A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art

Die hier erstmals in einer Auswahl abgedruckten Zeichnungen bilden einen Ausgangspunkt für die Installationen der Puppen und Videobeams, für die Oursler bekannt geworden ist.

Hotel Ostblick.

Das Filmmaterial wurde während der Entstehung einer Flechtskulptur von Katharina Heinrich aufgenommen: 24 einminütige Sequenzen und Einstellungen, aufgezeichnet mit der Handkamera. Signierte und nummerierte Auflage: 12 Stück. Nr. 8/12.

Die Arbeiten Florian Rossmaniths beinhalten sowohl planerische als auch spontane Momente und bewegen sich inhaltlich zwischen Alltagswahrnehmung, kunstgeschichtlichen Rückbezügen sowie bildanalytischen und rezeptionsästhetischen Fragestellungen.

Tom Holerts neues Buch präpariert in einer Fülle von Einzelanalysen der internationalen Bildpolitik der letzten Jahre die Differenzen und Details, die Emergenzen und Effekte spezifischer Bild-Ereignisse heraus.

Mit der Monographie gibt die Künstlerin erstmals einen umfassenden Einblick über ihre fotografische und filmischen Arbeiten.

Adrian Sauer ist bildender Künstler und Fotograf. In seinem bisherigen Werk befasst er sich mittels digital rekomponierter Fotografien gleichermaßen mit den Bedingungen und Folgen des Verschwindens der analogen Fotografie für die zeitgenössische Bildkultur.

Katalog zur Ausstellung "Istanbul - Fotografien" in der Galerie im Saalbau, Berlin - Neukölln.

Dieses kleine Büchlein beschäftigt sich mit Beginn der Kinofilmproduktion und stellt ein paar der wichtigsten Vertreter des Kurzfilm zum Ende des neunzehnten und Beginn des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts vor.

PUBLIC FOLDER ist ein als Buchreihe angelegtes, internationales Projekt, bei dem Künstler zu einem bestimmten Thema Beiträge einreichen, die selektiert und zu einem Buch zusammengestellt werden.

"In 2012 I was asked to be in an exhibition in Holland themed around the Dutch artist, Bas Jan Ader. I was to come to the small town of Winschoten for a month and make the work for the exhibition. The town was a short bike ride away from the small village where Ader’s father was a minister. After staying in Holland for about a week, I became annoyed with the curators. From this annoyance I decided what work I would give to them for their exhibition. I was to disappear from Winschoten. Not to romanticize Ader’s own disappearance at sea, but to disappear from a situation I did not want to deal with."

»Alle reden vom Wetter. Wir auch!« Gestaltung: Markus Dreßen und Helmut Völter

Fourth part in the Selten Gehörte Musik reissue series. Two CDs packaged in illustrated 12“ LP gatefold-sleeve. Edition of 500 copies.

Published in 2009 as the first comprehensive compilation of the collection and commissions of Thyssen-Bornemsiza Art Contemporary, this book tells the story of the Vienna based art institution. Founded in 2002 by Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza, TBA21 is committed to supporting the production of contemporary art and is actively engaged in commissioning and disseminating unconventional projects that defy traditional disciplinary categorizations.

Traces of Autism is about an understanding of public space, which is seen as a confrontation with insecurity, as exposure, as vulnerability, and which rejects the use of the term ‘public’ for spaces that are actually more and more privatized and protected.

In diesem Ausstellungskatalog werden zum ersten Mal die drei Künstlerpositionen Wade Guyton, Guyton\Walker und Kelley Walker gemeinsam vorgestellt. Die Präsentation erlaubt die parallele Betrachtung und Auseinandersetzung mit beiden Einzelpositionen sowie mit dem 2004 gegründeten Künstlerduo.

Digital Album Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.

Wie können wir Wien als Ganzes fassen? Der Versuch, der immer größer werdenden Stadt visuell beizukommen, fasziniert seit Jahrhunderten – ob in Form von klassischen Panoramen, Vogelschauen oder Plänen. Doch diese befinden sich stets im Span-nungsfeld zwischen Vollständigkeits-anspruch und Fragmentierung, zwischen Sichtbarmachung und Verdecken, zwischen Orientierung und Kontrolle. Sie bilden nie das „reale“ Territorium zur Gänze ab, sondern sind auch Modell, Bild oder Vision der Stadt.

Book published on the occasion of the exhibition of Yuko Nasaka at Axel Vervoordt Gallery from March 12 to April 24, 2015.

HaFI 008 presents an unpublished talk given by Harun Farocki in 1987 at the event “Films that Think in Images” at the Akademie der Künste, West Berlin.

Die wiedergegebenen Originale von Beatrix Sunkovsky entstanden in Zusammenarbeit mit ihrer Tochter Clarissa.

