Essays and studies by the pioneering Swedish art guru 
This volume presents the first English-language anthology of writings from Swedish art critic and museum director Ulf Linde (1929-2013). Linde played a key role in the early years of Moderna Museet, facilitating a major coup on its behalf: In 1961, he produced the first replica of Marcel Duchamp's Large Glass, approved and signed by the artist himself. While Linde was a major voice in Sweden for over six decades, he is little known outside of Scandinavia. 
This anthology rectifies this oversight, compiling Linde's most rigorous and illuminating essays: studies of Swedish painters and other modern masters such as Picasso, Matisse, Picabia and Giacometti, as well as a bevy of theoretical texts including his ambitious final essay on the art of drawing. The volume is generously illustrated and features an introduction by Olle Granath, also a former director of Moderna Museet.

Essays from a Lifetime in the Arts

Arts & Photography

Linde, Ulf

History & Criticism

Walther Konig Verlag

“The paintings in Pearl Lines are a joyous combination of the carefree and the committed. Their sensibility is earnest, and their carnivalesque style engaging without looking labored.” –Artforum 
Everything starts with a line, says Georgia-born, Brooklyn-based artist Walter Price (born 1989). Indeed, this volume, published in conjunction with his first UK exhibition, celebrates drawing as the foundation of Price’s practice. Employing a highly developed sense of line and composition, Price expands the mark-making possibilities of colored pencil, graphite, marker and oil pastel in constantly varying gestures paired with collage and appropriated printmaking methods. Quotidien motifs such as bathtubs, sofas and automobiles float amid bright fields of color. Price’s work blurs the boundaries between collective history and individual memory, figuration and abstraction, depicting ambiguous urban and domestic landscapes populated by indefinite, almost spectral, figures and objects. 
Pearl Lines compiles works made during Price's residency at the Camden Art Centre in 2020, as well as a selection of recent paintings and works on paper produced in New York.

Walter Price: Pearl Lines

English, Darby

Price, Walter

Individual Artists

A survey on the Spanish firm designing the Art Institute of Chicago’s new campus 
This monograph on the Barcelona-based architectural firm Barozzi Veiga presents about 30 projects from 2004 to the present—a selection of the most important works developed around the world in places such as Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, China and more. Barozzi Veiga contains digital and handmade drawings, images of finished works and texts.

Barozzi Veiga

Barozzi, Fabrizio

Veiga, Alberto

Kunsthalle Krems and Museum Folkwang are presenting the painterly work of Helen Frankenthaler the great abstract expressionist and outstanding artist of the 20th century. Frankenthaler lived and worked in the epicenter of the New York School and created her groundbreaking abstract soak-stain pictures in the early 1950s, in succession of Jackson Pollock's Drip Paintings. It is considered a bridgehead between Action Painting and Color Field painting. The focus of the publication are the painterly constellations on the medias canvas and paper. Over 70 works on paper - from the late 1940s to the early 2000s - are juxtaposed with an exclusive selection of paintings from the individual phases of Frankenthaler's artistic oeuvre. Frankenthaler's work is barely represented in European museums and collections and has seldom been shown extensively in German-speaking countries. The majority of the works depicted in the catalogue come from the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation in New York, supplemented by private collections and institutions.

Helen Frankenthaler: Painterly Constellations (English and German Edition)

Gabriel, Mary

Dreishpoon, Douglas

Engel, Nadine

Gorschlter, Peter

The first overview in a decade on Kubin’s gothic pageant of dreamworld menace 
The art of the great Austrian draftsman, illustrator and author Alfred Kubin (1877–1959) appears more current today than ever before; wartime destruction, pandemics, natural disasters and the manipulation of the masses pervade his highly narrative works. Kubin’s nightmarish oeuvre extends Symbolism and the fantastical art of the 19th century and may be considered a precursor to French Surrealism, with its syntheses of actual and imaginary reality, its bleak realms that Kubin often seasoned with humor, irony and exaggeration. 
Published for an exhibition at the Leopold Museum in Vienna, Alfred Kubin: Confessions of a Tortured Soul offers an exploration of Kubin’s oneiric worlds in terms of their relation to the unconscious. Through this lens, psychoanalyst and psychiatrist August Ruhs addresses pieces by Kubin selected by curator Hans-Peter Wipplinger. In addition, Kubin’s works are placed into a dialogue with works by artists of the 19th century and of the classical modernism from which Kubin derived inspiration.

