Paesi Nordici. La Biennale di Venezia 1978. 5 cataloghi di mostre di artisti provenienti da Danimarca (Stig Brogger, Hein Heinsen, Mogens Moller), Finlandia (Olavi Lanu), Islanda (Sigurdur Gudmundsson), Norvegia (Frans Widerberg), Svezia (Lars Englund). Testi nelle lingue originali, inglese e italiano. Ill. in bianco e nero e a colori 8vo. pp. 20 fascicolo. . Ottimo (Fine). . . .

Immer mehr Museen öffnen sich nach langer Tabuisierung für einen transparenten Umgang mit Fälschungen, tauschen Erkenntnisse aus und entscheiden sich – falls notwendig – Werke aus der Sammlung abzuschreiben.

„Hier liegt ein Werk vor, das auf großartige Weise ein Grundmotiv allen Bauens zu erschließen versteht.“ (Horst Bredekamp)Kragkuppelbauten sind einfache, aber faszinierende Bauformen, die aus ganz praktischen Gründen entstanden: Die Steine, die in vielen Gegenden so zahlreich herumliegen, schichtete man in Trockenbauweise zu nützlichen Strukturen auf – vor allem zu Hütten.

Lassen Sie sich auf eine Entdeckungsreise in die Geschichte des Schachspiels entführen, eine Reise durch die Zeit und um die Welt. Das Buch macht eine Fülle von Fach- und Detailwissen zugänglich und offenbart gleichzeitig die Faszination, die von diesem Spiel ausgeht.

All the cannons and artillery included in this survey are actual, historic weapons, located in Greater London and freely accessible to the public.

Entirely realized by the artists, and rich of more than 540 colour illustrations, this book is like a wide and coloured family album, illustrating almost all works created by Pierre et Gilles between 1976 and 2002.

Nordic Iron Age Art has survived in the precious metals gold, silver and bronze in the form of jewellery, brooches, weapon accessories and other utility objects. In the first centuries of our time, art was dominated by the inspiration from Roman and Classical art,

The Norwegian archaeologist Bente Magnus describes the historical and social conditions of myths and art: ornaments and animals with masks and human representations, plants as jewelry, weapons, utensils made of gold, silver and bronze. The tradition continues in Nordic art right up to the stave churches.

Brèves gathers 40 newspaper clippings that Jean‑Luc Moulène has individually altered and recontextualized.

The Dutch photobook is internationally acclaimed for its close collaboration between photographer, printer, and designer. The current photobook boom in the Netherlands stems from a tradition of excellence that predates World War II.

Between 2003 and 2005, artists Lina Kim and Michael Wesely scoured public and private archives in an ambitious effort to survey, catalog and restore photographs of the construction of Brasilia, many of which were inaccessible to the public and at risk of disappearing. The two carried out a monumental job of researching and

1958 auf der Werkkunstschule in Offenbach entwickelte Franz Erhard Walther eine eigene Typographie, die ohne Diagonalen auskommt. Im vorliegenden Künstlerbuch bildet er mit ihnen so genannte »Werksätze« – auf jeder Seite ein Buchstabe, jeweils einer Szene aus seinem Leben aus den Jahren 1954 bis 1973 gegenübergestellt, beispielsweise einer

Artists from the kingdom of Kongo—a vast swath of Central Africa that today encompasses the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Angola—were responsible for outstanding creative achievements. With the influx of Portuguese, Dutch, and Italian merchants, missionaries, and explorers, Kongo developed a

Fernando Botero's distinctive exaggerated forms perfectly complement the exaggerated atmosphere of the circus. The esteemed artist uses bright colors and unexpected movement to artfully manifest the poetry of the circus, inviting the viewer to participate in a circus with Botero as the artful ringmaster.

