World Food Books

Art Metropole, Catalogue No. 5, Fall 1977

1977, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 47 pages, 27.7 x 20.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by Art Metropole / Toronto

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Exceptionally rare, excellent reference work on artists' publications issued in 1977 by Art Metropole in Toronto, the first large-scale distributor of artists' books and publications in North America. This valuable catalogue, featuring "European titles, publications, periodicals, records, special editions, videos and films", offers works by European and American artists such as Beuys, Rainer, Polke, Art & Language, Hans Haacke, Terry Riley, Lamonte Young, Marian Zazeela, Douglas Huebler, Broodthaers, Kaprow, Piper, Buren, Reich, Cage, Snow, Darboven, Matta-Clark, Dibbets, Brion Gysin, Simone Forti, General Idea, Claes Oldenburg, Jimmy De Sana, Vito Acconci, Gilbert & George, Robert Filliou, Sol Lewitt, Ehrenberg, Filliou, Fulton, Graham, Rebecca Horn, Mel Bochner, William Burroughs, Ugo La Pietra, Urs Luthi, Hansjörg Mayer, Merz, Robert Cumming, Willats, Al Hansen, Richard Long, Philip Glass, George Brecht, Image Bank, Robert Barry, Nannucci, Donald Judd, Maria Reiche, Dennis Oppenheim, Dieter Rot, Kurt Schwitters, Giorgio Ciam, Daniel Spoerri, Ed Ruscha, Ray Johnson, Philip Corner, Bob Cobbing, Lawrence Weiner, Klaus Rinke, Les Levine, Lea Vergine, Baldessari, Ant Farm, Emmett Williams, Robert Wilson, UFO Group, Vostell, etc. with each item concisely described, and for the books, essential bibliographical information is provided. Publications from Art Metropole, periodicals, records, and videos are also listed for sale, with prices. Cover artwork features Viennese actionist Rudolf Schwarzkogler's Portfolio of the 3rd Action, which is among the selections of European artists' books. Selected b/w illustrations throughout of items listed, and full-page ads for Art Metropole's "FETISH" t-shirt and General Idea's FILE magazine.

Issued privately as a mail-out catalogue, this copy includes the AM ink stamp and Canadian postage stamp on the verso, posted in 1977 to American conceptualist photographer Les Krim, in Buffalo, New York.

Average—Good copy, some chipping to extremities, small closed tear to top-left corner of cover, generally tanned/aged newsprint.

File under: Rudolf Schwarzkogler Marina Abramovič Joseph Beuys Christian Boltanski Alison Knowles Marcel Broodthaers Mario Merz Rebecca Horn Hansjörg Mayer Dan Graham Hanne Darboven Daniel Buren Felipe Ehrenberg Jan Dibbets Hamish Fulton Maurizio Nannucci Dieter Rot Daniel Spoerri Kurt Schwitters Sigmar Polke Wolf Vostell Maria Reiche Lea Vergine Yvonne Rainer Adrian Piper Stephen Willats Steve Reich John Cage Michael Snow Ed Ruscha Robert Wilson Emmett Williams Donald Judd Alan Kaprow Ray Johnson Les Levine Claes Oldenburg Gordon Matta-Clark Sol LeWitt Sol Lewitt Jimmy De Sana Hans Haacke Douglas Huebler General Idea Simone Forti Robert Cumming Robert Barry Al Hansen John Baldessari Ant Farm Mel Bochner William S. Burroughs Philip Corner Bob Cobbing Ian Burn Mel Ramsden Art & Language Brion Gysin Robert Filliou Gilbert & George Vito Acconci Ugo La Pietra Urs Lüthi Richard Long Dennis Oppenheim Lawrence Weiner Klaus Rinke UFO Group Marian Zazeela La Monte Young Terry Riley Philip Glass George Brecht Image Bank Giorgio Ciam Seth Siegelaub William S. Burroughs Achille Bonito Oliva Art Metropole / Toronto Art Performance / Dance / Theater Fluxus Conceptual Art Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Arte Povera Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Concrete Poetry Group Shows / Collections Minimal Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Periodicals Photography Sound / Music

The Readymade Boomerang: Certain Relations in 20th Century Art
The 8th Biennale of Sydney 1990

1990, English
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 512 pages, 29.5 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Biennale of Sydney / Sydney

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First edition of the incredible (huge) catalogue published to accompany the 8th Biennale of Sydney 1990 "The Readymade Boomerang: Certain Relations in 20th Century Art", held 11 April-3 June 1990 in Sydney across various venues. The eighth Biennale began from ‘a trio of Dada originators’: Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picabia. A large number of artists across generations joined these key figures in Artistic Director René Block’s exploration of the ‘readymade’ in twentieth-century art, which aimed to highlight ‘its invention and pure use by Duchamp, to its resurgence in Nouveau Realism, Pop Art, and Fluxus of the 60s, all the way to new versions by young contemporary artists’. Pop, fluxus and conceptual artists such as Andy Warhol, Richard Hamilton, Marcel Broodthaers, Joseph Beuys, John Cage, Alison Knowles, César, George Brecht, Nam Jun Paik and Piero Manzoni were shown alongside Rosemarie Trockel, John Nixon, Ian Burn, Mel Ramsden, Janet Burchill, Peter Tyndall, Robert Rooney, Rosalie Gascoigne, Cindy Sherman, Bruce Nauman, Hans Haacke, Rebecca Horn, Sophie Calle, Jeff Koons, Allan Kaprow, Jenny Holzer, Robert Gober, Jill Scott, Bill Culbert, Stanley Brouwn, Peter Cripps, Terry Fox, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Fischli & Weiss, KP Brehmer, Sigmar Polke, Dieter Rot, Hanne Darboven, Robert MacPherson, Jackie Redgate, Ed Ruscha, Barbara Bloom, Oyvind Fahlstrom, amongst so many others. The industrial Bond Store at Millers Point featured site-specific works by artists such as Olaf Metzel and Simone Mangos, and several works were created on-site in Sydney, amplifying Block’s notion of the Biennale as a ‘workshop’. A comprehensive satellite program of music, performance, lectures, symposia, workshops and exhibitions at various Sydney venues complemented the exhibition, with Carles Santos’ piano recital on a barge in Sydney Harbour a highlight. Five satellite exhibitions included On Kawara, Joseph Beuys, Alain Fleischer, Fluxus and Broken Record, which featured artist’s experimentations with audio recordings, vinyl and album artwork – from John Cage’s 33 1/3 composition for 12 record players to Milan Knížák’s record-collages.

