Art & Photography Books
JRP Ringier Philippe Parreno
Book SynopsisPhilippe Parreno (born 1964) undermines the notion of the discrete, ownable, copyrighted artwork through collaborations with artists such as Douglas Gordon and Pierre Huyghe, performances, dialogue and the cultivation of exhibitions as real-time encounters. This superbly produced monograph, designed by M/M, offers the first substantial inventory of Parreno''s work since the late 1980s, covering his multifarious production from film (such as the famous Zidane, a 21st Century Portrait, made with Douglas Gordon, 2006) to spectacle (Il Tempo del Postino, with Hans Ulrich Obrist, 2007). It also includes critical and fictional texts by Maria Lind, Charles Ars?ne-Henry, Enrique Juncosa and Simon Critchley, as well as an interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist.
£35.10
JRP Ringier Marcel Duchamp and the Forestay Waterfall
Book SynopsisIn August 1946, Marcel Duchamp spent five weeks in Switzerland, and stayed at the Hotel Bellevue (today, Le Baron Tavernier) near Chexbres, on Lake Geneva. It was here that he discovered the Forestay waterfall, which was to become the starting point for (and ultimately the landscape of) his enigmatic and final masterpiece, ?tant donn?s: 1? la chute d''eau, 2? le gaz d''?clairage (Given: 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas). Now, for the first time, the full significance of the choice of this waterfall is explored. Among the contributors to this volume are Caroline Bachmann, Stefan Banz, Etienne Barilier, Lars Blunck, Ecke Bonk, Paul B. Franklin, Antje von Graevenitz, Dalia Judovitz, Michael L?thy, Bernard Marcad?, Herbert Molderings, Adeena Mey, Stanislaus von Moos, Francis M. Naumann, Mark Nelson, Molly Nesbit, Dominique Radrizzani, Roman Signer, Michael R. Taylor, Hans Maria de Wolf and Philip Ursprung.
£21.60
JRP Ringier Daria Martin: Sensorium Tests
Book SynopsisThis monograph revolves around Daria Martin's new film Sensorium Tests (2011), which uses the recently diagnosed condition of mirror-touch synesthesia to explore how sensations are transmitted, shared and created in film--raising the question, can a spectator experience a bodily reaction to film? The publication includes related texts selected by Martin, by writers and thinkers from Mary Shelley to Maurice Merleau-Ponty.
£18.05
JRP Ringier Lygia Pape: Magnetized Space
Book SynopsisLygia Pape (19272004) was a founding member of Brazil''s Neo-Concrete movement. Her early work developed out of European geometric abstraction (Concrete art), but Pape expanded these idioms, drawing on the visual traditions of her native country. Her paintings, sculptures, books and films have made a defining contribution to Brazil''s artistic identity, as well as to the field of artist''s books. Pape was closely affiliated with artists such as Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica and enjoyed comparable prominence and acclaim in Brazil. Outside of Brazil, however, Pape has remained less well known than her contemporaries, until the Reina Sofia and Serpentine Gallery''s landmark show of 201112. The catalogue for that exhibitionthe first English-language monograph on the artistquickly went out of print and is now a rarity. This expanded, revised edition of that catalogue reveals her oeuvre for an English-speaking audience for the first time.
£27.00
JRP Ringier Richard Tuttle: Prints
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£43.20
JRP Ringier Eva Kotatkova
Book SynopsisThis two-volume publication presents 300 recently realized collages by Czech artist Eva Kotatkova (born 1982). This new body of work is presented as having been compiled from an imaginary schoolbook from the 1980s, when the artist was growing up in Prague, under the totalitarian regime of that decade. The images--which often feature drawn embellishments by Kotatkova--largely consist of children playing games or interacting with various other collaged components, such as anatomical parts, or being manipulated as puppets. Kotatkova thus dramatizes relationships between people, ideas and objects in elaborate psycho-physical dramas redolent of the writings of Franz Kafka or Miroslav Holub. Interspersed among the collages are installation photographs and related documentation. Kotatkova studied at the San Francisco Art Institute, and was acclaimed in The Guardian (UK) as a highlight of the 2013 Venice Biennale (The Encyclopedic Palace). Note that that text on the rear of the black volume is printed upside down.
