Product Description: One of the visionary multimedia artists of our time, Doug Aitken has worked in every medium: from architecture and photography, to sculpture and film, to installations and interventions. While Aitken’s art varies in both theme and context, his installations encourage audience interaction and communal gathering, whether this is accomplished by staging a series of “happenings,” such as those that took place at the Museum of Modern Art, New York,  during his Sleepwalkers exhibition in 2007, or by the creation of large-scale, outdoor installations such as 2009’s Sonic Pavilion in Brazil, where he amplified the sounds of the Earth...read more

Product Description: "Although often pervaded by a melancholy tone, the selected works by no means reveal an introspective or apolitical spirit. . . Traditionally linked to the artist’s temperament, melancholy is the state of mind of inspiration." —Daniel Birnbaum

Product Description: Destroy, She Said was the title of the first exhibition at the Dusseldorf-based Julia Stoschek Collection, which was widely acclaimed when it opened in 2007. Stoschek is a private collector, primarily of film and video, whose dramatic media-supportive gallery was designed by the Berlin architectural firm, Kuhn Malvezzi...read more

Product Description: Founded in 1987 at the initiation of Kasper König, Portikus is Frankfurt's hottest venue for contemporary art and has quickly become one of Germany's leading venues, with an impressive roster of shows by artists such as On Kawara, Luc Tuymans and Franz West...read more

Product Description: The long-anticipated, expanded version of Daniel Birnbaum's art manifesto Chronology has finally arrived. This fully illustrated edition features a new introduction and afterword by the author where he reflects on the critical reception of his book and further extends Deleuzian ideas to the fields of art and film...read more

Product Description: Thomas Bayrle, born in 1937 in Berlin, has always been obsessed with Mao's China. He remembers seeing, as a young man, photographs of stadium-wide choreographed events there, where thousands of participants held up a sign on command, each sign a pixel in a giant picture...read more

Product Description: Using an archive of electronic announcements distributed by e-flux, The Best Surprise is No Surprise documents significant recent developments in art-related media releases, which are now global, instantaneous and linked coming and going...read more

Product Description: Few artists have changed the manner in which photographic images are made, read, and received over the past two decades as dramatically as German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans (b. 1968). One of the most important and distinctive artists to emerge in the 1990s, Tillmans’s work is internationally recognized for its powerful reflections on the often overlooked objects and moments in everyday life...read more

Product Description: The long-anticipated, expanded version of Daniel Birnbaum's art manifesto Chronology has finally arrived. This fully illustrated edition features a new introduction and afterword by the author where he reflects on the critical reception of his book and further extends Deleuzian ideas to the fields of art and film...read more

Product Description: Exploring how science, religion and the media shape consciousness, Michael Joo's artworks knit together the physical and the metaphysical. Matter and subject matter, energy and waste, the visible and that which cannot be seen--this is the stuff of Joo's sculptures...read more

Product Description: One of the most original artists of his generation, Neo Rauch's paintings appear disturbingly detached and yet familiar, their figures, objects, and mood seemingly borrowed from old advertising posters, dusty book jackets, and forgotten comics...read more

Product Description: Beyond the scope of the defining non-material characteristics of sound, sound becomes a formal material, a kind of audible sculpture accompanied by discourse on its constructive, societal, philosophical, and emotional aspects. At least, it does for the contemporary artists represented in Frequencies [HZ], each of whom works with sound within the context of visual art--Angela Bulloch, Farmersmanual, Ryoji Ikeda, Daniel Pflumm, Ultra-red, Mika Vainio, and others...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: With images that suggest a modern-day Caspar David Friedrich, sculptor Eliasson recreates in elegant forms the extremes of the landscape and the atmospheric conditions of his native Iceland, resulting in a new kind of techno-Romanticism...read more

Product Description: Chosen to represent Germany in the 2001 Venice Biennale, Gregor Schneider has, since the 1980s, dedicated himself to building rooms as an expression of his art. The focus of his work has been an ordinary tenement building in Germany, known as "Haus u r," where he has lived while transforming it into a building of great atmospheric density though the process of continuous rebuilding...read more

Product Description: In 1967, when 23-year old James Turrell created his first light projection, he broke new ground in a way that would decisively influence his generation and the development of art. Though Turrell worked in the context of Minimalism and the Earthwork movement, his art at this early stage displayed--as it still does--a sensibility all its own...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Hospitality of Presence - originally published in 1998 but long out ofprint - is a study of the concept of otherness in Edmund Husserl'sphenomenology. In the late 1990s, Birnbaum's book gained internationalattention in academic circles, was reviewed favorably in specializedphilosophy journals and quoted extensively by Paul Ricoeur in one of thelegendary French thinker's last books...read more

The director of the Chicago Symphony recounts his career as a pianist, chamber musician, and conductor, and relates his experiences working with many of the most gifted artists of his time