search results for "most beautiful swiss books"
2020
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
An insight into the radical film praxis and extensive oeuvre of Serbian filmmaker Želimir Žilnik.
2020
trilingual edition (English / Arabic / French)
Zamân - Zamân Books
The republishing, in the form of a palimpsest, of the prefaces published in the various editions of the catalogue of the Damascus National Museum, from 1919 to the end of the last century.
2020
Matière Mémoire
In October 2013, Charlemagne Palestine, Mika Vainio and Eric Thielemans got together for the first time, meeting each other at Les Ateliers Claus in Brussels, for a 4 day residency and 2 live performances. The music of the residency takes, edited by Thielemans, mixed and mastered by Frederic Allstadt, is now released on Matière Mémoire and Godbear, Charlemagne Palestine's archival music label.
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
CPG (Centre de la photographie Genève)
Photo documentary set in a deserted Geneva during the G8 counter-summit in 2003. The series stages the abandonment of the urban space and its transformation through the deployment of defense barricades.
2020
English edition
Bruno
A photographic diary by Giovanna Silva guiding us through the United Nations Office headquarters in Geneva.
2020
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
This publication explores the pioneering role of 19th century photographer
Eadweard Muybridge in the development of moving-image
projection. The study also maps the exceptional influence of his
experiments on contemporary world's visual form.
2020
Sub Rosa
currently out of stock
Original archives from Konstantin Raudive and Gerhard Stempnik and some additional remixes.
2020
English edition
Sternberg Press
In this book, the animation of commodity objects magically ties together erotic frolics and political horrors: from a DC07 vacuum cleaner to a detention center for refugees, from little irons, socks and sweaters, to the particulars of post-Soviet power, and Vladimir Putin.
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
CPG (Centre de la photographie Genève)
Artist's book stemming from a performance
by the Swiss feminist artist, featuring newspaper cut-outs evoking the
female sex (limited edition).
2020
English edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
An archeology of Swiss experimental film.
2020
bilingual edition (texts in English and French)
Espace art actuel
Contemporary dictatorships and tyrannies.
2020
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
20.00 10.00 €
An exploration of the work of sculpture and conceptual artist Carol Bove, by art critic Martin Herbert.
2020
trilingual edition (English / German / Spanish)
Edition Patrick Frey
A new artist's book that goes far beyond the mere reproduction of photographs and masterfully reflects huber.huber's artistic practices in the special medium of the book.
2020
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
X Artists' Books
First monograph.
2020
French edition
Archive Books
currently out of stock
A post-colonial pamphlet on the ethnological museums of Europe, primarily the upcoming Humboldt Forum in Berlin.
2020
French edition
Shelter Press - Books
Monograph bringing together some fifty works by Judy Chicago and unpublished documents, accompanied by three critical texts by Géraldine Gourbe.
2020
English edition
Shelter Press - Books
Monograph bringing together some fifty works by Judy Chicago and unpublished documents, accompanied by three critical texts by Géraldine Gourbe.
2020
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Le Dictateur Press - Artists' books & editions / catalogues
A limited-edition box set documenting the seventh and penultimate episode
of COCO, the project that brings together video
art and music by
artist and designer Federico Pepe and artist and photographer
Jacopo Benassi.
2020
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Le Dictateur Press - Artists' books & editions / catalogues
Gathering found visual material, this publication retraces the story
of an artistic failure: that of a joint project by Federico Pepe and his
father Antonio, a cabinet of curiosities featuring latex sculptures of
fetuses looking like Mickey Mouse.
2020
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Nieves
An anthology of Pettibon's drawings.
2020
Editions Mego - Recollection GRM
A highly psychedelic electroacoustic piece from 1981 built on fractal patterns in the studios of the Groupe Musiques Vivantes de Lyon, and another one composed almost four decades later, based on birdsong and forest sounds.
2020
Discrepant
Dominique Grimaud makes you listen to the The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, and many more artists from the 1960s, like you never hear before.
2020
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
This diary traces the artist's journey in search of a permanent job,
combining notes and visual documents. The publication is the second in a
series of autobiographical
narratives by Sell.
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
MCJP (Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris)
10.00 5.00 €
The catalogue of the first exhibition in France of the Japanese performers' collective contact Gonzo.
2020
bilingual edition (English / Korean)
CAN (Centre d'Art Neuchâtel)
Publication based on the eponymous exhibitions organized at CAN, Neuchâtel, and Post Territory Ujeongguk, Seoul, bringing together the works of six Swiss and Korean artists, as well as new texts by Korean curators and theoreticians.
