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9783775733069 | Hatje Cantz Pub, August 31, 2012, cover price $60.00

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Product Description: For his retrospective at the Kunsthalle Zurich, currently housed at the Museum Bärengasse, Austrian artist Heimo Zobernig (born 1958) reworked his entire oeuvre of video works and cardboard and board objects by submerging the exhibition in red light...read more
By Beatrix Ruf (editor), Gregor Stemmrich and Heimo Zobernig (other contributor)
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9783037642351 | Bilingual edition (Distributed Art Pub Inc, February 29, 2012), cover price $47.50 | About this edition: For his retrospective at the Kunsthalle Zurich, currently housed at the Museum Bärengasse, Austrian artist Heimo Zobernig (born 1958) reworked his entire oeuvre of video works and cardboard and board objects by submerging the exhibition in red light.

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Product Description: The Ringier Annual Report, edited by Beatrix Ruf, is produced in collaboration with an artist. Following projects by Richard Prince, Fischli & Weiss, Josh Smith and John Baldessari, the 2010 report is made by Das Institut--Kerstin Brätsch and Adele Röder...read more
By Kerstin Bratsch (contributor), Das Institut (contributor), Adele Roder (contributor) and Beatrix Ruf (editor)
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9783037642177 | Mul edition (Distributed Art Pub Inc, September 30, 2011), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The Ringier Annual Report, edited by Beatrix Ruf, is produced in collaboration with an artist.

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Product Description: What is a photographic image? Can a photograph ever tell the truth? These are some of the questions artist Walid Raad (born 1967) has been investigating for the past 20 years, in a practice that encompasses photography, film and video, sculpture, installation and performance...read more
By Iwona Blazwick (contributor), Achim Borchardt-hume (editor), Katarina Pierre (contributor), Walid Raad (contributor) and Beatrix Ruf (contributor)
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9780854881857 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, February 28, 2011, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: What is a photographic image?

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Product Description: Mixing menace and unease with buoyancy and optimism, Swiss-born, New York-based artist Ugo Rondinone (born 1963) infuses his sculptures, drawings, videos, photographs, sound art and text works with a wide repertoire of fantasies and fears...read more
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9783037641453 | Bilingual edition (Distributed Art Pub Inc, November 30, 2010), cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Mixing menace and unease with buoyancy and optimism, Swiss-born, New York-based artist Ugo Rondinone (born 1963) infuses his sculptures, drawings, videos, photographs, sound art and text works with a wide repertoire of fantasies and fears.

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Product Description: Since 2003, American artist Richard Phillips (born 1964) has made numerous appropriations of paintings by the Swiss artist Adolf Dietrich (1877-1957). Phillips shares with Dietrich a fondness for such subjects as animals, people and landscapes, stylized into an extreme degree of artifice...read more
By Adolf Dietrich (other contributor), Dorothee Messmer (contributor), Richard Phillips (other contributor) and Beatrix Ruf (contributor)
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9781884692086 | Swiss Inst/Christoph Merian Verlag, November 30, 2010, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Since 2003, American artist Richard Phillips (born 1964) has made numerous appropriations of paintings by the Swiss artist Adolf Dietrich (1877-1957).

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Product Description: Using well-used genres like figurative painting, travel photography and landscape, John Miller has, since the 1970s, challenged the function of the author and the concomitant loss of aura for the artwork. He has regularly shifted his practice, actively resisting the reduction of his work to any critical tag...read more
By Alexander Alberro (contributor), Nora M. Alter (contributor), Joseph Brandon (contributor), John Miller and Beatrix Ruf (contributor)
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9783037640326 | Bilingual edition (Distributed Art Pub Inc, September 30, 2010), cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Using well-used genres like figurative painting, travel photography and landscape, John Miller has, since the 1970s, challenged the function of the author and the concomitant loss of aura for the artwork.

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Product Description: John Baldessari (born 1931) is a luminary in the realms of Conceptual art and book art, and one of the most important figures in contemporary art of the last 40 years. Since his sensational Cremation Project of 1970, for which he incinerated every single painting he had made between 1953 and 1966, Baldessari's work has mined the tensions between language, image and sign-making...read more
By John Baldessari (other contributor) and Beatrix Ruf (editor)
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9783037641170 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, August 31, 2010, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: John Baldessari (born 1931) is a luminary in the realms of Conceptual art and book art, and one of the most important figures in contemporary art of the last 40 years.

