World Food Books

TENSION 23
America Is Dead, Oct-Nov 1990

1990, English
Softcover, 68 pages, 23 x 33 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Tension / South Yarra

$30.00 - Out of stock

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Tension 23 (Oct-Nov 1990) features news and views, "TV Eye" by Catherine Lumby, "Mind Field" : Timothy Leary traces radical traditions, "The Tyranny of Difference" an autopsy on America by McKenzie Wark, "The World's A Stooge" by John Sampson, Chris McAuliffe on Total Recall, Ashley Crawford on Robert Rooney, Paul Taylor targets Jasper Johns, Edward Colless with Richard Ford, Michael Desmond on Anselm Kiefer, Adrian Martin reads Edgar Allen Poe, Tim Johnson on Radio Birdman, reviews across Australia, and much more.

TENSION (1983-1990) was one of the central "popular" culture arts periodicals to come out of Melbourne in the 1980s, emerging from the ashes of Virgin Press. Independently published and edited by critic Ashley Crawford, Tension magazine lasted for 25 bi-monthly issues dedicated to Art, Music, Fashion, Theatre, Film, Photography, across reviews, interviews, reports, critical essays and artist pages. Now an important document of culture in Australia, and especially Melbourne in the 1980s, issues featured the writing and contributions of Paul Taylor, McKenzie Wark, Mike Parr, John Nixon, Catharine Lumby, Philip Brophy, Adrian Martin, Ashley Crawford, Peter Tyndall, Jean Baudrillard, Timothy Leary, Gerard Malanga, Keith Haring, Gerald Murnane, and many more. In 1985 Crawford, with John Buckley, staged an exhibition issue of the magazine, 'Visual Tension', at ACCA featuring the work of Howard Arkley, Marianne Baillieu, Peter Booth, Paul Boston, Peter Cripps, Richard Dunn, Maria Kozic, John Lethbridge, Geoff Lowe, Linda Marrinon, John Matthews, John Nixon, Stieg Persson, Robert Rooney, Gareth Sansom, Vivienne Shark LeWitt, Imants Tillers, Peter Tyndall, Jenny Watson, John Young.

File under: Robert Rooney Anselm Kiefer Jasper Johns Elizabeth Gower Linda Marrinon Timothy Leary McKenzie Wark Catherine Lumby John Sampson Chris McAuliffe Ashley Crawford Paul Taylor Edward Colless Michael Desmond Adrian Martin Edgar Allen Poe Tim Johnson Tension / South Yarra Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Australian Art Film / Video Theory / Essay Architecture / Interior Fashion Painting Sculpture / Installation

Guy Mees
The Weather is Quiet, Cool, and Soft

2018, English
Softcover, 188 pages, 20 x 26 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin Kunsthalle Wien / Vienna

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Guy Mees’s (1935–2003) photographs, videos, and above all his fragile works on paper are characterized by a formal rigor combined with sensitivity and delicacy. The uniqueness of his oeuvre lies precisely in its avoidance of conventional aesthetics and discursive classifications. A leading figure of the Belgian avant-garde, Mees left behind an outstanding body of work that transgresses geometric abstraction, Minimalism, Conceptualism, and applied art.

The Weather is Quiet, Cool, and Soft is published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (February 1–April 8, 2018), and at Mu.ZEE, Ostend (November 25, 2018–March 10, 2019). Borrowed from a note the artist jotted down on one of his works on paper, the title pays homage to the atmospheric impermanence of Mees’s works, as well as his infra-ordinary, relativistic, and poetic approach. With emblematic works and unpublished archival materials from the artist’s creative phases spanning the 1960s to 2000s, the publication emphasizes the idiosyncrasy and significance of Mees’s practice and personality. These are complemented by two new essays by Lilou Vidal and François Piron; a translation of a text by Fernand Spillemaeckers from the 1970s; and an interview conducted with Mees’s friend and accomplice Wim Meuwissen, his long-standing gallerist Micheline Szwajcer, and Dirk Snauwaert, who produced the first retrospective and a definitive monograph dedicated to Mees’s work.

Edited by Lilou Vidal
Texts by François Piron, Fernand Spillemaeckers, Lilou Vidal, Wim Meuwissen, Dirk Snauwaert, Micheline Szwajcer

Copublished with Kunsthalle Wien
Design by Joris Kritis

File under: Guy Mees François Piron Fernand Spillemaeckers Lilou Vidal Wim Meuwissen Dirk Snauwaert Micheline Szwajcer Sternberg Press / Berlin Kunsthalle Wien / Vienna Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Film / Video Conceptual Art Photography Minimal Art

Erkan Özgen
Giving Voices

2018, English
Softcover, 144 pages, 16.5 x 24 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

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Giving Voices features four of Erkan Özgen’s video works dealing with war, violence, and trauma—beyond the boundaries of the political, within the dimension of the private and the human. By deciding not to show images of violence and war, Özgen gives a voice to individuals and objects. Witnessing becomes a way of understanding and also resetting memory. How can we feel the realities of war, conflict, and violence? What are the cultural and social implications of war and violence, and how does society respond to war? These are some of the questions raised by Özgen’s work and addressed here by social anthropologist Rik Adriaans, psychologist Jan İlhan Kızılhan, curator Özge Ersoy, as well as writer Han Nefkens, and in conversations between the artist and Hans Ulrich Obrist, artistic director of the Serpentine galleries, and curator Hilde Teerlinck.

Design by Ok Kyung Yoon

File under: Erkan Özgen Rik Adriaans Jan Kizilhan Han Nefkens Hans Ulrich Obrist Hilde Teerlinck Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Film / Video SALE

Steve Bishop
Deliquescing

2019, English
Softcover (plastic jacket), 116 pages, 19.5 x 21.8 cm
Published by KW Institute for Contemporary Art / Berlin

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The publication Deliquescing accompanies Steve Bishop’s 2018–19 solo exhibition at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. Both the exhibition and publication reflect a body of research that focuses on the fragility of memory and the potential for its preservation, defying the gradual breakdown of matter through the effects of time.

The lion’s mane mushroom is sought after for its medicinal properties, known for protecting and repairing the mind and memory. Within KW, the artist reconstructed the exact conditions needed to cultivate the mushroom. Its medicinal properties were abstracted and repeated in the space of the gallery—the mushroom held in perfect stasis so that it wouldn’t lapse into the entropic process known as deliquescing. Bishop’s video work Deliquescing is paired with this regulated climate of cultivation: slow-panning HD shots study an abandoned Canadian mining town, maintained in a Sisyphean fashion by an unseen caretaker, homes still heated, bucolic front yards suspended from entropy, empty storefronts frozen, any sign of decay routinely swept away. This extreme stillness is randomly interrupted by the dashing of an animal, the only “aliveness” that remains.

This publication continues Bishop’s research into the lion’s mane mushroom and the abandoned town in Canada, including video stills capturing this hauntingly beautiful place as well as photo documentation of the installations at KW. An interview of the artist with KW curator Anna Gritz is featured alongside essays by Gary Zhexi Zhang on a computer program that functions as an archive of “lists of lists”; Orit Gat on her exchanges with Bishop about the phobia of time, jazz standards, and the emotional weight of kitsch; and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing on the foreign-borne diseases that plague native tree cultures.

