Artist Oscar Tuazon’s pamphlet is the first in The Social Life of the Book series, Paraguay Press’s collection of commissioned texts dealing with books, and how they engage with the circulation of ideas and the agency of social situations. “I was raised making books” recalls Tuazon at the beginning of this essay, that addresses the very oft-announced death of the book at the same time as it envisions the conditions of its rebirth. This unflinching reflection on how publishing has changed, also develops as a speculation on the artist’s own approach to sculpture.

Designed by Will Holder.

Produced on the occasion of Manfred Pernice’s exhibition sculpturama at Secession, Vienna, 26 November, 2010–13 February, 2011. With texts from Verena Dengler, Klaus Gölz, Axel Jablonski, Bettina Klein, András Pálffy, Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen, Hemma Schmutz and Annette Südbeck.

Produced on the occasion of Richard Prince’s exhibition The Magic Castle 1968–1969 at Le Consortium, Dijon, in 2011, based on a series of photographs taken when he was student in France. With a text by Richard Prince.

American artist Richard Prince recycles found materials from American popular culture, most often images from advertisement and magazine photography which he re-photographs, silkscreens, overpaints, frames, enlarges, or arranges in collages, playing with their somehow empty meaning.

Produced on the occasion of Aleana Egan’s solo exhibition at The Drawing Room, London, 2011.

Drawing forms the starting point of Egan’s work, with a sketchbook providing a repository for the noting down of ideas and experimentation with forms that are developed into autonomous drawings, collages, sculptures and films.Ideas are triggered through observations made during everyday life, but also by memories of childhood experiences and works of literature.

Spine resembles a catalogue raisonné of R.H. Quaytman’s work produced since 2001, the year the artist began organizing paintings in what are called “Chapters.” Conceived and written by Quaytman, this more than 400-page volume presents a full decade’s output, from “The Sun, Chapter 1” to “Spine, Chapter 20,” the latest series which revisits motifs elaborated in the preceding nineteen chapters. A text articulating the artist’s systematic pictorial practice, executed on Golden Section wood panels, is printed on the book’s unfolding dust jacket.

Produced on the occasion of Haegue Yang: Arrivals at Kunsthaus Bregenz, 22 January–3 April, 2011. This publication is the third in a series of catalogues raisonnée assembled by Kunsthaus Bregenz: compiled by Katharinea Schwerendt, this catalogue comprehensively covers the work of Haegue Yang. With texts from Marina Vishmidt, Anders Kreuger and Yilmaz Dziewior. Designed by Yvonne Quirmbach.