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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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|Editions

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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JRP|Editions

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.

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

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The Design Museum

NIGO: From Japan with Love

Working across street style, fashion, music and beyond, NIGO is a multifaceted artist, designer and creative director who has been shaping contemporary culture for over three decades, ever since he founded the influential streetwear label A Bathing Ape. His ability to draw from wide-ranging disciplines and cultural references has produced some of the most influential products in recent fashion history, such as the Bapesta sneaker. While partially inspired by vintage Americana, his clothing and shoe designs remain deeply rooted in Japanese subcultures.
Charting NIGO’s inspirations, output and legacy from the 1980s to the present day, From Japan with Love takes a chrono-thematic approach. NIGO’s life story is told primarily through objects from his personal archive and collections—many published here for the first . . . . Pbk, 8.25 x 10.5 in. / 224 pgs / 150 color / 50 b&w.

Edited by Rachel Hajek, Esme Hawes. Text by Pharrell, Johanna Agerman Ross, Tiffany Godoy, David W. Marx, NIGO.

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National Portrait Gallery

Marilyn Monroe: Reflections

A smaller, more intimate companion to Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait, Reflections is an anthology of visual and verbal tributes to Marilyn Monroe (1926–62), one of the most celebrated icons from the 20th century who devoted her life to the silver screen. Said Monroe, "If I am a star…the people made me a star. No studio, no person, but the people did." Her beauty and charisma were captured in images taken by some of the great photographers of the era, including Eve Arnold and Sam Shaw. Published to coincide with the actress' 100th birthday and with an accompanying exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London, Marilyn Monroe: Reflections showcases a number of loved photographs alongside legendary quotes by Monroe and those who . . . . Hbk, 5.25 x 6.75 in. / 136 pgs / 40 color / 40 b&w.

Introduction by Rosie Broadley.

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Redstone Press

The Redstone Diary 2027

Living Well

There is a difference between living well and well-being: the 2027 Redstone Diary explores the many faces of how we can find the good life, or find solace in its absence.Can joy be found in a moment—a kiss, a spoonful of tiramisu, the memory of last night, the quiet repose of reading under a tree? Or is it a practice that takes a lifetime, money and good fortune to fulfill—Thoreau's retreat into the woods at Walden, the contemplation of the night skies, the studied nonchalance of bourgeois pleasures or even the satisfaction of baking, which one writer calls "love made visible."From the perfect cocktail recipe to the most effective break-up line to Marlene Dietrich's leopard-skin boots—through words and images—the 2027 Redstone . . . . Spiral bound, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 160 pgs / 50 color / 4 b&w.

Edited by Julian Rothenstein. Introduction and selected texts by Andrew O'Hagan.

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DelMonico Books

MONUMENTS

Published with The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and The Brick.

This volume features a selection of decommissioned monuments, many of them Confederate, presented alongside contemporary artworks that address American history and national identity. MONUMENTS, which accompanies the eponymous exhibition, marks the last several years of monument removals as a historic moment and aims to build a better understanding of our shared history and ideals, while holding the monuments accountable to the present. Featuring contributions by the exhibition curators, Bennett Simpson, Hamza Walker and Kara Walker, as well as scholars, poets and artists, the publication attends to the social, political, historical and art historical context of these monuments as well as the legacies of the people and events they commemorate. It . . . . Hbk, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 304 pgs / 250 color / 20 b&w.

Edited by Hannah Burstein, Hamza Walker. Foreword by Elizabeth Alexander. Preface by Johanna Burton, Hamza Walker. Conversations with Bennett Simpson, Hamza Walker, Kara Walker.

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Marquand Books

Rodney McMillian: A Son of the Soil

Published with Columbia Museum of Art.

Multimedia artist Rodney McMillian (born 1969) conjoins political texts, found domestic materials and archival footage into assemblages that confront the complex histories of class, race, landscape and region that inform American identity. In A Son of the Soil, McMillian trains his eye on the history of landscape representation in the South. Through large-scale abstract expanses painted on old bedding, sculptures constructed from post-consumer objects and archival film footage, McMillian evokes the land's tillage and spoilage, histories of ownership and the charged relationship between land and the body. A Son of the Soil presents a bevy of scholarly essays that examine McMillian's oeuvre, focusing on the artist's interplay between urban industrialism and domestic space, his visual culture . . . . Hbk, 9 x 11 in. / 144 pgs / 75 color.