Edited by Anna Gritz, Steve Bishop
Contributions by Steve Bishop, Orit Gat, Anna Gritz, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Gary Zhexi Zhang
Copublished between Sternberg Press and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Design by A Practice for Everyday Life

File under: Steve Bishop Steve Bishop Orit Gat Anna Gritz Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing Gary Zhexi Zhang KW Institute for Contemporary Art / Berlin Art Sculpture / Installation Photography Film / Video SALE

Judy Radul
This is Television

2018, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 21.5 x 28 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

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This Is Television addresses the increasingly obsolete medium of television by way of the medium of the book—by extension commenting on media’s continuous changes of form and format. Through an interplay of theory and artistic research material, the book extends Judy Radul’s ongoing investigation of media with an idiosyncratic perspective on television—while still feeding off collective experience. The book thematizes television as a cultural container, both in its format as a “box” for content and as an ideologically saturated apparatus for reception. With sections titled Craig, Oral History, Moon, Display, Landing, End of Analog etc., the book charts our identification with specific media and a nostalgia connected with the obsolescence of technology. Springing from a desire to engage intermedia form by way of a book about television, and to commit to the ambiguity of its title’s announcement, This Is Television is organized around three central chapters: “This,” “Is,” and “Television” are individually interpreted in newly commissioned essays by Honor Gavin, Ana Teixeira Pinto, and Diedrich Diederichsen, with additional short texts by Judy Radul.

File under: Judy Radul Honor Gavin Ana Teixeira Pinto Diedrich Diederichsen Judy Radul Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Film / Video Theory / Essay SALE

Alex Martinis Roe
To Become Two: Propositions for Feminist Collective Practice

2018, English
Softcover, 280 pages
Published by Archive Books / Berlin Casco / Utrecht If I Can’t Dance / Amsterdam

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To Become Two: Propositions for Feminist Collective Practice offers a narrative of artist Alex Martinis Roe’s research into a genealogy of feminist political practices in Europe and Australia from the seventies until today. These practices include those of the Milan Women’s Bookstore co-operative; Psychanalyse et Politique, Paris; Gender Studies (formerly Women’s Studies) at Utrecht University; a network in Sydney including people involved in the Sydney Filmmakers Co-operative, Feminist Film Workers, Working Papers Collective, and the Department of General Philosophy at Sydney University; and Duoda – Women’s Research Centre and Ca la Dona, a women’s documentation centre and encounter space in Barcelona. Drawing from their practices and experiences, Martinis Roe’s research forms a proposal for a transgenerational approach to feminist politics. This is further developed as a practical handbook of twenty new propositions for feminist collective practice, which were formed in collaboration with a network of contributors through experiments with these historical practices.

File under: Alex Martinis Roe Archive Books / Berlin Casco / Utrecht If I Can’t Dance / Amsterdam Art Performance / Dance / Theater Feminism Theory / Essay Film / Video

Documenta 6
Complete 3 volume boxset, plus booklet

1977, German
Heavy card slipcase (4 vols.), 323 pages; 357 pages; 378 pages; 40 pages; 21 x 29.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Paul Dierich / Kassel

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Complete 3 volume boxset exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with Documenta 6, the sixth edition of documenta, a quinquennial contemporary art exhibition. It was held between 24 June and 2 October 1977 in Kassel, Germany, and the artistic director was Manfred Schneckenburger. The title of the exhibition was: Internationale Ausstellung – international exhibition.

Box contains volume 1: painting - sculpture - performance (320 pages) / volume 2: photography - film - video (357 pages) / volume 3: drawings - utopian design - books (376 pages + show) / special edition of exhibition information booklet (40 pages + show); essays by Lothar Romain, Bazon Brock, Karl Oskar Blase, Klaus Honnef, Evelyn Weiss, Manfred Schneckenburger, Arnold Bode, Wieland Schmied, and Lothar Lang.

Artists featured throughout include Francis Bacon, Jennifer Bartlett, Georg Baselitz, Gerd Baukhage, Enzo Cacciola, Louis Cane, Chuck Close, Ulrich Erben, Winfred Gaul, Raimund Girke, Kuno Gonschior, Camille Graeser, Gotthard Graubner, Nancy Graves, Alan Green, Richard Hamilton, Heijo Hangen, Bernhard Heisig, Michael Heizer, Edgar Hofschen, Jasper Johns, Willem de Kooning, Attila Kovács, László Lakner, Roy Lichtenstein, Markus Lüpertz, Wolfgang Mattheuer, Gerhard Merz, Rune Mields, Carmengloria Morales, Malcolm Morley, Claudio Olivieri, Roman Opalka, Palermo, A.R. Penck, Lucio Pozzi, Hans-Peter Reuter, Gerhard Richter, Claude Rutault, Willi Sitte, Frank Stella, Werner Tübke, Bernar Venet, Andy Warhol, Reindert Wepko van de Wint, Gianfranco Zappetini, Jerry Zeniuk, Bernhard and Hilla Becher, Bernhard Johannes Blume, Christian Boltanski, Bettina Brand, Heinz Breloh, James Collins, Zdenek Felix, Reinhold Hohl, Gabrielle Honnef-Harling, Erich Kuby, Werner Lippert, Bernd Lohse, Felix H. Mann, Hilmar Pabel, Georg Reinhardt, Liselotte Strelow, Ann Wilde, Jürgen Wilde, Peter Ackermann, Michael von Biel, Fernando Botero, Miguel Condé, Renato Guttoso, Horst Janssen, Giacomo Manzù, Pablo Picasso, Wolfgang Schmitz, Rudolf Schoofs, André Thomkins, Bodo Baumgarten, Blythe Bohnen, Pinchas Cohen Gan, Rupprecht Geiger, Hetum Gruber, Eva Hesse, Sol LeWitt, Nino Malfatti, Bob Ryman, Jan Schoonhoven, Lee U-Fan, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick.

Texts in German.

Also includes an exhibition guide booklet in the same format as the 3 main catalogue volumes.
Good copy throughout with general tanning and age wear to box and books, some knocking and tape-mended cracking to the box binding corners and edging.

File under: Lothar Romain Arnold Bode Manfred Schneckenburger Bazon Brock Karl Oskar Blase Klaus Honnef Evelyn Weiss Lothar Lang Francis Bacon Jennifer Bartlett Georg Baselitz Gerd Baukhage Enzo Cacciola Louis Cane Chuck Close Ulrich Erben Winfred Gaul Raimund Girke Kuno Gonschior Camille Graeser Gotthard Graubner Nancy Graves Alan Green Richard Hamilton Heijo Hangen Bernhard Heisig Michael Heizer Edgar Hofschen Jasper Johns Willem de Kooning Attila Kovács László Lakner Roy Lichtenstein Markus Lüpertz Wolfgang Mattheuer Gerhard Merz Rune Mields Carmengloria Morales Malcolm Morley Claudio Olivieri Roman Opalka Palermo A.R. Penck Lucio Pozzi Hans-Peter Reuter Gerhard Richter Claude Rutault Willi Sitte Frank Stella Werner Tübke Bernar Venet Andy Warhol Reindert Wepko van de Wint Gianfranco Zappetini Jerry Zeniuk Bernhard Johannes Blume Christian Boltanski Bettina Brand Heinz Breloh James Collins Zdenek Felix Reinhold Hohl Gabrielle Honnef-Harling Erich Kuby Werner Lippert Bernd Lohse Felix H. Mann Hilmar Pabel Georg Reinhardt Liselotte Strelow Ann Wilde Jürgen Wilde Peter Ackermann Michael von Biel Fernando Botero Miguel Condé Renato Guttoso Horst Janssen Giacomo Manzù Pablo Picasso Wolfgang Schmitz Rudolf Schoofs André Thomkins Bodo Baumgarten Blythe Bohnen Pinchas Cohen Gan Rupprecht Geiger Hetum Gruber Eva Hesse Sol LeWitt Nino Malfatti Robert Ryman Jan Schoonhoven Lee U-Fan Wieland Schmied Rainer Werner Fassbinder Martin Scorsese Stanley Kubrick Bernd and Hilla Becher Lothar Romain Bazon Brock Karl Oskar Blase Klaus Honnef Evelyn Weiss Manfred Schneckenburger Arnold Bode Wieland Schmied Lothar Lang Paul Dierich / Kassel Sculpture / Installation Curatorial Group Shows / Collections Painting Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Art Arte Povera Conceptual Art Dada Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Photography Pop Art Sound / Music Fluxus