An incredible Sydney biennale, captured here across over 500 pages conceived and realised by René Block and Jennifer Cook - profusely illustrated with examples of all artists works and accompanying texts throughout by Lynne Cooke, Bernice Murphy, Anne Marie Freybourg, Dick Higgins, René Block and Jennifer Cook. Very Good copy with only general wear/ageing. Bright and clean, includes tanned original dust jacket now preserved under plastic wrap.

Having represented Beuys, Richter and Polke, German gallery owner, art publisher, art collector and curator René Block (born 1942) ranks among the central figures of the 1960s avant-garde.

Very Good copy with original dust jacket. Common tanning to dust jacket spine, now preserved under mylar wrap.

File under: Marcel Duchamp Man Ray Francis Picabia Andy Warhol Richard Hamilton Marcel Broodthaers Joseph Beuys John Cage Alison Knowles César George Brecht Bruce Nauman Hans Haacke Rebecca Horn Sophie Calle Jeff Koons Rosemarie Trockel John Nixon Ian Burn Janet Burchill Peter Tyndall Robert Rooney Allan Kaprow Jenny Holzer Robert Gober Jill Scott Stanley Brouwn Peter Cripps Terry Fox Ian Hamilton Finlay Fischli & Weiss Sigmar Polke Dieter Rot Hanne Darboven Robert MacPherson Ed Ruscha Barbara Bloom Carles Santos Milan Knížák On Kawara Alain Fleischer Öyvind Fahlström K. P. Brehmer Jacky Redgate Nam June Paik Cindy Sherman Piero Manzoni Rosalie Gascoigne Arman Olaf Metzel Shigeko Kubota Allan McCollum Panamarenko Stephen Prina Markus Raetz Edward Ruscha Reiner Ruthenbeck Sarkis Michael Snow Ken Unsworth Ben Vautier Robert Watts Lawrence Weiner David Weiss Emmett Williams Raymond Hains Bill Henson Tony Cragg Stan Douglas Christian Boltanski Dale Frank Jennifer Bolande Bill Culbert Zvi Goldstein Mel Ramsden Anne Zahalka George Maciunas Richard Dunn Milan Knizak Rainer Ruthenbeck Ger van Elk Derek Kreckler Dennis Adams Mimmo Rotella Rémy Zaugg Yoshi Wada Arthur Køpcke Stuart Sherman Henning Christiansen René Block Jennifer Cook Lynne Cooke Bernice Murphy Anne Marie Freybourg Dick Higgins Biennale of Sydney / Sydney Art Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Australian Art Conceptual Art Fluxus Feminism Film / Video Minimal Art Performance / Dance / Theater Painting Photography Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Surrealism Poetry Dada Curatorial Arte Povera Pop Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic

Tricks of the Light: Essays on Art and Spectacle
by Jonathan Crary

2023, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 264 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 cm
Published by Zone Books / New York

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Essays on media systems and contemporary art by a leading theorist of modern visual culture.

Tricks of the Light brings together essays by critic and art historian Jonathan Crary, internationally known for his groundbreaking and widely admired studies of modern Western visual culture. This collection features a compelling selection of Crary's responses to modern and contemporary art and to the transformations of twentieth-century media systems and urban/technological environments. These wide-ranging and provocative texts explore the work of painters, performance artists, writers, architects, and photographers, including Allan Kaprow, Eleanor Antin, Ed Ruscha, John Berger, Bridget Riley, J.G. Ballard, Rem Koolhaas, Gretchen Bender, Dennis Oppenheim, Paul Virilio, Robert Irwin, and Uta Barth. There are also reflections on filmmakers Fritz Lang, Stanley Kubrick, Jean-Luc-Godard, David Cronenberg, and others. The book is enhanced by several expansive essays on the unstable status of television, both amid its beginnings in the 1930s and then during its assimilation into new assemblages and networks in the 1980s and 90s. These assess its many-sided role in the reshaping of subjectivity, temporality, and the operation of power. Like all of Crary's work, his writing here is grounded in the acuteness of his engagement with perceptual artifacts of many kinds and in his nuanced reading of historical processes and their cultural reverberations.

File under: Uta Barth Fritz Lang Stanley Kubrick Jean-Luc-Godard David Cronenberg Allan Kaprow Eleanor Antin Ed Ruscha Bridget Riley Rem Koolhaas Gretchen Bender Dennis Oppenheim Robert Irwin László Moholy-Nagy Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Marcel Duchamp Alfred Hitchcock Peter Fend Jonathan Crary Paul Virilio J.G. Ballard John Berger Zone Books / New York Theory / Essay Art Performance / Dance / Theater Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Film / Video Fluxus Situationism / Lettrism Photography

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

TEXTE ZUR KUNST #113
MARCH 2019 "DISKRIMINIERUNG / DISCRIMINATION"

2019, English / German
Softcover, 240 pages, 23 x 16.5 cm
Published by Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin

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For the latest issue no. 113, TEXTE ZUR KUNST investigates the structures within the arts and cultural spheres where racism and discrimination are practiced, performed, and reproduced. This special issue concentrates specifically on the context of Germany, and includes discussions and texts from artists and theorists throughout the country who have dedicated special attention to current and ongoing political and social crises; specifically the challenges these crises pose for the language and terms of art criticism. How can criticism mount an appropriate response to the discrimination and injustices that pervade all levels of society?

