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Jimmie Durham
A Certain Lack of Coherence: Writings on Art and Cultural Politics

1993, English
Softcover, 256 pages, 22 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Kala Press / London

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First 1993 edition of Jimmie Durham's long out-of-print writings on art and cultural politics, A Certain Lack of Coherence, published by Kala Press in London.

Jimmie Durham, writer, sculptor, performance artist and poet, is one of the most controversial figures in contemporary culture. This anthology of writings ranges from his appeals to the American Indian nations for strength and unity of purpose in combatting the corrosive effects of colonialism, to his acerbic critiques of Western culture and its redemptive myths of the 'Other'. For Durham, art and its institutions are not separable from political realities; the West's representations of ethnic and cultural authenticity, its constructions of primitivism and aesthetic value are intimately bound to the discourses of colonialism and racism. The author's keen understanding of historical process and witty subversions of Western thought challenge any complacent attitudes we may harbour on 'multiculturalism' and offer a model of how we might think and act differently about the world.

Jimmie Durham was born in 1940 and is a visual arts graduate of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Geneva. During the '70s and early '80s, as a member of the American Indian Movement, he was founding director of the International Indian Treaty Council at the UN, co-editor of Treaty Council News and Director of the Foundation for the Community of Artists and editor of inter-racial books for children. After a period as editor of its New York based paper Art & Artists, he became a freelance contributor to numerous international art journals. Since the mid-Eighties his artwork has been exhibited internationally. His book of poems Columbus Day was published in 1983 'West End Press'. He currently lives in Cuernavaca, Mexico.

The cover design is based on a detail of Not Lothar Baumgarten's Cherokee by Jimmie Durham, 1990.

File under: Jimmie Durham Kala Press / London Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Art Sociology / Politics Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation

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

Social Medium: Artists Writing, 2000–2015

2016, English
Softcover, 544 pages, 21.5 x 15 cm
Published by Paper Monument / New York

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edited by Jennifer Liese

Since the turn of the millennium, artists have been writing, and circulating their writing, like never before. The seventy-five texts gathered here — essays, criticism, manifestos, fiction, diaries, scripts, blog posts, and tweets — chart a complex era in the art world and the world at large, weighing in on the exigencies of our times in unexpected and inventive ways.

With Contributions By:
Greg Allen, Rasheed Araeen, Tauba Auerbach, Fia Backström, Fiona Banner, Bill Beckley, Caroline Bergvall, Bernadette Corporation, Xu Bing, Gregg Bordowitz, James Bridle, Bruce High Quality Foundation, Tania Bruguera, Paul Chan, Mel Chin, Molly Crabapple, Critical Art Ensemble, Moyra Davey, Tacita Dean, David Diao, Jimmie Durham, Shannon Ebner, Harrell Fletcher, Andrea Fraser, Coco Fusco, Rainer Ganahl, Ryan Gander, Mariam Ghani, Renée Green, Deanna Havas, Pablo Helguera, Karl Holmqvist, Ashley Hunt, Juliana Huxtable, Emily Jacir, Helen Johnson, Ronald Jones, Nina Katchadourian, Mike Kelley, John Kelsey, Jutta Koether, Glenn Ligon, Yve Lomax, LTTR, Jill Magid, Josiah Mcelheny, John Miller, Naeem Mohaiemen, Nástio Mosquito, Takashi Murakami, Jayson Musson, Olu Oguibe, Marisa Olson, Şener Özmen, Katrina Palmer, Adam Pendleton, Mai-Thu Perret, Adrian Piper, Pope.L, Seth Price, Raqs Media Collective, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Kay Rosen, Peter Rostovsky/David Geers, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Mira Schor, Karin Schneider and Nicolás Guagnini, Michael Schwab, Gregory Sholette, Slavs And Tatars, Cally Spooner, Frances Stark, Hito Steyerl, Koki Tanaka, Ryan Trecartin, Suzanne Treister, Dmitry Vilensky, W.A.G.E., Mary Walling Blackburn, Ai Weiwei, The Yes Men, Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, and Qiu Zhijie

Praise for Social Medium:

"A thoroughly engrossing read ... entertaining as well as intellectually stimulating."
—Oliver Basciano, ArtReview

"The distinct textures of these individual voices together produce a larger portrait – not of a collective, but of art with a capital A: something far from prescription or cohesion, unable to be contained, requiring the work and words of many."
— Jennifer Krasinski, Frieze

