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.

The renowned Polish contemporary artist is known for his participatory art projects, figurative sculptures and performative self-portraits.

Amanda is an artist's book by Olga Micińska made in the framework of The Building Institute, an experimental organisation aiming to strengthen the position of femmes builders in the domain of technical construction work.

die publikation zeigt neue werkgruppen von g. b. in den love seats sitzen wir auf einem möbelobjekt & blicken aneinander vorbei. textilbilder & stickereien zeigen kisses in form von lippen ohne person.

In our daily lives, folds, creases, and wrinkles belong to the realm of aging processes or are the unwanted result of carelessly handled pieces of fabric or paper.

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.

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,

This special issue is the cataLog for “Model Behavior,” a group exhibition of models, architectural and otherwise, curated by the Anyone Corporation and presented by The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union, in New York City. The exhibition, which ran October 4–November 18, 2022, questioned the role of the model in projecting or eliciting social behavior.

In the turbulent square of Martim Moniz, stands a robust building by the architect Bartolomeu Costa Cabral. Invited by TECLA PLAY Cultural Association, artist Leylâ Gediz presents an installation of paintings in the interior gallery of the building,

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

The H-block, or Høyblokka as it is called in Norwegian, was the Government Quarter’s main building. The was building was completed in 1958. Architect Erling Viksjø was inspired by the French modernist Le Corbusier, and set out to create an elegant, monumental but sober functionalism.

In over 1,300 pages, The Commissions Book engages in depth with more than one-hundred works of art. The publication organizes and weaves together sequences of potential narratives and interrogations, along with close examinations of different works of art and an archive of images. The stories embedded in these works, as well as in the foundation’s work, and that of TBA21–Academy, an itinerant site of transdisciplinary research and cultural production engaging with the oceans, are stories of making new connections across

The celebrated Dada artist Hannah Höch explores her use of collage as the artistic medium of choice for both satire and poetic beauty. World-renowned for her work during the Weimar period, Hannah Höch was a pioneer in many aspects, both artistic and cultural. She was the lone woman of the Berlin Dada movement — the riotous form of

„Ich weiß nicht, ob du dich gerade für einen Mann oder eine Frau hältst, aber der Krieg ist aus.“ Der Gedichtband ‚In Frauenkleidung‘ verfolgt den Lebensweg intersexueller Sportlerinnen zu Beginn der 30er-Jahre.

Har Shaam Shaheen Bagh is an ode to the infinite courage and resilience of the women of Shaheen Bagh, Delhi, who sat in protest for a 100 days and nights. A book of photographs, drawings, songs, letters and other material gathered as a record of the iconic protest, marks an extraordinary moment in the political and contemporary history of India.

Intervention by the artists: Karrabing Film Collective has created a limited-edition series of four cards for the publication, one of which is enclosed with each copy. The faces of the cards show image-text collages in Karrabing’s characteristic technique of layering and

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.

The images in Ed Templeton: 87 Drawings cover a span of over thirty years, from 1990 to 2021, and deliver a remarkable retrospective of the artist’s intimate drawing style. Templeton examines the studied ennui of adolescents and young adults, capturing his subjects’ specific personalities while documenting the visual identity born of

"Healing The Museum" is a mid-career monograph looking at Grace Ndiritu’s diverse practice over the last twenty years, which encompasses performance, film, social actions, painting, publications, textile work, and collection research.

Zur Ausstellung erscheint eine Publikation mit einem Essay von Stephen Ellcock, in dem er die spirituellen und mythologischen Bezüge in Delaine Le Bas’ Werk und insbesondere in der für die Secession konzipierten Installation exemplarisch anhand von Referenzen aus der griechischen Mythologie und altägyptischen Totenkulten darlegt.

“Folded” is a documentary photo book by Zoran Shekerov published by PrivatePrint. The book researches and presents the Pehlivan wrestling tradition from an authentic and contemporary angle. Shekerov’s style - so visible through the photographs - is bright and unpredictable, and carries the viewers closer to the subject matter, where they never expected to be.

The book to be released in conjunction with the exhibition includes an essay by Daniel Muzyczuk that explores the context of Ridnyi’s new film The District and his interest in the Polish artist Władysław Strzemiński’s (1893–1952) Theory of Vision.

