| | | | Spring 2021 Featured Literature, Criticism & Writings What is “Black art”? This question was posed and answered time and time again between 1960 and 1980 by artists, curators and critics deeply affected by this turbulent period of radical social and political upheaval >>more
Gregory R. Miller & Co.
ISBN 9781941366325
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Pbk, 7.25 x 9 in. / 568 pgs / 35 color.
Pub Date: 06/01/2021 Awaiting stock
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|  One very dark night, a long time ago, there was a big explosion. It was the “Big Bang.” From the “Big Bang,” a dot flew off by itself and began to explore. But all around >>more
Gregory R. Miller & Co.
ISBN 9781941366288
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Hbk, 9 x 9 in. / 64 pgs / 30 color.
Pub Date: 07/13/2021 Awaiting stock
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|  German Design 1949–1989
Edited by Mateo Kries, Thomas A. Geisler, Erika Pinner, Klara Nemecková. Text by Paul Betts, Greg Castillo, Petra Eisele, Siegfried Gronert. The cheap, colorful plastic designs of East Germany pitted against the cool functionalism of West German design: German Design 1949–1989: Two Countries, One History does away with such clichés. More than 30 years after German >>more
Vitra Design Museum
ISBN 9783945852446
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Pbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 320 pgs / 320 color.
Pub Date: 06/15/2021 Awaiting stock
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|  The Bloomsbury Group was a union of friends who transformed British culture with their approach to art, design and society. The group aimed to rebel and challenge what they felt were the religious, artistic, social >>more
National Portrait Gallery, London
ISBN 9781855147232
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Hbk, 5.5 x 7.75 in. / 120 pgs / 48 color / 21 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/29/2021 Awaiting stock
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|  In the 25 years since Atlas Press first published this account by Unica Zürn (1916–70) of her long history of mental crises, she has come to be recognized as a great artist at least the >>more
Atlas Press
ISBN 9781900565820
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Hbk, 6.75 x 7.75 in. / 192 pgs / 2 color.
Pub Date: 01/12/2021 In stock
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|  Malpertuis
By Jean Ray. Introduction and translation by Iain White. Afterword by Scott Nicolay. A reinvention of the Gothic novel and an established classic of fantastic literature, Malpertuis is as inventive and gripping today as when it first appeared in French in the dark year of 1943.
Malpertuis is a >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663702
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8 in. / 256 pgs.
Pub Date: 07/13/2021 Awaiting stock
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|  Originally published in German in 1919, Potsdamer Platz was Curt Corrinth’s first novel to employ an expressionistic, frenetic prose and presented his excessive vision of free love. Inspired by the sex theories of Freud’s controversial >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663672
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 112 pgs / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/06/2021 Awaiting stock
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|  Sens-Plastique
By Malcolm de Chazal. Foreword by W.H. Auden. Introduction and translation by Irving Weiss. After seeing an azalea looking at him in the Curepipe Botanic Gardens (and realizing that he himself was becoming a flower), Malcolm de Chazal began composing what would eventually become his unclassifiable masterpiece, Sens-Plastique, which >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663689
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 312 pgs.
Pub Date: 07/13/2021 Awaiting stock
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|  The Die Is Cast
By Robert Desnos. Introduction and translation by Jesse L. Anderson. Published in 1943 (just a year before its author was arrested by the Gestapo for his Resistance activities), The Die Is Cast was a departure for Robert Desnos: a shift from his earlier, frenetic Surrealist >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663696
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8 in. / 200 pgs.
Pub Date: 07/13/2021 Awaiting stock
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|  American poet Norman H. Pritchard’s second and final book, EECCHHOOEESS was originally published in 1971 by New York University Press. Pritchard’s writing is visually and typographically unconventional. His methodical arrangements of letters and words >>more
DABA
ISBN 9781734681703
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Clth, 5.5 x 8 in. / 64 pgs.
