Product Description: There are a number of different crises, in various guises, in today s world. The most prominent of these is the global economic crisis, but this is not felt as keenly across the globe: there are also countries of economic prosperity...read more

Product Description: The work of Joan Rabascall (he has lived in Paris since 1961) was shown regularly in France from the early 1960s to the early 1980s, but is little known in Catalonia. Cultural criticism associated with the politics of revolt lead him to explore the dependency of culture in relation to the economy, fashion and politics in order, in the 1970s, to reflect on the construction of history and how the tourist industry configures landscapes, territories and languages...read more

Product Description: Francesc Torres (b. Barcelona, 1948) produces most of his work between Spain and the United States. Torres explores the relationships between artistic practice and political analysis both in recent history and the present. He is fascinated by associations such as jealousy and violence, business and war, the competition inherent in the capitalist system and large-scale forms of state violence...read more

Product Description: Asier Mendizabal (b. Ordizia, Guipuzkoa, 1973) is a new generation Basque artist who pays special attention to the relations between form, discourse and ideology. His oeuvre could be described as a critique of ideology, based on the mise en scène of the structures that shape it...read more

Product Description: The title of this book, Autofocus Retina means a configuration of four diamond shaped mirrors connoting the inner mechanics of a camera lens: the photographic eye. Lothar Baumgarten (b. Germany 1944, living and working in Berlin/New York) presents a personal selection of photographs, sculpture, drawings and film, from the late 1960s to the present day...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: In 2001, Rotterdam and Porto, the cultural capitals of Europe for that year, were besieged by international artists invited to design projects that explored these two cities and their spaces. The singular nature of each work in Squatters led to their installation as cell-like structures of mini-exhibitions, staking a claim on their urban sites and creatively reconceiving them...read more

Product Description: For the exhibition Play-use, artist Peter Friedl interviewed a number of children in the playgrounds in the immediate vicinity of the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam. These interviews are translated into English and presented here in their entirety.

Product Description: Description: From No. 4 documents exhibitions at Witte de With featuring Eulalia Valldosera, Anneke A. de Boer, Fow Pyng Hu, Gabriel Lester, Pia Wergius, Manfred Pernice, Carsten Nicolai, L.A. Raeven, Jennifer Tee, Raimond Wouda, Meschac Gaba, Dennis Adams, Maura Biava, Elmgreen & Dragset, Fiona Raby & Anthony Dunne, Teresita Fernandez, Cristina Iglesias, Cildo Meireles, and Zeger Reijers...read more

Product Description: The work of African artist Meschac Gaba centers around his concept for a Museum of Contemporary African Art. This nomadic and virtual museum is brought to life in his installations, of which he has so far created six featuring different aspects of his museum...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A sculpture by Fortuyn/O'Brien exists as easily in a museum as it does in a public square or in front of a church in a Tuscan village. This monograph documents her work from 1992 up to the present day and contributes to the debate about art in public space.

Product Description: Contributions by Bartomeu Mari. Text by Georg Stimmel, Jos ten Berge. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Contributions by Bartomeu Mari. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)