“As this indispensable anthology so engagingly demonstrates, legions of artists armed with laptops have for the past fifteen years brilliantly hacked the ways we think about 21st-century culture and politics. Full of imaginative texts and revolutionary ideas, this is a user’s guide to the postinternet era.”
—Brian Wallis, editor of Blasted Allegories: An Anthology of Writings by Contemporary Artists

“This is such a beautiful book because the real thought balloon of the art world is exactly these brainy and ecstatic citizens’ writings. Hang out a lot with them please — gain everything and miss nothing. Watch ‘democracy’ get palped and monitored, challenged and witnessed here. I’d call Social Medium a deep vacation into the present, which we totally need.”
— Eileen Myles, author of Chelsea Girls

File under: Greg Allen Rasheed Araeen Tauba Auerbach Fia Backström Fiona Banner Bill Beckley Caroline Bergvall Bernadette Corporation Xu Bing Gregg Bordowitz James Bridle Bruce High Quality Foundation Tania Bruguera Paul Chan Mel Chin Molly Crabapple Critical Art Ensemble Moyra Davey Tacita Dean David Diao Jimmie Durham Shannon Ebner Harrell Fletcher Andrea Fraser Coco Fusco Rainer Ganahl Ryan Gander Mariam Ghani Renée Green Deanna Havas Pablo Helguera Karl Holmqvist Ashley Hunt Juliana Huxtable Emily Jacir Helen Johnson Ronald Jones Nina Katchadourian Mike Kelley John Kelsey Jutta Koether Glenn Ligon Yve Lomax LTTR Jill Magid Josiah Mcelheny John Miller Naeem Mohaiemen Nástio Mosquito Takashi Murakami Jayson Musson Olu Oguibe Marisa Olson Şener Özmen Katrina Palmer Adam Pendleton Mai-Thu Perret Adrian Piper Seth Price Raqs Media Collective Lili Reynaud-Dewar Kay Rosen Peter Rostovsky/David Geers Natascha Sadr Haghighian Mira Schor Karin Schneider and Nicolás Guagnini Michael Schwab Gregory Sholette Slavs And Tatars Cally Spooner Frances Stark Hito Steyerl Koki Tanaka Ryan Trecartin Suzanne Treister Dmitry Vilensky W.A.G.E. Mary Walling Blackburn Ai Weiwei The Yes Men Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries Qiu Zhijie William Pope.L Paper Monument / New York Art Theory / Essay Painting Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Fiction / Poetry

Documenta IX
COMPLETE 3 VOLUME BOXSET, HARDCOVER ED.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jimmie Durham
God's Children, God's Poem

2017, English
Softcover, 104 pages, 20.8 x 27.5 cm
Published by JRP Ringier / Zürich Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst / Zürich

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American-born artist, performer, poet, essayist and activist Jimmie Durham (born 1940) is one of the most influential voices of the contemporary art world, reflecting on encounters between the human being, technology and nature from different cultural perspectives. With an oeuvre spanning sculpture, drawing, collage, printmaking, painting, photography, video, performance and poetry, Durham became internationally famous in the 1980s for his sculptures made from materials such as wood, stone and the bones and skulls of animals, incorporating Native American elements into contemporary art. This monograph, conceived in close collaboration with the artist, features a text by Durham, with contributions by curator and art historian of the Cree Indians Heritage Richard W. Hill, and Migros Museum Director Heike Munder.

File under: Jimmie Durham JRP Ringier / Zürich Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst / Zürich Art Sculpture / Installation

Jimmie Durham
Waiting To Be Interrupted. Selected Writings 1993 - 2012

2014, English
Softcover, 372 pages, 21 x 15 cm
Published by M HKA / Antwerp Mousse Publishing / Milan Walther König / Köln

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Jimmie Durham, artist, poet and political activist, has been one of the most influential figures of recent decades.

This volume of writings comprise a selection of essays and conferences on art and society, critical reflections on ‘Eurasia’, the history of US-American Indian relations, and observations on the city and nature.

A recurrent theme is his interrogation of the ideological complicity between monumental architecture and scripture – ‘architexture’ – as the foundation of Eurocentric belief and tool of others’ disenfranchisement.

