World Food Books

Valentine Schlegel
Je dors, je travaille

2021, French / English
Softcover, 224 pages (w. English insert), 18.5 x 27.3 cm
Published by CAC / Brétigny <o> future <o> / Paris

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Back in print, this time with English translation insert, the wonderful French catalogue that offers a unique insight into the life and work of the French artist, sculptor and ceramist Valentine Schlegel. This richly illustrated, hugely popular volume (now sold out in multiple French editions) forms the most comprehensive monograph on Schlegel ever published, featuring a large iconography, archives, and texts (in French) by sculptor and Schlegel specialist Hélène Bertin. Published on the occasion of the exhibition “Cette femme pourrait dormir dans l'eau – Valentine Schlegel par Hélène Bertin” at CAC Brétigny, from September 30 to December 09, 2017.

Valentine Schlegel (born 1925 in Sète, South of France) was trained at the Beaux-Art in Montpellier before settling in Paris, where she dedicated herself to ceramics. Schlegel conceived her works as sculptures inspired by nature. Her ceramics, primitive but sophisticated at the same time, made Valentine Schlegel one of the most important ceramists of 1950s.

Hélène Bertin (born 1989 in Petruis, lives and works in Paris and Cucuron) develops a practice which connects the activities of artist, curator and historian.

Edited by Hélène Bertin and Charles Mazé & Coline Sunier.
Text by Hélène Bertin.
Graphic design: Charles Mazé & Coline Sunier.

File under: Valentine Schlegel Hélène Bertin CAC / Brétigny future / Paris Ceramics / Glass Sculpture / Installation Architecture / Interior Art

Raafat Ishak
Hot Air

2023, English / Arabic
Softcover, 216 pages, 19 x 25.4 cm
Ed. of 350,
Published by Sonntag Press / Narrm—Melbourne

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Hot Air is the first comprehensive book surveying the work of Egyptian-born, Naarm/Melbourne-based artist Raafat Ishak. Rethinking the linearity of the monographic format, Hot Air navigates Ishak’s practice through a sequence of themes and motifs that occupy his art: NUDITY/ SQUARE/ LANGUAGE/ AIR/ SUN/ BLACK/ PAINTING/ ARCHITECTURE. The final chapter, HEIDE, is dedicated to the artist’s major solo exhibition in the celebrated modernist building at Heide Museum of Modern Art, 2023.

The publication is richly illustrated with artwork images and reference material alongside newly commissioned essays in English and Arabic by Lisa Radford, Robert Schubert, Stephen Zagala and Melissa Keys. Publication coordinator: Brigid Moriarty. Design: Alex Ward. Translation: Muhammad Y Gamal. Copy editor: Sarah Gory (English) and Salma Harland (Arabic)

File under: Raafat Ishak Lisa Radford Robert Schubert Stephen Zagala -Melissa Keys Sonntag Press / Narrm—Melbourne Art Australian Art Painting Drawing Sculpture / Installation

Mike Nelson
Extinction Beckons

2023, English
Softcover (w. dustjacket), 240 pages, 29.7 x 21 cm
Published by Hayward Gallery Publishing / London

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A new, major survey of the influential British artist, Mike Nelson, famed for his psychologically charged, labyrinthine installations.

Mike Nelson (born 1967) is best known for his large-scale immersive environments that tell multi-layered narratives while playing with and pushing the boundaries of space and scale. Although Nelson’s extraordinary output has cemented his position internationally, his oeuvre has not previously been explored in a major publication.

Designed in close collaboration with the artist, this book juxtaposes new writings with classic texts on seminal works. It includes new essays by Yung Ma and Dan Fox along with a comprehensive ‘lexicon’ of the artist’s practice by Helen Hughes. The book also features a new interview by Katie Guggenheim; a selection of previously published texts on key artworks by Richard Grayson, Jaki Irvine, Jeremy Millar and Mike Nelson; and a full exhibition history and bibliography. Also featured are many previously unpublished images and ephemera from Nelson’s archive.

Published to accompany the major exhibition at Hayward Gallery, London, ‘Mike Nelson: Extinction Beckons’, 22 Feb – 7 May 2023.

File under: Mike Nelson Will Bradley Dan Fox Richard Grayson Katie Guggenheim Helen Hughes Jaki Irvine Yung Ma Jeremy Millar Mike Nelson Hayward Gallery Publishing / London Sculpture / Installation Art

Eva Hesse
Drawing

2006, English
Hardcover, 288 pages, 21 x 26 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Yale University Press / New Haven The Drawing Center / New York

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First hardcover edition of this out-of-print volume on Eva Hesse's drawing practice. Hesse (1936—1970) was a highly experimental artist who continually challenged the conventions of her time. For Hesse, drawing played a unique role, providing the nexus between her works in all media. Eva Hesse Drawing is the first book to explore her drawing process, following her work from drawing to painting and sculpture, and always back to drawing. The book features important, recently rediscovered “working drawings,” providing an intimate look at Hesse’s everyday practice and methodology.

An accomplished draftswoman, Hesse began to develop her wandering, tentative line while studying at Yale University in the late 1950s. Her early 1960s works on paper engaged with visual vocabularies from geometry to biomorphic abstraction. In 1965, Hesse combined her tactile sensibility for materials with her stringlike line to achieve a breakthrough: her astonishing reliefs, which began to bridge the space between two and three dimensions. Balancing the disembodiment of line with its intensified materialization, Hesse went on to develop one of the most innovative oeuvres of the twentieth century, anticipating the hybridization of media and crossing borderlines linking one impossible space to another.