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Product Description: In his painting, sculpture, video and media work, Seth Price examines the production, dissemination and valuation of contemporary art, disrupting commodity culture by recycling iconic images and objects. The first substantial monograph on the artist, this book features an essay by Michael Newman alongside Price's own critical take on his practice...read more
By Kathrin Jentjens (editor), Anja Nathan-Dorn (editor) and Beatrix Ruf (editor)
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9783037640289, titled "Price, Seth: Price, Seth" | Distributed Art Pub Inc, July 31, 2010, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: In his painting, sculpture, video and media work, Seth Price examines the production, dissemination and valuation of contemporary art, disrupting commodity culture by recycling iconic images and objects.

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Product Description: The first critical reader on one of today's most pivotal (and perplexing) contemporary artists.
By Stefan Kalmar (foreword by), Dominic Molon (foreword by), Beatrix Ruf (foreword by), Nicolaus Schafhausen (foreword by) and Monika Szewczyk (editor)
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9780262513517 | 1 edition (Mit Pr, September 30, 2009), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The first critical reader on one of today's most pivotal (and perplexing) contemporary artists.

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Product Description: The Ringier Collection, one of Europe's most informed contemporary art collections, includes key pieces ranging from John Baldessari (whose seminal 1978 work lends it's title to this book) to Richard Prince, Fischli & Weiss, Urs Fischer, Rodney Graham, Karen Kilimnik and Trisha Donnely...read more
By Beatrix Ruf (editor)
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9783905829402 | Bilingual edition (Distributed Art Pub Inc, August 1, 2008), cover price $65.00 | About this edition: The Ringier Collection, one of Europe's most informed contemporary art collections, includes key pieces ranging from John Baldessari (whose seminal 1978 work lends it's title to this book) to Richard Prince, Fischli & Weiss, Urs Fischer, Rodney Graham, Karen Kilimnik and Trisha Donnely.

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Product Description: "An alternative to the Alternative Press," legendary Toronto collaborative General Idea's FILE Megazine--published from 1972 to 1989--is compiled, at long last, in this important five-volume boxed-set edition. General Idea consisted of AA Bronson--now the Executive Director of New York's Printed Matter--Jorge Zontal and Felix Partz, who both died of AIDS-related illnesses in 1994...read more
By General Idea (corporate author) and Beatrix Ruf (editor)
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9783905829211, titled "File 1972-1989: File Megazine" | Reprint edition (Distributed Art Pub Inc, June 1, 2008), cover price $280.00 | About this edition: "An alternative to the Alternative Press," legendary Toronto collaborative General Idea's FILE Megazine--published from 1972 to 1989--is compiled, at long last, in this important five-volume boxed-set edition.

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Product Description: The oeuvre of Scottish artist Scott Myles is strongly gestural. It consists of photographs, objects, serigraphs, paintings and performance-based projects--a kind of reactivation of ideas on the valuation of art and social reality by means of the re-use of already established aesthetic codes...read more
By Caoimhin MAC Leith, Scott Myles (contributor), Beatrix Ruf (editor) and Rob Tufnell
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9783905701630 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, March 1, 2008, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: The oeuvre of Scottish artist Scott Myles is strongly gestural.

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Product Description: (ADD ASTERIX AFTER Mhz)Los Angeles conceptualist Christopher Williams, born in 1956, studies the conditions of presentation and representation in order to call into question spoon-fed perceptions, "realistic" reproductions, communication mechanisms and aesthetic conventions that influence our perception and understanding of reality...read more
By Rahel Blattler (editor), Katharina Pilz (editor), Beatrix Ruf (editor) and Kunsthalle Zurich (editor)
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9783905829044 | Bilingual edition (Distributed Art Pub Inc, March 1, 2008), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: (ADD ASTERIX AFTER Mhz)Los Angeles conceptualist Christopher Williams, born in 1956, studies the conditions of presentation and representation in order to call into question spoon-fed perceptions, "realistic" reproductions, communication mechanisms and aesthetic conventions that influence our perception and understanding of reality.

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Product Description: Wade Guyton (b. 1972, Indiana), Seth Price (b. 1973, Jerusalem), Josh Smith (b. 1976, Tennessee) and Kelley Walker (b. 1969, Georgia) work both together and apart in New York. They are not a formal artists group but the heart of a scene, ever changing: Guyton and Walker have organized joint exhibitions, and all four realize joint projects in varying constellations, often with other artists and theorists...read more
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9783905770308 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, December 31, 2011, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Wade Guyton (b.

