| FORTHCOMING TITLES & RECENT RELEASES Adrian Piper: A Reader
Edited by Cornelia Butler and David Platzker. With texts by Diarmuid Costello, Jörg Heiser, Kobena Mercer, Nizan Shaked, Vid Simoniti, and Elvan Zabunyan. Published for MoMA’s retrospective exhibition and in collaboration with the artist, this volume presents new critical essays that expand on Piper's practice in ways that have been previously under- or unaddressed. Focused texts by established >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633450332
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.75 in. / 280 pgs / 52 color / 75 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/22/2018 In stock
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|  An Associative Art History
By Tomáš Pospiszyl. Edited by Vít Havránek. Text by Sven Spieker. An Associative Art History searches for the place of Czech, Slovak and Eastern European postwar art in global history. Resisting the mere repetition of Western canonization, the publication aims not to fruitlessly compare East and >>more
JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037645178
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 296 pgs / 14 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/24/2018 In stock
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|  Art & Crisis
Edited by Donatella Bernardi. Text by Caroline Ann Baur, T.J. Demos, Florian Dombois, Mazen El Sayed, David Keller, Dominique Lämmli, Rodrigo Nunes, et al. Art & Crisis is a theoretical publication on educational processes and what it means to teach and learn fine arts in a city such as Zurich. It brings together contributions from 2017 MFA students, their >>more
JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037645253
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9 in. / 320 pgs / 255 color / 80 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/28/2018 In stock
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|  Art-Rite
Edited by Walter Robinson. This facsimile edition collects all 19 issues of Art-Rite magazine, edited by art critics Walter Robinson and Edit DeAk from 1973 to 1978. Robinson, DeAk and a third editor, Joshua Cohn, met as art history >>more
Primary Information
ISBN 9780991558575
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Pbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 620 pgs / 10 color / 600 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/18/2019 Awaiting stock
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|  Artists Working from Life
Edited by Sam Phillips. Text by Caroline Bugler, Laura Gascoigne, Martin Gayford, Angela Kingston, Adrian Locke, Ben Luke, Michael Prodger, Annette Wickham. What does drawing from life mean in the 21st century? From Michelangelo’s marbles to photographic self-portraits, artists have always been fascinated by their creative encounters with the human body. Often a key part of their early >>more
Royal Academy of Arts
ISBN 9781910350904
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Hbk, 7.5 x 10.25 in. / 160 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 01/23/2018 In stock
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|  Artists on Andy Warhol
Edited by Katherine Atkins, Kelly Kivland. Text by Robert Buck, Glenn Ligon, Jorge Pardo, Kara Walker, James Welling. Artists on Andy Warhol is the third installment in a series culled from Dia's Artists on Artists lectures, focused on the work of artist Andy Warhol (1928–87). This small-format paperback book delves into Warhol's oft-quoted >>more
Dia Art Foundation
ISBN 9780944521861
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Pbk, 5.25 x 7 in. / 136 pgs / 70 color.
Pub Date: 08/28/2018 In stock
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|  Artists on Bruce Nauman
Edited by Katherine Atkins, Stephen Hoban, Kelly Kivland. Text by Judith Barry, William Kentridge, David Levine, Gedi Sibony, Gary Simmons, Charline von Heyl, Mark Wallinger. In the late 1960s, while still a recent graduate with scant means, artist Bruce Nauman (born 1941) explored a trio of interwoven subjects: the studio, the daily practice of making art and the role of >>more
Dia Art Foundation
ISBN 9780944521878
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Pbk, 5.25 x 7 in. / 200 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 11/20/2018 Awaiting stock
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|  Being an Artist
Foreword by Tina Kukielski. Interviews by Susan Sollins, et al. Based on the award-winning series produced by Art21 and broadcast on PBS. Art21 films, educational programs and publications provide a diverse audience with unprecedented access to the personal and professional lives of the greatest creative >>more
Art21
ISBN 9780692096734
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Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 275 pgs / 190 color.
Pub Date: 09/25/2018 In stock
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|  Cabinet 66
Edited by Sina Najafi. Skin is both surface and container. It marks the absolute limits of organisms, but also functions as an interface—acting as a plane of contact with what surrounds it while protecting what lies beneath it. Skin >>more
Cabinet
ISBN 9781932698749
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Pbk, 7.75 x 9.75 in. / 96 pgs / 60 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/20/2018 Awaiting stock
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|  Cabinet 67
Edited by Sina Najafi. Dreams are some of the most private experiences humans know, and yet humans have long felt a need to share them. Across history, protocols have been developed to make this possible, and though Western culture >>more
Cabinet
ISBN 9781932698824
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Pbk, 7.75 x 9.75 in. / 96 pgs / 60 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/22/2019 Awaiting stock
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|  Craig Owens: Portrait of a Young Critic
By Lyn Blumenthal & Kate Horsfield. Preface by Kate Horsfield. Introduction by Lynne Tillman. Interview by Lyn Blumenthal. In 1984, the art critic and theorist Craig Owens (1950–90) gave a wide-ranging interview with Lyn Blumenthal and Kate Horsfield for their extraordinary video series On Art and Artists. At once personal, political and forward-thinking, >>more
Badlands Unlimited
ISBN 9781943263134
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Pbk, 5 x 8 in. / 112 pgs.
Pub Date: 02/27/2018 In stock
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|  Distributed
Edited with text by David Blamey, Brad Haylock. Text by Ahmed Ansari, Stuart Bertolotti-Bailey, Justin Clemens, Alex Coles, Jonathan Lindley, Neil Cummings, Arnaud Desjardin, Markus Miessen, Billie Muraben, Patricia Reed, Adrian Shaughnessy, Freek Lomme, Eva Weinmayr, et al. The power of knowledge lies not only in generating ideas, but also in controlling their dispersion. For those who would seek to influence others, the dissemination of ideas is paramount. For those looking to protect >>more
Open Editions
ISBN 9780949004093
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Pbk, 6.25 x 8.5 in. / 264 pgs.
Pub Date: 06/19/2018 In stock
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|  Published on the 50th anniversary of Marcel Duchamp's death, Duchamp's Last Day offers a radical reading of the artist's final hours. Just moments after Duchamp died, his closest friend, Man Ray, took a photograph of >>more
David Zwirner Books
ISBN 9781941701874
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Pbk, 4.25 x 7 in. / 72 pgs / 8 color.
Pub Date: 11/20/2018 Awaiting stock
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|  Duchamp: By Hand, Even
By Helen Molesworth. Edited with preface by Stefan Banz. In this essay, curator Helen Molesworth pinpoints the significance of the return of the handmade in the later years of Duchamp’s oeuvre, positioning this paradigmatic shift away from the readymade as the focal point of >>more
Verlag für moderne Kunst
ISBN 9783903153981
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Hbk, 4.5 x 5.75 in. / 148 pgs / 11 color / 1 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/26/2018 In stock
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|  Fifty Years of Great Art Writing
Text by Michael Fried, David Sylvester, Anne Seymour, Anthony Vidler, Dore Ashton, et al. Featuring a formidable list of writers, and encapsulating the eclectic range of art that has delighted and inspired audiences throughout Hayward Gallery’s history, Fifty Years of Great Art Writing ranges from painting and photography to >>more
Hayward Gallery Publishing
ISBN 9781853323522
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 500 pgs.
Pub Date: 08/28/2018 In stock
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|  In 1303, Giotto, then considered the preeminent painter in Italy, was commissioned to paint the Arena Chapel in Padua. The resulting Chapel and its panels, detailing the history, birth, life and death of Christ, rank >>more
David Zwirner Books
ISBN 9781941701799
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Pbk, 4.25 x 7 in. / 72 pgs / 40 color.
Pub Date: 05/22/2018 In stock
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|  In the World presents a collection of essays by Cape Town cultural analyst and art critic Ashraf Jamal focused on 24 South African artists working in painting, photography, sculpture and performance. Aimed at a wide, >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788857235639
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 416 pgs / 112 color.
Pub Date: 08/28/2018 In stock
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|  Institutions by Artists
Edited by Jeff Khonsary, Antonia Pinter. Text by Ken Becker, Tania Bruguera, Dana Claxton, Sean Dockray, Chris Fitzpatrick, Jessi Khadivi, Sarah Lowndes, Phillip Monk, Antonia Pinter, Post Brothers, Christopher Regimbal. Contributions by Matei Bejenaru, Christopher Cozier, Jeff Derksen, Dirk Fleischmann, Sam Gould, Candice Hopkins, Deirdre Logue, Jaleh Mansoor, John O’Brian, Claire Tancons, Gregory Sholette, Slavs and Tatars, Julia Bryan-Wilson. The second volume of Institutions by Artists looks at various global artist-run centers and initiatives within the historical contexts that saw their emergence—among them Western Front (Vancouver), Alice Yard (Trinidad and Tobago), ASCO (Los Angeles) >>more
Fillip Editions
ISBN 9781927354339
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7.5 in. / 240 pgs / 2 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/20/2018 Awaiting stock
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|  Dick Higgins and his Something Else Press epitomized the riotous art of the ‘60s There are few art-world figures as influential—and as little known—as Dick Higgins (1938–98), cofounder of Fluxus, "polyartist," poet, scholar, theorist, composer, performer >>more
Siglio
ISBN 9781938221200
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Pbk, 7.25 x 9.75 in. / 336 pgs / 95 color / 60 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/20/2018 Awaiting stock
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|  The sequel to the 2014 bestseller (Curating) From A to Z, this book extends the investigation of curatorial practice that the writer, exhibition maker and educator Jens Hoffmann (born 1974) began in the first volume. (Curating) >>more
JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037645093
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Pbk, 4 x 6.5 in. / 80 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/20/2018 Awaiting stock
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|  Localizing the Contemporary
By Peter J. Schneemann. Text by Kari Conte, Thierry Dufrêne, Valérie Knoll, Damian Lentini, Diego Mantoan, et al. This publication gathers together 18 essays about the Kunsthalle Bern as a role model and a place for artistic intervention and production, elaborating the examinations to which numerous international artists have subjected the building itself. >>more
JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037645284
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 360 pgs / 20 color / 60 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/28/2018 In stock
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|  Marathon Marathon
Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Nadja Argyropoulou. Marathon Marathon documents a 2010 iteration of Hans Ulrich Obrist’s series of “Marathon” events, held at the Acropolis Museum in Athens and co-curated by Nadja Argyropoulou. Marking the 2,500th anniversary of the battle of Marathon, >>more
DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art
ISBN 9786185039240
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Pbk, 9.5 x 12.5 in. / 259 pgs.
Pub Date: 04/24/2018 In stock
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|  Designed by Irma Boom, this second volume in the Summit publication series gathers insights from the 2018 Verbier Art Summit in Switzerland, on the topic of art in the digital age, delivered by a wide >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783960983804
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Pbk, 4.5 x 8 in. / 240 pgs / 9 color.
Pub Date: 11/20/2018 Awaiting stock
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|  Over the years 1919–20, the celebrated medical scientist and doctor Carl Julius Salomonsen began giving public lectures and publishing pamphlets regarding a new "epidemic" that had begun to affect the European populace: the increasing ubiquity >>more
New Documents
ISBN 9781927354315
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Hbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 96 pgs / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/20/2018 Awaiting stock
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|  On Contemporary Art
By César Aira. Foreword by Will Chancellor. Afterword by Alexandra Kleeman. Translated by Katherine Silver. Translated into English for the first time, On Contemporary Art, a speech by the renowned novelist César Aira, was delivered at a 2010 colloquium in Madrid dedicated to bridging the gap between writing and the >>more
David Zwirner Books
ISBN 9781941701867
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Pbk, 4.25 x 7 in. / 72 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/20/2018 Awaiting stock
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|  In this captivating collection of essays on Marcel Duchamp and his legacy, the renowned Swiss Duchamp expert Stefan Banz (born 1961) explains, among other things, why it was not Walter Hopps who mounted Duchamp's first >>more
Verlag für moderne Kunst
ISBN 9783903228627
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Hbk, 6.25 x 8.75 in. / 416 pgs / 80 color.
Pub Date: 07/24/2018 In stock
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|  Plan and Play, Play and Plan
Edited by Janwillem Schrofer. Text by Carlos Amorales, David Bade, Marlene Dumas, Claudia Fontes, Alica Framis, Meschac Gaba, Ryan Gander, Antony Gormley, et al. "Visual artist" is a term with manifold variations and meanings. But how, as an artist (or designer, photographer or other "independent creator"), do you become who you are and who you would like to be? >>more
Valiz
ISBN 9789492095404
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 288 pgs / 32 color / 15 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/26/2018 In stock
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|  Re-reading the Manual of Travelling Exhibitions
Text by Martin Beck, Katrine Bregengaard, Kurt Eckert, Jochen Eisenbrand, Mag?orzata Kuciewicz, Simone De Lacobis, Jonathan Maho, Grace McCann Morley, et al. The Manual of Travelling Exhibitions, published by UNESCO in 1953, was a handbook on organizing touring exhibitions. It was conceived by Elodie Courter Osborne out of her work as head of the Department for Circulating >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959051361
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Pbk, 9.5 x 13 in. / 180 pgs / 134 color.
Pub Date: 11/20/2018 Awaiting stock
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|  Sculpture Now
Edited by Julia Kelly, Jon Wood. Sculpture Now assembles essays, statements, interviews, letters, poems and other texts by artists from all over the world on sculpture as it has been developed and practiced from 1990 to the present. Illustrated with works >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775733472
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 296 pgs / 50 color.
Pub Date: 01/22/2019 Awaiting stock
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|  The annual Verbier Art Summit provides an alternative approach to fostering and shaping a global dialogue on the visual arts. Verbier | Art Untold organizes the summit in partnership with a yearly rotating art institution. This book >>more
Koenig Books
ISBN 9783960982616
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Pbk, 4.5 x 8 in. / 224 pgs / 15 color.
Pub Date: 02/27/2018 In stock
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|  A forerunner of digital art, New York–based German artist Manfred Mohr (born 1938) exhibited his computer-generated drawings as early as 1971. Selected essays, letters and interviews from 1963–79 provide insight into his early works and >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959051743
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Pbk, 5.25 x 7.75 in. / 156 pgs / 80 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/20/2018 Awaiting stock
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|  The Artist as Curator
Edited with text by Elena Filipovic. Text by Alexander Alberro, Monica Amor, Carlos Basualdo, Biljana Ciric, et al. Taking that ambiguous thing we call “the exhibition” as a critical medium, artists have often radically rethought conventional forms of exhibition making. The Artist as Curator: An Anthology, born out of a series of essays >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783960981787
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Pbk, 8 x 11 in. / 416 pgs / 239 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/27/2018 In stock
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|  This book presents the transcript of a conference held at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design on October 5–6, 1970, organized by Seth Siegelaub. Attendees at the event included Carl Andre, Joseph Beuys, >>more
New Documents
ISBN 9781927354322
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7.5 in. / 144 pgs / 1 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/20/2018 Awaiting stock
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|  The Long 1980s
Edited with text by Nick Aikens, Teresa Grandas, Nav Haq, Beatriz Herráez, Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez. The Long 1980s speculates on the significance of the 1980s for the arts and society today. Arguing that the 1980s saw a fundamental reorientation in the relationship between governments and their publics, this volume explores >>more
Valiz/L'internationale
ISBN 9789492095497
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Hbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 416 pgs / 400 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/26/2018 In stock
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|  Vernon Lee—a pseudonym of Violet Paget (1856–1935)—is the most important female aesthetician to come out of 19th-century England. Though she was widely known for her supernatural fictions, Lee never gained the recognition she so clearly >>more
David Zwirner Books
ISBN 9781941701782
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Pbk, 4.25 x 7 in. / 72 pgs.
Pub Date: 05/22/2018 In stock
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|  When Marcel Duchamp invented the readymade 100 years ago, few could have predicted that these random objects taken from everyday life would have such a lasting influence on art. The Readymade Century examines Duchamp’s readymades >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959051392
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7.5 in. / 152 pgs / 80 color.
Pub Date: 02/19/2019 Awaiting stock
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|  The Trade of the Teacher
By Mieke Bal. Edited with text by Jeroen Lutters. Over a number of meetings, the theorist, critic, video artist and occasional curator Mieke Bal (born 1946) engaged in a conversation on the art of teaching with the cultural analyst Jeroen Lutters. Looking for a >>more
Valiz/vis-à-vis
ISBN 9789492095565
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9 in. / 160 pgs / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/26/2018 In stock
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|  Video Writings by Artists
Edited by Eugeni Bonet. Text by Stephen Beck, AA Bronson, Peter Campus, Peter d'Agostino, Douglas Davis, Jon Dovey, Juan Downey, et al. Just as film theory has incorporated essays and manifestos by filmmakers into a canon that also includes critics studying the “new cinematic object,” this publication gathers together a number of artists’ writings—which were previously scattered >>more
Mousse Publishing
ISBN 9788867492831
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 312 pgs.
Pub Date: 02/27/2018 Out of stock
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|  The most comprehensive portrait of art criticism ever assembled, as told by the leading writers of our time In the last 50 years, art criticism has flourished as never before. Moving from niche to mainstream, it >>more
David Zwirner Books
ISBN 9781941701898
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 544 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/20/2018 Awaiting stock
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|  In 2017, the Whitney Biennial included a painting by a white artist, Dana Schutz, of the lynched body of a young black child, Emmett Till. In 1979, anger brewed over a show at New York’s >>more
Badlands Unlimited
ISBN 9781943263141
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 160 pgs.
Pub Date: 05/22/2018 In stock
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|  You Are Here
Edited with text by Omar Kholeif. Foreword by Ed Halter. Text by Sam Ashby, Basel Abbas, Ruanne Abu Rahme, Brad Troemel, et al. You Are Here: Art After the Internet is the first major publication to critically explore both the effects and affects that the internet has had on contemporary artistic practices. Responding to an era that has >>more
HOME and Space
ISBN 9780956957177
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.25 in. / 272 pgs / 70 color.
