A homage to the beguiling, evocative nighttime hours, consisting of photography portfolios, film stills and essays

The first significant publication of its kind, Night Fever is a lavishly illustrated compendium of artist portfolios and essays that consider the unique conditions of the nighttime world and its transgressive and transformational possibilities. The book comprises 20 photography portfolios by a diverse, international and intergenerational group of artists as well as 21 essays about films made during and about the night. Together, the films, photo portfolios and essays gathered in the volume testify to the fact that there is no single night; for each person, place or group, night's threshold, its liminal edge, is ever-changing.
Artists include: David Goldbatt, Dayanita Singh, Dhruv Malhotra, Evgenia Arbugaeva, Katsumi Watanabe, Kohei Yoshiyuki, Lieko Shiga, Malick Sidibé, Martina Mullaney, Ming Smith, Mosa'ab Elshamy, Myriam Boulos, Paz Errazuriz, Rinko Kawauchi, Sanlé Sory, Sohrab Hura, Stephen Barker, Suwon Lee, Tobias Zielony, Trevor Paglen.

Now back in print: two volumes of Polaroids taken by the iconic cinematographer

Known for his pioneering camerawork and virtuoso lighting, Robby Müller (1940-2018) was one of the most important cinematographers in modern film history. His special vision imprinted itself in modern cinema over the course of a long, illustrious career marked by Müller's long-term collaborations with directors such as Wim Wenders, Jim Jarmusch and Lars von Trier. As he worked, Müller maintained his own working archive, keeping Polaroid photographs, letters, notes from directors, and his own musings and photographs from set. In 2016, this material was presented in a major exhibition at the EYE Film Museum Amsterdam, accompanied by the premier publication of the Polaroids. Now back in print for the third time, Polaroid is a two-volume slipcased set of Müller's Polaroids, divided into Exterior and Interior, which offers the opportunity to reassess his photographic work, characterized by the same poetic aesthetic that infused his films.

Installation and sound artist Pierre Huyghe leads his colleagues through a labyrinthine, liminal exhibition across Okayama

As Artistic Director of the 2019 Okayama Art Summit, artist Pierre Huyghe (born 1962) convened 18 artists to create a labyrinth of interventions across the city. From sappy pink swimming pools to woodland video installations, Huyghe and his collaborators transform everyday locations into liminal spaces, turning a walk through the city into a constantly fluctuating journey. Together, the entity of this snake of artworks alters the city of Okayama through invisible presences, different intelligent forms and chemical, biological and algorithmic processes. This artist's book assembled by Huyghe includes conceptual text and images that guide the reader through the exhibition's experience.
Artists include: Tarek Atoui, Matthew Barney, Etienne Chambaud, Paul Chan, Ian Cheng, Melissa Dubbin, Aaron S. Davidson, John Gerrard, Fabien Giraud, Raphaël Siboni, Elizabeth Hénaff, Eva L'Hoest, Fernando Ortega, Sean Raspet, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Pamela Rosenkranz.

A graphic-novel guide to the demented present from the authors of the bestselling The Age of Earthquakes

If you're wondering why the inside of your head feels so strange these days, this book has the answers. The Extreme Self is a new kind of graphic novel that shows how you've been morphing into something else. It's about the remaking of your interior world as the exterior world becomes more unfamiliar and uncertain. Basar, Coupland and Obrist's cult prequel, The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present, was hailed as a meditation on the madness of our media (Dazed) and an abstract representation of how we feel about our digital world (Hello!). Like that book, The Extreme Self collapses comedy and calamity at the speed of swipe. Dazzling images are sourced from over 70 of the world's foremost artists, photographers, technologists and musicians, while Daly & Lyon's kinetic design elevates the language of memes into a manifesto. Over 14 timely chapters, The Extreme Self tours through fame and intimacy, post-work and new crowds, identity crisis and eternity. Crazed, hilarious, unsettling, true. No other book today so presciently predicts how the present and the future have become the same thing. The Extreme Self is an accelerated tale for an even more accelerated culture. Welcome to the Age of You.
Cultural critic Shumon Basar (born 1974) is the author of Do You Often Confuse Love with Success and with Fame? (2012).
Canadian novelist and artist Douglas Coupland (born 1961) is the author of Girlfriend in a Coma: A Novel (2008), Life After God (1994) and Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture (1991).
Swiss art curator, critic and art historian Hans Ulrich Obrist (born 1968) is the artistic director at the Serpentine Galleries in London and the author of numerous books, including Hans Ulrich Obrist: Infinite Conversations (2020), Ways of Curating (2014) and A Brief History of Curating (2008).

