| VISUAL BOOK INDEX | ACTIVE BACKLIST  0 To 9 Edited by Vito Acconci and Bernadette Mayer. Published from 1967 to 1969 in seven limited mimeographed editions, 0 to 9 was edited by artist Vito Acconci and poet Bernadette Mayer. Seeking to explore the relationship between language and the page, Mayer and >>more
Ugly Duckling Presse/Lost Literature Series
ISBN 9781933254203
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Paperback, 8.5 x 11 in. / 650 pgs / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/15/2006 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  A Thing Among Things: The Art of Jasper Johns By John Yau. This beautifully illustrated and profoundly original volume of essays by the New York poet and critic John Yau mounts one of the most eloquent defenses of the art and vision of Jasper Johns ever written--going >>more
D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
ISBN 9781933045627
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Hardback, 9 x 7 in. / 208 pgs / 70 color
Pub Date: 12/01/2008 Active/In stock
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|  Ai Weiwei: Fairytale Edited by Salome Schnetz. Text by Daniel Birnbaum, Roger M. Buergel, Christian Höller. In 2007, Ai Weiwei (born 1957) presented a surprising new project titled Fairytale at Documenta 12 in Kassel, Germany. He invited 1001 Chinese citizens of different ages and from various backgrounds to travel to Germany, >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783037642108
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Pbk, 6.25 x 9 in. / 248 pgs / 60 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/31/2013 Active/In stock
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|  Alighiero E Boetti: Shaman-Showman Essay by Annemarie Sauzeau Boetti. This memoir is both a private testimony and a critical study, written by the woman who was Boetti's companion during the first 20, and most decisive, years of his career. It is also an album >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783883757070
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Paperback, 5 x 8.25 in. / 218 pgs / 152 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/02/2004 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  André Breton: Surrealism And Painting Introduction by Mark Polizzotti. Originally published in 1928 and augmented throughout the author's life, Surrealism and Painting is the single most important statement ever written on Surrealist art. While many pages have been devoted to visual Surrealism, this is >>more
MFA Publications
ISBN 9780878466283
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Paperback, 8.25 x 10.5 in. / 448 pgs / 34 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/02/2002 Active/In stock
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|  Announcements Edited by Beatrix Ruf, Christoph Schenker. Text by Monica Bonvicini, Ute Meta Bauer, Hans Reck, Beatrix Ruf. How does teaching function in the art world? How does training, like curation, serve as an intermediate space, a temporary, constructive field of conflict? And what does it mean for students and qualified artists? The >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783905701845
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Paperback, 6.5 x 10 in. / 256 pgs / 31 color / 38 b&w / DVD.
Pub Date: 03/01/2007 Active/In stock
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|  Artists as Inventors-Inventors as Artists Using both historical and contemporary examples, this publication traces the complex relationships among art, technology and science, focusing on technological and artistic media from the nineteenth century to the present day. >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775721530
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 240 pgs / 80 color.
Pub Date: 08/01/2008 Active/In stock
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|  Beer, Art And Philosophy By Tom Marioni. Introduction by Thomas McEvilley. “I would encourage everyone to get to know the work of Tom Marioni. There are many discoveries and delights there. I keep finding new things. It won't make you a better person but will make >>more
Crown Point Press
ISBN 9781891300172
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Paperback, 6.5 x 8.5 in. / 223 pgs / 84 Paperback, 6.5 x 8.5 in. / 223 pgs / 84
Pub Date: 06/02/2004 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Bruno Munari: Art Theorems Artwork by Bruno Munari. As Bruno Munari wrote in 1961, “The biggest hindrance to understanding a work of art is wanting to understand.” And so he has written this diminutive book of theorems, this witty, sincere book of enlightening >>more
Edizioni Corraini
ISBN 9788887942347
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Paperback, 4.75 x 6.25 in. / 84 pgs / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/02/2004 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Concerning the Spiritual in Art By Wassily Kandinsky. Translation by Michael T.H. Sadler with a new introduction by Adrian Glew. Wassily Kandinsky was one of the most influential painters of the twentieth century, and this text, in which he laid out the tenets of painting as he saw them and made the case for nonobjective >>more
MFA Publications
ISBN 9780878467020
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Clothbound, 6.25 x 8.5 in. / 192 pgs / 18 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/01/2006 Active/In stock
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|  Concrete Comedy By David Robbins. Conventional histories of comedy address the verbal comedy presented on stage or screen, or in broadcast media. During the twentieth century, however, there emerged another form of comedy--a comedy of doing rather than saying--that yielded >>more
Pork Salad Press
ISBN 9788791409585
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 360 pgs / 2 color / 300 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/31/2011 Active/In stock
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|  Conversation with Peter Downsbrough Preface by James Welling. Interview by Marie Thérčse Champesme. In this book-length conversation between art historian and independent curator Marie-Thérčse Champesme and the Brussels-based conceptualist known for his challenging photography, sculpture and installed works, topics range from Downsbrough's early and id >>more
Exhibitions International
ISBN 9782960051346
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Paperback, 5.25 x 7 in. / 119 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Active/In stock
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|  Diaries of a Young Artist Edited by Shelly Bancroft, Peter Nesbett, Rebecca Sears. What are the daily challenges, pleasures, obstacles and practical issues of being a successful working artist today? What issues do artists struggle with the most? This pocket-size primer, a companion to the best-selling Letters to >>more
Darte Publishing LLC
ISBN 9780977368013
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Pbk, 5 x 7 in. / 80 pgs.
