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The Yugoslav Art Space: Denegri in the First Person
The Yugoslav Art Space: Denegri in the First Person
Edited with text by Jelena Vesic, Branislav Dimitrijevic. Text by Ješa Denegri. Postface by Boris Groys.

Ješa Denegri (born 1936) has been the most influential historian and theorist of Yugoslav modernist art of the 1950s and 1960s. Yet despite recent international interest in Yugoslav modernist and conceptual art, his critical writing >>more

JRP|Editions
ISBN 9783037645925
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 240 pgs / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/14/2025 Awaiting stock


Design as an Attitude: New Edition
Design as an Attitude: New Edition
By Alice Rawsthorn. Edited by Clément Dirié.

Acclaimed author Alice Rawsthorn revises her bestselling field guide to design in the wake of a pandemic, technological change and the escalating climate emergency.
Four years after its initial release, Alice Rawsthorn's bestselling book is >>more

JRP|Editions
ISBN 9783037645826
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 224 pgs / 28 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/27/2022 In stock


Resistance Anew
Resistance Anew
Edited with text by Bernard Fibicher.

This volume of essays by leading international philosophers, cultural theoreticians and art historians offers new ideas and practices for resistance today. From case studies on artists (Nalini Malani) and recent events (StrikeMoMA, “artwashing”) to philosophical >>more

JRP|Editions
ISBN 9783037645802
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 176 pgs / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/12/2022 In stock


Museum of the Future: Now What?
Museum of the Future: Now What?
Edited with introduction by Cristina Bechtler, Dora Imhof. Text by Chris Dercon, Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Gathering together fresh perspectives from more than 25 leading art and museum figures—including artists, architects, curators and museum directors—from all over the world, this collection of interviews and contributions shares idiosyncratic views, feedback and visions >>more

JRP|Editions
ISBN 9783037645697
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 208 pgs / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/15/2022 In stock


Minor Cinema: Experimental Film in Switzerland
Minor Cinema: Experimental Film in Switzerland
Edited with text by François Bovier, Adeena Mey, Thomas Schärer, Fred Truniger. Text by Renate Buschmann, Marcy Goldberg, Ute Holl, Ian Wooldridge.

Minor Cinema is the first study of experimental cinema in Switzerland, addressing the relationships between contemporary art and underground movies, formal and amateur films, expanded cinema and performances and focusing on the role of the >>more

JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783037645505
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 384 pgs / 25 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/27/2020 In stock


An Associative Art History
An Associative Art History
By Tomáš Pospiszyl. Edited by Vít Havránek. Text by Sven Spieker.

An Associative Art History searches for the place of Czech, Slovak and Eastern European postwar art in global history. Resisting the mere repetition of Western canonization, the publication aims not to fruitlessly compare East and >>more

JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037645178
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 296 pgs / 14 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/24/2018 In stock


The Private Museum of the Future
The Private Museum of the Future
Edited by Cristina Bechtler, Dora Imhof. Text by Chris Dercon, Soichiro Fututake, Eli Broad, Bernardo Paz, Dakis Joannou, Philippe Méaille, Eugenio Lopez, Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Nadia Samdani, Jochen Zeitz.

Private museums like the Menil Collection in Houston, the Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul de Vence or the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebaek have existed for a long time, but over the past decade, >>more

JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037645208
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 214 pgs / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/28/2018 In stock


The Indian Files
The Indian Files
Edited by Clément Dirié, Shanay Jhaveri. Text by Shanay Jhaveri, Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Edited by Shanay Jhaveri, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art Assistant Curator of South Asian Art, this book is a much-needed volume about the Indian art scene. Conversations with M.F. Husain, Gulam Mohammed Sheik, Geeta >>more

JRP|Editions
ISBN 9783037645000
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 216 pgs / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/21/2025 Awaiting stock


Writings on Wade Guyton
Writings on Wade Guyton
Edited by Tim Griffin. Text by Daniel Baumann, Johanna Burton, Bettina Funcke, John Kelsey, Vincent Pécoil, Scott Rothkopf, et al. This volume takes stock of critical perspectives on the work of New York–based Wade Guyton (born 1972), assembling both expansive, scholarly essays and more concise, journalistic assessments by an international array of authors—Daniel Baumann, Kirsty >>more

JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037644737
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 240 pgs.
Pub Date: 04/24/2018 In stock


Spacescapes Dance & Drawing
Spacescapes Dance & Drawing
Edited with text by Sarah Burkhalter, Laurence Schmidlin. Text by Gabriele Brandstetter, Pauline Chevalier, et al. Interviews with Cindy Van Acker, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, et al. Throughout the 20th century, the performing and visual arts have often converged. As artists investigated the embodied value of form, dancers and choreographers experimented with interfaces between annotation and improvisation. These encounters are the focus >>more

JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037644690
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Pbk, 6 x 8.5 in. / 256 pgs / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/23/2017 In stock


Cinema in the Expanded Field
Cinema in the Expanded Field
Edited by François Bovier, Adeena Mey. Text by Xavier García Bardón, François Bovier, Érik Bullot, et al. Part of the Documents series, this volume explores the history, theory and practice of exhibiting artists’ cinema, video installations and advertising films, focusing on the domains of performance and of the "expanded arts." Together with >>more

JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037644331
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 184 pgs / 7 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/22/2016 In stock


Exhibiting the Moving Image
Exhibiting the Moving Image
Edited by François Bovier, Adeena Mey. Text by Erika Balsom, François Bovier, Giuliana Bruno, Maeve Connolly, Greg de Cuir, Jr., Kate Mondloch, Julie Reiss, Maya Zoller. Since the 1990s, a "cinematographic turn" has taken place in contemporary art, paralleled by the emergence of a "cinema of exhibition." This collection of new essays investigates the relationships between the "white cube" and the >>more

JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037643884
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 160 pgs / 8 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/22/2016 Not available


Hans Ulrich Obrist: The Czech Files
Hans Ulrich Obrist: The Czech Files
Edited by Lionel Bovier, Vít Havránek, Hans Ulrich Obrist. Text by Milan Grygar, Ivan Kafka, Stanislav Kolíbal, Jirí Kovanda, Martin Machovec, Karel Malich, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Zdenek Sykora, Jirí Valoch. This publication is the result of visits carried out by Hans Ulrich Obrist to artists' studios in Prague around 2001 and 2008. Interviews with Milan Grygar, Jirí Kovanda, Karel Malich, Zdenek Sykora and others map >>more

JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037643877
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 176 pgs / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/24/2015 In stock


Museum of the Future
Museum of the Future
Edited by Cristina Bechtler, Dora Imhof. Text by John Baldessari, Bice Curiger, Chris Dercon, et al. Museums of contemporary art are expanding and in crisis. They attract ever-larger audiences; architects constantly redesign them; and the ever-swellling ranks of artists are producing a greater quantity of art than ever before. Meanwhile, museum >>more

JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037643839
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 240 pgs / 31 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/24/2015 In stock


Parachute: The Anthology, Vol. III
Parachute: The Anthology, Vol. III
Edited by Chantal Pontbriand. Text by Guy Bellavance, Douglas Crimp, Georges Didi-Huberman, Philippe Dubois, Anne-Marie Duguet, Peggy Gale, Geert Lovink, Laura U. Marks, Laura Mulvey, David Thomas, et al. Following two precious volumes of writings from the 1970s–90s Canadian magazine ParachuteMuseums, Art History, and Theory and Performance & Performativity—the essays collected in this third volume focus on photography, film, video and new media. >>more

JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037643822
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 222 pgs / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/24/2015 In stock


Jeff Derksen: After Euphoria
Jeff Derksen: After Euphoria
Edited by Kathy Slade. Text by Jeff Derksen. After Euphoria collects Jeff Derksen’s writings on art, architecture and globalism. Focusing on artistic practice and cultural critique, these essays examine the questions, research and propositions of neoliberalism’s synthesis of economy and affect. Exploring the >>more

JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037641972
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 234 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/31/2014 In stock


Parachute: The Anthology, Volume II
Parachute: The Anthology, Volume II
Edited by Chantal Pontbriand. Text by Nora M. Alter, Jim Drobnick, Stephen Horne, Ruth Kerkham, Johanne Lamoureux, Marc James Léger, Kate Linker, Birgit Pelzer, Bruce Hugh Russell, William Wood, Alexander Alberro. In 1975, a small group of enterprising, discontented members of the international art community in Quebec posed the question: “What do we know of contemporary art outside of Quebec, in Canada or abroad? Do we >>more

JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037642832
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 180 pgs / 16 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/31/2014 In stock


More Than You Wanted to Know About John Baldessari
More Than You Wanted to Know About John Baldessari
Edited by Meg Cranston, Hans Ulrich Obrist. This second volume of JRP|Ringier’s complete John Baldessari writings traces the genesis and development of the artist’s understanding of art in the early 1960s through to the present. More Than You Wanted to Know About >>more

JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037642566
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 250 pgs / 15 color.
Pub Date: 09/30/2013 In stock


Contemporary Art Theory
Contemporary Art Theory
By Igor Zabel. Edited by Igor Spanjol. Igor Zabel (1958–2005) was one of Slovenia’s foremost curators and writers. Published as a part of JRP | Ringier’s Documents critical writings series (published with Les presses du reel), this important collection of Zabel’s writings--his >>more

JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037642382
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 302 pgs / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/31/2013 In stock


Art Is a Problem
Art Is a Problem
By Joshua Decter. Edited by John Miller. In this volume of selected essays, interviews, curatorial texts and reviews, spanning 1986-2012, Joshua Decter examines contemporary art in relation to its various ideological, public, discursive, and social contexts. The book encompasses seven chapters: "Institutional >>more

JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037641958
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 446 pgs / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/31/2014 In stock


Booktrek
Booktrek
By Clive Phillpot. Edited by Lionel Bovier. Introduction by Lionel Bovier, Christophe Cherix. Clive Phillpot has been a tireless advocate for the artist’s book for more than 40 years--both as a critic, curator and editor, and in his tenure as director at the library of The Museum of >>more

JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037642078
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 160 pgs / 15 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2013 Not available


A Brief History of New Music
A Brief History of New Music
Edited by Lionel Bovier. Following the success of Hans Ulrich Obrist’s A Brief History of Curating, this publication gathers the influential curator’s interviews with some of the foremost musicians and composers of the 1950s–1990s. It brings together leading avant-garde >>more

JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037641903
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 320 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/31/2014 In stock


More Than You Wanted to Know About John Baldessari
More Than You Wanted to Know About John Baldessari
Edited by Meg Cranston, Hans Ulrich Obrist. This first volume of JRP|Ringier’s complete John Baldessari writings project traces the genesis and development of the artist’s understanding of art in the early 1960s. More Than You Wanted to Know About John Baldessari presents >>more

JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037641927
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 250 pgs / 15 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/30/2013 In stock


Between the Images
Between the Images
By Raymond Bellour. Edited by Lionel Bovier. First published in French in 1990, Between-the-Images unites 20 illustrated essays written between 1981 and 1989 by Raymond Bellour (born 1939), one of the world's most prominent film theorists. Bellour writes in his foreword to >>more

JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037641446
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 240 pgs / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/31/2013 In stock


Artist-Run Spaces
Artist-Run Spaces
Edited by Gabriele Detterer. Text by Gabriele Detterer, AA Bronson, Christoph Cherix, Maurizio Nannucci. In the 1960s and 70s, as the parameters of art expanded to incorporate architecture and performance and increasingly drew on urban theory and the politics of everyday life, the model of the artist-run gallery space >>more

JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037641910
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 280 pgs / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/31/2013 Not available


How to Do Things with Art
How to Do Things with Art
By Dorothea von Hantlemann. Edited by Karen Marta. Foreword by Hans Ulrich Obrist. Art has never been as culturally and economically prominent as it is today. How can artists themselves shape the social relevance and impact of their work? In How to Do Things with Art, German art >>more

JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037641040
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 208 pgs / 19 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/30/2010 Not available


Time Action Vision
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, activism and >>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 In stock


A Brief History of Curating
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 In stock


Theft Is Vision
Theft Is Vision
By Bob Nickas. Theft is Vision gathers essays and interviews from the past ten years by the influential New York critic and curator Bob Nickas, offering a personal, shoot-from-the-hip take on the American art scene. More of a >>more

JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783905770360
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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 160 pgs / 24 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/01/2007 Not available