Haim Steinbach

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HAIM STEINBACH: INFINITY / NON
Artwork by Haim Steinbach.
CHARTA
ISBN: 9788881584239 | US $31.95
Pub Date: 8/2/2003
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HAIM STEINBACH
Artwork by Haim Steinbach. Edited by Ida Gianelli. Text by Mario Perniola, Giorgio Verzotti.
CHARTA
ISBN: 9788881581955 | US $59.95
Pub Date: 4/2/1999
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HAIM STEINBACH: NORTH EAST SOUTH WEST
HATJE CANTZ PUBLISHERS
ISBN: 9783775790253 | US $13.95
Pub Date: 2/2/2001
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HAIM STEINBACH
Contributions by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, Angela Vettese.
CHARTA
ISBN: 9788881582631 | US $29.95
Pub Date: 5/2/2000
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Haim Steinbach

Haim Steinbach: Infinity / Non

Artwork by Haim Steinbach.
Published by Charta

Haim Steinbach's work with language proposes that reading is an act of seeing; the graphic codes which proliferate in our current media culture accustom us to the fact of word and image arriving in one package. For Steinbach, reproducing a phrase or a symbol represents the action of memorization and preservation, thereby inviting viewers to identify and re-identify with the language and image before them. Thus, for this latest addition to the Illy Collection series of espresso cups, Steinbach inscribes the letters “n,” “o” and “n”--or the word “non”--together with the figure “8”--or infinity--as signs of an abstract language. Since 1992, famed Italian coffeemaker Illy has been commissioning limited-edition coffee cup designs from internationally renowned and emerging artists, musicians, and filmmakers. The story of the cup begins in 1990 with architect and engineer Matteo Thun, who designed a white espresso cup to the exacting specifications of the Illy family. The volume and diameter had to be just so, the rim had to accept resting lips in a most practical manner and the all-important bowl at the bottom of the cup had to conserve heat effectively. Once the prototype was approved, the family set about having it transformed with original work by the likes of Sandro Chia, Nam June Paik, James Rosenquist, Robert Rauschenberg, David Byrne, Francis Ford Coppola, Joseph Kosuth, Jeff Koons, Marina Abramovic, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Michel Comte, Jannis Kounellis and Louise Bourgeois.

Haim Steinbach: North East South West

Edited by Neuer Berliner Kunstverein. Essays by Bruce W. Ferguson, Valentin Rauer, Stephanie Rosenthal.
Published by Hatje Cantz Publishers

Along with Robert Gober and Jeff Koons, New York-based Haim Steinbach is one of the most renowned exponents of the late 70s art movement which endeavored to revamp the post-Duchamp tradition of ready-mades in the face of a rising wave of neo-expressionism. Steinbach has become known for his "thing altars," carefully manufactured shelves containing borrowed or purchased objects that take on new meaning in the context of their surroundings, recalling Robert Smithson's notions of "site" and "non-site." This new book in the Cantz Series documents a Berlin-specific installation by the artist. Steinbach, born to German-Jewish parents in Israel, stayed in the former East Germany for the first time, visiting families all over Berlin and borrowing individual objects or arrangements which he then transferred to an art space. In doing so the artist became the curator of a sort of group exhibition of "collected collections" which interact in surprising ways in their new space.

Haim Steinbach

Contributions by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, Angela Vettese.
Published by Charta

Haim Steinbach

Artwork by Haim Steinbach. Edited by Ida Gianelli. Text by Mario Perniola, Giorgio Verzotti.
Published by Charta

Haim Steinbach (born 1944) is a leading figure in American art. Since the 1970s he has been conceiving structures and framing devices for the presentation of objects. Steinbach displays already existing objects, carefully chosen and placed on shelves, ranging from the natural to the common, the artistic to the ethnographic, giving form to artworks which illuminate the aesthetic and social qualities of objects. By exploring the psychological, cultural and ritualistic context of the artwork, and its role in the production of meaning, Steinbach has radically redefined the status of the object in art. This book is the expanded and revised edition of the monograph published in 1995 and documents the artist’s activity over the past 30 years.