Pub Date: 06/30/2009 Active/In stock
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|  Eduardo Chillida: Writings Eduardo Chillida (1924–2002) is among the sculptors who have contributed most decisively to the vocabulary of abstract sculpture, and to its material innovations, in twentieth-century European art—although he himself envisaged abstraction as simply a tru >>more
Richter Verlag
ISBN 9783941263079
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Clth, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 160 pgs / 54 color / 7 duotone.
Pub Date: 02/28/2011 Active/In stock
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|  Ferreira Gullar in Conversation with Ariel Jiménez Text by Ariel Jiménez, Ferreira Gullar. As an art critic, political essayist, playwright and poet, Ferreira Gullar (born 1930) has been a key figure in the Brazilian cultural scene of the last 60 years. His extensive poetic output has been closely >>more
Fundación Cisneros/Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
ISBN 9780982354452
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Hbk, 6 x 9 in. / 272 pgs / 21 color / 17 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/31/2012 Active/In stock
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|  From an Artist's Perspective Text by Aeneas Bastian, Harriet Häußler. Can one learn to be an artist? What is art anyway? This book asks 51 artists to answer 13 questions about the origins, conditions and possibilities of art. It features emerging and established artists including >>more
Kerber
ISBN 9783866783638
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Hbk, 6.75 x 9 in. / 244 pgs / 20 color.
Pub Date: 08/30/2010 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Futurist Manifestos Edited by Umbro Apollonio. Afterword by Richard Humphreys. On February 20th, 1909, a belligerent manifesto announcing the birth of the Futurist movement appeared on the front page of the Paris newspaper Le Figaro and sent immediate shockwaves throughout Europe. The author, a young >>more
MFA Publications
ISBN 9780878466276
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Paperback, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 240 pgs / 56 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/02/2001 Active/In stock
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|  Fuzz One By Vincent Fedorchak. Fuzz One is the staggering, outrageous, true story of a raucous and wholly unsupervised childhood in the Bronx of the 1970s. Through Vincent Fedorchak's hilarious deadpan narration of a wild existence wrought with adolescent braggadocio, >>more
Testify Books
ISBN 9780972592017
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Hardcover, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 384 pgs / 300 color / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/15/2005 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Hans Ulrich Obrist & Cedric Price: The Conversation Series Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist. The British architect Cedric Price (1934-2003) completed relatively few buildings, but through his drawings, proposals, teachings and conversations, he exerted an enormous influence across many disciplines. For Price, as for an increasing number of archi >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865600936
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Pbk, 5.25 x 8.25 in. / 172 pgs / 26 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/31/2010 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Hans Ulrich Obrist & Cerith Wyn Evans: The Conversation Series Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist. Cerith Wyn Evans’ gloriously uncategorizable oeuvre has spanned installation works, sculptures, photography, film, text and a recent collaboration with industrial-music pioneers Throbbing Gristle. Preoccupations with language and perception generally lea >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865606334
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 196 pgs / 25 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/31/2011 Active/In stock
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|  Hans Ulrich Obrist & Dan Graham: Conversation Series Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist. Since the mid-1960s when he started out as a fledgling critic, Dan Graham has carved out a unique role for himself, expanding the scope of the Conceptual artist to incorporate art criticism, music criticism, photography >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865607911
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8.5 in. / 134 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/31/2012 Active/In stock
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|  Hans Ulrich Obrist & Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster: The Conversation Series The challenging French conceptualist Gonzalez-Foerster is prominent on the international scene. For Skulptur Projekte Münster 2007, she showed small-scale replicas of other Münster fair works, past and present; for her recent ARC Paris museum show, >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865603340
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Paperback, 5.25 x 8.25 in. / 190 pgs / 31 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Active/In stock
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|  Hans Ulrich Obrist & Enzo Mari: The Conversation Series Text by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Enzo Mari. Volume 15 of The Conversation Series features a riveting dialogue between series editor and cultural catalyst Hans Ulrich Obrist and the renowned Italian designer Enzo Mari. More concerned with theoretical issues in design than commercial >>more
Walther König
ISBN 9783865604019
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Pbk, 5.25 x 8.25 in. / 88 pgs / 35 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2009 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Hans Ulrich Obrist & Gilbert & George: The Conversation Series Series editor Hans Ulrich Obrist here collects seven years worth of interviews with the hugely influential British artistic collaborators Gilbert & George, providing an intimate vision of what they consider the most important landmarks in >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865602176
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Paperback, 5.25 x 8.25 in. / 192 pgs / 22 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Active/In stock
