World Food Books

100 Kostbarkeiten

1963, German
Hardcover (clothbound), 216 pages, 24.5 x 20.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Schuler Verlagsgesellschaft / Stuttgart

$25.00 - Out of stock

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Published in 1963, lavishly illustrated book of 100 Treasures from museums around the world, spanning art history, antiquity, archaeology, handicrafts, biology, architecture, with text by Dr. Traudl Seifert, edited by J.E. Schuler. Includes the throne of Tutankhamun, Order of the Golden Fleece, Venus von Milo, Nike von Samothrake, Ming dynasty vase, Arabian celestial globe, the Taj Mahal, Meißner porcelain, Louis XIV pistols, Renaissance Venetian cabinet, statue of Uta von Naumburg, Venus von Milo, Altar of Verdun, Nike von Samothrake, The Tabatière rifle, the bust of Nefertiti, The lady and the Unicorn
... the work of Michelangelo, Veit Stoss, Aristide Maillol, Tilman Riemenschneider, Albrecht Dürer, and many more.

Good copy with general wear and rubbing to linen boards.

File under: Albrecht Dürer Michelangelo Veit Stoss Aristide Maillol Tilman Riemenschneider Schuler Verlagsgesellschaft / Stuttgart Group Shows / Collections Painting Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Art Architecture / Interior Textiles

Notes on the frames of art
by Daniel Birnbaum

2022, English
Softcover, 448 pages, 20.5 x 14.5 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

$59.00 - Out of stock

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In these essays and conversations, Daniel Birnbaum explores what conceptual artist Daniel Buren referred to as the ‘frames of art’. As a director of institutions, Birnbaum has organized events inside and outside some of the most significant art institutions in Europe, including the Venice Biennale, the Städelschule in Frankfurt, Moderna Museet and the Centre Pompidou. Like few other curators he has pushed the boundaries of the studio, the exhibition, and the museum in an attempt to find new ways to ‘frame’ art. This volume contains examples of curatorial approaches to education, exhibition-making and the presentation of collections.

Daniel Birnbaum, born 1963 in Stockholm, is a Swedish art curator and an art critic.

File under: Daniel Birnbaum Hans Ulrich Obrist Walther König / Köln Curatorial Group Shows / Collections Theory / Essay Art

Visual Politics

1982, English
Softcover, 34 pages, 17.5 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by The Alternative Museum / New York

$100.00 - In stock -

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Extremely scarce, lovely catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition "Visual Politics", curated by Geno Rodriguez at the Alternative Museum in New York, 1982.

Featuring the work of Melvin Edwards, David Hammons, Francesc Torres, Sonia Balassanian, Benedict J. Fernandez, Daniel Kazimierski, Despo Magoni, Juan Sanchez, Randy Lee White, amongst others. Illustrated throughout with the artworks featured in the exhibit, plus biographical info for each artist and a foreword essay by Robert H. Browning.

Very Good with light edge tanning with age.

File under: Benedict J. Fernandez Daniel Kazimierski David Hammons Despo Magoni Francesc Torres Juan Sánchez Randy Lee White Sonia Balassanian Melvin Edwards Robert H. Browning The Alternative Museum / New York Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections

documenta X
The Book: Politics Poetics

1997, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 830 pages
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by documenta / Kassel

$80.00 - Out of stock

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First English edition of this monumental 830 page book for documenta X, the last documenta of the twentieth century and the first directed by a woman, the French curator Catherine David, brings together the work of more than 100 of the world's foremost thinkers, writers, and artists in an extraordinary anthology of seminal texts and images of, on, and about the development of Western cultural and critical theory since 1945.

The book "seeks to indicate a political context for the interpretation of artistic activities at the close of the twentieth century, through a montage of images and documents from the immediate post-war period to the present. The range of material treated here is not encyclopaedic; it represents a polemical attempt to isolate specific strands of artistic production and political endeavour which can be taken as references in the contemporary debate over the evolution of our societies. Drawing from distinct yet interrelated territorial and linguistic domains, the book singles out complex cultural responses to the unifying processes of global modernity."—from the book jacket.

A comprehensive work in itself, rich with enmeshed texts and illustrations of artworks, film stills, historical documents throughout in colour and in black and white.

Writers include: Theodor W. Adorno, Maurice Blanchot, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Paul Celan, Amílcar Cabral, Masao Miyoshi, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Jacques Rancière, Tadao Sato, Youssef Ishaghpour, Josef Beuys, Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Rem Koolhaas, Sandra Álvarez de Toledo, Witold Gombrowicz, Herve Joubert-Laurencin, Jean-François Chevrier, Marguerite Duras, Edward Said, Henri Alleg, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Uwe Johnson, Jerzy Grotowski, James Clifford, Primo Levi, Pierre Clastres, Andrea Branzi, Fabrizio Gallanti, Gérard Chaliand, Stig Björkman, Daniel Defert, Saskia Sassen, Catherine David, Benjamin Buchloh, Paul Virilio, Serge Daney, Étienne Balibar, Nadia Tazi, and many others.....

Artists include : Archigram, Martin Kippenberger, Archizoom Associati, Art & Language, Hans Haacke, Oyvind Fahlström, Samuel Beckett, Franz West, Andrea Zittel, Heimo Zobernig, Nancy Spero, Jean-Luc Godard, Marcel Broodthaers, Lygia Clark, Jörg Herold, Fischli & Weiss, Dan Graham, Robert Adams, Peter Friedl, Paweł Althamer, Liam Gillick, Mike Kelley & Tony Oursler & Diedrich Diederichsen, Stan Douglas, Harun Farocki, Ed van der Elsken, Walker Evans, Aldo van Eyck, Heiner Goebbels, William Kentridge, Ulrike Grossarth, Richard Hamilton, Vito Acconci, Raymond Hains, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Siobhán Hapaska, Ecke Bonk, Carsten Höller & Rosemarie Trockel, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Lois Weinberger, Hélio Oiticica, Gabriel Orozco, Olaf Nicolai, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Gerhard Richter, Thomas Schütte, Marc Pataut, Gordon Matta-Clark, Christian Philipp Müller, Matt Mullican, Antoni Muntadas, Jean-Luc Moulène, Reinhard Mucha, Álvaro Siza, Toyo Ito, John C. Portman Jr., Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Mariella Mosler, Josef Beuys, Steve McQueen, Chris Marker, Lothar Baumgarten, Jean Dubuffet, Kerry James Marshall, Maria Lassnig, Rem Koolhaas, Joachim Koester, Suzanne Lafont, Sigalit Landau, Helen Levitt, Garry Winogrand, Brassaï, Le Corbusier, Antonin Artaud, and so many more...

