World Food Books

Joseph Beuys

1984, English / Japanese / German
Softcover, 174 pages, 21 x 29.6 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Asahi Shimbun / Japan Seibu / Tokyo

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Wonderful, uncommon monographic catalogue on the work of Joseph Beuys, published to accompany a large Japanese exhibition at The Seibu Museum of Art in 1984.
Heavily illustrated throughout with colour and black/white examples of Beuys diverse works, including his many installations, sculptures, performances, editions, drawings, paintings, etc., dating from the mid-1940s to the year the book was published (1984). Includes texts in Japanese, with contributors texts from Nam June Paik and Dr. Gotz Adriani, in English, Japanese and German.
Also features extensive catalogue of works, and biography.

Joseph Beuys (12 May 1921 – 23 January 1986) was a German Fluxus, happening, and performance artist as well as a sculptor, installation artist, graphic artist, art theorist, and pedagogue.

His extensive work is grounded in concepts of humanism, social philosophy and anthroposophy; it culminates in his "extended definition of art" and the idea of social sculpture as a gesamtkunstwerk, for which he claimed a creative, participatory role in shaping society and politics. His career was characterized by passionate and only rarely acrimonious open public debates on a very wide range of subjects including political, environmental, social and long term cultural trends. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential artists of the second half of the 20th century.

File under: Joseph Beuys Nam June Paik Asahi Shimbun / Japan Seibu / Tokyo Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Art Drawing Fluxus Film / Video Sound / Music

The Big Nothing

2004, English
Softcover, 87 pages, 18.5 x 12.7 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by ICA / Pennsylvania

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Conceptions of “nothing” are one of the driving themes of twentieth-century art. One thinks of Piet Mondrian's reductivist approach to abstraction, Marcel Duchamp's contention that art resides in ideas, not objects, Mark Rothko's painterly reach for the sublime, Andy Warhol's affirmations of the vacuity of Pop culture. The Big Nothing will focus on themes of nothing, nothingness and negation in contemporary art and culture, surveying the legacy of these and other manifestations of absence made manifest in contemporary art. Artist include Gareth James, Jutta Koether, Louise Lawler, Richard Prince, Yves Klein, Bernadette Corporation, John Miller and James Welling, among others. Given its broad connotations, “nothing” provides general audiences with immediate access to looking at and thinking about the art of today.

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held May 1 - August 1, 2004. Curated and with essays by Ingrid Schaffner, Bennett Simpson, and Tanya Leighton. Additional essay by Paula Marincola. Artists include: Bas Jan Ader, Richard Artschwager, Michael Asher, Michel Auder, Jo Baer, Robert Barry, Larry Bell, Bernadette Corporation, James Lee Byars, Maurizio Cattelan, Thomas Chimes, Bruce Conner, Day Without Art, Jessica Diamond, Roe Ethridge, Lili Fleury, Rene Gabri, Jack Goldstein, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Nicolas Guagnini, David Hammons, Heavy Industries, Nancy Holt, Richard Hoeck, Roni Horn, Pierre Huyghe, Gareth James, Ray Johnson, Yves Klein, Joachim Koester, Jutta Koether, Yayoi Kusama, Louise Lawler, Gordon Matta-Clark, Allan McCollum, Patrick McMullen, John Miller, Matt Mullican, Eileen Neff, Gabriel Orozco, Raphael Ortiz, Charlemagne Palestine, Philippe Parreno, William Pope.L, Doris Salcedo, Karin Schneider, Allan Sekula, Arlene Shechet, Santiago Sierra, John Smith, Robert Smithson, Paul Swenbeck, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Andy Warhol, James Welling, John Wesley, and Steve Wolfe. Includes checklist of the exhibition.

File under: Bas Jan Ader Richard Artschwager Michael Asher Michel Auder Jo Baer Robert Barry Larry Bell Bernadette Corporation James Lee Byars Maurizio Cattelan Thomas Chimes Bruce Conner Day Without Art Jessica Diamond Roe Ethridge Lili Fleury Rene Gabri Jack Goldstein Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster David Hammons Heavy Industries Nancy Holt Richard Hoeck Roni Horn Pierre Huyghe Gareth James Ray Johnson Yves Klein Joachim Koester Jutta Koether Yayoi Kusama Louise Lawler Gordon Matta-Clark Allan McCollum Patrick McMullen John Miller Matt Mullican Eileen Neff Gabriel Orozco Charlemagne Palestine Philippe Parreno William Pope.L Doris Salcedo Karin Schneider Allan Sekula Arlene Shechet Santiago Sierra John Smith Robert Smithson Paul Swenbeck Rirkrit Tiravanija Andy Warhol James Welling John Wesley Steve Wolfe Nicolás Gaugnini Raphael Montanez Ortiz Ingrid Schaffner Bennett Simpson Tanya Leighton Paula Marincola ICA / Pennsylvania Art Sculpture / Installation Painting Conceptual Art Minimal Art Pop Art Group Shows / Collections Theory / Essay Photography Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Curatorial Out-of-print / Rare

Stan Brakhage
Metaphors on Vision

2017, English
Paperback, 125 pages, 21.6 x 28 cm
Published by Light Industry / New York

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Originally published in 1963 by Jonas Mekas as a special issue of Film Culture, and designed by George Maciunas, Metaphors on Vision stands as the major theoretical statement by one of avant-garde cinema's most influential figures, a treatise on mythopoeia and the nature of visual experience written in a style as idiosyncratic as his art. Long out of print, the volume is now available in this definitive edition. Featuring Brakhage's complete text in its distinctive original layout, as well as annotations by scholar P. Adams Sitney.

File under: Stan Brakhage P Adams Sitney Light Industry / New York Film / Video Theory / Essay Art

Texte Zur Kunst
ISSUE NO. 107 / SEPTEMBER 2017 "IDENTITY POLITICS NOW"

2017, English / German
Softcover, 248 pages, 23 x 16.5 cm
Published by Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin

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"Identity politics" has always been beleaguered territory. Yet recently the debate around “identity" has intensified and (with Trump) even developed new fronts. This issue examines the present state of identity politics in the West, finding the commodification of identity in mass culture (as in the art market) to be a leading influence. We also recognize a divide between, on the one hand, non-dominant communities cohering around identity so as to become visible together; and on the other hand, individuals aiming to stand out as special or "unique" by dint of membership in various non-dominant groups. Such ambiguity, in the face of current leadership (see issue cover) lends only all the more urgency, we feel, for a serious engagement with “identity” vis-a-vis “politics” now.