Pub Date: 02/27/2018 In stock
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| VISUAL BOOK INDEX | ACTIVE BACKLIST  6(0) Ways
Text by Sarah Ahmed, Lilet Breddels, Iftikhar Dadi, Clementine Deliss, Stuart Hall, Sarat Maharaj, Shervin Nekuee, Simon Sheikh, Jeremy Till. The western modernist view continues to influence contemporary art discourse. 6(0) Ways interrogates the most fundamental premises of the modernist approach and casts a new light on a changed contemporary practice. >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056626846
US $40.00 CAN $54.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 208 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 08/30/2010 In stock
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|  8th Berlin Biennial for Conteporary Art
Text by Tarek Atoui, Juan A. Gaitán, Natasha Ginwala, Catalina Lozano, Mariana Munguía, Olaf Nicolai, Danh Vo. From May 29 to August 3, 2014, the 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, curated by Juan A. Gaitán, presents an exhibition at three venues throughout the city: Haus am Waldsee, Dahlem Museums–National Museums in >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775738408
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Pbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 240 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 10/31/2014 In stock
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|  A Question of Evidence
Inspired by visits to Asian countries under dictatorship, A Question of Evidence examines the inroads artists can make into the status of political documents. Most of the contributing artists collaborate with grassroots collectives that manage >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865605696
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Pbk, 5.75 x 9.5 in. / 190 pgs / 23 color / 65 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/31/2009 In stock
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|  Aesthetic Justice
Edited by Pascal Gielen, Niels Van Tomme. Text by Zoe Beloff, Arne De Boever, Mark Fisher, et al. Can art express questions about justice? Could art, perhaps, even create justice? In Aesthetic Justice, sociologist Pascal Gielen and curator Niels Van Tomme invite a variety of artists and critical thinkers—including Zoe Beloff, Arne De >>more
Valiz/Antennae Series
ISBN 9789078088868
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Pbk, 5.25 x 8.25 in. / 320 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/24/2015 In stock
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|  Air Guitar
Text by Dave Hickey. The 23 essays (or "love songs") that make up the now classic volume Air Guitar trawl a "vast, invisible underground empire" of pleasure, through record stores, honky-tonks, art galleries, jazz clubs, cocktail lounges, surf shops >>more
Art Issues Press
ISBN 9780963726452
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 208 pgs / 1 color / 15 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/02/1997 In stock
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|  All that Dutch: International Cultural Politics
Edited by Ben Hurkmans, Gitta Luiten, Taco de Neef, Henk Pröpper and Femke van Woerden-Tausk. Essays by George Lawson, Aaron Betsky, Catherine David, Chris Dercon and Els Van Der Plas. Dutch international cultural policy is unusually generous, an international exemplar. And it has recently become the subject of heated debate at home. Though there are no plans to cut back, there are questions: the government's >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056624637
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Paperback, 6.25 x 8.75 in. / 118 pgs / 26 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2006 In stock
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|  Ambulo Ergo Sum
By Anne Moeglin-Delcroix. For the Conceptual and Land artists of the 1960s, nature ceased to be an object of representation. Instead, these artists developed a relationship to nature that was driven by conceptual, literary or scientific concerns, while >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783863356552
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Hbk, 6 x 8.75 in. / 96 pgs / 24 color / 2 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/26/2016 In stock
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|  Archetypes and Historicity
By Mario Diacono. Gallerist and art writer Mario Diacono (born 1930) has been among postwar painting’s liveliest advocates, espousing, exhibiting and writing about the work of Alex Katz, Julian Schnabel, Francesco Clemente, Mimmo Paladino, Sigmar Polke, Georg Baselitz >>more
Silvana Editorale
ISBN 9788836623259
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Flexi, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 416 pgs / 90 color.
Pub Date: 10/31/2012 Out of stock
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|  Art & Activism in the Age of Globalization
Edited by Ruben De Roo, Karel Vanhaesebrouck, Lieven de Cautier. What roles can art and activism play in a post-Fordist "society of the spectacle"? Can activist art effect real change? Art & Activism in the Age of Globalization asks these and other pressing questions facing >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056627799
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Pbk, 5.75 x 9 in. / 334 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 05/31/2011 Out of stock
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|  Art Collector Report
Foreword and text by Christoph Noe, Lasse Steiner, Magnus Resch. Which city in the world currently has the highest density of contemporary art collectors? Which country? Why does Germany have nearly as many private art museums as the United States? What are the future trends >>more
Moderne Kunst Nürnberg
ISBN 9783869845302
US $50.00 CAN $67.50 TRADE
Pbk, 8.5 x 12 in. / 72 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 06/23/2015 In stock
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|  Art Czar: The Rise and Fall of Clement Greenberg
By Alice Goldfarb Marquis. In the years of his greatest dominance, Clement Greenberg almost single-handedly established Jackson Pollock and the New York School at the center of the American art world. His work set the tone for art criticism >>more
MFA Publications
ISBN 9780878467013
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Clothbound, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 336 pgs / 35 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/01/2006 In stock
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|  Art Is a Problem
By Joshua Decter. Edited by John Miller. In this volume of selected essays, interviews, curatorial texts and reviews, spanning 1986-2012, Joshua Decter examines contemporary art in relation to its various ideological, public, discursive, and social contexts. The book encompasses seven chapters: "Institutional >>more
JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037641958
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 446 pgs / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/31/2014 In stock
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|  Art On the Edge...and Over
In this highly accessible introduction to American art since the 1970s, Linda Weintraub offers art lovers a readable exploration of some of the most important artists and movements of the past three decades. Today artists >>more
Art Insights
ISBN 9780965198806
US $47.00 CAN $65.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 6.75 x 9 in. / 164 pgs / 114 b&w / 28 color.
Pub Date: 02/02/1997 Out of stock
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|  Art On the Edge...and Over
In this highly accessible introduction to American art since the 1970s, Linda Weintraub offers art lovers a readable exploration of some of the most important artists and movements of the past three decades. Today artists >>more
Art Insights
ISBN 9780965198813
US $24.95 CAN $33.95 TRADE
Paperback, 6.75 x 9 in. / 264 pgs / 114 b&w / 28 color.
Pub Date: 01/02/1997 In stock
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|  Art and/or Design?
Edited by Annett Zinsmeister.Text by Katia Baudin, Alex Coles, Christine Hill, El Ultimo Grito, Louise Schouwenberg, Wolfgang Ullrich, Annett Zinsmeister. Today artists design furnishings and lighting, even offering interior design consulting, while designers create functionless objects in limited editions. Where is the dividing "line between the two? The essays in Art and/or Design? attempt to >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783868592559
US $39.95 CAN $53.95 TRADE
Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 192 pgs / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/30/2014 In stock
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|  Art for Sale
By Dirk Boll. How is an English auction different from a Dutch auction? What distinguishes a vintage print from a period, modern or estate print? Dirk Boll, Managing Director of Christie's in Zurich, explains these and other technical >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775728157
US $25.00 CAN $34.50 TRADE
Pbk, 5 x 7.5 in. / 192 pgs.
Pub Date: 07/31/2011 Out of stock
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|  Art in Its Own Terms
Edited by Rackstraw Downes. According to the important American poet John Ashbery, “To read Fairfield Porter is to rediscover art through the eyes of someone whose intuitive love and understanding of it has been matched by few contemporaries,” while >>more
MFA Publications/artWorks
ISBN 9780878467433
US $22.50 CAN $31.00 TRADE
Paperback, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 288 pgs / 46 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/01/2008 In stock
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|  Art/Design
Text by Annett Zinsmeister. Annett Zinsmeister has developed an interdisciplinary teaching practice based on her work as an artist and educator. Her studies investigating creative processes and perceptions of space and objects are of equal relevance to artists, designers >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783868592665
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 224 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 04/30/2014 In stock
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|  Arthur C. Danto: Remarks on Art and Philosophy
Edited by Marion Boulton Stroud. "What makes something a work of art?" This was the question that philosopher Arthur C. Danto (1924–2013) asked himself after seeing Andy Warhol’s "Brillo Box" at a 1964 exhibition at the Stable Gallery in New >>more
A.S.A.P.
ISBN 9780979764271
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Clth, 6.75 x 9 in. / 144 pgs / 6 color / DVD (NTSC).
Pub Date: 03/31/2014 In stock
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|  Artist-Run Spaces
Edited by Gabriele Detterer. Text by Gabriele Detterer, AA Bronson, Christoph Cherix, Maurizio Nannucci. In the 1960s and 70s, as the parameters of art expanded to incorporate architecture and performance and increasingly drew on urban theory and the politics of everyday life, the model of the artist-run gallery space >>more
JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037641910
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 280 pgs / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/31/2013 In stock
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|  Artist?: The Hypothesis of Bodiness
By Fré Ilgen. Through the writings of Dutch artist Fré Ilgen, Artist? offers familiar as well as surprising insight into the human need to create and experience art. Well researched and masterfully executed, Ilgen's approach discusses the various >>more
Wasmuth
ISBN 9783803033642
US $40.00 CAN $54.00 FLAT40
Hbk, 9.25 x 11.25 in. / 298 pgs / 130 color / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2014 In stock
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|  Artists on Walter De Maria
Text by Richard Aldrich, Jeanne Dunning, Guillermo Faivovich & Nicolás Goldberg, Terry Winters. Artists on Walter De Maria is the second installment in a series culled from Dia Art Foundation’s Artists on Artists lectures, focused on the work of artist Walter De Maria (1935–2013). Established in 2001, the lecture >>more
Dia Art Foundation
ISBN 9780944521847
US $14.95 CAN $21.00 TRADE
Pbk, 5.25 x 7 in. / 136 pgs / 75 color.
Pub Date: 11/21/2017 In stock
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|  Arts of Japan: MFA Highlights
Edited by Anne Nishimura Morse. The MFA's holdings of Japanese art make up the finest and most comprehensive collection outside of Japan. This stunning overview features many of the collection's best-known and most beloved works, including such rare paintings as >>more
MFA Publications
ISBN 9780878467143
US $24.95 CAN $33.95 TRADE
Paperback, 7 x 9 in. / 320 pgs / 175 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/01/2008 In stock
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|  Auctioneers Who Made Art History
Edited by Dirk Boll. Text by Ursula Bode, Dirk Boll, Barbara Bongartz, This Brunner, Walter Feilchenfeldt, Celina Fox, James Goodwin, Rose Maria Gropp, Albert Kriemler, Daniella Luxembourg, et al. Procurement analysis, sales planning, customer orientation, brand management—the art market is changing more rapidly than ever before. The price that a work of art commands influences its place in the art-historical canon. Auction houses have >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775739030
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Pbk, 5.25 x 7.5 in. / 224 pgs / 67 color.
Pub Date: 05/26/2015 In stock
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|  Authenticity?
Edited with text by Barbara Cueto, Bas Hendrikx. Text by Erika Balsom, Franco Bifo Berardi, Mat Dryhurst, Holly Herndon, Rob Horning, McKenzie Wark, et al. The concept of “authenticity”—encompassing notions of “the original,” “the real,” sincerity, validity—is notoriously freighted and widely problematized. Nonetheless, it presents ambiguities that offer a highly productive departure point for analysis of the cultural shifts in our >>more
Valiz/Making Public Series
ISBN 9789492095237
US $25.00 CAN $34.50 TRADE
Pbk, 6.75 x 8.75 in. / 208 pgs / 25 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/22/2017 In stock
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|  Being Public
Edited with text by Jeroen Boomgaard, Rogier Brom. Text by Barbara Neves Alves, Anke Coumans, Florian Cramer, Eva Fotiadi, Maaike Lauwaert, Gabriel Lester, Steven ten Thije. Being Public is an anthology of essays investigating, from different perspectives, the notion of the public. “Public” is a huge concept in current debates on culture, yet the notion itself remains largely unexamined and unexplored, particularly >>more
Valiz/Making Public Series
ISBN 9789492095282
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Pbk, 6.75 x 8.75 in. / 200 pgs / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/22/2017 In stock
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|  Beyond Preconceptions
By Lawrence Rinder. Contributions by Milena Kalinovska, Jiri and Jana Sevcik. Text by Paulo Herkenhoff, Michael Newman. Bold and necessary in both critical approach and geographical range, Beyond Preconceptions: The Sixties Experiment provides a look at parallel art developments in Eastern and Western Europe and in North and South America in the >>more
Independent Curators International
ISBN 9780916365585
US $29.95 CAN $39.95 TRADE
Hardcover, 9 x 11 in. / 128 pgs / 40 color / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/02/2000 In stock
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|  Black Sphinx: On the Comedic in Modern Art
Edited and with introduction by John C. Welchman. Text by Jessica Chalmers, Janet Whitmore, Simon Critchley. Black Sphinx collects 12 essays on comedy in contemporary art by leading philosophers, art historians and theorists. Philosopher Simon Critchley and art historian Janet Whitmore consider the origins of comedic genres and survey some of >>more
JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783905770964
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 280 pgs / 53 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/31/2010 In stock
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|  Brian O'Doherty/Patrick Ireland: Word, Image and Institutional Critique
Edited by Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes. Text by Alexander Alberro, Hans Belting, Anne-Marie Bonnet, Lucy Cotter, Patricia Falguières, Christina Kennedy, Ingmar Lähnemann, Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes, Thomas McEvilley, Brenda Moore McCann, Whitney Rugg, Yvonne Scott, Mary-Ruth Walsh. This volume assembles fresh perspectives on the seminal work of New York–based Brian O’Doherty (born 1928) and his alter ego Patrick Ireland: his visual art practice, art criticism, institutional leadership and critique, media work and >>more
Valiz/vis-à-vis
ISBN 9789492095244
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Pbk, 6.25 x 9 in. / 320 pgs / 60 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/21/2017 In stock
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|  British Black Art
By Sophie Orlando. The conditions of development of British Black Art are tied up with a social and cultural history of Europe, especially the anti-immigration policies of Margaret Thatcher and their consequences, such as the Brixton riots of >>more
Dis Voir
ISBN 9782914563765
US $24.00 CAN $33.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6.5 x 8.5 in. / 128 pgs / 30 color / 15 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/25/2016 In stock
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|  Byproduct
Edited by Marisa Jahn. Byproduct presents texts from a variety of artists, activists, curators and interdisciplinary thinkers examining projects by cultural practitioners "embedded" in non-art industries. Working with the symbolic languages of these institutions, these cultural agents develop projects--or >>more
YYZ Books/REV-
ISBN 9780920397510
US $29.95 CAN $35.00 TRADE
Pbk, 7 x 10 in. / 192 pgs / 100 duotone.
Pub Date: 05/31/2011 Out of stock
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|  Cabinet 62: Milk
Edited by Sina Najafi. One of only a handful of substances produced in nature expressly as food, milk is fundamental for infant mammalian nutrition, but is also foundational in human myth and religion. Cabinet issue 62, with a special >>more
Cabinet
ISBN 9781932698701
US $12.00 CAN $17.50 TRADE
Pbk, 7.75 x 9.75 in. / 112 pgs / 70 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/27/2017 In stock
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|  Cabinet 63: The Desert
Edited by Sina Najafi. A zone of deprivation and emptiness but also a space for adventure and even divine revelation, the desert has historically resisted human domination, even as it has continued to tantalize the cultural imagination. Cabinet issue >>more
Cabinet
ISBN 9781932698718
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Pbk, 7.75 x 9.75 in. / 112 pgs / 70 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/26/2017 In stock
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|  With the possible exception of the eyes, no other part of the face is as burdened with legend, myth and significance as the nose. Cabinet issue 64, with a special section on “The Nose,” includes Christopher >>more
Cabinet
ISBN 9781932698725
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Pbk, 7.75 x 9.75 in. / 96 pgs / 70 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/27/2018 In stock
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|  The desire to know everything is old. The sophist Hippias claimed to be able to lecture on any subject, but with modernity, this ancient desire took new forms. The Renaissance invented the encyclopedia. The modern state >>more
Cabinet
ISBN 9781932698732
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Pbk, 7.75 x 9.75 in. / 96 pgs / 70 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/18/2018 In stock
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|  Uncollected Texts gathers out-of-print and unpublished early writings by groundbreaking artist Carolee Schneemann (born 1939). Edited by art historian Branden W. Joseph, the texts span diverse formats: included are journal entries, criticism, poems, essays and performance >>more
Primary Information
ISBN 9780991558551
US $20.00 CAN $27.95 TRADE
Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 120 pgs / 12 color.
Pub Date: 02/27/2018 In stock
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|  Closer than Fiction
Edited and with introduction by Brigitte Franzen, Anna Sophia Schultz. Foreword by Isabel Pfeiffer-Poensgen, Hortensia Völckers. Text by Kathrin Barutzki, Wolfgang Becker, Hans-Christian Dany, Thomas Hecken, Manfred Henningsen, John Brinckerhoff Jackson, Jean-Claude Lebensztejn, Lucy Lippard, Alexandra Puntigam, Uwe M. Schneede, Martino Stierli, Annette Urban. Closer than Fiction serves as the reading companion to the 2011 Hyper Real exhibition of photorealist art held at the Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst in Germany. Scholarly essays place American hyperrealism and photorealism in >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783863351199
US $40.00 CAN $54.00 TRADE
Flexi, 7.75 x 9.5 in. / 384 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 08/31/2012 In stock
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|  Collection Diary
By Bob Nickas. For one year, respected critic and curator Bob Nickas put his money where his eyes are: he decided to become a collector, someone who takes art off gallery walls instead of hanging it there. His >>more
JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9782940271689
US $15.00 CAN $21.50 TRADE
Paperback, 4.5 x 6.5 in. / 64 pgs / 20 color.