Very Good coy, light wear. Good dust jacket with some creasing and edge wear.

File under: Mike Kelley Tony Oursler Carsten Höller Rosemarie Trockel Archigram Martin Kippenberger Archizoom Associati Art & Language Hans Haacke Samuel Beckett Franz West Andrea Zittel Heimo Zobernig Jean-Luc Godard Marcel Broodthaers Lygia Clark Jörg Herold Fischli & Weiss Dan Graham Robert Adams Peter Friedl Öyvind Fahlström Paweł Althamer Liam Gillick Stan Douglas Harun Farocki Ed van der Elsken Walker Evans Aldo van Eyck Siobhán Hapaska Reinhard Mucha Mariella Mosler Steve McQueen Chris Marker Lothar Baumgarten Kerry James Marshall Maria Lassnig Rem Koolhaas Joachim Koester Suzanne Lafont Sigalit Landau Helen Levitt Garry Winogrand Jean-Luc Moulène Hélio Oiticica Thomas Schütte Christian Philip Muller Gabriel Orozco Olaf Nicolai Michelangelo Pistoletto Gerhard Richter Marc Pataut Gordon Matta-Clark Matt Mullican Antoni Muntadas Heiner Goebbels William Kentridge Ulrike Grossarth Richard Hamilton Vito Acconci Raymond Hains Ecke Bonk Carl Michael von Hausswolff Lois Weinberger Carsten Höller Pier Paolo Pasolini Joseph Beuys Nancy Spero Le Corbusier Brassaï Jean Dubuffet Alvaro Siza Toyo Ito Rainer Werner Fassbinder Paulo Mendes Da Rocha John C. Portman Jr. Antonin Artaud Diedrich Diederichsen Catherine David Yana Milev Klaus Biesenbach Nancy Spector Hans-Ulrich Obrist Theodor W. Adorno Maurice Blanchot Pier Paolo Pasolini Paul Celan Amílcar Cabral Masao Miyoshi Hannah Arendt Michel Foucault Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari Jacques Rancière Tadao Sato Youssef Ishaghpour Josef Beuys Samuel Beckett Albert Camus Rainer Werner Fassbinder Rem Koolhaas Sandra Álvarez de Toledo Witold Gombrowicz Herve Joubert-Laurencin Jean-François Chevrier Marguerite Duras Edward Said Henri Alleg Pierre Vidal-Naquet Uwe Johnson Jerzy Grotowski James Clifford Primo Levi Pierre Clastres Andrea Branzi Fabrizio Gallanti Gérard Chaliand Stig Björkman Daniel Defert Saskia Sassen Benjamin Buchloh Paul Virilio Serge Daney Étienne Balibar Nadia Tazi and many others documenta / Kassel Art Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Australian Photography Performance / Dance / Theater Protest / Revolt Theory / Essay Architecture / Interior Conceptual Art Film / Video Sound / Music Painting Photography Ecology

Comic Stripping

1983, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 22 pages, 26.6 x 18.5 cm
1st UK Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by George Paton Gallery / Melbourne

$180.00 - In stock -

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Wonderful, exceptionally rare catalogue published on the occasion of the group exhibition Comic Stripping at George Paton Gallery, Melbourne, May 31—June 24 1983. Features the work of Howard Arkley, Julie Cunningham, Juliet Darling, Juan Davila, Linda Marrinon, Raymond X, Peter Tyndall, Christopher Van Der Craats, → ↑ →. Illustrated throughout with work and texts by the artists and an introduction by Denise McGrath.

Very Good copy with ex-libris 200 Gertrude St. archive stamps to contents and final page of catalogue. Small mark, soft surface tear from old sticker to bottom-left of cover, otherwise a lovely copy with only light wear.

File under: Maria Kozic Philip Brophy Howard Arkley Julie Cunningham Juliet Darling Juan Davila Linda Marrinon Raymond X Peter Tyndall Christopher Van Der Craats → ↑ → George Paton Gallery / Melbourne Group Shows / Collections Australian Art Pop Art Conceptual Art Art Painting Sound / Music

Words and Things
Concrete Poetry / Supersigns / Multiple Language

2004, English
Softcover, unpaginated, 19 x 15 cm
Ed. of 600,
Published by Reverie Press / Daylesford

$55.00 - Out of stock

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Book collection of concrete poetry by Australian artists Peter Tyndall, Richard Tipping, Jeff Stewart, Marie Sierra, Alex Selenitsch, Peter O'Mara, Patrick Jones, Aleks Danko, Geoffrey Baxter; edited with an introduction by Patrick Jones. Published in an edition of 600 copies.

Concrete Poetry is both a form and an attitude to poetry that emphasises the visual and material elements of letters and thus words in relation to their meaning. 'Words and Things' is a project Patrick Jones set out to produce to represent concrete poetry and text-based art in Australia. The material considerations of 'Words and Things', both environmental and aesthetic, lead the reader into a work that is more like a sequence of short films than a standard book.

Includes biography of each contributing artist and a related reading list.

As New copy.

File under: Aleks Danko Alex Selenitsch Peter Tyndall Geoffrey Baxter Peter OMara Jeff Stewart Marie Sierra Richard Tipping Marie Sierra Reverie Press / Daylesford Australian Art Fiction / Poetry Art Group Shows / Collections

Same As It Ever Was
Curated by Clare Firth-Smith

1999, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 8 pages, 21 x 29.7 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by 200 Gertrude Street / Melbourne

$15.00 - Out of stock

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Scarce catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition Same As It Ever Was, curated by Clare Firth-Smith at 200 Gertrude Street in 1999. Exploring a techno-logic of cultural, the link between modernism and a late-90's techno sensibility, the exhibition included work by Damiano Bertoli, Andrea Blundell, Nadine Christensen, Clare Firth-Smith, Julian Holcroft, Katherine Huang. Texts by Daniel Palmer and Julian Holcroft, alongside list of works exhibited.

