Scheidegger Spiess International New Titles Spring 2024

Scheidegger & Spiess
Art I Photography I Architecture
International New Titles
Spring 2024

Contents
4–5
Surréalisme. Le Grand Jeu
6–7
Stranger in the Village
8–9
Aldo Mozzini. Casematte
10–11
Hans Pieler
12–13
Recent Highlights
14–19
Key Titles
20
Contacts
Distributors
Representatives and Agents
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Edited by Juri Steiner and
Pierre-Henri Foulon
Book design by Pauline Piguet
and Rebecca Metzger
In cooperation with MCBA,
Plateforme 10 in Lausanne
Paperback
approx. 160 pages, 120 color
illustrations
20 × 25 cm
978-3-03942-192-3 French
978-3-03942-191-6 German
sFr. 35.00 | € 35.00 | £ 30.00 | $ 40.00
MAY 2024 (Europe)
AUGUST 2024 (US)
ISBN 9783039421923
French
ISBN 9783039421916
German
2024 marks the centenary of Surrealism
as an art movement
The book celebrates, describes,
and comprehensively analyzes
Surrealism in art
Special focus is put on the topos
of games played or created by
the Surrealists and on the female
members and affiliates of the
movement
Features the never-published
fourth issue of the Surrealist
literary magazine Le Grand Jeu
as facsimile
Exhibition: Surréalisme. Le Grand
Jeu at the MCBA, Plateforme 10
in Lausanne (April 12 to August 25,
2024)
A celebration of 100 years of Surrealism and the vertigo triggered
by Surrealist thinking that continues to influence the way
we look at bodies, language, and objects up to the present day.
9 783039 421923
9 783039 421916
Surréalisme. Le Grand Jeu
2024 marks the centenary of the publication of André Breton’s Surrealist Manifesto,
and thus the birth of the Surrealist movement. This French-language book celebrates
100 years of Surrealism, combining historical retrospection, interpretation, and the
perspective of contemporary artists who explore Surrealist themes and forms in their
work. It is based on the Surrealist literary magazine Le Grand Jeu, which was published
between 1928 and 1930.
Games to which the Surrealists referred are a core theme of the volume: chess
and the “Jeu de Marseille,” a special set of tarot cards created by the Surrealists in the
south of France, where many had to flee from German occupation between 1940 and
1944. Alongside, the essays investigate topics such as identity, metamorphosis, esotericism,
kabbalah, and magic, as well as speculation, abstraction, and automatism.
Moreover, new light is shed on the female members and affiliates of the Surrealist
movement, including Claude Cahun, Leonora Carrington, Suzanne Duchamp, Leonor
Fini, Gladys Hynes, Meret Oppenheim, Dorothea Tanning, and others.
The book is also an homage to the never-published fourth issue of Le Grand Jeu,
which has been preserved as a maquette and is reproduced here in facsimile images.
Juri Steiner is the director of the MCBA, Plateforme 10 in Lausanne and
a leading scholar of the history of Dada, Surrealism, and Situationism.
Pierre-Henri Foulon is chief curator of contemporary art at the MCBA,
Plateforme 10 in Lausanne.
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Stranger
in
the
Village
28
Rassismus
im
Spiegel
von
James
Baldwin
Le racisme
au
miroir
de
James
Baldwin
Aargauer
Kunsthaus
Scheidegger
& Spiess
Edited by Céline Eidenbenz with
Sarah Mühlebach
Book design by Bonbon
In cooperation with Aargauer
Kunsthaus, Aarau
An artistic exploration of the highly
topical subject of racism in the art
and culture industry
Published in the run-up to the
American writer James Baldwin’s
centenary on August 2, 2024
Die roten Geranien, die in der Schweiz quasi als Nationalblumen
gelten, prägen im Sommer unser Stadtbild und sind beliebte Postkartensujets.
Wenige wissen, dass sie erst im 17. Jahrhundert von
der Niederländischen Ostindien-Kompanie aus Südafrika nach
Europa eingeführt wurden und eigentlich gar keine Geranien sind,
sondern falsch identifizierte Pelargonien.
Le géranium rouge, quasiment considéré comme une fleur nationale
en Suisse, est un élément central de la physionomie estivale
de nos villes et un sujet de carte postale très apprécié. Peu de
gens savent que le géranium n’est arrivé en Europe qu’au XVII e
siècle, importé d’Afrique du Sud par la Compagnie néerlandaise
des Indes orientales, et qu’il ne s’agit en réalité pas d’un géranium
mais d’un pélargonium faussement identifié.
Uriel Orlow
(Zürich *1973. Lebt in Lissabon, London und Zürich)
Geraniums are never red, 2016
Uriel Orlow
(Zurich *1973. Vit à Lisbonne, Londres et Zurich)
Geraniums are never red, 2016
Paperback
288 pages, 115 color and
6 b/w illustrations
17 × 24 cm
978-3-03942-182-4
French / German
Baldwin’s perennial essay “Stranger
in the Village” is reprinted in the
book in the original English and
supplemented by a glossary of
terms relevant to contemporary
discourses on racism
sFr. 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 40.00 | $ 45.00
FEBRUARY 2024 (Europe)
ISBN JULY 9783039421824 2024 (US)
114 115
30 31
234 235
Vorwort Katharina Ammann
James Baldwins wegweisender Essay «Stranger in the Village»
(«Fremder im Dorf») ist 1953 in der renommierten amerikanischen
Zeitschrift Harper’s Magazine erschienen. Ausgangslage war seine
Erfahrung als Schwarzer Mann in der Schweiz. Genau 70 Jahre
später nehmen wir im Aargauer Kunsthaus diesen Text als Grundlage
für eine Ausstellung und zeigen, wie sehr Kunstschaffende
dieses oft tabuisierte Thema beschäftigt. Als Institution nennen
wir das Thema beim Namen mit einem gewissen Risiko, Kritik von
ganz unterschiedlichen Seiten zu erfahren.
