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Monica Ross - Ethical Actions - A Critical Fine Art Practice
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
British artist Monica Ross (1950-2013) left behind forty years of socially engaged, feminist, and performative artwork, which has had a deep effect on contemporary art and society. This fully illustrated publication documents Ross's works from 1970 to 2013.
Future Imperfect - Contemporary Art Practices and Cultural Institutions in the Middle East
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
Future Imperfect critically examines the role played by cultural institutions in producing present-day and future contexts for the production, dissemination, and reception of contemporary art in the Middle East and North Africa.
Hubs and Fictions - On Current Art and Imported Remoteness
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
Hubs and Fictions, originally a touring forum, invited international curators, writers, and producers to probe how fiction plays out in a globally distributed art-world ecology, and how infrastructures are invented against its background. This unconventional reader gathers documents, negotiations, and reflections from and on these conversations.
Claude Lévêque - Parler à un mouton
2017
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
A collection of previously unpublished texts and drawings (artist's book).
Soun-Gui Kim - Entends-tu ? - Poèmes et Dessins de Kim Soun-Gui
2017
bilingual edition (French / Korean)
various
Collection of poems and drawings by the Korean artist.
Johannes Kahrs - Then, maybe, the explosion of a star (2 books box set)
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Le Plateau / Frac Île-de-France
Two-volume monograph featuring a picture book with a wide selection of portraits, interiors, and landscapes by the German painter, and a book of interview with Xavier Franceschi from Frac Île-de-France.
Eric Bachmann - Casa Verdi
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
In 1981, photographer Eric Bachmann and journalist Christian Kämmerling made a report on the Casa Verdi, a retirement home for musicians and opera singers founded in Milan by the Italian composer. This volume includes Kämmerling's text, Bachmann's photographic archives, and detailed biographies of the retired musicians who lived at the venerable institution.
Barbara Heé - Waters
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
A photographic series focusing on the waterfalls near Mount Bachtel in Switzerland. Willing to capture the mystical essence of these falls in the twilight, Barbara Heé provides enchanting images with fairy-like accents.
Georg Keller - Georg Keller x Manor
2017
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Catalogue documenting a project that entertwines Georg Keller artistic one-man enterprise with Switzerland's biggest department store chain Manor. Interviews with employees at various levels of the corporate hierarchy form the first thread of the narrative. The second delves into the artist's creative work.
Jean-Luc Cramatte - Culs de ferme
2017
French edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Photographic inventory of the rural landscapes of Switzerland and France, combining original photographs and found pictures customized by the artist. An ethnological and sociological approach which culminates in a poetry of the ordinary.
Peter Radelfinger - So wohl als ob
2017
German edition
Edition Patrick Frey
This book presents a wide range of artistic working processes that Peter Radelfinger developed and implemented together with students in various disciplines during the many years he taught at Zurich University of the Arts: several series of elementary (to begin with, drawing and performing) exercises, strategies and techniques of working with images, researching, artistic actions and complex artistic projects.
Pascal Pinaud - Magnetic Abstraction
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Frac Bretagne
Gathering Pascal Pinaud's most recent works, this monograph features numerous exhibition views highlighting the artist's scenographic qualities and his relationship with design, furnishing and architecture. This edition includes two essays and a long interview.
Alexandre St-Onge - Nude de chose de même
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Le laps
This publication is the result of a sound improvisation project by audio artist Alexandre St-Onge. It gathers a collection of hermetic poetry texts and 13 tracks of experimental sounds to download.
Heritage - Orchestra Rehearsal
2017
English edition
Bruno
This reader is the result of a cycle of seminars and an exhibition developed by the Iuav University of Venice around the notion of heritage. The publication focuses on issues related to the status of heritage in the contemporary; the study and use of archives; restoration strategies; and heritage as a place of transformation.
 General Idea - A Retrospective (1969-1994)
2017
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Retrospective catalogue (new edition).
Martin Herbert - Tell Them I Said No
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
This collection of essays by Martin Herbert considers various artists who have withdrawn from the art world or adopted an antagonistic position toward its mechanisms: Lutz Bacher, Stanley Brouwn, Christopher D'Arcangelo, Trisha Donnelly, David Hammons, Agnes Martin, Cady Noland, Laurie Parsons, Charlotte Posenenske, and Albert York (new edition).
Nicholas Mangan - Limits to Growth
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Catalogue bringing together documentation on key projects by Nicholas Mangan along with a newly commissioned work investigating monetary currencies. Featuring an in-depth series of conversations between the artist and the Barcelona-based curatorial collective Latitudes, and essays by Ana Teixeira Pinto and Helen Hughes, this publication is richly illustrated with documentation of Mangan's artworks and historical source material.
Lydia Okumura - Situations
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
(last copies available!)
Monographic catalogue showcasing the under-recognized work of Brazilian-Japanese artist Lydia Okumura, who, for almost fifty years, has explored the realm of geometric abstraction
Jacob Lund - The Contemporary Condition - Introductory Thoughts on Contemporaneity and Contemporary Art
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Contemporary Condition
Introductory book to the “Contemporary Condition” series, which brings out some of the key issues relating to contemporaneity as a defining condition of our historical present—and vows to rethink the deep structures of temporalization as we know it.
Jussi Parikka - The Contemporary Condition - A Slow, Contemporary Violence – Damaged Environments of Technological Culture
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Contemporary Condition
Finnish media theorist discusses slow violence & environmental crisis through the prism of art, design, and technological practices.
Terry Smith - The Contemporary Condition - The Contemporary Composition
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Contemporary Condition
A visionary essay on the notion of artistic composition in a world spinning into a confused chaos.
