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A Brief History of Curating

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 field--from early independent curators in the 1960s and 70s and the experimental institutional programs developed in Europe and the U.S. through the inception of Documenta and the various biennales and fairs--with pioneering curators Anne D'Harnoncourt, Werner Hoffman, Jean Leering, Franz Meyer, Seth Siegelaub, Walter Zanini, Johannes Cladders, Lucy Lippard, Walter Hopps, Pontus Hulten and Harald Szeemann. Speaking of Szeemann on the occasion of this legendary curator's death in 2005, critic Aaron Schuster summed up, "the image we have of the curator today: the curator-as-artist, a roaming, . . . . Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 200 pgs.

Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

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Gregory R. Miller & Co.

In the Shadow a Shadow: The Work of Joan Jonas

One of the most continuously influential figures of the past half century, Joan Jonas was among the first artists to embrace the forms of video, performance and installation. From her beginnings as a sculptor, and her emergence in the New York art and performance scenes of the 1960s and 70s (including the seminal "Vertical Roll" video piece of 1972, in which the titular television malfunction enacted a memorably fractured female identity), up through her six appearances at Documenta and her performance at the Performa 13 biennial, her work has always been surprising, groundbreaking and necessary. This extensively illustrated volume, containing hundreds of full-color photographs, drawings, scripts and diagrams, presents the definitive collection of Jonas' work. The first and authoritative career-spanning monograph . . . . Clth, 9.5 x 12.75 in. / 536 pgs / 840 color.

Edited with text by Joan Simon. Text by Joan Jonas, Douglas Crimp, Johanna Burton, Barbara Clausen, Richard Serra, Susan Rothenberg.

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Yang Fudong: No Snow on the Broken Bridge

Film and Video Installations

Though he trained as a painter at the China Academy of Fine Arts, Yang Fudong, one of the most interesting and influential young artists emerging from China today, has always preferred film. His videos and photographs combine and accumulate perspectives, investigating identity through ancient mythology, personal memory and lived experience. His subjects, often in their late 20s and early 30s, seem confused and appear to be hovering between the past and present, or perhaps China's past and present. That split gives them an expectant quality, as if something is going to happen that never quite does. Yang Fudong seeks, through vignettes, a poetics of place and people as an alternative to the politics of power. No Snow on the Broken Bridge . . . . Paperback, 7.5 x 10 in. / 180 pgs / 70 color / 20 b&w.

Edited by Ziba de Weck. Text by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

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D.A.P.

On Curating: Interviews with Ten International Curators

By Carolee Thea

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 today. Among the aesthetic and theoretical issues raised are the relationship between artist and curator, globalism, post-colonialism, capitalism, the future of cultural tourism and the biennial as spectacle or utopian ideal. As Thea notes in her introduction, "the biennial or mega-exhibition--a laboratory for experimentation, investigation and aesthetic liberation--is where the curators' experience and knowledge are tested. As they negotiate venues for artistic expression, intellectual critiques and humanistic concerns in their own societies and others, they are challenged by the certainties and uncertainties of a constantly evolving . . . . Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 144 pgs / 50 color.

By Carolee Thea. Edited by Thomas Micchelli. Foreword by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

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Philippe Parreno

Philippe Parreno (born 1964) undermines the notion of the discrete, ownable, copyrighted artwork through collaborations with artists such as Douglas Gordon and Pierre Huyghe, performances, dialogue and the cultivation of exhibitions as real-time encounters. This superbly produced monograph, designed by M/M, offers the first substantial inventory of Parreno's work since the late 1980s, covering his multifarious production from film (such as the famous Zidane, a 21st Century Portrait, made with Douglas Gordon, 2006) to spectacle (Il Tempo del Postino, with Hans Ulrich Obrist, 2007). It also includes critical and fictional texts by Maria Lind, Charles Arsène-Henry, Enrique Juncosa and Simon Critchley, as well as an interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

. . . . Hbk, 8.75 x 13.25 in. / 256 pgs / 143 color / 25 b&w.