Pub Date: 02/23/2021 In stock
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|  Originally published by Doubleday and Company in 1970, N.H. Pritchard’s The Matrix was one of a tiny handful of books of concrete poetry published in America by a major publishing house. Sadly, the book was >>more
Primary Information/Ugly Duckling Presse
ISBN 9781734489798
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Pbk, 5.25 x 8.25 in. / 224 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/30/2021 In stock
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|  2020 ushered in a new decade and with it a series of unforeseen events that have reoriented the future. As the coronavirus forced businesses and institutions to close all over the world, museums likewise shuttered. >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775748278
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Pbk, 4.75 x 7.5 in. / 320 pgs / 30 color.
Pub Date: 01/12/2021 In stock
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|  This massive volume comprises over 80 interviews published across a 13-year span of Lauren O’Neill-Butler’s career as a writer, educator, editor and cofounder of November magazine. The majority of the interviews first appeared on Artforum.com’s >>more
Karma Books, New York
ISBN 9781949172539
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9 in. / 456 pgs.
Pub Date: 06/08/2021 Awaiting stock
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|  Common Tones
By Alan Licht. Introduction by Jay Sanders. A precocious chronicler of New York's art and music scenes of the last 30 years, Alan Licht's (born 1968) experience as a consummate experimental guitarist and conceptual sound artist—combined with his dry wit and deep >>more
Blank Forms Editions
ISBN 9781953691019
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Pbk, 4.75 x 7 in. / 450 pgs.
Pub Date: 07/27/2021 Awaiting stock
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|  Arcana IX
Edited by John Zorn. Initiated in 1997 and now in its ninth installment, John Zorn's Arcana series is a major source of new music theory and practice in the 21st century. To date, close to 300 musicians spanning three >>more
Hips Road/Tzadik
ISBN 9780978833725
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Pbk, 6.5 x 10 in. / 344 pgs / 56 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/02/2021 In stock
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|  When Italian art critic and curator Germano Celant died in 2020 at the age of 79, he left behind a legacy of curatorial philosophy that decisively shaped postwar art in the West, and will undoubtedly >>more
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836647668
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Clth, 8 x 10 in. / 712 pgs / 300 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/29/2021 Awaiting stock
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|  This book collates the writings of some 50 international critics, curators, philosophers and historians who have charted the single-minded course that Sean Scully (born 1945) followed in the first three decades of his career. Reflecting >>more
Art / Books
ISBN 9781908970565
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Hbk, 7.5 x 10.25 in. / 536 pgs / 465 color / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/12/2021 In stock
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|  In this volume, Irish American painter Sean Scully (born 1945) meets with American philosopher and art critic David Carrier for a series of in-depth interviews on the nature of art and the artist’s relationship to >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775748063
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Hbk, 7.5 x 10.25 in. / 180 pgs / 35 color.
Pub Date: 06/29/2021 Awaiting stock
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|  A Nine-Year-Old Aviator
By Raul Ruiz. Edited by Daniele Riviere. Illustrations by Camila Mora-Scheihing. Translation by Catherine Petit, Paul Buck. A previously unpublished story by filmmaker Raul Ruiz (1941–2011) that was found in a trunk by his wife Valeria Sarmiento, A Nine Year-Old Aviator was written in Paris when Ruiz had just fled Chile. This >>more
Dis Voir
ISBN 9782914563994
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 48 pgs / 8 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/23/2021 In stock
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|  This book encompasses a broad range of conversations between Jan Tumlir and Jorge Pardo, which span a period of 20 years, beginning in 1999. Cuban-born, Mexico-based artist Jorge Pardo (born 1963) explores the intersection of >>more
Inventory Press
ISBN 9781941753385
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Pbk, 5.25 x 8 in. / 272 pgs / 27 color.
Pub Date: 07/27/2021 Awaiting stock
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|  In the 1970s, American curator Donna Stein served as an art advisor to Empress Farah Diba Pahlavi, the Shahbanu of Iran. Together, Stein and Pahlavi generated an art market in Iran, as Stein encouraged Pahlavi’s >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788857244341
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 208 pgs / 75 color.
