Documents an innovative project from the Spanish Royal Academy in Rome - the creation of a Pop-Up store. This volume showcases each project featured in the pop-up store, and provides a brief introduct
For the Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto, who defines himself as a sculptor, his works are created to be passed through, lived in, felt and even smelt, which enables the spectator to experience their own
Poetry. Art. A BOOK OF GLYPHS is a facsimile, color reproduction of legendary author, musician and Fugs founder Ed Sanders' first book-length work of glyphs, which he created in Florence, Italy in 200
In this remarkable pseudo-documentary and biography, Sara Macel followed her father, a traveling salesman, on his trips across the United States.May the Road Rise Up To Meet You evokes "a fee
International Art in Germany. The 45 young artists featured in this second instalment of the survey exhibition Made In Germany, hail not just from German cities, but also from places like Warsaw and T
This book, is a study of graffiti and street calligraphy in the city of Tijuana. It includes texts that explore the concepts used in the interpretation of the border world of acculturation, cross-cult
Room of Rhythms 1. Part of an ongoing exploration, Room of Rhythms 1 is based on a conversation between Cevdet Erek and Duygu Demir that reflects on themes of sound, architecture, rhythm, measured tim
In 1964, Calvin Tomkins spent a number of afternoons interviewing Marcel Duchamp in his apartment on West 10th Street in New York. Casual yet insightful, Duchamp reveals himself as a man and an artist
This volume introduces a new body of work by Danish artist Sergej Jensen (born 1973). Known for his minimalist textile works and paintings, over a five-year period Jensen produced nearly 200 witty, su
Guide. Ondks artistic production consists in an analysis of the several facets of daily life, in its less loud details and in its more ordinary aspects, which emerge from the blurry background to whic
The Polish sculptor Alina Szapocznikow (1926-1973) has been the subject of renewed and intense interest over the past few years, with much anticipation of her major touring U.S. survey in 2012/2013. S
From Raymond Loewy's austere "Form 2000" teapot set of the mid-1950s to the Sgrafo vases of the 1960s and the improbable "Fat Lava" glacis of the 1970s, postwar German ceramics exhibited a tremendous
As an art critic, political essayist, playwright and poet, Ferreira Gullar (born 1930) has been a key figure in the Brazilian cultural scene of the last 60 years. His extensive poetic output has been
For more than half a century, the German artist Barbara Schmidt Heins has drawn upon the energies of media-fragmented language and a style of abstraction informed by the urgencies of city living. Her
Laura Owens (born 1970) is one of the most vital artists to emerge from the 1990s Los Angeles art scene, and a refreshingly uplifting presence in the world of contemporary painting. Her deceptively ro
This volume pairs two Swiss artists with a profound debt to Pop art: first-generation Pop painter/sculptor Peter Stampfli (born 1937) and the younger sculptor Davide Cascio (born 1976). Both draw on a
What prompts architects, at any given moment in history and in any given culture, to return to the architectural past for inspiration? "Dash 06: Living in a New Past" investigates, in essays by Nelson
Lotte Reiniger (1899-1981) is a much loved figure in the early history of animated film. At an early age Reiniger discovered the Chinese art of silhouette puppetry, and made her first silhouettes for
"Loop" documents Slovak conceptual artist Roman Ondak's project for the Czech and Slovak pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2010. Ondak created a work that hides in plain sight by removing the do
The Zonnestraal Sanatorium is an icon of the Nieuwe Bouwen that is recognized the world over. Designed in 1926 by the architects Jan Duiker and Bernard Bijvoet, the ensemble of buildings is a national
The artists of the show have worked for many years in the context of the natural sciences, research, and ecology. For the Hildesheim exhibition they have taken up topics from the museum's geological c
Two masterpieces of architecture in Chile are presented in this first volume of the O'Neil Ford Duograph series: a house facing the Pacific Ocean on the spectacular Chilean coast and the new crypt for
Some of the first mummies, monumental sculptures, and other ancient Egyptian artifacts to come to America became part of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston's holdings as early as 1872. Today, the MFA's E
On a summer morning in 1833, Thomas Cole, a British-born, American landscape painter climbed to the top of Mount Holyoke in central Massachusetts and made a sketch of the Connecticut River where it be
Born in Piraeus in 1936 but living in Rome since the mid-fifties, Jannis Kounellis is considered one of the pioneers of Arte Povera, a movement which seeks to construct installations using cheap and p
Despite a career that was curtailed at the age of 29, Vladimir Jindrich Bufka (1887-1916) was one of the most distinctive early-twentieth-century art photographers in Prague and indeed in all of Austr
For Sarah Christianson, home is a 1,200-acre farm in the Red River Valley of North Dakota. Her parents are the fourth, and last, consecutive generation to work this land. She combined her images with
Brinkman & Van der Vlugt (1925-1936) is best known for the Van Nelle factory in Rotterdam and the standard Dutch telephone box, which was used for over 50 years. This publication offers a complete
Pop music fans know him as the guitarist and keyboardist of the chart-topping 1980s band a-ha, but Magne Furuholmen (born 1962) has been working as a visual artist for decades, in painting, ceramics,
The third in a trilogy of books addressing marginality and outsider art as an artistic position, "Mad Marginal Number 3" looks at the work of Spanish artist Dora Garcia (born 1965), who explores the l
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
"Gestalt Forms of Loch Ness" gathers ten years of research into the Loch Ness monster by Irish artist Gerard Byrne (born 1969). Using both the populist literature spawned by the Loch Ness myth and his
Tatiana Bilbao's single-family house on a lake front in the Mexican state of Jalisco and Derek Dellekamp's medium-rise apartment building at the center of Mexico City are the focus of this fourth publ
Mai-Thu Perret's earliest project was "The Crystal Frontier," comprised of writings and objects that describe the lives of a group of women living in a utopian commune in the New Mexico desert. This v
Figure out Figure in. On the occasion of the exhibition of his work at the Louvre in Paris, Cragg presents eight recent sculptures in the Cour Marly and the Cour Puget classical sculpture galleries, a
Both a prelude and a continuation to Paul Ruiz's film, Treasure Island, made in 1984, this text presents itself as the follow up, or rather, a pursuit of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel. A formidable e
A Palestinian living in New York, Emily Jacir became known for her text and photo piece "Where We Come From" (2003), which was shown in the 2004 Whitney Biennial. The work documents Jacir's travels th
For the artist Paulien Oltheten (b. Nijmegen, 1982) the street is her chosen sphere of activity. This volume brings together more than 100 of her photos, film stills and drawings. Each one is an obser
In the present volume, Rivero Lake deals with the activities of people from New Spain in Japan and he also describes the reactions to the first Japanese visitors who arrived in Acapulco in ships they
There is a conspiracy painted in Rembrandt's The Nightwatch. The sinister title of the painting alone suggests we should look for it. And we should listen too to the sound-track of the painting. Among