ISSUE NO. 107 / SEPTEMBER 2017 "IDENTITY POLITICS NOW"
Table Of Contents
 Preface
 True And False Victims / Sarah Schulman In Conversation With Caroline Busta and Anke Dyes (Texte Zur Kunst)
 People Politics
 Gabi Ngcobo & Yvette Mutumba, Klaus Biesenbach, Egija Inzule On "People Politics"
 Monique Roelofs / Identity And Its Public Platforms: A String Of Promises Entwined With Threats
 Andreas Reckwitz / Performative Authenticity: The Subject In The Late Modern Society Of Singularities
 What Would Winning Look Like? / Bini Adamczak In Conversation With Anke Dyes (Texte Zur Kunst)
Coco Fusco / Decades Of Identity Politics

Bildstrecke
 Sandra Mujinga 

Rotation
 Das Falsche Buch Zur Richtigen Zeit / Floris Biskamp Über „Beißreflexe“ Von Patsy L’amour Lalove
 Apocalypse, A Lover’s Discourse / Jeff Nagy On “Life” By Hannah Black and Juliana Huxtable
 Das Unbewusste Ist Strukturiert Wie Eine Ware / Helmut Draxler Und Kerstin Stakemeier Über „The Capitalist Unconscious“ Von Samo Tomšic
Zwischen Warten Und Wandern / Christiane Voss Über „Siegfried Kracauer. Eine Biografie“ Von Jörg Später

Liebe Arbeit Kino
 Ghost In Chanel / Tobias Madison On Olivier Assayas’s Film “Personal Shopper”
 Lippenbekenntnisse / Fiona Mcgovern Über Kerstin Honeit Im Videoraum Der Berlinischen Galerie

Grand Tour
Documenta 14 - Skulptur Projekte Münster - 57Th Biennale Di Venezia
Aus Fehlern Lernen / Sabeth Buchmann Und Ilse Lafer Über Die Documenta 14 In Athen
 Incorrect History / Tom Mcdonough On Naeem Mohaiemen’s “Two Meetings And A Funeral” At Documenta 14, Kassel
 Public Sculpture Pokéstop / Amy Lien And Enzo Camacho On Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017
 Aufhören, Wenn’s Am Schönsten Ist / Eva Ehninger Über Die Skulptur Projekte Münster
The Stuck Hourglass / Venus Lau On The 57Th Venice Biennale
Crowd Kontrolle / Judith Rodenbeck On Anne Imhof’s “Faust” For The German Pavilion, 57Th Venice Biennale

Reviews
Negative Chic / Ken Okiishi On Rei Kawakubo/Comme Des Garçons At The Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York
 Zünftig In Die Zukunft / Beate Söntgen Über „Otto Freundlich: Kosmischer Kommunismus“ Im Museum Ludwig, Köln
 The Man In The Mirror / Sarah Morris On Merlin Carpenter At Galerie Neu, Berlin
 Verdeckte Arbeit / Gertrud Koch Über Sarah Morris Bei Capitain Petzel, Berlin
 Marilyn And The Museum With Walls / Kevin Lotery On Rachel Harrison At Greene Naftali, New York
Unterwerfung Durch Architektur / Anna Voswinkel Über Peggy Buth Im Museum Folkwang Essen
 Democracy Of Sound / Zoë Alexandra Harris On “Free Music Production/Fmp: The Living Music” At Haus Der Kunst, Munich
 Tausend Snapchat-Rimbauds / Hans-Christian Dany Über Seth Price Im Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Trocadero Drift / John Kelsey on Michel Houellebecq At Venus Over Manhattan, New York
 Resident Aliens / Ella Plevin On Monira Al Qadiri At Gasworks, London
 Blickwechsel-Begehren / Ines Kleesattel Über Birgit Megerle Im Kunsthaus Glarus
 Containers Of The Virtual / Lars Bang Larsen On Hans-Christian Lotz At Christian Andersen, Copenhagen
 Geschwätzige Zeiten / Tobias Teutenberg Über „After The Fact. Propaganda Im 21. Jahrhundert“ In Der Städtischen Galerie Im Lenbachhausund Kunstbau München
The Interdependence Of Feelings And Debates / Yuki Higashino On Martin Beck At Mumok, Vienna
Nachruf
 Werner Hamacher (1948–2017) 
 
Edition
Josh Kline 
Juergen Teller 

File under: Josh Kline Juergen Teller Juliana Huxtable Hannah Black Tobias Madison Amy Lien Enzo Camacho Anne Imhof Ken Okiishi Rei Kawakubo Comme des Garçons Anke Dyes Naeem Mohaiemen Merlin Carpenter Rachel Harrison Seth Price John Kelsey Hans-Christian Lotz Birgit Megerle Martin Beck Sarah Morris Monira Al Qadiri Juliana Huxtable Hannah Black Helmut Draxler Kerstin Stakemeier Sabeth Buchmann Sarah Schulman Gabi Ngcobo Yvette Mutumba Klaus Biesenbach Egija Inzule Monique Roelofs Andreas Reckwitz Bini Adamczak Eva Ehninger Judith Rodenbeck Venus Lau Tom Mcdonough John Kelsey Michel Houellebecq Lars Bang Larsen Hans-Christian Dany Ines Kleesattel Jeff Nagy Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin Art Periodicals Theory / Essay Film / Video

Fear Indexing The X-Files
by Nora Khan and Steven Warwick

2017, English
Softcover, 48 pages, 20.95 x 13.3 cm
ed. of 750 copies,
Published by Primary Information / New York

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For Fear Indexing The X-Files, Nora Khan and Steven Warwick combed through the first 9 seasons of The X-Files television series—which ran from 1992 to 2002—gathering and indexing the fears that occurred as themes throughout the show. The authors employ a documentary-style commentary to narrate how the show posited fear as an inherent quality of domestic life.

The original run of the series aired in the period nestled between the end of the Cold War and the start of the War on Terror—a time in which enemies of the state shifted, with aliens replacing Communism, and a fear of ghosts and the paranormal prefacing our current climate of Islamophobia. Throughout the show, deregulated neoliberalism continually hovers, like an invisible man in the room.

Khan and Warwick take this index and link it to the rise of the World Wide Web and the global internet, which emerged in the same era. As the show developed, its characters became more adept at using the internet, as did its fans, many of whom visited chat rooms and dedicated forums to discuss episode content, speculate on theories, and come up with urban legends of their own. This behavior provides a through line to the present, as conspiracy theories discussed on those vanguard message boards eerily echo today’s fake news stories perpetuated by the alt-right.

