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History, Criticism and Theory

 
Kirsty Bell - The Artist\'s House - From Workplace to Artwork
2014
English edition
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Based on a series of interviews and site visits with living artists about the role of their home in relation to their work, Kirsty Bell looks at the house as receptacle, vehicle, model, theater, or dream space.
Hans Ulrich Obrist - Sharp Tongues, Loose Lips, Open Eyes, Ears to the Ground
2014
English edition
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The collected essays presented here form the compartments of Hans Ulrich Obrist's curatorial toolbox, along with elucidating his views on stewardship, patronage, and art itself. Influences and interlocutors cited and discussed here include, among others, Alexander Dorner, Édouard Glissant, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Jean-François Lyotard, Dominique de Menil, Josef Ortner, Cedric Price, Sir John Soane, and Harald Szeemann.
Scandalous - A Reader on Art and Ethics
2013
English edition
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Models of subjective and situational ethics in the contemporary cultural field.
Barry Schwabsky - Words for Art - Criticism, History, Theory, Practice
2013
English edition
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Surveying figures ranging from Clement Greenberg to Jacques Derrida, this compendium of 20 short essays by New York-based critic Barry Schwabsky focuses on his reflections on art writing itself.
Deborah Ligorio - Survival Kits
2013
English edition
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Twelve theoretical investigations on the crisis (both economical and personal) issue—from fields as diverse as philosophy, politics, media theory, environmental activism, feminism, post-human theory, literature, geopolitics, art, and economics, originated with artist Deborah Ligorio's research.
Undoing Property?
2013
English edition
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Complex relationships inside art, culture, political economy, immaterial production, and the public realm today.
Douglas Coupland - Shopping in Jail - Ideas, Essays, and Stories for the Increasingly Real Twenty-First Century
2013
English edition
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A collection of nonfiction essays that provides an illuminating meander through what we call culture today.
Donatien Grau - The Age of Creation
2013
English edition
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The entrance of art into culture at large.
Sven Lütticken - History in Motion - Time in the Age of the Moving Image
2013
English edition
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Analyzing a variety of films, video pieces, and performances, Sven Lütticken evaluates the impact that our changing experience of time has had on the actualization of history in the present.
Living Labor
2013
English edition
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15.00 7.50 €
Viable forms of refusal and imagine prospects for a post-work future.
L\'archéologie du numérique
2013
French edition
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The genesis and establishment of digital tools for design conceptualization, visualization, and production at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s.
Joshua Simon - Neomaterialism
2013
English edition
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Neomaterialism explores the meaning of the world of commodities, and reintroduces various notions of dialectical materialism into the conversation on the subjectivity and vitalism of things.
Invalid Format - An Anthology of Triple Canopy – Vol. 2
2013
English edition
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22.00 11.00 €
An archive of the widespread publishing activities of Triple Canopy, the editorial collective and online magazine based in New York, Los Angeles, and Berlin.
Tom McCarthy - The Mattering of Matter - Documents from the Archive of the International Necronautical Society
2013
English edition
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19.00 9.50 €
A collection of documents of Tom McCarthy's “semi-fictitious organisation” International Necronautical Society, cofounded with Simon Critchley.
Steve Rushton - Masters of Reality
2012
English edition
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The first collection of texts by Steve Rushton, exploring the interrelations between art, anthropology, social sciences, psychology, media, politics, and economy.
Juliane Rebentisch - Aesthetics of Installation Art
2012
English edition
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A study of the philosophical, ethical and political underpinnings of installation art.
Interiors - CCS Readers: Perspectives on Art and Culture
2012
English edition
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26.00 13.00 €
An anthology that examines the poetics and politics of interior experience within the frame of contemporary art.
Ingo Niermann - The Future of Art - A Diary
2012
English edition
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19.00 9.00 €
The sequel to The Future of Art – A Manual (2011), in which Niedling joined Niermann on his search for a new, epic artwork.
Cybermohalla Hub
2012
English edition
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Reimagining and reanimating the infrastructure of cultural and intellectual life in contemporary cities.
Playing the City - Interviews
2012
bilingual edition (English / German)
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A telling picture of the multiple forms of interactive, cooperative, and interdisciplinary practices in contemporary art (fifty-one artist interviews).
Sculpture Unlimited
2012
English edition
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The contemporary field of sculpture.
Cornerstones
2012
English edition
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Collective book with essays by leading art historians and experts based on a series of conferences held at Witte de With.
A Thousand Eyes - Media Technology, Law, and Aesthetics
2011
English edition
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How the aesthetics of new media technology and its spatial implementations affect the judicial system in relation to fundamental concepts such as truth and representation.
Urban Images - Unruly Desires in Film and Architecture
2011
English edition
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An anthology.
Caring Culture - Art, Architecture and the Politics of Health
2011
English edition
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Changing political uses of the concept of care in neoliberal democracies, and how artists, architects, and designers both contribute to and attempt to critique its social manifestations.
Casco Issues XII - Generous Structures
2011
English edition
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A playful enquiry into “playfulness” as a value in critical cultural practice.
