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Active Art
2019
English edition
Paraguay Press - Monographs and catalogs
In this book, the 1923 manifesto “Active Art” by Latvian philosopher Andrejs Kurcijs triggers a series of responses by writers, artists and curators on the notion of activism, past and present: art for political purposes, art for its own purpose or art with no purpose.
Espace art actuel - Transparency
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Espace art actuel
The development of the ideology of transparency within aesthetic modernity and the importance of being able to circumvent it.
Neural - Surveillance Surveyed
2019
English edition
Neural
Coéditrice : Rachel O'Dwyer ; entretiens avec Pip Thornton, Joana Moll, Mendi et Keith Obadike; ASurveying Surveillance Capitalism, Decode: Data Cooperatives, Our voices granted to machines ; Transmediale 2019, Master/Slave exhibition, Leonardo 50 years anniversary...
Richard Wittman - Architecture, culture de l\'imprimé et sphère publique dans la France du XVIIIe siècle
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A transdisciplinary study that sheds new light on the birth of modern architecture in France through its relations with the printed text, vector of the diffusion of the architectural ideal at the scale of the nation, and the emergence of the public sphere between the end of the 17th century and the French Revolution.
Our Happy Life - Architecture and Well-Being in the Age of Emotional Capitalism
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
sold out
Our Happy Life investigates the architectural implications of the new happiness emotional paradigm by dissecting and questioning the political, economic, and emotional conditions that generate space today.
Rendezvous in Paris - Picasso, Chagall, Modigliani & Co (1900-1939)
2019
English edition
Kaph Books
Rendez-vous in Paris: Picasso, Chagall, Modigliani & Co (1900-1939) is a collaborative publication between Kaph Books, Louvre Abu Dhabi and Centre Pompidou, which serves to discover the Paris of the “Roaring Twenties”—a Bohemian hub for artists from across Europe. This group of artists came together at a moment of extraordinary creativity to produce some of the most innovative art of the 20th century.
Rendez-vous à Paris - Picasso, Chagall, Modigliani & Cie (1900-1939)
2019
French edition
Kaph Books
Rendez-vous in Paris: Picasso, Chagall, Modigliani & Co (1900-1939) is a collaborative publication between Kaph Books, Louvre Abu Dhabi and Centre Pompidou, which serves to discover the Paris of the “Roaring Twenties”—a Bohemian hub for artists from across Europe. This group of artists came together at a moment of extraordinary creativity to produce some of the most innovative art of the 20th century.
Lele Saveri - Hong Kong Barricades
2019
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
Images of the Umbrella Revolution in Hong Kong by Italian photographer Lele Saveri.
Giovanna Silva - Tehran
2019
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
In 2018, Italian photographer Giovanna Silva photographed the streets of Tehran and collected archival documents from the infamous American embassy in the capital of the Islamic Republic. The image-based work is part of a multilayered narrative that encounters the words of architect, researcher and educator Hamed Khosravi.
Zsuzsanna Gahse - Cubes danubiens
2019
French edition
Hippocampe - Books
Verena Dengler - Jackie all of Trades & Her Radical Chic Academy mit (((HC Playner)))
2019
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
An overview of the various socio-political themes addressed by the Austrian artist's work.
David Collin - La Grande Diagonale - Avec Victor Segalen
2019
French edition
Hippocampe - Books
Damien Deroubaix - Une cabane - Récit de Laurent Busine
2019
French edition
Hippocampe - Books
Irma Blank - Eigenschriften - 1968–1973
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A series of drawings considered the starting point of the artist's mature work.
Shirana Shahbazi - New Good Luck
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A new series of photographic works by Shirana Shahbazi.
LaToya Ruby Frazier -
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
New monogaph.
Marcia Resnick - Re-visions
2019
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
The new edition of Marcia Resnick's 1978 iconic book.
Patty Waters - Live (vinyl LP)
2019
Blank Forms - Records
(last copies available!)
An exceptional live performance in which the legendary avant-garde jazz singer pays tribute to Cecil Taylor, Billie Holiday and Ornette Coleman.
Patty Waters - Live (CD)
2019
Blank Forms - Records
(last copies available!)
An exceptional live performance in which the legendary avant-garde jazz singer pays tribute to Cecil Taylor, Billie Holiday and Ornette Coleman.
