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Do it: The Compendium by Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Category: Art
Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, "Do It" began in Paris in 1993 as a conversation between the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier and Obrist himself, who was experimenting with how exhibition formats could be rendered more flexible and open ended. The discussion led to the question of whether ...Show more
Hans Josephsohn by Hans Josephson (Artist); Dominic Eichler (Text by); Clare Lilley (Text by); Hans Josephsohn (Contribution by); Hans Ulrich Obrist (Contribution by)
Category: Art
A generous offering of Josephsohn's arresting figural sculptures, whose intensely worked surfaces invoke the artist's existential view of the human conditionSwiss sculptor Hans Josephsohn (1920-2012) took the human figure as his lifelong subject. Manifesting in the form of a head, a half-figure or a sta ...Show more
Hans Ulrich Obrist: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Curating But Were Afraid to Ask by Hans Ulrich Obrist
Category: Art
Everything you ever wanted to know about Hans Ulrich Obrist butwere afraid to ask has now been asked, revealing the truth from thebeginning of his career as a young curator in his Zurich kitchen tohis recent position as co-director of the Serpentine in London. Thisbook is a ''production of reality conve ...Show more
Hans Ulrich Obrist: the Athens Dialogues by Hans Ulrich Obrist; Danai Anesiadou (Interviewee); Dakis Joannou (Text by); Ari Marcopoulos (By (photographer)); Karen Marta (Editor)
Category: Art Instructional
Hans Ulrich Obrist often quotes the great art historian Erwin Panofsky, who once famously said that "the future is built from fragments of the past." How these fragments accumulate is often a matter of historical inquiry as well as shared personal experiences. Here, 12 artists and an architect--Danai An ...Show more
It's Urgent! - A Luma Project Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist by Hans Ulrich Obrist (Editor)
Category: Art and Photography
Artist billboards on our fraught present and uncertain future, from Etel Adnan to Stanley WhitneyThe book features all 153 original posters created by the 127 artists invited to participate in It's Urgent!, an open-form touring exhibition. Artists from all over the world responded to Hans Ulrich Obrist' ...Show more
Judy Chicago: Revelations by Judy Chicago, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Martha Easton
Category: Monograph & Portraiture
Revelations is the work that Judy Chicago believed would never be published: a radical retelling of human history in the form of an illuminated manuscript, recovering stories of women that society sought to erase. Begun alongside her iconic installation The Dinner Party in the mid-1970s, and drawing on ...Show more
LOUIS BOURGEOIS DESTRUCTION OF THE FATHE by BERNADAC MARIE-LAURE OBRIST HANS-ULRICH
Category: Art
Liu Ye: the Book Paintings by Liu Ye; Zhu Zhu (Text by); Hans Ulrich Obrist (Contribution by)
Category: Art and Design
The Chinese artist Liu Ye's meticulous, colorful canvases convey his love of literature in the first publication dedicated to his paintings of books.The Beijing-based artist Liu Ye is known for his precise, deftly rendered representational paintings. Drawn equally from contemporary culture and old maste ...Show more
Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects by Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Category: Art and Design
From world-renowned curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects offers a unique opportunity to learn about the lives and creativity of the world's leading artists Hans Ulrich Obrist has been conducting ongoing conversations with the world's greatest living artists since he ...Show more
Lives of the Artists Lives of the Architects by Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Category: Art and Design
From world-renowned curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects offer a unique opportunity to learn about the lives and creativity of the world's leading artists. Hans Ulrich Obrist has been conducting ongoing conversations with the world's greatest living artists since he ...Show more
London Dialogues - Serpentine Gallery 24 Hour Interview. Marathon by Hans-Ulrich Obrist; Rem Koolhas
Category: Art
This volume inaugurates a new series of publications edited by three leading authors on the worlds architectural and artistic scene: H.U. Obrist, Rem Koolhaas and Stefano Boeri. A series of dialogues resulting from the first, legendary Serpentine Gallery Marathon, conducted by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Rem ...Show more