Fine copy.

File under: Damiano Bertoli Andrea Blundell Nadine Christensen Clare Firth-Smith Julian Holcroft Katherine Huang Julian Holcroft Daniel Palmer 200 Gertrude Street / Melbourne Out-of-print / Rare Australian Art Sculpture / Installation Painting Group Shows / Collections Art

3 Installations : Noelene Lucas, Ross Mellick, Robert Owen

1991, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 36 pages, 30 x 21cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Art Gallery of New South Wales / Sydney

$35.00 - Out of stock

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Scarce exhibition catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition, 3 Installations : Noelene Lucas, Ross Mellick, Robert Owen, curated by Anthony Bond at Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1991. Illustrated in colour and b/w throughout with the work of all three Australian artists, alongside texts by playwright Noëlle Janaczewska (for Noelene Lucas), curator Tony Bond (for Ross Mellick), and artist John Barbour (for Robert Owen), biographies, artist texts and drawings.

Very Good copy.

File under: Noelene Lucas Ross Mellick Robert Owen John Barbour Noëlle Janaczewska Anthony Bond John Barbour Art Gallery of New South Wales / Sydney Australian Art Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections

A Guide to Modern Australian Painting
by R.K. Luck

1969, English
Softcover, 120 pages, 21.5 x 16 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Sun Books / Melbourne

$18.00 - Out of stock

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First 1969 edition of "A Guide to Modern Australian Painting", published by Sun Books, Melbourne. "The first paperback book on modern Australian art", this small but generous volume, traces the extraordinary developments in Australian art for the "student, connoisseur or 'just plain curious'".
Profusely illustrated in colour and b/w throughout with the work of Ian Fairweather, John Olsen, Brett Whiteley, John Coburn, Robert Grieve, Sydney Ball, Col Jordon, Stanislaus Rapotec, Albert Tucker, John Perceval, Sidney Nolan, Arthur Boyd, Donald Friend, Sir William Dobell, Lloyd Rees, Jon Molvig, James Gleeson, Robert Juniper, Clifton Pugh, Jacqueline Hick, Leonard French, John Brack, Lloyd Rees, Russell Drysdale, Elwyn Lynn, Ken Reinhard, David Boyd, David Aspen, and many more.
Foreword by author R.K. Luck, and followed by details of plates, biographical notes on all featured artists, list of main Australian galleries and bibliography.

Good-Very Good copy.

File under: Ian Fairweather John Olsen Brett Whiteley John Coburn Sydney Ball Col Jordon Stanislaus Rapotec Albert Tucker John Perceval Sidney Nolan Arthur Boyd Donald Friend James Gleeson Robert Juniper Clifton Pugh Leonard French John Brack Lloyd Rees Russell Drysdale Elwyn Lynn Ken Reinhard Robert Grieve Sir William Dobell Jacqueline Hick David Boyd Jon Molvig David Aspden R.K. Luck Sun Books / Melbourne Australian Art Art Painting Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections

Metro 5 Gallery
First Birthday Exhibition

2002, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 32 pages, 27 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good

$15.00 - In stock -

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Scarce catalogue published on the occasion of the First Birthday Exhibition of Metro 5 Gallery, May - June, 2002, coinciding with the world exclusive release of the gold sculptures of Sidney Nolan (depicted on the cover and within). Features the work of Sidney Nolan, Arthur Boyd, Dale Hickey, John Brack, John Firth-Smith, Hoawrd Arkley, Robert Jacks, Roger Kemp, Yvonne Audette, Albert Tucker, James Gleeson, John Perceval, Tim Storrier, Brett Whiteley, and many others. Illustrated throughout in colour with press release and room-sheet price-list enclosed.

Very Good copy.

File under: Sidney Nolan Arthur Boyd Dale Hickey John Brack John Firth-Smith Hoawrd Arkley Robert Jacks Roger Kemp Yvonne Audette Albert Tucker James Gleeson John Perceval Tim Storrier Brett Whiteley Painting Sculpture / Installation Australian Art Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Art

Uwe Gabriel
Fotografien für das Plakat von Aktion Pisskrücke, Geheimdienst am Nächsten

2021, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 42 pages, 30 x 20 cm
Published by Daniel Buchholz Galerie / Köln

$38.00 - Out of stock

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This publication edited by Michael Krebber features 22 photographs by Uwe Gabriel that were made in 1980 for the poster of the exhibition “Aktion Pisskrücke - Geheimdienst am Nächsten” that took place the same year in Hamburg. Accompanying the photographs is an introductory text by Michael Sanchez.

The exhibition, Aktion Pisskrücke, featured the work of Albert Oehlen, Brigitte Rohrbach, Erinna König, Georg Herold. HiIka Nordhausen, Ina Barra Klaus Hubner, Marcus Oehlen, Martin Kippenberger, Michael Deistic, Michael Krebber, Thomas Wachweger, Uwe Gabriel, Werner Rattner.

File under: Michael Krebber Uwe Gabriel Albert Oehlen Brigitte Rohrbach Erinna König Georg Herold HiIka Nordhausen Ina Barra Klaus Hubner Marcus Oehlen Martin Kippenberger Michael Deistic Thomas Wachweger Werner Rattner Michael Sanchez Daniel Buchholz Galerie / Köln Photography Art Group Shows / Collections

'Masterpieces' out of the Seventies
Peter Tyndall, Imants Tillers, Peter Cripps, John Nixon, Sam Schoenbaum

1983, English
Single-sheet (folded into 8-panels, double-sided), 64 x 29 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Monash University Exhibition Gallery / Victoria

$120.00 - Out of stock

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Excellent, rare, over-sized single sheet/poster catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition and lecture series, 'Masterpieces' out of the Seventies, at the Exhibition Gallery, Monash University Department of Visual Arts, curated and designed by artist Peter Cripps in 1983, featuring the work of Peter Tyndall, Imants Tillers, Peter Cripps, John Nixon, and Sam Schoenbaum. In what could easily be the precursor to Cripps' wonderful "Recession Art & Other Strategies" (1986), 'Masterpieces' out of the Seventies, as Cripps states in his catalogue text, "locates an approach which emerged in this period (but which has yet to be acknowledged) and attempts to show how it informs the new Australian Art of the Eighties. The essence of this new approach was in its reformulation of the idea of what could constitute the 'parts' of a work. "Masterpieces" is thus not only an exhibition composed of parts but also an exhibition about 'parts'. There are 5 artists in the exhibition and they are represented by works produced 7 to 10 years ago as well as by more recent works. The first 21 weeks of the 8-week exhibition are devoted to contemporary works, followed by 1 'historical' work by each artist per week for the remaining 5 weeks."

