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A Brief History of Curating Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist. Part of JRP|Ringer's innovative Documents series, published with Les Presses du Réel and dedicated to critical writings, this publication comprises a unique collection of interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist mapping the development of the curatorial >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783905829556
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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 200 pgs.
Pub Date: 10/01/2008 Active/In stock

On Curating: Interviews with Ten International Curators By Carolee Thea. Edited by Thomas Micchelli. Foreword by Hans Ulrich Obrist. On Curating, Carolee Thea's second volume of interviews with ten of today's leading curators, explores the intellectual convictions and personal visions that lay the groundwork for the most prestigious and influential exhibitions in the world >>more
D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
ISBN 9781935202004
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 144 pgs / 50 color.
Pub Date: 01/31/2010 Active/In stock

Women Gallerists Text by Claudia Herstatt. With the exception of Peggy Guggenheim, little has been written by or about the astonishingly influential women who have built their careers around art and artists. In a selection of 30 portraits, this book presents >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775719759
US $45.00 CAN $54.00 TRADE
Hbk, 6 x 9 in. / 208 pgs / 96 color / 12 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/01/2009 Active/In stock

The Global Art World Edited by Hans Belting, Andrea Buddensieg. Text by Louisa Augita, Ana Belluzo, Hans Belting. This is the second publication from the ongoing research series, Global Art and the Museum (GAM), which was initiated in 2001 by German art historian Hans Belting and artist, writer and curator Peter Weibel at >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775724074
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 408 pgs / 41 color.
Pub Date: 09/30/2009 Active/Awaiting stock

This Is the Flow: The Museum as a Space for Ideas Edited by Rutger Wolfson. Text by Cornel Bierens, Edwin Carels, Guus Beumer, Valentijn Byvanck, Chris Darke. What role do the visual arts and museums play in our society--and what role might they play? This Is the Flow compiles a series of essays on a diverse range of subjects, such as the >>more
Valiz
ISBN 9789078088240
US $32.50 CAN $39.00 TRADE
Pbk, 7.25 x 10.25 in. / 260 pgs / 189 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2009 Active/In stock

Right About Now Edited by Margriet Schavemaker, Mischa Rakier. Text by Jennifer Allen, Sophie Berrebi, Claire Bishop, Beatrice von Bismarck, Maaike Bleeker, Jeroen Boomgaard, Nicolas Bourriaud, Deborah Cherry, Hal Foster, Vít Havránek, Marc Spiegler, Olav Velthuis, Kitty Zijlmans. Video art, the Internet, globalization, nomadism, itinerant curators and biennale artists, Installation and Process art, PowerPoint presentations, multiculturalism, design, magazines, fashion, lounges, the DJ, VJ and house culture, blockbuster exhibition >>more
Valiz
ISBN 9789078088172
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 184 pgs. / 14 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Active/In stock

The Fall of The Studio Text by Wouter Davidts, Kim Paice, Julia Gelshorn, MaryJo Marks, Kirsten Swenson, et al. Valiz's Antennae series picks up new currents in the arts and commissions essays that transmit current waves of thought. The Fall of the Studio: Artists at Work, a collection of new essays examining the role >>more
Valiz
ISBN 9789078088295
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 160 pgs / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/31/2009 Active/Awaiting stock

Collecting Contemporary Art Edited by Andrea Bellini, Lillian Davies, Cecilia Alemani. For the collector of contemporary art, the acquisition of new work is an aesthetic and intellectual adventure that records a personal journey and cuts a unique cross-section through the culture. Consequently every collector has a >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783037640159
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Pbk, 4.25 x 6.5 in. / 128 pgs / 21 col.
Pub Date: 08/31/2009 Active/In stock

Continuing Dialogues: A Tribute to Igor Zabel Edited by Christa Benzer, Christine Böhler, Christiane Erharter. Texts by Zdenka Badovinac, Francesco Bonami, Eda Cufer, Zoran Eric, Charles Esche, Maria Hlavajora, Suzana Milevska, Viktor Misiano, Kathrin Rhomberg, Renata Salecl. The influential Slovenian curator, art critic, writer and theorist Igor Zabel (1958-2005) was largely responsible for putting the Slovenian art scene on the map during the 1990s. As Senior Curator of Ljubljana's Moderna Galerija, he >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783905829914
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Pbk, 7 x 9 in. / 218 pgs / 32 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2009 Active/In stock

