN 9781935202110
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Hbk, 10 x 12 in. / 264 pgs / 176 color.
Pub Date: 03/31/2010 Active/In stock

From Media To Metaphor: Art About Aids >>more
Independent Curators International, New York
ISBN 9780916365349
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Paperback, 9 x 11.5 / 72 pgs / 38 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/02/1992 Active/In stock

The Hybrid State The legacy of colonialism and the experience of Native Americans in contemporary North America are the subjects of this provocative exhibition catalogue. In a unique experiment, the curator transforms the artists' works into a hybrid >>more
Exit Art
ISBN 9780913263402
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Paperback, 8.5 x 11 / 108 pgs / 55 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/02/1993 Active/Awaiting stock

Personal Affects Edited by Sophie Perryer. Essays by David Brodie, Okwui Enwezor, Laurie Ann Farrell, Churchill Madikida, Tracy Murinik and Liese van der Watt. Season South Africa is a major program of contemporary visual and performing arts that runs from September 2004 through January 2005. Launched by the Museum for African Art and The Cathedral of St. John the >>more
Museum for African Art/Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine
ISBN 9780945802426
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Paperback, 9 x 11.25 in. / 176 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 06/15/2004 Active/Awaiting stock

Life After Death Edited by Mark Coetzee, Laura Steward Heon. New paintings by Leipzig artists Tilo Baumgartel, Tim Eitel, Martin Kobe, Neo Rauch, Christoph Ruckhaberle, David Schnell and Matthias Weischer from the world-renowned Rubell Family Collection. >>more
Rubell Family Collection
ISBN 9780978988845
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Hbk, 6.5 x 9 in. / 224 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 08/31/2010 Active/In stock

Futures Memory Contributions by Roberto Fallani. >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881581528
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Paperback, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 130 pgs / 66 color / 3 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/02/1999 Active/Awaiting stock

The Quiet in the Land: Luang Prabang, Laos Edited by France Morin, John Alan Farmer. Text by Carol Becker, Francis Engelmann, France Morin, John Alan Farmer, Catherine Choron-Baix, Somsanouk Mixay. This book documents a series of community-based projects by Marina Abramovi? Janine Antoni, Cai Guo-Qiang, Ann Hamilton, Dinh Q. L', Shirin Neshat, Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba, Allan Sekula, Shahzia Sikander and Rirkrit Tiravanija among others, realized in >>more
The Quiet in the Land, Inc.
ISBN 9780984166701
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Clth, 8.75 x 11.25 in. / 240 pgs / 212 color / 22 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/28/2010 Active/In stock

The Horse Would Know, But The Horse Can't Talk By Angela Vettese. Artwork by Marcello Maloberti, Ottonella Mocellin, Adrian Paci, Daniele Puppi, Sissi. Edited by Dede Auregli, Chiara Bertola. Text by Emanuela De Cecco, Francesca Pasini, Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, Giacinto Di Pietrantonio. This third edition of the Premio Querini Stampalia--FURLA per l'Arte documents and honors the work of five emerging artists who live and work in Italy: Marcello Maloberti, Ottonella Mocellin, Adrian Paci, Daniele Puppi and Sissi. >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881583898
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Paperback, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 124 pgs / 20 color / 65 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/02/2003 Active/In stock

Konkret Edited by Simone Schimpf. Text by Marion Ackermann, Kai-Uwe Holze, Simone Schmipf. This survey of about 200 works from the Teufel collection provides an overview of postwar Concrete art, with a speciality in Eastern European, Italian and French artists such as Zdenek Skora, Antonio Calderara and Aurélie >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775724197
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Hbk, 9 x 10.75 in. / 308 pgs / 148 color / 6 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/31/2010 Active/In stock

Premio Querini-Furla Per L'Arte By Angela Vettese. Artwork by Lara Favaretto, Sabrina Torelli, Massimo Bartolini, Margherita Manzelli. Text by Chiara Bartola, Giacinto Di Pietrantonio. The Querini Prize links The Fondazione Querini Stampalia, one of the city's oldest progressive cultural institutions, with Furla, manufacturer of high-end fashion accessories in a campaign to showcase Italy's emerging artists and younger critics. >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881583249
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Paperback, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 120 pgs / 105 color / 26 b&w / 79 duotone.
Pub Date: 08/02/2001 Active/In stock

Neighbourhood Secrets Edited by Jan Inge Reilstad. Text by Nicholas Bourriaud, Will Bradley, Rana Dasgupta, Tom Hetland, Paul O'Neill, et al. In 2006, residents of Stavanger, Norway, voted on the eight most meaningful locations in the city, then commissioned international artists—including Lars Ramberg, Alfredo Jaar, Raqs Media Collective—to develop site-specific works. This volume documents t >>more
Forlaget Press
ISBN 9788275473491
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Flexi, 6.75 x 9.75 in. / 384 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 08/31/2010 Active/In stock