2020
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Nieves
This Zine contains a selection of Dash Snow's critical Dada-esque collages, which range from cum-glittered tabloid covers starring Saddam Hussein to straight text pieces to sculptural works composed of items like books and skeletal fragments; and a smattering of the photographs and Polaroids that originally made Snow famous outside of street art culture, where he began writing graffiti.
2020
English edition
Neural
Co-editor: Rachel O'Dwyer; interviews with Kyriaki Goni, Tiziana Terranova, Roel Roscam Abbing and Dennis De Bel, Tim Shaw, Surya Mattu; Dreaming otherwise: the past and future of community wireless networks; We Organise You Music, So You Don't Have To; reports: FAEN 2019, Mud Muses, Nam June Paik exhibition...
2020
Shelter Press - Records
Springing from a decades deep body of work, defined by a rigorously singular and adventurous approach to sound, cellist, composer, and improvisor Okkyung Lee returns with Yeo-Neun, her first outing with Shelter Press, and arguably her most groundbreaking and unexpected album to date.
2020
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
This artist's book / leporello gathers reproductions of artworks from the permanent collection of the Museum Ludwig, drawing out resonances between the disparate works.
2020
English edition
Bywater Bros. Editions
The fifth volume in Jack Pierson's famed Tomorrow's Man
series associates archival material and works by contemporary artists in a
collage-like design to produce an exploded vision of the current visual
landscape, draped in vintage homoeroticism and glamour.
2020
French edition
Paraguay Press - Essays
A book of interviews with the curator and pedagogue Laurence Rassel, who develops in thought and action ways to remedy what ruins relationships and hinders emancipation.
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Faire
Empire - Faire magazine – To look at things
François Havegeer and Sacha Léopold (Syndicat) invited Aurélien Mole, Jérôme Dupeyrat, Mathias Augustyniak (M/M Paris) and Thierry Chancogne to express their views on art posters, artist posters, posters made by artists, posters made with artists, posters made for artists, and the occasional participation of graphic designers (special issue of the critical review dedicated to graphic design).
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Faire
Empire - Faire magazine – To look at things
Issues 19 to 21 of the critical review dedicated to graphic design.
2020
French edition
Paraguay Press - Essays
A picaresque tale of Clara Schulmann's often collective experiences.
2020
English edition
Archive Books
This book tiptoes between aesthetics and ethics; it proposes to rethink trauma in its necessity as well as impossibility to be represented and understood.
2020
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Monographic catalogue: for more than a decade, Israeli installation and performance artist Naama Tsabar subverts the gender roles associated with art and music, with a particular emphasis on rock'n'roll.
2020
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This anthology gives voice to seven curators who discuss the conception
of shows they organized that marked curatorial history thanks
to their structural innovation in terms of exhibition siting.
2020
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The catalogue of the 33rd Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts, curated by
art collective Slavs and Tatars,
examines the relationship between graphic arts and satire.
2020
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
New catalogue.
2020
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Catalogue of the Estonian Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale.
2020
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Second volume of a publication dedicated to the artist's novel, this
metafiction follows a detective investigating the conditions of production
of a novel within an artistic framework.
2020
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This catalogue documents a project for which Steegmann Mangrané intends to reframe the history of abstraction, inviting us to re-evaluate the traditional division between nature and culture. It features a selection of works inspired by the artist's readings, from Roger Caillois to Merleau-Ponty.
2020
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
This publication extends an exhibition program that examines the environmental
challenges facing the art world and its institutions, drawing on the
concept of “destructive plasticity” theorized by philosopher Catherine
Malabou.
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Retrospective monograph documenting the exceptional yet little-known journey of Cathy Josefowitz (1956-2014), painter, designer, dancer and musician.
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
MAMC+ (Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Etienne métropole) - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Retrospective catalogue spanning Morris's early years, covering the 1960s
and 1970s through a selection of works, historical essays, interviews with
collaborators, and texts by the artist.
2020
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
An anthology of texts by the influential American critic and curator. The
publication includes essays on artists, exhibitions, and
curating, catalogue texts, and interviews.
2020
French edition
Diaphanes - Anarchies
The pleonectic comes from a neologism that means: have-more. The challenge of this major book by Mehdi Belhaj Kacem is to identify the ontological principle from which to question the afflictions in which our world is struggling.
2020
French edition
Nouveau Palais
A book of photographs and texts showing young people in their precarious work uniforms, drawing up a sensitive social chronicle of the precariousness of work among this generation.