search results for "most beautiful swiss books"
2015
French edition
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A re-appropriation of Edward Said's Orientalism by Joe Scanlan.
2015
English edition
Paraguay Press
New and historical texts by artists, writers and cultural agents that ballades amongst the themes of seduction, glamour and politics.
2015
no text
Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
(last copies available!)
A collaboration between Toilet Paper and Kenzo (limited edition of 2000 hand numbered copies).
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Dis Voir - ZagZig (books / CDs)
This audio art book documents an experiment in binaural sound by French artist Loris Gréaud performed around the world over five years. Using binaural beats, Crossfading guides the listener to the threshold of sleep. The book includes MRI images of the artist listening to the piece.
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Espace art actuel
sold out
“Diorama” special feature (studies on Xu Zhen's Starving of Sudan and Kent Monkman's Bête Noire, essays on Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and the Persistence of the Diorama, the Diorama as artistic process, Vicky Sabourin's stagings), interview with Nathalie Heinich— in addition to the usual contents.
2015
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
The legendary fight between Muhammad Ali and Jürgen Blin in Zurich,
covered by the photographer Eric Bachmann.
2015
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Artist's book.
2015
bilingual edition (German / Italian)
Edition Patrick Frey
Artist's book.
2015
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
A compilation of Rudy Ricciotti's opinion pieces about 59 artists and personalities.
2015
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
A compilation of Rudy Ricciotti's opinion pieces about 59 artists and personalities, with an original artwork signed by Ricciotti.
2015
bilingual edition (English / French), original version, English / French subtitles
a.p.r.e.s editions - Variations on...
Box set including a book and a film on DVD.
2015
English edition (text in English and German)
Edition Patrick Frey
An exclusive publication of an important body of work by the late, internationally acclaimed Swiss artist David Weiss (1946-2012):
Die Wandlungen (“The Metamorphoses”) for the first time reproduces all 82 series of graphic metamorphoses dating from 1975 to 1979 in Marrakesh, Carona (Switzerland), and Zurich.
2015
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Edition Patrick Frey
Artist's book.
2015
German edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Catalogue.
2015
French edition
JRP|Editions - Lectures Maison Rouge
The never-before-published selection of Carlo Scarpa's writings and illustrations
(photographs, architectural plans, sketches, etc.): an invaluable tool to
understanding exhibition history and the importance of the architectural
conception of exhibitions.
2015
trilingual edition (English / French / Khmer)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
14.00 3.00 €
A “monologue” by the Cambodian photographer who offers an intimate reflection on the traumas of the recent history of his country.
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Immédiats / Analogues - Monographs
sold out
First monograph.
2015
English edition
Archive Books
sold out
An anthology surveying the relationship between artistic practices and documents.
2015
French edition
Le Chant du Moineau / Casta - Books
currently out of stock
A literary and sound dive into a fantastic and whimsical bestiary (with Benjamin Bondonneau, Jean-Pierre Drouet, Géraldine Keller and Michel Mathieu).
2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
sold out
A photographic documentation, with some critical essays, of the artist's exhibition at Galleria Borghese where three multimedia works are displayed on freestanding structures inspired by the paintings of Caravaggio: a meditation on our fondness for contemplating images of mortality or death, and the different ways of manipulating viewer experience.
2015
Shelter Press - Records
sold out
The long awaited documentation of the score of Paris based choreographer Gisèle Vienne's eponymous artistic ice skating choreographic piece.
2015
English edition
Petzel
36.00 18.00 €
The work of Corinne Wasmuht calls into question painting's status in the digital age. Her panorama-like pictures depict futuristic science-fictional landscapes and structures the artist refers to as mirages. This catalogue features beautiful reproductions of Wasmuht's new and recent paintings, installation views and a conversation with Sabine Eckmann.
2015
Matière Mémoire
currently out of stock
A milestone film from American composer and filmmaker Phill Niblock, presented for the first time in DVD with two alternate soundtracks, T H I R is a mesmerizing and hypnotic film from his Environments series shot in upstate New York in 1972. This film is one of Niblock's finest and undiscovered jewels—a must have classic release.
2015
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Timeless
An oversized artists' book celebrating Pink and Evil: 16 pages for Ciou and her witches + 16 pages for Malojo and his monsters.
