Exhibition catalogues and specific collections Books
De Gruyter Der Schmerz des Vaters?: Die trinitarische Pietà
Book SynopsisDer Katalog zur gleichnamigen Ausstellung widmet sich erstmals dem im Spätmittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit verbreiteten Trinitätsbild mit dem Schmerzensmann, der trinitarischen Pietà. Es zeigt Gottvater, der seinen geopferten Sohn präsentiert; ebenso gehört die Taube des Heiligen Geistes zur Ikonografie. In diesem um 1400 entstandenen Bildmotiv wird das abstrakte Dogma der Trinität emotionalisiert und in ein lebendiges Andachtsbild gewandelt. Es findet sich in allen Medien – Malerei, Skulptur, Grafik, Angewandter Kunst – und ist nicht nur in Kirchenausstattungen, sondern auch im Bereich der privaten Frömmigkeit anzutreffen. Es zeigt sich, dass die Darstellungsform der Trinität auch im Zeitalter der Reformation bestehen bleibt, was die Aktualität dieses Themas von der Gotik bis zum Barock verdeutlicht. Erste umfassende Darstellung der trinitarischen Pietà aus dem Mittelalter und der Frühen Neuzeit, die die Zeit der größten Verbreitung um 1500 einschließt Ausschließliche Widmung des Bildes der Trinität mit dem Schmerzensmann Ausstellung: LUDWIGGALERIE Schloss Oberhausen, 2021/2022
£36.00
De Gruyter Nietzsche-Archiv
Book SynopsisDeutsche Ausgabe Die Villa Silberblick, in der Friedrich Nietzsche geistig umnachtet seine letzten Lebensjahre verbrachte, war ursprünglich ein bürgerliches Wohnhaus. Nietzsches Schwester Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche pflegte den Kranken dort nicht nur, sondern wusste auch die kultische Verehrung des Philosophen für ihre eigenen Zwecke zu lenken und richtete im Gebäude das Nietzsche-Archiv ein. Auf wirksame Inszenierung bedacht und geschäftstüchtig, beauftragte sie nach Nietzsches Tod den belgischen Jugendstilkünstler Henry van de Velde, das Archiv zu einer Weihestätte des Nietzsche-Kults umzugestalten. In den ersten Jahren Anziehungspunkt der europäischen Avantgarde, wurde das Archiv durch Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche später in das Kielwasser der Nationalsozialisten gesteuert, bevor es deswegen in der DDR zum Unort wurde. Der Band erzählt mit vielen farbigen Abbildungen die wechselvolle Geschichte einer Memorialstätte, in der sich die Ambivalenz der Moderne widerspiegelt. Blick ins Buch https://issuu.com/deutscher_kunstverlag/docs/blick_ins_buch_nietzsche-archiv_dt
£12.82
De Gruyter Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek
Book SynopsisDer Band erzählt die Geschichte der Archiv- und Forschungsbibliothek von ihren Anfängen im 16. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart und nimmt die Leserinnen und Leser mit auf einen Rundgang durch ihre Sammlungs- und Wissensräume: Im historischen Bibliotheksgebäude führt der Weg vom Renaissancesaal mit der Ausstellung „Cranachs Bilderfluten" in den Rokokosaal von 1766 und weiter in den Bücherturm. Über das Tiefmagazin erreicht man das 2005 eröffnete Studienzentrum mit dem zentralen Bücherkubus. Thematische Beiträge stellen die vielfältigen Sammlungen vor: Sie nehmen Handschriften aus der Zeit vor dem Buchdruck ebenso in den Blick wie die Flugschriften der Reformationszeit, die weltweit größte Faust-Sammlung oder die sog. Aschebücher, die seit dem Brand 2004 restauriert werden.
£12.82
De Gruyter Wielandgut Oßmannstedt
Book SynopsisIm Frühjahr 1797 erwarb der Schriftsteller Christoph Martin Wieland (1733–1813) das Gut Oßmannstedt, das er bis April 1803 mit seiner großen Familie bewohnte und bewirtschaftete. Hier entstand sein letzter großer Roman, „Aristipp und einige seiner Zeitgenossen". Wieland empfing hier zahlreiche Besucher, neben Goethe, dem Ehepaar Herder und der Herzogin Anna Amalia, die aus dem nahen Weimar kamen, seine Jugendliebe Sophie von La Roche mit ihrer Enkelin Sophie Brentano, die Schriftsteller Jean Paul, Heinrich von Kleist, Johann Gottfried Seume und viele mehr. Der Band erzählt die Geschichte von Haus und Park des Wielandguts Oßmannstedt und folgt der Ausstellung im Wieland-Museum, die in Leben und Werk von Christoph Martin Wieland einführt und seine Bedeutung für die deutsche Literatur zeigt.
