search results for "most beautiful swiss books"
2021
French edition
L'Incroyable - Books
currently out of stock
An illustrated portrait of Laurent Le Deunff through interviews with various personalities, artists, filmmaker, philosopher and art critics.
2021
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
"1 Million Roses for Angela Davis" traces Davis' immense influence and legacy as activist and scholar on contemporary artists today, while simultaneously teasing out the contradictions her presence and agenda posed to the GDR's interpretation and application of Marxism.
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
A journey of invention and experimentation through more than 200 pieces by international artists, observing the diversity not only of forms and decorations, but also of manufacturing processes of ceramic.
2021
Transversales Disques
The never released before piece Un Monde Lacéré by electroacoustic music pioneer Pierre Henry, a stunning special tribute to Jacques Villeglé and his work, recorded in 2008 in studio Son/Ré.
2021
Matière Mémoire
currently out of stock
A vast expanse of intricate ambience, texture, and tone that encounters Stephen O'Malley exploring quiet, introspective depths.
2021
Matière Mémoire
A piece made with materials from four artists (Arne Deforce and Deborah Walker, cello; Erik Drescher, flute; Dafne Vicent Sandoval, bassoon), recorded in Marcus Schmickler's studio in Koln, with a Brauner microphone.
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
The fertile exchanges between French and American poetry since 1968.
2021
Matière Mémoire
Italian composer Mauro Lanza delivers a masterful and radical work of electroacoustic artistry with his contribution to Matière Mémoire's MMXX Series,
between electronic and acoustic tactics, pushing the boundaries of experimental and avant-garde music.
2021
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
sold out
The drawing practice of Kara Walker.
2021
English edition
Torpedo
(last copies available!)
A book about art, publishing and collaboration.
2021
French edition
Kulte Editions
A protean project embracing a reflection around the photographic medium and modes of understanding the world (artist's book).
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Loevenbruck
A new essay by curator and publisher Mathieu Copeland about Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux's reinvention of Allan Kaprow's environment The Apple Shrine and considering, more generally, the themes of reinvention in art and the exhibition form.
2021
trilingual edition (English / Arabic / French)
Kulte Editions
Artist's book.
2021
French edition
Dis Voir - Cinema – Fictions
An unpublished tale by Raoul Ruiz.
2021
English edition
Dis Voir - Cinema – Fictions
An unpublished tale by Raoul Ruiz.
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Bisou Records
sold out
Isabelle Magnon asked Ghédalia Tazartès to take pictures of his "Cabinet de curiosité". This book shows 40 pictures of Tazartès' objects and small installations. There is a free CD included of the only recorded performance of the trio formed by Ghédalia Tazartès, Jérôme Lorichon and Quentin Rollet.
2021
Arabic edition
Kayfa ta
Russian writer and philosopher Oxana Timofeeva was born and grew up in various parts of the USSR. The book explores the difficulty of reducing one's sense of homeland to one's country alone, the philosophical interconnectedness of movement and rootedness, our plant and animal souls, and how we need to reimagine our desired, fictional if need be, homelands.
2021
English edition
Kayfa ta
currently out of stock
Russian writer and philosopher Oxana Timofeeva was born and grew up in various parts of the USSR. The book explores the difficulty of reducing one's sense of homeland to one's country alone, the philosophical interconnectedness of movement and rootedness, our plant and animal souls, and how we need to reimagine our desired, fictional if need be, homelands.
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Frac Franche-Comté - Conversation series
An conversation around the question of time and the links between the short and long term, the present, the past and the possible futures in the artistic practice of Marie Velardi.
2021
English edition
Song Cycle Records
sold out
Collector's edition box set including the soundtrack realised by the great Russian composer Edward Artemiev for the Andrey Tarkovsky's masterpiece film Solaris (1972). The box comes with the remastered soundtrack in the vinyl and CD formats, and an exclusive luxurious photo book with unreleased images of the movie set and essays about music and cinema of the duo Artemiev/Tarkovsky.
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
MER. Books
A selection of around 60 rarely shown photographs by French artist Jean Chauvin (1889-1976), one of the pioneers of abstract sculpture of the early 20th century.
2020
English edition
Archive Books
A tribute.
2020
English edition
Archive Books
Seventeen interviews conducted with Med Hondo over a period of almost half a century, most of the interviews originally published in French were translated into English.
2020
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Wirklichkeit Books
currently out of stock
All flag designs proposals rejected by the Council of Europe until 1955, published for the first time, with a text by German-French artist and writer Marie Rotkopf, who tackles the EU's neoliberal political cynicism and Germany's expansion of power with biting irony.
2020
French edition
Hippocampe - Books
20.00 € 10.00 €
Each of the stories that make up this collection of narratives has as its starting point a phrase that must be taken literally, in its literal sense. The writing then develops its poetic and imaginary potentialities.
