search results for "most beautiful swiss books"
2023
English edition
Lenz Press - Monographs
Fredrik Værslev: The Garden Paintings is the first publication dedicated solely to one specific body of work in the artist's practice. It includes essays by Martha Kirszenbaum and Erlend Hammer, and gives a comprehensive and chronological account of the works from the series, showing their stylistic development as well as their exhibition history.
2023
Sonoris
"Spuren & Gegenworte" began with a quasi-telepathic collaboration between KM and RW. Both recorded a track on May 3, 2021, from 8:00 PM to 8:10 PM. These recordings were subsequently transformed, combined, juxtaposed, and further modified over the course of several months, resulting in the completion of the four pieces on the CD.
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Almine Rech Editions
The major influence of Henri Matisse on the work of one of the leading figures of American Pop Art.
2023
Black Truffle
currently out of stock
A previously unheard performance by rudra veena master Ustad Zia Mohiuddin Dagar (1929-1990), recorded in the North Indian city of Vrindavan at the Druhpad Samaroh festival in 1982.
2023
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Nieves
sold out
A large-format board-book sequel to Homma's seminal photobook Tokyo Suburbia.
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
sold out
The English translation of Il viaggiatore insonne, poet legend Sandro Penna's final collection, coupled with illustrations by the American artist Louis Fratino.
2023
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Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
An extensive compilation of Abraham Cruzvillegas' drawings of apes, which he has been producing since the early beginning of his career starting in 1985 (artist's book / leporello).
2023
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A hybrid publication, between an artist book, a monograph and a field report on a lost work.
2023
Room40
Mike Cooper's new masterful experiment mixing free jazz, Oceanic, and Hawaiian inspirations, in collaboration with Geoff Hawkins, Jon Raskin and Tim Hill (saxophone), Elliott Sharp and Michael Thieke (clarinet), Scot Ray (lap steel guitar) and choreographer and dancer Ariella Vidach.
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
Photographer and writer Carla Cerati (1926-2016) captures the architectural, social and political upheavals of 1960-70s Milan.
2023
bilingual edition (English / Norwegian)
Archive Books
Hannah Ryggen Triennale 2022 presents artists and works that can varyingly be seen in the light of Swedish-born Norwegian feminist textile artist Hannah Ryggen's legacy (1894–1970).
2023
English edition
Archive Books
A reader based on a research undertaking, an exhibition, workshops, and a series of performances that invite artists, activists, scholars, and people from other walks of life to imagine new forms of cultural and political resistance through diverse emancipation projects, past and present, taking as point of departure the philosophy of quilombismo as developed by Brazilian artist, author, and politician Abdias Nascimento.
2023
English edition
Archive Books
A visual record of a research undertaking, an exhibition, workshops, and a series of performances that invite artists, activists, scholars, and people from other walks of life to imagine new forms of cultural and political resistance through diverse emancipation projects, past and present, taking as point of departure the philosophy of quilombismo as developed by Brazilian artist, author, and politician Abdias Nascimento.
2023
English edition
Archive Books
A comprehensive overview of the vast production of monuments in socialist Yugoslavia (1945–91) dedicated to the antifascist People's Liberation Struggle in the Second World War and the socialist revolution.
2023
English edition
Archive Books
An overview of John Akomfrah's work, with contributions by Julia Grosse and Nelly Y. Pinkrah, an interview with the artist, along with a foreword by Sebastian Baden.
2023
bilingual edition (English / German)
Archive Books
A volume assembling new and existing documents that revisit, mix and remix moments in the work of artist Christian Nyampeta.
2023
English edition
Archive Books
A hybrid proposal developed by artist and curator Lorenzo Sandoval and archaeologist Tono Vizcaíno, situated between the creation of an archive and an artistic project, whose objective is to offer a necessarily partial reading of Valencian industrial heritage based on the sound, the intangible and social movements.
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
MER. Books
The largest and most comprehensive monograph on van den Broek's work to date, a complete and monumental survey of 1998 until now, on over 500 pages, presented and analysed by John C. Welchman.
2023
English edition
Archive Books
currently out of stock
This publication is based on an exhibition and research project that foregrounds an ever-incomplete weaving of narratives of artists, curators, writers, and customary knowledge holders. It traces the many worlds that have existed in parallel, often in spite of or against the oppressive visions imagined by successive regimes—the Russian Empire, the USSR, and contemporary Russia—that have controlled areas across Eastern Europe and Central and North Asia.
