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Amy Sillman: Faux Pas Edited by Charlotte Houette, François Lancien-Guilberteau, Benjamin Thorel. Foreword by Lynne Tillman.

This new edition of Faux Pas, the acclaimed collection of writings by Amy Sillman, comes as an expanded edition, with the addition of new essays, including recent texts on Paul Cézanne, Carolee Schneemann, Elizabeth Murray >>more
After 8 Books
ISBN 9782492650048
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Pbk, 4.75 x 7.25 in. / 288 pgs / 60 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/03/2023 In stock

Curating Digital Art Edited by Annet Dekker.

What is the role of the curator when organizing digital art exhibitions in offline and online spaces? Analyzing the influence and impact of curating digital art through more than 20 interviews with artists and curators >>more
Valiz
ISBN 9789493246010
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Pbk, 5.5 x 9.5 in. / 256 pgs / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/23/2021 In stock

Cyberfeminism Index Edited with introduction by Mindy Seu. Foreword by Julianne Pierce of VNS Matrix. Afterword by Legacy Russell.

When learning about internet history, we are taught to focus on engineering, the military-industrial complex and the grandfathers who created the architecture and protocol, but the internet is not only a network of cables, servers >>more
Inventory Press
ISBN 9781941753514
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 608 pgs / 80 color / 450 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/17/2023 In stock

Hidden in Plain Sight: Selected Writings of Karin Higa Edited with introduction by Julie Ault. Foreword by Pamela M. Lee.

Edited by artist, curator, writer and editor Julie Ault, Hidden in Plain Sight brings together essential writings by the trailblazing art historian and curator Karin Higa (1966–2013). The selected essays, written between 1992 and 2011, >>more
Dancing Foxes Press
ISBN 9781954947023
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Hbk, 6.75 x 9 in. / 416 pgs / 150 color / 80 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/03/2023 In stock

High Entertainment By David Robbins. Edited by Nihaal Faizal, Sarasija Subramanian.

David Robbins’ latest book, High Entertainment, argues for a new kind of cultural production that combines the experimental ethos of art with the accessibility of entertainment. It eschews the specialized language on which art has >>more
Reliable Copy
ISBN 9788195347247
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Pbk, 4.75 x 7 in. / 120 pgs / 19 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/09/2024 In stock

Lastgaspism: Art and Survival in the Age of Pandemic Edited by Anthony Romero, Daniel Tucker, Dan S. Wang. Text by Kimberly Bain, Sandra de la Loza, Cheryl Derricotte, DS4SI (Kenneth Bailey and Lori Lobenstine), Erin Genia, Pato Hebert, Damon Locks, Kelli Morgan, Karthik Pandian.

Collecting interviews, critical essays and artist portfolios, Lastgaspism considers matters of life and death in relation to breath, both allegorical and literal. Bringing into mutual proximity the ecological, political, public health and spiritual crises of >>more
Soberscove Press
ISBN 9781940190310
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9 in. / 200 pgs / 39 color / 5 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2022 In stock

Let's Have a Talk: Conversations with Women on Art and Culture Interviews by Lauren O'Neill-Butler.

This massive volume comprises over 80 interviews published across a 13-year span of Lauren O’Neill-Butler’s career as a writer, educator, editor and cofounder of November magazine. The majority of the interviews first appeared on Artforum.com’s >>more
Karma Books, New York
ISBN 9781949172539
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9 in. / 456 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/15/2022 In stock

Let's Become Fungal! By Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez. Illustrations by Rommy González.

The enormous popular interest in the world of fungi and the mycelium testifies to its tremendous resonance as a metaphor for new ways of thinking, new systems and behaviors. Taking its inspiration from this world, >>more
Valiz
ISBN 9789493246287
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 336 pgs / 50 color / 80 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/24/2023 In stock

Living with Ghosts: A Reader Edited with text and interview by KJ Abudu. Interview by Bouchra Khalili.

