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Curatorial and Museum Studies

            

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Archives & Utopia
Archives & Utopia
Edited by Stefan Aue, Lama El Khatib. Text by Ariella Azoulay, Paul Scheerbart.

Traditional archivism runs the risk of perpetuating hegemonic ways of thinking by anticipating what will be of importance in the future through the framework of present-day realities and power structures. These genre-busting ruminations gather new >>more

Spector Books
ISBN 9783959055260
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 80 pgs / 40 color.
Pub Date: 05/27/2025 Awaiting stock


Dia: An Introduction to Dia's Locations and Sites
Dia: An Introduction to Dia's Locations and Sites
Edited by Kamilah N. Foreman, Matilde Guidelli-Guidi, Sophia Larigakis. Introduction by Jessica Morgan.

This handy guidebook maps Dia Art Foundation’s constellation of 12 art spaces across the globe. Designed with everyday art lovers and dedicated art tourists in mind, the book charts the institution’s bold history and experimental >>more

Dia Art Foundation
ISBN 9780944521281
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Hbk, 5.5 x 8.5 in. / 116 pgs / 65 color / 5 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/25/2024 In stock


Expanding Spatial Narratives
Expanding Spatial Narratives
Edited with text by German A. Duarte, Giulia Cordin, Davide T. Ferrando. Text by Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen, Antonio Caronia, Seung-hoon Jeong, Olivier Asselin, Warren Sack, Claire Bishop, Fabio Viola, Lev Bratishenko, et al.

Through essays by selected scholars and practitioners, this volume investigates the ways in which digital technology has deeply influenced how one produces, interacts with, and consumes artistic narratives by reformulating the notion of space.

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Mousse Publishing
ISBN 9788867495054
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Pbk, 4.75 x 6.25 in. / 288 pgs / 42 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/24/2023 Out of stock


Fabricating Wilderness
Fabricating Wilderness
Edited with text by Matt Davis. Text by Jon Christensen, Ursula K. Heise, Araceli Ramos, Allison J. Shultz, Kayce C. Bell, Karen L. Maness, Tim Bovard.

The diorama halls at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM) are among the oldest in the world, captivating Angelenos and tourists alike for over a century. Its immersive habitats range from the >>more

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
ISBN 9781646570409
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Hbk, 9.25 x 10.25 in. / 144 pgs / 183 color.
Pub Date: 09/17/2024 In stock


Falling In: Movement and Becoming in Curatorial Research
Falling In: Movement and Becoming in Curatorial Research
Edited with introduction by Dahlia El Broul, Ksenia Kaverina, Jussi Koitela. Text by Ama Josephine Budge, Diana Campbell, Sonia D’Alto, Léuli Eshr?ghi, Satu Herrala and Eva Neklyaeva, Anaďs Lepage, Miguel A. López, Nikolay Smirnov, Anna Bitkina and Maria Veits.

Published within the context of the Frame Curatorial Research Fellowship, Falling In brings together curatorial essays addressing the field’s performative, activist and communal dimensions, and highlighting the substantial amount of research beyond traditional academic circles.

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Mousse Publishing
ISBN 9788867496235
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8 in. / 192 pgs / 59 duotone.
Pub Date: 08/13/2024 Out of stock


Friedrich von Borries: Politics of Design, Design of Politics
Friedrich von Borries: Politics of Design, Design of Politics
Edited by Angelika Nollert. Text by Moritz Ahlert, Jens-Uwe Fischer, Benjamin Kasten, Anne Levy, Ingo Offermanns, Wilma Renfordt.

Asserting that “design sexualizes”, “design colonizes” and “design manipulates,” Berlin-based architect, curator and professor of design theory Friedrich von Borries (born 1974) casts a new perspective on Cola advertisements, Sony Walkmans and the Le Corbusier >>more

Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783960984672
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Pbk, 9.5 x 13.5 in. / 160 pgs / 80 color / 80 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/17/2019 Awaiting stock


Islands of Kinship: A Collective Manual for Sustainable and Inclusive Art Institutions
Islands of Kinship: A Collective Manual for Sustainable and Inclusive Art Institutions
Edited by Barbora Ciprová, Tereza Jindrová, Karina Kottová, Nikola Ludlová. Text by Ieva Astahovska, Jana Brsakoska, Veronika Cechová, Kris Dittel, Daniel Grún, Michal Klodner, et al.

Born from the platform of the same name interconnecting museum pedagogy across six European cities, Islands of Kinship provides the ethical, emotional and practical solutions needed for fair and sustainable institutional operations.

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Mousse Publishing
ISBN 9788867496341
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Pbk, 8 x 9.5 in. / 364 pgs / 73 color / 26 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/25/2025 Awaiting stock


Monumental Shadows: On Museums, Memory and the Making of History
Monumental Shadows: On Museums, Memory and the Making of History
Edited with introduction by Nora Razian. Text by Haytham El Wardany, Jumana Manna, Uzma Rizvi, et al.

This volume gathers commissioned essays, interviews and visual contributions from artists and writers exploring the terrain of material heritage, colonial heritage, reparation and museology. Bringing together a multiplicity of voices and formats, the timely publication >>more

Kaph Books
ISBN 9786148035456
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Hbk, 8.75 x 11 in. / 316 pgs / 86 color / 2 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/13/2023 Out of stock


Museums from the Inside: 60 Years of CIMAM
Museums from the Inside: 60 Years of CIMAM
Introduction by Saskia Bos, Mami Kataoka. Text by Suzanne Pagé, Olle Granath, Margit Rowell, Maria de Corral, Rudi Fuchs, Toshio Hara, David Elliott, Tuula Arkio, Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, et al.

This volume is published for the 60-year celebration of the Barcelona-based CIMAM (the International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art). Through interviews with the committee’s directors and curators—including Suzanne Pagé, Rudi Fuchs, David >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775754422
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 252 pgs / 25 color.
Pub Date: 01/31/2023 In stock


Potosí Principle Archive
Potosí Principle Archive
Edited by Alice Creischer, Andreas Siekmann.

Stemming from an exhibition project begun in 2010 at the Reina Sofia and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Potosí Principle Archive collects historical and contemporary sources, interviews, essays, poems and art examining the persistence >>more

Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783753302096
US $85.00 CAN $118.00 FLAT40
Slip, pbk, 4 vols, 8.25 x 11.75 in. / 1768 pgs / 253 color / 565 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/10/2023 In stock


Practising Art Internationally
Practising Art Internationally
Edited with text by Binna Choi, Lisa Rosendahl, Grant Watson, Andrea Phillips. Text by Sara Ahmed, Rustom Bharucha, Alice Creischer, Andreas Siekmann, Matthijs de Bruijne, Kodwo Eshun, Anjalika Sagar, Leela Gandhi, Johanna Gustavsson, Christian Nyampeta, Park Chan-kyong.

Practising Art Internationally aims to detach the notion of international art practice from a rhetoric of globalization and an exclusive focus on the contemporary. It traces a new genealogy of trans-local practices and methods, presenting >>more

Valiz/Casco
ISBN 9789492095619
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Pbk, 6.25 x 8.25 in. / 192 pgs / 20 color / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/15/2025 Awaiting stock


Reshaping the Field: Arts of the African Diasporas on Display
Reshaping the Field: Arts of the African Diasporas on Display
Edited with text by Nana Adusei-Poku.

