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Anthologies & Art Theory
Stemming from exhibition projects, symposiums or University researches, these books focus each on an issue of art criticism, politics of representation, or art history, through a collection of reference texts.
2019
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The complete writings of an influential figure.
2018
English edition
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A major anthology of historic and contemporary writings by over 200 contributors, providing a rigorous and expansive survey of the photographic medium from its inception to our current moment. Edited by Walead Beshty, this exceptional publication includes texts and artworks by Giorgio Agamben, Roland Barthes, Georges Didi-Huberman, Stan Douglas, Harun Farocki, Martha Rosler, Stephen Shore, Hito Steyerl, Wolfgang Tillmans, Ericka Beckman, Walter Benjamin, Walker Evans, László Moholy-Nagy, Marshall McLuhan, Alan Turing, Dan Graham, Morgan Fisher, Kelley Walker…
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
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Stemming from a Public Art Zurich project, this publication gathers texts and international artists contributions exploring the condition of 21st-century cities in relation with contemporary art.
2018
English edition
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This scholarly publication discusses the historical development of the Kunsthalle Bern and its implications for the “localization” of art. It contributes to current research on institutional histories by looking at the many ways in which the Kunsthalle Bern addresses the question of how exhibitionary practices take place.
2018
German edition
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The use of the “Other Body” in Performance art and Contemporary Art.
2018
English edition
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Stemming from the Master Fine Arts at the Zurich University of the Arts, this theoretical publication investigates educational processes and what it means to teach and learn fine arts in a city such as Zurich. It also reflects on the field works made by the MFA students in 2017 in Athens, Beirut, and Lesbos.
2017
English edition
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The museum of contemporary art in all its paradoxical characteristics.
2016
German edition
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A manual for public art projects in Zurich.
2016
German edition
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The role of infrastructure and logistics in today's art scene
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
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Art and the City 2.0.
2014
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
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An anthology.
2014
German edition
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Art in the city.
2013
English edition
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The Alpine symposium on art and architecture (with Vito Acconci, Doug Aitken, Cerith Wyn Evans, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Philippe Rahm, Tobias Rehberger, Lawrence Weiner...).
2013
German edition
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Disturbing public space.
2012
German édition
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A study of contemporary art's actors.
2012
English edition
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An anthology.
2012
English edition
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Exhibition history (Paul Thek at Moderna Museet 1971/72).
2012
English edition
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The documenta project reader (texts by Daniel Birnbaum, Roger M. Buergel, Raphael Gygax, Christian Höller, Catherine Wood...).
2012
English edition
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Rancière and aesthetics (anthology).
2011
French edition
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An exhaustive documentation of Pierre Keller's work and trajectory.
2011
German edition
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Art dis-location.
2010
English edition
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A-Z of fictional artists.
2010
English edition
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12 essays about the comedic in art.
2010
English edition
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The Beijing report: a portrait of a changing situation and unique generation of cultural producers in China today.
2010
bilingual edition (English / Polish)
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An anthology.
2009
English edition
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The relationships between art and design.
2009
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
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Thematic anthology.
2009
English edition
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A Glossary of artists' utopias.
2009
French edition
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The relationships between art and design (also available in English edition).
2009
German edition
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A reader about exhibition display.
2009
bilingual edition (English / German)
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The art of de(con)struction.
2009
English edition
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From Open Reel to Multichannel.
2008
English edition
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An Igor Zabel reader.
2008
English edition
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In the curator's archives.
2008
English edition
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Mapping a new sensibility.
2008
English edition
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Research in Design and Art.
2008
English edition
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16 essays and conversations about the nature and consequences of risk in and out of the art world.
2007
German edition
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Art and public spaces in the city.
2006
English edition
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An exhibition about the gradually “globalizing” art.
2006
English edition
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Work by artists emerging from Beirut today.
2005
English edition
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Positions in contemporary African art.
2005
English edition
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An overview of the Californian art scene from 1990 to the present.
2005
bilingual edition (English / German)
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The book concentrates on spatial concepts in contemporary painting.
2005
bilingual edition (English / German)
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An attempt to make out the backgrounds leading to a turn towards documentation in art.
2005
English edition
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With Shahrzads newest publication, the focus is on the mise-en-scene of contemporary historiography in today's Euroamerica.
2004
bilingual edition (English / German)
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Art and glamour as spaces for transformation of the self.
2004
bilingual edition (English / German)
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currently out of stock
An exploration of the body in contemporary culture (artist's book / collection of texts).
2003
English edition
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A transcript of lectures on culture and globalization by artists and cultural analysts.
2001
bilingual edition (English / French)
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An anthology of texts around issues such as spatial politics of representation and identity, the public and the private, the space of art and culture, the memory of places and the inscription of remembrance, and the relations between utopias, heterotopias and the real.
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
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Through numerous previously unpublished pictures and essays, this publication explores the history of the playground as it was shaped by education, architecture, art, and politics, and pays tribute to the most important figures, many of them forgotten today (second revised and expanded edition).