Featuring republished texts by seminal theorists of the 20th and 21st centuries and newly commissioned essays by some of today’s leading artists and writers, Living with Ghosts: A Reader explores the ways that Africa’s unresolved >>more
Pace Publishing
ISBN 9781948701594
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 160 pgs / 37 color.
Pub Date: 04/04/2023 In stock

Museum of the Future: Now What? Edited with introduction by Cristina Bechtler, Dora Imhof. Text by Chris Dercon, Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Gathering together fresh perspectives from more than 25 leading art and museum figures—including artists, architects, curators and museum directors—from all over the world, this collection of interviews and contributions shares idiosyncratic views, feedback and visions >>more
JRP|Editions
ISBN 9783037645697
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 208 pgs / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/15/2022 In stock

Queer Exhibition Histories Edited with text by Bas Hendrikx. Text by Aaron Betsky, Övül Durmusoglu, Aleksandra Gajowy, Halyna Gleba, Jessica Gysel, Valentina Iancu, Ryan Kearney, Katrin Kivimaa, Léon Kruijswijk, Élisabeth Lebovici, Edwin Nasr, François Piron, Sylvia Sadzinski, Kateryna Yakovlenko, Liang-Kai Yu, et al.

This anthology gathers case studies from the history of queer art exhibitions and their modes of documentation and archiving. The legacy of these projects often depends on personal archives, and consequently "public" is a relative >>more
Valiz
ISBN 9789493246133
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9 in. / 256 pgs / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/03/2023 In stock

Seeing <—> Making: Room for Thought By Susan Buck-Morss, Kevin McCaughey, Adam Michaels.

Renowned philosopher Susan Buck-Morss collaborates with Kevin McCaughey of Boot Boyz Biz and Adam Michaels of Inventory Press on this experimental image-text renewal of McLuhan, Berger and Benjamin.
Seeing Making: Room for Thought both studies >>more
Inventory Press
ISBN 9781941753538
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Pbk, 4.75 x 7.75 in. / 400 pgs / 600 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/09/2024 Out of stock

The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues By András Szántó.

2020 ushered in a new decade and with it a series of unforeseen events that have reoriented the future. As the coronavirus forced businesses and institutions to close all over the world, museums likewise shuttered. >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775748278
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Pbk, 4.75 x 7.5 in. / 320 pgs / 30 color.
Pub Date: 01/12/2021 In stock

The Invisible Dragon By Dave Hickey. Edited with afterword by Gary Kornblau.

The 30th anniversary cloth edition brings back into print Dragon’s four essays on beauty and commingles them with newly discovered essays by the MacArthur Foundation “genius.” Art by Caravaggio, Bellini, Velázquez, Raphael, Warhol and Mapplethorpe >>more
Art Issues Press
ISBN 9798987596500
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Clth, 5.75 x 9 in. / 160 pgs / 10 color / 4 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/24/2023 In stock

The Outwardness of Art: Selected Writings of Adrian Stokes Edited with introduction by Thomas Evans.

Immensely influential and beloved by artists, writers and theorists alike, Adrian Stokes (1902–72) was the last of the great British amateur art historians in the tradition of Ruskin and Berenson, and—as the first art theorist >>more
Ridinghouse
ISBN 9781909932487
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Pbk, 6 x 8.5 in. / 592 pgs.
Pub Date: 04/21/2020 In stock

The Pragmatism in the History of Art By Molly Nesbit.

First published in 2013 and quickly going out of print, Molly Nesbit’s The Pragmatism in the History of Art traces the questions that modern art history and theory has used to make sense of the >>more
Inventory Press
ISBN 9781941753279
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Hbk, 6 x 9 in. / 128 pgs / 15 color / 17 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/04/2020 In stock

The Sounding Cosmos By Sixten Ringbom. Foreword by Daniel Birnbaum, Julia Voss. Translation by Ruth Urbom.

For many years, relatively few people knew of spiritualism’s impact on the birth of abstract art. But when the Finnish art historian Sixten Ringbom’s book The Sounding Cosmos was published in 1970, the writing of >>more
Bokförlaget Stolpe
ISBN 9789189425354
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Hbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 350 pgs / 100 color / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/21/2022 In stock

Whitewalling: Art, Race & Protest in 3 Acts By Aruna D'Souza.