Voids Edited by Matthieu Copeland, Clive Phillpot, John Armleder, Mai-Thu Perret. Between Nietzsche's "death of God" and the ascent of Buddhism in twentieth-century America and Europe, the idea of the "void" has permeated Western art and culture. The means by which artists and thinkers have dismantled >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783037640173
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Pbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 528 pgs / 100 color / 200 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/30/2009 Out of print/Not available

Ideal Worlds: New Romanticism In Contemporary Art Edited by Max Hollein and Martina Weinhart. Essays by Martina Weinhart, Rainer Metzger and Beate Süntgen. In an age of increasing mobility and dissolving social bonds, the yearning for intimacy and security grows steadily stronger in western society. Plagued by uncertainty in the face of turbulent social and political systems and >>more
Hatje Cantz Publishers
ISBN 9783775715904
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Hardcover, 6.75 x 9 in. / 304 pgs / 130 color.
Pub Date: 07/15/2005 Out of print/Not available

Horn Please: Narratives in Contemporary Indian Art Edited by Bernhard Fibicher and Suman Gopinath. While Western Modernism rejected narrative, and Western contemporary art is just now coming around again, India boasts a strong tradition of contemporary figurative, narrative painting. Horn Please follows the contemporary Eastern art scene from t >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775720175
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Hardcover, 9 x 11.25 in. / 240 pgs / 286 color / 25 b&w
Pub Date: 11/01/2007 Out of print/Not available

Thermocline of Art Edited by Gregor Jansen, Wonil Rhee, Peter Weibel. Text by Nancy Adajania, Eugene Tan. The word "thermocline" describes a layer of water in an ocean or lake where warm and cold currents meet so that temperature changes suddenly according to depth. Likewise, this volume reveals the hidden substance that >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775720731
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Hardback, 9 x 11.5 in. / 352 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 12/15/2007 Out of print/Not available

Italian Painting Edited by Germano Celant. Text by Roberto Daolio. Italy's most prominent painters, including Anselmo, Burri, Clemente, Pisani, Merz and De Maria, are all presented here, along with journal-entry style texts from each artist. >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881581252
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Paperback, 9.5 x 11 in. / 220 pgs / 79 color / 2 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/02/1998 Out of print/Not available

Cryptozoology: Out of Time Place Scale Edited by Marc Bessire, Raechell Smith. Text by Loren Coleman, Loring Danforth, Dave Filipi, Sean Foley, Chris Thompson, Nato Thompson. Some, like the Tasmanian tiger, are considered extinct--yet sightings are still reported. Some, like the giant squid, existed only as rumors until hard evidence finally appeared. And then there are the others, who roam a >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783905770070
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Paperback, 8 x 9.5 in. / 168 pgs / 40 color / 60 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/01/2006 Out of print/Not available

Painting People: Figure Painting Today Essay by Charlotte Mullins. After a century in which the lexicon of artists' materials expanded from the classic oil, canvas, stone and plaster to include photography, film, performance, found objects and concepts, the spotlight has finally swung back. A >>more
D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 9781933045382
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Hardcover, 9 x 11 in. / 192 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 09/15/2006 Out of print/Not available

The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas: Recent Sculpture Introduction by Olga Viso. Text by Anne Ellegood, Johanna Burton. This thematic selection of recent work from nine established and emerging international sculptors--the eldest born in 1947 and the youngest in 1974--collects the ways they are giving shape to the fleeting, ephemeral, theoretical and difficult-to-explain. >>more
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
ISBN 9780978906306
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Hardcover, 8 x 10.5 in. / 128 pgs / 95 color / 5 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/01/2007 Out of print/Not available

Fancy Dreams: A Playground for Young Extravagant Chinese Artists Text by Eleonora Battison. Towering skyscrapers, manned space flights, the Olympics...From some angles, the new China is a country of dreams fulfilled, of glory and pride. But with new pleasures come new desires, new utopias to imagine just around >>more
Damiani
ISBN 9788889431672
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Hardcover, 9.5 x 12 in. / 182 pgs / 130 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2007 Out of print/Not available

Reality Bites: Making Avant-Garde Art in Post-Wall Germany Edited by Sabine Eckmann. Text by Diedrich Diederichsen, Sabine Eckmann, Beate Kemfert, Gertrud Koch, Lutz Koepnick, Iain Whyte. The Berlin Wall fell almost 20 years ago, and since then a generation of artists has come of age in reunified Germany. Reality Bites investigates the effect of that historical context, identifying the new kinds >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775719063
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Hardcover, 9.5 x 12 in. / 300 pgs / 140 color.
Pub Date: 05/01/2007 Out of print/Not available

The Expanded Eye Edited by Bice Curiger. Essays by Ina Blom, Bice Curiger, Diedrich Diederichsen, Kurt W. Forster, Al Rees and Rdiger Wehner. The eye is the dominant sensory organ of our age, with more and more information received in still and moving images, and more and more information mined visually from spatial dimensions that are ever smaller >>more
Hatje Cantz Publishers
ISBN 9783775718158
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Hardcover, 7.5 x 11.25 in. / 256 pgs / 130 color and 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/15/2006 Out of print/Not available

