Product Description: During the summer months of 2011, the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst inaugurated a sculpture project on the grounds of the Froh Ussicht estate in Samstagern, Zurich. The project was inspired by Bomarzo, the famous Italian Renaissance garden populated with fantastical and monstrous sculptures and follies (i...read more

Product Description: Swiss artist Ruedi Bechtler (born 1942) studied mechanical engineering, and since the 1980s has been making sculptures and installations that merge his obsessions with natural science and technology. Play, coincidence, wonder, decay and waste are all characteristics of the work of this under-recognized artist, who functions as a fascinating intermediary between science and philosophy...read more

Product Description: Tatiana Trouvé (born 1968) works with staged rooms, architectonic interventions and snake-like metal sculptural objects. This publication is the first devoted exclusively to Trouvé's drawings, which at first resemble classic architectural sketches, and on closer inspection appear to collapse vanishing points and blur interior and exterior...read more

Product Description: Between Zones explores the possibilities of documenting time-based works. Examining the intersection of disciplines such as sculpture and installation, or reproducible media, such as film and photography, with the fields of dance, music and performance art, this publication outlines the theoretical underpinnings of these relationships...read more

Product Description: Scottish artist Karla Black (born 1972) manipulates Minimalist tropes utilizing conventionally feminine materials such as face powder, lipstick and nail polish. Reflecting the ephemeral nature of her work, this monograph resembles an artist's sketchbook that is still in use.

Product Description: Using simple materials, the Polish artist Robert Kusmirowski (born 1973) creates meticulous simulations of historical situations. This book documents one such simulation--a mysterious nuclear institute recalling Cold War Soviet technology--that was produced for his 2006 solo exhibition in the Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst...read more

Product Description: Merging Cubist portraiture with the perky colors of Pop and cartoon draughtsmanship, Leipzig painter Christoph Ruckhaberle (born 1972) has built a gallery of mask-like characters who seem as much a demonstration of color and form as an exploration of character...read more

Product Description: Since the mid-1990s, Berlin-based Danish artist Henrik Olesen has used collage, sculpture and Minimalistic spatial intervention to investigate the social construction of identity and its historiography. Through the appropriation of source images and contextual shifts, Olesen probes the associations between homosexuality and its past and present criminalization...read more

Product Description: The content and layout of this idiosyncratic publication by Vienna-based Markus Schinwald leave the conventional exhibition catalogue behind; it's styled, instead, after a late-nineteenth-century encyclopedia. Illustrations and comments by Schinwald accompany an extensive library of terms on the subject of lexicons...read more

Product Description: Chaimowicz, a Frenchman in London, was one of the first performance and installation artists. Unlike his early contemporaries' noisy declarations, his pieces have always been poetic meditations on impermanence. This reference monograph looks back over more than 30 years of work.

Product Description: The drawings, sculptures, music experiments and videos of the Icelandic artist Gabriela Fridriksdottir create a surreal microcosm peopled by hybrid and sexually charged creatures that can be read as metaphors for melancholy and excess...read more

Product Description: Gracing the cover jacket of Rachel Harrison's highly anticipated second monograph is an informal monument to the man who holds the Americas' namesake. The only hint to this memorial for the 15th century Italian explorer, Amerigo Vespucci, is an apple resting on an outcropping of neon-green cement; of course the fact that the apple is not only artificial but has a bite taken out of it suggests otherwise to the discovery of these "Edenic" continents...read more

Product Description: The UK-based artist Spartacus Chetwynd is known for her baroque, surreal performances that humorously bring together multiple visual references from art history and pop culture. One of Chetwynd's 2007 site-specific performances, sponsored by New York's Creative Time, was titled: "Soylent Green, King Kong, Kasuma & Paul Auster Improvs...read more

Product Description: Gianni Motti has celebrated his own funeral, masqueraded as a professional soccer player, spoken in the name of the people of Indonesia at the UN Human Rights Convention, claimed responsibility for earthquakes and repeatedly referred to himself as a kind of terrorist infiltrating various systems to implode them from within...read more

Product Description: Anticipating architectural sculpture by artists like Rachel Whiteread among others, Swiss artist Heidi Bucher's 'soft' sculptures and Latex molds of architectural fragments and whole spaces first won her fame in the 1970s and 80s...read more

Product Description: This anthology emerged from a series of solo exhibitions by Kendell Geers, Olu Oguibe, Oldadélé Bamgboyé, Mounir Fatmi and Loulou Cherinet--all artists with connections to Africa and living abroad. Reaching beyond the dialectic of difference typical of so many exhibitions of "non-Western" artists, this collection by a twenty-first-century generation (all participants are between ages 35 and 42) aims to construct a new definition of contemporary African positions...read more

Product Description: This anthology gives glamour an extreme makeover. To talk about glamour is to wrestle with one of the central aesthetic paradigms of our society as the political economy of capital achieves a space for performances of the self. Glamour is not a stable trans-historical phenomenon, but a manifold and specific cultural practice...read more