Nora Khan is a New York City-based writer of criticism and fiction. She focuses on issues within digital art, the philosophy of technology, electronic music, and artificial intelligence, and her work has appeared in places like 4Columns, Art in America, Spike Art Magazine, California Sunday, The Village Voice, Rhizome, POSTmatter, and After Us. Khan is a 2016 Thoma Foundation Arts Writing Fellow in Digital Art, a 2017 Eyebeam Research Resident, and a contributing editor at Rhizome. She frequently collaborates with artists, including Katja Novitskova, Yuri Pattison, and Jeremy Shaw, writing essays commissioned by Sternberg Press, Mousse, Chisenhale Gallery, and König Galerie.

Steven Warwick is an artist, musician, and writer based in Berlin. He has exhibited and performed throughout the United States and Europe at venues including Exile Galerie, ICA London, the Modern Institute, MoMA/PS1, MUTEK, the Schinkel Pavillon, the New Theater Berlin, and Unsound Festival. His writings have appeared in Texte zur Kunst, Spike, Urbanomic, Electronic Beats, and The Wire. Warwick records for the label PAN under his name and also as Heatsick.

File under: Nora Khan Steven Warwick Primary Information / New York Theory / Essay Film / Video

A Bullet for Buñuel: Fragments of a Failed Bullet
by Rick Myers

2017, English
Softcover, 116 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 cm
ed. of 1000,
Published by Primary Information / New York

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A Bullet for Buñuel: Fragments of a Failed Bullet documents Rick Myers’ attempt to complete a project begun by the late filmmaker Luis Buñuel: to create a bullet possessing such a weak charge that it would simply bounce off the filmmaker’s shirt when fired at him. Consulting with the estate and sources ranging from online forums for bullet makers to a ballistics lab associated with the United States Secret Service, Myers sought to make the bullet and fire it at a shirt that had been worn by Buñuel. While trying to bring this absurdist endeavor to completion, the artist was met with a colorful cast of characters and failures at almost every turn.

A Bullet for Buñuel has taken many forms—a video work, a multiple, and a performative lecture—all of which are represented in this publication. Myers’ writing, research, correspondence, and photographs are also included in the book, which synthesizes years of work into a singular meditation on the poetics of failure.

Rick Myers is a Manchester-born artist and publisher living in Massachusetts. Myers works in a variety of media including video, installation, and drawing in addition to producing artists’ books and editions. He has recently had solo exhibitions at The Poetry Library at Southbank Centre and The Book Library at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London; Printed Matter, New York; and White Columns, New York.

File under: Rick Myers Luis Buñuel Primary Information / New York Art Film / Video Theory / Essay

October : The First Decade 1976-1986
Annette Michelson, Rosalind Krauss, Douglas Crimp, Joan Copjec (eds.)

1987, English
Hardcover (w. dustjacket), 456 pages, 22.3 x 17.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by October Books / New York The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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First edition of the heavy "OCTOBER: The First Decade, 1976 - 1986", which brings together a selection of some of the most important and representative texts, many from issues long out of print, that have appeared in one of the foremost journals in art criticism and theory - October.

Contributors include Rosalind Krauss, Sergei Eisenstein, Peter Handke, Georges Didi-Huberman, Mary Ann Doane, and Hans Haacke. Their essays are organized under the categories of "the index, historical materialism, the critique of institutions, psychoanalysis, rhetoric, and the body." -- publisher's statement.

Texts by Annette Michelson, Rosalind Krauss, Douglas Crimp, Joan Copjec, Nadar, Georges Didi-Huberman, Roger Caillois, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Sergei Einstein, Maria-Antonietta Macciocchi, Rosalyn Deutsche, Cara Gendel Ryan, Yve-Alain Bois, Daniel Buren, Louise Lawler, Christopher Philips, Homi Bhabha, Mary Ann Doane, Joel Fineman, Babette Mangolte, Peter Handke, Anette Michelson, Georges Bataille, Hollis Frampton, Robert Morris, Hans Haacke, and Trisha Brown.

"October is among the most advanced journals of the 1970s and 1980s in the fields of art theory, criticism, history, and practice. [Its editors] are intimately familiar with the cultural and political avant-garde of Europe and the U.S. and are able to attract its best thinkers.... Few, if any, journals could receive a higher recommendation."—Choice

File under: Hollis Frampton Robert Morris Hans Haacke Trisha Brown Daniel Buren Louise Lawler Marcel Duchamp Annette Michelson Rosalind Krauss Douglas Crimp Joan Copjec Nadar Georges Didi-Huberman Roger Caillois Benjamin H.D. Buchloh Sergei Einstein Maria-Antonietta Macciocchi Rosalyn Deutsche Cara Gendel Ryan Yve-Alain Bois Daniel Buren Louise Lawler Christopher Philips Homi Bhabha Mary Ann Doane Joel Fineman Babette Mangolte Peter Handke Anette Michelson Georges Bataille Hollis Frampton Robert Morris Hans Haacke Trisha Brown October Books / New York The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Photography Conceptual Art Curatorial Dada Film / Video Group Shows / Collections Minimal Art Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals Sculpture / Installation

Stephan Dillemuth
Schall und Rauch. Eine Revue in Bildern / Sound and Smoke—A Revue in Pictures

2017, English / German
Softcover, 144 pages, 21 x 28.2 cm
Published by Künstlerhaus Graz / Graz Sternberg Press / Berlin

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Edited by Sandro Droschl, Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz
Texts by Kerstin Stakemeier, Helmut Draxler

This catalogue illustrates Stephan Dillemuth’s elaborate solo show at the Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz, through installation photographs as well as texts by art historian Kerstin Stakemeier and theorist Helmut Draxler. The exhibition presented newly conceived works alongside works from the 1980s exhibited for the first time. Dillemuth’s paintings, sculptures, video projections, and assemblages are brought together as a theatrical social group. Plaster-cast limbs appear unexpectedly from the ceiling, enmeshed within clock cogs or combined with boars’ heads, cattle ears, and deer feet. Dillemuth’s Bayernbilder (1979) were inspired by sentimental and trivial postcard motifs from Bavarian spa towns. In Schönheitsgalerie (1985), featuring over fifty works, Dillemuth explores questions of representation. His gallery turns against the idea of external beauty and how it is represented in art. The paintings, like the faces, develop a life of their own through the process of painting, which makes it possible to see a new kind of “beauty.” Works that Dillemuth produced in the late 1980s in Chicago, exhibited for the first time, resemble disco decorations, and glitter in the light of a video projection. Is disco a “theater of cruelty”—an ecstatic place where all images, whether ugly or beautiful, mean or seductive, are transcendent?

