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For more than 30 years, the German artist Isa Genzken (born 1948) has been amassing a body of work in sculpture, installation, photography, collage and film. As one of Germany's brightest stars in the art world, she was well suited to represent her country at the Venice Biennale in 2007, an occasion which this volume commemorates. The title of this book and of her installation at the German pavilion plays with the word's associations as a global and globally contested resource, through a series of sculptural installations invoking in particular America's dependence on oil.

Art galleries have been, and continue to be, enormously influential in aesthetic discourse. They have launched the world's most celebrated artists and nurtured its key movements. Where would Pop Art be without Leo Castelli? The New York School without the Guggenheim Jeune? And what would Fluxus have become without Ren» Block's commitment? International Art Galleries is a star-studded, photo-filled look at the art world's star-makers, the first book to examine the modern gallery phenomenon, offering over 75 profiles of galleries from around the world, and portraits of their key players arranged by decade. American readers will recognize Art of This Century, Betty Parsons, Leo Castelli, Marian Goodman, Paula Cooper, American Fine Arts, Co., Gagosian, Deitch Projects (where Jeffrey Deitch is shown working nonchalantly with a naked model splayed across his desk, her butt to the camera), Gavin Brown's Enterprise and the Project. Other international players range from Galerie Iris Clert in Paris to Tomio Koyama in Tokyo and kurimanzutto in Mexico City. Lavishly illustrated throughout with photographs of artists, gallerists, installations and events, this comprehensive history of the modern gallery system offers an intriguing and engaging angle on the development of art since 1945.

The Glaswegian artist-duo Joanne Tatham (born 1971) and Tom O'Sullivan (born 1967) have collaborated since 1995, on works that seem at once austere and folksy, such as large painted geometrical shapes--cubes, pyramids--interposed in public settings. Tatham and O'Sullivan have published a number of smaller artist's books themselves, but this is the first comprehensive overview of their complex and multi-faceted oeuvre. Beautifully designed, and with texts ranging from glossaries to poems to more conventional commentary, it immediately seduces the reader into Tatham and O'Sullivan's quirky world.

The Nahmad Collection showcases over two generations' worth of collecting by the iconic Nahmad family of Monaco. Over 100 works are featured in this catalogue and its accompanying exhibition at Kunsthaus Zürich, including pieces by Dalí, Degas, Ernst, Kandinsky, Matisse, Miró, Modigliani, Monet, Picasso, Renoir and Seurat, among others.

Miao Xiaochun (born 1964) is best known for his large-scale panoramic photographs--digital assemblies of modern Chinese cities and time-honored monuments. In recent years, the artist has focused his attention on the western art historical canon, epitomized by his comical computer simulation "The Last Judgment in Cyberspace," in which Miao replaces the figures of Michelangelo's iconic fresco with his own image.

Czech photographer Katharina Sieverding (born 1944) recently undertook the first comprehensive sorting of the picture archive she has been assembling for over 40 years. She edited not for the quality of the negatives, but rather for the fragmentary byproducts of the analogue enlargement process. This catalogue presents montages of chance details from over 1,800 photographs.

Painter of sharp-edged abstractions, digital images and large fiberboard environments and parcel-like sculptures, Olaf Holzapfel (born 1969) makes works that might be formal evocations of Gilles Deleuze's folds and "deterritorializations"; their appeal lies as much in their abstraction of cerebral processes as in their material facture. The Nomadic Criterion is a survey of his work from the past decade.

Gerhard Hoehme (1920-1989) was a protagonist of 1950s German Action Painting, and an early interpreter of the picture plane as an "energy field." In the mid-1960s he began to incorporate sewing patterns, tablecloth, foil and colored polyethylene into his pictures. Restlessness Grows surveys the arc of Hoehme's career.

Photographer Stephan Kaluza walked the 50-kilometer route of the former Berlin wall--between Berlin-Schildow in the north and Berlin-Schönefeld in the south--taking photographs of the wall's absence, or "ghost" at one-meter intervals. Kaluza then assembled these 30,000 pictures into a single seamless image, reproduced in this fascinating monograph.