£13.00
Niggli Verlag A Gallery in Type Cases: The Arno Stolz
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£31.96
Kerber Verlag Doré Vergoldet Gilded: recontextualser
Book SynopsisIs contemporary art’s recurring turn to a material with a rich tradition an attempt to free the precious metal from its historical heritage, from grandeur and pathos? Is the saying “all that glitters is not gold” thus put to a test by transferring or shifting the always sought-after, glittery material to other contexts? The exhibition Doré Vergoldet Gilded and accompanying catalogue bring together works of contemporary art that deal with gold as a material and colouring agent and thus reflect the notions of value and symbolic power connected with it. Artists: Antje Blumenstein, Olivia Breckemeyer, Ruth Campau, Marianne Engel, Luka Fineisen, Niklas Goldbach, Eckart Hahn, David Krippendorff, Claudia Kugler, Alicja Kwade, Andréas Lang, Via Lewandowsky, Michael Müller, Sebastian Neeb, Andrea Pichl, Johanna Reich, Julian Röder, Stéphanie Saadé, Michael Sailstorfer, Karin Sander, Karina Spechter, Henrik Strömberg, Philip Topolovac, Panos Tsagaris, Frauke Wilken, Andrea Winkler, Clemens Wolf, He Xiangyu. Text in English, German and French.
£21.75
Kerber Verlag Frank Stella: Alexej-von-Jawlensky-Preis 2022
Book SynopsisFrank Stella (*1936) situates his oeuvre not only in the present. Abstraction or representation, simulacrum, sign, and ornament, as well as questions of surface and space have fascinated him anew time and again. The publication presents the following phases in his oeuvre in the context of the Museum Wiesbaden’s collection: the early works, the stripe paintings attributed to minimalism, the departure into space, and thus from the picture to the relief, as well as the use of ornament and arabesque. In interplay with current sculptures by the artist, not only the rigorousness of his oeuvre but also the relevance of his work until today is thus shown. Text in English and German.
£40.00
Kerber Verlag Christian Jankowski, John Bock, Olaf Nicolai,
Book SynopsisThe Schaubühne Berlin is one of the foremost German-language theatres and has a unique artistic profile. Between 2018 and 2022, renowned artists Christian Jankowski, John Bock, Olaf Nicolai, Katharina Sieverding, and Monica Bonvicini designed a series of posters for the theatre. The outcome: striking two-dimensional artworks that, when inserted into Berlin’s cityscape, created a kind of temporary urban exhibition. The array of artistic executions in the poster campaigns ranges from humorously grotesque scenes or fanciful tableaux featuring members of the ensemble to purely conceptual approaches devoid of any text or imagery, to posters that use round cut-outs to capitalise on their ever-changing impact in the urban space. This publication brings together for the first time all of the designs alongside accompanying texts and interviews. Authors: John Bock, Monica Bonvicini, Thomas Irmer, Christian Jankowski, Thomas Ostermeier, Antonia Ruder, Katharina Sieverding, Christian Tschirner Text in English and German.
£29.60
Kerber Verlag Between One Line Katharina Hinsberg Monika
Book SynopsisThe shared medium of Katharina Hinsberg and Monika Gryzmala is drawing. The exploration of the line is central to the work of both artists. Many of these artworks transcend the traditional boundaries of the genre and, in their dynamic reach, take on an almost sculptural quality. While Katharina Hinsberg's lines dissect space with meticulous clarity, Monika Grzymala's imposing bundles of lines penetrate space with an eruptive power. The two artistic approaches are being shown together for the first time in the joint exhibition Between One Line at the Kunsthalle Mannheim. The accompanying catalogue was created through an ongoing dialogue between the two artists. Two sketchbooks formed the basis; the artists worked in them alternately, each visually interrupting one another, constantly striving to confront their colleague's preliminary drawing work with their own understanding of the line, and exploring their artistic potential through a collaborative practice.Text in English and German.