ISSUE NO. 113 / MARCH 2019 "DISKRIMINIERUNG/DISCRIMINATION"

TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE

SABETH BUCHMANN AND ISABELLE GRAW - THE CRITIQUE OF ART CRITICISM
COMMON GROUND / Colin Lang in Conversation with Julia Grosse, Suza Husse, and Max Czollek
ÇIĞDEM INAN
NON-RECOGNITION / The Other Side of the Critique of Racism
VIOLENT MEDIATIONS / Jenny Nachtigall in Conversation with Hannah Black
NAMING RACISM / Sven Beckstette in Conversation with Veronika Fuechtner and Oliver Hardt
HELMUT DRAXLER - THE ART OF DISCRIMINATION

ROTATION
INTENTIONALE BEGEGNUNGEN / Hanna Magauer über Christian Kravagnas „Transmoderne. Eine Kunstgeschichte des Kontakts“
SITUIERTE SENSIBILITÄT! / Michaela Ott über „Sensibilität der Gegenwart“ von Burkhard Liebsch (Hg.)
LIEBE ARBEIT KINO
PARTICLE ACCELERATOR / Daniel Horn on the Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement, Geneva

REVIEWS
COURS, CAMARADE / Tom McDonough on “The Most Dangerous Game” at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
BAUHAUS IM GLOBALEN SÜDEN / Tobi Maier über „bauhaus imaginista: Learning From“ im SESC Pompéia, São Paulo
FULLY IMMERSED / Megan R. Luke on Heidi Bucher at Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London
DOPPELBELASTUNG / Sophie Goltz über „Medea muckt auf. Radikale Künstlerinnen hinter dem Eisernen Vorhang“ in der Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau, Dresden
AUDIENZ BEIM MALERFÜRSTEN / Ulrich Pfisterer über Jörg Immendorff im Haus der Kunst, München
SITUATIONAL AWARENESS / SOFTCORE INSURRECTION / Kari Rittenbach on Tobias Kaspar at the Kunsthalle Bern
THROWAWAY INVENTIVENESS / Mirjam Thomann über Cady Noland im Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
REBEL REBEL / Saim Demircan on Sarah Lucas at the New Museum, New York
AUFGELADENE FRACHT / Nadja Abt über Ulrike Müller im Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
EVENTUALLY, EVERYTHING BECOMES LIQUID / Luisa Lorenza Corna on Metahaven at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
EVENING JOE / Robert Müller über Ed Ruscha in der Secession, Wien
CIRCUMSTANCES OF SOCIAL WORK / Eric Golo Stone on Laurie Parsons at the Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
AT LAST, WARHOL COMES OUT OF THE CLOSET / Jonathan D. Katz on Andy Warhol at the Whitney Museum of American Art

OBITUARY
ROBERT MORRIS (1931−2018)
FERDINAND KRIWET (1942–2018)
LOTHAR BAUMGARTEN (1944–2018)

EDITION
ARTURO HERRERA
ALICJA KWADE

File under: Hannah Black Jörg Immendorff Heidi Bucher Tobias Kaspar Sarah Lucas Cady Noland Laurie Parsons Ed Ruscha Metahaven Andy Warhol Sabeth Buchmann Isabelle Graw Colin Lang Julia Grosse Suza Husse Max Czollek Jenny Nachtigall Hannah Black Sven Beckstette Veronika Fuechtner Helmut Draxler Oliver Hardt Tom Mcdonough Daniel Horn Tobi Maier Megan R. Luke Sophie Goltz Ulrich Pfisterer Saim Demircan Eric Golo Stone Nadja Abt Luisa Lorenza Corna Jonathan D. Katz Kari Rittenbach Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin Periodicals Art Sculpture / Installation Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay SALE

P.C.A. Projecte, Concepte & Actionen
Edited by Walter Aue

1971, German
Softcover, 464 pages, 29.7 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by DuMont / Köln

$85.00 - Out of stock

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Huge, densely-illustrated volume compiled by German publisher/editor/essayist/curator Walter Aue, who worked closely with conceptual and performance artists in the 1960s-1970s. Laid-out by Aue himself, the book feels like a very natural scrap-book compendium of artist contributions, reproducing artworks, documentation of happenings, texts, photographs, diagrams, collages, news-clippings, instructions, etc. across over 450 pages, with Aue's type-written opening essay and cataloguing throughout. Features the most notable conceptual, actionist and performance artists of the period, spanning Fluxus, Arte Povera, radical architecture, Nouveau Realisme, etc. including Dieter Rot, Joseph Beuys, Robert Smithson, Pino Pascali, Stanley Brouwn, Jannis Kounellis, Klaus Rinke, Ben Vautier, Al Hansen, Walter Pichler, Hilla and Bernhard Becher, Giuseppe Penone, Ettore Sottsass, Gilbert and George, Walter De Maria, Wolf Vostell, Hans Hollein, Imi Knoebel, Barry Flanagan, Allan Kaprow, Carolee Schneemann, Hamish Fulton, Christo, Elfriede Jelinek, Dennis Oppenheim, Urs Lüthi, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Rühm, Blink Palermo, Lawrence Weiner, Ed Ruscha, HA Schult, Hermann Nitsch, James Lee Byars, Jan Dibbets, Jochen Gerz, Mauricio Kagel, Nam June Paik, Otto Mühl, Arnulf Rainer, Jan Voss, George Brecht, Robert Filliou, Franz Erhard Walther, Timm Ulrichs, Daniel Spoerri, Erich Reusch, Paul Pechter, Rainer Giese, Jörg Immendorff, Henning Christiansen, Gilberto Zorio, Panamarenko, Joseph Kosuth, Dan Graham, Dick Higgins, Ian Baxter, Mel Bochner, Haus-Rucker-Co, Markus Raetz, Sottsass, Nam June Paik, Hans Haacke, Tetsumi Kudo, Bruce Mclean, On Kawara, and so many more.

Depending on the artist, texts are in English, German, Dutch, etc. Opening essay in German.
Very Good, light wear/tear to top spine.

