Italian photographer Walter Niedermayr (born 1952) has been documenting alpine landscapes since the late 1980s, calling attention to their fragility and exploring the issues surrounding the presence o
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
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
Hyper Real Reader. Even more so than Pop Art, photorealist painting and sculpture effectively represents the typically American element in Western postwar art.While subsequently exerting a broad influ
Esther McCoy (1904–89) was a keen literary stylist, perceptive architectural historian, and attentive witness to the birth of midcentury modernist design. McCoy’s impressive writing life spanned sixty
Norwegian-born painter Kjell Torriset (born 1950) combines fragmented figuration--primarily of nudes--with abstract signs, geometric shapes and words, dispersing them across a groundless backdrop to e
Since 2009, photographer Armin Linke and architect Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss have been documenting ex-Yugoslav Socialist architecture-buildings that were either left vacant or only recently repurposed wh
Over the past six years, documentary photographer and architectural historian Julia Reyes Taubman has taken more than 30,000 photographs across the sprawled terrain of Detroit, ambitiously mapping out
In Extremis is a cartography of contemporary global architecture, focusing upon the close relationship between different building types and the landscapes in which they are situated, illuminating the
Morphologie City Metaphors. Raising Frankenstein presents compelling new writing that explores the education and formation of curators. This book offers an overview of recent thinking on curatorial pe
Since the 1990s, "banquete" (a multidisciplinary collaboration between artists, scientists and other thinkers, named for the Spanish word for feast, banquet) has aimed to explore the convergences amon
Photographer Hiroshi Watanabe's digital pictures range from seemingly ordinary details of quotidian life to poetic visual metaphors. "Ominous and touching,"The Day the Dam Collapses
In 2012, seven major Dutch urban development projects were presented at the fifth International Architecture Biennale in Rotterdam. The projects include the Zuidas business district in Amsterdam and t
Though stylistically distinct, the architects Solano Benitez (born 1963) and Javier Coravalan (born 1962) are brought together by the cultural context of their mutual homeland, Paraguay. In this publi
Outlining planes and volumes in space with the humblest of materials, American artist Fred Sandback's (1943-2003) work makes ingenious use of the Minimalist artistic vocabulary. Though Sandback employ
"David Smith: Points of Power" is the first publication to trace the figurative impulse running throughout the oeuvre of Abstract Expressionist sculptor and painter David Smith (1906-1965). Beautifull
The Berlin-based duo Romy and Stef Richter, aka Burghard, devise installations composed of everyday/office materials such as blackboards, desks, books, projectors etc, which effect tensions between ob
The abstractions of Madrid-based painter Prudencio Irazabal (born 1954), achieve exquisite effects of luminous blur and throbbing color, often evoking the amorphous light effects of sunlight on closed
This colorful volume examines the use of rapid prototyping and manufacturing technologies in the development of new, cutting-edge architectural processes. Beginning with a discussion of the theory beh
Dutch artist Fransje Killaars (born 1959) is internationally renowned for her enormous installations of brightly colored textiles. Initially influenced by virtuosos of bold color such as Matisse and E
In 1971, Harald Szeemann invited the American sculptor and installation pioneer Paul Thek to contribute to Documenta 5. Szeemann had named one section of the Documenta "Individual Mythologies," descri
"Elmgreen & Dragset: Performances 1995-2011" showcases 43 performances and live works by Danish-Norwegian artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset, marking the first time the artists' practice is conside
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
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
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
As a pioneering conceptual artist, performance artist, film-maker, poet, musician, writer and peace activist for over five decades, Yoko Ono (born 1933) has influenced several generations of artists,
Celebrated Austrian artist Christian Eisenberger (born 1978) does not wait for exhibitions. Instead, he presents his provocative objects and drawings for immediate public display, on the street or in
Familiar paintings by such masters as Rembrandt, Vermeer, Ingres and Picasso are craftily reinterpreted by Leipzig painter Jochen Plogsties (born 1974) in this introductory monograph. He "copies" in o
A stool with a prosthetic limb; a row of vitrified eyeballs; pairs of marching, transparent thermoplastic shoes: from his earliest paintings to his recent installations and kinetic sculptures, Indian
Since the late 1970s, Allan McCollum (born 1944) has addressed the anthropology of art: its distribution, acquisition, display and interpretation. From his first "Surrogate Paintings" (1978-82) to his
The mobile phone, coupled with social networking sites like Facebook, has radically transformed point-and-shoot photography. German artist Nicolaus Schmidt (born 1953) zeros in on this paradigm shift
Dense, meticulous cross-hatching covers the surfaces of Moussa Kone's detailed ink drawings, which depict surreal, allegorical scenes of human folly and bizarre plights. Images of megalomania, herd be
This fourth installation in the "World Images" series (begun in 2005) accompanies the exhibition at Helmhaus Zurich and includes photographic series by Darren Almond, Edward Burtynsky, Georg Gatsas, A
The legendary art collective Nul was founded in Amsterdam in 1961. Its members--Armando, Jan Henderikse, Henk Peeters, Jan Schoonhoven and (briefly) Herman de Vries--revolutionized Dutch art, allying
Borrowing the strategy of a commercial perfume launch, Francesco Vezzoli (born 1971) created a signature perfume called "Greed" and commissioned Roman Polanski to direct a 60-second commercial starrin
This slim, beautifully designed hardback monograph surveys the most recent abstractions of German painter Frank Maier (born 1966). It reproduces his hard-edged, mostly pink, beige and black geometric
Broken Screen is a manifesto for navigating the future of communication. In twenty-six candid conversations, this book gives insight into the personal thoughts and motivations of leading artists, fil
Imaging Eden presents an overview of the Everglades—one of the most contested and unique environments on the planet—alongside new approaches to photographing the vast wetlands system.Bocamag noted the
Mariette Pathy Allen documents the transgender community of Cuba that is growing in visibility and acceptance. Under a slowly evolving model of communism, "the women [inTranscuba] are engaged
Following the success of Hans Ulrich Obrist's "A Brief History of Curating," this publication gathers the influential curator's interviews with some of the foremost musicians and composers of the 1950