Edited with text by Michael Neumeister. Text by Sadé Ayorinde, Nikita Gale, Abbe Schriber, Brooke Wyatt.

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THE ICE PLANT

Offline Activities

Jason Fulford and Tamara Shopsin's Offline Activities is a book of 52 suggestions for things you can do in real life. Rearrange your furniture; invite an old friend to lunch; bring something home from the supermarket and treat it as sculpture. Part novelty, part self-help guide, Offline Activities encourages you to seek out the chance and mystery that is often lacking in the digital age.

Featuring the kind of ingenious, charming design you expect from a Jason Fulford and Tamara Shopsin project, Offline Activities is designed as a coupon book with tear-out pages, with one inspirational suggestion and quote per page. You are encouraged to physically do the activity and rip the page out of the book as proof. If you . . . . Pbk, 5 x 2.5 in. / 112 pgs / 52 color.

By Tamara Shopsin & Jason Fulford.

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Hauser & Wirth Publishers

Eva Hesse: Diaries

“Giving life to a once white piece of linen stretched on 4 pieces of wood, to create a rich visual experience is indeed an intriguing complete experience,” wrote Eva Hesse in a 1957 diary entry between notes on her weekly plans and further musings about her goals as an artist. In this extensive collection of Hesse’s diaries, recorded from 1955 to 1970, readers are given an intimate glimpse into the mind of one of contemporary sculpture’s most prominent figures. Despite personal tragedies and the difficulties she faced as one of the few female artists in the male-dominated postminimalist movement, Hesse remained intrepid in both her life and craft. Composed of twisted ropes and delicate plastic among other unconventional materials, Hesse’s sculptures . . . . Flexi, 5.5 x 8 in. / 904 pgs / 1 b&w.

Edited by Barry Rosen with Tamara Bloomberg.

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SKIRA

Park Seo-Bo

Autobiography – Graphic Novel

Internationally acclaimed Korean artist Park Seo-Bo (1931–2023) pursued a meditative practice of emptying the self through repetitive mark-making in his paintings. Through this repetition, the act of making becomes a spiritual discipline. Best known for his Écriture series and mastery within the Dansaekhwa movement, the artist used abstraction to examine the unique cultural traumas endured by himself and his family living through the devastating Japanese occupation and Korean War.
This two-volume slipcased set presents a distinct perspective on the artist's life and artistic philosophy. The first volume is an unfiltered autobiography drawn from Park's own meticulous records going back to his birth and up to the late '70s, featuring contributions from his son, Park Seungho. The second volume illuminates the passionate story . . . . Slip, pbk, 2 vols, 6.25 x 10.25 in. / 340 pgs / 250 color.

By Park Seo-Bo, Cho Jinho. Edited by Park Seungho.

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Arquine

Enrique Norten / TEN Arquitectos: Ideas in Transit

Unbuilt

Founded in 1986 in Mexico City by Enrique Norten, TEN Arquitectos subsequently opened offices in New York and Miami and built its reputation as one of North America's leading firms. TEN Arquitectos is known for its broad range of projects, including cultural institutions, residential buildings and mixed-use developments, and has won recognitions such as the Mies van der Rohe Award and the AIA International Design Award.
Ideas in Transit compiles 15 unbuilt projects from TEN Arquitectos, selected by Enrique Norten in collaboration with Pedro Gadanho, curator of the accompanying exhibition held at the Museo Franz Mayer in Mexico City. Including hand-drawn diagrams and sketches as well as an extended flap with a timeline of the unbuilt works, the book pays homage to . . . . Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 160 pgs / 100 color / 42 b&w.

Text by Ana Elena Mallet, Juan Herreros, Miquel Adrià, Pedro Gadanho, Steven Holl, Giovana Jaspersen.

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The Design Museum

Platform: Simone Brewster

The work of British designer Simone Brewster (born 1983) bridges art, design and architecture through a striking formal and material language. Rooted in both cultural identity and personal narrative, her practice spans furniture, jewelry and objects that explore scale, beauty and belonging.
Drawing on traditions of craft and modernist principles alike, Brewster's pieces evoke a sense of strength and intimacy—sculptural yet deeply human. Her use of wood, metal and pigment transforms familiar materials into expressions of power and self-definition, questioning how design shapes our understanding of heritage and the body.
This publication, the second volume of the new Platform series from the Design Museum, delves into Brewster's multidisciplinary practice through essays, images and an extended interview with the designer. Platform is dedicated to . . . . Pbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 128 pgs / 70 color.