2023
trilingual edition (English / German / Persian)
Archive Books
currently out of stock
The first monographic overview publication of the work of Iranian artist Farkhondeh Shahroudi.
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
New monograph.
2023
English edition
Blank Forms - Books
Wesley Brown narrates the day when trumpeter Miles Davis was assaulted by the New York Police Department. A dramatic and humorous story, told from multiple perspectives including that of Frances Taylor, Davis's wife, and the musicians in Davis's bands: a timely meditation on the psychological impact of police brutality, through the lens of a day in the life of Miles Davis.
2023
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Reference monograph.
2023
French edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Reference monograph (also available in English edition).
2023
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Nieves
The culmination of the American artist's assemblage project.
2023
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
The first photo book by Zurich-based photographer Noah Noyan Wenzinger.
2023
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Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A publication compiled, edited and designed by Danish graphic artist Anni's, based on research into the uses of the grid.
2023
bilingual edition (French / Portuguese)
Crossing
This publication presents research conducted by visual artist and choreographer Clarissa Bauman over two years, in the frame of the exerce MA in choreography and performance (National Choreographic Center of Montpellier / Occitanie). Here, writing becomes movement, a weaving of words, gestures, images, and drawings that rub against each other in a dialogue articulated from page to page.
2023
Xing
A sound project by Mattin operating a radical critique of the era of social media, which proposes to free oneself from it by reappropriating its own tools.
2023
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Empire
A photo report in an photo lab (artist's book).
2023
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Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Bom Dia's new Agenda offers a different font designed by Studio Manuel Raeder for each month. It provides you with a fun way for new beginnings and to take notes and make sketches. This years Agenda can function on a daily basis as a notebook, or be used for hanging as a wall calendar.
2023
Bierke
The artist record Call and Response brings together pieces created in connection with performances and exhibitions by Jimmy Robert, including a booklet wrapped around the record.
2023
English edition
Errant Bodies - Errant Edition
B for the birds is a singular book that aims to rethink the film-form as an open cartography of its lines of enquiry, desire and fabulation.
2023
English edition
Errant Bodies
An artist's book by Berlin-based sound artist Stefan Roigk, documenting acousmatic compositions, sound installations, musical graphics and text-sound compositions of the years 2005 to 2023 on 144 pages and 2 audio CDs.
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A trans-theoretical essay: Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux explores the arcana of artists' cult status through a kaleidoscopic series of portraits of "banished" visual artists, filmmakers, writers, musicians and architects, from William S. Burroughs to Jean-Luc Godard via John Cage.
2023
Room40
currently out of stock
A realisation of a 20 years-long conversation, with results that articulate Toop's long held sound vision (here executed with his own voice, electric and lapsteel guitars, whistling, percussion, flutes and electronics) around English's stunning recordings of various insects, birds and exotic animals.
2023
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
The first English language translation of Robert Linhart's The Sugar and the Hunger, originally published in 1980. Includes afterword by Luiz Renato Martins, and other materials.
2023
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale
This collection does not propose a theory of architectural drawing, but brings together seven essays (written over the last fifteen years), which explore the potential of architectural drawing during the 20th century, through seven modes of representation: plan, section, arrow, grid, images, diagram, drawing.
2023
English edition
Artforum
Remedios Varo, Fereydoun Ave, Christopher Kulendran Thomas, Sam Gilliam...
2023
English edition
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
The fourth volume in a series that documents Tarek Atoui's project Waters' Witness, created in collaboration with French photographer and Atoui's long-term collaborator, Alexandre Guirkinger, is intended as a visual embodiment of the work's development for Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.
2023
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
An artist's book by experimental poet Philippe Jaffeux that plays with images, letters and layout in the spirit of Lettrism.
2023
Black Truffle
An ideal introduction to Lucier's late music.
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
MER. Books
First monograph dedicated to the pictorial work of Israeli artist Tami Amit.
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
A series of astonishing photographs by the Italian architect and designer, discovering China at the end of the Cultural Revolution, between millenary traditions, openness to the world and forced modernization.
2023
English edition
MER. Books
For the fourth book in the In Practice series, Dyvik Kahlen architects explore the design process of the Villa Ruba, located near Utrecht.
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
An overview of Studio Marconi's publishing activities since the 1960s, tracing the studio's history.
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The very first book of Swedish film director, artist, and artistic researcher Ester M. Bergsmark.
2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A project by artist Fatma Bucak that considers the relationships between political violence, environmental destruction, and climate change.
2023
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The first major book by the Lisbon-based French artist Mattia Denisse.
2023
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph of the Spanish artist Eva Fàbregas.