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| | An American Lens
Scenes from Alfred Steiglitz's New York Secession
Jay Bochner
A close reading of photography yields a groundbreaking cultural biography; reveals photography's impresario, Alfred Stieglitz, as he has never been revealed before and looks at his photographs as they have never been looked at before.
"This study of the importance of Stieglitz to the avant-garde in America is nothing short of brilliant....I didn't want it to end."
--Mary Ann Caws, Distinguished Professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Cloth / October 2005
Price $39.95/£25.95
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| | Trees
National Champions
Barbara Bosworth
Hauntingly beautiful photographs of 70 "champion" trees -- each the biggest of its species -- in a book that offers a dignified portrait of the American landscape and its true environmental heroes.
"Bosworth’s dramatic, panoramic black-and-white photographs simultaneously document our country’s evolving landscape and capture the dignity, tenacity, and singular nobility of gnarled yet graceful giants."
-- Booklist
Cloth / September 2005
Price $39.95/£25.95
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| | Making Things Public
Atmospheres of Democracy
Edited by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel
Another monumental ZKM publication, redefining politics as a concern for things around which the fluid and expansive constituency of the public gathers; with contributions by more than 100 writers and artists.
Cloth / September 2005
Price $50.00/£32.95
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| | Suspect
Edited by John Knechtel
Essays, graphic novels, films, and commentary examine the figure of the suspect and the politics of suspicion in a post-9/11 world.
Cloth / September 2005
Price $15.95/£10.95
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| | Shaping Things
Bruce Sterling
A guide to the next great wave of technology -- an era of objects so programmable that they can be regarded as material instantiations of an immaterial system.
"It's the most thought provoking thing I've read all year....I can tell that this is a book I'll return to again and again and get more out of it each time I do. It's a wonderful and timely work that is a must-read in an age of ubiquitous computation, universal information resources, and hacker-activist renaissance, there's no better primer for putting it all together."
-- Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing
Paper / September 2005
Price $17.95/£11.95
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| | Sky in a Bottle
Peter Pesic
The age-old question "Why is the sky blue?" begins a quest through science, history, and art, from Aristotle and Newton through Goethe and Einstein.
"A remarkable and beautiful book, as lyrical as it is learned."
--Oliver Sacks, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Cloth / December 2005
Price $24.95/£16.95
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| | Alice Aycock
Sculpture and Projects
Robert Hobbs
A long-overdue monograph on a sculptor who draws not only on minimalism and conceptualism but on a rich web of intellectual and visual sources to create postmodern work that is a "complex" of juxtapositions.
"This account of Alice Aycock's pioneering work is a profoundly rewarding read."
--Hans Ulrich Obrist, Curator, Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris, and Professor, IUAV, Venice
Cloth / August 2005
Price $50.00/£32.95
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| | Imagine No Possessions
The Socialist Objects of Russian Constructivism
Christina Kiaer
How Constructivist artists in Russia between 1923 and 1925 developed a counterproposal to capitalism's commodity fetish by producing objects meant to be "comrades" in the creation of an egalitarian socialist culture.
"...one of the most important, provocative, and illuminating works yet published on Russian Constructivism."
--Anatole Senkevitch, Jr., Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan
Cloth / December 2005
Price $39.95/£25.95
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| | Placing Words
Symbols, Space, and the City
William J. Mitchell
Reflections on architecture and the exchange of information in the spaces and places of the city, from the necessity of skyscrapers in an age of Web sites to cities as talent magnets, from architectural bling to the neo-minimalism of the new MoMA.
"William Mitchell is simply the most brilliant urban critic since Lewis Mumford and the most original media theorist since Marshall McLuhan."
--Mike Davis, author of Dead Cities and Planet of Slums
Paper / September 2005
Price $16.95/£10.95
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| | USER
InfoTechnoDemo
Peter Lunenfeld
Doing theory and criticism in real time: essays on subjects ranging from art and industrial design to The Matrix and Web porn.
Paper / August 2005
Price $25.95/£16.95
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| | Out of the Blue
A Journey through the World's Oceans
Paul Horsman
A visually stunning celebration of the rich variety of ocean life, with 180 color photographs.
Cloth / September 2005
Price $29.95/£15.95
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| | Gehry Draws
Edited by Mark Rappolt and Robert Violette
Drawing as Frank Gehry's way of "thinking aloud": tracing this part of Gehry's creative process through 32 major projects, both built and unbuilt; with more than 900 illustrations.
"This terrific book can hardly be called a set of sketches. It brings together drawings architect Gehry has done for 29 recent projects; to look at them in series is to watch a genius think out loud, so close does the link between thought and line seem here."
-- Publishers Weekly
Cloth / December 2004
Price $55.00/£33.95
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