World Food Books

Purple 5
Summer '00

2000, English
Softcover, 500 pages, 21.5 x 15.7 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Purple Institute / Paris

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A rare early issue of the iconic Purple magazine, edited by Elein Fleiss and Olivier Zahm, this wonderful early edition features: Susan Cianciolo, Raf Simons, Jack Goldstein, Terry Richardson, Anders Edstrom, Chloe Sevigny, Wolfgang Tillmans, Martin Margiela, Rosemarie Trockel, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, General Idea, Mark Borthwick, Lewis Baltz, Lars Bang Larsen, Wolfgang Tillmans, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Comme des Garçons, Michelle Grabner, Bless, Yohji Yamamoto, Dike Blair, Bernhard Willhelm, Gilles Deleuze, Karl Holmqvist, David Grubbs, Glenn O'Brian, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Bob Nickas, Sergio Guillen, Camille Vivier, Tan Lin, Olivier Zahm, Armin Linke, Amy Yao, Elein Fleiss, Henry Roy, Torbjorn Rodland, Chikashi Suzuki, Michael Smith, Lionel Bovier, Amy Sillman, Cerith Wyn Evans, Daniel Pflumm, Allen Rupperberg, Blake Rayne, Stephen Prina, Sture Johannesson, Franz Ackermann, Adrea Zittel, Jeremy Deller, Miu Miu, Dorothee Perret, Gaspard Yurkievich, Stanley Brouwn, Vija Celmins, Bas Jan Ader, Richard Prince, Tim Griffin, and so many more. One of the best issues!

In 1992, Elein Fleiss and Olivier Zahm started the magazine Purple Prose as a reaction against the superficial glamour of the 1980s; much as a part of the global counterculture at the time, inspired by magazines like Interview, Ray Gun, Nova, and Helmut Newton's Illustrated, but with the aesthetics of what usually is referred to as anti-fashion. Based on their personal interests and views; Purple was, and in a sense still is, made much in the same spirit of the fanzine. Started "without any means, and without any experience, because we wanted to make a magazine that was radically different. We wanted to support the artists around us that no one else supported, much less talked about."—Olivier Zahm. The magazine became associated with the "realism" of the new fashion photography of the 1990s, with names like Juergen Teller, Terry Richardson, Wolfgang Tillmans, Mark Borthwick, Corinne Day, and Mario Sorrenti. Soon after the birth of Purple Prose, Zahm and Fleiss created spin-off publications such as les cahiers purple, Purple Sexe, Purple Fiction, and of course, Purple Fashion, in which Zahm aimed at fusing together his two worlds, fashion and art. Now one of the most iconic and influential fashion magazines in history.

Very Good copy. Copy from the library of OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture)! OMA was founded in 1975 by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and Greek architect Elia Zenghelis, along with Madelon Vriesendorp and Zoe Zenghelis. Sticker to spine and sticker to front cover (re-movable, but let on due to noteworthiness)

File under: General Idea Mark Borthwick Lewis Baltz Wolfgang Tillmans Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster Comme des Garçons Vija Celmins Michelle Grabner Bless Yohji Yamamoto Dike Blair Bernhard Willhelm Karl Holmqvist David Grubbs Glenn O'Brian Stanley Brouwn Bas Jan Ader Richard Prince Tim Griffin Anders Edstrom Anders Edström Terry Richardson Sergio Guillen Camille Vivier Armin Linke Amy Yao Henry Roy Torbjørn Rødland Gaspard Yurkievich Chikashi Suzuki Michael Smith Amy Sillman Allen Rupperberg Cerith Wyn Evans Rosemarie Trockel Andrea Zittel Daniel Pflumm Raf Simons Jack Goldstein Stephen Prina Blake Rayne Sture Johannesson Franz Ackermann Chloë Sevigny Susan Cianciolo Maison Martin Margiela Martin Margiela Lars Bang Larsen Gilles Deleuze Hans Ulrich Obrist Bob Nickas Tan Lin Olivier Zahm Elein Fleiss Lionel Bovier Dorothee Perret Joshua Decter Purple Institute / Paris Fashion Fiction / Poetry Art Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Photography

Sonsbeek '72

1972, English / Dutch
3 books, softcover, approx 360 photo cards, 13.5 x 17 cm
Ed of 700 copies,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Sonsbeek / Arnhem

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Very scarce, incredible Sonsbeek '72 complete 3 volume catalogue set, published in a limited edition of 700 copies by Sonsbeek, Arnhem, 1972. The tripartite catalogue arose from the notes and photos made of an important group exhibition where artists submitted installation or performance pieces, executed during the period November '71 - June '72. Each volume forms an alphabetical index of artist photographic cards (#1 A-H, #2 I-R, #3 S-Z), totalling approx. 360, each with the data of their artwork on the front and photographic documentation on the verso. Very beautifully executed.