£30.00
Kerber Christof Verlag Access Kafka
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£999.99
Kerber Christof Verlag Behind Closed Doors
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£36.00
Kerber Christof Verlag Monheim am Rhein
£34.40
Kerber Christof Verlag Country bin pullem
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£27.20
Kerber Verlag MOMENTA Éloges de limage manquante
£31.50
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Gelatin Gelitin Atlas
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£46.40
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Jimmie Durham & A Stick in the Forest by the Side
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£22.40
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig,Germany RESIST!: The art of resistance
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£25.20
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Mixed Up With Others Before We Even Begin
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£25.50
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Pontus Hulten and Moderna Museet: From Stockholm
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£21.60
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Figure!: Sculptural Masterpieces from the Von der
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£25.50
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Precarious Solidarities: Artists for Democracy
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£19.20
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Irene and Peter Ludwig: Insights into the
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£22.40
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Haus-Rucker Co: Breathing Zones: The Legacy of
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£25.60
Hatje Cantz Gerhard Richter Catalogue Raisonné. Volume 1:
Book SynopsisGerhard Richter’s oeuvre embraces in excess of three thousand individual works. Over a period of five decades he has created a stylistically heterogeneous, complex body of work that testifies to his status as the most important living artist of our time. This long-awaited first volume of the catalogue raisonné is being re-leased on the occasion of the artist’s eightieth birthday in Febru-ary 2012.The first volume encompasses the works Gerhard Richter assi-gned numbers 1 to 198, covering the years 1962 to 1968.
£168.75
Hatje Cantz Gerhard Richter Catalogue Raisonné. Volume 3:
Book SynopsisGerhard Richter’s oeuvre embraces in excess of three thousand individual works. Over a period of five decades he has created a stylistically heterogeneous, complex body of work that testifies to his status as the most important living artist of our time. This long-awaited first volume of the catalogue raisonné was released on the occasion of the artist’s eightieth birthday in February 2012.Dietmar Elger, director of the Gerhard Richter Archive at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, has spent years resear-ching and preparing this publication. The six-volume catalogue raisonné of all of Richter’s paintings and sculptures will be pu-blished over the next seven years. Aside from the richly colored illustrations, many of them full-page, it includes full technical details, information about the artist’s handwritten notes, and the provenance, bibliography, and exhibitions of each individual work. This information is supplemented by commentary, quotes, and comparison images.Subscription price for complete set: € 198.00 per volume. You will be invoiced with each delivery.
£168.75
Hatje Cantz Gerhard Richter Catalogue Raisonné. Volume 4:
Book SynopsisGerhard Richter’s oeuvre embraces in excess of three thousand individual works. Over a period of five decades he has created a stylistically heterogeneous, complex body of work that testifies to his status as the most important living artist of our time. The first volume of this catalogue raisonné has been released on the occasion of the artist’s eightieth birthday in February 2012.Dietmar Elger, director of the Gerhard Richter Archive at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, has spent years resear-ching and preparing this publication. The six-volume catalogue raisonné of all of Richter’s paintings and sculptures will be pu-blished over the next five years. Aside from the richly colored illustrations, many of them full-page, it includes full technical details, information about the artist’s handwritten notes, and the provenance, bibliography, and exhibitions of each individual work. This information is supplemented by commentary, quotes, and comparison images.Subscription price for complete set: € 198.00 per volume. You will be invoiced with each delivery.
£168.75
Hatje Cantz Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg
Book SynopsisNathalie Djurberg (*1978) and Hans Berg (*1978) create animated worlds with objects, music and moving images – dreamlike realms where we might lose ourselves. Their playfully told fables hold both humour and darkness, putting any moral laws of gravity out of action. Djurberg’s vibrant stop-motion animations and sculpture groups accompanied by Berg’s electronic music form scenic installations in a surrealist vein. These intense chamber pieces enact fragments of memories repressed between innocence and shame, or feverish daydreams of role play and desire. The shadowy landscapes, sealed rooms and harshly-lit scenes of their films are inhabited by a group of possessed figures seemingly set on devouring one another. The exhibition and fully illustrated catalog describe an inner voyage, an attempt to make existence more understandable in a flow of impulses and impressions.Exhibitions: Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 16.6.–9.9.2018Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto (MART), Rovereto, 5.10.2018–13.1.2019Kunsthalle Schirn, Frankfurt, 28.2.–26.5.2019
£32.00
Hatje Cantz Expanded Animation: The Anthology: Mapping an
Book SynopsisThe symposium Expanded Animation was initiated in 2013 and offered a first approach to the expanded field of computer animation. In the meantime, it has become an established part of the Ars Electronica Animation Festival and the international competition Prix Ars Electronica Computer Animation. Every year under an overarching theme, the symposium has researched the field of technology and art, animation and aesthetics, investigated the collapsing boundaries in digital animation and explored positions and future trends. Much like the first conferences on computer animation at Ars Electronica in the 1980s, practice and theory are equally important. The richly illustrated publication Expanded Animation. The Anthology features contributions from speakers and artist positions from the past five years and presents an overview of the prize winners in Computer Animation.