China Talks Text by Jérôme Sans. Never before have so many Chinese artists been given such a wide platform to discuss their works and lives so directly, in the form of dialogues with one of the world's most dynamic curators and >>more
Timezone 8
ISBN 9789881803306
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Pbk, 8.25 x 10.5 in. / 208 pgs / 32 color / 84 duotone.
Pub Date: 10/31/2009 Active/In stock

Banquete: Nodes & Networks Since the 1990s, "banquete_" (a multidisciplinary collaboration between artists, scientists and other thinkers, named for the Spanish word for feast, banquet) has aimed to explore the convergences among biological, social, technological and cultural thou >>more
Turner
ISBN 9788475068459
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Hbk, 7.75 x 10 in. / 366 pgs / 270 color.
Pub Date: 09/30/2009 Active/In stock

Contemporary Art and the Museum: A Global Perspective Edited by Andrea Buddensieg, Peter Weibel. Text by Claude Ardouin, Hans Belting. All over the world, contemporary art is moving into traditional museums, its institutionalization an ongoing proposition with swiftly evolving practices. And more than ever before, the art of the moment is being made and collected >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775719339
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 256 pgs / 45 color.
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 Active/In stock

Harald Szeemann Edited by Florence Derieux. Text by Harald Szeemann, Hal Foster, Jean-Marc Poinsot, Tobia Bezzola. We owe our idea of the contemporary exhibition to Harald Szeemann--the first of the jet-setting international curators. From 1961 to 1969, he was Curator of the Kunsthalle Bern, where in 1968 he had the foresight >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783905829099
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Paperback, 6.25 x 9 in. / 240 pgs / 60 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Active/In stock

JET: It's Not a Plane, It's Not a Girl's Name, It's a Book About Art Edited by Belinda Hak. Text by Faye Holdert, Joris de Jong, Judith Leijdekkers, Jammie Oostrum, Estra Yalçiner. Witte de With's Junior Editorial Team (JET) here gauge the the art world climate through projects and interviews with Marc Bijl, Edith Dekyndt, Tauba Auerbach, Geoffrey Farmer, Ryan Gander, Lawrence Weiner and others. >>more
Witte de With Publishers
ISBN 9789073362871
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Pbk, 7 x 9.5 in. / 160 pgs / 50 color / 15 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/31/2010 Active/In stock

Flava: Wedge Curatorial Projects 1997-2007 Edited by Elizabeth Harney. Introduction by Deborah Willis. Text by Julie Crooks, Cameron Bailey, Warren Crichlow, Pamela Edmonds, Gaylene Gould, Pablo Idahosa, Jürgen Schadeberg, Ruth Kerkham Simbao. This excellent collection of photo-based work that explores black identity celebrates the tenth anniversary of Toronto's Wedge Curatorial Projects, founded by collector and Wedge Gallery Director Kenneth Montague. Over the past decade, the project has >>more
Wedge Curatorial Projects
ISBN 9780978337001
US $60.00 CAN $72.00 TRADE
Hardback, 8 x 12 in. / 142 pgs / 50 color / 80 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Active/In stock

Art Life: Selected Writings 1991-2005 By Lawrence Rinder. Introduction by Bill Arning. Entertaining, lyrical and informative, Art Life is a selection of essays by well-known contemporary art curator Lawrence Rinder, all written since 1991. Rinder's work is distinguished by a concern for art's role in reflecting and >>more
Gregory R. Miller & Co.
ISBN 9780974364827
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Paperback, 7 x 9 in. / 160 pgs / 85 color.
Pub Date: 08/15/2005 Active/In stock

Voice & Void Edited by Thomas Trummer. Foreword by Harry Philbrick. Voice & Void examines the topic of the human voice in avant-garde and contemporary art over the past 40 years, reconsidering the interrelationship of hearing and seeing against the backdrop of the visual arts. The >>more
The Aldrich Museum
ISBN 9781888332315
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Hardback, 9.25 x 6.5 in. / 183 pgs / 76 color.
Pub Date: 02/01/2008 Active/In stock

