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Architecture of Culture is a project which explores the subject of craft preservation from a macroscale, looking at it in relation to local materials, local architecture, and local environments to study its everchanging role and impact on the Emirati community's sustainability and to revitalise its role in today's economy and environment.

Two volumes in a box to present the complete work of Théo Tobiasse, a French artist born in 1927 in Jaffa in Israel and died in 2012 in Cagnes-sur-Mer. Text in English and French.

In "Collapsed Time", Christina Quarles (Chicago, 1985) shows an installation that occupies the entire exhibition space and exhibits her paintings alongside works from the Nationalgalerie collection. Text in English and German.

Man Ray (1890-1976) occupies a prominent place in 20th century art history. This catalogue accompanies an exhibition at the Evian, Palais Lumiere from July to November 2023.

On the critical preservation and ongoing legacy of material artefacts from Fascist ItalyAs part of Italy's national cultural heritage, its fascist-era architecture is protected by preservation laws--as are many artworks and monuments from that period. However, in the country's more recent reappraisal of its fascist and colonial past, these buildings and artworks have become a nexus of keen critical debate and political conflict. A Difficult Heritage focuses on the material history of fascist-era works of art, monuments and architecture in Italy, and examines their afterlife and critical reception. Contributions explore Italy's ambiguous transition from fascism to republic and the dynamics of postwar censorship, and reexamine some of the artists close to the fascist regime and the role played by private collections in the preservation and survival of fascist-era works of art. Probing this concept of "difficult heritage" in relation to both Italy itself, and in comparative perspective with other nations, the book addresses issues of restoration, display and critical preservation of fascist-era artifacts in public and institutional spaces.

This catalogue of the Biennale Architettura 2023 follows the path of the exhibition and opens with statements from the President of La Biennale di Venezia Roberto Cicutto and the Artistic Director of the Architecture Department Lesley Lokko.

This book is a moment of reflection on Paolo Scheggi's multidisciplinary research and his intense investigation developed over little more than a decade. Text in English and Italian.

Investigates the Japanese contemporary art of the 2000s, focusing on how bodies and performances are connected to society, environment, materiality and technology. Text in English and Italian.

This book illustrates a wide selection of works that offer a complete overview of Davide Balliano's production. Text in English and Italian.

This fully illustrated monograph is dedicated to Christine Rebet (b. Lyon France, lives and works in New York). Text in English and French.

A catalogue raisonne provides a complete overview of everything an artist has created over their lifetime, allowing viewers to appreciate the full extent of their oeuvre. Text in English and French.

Presents Giorgio Morandi's works from the Catanese collection: a "microcosm" of artist's oeuvre. Text in English and Italian.

This book presents the spectacular 'bestiary' created by the jeweller Walid Akkad, through 21 gold animal rings.

By retracing the salient moments through the words of its protagonists, this book illustrates the DesertX project: the first Ducati specifically designed for off-roading. Text in English and Italian.

On Warhol's lifelong engagement with commerceThis catalog revisits the various historical eras in which Warhol left his mark on fashion, music and entrepreneurship. The works reproduced include paintings, historical serigraphs, drawings, Polaroids, photographs and memorabilia such as covers designed and autographed by Warhol. The content spans from the 1950s, a decade that consecrated him as a highly respected designer; to the 1960s, when Warhol became a true social commentator, portraying icons (Campbell's soup), fame (Liz Taylor and Marilyn Monroe) and disasters (the faces of Jackie Kennedy before and after her husband's assassination); to the 1970s, when he became a kind of "society artist"; to the 1980s, when Warhol positioned himself as the spiritual father of a new generation of artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring and created new forms of commerce and tributes to the past.

A close look at the wide-ranging practice of an influential Italian sculptorItalian sculptor Pietro Consagra (1920-2005) was a seminal figure in 20th-century European art. This volume compares different moments in his career, offering a varied panorama of his material experimentations and reinventions of forms.

A multimedia excavation of the life of a forgotten revolutionaryThis volume accompanies an exhibition chronicling the story of Louise Brunet, a French silk spinner who embarked on an arduous journey of self-reinvention after joining the revolution of the canuts (silk weavers) in 1834.

Material experiments in blood and coralFlemish artist Jan Fabre (born 1958) presents over 30 red coral sculptures alongside a series of unpublished drawings made using his own blood. The vivid colors and visceral materiality of these recent works evoke a deep reflection on the vulnerability of the human condition.

Three essays on Hermann Nitsch's work, one of the most paradigmatic artists of the legendary Wiener Aktionismus.

A visual feast of artworks and artifacts from the Islamic world's cultural capitalThis richly illustrated and researched publication heralds Baghdad as a resplendent capital of culture within the Islamic world, from its heritage as the locus of the great Abbasid caliphs (750-1258 CE) to its renewed period of prosperity during the 20th century after the discovery of oil in the land.Published in conjunction with an exhibition at Qatar's Museum of Islamic Art, Baghdad: Eye's Delight takes readers on an imaginary tour across centuries, highlighting Baghdad's role as a city of power, scholarship and riches, and examining the city's social fabric--its numerous traditions and cosmopolitan population--which have enabled the city to thrive, despite war and destruction. Displaying objects on loan from 22 institutions such as the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Benaki Museum, the Vatican and the Barrel Foundation, the compendium presents a vast array of artworks and artifacts.

A look inside the construction of an exciting new museum in Doha, to open in 2030Due to open in 2030, the Art Mill Museum will transform an industrial flour mill located on Qatar's stunning Doha Corniche. This volume presents the vision behind this exciting new project, conceived by Catherine Grenier alongside the architectural studio Elemental, led by the Pritzker Prize-winning architect Alejandro Aravena. The Art Mill Museum will house an exceptional international collection of diverse and multidisciplinary works, dating from 1850 to the present, acquired over the past four decades. It will also include a creative village and a garden designed by the landscape architect Günther Vogt. To reflect the transformation of the site and demonstrate how the Art Mill Museum will function as a space for contemporary creativity, artists have been commissioned to create films and photographs establishing parallels between the former flour mill and the future museum.

A beautifully presented monograph of works by the French artist Nicole Bottet. Text in English and French.

A career-spanning survey of the influential modernist photographerIn 1985, the National Museum of Luxembourg unexpectedly received a generous bequest from the estate of the world-renowned Luxembourg-born American photographer Edward Steichen (1879-1973). The bequest comprised a total of 178 prints, 175 of which were by Steichen himself. These prints cover all aspects of his photographic oeuvre--from the pictorialist images of his early years to the portraiture, fashion, advertising, landscapes and family photographs of his late career.Edward Steichen: The Luxembourg Bequest presents this extraordinary collection in a comprehensive and scholarly treatment for the first time. Replete with full-page illustrations of all 178 photographs, the publication includes six new essays by five authors that examine the provenance and historical significance of the Luxembourg donation, as well as Steichen's special role as a transmitter of modernism from Europe to America.

Ingenious sculptural takes on idiomatic language from a leading Brazilian artistFor his installation at the Brazilian pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale (2022), Jonathas de Andrade (born 1982) draws on idiomatic expressions using metaphors of the body to develop a series of two- and three-dimensional works that render tangible the poetry of these expressions. For example, two immense ears placed at the entrance and exit of the pavilion allow the public to "go in one ear and out the other," while an inflatable balloon, which invades the space at various times of the day, alludes to a "heart coming out of the mouth." The emphasis on the body, especially the body of the man from the Brazilian Northeast, is also characteristic of several of the artist's earlier works featured in this book, which also includes essays by the publication's editor Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, and Clarissa Diniz.