In 2017, the Whitney Biennial included a painting by a white artist, Dana Schutz, of the lynched body of a young black child, Emmett Till. In 1979, anger brewed over a show at New York’s >>more
Badlands Unlimited
ISBN 9781943263141
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 160 pgs.
Pub Date: 05/22/2018 In stock

Why Art Criticism? A Reader Edited by Beate Söntgen, Julia Voss.

This reader puts into conversation a diverse range of perspectives in art theory and history, with texts from the 18th century to the present. Editors Beate Söntgen and Julia Voss have invited art theorists from >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775750745
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 464 pgs / 30 color.
Pub Date: 06/28/2022 In stock

Wicked Arts Assignments Edited with text by Emiel Heijnen, Melissa Bremmer. Interviews by Pavčl van Houten, Jorge Lucero, Nina Paim, Erik Schrooten, Stephanie Springgay.

The almost 100 arts assignments compiled in this instructive new volume are designed to foster cross-disciplinary creativity in the visual arts, performance, theater, music and design. Everyone who teaches the arts knows the value of >>more
Valiz
ISBN 9789492095756
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Pbk, 6 x 8.75 in. / 304 pgs / 140 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/02/2021 In stock

JRP Documents

THE YUGOSLAV ART SPACE: DENEGRI IN THE FIRST PERSON
Edited with text by Jelena Vesic, Branislav Dimitrijevic. Text by Ješa Denegri. Postface by Boris Groys.
JRP|EDITIONS
ISBN: 9783037645925 | US $29.95
Pub Date: 1/28/2025
Forthcoming
DESIGN AS AN ATTITUDE: NEW EDITION
By Alice Rawsthorn. Edited by Clément Dirié.
JRP|EDITIONS
ISBN: 9783037645826 | US $29.95
Pub Date: 12/27/2022
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RESISTANCE ANEW
Edited with text by Bernard Fibicher.
JRP|EDITIONS
ISBN: 9783037645802 | US $29.95
Pub Date: 7/12/2022
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MUSEUM OF THE FUTURE: NOW WHAT?
Edited with introduction by Cristina Bechtler, Dora Imhof. Text by Chris Dercon, Hans Ulrich Obrist.
JRP|EDITIONS
ISBN: 9783037645697 | US $29.95
Pub Date: 3/15/2022
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MINOR CINEMA: EXPERIMENTAL FILM IN SWITZERLAND
Edited with text by François Bovier, Adeena Mey, Thomas Schärer, Fred Truniger. Text by Renate Buschmann, Marcy Goldberg, Ute Holl, Ian Wooldridge.
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783037645505 | US $29.95
Pub Date: 10/27/2020
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AN ASSOCIATIVE ART HISTORY
By Tomáš Pospiszyl. Edited by Vít Havránek. Text by Sven Spieker.
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783037645178 | US $29.95
Pub Date: 4/24/2018
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THE INDIAN FILES
Edited by Clément Dirié, Shanay Jhaveri. Text by Shanay Jhaveri, Hans Ulrich Obrist.
JRP|EDITIONS
ISBN: 9783037645000 | US $29.95
Pub Date: 1/21/2025
Forthcoming
WRITINGS ON WADE GUYTON
Edited by Tim Griffin. Text by Daniel Baumann, Johanna Burton, Bettina Funcke, John Kelsey, Vincent Pécoil, Scott Rothkopf, et al.
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783037644737 | US $29.95
Pub Date: 4/24/2018
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SPACESCAPES DANCE & DRAWING
Edited with text by Sarah Burkhalter, Laurence Schmidlin. Text by Gabriele Brandstetter, Pauline Chevalier, et al. Interviews with Cindy Van Acker, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, et al.
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783037644690 | US $29.95
Pub Date: 5/23/2017
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CINEMA IN THE EXPANDED FIELD
Edited by François Bovier, Adeena Mey. Text by Xavier García Bardón, François Bovier, Érik Bullot, et al.
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783037644331 | US $29.95
Pub Date: 3/22/2016
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HANS ULRICH OBRIST: THE CZECH FILES
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783037643877 | US $29.95
Pub Date: 2/24/2015
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MUSEUM OF THE FUTURE
Edited by Cristina Bechtler, Dora Imhof. Text by John Baldessari, Bice Curiger, Chris Dercon, et al.
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783037643839 | US $29.95
Pub Date: 2/24/2015
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PARACHUTE: THE ANTHOLOGY, VOL. III
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783037643822 | US $29.95
Pub Date: 2/24/2015
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JEFF DERKSEN: AFTER EUPHORIA
Edited by Kathy Slade. Text by Jeff Derksen.
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783037641972 | US $29.95
Pub Date: 3/31/2014
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PARACHUTE: THE ANTHOLOGY, VOLUME II
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783037642832 | US $29.95
Pub Date: 3/31/2014
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MORE THAN YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT JOHN BALDESSARI
Edited by Meg Cranston, Hans Ulrich Obrist.
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783037642566 | US $29.95
Pub Date: 9/30/2013
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CONTEMPORARY ART THEORY
By Igor Zabel. Edited by Igor Spanjol.
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783037642382 | US $29.95
Pub Date: 3/31/2013
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ART IS A PROBLEM
By Joshua Decter. Edited by John Miller.
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783037641958 | US $29.95
Pub Date: 3/31/2014
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF NEW MUSIC
Edited by Lionel Bovier.
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783037641903 | US $29.95
Pub Date: 3/31/2014
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MORE THAN YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT JOHN BALDESSARI
Edited by Meg Cranston, Hans Ulrich Obrist.
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783037641927 | US $29.95
Pub Date: 11/30/2013
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BETWEEN THE IMAGES
By Raymond Bellour. Edited by Lionel Bovier.
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783037641446 | US $29.95
Pub Date: 1/31/2013
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TIME ACTION VISION
By Christian Höller. Edited by Anne-Julie Raccoursier.
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783037641248 | US $29.95
Pub Date: 8/31/2010
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF CURATING
Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist.
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783905829556 | US $24.95
Pub Date: 10/1/2008
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Valiz Antennae