Very Good—Near Fine copy.

File under: Eva Hesse Catherine De Zegher Yale University Press / New Haven The Drawing Center / New York Out-of-print / Rare Drawing Sculpture / Installation Art Arte Povera Minimal Art

Gordon Matta-Clark
Reorganizing Structure By Drawing Through It / Zeichnung Bei

1997, English / German
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 296 pages, 22 x 29 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Generali Foundation / Vienna

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Rare first hardcover edition of the catalogue raisonné of Gordon Matta-Clark's incredible drawings published in conjunction with exhibition held at Generali Foundation, Vienna, May 7—August 10, 1997. Heavily illustrated throughout (243 colour and 548 b/w illustrations) with essays by Sabine Breitwiesser, Peter Fend, and Pamela M. Lee. Includes a biography and bibliography. Text in English and German.

Gordon Matta-Clark (1943—1978) was an American artist best known for site-specific artworks he made in the 1970s. He was also a pioneer in the field of socially engaged food art.

Fine copy in Fine DJ.

File under: Gordon Matta-Clark Sabine Breitwiesser Peter Fend Pamela M. Lee Generali Foundation / Vienna Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Arte Povera Minimal Art Drawing

Issey Miyake / Isamu Noguchi
Arizona

1997, English / Japanese
Hardcover (plastic boards w. printed plastic slipcase), 52 pages (leporello-fold), 22 x 30.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art / Tokyo

$380.00 - Out of stock

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The beautiful and extremely rare "Arizona" publication, produced to accompany a collaborative exhibition between sculptor Isamu Noguchi and fashion designer Issey Miyake at Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, in 1997. This elaborate leporello-fold (accordian) publication is lavishly illustrated with the works of both artists, putting Noguchi's sculptures in direct conversation with Miyake's textiles across it's photographic pages. Accompanying texts from architects, fellow artists and critics addressing their work make up the reverse side of the publication, all in English and Japanese, with biographies. Bound between textured, foiled, plastic boards and housed in the original printed plastic slipcase, this unique edition is the perfect celebration of the incredible friendship between Isamu Noguchi and Issey Miyake, whose works fused the ideas and cultures of East and West and continue to inspire generations.

Fine first edition of this rare book.

File under: Isamu Noguchi Issey Miyake Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art / Tokyo Art Fashion Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation

Night Vision No. 2 (Special Feature: Hans Bellmer)

1980, Japanese
Softcover, 200 pages (plus poster insert), 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Night Vision / Japan

$80.00 - Out of stock

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First 1980 edition of cult Japanese underground magazine Night Vision, a special edition dedicated to the work of German artist Hans Bellmer (1902-1975). ("the doll = the human form - the body"). Nowhere in the world has Bellmer's "Die Puppe" has such a lasting effect than in Japan. This volume compiles many of the artist's texts, translated to Japanese, with many illustrations of Bellmer's graphic works, drawings nad photography, alongside contributions by Miyoko Nakano, Yuichi Konno, Shuzo Takiguchi, Hideo Nakai and others. This book also comes with an inserted copy of Japanese doll artist Nori Doi's four-fold poster (40 x 28.5 cm). Nori Doi's own work in articulated dolls is heavily inspired by Bellmer's dolls from the 1930's.

German artist Hans Bellmer (1902-1975) was one of the most subversive artists associated with Surrealism, famous--notorious, even--for his erotic engravings, objects and photographs. Best known for the life-sized pubescent female dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. "Bellmer was born in the city of Kattowitz, then part of the German Empire (now Katowice, Poland). Up until 1926, he'd been working as a draftsman for his own advertising company. He initiated his doll project to oppose the fascism of the Nazi Party by declaring that he would make no work that would support the new German state. Represented by mutated forms and unconventional poses, his dolls were directed specifically at the cult of the perfect body then prominent in Germany. Bellmer was influenced in his choice of art form by reading the published letters of Oskar Kokoschka (Der Fetisch, 1925)."

Very Good copy.

File under: Hans Bellmer Night Vision / Japan Eros Surrealism Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Art Drawing Sculpture / Installation

Lucio Fontana
by Guido Ballo

1971, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 268 pages, 29.5 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Praeger Publishers Inc. / New York

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First 1971 clothbound hardcover edition of the first major English-language monograph on Argentinian artist Lucio Fontana (1899–1968), published two years after his death. Profusely illustrated with texts by Italian writer and art critic Guido Ballo (1914-2010), this volume surveys Fontana's works across painting (many of his Concetti Spaziale examples), sculpture, drawing, installation and graphic work, encompassing his Spatialism manifesto, along with biographic details, bibliography, photographs documenting the life and work of the great artist.

Lucio Fontana (1899–1968) is one the most innovative artists of the 20th century. A major figure of postwar European art and a binational resident of Argentina and Italy, Fontana blurred numerous boundaries in his life and art, crossing borders both literally and figuratively. The founder of Spatialism, a movement focused on the spatial qualities of sculpture and paintings with the goal of breaking through the two-dimensionality of the traditional picture plane, he pushed the painterly into the sculptural and redefined the relationship between the arts. He was best known for his monochrome canvases known as Concetti Spaziale that he would cut or puncture, leaving distinctive gaping slash marks and holes that imbued the finished work with an almost violent energy. In his seminal writing, White Manifesto (1946), the artist traced ideas for creating a new medium that blended architecture, painting, and sculpture. “I do not want to make a painting; I want to open up space, create a new dimension, tie in the cosmos, as it endlessly expands beyond the confining plane of the picture,” he said of his work. Fontana had widespread impact on the following generation of artists, who began to use installation media more aggressively to address the dynamics of space in gallery environments and Land Art. Fontana died on September 7, 1968 in Varese, Italy at the age of 69, just two years after being awarded the Grand Prize for painting at the Venice Biennale.