Alfred Kubin: Confessions of a Tortured Soul

Hoberg, Annegret

Ruhs, August

Schmidt, Burghart

A cultural, aesthetic and biological history of wool, from ancient extraction methods to contemporary textile design 
In this volume, the Milan-based multidisciplinary design studio Formafantasma investigates the history, ecology and global dynamics of the extraction and production of wool. A wide range of artworks, agricultural and cultural objects, photographs, videos and other materials demonstrate how wool is more than simply a raw material for the design and textile industries. The book accompanies an exhibition of the same name, Oltre Terra, which reimagines the display mode of the diorama. Rather than representing a static scene from nature, here it becomes an installation containing six life-size reproductions of different sheep breeds, a carpet made from discarded wool fibers, as well as documents, films, by-products of manufacturing processes and various types of organic matter. All these elements are presented side by side to counteract persisting categorizations that separate human from animal and product from biological matter.

Formafantasma: Oltre Terra; The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design / Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz Koenig Koln/Cologne

Trimarchi, Andrea

Decorative Arts & Design

The series is dedicated to contemporary artists who, in addition to their visual oeuvre, have produced texts that take an independent approach to the concerns of their times and presents, above all, approaches that have proved influential and continue to inform current debates. VALIE EXPORT is regarded as one of the most important international pioneers of conceptual media art, performance, and experimental film. In the late 1960s, her often provocative installations, films, and actions caused an uproar. From the outset, VALIE EXPORT has written not only detailed concepts for her projects but also theoretical essays, poems, notes, and lectures. A large number of her published texts have been made accessible here in one book, along with a selection of printed interviews and unpublished notes and lectures created between 1967 and 2020.

Valie Export: In Her Own Words

A mordant look at the constantly changing alphabets of 25 million people in the time of the Soviet Union 
Artist group Slavs & Tatars create publications and installations centered around the changing languages and culture of Eurasia, from the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire to the collapse of the Soviet Union. This board book with sound offers a whirlwind tour of ABCs and anticolonialism in the former Soviet sphere.

Slavs & Tatars: Azbuka Strikes Back: An Anti-Colonial ABCs

Toba Khedoori

Meticulously drawn objects against blank backgrounds form liminal spaces devoid of human presence or context 
Australian-born artist Toba Khedoori's (born 1964) oeuvre incorporates both drawing and painting. She arranges large sheets of paper worked with wax to form monumental image carriers on which she produces precise drawings using graphite and oil paint, which captivate with their execution and fine detail.

Godfrey, Mark

Lovatt, Anna

An intersectional approach to women artists working in an activist vein in the early 20th century 
The first half of the 20th century witnessed enormous waves of upheaval. Imperial dynasties were overthrown, economic crises spiraled into depressions and labor organizations advocated on behalf of the working class. As one of many marginalized groups still fighting for equal rights, women keenly felt each transformation of the global landscape. As more women were able to become professional artists, many centered their work on current events. Radical! enumerates over 70 artists whose work spoke to the most crucial issues of their time, addressing not only women's rights but also racial inequality and economic injustice. With a timeline chronicling significant historical moments worldwide, the publication delineates each artist's unique perspective and demonstrates how some even fought for rights that their counterparts took for granted. 
Artists include: Zubeida Agha, Romaine Brooks, Camilla Burke, Elizabeth Catlett, Hannah Höch, Käthe Kollwitz, Augusta Savage, Amrita Sher-Gil, Gazbia Sirry.

Radical! Women Artists and Modernisms: 1910-1950

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