World Food Books

The Anti-Museum : An Anthology

2017, English
Hardcover, 792 pages, 17.3 x 26.3 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Koenig Books / London

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First edition, out-of-print.

Created by curator Mathieu Copeland and artist Balthazar Lovay, together with a stellar list of contributors, The Anti-Museum presents the first extensive exploration of the radical and paradoxical concept that is ‘the anti-museum’ – a term so present in Art History and yet that has never been the object of an investigation and definition.

The museum is constantly a target for criticism, whether it comes from artists, thinkers, curators, or even the public. From the avant-gardes of the twentieth century up to present day, the museumʼs suspect position has generated countless gestures, iconoclastic actions, scathing attacks, utopias, and alternative exhibition spaces.

For the first time, this anthology is devoted to the anti-museum, through anti-art, the anti-artist, anti-exhibition, as well as anti-architecture, anti-philosophy, anti-religion, anti-cinema and anti-music. This notion (unpatented but regularly reappropriated) traces the erratic and sometimes paradoxical counter-history of the contestation of artistic institutions.

From the first anti-exhibition to the first catalogue retracing the history of Closed Exhibitions, from Dada to Noise music, from ‘Everything is Art’ to NO!art, the Japanese avant-gardes to Lettrist cinema, and not forgetting such major protest figures as Gustav Metzger, Henry Flynt, Graciela Carnevale, and Lydia Lunch, The Anti-Museum sketches a polyphonic panorama where negation is accompanied by a powerful breath of life.

This encyclopedic tome includes the work of over 80 artists and writers including Marcel Broodthaers, Maurizio Cattelan, Maria Eichhorn, Robert Smithson, Jean Tinguely, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Yvonne Rainer, Guillaume Apollinaire, Kenneth Goldsmith, George Maciunas, and Bob Nickas.

Very Good—Near Fine copy.

File under: John Armleder Robert Barry Genesis P-Orridge Andrea Branzi Piero Gilardi Kenneth Goldsmith Robert Morris Jean Toche Ettore Sottsass Guerilla Art Action Group Gareth James Henry Flynt Mierle Laderman Ukeles Marcel Broodthaers Yvonne Rainer Maurizio Cattelan Maria Eichhorn Robert Smithson Jean Tinguely Rirkrit Tiravanija Gustav Metzger Graciela Carnevale Lydia Lunch Zach Blas Johannes Cladders Beatriz Colomina Henry Flynt Kenneth Goldsmith Krist Gruijthuijsen Robert Morris Bob Nickas Sören Schmeling Reiko Tomii Jon Hendricks Jean Toche Andrea Branzi Ettore Sottsass Allan Wallach Guerilla Art Action Group Gareth James Mathieu Copeland Balthazar Lovay Marcel Broodthaers George Maciunas Guillaume Apollinaire Koenig Books / London Conceptual Art Group Shows / Collections Theory / Essay Art Fluxus Performance / Dance / Theater Arte Povera Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Curatorial Dada Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Minimal Art Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Painting Film / Video

Destroy the Picture: Painting the Void, 1949-1962

2012, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 287 pages, 24 x 31.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Skira / Milan Rizzoli / New York MOCA / Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art / Chicago

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First and only edition of this incredible out-of-print book, Destroy the Picture: Painting the Void, 1949–1962 is the first book (and exhibition) to focus on one of the most significant transnational developments in contemporary abstract painting: the artist’s literal assault on the picture plane. Responding to the physical and psychological destruction wrought by World War II—especially the existential crisis resulting from the atomic bomb—artists ripped, cut, burned, and affixed objects to the canvas in lieu of paint. Destroy the Picture emphasizes this internationally shared artistic sensibility in the context of devastating global change and dynamic artistic dialogues, offering an innovative and expansive view of art making in the postwar period.