Photographic works in progress that underscore the medium's role in contemporary architecture

How do photographers select, order and display their images? Conceived as part of a long-term project at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, The Lives of Documents examines the contemporary role of photography in the study and practice of architecture. Cocurated by photographers Bas Princen and Stefano Graziani, the project highlights a selection of projects that model our visible world by investigating notions of landscape and its destruction, global infrastructure, intimacy and interiority, and conditions of urban and domestic space and life. Through tracing photographers' research materials, archiving practices and production processes, the project prompts reflections on the notion of documentation as an embedded quality of photography. This publication follows Princen and Graziani's travels to understand how artists use photography as a tool for their artistic research and how they conceive of their projects as evolving explorations.
Artists include: Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Lynne Cohen, Luigi Ghirri, Dan Graham, Jan Groover, Guido Guidi, Takashi Homma, Roni Horn, Armin Linke, Ari Marcopoulos, Gordon Matta-Clark, Richard Misrach, Marianne Mueller, Bruce Nauman, Michael Schmidt, Thomas Struth, Tokuko Ushioda, Jeff Wall, Marianne Wex.

Cast-off, found and constructed items await reanimation in Oelbaum's photographic series of abandoned objects

In his first photography publication, New York-based artist and social worker Yair Oelbaum (born 1988) collects his images of found or discarded items taken with Polaroid cameras. The title Asleep in Dirt derives from the Messianic Jewish conception of the resurrection of the dead.

A stylishly designed survey worthy of Christ & Gantenbein's sleek and sophisticated structures

For the first time, Swiss architecture firm Christ & Gantenbein present a comprehensive catalog of their work. The three-volume monograph captures their architectural endeavors from 1998 to 2023, including an annotated retrospective of the design, planning and execution of over 160 projects.

Contemporary artworks and archival documents celebrating 500 years of anticolonial activism

This volume illuminates 500 years of anticolonial resistance in the Global South, examining colonial violence and oppression and its ongoing repercussions, and paying homage to the people who resisted it in various ways and whose stories have hardly ever been told or heard to this day. The works of more than 40 contemporary artists from the Global South and the diaspora tell stories of rebellion and war, violence and trauma as well as survival and resilience. Their stories are complemented by historical documents and numerous objects from the RJM collection in Cologne.
Artists include: Florisse Adjanohoun, Christie Akumabor, Osaze Amadasun, Kader Attia, Roger Atikpo, Belkis Ayón, Marcel Djondo, Omar Victor Diop, Nwakuso Edozien, Robert Gabris, Jimoh Ganiyu, Anani Gbeteglo, Ayrson Heráclito, indieguerillas, Patricia Kaersenhout, Eustache Kamouna, Grada Kilomba, Mohammed Laouli, Alao Lukman, Peter Magubane, Dhuwarrwarr Marika, Tshibumba Kanda Matulu and Medu Art Ensemble.

A richly illustrated rediscovery of Elizabeth Catlett: printmaker, sculptor and tireless advocate for human rights

Born in Washington, DC, Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012) moved to Mexico in 1946. Still, her artwork always remained attuned to the Black American experience. Her expressive linocuts of sharecroppers, fieldworkers or, more symbolically, survivors depicted the lived realities of Black men and women, while her prints of Harriet Tubman and Phyllis Wheatley constructed a new national history. Catlett's body of work shares both aesthetic and theoretical sensibilities with major regional movements and their figures: women sculptors and printmakers working in Europe, including Barbara Hepworth and Käthe Kollwitz; Black American artists operating in an overtly political vein including John Woodrow Wilson and Jacob Lawrence; and members of the modernist Mexican School, including her partner, muralist Francisco Mora.
In the late 1950s Catlett transitioned from printmaking to sculpture, creating softer, more sensuous figures of seated and reclining women or mothers cradling their children. However, she remained a ceaseless activist, especially for the rights of Black and Mexican women, and believed in making fine art accessible to all. This publication commemorates the first institutional survey of her work.

Eminem as emblem of America throughout Alex Da Corte's oeuvre

This book exhaustively documents Philadelphia-based installation artist Alex Da Corte's (born 1980) preoccupation with the musician Eminem across four exhibitions. From Detroit to Cologne, from an artist-run space to a major international museum, Da Corte's work parallels Eminem's career through his thirties, reappearing, evolving alongside America, explaining more of himself each time. Eminem's place in culture and his role in Da Corte's practice, as well as the larger story of American identity, is explored through recent and commissioned essays by Hilton Als, Charlie Fox, William Pym, Martine Syms and Moritz Wesseler, as well as manipulated found texts and an extensive Q&A with Danish filmmaker J rgen Leth, whose 1982 work Andy Warhol Eating a Hamburger strongly informs the discussion. True Life is both an uncompromising reference book and a work of fantasy.

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's landmark essay in decolonial thought is animated for a new generation with art by Estefan a Pe afiel Loaiza

In 1985, Indian scholar Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (born 1942) published what would become a landmark essay in the academic study of colonialism. Can the Subaltern Speak? interrogates the obstructions that prevent certain subjects from being heard and how this state-enforced silence maintains the degradation of those at the peripheries of society. Over three decades later, Spivak's piece is perhaps even more compelling in its affirmation of Marxism's relevance to contemporary decolonial thought. This volume revives Spivak's text for yet another generation of thinkers, placed in dialogue with artwork by Ecuadorian artist Estefan a Pe afiel Loaiza (born 1978). Loaiza's preoccupation with questions of occlusion and the need for and absence of image makes for an art series that shares a clear kinship with Spivak's line of reasoning. Loaiza's visual vocabulary echoes and refracts the central ideas put forth by Spivak in a compelling new interpretation of this essential text.