For the exhibition Making Something from Some Things, the living room on the 3rd floor of the Badischer Kunstverein will become an exhibition space. This room is usually made available to artists as a temporary living and working space during their production residency in Karlsruhe. The opening of the space offers the public a

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,

»Wenn alle Documente verloren, genügt ein vollständiges Markenalbum zur Total-Reconstruction der Weltkultur im technischen Zeitalter.« - Aby Warburg
»Ich bin der Ansicht, dass der einzige Fortschritt der Kunst der ist, die ganze Intensität vom Ich auf das Wir zu verlegen. Sozusagen durch ideologische Kleptomanie müssen wir in die bürgerliche Kultur eingreifen, indem der Wert des persönlichen Eigentums, der der künstlerischen Schöpfung innewohnt, gemindert wird.« - KP Brehmer

Ökologien von Entitäten und Wesen bringt Praktiker, Denker und Künstler aus ganz Eurasien zusammen, um gemeinsam multispezifische Ökologien zu erforschen. Der Band spiegelt anthrozentrische und verkörperte Ansätze zur Zusammenarbeit und Wissensproduktion wider – Prozesse, die immer mit einer Vielzahl von Entitäten und Akteuren verflochten sind.

'When artefacts become pieces of evidence and artists are transfigured into fictional characters animated by their worship of Western art, culture shrinks into the narrow border of the state nation:" would state Tweetu, the weird curator and main suspect of the plot. Detective Elchmanyahu's auto-da-fe follows

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.

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

Wenn Thomas Feuerstein (*1968) auf sein überbordendes Werk an­­­­ge­sprochen wird, in dem es um Biologie, Literatur, Kunstgeschichte, Philosophie, Medizin, Kybernetik, Religion, Sex, Ökonomie und die Massenmedien geht sowie die ­Auswirkungen der Biopolitik auf das Indi­viduum und den Traum von der ewigen Jugend, dann ­antwortet er gerne schriftlich mit einem ­litera­rischen Statement.

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. 

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.

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,

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.

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.

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?

46 Seiten im Heft mit Schutzumschlag, 3 Textbeileger, 4Blatt Aufkleber mit Arbeiten des Künstlers, zahlreiche Abb. in Farbe, Broschur, 22 x 15 cm - Ob barocke Madonnen, Satellitenaufnahmen von Google Earth, Pistolen oder Ereignisse der Weltgeschichte in Nussschalengröße: Der Künstler Peter Sauerer (*1958) nimmt sich all jene Dinge vor, denen es gelingt seine Aufmerksamkeit zu binden. Sorgsam schnitzt er sie im Miniaturformat liebevoll nach, bemalt und zerlegt sie sodann, um sie im letzten Schritt der Bearbeitung mit Schnüren wieder zusammen zu fügen. Seine Kleinplastiken vereinen Konstruktion und Dekonstruktion, balancieren zwischen Aufbau und Zerstörung, markieren einen Zustand der Wandlung.

Im Jahr 1932 errichtet der junge Marcel Breuer sein architektonisches Erstlingswerk: ein Wohnhaus für die Familie Harnischmacher in Wiesbaden. Nach dem Krieg baut der mittlerweile in den USA lebende Architekt nur wenige Meter vom ursprünglichen Bau entfernt für dieselbe Familie ein neues Domizil: Haus Harnischmacher II. Anders als sein Vorgängerbau bleibt dieses Projekt, das einzige bis heute erhaltene Wohnhaus Marcel Breuers in Deutschland, weitgehend unbeachtet.

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

Lighthouse is packed with extraordinary stories of human innovation, desperate shipwrecks, builders defying the elements and heroic sea rescues. Through more than 350 gorgeous vintage images and historic details, Lighthouse brings the golden age of seafaring alive.

Zero Waste Fashion Design combines research and practice to introduce a crucial sustainable fashion design approach. Written by two industry leading pioneers, Timo Rissanen and Holly McQuillan, the book offers flexible strategies and easy-to-master zero waste techniques to help you develop your own cutting edge fashion designs.