Participating artists include Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Carl Andre, Richard Artschwager, Joseph Beuys, Marinus Boezem, Daniel Buren, Walter de Maria, Jan Dibbets, Ad Dekkers, Ger van Elk, Hans Eykelboom, Barry Flanagan, Hollis Frampton, Dan Graham, Douglas Huebler, Donald Judd, On Kawara, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Dennis Oppenheim, Nam June Paik, Panamarenko, Edward Ruscha, Wim T. Schippers, Lawrence Weiner, Tenjo Sajiki, Michael Snow, Kenneth Snelson, Eric Siegel, Paul Sharits, Wim Crouwel, Yokoyama, Claes Oldenburg, Bruce Nauman, Robert Morris, Jack Moore, Yutaka Mutsuzawa, Peter Kubelka, Hans Koetsier, Ken Jacobs, Walter de Maria, Dan Graham, Hanne Darboven, Marinus Boezem.

Very Good copies each, with light wear, spine tanning/creasing, otherwise tight and well preserved.

File under: Vito Acconci Bas Jan Ader Carl Andre Richard Artschwager Joseph Beuys Marinus Boezem Daniel Buren Walter de Maria Jan Dibbets Ad Dekkers Ger van Elk Hans Eykelboom Barry Flanagan Hollis Frampton Dan Graham Douglas Huebler Donald Judd On Kawara Sol LeWitt Richard Long Dennis Oppenheim Nam June Paik Panamarenko Edward Ruscha Wim T. Schippers Lawrence Weiner Tenjo Sajiki Michael Snow Kenneth Snelson Eric Siegel Paul Sharits Wim Crouwel Yokoyama Claes Oldenburg Bruce Nauman Robert Morris Jack Moore Yutaka Mutsuzawa Peter Kubelka Hans Koetsier Hanne Darboven Ken Jacobs Paul Bonger Rick Vermeulen Sonsbeek / Arnhem Art Out-of-print / Rare Conceptual Art Minimal Art Arte Povera Objects / Ephemera / A/V Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Pop Art

Art & Project : A History

2023, English / Dutch
Softcover, 512 pages, 21 × 29.7 cm
Published by Nai010 Publishers / Rotterdam

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A comprehensive volume on the influential Dutch gallery that united American and European conceptualism For more than 33 years, the Amsterdam gallery Art & Project (1968-2001) played a pivotal role in the development of contemporary art within the Netherlands and beyond. Founders Adriaan van Ravesteijn (1938-2015) and Geert van Beijeren (1933-2005) presented a pioneering program of work by both national and international artists, including Marinus Boezem, Stanley Brouwn, Jan Dibbets, Charlotte Posenenske, Gilbert & George, Lawrence Weiner and Sol LeWitt, among many others. The cofounders published a total of 156 bulletins to draw attention to their exhibitions, and the bulletins quickly evolved into an experimental medium—from carriers of conceptual artists' ideas to conceptual artworks themselves.

Art & Project: A History examines the gallery's exhibitions, bulletins, social networks and international legacy. Replete with extensive research and previously unpublished visual material, this massive book provides an indispensable overview of the history of conceptual art in the Netherlands.

Text by Jip Hinten, Isabelle Bisseling, Ton Geerts, Regine Ehleither.

Already out-of-print at source.

File under: Hanne Darboven Daniel Buren Marcel Broodthaers Ian Wilson Bas Jan Ader Yutaka Matsuzawa Jan Dibbets Gilbert & George Richard Long Ger van Elk Charlotte Posenenske Lawrence Weiner Stanley Brouwn Sol LeWitt Jip Hinten Isabelle Bisseling Ton Geerts Regine Ehleither Nai010 Publishers / Rotterdam Performance / Dance / Theater Curatorial Conceptual Art Photography Art Sculpture / Installation Concrete Poetry Painting Group Shows / Collections Periodicals Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Fluxus Theory / Essay

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Artist in the Counterculture : Bruce Conner to Mike Kelley and Other Tales from the Edge
by Thomas Crow

2023, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 288 pages, 25.4 x 19 cm
Published by Princeton University Press / New York

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How California's counterculture of the 1960s to 1980s profoundly shaped—and was shaped by—West Coast artists.

The 1960s exert a special fascination in modern art. But most accounts miss the defining impact of the period's youth culture, largely incubated in California, on artists who came of age in that decade. As their prime exemplar, Bruce Conner, reminisced, "I did everything that everybody did in 1967 in the Haight-Ashbury. . . . I would take peyote and walk out in the streets." And he vividly channeled those experiences into his art, while making his mark on every facet of the psychedelic movement—from the mountains of Mexico with Timothy Leary to the rock ballrooms of San Francisco to the gilded excesses of the New Hollywood. In The Artist in the Counterculture, Thomas Crow tells the story of California art from the 1960s to the 1980s—some of the strongest being made anywhere at the time—and why it cannot be understood apart from the new possibilities of thinking and feeling unleashed by the rebels of the counterculture.