Artists from Leipzig Text by Yun Chea Gab, Henna Jou, Aristide Fenster. Featuring work by Tilo Baumgärtel, Martin Kobe, Uwe Kowski and Tobias Lehner, among others, this volume surveys influential players from the New Leipzig School--painters who have emerged from the venerable Leipzig Art Academy in the >>more
Arario
ISBN 9788992262118
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Hardback, 10.25 x 11.5 in. / 223 pgs / 100 color / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Out of print/Not available

Home Sweet Home 102 Edited by Charlotte Troy. Essays by Edgar Allen Poe, James R.A. Noyes and Max Henry. Introduction by Richard Hamilton. Home may be a house or an apartment or a cardboard box, but it is never just that. It is not merely bricks and mortar, but rather something far more abstract, something both physical and >>more
C.T. Editions
ISBN 9780954707101
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Paperback, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 148 pgs / 87 color.
Pub Date: 12/02/2004 Out of print/Not available

Diving Trips Edited by Stefan Berg, Ulrike Groos. Essays by Michael Glasmeier, Karin Glundovatz, Clemens Krmmel, Joachim Rees and Alexander Roob. In its capacity as a critical, historical and utopian medium, drawing has experienced a reevaluation--above all since the 1960s--as a conceptual form within the sphere of Minimalism and Conceptual art. This publication introduces varied depictive >>more
Richter Verlag
ISBN 9783937572154
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Hardcover, 8.25 x 10.75 in. / 240 pgs / 120 color / 180 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/15/2005 Out of print/Not available

Semina Culture: Wallace Berman & His Circle Edited by Michael Duncan and Kristine McKenna. Essays by Michael Duncan and Kristine McKenna and Stephen Fredman. The quintessential visual artist of the Beat era, Wallace Berman (1926-1976) remains one of the best kept secrets of the late twentieth century. A crucial figure in California's postwar underground, Berman was a catalyst who >>more
D.A.P./Santa Monica Museum of Art
ISBN 9781933045108
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Hardcover, 9 x 11 in. / 384 pgs / 242 color / 250 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/15/2005 Out of print/Not available

Baja to Vancouver Edited by Ralph Rugoff. Essays by Douglas Coupland, Lisa Robertson and Matthew Stadler. Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast and Contemporary Art is the first major survey of recent art from the western edge of the United States, Canada, and Baja California, Mexico. Focusing on works that engage >>more
CCA Wattis/MCASD/SAM/VAG
ISBN 9780972508025
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Hardcover, 9 x 11 in. / 152 pgs / 100 color / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/02/2004 Out of print/Not available

Other Than Yourself Text by Andreas Spiegl, Daniela Zyman, Peio Aguirre, Soraya Rodríguez, et al. Albert Einstein once said, "A human being is part of a whole, called by us the 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865604231
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9 in. / 144 pgs / 61 color.
Pub Date: 07/01/2008 Out of print/Not available

Vanishing Point Edited and Essay by Claudine Isé and Hal Foster. Foreword by Sherri Geldin. Over the past few decades, discussions of contemporary architecture have tended to concentrate on a select few innovative building projects that promise to single-handedly change their urban landscapes. Vanishing Point conversely focuses on aspect >>more
Wexner Center for the Arts
ISBN 9781881390374
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Paperback, 7 x 9 in. / 100 pgs / 35 color / 7 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/15/2005 Out of print/Not available

China Contemporary Essays by Christine de Baan, Jaap Guldemond, Garrie van Pinxteren and Linda Vlassenrood. A new world is emerging in China, with urbanization and the wholesale globalization of daily life moving at unprecedented speed. The Communist Party line has been replaced by maxims about working together to build a >>more
NAi Publishers
ISBN 9789056625009
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 400 pgs / 170 color.
Pub Date: 09/15/2006 Out of print/Not available

Let's Bake the Future Edited by Ton Mars, Linda Nijenhof, Margo Slomp. Text by Katalin Herzog, Peter de Ruiter. This book presents the work of 10 young artists who just received their MFAs in Painting, Interactive Media and Environments and Scenography from the esteemed Frank Mohr Institute in Holland. Filled with texts and images, >>more
Veenman Publishers
ISBN 9789077962022
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Hardback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 139 pgs / 67 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Out of print/Not available

Comic Release Contributions by Rick Gribenas, Rob Rogers. Text by Barbara Bloemink, Vicky Clark, Ana Merino. Cartoon and comic book imagery are suddenly ubiquitous. Since the 1950s in the United States, they have been considered primarily as an entertainment vehicle for children, their lowbrow status allowing them to thrive outside of >>more
D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 9781891024603
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Hardcover, 7 x 10 in. / 192 pgs / 62 color.
Pub Date: 06/02/2003 Out of print/Not available

D is for Drawing: Art Ain't About You It's About We Edited by Yane Calovski. Interview by Cicciolina. Text by Yane Calovski. The second issue of D magazine (D stands for Drawing) contains comics, collages, wall works and multimedia presentations by a host of promising international artists. Also contains essays, interviews and documentation of exhibitions related >>more
Veenman Publishers
ISBN 9783865882219
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Paperback, 8.5 x 11.75 in. / 136 pgs / 130 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2007 Out of print/Not available

