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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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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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The Secret Files of Gilbert & George

Published with BDV Bureau des videos.

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 . . . . DVD video, PAL Multizone, 5.5 x 7.5 in.

Edited by Nicolas Tremblay. By Hans Ulrich Obrist.

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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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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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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

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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The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Marcel Duchamp

More than any other modern artist, Marcel Duchamp challenged and transformed the very definition of art. Published to accompany the first North American retrospective of his work in more than 50 years, the volume features the world's largest collection of Duchamp's work, bringing together such iconic works as Fountain and Nude Descending a Staircase for the first time in decades. Beautifully illustrated with more than 400 works spanning six decades—including painting, sculpture, readymades, film, photography and ephemera—and featuring a deeply researched chronology interwoven with archival and documentary material, Marcel Duchamp offers a new generation the first opportunity to experience the breadth of Duchamp's revolutionary and provocative work, strongly associated with the Surrealist and Dada movements. An expansive introduction by curators Ann . . . . Hbk, 9 x 10.5 in. / 360 pgs / 1000 color.

Edited with text by Matthew Affron, Michelle Kuo, Ann Temkin. Text by Danielle Cooke, Alexandra Drexelius, Helena Klevorn, Julia Vazquez.

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National Portrait Gallery

Lucian Freud: Drawing into Painting

Examining the intimate dialogue between his sketches and paintings from the 1940s to the early 21st century, Drawing into Painting reveals Lucian Freud's lifelong focus on the human face and form. Featuring a gorgeously designed quarter-bound cover printed on uncoated paper, the volume explores how drawing remained central to Freud's artistic practice throughout his life. From quick sketches to finished works in charcoal, pastel and etching, his drawings offer a rare window into his process, revealing shifts in style, experimentation and his evolving mode of seeing. Spanning from his childhood to his final years, the book traces the unconventional path from his drawing practice to his painting, and back again. Alongside a selection of rarely seen drawings and key paintings by . . . . Hbk, 9 x 11.5 in. / 224 pgs / 208 color / 2 b&w.

Edited with text by Sarah Howgate. Text by David Dawson, Bella Freud, Colm Tóibín, Tanya Bentley, Catherine Lampert, Isabel Seligman.

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MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Gardens and Imagination

Framing Nature in Art

A plot of land, a relaxing retreat, a formal landscape, a place of work: gardens carry a range of associations for individuals, communities and cultures alike. Spanning from the ancient Mediterranean to Renaissance Europe to the Edo period in Japan to the Qing dynasty in China to today, Gardens and Imagination considers how gardens have remained a source of artistic inspiration for millennia. Drawn from the holdings of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, this lush volume features both iconic representations of gardens as well as undersung depictions across a range of mediums, eras and cultures. Thematically organized, Gardens and Imagination features essays that probe the human impulse to influence, master and celebrate the natural world through cultivation, care and labor—all . . . . Hbk, 6.75 x 7.75 in. / 224 pgs / 150 color.

Text by Karen E. Haas, Courtney Leigh Harris, Meghan Melvin, Elizabeth Dospel Williams.

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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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MW Editions

Michael Jang: JANG

This volume showcases the San Francisco–based photographer Michael Jang's stylized and self-aware street art from recent years. Early in 2021, when the city was still in the grip of Covid-19 and ugly instances of anti-Asian sentiment were on the rise, Jang clandestinely wheat-pasted some of the images from his black-and-white photographic series The Jangs (1973) over a boarded-up Goodwill storefront on Clement Street, in the heart of San Francisco's unofficial Chinatown. He branded his photographs with a JANG stencil logo—introducing the persona "Chef Jang," a chain-smoking wok master—and interspersed them with hand-designed posters and graphics that parody Asian product packaging and menus. Inserted into the visual landscape of this once bustling neighborhood, Jang's gesture was one of solidarity, belonging and ownership. . . . . Hbk, 6.75 x 9 in. / 160 pgs / 150 color.

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Wakefield Press

Bar Nicanor

Collected Writings

After entering the literary world under the pseudonym Julius Krekel, the Belgian poet Clément Pansaers underwent a series of revelatory events that resulted in his rebirth as a Dadaist poet writing under his own name. Pansaers went on to produce a body of poetic work that earned the admiration of everyone from Ezra Pound to Tristan Tzara.
Bar Nicanor collects all of the reborn Pansaers' work, including the "Lent Meditations" and Apology for Laziness; the even more radical books published under the banner of Dada, such at the titular Bar Nicanor; and the posthumous I Blennorrhage and Programmatic Fermata for Young Orangutan. Also included are the essays he published in various journals, including "DADA and Me," in which he signaled of the . . . . Pbk, 5.5 x 8 in. / 296 pgs / 10 b&w.