Crow reevaluates Conner and other key figures—from Catholic activist Corita Kent to Black Panther Emory Douglas to ecological witness Bonnie Ora Sherk—as part of a generational cohort galvanized by resistance to war, racial oppression, and environmental degradation. Younger practitioners of performance and installation carried the mindset of rebellion into the 1970s and 1980s, as previously excluded artists of color moved to the forefront in Los Angeles. Mike Kelley, their contemporary, remained unwaveringly true to the late countercultural flowering he had witnessed at the dawn of his career.

The result is a major new account of the counterculture's enduring influence on modern art.

File under: Sister Corita Kent Emory Douglas Mike Kelley Bruce Conner Raymond Pettibon Bas Jan Ader Allen Ruppersberg The Cockettes Sun Ra Sun Ra Arkestra John Baldessari Asco Terry Fox Robert Smithson Michael Asher Lewis Baltz Chris Burden Bonnie Ora Sherk Jenny Lens Gary Grimshaw Vija Clemens Martha Rosler Öyvind Fahlström Senga Nengudi Mowry Baden David Hammons Alexis Smith Helene Winer James Turrell Rupert Garcia Irving Petlin Thomas Crow Princeton University Press / New York Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Counterculture Sociology / Politics Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Art Conceptual Art Film / Video Photography Protest / Revolt

Pathetic Literature
Edited by Eileen Myles

2022, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 688 pages, 15 x 23 cm
Published by Grove Press / New York

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An utterly unique collection composed by the award-winning poet and writer, a global anthology of pieces from lesser-known classics by luminaries like Franz Kafka, Samuel R. Delany, and Gwendolyn Brooks to up-and-coming writers that examine pathos and feeling, giving a well-timed rehab to the word "pathetic"

"Literature is pathetic." So claims Eileen Myles in their bold and bracing introduction to Pathetic Literature, an exuberant collection of pieces ranging from poetry to theater to prose to something in between, all of which explore those so-called "pathetic" or sensitive feelings around which lives are built and revolutions are incited.

Myles first reclaimed the word for a seminar they taught at the University of California San Diego, rescuing it from the derision into which it had slipped and restoring its original meaning of inspiring emotion or feeling, from the Ancient Greek rhetorical method pathos. Their reinvention of "pathetic" formed the bedrock for this anthology, which includes a breathtaking 106 contributors, encompassing titans of global literature like Robert Walser, Jorge Luis Borges, Rumi, and Gwendolyn Brooks, queer icons and revolutionaries like Dodie Bellamy, Samuel R. Delany, and Bob Flanagan, as well as the invigorating newness and excitement of writers on the rise, including Nicole Wallace, Precious Okoyomon, and Will Farris. Creative nonfiction by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Jack Halberstam, and Porochista Khakpour rubs shoulders with poetry by Natalie Diaz, Victoria Chang, Lucille Clifton, and Ariana Reines, all joined by prose from Chester Himes, Djuna Barnes, Chris Kraus, and Qiu Miaojin, among so many others. The result is a matchless anthology that is as much an ongoing dialogue as an essential compendium of queer, revolutionary, joyful, and always moving literature.

From confrontations with suffering, embarrassment, and disquiet, to the comforts and consolations of finding one's familiar double in a poem, Pathetic Literature is a swarming taxonomy of ways to think differently and live pathetically on a polarized and fearful planet.