Yes! Arty 24 is still obsessed with the British vernacular.

A documentation of the traditional pilgrimage with carts of oxen and horses for the festival "La Colomba Blanca - La Virgen del Rocío" in El Rocío (near Almonte in Spain), photographed at Pentecost 2000.

Wolfgang Suschitzky (* 1912) grew up in a family that was more connected to socialism than to its Jewish roots. His father is a co-founder of Anzengruber Verlag and the first social democratic bookstore in Vienna. Wolf Suschitzky received his photography training at the Höhere Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt.

Wolfgang Suschitzky (*1912) wächst in einer mehr dem Sozialismus als ihren jüdischen Wurzeln verbundenen Familie auf. Sein Vater ist Mitbegründer des Anzengruber Verlags und der ersten sozialdemokratischen Buchhandlung Wiens.

»Sie sehen also, die Photographie sagt nichts.« Eine so enorme Skepsis gegenüber der fotografischen Abbildbarkeit seiner Architektur konnte Adolf Loos allerdings nicht aufrechterhalten, als 1931 erstmals eine Monografie seiner Bauten erscheinen sollte.

“So photography says nothing, you see.” Loos could not adhere to such enormous skepticism concerning the photographic representability of his architecture, however, when a monograph of his buildings was to be published in 1931.

Bibliophil und stimmungsvoll: das Architekturbuch über Architekturbücher
Projekte aus der Arbeit von Wiel Arets Architects, Fotografien von Bas Princen

The site of the leather bar Eagle LA, in Los Angeles, has been home to three highly popular leather bars over the decades: the Shed, the Outcast, and the Gauntlett II. The Eagle LA, opened in 2005, follows a long-standing tradition of leather fetish and uniform, set forth by leather Eagle bars around the country.

Als "Nothing Personal", das gemeinsame Buchprojekt der Schulfreunde Richard Avedon und James Baldwin 1964 erschien, stellte es die Fähigkeit und Bereitschaft des Publikums, Mehrdeutigkeiten und Widersprüche auszuhalten, auf eine zu harte Probe.

“It might be said that the subject of Callahan’s photographs is photography, and that his world exists essentially as a formal problem.” John Szarkowski

New York-based photographer Mariana Cook is known for her character studies of persons both in and out of the public eye. Among her previous bestselling photobooks are Mathematicians, Faces of Science, Mothers and Sons and Fathers and Daughters.

This book, the first to pair the two, examines the work they produced during visits to Britain and Ireland in the 1960s and 1970s.

Lee Friedlander is one of the most renowned photographers of his generation. Through Friedlander’s lens, people in their everyday environments are transformed into arresting portraits, and the banal features of roadsides, storefronts, and city streets become vivid scenery. In Dressing Up, Friedlander ventures into new territory, turning his eye to the rarefied world of fashion and revealing precisely what is commonplace about it: behind the glamorous spectacle of the runway are many people hard at work.

Goldblatt recherchiert und dokumentiert darin mit seiner Kamera die sozialen, kulturellen und politischen Dimensionen des Bergbaus in seiner südafrikanischen Heimat Randfontein.

Weiß bemalte, nackte Körper, die Gesichter vom Betrachter abgewendet, so fotografiert Nadav Kander (*1961 in Israel) die Modelle seiner jüngsten Serie. Die Accessoires sind spärlich, die Ästhetik ist reduziert, gleichwohl erscheint das Arrangement der meist üppigen Körper barock.

Few people know that the cult filmmaker David Lynch began his career in the visual arts and has remained deeply committed to them ever since. Paintings, watercolors, drawings, lithographs,

Der Antist versteht sich als Kunstzeitschrift der Wiener Avantgarde. Das Projekt des Künstlers Lukas Pusch ist eine künstlerische Plattform für radikale und anarchische Positionen jenseits des handzahmen und staatlich subventionierten österreichischen Mainstreams.

Alexey Brodovitch's Ballet published in 1945 is one of the most legendary of photobook masterpieces. While already established as a leading influential art director and graphic designer, Brodovitch turned his photographic talents towards rehearsals and performances of ballet companies visiting New York stages.

Jenisch-Feu – Third Variation is a publication documenting a series of paintings by artists Thomas Koenig and Vianney Fivel.

The book, Architecture as Fabulated Reality, marks the culmination of AAPK’s four experimental architectural projects, which employed virtual reality technology (VR) as the primary medium.

Bodies are agents and products of history. Bodies are history made flesh, but they are also primary tools for understanding the past, present and future. History is a choreographed sequence of gestures that makes bodies intelligible to each other. Every gesture is a link in a chain binding us to gender, race and social class. Gestures solidify into identities. They enact identities that become natural through the systematic repetition of identical

KARL HOLMQVIST, WORD SQUARES. COMPAGNIA/MOTTO BOOKS 2017,
ISBN 978-2-940524-62-4. PUBLISHED WITH THE KIND SUPPORT OF THE CENTRE D’ART CONTEMPORAIN, GENEVA, TO COINCIDE WITH THE ARTIST’S EXHIBITION, 31.5.– 27.8.2017.