The 13th volume of Afterall Books’ Exhibition Histories series explores Black identity through key historical moments that have created ruptures in the framing of Blackness, emphasizing how Black artists have been viewed and African diasporic >>more

Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783753302386
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 268 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 04/11/2023 In stock


Seven Logics of Sculpture
Seven Logics of Sculpture
By Ernst van Alphen.

While discussions about installation art or other three-dimensional art forms are widespread, the discourse on sculpture seems to be stuck in historical or thematic frameworks. Drawing from literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis and architecture, Ernst van Alphen >>more

Valiz
ISBN 9789493246157
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 256 pgs / 200 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/13/2023 Out of stock


Thoughts Play Hide and Seek
Thoughts Play Hide and Seek
Text by Defne Ayas, Kimberly Bradley, Claudia Grimm, Philippa Halder, Mona Jas, Prem Krishnamurthy, Margaux Richet, Rebecca Raue.

Featuring works by 22 artists including Karin Sander, Ana Prvacki, Jeppe Hain and more, Thoughts Play Hide and Seek reads the art show as a landscape to move around in, using a “map of emotions” >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775757782
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Spiral bound, 8.25 x 11.25 in. / 200 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 07/23/2024 In stock


Together
Together
Text by Sabine Schaschl.

A comprehensive collection of exhibition highlights from 2015 to 2022 at Museum Haus Konstruktiv, accompanied by conversations with artists Etel Adnan, Claudia Comte, Elisabeth Goldring-Piene, Brigitte Kowanz, Alicja Kwade, Dóra Maurer, Amalia Pica and Tomás >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775753364
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Pbk, 8 x 10.75 in. / 248 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 11/08/2022 In stock


                                                                                                                                                                                                           

VISUAL BOOK INDEX | ACTIVE BACKLIST

100 Secrets of the Art World
100 Secrets of the Art World
Edited by Thomas Girst, Magnus Resch. What do major artists consider their best-kept secret? What is regarded as confidential knowledge among the key players of the global art market? In 100 Secrets of the Art World, the most powerful international individuals >>more

Koenig Books
ISBN 9783863359614
US $9.95 CAN $14.95 TRADE
Pbk, 4.75 x 6.75 in. / 144 pgs / 8 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/25/2016 In stock


A Brief History of Curating
A Brief History of Curating
Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist. Part of JRP|Ringer's innovative Documents series, published with Les Presses du Réel and dedicated to critical writings, this publication comprises a unique collection of interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist mapping the development of the curatorial >>more

JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783905829556
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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 200 pgs.
Pub Date: 10/01/2008 In stock


Abbas to Yuki
Abbas to Yuki
Edited by Anthony Huberman.

Ordered alphabetically without installation images, this anthology of essays is published for exhibitions at the CCA Wattis Institute in San Francisco between 2014 and 2019, and celebrates the wide range of voices in these curatorial >>more

Mousse Publishing
ISBN 9788867494002
US $30.00 CAN $42.00 TRADE
Pbk, 7.25 x 8.50 in. / 464 pgs / 200 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/21/2020 In stock


Among Others: Blackness at MoMA
Among Others: Blackness at MoMA
Edited with text by Darby English, Charlotte Barat. Text by Mabel O. Wilson, et al.

A New York Times critics' pick | Best Art Books 2019

This expansive collection of essays on nearly 200 works in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art is the first substantial exploration of MoMA’s >>more

The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633450349
US $65.00 CAN $82.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 10.5 in. / 488 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 08/20/2019 In stock


Art Cologne 1967–2016
Art Cologne 1967–2016
Edited by Günter Herzog, Brigitte Jacobs van Renswou. Introduction by Rudolf Zwirner. Foreword by Gerald Böse, Daniel Hug, Heinz Schnock. Now into its 50th edition, after its historical beginnings as Kunstmarkt Köln ’67, Art Cologne is still one of the most important art fairs in the world. And it still has its roots in Kunstmarkt >>more

Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783863359225
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Pbk, 8 x 10 in. / 408 pgs / 328 color / 254 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/14/2016 Out of stock


Art Life: Selected Writings 1991-2005
Art Life: Selected Writings 1991-2005
By Lawrence Rinder. Introduction by Bill Arning. Entertaining, lyrical and informative, Art Life is a selection of essays by well-known contemporary art curator Lawrence Rinder, all written since 1991. Rinder's work is distinguished by a concern for art's role in reflecting and >>more

Gregory R. Miller & Co.
ISBN 9780974364827
US $25.00 CAN $34.50 TRADE
Paperback, 7 x 9 in. / 160 pgs / 85 color.
Pub Date: 08/15/2005 In stock


Art Work
Art Work
Edited by Isabella Villafranca di Soissons.

To speak of “restoration” in relation to contemporary art seems almost oxymoronic. On the one hand, it is commonly assumed that the art produced in our own time is still too new to need conservation. >>more

Marsilio Editori
ISBN 9788831729451
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Pbk, 6.25 x 8.25 in. / 304 pgs / 107 color.
Pub Date: 02/19/2019 In stock


Art and Its Worlds: Exhibitions, Institutions and Art Becoming Public
Art and Its Worlds: Exhibitions, Institutions and Art Becoming Public
Introduction by Charles Esche, Lucy Steeds, David Morris.

This critical anthology explores the myriad histories and worlds through which art is produced and experienced. It is guided by the following questions: How are the “global” and the “located” shaped and understood in disparate >>more

Walther König, Köln/Afterall Books
ISBN 9783960989172
US $35.00 CAN $47.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 288 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 11/09/2021 In stock


Art as Urban Strategy
Art as Urban Strategy
Text by Henriette Heezen, Tom van Gestel, Nathalie Zonnenberg. Initiated in 1997, the Beyond program for the arts at Leidsche Rijn is unique in its organization and scale. This book documents the project's first decade, investigating how Beyond's flexible scenario has functioned, and analyzing >>more

nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056627058
US $40.00 CAN $54.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 6.5 x 9 in. / 188 pgs / 200 color / 25 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/31/2010 Out of stock


Artist, Authorship & Legacy: A Reader
Artist, Authorship & Legacy: A Reader
Edited with introduction by Daniel McClean. Text by Joan Kee, Donn Zaretsky, Martha Buskirk, Christian Viveros-Fauné, Nate Harrison, John C. Welchman, Lisa Rosendahl, Penelope Curtis, Alessandra Donati, Shane Burke, Guy Brett, Georgina Adam, Judith Bresler, Corinne Hershkovitch, Giuseppe Calabi, Loretta Würtenberger and Karl Von Trott Zu Solz, Christine J. Vincent, Daniel McClean, Dawn Ades, Agency, Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, Gilane Tawadros.

This anthology of interdisciplinary essays examines the interlocking themes of artistic authorship, authenticity and legacy from legal, art market and art historical perspectives. It is structured in three sections: Authorship and Artists’ Rights; The Artwork, >>more

Ridinghouse
ISBN 9781909932456
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 324 pgs.
Pub Date: 02/19/2019 In stock


Banquete: Nodes & Networks
Banquete: Nodes & Networks
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 among biological, social, technological and cultural thought, giving >>more

Turner
ISBN 9788475068459
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Hbk, 7.75 x 10 in. / 366 pgs / 270 color.
Pub Date: 09/30/2009 In stock


Better Books / Better Bookz
Better Books / Better Bookz
Edited by Rozemin Keshvani, Axel Heil, Peter Weibel. Text by Rozemin Keshvani, Barry Miles. Contributions by Stephen Dwoskin, John Hopkins, Graham Keen, Bruce Lacey, Gustav Metzger, Jeff Nuttall, Frank Popper, Criton Tomazos, Islwyn Watkins.