Illustrated with documentation of some of the works alongside texts by the artists, portraits, drawings, full exhibition catalogue, biographies...
First, only edition of this rare historical piece, As New copy with light tanning and wear.

File under: Peter Tyndall Imants Tillers Peter Cripps John Nixon Sam Schoenbaum Monash University Exhibition Gallery / Victoria Australian Art Conceptual Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V Art Group Shows / Collections

Surrealism in Belgium - The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
by Xavier Canonne

2015, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 160 pages, 27 x 31 cm
Published by Marot / Brussels

$90.00 - Out of stock

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From the start, the Belgian Surrealists—among them René Magritte, Paul Delvaux, Paul Nougé, E.L.T. Mesens and Marcel Mariën—distinguished themselves from their Parisian counterparts with their dry wit, brilliant conceptualism and knack for combining the fantastical and the everyday (e.g., Magritte's bowler-hatted men, or Marcel Mariën's iconic single-lensed spectacle), and their disinclination to issue Breton-style manifestos.

This revelatory volume celebrates the Surrealist movement in Belgium through a group of more than 250 paintings, drawings, photographs, prints and books by artists such as Rachel Baes, Paul Delvaux, Camille Goemans, Jane Graverol, Tom Gutt, Jacques Lacomblez, René Magritte, Marcel Mariën, Jacques Matton, Edouard (E.L.T.) Mesens, Paul Nougé, Gilbert Senecaut, Louis Scutenaire, Max Servais, Armand Simon, André Stas Raoul Ubac, Louis Van de Spiegele, Rogier Van de Wouwer and Robert Willems.

File under: Rachel Baes Paul Delvaux Camille Goemans Jane Graverol Tom Gutt Jacques Lacomblez René Magritte Marcel Mariën Jacques Matton Edouard (E.L.T.) Mesens Paul Nougé Gilbert Senecaut Louis Scutenaire Max Servais Armand Simon André Stas Raoul Ubac Louis Van de Spiegele Rogier Van de Wouwer Robert Willems Xavier Canonne Marot / Brussels Surrealism Painting Drawing Fiction / Poetry Art Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections

Soft Art
Ralph Pomeroy (Ed.)

1969, English
Softcover (textured wraps, staple-bound), 40 pages, 22 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by New Jersey State Museum Cultural Center / New Jersey

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Rare, collectable catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition "Soft Art", organized by Ralph Pomeroy at New Jersey State Museum Cultural Center, March - April 1969.

With an introductory essay by Pomeroy and works throughout by the artists featured in the exhibition : Richard Artschwager, Thomas Bang, Sue Bitney, John Chamberlain, Bruce Conner, Paul Harris, Eva Hesse, Susan Lewis, Jean Lindner, Robert Morris, Harold Paris, Robert Rohm, Richard Serra, Keith Sonnier, Richard Tuttle, William Wegman. Includes a list of the works exhibited, artist biographies and a list of lenders. A historic, very rarely seen catalogue.

Very Good copy.

File under: Bruce Conner Eva Hesse Harold Paris Jean Lindner John Chamberlain Keith Sonnier Paul Harris Richard Artschwager Richard Serra Richard Tuttle Robert Morris Robert Rohm Sue Bitney Susan Lewis Thomas Bang William Wegman Ralph Pomeroy New Jersey State Museum Cultural Center / New Jersey Art Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections

Art of the Sixties / Kunst der sechziger Jahre

1969, English / German
Flexible plastic covers, screw-bound in acrylic spine, multiple stocks throughout, approx 500 pages, 28 x 15 cm
3rd enlarged edition,
Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Ludwig Museum / Cologne

$300.00 - Out of stock

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The extraordinary, definitive 1960s art exhibition catalogue, in it's 3rd expanded and corrected edition, designed by Wolf Vostell for the Ludwig collection in Cologne in 1969. A work of art itself, "Kunst der sechziger Jahre" perfectly embodies the materiality of the pop-era in book form. Housed in thick blind-stamped clear soft plastic covers bound in a hard acrylic plexiglass spine with stainless steel screws, this remarkable book opens with an introductory text and lexicon in German and English, printed on styrofoam pages and graph stock, with contributions by Gert von der Osten, Peter Ludwig, Horst Keller, and Evelyn Weiss. Featuring 92 artists, all part of the private collection of Peter Ludwig, each artist is presented with a portrait on transparent acetate followed by a selection of glossy offset-printed colour artworks tipped-in (often concertina fold-out!) on thick raw kraft paper pages. This enlarged 3rd edition features over 200 objects in total, a vast expansion on the first editions.

