ARTBOOK BLOGEventsStore NewsMuseum Stores of the MonthNew Title ReleasesStaff PicksImage GalleryBooks in the MediaExcerpts & EssaysArtbook InterviewsEx LibrisAt First SightThe Artbook 2022 Gift GuidesArtbook Featured Image ArchiveArtbook D.A.P. Events ArchiveDATE 9/26/2023 Turn-of-the-century typographic revolution in 'Die Fläche'DATE 9/23/2023 Artbook @ MoMA PS1 presents Theo Deutinger and Sharon Helgason Gallagher launching 'Joy and Fear: An Illustrated Report on Modernity'DATE 9/22/2023 Mindblowing info-design in Theo Deutinger's 'Joy and Fear: An Illustrated Report on Modernity'DATE 9/21/2023 Hot book alert! ‘Chloe Sherman: Renegades’ is NEW from Hatje CantzDATE 9/20/2023 Groundbreaking and expansive: 'Simone Leigh'DATE 9/18/2023 'Rob Wynne: Obstacle Illusion' is NEW from Gregory R. Miller & Co.DATE 9/15/2023 'Ed Ruscha / Now Then' is a book for lifeDATE 9/14/2023 Rizzoli Bookstore presents Cynthia Carlson and Thomas Mellins launching 'Cynthia Carlson: Sixty Years'DATE 9/14/2023 Highly anticipated 'Cynthia Carlson: Sixty Years' is NEW from D.A.P. PublishingDATE 9/11/2023 Rizzoli Bookstore presents Tina Barney and James Welling on 'The Beginning'DATE 9/11/2023 'Publish Your Photography Book' third edition… at last!DATE 9/7/2023 Photo book joy in 'Corita Kent: Ordinary Things Will Be Signs for Us'DATE 9/6/2023 Spiritualist and art historical revelations in ‘Anna Cassel: The Saga of the Rose’ | AT FIRST SIGHTTHOMAS EVANS | DATE 3/18/2011Done.Book: Picturing the City of SocietyThe methodological models for urbanism are plentiful, ranging from the recent revival in cartography to the boom in infrastructure theory, but Wolfgang Scheppe’s Done.Book: Picturing the City of Society offers a wonderfully original take on the city he has made his ongoing object of study, Venice. Migropolis, Scheppe’s massive two-volume saturation job on Venice from 2010, adopted an impressive and thorough but not unfamiliar psychogeographic method for excavating the city’s layers, in which various mappings were undertaken through walks around the city. Done.Book is a more eccentric enterprise. Described by Scheppe as “an inquiry into the depth of visual archives,” it assembles a portrait of Venice through two sets of archival materials: the notebooks used by the Victorian art writer John Ruskin (1819-1900) for his legendary 1851 study Stones of Venice and the photographic archive of one Alvio Gavagnin, a Venetian market seller and non-professional photographer who bequeathed Scheppe his archive after they met at Gavagin’s stall.![]() ![]() |