As artists from war-torn countries like Italy and Japan—including Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri, Kazuo Shiraga, and Shozo Shimamoto—channeled their ruined surroundings into artistic form; artists throughout the world—such as Yves Klein and Niki de Saint Phalle in France, John Latham in the United Kingdom, Robert Rauschenberg and Lee Bontecou in the United States, Otto Müehl in Austria, and Manolo Millares in Spain, among others—pursued similar approaches and strategies. Destroy the Picture presents an opportunity to reconsider the profound repercussions of this remarkably coherent approach in painting, from artists’ early experiments with translating gestures into materials to their emphasis on a rupture between two and three dimensions, as well as the expansion of the painting medium to incorporate performance, assemblage, and time-based strategies. In many cases, the exhibition places the work of now-established artists back into the radical context in which it originally emerged.

Organised by Paul Schimmel, former Chief Curator of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in association with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the exhibition and this remarkable accompanying hardcover catalogue mark the first time that these strategies have been considered together as a coherent mode of artistic production, expanding the scholarship on this critical moment in history. Alongside major essays by Paul Schimmel, Nicholas Cullinan, Astrid Handa-Gagnard, Shoichi Hirai, Sarah-Neel Smith, and Robert Storr, Destroy the Picture is heavily illustrated throughout with works dating 1949 and 1962 by artists from eight countries, including Lee Bontecou, Alberto Burri, Lucio Fontana, Salvatore Scarpitta, Kazuo Shiraga, Gérard Deschamps, François Dufrêne, Jean Fautrier, Adolf Frohner, Raymond Hains, Yves Klein, John Latham, Gustav Metzger, Otto Müehl, Manolo Millares, Saburo Murakami, Robert Rauschenberg, Niki de Saint Phalle, Shozo Shimamoto, Antoni Tàpies, Chiyu Uemae, Jacques Villeglé, Wolf Vostell, and Michio Yoshihara.

Very Good—Near Fine copy in Very Good—Near Fine dust-jacket.

File under: Lee Bontecou Alberto Burri Lucio Fontana Salvatore Scarpitta and Kazuo Shiraga François Dufrêne Jean Fautrier Adolf Frohner Raymond Hains Yves Klein John Latham Gustav Metzger Otto Müehl Manolo Millares Saburo Murakami Robert Rauschenberg Niki de Saint Phalle Shozo Shimamoto Antoni Tàpies Chiyu Uemae Jacques Villeglé Wolf Vostell and Michio Yoshihara Gérard Deschamps Michio Yoshihara Paul Schimmel Nicholas Cullinan Astrid Handa-Gagnard Shoichi Hirai Sarah-Neel Smith Robert Storr Skira / Milan Rizzoli / New York MOCA / Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art / Chicago Art Arte Informale / Haute Pâte / Tachism Painting Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Arte Povera Fluxus

Environments and Happenings
Edited by Adrian Henri

1974, English
Softcover, 216 pages, 21 x 16 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Thames and Hudson / London

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Environments and Happenings by painter and poet Adrian Henri, published by Thames & Hudson in 1974, forms one of the first mainstream book surveys to trace the phenomenon of environmental/performative/total living artworks that became prevalent in the 1960s/70s. This historical study is profusely illustrated in colour and b/w with many international works from Fluxus to Zero to Dolle Mina to Nouveau Réalisme to Provo to Gutai to The Situationists and much more. Includes the works of Joseph Beuys, Clarence Schmidt, Ray Johnson, Öyvind Fahlström, Paul Thek, Yves Klein, Allan Kaprow, Hans Haacke, Kurt Schwitters, Marcel Duchamp, Guerllia Art Action Group, Daniel Spoerri, Wolf Vostell, Gustav Metzger, Peter Kuttner, Jackson Pollock, Alison Knowles, Dick Higgins, Robert Morris, Situationist International, Ferdinand Kriwet, Klaus Rinke, Duane Hanson, A-Yo, Meret Oppenheim, Space Structure Workshop, Ferdinand Cheval, Dolle Mina (Mad Mina), Robert Smithson, Jeff Nuttall, Stefan Wewerka, Christo, Dennis Oppenheim, Vladimir Tatlin, Provo, Barry Flanagan, Andy Warhol, Meredith Monk, Atsuko Tanaka, Kazuo Shiraga, Ed Keinholz, Yayoi Kusama, Piero Gilardi, Niki de Saint-Phalle, Jean Tinguely, Claes Oldenburg, Les Levine, James Rosenquist, Red Grooms, Tom Wesselmann, George Segal, Eduardo Paolozzi, and many many more. Includes reproductions of performance scripts, partial chronology, etc.