Addressing the question of the role of the artist in society, Dillemuth challenges the contemporary imperative that artists, as exemplars of individuality, are required to have a distinct authorial identity. Despite a history of working collaboratively and prioritizing artistic research, at the Künstlerhaus Dillemuth exposes himself as a solo artist, reconstructing the history of his work from the margins of group life that has taken shape in the midst of it. Here he reveals the consistency of the farce of his ego, the heroic yet bad-mannered delinquent artist subject. Dillemuth presents his aging body for all to see, playing with the boundaries between inside and outside, institution and alternative, and life and form.

Design by Martin Schmidl

File under: Stephan Dillemuth Helmut Draxler Sandro Droschl Kerstin Stakemeier Künstlerhaus Graz / Graz Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video

Allan Sekula
OKEANOS

2017, English
Softcover, 280 pages, 17 x 24 cm
Published by Fundació Antoni Tàpies / Barcelona Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary / Vienna Sternberg Press / Berlin

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Edited by Daniela Zyman, Cory Scozzari
Contributions by Nabil Ahmed, Keller Easterling, Carles Guerra Rojas, Celina Jeffery, Laleh Khalili, Rosa Lleó, Gabriele Mackert, Jegan Vincent de Paul, Allan Sekula, Sally Stein, Daniela Zyman

This publication intersperses essays from scholars, historians, and thinkers with a selection of Allan Sekula’s seminal texts and excerpts from his private notebooks. The title is a reference to Okeanos—son of Gaia, the Greek goddess of the earth—who ruled over the oceans and water. Made and written across the decades, Sekula’s sketches and texts focus on maritime space and the material, economic, and ecological implications of globalization. In projects such as his magnum opus Fish Story (1989–95), or films like Lottery of the Sea (2006) and The Forgotten Space (2010), Sekula provided a view from and of the sea. This publication expands on these oceanic themes, seeking to honor the scope and complexity of the late artist-theorist’s work, and situate his ideas in current political, social, and environmental discourses.

The book is divided thematically: the section “Containerization” focuses on the sea as a site of infrastructural complication; Sekula’s work Black Tide / Marea negra (2002–3) is also revisited, which explores environmental violence and contamination as well as their social implications; a selection from Sekula’s personal drawings are accompanied by an essay by photo historian Sally Stein; various essays readdress Sekula’s legacy in the age of the Anthropocene; and a number of case studies by contemporary artists, writers, and thinkers examine ideas that overlap with Sekula’s and expand on his interests.

Design by Kristin Metho

File under: Allan Sekula Sally Stein Daniela Zyman Cory Scozzari Nabil Ahmed Keller Easterling Carles Guerra Rojas Celina Jeffery Laleh Khalili Rosa Lleó Gabriele Mackert Jegan Vincent de Paul Allan Sekula Fundació Antoni Tàpies / Barcelona Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary / Vienna Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Film / Video Photography Ecology Theory / Essay

Allan Sekula
Photography Against the Grain : Essays and Photo Works, 1973-1983

2016, English
Softcover, 280 pages, 21.8 x 27.3 cm
2nd Ed.,
Published by MACK / London

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Long out of print, this seminal collection of essays and photographs are by artist, theorist and filmmaker, Allan Sekula. Originally published by the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in 1984, in these essays and images Sekula sought to portray the inextricable bond between labour and material culture, drawing deeply on Marxist theory to argue passionately for a collective model of progress. Sekula taught at California Institute of Arts (CalArts) from 1985 until his death in 2013, and from that insider's position he critiqued photography and the circumstances of its production and consumption, exposing what the medium failed to represent – women, labourers, minorities and the institutional structures that reinforce cultural biases.

Allan Sekula (1951–2013) was an American artist, whose work spans multiple media: long form photographic series (Aerospace Folktales, 1973; School as a Factory,1980; War Without Bodies, 1991/96), critical texts (The Body and the Archive, 1986 and Debating Occupy, 2012) and film (The Forgotten Space, 2012).

File under: Allan Sekula MACK / London Art Film / Video Photography Theory / Essay

Workshop of the Film Form
Marika Kuźmicz, Łukasz Ronduda (Eds.)

2017, English / Polish
Softcover, 396 pages, 18 x 24.3 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

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Workshop of the Film Form provides an in-depth overview of the achievements of Warsztat Formy Filmowej (WWF; Workshop of the Film Form), a group of avant-garde artists who were working at the Leon Schiller National Higher School of Film, Television and Theatre in Lodz, Poland, between 1970 and 1977. WWF was founded by the students and graduates of the school, now known as the National Film School, and included: Wojciech Bruszewski, Paweł Kwiek, Andrzej Różycki, Józef Robakowski, Zbigniew Rybczyński, Kazimierz Bendkowski, Antoni Mikołajczyk, Janusz Połom, and Ryszard Waśko. As pioneers of video art in Poland and structural cinema in Central and Eastern Europe, the artists refused classical narrative and traditional film media, working instead somewhere between cinematography and contemporary art.

This publication examines all aspects of WFF’s activity, from their films, photographic experiments, video art, and performative actions to their teaching work, which includes previously unexplored pedagogical contributions to the National Film School. Drawing on the private archives and oral testimonies of the WWF, Workshop of the Film Form attempts to provide a full account of the group’s history as well as a comprehensive survey of each member’s practice. The writers who were invited to respond to the WWF for this book provide insightful new readings of the group’s output and activities, contextualizing their work in the history of the prewar Polish avant-garde and the politics of experimental filmmaking in Poland under the rule of the Polish United Workers’ Party (PZPR).

Copublished with Fundacja Arton
Design by Fontarte Studio

File under: Wojciech Bruszewski Paweł Kwiek Andrzej Różycki Józef Robakowski Zbigniew Rybczyński Kazimierz Bendkowski Antoni Mikołajczyk Janusz Połom Ryszard Waśko Warsztat Formy Filmowej (WWF) Marika Kuźmicz Łukasz Ronduda Sternberg Press / Berlin Film / Video Art Theory / Essay

The Exhibitionist : Journal On Exhibition Making
The First Six Years (edited by Jens Hoffmann)

2017, English
Softcover, 975 pages, 19 x 26 cm
Published by The Exhibitionist / New York

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Edited with introduction by Jens Hoffmann.

A journal by curators for curators, The Exhibitionist has asked the most pertinent questions on contemporary exhibition-making since its founding in 2009.

