Product Description: This survey of Yang Fudongís films traces the artistís evolving understanding of his homeland and explores the frisson between Chinaís traditions and its ever-accelerating future.

Product Description: Complementing Morgan Fisher’s Two Exhibitions monograph, this volume compiles the Los Angeles-based artist’s writings of the past three decades, from 1975 to the present. Fisher discusses his own films, paintings, installations and photographs and the works of artists such as Carl Andre and Blinky Palermo...read more

Product Description: Using classical sculptural techniques, Peter Senoner (born 1969) has factured a small population of alien beings realized in various materials, whose heads and/or feet are swollen as though with some unspecified advanced evolutionary purpose...read more

Product Description: This volume takes its cue from the ethnological concept of animism, a term for religions that view objects as having souls of their own. Animism emerged as an anthropological category in the nineteenth century, often occurring as a folk belief underlying more established religions, particularly in Africa and Southeast Asia...read more

Product Description: UnExhibit takes up the question of the “display as exhibition” in works by Maria Eichhorn, Richard Hamilton, Ann Veronica Janssens, Willem Oorebeek, Karthik Pandian and Mathias Poledna, Joëlle Tuerlinck and Heimo Zobernig. The book not only examines display as a material gesture, but also studies artistic methods of not showing and withdrawing--of “un-exhibiting...read more

Product Description: Album/Tracks A+B is a comprehensive catalogue on the Belgian artist Ana Torfs, published on the occasion of her solo exhibitions in K21, Düsseldorf and Generali Foundation, Vienna. Its title refers to the idea of a photo album that starts out empty and slowly comes to tell a story as it is filled with pictures...read more

Product Description: Over the last decade, Dutch artist Rob Voerman (born 1966) has crafted architectural fictions, in which the romanticism of DIY culture opposes the political rhetoric of threat and fear. Working with basic materials such as cardboard, salvaged wood and found objects, Voerman draws on a variety of histories ranging from utopian hippy communities to remote terrorist hideouts to Art-Deco glasswork...read more

Product Description: In her films, photography, video and sound installations, Danica Daki? (born 1962) addresses the cultural parameters of language and identity. In her video installation "Autoportrait," for example, a bust of the artist equipped with two mouths tells simultaneous fairytales in Bosnian and German...read more

Product Description: Reflecting on the decline of modernist utopianism, this volume surveys those artists who have explored and embraced its decay: Yona Friedman, Giuseppe Gabellone, Cyprien Gaillard, Isa Genzken, Dan Graham, Gordon Matta-Clark, Florian Pumhösl, Jeroen de Rijke & Willem de Rooij, Robert Smithson, Rob Voerman and Stephen Willats...read more

Product Description: In her essay “Writing Turned Image: An Alphabet of Pensive Language," Sabine Folie writes, "An idea...explored in Stéphane Mallarmé's Un coup de dés (A roll of the dice) of 1897 has in the twentieth century become an integral part of the poetological and, more generally, the avant-gardist vocabulary: the idea of unmasking language as a convention whose purpose it is to discipline the individual and to subject it to a regulated system of capitalist exploitation as well as to guarantee orientation in the world...read more

Product Description: Eva Hesse is best known for the ethereal sculptures she created out of latex and fiberglass, a body of work that shows affinities with the concerns of Minimalism but cannot be easily characterized under any particular art movement...read more

Product Description: A gorgeous production. Published in conjunction with an exhibit Germany, this volume is an excellent overview of Morath's career and includes many previously unpublished images. Morath was a long-time member of Magnum. She died in 2002...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)