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140 d a p www.artbook.com t:800.338.2665 f 800.478.3128 new books writings critical investigations 141 walther kÖnig walther kÖnig walther kÖnig veenman publishers hatje cantz jrp ringier hatje cantz turner/a&r press art&idea 10 years edited by robert punkenhofer haydée rovirosa art&idea set up shop in 1995 and soon expanded its mexico city gallery to include a nomadic project space that has operated in new york madrid berlin and vienna this biography of a young institution and anthology of its projects bundles in interviews with its founders statements from artists and curators and documentation of 10 years of experimental work art&idea 10 years 3-7757-2001-4 978-3-7757-2001-4 hdcvr 6 x 9.5 in 160 pgs 140 color u.s $40.00 cdn $48.00 september/art plataforma puebla 2006 institutional critique and after soccas symposium vol iii aesthetics of risk edited by john c welchman text by jane blocker douglas crimp rachel greene richard shiff this anthology of essays images and dialogues exploring contemporary art s engagements with risk physical social political and aesthetic brings readers into the conference from which the book takes its title a third annual collaboration between the getty research institute and the southern california consortium of art schools soccas some content there was so intense that it came with a warning label contains graphic depictions of violence nudity and bodily functions no one under the age of 18 years will be admitted aesthetics of risk showcases conversations between catherine opie and douglas crimp paul mccarthy and kristine stiles and presentations including aestheticizing risk in wartime the sla to iraq institutional critique and after 3-905770-55-5 978-3-905770-55-1 pbk 6.5 x 9.5 in 300 pgs 48 b&w u.s $25.00 cdn $30.00 january/nonfiction criticism hans-ulrich obrist thomas demand the conversation series volume 10 volume number 10 in the conversation series with the influential museum director curator writer and conversationalist hans-ulrich obrist is given over to an intensive talk with the important german conceptual artist thomas demand who constructs precise environments out of paper maquettes which are then photographed to haunting effect topics include concepts and rules of operation the reconstruction and reverberation of history work processes studio realities and significant exhibitions of recent years this wide-ranging conversation modestly illustrated with blackand-white images is as intelligent as it is revealing giving the reader an unprecedented glimpse into the minds of two of the most brilliant players on the international art scene demand lives between berlin and new york where a retrospective of his work was shown at the museum of modern art in 2005 hans-ulrich obrist is the codirector of the musee d art moderne de la ville de paris as well as the serpentine gallery london hans-ulrich obrist thomas demand the conversation series 3-86560-204-5 978-3-86560-204-6 pbk 5.5 x 8.5 in 171 pgs 20 b&w u.s $25.00 cdn $30.00 july/nonfiction criticism hans-ulrich obrist yona friedman the conversation series volume 7 people make too much of architecture i have a running quarrel with architects who overestimate architecture reality is at eye-level with people walking down the street born in 1923 in budapest hungary yona friedman is widely considered one of the greatest utopian visionary architects of the twentieth century currently based in paris he is just as much a sociologist as a designer of buildings more concerned with the way people interact with their environments than monumental statements by an ego-centric creator in this illuminating talk with the conversation series editor hans-ulrich obrist he touches on the needs of the individual in heterogeneous urban societies past and future projects utopia influences and metaphysics revealing a wise and deeply-animated humanistic intellect known for his 1958 manifesto l architecture mobile friedman s ideas have remained influential his work was featured at the 2002 documenta hans-ulrich obrist yona friedman the conversation series 3-86560-171-5 978-3-86560-171-1 pbk 5.5 x 8.5 in 128 pgs 29 b&w u.s $22.00 cdn $26.00 july/nonfiction criticism interviews by gerald matt text by gerald matt contributions by matthew barney anri sala tony matelli tracey moffatt shirin neshat during his long and illustrious career as a curator gerald matt the current director of kunsthalle vienna had many insightful conversations with the top artists of the day gathered here are 40 interviews with contemporary artists including matthew barney vanessa beecroft candice breitz steve mcqueen shirin neshat raymond pettibon santiago sierra francesco vezzoli and yang fudong among others accompanied by numerous color illustrations of each artist s