JRP|Editions

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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JRP|Editions

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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JRP|Editions

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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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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August Editions

Knife Fork Spoon

Modernist Cutlery 1900–2025

Cutlery is an intimate part of our daily lives, a universal touchpoint that crosses cultures and generations. From the early 1900s to today, modern flatware has become far more than a tool. It is a testament to how design, technology, and culture both reflect and shape the way we live. In this unprecedented compendium of over 500 designs—the most comprehensive book available on the topic—the often-overlooked artistry of flatware takes center stage, revealing how designers reinvented these humble items in response to new materials, social change and evolving aesthetics.
Organized chronologically, Knife Fork Spoon presents iconic flatware by designers such as Josef Hoffmann, Russel Wright, Gio Ponti and Isamu Noguchi, as well as highlighting lesser-known and experimental designs from Europe, the United . . . . Hbk, 8 x 10 in. / 600 pgs / 600 color.

Edited with text by Dung Ngo.

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FUEL Publishing

Holiday Exotica

Around the World in Vintage Holiday Brochures

Going anywhere nice? By coach, cruise or even Concorde? Holiday Exotica will take you on a globe-trotting tour of vintage holiday brochures. This first-ever visual guide to how we once satisfied our wanderlust, both at home and abroad, travels alphabetically from Africa and Australia to the United States and Yugoslavia, with excursions to Bognor Regis, Belfast and all points in between.
Exchanging everyday drizzle and drudgery for exotic cocktails and beach loungers, these rare, nostalgic brochures reflect our shifting attitudes to tourism in the pre-internet era, when travelers were lured by designs promising a jet-set paradise with perfect weather.
Discover how holidays were marketed to an eager postwar public—where Berlin is worth a trip” and the clouds look curiously ominous at the Hotel . . . . Pbk, 7 x 8.75 in. / 224 pgs / 402 color.

By Jonny Trunk. Edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell.

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DelMonico Books

Designed to Be Red: Native American & Indigenous Graphic Works

Design history has a problem. Native American and Indigenous peoples have been making decisions about form, function, communication and meaning for millennia—and the canon has looked right through them. Mythmakers and marketing teams have long used graphic design to tell stories about Native Americans, First Nations, Métis, Alaska Natives and other Indigenous peoples rather than with them, creating reductive and harmful representations of a living, vibrant and varied group of people.
Yet Native graphic art has a rich history that shows that its practitioners are innovators who have created dynamic, subversive and optimistic work. Modern graphic expressions such as posters, digital fonts and even stenciled cars intertwine with traditional Indigenous pottery, weavings and paintings. Through examples spanning nearly two centuries and representing . . . . Hbk, 9 x 10.75 in. / 240 pgs / 159 color.

Edited with text by Brian Johnson.

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Damiani

Eight Seconds: Legacy in Motion

Photographs by Ivan McClellan

Ivan McClellan’s Eight Seconds is the result of more than a decade spent living inside Black cowboy culture. What began as an introduction to the Black rodeo in 2015 has become a sustained artistic collaboration built on trust and curiosity. Moving across the United States with his camera, McClellan makes intimate portraits of a community where individualism, place, style and athleticism converge, and where a new generation is reshaping the image of the American West in real time. The title refers to how bull riding is scored, but here it speaks to an interval in time where life and death are at stake. Like the cowboys he photographs, McClellan works in a space that demands total presence, where the connections to . . . . Hbk, 11.25 x 9 in. / 112 pgs / 91 color.

Foreword by James Pickens Jr. Introduction by Ivan McClellan.

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Gregory R. Miller & Co.

Martin Wong: Chinatown USA

Published with Halsted A&A Foundation.

A visionary among contemporary artists from the 1970s to 1990s in the United States, Martin Wong embraced a multifaceted individualism as an Asian American queer painter and poet who freely explored and traversed ethnic and racial identities; challenged cultural, racial and ethnic stereotypes; and found creative sources through intersections of psychedelic theatre performance, calligraphy, poetry, graffiti and Asian art.
Chinatown USA investigates the liminal spaces the artist occupied and traces the development of Wong's work through his connection with the arts and culture of Asia. In particular, it highlights his explorations of Chinatowns in conjunction with counterculture communities (such as Puerto Rican poets and Black and Latino graffiti artists) in New York and San Francisco.
Martin Wong was born . . . . Hbk, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 192 pgs / 175 color / 40 b&w.

