fb pixcode

CONTEMPORARY ART MOVEMENTS

PUBLISHER
Hayward Gallery Publishing

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 6 x 9.5 in. / 224 pgs / illustrated throughout.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Out of print

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: FALL 2013 p. 113   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9781853323133 TRADE
List Price: $35.00 CAD $40.00

AVAILABILITY
Not available

TERRITORY
NA LA ME

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE

Margate
Turner Contemporary, 05/24/13-09/15/13

Norwich
Castle Museum and Art Gallery, 09/28/13-01/05/14

Dublin
Royal Hibernian Academy, 03/14-04/14

Amsterdam
De Appel Arts Centre, 06/14-08/14

THE FALL 2025 ARTBOOK | D.A.P. CATALOG

Artbook | D.A.P. Catalog Cover Link
Preview our FALL 2025 catalog, featuring more than 500 new books on art, photography, design, architecture, film, music and visual culture.
  

HAYWARD GALLERY PUBLISHING

Curiosity: Art and the Pleasures of Knowing

Foreword by Roger Malbert. Text by Brian Dillon, Marina Warner.

Curiosity: Art and the Pleasures of KnowingCuriosity explores the notion of intellectual and creative curiosity. Compiled in association with author and U.K. editor of Cabinet magazine Brian Dillon, this richly illustrated book explores objects, artworks and narratives drawn from a variety of disciplines--scientific, occult, anthropological and aesthetic--taking as its guide a sensibility that developed in Europe in the early modern period and tracing it at work in disparate historical and contemporary contexts. Contributors to the volume include Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Agency, Aura Satz, Aurélien Froment, Charles Le Brun, Corinne May Botz, Gunda Förster, Jeremy Millar, Laurent Grasso, Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka, Matt Mullican, Nicolaes Maes, Nina Katchadourian, Pablo Bronstein, Philip Henry Gosse, Robert Hooke, Roger Caillois, Tacita Dean, Thomas Grünfeld and Toril Johannessen.

Featured image, Philip Henry Gosse's "Illustration for Actinologia Britannia" (c.1858–1860), is reproduced from Curiosity: Art and the Pleasures of Knowing.

Curiosity: Art and the Pleasures of Knowing

STATUS: Out of print | 00/00/00

For assistance locating a copy, please see our list of recommended out of print specialists

FROM THE BOOK
"It is the 'thirst of the soul,' says Samuel Johnson, seeming to express its necessity; but its effects are merely negative or privative ones—curiosity 'rather frees us from uneasiness, then confers pleasure.'" -Brian Dillon

FORTHCOMING AND NEW: ART

MONUMENTS

MONUMENTS

DelMonico Books

ISBN: 9781636810997
USD $75.00
| CAD $105 UK £ 60

Pub Date: 3/31/2026
Forthcoming


Once Within a Time

ONCE WITHIN A TIME

SITE Santa Fe

ISBN: 9798988512523
USD $65.00
| CAD $90 UK £ 52

Pub Date: 10/28/2025
Forthcoming


ArtLine Milano: Open Air Collection

ARTLINE MILANO: OPEN AIR COLLECTION

Mousse Publishing

ISBN: 9788867496754
USD $35.00
| CAD $49

Pub Date: 9/30/2025
Forthcoming


Word Is Round

WORD IS ROUND

Mousse Publishing

ISBN: 9788867496723
USD $30.00
| CAD $42

Pub Date: 9/30/2025
Forthcoming


24/7

24/7

Verlag für moderne Kunst

ISBN: 9783991531357
USD $29.95
| CAD $41.95

Pub Date: 9/30/2025
Forthcoming


The Ocean Manifesto

THE OCEAN MANIFESTO

JBE Books

ISBN: 9782365681155
USD $50.00
| CAD $70

Pub Date: 9/30/2025
Forthcoming


Dominion

DOMINION

HENI Publishing

ISBN: 9781911736097
USD $79.95
| CAD $112.95

Pub Date: 7/15/2025
Forthcoming


Vertigo

VERTIGO

Éditions Dilecta

ISBN: 9782373722277
USD $40.00
| CAD $55 UK £ 32

Pub Date: 9/30/2025
Forthcoming


Corps et Âmes

CORPS ET ÂMES

Éditions Dilecta

ISBN: 9782373722215
USD $50.00
| CAD $70 UK £ 40

Pub Date: 9/30/2025
Forthcoming


Made in L.A. 2025

MADE IN L.A. 2025

DelMonico Books

ISBN: 9781636811697
USD $39.95
| CAD $54.95 UK £ 32

Pub Date: 10/28/2025
Forthcoming


The Silent Age of Singularity

THE SILENT AGE OF SINGULARITY

Kaph Books

ISBN: 9786148035838
USD $35.00
| CAD $49

Pub Date: 2/25/2025
Active | In stock


The Greek Gift

THE GREEK GIFT

DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art

ISBN: 9786185039400
USD $40.00
| CAD $60 UK £ 34

Pub Date: 4/22/2025
Active | In stock