P.C.A. Projecte, Concepte & Actionen
Edited by Walter Aue

1971, German
Softcover, 464 pages, 29.7 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by DuMont / Köln

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Huge, densely-illustrated volume compiled by German publisher/editor/essayist/curator Walter Aue, who worked closely with conceptual and performance artists in the 1960s-1970s. Laid-out by Aue himself, the book feels like a very natural scrap-book compendium of artist contributions, reproducing artworks, documentation of happenings, texts, photographs, diagrams, collages, news-clippings, instructions, etc. across over 450 pages, with Aue's type-written opening essay and cataloguing throughout. Features the most notable conceptual, actionist and performance artists of the period, spanning Fluxus, Arte Povera, radical architecture, Nouveau Realisme, etc. including Dieter Rot, Joseph Beuys, Robert Smithson, Pino Pascali, Stanley Brouwn, Jannis Kounellis, Klaus Rinke, Ben Vautier, Al Hansen, Walter Pichler, Hilla and Bernhard Becher, Giuseppe Penone, Ettore Sottsass, Gilbert and George, Walter De Maria, Wolf Vostell, Hans Hollein, Imi Knoebel, Barry Flanagan, Allan Kaprow, Carolee Schneemann, Hamish Fulton, Christo, Elfriede Jelinek, Dennis Oppenheim, Urs Lüthi, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Rühm, Blink Palermo, Lawrence Weiner, Ed Ruscha, HA Schult, Hermann Nitsch, James Lee Byars, Jan Dibbets, Jochen Gerz, Mauricio Kagel, Nam June Paik, Otto Mühl, Arnulf Rainer, Jan Voss, George Brecht, Robert Filliou, Franz Erhard Walther, Timm Ulrichs, Daniel Spoerri, Erich Reusch, Paul Pechter, Rainer Giese, Jörg Immendorff, Henning Christiansen, Gilberto Zorio, Panamarenko, Joseph Kosuth, Dan Graham, Dick Higgins, Ian Baxter, Mel Bochner, Haus-Rucker-Co, Markus Raetz, Sottsass, Nam June Paik, Hans Haacke, Tetsumi Kudo, Bruce Mclean, On Kawara, and so many more.

Depending on the artist, texts are in English, German, Dutch, etc. Opening essay in German.
Very Good, light wear/tear to top spine.

File under: Dieter Rot Otto Muehl Otto Mühl Henning Christiansen Jörg Immendorff Haus-Rucker-Co Joseph Beuys Robert Smithson Pino Pascali Stanley Brouwn Jannis Kounellis Klaus Rinke Ben Vautier Al Hansen Walter Pichler Giuseppe Penone Ettore Sottsass Walter De Maria Wolf Vostell Hans Hollein Imi Knoebel Barry Flanagan Allan Kaprow Carolee Schneemann Hamish Fulton Christo Elfriede Jelinek Dennis Oppenheim Urs Lüthi Sigmar Polke Gerhard Rühm Lawrence Weiner Ed Ruscha HA Schult Hermann Nitsch James Lee Byars Jan Dibbets Jochen Gerz Mauricio Kagel Nam June Paik Arnulf Rainer Jan Voss George Brecht Robert Filliou Franz Erhard Walther Timm Ulrichs Daniel Spoerri Erich Reusch Paul Pechter Rainer Giese Gilberto Zorio Panamarenko Joseph Kosuth Dan Graham Dick Higgins Mel Bochner Markus Raetz Hans Haacke Tetsumi Kudo Bruce Mclean On Kawara Iain Baxter Bernd and Hilla Becher Gilbert & George Blinky Palermo Walter Aue DuMont / Köln Fluxus Performance / Dance / Theater Art Sculpture / Installation Feminism Arte Povera Conceptual Art Curatorial Film / Video Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Photography Sound / Music Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic

Jane Birkin

1979, French
Softcover, 192 pages, 20.5 x 15 cm
Out of print title / used / good
Published by Editions PAC / Paris

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One of the earliest and scarcest books dedicated to the great French actress and singer, Jane Birkin. Written by Jean-Philippe Thomann and published in 1979, this heavily illustrated volume forms an early biography of her personal life and an important document capturing her diverse and challenging career as actress (working with Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda, Jean-Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni, Jacques Doillon, Serge Gainsbourg, Jacques Rivette, to name a few), model, singer, and her work in theatre. Photographs, film stills, magazine covers, film posters and record jackets are accompanied by hand-written notes by Birkin, a filmography, discography and much more.

Very good copy with light wear and light peeling to cover laminate. Crisp copy throughout.

File under: Jane Birkin Serge Gainsbourg Jean-Philippe Thomann Editions PAC / Paris Photography Film / Video Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare

Jonas Mekas
Conversations with Filmmakers : Movie Journal Columns 1961-1975

2018, English
Hardcover, 260 pages, 30.5 x 21.2 cm
Published by Spector Books / Leipzig

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Lithuanian-born Jonas Mekas migrated to Brooklyn via Germany in 1949 and began shooting his first films there. Mekas developed a form of film diary in which he recorded his daily observations. He became the barometer of the New York art scene and a pioneer of American avant-garde cinema. Every week, from 1958 until 1977, he published his “Movie Journal” column in the Village Voice, conducting numerous interviews with filmmakers from all over the world. Conversations is the first time that these interviews with his filmmaker friends and associates have been put together in a book. Mekas recorded the conversations with his camera. From the films he shot with his interlocutors, Mekas selected one photo or still to introduce each interview. The collection of texts is supplemented by letters and extracts from related scenarios/scripts and rounded out with an index of the people involved.

Features conversations with Storm de Hirsch and Louis Brigante, Andy Warhol, Nico Papatakis, Albert and David Maysles, Peter Kubelka, Agnes Varda, Harry Smith, John Cassavetes, Stan Brakhage, Kenneth Anger, and many more.

File under: Andy Warhol Nico Papatakis Peter Kubelka Agnes Varda Harry Smith John Cassavetes Stan Brakhage Jonas Mekas Albert Maysles and David Maysles Storm de Hirsch Louis Brigante Jonas Mekas Spector Books / Leipzig Film / Video Art Theory / Essay

Eisenstein At Work

1982, English
Softcover, 112 pages, 28 x 26 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by MoMA / New York Pantheon / New York

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First 1982 edition of this unique collection of Eisenstein's own sketches, notes and letters, together with photographs and eye-witness accounts comprising an intimate record spanning his entire oeuvre, capturing of the day-to-day genesis of each project of Sergei Eisenstein, the most influential film-maker of the 20th century.

Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (1898 – 1948) was a Soviet film director and film theorist, a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage. He is noted in particular for his silent films Strike (1925), Battleship Potemkin (1925) and October (1928), as well as the historical epics Alexander Nevsky (1938) and Ivan the Terrible (1944, 1958).

Very Good-Fine copy of the first 1982 edition.

File under: Sergei Eisenstein MoMA / New York Pantheon / New York Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare SALE Theory / Essay

Speculations on Anonymous Materials
Edited by Susanne Pfeffer

2018, English / German
Softcover, 502 pages, 29.6 x 22.2 cm
Published by Koenig Books / London

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Speculations on Anonymous Materials for the first time worldwide brings together approaches in international art that reinterpret the anonymous materials created by rapid and incisive technological change.

Art’s brief is no longer to generate unique, original images, but to seek reflection in a desubjectivized approach to the existing stocks of objects, images and spaces nature after nature presents artistic works using materials that surround us and constitute nature.

Differentiations between synthetic and organic, manmade and natural are rejected. The exhibition demonstrates a nature after nature that, in its complex, global transformations, can only be grasped in fragments.

