World Food Books

On Things As Ideas
Robert Stadler, Alexis Vaillant (Eds.)

2017, English
Softcover, 224 pages, 17.3 x 22 cm
Published by MUDAM / Luxembourg Sternberg Press / Berlin

$38.00 - Out of stock

Contributions by Carl Andre, Charles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, Barbara Bloemink, Jan Boelen, Louise Bourgeois, Sheldon Cheney and Martha Candler Cheney, Alex Coles, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby, Hal Foster, Sigmund Freud, Dan Graham, Isabelle Graw, Sebastian Hackenschmidt and Dietmar Rübel, Graham Harman, G. W. F. Hegel, Martin Heidegger, Dave Hickey, Matthew Higgs, Donald Judd, Immanuel Kant, Frederick J. Kiesler, Sven Lütticken, Alessandro Mendini, W. J. T. Mitchell, Jasper Morrison, Bruno Munari, Robert Nickas, Alice Rawsthorn, Jeff Rian, Richard Rinehart, Anthony Vidler

This collection of more than thirty texts, which were originally published between 1790 and the present day, explores man’s rich relationship with material things. Devised largely in response to the gradual breakdown of the divide between art and design that began over a century ago, this book sheds light on the ways that the concept of the thing as idea has been considered over time. Writers from different fields explore how things interact with materials, structures, and production processes while defining and registering the intangible qualities of the material world. Each author considers the different relationships between the context of a thing and its thingness, describing the ways in which things and ideas intersect.

Copublished with MUDAM Luxembourg
Design by Florence Richard

File under: Alessandro Mendini Bruno Munari Carl Andre Dan Graham Donald Judd Jasper Morrison Jeff Rian Louise Bourgeois Sigmund Freud W. J. T. Mitchell Alessandro Mendini Alex Coles Alexis Vaillant Alice Rawsthorn Anthony Dunne Anthony Vidler Barbara Bloemink Bruno Munari Carl Andre Charles Baudelaire Dan Graham Dave Hickey Dietmar Rübel Donald Judd Fiona Raby Frederick J. Kiesler G. W. F. Hegel Graham Harman Hal Foster Immanuel Kant Isabelle Graw Jan Boelen Jasper Morrison Jeff Rian Louise Bourgeois Martha Candler Cheney Martin Heidegger Matthew Higgs Richard Rinehart Robert Stadler Sebastian Hackenschmidt Sheldon Cheney Sigmund Freud Sven Lütticken W. J. T. Mitchell Walter Benjamin Bob Nickas MUDAM / Luxembourg Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Conceptual Art Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay

Tony Oursler + Mike Kelley
Poetics Project

1997, English / Japanese
Hardcover (cardboard box covers w. glued in booklets, fold-outs, inserts), 84 pages plus fold-outs, 12.5 x 14 cm
1st edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by Wateri Museum of Contemporary Art / Tokyo

$90.00 - Out of stock

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Very scarce Tony Oursler + Mike Kelley exhibition catalogue / artists' book published in conjunction with a major two-person exhibition held 1997 - 1998 in Tokyo. Includes colour installation images of the exhibition as installed at Documenta X, June 21 - September 28, 1997. "The ongoing 'Poetics Project' serves up a rich mix of visual and aural experiences, while inviting viewers to question the reliability of the shows as history. Artist Mike Kelley says, 'If you don't create your own history, someone else will." Kelley and Tony Oursler's the 'Poetics Project 1977-1997' is a retrospective work that draws from their collaborative efforts in painting, video, sculpture, drawing and music. Although the ostensible subject of this project is Kelley and Oursler's early experiences as performers in a loose-knit musical group called the Poetics, its broader concerns are the processes by which history is constructed, and the reciprocal relationship between the fine arts and popular culture. The conflation of past and present in the 'Poetics Project' makes it difficult at first for the viewer to penetrate the work. Video installations and taped interviews with visual artists, rock musicians and critics are intermingled with paintings, sculptures and stacks of drawings. A precise checklist and diagram prepared by Kelley and Oursler methodically pinpoint the authorship of each work, while serving as a serf-guided tour and critical record of the project. Only with this didactic help do viewers come to realize that the 'Poetics Project' is almost entirely made up of works created in 1997 and 1998, though based on what Kelley and Oursler tell us is a single notebook of sketches and a collection of audio recordings--some little more than notations for never-performed works--which date from the late 1970s and early '80s (the Poetics disbanded in 1983). Filled with irony and steeped in serf-reflexive practice, this work builds upon the radical autobiographical prose of William S. Burroughs and art works and performances by artists such as John Baldessari, Allan Kaprow and Andy Warhol. Reminiscent of Warhol's A:A Novel, which records one day in the life of the artist in 384 pages, the 'Poetics Project' is an expanding template of art works which explores how the past can be reconstructed to shed light on the present." -- Diane Shamash, Art in America, October 1998

First and only edition of this unique Japanese publication from these two American artists. Cardboard covers feature decal artwork reproducing the Oursler/Kelley collaborative artwork "Poetics Country", 1997.

Condition: Very Good (tight, clean copy throughout with only light wear) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Mike Kelley Tony Oursler Mike Kelley Tony Oursler Wateri Museum of Contemporary Art / Tokyo Art Drawing Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Theory / Essay

Charlotte Poseneske

2005, English / German
Softcover, 128 pages, 24 x 17 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Revolver – Archiv für aktuelle Kunst / Frankfurt am Main

$45.00 - Out of stock

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Catalogue published to coincide with a large retrospective exhibition of German artist Charlotte Posenenske held at Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, March 19 - May 15, 2005. Edited by Silvia Eiblmayr and Astrid Wege, and including further texts by Eva Schmidt, Gerald Schröder, Astrid Wege and a conversation between Konstantin Adamopoulos and Burkhard Brunn (in both German and English), this heavily illustrated catalogue follows the exhibitions ambition to present Posenenske’s development over a short span of time, primarily the 1960s, leading from painting to real space. Feature paintings from the late 1950s and early 1960s, Striped Pictures and Three-Dimensional Pictures from the mid-1960s, Reliefs (1967) as well as the Square Tubes that she presented both indoors and outdoors (1967) and her Revolving Vanes (1967/68) – the last group of works Posenenske produced before she gave up art in 1968. Posenenske’s both radical and multi-facetted artistic approach is rounded off by her stage set designs from the 1950s, her art-in-architecture projects from the 1960s and in particular her two film strips from 1968 that were created with the active participation of Peter Roehr and Paul Maenz on a drive through Holland in spring 1968. Also includes list of works and biography.

Charlotte Posenenske (1930–1985) was a German artist associated with the minimalist movement who predominately worked in sculpture, but also produced paintings and works on paper.

Posenenske worked in a variety of mediums, her practice becoming more abstract through the course of the 1960s. While other artists of the period worked in multiples, where a finite edition of a work could be produced, Posenenske worked in series, meaning that there was no limit to the editions. Posenenske rejected the commercial art market, offering her work for sale at its material cost. Reconstructions authorised by the artist’s estate are not replicas, and they are outwardly identical to the original prototype. Only the certificate differentiates the unsigned work from other commodities.