Down Under Edited by Marie Jeanne de Rooij. Foreword by W.J. Deetman. Text by Marie Jeanne de Rooij, Maurits van der Laar, Philip Peters. This dynamic study, published to coincide with the tenth installment of The Hague Sculpture fair, features contemporary work from Australia and the Netherlands. Artists include Tracey Moffatt, Ron Mueck, Ricky Swallow, Pius Tipungwuti, Pedro Wonaeamirri, >>more
Veenman Publishers
ISBN 9789086900954
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 184 pgs / 95 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Out of print/Not available

Krijnen vs. Rembrandt: Two Mothers Two Models Essay by Doris Wintgens. The young Dutch photographer Cees Krijnen (born in 1969) has made many portraits of his mother, who recently transformed from the victim of a brutal divorce to a combative, mediagenic woman. Here Krijnen offers more >>more
Veenman Publishers
ISBN 9789085460695
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Hardcover, 8.5 x 11 in. / 45 pgs / 30 color and 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/15/2006 Out of print/Not available

Mike Kelley - Peter Fischli, David Weiss Essays by Bice Curiger, Patrick Frey, Boris Groys, Mike Kelley, Daniel Kothenschulte. This volume considers the work of Mike Kelley alongside the collaborations of Peter Fischli and David Weiss. Kelley's works are firmly anchored in an ironic, detached attitude towards his Irish Catholic upbringing; he makes use >>more
Sammlung Goetz
ISBN 9783980526753
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Hardcover, 7 x 9.75 in. / 135 pgs / 100 color / 3 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/02/2001 Out of print/Not available

D is for Drawing 3: Fukt and D Edited by Yane Calovski, Jan Erik Fruehsorge, Björn Hegardt. Drawings, drawings and more drawings. This collaborative issue of FUKT and D (Drunk on Dreams) contains a collection of line drawings that address issues of sustainability and necessity. Artists include: Jesse Ash, Gaku Tsutaya, Melissa >>more
Veenman Publishers
ISBN 9789086900787
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Paperback, 7.5 x 9.5 in. / 96 pgs / 30 color / 120 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Out of print/Not available

Do It Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist. Essays by Daniel Birnbaum and Harold Garfinkel. 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 >>more
e-flux/Revolver
ISBN 9783865880017
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Hardcover, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 370 pgs / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/15/2005 Out of print/Not available

The Eighth Square: Gender, Life and Desire in Art Since 1960 Foreword by Frank Wagner, Kasper König. Text by Judith Butler, Douglas Crimp, Diedrich Diederichsen, Harald Fricke, Julia Friedrich, Hanne Loreck, Cristina Nord, Thomas Meinecke, Eva Meyer, Marlene Steeruwitz, Frank Wagner. In chess, when a pawn reaches the eighth square on the far side of the board, the player can swap it for a piece from his opponent's set. So the pawn--a lowly foot soldier--can transform >>more
Hatje Cantz Publishers
ISBN 9783775718295
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Paperback, 8.75 x 12 in. / 304 pgs / 200 color / 109 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/01/2006 Out of print/Not available

Offspring 2007 Introduction by Maxine Kopsa, Text by Tom Morton, Dominic van den Boogerd. De Ateliers is an independent Amsterdam artists' institute, run by visual artists, that focuses on the development of young, talented artists from within the Netherlands and abroad. Featured here are this year’s crop, including Adam >>more
Veenman Publishers
ISBN 9789080731844
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Paperback, 6.25 x 9.5 in. / 148 pgs / 144 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Out of print/Not available

Nice! Artwork by Rutger Pontzen. Impatient with the often closed circuits within which art circulates, Rutger Pontzen calls upon artists to look for fresh venues for their work. Pontzen advocates a ‘relational aesthetics’ that truly steps out of the white >>more
NAi Publishers
ISBN 9789056621629
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Paperback, 4.75 x 8 in. / 96 pgs / 16 color / 16 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/02/2001 Out of print/Not available

Public Information Artwork by Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol. Photographs by Robert Frank. Text by Gary Garrels, Jim Lewis, Abigail Solomon-Godeau. Photographic imagery is ubiquitous in our culture, and artists have a particularly complex relationship to the technological image, both as creators and as critics of our culture. From Robert Frank and Andy Warhol to Felix >>more
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
ISBN 9781881616450
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Paperback, 9 x 12 in. / 188 pgs / 86 color / 49 duotone.
Pub Date: 01/02/1995 Out of print/Not available

Video Spaces Essay by Barbara London. Introduction by Samuel R. Delany. Space, time, love, violence, and the human body: these are but some of the themes explored in this provocative book of state-of-the-art video installations. Each a separate and carefully delineated environment created through multimedia technologies, >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870706462
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Paperback, 9 x 12 in. / 80 pgs / 40 color / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 07/02/2002 Out of print/Not available