A nature that disassociates itself from an idealized and ideologized term and must be considered anew. Inhuman offers visions of the human being as a socially trained yet resistant body, transcending biologically or socially determined gender classifications, as a digitally immortal entity, or as a constantly evolving self. They visualize the constructs that define what is human and shift existing perspectives on them.

Published retrospectively after the exhibition, Speculations on Anonymous Material at Fridericianum, Kassel, 29 September 2013 – 26 January 2014.

English and German text.

Artists:
Michele Abeles, Ed Atkins, Alisa Baremboym, Juliette Bonneviot, Björn Braun, Dora Budor, Nina Canell, Alice Channer, Simon Denny, Nicolas Deshayes, Aleksandra Domanović, David Douard, Kerstin Brätsch & Debo Eilers, Jana Euler, Cécile B Evans, GCC, Melanie Gilligan, Sachin Kaeley, Josh Kline, Oliver Laric, Sam Lewitt, Jason Loebs, Tobias Madison, Marlie Mul, Katja Novitskova, Ken Okiishi, Johannes Paul Raether, Jon Rafman, Magali Reus, Pamela Rosenkranz, Nora Schultz, Timur Si-Qin, Avery Singer, Trisha Baga, & Jessie Stead Ryan Trecartin Anicka Yi

Authors:
Stacy Alaimo, Kirsty Bell, Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Antoine Catala, Andrew Durbin, Yuk Hui, David Joselit, Josh Kline, Jean-François Lyotard, Flora Lysen, Tobias Madison, Katja Novitskova, Jussi Parikka, Susanne Pfeffer, Gregor Quack, Pamela Rosenkranz, Susanne M. Winterling

File under: Michele Abeles Ed Atkins Alisa Baremboym Juliette Bonneviot Björn Braun Dora Budor Nina Canell Alice Channer Simon Denny Nicolas Deshayes Aleksandra Domanović David Douard Kerstin Brätsch Debo Eilers Jana Euler GCC Melanie Gilligan Sachin Kaeley Josh Kline Oliver Laric Sam Lewitt Jason Loebs Tobias Madison Marlie Mul Katja Novitskova Ken Okiishi Johannes Paul Raether Jon Rafman Magali Reus Pamela Rosenkranz Nora Schultz Timur Si-Qin Avery Singer Trisha Baga Cécile B. Evans Stacy Alaimo Kirsty Bell Franco “Bifo” Berardi Antoine Catala Andrew Durbin Yuk Hui David Joselit Josh Kline Jean-François Lyotard Flora Lysen Tobias Madison Katja Novitskova Jussi Parikka Susanne Pfeffer Gregor Quack Pamela Rosenkranz Susanne M. Winterling Koenig Books / London Art Sculpture / Installation Film / Video Theory / Essay Painting Group Shows / Collections Curatorial

TEXTE ZUR KUNST
ISSUE NO. 112 / DECEMBER 2018 "NOISE/SILENCE"

2018, English / German
Softcover, 240 pages, 23 x 16.5 cm
Published by Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin

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Issue # 112 of Texte zur Kunst, “Noise/Silence,” focuses on these two sonic extremes that define the boundaries of the audible, framing all possible sonic expressions therein. Given the emergence of sound as its own field of inquiry within the arts, and the development of newer media forms for sound production, can we still reliably argue that noise and silence are open to artists and musicians today in the ways that they were for Luigi Russolo in his 1913 manifesto, “The Art of Noises;” or, in John Cage’s writings on silence? In our analysis and judgment on the contemporary significance of noise and silence within sound and music, we are also questioning the potential for radical gestures with sound tout court—the all or nothing. What is left for music and sonic interventions today? What kinds of subversive noises can be marshaled against the deafening silence? And where, if anywhere, can silence provide a shelter from the relentless noise from the outside? We assembled a group of media historians and philosophers to give us a theoretical orientation in this shifting sonic landscape, and also asked four artists/musicians to weigh in on the possibility for radical gestures in their own practice. The results offer a much-needed revision of the terms for sound in the arts today.

Issue No. 112 / December 2018 "Noise/Silence"

Table Of Contents
Forward
Preface

Rolf Grossmann - Silence, Sound, Noise / Aesthetic And Media-Technological Observations
Ute Holl - Excavating Silence
Fiona Mcgovern - Curating Sound
Sound Rules / Colin Lang And Cevdet Erek In Conversation
Michaela Melián - Electric Ladyland
Andrea Neumann - Production By Subtraction
Arto Lindsay
Puce Moment

New Development
Political Myth – Prefiguration – Brexit / Angus Nicholls On The Mythic Structures Behind Brexit

Rotation
Metabolismen Der Moderne / André Rottmann Über „Entgrenzter Formalismus. Verfahren Einer Antimodernen Ästhetik“ Von Kerstin Stakemeier
Migration Und Film Denken / Nanna Heidenreich Über Brigitta Kusters „Grenze Filmen“
The Third Persona / Amanda Schmitt On Ben Lerner And Anna Ostoya’s “The Polish Rider”

Klang Körper
Figuring Space / Steven Warwick On Catherine Christer Hennix

Reviews
This Is The Rented Moment / Nicolás Guagnini On Jack Smith At Artists Space, New York
Konzeptueller Fehlschlag / Fabio Cypriano Über Die 33. Biennale In São Paulo
Enjoy Your Sinthome / Sven Lütticken On Dora García At The Reina Sofía, Madrid
Artists Must Begin Helping Themselves / Pedro De Llano On Stephan Dillemuth At A Certain Lack Of Coherence, Porto
Der Traumzauberbaum / Inka Meißner Über Amy Lien & Enzo Camacho Im Kunstverein Freiburg
Burnt By The Sun / Colin Lang On Katarina Sieverding At Manifesta 12, Palermo
Star Alliance / Alida Müschen Über Ei Arakawa Im Kunstverein Für Die Rheinlande Und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Canon Fodder / Julia Pelta Feldman On Charline Von Heyl At Petzel Gallery, New York
Manspainting / Georg Imdahl Über Balthus In Der Fondation Beyeler, Basel
Case Of Urgency / Christina Catherine Martinez On Gerry Bibby At O-Town House, Los Angeles
Meshes Of The Platform Age / Jakob Schillinger On Loretta Fahrenholz At Mumok, Vienna
Re-Call, Re-Take, Represent / Rattanamol Singh Johal On Vivan Sundaram At The Kiran Nadar Museum Of Art, New Delhi And Haus Der Kunst, Munich
Grasping History / Frauke Zabel Über Karin Schneider Im Kunstverein Nürnberg
Stacked Cards / Ana Vogelfang On Pablo Accinelli At Malba, Buenos Aires
Computerkunst Jenseits Des Computers / Karel Císař Über „1968:Computer.Art“ In Brno
Abstraction Of The Body / Melissa Gordon On Amy Sillman At Camden Arts Centre, London
Feministischer Dekolonialismus Avant La Lettre / Michaela Wünsch Über Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Im Kulturzentrum Der Koreanischen Botschaft, Berlin
Where The Bodies Are Buried / Ana Teixeira Pinto On Roee Rosen At The Centre Pompidou, Paris
Chez Michel / Anke Dyes Über Henrik Olesen Im Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin

Obituary
Helena Almeida (1934–2018) / João Ribas
Klaus Herding (1939−2018) / Tom Holert

Edition
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
Jeanette Mundt
Wolfgang Tillmans

File under: Balthus Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster Jeanette Mundt Wolfgang Tillmans Klaus Herding Helena Almeida Henrik Olesen Roee Rosen Amy Sillman Vivan Sundaram Gerry Bibby Loretta Fahrenholz Charline Von Heyl Amy Lien & Enzo Camacho Ei Arakawa Stephan Dillemuth Dora García Jack Smith Cevdet Erek Arto Lindsay Tom Holert João Ribas Anke Dyes Ana Teixeira Pinto Melissa Gordon Rattanamol Singh Christina Catherine Martinez Jakob Schillinger Georg Imdahl Julia Pelta Feldman Pedro De Llano Sven Lütticken Nicolás Guagnini André Rottmann Amanda Schmitt Angus Nicholls Fiona Mcgovern Andrea Neumann Michaela Melián Ute Holl Rolf Grossmann Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin Art Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Painting Periodicals Theory / Essay Sound / Music

MAY #19

2018, English / French
Softcover, 220 pages, 240 x 175 mm
Published by May Revue / Paris

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This issue of May was conceived around a series of texts by three women writers/artists who express, through a bio-fictional-essayist form, their current conditions of living, thinking, and working. We worked on the current issue over a period of six months in New York as the debates emerging from the #MeToo movement and regarding cultural appropriation became more intense in art communities. Instead of addressing directly the moralistic and essentialist dimensions of these binary representations, this issue of May was first imagined as an attempt to initiate a space for writing, to offer some perpectives that could propose another understanding of the new form of “cultural war” we are experiencing now in the Western art world.

