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This visual history brings together an extraordinary collection of books to illustrate a canon of more than five hundred years of Western book design. Beginning in 1471 with an edition printed by the influential Nicolas Jenson in Venice and ending in 2 …

Enghelab Street, Revolution Street, is located in the centre of Tehran—a main artery in the city’s cultural life with a host of bookshops. The publication presents a variety of photographic and propaganda books collected by Iranian artist Hannah Darabi …

Q: What did you do exactly? A: First, in May 2015, and then again in November 2017, we invited a selection of graphic designers to Otl Acher’s “Institut für analoge Studien” in Rotis, near Neukirch im Allgäu. Over two days these designers were intervie …

The artist and collector Martin Dammann has studied war photography, the impact of images, and how history is written. During his research, he came across many amateur photographs of soldiers in the German army who dressed as women—scenes that directly …

Which social conditions and structures make an urban space visible? And how can this complexity be translated into photography? For his long-term study, Matthias Steinkraus (b. 1981, Freiburg im Breisgau) spent six years, from 2010 to 2016, documenting …

“The term ‘avant-garde’ stands for progress and the way of a pioneer. Driven by the desire to give their lives meaning, and guided by their own integrity, migrants bring new perspectives and points of view to our society.” – Michael Danner With his new …

Contributions by Benjamin H. Bratton, Liam Gillick, Hannes Grassegger, Mahmoud Keshavarz, Angela Nagle, Nina Power, Patricia Reed, Konrad Renner, Slavs & Tatars, Jonas Staal, Hito Steyerl, Wolfgang Tillmans, Stephan Trüby, Christina Varvia (Forensic Ar …

How do you tell the story of a friendship? How do you trace the roots of one of the most significant cross-disciplinary unions in fashion today? Artist Sterling Ruby and fashion designer Raf Simons did just that when they sat on stage with curator Jess …

Die einen, wie die in Finnland geborene Miia Autio und der aus Tübingen stammende Holger Jenss, sind nach Afrika gereist, um die Fremde zu erfahren. Fremde unter Fremden. Die anderen, wie Chris Becher, Julia Steinigeweg und Andreas Hopfgarten, haben vo …

Antenne Publishing presents its second publication in the ESTATE OF series, a publication that offers artists a space to realise projects in a specified format. Loops is Anders Edström’s narrative chronology, from front to back covers. Shot during walk …

From his early short films made in Philadelphia in the 1960s up through more recent feature films like Inland Empire (2006), legendary artist and director David Lynch (born 1946) has used sound to build mood, subvert audience expectations and create ne …

This new publication by avant-garde artist and cultural icon Yoko Ono combines never-before-published texts and invitation pieces written in 2016–2018 with drawings from the “Franklin Summer” series she started in 1994. For Yoko Ono, words, artworks, a …

This luxurious comprehensive catalogue, lavishly illustrated, brings together works from throughout the artist’s career, from early collages and Polaroids, to the images of flowers, nudes, sexuality and portraits that made him one of the most notable p …

This Is Television addresses the increasingly obsolete medium of television by way of the medium of the book—by extension commenting on media’s continuous changes of form and format. Through an interplay of theory and artistic research material, the bo …

This book has been conceived as both a prism and a manual. Following the “traditional” arc of electroacoustic composition (listen—record—compose—deploy—feel), each of the contributions collected together here focuses in on a personal aspect, a fragment …

With contributions by Christine Checinska, Christine Delhaye, Burcu Dogramaci, Sonja Eismann, Elke Gaugele, Gabriele Genge, Birgit Haehnel, Sabrina Henry, Helen Jennings, Alexandra Karentzos, Hana Knížová, Christian Kravagna, Gabriele Mentges, Birgit M …

Der Band wirft einen neuen Blick auf Hannes Meyer – dem zweiten Bauhausdirektor in Dessau, der 1930 politisch aus dem Amt gedrängt wurde. Das Buch dokumentiert anhand von Faksimiles programmatischer Schriften, wie der engagierte Architekt und Sozialist …

Casual Relationships explores the mechanisms at work in the construction of visual culture. By carefully curating and simulating photographs from contemporary vernacular sources, Max Creasy identifies the way these images are endorsed within social gro …

Forged by fire and fluid—and the slow, heavy press of the earth’s surface—crystals are nature at its most miraculous, science as it veers into the mystical. The debut book in our New New Age Series, Crystals provides an elegant page-by-page overview of …

Parallel Cities examines the history of the multilevel city with a focus on elevated pedestrian systems as a recurrent concept in urban planning and design. The book chronicles the evolution and migration of this concept from 19th-century French social …

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“Congo Stars” will nicht die historische Entwicklung nachzeichnen oder die Definition dessen liefern, was populäre Malerei im Kongo ist. Vielmehr geht es hier um die Dimension des Fiktionalen in Bezug zur Geschichtsschreibung. Prozesse der Staatsbildun …

This book is an overview of the exhibition program of Bart van der Heide from 2010 – 2015, which he realised as the director of Kunstverein München. Each exhibition is presented by a corresponding booklet, containing all texts and images. These accompa …

Many designs that appear in today’s society will circulate and encounter audiences of many different cultures and languages. The Politics of Design enhances your visual literacy for communication beyond borders and cultures. “It’s the kind of literatur …