Edited with introduction by Yasufumi Nakamori. Foreword by Fred Eychaner. Text by Zully Adler, Margo Machida, Mark Dean Johnson, Lydia Yee, Vivian Li, Lisa Hsiao Chen, Martin Wong.

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Wakefield Press

The Drowned Land

The city of Aquelon is sheltered by moored lightsails, ensconced in a calm and misty land where the division between water and sky has dissipated. Its people are happy, free of jealousy and any ties to affection. The Emperor of Aquelon has signed a final law repealing all past and future laws and has cast his crown upon the waters. It is the era of the ineffable, without distinction between life and death, in which the lure of water leads even children to live and die as flowers, drowning themselves with smiles to drift toward a shoreless horizon of eternity.
A traveler arrives at this paradise, speaking of Rome's marble palaces and monuments—the land of Virgil with laws carved into stone. Aquelon's . . . . Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 96 pgs.

By Paul Willems. Introduction and translation by Edward Gauvin.

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SKIRA

Locating Girlhood: Place and Identity in Early American “Schoolgirl” Art

Before Thomas Cole climbed along the Catskills or Frederic Edwin Church surveyed Niagara Falls, the American landscape was already being visualized and commemorated by thousands of girls and young women—some named, many unknown—working in mediums that were termed domestic crafts or, more dismissively, schoolgirl” art. From the 18th century onward, representations of landscape were a common visual thread in samplers, needlework pictures and watercolors, from country scenes and cityscapes to maps and other cartographic compositions. Timed to coincide with the US semiquincentennial, Locating Girlhood both celebrates the creativity of early American girls and women and critically examines the colonial and early federal ideologies that structured their worldview. This publication continues the lines of inquiry opened by the exhibition of the same . . . . Hbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 256 pgs / 125 color.

Edited with text by Emelie Gevalt, Caroline Culp. Foreword by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. Text by Elizabeth Bacon Eager, William Huntting Howell. Afterword by Andrea Pappas.

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Katherine Small Gallery

This Book is a Camera

A Pop-up Book Camera

Authored by artist and designer Kelli Anderson, This Book is a Camera is a pop-up book that turns into a fully functional pinhole camera. It serves as a fun and educational way to learn about the basic principles of light while also making your own photographs. The book concisely explains—while actively demonstrating—how a structure as humble as a folded piece of paper can tap into the intrinsic properties of light to produce a photograph. Easily turn a bathroom or closet in your home into a darkroom and process photos using household supplies (baking soda, instant coffee and water). Your photos will cast your modern life in the warm analog glow of 1840s technology. The book includes: a piece of paper folded . . . . Hbk, 7 x 9 in. / 2 pgs.

By Kelli Anderson.

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Inventory Press

Cyberfeminism Index

When learning about internet history, we are taught to focus on engineering, the military-industrial complex and the grandfathers who created the architecture and protocol, but the internet is not only a network of cables, servers and computers. It is an environment that shapes and is shaped by its inhabitants and their use.
The creation and use of the Cyberfeminism Index is a social and political act. It takes the name cyberfeminism as an umbrella, complicates it and pushes it into plain sight. Edited by designer, professor and researcher Mindy Seu (who began the project during a fellowship at the Harvard Law School’s Berkman Klein Center for the Internet & Society, later presenting it at the New Museum), it includes more than 1,000 . . . . Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 608 pgs / 80 color / 450 b&w.

Edited with introduction by Mindy Seu. Foreword by Julianne Pierce of VNS Matrix. Afterword by Legacy Russell.

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Wakefield Press

Bruges-la-Morte

A widower, Hugues Viane, takes refuge in the decay of Bruges, living among the relics of his dead wife as he transforms his home and the very city he inhabits into her spatial embalmment. Spinning out his existence in a mournful, silent labyrinth of entombed streets and the cold arteries of canals, Viane takes comfort in his narcissistic delirium, until his world is shaken by the appearance of his wife’s doppelganger: a young dancer encountered in the street, whose appearance conjures a sequence of events that will introduce the specter of reality into his ritualist dream-state to disastrous effect.
The archetype of the Symbolist novel, Bruges-la-Morte, first published in 1892, remains Georges Rodenbach’s most famous work; it has seen numerous cinematic and . . . . Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 160 pgs / 36 b&w.

By Georges Rodenbach. Introduction and translation by Will Stone.