Here, words, like the stones and motley materials he gathers for his assemblages, are remobilised otherwise; they become agents for ‘interrupting’ received ideas through writings that both disturb and delight, but never cease to provoke questions about the forces that shape our world.

Jimmie Durham is a rare and liberating voice in the architextural wilderness of contemporary life.

File under: Jimmie Durham Jimmie Durham M HKA / Antwerp Mousse Publishing / Milan Walther König / Köln Art Fiction / Poetry Poetry Theory / Essay

Jimmie Durham
At the Centre of the World

2017, English
Hardcover, 294 pages, 22.6 x 29 cm
Published by Hammer / Los Angeles Prestel / Munich

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Published in conjunction with the first North American survey of the work of Jimmie Durham, this beautifully illustrated catalogue explores Durham's vital contributions to contemporary art since the 1970s, both in the US and internationally.

Born of Cherokee descent, in 1940s Arkansas, Jimmie Durham takes up such issues as the politics of representation, histories of genocide, and citizenship and exile. This volume collects an array of Durham s sculptures, drawings, photography, video, and performance. It includes essays about Durham s material choices and their metaphoric potential; his participation in the NYC art scene in the 1980s; his use of language; and his ties to Mexico after living in Cuernavaca. An interview with Durham traces his involvement with the American Indian Movement and his self-exile from the US, which along with his essays and poetry, illuminate his life and work. This book provides an opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of Durham, arguably one of the most important artists working today.

Jimmie Durham : At the Centre of the World

Contributions by Anne Ellegood, Jennifer A. Gonzalez, Fred Moten, Jessica L. Horton, Paul Chaat Smith, MacKenzie Stevens, Elisabeth Sussman, Jessica Berlanga Taylor.

File under: Jimmie Durham Anne Ellegood Elisabeth Sussman Fred Moten Jennifer A. Gonzalez Jessica Berlanga Taylor Jessica L. Horton MacKenzie Stevens Paul Chaat Smith Hammer / Los Angeles Prestel / Munich Art Fiction / Poetry Poetry Sculpture / Installation

Spike #51
Spring 2017 "Can Art Help?"

2017, English / German
Softcover, 180 pages, 21.7 x 28 cm
Published by Spike / Berlin

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Spike #51 raises the question of the social role of art, and many more, with: Grzegorz Kowalski; Bob Flanagan's Visiting Hours; Angela Bulloch on Damien Hirst; Cyprien Gaillard's Desniansky Raion; a roundtable with Chus Martínez, Michaela Meise and Dieter Lesage; Dorothea Von Hantelmann; Kenny Schachter; Daniel Baumann; the portraits of Dorothy Iannone, Tetsumi Kudo, and Marie Angeletti; an interview with Josef Strau; an essay by Jan Verwoert; the TV series The Crown; Andrew Berardini on Jimmie Durham's retrospective in LA…

The power of art and its social role are the subjects of a roundtable discussion with curator Chus Martínez, artist Michaela Meise and philosopher Dieter Lesage at Spike Berlin. Josef Strau talks about how art saved him, while Kenny Schachter finds it both a remedy and a defence. Daniel Baumann delves into the promise of form, and for the critic Jan Verwoert a key function of art is that it teaches forms of conduct. Profiles on the painter Dorothy Iannone and her connections to Fluxus, and the Japanese artist Tetsumi Kudo and his “philosophy of impotence”, are joined by pieces taking on the decline of the supermodel, the Netflix series The Crown, Jimmie Durham's retrospective at the Hammer Museum, and much more.

Founded by the artist Rita Vitorelli in 2004, Spike Art Quarterly is a quarterly magazine on contemporary art published in English and German which aims at sustaining a vigorous, independent, and meaningful art criticism. At the heart of each issue are feature essays by leading critics and curators on artists making work that plays a significant role in current debates. Situated between art theory and practice and ranging far beyond its editorial base in Vienna and Berlin, Spike is both rigorously academic and stylishly essayistic. Spike's renowned pool of contributing writers, artists, collectors and gallerists observe and reflect on contemporary art and analyse international developments in contemporary culture, offering its readers both intimacy and immediacy through an unusually open editorial approach that is not afraid of controversy and provocation.

