World Food Books

René Block
Ich Kenne Kein Weekend. Schriften und Dokumente Seit 1964

2016, English / German
Softcover, 540 pages, 22 x 30 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

$70.00 - Out of stock

Having represented Beuys, Richter and Polke, German gallery owner , art publisher, art collector and curator René Block (born 1942) ranks among the central figures of the 1960s avant-garde. This publication collects writings by and interviews with Block, scanned from their original publications and organized chronologically, as well as an illustrated published history, artist portraits (taken by Block), performance ephemera, bibliography, and more. An enormous book that, via Block, encompasses the work of so many important movements and figures of 1960s - 1990s art.
Although primarily a German language publication, many of the original articles are in English. Regardless of language, the valuable historical listings translate.

File under: Allan Kaprow Andy Warhol Bernhard Hoeke Blinky Palermo Carolee Schneemann Dieter Roth Gerhard Richter Gunther Uecker Henning Christiansen Ivan Wyschnegradsky John Cage Jörg Immendorff Joseph Beuys Konrad Lueg Lawrence Weiner Marcel Broodthaers Nam June Paik Percy Grainger Sigmar Polke Terry Fox Wolf Vostell Yoko Ono K. P. Brehmer René Block Walther König / Köln Art Conceptual Art Curatorial Film / Video Fluxus Minimal Art Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Photography Pop Art Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections

University Construction
David Homewood, Bronté Lambert (Eds.)

2017, English
Hardcover (spiral bound in box-card covers), 48 pages, 21 x 29.5 cm
Ed. of 100,
Published by Self-Published / Melbourne

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University Construction was a one-day exhibition by David Homewood and Bronté Lambert. The exhibition was open from 11am to 7pm on 23 June 2015. It was held in a classroom of John Medley Building at the University of Melbourne. The exhibition presented a variety of readymade, found and modified objects—many sourced from the University campus—in geometric configurations on the classroom floor, accompanied by a flyer and information sheet.

The publication University Construction serves as a record of the exhibition. It includes photographs of the exhibition, along with scans of the flyer and information sheet. The publication also includes More Minor Constructions, a series of photographs taken several weeks after the exhibition closed, in the classroom where the exhibition was held.

The publication serves a documentary function; it also builds a discursive context around the exhibition. It features texts by David Homewood, Helen Johnson, Paris Lettau and Elizabeth Newman. The texts draw out ideas, issues and themes related to the exhibition, directly and indirectly. Each text engages an old question that continues to exert a hold on the present—the question of the relationship between art and the university, and the university and art.

Editor: David Homewood
Sub-editor: Bronté Lambert
Copy-editors: Michael Ascroft, Helen Hughes and Audrey Schmidt
Designers: David Homewood and Matt Hinkley
Photographer: Christo Crocker

Published in an edition of 100 copies.

File under: Bronté Lambert David Homewood Elizabeth Newman Helen Johnson Paris Lettau David Homewood Self-Published / Melbourne Art Australian Art Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections

ARTFORUM
LOOKING CRITICALLY: 21 YEARS OF ARTFORUM MAGAZINE

1984, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 342 pages, 270 x 280 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / Used*,
Published by U.M.I. Research Press / Michigan

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First, hardcover 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.

Very uncommon hardcover edition, with dust jacket.

Condition: Very Good (light wear to very good book and dust jacket, protected under acid-free plastic wrap. Small ex-library markings, stickers) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

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 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 Fashion Feminism Fiction / Poetry Film / Video Fluxus Group Shows / Collections Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals Photography Pop Art Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Theory / Essay

Modern Painters 1931-1970
by James Gleeson

1971, English
Hardcover, 128 pages, 17.5 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / Used*,
Published by Lansdowne Australian Art Library / Melbourne

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First edition, published in 1971 by Lansdowne Australian Art Library, Melbourne, as part of the Australian Painting Studio Series under the editorship of John Henshaw.
Illustrated throughout with colour reproductions of the works of modern Australian painters selected by Australian artist James Gleeson, from post-impressionism, abstraction and op-art to the hard-edge minimal and colour-field painting, inc. Ian Fairweather, Sydney Ball, Fred Williams, John Perceval, Albert Tucker, Sydney Nolan, Arthur Boyd, John Passmore, Alun Leach-Jones, John Olsen, Brett Whiteley, Rodney Milgate, Colin Lanceley, Stanislaw Ostoja-Kotowski, Col Jordan, Dick Watkins, Michael Johnson, Tony McGillick, Henry Salkauskas, Eva Kubbos, Judy Cassab, Roger Kemp, Margo Lewers, Ralph Balson, Jeffrey Smart, Donald Friend, Ray Crooke, Michael Kmit, Jon Molvig, Sali Herman, Charles Blackman, Robert Dickerson, Eric Wilson,Godrey Miller, Russell Drysdale, William Dobell, William Dobell, Grace Crossington Smith, Grace Crowley, Rah Fizelle, Roy de Maistre, Margaret Preston, Roland Wakelin, and more.
Introduction by author, lengthy biographies on each artist featured throughout the book, works in public collections, acknowledgements, and select bibliography.

Condition: Good (very good internally, some wear to cover edges, previous owners inscription on front flyleaf, no dust jacket) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Albert Tucker Alun Leach-Jones Arthur Boyd Brett Whiteley Charles Blackman Col Jordan Colin Lanceley Dick Watkins Donald Friend Eric Wilson Eva Kubbos Fred Williams Godrey Miller Grace Crossington Smith Grace Crowley Henry Salkauskas Ian Fairweather James Gleeson Jeffrey Smart John Olsen John Passmore John Perceval Jon Molvig Judy Cassab Margaret Preston Margo Lewers Michael Johnson Michael Kmit Rah Fizelle Ralph Balson Ray Crooke Robert Dickerson Rodney Milgate Roger Kemp Roland Wakelin Roy de Maistre Russell Drysdale Sali Herman Stanislaw Ostoja-Kotowski Sydney Ball Tony McGillick William Dobell Sidney Nolan James Gleeson Lansdowne Australian Art Library / Melbourne Art Australian Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting Group Shows / Collections

Pleasure of The Gaze
Image and Appearance in Recent Australian Art

1985, English
Softcover, 60 pages, 21 x 28 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / Used*,
Published by The Art Gallery of Western Australia / Perth

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Scarce Australian catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition "Pleasure of The Gaze : Image and Appearance in Recent Australian Art", held at the The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 1985, and curated by Bruce Adams.
Profusely illustrated in colour and black and white across exhibiting artist biographical sections and essay accompaniment illustrations, this publication features the work of Julie Brown-Rrap, Peter Callas, Richard Dunn, Merilyn Fairskye, Marinka Kordis, Maria Kozic, Lindy Lee, John Lethbridge, Akio Makigawa, Sue Paull, Stieg Persson, Robert Randall and Frank Bendinelli, Carol Rudyard, Peter Tyndall, Vicki Varvaressos, and John R. Walker. Essays include "Eye, Image, Picture, Screen (and all that Junk)" by Adrian Martin; "Sticky Television" by Meaghan Morris; "Re Re-Orientation: The Image as Fantasy and Furniture in Japan" by Peter Callas. Plus an introduction by Adams.

