JRP|Ringier

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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Walther König, Köln

Gerhard Richter: Obrist-O’Brist

Gerhard Richter and Hans Ulrich Obrist first met in 1985. Their professional collaborations began seven years later, when the 24-year-old Obrist curated his first Richter exhibition; the following year he published a collection of his writings. Now Gerhard Richter has dedicated an artist's book to this longstanding relationship. The texts in Obrist-O'Brist have been produced by rearranging Obrist's interviews using a random generator, setting the results in blocks without discrete passages or paragraphs. The color plates are made up of photographs—both portraits and mementos—of Hans Ulrich Obrist, from the past 15 years, and photos of Richter's own paintings, which Richter has then painted over using brushes and scrapers. Chiming with many currents in contemporary writing and bookmaking, Obrist-O'Brist is an adventure . . . . Pbk, 6.75 x 9 in. / 184 pgs / 102 color.

Text by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

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Walther König, Köln

Indian Highway

Following the rapid economic and cultural developments on the Indian subcontinent in recent years, Indian Highwayis a timely snapshot of a new generation of artists. Its title indicates the significance of the road in migration, as well as the information superhighway” that has driven India's economic boom. A common thread throughout is the political and social engagement of these artists, who include: Ayisha Abraham, Ravi Agarwal, Sarnath Banerjee, Hemali Bhuta, Nikhil Chopra, Desire Machine Collective, Sheela Gowda, Sakshi Gupta, Shilpa Gupta, Subodh Gupta, NS Harsha, Abhishek, Hazra Shanay, Jhaveri, Jitish Kallat, Amar Kanwar, Bharti Kher, Bose Krishnamachari, Nalini Malani, Jagannath Panda, Prajakta Potnis, Raqs Media Collective, Tejal Shah, Valay Shende, Sudarshan Shetty, Dayanita Singh, Sumakshi Singh, Ashok Sukumaran, Shaina Anand, Thukral . . . . Pbk, 8.75 x 10 in. / 320 pgs / 290 color.

Edited by Julia Peyton-Jones, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Gunnar B. Kvaran, Thierry Raspail.

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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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JRP|Ringier/BDV Bureau des videos

The Secret Files of Gilbert & George

For the last 40 years Gilbert & George have united and divided the international art scene with equal parts insolence and elegance. Their oeuvre, with its repeating figures and reprising themes of shit, piss, blood, tears, nudity, sperm, alcohol and drugs, overturned the conventions of the twentieth century and helped to set the agenda for the twenty-first. This 35-minute film produced, hosted and edited by the influential international curator Hans Ulrich Obrist is the first documentary to follow Gilbert & George inside their creative process, and into their archives and collection. Obrist discovers the couple's intimate life within the interior of their London house, a veritable museum of obsessions. Beyond good and bad, beyond appearances and objects (negatives, books, press cuttings… . . . . DVD video, PAL Multizone, 5.5 x 7.5 in.

Edited by Nicolas Tremblay. By Hans Ulrich Obrist.

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JRP|Ringier

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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JRP|Ringier

Merz World: Processing the Complicated Order

The evolving artwork and early, all-encompassing installation Merzbau was German Dadaist Kurt Schwitters’ obsession. He began building a fantastical structure inside his Hanover studio in 1923, which he conceived as a project without end. It gradually took over most of the house. He continued to work on it in different locations throughout his life, remarking that the Merzbau contained everything that was important to him. This groundbreaking volume results from the first of a series of Zurich-based symposia on the Merzbau and its legacy in contemporary architecture, art and society. The Symposium Merzbau sets a new standard for further research on Schwitter’s influential project. Edited by curator and writer Hans Ulrich Obrist, this book includes contributions by art historians, critics and . . . . Paperback, 4.25 x 6.5 in. / 124 pgs / 20 color.

Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Adrian Notz. Text by Yona Friedman, Thomas Hirschhorn, Peter Bissegger, Karin Orchard, Gwendolen Webster.

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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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JRP|Ringier

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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JRP|Ringier

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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Walther König, Köln

Gilbert & George: Art Titles

1967-2010 in Alphabetical Order, Catalogue Raisonné

Gilbert & George Art Titles offers a new spin on the catalogue raisonné: a complete catalogue of the titles of all of the duo's works, from 1970 to the present, in the form of a continuous poetical index. Designed by the artists, it commences with their first performance at Nigel Greenwood Gallery in 1970, "3 Living Pieces"--flanking the title with the year on the left margin and the acronym "LS" ("living sculpture") on the right--and opens out into the more poetical titles for which they are known. The catalogue of works is also printed alphabetically, and each title is identified with an acronym indicating its format. Spanning more than 40 years of exhibitions, pictures, postcards, books and other formats, this volume . . . . Pbk, 6 x 8.5 in. / 180 pgs / illustrated throughout.

Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Inigo Philbrick.

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Walther König, Köln

Elmgreen & Dragset: Trilogy

In their latest monograph, the Danish-Norwegian duo Elmgreen & Dragset address the world of celebrity: rumor-mongering, life in the public eye, the mechanisms of the media, its formation of myths and how those myths endlessly bombard us with staged presentations of the self. Two allegorical installations on celebrity and its implications of "the one" (the celebrity) and "the many" (the rest of us) were devised for the duo's exhibition at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, and are here documented across 100 color plates. In one of the museum's atriums, Elmgreen & Dragset installed a full-scale high-rise apartment block; the other atrium was converted into a neoclassical ballroom. Also documented in this volume are The Welfare Show . . . . Clth, 8 x 10 in. / 384 pgs / 100 color.

Edited by Andreas F. Beitin, Peter Weibel. Text by Tony Benn, Hubert Burda, Tom Mole, Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Nicolaus Schafhausen, Wolfgang Ullrich, et al. Interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist with Elmgreen & Dragset. Interview by Sacha Goldmann with Paul Virilio.

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Walther König, Köln

Jean Nouvel: Red Summer in Kensington Gardens

Renowned French architect Jean Nouvel designed the Serpentine Gallery's pavilion for 2010, and created a commanding, eye-catching all-red structure designed to mimic the moment "when the summer sun catches you full in the eyes and, as you blink, the world dissolves into red." Also inspired by London's red buses and telephone boxes, this dramatic and seductive pavilion consists of a cantilevered glass wall supporting a central frame, with retractable red canvas awnings, a red rubber floor and, to accommodate its many visitors, a red café bar, red table tennis tables and red hammocks, tables and chairs. "It's architecture on holiday," Nouvel has joked, also describing the pavilion as a "big sunglass." This similarly striking publication, designed by Nouvel, records the project . . . . Pbk, 9 x 10.25 in. / 44 pgs / illustrated throughout.

Edited by Kathryn Rattee. Text by Paul Virilio, Samantha Hardingham. Interview by Julia Peyton-Jones, Hans Ulrich Obrist.

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Walther König, Köln

Matthew Barney: Drawing Restraint Vol.1

This insightful book features a clear PVC cover designed by the artist, printed in silver ink. Barney's sometimes ominous and sometimes sexy black-and white work is highlighted by a 12-page high gloss full color insert--the centerfold, if you will.

. . . . Paperback, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 96 pgs / 9 color / 46 b&w.

Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist. Essay by Francis Mckee.

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The Design Museum

Wes Anderson: The Archives

An archive is always a time machine, but the archives of Wes Anderson take us on a journey not just through time, but through layers of stories and the experiences of storytelling—on paper and on film. This volume chronicles these stories with a deep dive into Anderson's personal archive, celebrating his 30-plus years in cinema. From the start of his career, he has maintained a rich library of notebooks, drawings, paintings, Polaroids, props, puppets, sets and costumes from his films. Presented here, these objects are enhanced and illuminated by Anderson's long-time collaborators, including actors Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson and Tilda Swinton; composer Alexandre Desplat; musician Seu Jorge; and music supervisor Randall Poster. The book also features an extensive interview . . . . Pbk, 8.25 x 10.5 in. / 296 pgs / 200 color / 50 b&w.

Edited by Johanna Agerman Ross, Matthieu Orlean, Lucia Savi. Text by Johanna Agerman Ross, Matthieu Orlean, Lucia Savi, Leanne Shapton, Vincent Maluasa, Hadeel Eltayeb, Glenn Adamson, Nicolas Saada. Conversations with Wes Anderson, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton, Jeffrey Wright, Roman Coppola, Milena Canonero, Jason Schwartzman, Alexandre Desplat, Ralph Fiennes. Photographs by Laura Wilson, James Hamilton, Roger do Minh, Richard Round-Turner.

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DelMonico Books

Bong Joon Ho: Director's Inspiration

Published with Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.