£22.09
Hatje Cantz Spätgotik (German edition): Aufbruch in die
Book SynopsisHardly any other epoch in art history has been marked by as many profound changes as the Late Gothic was in the fifteenth century. Inspired by Netherlandish role models, depictions of light and shadow, body and space, became increasingly more realistic. Everyday life found entry into the arts. With the invention of printing, images and texts were distributed to an extent previously unheard of. Artists such as Nicolaus Gerhaert and Martin Schongauer became widely known and influenced the development of the visual arts throughout Europe and across all genres. Featuring a wide selection of works, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin present the first extensive exhibition of Late Gothic art in the German-speaking regions. Its comparison and contrast of the various genres turns the catalogue into a handbook for the arts at the threshold of the modern era.
£36.00
Hatje Cantz The Picasso Connection: The Artist and his
Book SynopsisWithout a doubt, Picasso is one of the most important and versatile artistic personalities of the twentieth century. But how does a body of work become so successful, and how does it wind up in major collections, museums, and exhibitions? Not infrequently, it is the courage of individuals who recognize genius in the works and advocate for them in the face of conservatism and criticism. In Picasso’s case, this role in Germany fell to the Bremen art dealer Michael Hertz. His commitment in the post-war period is not only due to Picasso's exhibition at the documenta 3 in 1964, but also to the Kunsthalle Bremen, which has one of the most extensive collections of the artist’s prints. This volume brings together the outstanding printworks, including lithographs, linocuts, and artist’s books. Picasso’s oeuvre of prints can be regarded as a fascinating collection, in which can be read the triumph of the affordable medium in post-war Germany, as well as the dealer's strong commitment.
£35.20
Hatje Cantz Alexandra Bircken: A-Z
Book SynopsisThe title seems to announce a comprehensive encyclopedia: from A to Z, each and every object or material has the potential to become an element in one of Alexandra Bircken’s charged objects and installations. Whether it’s packaging materials, machine parts, or bones, everything finds a use—the organic as well as the inorganic, raw materials and industrially produced goods. The constant reference point in her artistic explorations is the human body and its contradictory relationship to the environment, as defenselessly at its mercy as it is dependent on it. This catalogue is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of Bircken’s sculptural practice from all creative periods, which here enter into a dialogue that explores the artist's multi-layered statements on surface, body, movement, shell, and skin.
£38.40
Hatje Cantz Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Courtauld at KODE
Book SynopsisThere are some collectors who through foresight and dedication have built truly outstanding art collections and shared them widely as part of public museums. Among these were Samuel Courtauld in London and Rasmus Meyer in Bergen. At the heart of each man's collection were single artists who were their greatest passions: for Courtauld it was Paul Cézanne and for Meyer, Edvard Munch. This unique collaboration between KODE art museums in Bergen and The Courtauld in London, celebrates these two remarkable collectors and two great artists by showing masterpieces by Cézanne in Bergen and Munch in London. The Courtauld is home to some of the most important paintings by Cézanne, such as The Card Players and Montagne Sainte-Victoire. “Cézanne. Masterpieces from The Courtauld at KODE Art Museum” is the story about how collectors and artists became aware of Cézanne. This publication not only presents ten key works from The Courtauld along with Cézannes from Norwegian collections, it also brings them together with eye witness accounts from the early years of his profound influence, seen through the lens of the Norwegian art scene around 1900. With essays by Barnaby Wright, Øystein Sjåstad and Karen Serres and an introduction by Line Daatland. Forewords by Petter Snare and Ernst Vegelin van Claerbergen.
£35.20
Hatje Cantz Verlag Methode Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Book SynopsisRAINER WERNER FASSBINDER (19451982) was a director, film producer, actor and author. He is regarded as one of the most important exponents of the New German Cinema movement. Like almost no other artist, he shaped and inspired the intellectual image of post-war Germany through his work.
