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A Brief History of Curating
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A Manual For the 21st Century Art Institution
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A.C.I., Art Catalogue Index
ISBN: 9783905829532 | US $95.00
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Art Life: Selected Writings 1991-2005
ISBN: 9780974364827 | US $25.00
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Banquete: Nodes & Networks
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China Talks
ISBN: 9789881803306 | US $29.95
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Collecting Contemporary Art
ISBN: 9783037640159 | US $15.00
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Conservation: MFA Highlights
ISBN: 9780878467297 | US $22.50
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Contemporary Art and the Museum: A Global Perspective
ISBN: 9783775719339 | US $40.00
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Continuing Dialogues: A Tribute to Igor Zabel
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Curating Subjects
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Curating and the Educational Turn
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Flava: Wedge Curatorial Projects 1997-2007
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Hans Ulrich Obrist: Interviews, Volume 2
ISBN: 9788881587315 | US $75.00
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Harald Szeemann
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It's Time for Action
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Merz World: Processing the Complicated Order
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On Curating: Interviews with Ten International Curators
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On Surplus Value
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Pictures, Patents, Monkeys, And More…On Collecting
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Right About Now
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The Fall of The Studio
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The Global Art World
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This Is the Flow: The Museum as a Space for Ideas
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Voice & Void
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Women Gallerists
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Words Of Wisdom: A Curator's Vade Mecum
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World Art Studies
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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 US $35.00 CAN $42.00 TRADE Pbk, 6.25 x 8.5 in. / 360 pgs. Pub Date: 03/31/2010 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock

A Manual For the 21st Century Art Institution Edited by Shamita Sharmacharja. Text by Bruce Altshuler, Iwona Blazwick, Chris Dercon, Maria Fusco. A Manual For the 21st Century Art Institution invites 12 writers—artists, academics, curators and gallery and museum directors—to assess the present trajectory of arts institutions by explicating various issues, each of which is associated with >>more Walther König, Köln ISBN 9783865606181 US $42.00 CAN $50.00 TRADE Pbk, 6 x 8.5 in. / 184 pgs / 84 b&w. Pub Date: 02/28/2010 Active/In stock

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Hans Ulrich Obrist: Interviews, Volume 2 Edited by Charles Arsène-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 US $75.00 CAN $90.00 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 950 pgs. Pub Date: 04/30/2010 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock

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 US $22.50 CAN $27.00 TRADE Pbk, 7 x 9 in. / 200 pgs / 150 color / 20 b&w. Pub Date: 12/31/2010 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock

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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 US $24.95 CAN $30.00 TRADE Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 200 pgs. Pub Date: 10/01/2008 Active/Awaiting 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 US $29.95 CAN $36.00 TRADE 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
A.C.I., Art Catalogue Index Edited by Marc Blondeau, Thierry Meaudre. Introduction by Rainer Michael Mason. An indispensable art historical reference in an easy-to-manage pocket-sized volume, Art Catalogue Index (A.C.I.) provides a comprehensive list of catalogues raisonnés and information on artists born from 1780 to the present. Beginning in 17 >>more JRP|Ringier ISBN 9783905829532 US $95.00 CAN $114.00 TRADE Hbk, 4.75 x 9.75 in. / 512 pgs. Pub Date: 08/31/2009 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 US $45.00 CAN $54.00 TRADE Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 408 pgs / 41 color. Pub Date: 09/30/2009 Active/In 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/Awaiting stock
World Art Studies Edited by Wilfried van Damme, Kitty Zijlmans. Text by Richard L. Anderson, Elisabeth de Bièvre, Jean Borgatti, Donald Brown, John Clark, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Wilfried van Damme, Ellen Dissanayake, James Elkins, Paula Ben Amos Girshick, Marlite Halbertsma, John Onians, Ulrich Pfisterer, Colin Rhodes, Ben-Ami Scharfstein, Yiqiang Cao, Kitty Zijlmans. This timely volume challenges the narrow Western-centrism of most art historical models. Archaeologists have found that, for tens of thousands of years, all human cultures have shared a desire for visual representation or expression. Yet >>more Valiz ISBN 9789078088226 US $39.95 CAN $48.00 TRADE Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 464 pgs / 42 b&w. Pub Date: 10/01/2008 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 US $29.95 CAN $36.00 TRADE 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 US $27.50 CAN $33.00 TRADE Pbk, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 160 pgs / 20 b&w. Pub Date: 12/31/2009 Active/In 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 US $15.00 CAN $18.00 TRADE 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 US $28.00 CAN $34.00 TRADE 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 US $29.95 CAN $36.00 TRADE Pbk, 8.25 x 10.5 in. / 208 pgs / 32 color / 84 duotone. Pub Date: 10/31/2009 Active/Awaiting 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 US $50.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE 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 US $40.00 CAN $48.00 TRADE Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 256 pgs / 45 color. Pub Date: 07/01/2007 Active/In stock	On Surplus Value Text by Diedrich Diederichsen. Drawing on fresh readings of Marxist and postmodern thought, renowned German cultural critic Diedrich Diederichsen compares the abstract and climbing values of artworks with the plunging value of music--a traditionally immaterial art--in order to formula >>more Witte de With ISBN 9789073362819 US $10.00 CAN $12.00 TRADE Paperback, 5 x 7.25 in. / 128 pgs. Pub Date: 12/01/2008 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 US $25.00 CAN $30.00 TRADE Paperback, 6.25 x 9 in. / 240 pgs / 60 b&w. Pub Date: 03/01/2008 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	It's Time for Action Edited by Heike Munder. Text by Amelia Jones, Mercedes Bunz, Maria Elena Buszek, Katy Deepwell. This text-heavy exhibition catalogue focuses on self-confident, nonconformist Feminist positions, pointing out that new role models and strategies are being requested. Essayist Amelia Jones contests the notion of a current Postfeminism and, using the exa >>more JRP|Ringier ISBN 9783905770537 US $39.00 CAN $47.00 TRADE Hardback, 6 x 9.25 in. / 164 pgs / illustrated throughout. 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 US $25.00 CAN $30.00 TRADE 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 US $35.00 CAN $42.00 TRADE 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 US $15.00 CAN $18.00 TRADE 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 US $21.95 CAN $26.00 TRADE 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 US $14.95 CAN $18.00 TRADE Paperback, 5 x 8.5 in. / 144 pgs / 100 b&w. Pub Date: 06/02/2001 Active/Not available

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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 US $29.95 CAN $36.00 TRADE Paperback, 6 x 8.5 in. / 232 pgs. Pub Date: 12/15/2007 Out of print/Not available