Edited by Christine Macel, Karen Marta. Text by Simon Critchley, Maria Lind, Hans Ulrich Obrist.

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Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla

Puerto Rico-based American and Cuban-born Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla are known for their playful, socially-involved, sound-based installations, videos and performances. This well-designed volume presents recent works that investigate how power, militarism and war are encoded into sound.

. . . . Hbk, 8.25 x 10.5 in. / 156 pgs / 112 color.

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Hans Ulrich Obrist: Battery City: A Post-Olympic Beijing Mini-Marathon

On January 31, 2008, Swiss curator, critic and historian Hans Ulrich Obrist conducted a "marathon" of conversations in Beijing, after the example of his famous Serpentine Gallery marathons. This marathon called on artists, cultural producers and media practitioners to discuss the post-Olympic state of the city. Participants included internationally renowned artists Ai Weiwei and Cao Fei, writer and publisher Hung Huang, fashion designer Zhang Da and many others. Topics discussed included everyday life in contemporary Chinese society, the impact of the Olympic Games and the role of the internet in daily life.

. . . . Pbk, 4.75 x 8.25 in. / 138 pgs / 30 b&w.

Edited and with text by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Hu Fan.

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DelMonico Books

Melissa Auf der Maur: My ’90s Rock Photographs

Published with Art Gallery of Ontario.

As the bass player for the iconic 90s alternative rock bands Hole and Smashing Pumpkins, Melissa Auf der Maur toured the world, documenting life backstage, onstage and in the crowd. She instinctively turned the camera on herself as the most intimately available subject, as informed by her studies at Concordia University where her professor, Raymonde April, introduced her to the subjective self-portraits of Francesca Woodman. By the time she joined Hole for their Live Through This world tour, she requested a roll of 35mm film backstage at every venue. Her daily practice, continually documenting herself and her surroundings, expanded through her creative uses of self-timers and cable releases to take snapshots in the middle of performances. . . . . Hbk, 8.25 x 10.5 in. / 240 pgs / 250 color.

Edited with text by Sophie Hackett, Jim Shedden. Foreword by Stephan Jost. Text by Melissa Auf der Maur, Ann Powers, Grace Elizabeth Hale, Kevin Moore, Michael Stipe.

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Reel Art Press

The Ivy Look A to Z

The Essential Guide for Modernist Cats

Authored by a leading expert on the style, The Ivy Look A to Z is a celebration of the clothing and accessories of the Ivy Look. First emerging in the Ivy League schools of America's East Coast during the 1950s and '60s, the Ivy Look has had a lasting sartorial impact on fashion and culture. Democratic, stylish and comfortable, it has been embraced by presidents, film stars, businessmen and hipsters alike. With its understated yet carefully curated components, the Ivy Look embodies an approachable correctness and laid-back confidence.
This visual lexicon showcases all the Ivy essentials and how to wear them—including D for Desert Boots, L for Loafers, M for Madras, O for Oxford Shirts and T for Trench Coats. Each entry . . . . Pbk, 4.75 x 6.5 in. / 208 pgs / 180 color / 20 b&w.

By Graham Marsh.

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Fraenkel Gallery

Robert Adams: Contact

Robert Adams’ photographs of the Western landscape are iconic reminders of nature’s resilience in the face of human development. But as this collection of never-before-published contact sheets shows, his precise arrangements of clouds, trees and roads under clear Colorado light were not inevitable. Instead, they are the result of Adams’ relentless searching for form and his inimitable, exacting photographic technique, as evidenced by prints marked with cropping lines, exposure times and other notes. The book pairs around 50 photographs with their original contact sheets, each showing the exposures from a single roll of medium format film, or with contact-printed 4x5 negatives and pencil-drawn printing guides. The photographs span 20 years, from the 1960s to the mid-1980s, just before Adams traded these . . . . Clth, 12 x 13 in. / 108 pgs / 52 color / 50 tritone.

Edited by Jeffrey Fraenkel, Ola Dlugosz. Introduction by Jeffrey Fraenkel.

