World Food Books

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

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A comprehensive work in itself, rich with enmeshed texts and illustrations of artworks, film stills, historical documents throughout in colour and in black and white.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

Post-Soviet Art And Architecture

1994, English
Softcover, 144 pages, 28 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by A.D. (Architectural Design) / London

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Published in 1994 and long out-of-print, this volume presents a view of recent developments in Russian art and architecture in the context of the critical debates of postmodernism and national cultures. The return to popular national sources in the 1960s through the 1980s was a means for Soviet artists in a multi-ethnic state to avoid submersion in the official ideology of "Socialist-Realism". The transition from totalitarianism to pluralism is evident in the diversity of work featured by both artists and architects from different regions of the former USSR. The essays presented here are by leading Russian and Western art and literary critics, including Charles Jencks, Alexander Rappaport, Alexei Tolstoy, and Nadezhda Yurasovskaya. They provide a critical, historical and personal context for a survey of the work produced in Russia since the fall of Communism.

Very Good copy, only light wear, small split to spine edge.

File under: Charles Jencks Alexander Rappaport Alexei Tolstoy Nadezhda Yurasovskaya A.D. (Architectural Design) / London Art Performance / Dance / Theater Architecture / Interior Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Film / Video Theory / Essay Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism

Füsun Onur
Once upon a time...

2022, English
Hardcover, 256 pages, 21 x 27 cm
Published by Mousse / Milan

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Retrospective monograph of the pioneer of Turkish contemporary and conceptual art, Füsun Onur.
Once upon a time..., a new installation conceived for the Pavilion of Turkey at the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, curated by Bige Örer, exemplifies not just the artist's recent work, but the narrative and autobiographical elements that have characterized her art for more than half a century. A companion to the exhibition, this book is the most comprehensive monograph ever published on the artist. It details almost all of her works, and includes twenty-six new essay by leading figures in the international art world, as well as archival fragments and interviews.

Füsun Onur (born 1938 in Istanbul) began her art practice in the 1960s, producing works that what beyond the traditional confines of painting and sculpture, giving form to her art through instinct and intuition and creating a language beyond time. In the decades since, she has become a leading figure in Turkish contemporary art, both through her inclusion of everyday, ephemeral materials in her works and through her conceptual and minimalist approach. Her practice, which can be understood through the lens of feminist art history, draws on her private life and employs traditional and domestic media, such as weaving and textiles.

Edited by Bige Örer and Nilüfer Şaşmazer.

Texts by Ahu Antmen, Alev Ersan, Anna Boghiguian, Anne Barlow, Aslı Seven, Ayşe Erek, Bige Örer, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Chus Martinez, Defne Ayas, Deniz Gül, Fatih Özgüven, Gregory Volk, Hera Büyüktaşcıyan, HG Masters, Iwona Blazwick, İz Öztat, Kevser Güler, Leyla Gediz, Misal Adnan Yıldız, Murat Alat, Necmi Sönmez, Paolo Colombo, Rabia Çapa, Sally Tallant, Selim Birsel, Seza Paker, Tolga Tüzün.

File under: Füsun Onur Bige Örer Nilüfer Şaşmazer Ahu Antmen Alev Ersan Anna Boghiguian Anne Barlow Aslı Seven Ayşe Erek Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev Chus Martinez Defne Ayas Deniz Gül Fatih Özgüven Gregory Volk Hera Büyüktaşcıyan HG Masters Iwona Blazwick İz Öztat Kevser Güler Leyla Gediz Misal Adnan Yıldız Murat Alat Necmi Sönmez Paolo Colombo Rabia Çapa Sally Tallant Selim Birsel Seza Paker Tolga Tüzün Mousse / Milan Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art

Ruth Francken
Werke 1950—1994

1994, English / French / German
Hardcover (w. die-cut foiled dust jacket), 248 pages, 34 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good

