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New spatial and architectural works from the influential American multimedia pioneerPublished in conjunction with the exhibition at Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan, this monograph presents the most up-to-date compilation of the spatial and architectural works of New Mexico–based artist Bruce Nauman (born 1941). Through his neons, corridors and room installations, Nauman accentuates the contrast between the perceptual and physical experience of space. Perception itself can be interpreted as the subject matter of his work; the aesthetic experience of entering a narrow corridor or an empty room flooded with neon light supersedes the art “objects” in the viewer’s experience.The volume includes newly commissioned essays on Nauman's conceptual developments and formal variations by scholars, conservators and curators such as Joan Simon, Francesca Esmay and Gloria Sutton, and a text by the exhibition curators. Alongside rich photographic documentation of the show, the publication also features entries for the 30 works on display written by researchers from international institutions.

Chronicling an extraordinary decade in Italy’s history as a creative hub for some of the 20th century’s greatest artistsConceived of as a chronological journey through three Italian cities—Turin, Rome and Naples—this volume presents a photographic history of the extraordinary decade during which Italy was a hotbed of creative experimentation, frequented by the foremost pioneering artists of the day, from Jannis Kounellis to Andy Warhol.

Highlights from an important and wide-ranging contemporary art collectionThis survey chronicles over 80 works from the contemporary art collection of Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. Spanning painting, sculpture, installation, photography, video and performance, the collection includes examples from Maurizio Cattelan, Sarah Lucas, Damien Hirst, Cindy Sherman, William Kentridge and many more.

This volume is published for the largest exhibition to date on Chinese painter Yan Pei-Ming (born 1960), who is known for his history paintings and monumental gestural portraits of intimate subjects as well as public figures such as Mao, Putin and the Pope.

The story of the famous English critic's long and fruitful love affair with the city of VeniceJohn Ruskin visited Venice numerous times over the course of his life, starting in 1835, and after long stays in the city he published his three-volume masterpiece The Stones of Venice—a gorgeous paean to the beauty, uniqueness and fragility of this city that was destined to become a cornerstone of English culture and mark the beginning of the Gothic Revival. Venice, in Ruskin’s drawings and watercolors, is a theater of "lost time" that builds up traces of historical time even as it is subject to erasure and destruction.In Venice with Ruskin is a meditation on the city, its architecture, its bittersweet relationship with nature, Ruskin’s dialogue with the great Venetian artists whose works he reproduced, the curiosity that prompted him to explore it and the imagination with which he captured its essence on paper.

Cataloging the Uzbek national pavilion at the 18th Architecture BiennaleFrom the ruins of the ancient qalas to the mythical figure of the labyrinth: the amply illustrated Unbuild Together addresses different horizons of Uzbekistan’s architectural heritage as potential tools for envisioning the future and key elements in challenging the concept of modernity.