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Available for a limited time, this artist's book by renowned visual artist Tacita Dean explores her chance encounters with objects in the archives of the Getty Research Institute.

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Every day at lunch-time, the team at Studio Katharina Grosse takes the timeto sit down together and share plant-based family-style dishes. After oneyear of daily dining the studio's chef, Helen Russell Brown, and KatharinaGrosse decided to create ...

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This first monograph on the young Berlin-and-Tokyo-based American conceptual artist features photography, video and text projects that question urban space and its representations in the media. In the densely-grouped systems of reference included ...

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Rem Koolhass is the optimistic and bold theoretician of contemporary architecture. In his talks with Hans-Ulrich Obrist, he discusses his work in China - amongst others; his spectacular and controversial concept for the headquarters of China Centr...

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This artist book presents 150 large-format illustrations of early photographs from the series "Equilibres (1984-1987)", most of which have not been published before. These photos are tense compositions depicting kitchenware, furniture an...

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Der Bildband zeigt eine aktuelle Arbeit der Berliner Künstler Michael Elmgreen und Ingar Dragset. Mitten in der texanischen Wüste haben sie eine kleine Prada-Boutique errichtet. Das Symbol von Luxus und kapitalistischer Verheißung ...

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Series editor Hans Ulrich Obrist here collects seven years worth of interviews with the hugely influential British artistic collaborators Gilbert & George, providing an intimate vision of what they consider the most important landmarks in thei...

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This artists' book by Hans-Peter Feldmann features work from the past decade including his recent series of Flower photographs. Feldmann is a collector of photographs; he takes photographs when he cannot find suitable images for his work. The pict...

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The American artist Paul Chan has gained international acclaim for his videos, drawings and installations which blend a novel aesthetic of drawing with philosophical reflections on politics, religion, sex and life today. The publication presents a...

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This catalogue focuses on contemporary Chinese art in a rapidly changing country. Art works of various genres and media provide a connection between the revolutionary past and the globalised present and call the notion of a homogeneous Chinese ide...

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Over the last 15 years, Cosima von Bonin has produced sculpture, photography, textile "paintings," installation, performance, film, video and music--often combined in large installations. This generous survey addresses ideas of play, ind...

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This volume documents Gerhard Richter's 65-foot-tall, abstract, stained-glass window for Germany's historic Cologne Cathedral, the original of which was destroyed by bombs in World War II, and thereafter replaced with clear glass. Composed of more...

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For more than half a century, the influential American artist and activist Nancy Spero has been known for her relentless honesty and her unshakable commitment to political, social and cultural causes--from women's issues to war and other power con...

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The challenging French conceptualist Gonzalez-Foerster is prominent on the international scene. For Skulptur Projekte Munster 2007, she showed small-scale replicas of other Munster fair works, past and present; for her recent ARC Paris museum show...

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From early architectural models and theatrical constructions to houses and utilitarian design, the sculpture of Thomas Schutte (born 1954) has pursued all categories of the medium; his website organizes his oeuvre into Houses, Bunkers, Monuments, ...

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Hans Ulrich Obrist has been a staunch supporter of the Los Angeles maestro of Conceptualism John Baldessari from early on in his career. For these conversations, the artist and curator were joined by, among others, the Uruguayan artist and author ...

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Alexandra Bircken's sculptures and installations consist of knitted-together bits of wood, branches, stone, metal, dried plants and leather. Her interest in the preciousness and abjection of fashion and flower arrangement synthesizes a homely, the...

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Hans Ulrich Obrist and Christian Boltanski are not only associated through their longstanding friendship: Boltanski was also the first artist that Obrist ever exhibited. Over the course of this friendship the two have often met for discussions, th...

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In 1965, <i>The New York Times</i> called Tokyo-born, New York-based Fluxus artist Yoko Ono "a one person culture explosion." In this generous volume, Ono presents instruction pieces from 1961 to the present, including three ...

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This monograph is a compendium of Lothar Baumgarten's work and artistic thinking. The various essential aspects of his work, such as language, architecture, photography and history are highlighted in four essays. A current interview with the artis...

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In the 1920s, the Thyssen-Bornemisza family began amassing an art collection which now comprises almost 1,000 works, from the thirteenth century through the close of the twentieth. Herein, works from Madrid's Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum--with works ...

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Foreword by Karola Kraus. Text by Fritz Emslander, Tatjana Gorjatschewa.

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Here, Danish artist Simon Dybbroe M0ller (born 1976) printed blown-up black-and-white photographs on an inkjet printer and papered the sheets on the walls of his installation. The color particles of the inks dissolved, superimposing a layer of sta...

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Gerhard Richters rigorose Erforschung des Mediums Malerei macht ihn zu einem der bedeutendsten Künstler der Gegenwart. Die Cage-Bilder, ein Zyklus von sechs großformatigen Gemälden aus dem Jahr 2006, hat Richter nach dem Komponiste...

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Here, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Hans-Peter Feldmann have decided to play with the interview format: Obrist poses the questions in writing and Feldmann answers each of them with a picture. The results are frequently funny, and an impressive exercise i...

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This bilingual book is built around Thomas Demand's exhibition <i>Nationalgalerie</i>, held at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. Obrist and Demand's conversation examines the exhibition, Demand's literary influences and collaboration...

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Working from photographs, German painter Eberhard Havekost (born 1967) abstracts prosaic images to produce a Mannerism of the everyday. Painting in color only after laying down six underlying coats of grey and white, the artist arrives at a rich l...

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With his memorably titled 1956 collage "Just What is it that Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?," British artist Richard Hamilton (born 1922) heralded the British Pop revolution; and with his 1967 <i>Swingeing London&l...

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