Merz World: Processing the Complicated Order Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Adrian Notz. Text by Yona Friedman, Thomas Hirschhorn, Peter Bissegger, Karin Orchard, Gwendolen Webster. The evolving artwork and early, all-encompassing installation Merzbau was German Dadaist Kurt Schwitters’ obsession. He began building a fantastical structure inside his Hanover studio in 1923, which he conceived as a project without end. It >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783905701371
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Paperback, 4.25 x 6.5 in. / 124 pgs / 20 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Active/In stock

Pictures, Patents, Monkeys, And More…On Collecting Texts by Werner Muensterberger, Ingrid Schaffner and Fred Wilson. Pictures, Patents, Monkeys, and More...On Collecting examines the collecting impulse in its various incarnations, raising fundamental questions about why we collect and why we collect what we collect. Surprising and eccentric, this publication fea >>more
Independent Curators International, New York
ISBN 9780916365592
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Hardcover, 8 x 10 in. / 72 pgs / 45 color.
Pub Date: 02/02/2001 Active/In stock

Words Of Wisdom: A Curator's Vade Mecum Edited by Carin Kuoni. Essays by Jean-Christophe Ammann, Carlos Basualdo, René Block, Francesco Bonami, Dan Cameron, Lynne Cooke, Bice Curiger, Donna De Salvo, Richard Flood, Thelma Golden, Yuko Hasegawa, Jean-Hubert Martin, Gerardo Mosquera, Hans Ulrich Obrist. A modern update of the Medieval trade manuals--the 'come-along-with-me' (vade mecum) of Medieval craftsmen--Words of Wisdom: A Curator's Vade Mecum is an invaluable guidebook for anyone interested in contemporary art and the practice of cur >>more
Independent Curators International, New York
ISBN 9780916365608
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Paperback, 5 x 8.5 in. / 144 pgs / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/02/2001 Active/Not available

Curating and the Educational Turn Edited by Paul O'Neill, Mick Wilson. Text by Daniel Buren, Charles Esche, Liam Gillick, Ute Meta Bauer, Raqs Media Collective, Irit Rogoff, et al. In recent years there has been increased debate on the incorporation of pedagogy into curatorial practice—on what has been termed “the educational turn” (“turn” in the sense of a paradigmatic reorientation, within the arts). In >>more
Open Editions/De Appel Arts Centre
ISBN 9780949004185
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Pbk, 6.25 x 8.5 in. / 360 pgs.
Pub Date: 07/31/2010 Active/In stock

Machine Project: A Field Guide to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art By Machine Project. Edited by Mark Allen, Jason Brown, Liz Glynn. Machine Project is a Los Angeles-based social experiment that investigates art, technology, natural history, music and poetry through collaboration and conversation. On November 15, 2008, Machine Project took over the Los Angeles County Museum of >>more
Machine Project Press
ISBN 9780975314043
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Pbk, 7.25 x 9.25 in. / 172 pgs / 92 color / 84 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/28/2010 Active/In stock

Urban Art Text by Sotirios Bahtsetzis, Stephen Riolo, Ingo Clauß. Urban art at its most effective offers the liberatory tools for declaring oneself a part of one's environment, and for countering the strictures and regimentation of public space with murals and stenciled graffiti. By means >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775725033
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Pbk, 8.5 x 6.75 in. / 192 pgs / 107 color.
Pub Date: 01/31/2010 Active/In stock

Art as Urban Strategy Text by Henriette Heezen, Tom van Gestel, Nathalie Zonnenberg. Initiated in 1997, the Beyond program for the arts at Leidsche Rijn is unique in its organization and scale. This book documents the project's first decade, investigating how Beyond's flexible scenario has functioned, and analyzing >>more
NAi Publishers
ISBN 9789056627058
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9 in. / 188 pgs / 200 color / 25 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/31/2010 Active/In stock

Curating Subjects Edited by Paul O'Neill. Introduction by Paul O'Neill, Annie Fletcher. This sleek and serious anthology of new curatorial writing features contributions from leading international curators, artists and critics including Julie Ault, Søren Andreasen & Lars Bang Larsen, Carlos Basualdo, Dave Beech & Mark Hutchinson, Irene >>more
Open Editions/Occasional Table
ISBN 9780949004161
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Paperback, 6 x 8.5 in. / 232 pgs.
Pub Date: 12/15/2007 Out of print/Not available

