Product Description: Since the early 1970s, Hassan Sharif (born 1951) has been developing a multifaceted oeuvre encompassing caricatures, performances, installations, scientific experiments, objects, drawings and paintings, and is today seen as one of the Gulf region's most important artists...read more

Product Description: Bahman Jalali (Tehran, 1944) is one of the most prominent figures in contemporary Iranian photography. His work is a testimony to the Iranian Revolution, the Iran-Iraq War and the post-war years. It also documents daily life, traditional architectural forms, and includes photomontages of historic negatives...read more

Product Description: Tamss--which means contact, touch, contiguity, adjacency, tangency and confrontation line(s)--is part of Catherine David's long-term project Contemporary Arab Representations. The project comprises seminars, performances, publications and presentations of works by different authors--visual artists, architects, writers and poets--with the aim of encouraging productions, interaction and exchange between the different cultural centers of the Arab world and the rest of the world...read more

Product Description: The curators of Documenta X held two nights of discussions before the opening of the exhibition where in they discussed the idea of the "centre" as a socio-cultural manifestation. These are presented here in an accesible format published by Cantz. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Contributions by Christos Papoulias.

Product Description: In this society in which the essential is generally considered incidental (which is reflected in the unbearable dullness of the contemporary man), Catherine David picks the essence from inconspicuous corners where it has been gathering dust and shows us how she uses it to unlock the gates leading to inner beauty...read more

Reviews the life and career of the beloved French actress and international star, detailing her relationship with husband Yves Montand, her political and intellectual involvements in the 1940s, and her many film roles

Product Description: art book