Pub Date: 08/15/2005 In stock
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|  Community Art
Edited by Paul De Bruyne, Pascal Gielen. Italian philosopher Antonio Negri has declared that “Every kind of change belongs to a form of community art,” inverting the convention that community art can be an integral component of social change and extending the >>more
Valiz/Antennae Series
ISBN 9789078088509
US $28.95 CAN $39.50 TRADE
Pbk, 5.25 x 8.25 in. / 373 pgs / 5 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2011 Out of stock
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|  Compassion
Edited by Jeroen Boomgaard, Rini Hurkmans, Judith Westerveld. Text by Jesse Ahlers, Nick Aikens, Sarah van Binsbergen, Jeroen Boomgaard, Pascal Gielen, Rini Hurkmans, Susan Neiman, Leonhard de Paepe, Judith Westerveld. Compassion: A Paradox in Art and Society aims to show what space an artwork can occupy in the public domain, and whether it can use this position to activate compassion in the world. In a turbulent >>more
Valiz/Making Public Series
ISBN 9789492095299
US $25.00 CAN $34.50 TRADE
Pbk, 6.75 x 8.75 in. / 160 pgs / 15 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/22/2017 In stock
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|  Contemporary Art Theory
By Igor Zabel. Edited by Igor Spanjol. Igor Zabel (1958–2005) was one of Slovenia’s foremost curators and writers. Published as a part of JRP | Ringier’s Documents critical writings series (published with Les presses du reel), this important collection of Zabel’s writings--his >>more
JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037642382
US $29.95 CAN $39.95 TRADE
Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 302 pgs / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/31/2013 In stock
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|  Contemporary Practices
Text by Ackbar Abbas. Artists today are smugglers. Recycling both real and fictional images, their proposals are no longer artworks or even art objects, but rather situations to be experimented with collectively. Nowadays the emerging creations are hyper-artworks, authorless >>more
Dis Voir
ISBN 9782906571921
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Paperback, 6.5 x 8.5 in. / 128 pgs.
Pub Date: 10/02/1999 In stock
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|  In this book of interviews, Heidi Zuckerman, CEO and Director of the Aspen Art Museum, opens up the studios and practices of more than thirty prominent contemporary artists through personal and illuminating conversations. A perceptive, sensitive >>more
Aspen Art Press
ISBN 9780934324809
US $24.95 CAN $33.95 TRADE
Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 300 pgs / 30 color.
Pub Date: 10/24/2017 In stock
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|  Critical Mass
Edited by Kate Fowle, Ruth Addison. Text by Ekaterina Degot, Kate Fowle, Oleg Kulik, Ekaterina Lazareva, Viktor Misiano, Dmitry Vilensky, Anatoly Zhilyaev, et al. With the launch of Moscow Art Magazine in 1993, curator and critic Viktor Misiano gave readers access to a rich variety of theory, criticism and artists’ texts by Russian and international writers. It is the only >>more
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art
ISBN 9788090671423
US $35.00 CAN $47.50 TRADE
Pbk, 8.25 x 11 in. / 370 pgs / 100 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/27/2018 In stock
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|  Critical Writing Ensembles
Edited by Kaya García-Antón, Antonio Cataldo, Diana Campbell Betancourt. Text by Anshuman Das Gupta, Chus Martínez, Shukla Sawant, Filipa Ramos, Yin Ker, Belinder Dhanoa, Quinn Latimer, Salima Hashmi, et al. This two-volume set brings together essays, presentations, poems and other writingsfrom the eponymous four-day session held during the Dhaka Art Summit in February 2016. >>more
Mousse Publishing
ISBN 9788867492701
US $28.00 CAN $38.50 FLAT40
Pbk, 6 x 8.75 in. / 464 pgs.
Pub Date: 08/22/2017 In stock
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|  Cultural Anthropophagy
Introduction by Pablo Lafuente. Text by Lisette Lagnado, Renato Sztutman, Mirtes Marins de Oliveira, Carmen Mörsch, Catrin Seefranz. Interviews by Paulo Herkenhoff. The 1998 Bienal de São Paulo remade art history from a Brazilian perspective, and presented a new model for exhibition-making in the era of postcolonial globalization. The show employed the Brazilian notion of anthropophagy as >>more
Afterall Books
ISBN 9783863355548
US $27.50 CAN $37.50 TRADE
Pbk, 6 x 8.5 in. / 216 pgs / 95 color / 7 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/27/2015 In stock
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|  Curating Research
Edited with introduction by Paul O'Neill, Mick Wilson. Text by Hyunjoo Byeon, Carson Chan & Joanna Warsza, Chris Fite-Wassilak, et al. This anthology of newly commissioned texts presents a series of detailed examples of the different kinds of knowledge production that have recently emerged within the field of curatorial practice. The first volume of its kind >>more
Open Editions/De Appel
ISBN 9780949004031
US $35.00 CAN $47.50 TRADE
Pbk, 5 x 8.5 in. / 264 pgs.
Pub Date: 02/24/2015 In stock
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|  Curiosity and Method: Ten Years of Cabinet Magazine
Edited by Sina Najafi. Since its launch in late 2000, Cabinet magazine has become a touchstone for a certain approach to understanding culture, one that shuns orthodox distinctions--high/low, serious/humorous, professional/amateur--in favor of a commitment to the idea that all >>more
Cabinet Books
ISBN 9781932698565
US $49.95 CAN $67.50 TRADE
Clth, 8.75 x 11 in. / 528 pgs / 339 color / 113 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/31/2012 In stock
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|  CyberArts 2017
Edited by Hannes Leopoldseder, Christine Schöpf, Gerfried Stocker. Announced annually since 1987, the Prix Ars Electronica is considered a trend barometer of global media art. With numerous images, texts and statements by the jury, the book assembles works that were awarded prizes in 2017 >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775743365
US $45.00 CAN $60.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 6.5 x 9.75 in. / 256 pgs / 530 color.
Pub Date: 01/23/2018 In stock
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|  Danto on Scully
Text by Arthur C. Danto. Influenced by Nietzsche, Hegel and Schopenhauer, the American art critic Arthur Danto (1924-2013) explored theories of representation, coined the term "artworld" and posited the end of a certain history of Western art. One of the >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775739634
US $55.00 CAN $72.50 TRADE
Clth, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 108 pgs / 36 color.
Pub Date: 06/23/2015 In stock
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|  David Hammons Is on Our Mind
Edited by Anthony Huberman. Text by Tongo Eisen-Martin, David Hammons, Fred Moten. The CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, an exhibition space and research institute in San Francisco, dedicates year-long seasons of discussions and public events to a single artist. In 2016–17, the American artist David Hammons >>more
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
ISBN 9780984960941
US $20.00 CAN $27.95 TRADE
Hbk, 8.25 x 11.75 in. / 88 pgs / 28 color.
Pub Date: 08/28/2018 Out of stock
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|  David Robbins: The Velvet Grind
Edited by Lionel Bovier, Fabrice Stroun. Asked to contribute to Artforum's “Top Ten” column, David Robbins used one of his entries for “Electricity: That we don't annually celebrate Electricity Day is unfathomable.” That sense of whimsy, even amid an advanced critical >>more
JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783905701029
US $22.00 CAN $30.50 TRADE
Paperback, 6 x 8.5 in. / 320 pgs / 16 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/15/2006 In stock
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|  Delusive Spaces
Text by Eric Kluitenberg. In 2006, NBC posted clips from its fall lineup on YouTube, and the government produced antidrug spots. As new media is gaining not only street cred but real market share, traditional media outlets are increasingly >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056626174
US $32.50 CAN $42.50 TRADE
Paperback, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 391 pgs.
Pub Date: 04/01/2008 In stock
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|  Demonstrations
Text by Sabine Witt, Britta Peters, Fanti Baum, et al. Between the “Arab Spring” and the Occupy movement, 2011 will certainly be remembered as the year of insurrection, and this volume could not come at a more timely moment. Demonstrations offers an interdisciplinary discussion of >>more
Moderne Kunst Nürnberg
ISBN 9783869842882
US $75.00 CAN $99.00 TRADE
Clth, 7.25 x 9.5 in. / 480 pgs / 135 color / 33 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/31/2012 In stock
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|  Difference on Display
Text by Ine Gevers, Renu Addlahka, Michel Callon, Johnson Cheu, Amade M'Charek. In society, what passes for normal, and who gets to decide? Who “looks” normal, and where do we draw the line? At a facial wrinkle, at a visible prosthesis, pills to increase intelligence, drastic cosmetic >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056627157
US $45.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 384 pgs / 280 color.
Pub Date: 03/31/2010 In stock
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|  Do It
Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Hoor Al Qasimi. Embodying Marcel Duchamp’s words that “art is a game between all people of all periods,” Do It [in Arabic] features more than 70 artists’ instructions, in both English and Arabic, that anyone can use to >>more
Sharjah Art Foundation
ISBN 9789948446729
US $29.95 CAN $39.95 TRADE
Pbk, 5 x 7.75 in. / 150 pgs.
Pub Date: 10/25/2016 In stock
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|  Double
Edited by Serkan Ozkaya. Double includes a group of artists, architects, critics, historians and theorists, discussing the effects, desires and implications in the act of doubling and replicating. Society has constantly regulated the act of copying. Almost as an >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037783450
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Pbk, 7.5 x 5 in. / 164 pgs / 402 images.
Pub Date: 11/25/2013 In stock
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|  Douglas Crimp: DISSS-CO (A Fragment)
MoMA PS1 presents the fourth iteration of Greater New York. Recurring every five years, the exhibition has traditionally showcased the work of emerging artists living and working in the New York metropolitan area. Considering the >>more
MoMA PS1
ISBN 9780989985949
US $10.00 CAN $14.95 TRADE
Pbk, 5.75 x 8.75 in. / 36 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/22/2016 Out of stock
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|  Drawing Then
Text by Richard Shiff, Robert Storr, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Suzanne Hudson, Roni Feinstein, Anna Lovatt, Griselda Pollock. Inspired by the 1976 exhibition Drawing Now at The Museum of Modern Art, Drawing Then investigates revolutionary developments in the practice of drawing that emerged in the United States during a decade of radical social >>more
Dominique Lévy
ISBN 9781944379049
US $70.00 CAN $92.50 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 11.75 in. / 208 pgs / 137 color / 41 duotone.
Pub Date: 07/26/2016 In stock
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|  During the Exhibition the Gallery Will Be Closed
By Camiel van Winkel. In this collection of essays, Amsterdam art historian and critic Camiel van Winkel digs up the conceptual roots of contemporary art, design and photography to argue that the art of today is, as a whole, >>more
Valiz
ISBN 9789078088561
US $34.95 CAN $45.95 TRADE
Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 304 pgs / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/31/2012 In stock
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|  Engadin Art Talks
Edited by Cristina Bechler, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Beatrix Ruf. Text by Vito Acconci, Doug Aitken, Simone Forti, Hamish Fulton, Sarah Morris, Mai-Thu Perret, Tobias Rehberger, Lawrence Weiner, Cerith Wyn Evans, Annalisa & Peter Zumthor. This volume compiles ideas and projects from well-known artists, architects, designers, filmmakers and researchers on mountainous regions not only in Switzerland, but worldwide. It includes writings by Vito Acconci, Doug Aitken, Ron Arad, Nairy Baghramian >>more
JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037643501
US $29.95 CAN $39.95 FLAT40
Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 264 pgs / 43 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/28/2014 In stock
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|  Esopus 23
Edited by Tod Lippy. Esopus 23 features artists’ projects by Karo Akpokiere, Chuck Kelton, Stefan Kürten, Marilyn Minter, Mickalene Thomas and Jody Wood. Other contents include an essay by Karl Ove Knausgaard (presented as a removable book); 100 frames >>more
Esopus Foundation Ltd.
ISBN 9780989911726
US $40.00 CAN $54.00 TRADE
Pbk, 9 x 11.5 in. / 254 pgs / 350 color / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/14/2016 In stock
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|  Ethics in Aesthetics
Edited by Annett Zinsmeister. Text by Stephan Bohle, Christian Demand, Raphie Etgar, Renate Flagmeier, Johan Holten, Leiko Ikemura, Derrick de Kerckhove, Césare Peeren, Michaela Ott, Rainer Leschke, Annett Zinsmeister. In 1790, Immanuel Kant elevated “the beautiful to a symbol of the morally good.” Two hundred years later, “more ethics, less aesthetics” was the tagline chosen for the 2000 Venice Biennial for architecture. This volume >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783868591910
US $35.00 CAN $47.50 TRADE
Pbk, 6 x 9.5 in. / 256 pgs / 25 color / 80 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/30/2013 In stock
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|  Exile of the Imaginary: Politics Aesthetics Love
Edited by Juli Carson. Text by Parveen Adams, Juli Carson, Gregory Ulmer. This collection of art-historic, psychoanalytic and linguistic essays ponders the relationship between post-conceptual art practice and the legacy of Roland Barthes's famed A Lover's Discourse: Fragments--specifically, Barthes's assertion that love can be a critical "medium" >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865602114
US $29.00 CAN $39.50 FLAT40
Paperback / 9.5 x 6.75 in / 184 pgs/ illustrated throughout
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 In stock
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|  Facing Value: Radical Perspectives from the Arts
Edited by Maaike Lauwaert, Francien van Westrenen. Text by Walter Benjamin, Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Michel de Certeau, et al. Value is an important concept in contemporary society, an immaterial force shaping the way we live together. Today, however, we seem to measure value only in terms of time and money. To reformulate value as >>more
Valiz/Stroom Den Haag
ISBN 9789492095008
US $29.95 CAN $39.95 TRADE
Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 444 pgs / 48 color / 300 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/27/2017 Out of stock
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|  Fairland: Explorations, Insights and Outlooks on the Future of Art Fairs
Edited by Francesco Garutti. Text by Stefano Baia Curioni, et al. How do we imagine the art fair of the future? In addition to considering the issues usually invoked in discussions about the contemporary art fair—the relationship between fairs and biennials, questions about the potential cultural >>more
Koenig Books
ISBN 9783863355494
US $19.95 CAN $27.95 TRADE
Pbk, 7.5 x 4 in. / 180 pgs / 29 color / 27 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/23/2015 In stock
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|  Faux Vagin
Edited by Gerhard Graulich, Kornelia Röder. Text by Thomas Zaunschirm. Duchamp's automobile license plate titled "Faux Vagin" is considered Duchamp's last readymade. In his analysis, the author of this third volume in the Poiesis series confronts the basic questions of readymades as an independent art >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775739306
US $45.00 CAN $60.00 SDNR30
Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 272 pgs / 47 color.
Pub Date: 05/26/2015 In stock
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|  Figure of Motion
Edited by Annett Zinsmeister. Text by Inge Baxmann, Margitta Buchert, Söke Dinkla, Christophe Girot, Scott de Lahunta, Claus Pias, Stephan Rammler, Annett Zinsmeister. Interviews with Michael Schumacher, Chris Bangle. From the twitch of a finger to the expansion of the universe, motion informs and shapes every facet of our world and culture. Figure of Motion is itself a dynamic publication, shifting easily from renaissance >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783868591101
US $40.00 CAN $54.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 240 pgs / 85 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/30/2012 In stock
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|  From Image to Interaction
By Arjen Mulder. In From Image to Interaction, Amsterdam-based essayist and media theorist Arjen Mulder retells the past 500 years of visual arts to construe their culmination in the interactive art of today. Mulder investigates the origins of >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056628192
US $30.00 CAN $40.00 TRADE
Pbk, 5.5 x 8 in. / 240 pgs / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/31/2011 In stock
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|  Gender Check: A Reader
Edited by Bojana Pejic. Following the collapse of the Berlin wall and the Soviet Bloc in 1989, gender studies and the theorization of feminism boomed in eastern Europe, from the Baltics to the Caucasus. Bojana Pejic's substantial companion volume >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865608833
US $39.95 CAN $53.95 TRADE
Pbk, 7 x 9.75 in. / 380 pgs.