Flavin's gaseous images illuminate the landscape of the Kunstmuseum Basel

Legendary minimalist artist Dan Flavin (1933-96) began working with fluorescent light tubes in the early 1960s. Arranged in situations, he would then further develop them into series and large-scale installations. His pieces often included dedications, making reference in their titles to concrete events, such as wartime atrocities or police violence, or to other artists. The colors and dimensions of the materials he used were prescribed by industrial production. Flooded in light, viewers themselves become part of the works. The space, along with the objects within it, are set in relation to each other and thus become immersive experiences of art, triggering sensual, almost spiritual experiences. Flavin liberated color from the two-dimensionality of painting. This catalog looks at Flavin's oeuvre in a less familiar setting: the indoor and outdoor spaces of the Kunstmuseum Basel.

Bronstein's joyfully sardonic homage to the world of food and food production

With 35 recent drawings and sculptures by Pablo Bronstein (born 1977) covering every aspect of food presentation, Cuisine spins a narrative of surreal excess. Factories, foodstuffs and utensils are depicted in Bronstein's fanciful style, inspired by the intricacies of historical prints and cookbooks.

A close study of eight buildings de Carlo constructed as part of his lifelong engagement with the rural Italian town of Urbino

Italian architect, planner, writer and educator Giancarlo de Carlo (1919-2005) first visited the small Italian hill town Urbino in 1951 to carry out a minor refurbishment of the offices of the rector of the university. His ambitions quickly expanded, and he proposed a master plan to reconstruct the town through new buildings and renovations that melded with Urbino's social fabric.
This book is part of the Everything without Content series by Kersten Geers, Jelena Pancevac and Joris Kritis, and it presents the work that Giancarlo de Carlo built in Urbino in the 1960s and '70s, in the shadow of his involvement in Team 10 debates that challenged modernist doctrines on architecture and urbanism. The eight buildings in this book are presented through drawings by students of the Academy of Architecture USI, Mendriso, and photographs by Stefano Graziani.

A new expanded edition documenting the seminal notation theory instrumental to dance, behavioral science and more fields

Developed by Noa Eshkol and Abraham Wachmann in the 1950s, Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation (EWMN) is a polyphonic notation system treating different parts of the body as separate instruments. This new edition of the original 1958 publication embeds EWMN in contemporary discourses on dance and movement.

A cultural, aesthetic and biological history of wool, from ancient extraction methods to contemporary textile design

In this volume, the Milan-based multidisciplinary design studio Formafantasma investigates the history, ecology and global dynamics of the extraction and production of wool. A wide range of artworks, agricultural and cultural objects, photographs, videos and other materials demonstrate how wool is more than simply a raw material for the design and textile industries. The book accompanies an exhibition of the same name, Oltre Terra, which reimagines the display mode of the diorama. Rather than representing a static scene from nature, here it becomes an installation containing six life-size reproductions of different sheep breeds, a carpet made from discarded wool fibers, as well as documents, films, by-products of manufacturing processes and various types of organic matter. All these elements are presented side by side to counteract persisting categorizations that separate human from animal and product from biological matter.

In a complex tangle of past and present, contemporary artists engage with the legacies of non-Western 20th-century counterculture movements

Increasingly, contemporary artists are returning to the visual traditions of the non-European avant-garde movements that opposed Western Modernism from the 1920s to the 1970s. Avantgarde & Liberation explores this phenomenon, delving into the motivations for artists to align themselves with decolonial avant-gardes in Africa, Asia and the Black Atlantic region, and to take a stand against current forms of racism, fundamentalism or neocolonialism. The book gathers a selection of work by 25 artists from across Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas to reflect on this question of temporality, as well as the possibility of engaging with old and new liberation movements.
Artists include: Omar Ba, Radcliffe Bailey, Yto Barrada, Mohamed Bourouissa, Diedrick Brackens, Serge Attukwei Clottey, william cordova, Leslie Hewitt, Zoe Leonard, Fahamu Pecou, Cauleen Smith, Vivan Sundaram, Moffat Takadiwa.

Tender yet compelling, Johnson's portraits of herself, her friends and her relatives are touchstones of Black figuration

A founding member of the Black British Arts Movement, Claudette Johnson (born 1959) creates large-scale drawings of Black people that are intimate and powerful. Working across many mediums, Johnson seeks, in her own words, to tell a different story about our presence in this country.

Rahola's latest architectural designs, including his partnership with Jorge Vidal, from Barcelona to the Balearic Islands

This monograph includes the latest works built by the Barcelona studio of Spanish architect Víctor Rahola (born 1945), from the expansion of the library of the Biology Faculty of the University of Barcelona, to wineries in Mont-Ras and various hotels in the Balearic Islands.

How cultural associations with thread shape our perceptions of fate, life and power

Inspired by ancient myths and legends that still echo in contemporary culture, Threads deals with the symbolic meanings that thread holds for human life. Works of contemporary art by Louise Bourgeois, Antonio Tempesta and others invite us to engage with the meaning of threads, and to interweave them with personal experience.