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Rare first edition of Czech-American artist Ruth Francken's catalogue raisonné, who's cosmopolitan and nomadic life was a reflection of her work as a painter and visual artist: marginal, disparate and inseparable from the various post-war trends, whether American Abstract Expressionism, Art Informel, Surrealism or Pop Art. Published in 1994, this lavishly illustrated volume, issued in hardcover with fragile die-cut metallic silver dust-jacket, features texts by the artist, her close friend French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard, Peter Ruthenberg, Ursula Sandmann, and Ignatz Bubis, in English, French and German. Documentation of works from all periods of her oeuvre are accompanied by studio and social photography, a full catalogue of works and biography. A valuable and scarce book on a tremendous artist with little reception outside France, where she was primarily active. Francken's exploration of themes of fragmentation, incompleteness, multiplication, and decomposition in communication and image spanned the mediums of painting, sculpture, collage, textile and furniture design, and has been a large influence on artists such as Rosemarie Trockel.

Ruth Francken (1924, Prague—2006, Paris) was a Czech-American sculptor, painter, and furniture designer who was mostly active in Paris. Ruth Francken's life and career would span over six decades, two continents, and more than half a dozen countries. After studying painting from 1939-1940 at the Ruskin School in Oxford, England, she moved to New York, where she studied at the Art Students League of New York. After becoming an American citizen in 1942, she worked as a textile designer until 1949, when she left the United States for Europe. After a two-year period in Venice (1950-1952), she moved to Paris, where she lived until her death in 2006, save for two years in the 1960s and 1970s when she worked out of Berlin and Santa Barbara, California. Ruth Francken was considered an Abstract Expressionist in her early career, until around 1964. After this point she began working with object sculptures, collage, and different textiles and techniques, and her art took on a more surrealist and pop-art aesthetic. She focuses heavily on problems and disconnects in communication, a subject she shared with friend and collaborator French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard.

Very Good copy with Good dust-jacket. Some general wear to foiled covers and common small damages to the fragile die-cut lettering. Preserved in mylar wrap.

File under: Ruth Francken Jean-François Lyotard Peter Ruthenberg Ursula Sandmann Ignatz Bubis Sculpture / Installation Art Pop Art Furniture Textiles Out-of-print / Rare Conceptual Art Surrealism

Aleks Danko
Zen Made in Australia

1994, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 36 pages, 27 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by The University of Melbourne Museum of Art / Melbourne

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Catalogue published on the occasion of Australian artist Aleks Danko's exhibition at Ian Potter Gallery, 18 May-18 June 1994; volume #1 in "The Artist and the Museum" series curated by Merryn Gates. A timeline of works spanning the bottom half of each page throughout the catalogue traces Danko's history of works across sculpture, installation, video, performance, editions, books, etc. from 1970-1994, accompanied by texts by Charles Green, Jacqueline Thomas, Jackie Dunn, and Merryn Gates occupying the top half of each page. Also includes "Lafart" Manifesto - 18/3/1975 written by Danko and Mike Parr!

Aleks Danko (b. 1950) is an Australian performance artist and sculptor. The son of Ukrainian migrants, he was born in Adelaide, and educated at the South Australian School of Art and the Hawthorn Institute of Education. He started exhibiting in Adelaide in 1970. Aleks Danko’s career spans more than 5 decades and encompasses diverse media, from sculpture and installation to text and language-based works. Drawing actively on Australia’s political and cultural history, his work is infused with satirical humour and a subtle critique of contemporary social values.

Very Good copy.

File under: Aleks Danko Mike Parr Charles Green Jacqueline Thomas Merryn Gates Jackie Dunn The University of Melbourne Museum of Art / Melbourne Australian Art Art Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater SALE

Aleks Danko
MY FELLOW AUS-TRA-ALIENS

2015, English
Softcover (w. french flaps), 176 pages, 26 x 21 cm
Published by Heide Museum of Modern Art / Victoria Museum of Contemporary Art / Sydney

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Major survey catalogue of Australian artist Aleks Danko, published by Hiede Museum of Modern Art and MCA in 2015. First held at Heide, 7 November 2015—21 February 2016, MY FELLOW AUS-TRA-ALIENS presented artworks spanning nearly five decades of the long career of Victorian-based, Adelaide-born artist Aleks Danko, from his earliest exhibitions in the late 1960s through to his recent installations. Profusely illustrated with accompanying texts by curators Lesley Harding and Glenn Barkley.

