This is the third volume in a series devoted to international contemporary photography as an instrument of world education. With brief texts, this book presents the work of a diverse group of artists: Peter Bialobrzeski, Andrea Gohl, Maia Gusberti, Jitka Hanzlová, Arno Hassler, Alfredo Jaar, Andreas Seibert and Guy Tillim.

World Images 3

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

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Scene for new heritage 1 was the title of an impressive filmic work by David Maljkovic dating from 2004. In this work, the artist, who was born in 1973 in Rijeka, Croatia, and now lives in Zagreb, gets to grips with the political legacy of former Yugoslavia and the utopias of a bygone era.The economic and cultural changes associated with the collapse of the Communist social order and its transformation into a Capitalist social system form the background to his idiosyncratic oeuvre which fundamentally questions the methods of narrative construction and uses as its subject matter the translation of content into an artistic work or the latter's presentation in the institutional context.On the occasion of his solo exhibition at Lokremise in St.Gallen, now, for the first time, David Maljkovic has assembled his recent collages in a concentrated form in an art book designed by Toni Uroda.English and German text.

David Maljkovic

Individual Artists

Duchamp's "Bottle Rack" (1914) was his first true readymade--an artwork made without "artistic handiwork." Taking a fresh look at this work, art historian Lars Blunck shows how Duchamp, using irony and wordplay, turned against the "retinal" paradigm of his time.

Marcel Duchamp: Porte-bouteilles

Blunck, Lars

Artists have increasingly played a central role in the restructuring of cities, in the wake of de-industrialization, deregulation and privatization. This volume assesses the role of the “urban practitioner” as an emerging transdisciplinary figure.

Planning Unplanned: Towards a New Function of Art in Society

History & Criticism

Living and working in Berlin, Chinese artist Ling Jian (born 1963) paints surreal and sometimes deliberately vulgar large-scale portraits, incorporating images of uniforms, weapons and even bunny ears into his hyper-realistic yet fantastic compositions. This monograph spans the artist's oeuvre of the past two decades.

Ling Jian

Using painting, photography and video, as well as wall- and floor-based works and both indoor and outdoor installations, Teres Wydler (born 1945) explores the often fraught intersection of nature and culture. This first comprehensive publication on Wydler examines works from the last 30 years.

Teres Wydler: Pre Solar Post

This publication shows how Canadian artist Jeff Wall (born 1946) generates provocative visual performances that require active participation on the part of the viewer. Wall's photographic works are compared with those of earlier artists such as Diego Velázquez, Jan Vermeer, Claude Monet and Marcel Duchamp.

Jeff Wall: With the Eye of the Mind (Kmd - Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp)

Banz, Stefan

Self-taught painter Ceija Stojka (1933–2013), a member of the Lovara community, a Roma group that settled in Austria, was deported to Auschwitz with her family at age ten. With two documentary DVDs included, this publication offers a narrative of the artist's trials and survival.

Ceija Stojka: Even Death Is Afraid of Auschwitz

Berlin-based artist Johannes Kahrs (born 1965) presents Tropical Nights, a collection of 26 recently completed figurative paintings. Kahrs is often inspired by film and photography, and many of his subjects come directly from movies or the artist's own street photography.

Johannes Kahrs: Tropical Nights

With works by 18 contemporary artists including Maurizio Cattelan, Peter Coffin, Judith Hopf, Andrea Fraser, Claire Fontaine, Alicja Kwade, Ryan Trecartin and Daniel Richter, this publication addresses the individual's role in today's globalized society. Themes such as addiction, depression and identity are discussed in detail.

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