Very Good copy, previous owner name to front endpaper.

File under: Guerilla Art Action Group Joseph Beuys Clarence Schmidt Ray Johnson Öyvind Fahlström Paul Thek Yves Klein Hans Haacke Kurt Schwitters Marcel Duchamp Guerllia Art Action Group Daniel Spoerri Wolf Vostell Gustav Metzger Peter Kuttner Jackson Pollock Alison Knowles Dick Higgins Robert Morris Situationist International Ferdinand Kriwet Klaus Rinke Duane Hanson A-Yo Meret Oppenheim Space Structure Workshop Ferdinand Cheval Dolle Mina (Mad Mina) Robert Smithson Jeff Nuttall Stefan Wewerka Christo Dennis Oppenheim Vladimir Tatlin Provo Barry Flanagan Andy Warhol Meredith Monk Atsuko Tanaka Kazuo Shiraga Ed Keinholz Yayoi Kusama Piero Gilardi Niki de Saint-Phalle Jean Tinguely Claes Oldenburg Les Levine James Rosenquist Red Grooms Tom Wesselmann George Segal Eduardo Paolozzi Allan Kaprow Adrian Henri Thames and Hudson / London Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Fluxus Arte Povera Conceptual Art Art Dada Counterculture Curatorial Group Shows / Collections Painting Pop Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Surrealism Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Sound / Music

Gustav Metzger Writings (1953–2016)

2020, English
Softcover, 680 pages, 19 x 13.2 cm
Published by JRP Ringier / Zürich

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Bringing together more than 350 texts written between 1953 and 2016, this comprehensive volume establishes artist and activist Gustav Metzger (1926–2017) as a towering figure of the 20th century, a long-overdue recognition of the artist’s influential vision.

Renowned for his use of unstable materials and chemical reactions to create artworks that embody processes of change, destruction, and renewal, Metzger was also a prolific writer, theoretician, and satirist.

His interest in technology and science lead him to create such concepts as auto-destructive and auto-creative art—terms he coined with his manifestos on ‘Auto-destructive Art’ in 1959 and ‘Auto-creative Art’ in 1961. He put these ideas into action with artworks made to decay, disintegrate, or change following natural processes.

Edited by Gustav’s long-time friend and curator Mathieu Copeland, this anthology of writings makes Metzger’s key thinking from the 1950s onward available to a wide audience.

It includes seminal writings such as his manifestos of auto-destructive and auto-creative art (both 1961), ‘On Random Activity in Material/Transforming Works of Art’ (1964), ‘The Possibility of Auto-Destructive Architecture’ (1966), his inspiring interview with R. Buckminster Fuller from 1970, ‘The Artist in the Face of Social Collapse’ (1998), and his legacy manifesto entitled ‘Remember Nature’ from 2013, as well as art criticism, political satires, and lecture transcriptions.

His writing allows a challenging reading of the contemporary (art) period as analysed by one of its most discerning figures—a pioneering artist and thinker involved in environmental and societal issues very early on.

File under: Gustav Metzger Mathieu Copeland Gustav Metzger JRP Ringier / Zürich Art Performance / Dance / Theater Painting Sculpture / Installation Fluxus

Gustav Metzger
Act Or Perish! (A Retrospective)

2016, English
Hardcover, 224 pages, 22 x 30 cm
Published by Nero / Rome

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The catalogue of Metzger's first extensive overview: divided into sections—each of which is accompanied by a critical text—corresponding to those presented in the exhibition, the publication provides systematic insight into an artistic oeuvre considered as one of the most important in the 20th century (with texts by Mathieu Copeland, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Yoko Ono, Hermann Nitsch…).

If the retrospective, which started at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Torun before travelling to Oslo, was presented in distinctively different formats—the former providing audiences with a wide overview of Metzger's career and works, including attention to his early years of political activism and engagement and concomitant radicalization, and the latter focusing upon deeper researched aspects of the artist's production,—the exhibition catalogue provides readers with a rich array of theoretical contributions, including a conversation between Dobrila Denegri and Yoko Ono, Ivor Davies, Hermann Nitsch and Jon Hendricks, as well as Metzger's own writings.