Ingo Niermann - The Future of Art - A Manual (+ DVD)
2011
English edition
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In 1831 Honoré de Balzac wrote a short story, “The Unknown Masterpiece,” in which he invented the abstract painting. Almost 200 years later, writer Ingo Niermann tries to follow in his footsteps to imagine a new epoch-making artwork. Together with the artist Erik Niedling he starts searching for the future of art and, seeking advice, meets key figures of the art world.
Susanne Kriemann - Reading Susanne Kriemann
2011
bilingual edition (English / German)
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The book is comprised of texts on Susanne Kriemann's practice and its relation to the concept of Reading in a wider sense: reading photographs, archives, and texts and transforming these into new compositions with photography, urban space, and historiography.
Hans Ulrich Obrist - Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Curating* - *But Were Afraid to Ask
2011
English edition
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Everything you ever wanted to know about Hans Ulrich Obrist but were afraid to ask has been asked by the sixteen practitioners in this book.
Options with Nostrils
2011
English edition
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A collection of previously unpublished essays, both theoretical and visual, by artists, curators, a writer, a scholar, and a group of postgraduates from the Piet Zwart Institute's Fine Art programme in Rotterdam, who together founded the “Office for the Unknown.”
Maria Lind - Selected Maria Lind Writing
2010
English edition
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Twenty-two essays selected by Beatrice von Bismarck, Ana Paula Cohen, Liam Gillick, Brian Kuan Wood, and Tirdad Zolghadr.
Internal Necessity - A Reader Tracing the Inner Logics of the Contemporary Art Field
2010
English edition
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Internal Necessity was the topic of the Sommerakademie 2009, curated by Tirdad Zolghadr. The result is an independent reader that does not aim to merely document the academy 2009, but reflects and develops its topics in a rich diversity of visual and textual forms.
Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie - Class Hegemony in Contemporary Art
2010
English edition
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An investigation of the latent yet easily overlooked issue of social class in contemporary art.
Jean-Yves Leloup - Digital Magma
2010
English edition
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New musical practices, modes of production and reception of culture, since the emergence of electronic music in the 1990s.
Peter Friedl - Secret Modernity - Selected Writings and Interviews 1981-2009
2010
English edition
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A representative selection of Friedl's (partly unpublished) texts, along with a series of interviews.
Anton Vidokle - Produce, Distribute, Discuss, Repeat
2010
English edition
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A collection of essays and interview by an artist who captures the attention of 70,000 people each day through e-flux, as well as unitednationsplaza, Martha Rosler Library, and other traveling projects.
Net Pioneers 1.0 - Contextualizing Early Net-Based Art
2010
English edition
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19.00 9.00 €
Net Pioneers 1.0 discusses media art history with a new, interdisciplinary look at the historical, social, and economic dynamics of our contemporary, networked society.
Bettina Funcke - Pop or Populus - Art Between High and Low
2010
English edition
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19.00 9.00 €
A theory of contemporary art in response to our moment, when artists and critics must respond to art's unprecedented popularity (illustrated by Wade Guyton).
Semiotext(e) - The German Issue
2009
English edition
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A first-hand account of the Western world on the threshold of a major global mutation.
Voice Over - On Staging and Performative Strategies in Contemporary Art
2009
English edition
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Voice Over examines staging, theatricality, and performative strategies in contemporary art practices.
Nicolas Bourriaud - The Radicant
2009
English edition
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15.00 7.50 €
Nicolas Bourriaud's most recent essay: a radicant thought extended to modes of cultural production, consumption and use, against the multiculturalist critical model.
Sven Lütticken - Idols of the Market - Modern Iconoclasm and the Fundamentalist Spectacle
2009
English edition
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19.00 9.50 €
This book reexamines the legacies of modern theoretical and artistic iconoclasm in the context of the current religious-political image wars.
Gleis 17/Track 17
2009
bilingual edition (English / German)
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19.00 9.50 €
A critical review of the issues of the memorial for Track 17 at Berlin-Grunewald station by architects Nikolaus Hirsch, Wolfgang Lorch, and Andrea Wandel.
East Coast Europe
2008
English edition
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“East Coast Europe,” which took place during Spring 2008, is a project about the perceptions of contemporary European identity and its relation to spatial practices and international politics.
The Question of the Day
2008
bilingual edition (English / German)
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With its 100 questions and answers from major practitioners of the art world and beyond, this book helps to examine the various parameters for a new institutional model (contributions by Lars Bang Larsen, Charles Esche, Peter Friedl, Liam Gillick, Jörg Heiser, Tom Holert, Sarah Morris, Heike Munder, Jean-Christophe Royoux, Beatrix Ruf...).
Thinking Worlds - The Moscow Conference on Philosophy, Politics, and Art
2008
English edition
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Thinking Worlds brings together numerous essays addressing questions of the sense and purpose of the “event” in contemporary artistic culture, of the current status of philosophy and aesthetic theory, and of the political significance of artistic interventions.
Daniel Birnbaum - The Hospitality of Presence
2008
English edition
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(last copies available!)
19.00 12.00 €
A study of the concept of otherness in Edmund Husserl's phenomenology (with a special project by Olafur Eliasson).
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