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Recently published art books

Frits Gierstberg, Georgi Gospodinov, Vesselina Nikolaeva, Rik Suermondt
Simply a Line
No Man's Land between Bulgaria and Turkey

Henriëtte Heezen, Nathalie Zonnenberg, Tom van Gestel (red.)
Art as Urban Strategy
Beyond Leidsche Rijn

Linda Vlassenrood (ed.)
Tangible Traces
Dutch Architecture and Design in the making

Paul Meurs, Frits Gierstberg, Jaap Guldemond & Bregje van Woensel, Ineke Holtwijk, Luciano Figueredo
Brazil Contemporary
Architecture, Art, Visual Culture

Moosje Goosen, Janwillem Schrofer, Sarah Farrar, Juan A. Gaitán
PRIXDEROME.NL 2009
Visual arts

Editors: Jorinde Seijdel, Liesbeth Melis
Open 17
A precarious Existence
Vulnerability in the Public Domain

Javier Panera, Rein Wolfs, Tom Morton, Katarina Gregos
Marc Bijl
"In case you didn't feel like showing up"

Liesbeth Melis, Joride Seijdel (eds.), Pascal Gielen ( guest editior)
Open 16
The Art Biennial as a Global Phenomenon
Strategies to Counter Neoliberal Market Logic

Dominic van den Boogerd, Wouter Vanstiphout et al.
Jeroen Doorenweerd

Hans den Hartog Jager, et al.
Tom Claassen

Matteo Pasquinelli
Animal Spirits
A Bestiary of the Commons

Frank van der Stok, Frits Gierstberg, Flip Bool, et al.
Questioning History
Imagining the Past in Contemporary Art

Liesbeth Melis, Jorinde Seijdel (eds.)
Open 15
Social Engineering
Can Society Be Engineered in the 21st Century?

Dick Raaijmakers, Arjen Mulder, Elmer Schönberger, Paul Slangen, Michael van Hoogenhuyze
Arjen Mulder (ed.)
Dick Raaijmakers
A Monograph

Auke van der Woud, Maartje van den Heuvel, Tracy Metz, Alison Nordström
Editors: Maartje van den Heuvel, Tracy Metz
Nature as Artifice
New Dutch Landscape in Photography and Video Art

Henk van Os, Louise Fresco
The Discovery of the Netherlands
Four Centuries of Dutch Landscapes Painted by its Masters

Chantal Mouffe, Sven Lütticken, Simon Sheikh, Nina Montmann, Jan Verwoert, Florian Waldvogel, Gerard Drosterij, Bik Van der Pol, 16 Beaver Group, BAVO
Editors: Jorinde Seijdel, Liesbeth Melis
Open 14
Art as a Public Issue
How art and its institutions reinvent the public dimension

Hein van Haaren, Rudi Oxenaar
André Volten
Sculpture in Private Space, Sculpture in Public Space

Thomas Berghuis, Cees Hendrikse, Francesca Dal Lago, Sabine Wang and Eduardo Welsh
Writing on the wall
Chinese Realism and Avant-garde in the Eighties and Nineties

Sue-an van der Zijpp, Mark Wilson and Carol Lu
New World Order
Contemporary Installation Art and Photography from China

Sue-an van der Zijpp, Mark Wilson and Karen Smith
Ai Weiwei

Eric Kluitenberg
Delusive Spaces
Essays on Culture, Media and Technology

David Jackson, Sijbolt Noorda Ellen Rutten, Marija Valjaeva, Patty Wageman
Russian Legends, Folk Tales and Fairy Tales

Geralyn Huxley & Greg Pierce, Matt Wrbican, Eva Meyer-Hermann, Hubertus Butin, Hal Foster, Elisabeth Bronfen et al.
Eva Meyer-Hermann (ed.)
Andy Warhol
A Guide to 706 Items in 2 Hours and 56 Minutes
Other Voices, Other Rooms

Richard Grusin, Geert Lovink, Oliver Marchart, Richard Rogers, Willem van Weelden, Martijn de Waal, David Garcia, Albert Benschop, Florian Göttke, Geert van de Wetering/ HotSpot
Jorinde Seijdel, Liesbeth Melis (eds.)
Open 13
The Rise of Informal Media
How phenomena such as weblogs, videologs and -podcasts change the public domain

Paulien Oltheten, Hans Aarsman, Tijs Goldschmidt
Theory of the Street

Carel Blotkamp, Daniel Dekkers, Jonneke Jobse, Ruud Schenk
P. Struycken

Toos van Kooten, Marente Bloemheuvel, Gerrie Andela, Antje von Graevenitz, Ingrid Commandeur, Esther Darley, Nathalie Zonnenberg, Jörg Heiser, Anne van der Zwaag
Toos van Kooten, Marente Bloemheuvel (eds)
Kröller-Müller Museum
The History of a Sculpture Garden

Stephen Wright, Joost Smiers, Brian Holmes, Willem van Weelden, Dennis Kaspori, Pascal Gielen, McKenzie Wark, Jorinde Seijdel, Liesbeth Melis (eds)
Open 12 Freedom of Culture
Regulation and Privatization of Intellectual Property and Public Space

Brian Massumi, Detlef Mertins, Lars Spuybroek, Noortje Marres, Christian Hübler, Gilbert Simondon, et al. Joke Brouwer and Arjen Mulder (eds)
Interact or Die!