Design by Wohlnick Design.

Condition: Good-Very Good (tight, clean copy throughout, light wear to cover, inc. small sticker tear) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Akio Makigawa Carol Rudyard Frank Bendinelli John Lethbridge Julie Brown-Rrap Lindy Lee Marinka Kordis Meaghan Morris Merilyn Fairskye Peter Callas Peter Tyndall Richard Dunn Robert Randall Stieg Persson Sue Paull Vicki Varvaressos John Walker Adrian Martin Bruce Adams Meaghan Morris Peter Callas The Art Gallery of Western Australia / Perth Art Australian Art Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Photography Theory / Essay Film / Video Group Shows / Collections Australian Photography

Illusion and Reality

1977, English
Softcover, 111 pages, 25 x 30 cm
1st edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by Australian Gallery Directors Council / Canberra

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Major Australian touring exhibition exploring realism and illusion in art (across new realist painting, pop, photography, conceptualism, minimalism, abstraction, ceramics, even architecture) with a catalogue of 71 works by 44 international artists and groups. Introduction and notes on the artists by John Stringer; statements by Audrey Flack, Stephen Posen and Josef Raffael; biographical notes on the artists, including exhibitions and collections; statement on realism by Raymond Williams. Exhibition organized by the Australian National Gallery, Canberra, and shown at seven locations throughout Australia.

Artists: Ian Burn, Gerhard Richter, Ed Ruscha, Joseph Kosuth, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Marilyn Levine, Dale Hickey, Jenny Watson, Jan Dibbets, Chuck Close, SITE, Michael Snow, Tom Wesselman, Claudio Bravo, Malcolm Morley, Michael Snow, Robert Bechtle, Tom Blackwell, Christian Boltanski, Santiago Cardenas, John Clem Clarke, William Delafield Cook, Robert Cottingham, Don Eddy, Richard Estes, Audrey Flack, Ralph Goings, Jan Groover, Duane Hanson, Peter Kennedy, Ron Kleeman, Richard Larter, Victor Lance Henderson, Terry Schoonhoven, Richard McLean, Jud Nelson, John Okulick, Philip Pearlstein,, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Liliana Porter, Stephen Posen, Joseph Raffael, Ben Schonzeit, Paul Sharits, Sonia Landy Sheridan, and more.

Condition: Very Good (light tanning/wear) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Audrey Flack Ben Schonzeit Bernd and Hilla Becher Christian Boltanski Chuck Close Claudio Bravo Dale Hickey Don Eddy Duane Hanson Ed Ruscha Gerhard Richter Ian Burn Jan Dibbets Jan Groover Jenny Watson John Clem Clarke John Okulick Joseph Kosuth Joseph Raffael Jud Nelson Liliana Porter Malcolm Morley Marilyn Levine Michael Snow Michelangelo Pistoletto Paul Sharits Peter Kennedy Philip Pearlstein Ralph Goings Richard Estes Richard Larter Richard McLean Robert Bechtle Robert Cottingham Ron Kleeman Santiago Cardenas SITE Sonia Landy Sheridan Stephen Posen Terry Schoonhoven Tom Blackwell Tom Wesselmann Victor Lance Henderson William Delafield Cook John Stringer Australian Gallery Directors Council / Canberra Art Australian Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Photography Group Shows / Collections

Aspects of Postwar Painting in America (Acquisition Priorities)

1976, English
Softcover, 120 pages, 28 x 27 cm
1st edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation / New York

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Offering a unique glimpse into the acquisition priorities of a large-scale institution, this catalogue juxtaposes works from the Guggenheim’s own collection with a selection of highly ranked artworks on the list of potential acquisitions, showcasing 32 American artists who shaped the mid-20th century's art world.
Published by Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, to accompany the exhibition Acquisition Priorities: Aspects of Postwar Painting in American, October 15, 1976–January 16, 1977, this book functions as much more than just a review of postwar American painting, acting as a self-analytical, institutional critique bringing the strengths and weaknesses of the Guggenheim’s holdings into stark relief. The catalogue features large images in both colour and black and white, followed by artists’ biographies, which are illustrated by social photographs.

Features: Jasper Johns, Frank Stella, Agnes Martin, Josef Albers, Robert Rauschenberg, Mark Rothko, Philip Guston, Alfred Jensen, Jack Tworkov, Robert Motherwell, Arshile Gorky, Mark Tobey, Jackson Pollock, Helen Frankenthaler, Roy Lichtenstein, Willem de Kooning, Andy Warhol, Robert Indiana, Barnett Newman, Adolph Gottlieb, Ad Reinhardt, amongst others.
Text by Thomas M. Messer

Condition: Good (good book throughout but with rubbing and cracking to the spine with age) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Ad Reinhardt Adolph Gottlieb Agnes Martin Alfred Jensen Andy Warhol Arshile Gorky Barnett Newman Frank Stella Helen Frankenthaler Jack Tworkov Jackson Pollock Jasper Johns Josef Albers Mark Rothko Mark Tobey Philip Guston Robert Indiana Robert Motherwell Robert Rauschenberg Roy Lichtenstein Willem de Kooning Thomas M. Messer Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation / New York Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting Group Shows / Collections

PERMAFO 1970-1981

2013, English
Hardcover, 456 pages, 30.5 x 22.5 cm
Ed. of 500,
Published by Motto / Berlin Wroclaw Contemporary Museum / Poland

$48.00 - Out of stock

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First published in Polish in 2012 on the occasion of the exhibition Where is PERMAFO? at Wroclaw Contemporary Museum (30 November 2012- 4 February 2013). Shortly after this 2013 English edition was published in an edition of only 500 copies.

