"German artist, filmmaker and theorist Hito Steyerl (born 1966) has emerged as one of the most influential cultural figures of our time. She has published extensively, with essays such as “In Defense of the Poor Image” reaching “instant classic” status and books such as The Wretched of the Screen and Duty Free Art cementing her place in art-world discourse. And yet Steyerl’s art has not received the monographic treatment, until now. The ..."
"The multi-media works of Holland's foremost contemporary artists--Marnix Goossens, Elspeth Diederix, Hella Jongerius, to name a few--is presented in this catalogue to the 2004 exhibition at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome. Texts by Marianna Vecellio and Angelique Westerhof. Paperback, 6 x 7.75 in./100 pgs / Illustrated throughout."
"Iraqi-American artist Rakowitz reconstructed thousands of artefacts looted from the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad, and those more recently destroyed at Middle Eastern archaeological sites Published to accompany an exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, running until August 2019, and at Castello de Rivoli, Turin, in October 2019 Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitz's (b. 1973, USA) first major European survey presents a se ..."
"The first complete catalog on John McCracken’s work, including critical essays, an interview with the artist, and a chronology detailing his long career. This catalog presents fifty historic works beginning from the 1960s which have rarely been shown in public. McCracken was an internationally famous American artist, known for his unusual and visionary approach to trends in the Minimalism and Finish Fetish art movements which developed ..."
"Published on the occasion of the first major retrospective in an Italian institution dedicated to German artist Paloma Varga Weisz, the catalog represents an important opportunity to analyze her work, thanks to scholarly essays by Marianna ..."
"Conceived by Atkins as an artist’s book, the main body is a collage of imagery, text, and graphical elements. Ed Atkins makes videos, draws, and writes, reflexively performing the ways in which contemporary modes of representation attempt to do justice to powerfully emotional experience. Atkins’ work is at once a disturbing diagnosis of a digitally mediated present day and an absurd prophecy of things to come. It is skeptical of th ..."
"Her works address urgent issues related to the ecological crisis and the environment, the exploitation of resources and sustainability, exploring the stories of colonialism and new forms of material art."
"This volume, that accompanies the exhibition of the same name at the Castle of Rivoli in Turin, concentrates on drawing in all its variations and across its many languages."