Product Description: The manuscript, written in London in English in 1852 and never published, was given to the MAK (Museum of Applied Arts) by Gottfried Semper himself in 1867. It deals with the systematics of a museum and sheds light on the institutions, objects and artists regarded by Semper as exemplary...read more

Product Description: Published for her exhibition at MAK Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, this broad overview of the work of Eva Schlegel (born 1960) documents works ranging from pornographic paintings to works in lead and installations of airplane propellers...read more

Product Description: The designer Mihály Biró (1886-1948) was the graphic voice of Soviet communism in Hungary. He joined the Social Democratic cause early in life, and between 1910 and 1920 designed some of the most widely admired posters and illustrations of the era, for the SZDP (Hungarian Social Democratic Party) and then the Hungarian Soviet Republic...read more

Product Description: This guidebook is the first comprehensive guide to architect and designer Josef Hoffmann's most important surviving and accessible public buildings in central Europe--including the building that now houses the Josef Hoffmann Museum, in Brtnice, Czechoslovakia...read more

Product Description: In an urban zone crisscrossed by multilane freeways and gridded with broad boulevards, the roadside billboards of Los Angeles may well be the city's most visible platform for art. How Many Billboards? documents a 2010 project in which billboards in Los Angeles were turned over to 23 artists to do with as they wished, asserting the ongoing legacy of California Conceptualism and its combination of language-based strategies with Pop-inflected aesthetics...read more

Product Description: In the mid-1960s, artists like Robert Morris, Joseph Beuys, Michelangelo Pistoletto and Lynda Benglis began to experiment with formlessness in their materials. The maxim Form follows material, however, was not only proclaimed in the era's avant-garde art: it had a distinct impact on furniture design as well--for example, on Gunnar A...read more

Product Description: In this oversized volume, the Viennese-born artist Elke Krystufek (b. 1970) presents paintings, collages, sculptures, videos, photographs and performance work made over the last 16 years. She explores social norms and patterns of behavior influenced by the family, attempting to discern the multilayered phenomenon of identity...read more