"Since the early 1970s, Luigi Ontani (born 1943) has been building a corpus of works exploring ideas of the sacred and the profane, Occidental and Oriental, kitsch and high art. This volume provides an overview of his diverse activities, including his photographic portraits in which he impersonates Leonardo, Dante, Pinocchio or San Sebastian, ceramic and papier-mâché sculptures, paintings and video works."
"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 ..."
"Publié à l'occasion de l'exposition itinérante au Castello di Rivoli, Turin, au Consortium, Dijon, et à la Kunsthalle Bern en 2012.00Monographie de référence couvrant l'ensemble de l'œuvre singulière et poétique d'un artiste ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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."