Pub Date: 04/30/2011 Out of stock
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|  Give Up Art is the first collected anthology of Belfast-born writer Maria Fusco (born 1972). Operating across the genres of fiction, criticism and theory, Fusco’s work has helped forge a contemporary space for critical art writing in the UK and >>more
New Documents
ISBN 9781927354254
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Hbk, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 152 pgs / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/27/2018 In stock
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|  Global Studies
Edited by Hans Belting, Jacob Birken, Peter Weibel, Andrea Buddensieg. Text by Thomas Fillitz, Rania Gaafar, Anthony Gardner, Birgit Hopfener, Nicola Müllerschön, Adele Tan et al. This is the third volume in Hans Belting and Peter Weibel’s Global Art and the Museum series, which analyzes how globalization affects the industry of contemporary art. Alongside case studies of individual artists, Global Studies >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775732024
US $60.00 CAN $79.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 456 pgs / 22 color / 74 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/31/2012 In stock
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| |  Hans Ulrich Obrist & Rem Koolhaas: The Conversation Series
In this traditional paperback, renowned critic and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist teams up with Dutch avant-garde architect and paradigm-shifting intellectual, Rem Koolhaas, for a discussion of Koolhaas's work in China, his designs for Prada, architecture >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865600776
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Paperback, 5.5 x 8 in. / 68 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/01/2007 In stock
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|  Hans Ulrich Obrist & Thomas Demand: The Conversation Series
Volume number 10 in the Conversation Series with the influential museum director, curator, writer and conversationalist Hans Ulrich Obrist, is given over to an intensive talk with the important German conceptual artist, Thomas Demand, who >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865602046
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Paperback, 5.5 x 8.5 in. / 174 pgs / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 Out of stock
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|  Hans Ulrich Obrist & Yona Friedman: The Conversation Series
"People make too much of architecture. I have a running quarrel with architects who overestimate architecture. Reality is at eye-level with people walking down the street." Born in 1923 in Budapest, Hungary, Yona Friedman is >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865601711
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Paperback, 5.5 x 8.5 in. / 126 pgs / 29 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 In stock
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|  Hans Ulrich Obrist: Battery City: A Post-Olympic Beijing Mini-Marathon
Edited and with text by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Hu Fan. On January 31, 2008, Swiss curator, critic and historian Hans Ulrich Obrist conducted a "marathon" of conversations in Beijing, after the example of his famous Serpentine Gallery marathons. This marathon called on artists, cultural producers >>more
JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037640968
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Pbk, 4.75 x 8.25 in. / 138 pgs / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2010 In stock
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|  Hans Ulrich Obrist: The Athens Dialogues
Edited by Karen Marta. Text by Dakis Joannou, Hans Ulrich Obrist. Photographs by Ari Marcopoulos. Hans Ulrich Obrist often quotes the great art historian Erwin Panofsky, who once famously said that "the future is built from fragments of the past." How these fragments accumulate is often a matter of historical >>more
DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art/Koenig Books, London
ISBN 9783960983897
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Pbk, 5.25 x 7.75 in. / 120 pgs / 127 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/25/2018 In stock
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|  Hippias Minor or The Art of Cunning
Edited by Paul Chan, Richard Fletcher, Karen Marta. Introduction by Paul Chan. Foreword by Dakis Joannou. Translated by Sarah Ruden. Text by Richard Fletcher. One of Plato's most controversial dialogues, Hippias Minor details Socrates' claims that there is no difference between a person who tells the truth and one who lies, and that the good man is the one >>more
Badlands Unlimited/DESTE
ISBN 9781936440894
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 144 pgs / 13 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/11/2015 In stock
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|  Hotel Theory Reader
Edited with text by Sohrab Mohebbi, Ruth Estevez. Text by Chris Kraus, Snejanka Mihaylova, V-Girls, Cally Spooner, Art & Language, Tirdad Zolghadr, David Antin, Wayne Koestenbaum, Bruce Hainley. Hotel Theory Reader explores the possibilities of theory as an art form, bringing together ideas initially explored in an exhibition organized in 2015 at REDCAT | CalArts’ Downtown Center for Contemporary Arts. The book assembles a >>more
Fillip Editions / REDCAT
ISBN 9781927354278
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7.5 in. / 240 pgs / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/26/2017 In stock
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|  Hou Hanru: On The Mid-Ground
Hou Hanru is undoubtedly one of the most dynamic and innovative curators and critics on the contemporary art scene today. Known for such ground-breaking exhibitions as Cities on the Move (co-curated with Hans Ulrich Obrist), >>more
Timezone 8
ISBN 9789628638826
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Paperback, 6.5 x 8.75 in. / 281 pgs / 120 color / 194 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/02/2003 In stock
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|  How to Do Things with Art
By Dorothea von Hantlemann. Edited by Karen Marta. Foreword by Hans Ulrich Obrist. Art has never been as culturally and economically prominent as it is today. How can artists themselves shape the social relevance and impact of their work? In How to Do Things with Art, German art >>more
JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037641040
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 208 pgs / 19 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/30/2010 Out of stock
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|  I Cry: The Desire to Be Rejected
By Chris Cheney, Amy Lawless. I Cry: The Desire to Be Rejected is a collaborative, hybrid composition by Chris Cheney and Amy Lawless: part essay, part poem and part social media collage. In the composition of this book, the authors >>more
Pioneer Works Press
ISBN 9780990593553
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Pbk, 4.75 x 7.25 in. / 110 pgs / 1 duotone / 31 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/23/2016 In stock
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|  Iconography and Archetypes
By Mario Diacono. Gallerist and art writer Mario Diacono (born 1930) has been among postwar painting's liveliest advocates, espousing, exhibiting and writing about the work of Alex Katz, Julian Schnabel, Francesco Clemente, Mimmo Paladino, Sigmar Polke, Georg Baselitz >>more
Silvana Editorale
ISBN 9788836616336
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Flexi, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 488 pgs / 90 color.
Pub Date: 03/31/2011 In stock
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|  Image and Narrative
By Jaroslav Vostry, Miroslav Vojtechovsky. Image plus narrative equals tableau--or “scenicity,” the phenomenon of staging, in the visual and dramatic arts and in commerce. In this original and imaginative volume, scenicity is taken to describe any creative arrangement in a >>more
Kant
ISBN 9788074370533
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Pbk, 7 x 9.5 in. / 304 pgs / 79 color / 114 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/31/2013 In stock
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|  Imaginary Economics
Edited by Olav Velthuis. A British artist who destroys all of his belongings, a Dutch artist's initiative that charts organization cultures, a Swiss artist who sells his right to participate in an exhibition via an online auction, an American >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056624019
US $20.00 CAN $27.95 FLAT40
Paperback, 4.75 x 7.75 in. / 128 pgs / 16 color.
Pub Date: 05/15/2005 Out of stock
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|  Impuls Marcel Duchamp
Edited by Kornelia Röder, Antonia Napp. Text by Gerhard Graulich, Kornelia Röder. With this volume, the Duchamp Research Center at the Staatliches Museum in Schwerin, Germany, inaugurates a new series titled Poesis, collecting the most recent research on Marcel Duchamp from the world's foremost scholars at work >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775731829
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 208 pgs / 38 color.
Pub Date: 12/31/2011 In stock
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|  In Favor Of Today's Art
By Francois Dagognet. French philosopher Francois Dagognet explores the transition from image to environment to installation in the history of art and the history of domestic objects. An important contribution to the ongoing debate of modernism. >>more
Dis Voir
ISBN 9782906571259
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Paperback, 6.5 x 8.5 / 160 pgs / 21 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/02/1993 In stock
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|  In Part: Writings by Julie Ault
Edited by Julie Ault, Nicolas Linnert. Introduction by Lucy R. Lippard. Spanning more than three decades, In Part brings together a full spectrum of the New York–based artist, writer and activist Julie Ault’s (born 1957) published texts through carefully selected extracts in a single volume. Reprinted in >>more
Dancing Foxes Press/Galerie Buchholz
ISBN 9780998632643
US $32.50 CAN $42.50 TRADE
Hbk, 6 x 9 in. / 276 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/21/2017 In stock
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|  In the Making
By Linda Weintraub. From the first page to the last, from Thomas Kinkaid (really!) to Matthew Barney, this book serves as a launching pad. Conclusions are perpetually delayed. Resolutions are continually postponed. The text is written for takeoff, >>more
D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
ISBN 9781891024597
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Paperback, 8 x 10 in. / 415 pgs / 120 color.
Pub Date: 07/02/2003 In stock
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|  Interrupting the City
Edited by Sander Bax, Pascal Gielen, Bram Ieven. Text by Sander Bax, Bojana Cveji´c, Lieven De Cauter, Pascal Gielen, Odile Heynders, Bram Ieven, Vanessa Joosen, Jenniffer Miller, et al. Interrupting the City explores the ways in which artistic practices and interventions intersect with the public sphere. The tactics by which an intervention is achieved may vary, ranging from a media offensive to a riot >>more
Valiz/Antennae Series
ISBN 9789492095022
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Pbk, 5.25 x 8.25 in. / 328 pgs.
Pub Date: 04/26/2016 In stock
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|  Interviews Volume 1 By Gerald Matt
Text by Gerald Matt. Contributions by Matthew Barney, Anri Sala, Tony Matelli, Tracey Moffatt, Shirin Neshat. During his long and illustrious career as a curator, Gerald Matt, the current Director of Kunsthalle Vienna, had many insightful conversations with the top artists of the day. Gathered here are 40 interviews with contemporary >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865601889
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 360 pgs / 103 color / 21 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 In stock
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|  Interviews on Art
Edited with interview by Francesca Pietropaolo. Over the past three decades, Robert Storr has set the critical and curatorial standard for American art As a museum curator, academic, editor and writer, Robert Storr has come into contact with the most important artists >>more
Heni Publishing
ISBN 9780993010354
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Hbk, 8.25 x 10.25 in. / 900 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 11/21/2017 In stock
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|  Dunham writes about what is made and why it matters with incisiveness, wit and candor Artist Carroll Dunham is one of the most acclaimed and innovative painters of his generation. But he is also an astute >>more
Badlands Unlimited
ISBN 9781943263080
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 256 pgs / 32 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/25/2017 In stock
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|  Invalid Format: An Anthology of Triple Canopy
Invalid Format is an archive of the widespread activities of Triple Canopy, the New York–based magazine and publisher. The book translates into print work that originally appeared in other forms. The third volume of Invalid >>more
Triple Canopy
ISBN 9780984734634
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 288 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 02/28/2014 In stock
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|  Invalid Format: An Anthology of Triple Canopy
Edited by Triple Canopy. Text by Rivka Galchen, Adam Helms, et al. Invalid Format is an archive of the widespread publishing activities of Triple Canopy, the editorial collective and online magazine based in New York, Los Angeles and Berlin. The book, designed in collaboration with Project Projects, >>more
Triple Canopy
ISBN 9780984734603
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 336 pgs / 156 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/31/2012 Out of stock
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|  JFL: What Does Why Mean?
This funny, dry and absurd twist on conventional art criticism serves as a great reference book for 20th Century art criticism. In 2001, while residing at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, artist and curator Octavian >>more
J&L Books
ISBN 9780974690841
US $10.00 CAN $14.95 TRADE
Paperback, 5.25 x 7.75 in. / 200 pgs
Pub Date: 06/01/2007 In stock
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|  Jac Leirner in Conversation with Adele Nelson
Text by Robert Storr. This third publication in the Fundación Cisneros' Conversaciones/Conversations series puts Brazilian conceptual artist Jac Leirner in dialogue with art historian Adele Nelson. Leirner (born 1961) emerged in the early 1990s at the forefront of a >>more
Fundación Cisneros/Colección Patricia Phelps De Cisneros
ISBN 9780982354445
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Hbk, 6 x 9.25 in. / 220 pgs / 46 color / 15 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/31/2011 In stock
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|  John Miller: The Price Club
By John Miller. Edited by Lionel Bovier. For writer, critic and artist John Miller, the issue of the production-reception of a work of art is a genuine dialectic. He argues that the artist has no choice but to address the sociopolitical questions >>more
JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9782940271054
US $15.00 CAN $21.50 TRADE
Paperback, 6 x 8.5 in. / 192 pgs.
Pub Date: 08/15/2005 In stock
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|  Landscape
Text by Katrin Bucher Trantow, Reinhard Braun, Dirck Möllmann, Katia Huemer, Peter Pakesch. This comprehensive reader explores the American landscape in the second half of the 20th century, showing how a romantic American tradition in the representation of the countryside reached its apotheosis at the same time in >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783863357313
US $45.00 CAN $60.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 6 x 9.5 in. / 280 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 09/29/2015 In stock
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|  "As for you, my dear Balthus, you surely know full well the love that connects us. Yours with all my heart, Rilke." Never before translated into English, Rainer Maria Rilke’s fascinating Letters to a Young Painter, >>more
David Zwirner Books
ISBN 9781941701645
US $12.95 CAN $18.50 TRADE
Pbk, 4.25 x 7 in. / 64 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/21/2017 In stock
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|  Liquid Antiquity
Edited by Brooke Holmes, Karen Marta. Text by Hal Foster, Simon Goldhill, Brooke Holmes, Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Giulia Sissa, Maria Stavrinaki, et al. Neither an academic textbook nor a conventional art book, Liquid Antiquity explores the intersection between contemporary art and antiquity in a fluid stream of images, ideas and voices. This visual essay spans more than 2,500 years >>more
DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art
ISBN 9782839920674
US $49.95 CAN $67.50 TRADE
Hbk, 6.75 x 10 in. / 303 pgs / 99 color.
Pub Date: 05/23/2017 In stock
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|  Listen Here Now! Argentine Art of the 1960s
Edited by Ines Katzenstein and Andrea Giunta. Essays by Ana Longoni, Mariano Mestman, Marcelo E. Pacheco and Oscar Tern. In recent writings and exhibitions on postwar art, the avant-garde of 1960s Argentina has emerged as one of the most vital and original of that extraordinarily dynamic period. Although these artists were as radical as >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870703669
US $24.95 CAN $33.95 TRADE
Hbk, 8 x 12 in. / 65 pgs / 44 color / 4 duotone.
Pub Date: 06/02/2004 Out of stock
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|  London Dialogues
Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Rem Koolhaas. This volume inaugurates a new series of publications edited by three leading authors on the world's architectural and artistic scene: H.U.Obrist, Rem Koolhaas and Stefano Boeri. This series of dialogues conducted by Hans Ulrich Obrist >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788857200590
US $29.95 CAN $37.50 TRADE
Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 377 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 10/30/2012 In stock
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|  Looking through Duchamp’s Door
By Hans Belting. In this new book by Hans Belting, three essays are united by one theme—the persistence of perspective after its supposed demise in the hands of modernism. Belting addresses perspective in the works of Marcel Duchamp, >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865606051
US $49.95 CAN $67.50 TRADE
Pbk, 6 x 9.25 in. / 192 pgs / 35 color / 25 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/28/2010 In stock
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|  Lost and Living (in) Archives
Edited by Annet Dekker. Text by Babak Afrassiabi, Dušan Barok, Tina Bastajian, Nanna Bonde Thylstrup, Özge Çelikaslan, Annet Dekker, Olia Lialina, Manu Luksch, Nicolas Malevé, Aymeric Mansoux, Michael Murtaugh, Josien Pieterse, et al. An archive is a site of collective memory, a collection of documents and records that is preserved for historical purposes. But the stability and permanence of the traditional archive has been reconfigured by digital archives, which >>more
Valiz/Making Public Series
ISBN 9789492095268
US $25.00 CAN $34.50 TRADE
Pbk, 6.75 x 8.75 in. / 304 pgs / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/21/2017 In stock
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|  Luis Camnitzer in Conversation with Alexander Alberro
The Fundación Cisneros’ Conversaciones/Conversations series publishes firsthand testimonies of leading artists and intellectuals from Latin America. German-born Uruguayan Luis Camnitzer (born 1937) has been an influential artist, theorist, teacher and curator for nearly five decades. >>more
Fundación Cisneros/Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
ISBN 9780982354490
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Hbk, 6 x 9.25 in. / 240 pgs / 124 color.
Pub Date: 05/31/2014 In stock
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|  Mnemosyne: A History of the Arts of Memory
By François Boutonnet. The Ancient Greeks invented the art of memory (personified as Mnemosyne) 2,700 years ago. More than merely a mnemonic device useful to orators, they developed a technique for visually representing the world, which has since >>more
Dis Voir
ISBN 9782914563833
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Pbk, 6.5 x 8.5 in. / 128 pgs / 28 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/25/2016 In stock
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|  Mobile Autonomy
Edited by Nico Dockx, Pascal Gielen. Text by A Dog Republic, Nico Dockx, Jef Geys, Pascal Gielen, Erik Hagoort, Thomas Hirschhorn, et al. Autonomous labor and its attendant values have now become familiar tools of neoliberal capitalism: work has become freelance, flexible, mobile, project-based, hybrid and temporary. If these conditions are novel to the general economy, this way >>more
Valiz/Antennae Series
ISBN 9789492095107
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Pbk, 5.25 x 8.25 in. / 256 pgs / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/26/2016 In stock
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|  Moving Together
By Rudi Laermans. Moving Together examines contemporary dance from both a theoretical and a practical perspective, with interactions between the two. The author analyses three important tendencies in contemporary dance: "pure" dance, dance theatre, and (self-) reflexive dance. >>more
Valiz/Antennae Series
ISBN 9789078088523
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Pbk, 5.25 x 8.25 in. / 432 pgs / 6 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/29/2015 In stock
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|  Museums Of Tomorrow
Edited by Maurice Berger. Introduction by Barbara Buhler-Lynes. Conversations with Alexander Alberro, Maxwell Anderson, George Baker, Stefano Basilico, Jonathan Binstock, Dan Cameron, Donna de Salvo and Olu Oguibe. What is the future of the art museum? Should artists and critics have greater say in museum programming? What role can new museum technologies play in the future of the art museum? How should art >>more
The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture/Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
ISBN 9781890761073
US $14.95 CAN $21.00 TRADE
Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 234 pgs.
Pub Date: 05/15/2005 Out of stock
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|  Native Land
Text by by Paul Virillo, Raymond Depardon, Diller, Scofidio + Renfro, Mark Hansen, Laura Kurgan, Ben Rubin. Filmmaker Raymond Depardon and eminent philosopher Paul Virilio discuss the relationship between ideas of homeland and rootedness, at a time when human migration has reached an unprecedented scale. Illustrating their dialogue, the artists and architects >>more
Actes Sud
ISBN 9782742789047
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Pbk, 4.25 x 7 in. / 158 pgs / 15 color.
Pub Date: 10/31/2010 In stock
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|  Nettitudes
By Josephine Bosma. In the 1990s, net art burst onto the scene as a radical reflection on the role of technology in contemporary art. In Nettitudes, Dutch art critic Josephine Bosma documents the tumultuous history of art as >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056628000
US $32.00 CAN $42.50 TRADE
Pbk, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 252 pgs.
Pub Date: 08/31/2011 Out of stock
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|  New Relations in Art and Society
Edited by Friederike Wappler. Text by Claire Bishop, Thomas Hirschhorn, Franz Erhardt Walther, Lawrence Weiner, Jacques Ranciere, Astrod Wege. Theodor W. Adorno described artworks as “windowless monads”: closed, autonomous worlds that both contain society and turn away from it. This essential contradiction is at the core of any discussion of art that aspires to >>more
JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037641897
US $47.50 CAN $55.00 TRADE
Pbk, 7 x 9.5 in. / 338 pgs / 80 color / 39 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/31/2012 In stock
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|  Newtopia
Edited by Katerina Gregos, Elena Sorokina. Text by Ariella Azoulay, Stephane Hessel, Lina Khatib, Samuel Moyn, Raoul Vaneigem. Newtopia: The State of Human Rights looks at human rights through the work of 70 international contemporary artists. Many of these artists come from countries or regions where human rights has been or is a >>more
Ludion
ISBN 9789461300751
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Hbk, 6 x 8.75 in. / 256 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 03/31/2013 In stock
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|  Notes on Glaze
In the spring of 2010, the Brooklyn-based quarterly magazine Cabinet invited poet and cultural critic Wayne Koestenbaum to begin writing a regular column. Entitled "Legend," the column had a highly unusual premise. Every three months, >>more
Cabinet Books
ISBN 9781932698589
US $25.00 CAN $34.50 TRADE
Hbk, 5.5 x 8 in. / 96 pgs / 14 color / 4 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/24/2016 In stock
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|  Now is the Time
Edited by Margriet Schavemaker, Christel Vesters, Ingrid Commandeur, Jelle Bouwhuis, Gijs Frieling. The twentieth century was brought to a definitive conclusion by the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. What developments has art undergone since this violent end to an era, and what significance >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056627218
US $40.00 CAN $54.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 192 pgs / 35 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/31/2010 Out of stock
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|  Of Bridges & Borders Vol. II
Edited by Sigismond de Vajay. Text by Marc Augé, Jenny Holzer, Lawrence Weiner, Ricardo Menéndez Salmón, Saskia Sassen, Graciela Speranza, Fatima Velez, Diana Wechsler, Lawrence Weiner, Olivier Zybok. Anthropologists, writers, philosophers, artists, sociologists and architects from around the world gather in this second Of Bridges & Borders volume to voice their views of the challenges facing society today. The content ranges from anecdotes >>more
JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037642634
US $35.00 CAN $47.50 FLAT40
Hbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 384 pgs / 60 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/30/2014 In stock
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|  Open 06
Essays by Lieven de Cauter, Sven Lütticken, Thomas Y. Levin, Gijs Van Oenen, Guus Beumer, Jouke Kleerebezem, Q.S. Serafijn, and Willem van Weelden. Post 9-11, post Iraqi invasion, post (we wish) the War on Terrorism, there is a great deal of interest in safety in the public domain, both in the political realm and among the general public. >>more
nai010 publishers/SKOR
ISBN 9789056623821
US $30.00 CAN $40.00 FLAT40
Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 176 pgs / 90 color.
