World Food Books

Gordon Matta-Clark
Splitting, Cutting, Writing, Drawing, Eating

2017, English / Portuguese
Softcover, 220 pages, 18 x 25 cm
Published by Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art / Porto

$62.00 - Out of stock

American artist Gordon Matta-Clark is perhaps best known for the site-specific artworks he made in the 1970s. His body of work includes performance and recycling pieces, space and texture works, and his “building cuts”. Matta-Clark used a number of media to document his work, such as film, video, and photography, much of which appears in this catalogue, itself published on the occasion of an eponymous exhibition at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, and Culturgest, Lisbon. The attractively designed book includes numerous of the artist’s own sketches and plans for various works, plus letters and other material that together form an in-depth portrait.

File under: Gordon Matta-Clark João Ribas Delfim Sardo Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art / Porto Art Sculpture / Installation Photography Film / Video

Hans Bellmer
Photographe

1983, Japanese
Hardcover (clothbound w. dustjacket), 152 pages, 20.5 x 30 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Orion Press / Tokyo

$160.00 - Out of stock

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Rare, exquisitely designed and produced book dedicated entirely to the photography of the German artist Hans Bellmer (13 March 1902 – 23 February 1975), 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)."

Produced in French by Editions Filipacchi, Centre Georges Pompidou, and Musee National D'art Moderne in Paris in 1983, this very scarce Japanese printing (produced and printed in Japan that same year) features a different cover, with translations to the Japanese language of the introductory essay and texts. Densely illustrated with amazing and beautifully printed colour and black and white photography of Bellmer's dolls, many studies of the female nude, and photography of objects and sculptural assemblages, this book is a wonderful volume capturing an important Surrealist visionary of our time through his stunning photography.

Very good copy in dust-jacket, age tanning to edges/cover,
wear/small chipping to jacket corners.

File under: Hans Bellmer Orion Press / Tokyo Surrealism Sculpture / Installation Photography Drawing Art Out-of-print / Rare Eros

Melbourne Artist Facilitated Biennial publication (Endless Lonely Planet 9)

2020, English
Softcover, 150 pages, 21 x 29.7
Ed. of 100,
Published by Endless Lonely Planet / Melbourne

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Melbourne Artist Facilitated Biennial publication by Melbourne artist Christopher LG Hill is both the ninth issue of his ongoing publishing imprint Endless Lonely Planet, and a major survey art book marking the end of his 12 year artist facilitated biennale project, spanning 2008-2020.

"Multiple sites and moments, artist facilitated biennials extending on structures and limitations set by Signs of life: Melbourne International Biennial 1999. Abstracting and bringing new meaning to the form of a biennial as a more casual and independent entity, the project has seen many participants and collaborators over the last 12 years. This book hopes to document some of these moments, but more so to be a catalyst for different modes and models that it may inspire." — publisher

Includes extensive photographic documentation of The (self initiated, Artist funded) second (fourth) Y2K Melbourne Biennial of Art (& Design), TCB art inc., 2008; The First & Final Y3K Second (third) Inaugural Melbourne Biennial of International Arts, Y3K, 2011 (curated by Joshua Petherick, James Deutsher, and Christopher L G Hill); Third/Fourth Melbourne Biennial, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, 2013; 4th/5th Melbourne Artist Facilitated Biennial, TarraWarra Museum of Art, 2016 (as part of TarraWarra Biennial 2016: Endless Circulation curated by Victoria Lynn and Helen Hughes/Discipline); 5th/6th final Melbourne Artist Facilitated Biennial, Dec 2018 -Dec 2020 (co-facilitated by Virginia Overell and Christopher L G Hill in their apartment/ the ex-Telecom building that was the site of the Melbourne International Biennial 1999)

