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Product Description: During his long and illustrious career as a curator and former director of Kunsthalle Wien, Gerald A. Matt has conducted many insightful interviews with the leading contemporary artists of our time. This latest volume of interviews includes his conversations with Marina Abramovic, Peter Blake, Candice Breitz, Glenn Brown, Ellen Cantor, Clifton Childree, David Claerbout, Dawn Clements, Jean Conner, Urs Fischer, Rainer Ganahl, Shaun Gladwell, Greg Gorman, F...read more
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9783869844299 | Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst, December 31, 2014, cover price $39.00 | About this edition: During his long and illustrious career as a curator and former director of Kunsthalle Wien, Gerald A.
Product Description: The Circus as a Parallel Universe takes the circus as a metaphor for the art world--a platform for transgression against the existing world order. Artists brought forward to exemplify this perspective include Diane Arbus, Matthew Barney, Alexander Calder, Roni Horn, Bruce Nauman, Ulrike Ottinger, Marion Peck, Ugo Rondinone, Joe Scanlan and Cindy Sherman...read more
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9783869843179 | Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst, August 31, 2012, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: The Circus as a Parallel Universe takes the circus as a metaphor for the art world--a platform for transgression against the existing world order.
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9780984721023, titled "Skinny Sunrise: Skinny Sunrise" | Bilingual edition (Distributed Art Pub Inc, July 31, 2012), cover price $30.00
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9783869842561 | Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst, April 30, 2012, cover price $55.00
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9783869842011 | Bilingual edition (Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst, August 31, 2011), cover price $30.00
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9783869841755 | Bilingual edition (Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst, August 31, 2011), cover price $60.00
Product Description: David McDermott (born 1952) and Peter McGough (born 1958) met in New York in the 1980s, and soon became known for their total embrace of and immersion in the Victorian era. Since then, McDermott and McGough have explored other time periods with equal commitment, including the 1950s and 1960s...read more
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9783869841533, titled "No. 26 Sandymount Avenue: No. 26 Sandymount Avenue" | Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst, April 30, 2011, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: David McDermott (born 1952) and Peter McGough (born 1958) met in New York in the 1980s, and soon became known for their total embrace of and immersion in the Victorian era.
Product Description: Assessing the breadth of present-day photo-portraiture in over 170 color plates, this volume unfolds the relationship between photographer and sitter across the gamut of idioms. Tina Barney, Clegg & Guttmann, Anton Corbijn, Rineke Dijkstra, Bernhard Fuchs, Nan Goldin, Greg Gorman, Peter Hujar, Sally Mann, Robert Mapplethorpe, Hellen von Meene, Helmut Newton, Thomas Ruff, Beat Streuli and Wolfgang Tillmans are among the major contemporary fine-art photographers represented here...read more
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9783941185609 | Bilingual edition (Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst, December 31, 2010), cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Assessing the breadth of present-day photo-portraiture in over 170 color plates, this volume unfolds the relationship between photographer and sitter across the gamut of idioms.
Product Description: The street as a stage or site of creative action has acquired its own special role in art history: think of Jean-Michel Basquiat, whose work stemmed directly from street culture, or Mark Jenkins irritating pedestrians with his subtle infiltration of human-like sculptures, or the participatory installations of Kader Attia...read more
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9783869840161 | Bilingual edition (Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst, December 31, 2010), cover price $55.00 | About this edition: The street as a stage or site of creative action has acquired its own special role in art history: think of Jean-Michel Basquiat, whose work stemmed directly from street culture, or Mark Jenkins irritating pedestrians with his subtle infiltration of human-like sculptures, or the participatory installations of Kader Attia.
Product Description: Surfaces, Depths is a representative selection of Thomas Ruff's works, over a period that already spans about 25 years, with projects ranging from portraits and interiors to telescope and space probe pictures and "nightsight" photography...read more
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9783941185500 | Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst, November 30, 2009, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Surfaces, Depths is a representative selection of Thomas Ruff's works, over a period that already spans about 25 years, with projects ranging from portraits and interiors to telescope and space probe pictures and "nightsight" photography.
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9783939738893 | Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst, January 30, 2009, cover price $25.00
Product Description: Punk often seems best understood as an entirely historical term, signaling a stance or mood whose energies infused the arts of the 1970s across the board; as last year's popular ICA London show Secret Public demonstrated, cross-genre approaches to the period are increasingly adopted...read more
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9783940748188 | Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst, January 30, 2009, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Punk often seems best understood as an entirely historical term, signaling a stance or mood whose energies infused the arts of the 1970s across the board; as last year's popular ICA London show Secret Public demonstrated, cross-genre approaches to the period are increasingly adopted.
Product Description: "The publication at hand is the second volume of interviews recapitulating the conversations I have been able to hold with artists in the course of my work as a director and curator," writes the Kunsthalle Vienna's illustrious Gerald Matt in his foreword to this galvanizing collection...read more
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9783865603654, titled "Interviews 2: Interviews 2" | Walther Konig, June 15, 2008, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: "The publication at hand is the second volume of interviews recapitulating the conversations I have been able to hold with artists in the course of my work as a director and curator," writes the Kunsthalle Vienna's illustrious Gerald Matt in his foreword to this galvanizing collection.