work according to matt the interviews gathered together in this volume attempt to provide a panoramic overview of contemporary artistic production modes without demystifying the aesthetic puzzle with hasty answers the point here is not to exhibit shut and dried views of the world but to sketch open systems that admit some space for continuing discourse interviews by gerald matt 3-86560-188-x 978-3-86560-188-9 paperback 6.5 x 9.25 in 360 pgs 103 color 21 b&w u.s $40.00 cdn $48.00 july/nonfiction criticism critique/kritik by rita roos edited by nina roos anders kreuger critic and theorist rita roos 19561996 grew up a member of finland s indigenous swedish-speaking minority a population of 350,000 with a strong writing culture when she died in her fortieth year she left behind the essays and interviews collected here edited on the tenth anniversary of her passing by anders kruger and by her twin sister the painter nina roos rita roos work for helsinki s hufvudstadtbladet newspaper and for siksi the nordic art review for which she was the finnish editor document a lively local art scene and also range over the international art world to include coverage of work by gerhard richter anish kapoor rosemarie trockel louise lawler cindy sherman laurie simmons and damien hirst this volume is published not only as a tribute to a vibrant committed art writer but as the editors write as an example of what journalism can be in that sense this book can be understood as obliquely polemical in relation to the current debate about the function and quality of criticism roos herself asks in an interview here what can art say that science cannot and answers that question along with many more critique/kritik 90-8690-039-9 978-90-8690-039-8 clothbound 6.5 x 9.5 in 296 pgs u.s $32.00 cdn $38.00 july/nonfiction criticism alien nation edited by gilane tawadros john gill jens hoffmann text by david alan mellor claire fitzsimmons alien nation explores the ways the metaphor of the alien little green man has been used to process the reality of the alien illegal or otherwise if the cinema of the 1950s and 60s sublimated the fear of atomic catastrophe or communist attack into interplanetary drama the more recent work collected here uses elements of that retro sci-fi world as powerful metaphors for our deepseated fears of the other the foreigner the increasingly frequently decried invasion of immigrants or just the presence of people of different skin colors and beliefs among the 12 international contemporary artists showcased are laylah ali kori newkirk and yinka shonibare they and their compatriots explore themes of otherness and difference in film sculpture painting photography and installation their interplanetary visitors which might be built from christmas ornaments like marepe s untitled creature or sewn from african cloth like shonibare s dysfunctional family are illustrated alongside film stills and posters from the 1950s and 60s a glossary of alien names from those films several thoughtful essays and interviews with the participating artists alien nation 3-7757-1944-x 978-3-7757-1944-5 hardcover 8 x 11 in 120 pgs 92 color 1 gatefold u.s $35.00 cdn $42.00 june/art kunsthaus bregenz mythos edited and with foreword by eckhard schneider text by uwe m schneede david joselit the greek word mythos means story or legend this exhibition catalogue gathers work by douglas gordon matthew barney and cy twombly in the context of joseph beuys mythos 3-86560-182-0 978-3-86560-182-7 hardcover 9.75 x 11.25 in 160 pgs 120 color u.s $62.00 cdn $75.00 october/art edited by príamo lozada bárbara perea from november 2006 to january 2007 plataforma puebla took over the oldest factory in mexico la constancia in puebla for a large-scale exhibition showcasing more than 60 latin american artists the curators charted an artistic cartography of the city around the site and made interventions that spilled over into the streets altering traffic inviting viewers to reevaluate the roles of landmarks and highlighting connections between the landscape and its past they connected viewers to alternate narratives that would otherwise have passed unnoticed giving them a new experience of the same place without erasing or overwriting the existing one plataforma puebla 2006 showcases participants including teresa margolles santiago sierra francis al˙s carlos amorales thomas glassford gabriel orozco daniel guzmán damián ortega and melanie smith it also includes essays on art and technology by curators príamo lozada and bárbara perea and additional texts by a host of international theorists art historians philosophers and the artists themselves plataforma puebla 2006 968-9056-15-8 978-968-9056-15-7 hardcover 8.25 x 8.5 in 240 pgs 190 color u.s $50.00 cdn $60.00 july/art

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