In 1968 Posenenske published a statement in the journal Art International referencing the reproducibility of her works, and her desire for the concept and ownership of the piece to be accessible:

I make series
because I do not want to make individual pieces for individuals,
in order to have elements combinable within a system,
in order to make something that is repeatable, objective,
and because it is economical.
The series can be prototypes for mass-production.
[...]
They are less and less recognisable as "works of art."
The objects are intended to represent anything other than what they are.
Poseneske stopped working as an artist in 1968, no longer believing that art could influence social interaction or draw attention to social inequalities. She retrained as a sociologist and became a specialist in employment and industrial working practices until her death in 1985. During this period of self-imposed exile Posenenske refused to visit any exhibitions, and did not show her work.

File under: Charlotte Posenenske Silvia Eiblmayr Astrid Wege Eva Schmidt Gerald Schröder Revolver – Archiv für aktuelle Kunst / Frankfurt am Main Minimal Art Drawing Out-of-print / Rare Conceptual Art Sculpture / Installation

An Anecdoted Topography of Chance
Daniel Spoerri, Robert Filliou, Emmett Williams, Roland Topor

1966, English
Softcover, 214 pages, 20.5 x 14 cm
1st US Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Something Else Press / New York

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First softcover English edition, published in 1966 by Something Else Press, New York, of "An Anecdoted Topography of Chance", arguably the most important and entertaining "Artist's Book" of the post-war period. A unique collaborative work by four artists associated with the FLUXUS and Nouveau Realisme movements, Daniel Spoerri, Robert Filliou, Emmett Williams, and Roland Topor.

What is the Topography? Hard to explain an idea so simple yet so brilliantly executed. Following a rambling conversation with his dear friend Robert Filliou, Daniel Spoerri one day mapped the objects lying at random on the table in his room, adding a rigorously scientific description of each. These objects subsequently evoked associations, memories, anecdotes; not only from the original author, but from his friends as well: a beguiling creation was born. Many of the principal participants of FLUXUS make an appearance (and texts by Higgins, Jouffroy, Kaprow, Restany, and Tinguely are included, among others). It is a novel of digressions in the manner of Tristram Shandy or Robbe-Grillet; it's a game, a poem, an encyclopaedia, a cabinet of wonders: a celebration of friendship and creativity.
The Topography personifies (and pre-dates) the whole FLUXUS spirit and constitutes one of the strangest and most compelling insights into the artist's life. From out of the banal detritus of the everyday a virtual autobiography emerges: of four perceptive, witty and eloquent members of the human species.

Translated from the French and further anecdoted by poet Emmett Williams.
First 1966 softcover edition in As New condition.

Couldn't be more highly recommended.

File under: Daniel Spoerri Robert Filliou Roland Topor Emmett Williams Jean Tinguely Allan Kaprow Dick Higgins Emmett Williams Pierre Restany Alain Jouffroy Something Else Press / New York Fluxus Art Drawing Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Fiction / Poetry Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic

Joseph Beuys
Greetings from the Eurasian

2017, English
Softcover, 142 pages, 20 x 28.7 cm
Published by Koenig Books / London Museum of Contemporary Art / Antwerp

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Edied by Antony Hudek

Joseph Beuys was captivated by Eurasia, the vast expanse connecting East and West. Through drawings, sculptures, installations, performances, films and multiples, Beuys sought to imagine the fluid contours of Eurasia, a space built upon history and myths yet firmly grounded in the present.
This book takes Beuys’ 1968 Eurasienstab action, performed with Henning Christiansen at the Wide White Space Gallery in Antwerp, as a starting point for a reflection on territories, real and imagined. It is through Beuys’ connections to the Wide White Space that he first met fellow artists Marcel Broodthaers and James Lee Byars.

File under: Joseph Beuys Henning Christiansen Marcel Broodthaers James Lee Byars Antony Hudek Koenig Books / London Museum of Contemporary Art / Antwerp Art Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Arte Povera Performance / Dance / Theater

Christopher LG Hill
Dissolve Blur Gap Blue Grape Space

2015, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 24 pages, 13 x 19 cm
Edition of 100
Published by Innen Books / Zürich

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Melbourne artist Christopher LG Hill's "Dissolve Blur Gap Blue Grape Space", published in an edition of 100 copies by Innen Books, Zürich, in 2015.

Born 1980, Melbourne, Victoria; Christopher LG Hill lives and works in Melbourne. A co-founder of artist-run space Y3K, Hill has participated in, and organised, many exhibitions and music-related events and productions. Hill is editor and publisher of Endless Lonely Planet and co-founder of Bunyip Trax.

File under: Christopher LG Hill Innen Books / Zürich Art Drawing Australian Art Sculpture / Installation Fiction / Poetry

Christopher LG Hill
Bagged Goods

2016, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 24 pages, 13 x 19 cm
Edition of 100
Published by Innen Books / Zürich

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Melbourne artist Christopher LG Hill's "Bagged Goods", published in an edition of 100 copies by Innen Books, Zürich, in 2016.

Born 1980, Melbourne, Victoria; Christopher LG Hill lives and works in Melbourne. A co-founder of artist-run space Y3K, Hill has participated in, and organised, many exhibitions and music-related events and productions. Hill is editor and publisher of Endless Lonely Planet and co-founder of Bunyip Trax.

File under: Christopher LG Hill Innen Books / Zürich Art Drawing Australian Art Sculpture / Installation Fiction / Poetry

Haegue Yang
ETA 1994 - 2018

2018, English & German
Hardcover, 416 pages, 26.3 x 31.5 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

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This large comprehensive hardcover catalogue raisonné documents and depicts Yangʼs entire oeuvre, from early action-based objects to lacquer paintings, photographs, works on paper and video, anthropomorphic sculptures, performative works, and large-scale installations with venetian blinds.

The abbreviation ETA is internationally recognized as meaning estimated time of arrival, among other things, and points to an artistic career in transit and the constant itineracy of an artist who has exhibited internationally since 1994.

Published to accompany the exhibition Haegue Yang: ETA 1994–2018. 2018 Wolfgang Hahn Prize, 18 Apr – 12 Aug 2018, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany.

Haegue Yang’s (b. 1971 in Seoul, South Korea, lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Seoul) works are often recognised by their eclectic arrangement of utilitarian products – electric cables, artificial plants, synthetic straws, metal plated bells, turbine vents, light bulbs – and, perhaps most notably, venetian blinds, which entered her vocabulary in 2006. Treating these functional objects as Duchampian ready-mades, Yang arranges and reconfigures them into immersive installations with olfactory experiences that oscillate between abstraction and narration, freeing them from their conventional status.