THE AESTHETICS OF AMBIGUITY
Edited with text by Nav Haq, Pascal Gielen. Text by Paolo Favero, Christine Greiner, Max Haiven, Hedwig Houben, You Mi, Bojana Piškur, Public Movement.
VALIZ/ANTENNAE-ARTS IN SOCIETY SERIES
ISBN: 9789492095763 | US $27.50
Pub Date: 2/2/2021
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THE FUTURE OF THE NEW
VALIZ/ANTENNAE
ISBN: 9789492095589 | US $28.95
Pub Date: 1/22/2019
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IMAGINATIVE BODIES
Edited by Lisa Marie Bowler. Text by Guy Cools. Interviews with Sue Buckmaster, Jonathan Burrows, Rosemary Butcher, Dana Caspersen, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Jonzi D, et al.
VALIZ/ANTENNAE SERIES
ISBN: 9789492095206 | US $25.00
Pub Date: 2/28/2017
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THE PRACTICE OF DRAMATURGY
Edited by Konstantina Georgelou, Efrosini Protopapa, Danae Theodoridou. Text by Una Bauer, Simon Bayly, Andrea Boži´c, Nicola Conibere, Guy Cools, et al.
VALIZ/ANTENNAE SERIES
ISBN: 9789492095183 | US $25.00
Pub Date: 2/28/2017
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THE PERFECT SPECTATOR
By Janneke Wesseling.
VALIZ/VIS-ŕ-VIS
ISBN: 9789080818507 | US $30.00
Pub Date: 10/24/2017
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MOBILE AUTONOMY
Edited by Nico Dockx, Pascal Gielen. Text by A Dog Republic, Nico Dockx, Jef Geys, Pascal Gielen, Erik Hagoort, Thomas Hirschhorn, et al.
VALIZ/ANTENNAE SERIES
ISBN: 9789492095107 | US $28.95
Pub Date: 4/26/2016
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IN-BETWEEN DANCE CULTURES
By Guy Cools.
VALIZ/ANTENNAE SERIES
ISBN: 9789492095114 | US $25.00
Pub Date: 4/26/2016
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INTERRUPTING THE CITY
Edited by Sander Bax, Pascal Gielen, Bram Ieven. Text by Sander Bax, Bojana Cveji´c, Lieven De Cauter, Pascal Gielen, Odile Heynders, Bram Ieven, Vanessa Joosen, Jenniffer Miller, et al.
VALIZ/ANTENNAE SERIES
ISBN: 9789492095022 | US $28.95
Pub Date: 4/26/2016
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THE MURMURING OF THE ARTISTIC MULTITUDE
Text by Pascal Gielen.
VALIZ/ANTENNAE SERIES
ISBN: 9789492095046 | US $28.95
Pub Date: 9/29/2015
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SPACES FOR CRITICISM
Edited by Pascal Gielen, Thijs Lijster, Suzana Milevska, Ruth Sonderegger. Text by Luc Boltanski, Sabeth Buchmann, Robin Celikates, et al.
VALIZ/ANTENNAE SERIES
ISBN: 9789078088752 | US $28.95
Pub Date: 12/29/2015
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NO CULTURE, NO EUROPE
Edited by Pascal Gielen. Text by Rosi Braidotti, Kurt De Boodt, Pascal Gielen, et al.
VALIZ/ANTENNAE SERIES
ISBN: 9789492095039 | US $28.95
Pub Date: 9/29/2015
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AESTHETIC JUSTICE
Edited by Pascal Gielen, Niels Van Tomme. Text by Zoe Beloff, Arne De Boever, Mark Fisher, et al.
VALIZ/ANTENNAE SERIES
ISBN: 9789078088868 | US $28.95
Pub Date: 3/24/2015
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THE ETHICS OF ART
VALIZ/ANTENNAE SERIES
ISBN: 9789078088875 | US $28.95
Pub Date: 9/30/2014
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DREAD
VALIZ/ANTENNAE SERIES
ISBN: 9789078088813 | US $28.95
Pub Date: 2/28/2014
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PARTICIPATION IS RISKY
Edited by Liesbeth Huybrechts. Text by Liesbeth Huybrechts, Cristiano Storni, Yanki Lee, Selina Schepers, Jessica Schoffelen, Katrien Dreessen.
VALIZ/ANTENNAE SERIES
ISBN: 9789078088776 | US $28.95
Pub Date: 4/30/2014
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INSTITUTIONAL ATTITUDES
VALIZ/ANTENNAE SERIES
ISBN: 9789078088684 | US $28.95
Pub Date: 7/31/2013
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Afterall Exhibition Histories