Stellvertretend für eine ganze Generation hat Collien Schorr 2007 die Geschichte des 19-jährigen Drag-Car Rennfahrers Charlie “Astoria Chas” Snyder und seiner ’67 “Ko-Motion” Corvette als Grundlage für ihre Installation There I Was genutzt. Bereits als …

In einem Zeitraum von drei Jahren reisten Taiyo Onorato und Nico Krebs mehrere Monate durch die Vereinigten Staaten und arbeiteten «on the road» an der Bildserie The Great Unreal. Die fotografische Arbeit setzt sich mit Realität und der Erfindung von R …

11 is a collection of mostly unpublished photos from different series of the last 6 years, first time to be shown printed and as a body of work. The title of the book is an ode to Jasmines birthday, the 11.11. Since always this number followed Jasmine …

Denise Scott Brown hat die Entwicklung der Architektur seit den 1960er-Jahren in vielfältiger Weise mitgeprägt. Ihr rebellisches Leben führt sie durch drei Kontinente – von der Kindheit in Südafrika in den 1930er-Jahren über die Ausbildung in England i …

… This book is for color Blue as personal perspectives and phycological approaches. I’ve been making the book over 3 months traveling around a couple of countries including Korea, Japan and United States. Basically it deals with what I’ve seen throug …

Über ein halbes Jahr hat Julia Debus Indien durchquert, dabei entstanden fotografische Aufnahmen aus dem Transit: Ländliche Gebiete, außerhalb der Aufmerksamkeit stehende Zwischenflächen, Subsistenzlandwirtschaft und viel Raum, dessen Nutzung sich auf den ersten Blick nicht genau erschließt. Gegenden, die selten Anfangs – oder Endpunkt einer Reise bilden, sondern meist durchquert werden. Graslandschaften, Felsformationen, Gestrüpp, Bäume, Flussläufe. Ein verbindendes Motiv sind Pfade – die in unterschiedlicher Form auftauchen.Die Aufnahmen fügen sich in einem Leporello aneinander und wiederholen so formell, den Duktus der Fotografin.

The objective of this publication is to trace and describe the artistic and institutional decisions that have influenced the work of Camera Austria, which has been made visible through numerous exhibitions and symposiums on photography and, since 1980, …

Sachsen ist nicht bekannt für avantgardistische Modernität – doch es lohnt sich, genauer hinzuschauen und zahlreiche Bauhaus-Spuren zu entdecken. Da wären zum die Anwendungen von Bauhaus-Künsten in der seriellen Produktion in Leipzig, Weißwasser oder H …

Karl Nawrot is a graphic designer whose work has a pronounced architectural sensibility. His oeuvre includes typography, illustration, and abstract graphic compositions, and he uses techniques usually associated with architectural processes to create l …

Hipgnosis created some of the most innovative and surreal cover art of the 1960s, 70s, and early 80s for the biggest names of the era—Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Wings, Yes, Genesis, 10cc, Peter Gabriel, Bad Company, Syd Barrett, and Black Sabbath, to na …

Früher entwarfen Designer Gegenstände. Heute wird praktisch alles designt: das Klima, Prozesse, Flüchtlingslager. Wenn jedoch alles designt wird, ist es höchste Zeit, Design nicht länger allein nach ästhetischen Gesichtspunkten zu bewerten. Wir brauche …

To celebrate the release of their capsule collection, brands P.A.M and Facetasm have collaborated on a book featuring Misha Hollenbach (P.A.M), Fergadelic (Palace), artist Matt Damhave, photographer Ari Marcopoulous, Hiromichi Ochiai (Facetasm), Daisuk …

44 pages, 23,5 x 31,5 cm, offset print / thread stitching, swiss brochure one color screen print softcover, including a photocard Edition of 200 Language: German “Eruption” is a special photographic insight into a group of graffiti writers breaking rul …

In the woods there is a bird; his song stops you and makes you blush. (…) And finally, whenever you are hungry and thirsty, there’s someone who chases you away” (Arthur Rimbaud) IN THE WOODS THERE IS A BIRD… is both an ongoing sound and publication pro …

Herausgeber Martin Jaeggi Gestaltung Studio Achermann Gebunden, 460 Seiten, 224 Farbabbildungen 25.2 × 32.3 cm ISBN: 978-3-905929-25-6

Preparation for 1017-ALYX-9SM is a seasonal series that explores narratives around the various ‘acts of preparing’ leading up the Alyx show in Paris. Photographed by Esther Theaker and art-directed by OK-RM it is the result of a close collaboration bot …

The two-act eco-drama proposes a postromantic, authentic way of knowing and caring for nature that requires a radical reconstruction of our idea of love. Displayed narratives, in their distinct ways, emphasizes the shift from heroic to holistic ethics. …

During Milan’s Design Week 2018, the Vitra exhibition “Typecasting,” curated by Robert Stadler, presented 200 objects in the former sports hall La Pelota in the city’s Brera district. In addition to generous photographic documentation, this eponymous p …

Hardcover Publisher: Mack (October 31, 2018) Language: English ISBN-10: 1912339161 ISBN-13: 978-1912339167 Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 0.5 x 12.2 inches

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Rear Views, A Star-Forming Nebula, and the Department of Foreign Propaganda. Tate Publishing 2015. Beiträge von Simon Baker, Salman Rushdie, Hans Ulrich Obrist et al. Englisch. 388 Seiten, 200 Abb. 15 x 27 cm. 1,4 kg. Halbleinen. 9781849762359. art-196 …

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