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DelMonico Books

Textile Alchemy: The Art of Reiko Sudo & NUNO

Trade Edition

Published with Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Since joining NUNO (“fabric” in Japanese) in 1984 and becoming the firm’s creative director in 1987, Reiko Sudo has pioneered innovative fabrics that merge tradition with technology, and handcraft with experimentation. Textile Alchemy accompanies the largest presentation of Sudo’s textiles in the United States and showcases approximately 100 fabrics alongside sketches and prototypes that immerse visitors in NUNO’s shifting textures and inventive surfaces—from rust-dyed rayons and feathers encased in silk organzas to chrome-plated fabrics and upcycled plant-fiber weaves. This richly illustrated publication explores Sudo's career through essays examining her design philosophy, NUNO’s place in contemporary Japanese culture and the groundbreaking technical innovations behind the firm’s renowned textiles. Featuring striking photography of both finished textiles . . . . Hbk, 9 x 11.25 in. / 176 pgs / 200 color.

Edited with text by Sharon Sadako Takeda. Foreword by Michael Govan. Preface by Toyo Ito, Kunihiko Moriguchi. Text by Rika Iezumi Hiro, Ryu Niimi, Naomi Pollock, Reiko Sudo.

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Textile Alchemy: The Art of Reiko Sudo & NUNO

Special Edition

Published with Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Since joining NUNO (“fabric” in Japanese) in 1984 and becoming the firm’s creative director in 1987, Reiko Sudo has pioneered innovative fabrics that merge tradition with technology, and handcraft with experimentation. Textile Alchemy accompanies the largest presentation of Sudo’s textiles in the United States and showcases approximately 100 fabrics alongside sketches and prototypes that immerse visitors in NUNO’s shifting textures and inventive surfaces—from rust-dyed rayons and feathers encased in silk organzas to chrome-plated fabrics and upcycled plant-fiber weaves. This richly illustrated publication explores Sudo's career through essays examining her design philosophy, NUNO’s place in contemporary Japanese culture and the groundbreaking technical innovations behind the firm’s renowned textiles. Featuring striking photography of both finished textiles . . . . Hbk, 9 x 11.25 in. / 176 pgs / 200 color.

Edited with text by Sharon Sadako Takeda. Foreword by Michael Govan. Preface by Toyo Ito, Kunihiko Moriguchi. Text by Rika Iezumi Hiro, Ryu Niimi, Naomi Pollock, Reiko Sudo.

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Carroll Dunham: Studio on Another Planet

Across more than five decades, American artist Carroll Dunham (born 1949) has amassed a provocative body of work in painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture by combining human anatomy, landscape and abstract forms, often to surreal effect. His distinctive visual language, informed equally by art history and pop culture, is characterized by thick black outlines, vibrant color and psychologically heightened environments. Studio on Another Planet showcases the artist’s latest body of work, completed between 2022 and 2026: 24 paintings, 46 drawings and 5 monotypes depicting a fictional sculptor’s interplanetary voyage of self-discovery. In addition to full-color reproductions of the artworks, the monograph includes two new texts that explore Dunham’s artistic vision: a critical text by author Naomi Fry and an interview by . . . . Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 112 pgs / 82 color.

Text by Naomi Fry. Interview by Matthew Ritchie.

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Mary Ellen Carroll: How To Talk Dirty and Influence People

Published with Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.

Working across performance, publishing, urban intervention and long-term social engagement, New York–based artist Mary Ellen Carroll (born 1961) uses conversation, contracts, zoning codes and bureaucratic processes as the key components of their conceptual language. Their practice unfolds through law, architecture and lived systems rather than discrete objects. The artist often operates in real time and in public view, embracing uncertainty, risk and contradiction as generative conditions. How To Talk Dirty and Influence People offers a comprehensive overview of Carroll’s work since the 1980s. Bringing together performance documentation, new critical essays, commissioned fiction and poetry and conversations with the artist, this publication presents the oeuvre of an artist whose work insists that speech, negotiation and persistence are . . . . Hbk, 9.75 x 13.25 in. / 336 pgs / 251 color / 9 b&w.