The contributors Pontus Kyander, Andrew Wilson, Mathieu Copeland, Dobrila Denegri, Leanne Dmyterko, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Manuel Olveira take up different aspects of Metzger's work, from the artist's early political activism, to his experimentation with painting to his drafting of the manifestoes for Auto-Destructive Art, providing us with an invaluable and much awaited document for consultation in contemporary art.
Published following the eponymous exhibition at Centre of Contemporary Art in Torun, Poland, from November 8, 2015, to January 17, 2016, and the joint exhibition “Gustav Metzger in Oslo – Extremes Touch and Liquid Crystal Environment” at Kunsthall Oslo and Stiftelsen Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, from November 14, 2015 to January 31st, 2016.

The artistic oeuvre of Gustav Metzger (1926-2017), in which the concept of Auto-Destructive Art and the Art Strike hold a central role, is considered as one of the most important in the 20th century.

File under: Yoko Ono Hermann Nitsch Gustav Metzger Pontus Kyander Andrew Wilson Mathieu Copeland Dobrila Denegri Leanne Dmyterko Hans Ulrich Obrist Manuel Olveira Gustav Metzger Yoko Ono Ivor Davies Hermann Nitsch Jon Hendricks Nero / Rome Art Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Film / Video

Better Books
Art, Anarchy, Apostasy, Counter-culture & the New Avant-garde

2018, English
Softcover, 320 pages, 21.5 x 28.5 cm
Published by Koenig Books / London

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The legendary independent London bookstore Better Books on the Charing Cross Road was the hub for Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Alexander Trocchi, John Latham, Jeff Nuttall, Bob Cobbing, Barry Miles, Gustav Metzger, and countless others, for their ideas and approaches to art, film, literature, and activism. With its unique range of books, offbeat events, poetry readings, film screenings, and happenings, Better Books became the hot spot of London’s 1960s counter-culture scene.

This book is the first to examine this special historic moment, combining previously unpublished texts, documents, and photographs with the voices of the protagonists who authored this revolution.

With Essays by Rozemin Keshvani and Barry Miles and contributions by Philip Cohen, Stephen Dwoskin, John Hopkins, Graham Keen, Bruce Lacey, Gustav Metzger, Jeff Nuttall, Frank Popper, Criton Tomazos, and Islwyn Watkins.

File under: John Latham Gustav Metzger Jeff Nuttall Axel Heil Peter Weibel Rozemin Keshvani Allen Ginsberg William S. Burroughs Alexander Trocchi Jeff Nuttall Bob Cobbing Barry Miles Philip Cohen Stephen Dwoskin John Hopkins Graham Keen Bruce Lacey Gustav Metzger Frank Popper Criton Tomazos Islwyn Watkins Koenig Books / London Anarchism Performance / Dance / Theater Art Fiction / Poetry

Destruction
Edited by Sven Spieker

2017, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 21 x 23 cm
Published by Whitechapel / London The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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The effects and meanings of destruction are central to the work of many of our most influential artists. Since the early 1960s, artists have employed destruction to creative ends. Here destruction changes from a negative state or passive condition to a highly productive category. The destructive subversion of media imagery aims to release us from its controlling effects. The self-destructing artwork extinguishes art’s fixity as arrested form and ushers in the ephemeral and contingent "open work."

This anthology explores artworks that convey the threat of destruction an how they have disrupted the perceived integrity of built structures and institutions. Artistic acts of iconoclasm or risk to the self have raised consciousness of authoritarian oppression. More understated works explore the theme of destruction in armed conflict, media violence, and threats to the environment. These text make up the first collection to be focused systematically on destruction in modern and contemporary art.