File under: Haegue Yang Yilmaz Dziewior Chus Martinez Leonie Radine Haegue Yang Walther König / Köln Art Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater

Garden of Memory
Etel Adnan - Simone Fattal - Bob Wilson

2018, English / French
Softcover, 128 pages, 23.5 x 16 cm
Published by Koenig Books / London Yves Saint-Laurent Museum / Marrakech

$36.00 - Out of stock

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Lebanese artists Etel Adnan and Simone Fattal, along with revered American theatre director Robert Wilson together create a universe where poetry, sound and sculpture overlap, as well as a framework that enables them to construct situations in which memories are transformed into objects, objects into memories, fiction into reality, and reality into fiction.

Garden of Memory is based on a succession of these shared memories and experiences, manifested in the form of a mental landscape, a non-linear narrative and a choreography filled with both immutable and variable elements. The thrust behind it all is the reading of a poem by Etel Adnan entitled, Surge.

This book includes poetry, essays, artworks and a conversation between Etel Adnan and Simone Fattal moderated by Mouna Mekouar.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Garden of Memory: Etel Adnan, Simone Fattal, Bob Wilson at Yves Saint-Laurent Museum, Marrakech (14 May – 16 September 2018).

English and French text.

File under: Etel Adnan Simone Fattal Bob Wilson Koenig Books / London Yves Saint-Laurent Museum / Marrakech Fiction / Poetry Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Art Painting

Einleuchten: Will, Vorstel und Simul in HH.
Harald Szeemann

1989, German
Softcover, 289 pages, 32 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Christians / Hamburg

$48.00 - Out of stock

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Large catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition "Einleuchten: Will, Vorstel und Simul in HH." curated by Harald Szeemann, 11 November 1989 to 18 February 1990, Hamburg.

Profusely illustrated in full-colour and b&w with biographies on all exhibiting artists, alongside texts by Harald Szeemann, Heinz Liesbrock, Christoph Schenker, and Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen

Artists include : Carl Andre, Giovanni Anselme, Donald Baechler, Georg Baselitz, Joseph Beuys, Christian Botanski, Daniel Buren, Lawrence Carroll, Hanne Darboven, Thierry De Gordier, David Deutsch, Martin Disler, Jiri Georg Dokoupil, Etienne-Martin, Dan Flavin, Günther Förg, Isa Genzken, Robert Gober, Thomas Grünleid, Tishan Hsu, Donald Judd, On Kawara, Ellsworth Kelly, Harald Klingelhöller, Wollgang Laib, Cary S. Leibowitz, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Ingeborg Lüscher, Gerhard Merz, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Reinhard Mucha, Bruce Nauman, Max Neuhaus, Cady Noland, Holt Quentel, David Rabinowitch, Royden Rabinowitch, Ulrich Rückriem, Robert Ryman, Richard Serra, Keith Sonnier, Serge Spitzer, Niele Toroni, Rosemarie Trockel, Richard Tuttle, Cy Twombly, Jan Vercruysse, Michel Verjux, Didier Vermeiren, Bill Viola, Mark Wallinger, Lawrence Weiner, Franz West, Rachel Whiteread, Jerry Zeniuk, Otto Zitko

Very good copy with some bumping to top right corner.

File under: Carl Andre Donald Baechler Georg Baselitz Joseph Beuys Christian Botanski Daniel Buren Lawrence Carroll Hanne Darboven Thierry De Gordier David Deutsch Martin Disler Etienne-Martin Dan Flavin Günther Förg Isa Genzken Robert Gober Thomas Grünleid Tishan Hsu Donald Judd On Kawara Ellsworth Kelly Harald Klingelhöller Wollgang Laib Cary S. Leibowitz Sol LeWitt Richard Long Ingeborg Lüscher Gerhard Merz Mario Merz Marisa Merz Reinhard Mucha Bruce Nauman Max Neuhaus Cady Noland Holt Quentel David Rabinowitch Royden Rabinowitch Ulrich Rückriem Robert Ryman Richard Serra Keith Sonnier Serge Spitzer Niele Toroni Rosemarie Trockel Richard Tuttle Cy Twombly Jan Vercruysse Michel Verjux Didier Vermeiren Bill Viola Mark Wallinger Lawrence Weiner Franz West Rachel Whiteread Jerry Zeniuk Otto Zitko Giovanni Anselmo Jiří Georg Dokoupil Harald Szeemann Heinz Liesbrock Christoph Schenker Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen Christians / Hamburg Art Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Arte Povera Conceptual Art Minimal Art

FANTASTIC ARCHITECTURE

1970, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 200 pages, 13 x 20 cm
1st US Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Something Else Press / New York

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First US edition of this seminal, now very collectable book, "Fantastic Architecture", published in 1970 by Something Else Press, New York (and first published in 1969 by Droste Verlag in German with the title "Pop Architektur". Edited by Dick Higgins and Wolf Vostell, this artist’s book/anthology explores the boundaries between pop art and architecture through writings and projects by key artists and thinkers of the 1960s and earlier—from John Cage and Buckminster Fuller to Kurt Schwitters and Joseph Beuys.

Contributors to this publication are Ay-O, Joseph Beuys, Erich Buchholz, Pol Bury, John Cage, Philip Corner, Jan Dibbets, Robert Filliou, Buckminster Fuller, Geoffrey Hendricks, Richard Hamilton, Raoul Hausmann, Michael Heizer, Jan Jacob Herman, Bici Hendricks, Dick Higgins, K.H. Hoedicke, Hans Hollein, Douglas Huebler, Milan Knizak, Alison Knowles, Addi Koepcke, Franz Mon, Claes Oldenburg, Dennis Oppenheim, GerhardRühm, Diter Rot, Carolee Schneemann, Kurt Schwitters, Daniel Spoerri, Frances Starr, Jean Tinguely, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell, Lawrence Weiner, Stefan Wewerka.

Very Good copy of the first English edition, with Very Good dust jacket and all mylar pages intact.

File under: Dieter Rot Ay-O Joseph Beuys Erich Buchholz Pol Bury John Cage Philip Corner Jan Dibbets Robert Filliou Buckminster Fuller Geoffrey Hendricks Richard Hamilton Raoul Hausmann Michael Heizer Jan Jacob Herman Bici Hendricks Dick Higgins K.H. Hoedicke Hans Hollein Douglas Huebler Milan Knizak Alison Knowles Addi Koepcke Franz Mon Claes Oldenburg Dennis Oppenheim Gerhard Rühm Carolee Schneemann Kurt Schwitters Daniel Spoerri Frances Starr Jean Tinguely Ben Vautier Wolf Vostell Lawrence Weiner Stefan Wewerka Something Else Press / New York Art Pop Art Architecture / Interior Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Fluxus Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Out-of-print / Rare

Practice
Edited by Marcus Boon and Gabriel Levine

2018, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 21 x 23 cm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts Whitechapel / London

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The first anthology to investigate what contemporary notions of practice mean for art, tracing their development and speculating on where this leads.

“Practice” is one of the key words of contemporary art, used in contexts ranging from artists' descriptions of their practice to curatorial practice, from social practice to practice-based research. This is the first anthology to investigate what contemporary notions of practice mean for art, tracing their development and speculating on where this leads.