Pub Date: 03/30/2021 Out of stock
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|  Russian Avantgarde in the Museum Ludwig
Edited with text by Rita Kersting, Petra Mandt. Text by Konstantin Akinsha, Friederike Gräfin von Brühl & Ruth Lecher, Meike Deilmann, Yilmaz Dziewior, Maria Kokkori. Perhaps nothing is more devastating to an art collection than the discovery that one of its beloved pieces is merely a replica of the real thing. The subject of counterfeit artworks has long been taboo >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783960988977
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Flexi, 7 x 9.5 in. / 212 pgs / 28 color / 95 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/30/2021 In stock
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|  Ludwig Grote and the Bauhaus Idea
Edited by Torsten Blume, Claudia Perren. Text by Peter Bernhard, Hans D. Christ, Iris Dressler, Magdalena Droste, Christian Eger, Susanne Neubauer, Marian Wild, et al. German art historian Ludwig Grote (1893–1974) had an almost unparalleled influence on the conception of the Bauhaus, helping to shape an idea of the school that has extended far beyond its historical existence. Drawing on >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959052801
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 256 pgs / 90 color.
Pub Date: 08/10/2021 Awaiting stock
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|  New Waves
By Marta Gnyp. Text by Amanda Renshaw. Interview by Katy Hessel. In New Waves, Dutch art historian Marta Gnyp interviews a number of artists and curators about contemporary art’s shifting landscape. Her inquest is divided into five chapters that each address a subject of major change >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788857241197
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Hbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 300 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 07/27/2021 Awaiting stock
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|  Psychic Wounds
Edited by Gavin Delahunty. Text by Robert Storr, Hal Foster, Beatriz Colomina, Bracha Ettinger, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Erika Naginski, Huey Copeland, Griselda Pollock. Trauma in all its forms—internal and external, individual and collective—has been an enduring theme in 20th- and 21st-century art. The proliferation of violent imagery, particularly since the expansion of mass media during and after World >>more
MW Editions/The Warehouse
ISBN 9781735762913
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Clth, 9.75 x 11.5 in. / 408 pgs / 260 color.
Pub Date: 03/09/2021 In stock
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|  The Cowboy's Dreams of Home
Edited by Lawrence Kumpf, Joe Bucciero. Text by Angel Bat Dawid, Charles Curtis, René Daumal, Thulani Davis, Anthony Elms, Ciarán Finlayson, Jessica Hagedorn, Judith Hamann, Sarah Hennies, Alan Licht, Tashi Wada. This iteration privileges new texts produced for the publication. These include an interview with the idiosyncratic Texan singer-songwriter and visual artist Terry Allen, conducted by curator Anthony Elms; a conversation between writers—and longtime friends—Thulani Davis >>more
Blank Forms Editions
ISBN 9781733723596
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Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 242 pgs / 6 color / 14 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/27/2021 Awaiting stock
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|  In Sounding Things Out, Dutch composer and sound artist Esther Venrooy (born 1974) seeks to enlarge and diversify the narrative on sound art by highlighting important pioneers in the field and drawing from her own >>more
Onomatopee Projects
ISBN 9789493148277
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Pbk, 4.5 x 6 in. / 144 pgs / 25 duotone.
Pub Date: 06/01/2021 Awaiting stock
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|  Forces of Art
Edited with text by Carin Kuoni, Jordi Baltŕ Portolés, Nora N. Khan, Serubiri Moses. Preface by Kitty Zijlmans. Showing how artists, artworks and cultural organizations affect people and their social environments, Forces of Art is a dense, polyvocal compendium of current thinking about the impact of art on civil society. It features a >>more
Valiz
ISBN 9789492095893
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Pbk, 6 x 9.5 in. / 456 pgs / 40 color / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/02/2021 In stock
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|  Home Works: A Cooking Book
Edited with text by Jenny Rickards, Jens Strandberg. Text by Samira Ariadad, Jonna Bornemark, Marie Ehrenbĺge, Silvia Federici, Sandi Hilal, Dady de Maximo, Temi Odumosu, Khasrow Hamid Othman, Halla Ţórlaug Óskarsdóttir. In this imaginative and incisive take on both the cookbook form and on the labor and culture attending it, food preparation is assessed as both a creative outlet and an inherently political pursuit, a means >>more
Onomatopee Projects
ISBN 9789493148376
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Spiral bound, 7.25 x 9 in. / 280 pgs / 20 color / 19 duotone / 65 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/01/2021 Awaiting stock
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|  Recipes for the Future
Edited with introduction by Lene ter Haar, Valérie-Anne Houppermans, Astrid Kaminski, Beate Gerlings. Text by Cees Nooteboom, Chloé Rutzerveld, Eva Meijer, David Duindam, Claudia Martinez Garay, Arturo Kaneya, Jonas Staal, Impakt Festival, Tim van der Loo, New Heroes Foundation, MVRDV, Miloš Trakilovic, Kinke Kooi & Lisa Klosterkötter, Ariëlla Kornmehl, Sabine Kühlich, Annemie Vanackere, Walter Bart, Jeroen Versteele, Rolando Vázquez, Melken & Lies Mensink, Sanne Blauw. As the coronavirus forced the world to close down, nearly everyone found themselves spending a lot more time at home than they had initially anticipated. With most 2020 plans foiled and travel restrictions on the >>more
Onomatopee Projects
ISBN 9789493148413
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 400 pgs / 114 color / 10 duotone.