Very Good copy in VG dust jacket. All near Fine.

File under: Lucio Fontana Praeger Publishers Inc. / New York Arte Povera Arte Informale / Haute Pâte / Tachism Painting Sculpture / Installation Ceramics / Glass Out-of-print / Rare Art Drawing

Minimalism:Origins
by Edward Strickland

1993, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 320 pages, 15.5 x 23.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Indiana University Press / Indiana Bloomsbury Academic / London

$85.00 - Out of stock

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Long out-of-print first hardcover edition of Minimalism:Origins by Edward Strickland, published in 1993 by Indiana University Press.

... a landmark work, the first attempt to write a pre-history of minimalism that embraces all the arts. Its importance cannot be overestimated." —K. Robert Schwarz, Institute for Studies in American Music

All told, this book is mandatory reading for anyone who wishes to understand the history and nature of minimalism." —i/e/ NINE

The death of Minimalism is announced regularly, which may be the surest testimonial to its staying power." This is the opening sentence of Edward Strickland's study, the first to examine in detail Minimalist tendencies in the plastic arts and music.

The term Minimalism appeared in the mid-1960s, primarily with reference to the stripped-down sculpture of artists like Robert Morris and Donald Judd, both of whom detested the word. In the late 1970s it gained currency when applied to the repetitive music popularized by Steve Reich and Philip Glass.

In the first part of the book, "Paint", Strickland shows how Minimalism offered a rethinking of the main schools of abstract art to mid-century. Within Abstract Expressionism Barnett Newman opposed the stylistic complexity of confessional action painting with non-gestural, color-field painting. Ad Reinhardt and Ellsworth Kelly reconceived the rhythmic construction of earlier Geometrical Abstraction in "invisible" and brilliant monochromes respectively; and Robert Rauschenberg created Dadaist anti-art in pure white panels. Next, Strickland surveys Minimal music from La Monte Young's long-tone compositions of the fifties to his drone works of the Theatre of Eternal Music. He examines the effect of foreign and nonclassical American musics on Terry Riley's motoric repetition developed from his tape experimentation, Steve Reich's formulation of phasing technique; and Philip Glass's unison modules. The third part of the book treats the development of Minimal sculpture and its critical reception. Strickland also discusses analogous Minimalist tendencies in dance, film, and literature as well as the incorporation of once-shocking Minimalist vocabulary into mass culture from fashion to advertising.

Investigating the origins of Minimalism in postwar American culture, Strickland redefines it as a movement the developed radically reductive stylistic innovations in numerous media over the third quarter of the twentieth century. A survey with wit.

Very Good—Fine copy w. VG dust jacket preserved under mylar.

File under: Barnett Newman Ellsworth Kelly Ad Reinhardt Robert Rauschenberg La Monte Young Terry Riley Donald Judd Steve Reich Philip Glass John Cage Robert Morris Edward Strickland Indiana University Press / Indiana Bloomsbury Academic / London Minimal Art Painting Art Sound / Music Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay Architecture / Interior Out-of-print / Rare Philosophy

Six Years : The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972
by Lucy Lippard

1973 / 1997, English
Softcover, 280 pages, 173 x 213 cm
Out of print title / used / good
Published by University of Chicago Press / Chicago

$70.00 - Out of stock

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“Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious and/or 'dematerialized.'”—Lucy R. Lippard, Six Years

In 1973 the critic and curator Lucy R. Lippard published Six Years, a book with possibly the longest subtitle in the bibliography of art: The dematerialization of the art object from 1966 to 1972: a cross-reference book of information on some esthetic boundaries: consisting of a bibliography into which are inserted a fragmented text, art works, documents, interviews, and symposia, arranged chronologically and focused on so-called conceptual or information or idea art with mentions of such vaguely designated areas as minimal, anti-form, systems, earth, or process art, occurring now in the Americas, Europe, England, Australia, and Asia (with occasional political overtones) edited and annotated by Lucy R. Lippard. Six Years, sometimes referred to as a conceptual art object itself, not only described and embodied the new type of art-making that Lippard was intent on identifying and cataloging, it also exemplified a new way of criticizing and curating art. The result is a book with the character of a lively contemporary forum that offers an invaluable record of the thinking of the artists—a historical survey and essential reference book for the period. Lippard provides a new preface to this 1997 reprint edition.