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|  Hans Ulrich Obrist & Gustav Metzger: The Conversation Series Text by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Gustav Metzger. In volume 16 of The Conversation Series, Hans Ulrich Obrist presents an in-depth exchange with the venerable German-born artist and activist Gustav Metzger, which illuminates the artist's fascinating life and 60-year career. In 1959, Metzger >>more
Walther König
ISBN 9783865604989
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Pbk, 5.25 x 8.25 in. / 168 pgs / 41 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2009 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Hans Ulrich Obrist & Jeff Koons: The Conversation Series Edited by Karen Marta. Reflecting on 20 years of making art, Jeff Koons talks to Hans Ulrich Obrist about his vocation and its frequently controversial highlights. Koons makes acknowledgement here of determinative influences such as Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dalí >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865606358
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Pbk, 5.25 x 8.25 in. / 123 pgs / 28 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/31/2012 Active/In stock
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|  Hans Ulrich Obrist & John Baldessari: The Conversation Series Volume 18 Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist. Hans Ulrich Obrist has been a staunch supporter of the Los Angeles maestro of Conceptualism John Baldessari from early on in his career. For these conversations, the artist and curator were joined by, among others, >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865605009
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8.5 in. / 242 pgs / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/28/2010 Active/In stock
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|  Hans Ulrich Obrist & John Chamberlain: The Conversation Series The American sculptor John Chamberlain, known for using parts of wrecked automobiles in his volumetric, abstract work, is widely considered one of the most important artists of the 60s generation. Here, he speaks with curator, >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783883759227
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Paperback, 5.5 x 8.5 in. / 128 pgs / 18 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/15/2007 Active/In stock
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|  Hans Ulrich Obrist & Kazuyo Sejima: Conversation Series Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist. Japanese architect Kazuyo Sejima (born 1956) has established her Tokyo studio SANAA, cofounded with Ryue Nishizawa, as one of the art world's favorite architectural teams. SANAA has been responsible for some of the most innovative >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865609274
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8.5 in. / 110 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/31/2012 Active/In stock
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|  Hans Ulrich Obrist & Konrad Klapheck: The Conversation Series In this German-language-only installment of Hans Ulrich Obrist's Conversation Series, the acclaimed curator-conversationalist speaks with the German Pop Surrealist painter Konrad Klapheck, and includes the German conceptual photographer Hans-Peter >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865600356
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Paperback, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 68 pgs / 16 color / 21 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/15/2007 Active/In stock
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|  Hans Ulrich Obrist & M/M (Paris): The Future Will Be... The radical, internationally renowned curator and cultural instigator Hans Ulrich Obrist never looks back. For this book project he compiled a list of quotes on what the "future will be" by some of the creative >>more
onestar press
ISBN 9782915359244
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Paperback, 5.5 x 9 in. / 150 pgs.
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Hans Ulrich Obrist & Marina Abramovic: The Conversation Series Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist. Over the past three and a half decades, Marina Abramovic’s astonishing oeuvre, with pieces in which she performs feats of extreme endurance or mortification of the flesh, has laid bare--perhaps more than any other artist >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865604750
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8.5 in. / 192 pgs / 25 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/30/2010 Active/In stock
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|  Hans Ulrich Obrist & Nancy Spero: The Conversation Series For more than half a century, the influential American artist and activist Nancy Spero has been known for her relentless honesty and her unshakable commitment to political, social and cultural causes--from women’s issues to war >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865603227
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Paperback, 5.25 x 8.25 in.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Active/In stock
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|  Hans Ulrich Obrist & Olafur Eliasson: The Conversation Series Hans Ulrich Obrist and Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson have known each other for many years, and have worked together intimately--on exhibitions, book projects, performances and more. Their legendary conversations, gathered here, are revealing, challeng >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865603357
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Paperback, 5.25 x 8.25 in.color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Hans Ulrich Obrist & Philippe Parreno: The Conversation Series The French filmmaker and artist Philippe Parreno born in Algeria, has been working and collaborating with curator/thinker/editor Hans Ulrich Obrist for many years; over many projects they have taken huge risks and broken countless conventions >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865603401
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Paperback, 5.25 x 8.25 in. / 154 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Active/In stock
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|  Hans Ulrich Obrist & Rirkrit Tiravanija: The Conversation Series Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist. Rirkrit Tiravanija is easily one of the most important artists developing the social and relational aspects of art today. He has transformed gallery spaces into de facto banquet halls, pirate radio stations and even a >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865606549
