search results for "most beautiful swiss books"
2016
French edition
Hippocampe - Books
This narrative looks back at the creation of a sculpture by Alberto Giacometti inspired by artist and model Isabel Nicholas. Featuring four photographs by Eli Lotar.
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
An artist's book / catalogue exploring the new role of the image in a world modeled by visual artifacts.
2016
French edition
Hippocampe - Books
These notebooks gather texts and photographs documenting the creation process at the heart of Jean-Guy Coulange's radiophonic practice.
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Monographic publication on Hungarian artist Karina Mendreczky, the joint recipient of the 2015 Kunsthalle Wien Prize, who creates fictional landscapes using light and shadow with delicate lyricism.
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Monographic publication on Ukrainian-born artist Anastasiya Yarovenko, the joint recipient of the 2015 Kunsthalle Wien Prize, whose work is concerned with the body's relationship to societal structures, behaviors, and space.
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Artist's book accompanying a sequence of exhibitions by James Richards in Norway, England, and Germany. The publication contains a series of visual essays by the artist, documentation of recent exhibitions, as well as essays by Dan Fox, Ed Atkins, Steve Reinke, Chris McCormack, and Fatima Hellberg.
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Project monograph by the Serbian artist revolving around a precious edition of Marcel Proust's collected works translated by Croatian poet Tin Ujević.
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Catalogue analyzing the oeuvre of Kosovan artist Petrit Halilaj from multiple perspectives, through a selection of essays by Andrea Bagnato, Leonardo Bigazzi, Adrian Paci, and Roberta Tenconi.
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This volume documents two parallel solo shows by Angela Bulloch and Maria Zerres, framed by the notion of entropy.
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A mystery tale illustrated with artworks by twelve contemporary artists.
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
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The first monograph to focus exclusively on Paul Sietsema's paintings and drawings.
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
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First publication ever to provide a complete survey of the artist's oeuvre to date: like Prouvost's art, the book is fast-paced and full of quick turns and surprises. It includes a series of essays, a conversation between the artist and her model Barbara Steveni, and a complete list of her works and exhibitions.
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
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Monographic study on the work of artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan on the perception of language, sound, and listening.
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Palais
Palais de Tokyo - Palais magazine
Around the Palais de Tokyo's programme dedicated to urban art, Palais magazine is devoting its latest issue to artists whose work has been developed in the street.
2016
French edition
CND (Centre National de la Danse) - Educational (ebooks)
This publication gives an overview of a series of signs stemming from Hungarian dance artist Rudolf Laban's notation system for human movement.
2016
English edition
CND (Centre National de la Danse) - Educational (ebooks)
This publication gives an overview of a series of signs stemming from Hungarian dance artist Rudolf Laban's notation system for human movement.
2016
English edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
The two dancers and choreographers share and compare ideas and references that underpin their respective work.
2016
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Bruno
This artist's coloring book is a silent illustrated narrative of a sudden lust-filled encounter between a cowgirl and an Indian girl and their threatening journey through a psychedelic Wild West at night.
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Fiction
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The new novel by Keren Cytter: an incomplete guide for life.
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
A polemical essay targeting the moral economy of indeterminacy in contemporary art.
2016
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Nieves
A selection of trucks—coaches, tow trucks, merchandise trucks—drawn with ballpoint pen and pencil by underground legend Wesley Willis. Compiled from different notebooks, this series highlights an essential and almost obsessive motif in the visual work of the Chicagoan artist.
2016
Sub Rosa
The new organic soundtrack creation by Francisco López inspired by trance rituals.
2016
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Bruno
An erotic coloring artist's book juxtaposing scenes of intimacy and loneliness in the city at night.
2016
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
An intervened facsimile of a anthropological catalogue listing the items belonging to three collections of Mexican fabrics and weaving patterns constituted during the mid-seventies.
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Critical Spatial Practice
The eighth volume of the Critical Spatial Practice series focuses on Jill Magid's “The Barragán Archives,” a multiyear project that examines the legacy of Pritzker Prize—winning architect Luis Barragán (1902-1988), and questions forms of power, public access, and copyright that construct artistic legacy.
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
14.00 3.00 €
Companion book to Basim Madgy's eponymous video: a dreamlike tale about the ocean and its secrets.
2016
Sub Rosa
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First reissue of the 1981 album by the legendary Hastings of Malawi featuring a founding member of Nurse with Wound and Pat Simmons. Reissued on red vinyl, like the original pressing, this classic masterpiece sits on the end of a line from Dada through the Situationist International to punk rock.
2016
English edition
Kaph Books
De Sardes' photographic wanderings in and around Beirut: an impressionist two-sided journey between day and night, dream and documentary.
2016
French edition
Kaph Books
De Sardes' photographic wanderings in and around Beirut: an impressionist two-sided journey between day and night, dream and documentary.