2010. Atlas of Transformation is a sort of global guidebook of transformation processes. With structured entries, its goal is to create a tool for the intellectual grasping of the processes of social and political change in countries that call themselves "countries of transformation" or are described by this term. The Atlas of Transformation was first published in Czech and it contains more than 200 "entries" and key terms of transformation.

Das AMAM verwahrt mehr als 1.500 Dokumente, darunter mehr als 300 Zeichnungen, Collagen, Aquarelle, Radierungen und Skizzenbücher von den frühen 1950er Jahren bis zum frühen Tod der Künstlerin im Jahre 1970. Sämtliche Zeichnungen und zahlreiche Seiten aus den Notebooks sind in der vorliegenden Publikation meist erstmals perfekt farbig abgebildet.

Im Fokus dieser Publikation stehen die Fotoarbeiten von Aglaia Konrad und Armin Linke zu wegweisenden Hollein-Bauten der vergangenen fünf Jahrzehnte.

Weaving as a Metaphor offers the intimate side of the artist's oeuvre. . . . Emulating a gallery setting, the catalog, itself a work of art, presents each weaving on a separate page. Trenchant information as well as thought-provoking essays--by Arthur C. Danto, Joan Simon and Nina Stritzler-Levine--archival photographs and notebooks round out this wonderful publication.

Manifesto per una nuova ceramica [For a Manifesto of the New Ceramics] is born from the necessity to shape a shared feeling, a “trembling,” that crossed the Italian and international ceramics landscape in the past few years. Irene Biolichini, curator and professor, intercepted this sensation and,

Rab-Rab Press announces the publication of “Free Jazz Communism“, a new book actualising Archie Shepp–Bill Dixon Quartet at the 8th World Festival of Youth and Students in Helsinki 1962.

This new study critically assesses the work of one of the art world's most creative and controversial duos. It includes a rare specially commissioned interview with Jake Chapman and features essays from leading international art scholars and commentators. Brothers Jake and Dinos Chapman enrage some with their art and reduce others to hysterics, but no one is neutral about two of Britain's most outstanding artistic provocateurs.

In 2018, the Museum Villa Stuck presented a comprehensive retrospective with works by the goldsmith and silversmith Rudolf Bott. The book accompanying the exhibition is a 672-page monumental work. Far from a usual catalog with colorful illustrations, it is "thought in black and white" like the entire exhibition. With a 340-page photo report by Jörg Koopmann and Lene Harbo Pedersen, who photographed the objects across Europe at the lenders and in Bott's studio.

Die großen, grotesken Fotoserien von Anna und Bernhard Blume sind heute wohlbekannt. In ihnen inszenieren die Künstler im dokumentarischen Gestus paranormale Situationen, die sich im Inneren einer „kleinbürgerlichen“ Welt oder in symbolisch besetzten Regionen deutscher Kunst (wie dem Schwarzwald) abspielen.

Lewis Carroll began photographing children in the mid-nineteenth century, at a time when the young medium of photography was opening up new possibilities for visual representation and the notion of childhood itself was in transition. In this lavishly illustrated book, Diane Waggoner offers

Between December 2022 and March 2023, Vivian Suter shared hundreds of photos, all taken with her mobile phone, with the designer and editor of this book. A selection of these snapshots, condensed, juxtaposed, complementing each other, now forms a kind of photographic journal. It offers insights into

C21ST RECENT HISTORY: Handmade in an edition of 100, B&W digital and four-colour riso plates on Munken Pure smooth 120gsm paper, Stardream Metallic SILVER 120gsm, Xerox Bright White coated 170gsm with matt black foil debossed Fedrigoni Ultra Black 185gsm boards; pearl Plastikoils binding;

Ein Ausnahmekünstler gibt sich die Ehre: Der großartige Jannis Kounellis stellt aus, und der Rahmen könnte angemessener nicht sein. In der Monnaie de Paris, der alten Börse von Paris, ist in einem furiosen Streich ein begehbares Gesamtkunstwerk in situ' entstanden, das den Pionier der Arte povera angemessen würdigt.