Includes the work of ACW, Liz Allen, Animal Charm, Dan Arps, Sean Bailey, Liv Barrett, Matthew Brown, Ruth Buchannan, Jon Campbell, Jane Caught, Xin Cheng, Fiona Connor, Ying Lan Dann, James Deutsher, Daniel du Bern, Ida Ekblad, ffiXXed, Pat Foster & Jen Berean, Justin K Fuller, Matt Griffin, Ardi Gunawan, Hao Guo, Bianca Hester, Christopher L G Hill, Matt Hinkley, Helen Johnson, Lisa Kelly, Devin Kenny, Taree Mackenzie, Simon McGlinn, Rob Mckenzie, Nick Mangan, Scott Mitchell, Tahi Moore, Kate Newby, Geoff Newton, John Nixon, OSW, Alexander Ouchtomsky, Damon Packard, Spiros Panigriakis, Sean Peoples/ Cheese Peoples, Joshua Petherick, Kain Picken, Janneke Raaphorst, Nick Selenitsch, Christopher Schueler & Matthew Hopkins, Gregory P Sharp, Kate Smith, Sriwhana Spong, Dylan Statham, Masato Takasaka, Ben Tankard, Simon Taylor, Alex Vivian, Annie Wu, Hany Armanious, Andreas Banderas, Mikala Dwyer, Katherine Huang, Tobias Kaspar, Piotr Łakomy, Taree Mackenzie, Tahi Moore, Michael O’Connell, Ester Partegas, Natalie Rognsoy, John Spiteri, Dan Arps, Sean Bailey, Olivia Barrett, Matthew Benjamin, Jon Campbell, Trevelyan Clay, Fiona Connor and Michala Paludan, James Deutsher, DoubleFly, George Egerton-Warburton, Endless Lonely Planet, ffiXXed, Alicia Frankovich, Justin K Fuller, Marco Fusinato, Greatest Hits, Ardi Gunawan, Hao Guo, Christopher L G Hill, Matt Hinkley, David Homewood, Matthew Hopkins, Lou Hubbard, Renee Jaeger, Helen Johnson, Kenneth Biennale (curated by Kenny Pittock and Amy May Stuart: Chris Clarke, Christo Crocker, Christina Hayes, Chris L G Hill, Christine Pittock, Christopher Sciuto), Legendary Hearts (Kieran Hegarty and Andrew Cowie), S.T. Lore, Patrick Lundberg, Carrie McGrath, Rob McKenzie, Taree McKenzie, Nick Mangan, Gian Manik, Kate Meakin, Adelle Mills, Tahi Moore, Kate Newby, Elizabeth Newman, Virginia Overell, Sean Peoples, Joshua Petherick, Kain Picken, Lisa Radford and Sam George, Nick Selenitsch, Kate Smith, Studio Masatotectures, Sydney (Esther Edquist), Masato Takasaka and Madeline Kidd, Ben Tankard, Alex Vivian, Nicki Wynnychuk, y3k, Lauren Burrow, Counterfeitnessfirst, James Deutsher, Laurel Doody, George Egerton-Warburton, ELP3 Vine, Endless Lonely Planet, Lewis Fidock, Aurelia Guo, Christopher L G Hill, Lou Hubbard, Lucina Lane, Kate Meakin, Tahi Moore, Elizabeth Newman, Liam Osborne, Virginia Overell, Joshua Petherick, Lisa Radford, Zac Segbedzi, Nick Selenitsch, Nicholas Tammens, Alex Vivian, Rudi Williams, Gavin Bell, Jarrah de Kuijer and Simon McGlinn, Candida ((Gian Manik and Ricarda Bigolin) in collaboration with Agnieszka Chabros, Samuel Heatley and Jaala Jensen), Xin Cheng, Fiona Connor, Renee Cosgrave, Christo Crocker, Ying Lan Dann, Endless Lonely Planet, Richard Frater, Aurelia Guo, HB Peace, Hoggle, Lou Hubbard, Olivia Koh, Spencer Lai, Laurel Doody Library Supply, Patrick Lundberg, Kate Meakin, Olivia O’Donnell, Jason Willers, and more...

More info at http://www.christopherlghill.com

File under: ACW Liz Allen Animal Charm Dan Arps Sean Bailey Liv Barrett Matthew Brown Ruth Buchannan Jon Campbell Jane Caught Xin Cheng Fiona Connor Ying Lan Dann James Deutsher Daniel du Bern Ida Ekblad ffiXXed Pat Foster & Jen Berean Justin K Fuller Matt Griffin Ardi Gunawan Hao Guo Bianca Hester Christopher L G Hill Matt Hinkley Helen Johnson Lisa Kelly Devin Kenny Taree Mackenzie Simon McGlinn Rob Mckenzie Nick Mangan Scott Mitchell Tahi Moore Kate Newby Geoff Newton John Nixon OSW Alexander Ouchtomsky Damon Packard Spiros Panigriakis Sean Peoples/ Cheese Peoples Joshua Petherick Kain Picken Janneke Raaphorst Nick Selenitsch Christopher Schueler & Matthew Hopkins Gregory P Sharp Kate Smith Sriwhana Spong Dylan Statham Masato Takasaka Ben Tankard Simon Taylor Alex Vivian Annie Wu Hany Armanious Andreas Banderas Mikala Dwyer Katherine Huang Tobias Kaspar Piotr Łakomy Michael O’Connell Ester Partegas Natalie Rognsoy John Spiteri Olivia Barrett Matthew Benjamin Trevelyan Clay Fiona Connor and Michala Paludan DoubleFly George Egerton-Warburton Endless Lonely Planet Alicia Frankovich Marco Fusinato Greatest Hits David Homewood Matthew Hopkins Lou Hubbard Renee Jaeger Christo Crocker Christina Hayes Chris L G Hill Christine Pittock Christopher Sciuto) Legendary Hearts (Kieran Hegarty and Andrew Cowie) S.T. Lore Patrick Lundberg Carrie McGrath Rob McKenzie Taree McKenzie Gian Manik Kate Meakin Adelle Mills Elizabeth Newman Virginia Overell Sean Peoples Lisa Radford and Sam George Studio Masatotectures Sydney (Esther Edquist) Masato Takasaka and Madeline Kidd Nicki Wynnychuk y3k Lauren Burrow Counterfeitnessfirst Laurel Doody ELP3 Vine Lewis Fidock Aurelia Guo Lucina Lane Liam Osborne Lisa Radford Zac Segbedzi Nicholas Tammens Rudi Williams Gavin Bell Jarrah de Kuijer and Simon McGlinn Renee Cosgrave Richard Frater HB Peace Hoggle Olivia Koh Spencer Lai Laurel Doody Library Supply Olivia O’Donnell Jason Willers Amy May Stuart Kenny Pittock Madeline Kidd A Constructed World Agnieszka Chabros Ricarda Bigolin Samuel Heatley and Jaala Jensen Chris Clarke Christopher Sciuto Candida Esther Edquist S.T. Lore Endless Lonely Planet / Melbourne Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Australian Art Australian Photography Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Curatorial Group Shows / Collections Periodicals Sound / Music Textiles

Ron Nagle
Handsome Drifter

2020, English
Hardcover, 160 pages, 23 x 28 cm
Published by University of California Press / Berkley

$115.00 - In stock -

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One of the most original artists working today, San Francisco–based Ron Nagle (born 1939)—the enfant terrible of abstract expressionist ceramics—has made stunning, colorful, entirely unique small clay sculptures since the 1950s.

