Product Description: Famed and prized among Andy Warhol aficionados, the Swedish Moderna Museet's massive catalogue for the artist's 1968 solo exhibition was one of the great accomplishments of art publishing. In The Photobook: A History, Vol. II, Martin Parr and Gerry Badger describe it as "a quintessential photobook, cornucopias of photographic imagery in which found photographs, snapshots, photographs by Warhol's associates, photographic reproductions of his 'paintings' (themselves silk-screened photographs) and other kinds of imagery are collaged to talk about one basic subject--the gargantuan ego and artistic talent of Andy Warhol...read more

Product Description: The State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg was selected to host Manifesta 10 because of its intellectual and historical relationship with Eastern and Western Europe―a principle that is also central to Manifesta, as the single roving European biennial...read more

Product Description: Before the Law looks at a variety of sculptors who tackle the political dimensions of existential personhood. Artists include Pawel Althamer, Phyllida Barlow, Karla Black, Reg Butler, Paul Chan, Jimmie Durham, Alberto Giacometti, Marko Lehanka, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Zoe Leonard and others...read more

Product Description: Born into the semiotic seductions of the 1980s, Scottish painter Lucy McKenzie reworks the iconography of that decade to foster associations between the most unlikely sources―East European propaganda murals, German abstract painting, Cold War imagery, industrial typefaces and 1980s synth-pop...read more

Product Description: The definitive book on filmmaker, writer, founder of Anthology Film Archive and all-round cinema avatar Jonas Mekas, this compendium of materials is essential for all fans of independent American cinema. Since the early 1950s, when he acquired his first Bolex camera (shortly after moving to New York from Lithuania), Mekas has practiced a kind of diaristic filmmaking, which developed into a distinct style in the 1960s, where his documentations of John Lennon, Allen Ginsberg and other member of the New York counterculture were blended with footage of the city's street life and everyday incidents...read more

Product Description: Been to enough biennials? Skulptur Projekte Münster only happens every 10 years. This, its fourth iteration (following 1977, 1987 and 1997), invites artists from all over the world--many of whom are returning to the city and the event--to create new site-specific works...read more

Product Description: In chess, when a pawn reaches the eighth square on the far side of the board, the player can swap it for a piece from his opponent's set. So the pawn--a lowly foot soldier--can transform into a queen, the least powerful figure can transform into the epitome of power, and a man can become a woman--just like that...read more

Product Description: Doig, whose smart, dark figurative painting saw him nominated for the Turner Prize in 1994, lives and works in Trinidad. He and the artist Che Lovelace run a small private cinema there, StudioFilmClub. This series of posters for movies they've shown includes paintings that refer to key scenes, quote original movie posters, and weave in broader associations with the films' content...read more

Product Description: Peter Herrmann has remained the non-conformist artist he was when he left Dresden in 1984 to emigrate to West Germany. His seemingly naive figurative paintings and cityscapes capture the moods of human existence in a most subjective way...read more

Product Description: At EXPO 2000, Germany's first World Exposition, a diverse group of some twenty artists is participating in an innovative outdoor art project entitled In Between. Their works appear not together as a single exhibition, but in scattered locations throughout the extensive grounds of EXPO 2000...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book on British artist Hamish Fulton documents his recent "Group Walking Project" in Italy, in which he assembled 26 people, including himself, to spend 14 days walking the mountains, documenting the proceedings photographically...read more