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Signature Strengths reproduces in full the four books in the series “No-Frills” published in the early eighties. Inspired by the unadorned packaging of a grocery brand, the series editors designed genre fiction books with similar straightforward and experimental approaches. The volume is completed with enlightening notes on genre writing and mass-market publishing.
2016
French edition
CND (Centre National de la Danse) - Printed books
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French dancer and choreographer reports on various relationships to the movement in dance, relying as much on classical and contemporary performances as on concepts borrowed from philosophers, linguists and art theorists.
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Flash Art - Flash Art Publishing (books)
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The 2016-2017 edition of most complete paper pocket guide to the art world. A selection of art events, an art fairs agenda and listings from more than 50 countries.
2016
English edition
Shelter Press - Books
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This artist's book contains a collection of recent collages assembled from found book pages, in which the artist specifically seeks a relationship between the abstract and the figurative, and thereby creating new narratives.
2016
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
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Recordings of musical performances by Blondes, James Campbell, and I.U.D, inspired by paintings shown at Wade Guyton's exhibition at Kunsthalle Zürich in 2013. Acting as a catalogue, this edition includes 4 vinyl LP and a modelling of the exhibition installation.
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Espace art actuel
Espace is a magazine dedicated to all art forms associated with spatiality. Its 114th issue focuses on the representation of the face in the arts. Contents include an opening text by Jacques Py, “The Native Mask as an Object to Read Identity” by Alexia Pinto Ferretti, “The Double-dealing of the Contemporary Face” by Marion Zilio, “Biometrics, Identity, and the Potential Of the Visage” by Vincent Marquis, “The Face: the Other Of the Portrait?” by André-Louis Paré, “Events” and “Public Artworks” Sections, exhibition reports and book reviews.
2016
English edition
Nero
This catalogue gathers works from different periods of the artist's career, though giving particular prominence to his drawings in analog and digital form—the Pixel-Bildli and Hice for Weiss series, or his plastic mosaics. A foreword by Salvatore Lacagnina and a contribution by Arthur Fink introduce the reader to Bruhin's multifarious work, while a conversation with the artist helps unfold his eclectic strategies.
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Clinamen
This publication is part of an artistic and performative project conceived by artist Raphaële Bidault-Waddington and critic Sylvain Menétrey. Part poetic neologism, part scientific concept, the semiospace, as a linguistic creation, seems to mirror Bidault-Waddington's practice—the creation of hybrid objects at once cognitive models borrowed from science, and exuberant fictions.
2016
French edition
Editions du Griffon - Monographs & catalogues
The illustrated chronicle of the personal and aesthetic journey of Brazilian artist Maria Bonomi (reference monograph).
2016
French edition
Editions du Griffon - Multiples & limited editions
Reference monograph:
the illustrated chronicle of the personal and aesthetic journey of Brazilian artist Maria Bonomi, with an original xylograph, numbered and signed, entitled The Key.
2016
Shelter Press - Records
12.00 9.00 €
A musical essay exploring complex variety of digital rhythms
patterns.
2016
Shelter Press - Records
14.00 10.00 €
A musical essay exploring complex variety of digital rhythms
patterns.
2016
Song Cycle Records
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A collection of musical works from the seventies by the Canadian multidisciplinary artist.
2016
English edition
Viaindustriae
currently out of stock
This publication documents around 50 years of Nannucci editions, artists' books, multiples, prints, catalogues, posters, ephemera—edited as artist & editor—from 1967 to 2016. It includes an anthology of essays, two index of works, by category and in chronological order, a bibliography and a biography.
2016
English edition
Artforum
In the October issue of Artforum: a feature on cover artist Lillian Schwartz, a portfolio by Carmen Herrera, Homi K. Bahba on William Kentridge, Chris Kraus on Julie Becker and newly published writings by Donald Judd. Plus, Nikolas Gambaroff's Top Ten and exhibition reviews from New York, Brescia, Dublin, Beirut, Sydney, and more.
2016
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
Art magazines as exhibition objects and spaces.
2016
French edition
MAMCO - Monographs
Collection of 657 “definitions/methods”—the emblematic pictorial statements first created by Claude Rutault in 1973.
2016
French edition
L'Incroyable
L'Incroyable - L'Incroyable (magazine)
L'Incroyable is a monographic magazine dedicated to an artist's teenage years and his cultural background. This second issue focuses on Jim Shaw's Californian youth between the late 1950s and the beginning of the 1970s.
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Edition Patrick Frey
A fragmentary reference volume that explores the chronology of architecture-relevant legislation, focusing on Zurich, but looking at controversial legislation across Switzerland.
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Nero
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This artist's book documents the wind and weather conditions around the German Pavilion of the 56th Venice Biennial, which were recorded over the period of Nicolai's exhibition by a weather station positioned on the roof (limited, numbered and signed edition).
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
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A Step Towards the Sea tells the relationship between the artist and Italy through a selection of installation views and video works. The accompanying DVD includes an unreleased film and a documentation on every actions carried out in Italy by Signer since the 1990s.