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The book also includes images of newly commissioned works in the exhibition.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nEsteemed authors and creative practitioners—including Jeremy Bailey, Zach Blas, James Bridle, Michael Connor, Aria Dean, Simon Denny, DIS, Orit Gat, Cadence Kinsey, Olia Lialina, Joanne McNeil, Trevor Paglen, Heather Phillipson, Monira Al Qadiri, Jared Quinton, Martine Syms, Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead, and Nina Wexelblatt—use the book as a jumping-off point to broaden the critical debate on art that engages with continually evolving digital technologies.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFlexi-cover, 184 pages with 34 color illustrations and 52 b\/w illustrations, copublished by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and DelMonico Books•Prestel.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nThe exhibition \u003cem\u003eI Was Raised on the Internet \u003c\/em\u003ewas presented at the MCA Jun 23–Oct 14, 2018. \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mcachicago.org\/Exhibitions\/2018\/I-Was-Raised-On-The-Internet\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eLearn more\u003c\/a\u003e.\n\n\n\n","brand":"MCA - CATALOGS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42520491458803,"sku":"9783791358024","price":4.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/3324\/5171\/products\/13092-DEFAULT-l.jpg?v=1646752686"},{"product_id":"the-best-of-keren-cytter-the-worst-of-keren-cytter","title":"The Best of Keren Cytter\/The Worst of Keren Cytter","description":"\u003cem\u003eThe Best of Keren Cytter\/The Worst of Keren Cytter \u003c\/em\u003eis the first comprehensive publication of multidisciplinary artist Keren Cytter’s video screenplays. The artist invited two curators, Jacob Fabricius, formerly of the Kunsthal Charlottenborg, and Naomi Beckwith, of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, to read and categorize transcripts of the entire body of her video work. The curators then debated the merits of every screenplay, ultimately deeming them representative of the best or worst of her work. This soft-cover, two-volume publication contains essays by both curators, explaining their experience reading and categorizing the screenplays, as well as two posters depicting stills from the best and worst of the artist’s work.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nThis book is published by the Kunsthal Charlottenborg and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, on the occasion of the exhibition \u003cem\u003eKeren Cytter\u003c\/em\u003e, curated and presented by Jacob Fabricius at the Kunsthal Charlottenborg, September 19–December 28, 2014; and at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, March, 28–October 4, 2015, where it was organized by Naomi Beckwith. \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www2.mcachicago.org\/exhibition\/keren-cytter\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eLearn more.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nScripts by Keren Cytter; edited and with contributions by Naomi Beckwith and Jacob Fabricius; and produced by the Wrong Studio, in collaboration with the Design, Publishing, and New Media Department of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. 900 pages, published by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.\n\n\n\n","brand":"MCA - CATALOGS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42520491622643,"sku":"9788788944525","price":4.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/3324\/5171\/products\/9676-DEFAULT-l.jpg?v=1646752697"},{"product_id":"out-of-place-contemporary","title":"Out of Place: Contemporary","description":"\u003cspan id=\"mac_prod_right\"\u003e  The work from this 2002 MCA exhibition demonstrates how ordinary places can become strange and threatening and how this condition alludes to larger social issues of place and displacement. Artists featured in the exhibition included: Miriam Bäckström, Johanna Bresnick , Monica Bonvicini, Miles Coolidge, Sam Durant, Julia Fish, Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler, Tom Hunter, Doug Ischar, Joachim Koester, Paul Pfeiffer, and Jane and Louise Wilson.  Edited by Dominic Molon.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n32 pages, MCA Chicago. 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Also includes critical essays on the contemporary Mexican art scene.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nBy Julie Rodrigues Widholm. 223 pages, 130 color illustrations, MCA Chicago in association with Yale University Press, 2007. \u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nThe exhibition \u003cem\u003eEscultura Social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico City\u003c\/em\u003e was presented at the MCA Jun 23–Sep 2, 2007. \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www2.mcachicago.org\/exhibition\/escultura-social-a-new-generation-of-art-from-mexico-city\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eLearn more.\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\n\n","brand":"MCA - CATALOGS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42520492802291,"sku":"9780300134278","price":4.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/3324\/5171\/files\/6580-DEFAULT-l.webp?v=1783006135"},{"product_id":"catherine-opie-chicago-american-cities","title":"Catherine Opie: Chicago (American Cities)","description":"\u003cspan id=\"mac_prod_right\"\u003e  This group of 18 darkly radiant images of Chicago is the latest in the Los Angeles-based artist Catherine Opie's photographic series, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Cities,\u003c\/i\u003e ongoing since 1997. This newest body of work features 14 nocturnal black-and-white photographs of Chicago's architectural landscape alongside a set of four deep, four-color \"portrait\" views of Lake Michigan at different seasons.  The work shows the city's psychic and physical identity.  \u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n48 pages, 7 color illustrations and 19 duotone illustrations, MCA Chicago, 2006. The exhibition \u003ci\u003eCatherine Opie: Chicago (American Cities)\u003c\/i\u003e was presented at the MCA May 20-October 15, 2006. \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www2.mcachicago.org\/exhibition\/catherine-opie-chicago-american-cities\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eLearn more.   \u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\n","brand":"MCA - CATALOGS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42520493785331,"sku":"933856865","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/3324\/5171\/files\/6492-DEFAULT-lcopy.webp?v=1752526213"},{"product_id":"the-language-of-less-then-and-now","title":"The Language of Less (Then and Now)","description":"\u003cspan id=\"mac_prod_right\"\u003e  This impressive catalogue accompanied the MCA exhibition \u003cem\u003eThe Language of Less (Then and Now),\u003c\/em\u003e which is inspired by the museum's rich holdings of Minimalist and post-Minimalist work from the 1960s and 1970s. The exhibition was divided into two distinct parts, one devoted to a fresh reinstallation of this historical material (featuring artists such as Carl Andre, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, and Richard Serra), including recent acquisitions; and a second showcasing five contemporary artists (Leonor Antunes, Carol Bove, Jason Dodge, Gedi Sibony, and Oscar Tuazon) working within the stylistic language of their forebears, albeit with entirely new content and concerns. \u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFeaturing essays by the MCA's James W. Alsdorf Chief Curator Michael Darling and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's David Raskin, the catalogue also includes biographies of each artist, stunning detail photographs of key works, and a die-cut cover. \u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n64 pages, MCA Chicago, 2011. The exhibition \u003cem\u003eThe Language of Less (Then and Now) \u003c\/em\u003ewas presented at the MCA October 8, 2011-March 25, 2012. \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www2.mcachicago.org\/exhibition\/the-language-of-less-then-and-now\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eLearn more.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/span\u003e\n\n","brand":"MCA - CATALOGS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42520496177395,"sku":"9780933856912","price":4.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/3324\/5171\/products\/resizelang1.webp?v=1663969204"},{"product_id":"daria-martin-minotaur-70-off","title":"Daria Martin: Minotaur","description":"\u003cspan id=\"mac_prod_right\"\u003eAs part of its participation in the 3M Consortium Project with the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, the MCA has commissioned a work by the London-based American artist Daria Martin. Her elusive enigmatic films combine the intense ritualistic performativity with a rigorous yet detached photographic approach. Her 16mm film, \u003cem\u003eMinotaur, \u003c\/em\u003ewill run approximately 10 minutes and pays tribute to the work of dancer Anna Halprin, one of the key pioneers of postmodern dance and movement along with Trisha Brown, Simone Forti, and Yvonne Rainer. Halprin's life and work has had a profound influence on Martin in the implicit sensuality of the protagonists in her films and in their demonstration of a heightened awareness of the body and its relationship to other objects and the surrounding space. This film is centered on a Halprin dance based on the sculpture, \u003cem\u003eMinotaur \u003c\/em\u003eby Auguste Rodin from 1886 (also known as\u003cem\u003e Faun and Nymph\u003c\/em\u003e), a work possessing intensely erotic content (it depicts the part-man\/part-bull figure from Greek mythology with a naked young female figure in its grasp.) 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It will also feature three spaces of context: Anna Halprin's face looking at the books; the dancer's souvenirs, objects and photographs (skeleton, clay objects, photographs of bodies); and the natural surroundings beyond Halprin's dance studio, including trees, burnt out trunks, etc. These six spaces will be connected through formally inventive edits and physically inventive transitions.\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nDaria Martin was born in 1973 in San Francisco, and lives and works in London. Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions at the Kunstverein in Hamburg and the Kunsthalle Zurich (both 2005) and was featured in such important group exhibitions as The Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London (2006) and \"The Uncertain States of America\" at the Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway (2005).  This project is curated by Dominic Molon, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. It is the first solo U.S. museum exhibition for Daria Martin.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nIncludes selected material by the artist that provides an expanded cultural context for the film, as well as an interview between Daria Martin and the subject of the film, dance pioneer Anna Halprin, and individual reflections on the film by Martin and Halprin.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n88 pages, including 50 pages of color illustrations, MCA Chicago, 2009. 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Her work explores the universal experience of existing within a body, as well as the ways race, gender and sexuality intersect to form complex identities. Quarles, whose art is often considered in relation to her identity as a queer, cisgender woman of mixed race, is among the vanguard of artists who are upending the white-male-dominated art scene. This book features paintings and drawings from throughout Quarles’ career. Working mostly in acrylic, Quarles populates her canvases with polymorphous figures that reference her background in life drawing, but with an expressionist spin all her own. Her figures’ disconnected arms and legs break through a surface punctuated with bold patterns, textures and staccato markings.\u003c\/p\u003e\nCurator Grace Deveney’s illuminating insights into Quarles’s work reinforce its power and vitality and illuminate why this young painter is making waves in the contemporary art world.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 100 pages with 58 color illustrations.