Young, vivid and unpretentious art of Wrocław of the 70s has resisted both musealization and academic discourses of art history. The artists of PERMAFO – as other Wrocław galleries of the 70s – didn’t think about making history, but about changing their lives and enjoying life. The PERMAFO gallery was founded after the famous symposium Wrocław ’70 considered to be a founding demonstration of conceptual art. After years a famous Poznań based critic has meanly said, that it is the inertia of Wrocław infrastructure what become a quantum leap of popularising conceptualism. Because almost none of the symposium projects has been realized.

That’s why the history of modern art in Wrocław is yet to be written.

An exhibition Where is PERMAFO? is the Wrocław Contemporary Museum’s attempt to tell the founders’ myth of the young, open city, through the figures of two artists Natalia LL and Andrzej Lachowicz. A beautiful and deeply in love couple makes a space and atmosphere and creates art anew – a surprising, even impossible combination of conceptual art with pop-art. In the splice of art and joie de vivre, tiny revelations appear that change the confines imposed by The People’s Republic of Poland into absurd usurpation. Soon, people appear in PERMAFO, without divisions into artists, scientists, dilettantes and devotees, discussions till dawn and certainty that all “begun in Wrocław” – modernity, art and life in a fresh context and mutual relation. The PERMAFO artists chose democratic means like photo cameras. One of the main ideas of PERMAFO – permanent registration – was completely transparent towards life. It’s life attitude that was becoming a form. Participation in art, with the preference of participating, not the work itself, caused the work become a trace of real experience and that (an not the aesthetic form) protected against ideology.

This generous monograph serves as the first and only major book to document PERMAFO.

File under: Andrzej Lachowicz Natalia LL Motto / Berlin Wroclaw Contemporary Museum / Poland Art Performance / Dance / Theater Photography Group Shows / Collections Feminism Conceptual Art

New Ways of Doing Nothing
Vanessa Joan Müller, Cristina Ricupero, Nicolaus Schafhausen (Eds.)

2016, English
Softcover, 144 pages, 21 x 29.7 cm
Published by Kunsthalle Wien / Vienna Sternberg Press / Berlin

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Texts by Giorgio Agamben, Claire Fontaine, Gilles Deleuze, Julius Gavroche, Paul Lafargue, Vanessa Joan Müller, Cristina Ricupero, Tereza Stejskalová, Enrique Vila-Matas

“New Ways of Doing Nothing,” a group exhibition that took place at Kunsthalle Wien in 2014, devoted itself to artistic production that opposes activity and instead gives an affirmative slant to forms of doing nothing or refraining—a major influence being the titular character of Hermann Melville’s “Bartleby the Scriviner: A Story of Wall Street.” The book presents the displayed works and artists, but also continues the process that led to the exhibition. Included along with a conversation between the curators is a text collage of reprints and excerpts that introduces those artists and thinkers who, in the words of Bartleby, “prefer not to.”

Featuring work by Robert Breer, Alejandro Cesarco, Étienne Chambaud, Claire Fontaine, Natalie Czech, Oskar Dawicki, Edith Dekyndt, Mathias Delplanque, Heinrich Dunst, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Marina Faust, Ryan Gander, Lasse Schmidt Hansen, Julia Hohenwarter, Karl Holmqvist, Sofia Hultén, Jiří Kovanda, Rivane Neuenschwander, Georges Perec / Bernard Queysanne, Superflex, Mario García Torres

Vanessa Joan Müller, Cristina Ricupero, Nicolaus Schafhausen (Eds.)

Copublished with Kunsthalle Wien
Design by Anna Haas

File under: Alejandro Cesarco Bernard Queysanne Claire Fontaine Edith Dekyndt Étienne Chambaud Gardar Eide Einarsson Georges Perec Heinrich Dunst Jiri Kovanda Julia Hohenwarter Karl Holmqvist Lasse Schmidt Hansen Marina Faust Mario Garcia-Torres Mathias Delplanque Natalie Czech Oskar Dawicki Rivane Neuenschwander Robert Breer Ryan Gander Sofia Hultén Superflex Claire Fontaine Cristina Ricupero Enrique Vila-Matas Gilles Deleuze Giorgio Agamben Julius Gavroche Nicolaus Schafhausen Paul Lafargue Tereza Stejskalová Vanessa Joan Müller Kunsthalle Wien / Vienna Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections Sculpture / Installation

Apocalypse and Utopia
A View of Art in Germany 1910-1939

1977, English
Softcover, 74 pages, 15 x 20 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / Used*,
Published by Fischer Fine Art Limited / London

$25.00 - Out of stock

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Fantastic little catalogue produced on the occasion of the exhibition "Apocalypse and Utopia" at Fischer Fine Art Limited, London, March - May 1977.
Features the work of Karl Arnold, Ernst Barlach, Willi Baumeister, Herbert Bayer, Max Backmann, Heinrich Campendonck, Otto Dix, Lyonel Feininger, Georg Grosz, Erich Heckel, Hannah Höch, Adolf Hölzel, Johannes Itten, Alexei Von Jawlensky, Wassily Kandinsky, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Klee, Oskar Kokoschka, Georg Kolbe, Käthe Kollwitz, August Macke, Franz Marc, Ludwig Meidner, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Otto Müller, Emil Nolde, Max Hermann Pechstein, Christian Rohlfs, Oskar Schlemmer, Karl Schmidt0Rottluff, Kurt Schwitters, Arthur Segal, Hans Walter.

"The idea for this exhibition arose when we were fortunate enough to be offered the famous Hess Guest Book. Around this nucleus we have planned a view of art in Germany between 1910 and 1939. With the generous help of many collectors and galleries we have been able to illustrate the varied aspects of this complex and important period of German art."
The Guest Book was a two volume book-set that spanned the years 1907-1956. They were the guest books of the home of Industrialist Alfred Hess and Thekla Hess, who were great lovers and collectors of art. Their home in Erfurt regularly gathered together leading figures of the art, music and literature worlds, and their guest books collected the inscriptions, autographs, drawings and watercolours of these times.
"The Guest Book is a remarkable, unique document of the most innovative period of 20th-century German art and forms a reference source of the greatest importance."
With an introduction by professor and author Norbert Lynton, the first part of this catalogue reproduces works from The Guest Book, and the second full-colour and black and white reproductions of works in the exhibition of 1977. Includes a full catalogue of the works.

