Installation art Books
Kerber Verlag Rebecca Horn Glowing Core
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£40.50
Kerber Verlag Daniel Hausig Dynamic Light
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£54.00
Hatje Cantz Gonzalez Haase AAS: 2021–1999 484–001
Book SynopsisBringing together 21 years and 475 projects in one book is a mammoth task. Especially when it involves the influential work of two icons of the design field. With their firm AAS, Pierre Jorge Gonzalez and Judith Haase quickly made design history. Their purist yet offbeat style has left its mark on built spaces across the globe, from large-scale art installations to retail stores and luxurious private dwellings. They focus in particular on a skillfully staged choreography of space and light. The distinctiveness of their style is also expressed in this magnificent illustrated publication. Committed to the aesthetics of social media, the book functions like a stream of fascinating impressions and experiments with exciting image breaks. True to their own style and always daring the new, the book shows and is a typical AAS project.
£54.40
Hatje Cantz Sabine Scho, Sebastian Felix Ernst, Golden Diskó
Book SynopsisGravity always wins in battle and architecture. When the Boxer, a rare ancient bronze, was excavated on the south side of the Quirinal Hill in Rome in 1885, it seemed “as if he was awakening again after a long pause in the fighting.” Seated and heavy, he still awaits his next round. In contrast, the Palazzetto dello Sport, built out of prefabricated parts by Pier Luigi Nervi for the 1960 Olympic Games, seems to defy gravity. These two icons of Rome were brought together in the imagination through architecture, poetry, and music tracks: surrounded by a palazzettino woven together out of carbon bars, the Boxer from the Quirinal gets a new home in an architectural sound-poetry installation. This book documents the collaboration of the Rome Prize winners Sabine Scho, Sebastian Felix Ernst, and Golden Diskó Ship, and is being produced by the Deutsche Akademie Rom Villa Massimo.
£57.00
Prestel Nick Cave: Until
Book SynopsisNick Cave's "Soundsuits"-exuberant, brightly colored wearable sculptures adorned with buttons, hair, toys and other found objects-have made him one of the best-known contemporary artists. This book documents his most extensive work to date, turning his art inside out. Until fills MASS MoCA's football field- sized gallery, without a single Soundsuit to be found. Instead Cave takes us inside the belly of one of his iconic sculptures with an immersive environment populated by a dazzling array of found objects, echoing some of Cave's and America's most confounding dilemmas: gun violence, racial inequality, injustice within our cities' police departments, and death. An installation diary and numerous images reveal how an idea becomes reality. Until also incorporates special appearances by dancers, singer/ songwriters, and poets, as well as community forums, and opportunities for public debate and engagement. Transcripts of the first of these events accompany the book's illustrations. This book features an essay by exhibition Curator Denise Markonish, commentary by David Byrne and Lori E.Lightfoot that contextualizes Cave's work against today's headlines, and an excerpt from Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric. Powerful and transformative, Until promises to take its place among the era's most important artistic statements.Published in association with MASS MoCA
£35.99
Prestel Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Unstable Presence
Book SynopsisRafael Lozano-Hemmer’s installations engage the audience in unique and seductive ways—measuring their heart rate, surveilling their faces, even circulating their breath. Often characterised by particular interactions between the work and the viewer, Lozano-Hemmer’s art explores themes such as forced cohabitations, power imbalances, and contemporary techniques of surveillance and control. This mid-career retrospective book focuses on works produced over the past two decades. It includes essays that explore the poetic and political dimensions of the artist’s work, along with in-depth examinations of four major works—Zoom Pavilion, Vicious Circular Breathing, Voz Alta, and Pulse Room. It also features full-colour illustrations of sixteen recent works, including a newly created immersive sound environment, Sphere Packing: Bach. An essential guide to a deeper understanding of the themes that connect these technically sophisticated and emotionally resonant works, this book draws on the idea of an “unstable presence” to communicate the humanity and the anxiety that lie at the centre of Lozano-Hemmer’s art.
£28.49
Prestel Jonathas de Andrade: One to One
Book SynopsisThemes of memory, love, economic inequality, and political upheaval are threaded throughout de Andrade’s work, which is often situated in Recife, his hometown in the northeast corner of Brazil. This includes the artist’s most recent works, The Fish, a 16mm film about fishermen who embrace their prey at the moment of their death, and para 2 em 1, in which de Andrade uses an instruction manual as a metaphor for homosexual love. By localizing his art, de Andrade makes powerful statements about many of the issues facing Brazil’s working class, including environmental degradation, urban blight, political inequity, and the loss of traditions and cultures. His multifaceted approach, in which he often collaborates with his fellow citizens, makes his work accessible, personal, and steeped in humanity.
£17.99
V&R Unipress Plurale Autorschaft
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£50.70
DruckVerlag Kettler Evangelos Papadopoulos: FLOW
Book SynopsisEvangelos Papadopoulos (b.1974 in Athens) creates sculptures and temporary installations that often occupy entire rooms and consistently engage with the specifics of the exhibition space. Papadopoulos uses materials such as plasterboard and steel to make dynamic shapes whose organic growth invades the surrounding space like rampant vegetation. By resorting to unusual materials, the artist’s complex, intuitive approach gives spectators a fresh perspective and opens up new meanings. This book spotlights Flow, an installation specially created by Papadopoulos for his show at Museum Ratingen. The work’s title is a reference to the constantly changing sculptural interventions during the exhibition, which allowed Papadopoulos’s increasingly sprawling shapes to enter into a dialogue with Dennis Rudolph, Diane Edwards, and Banz & Bowinkel. These digital artists responded to the sculptor’s three-dimensional structures by creating their own animated works using video clips, augmented reality apps, and 3-D scans, while the sound artist Lasse-Marc Riek composed a work-specific audiovisual intervention. Text in English and German.