Warum machen wir das?
Wir verstehen uns als Ort, an dem das Publikum seine Kritikfähigkeit
und Meinungsbildung weiterentwickeln kann. Hier finden die
unterschiedlichen Mitglieder der Gesellschaft ihre eigenen Interessen
und Meinungen einmal bestätigt, und ein andermal erleben
sie Kontroverses oder Überraschendes. Unsere Vision ist es, den
Blick für unsere Zeit zu schärfen und über die experimentierfreudige
Auseinandersetzung mit Kunst und Kunstschaffenden eine
offene, diverse und inklusive Gesellschaft mitzugestalten.
Sind wir der richtige Ort dafür?
Das Aargauer Kunsthaus wird nicht selten als Nationalgalerie
bezeichnet. Obwohl wir uns zunehmend als Ort der Vermittlung
und weniger als Ort der Repräsentanz positionieren, werden
wir weiter hin als Referenzinstitution für die Kunst in und aus der
Schweiz wahrgenommen. Wir machen uns umso bewusster, dass
der Entscheid, was wir zeigen und wen wir sammeln, auch eine
politische Dimension hat, die wir nutzen wollen.
Haben wir die nötige Erfahrung?
Eigene Rassismuserfahrung haben die wenigsten unserer Mitarbeitenden.
Von Beginn der Ausstellungsplanung an setzten wir
deshalb auf die Unterstützung durch ein Advisory Board, auf eine
Vielstimmigkeit auch in der Publikation sowie auf die Weiter bildung
für das ganze Museumsteam und für Entscheidungsträgerinnen
und Entscheidungsträger aus unserem Umfeld. Die Lernkurve ist
steil, die Sensibilisierung ist spürbar und beeinflusst unser Handeln.
Wir haben uns auf den Weg gemacht, um die teils unsichtbaren
Mechanismen des strukturellen Rassismus zu erkennen
und anzuerkennen. Der Weg ist noch lang.
Für diesen Prozess, diese Ausstellung und dieses Buch geht
mein grosser Dank an Céline Eidenbenz, Sarah Mühlebach, Laura
Arminda Kingsley vom Aargauer Kunsthaus sowie an Mandy
Abou Shoak, Joshua Amissah, Rich Blint, Estefania Cuero, Melanie
Grauer, Sasha Huber, Bill Kouélany, Nayansaku Mufwankolo,
Die Arbeit der schweizerisch-guineischen Fotografin befasst sich
damit, wie die afrikanische Identität (hier die Zulu- Gemeinschaften)
durch das westliche Auge repräsentiert wird. Diese Serie zeigt
eine neue Generation, die ihre Zukunft aufbaut und ihren Platz in
der Gesellschaft zu finden versucht.
Le travail de la photographe helvético-guinéenne s’intéresse à la
manière dont l’identité africaine (ici les communautés zoulou) est
représentée à travers le regard occidental. Cette série présente
une nouvelle génération qui se construit un avenir et se cherche
une place dans la société.
Namsa Leuba
(La Grande Béroche *1982. Lebt in Talence)
Strength, Patience, Power, Ancestors, Passports, Struggle,
Thumbs Up, Hope, 16 June, aus der Serie Zulu Kids, 2014
Namsa Leuba
(La Grande Béroche *1982. Vit à Talence)
Strength, Patience, Power, Ancestors, Passports, Struggle,
Thumbs Up, Hope, 16 June, de la série Zulu Kids, 2014
James Baldwin’s perennial essay as a starting point
for an artistic exploration of racism
9 783039 421824
Stranger in the Village
Le racisme au miroir de James Baldwin
James Baldwin (1924–87) penned his famous essay “Stranger in the Village” in the
early 1950s during a stay in the Swiss Alpine village of Loèches-les-Bains. It is the
starting point for an artistic examination of the subject of racism in Switzerland, and
in the art and culture industries in particular, that is documented in this multilingual
French-German book.
Works by international contemporary artists—including Igshaan Adams, Kader
Attia, Omar Ba, James Bantone, Marlene Dumas, Melanie Grauer, Jonathan Horowitz,
Sasha Huber, Pierre Koralnik, Glenn Ligon, Martine Syms, and others—reflect
and react to Baldwin’s literary-political treatise. Essays contributed by distinguished
authors supplement the artistic debate and highlight the consequences of the prevailing
structural racism.
The book is an invitation to break taboos. It holds a mirror up to us, raising
questions that concern us all, and reveals the topicality of everyday racism to every
one of us through the artworks it features.
Céline Eidenbenz is a curator and head of the program group at the
Aargauer Kunsthaus in Aarau, Switzerland, where Sarah Mühlebach
works as a research assistant.
