Art & Photography Books
Jrp Ringier Kai Althoff Ossi Di Falfa Und Die Anderen Sin
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive publication is Kai Althoff''s third monograph. It contains never-before-seen works in addition to images from every stage of the artist''s career, concentrating most heavily on work since 2002. The artist considers this to be a more ideally composed retrospective than any exhibition of his work would be capable of achieving. The selection of images focuses on documenting the work in a way that addresses the character of the works as well as the artist''s current and past perspectives on his oeuvre. Possessing the emotional charge of the artist''s works, this book presents personal, previously unpublished photographs, paintings, and writings of failed satire with a deceptive sentimentality that oscillates between nostalgia and self-deprecation. This stands in contrast with the innate beauty and craftsmanship of the works, which engrossed the artist at the time of their conception. Souffleuse der Isolation is also concerned with re-evaluating past works and the emotional states in which they were spawned, and how this pertains to the act of revisiting past portrayals of oneself. This volume also features a text by the writer Angus Cook imaginatively inspired by Althoff''s work, written specifically for this monograph, which served as a vital conceptual basis to its composition. Also included is a text by Dr. Patrik Scherrer on the use of textiles in the artist''s work. Published in collaboration with Kunsthalle Z?rich.
£999.99
JRP Ringier Scott King: Anxiety and Depression
Book SynopsisHow we live now: an anthropological survey of contemporary human futilityA headlong plunge into the dregs of contemporary human futility, Anxiety and Depression--published in JRPRingier''s Hapax series--describes, with relentless and clerical rigor, how we live now. Author Scott King has packed this almost anthropological survey with case studies in self-hatred, anxiety and despair, as well as exercises in which the reader can measure his or her daily humiliations.
£8.22
Kehrer Verlag 1078 Blue Skies / 4432 Days
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£52.50
Sternberg Press Design by Accident – For a New History of Design
Book SynopsisA counterhistory and new historiography of design.In Design by Accident, Alexandra Midal declares the autonomy of design, in and on its own terms. This meticulously researched work proposes not only a counterhistory but a new historiography of design, shedding light on overlooked historical landmarks and figures while reevaluating the legacies of design's established luminaries from the nineteenth century to the present. Midal rejects both linear narratives of progress and the long-held perception of design as a footnote to the histories of fine art and architecture. By weaving critical analysis of the canon of design history and theory together, with special attention to the writings of designers themselves, she draws out the nuances and radical potentials of the discipline—from William Morris's ambivalence toward industry, to Catharine Beecher's proto-feminist household appliances, to the Bauhaus's Expressionist origins, and the influence of Herbert Marcuse on Joe Colombo.
£18.00
Sternberg Press Bezoar Delinqxenz
Book SynopsisA techno-fiction novel on the uneasy desire for anti-rationalist ideas on the internet.Taking off along the grotesque evolutionary curve of the internet, this novel by Mochu brings together Japanese otaku subcultures, Hindu mythology, darknet highways, ultraviolent cyberpunk forums, and renegade university departments to forge a transnational narrative that trips through the incompatible fantasies of rationality and civilization, with wormholes through ancient tales, recent cinema, plain-wrong art histories, and pirated philosophical reflections. The novel opens with a case of abduction in India. The operations of a far-right publishing house are interrupted by extraterrestrial influences with political intent. The attack on a science-fiction writer at a beach in Goa seems connected to a bot-propelled puzzle revolving around the defacement of Medieval temple relics elsewhere. A detective specialized in interstellar sociology finds clues that point to a transgalactic anarchist group with ties to online Posadist forums, while Eurasian political theory circulates as noise-objects in Goa’s beachside clubs. Meanwhile, occultist explorers in the sci-fi writer’s story find that the legendary homeland for Hinduism in the Arctic has become infested by “Gradients of Hegelian Unhappiness” by way of an invasive subzero entity buried in deep snow. The detective’s investigations eventually turn metaphysical, settling on impossible solutions spanning the far reaches of outer space.Reactionary behavior on the internet, having spawned numerous retroactive origin stories for itself, takes on a tentacular presence across diverse political spectrums, time periods, and cultural contexts, giving the impression of a vast and tangled entity with distributed intelligence. Fatally fused by a common hatred for the legacies of the Enlightenment, popular manifestations go by terms like “alt-right” and “neo-reaction,” powered by nerdy forums and blog posts across the web. Stationing conspiracy theory itself as the central form of thinking, acting, and concept-making in the twenty-first century, Bezoar Delinqxenz is a mixtape simulation of these entanglements at the borderlands of fiction, insanity, and political emancipation.
