Small books, big ideas. Cutting-edge publisher Lukas & Sternberg's pocket-book series spotlights some of the most intriguing international artists emerging today, with critical essays in English and German exploring the theoretical basis of their works. A growing series now featuring five titles. These Dutch artists received international recognition for their seemingly luxurious and self-reflexive 35mm films. This first comprehensive monograph discusses how Dutch painting, Minimal Art and film conventions become the backdrop for a "cinema in its decontextualized form". Essays by Vanessa J. Müller and Veit Loers. Interview by Nicolaus Schafhausen. In English and German text, Dimension: 43/8 x 63/4, includes 5 color reproductions.

Jeroen de Rijke and Willem de Rooij: After the Hunt (Pocket-Book Series On Contemporary Art)

Vanessa Joan Muller

Veit Loers

Arts & Photography

Lukas & Sternberg

Isa Genzken's sculpture is concerned with what surrounds us and shapes our everyday existence, from design, advertising, and the media to her most enduring subject, architecture and the urban environment. The artist is interested in the ways in which aesthetic styles - the unadorned angularity of modernist architecture for example -embody and enforce political and social ideologies. Urlaub constitutes Genzken's multilayered inquiry into the meaning of work and leisure. "Artists never take vacations," Genzken says, "but the entire art system urgently needs a vacation."Vanessa Joan M ller examines how Genzken's recent work establishes a critical discourse about architecture and design as exposed sites of aesthetic and cultural formation. Discussing the artist's "beach house" series, small architectural models with playfully defined interiors/exteriors, the author writes that one can read them "as a pointed commentary on postmodern architecture, as a subtle attack on the predominant taste of the times. When Genzken gets involved with the miniaturization of this kind of architecture - which could be realized in principle - turning it into small-format sculpture, the procedure emphasizes the ambiguity of the subject toward a particular 'resort-style beach life'. The aspect of playing with form and material should therefore not deceive: the beach house is a status symbol that can only be found on the exclusive beaches of this world, and hence it is simultaneously the object of envy and a hallmark of distinction."This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition "Urlaub" at Frankfurter Kunstverein, May 27 - August 6, 2000.

Isa Genzken: Urlaub (Sternberg Press) (German and English Edition)

Individual Artists

Sternber Pr

Commemorating Adorno's 100th birthday, these volumes consider the German writer's still-radical theory that capitalism feeds the people the products of a culture industry the opposite of true art to keep them passive and politically apathetic. Volume 1, collected essays, focuses on aesthetic, cultural, historical and theological aspects of his theories; This book, Volume 2 documents the exhibition, which featured Bruce Nauman, Ad Reinhardt and Louise Lawyer, among other artists.

Adorno: The Possibility of the Impossible, Vol. 2 (Bilingual - English & German)

Michael Hirsch

Nicolaus Schafhausen

History & Criticism

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