From his earliest short films through his international breakthrough The Host and the Oscar-winning Parasite, the films of Bong Joon Ho defy simple categorization. Whether set in 1980s Korea or an imagined future time and space, they address issues that are transnational and universal: class disparity, social injustice, the environmental crisis and political and moral corruption. Bong embeds social critique into deeply humorous, unexpected and thought-provoking stories, and his protagonists are everyday people—often unlikely heroes—who confront the absurdities of modern life. With unprecedented access to the filmmaker's archive and personal collection, Bong Joon Ho: Director's Inspiration features storyboards, notebooks, concept art, models, props, behind-the-scenes photography and more. The book includes a new interview with Bong . . . . Hbk, 8.25 x 10 in. / 192 pgs / 270 color.

Edited with introduction by Michelle Puetz. Foreword by Amy Homma. Text by Dooho Choi, Choi Woo-shik, Lee Isaac Chung, Toni Collette, Guillermo del Toro, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner, Catherine George, Dan Glass, Hong Kyung Pyo, Jung Jaeil, Darius Khondji, Lee Hajun, Miky Lee, Robert Pattinson, Seo Woo-Sik, Amy Taubin, Steven Yeun. Interview by Nam Lee.

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Katherine Small Gallery

Alphabet in Motion

How Letters Get Their Shape

Ever wonder how we ended up with so many different styles of letters? Open any text editor, email client or design app and you will immediately be bombarded with a buffet of typographic choices. Serif or sans serif? Display or text? Classical or contemporary? Formal or casual?
Featuring 17 stunning interactive pop-ups, this ABC pop-up book explains—as well as demonstrates—the technologies and philosophies that have shaped letterforms through the ages. Readers will learn about '60s psychedelic type by projecting light through a phototypesetting pop-up; how screen technology shaped letterforms by turning on and off anti-aliasing; or the aesthetics of typographic modularity by reconfiguring the puzzle pieces of Josef Albers' Kombinations-Schrift.
Type history is often technical and always visual. It is therefore challenging to . . . . Hbk, 2 vols, 9.5 x 12 in. / 144 pgs / 280 color / 17 pop-ups.

By Kelli Anderson. Edited by Ben Kiel, Caren Litherland, Michelle Santiago Cortés, Claire Evans, Emily Doucet.

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Inventory Press

Design and Visual Communication

The first ever English translation of Bruno Munari's Design and Visual Communication (1968) fills a gap in Munari's output for the English-speaking world and provides a highly relevant guide to bridging architecture and design education and everyday life.
Published in 1968 after Munari was invited to the Carpenter Center at Harvard to teach, the book transforms over 50 lessons, class materials and letters addressed to the city of Milan, into a book on the future of art, architecture and design. Conceived as a living volume, the book is written to inspire current and future designers to push beyond past events, however recent, and develop new tools to see and understand tomorrow's world.
Accompanying the facsimile reproduction of the original volume are in-depth contextual . . . . Pbk, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 400 pgs / 383 b&w.

By Bruno Munari. Translation and annotations by Jeffrey Schnapp.

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Onomatopee

With a Bird,

A Reader on Avian Kinship

Following the runaway success of A Tree, With a Bird, is the second installment in Onomatopee's five-year, five-volume publication series creating "rich encounters between folklore and critical research." As a reader on avian kinship, With a Bird, delves into the profound ways birds have inspired human understanding of life, blending scientific inquiry with spiritual reflection. Visual art, natural history, sociology, literature and more combine to explore how birds challenge and transcend boundaries—between human and non-human life, dream and reality, life and death, science and folklore and the domains of land, water and sky. Each chapter in this petite, canary-yellow paperback is dedicated to the symbolic roles birds play in human life, from death to dreams to freedom to fortune-telling.
In addition to . . . . Pbk, 4.25 x 7 in. / 286 pgs / 377 duotone.

Contributions by Daniel Godínez Nivón, Ignace Cami, Bryony Dunne, Suzanne Walsh, Ai Ozaki, Sergio Rojas Chaves, Monika Czyzyk, Yuri Tuma, Manjot Kaur, Sara Sejin Chang (Sara van der Heide). Text by John Berger, Daisy Hildyard, Natalie Lawrence, Marianne Elisabeth Lien, Nicholas Miroeff, Karan J. Odom, Maria Popova, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing.

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Carnegie Museum of Art

Black Photojournalism

This volume presents work by 57 Black photographers and contributions from scholars such as Joy Bivins, Tina M. Campt and Gerald Horne, chronicling historic events and daily life in the United States from the conclusion of World War II in 1945 to the presidential campaigns of 1984, including the civil rights movements through the 1950s, '60s and '70s. Drawn from archives and collections in the care of journalists, libraries, museums, newspapers, photographers and universities, the photographs in the catalog were circulated and reviewed in publishing offices across the country.
Responding to a dearth of stories about Black lives told from the perspectives of Black people, Black publishers and their staff created groundbreaking editorial and photojournalistic methods and news networks. During a period . . . . Hbk, 9 x 12 in. / 400 pgs / 55 color / 190 b&w.

