This pioneering study offers detailed analysis of the impact of photography’s birth on the classical art form of painting. Photography divided opinion in its early years; some saw it as an invaluable tool in the enhancement of artistic reproductions, while many believed it to be too mechanical to be associated with the grand concept of “Art.”

Paul Gauguin (1848–1903), einer der Gründerväter der modernen Kunst, ist vor allem als Schöpfer leuchtender Südseefantasien in Öl bekannt.

You’ll Never Watch Alone: The Screen as a Place of Work deals with one pressing issue within the hypercapitalist system that prevails globally: the screen as a workspace, an infrastructure, and a veil that renders workers largely invisible.

Print-on-demand has revolutionized the world of books. As analog-digital hybrids, PoD books are the very embodiment of the post-digital age.

Oscar Gustave Rejlander (1813–1875) was a pioneer of English photography in the 19th century. His work is both

Die Wahrheit der Photographie brings together, for the first time in German translation, Oscar Gustave Rejlander’s scattered and often hard-to-find writings on photography.

In the 1980s, there was a marked surge of interest in philosophical, aesthetic, and emancipatory theory.

In the aftermath of independence in 1947–48, architecture in South Asia became a decisive arena for negotiating modernity, political self-determination, and cultural identity.

Ausgangspunkt für dieses Buch ist Salvador Dalís autobiographischer Bericht, in dem er angibt, mehrere Male mit der Intention nach Wien gekommen zu sein, Sigmund Freud zu besuchen.

First published in 1966, Robert Venturi’s Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture is widely considered a foundational text of postmodernism and has become an essential document in architectural theory and criticism.

Congo as Fiction: Art Worlds Between Past and Present explores the vibrant and complex artistic landscape of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

De sculptura: Reflections on Sculpture brings together 27 essayistic reflections by Belgian artist Philip Van Isacker on the relevance and perception of sculpture in the 21st century.

This book offers an original and thought-provoking exploration of a diverse range of contemporary artistic practices, set within a broader cultural context.

It’s a book, it’s fragmentary, together it’s a library ist eine vielschichtige Publikation, die das Denken, Arbeiten und Zusammenkommen unabhängiger Verlags- und Publikationsprojekte in den Mittelpunkt stellt.

Sally Stein reconsiders Dorothea Lange’s iconic portrait of maternity and modern emblem of family values in light of Lange’s long-overlooked ‘Padonna’ pictures and proposes that ‘Migrant Mother’ should in fact be seen as a disruptive image of women’s conflictual relation to home, and the world.

Die von Gerhard Theewen herausgegebene Edition Ex Libris kann man als eines der wichtigsten Editionsprojekte der letzten Jahre bezeichnen.

The publication Raummalerei – Spatial Painting: Analytical Secessionism 1900–1910 explores a pivotal moment in Viennese modernism, focusing on the emergence of a holistic approach to spatial design at

Renowned for his sculptural approach to furniture and his groundbreaking use of materials and techniques, Paul Evans (1931–1987) occupies a singular position in postwar American design history.

'The Significance and Relevance of Early Modern Indian Painters to the Contemporary Indian Art', written in 1971,

Das Heft untersucht, wie Fotos sich heute online verbreiten und wem sie gehören. Drei prägnante Aufsätze erklären –

Papperlapapp, sagt das Monster, die jetzige Situation erfordert Entscheidungen­­.

Fiddle-dee-dee, says the monster, the present situation calls for decisions.

Books Do Furnish a Painting is a beautifully illustrated exploration of how books have been depicted in Western art over the past five centuries.

Otto Wagner markiert eine Schlüsselfigur in der Entwicklung der modernen Architektur. Als zentraler Vordenker der Wiener Moderne

Im 19. Jahrhundert erlebte die Tapetenkunst eine Blütezeit – prachtvolle Farben, filigrane Muster und ein neuer Anspruch an die Gestaltung bürgerlicher Wohnräume bestimmten das ästhetische Ideal.