File under: Dieter Rot Otto Muehl Otto Mühl Henning Christiansen Jörg Immendorff Haus-Rucker-Co Joseph Beuys Robert Smithson Pino Pascali Stanley Brouwn Jannis Kounellis Klaus Rinke Ben Vautier Al Hansen Walter Pichler Giuseppe Penone Ettore Sottsass Walter De Maria Wolf Vostell Hans Hollein Imi Knoebel Barry Flanagan Allan Kaprow Carolee Schneemann Hamish Fulton Christo Elfriede Jelinek Dennis Oppenheim Urs Lüthi Sigmar Polke Gerhard Rühm Lawrence Weiner Ed Ruscha HA Schult Hermann Nitsch James Lee Byars Jan Dibbets Jochen Gerz Mauricio Kagel Nam June Paik Arnulf Rainer Jan Voss George Brecht Robert Filliou Franz Erhard Walther Timm Ulrichs Daniel Spoerri Erich Reusch Paul Pechter Rainer Giese Gilberto Zorio Panamarenko Joseph Kosuth Dan Graham Dick Higgins Mel Bochner Markus Raetz Hans Haacke Tetsumi Kudo Bruce Mclean On Kawara Iain Baxter Bernd and Hilla Becher Gilbert & George Blinky Palermo Walter Aue DuMont / Köln Fluxus Performance / Dance / Theater Art Sculpture / Installation Feminism Arte Povera Conceptual Art Curatorial Film / Video Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Photography Sound / Music Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic

Harald Szeemann
Museum of Obsessions

2018, English
Hardcover, 432 pages, 25x 31 cm
Published by Getty Publications / Los Angeles

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Texts by Glenn Phillips, Doris Chon, Pietro Rigolo, Philipp Kaiser

Harald Szeemann is associated with some of the most important artistic developments of the postwar era. A passionate advocate of avant-garde movements like conceptualism and post minimalism, he collaborated with artists such as Joseph Beuys, Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra, and Cy Twombly, developing new ways of presenting art that reflected his sweeping vision of contemporary culture.

Szeemann once stated that his goal as an exhibition maker was to create a "Museum of Obsessions." This richly illustrated volume is a virtual collection catalogue for that imaginary institution, tracing the evolution of his curatorial method through the materials he collected and produced while researching and organising his exhibitions, including letters, drawings, personal datebooks, installation plans, artists' books, posters, photographs, and handwritten notes.

This book documents all phases of Szeemann's career, from his early stint as director of the Kunsthalle Bern, where he organized the seminal Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form (1969); to documenta 5 (1972) and the intensely personal exhibition he staged in his own apartment using the belongings of his hairdresser grandfather (1974); to his reinvention as a freelance curator who realised projects on wide-ranging themes until his death in 2005.

The book contains essays exploring Szeemann's curatorial approach as well as interviews with collaborators. Its more than 350 illustrations include previously unpublished installation photographs and exhibition documents as well as many other materials from the curator's archive.

File under: Meret Oppenheim Markus Raetz Walter De Maria Klaus Rinke Christo Andy Warhol Marcel Broodthaers Marcel Duchamp Joseph Beuys Bruce Nauman Richard Serra Cy Twombly Ernst Fricke Charlotte Bara Karl Gräser Emma Kunz Ferdinand Cheval Ben Vautier Ed Ruscha Oskar Schlemmer Kurt Schwitters Thomas Hirschhorn Eva Hesse Dick Higgins Mario Merz Marisa Merz Sol LeWitt Nancy Graves Robert Filliou Donald Judd László Moholy-Nagy Man Ray Francis Picabia Elisar von Kupffer Charles Ives Paul Thek Panamarenko Edward Kienholz Guerilla Art Action Group John Cage Allan Kaprow Charlotte Moorman George Maciunas Haus-Rucker-Co Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn Nam June Paik Harald Szeemann Glenn Phillips Doris Chon Pietro Rigolo Philipp Kaiser Raymond Roussel Alfred Jarry Lucy R. Lippard Getty Publications / Los Angeles Curatorial Art Group Shows / Collections Conceptual Art Minimal Art Theory / Essay Fluxus Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Dada Arte Povera Architecture / Interior Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Bauhaus

ART & VINYL

2018, English
Hardcover, 464 pages, 31.8 x 31.8 cm
Published by Fraenkel Gallery - Editions Antoine De Beaupré / San Francisco

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Art & Vinyl is an exhilarating new look into the history of the vinyl record as a medium for modern and contemporary visual art. This beautifully designed and printed publication is the first book to focus in-depth on works of art created specifically for an album, composer or musician.

With reproductions of more than 200 LPs from the mid-20th century to the present, Art & Vinyl traces the trajectory of how the record album has been considered by artists as material for a work of art. The book begins with Pablo Picasso’s 1949 depiction of the dove of peace, printed directly on an audio disc. Significantly, the recording was Paul Robeson’s Chante Pour La Paix (Singing for Peace). Art & Vinyl also includes works by artists as disparate and wide-ranging as Ed Ruscha, Marlene Dumas, Cy Twombly, Yoko Ono, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Barbara Kruger, Robert Rauschenberg, Sol LeWitt, Sophie Calle and Andy Warhol.

Highlights include Gerhard Richter’s extraordinary oil painting made directly on a recording of Glenn Gould’s Bach: The Goldberg Variations (1984), as well as Allan Kaprow’s LP How to Make a Happening (1966). Also featured are albums of original recordings by Joseph Beuys, Yves Klein, Jean Dubuffet, Christian Marclay and Wolfgang Tillmans, among others. Some of the better-known artists’ covers for rock, pop and jazz albums featured here are Jann Haworth and Peter Blake’s Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band; Jim Dine’s cover for The Best of Cream; Lee Friedlander’s portrait of Miles Davis for In a Silent Way; Warhol’s cover for Sticky Fingers and Robert Frank’s Exile on Main Street; Mapplethorpe’s classic Patti Smith portrait for Horses; Robert Longo’s cover for Glenn Branca’s The Ascension; Fischli/Weiss’s Liliput; and Alec Soth’s cover for Dolorean’s The Unfazed.

Art & Vinyl has been assembled over the course of nearly a decade by curator and collector Antoine de Beaupré, author of Total Records and founder of Librarie Galerie 213 in Paris.