Condition: Very Good – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Adolf Hölzel Alexei Von Jawlensky Arthur Segal August Macke Christian Rohlfs Emil Nolde Erich Heckel Ernst Barlach Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Franz Marc Georg Kolbe Hannah Höch Hans Walter Heinrich Campendonck Herbert Bayer Johannes Itten Karl Arnold Kurt Schwitters László Moholy-Nagy Ludwig Meidner Lyonel Feininger Max Backmann Max Hermann Pechstein Oskar Kokoschka Oskar Schlemmer Otto Dix Otto Müller Paul Klee Wassily Kandinsky Willi Baumeister George Grosz Käthe Kollwitz Norbert Lynton Fischer Fine Art Limited / London Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting Group Shows / Collections

Art In The Seventies

1980, English
Softcover, 128 pages, 28 x 21.5 cm
Out of print title / used*,
Published by Cornell Paperbacks / London Phaidon / London

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"Edward Lucie-Smith, a critic and historian of art who is deeply immersed in the works and trends of the seventies here provides the first general survey of the decade. In a volume alive with visual images that are often surprising and sometimes disturbing, he analyzes the development both of old forms and of new ones, and provides a coherent framework for the general reader."

Contents: The Popular Arts; Post Pop and Mandarin Taste; Abstract Painting; Illusionary Art; Figurative Painting; Fetish Art and Happenings; Political Art; Art as Environment and Architecture; High-Tech and the Third World, plus a biographical list of the artists featured and a "further reading" list.

Includes the work of: Stephen Willats, Lawrence Weiner, Brice Marden, Robert Mapplethorpe, Vito Acconci, Jo Baer, Joseph Beuys, Lynda Benglis, Bob Law, Philip King, Alan Kessler, On Kawara, Douglas Huebler, John Kacere, Richard Long, Robert Mangold, Philip Guston, Hans Haacke, Nancy Grossman, Robert Grosvenor, Nancy Graves, Walter de Maria, U-Fan, Claude Viallet, Nancy Spero, Peter Saul, Robert Ryman, James Rosenquist, Joel Shapiro, Sylvia Sleigh, Robert Stackhouse, Paul Thek, Giulio Paolini, Nam June Paik, Bruce Nauman, Roman Opalka, Dennis Oppenheim, Tony Cragg, Judy Chicago, Larry Bell, Daniel Buren, Chuck Close, and many more.

Condition: Very Good (general wear) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Alan Kessler Bob Law Brice Marden Bruce Nauman Chuck Close Claude Viallat Daniel Buren Dennis Oppenheim Douglas Huebler Giulio Paolini Hans Haacke James Rosenquist Jo Baer Joel Shapiro John Kacere Joseph Beuys Judy Chicago Larry Bell Lawrence Weiner Lynda Benglis Nam June Paik Nancy Graves Nancy Grossman Nancy Spero On Kawara Paul Thek Peter Saul Philip Guston Richard Long Robert Grosvenor Robert Mangold Robert Mapplethorpe Robert Ryman Robert Stackhouse Roman Opalka Stephen Willats Sylvia Sleigh Tony Cragg U-Fan Vito Acconci Walter de Maria Phillip King Edward Lucie-Smith Cornell Paperbacks / London Phaidon / London Art Arte Povera Conceptual Art Feminism Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting Photography Pop Art Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections SALE

DIFFERENT DRUMMERS

1988, English
Softcover, 156 pages, 25 x 30.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Hirshhorn Museum / Washington

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Catalogue for the 1988 exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum, featuring Wallace Berman, Clyde Connell, Bruce Conner, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Robert Helm, Alfred Jensen, Jess, Luis Jimenez and Peter Saul.

Condition: Very Good (small crease to front cover) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Alfred Jensen Bruce Conner Clyde Connell Jess Luis Jimenez Peter Saul Robert Helm Wallace Berman Öyvind Fahlström Hirshhorn Museum / Washington Art Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Painting Group Shows / Collections SALE

Body Psyche & Taboo
Vienna Actionism and Early Vienna Modernism

2016, English
Softcover, 154 pages, 28 x 23.5 cm
Published by Mumok / Vienna Walther König / Köln

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The central concepts of Body, Psyche, and Taboo is a presentation of both the intellectual and the formal links between Vienna Actionism and artistic developments in early 20th century Vienna.

Works by Günter Brus, Otto Muehl, Hermann Nitsch, and Rudolf Schwarzkogler – the ‘scandal artists’ of the 1960s – are compared and contrasted with pieces by their equally controversial colleagues working at the dawn of the twentieth century, including Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, and Egon Schiele, among others.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Body, Psyche, and Taboo: Vienna Actionism and Early Vienna Modernism at mumok, Vienna, 4 March – 16 May 2016.

Striking and heavily illustrated catalogue featuring the work of Artists Günter Brus, Richard Gerstl, Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Koloman Moser, Otto Muehl, Hermann Nitsch, Max Oppenheimer, Anton Romako, Egon Schiele, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, and accompanying texts by Eva Badura-Triska, Brigitte Borchhardt-Birbaumer, Rosemarie Brucher, and Bernadette Reinhold.

File under: Anton Romako Egon Schiele Günter Brus Gustav Klimt Hermann Nitsch Koloman Moser Max Oppenheimer Oskar Kokoschka Otto Muehl Richard Gerstl Rudolf Schwarzkogler Bernadette Reinhold Brigitte Borchhardt-Birbaumer Eva Badura-Triska Rosemarie Brucher Mumok / Vienna Walther König / Köln Art Eros Film / Video Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Photography Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections

From Conceptualism to Feminism
Lucy Lippard's Numbers Shows 1969–74

2012, English
Softcover, 304 pages (140 b&w ill.), 215 x 156mm
Published by Afterall / London Van Abbemuseum / Eindhoven Walther König / Köln

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Four exhibitions of contemporary art curated by Lucy Lippard have become renowned as her 'numbers shows'. Each took the population of the city in which it was shown as its title: 557,087 in Seattle, 955,000 in Vancouver, 2,972,453 in Buenos Aires and c.7,500 opening in Valencia, California, before touring the US and to London.

This book follows Lippard's curatorial trajectory, analysing her transition from a writer about art to a maker of exhibitions, and tracing her growing political engagement and involvement with feminism.

Extensive photographic material is complemented by a major new essay by Cornelia Butler and interviews with Seth Siegelaub and artists Agnes Denes, Alice Aycock, Eleanor Antin and Mierle Laderman Ukeles.

The volume also includes critical responses written at the time by Peter Plagens and Griselda Pollock, and an analysis of artists initiatives in Argentina that give a context for Lippard's emerging political consciousness by Pip Day.

This is the third publication in the Exhibitions Histories series, co-published with Afterall Books, London.

