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: Irony is one of the defining characteristics of postmodernism, but is it a meaningful strategy today? The Fate of Irony addresses this question in works by Christian Jankowski, Werner Büttner, Marcel Dzama, Daniela Comani, Martin Kippenberger, Julia Oschatz, Roman Ondák, Julia Kissina, Ming Wong and Peter Jap Lim, among others...read more

Product Description: “When producing works of art, the artist judges a piece’s themes from a point of view that is characteristic of his beliefs and to the perspective that he takes on things. In many cases, this point of view is set outside the system the piece is about”             So writes artist Christian Waldgovel in Earth Extremes, a collection of nine of his projects from the past six years...read more

Product Description: Austrian-born, Berlin-based Markus Schinwald, born in 1973, is known for mixed-media installations and films that investigate the psychological relationship between space and the human body. This monograph focuses on Schinwald's solo exhibition at the Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria, in which he creates unique film-viewing spaces that challenge our sense of perception...read more

Product Description: New York-based Dana Schutz is widely considered one of the most talented painters of her generation. As The New York Times' Holland Cotter wrote in 2007, "She's a terrific painter. From the start, her broad, sardonic, cartoon-expressionist style was prodigious but also focused...read more

Product Description: Description: "Kolbojnik" is Hebrew for leftovers, and that's how Israel-born artist Tal R describes his work. "I do painting a bit like people make a lunch box. I constantly have this hot-pot boiling and I throw all kinds of material into it...read more

Product Description: This first book of Dana Schutz's paintings is just catching up with her rave reviews--the New York Times said one recent show was "outstanding," and Artforum agreed, "far greater than the sum of its parts." Schutz's ecstatically imaginative work, executed in a vibrant, subjective palette, has made an impact since she began exhibiting five years ago...read more

Product Description: The heterogeneous punk spirit of Urs Fischer is in full threat in this catalogue from his recent retrospective exhibition (including many new works) at Kunsthaus Zrich. All materials were considered fair game, and Fischer took every possible liberty in the museum space...read more