Includes: Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Dennis Adrian, Carl Andre, Eleanor Antin, Keith Arnatt, Art-Language, Richard Artschwager, Michael Asher, David Askevold, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Frederick Barthelme, N.E. Thing Co., Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Donald Burgy, Ian Burn, Jack Burnham, James Lee Byars, Hanne Darboven, Agnes Denes, Jan Dibbets, Peter Downsbrough, Gerald Ferguson, Rafael Ferrer, Barry Flanagan, Gilbert & George, Dan Graham, Guerrilla Art Action Group, Hans Haacke, Charles Harrison, Michael Heizer, Douglas Huebler, Peter Hutchinson, Stephen Kaltenbach, Allan Kaprow, On Kawara, Joseph Kosuth, Christine Kozlov, John Latham, Barry Le Va, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Lee Lozano, Bruce McLean, Walter de Maria, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Adrian Piper, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Sigmar Polke, Mel Ramsden, Allen Ruppersberg, Edward Ruscha, Robert Ryman, Gerry Schum, Richard Serra, Willoughby Sharp, Seth Siegelaub, Tony Smith, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Keith Sonnier, Athena Tacha Spear, Bernar Venet, Wolf Vostell, Franz Erhard Walther, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, William Wiley, Ian Wilson, La Monte Young

"Essential source book of documentation of the Conceptual Art, Land Art, Earth Art, Arte Povera, Minimal Art, Performance Art, Video Art movements. Documents the activities, day by day, month by month, year by year of artists including Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Dennis Adrian, Carl Andre, Eleanor Antin, Keith Arnatt, Art-Language, Richard Artschwager, Michael Asher, David Askevold, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Frederick Barthelme, N.E. Thing Co., Josef Beuys, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Donald Burgy, Ian Burn, Jack Burnham, James Lee Byars, Hanne Darboven, Agnes Denes, Jan Dibbets, Peter Downsbrough, Gerald Ferguson, Rafael Ferrer, Barry Flanagan, Gilbert & George, Dan Graham, Guerrilla Art Action Group, Hans Haacke, Charles Harrison, Michael Heizer, Douglas Huebler, Peter Hutchinson, Stephen Kaltenbach, Allan Kaprow, On Kawara, Joseph Kosuth, Christine Kozlov, John Latham, Barry Le Va, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Lee Lozano, Bruce McLean, Walter de Maria, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Adrian Piper, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Sigmar Polke, Mel Ramsden, Allen Ruppersberg, Edward Ruscha, Robert Ryman, Gerry Schum, Richard Serra, Willoughby Sharp, Seth Siegelaub, Tony Smith, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Keith Sonnier, Athena Tacha Spear, Bernar Venet, Wolf Vostell, Franz Erhard Walther, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, William Wiley, Ian Wilson, La Monte Young and others. "The unusual form of this provocative book intentionally reflects the chaotic network of ideas connected with so-called conceptual art or information art or idea art, in America and abroad, from 1966 to 1972. Arranged as a continuous bibliographical chronology, into which is woven a rich collection of original documents - including texts by, and taped discussions with and among, the artists involved - and annotations by Lucy R. Lippard, the book has the informal quality of a lively contemporary forum. Only a minimum of order is imposed; for the most part the reader is left to confront the curious compendium of information on his or her own, to follow changing ideas and artistic developments over the six-year period, to witness the gradual (and controversial) "dematerialization" of the art object." -- publisher's statement."

Good—Very Good copy with general light shelf wear and tanning to spine.

File under: Vito Acconci Bas Jan Ader Dennis Adrian Carl Andre Eleanor Antin Keith Arnatt Art-Language Richard Artschwager Michael Asher David Askevold John Baldessari Robert Barry Frederick Barthelme N.E. Thing Co. Joseph Beuys Mel Bochner Alighiero Boetti Stanley Brouwn Daniel Buren Victor Burgin Donald Burgy Ian Burn Jack Burnham James Lee Byars Hanne Darboven Agnes Denes Jan Dibbets Peter Downsbrough Gerald Ferguson Rafael Ferrer Barry Flanagan Gilbert & George Dan Graham Guerrilla Art Action Group Hans Haacke Charles Harrison Michael Heizer Douglas Huebler Peter Hutchinson Stephen Kaltenbach Allan Kaprow On Kawara Joseph Kosuth Christine Kozlov John Latham Barry Le Va Sol LeWitt Richard Long Lee Lozano Bruce McLean Walter de Maria Robert Morris Bruce Nauman Claes Oldenburg Yoko Ono Dennis Oppenheim Adrian Piper Michelangelo Pistoletto Sigmar Polke Mel Ramsden Allen Ruppersberg Edward Ruscha Robert Ryman Gerry Schum Richard Serra Willoughby Sharp Seth Siegelaub Tony Smith Robert Smithson Michael Snow Keith Sonnier Athena Tacha Spear Bernar Venet Wolf Vostell Franz Erhard Walther William Wegman Lawrence Weiner William Wiley Ian Wilson La Monte Young Lucy R. Lippard University of Chicago Press / Chicago Conceptual Art Arte Povera Minimal Art Performance / Dance / Theater Feminism Curatorial Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Art Photography Film / Video Ecology / Earth Fluxus Group Shows / Collections Sculpture / Installation

NOW : Gosia Wlodarczak Drawing 1986—2004
by David Bromfield

2004, English
Softcover, unpaginated (approx 100 pages), 30 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Brown Art / Perth

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Rare extensive monographic analysis by Dr David Bromfield on the work of Polish-born Australian artist Gosia Wlodarczak, profusely illustrated throughout in colour and b/w. Born 1959, Banie, Poland; lives and works Melbourne, Victoria and Szczecin, Poland, Gosia Wlodarczak's cross-disciplinary drawing practice has extended into performance, installation, sound and film. Her work is motivated by a fascination with the mind's relationship with the outside world conducted through the senses. Using only what she sees around her, she uses the drawn line as a materialisation of being present in the world and in a moment. She works in private and public spaces rather than an artist’s studio, interacting with the stimuli of the outside world and ordinary life, translating her ‘living energy into the drawn line’.