Text by Thomas Aquilina, Danielle Thom.

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MoMA PS1

Greater New York 2026

Greater New York, MoMA PS1's signature survey of artists living and working in the New York City area, returns for its sixth edition in 2026, coinciding with the institution's 50th anniversary. Supporting and spotlighting the city's creative communities, the quinquennial exhibition forms the backbone of the museum's commitment to local artists and collectives. By highlighting New York–area artists responding to the issues of today in real time, the survey has established itself as a barometer of artistic production in the region, whose reverberations shape global dialogues. Greater New York 2026 features more than 50 artists across generations and backgrounds, with a focus on emerging and multidisciplinary artists in the formative years of their careers. The exhibition encompasses site-specific commissions, new productions . . . . Pbk, 7.5 x 9.5 in. / 224 pgs / 110 color.

Edited by Connie Butler, Sheldon Gooch, Jody Graf, Ruba Katrib, Elena Ketelsen González, Kari Rittenbach, Andrea Sanchez.

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Hauser & Wirth Publishers

Life with P.: Journals, 1966–1976

Drawing upon Musa McKim's (1908–92) journals and poetry from 1966 to 1976, Life with P. paints an intimate and candid portrait of both McKim's life as a writer as well as her marriage to the esteemed painter Philip Guston. The book spans a decade that saw profound change and productivity in Guston's artistic practice, resulting in the creation of some of his most iconic late works. McKim's writings capture daily life at their home and studio in Woodstock, trips to New York City, travels abroad to Mexico and Italy and time spent at various artist residencies. A rich collection of artworks and archival photographs documents the couple's domestic and social lives and the fellow artists and writers who comprised their world. . . . . Hbk, 6 x 8.75 in. / 432 pgs / 230 color.

Edited by Sara Harrison, Musa Mayer. Introduction by Musa Mayer. Text by Musa McKim Guston.

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SKIRA

Reality, Surreality

A Major Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Painting

Bringing together 50 artists—including Zhang Zhaoying, Ge Yan, Xiong Tao and Xu Dawai—and more than 100 works, Reality, Surreality reconsiders the legacy of Surrealism in China, from its adoption during the 1985 New Wave to its application by younger generations.

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Edited by Lü Peng, Li Guohua, You Yi.

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Hayward Gallery Publishing

Chiharu Shiota: Threads of Life

This compact, gorgeously produced clothbound monograph offers a striking visual and critical exploration of the work of the acclaimed Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota (born 1972), who works across sculpture, performance, drawing and installation. The artist is best known for her immersive, thread-based installations. These poetic environments—woven from vast networks of red, black or white yarn—have captivated audiences around the world, evoking themes of memory, absence and the body. Featuring a newly commissioned essay by curator Yung Ma and an in-depth interview with the artist by the novelist and poet Yoko Tawada, Threads of Life presents previously unpublished photographs of recent works. Foregrounding Shiota's woven installations through numerous full-bleed images, the volume also displays the artist's new series of drawings, spotlighting an . . . . Clth, 6 x 8.75 in. / 144 pgs / 100 color.

Foreword by Ralph Rugoff. Text by Yung Ma. Interview by Yoko Tawada.

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Inventory Press

Recursive Apologies

Janet Zweig’s Text Generating Sculptures 1990-2010

In the early 1990s, when personal computing was young and artificial intelligence was not yet a part of the popular imagination, American artist Janet Zweig (born 1950) made extraordinary and prescient creations: sculptures that married early computers, simple algorithms and dot-matrix printers with mechanical parts to auto-generate streams of poetic text that moved objects. Richly illustrated, Recursive Apologies presents these sculptures alongside the sources that inspired them. Sporting a recursive design that mirrors the very concepts it explores, the volume offers both a visual archive and a reflection on our ongoing relationship with thinking machines. It also features essays by artists and scholars Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, Jena Osman and Johanna Drucker that evince how Zweig's witty contraptions were an early premonition . . . . Hbk, 9 x 9 in. / 144 pgs / 54 color.

Text by Johanna Drucker, Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, Jena Osman.

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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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