Twisted Edited by Marente Bloemheuvel, Jaap Guldemond, Foreword by Jan Debbaut. The publication of Twisted: Urban and visionary landscapes in contemporary paintingcoincides with the exhibition of the same name, and features the work of fifteen young, international painters. These artists are defined by the figurative visual >>more
NAi Publishers/Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
ISBN 9789070149819
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Paperback, 8.75 x 13.25 in. / 88 pgs / 75 color
Pub Date: 01/02/2001 Out of print/Not available

Beautiful Losers Edited by Aaron Rose and Christian Strike. Essays by Alex Baker, Thom Collins, Jeffrey Deitch, Rene deGuzman, Carlo McCormick and Jocko Weyland. The greatest cultural accomplishments in history have never been the result of the brainstorms of marketing men, corporate focus groups, or any homogenized methods; they have always happened organically. More often than not, these manifestations >>more
D.A.P./Iconoclast
ISBN 9781891024740
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Hardcover, 8.5 x 11 in. / 272 pgs / 200 color / 200 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/02/2004 Out of print/Not available

Greater New York 2005 Edited by Klaus Biesenbach. Greater New York 2005, jointly organized by P.S.1 and The Museum of Modern Art, New York went on view March 13, 2005, showcasing 150 artists who have emerged since 2000. Their work explores this specific >>more
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
ISBN 9780870709876
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Paperback, 9.5 x 12 in. / 330 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 07/15/2005 Out of print/Not available

Wonderful World Almost Was >>more
Witte de With
ISBN 9789073362321
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Paperback
Pub Date: 09/02/1995 Out of print/Not available

Free Radicals Edited by Leif Goldberg. Description: Free Radicals, a book of comics and drawings, is the product of the seminal Providence, Rhode Island Paper Rodeo group and its eponymous underground comics tabloid. The group, which has published 18 issues so >>more
PictureBox
ISBN 9780971367067
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Paperback, 5 x 8 in. / 104 pgs / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/15/2005 Out of print/Not available

Voices Contributions by Guy Rosolato. Text by Kate Linker, Christopher Phillips. >>more
Witte de With
ISBN 9789073362390
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Paperback, 9.75 x 12.6 in. / 168 pgs / 73 color / 39 b&w
Pub Date: 02/02/1999 Out of print/Not available

Evidence >>more
Wexner Center for the Arts
ISBN 9781881390152
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Paperback
Pub Date: 06/02/1997 Out of print/Not available

Oehlen/Williams 95 Artwork by Albert Oehlen. Contributions by Cathy Gudis. Text by Thomas Crow, Christopher Williams, Friedrich Petzel. >>more
Wexner Center for the Arts
ISBN 9781881390091
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Paperback, 8 x 10 in. / 172 pgs / 12 color / 70 b&w
Pub Date: 06/02/1995 Out of print/Not available

Paper Rad, B.J. And Da Dogs Artwork by Ben Jones, Paper Rad. Half artist's book, half graphic novel, this volume combines photographs, drawings, prints, and junk by the art collective Paper Rad--Jessica Ciocci, her brother Jacob, and their friend Ben Jones--with two graphic novellas (Spaceballz and < >>more
PictureBox
ISBN 9780971367043
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Paperback, 8.5 x 11 in. / 208 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 10/15/2005 Out of print/Not available

On The Edge: Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter The West Essay by Britta Erickson. Foreword by Thomas Seligman. The works in On the Edge represent the reactions of leading Chinese artists to encounters with the West. Some are contemplative musings on the space that opens up when one culture is observed from the >>more
Timezone 8/Cantor Arts Center
ISBN 9789889808655
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Flexibound, 8.5 x 12 in. / 168 pgs / 120 color.
Pub Date: 03/15/2005 Out of print/Not available

Rene Magritte And Contemporary Art Artwork by Louise Bourgeois, Haim Steinbach. Contributions by Willy van der Bussche, Pierre Sterkx, Christine Veugen. >>more
Stichting Kunstboek
ISBN 9789074377744
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Paperback, 9.75 x 11 in. / 240 pgs / 200 color
Pub Date: 11/02/1998 Out of print/Not available

Looking Both Ways Edited by Laurie Ann Farrell. Essays by Okwui Enwezor, Laurie Ann Farrell, Jos» Antonio B. Fernandes Dias, Laurie Firstenberg, Steven Nelson, Salah Hassan and John Peffer. Description: Looking Both Ways: Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora considers the work of artists from North, South, East, and West Africa who live and work in Western countries, including Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, >>more
Snoeck Publishers, Ghent/Museum for African Art, NY
ISBN 9780945802358
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Paperback, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 184 pgs / 182 color
Pub Date: 03/02/2004 Out of print/Not available

