The image of a tortured genius working in near isolation has long dominated our conceptions of the artist's studio. Examples abound: think Jackson Pollock dripping resin on a cicada carcass in his shed in the Hamptons. But times have changed; ever since Andy Warhol declared his art space a "factory," artists have begun to envision themselves as the leaders of production teams, and their sense of what it means to be in the studio has altered just as dramatically as their practices.

"The Studio Reader "pulls back the curtain from the art world to reveal the real activities behind artistic production. What does it mean to be in the studio? What is the space of the studio in the artist's practice? How do studios help artists envision their agency and, beyond that, their own lives? This forward-thinking anthology features an all-star array of contributors, ranging from Svetlana Alpers, Bruce Nauman, and Robert Storr to Daniel Buren, Carolee Schneemann, and Buzz Spector, each of whom locates the studio both spatially and conceptually--at the center of an art world that careens across institutions, markets, and disciplines. A companion for anyone engaged with the spectacular sites of art at its making, "The Studio Reader "reconsiders this crucial space as an actual way of being that illuminates our understanding of both artists and the world they inhabit.

Fur diesen Band wurden Texte von Daniel Buren ausgewahlt, die seine kunstlerische wie theoretische Arbeit seit 1967 besonders anschaulich dokumentieren. Vor allem die Schriften, die bereits einen festen Platz in der kunstgeschichtlichen Literatur einnehmen, wurden ausnahmslos aufgenommen. Fur eine detaillierte Auseinandersetzung mit allen Formen der Textproduktion Burens - vor allem den zahlreichen Werkbeschreibungen und Interviews - verweisen wir auf die dreibandige Schriftenausgabe Daniel Buren. Les Ecrits (1965-1990), die 1991 vom Musee d'art contemporain de Bordeaux herausgegeben wurde. Die Texte erscheinen in chronologischer Reihenfolge. Texts by Daniel Buren were selected for this volume, his artistic and theoretical work Documented particularly clearly since 1967. In front all the fonts that already have a permanent place in the occupy literature on art history recorded without exception. For a detailed discussion with all forms of text production Burens - especially the numerous work descriptions and interviews - we refer to the three-volume. Written edition by Daniel Buren. Les Ecrits (1965-1990), the 1991 of the Musee d'art contemporain de Bordeaux was issued. The texts appear in chronological order.

Parkett # 66 features collaborations with Angela Bulloch (Canada), Daniel Buren (France), and Pierre Huyghe (France). Huyghe reassesses conceptual art concerns by reinterpreting familiar films and themes in popular culture; he also draws on disregarded aspects of everyday life, such as time and alienation, and brings them back into our awareness. Bulloch's participatory sculptures explore the physical and psychological aspects of space by using simple light and sound effects that require the viewer's active participation. In the 1960s, Buren began producing works by using the striped cloth he calls "a seeing tool, " seeking a new way to make art exist outside the museum and gallery spaces that delimited its socializing capacity. Since then he has continued his striped works and remains one of France's most important and cherished living artists.

Given his recourse to language, photography and systems of information, On Kawara is often described as a key figure in the history of Conceptual art. Yet his work stands apart in its devotion to painting and its existential reach. On Kawara Silence is published in conjunction with a major exhibition of Kawaras post-1964 work at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Like the exhibition itself, the structure of the book was devised in close collaboration with the late artist and contains essays by leading scholars and critics in various fields, including art history, literary studies and cultural anthropology. It also includes substantial, authoritative descriptions of every category of his production the first time such comprehensive information has appeared in print. Richly illustrated, On Kawara Silence reproduces many examples of the Date Paintings (Today), calendars (One Hundred Years and One Million Years), postcards (I Got Up), telegrams (I Am Still Alive), news cuttings (I Read), maps (I Went), and lists (I Met) that comprised the artists practice beginning in the mid-1960s. Among other groups of works, the book includes images of the ninety-seven Date Paintings (accompanied by their newspaperlined storage boxes) that Kawara produced during a three-month run of daily painting in 1970. The catalogue also contains reproductions of paintings and drawings produced in Paris and New York in the years that precede the works for which Kawara is best known, as well as rare images of materials related to his working process.

Born in Hungary in 1922, Simon Hantai moved to Paris at the age of 26, and fell in with Andre Breton's postwar Surrealist circle, where he was quickly acclaimed by Breton himself. But it was not until the early 1960s that Hantai developed the "pliage" or "folding method" that has made him an influential figure on both sides of the Atlantic. Hantai began applying paint to folded canvasses, which--once the canvasses were unfolded and stretched--resulted in irregular patterns of bold color punctuated by strips of unprimed ground. Throughout the rest of his career, Hantai devoted himself to developing new techniques that slowed down or automated the painterly gesture--a concept that stemmed in part from the early influences of Surrealist automatism, Pollock's Abstract Expressionism and Matisse's cut-outs. Hantai was featured in the Wexner's seminal "As Painting" exhibition of 2001, and his work is housed in major collections worldwide, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York. This elegant and comprehensive volume is published for the Centre Pompidou's acclaimed Hantai retrospective, held five years after his death in 2008, and constitutes the first major publication in English on his work.