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On Warhol's lifelong engagement with commerceThis catalog revisits the various historical eras in which Warhol left his mark on fashion, music and entrepreneurship. The works reproduced include paintings, historical serigraphs, drawings, Polaroids, photographs and memorabilia such as covers designed and autographed by Warhol. The content spans from the 1950s, a decade that consecrated him as a highly respected designer; to the 1960s, when Warhol became a true social commentator, portraying icons (Campbell's soup), fame (Liz Taylor and Marilyn Monroe) and disasters (the faces of Jackie Kennedy before and after her husband's assassination); to the 1970s, when he became a kind of "society artist"; to the 1980s, when Warhol positioned himself as the spiritual father of a new generation of artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring and created new forms of commerce and tributes to the past.

A close look at the wide-ranging practice of an influential Italian sculptorItalian sculptor Pietro Consagra (1920-2005) was a seminal figure in 20th-century European art. This volume compares different moments in his career, offering a varied panorama of his material experimentations and reinventions of forms.

A multimedia excavation of the life of a forgotten revolutionaryThis volume accompanies an exhibition chronicling the story of Louise Brunet, a French silk spinner who embarked on an arduous journey of self-reinvention after joining the revolution of the canuts (silk weavers) in 1834.

Material experiments in blood and coralFlemish artist Jan Fabre (born 1958) presents over 30 red coral sculptures alongside a series of unpublished drawings made using his own blood. The vivid colors and visceral materiality of these recent works evoke a deep reflection on the vulnerability of the human condition.

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.

Tracing the cultural, political and artistic developments over a 17-year period in Beirut's modern historyThis volume chronicles a turbulent chapter in the development of modernism in Beirut, beginning in 1958 and ending with the 1975 outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War. The accompanying exhibition highlights how collisions between art, culture and polarized political ideologies turned Beirut's art scene into a microcosm of larger transregional tensions.

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.

A concise, dynamic introduction to the Italian postmodern design groupThis small-format volume presents more than 200 furniture and objects made between 1981 and 1986 for the Memphis collection. Memphis was an Italian design and architecture collective founded by Ettore Sottsass, a leading exponent of 1980s postmodernism. It was the outcome of a long process that began at the Olivetti company in Ivrea, where Sottsass had been the design coordinator since the late 1950s, and continued with the research of the radical architecture movements of the 1960s and 1970s, in Florence and Europe.Memphis Again documents the eponymous 2022 Milan exhibition on the group, for which Memphis works--bookshelves, tables, desks, chairs, sofa beds, lamps, pots, bowls, rugs and more--were dynamically installed in chronological order in the style of a fashion show, with quotes by critics, architects and designers projected on the walls. Works by Sottsass, Michele De Lucchi, George J. Sowden, Martine Bedin, Andrea Branzi, Shiro Kuramata, Marco Zanini, Matteo Thun, Peter Shire, Aldo Cibic, Nathalie du Pasquier, Gerard Taylor and Masanori Umeda are featured.

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.

This volume is the second edition of SIGNS, which aims to introduce the general public to the profession and discipline of graphic designers. Text in English and Italian.

A posthumous survey of an Italian photographer with close ties to the international art sceneThis monograph is the first to trace the life and career of Italian photographer Claudio Abate (1943-2017), whose practice ranged from photographs of works, artists and exhibitions of Arte Povera to fashion photography, photo-documentary and personal artistic photographic experimentations.

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.