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 150 pgs / 25 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/31/2011 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Hans Ulrich Obrist & Robert Crumb: The Conversation Series This out-of-sequence first volume in Hans Ulrich Obrist's Conversation Series is devoted to the influential cult comics artist, Robert Crumb-creator of Fritz the Cat, Zap Comics and Mr. Natural, among many other iconic underground ma >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783883759487
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Paperback, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 47 pgs / 1 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/15/2007 Active/In stock
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|  Hans Ulrich Obrist & Wolfgang Tillmans: The Conversation Series Over the course of two very personal conversations, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Wolfgang Tillmans discuss the photographer’s work, his changing artistic vision and various thematic pursuits since the 1980s. Tillmans’ recent book Manual is discussed >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865601339
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Paperback, 5.25 x 8.25 in. / 140 pgs / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Active/In stock
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|  Hans Ulrich Obrist & Yoko Ono: The Conversation Series Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist. In this volume, Hans Ulrich Obrist elicits from New York art veteran Yoko Ono a portrait of her life and career that is unprecedented in detail. Across five interview sessions, Obrist quizzes Ono about her >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865606525
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Pbk, 5.25 x 8.25 in. / 96 pgs / 16 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/31/2010 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Hans Ulrich Obrist & Zaha Hadid: The Conversation Series The celebrated architect and Pritzker Prize-winner speaks with series editor Hans Ulrich Obrist about the projects that established her distinctive, deconstructivist style, and shares her thoughts about contemporary architecture. Conceptual and structura >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865600783
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Paperback, 5.25 x 8.25 in. / 136 pgs / 35 color / 45 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Active/In stock
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|  Hans Ulrich Obrist: Interviews Interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist with artists including Vito Acconci, Olafur Eliasson, Matthew Barney, Daniel Buren, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Mario Merz, Yoko Ono, Gerhard Richter, Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid and others. It is not an exaggeration to write that Hans Ulrich Obrist is everywhere, has curated everything and has interviewed everyone. If “peripatetic” is the word most overused to describe him, it is not inappropriate. The >>more
Charta/Fondazione Pitti Immagine Discovery
ISBN 9788881584314
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Paperback, 5.5 x 8 in. / 968 pgs.
Pub Date: 08/02/2003 Active/Not available
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|  Hans Ulrich Obrist: Interviews, Volume 2 Edited by Charles Arsčne-Henry, Shumon Basar, Karen Marta. Since Hans Ulrich Obrist--museum director, curator, writer, cultural instigator and professional conversationalist--released his bestselling first volume of interviews back in 2004, one wonders if there is a living artist, musician or writer left with wh >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881587315
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 950 pgs.
Pub Date: 06/30/2010 Active/In stock
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|  Inside The Studio Edited by Judith Olch Richards. Contributions by Judith Olch Richards, Richard Tuttle, Janine Antoni, David Levinthal, Louise Bourgeois, Leon Golub, Mel Bochner et al. Since 1981, Independent Curators International (ICI) has run a series in which prominent New York artists talk about their work to an audience gathered at the artist's studio. The New York Studio Events program has >>more
Independent Curators International, New York
ISBN 9780916365707
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 296 pgs / 75 color / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/02/2004 Active/In stock
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|  Interviews By Mike Kelley: 1986-2004 Edited by John C. Welchman. What do Mike Kelley and his cronies and sometime collaborators Jim Shaw, Paul McCarthy and Tony Oursler talk about when they talk about art? You'll have to crack this book to find out, but expect >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783905701005
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Paperback, 6 x 8.5 in. / 160 pgs / 16 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/15/2005 Active/In stock
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|  Interviews Volume 2: By Gerald Matt "The publication at hand is the second volume of interviews recapitulating the conversations I have been able to hold with artists in the course of my work as a director and curator," writes the Kunsthalle >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865603654
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 360 pgs / 122 color / 25 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/01/2008 Active/In stock
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|  Jeff Wall: Selected Essays and Interviews Foreword by Peter Galassi. Throughout his career, the influential art photographer Jeff Wall has written periodically on a variety of subjects--from the work of his Vancouver colleagues, to the art of such diverse figures as Edouard Manet, On Kawara, >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870707087
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.75 in. / 348 pgs / 60 color / 120 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/01/2007 Active/Not available
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|  Jeff Wall: Works and Collected Writings Essay by Michael Newman. Writings by Jeff Wall. Some of the carefully staged and composed images here are digitally altered, and almost all of them were originally displayed in backlit boxes. If those strategies sound familiar, you can thank Jeff Wall, born in >>more
Poligrafa
ISBN 9788434311312
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Hardcover, 8.5 x 10.5 in. / 304 pgs / 148 color.
