World Food Books

David Hammons
Day's End

2024, English
Hardcover, 180 pages, 24.2 x‎ 17.2 cm
Published by Yale University Press / New Haven Whitney Museum of American Art / New York

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An in-depth look at a public art project by David Hammons with an overview of the enigmatic artist’s career

Published to commemorate David Hammons’s (b. 1943) public art project Day’s End, located in New York City, this book documents the sculpture and offers broader context into Hammons’s enigmatic work. In 2014, Hammons sent the Whitney Museum of American Art a sketch for a monument to Gordon Matta-Clark (1943–1978), paying homage to Matta-Clark’s legendary Day’s End (1975)—an industrial, cathedral-like space of altered architecture—once located near today’s Whitney in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District. Completed in 2021, Hammons’s work, also titled Day’s End, was realized by the Whitney in collaboration with Hudson River Park, and is on permanent view. One of the most important artists working in the United States, Hammons makes art across mediums, often outside traditional venues. In addition to photographic documentation, the book includes essays on the origins of Day’s End, Hammons’s career scope, and a contribution by poet Ben Okri.

File under: David Hammons Gordon Matta-Clark Adam D. Weinberg Kellie Jones Guy Nordenson Ben Okri Yale University Press / New Haven Whitney Museum of American Art / New York Art Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art SALE

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

Untitled: A Review of Contemporary Art No. 3 + No. 4
Winter 1993/94 + Spring 1994

1993/1994, English
Softcover (looseleaf tabloid), 24 + 20 pages, 42 x 29 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Untitled / London

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Rare lot of two issues of Untitled: A Review of Contemporary Art, No. 3 (Winter 1993/94) and No. 4 (Spring 1994). Untitled was the independent British tabloid newspaper of articles, reviews and opinions published and founded by John Stathatos and Mario Flecha following the demise of Artscribe in 1992. Contributors included Yves Abrioux, Tony Godfrey, David Alan Mellor, et al. Illustrated in b/w throughout, featuring Gordon Matta-Clark, Günther Förg, Rachel Whiteread, Art & Language, Candida Höfer, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Vong Phaophanit, Artists' Books, Medardo Rosso, Julian Opie, and much more.

Very Good copies, folded.

File under: Gordon Matta-Clark Günther Förg Rachel Whiteread Art & Language Candida Höfer Hiroshi Sugimoto Vong Phaophanit Artists' Books Medardo Rosso Julian Opie Yves Abrioux Tony Godfrey David Alan Mellor John Stathatos Mario Flecha Untitled / London Periodicals Art Painting Photography Conceptual Art Out-of-print / Rare Film / Video Curatorial Sculpture / Installation

Gordon Matta-Clark
Reorganizing Structure By Drawing Through It / Zeichnung Bei

1997, English / German
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 296 pages, 22 x 29 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Generali Foundation / Vienna

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Rare first hardcover edition of the catalogue raisonné of Gordon Matta-Clark's incredible drawings published in conjunction with exhibition held at Generali Foundation, Vienna, May 7—August 10, 1997. Heavily illustrated throughout (243 colour and 548 b/w illustrations) with essays by Sabine Breitwiesser, Peter Fend, and Pamela M. Lee. Includes a biography and bibliography. Text in English and German.

Gordon Matta-Clark (1943—1978) was an American artist best known for site-specific artworks he made in the 1970s. He was also a pioneer in the field of socially engaged food art.

Fine copy in Fine DJ.

File under: Gordon Matta-Clark Sabine Breitwiesser Peter Fend Pamela M. Lee Generali Foundation / Vienna Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Arte Povera Minimal Art Drawing

Afterimage : Draw Through Process
Edited by Cornelia H. Butler

1999, English
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 152 pages, 30.5 x 24.4 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts MOCA / Los Angeles

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First edition of long out-of-print important catalogue published to accompany Afterimage : Draw Through Process, a major survey of conceptual / post-minimalist drawing at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, before travelling to Texas and Washington. Co-published by the MIT Press and MOCA.

The term "process art" describes a moment of radical, a formal experimentation in postwar American sculpture. Through the medium of drawing, Afterimage revisits process art in terms of the artists who defined the movement and suggests a transitional moment when many of its practitioners anticipated the feminist and post minimalist art of the 1970s.

The term "process art" describes a moment of radical, a formal experimentation in postwar American sculpture. Through the medium of drawing, Afterimage revisits process art in terms of the artists who defined the movement and suggests a transitional moment when many of its practitioners anticipated the feminist and postminimalist art of the 1970s. Nancy Grossman's use of language, for example, suggests a kind of material abstraction, and Nancy Holt's earth works and related drawings introduced content into a minimalist vocabulary. The book also explores the drawing as a residual object in works in which the process of making dictates the form of the drawing. Examples include Gordon Matta-Clark's stacked cuttings, Robert Morris' "blind time" drawings, and Sol Lewitt's folded construction drawings. Other works, such as those by Bruce Nauman and Robert Smithson, record a particular approach to body-based and process-oriented sculpture. The book, which accompanies an exhibition, contains an essay by Cornelia H. Butler on the historical ambiguity surrounding process art and one by Pamela M. Lee on temporality in work of the late 1960s.

The artists included in the book are William Anastasi, Richard Artschwager, Mel Bochner, Agnes Denes, Nancy Grossman, Robert Grosvenor, Marcia Hafif, Eva Hesse, Nancy Holt, Barry LeVa, Sol Lewitt, Lee Lozano, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Gordon Matta-Clark, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Yvonne Rainer, Dorothea Rockburne, Alan Saret, Joel Shapiro, Robert Smithson, Michelle Stuart, Richard Tuttle, and Jack Whitten.

Very Good copy. Only very light wear to soft dust jacket, light tanning to edges.

File under: William Anastasi Richard Artschwager Mel Bochner Agnes Denes Nancy Grossman Robert Grosvenor Marcia Hafif Eva Hesse Nancy Holt Barry LeVa Sol Lewitt Lee Lozano Sylvia Plimack Mangold Gordon Matta-Clark Robert Morris Bruce Nauman Yvonne Rainer Dorothea Rockburne Alan Saret Joel Shapiro Robert Smithson Michelle Stuart Richard Tuttle Jack Whitten Pamela M. Lee Cornelia H. Butler The MIT Press / Massachusetts MOCA / Los Angeles Conceptual Art Minimal Art Drawing Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections

Malerei und Photographie im Dialog / Painting and photography in dialogue
Von 1840 bis Heute / From 1840 to The Present

1979, German
Softcover, 419 pages, 28 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Kunsthaus Zürich / Zürich Bentelli Verlag / Bern

