Cornerhouse

Inventory

Losing Finding Collecting: Vol 6 No 1

£7.00

This new issue of Inventory is predominantly devoted to the text and background research for the feature-length Inventory video essay, ‘The City as Will and Idea’.

Concrete Architecture in Finland

Photographed by Jussi Tiainen

£10.00

Architectural photographer Jussi Tiainen has deftly captured the versatile nature of concrete. All the photographs for this book depict recent high-quality concrete architecture – all of them significant works by Finnish architects.

The Ark of Architecture

Selected Writings of Malcolm Quantrill

£10.00

This is both a reader and a re-reader of an acute architectural eye and mind: Malcolm Quantrill, fedora-user, bon vivant, architectural scholar and wanderer extraordinaire has held an unusual place in architectural scholarship over the last 50 years.

Vital

A Celebration of Chinese Art

£18.95

A collection of essays, thoughts, stories and articles that interrogate our understanding of Live Art created by artists of Chinese descent. The book is equally useful as an academic reference book, or an introduction to those new to this area.

Certainty Suspended

Anne Charnock

£6.00

Certainty Suspended investigates the text art of Anne Charnock who reveals her self-doubts about her art-making. Michael Corris makes an impressive and audacious sweep through language-in-art from the 1960s to the present day.

Peripherique

Mohamed Bourouissa

£8.50

Mohamed Bourouissa’s photo series Périphérique stages moments of tension and the power relationships which exist within the ghetto-like suburbs of Paris (les banlieues). Although skirting a documentary aesthetic and using young inhabitants of...

Unfinished Business

Mark Wilsher

£7.50

In the culmination of his fellowship at the Henry Moore Institute, artist, writer and curator Mark Wilsher experimented with images and texts relating to abstract sculpture of the 1960s and 1970s.

Taking Shape

Finding Sculpture in the Decorative Arts

£25.00

Drawing upon the rich collections of Temple Newsam House in West Yorkshire and the J. Paul Getty Museum in California, this title focuses on the inventive imagination of Baroque and Rococo that dominated sculpture and the decorative arts in the C17/18th.

Deodorant Type

Sculptures by Gwon Osang

£20.00

A catalogue to accompany Gwon Osang’s first UK solo exhibition at Manchester Art Gallery, focusing on his Deodorant Type series.

John Moores 25

Contemporary Painting Prize

£9.95

A colour illustrated catalogue of all 40 exhibiting artists within the John Moores 25 Contemporary Painting Prize, including the selected five prize-winners. Now in its 50th year, this biennial prize is the UK’s largest contemporary painting competition.

Geometry Wars

Juan Bolivar

£9.95

Bolivar’s paintings hover between the ridiculous and the sublime. They allude to other worlds beyond the picture frame; however, under closer inspection he shows a battered side to modernism’s promise of a new world. Published alongside an exhibition.

Robin Rhode

Who Saw Who

£20.00

This book marks Rhode's first solo exhibition in Great Britain. A major new talent on the international art scene, Rhode has developed a growing reputation for brilliantly inventive performances, photographs and drawings, and for video animations...

Margaret Mellis

A Life in Colour

£15.00

A Life in Colour celebrates the life and career of Suffolk-based artist Margaret Mellis, from the early collages and representational works, to the abstract reliefs, culminating in the magnificent driftwood constructions.

David Ireland

Sculptures, Paintings, Drawings

£12.00

This catalogue accompanies the first UK solo exhibition of American West Coast conceptual and installation artist David Ireland at Karsten Schubert, London, June - July 2008

Laura Padgett

Seeing Things

£14.95

One of the main principles explored in Laura Padgett’s most recent work is the diptych. These photographic pairs are sometimes composed seamlessly, sometimes with a thin space in between

Stuart Murray

Bucharest

£8.00

Stuart Murray's work is highly observational with a strong element of social commentary. Among the themes he has explored/is exploring are gentrification, menial jobs and survival tactics earning, homelessness and begging, drinking and pub culture

Jitish Kallat

Universal Recipient

£20.00

Published on the occasion of the artist's first exhibition with Haunch of Venison, Universal Recipient presents Kallat's engagement with the city of his birth, Mumbai

Its Not Hard

Explorations of Live Art

£8.00

This title is a humorous and exploratory look at the issues and problems with contemporary live art (sometimes defined as ‘…the merging between performance and visual art’). It was curated / edited / organized / done by artist Anthony Schrag

Blasted Allegories

Works from the Ringier Collection

£30.00

One of the most important contemporary art collections in Switzerland, the Ringier Collection is presented here through a selection of more than 400 works from atists ranging from John Baldessari, Richard Prince and Fischli/Weiss to Urs Fischer...

Keith Coventry

Anaesthesia as Aesthetic

£18.00

Keith Coventry's exhibition Anaesthesia as Aesthetic includes three new and recent groups of work

William Forsythe

Suspense

£25.00

William Forsythe is one of the most significant and innovative choreographers working in the area of contemporary dance today. While director of the Ballet Frankfurt and now, with The Forsythe Company, he has transcended the boundaries of the genre

Stefan Brüggemann

£17.00

The Mexican artist Stefan Brüggemann is interested in 'words that become pictures' and 'pictures that become words'. In this way he questions the idea of transferring or mirroring information.

Victor Man

£17.00

This first monograph documents Man's artistic output, which ranges from painting to sculpture, from installation to wallpainting and printing. Using these tools he builds installations in which the motif of memory intertwines with other major themes.

Pietro Roccasalva

£17.00

This first monograph is dedicated to the work of Pietro Roccasalva, one of the most singular and promising artists in the post-Cattelan generation in Italy. His work is a visionary and erudite mix of conceptual rigour and hallucinatory extravaganza.

Hanspeter Hofmann

Bonheur Automatique II

£13.00

The result of a double installation at Kunsthaus Graz and the Villa Arson in Nice is documented in this publication. Half-reportage and half-recreation of the overlaying effects of this experiment, with graphics, painting, perfomance, and installation.