Product Description: Büttner is best known for drawing out deeper layers of meaning from daily scenes that, at first glance, may seem banal. He creates surreal assemblages that question our systems of value and contradict our understanding of what elements or images may be brought together...read more

Product Description: The first Renaissance did not take place in Europe, but in Mesopotamia: Arabic-Islamic culture functioned as a mediator between classical antiquity and the early modern age in Europe. This volume, edited by renowned theorist Siegfried Zielinski, explores the rich and fascinating world of the automata that were developed and built during the golden age of the Arabic-Islamic cultures, the period from the early 9th to the 13th century...read more

Product Description: Essays and images that map art's new sonic cosmos, illustrated in color throughout.This milestone volume maps fifty years of artists' engagement with sound. Since the beginning of the new millennium, numerous historical and critical works have established sound art as an artistic genre in its own right, with an accepted genealogy that begins with Futurism, Dada, and Fluxus, as well as disciplinary classifications that effectively restrict artistic practice to particular tools and venues...read more

Product Description: Documenting and describing the emerging “performative democracy,” the first new art form of the twenty-first century. Today political protest often takes the form of spontaneous, noninstitutional, mass action. Mass protests during the Arab Spring showed that established systems of power―in that case, the reciprocal support among Arab dictators and Western democracies―can be interrupted, at least for a short moment in history...read more

Product Description: German choreographer Sasha Waltz (born 1963) is a pioneer of the so-called “turn to the installation," expanding the genre to include actions and people. This volume documents an exhibition at the ZKM | Karlsruhe, comprised of huge installations supplemented by many smaller installations and objects, archival materials and performances...read more

Product Description: Seventeenth-century Europe saw a fruitful creative exchange between the arts and contemporaneous scientific thought. Mapping Spaces traces the multifaceted dimensions of this exchange with contributions from more than forty leading scholars who, together, reflect on the influence of science and technology on the arts through the specific study of the process of mapping in Dutch landscape paintings of the mid-seventeenth century...read more

Product Description: In 2013, German artist Rosalie (born 1953) realized three large-scale, kinetic, interactive light and space sculptures for the Museum der bildenden Künste in Leipzig. This publication documents the works, as well as a selection of light works created between 2007 and 2011.

Product Description: What is typically German? Is it really the love of lawn gnomes, gemutlichkeit, and beer? Are the Germans neat freaks, the champions of orderliness and rigid cleaning schedules, a nation unrivaled in its devotion to the virtues of punctuality and conscientiousness? A lawn gnome in a minework's uniform hewn out of anthracit coal; a bronzecast tower of books rising to a height of more than thirteen feet that bears the title "The Infinite Spirit"; and a brass plummet magnified to a multiple of the original size that stands for "precision"these are only three of the works Rolf Sachs presents in his book "typisch deutsch?"...read more

Product Description: The sculptures, photographs, and drawings of Kata Legrady (b. Barcs, Hungary, 1974; lives and works in various cities around the world) confront the viewer with symbols of violence that are at once luxury articles and the objects of infantile desires...read more

Product Description: Moments documents the recreation of milestone works in performance art by Marina Abramovic, Graciela Carnevale, Simone Forti, Anna Halprin, Channa Horwitz, Sanja Ivekovic, Adrian Piper and Yvonne Rainer, at the ZKM in Karlsruhe.

Product Description: Energy Fields celebrates the lengthy career of German artist Otto Piene (born 1928), a member of the Zero group who is also widely acknowledged as an important trailblazer in new media art. The publication includes his paintings, inflatable sculptures, light installations and drawings...read more

Product Description: Mapping the new geography of the visual arts, from the explosion of biennials to the emerging art markets in Asia and the Middle East.The geography of the visual arts changed with the end of the Cold War. Contemporary art was no longer defined, exhibited, interpreted, and acquired according to a blueprint drawn up in New York, London, Paris, or Berlin...read more

Product Description: This publication introduces two pioneers of new media: Zbigniew Rybczynski, from Poland, and Gábor Bódy, from Hungary. Rybczynski (born 1949) is a creator of experimental animations and a multimedia artist. Bódy (1946–1985) was considered one of the most important Hungarian filmmakers...read more

Product Description: The only Austrian winner of the Pritzker Prize (1985) and president of the architecture biennale in Venice, the Viennese architect Hans Hollein (born 1934) has been a leading exponent of postmodernism in architecture. Yet his global stature as an architect has overshadowed his design work of the 1970s and 1980s and his artistic work of the 1960s and 1970s, despite past exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris...read more

Product Description: In their latest monograph, the Danish-Norwegian duo Elmgreen & Dragset address the world of celebrity: rumor-mongering, life in the public eye, the mechanisms of the media, its formation of myths and how those myths endlessly bombard us with staged presentations of the self...read more

Product Description: One of the world's truly visionary theater artists, Robert Wilson (born 1941) brings his impeccable eye to high-definition video in a series of dramatic portraits. These tableaux of celebrities and other personalities entail carefully coordinated set design, lighting, music, makeup, props and costumes...read more

Product Description: Record Again! is one outcome of the laudable "40yearsvideoart.de" conservation project, which has sought to combat the physical fragility and limited life span of outdated formats by tracing lost video works of the 1960s and 1970s...read more

Product Description: The religious movements of today no longer depend on the handselling of literature such as bibles, pamphlets etc, but instead operate predominantly with electronic picture media such as video and television that can be disseminated much more widely, and which are capable of enormous rhetorical impact...read more

Product Description: Since the early 1980s, Austrian artist Brigitte Kowanz (born 1957) has been exploring neon light effects in works for walls and room installations. Her earliest light works were three-dimensional pictures made of neon, which emitted a phosphorescent light that caused the picture to appear to expand...read more

Product Description: When Zagreb was the epicenter of explorations into the aesthetic potential of the new “thinking machines.”This book documents a short but intense artistic experiment that took place in Yugoslavia fifty years ago but has been influential far beyond that time and place: the “little-known story” of the advent of computers in art...read more

Product Description: The work of German artist and stage designer rosalie is marked by the innovative transgression of limits. Her work has been shown in galleries and museums across Germany and has been featured in several international art fairs, including Art Basel, Art Cologne, and Art Frankfurt...read more

Product Description: American dancer and choreographer Richard Siegal is famed for his mergings of bodies and systems. In 2005 he created "If/Then," a piece for two dancers structured as a flowchart organized around gamelike rules: "If I do x, you do y or z," etc...read more

Product Description: The Morning Line is a collaboration between Matthew Ritchie, architects Aranda/Lasch and the global design and engineering firm Arup. Many disciplines converge in an interactive, open, cellular structure.

Product Description: Paul Thek occupied a place between high art and low art, between the epic and the everyday. During his brief life (1933-1988), he went against the grain of art world trends, humanizing the institutional spaces of art with the force of his humor, spirituality, and character...read more

Product Description: The sixth and final volume of the Imagination Becomes Reality series, featuring works from the renowned Goetz Collection in Munich, includes a selection of works by 50 of the most interesting and relevant artists of our day, all of whom expand on the discourse of painting without ever being limited to one medium...read more