Jennifer Allen, Aaron Betsky, Rudi Laermans, Wouter Vanstiphout
Atelier Van Lieshout

Just published art books

Catrien Schreuder, Jorinde Seijdel, Noud Heerkens
Pixels and Places
Video Art in Public Space
Pixels and Places

Video art is to be seen ever more frequently outside the walls of art institutions in public space. Artists infi ltrate advertising screens on the street, project moving images onto edifices or enter into far-reaching collaborations with architects. At unexpected spots this video art shakes chance passers-by out of their reverie or merges effortlessly into the streetscape.

Hardcover, 160 pages, English edition
€ 29.50


Sue-an van der Zijpp, Ingeborg Harms, Francesca Granata Bernhard Willhelm & Jutta Kraus
Bernhard Willhelm & Jutta Kraus

Willhelm graduated from Antwerp’s prestigious Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 1998. During his studies he worked as an assistant to Alexander McQueen, Dirk Bikkembergs, Walter Van Beirendonck and others. A year after graduating he established a women’s wear line under his own name in association with Jutta Kraus, immediately revealing a highly personal and wayward style.

Paperback, 488 pages, English/Dutch/ German edition
€ 35.00


Ine Gevers et al. (eds.)
Difference on Display
Diversity in Art, Science and Society
Difference on Display

The ambitious ‘Difference on Display’ art exhibition is being staged at the Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam from 15 December 2009 to 8 March 2010. Aimed at a broad audience, it features the responses of international artists to a defining social question of our time: What is normal and who gets to decide?

Paperback, 384 pages, English/Dutch edition
€ 35.00


Jorinde Seijdel, Liesbeth Melis (eds.)
Open 18
2030: War Zone Amsterdam
Open 18

Amsterdam at war in 2030. This terrifying projection into the future serves to sharpen and expand our thinking about topics such as tolerance, fear, security and control, censorship, public space and urban politics. Neither naming the enemy nor proffering any answers, theorists and artists fire off questions and sketch experimental scenarios, using Amsterdam as a concrete case as well as a strange attractor.

Paperback, 160 pages, English edition
€ 28.50


Christel Vesters (coordinating editor), Jelle Bouwhuis, Ingrid Commandeur, Gijs Frieling, Margriet Schavemaker, Domeniek Ruyters (eds.)
Now is the Time
Art & Theory in the 21st Century
Now is the time

Now Is the Time: Art and Theory in the 21st Century is an anthology of essays about seven pressing social and art-specific themes that encompass the full scope of the force-field of the visual arts. Renowned international theorists as well as promising young art critics and curators share their visions on a range of issues in highly accessible essays: What is the impact of 9/11 on our visual culture and the visual arts? What role does religion play in polarization? What are the consequences of ongoing globalization for the visual arts? How can we explain the revival of interest in canons and what function do they attribute to art?

Paperback, 192 pages, English edition
€ 29.95


Jenny Barendregt, Sabrina Kamstra, Mieke van der Star, Arnold Witte (eds.)
Corporate collections in the Netherlands
Corporate Collections in the Netherlands

Between them Dutch corporations own a vast amount of modern art, yet little attention has been devoted to the phenomenon of ‘corporate collecting’ at national and international levels. As a consequence the debate about corporate collections in the Netherlands is rarely founded on fact, but is driven by opinions and primarily about expectations, because few corporate collections are open to the public. Public interest is sometimes only stirred when these collections are auctioned off, as was recently the case with the Peter Stuyvesant Collection, or if their fate is uncertain, as with the art collection of the ABN AMRO bank after the takeover by Fortis.

Paperback, 262 pages, English/ Dutch edition
€ 30.00


Pascal Gielen, Paul De Bruyne
Arts in Society
Being an Artist in Post-Fordist Times
Arts in Society

Arts in Society sketches a provocative impression of the manner in which prominent artists, theorists and art intermediaries relate to economic, political, social and ecological issues. It presents an instructive narrative about power and impotence, cynicism and utopia, and nihilism and engagement aimed at all those who presently dare to call themselves artists and everyone who wants to understand and defend the importance of the role of the arts in society.

Paperback, 208 pages, English edition
€ 23.50


Vincent van Baar, Bert van Meggelen, Timo de Rijk (eds.)
Dutch Design Yearbook 2009

Dutch Design Yearbook 2009

This first Dutch Design Yearbook presents a survey of more than 60 of the best designs in the field of spatial design, product design, fashion and graphic design that were produced in 2008-2009 in the Netherlands. A selection of important events, publications and exhibitions in the field adds colour to the design year and content to the design debate during this period. ‘Dutch Design’ – whether design pur sang, fashion design, graphic design or architecture – has over recent years been winning acclaim the world over.

Paperback, 216 pages, English/Dutch edition
€ 35.00

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