Aleks Danko (b. 1950) is an Australian performance artist and sculptor. The son of Ukrainian migrants, he was born in Adelaide, and educated at the South Australian School of Art and the Hawthorn Institute of Education. He started exhibiting in Adelaide in 1970. Aleks Danko’s career spans more than 5 decades and encompasses diverse media, from sculpture and installation to text and language-based works. Drawing actively on Australia’s political and cultural history, his work is infused with satirical humour and a subtle critique of contemporary social values.

File under: Aleks Danko Heide Museum of Modern Art / Victoria Museum of Contemporary Art / Sydney Sculpture / Installation Australian Art Art Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater

Aleks Danko
Songs of Australia Volume 16: Shhh, Go Back To Sleep (an un-Australian dob-in mix)

2004, English
Softcover, 30cm x 21cm. 48 pages
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by NGV (National Gallery of Victoria) / Victoria

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Exhibition catalogue published on the occasion of the major National Gallery of Victoria travelling exhibition Aleks Danko — Songs of Australia Volume 16: Shhh, Go Back To Sleep (an un-Australian dob-in mix) in 2004. Presenting "The Song Cycle Volumes 1—16" this profusely illustrated catalogue documents many of Danko's major installations in glossy colour, alongside texts, including those by the artist, exhibition history, bibliography.

Aleks Danko (b. 1950) is an Australian performance artist and sculptor. The son of Ukrainian migrants, he was born in Adelaide, and educated at the South Australian School of Art and the Hawthorn Institute of Education. He started exhibiting in Adelaide in 1970. Aleks Danko’s career spans more than 5 decades and encompasses diverse media, from sculpture and installation to text and language-based works. Drawing actively on Australia’s political and cultural history, his work is infused with satirical humour and a subtle critique of contemporary social values.

Very Good copy.

File under: Aleks Danko NGV (National Gallery of Victoria) / Victoria Art Conceptual Art Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Australian Art SALE

Sally Smart
Mad Woman In The Attic

1989, English
Softcover (single, double-sided card), 21 x 29.7 cm
1st UK Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by 200 Gertrude Street / Melbourne

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Scarce catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition Sally Smart — Mad Woman In The Attic, December, 1989. Illustrated offset printed double-sided card with artist C.V. on verso.

Sally Smart (b. 1960) is an Australian contemporary artist known for her large-scale assemblage installations that incorporate a range of media, including felt cut-outs, painted canvas, drawings, screen-printing, printed fabric and photography, performance and video. Her art addresses gender and identity politics and questions the relationships between body and culture, including trans-national ideas that shaped cultural history. She has exhibited widely throughout Australia and internationally, and her works are held in major galleries in Australia and around the world.

Fine copy.

File under: Sally Smart 200 Gertrude Street / Melbourne Art Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Australian Art Out-of-print / Rare

Kathy Temin
The Duck-Rabbit Problem

1991, English
Softcover (single, double-sided card), 21 x 29.7 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by 200 Gertrude Street / Melbourne

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Scarce catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition Kathy Temin — The Duck-Rabbit Problem May, 1991. Illustrated offset printed double-sided card with artist C.V. on verso.

Kathy Temin (b. 1968) is an Australian artist who uses synthetic fur to create sculptural objects and installations. She is represented in a number of public collections in Australia and New Zealand and is a professor and Head of Fine Art at Monash University in Melbourne.

Very Good copy with some light wear to corners.