Featuring the greats of European-American Pop, Nouveau Réalisme, Fluxus, Art Informel, Abstraction, Minimalism and more, this mighty tome includes the work of Josef Albers, Carl Andre, Horst Antes, Shusaku Arakawa, Allan D'Arcangelo, Arman, Richard Artschwager, Jo Baer, Larry Bell, Miguel Berrocal, Joseph Beuys, Peter Blake, Gernot Bubenik, Anthony Caro, John Chamberlain, Dan Christensen, Alex Colville, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Ronald Davis, Jim Dine, Jean Dubuffet, Richard Estes, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Dan Flavin, Lucio Fontana, Domenico Gnoli, Bruno Goller, Robert Graham, Nancy Stevenson Graves, Gunter Haese, Richard Hamilton, Hans Hartung, Erwin Heerich, Eva Hesse, David Hockney, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Allen Jones, Donald Judd, Howard Kantovitz, Ellsworth Kelly, Edward Kienholz, R. B. Kitaj, Konrad Klapheck, Yves Klein, Yayoi Kusama, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Linder, Morris Louis, Heinz Mack, Piero Manzoni, Marisol, Malcolm Morley, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Louise Nevelson, Kenneth Noland, Claes Oldenburg, Eduardo Paolozzi, Pablo Picasso, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Robert Rauschenberg, Martial Raysse, Gerhard Richter, Jean-Paul Riopelle, James Rosenquist, Niki de Saint Phalle, Nicolas Schoffer, Bernhard Schultze, George Segal, Richard Serra, Keith Sonnier, Pierre Soulages, Daniel Spoerri, Lawrence Stafford, Lewis Stein, Frank Stella, Antoni Tapies, Paul Thek, Wayne Thiebaud, Jean Tinguely, Richard Tuttle, Cy Twombly, Gunther Uecker, Ursula (Schultze-Bluhm), Victor Vasarely, Wolf Vostell, Franz Erhard Walther, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann, Wols (Wolfgang Schulze).

A Very Good copy of this fragile and collectible catalogue. The usual bowing to pages, some general ageing, with a split to the lower back of plastic spine where the screw hole is, yet all still intact, nothing missing. Complete copy.

File under: Marisol Öyvind Fahlström Josef Albers Carl Andre Horst Antes Shusaku Arakawa Allan D'Arcangelo Arman Richard Artschwager Larry Bell Miguel Berrocal Joseph Beuys Peter Blake Gernot Bubenik Anthony Caro John Chamberlain Dan Christensen Alex Colville Carlos Cruz-Diez Ronald Davis Jim Dine Jean Dubuffet Richard Estes Dan Flavin Lucio Fontana Domenico Gnoli Bruno Goller Robert Graham Nancy Graves Gunter Haese Richard Hamilton Hans Hartung Erwin Heerich Eva Hesse David Hockney Robert Indiana Jasper Johns Allen Jones Donald Judd Howard Kantovitz Ellsworth Kelly Edward Kienholz R. B. Kitaj Konrad Klapheck Yves Klein Yayoi Kusama Sol Lewitt Roy Lichtenstein Richard Linder Morris Louis Heinz Mack Piero Manzoni Malcolm Morley Robert Morris Bruce Nauman Louise Nevelson Kenneth Noland Claes Oldenburg Eduardo Paolozzi Pablo Picasso Michelangelo Pistoletto Robert Rauschenberg Martial Raysse Gerhard Richter Jean-Paul Riopelle James Rosenquist Niki de Saint Phalle Nicolas Schoffer Bernhard Schultze George Segal Richard Serra Keith Sonnier Pierre Soulages Daniel Spoerri Lawrence Stafford Lewis Stein Frank Stella Antoni Tapies Paul Thek Wayne Thiebaud Jean Tinguely Richard Tuttle Cy Twombly Gunther Uecker Ursula (Schultze-Bluhm) Victor Vasarely Wolf Vostell Franz Erhard Walther Andy Warhol Tom Wesselmann Wols Jo Baer Gert von der Osten Peter Ludwig Horst Keller Evelyn Weiss Ludwig Museum / Cologne Arte Informale / Haute Pâte / Tachism Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Pop Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Art Minimal Art

For the Blind Man in the Dark Room Looking for the Black Cat That Isn't There
Will Holder

2009, English
Softcover (w. plastic dust jacket and 15 artist postcards), 200 pages, 33 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis / Missouri

$300.00 - Out of stock

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Our story begins in Ancient Greece with Socrates announcing, “I know that I know nothing.” Clearly, confusion has always been at the heart of wisdom.

Curated by Anthony Huberman at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis in 2009, the group exhibition and catalogue For the Blind Man in the Dark Room Looking for the Black Cat That Isn't There explores the speculative nature of knowledge and insists on the importance of curiosity and the things we don't understand. Arranged around the premise that the world—and art—is not a code that needs cracking, the works in the exhibition center on the fruitfulness of not-knowing, un-learning, and productive confusion. David Hullfish Bailey, Marcel Broodthaers, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Fischli & Weiss, Rachel Harrison, Giorgio Morandi, Matt Mullican, Rosalind Nashashibi & Lucy Skaer, Frances Stark, Rosemarie Trockel and others present explanations that playfully don't explain. Dedicated to the inquisitive mind, For The Blind Man celebrates our ability to get lost and the stories we use to find our way in the dark. The book is edited, arranged and designed by London-based writer Will Holder and includes a new essay by curator Anthony Huberman.

Featuring: Anonymous, Dave Hullfish Bailey, Marcel Broodthaers, Sarah Crowner, Mariana Castillo Deball, Eric Duyckaerts, Ayşe Erkmen, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Rachel Harrison, Giorgio Morandi, Matt Mullican, Bruno Munari, Nashashibi/Skaer, Falke Pisano, Jimmy Raskin, Frances Stark, Rosemarie Trockel, Patrick van Caeckenbergh, and David William.

Rare first edition of this incredible catalogue, over-sized and complete in plastic jacket and original issue 15 large artist postcards included. Very Good—Fine copy with some light tanning only.

File under: Will Holder Lucy Skaer Rosalind Nashashibi Anonymous Dave Hullfish Bailey Marcel Broodthaers Sarah Crowner Mariana Castillo Deball Eric Duyckaerts Hans-Peter Feldmann Peter Fischli & David Weiss Rachel Harrison Giorgio Morandi Matt Mullican Bruno Munari Falke Pisano Jimmy Raskin Frances Stark Rosemarie Trockel Patrick van Caeckenbergh David William Ayşe Erkmen Anthony Huberman Will Holder Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis / Missouri Group Shows / Collections Conceptual Art Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Painting Art Fiction / Poetry

The Box Catalogues of the Städtisches Museum Mönchengladbach 1967-78

2021, English / German
Hardcover, 392 pages, 28 x 22 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln Städtisches Museum Abteiberg / Mönchengladbach

$85.00 - Out of stock

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For the first time, the 35 legendary box catalogues of Städtische Museum Mönchengladbach have been published as a book. Museum director Johannes Cladders developed the idea of catalogues in the form of a box with Joseph Beuys in 1967. Understated in their initial appearance, the grey boxes provide an unconventional and pertinent overview of the international vanguard art of the period, including seminal movements such as Conceptual Art, Fluxus, Arte Povera, and Pop Art. Until 1978, Cladders worked closely with exhibiting artists to create such catalogues, which radically re-envisaged the traditional exhibition and museum publication. They embody the participatory approach of their time and instance a vision of a porous democratic work. Viewers are invited to actively participate in this artistic and institutional endeavour and engage both intellectually and physically. Some of the boxes include posters, booklets, documentation and texts, while others comprise multiples.

