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A visual feast of artworks and artifacts from the Islamic world's cultural capitalThis richly illustrated and researched publication heralds Baghdad as a resplendent capital of culture within the Islamic world, from its heritage as the locus of the great Abbasid caliphs (750-1258 CE) to its renewed period of prosperity during the 20th century after the discovery of oil in the land.Published in conjunction with an exhibition at Qatar's Museum of Islamic Art, Baghdad: Eye's Delight takes readers on an imaginary tour across centuries, highlighting Baghdad's role as a city of power, scholarship and riches, and examining the city's social fabric--its numerous traditions and cosmopolitan population--which have enabled the city to thrive, despite war and destruction. Displaying objects on loan from 22 institutions such as the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Benaki Museum, the Vatican and the Barrel Foundation, the compendium presents a vast array of artworks and artifacts.

A look inside the construction of an exciting new museum in Doha, to open in 2030Due to open in 2030, the Art Mill Museum will transform an industrial flour mill located on Qatar's stunning Doha Corniche. This volume presents the vision behind this exciting new project, conceived by Catherine Grenier alongside the architectural studio Elemental, led by the Pritzker Prize-winning architect Alejandro Aravena. The Art Mill Museum will house an exceptional international collection of diverse and multidisciplinary works, dating from 1850 to the present, acquired over the past four decades. It will also include a creative village and a garden designed by the landscape architect Günther Vogt. To reflect the transformation of the site and demonstrate how the Art Mill Museum will function as a space for contemporary creativity, artists have been commissioned to create films and photographs establishing parallels between the former flour mill and the future museum.

A beautifully presented monograph of works by the French artist Nicole Bottet. Text in English and French.

A career-spanning survey of the influential modernist photographerIn 1985, the National Museum of Luxembourg unexpectedly received a generous bequest from the estate of the world-renowned Luxembourg-born American photographer Edward Steichen (1879-1973). The bequest comprised a total of 178 prints, 175 of which were by Steichen himself. These prints cover all aspects of his photographic oeuvre--from the pictorialist images of his early years to the portraiture, fashion, advertising, landscapes and family photographs of his late career.Edward Steichen: The Luxembourg Bequest presents this extraordinary collection in a comprehensive and scholarly treatment for the first time. Replete with full-page illustrations of all 178 photographs, the publication includes six new essays by five authors that examine the provenance and historical significance of the Luxembourg donation, as well as Steichen's special role as a transmitter of modernism from Europe to America.

Ingenious sculptural takes on idiomatic language from a leading Brazilian artistFor his installation at the Brazilian pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale (2022), Jonathas de Andrade (born 1982) draws on idiomatic expressions using metaphors of the body to develop a series of two- and three-dimensional works that render tangible the poetry of these expressions. For example, two immense ears placed at the entrance and exit of the pavilion allow the public to "go in one ear and out the other," while an inflatable balloon, which invades the space at various times of the day, alludes to a "heart coming out of the mouth." The emphasis on the body, especially the body of the man from the Brazilian Northeast, is also characteristic of several of the artist's earlier works featured in this book, which also includes essays by the publication's editor Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, and Clarissa Diniz.

The Warrior: one of the most favourite themes in Antoni Clave's work, treaded in this volume published on the occasion of Biennale Arte 2022. Text in English and French.

The volume is dedicated to the work of New York-based Croatian artists TARWUK, presented, for the first time in Italy, at the Maramotti Collection in Reggio Emilia. Text in English and Italian.

This fully illustrated volume accompanies the latest "European Photography" festival. Text in English and Italian.

A photographic mediation on the Alps across changing seasonsItalian photographer Carlo Valsecchi (born 1965) spent three years roaming the Alps with his camera, exploring the region's role in historical conflicts and migration patterns. The resulting photographs are sudden glimpses, portals of light and compositions hovering in an endless limbo between loneliness, isolation and waiting.