£999.99
DruckVerlag Kettler Stefan Panhans / Andrea Winkler: The Pow(d)er of
Book SynopsisThe title of the catalogue of works by the artist duo Stefan Panhans (Germany) and Andrea Winkler (Switzerland) is a nod to the rhetoric used by evangelical megachurches in the United States that preach a market-oriented, neoliberal ideology of individual self-optimisation under the guise of Christian pastoral care. The artists’ works touch on electric SUVs, communication with forms of artificial intelligence, racism in everyday life, celebrity cults, stereotypes, computer games, the “uncanny valley,” and other post-digital feedback loops between humans and virtual worlds, but also on the precarious condition of cultural sector workers. Panhans and Winkler are masters at using a broad spectrum of artistic genres and media, such as novels, texts, performances, installations, miniseries, musicals, sculptures, objects, films, videos, and dance. Their video installations can be subsumed under what is known as “expanded cinema”: the displayed objects, which also appear in the videos, are presented in a way that allows the films to expand into the surrounding space, drawing viewers into the artwork. Text in English and German.
£20.00
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig Roman Ondak: Time Capsule
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£43.42
Walther Konig, Verlag Cildo Meireles Installations
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£58.50
Holzwarth Publications Eric Hatten - Works 1979-2015
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£76.71
Edition Imorde Thermo-Asthetik: Warme Und Hitze in Der
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£999.99
Spector Books Towards a Further Word
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£20.90
Spector Books Hotel Shabbyshabby
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£26.60
Dr. Cantz'sche Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG Penny Hes Yassour - Temp-Est
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£999.99
Damiani Srl Village One Land Two Systems Platform Paradise
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£27.00
Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art Saadane Afif: Technical Specifications
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£17.10
Lannoo Publishers Calder Now
Book SynopsisCalder Now documents an exhibition at the Kunsthal Rotterdam which explores the enduring influence of the work of Alexander Calder (1898-1976) on contemporary art. Shown alongside pieces by Calder himself are works by 10 contemporary artists, including Olafur Eliasson, Simone Leigh, Ernesto Neto, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Sarah Sze. The text explores the way their work resonates with Calder's main artistic interests, such as the reflection of light and movement. Three noted art historians elaborate on themes such as the participatory and progressive nature of Calder's art.
£36.00
Amsterdam University Press Installation Art and the Museum: Presentation and
Book SynopsisInstallation art has become mainstream in artistic practices. However, acquiring and displaying such artworks implies that curators and conservators are challenged to deal with obsolete technologies, ephemeral materials and other issues concerning care and management of these artworks. By analysing three in-depth case studies, the author sheds new light on the key concepts of traditional conservation (authenticity, artist’s intention, and the notion of ownership) while exploring how these concepts apply in contemporary art conservation. Based on original empirical research and cross-case analysis, this ground-breaking study offers a re-examination of traditional conservation values and ethics, and argues for a reassessment of the role of the conservator of contemporary art.Trade Review"Installation Art and the Museum will become essential reading for scholars and professionals who work in the art world, along with anyone with serious interest in contemporary art and its display. It is an engaging account of what goes on behind museum doors as staff struggles to maintain a sense of authenticity with variable art. Van Saaze reveals the tensions between artists, curators, and conservators who re-create and alter these works for public display. Video requires reformatting and new exhibition equipment as technologies go obsolescent. Installation works change when re-designed for new gallery spaces. Artists challenge the notion of single authorship by transferring decision-making to museum staff or by distributing their role through collaborative practice. The art examined in this book is inherently unstable, and its care provides a rich context for understanding what happens when agreed-upon social practice in museums is disrupted by external change. Interdisciplinary scholarship at its best." Glenn Wharton, Time-Based Media Conservator at the Museum of Modern Art and Research Scholar in Museum Studies, New York University |"This book is a significant and innovative contribution to the literature. At present there is a lack of such a publication addressing in an accessible manner the emergence of contemporary artists’ installations within a museum context and the practice of those responsible for the display and conservation. This publication provides a valuable read for both those new to the subject and the more experienced reader. It is an important and timely piece of research which I believe will be both influential and widely read." Pip Laurenson, Tate, LondonTable of ContentsInstallation Art and the Museum - 2 Contents - 8 Acknowledgments - 10 Introduction Challenges of Installation Art - 12 Chapter 1 Key Concepts and Developments in Conservation Theory and Practice - 36 Chapter 2 From Singularity to Multiplicity: Authenticity in Practice - 62 Chapter 3 From Intention to Interaction: Artist’s Intention Reconsidered - 110 Chapter 4 From Object to Collective, from Artists to Actants: Ownership Reframed - 144 Conclusion Challenges and Potentialities of Installation Art - 182 List of Illustrations - 190 References - 194 Interviews - 214 Index - 218
£42.70