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Casematte
25
126 127
Aldo Mozzini è un outsider e come tale è naturale che una delle sue più
grandi abilità consista nel tenersi in equilibrio, lontano dalle facili
classificazioni e in un certo senso anche fuori dal tempo. Le sue opere,
come personaggi e relitti, accompagnano il suo mood notturno e
dimesso, come i membri di un coro sgangherato. Aldo ama chiamare
le costruzioni e gli abitacoli che costellano la sua opera installativa
“le mie casette”. Da questi oggetti abitabili – un po’ autoritratti e un po’
materializzazioni di una stratificazione della memoria urbana collettiva –
siamo partiti nel concepire questa insolita monografia, che pretende
di mostrare l’opera dell’artista in una prospettiva storica e allo stesso
tempo ne celebra l’attitudine ostinata, in perpetua opposizione al senso
comune e al clamore dello spettacolo.
L’opera di Mozzini dà voce a un’idea di resilienza che vuole rimanere
opaca, accessibile solo fino a un certo punto. Trasmette calore e immanenza,
spesso incute in noi un sentimento di tenerezza o di compassione,
salvo poi farci accorgere di essere stati facili prede di sentimenti meccanici
che non per forza siamo in grado di controllare. Le cose, le forme,
i ritmi e persino i colori, prima di essere isolati e resi riconoscibili da
una qualche forma di cultura fluiscono indisturbati. Utilizzando i resti
e i materiali di scarto come mezzo di ispirazione per concepire le sue
installazioni ambientali, Mozzini rende semplicemente visibile uno stato
delle cose che tutti noi percepiamo ma che spesso ci dimentichiamo di
osservare. Nel suo lavoro c’è spazio per l’introspezione, ma anche per
quei sentimenti che l’estetica mainstream evita accuratamente di
contemplare: la gelosia, la cattiveria, l’ottusità, l’ostilità, l’insidia, il
capriccio e il partito preso.
Mi sono permesso di ribattezzare questi ritratti architettonici vernacolari
con il termine di “casematte”, mettendo in evidenza la natura bellica
che le contraddistingue, il loro essere nate con lo scopo di stimolare
l’incertezza e lo spaesamento riconnettendoci a un universo archetipo
che non siamo abituati a stimolare in modo analogico. Le casematte
di Aldo Mozzini sono dotate di personalità e si sanno adattare agli
ambienti più disparati. Fatte di rifiuti, di resti edili, di pezzi di legno
e di cartone si esprimono al meglio in luoghi imperfetti o trasandati; si
sviluppano e proliferano nelle zone d’ombra. E spesso sono autoilluminate,
quasi a reclamare il diritto di esprimere la loro diversa natura.
24 Dogana, 1995
Furniture and abodes: the fascinating art
of Aldo Mozzini
Edited by Noah Stolz
Book design by Atelier CIAO,
Nicolas Polli
In cooperation with Museo Casa
Rusca, Locarno and Edizioni
Casagrande, Bellinzona
Hardback
304 pages, 153 color and
70 b/w illustrations
16.5 × 22 cm
978-3-03942-199-2
English / German / Italian
sFr. 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 35.00 | $ 45.00
MARCH 2024 (Europe)
ISBN JULY 9783039421992 2024 (US)
First monograph on Swiss artist
Aldo Mozzini
Richly illustrated with previously
unpublished photos of Aldo
Mozzini’s installations, sculptures,
paintings, and sketchbooks
With contributions by distinguished
Swiss curators Alexandra Blättler,
Giovanni Carmine, and Noah Stolz
Grottino (III), 2023
9 783039 421992
Aldo Mozzini. Casematte
152
130
122 123
42
Zollhaus, 2017
des geselligen Beisammenseins, unbequem und wackelig, wie sie sind.
Gemein ist ihnen, dass sie alle bereits ein Leben hinter sich haben.
Gleichberechtigt und ihres Daseins bewusst, leicht lädiert, sind sie in
der Gegenwart angekommen, um nach Ausstellungsende im künstlerischen
Lager in Einzelteile zerlegt ein zweites und später drittes Leben
zu leben. Ihre zeitbasierte, anthropomorphe Figürlichkeit mutet
humorvoll und gleichzeitig melancholisch an, stehen ihnen doch die
Vergänglichkeit und die Spuren des Lebens sozusagen ins Gesicht oder
in die Gliedmassen geschrieben. Wie gelingt es Aldo Mozzini, diese
Aura des Ungeschliffenen und Ursprünglichen immer wieder mit solcher
Präzision zu erreichen? Er selber betont auf diese Frage hin den
Moment des Anspruchslosen als Basis jeglichen künstlerischen Erzeugnisses.
Dabei gilt es immer und immer wieder, das perfektionierte
Handwerk zu vergessen und an den Ursprung zurückzukehren — und
weil dies nicht wirklich möglich ist, diesen ersten und puren Moment
immer und immer wieder in Erinnerung zu rufen.
43
Blumenhaus, 2021
Grottino (III), 2023
Aldo Mozzini. Casematte is the first major book on the work of Swiss artist Aldo
Mozzini. It features his energetic art through more than 200 illustrations along with
texts by distinguished Swiss curators. A conversation with the artist rounds off the
volume, which highlights Mozzini’s contribution to the contemporary art scene in
Switzerland.