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Wonderful over-sized catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition Malerei und Photographie im Dialog / Painting and Photography in Dialogue, Kunsthaus Zürich, May 13 to July 24, 1977. Profusely illustrated, this heavy volume documents this historical survey of the relationship between photography and painting from 1840 to the present (late 1970s); with a full catalogue of works, artists' biographies, bibliography. Edited by Erika Billeter with texts throughout by art historian Josef A. Schmoll. Includes the work of Edvard Munch, Urs Lüthi, Wols, Vito Acconci, John Baldessari, Eadweard Muybridge, Hannah Höch, Raoul Hausmann, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Oskar Schlemmer, Francis Bacon, Hilla and Bernd Becher, Les Levine, Constant Puyo, Clarence Hudson White, Jan Groover, Jochen Gerz, Duane Michels, Mario Merz, Giulio Paolini, Ruth Francken, Theo Von Doesburg, Kurt Schwitters, Ferdinand Hodler, Herbert Bayer, Marcel Duchamp, Gertrude Käsebier, Edward Steichen, Alighiero Boetti, Klaus Rinke, Giuseppe Penone, Pierre Bonnard, Paul Klee, Gerhard Richter, Monika Baumgartl, Yves Klein, Wolf Vostell, Heinrich Kühn, Georges Mathieu, Peter Roehr, Sarkis, Jiro Takamatsu, Michael Heizer, Umberto Boccioni, Hans Bellmer, William Wegman, Raoul Ubac, Margrit Jäggli, André Kertész, Jiri Kolar, Kasimir Malevich, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Dennis Oppenheim, Christian Boltanski, Dan Graham, Jan Dibbets, Jürgen Klauke, Bruce Nauman, Jean Tinguely, Vettor Pisani, Max Ernst, Joseph Cornell, Allen Kaprow, Arnulf Rainer, Mieczyslaw Berman, Jim Dine, George Brecht, Man Ray, Paul Wunderlich, Karin Székessy, Tom Wesselmann, Chuck Close, Eugène Delacroix, Duane Hanson, Heinrich Zille, Félix Vallotton, Carl Durheim, Gilbert and George, Joseph Beuys, Thomas Eakins, Robert Rauschenberg, Édouard Vuillard, Carlo Carrà, Alphonse Mucha, Les Krims, Albert Steiner, Giorgio de Chirico, Keiji Uematsu, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Heinrich Zille, Franco Fontana, Richard Long, Ben Shahn, Edmund Kesting, László Moholy-Nagy, Anton Stankowski, Paul Nash, Rene Magritte, Paul T. Frankl, John Heartfield, El Lissitzky, Georges Hugnet, Gordon Matta-Clark....

Very Good copy, crease to top cover corner.

File under: Edvard Munch Urs Lüthi Wols Vito Acconci Eadweard Muybridge Hannah Höch Raoul Hausmann Hans-Peter Feldmann Oskar Schlemmer Francis Bacon Hilla and Bernd Becher Les Levine Constant Puyo Clarence Hudson White Jan Groover Jochen Gerz Duane Michels Mario Merz Giulio Paolini Ruth Francken Theo Von Doesburg Kurt Schwitters Ferdinand Hodler Herbert Bayer Marcel Duchamp Gertrude Käsebier Edward Steichen Alighiero Boetti Klaus Rinke Giuseppe Penone Pierre Bonnard Paul Klee Gerhard Richter Monika Baumgartl Yves Klein Wolf Vostell Heinrich Kühn Georges Mathieu Peter Roehr Sarkis Jiro Takamatsu Michael Heizer Umberto Boccioni Hans Bellmer William Wegman Raoul Ubac Margrit Jäggli André Kertész Jiri Kolar Kasimir Malevich Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Dennis Oppenheim Christian Boltanski Dan Graham Jan Dibbets Jürgen Klauke Bruce Nauman Jean Tinguely Vettor Pisani Max Ernst Joseph Cornell Allen Kaprow Arnulf Rainer Mieczyslaw Berman Jim Dine George Brecht Man Ray Paul Wunderlich Karin Székessy Eugène Delacroix Félix Vallotton Tom Wesselmann Chuck Close Duane Hanson Joseph Beuys Thomas Eakins Robert Rauschenberg Édouard Vuillard Carlo Carrà Alphonse Mucha Les Krims Albert Steiner Giorgio de Chirico Keiji Uematsu Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Heinrich Zille Franco Fontana Richard Long Ben Shahn Edmund Kesting László Moholy-Nagy Anton Stankowski Paul Nash Rene Magritte Paul T. Frankl John Heartfield El Lissitzky Georges Hugnet Gordon Matta-Clark John Baldessari Erika Billeter Josef A. Schmoll. Kunsthaus Zürich / Zürich Bentelli Verlag / Bern Photography Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Surrealism Dada Conceptual Art

The Originality of the Avant-garde and Other Modernist Myths
by Rosalind E. Krauss

1986, English
Softcover, 319 pages, 175 x 229 mm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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Co-founder and co-editor of October magazine, a veteran of Artforum of the 1960s and early 1970s, Rosalind Krauss has presided over and shared in the major formulation of the theory of postmodernism. In this challenging collection of fifteen essays, most of which originally appeared in October, she explores the ways in which the break in style that produced postmodernism has forced a change in our various understandings of twentieth-century art, beginning with the almost mythic idea of the avant-garde. Krauss uses the analytical tools of semiology, structuralism, and poststructuralism to reveal new meanings in the visual arts and to critique the way other prominent practitioners of art and literary history write about art. In two sections, "Modernist Myths" and "Toward Postmodernism," her essays range from the problem of the grid in painting and the unity of Giacometti's sculpture to the works of Jackson Pollock, Sol Lewitt, and Richard Serra, and observations about major trends in contemporary literary criticism.

Rosalind E. Krauss, University Professor at Columbia University and an editor and cofounder of October magazine, is the author of The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths (1985), The Optical Unconscious (1993), The Picasso Papers (1999), and Bachelors (1999), all published by the MIT Press, and coauthor (with Yve-Alain Bois) of Formless: A User's Guide (Zone Books, 1997).

"All of her observations are unfailingly original and provocative."—Art Documentation

Very Good copy of original 1986 edition, 1993 printing.

File under: Jackson Pollock Richard Serra Sol Lewitt Agnes Martin Marcel Duchamp Pablo Picasso Piet Mondrian Man Ray Robert Ryman Caspar David Friedrich Eugene Atget Auguste Rodin Gordon Matta-Clark Alberto Giacometti Max Ernst Rosalind E. Krauss The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Painting Photography Minimal Art Conceptual Art Dada Surrealism

The Return of The Real
by Hal Foster

1996, English
Softcover, 328 pages, 18 x 22.2 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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In The Return of the Real Hal Foster discusses the development of art and theory since 1960, and reorders the relation between prewar and postwar avant-gardes. Opposed to the assumption that contemporary art is somehow belated, he argues that the avant-garde returns to us from the future, repositioned by innovative practice in the present. And he poses this retroactive model of art and theory against the reactionary undoing of progressive culture that is pervasive today. After the models of art-as-text in the 1970s and art-as-simulacrum in the 1980s, Foster suggests that we are now witness to a return to the real -- to art and theory grounded in the materiality of actual bodies and social sites. If The Return of the Real begins with a new narrative of the historical avant-garde, it concludes with an original reading of this contemporary situation -- and what it portends for future practices of art and theory, culture and politics.