Pub Date: 08/02/2004 In stock
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|  Open 07: (No) Memory
Edited by Liesbeth Melis and Jorinde Seijdel. Essays by Wolfgang Ernst, Jouke Kleerebezem, Geert Lovink, Sven Lütticken, Rudi Laermans, Paul Meurs, Frank van Vree and Cor Wagenaar. How can cultural heritage be made accessible without resisting new developments, or turning city and countryside into a museum? What is the impact of the media and digital storage techniques on the social and historic >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056623937
US $30.00 CAN $40.00 FLAT40
Paperback, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 176 pgs / 80 color.
Pub Date: 03/15/2005 Out of stock
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|  Open 08: (In)Visibility
Edited by Liesbeth Melis and Jorinde Sijdel. In today's hypervisualized culture, has every message or social agenda been usurped by styling, commerc, and fashion? What position does art occupy in conveying the meanings of everyday design? What position should it occupy? And >>more
nai010 publishers/SKOR
ISBN 9789056624330
US $30.00 CAN $40.00 FLAT40
Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 176 pgs / 90 color.
Pub Date: 08/15/2005 In stock
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|  Parachute: The Anthology
Edited by Alexander Alberro, Chantal Pontbriand. In 1975, a small group of enterprising, discontented members of Quebec’s art community posed the question: “What do we know about contemporary art outside of Quebec, in Canada or abroad? Do we know what contemporary >>more
JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037641965
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 217 pgs / 15 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/31/2013 In stock
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|  Parachute: The Anthology, Vol. III
Edited by Chantal Pontbriand. Text by Guy Bellavance, Douglas Crimp, Georges Didi-Huberman, Philippe Dubois, Anne-Marie Duguet, Peggy Gale, Geert Lovink, Laura U. Marks, Laura Mulvey, David Thomas, et al. Following two precious volumes of writings from the 1970s–90s Canadian magazine Parachute— Museums, Art History, and Theory and Performance & Performativity—the essays collected in this third volume focus on photography, film, video and new media. >>more
JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037643822
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 222 pgs / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/24/2015 In stock
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|  Parachute: The Anthology, Vol. IV
Edited by Chantal Pontbriand. Text by Alexander Alberro, Nora M. Alter, Thierry de Duve, Tory Dent, Philip Fry, Dan Graham, Louis Marin, Philip Monk, Desa Philippi, Jeff Wall, et al. Parachute was founded in 1975 by Chantal Pontbriand and France Morin. Following the previous three Parachute volumes, this last title of the Parachute anthology focuses on painting, sculpture, installation and architecture. These topics are approached >>more
JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037644188
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Pbk, 6 x 8.5 in. / 240 pgs / 15 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/26/2016 In stock
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|  Parachute: The Anthology, Volume II
Edited by Chantal Pontbriand. Text by Nora M. Alter, Jim Drobnick, Stephen Horne, Ruth Kerkham, Johanne Lamoureux, Marc James Léger, Kate Linker, Birgit Pelzer, Bruce Hugh Russell, William Wood, Alexander Alberro. In 1975, a small group of enterprising, discontented members of the international art community in Quebec posed the question: “What do we know of contemporary art outside of Quebec, in Canada or abroad? Do we >>more
JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037642832
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 180 pgs / 16 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/31/2014 In stock
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|  Parkett No. 99
Edited by Nikki Columbus. Founded in 1984, Parkett has long been an important source of literature on international contemporary art. Each biannual issue is a collaboration with four artists, in which their work is explored in fully illustrated essays >>more
Parkett
ISBN 9783907582596
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Pbk, 8 x 10 in. / 300 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 03/28/2017 In stock
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|  Participation Is Risky
Edited by Liesbeth Huybrechts. Text by Liesbeth Huybrechts, Cristiano Storni, Yanki Lee, Selina Schepers, Jessica Schoffelen, Katrien Dreessen. Equated with notions of public interaction, the term "participation" is often used very loosely, especially within the contexts of new media and innovation research. Among a recent generation of artists and designers working in new >>more
Valiz/Antennae Series
ISBN 9789078088776
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 344 pgs / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/30/2014 In stock
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|  Pierre's Issue 01
Edited by Jenny Jaskey, Pierre Huyghe. Pierre’s is the first in a biannual series from The Artist’s Institute, a platform for conversations with contemporary artists. Devoted to Pierre Huyghe (born 1962), Pierre’s takes the artist’s recent work and interests--topics as varied >>more
Artist's Institute
ISBN 9780997099508
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Pbk, 9 x 12.25 in. / 230 pgs / 230 color.
Pub Date: 06/14/2016 In stock
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|  Play & Prosume
Edited by Brigitte Felderer, Margarete Jahrmann. Text by Gerald Bast, Martha Blassnigg, Rudmer Canjels, Brigitte Felderer, Bert Hogenkamp, Margarete Jahrmann, Fares Kayali, Johann Lurf, Thomas Macho, Robert Pfaller, Bernhard Seiter, Gejus van Diggele, Martyn Woodward et al. Play & Prosume is a research project conducted by the Universities of Plymouth, Amsterdam, Applied Arts Vienna, the EYE Film Institute Amsterdam and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. Through various texts, this book >>more
Moderne Kunst Nürnberg
ISBN 9783869844114
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 120 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 09/30/2013 In stock
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|  Pontus Hultén and Moderna Museet: The Formative Years
Edited by Anna Tellgren. Foreword by Daniel Birnbaum. Text by Patrik Andersson, Annika Gunnarsson, Ylva Hillström, Pontus Hultén, et al. The legendary curator Pontus Hultén (1924–2006) worked at Moderna Museet in Stockholm between 1958 and 1973. In 1960 he was appointed director. It was in this role that he built the collection and the museum’s >>more
Koenig Books
ISBN 9783960980827
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Flexi, 6.75 x 9.25 in. / 192 pgs / 50 color.
Pub Date: 07/25/2017 In stock
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|  Postmodernism: A Virtual Discussion
Edited by Maurice Berger. Contributions by Robert Rosenblum, Michelle Wallace, Maxwell Anderson, Catherine Lord, Jonathan Weinberg, Olu Oguibe, Michael Leja, Dan Cameron, Yvonne Rainer, Donna deSalvo, Simon Leung, Chrissie Iles, Jennifer Gonzalez, Wendy Ewald, Kellie Jones, David Ross, and Jerry Saltz. What is Postmodernism, and is it a useful concept for understanding American art and visual culture of the past 40 years? When and to what extent did Modernism wane as a phenomenon in American art? >>more
The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture/Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
ISBN 9781890761059
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Paperback, 9 x 6 in. / 150 pgs.
Pub Date: 07/02/2003 In stock
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|  Questioning History: Imagining the Past in Contemporary Art
Text by Frank van der Stok, Frits Gierstberg, Flip Bool. During the past several decades, contemporary artists have asked critical questions about the way in which history is constructed through images, particularly those that are disseminated by the mass media. As the media has increasingly >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056626594
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Pbk, 5.75 x 9 in. / 180 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 03/01/2009 Out of stock
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|  Re/New Marxist Art History
Edited by Warren Carter, Barnaby Haran, Frederic J. Schwartz. From the early decades of the twentieth century until the 1980s, Marxist art history was at the forefront of radical approaches to the discipline. But in the last two decades of the century and into >>more
Art / Books
ISBN 9781908970114
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Hbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 480 pgs / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/31/2014 In stock
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|  ReNew Marxist Art History
Edited by Warren Carter, Barnaby Haran, Frederic J. Schwartz. From the early decades of the twentieth century until the 1980s, Marxist art history was at the forefront of radical approaches to the discipline. But in the last two decades of the century and into >>more
Art / Books
ISBN 9781908970121
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 520 pgs / 106 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2014 In stock
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|  Recto / Verso
Foreword by Michaela Unterdörfer. Preface by Paige Landesberg and Kristen Mueller. Recto / Verso is the culmination of a month-long event series co-presented by Hauser & Wirth Publishers and Artbook @ MoMA PS1. The book features excerpts from panel discussions as well as visual and written >>more
Hauser & Wirth Publishers
ISBN 9783906915302
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Pbk, 6.25 x 9.5 in. / 80 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/25/2018 In stock
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|  Reinventing the Company for the Digital Age
Text by Francisco González, et al. The seventh edition of Spanish banking group BBVA's annual series is dedicated to unveiling the new digital business models for twenty-first century companies. Esteemed experts from BBVA, The Economist, Harvard University, Columbia Business School, Geoffrey >>more
Turner
ISBN 9788416142927
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Pbk, 6.75 x 10 in. / 484 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 04/28/2015 In stock
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|  Robert Lehman Lectures On Contemporary Art No. 2
Edited by Lynne Cooke, Karen Kelly Bettina Funcke. Essays by Beatriz Colomina, Juan Maidagan, Dave Hickey, Michael Newman, Robert Farris Thompson, David Sylvester and Marina Warner. Foreword by Michael Govan. Finally Available Since 1992, Dia has presented the Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art. Like the Foundation's “Discussions in Contemporary Culture” symposia series, the Lehman lectures are an example of Dia's ongoing commitment to cross-disciplinary >>more
Dia Art Foundation
ISBN 9780944521786
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Paperback, 5.5 x 8 in. / 200 pgs / 18 color / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/02/2004 In stock
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|  Robert Lehman Lectures On Contemporary Art No. 3
Edited by Lynne Cooke, Karen Kelly, Bettina Funcke. Essays by Lynne Cooke, Jonathan Crary, Russel Fergusson, Boris Groys, Pamela Kort, Bérènice Reynaud, Victor Stoichita, Elaine Showalter, Jan Tumlir and Peter Wollen. Foreword by Michael Govan. This third volume of collected theoretical and critical essays focuses on Dia's exhibitions from 1998 through 2000. As in the first two volumes, nine diverse contributors are included, ranging from art historian Jonathan Crary and >>more
Dia Art Foundation
ISBN 9780944521779
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Paperback, 5.5 x 8 in. / 200 pgs / 18 color / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/02/2004 In stock
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|  Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art No. 4
Edited by Lynne Cooke, Karen Kelly and Barbara Schröder. Essays by Dave Hickey, Rosalind Krauss, Ulrich Loock, Alexander Alberro, Jan Avgikos, Richard Shiff, Dirk Snauwaert, Miwon Kwon, Colin Gardner. Foreword by Philippe Vergne. Since 1992, the Dia Center for the Arts has presented the Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art—an example of Dia's ongoing commitment to cross-disciplinary critical discourse. This fourth volume of collected theoretical and critical essays >>more
Dia Art Foundation
ISBN 9780944521793
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8 in. / 200 pgs / 14 color / 88 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/31/2009 In stock
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|  Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art No. 5
Introduction by Lynne Cooke. Text by Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Rebecca Comay, Brian Dillon, Mark Godfrey, Branden W. Joseph, Tom McDonough, Molly Nesbit, Marina Warner. From 1992 to 2004, Dia Art Foundation presented the Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art, in which a distinguished array of scholars, critics and cultural historians engaged in cross-disciplinary critical discourse around Dia's exhibition program. >>more
Dia Art Foundation
ISBN 9780944521809
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Pbk, 5.25 x 8 in. / 176 pgs / 12 color / 45 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2014 In stock
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|  Room 5: Arcade
Edited by Nina Pearlman. Essays by Kathy Battista, Robert Clough, Pierandrea Gebbia, Francis Gooding, Lorens Holm, Catherine James, Mark Morris, Toby Newton, Barbara Penner, Weizman & Herz Architects Segal, John Tercier, Fabrizio Trifiro and Bernard Vere, et al. The second issue in the series Room 5, Arcade features reflections on female urinals and edible architecture; a consideration of scatalogical elements in the work of Kurt Schwitters; an analysis of hypothermia as a primary >>more
The London Consortium
ISBN 9780853159506
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 224 pgs / 35 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/02/2002 In stock
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|  Secret Publicity
By Sven Lütticken. These thought-provoking essays from the first laureate of the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture's Prize for Art Criticism consider the central role of publicity as both a subject of and a power >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056624675
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Paperback, 5.25 x 7.75 in. / 208 pgs / 38 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2006 In stock
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|  See It Again, Say It Again
Edited by Janneke Wesseling. More often than not, a work of art is produced through a dialectic of action and reflection--a zooming into and out of the material at hand (be it physical or conceptual) that eventually arrives at >>more
Valiz/Antennae Series
ISBN 9789078088530
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Pbk, 5.25 x 8.25 in. / 305 pgs / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/30/2011 Out of stock
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|  Seen, Written
By Klaus Kertess. Curator and historian, gallerist and writer: Klaus Kertess has long been a decisive and forward-thinking presence in the art world. He founded the Bykert Gallery in 1966, where he represented artists including Chuck Close, Ralph >>more
Gregory R. Miller & Co.
ISBN 9780980024296
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Pbk, 7 x 9 in. / 220 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/31/2011 In stock
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|  Self-Organised
Edited by Stine Herbert, Anne Szefer Karlsen. Text by Julie Ault, Maibritt Borgen, Céline Condorelli & Johan Frederik Hartle, Anthony Davies, Stephan Dillemuth & Jakob Jakobsen, Charles Esche, Barnaby Drabble, et al. The current economic situation and society’s low confidence in its institutions demands that artists become more imaginative in their self-organization. If labels such as ‘alternative,’ ‘non-profit’ and ‘artist-run’ dominated the self-organized art scene of the >>more
Open Editions/Hordaland Art Centre
ISBN 9780949004178
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Flexi, 6.25 x 8.5 in. / 168 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 09/30/2013 In stock
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|  Shifting Gravity
The rapidly expanding activities in contemporary art and the rising number of biennials established in Asia during the last two decades have had significant implications for the construction of contemporary art history. How can we >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775736930
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 228 pgs / 59 color.
Pub Date: 11/30/2013 In stock
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|  Shifting Map
Edited by Edith Rijnja. Essays by Reinaldo Laddaga and Charles Esche. Introduction by Gertrude Flentge. The phenomenon of artists' platforms and artists' initiatives have been gaining in popularity and strength over recent years, in the Netherlands and beyond. Artists form groups and organize themselves in order to change something in >>more
nai010 publishers/Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten/Rain Artists' Initiatives
ISBN 9789056623685
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Paperback, 6.75 x 10 in. / 216 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 08/02/2004 In stock
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|  Site of Sound: Of Architecture and the Ear
Edited by Brandon LaBelle, Claudia Martinho. With the publication of its first volume in 1999, Site of Sound established itself as the critical voice for current trends in sound art and audio theory. In this much-anticipated second volume, the anthology addresses >>more
Errant Bodies Press
ISBN 9780982743904
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Pbk, 8 x 10 in. / 304 pgs / 50 color / 40 b&w / Audio CD.
Pub Date: 09/30/2011 Out of stock
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|  Somewhere Totally Else
Edited by Finn Canonica, Clément Dirié. Illustrations by David Shrigley. Since 2012, Hans Ulrich Obrist (born 1968) has made a weekly contribution to Das Magazin, the weekend supplement of the Swiss Tages-Anzeiger newspaper. His weekly column offers a survey of contemporary art and current cultural affairs >>more
JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037645109
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Pbk, 4 x 6.5 in. / 200 pgs / 11 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/27/2018 In stock
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|  Sound And The Visual Arts
By Jean-Yves Bosseur. Musician and musicologist Jean-Yves Bosseur explores the growing relationship between the plastic arts and music in the world of contemporary art. This trend is shown in its aesthetic and historical context through interviews with Iannis >>more
Dis Voir
ISBN 9782906571266
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Paperback, 6.5 x 8.5 / 160 pgs / 14 color / 14 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/02/1993 In stock
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|  Spaces for Criticism
Edited by Pascal Gielen, Thijs Lijster, Suzana Milevska, Ruth Sonderegger. Text by Luc Boltanski, Sabeth Buchmann, Robin Celikates, et al. Is art criticism losing ground to the Internet and its rapidly proliferating art blogs? Do people still consider the art critics employed by newspapers and magazines the most important arbitrators of what is worth seeing >>more
Valiz/Antennae Series
ISBN 9789078088752
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Pbk, 5.25 x 8.25 in. / 288 pgs.
Pub Date: 12/29/2015 In stock
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|  Specialism
Edited with text by David Blamey. Text by Matthew Cornford, Neil Cummings, Dan Fox, Rick Poyner, Mingyuan Hu, et al. It is widely assumed that everyone is “interdisciplinary” nowadays, that everyone works at the intersections of conventional disciplines. But if being flexible, multiskilled and polymathic are the prerequisites of survival in today’s world, why do >>more
Open Editions
ISBN 9780949004017
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Pbk, 6.25 x 8.5 in. / 164 pgs.
