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Anthologies & Art Theory

 
Stemming from exhibition projects, symposiums or University researches, these books focus each on an issue of art criticism, politics of representation, or art history, through a collection of reference texts.
 
AC|DC - Contemporary Art / Contemporary Design – Symposium
2009
English edition
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The relationships between art and design.
Of Bridges & Borders
2009
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
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Thematic anthology.
Utopics - Systems and Landmarks
2009
English edition
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A Glossary of artists' utopias.
AC|DC - Art contemporain / design contemporain – Symposium
2009
French edition
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The relationships between art and design (also available in English edition).
Re-Visionen des Displays
2009
German edition
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A reader about exhibition display.
Deterioration, They Said
2009
bilingual edition (English / German)
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The art of de(con)struction.
Reconstructing Swiss Video Art from the 1970s and 1980s
2009
English edition
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From Open Reel to Multichannel.
Continuing Dialogues - A Tribute To Igor Zabel
2008
English edition
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An Igor Zabel reader.
Harald Szeemann - Individual Methodology
2008
English edition
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In the curator's archives.
In Geneva No One Can Hear You Scream
2008
English edition
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Mapping a new sensibility.
Pre-specifics - Some Comparatistic Investigations on Research in Design and Art
2008
English edition
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Research in Design and Art.
The Aesthetics of Risk - SoCCAS Symposium Vol. III
2008
English edition
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16 essays and conversations about the nature and consequences of risk in and out of the art world.
Kunst und Öffentlichkeit - Kritische Praxis der Kunst im Stadtraum Zürich
2007
German edition
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Art and public spaces in the city.
Ethnic Marketing
2006
English edition
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An exhibition about the gradually “globalizing” art.
Out of Beirut
2006
English edition
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Work by artists emerging from Beirut today.
Next Flag - The African Sniper Reader
2005
English edition
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Positions in contemporary African art.
Recent Pasts – Art in Southern California from the 1990s to Now - SoCCAS Symposium Vol. I
2005
English edition
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An overview of the Californian art scene from 1990 to the present.
Space Invaders - A Discussion About Painting, Space, and its Hybrids
2005
bilingual edition (English / German)
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The book concentrates on spatial concepts in contemporary painting.
The Need to Document
2005
bilingual edition (English / German)
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An attempt to make out the backgrounds leading to a turn towards documentation in art.
 Shahrzad - Shahrzad History
2005
English edition
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With Shahrzads newest publication, the focus is on the mise-en-scene of contemporary historiography in today's Euroamerica.
The Future has a Silver Lining - Genealogies of Glamour
2004
bilingual edition (English / German)
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(last copies available!)
Art and glamour as spaces for transformation of the self.
Norma Jeane - Body Proxy
2004
bilingual edition (English / German)
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An exploration of the body in contemporary culture (artist's book / collection of texts).
Unfolding perspectives - Three days of lectures and discussions at the ARS 01 exhibition
2003
English edition
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(last copies available!)
A transcript of lectures on culture and globalization by artists and cultural analysts.
Heterotopias
2001
bilingual edition (English / French)
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15.00 8.00 €
An anthology of texts around issues such as spatial politics of representation and identity, the public and the private, the space of art and culture, the memory of places and the inscription of remembrance, and the relations between utopias, heterotopias and the real.
The Playground Project
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
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sold out
Through numerous previously unpublished pictures and essays, this publication explores the history of the playground as it was shaped by education, architecture, art, and politics, and pays tribute to the most important figures, many of them forgotten today (second revised and expanded edition).
It\'s Not a Garden Table - Art and Design in the Expended Field
2011
English edition
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Art and design in the expanded field: artists, designers, and theorists discuss the consequences of design as a self-referential practice, and the aesthetics of life-world in the art context with a special focus on furniture.
It\'s Time for Action (There\'s no Option) - About Feminism
2008
bilingual edition (English / German)
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sold out
New feminist role models.
Harald Szeemann - Méthodologie individuelle
2008
French edition
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sold out
In the curator's archives (available in English edition).
Cooling Out - On the Paradox of Feminism
2008
bilingual edition (English / German)
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sold out
An anthology.
Institutional Critique and After - SoCCAS Symposium Vol. II
2006
English edition
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sold out
The history and contemporary reassessment of the Institutional Critique movement.
When Humour Becomes Painful
2005
bilingual edition (English / German)
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Humour as a strategy in art, from Dada to Fluxus and contemporary conceptual art.
Bewitched, bothered and bewildered - Spatial emotion in contemporary art & architecture
2003
bilingual edition (English / German)
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sold out
This anthology aims to exploit the psychological associations of space and the psychological reactions to it.
Black Box Illuminated
2003
English edition
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sold out
The moving image in art and culture.
Timewave Zero - A Psychedelic Reader
2001
bilingual edition (English / German)
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sold out
An anthology re-mapping the relations between the modernist utopia of neutrality and that of the psychedelic moment.
Independant Spaces
1999
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
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sold out
An anthology of texts on the problematic notion of "alterrnative", based on curatorial and artistic practices.
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