Thus, a text by Elise Duryee-Browner directly confronts the paradoxes and perversions of #MeToo and proposes alternate interpretations. The author has already published an essay in a previous issue of May on the effect of the election of Donald Trump on New York liberal society, where she deconstructed the dualist vision of the Left and Right political spheres by comparing this to the lateral activities of the human brain. In this issue, Duryee-Browner reflects upon her own situation as a young woman in an effort to understand women who, in acting like men in order to end male domination, ultimately ignore what they are destroying. Looking at the intense confrontations between men and women, she finds problematic the loss of the capacity to legislate—to make the laws, or in the Jewish religion, to interpret them—and pleads for “a cultural revolution that needs to happen, not simply women/non-Western cultures inhabiting the core of male/Western power” (to borrow her words).

Three short stories by Cecilia Pavón provide lucid insights into her life as a writer in Buenos Aires: the celebratory opening of a very well-known female British artist, Trish; the preparation of her own living room, where she teaches writing workshops; and a dystopic fiction piece featuring an H&M store being suddenly flooded, whereby she considers the relationship between conventions of clothing and gender that are imposed or assumed of women writers. Although the author’s writing style could seem lighthearted or even frivolous (“domestic poetry” as Chris Kraus puts it), she plays with a seemingly minor voice, using her everyday life as a way to circumvent the apparatus of institutionalized provincial literature.

Reflecting upon the replacement of human creativity by artificial intelligence, Georgie Nettell proposes further perspectives to preserve the conditions of creativity in a “hacked” neoliberal society. Within the context of Brexit, recalling that the referendum was manipulated by Cambridge Analytica with weaponized big-data programs, Nettell reflects on the progressive transformation of liberal democracy into a system that can be hacked, as with human creativity, like an electronic device.

CONTENTS:

Preface
— MAY

Trisha Erin
— CECILIA PAVÓN

Freestyle Rap
— CECILIA PAVÓN

A Perfect Day
— CECILIA PAVÓN

Morality Crisis: On the Legitimate Acquisition of Tons of Sex
— ELISE DURYEE-BROWNER

The Onset of Automation
— GEORGIE NETTELL

Out of the Box, on The Square (dir. Ruben Östlund)
— JASON SIMON

On “Seismography of Struggles, Toward a Global History of Critical and Cultural Journals” at INHA, Paris
— MORAD MONTAZAMI

Doors of Deflection, on Sam Pulitzer at Francesca Pia, Zürich
— DANIEL HORN

Paradiso, on Richard Maxwell at Greene Naftali, New York
— NICK IRVIN

Munch’s Flu, on Edvard Munch at MET Breuer, New York
— CLÉMENT RODZIELSKI

Why Do Jaguar, on Georgia Sagri at Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig
— ANKE DYES

On “Gianni Versace Retrospective” at Kronprinzenpalais, Berlin
— KARL HOLMQVIST

About MAY Revue:

Conceived as a collective space in which to develop thoughts and confront positions on artistic production, May magazine examines, quaterly, contemporary art practice and theory in direct engagement with the issues, contexts and strategies that construct these two fields. An approach that could be summed up as critique at work – or as critique actively performed in text and art forms alike.

Featuring essays, interviews, art works and reviews by artists, writers and diverse practitioners of the arts, the magazine also intends to address the economy of the production of knowledge – the starting point of this reflection being the space of indistinction between information and advertisement typical of our time. This implies a dialogue with forms of critique produced in other fields.

File under: Edvard Munch Sam Pulitzer Gianni Versace Karl Holmqvist Georgia Sagri Richard Maxwell Ruben Östlund Georgie Nettell Jason Simon Daniel Horn Nick Irvin Anke Dyes Elise Duryee-Browner Cecilia Pavón Georgie Nettell Morad Montazami May Revue / Paris Periodicals Art Painting Theory / Essay Film / Video Fiction / Poetry SALE

Machines And Robots - Edition Digital Culture 5
Edited by Dominik Landwehr

2018, English / German
288 pages, 11 x 18 cm
Published by Christoph Merian / Basel

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Machines, automats, and robots have always exerted a special fascination on artists. Yet computers, digitisation, and the Internet have given this attraction entirely new impulses. Moreover, developments in artificial intelligence and robotics are of critical importance today. The fifth volume of this series provides insights into current research topics and investigates their artistic potential and possible issues. It contains illustrations and a detailed glossary of significant terms, in addition to contributions by Raffaello D’Andrea, Andreas Broeckmann, Roland Fischer, Martina Kammermann, Bruno Spoerri, Philipp Theisohn, Mads Pankow, and Roland Wetzel.

File under: Raffaello D’Andrea Andreas Broeckmann Roland Fischer Martina Kammermann Bruno Spoerri Philipp Theisohn Mads Pankow Roland Wetzel Dominik Landwehr Christoph Merian / Basel Art Theory / Essay Film / Video Architecture / Interior Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater

Amalia Ulman
Excellences & Perfections

2018, English
Hardcover, 240 pages, 195 x 240 cm
Published by Prestel / Munich

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Foreword by Farkas Rozsa
Contributions by Hito Steyerl, Hannah Black and Natasha Stagg

Amalia Ulman's performance "Excellences & Perfections", which unfolded on Instagram in 2014, follows an aspiring it-girl who undergoes a series of cosmetic surgeries and lifestyle changes to help jumpstart her career. For six months Ulman mesmerized her followers with nearly daily posts that documented a young woman trying on different personas in order to make her way in the world. Finally, the real Amalia Ulman revealed the fiction that she had created-a performance piece about identity, gender, class, sexuality, and lifestyle porn. The illustrations are presented in chronological order to give readers the experience of viewing the work as an uninterrupted stream, in the way her followers first saw them on social media. A forerunner of a new brand of performance art, Ulman has made a significant statement about the intersection of life and art-one that couldn't be more timely or compelling.

File under: Amalia Ulman Farkas Rozsa Amalia Ulman Hito Steyerl Hannah Black Natasha Stagg Prestel / Munich Art Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video SALE

ARTFORUM
LOOKING CRITICALLY: 21 YEARS OF ARTFORUM MAGAZINE

1984, English
Softcover, 342 pages, 270 x 280 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by U.M.I. Research Press / Michigan

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Softcover edition of "LOOKING CRITICALLY: 21 YEARS OF ARTFORUM MAGAZINE", the heavy 342 page volume anthology of the first 21 years of the world's most important modern and art journal. An incredibly valuable collection of art theory.