In the 1960s and ‘70s, the legendary independent London bookstore Better Books, located on the Charing Cross Road, was the hub for Britain’s counterculture, with the likes of Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Alexander Trocchi, >>more

Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783960984580
US $55.00 CAN $75.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 8.5 x 11.25 in. / 320 pgs / 165 color / 180 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/19/2019 Out of stock


Beyond Matter – Within Space
Beyond Matter – Within Space
Edited by Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás, Marianne Schädler.

The Beyond Matter research project (2019-23) presents their findings: examining the intertwining of physical and virtual structures and their impact on spatial aspects in art production, curating and art education. The book aims to identify >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775756167
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Pbk, 8.25 x 10.5 in. / 576 pgs / 350 color.
Pub Date: 10/31/2023 In stock


Blessing and Transgressing: A Live Institute
Blessing and Transgressing: A Live Institute
By Defne Ayas. Contributions by Eric Baudelaire, AA Bronson, Bik Van der Pol, Heman Chong, Douglas Coupland, Rana Hamadeh, Goshka Macuga, et al.

Published at the end of curator Defne Ayas’ six-year directorship of the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, this richly illustrated publication celebrates the institution’s programs and collaborations while ruminating on their >>more

Witte de With Publishers
ISBN 9789491435553
US $24.00 CAN $33.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 6.5 x 9 in. / 320 pgs / 58 color / 105 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/25/2018 In stock


Buy What You Like
Buy What You Like
Edited by Christoph Noe. Text by Lin Han, et al. The idea of this book is based on a simple question: "What are your tips, thoughts, or words of wisdom on collecting Chinese contemporary art?" Some writers contribute from an institutional background, others from a >>more

Verlag für moderne Kunst
ISBN 9783869845470
US $24.95 CAN $33.95 FLAT40
Pbk, 4 x 6.75 in. / 172 pgs.
Pub Date: 01/26/2016 In stock


Conceptual Art in a Curatorial Perspective
Conceptual Art in a Curatorial Perspective
By Nathalie Zonnenberg.

Conceptual Art in a Curatorial Perspective focuses on the curatorial practice of exhibiting conceptual art. The fact that conceptual works are frequently not object-based creates challenges when exhibiting them. This book offers various perspectives on >>more

Valiz/vis-ŕ-vis
ISBN 9789078088769
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Pbk, 6.25 x 8.25 in. / 240 pgs / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/23/2019 In stock


Condition Report
Condition Report
Edited by Koyo Kouoh. Text by Abdellah Karroum, Koyo Kouoh, Simon Njami, Oumar Sall, Françoise Vergčs, Hortensia Völckers, et al. Condition Report is a collection of essays resulting from a symposium held in Dakar in 2012. They address the changing role of art institutions and initiatives in Africa, where government-led art programs and infrastructure predominate. >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775737494
US $30.00 CAN $40.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 296 pgs / 26 color.
Pub Date: 02/28/2014 Out of stock


Conservation: MFA Highlights
Conservation: MFA Highlights
Text by Richard Newman. Though conservation plays a decisive role in the public's experience of artworks in museums, visitors are often unaware of what it takes to keep them vibrant, intact and in some cases existent, and until now >>more

MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878467297
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Pbk, 7 x 9 in. / 200 pgs / 150 color / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/31/2011 In stock


Could Have, Would Have, Should Have
Could Have, Would Have, Should Have
By Tiqui Atencio. Illustrations by Pablo Helguera. What does it take to be a serious art collector? What drives someone to go after a particular work, regardless of the cost? Tiqui Atencio has been collecting since she was 18 years old; decades >>more

Art / Books
ISBN 9781908970244
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Hbk, 6 x 9 in. / 240 pgs / 25 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/29/2016 In stock


Curating & Politics
Curating & Politics
Edited by Gerd Elise Mřrland. Text by Heidi Bale Amundsen, Ekaterina Degot, T. J. Demos, Reesa Greenberg, Gerd Elise Mřrland, Andrea Phillips, Cecilia Sjöholm. Since the 1990s, exhibition discourse has revolved around the figure of the professional curator. Consequently, curatorial politics is usually considered the direct outcome of a curator’s acts and intentions. Now, however, new institutional models and >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775740791
US $35.00 CAN $47.50 SDNR30
Pbk, 6 x 8.5 in. / 128 pgs / 30 color.
Pub Date: 03/22/2016 Out of stock


Curating Digital Art
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


Echoing Exhibition Views
Echoing Exhibition Views
Edited by A.R. Practice. Text by Melanie Bühler, Erika Landström, Agnieszka Roguski, Artists New Noveta, Yair Oelbaum, Joao Enxuto, Erica Love, Hannah Stiegeler, et al.

This publication investigates the idea of digital exhibitions, gathering artistic and theoretical reflections on post-digital culture. Contributors consider the transformative potential of exhibitions experienced individually behind screens, focusing on questions of subjectivity, technical elements, circulation >>more

Onomatopee Projects
ISBN 9789493148239
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 80 pgs / 45 color / 23 duotone / 22 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/12/2021 In stock


Endless Shout
Endless Shout
Edited with text by Anthony Elms. Text by Raúl de Nieves, Cynthia Oliver, The Otolith Group, taisha paggett. Conversations with George Lewis, Jennie C. Jones, Charles Gaines, Fred Moten, Wadada Leo Smith.

Endless Shout asks how, why and where performance and improvisation can take place inside a museum. The book documents a six-month series of experimental performances organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, >>more

Inventory Press / Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Philadelphia
ISBN 9781941753163
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Pbk, 7.25 x 9.25 in. / 226 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 05/21/2019 In stock


Exhibition as Social Intervention
Exhibition as Social Intervention
Introduction by David Morris, Paul O'Neill. Text by Joshua Decter, Helmut Draxler, Joe Scanlan, Haf?ór Yngvason. Contributions by Mary Jane Jacob and interviews with artists Mark Dion, Simon Grennan, Daniel J. Martinez, Michael Brenson. A show challenging conventional understandings of public art, Culture in Action in Chicago had a new social agenda, and rethought what an exhibition of contemporary art might be. Through eight projects by artists initiated in >>more

Afterall Books
ISBN 9783863354480
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Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 224 pgs / 72 color.
Pub Date: 10/31/2014 In stock


Exhibition, Design, Participation
Exhibition, Design, Participation
Edited with text by Elena Crippa. Text by David Sylvester, Martin Beek, Owen Hatherly, Lucy Steeds. The radical project an Exhibit (mounted in 1957 at Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London) emerged from a decade of testing the formats and possibilities of exhibition making, resulting in a >>more

Afterall Books
ISBN 9783863358976
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Pbk, 6.75 x 8 in. / 240 pgs / 75 color / 75 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/27/2016 In stock


Germano Celant: The Story of (MY) Exhibitions
Germano Celant: The Story of (MY) Exhibitions
Edited with text by Germano Celant.