Surveying the oeuvre of a genre-bending French documentarianFrench artist Marine Hugonnier (born 1969) makes experimental films that investigate the politics of the gaze and exist at the border of documentary and fiction. Equipped with her 16mm camera, Hugonnier mixes the roles of reporter and ethnographer.

Key performances and new works from the Cuban activist and artist famed for her courageous defiance of governmental oppression Over the past three decades, Cuban performance artist Tania Bruguera (born 1968) has consistently and inventively blurred the line between art and activism. She first gained notoriety for her 1997 solo performance The Burden of Guilt (El peso de la culpa), a response to the mass suicide of a group of Indigenous Cubans who had consumed soil to demonstrate resistance to Spanish occupation. Subsequent works have frequently put her in conflict with the Cuban government: most notoriously, in Tatlin's Whisper #6, performed in her native Havana in 2009, she set up a stage for audience members to speak uncensored for one minute.Featuring a die-cut cover, Tania Bruguera: Let Truth Be, Though the World Perish includes her most significant performances and installations, as well as a new work designed for Milan's Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea.

Celebrates one of the best-known and most-loved Italian directors of all time, Dario Argento. Text in English and Italian.

The surprising and enigmatic work by Marco Tirelli, in a richly illustrated monograph. Text in English and Italian.

350 between objects, furnishings, drawings, studio paintings and models in a volume that explores and reconstructs the imaginative world of design of one of the masters of architecture of the 20th century. Text in English and Italian.

Artists respond to the storied history of a Munich exhibition spaceThis catalog chronicles three exhibitions at BNKR, Munich--a WWII air-raid bunker turned internment camp turned exhibition space. The artworks exhibited relate to architecture and deception, confinement or transformation. Artists include Hans Op de Beeck, Bettina Pousttchi, Gregor Sailer and others.

Il volume presenta il catalogo ragionato della produzione documentata di Arredoluce, che conta 555 fra lampade e complementi di arredo, e la ricostruzione della storia dell'azienda e dei designer che vi hanno lavorato. Arredoluce nasce nel 1943 a Monza grazie ad Angelo Lelii, imprenditore e progettista: la sua curiosità per le innovazioni provenienti dall'estero, unita all'amore per i materiali della tradizione e a una cura maniacale per i dettagli, ha segnato la linea di produzione dell'azienda. Con Arredoluce, di cui si ricordano le partecipazioni alle Triennali di Milano dal 1947 al 1960, hanno collaborato importanti designer tra cui Gio Ponti, Ettore Sottsass jr. e Nanda Vigo.

This catalog accompanies the first major retrospective of London-based Iraqi artist Dia Al-Azzawi (born 1939). Working in a variety of two- and three-dimensional mediums over his 55-year career, including his mural-like political paintings and assemblage works, Al-Azzawi has become one of Iraq's most influential artists.

Over 350 works created by Jodice - artist, photographer and filmmaker - over 25 years of career bring about a kaleidoscopic fresco of our time. Text in English and Italian.

Bonalumi contributed decisively to the artistic debate in post-WW2 Italy, creating shaped works using convex canvas obtained through the use of wooden or steel elements positioned behind the canvas itself. Text in English and Italian.

Through a skilful modulation between light and shadow, Marco Anelli's black and white photographs offer a profound and evocative understanding of the sculptor's work, a leading figure in the 20th century art scene.

A "whimsical" journey through 800 glass masterpieces from the 18th century to the present, acquired by the Galleria Rizzarda in Feltre, Veneto.

For over 25 years, Borges has been documenting indigenous and tribal cultures, striving to create an understanding of the challenges these people face everyday. Text in English and Italian.

Through his lens Robert Doisneau was able to grasp the daily life of Parisian people with an ironic and light touch. Text in English, Italian, and French.

A monograph exploring 30 years of research by Paolo Canevari, the author of ironic and disturbing works. Text in English and Italian.