File under: Agnes Denes Alice Aycock Eleanor Antin Mierle Laderman Ukeles Agnes Denes Alice Aycock Cornelia Butler Eleanor Antin Griselda Pollock Mierle Laderman Ukeles Peter Plagens Pip Day Seth Siegelaub Lucy R. Lippard Afterall / London Van Abbemuseum / Eindhoven Walther König / Köln Art Theory / Essay Feminism Conceptual Art Curatorial Group Shows / Collections

West Coast Ceramics
Keramisch beeldhouwwerk uit de Verenigde Staten

1979, English / Dutch
Softcover (stapled), 44 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 21 x 27.5 cm
1st edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by Stedelijk Museum / Amsterdam

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Catalogue for "West Coast Ceramics", the 1979 exhibition held at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Artists include; Ken Price, Robert Arneson, David Gilhooly, Richard Shaw, Ron Nagle and Peter Voulkos.

Catalogue design: Wim Crouwel, Arlette Brouwers, Total Design

Condition: Very Good – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Arlette Brouwers David Gilhooly Ken Price Peter Voulkos Richard Shaw Robert Arneson Ron Nagle Total Design Wim Crouwel Rose Slivka Stedelijk Museum / Amsterdam Art Ceramics / Glass Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Sculpture / Installation

Apocalypse + Utopia
curated by John Nixon

1984, English
Softcover, 14 pages, 17.8 x 23.7 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / Used*,
Published by University Art Gallery / Melbourne

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WE ARE AT AN EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS. THE GALLERY HAS BECOME THE CAVE. IT IS A TIME OF THE APOCALYPSE + UTOPIA. THE ARTISTS HAVE 'HEWN THEIR PAINTINGS INTO THE WHITENESS OF THE WALLS'. IT IS ONCE AGAIN A PRIMITIVE SOCIETY. THE PICTURES TELL THEIR OWN STORIES.

JOHN NIXON

Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Apocalypse + Utopia" at University Art Gallery, Melbourne, Feb 23 - April 8, 1984, curated by artist John Nixon and featuring the work of Gunter Christmann, Geoff Lowe, Dick Watkins and Jenny Watson.

Condition: Good (tight and internally clean with staple binding, but rubbing to front cover and a little on back - discolouring) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Dick Watkins Geoff Lowe Gunter Christmann Jenny Watson John Nixon University Art Gallery / Melbourne Art Australian Art Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting Group Shows / Collections

Hippie Modernism
The Struggle for Utopia

2016, English
Softcover, 448 pages, 24 x 29.7 cm
Published by Walker Art Centre / Minneapolis

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Published by Walker Art Center
Edited with text by Andrew Blauvelt. Text by Greg Castillo, Esther Choi, Alison Clarke, Hugh Dubberly, Ross Elfline, Craig Peariso, Tina Rivers Ryan, Catharine Rossi, Simon Sadler, Felicity Scott, Lorraine Wild with David Karwan. Interviews by Adam Gildar, Susan Snodgrass, Elizabeth Glass.

"Hippie Modernism" examines the art, architecture and design of the counterculture of the 1960s and early 1970s. The catalogue surveys the radical experiments that challenged societal norms while proposing new kinds of technological, ecological and political utopia. It includes the counter-design proposals of Victor Papanek and the anti-design polemics of Global Tools; the radical architectural visions of Archigram, Superstudio, Haus-Rucker-Co and ONYX; the installations of Ken Isaacs, Joan Hills, Mark Boyle, Hélio Oiticica and Neville D'Almeida; the experimental films of Jordan Belson, Bruce Conner and John Whitney; posters and prints by Emory Douglas, Corita Kent and Victor Moscoso; documentation of performances by the Diggers and the Cockettes; publications such as "Oz" and "The Whole Earth Catalog"; books by Marshall McLuhan and Buckminster Fuller; and much more. While the turbulent social history of the 1960s is well known, its cultural production remains comparatively under-examined. In this substantial volume, scholars explore a range of practices such as radical architectural and anti-design movements emerging in Europe and North America; the print revolution in the graphic design of books, posters and magazines; and new forms of cultural practice that merged street theater and radical politics. Through a profusion of illustrations, interviews with figures including: Gerd Stern of USCO; Ken Isaacs; Gunther Zamp Kelp of Haus-Rucker-Co; Ron Williams and Woody Rainey of ONYX; Franco Raggi of Global Tools; Tony Martin; Clark Richert and Richard Kallweit of Drop City; as well as new scholarly writings, this book explores the conjunction of the countercultural ethos and the modernist desire to fuse art and life.

Huge, generous and vividly illustrated volume!

File under: Ant Farm Archigram Barney Bubbles Bruce Conner Buckminster Fuller Emory Douglas Ettore Sottsass Franco Raggi Francois Dallegret Free City Collective Global Tools Haus-Rucker-Co Hélio Oiticica Ira Cohen Judith Williams Ken Isaacs Lucas Samaras Nancy Holt Neville D'Almeida Provo Robert Smithson Stewart Brand Sture Johannesson The Cockettes The Diggers Ugo La Pietra USCO Sister Corita Kent Öyvind Fahlström Alison Clarke Buckminster Fuller Catharine Rossi Craig Peariso David Karwan Esther Choi Hugh Dubberly Lorraine Wild Marshall McLuhan Ross Elfline Simon Sadler Tina Rivers Ryan Felicity D. Scott Walker Art Centre / Minneapolis Architecture / Interior Art Graphic Design / Typography Eros Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Group Shows / Collections Feminism Ecology Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Sculpture / Installation

Provokationen. (Ettore Sottsass covers)
Design Aus Italien

1982, German
Hardcover (limited ed. Laminate cover), 260 pages, 24 x 33.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / Used*,
Published by Werkbund / Bremen

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Beautiful over-sized book published on the occasion of a special exhibition in Lower Saxony and Bremen in 1982 entitled "Provokationen. Design Aus Italien : Ein Mythos Geht Neue Wege".

Published more broadly as a softcover book in 1982, here is one of the very limited edition hardcover versions, produced in collaboration between the designers Andrea Branzi, Paola Navone, Mario Radice, Ettore Sottsass Jr. and Superstudio with Firma Abet Laminati in Turin, especially for the exhibition. Each of the limited hardcover copies is sandwiched between two pieces of actual laminate panels designed by the designers and produced by Abet Laminati.

This particular copy features the work of Ettore Sottsass Jr. (both front and back cover laminates).

A very collectable copy of an incredible, scarce, heavy Italian design book!