File under: Bob Flanagan Cyprien Gaillard Damien Hirst Dorothy Iannone Grzegorz Kowalski Jimmie Durham Josef Strau Marie Angeletti Michaela Meise Tetsumi Kudo Andrew Berardini Angela Bulloch Chus Martínez Daniel Baumann Dieter Lesage Dorothea von Hantelmann Jan Verwoert Kenny Schachter Spike / Berlin Art Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals Photography Theory / Essay

Mousse 56
2006-2016 A Small Anthology

2017, English / Italian
Softcover, 440 pages, 18.5 x 26.5 cm
Published by Mousse Publishing / Milan

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10-year anniversary special issue: a selection of essays, interviews, conversations, and projects appeared in the first ten years of Mousse.

Featuring: Chantal Akerman, Cecilia Alemani, Jennifer Allen, Kai Althoff, Bruce Altshuler, Ed Atkins, Lutz Bacher, Darren Bader, Alex Bag, John Baldessari, Phyllida Barlow, Kirsty Bell, Andrew Berardini, Jonathan Berger, Michael Bracewell, Tom Burr, Maurizio Cattelan, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Stuart Comer, Lauren Cornell, Nicholas Cullinan, Roberto Cuoghi, Nick Currie, Massimo De Carlo, Gino De Dominicis, Gigiotto Del Vecchio, Simon Denny, Brian Dillon, Jimmie Durham, Dominic Eichler, Peter Eleey, Matias Faldbakken, Luigi Fassi, Elena Filipovic, Morgan Fisher, Isa Genzken, Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi, Liam Gillick, Massimiliano Gioni, Isabelle Graw, Ed Halter, Jens Hoffmann, Judith Hopf, William E. Jones, Omar Kholeif, Alexander Kluge, Jiří Kovanda, William Leavitt, Elisabeth Lebovici, Andrea Lissoni, Helen Marten, Chus Martínez, Nick Mauss, Lucy McKenzie, Fionn Meade, Simone Menegoi, John Menick, Ute Meta Bauer, Massimo Minini, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Trevor Paglen, Stefania Palumbo, Francesco Pedraglio, Otto Piene, Laura Poitras, Elizabeth Price, Seth Price, Laure Prouvost, Alessandro Rabottini, Carol Rama, Filipa Ramos, Jason Rhoades, Dieter Roelstraete, Esperanza Rosales, Nicolaus Schafhausen, Fender Schrade, Stuart Sherman, Frances Stark, Jamie Stevens, Hito Steyerl, Sturtevant, Sabrina Tarasoff, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Oscar Tuazon, Giorgio Verzotti, Jan Verwoert, Francesco Vezzoli, Adrián Villar Rojas, Peter Wächtler, Ian Wallace, Klaus Weber, Cathy Wilkes, Christopher Williams, Jordan Wolfson.

Mousse is a bimonthly magazine published in Italian and English. Established in 2006, Mousse contains interviews, conversations, and essays by some of the most important figures in international criticism, visual arts, and curating today, alternated with a series of distinctive articles in a unique tabloid format. Mousse keeps tabs on international trends in contemporary culture thanks to its city editors in major art capitals such as Berlin, New York, London, Paris, and Los Angeles.
Mousse (Mousse Publishing) is also publisher of catalogues, essays and curatorial projects, artist books and editions.

File under: Alex Bag Carol Rama Cathy Wilkes Chantal Akerman Christopher Williams Darren Bader Ed Atkins Frances Stark Helen Marten Hito Steyerl Ian Wallace Isa Genzken Jason Rhoades Jimmie Durham Jiri Kovanda John Baldessari Jordan Wolfson Judith Hopf Kai Althoff Laure Prouvost Lauren Cornell Liam Gillick Lucy Mckenzie Lutz Bacher Marc Camille Chaimowicz Matias Faldbakken Maurizio Cattelan Morgan Fisher Nick Mauss Oscar Tuazon Peter Wächtler Phyllida Barlow Seth Price Simon Denny Stuart Sherman Sturtevant Tom Burr William E. Jones Brian Dillon Cecilia Alemani Chus Martínez Dieter Roelstraete Dominic Eichler Elena Filipovic Filipa Ramos Fionn Meade Frances Stark Hans Ulrich Obrist Hito Steyerl Isabelle Graw Jan Verwoert Jennifer Allen Jens Hoffmann Jimmie Durham Jonathan Berger Kirsty Bell Lauren Cornell Liam Gillick Michael Bracewell Nicolaus Schafhausen Peter Eleey Peter Wächtler Seth Price Ute Meta Bauer Mousse Publishing / Milan Art Conceptual Art Curatorial Film / Video Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals Photography Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay

Animals
edited by Filipa Ramos

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

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Animals have become the focus of much recent art, informing numerous works and projects featured at major exhibitions including dOCUMENTA (13) (2013), the 10th Shanghai Biennale (2014), and the 56th Venice Biennale (2015). Contemporary art has emerged as a privileged terrain for exploring interspecies relationships, providing the conditions for diverse disciplines and theoretical positions to engage with animal behavior and consciousness.