Eileen Myles, Alice Notley, Gwendolyn Brooks, The Friend, Kevin Killian, Ama Birch, Andrea Dworkin, Ariana Reines, Bob Flanagan, Baha' Ebdeir, Bob Kaufman, Brandon Shimoda, Bruce Benderson, CAConrad, Camille Roy, Can Xue, Carmen Boullosa, Chantal Akerman, Charles Bernstein, Chester Himes, Chris Kraus, Bas Jan Ader, Dana Ward, Dara Barrois/Dixon, Dennis Cooper, Dodie Bellamy, Djuna Barnes, essa may ranapiri, Etel Adnan, Fanny Howe, Fred Moten, Gail Scott, Franz Kafka, Georg Büchner, J. R. Ackerley, Jack Halberstam, James Schuyler, Frank B. Wilderson III, James Welch, Jerome Sala, Joe Proulx, Joan Larkin, Joe Westmoreland, Jocelyn Saidenberg, The Cyborg Jillian Weise, John Wieners, Jorge Luis Borges, Judy Grahn, Justin Torres, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Andrea Abi-Karam, Kathy Acker, Layli Long Soldier, Keith Waldrop, Kim Hyesoon, Kristín Ómarsdóttir, Laura Henriksen, Laurence Sterne, Lawrence Braithwaite, Laurie Weeks, Lucille Clifton, Lynne Tillman, Maan Abu Taleb, Maggie Nelson, Marcella Durand, Matthew Stadler, Michael McClure, Michelle Tea, Mira Gonzalez, Morgan Võ, Moyra Davey, Natalie Diaz, Nate Lippens, Akilah Oliver, Porochista Khakpour, Nicole Wallace, Qiu Miaojin, Rae Armantrout, Rebecca Brown, Renee Gladman, Feliu-Pettet, Robert Walser, Robert Glück, Sallie Fullerton, Rumi, Saidiya Hartman, Samuel Beckett, Samuel R. Delany, Sei Shōnagon, Sergio, Simone Weil, Simone White, Precious Okoyomon, Sophie Robinson, Sparrow, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Susie Timmons, Tim Johnson and Mark So, Valerie Solanas, Steve Carey, Violette Leduc, Tom Cole, Victoria Chang, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Victor Hugo, Will Farris...

File under: Bas Jan Ader Grove Press / New York Fiction / Poetry LGBTQ+

Art-Rite

2019, English
Softcover, 678 pages, 21.5 x 27.5 cm
Ed. of 2000,
Published by Primary Information / New York

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Out of print.

Edited by Walter Robinson, Edit DeAk, and Joshua Cohn, Art-Rite was published in New York City between 1973 and 1978. The periodical has long been celebrated for its underground/overground position and its cutting, humorous, on-the-streets coverage and critique of the art world. Art-Rite moved easily through the expansive community it mapped out, paying homage to an emergent generation of artists, including many who were—or would soon become—the defining voices of the era. Through hundreds of interviews, reviews, statements, and projects for the page—as well as artist-focused and thematic issues on video, painting, performance, and artists’ books—Art-Rite’s sharp editorial vision and commitment to spotlighting the work of artists stands as a meaningful and lasting contribution to the art history of New York City and beyond.

All issues of Art-Rite are collected and published here.

Featured artists include Vito Acconci, Kathy Acker, Bas Jan Ader, Laurie Anderson, John Baldessari, Gregory Battcock, Lynda Benglis, Mel Bochner, Marcel Broodthaers, Trisha Brown, Chris Burden, Scott Burton, Ulises Carrión, Judy Chicago, Lucinda Childs, Christo, Diego Cortez, Hanne Darboven, Agnes Denes, Ralston Farina, Richard Foreman, Peggy Gale, Gilbert & George, John Giorno, Philip Glass, Leon Golub, Peter Grass, Julia Heyward, Nancy Holt, Ray Johnson, Joan Jonas, Richard Kern, Lee Krasner, Shigeko Kubota, Les Levine, Sol LeWitt, Lucy Lippard, Babette Mangolte, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Gordon Matta-Clark, Rosemary Mayer, Annette Messager, Elizabeth Murray, Alice Neel, Brian O’Doherty, Genesis P-Orridge, Nam June Paik, Charlemagne Palestine, Judy Pfaff, Lil Picard, Yvonne Rainer, Judy Rifka, Dorothea Rockburne, Ed Ruscha, Robert Ryman, David Salle, Carolee Schneemann, Richard Serra, Jack Smith, Patti Smith, Robert Smithson, Holly Solomon, Naomi Spector, Nancy Spero, Pat Steir, Frank Stella, Alan Suicide (Vega), David Tremlett, Richard Tuttle, Andy Warhol, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, Hannah Wilke, Robert Wilson, Yuri, and Irene von Zahn.

File under: Vito Acconci Kathy Acker Bas Jan Ader Laurie Anderson John Baldessari Gregory Battcock Lynda Benglis Mel Bochner Marcel Broodthaers Trisha Brown Chris Burden Scott Burton Ulises Carrión Judy Chicago Lucinda Childs Christo Diego Cortez Hanne Darboven Agnes Denes Ralston Farina Richard Foreman Peggy Gale Gilbert & George John Giorno Philip Glass Leon Golub Peter Grass Julia Heyward Nancy Holt Ray Johnson Joan Jonas Richard Kern Lee Krasner Shigeko Kubota Les Levine Sol LeWitt Babette Mangolte Brice Marden Agnes Martin Gordon Matta-Clark Rosemary Mayer Annette Messager Genesis P-Orridge Brian O'Doherty Judy Pfaff Lil Picard Yvonne Rainer Judy Rifka Dorothea Rockburne Ed Ruscha Robert Ryman David Salle Carolee Schneemann Richard Serra Jack Smith Patti Smith Robert Smithson Holly Solomon Naomi Spector Nancy Spero Pat Steir Frank Stella David Tremlett Richard Tuttle Andy Warhol William Wegman Lawrence Weiner Hannah Wilke Robert Wilson Yuri Irene von Zahn Elizabeth Murray Alice Neel Nam June Paik Charlemagne Palestine Alan Vega Gregory Battcock Brian O’Doherty John Giorno Patti Smith Kathy Acker Lucy R. Lippard Babette Mangolte Primary Information / New York Feminism Art Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Fluxus Sculpture / Installation Painting Fiction / Poetry Conceptual Art Minimal Art Photography Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections Pop Art Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video