Born in Locarno in 1956, Aldo Mozzini has lived and worked in Zurich since the
1980s. Galleries and museums in Switzerland, Italy, and France have shown his works
in solo and group exhibitions, and he has won the Swiss Art Award twice, in 2012 and
2019. His oeuvre comprises drawing, painting, objects, photography, sculpture, and
installation, moving restlessly from one form of expression to another.
The book reviews 40 years of Mozzini’s career and explores various aspects of
his humorous and poetic art. The impressive body of his paintings and graphic works
is closely linked to the sculptures and installations that remain Aldo Mozzini’s preferred
media.
Noah Stolz, born 1976, is a Geneva-based freelance curator, critic, and
editor. He also directs the interdisciplinary archive project Stella Maris
(stellamaris-atlas.net).
Aldo Mozzinis zeichnerisches Werk ist in seiner Entstehung durchaus
den Skulpturen verwandt und hat einen genauso narrativen Charakter.
Wenige Sätze, Wortkombinationen wechseln sich ab mit Zeichnungen,
die sich auf den ersten Blick aus einer ununterbrochenen,
schnellen Linie herausschälen. Simple Umrisse von Objekten, Labyrinthen,
Situationen, geometrische Formeln reihen sich aneinander
und erzählen nur vermeintlich eine Geschichte. In Wirklichkeit funktionieren
sie assoziativ und lassen, vergleichbar mit Mozzinis dreidimensionalen,
zusammengebauten Charakteren, viel Spielraum für
die Lesart seitens der Betrachtenden. Das zeichnerische Werk findet
seinen Niederschlag in Booklets, Notizbüchern und erinnert an Tagebücher,
in denen alltägliche Ideen, Erlebtes und Erfahrenes oder
Erdachtes zusammengefasst werden und eine Präsenz des Existenziellen
verbreiten.
226
An dieser Stelle will ich innehalten und eine der eingangs erwähnten
Brücken in die Kunstgeschichte schlagen. Wir finden uns im Herzen
der Innerschweiz wieder, meiner Geburts- und aktuellen Wirkungsstätte,
nur mindestens 55 Jahre früher, als das Wirken von Jean-Christoph
Ammann seit den späten 1960er-Jahren im Kunstmuseum Luzern
bei einer jungen Künstlergeneration – Aldo Walker, Urs Lüthi, Martin
Disler oder Hugo Suter – tiefe Spuren hinterliess. Auch der Schrift-
134 135
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Previously announced, release in Spring 2024:
Edited by Hubertus von Amelunxen
and Ali Ghandtschi
Book design by Megi Zumstein
Hardback
approx. 240 pages, 140 color
and b/w illustrations
24.5 × 32.5 cm
978-3-03942-088-9
English / German
sFr. 59.00 | € 58.00 | £ 50.00 | $ 70.00
Presents for the first time some
100 images from German photographer
Hans Pieler’s extraordinary
photographic study of calendar
buildings
Shows architectures of time such
as millennia-old observatories
and temple buildings on four continents
in striking photographs
Illuminating essays supplement
Pieler’s lavishly reproduced images
MAY 2024 (Europe)
ISBN AUGUST 9783039420889 2024 (US)
9 783039 420889
Time set in stone: Hans Pieler’s
fascinating photographs
of observatories and temple
buildings
Hans Pieler
Architectures of Time
For thousands of years, people have built so-called calendar buildings: structures that
served as sundials for measuring time or were used for astronomical calculations. The
most famous examples include the Pyramids of Giza, the Megalithic Temples of Malta,
the Solarium Augusti on Rome’s Campus Martius, as well as ancient observatories in
Korea, Baghdad, Cairo, or Samarkand. The oldest known archeo-astronomical device
dates back to around 6000 BCE and was only discovered some twenty years ago at
Nabta Playa in Egypt.
The German photographer Hans Pieler (1951–2012) dedicated himself and his
work of many years to these calendar buildings. In a wide-ranging photographic project
spanning fifteen years, Pieler travelled the world in search of such sites, studied
them, and recorded many of them in striking photographs. His interest was focused
both on the architecture and its particular coding through the respective culture as
well as on the theory of photography as an allegorical image of time.
Pieler’s premature passing in 2012 led to the fascinating project remaining unfinished
and unpublished. This book now for the first time features a selection of some
100 of the best images from the artist’s estate. Supplemented by illuminating essays,
they form a unique photographic study of these architectures and their meaning and
purpose as a reflection of time set in stone.
Hubertus von Amelunxen is an art historian, editor, curator, photography
critic, and professor for the philosophy of photography and cultural studies.
He served as president of Braunschweig University of Art and of the European
Graduate School, based in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, and Valletta, Malta.
Ali Ghandtschi is a Berlin-based photographer and keeper of the estate
of Hans Pieler.
Scheidegger & Spiess
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Recent Highlights
Alberto Giacometti—Time Passes
Too Soon
Family Letters
Alberto Giacometti (1901–66) maintained close ties to his
family throughout his life. At least once a week he wrote to
his parents to keep them up to date on anything that was
important to him. For the first time ever, excerpts from this
correspondence are published in this book, revealing insights
into this close-knit family and the core concerns of Giacometti’s
life and work as an artist.