This interest in animal nature reflects a number of current issues. Observations of empathy among nonhumans prompt reconsiderations of the human. The nonverbal communication of animals has been compared with poetic expansion of the boundaries of language. And the freedom of animal life in the wild from capitalist subordination is seen as a potential model for reconfiguring society and our relationship to the wider environment. Artists’ engagement with animals also opens up new perspectives on the dynamics of dominance, oppression, and exclusion, with parallels in human society. Animal nature is at the heart of debates on the Anthropocene era and the ecological concerns of scientists, thinkers, and artists alike. Centered on contemporary artworks, this anthology attests to the trans-disciplinary nature of this subject, with art as one of the principal points of convergence.

Artists surveyed include
Allora & Calzadilla, Francis Alÿs, Julieta Aranda, Brandon Ballengée, Joseph Beuys, Marcel Broodthaers, Lygia Clark, Marcus Coates, Jimmie Durham, Marcel Dzama, Simone Forti, Pierre Huyghe, Natalie Jeremijenko, Joan Jonas, Eduardo Kac, Mike Kelley, Henri Michaux, Robert Morris, Henrik Olesen, Lea Porsager, Julia Reodica, Carolee Schneemann, Michael Stevenson, Rodel Tapaya, Rosemarie Trockel, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Haegue Yang, Adam Zaretsky

Writers include
Giorgio Agamben, Steve Baker, Raymond Bellour, Walter Benjamin, John Berger, Jonathan Burt, Ted Chiang, Simon Critchley, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, David Elliott, Carla Freccero, Maria Fusco, Tristan García, Félix Guattari, Donna J. Haraway, Seung-Hoon Jeong, Miwon Kwon, Chus Martinez, Brian Massumi, Thomas Nagel, Jean-Luc Nancy, Ingo Niermann, Vincent Normand, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Will Self, Jan Verwoert, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro

About the Editor
Filipa Ramos is editor-in-chief of art-agenda and a Lecturer in Experimental Film at Kingston University and Moving Image at Central Saint Martins, London. She is the author of Lost and Found: Crisis of Memory in Contemporary Art (2009).

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Intersubjectivity Vol. 1 : Language and Misunderstanding
Abraham Adams, Lou Cantor (Eds.)

2016, English
Softcover (w. dustjacket), 166 pages, 19 x 25.5 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

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Intersubjectivity Vol. 1
Language and Misunderstanding

With contributions by Cory Arcangel, Fia Backström, Alain Badiou, Erica Baum, Xu Bing, Paul Chan, Andrew Durbin, Jimmie Durham, Daniel Grúň, Lucy Ives, Jenny Jaskey, William Kherbek, Nicky Marsh, Julia Moritz & YGRG, Ariane Müller, Vincent Romagny, Hito Steyerl

Intersubjectivity, a two-volume collection of essays, is concerned with a new account of our ideas of what subjects are, and what is means for them to meet. The project explores these concepts in the context of the interaction of non-sentient beings, attempting to move beyond anthropomorphic theories of objectivity and materiality, as well as subjects whose boundaries resist definition. Intersubjectivity takes up the complementary problems of nondiscursive language and nonlinguistic discourse, in an attempt to locate the distinctions and respective abilities of philosophy as a particular kind of art and art as a particular kind of philosophy.

The first volume, Language and Misunderstanding, addresses concretism and its discontents. The essays and performance texts herein argue for an expanded consideration of concretism in contemporary practices oriented toward the embodiment of language, in works that challenge the privileging of the body of the word over the body of the artist. Thus Cory Arcangel, Fia Backström, Erica Baum, Paul Chan, Jimmie Durham, and Hito Steyerl all contribute works that in different ways insist on the somatic nature of writing; Andrew Durbin, and Ariane Müller, and Vincent Romagny address the drift of meaning across material; Lucy Ives, Daniel Grúň, and the Young Girl Reading Group are skeptical of dogmas of authorship and identity; Alain Badiou asks when modern art will end; and Abraham Adams polemicizes against the loss of the body in the concrete work. With an introduction by Lou Cantor.