Handsomely designed and profusely illustrated throughout with large black and white examples of the work of Enzo Mari, Sergio Asti, Gae Aulenti, Andrea Branzi, Superstudio, Achille and Piergiacomo Castiglioni, Marco Zanuso, Roberto Arioli, Ettore Sottsass, Emma Schweinberger Gismondi, Angelo Mangiarotti, Mario Bellini, Gio Ponti, Martine Bendin, Daniela Puppa, Antonia Astori de Ponti, Franco Mirenzi, Joe Colombo, Ennio Lucini, Elio Martinelli, Sottsass Associates, Alessandro Mendini, Franco Raggi, Studio Alchimia, Gaetano Pesce, Franco Mello, Guido Drocco, Studio 65, UFO, Jonathan De Pas, Donato D'Urbino, Paolo Lomazzi, Aldo Rossi, Vico Magistretti, Achille Castiglioni, Sergio De Michiel, Paolo Nava, Mario Dell'Orto, Antonio Citterio, Anrea Bellosi, Richard Sapper, Bruno Munari, Anna Castelli Ferrieri, Giulietto Cacciari, Man Ray, Gigi Sabadin, Antonia Astori de Ponte, Mario Ceroli, Lucchino Oltrona Visconti, Michele De Lucchi, Michael Graves, Paolo Portoghesi, Stanley Tigerman, Oscar Tusquets, Robert Venturi, Kuzumasa Yamashita, and more.

And also the work of Gerrit T. Rietveld, Giuseppe Terragni, Alvar Aalto, Eileen Gray, Sonja Delaunay, Marcel Breuer, Karl Josef Jucker, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Josef Hoffman in their original, influential forms, and their re-inventions by Alessandro Mendini and co.

Condition: Very Good (bright, tight very good copy throughout - light wear only and bumping/yellowing to old laminate glue on spine) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Achille Castiglioni Aldo Rossi Alessandro Mendini Alvar Aalto Andrea Branzi Angelo Mangiarotti Anna Castelli Ferrieri Anrea Bellosi Antonia Astori De Ponti Antonio Citterio Bruno Munari Charles Rennie Mackintosh Daniela Puppa Donato d'Urbino Eileen Gray Elio Martinelli Emma Schweinberger Gismondi Ennio Lucini Enzo Mari Ettore Sottsass Franco Mello Franco Mirenzi Franco Raggi Gae Aulenti Gaetano Pesce George Sowden Gerrit Rietveld Gigi Sabadin Gio Ponti Giulietto Cacciari Giuseppe Terragni Guido Drocco Joe Colombo Jonathan de Pas Josef Hoffmann Karl Josef Jucker Kuzumasa Yamashita Lucchino Oltrona Visconti Man Ray Marcel Breuer Marco Zanuso Mario Bellini Mario Ceroli Mario Dell'Orto Martine Bedin Michael Graves Michele de Lucchi Oscar Tusquets Paolo Lomazzi Paolo Nava Paolo Portoghesi Richard Sapper Robert Venturi Roberto Arioli Sergio Asti Sergio De Michiel Sottsass Associates Stanley Tigerman Studio 65 Studio Alchimia Superstudio UFO Vico Magistretti Sonia Delaunay Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni Werkbund / Bremen Architecture / Interior Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Furniture Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism

Transparenzen/Transparencies : The Ambivalence of a New Visibility
Simone Neuenschwander, Thomas Thiel (Eds.)

2016, English / German
Softcover, 162 pages, 24 x 34 cm
Published by Bielefelder Kunstverein / Germany Kunstverein Nürnberg – Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft Sternberg Press / Berlin

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Edited by Simone Neuenschwander, Thomas Thiel

With contributions by Emmanuel Alloa, Neïl Beloufa, Clare Birchall, Juliette Blightman, Ryan Gander, Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff, David Horvitz, Metahaven, Simone Neuenschwander, Katja Novitskova, Yuri Pattison, Manfred Schneider, Thomas Thiel

The globalized world seems at once transparent and opaque. The exhibition project “Transparencies” examined the cultural facets and atmospheres of these (non-)transparencies. The two-part, joint exhibition project in Bielefeld and Nuremberg was dedicated to developments in “transparent society,” asking how these are reflected in the current work by contemporary artists. The paradigm of transparency and the ambivalence of the term was addressed by participating artists in multiple, diverse ways. This book documents both exhibitions and outlines all of the contributions to this substantial project. Conceptually designed by Metahaven, it contains artistic statements and scientific essays that encourage an ongoing discussion of the subject.

Copublished with Bielefelder Kunstverein and Kunstverein Nürnberg – Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft

Design by Metahaven

File under: Calla Henkel Calla Henkel and Max Pitegoff David Horvitz Juliette Blightman Katja Novitskova Max Pitegoff Metahaven Neïl Beloufa Ryan Gander Yuri Pattison Clare Birchall Emmanuel Alloa Manfred Schneider Simone Neuenschwander Thomas Thiel Bielefelder Kunstverein / Germany Kunstverein Nürnberg – Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections SALE

Sculpture on the Move: 1946-2016
Kunstmuseum Basel

2016, English
Hardcover, 240 pages, 26.5 x 20 cm
Published by Hatje Cantz / Berlin Kunstmuseum Basel / Basel

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What new paths have sculptors opened up since the end of World War II? Based on late works by Constantin Brancusi and Alberto Giacometti, this comprehensive volume illustrates the exciting and multifaceted developments in this dynamic art form. The long list of the first-class artists presented ranges from Pablo Picasso, Henry Moore, and Jean Tinguely to Franz West, Damien Hirst and Monika Sosnowska. Sculpture on the Move demonstrates how the classic notion of form and sculpture was set in motion, became more abstract, came closer to the ordinary everyday object, dissolved spatial or conceptual boundaries, and even reconstituted itself, returning to figurative traditions. On the basis of selected works from the Kunstmuseum Basel and from international museums and private collections, the book opens up a dense, extremely rich world of contrasts. Featured artists include Absalon, Carl Andre, Jean Arp, Max Bill, Louise Bourgeois, Constantin Brancusi, Alexander Calder, John Chamberlain, Eduardo Chillida, Peter Fischli und David Weiss, Katharina Fritsch, Alberto Giacometti, Robert Gober, Duane Hanson, Eva Hesse, Damien Hirst, Donald Judd, Mike Kelley, Jeff Koons, Mario Merz, Henry Moore, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Gabriel Orozco, Pablo Picasso, Charles Ray, Richard Serra, Monika Sosnowska, David Smith, Jean Tinguely, Oscar Tuazon, Danh Vo and Franz West.