Pub Date: 03/15/2007 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Jordan Crandall: Under Fire 1 Essays by Akbar Ahmed, John Armitage, Asef Bayat and Ryan Bishop. Through a series of discussions about an array of issues--battle simulation techniques and news programming, democracy and violence, the privatization of the military and militarized bodies--Jordan Crandall explores the organization and representation of >>more
Witte de With Publishers
ISBN 9789073362611
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 96 pgs / 18 color.
Pub Date: 03/15/2005 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Jordan Crandall: Under Fire 2 Edited by Jordan Crandall. Essays by James Der Derian, Madelaine Drohan, Paul Edwards, Joy Garnett, Salwa Ghaly, Stephen Graham, Chris Gray, Anahid Kassabian, Thomas Keenan, Mary Keller, Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger, Saba Mahmood and Antonio Monegal. Under Fire 2 is the second collection edited by Jordan Crandall in an ongoing project that explores the organization and representation of armed conflict. Emerging from online dialogues among a group of artists, theorists, scientists, >>more
Witte de With Publishers
ISBN 9789073362659
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 112 pgs / 18 color.
Pub Date: 08/15/2005 Active/In stock
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|  Joseph Cornell's Dreams Edited and Introduction by Catherine Corman. Joseph Cornell is well known for the oneiric quality of his art and films. Many have tried, often in vain, to put into words the strange power of his boxes--toy-like constructions whose playfulness and humor >>more
Exact Change
ISBN 9781878972415
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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 160 pgs.
Pub Date: 06/15/2007 Active/In stock
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|  Letters to a Young Artist Edited by Peter Nesbett, Sarah Andress and Shelly Bancroft. This pocket-sized book contains a collection of two dozen letters all commissioned from established artists to a fictitious "young artist," a recent art-school graduate who is struggling with the moral and practical implications of being >>more
Darte Publishing, LLC
ISBN 9780977368006
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Paperback, 5 x 7 in. / 80 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 04/01/2006 Active/Not available
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|  Liam Gillick: Proxemics Edited by Lionel Bovier. No less versatile in his writing than in his installations, films, architecture and sculpture, Liam Gillick unites his critical essays in this collection, most of which were originally printed in art magazines or exhibition catalogues. >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783905701012
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Paperback, 6 x 8.5 in. / 288 pgs.
Pub Date: 01/15/2006 Active/In stock
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|  Life, Once More: Forms Of Reenactment In Contemporary Art Edited by Sven Lütticken. Essays by Sven Lütticken, Jennifer Allen and Peggy Phelan. These days, the term “reenactment” usually refers to live reconstructions of historic events, often of a military nature, performed by hobbyists. Civil War reenactments are the most popular in the United States, while European enthusiasts >>more
Witte de With Publishers
ISBN 9789073362642
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Paperback, 6 x 8.75 in. / 216 pgs / 20 color / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/15/2005 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Liliana Porter in Conversation with Inés Katzenstein Introduction by Gregory Volk. The Fundación Cisneros’ Conversaciones/Conversations series is dedicated to preserving firsthand testimonies of leading artists and intellectuals from Latin America. Argentinian artist Liliana Porter has lived and worked in New York since 1964; he >>more
Fundación Cisneros/Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
ISBN 9780982354476
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Hbk, 6 x 9.25 in. / 192 pgs / 30 color / 38 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/31/2013 Active/In stock
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|  Louis le Brocquy: The Head Image Foreword by Enrique Juncosa. Text by Louis le Brocquy. The Irish artist Louis le Brocquy has been a friend to such writers as Samuel Beckett and Seamus Heaney, both of whom he collaborated with, and to painters including Francis Bacon. This meditation on le >>more
Charta/ Irish Museum of Modern Art
ISBN 9788881586165
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Paperback, 6 x 8.25 in. / 56 pgs / 15 color.
Pub Date: 01/01/2007 Active/In stock
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|  Marcia Tucker: Three Stories Edited by Marion Boulton Stroud. This collection of short stories by groundbreaking curator and author Marcia Tucker--who died in 2006 at the age of 66--was produced during her many residencies at The Acadia Summer Arts Program in Maine. Tucker was >>more
A.S.A.P.
ISBN 9780979764219
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Hardback, 7 x 9.25 in. / 60 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/01/2008 Active/In stock
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|  Oui: The Paranoid-Critical Revolution By Salvador Dalí. Translated by Yvonne Shafir. Salvador Dalí's writings from the period in which he was most closely allied with the Surrealists have never before been translated into English. These short fictions, essays and poems contain all the egotistic brio one >>more
Exact Change
ISBN 9781878972224
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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 192 pgs.