When Italian art critic and curator Germano Celant died in 2020 at the age of 79, he left behind a legacy of curatorial philosophy that decisively shaped postwar art in the West, and will undoubtedly >>more

Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836647668
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Clth, 8 x 10 in. / 712 pgs / 300 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/17/2021 In stock


Great Expectations: Prospects for the Future of Curatorial Education
Great Expectations: Prospects for the Future of Curatorial Education
Edited by Leigh Markopoulos. Almost 30 years after the founding of the first curatorial studies program (at the École du Magasin, Grenoble), with the curator remaining a figure of curiosity and fascination in the contemporary art world, a new >>more

Koenig Books
ISBN 9783863359140
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Pbk, 4.75 x 7 in. / 152 pgs / 25 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/14/2016 Out of stock


Greater New York: Curatorial Roundtable
Greater New York: Curatorial Roundtable
Text by Douglas Crimp, Peter Eleey, Thomas J. Lax, Mia Locks. MoMA PS1 presents the fourth iteration of Greater New York. Recurring every five years, the exhibition has traditionally showcased the work of emerging artists living and working in the New York metropolitan area. Considering the >>more

MoMA PS1
ISBN 9780996893053
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Pbk, 5.75 x 8.75 in. / 36 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/26/2017 In stock


Harald Szeemann
Harald Szeemann
Edited by Florence Derieux. Text by Harald Szeemann, Hal Foster, Jean-Marc Poinsot, Tobia Bezzola. We owe our idea of the contemporary exhibition to Harald Szeemann--the first of the jet-setting international curators. From 1961 to 1969, he was Curator of the Kunsthalle Bern, where in 1968 he had the foresight >>more

JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783905829099
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Paperback, 6.25 x 9 in. / 240 pgs / 60 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Out of stock


Helge Achenbach: The Art Agitator
Helge Achenbach: The Art Agitator
Helge Achenbach (born 1952) is one of the world’s most prominent art consultants. He could even be described as the inventor of this métier. The Art Agitator recounts Achenbach’s experiences with famous artists over the >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775736770
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Pbk, 7.5 x 10.5 in. / 240 pgs / 198 color.
Pub Date: 02/28/2014 Out of stock


History Rising
History Rising
Edited by Marjolijn Dijkman, Jes Fernie. Text by Jonathan Watkins, Krzystof Fijalkowski, Jes Ferni.

History Rising is an engaging study of museum display by artist Marjolijn Dijkman and curator Jes Fernie. Readers are invited to reconsider their view of history by looking at the mechanisms museums put in place >>more

Onomatopee
ISBN 9789491677304
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Hbk, 9.8 x 11.2 in. / 96 pgs.
Pub Date: 10/20/2015 In stock


Imagining the Future Museum: 21 Dialogues with Architects
Imagining the Future Museum: 21 Dialogues with Architects
By András Szántó.

Following on the widely read volume The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues, New York–based author and cultural strategy advisor András Szántó turns his attention to architects. The conclusion of The Future of the Museum >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775752763
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Pbk, 4.75 x 7.5 in. / 272 pgs / 60 color.
Pub Date: 01/31/2023 In stock


JET: It's Not a Plane, It's Not a Girl's Name, It's a Book About Art
JET: It's Not a Plane, It's Not a Girl's Name, It's a Book About Art
Edited by Belinda Hak. Text by Faye Holdert, Joris de Jong, Judith Leijdekkers, Jammie Oostrum, Estra Yalçiner. Witte de With's Junior Editorial Team (JET) here gauge the the art world climate through projects and interviews with Marc Bijl, Edith Dekyndt, Tauba Auerbach, Geoffrey Farmer, Ryan Gander, Lawrence Weiner and others. >>more

Witte de With Publishers
ISBN 9789073362871
US $19.95 CAN $27.95 TRADE
Pbk, 7 x 9.5 in. / 160 pgs / 50 color / 15 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/31/2010 In stock


Jacqueline Burckhardt: My Commedia dell’Arte
Jacqueline Burckhardt: My Commedia dell’Arte
Edited with text by Theres Abbt, Mirjam Fischer. Text by Jacqueline Burckhardt, Juri Steiner, Laurie Anderson, Kurt W. Forster, Katharina Fritsch, Herbert Lachmayer, Pipilotti Rist, Ernst Gombrich.

The life of Swiss-born art historian Jacqueline Burckhardt (born 1947) is steeped in the arts: as a former restorer, as coeditor of the art journal Parkett, as curator of site-specific art on the Novartis Campus >>more

Edition Patrick Frey
ISBN 9783907236710
US $40.00 CAN $58.00 TRADE
Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 416 pgs / 333 color.
Pub Date: 07/09/2024 In stock


Joanna Drew and the Art of Exhibitions
Joanna Drew and the Art of Exhibitions
By Caroline Hancock.

This book celebrates the life and work of the English art gallery director and arts administrator Joanna Drew (1929–2003). Drew began her impressive career at the Arts Council of Great Britain in 1952 and during >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857239521
US $45.00 CAN $62.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 224 pgs / 80 color.
Pub Date: 02/19/2019 In stock


Living Museums
Living Museums
By Donatien Grau.

In his new book, French art critic Donatien Grau (born 1987) presents a case for the reconsideration of art museums as historical institutions and political forums, each one with its own rich biography.

For this ambitious >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775747530
US $22.00 CAN $31.00 TRADE
Pbk, 4.75 x 7.5 in. / 320 pgs / 186 color.
Pub Date: 10/20/2020 Out of stock


Look At Me!
Look At Me!
Edited with text by Sasa Hanten-Schmidt, Wolfgang Ullrich.

Look at Me! examines how private collections change over time through a case study of the Hanten-Schmidt collection. Sasa Hanten-Schmidt, one half of the collector couple, retraces the genealogy of the collection and describes how >>more

Spector Books
ISBN 9783959051613
US $35.00 CAN $47.50 FLAT40
Hbk, 8 x 10.75 in. / 224 pgs / 250 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/26/2018 In stock


Look at Me
Look at Me
Edited by Andrea Sick, Mona Schieren. The mechanisms of celebrity culture at the Venice Biennale are dissected in this merciless critique of art-world logic. Essays by Dorothee Albrecht, Andreas Bernhardt, Beatrice von Bismarck, Jolanka Boeke, Paola Bonino, Anna Bromley, Régis Debray, >>more

Moderne Kunst Nürnberg
ISBN 9783869841779
US $35.00 CAN $47.50 TRADE
Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 232 pgs / 50 color.
Pub Date: 08/31/2011 Out of stock


Merz World: Processing the Complicated Order
Merz World: Processing the Complicated Order
Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Adrian Notz. Text by Yona Friedman, Thomas Hirschhorn, Peter Bissegger, Karin Orchard, Gwendolen Webster. The evolving artwork and early, all-encompassing installation Merzbau was German Dadaist Kurt Schwitters’ obsession. He began building a fantastical structure inside his Hanover studio in 1923, which he conceived as a project without end. It >>more

JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783905701371
US $15.00 CAN $21.50 TRADE
Paperback, 4.25 x 6.5 in. / 124 pgs / 20 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 In stock


MoMA PS1: A History
MoMA PS1: A History
Edited by Klaus Biesenbach, Bettina Funcke. Text by Phil Aarons, Marina Abramovic, Sarah Arison, agnčs b, Linda Blumberg, Janet Cardiff, Chris Dercon, Peter Eleey, Fred Fisher, Tony Guerrero, Larissa Harris, Alanna Heiss, Jonathan Lill, Glenn D. Lowry, Warren Niesluchowski, Carolee Schneemann, Oliver Shultz, James Turrell, Rebecca H. Quaytman, Jeff Weinstein, Martha Wilson, Andrea Zittel. Historical texts by Vito Acconci, Carl Andre, Rudy Burckhardt, Douglas Davis, Simone Forti, Tina Girouard, Philip Glass, Marcia Hafif, Jene Highstein, Nancy Holt, Patrick Ireland, Les Levine, Sol LeWitt, Richard Nonas, Lucio Pozzi, Charlemagne Palestine & Carol Parker, Hannah Wilke.