Includes the work of David Hammons, Robert Gober, Mike Kelley, Marcel Duchamp, Alexander Rodchenko, Vladimir Tatlin, Dan Flavin, Carl Andre, Jasper Johns, Daniel Buren, Marcel Broodthaers, Michael Asher, Hans Haacke, Fred Wilson, Silvia Kolbowski, Larry Bell, Sol Lewitt, Richard Serra, Eva Hesse, Donald Judd, Tony Smith, Robert Morris, Robert Smithson, Jeff Koons, Haim Steinbach, Peter Halley, Ashley Bickerton, Ross Bleckner, Barbara Kruger, Sherrie Levine, Vito Acconci, Bruce Nauman, Gordon Matta-Clark, Frank Stella, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Allan McCollum, Gerhard Richter, Richard Estes, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, John Miller, Zoe Leonard, Gran Fury, Renée Green, Dan Graham, Martha Rosler, Allan Sekula, Mary Kelly, Silvia Kolbowski, Lothar Baumgarten, Fred Wilson, Jimmie Durham, and many more.

File under: David Hammons Robert Gober Mike Kelley Marcel Duchamp Alexander Rodchenko Vladimir Tatlin Dan Flavin Carl Andre Jasper Johns Daniel Buren Marcel Broodthaers Michael Asher Hans Haacke Fred Wilson Silvia Kolbowski Larry Bell Sol Lewitt Richard Serra Eva Hesse Donald Judd Tony Smith Robert Morris Robert Smithson Jeff Koons Haim Steinbach Peter Halley Ashley Bickerton Ross Bleckner Barbara Kruger Sherrie Levine Vito Acconci Bruce Nauman Gordon Matta-Clark Frank Stella Robert Rauschenberg Andy Warhol Allan McCollum Gerhard Richter Richard Estes Richard Prince Cindy Sherman Kiki Smith John Miller Zoe Leonard Gran Fury Renée Green Dan Graham Martha Rosler Allan Sekula Mary Kelly Lothar Baumgarten Jimmie Durham Hal Foster The MIT Press / Massachusetts Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Film / Video Photography Conceptual Art Minimal Art Pop Art Dada

Avalanche No. 3 (Fall 1971)
Barry Le Va Cover

1971, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 94 pages, 24 x 23.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Kineticism Press / New York

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Issue three of the legendary New York quarterly periodical Avalanche, published Fall 1971. Cover features Barry Le Va. Contents: "Rumbles," featuring Jackie Winsor, William Wegman, Allen Ruppersberg, Gilbert & George and Philip Glass; "The Art of Searching," interview with David Tremlett; "Ululations," by Bill Beckley; "Soap," by Joel Fisher; "Jacks," by Gordon Matta-Clark; "Observatory," by Robert Morris; "Christ & Pythagoras," by Italo Scanga; "A Metal Ring Encircling a Tree," interview with Ulrich Ruckriem; "Outcrops," by George Trakas; "Discussions with Barry Le Va," by Liza Béar and Willoughby Sharp. Edited by Liza Béar, published by Willoughby Sharp, design by Boris Wall Gruphy.

The short-lived New York based art magazine Avalanche, which existed between 1970 and 1976, captured a sense of its time, but also engaged critically with the relationship between printed matter (books, samizdat, etc.) and artwork. Founded by Liza Bear and Willoughby Sharp Avalanche pushed artistic ideas, focusing on new forms of art-making (of it’s day), providing a timely format for art’s movement away from galleries and museums and towards the printed page and emerging discourses surrounding Performance and Land art. The interviews, all conducted by Bear and Sharp, employ a loose but thoughtful approach. Often the articles ran as large as 16 pages. The featured artists were at the time relatively unknown, today they read like a Who’s Who of the avant-garde (in particular as defined by Dia:). The square covers of the early issues feature now iconic portraits of artists; Joseph Beuys, Lawrence Weiner, Yvonne Rainer, Vito Acconci (who had the entire Issue of #6 dedicated to him) and Bruce Nauman.

Featured artists were Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Bill Beckley, Joseph Beuys, Chris Burden, Daniel Buren, Hanne Darboven, Walter De Maria, Jan Dibbets, Barbara Dilley, Simone Forti, Gilbert & George, the Philip Glass Ensemble, Grand Union, Hans Haacke, Jannis Kounellis, Meredith Monk, Barry Le Va, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Gordon Matta-Clark, Bruce Nauman, Dennis Oppenheim, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, Klaus Rinke, Joel Shapiro, Jack Smith, Keith Sonnier, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, George Trakas, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, the Western Front and Jackie Winsor.

Very Good copy with tanning and light wear.

File under: Barry Le Va David Tremlett Bill Beckley Joel Fisher Gordon Matta-Clark Robert Morris Ulrich Ruckreim Italo Scanga George Trakas Willoughby Sharp Elizabeth Béar Kineticism Press / New York Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater Arte Povera Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Sculpture / Installation Fluxus Art Theory / Essay Minimal Art Film / Video

documenta X
The Book: Politics Poetics

1997, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 830 pages
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by documenta / Kassel

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First English edition of this monumental 830 page book for documenta X, the last documenta of the twentieth century and the first directed by a woman, the French curator Catherine David, brings together the work of more than 100 of the world's foremost thinkers, writers, and artists in an extraordinary anthology of seminal texts and images of, on, and about the development of Western cultural and critical theory since 1945.

The book "seeks to indicate a political context for the interpretation of artistic activities at the close of the twentieth century, through a montage of images and documents from the immediate post-war period to the present. The range of material treated here is not encyclopaedic; it represents a polemical attempt to isolate specific strands of artistic production and political endeavour which can be taken as references in the contemporary debate over the evolution of our societies. Drawing from distinct yet interrelated territorial and linguistic domains, the book singles out complex cultural responses to the unifying processes of global modernity."—from the book jacket.

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

Writers include: Theodor W. Adorno, Maurice Blanchot, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Paul Celan, Amílcar Cabral, Masao Miyoshi, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Jacques Rancière, Tadao Sato, Youssef Ishaghpour, Josef Beuys, Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Rem Koolhaas, Sandra Álvarez de Toledo, Witold Gombrowicz, Herve Joubert-Laurencin, Jean-François Chevrier, Marguerite Duras, Edward Said, Henri Alleg, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Uwe Johnson, Jerzy Grotowski, James Clifford, Primo Levi, Pierre Clastres, Andrea Branzi, Fabrizio Gallanti, Gérard Chaliand, Stig Björkman, Daniel Defert, Saskia Sassen, Catherine David, Benjamin Buchloh, Paul Virilio, Serge Daney, Étienne Balibar, Nadia Tazi, and many others.....