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The exhibition Christina Quarles was presented at the MCA Mar 13–Jan 23, 2022. \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mcachicago.org\/Exhibitions\/2020\/Christina-Quarles\"\u003eLearn more\u003c\/a\u003e","brand":"MCA - CATALOGS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42520497029363,"sku":"9781636810324","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/3324\/5171\/files\/9781636810324_c01b5.webp?v=1682372846"},{"product_id":"michael-rakowitz-backstroke-of-the-west","title":"Michael Rakowitz: Backstroke of the West","description":"Acclaimed Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitz (b. 1973) is a natural storyteller who combines personal experiences with extensive research to create contextual, illustrated objects, installations, and interventions. Based in Chicago, the artist explores contested social, cultural, and political histories in his work, inviting viewers to consider their complicit relationship to the world around them. \u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nThis lavishly illustrated catalogue accompanies the artist’s first museum survey and delves into ten of the artist’s best-known works as well as one new project created for the MCA’s exhibition. Illuminating texts by Omar Kholeif, Shumon Basar, and Ella Shohat address the narrative elements and historical contexts of Rakowitz’s work. Plates run throughout the publication, illustrating major projects featured in the exhibition, including \u003cem\u003eEnemy Kitchen \u003c\/em\u003e(2003), a pop-up food truck that serves Iraqi-Jewish dishes made from recipes Rakowitz and his mother collected and served on paper plate replicas of Saddam Hussein’s china; \u003cem\u003eThe invisible enemy should not exist\u003c\/em\u003e (2007–ongoing), a lifelong project to fabricate to scale every single item looted from the Iraqi National Museum; and \u003cem\u003eWhat Dust Will Rise?\u003c\/em\u003e, Rakowitz’s commission for Documenta 13, for which he worked with stone carvers to recreate items from the State Library of Hesse-Kassel that were lost in the 1941 fire of the Fridericianum, using stone quarried from the ruins of sixth-century sandstone Buddhas destroyed by the Taliban in 2001. \u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cem\u003eMichael Rakowitz: Backstroke of the West\u003c\/em\u003e  is the newest in the MCA’s Ascendant Artist monograph series and the first major publication on the artist’s work. 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Through her dedication to social and environmental justice, as well as her partnerships with activist organizations and various protest movements, Bowers has renegotiated her role as artist in society. Running throughout her drawings, paintings, videos and installations is a rigorous reevaluation of the concepts, structures and images that have guided our relentless search for meaning and justice. With work that is at once hyper-conceptual and socially engaged, Bowers creates spaces within which to share and evaluate the potential of art as a tool for social progress—while serving as witness and documentarian to the work of activists worldwide.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nThis book is a comprehensive and definitive survey of Bowers’ work to date and investigates some of the key, longstanding interests that have guided her practice. Critical pieces from writers of various backgrounds and fields position Bowers’ practice in the context of the movements, histories and struggles that make up these broader concerns. Accompanying these illuminating texts are full-color illustrations of works, including a selection of Bowers’ well-known neon sculptures and large-scale installations, as well as numerous other drawings, paintings, photographs and video works.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n208 pages\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cem\u003eAndrea Bowers\u003c\/em\u003e at MCA Chicago Nov 20, 2021 - Mar 27, 2022. 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She confronts topics such as the privatization of rivers and other bodies of water, territorial rights of Indigenous peoples, the use of violence by police, and the environmental, economic, and social impacts of dams on local communities.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nThis book showcases Caycedo’s process with lavish illustrations of her work, including stills from her video \u003cem\u003eApariciones \/ Apparitions\u003c\/em\u003e (2018), selections from her book \u003cem\u003eSerpent River Book\u003c\/em\u003e (2017), and images of her celebrated Cosmotarrayas series. Timely and vital essays in both English and Spanish from Carla Acevedo-Yates, Pilar Tompkins Rivas, and David Hernández Palmar round out the volume.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n144 pages with 78 illustrations. Copublished by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and DelMonico Books•D.A.P.  Note: maximum quantity per order is 18. 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Bo Bardi quickly resumed her practice in her adopted homeland with architecture that was both modern and firmly rooted in the culture of Brazil. In 1951 she designed “Casa de Vidro” (“Glass House”), her first built work, where she and her husband would live for the rest of their lives. She also designed the Museu de Arte de São Paulo (São Paulo Art Museum), a landmark of Latin American modernist architecture which opened in 1968. It was for this museum she created the iconic glass easel display system, which remains radical to date.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This catalog presents a comprehensive record of Bo Bardi’s overarching approach to art and architecture and shows how her exhibition designs, curatorial projects, and writing informed her spatial designs. Essays on Bo Bardi’s life and work accompany archival material such as design sketches and writings by the artist, giving new insight into the conceptual and material processes behind this radical thinker and creator’s projects.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 352 pages with 398 color illustrations, DelMonico Books•Prestel.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"MCA - CATALOGS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42520497881331,"sku":"9783791359649","price":29.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/3324\/5171\/products\/14487-DEFAULT-l.jpg?v=1646752838"},{"product_id":"duro-olowu-seeing","title":"Duro Olowu: Seeing","description":"Named one of the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/11\/26\/arts\/design\/best-art-books-2020.html?referringSource=articleShare\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBest Art Books of 2020\u003c\/a\u003e by \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e!\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nNigerian-born British fashion designer Duro Olowu is internationally recognized for his womenswear label launched in 2004. 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