Commented and with an introduction
by Casimiro Di Crescenzo
Paperback
256 pages, 16 color and
26 b/w illustrations
14.7 × 22 cm
978-3-03942-169-5 English
978-3-03942-168-8 German
sFr. 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 32.00 | $ 40.00
ISBN 9783039421695
English
9 783039 421695
ISBN 9783039421688
German
9 783039 421688
Ernst Scheidegger
Photographer
Ernst Scheidegger (1923–2016) ranks among Switzerland’s most distinguished
photographers of the 20th century. His portraits of artists made his name
internationally. Scheidegger’s photographs of Alberto Giacometti at his Paris
studio or in his native Val Bregaglia in Switzerland continue to shape the
public image of this celebrated artist today.
Ernst Scheidegger: Photographer offers a fresh and contemporary look
at his multi-faceted body of work. In particular, it enables an encounter with
Scheidegger’s hitherto little-published early work and thus undertakes a reassessment
of his entire oeuvre. The images are supplemented by essays that trace
his career and self-concept as a photographer and bring his personality to life.
Edited by Thomas Haemmerli
and Brigitte Ulmer
Hardback
336 pages, 187 color and
71 b/w illustrations
21.5 × 26.5 cm
978-3-03942-164-0 English
978-3-03942-163-3 German
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 45.00 | $ 55.00
APRIL 2024 (Europe) | JULY 2024 (US)
ISBN 9783039421640
English
ISBN 9783039421633
German
Circle! Square! Progress!
Zurich’s Concrete Avant-garde. Max Bill, Camille Graeser,
Verena Loewensberg, Richard Paul Lohse and Their Times
The Zurich Concretists—along with Dada—are the most important
art movement originating from Switzerland. Rooted
in the Bauhaus, Soviet Constructivism, and De Stjil, it helped
to shape European post-war modernity and Latin American
art. The Concretists aimed to change society through typography,
design, and architecture, and they played a key role in
the development of Swiss Graphic Style. This book tells their
story in the context of their times.
Edited by Stiftung Ernst Scheidegger Archiv
Hardback
248 pages, 12 color and 168 b/w illustrations
23 × 30 cm
978-3-03942-178-7 English
978-3-03942-173-2 German
sFr. 59.00 | € 58.00 | £ 50.00 | $ 65.00
ISBN 9783039421787
English
9 783039 421787
ISBN 9783039421732
German
9 783039 421732
9 783039 421640
9 783039 421633
Alpine Passes of Switzerland
Journey to Modernity
For centuries, the Alps were an almost insurmountable barrier
on the way from Europe’s north to the south, and vice versa.
Today, highways and high-capacity railroad lines serve as indispensable
transit routes. Richard von Tscharner’s striking photographs
demonstrate the boldness of Switzerland’s modern
Alpine crossings and their beautiful landscapes. Supplementary
essays trace their history, explain their military importance,
and describe the vision that resulted in the construction of new
base tunnels for train lines opened in 2007 and 2016.
2 volumes, paperback
400 pages
12.6 × 21.6 cm
978-3-03942-115-2 English
978-3-03942-114-5 German
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 42.00 | $ 50.00
ISBN 9783039421152
English
9 783039 421152
ISBN 9783039421145
German
9 783039 421145
Alfredo Häberli
Edited by Richard von Tscharner,
Fondation Carène
Hardback
264 pages, 50 color and
74 b/w illustrations
30 × 30 cm
978-3-03942-162-6 English
978-3-03942-156-5 German
sFr. 79.00 | € 77.00 | £ 75.00 | $ 85.00
ISBN 9783039421626
English
9 783039 421626
ISBN 9783039421565
German
9 783039 421565
Verbal Doodling. 30 Years, Questions, Answers.
Alfredo Häberli is one of the world’s most widely acclaimed
product designers. Major international brands such as BMW,
Camper, Georg Jensen, Iittala, or Vitra can be found among
his clients. In the first of these two volumes, Häberli looks back
at the people, places, and objects that have influenced him and
shaped his ideas and creative process. For the second volume,
he has invited 30 personalities from his circle to ask him one
question each, which he answers frankly and in good humor.
Hannah Höch
Assembled Worlds
In the 1920s, Hannah Höch (1889–1978) broke with the traditions of representation
and vision. Her works dissected a world marked by the catastrophe
of the Great War and an intense consumer culture, and reassembled it in
revolutionary, poetic, and often ironic ways. Höch kept to her artistic means
and her poetic-radical imagination, oscillating between social observation
and a dream world, even in the post-WWII period. Scissors and glue were the
weapons of her art of montage, of which she was a co-inventor.
Richly illustrated and expertly annotated, Hannah Höch: Assembled
Worlds for the first time explores this extraordinary artist’s fascination with
film and the visual culture of the modern industrial age. The book demonstrates
how the technique of montage evolved in the interplay between artistic
experimentation, commercial exploitation, and political appropriation.