ART AND ITS WORLDS: EXHIBITIONS, INSTITUTIONS AND ART BECOMING PUBLIC
Introduction by Charles Esche, Lucy Steeds, David Morris.
WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN/AFTERALL BOOKS
ISBN: 9783960989172 | US $35.00
Pub Date: 11/9/2021
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ARTIST-TO-ARTIST: INDEPENDENT ART FESTIVALS IN CHIANG MAI 1992–98
Edited with text by David Teh. Text by Patrick D. Flores, May Adadol Ingawanij, Uthit Athimana, Thasnai Sethaseree.
KOENIG BOOKS
ISBN: 9783960982296 | US $29.95
Pub Date: 2/19/2019
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ANTI-SHOWS
Edited with text by Margarita Tupitsyn, Victor Tupitsyn. Introduction by David Morris. Text by Valerie Smith, et al.
AFTERALL BOOKS
ISBN: 9783960980230 | US $27.50
Pub Date: 9/26/2017
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EXHIBITION, DESIGN, PARTICIPATION
Edited with text by Elena Crippa. Text by David Sylvester, Martin Beek, Owen Hatherly, Lucy Steeds.
AFTERALL BOOKS
ISBN: 9783863358976 | US $27.50
Pub Date: 9/27/2016
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CULTURAL ANTHROPOPHAGY
Introduction by Pablo Lafuente. Text by Lisette Lagnado, Renato Sztutman, Mirtes Marins de Oliveira, Carmen Mörsch, Catrin Seefranz. Interviews by Paulo Herkenhoff.
AFTERALL BOOKS
ISBN: 9783863355548 | US $27.50
Pub Date: 10/27/2015
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EXHIBITION AS SOCIAL INTERVENTION
AFTERALL BOOKS
ISBN: 9783863354480 | US $27.50
Pub Date: 10/31/2014
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