Are you an artist? Are you interested in studying art? Do you want to know what drives the art market? Or do you simply want to know how to become a successful artist? From the first-hand experience of a world-renowned artist, this book gives you a deep insight into the art world and reveals how you can become successful yourself.

Nations and states establish a strong collective image by disseminating symbols of their rulers and erecting monuments and temples. In public spaces, statues in particular are seen to represent systems of political rule. They mark squares, urban nexuses, and mountain ranges--visible from afar. Once erected, they serve as a timeless demonstration of authority, emphasising irrefutable legitimacy.But how is power depicted today? Are statues still a democratically tenable form?

Mierle Laderman Ukeles's manifesto ''Maintenance Art--Proposal for an Exhibition'' (1969) was a major intervention in feminist performance practices and public art. The proposal argued for an intimate relationship between creative production in the public sphere and domestic labor--a relationship whose intricacies Ukeles has been unraveling ever since. In 1977, she became the unsalaried Artist-in-Residence for the New York City Department of Sanitation, a position that enables her to introduce radical public art into an urban municipal infrastructure.

Following Institutions by Artists: Volume One and the eponymous convention from which both volumes take their name, this second anthology of texts continues the work of unpacking artists’ relationships to—and creation of—a larger set of structures that increasingly regulate, demarcate, and codify contemporary artistic practice: centres of economic and cultural capital; state and private apparatus; and sites of display, storage and production.

For the first time, this publication brings together the Mosaic works by the British artist Stephen Willats, which were created in Great Britain and Finland in the 1990s. In these works, Willats uses the medium of the book to enter into an exchange with people and to create a space in neighborhoods, museums, and bookstores where social bonds can be established. It is a collaborative process through which Willats redefines the web of relationships between artist, artwork, audience and society; a process of instituting in which the artwork becomes its own institution.

With contributions by Jamie Allen, Bernhard Garnicnig, Elsa Himmer, Lucie Kolb and Stephen Willats.

The Updated and Expanded edition of The Art of Feminism charts the birth of the feminist aesthetic and its development over two

Das Künstlerinbuch DIE AUFSTELLUNG von Rebekka Bauer thematisiert die Weitergabe von Traumata des 2.

The monograph is based on studies of archive sources, interviews with artists, who cooperated with Valoch, as well as with himself, and on the research of current expert literature dealing with topics related to Central and Eastern Europe, and it represents the first summary of extensive activities of Jiří Valoch in the years 1965-1980.

Questioning the ephemeral quality of a performance, the artist published a documentation of an act he did in 2017. The textual score of the performance and the visual material became an independent art book. Suspended between a theoretical lecture and a personal diary style, the publication captures a subjective experience of non binary person who practices sex with gay men. The project poses questions on the place of body in our language, appropriation of sexuality by marketing and consumerism and problems in defining non-binary identity. Photographs and texts: Julek Malinowski, Book Design: Wikor Gromadzki

Einhundert Zeichnungen in Graphit auf Büttenpapier, 85 x 58 cm, April 2020 bis Dezember 2022. Mit einer Vorbemerkung von Klaus Mosettig sowie einem Text von Ann Cotten. Gestaltet von Laurenz Feinig

In Text und Fotografie hinterfragt das Buch von Claire Laude anhand von Beispielen aus zwei Mittelmeerländern, Italien und Griechenland, unsere Beziehung zur Erde und den Begriff der Spuren und ihrer Beständigkeit in der Landschaft. Welche Spuren können die Geschichte und die Aktivitäten der Menschen in einer ländlichen Landschaft hinterlassen?

Dada Afrika erscheint anlässlich von Ausstellungen im Museum Rietberg Zürich und in der Berlinischen Galerie im Frühjahr und Sommer 2016 und untersucht erstmals die Auseinandersetzung der Dada-Bewegung mit der außereuropäischen Kunst und Kultur.