Global Village: The 1960S Edited by Stéphane Aquin. Essays by Anna Detheridgede and Derrick de Kerckhove. Interviews with Alan L. Bean, Arthur C. Danto, Okwui Enwezor, Yoko Ono, Carolee Schneemann, Ettore Sottsass, Bert Stern, Agnés Varda, Michael J. Watts, Tobias Wolff, et al. In his 1962 book The Gutenberg Galaxy, Marshall McLuhan wrote the famous words: "The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village." As predicted by the renowned Canadian media theorist, >>more
Snoeck Publishers, Ghent
ISBN 9789053494486
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Hardcover, 9.5 x 11 in. / 208 pgs / 278 color.
Pub Date: 02/02/2004 Out of print/Not available

Eye Infection Essay by Robert Storr. Introduction by Rudi Fuchs. Description: Here are five artists rarely mentioned in the same sentence--and never before collected together in one book. How to reconcile Robert Crumb's cult-status comic offenses with Mike Kelley's taboo, childish handiwork and Jim Nutt's >>more
Richter Verlag
ISBN 9783933807533
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Hardcover, 9.5 x 11.25 in. / 208 pgs / 164 color / 24 b&w / 5 duotone
Pub Date: 02/02/2002 Out of print/Not available

Cult Fiction: Art & Comics Text by Paul Gravett. The comic book, the cartoon strip and the single-panel gag are recurring motifs in twentieth-century art, providing a platform for narrative, political critique, graphic clarity, and, of course, fun. Cult Fiction: Art & Comics examines >>more
Hayward Gallery Publishing
ISBN 9781853322600
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Paperback, 9.5 x 13.5 in. / 96 pgs/ 123 illustrations.
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 Out of print/Not available

The Youth of Today Edited by Matthias Ulrich, Max Hollein. Text by Mercedes Bunz, Jens Hoffmann, Georg Seblen, Niels Werber. Designed to look and feel like a chic new artsy, underground magazine, this big, floppy, glossy publication features art that mines contemporary youth subcultures--from vapid suburban party girls, to urban graffiti artists, to Goths, student >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865600714
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Paperback, 9.75 x 12 in. / 252 pgs / 170 color / 50 b&w / 50 duotone.
Pub Date: 02/01/2007 Out of print/Not available

Louise Bourgeois/Meret Oppenheim/Ilse Weber Essays by Stephan Kunz, Christiane Meyer-Thoss. >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783908617006
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Paperback, 8 x 9.5 in. / 88 pgs / 17 color / 31 b&w
Pub Date: 03/02/2000 Out of print/Not available

No Place (Like Home) Edited by Douglas Fogle. Contributions by Deepali Dewan. Text by Richard Flood. >>more
Walker Art Center
ISBN 9780935640557
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Paperback, 8.5 x 11 in. / 144 pgs / 80 color / 50 b&w
Pub Date: 03/02/1997 Out of print/Not available

Brilliant! New Art From London >>more
Walker Art Center
ISBN 9780935640502
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Paperback, 13 x 9 / 80 pgs / 100 b&w
Pub Date: 10/02/1995 Out of print/Not available

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. 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 >>more
Walker Art Center
ISBN 9780935640670
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9 in. / 256 pgs / 175 color
Pub Date: 03/02/2001 Out of print/Not available

How Latitudes Become Forms Edited by Philippe Vergne. Contributions by Philip Büther, Vasif Kortun, Baraka Sele, Kathy Halbreich. Text by Paulo Herkenhoff, Steve Dietz, Cuauhtemoc Medina, Hidenaga Otori, Hou Hanru, Vishakha Desai. "The rise of globalism has created tremendous challenges to old economic, political, and cultural paradigms, changes that are increasingly reflected in diverse artistic practices across the planet. If disciplinary boundaries are now crossed as easily >>more
Walker Art Center
ISBN 9780935640731
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Paperback, 9 x 11 in. / 336 pgs / 250 color / 16 b&w / grommeted binding
Pub Date: 04/02/2003 Out of print/Not available

The Smiths Artwork by Seton Smith, Kiki Smith, Tony Smith. Edited by Michael Rush. Text by Gilbert Brownstone, Eleanor Heartney, David Pagel, Adrian Dannatt. Not your typical family, the Smith household consisted of renowned architect and modernist Tony Smith and his daughters, artist Kiki Smith, whose multimedia works have drawn on mythic, folk, and biblical stories, and photographer Seton >>more
Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art
ISBN 9780967648064
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Paperback, 6.75 x 8.5 in. / 112 pgs / 48 color / 32 b&w
Pub Date: 02/02/2003 Out of print/Not available

Unholy Allliance Artwork by Richard Prince. Text by Dan Friedman. Dan Freidman, Richard Prince, MTV, Lawrence Weiner, Arch Gaylord >>more
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen
ISBN 9789069181363
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Paperback, 8.5 x 11 in. / 28 pgs / 28 color
Pub Date: 09/02/1994 Out of print/Not available

Pop Art This unusual and far-reaching history of Pop Art includes the work of Dutch artists whose distinctive merging of the popular vernacular with the art object is an important contribution to any history of this movement. >>more
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen
ISBN 9789069181455
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Paperback, 8.25 X 8.25 in. / 72 pgs / 5 color
Pub Date: 06/02/1996 Out of print/Not available