File under: Pablo Picasso Joseph Beuys Dieter Rot Dieter Roth Philip Glass John Cage Robert Mapplethorpe Fischli & Weiss Peter Fischli Peter Fischli & David Weiss David Weiss Glenn Branca Alec Soth Patti Smith Robert Longo Raymond Pettibon Keith Haring Malcolm McLaren Ed Ruscha Marlene Dumas Cy Twombly Yoko Ono Jean-Michel Basquiat Barbara Kruger Robert Rauschenberg Sol LeWitt Sophie Calle Andy Warhol Allan Kaprow Glenn Gould The Rolling Stones Gerhard Richter Yves Klein Jean Dubuffet Christian Marclay Wolfgang Tillmans Jim Dine Lee Friedlander Miles Davis Sonic Youth Antoine de Beaupré Jeffrey Fraenkel Fraenkel Gallery - Editions Antoine De Beaupré / San Francisco Art Sound / Music Pop Art Fluxus

Texte Zur Kunst
ISSUE NO. 108 / DECEMBER 2017 "IDIOM - LANGUAGES OF ART“

2017, English / German
Softcover, 248 pages, 23 x 16.5 cm
Published by Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin

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In art historical and art critical texts, the concept of “idiom” – an expression or mode of speaking that cannot be translated – is frequently used, even if it is rarely spoken of as such. TZK issue 108 explores how the idea of “idiom” might allow us to coherently engage with art's disparate materialist and iconographic connections at a time when the vitality of historical Western-centric cannons are fading (see: Documenta 14) and the traditional relations within and among artistic systems are ever less self-evident. The "Idiom" issue of TZK asks: What languages does art speak?

ISSUE NO. 108 / DECEMBER 2017 "IDIOM - LANGUAGES OF ART“
Table Of Contents
Preface
Susanne Leeb - Idioms: The Minor "A"s Of Art

Artist's Choice
Mirjam Thomann - Chapter 3: Women And Space
Anja Kirschner - In A Manner Of Speaking
Michael Dean
Linda Stupart - Didacticore: An Artist's Statement
Bouchra Khalili - Mother Tongue
Lawrence Abu Hamdan - Hear, Hear
Giovanna Zapperi - Body Of Evidence, Gestures Of Dysfunction / Technology As Practice In The Work Of Natascha Sadr Haghighian
Yvonne Volkart - From Trash To Waste / On Art's Media Geology
Monica Juneja - To Enter The Image / The Performative Self As Idiom*
Dieter Lesage - Research And Form / On "Artistic Research" And Its Aesthetic
Sven Lütticken - Modernist Memories / On The Conteporaneity of Günther Frg

Bildstrecke
Philipp Gufler

Maybe Devotion Is The Only Thing I Can Offer You
New Development
Once More With Feeling / Philipp Wüschner Über Das Symposium „Image Testimonies – Witnessing In Times Of Social Media“
Cloudism / Library Stack On Blockchain Archives And Library Futures
Liebe Arbeit Kino
Lauf, Genosse! / Madeleine Bernstorff Über „Cours, Cours, Camarade, Le Vieux Monde Est Derrière Toi. Das Kino Von Med Hondo“ Im Kino Arsenal, Berlin
Glück Auf! / Esther Buss Über Ben Russells „Good Luck“, 70. Locarno Festival

Reviews
Handlungsräume / Sophie Goltz Über „Radical Women“ Im Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
The Downward Spiral / Steven Warwick On “Trigger: Gender As A Tool And A Weapon” At The New Museum, New York
„Überlast“ Und Emanzipation – „Ich Weiss Nicht, Ob Mein Stand Es Erlaubt.“ / Isabel Mehl Über „Klassensprachen“ Im District Berlin
Katie Serva On “The Overworked Body: An Anthology Of 2000s Dress” At Ludlow 38 And Mathew Gallery, New York
Beiläufig Grundsätzlich / Bert Rebhandl Über Harun Farocki Im Neuen Berliner Kunstverein
Rien Ne Va Plus / Nuit Banai On Ericka Beckman At Secession, Vienna
Familienausstellung / Inka Meißner Über Verena Dengler In Der Kunsthalle Bern
Do You Like To Read? / Christian Berger Über „Hanne Darboven. Korrespondenzen“ Im Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum Für Gegenwart, Berlin
After Hours / Andrew Durbin On Thomas Eggerer At Petzel Gallery, New York
Remembering The Future / Bennett Simpson On William Leavitt At Honor Fraser, Los Angeles
Garten, Werkstatt, Oper – Alexander Kluge In Ausstellungen / Rainer Bellenbaum Über Alexander Kluge In Der Fondazione Prada, Venedig, Und Im Württembergischen Kunstverein Stuttgart
Getting Real / Helena Vilalta On Lee Lozano At Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid
Queere Subjektivität Und (Anti-)Koloniale Begehren / Jenny Nachtigall Über „Odarodle – Sittengeschichte Eines Naturmysteriums, 1535–2017“ Im Schwulen Museum, Berlin
Herrschaftszeichen Noch Mal! / Clemens Krümmel Über Michael Dreyer Im Badischen Kunstverein, Karlsruhe

Nachruf
Karl Otto Götz (1914–2017)

Edition
Candida Höfer
Ed Ruscha

File under: Nicholas Mangan Centre for Style Matthew Linde Ben Rivers Ed Ruscha Lee Lozano Thomas Eggerer William Leavitt Hanne Darboven Lawrence Abu Hamdan Harun Farocki Andrew Durbin Karl Otto Götz Mirjam Thomann Anja Kirschner Bouchra Khalili Natascha Sadr Haghighian Ericka Beckman Candida Höfer Steven Warwick Katie Serva Susanne Leeb Giovanna Zapperi Sven Lütticken Dieter Lesage Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin Theory / Essay Art Periodicals Film / Video Curatorial Sculpture / Installation Fashion

Art International
Vol. XIV/3 March 1970

1970, English
Softcover, 80 pages, 24.5 x 34.5 cm
Out of print title / used / good
Published by James Fitzsimmons / Lugano

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Art International, Vol. XIV/3 March 1970
Published and Edited by James Fitzsimmons
cover: Richard Hamilton

Features: Richard Hamilton, Enzo Mari, Joseph Beuys, Fernand Léger, Miguel Ortiz Berrocal, Urs Lüthi, Rodolfo Aricò, Allan Jones, Alex Colville, Anne Madden, Jasper Johns, Man Ray, Ed Ruscha, Duane Hanson, Sonia Delaunay, Erró, Francois Lalanne, Pier Manzoni, Alfred Manessier, Claes Oldenburg, Doug Wheeler, Peter Zecher, Robert Rauschenberg, Agnes Martin, Vija Clemens, Michael Heizer, Dan Flavin, Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Stella, Ronald Bladen, and many more.

Art International was a highly regarded international art journal based in Switzerland from 1957-1984. With international editors and contributing writers, A.I. was issued 10 times per year and was published and edited by James A. Fitzsimmons.

