Product Description: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen have been working in partnership since 1976. Together they have executed over 40 large-scale, site-specific projects that establish direct contact with a wide audience into various urban settings in Europe, Asia, and the United States...read more

Product Description: Over the last four decades, video art has undergone numerous transformations. If in the mid-1960s, video was used by artists to record performances created in an isolated studio, now with digital technology artists can compete with the magic of cinema and develop a singularly fertile exchange with it, which has been fundamental in creating the poetic language of video works today...read more

Product Description: First exhibited in the late 1970s, the Transavanguardia seemed to oppose radical experimental media in a return to expressive practices in painting and sculpture. The Transavanguardia first achieved notice with an exhibition held at the Kunsthalle, Basel, and participated in the 1982 Documenta 7...read more

Product Description: As elements of our life move closer to art, and as art moves directly into life, the differences between the artificial and real are becoming progressively blurred. Form Follows Fiction focuses on a generation of artists who can no longer follow the modernist dictum "form follows function"; as our model of reality becomes more layered and less concrete, that decree morphs inevitably into "form follows fiction...read more

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Product Description: Haim Steinbach (born 1944) is a leading figure in American art. Since the 1970s he has been conceiving structures and framing devices for the presentation of objects. Steinbach displays already existing objects, carefully chosen and placed on shelves, ranging from the natural to the common, the artistic to the ethnographic, giving form to artworks which illuminate the aesthetic and social qualities of objects...read more

Product Description: This monograph documents the creative path, From the 1930s to the present, of one of Italy's most important living artists -- Emilio Vedova, born in Venice in 1919, and winner of the Leone d'Oro all'Opera prize at the 1997 Venice Biennale...read more

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Product Description: Bertrand Lavier is a leading figure in the French and international art world. His work is a critical rethinking of the tradition of the readymade, the common object presented as art. His adoption of household appliances or furnishings covered with paint or superimposed as sculptures, and his choice of images and signs in altered contexts, serve as a method for investigating both attribution processes of artistic value and the legitimacy of those processes...read more

Product Description: The Collections is the official catalogue of the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, which is housed in Turin's Rivoli Castle. This castle was commissioned in 1718 by the king of Italy and has been home to the Museum's splendid contemporary collection since 1984...read more