Cornerhouse

Dark Places

£4.50

Dark Places uncovers hidden sites of scientific and technical research –the ‘Dark Places’ of the modern world. Includes work by Office of Experiments, Steve Rowell, Beatriz da Costa, and Steve Beard & Victoria Halford.

Alan Uglow

£38.00

Towards the end of the 1960s, against the background of Minimal Art, Colourfield Painting and Concept Art, Uglow began emptying out the pictorial surfaces of his paintings and translating them into monochrome worlds... This is an exhibition catalogue.

Per Kirkeby

Painting

£51.00

This is the third, updated edition of Per Kirkeby's extensive monograph that was first published in 1998. It pays tribute to his paintings spanning more than 40 years.

Bruce Nauman

Collector’s Choice Vol. 10

£37.95

Why is Bruce Nauman numbered among the best-known artists in the world? What it is about his many-sided oeuvre that has fascinated viewers for decades? Eugen Blume discusses these questions dealing with the works produced to date by Nauman

Rudolf Steiner and Contemporary Art

£37.95

Ever since the Rudolf Steiner’s panel drawings were first exhibited in a contemporary art context in the summer of 1992 at the Galerie Monika Sprüth in Cologne, they went on tour as the transmitter of an 'anthroposophy for the future'

Leiko Ikemura

Horizontal

£32.95

The often childlike or apparently girlish figures by this Japanese artist are frequently shown reclining. Whether as clay sculptures with pedestals, on paintings or in drawings, these seemingly vulnerable creatures are generally depicted horizontally

Richard Hamilton

£25.00

To accompany the exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, London, March – April 2010. Richard Hamilton has always been ahead of his time through his use of material from popular culture and new technologies

Billy and Rolonde

Len Grant

£15.00

A heroin addict, an asylum seeker, a homeless alcoholic. For over two years photographer and writer Len Grant joined the unseen and the excluded on their journeys of survival.

Reclaiming East Manchester

Ten Years of Resident-led Regeneration

£10.00

This is the story of how three East Manchester neighbourhoods won £77 million to pull their area back from the brink. It’s a story of how distrust and apathy gave way to co-operation and mutual respect.

Clare Rojas

Pigdy

£12.00

A children's story book about a pigeon, written and illustrated by Clare Rojas.

João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva

On the Movement of the Fried Egg and Other Astronomical Bodies

£7.00

This book accompanies an exhibition by artists Pavia and Gusmao, where the exhibition has been developed alongside the publication. The book is built around three central texts that also offer the starting point for the artists' new work.

Linie Line Linea

Contemporary Drawings

£37.95

Drawing is the most primal form of artistic expression and is being paid attention to today more than ever before. This book unites significant groups of works by 19 artists who live and work in Germany and understanding drawing as the primary focus

Emil Nolde

Reiselust / Wanderlust

£27.95

Emil Nolde travelled often and far: Switzerland and Denmark, France and Italy, Sweden, England, Austria, Belgium and Holland as well as to the South of Spain on the way to Granada.

Historico-naturalis et Archaeologica ex Dale Street

The Natural History & Antiquities of Dale Street in the County of Lancashire

£5.00

Inspired by Gilbert White’s famous book The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne of 1789, Robert Williams & Jack Aylward-Williams set out to explore, collect & present material from Dale Street in Lancaster throughout the year 2007 - 2008.

Brandon Ballengée

Malamp: The Occurrence of Deformities in Amphibians

£15.95

The environmental artist and ecological researcher Brandon Ballengée possibly comes closest to an idealised synthesis between art and science. His artistic practice is immersed in the study of biodiversity, ecological change and global species decline.

Jennifer Allora / Guillermo Calzadilla

£25.00

The production and use of sound is central to all the work of Allora and Calzadilla. In a recent series of installations documented in this book they explore the continuum between noise and its structuring through music.

Alberto Giacometti

£31.00

The Swiss-born sculptor/painter Alberto Giacometti (1901 – 1966) is best known for his bronzes depicting ghostly and attenuated figures, which made him a key member of the Surrealist movement.

Avant-garde in the Bloc

£17.00

Avant-garde in the Bloc is a publication devoted to an eponymous conference dedicated to the oeuvre and studio of Henryk Stazewski (1894 – 1988) and Edward Krasinski (1925 – 2004) and the founding of the Institute of the Avant-garde

Dorothea von Hantelmann

How to Do Things with Art

£14.00

At the heart of How to Do Things with Art lies the question of art's relevance to society. How does art become politically or socially significant? This book attempts to answer this question on a theoretical level

Valentin Carron

Learning from Martigny

£23.00

In Learning from Martigny, Valentin Carron offers a photo-documentation of his surroundings — the sources for some of his works —intertwined with images of his sculptures or paintings.

Marine Hugonnier

£25.00

Marine Hugonnier’s work, which she describes herself as 'a politics of vision', is rooted in the observation of the fact that what we apprehend visually depends on the point of view we adopt.

Gian Paolo Minelli

The Skin of the Cities (La piel de las ciudades)

£39.00

With its carefully chosen pictures, this large-format book provides an overview of Gian Paolo Minelli's work over the last decade. The photographs were taken in thematic series, often over an extended period.

Not to Play with Dead Things

£17.00

From its Futurist and Dadaist outbursts in the 1910s and 1920s to Body art in the 1970s and the new theatrical forms of the 2000s, the history of performance art is seemingly built on the same set of elements

Elaine Sturtevant

The Razzle-Dazzle of Thinking

£25.00

Since the mid-1970s, Sturtevant, a key artistic and, today, mythic figure for young contemporary artists, has been working on aesthetic, political, and media issues. Dealing with the concepts of appropriation, value, and originality

Christine and Irene Hohenbüchler

...regarding as...

£26.00

The twin sisters Christine and Irene Hohenbüchler, first shown internationally at Documenta X in 1997 and then at the 1999 Venice Biennale, create jointly-made artworks in all media