Books from Walther Konig

  • Jonathan Horowitz, Elisabeth Peyton - Secret Life
    By Sadie Coles HQ.

    Secret Life, a collaboration between the celebrated artists Jonathan Horowitz (born 1966) and Elizabeth Peyton (born 1965), revolves around the broad theme of flowers and plants.

  • Jörg Immendorff: Versuch, Adler zu werden
    By Tilman Spengler, Corinna Thierolf, Karen Appel

    Immendorff's innovative way of dealing with history and the present comes to life by way of around 40 key works from the Bayerischen Staatsgemäldesammlungen as well as a renowned private German collection.Seven stories by the author Tilman ...

  • Christopher Williams: Printed in Germany (Yellow Edition)
    By Christopher Williams

    As with all publications in the series, it has been produced in three colors--yellow, red, and green--each of which features subtle differences in layout.

  • Mike Nelson: Space that Saw (platform for a Performance in Two Parts)
    By Mike Nelson

    A carpenter's workshop seems long abandoned and traces of human activity can still be made out, yet this is, in fact, a construct of the artist, just like the spotlit theater stage.

  • Figure in the Garden: Katharina Fritsch at the Museum of Modern Art
    By Museum of Modern Art, Ann Temkin, N.Y.)

    Published to accompany the exhibition 'Figure in the garden' at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

  • James Lee Byars: I Give You Genius
    By James Lee Byars, Gabriele Uerscheln, Claudio Abate

    The photographer Claudio Abate, as a congenial observer, astutely identifies the artist's ideas and follows the lines of the perfect axis, making the dialogue between the architecture of the exhibition space and the works of art visible.The ...

  • James Lee Byars: 1/2 an Autobiography
    By James Lee Byars

    This volume also includes a series of previously unseen interviews that artist and art historian David Sewell conducted with Byars in the late 1970s in preparation for a book that was never published.

  • Kathryn Andrews: Strip
    By Kathryn Andrews

    In Strip, snapshot photos of Hollywood Boulevard's 'Walk of Fame' reel and collide, resulting in random but systematic juxtapositions of street performers and gawking tourists.As the reader turns the pages of Kathryn Andrews' first artist ...

  • Punki: performance for Maurizio Cattelan by Bernard Wilson, 2007
    By Andreas Bee, Maurizio Cattelan, Udo Kittelmann

    But who is Punki and who is Bernard Wilson? This is a richly illustrated game of deception in book form and another unconventional new work from the agent provocateur of the international art scene. English and German text.

  • Reflection on a Past Life
    By William Nelson Copley

    This essay, written in 1976 for the exhibition ‘Paris-New York’, frankly and engagingly depicts episodes in the lives of Surrealist artists from the perspective of a younger colleague in a portrayal that is at once revealing and ...

  • Anish Kapoor, Drawings 1997-2003
    By Jeremy Lewison, Anish Kapoor

    Edited by Jill Silverman. Essays by Jeremy Lewison and Laurent Busine.

  • Janet Cardiff: The Walk Book
    By Janet Cardiff, Mirjam Schaub

    This book documents Janet Cardiff's audio walks, the artist providing gallery-goers with walkmans which take them through the walks relying solely on the acoustic guide.

  • Bild Gegen Bild
    By Haus der Kunst München, Patrizia Dander

    The exhibition Image Counter Image, at Haus der Kunst, Munich, 10 June – 16 September 2012, presented artistic positions that focus on the critical analysis of violent conflicts in the media, beginning with the First Gulf War of ...

  • Turning the World Upside Down
    By Darian Leader, Marcus du Sautoy, Anish Kapoor

    Despite their monumental scale, the works appear as pure reflection of their surroundings: the sky, trees, water, wildlife and changing seasons.

  • Tichý: Dedicated to the Women of Kyjov
    By Miroslav Tichý

    Tichy does not see his exhibitions, for he no longer leaves his house. This beautifully produced, thorough volume collects the work--perfectly.

  • Mary Heilmann: Good Vibrations
    By Mary Heilmann

    Mary Heilmann is a typical example of a leading American artist who is not a household name outside the art world.

  • Tacita Dean
    By Hans Ulrich Obrist

    Tacita Dean’s patient and sensitive approach to her subject matter is explored in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist in this collection of in-depth interviews.

  • If Looks Could Kill: Cinema's Images of Fashion, Crime and Violence
    By Marketa Uhlirova

    The Prussian naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) was one of the most famous explorers of his generation. Charles Darwin called him 'the greatest scientific traveller who ever lived'.

  • Yaa-hoo
    By Paul McCarthy

    Yaa-hoo

  • Tokyo Santa: Performance, Sagacho-bis, Tokyo, Japan, November 22, 1996, 6pm-11pm
    By Paul McCarthy, Mitsuru Tanashi

    Artwork by Paul McCarthy.