The two north Italian cities of Milan and Turin came to play a vital part in Italian cultural life in the 1950s and 1960s. The years between 1958 and 1968 developed into a highly dynamic period for art, design, architecture and film, in the wake of Italy’s economic boom, which was commonly referred to as an economic miracle.

"Liverpool, Marseille, Naples,Istanbul - great cities, historic cities, difficult cities, colourful cities, cities with secrets - truly, four cities on the edge." (Sir Bob Scott)

The main question we raise with this book is how performance can be political in present day European representative democracy, a system which no longer draws on the live gathering of people.

Eleven students from the Werkplaats Typografie asked an equal number of Dutch graphic designers to join forces with them during their work period in the Chaumont Graphic Arts Festival (2006, F).
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Social Housing—Housing the Social: Art, Property and Spatial Justice examines ongoing transformations in social housing and asks how these transformations are reflected in the aspirations and practices of artists.

The Culture of the Copy is an unprecedented attempt to make sense of the Western fascination with replicas, duplicates, and twins. In a work that is breathtaking in its synthetic and critical achievements, Hillel Schwartz charts the repercussions of our entanglement with copies of all kinds, whose presence alternately sustains and overwhelms us. (Quelle: Verlag)

Since the beginning of the 2000's, Jacques André has developed a conceptual art practice that questions our consumption habits and our relationship to material goods and ownership. To this end, he has adopted ways of working that do not follow traditional artistic practices.

Every item on the List is a transcript of a part of Kasper Andreasen‘s ongoing work Proofs. Since 2004, he collects sheets of paper: receipts, newspaper articles, packaging, tickets and other written traces which he is confronted with on a daily basis.

MC1R magazine for redheads is the first art based and design forwarded independent print magazine project round about the culture of red hair worldwide and was founded by Tristan Rodgers.

One of Plato's most controversial dialogues, Hippias Minor.

Der österreichische Fotograf Michael Höpfner wanderte acht Wochen über das südliche Chang Tang Plateau, das Teil der Autonomen Provinz Tibet ist und bis jetzt von nomadisierenden Drogpas besiedelt wurde. Er entwickelte dort die Arbeit »Outpost of Progress«:

Viennese émigré Paul T. Frankl (1886-1958) was one of the pioneers of early modern design in the United States, known for his “Skyscraper” furniture of the 1920s and his work for the Hollywood élite in the 1930s and early 1940s.

Matt Magazine is a synthesis between fanzine and current affairs magazine. Text and pictures complement each other, tackling complex and political subjects relevant to our times. (Englisch)

San Rocco is interested in gathering together the widest possible variety of contributions. San Rocco believes that architecture is a collective knowledge, and that collective knowledge is the product of a multitude.

Displayed Spaces explores the exhibition as a central medium in the production and communication of architecture.

Emerging from the collaboration between artist Jason Dodge and poet Matthew Dickman, this book operates at the

It’s 1912. We find ourselves in Kalimpong, India, in the foothills of the Himalayas. We are in the company of the eccentric Belgian-French explorer Alexandra David-Néel.

DADALENIN reconstructs and speculates about how Dada and Lenin had more in common than is usually assumed. The book points to some of the tragicomic aspects of their parallel and overlapping artistic and political histories in order to question the unfulfilled legacy of the avant-garde.

This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Gabriel Orozco' in Broel -en Broeitoren, organized by The Kanaal Art Foundation, from April to June 1993.

The Aspen Complex (...) brings together yet unpublished archival material and new research on the 1970 IDCA and the Aspen Movie Map.

Cult film director John Waters and art critic and curator Bruce Hainley offer a provocative and personal interpretation of the theme of sex and sexuality in art.

Mexican artist Pedro Reyes examines and resolves the complexities and contradictions of modern life in his work, which ranges from sculpture to TV and short film productions to public projects and calls for political, economical and audience participation.

Made in Tokyo includes Van Golden’s recently created series of Double Prints, essentially digital collages conjoining visually work from early/late periods of his practice, ephemera including photographs, invitation cards, periodicals and other material related to his time in Japan as well as the floral patterned painting Untitled (Tokyo) from 1964.

The new issue features 23 artistic positions focusing on erotic contemporary drawing.

The Book of Notebooks rekonstruiert die grafischen Narrative von Dan Perjovschi (geb. 1961) über den Zeitraum von 1994 bis 2017.

Květa Fulierová and Július Koller, their love and common life are a real creation. They do not discriminate between holidays, weekends or pauses. That which they live in, and live for, is one big work of art.

The programme series CRITIQUE AND CRISIS questioned over the span of three years between 2012-2015 the last common denominator of European crisis philosophy, namely, the basis of a democratic order that still holds today.

Acknowledged today as one of the most influential figures of post-war Yugoslavian art, mangelos is the pseudonym that the Yugoslavian art critic and historian Dimitrije Bašičević (1921–1987) used for his artistic activity, a parallel career he would only make public in the 1970s.

Published on the occasion of Nairy Baghramian’s (1971, Isfahan, Iran) new outdoor sculptural work for the Sonae|Serralves Commission, this fully illustrated book draws upon the artist’s interest in the ways sculpture functions in the public domain.