Edited by Charlene Foggie-Barnett, Dan Leers. Foreword by Deborah Willis. Introduction by Eric Crosby. Roundtable discussion by Tina Campt.

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MW Editions

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Enoura Observatory

Land of Distant Memory

Apart from photography, Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto has been working in sculpture, performing arts and architecture for more than 20 years. Since the early 2010s, he has been constructing the Enoura Observatory, and with his singular vision he has brought together ancient and contemporary Japanese traditions in one art and architectural complex. This book provides an account of this stunning multidisciplinary project.
The Observatory, part of the artist's Odawara Art Foundation, is sited on a hilly area covered with citrus trees in Odawara, nestled against the outer rim of the Hakone Mountains and overlooking Sagami Bay. Odawara is home to groups of artisans with mastery of sophisticated techniques that have been handed down for centuries. Sugimoto has constructed the Enoura Observatory using . . . . Hbk, 8 x 10 in. / 224 pgs / 125 color.

Text by Hiroshi Sugimoto.

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No More Rulers

Esther Mahlangu Handbook

This timely and visually striking volume offers a long-overdue exploration of Dr. Esther Mahlangu (born 1935), the internationally acclaimed South African artist whose practice defies divisions between "traditional" and "contemporary" art. Grounded in the visual language of her Ndebele heritage, Mahlangu transforms this lineage into a powerful tool for self-expression and global dialogue. She has exhibited at major institutions, including the Centre Pompidou and Louvre Abu Dhabi, and in 1991 became the first woman and African artist commissioned to create a BMW Art Car—joining a legacy that includes Andy Warhol and David Hockney. Mahlangu expands painting's role in contemporary life, from monumental murals to brand collaborations. The Esther Mahlangu Handbook positions her work firmly within contemporary discourse, rejecting reductive categorizations of . . . . Hbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 162 pgs / 73 color / 2 b&w.

Edited with foreword by Larry Warsh. Text by Larry Ossei-Mensah.

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The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream

Over a career spanning six decades, Wifredo Lam radically expanded the purview of modernism. Born in Cuba, Lam spent most of his life in Spain, France and Italy, and came to embody the figure of the transnational artist in the 20th century, forging a unique visual style at the confluence of European modernity and Caribbean and African diasporic cultures. The extent of his influence throughout the Black Atlantic is unrivaled as both a leading innovator and an anti-colonialist.
Published in conjunction with the most extensive retrospective devoted to the artist in the United States, Wifredo Lam: When I Don't Sleep, I Dream brings together more than 150 works from his prolific career—including paintings, large-scale works on paper, collaborative drawings, illustrated books, prints, . . . . Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 288 pgs / 225 color.

Edited with text by Beverly Adams, Christophe Cherix. Text by Anny Aviram, Miriam Basilio, Terri Geis, Jean Khalfa, Damasia Lacroze, Laura Neufield, Maria Elena Ortiz, Lowery Stokes Sims, Catherine Stephens, Martin Tsang.

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Spector Books

Shelter Cookbook

DIY architect, publisher and pioneer of the self-build movement, Lloyd Kahn (born 1935) is a legend of the American counterculture. Influenced by Buckminster Fuller, in 1968 Kahn started building geodesic domes, and was an editor for Stewart Brand’s Whole Earth Catalog. In 1970 Kahn published his first book, Domebook One, followed the next year by the bestselling Domebook 2. In 1971, he bought land in Bolinas and built a geodesic dome (later to be featured in Life magazine), but he soon pursued other ways to build, resulting in the classic 1973 book Shelter. Kahn published numerous self-build books over the ensuing decades, most recently Tiny Homes on the Move (2014).
Shelter Cookbook is an exploration of Kahn’s now iconic publications by the . . . . Pbk, 11 x 14.5 in. / 112 pgs / 48 color / 140 b&w.

Edited with text by Leopold Banchini, Lukas Feireiss. Text by Lloyd Kahn.

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SKIRA PARIS

Michael Kenna: Constellation

Best known for his unusual black-and-white landscapes, British photographer Michael Kenna (born 1953) creates these ethereal images by setting up 10-hour exposures across night and day, creating prolonged concentrations on the ephemeral and atmospheric conditions of the natural world and its interactions with manmade structures. His work has been shown in almost 500 solo exhibitions and more than 400 group exhibitions, and is in more than 100 permanent collections.
Constellation, marking the 50th anniversary of Kenna's career, includes 122 breathtaking images from Kenna's oeuvre of 3,700 photographs captured across 43 countries from 1973 to 2024—each active year and country visited is represented. From this constellation of photographs, the reader is invited to chart their own universe of poetry and beauty away from . . . . Hbk, 10.5 x 12 in. / 176 pgs / 110 color.