In his sculpture, Nagle mixes allusions to modernism, middlebrow culture and the special pop sensibility of Northern California, making ceramic vessels no bigger than a few inches that draw on everything from Japanese tea ceremonies to Krazy Kat. Made with an overarching sense of playfulness and linguistic humor, a bodily and architectural sensibility, and Nagle’s keen attention to color, these finely tuned, pitch-perfect sculptures condense sensory pleasure into perfect packages of experience and feeling. Their miniature scale makes these odd, elegant, sensual and sometimes abject little abstract sculptures endlessly charming models for the imagination.

Lushly illustrated, Ron Nagle: Handsome Drifter is the most comprehensive and scholarly publication on the artist to date, with essays by curator Apsara DiQuinzio and Berlin-based art critic and theorist Jan Verwoert. A lively conversation about Nagle’s studio practice and unique process with curator and director Dan Byers of Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts rounds out this unmissable book.

File under: Ron Nagle Apsara DiQuinzio Lawrence Rinder Jan Verwoert Dan Byers University of California Press / Berkley Sculpture / Installation Ceramics / Glass Art

Hélio Oiticica : Dance in My Experience

2020, English
Hardcover, 328 pages, 21.3 x 28.2 cm
Published by MASP / São Paulo

$100.00 - Out of stock

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One of the most radical and joyful artists of the 20th century, Hélio Oiticica (1937-80) helped lead the charge in Brazilian art’s unique transition from abstract concrete art to performative objects and collective performance.

As MoMA’s 2019 exhibition Sur Moderno demonstrated, one of Oiticica’s most revolutionary projects was the Parangolé, wearable sculptures made from fabric, plastic or paper. The Parangolé is meant to be worn, inhabited and danced by a participant, lending a physical spontaneity to the piece that entirely blurs the boundaries between the art object and those who experience it.

Dance in My Experience traces the genealogy of this theme within the artist’s oeuvre, identifying rhythmic, choreographic and dance elements throughout his trajectory, from his first Metaesquemas through the Spatial Reliefs, Nuclei and Bólides, culminating in the Parangolés. Texts by Oiticica and numerous scholars.

Edited with text by Adriano Pedrosa, Tomás Toledo. Text by Adrian Anagnost, Cristina Ricupero, Evan Moffitt, Fernanda Lopes, Fernando Cocchiarale, Sergio Delgado Moya, Tania Rivera, Vivian A. Crockett, Hélio Oiticica.

File under: Hélio Oiticica Adriano Pedrosa Tomás Toledo Adrian Anagnost Cristina Ricupero Evan Moffitt Fernanda Lopes Fernando Cocchiarale Sergio Delgado Moya Tania Rivera Vivian A. Crockett Hélio Oiticica. MASP / São Paulo Art Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Minimal Art Theory / Essay Textiles

Chambres d'Amis
Edited by Jan Hoet

1986, English / Dutch / German / French / Italian
Hardcover (cloth w. dust jacket, inc. ephemera, guide/ticket, prints), 366 pages, 27 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst / Gent

$220.00 - Out of stock

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First and only edition of this very special, scarce exhibition catalogue / photo-book published to document and accompany the innovative exhibition Chambres d'Amis (‘friends’ rooms’), organised by Jan Hoet in Ghent in 1986, awarding him an international reputation as a leading artistic figure in Belgium. Chambres d'Amis featured about 50 European and American artists invited by Hoet to create works for 50 private homes in Ghent, which were then opened to the public for several weeks between June 21 - September 21, 1986. Artists included are Carla Accardi, Christian Boltanski, Raf Buedts, Daniël Buren, Michaël Buthe, Jacques Charlier, Nicola de Maria, Luciano Fabro, Günther Förg, Jef Geys, Dan Graham, Milan Grygar, François Hers, Kazuo Katase, Niek Kemps, Joseph Kosuth, Jannis Kounellis, Bertrand Lavier, Sol LeWitt, Danny Matthys, Gerhard Merz, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Helmut Middendorf, Juan Muñoz, Hidetoshi Nagasawa, Bruce Nauman, Maria Nordman, Oswald Oberhuber, Heike Pallanca, Panamarenko, Giulio Paolini, Royden Rabinowitch, Norbert Radermacher, Roger Raveel, Wolfgang Robbe, Claude Rutault, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Remo Salvadori, Rob Scholte, Ettore Spalletti, Paul Thek, Niele Toroni, Charles Vandenhove, Philip van Isacker, Jan Vercruysse, Jean-Luc Vilmouth, Martin Walde, Lawrence Weiner, Robin Winters, Gilberto Zorio.

The entire city-wide exhibition is comprehensively documented herein (from the domestic interior installations themselves to behind-the-scenes photography, social and working imagery of the artists installing and meeting, public events, etc.) in colour and b/w on various paper stocks with many fold-out panels and reproductions of artist's sketches, alongside extensive texts by Jan Hoet and statements accompanying the work of each artist all in Dutch, English, French, German, and Italian. Includes a list of all hosts/hostesses alongside the artists.

An incredible document of one the most important and unique contemporary art exhibitions in Belgium's history. Jan Hoet (23 June 1936 – 27 February 2014) was the Belgian founder and director of SMAK (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst) in Ghent (director from 1975 until 2003) and subsequently managed several important exhibitions all over the world including curating Documenta IX in Kassel in 1992, presenting several hundred works by 190 artists from nearly 40 countries.

“Intriguingly titled ‘Chambres d’Amis’ –-‘guest rooms’,” or, literally, ‘friends’ rooms’-– the show places art in 58 houses belonging to everyday townspeople, carrying the work outside the separate universe, the total institution, of the museum, to bring it within the private zone of the private home, an asocial place insofar as it is removed from the public arena. (...) His [Hoet’s] project takes the exhibition structure off its hinges, goes beyond the limits of the frame and spills over, whole, into an interior. Art here no longer offers a mirror or a window, nor constitutes the privileged sign of a choice, but is an actual, provocative presence, confirming its difference both from the museum space, which has lost its sanctity, and from the contextual frame in which the object serves as a fetish.”—Pier Luigi Tazzi, “Albrecht Dürer would have come too”, Artforum, September 1986

Very Good copy w. some wear/light spine fading to Good dust jacket, now preserved under mylar wrap. This special copy comes most complete, including exhibition guide/work checklist, Ghent map of exhibit locations, and a selection of 4 loose photographic press prints of featured installations.

