Product Description: Trained both as an architect and art historian, An Te Liu is a Canadian installation artist working across a number of different media. Featuring an interview with multimedia artist Ken Lum, contributions from Kitty Scott, Curator of Creative Arts at the Art Gallery of Ontario, and critic and curator Andrew Berardini, this richly illustrated monograph provides the first comprehensive overview of the artist’s work in a series of expressive, personal and critical texts...read more

Product Description: Published to accompany the exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, London in November 2006, In the darkest hour there may be light provides a revealing and concise overview of Damien Hirst's murderme collection to date. As Julia Peyton-Jones puts it in the Director's Foreword to this beautifully produced catalogue, "Damien Hirst's groundbreaking and controversial work has made him one of the world's best-known living artists...read more

Product Description: Over the past dozen years, Toronto-based artist Scott McFarland (born 1975) has become one of the most prominent artists working with photography. His subtle manipulations of the photograph and use of tableau scale offer the viewer a new perspective on the photograph as a single moment in time...read more

Product Description: Xilitla is the name of a film presented by British-born, Mexico City-based artist Melanie Smith (born 1965) at the 54th Venice Biennial in 2011. The film--and this exceptionally handsome accompanying book--documents Las Pozas, the extraordinary Surrealist palace and gardens built by Edward James in Xilitla, Mexico, from 1945 until his death in 1984...read more

Product Description: This intimate publication focuses on Frances Stark’s feature-length video “My Best Thing,” a digital video animation that traces the development of two sexual encounters into conversations about film, literature, art, collaboration and subjectivity...read more

Product Description: Edited by Kitty Scott and including essays by Barbara Fischer, Teresa Gleadowe, Francesco Manacorda, Cuauhtemoc Medina, and Lourdes Morales; this book offers an overview of thinking on curatorial pedagogy, designed to elucidate, define and build on debates surrounding this subject...read more

Product Description: The postwar ascent of the curator as both cultural broker and creative participant in the work of art has seen the discipline acquire a brief but rich history of its own, peopled with names that already seem the stuff of legend (Johannes Cladders, Pontus Hulten, Harald Szeemann)...read more

Product Description: Produced to accompany his one-person show at London's Serpentine Gallery, this catalogue features works from the 1960s through today by one of Iceland's leading conceptual artists. According to essayist Olafur Eliasson, "If Hreinn were everything, I would be everywhere...read more

Product Description: Daniel Richter, a former graphic designer of punk-rock album covers, is a major star of the German contemporary art scene. A significant influence since the 1990s – often mentioned in the same breath as Neo Rauch and Peter Doig – Richter has enjoyed great success since developing his expressive style of figurative painting...read more

Product Description: Founded in 1974 by artist group General Idea, Art Metropole was one of the first to collect and preserve international art ephemera from the 1960s on. These rare multiples, mail art pieces, artist's books and audio works by major figures such as Maria Abramovic, Christian Boltanski, Chris Burden and John Cage, are now housed in the National Gallery of Canada...read more

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