Edited by Rebecca Matalon, Karen Kelly, Barbara Schroeder. Introduction and text by Rebecca Matalon. Text by D. Graham Burnett, Pamela M. Lee, Iman Mersal, Kathryn Scanlan. Interviews by David Joselit, Hamza Walker.

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siglio

three six five: prompts, acts, divinations (an inexhaustible compendium for writing)

Though there are 365 exercises for writing in this book, three six five is not simply a book of writing exercises. It is a "how-to" book of questions rather than answers, a diary of contemplation and imagination, an ars poetica of expanding possibility. Tracing the lineage of Yoko Ono's Grapefruit and Raymond Queneau's Exercises in Style, Lucy Ives here offers encouragement, candor and a deep appreciation for the vagaries, wonders and challenges of writing life. These prompts—in alchemical combinations with drawings by Nick Mauss—offer ways to become a (better) writer through observation, reorientation, inquiry, play and engagement with the world and its inhabitants. They invite the writer to learn and unlearn, to mine memory and forgetting, to enter impossible spaces and . . . . Hbk, 6 x 7.75 in. / 416 pgs / 42 b&w.

By Lucy Ives. Illustrations by Nick Mauss.

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DelMonico Books

Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery

Published with Carnegie Museum of Art and Colby College Museum of Art.

This book is the definitive scholarly volume on Chicago artist Gertrude Abercrombie, who was a critical figure in the midcentury Chicago art and jazz scenes. Abercrombie was a creative force of singular vision who, from the 1930s until her death in 1977, produced enigmatic paintings full of personal significance. With a deft hand, a concise symbolic vocabulary and a restrained palette, she produced potent images that speak to her mercurial nature and her evolving psychology as an artist. Cats, owls, doors, moons, barren trees, seashells and searching female figures all converge in her mysterious works, which suggest a life of purposeful introspection and emotional struggle. Drawing consistently on her dreams . . . . Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 224 pgs / 206 color.

Edited with text by Eric Crosby, Sarah Humphreville. Foreword by Eric Crosby, Jacqueline Terrassa. Text by Katie Anania, Donna Cassidy, John Corbett. Chronology by Cynthia Stucki.

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Steidl/Birkenstock

The Book of Birkenstock

The Birkenstock brand is adored the world over for its function-first footwear and commitment to high-quality European production. Its sandals and famous cork footbeds have filtered into countless cultures and subcultures over many decades. The rich visual history of the Birkenstock brand and the creativity it has inspired over the years is gathered here in book form for the first time.
The Book of Birkenstock provides a lush, image-led history of the company, its family origins in shoemaking and its relationship with the health and fashion industries. It also offers a peek behind the scenes into the company’s German production and world-leading design processes that form the Birkenstock footbed, appreciated by millions of wearers. Enhancing this narrative, The Book of Birkenstock is . . . . Pbk, 8.75 x 12.25 in. / 688 pgs / 920 color / 188 b&w.

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Lars Müller Publishers

Helvetica forever

Story of a Typeface

Designed in 1957, the Helvetica font is an icon of Swiss graphic design, and emblematic of the sober, functional communication adopted throughout the world in the 1950s and 60s. The font’s balanced and perceived neutral appearance forgoes a high degree of expressivity—a quality for which it is both criticized and admired. This polarization has helped it gain unparalleled notoriety. First published in 2009 and since out of print, Helvetica forever returns in a smaller and more affordable paperback format. The book retraces Helvetica’s 50-year history, compares it to the well-known sans serif fonts of the 20th century and examines the phenomenon of its unparalleled spread. The study grows from the archive of Alfred Hoffmann, the former director of the Haas’sche Schriftgiesserei . . . . Pbk, 7 x 9.5 in. / 160 pgs / 128 color / 22 b&w.

Edited with text by Victor Malsy, Lars Müller. Text by Indra Kupferschmid, Axel Langer. Afterword by Alfred E. Hoffmann.

