Since the 1950s, German artist Arnulf Rainer (born 1929) has made painterly elaborations on the form and symbolism of the cross. This splendid catalogue brings together the entire ensemble of works for the first time--61 etchings, executed between 1956 to 2009, reproduced in full color.

Arnulf Rainer: Cross 1956-2009

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

Verlag für moderne Kunst

The street as a stage or site of creative action has acquired its own special role in art history: think of Jean-Michel Basquiat, whose work stemmed directly from street culture, or Mark Jenkins irritating pedestrians with his subtle infiltration of human-like sculptures, or the participatory installations of Kader Attia. Each of the 30 artists contributing to this bilingual German-English volume has found ways to weave art strategies into the fabric of street culture. Street and Studio focuses on the street as a zone of creativity, and as a source of inspiration to young artists whose lives and art are marked by an urban and mobile lifestyle.

Street and Studio: From Basquiat to Seripop

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

This monograph presents the work of one of Germany's finest photographers, Barbara Klemm (born 1939). Since the 1960s, she has been chronicling politics and society in both halves of the formerly divided country. Bearing witness to tremendous changes including the fall of the Berlin Wall, Klemm's work has shaped the cultural memory of generations of Germans.

Barbara Klemm: Light And Dark: Photographs from Germany

Photography & Video

In an urban zone crisscrossed by multilane freeways and gridded with broad boulevards, the roadside billboards of Los Angeles may well be the city's most visible platform for art. How Many Billboards? documents a 2010 project in which billboards in Los Angeles were turned over to 23 artists to do with as they wished, asserting the ongoing legacy of California Conceptualism and its combination of language-based strategies with Pop-inflected aesthetics. "Astonish!" declares Kenneth Anger's billboard, in commanding upper-case orange lettering, recapitulating Diaghilev's famous advice to Cocteau. "I Look Good, I Know," says Yvonne Rainer's billboard; "I Can't Hear, I Can't See, But I Look Good." Martha Rosler's collaboration with Josh Neufeld makes a plea for spending on higher education in California, and Renée Green's image of a darkened shore with silhouetted figures gathered near a tourist ferry is accompanied by the two-line commentary "Strangers begin again/Native strangers hosting." Other artists participating in this occasion are Michael Asher, Jennifer Bornstein, Eileen Cowin, Christina Fernandez, Ken Gonzales Day, Kira Lynn Harris, Larry Johnson, John Knight, David Lamelas, Brandon Lattu, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Kori Newkirk, Allen Ruppersberg, Allan Sekula, Susan Silton, Kerry Tribe, Jim Welling and Lauren Woods. Essays by Kimberli Meyer, Gloria Sutton and Nizan Shaked, who co-curated the project, contextualize the works in relation to Conceptual and Pop art idioms, provide background material on the artists and outline the MAK Center's plans to enliven public space.

How Many Billboards?: Art In Stead

Henry, Lisa

Shaked, Nizan

Meyer, Kimberli

Sutton, Gloria

Asgar / Gabriel: Auflosung der Okonomie

Unknown, Author

Exploring North Korean Arts offers the most ambitious appraisal of the arts in North Korea, from fine art, music and literature to aspects of design such as stamp design and book illustration. Thoroughly researched and handsomely designed, this volume opens up a little-known world of creativity, and addresses head-on the politically compromised circumstances of the arts under military rule.

Exploring North Korean Arts

jane-portal

Frank Hoffmann

Keith Howard

Rüdiger Frank

Brian Myers

Koen De Ceuster

Kate Hext

Dafna Zur

James E. Hoare

History & Criticism

This volume looks at artworks situated between photography and sculpture. Artists include Will Benedict, Clegg & Guttmann, Valie Export, Birgit Jürgenssen, Nadim Vardag, Peter Weibel and Heimo Zobernig.

2D23D: Photography as Sculpture / Sculpture as Photography

Heimo Zobernig

This publication examines Austrian multimedia artist Heimo Zobernig's (born 1958) work with painting, sculpture, architecture, graphic and furniture design, video, performance and music. Focusing on simple, geometric forms of abstraction, Zobernig uses everyday materials such as cardboard, styrofoam, pressboard, linen and fluorescent lights.

The idea of this book is based on a simple question: "What are your tips, thoughts, or words of wisdom on collecting Chinese contemporary art?" Some writers contribute from an institutional background, others from a market perspective.

Buy What You Like: 86 Tips, Thoughts and Quotes of Wisdom on Collecting Chinese Contemporary Art

Looking at the work of four artists, Mo(ve)ment focuses on the hand that places a line on paper, that shapes the clay, that moves through space or with a brush across a canvas. Included are drawings by Silvia Bächli, plaster and clay sculptures by Heinz Breloh, dance by Anna Huber and paintings by David Reed.

Mo(ve)ment: Silvia Bächli, Heinz Breloh, Anna Huber, David Reed

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