The flag bearing twelve yellow stars on a blue background has become Europe’s most recognisable symbol. Since its introduction by the Council of Europe in 1955, it has stood for the unification of Europe’s nation states. It was precisely this yellow ci …

In diesem Band wird mittels zusammengetragener Echt-Foto-Ansichts- karten der DDR ein vielfältiger Blick auf die Ostmoderne Architektur in Gera möglich. Sie zeigen eindrucksvoll die einstige Neubauarchitektur, Inneneinrichtung sowie die Bildkunstwerke, …

If African American experience emerges from the structure of slavery, how does architecture relate to that experience? African Americans have claimed space in unexpected locations – often in opposition to architecture as a Eurocentric discipline that h …

Das Arbeitende Konzert (AK) / The Working Concert is a performative installation work focused on concerts and their representations as creative media, whereby concerts are understood not as neutral frames but as a form of artistic expression and as cri …

Bauhaus and documenta are two globally successful cultural brands, representing a modern Germany that is both cosmopolitan and innovative. They both came into being at a time when civilization was in a state of collapse, and they both exemplify the ide …

errestrial Tales: 100+ Takes on Earth is a collection of representations of the globe over the last 2000 years – from a sculpture of the 2nd century Farnese Atlas, in which the celestial sphere rests heavily on the Titan’s shoulders, to one of the many …

Every image in ‘All Our Suns’ is taken from Olaf Nicolai’s collection of pictures of outer space that have been printed in daily newspapers. These images suggest a high degree of objectivity, though technological settings as well as individual wishes a …

The work of Miranda July—the most impressively cross-disciplinary artist of her generation—is brought into focus in this mid-career retrospective. From her early rarely seen Riot Grrrl-influenced fanzines and performances to a career that has produced …

‘Good and Plenty’ reflected and embodied the technology of a brief period between the late 1980s and early ’90s. This book looks at seven issues of the fanzine through the lens of graphic design and typography. Contributions from graphic designers, edu …

Chantal Akerman was surely one of the most exceptional film-makers of her time—not least because, as a woman, she radically changed the way the camera eyed its subjects and because, as the daughter of Polish Jewish emigrants, she saw the metropolitan c …

Von keiner realen öffentlichen Figur gibt es mehr fiktionale Repräsentationen als vom amerikanischen Präsidenten.

Paul Kooiker’s and Erik Kessels’s fascination for pictorial non-fiction books comes from the need to find images that exist on the fringe of regular commercial photo books. It’s only in this area that it’s possible to find images with an uncontrived qu …

Based off of the success of the limited-edition hardcover, Pacific is releasing the first softcover printing of The Nelson George Mixtape. The anthology gathers together articles by George from 1978–1993. Early articles for Record World and the Village …

Accompanying the first in-depth survey of her work in the UK, Linderism offers four new perspectives on Linder Sterling’s wide-ranging practice by James Boaden, Alyce Mahon, Amy Tobin and Sarah Victoria Turner. The essays address Linder’s early photomo …

decomposed, an-arranged and reproduced by chimurenga. Published by Afterall Books and Chimurenga in association with Asia Art Archive, the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College & RAW Material Company. Contrib. by Allioune Diop, Barkley Hendricks, …

The Museum Is Not Enough is the result of collective reflections on architecture, contemporary social concerns, institutions, and the public undertaken by the Canadian Centre for Architecture in recent years. Building on years of thematic investigation …

How do we design our cities when our most intimate experiences are incessantly tracked and our feelings become the base of new modes of production that prioritize the immaterial over the material? Since the 2008 financial crisis, lists of well-being in …

Der austro-amerikanische Architekt, Designer, Bühnenbildner, Künstler und Theoretiker Friedrich Kiesler ist ein wahrer Visionär des 20. Jahrhunderts. In Berlin, Wien und Paris schuf er in den 1920er-Jahren elektromechanische Bühnenbilder, spiralförmige …

Comics, manga, bandes dessinées, fumetti, tebeo, historietas… no matter the name, they have been a powerful medium across four continents for decades. This is the history of comics around the world from the late 1960s to the dawn of the 21st century.Co …

Was ist die Zukunft des Luxus? Was macht Marken und Produkte für junge Leute begehrenswert? Warum interessieren sie sich für Kleidung, Autos, Uhren oder Yachten? Als Leitmedium für kulturell vernetzte, stilsichere junge Männer von heute spielt Highsnob …

When the Bauhaus departed Dessau in 1932, there was no Bauhaus collection left in its wake. Apart from the files in the city archive and some works in the Anhaltische Gemäldegalerie, which survived the wave of Nazi iconoclasm, as well as artworks in pr …

Vergleicht man die Jahre 1989 und 1990, zeigt sich, dass sie in der kollektiven Erinnerung höchst unterschiedlich präsent sind. Die Meisten können sich das Jahr ’89 rasch ins Gedächtnis rufen. Auch mit dem Abstand von knapp dreißig Jahren fällt es leic …

With its beginnings in 2009, Crack Magazine has, over a 10-year trajectory, photographed some of the most vital and groundbreaking voices in music. From SOPHIE to Arca, MF Doom to J Hus, and Slayer to M.I.A., the photography has evolved between each is …

1952 wird Gera Bezirksstadt. Damit hält moderne Architektur Einzug in die Stadt. Die ostmodernen Bauten haben jedoch seit den 90er und 2000er Jahren ein Imageproblem und so verschwanden viele spannende Einzelbauten, städtebauliche Ensembles und Kunstwe …