Since its inception in the early 1970s, MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens, has been a crucible for radical experimentation. Committed to New York City as well as to maintaining an international scope, PS1 >>more

The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633450691
US $65.00 CAN $90.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 10.5 in. / 304 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 10/22/2019 In stock


Museum of the Future
Museum of the Future
Edited by Cristina Bechtler, Dora Imhof. Text by John Baldessari, Bice Curiger, Chris Dercon, et al. Museums of contemporary art are expanding and in crisis. They attract ever-larger audiences; architects constantly redesign them; and the ever-swellling ranks of artists are producing a greater quantity of art than ever before. Meanwhile, museum >>more

JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037643839
US $29.95 CAN $39.95 TRADE
Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 240 pgs / 31 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/24/2015 In stock


Museum of the Future: Now What?
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
US $29.95 CAN $39.95 TRADE
Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 208 pgs / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/15/2022 In stock


No Internet, No Art
No Internet, No Art
Edited with text by Melanie Buhler. Contributions by Philipp Albers, Kari Altmann, Karen Archey, Aram Bartholl, Michael Bell-Smith, David M. Berry, Natalie Bookchin, Andreas Broeckmann, Melanie Bühler, Harry Burke, Adam Cruces, Michel van Dartel, Annet Dekker, Niels van Doorn, Raffael Dörig, Claire L. Evans, Kenneth Goldsmith, Joel Holmberg, Paul Kneale, Katja Kwastek, Monica Lam, Geert Lovink, Pierre Lumineau, m-a-u-s-e-r, Greg Niemeyer, Nicolas Nova, Jaakko Pallasvuo, Christiane Paul, Daniel Pinkas, Domenico Quaranta, Jon Rafman, Rafaël Rozendaal, Cornelia Sollfrank, Jenna Sutela, Douglas Thomas, Mark Tribe, Brad Troemel, UBERMORGEN, Ben Vickers, Bernadette Wegenstein, Peter Weibel, Elvia Wilk.

Today almost everybody has some kind of connection to the internet. No Internet, No Art explores what this situation entails with respect to one cultural field in particular: art.

By opening up the often narrowly defined >>more

Onomatopee
ISBN 9789491677960
US $30.00 CAN $45.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 416 pgs / 88 color / 107 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/23/2019 In stock


Notes on the Frames of Art
Notes on the Frames of Art
By Daniel Birnbaum. Text by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Swedish curator and art critic Daniel Birnbaum (born 1963) has pushed the boundaries of the exhibition space like no other, continuously finding new ways in which to “frame” art. This volume gathers his essays and >>more

Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783753301297
US $39.95 CAN $55.95 FLAT40
Pbk, 5.75 x 8 in. / 448 pgs / 54 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/13/2022 In stock


On Curating II
On Curating II
By Carolee Thea. Edited by Carolee Thea, Thomas Micchelli. Foreword by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. On Curating 2, Carolee Thea's new volume of interviews with 14 of today’s leading curators, explores the lively system of art biennials that is thriving around the world—particularly outside Europe and America. Spawned by their >>more

D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
ISBN 9781938922909
US $29.95 CAN $39.95 TRADE
Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 136 pgs / 84 color / 4 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/22/2016 In stock


On Curating: Interviews with Ten International Curators
On Curating: Interviews with Ten International Curators
By Carolee Thea. Edited by Thomas Micchelli. Foreword by Hans Ulrich Obrist. On Curating, Carolee Thea's second volume of interviews with ten of today's leading curators, explores the intellectual convictions and personal visions that lay the groundwork for the most prestigious and influential exhibitions in the world >>more

D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
ISBN 9781935202004
US $29.95 CAN $39.95 TRADE
Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 144 pgs / 50 color.
Pub Date: 01/31/2010 In stock


Pictures, Patents, Monkeys, And More…On Collecting
Pictures, Patents, Monkeys, And More…On Collecting
Texts by Werner Muensterberger, Ingrid Schaffner and Fred Wilson. Pictures, Patents, Monkeys, and More...On Collecting examines the collecting impulse in its various incarnations, raising fundamental questions about why we collect and why we collect what we collect. Surprising and eccentric, this publication features three >>more

Independent Curators International (ICI)
ISBN 9780916365592
US $21.95 CAN $30.50 TRADE
Hardcover, 8 x 10 in. / 72 pgs / 45 color.
Pub Date: 02/02/2001 Out of stock


Positioning the Art Gallery
Positioning the Art Gallery
Text by Jan van Adrichem, Dominic van den Boogerd, Xander Karskens, Noor Mertens, Tineke Reijnders, Olav Velthuis, et al. Positioning the Art Gallery traces the history of galleries in Amsterdam beginning around 1960. American artists such as Lawrence Weiner, Sol LeWitt and Allen Ruppersberg, as well as Dutch artists such as Jan Dibbets and >>more

Valiz
ISBN 9789078088394
US $27.50 CAN $37.50 TRADE
Pbk, 6.75 x 8 in. / 224 pgs / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/30/2013 Out of stock


René Block: Ich kenne kein Weekend
René Block: Ich kenne kein Weekend
Edited by Marius Babias, Birgit Eusterschulte, Stella Rollig. Foreword by Marius Babias, Thomas Köhler. Introduction by Birgit Eusterschulte. Text by Philip Ursprung. Having represented Beuys, Richter and Polke. René Block (born 1942) ranks among the central figures of the 1960s avant-garde. This publication collects writings by and interviews with Block, organized chronologically. >>more

Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783863358112
US $55.00 CAN $72.50 FLAT40
Pbk, 6.75 x 12 in. / 540 pgs / 450 color / 300 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/23/2016 In stock


René d'Harnoncourt and the Art of Installation
René d'Harnoncourt and the Art of Installation
By Michelle Elligott.

René d'Harnoncourt served as the director of the Museum of Modern Art from 1949 to 1968, and was known for his conscientious approach to curating exhibitions and his genius for installation design and display. His >>more

The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633450509
US $45.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 10.5 in. / 176 pgs / 204 color.
Pub Date: 11/20/2018 In stock


Site Read: Seven Curators on Their Landmark Exhibitions
Site Read: Seven Curators on Their Landmark Exhibitions
Edited by Paula Marincola. Introduction by Bruce Altshuler. Text by Yves Aupetitallot, Mary Jane Jacob, Lu Je, Raimundas Malašauskas, Alan W. Moore, Seth Siegelaub, Jennifer Winkworth.

In this anthology, seven exhibition makers, including Mary Jane Jacob, Alan W. Moore, Seth Siegelaub, Jennifer Winkworth and others lay out the motivations, conditions, logistics and consequences of shows they organized that now stand as >>more

Mousse Publishing
ISBN 9788867493937
US $20.00 CAN $28.00 TRADE
Pbk, 5.5 x 9 in. / 192 pgs / 24 color / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/25/2020 Out of stock


Take Me (I'm Yours)
Take Me (I'm Yours)
Text by Alan Pauls, Roberta Tenconi, Chiara Parisi. Conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lea Vergine, Lewis Hyde, Christian Boltanski, Arnaud Esquerre, Patrice Maniglier.