File under: Richard Hamilton Enzo Mari Joseph Beuys Fernand Léger Miguel Ortiz Berrocal Urs Lüthi Rodolfo Aricò Alex Colville Anne Madden Jasper Johns Man Ray Ed Ruscha Duane Hanson Sonia Delaunay Erró Alfred Manessier Claes Oldenburg Doug Wheeler Peter Zecher Robert Rauschenberg Agnes Martin Vija Clemens Michael Heizer Dan Flavin Ellsworth Kelly Frank Stella Ronald Bladen Allen Jones Piero Manzoni Francois-Xavier Lalanne James Fitzsimmons / Lugano Art Drawing Periodicals Painting Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Dada Pop Art Minimal Art Theory / Essay Conceptual Art Arte Povera

REAL LIFE Magazine: Selected Writings and Projects 1979-1994

2007, English
Softcover, 21 x 28 cm, 320 pages
Published by Primary Information / New York

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REAL LIFE Magazine: Selected Writings and Projects 1979-1994 highlights a selection of writings and artists' projects from REAL LIFE magazine, which was originally edited by artist, writer, and curator, Thomas Lawson and writer, Susan Morgan. Published in twenty-three issues from 1979-1994 as an intermittent black and white magazine, REAL LIFE featured artists and art historians writing on art, media and popular culture interspersed with pictorial contributions. The development of the magazine through its 15 year history, traces the influences, development and transitions of artists through the 80s.

The anthology features writings by and about Dara Birnbaum, Eric Bogosian, Rhys Chatham, Mark Dion, Jack Goldstein, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Kim Gordon, Dan Graham, Thomas Lawson, Louise Lawler, Sherrie Levine, Allan McCollum, John Miller, Dave Muller, Matt Mullican, Adrian Piper, Richard Prince, David Robbins, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons, Michael Smith, John Stezaker, Bernard Tschumi, Jeff Wall, Lawrence Weiner, and James Welling among others.
Table of Contents:
Thomas Lawson and Susan Morgan: Various Histories of REAL LIFE Magazine
Matthew Higgs: REAL LIFE

Susan Morgan: an interview with Robert Moskowitz, 1979
Valentin Tatransky: Collage And The Problem Of Representation: Sherrie Levine's new work, 1979
Grahame Shane: Crime as Function, 1979
Susan Morgan: an interview with Steve Gianakos, 1979
Barbara Kruger: Game Show, 1979
James Welling: Untitled, 1979
Thomas Lawson: Every Picture Tells A Story Don't It? 1979
Thomas Lawson: Fashion Moda, 1980
Richard Prince: Primary Transfers, 1980
Dan Graham: The Destroyed Room of Jeff Wall, 1980
Kim Gordon: Trash Drugs And Male Bonding, 1980
Thomas Lawson: Going Places, 1980
Susan Morgan: Michael Hurson, 1980
Barbara Kruger: Devils With Red Dresses On, 1980
Thomas Lawson: Long Distance Information, 1980
Joseph Bishop: Desperate Character, 1980
Richard Prince: Menthol Pictures, 1980
Laurie Simmons: Sam and Dottie Dance, 1980
Jim Bradley: Radical Genitalia, 1980
Allan McCollum: Matt Mullican's World, 1980
Michael Smith: Mike In... What Should I Do About The Car? 1980
Sherrie Levine: Two Photographs After Walker Evans, 1980
Kim Gordon: Honeymoon Habit, 1980
Post-Modernism: a symposium, 1981
Dan Graham: BOWWOWWOW (the Age of Piracy), 1981
Howard Singerman: The Artist as Adolescent, 1981
Elsa Bulgari: Your Everyday Critic, 1981
Thomas Lawson: Too Good to be True, 1981
Jenny Bolande: Elk Grazed as if Nothing Had Happened, 1981
David Robbins: Notes toward film, 1981
Eric Bogosian: Fascination, 1981
Fulton Ryder: Pissing on Ice, 1981
Joan Wallace and Geralyn Donohue: Edit deAk, 1982
Rex Reason: Democratism, 1982
The Holy Ghost Writers: Condensation and Dish-Placement, 1982-3
Howard Singerman: Paragraphs toward an essay entitled 'Restoration Comedies', 1982-3
John Roberts: Ruins in the Realm of Thought, 1983
Paul McMahon: From The Permanent Collection, 1983
Jo Baer and Bruce Robbins: Beyond the Pale, 1983
Kathi Norklun: Courage, 1983
Tim Rollins: Particles, 1980-1983, 1983-4
Doug Ashford: Kiss of Death, 1983-4
Thomas Lawson: Komar & Melamid, 1983-4
Robin Winters: The Secret Agent: an interview with Jacki Ochs , 1983-4
Robert C. Morgan: a conversation with Lawrence Weiner , 1983-4
Judith Kirshner: A Blinding Light , 1983-4
Rex Reason: Brie Popcorn: an interview with the directors of Nature Morte Gallery, 1983-4
John Miller: Morality and the Poetic, 1984
Susan Morgan: Portraits of the Artists/Composite Drawings, 1984
B.P. Gutfreund: Four Photographs, 1984
Susan Morgan: Each and Every One of You, 1985
Mark Dion: Tales From The Dark Side, 1985
Jeff Wall: Dan Graham's Kammerspiel Parts I and II, 1985
Jana Sterbak: Premeditated: an interview with Ed Ruscha, 1985
Walter Robinson: The Quest For Failure, 1985-6
Derek Boshier: John Dugger, 1985-6
John A.Walker: Unholy Alliance: Chairman Mao, Andy Warhol, and the Saatchis, 1985-6
Kellie Jones: David Hammons, 1986
John Miller: Swiss Family Robbins, 1986
Adrian Piper: An Open Letter to Donald Kuspit, 1987-8
Susan Morgan: when X does not equal Y , 1987-8
Thomas Lawson: Critical Art Ensemble, 1988-9
Christine N. Lea: Beyond Belief, 1988-9
Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Untitled 1988: Detail of a Sculpture (Endless Copies), 1988-9
Thomas Lawson: No Bull, 1990
Allan McCollum: Photo from TV (with Paintings), 1990
Dara Birnbaum: The Wondering Of Context, 1990
James Welling: Corridors, 1989, 1990
Michael Smith and R. Sikoryak: Mike, 1990
Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Untitled, 1990
Judith Barry: Drive-In or Walk-In Museum, 1990
Group Material: AIDS Timeline, 1990
David Robbins: Three Cancelled TV Families, 1990
Louise Lawler: Untitled 1988, 1990
Susan Morgan: Carlos Gutierrez-Solana, 1994
Josef Strau and Stephan Dillemuth: Friesenwall 120, 1994
David A. Muller: Three Day Weekend, 1994
Spencer Finch: Amnesia And Saying Nothing, 1994