File under: Absalon Alberto Giacometti Alexander Calder Bruce Nauman Carl Andre Charles Ray Claes Oldenburg Constantin Brâncuși Damien Hirst Danh Vo David Smith Donald Judd Duane Hanson Eduardo Chillida Eva Hesse Franz West Gabriel Orozco Henry Moore Jean Arp (Hans Arp) Jean Tinguely Jeff Koons John Chamberlain Katharina Fritsch Louise Bourgeois Mario Merz Max Bill Mike Kelley Monika Sosnowska Oscar Tuazon Pablo Picasso Peter Fischli & David Weiss Richard Serra Robert Gober Hatje Cantz / Berlin Kunstmuseum Basel / Basel Art Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections

Technologism

2015, English
Softcover, 96 pages, 17 x 23 cm
Published by MUMA / Victoria

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Catalogue published to accompany the exhibition Technologism, at Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA) in Melbourne, 3 Oct - 12 Dec 2015, curated by Charlotte Day.

Artists: Cory Arcangel (US), Dara Birnbaum (US), Chris Burden (US), Ian Burn (AU), Antoinette J. Citizen (AU), Simon Denny (NZ), Jan Dibbets (NL), Aleksandra Domanović (SI/DE), Harun Farocki (DE), Benjamin Forster (AU), Isa Genzken (DE), Greatest Hits (AU), Martijn Hendriks (NL), Lynn Hershman Leeson (US), Matt Hinkley (AU), Jenny Holzer (US), Edward Kienholz & Nancy Reddin Kienholz (US), Oliver Laric (AT), Mark Leckey (UK), Scott Mitchell (AU), Rabih Mroué (LB), Henrik Olesen (DK), Nam June Paik (KR/US), Nam June Paik & John Godfrey (US), Joshua Petherick (AU), Matte Rochford (AU), Jill Scott (AU), Richard Serra (US), John F. Simon Jr. (US), Brian Springer (US), Hito Steyerl (DE), Ricky Swallow (AU), Jeff Thompson (US), Pia van Gelder (AU), Ulla Wiggen (US) and Dennis Wilcox (AU)

MUMA concludes its three-part series on watershed moments in art history — Reinventing the Wheel: the readymade century and Art as a Verb — with Technologism, a major group exhibition bringing together forty-three historical and contemporary artworks, including several new commissions from Australian practitioners. Technologism wrestles with the profound cultural, social and political impact technology has made on art since the 1960s.

Conservative cul-de-sac's of the community are often sceptical of technology and its ever increasing presence in our lives. However many artists — with a natural propensity for constant upheaval — have whole-heartedly embraced radical changes in technology over the last sixty years. Featuring artworks that engage both physically and conceptually with electronic systems — television, computers, the internet, smartphones — Technologism focuses on the ways artists critique and disrupt official uses of the media, or construct their own machines and data systems.

Riffing off both the aesthetic and conceptual characteristics of technology, artists in Technologism document technology's advancement in a plethora of ways: Ulla Wiggen's intricate paintings of circuit boards from the mid 1960s, see the development of an aesthetic inspired by the complex intersection of electrical wires, connectors and components, working to manipulate and rewire the physicality of technology; some thirty years later, John F. Simon's Art Appliances series of the 1990s uses the circuitry of small LCD screens to disrupt pictures and patterns, recreating them over; in Matte Rochford's video Progressively Degrading Test Pattern 2013, humble VHS tapes are copied and recopied, in a process of metaphysical reduction; while in Joshua Petherick's new work, one technology is employed to record another soon to be superseded, revealing new visual dimensions and the 'ghosts in the machine'.

A story of advancement inevitably turns into obsolescence, and Technologism seeks to document the early use of broadcast technology as a way of bridging the gap (and finding a space) between the image on the screen, the physical presence of the viewer, and the broader community. Jan Dibbet's TV as a Fireplace 1968, documents television as a collective experience — even if viewers were separated physically, they were united through time and space like pre-historic cave-dwellers by a communal broadcast. However with the advent of the internet, personal computer devices and streaming services, technology has again changed the relationship we have with the world around us to a more singular yet proliferating existence.

A history of DIY jamming and hacking presents the way artists have continued to subvert conventional uses of technology and challenge the status-quo, from the internet as militarily-designed, to corporately-exploited, civilian-employed, artistically-manipulated, and back again. For instance, Lynn Hershman Leeson's work investigates how media is used as a tool for censorship and political repression, while Simon Denny's work co-opts the aesthetic and rhetoric of language of multinational corporations in order to question their power. In presenting these works and others, Technologism seeks to consider what is the value of such subversion, or is it merely a perpetuation of the problem?

Artist Hito Steyerl asks, 'is the internet dead?' Although, hyperbolic in its prognosis, Technologism recognises that sceptical questions such as this are an important part of how artistic practice negotiates technological advancement. Technologism proceeds from the idea that technology in all its forms, physical and immaterial, needs to be interrogated in order to be perpetually remade.

Technologism considers changes in infrastructure, such as telecommunication networks and the internet, and the cultural implications of technological innovation and considers from the position of the developers of these technologies as well as from the end user. Technologism asks 'how does technology effect artistic practice?' As well as, 'how can artistic practice effect technology?'

Fully illustrated catalogue features texts by Charlotte Day, Philip Brophy, Bridget Crone and Sean Dockray. Designed by Yanni Florence.

File under: Antoinette J. Citizen Benjamin Forster Brian Springer Chris Burden Cory Arcangel Dara Birnbaum Dennis Wilcox Edward Kienholz Greatest Hits Harun Farocki Henrik Olesen Hito Steyerl Ian Burn Isa Genzken Jan Dibbets Jeff Thompson Jenny Holzer Jill Scott John F. Simon Jr. John Godfrey Joshua Petherick Lynn Hershman Leeson Mark Leckey Martijn Hendriks Matt Hinkley Matte Rochford Nam June Paik Nancy Reddin Kienholz Oliver Laric Pia van Gelder Rabih Mroué Richard Serra Ricky Swallow Scott Mitchell Simon Denny Ulla Wiggen Aleksandra Domanović Bridget Crone Charlotte Day Philip Brophy Sean Dockray MUMA / Victoria Art Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections

Tell it to My Heart Vol. 1
Collected by Julie Ault

2013, English
Hardcover, 160 pages, 21 x 29 cm
Published by Artists Space / New York Culturgest / Lisbon Hatje Cantz / Berlin Museum für Gegenwartskunst / Basel

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Julie Ault is an artist, curator, writer, and editor, whose work emphasizes and celebrates the complex interrelationships between cultural production and politics. Ault cofounded the New York artists' collaborative Group Material, which between 1979 and 1996 explored this relationship between art, activism and politics through socially themed exhibitions and publicly-sited projects. The collection of artworks Ault has assembled over the last 30 years speaks to her practice as one built on exchange, friendship and a critical notion of mutable histories.