Edited by Stella Rollig, Martin Waldmeier, and Nina Zimmer
Paperback
200 pages, 154 color and 15 b/w illustrations
17 × 23 cm
978-3-03942-172-5 English
978-3-03942-171-8 German
sFr. 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 32.00 | $ 40.00
ISBN 9783039421725
English
9 783039 421725
ISBN 9783039421718
German
9 783039 421718
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Recent Highlights 13

Aenne Biermann: one of the most
significant European avant-garde
photographers of the 20th century
Aenne Biermann
Up Close and Personal
978-3-85881-882-9
ISBN 9783858818829
English / Hebrew
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 42.00 | $ 50.00
9 783858 818829
The cheerful style of Zurich-based
Atelier Zanolli
Atelier Zanolli
Fabrics, Fashion, Craft 1905–1939
978-3-03942-082-7 English
978-3-03942-081-0 German
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 45.00 |
ISBN 9783039420827
ISBN 9783039420810 $ 55.00
English
German
The evolution of the Bauhaus brand
and its use around the world since 1919
Philipp Oswalt
Bauhaus Brand 1919–2019
The Victory of Iconic Form over Use
978-3-85881-856-0 English
978-3-85881-620-7 German
sFr. ISBN 9783858818560 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 35.00 ISBN 9783858816207
| $ 39.00
English
German
Painter Caroline Bachmann: 2022
laureate of Switzerland’s Prix Meret
Oppenheim for art
Caroline Bachmann
978-3-85881-886-7 ISBN 9783858818867 English / French
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 45.00 | $ 55.00
9 783858 818867
9 783039 420827
9 783039 420810
9 783858 818560
9 783858 816207
In conversation, Peter Zumthor explores
his own and his guests’ passions
Dear to Me
Peter Zumthor in Conversation
978-3-03942-010-0 English
978-3-03942-009-4 German
sFr. 160.00 | € 150.00 | £ 140.00 |
ISBN 9783039420100
ISBN 9783039420094 $ 180.00
English
German
A multilayered dialogue between
visual artist Uwe Wittwer and poet Jürg
Halter in a beautifully designed book
Deserted Boat Drifting Towards
the Moon
978-3-03942-132-9 English
ISBN
/
9783039421329
German
sFr. 29.00 | € 29.00 | £ 28.00 | $ 35.00
Peter Zumthor’s surprising and
revealing reflections on time and
history in conversation with
architectural historian Mari Lending
A Feeling of History
978-3-85881-805-8 English
978-3-85881-812-6 French
978-3-85881-558-3 German
sFr. 29.00 | € 29.00 | £ 25.00 | $ 29.00
ISBN 9783858818058
ISBN 9783858818126
ISBN 9783858815583
The magic and fascination of Chinese
jade objects outstandingly presented
through photographs
Forever Jade
Chinese Jade Miniatures from Four
Millennia
978-3-03942-102-2 English ISBN / 9783039421022 German
sFr. 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 32.00 | $ 45.00
9 783039 421329
English French German
9 783039 420100
9 783039 420094
9 783039 421022
9 783858 818058
9 783858 818126
9 783858 815583
Rüschegg: a turning-point in choice of
motif and medium in the oeuvre of this
master of photorealism
Angelika Affentranger-Kirchrath
Franz Gertsch—Rüschegg
Landmarks of Swiss Art
978-3-85881-663-4
ISBN 9783858816634
English / German
sFr. 29.00 | € 29.00 | £ 25.00 | $ 29.00
A fascinating journey through art
history: highlights from ETH Zürich’s
collection of prints and drawings
From Albrecht Dürer to Andy Warhol
Masterpieces from the Graphische
Sammlung ETH Zürich
978-3-03942-155-8 English
978-3-03942-154-1 German
sFr. ISBN 9783039421558 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 50.00 ISBN 9783039421541
| $ 55.00
The constant flux of landscapes and
cities in Swiss photographer Georg
Aerni’s recent work
Georg Aerni—Silent Transition
New Works
978-3-03942-074-2 ISBN 9783039420742 English / German
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 45.00 | $ 50.00
The eventful genesis of Giovanni
Segantini’s landmark Alpine triptych
Juerg Albrecht
Giovanni Segantini. La Vita—La
Natura—La Morte
Landmarks of Swiss Art
978-3-03942-072-8 English / German
ISBN 9783039420728
sFr. 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 35.00 | $ 45.00
9 783858 816634
English
German
9 783039 420742
9 783039 420728
9 783039 421558
9 783039 421541
An extraordinary artist and designer: a
fresh view of Harry Bertoia’s entire
body of work
Harry Bertoia
Sculpting Mid-Century Modern Life
978-3-85881-862-1 ISBN 9783858818621 English
sFr. 65.00 | € 58.00 | £ 52.00 | $ 59.00
A unique visual foray into the fantastic
worlds of artist HR Giger
HR Giger by Camille Vivier
978-3-03942-116-9 English
ISBN
/
9783039421169
German
sFr. 99.00 | € 97.00 | £ 85.00 | $ 110.00
9 783039 421169
A glimpse into the art world through
the mind of painter Rachel Lumsden
Rachel Lumsden
Igniting Penguins
A Manifesto for Painting
978-3-03942-146-6 English
978-3-03942-145-9 German
sFr. 29.00 | € 29.00 | £ 25.00 |
ISBN 9783039421466
ISBN 9783039421459 $ 35.00
The entertaining album of a journey
with design objects by Italian architect
and designer Matteo Thun
In the Summer of 2009
Photographs by Walter Pfeiffer, Design