By Clément Pansaers. Introduction and translation by Terry Bradford.

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Silvana Editoriale

Jenny Saville

The internationally lauded British painter Jenny Saville transcends the boundaries of classical figuration and modern abstraction in her depictions of the human form. Colossal naked bodies dominate her oeuvre, rendered with all the imperfections” of flesh intact. Indeed, Saville is deeply interested in the resilience and fragility of the human body, as well as its societal implications and taboos. Collecting material from pathology textbooks, plastic surgery manuals, chronicles of injuries and burns and similar publications, Saville often adds an observational perspective to her work by attending surgery demonstrations and visiting butcheries. She expresses this perspective through an aggressive use of scale, brushy, wide strokes and textures that extend long figurative traditions in painting, linking her to the forceful modernist style of . . . . Hbk, 9.5 x 12.25 in. / 304 pgs / 152 color.

Edited by Sergio Risaliti.

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Walther König, Köln

Wolfgang Tillmans: Concorde

According to photographer Wolfgang Tillmans (born 1968), for the chosen few, flying Concorde is apparently a glamorous but cramped and slightly boring routine while to watch it in air, landing or taking off is a strange and free spectacle, a super modern anachronism and an image of the desire to overcome time and distance through technology.” With no text other than the inner-front flap’s description, this fifth printing of Tillmans’ now iconic artist’s book (first published in 1997) consists of 62 color photographs of the Concorde airplane—taking off, landing or in flight, and sometimes as just a tiny, birdlike silhouette in the sky. The photographs speak of both the beauty and the environmental devastation produced by this fabled French airplane, both . . . . Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 128 pgs / 62 color.

Text by Wolfgang Tillmans.

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Silvana Editoriale

Giorgio Morandi

Works from the Antonio and Matilde Catanese Collection

Antonio and Matilde Catanese were avid collectors of Giorgio Morandi (1890–1964). Acquiring his works in the 1930s, the Milanese couple became among the first to contribute to his fame. The Catanese collection, presented in this monograph, functions as a microcosm of the artist’s oeuvre, thanks to its quantity and chronological spread covering almost all the years of the artist’s activity as well as the breadth of techniques and themes represented in its holdings. The collection includes 15 paintings made between 1914 and 1959, and three watercolors representing the abiding themes of Morandi’s work, as indicated by titles such as Still Life, Landscape and Flowers. Also included is a Self-Portrait of 1914. Another integral part of the collection is its almost complete . . . . Clth, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 240 pgs / 215 color.

Edited with text by Mariella Gnani. Foreword by Giorgio Calcagnini, Lorenzo Balbi, Teodoro, Domenico, Raffaela Catanese. Text by Maria Cristina Bandera, Stella Seitun, Luca Cecchetto, Federica Buccolini, Sabrina Burattini, Laura Valentini, Paolo A.M. Triolo.

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Walther König, Köln

David Chipperfield Architects

1985–2014: 2015–2025

This new monograph celebrating 40 years of practice by David Chipperfield Architects is published in double-volume format and covers a cross section of both built and unbuilt work. The monograph highlights several activities led by British Pritzker Prize Laureate Sir David Chipperfield (born 1953) throughout his career. In 1985 he established David Chipperfield Architects, which grew into a global practice with offices in London, Berlin, Milan, Shanghai and Santiago de Compostel. Around 100 design entries are accompanied by 10 critical essays and a series of articles that have been published over the years by various commentators, including Joseph Rykwert and Barry Bergdoll. Richly illustrated, both volumes feature contributions by renowned visual artists such as Candida Höfer, Thomas Struth and Friederike von . . . . Pbk, 2 vols, 9.75 x 12.5 in. / 664 pgs / 500 color / 300 b&w.

Edited with text by Rik Nys. Text by Barry Bergdoll, David Chipperfield, Anatxu Zabalbeascoa.