The Exhibitionist: Journal on Exhibition Making is an anthology of the first 12 issues of the journal about contemporary curating that bears the same name. Established in 2009 as a forum for critical reflection on exhibition-making and curatorial practice, The Exhibitionist has always defined itself as “by curators, for curators.” Modelled after the iconic French film journal Cahiers du cinéma, The Exhibitionist has served a critical role in examining current curatorial practices by focusing specifically on the exhibition format as a site of experimentation and inquiry. The Exhibitionist has historicized, analyzed and critiqued a phenomenon it is itself symptomatic of—the rise of the curator since the 1960s, the ensuing explosion of curatorial creativity and the growing fascination with the discipline of curating.

Over the six years of its run, The Exhibitionist has published writings from many of the most prominent curatorial voices in the field, offering a who’s who of curatorial practice; contributors include Okwui Enwezor, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Mary Jane Jacob, Nato Thompson, Jessica Morgan, Maria Lind, Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy and Massimiliano Gioni, to name just a select few.

Collected together in a monumental omnibus edition (clocking in at 975 pages), the complete run of the journal is accompanied by a new introduction by founding editor Jens Hoffmann, and a critical approach to a theory of the exhibition by senior editor Julian Myers-Szupinska. With the publication of this volume, The Exhibitionist closes a chapter of its existence as a print magazine and shifts its activities to the-exhibitionist.com.

File under: Hans Ulrich Obrist Jens Hoffmann Jessica Morgan Julian Myers-Szupinska Maria Lind Mary Jane Jacob Massimiliano Gioni Nato Thompson Okwui Enwezor Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy The Exhibitionist / New York Art Conceptual Art Curatorial Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals Photography Sound / Music Theory / Essay

Jonas Mekas
I Had Nowhere to Go

2017, English
Softcover, 480 pages, 12.5 x 20.6 cm
Published by Spector Books / Leipzig

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"Jonas Mekas' diaries have an aching honesty, puckish humor and quiet nobility of character. Many readers curious about the early years of this seminal avant-garde filmmaker will discover here a much more universal story: that of the emigrant who can never go back, and whose solitariness in the New World is emblematic of the human condition." - Phillip Lopate

"I was enormously moved by it." - Allen Ginsberg

Legendary filmmaker Jonas Mekas actually came to filmmaking relatively late in life, and his path to New York was a difficult one. In 1944, Mekas and his younger brother Adolfas had to flee Lithuania. They were interned for eight months in a labor camp in Elmshorn. Even after the war ended, Mekas was prevented from returning to his native Lithuania by the Soviet occupation. Classed as a "displaced person," he lived in DP camps in Wiesbaden and Kassel for years. It was only at the end of 1949 that Jonas and Aldolfas Mekas finally found their way to New York City.

A new edition of Mekas' acclaimed memoir, first published by Black Thistle Press in 1991, I Had Nowhere to Go tells the story of the artist's survival in the camps and his first years as a young Lithuanian immigrant in New York City. Mekas' memoir--the inspiration for a 2016 biopic by Douglas Gordon--tells the story of how an individual life can move through the larger 20th-century narratives of war and exile and tentatively put down new roots. In the words of Phillip Lopate, "This is a lyrical, essential spiritual anthropology."

Jonas Mekas (born 1922) lives and works in New York. Filmmaker, writer and poet, he is a cofounder of Anthology Film Archives, one of the world's largest and most important repositories of avant-garde film. An influential figure in New American Cinema and New York underground culture, he worked with Andy Warhol, George Maciunas, John Lennon and many others. Mekas' work has been exhibited in museums and festivals worldwide.

File under: Jonas Mekas Jonas Mekas Spector Books / Leipzig Art Theory / Essay Film / Video

Jonas Mekas
Scrapbook of the Sixties - Writings 1954-2010

2016, English
Softcover, 456 pages, 16 x 21.5 cm
Published by Spector Books / Leipzig

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Scrapbook of the Sixties is a collection of published and unpublished texts by Jonas Mekas, filmmaker, writer, poet, and cofounder of the Anthology Film Archives in New York. Born in Lithuania, he came to Brooklyn via Germany in 1949 and began shooting his first films there. Mekas developed a form of film diary in which he recorded moments of his daily life. He became the barometer of the New York art scene and a pioneer of American avant-garde cinema. Every week, starting in 1958, he published his legendary “Movie Journal” column in The Village Voice, writing on a range of subjects that were by no means restricted to the world of film. He conducted numerous interviews with artists like Andy Warhol, Susan Sontag, John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Erick Hawkins, and Nam June Paik. Some of these will now appear for the first time in his Scrapbook of the Sixties. Mekas’s writings reveal him as a thoughtful diarist and an unparalleled chronicler of the times—a practice that he has continued now for over fifty years.

Jonas Mekas (*1922, Semeniškiai / Lithuania), lives and works in New York. Film-maker, writer, poet and co-founder of the Anthology Film Archives one of the world’s largest and most important repositories of avant-garde film. Mekas’s work has been exhibited in museums and festivals worldwide.

File under: Andy Warhol Erick Hawkins Hermann Nitsch Jack Smith John Lennon Jonas Mekas Nam June Paik Susan Sontag Yoko Ono Jonas Mekas Spector Books / Leipzig Art Film / Video Photography Theory / Essay

Pamela M. Lee
Forgetting the Art World

2017, English
Softcover, 248 pages, 21 x 24 cm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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It may be time to forget the art world--or at least to recognize that a certain historical notion of the art world is in eclipse. Today, the art world spins on its axis so quickly that its maps can no longer be read; its borders blur. In Forgetting the Art World, Pamela Lee connects the current state of this world to globalization and its attendant controversies. Contemporary art has responded to globalization with images of movement and migration, borders and multitudes, but Lee looks beyond iconography to view globalization as a world process. Rather than think about the “global art world” as a socioeconomic phenomenon, or in terms of the imagery it stages and sponsors, Lee considers “the work of art’s world” as a medium through which globalization takes place. She argues that the work of art is itself both object and agent of globalization.

Lee explores the ways that art actualizes, iterates, or enables the processes of globalization, offering close readings of works by artists who have come to prominence in the last two decades. She examines the “just in time” managerial ethos of Takahashi Murakami; the production of ethereal spaces in Andreas Gursky’s images of contemporary markets and manufacture; the logic of immanent cause dramatized in Thomas Hirschhorn’s mixed-media displays; and the “pseudo-collectivism” in the contemporary practice of the Atlas Group, the Raqs Media Collective, and others.

To speak of “the work of art’s world,” Lee says, is to point to both the work of art’s mattering and its materialization, to understand the activity performed by the object as utterly continuous with the world it at once inhabits and creates.

About the Author
Pamela M. Lee is Professor of Art History at Stanford University and the author of Object to Be Destroyed: The Work of Gordon Matta-Clark and Chronophobia: On Time in the Art of the 1960s, both published by the MIT Press.