£25.20
JRP Ringier Art Basel Year 48
Book SynopsisArt Basel''s official annual publication captures and documents the exhibitions in Basel, Miami Beach, and Hong Kong, and goes beyond them, featuring interviews, portfolios, essays about contemporary art, and personal highlights from artists, curators, collectors and museum directors. With its AZ format, this year''s publication maps the world of Art Basel alongside profiles spotlighting each of the 500-plus galleries that participated across the three fairs in 2017. Interviewees and contributors include Cecilia Alemani, Harry Bellet, Tobia Bezzola, Claudia Comte, Rhana Devenport, David Gryn, Hou Hanru, Reem Fadda, Niels Borch Jenssen, Philipp Kaiser, Mami Kataoka, Kimsooja, Venus Lau, Lesley Ma, Claire McAndrews, Zanele Muholi, Kingsley Ng, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Aaron Seeto, Fabrice Stroun, Keiichi Tanaami, Andrea Viliani, Michael Werner, Qiao Zhibing and many others whose work contributed this year to the fairs on all three continents.
£39.60
JRP Ringier Ugo Rondinone: Kiss Now Kill Later
Book SynopsisThe third volume in JRPRingier's Ugo Rondinone series is dedicated to the Landscapes paintings (19892011).Critic and curator Bice Curiger proposes a historical and poetical reading of this body of work, while Kunsthalle Bremen Curator of Prints Anne Buschhoff offers an iconographic perspective on them.
£26.10
JRP Ringier Ugo Rondinone: New Horizon
Book SynopsisIn this volume compiling Ugo Rondinone's Stripe paintings (19992011), artist and writer Phong Bui retraces the genealogy of stripe paintings from Barnett Newman to Rondinone, while art critic Bob Nickas thoroughly examines the making and meaning of painting in his work.
£26.10
Scheidegger & Spiess Teruko Yokoi
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£24.65
Walther & Franz König 2G Essays Fernanda Canales. My House Your City.
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£24.00
Walther & Franz König Richard Tuttle Complete Interviews
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£36.00
Walther & Franz König Where the wild lines are
Book SynopsisAngelika Nollert is Director of Die Neue Sammlung (the Design Museum) in Munich, Germany. Martin Salisbury is Professor of Illustration and Director of the Children's Centre for Book Studies at Cambridge School of Art. Evelyn Arizpe is Professor of Children's Literature and Literacies at the University of Glasgow. Morag Styles is Reader in Children's Literature at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.
£24.00
Hatje Cantz Verlag Kahnweiler Rupf Bilingual edition
Book SynopsisIncludes texts by Michael Baumgartner, Susanne Friedli, Peter Kropmanns, Luise Mahler, Konrad Tobler, Nina Zimmer, Stefan Zweifel.
£46.40
Hatje Cantz Verlag Gerald Summers Marjorie Butcher
Book SynopsisGerald Summers (18991967) is one of the most important furniture designers of the twentieth century. He was born in Alexandria, Egypt, and worked as an engineer before beginning his career as a designer. In 1931, together with his partner Marjorie Butcher (19091996), he opened the company Makers of Simple Furniture in London. For almost a decade, the company produced a wide range of furniture for the modern home. In 1940, wartime exigencies brought an end to the enterprise, whereupon they turned their energies to Gerald Summers Ltd, a supplier of engineering parts. Martha Deese is an authority on Gerald Summers. She earned a master's degree in decorative art history from the Cooper-Hewitt Museum / Parsons School of Design, New York, and worked for three decades as an administrator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Her groundbreaking 1992 article published in the Journal of Design History remains the definitive work on the designer.
£48.00
Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH DELUS. The Journal of the Institute of Landscape
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£20.40
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig A Floating World
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£24.00
Hatje Cantz Pitsou Kedem Architects Bilingual edition
Book SynopsisChoreographies of Light Pitsou Kedem's spatial arrangements evoke a continuing shift of perspective: A recurring element of the Tel Aviv architect's buildings is the impressive double height living room that creates a connection between levels. Guided by fundamental principles of minimalism, the studio was involved in a constant pursuit of purity in order to reveal the essence of a space. After years of simplifying materials to the extent of avoiding all distractions, the architects began to add layers of materials as well as spatial layers. This comprehensive publication retraces the past 20 years of the Studio's practice. Alongside a photographic archive of its built history in Israel, it features Kedem's drawings and studies of light perforations from his time at the AA School of Architecture, highlighting his fascination for light as the characterizing element that is at the core of his architectural language.