Artists surveyed include
Ai Weiwei, John Baldessari, Monica Bonvicini, Alexander Brener, Stuart Brisley, Douglas Gordon, Huang Yong Ping, Enrique Jezik, Milan Knizak, Paul McCarthy, Piero Manzoni, Gordon Matta-Clark, Gustav Metzger, Otto Mühl, Yoko Ono, Raphael Montañez Ortiz, Petr Pavlensky, William Pope.L, Walid Raad, Arnulf Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, Carolee Schneemann, Song Dong, Jean Tinguely, Wolf Vostell

Writers include
Alain Badiou, Walter Benjamin, Horst Bredekamp, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Medina Cuauthémoc, Dario Gamboni, Richard Galpin, Caleb Kelly, Bruno Latour, Sven Lütticken, Antonio Negri, Sophie O’Brien, Kristine Stiles, Jennifer Walden

About the Editor
Sven Spieker is Professor of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and editor of ARTmargins. His books include The Big Archive: Art from Bureaucracy (MIT Press).

File under: Ai Weiwei John Baldessari Monica Bonvicini Alexander Brener Stuart Brisley Douglas Gordon Huang Yong Ping Enrique Jezik Milan Knizak Paul McCarthy Piero Manzoni Gordon Matta-Clark Gustav Metzger Otto Mühl Yoko Ono Raphael Montanez Ortiz Petr Pavlensky William Pope.L Walid Raad Arnulf Rainer Robert Rauschenberg Carolee Schneemann Song Dong Jean Tinguely Wolf Vostell Alain Badiou Walter Benjamin Horst Bredekamp Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev Medina Cuauthémoc Dario Gamboni Richard Galpin Caleb Kelly Bruno Latour Sven Lütticken Antonio Negri Sophie O’Brien Kristine Stiles Jennifer Walden Whitechapel / London The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Fluxus Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater Painting Sculpture / Installation Arte Povera Theory / Essay SALE

Work
Edited by Friederike Sigler

2017, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 145 x 210 mm
Published by Whitechapel / London The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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Warhol’s Factory of the 1960s, Minimalism’s assembly-line aesthetics, conceptual and feminist concern with workers’ conditions in the 1970s—these are among the antecedents of a renewed focus on the work of art: labor as artistic activity, as artistic method and as object of artistic engagement. In 2002, the “Work Ethic” exhibition curated by Helen Molesworth at the Baltimore Museum of Art took its cue from recent art to spotlight this earlier era of artistic practice in which activity became as valid as, and often dispensed with, object-production. Revealed through this prism was “dematerialized” art’s close and critical relation to the emergent information age’s criteria of management, production and skill.

By 2015, the Venice Biennale reflected artists’ wider concern with global economic and social crises, centered on exploitative and precarious worlds of employment. Yet while art increasingly engages with human travail, work’s significance in itself is seldom addressed by critics. This anthology explicitly investigates work in relation to contemporary art, surveying artistic strategies that grapple with the complexities of being an art worker in the new economy, a postproducer, a collaborator, a fabricator, a striker, an ethical campaigner, or would-be transformer of labor from oppression to liberation.

Artists surveyed include
Pawel Althamer, Francis Alÿs, Marwa Arsanios, Chto Delat, Alice Creischer, Ana de la Cueva, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Jeremy Deller, Maria Eichhorn, Harun Farocki, Claire Fontaine, Andrea Fraser, Liam Gillick, Melanie Gilligan, Gulf Labour Coalition, Tehching Hsieh, Lamia Joreige, Lee Lozano, Goshka Macuga, Teresa Margolles, Adrian Melis, Annette Messager, Gustav Metzger, Jean-Luc Moulène, Ahmet Ögüt, Philip Rizk, Martha Rosler, Tino Sehgal, Santiago Sierra, Tamas St. Auby, Mladen Stilinovic, W.A.G.E., Artur Zmijewski

Writers include
Claire Bishop, Luc Boltanski, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Sabeth Buchmann, Ève Chiapello, Kodwo Eshun, Silvia Federici, Isabelle Graw, Maurizio Lazzarato, Achille Mbembe, Antonio Negri, Jacques Rancière, Gerald Raunig, Dietmar Rübel, Paolo Virno, Joseph Vogl

About the Editor
Friederike Sigler is a researcher and lecturer at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Dresden. She is the author of Work/Strike.