Pub Date: 10/02/2004 Active/In stock
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|  Painter Among Poets: The Collaborative Art Of George Schneeman Edited by Ron Padgett. Essays by Bill Berkson, Tom Clark, Dick Gallup, Ted Greenwald, Steve Katz, Alice Notley, Ron Padgett, Peter Schjeldahl, Carter Ratcliff, et al. Painter Among Poets: The Collaborative Art of George Schneeman is the first full presentation of the wide range of projects that Schneeman has co-created over the past 35 years. Painter Among Poets not only investigates >>more
Granary Books/Z Press
ISBN 9781887123662
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Paperback, 7.5 x 10 in. / 128 pgs / 67 color / 23 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/02/2004 Active/In stock
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|  Paul Gauguin: Letters To His Wife And Friends By Paul Gauguin. Contributions by Maurice Malingue. May the day come--and perhaps soon--when I can flee to the woods on a South Sea island and live there in ecstasy, in peace and for art, Gauguin wrote to his wife, Mette, in 1890. >>more
MFA Publications
ISBN 9780878466658
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Paperback, 5.5 x 8.5 in. / 288 pgs / 16 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/02/2003 Active/In stock
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|  Racheal Thomas Interviews Michael Craig-Martin Foreword by Enrique Juncosa. This book-length conversation, interspersed with images, explores Michael Craig-Martin's fascination with fundamental questions regarding the nature of art, representation, authorship and the role of the viewer. Craig-Martin, born in Dublin and educated >>more
Charta/ Irish Museum of Modern Art
ISBN 9788881585861
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Paperback, 6 x 8.25 in. / 64 pgs / 6 color / 7 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/01/2007 Active/In stock
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|  Real Life Magazine: Selected Writing and Projects 1979-1994 By Miriam Katzeff, Thomas Lawson, Susan Morgan. Introductions by Thomas Lawson, Susan Morgan, Matthew Higgs. This long-overdue volume highlights a selection of writings and artists' projects from Real Life magazine, a seminal 1980s periodical edited by the artist, writer and curator Thomas Lawson and writer Susan Morgan. Published in 23 >>more
Primary Information
ISBN 9780978869700
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Paperback, 8.25 x 11 in. / 288 pgs / 184 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/01/2007 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Splat Boom Pow! Text by Valerie Cassel, Roger Sabin, Bernard Weldt, Marti Mayo. Splat--ouch--Boom--ouch--Pow! That hurts. Presenting work by 35 nationally and internationally recognized contemporary artists who have incorporated the imagery, technique, or style of the comics in their work, Splat Boom Pow! makes evident the sh >>more
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
ISBN 9780936080789
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Paperback, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 100 pgs / 35 color / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 06/02/2003 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Susan Hiller: The Provisional Texture of Reality Edited by Alexandra Kokoli. A former anthropologist, Susan Hiller has, since the late 1970s, forged an interface between critical writing and a visual art practice in which feminist and postcolonial cultural politics are fused with idiosyncratic explorations of science, >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783905829563
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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 160 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/01/2008 Active/In stock
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|  The Encyclopedia of Fictional Artists Edited by Koen Brams, Krist Gruijthuisen. First published nearly a decade ago, and here translated into English for the first time, The Encyclopedia of Fictional Artists is a project by author and editor Koen Brams, for which he commissioned and compiled >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783037641231
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Pbk, 2 Volumes, 6.75 x 8.25 in. / 700 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 02/28/2011 Active/In stock
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|  The Next Documenta Should Be Curated By An Artist Edited by Jens Hoffman. Instigated by a conversation between Jens Hoffman and artist Carsten Höller after the opening of Documenta 11, this project provocatively questions the ascent of the curator, the value of the artist as curator, the future >>more
e-flux/Revolver
ISBN 9783937577418
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Hardcover, 8 x 9.75 in. / 88 pgs.
Pub Date: 07/02/2004 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  The Sermons Of Reverend Ethan Acres Edited by Gary Kornblau. This extraordinary collection of six sermons by Reverend Ethan Acres, packaged as a handbound letterpressed booklet, exemplifies a novel aesthetic examining the confused roles of art and religion in public life. Here, the Reverend travels >>more
Art Issues Press/Foundation for Advanced Critical Studies
ISBN 9780963726476
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 96 pgs / 6 color.
Pub Date: 11/02/2001 Active/In stock
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|  The Words Of Gilbert & George Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Robert Violette. The notoriously controversial statements, writings, manifesto art works and interviews of British duo Gilbert & George are collected here for the first time. Spanning nearly three decades, this unique anthology includes previously unpublished texts, pass >>more
Violette Editions
ISBN 9781900828024
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Slipcased, 6.5 x 9 in. / 176 pgs / 170 color.