Changing Roles Introduction by Nicolaus Schafhausen, Renske Janssen. How are you involved in the art world? Are you related to any specific scene? What would be the most productive place to present your work? What kind of curators do you like to work >>more
Witte de With
ISBN 9789073362765
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Paperback, 5 x 8 in. / 208 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Out of print/Not available

Foci: Interviews With 10 International Curators Interviews and Introduction by Carolee Thea. Edited by Carolee Thea and Gregory Williams. Foreword by Barry Schwabsky. Foci gathers together interviews with ten of the most renowned curators working internationally in the field of contemporary art. The interviews are rich with wide-ranging dialogue and cover issues such as the relationship between the >>more
ApexArt Curatorial Program
ISBN 9780970407153
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 144 pgs / 23 color / 28 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/02/2001 Out of print/Not available

The Discursive Museum Edited by Peter Noever. Interview with Vito Acconci by Hans Ulrich Obrist. Artists include: Marina Abramovic, Vito Acconci, Bazon Brock, Boris Groys, Magdalena Jetelova, Gerhard Merz . Can the museum be viewed as a conceptual structure capable of liberating itself from visual and imaginary content? To address this question, a group of well-known philosophers, theorists, and artists undertook a critical examination of >>more
Hatje Cantz Publishers
ISBN 9783775711401
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 200 pgs / 20 b&w
Pub Date: 02/02/2002 Out of print/Not available

From No. 3 Essays by Chris Dercon, Okwui Enwezor, Peter Friedl, Olu Oguibe, Hermann Pitz, Dirk Snauwaert, Nasrin Tabatabai, Moniek Toebosch, Gediminas Urbonas. Foreword by Bartomeu Mari. From No. 3 features a series of short essays which provide an art historical and theoretical context for the Witte de With's exhibition program, and will investigate and represent the European cultural identity as seen >>more
Witte de With
ISBN 9789073362482
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Paperback, 9.5 x 7 in. / 104 pgs / 40 color
Pub Date: 03/02/2001 Out of print/Not available

From No. 2 Contributions by Bartomeu Mari. >>more
Witte de With
ISBN 9789073362468
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Paperback, 9.5 x 6.75 in. / 140 pgs / 48 color / 5 b&w
Pub Date: 08/02/2000 Out of print/Not available

From No. 1 >>more
Witte de With
ISBN 9789073362444
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Paperback, 7 x 9.5 in. / 104 pgs / 10 color / 12 b&w
Pub Date: 03/02/2000 Out of print/Not available

Art In The Center Edited by Catherine David, Peter Noever. The curators of Documenta X held two nights of discussions before the opening of the exhibition where in they discussed the idea of the "centre" as a socio-cultural manifestation. These are presented here in an >>more
Cantz
ISBN 9783893223305
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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 80 pgs
Pub Date: 05/02/1998 Out of print/Not available

Documenta - Documenta 1-9 This CD ROM presents a representative overview of past documenta exhibitions one through nine. Nearly 1500 works of art and 2000 artist portraits containing bio info and a host of other information make this an >>more
Hatje Cantz Publishers
ISBN 9783893229345
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CD ROM
Pub Date: 05/02/1998 Out of print/Not available

Documenta Documents 3 Edited by Catherine David. >>more
Cantz
ISBN 9783893228744
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Paperback, 9.5 x 11.5 in / 104 pgs
Pub Date: 03/02/1997 Out of print/Not available

Documenta Documents 1 Edited by Catherine David. Contributions by Jean-Christophe Bailly. Text by Paul Virilio. >>more
Cantz
ISBN 9783893228263
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Paperback, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 68 pgs / 11 color
Pub Date: 11/02/1996 Out of print/Not available

Documenta Documents 2 >>more
Cantz
ISBN 9783893228591
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Paperback, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 68 pgs / 11 color
Pub Date: 11/02/1996 Out of print/Not available

Positions In Art Artwork by Chris Burden, Kiki Smith, James Turrell. Contributions by Jan Hoet. >>more
Cantz
ISBN 9783893222797
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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 208 pgs / 20 color
Pub Date: 07/02/1995 Out of print/Not available

CONTENTS

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