£13.77
Kehrer Verlag Danish Siddiqui
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£38.40
Hirmer Erwin Wurm
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£33.60
Hirmer German Expressionism
Book SynopsisIn a time like our own, where a young generation feels a great need to change our way of living, thinking and organizing ourselves, the publication on the artist group Brücke feels particularly relevant. These young artists also wanted to renew art and life in the German Imperial Empire and have ever since inspired younger generations of artists. In bright paintings with simplified forms and large fields of color they expressed rather their feelings than an external reality. They were interested in topics like man and nature, the naked body, portraits, self-portraits, the merging of life and art and life in the vibrant metropolis of Berlin. The catalogue discusses among others how we today perceive and can take on challenging themes like inspiration from African and Oceanian colonial cultural objects and of very young female models. Artists include Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Max Pechstein, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff.
£33.60
Kehrer Verlag Gas And Glamour
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£28.00
Hirmer Verlag Hans Haacke
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£33.60
Hirmer Mack Reflected
Book SynopsisAlistair Hudson is a curator who works internationally and is the artistic head of research at the ZKM Karlsruhe. Contributions by H. Böhme, A. Hudson, K. Kern, D. Mille and L. Fruk, H.-U. Obrist, C. Runge, S. Sotke and M. Meier-Grüll, W. Ullrich.
£37.42
Kehrer Verlag Love From Manenberg
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£33.75
DOM Publishers Echoes of Soviet Urbanism Exploring Modernist
Book SynopsisThis research offers a deep dive into the architectural and social landscapes of East European and Eurasian microrayons. Through the lens of heritage, transformation, and community dynamics, this book sheds light on often overlooked narratives in Soviet urban development from the 1960s forwards and their continuations following the breakup of the USSR. From legislative transformations in Uzbekistan to community-driven spatial transformations in Georgia, each chapter presents a nuanced perspective on the legacy of urbanism in the former USSR. This academic project is one of few, following the start of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, to take a look at both sides of the front line. The authors also examine developments in the Baltic States, Caucasus, and Central Asia. The book at hand presents thirteen 'district stories' from seven post-Soviet countries, written by experts from a variety of disciplines, including architecture, urban and regional planning, public policy and social sciences, and human geography. The authors present observations of spatial, social, and functional transformations as well as of the formal and informal frameworks, planning strategies, and concepts that lay behind the physical development. They discuss spatial patterns and their modifications with a view to future heritage-sensitive development of the neighborhoods. They point out unique details and the fact that genius loci makes a difference. The contributions formulate new narratives for large housing estates from the 1960s and identify the potential challenges in responsible planning and the need for action.
£24.70
JRP Ringier Kelley Walker
Book SynopsisNew York-based artist Kelley Walker hacks advertising and displays its inner workings as art. His large-scale prints appropriate iconic cultural images, digitally altering them to expose their underlying agendas. In Black Star Press: Black Star, Star Press Star (2004), Walker combined nondigital collage processes to reference abstract painting: He smeared newspaper photos of the Birmingham race riots with melted chocolate and toothpaste, scanned them into a computer and made photographic prints from the results. Such hybridized work is neither quite post-Pop nor just appropriation. In the past few years, Walker has emerged as one of the most innovative and rigorous young artists in New York and has become much in demand not only for his solo work but for his collaborations with fellow New Yorker Wade Guyton. This monograph is a valuable introduction to Walker's technical processes, and essays by maverick critic and curator Bob Nickas and writer Scott Rothkopf lend much insight into his practice.