Artists include : Archigram, Martin Kippenberger, Archizoom Associati, Art & Language, Hans Haacke, Oyvind Fahlström, Samuel Beckett, Franz West, Andrea Zittel, Heimo Zobernig, Nancy Spero, Jean-Luc Godard, Marcel Broodthaers, Lygia Clark, Jörg Herold, Fischli & Weiss, Dan Graham, Robert Adams, Peter Friedl, Paweł Althamer, Liam Gillick, Mike Kelley & Tony Oursler & Diedrich Diederichsen, Stan Douglas, Harun Farocki, Ed van der Elsken, Walker Evans, Aldo van Eyck, Heiner Goebbels, William Kentridge, Ulrike Grossarth, Richard Hamilton, Vito Acconci, Raymond Hains, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Siobhán Hapaska, Ecke Bonk, Carsten Höller & Rosemarie Trockel, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Lois Weinberger, Hélio Oiticica, Gabriel Orozco, Olaf Nicolai, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Gerhard Richter, Thomas Schütte, Marc Pataut, Gordon Matta-Clark, Christian Philipp Müller, Matt Mullican, Antoni Muntadas, Jean-Luc Moulène, Reinhard Mucha, Álvaro Siza, Toyo Ito, John C. Portman Jr., Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Mariella Mosler, Josef Beuys, Steve McQueen, Chris Marker, Lothar Baumgarten, Jean Dubuffet, Kerry James Marshall, Maria Lassnig, Rem Koolhaas, Joachim Koester, Suzanne Lafont, Sigalit Landau, Helen Levitt, Garry Winogrand, Brassaï, Le Corbusier, Antonin Artaud, and so many more...

Very Good coy, light wear. Good dust jacket with some creasing and edge wear.

File under: Mike Kelley Tony Oursler Carsten Höller Rosemarie Trockel Archigram Martin Kippenberger Archizoom Associati Art & Language Hans Haacke Samuel Beckett Franz West Andrea Zittel Heimo Zobernig Jean-Luc Godard Marcel Broodthaers Lygia Clark Jörg Herold Fischli & Weiss Dan Graham Robert Adams Peter Friedl Öyvind Fahlström Paweł Althamer Liam Gillick Stan Douglas Harun Farocki Ed van der Elsken Walker Evans Aldo van Eyck Siobhán Hapaska Reinhard Mucha Mariella Mosler Steve McQueen Chris Marker Lothar Baumgarten Kerry James Marshall Maria Lassnig Rem Koolhaas Joachim Koester Suzanne Lafont Sigalit Landau Helen Levitt Garry Winogrand Jean-Luc Moulène Hélio Oiticica Thomas Schütte Christian Philip Muller Gabriel Orozco Olaf Nicolai Michelangelo Pistoletto Gerhard Richter Marc Pataut Gordon Matta-Clark Matt Mullican Antoni Muntadas Heiner Goebbels William Kentridge Ulrike Grossarth Richard Hamilton Vito Acconci Raymond Hains Ecke Bonk Carl Michael von Hausswolff Lois Weinberger Carsten Höller Pier Paolo Pasolini Joseph Beuys Nancy Spero Le Corbusier Brassaï Jean Dubuffet Alvaro Siza Toyo Ito Rainer Werner Fassbinder Paulo Mendes Da Rocha John C. Portman Jr. Antonin Artaud Diedrich Diederichsen Catherine David Yana Milev Klaus Biesenbach Nancy Spector Hans-Ulrich Obrist Theodor W. Adorno Maurice Blanchot Pier Paolo Pasolini Paul Celan Amílcar Cabral Masao Miyoshi Hannah Arendt Michel Foucault Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari Jacques Rancière Tadao Sato Youssef Ishaghpour Josef Beuys Samuel Beckett Albert Camus Rainer Werner Fassbinder Rem Koolhaas Sandra Álvarez de Toledo Witold Gombrowicz Herve Joubert-Laurencin Jean-François Chevrier Marguerite Duras Edward Said Henri Alleg Pierre Vidal-Naquet Uwe Johnson Jerzy Grotowski James Clifford Primo Levi Pierre Clastres Andrea Branzi Fabrizio Gallanti Gérard Chaliand Stig Björkman Daniel Defert Saskia Sassen Benjamin Buchloh Paul Virilio Serge Daney Étienne Balibar Nadia Tazi and many others documenta / Kassel Art Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Australian Photography Performance / Dance / Theater Protest / Revolt Theory / Essay Architecture / Interior Conceptual Art Film / Video Sound / Music Painting Photography Ecology

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

Gordon Matta-Clark: Readings of the archive
by Yann Chateigné, Hila Peleg, and Kitty Scott

2020, English
Softcover, 248 pages, 31 x 24 cm
Published by Koenig Books / London CCA / Montreal

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Gordon Matta-Clark was born in 1943 in New York, son of American artist Anne Clark, and Chilean Surrealist painter Roberto Matta. He entered the architecture program at Cornell University in 1962 but left in 1963 and spent the following year in Paris living with his father and studying French Literature. He returned to Cornell 1964-1968, he did not, however, practice as a conventional architect; he worked on what he referred to as "Anarchitecture." In mid-1969, Matta-Clark moved to New York City and his architectural "Cuttings", as well as his large corpus of drawings made him a prominent figure among his colleagues, including close friends and collaborators such as Jan Dibbetts and Robert Smithson. His influence as "artist's artist" on future generations cannot be overstated. Matta-Clark died at the age of 35. Many of his works are destroyed.

In 2011, the Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark handed over the entire archive – his library, manuscripts, films, correspondence, drawings, notes and works of art - to the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, where it now has been published annotated and edited in an exemplary way in this incredible volume. Only with this publication will his work become fully visible.

This book unpacks the comprehensive Gordon Matta-Clark collection at the CCA (CP138), opening it up to provisional readings from different points of view. Yann Chateigné reorganizes Matta-Clark’s library into areas of inquiry, from alchemy to psychoanalysis, as a framework for gathering traces⁠—written and drawn⁠—of his thinking. Hila Peleg reassembles hours of discarded film footage, challenging the notion of documentation and returning to view the physical and social contexts⁠—the relational space⁠—of Matta-Clark’s interventions. And from hundreds of travel photographs, Kitty Scott constructs a panorama of Matta-Clark’s visual notes on the world around him⁠—a foil to his artworks. In foregrounding seemingly incidental parts of the collection, these studies manifest an exploratory way of working with archives, by which selecting, presenting, and writing are processes of ongoing research. Rather than synthesize, CP138 Gordon Matta-Clark: Readings of the archive by Yann Chateigné, Hila Peleg, and Kitty Scott extends the scope of what constitutes Matta-Clark’s body of work and thus the physical and intellectual terrain within which to situate it.