File under: Carla Accardi Christian Boltanski Raf Buedts Daniël Buren Michaël Buthe Jacques Charlier Nicola de Maria Luciano Fabro Günther Förg Jef Geys Dan Graham Milan Grygar François Hers Kazuo Katase Niek Kemps Joseph Kosuth Jannis Kounellis Bertrand Lavier Sol LeWitt Danny Matthys Gerhard Merz Mario Merz Marisa Merz Helmut Middendorf Juan Muñoz Hidetoshi Nagasawa Bruce Nauman Maria Nordman Oswald Oberhuber Heike Pallanca Panamarenko Giulio Paolini Royden Rabinowitch Norbert Radermacher Roger Raveel Wolfgang Robbe Claude Rutault Reiner Ruthenbeck Remo Salvadori Rob Scholte Ettore Spalletti Paul Thek Niele Toroni Charles Vandenhove Philip van Isacker Jan Vercruysse Jean-Luc Vilmouth Martin Walde Lawrence Weiner Robin Winters Gilberto Zorio Jan Hoet Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst / Gent Art Conceptual Art Minimal Art Architecture / Interior Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Arte Povera Curatorial Painting Sculpture / Installation

Forms in Aggression
Formative Uprising of the 1960s

1987, English / Japanese
Softcover, 177 pages, 19 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by National Museum of Modern Art / Tokyo

$180.00 - Out of stock

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Very rare Japanese book published in 1987 to accompany a major exhibition surveying the expression of post-war Japanese craftspeople at the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. Features forward and three essays in Japanese and also translated English, plus a fantastic selection of important artists profiled in vivid full colour and black and white images throughout. Also features a chronology and list of works, making this an incredible reference for anyone interested in the subject.

Features the work of Kawamoto Goro, Kato Kiyoyuki, Ochi Kenzo, Kumakura Junkichi, Koie Ryoji, Sugie Jumpei, Suzuki Osamu, Suzuki Hyosaku III, Tsuji Shindo, Nakamura Kimpei, Isamu Noguchi, Hattori Shunsho, Hayashi Yasuo, Banura Shogo, Fujihira Shin, Miura Kageo, Mitsuhashi Kunitami, Miyata Rando III, Motono Toichi, Morino Hiroaki, Yagi Kazuo, Yanagihara Mutsuo, Yamada Hikaru, working across primarily ceramic, but also textile, metal and painting.

A wonderful, rare publication of well-known and very rarely seen wonders of post-war Japanese crafts.

Very Good copy.

File under: Banura Shogo Fujihira Shin Hattori Shunsho Hayashi Yasuo Isamu Noguchi Kato Kiyoyuki Kawamoto Goro Koie Ryoji Kumakura Junkichi Mitsuhashi Kunitami Miura Kageo Miyata Rando III Morino Hiroaki Motono Toichi Nakamura Kimpei Ochi Kenzo Sugie Jumpei Suzuki Hyosaku III Suzuki Osamu Tsuji Shindo Yagi Kazuo Yamada Hikaru Yanagihara Mutsuo National Museum of Modern Art / Tokyo Art Ceramics / Glass Objects / Ephemera / A/V Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections

Atelier E.B: Passer-by
by Lucy McKenzie & Beca Lipscombe

2020, English
Softcover (spiral-bound), 244 pages, 31 x 24 cm
Published by Serpentine Gallery / London

$98.00 - Out of stock

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‘Atelier E.B: Passer-by’ examines an essential facet of the fashion industry: the world of mannequins and retail display.

Since the Surrealists took them up in the early twentieth century, mannequin have been an enduring motif within fine art. Lipscombe and McKenzie un-pack the disciplines of window dressing, look to radical thinkers and makers who dissolved the dividing line between fine art and commercial display, and piece together a compelling narrative that encompasses ethnography, statuary, dolls, the world fairs and our digital future.

This catalogue, like the traveling exhibition, is a meticulous and idiosyncratic study of the hierarchies which have historically separated the spheres of art and design, examining the border between commercial display and exhibition-making.

English and French text. Co-published with Lafayette. Accompanies the touring exhibition ‘Atelier EB: Passer-by’, travelling to Serpentine Galleries, London 2019: Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, 2019, and Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, 2020.

File under: Atelier E.B. Lucy McKenzie Beca Lipscombe Marc Camille Chaimowicz Tauba Auerbach Josephine Pryde Marie Canet Phillip Ekardt Amy de la Haye François Quintin Serpentine Gallery / London Fashion Textiles Painting Sculpture / Installation Art

Olga Jevrić

2020, English
Softcover, 80 pages, 22 x 24 cm
Published by Ridinghouse / London

$55.00 - Out of stock

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First ever monograph in English on the acclaimed Serbian sculptor, Olga Jevrić. This publication offers a unique opportunity to discover the work of Olga Jevrić (1922–2014), a remarkable Serbian artist whose long and distinguished career established her as the most significant modernist sculptor from former Yugoslavia.

Jevrić travelled and exhibited extensively during the 1950s and 1960s, and in 1958 she represented Yugoslavia at the Venice Biennale. While her work was celebrated by her contemporaries both in Europe and America, and although she continued working into the 2000s, economic, social and geopolitical upheavals meant that her work has been little seen outside Serbia in the last four decades.