A multidisciplinary look at the foremost archive of Black American visual culture, as recast by Theaster Gates. This book features essays and other reflections commissioned in response to the Facsimile Cabinet of Women Origin Stories, a monumental participatory work by Theaster Gates (born 1973). The Cabinet includes nearly

Like a mighty river that flows and deviates from its course, this publication invites us on a journey to decipher the hidden predatory logic within the mechanisms of gold mining exploitation and the resulting socio-ecological devastation in the Guayana and Venezuela’s Amazon regions. More than a warning, What the Mine Gives, the Mine Takes presents a collective and sensitive cartography of this mining conflict through a diversity of art projects, poems, essays, diagrams, satellite visions, and documentary images.

In their latest project, done for the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, the artist collective Gelatin present gigantic sculptures and costumes on the theme of excrement. This book documents the work's development and includes a poster.

Rehousing is the title of a series of works by Peter Friedl which comprises a selection of individual, intricate, and true-to-scale models of houses. Collectively, these structures materialize as constructed environments that reflect the recent past, different biographies, and ideologies in diverse ways; they are “case studies for the mental geography of an alternative modernity.”

These photos were either lost, forgotten or thrown away. The images now are nameless, without connection to the people they show, or the photographer who took them. "My Queer History " wants to be the home for lost photos – a resting place for the nameless and lost.

'Queer' is an inclusive term, encompassing the complex experiences of sexuality and gender diversity across history. In the past, 'queer' has been used as a term of derision, but many today have reclaimed the term to capture the complexity of gender and sexuality.

Why urban design is larger than architecture: the foundational qualities of urban design, examples and practitioners
Urban design in practice is incremental, but architects imagine it as scaled-up architecture—large, ready-to-build pop-up cities. This paradox of urban design is rarely addressed; indeed, urban design as a discipline lacks a theoretical foundation.

Les Maintenants ist der Name einer fiktiven Firma aus Marlies Pöschls Film Aurore, die von Kindern und Jugendlichen gegründet wurde und sich mit der Automatisierung von Emotionen beschäftigt. Wörtlich übersetzt erfindet der Begriff Les Maintenants den Plural von „jetzt“ (französisch: maintenant) –

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

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

The first book to showcase and critically explore the groundbreaking photography of fashion magazines over the last century.

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). . . .

K. A. Wolf, herausgegeben im Auftrag der Karl Anton Wolf - Stiftung. Opappband, mit zahlreichen Werkabbildungen, sehr guter Zustand.

Linda Carreiro and Lan “Florence” Yee refute the notion that what cannot be apprehended is worthless. Their glossary may be read as a manifesto encouraging us to pay more attention to the blurs and vagueness of our environments and thoughts, and to our societies’ invisibilities – prompting us to open our creative minds and welcome uncertainties and the unknown with generosity.

The mandragora plant is one of the best recorded gynaecological herbal substances. It is also the only plant in the European context historically depicted as a half-human-half-plant-creature. The mandragora was, is and continues to be haunted by stories.

Simone Fattal’s exhibition metaphorS is accompanied by a small publication with an interview with Cecilia Alemani, who showed Fattal’s works in the main exhibition of the Venice Biennale in 2022. A series of black-and-white photographs captures the mood of a spontaneous work meeting with the artist, opening up an intimate space.

Visual artist Diana Scherer (1971, DE) is one of the pioneers in bio tech art. Scherer lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where she studied fine art at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Her work comprises botany, installations, textile and biotechnology.

The richly illustrated book Without and within: essays on territory and the interior contains a series of essays that trace a thread of ideas, images and projections that connect the American territory as conceived by Thomas Jefferson to the contemporary continuous interior environment ubiquitous in public experience. It is a story of ideas contained therein, their implementation and their consequences.

The artist’s works are mounted on panels, sitting on large pieces of veneered furniture placed around the edges of the rooms. The height of the furniture relates to the height of the plinths and columnar divisions of the wall decoration, and the pieces are very large so as to appear fixed and integral to the space of the room. The vivid colours and glossy surfaces of the works are held in the room by the rich dark tones of their plinths.

Disler is regarded as one of the founders of the Neue Wilde movement, making him (along with Miriam Cahn and Klaudia Schifferle) one of the