File under: Kathy Temin 200 Gertrude Street / Melbourne Art Sculpture / Installation Australian Art Out-of-print / Rare

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

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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

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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

Australian Abstract Art
by Patrick McCaughey

1969, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 32 pages, 21.5 x 14 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Oxford University Press / New York

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First edition of "Australian Abstract Art", an essay by Australian art historian and academic Patrick McCaughey (born 1942 in Dublin, Ireland), published in 1969 by Oxford University Press under their "National Gallery Booklets" series. Includes illustrated examples of Roy de Maistre, Grace Crowley, Ralph Balson, John Olsen, Elwyn Lynn, Norma Redpath, Lawrence Daws, Clement Meadmore, Robert Jacks, Sydney Ball, Dale Hickey, Richard Havyatt.

Fine copy with light tanning.

File under: Roy de Maistre Grace Crowley Ralph Balson John Olsen Elwyn Lynn Norma Redpath Lawrence Daws Clement Meadmore Robert Jacks Sydney Ball Dale Hickey Richard Havyatt Patrick McCaughey Oxford University Press / New York Art Australian Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay

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

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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

Yield : The Journal of an Artist
by Anne Truitt

2022, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 216 pages, 21 x 14 cm
Published by Yale University Press / New Haven

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Foreword by Rachel Kushner
Preface by Alexandra Truitt

"Impressive . . . Truitt lyrically looks back on 80 years of life. . . . [T]hese daily entries . . . offer a version of Truitt free of artifice as she meditates on the sacred and mundane. . . . This sparks with intelligence."—Publishers Weekly

In the spring of 1974, the artist Anne Truitt (1921-2004) committed herself to keeping a journal for a year. She would continue the practice, sometimes intermittently, over the next six years, writing in spiral-bound notebooks and setting no guidelines other than to "let the artist speak." These writings were published as Daybook: The Journal of an Artist (1982). Two other journal volumes followed: Turn (1986) and Prospect (1996). This book, the final volume, comprises journals the artist kept from the winter of 2001 to the spring of 2002, two years before her death.

In Yield, Truitt's unflinching honesty is on display as she contemplates her place in the world and comes to terms with the intellectual, practical, emotional, and spiritual issues that an artist faces when reconciling her art with her life, even as that life approaches its end. Truitt illuminates a life and career in which the demands, responsibilities, and rewards of family, friends, motherhood, and grandmotherhood are ultimately accepted, together with those of a working artist.

File under: Anne Truitt Anne Truitt Rachel Kushner Yale University Press / New Haven Painting Sculpture / Installation Minimal Art Theory / Essay Art

Daybook: The Journal of an Artist
by Anne Truitt

2022, English
Softcover, 256 pages, 21.3 x 14 cm
Published by Simon and Schuster / New York

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Renowned American artist Anne Truitt kept this illuminating and inspiring journal over a period of seven years, determined to come to terms with the forces that shaped her art and life. Her range of sensitivity—moral, intellectual, sensual, emotional, and spiritual— is remarkably broad. She recalls her childhood on the eastern shore of Maryland, her career change from psychology to art, and her path to a sculptural practice that would “set color free in three dimensions.” She reflects on the generous advice of other artists, watches her own daughters’ journey into motherhood, meditates on criticism and solitude, and struggles to find the way to express her vision. Resonant and true, encouraging and revelatory, Anne Truitt guides herself—and her readers—through a life in which domestic activities and the needs of children and friends are constantly juxtaposed against the world of color and abstract geometry to which she is drawn in her art.

Beautifully written and a rare window on the workings of a creative mind, Daybook showcases an extraordinary artist whose insights generously and succinctly illuminate the artistic process.

Introduction by Audrey Niffenegger

"A remarkable record of a woman's reconciliation of art, motherhood, memoires of childhood, and present-day demands." — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"Daybook is a rare gift, illuminating and nourishing, a journal to read and re-read." — May Sarton

"A natural and graceful writer... Truitt's self-examination is unflinching and, at every moment, possessed of the inevitable dignity that attends a genuine commitment to telling the truth about oneself." — Art in America

File under: Anne Truitt Anne Truitt Simon and Schuster / New York Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Minimal Art Theory / Essay

Hölle
by Rainald Goetz

2019, English
Poster (double-sided, folded) in envelope, 59.5 x 63 cm
Published by Daniel Buchholz Galerie / Köln

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Limited edition poster with the transcript of Rainald Goetz’s presentation of the English translation of his novel Insane, published on the occasion of the exhibition opening for the group exhibition Hölle in September 2018 at Galerie Buchholz New York, featuring new or selected works by Lutz Bacher, Caleb Considine, Vincent Fecteau, Rainald Goetz, Sergej Jensen, Jutta Koether, Michael Krebber, Monica Majoli, Albert Oehlen, Henrik Olesen, and Heji Shin.