2015
French edition
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
Halfway between the autobiography, the adventure story, the manifesto and the catalogue, this publication traces twenty-five years of travels, explorations, and encounters by artist-explorer Till Roeskens.
2015
English edition
Boabooks
sold out
A series of photographs by Izet Sheshivari made on the island of Fårö, where Bergman shot numerous films (newspaper).
2015
Vand'Œuvre / CCAM Éditions
22.00 14.00 €
A suite of musique concrète composed in the personnal studios of the composers from 2013 to 2015.
2015
English edition
Petzel
18.00 9.00 €
A large selection of drawings from Brauntuch's early carreer, based upon iconographic resources from the Third Reich.
2015
English edition
Neural
Interviews with Jon Ippolito, Ben Fido-Radin, Olia Lialina, Constant Dullaart, Graham Dunning, Museo dell'Informatica Funzionante (Working IT museum); articles on Artworks & defunct software, embracing social life & forgetfulness, sound reconfigurations, reports on Bio-Fiction 2014, Transmediale 2015, Sonic Acts 2015, Accès)s( #14, records and books reviews...
2015
French edition
ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)
This artist's book and first monograph gives an insight into Thomas Jeames's nomadic and diversified practice, influenced by the underground culture and DIY graphic design. Jeames' collages, drawings, trips, experiences, and videos reflect the burlesque poetry of this remarkable draughtsman and iconographer.
2015
English edition
Nero
Artist's book.
2015
Spanish edition
Terranova
A singular series of photographs exploring the theme of alternative therapies.
2015
Spanish edition
Terranova
Compilation of photographs taken by Carla Pérez Vas, composer and guitar player with music band Mourn, during her first North-American tour.
2015
Spanish edition
Terranova
Publication exploiting the book's physicality as a metaphorical space to express the artist's feelings after a breakup.
2015
English edition
various
sold out
This publication results from Braegger's “The Grateful Dead” paintings series, ink jet prints of colorful psychedelic marching bears on canvas. These bears were used as a logo by San Francisco Sixties rock band The Grateful Dead.
2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Archive Books
An historical-critical recontextualization of the artist's figure with an important tool of documentation on his work from 1973 to 1979.
2015
English edition
Archive Books
An embracive and well-documented overview of three works by Stan Douglas covering the emergence of political and multicultural emancipation projects during the Seventies, from Portugal's 1974 revolution and the end of colonialism, to the emergence of multicultural music such as jazz-rock, funk, disco, and afrobeat.
2015
English edition
Archive Books
Drawing from a namesake installation, No More Sleep No More engages in a reflexion on the chronopolitics of sleep under neoliberalism.
2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Archive Books
sold out
Firenze 77 tells the story of a number of artists who passed through Florence, and Villa Romana, between the second half of the 1970s and the early 1980s. This publication is a collection of heterogeneous, autonomous material—a series of notes, comments, book summaries and various kinds of devices.
2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This artist book is composed of the observations, texts and images that Durham collected during a Venetian stay, pointing out the complex relationship between the tourism industries, the stories of local workers and Venice's history.
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This catalogue-reader accompanies Armando Lulaj's project for the Albanian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale. A time capsule of the country's past, presenting strange memorabilia and trophies that tread the line between fact and fiction.
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Monograph / catalogue.
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Dis Voir - ZagZig (books / CDs)
Last Words is a dual-input device: a book associated with a sound piece built from the last statements of all inmates executed in Texas since the resumption of executions on December 7, 1982.
2015
no text
various
Artist's book featuring a selection of photographic archive from the European Organization for Nuclear Research: without the context of the archive or explanatory legends, the content becomes abstract and hypothetical, and plays with the representational capacity of the image and with the reception of information.
2015
English edition
Boabooks
A facsimile edition of a fanzine originally published in 1977. It gathers sculptures and fluxus' objects from Laurence Whitfield.
2014
trilingual edition (English / German / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
(last copies available!)
Artist's book based on a complex project
linking Vernasca, Ethiopia and Jamaica according to two points of view, placing certain critical moments in Italy's colonial history in relation to the symbolism of Rastafarian tradition.
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
First monograph.
2014
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Reference monograph.
2014
English edition
Shelter Press - Books
sold out
Alberto García del Castillo's first novel is a comedy-science-fiction novelette about “faggotry” and the art world; depicting a retour-au-passé in contemporary painting and waving to some of the most beautiful homosexuals on Earth.
2014
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Catalogue.