Bøger udgivet af Art and Theory

What does it mean to remember through art? The anthology Public Memory, Public Art Reflections on Monuments and Memorial Art Today presents 25 texts that explore and discuss memorial art in our common spaces.

Tham & Videgård - On: Architecture is the most comprehensive publication to date, includes a broad selection of built, unbuilt and ongoing projects from the studio's over twenty years in practice.  

The meagre materials contrast with the richness suggested in their multiplicity. An almost exalted merging of materials including textile scraps, coloured and dyed paper, sheets of painted paper and bits of labels and fragments torn out of Italian Vogue, perhaps a few seemingly forgotten chalk stumps.

The book derives from Collectively, an international forum with 80 participants on the art of thinking, working and living together organized at Konstnärsnämnden in Stockholm, 24-26 May 2019. Collectively is a concept developed by Council and commissioned by Iaspis, curated by Grégory Castéra.   

What are the limits of automation and what is the potential of virtuality? When is visuality empowering and when is self-monitoring out of control? Auto investigates how the everyday digital photography of our times challenges notions of autobiography, interactivity, and democracy.

#selfies documents Harry Woodrows ongoing project of taking selfies whilst wearing a specially constructed reflective helmet.

The recognition of the heritage of a culture of exile constitutes a new perspective from which social, spatial and political structures can be imagined and experienced, beyond the idea of the nation-state. This book-dossier attempts to deactivate the claims of objectivity and universalism contained in the conventions followed by UNESCO in determining World Heritage status.

What is truth and who speaks it? In the exhibition I Always Tell the Truth at Bonniers Konsthall in 2018, Dora García explores the concept of truth through film, drawing, text, and performance.

Text på svenska och engelska. Den första resan till Irland ägde rum i mitten av sextiotalet och sedan dess har Per L-B Nilsson regelbundet återvänt med sin kamera. Merparten av bilderna i detta urval fotograferades i Dublin 1967, men har också tillkommit under sjuttio- och åttiotalet i Galway, Tralee, Tubercurry och Derry. Chicagobilderna tillkom åren 1981 84, i samband med att Per L-B Nilsson s

References to art history, and painting in particular, frequently appear in Friberg's work, along with enigmatic spaces and plays on the aesthetics of light. This book gathers diverse examples from her body of work, telling stories that are both subversive and ambiguous in nature, and which draw on our inherent curiosity as viewers.

In Masterpieces/Masterstrokes the Dutch art historian and art theoretician Frank Reijnders takes specific artworks in their concrete form as the point of departure for a number of theoretical considerations. The recurring question throughout the book is: what is it that makes certain works of art masterful in and of themselves.

Annika Elisabeth von Hausswolff's images are often based on the themes of spatiality, psychoanalysis, crime photography and global capitalism. She belongs to the generation of Swedish artists who emerged in the early 1990s, inspired visually by postmodernist art and theory and with a profound interest in the photographic image, manifested through a predilection for analogue technology.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Insomnia at Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden in 2017. Participating artists included: Kate Cooper, Leif Elggren, Julia Feyrer & Tamara Henderson, Carsten Höller, Katarina Löfström and Rafaël Rozendaal.

Drömmarna is a publication in English and Swedish that comprises both newly produced work and earlier paintings from Fänge's extensive body of work. Published in collaboration with Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden, on the occasion of the exhibition Drömmarna in 2018.

This book constitutes a series of entrances into an artistic research project exploring how queer community may emerge through photographic acts. Conducted through two artworks depicting queer lives in Russia State of Mind and At the Time of the Third Reading the research looks at possibilities to acknowledge identities and simultaneously challenge what may be taken as the norm.

Anna Kleberg Tham is a Swedish photographer, filmmaker and installation artist whose work looks at existential questions through everyday situations. 99-19 A Retrospective covers twenty years of Kleberg Tham's practice, from 1999 to 2019, and includes new essays as well as collecting a range of previously published texts on her work. The book comes with with a specially designed bookmark.

Encompassing twenty selected design projects that range from buildings and interiors to furniture and objects, this monograph is interlaced with a series of essays that give an insight into Martin-Löf's working process and provide context for the resulting productions.