File under: Gordon Matta-Clark Yann Chateigné Hila Peleg Kitty Scott Gordon Matta-Clark Koenig Books / London CCA / Montreal Sculpture / Installation Photography Conceptual Art Art Theory / Essay Drawing Architecture / Interior

Conceptual Art In A Curatorial Perspective: Between Dematerialization And Documentation
by Nathalie Zonnenberg

2019, English
Softcover, 272 pages, 17 x 24 cm
Published by Valiz / Amsterdam

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Conceptual Art in a Curatorial Perspective: Between Dematerialization and Documentation focuses on the curatorial practice of exhibiting conceptual art. The fact that conceptual works are not object-based, creates challenges in exhibiting or re-exhibiting them. This book offers various perspectives on how to handle conceptual art in the context of the museum, based on three detailed case studies and an extensive introduction in which the paradox of conceptual art is analyzed. It also elaborates on the history of exhibiting conceptual artworks, and on the influence of curators in their canonization.
The aim of the book is not to offer clear-cut practical solutions, but to raise awareness of the issue and the different ways of dealing with it within the traditional curatorial field. It is relevant for students of art and culture (particularly in museum and curatorial studies), art and museum professionals, and everyone interested in the art of the 1960s and 1970s.

Nathalie Zonnenberg is an art historian and curator. She holds a PhD in Art History from Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam (NL). Zonnenberg regularly writes on contemporary art, and she lectures at the post-graduate Curatorial Studies programme at KASK/the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent (BE).

File under: Robert Morris Douglas Huebler Sol LeWitt Stanley Brouwn Markus Raetz Robert Ryman Adrian Piper Charlotte Posenenske Richard Tuttle Niele Toroni Michael Snow Sarkis Reiner Ruthenbeck Keith Sonnier Sherrie Levine John Latham El Lissitzky Richard Long Gordon Matta-Clark Piero Manzoni Brice Marden Bruce McLean Mario Merz Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Claes Oldenburg Yoko Ono Pino Pascali Barry Flanagan Dan Flavin Lucio Fontana Piero Gilardi Eva Hesse Joseph Kosuth Jannis Kounellis Barbara Kruger Richard Prince On Kawara Jo Ann Kaplan Rem Koolhaas Robert Filliou Robert Barry Alighiero Boetti Daniel Buren Victor Burgin Joseph Beuys Hanne Darboven Maria Eichhorn Jan Dibbets Marcel Duchamp Lynda Benglis John Baldessari Bernd and Hilla Becher Gilbert & George László Moholy-Nagy Michelangelo Pistoletto Valiz / Amsterdam Theory / Essay Curatorial Conceptual Art Arte Povera Fluxus Dada Minimal Art Group Shows / Collections

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

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

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

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

Before Pictures
by Douglas Crimp

2016, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 288 pages, 15.2 x 24.1 cm
Published by University of Chicago Press / Chicago

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Douglas Crimp is the rare art critic whose work profoundly influenced a generation of artists. He is best known for his work with the "Pictures Generation" the very name of which Crimp coined to define the work of artists like Robert Longo and Cindy Sherman who appropriated images from mass culture to carry out a subversive critique. But while his influence is widely recognized, we know little about Crimp's own formative experiences before "Pictures."Before Pictures tells the story of Crimp's life as a young gay man and art critic in New York City during the late 1960s through the turbulent 1970s. Crimp participated in all of what made the city so stimulating in that vibrant decade. The details of his professional and personal life are interwoven with this the particularly rich history of New York City at that time, producing a vivid portrait of both the critic and his adopted city. The book begins with his escape from his hometown in Idaho, and we quickly find Crimp writing criticism for ArtNews while working at the Guggenheim where, as a young curatorial assistant, he was one of the few to see Daniel Buren's Peinture-Sculpture before it was removed amid cries of institutional censorship. We also travel to the Chelsea Hotel (where Crimp helped the down-on-his-luck couturier Charles James organize his papers) through to his days as a cinephile and balletomane to the founding of the art journal October, where he remained a central figure for many years. As he was developing his reputation as a critic, he was also partaking of the New York night life, from drugs and late nights alongside the Warhol crowd at the Max's Kansas City to discos, roller-skating, and casual sex with famous (and not-so-famous) men. As AIDS began to ravage the closely linked art and gay communities, Crimp eventually turned his attention to activism dedicated to rethinking AIDS. Part biography and part cultural history, Before Pictures is a courageous account of an exceptional period in both Crimp's life and the life of New York City. At the same time, it offers a deeply personal and engaging point of entry into important issues in contemporary art.

Includes the work of Cindy Sherman, Jack Goldstein, Daniel Buren, Charles James, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Agnes Martin, Dan Flavin, Peter Hujar, Eva Hesse, Bernardo Bertolucci, Walker Evans, Joseph Cornell, Alfred Hitchcock, Jack Tworkov, Robert Ryman, Jane Freilicher, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Stanley Kubrick, Cristobal Balenciaga, Christian Dior, Brice Marden, Ellsworth Kelly, Guilio Romano, Andrea Mantegna, Merce Cunningham, Joan Jonas, Yvonne Rainer, John Baldessari, Dan Graham, Vito Acconci, Alvin Baltrop, Divine, Gordon Matta-Clark, Edgar Degas, Louise Lawler, and so many others.

File under: Cindy Sherman Jack Goldstein Daniel Buren Charles James Hiroshi Sugimoto Agnes Martin Dan Flavin Peter Hujar Eva Hesse Bernardo Bertolucci Walker Evans Joseph Cornell Alfred Hitchcock Jack Tworkov Robert Ryman Jane Freilicher Robert Smithson Michael Snow Stanley Kubrick Cristobal Balenciaga Christian Dior Brice Marden Ellsworth Kelly Guilio Romano Andrea Mantegna Joan Jonas Yvonne Rainer John Baldessari Dan Graham Vito Acconci Alvin Baltrop Divine Gordon Matta-Clark Edgar Degas Louise Lawler Merce Cunningham Douglas Crimp University of Chicago Press / Chicago Art Pop Art Minimal Art Theory / Essay Painting Fashion Textiles Performance / Dance / Theater Photography Conceptual Art Film / Video Sculpture / Installation

Gordon Matta-Clark
Anarchitect

2017, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 184 pages, 20.3 x 26.7 cm
Published by Yale University Press / New Haven

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"Undoing is just as much a democratic right as doing."---Gordon Matta-Clark

This revealing book looks at the groundbreaking work of Gordon Matta-Clark (1943–1978), whose socially conscious practice blurred the boundaries between contemporary art and architecture. After completing a degree in architecture at Cornell University, Matta-Clark returned to his home city of New York. There he employed the term “anarchitecture,” combining “anarchy” and “architecture,” to describe the site-specific works he initially realized in the South Bronx.

The borough’s many abandoned buildings, the result of economic decline and middle-class flight, served as Matta-Clark’s raw material. His series Cuts dissected these structures, performing an anatomical study of the ravaged urban landscape. Moving from New York to Paris with Conical Intersect, a piece that became emblematic of artistic protest, Matta-Clark applied this same method to a pair of 17th-century row houses slated for demolition as a result of the Centre Pompidou’s construction. This compelling volume grounds Matta-Clark’s practice against the framework of architectural and urban history, stressing his pioneering activist-inspired approach, as well as his contribution to the nascent fields of social practice and relational aesthetics.

File under: Gordon Matta-Clark Antonio Bessa Jessamyn Fiore Yale University Press / New Haven Architecture / Interior Arte Povera Minimal Art Conceptual Art

Support Structures
Céline Condorelli (Ed.)