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The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Duchamp on Tape: The Janis Family Interviews

Over six sessions between September 1951 and November 1952, Marcel Duchamp sat down with collectors and gallerists Harriet and Sidney Janis for a wide-ranging conversation about his inspirations and working processes, and his many opinions on the workings of the modern art world and its histories. The Janises, owners of the influential Sidney Janis Gallery, were ardent supporters of modern art and close friends with Duchamp. Harriet, an accomplished author, led the interviews with an eye toward writing a monograph on Duchamp, though this was never realized. Now, this previously unknown chronicle is available for the first time through the efforts of Carroll Janis, Sidney and Harriet's son. Under Harriet's expert guidance, Duchamp holds forth on his artistic philosophies, his career, . . . . Pbk, 6.25 x 9.25 in. / 150 pgs / 45 color.

Edited by Ann Temkin. Introduction by Carroll Janis.

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Kaya Press

Blue Dragon, White Tiger

A Têt Story

The year is 1967. Tran Van Minh, a Massachusetts professor recruited by the CIA, is sent home to Vietnam in the midst of war. While teaching at Hue University, Minh becomes more sympathetic to the Viet Cong—and increasingly skeptical of America's military involvement. Over the span of a decade and across three continents, Minh joins a communist sleeper cell, works underground at a Vietnam People's Army/North Vietnam command post and flies to Paris as a delegate of the National Liberation Front. As the country of his childhood changes before his eyes, he must find a way to live beyond its shores—and the past that it holds. Reprinted for the first time in over 40 years as part of Ink & Blood, . . . . Pbk, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 288 pgs.

By Tran Van Dinh.

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Spector Books

Paul Virilio: Bunker Archeology

In the second half of the 1950s, Paul Virilio began photographing abandoned World War II bunkers along France's Atlantic coast. In 1966, he presented his photographs to the public for the first time in the magazine architecture principe, which he coedited. At the time, he was particularly interested in the architectural aspects of these wartime installations. He saw the bunkers as "harbingers of a new architecture," which he sought to capture in the term "cryptic architecture." The first exhibition of Virilio's Bunker Archeology photographs was staged at the Centre Pompidou in 1975, while the museum was still in the process of being established. His seminal book was published in conjunction with this. It laid out all the motifs of his philosophical . . . . Hbk, 8.75 x 10.5 in. / 212 pgs / 102 duotone.

Edited by Florian Ebner, Sophie Virilio, Jan Wenzel. Text and photographs by Paul Virilio.

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The Ice Plant

Odette Elix England: Isn't X Beautiful!

Writer and artist Odette Elix England (born 1975) first crossed paths with photography—and, crucially, the letter X—as a child on her family's 200-acre dairy farm in Southern Australia, watching her sharecropping father make SX-70 Polaroids of cattle in the springtime. In Isn't X Beautiful!, an autobiographical reckoning with family memory, the fate of that plot of land and the history of photography are tangled and bound at every turn with the ubiquitous letter X: shadowy character, placeholder for nothing and everything, age-old stand-in for the indefinable. Teeming with free-associative factoids, humor and philosophical tangents, and written with the obsessive idiosyncrasy of Tim Carpenter's To Photograph Is to Learn How to Die, England's ambling 10-chapter tale is an extended meditation on the . . . . Pbk, 4.25 x 6 in. / 208 pgs / 11 b&w.

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Spector Books

Wolfgang Tillmans: Nothing Could Have Prepared Us – Everything Could Have Prepared Us

Published with Centre Pompidou.

This catalog traces German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans' unique 2025 project at the Centre Pompidou, for which he was given a generous carte blanche. The result occupied the entire second floor of the Public Information Library, where Tillmans' experimental installation transformed the space, establishing a dialogue with the former library and questioning it both as architecture and as a locus for the transmission of knowledge. The work explores over 35 years of artistic practice through various photographic genres and constitutes another very personal representation of his universe, whose order and logic are activated in response to the library space. With 600 images, an index of the works alternates with numerous installation shots that show how the artist made this . . . . Pbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 272 pgs / 600 color.

Edited with text by Florian Ebner, Olga Frydryszak-Rétat. Text by Julie Jones, Peter Szendy, Ji-Yoon Han, Valentin Gleyze, Jonathan Pouthier, Peter Szendy, Wolfgang Tillmans, Matthias Pfaller, Damarice Amao, Taous Dahmani, Boaz Levin.

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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 & 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.

. . . . Paperback, 5.25 x 8.25 in. / 192 pgs / 22 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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