Art After Conceptual Art
Edited by Alexander Alberro and Sabeth Buchmann

2006, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 23 x 14 cm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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Art After Conceptual Art tracks the various legacies of conceptualist practice over the past three decades. This collection of essays by art historians and artists from Europe and the Americas (including Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Helen Molesworth, Isabelle Graw, Thomas Crow, Helmut Draxler, Alexander Alberro, Sabeth Buchmann, Henrik Oelsen, Edit András) introduces and develops the idea that conceptual art generated several different, and even contradictory, forms of art practice. Some of these contested commonplace assumptions of what art is; others served to buttress those assumptions. The bulk of the volume features newly written and highly innovative essays challenging standard interpretations of the legacy of conceptualism and discussing the influence of conceptualism's varied practices on art since the 1970s. The essays explore topics as diverse as the interrelationships between conceptualism and institutional critique, neoexpressionist painting and conceptualist paradigms, conceptual art's often-ignored complicity with design and commodity culture, the specific forms of identity politics taken up by the reception of conceptual art, and conceptualism's North/South and East/West dynamics. A few texts that continue to be crucial for critical debates within the fields of conceptual and postconceptual art practice, history, and theory have been reprinted in order to convey the vibrant and ongoing discussion on the status of art after conceptual art. Taken together, the essays will inspire an exploration of the relationship between postconceptualist practices and the beginnings of contemporary art.

File under: Michael Asher Dan Graham Maria Eichhorn Maria Eichhorn Mathias Poledna Martha Rosler Daniel Buren Louise Lawler Christopher Williams Bas Jan Ader Judy Chicago Mary Kelly Mierle Laderman Ukeles Lygia Clark Adrian Piper Piero Manzoni Douglas Huebler Markus Lüpertz Nils Norman Jarosław Kozłowski Christopher D'Arcangelo Fareed Armaly Dorit Margreiter Alexander Alberro Sabeth Buchmann Benjamin H. D. Buchloh Helen Molesworth Isabelle Graw Thomas Crow Helmut Draxler Henrik Oelsen Edit András The MIT Press / Massachusetts Conceptual Art Minimal Art Sculpture / Installation Film / Video Art Theory / Essay Photography

Materializing Six Years
Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art

2012, English
Hardcover, 304 pages, 216 x 254 mm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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Lucy R. Lippard's famous book, itself resembling an exhibition, is now brought full circle in an exhibition (and catalog) resembling her book.

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

In 1973 the critic and curator Lucy R. Lippard published Six Years, a book with possibly the longest subtitle in the bibliography of art: The dematerialization of the art object from 1966 to 1972: a cross-reference book of information on some esthetic boundaries: consisting of a bibliography into which are inserted a fragmented text, art works, documents, interviews, and symposia, arranged chronologically and focused on so-called conceptual or information or idea art with mentions of such vaguely designated areas as minimal, anti-form, systems, earth, or process art, occurring now in the Americas, Europe, England, Australia, and Asia (with occasional political overtones) edited and annotated by Lucy R. Lippard. Six Years, sometimes referred to as a conceptual art object itself, not only described and embodied the new type of art-making that Lippard was intent on identifying and cataloging, it also exemplified a new way of criticizing and curating art. Nearly forty years later, the Brooklyn Museum takes Lippard’s celebrated experiment in curated concatenation as a template, turning a book that resembled an exhibition into an exhibition materializing the ideas in her book.

The artworks and essays featured in this publication recall the thrill that was tangible in Lippard's original documentation, reminding us that during the late sixties and early seventies all possible social and material parameters of art (making) were played with, worked over, inverted, reduced, expanded, and rejected. By tracing Lippard’s own activities in those years, the book also documents the early blurring of boundaries among critical, curatorial, and artistic practices.

With more than 200 images of work by dozens of artists (printed in color throughout), this book brings Lippard’s curatorial experiment full circle.

Edited by Catherine Morris and Vincent Bonin

Published on the occasion of the exhibition The Six Years' Project: Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art, September 14, 2012-February 3, 2013, organized by Catherine Morris, Curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center at the Brooklyn Museum, and the independent scholar Vincent Bonin.