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with the Austrian pavilion of the 45th Biennale of Venice held in 1993 featuring Andrea Fraser, Christian Philipp Müller and Gerwald Rockenschaub. Texts by Helmut Draxler, Chantal Mouffe, Albert Müller, Michael Müller, Felicia Riess, Otto E. Rössler, Peter Weibel and Slavoj Žižek. Includes biographies and a checklist of the exhibition. Text in English, German and Italian.

a large presentation of works by Marcin Maciejowski (born 1974) – a painter and draughtsman, one of the most fascinating and renowned artists of the younger generation...

Peter Friedl is a conceptual artist whose practice is characterized by a critical examination of social, political, and cultural narratives. Working across various media such as photography, video, drawing, installation, and text, Friedl challenges established power structures, historical representations, and systems of perception by creating alternative perspectives and narrative strategies.

This collection of eerie figurative works by the young Polish painter Marcin Maciejowski, who has shown at Leo Koenig Gallery in New York and at the 2004 Art Basel fair as a "Statement" artist, features work from 2003 to 2007, as well as extensive background information.

With contributions by Richard Artschwager, Jo Baer, Stanley Brown, Jenny Holzer, On Kawara, Sherrie Levine, Ad Reinhardt, Gerhard Richter, Robert Ryman, Rosemarie Trockel and Andy Warhol which were shown in this context once again made it overly clear how radically the definition of the concept 'picture' has changed in this century. Erschienen anlässlich der Ausstellung - Das Bild nach dem letzten Bild in der Galerie Metropol, Wien. Mit Beiträgen folgender Künstler / innen: Jean Christophe Ammann, Hubert Damisch, Jenny Holzer, On Kawarar, Gerhard Richter, Rosemarie Trockel und Andy Warhol u.a. Texte in Deutsch und Englisch.

Der Medienkünstler, Schauspieler, Theoretiker, Musiker und Museumsleiter Peter Weibel der in den 1960er- und 1970er-Jahren zu den österreichischen „Rebellen“ zählte, wurde in diesem Jahr für sein künstlerisches Gesamtwerk mit dem Oskar-Kokoschka-Preis 2014 ausgezeichnet.

World Trade Center, New York, USA, "And then the surgical intervention in the World Trade Center in New York City. Everything top secret and illegal of course. In days of conspiratorial work, somewhere on the 148th floor and

Die Werke des chinesischen Künstlers Ai Weiwei sind Ausdruck seiner kritischen Auseinandersetzung mit Geschichte, Kultur und Politik seiner Heimat und reflektieren auf mehr oder weniger subtile Weise seine eigene Biografie.

Created in Berlin around 15 years ago, this large-format collage book by Isa Genzken is both a personal diary and artistic manifesto. In it are portraits of the artist and her friends;

A groundbreaking new insight into a rich spectrum of early Soviet art and design and its spaces of display. Published on the centenary of the Russian Revolution, this landmark book gathers information from the forefront of current research in early Soviet art,

Lucy R. Lippard's famous book, itself resembling an exhibition, is now brought full circle in an exhibition (and catalog) resembling her book. "Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or 'dematerialized.'" -Lucy R. Lippard,

Dame of the British Empire Vivienne Westwood is best known for her provocative SEX/Seditionaries boutique on Kings Road, and then perhaps her runway shows.

This book is not a proper catalogue raisonné, but rather an invitation to browse the library of an amateur. It allows us to consider an important aspect of Richard Prince’s work,

FUKT Magazine, one of the world’s leading, engaging and inspiring drawing magazine returns for its 20th edition. This new anniversary release looks at the art of portraits in drawing.

An extensive monograph/exhibition catalog on Stephane Couturier, who is undeniably one of the most important French contemporary photographers, an influential presence on the international exhibition scene since the mid-1990s with his large-format, brilliantly elaborated photographic tableaux.