£66.00
Stardust Publishing Starlettes
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£23.75
JRP Ringier Rosemarie Castoro
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£30.60
Quart Publishers Two Lakes
Book SynopsisThe publication Two Lakes is the result of a comparative study of two cultural regions Lake Lucerne in Switzerland and Lake Biwa in Japan. Based on the results of a five-year cooperation entitled The Culture of Water (20182023) between the Lucerne School of Engineering and Architecture and the Kyoto Institute of Technology, it engages with the architecture of the future. Addressing the core themes of danger, beauty, commons and eternity and their according relationships to water it develops hypotheses on both regions with respect to the interdependence between people and the architecture they produce. The book is rounded off by in-depth articles, two photographic essays and archive documents.
£23.85
Lars Muller Publishers 100 Years of Swiss Graphic Design
Book Synopsis100 Years of Swiss Graphic Design takes a fresh look at Swiss typography and photo-graphics, posters, corporate image design, book design, journalism and typefaces over the past hundred years. With illuminating essays by prominent experts in the field and captivating illustrations, this book, designed by the Zurich studio NORM, presents the diversity of contemporary visual design while also tracing the fine lines of tradition that connect the work of different periods. The changes in generations and paradigms as manifested in their different visual languages and convictions are organized along a timeline as well as by theme. The various fields of endeavor and media are described, along with how they relate to advertising, art, and politics. Graphic design from Switzerland reflects both international trends and local concerns. High conceptual and formal quality, irony and wit are its constant companions. A new, comprehensive reference work on Swiss design. With Essays by the editors and Hans-Rudolf Bosshard, Christoph Bignens, Max Bruinsma, Jurgen Doring, Meret Ernst, Ulrike Felsing, Roland Fruh, Ariel Herbez, Richard Hollis, Martin Jaeggi, Andres Janser, Roxane Jubert, Urs Lehni, Claude Lichtenstein, Kerry William Purcell, Francois Rappo, Jorg Sturzebecher, and Ruedi Widmer.
£40.50
Braun Publishing AG New Tiny Houses
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£31.96
Park Books Passerelle des Arts Luxembourg
Book SynopsisThe Passerelle des Arts is a pedestrian and cycling bridge in the Quartier Européen Sud in Luxembourg's Kirchberg neighbourhood. It links the Avenue J. F. Kennedy, Kirchberg's mobility backbone, with the Contemporary Art Museum of Luxemburg (MUDAM) and the Musée Dräi Eechelen. Designed by the local firm Fabeck Architectes and Paris-based Marc Mimram Architecture Ingénierie, the Passerelle des Arts is characterised by its sculptural design as well as the goal of preserving its natural environment, considered a green treasure in the heart of the city. Winding through the trees of the urban forest, with benches installed in the curves, the architecture encourages people to slow down and take a contemplative stroll. The close relationship between nature and culture strongly influenced the choice of materials: the bridge's main structure is made of polished stainless steel that is combined with light-coloured concrete elements for the deck and glass railings. This results in an ever-changing materialisation of the whole throughout the seasons and depending on the weather.This book documents the entire concept, design, and construction process of the Passerelle des Arts through photographs, plans and drawings, and texts.Text in English and French.
£29.75
König, Walther Fredrik Clement Naeblerod
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£42.75
Hatje Cantz AnnaEva Bergman and Hans Hartung
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£38.40
Hatje Cantz The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish
Book SynopsisA Symposium on Consciousness Across Species Emerging from a series of public events at London's Serpentine Gallery, The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish is an edited collection that brings together interventions across arts, the humanities and science that have been convened over the past five years. They investigate the idea of mind across species and beings, inquiring upon animal, plant and fungal intelligence, consciousness and affects, machine sentience and interspecies communication. Edited by Lucia Pietroiusti and Filipa Ramos, the publication includes new material by over fifty experts, including Marisol de la Cadena, Ted Chiang, Peter Gabriel, Amy Hollywood, Tim Ingold, Karrabing Film Collective, Kapwani Kiwanga, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Merlin Sheldrake, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, and many more.