Text by Stéphane Tallon, Matthieu Rivalin.

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MW Editions

Peter Steinhauer: Spires

Cathedrals of Vietnam's Red River Delta

American photographer Peter Steinhauer (born 1966), a resident of Asia from 1994 to 2014, here vividly documents the majestic cathedrals of northern Vietnam's Red River Delta. Using local materials such as stone, ironwood and brick, these churches were constructed to withstand the tropical Vietnamese climate and environment, symbolizing the merging of cultures and the growing influence of Catholicism in the region. Over time, the cathedrals transcended their colonial roots, organically embedding themselves in Vietnam's political, cultural and religious landscape. This volume unfolds a dramatic narrative of these historic edifices. Steinhauer documents many significant examples of these cathedrals, which display the fusion of French and Vietnamese architectural virtuosity in every stone, arch and spire. These architectural marvels now face neglect, deterioration or . . . . Hbk, 10 x 11 in. / 128 pgs / 100 color.

Text by Peter Steinhauer, Hoàng Thúc Hào, Thúy Dinh, Nguyen Phan Que Mai.

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Mandylion Press

The Hill of Dreams

From his earliest literary experimentation, Arthur Machen refused to sit in his own time, clawing his way back to a past inhabited by false gods and terrifying fairies. The Hill of Dreams thus performs a kind of reverse archeology. Instead of the writerly excavation of character development and world-building, Machen entombs his main character, Lucian Taylor, in his own mind, cutting him off from the living world of sensation. Lucian journeys "all the long way from the known to the unknown," into the ruins of an old Roman fort, imbued with the Celtic magic that stirred in the Welsh hills of Machen's childhood. From this idyll, the story becomes a classic künstlerroman, following Lucian to the gray streets of London where . . . . Pbk, 5 x 7.5 in. / 256 pgs / 56 b&w.

By Arthur Machen. Edited by Mabel Capability Taylor, Madeline Porsella. Introduction by Madeline Porsella.

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nai010 publishers

At Home in the 17th Century

Published with Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.

What household belongings did people own in the 17th century? At Home in the 17th Century opens the door to everyday domestic life and brings the reader closer to the people of the time—from everyday objects such as combs and brooms used for personal care and household chores, to wedding rings and christening gifts that marked important life events. Instead of familiar idealized genre paintings, this book focuses on real life. Accompanying the eponymous exhibition at the Rijksmuseum, this book, designed by Irma Boom, includes commentary from several of the museum's curators delving into the world behind the paintings: the residents and the objects that surrounded them. What people left behind—furniture, utensils and even pottery fragments found in . . . . Pbk, 6 x 7.5 in. / 392 pgs / 200 color.

Text by Sara van Dijk, Femke Diercks, Maartje Brattinga, Alexander Dencher, Suzanne van Leeuwen, Marijn Stolk.

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MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Brilliance: Jewelry Art and Fashion

From ancient Egyptian broad collars to contemporary studio pieces, jewelry has been used as a powerful communication tool across millennia—and around the world. The renowned collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, showcases global stories of human ingenuity through an incredible array of jewelry designs, materials and techniques. Each object boasts a unique history of its own; when considered side by side, however, they speak to one another, these cross-cultural and multigenerational conversations inviting the reader to consider new insights and fresh perspectives on the art form.
Brilliance explores jewelry as a messenger, a decorative art and an object of adornment over the course of four thousand years. This catalog features more than 100 works in the MFA's collection, exploring their . . . . Hbk, 9.25 x 10.75 in. / 224 pgs / 120 color.

Edited with text by Emily Stoehrer. Text by Nina Burr, Tanya Crane, Helen W. Drutt English, Melanie Grant, Amin Jaffer, Yasmin Hemmerle, Henrietta Lidchi, Bella Neyman, Victoria Reed, Kendall Reiss, Joyce Scott.

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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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Walther König, Köln

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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Hans Ulrich Obrist & Gilbert & George: The Conversation Series

Vol. 9

Series editor Hans Ulrich Obrist here collects seven years worth of interviews with the hugely influential British artistic collaborators Gilbert & George, providing an intimate vision of what they consider the most important landmarks in their four-decade-long career together. Many of the conversations are delightfully performative.

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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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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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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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