Edited by Amy Baker Sandback, designed by Roger Gorman and Mary Beath and published in 1984 by U.M.I. Research Press, this dense volume, bound in hardcover to the dimensions of a copy of ARTFORUM, begins with an Ed Kienholz review at the Ferus Gallery from ARTFORUM's June 1962 inaugural issue, and ends with Barbara Kruger reviewing the film "TRON" for the November 1982 issue. An amazing compendium of articles and reviews from the magazine's important first 21 years, featuring contributions by the likes of John Cage, Robert Morris, Kate Steinitz, Henry T. Hopkins, Don Factor, Robert Pincus-Witten, Dennis Adrian, John Coplans, Hilton Kramer, Harold Rosenberg, Henry Geldzahler, John Cage, Walter Hopps, Ed Ruscha, Allan Kaprow, Robert Rosenblum, Dan Flavin, Boris Groys, Sam Wagstaff, Billy Kluver, Lucy R. Lippard, Robert Rosenblum, Roger Shattuck, Ad Reinhardt, Mel Bochner, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Barbara Rose, Manny Farber, Michael Fried, Robert Morris, Philip Leider, Hollis Frampton, Carl Andre, Richard Serra, Lawrence Alloway, Barbara Kruger, Jane Livingston, Lizzie Borden, Kenneth Baker, Laurie Anderson, Agnes Martin, Cindy Nemser, Sidney Tillim, Annette Michelson, Rosalind Krauss, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Roberta Smith, Peter Plagens, Peter Schjeldahl, J. Hoberman, Hal Foster, Richard Flood, Carter Ratcliff, Stuart Morgan, Max Kozloff, Donald Kuspit, Dan Graham, Walter De Maria, Komar & Melamid, Edit De Ak, Lawrence Weiner, Kathy Acker, Robert Mapplethorpe, Anselm Kiefer, Thomas McEvilley, Louise Bourgeois, Ingrid Sischy, and too many more to list. Artists featured include: Josef Albers, Richard Tuttle, Jo Baer, Carl Andre, Ant Farm, Hans Arp, Max Bill, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Lee Bontecou, Constantin Brancusi, Bertholt Brecht, Richard Avedon, Francis Bacon, Diane Arbus, Michaelangelo Antonioni, Lynda Beglis, Larry Bell, Terry Fox, James Byers, Rober Barry, Marcel Breuer, AA Bronson, Luis Buñel, Daniel Buren, Chris Burden, Joseph Beuys, Anthony Caro, Marcel Broodthaers, John Chamberlain, Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall, Jean Cocteau, Merce Cunningham, Sonia Delauney, Walter de Maria, Bruce Connor, Jean Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Walker Evans, Dan Flavin, Marcel Duchamp, Albrecht Dürer, Lucio Fontana, Hollis Frampton, Alberto Giacometti, Eva Hesse, Gilbert & George, Philip Glass, John Cage, Nancy Graves, Dan Graham, Robert Grosvenor, Nancy Grossman, Walter Gropius, Hans Haacke, Hairy Who, David Hockney, Douglas Huebler, Jorg Immendorff, Donald Judd, Jasper Johns, Joan Jonas, Allan Kaprow, On Kawara, Ellsworth Kelly, Edward Keinholz, Paul Klee, Alison Knowles, Joseph Kosuth, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, André Masson, Henri Matisse, Roberto Matta, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Barbara Kruger, Jannis Kounellis, Markus Lüpertz, El Lissitzky, Rene Magritte, Robert Mapplethorpe, John McCracken, Mario Merz, Robert Morris, Robert Motherwell, Ree Morton, Louise Nevelson, Barnett Newman, Kenneth Noland, Claes Oldenburg, Eduardo Paolozzio, A. R. Penck, Irving Penn, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Larry Poons, Ken Price, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, Martial Raysse, Roman Polanski, Jackson Pollock, Steve Reich, Gerrit Rietveld, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Dorothae Rockburne, James Rosenquist, Mark Rothko, Robert Ryman, Lucas Samaras, Kurt Schwitters, Oscar Schlemmer, Richard Serra, Cindy Sherman, David Smith, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Robert Venturi, Wolf Vostell, Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, Saul Steinberg, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Bruno Taut, Jean Tinguely, Anne Truitt, Paul Wunderlich, Lawrence Weiner, Louise Bourgeois, Alfred Hitchcock, and so many more.

A Good copy throughout, with cover rubbing and corner bumping. Tightly bound and clean copy internally.

File under: A.R. Penck AA Bronson Agnes Martin Alain Robbe-Grillet Alberto Giacometti Albrecht Dürer Alfred Hitchcock Alighiero Boetti Alison Knowles Allan Kaprow André Masson Andy Warhol Anne Truitt Ant Farm Anthony Caro Barbara Kruger Barnett Newman Brice Marden Bruce Conner Bruno Taut Carl Andre Chris Burden Cindy Sherman Claes Oldenburg Constantin Brâncuși Dan Flavin Dan Graham Daniel Buren David Hockney David Smith Diane Arbus Donald Judd Dorothea Rockburne Douglas Huebler Edward Kienholz El Lissitzky Ellsworth Kelly Eva Hesse Francis Bacon Francis Picabia Frank Stella Gerrit Rietveld Hairy Who Hans Haacke Henri Matisse Hollis Frampton Irving Penn Jackson Pollock James Rosenquist Jannis Kounellis Jasper Johns Jean Cocteau Jean Dubuffet Jean Tinguely Jo Baer Joan Jonas John Cage John Chamberlain John McCracken Jörg Immendorff Josef Albers Joseph Beuys Joseph Kosuth Karlheinz Stockhausen Ken Price Kenneth Noland Kurt Schwitters Larry Bell Larry Poons Lawrence Weiner Lee Bontecou Louise Bourgeois Louise Nevelson Lucas Samaras Lucio Fontana Luis Buñuel Lynda Benglis Marc Chagall Marcel Breuer Marcel Broodthaers Marcel Duchamp Mario Merz Mark Rothko Markus Lupertz Martial Raysse Max Bill Max Ernst Mel Bochner Michael Snow Nancy Graves Nancy Grossman On Kawara Pablo Picasso Paul Cézanne Paul Klee Paul Wunderlich Philip Glass Ree Morton René Magritte Richard Avedon Richard Serra Richard Tuttle Robert Grosvenor Robert Mapplethorpe Robert Morris Robert Motherwell Robert Rauschenberg Robert Ryman Robert Smithson Robert Venturi Roberto Matta Roman Polanski Roy Lichtenstein Saul Steinberg Sol Lewitt Sonia Delaunay Steve Reich Terry Fox Walker Evans Walter de Maria Walter Gropius Wolf Vostell Yvonne Rainer Michelangelo Antonioni Jean Arp (Hans Arp) James Lee Byars Merce Cunningham Oskar Schlemmer Gilbert & George Robert Barry Eduardo Paolozzi Ad Reinhardt Agnes Martin Allan Kaprow Andy Warhol Annette Michelson Anselm Kiefer Barbara Kruger Barbara Rose Billy Kluver Boris Groys Carl Andre Carter Ratcliff Cindy Nemser Claes Oldenburg Dan Flavin Dan Graham Dennis Adrian Don Factor Donald Kuspit Ed Ruscha Edit De Ak Hal Foster Harold Rosenberg Henry Geldzahler Henry T. Hopkins Hilton Kramer Hollis Frampton Ingrid Sischy J. Hoberman Jane Livingston Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe John Cage John Coplans Kate Steinitz Kathy Acker Kenneth Baker Laurie Anderson Lawrence Alloway Lawrence Weiner Lizzie Borden Louise Bourgeois Lucy R. Lippard Lynda Benglis Manny Farber Max Kozloff Mel Bochner Michael Fried Peter Plagens Peter Schjeldahl Philip Leider Richard Flood Richard Serra Robert Mapplethorpe Robert Morris Robert Pincus-Witten Robert Rosenblum Roberta Smith Roger Shattuck Roy Lichtenstein Sam Wagstaff Sidney Tillim Stuart Morgan Thomas McEvilley Walter De Maria Walter Hopps Rosalind E. Krauss Bertolt Brecht U.M.I. Research Press / Michigan Art Arte Povera Conceptual Art Counterculture Curatorial Dada Drawing Feminism Fiction / Poetry Film / Video Fluxus Group Shows / Collections Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals Photography Poetry Pop Art Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Theory / Essay

Seth Price
Price, Seth

2010, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 108 pages, 20.2 x 23.8 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Kunsthalle Zürich / Zürich Kölnischer Kunstverein / Köln JRP Ringier / Zürich

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The out-of-print first monograph dedicated to the artist Seth Price, includes an essay by Michael Newman as well as Price's own critical take on his practice, given in the form of a videotaped conference that structures the presentation of his works.