The result of conversations between Hans Ulrich Obrist and Christian Boltanski, Take Me (I’m Yours) rewrites the rulebook for experiencing a work of art. Published on the occasion of the exhibition's latest iteration in Milan, >>more

Mousse Publishing
ISBN 9788867493104
US $30.00 CAN $45.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6.5 x 9 in. / 272 pgs / 60 color / 212 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/23/2019 In stock


The Anti-Museum: An Anthology
The Anti-Museum: An Anthology
Edited by Mathieu Copeland, Balthazar Lovay. Introduction by Mathieu Copeland. Text by Johannes Cladders, Beatriz Colomina, Henry Flynt, et al. Interviews with John Armleder, Robert Barry, Ben, Genesis P-Orridge.

The museum is a constant target for criticism, whether from artists, thinkers, curators or the public. From the 20th-century avant-gardes to the present, the museum’s suspect position has generated iconoclastic actions, attacks, utopias and alternative >>more

Koenig Books
ISBN 9783960980032
US $49.95 CAN $67.50 FLAT40
Hbk, 7 x 9.5 in. / 792 pgs / 30 color / 280 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/23/2017 Out of stock


The Art of Being a World Culture Museum
The Art of Being a World Culture Museum
Edited with text by Barbara Plankensteiner. Text by Wayne Modest, Wolfgang Thaler.

With a host of pressures and issues facing them, European ethnographic museums and museums of world cultures are, despite their 19th-century roots, uniquely timely, fully belonging to our present moment in the West.

The Art >>more

Kerber
ISBN 9783735605122
US $60.00 CAN $85.00 TRADE
Hbk, 8.75 x 11.75 in. / 248 pgs / 211 color.
Pub Date: 02/19/2019 Out of stock


The Curator's Egg
The Curator's Egg
Text by Karsten Schubert.

Tracing the development of the museum concept from the opening of The Louvre to the launch of Tate Modern, this accessible and succinct publication explores the museum’s role and evolution within society.

Encompassing curatorial, scholarly, political >>more

Ridinghouse
ISBN 9781905464203
US $35.00 CAN $45.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6 x 8.5 in. / 192 pgs.
Pub Date: 02/01/2009 In stock


The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues
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
US $25.00 CAN $34.50 TRADE
Pbk, 4.75 x 7.5 in. / 320 pgs / 30 color.
Pub Date: 01/12/2021 In stock


The Future of the New
The Future of the New
Edited with text by Thijs Lijster. Text by Lietje Bauwens, Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi, Robin Celikates, Wouter De Raeve, Elena Esposito, Boris Groys, Alice Haddad, Akiem Helmling, Bojana Kunst, Suhail Malik, Benjamin Noys, Hartmut Rosa, Nick Srnicek, Carolyn F. Strauss, Rolando Vázquez, Alex Williams.

In The Future of the New, artists, theorists and professionals working the art field reflect on the role of the arts in a world that is speeding up and changing through the joint forces of >>more

Valiz/Antennae
ISBN 9789492095589
US $28.95 CAN $39.95 TRADE
Pbk, 5.25 x 8.25 in. / 304 pgs.
Pub Date: 01/22/2019 In stock


The Image-Matter
The Image-Matter
By Dominique Peysson. Translated by Vanessa Place It is now possible for scientists to control the structure of matter at a scale so minute that previously unimaginable properties emerge. Organic matter may even be hybridized with nonorganic matter, as the border between >>more

Dis Voir
ISBN 9782914563802
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Pbk, 6.5 x 8.5 in. / 128 pgs / 20 color / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/28/2016 In stock


The Legacy of Transgressive Objects
The Legacy of Transgressive Objects
Edited with text by Katja Müller-Helle. Contributions by Beatriz Colomina, Tacita Dean, Helmut Lethen, Dennis Göttel, Jeannie Moser, Claus Pias, Eva Wilson.

The Legacy of Transgressive Objects traces the afterlife and historicization of the concept of transgression in the art, architecture, technology, music and psychedelic practices of 1968 and its legacy, by looking at the objects, materials >>more

Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783941360648
US $29.95 CAN $45.00 TRADE
Pbk, 5 x 7 in. / 180 pgs.
Pub Date: 05/21/2019 In stock


The Metabolic Museum
The Metabolic Museum
By Clémentine Deliss.

Anthropological museums in Europe, as products of imperialism, have been compelled to legitimate themselves for some while now. The very basis of their exhibitions, the history of their collections, which came about all too often >>more

Hatje Cantz/KW Institute for Contemporary Art
ISBN 9783775747806
US $22.00 CAN $31.00 TRADE
Pbk, 4.75 x 7.5 in. / 128 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/10/2020 In stock


The Private Museum of the Future
The Private Museum of the Future
Edited by Cristina Bechtler, Dora Imhof. Text by Chris Dercon, Soichiro Fututake, Eli Broad, Bernardo Paz, Dakis Joannou, Philippe Méaille, Eugenio Lopez, Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Nadia Samdani, Jochen Zeitz.

Private museums like the Menil Collection in Houston, the Fondation Maeght in Saint-Paul de Vence or the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebaek have existed for a long time, but over the past decade, >>more

JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037645208
US $29.95 CAN $39.95 TRADE
Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 214 pgs / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/28/2018 In stock


The Transhistorical Museum
The Transhistorical Museum
Edited with text by Eva Wittocx, Ann Demeester, Melanie Bühler. Text by Mieke Bal, Peter Capreau, Maria Ińigo Clavo, Bice Curiger, Penelope Curtis, Hendrik Folkerts, Hanneke Grootenboer, et al.

Since the turn of the 21st century, there has been a significant expansion in the field of transhistorical exhibition practice—that is, exhibitions in which objects from various art-historical periods and cultural contexts are put on >>more

Valiz/vis-ŕ-vis
ISBN 9789492095527
US $33.95 CAN $45.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6.5 x 9 in. / 224 pgs / 60 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/26/2018 In stock


This Is the Flow: The Museum as a Space for Ideas
This Is the Flow: The Museum as a Space for Ideas
Edited by Rutger Wolfson. Text by Cornel Bierens, Edwin Carels, Guus Beumer, Valentijn Byvanck, Chris Darke. What role do the visual arts and museums play in our society--and what role might they play? This Is the Flow compiles a series of essays on a diverse range of subjects, such as the >>more

Valiz
ISBN 9789078088240
US $32.50 CAN $42.50 TRADE
Pbk, 7.25 x 10.25 in. / 260 pgs / 189 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2009 Out of stock


Time Action Vision
Time Action Vision
By Christian Höller. Edited by Anne-Julie Raccoursier. In Time Action Vision, Christian Höller, of the interdisciplinary Critical Curatorial Cybermedia program at the University of Art and Design in Geneva, conducts 12 conversations on the topics of cultural studies, postcolonialism, globalization, activism and >>more

JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037641248
US $29.95 CAN $39.95 TRADE
Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 222 pgs / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/31/2010 In stock


Triple Bond
Triple Bond
By Wouter Davidts. Offering new insights into the role of museums, Wouter Davidts (author of The Fall of the Studio) investigates the connection between architecture, the museum as an institution, the museum program and art. A museum’s architecture >>more

Valiz/Antennae Series
ISBN 9789078088493
US $27.50 CAN $37.50 TRADE
Pbk, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 256 pgs / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/23/2017 Out of stock


WdW Review
WdW Review
Edited by Defne Ayas, Adam Kleinman. Contributions by Natalia Antonova, Orit Gat, Annie Godfrey Larmon, et al.