EP Vol. 2 - Design Fiction
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - EP
The current fascination with fiction across art, design, and architecture (including one of Umberto Eco's final interview).
Claude Lévêque - Parler à un mouton - Limited edition
2017
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
A collection of previously unpublished texts and drawings, with an original artwork signed by the artist (artist's book).
Daniel Buren - Works & Process - Volume 2 (2 DVD)
2017
French edition (English subtitles)
a.p.r.e.s editions - Works & Process (DVD)
Second DVD in the “Works & Process” series to be dedicated to Daniel Buren's work, this new collection of films offers various documentary approaches of this major artist's work in a 3-hour program.
Olivier Nottellet - 1999-2017 (2 vol.)
2017
bilingual edition (English / French, text in Spanish)
various
Two-volume monograph including a retrospective publication and a sketchbook. This edition highlights Nottellet's double activity as an illustrator and an installation artist, and features four texts offering various approaches of the artist's work as well as an understanding of his evolution throughout a career that started in the 1990s.
 Quatuor Tana - Eclerectic Attracta (CD)
2017
Sub Rosa
Surrounded by European electronic music ensemble Quatuor Tana, 4 new pieces by the unpredictable Baudouin De Jaer, pushing further the boundaries of contemporary composition.
Teun Verbruggen - The Miracles Of Only One Thing (CD)
2017
Sub Rosa
In September 2015, Japanese legend Keiji Haino played with two of Belgium's most active and valued musicians: keyboardist Jozef Dumoulin and drummer Teun Verbruggen. The Miracles Of Only One Thing is a deep and intense testimony of this meeting.
André Stordeur - Analog and Digital Electronic Music #2 - 1980-2000 (vinyl LP)
2017
Sub Rosa
Selected unreleased works from 1980 to 2000 by a key composer of Belgian electronic music.
Iwan Schumacher - 1972 - At Home and on the Way
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
Black & white photographic diary between London and Switzerland during the year 1972, just before Iwan Schumacher devoted himself entirely to filmmaking.
Marc Johnson - Fecund Lacuna
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
La Maréchalerie
This artist book is at the intersection of art, archaeology and genetics. It translates several years' research in the fields of archaeology, genomics and ethics into a publication at the interface of art and science. It consists of three essays by specialists and an interview, images from the Inrap collection and views of the artist's installation at La Maréchalerie, a contemporary art center in Versailles, France.
Jocelyn Robert - La danse des variables
2017
French edition
Squint.press
Jean-Pierre Gorin - Letter to Jane
2017
English edition
various
currently out of stock
Taking as a point of departure a photograph of actress Jane Fonda in Vietnam, Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin reflect on the role of intellectuals in the revolutionary process. Originally published in 1972, this Letter to Jane is one of the last texts issued by the two founders of the Dziga Vertov Group.
Christopher Wilson - Richard Hollis designs for the Whitechapel - A graphic designer and an art gallery in twentieth-century London
2017
English edition
various
A remarkably well-documented and detailed book on designer Richard Hollis's graphic work for London's Whitechapel Gallery, from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s.
Jean-Pierre Gorin - Lettre à Jane
2017
French edition
various
Taking as a point of departure a photograph of actress Jane Fonda in Vietnam, Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin reflect on the role of intellectuals in the revolutionary process. Originally published in 1972, this Letter to Jane is one of the last texts issued by the two founders of the Dziga Vertov Group.
Tekla Aslanishvili - Algorithmic Space and Its Social Implications
2017
English edition
Casino Luxembourg
Tekla Aslanishvili's research for an artistic project in the public space.
Michaël La Chance - Les nouvelles fables de Fountain - 1917-2017
2017
French edition
Intervention - Monographs and artists' books
A dense and enlightening analysis of the “signature” and the development of the story of Marcel Duchamp's Fountain in its historical integration.
Thomas Hirschhorn - Les plaintifs, les bêtes, les politiques
2017
CEC (Centre d'édition contemporaine)
currently out of stock
New Facsimile edition of a brochure published on the occasion of an eponymous exhibition at Centre genevois de gravure contemporaine in 1995.
León Ferrari - The Words of Others - Conversations between God and a few men and between a few men and a few men and God
2017
English edition
X Artists' Books
(last copies available!)
The first full English translation of the Argentine artist León Ferrari's uncompromising literary masterpiece from 1967. A critique of the Vietnam War and American imperial politics, the book weaves together hundreds of excerpts from newspapers, periodicals, works of history, the Bible, and other sources.
Sylvan Oswald - High Winds
2017
English edition
X Artists' Books
High Winds is an artist's book written by Sylvan Oswald, with graphics by Jessica Fleischmann. This “western phantasmagoria” is a bedtime book for adults based on Oswald's experiences with insomnia, gender transition, and moving to Los Angeles.
Livio Vacchini - Disegni / Dessins / Drawings
2017
trilingual edition (English / French / Italian)
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Essays
This volume looks at a central aspect of Livio Vacchini's research: his drawings. The publication gives an overview of the Swiss architect's work with an unpublished selection of drawings—plans, cross sections, and facades. It also features an essay by architect Roberto Masiero.
Ivry Serres - L\'œuvre des matières
2017
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Essays
currently out of stock
A poetic exploration of the mechanisms of thought in the act of building.
 Atelier McClane - Black Books, Daily Life
2017
no text
Lendroit éditions
This publication gathers drawings, paintings and silkscreens, as well as references to readings that nourish both Atelier McClane's reflection and editorial work. All of that constitutes a reflexive system about their practice.
Anne-Valérie Gasc - Twenty Six Blank Rocks
2017
no text
Lendroit éditions
A series of 26 prints of lithographic stones, reflecting on Ed Ruscha's work (artist's book).
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