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Reel Art Press

John Simons: Since 1955

British designer John Simons (born 1939) has been the definitive voice on Ivy League style in the UK for 70 years, shaping the way that generations of men dress both in London and around the world. He is responsible for naming the "Harrington" jacket and introducing terms such as "button down," "Weejuns" and "workwear" into the modern style lexicon. Blending the finest contemporary items with elusive vintage pieces, his unique approach to curation draws from music, film and art and has had an enduring sartorial influence on menswear worldwide.
John Simons: Since 1955 celebrates 70 years of Simons' style and innovation, exploring the cultural forces that inspired him, showcasing customers in their finest Ivy threads and delving into his deep love of . . . . Pbk, 4.75 x 6.5 in. / 208 pgs / 180 color / 20 b&w.

Edited by Paul Simons, Tony Nourmand, Kinara Pegorini. Text by Paul Simons, Graham Marsh.

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Steidl

Jackie Nickerson: Clad

Photographer Jackie Nickerson (born 1960) has worked for some of the world's leading luxury brands and magazines, including Louis Vuitton, Yeezy, Hermès, Dior, Vogue and Vanity Fair, and yet her fashion photography maintains an anti-commercial stance, the conviction that dressing and dressing up are less about clothes and more about the selves they help us to discover. "I think of clothing as a kind of architecture and part of my job is to find the right environment for it," she says. Often these environments are outside, shaped by changing rhythms of light and a sense of narrative, sometimes theatrical, nearly always open-ended. Clad is the first book wholly dedicated to Nickerson's fashion photography. In 400 pages and nearly as many images, . . . . Pbk, 7.5 x 10.25 in. / 400 pgs / 326 color / 60 b&w.

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HENI Publishing

The Zaha Hadid Interviews

This volume gathers 12 conversations between the architect Zaha Hadid (1950–2016) and Hans Ulrich Obrist, conducted between 2001 and 2013. Across these exchanges, Hadid reflects on architecture as a field of experimentation shaped by drawing, exhibition-making, urbanism and new technologies. The interviews trace the evolution of her thinking from early speculative projects to the realization of major cultural buildings, including museums and civic spaces across Europe, Asia and the United States. Hadid discusses interior complexity, movement and perception, the testing of ideas through exhibitions and installations and the relationship between architecture, art and performance. She also addresses collaboration, authorship and the challenges of translating radical ideas into built form. Illustrated with drawings and paintings—some of which are published here for the . . . . Hbk, 7 x 9.25 in. / 204 pgs / 76 color / 20 b&w.

By Hans Ulrich Obrist.

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DelMonico Books

Kathy Butterly: Assume Yes

Published with Tang Museum at Skidmore College.

Clever, mischievous, seductive, defiant—for over three decades, American sculptor Kathy Butterly (born 1963) has captivated viewers with her experimental and expressive ceramic works. Her signature small-scale porcelain and earthenware pieces evoke a range of moods, incorporating surprising color and textures in her masterful deployment of ceramic techniques. In a gesture that veers toward iconoclasm, Butterly contorts traditional vessel forms, producing biomorphic, individualistic creations that seem to bend and fold. Every detail of a Butterly sculpture—from pools of orange glaze to pearlescent beads of clay—is an essential part of its composition. Published concurrently with Butterly's expansive exhibition at the Tang Museum, Assume Yes is a major monographic survey of her sculptural and ceramic work. It spans . . . . Hbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 320 pgs / 230 color.

Edited with interview by Ian Berry. Text by Forrest Gander, Theodora Bocanegra Lang, Nancy Princenthal, Elena Sisto.

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Walther König, Köln

Hans Ulrich Obrist & Konrad Klapheck: The Conversation Series

Volume 3

In this German-language-only installment of Hans Ulrich Obrist's Conversation Series, the acclaimed curator-conversationalist speaks with the German Pop Surrealist painter Konrad Klapheck, and includes the German conceptual photographer Hans-Peter Feldmann--who was there to document the afternoon's activities with a series of photographic portraits--in the talk. Writing of Klapheck's psycho-erotic "machine" imagery in a 1994 Art in America review, critic Ken Johnson wrote, "What makes Klapheck's pictures compelling is the way the objects he paints are psycho-erotically animated. His machines…are like primitive totems…monumental, amusingly absurd and sexually suggestive." This volume contains generous photo documentation, with many new paintings depicting offbeat human sexual encounters reproduced in color.