£36.00
Hatje Cantz Edward Hopper (German edition): Ein neuer Blick
Book SynopsisEdward Hopper’s world-famous paintings articulate an idiosyncratic view of modern life. With his impressive subjects, independent pictorial vocabulary, and virtuoso play of colors, Hopper continues to influence to this day the image of the United States in the first half of the twentieth century. He began his career as an illustrator and became famous around the globe for his oil paintings. They testify to his great interest in the effects of color and his mastery in depicting light and shadow. The Fondation Beyeler is devoting its large exhibition in the spring of 2020 to Hopper’s iconic images of the vast American landscape. The catalogue gathers together all of the paintings, watercolors, and drawings from the 1910s to the 1960s on display in the exhibition, and supplements them with essays focused on the subject of depicting landscape. EDWARD HOPPER (1882–1967) is the master of American Realism. His paintings captured life during his era. His method of painting rapidly became the stylistic foundation of a type of American modernism. A source of inspiration for countless painters, photographers, and filmmakers, his body of work continues to be influential to this very day.
£33.00
Hatje Cantz Renoir (German edition): Rococo Revival
Book SynopsisLike hardly any other artist, Pierre-Auguste Renoir has shaped our understanding of the atmospheric figure paintings of Impressionism. His painting La fin du déjeuner, which has been in the Städel Museum in Frankfurt since 1910, is now the starting point for a far-reaching examination of an important source of inspiration that accompanied him throughout his life: the Rococo. Considered frivolous and immoral after the French Revolution, this style of painting experienced a renaissance in the 19th century and was widely celebrated during Renoir’s lifetime. Published on the occasion of the Städel Museum’s major exhibition, this comprehensive volume explores Renoir’s multifaceted connection to tradition through illuminating juxtapositions of his art with 18th-century works and contemporaries.
£999.99
Hatje Cantz Ars Electronica 2021: Festival for Art,
Book Synopsis42nd Ars Electronica Festival – for the second time in hybrid format. Themes of the festival: How can an artistic-scientific research make interfaces of technology, art and society visible?
£28.90
Hatje Cantz CyberArts 2021: International Compendium Prix Ars
Book SynopsisThe Prix Ars Electronica is one of the most prestigious prizes in media art, since 1987. The jury of experts includes Computer/Film/VFX, Digital Musics & Sound Art or Artificial Intelligence & Life Art.
£27.20
Hatje Cantz Nevin Aladag: Sound of Spaces
Book SynopsisNevin Aladag lets wind and rain play music. She follows the sound of traces she finds in the city and makes objects sound melodies seemingly by themselves. The result is a perceptive and always humorous "score" that has a quality that is as ironic as it is poetic. Aladag's works are represented in many international collections and are regularly shown in exhibitions and biennials worldwide. The Museum Villa Stuck is showing her most comprehensive solo presentation to date, combining famous groups of works, such as the "Music Room Athens" shown at documenta 14, with a few surprises. The accompanying catalogue offers over 200 mostly full-page illustrations. Essays by renowned art scholars such as Rachel Jans and Adam Szymczyk and a contribution by the multi-award-winning writer Ulrike Draesner, conceived especially for the book, illuminate the artist's work from different perspectives. The special embossing that Aladag developed for the cover gives the publication a special artistic touch.
£35.20
Hatje Cantz Kinetismus: 100 Years of Electricity in Art
Book SynopsisEver since electricity became ubiquitous artists have been fascinated by the manifold possibilities to create works with it. The catalogue Kinetismus: 100 Years of Electricity in Art, which accompanies the opening exhibition of Kunsthalle Praha, explores how electricity has transformed artistic practice from 1920 to the present day, including cinematography, sound, kinetic and mechanical sculptures, computer-based art and immersive installations. A historical perspective emphasizes the fact that electricity, with its various usages—from artificial light to computing—has become a defining element of our societies. Kinetismus: 100 Years of Electricity in Art includes an essay by Peter Weibel, the author of the exhibition concept, four thematic chapters written by the co-curator Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás as well as descriptions and reproductions of key artworks by artists, such as Mary Ellen Bute, William Kentridge, Christina Kubish, Zdenek Pesanek, Anna Ridler, Nicolas Schöffer, Jeffrey Shaw, Takis, Steina, and Woody Vasulka.