Reframing the question of practice offers new ways of reading the history of art and of evaluating particular forms of practice-based art. Once used to denote “doing,” as distinct from thinking and making, today the term can convey associations of political action (praxis), professional activity, discipline, or rehearsal, and signal a shift away from the self-enclosed artwork or medium to open-ended actions, series, processes, and projects. Although the turn to practice might promise freedom from finality or eventfulness, it also reflects the neoliberal pressures to train oneself, to perform, and to rehearse a marketable set of skills. This book offers an indispensible guide to the art history and theoretical framework of art-as-practice, clarifying the complex issues at stake in thinking about and enacting practice.

Artists surveyed include Francis Alys, Arakawa, Rebecca Belmore, AA Bronson, Judy Chicago, Lygia Clark, Andrea Fraser, Madeline Gins, Tehching Hsieh, Mary Kelly, Henri Michaux, Linda M. Montano, Pauline Oliveros, Yoko Ono, Adrian Piper, Raivo Puusemp, Rammellzee, Gerhard Richter, Miriam Schapiro, Carolee Schneemann, Gregory Sholette, Aliza Shvarts, Situationist International, Jonas Staal, Stelarc, Fiona Tan, Min Tanaka, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Cecilia Vicuña

Writers include Kathy Acker, Giorgio Agamben, Louis Althusser, Hannah Arendt, Alain Badiou, Lauren Berlant, Gregg Bordowitz, Pierre Bourdieu, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Judith Butler, Jennifer Doyle, Okwui Enwezor, Saidiya V. Hartman, Maulana Karenga, Julia Kristeva, Saba Mahmood, Viktor Misiano, Fred Moten, Paul B. Preciado, Lane Relyea, Suely Rolnik, Peter Sloterdijk, Isabelle Stengers, Winnie Won Yin Wong

Part of the Whitechapel Documents of Contemporary Art series

File under: Francis Alÿs Rebecca Belmore AA Bronson Judy Chicago Lygia Clark Andrea Fraser Madeline Gins Tehching Hsieh Mary Kelly Henri Michaux Pauline Oliveros Yoko Ono Adrian Piper Raivo Puusemp Rammellzee Gerhard Richter Miriam Schapiro Carolee Schneemann Gregory Sholette Aliza Shvarts Situationist International Jonas Staal Stelarc Fiona Tan Min Tanaka Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Cecilia Vicuña Shusaku Arakawa Linda Montano The MIT Press / Massachusetts Whitechapel / London Art Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Feminism Theory / Essay Film / Video Sound / Music Fluxus Dada

Destruction
Edited by Sven Spieker

2017, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 21 x 23 cm
Published by Whitechapel / London The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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The effects and meanings of destruction are central to the work of many of our most influential artists. Since the early 1960s, artists have employed destruction to creative ends. Here destruction changes from a negative state or passive condition to a highly productive category. The destructive subversion of media imagery aims to release us from its controlling effects. The self-destructing artwork extinguishes art’s fixity as arrested form and ushers in the ephemeral and contingent "open work."

This anthology explores artworks that convey the threat of destruction an how they have disrupted the perceived integrity of built structures and institutions. Artistic acts of iconoclasm or risk to the self have raised consciousness of authoritarian oppression. More understated works explore the theme of destruction in armed conflict, media violence, and threats to the environment. These text make up the first collection to be focused systematically on destruction in modern and contemporary art.

Artists surveyed include
Ai Weiwei, John Baldessari, Monica Bonvicini, Alexander Brener, Stuart Brisley, Douglas Gordon, Huang Yong Ping, Enrique Jezik, Milan Knizak, Paul McCarthy, Piero Manzoni, Gordon Matta-Clark, Gustav Metzger, Otto Mühl, Yoko Ono, Raphael Montañez Ortiz, Petr Pavlensky, William Pope.L, Walid Raad, Arnulf Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, Carolee Schneemann, Song Dong, Jean Tinguely, Wolf Vostell

Writers include
Alain Badiou, Walter Benjamin, Horst Bredekamp, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Medina Cuauthémoc, Dario Gamboni, Richard Galpin, Caleb Kelly, Bruno Latour, Sven Lütticken, Antonio Negri, Sophie O’Brien, Kristine Stiles, Jennifer Walden

About the Editor
Sven Spieker is Professor of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and editor of ARTmargins. His books include The Big Archive: Art from Bureaucracy (MIT Press).

File under: Ai Weiwei John Baldessari Monica Bonvicini Alexander Brener Stuart Brisley Douglas Gordon Huang Yong Ping Enrique Jezik Milan Knizak Paul McCarthy Piero Manzoni Gordon Matta-Clark Gustav Metzger Otto Mühl Yoko Ono Raphael Montanez Ortiz Petr Pavlensky William Pope.L Walid Raad Arnulf Rainer Robert Rauschenberg Carolee Schneemann Song Dong Jean Tinguely Wolf Vostell Alain Badiou Walter Benjamin Horst Bredekamp Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev Medina Cuauthémoc Dario Gamboni Richard Galpin Caleb Kelly Bruno Latour Sven Lütticken Antonio Negri Sophie O’Brien Kristine Stiles Jennifer Walden Whitechapel / London The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Fluxus Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater Painting Sculpture / Installation Arte Povera Theory / Essay SALE

QUEER
edited by David J. Getsy

2016, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 145 x 210 mm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts Whitechapel / London

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Historically, “queer” was the slur used against those who were perceived to be or made to feel abnormal. Beginning in the 1980s, “queer” was reappropriated and embraced as a badge of honor. While queer draws its politics and affective force from the history of non-normative, gay, lesbian, and bisexual communities, it is not equivalent to these categories, nor is it an identity. Rather, it offers a strategic undercutting of the stability of identity and of the dispensation of power that shadows the assignment of categories and taxonomies. Artists who identify their practices as queer today call forth utopian and dystopian alternatives to the ordinary, adopt outlaw stances, embrace criminality and opacity, and forge unprecedented kinships, relationships, loves, and communities.

Rather than a book of queer theory for artists, this is a book of artists’ queer tactics and infectious concepts. By definition, there can be no singular “queer art.” Here, in the first Documents of Contemporary Art anthology to be centered on artists’ writings, numerous conversations about queer practice are brought together from diverse individual, social and cultural contexts. Together these texts describe and examine the ways in which artists have used the concept of queer as a site of political and institutional critique, as a framework to develop new families and histories, as a spur to action, and as a basis from which to declare inassimilable difference.

