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Swiss Institute Hans Haacke: Swiss Institute Visitors Poll
Complete documentation of the longest-running work from Hans Haacke's famous Poll series German artist and institutional critique pioneer Hans Haacke (born 1936) is famed worldwide for examining museums by directly asking their audiences questions. Hans Haacke: Swiss Institute Visitors Poll documents the results of his longest ever poll work, which was conducted at Swiss Institute from June 21, 2018 to October 24, 2019. Newly commissioned for this publication, Haacke's featured essay outlines the history of his poll works, discussing the context and development of this body of work over four decades—all leading up to the Swiss Institute Visitors Poll. The book documents the results of the poll, including 652 pages of facsimile index cards that were written by poll respondents in response to Question #20: “What multiple-choice question would you also have liked to see in this poll?”
£20.00
Swiss Institute Shahryar Nashat Keep Begging
£30.06
Osmos OSMOS Magazine: Issue 19
Essays on Ellie Ga, Joanna Piotrowska, Walter Pfeiffer, Steve Reinke, Anna Papier and more, in the latest issue of Osmos As founder and editor Cay Sophie Rabinowitz (formerly of Parkett and Fantom) explains, Osmos Magazine is “an art magazine about the use and abuse of photography.” The magazine is divided into thematic sections—some traditional, and others more idiosyncratic. Osmos Magazine issue 19 features Oliver Chanarin in conversation with Rafal Milach about the Magnum photographer’s book In Nearly Every Rose …, plus essays by Tom McDonough on Ellie Ga; Lucy Gallun on Joanna Piotrowska; Walter Pfeiffer introduced by Swiss Institute curator Daniel Merritt; Kenta Murakami on Steve Reinke's The Hundred Videos; Anna Papier on the Dutch photographer Bart Julius Peters; Christian Rattemeyer on Levan Mindiashvili; Drew Sawyer on Erin Jane Nelson; Ksenia Nouril on Rafael Soldi; and Leon Dish Becker's reportage, ESL Political Clickbait, on memes designed by YouTubers infiltrating and promoting paranoia.
£22.00
Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag The Giedion World: Siegfried Giedion and Carola Giedion-Welcker in Dialogue
Sigfried Giedion (1888-1968) and Carola Giedion-Welcker (1893-1979) were among the most distinguished and influential scholars of art and architectural history during the 20th century's earlier dacades. Of particular impact was their role in connecting leading protagonists of modernism in architecture, art, and literature, such as Alvar Aalto, Hans Arp, Constantin Brancusi, Marcel Breuer, Max Ernst, Walter Gropius, Barbara Hepworth, Le Corbusier, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Piet Mondrian, or Sophie Taeuber-Arp. The discourses they initiated, for example on the New Vision in photography or a 'Synthesis of Arts', have lost nothing of their relevance and provide new starting points through to the present day. The estate of Sigfried and Carola Giedion-Welcker is today kept in Zurich at ETH Zurich's Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture, the Swiss Institute for Art Research, the University of Zurich's Institute of Romance Studies, and the James Joyce Foundation. It comprises some 16,000 letters, 10,000 photographic prints and negatives, a wealth of other papers, and a vast library. This new book offers a re-evaluation of Sigfried and Carola Giedion-Welcker's work, impact, and lasting significance. The editor and contributors were the first to draw fully on the estate, which has been opened entirely to researchers only recently. Featuring a vast number of previously unpublished documents and other images alongside excerpts from the extensive correspondence the two maintained with their artist friends and colleagues in academia, it provides a unique and manifold insight into the 'Giedion universe'.
£76.50