The fifth issue of Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau’s new periodical focuses on the role of the tropics as an ideal of modernism. Torsten Blume explores aspects of nudity in modernism, Zvi Efrat writes about Arieh Sharon’s “tropical architecture” in Nigeria, Brenda Danilowitz proves the influence of pre-Colombian art on Anni Alber’s work with textiles, Carola Ebert and Stefan Locke offer a cultural history of the bungalow as a global architectural phenomenon, Regina Bittner describes the transcultural exchange between Indian and European modernism and Marion von Osten analyses the insidious propaganda used by the Nazis to discredit the Weißenhof settlement in Stuttgart as an “Arab village”. Also includes articles on information design after Otto Neurath, Erich Borchert and his fate in Moscow and love affairs at the studio complex in Dessau.

Language: English-Deutsch
Pages: 152
Size: 21,5 × 30
Binding: Softcover
ISBN:978-3-940064-68-4

Price: €8.00

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Featuring:

Glanz und Elend des Status ‚Europäische Kulturhauptstadt’. Daniel Winkler
Guy Debords Spektakelkritik. Stephan Grigat
Zoe Hatziyannakis: Secrets & Crises. Frédéric Singer
„Wir wollen keine Hilfestellung fürs Leben im Kapitalismus anbieten.“ CIT Collective, Elke Rauth, Christoph Laimer
Ewige Außenseiter?. Anne Erwand
Break on Through (to the Other Side). Sigrid Verhovsek
Street Art zwischen Revolte, Repression und Kommerzialität. Jorinde Reznikoff, KP Flügel
„Woanders und vor Ort“. Marlene Hausegger, Barbara Holub, Paul Rajakovics
Serie: Geschichte der Urbanität:Postmoderne VI: Vorboten der Postmoderne. Manfred Russo

Besprechungen:
Das Verschwinden des Objekts und die neue Architektur+. André Krammer
Sprung über die Elbe – Inselhopping oder nachhaltige Aktion?. Katharina Held
Das Wissen der Architektur explizit machen. Robert Temel
„Unter Hitler war nicht alles schlecht“. Nicole Theresa Raab
Sind wir schon abgesoffen oder noch zu retten? – Die Venedig Biennale 2013. Iver Ohm
Vom elitären Amusement zum urbanen Lebensstil. Elisabeth Haid
Filmisches Aufbegehren und städtischer Ausnahmezustand. Thomas Ballhausen
Nachkriegsarchitektur in der BRD. Frédéric Singer

Language: Deutsch
Pages: 68
Size: 21 × 27,5
Binding: Softcover

Price: €7.00

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Xoco, the Kid Who Loved Being Bored. Mario Garcia Torres, Tomoko Hirasawa. Taka Ishii Gallery.

Written by Mario Garcia Torres, illustrated by Tomoko Hirasawa.

Hardcover, 88 pages, 41 illustrations, text in English, 19.8 x 13.4 cm, published in 2013.

30€

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Although the Californian conceptual artist Robert Kinmont’s work dates back to the late 1960s and the beginning of 1970s, this is the first monograph ever. Kinmont is primarily concerned with his environment, the Californian landscape. He works with simple, mostly natural materials, and places them in relation to his body and his life. Probably his best known work, entitled 8 Natural Handstands (1969/2005), a series of photographs showing the artist doing handstands in abandoned landscapes, on the edges of cliffs, river beds, forests and deserts, was illustrated in Lucy Lippard’s famous book Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972. Not so long afterwards, Kinmont retreated from art practice for the following three decades. Recent solo exhibitions in Glarus and Bremen have been the occasion for a long overdue publication. Kinmont is back.


With texts by Alexandra Blättler, Stefanie Böttcher, Robert Kinmont, Aoife Rosenmeyer, Sabine Rusterholz Petko


Language: English-Deutsch
Pages: 80
Size: 16,5 x 19,8 cm
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 9788867490660

Price: €18.00

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Ten Fundamental Questions of Curating. Jens Hoffmann (Ed.). Mousse Publishing.

In Ten Fundamental Questions of Curating ten distinguished contemporary curators—Jessica Morgan, Juan A. Gaitán, Chus Martínez, Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, Elena Filipovic, Maria Lind, João Ribas, Peter Eleey, Adriano Pedrosa and Dieter Roelstraete—pose and then propose answers to a series of key questions related to curating, art and exhibition making today: What Is a Curator? What Is the Public? What Is Art? What About Collecting? What Is an Exhibition? Why Mediate Art? What To Do with the Contemporary? What About Responsibility? What Is the Process? How About Pleasure?
The book, which began as a series of ten commissioned essays for Mousse magazine written over a period of two years, in 2011 to 2012, contains a text by Jens Hoffmann—Deputy Director and Head of Exhibitions and Public Programs of the Jewish Museum in New York and editor of the publication—and Milovan Farronato, Director of the Fiorucci Art Trust.
Ten Fundamental Questions of Curating is a project published by Mousse in collaboration with the Fiorucci Art Trust.

Language: English
Pages : 148
Size : 15,5 x 24 cm

20 €
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Matera is a magazine published in Bogotá, Colombia. The first issue came out on august 2009 and since then 5 issues came out: the first one talks about trousers, the second one about the future, the third about hair, fourth is dedicated to friends and fifth to money. These random subjects are illustrated through photos, writings, drawings and even film stills.

Matera es una revista, claro. Se publica en Bogotá, Colombia. El primer número salió en agosto del 2009 y el quinto salió en febrero del 2012. El primero hablaba de pantalones, el segundo del futuro, el tercero del pelo, el cuarto de amigos y el quinto de dinero. Los diferentes temas escogidos para cada número son ilustrados a través de fotos, escritos literarios, dibujos e incluso fotogramas.

Matera 1
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Matera 2
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Matera 4
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Matera 5
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Published on occasion of Art Basel 2013 by Motto Books and Chert, Berlin
Design: Maximage
Edition: 1200
Isbn: 9782940524051
D 8€

The Distance of a Day
D 8€
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The Distance of a Day: Maldives (Special edition)
D 30€
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The Distance of a Day: Los Angeles (Special Edition)
D 30€
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The Distance of a Day: Los Angeles and Maldives (Special Edition)
D 50€
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Wor(ld)k In Progress? Joëlle Tuerlinckx. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König.

Foreword
Okwui Enwezor, Dirk Snauwaert, Tom Trevor

In Progress
Dirk Snauwaert

Joëlle Tuerlinckx and the Exhibition
Visual Impressions, Knowledge, Sensations
Julienne Lorz
Illustrated text
Collected images # 1

Everything and Nothing – The Pre-History of Zero
Tom trevor
Illustrated text
Collected images # 2

Joeëlle Tuerlinckx of the Sense of Possibility
Catherine mayeur
illustrated text
Collected images # 3

Index of works and documents

Glossary of terms
Joëlle Tuerlinckx

Bibliography / Authors’ biographies

Colophon

Pages : 344
Language : English
Size : 27.8 x 21.3 cm

45 €
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“Camera Austria International” No. 122 was released in June. We’ll present the issue with artist Stephanie Kiwitt as well as the artist book “Where the sky is darkest, the stars are brightest” by Sven Johne (Edition Camera Austria) in conversation with Maren Lübbke-Tidow and Reinhard Braun. Come celebrate with us at Motto store in Berlin, from 7pm

Photo: Stephanie Kiwitt, from the series: GYM, 2012/13.