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

Disappearing - California c.1970 : Bas Jan Ader, Chris Burden, Jack Goldstein
By Philipp Kaiser

2019, English
Softcover, 176 pages, 21.5 x 27 cm
Published by Prestel / Munich

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In 1971, Chris Burden disappeared for three days without a trace. This book, also entitled Disappearing, examines the theme of disappearance in the works of Burden and his contemporaries, Bas Jan Ader and Jack Goldstein, in 1970s Southern California. Loosely affiliated, these three artists shared an interest in themes of disappearance and self-effacement. In 1972, Goldstein buried himself alive during a performance, while during Ader's tragic last work, In search of the miraculous (1975), the artist vanished crossing the Atlantic. Responding to cultural pressures like the Vietnam War and the nascent field of feminist art, the artists used "disappearing" as a response to the masculine anxiety of the 1970s. This book reveals a fascinating intersection between major figures at a critical turning point for Californian art.

File under: Bas Jan Ader Chris Burden Jack Goldstein Philipp Kaiser Prestel / Munich Art Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Theory / Essay Sound / Music Film / Video

Chance
Edited by Margaret Iversen

2010, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 145 x 210 mm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts Whitechapel / London

$49.00 - Out of stock

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The chance situation or random event—whether as a strategy or as a subject of investigation—has been central to many artists' practices across a multiplicity of forms, including expressionism, automatism, the readymade, collage, surrealist and conceptual photography, fluxus event scores, film, audio and video, performance, and participatory artworks. But why—a century after Dada and Surrealism's first systematic enquiries—does chance remain a key strategy in artists' investigations into the contemporary world?The writings in this anthology examine the gap between intention and outcome, showing it to be crucial to the meaning of chance in art. The book provides a new critical context for chance procedures in art since 1900 and aims to answer such questions as why artists deliberately set up such a gap in their practice; what new possibilities this suggests; and why the viewer finds the art so engaging.Artists surveyed include: Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Francis Alÿs, William Anastasi, John Baldessari, Walead Beshty, Mark Boyle, George Brecht, Marcel Broodthaers, John Cage, Sophie Calle, Tacita Dean, Stan Douglas, Marcel Duchamp, Brian Eno, Fischli & Weiss, Ceal Floyer, Huang Yong Ping, Douglas Huebler, Allan Kaprow, Alison Knowles, Jiri Kovanda, Jorge Macchi, Christian Marclay, Cildo Meireles, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Yoko Ono, Gabriel Orozco, Cornelia Parker, Robert Rauschenberg, Gerhard Richter, Daniel Spoerri, Keith Tyson, Jennifer West, Ceryth Wyn Evans, La Monte Young

Writers include: Paul Auster, Jacquelynn Baas, Georges Bataille, Daniel Birnbaum, Claire Bishop, Guy Brett, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Stanley Cavell, Lynne Cooke, Fei Dawei, Gilles Deleuze, Anna Dezeuze, Russell Ferguson, Branden W. Joseph, Siegfried Kracauer, Jacques Lacan, Sarat Maharaj, John Miller, Alexandra Munroe, Gabriel Pérez Barreiro, Jasia Reichardt, Julia Robinson, Sarah Valdez, Katharina VossenkuhlDocuments of Contemporary Art series
Copublished with Whitechapel Gallery, London

File under: Alison Knowles Allan Kaprow Bas Jan Ader Brian Eno Bruce Nauman Ceal Floyer Cerith Wyn Evans Christian Marclay Cildo Meireles Cornelia Parker Daniel Spoerri David Weiss Douglas Huebler Francis Alÿs Gabriel Orozco George Brecht Gerhard Richter Huang Yong Ping Jennifer West Jiri Kovanda John Baldessari John Cage Jorge Macchi Keith Tyson La Monte Young Marcel Broodthaers Marcel Duchamp Mark Boyle Peter Fischli Peter Fischli & David Weiss Robert Morris Robert Rauschenberg Sophie Calle Stan Douglas Tacita Dean Vito Acconci Walead Beshty William Anastasi Yoko Ono Alexandra Munroe Anna Dezeuze Benjamin H. D. Buchloh Branden W. Joseph Claire Bishop Daniel Birnbaum Fei Dawei Gabriel Pérez Barreiro Georges Bataille Gilles Deleuze Guy Brett Jacquelynn Baas Jacques Lacan Jasia Reichardt John Miller Julia Robinson Katharina Vossenkuhl Lynne Cooke Margaret Iversen Paul Auster Russell Ferguson Sarah Valdez Sarat Maharaj Siegfried Kracauer Stanley Cavell The MIT Press / Massachusetts Whitechapel / London Art Photography Surrealism Theory / Essay