Artists and writers include
Nayland Blake, Gregg Bordowitz, Leigh Bowery, AA Bronson, A. K. Burns, Giuseppe Campuzano, Tee Corinne, Barbara DeGenevieve, Dyke Action Machine!, Elmgreen & Dragset, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Simon Fujiwara, Malik Gaines, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Gran Fury, Sunil Gupta, Hahn Thi Pham, Harmony Hammond, Sharon Hayes, Hudson, Roberto Jacoby, Derek Jarman, Isaac Julien, Mahmoud Khaled, Zoe Leonard, Lesbian Avengers, Catherine Lord, Ma Liuming, LTTR, Allyson Mitchell, Zanele Muholi, Carlos Motta, Ocaña, Hélio Oiticica, Catherine Opie, Ridykeulous (Nicole Eisenman & A.L. Steiner), Marlon Riggs, Emily Roysdon, Prem Sahib, Assoto Saint, Tejal Shah, Amy Sillman, Jack Smith, Wolfgang Tillmans, Toxic Titties, Danh Vo, David Wojnarowicz, Wu Tsang, Yan Xing, Las Yeguas del Apocalipsis, Akram Zaatari, Sergio Zevallos

About the Editor

David J. Getsy is Goldabelle McComb Finn Distinguished Professor of Art History at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His books include Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender, Scott Burton: Collected Writings on Art and Performance, and Rodin: Sex and the Making of Modern Sculpture.

File under: AA Bronson AK Burns Akram Zaatari AL Steiner Allyson Mitchell Amy Sillman Assoto Saint Barbara DeGenevieve Carlos Motta Catherine Lord Catherine Opie Danh Vo David Wojnarowicz Derek Jarman Dyke Action Machine! Elmgreen & Dragset Emily Roysdon Felix Gonzalez-Torres Giuseppe Campuzano Gran Fury Gregg Bordowitz Hahn Thi Pham Harmony Hammond Hélio Oiticica Hudson Isaac Julien Jack Smith Las Yeguas del Apocalipsis Leigh Bowery Lesbian Avengers LTTR Ma Liuming Mahmoud Khaled Malik Gaines Marlon Riggs Nayland Blake Nicole Eisenman Ocaña Prem Sahib Roberto Jacoby Rotimi Fani Kayode Sergio Zevallos Sharon Hayes Simon Fujiwara Sunil Gupta Tee Corinne Tejal Shah Toxic Titties Wolfgang Tillmans Wu Tsang Yan Xing Zanele Muholi Zoe Leonard The MIT Press / Massachusetts Whitechapel / London Art Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay LGBTQ+

Carolee Schneemann
Uncollected Texts

2018, English
Softcover, 164 pages, 21.6 x 14 cm
Published by Primary Information / New York

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Uncollected Texts draws together a number of Carolee Schneemann’s earliest writings – many exceedingly rare and several that are published here for the first time – ranging from letters to the editor, dream journals, and film criticism, to satirical poems, detailed discussions of her art, and pointed feminist critiques. Edited by Branden W. Joseph, the book includes 30 texts by Carolee Schneemann written between 1956 and 1981, as well as an introduction by Joseph.

First published in short-run magazines like Caterpillar, Film Culture, The Fox, Manipulations, and Matter; academic journals such as Performing Arts Journal; and mainstream publications including The New York Times and The Village Voice, the writings gathered in this volume shed light on some of Schneemann’s most important artistic achievements. Schneemann writes about her most famous “kinetic theatre” piece, Meat Joy; anti-Vietnam War works such as Snows, Viet-Flakes, and Divisions and Rubble; the multimedia performance Up to and Including Her Limits; and the double-screen film Kitch’s Last Meal. Frequently referring to one another, the assembled writings produce a densely interwoven tapestry of cross-references that provide unique insights into Schneemann’s artistic development while also foregrounding the artist’s uniquely poetic style.

File under: Carolee Schneemann Branden W. Joseph Primary Information / New York Performance / Dance / Theater Painting Sculpture / Installation Film / Video Art Theory / Essay Feminism

Carolee's
by Carolee Schneemann

2016, English
Softcover, 200 pages, 31.5 x 24 cm
Published by The Artist's Institute / New York Walther König / Köln

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'Caroleeʼs' is the second issue of The Magazine of the Artistʼs Institute.
The first was 'Pierre's' by Pierre Huyghe.

Dedicated to Carolee Schneemann, it features a previously unpublished image archive from Schneemannʼs studio that documents half a century of morphological connections between her work and other visual material, including art, advertising, and popular culture.

A new long-form proﬁle of Schneemann by writer Maggie Nelson accompanies this project and considers the artistʼs relationship to the history of her reception and Schneemannʼs signiﬁcant inﬂuence on subsequent generations of feminists.

File under: Carolee Schneemann Jenny Jaskey Maggie Nelson The Artist's Institute / New York Walther König / Köln Art Feminism Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay

Isamu Noguchi
Sculptures by Isamu Noguchi

1973, English / Japanese
Softcover (french-flaps), 100 pages, 25 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Bijutsu Shuppan Design Center / Japan

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Very scarce catalogue published on the occasion of an important solo exhibition of Isamu Noguchi, "Sculptures by Isamu Noguchi", May 14-June 9, 1973, at Minami Gallery, introducing his sculptural works since 1945 to Japan. Profusely illustrated throughout with lush, saturated colour and black and white photography of Noguchi's sculptures, gardens, playgrounds, environments, reliefs, installations, exhibitions, and works for theatre. Includes the essay "My Sculpture" by Isamu Noguchi, as well as texts by Yoshiro Taniguchi, and Toru Takemitsu, plus list of works, chronology, exhibition history, and illustrated plans for Noguchi's then in-production fountain and plaza project in Detroit. All texts are in both English and Japanese.

Isamu Noguchi (November 17, 1904 – December 30, 1988) prominent Japanese American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward. One of the greatest 20th-century sculptors, Noguchi is known for his sculpture and public works, creating innovative parks, plazas, playgrounds, fountains, gardens, and stage sets as well as sculpture of stone, metal, wood, and clay, and several mass-produced lamps and furniture pieces, some of which are still manufactured and sold. In 1947, Noguchi began a collaboration with the Herman Miller company, when he joined with George Nelson, Paul László and Charles Eames to produce a catalog containing what is often considered to be the most influential body of modern furniture ever produced, including the iconic Noguchi table which remains in production today.

First and only edition in french-fold black-on-black illustrated cover. Good copy with some wear to spine and general light wear/rubbing to covers, light tanning to page edges from age. Back cover has small tears to centre. Otherwise clean and tight throughout.

File under: Isamu Noguchi Yoshiro Taniguchi Toru Takemitsu Bijutsu Shuppan Design Center / Japan Architecture / Interior Furniture Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Ceramics / Glass

Minimal Art : A Critical Anthology
Edited by Gregory Battcock

1968, English
Softcover, 448 pages, 20 x 13.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average

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Battock's definitive 1968 collection of writings by and about the work of the 1960s minimalists, generously illustrated with photographs of paintings, sculpture, and performance, published by E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc., New York.

A collection of twenty-eight seminal essays by both critics and artists across over 400 pages, analyzing all aspects of Minimal Art at it's height in the late 1960s. Includes Lawrence Alloway (Systemic Painting), Mel Bochner (Serial Art, Systems, Solipsism), David Bourdon (The Razed Sites of Carl Andre), Nicolas Calas (Subject Matter in the Work of Barnett Newman), Bruce Glaser (Questions to Frank Stella and Donald Judd), Lucy R. Lippard (Eros Presumptive), John Perreault (Minimal Abstracts), Irving Sandler (Gesture and Non-Gesture in Recent Sculpture), Peter Hutchinson (Mannerism in the Abstract0, Willoughby Sharp (Luminism and Kineticism), Elayne Varian (Schemata 7), Richard Wollheim (Minimal Art), and texts by Martial Raysse, Michael Fried, Clement Greenberg, Dan Flavin, Robert Smithson, and more.