Jsrael Ber Neumann war von 1912 bis 1930 Max Beckmanns wichtigster Händler und enger Vertrauter – von Beckmann selbst als „Urmanager“ bezeichnet.

It is a long time in which curator Chiara Bertola has been able to observe the metamorphoses and rebirth of this ancient palace, which, through the different visions of the artists projected into its spaces, have made it many places each time.

Art Book Fairs have become a way of life for thousands of artist publishers all over the world, replacing exhibitions as a dominant method of sharing creative work for many. It's a welcome thing that the form of these fairs is getting a critical

The goal of the IMAGINE HUMAN RIGHTS book project is to introduce the 30 Articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to a broader audience and at the same time support humanitarian and educational projects related to human rights.

THE LINE - Atlas of Remoteness documents the exploration of contemporary landscapes by walking along a straight line around the Earth.

John Newling is one of UK’s most important conceptual artists and the first Fulbright Fellow. Writings is the comprehensive collection of the artists essays from 1995-2005. Newling tackles themes such as ‘certainty and uncertainty’, ‘perception and cognition’,

The most famous example of the modernist residential housing design principle developed by Le Corbusier is located in Marseille and was built between 1947 and 1952.

‘Feminisms’ (as a plural) is widely used today to draw attention to inequalities and to critique the status quo in limiting women’s roles/ positions/ lives/ potential. Art can offer a vision of future worlds, manifesting a desire for projecting change, playing with existing realities and conventions. Feminist Art Artivism and Activism, two sides of the same coin,

Queer Exhibition Histories comprises case studies highlighting the countless efforts, both large and small, of LGBTQIA+ artists and curators, centring on queer art exhibitions and their modes of documentation and archiving. Often, the legacy of these projects largely depends on personal archives, memories, and

In 1954, the French writer, politician, and publisher Andre Malraux posed at home for a photographer from the magazine Paris Match, surrounded by pages from his forthcoming book, Le musee imaginaire de la sculpture mondiale. The enchanting metaphor of the musee imaginaire (imaginary museum) was built upon that

With this work in the form of a book, Maria Lalou & Skafte Aymo-Boot present the phenomenon of a particular pending architecture mutely present all over Athens. The concrete skeletons of polykatoikia – multi-story apartment buildings – are emblematic of the development of modern Greece throughout the second half of the twentieth century.

The richly illustrated book Without and within: essays on territory and the interior contains a series of essays that trace a thread of ideas,

Lecture on Nothing is a recording of John Cage’s original text (of the same title) as read by a deaf performer.

This publication is the late outcome of a small symposium that took place in 2013 at the subject area time and space arts at the Academy of Fine Arts at Uniarts Helsinki.

Johanna Drucker’s Diagrammatic Writing is a poetic demonstration of the capacity of format to produce meaning. The articulation of the codex as a site for meaning-makinghas rarely (if ever) been subject to such highly focused and detailed study as in this volume,

Der Berliner Schlüssel von Bruno Latour liest sich als wunderbar klarer Text, der nicht nur Latours Verständnis unserer Gesellschaft verdeutlicht, sondern gleichzeitig auch einen für viele Berliner alltäglichen und doch mysteriösen Gegenstand bespricht: Diesen Schlüssel mit doppeltem Bart, der vor 100 Jahren

Books are a meeting place. A sum of their many parts and artistic approaches. Form, concept, material and craft are bound together to create something rooted in its functionality, a process that often crosses over into the messier realm of art.

Pasolinis Schriften zu Politik und Gesellschaft zählen zu den Höhepunkten der italienischen Literatur. Sie sind bekannt für ihre scharfsinnige Analyse der Situation Italiens rund um die 'zweite industrielle Revolution'. Voraussetzung dafür war Pasolinis immer wieder gegen die kommunistische Partei Italiens geltend gemachtes Bekenntnis zum Marxismus als einziger Lösung 'nicht nur für die Gesellschaft, sondern für den Menschen schlechthin'.

