Aby Warburg’s famous lecture on the Hopi snake ritual in Arizona is one of the most commented art history transcripts of the 20th century. But while Warburg’s essay is firmly anchored in the canon of art history, to a wider public—especially in Europe—little is known about its source, the snake ritual and its history. A Kind of World War is dedicated to what Aby Warburg largely ignored himself: that not only the ritual, but also the images of the ritual—to whose global distribution Warburg contributed—have a political history. The volume seeks to demonstrate that Warburg’s art history, insofar it outlines an internal history of the European psyche, must be read in conjunction with its external counterpart, the history of colonization, war and cultural entanglement.

Nous aurons aussi de beaux jours: Écrits de prison was published in 2019 by the French publisher Éditions des femmes – Antoinette Fouque. The book is a compilation of letters written by Kurdish artist and journalist Zehra Doğan to her Turkish friend Na …

The Urban Design (UD) degree programme has been working on different types of urban research since 2008. »Tom Paints the Fence« is a presentation of UD’s urban narrative: the city is not a given entity but is something we produce. The project thus comb …

Herbert List was fascinated by the ”artificial humans“—life-size figures moulded in wax—on display at the Panoptikum in Vienna’s Prater. In 1944, he photographed these waxworks, depicting them as “corpses set in position and daubed with make-up—frozen …

Stefan Marx zeichnet viel und auf unterschiedlichsten Gründen: auf großen und kleinen, farbigen oder weißen Papieren, auf Karton, Porzellan, Skateboards oder Textilien. Beständig und sehr gerne zeichnet er in kleinformatige Notizbücher. Sie begleiten i …

Impressionismus in Leipzig 1900-1914: Liebermann, Slevogt, Corinth: Liebermann, Slevogt, Corinth. Katalog zu den Ausstellungsequenzen im Museum der bildenden Kunst im Leipzig Paperback – 1 Nov. 2019

The publication is based on the editor’s discussions with the architect, civil engineer, and artist Hans-Walter Müller, who has been developing forms of pneumatic architecture since the late 1960s. Müller has designed inflatable volumes for artists lik …

Drifters, by classic definition, aren’t necessarily individuals you want to spend time with, as they tend to waste everything from everyone else before they disappear. They’re regarded as scammers, frauds, bottom feeders, wanderers. They are pioneers o …

Naïvy by Coco Capitán has been published alongside the artist’s first solo exhibition in London which has since gone on to Amsterdam. It presents Capitán’s paintings, large-scale photographs, and artist-embellished found objects, which expands upon the …

Graphic Design in the Post-Digital Age examines the challenges and opportunities in the wake of the rapid rise of creative coding within a growing community of designers opting to make their own design tools. This comprehensive overview covers educatio …

Contributions by ARTS OF THE WORKING CLASS, CLAUDIA BANZ, LISA BAUMGARTEN, STEFF BENTRUP, BRAVE NEW ALPS, COLIN CROUCH, HANS-CHRISTIAN DANY, DESIGNER + CULTURAL, WORKERS UNION, DESIGN INTERNS CLUB, DIEDRICH DIEDERICHSEN, EMMA DOWL… more A critical di …