Fine copy.

File under: Gosia Wlodarczak David Bromfield Brown Art / Perth Drawing Sculpture / Installation Australian Art Out-of-print / Rare Art

The Elgin Affair
by Theodore Vrettos

1997, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 238 pages, 23.62 x 16 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Secker & Warburg / London

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Almost two hundred years after they were "purchased" from Greece, the finest and most famous marbles of antiquity still remain a burning issue. This compelling, controversial story of the Elgin marbles re-creates in full and colourful detail "the greatest art theft in history," a steamy tale of obsession, intrigue, adultery, and ruin. As the British ambassador to the Sublime Porte in Constantinople, Lord Elgin encountered in his endeavors some of the most famous names of nineteenth-century history: Napoleon, Sultan Selim III, Lord Nelson, Lord Byron, and Keats. Drawing on original source material-letters, diaries, official government reports, and memoranda, Vrettos brilliantly brings to life these fascinating stories.

First hardcover edition.
Very Good copy.

File under: Theodore Vrettos Secker & Warburg / London Theory / Essay Sculpture / Installation Art Out-of-print / Rare Ancient / Medieval / Gothic

Dan Graham
Some Rockin' : Dan Graham Interviews

2023, English
Softcover, 384 pages, 13.5 x 20 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

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A collection of Dan Graham's interviews and conversations with a wide array of individuals from various backgrounds and disciplines.

Dan Graham- Some Rockin' is a compilation of fifteen interviews (two of them previously unpublished) between Dan Graham and artist friends, architects, musicians, art critics, and curators from various parts of our world. In these interviews Graham's intense interest in and observation of cultural phenomena such as rock music, urbanism, architecture, corporate culture, and art world politics and their historical development overlaps and interferes with the articulated interest of the interviewers in Graham's art, sense of humour, attitude, and point of view in regard of a huge variety of topics. Two essays, besides the "Introduction," are added to this compilation- the essay "The Museum in Evolution" by Dan Graham, and an essay by the editor, Gregor Stemmrich, on the development and far reaching implications of Graham's art.

File under: Dan Graham Sternberg Press / Berlin Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Conceptual Art Art Film / Video Theory / Essay

Rosemarie Trockel

2012, English / German
Softcover, 96 pages, 26 x 19 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by Distanz / Berlin

$70.00 - Out of stock

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Quickly out-of-print 2012 survey catalogue on the work of German artist Rosemarie Trockel, published by Distanz. Rosemarie Trockel (b. Schwerte 1952; lives and works in Cologne) rose to international fame in the mid-1980s with her knitting pictures. A second group of works from the 1990s consists of numerous variations on wall works and sculptures into which the artist integrates conventional stovetops. These works gave rise to the entrenched notion that she is an artist who interrogates the images that define women’s social roles, dedicated to contributing to their deconstruction. Yet Rosemarie Trockel’s oeuvre extends far beyond this one aspect. In its diversity, it defies any attempt to characterize it according to conventional criteria. Rosemarie Trockel is a painter as well as a graphic artist, a sculptor as well as a conceptual artist. In 2011, she receives the Kaiserring of the City of Goslar, one of the world’s most renowned art awards.

Includes essays by Friedemann Malsch, director, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, and Wulf Herzogenrath, director, Kunsthalle Bremen.

Average copy due to library contact protective covering over cover. Otherwise minimal library markings and Very Good pages throughout.

File under: Rosemarie Trockel Friedemann Malsch Wulf Herzogenrath Distanz / Berlin Art Sculpture / Installation Textiles Painting Drawing Out-of-print / Rare

Mike Kelley
Foul Perfection : Essays and Criticism

2003, English
Softcover, 258 pages, 20.3 x 22.5 cm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

$65.00 - Out of stock

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Critical writings and commentary by the Los Angeles based artist Mike Kelley.

The work of artist Mike Kelley (b. 1954) embraces performance, installation, drawing, painting, video, and sculpture. Drawing distinctively on high art and vernacular traditions, including historical research, popular culture, and psychology, Kelley came to prominence in the 1980s with a series of sculptures composed of craft materials. His recent work offers dialogues with architecture and with repressed memory syndrome, and a sustained inquiry into his own aesthetic and social history. The subjects on which Kelley has written are as varied as his artistic media. They include the work of fellow artists, sound, caricature, the uncanny, UFOlogy, and gender-bending.

This book offers a diverse collection of Kelley's writings from the last twenty-five years. It contains major critical texts on art, film, and the wider culture, including his piece on the aesthetic he calls "urban Gothic." It also contains essays, mostly commissioned for exhibition catalogs and journals, on the artists and groups David Askevold, OEyvind Fahlstroem, Douglas Huebler, John Miller, Survival Research Laboratories, and Paul Thek, among others. Kelley's voices are passionate, analytic, and ironic, and his critical intelligence is leavened with touches of whimsy.

“This collection proves that [Kelley] has not only helped write history but has had an effect on it.” — Diedrich Diederichsen, Artforum

File under: David Askevold Douglas Huebler John Miller Mike Kelley Paul Thek Survival Research Laboratories Divine Öyvind Fahlström John C. Welchman Mike Kelley The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Film / Video Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Theory / Essay

Mike Kelley
Materialist Aesthetics and Memory Illusions

2021, English
Softcover, 244 pages, 13 x 20 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Mousse / Milan

$90.00 - Out of stock

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Now out-of-print, Mike Kelley — Materialist Aesthetics and Memory Illusions is a critical appraisal of Mike Kelley’s politics of culture as expressed in his visual art and writings. An essay by Laura López Paniagua, with an introduction by John Miller.