Artists included are Blinky Palermo, Daniel Buren, Marcel Broodthaers, Hans Hollein, Piero Manzoni, Hanne Darboven, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Stanley Brouwn, Brecht/Filliou, Jasper Johns, Richard Long, Panamarenko, James Lee Byars, Braco Dimitrijević, Jannis Kounellis, Lawrence Weiner, Giulio Paolini, and Gerhard Richter, among many others.

Researched by Susanne Rennert, designed by Petra Hollenbach, with photographs documenting all catalogues by Tobias Hohn & Stanton Taylor, and introductory essays by Susanne Rennert and Susanne Titz. English and German text.

File under: Jasper Johns Marcel Broodthaers Panamarenko James Lee Byars Gerhard Richter Braco Dimitrijevic Blinky Palermo Daniel Buren Hans Hollein Piero Manzoni Richard Long Jannis Kounellis Hanne Darboven Bernd and Hilla Becher Stanley Brouwn George Brecht Robert Filliou Lawrence Weiner Giulio Paolini Susanne Rennert Susanne Titz Walther König / Köln Städtisches Museum Abteiberg / Mönchengladbach Art Conceptual Art Arte Povera Fluxus Curatorial Group Shows / Collections Pop Art

Sex is Gay: Part Deux

2021, English
Softcover, 21 x 29.7 cm
Published by Centre d'editions / Melbourne Guzzler / Rosanna

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Very limited edition informal magazine/catalogue published on the occasion of ‘Sex is Gay: Part Deux’, a group exhibition presented by Zac Segbedzi at Guzzler, Rosanna, 20 Nov — 5 Dec, 2021. Features the work of Ramsay Alderson, Richard Hawkins, Paul Levack, Mathieu Malouf, Heji Shin, and Alex Vivian. Lavishly colour illustrated on glossy stock with work images, video stills and installation photography from the exhibition, followed by 20 pages of erotic photos shot by Ramsey Alderson and Richard Hawkins of famed pornstar Tom Faulk during Mathieu Malouf's 2016 show ‘Toilet’ at Jenny's in Los Angeles.

Very limited print run.

File under: Ramsay Alderson Richard Hawkins Paul Levack Mathieu Malouf Heji Shin Alex Vivian Zac Segbedzi Tom Faulk Centre d'editions / Melbourne Guzzler / Rosanna Painting Art Film / Video LGBTQ+ Eros Group Shows / Collections Australian Art Photography

The Botanical Mind - Art, Mysticism And The Cosmic Tree

2021, English
Softcover, 232 pages, 16 x 23 cm
Published by Camden Art Centre / UK

$98.00 - Out of stock

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Humanity’s place in the natural order is under scrutiny as never before, held in a precarious balance between visible and invisible forces: from the microscopic threat of a virus to the monumental power of climate change.

Drawing on indigenous traditions from the Amazon rainforest; alternative perspectives on Western scientific rationalism; and new thinking around plant intelligence, philosophy and cultural theory, The Botanical Mind investigates the significance of the plant kingdom to human life, consciousness and spirituality across cultures and through time. The Botanical Mind: Art, Mysticism and The Cosmic Tree was conceived as a trans-generational group exhibition by Gina Buenfeld and Matt Williams for the Camden Art Centre, bringing together surrealist, modernist, visionary, outsider, indigenous Amazonian, and contemporary works alongside historical and ethnographic artefacts, textiles and manuscripts spanning more than 500 years. Through the symbolism of diverse cultural artefacts and the works of mystics, artists and thinkers around the world, 'The Botanical Mind' reveals how the vegetal kingdom has metaphysical importance to the development of consciousness and spirituality.

This richly illustrated 224-page companion publication includes essays by the curators and contributions from scholars on the key themes of the exhibition – alchemy, art history, plant ontology, Gaian ecology, anthropology and ethnobotany – unifying philosophical, scientific, spiritual and artistic approaches to meditate on the cosmic significance of plants in different worldviews.

Edited by Gina Buenfeld and Martin Clark
Designed by Sara De Bondt studio.

Artists and Writers
Eileen Agar / Anni Albers / Josef Albers / Sarah Angliss / Consuelo "Chelo" González Amézcua / Gemma Anderson with Wakefield Lab and John Dupré / Anna Atkins / Kirk Barley / Jordan Belson / Annie Besant and Charles Leadbeater / Karl Blossfeldt / Carol Bove / Jagadish Chandra Bose / Kerstin Brätsch / Bernd Brabec De Mori / Hildegarde von Bingen / Andrea Büttner / Adam Chodzko / Ithell Colquhoun / Bruce Conner / Brenda Danilowitz / Das Institut / Mirtha Dermisache / Minnie Evans / Cerith Wyn Evans / Charles Filiger / Robert Fludd / Monica Gagliano / Giorgio Griffa / Brion Gysin / Friedrich Wilhelm Heine / Ernst Haeckel / Dr Stephan Harding / Anna Haskel / Tamara Henderson / Channa Horwitz / Textiles from the Huni Kuin (Kaxinawa) people / C.G. Jung / Joachim Koester / Rachid Koraïchi / Hilma af Klint / Emma Kunz / Yves Laloy / Ghislaine Leung / Linder / Simon Ling / Michael Marder / Agnes Martin / André Masson / John McCracken / Terence McKenna / Henri Michaux / Matt Mullican / Wolfgang Paalen / Paul Păun / Stefan A. Pedersen / Santiago Ramón y Cajal / Steve Reinke and James Richards / Edith Rimmington / Adele Röder / Daniel Rios Rodriguez / Rupert Sheldrake / Textiles and ceramics from the Shipibo-Conibo people / Penny Slinger / F. Percy Smith / Janet Sobel / Philip Taaffe / Priscilla Telmon and Vincent Moon / Fred Tomaselli / Delfina Muñoz de Toro / Alexander Tovborg / David Tudor / Lee Ufan / Scottie Wilson / Terry Winters / Adolf Wölfli / Bryan Wynter / Henriette Zéphir / Anna Zemánková / Unica Zürn / artists from the Yawanawá community