£22.50
Kehrer Verlag Unseen Places
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£24.65
Bierke Publishing Commodity Ecumene
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£8.50
Kehrer Verlag Acts Of Resistance And Repair
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£30.40
Bierke Publishing On Making Less
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£9.00
Hirmer Verlag Holkham
Book SynopsisCreated over four decades from the 1720s to the 1760s by the highly erudite, visionary, and ambitious Earl of Leicester, Holkham is a masterpiece of Palladian architecture. Richly illustrated and with far-reaching essays, this volume invites us to a splendid tour through an incredibly well-preserved house, with all its splendidly furnished interiors and amazing collection of artworks still in place. Lord Leicester designed Holkham as the ideal home and setting for the ancient sculptures, distinguished paintings, and other treasures he had acquired on his Grand Tour. The unique Marble Hall and the Gallery revive and celebrate the values and virtues of ancient Rome, while the Saloon and state rooms vibrate with a baroque sense of grandeur and splendor. With the original family still in custodianship, Holkham is a unique survivor of the golden age of English country house culture.
£40.00
Kehrer Verlag Enter The Forest
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£33.60
Hirmer Verlag GmbH True Colors
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£37.42
Sternberg Press Disorientation Bernard Rudofsky in the Empire of
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£15.37
Kehrer Verlag Secret Of Light
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£36.80
Hirmer Verlag Leonardo Durer
Book SynopsisDürer's Praying Hands are one of the world's most popular artworks. Few artists have changed the art world more profoundly than Leonardo and Dürer. They bring their subjects to life with breath-taking virtuosity, creating masterpieces of incredible intimacy. Mythology, religious faith and history, images of everyday life and travel scenes were core themes of the 15th century and stand at the centre of the art displayed in the drawings of Leonardo and Dürer. The images reveal their charm in the interplay of chiaroscuro effects on coloured paper. The works of both masters are shown alongside sheets by their contemporaries like Albrecht Altdorfer and Raphael. How could this art form assert its independence and what made it so popular and successful? The lavish publication examines these fascinating questions and illustrates the wide-ranging expressive possibilities that the technique offers.
£36.00
Prestel Feminist AvantGarde
Book SynopsisHistorically, women have been depicted as a projection of male fantasies, prejudices, and relationships. However in the 1970s, there was a tectonic change in the way women portray themselves in art. For the first time, female artists began to investigate visual representations of their own selves. They studied their own bodies and created the alternative views of feminine identity. Editor Gabriele Schor explores the Feminist Avant-Garde to emphasise the role that these artists played for the last four decades. The results are provocative, radical, poetic, ironic, angry, cynical, and heartfelt. Most of all they are honest, sharing a collective consciousness that reassessed, and even rejected, what came before by turning to new ways of expression in the fields of photography, performance, film, and video. Included here are works by Cindy Sherman, Ana Mendieta, Nil Yalter, Ketty La Rocca, Birgit Jürgenssen, Renate Bertlmann, Francesca Woodman, and other fearless female artists from around the world. Their work explored the female experience in all its dimensions including pregnancy, childbirth, motherhood, sexuality, partnership, beauty standards, rape, and the female body. Each artist is introduced by an essay and the book also includes fascinating interviews with leading curators in the field of feminist art. This groundbreaking book emphasises the accomplishments of women artists who have made a name for themselves while encouraging and inspiring those who have come after them.
£42.49
Kehrer Verlag Hong Kong
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£30.40
Taschen GmbH Michelangelo. The Complete Paintings, Sculptures
Book SynopsisBefore reaching the tender age of 30, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) had already sculpted Pietà and David, two of the most famous sculptures in the entire history of art. As a sculptor, painter, draftsman, and architect, the achievements of this Italian master are unique—no artist before or after him has ever produced such a vast, multifaceted, and wide-ranging œuvre. This fresh TASCHEN edition traces Michelangelo’s ascent to the cultural elite of the Renaissance. Ten richly illustrated chapters cover the artist’s paintings, sculptures, and architecture, including a close analysis of the artist’s tour de force frescoes in the Sistine Chapel.Full-page reproductions and enlarged details allow readers to appreciate the finest details in the artist’s repertoire, while the book’s biographical essay considers Michelangelo’s more personal traits and circumstances, such as his solitary nature, his thirst for money and commissions, his immense wealth, and his skill as a property investor.Trade Review“If a visit to the Sistine Chapel is not on the cards, this magnificent book is the next best thing…” * The Sunday Express Magazine *
£17.00
Taschen Bourgery. Atlas de Anatomía Humana Y Cirugía
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£18.00
Kehrer Verlag Style is Life
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£43.20
Taschen GmbH Sexy Record Covers
Book SynopsisAn album cover collection exploring 70 years of surprising, shocking and frankly hilarious nude and provocative art. Sexy covers sold all musical genres, from funk to punk, and the silly German schlager. Comedy albums range from mid-century stag party pin-ups to the undeniably raunchy '70s sensation, Blowfly. Steamy, seamy and adults only.