American artist Mike Kelley (1954–2012) was the mastermind behind some of the most bizarre and instantly recognizable artistic projects of the 1990s. Dedicated as he was to visual art, Kelley was also an insightful theorist who wrote prolifically about his own creations as well as the historical context in which he worked. His writing reveals a matrix of deeply felt theories regarding the aesthetics of the 1980s, ’90s and 2000s, and his concern with victim culture and repressed memory syndrome.

This book presents a new perspective on the life and work of the artist, assessing his personal philosophy via art as well as writing. Art historian Laura López Paniagua places Kelley’s work in conversation with the theories of thinkers such as Georges Bataille, Walter Benjamin, Pierre Bourdieu, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Through Paniagua’s transdisciplinary approach, Kelley’s oeuvre emerges as a stance based in materialist aesthetics.

As New.

File under: Mike Kelley John Miller Laura López Paniagua Mousse / Milan Art Sculpture / Installation Painting Sound / Music Film / Video Theory / Essay

Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Rêverie, dans la pratique et dans ses formes

2022, French
Flexcover (clothbound), 248 pages, 21 x 26 cm
Published by Les Presses Du Reel / Paris

$69.00 $30.00 - Out of stock

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Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Marc Camille Chaimowicz – Zig Zag and Many Ribbons… at MAMC Saint-Etienne in 2022—2023, this reference monograph revisits the conceptual and sensorial developments pursued by the artist since the 1970s.

Includes a ribbon drawn by the artist as an inserted bookmark. Edited by Marc Camille Chaimowicz and Anna Clifford. Text by Marie Canet. Designed by Zak Kyes.

Born in the aftermath of World War II (in 1947 in Paris) of a Polish father and a French mother, Marc Camille Chaimowicz moved as a child to the United Kingdom. He studied at Ealing, Camberwell, and the Slate School of Art in London. In new artistic times, careful to bring art and life closer, often using performance, the life of Marc Camille Chaimowicz has become a great workshop. Living in the exhibition spaces, he sets up hotels entrances, decorates them with his own artefacts, and serves there some tea to visitors with musical background. When it became an official art practice which was no longer subversive, Chaimowicz abandoned performance art. From 1975 to 1979, he designed the interior of his Approach Road flat. Wallpapers, curtains, videos he made while performing in his own decor: everything had been tailored-imagined, drawn, and conceived to turn his interior into a room conducive to reverie. From the 1980s onwards, decors and furniture set like in a theatre scenography took their place in museums. Since then, hundreds of exhibitions have featured the interiors series of this international artist.

Marie Canet is a French art critic, independent curator and professor of aesthetics at the Villa Arson (Nice).

File under: Marc Camille Chaimowicz Anna Clifford Marie Canet Les Presses Du Reel / Paris Art Sculpture / Installation Architecture / Interior Painting Drawing Performance / Dance / Theater Curatorial Textiles SALE

Öyvind Fahlström on the Air - Manipulating the world
by Teddy Hultberg

1999, English / Swedish
Hardcover (in illustrated slipcase w. dust jacket + 2 CD), 337 pages, 29 x 16 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Sveriges Radios Förlag / Stockholm

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Under the motto: "Manipulate the world - take care of the world", Fahlström set up a variety of meeting-places in which participants were invited to take part in an interdiciplinary game of purposeful discovery. He introduced elements of popular culture into his work early on and made substantial contributions to a critical assessment of the "medialisation" of art. In this, the most extensive book about Öyvind Fahlström to date, Teddy Hultberg charts the artist´s predominant lines of creative development and shows how his cross-genre endeavours were based on a few central ideas: character forms, signs, games and life materials.

The present study focuses on two innovative and extraordinary compositions for radio: "Birds in Sweden" (1963) and "The Holy Torsten Nilsson" (1966). These works can be heard on the two accompanying CD records and are also included here in written form. Some unique and hitherto unpublished visual and textual material, the result of several years of research by Teddy Hultberg, is also included in the book.

Now long out-of-print, this first 1999 edition (in bi-lingual English / Swedish) comes housed in illustrated, die-cut slipcase, with hardcovers and illustrated dust jacket. All Very Good—Fine in condition.

File under: Öyvind Fahlström Teddy Hultberg Sveriges Radios Förlag / Stockholm Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Objects / Ephemera / A/V Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Pop Art

NICOLA L.
Life and Art

2023, English
Hardcover (with pillowed plastic), 304 pages, 29 x 22 cm
Published by Apartamento / Barcelona

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‘If I write it all, search and find it all, it’s maybe to try to understand what happened, everything is ultimately bound, art and life, children, loves, errors, joys, hopes’.—Nicola L.

Nicola L.: Life and Art is the first comprehensive monograph about the pioneering artist Nicola L. (1932-2018), whose wide-ranging work—impossible to categorise—challenged ideas about identity, gender, and the body long before such questions were de rigueur. Born in Morocco to French parents, she spent her formative years in Paris attending the Beaux-Arts, only to burn most of her paintings in 1965 and move towards formats that engaged people more directly: wall-mounted canvases that could be worn as costumes, sculptures that doubled as seats, coats designed for many people to wear at once, or films about radical political figures. Far from settling in a time and place, she travelled the world, finding physical and artistic homes in the free-spirited community of Ibiza, in countercultural New York, and even, briefly, in a Lebanese jail.