Endorsements
“Pamela Lee makes a major contribution to our understanding of art’s globalization through her brilliant exploration of ‘worlds’ as a medium and ‘worlding’ as a process by which unruly networks of financial, political, and spectacular forces are crystallized as works of art.”
—David Joselit, Carnegie Professor, History of Art, Yale University

“For those who want to chart the difference between the world and world markets, for those nostalgic for genuinely intellectual depth in art criticism, and for those wanting to understand the outer, digital limits of art, this book will be your guide. Forgetting the Art World sets a new stage—a picture theory for art practice.”
—Molly Nesbit, Professor of Art History, Vassar College

“Pamela Lee presents an exciting, highly original discussion of what constitutes an art world at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Forgetting the Art World examines not only the processes sustaining the reciprocal relationship between globalization and contemporary art, but also what the art world needs to forget in order to assume its current condition. The analysis is timely and provocative, and will be essential reading for anyone concerned with contemporary art.”
—Alexander Alberro, author of Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity

File under: Andreas Gursky Raqs Media Collective Thomas Hirschhorn Josephine Meckseper Allan Sekula The Atlas Group Bernd and Hilla Becher Bernadette Corporation Steve McQueen Takashi Murakami Pamela M. Lee The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Theory / Essay Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Photography

MAY #17

2017, English / French
Softcover, 220 pages, 240 x 175 mm
Published by May Revue / Paris

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This issue seeks to reflect the post-Trump, post-Brexit and French pre-election climates at a time of reconfiguration of habitual political representations and polarizations. We decided to favour reports, a more reactive writing format on issues of concerns in art schools, universities, institutions: Angela Davis and Gina Dent’s talk in Paris, the exhibition Soulèvements at the Musée du Jeu de Paume, The Color Line at the Musée du Quai Branly on African-American artists and segregation…

American Goodness - Elise Duryee-Browner

If our Lives are Black. On Angela Davis and Gina Dent’s conference at La Maison de l’Amérique Latine, Paris - Claire Fontaine

αντιanti

Interview with Ilaria Bussoni. On the symposium “Sensible Commons” at GNAM, Rome - May
Dynamis, 2016–2017 Athens and Kassel simultaneously and in continuum - Georgia Sagri

On Soulèvements by Georges Didi-Huberman at Jeu de Paume, Paris - Giovanna Zapperi

On the film Two A.M. by Loretta Fahrenholz at Museum Fridericianum, Kassel - Tobias Madison

On Amelie von Wulffen at Barbara Weiss, Berlin - Jay Chung

On Yuki Kimura at CCA Wattis, San Francisco - J. Gordon Faylor

Behind Enemy Lines: Black Power & Taboo. On The Color Line: African-American Artists and Segregation at Musée du Quai Branly, Paris - Kari Rittenbach

On Morag Keil at Eden Eden, Berlin - Nicholas Tammens

On Greg Parma Smith at MAMCO, Geneva - Enzo Shalom

Francis Picabia seen from Switzerland and America. On Francis Picabia’s retrospectives at Kunsthaus Zurich and at MoMA, New York - Carole Boulbès

Villa Noailles - Jeanne Graff

Weather report

Limited Editions by Jean-Luc Moulène and Bernadette Corporation with Benjamin Alexander Huseby

Reprint booklet: LGG$B

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: Claire Fontaine Morag Keil Tobias Madison Loretta Fahrenholz Jay Chung Amelie von Wulffen Yuki Kimura Greg Parma-Smith Jean-Luc Moulène Bernadette Corporation Benjamin Alexander Huseby Francis Picabia Nicholas Tammens Giovanna Zapperi Jay Chung Georges Didi-Huberman J. Gordon Faylor Kari Rittenbach Enzo Shalom Carole Boulbès Jeanne Graff May Revue / Paris Periodicals Art Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Painting Feminism SALE

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

William E. Jones
Selections from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

2008, English
Softcover, 1st printing, 43 pages, 11 x 8.5"
Edition of 500,
Published by 2nd Cannons / Los Angeles

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Selections from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton telescopes 350 years, the period from the 1620s to the 1970s. It is what artist William E. Jones imagined Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy would have looked like had it appeared in the pages of Drummer magazine. In preparing the book, Jones condensed Burton’s vast 450,000-word masterpiece of 17th Century English literature to a small fraction of its length, and paired the excerpts with vintage images of leather men at work and play. Robert Burton was fascinated by the variations of human sexuality, albeit more as an observer than as a participant. He wrote about sex in covert Latin passages that are newly translated in Jones’s book. Selections from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton is a delightfully perverse condensation of Burton’s speculations on the sexual proclivities that subsequent generations of gay men put into exuberant practice.

File under: William E. Jones William E. Jones 2nd Cannons / Los Angeles Art Eros Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare SALE LGBTQ+

William E. Jones
Heliogabalus

2009, English
Softcover, 43 pages, 21.5 x 28 cm
Edition of 500,
Published by 2nd Cannons / Los Angeles

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The third release in a series of books by William E. Jones, Heliogabalus pays tribute to the most decadent Roman Emperor. Who was this creature who called himself Elagabalus, after El Gabal, god of the sun? What to make of his addiction to luxury, his overbearing mother, his controversial genitals? Enlightening texts can be found in the latest 2nd Cannons publication. The book features accounts of Heliogabalus by Edward Gibbon, Herodian, Cassius Dio, and the spurious Aelius Lampridius. It also contains a contemporary text, “This Necrophilic Strategy Entails Some Risk,” a collaboration by Bruce Hainley and William E. Jones, previously published only in expurgated form, and now presented with all lurid details intact.

Varius Avitus Bassanius, later known in his infamy as Heliogabalus, ruled Rome from 218 to 222 of the Common Era. After he was murdered by the soldiers who had formerly supported him, his successor, Alexander Severus, ordered that all sculptures of Heliogabalus be desecrated. The iconoclasm directed against Heliogabalus was so nearly complete that very few portraits of him still exist. William E. Jones has somewhat opportunistically dealt with the paucity of images of this imperial person by inserting advertisements from a bygone era at intervals in Heliogabalus. These advertisements, and the book’s design in general, derive from the pages of that avatar of 1970s urban culture, After Dark.