Following Volume I (2013–2016), this anthology documents reflections published in 2016 and 2017 on WdW Review, the online platform for the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, bringing together the website's four >>more

Witte de With Publishers
ISBN 9789491435539
US $14.00 CAN $19.95 FLAT40
Pbk, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 112 pgs / 34 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/22/2018 In stock


Ydessa Hendeles: From Her Wooden Sleep...
Ydessa Hendeles: From Her Wooden Sleep...
This artist’s book interprets From Her Wooden Sleep... Toronto-based artist-curator Ydessa Hendeles’ (born 1948) multilayered meditation on difference, diversity and group dynamics. Central to the show inspired by and mounted at London’s Institute of Contemporary >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775741033
US $95.00 CAN $127.50 TRADE
Hbk, 9.25 x 12 in. / 480 pgs / 312 color.
Pub Date: 08/23/2016 Out of stock


You, Me and Art
You, Me and Art
Edited with text by Marta Gnyp.

As the art world shifts and expands, the position of everyone in its orbit—from viewers to critics and curators to artists themselves—is continuously reinvented and transformed. Though the artist remains at the center of the >>more

Skira Paris
ISBN 9788857238326
US $55.00 CAN $75.00 TRADE
Hbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 300 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 02/19/2019 In stock



                                                         

VISUAL BOOK INDEX | OUT OF PRINT

Art In The Center
Art In The Center
Edited by Catherine David, Peter Noever. The curators of Documenta X held two nights of discussions before the opening of the exhibition where in they discussed the idea of the "centre" as a socio-cultural manifestation. These are presented here in an >>more

Cantz
ISBN 9783893223305
US $14.95 CAN $17.50 TRADE
Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 80 pgs
Pub Date: 05/02/1998 Not available


Art Is Therapy
Art Is Therapy
Text by Alain de Botton, John Armstrong. Published in the form of a giant yellow post-it block (designed by Irma Boom), Alain de Botton and John Armstrong’s Art Is Therapy provoke us into rethinking assumptions about what a museum visit is for. >>more

nai010 publishers/Rijksmuseum
ISBN 9789491714382
US $25.00 CAN $34.50 SDNR40
Pbk, 7 x 7 in. / 500 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 04/25/2017 Not available


Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Dario Gamboni, Michael Petzet: On the Destruction of Art - Or Art and Conflict, or the Art of Healing
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Dario Gamboni, Michael Petzet: On the Destruction of Art - Or Art and Conflict, or the Art of Healing
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev reflects on the relationship between destruction and art, and on art's converse capacity for healing. Guiding us through a web of etymological, historical, philosophical, personal and art historical references, she takes the reader >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775728898
US $10.00 CAN $14.95 TRADE
Pbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 24 pgs.
Pub Date: 04/30/2012 Not available


Changing Roles
Changing Roles
Introduction by Nicolaus Schafhausen, Renske Janssen. How are you involved in the art world? Are you related to any specific scene? What would be the most productive place to present your work? What kind of curators do you like to work >>more

Witte de With Publishers
ISBN 9789073362765
US $14.00 CAN $15.00 TRADE
Paperback, 5 x 8 in. / 208 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Not available


Collecting Contemporary Art
Collecting Contemporary Art
Edited by Andrea Bellini, Lillian Davies, Cecilia Alemani. For the collector of contemporary art, the acquisition of new work is an aesthetic and intellectual adventure that records a personal journey and cuts a unique cross-section through the culture. Consequently every collector has a >>more

JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037640159
US $15.00 CAN $20.00 TRADE
Pbk, 4.25 x 6.5 in. / 128 pgs / 21 col.
Pub Date: 08/31/2009 Not available


Continuing Dialogues: A Tribute to Igor Zabel
Continuing Dialogues: A Tribute to Igor Zabel
Edited by Christa Benzer, Christine Böhler, Christiane Erharter. Texts by Zdenka Badovinac, Francesco Bonami, Eda Cufer, Zoran Eric, Charles Esche, Maria Hlavajora, Suzana Milevska, Viktor Misiano, Kathrin Rhomberg, Renata Salecl. The influential Slovenian curator, art critic, writer and theorist Igor Zabel (1958-2005) was largely responsible for putting the Slovenian art scene on the map during the 1990s. As Senior Curator of Ljubljana's Moderna Galerija, he >>more

JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783905829914
US $28.00 CAN $38.50 TRADE
Pbk, 7 x 9 in. / 218 pgs / 32 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2009 Not available


Dario Gamboni: The Listening Eye, Taking Notes after Gauguin
Dario Gamboni: The Listening Eye, Taking Notes after Gauguin
In this notebook, art historian Dario Gamboni embarks on the trail of the notoriously restless Paul Gauguin, making his own observations in Gauguin’s wake through photographs, drawings and notes. Comparisons between their respective experiences are >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775728683
US $10.00 CAN $14.95 TRADE
Pbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 36 pgs / 23 color.
Pub Date: 01/31/2012 Not available


Documenta - Documenta 1-9
Documenta - Documenta 1-9
This CD ROM presents a representative overview of past documenta exhibitions one through nine. Nearly 1500 works of art and 2000 artist portraits containing bio info and a host of other information make this an >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783893229345
US $125.00 CAN $150.00 TRADE
CD ROM
Pub Date: 05/02/1998 Not available


Documenta Documents 1
Documenta Documents 1
Edited by Catherine David. Contributions by Jean-Christophe Bailly. Text by Paul Virilio. >>more

Cantz
ISBN 9783893228263
US $12.00 CAN $15.00 TRADE
Paperback, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 68 pgs / 11 color
Pub Date: 11/02/1996 Not available


Documenta Documents 2
Documenta Documents 2
>>more

Cantz
ISBN 9783893228591
US $12.00 CAN $15.00 TRADE
Paperback, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 68 pgs / 11 color
Pub Date: 11/02/1996 Not available


Documenta Documents 3
Documenta Documents 3
Edited by Catherine David. >>more

Cantz
ISBN 9783893228744
US $12.00 CAN $15.00 TRADE
Paperback, 9.5 x 11.5 in / 104 pgs
Pub Date: 03/02/1997 Not available


Flava: Wedge Curatorial Projects 1997-2007
Flava: Wedge Curatorial Projects 1997-2007
Edited by Elizabeth Harney. Introduction by Deborah Willis. Text by Julie Crooks, Cameron Bailey, Warren Crichlow, Pamela Edmonds, Gaylene Gould, Pablo Idahosa, Jürgen Schadeberg, Ruth Kerkham Simbao. This excellent collection of photo-based work that explores black identity celebrates the tenth anniversary of Toronto's Wedge Curatorial Projects, founded by collector and Wedge Gallery Director Kenneth Montague. Over the past decade, the project has >>more

Wedge Curatorial Projects
ISBN 9780978337001
US $60.00 CAN $70.00 TRADE
Hardback, 8 x 12 in. / 142 pgs / 50 color / 80 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Not available


Foci: Interviews With 10 International Curators
Foci: Interviews With 10 International Curators
Foci gathers together interviews with ten of the most renowned curators working internationally in the field of contemporary art. The interviews are rich with wide-ranging dialogue and cover issues such as the relationship between the >>more