File under: Adrian Piper Allan McCollum Andy Warhol Barbara Kruger Critical Art Ensemble Dan Graham Dara Birnbaum David Hammons Ed Ruscha Felix Gonzalez-Torres Group Material Jack Goldstein James Welling Jeff Wall Jo Baer John Miller Josef Strau Judith Barry Kim Gordon Lawrence Weiner Louise Lawler Matt Mullican Rhys Chatham Richard Prince Robin Winters Sherrie Levine Stephan Dillemuth Matthew Higgs Miriam Katzeff Susan Morgan Thomas Lawson Primary Information / New York Art Fiction / Poetry Photography Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections Painting Periodicals

Ed Ruscha
Metro Mattresses

2015, English
Hardcover, 28 pages, 24 x 18.5 cm
Ed. of 1,500,
Published by Walther König / Köln

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‘The mattresses become not just litter in the landscape but more like scary animals.’ — Ed Ruscha

Ed Ruscha has been casting his eye across the landscapes of the American west for over 50 years, taking in everything from gas stations to swimming pools to sublime mountain ranges.

The artist noticed the mattresses cast aside on the streets of LA and began photographing them systematically before translating the images into pictures on paper-like museum board.

The consistent neutral background emphasises the typological nature and the heightened formality of the series, transforming the boxes of springs and padding into geometric abstractions.

Designed in close collaboration with Ruscha, this lavish cardboard-paged artist’s book is published retrospectively of the exhibition at Sprüth Magers, Berlin, 3 November 2015 – 16 January 2016.

Printed in an edition of 1,500 copies.

File under: Ed Ruscha Walther König / Köln Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting SALE

Illusion and Reality

1977, English
Softcover, 111 pages, 25 x 30 cm
1st edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by Australian Gallery Directors Council / Canberra

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Major Australian touring exhibition exploring realism and illusion in art (across new realist painting, pop, photography, conceptualism, minimalism, abstraction, ceramics, even architecture) with a catalogue of 71 works by 44 international artists and groups. Introduction and notes on the artists by John Stringer; statements by Audrey Flack, Stephen Posen and Josef Raffael; biographical notes on the artists, including exhibitions and collections; statement on realism by Raymond Williams. Exhibition organized by the Australian National Gallery, Canberra, and shown at seven locations throughout Australia.

Artists: Ian Burn, Gerhard Richter, Ed Ruscha, Joseph Kosuth, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Marilyn Levine, Dale Hickey, Jenny Watson, Jan Dibbets, Chuck Close, SITE, Michael Snow, Tom Wesselman, Claudio Bravo, Malcolm Morley, Michael Snow, Robert Bechtle, Tom Blackwell, Christian Boltanski, Santiago Cardenas, John Clem Clarke, William Delafield Cook, Robert Cottingham, Don Eddy, Richard Estes, Audrey Flack, Ralph Goings, Jan Groover, Duane Hanson, Peter Kennedy, Ron Kleeman, Richard Larter, Victor Lance Henderson, Terry Schoonhoven, Richard McLean, Jud Nelson, John Okulick, Philip Pearlstein,, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Liliana Porter, Stephen Posen, Joseph Raffael, Ben Schonzeit, Paul Sharits, Sonia Landy Sheridan, and more.

Condition: Very Good (light tanning/wear) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Audrey Flack Ben Schonzeit Bernd and Hilla Becher Christian Boltanski Chuck Close Claudio Bravo Dale Hickey Don Eddy Duane Hanson Ed Ruscha Gerhard Richter Ian Burn Jan Dibbets Jan Groover Jenny Watson John Clem Clarke John Okulick Joseph Kosuth Joseph Raffael Jud Nelson Liliana Porter Malcolm Morley Marilyn Levine Michael Snow Michelangelo Pistoletto Paul Sharits Peter Kennedy Philip Pearlstein Ralph Goings Richard Estes Richard Larter Richard McLean Robert Bechtle Robert Cottingham Ron Kleeman Santiago Cardenas SITE Sonia Landy Sheridan Stephen Posen Terry Schoonhoven Tom Blackwell Tom Wesselmann Victor Lance Henderson William Delafield Cook John Stringer Australian Gallery Directors Council / Canberra Art Australian Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Photography Group Shows / Collections

Ordinary Pictures

2016, English
Softcover (spiral-bound w. flexidisc), 208 pages, 20 x 31 cm
Published by Walker Art Centre / Minneapolis

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Despite its apparent throwaway status, the stock image comprises the primary commodity of a billion-dollar global industry with far-reaching effects in the marketplace and the public sphere. Taking this overlooked facet of contemporary life as a point of departure, "Ordinary Pictures" explores the photographic apparatuses and commercial interests that have given rise to our generic image culture through the conceptual image-based work of some 40 artists, including John Baldessari, Steven Baldi, Sarah Charlesworth, Anne Collier, Liz Deschenes, John Divola, Aleksandra Domanovi c, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Morgan Fisher, Hollis Frampton, Jack Goldstein, Rachel Harrison, Robert Heinecken, Leslie Hewitt, Elad Lassry, Louise Lawler, Sherrie Levine, Steve McQueen, Jack Pierson, Peter Piller, Seth Price, Amanda Rossotto, Ed Ruscha, Steven Shore, Sturtevant, Mungo Thomson, Wolfgang Tillmans, Tseng Kwong Chi, Julia Wachtel and Christopher Williams. Spanning generations, movements and artistic strategies from the 1960s to the present day, this publication brings together works by artists who have probed, mimicked and critiqued this aspect of our visual environment as well as its industrial modes of production and distribution. Through the work of these artists and a series of scholarly essays, the catalogue aims to examine different operations of the generic image in culture, namely its anonymous circulation and editorial uses, its adaptability and reproducibility, its technical processes of production, its claim to copyright and artistic license and its tendency toward abstraction. Featuring a unique, coil-bound design reminiscent of stock photo catalogues and a flexidisc recording by the artist Jack Goldstein, this highly collectible book ultimately reflects on contemporary art's own complicit function as an expanding industrial image economy.

