Books from Scheidegger and Spiess

  • Roger Eberhard: Standard
    By Benedict Wells, Franziska Solte, Nadine Wietlisbach

    His very particular urban panorama reveals how similar?perhaps exchangeable?the big cities around the globe have become in many aspects and at the same time have kept some of their characteristics. 00Three essays complement Eberhard?s ...

  • Cosmos Emma Kunz: A Visionary in Dialogue with Contemporary Art
    By Yasmin Afschar

    Living a secluded life, far from any art scene, the works she created eighty years ago exemplify what we now take for granted: an expanded concept of creativity that rejects the question of art versus non-art and incorporates a wide range ...

  • Dadaglobe Reconstructed
    By Samantha Friedman, Tristan Tzara, Anne Sanouillet

    The book features all works submitted for Dadaglobe in a complete reconstruction of Tzara's concept. The essays, examining the history and significance of Dadaglobe as an avant-garde undertaking, are also richly illustrated.

  • Joel Shapiro: Sculpture and Works on Paper 1969-2019
    By Richard Shiff

    With more than two hundred striking full-color illustrations, this is a long-anticipated and much-needed survey of this vital and essential American artist.

  • City Lust: A Personal Journey Through Globalized Economy
    By Charlie Koolhaas

    City Lust is the name of a fragrance that she found in a Dubai perfumery wholesale showroom, but it is also the starting point of an expedition that leads Koolhaas to a variety of places in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the ...

  • Jacob Lawrence: Lines of Influence
    By Julie Levin Caro

    'Jacob Lawrence: Lines of Influence' explores the life, work, and legacy of acclaimed painter, storyteller, educator, and chronicler of the mid-20th-century African American experience, Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000).

  • 111 Years of Waldhaus Sils: A Journey Through Time
    By Urs Kienberger

    The book also shines a light on colorful members of the owning family and their dreams and work, interspersed with conversations with people who have known them.

  • Carole A. Feuerman: Fifty Years of Looking Good
    By John T. Spike

    They suggest that women look at themselves differently from men looking at them, that a woman is more innately creative than a man. This book is the most comprehensive survey of Feuerman?s oeuvre to date.

  • Dear to Me: Peter Zumthor in Conversation
    By Peter Zumthor

    In summer 2017, celebrated Swiss architect Peter Zumthor curated the exhibition Dear to Me at the Kunsthaus Bregenz, marking the twentieth anniversary of one of his most famous designs.

  • Harry Bertoia: Sculpting Mid-Century Modern Life
    By Marin R. Sullivan

    An extraordinary artist and designer: a fresh view of Harry Bertoia's entire body of work. Italian-born American Harry Bertoia (1915-78) was one of the most prolific and innovative artists and designers of the postwar period.

  • Kiki Smith: Hearing You with My Eyes
    By Lisa Le Feuvre, Amelia Jones

    Richly illustrated with around one-hundred of her drawings, prints, sculptures, and videos, the essays confront the reader with his or her own physicality and invites a reflection of our role within our entire environment.00Exhibition: ...

  • What Moves Us?: Le Corbusier and Asger Jorn in Art and Architecture
    By Ruth Baumeister

    Museum Jorn in Silkeborg, Denmark, commemorates the 50th anniversary of Le Corbusier's passing with an exhibition and an academic conference. The coinciding book will reflect both, the exhibition's content and the results of the conference.

  • Charlotte Perriand: Complete Works. Volume 4: 1969-1999
    By Jacques Barsac

    The concluding fourth volume of this definitive monograph on Charlotte Perriand (1903?1999) covers the last three decades of her long career.

  • The Red Book Hours: Discovering C.G. Jung's Art Mediums and Creative Process
    By Jill Mellick

    'The Red Book Hours' complements the facsimile edition and English-language translation of 'The Red Book', published in 2009, and draws out the insights into Jung's affinity with art as a means of personal insight.

  • Psychoanalyst Meets Marina Abramovic: Jeannette Fischer Meets Artist
    By Jeannette Fischer

    Based largely on four days of conversations between the artist and the psychoanalyst, the book includes excerpts from those conversations

  • Clara Friedrich: Künstlerin und Sammlerin
    By Eva Frosch, Clara Friedrich

    Clara Friedrich: Künstlerin und Sammlerin

  • In the Summer of 2009: Photographs by Walter Pfeiffer, Design by Matteo Thun
    By Walter Pfeiffer, Matteo Thun

    " The artist was accompanied on his journey by Thun's two then-teenage sons, who form the main visual narrative of the book and appear in many pictures together with their father's creations.

  • Chavín: Peru's Enigmatic Temple in the Andes
    By Peter Fux

    The volume includes in addition a catalogue dedicated to the pieces displayed in the exhibition, as well as other individual texts that recognize the artistic and aesthetic quality of art produced in this time.

  • Dry Stone Walls: Fundamentals, Construction Guidelines, Significance
    By Swiss Environmental Action Foundation

    The book will serve as a guide for future generations everywhere to this ancient practice that is in danger of extinction.

  • American Readers at Home
    By Ludovic Balland

    Through their statements and the expressive full-page color portraits featured in the book, we are encouraged to consider their perspectives--their hopes, fears, and expectations both before and after the election.