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Captures - Digressions (interviews)
A conversation around books and reading, education and teaching methods, food and culinary practices, and agriculture and ecology.
2020
Keplar
The album “Balance” by Frank Bretschneider & Taylor Deupree was originally released in 2002 by Mille Plateaux on CD only. The 9 tracks are a perfect example for the aesthetics to arise within the Click & Cuts scene and (ambient-)glitch music movement of the late 1990s and early 2000s.
2020
Blank Forms - Records
C.C. Hennix realizes Karlheinz Stockhausen's famous “intuitive music” masterwork from the late Sixties.
2020
Sub Rosa
A tribute to William S. Burroughs.
2020
English edition
various
The first ever portrait album of Ash Fure's music, performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble, Interlochen Arts Academy Orchestra, Rebekah Heller, Brandon Lopez, and Nate Wooley.
Released as a limited edition hardcover book with a digital download code included, featuring documentation from Ash Fure's immersive performances, commentary by the composer, an interview with Nate Wooley (Sound American editor), and contributions from Zachary Woolfe (New York Times), Steve Smith (New Yorker), and others.
2020
Sub Rosa
sold out
A tribute to William S. Burroughs.
2020
English edition
Artforum
The best of 2020.
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
CAN (Centre d'Art Neuchâtel)
The catalogue / temporal synthesis of the evolutionary and challenging exhibition at CAN, Neuchâtel.
2020
Important Records
Originally released by the Grateful Dead's Round Records in 1975, Ned Lagin's Seastones is a pioneering electronic composition interweaving metaphors from nature, science, art and music and the origins of music.
2020
various
The soundtrack of Lili Reynaud-Dewar's film shot in Marfa (a horror movie about gentrification, the privatization and commodification of art, land, ideas, freedom, and depicting a group of 8 young artists struggling to find meaning in their engagement in the field of visual arts), composed and performed by Nicolas Murer.
2020
English edition
Archive Books
Ian Kiaer's new monograph is based on a project that the artist began several years ago and whose configuration changes with the circumstances. Drawing on the notion of marginal endnotes in books, it references the utopian concepts of the Austrian American architect Frederick Kiesler (1890-1965).
2020
English edition
Blank Forms - Books
sold out
The life and work of Maryanne Amacher are as vast as they are as yet unknown. Situated at the very onset of serious study of her papers, Amy Cimini and Bill Dietz offer a heterodox and idiosyncratic selection of largely unpublished documents spanning the bandwidth of the still unprocessed contents of the Amacher archive (hardcover edition).
2020
English edition
Flash Art - Flash Art Publishing (books)
The series of photographs plastered by Alessio Bolzoni over twenty six billboards in sixteen different locations across the city of Milan.
2020
French edition
Empire - Books
The unpublished story, reproduced in facsimile, of the journey to Paris of Frédéric Bruly Bouabré (1923-2014), Ivorian poet and artist, "prophet", creator and inventor of the Bété alphabet, who writes a "report" of his encounter with the Western world on his return from the opening of the mythical exhibition "Magiciens de la Terre".
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire - Books
Catalogue dedicated to contemporary artists whose production concentrate on the reuse of existing images (new expanded edition). This publication investigates the various practices of these iconographer artists through documentation, illustrations, essays, and interviews (with Haris Epaminonda, Wade Guyton, Camille Henrot, Thomas Hirschhorn, Jonathan Monk, Linder Sterling…).
2020
English edition
Blank Forms - Books
sold out
Thulani Davis' collection of poetry about music.
2020
Matière Mémoire
currently out of stock
2020
no text
Nieves
A series of still lifes and interior scenes by the Swiss artist.
2020
French edition
Squint.press
Entonnoir de Nous: a machine misunderstands two humans over several years, and unwittingly writes a book of poetry.
2020
English edition
Squint.press
A phenomenology of voice and hearing.
2020
no text
Nieves
A series of drawings made in Paris with felt pen in small notebooks. The hours-long work on the drawings, which are all made right on the spot, displaces Giezendanner into meditation and lets him perceive the urban space in different ways.
2020
English edition
Errant Bodies - Errant Edition
Drawing from notions of "bad poetry" as the critical undoing of normative taste, Antilogy brings together works by the Brazilian artist and poet Alex Hamburger.
2020
English edition
Nero
Monograph / artist's book.
2020
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Agricultural landscapes
and portraits of the
Swiss Alps: a fascinating visual study of the relationship between humans, animals
and topography in the context of a rapidly changing agriculture and dairy
industry.
2020
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
Conceived as a children's book, Stories of Little and Big Blossoms is a collection of illustrated short stories about Elham, a little
Iranian girl exiled in Germany, and her difficulties to fit in this new
environment. A poetic work on exile,
friendship, courage and open-mindedness, inspired by the childhood
of author and illustrator, Shirin Azari.