Beginning in the 1990s, the efflorescence of a technology-driven, ostensibly post-industrial “new economy” brought with it a revival of interest in an array of concepts and discourses relating systems and systems thinking that had animated both progressive utopian projects of the 1960s and 70s and the totalizing global geopolitical schemas of the Cold War.

Di Pietro resurrects the corpus of Paul Thek, while sourcing inspiration as to what his practice might have become today

Conversation between the collective Artea 360 Grados and the collective tumbalacasa ediciones in Nahuatl, Spanish and English.

Can we decolonize art book fairs? Can we decentralize knowledge and deconstruct privilege in our contexts?
Decolonizing Art Book Fairs aims to rethink through the existing and speculative frameworks of organizational practice in the art book fairs.

What is the work of the African creative intellectual? Whether branded as ‘native’ by Fanon or ‘negro’ by Cruse, the vocation and commitment of Africa’s creative intellectuals and their mode of ‘self-writing’ has been under examination for much of the post-colonial era. Bekolo’s new text is a valuable addition to this important library.

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.

Our oceans are in an ecological crisis due to their contamination with millions of tons of toxic microplastic particles. In just a few years, the volume of microplastic particles will exceed that of plankton in our oceans and turn them into a huge sea of plastic.

Wie verändern digitale, lernende Technologien unsere Arbeit, unser Zusammenleben und unsere Möglichkeiten der Selbstbestimmung? Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) ist längst nicht mehr nur ein Thema der Science-Fiction. In unser aller Alltag steckt mehr KI, als es vielen bewusst ist: in Sprachassistenten und Navigationssystemen, auf Social-Media-Plattformen und Streamingdiensten, in Verwaltungsabläufen und Überwachungstechnologien.

Der österreichische Kulturbetrieb steht vor der größten Existenzkrise seit Beginn der Zweiten Republik. Die konzeptionellen Grundlagen der österreichischen Kulturpolitik stammen aus den 1970er-Jahren und kommen mit den Auswirkungen der Pandemie an ihre Grenzen.

Bibliographic Performances & Surrogate Readings delves into the imaginative realm of books and libraries and the interpretive structures of subject bibliographies. It is the first monograph of its kind to historicize, theorize and survey two decades of

Städtebau ist Kunst und Wissenschaft zugleich. Seine praktischen und theoretischen Grundlagen werden seit jeher gesammelt, artikuliert und systematisiert. Die großen Stadterweiterungen des 19. Jahrhunderts forcierten die Begründung des modernen Städtebaus als eigenständige Disziplin.

FAKTUR 05, edited by Pep Avilés, is part of the journal Faktur: Documents and Architecture.

Neben der Realisierung von permanenten künstlerischen Gestaltungen in den öffentlichen Bereichen des Klagenfurter Lakeside Science & Technology Parks sowie der Umsetzung von temporären Projekten wurde der von Josef Dabernig entworfene und eingerichtete Kunstraum Lakeside zum Zentrum einer kontinuierlichen künstlerischen und diskursiven Programmierung. Das Buch „Kunstraum Lakeside – Format“ widmet sich dem Thema der künstlerischen Forschung, das aus den institutionellen Besonderheiten dieses Ausstellungs-, Performance- und Diskursraums hervorgeht.

This publication picks up on several of the themes which emerge conceptually and artistically in the Central Asian Pavilion project, and elaborates them in a philosophical, historical and poetic register within the specific materiality and temporality of a book—though the website as a repository and forum for these kinds of explorations should be mentioned as well—with its capacity to extend the time, space and context of

What does it mean to process field recordings from the Ukrainian war in an electronic music track?

HaFI 018 reprints a document containing the script of Skip Norman’s film On Africa (1970). Norman, born in Baltimore in 1933, had left the U.S. in the early 1960s to study German, theater, and medicine in Göttingen. In 1966 he moved to Berlin to join the newly founded German Film and Television Academy (DFFB). By 1969, he had made the films Riffi (1966), Blues People (1968), Cultural Nationalism (1969) and the graduation film Strange Fruit (1969).