Heavily illustrated throughout with 170 photographs featuring the work of Sol LeWitt, Lee Bontecou, Donald Judd, Hanne Darboven, Carl Andre, Claes Oldenburg, Yves Klein, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, John Chamberlain, Agnes Martin, Christo, Barnett Newman, Ellsworth Kelly, Edward Kienholz, Anne Truitt, Joseph Kosuth, Piet Mondrian, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Marcel Duchamp, Chryssa, Anthony Caro, Dan Flavin, Robert Smithson, Frank Stella, Robert Barry, Larry Bell, Carlo Belloli, William Anastasi, Richard Artschwager, Ronald Balden, John Cage, Walter De Maria, Stephen Antonakos, Walter Darby Bannard, Allan D'Arcangelo, Stuart Davis, Mark di Suvero, Helen Frankenthaler, Jim Dine, Al Held, Dan Graham, Robert Grosvenor, Hans Haacke, Ralph Humphrey, Eva Hesse, Douglas Huebler, Will Insley, Patricia Johanson, Allan Kaprow, Roy Lichtenstein, Morris Louis, Robert Mangold, Brice Marden, Yvonne Rainer, Julio Le Parc, David Smith, Richard Tuttle, Tony Smith, Keith Sonnier, James Raphael Soto, Clyfford Still, Les Levine, Victor Vasarely, Ad Reinhardt, John McCracken, Robert Morris, Kenneth Noland, Robert Whitman, Jules Olitski, Milton Resnick, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jackson Pollock, Larry Poons, Jack Youngerman, George Rickey, Dorothea Rockburne, James Rosenquist, Edward Ruscha, Jan van Eyck, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann, and many others.

Good with general wear and previous owner underlining / notation. Ex-library.

File under: Mel Bochner Martial Raysse Sol LeWitt Lee Bontecou Donald Judd Carl Andre Jasper Johns Robert Rauschenberg Barnett Newman Piet Mondrian Marcel Duchamp Anthony Caro Dan Flavin Robert Smithson Frank Stella Hanne Darboven Claes Oldenburg Yves Klein John Chamberlain Agnes Martin Christo Ellsworth Kelly Edward Kienholz Anne Truitt Joseph Kosuth Richard Anuszkiewicz Chryssa Robert Barry Larry Bell Carlo Belloli William Anastasi Richard Artschwager Ronald Balden John Cage Walter De Maria Stephen Antonakos Walter Darby Bannard Allan D'Arcangelo Stuart Davis Mark di Suvero Helen Frankenthaler Jim Dine Al Held Dan Graham Robert Grosvenor Hans Haacke Ralph Humphrey Eva Hesse Douglas Huebler Will Insley Patricia Johanson Allan Kaprow Roy Lichtenstein Morris Louis Robert Mangold Brice Marden Yvonne Rainer Julio Le Parc David Smith Richard Tuttle Tony Smith Keith Sonnier James Raphael Soto Clyfford Still Les Levine Victor Vasarely Ad Reinhardt John McCracken Robert Morris Kenneth Noland Robert Whitman Jules Olitski Milton Resnick Michelangelo Pistoletto Jackson Pollock Larry Poons Jack Youngerman George Rickey Dorothea Rockburne James Rosenquist Edward Ruscha Jan van Eyck Andy Warhol Tom Wesselmann Gregory Battcock Richard Wollheim Elayne Varian David Bourdon Irving Sandler Clement Greenberg Dan Flavin Robert Smithson Lawrence Alloway Willoughby Sharp Lucy R. Lippard John Perreault Bruce Glaser Nicolas Calas Michael Fried Eugene Goossen Peter Hutchinson Minimal Art Conceptual Art Theory / Essay Art Sculpture / Installation Painting Drawing Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater

Donald Judd
Architektur

1989, English / German
Hardcover, 216 pages, 21.5 x 14.7 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Cantz Verlag / Berlin

$170.00 - Out of stock

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Very first edition of the very scarce original book on Donald Judd's architectural projects, written by Judd himself. Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Donald Judd - Architektur" at Westfälische Kunstverein, Münster, 1989, this now very collectable hardcover book is a comprehensive illustrated guide (colour and black and white photography as well as plans and drawings) through all of Judd's architectural (and furniture) works with texts throughout that develop beyond mere commentary to gain deeper insight into Judd's own architectural theory. All texts are in both English and German, with an introductory text by Marianne Stockebrand.

Cloth hardcover without dust jacket (as the first edition was issued). Ex-Beverly Hills Public Library copy with some rubbing and marking to cloth covers, and cleanly covered library markings to title and end-papers. Otherwise clean and tightly bound throughout.

File under: Donald Judd Donald Judd Cantz Verlag / Berlin Architecture / Interior Furniture Minimal Art Art Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation

Documenta IX
COMPLETE 3 VOLUME BOXSET, HARDCOVER ED.

1992, German / English
Hardcover (in original slipcase), Vol. 1 : 255 pages; Vol. 2 : 310 pages; Vol. 3 : 619 pages, 18.5 x 27 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Hatje Cantz / Berlin

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Hardcover edition, three volume exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany, June 13 - September 9, 1992.

Documenta 9 is remembered as one of the most popular of all documenta exhibitions, thanks not least of all to the influence of its artistic director, the charismatic Belgian curator Jan Hoet. Hoet wanted to make the human being and our sensual, perceptual, agonized corporeality, which had been progressively displaced by the digitized, virtual world, the focus of attention at his exhibition. “From body to body to bodies” was the meaningful, poetic motto of documenta 9. Hoet described his curatorial mission in the following words: “At a time in which the human race is confronted more than ever with such dangers as AIDS and multinational wars, nuclear catastrophes, and global climate disasters, at a time in which threats are growing increasingly abstract and the fears more and more diffuse, I see reflection on the physical conditions of life as an appropriate answer.”

Texts by Jan Hoet, Denys Zacharopoulos, Bart de Baere, Pier Luigi Tazzi, Claudia Herstatt, Joyce Carol Oates, Jacques Roubaud, Cornelius Castoriadis, Heiner Müller, Paul Robbrecht, Hilde Daem.