File under: William E. Jones Bruce Hainley William E. Jones 2nd Cannons / Los Angeles Art Eros Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare SALE LGBTQ+

Texte Zur Kunst No. 106
JUNE 2017 : "THE NEW NEW LEFT“

2017, English / German
Softcover, 248 pages, 23 x 16.5 cm
Published by Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin

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The theme of this issue - The New New Left - is not entirely “new new,” as indeed it relates to the old anti-capitalist Left in its insistence on a theoretical analysis of capitalism and the price paid by many in such a system. But as the discourses and strategies long associated with the Left (workerism, identity politics, or the mode of the avant-gardist troll) have been adopted by anti-progressive outlets, it has become increasingly complex to locate a Left stance from which to effectively speak and act. This issue explores the affective mechanisms and media strategies – from the rise of viral content (memes) to the harvesting and right-wing politicization of emotions – that are producing our post-millennial, post-financial crisis, post-Brexit/Trump present.

Issue No. 106 / June 2017 "The New New Left“

Table Of Contents

Preface
Cultural Resources / Sabine Hark And Sighard Neckel In Conversation On Feelings Of Resentment And Revenge

Verena Dengler
Fake Left, Punch Right

Jaleh Mansoor
Unveiling And/Or Re-Masking / Notes On The Political Dialectics Of The Opacity Of The Sign

Seth Price
Wrong Seeing, Odd Thinking, Strange Action

Matt Goerzen
Notes Toward The Memes Of Production

Diedrich Diederichsen
The Tough Stuff / “Populism," "Political Correctness," And The Like

Simon Denny
Face The Market On Your Own

Klaus Walter
Liberté, Egalité, Beyoncé?

Dan Bodan
Europe, 2016-17 / Selected Status Updates Of Recent Months
Bildstrecke

Kayode Ojo
Become What You Fear

New Development
Ana Teixeira Pinto
Artwashing / Nrx And The Alt-Right

Rotation
Obsessive, Compulsive, Disorder / Johanna Burton On Douglas Crimp’s “Before Pictures”
Probing Attitudes / Philipp Ekardt On “Putting Rehearsals To The Test” (Buchmann, Lafer, Ruhm, Eds.)
In Experimenten Seine Vernunft Aufs Spiel Setzen / Stefan Römer Über Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, „Der Kupferstecher Und Der Philosoph. Albert Flocon Trifft Gaston Bachelard“

Reviews
Nachrichten Aus Der Ideologischen Antike / Georg Imdahl Über Wade Guyton Im Museum Brandhorst
Schwere Verspannungen Lösen / Eva Scharrer Über Nairy Baghramian Im S.M.A.K. In Gent
Deviant Art / Dena Yago On Danny Mcdonald At House Of Gaga, Los Angeles
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is / Tina Schulz Über Nora Schultz Bei Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
Reverse Cubism Als Betrachtungsirrtum / Gunter Reski Über Pieter Schoolwerth Bei Capitain Petzel, Berlin
Mad World / Steven Warwick On Liz Craft & Pentti Monkkonen At Liszt, Berlin
Public Viewing / Moritz Scheper Über Sadie Benning In Der Kunsthalle Basel
Eye In The Sky / Ilya Lipkin On Ned Vena At Societé, Berlin
Kritische Stoffe, Shoppinglust Und Andere Ambivalenzen / Ines Kleesattel Über Ines Doujak (Und John Barker) Im Württembergischen Kunstverein
In Einem Anderem Land / Christian Kravagna Über „The Color Line“ Im Musée Du Quai Branly, Paris
Mehr Epistemischer Ungehorsam! / Susanne Witzgall Über „Postwar: Kunst Zwischen Pazifik Und Atlantik 1945–1965“ Im Haus Der Kunst, München
With Or Without / Christian Philipp Müller On Yuji Agematsu At Miguel Abreu Gallery, Nyc
Kommunikation Ist Kein Objekt / Fiona Geuß Über Ian Wilson In Den Kw Institute For Contemporary Art, Berlin

Nachruf
Gustav Metzger (1926–2017): Ein Nachruf Von Sabine Breitwieser

Edition

Anne Imhof
Sean Landers

File under: Anne Imhof Danny McDonald Dena Yago Ian Wilson Liz Craft Nairy Baghramian Ned Vena Nora Schultz Pentti Monkkonen Sadie Benning Sean Landers Simon Denny Wade Guyton Yuji Agematsu Ana Teixeira Pinto Christian Philipp Müller Dan Bodan Dena Yago Diedrich Diederichsen Douglas Crimp Eva Scharrer Ilya Lipkin Johanna Burton Kayode Ojo Klaus Walter Matt Goerzen Philipp Ekardt Sabine Hark Sighard Neckel Steven Warwick Tina Schulz Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin Art Film / Video Periodicals Theory / Essay

Giger's Alien
Film Design

1979, English
Softcover, 76 pages, 29.7 x 29.7 cm
2nd 1994 print, out of print title / used*,
Published by Morpheus International / US

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"Giger's Alien provides a complete record of the months and months of painstaking work that resulted in two hours of terrifying celluloid. Sketches, original paintings, photographs of scenery and the Alien under construction and scenes from the film are linked by Giger's detailed diary of his thoughts and actions at the time".
First published in 1979, here the Morpheus International second printing, "Giger's Alien" is a visually stunning and wonderfully insightful book for any fan of the art of H.R. Giger or in the production of science-fiction.

Condition: Good (general light creasing wear to covers and inscription by previous owner to front endpaper, otherwise tight and clean throughout) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: H.R. Giger Morpheus International / US Art Graphic Design / Typography Drawing Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation

F.R. David
Spring 2017 : Inverted Commas

2017, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 12 x 19 cm
Published by KW Institute for Contemporary Art / Berlin Uh Books / Amsterdam

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F.R.DAVID is a typographical journal, edited by Will Holder, dealing with the organisation of reading and writing in contemporary art practises. This 13th issue of F.R.DAVID is edited with Riet Wijnen, and has its origins in her Registry of Pseudonyms, an online database which accounts for who is who and why who is who. ‘Inverted Commas’ follows ‘pseudonym’ through names, naming, bodies, brains, self, author, other, reader, labour.

Includes: Michael Asher, Joan Didion, Harun Farocki, Sven Lütticken, Lucy Lippard, Barbara Guest, A.H. Nijhoff, Will Holder, Pauline Oliveros, and many more.