This volume surveys the acclaimed work of Dara Friedman, exploring her innovative approach to 16mm film and video art. The book features stills from numerous works spanning more than 20 years of creative production, as well as essays on Friedman’s oeuvre and an extended interview with the artist. Friedman is known for works

RAW Académie was developed in Dakar to create a space of experimental teaching and collaboration, of deconstruction and exposure, of knowledge and nourishment. Koyo Kouoh, founder of RAW Material Company, wished for curatorial inquiry and critical writing to join artistic thinking at this site of international encounters. During these two-month long sessions that take place twice a year, young artists and curators—the Académie fellows—come from all over the world to be accompanied by faculty members with

The Austrian artist Lois Weinberger, who participated in documenta in 1997 and 2017 and in the Venice Biennale in 2009, realized two large installations for the Kunststiftung NOW Esterhazy Contemporary:

The eleventh issue of the series Pleased to Meet You is devoted to Derek Jarman (1942-1994), a major figure in British cinema during the 1970s and 80s as well as a highly versatile artist, painter, draughtsman, costume and set designer, author and gardener. Before his premature death in 1994 of an AIDS-related illness,

Sean Scully is recognized as one of the most important abstract artists of our age. For half a century, he has explored with unwavering determination and vision the possibilities of the stripe, band, and block as abstract forms. In doing so, he reconciled the aesthetic of pure Minimalism with a more human and expressive approach that reinvented abstraction as physical, sensual, and endowed with powerful emotion.

Der hochwertige Bildband zeigt erstmals das gesamte druckgrafische Werk Philip Gustons, eines der bedeutendsten amerikanischen Künstler des 20. Jahrhunderts. Als er sich zu Beginn der Sechzigerjahre dem Medium der Lithografie zuwandte,

Fashion is often seen as an industry of eccentric personalities and unique, exceptional talents but it's the collaborators, rather than the individuals, who underpin the industry and inspire this book. This stylish volume, compiled by Lou Stoppard, editor-at-large of London's SHOWstudio, delves into the behind-the-scenes worlds of the fashion industry s most intriguing partnerships to explore what, exactly,

A two-volume artist’s book highlighting the sculptor’s protracted career and stringent works
Designed by American conceptual sculptor Cady Noland (born 1956), The Clip-On Method’s two volumes can be picked up and read in any order: back to front, front to back, or started in the middle. Readers take it upon themselves to weave their way through Noland’s tangled oeuvre.

View India brings together recent works by Saumya Khandelwal, Selvaprakash Lakshmanan, Ritesh Uttamchandani, Ajit Bhadoriya, Apoorva Guptay, Venkatesh Peevee Perumal, Anoop Ray, Anisha Baid, Nihaal Faizal, Gayatri Ganju, Anushree Fadnavis, Arshad Hakim, Ram Krishna Ranjan, Chinar Shah, Vivek Mariappan, Sl Shanth Kumar, Cheena Kapoor, Vaibhav Bhardwaj and Chandan Gomes.

Lee Bul ist eine der bedeutendsten zeitgenössischen Künstlerinnen. Mit ihren die Genregrenzen überschreitenden Arbeiten erlangte sie in den 1990er-Jahren internationale Bekanntheit. Ob mit radikalen Performances und monströsen Skulpturen zu Beginn ihrer Karriere

Whether you have already tried your hand at bookbinding or are a complete beginner, Rachel's knowledge and passion will inspire you to explore the many possibilities of bookart.

A celebration of the visual artistry behind the evolution of sound recording with specially commissioned photography of iconic, rarely-seen artefacts from the collections of the EMI Archive Trust

Thomas Ruff is one of the most important contemporary German photographers living today. Studying under Bernd and Hilla Becher, Ruff experimented with large-format printing. This comprehensive book focuses on his photographic series from the past twenty years.

The two-dimensional drawing with plan layout, elevation, and section is a necessary prerequisite for all building. Perspectives help to give three-dimensional expression to the architect’s ideas.