ApexArt Curatorial Program
ISBN 9780970407153
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 144 pgs / 23 color / 28 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/02/2001 Not available


From No. 1
From No. 1
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Witte de With Publishers
ISBN 9789073362444
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Paperback, 7 x 9.5 in. / 104 pgs / 10 color / 12 b&w
Pub Date: 03/02/2000 Not available


From No. 2
From No. 2
Contributions by Bartomeu Mari. >>more

Witte de With Publishers
ISBN 9789073362468
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Paperback, 9.5 x 6.75 in. / 140 pgs / 48 color / 5 b&w
Pub Date: 08/02/2000 Not available


From No. 3
From No. 3
Essays by Chris Dercon, Okwui Enwezor, Peter Friedl, Olu Oguibe, Hermann Pitz, Dirk Snauwaert, Nasrin Tabatabai, Moniek Toebosch, Gediminas Urbonas. Foreword by Bartomeu Mari. From No. 3 features a series of short essays which provide an art historical and theoretical context for the Witte de With's exhibition program, and will investigate and represent the European cultural identity as seen >>more

Witte de With Publishers
ISBN 9789073362482
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Paperback, 9.5 x 7 in. / 104 pgs / 40 color
Pub Date: 03/02/2001 Not available


Gerald A. Matt: Artists Talks
Gerald A. Matt: Artists Talks
Edited by Gerald A. Matt, Synne Genzmer. During his long and illustrious career as a curator and former director of Kunsthalle Wien, Gerald A. Matt has conducted many insightful interviews with the leading contemporary artists of our time. This latest volume of >>more

Moderne Kunst Nürnberg
ISBN 9783869844299
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 360 pgs / 50 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/31/2014 Not available


Machine Project: A Field Guide to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Machine Project: A Field Guide to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
By Machine Project. Edited by Mark Allen, Jason Brown, Liz Glynn. Machine Project is a Los Angeles-based social experiment that investigates art, technology, natural history, music and poetry through collaboration and conversation. On November 15, 2008, Machine Project took over the Los Angeles County Museum of >>more

Machine Project Press
ISBN 9780975314043
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Pbk, 7.25 x 9.25 in. / 172 pgs / 92 color / 84 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/28/2010 Not available


Management of Art Galleries
Management of Art Galleries
By Magnus Resch. Foreword by Jeffrey Deitch. What makes an art gallery successful? How do galleries get their marketing right? Which customer group is the most attractive? In a unique research undertaking, Magnus Resch carefully analyzes the inner life of art galleries. >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775739870
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 140 pgs.
Pub Date: 08/25/2015 Not available


Open Field: Conversations on the Commons
Open Field: Conversations on the Commons
Edited by Sarah Schultz, Sarah Peters. Text by Steve Dietz, Stephen Duncombe, Futurefarmers, Jon Ippolito, Red 76, Rick Prelinger, Scott Stulen, Works Progress. George Bernard Shaw once wrote: “If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an >>more

Walker Postscript/Walker Art Center
ISBN 9781935963004
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 274 pgs / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2012 Not available


Pamela M. Lee: Illegibility
Pamela M. Lee: Illegibility
Lee addresses illegibility in notetaking, with reference to the archive of art historian Meyer Shapiro. >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775728799
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Pbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 24 pgs / 7 color.
Pub Date: 01/31/2012 Not available


Positions In Art
Positions In Art
Artwork by Chris Burden, Kiki Smith, James Turrell. Contributions by Jan Hoet. >>more

Cantz
ISBN 9783893222797
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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 208 pgs / 20 color
Pub Date: 07/02/1995 Not available


The Artist Estate: A Handbook for Artists, Executors, and Heirs
The Artist Estate: A Handbook for Artists, Executors, and Heirs
Text by Loretta Würtenberger, Karl von Trott. Andy Warhol memorably said that “death can really make you look like a star,” but death in itself is not a guarantee of the relevance of an artist. What is of crucial importance is the >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775741330
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 304 pgs / 20 color.
Pub Date: 10/25/2016 Not available


The Biennial Reader
The Biennial Reader
Edited by Elena Filipovic, Marieke van Hal, Solveig Řvstebo. Texts by Carlos Basualdo, Daniel Buren, John Clark, Okwui Enwezor, Bruce Ferguson, Milena Hoegsberg, Ranjit Hoskote, Caroline A. Jones, Jakouba Konaté, Gerardo Mosquera, Rafal Niemojewski, et al. Born as a vehicle for national propaganda, the art biennial today has become an outsize phenomenon mobilizing not only artists, curators and gallerists but sponsors, celebrities and politicians, commanding huge press attention and deciding the >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775726108
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Pbk, 2 vols., 6.5 x 10 in. / 568 pgs / 20 color / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/30/2010 Not available


The Discursive Museum
The Discursive Museum
Edited by Peter Noever. Interview with Vito Acconci by Hans Ulrich Obrist. Artists include: Marina Abramovic, Vito Acconci, Bazon Brock, Boris Groys, Magdalena Jetelova, Gerhard Merz . Can the museum be viewed as a conceptual structure capable of liberating itself from visual and imaginary content? To address this question, a group of well-known philosophers, theorists, and artists undertook a critical examination of >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775711401
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 200 pgs / 20 b&w
Pub Date: 02/02/2002 Not available


The Global Art World
The Global Art World
Edited by Hans Belting, Andrea Buddensieg. Text by Louisa Augita, Ana Belluzo, Hans Belting. This is the second publication from the ongoing research series, Global Art and the Museum (GAM), which was initiated in 2001 by German art historian Hans Belting and artist, writer and curator Peter Weibel at >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775724074
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 408 pgs / 41 color.
Pub Date: 09/30/2009 Not available


Urban Art
Urban Art
Text by Sotirios Bahtsetzis, Stephen Riolo, Ingo Clauß. Urban art at its most effective offers the liberatory tools for declaring oneself a part of one's environment, and for countering the strictures and regimentation of public space with murals and stenciled graffiti. By means >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775725033
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Pbk, 8.5 x 6.75 in. / 192 pgs / 107 color.
Pub Date: 01/31/2010 Not available


Women Gallerists
Women Gallerists
Text by Claudia Herstatt. With the exception of Peggy Guggenheim, little has been written by or about the astonishingly influential women who have built their careers around art and artists. In a selection of 30 portraits, this book presents >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775719759
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Hbk, 6 x 9 in. / 208 pgs / 96 color / 12 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/01/2009 Not available


Words Of Wisdom: A Curator's Vade Mecum
Words Of Wisdom: A Curator's Vade Mecum
Edited by Carin Kuoni. Essays by Jean-Christophe Ammann, Carlos Basualdo, René Block, Francesco Bonami, Dan Cameron, Lynne Cooke, Bice Curiger, Donna De Salvo, Richard Flood, Thelma Golden, Yuko Hasegawa, Jean-Hubert Martin, Gerardo Mosquera, Hans Ulrich Obrist. A modern update of the Medieval trade manuals--the 'come-along-with-me' (vade mecum) of Medieval craftsmen--Words of Wisdom: A Curator's Vade Mecum is an invaluable guidebook for anyone interested in contemporary art and the practice of curating. >>more

Independent Curators International (ICI)
ISBN 9780916365608
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Paperback, 5 x 8.5 in. / 144 pgs / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/02/2001 Not available