Pub Date: 07/26/2016 In stock
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|  Speculations (The future is ______)
Text by Gopal Balakrishnan, Ray Brassier, Ted Chiang, Jace Clayton, Samuel Delany, Silvia Federici, Rivka Galchen, David Graeber, N. Katherine Hayles, Josh Kline, Rachel Kushner, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Naeem Mohaiemen, Evgeny Morozov, Hu+o+ng Ngô, Trevor Paglen, Christian Parenti, Srikanth Reddy, David Rieff, Kim Stanley Robinson, Norman Rush, Astra Taylor, et al. In summer 2013 Triple Canopy invited writers, artists, scientists, activists, economists and technologists to bet on the future: which future do you want to see realized? How precisely can you describe it? What demands might >>more
Triple Canopy
ISBN 9780984734658
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7.5 in. / 336 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 12/29/2015 Out of stock
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|  Subverting Disambiguities
Edited by Anke Hoffmann, Yvonne Volkart. Text by Zbynek Baladrán, Sabina Baumann, Elke Bippus, Rossella Biscotti, Mladen Stilinovic, Ivan Buharov, Matthew Fuller, Graham Harwood, Karen Geyer et al. Subverting Disambiguities is a collective reflection on themes raised by exhibitions curated at the Shedhalle Zurich by Anke Hoffmann and Yvonne Volkart, between 2009 and 2012. Composed of theoretical essays, artist and curatorial statements, installation >>more
Moderne Kunst Nürnberg
ISBN 9783869843551
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Flexi, 6.75 x 9.25 in. / 320 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 04/30/2013 In stock
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|  Sukhdev Sandhu
MoMA PS1 presents the fourth iteration of Greater New York. Recurring every five years, the exhibition has traditionally showcased the work of emerging artists living and working in the New York metropolitan area. Considering the >>more
MoMA PS1
ISBN 9780996893046
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Pbk, 5.75 x 8.75 in. / 36 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/26/2017 In stock
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|  Teaching Art in the Neoliberal Realm
Edited by Pascal Gielen, Paul De Bruyne. Text by Tessa Overbeek, Jeroen Boomgaard, Paul De Bruyne, Pascal Gielen, Stefan Hertmans, Barend van Heusden, et al. Throughout the world, the educational field is being transformed into a marketplace in which institutions must compete for students, and are called on to assess their cultural contributions in terms of finance and management. Is >>more
Valiz/Antennae Series
ISBN 9789078088578
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Flexi, 5.25 x 8.25 in. / 288 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 05/31/2012 Out of stock
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|  Tell Me Something Good
Edited by Jarrett Earnest, Lucas Zwirner. Introduction and portraits by Phong Bui. "The Rail is the best publication of its kind in New York—and it keeps getting better." –Paul Auster Since 2000, The Brooklyn Rail has been a platform for artists, academics, critics, poets and writers in New >>more
David Zwirner Books
ISBN 9781941701379
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Pbk, 5.5 x 9 in. / 648 pgs / 55 color.
Pub Date: 11/21/2017 In stock
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|  That Bodies Speak Has Been Known For A Long Time
Edited by Sabine Breitwieser, Hemma Schmutz and Tanja Widmann. Essays by Dietrich Kamer, Ursula Biemann, Sigrid Adorf, Giorgio Agamben, Anja Streither and Jutta Koether. Taking its title from Deleuze, this exhibition and catalogue consider the body linguistically. In what sense do bodies produce language, how are they themselves grasped and defined by it, and what spaces for action are >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783883758022
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Paperback, 6.25 x 8.25 in. / 154 pgs / 30 color / 45 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/02/2004 In stock
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|  The 1980s: An Internet Conference
Edited and with an introduction by Maurice Berger. Foreword by Barbara Buhler Lynes. In his introduction to The 1980s: An Internet Conference, moderator Maurice Berger writes, "As Fredric Jameson reminds us in his essay "Periodizing the 1960s," decades are never neat, clearly defined episodes. Their boundaries are porous, >>more
The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture/Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
ISBN 9781890761097
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 240 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/15/2006 In stock
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|  The Aesthetics of Risk: SoCCAS Symposium Vol. III
Edited by John C. Welchman. Text by Jane Blocker, Douglas Crimp, Rachel Greene, Richard Shiff, et. al. This anthology of essays, images and dialogues exploring contemporary art's engagements with risk--physical, social, political and aesthetic--brings readers into the conference from which the book takes its title, a third annual collaboration between the Getty >>more
JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783905770551
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 416 pgs / 16 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/01/2008 Out of stock
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|  As curator of a major U.S. museum, Germano Celant had access to the most influential figures in the scene at a time when America was the eye of the contemporary art storm. This book presents >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788861300682
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.75 in. / 448 pgs / 60 color / 136 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/18/2008 In stock
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|  The Art Life: On Creativity and Career
Edited by Stuart Horodner, Stacie Lindner. Introduction and foreword by Stuart Horodner. The Art Life: On Creativity and Career is a collection of solicited and selected texts that address the philosophical and practical issues that affect art-making and the marketplace. It brings together visual artists, curators, dealers, >>more
Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
ISBN 9781450790659
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 183 pgs / 30 color.
Pub Date: 03/31/2012 Out of stock
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|  The Best Most Useless Dress: Selected Writings of Claudia La Rocco
Edited by Paul Chan. Introduction by Elizabeth Robinson. Widely known as an incisive critic for The New York Times and Artforum, Claudia La Rocco is also a poet and performer whose hybrid texts are as mercurial and imaginative as her criticism. The Best >>more
Badlands Unlimited
ISBN 9781936440665
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Pbk, 5 x 8 in. / 148 pgs / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/31/2014 In stock
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|  The Captured Museum
Edited by Barbara Steiner. A provocative two-year research project by the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst in Leipzig, Carte Blanche offered an exhibition space for a fee. Collectors, businesses or commercial galleries that rented the space were allowed to do >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783868590593
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Pbk, 8 x 10.75 in. / 256 pgs / 200 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/30/2011 In stock
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|  The Dept. of Corrections
This volume is comprised of years of recent writing by the influential New York–based critic and curator Bob Nickas, widely considered one of the few independent voices still at work today. The 50 essays and >>more
Karma, New York
ISBN 9781942607199
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.125 in. / 416 pgs / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/23/2016 In stock
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|  The Digital Wunderkammer
By Hubert Burda. Text by Peter Sloterdijk, Bazon Brock, Hans Belting, Horst Bredekamp, Friedrich Kittler. As digital technology advances at breakneck speed, Images are circulating quicker than ever before. But what is the status of the image in the digital era? In The Digital Wunderkammer, art historian Hubert Burda (born >>more
Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich
ISBN 9783770551934
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Hbk, 8.25 x 11.75 in. / 202 pgs / 58 color / 16 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/31/2011 Out of stock
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|  The Eternal Baroque
Edited by Maria Giulia Barberini, Mary L. Levkoff, Carolyn H. Miner, Guilhem Scherf, Jeremy Warren, Patricia Wengraf. A tribute to an art historian who fundamentally changed the way we think about Baroque sculpture. A selection of papers from thirty leading scholars of European sculpture, in honor of Jennifer Montagu’s contribution to the >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788857223247
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Hbk, 7 x 10 in. / 578 pgs / 240 color.
Pub Date: 06/23/2015 In stock
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|  The Ethics of Art
Edited by Guy Cools, Pascal Gielen. Text by Karolien Byttebier, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Guy Cools, Arne De Boever, Pascal Gielen, Kathelin Gray, Sébastien Hendrickx, Navtej Johar, Denise Kenney, Mala Kline, Jeroen Peeters, Frans Poelstra, Christel Stalpaert, Robert Steijn, Lise Uyterhoeven, Benjamin Verdonck, Sara Wookey. The Ethics of Art explores the growing ethical consciousness within the artistic community, as it relates to art's production and distribution mechanisms. It attempts to show how the artistic community engages in creative, social dialogue >>more
Valiz/Antennae Series
ISBN 9789078088875
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 352 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/30/2014 In stock
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|  In The Lure of the Biographical, Sandra Kisters focuses on the relationship between an artwork and the personal image of an artist. An artist’s biography can be a potent source of inspiration and mythology, and this >>more
Valiz/vis-à-vis
ISBN 9789492095251
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Pbk, 6.25 x 9 in. / 480 pgs / 200 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/21/2017 In stock
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|  The Making of Art
Edited by Martina Weinhart. Text by Max Hollein. The mechanisms, rhetoric and strategies of today's art world are probably closer to popular conceptions of the film industry than to the romantic image of the solitary studio-bound artist--so byzantine are the relations between artists, >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865605863
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Pbk, 8.25 x 10.75 in. / 240 pgs / 250 color.
Pub Date: 08/31/2009 In stock
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|  The Murmuring of the Artistic Multitude
Text by Pascal Gielen. In this third edition of The Murmuring of the Artistic Multitude, art sociologist Pascal Gielen's hypothesis that the globalized art scene is an ideal production entity for economic exploitation is updated with the author's latest >>more
Valiz/Antennae Series
ISBN 9789492095046
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Pbk, 5.25 x 8.25 in. / 288 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/29/2015 In stock
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|  The Pop Revolution
By Alice Goldfarb Marquis. “This book is a social history of Pop art, a group portrait of both the artists and the people who made some of them rich and famous in just a few years, while setting in >>more
MFA Publications
ISBN 9780878467440
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Clth, 6 x 9.25 in. / 222 pgs / 16 color / 18 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/30/2010 In stock
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|  The Regime of Visibility
By Camiel van Winkel. Camiel van Winkel, the longtime editor of Archis: Magazine for Architecture, the City and Visual Culture, examines and interprets key interfaces between visual art and other forms of culture, and argues that our continuously expanding >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056624255
US $37.50 CAN $50.00 FLAT40
Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 224 pgs / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2006 Out of stock
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|  The Secret Files of Gilbert & George
Edited by Nicolas Tremblay. By Hans Ulrich Obrist. For the last 40 years Gilbert & George have united and divided the international art scene with equal parts insolence and elegance. Their oeuvre, with its repeating figures and reprising themes of shit, piss, blood, >>more
JRP|Ringier/BDV Bureau des videos
ISBN 9783905770582
US $32.00 CAN $42.50 TRADE
DVD video, PAL Multizone, 5.5 x 7.5 in.
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 In stock
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|  The Shape of Evidence
By Sophie Berrebi. The first in Valiz's new vis-à-vis series of accessible introductions to academic subjects in contemporary art, architecture and design, The Shape of Evidence examines the use of the document in contemporary art, focusing on artworks >>more
Valiz/vis-à-vis
ISBN 9789078088981
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9 in. / 256 pgs / 140 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/28/2015 In stock
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|  The Teaching Manual to In the Making PDF
By Linda Weintraub. When D.A.P. first published art historian, educator and curator Linda Weintraub's now-classic In the Making: Creative Options for Contemporary Art in 2003, a generation of studio art and art history teachers swiftly course adopted the >>more
ZZZ NO TRADE SALES
ISBN 9781938922718
US $14.95 CAN $21.00
PDF ONLY / 147 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/30/2014 In stock
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|  The Unexpected Guest
Edited by Sally Tallant, Paul Domela. Text by Rosi Braidotti, Costas Douzinas, Lorenzo Fusi, Kenneth Goldsmith, Jacques Rancière, Stuart Hall, David Scott, Achille Mbembe, Pelin Tan. Hospitality is the welcome we extend to strangers, an attitude and a code of conduct, and a metaphor encompassing issues of the body, territory, politics, ecology and the hosting of data. Published on the occasion >>more
Art / Books
ISBN 9781908970039
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 320 pgs / 243 color / 65 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/28/2013 In stock
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|  Theft Is Vision
By Bob Nickas. Theft is Vision gathers essays and interviews from the past ten years by the influential New York critic and curator Bob Nickas, offering a personal, shoot-from-the-hip take on the American art scene. More of a >>more
JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783905770360
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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 160 pgs / 24 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/01/2007 Out of stock
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|  Thinking Contemporary Curating
By Terry Smith. Introduction by Kate Fowle. What is contemporary curatorial thought? Current discourse on the topic is heating up with a new cocktail of bold ideas and ethical imperatives. These include: cooperative curating, especially with artists; the reimagination of museums; curating >>more
Independent Curators International
ISBN 9780916365868
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Pbk, 6.25 x 8.5 in. / 256 pgs / 25 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/31/2012 Out of stock
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|  Thomas Lawson: Mining For Gold
By Thomas Lawson. Edited by Lionel Bovier and Fabrice Stroun. More than any artist-writer of his generation, Thomas Lawson has the makeup of a true journalist. He is an embedded correspondent, a polemical editorialist, sending his first-person dispatches from the front lines. He knows the >>more
JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9782940271221
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Paperback, 6 x 8.5 in. / 240 pgs.
Pub Date: 08/15/2005 Out of stock
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|  Time Action Vision
By Christian Höller. Edited by Anne-Julie Raccoursier. In Time Action Vision, Christian Höller, of the interdisciplinary Critical Curatorial Cybermedia program at the University of Art and Design in Geneva, conducts 12 conversations on the topics of cultural studies, postcolonialism, globalization, activism and >>more
JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037641248
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 222 pgs / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/31/2010 In stock
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|  Triple Canopy and Ralph Lemon: On Value
Edited by Triple Canopy, Ralph Lemon. Introduction by Ralph Lemon. Text by Kevin Beasley, Claire Bishop, Philip Bither, Paula Court, Adrienne Edwards, Tom Finkelpearl, Ana Janevski, Claudia La Rocco, Thomas Lax, Glenn Ligon, Glenn Lowry, Sarah Michelson, Fred Moten, Adam Pendleton, Yvonne Rainer, Will Rawls, David Velasco, Nari Ward. On Value is a collaboration between Triple Canopy and choreographer/artist Ralph Lemon. The book is a multifarious conversation about the value of artworks and the labor and bodies that make them, especially as defined by >>more
Triple Canopy
ISBN 9780984734665
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Pbk, 4.25 x 6.5 in. / 276 pgs / 48 color / 47 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/26/2016 In stock
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|  VOTI: Union of the Imaginary
Edited with text by Susan Hapgood, Vasef Kortun, November Paynter. Text by Jordan Crandall. Conversation by Carlos Basualdo, Hans Ulrich Obrist. VOTI was an online forum that was founded in 1998—long before such forums were common—as a digital venue for discussion among contemporary art curators, many of whom are among today’s most prominent museum professionals. Among >>more
Koenig Books
ISBN 9783863359089
US $39.95 CAN $53.95 FLAT40
Pbk, 6.5 x 8.5 in. / 440 pgs / 11 color / 15 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/23/2017 In stock
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|  Variantology 1: On Deep Time Relations of Arts, Sciences and Technologies
Edited by Siegfried Zielinski, Silvia Wagnermaier. On Deep Time Relations of Arts, Sciences and Technologies--this new journal's subtitle sounds intense, but its simple mandate is to study inexact copies wherever they appear--twins, photographs, memories, Warhol silkscreens, forwarded e-mails: what seems standard >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783883759142
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Paperback, 6.25 x 9.25 in. / 384 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/01/2007 Out of stock
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|  Variantology 2: On Deep Time Relations of Arts, Sciences and Technologies
Edited by Siegfried Zielinski, David Link, Eckhard Fuerlus, Nadine Minkwitz. Text by Amir Alexander, Peter Blegvad, Oksana Bulgakova, Andrea Hacker. What does a thirteenth-century Majorcan missionary have to do with logical machines? Were the astrolabes of the late Middle Ages really only used to calculate the orbits of stars and planets, or were they philosophical >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865600509
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Paperback, 6.25 x 9.25 in. / 350 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/01/2007 Out of stock
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|  Variantology 3
Edited by Eckhard Fürlus. Text by Siegfried Zielinski, Arianna Borrelli, Francesca Bray, Chen Cheng-Yi. The editors of this newest installation of the challenging international art-meets-science-meets-technology journal Variantology endeavor to explain the overlapping and independent histories of European and Chinese media, moving from reflections about the deep time history of >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865603661
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Pbk, 6.25 x 9.25 in. / 478 pgs / 88 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/01/2008 In stock
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|  Variantology 4
Edited by Eckhard Fürlus and Siegfried Zielinski. Text by Ulrich Alertz, Hans Belting, Arianna Borrelli, Almut Sh. Bruckstein, Vilem Flusser, Irit Batsry, et al. Variantology 4 revisits the early western encounter with the technological marvels of early Arabic culture. It presents scholarship on a range of subjects relating to the overlap between the arts and the sciences, from musical >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865607324
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Pbk, 6.25 x 9.25 in. / 518 pgs / 136 color.
Pub Date: 03/31/2011 Out of stock
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|  Variantology V: Neapolitan Affairs
Edited by Siegfried Zielinski, Eckhard Furlus. The Biblioteca Nazionale in Naples boasts one of Europe's most beautiful collections of books and manuscripts. It was there that the Variantologists met for what may be their final congress. Their discussions traversed the "deep >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865608871
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Pbk, 6.25 x 9.25 in. / 608 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 09/30/2011 In stock
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|  Vital Beauty
Edited by Joke Brouwer, Arjen Mulder, Lars Spuybroek. Text by Thierry Bardini, Joke Brouwer, Gustav Fechner, Mark Frost, George Gessert, Tim Ingold, Arjen Mulder, John Ruskin, Daniel N. Stern, Lars Spuybroek, Caroline Van Eck, Wendy Steiner. As defined by the great art writer John Ruskin more than 150 years ago, “vital beauty” denotes an aesthetic of “sympathies”--that is, a beauty that embodies and demonstrates affinity with sentience in all its forms. >>more
nai010 publishers/V2_Organization
ISBN 9789056628567
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Pbk, 6.25 x 9 in. / 256 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/30/2012 Out of stock
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|  Warhol's Dream
By Saul Anton. "12 February 1972--I had slept badly. I decided to go out for breakfast, but when I got down to the street, there was no one there, and I thought, Andy, you must be still dreaming. >>more
JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783905770353
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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 120 pgs / 16 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/01/2007 In stock
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|  We Roma
Edited by Daniel Baker, Maria Hlavajova. Text by Albert Atkin, Huub van Baar, Zygmunt Bauman, Delaine & Damian James le Bas, Ethel Brooks, Agnes Daróczi, Tony Gatlif & Cécile Kovacshazy, Ian Hancock, Sanja Ivekovic, Timea Junghaus, Irit Rogoff, Regina Römhild & Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Salman Rushdie, Mike Sell. Merging theoretical models derived from anthropology and from contemporary art discourse, We Roma: A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art looks at the Roma (i.e. Romany, or gypsy) lifestyle and examines its resonances with current civic >>more
Valiz/BAK, Utrecht
ISBN 9789077288160
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Pbk, 4.5 x 6.5 in. / 240 pgs / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/31/2014 In stock
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|  What Is Art?
