Product Description: This volume examines Luis Buñuel's 1930 masterpiece L'Âge d'or as a source of inspiration for contemporary art. Here, artists such as John Bock, Keren Cytter, Julian Rosefeldt, Tobias Zielony and the artist duos Chicks on Speed and M+M present unconventional renderings of Buñuel's film...read more

Product Description: German artist Martin Kasper (born 1962) transforms the architectural spaces of his tempera paintings into places of emptiness and atmosphere. This volume documents in situ his exhibition at the Künstlerkolonie Museum's historical sculpture studios.

Product Description: Expressionist sculptor Bernhard Hoetger (1874–1949) was a key figure in the Art Nouveau movement in Germany. This volume focuses on the series of extremely influential sculptural works that Hoetger created for the plane tree grove of the Art Nouveau exhibition center Mathildenhöhe in Darmstadt...read more

Product Description: Famously described by Schönberg as "not a composer, but an inventor--of genius," John Cage (1912-1992) was one of the great strategists and pioneers of twentieth-century music and art. A House Full of Music celebrates Cage's one-hundredth birthday by examining 12 fundamental strategies through which art and music have informed each other: recording, collage, silence, destruction, calculation, coincidence, feeling, thought, belief, furnishing, repetition and playing...read more

Product Description: During the Persian Gulf War, the world witnessed an unprecedented convergence of warfare and media coverage. Civilian televisions were broadcasting images that had just been seen by military censors; shortly afterwards, this data was being translated into computer games peddled to teens...read more

Product Description: The work of Bulgarian artist Nedko Solakov (born 1957) balances political and social critique with deliberate naivete. The artist's activities incorporate small-scale drawing, sculpture and installation, translating his lived experiences under a totalitarian Communist regime into universally relatable expressions of anxiety and thwarted hope...read more

Product Description: A Japanese power plant, dilapidated slums, the patterned facades of an apartment complex in Paris--in the work of German art photographer Andreas Gursky, born in 1955 in Leipzig, both private dwellings and the domains of industrial and political power are made into sometimes awe-inspiring and always overpowering forces of urban life...read more

Product Description: Beginning with archival materials and his own photographs and drawings, German artist Heribert C. Ottersbach paints subjects--often architectural--that allow him to reevaluate Modernism. He calls his paintings "abstract, geometric figurations of a society disciplined by 'education...read more

Product Description: The Canadian artist-team Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller have built up an impressive multimedia practice in which sound and voice are both material and subject. Their disorienting sound environments derive their sources from a wide spectrum of musical, literary and cinematic genres such as medieval plainsong, pulp fiction, literary fiction or film noir, transforming a walk along a street into a hallucinatory existential thriller in which visual and aural input can wildly clash or mesh...read more

Product Description: Spirit "X-rays" the collection of the Coninx Museum: its digital video centerpiece, Portrait of a Collection recording Werner Coninx's inventory of thousands of artworks and scrolling them before the viewer's eyes at fractions of a second each...read more