Edited by Eric Crosby, texts by Lane Relyea and Thomas Beard.

File under: Amanda Rossotto Anne Collier Christopher Williams Ed Ruscha Elad Lassry Hans-Peter Feldmann Hollis Frampton Jack Goldstein Jack Pierson John Baldessari John Divola Julia Wachtel Leslie Hewitt Liz Deschenes Louise Lawler Morgan Fisher Mungo Thomson Peter Piller Rachel Harrison Robert Heinecken Sarah Charlesworth Seth Price Sherrie Levine Steve McQueen Steven Baldi Steven Shore Sturtevant Tseng Kwong Chi Wolfgang Tillmans Aleksandra Domanović Eric Crosby Lane Relyea Thomas Beard Walker Art Centre / Minneapolis Art Photography Film / Video Group Shows / Collections Curatorial SALE

Hotel Carlton Palace, Chamber 763
An Exhibition by Hans Ulrich Obrist

2014, English
Softcover, 64 pages, 21 cm x 14. 8 cm
Published by Staatliche Kunsthalle / Baden Baden Walther König / Köln

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In 1993 Hans Ulrich Obrist organised an unannounced exhibition with works by 70 artists in the 12 square metres of a hotel room in Paris. He also lived in the room for the duration of the exhibition.

Artists in the original exhibition included Ed Ruscha, Franz West, Maurizio Cattelan, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Gilbert & George, Isa Genzken, Douglas Gordon, Sarah Lucas, Gerhard Richter and many others.

With this publication Hans Ulrich Obrist takes the reader on an imaginary tour through his legendary exhibition, illustrated with numerous photographs by Pierre Leguillon and others. Original written communications between Obrist and the artists as well as a site plan indicating where the works were installed, enhance the documentation.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Room Service: On the Hotel in the Arts and Artists in the Hotel at Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, 22 March – 22 June 2014.

File under: Douglas Gordon Ed Ruscha Franz West Gerhard Richter Hans-Peter Feldmann Isa Genzken Maurizio Cattelan Pierre Leguillon Sarah Lucas Gilbert & George Hans Ulrich Obrist Johan Holten Pierre Leguillon Staatliche Kunsthalle / Baden Baden Walther König / Köln Art Photography Sculpture / Installation

4,492,040
Lucy Lippard (1969-1974)

2013, English
460 individual cards in wrapper, 15.25 × 10.15 cm
Published by New Documents / New York

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Between 1969 and 1974, the influential curator Lucy Lippard (born 1937) curated four decisive Conceptual art exhibitions, and in doing so reinvented the exhibition catalogue. 4,492,040 is a facsimile reprint of the extremely scarce and hugely important catalogues produced for these hugely important “numbers shows” - 557,087 (the Seattle Art Museum), 955,000 (the Vancouver Art Gallery), 7,500 (the California Institute of Art) and 2,972,453 (the Centro de Arte y Comunicación). Titled after the populations of the cities in which the shows were held, each catalogue was an envelope of loose note cards containing statements, documentation and conceptual works by each artist, to be rearranged, filed or discarded at will. If Lippard described Conceptual art as the dematerialization of the art object, these catalogues effectively announced the dematerialization of the art exhibition. (One reviewer claimed Lippard had been the artist, and that her medium had been other artists.) 4,492,040 includes such iconic figures as Vito Acconci, Carl Andre, Siah Armajani, Terry Atkinson, John Baldessari, Michael Baldwin, Robert Barry, Rick Barthelme, Daniel Buren, Rosemarie Castoro, Hanne Darboven, Walter de Maria, Jan Dibbets, Christos Dikeakos, Eleanor Antin, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Eva Hesse, Douglas Huebler, On Kawara, Edward Kienholz Sol LeWitt, Roelof Louw, Duane Lundon, Bruce McLean, Robert Morris, N.E. Thing Co., Bruce Nauman, Adrian Piper, Allen Ruppersberg, Ed Ruscha, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Jeff Wall and Lawrence Weiner.

File under: Adrian Piper Allen Ruppersberg Bruce McLean Bruce Nauman Carl Andre Christos Dikeakos Dan Graham Daniel Buren Douglas Huebler Duane Lundon Ed Ruscha Edward Kienholz Eleanor Antin Eva Hesse Hanne Darboven Hans Haacke Jan Dibbets Jeff Wall John Baldessari Lawrence Weiner Michael Baldwin On Kawara Richard Serra Rick Barthelme Robert Barry Robert Morris Robert Smithson Roelof Louw Rosemarie Castoro Siah Armajani Sol Lewitt Terry Atkinson Vito Acconci Walter de Maria Jeff Khonsary Lucy R. Lippard New Documents / New York Art Objects / Ephemera / A/V Photography Theory / Essay Curatorial Conceptual Art Group Shows / Collections

Ed Ruscha
Reading Ed Ruscha

2012, English / German
Hardcover (clothbound), 256 pages, 24 x 30 cm
Published by Kunsthaus Bregenz / Austria Walther König / Köln

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Reading Ed Ruscha focuses on the painter Ed Ruscha’s artistic interest in books, writing, and the act of reading as pursued by him over a period of five decades. Text and the written word appear in his works as motifs and symbols, or as actual objects in the form of books. A range of artistic means are used to explore and manipulate reading as a meaning-generative process. The essays written for this catalog book by Douglas Coupland and W. S. Di Piero approach these issues through literary and poetic forms. Beatrice von Bismarck examines the book as work, medium of publication, and exhibition format, while Yilmaz Dziewior presents an overview of Ed Ruscha’s engagement with the book as a medium and his relation to the written word. Large-format illustrations of exhibits, installation views, and an extensive appendix supplement this book.Extra shipping charges may apply

File under: Ed Ruscha Beatrice von Bismarck Douglas Coupland W. S. Di Piero Yilmaz Dziewior Kunsthaus Bregenz / Austria Walther König / Köln 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