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SKIRA

Milton Avery: Color Form & Composition

Milton Avery (1885–1965), grand colorist of modern American art, is revered for his works spanning early Impressionist landscapes to flattened forms of color, which critics say paved the way for the postwar Abstract Expressionists. Summers spent in Provincetown with Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb saw Avery turn the cerulean combination of water and beaches into broad fields of color that magically converged into simplified forms. Highlighting Avery's sustained role as an influential painter, this book collects over 100 images, featuring many of his paintings alongside work from a stellar cast of artists inspired by his oeuvre, including his daughter, March Avery, as well as Henni Alftan, Harold Ancart, Andrew Cranston, Gary Hume, Jonas Wood and Nicolas Party.

. . . . Hbk, 9.5 x 12.25 in. / 208 pgs / 120 color.

Edited by Edith Devaney.

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MW Editions

Platon: Paros

In the middle of the sapphire-blue Aegean Sea lies Paros, a tiny island with an ancient history. Part of the Cycladic islands, Paros has been famous for its sparkling white marble statuary for thousands of years. Renowned British portrait photographer Platon (born 1968), who traces his family roots there, has inhabited the island on and off since he was a young boy. Beginning 40 years ago, he began to capture the cadences and textures of its unique identity, which is defined by its relationship to the ocean and the sun. His black-and-white images capture the serene rhythm of life there—young girls in elaborate traditional dress preparing for a village festival, a weary farmer crouched in front of his grape vines to . . . . Clth, 12 x 12 in. / 370 pgs / 225 duotone.

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Reel Art Press

Hunter Barnes: Riding the Silver Dream

In this photographic essay-book, renowned American documentary photographer Hunter Barnes (born 1977) turns his lens on the enduring culture of the American rodeo: a world of grit, family, tradition and faith that exists far beyond the spectacle of the arena. Barnes spent months on the road with tight-knit communities of riders, stock contractors and rodeo families who carry the rodeo’s legacy forward.
Riding the Silver Dream documents traditional ranching and cowboy communities for whom rodeo remains a living heritage alongside communities that have long shaped rodeo culture but are often overlooked in the mythology of the American West. His work highlights the role of Black cowboys, Native American riders, women who have long competed and helped shape rodeo and the working cowboys . . . . Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 176 pgs / 150 b&w.

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HENI Publishing

Nicola Green: In Seven Days...

A Witness to History, an Artwork for Future Generations

Between 2008 and 2009, British painter and social historian Nicola Green (born 1972) witnessed firsthand President Barack Obama’s journey to the White House. She documented his watershed campaign, election and inauguration over six trips across the United States, subsequently creating her acclaimed series of silkscreen prints, In Seven Days... (2010).
Featuring seven gatefolds, this book examines Green’s seminal work in depth for the first time, contextualizing the project with photographs, sketches and other materials. In addition to a contribution by Obama himself, the volume features newly commissioned texts by other prominent voices in arts, culture and politics that explore the overarching themes of Green’s artwork: Light, Struggle, Hope, Change, Fear, Sacrifice/Embrace and Peace. A visual chronology details the artist’s biography, the works . . . . Hbk, 8.75 x 10.25 in. / 134 pgs / 180 color / 20 b&w.

Contributions by Louise Bernard, Katherine Blood, Jana Degrott, Ekow Eshun, Flavia Frigeri, Suki Kim, Sarah Lewis, Ben Rhodes, Aaron Rosen, President Barack Obama, Hans Ulrich Obrist.

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Kaph Books

Rania Matar: Where Do I Go?

Second Edition

In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Lebanese Civil War, Boston-based photographer Rania Matar (born 1964) collaborated with young Lebanese women to visualize their life stories and complex relationships to their beautiful, war-torn homeland. Having emigrated from Lebanon to the United States when she was 20, Matar sees herself in her portrait subjects—many of whom have found themselves at the same critical juncture, deliberating whether to stay or leave. Her photographs of the women are rooted in empathy and empowerment; she encouraged the women to become active participants in the image-making process, presiding over their bodies and making the environment their own. The series captures the women as they embrace life and its attendant risks: climbing on rocks and trees, . . . . Hbk, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 240 pgs / 147 color / 1 duotone / 24 b&w.

Text by Elliot Josephine Leila Reichert, Kim Ghattas, Youmna Melhem Chamieh, Georges Boustany.

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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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Walther König, Köln

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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