Rainald Maria Goetz (b. 1954) is a German author, playwright and essayist.

File under: Lutz Bacher Caleb Considine Vincent Fecteau Rainald Goetz Sergej Jensen Jutta Koether Michael Krebber Monica Majoli Albert Oehlen Henrik Olesen Heji Shin Rainald Goetz Daniel Buchholz Galerie / Köln Objects / Ephemera / A/V Painting Fiction / Poetry Curatorial Art Sculpture / Installation Photography

Liz Magor
Living in the Wild, Wild West

1991, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 12 pages, 24 x 17 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by The Edmonton Art Gallery / Alberta

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Rare catalogue published in 1991 on the occasion of the exhibition, Liz Magor — Living in the Wild, Wild West, at The Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada. Featuring a text written for the exhibition by Jennifer Fisher, illustrations of Magor's exhibited works, biographies, and list of works.

Liz Magor (b. 1948) is one of the most important Canadian artists of her generation, and certainly its most influential sculptor of the past 30 years. For more than four decades, Liz Magor’s practice has quietly dramatized the relationships that develop among objects, and she describes this body of work as “a collection of tiny and intense narratives.” From the mental and physical contexts of retail consumerism to the spaces of the museum to the private, interior worlds of addiction and desire, Magor’s oeuvre has consistently combined a high level of conceptual and procedural rigor with the intense investigation of materials and mediums. Magor’s oeuvre has consistently combined a high level of conceptual and procedural rigor—extraordinary in its tendency to meld multiple references to cultures of display, compulsion, and consumption, making her one intriguing conceptual artists of her generation.

Very Good copy.

File under: Liz Magor Jennifer Fisher The Edmonton Art Gallery / Alberta Art Sculpture / Installation Australian Photography Conceptual Art Out-of-print / Rare

'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

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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

Jack Smith / Antonius Höckelmann
Michael Krebber

2012, English / German
Softcover (silkscreened), 48 pages, 21.3 x 22.5 cm
Ed. of 800,
Published by Galerie Buchholz / Köln

$33.00 - In stock -

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Wonderful publication documenting an exhibition that took place in 2010 in the window of Galerie Buchholz's antiquarian bookstore in Cologne, Germany. Michael Krebber presented here, in collaboration with Sebastian Höckelmann, works by artists Antonius Höckelmann and Jack Smith.

Produced in an edition of 800.

Antonius Höckelmann (1937 – 2000) was a German postwar artist. Höckelmann trained as a wood sculptor from 1951 to 1957 in his native city of Oelde, and studied from 1957 to 1961 at the College of Fine Arts in Berlin with Karl Hartung. In 1977 he participated in the documenta 6, and in 1982 at documenta 7 in Kassel. Many of his works combine sculpture and painting. Wooden sculptures and sculptures made of other materials (bronze, silver foil, straw) were often completely painted.

Jack Smith (1932 – 1989) was an American filmmaker, artist, actor, and pioneer of underground cinema. He is generally acclaimed as a founding father of American performance art, and has been critically recognized as a master photographer, though his photographic works are rare and remain largely unknown. Apart from appearing in his own work, including the legendary Flaming Creatures (1963), Smith played the lead in Andy Warhol's unfinished film Batman Dracula, Ken Jacobs's Blonde Cobra, and appeared in several theater productions by Robert Wilson.