File under: Francis Alÿs Marwa Arsanios Chto Delat Alice Creischer Ana de la Cueva Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Jeremy Deller Maria Eichhorn Harun Farocki Claire Fontaine Andrea Fraser Liam Gillick Melanie Gilligan Gulf Labour Coalition Tehching Hsieh Lamia Joreige Lee Lozano Goshka Macuga Teresa Margolles Adrian Melis Annette Messager Gustav Metzger Jean-Luc Moulène Ahmet Ögüt Philip Rizk Martha Rosler Tino Sehgal Santiago Sierra Tamas St. Auby Mladen Stilinovic W.A.G.E. Artur Zmijewski Paweł Althamer Claire Bishop Luc Boltanski Julia Bryan-Wilson Sabeth Buchmann Ève Chiapello Kodwo Eshun Silvia Federici Isabelle Graw Maurizio Lazzarato Achille Mbembe Antonio Negri Jacques Rancière Gerald Raunig Dietmar Rübel Paolo Virno Joseph Vogl Friederike Sigler Whitechapel / London The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Film / Video Theory / Essay

Out of Actions
Aktionismus, Body Art und Performance 1949-1979

1998, German
Hardcover, 366 pages, 22.5 x 31 cm
1st German edition, Out of print title / used / very good,
Published by Hatje Cantz / Berlin

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The long out-of-print heavyweight "Out of Actions" book (First German hardcover edition) that was published to accompany the spectacular 1998 Paul Schimmel-curated travelling exhibition. "Out of Actions" surveyed the broad international history and influence of post-war Performance Art, and the objects that exist today as its documentation. It features significant texts by Schimmel, Kristine Stiles, Guy Brett, Hubert Klocker, Shinichiro Osaki, Leslie King-Hammond and Lowery Stokes Sims, and Keiko Okamura.
This important and heavily researched document is lavishly illustrated throughout in colour and black and white, capturing the work and actions of the artists featured in the exhibition and essays: Marina Abramovic, Marina Abramovic and Ulay, Vito Acconci, Genpei Akasegawa, Laurie Anderson, Eleanor Antin, Rasheed Arseen, Mowry Baden, Artur Barrio, Joseph Beuys, Mark Boyle and Joan Hills, George Brecht, Stuart Brisley, Robert Delford Brown, Gunter Brus, Chris Burden, James Lee Byars, John Cage, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Lygia Clark, Pinchas Cohen Gan, Collective Action Group, Houston Conwill, Paul Cotton, COUM Transmissions, Guy de Cointet, Jim Dine, John Duncan, Felipe Ehrenberg, Roberto Evangelista, Valie Export, Robert Filliou, Rose Finn-Kelcey, Sherman Fleming, Lucio Fontana, Terry Fox, Howard Fried, Gideon Gechtman, Gilbert & George, Alberto Greco, Ion Grigorescu, Victor Grippo, Red Grooms, Guerrilla Art Action Group, David Hammons, Al Hansen, Maren Hassinger, Lynn Hershman, Dick Higgins, Tatsumi Hijikata, Susan Hiller, Rebecca Horn, Tehching Hsieh, Joan Jonas, Kim Jones, Michel Journiac, Akira Kanayama, Tadeusz Kantor, Allan Kaprow, Mike Kelley, Juergen Klauke, Yves Klein, Milan Knizak, Alison Knowles, Komar & Melamid, Jannis Kounellis, Shigeko Kubota, Tetsumi Kudo, Yayoi Kusama, Leslie Labowitz, Suzanne Lacy, John Latham, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Lea Lublin, George Maciunas, Leopoldo Maier, Piero Manzoni, Tom Marioni, Georges Mathieu, Gordon Matta-Clark, Paul McCarthy, Bruce McLean, David Medalla, Cildo Meireles, Ana Mendieta, Gustav Metzger, Marta Minujin, Jan Micoch, Linda Montano, Robert Morris, Otto Muehl, Saburo Murakami, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Bruce Nauman, Paul Neagu, Senga Nengudi, Joshua Neustein, Hermann Nitsch, Helio Oiticica, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Orlan, Raphael Montanez Ortiz, Lorenzo Pace, Nam June Paik, Gina Pane, Lygia Pape, Giuseppe Pinot Gallizio, Adrian Piper, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jackson Pollock, William Pope L., Robert Rauschenberg, Carlyle Reedy, Klaus Rinke, Ulrike Rosenbach, Dieter Roth, Zorka Saglova, Niki de Saint Phalle, Alfons Schilling, Tomas Schmit, Carolee Schneemann, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Bonnie Sherk, Shozo Shimamoto, Ushio Shinohara, Kazuo Shiraga, Barbara T. Smith, Daniel Spoerri, Petr Stembera, Wolfgang Stoerchle, Jiro Takamatsu, Atsuko Tanaka, Mark Thompson, Jean Tinguely, Rasa Todosijevic, Kerry Trengove, Ulay, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell, Franz Erhard Walther, Peter Weibel, Franz West, Hannah Wilke, Emmett Williams, and Zaj.
Scarce first German edition, published by Hatje Cantz.