Artists include Marina Abramovic, Absalon, Richard Artschwager, Francis Bacon, Marco Bagnoli, Nicos Baikas, Miroslaw Balka, Matthew Barney, Jerry Barr, Lothar Baumgarten, Jean-Pierre Bertrand, Joseph Beuys, Michael Biberstein, Guillaume Bijl, Dara Birnbaum, Jonathan Borofsky, Louise Bourgeois, Herbert Brandl, Ricardo Brey, Tony Brown, Marie José Burki, Jean-Marc Bustamante, Michael Buthe, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Waltercio Caldas, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Ernst Caramelle, Lawrence Carroll, Saint Clair Cemin, Tomasz Ciecierski, Tony Clark, James Coleman, Tony Conrad, Patrick Corillon, Damian, Richard Deacon, Thierry De Cordier, Silvie Defraoui & Chérif Defraoui, Raoul De Keyser, Wim Delvoye, Braco Dimitrijevic, Eugenio Dittborn, Helmut Dorner, Stan Douglas, Marlene Dumas, Jimmie Durham, Mo Edoga, Jan Fabre, Luciano Fabro, Belu-Simion Fainaru, Peter Fend, Rose Finn-Kelcey, FLATZ, Fortuyn/O'Brien, Günther Förg, Erik A.Frandsen, Michel François, Vera Frenkel, Katsura Funakoshi, Isa Genzken, Gaylen Gerber, Robert Gober, Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, Angela Grauerholz, Michael Gross, George Hadjimichalis, David Hammons, Georg Herold, Gary Hill, Peter Hopkins, Rebecca Horn, Geoffrey James, Olav Christopher Jenssen, Tim Johnson, Andrej N. Joukov, Ilya Kabakov, Anish Kapoor, Kazuo Katase, Tadashi Kawamata, Mike Kelley, Ellsworth Kelly, Bhupen Khakhar, Per Kirkeby, Harald Klingelhöller, Kurt Kocherscheidt, Peter Kogler, Vladimir Kokolia, Joseph Kosuth, Mariusz Kruk, Guillermo Kuitca, Suzanne Lafont, Jonathan Lasker, Jac Leirner, Zoe Leonard, Eugène Leroy, Via Lewandowsky, Bernd Lohaus, Ingeborg Lüscher, Attila Richard Lukacs, James Lutes, Marcel Maeyer, Brice Marden, Cildo Meireles, Ulrich Meister, Thom Merrick, Gerhard Merz, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Meuser, Jürgen Meyer, Liliana Moro, Reinhard Mucha, Matt Mullican, Juan Muñoz, Christa Näher, Hidetoshi Nagasawa, Bruce Nauman, Max Neuhaus, Pekka Nevalainen, Nic Nicosia, Moshe Ninio, Jussi Niva, Cady Noland, Manuel Ocampo, Jean-Michel Othoniel, Tony Oursler, Panamarenko, Giulio Paolini, A. R. Penck, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Hermann Pitz, Stephen Prina, Richard Prince, Martin Puryear, Royden Rabinowitch, Rober Racine, Philip Rantzer, Charles Ray, Martial Raysse, readymades belong to everyone, José Resende, Gerhard Richter, Ulf Rollof, Erika Rothenberg, Susan Rothenberg, Ulrich Rückriem, Thomas Ruff, Stephan Runge, Edward Ruscha, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Remo Salvadori, Joe Scanlan, Eran Schaerf, Adrian Schiess, Thomas Schütte, Helmut Schweizer, Maria Serebriakova, Mariella Simoni, Susana Solano, Ousmane Sow, Ettore Spalletti, Haim Steinbach, Pat Steir, Wolfgang Strack, Thomas Struth, János Sugár, Yuji Takeoka, Robert Therrien, Frederic Matys Thursz, Niele Toroni, Thanassis Totsikas, Addo Lodovico Trinci, Mitja Tušek, Luc Tuymans, Micha Ullman, Juan Uslé, Bill Viola, Henk Visch, James Welling, Franz West, Rachel Whiteread, Christopher Wool, KeunByung Yook, Heimo Zobernig, Gilberto Zorio, and Constantin Zvezdochotov.

Very Good condition volumes in hardcover (much less common edition than usual softcover), preserved in their original illustrated slipcase (with common repaired splitting and bumping damage).

File under: Absalon Richard Artschwager Francis Bacon Marco Bagnoli Nicos Baikas Miroslaw Balka Matthew Barney Jerry Barr Lothar Baumgarten Jean-Pierre Bertrand Joseph Beuys Michael Biberstein Guillaume Bijl Dara Birnbaum Jonathan Borofsky Louise Bourgeois Herbert Brandl Ricardo Brey Tony Brown Marie José Burki Jean-Marc Bustamante Michael Buthe Pedro Cabrita Reis Waltercio Caldas Pier Paolo Calzolari Ernst Caramelle Lawrence Carroll Saint Clair Cemin Tomasz Ciecierski Tony Clark James Coleman Tony Conrad Patrick Corillon Damian Richard Deacon Thierry De Cordier Silvie Defraoui & Chérif Defraoui Raoul De Keyser Wim Delvoye Braco Dimitrijevic Eugenio Dittborn Helmut Dorner Stan Douglas Marlene Dumas Jimmie Durham Mo Edoga Jan Fabre Luciano Fabro Belu-Simion Fainaru Peter Fend Rose Finn-Kelcey Fortuyn/O'Brien Günther Förg Erik A.Frandsen Michel François Vera Frenkel Katsura Funakoshi Isa Genzken Gaylen Gerber Robert Gober Dan Graham Rodney Graham Angela Grauerholz Michael Gross George Hadjimichalis David Hammons Georg Herold Gary Hill Peter Hopkins Rebecca Horn Geoffrey James Olav Christopher Jenssen Tim Johnson Andrej N. Joukov Ilya Kabakov Anish Kapoor Kazuo Katase Tadashi Kawamata Mike Kelley Ellsworth Kelly Bhupen Khakhar Per Kirkeby Harald Klingelhöller Kurt Kocherscheidt Peter Kogler Vladimir Kokolia Joseph Kosuth Mariusz Kruk Guillermo Kuitca Suzanne Lafont Jonathan Lasker Jac Leirner Zoe Leonard Eugène Leroy Via Lewandowsky Bernd Lohaus Ingeborg Lüscher Attila Richard Lukacs James Lutes Marcel Maeyer Brice Marden Cildo Meireles Ulrich Meister Thom Merrick Gerhard Merz Mario Merz Marisa Merz Meuser Jürgen Meyer Liliana Moro Reinhard Mucha Matt Mullican Juan Muñoz Christa Näher Hidetoshi Nagasawa Bruce Nauman Max Neuhaus Pekka Nevalainen Nic Nicosia Moshe Ninio Jussi Niva Cady Noland Manuel Ocampo Jean-Michel Othoniel Tony Oursler Panamarenko Giulio Paolini Michelangelo Pistoletto Hermann Pitz Stephen Prina Richard Prince Martin Puryear Royden Rabinowitch Rober Racine Philip Rantzer Charles Ray Martial Raysse readymades belong to everyone José Resende Gerhard Richter Ulf Rollof Erika Rothenberg Susan Rothenberg Ulrich Rückriem Thomas Ruff Stephan Runge Edward Ruscha Reiner Ruthenbeck Remo Salvadori Joe Scanlan Eran Schaerf Adrian Schiess Thomas Schütte Helmut Schweizer Maria Serebriakova Mariella Simoni Susana Solano Ousmane Sow Ettore Spalletti Haim Steinbach Pat Steir Wolfgang Strack Thomas Struth János Sugár Yuji Takeoka Robert Therrien Frederic Matys Thursz Niele Toroni Thanassis Totsikas Addo Lodovico Trinci Mitja Tušek Luc Tuymans Micha Ullman Juan Uslé Bill Viola Henk Visch James Welling Franz West Rachel Whiteread Christopher Wool KeunByung Yook Heimo Zobernig Gilberto Zorio Constantin Zvezdochotov FLATZ Marina Abramovič A.R. Penck Hatje Cantz / Berlin Art Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Sound / Music Theory / Essay Curatorial Out-of-print / Rare Conceptual Art Feminism Arte Povera Group Shows / Collections Australian Art