The Big Nothing

2004, English
Softcover, 87 pages, 18.5 x 12.7 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by ICA / Pennsylvania

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Conceptions of “nothing” are one of the driving themes of twentieth-century art. One thinks of Piet Mondrian's reductivist approach to abstraction, Marcel Duchamp's contention that art resides in ideas, not objects, Mark Rothko's painterly reach for the sublime, Andy Warhol's affirmations of the vacuity of Pop culture. The Big Nothing will focus on themes of nothing, nothingness and negation in contemporary art and culture, surveying the legacy of these and other manifestations of absence made manifest in contemporary art. Artist include Gareth James, Jutta Koether, Louise Lawler, Richard Prince, Yves Klein, Bernadette Corporation, John Miller and James Welling, among others. Given its broad connotations, “nothing” provides general audiences with immediate access to looking at and thinking about the art of today.

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held May 1 - August 1, 2004. Curated and with essays by Ingrid Schaffner, Bennett Simpson, and Tanya Leighton. Additional essay by Paula Marincola. Artists include: Bas Jan Ader, Richard Artschwager, Michael Asher, Michel Auder, Jo Baer, Robert Barry, Larry Bell, Bernadette Corporation, James Lee Byars, Maurizio Cattelan, Thomas Chimes, Bruce Conner, Day Without Art, Jessica Diamond, Roe Ethridge, Lili Fleury, Rene Gabri, Jack Goldstein, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Nicolas Guagnini, David Hammons, Heavy Industries, Nancy Holt, Richard Hoeck, Roni Horn, Pierre Huyghe, Gareth James, Ray Johnson, Yves Klein, Joachim Koester, Jutta Koether, Yayoi Kusama, Louise Lawler, Gordon Matta-Clark, Allan McCollum, Patrick McMullen, John Miller, Matt Mullican, Eileen Neff, Gabriel Orozco, Raphael Ortiz, Charlemagne Palestine, Philippe Parreno, William Pope.L, Doris Salcedo, Karin Schneider, Allan Sekula, Arlene Shechet, Santiago Sierra, John Smith, Robert Smithson, Paul Swenbeck, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Andy Warhol, James Welling, John Wesley, and Steve Wolfe. Includes checklist of the exhibition.

File under: Bas Jan Ader Richard Artschwager Michael Asher Michel Auder Jo Baer Robert Barry Larry Bell Bernadette Corporation James Lee Byars Maurizio Cattelan Thomas Chimes Bruce Conner Day Without Art Jessica Diamond Roe Ethridge Lili Fleury Rene Gabri Jack Goldstein Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster David Hammons Heavy Industries Nancy Holt Richard Hoeck Roni Horn Pierre Huyghe Gareth James Ray Johnson Yves Klein Joachim Koester Jutta Koether Yayoi Kusama Louise Lawler Gordon Matta-Clark Allan McCollum Patrick McMullen John Miller Matt Mullican Eileen Neff Gabriel Orozco Charlemagne Palestine Philippe Parreno William Pope.L Doris Salcedo Karin Schneider Allan Sekula Arlene Shechet Santiago Sierra John Smith Robert Smithson Paul Swenbeck Rirkrit Tiravanija Andy Warhol James Welling John Wesley Steve Wolfe Nicolás Gaugnini Raphael Montanez Ortiz Ingrid Schaffner Bennett Simpson Tanya Leighton Paula Marincola ICA / Pennsylvania Art Sculpture / Installation Painting Conceptual Art Minimal Art Pop Art Group Shows / Collections Theory / Essay Photography Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Curatorial Out-of-print / Rare

Art & Project Bulletins 1 - 156
September 1968 - November 1989

2011, English
Softcover, 84 pages, 22.5 x 22.5 cm
Edition of 1000,
Published by Cabinet Gallery / London Christophe Daviet-Thery / Paris

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From the earliest days in 1968 when the bulletin appeared Under the title of "Architectural Research" the Small statement printed on the bottom of the front page rings out with the spirit of its time : "art & project plans to bring you together with the ideas of artists, architects and technicians to discover an intelligent form for your living and working space. Art & project invites you to participate in its exhibitions which will explore ways in which art, architecture and technology can combine with you own ideas."

From Daniel Buren's transparent bulletin to Sol Lewitt's beautiful bulletin folded into 48 small squares, from Bas Jan Ader's final bulletin mailed during his last work in which he died to Gilbert & George's fragile double portrait, these issues are a unique moving international artwork that stands apart from anything else in this period in its breath of artists included and quality of original work involved. It is increasingly included in exhibitions concerned with Conceptual Art and its influences. The complete set is of prime interest to major private collectors and museums and libraries concerned with the artists involved with the bulletins. These 156 issues encapsulate an era.

Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at Cabinet Gallery, London, October 17 - December 23, 2011; & Christophe Daviet-Thery Livres et éditions d'artistes, Paris, October 27 - December 23, 2011.
Text by Clive Phillpot.
Interview between Adriaan van Ravesteijn and Tin Geerts.
Edited by Louise Riley-Smith.
Designed by Jérome Saint-Loubert Bié.

Documents the 156 Art & Project Bulletins published between 1968 and 1989 produced by artists: Charlotte Posenenske, CCC / Jan Slothouber / William Graatsma, Gruppe X, Willy Orskov, Paul Schuitema, Aldo van den Nieuwelaar, Ad Dekkers, Gianfredo Camesi, Ed Sommer, Stanley Brouwn, Jan Dibbets, Bernd Lohaus, Lawrence Weiner, Rainer Giese, W. Knoebel, Joseph Kosuth, Peter Struycken, Robert Barry, Sol LeWitt, Ger van Elk, Gilbert & George, Yutaka Matsuzawa, Douglas Huebler, Keith Arnatt, Daniel Buren, Emmy van Leersum, Gijs Bakker, Hideto Yamazaki, Mel Bochner, Hanne Darboven, Boezem, Ian Wilson, John Baldessari, Bas Jan Ader, David Askevold, Willem Breuker, William Leavitt, Alighiero Boetti, Marcel Broodthaers, Naomi Spector, Robert Ryman, Carl Andre, Ulrich Rückriem, Stephen Rosenthal, Martin Maloney, Richard Long, Roy Colmer, David Tremlett, Stephen Antonakos, Alan Charlton, Carel Visser, Barry Flanagan, Allen Ruppersberg, Francesco Clemente, Hamish Fulton, Daan van Golden, Mimmo Paladino, Sandro Chia, Jaap Berghuis, Andrew Lord, Nicholas Pope, Salvo, Bruce McLean, Toon Verhoef, Enzo Cucchi, Joris Geurts, Emo Verkerk, Narcisse Tordoir, Tomas Rajlich, Adam Colton, Tony Cragg, Jan Commandeur, David Robilliard, Zadok Ben-David, Didier Vermeiren, Leo Vroegindeweji, Han Schuil, Ab van Hanegem.

File under: Ab van Hanegem Ad Dekkers Adam Colton Alan Charlton Aldo van den Nieuwelaar Alighiero Boetti Allen Ruppersberg Andrew Lord Barry Flanagan Bas Jan Ader Bernd Lohaus Boezem Bruce McLean Carel Visser Carl Andre Charlotte Posenenske Daan van Golden Daniel Buren David Askevold David Robilliard David Tremlett Didier Vermeiren Douglas Huebler Ed Sommer Emmy van Leersum Emo Verkerk Enzo Cucchi Francesco Clemente Ger van Elk Gianfredo Camesi Gijs Bakker Gruppe X Hamish Fulton Han Schuil Hanne Darboven Hideto Yamazaki Ian Wilson Jaap Berghuis Jan Commandeur Jan Dibbets John Baldessari Joris Geurts Joseph Kosuth Keith Arnatt Lawrence Weiner Leo Vroegindeweji Marcel Broodthaers Martin Maloney Mel Bochner Mimmo Paladino Naomi Spector Narcisse Tordoir Nicholas Pope Paul Schuitema Peter Struycken Rainer Giese Richard Long Robert Barry Robert Ryman Roy Colmer Sandro Chia Sol Lewitt Stanley Brouwn Stephen Antonakos Stephen Rosenthal Tomas Rajlich Tony Cragg Toon Verhoef Ulrich Rückriem W. Knoebel Willem Breuker William Leavitt Willy Orskov Yutaka Matsuzawa Zadok Ben-David Gilbert & George Adriaan van Ravesteijn Clive Phillpot Tin Geerts Cabinet Gallery / London Christophe Daviet-Thery / Paris Art

Kunst aus Los Angeles der 60er bis 90er Jahre

2007, English / German
Softcover, 48 pages (57 col. Ills.), 220 x 270 mm
Published by Walther König / Köln

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Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at the Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany, December 2, 2006 - February 18, 2007.
Features:Allen Ruppersberg, Bas Jan Ader, Bruce Nauman, Chris Burden, Christopher Williams, Douglas Huebler, Ed Ruscha, John Baldessari, Larry Johnson, Maria Nordman, Michael Asher, Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, Raymond Pettibon, Stephen Prina, William Leavitt...

File under: Allen Ruppersberg Bas Jan Ader Bruce Nauman Chris Burden Christopher Williams Douglas Huebler Ed Ruscha John Baldessari Larry Johnson Maria Nordman Michael Asher Mike Kelley Paul McCarthy Raymond Pettibon Stephen Prina William Leavitt Karola Grässlin Walther König / Köln Art Out-of-print / Rare