Design by BOKA Bożena Kalinowska

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Materiality
edited by Petra Lange-Berndt

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

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Materiality has reappeared as a highly contested topic in recent art. Modernist criticism tended to privilege form over matter—considering material as the essentialized basis of medium specificity—and technically based approaches in art history reinforced connoisseurship through the science of artistic materials. But in order to engage critically with the meaning, for example, of hair in David Hammons’s installations, milk in the work of Dieter Roth, or latex in the sculptures of Eva Hesse, we need a very different set of methodological tools.
This anthology focuses on the moments when materials become willful actors and agents within artistic processes, entangling their audience in a web of connections. It investigates the role of materiality in art that attempts to expand notions of time, space, process, or participation. And it looks at the ways in which materials obstruct, disrupt, or interfere with social norms, emerging as impure formations and messy, unstable substances. It reexamines the notion of “dematerialization”; addresses materialist critiques of artistic production; surveys relationships between matter and bodies, from the hierarchies of gender to the abject and phobic; explores the vitality of substances; and addresses the concepts of intermateriality and transmateriality emerging in the hybrid zones of digital experimentation.

Artists surveyed include
Georges Adéagbo, Carl Andre, Janine Antoni, Amy Balkin, Artur Barrio, Helen Chadwick, Mel Chin, Mark Dion, Jimmie Durham, Tessa Farmer, Chohreh Feyzdjou, Romuald Hazoumè, Pierre Huyghe, Ilya Kabakov, Mike Kelley, Anthony McCall, Teresa Margolles, Robert Morris, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Tino Sehgal, Shozo Shimamoto, Santiago Sierra, Robert Smithson, Simon Starling, Paul Thek, Paul Vanouse, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Kara Walker

Writers include
Joseph D. Amato, Karen Barad, Judith Butler, Elizabeth Grosz, Georges Didi-Huberman, Natasha Eaton, Jens Hauser, Dieter Hoffmann-Axthelm, Tim Ingold, Wolfgang Kemp, Julia Kristeva, Esther Leslie, Jean-François Lyotard, Dietmar Rübel, Monika Wagner, Gillian Whiteley

About the Editor
Petra Lange-Berndt is Chair of Modern and Contemporary art in the Art History Department at the University of Hamburg and a leading researcher in the field of material studies in art history. She is coeditor, with Dietmar Rübel, of Sigmar Polke: We Petty Bourgeois! Contemporaries and Comrades, the 1970s.

File under: Amy Balkin Anthony McCall Artur Barrio Carl Andre Chohreh Feyzdjou Helen Chadwick Ilya Kabakov Janine Antoni Jimmie Durham Kara Walker Mark Dion Mel Chin Michelangelo Pistoletto Mierle Laderman Ukeles Mike Kelley Paul Thek Paul Vanouse Pierre Huyghe Robert Morris Robert Smithson Romuald Hazoumè Santiago Sierra Shozo Shimamoto Simon Starling Teresa Margolles Tessa Farmer Tino Sehgal Georges Adéagbo Dieter Hoffmann-Axthelm Dietmar Rübel Elizabeth Grosz Esther Leslie Georges Didi-Huberman Gillian Whiteley Jean-François Lyotard Jens Hauser Joseph D. Amato Judith Butler Julia Kristeva Karen Barad Monika Wagner Natasha Eaton Tim Ingold Wolfgang Kemp The MIT Press / Massachusetts Whitechapel / London Art Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay

Today we should be thinking about Jo Baer, Thomas Baylre, Jimmie Durham, Robert Filliou, Haim Steinbach, and Rosemarie Trockel

2015, English
Softcover, 650 pages, 29.2 x 19 cm
Published by Koenig Books / London The Artist's Institute / New York

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The Artist´s Institute dedicates each six-month season to a single artist, whose work becomes the occasion for a series of exhibitions, public programs, and graduate seminars with leading contemporary thinkers in the fields of art, music, film, literature, science, art history, philosophy, and other creative pursuits. The first six seasons, taking place between 2010 and 2013, were dedicated to Robert Filliou, Jo Baer, Jimmie Durham, Rosemarie Trockel, Haim Steinbach, and Thomas Bayrle. In each context, the Institute convened private and public forums to reflect on each artist by reading relevant texts, displaying artworks, and programming related events, all of which are narrated in this book.