The art Nicola made stemmed from the life she lived—there were no boundaries between the two. This book follows the same logic, intertwining both throughout its 304 pages: on one hand, a comprehensive catalogue raisonné of her artworks; on the other, a fanzine of Nicola’s never-seen-before memoirs, in which she narrates her incredible life, punctuated with anecdotes involving Jean-Paul Sartre, Salvador Dalí, Yves Klein, Niki de Saint Phalle, Caetano Veloso, Andy Warhol, Bad Brains, and Carolee Schneemann. Her writing is complemented by the personal stories of those who knew her and the commentary of those who have connected with her work: Christophe and David Lanzenberg (her sons), Gary Indiana (writer and longtime friend), Marta Minujín (artist and longtime friend), Pierre Restany (late critic and mentor), H.R. (Bad Brains frontman and film subject), Alexandra Cunningham Cameron, Flavia Frigeri, Ruba Katrib, and Myriam Ben Salah (curators), among many others. Edited by Hannah Martin and Omar Sosa, and made with the support of Alison Jacques, London and the Nicola L. Collection and Archive, this book brings together original images of the work, archival photographs, essays, interviews, and journals—in sum, all the pieces of Nicola’s puzzle.

File under: Nicola L Gary Indiana Pierre Restany Marta Minujín H.R. (Bad Brains) Alexandra Cunningham Cameron Flavia Frigeri Ruba Katrib Myriam Ben Salah Hannah Martin Omar Sosa Apartamento / Barcelona Sculpture / Installation Art Furniture Performance / Dance / Theater Architecture / Interior Pop Art

UnAustralian Art: Ten Essays on Transnational Art History
by Rex Butler & ADS Donaldson

2023, English
Hardcover, 275 pages, 24.8 x 17.2 cm
Published by Power Publications / Sydney

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UnAustralian Art: Ten Essays on Transnational Art History proposes a radical rethinking of Australian art. Rather than identifying a national sensibility, Rex Butler and ADS Donaldson demonstrate that Australian art and artists have always been engaged in struggles and creative exchanges with the rest of the world. Examining Australian art as much from the outside in as the inside out, Butler and Donaldson’s methods open Australian art history to an encyclopaedic multitude of hitherto excluded stories.

“This long-awaited volume is a true polemic. Its controversial arguments are squarely aimed at the practices of art museums, art historians and curators. The globalising of art in the current era requires such audacious rewriting of cultural exchanges.”—Ann Stephen, Senior Curator, Art, University of Sydney

“This book raises an important matter for artists subjected to a myopic nationalism in the arts. By proposing an ‘unAustralian art’, Butler and Donaldson show what and who is revealed with a hybrid concept of culture.”—Juan Davila

“Though its temporal and geographic scope is limited to twentieth-century Australian art, UnAustralian Art offers a striking and original model of art historiography for the global contemporary. Butler and Donaldson both critique national art history and present a new account of art on the continent now called ‘Australia’. Against ‘isolationist’ histories of national art, this is a story of connections: between artists, curators, galleries, and museums, between cities and countries. There is a political point at stake here. Reclaiming the term ‘unAustralian’ from the conservative former prime minister John Howard, who popularised it as a pejorative in the 1990s, Butler and Donaldson seek to open, not seal, Australia’s highly politicised borders.”—Helen Hughes, Monash University

File under: Rex Butler ADS Donaldson Power Publications / Sydney Art Australian Art Theory / Essay Sociology / Politics Conceptual Art Painting Pop Art Sculpture / Installation Minimal Art

Sol LeWitt
All Four Part Combinations of Six Geometric Figures

1980, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 16 pages, 30.5 x 12 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Galerie Watari / Tokyo

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Stunning, exceptionally rare Japanese Sol LeWitt artist book/catalogue, "All Four Part Combinations of Six Geometric Figures", published to accompany his 1980 solo exhibition at Galerie Watari, Tokyo. Handsome LeWitt book design of minimal title texts introducing this unusual staple-bound oblong book of 15 b/w drawings of Six Geometric Figures in variation by LeWitt, 1980. First and only edition, printed in Japan and only available at the exhibition itself.

Solomon "Sol" LeWitt (1928 – 2007) was one of the most distinctive and influential American artists of the 20th century. He shaped and defined many of the century's most cerebral "isms", notably minimalism and conceptualism.

Near Fine copy with only light tanning to cover and page edges, otherwise beautifully preserved, no spine pinching.

File under: Sol LeWitt Galerie Watari / Tokyo Minimal Art Sculpture / Installation Drawing Art Out-of-print / Rare Conceptual Art

Isa Genzken
Early Works

2014, English / German
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 160 pages, 25.3 x 18 cm
Ed. of 1000,
Published by Galerie Buchholz / Köln

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This beautiful catalogue is published on the occasion of Isa Genzken's exhibition "Early Works" that took place at Galerie Buchholz, Berlin in 2013. The book contains a new essay by B.H.D. Buchloh, both in English and in German as well as an extensive documentation on the artist's early work starting in the late 1960s.

Produced in an edition of 1000.