. . . . Paperback, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 68 pgs / 16 color / 21 b&w.

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Hans Ulrich Obrist & Rem Koolhaas: The Conversation Series

Volume 4

In this traditional paperback, renowned critic and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist teams up with Dutch avant-garde architect and paradigm-shifting intellectual, Rem Koolhaas, for a discussion of Koolhaas's work in China, his designs for Prada, architecture as metaphor, and the development of urbanism in the slipstream of globalization.

. . . . Paperback, 5.5 x 8 in. / 68 pgs.

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Hans Ulrich Obrist & Yona Friedman: The Conversation Series

Volume 7

People make too much of architecture. I have a running quarrel with architects who overestimate architecture. Reality is at eye-level with people walking down the street. Born in 1923 in Budapest, Hungary, Yona Friedman is widely considered one of the greatest utopian visionary architects of the twentieth century. Currently based in Paris, he is just as much a sociologist as a designer of buildings, more concerned with the way people interact with their environments than monumental statements by an ego-centric creator. In this illuminating talk with The Conversation Series editor Hans Ulrich Obrist, he touches on the needs of the individual in heterogeneous urban societies, past and future projects, utopia, influences and metaphysics, revealing a wise and deeply-animated humanistic intellect. Known . . . . Paperback, 5.5 x 8.5 in. / 126 pgs / 29 b&w.

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Walther König, Köln

Hans Ulrich Obrist & Gustav Metzger: The Conversation Series

Vol. 16

In volume 16 of The Conversation Series, Hans Ulrich Obrist presents an in-depth exchange with the venerable German-born artist and activist Gustav Metzger, which illuminates the artist's fascinating life and 60-year career. In 1959, Metzger penned a manifesto of Auto-destructive art, which states in part, "Auto-destructive paintings, sculptures and constructions have a lifetime varying from a few moments to 20 years. When the disintegrative process is complete, the work is to be removed from the site and scrapped." In this volume, Metzger talks to Obrist about his past and present association with Auto-destructive art, how he has come to fuse his art practice with his political commitment to human rights and ecology, how he escaped the Holocaust at the age of . . . . Pbk, 5.25 x 8.25 in. / 168 pgs / 41 b&w.

Text by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Gustav Metzger.

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Walther König, Köln

Hans Ulrich Obrist & John Baldessari: The Conversation Series Volume 18

Hans Ulrich Obrist has been a staunch supporter of the Los Angeles maestro of Conceptualism John Baldessari from early on in his career. For these conversations, the artist and curator were joined by, among others, the Uruguayan artist and author Alejandro Cesarco, a friend and previous public interlocutor of Baldessari's. Baldessari himself offers readers insight into the motives and semiotics of his multimedia work and his life as an artist, always expressing himself with precision and with wit. A recurrent topic throughout these discussions is the interaction of text and image (on which so much of Baldessari's work leans), and issues such as the museum as institution, idea archives and unrealized projects, and on his career, exhibitions and retrospectives of the . . . . Pbk, 5.5 x 8.5 in. / 242 pgs / 20 b&w.

Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

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Walther König, Köln

Hans Ulrich Obrist & Jeff Koons: The Conversation Series

Vol. 22

Reflecting on 20 years of making art, Jeff Koons talks to Hans Ulrich Obrist about his vocation and its frequently controversial highlights. Koons makes acknowledgement here of determinative influences such as Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol, and elucidates his sense of the legacy of Pop art and his own transformations of that legacy. Koons emerges from this volume as a charmingly open and very focused artist, with strong views on the purposes of art today, and advice for practitioners: See everything as an opportunity. Stay focused, then amazing things can happen.” Koons' goals are also inspiringly utopian and appropriate to all forms of art: The journey of art begins with self-acceptance,” he declares at one point, espousing his ideal . . . . Pbk, 5.25 x 8.25 in. / 123 pgs / 28 b&w.

Edited by Karen Marta.

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