This is the first book devoted to Frank Lloyd Wright's designs for remaking the modern city. Stunningly comprehensive, The Urbanism of Frank Lloyd Wright presents a radically new interpretation of the architect’s work and offers new and important perspectives on the history of modernism. Neil Levine places Wright’s projects,

Uncovering the lost history of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender artists in New York City. Queer people have always

Raqs Media Collective wurde von der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien eingeladen, eine Ausstellung mit den Werken der kunsthistorischen Sammlung zu kuratieren. Das aus Indien stammende Kollektiv, das seine Arbeitsweise mit dem Begriff des „epistemischen Ungehorsams” umschreibt, hat Werke aus der Sammlung ausgewählt, um sie mit gegenwärtigen Positionen zu konfrontieren:

Die überarbeitete, aktualisierte und um fast 100 Projekte erweiterte Neuausgabe des Katalogs zur «a_schau», der Dauerausstellung über die österreichische Architektur des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts im Architekturzentrum Wien (Az W), ist zu einem eigenständigen Werk geworden, das weit über die Ausstellung hinausweist.

The work of the sculptor Rachel Harrison is both the zeitgeist and the least digestible in contemporary art. It may also be the most important, owing to an originality that breaks a prevalent spell in an art world of recycled genres, styles, and ideas.&;&;Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker

Neu - Ein Streifzug durch rund 500 Jahre Modegeschichte im Spiegel der Kunst: Wie haben Künstler auf extreme Erscheinungen wie Schlitzmode,

This is not a catalogue raisonné. Nor is it a family album. If anything, it is an album dé-raisonné, the collage of a life commented on discreetly by its author. It is a reproduction of the world of Olga Mohler-Picabia around a mentor and a great love, Francis Picabia. A variation on the theme of Pygmalion, this album is the highly personal expression of a quarter century of learning. An intaglio portrait of Picabia through the eyes of Olga, a portrait that is at once funny, intimate, sensible and often very moving.

This bilingual publication is dedicated to the work of Friederike Mayröcker and focuses on her visual and graphic practice alongside her literary oeuvre.

Die vorliegende Publikation würdigt die konzeptionelle Kunstpraxis des Wolfgang-Hahn-Preisträgers 2023. Mit Aktionen, Installationen, Filmen, Malerei und Zeichnungen nimmt er die Gesellschaft und ihre Unsicherheiten in den Blick, um in seinen Werken Impulse für das Zusammenleben zu setzen.

The Secession Talks. Exhibitions in Conversation versammelt 46 Ausstellungsgespräche, die von 2011 bis 2022 in der Secession stattfanden.

Laura Brown’s essay examines the artistic techniques Tishan Hsu has developed over the past four decades, with particular attention to the early 2000s,

Charlie Prodgers Praxis verbindet Bewegtbild, Schreiben, Skulptur, Zeichnung und Druckgrafik.

Agency of Singular Investigations (ASI) wurde 2014 von Anna Titova und Stanislav Shuripa gegründet, um gegenüber den dramatischen Veränderungen der politischen Realität und kulturellen Atmosphäre in Russland Stellung zu beziehen und angesichts des postfaktischen Zeitalters über andere Möglichkeiten von Bildern und Kommunikationsmitteln für die Konstruktion von Identitäten und Weltanschauungen nachzudenken. 

Lois Weinberger - Debris Field. Publikation, Herausgeber: documenta und Museum Fridericianum GmbH, Kassel 2017, 218 Seiten, ca. 500 Abbildungen, Design: VIER5/Paris, Texte: Harald Stadler, Beatrix Nutz und Lois Weinberger.

Der Bildband ist eine ausführliche fotokünstlerische Beschreibung des privaten Lebens- und Arbeitsraumes von Inge Morath in ihrem Wohnort in Roxbury, Connecticut, USA. Die SW-Fotoreportage folgt der Tradition der Dokumentation der Ateliers bedeutender Künstler:innen als wichtige Quelle ihrer künstlerischen Arbeit.

Als Oswald Wiener und seine Frau Ingrid 1984 nach Kanada zogen, war das nicht nur ein Akt der Erkenntnissuche, sondern auch ein bewusster Schritt des Schriftstellers, die Kunst hinter sich zu lassen. Interesse an den Extremen der Natur am Polarkreis, an außergewöhnlichen gesellschaftlichen Umständen machte Dawson City in der arktischen

Zum 100. Geburtstag von Inge Morath in diesem Jahr erscheint in der FOTOHOF>EDITION ein Doppelband von zwei selten gezeigten Fotoserien. Beide Bücher nehmen sich Themen im Werk von Inge Morath an, die nicht zum Mainstream ihrer Arbeit gehören, die aber eine ganz besondere Qualität besitzen.