Edited by Sandro Droschl, Christian Egger. Text by Marina Grinic, Antonia Majaca, Suzana Milevska. This catalogue accompanies the exhibition What Is Art? held at the Graz Halle für Kunst und Medien, Austria. The contributors review Eastern European performance art from the 1970s, including such events as the Slovenian artists' >>more
Moderne Kunst Nürnberg
ISBN 9783869845098
US $40.00 CAN $54.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 6.75 x 9.25 in. / 254 pgs / 140 color.
Pub Date: 06/23/2015 In stock
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|  What's the Use?
Edited by Nick Aikens, Thomas Lange, Jorinde Seijdel, Steven ten Thije. Text by Nick Aikens, Christina Aushana, Zdenka Badovinac, Manuel Borja-Villel, Tania Bruguera, John Byrne, Jesús Carrillo, Christina Clausen, constructLab, et al. Is art only art insofar as it refuses to be useful? At a moment when the boundaries between public and private have been radically redrawn—politically, economically and culturally—how do we understand art’s ability to know >>more
Valiz
ISBN 9789492095121
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 512 pgs / 100 color / 200 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/26/2016 In stock
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|  When Art Meets Money
Text by Stephan Egger, Thomas Mazzurana, Franz Schultheis, Erwin Single. Art Basel is more than just a fair in the commercial sense of the word, more than a concentrated gathering of dealers offering their goods for sale to interested buyers. It is the site of >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783863357443
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Pbk, 6.75 x 10 in. / 258 pgs / 52 color.
Pub Date: 01/26/2016 In stock
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|  White: Whiteness And Race In Contemporary Art
Edited by Maurice Berger Essays by Maurice Berger, David Roediger and Patricia Williams. Over the past 20 years, the cultural and scholarly discourse around race has exploded to include the study of whiteness and white privilege, representing a radical shift in the way we think and talk about >>more
Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, UMBC
ISBN 9781890761066
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 90 pgs / 12 color.
Pub Date: 11/02/2003 Out of stock
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|  Women's Work. Is Never Done
By Catherine de Zegher. Introduction by Griselda Pollock, Jean Fisher. As perhaps the preeminent international feminist director and curator of her generation, Catherine de Zegher has made some of the most significant exhibitions of women artists of the past 25 years, most famously the groundbreaking >>more
AsaMER
ISBN 9789490693473
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Pbk, 8 x 10 in. / 240 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 02/24/2015 Out of stock
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|  Writings on Art
By Marius de Zayas. Introduction and text by Antonio Saborit. Marius de Zayas (1880–1961) was an early 20th-century Mexican artist, writer, caricaturist and art-gallery owner who was pivotal in making New York the art capital of the world after Paris; he was also an early >>more
RM/Ediciones MP/JP Morgan
ISBN 9788417047634
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Clth, 5.75 x 8.5 in. / 360 pgs / 60 color.
Pub Date: 10/23/2018 In stock
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| VISUAL BOOK INDEX | OUT OF PRINT  60 Wrd/Min Art Critic
By Lori Waxman. Afterword by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. "Are you an artist? Do you need a review?" Operating from a small, single-room structure installed at Documenta 13, Chicago-based art historian and "60 wrd/min art critic" Lori Waxman offered free reviews to any artist >>more
Onestar Press
ISBN 9782915359442
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Pbk, 5.5 x 9 in. / 150 pgs / 253 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/31/2014 Not available
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|  7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art
Edited by Artur Zmijewski, Joanna Warsza. This reader accompanies the seventh Berlin Biennale for Contemporary art, with text and interviews that address the premise of this year’s iteration: How can art transform politics and bring about real change in our society? >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783863351298
US $45.00 CAN $55.00 TRADE
Flexi, 6 x 8.5 in. / 416 pgs / 19 color / 32 b&w / Audio CD.
Pub Date: 08/31/2012 Not available
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|  9 Evenings Reconsidered
Edited by Catherine Morris. Essays by Clarisse Bardiot and Michelle Kuo. Texts by Lucy Lippard and Brian O'Doherty. Introduction by Jane Farver. In 1966, a Bell Laboratories physicist brought a group of avant-garde artists together with 10 open-minded members of the science and technology fields for 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering, a series of investigatory Happenings which >>more
MIT List Visual Arts Center
ISBN 9780938437697
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Paperback, 8.25 x 13 in. / 88 pgs / 4 color and 60 duotones.
Pub Date: 08/15/2006 Not available
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|  A Pocket History of 20th-Century Chinese Art
By Lü Peng. A landmark text for novices and scholars alike, Pocket History of 20th-Century Chinese Art presents Lü Peng's comprehensive and definitive account of Chinese art in a new, more portable format. The nation's foremost art expert >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881587964
US $59.95 CAN $70.00 TRADE
Pbk, 4.5 x 7.5 in. / 1,124 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 04/30/2011 Not available
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|  Art & Economy
Edited by Zdenek Felix and Beate Hentschel, Dirk Luckow. Essays by Konstantin Adamopoulos, Gerard A. Goodrow, Susan Hapgood, Michael Hutter, Helene Karmasin, Michael Muller, Andreas Spiegel, Wolfgang Ullrich. Globalization expands and contracts daily, as art and artists cross and recross borders. Motorcycles, fashion houses, and vacuum cleaners find themselves exhibited in art museums, complete with their corporate identities intact. Corporate collections grow in >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775711265
US $49.95 CAN $60.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 8.25 x 11.75 in. / 256 pgs / 120 color
Pub Date: 05/02/2002 Not available
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|  Art&D
Edited by Joke Brouwer, Arjen Mulder, and Anne Nigten. Art&D considers changes in art practice due to media, to that new branch of art making known primarily as electronic art. Use of radio and video came first, about 25 years ago, but over the >>more
nai010 publishers/V2_Organization
ISBN 9789056623890
US $30.00 CAN $35.00 TRADE
Paperback, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 256 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 01/02/2005 Not available
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|  Artists Talk: 1969-1977
Edited by Peggy Gale. Foreword by Paul Greenhalgh. An essay by Peggy Gale introduces this transcription of historic talks by internationally known artists, recorded some 30 years ago at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Included are >>more
The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
ISBN 9780919616400
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 423 pgs / 15 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/15/2005 Not available
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|  Arts in Society
Edited by Pascal Gielen, Paul de Bruyne. In an essay included in this volume, the Italian philosopher Paolo Virno argues that the arts have become a component of what he calls the post-Fordist production process, and have consequently sacrificed what little autonomy >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056627119
US $32.00 CAN $40.00 TRADE
Pbk, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 206 pgs / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/31/2010 Not available
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|  Benjamin's Blind Spot
Edited by Lise Patt.Contributors include Vance Bell, David Brottman, Martin Gantman, David Gross, Erich Hertz, Petra Kuppers, Rajeev S. Patke, Colin Rhodes, Gerhard Richter, Marquard Smith, Carsten Strathausen. Walter Benjamin's 1936 essay ''The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction'' revolutionized the way we look at the social function of the work of art, and the paradigms through which we appreciate >>more
Institute of Cultural Inquiry
ISBN 9781889917047
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Paperback, 7.5 x 9 in. / 128 pgs / 200 b&w / 1 duotone.
Pub Date: 07/02/2001 Not available
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|  Branding From A To Z
By Bernd Kreutz. We live in a world of brands. Brands play a crucial role in business competition, but have also become an important social phenomenon. Brands are represented by signs and symbols, gestures and images. They stand >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775791595
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Paperback, 7.25 x 9.5 in. / 64 pgs / 37 color / 15 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/02/2004 Not available
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|  Brands & Desires
By Bernd Kreutz. Brands identify products and services. Yet a brand is much more than a “brand name” or a “brand logo” on a “brand-name product.” Brands reflect individual and collective desires that go far beyond a product's >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775791588
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Paperback, 7.25 x 9.5 in. / 104 pgs / 44 color.
Pub Date: 02/02/2004 Not available
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|  Clement Greenberg: Between The Lines
By Thierry de Duve. The late critic Clement Greenberg remains best known as the man who almost single-handedly put Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman and Clyfford Still on the map of modern art. His formalist conception of art was violently >>more
Dis Voir
ISBN 9782906571532
US $37.95 CAN $45.00 TRADE
Paperback, 4.75 x 6.25 in. / 160 pgs.
Pub Date: 05/02/1996 Not available
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| Deep Design
By Libby Lumpkin. >>more
Art Issues Press/Foundation for Advanced Critical Studies
ISBN 9780963726469
US $17.95 CAN $20.00 TRADE
Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 128 pgs / 30 color
Pub Date: 10/02/1999 Not available
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|  Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Gallerists But Were Afraid to Ask
By Andrea Bellini. The massive expansion of the art market in recent decades has aroused much intrigue about how galleries operate, particularly as critics, artists and independent curators take the lead in opening their own spaces, enhancing the >>more
JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037640876
US $24.95 CAN $27.50 TRADE
Pbk, 4.25 x 6.5 in. / 334 pgs / 53 color.
Pub Date: 04/30/2011 Not available
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|  Exhibiting the New Art
Edited by Christian Rattemeyer. Texts by Wim Beeren, Charles Harrison, Harald Szeemann, Tommaso Trini, Claudia Di Lecce, Steven ten Thije. Introduction by Teresa Gleadowe. Afterall Books' new Exhibition Histories series responds to an increased interest in exhibition history with its inaugural volume on two of the most famous exhibitions of the 1960s: Wim Beeren's Op Losse Schroeven (Stedelijk Museum, >>more
Afterall Books
ISBN 9783865608598
US $27.50 CAN $32.50 TRADE
Pbk, 6.25 x 8.75 in. / 280 pgs / 15 color / 106 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/31/2011 Not available
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|  Frieze Projects: Artists Commissions and Talks
Organized by Polly Staple. Edited by Melissa Gronlund. Since the inaugural Frieze Art Fair in 2003, Frieze Projects, an off-shoot of London's frieze magazine, has pursued an ambitious curatorial program, inviting a selection of emerging and established artists to realize work responding specifically >>more
Frieze Publishing
ISBN 9780955320101
US $26.00 CAN $30.00 TRADE
Paperback, 7.75 x 10.2 in. / 320 pgs / 160 color / 60 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/01/2007 Not available
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|  Geo-Graphics: A Map of Art Practices in Africa, Past and Present
Edited by Anne-Marie Bouttiaux, David Adjaye. Text by Jean Muteba Rahier, Ken Ndiaye, Gustaaf Verswijver, Viviane Baeke, Julien Volper, Didier Schaub, Yacouba Konatè, et al. Confronting contemporary African art’s awkward coexistence with earlier African art as “ethnographic artifact,” Geo-Graphics celebrates the flourishing of African art on the international circuit, while simultaneously asserting its ancestry and critiquing the valorization of heritage. >>more
Silvana Editorale
ISBN 9788836616589
US $55.00 CAN $65.00 TRADE
Pbk, 9.5 x 11.25 in. / 384 pgs / 250 color.
Pub Date: 10/31/2010 Not available
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|  Great Bear
Edited by Dick Higgins. Introduction by Alison Knowles, Hannah Higgins. Texts by John Cage, Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg. During the glory days of Something Else Press (1964-1974), its founder, the poet, editor and scholar Dick Higgins created the Great Bear imprint to publish pamphlets that were quickly printed and easily disseminated, guaranteeing wide >>more
Primary Information
ISBN 9780978869717
US $150.00 CAN $180.00 SDNR30
Boxed, 5.75 x 8.75 in. / 20 Pamphlets.
Pub Date: 10/01/2007 Not available
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|  Inclinations: Further Writing and Interviews By Stuart Morgan
By Stuart Morgan. Edited by Ian Hunt. When Stuart Morgan died at age 54 in 2002, London's Guardian newspaper wrote, "Stuart Morgan became known during the 1980s in Europe and the United States as the most significant British writer on contemporary art. >>more
Frieze Publishing
ISBN 9780952741480
US $27.00 CAN $30.00 TRADE
Paperback, 6 x 9.25 in. / 448 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/01/2007 Not available
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|  Information Is Alive
Edited by Joke Brouwer and Arjen Mulder. Essays by Manuel de Landa, Boris Groys, Winy Maas, Brian Massumi, Sadie Plant, Arjun Appadurai, Scott Lash, Simon Conway Morris, Antonio Damasio, George Dyson, Ryszard Kapuscinski and Ingo Günter. The archive has of late proven to be a powerful metaphor: history is viewed as an archive of facts from which one can draw at will; our bodies have become a genetic archive since being >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056623104
US $24.95 CAN $27.50 TRADE
Paperback, 6.5 x 9 in. / 192 pgs / 192 color.
Pub Date: 07/02/2003 Not available
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|  Institutional Critique and After
Edited by John C. Welchman. Essays by Alexander Alberro, Jens Hoffmann, Andrea Fraser, Renee Green, Isabelle Graw and Lauri Firstenberg, et. al. This contemporary reassessment of the Institutional Critique movement, launched in the late 1960s by artists including Michael Asher and Hans Haacke, grew out of a symposium held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. >>more
JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783905701654
US $25.00 CAN $30.00 TRADE
Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 400 pgs / 76 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/15/2006 Not available
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|  Interact or Die: There Is Drama In The Networks
Text by Brian Massumi, Detlef Mertins, Lars Spuybroek, Moortje Marres, Christian Hübler. The 1990s dream of cyberspace and its immaterial possibilities seems now to belong to the distant past: our future will be material for some time to come. And yet, modern biology has shown that matter >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056625771
US $35.00 CAN $40.00 TRADE
Paperback, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 208 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 Not available
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|  Interaction
Edited by Jordan Crandall, Amy Scholder, Foreword by John S. Johnson. INTERACTION began as online forum, hosted by Eyebeam Atelier, featuring an international group of artists, scholars, critics, architects, students, technicians, and curators. Discussing the transformations wrought by the Internet--particularly the latter's implications for artistic practices--the >>more
D.A.P./EYEBEAM ATELIER
ISBN 9781891024245
US $19.95 CAN $25.00 TRADE
Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 168 pgs / 34 b&w
Pub Date: 04/02/2001 Not available
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|  Joseph Beuys: Mapping The Legacy
Edited by Gene Ray. Essays by Lukas Beckmann, Benjamin Buchloch, Mel Chin, Pamela Kort, Kim Levin, Peter Nisbet, Gene Ray, Max Reithmann and Joan Rothfuss. A distinguished group of critics, art historians and artists gathered at the Ringling Museum to take part in an international symposium on the legacy of Joseph Beuys. The papers presented here examine the artist's various >>more
D.A.P./Ringling Museum
ISBN 9781891024030
US $35.00 CAN $40.00 TRADE
Paperback, 7.5 x 10 in. / 224 pgs / 20 color / b&w / 70 duotone.
Pub Date: 11/02/2001 Not available
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|  Kahnweiler: My Galleries And Painters
Interviews with Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler by Francis Cr»mieux. Introduction by John Russell. Picasso's lifelong dealer and one of the major gallery owners of the twentieth century, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler is a key figure in the development of modern art. He opened his first Paris gallery in 1907, then >>more
MFA Publications
ISBN 9780878466528
US $20.95 CAN $25.00 TRADE
Paperback, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 176 pgs / 27 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/02/2003 Not available
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|  Last Chance For Eden
Text by Christopher Knight. >>more
ART ISSUES PRESS
ISBN 9780963726421
US $29.95 CAN $35.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 6 x 9 / 448 pgs / 21 b&w
Pub Date: 04/02/1995 Not available
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|  Last Chance For Eden
Edited by MaLin Wilson. Text by Dave Hickey, Christopher Knight. Introduction by Dave Hickey. 130 collected essays by Los Angeles Times art critic Christipher Knight, five time winner of the Chemical Bank Award for distinguished newspaper criticism. Jargon-free morally serious tone. >>more
Art Issues Press
ISBN 9780963726445
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 448 pgs / 1 color / 75 b&w
Pub Date: 09/02/1996 Not available
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|  Let's Entertain
Contributors include Philippe Vergne, Dike Blair, Akiko Busch, Susan Davis, Emma Duncan, Joshua Gamson. Let's Entertain: Life's Guilty Pleasures examines the 'spectacularization' of everyday experience through the twin lenses of contemporary art practice and cultural criticism, and challenges us not to simply renounce entertainment, but to understand how its >>more
Walker Art Center
ISBN 9780935640663
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Hardcover, 6.5 x 9 in. / 320 pgs / 150 color / 75 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/02/2000 Not available
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|  Making Art Of Databases
Edited by Joke Brouwer and Arjen Mulder. Essays by Lev Manovich, Brian Massumi, Rafael Lazano-Hemmer, Scott Lash, Sher Doruff and Joel Ryan. In recent centuries a whole range of exact systems has been developed in order to describe and categorize spoken and written communication: phonologically, morphologically, syntactically, semantically, pragmatically, stylistically. But there is nothing similar for visual >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056623098
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9 in. / 112 pgs / 112 color.
