| VISUAL BOOK INDEX | ACTIVE BACKLIST  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
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|  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
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|  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
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056627058
US $40.00 CAN $40.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 6.5 x 9 in. / 188 pgs / 200 color / 25 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/31/2010 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  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
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| |  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
Blue Kingfisher
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
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|  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
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|  Conservation: MFA Highlights Text by Richard Newman. Though conservation plays a decisive role in the public's experience of artworks in museums, visitors are often unaware of what it takes to keep them vibrant, intact and in some cases existent, and until now >>more
MFA Publications
ISBN 9780878467297
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Pbk, 7 x 9 in. / 200 pgs / 150 color / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/31/2011 Active/In stock
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|  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
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|  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
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|  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 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  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/Awaiting stock
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|  Dario Gamboni: The Listening Eye, Taking Notes after Gauguin In this notebook, art historian Dario Gamboni embarks on the trail of the notoriously restless Paul Gauguin, making his own observations in Gauguin’s wake through photographs, drawings and notes. Comparisons between their respective experiences are >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775728683
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Pbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 36 pgs / 23 color.
Pub Date: 01/31/2012 Active/In stock
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|  Draw it with your eyes closed: the art of the art assignment Art school is at a point of unprecedented popularity both as an enterprise and as an object of critical inquiry. This book examines the complex and often unruly state of art education by focusing on >>more
Paper Monument
ISBN 9780979757549
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Pub Date: 00/00/0000 Limited Quantity/
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|  From San Servolo to Amalfi By Lü Peng. From San Servolo to Amalfi is a diaristic account of the Venice Biennale by Lü Peng, author, curator and the world's foremost expert in Chinese art. Peng arrived at San Servolo on May 24, 2009 >>more
Charta
ISBN 9788881588183
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Pbk, 5.75 x 8.5 in. / 144 pgs / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/30/2011 Active/In stock
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|  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
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|  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
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|  Look at Me Edited by Andrea Sick, Mona Schieren. The mechanisms of celebrity culture at the Venice Biennale are dissected in this merciless critique of art-world logic. Essays by Dorothee Albrecht, Andreas Bernhardt, Beatrice von Bismarck, Jolanka Boeke, Paola Bonino, Anna Bromley, Régis Debray, >>more
Moderne Kunst Nürnberg
ISBN 9783869841779
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 232 pgs / 50 color.
Pub Date: 08/31/2011 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  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
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|  Making Art Global, Part 1 Text by Rachel Weiss, Luis Camnitzer, Coco Fusco, Geeta Kapur, Charles Esche. The second installment in Afterall's Exhibition Histories series, Making Art Global, Part 1 focuses on the third Havana Biennial, which took place in 1989. In the core essay, Rachel Weiss examines the ways in which >>more
Afterall Books
ISBN 9783865609939
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Pbk, 6.25 x 8.75 in. / 250 pgs / 105 color / 18 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/31/2012 Active/In stock
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|  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
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|  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
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|  Open Field: Conversations on the Commons Edited by Sarah Schultz, Sarah Peters. Text by Steve Dietz, Stephen Duncombe, Futurefarmers, Jon Ippolito, Red 76, Rick Prelinger, Scott Stulen, Works Progress. George Bernard Shaw once wrote: “If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an >>more
Walker Postscript/Walker Art Center
ISBN 9781935963004
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 274 pgs / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2012 Active/In stock
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|  Pamela M. Lee: Illegibility Lee addresses illegibility in notetaking, with reference to the archive of art historian Meyer Shapiro. >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775728799
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Pbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 24 pgs / 7 color.
Pub Date: 01/31/2012 Active/In stock
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|  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
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|  Positioning the Art Gallery Text by Jan van Adrichem, Dominic van den Boogerd, Xander Karskens, Noor Mertens, Tineke Reijnders, Olav Velthuis, et al. Positioning the Art Gallery traces the history of galleries in Amsterdam beginning around 1960. American artists such as Lawrence Weiner, Sol LeWitt and Allen Ruppersberg, as well as Dutch artists such as Jan Dibbets and >>more
Valiz Book and Cultural Projects
ISBN 9789078088394
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Pbk, 6.75 x 8 in. / 224 pgs / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/30/2013 Active/In stock
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|  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
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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 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  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. / 249 pgs / 9 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/31/2009 Active/In stock
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|  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
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|  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
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Pbk, 7.25 x 10.25 in. / 260 pgs / 189 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2009 Active/Awaiting 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, ac >>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 Active/In stock
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|  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
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|  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
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Hbk, 6 x 9 in. / 208 pgs / 96 color / 12 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/01/2009 Active/In stock
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|  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
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