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File under: Haim Steinbach Jimmie Durham Jo Baer Robert Filliou Rosemarie Trockel Thomas Bayrle Anthony Huberman Koenig Books / London The Artist's Institute / New York Art

Jimmie Durham
Various Items and Compliments

2015, English
Softcover, 126 pages (colour ill.), 25.5 x 19 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

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This catalogue is conceived as part monograph and part artist book that brings together visual material consisting of installation images of Durham's works together with key essays approaching his practice from various dimensions.

Various Items and Complaints is a major survey show at the Serpentine Gallery which highlights Durham's multi-dimensional practice, including sculpture, drawing and film. Alongside new sculptures and key installations, the exhibition also features a group of early works that have never been exhibited in the UK.

Durham’s work explores the relationship between forms and concepts. He combines words within his sculptures and drawings to conjure images and uses images to convey ideas. His sculptural constructions are often combined with disparate elements, such as written messages, photographs, words, drawings and objects.

The core of Durham’s work is his ability to explore the intrinsic qualities of the materials he uses, at times fused with the agility of wordplay and, above all, irony.

His work addresses the political and cultural forces, e.g. the forces of colonialism that constructs our contemporary discourses and challenges our understanding of authenticity in art.

Since Durham moved to Europe in the early 1990s, his works often, but not exclusively, challenge the idea of architecture, monumental works and narration of national identities by deconstructing those stereotypes and prejudices on which the Western culture is based.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Jimmie Durham: Various Items and Complaints at Serpentine Gallery, London, 1 October – 8 November 2015.

File under: Jimmie Durham Amira Gad Hans Ulrich Obrist Jean Fisher Jimmie Durham Julia Peyton-Jones Walther König / Köln Art Sculpture / Installation

OBJECT
Antony Hudek (Ed.) - Documents of Contemporary Art Series

2014, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 145 x 210 mm

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Edited by Antony Hudek

Artists increasingly refer to “post-object-based" work while theorists engage with material artifacts in culture. A focus on “object-based" learning treats objects as vectors for dialogue across disciplines. Virtual imaging enables the object to be abstracted or circumvented, while immaterial forms of labor challenge materialist theories. This anthology surveys such reappraisals of what constitutes the “objectness" of production, with art as its focus.

Among the topics it examines are the relation of the object to subjectivity; distinctions between objects and things; the significance of the object’s transition from inert mass to tool or artifact; and the meanings of the everyday in the found object, repetition in the replicated or multiple object, loss in the absent object, and abjection in the formless or degraded object. It also explores artistic positions that are anti-object; theories of the experimental, liminal or mental object; and the role of objects in performance. The object becomes a prism through which to reread contemporary art and better understand its recent past.

Artists surveyed include
Georges Adéagbo, Art in Ruins, Iain Baxter, Louise Bourgeois, Pavel Büchler, Lygia Clark, Claude Closky, Brian Collier, Jimmie Durham, Fischli & Weiss, Luca Frei, Meschac Gaba, Isa Genzken, Gruppe Geflecht, Eva Hesse, Mike Kelley, John Latham, Antje Majewski, Gustav Metzger, Cady Noland, Gabriel Orozco, Adrian Piper, Falke Pisano, Eva Rothschild, Aura Satz, Kenneth Snelson, Hito Steyerl, Josef Strau, Alina Szapocznikow, Joelle Tuerlinckx, Erwin Wurm

Writers include
Homi K. Bhabha, Jack Burnham, Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Lynne Cooke, Gillo Dorfles, Jean Fisher, Ferreira Gullar, Charles Harrison, Paulo Herkenhoff, Julia Kristeva, Bruno Latour, Bracha Lichtenberg-Ettinger, Jean-Fran?ois Lyotard, Lev Manovich, Ursula Meyer, Bruno Munari, Georges Perec, Hans-Jorg Rheinberger, Dieter Roelstraete, Howard Singerman, Nancy Spector, Marcus Steinweg, Anne Wagner, Gérard Wajcman, Slavoj Zizek

