Featuring works from the Dakis Joannou Drawing Collection, "Animal Spirits" comments on the current global crisis and the cultural climate it has fostered. The book's title references British economis
Australian artist David Noonan (born 1969) uses found imagery as the basis for his screenprinted canvases and sculptures. Enigmatic figures, printed in grainy black and white or sepia, pose in these e
Cornelia Schleime's (born 1953) works on paper depict a world in which women morph into antlered creatures and rabbits wear hunting coats. Immigrating from East Germany to the West in 1984, Schleime l
Dutch painter Koen Vermeule (born 1965) has said that the title of one of his paintings, "Out and About," would be "a good title for the rest of my work," as his subject material is found from his tra
Socialist Yugoslavia was a country suspended between cultures, political systems and Cold War blocs, and as a result, in the early postwar years it produced a body of modernist architecture that defie
Are "smart cities" the future of urban living? This book examines a five-year public-private partnership between the German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom and the city of Friedrichshafen
"Thinking Europe: The Scenario Book" is a curatorial project that aims to construct a representation of the European community from the perspective of the arts. Ten curators from Europe and Asia were
For the past 20 years, Lithuanian-born artist Esther Shalev-Gerz (born 1948) has undertaken research into the construction of public memory through films, video installations, photographs and site-spe
"Systems and Scenarios" covers around 20 years of artist and writer Yvette Brackman's works and projects, which often combine crafted elements and time-based media to create narratives and engage audi
Gyula Kosice (born 1924) is an innovative Argentine artist and poet. His constructions and sculptures were inspired as much by local discussions and disputes in the cafes of 1940s Buenos Aires as by t
Photographer and bookseller Melissa Catanese has been editing the vast photography collection of Peter J. Cohen, a celebrated trove of more than 20,000 vernacular and found anonymous photographs from
American studio furniture icon Wendell Castle is one of the most important, influential and celebrated designers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. For more than 50 years, he has consistentl
The creative conversion and repurposing of existing structures is a defining feature of contemporary German architecture. Published for Germany's pavilion at the 2012 Venice Biennale's Architecture Ex
German multimedia artist Michaela Meiser's first monograph, "Ding und Korper" focuses on two groups of work which address respectively the inanimate object and the human body. Minimalist-style sculptu
John Fincher's paintings of towering poplars, pine limbs set against crystalline skies, richly hued desert hillsides and cropped prickly pears unravel the manifold cultural meanings inscribed within r
Peruvian photographer Milagros de la Torre (born 1965) has worked for over 15 years on this series, which explores the overlap between photography and the darker side of human nature, particularly in
"Aperture" magazine was founded in 1952 by the photographers Ansel Adams, Minor White, Barbara Morgan and Dorothea Lange, and the photography historians Beaumont and Nancy Newhall. These individuals w
In the years following the Second World War, artists across the world began to attack the most basic premises of painting, in ways that were both aggressive and playful. The creative act itself was de
"Caribbean Pirates" offers a peek inside Paul and Damon McCarthy's stage set for their 2006 video projection of the same name, reproducing production shots, installation shots and video stills. Allusi
Performance artist, sculptor, prankster, restauranteur, farmer, professional poker player and frontman of the 1980s Swiss electronic pop duo Yello, Dieter Meier (born 1945) brings a contagious sense o
In 2008, Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron and Chinese artist Ai Weiwei joined forces to design the celebrated Beijing National Stadium for the Olympic Games. In 2012, the team came together aga
"On Onions" is a photographic study of onions by Israeli-born artist Elad Lassry (born 1977). Characteristically highlighting the spectrum of hues and shapes for the vegetable, Lassry's selected taxon
In the spring of 1624 the painter Anthony Van Dyck (1599 -1641) moved from Genoa to Palermo in Sicily. Soon after Van Dyck's arrival, plague struck Palermo and most of the population died. In the same
Since 2004, the French artist JR has traveled the world flyposting colossal black-and-white portraits of ordinary citizens on the walls of city buildings. His most recent project, "The Wrinkles of the
Piero Gilardi (born 1942) looms large in the annals of the European postwar avant-garde. A pioneer of Arte Povera and a promoter of Richard Long and Jan Dibbets, who also introduced American artists s
This volume presents a seven-year project by Lebanese photographer Ziad Antar (born 1978), for which he recorded the coastline of the United Arabic Emirates between 2004 and 2011. "Portrait of a Terri
From its early Mento (Jamaican Calypso) beginnings through to the invention of Ska, Rocksteady, Roots, Dub and Dancehall, Jamaican music is one of the richest and innovative veins in popular music. Th
Since its formation in 1987, Critical Art Ensemble has set out to explore the intersections between art, critical theory, technology and political activism. Composed of a revolving cast of media pract
The Brooklyn-based Jonny Negron, editor of the ongoing anthology zine "Chameleon," emerged in 2011 as a web sensation, appearing in many anthologies and the subject of numerous features in "Vice Magaz
In the decades around 1900, postcards were Twitter, email, Flickr and Facebook, all wrapped into one. A postcard craze swept the world, and billions of cards were bought, mailed and pasted into albums
Finnish video artist and photographer Eija-Liisa Ahtila (born 1959) tells the stories of ordinary human beings undergoing what seem to be bouts of insanity or supernatural occurrence. This volume reco
This signed and numbered deluxe edition reintroduces the Cuban photographs of Andrew Moore (born 1957). Taken from 1998 to 2012, "Cuba" offers a series of poignant interiors that display the changing
Undertaken in the wake of the 2009 financial crisis, Jacqueline Hassink's "The Table of Power 2" portrays desks and tables in the headquarters of 50 companies listed by "Fortune" magazine as the globa
This beautifully designed volume comprises an overview of French artist, sculptor and photographer Jean-Marc Bustamante (born 1952), who since the early 1980s has frequently incorporated ornamental an
This volume gathers Rainer Ganahl's numerous works devoted to Alfred Jarry, the playwright, novelist, avid cyclist and chief theorist of Pataphysics. Ganahl, in whose art bicycles are a recurrent moti
"Hong Kong Artists" is the first international publication dedicated to a new generation born between the late 70s and early 80s, currently emerging in the Hong Kong art scene. This catalogue introduc
Norwegian photographer Dag Alveng's new project, "Racing," has allowed him to combine his vocation of photography with his passion for car racing (specifically 1980s Italian motorcars). Alveng's lustr
Doug Rickard's "A New American Picture" offers a startling and fresh perspective on American street photography. While at first glance the work looks reassuringly familiar and well within the traditio
This volume records two recent Demand projects: "Embassy" (2007) and "Presidency" (2008). For both series, Demand used images of an embassy interior and the Oval Office at the White House, and laborio
Comprised of Nicholas Aoki, Stephen Appleby-Barr, Christopher Buchan, Lauchie Reid and Jacob Whibley, the Canadian collective Team Macho spans the worlds of both fine art and illustration, producing w
