Product Description: Provocative exploration of the masters of suspicion with regard to philosophy.Philosophy is traditionally understood as the search for universal truths, and philosophers are supposed to transmit those truths beyond the limits of their own culture...read more

Product Description: Open 22 investigates how transparency and secrecy are intertwined in modern-day society and explores how they relate to the public and the civic, using WikiLeaks as a test case. The contributors consider transparency as fetish and the ideal of the free flow of information.

Product Description: “Artists can make a hash of society as completely as the most cynical of politicians.”—Boston GlobeFrom the ruins of Soviet communism, Boris Groys emerges to provoke our interest in the aesthetic goals of its founders. Like modernists elsewhere, the totalitarian artists and theorists of the USSR longed for an art that could transform the world it once sought only to depict...read more

Product Description: The religious movements of today no longer depend on the handselling of literature such as bibles, pamphlets etc, but instead operate predominantly with electronic picture media such as video and television that can be disseminated much more widely, and which are capable of enormous rhetorical impact...read more

Product Description: 10000 Lives is the companion to the 8th Gwangju Biennale, an exhibition devoted to our obsession with images. With contributions by more than 100 artists, it brings together artworks and artifacts realized between 1901 and 2010 to analyze the relationships that bind people to images...read more

Book Description: Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin wall, Project Europa considers the relationship of art and artists to democracy. What is the role of art in the public sphere? In what ways do artists mediate the vital and critical political issues of their time? What is the emancipator potential of art? In the exhibition, nineteen artists from the British Isles to Turkey challenge the collective imagination of Europe while confronting a paradox: Europe as the site of possibility and impossibility for creating an egalitarian society...read more

Product Description: A provocative essay on the relationship between communism, philosophy and language.Since Plato, philosophers have dreamed of establishing a rational state ruled through the power of language. In this radical and disturbing account of Soviet philosophy, Boris Groys argues that communism shares that dream and is best understood as an attempt to replace financial with linguistic bonds as the cement uniting society...read more

Product Description: This year, Open celebrates its fifth anniversary with this extra edition, which addresses the role of the art biennial in city marketing. Open 16 is published concurrently with the first Brussels Biennial.

Product Description: Jeff Wall (b.1946) adopts the nineteenth-century poet Baudelaire's famous description of one of his contemporaries as 'a painter of modern life' to describe his own very different work: huge transparencies mounted on to light boxes that diffuse a brilliant glow of white light evenly through his photographs of contemporary urban scenes and 'constructed' social situations...read more

Product Description: This two-volume, slipcased set presents the first complete overview of iconic New York-based, Russian-born artist Ilya Kabakov's paintings. Centered around 130 works produced by Kabakov in Moscow between 1957 and 1987--when he used imaginary characters in his paintings to portray the banality of everyday life in the Soviet Union, providing both a parable on humankind and sardonic commentary on the system's unfulfilled promises and undelivered utopias--this comprehensive catalogue raisonne follows the publication of a two-volume catalogue raisonne of Kabakov's installations in 2004 and includes important essays by curator and critic Robert Storr and acclaimed late-Soviet Postmodern art and literature expert Boris Groys...read more

Product Description: The topic of these videos by art historian and philosopher Boris Groys is, actually, video as a medium: the use of the image within the video, the analogy between video and essay, the difference between private and public use of the video, the video running in loop as a contemporary form of ritual...read more

Product Description: Total Enlightenment is a superb and much-needed survey of the Conceptual movement in late- and post-Soviet Russia, a movement which even today remains still relatively unknown in the West. The book owes its title to a 1974 essay by the influential theorist Boris Groys, in which he asserted that Moscow artists held a unique relationship to the traditional art of Russia, which set them apart from their Western role models and contemporaries...read more

Product Description: This publication presents the first comprehensive overview of the German collaborative Fischer/El Sani. Nine of their most important films, installations and photographic works are featured, all of which emphasize the duo's ongoing commitment to dismantling and re-appropriating Modernist architecture...read more

Product Description: A new book by Boris Groys acknowledges the problem and potential of art's complex relationship to power.

Product Description: The Vincent Van Gogh Biennial Award aims to recognize and reward (at 50,000 Euros) emerging European artists who will have significant, enduring impact. In this, its fourth cycle since its inception, the Award has broadened its scope in two key ways--first by removing an age limit for artists, and then by allying with the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, which will exhibit some of the nominated work and is slated to become home to the Award's collection...read more

Product Description: Contains sketches, watercolours, drawings and plans which look at the theatrical installations by conceptual artists: Ilya & Emilia Kabakov.

Product Description: The fictitious hero of this 1984 installation is a lonely dreamer who develops an impossible project: to fly alone in cosmic space. But this dream is also an individual appropriation of a collective Soviet project and the official Soviet propaganda connected to it...read more

Product Description: The theme of this collection of photographs by a wide variety of leading Soviet camera artists is the depiction of the female body. The compilation makes it possible to trace the evolution of approa ches to the female body in Soviet photography of the Stalin period, from the so-called nude mode of the 1920s to the official shots of Sovie...read more

Product Description: For the opening exhibition in Frank Gehry's gleaming new MARTa Herford Museum in Germany, Artistic Director Jan Hoet, longtime director (from 1975 to 2001) of the Stedelijk Museum, rounded up images and objects representing (his private--and now public) heroes...read more

Product Description: Peter Kogler's emblematic, computer-generated patterns--be they ants, as at Documenta IX, or tubes, as at Documenta X--run across wallpaper and then around site-specific installations, forming networks and structures, disturbing known spatial relationships...read more