2009, English
Softcover, 438 pages, 14.8 x 21 cm
2nd Edition,
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

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2015 re-print of this fantastic and hugely popular book from 2009.

Essays by Bart De Baere, Céline Condorelli, Mark Cousins, Wouter Davidts, Jean-Claude Lebensztejn, Andrea Phillips, Jaime Stapleton, Jan Verwoert, Eyal Weizman & Rony Brauman

With works by Michael Asher, Artist Placement Group, Can Altay, Conrad Atkinson, Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan, Banu Cennetoglu, Christopher D’Arcangelo, Martin Beck, Cevdet Erek, Andrea Fraser, Buckminster Fuller, Ryan Gander, Ella Gibbs, Frederick Kiesler, Lucy Kimbell, James Langdon, El Lissitzky, Peter Nadin, The offices of Peter Fend, Coleen Fitzgibbon, Jenny Holzer, Peter Nadin, Richard Prince & Robin Winters,” Gordon Matta-Clark, Antoni Muntadas, Lilly Reich, Support Structure, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Lawrence Weiner, Christopher Williams, Carey Young, a.o.

Support Structures is a manual for what bears, sustains, and props, for those things that encourage, care for, and assist; for that which advocates, articulates; for what stands behind, frames, and maintains: it is a manual for those things that give support. While the work of supporting might traditionally appear as subsequent, unessential, and lacking value in itself, this manual is an attempt to restore attention to one of the neglected, yet crucial modes through which we apprehend and shape the world.

Support Structures is a critical enquiry into what constitutes “support,” and documents the collaborative project “Support Structure” by Céline Condorelli and Gavin Wade. While registering and collecting reference projects in a new archive of support structures alongside its ten-phase project, different writers, thinkers, and practitioners were invited from various fields to elaborate on frameworks and work on texts , which form the theoretical backbone of the publication. The collection of contributions offers different possibilities for engaging in this unchartered territory, from propositions to projects, existing systems to ones invented for specific creative processes.

Support Structures offers support through potential methodologies, inspirations and activations for practice, and addresses important questions for art and architecture practices on forms of display, organization, articulation, appropriation, autonomy, and temporariness, and the manifestations of blindness towards them.

Produced in co-production with Support Structure:
Celine Condorelli and Gavin Wade with James Langdon
www.supportstructures.org

Design by James Langdon

File under: Adam Broomberg Andrea Fraser Antoni Muntadas Artist Placement Group Buckminster Fuller Can Altay Carey Young Cevdet Erek Christopher D’Arcangelo Christopher Williams Coleen Fitzgibbon Conrad Atkinson El Lissitzky Ella Gibbs Frederick Kiesler Gordon Matta-Clark James Langdon Jenny Holzer Lawrence Weiner Lilly Reich Lonnie van Brummelen Lucy Kimbell Martin Beck Michael Asher Oliver Chanarin Peter Nadin Richard Prince Rirkrit Tiravanija Robin Winters Ryan Gander Siebren de Haan Banu Cennetoğlu Andrea Phillips Bart De Baere Céline Condorelli Eyal Weizman Jaime Stapleton Jan Verwoert Jean-Claude Lebensztejn Mark Cousins Rony Brauman Wouter Davidts Sternberg Press / Berlin Architecture / Interior Art Theory / Essay

Destruction
Edited by Sven Spieker

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reliefs
Formprobleme zwischen Malerei und Skulptur im 20. Jahrhundert

1981, German
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 286 pages, 22 x 28 cm
Out of print title / used / average
Published by Benteli Verlag / Bern

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Large hardcover exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held in Switzerland in 1980. Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout, with many examples of artists from the exhibition. Artists included in the exhibition: Josef Albers, Cuno Amiet, Carl Andre, Jurij Annenkow, Alexander Archipeno, Arman, Gerd Arntz, Hans Arp, Richard Artschwager, Giacomo Balla, Ernst Barlach, Willi Baumeister, Bodo Baumgarten, Walter Bodmer, Lee Bontecou, Carl Buchheister, Erich Buchholz, Alexander Calder, Anthony Caro, Carlo Carrà, John Chamberlain, Eduardo Chillida, Christo, Joseph Cornell, Joseph Csaky, Robert Delaunay, Jim Dine, Theo van Doesburg, César Domela, Jean Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Max Ernst, Dan Flavin, Adolf Fleischmann, Lucio Fontana, Otto Freundlich, Naum Gabo, Paul Gaugin, Julio Gonzalez, Jean Gorin, Gotthard Graubner, Oto Gutfreund, Nigel Hall, August Herbin, Adolf von Hildebrand, Robert Irwin, Robert Jacobsen, Marcel Janco, Jasper Johns, Paul Joostens, Donald Judd, Zoltan Kemény, Edward Kienholz, Yves Klein, Käthe Kollwitz, Norbert Kricke, Gary Kuehn, Berto Lardera, Henri Laurens, Fernand Léger, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Sol LeWitt, Jacques Lipchitz, El Lissitzky, Vilhelm Lundstrøm, René Magritte, Aristide Maillol, Manolo, Man Ray, Piero Manzoni, Henri Matisse, Gordon Matta-Clark, Joan Miró, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, François Morellet, Henry Moore, Robert Morris, Louise Nevelson, Ben Nicholson, Claes Oldenburg, Eduardo Paolozzi, Victor Pasmore, Laszlo Peri, Antoine Pevsner, Jean Peyrissac, Pablo Picasso, Anne und Patrick Poirier, Iwan Puni, David Rabinowitch, Robert Rauschenberg, James Reineking, Erich Reusch, August Renoir, George Rickey, Auguste Rodin, Ulrich Rückriem, Christian Schad, Oskar Schlemmer, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Jan Schoonhoven, Emil Schumacher, Kurt Schwitters, Arthur Segal, George Segal, Richard Serra, Gino Severini, Joel Shapiro, Richard Smith, Jesus Raphael Soto, Giuseppe Spagnulo, Daniel Spoerri, Henryk Stazewski, Frank Stella, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Antonio Tàpies, Wladimir Tatlin, Jean Tinguely, Joaquin Torres-Garcia, Ilya Tschaschnik, Leon Tutundjan, Günter Uecker, Bernar Venet, Friedrich Vordemberger-Gildewart, Fritz Wotruba.

Written contributions by Felix A. Baumann, Sabine Kricke-Güse, Ernst Gerhard-Güse, Carola Giedion-Welcker, Sigrid Braunfels-Esche, Margit Rowell, Wulf Herzogenrath, Willy Rotzler, Eduard Trier, and Thomas Deecke. Text in German.

Ex library copy with usual stamps and general wear, bumping, wrinkling, in good original dust jacket.