Product Description: Sigmund Freud defined trauma as "an experience which, within a short period of time, presents the mind with an increase of stimulus too powerful to be dealt with or worked off in the normal way." The subject represses the traumatic experience, which then begins to enter into consciousness through its only other avenue, the dream--or, quite often, the nightmare...read more
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9783775720649 | Bilingual edition (Hatje Cantz Pub, February 1, 2008), cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Sigmund Freud defined trauma as "an experience which, within a short period of time, presents the mind with an increase of stimulus too powerful to be dealt with or worked off in the normal way.
Product Description: Chen Zhen (1955-2000) was among the members of the Chinese avant-garde who chose exile over political repression. In 1986, he left home for Paris, where, after a few years of seclusion, he began to show pioneering work he called "open sculpture," which found swift international acclaim...read more
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9783939738305 | Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst, November 30, 2007, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Chen Zhen (1955-2000) was among the members of the Chinese avant-garde who chose exile over political repression.
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9783865601889 | Walther Konig, July 1, 2007, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Book by Matt, Gerald
Product Description: Assume vivid astro focus (avaf for short) is an artists' collective whose members prefer not to let the public know their names. Their multiple authorship both comments on and evades the cult of personality--it is ostensibly designed to set their art squarely in the public eye, without gossipy biographical distractions, but it has received a lot of attention itself...read more
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9783938821848 | Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst, April 30, 2007, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Assume vivid astro focus (avaf for short) is an artists' collective whose members prefer not to let the public know their names.
Product Description: A bakers' dozen of the best photographers of the past hundred years, from Helen Levitt and Gordon Parks to Nan Goldin and Ryan McGinley, are brought together here in a series of portfolios expanding on Robert Frank's Americans. Together they consider generations of social upheavals, crises, and shifts in U...read more
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9788889431689 | Bilingual edition (Damiani Editore, March 1, 2007), cover price $50.00 | About this edition: A bakers' dozen of the best photographers of the past hundred years, from Helen Levitt and Gordon Parks to Nan Goldin and Ryan McGinley, are brought together here in a series of portfolios expanding on Robert Frank's Americans.
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9783938821909 | Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst, March 1, 2007, cover price $45.00
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9783938821190 | Bilingual edition (Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst, December 30, 2006), cover price $50.00
Product Description: This study of Don Giovanni, alias Don Juan, includes work from 15 contemporary artists working in video, including Tracey Moffatt, Ugo Rondinone, Erwin Wurm and Sam Taylor-Wood. As E. T. A. Hoffmann would have it, Mozart's Don Giovanni is the "opera of operas"--but who is the Don, and what contemporary relevance does his breathtaking lifestyle have? Sometimes an unscrupulous hedonist, and then again a weak man overwhelmed by desire and despair, he generates a dazzling variety of roles and identities...read more
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9783938821367 | Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst, December 30, 2006, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: This study of Don Giovanni, alias Don Juan, includes work from 15 contemporary artists working in video, including Tracey Moffatt, Ugo Rondinone, Erwin Wurm and Sam Taylor-Wood.
Product Description: More than 10 years after the end of Apartheid, South Africa is still ravaged by political, medical and, as ever, racial struggle. Violence and crime rates remain extremely high, and critics say that the democratic process hasn't helped the disadvantaged or redistributed wealth, it has only installed a new elite...read more
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9783938821336 | Bilingual edition (Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst, December 11, 2006), cover price $45.00 | About this edition: More than 10 years after the end of Apartheid, South Africa is still ravaged by political, medical and, as ever, racial struggle.
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
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9783883758008 | Slp edition (Walther Konig, April 29, 2004), cover price $60.00 | About this edition: 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.
Product Description: The cultural-historical starting point of Saint Sebastian: Or a Splendid Readiness For Death is found in Gabriele D'Annunzio's Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian: A Mystery in Five Acts, a musical play on which D'Annunzio collaborated with Debussy and in which the role of Saint Sebastian was taken by D'Annunzio's lover, the dancer Ida Rubenstein, whose transvestism in the role brought denunciations from the Church...read more
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9783936646450 | Kerber Christof Verlag, April 1, 2004, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: The cultural-historical starting point of Saint Sebastian: Or a Splendid Readiness For Death is found in Gabriele D'Annunzio's Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian: A Mystery in Five Acts, a musical play on which D'Annunzio collaborated with Debussy and in which the role of Saint Sebastian was taken by D'Annunzio's lover, the dancer Ida Rubenstein, whose transvestism in the role brought denunciations from the Church.
Product Description: In the past decade, India's cities have been caught in the grip of an enormous push toward globalization, an abrupt internationalization of capital, consumption, and media that has also effected changes in the contexts of Indian contemporary art...read more
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9783775712163 | Cantz, March 1, 2003, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: In the past decade, India's cities have been caught in the grip of an enormous push toward globalization, an abrupt internationalization of capital, consumption, and media that has also effected changes in the contexts of Indian contemporary art.
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