Through paintings, sculpture, video, and media work, Seth Price (*1973 East Jerusalem, lives and works in New York) underlines the production strategies, dissemination modes, and valuation patterns of art. His appropriationist work, which he rather calls a "redistribution" of (often) pirated materials, disrupts the operations of commodity culture. Among his formats and tactics one should mention the recycling of iconic illustrations, reduplication (from digital to vacuum-formed techniques), the reenactment of projects, and the collaborative actions with Continuous Project (formed in 2003 with Bettina Funcke, Wade Guyton, and Joseph Logan) or other artists.

Published by JRP-Ringier with Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich and the Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne.

File under: Seth Price Kunsthalle Zürich / Zürich Kölnischer Kunstverein / Köln JRP Ringier / Zürich Art Sculpture / Installation Film / Video

Ces Dessins qui Bougent / These drawings that move : 1892-1992
Cent Ans de Cinema d'Animation / One hundred years of Animated Film by René Laloux

1996, French
Softcover, 200 pages, 26 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / Used*,
Published by Dreamland Éditeur / Paris

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Written by one of the finest in the field, René Laloux, this scarce French book published in 1996 traces the history of animated cinema. "Ces Dessins qui Bougent : 1892-1992 - Cent Ans de Cinema d'Animation" (These drawings that move : 1892-1992 - One hundred years of Animated Film) is richly illustrated throughout with some of the best historical examples in animated film, dissecting the form through the work of Bruno Bozzetto, Jan Svankmajer, Paul Grimault, Walt Disney, Hayao Miyazaki, Yuri Norstein, Norman Mclaren, Walérian Borowczyk, Jiri Trnka, Ralph Bakshi, Jean Giraud (Mœbius), Philippe Caza, Osvaldo Cavandoli, Peter Foldes, and so many more. Includes a great illustrated chronology of important works. Texts in French.

René Laloux (July 13, 1929 – March 14, 2004) was a French animator and film director, well known for his animated films including The Snails (Les Escargots, 1965), Time Masters (1982), Gandahar (1988), and his most famous, Fantastic Planet (La Planète Sauvage, 1973), collaborating with artists Roland Topor, Jean Giraud (Mœbius) and Philippe Caza.

Condition: Good (some general cover and page wear from reading) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Bruno Bozzetto Hayao Miyazaki Jan Svankmajer Jean Giraud (Mœbius) Jiří Trnka Norman Mclaren Osvaldo Cavandoli Paul Grimault Peter Foldes Philippe Caza Ralph Bakshi René Laloux Walérian Borowczyk Walt Disney Yuri Norstein Dreamland Éditeur / Paris Art Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées

Harald Szeemann
Museum of Obsessions

2018, English
Hardcover, 432 pages, 25x 31 cm
Published by Getty Publications / Los Angeles

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Texts by Glenn Phillips, Doris Chon, Pietro Rigolo, Philipp Kaiser

Harald Szeemann is associated with some of the most important artistic developments of the postwar era. A passionate advocate of avant-garde movements like conceptualism and post minimalism, he collaborated with artists such as Joseph Beuys, Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra, and Cy Twombly, developing new ways of presenting art that reflected his sweeping vision of contemporary culture.

Szeemann once stated that his goal as an exhibition maker was to create a "Museum of Obsessions." This richly illustrated volume is a virtual collection catalogue for that imaginary institution, tracing the evolution of his curatorial method through the materials he collected and produced while researching and organising his exhibitions, including letters, drawings, personal datebooks, installation plans, artists' books, posters, photographs, and handwritten notes.

This book documents all phases of Szeemann's career, from his early stint as director of the Kunsthalle Bern, where he organized the seminal Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form (1969); to documenta 5 (1972) and the intensely personal exhibition he staged in his own apartment using the belongings of his hairdresser grandfather (1974); to his reinvention as a freelance curator who realised projects on wide-ranging themes until his death in 2005.

The book contains essays exploring Szeemann's curatorial approach as well as interviews with collaborators. Its more than 350 illustrations include previously unpublished installation photographs and exhibition documents as well as many other materials from the curator's archive.

File under: Meret Oppenheim Markus Raetz Walter De Maria Klaus Rinke Christo Andy Warhol Marcel Broodthaers Marcel Duchamp Joseph Beuys Bruce Nauman Richard Serra Cy Twombly Ernst Fricke Charlotte Bara Karl Gräser Emma Kunz Ferdinand Cheval Ben Vautier Ed Ruscha Oskar Schlemmer Kurt Schwitters Thomas Hirschhorn Eva Hesse Dick Higgins Mario Merz Marisa Merz Sol LeWitt Nancy Graves Robert Filliou Donald Judd László Moholy-Nagy Man Ray Francis Picabia Elisar von Kupffer Charles Ives Paul Thek Panamarenko Edward Kienholz Guerilla Art Action Group John Cage Allan Kaprow Charlotte Moorman George Maciunas Haus-Rucker-Co Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn Nam June Paik Harald Szeemann Glenn Phillips Doris Chon Pietro Rigolo Philipp Kaiser Raymond Roussel Alfred Jarry Lucy R. Lippard Getty Publications / Los Angeles Curatorial Art Group Shows / Collections Conceptual Art Minimal Art Theory / Essay Fluxus Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Dada Arte Povera Architecture / Interior Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Bauhaus

Mathias Poledna
Substance

2017, English
Softcover (in slip-case), 132 pages, 31 x 23.5 cm
Published by Galerie Buchholz / Köln The Renaissance Society / Chicago

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This catalogue documents Mathias Poledna’s exhibition at the Renaissance Society in Chicago in 2014/2015. Conceived and designed by the artist, it features new essays by Amy Knight Powell, Bennett Simpson and Andrew Weiner.

File under: Mathias Poledna Amy Knight Powell Bennett Simpson Andrew Weiner. Galerie Buchholz / Köln The Renaissance Society / Chicago Art Photography Sculpture / Installation Film / Video

Texte Zur Kunst
Issue No. 111 / SEPTEMBER 2018 "AMERIKA"

2018, English / German
Softcover, 240 pages, 23 x 16.5 cm
Published by Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin

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The September issue of Texte zur Kunst focuses on Amerika (U.S. America principally): the land, the idea, and all that seems to come with it. What is Amerika today other than a contradiction between brute political reality and a largely fictional self-image, where fiction says as much about fact as “alternative facts” say about the truth? Within this contradiction, this issue tries to imagine modes of engaging with the current political machinery without opting for the one-dimensional dive into micropolitics that has plagued much recent activist discourse. The Trump regime has introduced a new form of politics whose tactics are closer to artistic practice—inventing parallel truths and questioning facts—than anything like traditional governance. As such, those familiar with art are in a unique position to offer an analysis of the specific forms that define contemporary politics in Amerika. We have thus commissioned artists and critics to come up with new strategies for analyzing the rampant barbarism, resisting the urge to sink into paralysis and defeat in the face of the endless onslaught.