The American artist Rita McBride (born 1960) has built an international reputation for producing sculptures that initially appear to be abstract geometric forms, but which on closer inspection prove to be derived from everyday objects and structures such as cars, towers and architectural items. McBride is concerned not only with sculptural objects, but with the situations and setting that arise from them, through performances, texts and their civic utility. Public sculpture lies at the heart of her practice, and this volume--the first major survey of McBride's career--addresses a body of work spanning almost 20 years, collecting insightful commentary and over 300 photographs of her monumental sculptures and installations.

The first monograph on the Berlin- and London-based collective Artists Anonymous, this publication examines the group's magnum opus, The Apocalyptic Warriors, which updates for our times the themes of famine, war and death traditionally associated with the Four Horsemen theme. Depicting drugs, environmental damage and AIDS, the work is incarnated in paintings, photographs, sculptures and videos.

Despite his untimely death at the age of 42, Los Angeles-based artist Jason Rhoades (1965-2007) left behind a large body of sculpture that seized the imagination of a generation of artists, curators and collectors in the 1990s. In this substantial new survey, Cologne-based independent curator Eva Meyer-Hermann traces the unfolding of Rhoades'work and provides revelatory interpretations of his large and intricate installations. Rhoades' art has its roots in the late 1980s and early 1990s L.A. scene fostered by Richard Jackson and Paul McCarthy at the University of California, Los Angeles, at a time when the Southern Californian Performance scene in general had begun to open itself up to international exhibitions and the art market. Like his predecessors, Rhoades included performative elements in his installations and produced epic thematic cycles, drawing on mass culture to develop a dense weave of images and forms. This is the first comprehensive study of Rhoades' vertiginously sprawling oeuvre.

Taking collaged newspaper for his canvas, Tony Swain paints landscapes and abstracted patterns, fastening his works directly onto the gallery walls, to create an effect that verges on newsprint sculpture. The layers of newspaper text and imagery blend and interlock with Swain's acrylic strokes, creating wonderfully elusive images that oscillate in and out of comprehension. This elegantly produced monograph surveys recent works.

Confronting the overlap between patriarchy and architecture head on, Monica Bonvicini (born 1965) has attracted international attention with her video "Wallfucking" (1995)--in which a naked woman rubs her genitals against a wall protuberance--and with her site-specific installations using chains, steel and leather. "Architecture is the ultimate erotic act," asserts an installation in this monograph; "carry it to excess."

This artist's book, conceived by Tobias Rehberger (born 1966), contains over 300 pages of images, based on views from an installation at the Hans Thoma Museum Bernau in Germany titled "The Great Disarray Swindle." For this work, the artist rigged the space with miles of cable and lamps in a looping disarray of twists and entanglements.

This volume collects the complete sculptural work of Jonathan Meese--which tend to quickly spill over into paintings, installation, video and collage. Meese is the maker of his own cosmos, which is inhabited by Caligula, Stalin, the Marquis de Sade, Richard Wagner, Balthus and Dr. No, to name only a few. Pursuing this cosmos, Meese has now rediscovered Atlantis and here reaches "The Arch-State of Atlantisis."

German artist Leni Hoffmann (born 1962) revisits the potentials of modernist and avant-garde (particularly Russian Constructivist) painting, but using materials such as concrete, ceramic and plastic tarps. Returning to the aspirations of El Lissitzky and Alexander Rodchenko, Hoffmann in turn questions the social neutrality of art, through colorful site-specific installations that extend painting into architectural space and everyday life.

Yang Shaobin (born 1963) is one of the most prominent Chinese artists of his generation. His paintings are characterized by observations of his contemporaries, whom he captures with often drastically exaggerated expressions. This book contains a selection of his most important paintings from 1996 to 2009.

Since its inception in 1998, the Berlin Biennale has developed into a primary forum for contemporary art. This sixth Biennale is curated by Kathrin Rhomberg and is themed around the idea of contemporaneity itself. Among the 50 participating artists are Phil Collins, Shannon Ebner, Cameron Jamie, Roman Ondak, Hans Schabus, Gedi Sibony and Anna Witt.

Before studying at the Academy of the Visual Arts in Munich, Benjamin Bergmann (born 1968) trained as a wood sculptor for church decoration. From 2001 onwards, Bergmann devised environments using materials ranging from repurposed windows to bicycles--self-contained dream worlds that exemplify Harald Szeemann's concept of individual mythologies.