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140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth by Hans Ulrich Obrist; Back to Earth
Category: Art and Design
Artists are uniquely situated to present new ideas about how we are living, the materials that make up our lives and how we can begin to work together to tackle the most urgent crisis of our time. Featuring Ed Ruscha's memorial plaques to trees that didn't make it, Judy Chicago's urge to make a mark and ...Show more
140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth by Hans Ulrich Obrist (ed.); Kostas Stasinopoulos (ed.)
Category: Art and Design
An urgent and entertaining guide to tackling the climate emergency at home, within your community and within yourself, from some of the best artistic minds of our generation Through 140 drawings, thought experiments, recipes, activist instructions, gardening ideas, insurgences and personal revolutions, ...Show more
A Brief History Of Curating by Hans Ulrich Obrist
Category: Art
Part of JRP]Ringer's innovative "Documents" series, published with Les Presses du Reel and dedicated to critical writings, this publication comprises a unique collection of interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist mapping the development of the curatorial field--from early independent curators in the 1960s and ...Show more
A Protest Against Forgetting: Interviews with Eric Hobsbawm by Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Category: History
"""Modern society, the modern economy, operates essentially without a sense of the past. The problems are existing problems which have to be solved...it seems to me historians are essential to modern society because it is their business to remember what other people want to forget"". Eric Hobsbawm was c ...Show more
Adrian Villar Rojas by Hans Ulrich Obrist; Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev; Eungie Joo
Category: Art and Design | Series: Phaidon Contemporary Artists Ser.
The first book to explore the fascinating career and fantasy-driven worlds created by the acclaimed Argentinean artist Adrián Villar Rojas's works concoct imaginary realms. Usually made from clay, his colossal installations are transitory and so cannot be collected, as they disappear or decay over time. ...Show more
Ai Weiwei Speaks by Ai Weiwei & Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Category: Art and Design
'If artists betray the social conscience and the basic principles of being human, where does art stand then?' Ai Weiwei - artist, architect, curator, publisher, poet and urbanist - extended the notion of art and is one of the world's most significant creative and cultural figures. In this series of in ...Show more
Annie Leibovitz by Annie Leibovitz, Steve Martin, Graydon Carter, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Paul Roth
Category: Art and Design
When Benedikt Taschen asked the most important portrait photographer working today, Annie Leibovitz, to collect her pictures in a SUMO-sized book, she was intrigued by the challenge. The project took several years to develop and when it was finally published in 2014, it weighed in at 26 kg (57 pounds). ...Show more
Cerith Wyn Evans by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Nancy Spector, Daniel Birnbaum
Category: Art and Design | Series: Phaidon Contemporary Artists Ser.
A definitive and timely monograph celebrating the work of ground-breaking conceptual artist Cerith Wyn EvansCerith Wyn Evans is one of today's most respected and acclaimed sculptors. Born in Wales and educated through his first language of Welsgh, his work reflects his fascination with literature, film, ...Show more
Conversation Series Thomas Demand by Hans Ulrich Obrist
Category: Art | Series: Conversation Series
In recent years, no other German conceptual artist has received such worldwide recognition through his consistent artistic work as Thomas Demand. In a conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Demand provides information on concepts and rules of operation, the reconstruction and reverberation of history, a ...Show more
Daniel Arsham by Virgil Abloh; Steven Matijcio; Hans Ulrich Obrist (Contribution by); Daniel Arsham (Contribution by)
Category: Art
The first comprehensive monograph on artist Daniel Arsham's genre-bending world. Daniel Arsham mines lusted-after consumer goods and iconic imagery to create his conceptual objects and sculptures. The artist then casts and refinishes his work to imitate the effects of erosion and subsidence, creatin ...Show more
David Chipperfield Architects: Museo Jumex by Miquel Adrià (Text by); Patrick Charpenel (Text by); Luis Fernández-Galiano (Text by); Beatrice Galilee (Text by); Hans Ulrich Obrist (Interviewer); David Chipperfield (Artist); Eugenio Lopez Alonso (Foreword by)
Category: Architecture
The definitive account of Chipperfield’s much-lauded Mexico City art museum Located on a triangular site within the Polanco area of Mexico City, the internationally acclaimed Museo Jumex exhibits a sizable collection of contemporary art–Coleccion Jumex–and is part of a wider urban redevelopment. The ex ...Show more
Derek Boshier - Reinventor by Hans Ulrich Obrist (Other Primary Creator); James Cahill (Contribution by); Susan Compo (Contribution by); Jann Haworth (Contribution by)
Category: Art Books | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Providing a thematic overview of the multifarious work produced by Derek Boshier (b.1937) from the post-war period to the digital age, this fascinating publication reveals how Boshier' s deceptively playful imagery offers analytical commentaries on societal issues and the fragility and fragmentation of ...Show more