Eine blecherne Taschenlampe mit einer runden Glaslinse und diesem kleinen Schalter, an dem immer wieder der Fingernagel hängenblieb. Eine Farbfilmdose von Agfa, die grobe, altmodische Küchenreibe (ich benutze sie immer noch) und vieles mehr… Dinge.

Anna Jermolaewa ist Preisträgerin des Otto-Breicha-Preises für Fotokunst 2021. Die Konzeptkünstlerin bezeichnet sich selbst als »Realistin« und ihre Auseinandersetzung mit der Wirklichkeit ist ebenso kritisch wie abgründig humorvoll.

Ode to Construction – Abstraction in the Digital Age explores the intersections of graphic design and art through the means of generative code, gesturing playfully and melancholically towards the foundational legacies of the Suprematist and Constructivist movements of the early 20th century.

Through a series of studio visits that culminated in an artist talk at Residency Unlimited, Dalton and I examined racism and the language systems that perpetuate it; the black body; silenced black people; the African diaspora and its religions; performance and rituals; nature and healing; black protagonism.

In this warm and soft book, covered by a blood red fabric, artist Rosana Paulino brings together for the first time the series of drawings that give their title to the publication: Buffalo and Lady of Plants. Both represent female archetypes related to the black psyche, and they go against the dominant European and colonial collective consciousness.

Subduing our bodies, in the sense of controlling our impulses and desires, is an aspiration which is older than Christianity. At that time, the dominant question was: how do you get good control over yourself? Christianity made women the symbol of possible loss of control over our bodies. Achieving our self-control turned into being able to control the woman, to avoid the temptation that she, malevolent, represents.

The book ...Umas […Some] begins before I existed. First of all, because of the artist's own connection with the newspaper: Lenora de Barros worked for many years behind the production of magazines and newspapers, artistically thinking the process of some of the main publications that still circulate in Brazil. The newspaper Folha de São Paulo, as it is known today, also has a lot of her touch.

Soft Edges, Draw Close presents a body of work by Euphrosyne Andrews that explores how materials and

Cocoon or Carcass. Past or Future. Building the ruin. This edition pays close attention to the metaphorical structures and cultural crisis in South West Cornwall.

Plunder the silver crust. Fill the stained valleys. Deeper into the subterranean. The shocks, the rocks, the flash. Echoes of our old faith tearing loose the earth. Photographs from the Wheal Maid Copper Mine, Gwennap, Cornwall, 2023.

This book, a collaboration between the Victoria and Albert Museum and the University of Westminster, captures the British mosque at a pivotal moment in its history. There are 1,800 mosques in the UK today – mostly converted from terraced houses, libraries, cinemas and supermarkets. Now, these improvised spaces are beginning to disappear, as Muslim communities replace them with purpose-built structures.

Developing a new body of work specifically for this publication, Collected Arrangements is the product of a sustained collaboration between the artist Lucas Dupuy and Foolscap Editions. The page is used to frame and contextualise the distinct marks, lines and shapes of the artist’s visual language. Reconfigured compositions explore the space and structure of the page, which offers a testing ground akin to that of the gallery space.

Idol Hands presents a wealth of source and visual references, alongside original drawings from the artist’s unique and expanded narrative of imagery stemming from alternative means of communication such as braille, morse code and sign language.

How to Book in Berlin serves as a comprehensive guide to bookmaking and publishing, offering insights we wished we had when we were starting out. It includes information on research methods, funding strategies, production techniques and distribution approaches, all underpinned by the perspectives and advice of experienced publishers. Our ultimate ambition is to alleviate the challenges often associated with the journey of creating artists’ books and to foster meaningful connections within the diverse and vibrant artists’ book communities.

This groundbreaking account of postwar American art traces the profound influence of Antonin Artaud. Proposing an original reassessment of art from the 1950s to the 1970s, No More Masterpieces reveals how artistic practice in postwar America was profoundly shaped by the work of the rebellious French poet and dramatist Antonin Artaud (1896–1948).

Serotonin is a neurotransmitter closely associated with the human state of happiness.