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’.

Susan Hiller: The Provisional Texture of Reality

Selected Texts and Talks, 1977 - 2007

£11.00

A former anthropologist, Susan Hiller has been a pioneer in exploring the arena between the art domain and the world in general. Her involvment in art and feminsim, her postcolonial analyses of cultural politics are foregrounded...

A C I: Art Catalogue Index

From 1780 to Nowadays

£35.00

Art Catalogue Index (A.C.I.) aims to provide a comprehensive list of all the catalogues raisonnés and reviews on artists born between 1780 and the postwar period.

Concrete Architecture in Finland

Photographed by Jussi Tiainen

£32.00

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

£32.50

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.

Home Lands - Land Marks

Contemporary Art from South Africa

£35.00

Home Lands – Land Marks is an exhibition (May - June 2008) of new and recent work from seven leading South African artists at Haunch of Venison, London, and the first in London to focus on contemporary South African art since 1995

Mark Wallinger

£25.00

Comprehensive monograph on British artist Mark Wallinger, winner of the 2007 Turner Prize, including all of his important pieces from the past years.

The Way Things Are

Works from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection

£20.00

The Way Things Are explores the question of artistic representation of today’s increasingly precarious work and social spheres within advanced economies.

Tal R

Adieu Interessant

£86.00

Danish artist Tal R inspires with his artistic changeableness and his familiarity with different media

Andrea Geyer

Spiral Lands / Chapter 1

£36.00

Spiral Lands represents with panoramic landscape photographs Geyer’s view on southwestern North America and focuses on a long lasting fight about social justice in America.

Martin Barré

£35.50

Martin Barré is considered by many to be the precursor of minimal art in France. His oeuvre is exceptionally varied and always dominated by the necessity of reduction and purification

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.

Access to Israel 1

Israeli Contemporary Art

£16.00

Is it possible to understand Israel? An exhibition of contemporary artists' work at The Frankfurt Jewish Museum in 2008 has created a new platform to access this question, 60 years after the state of Israel was formally established.

Stephan Balkenhol

UmRaum Architektur und Objekt

£15.00

Since the 1980s, Stephan Balkenhol has created some of the most important and individual contemporary sculpture. He has managed to move forward, regardless of fashion or zeitgeist, that which appeared to be passé: figurative views of people and animals.

Tatsuo Miyajima

Time Train

£48.00

For Miyajima, the endless repetition of the numbers is a comment on the eternal cycle of life. He avoids zero, as it is a symbol of the absolute and also of nothingness and stasis.

Ad Absurdum

Energies of the Absurd from Modernism till today

£20.00

Taking the Absurd as the point of rupture between art, society and observation opens up perspectives that reach well beyond the realm of art, and which lead to far-reaching questions

Bernd Lieven

Gardens and Spaces (Gärten und Räume)

£24.00

The painter Bernd Lieven makes use of the – apparent – capability of photography to produce a reliable illustration of reality.

Esperanza Spierling

Beyond the Picture

£14.00

Spierling’s interior views of libraries, coliseums, entrance halls, swimming baths and waiting rooms are locations of public life, characterised by anonymity and functionality, signified by fleetingness and bleakness.

Hans Günter Flieg

Documentary Photography from Brazil (1940–1970)

£33.00

Flieg's works are evidence of the progressive changes in Brazil, as it became a modern industrial nation, via portraits, landscapes and architectural images.

Kiki Smith

Her Home

£26.00

Starting from a silk embroidery from the 18th century Smith developed a scenario consisting of different narrative threads that revolve around the theme of the ‘unmarried woman’.

Marc Lüders

East Side Gallery

£22.00

The new series of works by Marc Lüders consists of twenty-eight 'photo-pictures': works that integrate photographs taken by the artist at the East Side Gallery in Berlin near Oberbaum Bridge.

Muntean / Rosenblum

£34.00

The paintings, collages, films and installations of Markus Muntean and Adi Rosenblum provide a very specific view of 'young' people

Robert Delaunay

Hommage à Blériot

£32.00

Robert Delaunay (1885–1941) was one of the first modern artists to take the final step into abstraction, directed by the pure power of colour and by the ideas coming from theories of perception.

Beat Streuli

BXL

£25.00

Streuli's central motif is the urban environment and its inhabitants. But his photographs are neither documentary nor conceptual: rather they lead us to a form of aesthetics that one could describe as the 'glamour of the usual'.

Tony Oursler

Works 1997 – 2007

£40.00

While Oursler’s position as a forerunner in video art is well established, his two-dimensional works have always been an essential part of his creative process