by Matteo Thun
978-3-03942-137-4 EnglishISBN 9783039421374
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 42.00 | $ 50.00
9 783858 818621
English
German
9 783039 421374
9 783039 421466
9 783039 421459
Scheidegger & Spiess
Key Titles 14
Scheidegger & Spiess
Key Titles 15

Isabelle Cornaro discusses the sources
and evolution of her art, which
demonstrates how perception is conditioned
by culture
Isabelle Cornaro
The Fascination with the Material and
the Aversion to it
978-3-85881-871-3 ISBN 9783858818713 English / French
sFr. 15.00 | € 15.00 | £ 12.00 | $ 18.00
The authoritative book on American
photographer Jan Groover and her
highly original and experimental work
Jan Groover, Photographer
Laboratory of Forms
978-3-85881-838-6 ISBN 9783858818386 English
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 45.00 | $ 49.00
Swiss artist duo Sabina Lang and
Daniel Baumann’s catalog of models
Lang/Baumann. Models
978-3-03942-166-4 ISBN 9783039421664 English / German
sFr. 29.00 | € 29.00 | £ 25.00 | $ 35.00
9 783039 421664
As her artistic practice evolves, Latifa
Echakhch considers the role of
listening, rhythm, and sound space
Latifa Echakhch
Now I Can Shut My Eyes and I Hear
the Entire Space
978-3-85881-872-0
ISBN 9783858818720
English / French
sFr. 15.00 | € 15.00 | £ 12.00 | $ 18.00
9 783858 818386
9 783858 818720
9 783858 818713
The collected essays on Le Corbusier
by distinguished Swiss architectural
theorist Bruno Reichlin
Le Corbusier. De la solution
élégante à l’œuvre ouvert
A timely tribute to Romantic painting:
the Swiss artist brothers Léopold and
Aurèle Robert
Léopold et Aurèle Robert
Ô Saisons …
Between vibrant metropolis and placid
Switzerland: Lill Tschudi’s modernist
linocuts
Lill Tschudi
The Excitement of the Modern Linocut
1930–1950
A new look at the classical academic
artist Aristide Maillol (1861–1944)
and his works in the context of current
gender debates
Maillol—a Different View
978-3-85881-854-6 French
978-3-85881-669-6 German
sFr. ISBN 9783858818546 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 45.00 ISBN 9783858816696
| $ 55.00
978-3-85881-887-4 FrenchISBN 9783858818874
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 45.00 | $ 55.00
978-3-03942-057-5 ISBN 9783039420575 English / German
sFr. 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 35.00 | $ 45.00
978-3-03942-125-1 English ISBN / 9783039421251 German
sFr. 25.00 | € 25.00 | £ 22.00 | $ 29.00
French
German
9 783858 818874
9 783039 420575
9 783039 421251
9 783858 818546
9 783858 816696
The monotype is both print and
one- of-a- kind original at the
same time—Marguerite Saegesser
was a master of this technique
Marguerite Saegesser
American Monotypes
978-3-03942-133-6 ISBN 9783039421336 English / German
sFr. 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 35.00 | $ 40.00
The life and work of Swiss architect
and cultural trailblazer Max Alioth
(1930–2010)
Max Alioth
Architect Draughtsman Trailblazer
978-3-03942-089-6 ISBN 9783039420896 English / German
sFr. 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 35.00 | $ 45.00
A beautiful volume displaying Max
Bill’s wide-ranging work and placing
him in the context of his cultural milieu
Max Bill
No Beginning, No End
978-3-85881-578-1 ISBN 9783858815781 English / German
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 45.00 | $ 55.00
Max Bill as a key figure of modernism
in Europe and globally connected
renaissance man
Max Bill Global
An Artist Building Bridges
978-3-85881-877-5 English
978-3-85881-697-9 German
sFr. ISBN 9783858818775 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 42.00 ISBN 9783858816979
| $ 50.00
9 783039 420896
9 783858 815781
English
German
9 783039 421336
9 783858 818775
9 783858 816979
The life and work of Meret Oppenheim:
insights, interpretations, and indications
Meret Oppenheim Enigmas
A Journey Through Her Life and Work
978-3-03942-063-6 English
978-3-03942-046-9 German
sFr. 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 30.00 | $ 39.00
ISBN 9783039420636
ISBN 9783039420469
Intimate insights: Meret Oppenheim’s
album and autobiography
Meret Oppenheim—My Album
The autobiographical Album “From
Childhood until 1943” and her
handwritten biography
978-3-03942-093-3 English ISBN / 9783039420933 German
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 42.00 | $ 50.00
Urban walls as projection surfaces of
public debate: the paintings of Burhan
Doğançay
Les murs de Burhan Doğançay
978-3-03942-180-0
ISBN 9783039421800
French / German
sFr. 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 35.00 | $ 45.00
A unique long-term project of
photographic art without camera
The Never Taken Images
Photographic Paper Archive 1880–1990
978-3-03942-091-9
English / French / GermanISBN 9783039420919
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 45.00 | $ 55.00
English
German
9 783039 421800
9 783039 420919
9 783039 420636
9 783039 420469
9 783039 420933