As a witness to the Second World War and its aftermath, Jevrić sought to give voice to the spiritual roots, cultural foundation and social conditions of the besieged, war-torn environment in which her work developed. Through her materials – primarily a mixture of cement, iron oxide, rods and nails – she created distinctive forms that communicate the relationship between matter and void; weight and weightlessness; containment and release.

This collection of texts and images provides a range of perspectives on Jevrić’s work. The acclaimed Serbian art historian Ješa Denegri has written a thoroughly researched overview of the artist that offers invaluable insights into the context and circumstances within which she worked. This is further explored in Fedja Klikovac’s introduction, where he also shares his personal reminiscences of encountering her work as an art student in Belgrade and of visiting her studio shortly before her death.

Two of Britain’s most celebrated sculptors also offer responses to Jevrić’s work: Richard Deacon recounts how deeply struck he was by her sculptures while on a number of teaching visits to Belgrade; while Phyllida Barlow’s text adopts a prose-poem form to present a meditation on Jevrić’s work that draws the reader into the artist’s world of creative expression. The book closes with a philosophical reading of the artist’s work by artist Joan Key.

File under: Phyllida Barlow Olga Jevrić Joan Key Richard Deacon Fedja Klikovac Ješa Denegri Ridinghouse / London Art Sculpture / Installation

Marisa Merz
The Sky is a Great Space

2017, English
Hardcover, 319 pages, 23 x 27.5 cm
Published by Hammer / Los Angeles Prestel / Munich

$95.00 - Out of stock

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Bringing together five decades of painting, sculpture, and installations from the celebrated Italian artist Marisa Merz, this major hardcover monograph accompanies a major US retrospective of her work. This generously illustrated book offers readers the chance to appreciate the full range of works by Marisa Merz, winner of the 2013 Golden Lion lifetime achievement award at the Venice Biennale. This volume traces Merz's artistic evolution from early experiments with non-traditional materials and processes, to intricately constructed installations of the 1970s and the enigmatic ceramic heads of the 1980s and '90s. Authoritative essays explore the rise of international women's art in the 1960s and '70s and Merz's own place in Italy's postwar art history. As the sole female protagonist of Arte Povera she is one of the few Italian women to exhibit in major venues internationally. Merz's challenging and evocative body of work is deeply personal and resistant to the categories of art history, including Arte Povera and international feminist art, with which she was associated. Previously unpublished texts and poetry by the artist, and an illustrated chronology, complement this comprehensive look at an enormously influential artist.

Texts by Connie Butler, Ian Alteveer, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Leslie Cozzi, Teresa Kittler, Lucia Re, Cloe Perrone, Tommaso Trini.

File under: Marisa Merz Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev Cloe Perrone Connie Butler Ian Alteveer Leslie Cozzi Lucia Re Teresa Kittler Tommaso Trini Hammer / Los Angeles Prestel / Munich Art Arte Povera Drawing Painting Sculpture / Installation

TRAIN CROSSING
by LOU HUBBARD

2020, English
Softcover, 200 pages, 20 x 13 cm
Published by Zatezalo Press / Melbourne

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A train derails in a Barcelona apartment.
A video jerks on a barbecue grill.
A pair of spectacles:
a flip-book
and
a story that runs on tracks.

Published by Zatezalo Press, a Melbourne based imprint focusing on paperback books from contemporary Australian artists. Each book is an edition of 100.

Lou Hubbard is a Melbourne based artist and Senior Lecturer in Photography at the Victorian College of the Arts. Her practice encompasses painting, drawing, sculpture, photography and the moving image to interrogate the nature of training, submission and subordination.

File under: Lou Hubbard Zatezalo Press / Melbourne Art Sculpture / Installation Fiction / Poetry Australian Art Australian Photography

Bernard Schultze

1966, German
Softcover, 106 pages, 23 x 13.5
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Städtisches Museum / Leverkusen

$65.00 - Out of stock

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First edition Bernard Schultze exhibition catalogue published in 1966 to accompany the exhibition "Bernard Schultze" at the Städtisches Museum Schloß Morsbroich, Leverkusen. A beautiful catalogue printed on various paper stocks throughout and lavishly illustrated with an overview of German artist Bernard Schultze's many works in vivid colour and b/w, accompanied by texts from Rolf Wedewer, Peter W. Jansen and Bernard Schultze.

Bernard Schultze (1915–2005) was a German abstract painter and integral figure of the Art Informel movement. He was notably the founder of the Quadriga collective, which included such artists as Otto Greis Karl Otto Götz, and Heinz Kreutz. Characterized by their gestural abstraction, Shultze’s works regularly feature brilliant, fluorescent colors morphing in and out of implied representation, forming fantastical landscapes, figures, and languages. Often highly textural, he is noted for his use of textile and sculptural relief throughout his painting practice. Sadly all of Schultze's early works, produced before 1945, were destroyed as a result of a 1945 air raid on Berlin. On 7 July 1955 he married painter Ursula Bluhm. The artist died in 2005 in Cologne, Germany at the age of 89, having continued painting until the end of his life.

Good copy with previous owner eraser marks to cover. Otherwise Very Good, clean and tightly bound throughout.

File under: Bernard Schultze Rolf Wedewer Peter W. Jansen Städtisches Museum / Leverkusen Arte Informale / Haute Pâte / Tachism Out-of-print / Rare Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Drawing Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic

B. Wurtz
Pan Paintings

2020, English
Hardcover, 104 pages, 25 x 25 cm
Published by Hunters Point Press / New York

$89.00 - Out of stock

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For nearly five decades New York-based artist B. Wurtz (born 1948) has transformed humble materials and discarded objects into humorous and wryly beautiful works of art. This full-color, Swiss-bound monograph focuses on the artist’s iconic series of “pan paintings” made on disposable aluminum roasting pans and to-go containers. In 1990, Wurtz discovered patterns stamped in the bottom of these mass-produced products and grasped their potential as “readymade abstract paintings.” In the three decades since, he has worked across a wide variety of pan shapes and sizes, applying dazzling combinations of color using the patterns as predetermined compositions. Pan Paintings provides the first overview of the various permutations in color and shape that comprise this long-term series. The book includes an essay by art historian and curator Erica Cooke which considers this critically acclaimed body of work and its deep entanglement with the craft-oriented ethos and amateur culture of postwar America.