File under: Niki de Saint-Phalle Cosey Fanni Tutti Vito Acconci Genpei Akasegawa Laurie Anderson Eleanor Antin Rasheed Arseen Mowry Baden Artur Barrio Joseph Beuys Mark Boyle Joan Hills George Brecht Stuart Brisley Robert Delford Brown Chris Burden James Lee Byars John Cage Marc Camille Chaimowicz Lygia Clark Pinchas Cohen Gan Collective Action Group Houston Conwill Paul Cotton COUM Transmissions Guy de Cointet Jim Dine John Duncan Felipe Ehrenberg Roberto Evangelista Valie Export Robert Filliou Rose Finn-Kelcey Sherman Fleming Lucio Fontana Terry Fox Howard Fried Gideon Gechtman Alberto Greco Ion Grigorescu Victor Grippo Red Grooms Guerrilla Art Action Group David Hammons Al Hansen Maren Hassinger Lynn Hershman Dick Higgins Tatsumi Hijikata Susan Hiller Rebecca Horn Tehching Hsieh Joan Jonas Kim Jones Michel Journiac Akira Kanayama Tadeusz Kantor Allan Kaprow Mike Kelley Yves Klein Milan Knizak Alison Knowles Komar & Melamid Jannis Kounellis Shigeko Kubota Tetsumi Kudo Yayoi Kusama Leslie Labowitz Suzanne Lacy John Latham Jean-Jacques Lebel Lea Lublin George Maciunas Leopoldo Maier Piero Manzoni Tom Marioni Georges Mathieu Gordon Matta-Clark Paul McCarthy Bruce McLean David Medalla Cildo Meireles Ana Mendieta Gustav Metzger Jan Micoch Linda Montano Robert Morris Otto Muehl Saburo Murakami Natsuyuki Nakanishi Bruce Nauman Paul Neagu Senga Nengudi Joshua Neustein Hermann Nitsch Claes Oldenburg Yoko Ono Orlan Raphael Montanez Ortiz Lorenzo Pace Nam June Paik Gina Pane Lygia Pape Giuseppe Pinot Gallizio Adrian Piper Michelangelo Pistoletto Jackson Pollock William Pope L. Robert Rauschenberg Carlyle Reedy Klaus Rinke Ulrike Rosenbach Dieter Roth Zorka Saglova Alfons Schilling Tomas Schmit Carolee Schneemann Rudolf Schwarzkogler Bonnie Sherk Shozo Shimamoto Ushio Shinohara Kazuo Shiraga Barbara T. Smith Daniel Spoerri Petr Stembera Wolfgang Stoerchle Jiro Takamatsu Atsuko Tanaka Mark Thompson Jean Tinguely Rasa Todosijevic Kerry Trengove Ulay Ben Vautier Wolf Vostell Franz Erhard Walther Peter Weibel Franz West Hannah Wilke Emmett Williams Zaj Marina Abramovič Günter Brus Gilbert & George Jürgen Klauke Marta Minujín Hélio Oiticica Paul Schimmel Kristine Stiles Guy Brett Hubert Klocker Shinichiro Osaki Leslie King-Hammond Lowery Stokes Sims Keiko Okamura Hatje Cantz / Berlin Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Painting Arte Povera Minimal Art Feminism Art Dada Film / Video Fluxus Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Pop Art Sound / Music Photography Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic

OBJECT
Antony Hudek (Ed.) - Documents of Contemporary Art Series

2014, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 145 x 210 mm

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Edited by Antony Hudek

Artists increasingly refer to “post-object-based" work while theorists engage with material artifacts in culture. A focus on “object-based" learning treats objects as vectors for dialogue across disciplines. Virtual imaging enables the object to be abstracted or circumvented, while immaterial forms of labor challenge materialist theories. This anthology surveys such reappraisals of what constitutes the “objectness" of production, with art as its focus.