Scheidegger & Spiess
Key Titles 16
Scheidegger & Spiess
Key Titles 17

An illustrated reader on the highly
topical subject of tribal art in
the museums of the Global North
Pathways of Art
How Objects Get to the Museum
978-3-03942-097-1 English
978-3-03942-096-4 German
sFr. ISBN 9783039420971 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 32.00 ISBN 9783039420964
| $ 40.00
English
German
An extraordinary collection of
Paul Klee’s drawings, watercolors,
and prints
Paul Klee
The Sylvie and Jorge Helft Collection
978-3-03942-107-7 English
978-3-03942-106-0 German
sFr. ISBN 9783039421077 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 42.00 ISBN 9783039421060
| $ 50.00
English
German
Paul Klee’s studies on polyphonic
painting: the beginning of a new
period
Oskar Bätschmann
Paul Klee—Ad Parnassum
Landmarks of Swiss Art
978-3-03942-011-7 ISBN 9783039420117 English / German
sFr. 29.00 | € 29.00 | £ 25.00 | $ 29.00
Emotional prodigy—and brilliant art
forger: Wolfgang Beltracchi
Jeannette Fischer
Psychoanalyst Meets Helene and
Wolfgang Beltracchi
Artist Couple Meets Jeannette Fischer
978-3-03942-071-1 English
978-3-03942-070-4 German
ISBN 978-3-03942-071-1
ISBN 978-3-03942-070-4
sFr. 25.00 | € 19.00 | £ 20.00 | $ 25.00
English
German
9 783039 420117
9 783039 420971
9 783039 420964
9 783039 421077
9 783039 421060
9 783039 420711
9 783039 420704
A unique insight into Marina
Abramovićs biography and
art and what connects the two
Psychoanalyst meets
Marina Abramović
Artist meets Jeannette Fischer
978-3-85881-794-5 English
978-3-85881-546-0 German
sFr. 19.00 | € 19.00 | £ 18.00 | $ 20.00
ISBN 978-3-85881-794-5
ISBN 978-3-85881-546-0
A new study of Ibram Lassaw’s
wearable sculptures
Quanta of Space
The Bosom Sculpture of Ibram Lassaw
978-3-85881-890-4 EnglishISBN 9783858818904
sFr. 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 35.00 | $ 39.00
9 783858 818904
A unique study of and reference work
on Carl Gustav Jung’s monumental
Red Book (Liber Novus)
Jill Mellick
The Red Book Hours
Discovering C.G. Jung’s Art Mediums
and Creative Process
978-3-85881-816-4 ISBN 9783858818164 English
sFr. 120.00 | € 97.00 | £ 90.00 | $ 120.00
The entire Burri: this book presents for
the first time the full range of René
Burri’s creative force and interests
René Burri—Explosions of Sight
978-3-85881-845-4 English
978-3-85881-661-0 German
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 45.00 |
ISBN 9783858818454
ISBN 9783858816610 $ 49.00
English
German
English
German
9 783858 818164
9 783858 818454
9 783858 816610
9 783858 817945
9 783858 815460
Silvie Defraoui looks back on her first
encounters with art and mixed media,
and on how memory is endlessly
superimposed
Silvie Defraoui
A Work is Never Created Alone, but in
Conversation with the World
978-3-85881-873-7 ISBN 9783858818737 English / French
sFr. 15.00 | € 15.00 | £ 12.00 | $ 18.00
Equilibre: Sophie Taeuber-Arp’s
defining work as a painter
Walburga Krupp
Sophie Taeuber-Arp—Equilibre
Landmarks of Swiss Art
978-3-85881-662-7 English / German
ISBN 9783858816627
sFr. 29.00 | € 29.00 | £ 25.00 | $ 29.00
From Constructivism to Art Deco and
back to Avant-garde and the Bauhaus: a
unique survey of transformations of
Soviet interior design across six decades
Soviet Design
From Constructivism to Modernism.
1920–1980
978-3-85881-846-1 English
ISBN 9783858818461
sFr. 99.00 | € 77.00 | £ 65.00 | $ 85.00
Between abstraction and tradition:
Sam Francis’s fruitful encounters with
Japanese culture
Richard Speer
The Space of Effusion
Sam Francis in Japan
978-3-85881-861-4 ISBN 9783858818614 English
sFr. 75.00 | € 68.00 | £ 60.00 | $ 65.00
9 783858 816627
9 783858 818614
9 783858 818737
9 783858 818461
Swiss graphic design: new perspectives
on the history of an internationally
acclaimed discipline
Swiss Graphic Design Histories
978-3-85881-868-3
ISBN 9783858818683
English
sFr. 99.00 | € 97.00 | £ 80.00 | $ 99.00
9 783858 818683
A unique visual study of spatial change
in Switzerland since 2005
Urban Change Over Time
The Photographic Observation of
Schlieren 2005–2020 Reveals How
Switzerland Is Changing
978-3-03942-140-4 English
978-3-03942-139-8 German
ISBN 9783039421404
ISBN 9783039421398
sFr. 79.00 | € 77.00 | £ 70.00 | $ 85.00
English
German
New works by painter and former art
forger Wolfgang Beltracchi alongside
texts by distinguished authors
Wolfgang Beltracchi
The Return of Salvator Mundi
978-3-03942-142-8 English
978-3-03942-138-1 German
sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 42.00 |
ISBN 9783039421428
ISBN 9783039421381 $ 50.00
English
German
Yao Jui-chung: one of Taiwan’s most
internationally acclaimed contemporary
artists
Yao Jui-chung
978-3-03942-135-0 English
sFr. 59.00 | € 58.00 | £ 55.00 | $ 65.0
ISBN 9783039421350
9 783039 421350
9 783039 421404
9 783039 421398
9 783039 421428
9 783039 421381
Scheidegger & Spiess
Key Titles 18
Scheidegger & Spiess
Key Titles 19

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