File under: Josef Albers Cuno Amiet Carl Andre Arman Gerd Arntz Richard Artschwager Giacomo Balla Ernst Barlach Willi Baumeister Bodo Baumgarten Walter Bodmer Lee Bontecou Carl Buchheister Erich Buchholz Alexander Calder Anthony Caro Carlo Carrà John Chamberlain Eduardo Chillida Christo Joseph Cornell Joseph Csaky Robert Delaunay Jim Dine Theo van Doesburg César Domela Jean Dubuffet Marcel Duchamp Raymond Duchamp-Villon Max Ernst Dan Flavin Adolf Fleischmann Lucio Fontana Otto Freundlich Naum Gabo Paul Gaugin Julio Gonzalez Jean Gorin Gotthard Graubner Oto Gutfreund Nigel Hall Adolf von Hildebrand Robert Irwin Robert Jacobsen Marcel Janco Jasper Johns Paul Joostens Donald Judd Zoltan Kemény Edward Kienholz Yves Klein Käthe Kollwitz Norbert Kricke Gary Kuehn Berto Lardera Henri Laurens Fernand Léger Wilhelm Lehmbruck Sol LeWitt Jacques Lipchitz El Lissitzky Vilhelm Lundstrøm René Magritte Aristide Maillol Manolo Man Ray Piero Manzoni Henri Matisse Gordon Matta-Clark Joan Miró László Moholy-Nagy François Morellet Henry Moore Robert Morris Louise Nevelson Ben Nicholson Claes Oldenburg Eduardo Paolozzi Victor Pasmore Laszlo Peri Antoine Pevsner Jean Peyrissac Pablo Picasso Anne und Patrick Poirier Iwan Puni David Rabinowitch Robert Rauschenberg James Reineking Erich Reusch August Renoir George Rickey Auguste Rodin Ulrich Rückriem Christian Schad Oskar Schlemmer Karl Schmidt-Rottluff Jan Schoonhoven Emil Schumacher Kurt Schwitters Arthur Segal George Segal Richard Serra Gino Severini Joel Shapiro Richard Smith Jesus Raphael Soto Giuseppe Spagnulo Daniel Spoerri Henryk Stazewski Frank Stella Sophie Taeuber-Arp Wladimir Tatlin Jean Tinguely Joaquin Torres-Garcia Ilya Tschaschnik Leon Tutundjan Günter Uecker Bernar Venet Friedrich Vordemberger-Gildewart Fritz Wotruba Antoni Tàpies Yuri Annenkov Alexander Archipenko Jean Arp (Hans Arp) Auguste Herbin Benteli Verlag / Bern Art Ceramics / Glass Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Surrealism Dada Minimal Art Pop Art Sculpture / Installation

Out of Actions
Aktionismus, Body Art und Performance 1949-1979

1998, German
Hardcover, 366 pages, 22.5 x 31 cm
1st German edition, Out of print title / used / very good,
Published by Hatje Cantz / Berlin

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The long out-of-print heavyweight "Out of Actions" book (First German hardcover edition) that was published to accompany the spectacular 1998 Paul Schimmel-curated travelling exhibition. "Out of Actions" surveyed the broad international history and influence of post-war Performance Art, and the objects that exist today as its documentation. It features significant texts by Schimmel, Kristine Stiles, Guy Brett, Hubert Klocker, Shinichiro Osaki, Leslie King-Hammond and Lowery Stokes Sims, and Keiko Okamura.
This important and heavily researched document is lavishly illustrated throughout in colour and black and white, capturing the work and actions of the artists featured in the exhibition and essays: Marina Abramovic, Marina Abramovic and Ulay, Vito Acconci, Genpei Akasegawa, Laurie Anderson, Eleanor Antin, Rasheed Arseen, Mowry Baden, Artur Barrio, Joseph Beuys, Mark Boyle and Joan Hills, George Brecht, Stuart Brisley, Robert Delford Brown, Gunter Brus, Chris Burden, James Lee Byars, John Cage, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Lygia Clark, Pinchas Cohen Gan, Collective Action Group, Houston Conwill, Paul Cotton, COUM Transmissions, Guy de Cointet, Jim Dine, John Duncan, Felipe Ehrenberg, Roberto Evangelista, Valie Export, Robert Filliou, Rose Finn-Kelcey, Sherman Fleming, Lucio Fontana, Terry Fox, Howard Fried, Gideon Gechtman, Gilbert & George, Alberto Greco, Ion Grigorescu, Victor Grippo, Red Grooms, Guerrilla Art Action Group, David Hammons, Al Hansen, Maren Hassinger, Lynn Hershman, Dick Higgins, Tatsumi Hijikata, Susan Hiller, Rebecca Horn, Tehching Hsieh, Joan Jonas, Kim Jones, Michel Journiac, Akira Kanayama, Tadeusz Kantor, Allan Kaprow, Mike Kelley, Juergen Klauke, Yves Klein, Milan Knizak, Alison Knowles, Komar & Melamid, Jannis Kounellis, Shigeko Kubota, Tetsumi Kudo, Yayoi Kusama, Leslie Labowitz, Suzanne Lacy, John Latham, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Lea Lublin, George Maciunas, Leopoldo Maier, Piero Manzoni, Tom Marioni, Georges Mathieu, Gordon Matta-Clark, Paul McCarthy, Bruce McLean, David Medalla, Cildo Meireles, Ana Mendieta, Gustav Metzger, Marta Minujin, Jan Micoch, Linda Montano, Robert Morris, Otto Muehl, Saburo Murakami, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Bruce Nauman, Paul Neagu, Senga Nengudi, Joshua Neustein, Hermann Nitsch, Helio Oiticica, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Orlan, Raphael Montanez Ortiz, Lorenzo Pace, Nam June Paik, Gina Pane, Lygia Pape, Giuseppe Pinot Gallizio, Adrian Piper, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jackson Pollock, William Pope L., Robert Rauschenberg, Carlyle Reedy, Klaus Rinke, Ulrike Rosenbach, Dieter Roth, Zorka Saglova, Niki de Saint Phalle, Alfons Schilling, Tomas Schmit, Carolee Schneemann, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Bonnie Sherk, Shozo Shimamoto, Ushio Shinohara, Kazuo Shiraga, Barbara T. Smith, Daniel Spoerri, Petr Stembera, Wolfgang Stoerchle, Jiro Takamatsu, Atsuko Tanaka, Mark Thompson, Jean Tinguely, Rasa Todosijevic, Kerry Trengove, Ulay, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell, Franz Erhard Walther, Peter Weibel, Franz West, Hannah Wilke, Emmett Williams, and Zaj.
Scarce first German edition, published by Hatje Cantz.