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Product Description: The Tate Triennial is a snapshot of the state of contemporary art in Britain today. Featuring 30 artists the 2006 Triennial will explore a significant strand in contemporary art practice: the borrowing or recasting of cultural material...read more
By Carolyn Kerr (contributor), Beatrix Ruf (editor), Katharine Stout (contributor) and Clarrie Wallis (contributor)
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9781854376220 | Tate Gallery Pubn, June 30, 2007, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The Tate Triennial is a snapshot of the state of contemporary art in Britain today.

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Product Description: This first monograph for a promising Swiss artist arrives during the year of his first New York and London solo shows. Carron's sculptures have been said to mark a renewal of appropriationist discourse. Neither authentic nor kitsch, readymade nor craft, these objects enjoy ambiguity (fake wood, bronze and concrete) and an iconography of power and authority (in traditional forms like public sculptures and commemorative monuments)...read more
By Katya Garcia-anton (editor) and Beatrix Ruf (editor)
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9783905701531 | Jrp Editions, May 30, 2007, cover price $29.00 | About this edition: This first monograph for a promising Swiss artist arrives during the year of his first New York and London solo shows.

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9780300123968 | Whitney Museum of Art, March 28, 2007, cover price $18.95

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Product Description: Jeroen de Rijke and Willem de Rooij, collaborators since 1994, had just represented the Netherlands at the 2005 Venice Biennale and opened their first New York solo show at Friedrich Petzel Gallery when de Rijke died traveling in Africa...read more
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9782940271337 | Bilingual edition (Jrp Editions, March 1, 2007), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Jeroen de Rijke and Willem de Rooij, collaborators since 1994, had just represented the Netherlands at the 2005 Venice Biennale and opened their first New York solo show at Friedrich Petzel Gallery when de Rijke died traveling in Africa.

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Product Description: How does teaching function in the art world? How does training, like curation, serve as an intermediate space, a temporary, constructive field of conflict? And what does it mean for students and qualified artists? The Kunsthalle Zurich and the HGKZ school of art in Zurich explore these and other questions of pedagogy...read more
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9783905701845 | Pap/cdr edition (Jrp Editions, March 1, 2007), cover price $28.00 | About this edition: How does teaching function in the art world?

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Product Description: New York's public-relations campaign is not likely to add "crazy city" to its already famous heart-icon declaration of love, but few would dispute the truth of noted German sculptor Isa Genzken's extension of it. Only a mind as oriented toward heterogeneity as hers could capture New York in all its insane glory...read more
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9783905701098 | Jrp Editions, December 30, 2006, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: New York's public-relations campaign is not likely to add "crazy city" to its already famous heart-icon declaration of love, but few would dispute the truth of noted German sculptor Isa Genzken's extension of it.

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Product Description: Since studying at Yale University, where she explored the relationship between cinema, art, literature and music, and then UCLA, where she received her M.F.A., Daria Martin, an American artist based in London, has begun to make films...read more
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9783905701548 | Bilingual edition (Jrp Editions, September 15, 2006), cover price $29.00 | About this edition: Since studying at Yale University, where she explored the relationship between cinema, art, literature and music, and then UCLA, where she received her M.

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Product Description: This luxurious four-color album, with two additional fluorescent colors, has been made to the young German artist's specifications. While Reyle is primarily a painter, it is light in particular with which his paintings are concerned, both the light hitting pigment on canvas and, particularly, electric light, pale and acid, from the lamps and neon signs of the modern landscape...read more
By Bruce Hainley (contributor), Anselm Reyle and Beatrix Ruf (foreword by)
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9783905701685 | Jrp Editions, August 15, 2006, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: This luxurious four-color album, with two additional fluorescent colors, has been made to the young German artist's specifications.

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Product Description: In conveying the seriousness with which he sees and uses his lighthearted material, Richard Prince has said, "Jokes and cartoons are part of any mainstream magazine. Especially magazines like The New Yorker or Playboy. They're right up there with the editorial and advertisements and table of contents and letters to the editors...read more
By Richard Prince and Beatrix Ruf (editor)
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9783905701838 | Jrp Editions, August 15, 2006, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: In conveying the seriousness with which he sees and uses his lighthearted material, Richard Prince has said, "Jokes and cartoons are part of any mainstream magazine.

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Product Description: Shirana Shahbazi frequented the Conference and Education Center of a Swiss Re Insurance building over a period of 12 months. The resulting montage of photography and classical painting genres cultivates an associative trip through portrait, landscape, still life, and history painting...read more
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9783883757742 | Bilingual edition (Walther Konig, January 3, 2006), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Shirana Shahbazi frequented the Conference and Education Center of a Swiss Re Insurance building over a period of 12 months.

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