Pub Date: 10/02/1997 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Tomás Maldonado in Conversation with María Amalia García Introduction by Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro. Essay by Alejandro Crispiani. The Fundación Cisneros’ new Conversaciones series is dedicated to the exchange of ideas between artists and authors. This second publication in the series contains a collection of interviews between the Argentine-born artist, industrial designer a >>more
Fundación Cisneros/ Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
ISBN 9780982354438
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Hbk, 6.25 x 9.25 in. / 136 pgs / 50 color / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/31/2011 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Visual Culture and Bioscience Edited by Suzanne Anker, JD Talasek. Preface by David Yager. Foreword by JD Talasek. Introduction by Suzanne Anker. Visual artist and theorist Suzanne Anker opened the 2007 international online conference Bioscience and Visual Culture with the following words: "The ubiquitous employment of digital technologies within the practices of research science and medici >>more
The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture
ISBN 9781890761127
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 256 pgs / 39 color / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/30/2009 Active/In stock
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|  West Ways By Matthew Licht. Edited by Rita McBride. Westways is the fifth in American sculptor Rita McBride's continuing Ways series of collaborative novels--this time with writer and rock climber Matthew Licht. We follow Mae West from her Brooklyn childhood through her adventures with >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783037641354
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 94 pgs / 1 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2011 Active/In stock
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|  Writings On Cy Twombly By Frank O'Hara. Artwork by Robert Motherwell, Francesco Clemente, Cy Twombly. Edited by Nicola Del Roscio. Contributions by David Sylvester, Kirk Varnedoe, Dore Ashton, Gottfried Boehm. Text by Brooks Adams, Roland Barthes, Robert Pincus-Witten, Harald Szeeman, Arthur Danto, Richard Howard, Max Kozloff, Pierre Restany. While Cy Twombly was still a student, his inspiring work attracted the attention of art critics and art historians, and also prompted poets, philosophers, essayists and fellow artists to write about him. In the present >>more
Schirmer/Mosel
ISBN 9783888149542
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Clothbound, 9.5 x 13.5 in. / 320 pgs / 28 color.
Pub Date: 02/02/2003 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  Zvi Goldstein: On Paper Artwork by Zvi Goldstein. World-wandering artist Zvi Goldstein, born in Transylvania, past resident in Italy and now living in Tel Aviv, gives us his peculiar and prickly pensées for a fractured age. Roaming from Chad to Gaza to the >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783883758657
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 232 pgs / 33 color.
Pub Date: 06/15/2005 Active/Awaiting stock
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| VISUAL BOOK INDEX | OUT OF PRINT  Affectionately, Marcel Edited by Francis M. Naumann and Hector R. Oblak Marcel Duchamp left behind a large volume of correspondence, more than a thousand documents forming a valuable archive of primary source materials on one the 20th Century's most important cutural figures. In his letters, Duchmap >>more
Ludion
ISBN 9789055442492
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Hardcover, 15.5 x 23.5 in. / 448 pgs / 30 b&w
Pub Date: 10/02/2000 Out of print/Not available
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|  Agnes Martin: Writings Edited by Dieter Schwarz. Agnes Martin's abstract works adhere to no set of rules but appear instead as contemplative, intuitive signs. Her “floating abstractions,” in which lines and free bands of color emerge almost imperceptibly, can be reproduced only >>more
Hatje Cantz Publishers
ISBN 9783775716116
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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 176 pgs / 8 color / 1 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/15/2005 Out of print/Not available
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|  Agnes Martin: Writings By Agnes Martin. Now in its third printing, this collection of letters, journals, and lectures is the standard collection of writings by the artist. "I suggest that people who like to be alone, who walk alone, will perhaps >>more
Hatje Cantz Publishers
ISBN 9783893223268
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Paperback, 6 x 9.5 in. / 176 pgs / 8 color / 1 b&w
Pub Date: 07/02/1998 Out of print/Not available
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|  Aleksandr Rodchenko: Experiments For The Future Introduction by John Bowlt. Preface by Peter Galassi. Translated by Jamey Gambrell This book contains all of the diaries, programs, essays, and major articles written by Alexander Rodchenko between 1911 and 1956. The word "experiment" was a key word for the artist, who conceived of his multimedia >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870705465
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Hardcover, 6.25 x 9.25 in. / 440 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/02/2004 Out of print/Not available
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| |  Apollinaire On Art Edited by LeRoy C. Breunig. With a new preface by Roger Shattuck. Poet, critic, impresario, gadfly, visionary, tastemaker: more than anyone, Guillaume Apollinaire embodies the frenzied art world of Paris in the early 20th century. His rampant enthusiasms and antipathies, and his remarkable acumen, make him still >>more
MFA Publications
ISBN 9780878466269
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Paperback, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 576 pgs / 16 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/02/2001 Out of print/Not available
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|  Camille Pissarro: Letters To His Son Lucien Edited by John Rewald. Afterword by Barbara Stern Shapiro. Pissarro's weekly letters to his son Lucien, covering the dramatic period of Impressionism from 1883 to the painter's death in 1905, form what might be called a diary of the Impressionist school. In these wise, >>more
MFA Publications
ISBN 9780878466481
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 384 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/02/2002 Out of print/Not available
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|  Chinese Artists, Texts And Interviews Edited by Ai Weiwei. Essays by Alanna Heiss, Harald Szeemann, Hou Hanru, Li Xianting, Yi Ying, and Uli Sigg. ...since the last revolution of the arts at the end of the 60s, there has been no subversive art; good artists, yes, but the subcutaneous rebelliousness has disappeared in the west, and that explains my >>more
Blue Kingfisher
ISBN 9789628638888
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Paperback, 6.75 x 8.75 in. / 180 pgs / 126 color.