This book is dedicated to the work of Roberto Sironi, as part of a series of monographs on the thought and work of young contemporary designers. The activity of the Italian designer unfolds through highly symbolic projects, based on his personal interest in anthropology and ethnology.

"This book results from my interest in the graphic interplay between two- and three-dimensional structures. The 11 possible ways to unfold a cube are laid out on white paper, whereas the seven cuts that make it possible to unfold a cube

This publication documents the 2016 exhibition “One, No One and One Hundred Thousand,” which took place at Kunsthalle Wien, Karlsplatz. Curated by Luca Lo Pinto, the show took its inspiration from Oulipo, a literary strategy whose objective was to propose new “structures” for writing that were mathematical in nature.

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Bernhard Cellas Panoptikum an rekonvaleszenten Männern - quer durch ein Jahrhundert - demonstriert eine Ikonografie des medizinischen Fortschritts und die Typologie der mise en scène, der bald wieder in den Alltag Zurückkehrenden. Es legt in seiner jeweiligen Inszenierung auch einen Bruch offen,

Bei dieser Publikation handelt es sich um ein Künstlerbuch das anlässlich der Ausstellung "Mathias Poledna. Actualité", welche im Grazer Kunstverein stattfand, erschien.

This publication explores how Heimo Zobernig (Mauthen, Austria, 1958) has become one of the most relevant artists in the current European landscape.

Die Fotografien, die Annette Kelm innerhalb einer großen Bandbreite von Erscheinungsformen im Laufe der letzten fünfzehn Jahre geschaffen hat, gehören zu den faszinierendsten und bedeutendsten Beiträgen der jüngsten zeitgenössischen Kunst.

Including essays about Barbara Hammer, Agnès Varda, Camille Billops, Jane Arden, Penny Slinger, Ana Mendieta, Hito Steyerl, Mati Diop, Catherine Breillat, Carol Morley, Ulrike Ottinger, Charlotte Prodger, Charlotte Pryce, Rosalind Nashashibi & Lucy Skaer, Gloria Camiruaga, Margarethe von Trotta, Astra Taylor, Lina Wertmüller. Interviews with Akosua Adoma Owusu, Astra Taylor, Ericka Beckman, Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Hammer

Con esta exposición se podrá ver por primera vez en España una amplia selección de obras de la artista checa Hanzlová Jitka (Nachod, 1958). Sus fotografías, que buscan penetrar en la esencia de las cosas y los personajes representados, crean imágenes directas que evidencian la relación entre el hombre y su contexto. Además

“I wanted a newspaper, the picture in my head was of someone slapping a fat stack of paper on the table in front of you, in your face, saying: Right, now it’s happened.” (Siggi Hofer)
The versatility that distinguishes Siggi Hofer’s exhibitions is also evident in a publication accompanying his current

'The spirit of Gemini is best captured by the word 'collaboration.' It's about artists and printers working hand in hand to create works of art. This same spirit prevails when I take photos. There's a trust extended by the artists, allowing me to share so many special moments with them.' -Sidney Felsen

Started as a xerox zine, a saturated compilation of drawings done by amateurs, musicians or comics authors, Nazi Knife explored, in its more recent issues, some more singular editorial approaches: the publication seen as a library, as a collection of motley elements, where raw materials, symbolic references or cultural products could be combined, or as the visual repetition of few fetishistic obsessions, modulated by an architecture of filters, quite opaque to say the least.

In Noir – A Serendipitous Encyclopedia Inspired by 1001 Names for the Color Black graphic designer Sandra Praun takes on the color black and the language that charges it with a variety of characteristics. The book consists of three parts:

Written in the 1950s and ’60s, the “action poems” comprising a A User’s Manual were published in their complete form in 1969 when they were paired with the 52 collages of Weekly 1967, the first of Kolář’s celebrated series in which he commented visually on a major event for each week of the year. Taking the form of directives,