Pub Date: 08/02/2003 Not available
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|  Making History: Wu Hung on Contemporary Art
Making History collects the most provocative and insightful essays of Wu Hung, the esteemed scholar and critic of Chinese contemporary art and culture. Written in clear and readable prose, this volume contains detailed analyses of >>more
Blue Kingfisher
ISBN 9789889961701
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Hbk, 8 x 11 in. / 278 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 02/01/2009 Not available
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|  Manet and the Execution of Emperor Maximillian
Essay by John Elderfield. The execution of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, in 1867, was the subject of a quartet of paintings by the French Impressionist and early Modernist Edouard Manet. These works are rarely shown together, and in fact >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870704239
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Paperback, 7.5 x 9.25 in. / 200 pgs / 112 illustrations.
Pub Date: 11/15/2006 Not available
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|  Modernism And Modernity
Edited by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Serge Guilbauta and David Solkin. Essays by T.J. Clark, Hollis Clayson, Nicole Dubreuil-Blondin, Thomas Crow, Clement Greenberg, John Wilson Foster, Allan Sekula, Henri Lefebvre, Marcelin Pleynet, Paul Hayes Tucker, et al. Modernism and Modernity: The Vancouver Conference Papers, was originally published as the proceedings from a conference held in Vancouver, in 1983. Due to its popularity, this reprint is being issued with the same insightful and >>more
The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
ISBN 9780919616417
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 296 pgs / 43 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/15/2005 Not available
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|  Mythomania
Contributions by Bernard Welt. This important book is a dissection of contemporary culture's dominant myths and icons. Welt's essays explore topics such as Michael Jackson, Dr. Seuss, Star Trek, and television game shows. >>more
Art Issues Press
ISBN 9780963726438
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Paperback, 6 X 9 in. / 128 pgs / 25 b&w
Pub Date: 08/02/1996 Not available
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|  Net.Art.2.0
Edited by Tilman Baumgärtel. This follow-up to the first very successful net-art book documents developments in net art from 1999 to the present. A large portion of the thematically-designed book consists of interviews with artists such as Julia Scher, >>more
Verlag für moderne Kunst
ISBN 9783933096661
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Paperback, 8.25 x 9.5 in. / 264 pgs / 97 color / 39 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/15/2005 Not available
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|  New Commitment: In Architecture, Art And Design
Essays by Hans Aarsman, Aaron Betsky, René Boomkens, Jeroen Boomgaard, Ole Bouman, Lieven de Cauter, Chris Dercon, Bas Heijne, Hilde Heynen, Hans Ibelings, Rutger Pontzen, Arnold Reijndorp, Janny Rodermond, et al. Of late, the disciplines of art, design, and architecture have been called upon to engage in current social issues--a development which surely has some connection with recent international political and economic trends. If the 1990s >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056623470
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Hardcover, 5.5 x 8.75 in. / 160 pgs.
Pub Date: 02/02/2004 Not available
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|  On Per Kirkeby
Edited by Bo Bjerggaard. This illustrated volume of essays, penned by Siegfried Gohr, is published in honor of Per Kirkeby's seventieth birthday. A writer and curator, Gohr is a professor at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf and has been acquainted >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775723213
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Hbk, 6.75 x 9 in. / 128 pgs / 48 color.
Pub Date: 02/01/2009 Not available
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|  Open 09: Sound
Edited by Jorinde Seijdel, Liesbeth Melis. Essays by Jonathan Sterne, Dirk van Weelden, Edwin Carels, Moniek Toebosch and Suzanne van de Ven. In recent years both art and architecture have looked anew at the element of sound, and that interest has led to increased study of sound's potential to lend social or spatial meaning. What are the >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056624576
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.25 in. / 160 pgs / 60 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2006 Not available
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| Open 10: (In)tolerance
Edited by Jorinde Seijdel and Liesbeth Melis. Essays by Max Bruinsma, Jeroen Boomgaard, Lonnie van Brummelen, Martijn Engelbrecht, Siebren de Haan, Marion Hamm, Joke Hermes, Maurice Nio, Paul Gerry, Gijs Van Oenen, The Buggers, et al. Open is a notebook on art and the public domain, published twice a year. Open considers the interaction between art, commissioner, place and public in relation to developments within new media, architecture, urbanism, landscape architecture >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056624934
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Paperback, 6.25 x 9.25 in. / 160 pgs / 60 color and 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/15/2006 Not available
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|  Owning Art: The Contemporary Art Collector's Handbook
By Louisa Buck, Judith Greer. This sharp, practical look at the contemporary art market declares its irreverence early with a full-page, large print citation of Jenny Holzer's truism, "Money creates taste." Louisa Buck and Judith Greer's analyses of buyers' interests >>more
Cultureshock Media
ISBN 9780954699918
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Clothbound, 6 x 8 in. / 276 pgs.
Pub Date: 04/01/2007 Not available
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|  P0Es1S: The Aesthetics Of Digital Poetry
Edited by Christiane Heibach and Karin Wenz. Essays by Mark Amerika, Giselle Beiguelman, Friedrich W. Block, Mark Bernstein, Nika Bertram, Simon Biggs, Philippe Bootz, John Cayley, Florian Cramer, Eduardo Kac, Bill Seaman, et al. Digital poetry is a rapidly developing genre in the arts, marked by the most recent developments in media technology. Illustrating and reflecting the use of languages and sign systems in the symbol machine computer and >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775713450
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Paperback, 7 x 11.5 in. / 432 pgs / 70 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/02/2004 Not available
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|  Political, Minimal
Edited by Klaus Biesenbach. Text by Jenny Schlenzka, Michael Archer. Political, Minimal surveys works of art from the past 40 years that use a strongly reduced, geometrical formal vocabulary, but which nonethless manage to retain slim narrative clues, through a repertoire of shapes such as >>more
Verlag für moderne Kunst
ISBN 9783941185074
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Pbk, 9 x 9 in. / 148 pgs / 44 color.
Pub Date: 10/31/2009 Not available
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|  Public Art
Edited by Florian Matzner. Now in Paperback Everyone is an artist....I am really convinced that humankind will not survive without having realized the social body, the social order, into an artwork. --Joseph Beuys
Few topics in the visual >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775791489
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 400 pgs / 255 color
Pub Date: 04/02/2004 Not available
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| Public Art
Edited by Florian Matzner. Includes by Vito Acconci, Daniel Buren, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Ilya Kabakov, Joseph Kosuth, and Lawrence Weiner. Few topics in the visual arts in recent years have created such controversy as the debate surrounding the significance and potential of public art. In this massive book-the first of its kind-over 50 authors take >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775790734
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 748 pgs / 250 b&w
Pub Date: 09/02/2001 Not available
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|  Raising Frankenstein
Edited and with introduction by Kitty Scott. Texts by Barbara Fischer, Teresa Gleadowe, Francesco Manacorda, Cuauhtémoc Medina, Lourdes Morales. The postwar ascent of the curator as both cultural broker and creative participant in the work of art has seen the discipline acquire a brief but rich history of its own, peopled with names that >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865609182
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Pbk, 5 x 7.5 in. / 112 pgs / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/31/2011 Not available
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|  Rembrandt's Nose: Of Flesh and Spirit in the Master’s Portraits
By Michael Taylor. The year 2006 marked the 400th anniversary of the birth of one of the greatest portrait painters that ever lived, the Dutch seventeenth-century master, Rembrandt. Although Rembrandt is among the most important artists in western >>more
D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
ISBN 9781933045443
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Hardcover, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 168 pgs/ 49 duotone.
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 Not available
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|  Rethinking the Contemporary Art School
Edited by Brad Buckley, John Conomos. With great timeliness, Rethinking the Contemporary Art School examines the very basis of the art school and its role in society. The book considers various art-school models—innovative graduate programs, independent stand-alone schools and art schools >>more
The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
ISBN 9780919616493
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 237 pgs.
Pub Date: 05/31/2010 Not available
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|  Robert Lehman Lectures On Contemporary Art No. 1
Artwork by Brice Marden, Lawrence Weiner. Photographs by Stephen Bann. Contributions by John Vinci. Text by Anne Rorimer. These are the first six provocative lectures on contemporary art initiated by the Dia Center. Artists discussed include Lawrence Weiner, Ketherina Fritsch, Robert Gober and Joseph Beuys. >>more
Dia Art Foundation
ISBN 9780944521755
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Paperback, 5.25 x 8 in. / 208 pgs
Pub Date: 06/02/1997 Not available
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|  Roger Shattuck: The Innocent Eye
By Roger Shattuck. In this volume, one of the great polymaths of our time focuses on the often disputed contributions of modern, primarily French, art and literature to contemporary culture. Emphasizing individual works and artists over theory and >>more
MFA Publications
ISBN 9780878466542
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 368 pgs / 9 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/02/2003 Not available
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|  Science & Fiction
Edited by Stefan Iglhaut, Thomas Spring. The worlds of science and fiction were once strictly separated. Increasingly, however, they interfere with one another: science becomes an object of art and art gives fresh impetus to scientific research. Science + Fiction explores >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783936314229
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Paperback, 11.75 x 6.25 in. / 96 pgs / 50 color
Pub Date: 10/02/2003 Not available
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|  Science + Fiction, Volume 2
Edited by Stefan Iglhaut and Thomas Spring. Essays by Homi Bhabha, Wilhelm Krull, Ulrich Beck, Thomas Beth, Wolf Singer, Lydia Haustein, Helga Nowotny, Lorraine Daston, Rudolf Stichweh, Peter Weingart, Roslynn Haynes, Christina von Braun, et al. A play of combinations, Science + Fiction confronts modern science with its artistic reflection. On the top half of each page runs a panorama of fantastic pictures, while below appear essays and interviews on image >>more
Jovis
ISBN 9783936314267
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Hardcover, 12 x 6.25 in. / 252 pgs / 170 color.
Pub Date: 08/02/2004 Not available
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|  Site Of Sound
Edited by Brandon LaBelle. Contributions by Steve Roden. >>more
Errant Bodies Press
ISBN 9780965557023
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Paperback, 7 x 7 in. / 96 pgs / 20 b&w
Pub Date: 06/02/1999 Not available
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|  Smoke Shadows: Jannis Kounellis Interviewed by Jérôme Sans
Jannis Kounellis: Smoke Shadows is the first in a series of pocket-book interviews with key cultural figures by internationally renowned curator, cultural agitator and pioneer Jérôme Sans. Here, Sans looks back with Kounellis over the >>more
Blue Kingfisher
ISBN 9789881506498
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7.25 in. / 96 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 11/30/2012 Not available
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|  Stimuli
Contributions by Bartomeu Mari. Text by Georg Stimmel, Jos ten Berge. >>more
Witte de With Publishers
ISBN 9789073362451
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 48 pgs / 6 b&w
Pub Date: 08/02/2000 Not available
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|  Technology: Art, Fairs And Theatre
Essay by Petran Kockelkoren. Throughout history, developments in technology have impacted and transformed the limits of the human sensorium, from the camera obscura to the stereoscope to the multimedia apparatuses of today. In the perspective paintings of the Renaissance, >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056622350
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Paperback, 7.75 x 4.75 in. / 92 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 06/02/2003 Not available
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|  The Art Of Branding
By Bernd Kreutz. As advertising genius Bernd Kreutz tells us, when Picasso first launched his marketing campaign to establish himself as a brand, “marketing” as we know it did not exist. Yet he recognized its potentials, and, by >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775791571
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Paperback, 7.25 x 9.5 in. / 48 pgs / 51 color / 24 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/02/2004 Not available
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|  The Biennial Reader
Edited by Elena Filipovic, Marieke van Hal, Solveig Øvstebo. Texts by Carlos Basualdo, Daniel Buren, John Clark, Okwui Enwezor, Bruce Ferguson, Milena Hoegsberg, Ranjit Hoskote, Caroline A. Jones, Jakouba Konaté, Gerardo Mosquera, Rafal Niemojewski, et al. Born as a vehicle for national propaganda, the art biennial today has become an outsize phenomenon mobilizing not only artists, curators and gallerists but sponsors, celebrities and politicians, commanding huge press attention and deciding the >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775726108
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Pbk, 2 vols., 6.5 x 10 in. / 568 pgs / 20 color / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/30/2010 Not available
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|  The Eighth Day: The Transgenic Art Of Eduardo Kac
Artwork by Eduardo Kac. Edited by Sheilah Britton, Dan Collins. Contributions by Edward Lucie-Smith. Text by Steve Baker, Carol Becker, N. Katherine Hayles, Arlindo Machado, Gunalan Nadarajan, Alan Rawls, William Rawls, Jeanne Wilson-Rawls. If there is no eighth day in the biblical account of things, perhaps it's time to add another, now that we have the means. The transgenic art of Eduardo Kac does just that, raising often >>more
The Institute for Studies in the Arts, Arizona State University
ISBN 9780972429108
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 180 pgs / 32 color.
Pub Date: 06/02/2003 Not available
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|  The Image Society
Edited by Warna Oosterbaan, Frits Gierstberg, Mariåtte Haveman. Text by Jose van Dijck, Frank van Vree, Kitty Zijlmans, Pauline Terreehorst. We live in an age in which text is gradually losing ground to the image. People read less and spend ever more time in front of the computer screen or the TV. Events and personal >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056622848
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 96 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/02/2003 Not available
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|  The Invisible Dragon
Text by Dave Hickey. An intellectual tour-de-force, this collection of essays asks one of the key questions of our time: Why has talk about art so conspicuously avoided the subject of beauty in recent years? A classic in contemporary >>more
Art Issues Press/Foundation for Advanced Critical Studies
ISBN 9780963726407
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 64 pgs / 7 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/02/1993 Not available
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|  The Murmuring of the Artistic Multitude
By Pascal Gielen. Here, art sociologist Pascal Gielen examines the notion that the global art economy—with its ever-renewable youth quota, its gender imbalance, flexible working hours and short-term contracts (or lack of contracts)—is wholly congruent with the worst >>more
Valiz
ISBN 9789078088349
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Pbk, 5.25 x 8.25 in. / 368 pgs / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/31/2010 Not available
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|  The New Gatekeepers
Edited by Christopher W. Hawthorne, Mark Schapiro and András Szántó. Essays by Amy Adler, Carol Becker, Louis Menand, Roger Newman, Rochelle Gurstein, Charles Mann, Cass R. Sunstein, et al. Disputes over free expression in the arts have always loomed as struggles between creativity and repression, transgression and outrage, candor and hypocrisy. But while high-profile shootouts at art museums and less visible skirmishes at schools, >>more
National Arts Journalism Program
ISBN 9780974638300
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Paperback, 7.25 x 9.25 in. / 200 pgs / 33 color / 32 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/02/2004 Not available
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|  The Wild, Wild East: An American Art Critic's Adventures in China
By Barbara Pollack. A lively and opinionated romp through China's contemporary art scene, Wild, Wild East is based on firsthand encounters with the artists, dealers, collectors, curators and auction specialists who have made Chinese contemporary art the fastest >>more
Blue Kingfisher
ISBN 9789881803498
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 208 pgs / 20 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/31/2010 Not available
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|  The World Of Jeffrey Vallance
Artwork by Jeffrey Vallance. Text by Dave Hickey. Inventive, witty, and full of pointed insights, Jeffrey Vallance will startle you with his most outrageous fictions, proposals, and artistic anecdotes. >>more
Art Issues Press
ISBN 9780963726414
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 80 pgs / 20 b&w
Pub Date: 10/02/1994 Not available
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|  Think Art
Contributions by Andreas Broeckmann, Nathalie Heinich, Catherine Ingraham, Felix Janssen, Jean-Marie Schaeffer. >>more
Witte de With Publishers
ISBN 9789073362413
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.75 in. / 184 pgs / 2 b&w
Pub Date: 08/02/1999 Not available
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|  Under Construction: Perspectives on Institutional Practice
Edited by Vanessa Joan Müller, Nicolaus Schafhausen. Museums, galleries, foundations, collectors, artists, viewers--how do they all come together? How is that changing? This collection of essays and some photographs from a Cologne working group called European Kunsthalle tackles the fundamental issues facing >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865601193
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Paperback, 7.75 x 9.5 in. / 250 pgs / 36 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2007 Not available
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|  Universal Experience: Art, Life, And The Tourist'S Eye
Essays by Francesco Bonami, Carol Becker, Alain de Boton, Lucy Lippard, Susan Sontag and Nancy Spector. Foreword by Robert Fitzpatrick. Drawing from such disciplines as anthropology, sociology, economics, art criticism and travel writing, Universal Experience is both a sizeable illustrated catalogue of the exhibition at the MCA, Chicago and a companion to the experience of >>more
D.A.P./Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
ISBN 9781933045023
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 272 pgs / 170 color.
Pub Date: 03/15/2005 Not available
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|  Varieties of Audio Mimesis
By Allen S. Weiss. This investigation of the metaphoric relationship between music and landscape is also a study of the poetics of onomatopoeia and a theory of sound in the arts. The history of European musicology is perennially revised >>more
Errant Bodies Press
ISBN 9780977259441
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Paperback, 5.5 x 7.75 in. / 109 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/01/2007 Not available
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|  Warren Neidich: Blow-Up
Introduction by Norman Bryson. In Blow-Up, a collection of essays that tackle aesthetics from the angle of neuroscience, Warren Neidich proposes a different and wholly original paradigm for thinking through cultural history and the philosophy of the human subject. >>more
D.A.P./UCR/California Museum of Photography
ISBN 9781891024801
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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 192 pgs / 22 color.
Pub Date: 10/02/2003 Not available
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|  Who Cares
Foreword and essay by Doug Ashford. Introduction by Anne Pasternak. In 2005, the great New York cultural arts organization Creative Time brought together 39 artists, educators and thinkers over a series of intimate dinner parties. Critical conversations were initiated, ideas were discussed and challenged, and >>more
Creative Time Books
ISBN 9781928570028
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9 in. / 160 pgs / 40 color.
Pub Date: 10/15/2006 Not available
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|  Wu Hung on Contemporary Chinese Artists
Edited by Wu Hung. The companion volume to Making History: Wu Hung on Contemporary Art, this selection of essays on Chinese contemporary artists and their work brings to bear the critical acumen of one of China's leading commentators on >>more
Blue Kingfisher
ISBN 9789881803436
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Hbk, 8.25 x 11.25 in. / 268 pgs / 200 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/30/2009 Not available
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