Pop Image:Prints & Multpls >>more
Marlborough Gallery
ISBN 9780897971041
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Paperback
Pub Date: 02/02/1995 Out of print/Not available

Boston School Published in conjunction with an exhibition at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art, this excellent collection of essays addresses the work of seven artists including Nan Goldin, Jack Pierson, and Tabboo!. >>more
ICA Boston
ISBN 9780941215053
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 192 pgs / 44 color / 43 b&w
Pub Date: 08/02/1996 Out of print/Not available

Authentic/Ex-Centric Artwork by Rashid Koraichi, Willem Boshoff, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Godfried Donkor, Berni Searle, Zineb Sedira, Yinka Shonibare. Edited by Salah Hassan, Olu Oguibe, Okwui Enwezor. Text by Siemon Allen, Sally Berger, Annie Coombes, Rory Doepel, Maryline Lostia, Gilane Tawadros, Els Van Der Plas, Christian Viveros-Faune, Damien Pwono. Against the musty stereotypes and prejudices that still consider Africa a dark continent full of nameless, Third World nations always striving but never managing to catch up with the West, Authentic/Ex-Centric positions Africa as the >>more
Forum for African Arts, Inc.
ISBN 9789076162065
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Paperback, 6.5 x 8.5 in. / 264 pgs / 106 color / 12 b&w
Pub Date: 04/02/2002 Out of print/Not available

Wall Works Edited by Jŕrg Schellmann. Contributions by Uwe Schneede. Text by David Rimanelli. >>more
Edition Schellmann
ISBN 9783888148651
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Paperback, 9 x 12 in. / 242 pgs / 125 color / 35 b&w
Pub Date: 04/02/1999 Out of print/Not available

Art Editions Artwork by John Baldessari, Jenny Holzer, Sigmar Polke, Dan Flavin. >>more
Edition Schellmann
ISBN 9783921629369
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Paperback, 8.25 x 9.5 / 168 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 10/02/1995 Out of print/Not available

Distemper Text by Neal Benezra, Olga Viso. This brilliant exhibition catalogue presents the work of ten younger artists whose work reflects the distemper of the times. Although their artistic agendas vary widely, they share a sense of being cultural barometers. >>more
D.A.P./Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
ISBN 9781881616733
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Paperback, 8.5 x 11 in. / 144 pgs / 37 color / 61 b&w
Pub Date: 06/02/1996 Out of print/Not available

Ferro Fever >>more
Artimo
ISBN 9789075380026
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Hardcover
Pub Date: 09/02/1996 Out of print/Not available

Wonderholland Texts by Marianna Vecellio and Angelique Westerhof. The multi-media works of Holland's foremost contemporary artists--Marnix Goossens, Elspeth Diederix, Hella Jongerius, to name a few--is presented in this catalogue to the 2004 exhibition at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome. >>more
Artimo
ISBN 9789085460206
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Paperback, 6 x 7.75 in. / 100 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 03/15/2005 Out of print/Not available

We Are The World Edited by Rein Wolfs. Introduction by Hans van Beers. We Are the World--the Dutch pavilion for the latest Venice Biennale, not the 80s international rock charity event--focuses on our contemporary multicultural reality, international developments in art and the biennial's theme of Dreams and Conflict >>more
Artimo
ISBN 9789075380682
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Hardcover, 11.75 x 8.25 in. / 48 pgs / 30 color.
Pub Date: 07/02/2003 Out of print/Not available

Migrating Identity: Transmission/Reconstruction Edited by Sonja Beijering, Simon Ferdinando and Renée Ridgway. Essays by Odili Donald Odita, David Selden, Gary Carsley, Heidi Lobato, Lisa Holden and Jean Ulrick D»sert. The last 10 years have brought both literal and virtual global mobility to artists. The important questions of identity raised by todays nomadism were the subject of an exhibition, a series of lectures, and a >>more
Artimo
ISBN 9789085460220
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 104 pgs / 55 color.
Pub Date: 08/15/2005 Out of print/Not available

Potential: Ongoing Archive Artwork by Jacqueline Cooke, Jonathan Faiers, Ella Gibbs, Rita Keegan, Ruth Maclennan, Naomi Salaman. Edited by Anna Harding. Text by Inke Arns, Nils Norman. How and why do artists customize, sort, organize, and scrutinize archival information? Potential considers the role of the archive in current artistic practice through the work of 11 international artists who engage with archival and >>more
Artimo
ISBN 9789075380484
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Paperback, / 144 pgs / 116 color / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 03/02/2003 Out of print/Not available

Chocolate Art Essays by Julia Friedrich and Rolf Ricke. Danger: This book is sinfully delicious, sweet, and chocolaty! It's no wonder that many an artist has been transfixed by the delicately irresistible, melt-in-your-mouth consistency of chocolate. The Museum Ludwig in Cologne invited 21 artists >>more
Hatje Cantz Publishers
ISBN 9783775716239
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Hardcover, 5.25 x 7.5 in. / 144 pgs / 42 color / 24 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/15/2005 Out of print/Not available