File under: Eileen Agar Anni Albers Josef Albers Karl Blossfeldt Carol Bove Das Institut Sarah Angliss Consuelo González Amezcua Anna Atkins Kirk Barley Jordan Belson Kerstin Brätsch Andrea Büttner Cerith Wyn Evans Adam Chodzko Ithell Colquhoun Bruce Conner Giorgio Griffa Brion Gysin Hilma af Klint Emma Kunz Henri Michaux Matt Mullican Wolfgang Paalen Penny Slinger Lee Ufan Terry Winters Adolf Wölfli Scottie Wilson Delfina Muñoz de Toro Alexander Tovborg Fred Tomaselli Priscilla Telmon and Vincent Moon Janet Sobel Philip Taaffe F. Percy Smith Joachim Koester Minnie Evans Mirtha Dermisache Ernst Haeckel Ghislaine Leung Linder Agnes Martin André Masson John McCracken Friedrich Wilhelm Heine Simon Ling Charles Filiger Anna Haskel Tamara Henderson Channa Horwitz Rachid Koraïchi Yves Laloy Adele Röder Daniel Rios Rodriguez Stefan A. Pedersen Edith Rimmington Steve Reinke James Richards Henriette Zéphir Anna Zemánková Sara De Bondt Bernd Brabec De Mori Gina Buenfeld Martin Clark Emanuele Coccia Stephan Harding C. G. Jung Terence McKenna Charles Webster Leadbeater Annie Besant Jagadish Chandra Bose Hildegarde von Bingen Brenda Danilowitz Michael Marder Robert Fludd Monica Gagliano Rupert Sheldrake Paul Păun Santiago Ramón y Cajal Camden Art Centre / UK Art Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections Surrealism Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Painting Sculpture / Installation Curatorial Photography Sound / Music Ecology / Earth

Memo Review 05 : 2021

2022, English
Softcover, 300 pages, 25 x 17.5 cm
Published by Monash Art Projects / Victoria

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What is it like to make art the way the world is today? What is it to write about art? Every review you read in 2022 will attempt to answer these questions, whether it knows it or not. You can see it if you look hard enough. And in thinking about this we perhaps hold a candle to the darkness, or perhaps these questions are the light that allows us to see the darkness around us. Thank you for reading Memo lit by the world’s candlelight.

These are the reviews from 2021, the fourth year of Melbourne's Memo Review. Memo Review is Melbourne's only weekly art criticism, publishing reviews of "a broad variety of art exhibitions at public art museums, commercial galleries and smaller artist-run spaces in Melbourne, offering new critical perspectives from an up-and-coming younger generation of Australian art scholars, writers and artists."

Featuring contributions by A. D. S. Donaldson, Adelle Mills, Amelia Winata, Amy May Stuart, Anna Parlane, Audrey Schmidt, Babs Rapeport, Cameron Hurst, Chelsea Hopper, David Wlazlo, Diego Ramírez, Francis Plagne, Giles Fielke, Hilary Thurlow, Jarrod Zlatic, Léuli Eshrāghi, Luke Smythe, Matt Marasco, Michelle Guo, Miriam La Rosa, Paris Lettau, Philip Brophy, Rex Butler Sofia Skobeleva, Tara Heffernan, Tara Mcdowell, Timmah Ball, Ursula Cornelia De Leeuw, Victoria Perin, and Vincent Le.

File under: A.D.S. Donaldson Diego Ramírez Adelle Mills Amelia Winata Amy May Stuart Anna Parlane Audrey Schmidt Babs Rapeport Cameron Hurst Chelsea Hopper David Wlazlo Francis Plagne Giles Fielke Hilary Thurlow Jarrod Zlatic Luke Smythe Matt Marasco Michelle Guo Miriam La Rosa Paris Lettau Philip Brophy Rex Butler Sofia Skobeleva Tara Heffernan Tara Mcdowell Timmah Ball Ursula Cornelia De Leeuw Victoria Perin Vincent Le Léuli Eshrāghi Monash Art Projects / Victoria Art Sculpture / Installation Film / Video Painting Group Shows / Collections Theory / Essay Periodicals Australian Art Australian Photography Conceptual Art Curatorial Ecology Performance / Dance / Theater Photography

I.M.U U.R.2
Julie Ault / Heinz Peter Knes / Danh Vo / Martin Wong

2013, English
Softcover, 208 pages, 17.8 x 22.8 cm
Ed. of 800,
Published by Galerie Buchholz / Köln

$90.00 - Out of stock

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Gorgeous book published on the occasion of the exhibition “Neptune Society, San Francisco Columbarium, 4th Fl., Dome Room, South Wall, Tier 4, Niche 2” organised by Danh Vo at Galerie Buchholz, Berlin, 2012. Edited by Julie Ault, Heinz Peter Knes, Danh Vo, Christopher Müller & Daniel Buchholz.

In this exhibition and publication Danh Vo, Julie Ault and Heinz Peter Knes enter into a dialogue with the work of Martin Wong whose estate and collection was at the time (2012) stored and administered by Martin Wong’s mother Florence Wong Fie in the Wong family house in San Francisco.

Martin Wong (1946-1999) was born in Portland Oregon as the only son of Chinese immigrants Benjamin Fie and Florence Wong Fie. An important representative of the art scene in New York's lower East side in the 80s Martin Wong's house, as pictured in this publication, is a unique document of his life's work. In a variety of ways the contents of the house on the one hand reflects the wealth of reference in Martin Wong’s works, and over and above that the unique relationship between Martin Wong and his parents with all the necessarily complicated projections and possible misunderstandings such relationships entail.