File under: Antonius Höckelmann Jack Smith Michael Krebber Michael Krebber Galerie Buchholz / Köln Art Sculpture / Installation Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video

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

Lutz Bacher
Open the Kimono

2018, English
Softcover (blind embossed), 324 pages, 30.5 x 22 cm
Published by Koenig Books / London 80 Washington Square East / New York

$60.00 - Out of stock

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This artist book is a chronological record of some remarks from cable TV ads movies news radio novels airplanes subways sidewalks and elevators from 2013–2018.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition The Long March at 80 Washington Square East, New York University, 2018, Organized by Nicola Lees and Robert Snowden.

The American artist Lutz Bacher – who has concealed her identity beneath a masculine pseudonym throughout her career – works conceptually in a range of media. A longtime resident of California who now lives in New York, the artist has based her work since the 1970s on found objects as well as texts and images pulled from the minutiae of popular culture. Soundtracks from Hollywood films, props from television shows, and unedited cell phone videos find their way into her works along with discarded objects from different spheres of consumption.

Through techniques of rearrangement, distortion, and estrangement, Bacher destabilizes the appearance and alters the impact of her materials, creating ruptures and making new constellations possible. Addressing the strong influence of the mass media on everyday social and political life, issues of identity, power structures, and violence are central aspects of her artistic practice.

File under: Lutz Bacher Koenig Books / London 80 Washington Square East / New York Art Sculpture / Installation Fiction / Poetry Film / Video

Lutz Bacher
The Gift

2016, English
Softcover, 192 pages, 23 x 31 cm
Ed. of 400,
Published by Secession / Vienna

$180.00 - Out of stock

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This out-of-print artist’s book is published on the occasion of the exhibition ‘More Than This’ at the Secession, Vienna, and features the heterogeneous oeuvre of American artist Lutz Bacher. Over her 40-year career, Bacher has produced conceptual works that defy classification in a variety of formats, including videotapes, photographs, and other mixed media. Described as eclectic, rough, open-ended, and disturbing, many works incorporate elements from pop culture, personal artefacts, and found objects, and address questions of identity as expressed through sexuality and the human body. The book is filled with newspaper clippings, personal communications, and many images.

Limited to 400 copies. Absolutely essential!

File under: Lutz Bacher Secession / Vienna Art Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Conceptual Art

Connor Bugelli
No Fixed Abode

2022, English
Softcover, 70 pages, 19 x 13 cm
Published by Self-Published / Sydney

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Artist's book collecting the abstract print and sculptural works of Australian artist Connor Bugelli (b. 1994) produced between 2020—2022, between Melbourne and Sydney. Profusely illustrated with gallery and studio documentation in stark b/w monochrome, accompanied by a text, "a world behind a curtain / a thought behind a head", by Mahmood Fazal.

In memory of Liam Osborne

File under: Connor Bugelli Mahmood Fazal Self-Published / Sydney Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Australian Art

H.R. Giger
WWW HR Giger Com: Biomechanical World

1997, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 240 pages, 31 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Taschen / Cologne

$150.00 - Out of stock

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First hardcover English-language edition of this exceptionally in-depth and comprehensive book by H.R. Giger, published by Taschen in 1997.

“I paint what frightens me,” says H.R. Giger, who compiled and designed this comprehensive retrospective himself, documenting and describing his work from the early 1960s to the late 1990s. Lavishly illustrated with reproductions of his biomechanical visions, accompanied by his own detailed commentaries offering privileged insight into a uniquely imaginative mind. The book cover Giger's life and working methods, followed by page after page of Giger's artworks and various lesser-seen creations from the deepest recesses of the mind and of the Giger personal archives — from his early oil experiments to the Giger Bar in Tokyo to his killer condoms to his nightmare garden train! Includes an extensive illustrated chronology. An uncommon book in the original, long out-of-print foiled hardcover issue with English text (not a later reprint). Highly recommended resource for any Giger fan.

Very Good copy in VG dust jacket.

File under: H.R. Giger Taschen / Cologne Art Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Surrealism Out-of-print / Rare Painting Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Drawing