Product Description: Whether in political conflicts or conflicts in everyday life, the subject of violence is ever-present. But how do designers deal with violence? This book explores this topic, including works by Barnaby Barford, Ray and Charles Eames, Jan Pieter Kaptein, Matthias Megyeri, Yael Mer and Shay Alkalay, Ernesto Oroza, Michael Sailstorfer and others...read more

Product Description: This book examines the careers of German brothers Heinz (1902-96) and Bodo Rasch (1903-95), an architectural duo of the 1920s New Architecture movement, comparing their buildings and graphics to work by artists such as Erika Hock and Ernesto Neto.

Product Description: This magnificent volume takes the reader on an inspiring journey into the world of two completely different materials: ash and gold. It dares a unique insight into a tense relationship between the two by asking what values ash and gold epitomize within society and what myths surround the oldest materials known to human civilization...read more

Product Description: Inspired by visions of the Virgin Mary in the tenth century, the works presented in this volume explore the persistence of visions in contemporary art. Artists include Yüksel Arslan, Nejamin Bergmann, Michaël Borremans, Mel Chin, Walter Dahn, Christoph Dettmeier, Felix Droese, Carola Ernst and others...read more

Product Description: Renowned for his unconventional, large scale works, artist Ralf Witthaus now plans to bore a hole into the ground, starting from his hometown in Germany all the way to New Zealand. Turning the oft curious childhood question of “Where will I come out if I dig a hole through the earth?” into a reality, Witthaus employs the same artistic intervention found in his previous lawnshows...read more

Product Description: Norwegian artist Olav Christopher Jenssen's (born 1954) abstract paintings abound with delicate lines, energetic brushstrokes and swathes of vivid, near-psychedelic color. Enigma presents more than 60 large-scale works produced between 1985 and 2012.

Product Description: Now: Perception of Time and Contemporary Design addresses the presence and incorporation of temporality in contemporary design. Essays by leading design curators and scholars examine objects designed to measure time, or reverse it (in the case of beauty products); objects that are designed to mimic times past, and objects addressing of-the-moment issues such as sustainability and the green movement...read more

Product Description: This publication accompanies the first major museum retrospective of the performance artist Nezaket Ekici (born 1970), held at the MARTa Herford art museum in Germany. A former student of Marina Abramovic, Ekici challenges gender roles and the Muslim traditions of her native Turkey in performance pieces that range in tone from playful to disturbing...read more

Product Description: The construction of identity has been among art’s primary topics since the first portrait was painted, and the camera has proven an ideal instrument for wholly reappraising and reinventing it. That’s Me: Photographic Self-Images explores the self-portrait genre through works by Valie Export, Aino Kannisto, Elke Krystufek, Jürgen Klauke, Martin Liebscher, Christopher Makos, Rudolf Schwarzkogler and Cindy Sherman...read more

Product Description: Things are Queer showcases the diverse and century-spanning UniCredit collection―one of the largest corporate collections in Europe. Spanning the Renaissance to Neo Rauch, this colorful collection is astounding in its wide selection of artists (primarily painters and photographers), among them Bernd & Hilla Becher, Giorgio de Chirico, Thomas Demand, Dosso Dossi, Isa Genzken, Roman Signer and Erwin Wurm...read more

Product Description: As an exponent of holism and experiment, Buckminster Fuller was an exemplary figure to many artists in his lifetime, and his relevance has only gained. This volume looks at his influence upon such artists as José Dávila, Olafur Eliasson, Simon Dybbroe Møller, David Maljkovic, Hermann Maier Neustadt, N55, Pedro Reyes, Tomás Saraceno, Albrecht Schäfer, Ai Weiwei and Beat Zoderer...read more

Product Description: Taking the absurd as the point of rupture between art, society and observation, this 1,152-page volume features Beuys, Duchamp, Kippenberger, Magritte, Meese, Nauman, Oppenheim, Picabia, Polke, Man Ray, Dieter Roth, Schwitters, Trockel, Franz West and others.