Luc Ferrari - Photophonie - Bandes magnétiques inédites (1973-1992) (vinyl LP)
2019
Transversales Disques
currently out of stock
Celebrating the 90th anniversary of Luc Ferrari's birth, Photophonie, unpublished archives, spanning 1973-1992, is a revelatory collection of commercial, commission and secret music by the electroacoustic music pioneer.
 Gaechter+Clahsen - Fünf Finger Föhn Frisur
2019
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
Zurich-based photographers Peter Gaechter and Bettina Clahsen document hairstyles from Switzerland's upscale salons, tracing hairstyle trends from the 1970s to the 1990s. The book collects their photographs along with texts by Bettina Clahsen and Swiss art historian and journalist Joerg Scheller.
Léo Henry - Braids - Memories of the Narratocene
2019
English edition
Dis Voir - Illustrated Fairy Tales for Adults
The new fantastic novel published in the “tales for adults” series, in which contemporary writers explore through fiction the most recent research in sciences, reviving a tradition in scientific literature. A tradition which aims at making dream and meditate on the way the world is represented as it redefines itself today.
Artforum - September 2019
2019
English edition
Artforum
Stafan Kalmár and Lia Gangitano on Lutz Bacher; Melissa Anderson on Lily Tomlin; Annie Godfrey Larmon on Beverly Pepper; Institute of Queer Ecology; 40 Fall 2019 exhibitions previews; Simmon Denny; Anthony Byrt; Sam McKinniss; Zarina; Diébédo Francis Kéré...
ToiletMartin PaperParr - Calendar 2020
2019
no text
Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
(last copies available!)
20.00 10.00 €
The ToiletMartin PaperParr wall calendar 2020 features photographs conceived by Martin Parr, Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari, a back-to-back of images made in collaboration between the three artists. In a hotly anticipated follow-up to the first ToiletMartin PaperParr magazine, this calendar presents a selection of the best images conceived by the three artists.
Aurélien Mole - Stud
2019
English edition
Empire - Books
Stud compiles photographs that Aurélie Jacquet and Aurélien Mole shot while they were students at the French National School of Photography.
Jens Hoffmann - (Curating) From Z to A
2019
English edition
JRP|Editions - Hapax
An idiosyncratic investigation of curatorial practice.
Manoel de Oliveira - A Casa / The House
2019
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Serralves
Taking Manoel de Oliveira's posthumous film A Visita ou Memórias e Confissões as a point of departure, this publication offers a broader questioning of the concept of the house in the filmmaker's oeuvre. Lavishly illustrated with archive material and images of his films, it includes several especially commissioned texts, together with an unpublished conversation between Oliveira and architect Álvaro Siza.
Diaphanes - Specters of the Avant-Garde
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Diaphanes
Diaphanes - Diaphanes (magazine)
Diaphanes is conjuring the ghosts of the avant-garde for its Summer 2019 double issue, including a 80-page insert with 155 photos by Antoine d'Agata and an essay by Mehdi Belhaj Kacem.
Aesthetics and Politics of Logistics
2019
English edition
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
Aesthetics and politics of architecture of logistics.
Gene Beery -
2019
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph dedicated to the American artist, offering an in-depth investigation of his work. The book assembles more than 65 artworks and three essays, by Kenneth Goldsmith, Jo Melvin and Balthazar Lovay, as well as an interview with Gene Beery by Gregor Quack.
Ian Davenport - Horizons
2019
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Horizons presents a group of approximately seventeen large-scale works from the last thirty years by British abstract artist Ian Davenport, from the earlier pieces made with industrial materials of the '80s, till the more complex multicolored works of the last years.
Ade Darmawan - Magic Centre
2019
bilingual edition (English / Indonesian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Magic Centre revolves around the Indonesian publishing company of the same name, which was mostly active in the 1960s. It serves the artist as a lens through which he examines the social and political changes that reshaped his country during the years Magic Centre was in business.
William Pope.L - Campaign
2019
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This book is a three-part report on the long-term collaboration between artist Pope.L and curator Dieter Roelstraete which revolves around issues of connectedness, home, and migration, while addressing art's relationship to knowledge.
Alban Muja - Family Album - The Kosovo Pavilion – 58th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
2019
bilingual edition (English / Albanian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The catalogue of Alban Muja's project for the Kosovo Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale.
Serwan Baran - Fatherland - The Pavilion of Iraq – 58th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
2019
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Commissioned by the Ruya Foundation for Contemporary Culture in Iraq and published on the occasion of the 58th Venice Biennale, Fatherland presents the work of Kurdish Iraqi artist Serwan Baran and his investigation of the concept of “fatherland” as opposed to what we traditionally understand as “motherland.”
