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

Liam Gillick

Individual Artists

Stephen Prina: To the People of Frankfurt am Main - At Least Three Types of Inaccessibility (Pocket-Book, 4)

Prina, Stephen

five or six

Gillick, Liam

In Phantom Avant-Garde: A History of the Situationist International and Modern Art, scholar and curator Roberto Ohrt presents the first critical chronology of this artistic movement and its era. With energy and insight, he tackles a trenchant history of modern art since 1945, covering painting, literature, film, architecture and action. Ohrt traces the connections from the Situationist International to late Surrealism, the Lettrist International, COBRA, the Nouveaux Realistes and Pop Art, and offers an indispensable index of works with up-to-date biographical details on the key figures of the S.I.Born in Chile. Ohrt has edited, written and curated internationally, and currently divides his time between Paris and Hamburg.

Phantom Avant-Garde: A History of the Situationist International and Modern Art

Ohrt, Roberto

History & Criticism

Freecustomer.Com (Pocket-Book, 5) (German Edition)

Pflumm, Daniel

Sex, Art and the Dow Jones

Jean-Charles Massera

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Literature & Fiction

Nicolas Bourriaud

Calling for a reassessment of the function of art in late capitalist society, Corporate Mentality focuses on the complex and ambiguous ways artistic production inhabits corporate processes, abandoning the autonomy of the artwork in order to elaborate resistant approaches to a world increasingly determined by commercial strategies and market concerns.
Based on an archive (1995–2001) maintained by Aleksandra Mir, it presents a diverse spectrum of artists who take on business as site, as material, and as subject of their work. As Will Bradley writes in frieze, “The book focuses on … an essential area of interest as artists wake up to the reality of the Clinton-era fantasy of ethical corporatism. The plan came out of Mir and Kelsey's realization that the publicity industry wasn't stealing artists' ideas, but simply employing artists, like Mir herself, who needed a day job. 'Radical' aesthetics that had taken at least six months to travel (we're in New York here) from downtown to uptown were now transferred almost instantaneously, causing artists to reassess their methods.” 
Aleksandra Mir is an artist based in New York and Palermo, Sicily. John Kelsey is a founding member of Bernadette Corporation and co-Director of Reena Spaulings Fine Art. 
Contributors Absolute Vodka, Atelier van Lieshout, Bernadette Corporation, Will Bradley, Claude Closky, Anthony Davies/Simon Ford, Dejanov &amp; Heger, Liam Gillick /Carey Young, Gareth James, Laura K. Jones, Lars Bang Larsen, Matthieu Laurette, Daniel Pflumm, Purple Institute, Bennett Simpson, Superflex, Piotr Uklanski, et al.

Corporate Mentality: An Archive Documenting the Emergence of Recent Practices Within a Cultural Sphere Occupied by Both Business and Art

Mir, Aleksandra

“When the legend becomes a fact, print the legend” 
In the sixties, Sture Johannesson's psychedelic posters upset both the Swedish authorities and the “serious” left wing with their delirious drug politics. His pioneering body of work developed throughout the seventies and eighties, capturing the zeitgeist of three decades. More importantly, Johannesson's posters, happenings, and experiments with new media – electronic as well as narcotic–demonstrated that the way authority programs society is more hallucinatory than any drug could ever be. 
This book, part psychedelic philosophy, part biography, is the first to present Sture Johannesson's work in depth, documenting his affiliations with the “high” underground and the punk movement, his activism and his radical exploration of the relationships between art, politics, technology, and human consciousness.
Co-published with NIFCA, Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art
Contributors Lars Bang Larsen and Sture Johannesson

Sture Johannesson

Larsen, Lars Bang

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