What is the lesson of the vine? I asked artists, writers and winegrowers the question and their responses, reflections and songs are gathered together in this publication. Textual images are roused and conjured up, such as the insatiable mouth of the winelouse devouring the language of the vine; or the surge and flow of the vine-triloquist speaking in intoxicated tongues; nocturnal fires in the vineyards; gardens of paradise and gardens of errors.

This small publication is an edited reprint of the essay ‘The Book in Intermediary Form’ written by Kasper Andreasen. It was originally published in 2011 by Wintertuin, Nijmegen as part of a compilation about the future of the book. The essay argues for a possible scenario leading up to a hypothesis about an audio­visual book. How can artists’ books be audio­visual objects?

Can an autobiographical tale tell the personal stories of many? This is what Rubén H. Bermúdez achieves through the pages of the photo book 'And you, why are you black?" where, starting from an investigation into the origins of black slavery in Spain, the author constructs an autobiographical tale that acts as a political essay, rescuing his memory captured in the images, conversations and symbols that marked his life and thus narrates the everyday and the extraordinary of a society seen from a black perspective.

«Lead Season» is the first thorough monographic catalog of Argentine artist Mauro Giaconi. Taking the drawing as a starting point, the texts address the multidisciplinarity that characterizes the artist's work, while also stressing the current socio-political context in Latin America based on the sense of impermanence, the presence of the body and a critical awareness of the matter.

This project documents Sudan, the last white rhinoceros of North Africa. Sudan lived his life inside the Prague zoo, before being transferred to Kenya for reproduction and specie preservation. Sudan lives under armed protection.

Can corporate history be art? This question can only be asked if one is not familiar with the fascinating long-term project by the Chinese artist Xiaowen Zhu. Anyone who has experienced Oriental Silk will answer this question with a clear “yes.” The project’s title is also the name of a company founded in Los Angeles in the early 1970s.

Michael Snow is, without doubt, one of foremost living artist, and a central figure in North American art in the latter half of the Twentieth Century. Since the reception of the “Independent Film Award” (1968) from the journal Film Culture, his work was placing in the ranks of such major figures of avant-garde cinema as Stan Brakhage and Gregory Markopoulos as well as in the company of two other artists-turned-filmmakers: the photographer Robert Frank and the painter Andy Warhol.

Dedicated to his friend and mentor Peter Hujar, Salters Cottages is an artist’s book of stills from a short film Schneider made in 1981 at Salters Cottages, a summer seaside cottage community on Long Island, New York.

Während seiner 40-jährigen Karriere porträtierte der schottische Fotograf unzählige Film-, Rock- und Politstars für Magazine, schuf Reportagestrecken und fotografierte mehr als 250 Titel für die Mode-Bibel Vogue.

American artist Vija Celmins (b. 1938) is widely admired and respected for her sublime images of night skies and ocean waves. "Vija Celmins:

Auf der Suche nach dem Verlorenen. Der international bekannte Modefotograf Alexander Gnädinger widmete sich in den letzten 2 Jahren einem freien Projekt, um ein Gegengewicht zu seiner kommerziellen Arbeit zu schaffen. Extrem stilisierte, ästhetisch verdichtete Bilder, wie sie z.B. seit Jahren für seinen Kunden Adidas entstehen, sind sein Markenzeichen.

In the mid-seventies, the Viking Landers were the first to land on planet Mars. Though the alien landscape was magnificent, there were no canals or skeletons or wind-blown ruined dwellings. Today, not a single trace remains of Viking Landers 3 and 4. But myth (and conspiracy theories) have it that an alien survey was commissioned of planet Earth.

Schweizer Möbeldesign / Mobilier Suisse 1927-1984 is a comprehensive survey of Swiss furniture design from the late 1920s to the early 1980s. Edited by Gilbert Frey, the volume documents key developments in Swiss modern and post-war furniture with a bilingual German/French text and extensive visual documentation. It covers seminal designers and movements in Swiss applied arts and industrial design, situating them in the broader context of European design history. The book features numerous illustrations — including photographs and technical drawings — to trace the evolution of form, material, and function in Swiss furniture.

The publication is the first comprehensive documentation of the project White Space in White Space, which was initiated by Stano Filko, Miloš Laky, and Ján Zavarský in 1973 and evolved over the course of almost ten year. This book examines all the international exhibitions (Brno, Budapest, Paris, Warsaw, Beograd, Kassel), the collected manifestos, and the artists’ writings as well as the project’s further transformation in the practice of Stano Filko as a solo artist.