£48.00
Taschen GmbH Georg Baselitz
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£60.00
Kehrer Verlag Borderlands
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£32.00
Hirmer Verlag GmbH Irma Stern
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£31.92
Hirmer Verlag GmbH Wolfgang Balk
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£33.75
Kehrer Verlag Close Enough
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£36.80
Hirmer Verlag GmbH Leon Kelly
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£36.00
Kehrer Verlag Le Bateau Ivre 20192023
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£999.99
transcript Verlag Designing Transformative Change
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£40.00
Hauser & Wirth Catherine Goodman
Book SynopsisAn insight into the development of British artist's Catherine Goodman's distinct visual language and her new series of abstract paintingsCharting recent developments in the practice of the London-based artist, this book focuses on a new body of work by Catherine Goodman: monumental abstract paintings that mark a significant shift in the artist's visual language. Known for expressionistic landscape paintings, portraits, and drawings that are united by their animated surfaces, energic brushstrokes, and distinct vitality, Goodman's work takes on a vertiginous immersive power and spiritual depth as she moves into abstraction. Featuring works recently on view in the artist's solo exhibition New Work at Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles and even newer related works due to be shown in 2025 at Hauser & Wirth in New York, this monograph pairs rich illustrations of Goodman's paintings with an illuminating essay by Jennifer Higgie, former editor of frieze magazine and author of The Other Side: A Story of Women in Art and the Spirit World. It also includes an as told to with Goodman that reveals the fascinating connection between drawinga daily practice she has maintained for decadesand painting in her deeply intuitive mode of artmaking.
£36.00
Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg Emotional Waves
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£51.00
Hauser & Wirth In the Studio Jack Whitten
Book SynopsisA fascinating insight into the creation of Jack Whitten's pioneering artworks through this richly illustrated companion to his life and work In the Studio: Jack Whitten is an essential companion to the work of the pioneering African American artist, whose revolutionary approach to painting as a medium is widely considered to have changed the discipline. An elucidating new text by art critic Yínká Elújoba introduces Whitten's pioneering practicehis relentless experimentation, unconventional tools and materials, and profoundly original oeuvrewhile numerous archival images offer a uniquely intimate window into the artist's process and inspirations. Covering Whitten's entire six-decade career, In the Studio: Jack Whitten offers a comprehensive introduction to the artist's life and work.
£15.29
Sternberg Press Particular Cases
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£19.50
Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg lunivers tinguely
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£33.75
Sternberg Press Contemporary Condition - Anachrony,
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£9.76
Prestel Noah Davis
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£32.00
Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg Jitka Hanzlová
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£33.75
Prestel Paris Shopfronts
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£21.25
Sternberg Press Leslie Thornton
Book SynopsisThe first monograph on artist and filmmaker Leslie Thornton: essential, foundational scholarship on her influential work in film and video.Produced on the occasion of a major solo exhibition of Leslie Thornton at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, as well as a recent solo exhibition at Kunstverein Nurnberg, this richly illustrated volume will be the first monograph on this important artist and filmmaker, and offers essential, foundational scholarship on Thornton’s influential work in film and video. Thornton’s early encounters with experimental, structuralist, and cinéma vérité traditions fueled her iconoclastic take on the moving image and gave shape to her practice of weaving together her own footage and voice with archival film and audio. In part through her forceful and dynamic use of sound, Thornton exposes the limits of language and vision in her works, while acknowledging the ways that language and vision nevertheless remain central to scientific discourse and narrative in general. Her work consistently interrogates modes of representation and the violence of looking, pushing beyond critiques of the gaze to consider biases in perception, or the way voice and sound can undermine an otherwise dominant visual narrative. Copublished with MIT List Visual Arts Center and Kunstverein Nürnberg
£23.95