Issue No. 111 / September 2018 "America"

Table Of Contents :
Foreword
 Prefaces
 Colin Lang  - The Horror, Vacui
 Ken Okiishi -  Liberty and Justice For All, Not Us
Aria Dean -  Trauma And Virtuality
 Letter To A Friend In New York / By Isabelle Graw
The Golden Hoard / Conversation With Andrea Fraser
 Sina Najaf - i The American Dream State
 Robert F. Reid-Pharr -  What We Dare Not Remember

New Development
 Is Space The Place? / Eva Díaz On Feminist Futures In The Anthropocene
Love Work Cinema
 Between Bildersturm And Artistic Research / Rainer Bellenbaum About Films From The Years Around 1968 In The Historical Program Of The Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen

Reviews
Decolonialized Narrative In The National Art Temple / Susanne Von Falkenhausen On "Hello World" At Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
 That Fluctuating Moment / Jesi Khadivi At The 10Th Berlin Biennale
 The Silent Ship / Övül Ö. Durmusoglu On Manifesta 12 In Palermo
 Love And Salt / Adrienne Rooney On Adrian Piper At The Museum Of Modern Art, New York
Tracks Of Disappearance / Tobi Maier About Bruce Nauman In The Schaulager, Basel
 Man In The Mirror / Dan Kidner On "Picasso 1932 - Love, Fame, Tragedy" At Tate Modern, London
 In The Bure Of The Circle / Marietta Kesting About Raster-Noton In The Kunstbau Lenbachhaus, Munich
 Looking But Not Seeing? / Darla Migan On Faith Ring Gold At Weiss Berlin
 Mad / Ame / Jenny Nachtigall About Jutta Koether At The Museum Brandhorst, Munich
 If You Are Once Big / Nadja Abt About Philip Wiegard At Between Bridges, Berlin
 Marked By Trade / Sven Lütticken On "Trade Markings" At The Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
 Amazone Retired / Tina Schulz On Astrid Klein In The Falckenberg Collection, Hamburg
 Born To Die / Colin Lang On Jeanette Mundt At Société, Berlin
 Limitations Of Utopia / Christina Irrgang On Cyril Lachauer In The Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
 Hereditary Peers / Saim Demircan On Luke Willis Thompson At Kunsthalle Basel
Zoology Of The Falls / Niklas Lichti On Peter Wächtler With Lars Friedrich, Berlin
 Below The Surf / Steven Warwick On Georgie Nettell At The Kunstbunker Forum For Contemporary Art, Nuremberg
 The Hour Of The Historics / Ariane Müller About Valie Export At The Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
 Foreign Powers / Johanna Burton On Zoe Leonard At The Whitney Museum Of American Art
Committee Criteria / Kerstin Stakemeier On Henrike Naumann At The Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
 Related Practices / Sandra Neugärtner On Anni Albers In The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
 Term (s) Of Endearment / Kathi Hofer On "Milieu" At After The Butcher, Berlin

Obituary
 Claude Lanzmann (1925-2018) 
 
Edition
Cecily Brown 
Mark Leckey

File under: Ken Okiishi Anni Albers Valie Export Zoe Leonard Georgie Nettell Bruce Nauman Andrea Fraser Cecily Brown Mark Leckey Henrike Naumann Peter Wächtler Cyril Lachauer Jeanette Mundt Astrid Klein Jutta Koether Faith Ring Gold Philip Wiegard Adrian Piper Raster-Noton Saim Demircan Aria Dean Susanne von Falkenhausen Isabelle Graw Sven Lütticken Steven Warwick Johanna Burton Jesi Khadivi Tobi Maier Marietta Kesting Övül Ö. Durmusoglu Adrienne Rooney Dan Kidner Darla Migan Niklas Lichti Ariane Müller Colin Lang Christina Irrgang Tina Schulz Nadja Abt Jenny Nachtigall Rainer Bellenbaum Eva Díaz Robert F. Reid-Pharr Aria Dean Kerstin Stakemeier Kathi Hofer Sandra Neugärtner Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin Art Theory / Essay Periodicals Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Painting

Bruce Nauman
Disappearing Acts

2018, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 356 pages, 22.8 x 26.8 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln MoMA / New York

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With a magician’s sleight of hand, Nauman’s art makes disappearance visible.

At 76 years old, Bruce Nauman is widely acknowledged as a central figure in contemporary art whose stringent questioning of values such as good and bad remains urgent today. Throughout his 50-year career, he has explored how mutable experiences of time, space, sound, movement and language provide an insecure foundation for our understanding of our place in the world.

This richly illustrated catalog offers a comprehensive view of Nauman’s work in all mediums, spanning drawings across the decades; early fiberglass sculptures; sound environments; architecturally scaled, participatory constructions; rhythmically blinking neons; and the most recent 3D video that harks back to one of his earliest performances. A wide range of authors—curators, artists and historians of art, architecture and film—focus on topics that have been largely neglected, such as the architectural models that posit real or imaginary sites as models for ethical inquiry and mechanisms of control. An introductory essay explores Nauman’s many acts of disappearance, withdrawal and deflection as central formal and intellectual concerns. The 18 other contributions discuss individual objects or themes that persist throughout the artist’s career, including the first extensive essay on Nauman as a photographer and the first detailed treatment on the role of color in his work. A narrative exhibition history traces his reception, and features a number of rare or previously unpublished images.

Edited by Kathy Halbreich, Isabel Friedli, Heidi Naef, Magnus Schaefer, Taylor Walsh.
Text by Thomas Beard, Briony Fer, Nicolás Guagnini, Kathy Halbreich, Rachel Harrison, Ute Holl, Suzanne Hudson, Julia Keller, Liz Kotz, Ralph Lemon, Glenn Ligon, Catherine Lord, Roxana Marcoci, Magnus Schaefer, Felicity Scott, Martina Venanzoni, Taylor Walsh, Jeffrey Weiss.

Bruce Nauman was born in Indiana in 1941 and raised near Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He studied math, music and physics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison before switching his major to visual art, and received an MA in sculpture from the University of California, Davis, in 1966. In 1979 he moved to New Mexico, where he continues to reside. Nauman’s work has been the subject of two previous retrospectives, in 1972 and 1994. In 2009 he represented the United States at the Venice Biennale, where he won the Golden Lion.

File under: Bruce Nauman Kathy Halbreich Isabel Friedli Heidi Naef Magnus Schaefer Taylor Walsh Thomas Beard Briony Fer Nicolás Guagnini Rachel Harrison Ute Holl Suzanne Hudson Julia Keller Liz Kotz Ralph Lemon Glenn Ligon Catherine Lord Roxana Marcoci Felicity Scott Martina Venanzoni Jeffrey Weiss Walther König / Köln MoMA / New York Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Art Drawing Film / Video

Bruce Nauman
A Contemporary

2018, English
Softcover, 224 pages, 12.7 x 19.7 cm
Published by Laurenz Foundation / Schaulager

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Bruce Nauman: A Contemporary presents the artist as contemporary in a double sense. First, the works of Nauman's 50-plus-year career are placed in the context of contemporary positions and discourses. Second, the publication analyses the extent to which Nauman's themes, media and forms have forged connections to the present, remaining of enduring importance for artists of subsequent generations. This publication seeks to counter the tendency to cast Bruce Nauman as an outstanding, solitary figure of postmodernism by putting the artist's work back in context. Nauman's early works were originally discussed in the context of contemporary practices and discourses, such as minimal music, postmodern dance, conceptual art, Gestalt therapy or the philosophy of language. But soon Nauman's reputation came to precede him, and his more recent work has largely been appraised independently of any artistic, social, historical or theoretical context. Critical consideration of Nauman's work has narrowed to a relatively small selection of the artist's works and ideas. Bruce Nauman: A Contemporary redresses this imbalance by focusing on thematic concerns shared by Nauman and his contemporaries. Scholarly essays explore how Nauman and his works enter contemporary conversations on the relationship of art and work, art and globalisation, and corporeality in the digital age.

File under: Bruce Nauman Ed Atkins Hito Steyerl Francis Alÿs Lynn Hershman Leeson Steve McQueen Wilfredo Prieto Giuseppe Penone Ryan Trecartin Laurenz Foundation / Schaulager Art Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Theory / Essay