Tell It To My Heart – Collected by Julie Ault is published by Hatje Cantz in collaboration with Artists Space, New York; Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel; and Culturgest, Lisbon, and accompanies a three-part exhibition staged around the artworks in Ault's possession. The exhibition was initiated by Nikola Dietrich and Scott Cameron Weaver at Museum für Gegenwartskunst, and was presented in Basel, Lisbon and New York between 2013 and 2014. The first volume of the publication was published to coincide with the exhibitions, and centers on an index of works along with detailed commentary on these works from the diverse voices of the book's editors – Julie Ault, Martin Beck, Nikola Dietrich, Heinz Peter Knes, Rasmus Røhling, Jason Simon, Scott Cameron Weaver, Danh Vo and Amy Zion. Over the course of her 35-plus years at the forefront of New York's art culture, Ault has amassed a superb collection of contemporary art, most of it given to her by artist friends and admirers. Almost more of an interiors book in the style of "Apartamento" magazine, "Tell It to My Heart" takes us through Ault's New York apartment, reproducing works by artists such as Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roni Horn, Tim Rollins & K.O.S., Andres Serrano, Nancy Spero and Danh Vo among many others. Together, and in situ, the artworks disclose a highly personal experience of an art community, initially centered in New York during Ault's formative years, but with a reach that has long since transcended regional classifications.

File under: Andres Serrano Danh Vo Felix Gonzalez-Torres Julie Ault Martin Wong Nancy Spero Roni Horn Tim Rollins & K.O.S. Amy Zion Danh Vo Heinz Peter Knes Jason Simon Julie Ault Martin Beck Nikola Dietrich Rasmus Røhling Scott Cameron Weaver Artists Space / New York Culturgest / Lisbon Hatje Cantz / Berlin Museum für Gegenwartskunst / Basel Art Photography Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Sculpture / Installation Painting

Tell it to My Heart Vol. 2
Collected by Julie Ault

2016, English
Hardcover, 156 pages, 21 x 29 cm
Published by Hatje Cantz / Berlin

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Julie Ault is an artist, curator, writer, and editor, whose work emphasizes and celebrates the complex interrelationships between cultural production and politics. Ault cofounded the New York artists' collaborative Group Material, which between 1979 and 1996 explored this relationship between art, activism and politics through socially themed exhibitions and publicly-sited projects. The collection of artworks Ault has assembled over the last 30 years speaks to her practice as one built on exchange, friendship and a critical notion of mutable histories.

Tell It To My Heart – Collected by Julie Ault is published by Hatje Cantz in collaboration with Artists Space, New York; Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel; and Culturgest, Lisbon, and accompanies a three-part exhibition staged around the artworks in Ault's possession. The exhibition was initiated by Nikola Dietrich and Scott Cameron Weaver at Museum für Gegenwartskunst, and was presented in Basel, Lisbon and New York between 2013 and 2014. Over the course of her 35-plus years at the forefront of New York's art culture, Ault has amassed a superb collection of contemporary art, most of it given to her by artist friends and admirers. The "Tell It to My Heart" books take us through Ault's collection in different contexts, reproducing works by artists such as Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roni Horn, Tim Rollins & K.O.S., Andres Serrano, Nancy Spero and Danh Vo among many others. Together, and in situ, the artworks disclose a highly personal experience of an art community, initially centered in New York during Ault's formative years, but with a reach that has long since transcended regional classifications.

Volume 2 follows a more reflective and distanced mode than its predecessor, including installation images of the exhibitions, and a series of essays from scholars and curators that respond to the overall character and process of Tell It To My Heart. The publication also includes a comprehensive checklist of artworks exhibited across the three venues, as well as those works included in the film programs accompanying each exhibition.

Tell It To My Heart – Collected by Julie Ault, Volume 2 is edited by Richard Birkett, Martin Beck and Julie Ault, and includes texts by curator Richard Birkett; art historian Patricia Falguières; writer Sarah Schulman; and archivist Marvin J. Taylor, with graphic design by Project Projects, New York.

File under: Andres Serrano Danh Vo Felix Gonzalez-Torres Julie Ault Martin Wong Nancy Spero Roni Horn Tim Rollins & K.O.S. Julie Ault Marvin J. Taylor Patricia Falguières Richard Birkett Sarah Schulman Hatje Cantz / Berlin Art Photography Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Painting Sculpture / Installation SALE LGBTQ+

k.m Exhibitions/Ausstellungen 2010-2015
Bart van der Heide, Manuel Raeder (Eds.)

2016, English / German
Softcover, 448 pages, 24 x 30.5 cm
Published by Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite / Berlin K.M Kunstverein / Munich

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Edited by Bart van der Heide and Manuel Raeder.

This book is an overview of the exhibition program of Bart van der Heide from 2010 – 2015, which he realised as the director of Kunstverein München. This program includes exhibitions by Silke Otto-Knapp, Ian Kiaer, Tobias Madison, Keren Cytter, Cathy Wilkes, Group Affinity, Willem de Rooij, Trisha Baga, Richard Tuttle, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Simon Denny, Nicolas Ceccaldi, Ger van Elk, James Richards, and others. Each exhibition is presented by a corresponding booklet, containing all texts and images. These accompanying publications were designed individually for each exhibition in cooperation with Studio Manuel Raeder. The different designs play with various fonts, formats, and graphic elements. Together with these publications, a variety of coloured images of exhibition views conveys the curatorial direction as well as the identity of the Kunstverein in those years. A reflection by Bart van der Heide and all booklet texts are included in both German and English.

designed by Studio Manuel Raeder

File under: Carol Rama Cathy Wilkes Chris Kraus Ed Atkins Georgie Nettell Ger van Elk Gerda Scheepers Gili Tal Group Affinity Ian Kiaer James Richards Jana Euler Josephine Pryde Judith Hopf Keren Cytter Mark Leckey Mei-mei Berssenbrugge Nicolas Ceccaldi Oliver Laric Richard Tuttle Sean Snyder Silke Otto-Knapp Simon Denny Simon Martin Tobias Madison Trisha Baga Willem de Rooij Marlie Mul Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite / Berlin K.M Kunstverein / Munich Art Drawing Painting Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections Curatorial