Pub Date: 06/01/2021 Awaiting stock
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|  Hidden Patterns: Visualizing Networks at Barabasi Lab
Text by Peter Weibel, Albert-László Barabási, Mónica Bello, Julia Fabényi, Kathleen Forde, József Készman, Isabel Meirelles, Carlo Ratti, Matthew Ritchie, András Szántó. The Center for Complex Network Research (CCNR) at Northeastern University, Boston, directed by Professor Albert-László Barabási (bestselling author of The Formula, Linked and Network Science), has a simple objective: think networks. The center's research focuses >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775748629
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Hbk, 10 x 11 in. / 192 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 01/19/2021 In stock
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|  Here, graphic designer and Pratt Institute professor Chris Lee looks at graphic design in relation to politically loaded documents such as passports, money and property deeds, showing how the profession’s entanglement with power can be >>more
Onomatopee Projects
ISBN 9789493148420
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Pbk, 5 x 5.75 in. / 192 pgs / 50 duotone.
Pub Date: 07/27/2021 Awaiting stock
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|  Design Struggles
Edited with text by Claudia Mareis, Nina Paim. Text by Danah Abdulla, Tanveer Ahmed, Zoy Anastassakis, Brave New Alps, Johannes Bruder, Cheryl Buckley, Sria Chatterjee, Alison J. Clarke, common-interest, Sasha Costanza-Chock, Decolonising Design, Bianca Elzenbaumer, Arturo Escobar, Kjetil Fallan, Griselda Flesler, Paola De Martin, Ramia Mazée, Tania Messell, Luiza Prado de O. Martins, Rebecca Ross, Nan O’Sullivan, Mia Charlene White. Critically assessing the complicity of design in creating, perpetuating and reinforcing social, political and environmental problems—both today and in the past—Design Struggles proposes to brush the discipline against the grain, by problematizing Western notions of >>more
Valiz
ISBN 9789492095886
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Pbk, 6.25 x 9 in. / 448 pgs / 80 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/11/2021 Awaiting stock
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|  Valuing Architecture
Edited with text by Ashley Paine, Susan Holden, John Macarthur. Architecture has always been found in the space between its economic and cultural values. Unlike the visual and performing arts, literature and music, architecture's values are often seen to be compromised by, or contingent upon, >>more
Valiz
ISBN 9789492095930
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Pbk, 6.25 x 9 in. / 288 pgs / 113 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/02/2021 In stock
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|  This volume responds to current thinking on the built environment, foregrounding the ways in which architecture fosters relations between people and to nature, and asking: what forms of social life does architecture cause, after it's >>more
KANT
ISBN 9788074373190
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Clth, 6.25 x 9 in. / 168 pgs / 131 color.
Pub Date: 05/04/2021 In stock
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|  This third and final volume in the Indicia book series presents the results of the Future Cities Laboratory research program in the form of actions for sustainable city-making. It complements the first and second volumes >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037786598
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 300 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 07/27/2021 Awaiting stock
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|  The fourth edition of Writingplace—the open-access journal of architecture and literature—surveys the use of methods and approaches to spatial imagination across disciplines. >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789462085749
US $40.00 CAN $56.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 144 pgs / 60 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/29/2021 Awaiting stock
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|  Developed in context of the European scientific network EU COST Action, Writingplace 5 approaches a range of narrative methods for analysis and design that deal with socially inclusive urban places. >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789462085756
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 144 pgs / 60 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/31/2021 Awaiting stock
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|  Seeking common ground between designing urban spaces and making pictures, Candide 12 offers cross-disciplinary dialogue on visual research methods from practitioners of urbanism and photography. >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775748537
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 140 pgs / 50 color.
