Product Description: The Cuban duo Los Carpinteros renounces individual authorship to sabotage the disciplines of design and architecture from within. This limited edition of the first comprehensive Los Carpinteros monograph-itself voted one of "Austria's Most Beautiful Books" for 2010-comes with a pair of flip flops designed by the artists...read more

Product Description: Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander (born 1967) joyously embraces all genres from painting and sculpture to film and photography, installation and collaborative actions. Whether gathering anonymously created objects from bars and restaurants, or installing continually dripping buckets in a forest, her art is ultimately about being alive and responsive...read more

Product Description: Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles, born in 1948, has made some of the most politically telling and aesthetically seductive works in recent art. An important theme in the Brazilian postwar avant-garde, from which Meireles emerged at the end of the 1960s, was the relationship between the sensual and the cerebral, the body and the mind...read more

Product Description: Rebecca Horn gained international recognition with her mechanical objects and mobile sculptures, among them such works as Paradieswitwe, Spiralbad, the wall drawing Les Amants, produced as part of an action, and her expansive Circle for Broken Landscape...read more

Provides color plates of Bourgeois' sculptures and installations, essays, an interview, critical analysis, and Louise Bourgeois' writings on her art.

Product Description: The rise of globalism has created tremendous challenges to old economic, political, and cultural paradigms, changes that are increasingly reflected in diverse artistic practices across the planet. If disciplinary boundaries are now crossed as easily as geographic ones, how does the new internationalism that we are facing affect aesthetics and artistic production? Is there a link, for example, between the rise of video works and the global availability of digital media? Does the global information age facilitate an international language of art and an alternative reading of history, from art history toward art histories? From the perspective of a museum of modern and contemporary art--a purely European construct--the art institution has to overcome a major contradiction, one that exists between its mission of permanence and its mission of change...read more

Product Description: To mark the opening of its temporary galleries in a converted staple factory in Queens--the museum's home until the renovations to its Manhattan space are completed--The Museum of Modern Art has issued this commemorative limited-edition box set...read more

Product Description: The concept of time has been discussed by philosophers throughout the ages. What is its nature? How does one depict it? Artists, especially, have struggled with representing the ephemeral thing that is time--from On Kawara's never-ending series of dated one-day paintings, to Janine Antoni's infinitely massive and barely gnawed-at hunks of chocolate and lard, to Hiroshi Sugimoto's long-exposure photographs of movie theaters, to Iiigo Manglano-Ovalle's sped-up video of human motion in Mies van der Rohe's New National Gallery in Berlin...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Continually reexamining and re-presenting Brazil's cultural history, Adriana Varejao constructs sculptural paintings that often take the fragmented or eviscerated human body as their subject. Extremely tactile and often saturated in blood-red hues, Varejao's highly visceral work recalls the pain and pleasure that accompanies both colonialism and the creative process...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Widely praised for its fine collection of Latin American geometric abstract art, the Coleccion Patricia Phelps de Cisneros of Caracas, Venezuela, contains the compelling work of such leading artists as Uruguayan Joaquin Torres-Garcia, Brazilians Lygia Clark and Helio Oiticica, Venezuelans Gego and Jesus Rafael Soto, and Argentinians Tomas Maldonado, Raul Lozza, and Alfredo Hlito...read more