Scott Reeder - Ideas (cont.)
2019
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
An extensive overview of Scott Reeder's production from the 1990s until today.
Wilfrid Almendra - Light Boiled like Liquid Soap
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Light Boiled like Liquid Soap is an immersive installation by Wilfrid Almendra featuring radio transmissions and a series of sculptural elements made of copper, plaster, and silicone in various states of dematerialization. Combining found and repurposed materials, the works attest to notions of desire, circulation, and flux, from protective spaces of retreat to global economies of exchange.
Maleth / Haven / Port - Heterotopias of Evocation –  The Malta Pavilion – 58th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
2019
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Published on the occasion of the 58th Venice Biennale and edited by curator Hesperia Iliadou de Subplajo-Suppiej, Maleth / Haven / Port is inspired by the Odissey and provides a contemporary reinterpretation of our timeless need of seeking Haven, most strongly experienced in times of crisis.
Jessica Stockholder - Stuff Matters
2019
bilingual edition (English / Dutch)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
New monograph, featuring American–Canadian artist's latest work, in dialogue with a museum collection.
Pablo Vargas Lugo - Acts of God - Mexican Pavilion – 58th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
2019
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Published on the occasion of the 58th Venice Biennale and edited by Magalí Arriola, Acts of God by Pablo Vargas Lugo reflects upon faith beyond the confines of religion, and finds its traces, in different forms, in our contemporary world.
Florian Hecker - Halluzination, Perspektive, Synthese
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Large format catalogue documenting a multichannel installation by Florian Hecker at Kunsthalle Wien, transformated into a resonating space, with texts by curators, researchers, theorists, and art historians.
History Has Failed Us, but No Matter - The Korean Pavilion – 58th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
2019
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Published on the occasion of the 58th Venice Biennale and curated by Hyunjin Kim, History Has Failed Us, but No Matter explores the history of modernization in East Asia through the lens of gender and the agency of tradition.
Thomas Braida - La bava sul cuscino - Sculptures funzionali e fantastiche / Functional and fantastic sculptures
2019
Italian edition
Le Dictateur Press - Artists' books & editions / catalogues
Fanzine / artist's book.
Driant Zeneli - Maybe the Cosmos is not so Extraordinary - Albanian Pavilion – 58th International Art Exhibition. La Biennale di Venezia
2019
bilingual edition (English / Albanian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Catalogue of Driant Zeneli's multidisciplinary film and sculpture installation for the Albanian Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale.
Jennifer Caubet - Un atelier à soi
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire - Books
This book traces Jennifer Caubet's work during her residency at the Centre International de Recherche sur le Verre et les Arts plastiques (Cirva), from 2017 to 2019.
Museums at the Post-Digital Turn
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
A curated collection of essays by art critics, philosophers, curators, designers, researchers and conservators, whose considerations address the transformations in the contemporary landscape of fruition and production of art.
Ane Graff - Weather Report – Forecasting Future - The Nordic Pavilion – 58th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
2019
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Bringing together art, science, and humanities, and focusing on environmental phenomena that directly influence our lives, the project for the 58th Venice Biennale by Ane Graff, Ingela Ihrman, and artist duo Nabbteeri is themed around the complex and varied relations between the human and nonhuman, in an age when climate change and mass extinction are threatening the future of life on Earth.
Christian Lutz - The Pearl River
2019
no text
Edition Patrick Frey
Post-empire in the new Middle Kingdom: what once was America is now China. After his Insert Coins project (2016) about the decline of Las Vegas, Swiss photographer Christian Lutz set off to explore the world's new gambling capital, Macao, where everything revolves likewise around money, luxury, surfaces.
Travis Jeppesen - Bad Writing
2019
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Travis Jeppesen's Bad Writing is a collection of interconnected essays and “fictocriticisms,” many appearing in print for the first time, that etches a pathway for a truly radical “bad” modernism in art and literature. Erudite, witty, and occasionally controversial, Bad Writing reinvigorates the too-often staid medium of art criticism as an iconoclastic and inventive literary art form.
Félicia Atkinson - The Flower and the Vessel (2 vinyl LP)
2019
Shelter Press - Records
The French musician, poet, and visual artist blends cut-up poetry, ASMR, Satie, Ravel and Debussy, on her new album.
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