Bridge The Gap? Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Miyake Akiko. Description: Hans Ulrich Obrist once organized a science and art conference with all of the infrastructure of a conference--the parties, chats, lunches, airport arrivals--but with no actual conference. Apparently it was hugely successful and spawned >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9784901387804
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Paperback, 8.5 x 6.75 in. / 551 pgs / 608 color 1 DVD
Pub Date: 06/02/2003 Out of print/Not available

X-Screen Essays by Eric de Bruyn, Pamela Lee, Branden Joseph, Liz Kotz, and Matthias Michalka. Preface by Edelbert Kŕb. Interviews by Maxa Zoller, Malcolm LeGrice, Gabriele Jutz, Birgit Hein, and Sabeth Buchmann. For several years now, film and video have determined contemporary art and exhibitions on a scale unheard of since the 1960s and 1970s, but rarely have these roots themselves been explored. X-Screen presents a comprehensive >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783883757612
US $55.00 CAN $66.00 SDNR30
Paperback, 8 x 11 in. / 216 pgs / 200 color / 200 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/02/2004 Out of print/Not available

Mike Kelley/Paul Mccarthy: Sod & Sodie Sock Essay by Werner Wurtinger. >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783901926020
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Paperback, 8..5 x 11.75 in. / 152 pgs / 102 color / 12 b&w
Pub Date: 03/02/2000 Out of print/Not available

Double Life: Identity And Transformation In Contemporary Art Artwork by Valie Export, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Ion Grigorescu, Lynn Hershman, Elke Krystufek, Friedl Kubelka, Marina Abramovic, Eleanor Antin, Zoe Leonard, Adrian Piper. Photographs by Cindy Sherman. Edited by Sabine Breitwieser, Pierre Huyghe. Text by Ruth Noack, Yvonne Volkart, Dietrich Karner. To be able to take one's self off like a jacket and put on another self--who hasn't occasionally wished it were possible? Identity and transformation are among the central issues for contemporary art making, and >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783883755106
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Hardcover, 8.5 x 11.25 in. / 260 pgs / 165 color / 120 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/02/2002 Out of print/Not available

Hobbypopmuseum Essays by Thea Djordjadze, Christian Jendreiko and Sophie von Hellermann. In this book the Dsseldorf-London-based artist group HobbyPopMuseum gives insight into their new work which mixes images, words, sound, and action, into an artistic reality that has resulted in invitations by institutions like the Tate >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783883758626
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Paperback, 8.75 x 6.5 in. / 260 pgs / 673 color / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/15/2005 Out of print/Not available

Version: Colouring Book Edited by Mircea Cantor, Cirpian Muresan and Gabriela Vanga. Essays by Didier Heintz, Sumiko Oe Gotini and Molly Gordon Nesbitt. Version began as an artist's group under the name Super Us, and has become an adventurous magazine. In this special issue, the 70 artists invited to create black-and-white coloring book pages comply with verve. Their >>more
Onestar/Version Magazine/IDEA
ISBN 9782915359121
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Special bin.din.g, 8.5 x 11 in. / 92 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 03/01/2006 Out of print/Not available

East Village Usa Artwork by Gretchen Bender, Sue Coe, George Condo, Kiki Smith, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Ashley Bickerton, Mike Bidlo, Peter Halley. Photographs by Richard Kern, David Wojnarowicz. Edited by Julie Ault, Dan Cameron. Contributions by Carlo McCormick. Text by Patti Astor, Mitch Corber, Liza Kirwin, Lydia Lunch, Alan Moore, Penny Arcade, Sur Rodney, Mark Russell, Calvin Reid. East Village USA revisits the sprawling, renegade art scene that flourished in the East Village during the 1980s. Many prominent artists, including Jeff Koons, Kiki Smith, Peter Halley, and Philip Taaffe began their careers in >>more
New Museum of Contemporary Art
ISBN 9780915557882
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Paperback, 9 x 12 in. / 150 pgs / 85 color / 70 b&w / 20 duotone reproductions.
Pub Date: 02/15/2005 Out of print/Not available

The Quiet In The Land Edited by John Alan Farmer, France Morin. This much-anticipated book is published in conjunction with the second project in an innovative series of four, entitled The Quiet in the Land, and organized by independent curator France Morin*formerly Senior Curator at the New >>more
Museo de Arte Moderna de Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
ISBN 9781564660800
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Hardcover, 11 x 8 in. / 250 pgs / 350 color.
Pub Date: 10/02/2000 Out of print/Not available

Weird Science Edited by Irene Hofmann. Contributions by Michelle Grabner, David Wilson, Gregory Wittkopp. >>more
Cranbrook Art Museum
ISBN 9780966857702
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Paperback, 6 x 9.5 in. / 80 pgs / 16 color / 34 duotone
Pub Date: 08/02/1999 Out of print/Not available

Territorium Artis >>more
Hatje Cantz Publishers
ISBN 9783775704007
US $75.00 CAN $90.00 TRADE
Hardcover
Pub Date: 06/02/1992 Out of print/Not available