File under: Isa Genzken Benjamin H. D. Buchloh Galerie Buchholz / Köln Art Sculpture / Installation Photography Minimal Art

VINCENT FECTEAU

2021, English
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 96 pages, 22.5 x 17.5 cm
Ed. of 800,
Published by CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts / San Francisco Daniel Buchholz Galerie / Köln

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This catalogue is published on the occasion of Vincent Fecteau's exhibition at the Wattis in the fall of 2019. Along with a group of new sculptures by Vincent Fecteau, the exhibition also featured two works by Lutz Bacher. The catalogue includes new texts by exhibition curator Anthony Huberman and by art historian Fanny Singer, as well as excerpts from a lecture by the artist Don Potts and an interview between the curator Renny Pritikin and Fecteau. Profusely illustrated throughout with many installations photographs and individual works views for each piece, as well as many reference illustrations throughout texts.

Published in an edition of 800 copies.

Highly recommended.

Vincent Fecteau (b. 1969) has, over the last two decades, forged a singular aesthetic that mixes homespun materials (popsicle sticks, champagne corks, string, and the like), meticulous craft work, and a curious formal grammar. By turns wonky, erotic, extraterrestrial, or baroque—and sometimes all of these at once—his sculptures are built from small, slow accumulations in which layering, texture, and the work of the hand are all visible. You Have Did the Right Thing When You Put That Skylight In, the San Francisco–based artist’s largest exhibition to date and his first solo show in Switzerland, is a selection of sculptures spanning from 2000 to the present plus the premiere of a large new body of work. Comprised of images culled from magazines and other ready-made elements (shoeboxes, jewelry boxes, wicker baskets, and other lo-fi containers, all painted the matte-est of blacks), these wall sculptures manifest both a return to his origins (collage) and a significant new direction.

File under: Vincent Fecteau Lutz Bacher Don Potts Anthony Huberman Renny Pritikin Fanny Singer CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts / San Francisco Daniel Buchholz Galerie / Köln Sculpture / Installation Art Photography

Vincent Fecteau, Florian Pumhösl
I hear the ancient music of words and words, yes, that’s it.

2022, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 69 pages, 22 × 25.5 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

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Hardcover catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition "I hear the ancient music of words and words, yes, that’s it.", curated by Bärbel Vischer at the Schindler House/MAK Center for Art and Daniel Buchholz, Berlin. Designed by Florian Pumhösl and contains images of the installation at Schindler House and documentation of the exhibited works along with an introductory text by MAK curator Bärbel Vischer and a conversation between Vincent Fecteau and Florian Pumhösl.

Set against the context of modernity, the exhibition examines the relationship of images, objects, and legacies of abstraction. Together, the artists Vincent Fecteau and Florian Pumhösl orchestrate a dialogue between pictorial and three-dimensional work, studio production, and the architectural setting of the Schindler House as it relates to aspects of materiality, surface, pattern, color, and light.

The title of the exhibition, I hear the ancient music of words and words, yes, that’s it., quotes the Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector, echoing the intimate sense she generated in her writing and corresponding to space, moods, and history. The exhibition, evolving in Rudolph M. and Pauline Schindler’s former studio and residence, includes objects from their private collections and work studies by both artists. Fecteau and Pumhösl evoke an exchange with their studios and focus on inventories, studies, attempts, materials, and snapshots of production that lead to imaginative leaps in which we can follow blurred lines and raw edges of modern art from today’s perspective.

Vincent Fecteau (b. 1969) is a San Franciscan based artist who produces sculptures of various materials including papier-mâché, cardboard, resin clay. Often described as abstract, their forms and colors, symbolic fragments of architecture, and found objects engage with representation, specifically photography and its depiction of space. For this exhibition, Fecteau interweaves digital photographic images with collages. Loosely arranged, and integrating furniture pieces they interlink sculpture and architecture. Everyday objects, architectural structures, mass media artifacts, and impressions of social interaction build a momentum in the setting of a communal home. He is interested in the atmosphere of the rooms and living spaces. There are images the artist has collected as well as images he has taken over the years. Fecteau likes the idea of showing them as one would family photos, in a series of arrangements throughout the house. The display creates a narrative between ideas and reality. He thinks of these photographic works – snapshots – as sculptures deployed in the architecture. Patterns and shapes, curved elements, expressive forms, architectonical surfaces, found objects, and the play of color define his photograph-as sculpture works.

Florian Pumhösl (b. 1971) currently lives and works in Vienna. He contextualizes the abstraction of images, materials, and forms by mediating contemporaneity in the history of crafts and objecthood. His matrix of works combines the quality of the graphic picture and the presence of paintings, expanding the boundaries of their medium and material – like sheets of steel, aluminum, and lead or ceramics and casts of plaster – as well as the ephemerality of color and light. In his studio archive, Pumhösl keeps a large selection of works, which mark the process of thought, image, and production. Interested in the deformation of the pictorial space, Pumhösl is aware of the ambiguity of the memory of materials. Forms, shapes, and cut-outs relate as negative forms to warped reliefs. Found roofing material, as models, led him to studies in lead foil. These works are made of folded lead sheets, with small irregularities in their angles and shapes. Defined by singular construction and its repetition, some of the constellations and compositions appear like textile fragments (and are engendered by that association). Pumhösl painted the works in a range of uncommon pigments: a ‘rusty red’ addresses the iron oxide-base of the material, black creates an infinite depth, and shades of blue and white enhance the idea of abstraction, balance, and space.

File under: Florian Pumhösl Vincent Fecteau Rudolph M. Schindler Bärbel Vischer Walther König / Köln Sculpture / Installation Painting Art Architecture / Interior