Pub Date: 08/02/2004 Out of Print/Not available
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|  Dan Graham: Interviews Artwork by Dan Graham. Contributions by Hans Dieter Huber. >>more
Cantz
ISBN 9783893222988
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Paperback, 6 x 7.75 in. / 64 pgs / 10 b&w
Pub Date: 01/02/1997 Out of print/Not available
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|  Eugene Delacroix: Selected Letters, 1813-1863 Edited by Jean Stewart. Introduction by John Russell. This volume contains the most representative and informative selection available of the letters of Eugene Delacroix, perhaps the most brilliant visual artist of the French Romantic movement. As edited by Jean Stewart, they are divided >>more
MFA Publications
ISBN 9780878466320
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 432 pgs / 48 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/02/2001 Out of print/Not available
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| Frank Stella: Schriften / Writings Edited by Franz-Joachim Verspohl. Essay by Frank Stella. This collection of Frank Stella's lectures and talks, selected by the artist himself, reflects his "artistic theory of form." Like Paul Klee, Stella's thoughts on form and style begin with systematic study of line, color, >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783883754871
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Paperback, 8.25 x 11.75 in. / 320 pgs / 90 color
Pub Date: 12/02/2001 Out of print/Not available
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|  Hans Ulrich Obrist & Olafur Eliasson: Experiment Marathon Text by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Olafur Eliasson, John Brockman, Bruno Latour, Gustav Metzger, Barbara Vanderlinden. In 2007, Serpentine Gallery Co-Director Hans Ulrich Obrist and artist Olafur Eliasson invited more than 100 leading artists, architects, filmmakers, academics and scientists--including Peter Cook, Simon Baron-Cohen, Gloria Friedmann, Neil Turok, Kim Gord >>more
Walther König
ISBN 9783865605078
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Pbk, 6.5 x 8.5 in. / 240 pgs / 275 color / 8 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/31/2009 Out of Print/Not available
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| Jasper Johns: Writings, Sketchbook Notes, Interviews Edited by Kirk Varnedoe. Compiled by Christel Hollevoet. An unprecedented collection, this volume explores Jasper Johns's art and thought, from all periods of his career, through interviews, published writings, working notes he kept in his sketchbooks and recorded conversations with critics and friends. >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870703867
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Paperback, 6.25 x 9.75 in. / 320 pgs / 51 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/02/2002 Out of print/Not available
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| |  Notes from the Future of Art Edited by Magdalena Ziolkowska. Notes From the Future of Art is the first English language publication by Jerzy Ludwinski (1930-2000), the Polish art historian, critic, curator, founder of the Mona Lisa Gallery in Wroclaw, founder and mentor of the >>more
Veenman Publishers
ISBN 9789086901357
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Hardback, 6.25 x 8 in. / 240 pgs / 41 b&w
Pub Date: 08/01/2008 Out of print/Not available
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|  Raymond Pettibon: A Reader Contributions by Susanne Ghez. Text by Ann Temkin, Anne d'Harnoncourt. Raymond Pettibon is famed for the breadth and depth of his reading: his art draws on it (excuse pun) at every turn. This anthology of Pettibon's favorite authors assembles an eclectic mix, from Charles Baudelaire >>more
Philadelphia Museum of Art
ISBN 9780876331200
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 352 pgs / 1 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/02/1998 Out of Print/Not available
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|  Richard Artschwager: Text And Interviews Edited by Dieter Schwarz. If Richard Artschwager's laconic, concisely handcrafted works deny excessive verbalization (How much can you say about a black oval without worrying that the oval is laughing at you?), the artist's use of the written word >>more
Richter Verlag
ISBN 9783933807854
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Hardcover, 6 x 9.5 in. / 144 pgs / 42 color / 17 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/02/2003 Out of print/Not available
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|  The Words Of Gilbert & George Artwork by Gilbert & George. >>more
Violette Editions
ISBN 9781900828000
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Paperback, 9 x 6.5 / 288 pgs / 38 color / 95 duotone
Pub Date: 11/02/1997 Out of print/Not available
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