The publication accompanied the exhibition “Nick Oberthaler / Calculated Reserve” at Museo Hendrik Christian Andersen/Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporana in Rome.

The Panorama, a ritual that has turned into somewhat of an obsession over the years, serves the artist to question analogies of film and photography, of picture space and image area as well as the phenomenology of an object or place.

The issue with the client is that the reasons why clients should pay for architecture (i.e., the reasons why rich or powerful individuals could become clients) seem to be disappearing.

Alison Britton’s collected writings review the unstable place of craft in the spectrum of art and design.

FUKT Magazine is a Berlin-based magazine for contemporary drawing, beautifully designed with a focus on the visual.

Peter Downsbrough (*1940, New Jersey) studierte Kunst und Architektur und ist gemeinsam mit Robert Barry, Sol Lewitt und Lawrence Weiner einer der ersten konzeptionell arbeitenden Buchkünstler.

Der Amerikaner Jason Dodge (geb. 1969, lebt und arbeitet in Berlin) prägt den Begriff der Bildhauerei neu. Seine Arbeiten bestehen meist aus Gegenständen, die aus dem Alltag bekannt sind, und einem Titel, der eine Erzählung evoziert und damit auf die poetischen Potenziale der Realität verweist.

ENTKUNSTUNG I is a yearbook that brings together texts and works from the first four editions of this project and, furthermore, it's complemented with artworks from artists coming from different nationalities and backgrounds.

Im Zuge der Kreditkrise sind die Verkäufe auf dem kürzlich noch boomenden Kunstmarkt innerhalb von nur wenigen Wochen fast vollständig zusammengebrochen. Auch das Interesse der Lifestylepresse für die Ereignisse der Kunstwelt hat merklich nachgelassen, weil es kaum noch von sensationellen Markterfolgen oder opulenten Partys zu berichten gibt.

This publication delves into the manipulation of light, time and material by Danish artist Emil Salto, on the occasion of Light Forms, his first solo museum show in the United States.

Issue 14 of San Rocco is devoted to the theme of the island as an architectural, political, and spatial figure.

Andrea van der Straeten (* 1953, Trier) lives in Vienna and Linz. Since 2002 professor in the department for experimental design (Experimentelle Gestaltung) at the Art Academy Linz.

Andrea van der Straeten has worked for years on the question of the position that ephemeral forms of communication, like conversations, gossip, rumors, can assume as material in art.

In this issue new writing, text and images, a blackboard, an interview, surveillance photographs, heroes, and a blasted copy of the Canadian Indian Act of 1867.

Isla del Sol/Bolivia, 1962. During a research trip the linguist J. C. Duenkel makes the groundbreaking discovery of a language thought to be long dead. Fascinated by its peculiarly coarse sound, the researcher begins to make recordings of the forgotten idiom.

What Am I? is not quite what it looks, but we’ve decided to publish anyway.

Architecture is scary. It is not just difficult to deny this; it is impossible. Architecture involves something oppressive.

The publication elucidates the work of Manu Luksch, Mukul Patel and collaborators as part of the wave of critical art that has emerged alongside the rise of digital networks.

The Form of the Book Book brings together essential essays on the book – its history, present, and possible futures.

In his work, Yorgos Sapountzis appropriates public space and the statues, monuments, and memorials that inhabit it.

In debates over the transition from modernism to postmodernism much is made of the shift from the autonomous art object to site-specific work. On Location: Siting Robert Smithson and his Contemporaries revives these debates by exploring the relationship between the site and the gallery space evident in the work of Robert Smithson and his peers.

Die Publikation zu Florian Pumhösl präsentiert nicht nur die im Kunsthaus Bregenz gezeigte neue Werkserie, sie erstellt darüber hinaus ein Verzeichnis aller seiner Ausstellungen seit 1993.

A Prism of Reality is a self-evident visuality, a metaphor that declares the truth of the image it produces. (Englisch)

”Horizon" is a book that brings together texts and inserts by artists and academics from Iceland, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden on the topic of the nature and cultural landscape, mapping, tourism and volcanoes.

"Michel Foucault Letters" documents artist Kevin Immanuel's ongoing project archiving the supposed correspondence between the famous philosopher and a number of galleries and art institutions throughout Europe, North America, and China.
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Invalid Format is an archive of the widespread publishing activities of Triple Canopy, the editorial collective and online magazine based in New York, Los Angeles, and Berlin. (engl.)

Der Künstler aus New York, der sein Werk anonym veröffentlicht hat, arbeitet mit dem 4-Farbdruck und der japanischen Bindung.

By turning the direction and intensity of the light, a variety of stage effects is produced: the Diorama, compartment within which, through a window, the viewer can discover new worlds and observe them from kaleidoscopic perspectives.

The Magic Forest is a limited edition artist's book and a photographic portray of the forest area also known as Meat Rack, by AA Bronson.

Though we can view the history of Modern Art in terms of the progression of small groups experimenting with new theories of art, the works of art themselves tend to be viewed as authored by a single individual.

Complete catalogue entries of one hundred exemplary artist books, multiples, recordings, et cetera, found within the Art Metropole Collection at the National Gallery.