£35.20
Hatje Cantz Inside the Studio
Book SynopsisWhere music is created When you think of techno and electronic dance music, you first think of clubs and festivals, ecstatic dancers and enraptured DJs. But in which spaces is this music actually created? Artists' studios and writing rooms of authors and composers have long been the focus of public attention and research. The studios of DJs and electronic music producers, however, have so far remained largely hidden. They can be found in darkened basements, abandoned factories, garages, and backyards, in magnificently converted lofts, formerly squatted houses, shared flats or teenage bedrooms. Some exude the aura of monastic hermitages, in others production and party seem to merge into one another; still others look like rubbish dumps for electronic waste. Inside the Studio presents an inventory of this rich creative landscape in Berlin and Cairo. By interweaving photo documentation and interviews, the volume allows intimate insights into the hidden worlds of music production and becomes a surprising and touching portrait of one of the most exciting creative sectors of our time. The project is based on a research project of the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA) and was created in collaboration with Ricardo Villalobos, Cinthie, Frank Wiedemann, Modeselektor, Marcel Dettmann, Gudrun Gut, Westbam, Dr. Motte, Sarah Farina, Perera Elsewhere, Robert Henke, Roman Flügel, 3Phaz, Alva Noto/ Carsten Nicolai, and many others.
£999.99
Hatje Cantz Verlag Suzanne Duchamp
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£38.40
Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH On Architecture and Work
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£16.20
Control P Editions invaderwashere
Book SynopsisEven if Invader's name doesn't ring a bell at first, there's a strong chance you've unknowingly come across his work. His mosaic pixel art has been adorning the streets of cities worldwide for years, delighting art lovers and urban adventurers alike.@invaderwashere: Ten Years on Instagram is a unique, substantial logbook that compiles a decade's worth of posts and stories, documenting Invader's artistic journey from 22 October 2013 to 22 October 2023. This insta-book' captures the evolution of his creative process and his artworks globally, offering an intimate look at his journey in the form of a visual diary.Featuring images of his urban installations, works in progress, studio shots and personal moments, the publication turns ephemeral digital data into a permanent physical archive likely to endure long after the app evolves beyond its recognisable form. With over 700k followers on Instagram, this publication is a must-have collectable for fans of Invader's work, his Instagram journey and those who appreciate the intersection of art and social media.
£26.99
Park Books Josef Frank–Spaces – Case Studies of Six
Book SynopsisJosef Frank, born 1885 in Baden near Vienna, ranks among Europe's most significant architects of the twentieth century. His designs for furniture and textiles also make him one of the eminent figures of modernist interior design. Born into a Jewish family, growing anti-Semitism forced him to emigrate in 1933. He first went to Sweden and in 1939 to the USA, returning to Sweden again in 1947, where he lived and worked until his death in 1967. Josef Frank - Spaces is the first comprehensive book on Frank's single-family houses. It explores the evolution of his designs over the years and investigates the influences that shaped his work: Adolf Loos's spatial plan concept, Le Corbusier's ideas, and Hermann Muthesius's seminal book The English House. It also looks at Frank's own architectural concepts of movement and stairs in residential buildings. The second part features six of Frank's houses in greater detail, including images and plans, and in descriptive texts that also interpret their characteristics. The selection comprises the villas Claeson and Wehtje in Falsterbo, Sweden, the villas Wien XIII and Beer in Vienna, the House MS in Los Angeles, and the unrealised Fantasy House 9 (Accidental House). A complete catalogue of Frank's single-family houses rounds out the book.
£27.00
Walther & Franz König 2G 94 b
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£30.40
Deutscher Kunstverlag Die Grafische Sammlung im Schaezlerpalais
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£58.65
Park Books Public Spaces NY
Book SynopsisA new book by acclaimed New York-based architects and educators Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample. Featuring their latest research on legal frameworks, private interests, and community needs shaping urban public spaces.