Among the topics it examines are the relation of the object to subjectivity; distinctions between objects and things; the significance of the object’s transition from inert mass to tool or artifact; and the meanings of the everyday in the found object, repetition in the replicated or multiple object, loss in the absent object, and abjection in the formless or degraded object. It also explores artistic positions that are anti-object; theories of the experimental, liminal or mental object; and the role of objects in performance. The object becomes a prism through which to reread contemporary art and better understand its recent past.

Artists surveyed include
Georges Adéagbo, Art in Ruins, Iain Baxter, Louise Bourgeois, Pavel Büchler, Lygia Clark, Claude Closky, Brian Collier, Jimmie Durham, Fischli & Weiss, Luca Frei, Meschac Gaba, Isa Genzken, Gruppe Geflecht, Eva Hesse, Mike Kelley, John Latham, Antje Majewski, Gustav Metzger, Cady Noland, Gabriel Orozco, Adrian Piper, Falke Pisano, Eva Rothschild, Aura Satz, Kenneth Snelson, Hito Steyerl, Josef Strau, Alina Szapocznikow, Joelle Tuerlinckx, Erwin Wurm

Writers include
Homi K. Bhabha, Jack Burnham, Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Lynne Cooke, Gillo Dorfles, Jean Fisher, Ferreira Gullar, Charles Harrison, Paulo Herkenhoff, Julia Kristeva, Bruno Latour, Bracha Lichtenberg-Ettinger, Jean-Fran?ois Lyotard, Lev Manovich, Ursula Meyer, Bruno Munari, Georges Perec, Hans-Jorg Rheinberger, Dieter Roelstraete, Howard Singerman, Nancy Spector, Marcus Steinweg, Anne Wagner, Gérard Wajcman, Slavoj Zizek

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Choreographing Exhibitions
M. Copeland, J. Pelegrin (Eds.)

2013, English / French
Softcover (w. dustjacket), 424 pages, 16.8 x 23.8 cm
Published by Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen / Switzerland Les Presses Du Reel / Paris

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An overview of the relation between choreography and exhibition, through the contributions of over thirty international visual artists, choreographers, musicians, filmmakers, theorists, and curators.

In 2008, the Contemporary art centre La Ferme du Buisson, invited the curator Mathieu Copeland to present his work, Choregraphed Exhibition, composed of movements executed by three dancers over two months. This exhibition nourished a multitude of questions that gave birth to a book, Choreograping Exhibitions, overview of the relation between choreography and exhibition. It brings together over thirty international visual artists, choreographers, musicians, filmmakers, theorists, and curators.

Contributions by Kenneth Anger, Fia Backström, Jérôme Bel, Julien Bismuth, Giovanni Carmine, Boris Charmatz,Mathieu Copeland, Tim Etchells, Barbara Formis, Maite Garbayo Maeztu, Kenneth Goldsmith, Amy Greenfield, Abbie Hoffman, Karl Holmqvist, Pierre Huyghe, Myriam Van Imschoot, Jennifer Lacey, LeClubdes5, Franck Leibovici, Pablo León de la Barra, André Lepecki, Alan Licht, Raimundas Malašauskas, Loreto Martínez Troncoso,Malcolm McLaren, Gustav Metzger, Lilo Nein, Phill Niblock, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Michael Parsons, Julie Pellegrin, Mickaël Phelippeau, Michael Portnoy, Claude Rutault, Irena Tomažin, Catherine Wood.

Edited by Mathieu Copeland and Julie Pellegrin.

Graphic design: Nicolas Eigenheer and Jeremy Schorderet.

Published with Mathieu Copeland editions, la Ferme du Buisson and Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen.

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