File under: B. Wurtz Barney Kulok Erica Cooke Hunters Point Press / New York Art Sculpture / Installation Painting

Scott Redford
1962: Selected works 1983–1992

2003, English
Softcover, 128 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 33 x 24 cm
Edition of 500,
Published by UQ Art Museum / Brisbane

$50.00 - Out of stock

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Wonderful and scarce over-sized monograph surveying the early work of Scott Redford, published on the occasion of the exhibition "1962: Scott Redford Selected Works 1983 - 1992" at the University Art Museum, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane, Australia. 3 October - 22 November 2003. Beautifully designed and brilliantly illustrated, this monograph brings to life Redford’s diverse work across assemblage, sculpture, painting, installation, and much more. Includes essay by Andrew McNamara and interview with Scott Redford. Limited edition of 500 copies.

Scott Redford (b. 1962 Gold Coast, Queensland) is a highly significant and influential Australian contemporary artist who has been exhibiting since the early 1980s. Redford's work is unique in its references to international art movements including colour-field painting, conceptual art and pop art, while engaging with local themes, such as Australian art history, beach culture and vernacular architecture, regularly commenting on issues of gender and identity.

File under: Scott Redford Andrew McNamara UQ Art Museum / Brisbane Art Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Australian Art Painting

How to Understand and Use Display
by Haruhisa Hattori

1988, English / Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 136 pages, 29 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Graphic-sha / Tokyo

$45.00 - Out of stock

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Lavishly illustrated 1988 analysis of display edited by Haruhisa Hattori, master of 1980s Ginza retail design. Showcasing display windows and Japanese retail presentations by the highly accomplished Hattori and his colleagues to illustrate innovative, poetic and dynamic scenarios of communication design. Bright post-modern windows for the likes of Wako, Mikimoto and Shiseido, incorporating dolls, textiles and technology, with detailed accounts and information on executing successful displays from start to finish.

Published and printed in Japan.

Very Good copy with dust jacket.

File under: Haruhisa Hattori Haruhisa Hattori Graphic-sha / Tokyo Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Graphic Design / Typography

Rose Nolan
Big Words (Not Mine) - Read the words 'public space'...

2017, English
Softcover, 576 pages, 23 x 17 cm
Ed. of 200,
Published by Negative Press / Melbourne

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This monumental artists’ book returns Vito Acconci’s text, that inspired Nolan’s large scale installation of 282 painted hessian pennants 'Big Words (Not Mine) Read the words “public space”…', 2013, back to the codex form of the book. With Acconci’s text broken into strings of letters, the book interrogates the relationship between documentation and representation and explores Nolan’s continued interest in materials, process and seriality.

Design: Warren Taylor
Photography: Garry Sommerfeld

Published in an edition of 200 copies

File under: Rose Nolan Negative Press / Melbourne Art Australian Art Painting Sculpture / Installation

The Transhistorical Museum
Mapping the Field

2018, English
Softcover, 222 pages, 17 x 24 cm
Published by Valiz / Amsterdam

$55.00 - Out of stock

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In the 21st century we have witnessed a significant expansion in the field of transhistorical exhibition practice. A range of curatorial efforts have emerged in which objects and artefacts from various periods and art historical and cultural contexts are combined in display, in an effort to question and expand traditional museological notions such as chronology, context, and category. Such experiments in transcending art historical boundaries can result in fresh insights into the workings of entrenched historical presumptions, providing a space to reassess interpretations of individual objects. With contributions by Mieke Bal, Hendrik Folkerts, Nicola Setari, Maria Iñigo Clavo, and others.

File under: Ann Demeester Mieke Bal Olga Fernandez Lopez Christa-maria Lerm Hayes Alexander Nagel Ruth Noack Eva Wittocx Abigail Winograd Jasper Sharp Nicola Setari Jean-Hubert Martin Peter Carpreau Melanie Bühler Xander Karskens Bruce Curiger Penelope Curtis Hendrick Folkerts Hanneke Grootenboer María Íñigo Clavo Valiz / Amsterdam Theory / Essay Art Curatorial Film / Video Sculpture / Installation

Heimo Zobernig

1998, English
Softcover, 28 pages, 21 x 28 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by The Renaissance Society / Chicago

$45.00 - Out of stock

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Catalogue published on the occasion of Heimo Zobernig's solo exhibition at Renaissance Society in 1996. Austrian Heimo Zobernig's work intervenes, rearranges, recontextualizes, and down-right makes fun of the architecture of museum/gallery spaces so as to demystify its illusory potential and reinscribe it with self-referentiality. Zobernig is among several significant contemporary artists such as Michael Asher, General Idea, and Daniel Buren who have made it their mission to critique sites of modern art.

In Zobernig's 1996 installation, the gallery walls from the Society's preceding exhibition were laid flat on the floor-a neat-handed figure/ground reversal turning support into sculpture. In another provocative turn, Zobernig brought the outside in to this altered gallery space via video - he had himself filmed cavorting around the Renaissance Society hallway naked in front of walls that were painted video back-drop blue; this image was then super-imposed on footage shot while driving around Chicago. This informative and engaging book, designed by Zobernig, serves as a valuable pictorial document, and an insightful critical analysis of this important work. Walker's essay speaks to the challenge Zobernig's art poses for art history and the implications of that challenge for the future of art. In addition, the catalog features a transcript of the panel discussion: Planned Obsolescence, in which a group of critics, curators and architectural historians gathered to discuss how Zobernig's practice differs from, or further informs, practices that have made an art out of calling for an end of art.

