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Raised in Albania, Sala relocated to Paris, and then moved to Berlin in 2003. In a relatively short time, he developed a vision that addresses the issues of a posthistorical world with a haunting simplicity that transcends cultures and borders. This book provides an overview and ...analysis of the artist's entire career.
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Tells the story of the first permanent artwork in the UK by the renowned artist Daniel Buren, widely considered France's greatest living artist and one of the most significant contributors to the conceptual art movement. This book includes installation shots of the work in situ, ...and behind-the-scenes photos of the project in progress.
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Writings from 1990-2006 by visionary curator Hans Ulrich Obrist.
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Creates an imaginary reality that reflects both the paradoxes of the Middle East today and the flamboyant fantasies of the golden age of Egyptian film in the cosmopolitan prerevolutionary years in Cairo.
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Tribute to Hiroshi Sugimoto rooted in The World is Dead Today an exhibition at the Palais De Tokyo.
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Over the course of a half-century, the photographs of Rene Burri (1933-2014) have tracked the turning points, triumphs and crises of the twentieth century. Whether it was the 15-year-old Burri's portrait of Winston Churchill or his later portrayals of Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, R...ichard Nixon, Anwar as-Sadat or Muammar al-Gaddafi, all have lodged themselves in the collective consciousness. Removed from sensationalism yet no less striking are Burri's images of the theater of war, of people suffering in poverty and calamity. And as if to hold such horrors in check, Burri turned his lens with equal intensity to the spheres of beauty and creativity-to the landscapes of Latin America, to great artists such as Picasso and Maria Callas, and to luminaries of architecture such as Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer. This two-volume collection offers an extensive compilation of images from the eminent photojournalist.
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A study of video artist Pipilotti Rist. It features a discussion of Rist's work in relation to notions of Utopia; an examination of her innovation in video technology in the creation of a female image; an exploration of the video work, Absolutions ; Rist's descriptions of her dre...ams; and more.
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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 ''pro...duction of reality conversations,'' otherwise known asinterviews. It undertakes the impossible: pinning down this peripateticcurator, and affirming the wisdom of an artist who told Obrist''don't go'' when he contemplated leaving the art world for other fields.Interviews by Jean Max Colard, Robert Fleck, Jefferson Hack, Nav Haq,Sophia Krzys Acord, Brendan McGetrick, Ingo Niermann, Paul O'Neill,Philippe Parreno & Alex Poots, Juri Steiner, Gavin Wade, et al.
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An intimate, powerful portrait of Louise Bourgeois in the final years of her life
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A look at our exterior and interior worlds through intriguing and imaginative maps from over 130 contributors in the fields of art, science, film, and more
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