£38.25
Edition Skylight Katie a
£26.25
JRP Ringier Sayre Gomez
£44.65
Lars Muller Publishers Resist
£17.00
Haute ecole d'art et de design - Geneve The Anthropocene Style
Book SynopsisAt the crossroads of architecture, aesthetics and engineering sciences, this book aims to shed light on the unthought-of return of utilitarian decorative arts in the fight against global warming, and to constitute an encyclopaedic catalogue of decorative elements with ancient typologies (carpets, tapestries, curtains, mirrors, etc. ) updated according to today''s scientific knowledge: thermal effusivity, emissivity, conduction, reflectance, etc. Until the beginning of the 20th century, interior decoration in the West had a practical role: to fight the cold, to amplify the light or to block cold draughts. A carpet was used to prevent cold feet, a tapestry to thermally insulate the walls; the crystals in chandeliers, like mirrors or gilding, were there to amplify the weak, solitary light of candles andsmall windows; a folding screen served to block the wind, curtains to block draughts. The arrival of central heating, air conditioning and electric lighting at the turn of the 20th century made this primary utilitarian and climatic raison d''être of interior design obsolete thanks to the massive use of fossil fuels. Old decorative devices were therefore discarded in favour of the clean, minimalist, empty white interiors characteristic of 20th century modernity an aesthetic underpinned by the CO2 emissions of oil-fired boilers and coal-fired power stations. Today, with the need to reduce buildings' carbon footprints and fight against heat waves, new thermal and energy reduction requirements are appearing, including the call for 20cm of thermal insulation in walls. One may wonder if this thermal insulation is not in fact a new form of tapestry in all but name one that would unconsciously mark a return to interior decoration. If the modern style of the 20th century stemmed from carbon energies, wasting without limit resources and energy to heat and light, the decarbonisation of the building is inducing, withoutus realising it, a new decorative style specific to the 21st century, where thermal performance, carbon footprint and ecology redefine the interior's formal and material choices, and finally their aesthetic, cultural,and social value. The challenge for interior architecture is to reactivate interior design's practical sense as it existed before the 20th century, going beyond its apparently futile character to invent new modes of laying out new spatial, formal and material configurations, available to interior designers and architects: a decorative aesthetic specific to the 21st century, which we propose to call anthropocene style'.
£10.00
Haute ecole d'art et de design - Geneve Artificial Design: Creation Versus Machine Learning
Book SynopsisAt the beginning of the 2020s, so-called intelligent' systems such as GPT-3, OpenAI, Dall-E, Midjourney or Disco Diffusion made it possible to generate images thanks to textual commands (prompts') associated with large data sets available online. As part of machine learning technologies, these systems found their place in art and the creative industries' (fashion design, graphic design, product design, architecture, etc. ), profoundly reconfiguring these professions in the same way desktop publishing and design (DTP and CAD) had in the 1980s. Although these productions prove rather easily stereotyped merely remixing existing content debates have focused on the possible replacement of designers by artificial intelligence (AI), shielding the essential question: what is the spectrum of risk and opportunity when it comes to machine learning for design practices?In order to better understand how these AIs participate in what we propose to call a design under artifice' that is to say, an insidious subversion of design's historical principles under the influence of cognitive-behavioural approaches it is first necessary to establish a more detailed understanding of the psychological theories specific to machine learning. Participating in a neurocognitivist approach that assimilates the human psyche to a circuit switch, machine learning is part of the (already) long history of creative software, which aims both to democratise access to computers and to standardise creative practices. Just as these programs have automated a certain number of tasks usually assigned to designers, machine learning technologies displace and redefine the notions of creation and subjectivity. Although they run the risk of homogenising the sensitive world, they also open up new forms of cooperation with machines, of which the contemporary design studios interviewed for this essay offer a glimpse. In this book, Anthony Masure reconnects the challenges of artificial intelligence and design, while proposing a series of avenues to guide this ideal of automation on a small scale, in a controlled and ''tailor-made'' way, so that machine learning can foster invention and curiosity.
£10.00
Springer-Verlag GmbH The AI Revolution
£35.20
König, Walther Malgorzata MirgaTas
£39.90
Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH Biomedical Visions
£27.20
£49.30
Park Books Kazuo Shinohara 3 Houses
£90.00
£22.50
Lars Muller Publishers Therma
£32.00
Hatje Cantz Rachel Maclean Bilingual edition
£38.40