File under: Heimo Zobernig The Renaissance Society / Chicago Art Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Painting Minimal Art Film / Video

Australian Sculpture Now
Second Australian Sculpture Triennial

1984, English
Softcover, 218 pages, 29.5 x 21 cm
Published by NGV (National Gallery of Victoria) / Victoria

$40.00 - Out of stock

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The great catalogue published to accompany Australian Sculpture Now, The Second Australian Sculpture Triennial, held at the National Gallery of Victoria, 6 November 1984 - 28 January 1985. This generous publication on Australian sculpture in the mid 1980s, edited by Graeme Sturgeon, presents the work of 70 Australian sculptors through heavily illustrated spreads, biographies and exhibition histories, alongside accompanying illustrated essays. An important document in the history of Australian sculpture, including the work of many great artists seldom seen in print nor exhibition elsewhere.

Artists included : Chris Beecroft, Joan Brassil, Ian Bracegirdle, Rodney Broad, Martine Canneel, Cheo Chai-Hiang, Peter D. Cole, Chris Constable, Peter Corlett, Augustine dall'Ava, John Davis, John Elliott, Stuart Elliott, Martin Everett, Anne Ferguson, Rosealie Gascoigne, Karen Genoff, Richard Goodwin, David Hamilton, Nigel Helyer, Paul Hopmeier, Maurie Hughes, David Jensz, Bob Jenyns, Stephen Killick, Inge King, Jan King, Robert Klippel, Andrew Kinghorn, Lou Lambert, John Landry, Cliford Last, Michael Legrand, Ian McKay, Adrian Mauriks, Rosemary Madigan, Hilarie Mais, Akio Makigawa, Maggie May, Ross Mellick, Wendy Mills, Lyn Moore, Kevin Mortensen, Roder Noakes, Kevin Norton, Fiona Orr, Lenton Parr, Jill Peck, Lutz Presser, Anthony Pryor, Ari Purhonen, Loretta Quinn, Tom Risley, Ron Robertson-Swann, Guiseppe Romeo, Peter J. Rosman, Paul Selwood, Judy Silver, Michael Snape, Jo Steele, Richard Stringer, Wendy Teakel, Mark Thompson, Tony Trembath, Maggie Turner, Ken Unsworth, Trevor Weekes, David Wilson, Pam Wragg.

File under: Chris Beecroft Joan Brassil Ian Bracegirdle Rodney Broad Martine Canneel Cheo Chai-Hiang Peter D. Cole Chris Constable Peter Corlett Augustine dall'Ava John Davis John Elliott Stuart Elliott Martin Everett Anne Ferguson Karen Genoff Richard Goodwin David Hamilton Nigel Helyer Paul Hopmeier Maurie Hughes David Jensz Bob Jenyns Stephen Killick Inge King Jan King Robert Klippel Andrew Kinghorn Lou Lambert John Landry Michael Legrand Ian McKay Adrian Mauriks Rosemary Madigan Hilarie Mais Akio Makigawa Maggie May Ross Mellick Wendy Mills Lyn Moore Kevin Mortensen Roder Noakes Kevin Norton Fiona Orr Lenton Parr Jill Peck Lutz Presser Anthony Pryor Ari Purhonen Loretta Quinn Tom Risley Ron Robertson-Swann Guiseppe Romeo Peter J. Rosman Paul Selwood Judy Silver Michael Snape Jo Steele Richard Stringer Wendy Teakel Mark Thompson Tony Trembath Maggie Turner Ken Unsworth Trevor Weekes David Wilson Pam Wragg Rosalie Gascoigne Clifford Last Graeme Sturgeon NGV (National Gallery of Victoria) / Victoria Australian Art Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare

Haim Steinbach
Transversalité 2

1990, French
Softcover (staple-bound), 20 pages, 28 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by CAPC / Bordeaux

$15.00 - Out of stock

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Scarce staple-bound catalogue published in 1990 on the occasion of a major solo exhibition of Israeli-American artist Haim Steinbach (born Rehovot, Palestine, 1944) at capc Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux. Stiff card covers with essay (in Frnech) throughout (one illustrated) by American art critic, art historian, curator, poet, and artist, Robert C. Morgan.

Very Good condition. Light shelf wear.

File under: Haim Steinbach CAPC / Bordeaux Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Art

JB Blunk

2020, English
Hardcover, 224 pages, 21 x 26 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Dent De Leone / London

$200.00 - Out of stock

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The first long-awaited (and quickly out-of-print) monograph to explore the entire oeuvre of the great American sculptor JB Blunk, with previously unseen examples of his work in stone, clay, painting and jewelry. The design beautifully combines archival images of Blunk's work in situ, and his studio, with color plates of newly photographed pieces. In an essay, Lucy R. Lippard discusses Blunk's reverence for ancient art and places, while Smithsonian Curator of Ceramics Louise Allison Cort details Blunk's formative years in Japan. Glenn Adamson, Senior Scholar at the Yale Center for British Art, contributes an essay that explores the essence of Blunk himself along with his artwork. Blunk maintained a Midwestern sensibility of hard work and plainspokenness throughout his career, with little regard for the distinction between art, craft and design. Rather, he was guided by the materials with which he worked to create large sculptural pieces that seem to exude their own powerful energy unique to organic matter. Born in Kansas, James Blain Blunk (1926-2002) was a California-based sculptor who worked primarily with wood and clay. Following a period in Japan, where he met sculptor Isamu Noguchi and served apprenticeships with Japanese potter Kitaoji Rosanjin (1883–1959) and Bizen potter and Living National Treasure Kaneshige Toyo (1896–1967), Blunk being the first American to apprentice into the line of descent of that country's great unglazed stoneware ceramic tradition, Blunk went on to settle near the Marin County town of Inverness, California, where he built his own studio, and developed a lifelong friendship with the painter Gordon Onslow Ford (1912–2003), one of the last surviving members of the 1930s Paris surrealist group. In addition to woodwork and ceramics, Blunk also worked with jewelry, painting, furniture-building, bronze and stonework.