File under: Niki de Saint-Phalle Cosey Fanni Tutti Vito Acconci Genpei Akasegawa Laurie Anderson Eleanor Antin Rasheed Arseen Mowry Baden Artur Barrio Joseph Beuys Mark Boyle Joan Hills George Brecht Stuart Brisley Robert Delford Brown Chris Burden James Lee Byars John Cage Marc Camille Chaimowicz Lygia Clark Pinchas Cohen Gan Collective Action Group Houston Conwill Paul Cotton COUM Transmissions Guy de Cointet Jim Dine John Duncan Felipe Ehrenberg Roberto Evangelista Valie Export Robert Filliou Rose Finn-Kelcey Sherman Fleming Lucio Fontana Terry Fox Howard Fried Gideon Gechtman Alberto Greco Ion Grigorescu Victor Grippo Red Grooms Guerrilla Art Action Group David Hammons Al Hansen Maren Hassinger Lynn Hershman Dick Higgins Tatsumi Hijikata Susan Hiller Rebecca Horn Tehching Hsieh Joan Jonas Kim Jones Michel Journiac Akira Kanayama Tadeusz Kantor Allan Kaprow Mike Kelley Yves Klein Milan Knizak Alison Knowles Komar & Melamid Jannis Kounellis Shigeko Kubota Tetsumi Kudo Yayoi Kusama Leslie Labowitz Suzanne Lacy John Latham Jean-Jacques Lebel Lea Lublin George Maciunas Leopoldo Maier Piero Manzoni Tom Marioni Georges Mathieu Gordon Matta-Clark Paul McCarthy Bruce McLean David Medalla Cildo Meireles Ana Mendieta Gustav Metzger Jan Micoch Linda Montano Robert Morris Otto Muehl Saburo Murakami Natsuyuki Nakanishi Bruce Nauman Paul Neagu Senga Nengudi Joshua Neustein Hermann Nitsch Claes Oldenburg Yoko Ono Orlan Raphael Montanez Ortiz Lorenzo Pace Nam June Paik Gina Pane Lygia Pape Giuseppe Pinot Gallizio Adrian Piper Michelangelo Pistoletto Jackson Pollock William Pope L. Robert Rauschenberg Carlyle Reedy Klaus Rinke Ulrike Rosenbach Dieter Roth Zorka Saglova Alfons Schilling Tomas Schmit Carolee Schneemann Rudolf Schwarzkogler Bonnie Sherk Shozo Shimamoto Ushio Shinohara Kazuo Shiraga Barbara T. Smith Daniel Spoerri Petr Stembera Wolfgang Stoerchle Jiro Takamatsu Atsuko Tanaka Mark Thompson Jean Tinguely Rasa Todosijevic Kerry Trengove Ulay Ben Vautier Wolf Vostell Franz Erhard Walther Peter Weibel Franz West Hannah Wilke Emmett Williams Zaj Marina Abramovič Günter Brus Gilbert & George Jürgen Klauke Marta Minujín Hélio Oiticica Paul Schimmel Kristine Stiles Guy Brett Hubert Klocker Shinichiro Osaki Leslie King-Hammond Lowery Stokes Sims Keiko Okamura Hatje Cantz / Berlin Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Painting Arte Povera Minimal Art Feminism Art Dada Film / Video Fluxus Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Pop Art Sound / Music Photography Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic

encens 35
"Single Mind" S/S 2016

2016, English
Softcover (over-sized), 136 pages, 25 x 37 cm
Published by Encens / Paris

$58.00 - Out of stock

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encens is a fashion magazine from France, presenting a very selective number of designers, edited by Samuel Drira and Sybille Walter.

encens 35 "Single Mind" (Spring/Summer 2016) features Helmut Newton, Adolf Loos, Celine, Greta Garbo, Cecil Beaton, Franceso Brigid, Nehera, Dries Van Noten, Allude, Hermes, Giorgio Armani, Isabel Benenato, Cedric Charlier, Y/Project, Olivier Jacquet, Lucio Vanotti, Hed Mayner, Lemaire, Diorre Homme, Chanel, Saint Laurent Paris, Axl Jansen, Givenchy, Heide Ackermann, Cecile Bortoletti, Gordon Matta-Clark, Mathias Kiss, Sybille Walter, Cartier, Kenzo, Ghislain Mollet-Vieville, Daniel Buren, Sol Lewitt, Carl Andre, Walter de Maria, Niele Toroni, Joseph Kosuth, Christian Dior, YSL, Issey Miyake, and much more.

File under: Adolf Loos Carl Andre Christian Dior Daniel Buren Dries Van Noten Gordon Matta-Clark Helmut Newton Issey Miyake Joseph Kosuth Niele Toroni Sol Lewitt Walter de Maria Adolf Loos Encens / Paris Art Graphic Design / Typography Fashion Periodicals Photography

Beyond Environment
Emanuele Piccardo, Amit Wolf (Eds.)

2014, English
Softcover, 176 pages, 15 x 20.8 cm
Published by Actar / Barcelona

$35.00 - Out of stock

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Beyond Environment presents the potent interchange between architecture, Land Art, and Performance Art that emerged through Italian architect Gianni Pettena's idealized collaboration with American artists Allan Kaprow and Robert Smithson in the 1970s. Captivated by a journey to the USA in 1971, Pettena would converse with the American Midwest, a conversation culminating in his meeting with Robert Smithson in Salt Lake City. Earlier in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Pettena's experiments in material trans- formations helped create some of the architect's most iconic works. Staged in an abandoned school and in a non-descriptive suburban house, and titled Ice House I and II, Pettena would pour water into the mold works he created around the buildings' perimeter walls. Curing during the winter night to a coat of ice, the houses resonated with their conceptual predecessor, Kaprow's Fluids of 1967, as well as with an incomparable contemporary architectural sensibly concerned with the effects of variedly compounded, highly eidetic archi- tectural surfaces. Emanuele Piccardo is an architect and a curator working from Genoa, Italy; Amit Wolf is an architect, curator, and Lecturer at Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles. With contributions and works of Peter Cook, Allan Kaprow, Robert Smithson, Gordon Matta Clark, Superstudio; and interviews with Gianni Pettena, Ugo La Pietra, Lapo Binazzi, Fabio Sargentini.

File under: Allan Kaprow Amit Wolf Emanuele Piccardo Fabio Sargentini Gianni Pettena Gordon Matta-Clark Lapo Binazzi Peter Cook Robert Smithson Superstudio Ugo La Pietra Actar / Barcelona Architecture / Interior Art Theory / Essay

Gordon Matta-Clark: Conical Intersect - Bruce Jenkins

2011, English
Softcover, 112 pages (32 colour ill.), 152 x 215 mm
Published by Afterall / London

$26.00 - Out of stock

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Gordon Matta-Clark's Conical Intersect (1975) was a torqued, spiralling 'cut' into two derelict seventeenth-century Paris buildings adjacent to the construction site of the Centre Pompidou. With this landmark work of 'anarchitecture', Matta-Clark opened up these venerable residences to light and air, and began a dialogue about the nature of urban development and the public role of art. Considered today, Conical Intersect reveals the multivalent nature of the artist's practice and his prescient focus on sustainability and creative reuse of the built environment.

In this book, Bruce Jenkins examines Matta-Clark's 'non-u-ment', looking closely at the artist's proposals, working process, various forms of documentation, and the dialogue begun by Matta-Clark's decision to transform two abandoned buildings into an 'act of communication'. The text is accompanied by rarely seen photographs of the construction process taken by French artist Marc Petitjean.

File under: Gordon Matta-Clark Bruce Jenkins Afterall / London Architecture / Interior Art Theory / Essay