File under: Harun Farocki Michael Asher Pauline Oliveros Will Holder A.H. Nijhoff Barbara Guest Harun Farocki Joan Didion Sven Lütticken Will Holder Lucy R. Lippard KW Institute for Contemporary Art / Berlin Uh Books / Amsterdam Art Graphic Design / Typography Fiction / Poetry Film / Video Periodicals Poetry Sound / Music Theory / Essay

Sydney Underground Movies
Ubu Films 1965-1970

1997, English
Softcover, 288 pages, 28 x 22 cm
1st edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by UNSW Press / Sydney

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This book is a chronicle of the Ubu Films group. Formed by Albie Thoms, David Perry, Aggy Read and John Clark in Sydney 1965, it was Australia's first group devoted to making, exhibiting and distributing experimental films. Throughout the 1965-1970 period, Ubu produced Australia's first lightshows, published this country's first underground newspaper (Ubunews), and persistently advocated for the reform of censorship laws and the need for government support for the arts.
Flamboyant, controversial and resolutely independent, Ubu Films instigated an extensive network of Australia's underground activity at aa time when Australia's cultural and political landscape was in transition. For only a brief period, Ubu established a viable proposition that film, performance, painting and political action could coalesce into a vibrant interactive community. What follows is the story of its rise and fall.

Reproducing Ubu ephemera (posters, programmes, handbills, Ubunews articles and newspaper pages), countless newspaper and magazine articles, reviews and cartoons advocating and denouncing the many activities (film, performance, music, publishing, etc.) of Ubu, legal documents, behind the scenes photography, film-stills, biographies, film lists and intimate reflections - this amazing, visually-dense and informative chronological volume that is essential reading for anyone interested in Australia's history of underground film, but also for independent film-making in general.

Edited by Peter Mudie.
Peter Mudie is a Canadian born filmmaker, artist and academic. Previously a member of filmmaker cooperatives in London, Toronto and Vienna, he has exhibited his work in galleries and film festivals around the world since 1980. He has written a number of monographs on avant-garde and experimental film (including Dusting the Other; Albie Thoms and David Perry: Films/Dialogues; Below the Centre/ Unterhalb des Mittelpunkts; and Michael Snow: Filmworks). He has presented a number of international touring film exhibitions, in Australia and overseas ―― currently he lives in Perth and lectures in Fine Arts at the University of Western Australia.

Condition: Very Good (tight, clean copy) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on reques

File under: Aggy Read Albie Thoms Bruce Beresford Bruce Conner David Perry Ed Emshwiller Frank Zappa George Kuchar Harry Smith John Clark Jonas Mekas Len Lye Martin Sharp Mike Kuchar Norman Mclaren Pip Proud Richard Neville Stan Brakhage Tamam Shud The Fugs Tully Peter Mudie UNSW Press / Sydney Art Australian Art Eros Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music

Film As A Subversive Art
by Amos Vogel

2005, English
Softcover, 335 pages, 22.5 x 16 cm
2005 edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by D.A.P. / New York

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The now scarce 2005 reprint edition of one of the greatest books on film. A classic returns! The original edition of Amos Vogel's seminal book, Film as a Subversive Art was first published in 1974, and has been out of print since 1987. According to Vogel--founder of Cinema 16, North America's legendary film society--the book details the "accelerating worldwide trend toward a more liberated cinema, in which subjects and forms hitherto considered unthinkable or forbidden are boldly explored."
So ahead of his time was Vogel that the ideas that he penned some 30 years ago are still relevant today, and readily accessible in this classic volume. Accompanied by over 300 rare film stills, Film as a Subversive Art analyzes how aesthetic, sexual and ideological subversives use one of the most powerful art forms of our day to exchange or manipulate our conscious and unconscious, demystify visual taboos, destroy dated cinematic forms, and undermine existing value systems and institutions. This subversion of form, as well as of content, is placed within the context of the contemporary world view of science, philosophy, and modern art, and is illuminated by a detailed examination of over 500 films, including many banned, rarely seen, or never released works.
This 2005 edition, published by D.A.P./C.T. Editions, also quickly went out of print and it has not been available since.

Includes Luis Buñuel, Dusan Makavejev, Luis Buñuel, Stan Brakhage, Bruce Connor, Roman Polanski, Vera Chytilova, Alfred Hitchcock, Carolee Schneemann, Peter Watkins, Tony Conrad, Jonas Mekas, Andrei Tarkovsky, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Bresson, Luchino Visconti, Chris Marker, Federico Fellini, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Kate Millett, John Cassavettes, Shuji Terayama, William Klein, Russ Meyers, Louis Malle, Woody Allen, Yoko Ono, Michelangelo Antonioni, Agnes Varda, Walerian Borowczyk, Andy Warhol, Ingmar Bergman, Jacques Rivette, Sergei M. Eisenstein, Ingmar Bergman, Lindsay Anderson, Roberto Rossellini, Marguerite Duras, Charlie Chaplin, Paul Morrissey, Joseph Losey, Otto Muehl, Hans Richter, Fritz Lang, Jean Genet, Kenneth Anger, Maya Deren, Jean-Luc Godard, Frans Zwartjes, Arrabal, Jack Smith, Stan Vanderbeek, Werner Herzog, Morgan Fisher, Jean Renior, Michael Snow, Robert Frank, Jan Svankmajer, Sam Peckinpah, Paul Sharits, Akira Kurosawa, Yoko Ono, Orson Welles, Frederick Wiseman, Ken Jacobs, Martin Scorcese, Jean Cocteau, Manuel Octavio Gomez, Stanley Kubrick, Norman McLaren, Albert Maysles and David Maysles, to name only a few of the hundreds of film-makers whose works are featured in this essential film book.

Condition: Good (tight, clean copy throughout with only light creasing to covers and light wear) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Agnès Varda Akira Kurosawa Albert Maysles and David Maysles Alfred Hitchcock Andrei Tarkovsky Andy Warhol Arrabal Bruce Conner Carolee Schneemann Charlie Chaplin Chris Marker Dušan Makavejev Federico Fellini Frans Zwartjes Frederick Wiseman Fritz Lang Hans Richter Ingmar Bergman Jack Smith Jacques Rivette Jan Svankmajer Jean Cocteau Jean Genet Jean-Luc Godard Jean Renior Jonas Mekas Joseph Losey Kate Millett Ken Jacobs Kenneth Anger Lindsay Anderson Louis Malle Luchino Visconti Luis Buñuel Manuel Octavio Gomez Marcel Duchamp Marguerite Duras Martin Scorcese Maya Deren Michael Snow Michelangelo Antonioni Morgan Fisher Norman Mclaren Otto Muehl Paul Morrissey Paul Sharits Peter Watkins Rainer Werner Fassbinder Robert Bresson Robert Frank Roberto Rossellini Roman Polanski Russ Meyers Sam Peckinpah Sergei Eisenstein Shuji Terayama Stan Brakhage Stan VanDerBeek Stanley Kubrick Tony Conrad Vera Chytilova Walérian Borowczyk Werner Herzog William Klein Woody Allen Yoko Ono John Cassavetes Amos Vogel D.A.P. / New York Art Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Surrealism Theory / Essay