Edited by Mariah Nielson and Åbäke, the book features essays by Lucy Lippard, Glenn Adamson, Fariba Bogzaran and Louise Allison Cort. Designed by Åbäke.

First edition, As New (still in wrap)

File under: Åbäke JB Blunk Lucy Lippard Glenn Adamson Fariba Bogzaran Louise Allison Cort Dent De Leone / London Furniture Art Ceramics / Glass Architecture / Interior Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare

Tetsumi Kudo

1986, Japanese
Softcover (folded cardboard card w. inserted press clippings), 21 x 30 cm
1st edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by Gallery Kobayashi / Tokyo

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Very scarce Tetsumi Kudo exhibition card/publication produced on the occasion of his solo exhibition at Gallery Kobayashi in Ginza, Tokyo, in 1986. Alongside a detail shot of one of Kudo's "Chromosomes and Souls", and a text in Japanese, inserted into the folded card are copies of press clippings from Japanese newspapers relating to the exhibition.

Born in Osaka, Japan, in 1935 Kudo first gained notoriety in the Tokyo art scene of the late 50s. He began exhibiting his work at the Salon of Independents, Yomiuri and had his first solo exhibition at the Galerie Blanche, Tokyo. He was awarded the Grand Prize and a travel grant to Paris through his painting participation in the 1962 Second International Young Artists Exhibition in Tokyo. Immigrating to Paris, he immediately started working in a range of media--objects, sculpture, installation, drawing and painting--and presenting numerous Happenings and performances. Kudo's work and activities intersect with many important postwar artistic trends--including French Nouveau Realisme, Fluxus, Pop art, 60s anti-art tendencies and 80s Postmodernism. Throughout his life and career, Kudo remained particularly Japanese while his art and vision were consistently and uniquely transcultural, internationalist and cosmopolitan. His work made international appearances at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1972), Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany, (1970), Venice Biennial (1976), and the Biennial São Paulo (1977, awarded a special mention) while also appearing frequently in museums and galleries throughout Japan and France, with a growing recognition in the Netherlands.

File under: Tetsumi Kudo Gallery Kobayashi / Tokyo Art Objects / Ephemera / A/V Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic

Tetsumi Kudo
Contestation / Création

1994, Japanese / French
Softcover, 199 pages, 29.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by The National Museum of Art / Osaka

$100.00 - Out of stock

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Wonderful, scarce, out of print monographic catalogue published in conjunction with a show of Tetsumi Kudo's work, held at the National Museum of Art in Osaka, October 6 - November 29, 1994.
Heavily illustrated with text by Keiji Nakamura and Didier Semin. Includes list of works in the exhibition, biography, and bibliography. Black-and-white and colour images throughout.
Text in Japanese and French.
As New copies.

Born in Osaka, Japan, in 1935 Kudo first gained notoriety in the Tokyo art scene of the late 50s. He began exhibiting his work at the Salon of Independents, Yomiuri and had his first solo exhibition at the Galerie Blanche, Tokyo. He was awarded the Grand Prize and a travel grant to Paris through his painting participation in the 1962 Second International Young Artists Exhibition in Tokyo. Immigrating to Paris, he immediately started working in a range of media--objects, sculpture, installation, drawing and painting--and presenting numerous Happenings and performances. Kudo's work and activities intersect with many important postwar artistic trends--including French Nouveau Realisme, Fluxus, Pop art, 60s anti-art tendencies and 80s Postmodernism. Throughout his life and career, Kudo remained particularly Japanese while his art and vision were consistently and uniquely transcultural, internationalist and cosmopolitan. His work made international appearances at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1972), Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany, (1970), Venice Biennial (1976), and the Biennial São Paulo (1977, awarded a special mention) while also appearing frequently in museums and galleries throughout Japan and France, with a growing recognition in the Netherlands.

File under: Tetsumi Kudo Didier Semin Keiji Nakamura The National Museum of Art / Osaka Art Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Fluxus Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic

Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys
Mondo Cane Visitor's Guide

2019, English
Softcover (leporello folded guide w. illustrations), 15 x 10 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Belgian Pavilion La Biennale Di Venezia / Venice

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Visitor's Guide (English edition) published to accompany the presentation "Mondo Cane" by Belgian art duo Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys for the 2019 Venice Biennale. This staple-bound booklet presents all the characters featured in "Mondo Cane" together with their biographies. Highly recommended.

The Belgian artists Jos de Gruyter (b. 1965) and Harald Thys (b. 1966) have collaborated for more than two decades on artworks in a variety of media, including film, photography, drawing, painting, and sculpture; they are known for thought-provoking works, often imbued with an antic sense of humor. Depression, autism, power games, psychosis, sexual tensions and idolatry are just a few of the interests that Jos De Gruyter & Harald Thys have cited as crucial to their dark repertoire. The pair was selected to represent Belgium at the 2019 Venice Biennale. Its title, "Mondo Cane", refers to a 1962 Italian film that documented-in a style intended to provoke Western audiences-cultural practices from around the world.

File under: Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys Belgian Pavilion La Biennale Di Venezia / Venice Art Sculpture / Installation Painting Drawing Film / Video Objects / Ephemera / A/V Out-of-print / Rare