The NSU trial has acted like a magnifying glass, revealing the fault lines that run through Germany. Bruchlinien uses the medium of the comic strip to reconstruct episodes that are not documented in photographs — events that were swept under the carpet …

This publication brings together case studies by scholars from around the world that engage with the history of the Bauhaus as an entangled problem—the multiple historiographies of the Bauhaus and the global history of modernist architecture within whi …

Annette Schröter schneidet ihre Bilder, sie arbeitet mit dem Cutter, mit Papieren, Sprays, farbigem Acrylglas und Tapetenresten. Seit 2015 führten Annette Schröter mehrere Reisen nach Süd- und Nordamerika, unter anderem nach Buenos Aires, Montevideo, N …

»Ohne Musik wäre alles Leben ein Irrtum.« Alexander Kluge (*1932 in Halberstadt) – Drehbuchautor, Film- und Fernsehproduzent, Schriftsteller, Philosoph und einer der einflussreichsten Vertreter des Neuen Deutschen Films – wählte dieses Zitat von Friedr …

Expanding our understanding of Mexico’s important role in the story of modern art and design through the works of six important women artists and designers This stunning book unites for the first time the pioneering work of six artists and designers: C …

Karel Martens occupies an intriguing place in the current European landscape of art and design. His work is both personal and experimental, but also publicly answerable. Martens, a prolific book designer, has also contributed to a wide range of design …

Trains, Travels & Murals ist der neue Katalog über den Mural-Künstler Jens Besser. Während des letzten Jahrzehnts hat der Dresdner Künstler unzählige Werke in aller Welt realisiert. Besser ist dafür bekannt mit und ohne Genehmigung zu arbeiten. Er real …

“At a moment of tremendous technological and cultural change, David Reinfurt makes the case that graphic design is not merely a craft, but a fundamental way to understand and engage with the world. Discursive, expansive, and inspiring, this book redefi …

An East German mordernism existed in parallel to West German modernism in the fields of architecture and design. Walter Scheiffele shows the interplay between the two by looking at furniture making, for which the Deutsche Werkstätten Hellerau had been …

Arabische Schrift und Kalligrafie gehören unmittelbar zusammen. Frühere Kalligrafen kreierten die schönsten arabischen Schriften. Mit dem sichschnell ändernden Zeitgeist haben sich die Anforderungen an die arabische Schrift allerdings geändert beziehun …

Over the past ten years, Bodil Furu has emerged as one of the most significant Norwegian video artists. She has developed an unmistakable visual language, embedded in documentary realism, and unites abiding humanistic questions with current concerns re …

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‘Psychedelic Death Pop’ is a sprawling, large-format collection of recent visual work by Keiichi Tanaami. As one of the leading pop artists of post-war Japan, he has remained active as multi-genre artist since the 1960s, with works spanning graphic des …

From street fashion to high culture the work of Virgil Abloh, a celebrated young multihyphenate artist, is showcased in this lavishly illustrated book. Virgil Abloh’s story is both quintessentially and subversively American. Born to Ghanaian parents in …

„Weltall Erde Mensch #23“ ist eine Auseinandersetzung mit Blumen, Büchern, ostdeutscher Alltagskultur, dem Medium der Enzyklopädie, Geschichtsschreibung, Hoffnung und Enttäuschung. Hintergrund der Publikation stellt das Buch „Weltall Erde Mensch“ dar, …

French graphic designer Olivier Lebrun follows on his previous publications documenting the books that appear in the popular cartoon television series with this anthology of more than 330 images and titles. All have been captured with a black-and-white …

The way cinema was viewed and understood is stored in the films that have been made and can be deductively read from the historical record they preserve. Cinema has repeatedly, irregularly, and completely spontaneously given clues about how it wanted t …

Die Publikation „Bauhaus | documenta. Vision und Marke“ (hrsg. von Birgit Jooss, Philipp Oswalt und Daniel Tyradellis) verbindet die thematischen Ausrichtungen der Ausstellung mit den kunsthistorischen Perspektiven der Virtuellen Ausstellung. Die reich …

From street fashion to high culture the work of Virgil Abloh, a celebrated young multihyphenate artist, is showcased in this lavishly illustrated book. Virgil Abloh’s story is both quintessentially and subversively American. Born to Ghanaian parents in …

Ausst’publikation. Kunsthaus Zürich. Scheidegger & Spiess 2016. Beiträge von Adrian Sudhalter, Michel Sanouillet, Cathérine Hug et al. Deutsch. 304 Seiten, 390 Abb. (davon 277 farbig und 113 s/w). 20 x 26,5 cm. 1,2 kg. Fester Einband. 9783858814999. Da …

In Fragments of a Crisis untersucht Julian Irlinger das Verhältnis von Ästhetik und Ideologie anhand künstlerischer Arbeit in der Weimarer Republik. Sein Ausgangsmaterial ist Notgeld, das während der Inflation (1918 – 1923) parallel zur offiziellen Wäh …

In Sweden, the FACIT brand is as well-known as IBM or Olivetti. Based in Åtvidaberg, the company produced mechanical calculators, typewriters, and office furniture in the period between 1922 and 1998. By the 1970s the company had grown from a local fam …

As we hurtle into the twenty-first century, will we be passive downloaders of content or active uploaders of meaning? The computer, writes Peter Lunenfeld, is the twenty-first century’s culture machine. It is a dream device, serving as the mode of prod …

The Anarchitecture group show at the fabled 112 Greene Street gallery – an artistic epicenter of New York’s downtown scene in the 1970s – in March 1974 has been the subject of an enduring discussion, despite a complete lack of documentation about it. A …