Pub Date: 03/23/2021 In stock
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|  German art dealer Rudolf Zwirner (born 1933) and artist Jakob Mattner (1946) look back at Mattner’s decades-long career, discussing his thoughts on life and art. >>more
Kerber
ISBN 9783735607423
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 72 pgs / 53 color / 11 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/13/2021 In stock
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|  American artist Jimmie Durham's (born 1940) third book of poetry, Particle/Word Theory collects 38 poems written between 2014 and 2019, and 13 drawings. These poems, for Durham, express his belief that “art and science are >>more
Walther König, Köln/Wiens Verlag/Edition Hans Jörg Mayer
ISBN 9783960989264
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Flexi, 5.5 x 8.5 in. / 104 pgs / 1 color / 11 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/30/2021 In stock
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|  Collecting personal recipes from some of today's most important video artists, this book includes contributions from Douglas Gordon, Harun Forocki, Ed Atkins, Keren Cytter, Anri Sala and Omer Fast. >>more
Kerber
ISBN 9783735607256
US $55.00 CAN $77.00 FLAT40
Hbk, 8.75 x 10.25 in. / 256 pgs / 247 color / 48 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/13/2021 In stock
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|  Bauhaus N° 12
Edited by Claudia Perren, Regina Bittner. Text by Anna Berrini, Peggy Buth, Elisa Dainese, Sascha Roesler, et al. In 1953, a group of young architects met and proposed a radical shift away from functionalist housing as an architectural standard, instead offering the term “habitat” as a holistic view uniting housing, human beings and >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959054003
US $17.00 CAN $23.50 FLAT40
Pbk, 8.5 x 11.75 in. / 188 pgs.
Pub Date: 06/15/2021 Awaiting stock
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|  Deculturalize
Edited with text and interview by Ilse Lafer. Text by Sabeth Buchmann, Annarosa Buttarelli, Claire Fontaine, et al. Interview by Lia Cigarini. To “deculturalize” was Italian feminist, art critic and poet Carla Lonzi’s (1931–82) term to describe a way of interpreting life in order to create a radical vision of gender. This publication examines Lonzi’s legacy and >>more
Mousse Publishing
ISBN 9788867494286
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 352 pgs / 56 color.
Pub Date: 03/30/2021 In stock
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|  Navigating the Planetary
Text by Rahel Aima, Kader Attia, Sabine Breitwieser, Tania Bruguera, Roger M. Buergel, Nina Siegal, Chloe Stead, et al. Positioning the Eurocentric term “global” against the more holistic word “planetary” toward an interconnected anticolonialist art world, this volume proposes “planetary” approaches to art. >>more
Verlag für moderne Kunst
ISBN 9783903320673
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Pbk, 5 x 7.75 in. / 400 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 04/13/2021 In stock
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|  Space Is the Place
Edited by Lukas Feireiss. Text by Franz Xaver Baier, Julius von Bismarck, Nuotama Bodomo, et al. This book looks at art that relates playfully to architecture, with contributions from artists, architects, designers and scholars including Franz Xaver Baier, Beatriz Colomina, Olafur Eliasson, Andrea Fraser, Bruce Nauman, Tom Sachs and more. >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959053884
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 192 pgs / 90 color / 17 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/23/2021 In stock
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|  And Then the Doors Opened Again
Edited by David Weber-Krebs. Text by Paula Almiron, Kristof van Baarle, Sven Age Birkeland, et al. Theater director David Weber-Krebs asks theater industry practitioners, artists, scholars, curators and spectators to imagine their first post-virus theater visit. >>more
Onomatopee Projects
ISBN 9789493148383
US $15.00 CAN $21.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 3.75 x 4.75 in. / 288 pgs / 17 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/26/2021 In stock
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