This catalogue documents the collection of the artist Martin Wong. In numerous colour illustrations, photographs that Heinz Peter Knes took together with Danh Vo, the book depicts the interiors of the Wong Fie family residency in San Francisco filled with paintings, sculptures, and multifaceted objects from very specific and diverse fields of interest such as asian antiques and americana that Martin Wong followed and collected together with his parents throughout is life. Accompanied by a text by Julie Ault who recalls the congruity of Martin owning a Piet Mondrian and storing it "close to splashing water in his sixth-floor walk-up apartment in a run-down building on New York's pre-gentrification Lower East Side...".

File under: Julie Ault Heinz Peter Knes Danh Vo Martin Wong Julie Ault Galerie Buchholz / Köln Art Painting Photography Group Shows / Collections LGBTQ+

Fantastic Painters
by Simon Watney

1977 / 1984, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 88 pages, 29 x 21 cm
1st UK Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Bracken Books / London

$15.00 - Out of stock

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Hardcover edition of Fantastic Painters by Simon Watney, first published in 1977, this 1984 edition published by Bracken Books, London. Includes the work of Hieronymus Bosch, Max Ernst, Lyonel Feininger, Luigi Russolo, Paul Delvaux, Arnold Böcklin, Odilon Redon, Gustave Moreau, Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, Caspar David Friedrich, Henri Rousseau, Paul Klee, Georde Frederic Watts, Giovanni Segantini, Edward Burne-Jones, John Anster Fitzgerald, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Richard Dadd, Francisco de Goya, Henry Fuseli, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Hubert Robert, William Blake, François de Nomé (Monsù Desiderio), Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Jacopo Pontormo, Matthias Grünewald, Luca Signorelli, David Hockney, and more.

Very Good in VG dust jacket.

File under: Hieronymus Bosch Max Ernst Lyonel Feininger Luigi Russolo Paul Delvaux Arnold Böcklin Odilon Redon Gustave Moreau Salvador Dali Rene Magritte Caspar David Friedrich Henri Rousseau Paul Klee Georde Frederic Watts Giovanni Segantini Edward Burne-Jones John Anster Fitzgerald Pieter Bruegel the Elder Richard Dadd Francisco de Goya Henry Fuseli Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Hubert Robert William Blake François de Nomé (Monsù Desiderio) Giuseppe Arcimboldo Jacopo Pontormo Matthias Grünewald Luca Signorelli David Hockney Simon Watney Bracken Books / London Surrealism Out-of-print / Rare Art Painting Group Shows / Collections

Peter Cripps Interviews
by Peter Cripps

1987, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 40 pages, 21 x 15 cm
Ed. of 250 copies,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by IMA / Brisbane

$40.00 - Out of stock

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Scarce 1987 booklet edited by Australian artist Peter Cripps and published in an edition of only 250 copies by the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, where Cripps was director at the time. Handsomely designed by Cripps and typeset by Ian Hodgkiss, this fantastic publication was published in dedication to artist Robert MacPherson, as sales from his survey catalogue had helped to fund its publication. Comprising entirely of nine short interviews by Peter Cripps with eight artists (Robert MacPherson, Peter Tyndall, Vivienne Shark LeWitt, Tim Johnson, Geoff Lowe, Bronwyn Clark-Coolee, Scott Redford, Mark Webb) who had all exhibited at the IMA, and one with curator Robyn McKenzie, whose exhibition "The Gothic: Perversity and Its Pleasure" was held at the institute in 1986. Includes source references.

Very Good copy, only light cover wear.

File under: Robert MacPherson Peter Tyndall Vivienne Shark LeWitt Tim Johnson Geoff Lowe Bronwyn Clark-Coolee Scott Redford Mark Webb Peter Cripps Robyn McKenzie Peter Cripps Robyn McKenzie IMA / Brisbane Art Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Minimal Art Conceptual Art Painting Sculpture / Installation

Wir nennen es Ludwig. Das Museum wird 40! / We Call It Ludwig: The Museum Is Turning 40!
Edited by Yilmaz Dziewior

2017, English / German
Softcover, 431 pages, 20.3 x 27.1 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

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This publication documents the first forty years of exhibitions at the Museum Ludwig through an archive of installations and ephemera. It includes impressions from all the directors of the institution as well as the architects of the building. The conceptual starting point is the anniversary exhibition "We Call It Ludwig: The Museum Is Turning 40!" (2016), which is reflected here in a complete overview of all the works on display. For the anniversary exhibition, which was jointly conceived by the director and all the museum’s curators, twenty-five international artists and artist collectives were invited to engage in depth with the institution and to react to the question of what the Museum Ludwig means to them.

Participating artists included Georges Adéagbo, Ai Weiwei, Ei Arakawa & Michel Auder, Minerva Cuevas, Maria Eichhorn, Andrea Fraser, Meschac Gaba, Guerrilla Girls, Hans Haacke, Diango Hernández, Candida Höfer, Bodys Isek Kingelez, Kuehn Malvezzi, Christian Philipp Müller, Marcel Odenbach, Ahmet Ögüt, Claes Oldenburg, Pratchaya Phinthong, Alexandra Pirici & Manuel Pelmuş, Gerhard Richter, Avery Singer, Jürgen Stollhans, Rosemarie Trockel, Villa Design Group, Christopher Williams.

The expansive archive portion of this large book includes important work by countless artists spanning 40 years.

Edited by Yilmaz Dziewior

File under: Ai Weiwei Ei Arakawa Michel Auder Maria Eichhorn Andrea Fraser Meschac Gaba Hans Haacke Bodys Isek Kingelez Kuehn Malvezzi Christian Philipp Müller Marcel Odenbach Ahmet Ögüt Claes Oldenburg Gerhard Richter Avery Singer Jürgen Stollhans Rosemarie Trockel Villa Design Group Christopher Williams Georges Adéagbo Minerva Cuevas Guerrilla Girls Candida Höfer Diango Hernández Pratchaya Phinthong Yilmaz Dziewior Walther König / Köln Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Photography Film / Video Conceptual Art Feminism SALE