£38.40
Hatje Cantz Tomi Ungerer (Bilingual edition): It's All About
Book SynopsisIt’s All About Freedom presents a comprehensive cross-section through nine decades of Tomi Ungerer’s artistic work for the first time—from drawings from the nineteen-thirties to objects from the two thousand–tens. The exhibits selected shed new light on Ungerer’s oeuvre by making it possible to comprehend the artistic dimension of the political and stylistic lines and breaks in his oeuvre as a ‘freewheeling artist’. His passion for experimenting across genres and the interplay between drawing, collage, and assemblage through which he searched for identity and humanity is thus shown in his work again and again. Developed by the Deichtorhallen Hamburg / Sammlung Falckenberg in cooperation with the Tomi Ungerer Estate and the Musée Tomi Ungerer in Strasbourg, the volume brings together contributions on Tomi Ungerer’s life’s work by Thomas David, Belinda Grace Gardner, Aria Ungerer, and Thérèse Willer, with a foreword by Dirk Luckow and Harald Falckenberg.
£33.00
Hatje Cantz Verlag Zerrissene Moderne German edition
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£40.50
Hatje Cantz Esch2022: PURE EUROPE
Book SynopsisEurope is often defined in either strictly political terms or rather vague cultural notions. But where do these definitions come from? Were they ever true? And do they make sense in today’s globalized world? Exploring Europe through various perspectives, this exhibition catalog offers a view of what constitutes Europe and Europeans. It is structured around six clichés about Europe, which – like all clichés—contain a grain of truth, but also express a bias.
£18.00
Hatje Cantz documenta fifteen Guide (German edition)
£33.00
Hatje Cantz Walking, Finding, Sharing: A graphic Companion to
Book SynopsisWalking, Finding, Sharing offers visitors of the world’s largest art exhibition a novel approach to experiencing art. Inspired by travel guides and museum tours, this richly illustrated book invites children and families, comic lovers, and seasoned exhibition visitors alike to see documenta fifteen with new eyes. Four international illustrators and four authors bring the universe of ruangrupa’s documenta fifteen to life through graphic storytelling, stimulating readers’ imaginations with their vivid imagery. Each of the five tours — Humor, Local Anchor, Independence, Generosity, and Transparency — is based on the value system of the Indonesian curatorial team and offers ideas and perspectives that complement the exhibition. Walking, Finding, Sharing encourages visitors to find their own ways of approaching documenta fifteen: each path is a suggestion and can be explored spontaneously, in full or only in parts. This entertaining book serves as a reference, a joyful companion, and an innovative guide that will inspire both children and adults to engage with the exhibition.
£10.00
Hatje Cantz Fragments: Pots, Patchworks, Power Figures
Book SynopsisThe collections of the Museum der Kulturen Basel contain numerous fragments that bear witness to practices of sharing and connecting. They include fragments from history, remnants of destruction, and once powerful objects made up of single parts. The publication shows how these things were handled in the past, and still are today. It sheds light on what it means to divide, repair, reassemble, even to let something fall apart. Whichever, it is always a matter of (re)storing or creating a new order. Instead of seeing fragments exclusively as signs of loss or as witnesses to the inexorable passage of time, the authors focus on the power of connecting, the art of separating, and the force of destruction in the pieces presented.
£35.20
Hatje Cantz CyberArts 2022: Prix Ars Electronica 2022
Book SynopsisThe Prix Ars Electronica is one of the most prestigious prizes in media art, since 1987. The jury of experts includes Computer/Film/VFX, Digital Musics & Sound Art or Artificial Intelligence & Life Art.
£27.20
Hatje Cantz steirischer herbst '21: The Way Out of...
Book SynopsisContemporary art, as well as our society in general, is - according to the diagnosis of the interdisciplinary art festival steirischer herbst ’21 - in a dead end. The Way Out of... features texts by international contributors to the festival’s discussion program that outlines ways out of the white cube, failed political art, and an unrestrained digital capitalism, and shows new paths for climate justice, a more critical race theory, and new activists. Accessible and pointedly written, this reader offers rich food for thought on the multiple crises of our times.
£20.40
Hatje Cantz Maison Sonia Delaunay: Sonia Delaunay and the
Book SynopsisThe exhibition Maison Sonia. Sonia Delaunay and the Atelier Simultané is dedicated to the applied work of Russian-French artist Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979), with a focus on her textile design work. The accompanying catalogue includes the first scholarly essays on Sonia Delaunay's collaborations with silk industrialist Robert Perrier and couturier Jacques Heim, who were among her most important collaborators and previously unexplored. In addition, the publication provides the first overview of the role of Sonia Delaunay's simultaneous fabrics in the design of modern living and media spaces.
£35.20