Bruno Munari
Design As Art

1987, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 140 pages, 22.9 x 27.9 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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First english edition of this long out-of-print major hardcover monograph on Bruno Munari. Published by The MIT Press in 1987, this was the first comprehensive book on his work, and was itself designed by Munari! Clothbound, in original dust-jacket, protected in plastic sleeve.

Foreward by Andrea Branzi.

One of the last surviving members of the futurist generation, Bruno Munari has been the enfant terrible of Italian art and design for most of this century. Munari was born in 1907 in Milan and it was against the active background of futurism that his artistic experiments developed, but his mechanical fantasies, practical inventions, and didactic writings continue to be enjoyed by a public that has no memory of Balla, Prampolini, and Marinetti.

Munari's 40-odd books, ranging from futurist manifestoes to design manuals to children's books, have been widely read in many languages. But this book, itself designed by Munari, is the first comprehensive account of his total achievement. Here are the Unreadable Books (that told stories through the possibilities of typography, papermaking, and binding), Traveling Sculptures, Fossils of the Year 2000, Theoretical Reconstruction of Imaginary Objects, Original Xerographies, Negative Positives, and the famous Useless Machines of the 1930s (constructions for wagging the tails of lazy dogs, predicting dawn, making sobs sound musical) as well as numerous other works, some published for the first time.

The hundreds of illustrations, many in full color, recreate Munari's relentless inventiveness, his love of irony, chance and humor, his intensely experimental orientation and constantly fresh approach to new technologies and materials.

Aldo Tanchis lives in Milan where he is currently collaborating with the advertising agency Pirella Göttsche. He is the author of The Anomalous Art of Bruno Munari.

Condition: Very Good/Fine (dust-jacket and book in clean, tight condition wrapped in protective plastic sleeve - book and pages in fine, bright condition)

File under: Andrea Branzi Bruno Munari Aldo Tanchis The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Graphic Design / Typography Furniture Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Ceramics / Glass Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Architecture / Interior

Exhibiting the Exhibition
From the Cabinet of Curiosities to the Curatorial Situation

2018, English / German
Hardcover, 222 pages, 22 x 31 cm
Published by Hatje Cantz / Berlin Staatliche Kunsthalle / Baden Baden

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Exhibiting the Exhibition investigates the history of exhibiting up to the present day. The show at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden begins with predecessors to the modern museum and early art collections, then moves on to twentieth-century exhibition methods and the curatorial positions of today. The catalogue expands upon the exhibition concept: instead of photographing the exhibits for publication, various illustrators were hired to draw them, so that the book itself becomes an entirely independent instrument of “display.”

Besides the essays and interviews, the volume features works by John Bock, Mariana Castillo Deball, Andrea Fraser, Jeppe Hein, Julian Irlinger, Friedrich Kiesler, Louise Lawler, El Lissitzky, Karin Sander, Sebastian Thewes, Kaari Upson, Pae White, Fred Wilson, and many others.

With a conversation between Bénédicte Savoy and Johan Holten.

Texts by Beatrice von Bismarck, Regine Ehleiter, Stefanie Heraeus, Johan Holten, Moritz Scheper.

File under: John Bock Mariana Castillo Deball Andrea Fraser Jeppe Hein Julian Irlinger Louise Lawler El Lissitzky Karin Sander Sebastian Thewes Kaari Upson Pae White Fred Wilson Frederick Kiesler Beatrice von Bismarck Regine Ehleiter Stefanie Heraeus Johan Holten Moritz Scheper Hatje Cantz / Berlin Staatliche Kunsthalle / Baden Baden Art Curatorial Group Shows / Collections Theory / Essay Sculpture / Installation

Radical Utopias
Archizoom, Remo Buti, 9999, Gianni Pettena, Superstudio, UFO, Zziggurat

2017, English
Softcover, 352 pages, 17 x 24 cm
Published by Quodlibet / Italy

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This volume is published in conjunction with an exhibition presenting the radical architects and architect groups who emerged in Florence in the late 1960s. It was a period characterised by crisis in the city, which extended to the wider political and social tension occurring throughout Italy. The related writings, drawings, and projects produced by these seven actors – Archizoom, Remo Buti, 9999, Gianni Pettena, Superstudio, UFO, and Zziggurat – have influenced generations of architects, historians, designers, and artists around the world. For the first time, all of their theoretical and visual work has been compiled in a single publication, giving renewed insight into their movement.

File under: Lapo Binazzi Archizoom Remo Buti 9999 Gianni Pettena Superstudio UFO Zziggurat Quodlibet / Italy Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Architecture / Interior Furniture Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay

Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Specific Objects without Specific Form

2016, English
Hardcover, 656 pages, 28.2 x 19 cm
Published by Fondation Beyeler / Basel Koenig Books / London MMK / Frankfurt am Main WIELS / Brussels

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Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957-1996) is one of the most influential artists of his generation. This catalogue includes both rarely seen and more known paintings, sculptures, photographic works, and public projects, reflecting the full scope of the artist’s short yet prolific career.

Specific Objects without Specific Form offered several exhibition versions (and none the authoritative one), all the better to present the oeuvre of an artist who put fragility, the passage of time, and the questioning of authority at the centre of his artwork.

At each venue in which the show was hosted, the exhibition was co-curated with, and re-installed/re-imagined by a different invited artist whose practice has been informed by Gonzalez-Torres’ work. Those artists are Danh Vo, Carol Bove, and Tino Sehgal.

Specific Objects without Specific Form acknowledges that the way an exhibition begins and ends its ‘story’, the emphasis it places on one aspect more than another, the way it presents individual artworks, the juxtapositions it constructs, the mood it creates, in addition to the way an exhibition is discursively presented — all of these potentially shift the way that a body of work might be understood by its public. And all of these participate in the construction of the meaning and reception of an oeuvre, which is to say, nothing less than the construction of history.

Published retrospectively after the exhibition at WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels (January – April 2010); Fondation Beyeler, Basel (May – August 2010); and MMK, Frankfurt am Main (January – April 2011).

File under: Carol Bove Danh Vo Felix Gonzalez-Torres Tino Sehgal Elena Filipovic Fondation Beyeler / Basel Koenig Books / London MMK / Frankfurt am Main WIELS / Brussels Art Photography Sculpture / Installation