File under: Adrian Piper Alina Szapocznikow Antje Majewski Art in Ruins Aura Satz Brian Collier Cady Noland Claude Closky David Weiss Erwin Wurm Eva Hesse Eva Rothschild Falke Pisano Gabriel Orozco Gruppe Geflecht Gustav Metzger Hito Steyerl Iain Baxter Isa Genzken Jimmie Durham Joëlle Tuerlinckx John Latham Josef Strau Kenneth Snelson Louise Bourgeois Luca Frei Lygia Clark Meschac Gaba Mike Kelley Pavel Büchler Peter Fischli Peter Fischli & David Weiss Georges Adéagbo Anne Wagner Antony Hudek Bracha Lichtenberg-Ettinger Bruno Latour Bruno Munari Charles Harrison Dieter Roelstraete Ewa Lajer-Burcharth Ferreira Gullar Georges Perec Gérard Wajcman Gillo Dorfles Hans-Jorg Rheinberger Homi K. Bhabha Howard Singerman Jack Burnham Jean Fisher Julia Kristeva Lev Manovich Lynne Cooke Marcus Steinweg Nancy Spector Paulo Herkenhoff Slavoj Zizek Ursula Meyer Jean-François Lyotard Art Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay

This Will Have Been
Art, Love, and Politics in the 1980s

2012, English
Softcover, 544 pages (225 colour ill.), 18 x 23 cm
Published by Yale University Press / New Haven

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Helen Molesworth; With essays by Johanna Burton, William Horrigan, Elisabeth Lebovici, Kobena Mercer, Sarah Schulman, and Frazer Ward.

Art of the 1980s oscillated between radical and conservative, capricious and political, socially engaged and art historically aware. Published in association with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, this fascinating book chronicles canonical as well as nearly forgotten works of the 1980s, arguing that what has often been dismissed as cynical or ironic should be viewed as a struggle on the part of artists to articulate their needs and desires in an increasingly commodified world. The major developments of the decade—the rise of the commercial art market, the politicization of the AIDS crisis, the increased visibility of women and gay artists and artists of color, and the ascension of new media—are illuminated in works by Sophie Calle, Nan Goldin, Jeff Koons, Lorna Simpson, Leigh Bowery, Jimmy De Sana, Carroll Dunham, Jimmie Durham, Alex Garry, Robert Gober, Nan Goldin, Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, Annette Messager, Cady Noland, Albert Oehlen, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, Julian Schnabel, Rosemarie Trockel, Jeff Wall, Charlie Ahearn, Gretchen Bender, Black Audio Film Collective, Jennifer Bolande, Gregg Bordowitz, Eugenio Dittborn, Gran Fury, Group Material, Guerrilla Girls, Hans Haacke, David Hammons, Jenny Holzer, Alfredo Jaar, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Donald Moffett, Lorraine O’Grady, Paper Tiger Television, Adrian Piper, Lari Pittman, Tim Rollins and K.O.S., Christy Rupp, Doris Salcedo, Juan Sánchez, Tseng Kwong Chi and Keith Haring, Carrie Mae Weems, Christopher Williams, Krzystof Wodiczko, Judith Barry, Ashley Bickerton, Deborah Bright, Marlene Dumas, Felix Gonzales-Torres, Peter Hujar, G. B. Jones, Isaac Julian, Rotimi Fani Kayode, Mary Kelly, Silvia Kolbowski, Louise Lawler, Sherrie Levine, Jack Leirner, Robert Mapplethorpe, Richard Prince, Marlon Riggs, David Robbins, Laurie Simmons, Haim Steinbach, David Wojnarowicz, Dotty Attie, Robert Colescott, General Idea, Robert Gober, Jack Goldstein, Pater Halley, Mary Heilmann, Candy Jernigan, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Louise Lawler, Sherrie Levine, Christian Marclay, Allan McCollum, Peter Nagy, Raymond Pettibon, Stephen Prina, Martin Puryear, Gerhard Richter, David Salle, Doug + Mike Starn, Tony Tasset, James Welling, and Christopher Wool, among others. Essays by leading scholars provide unique perspectives on the decade's competing factions and seemingly contradictory elements, from counterculture to the mainstream, radicalism to democracy and historical awareness, conservatism to feminist politics.

Complete with critical texts on each work, This Will Have Been brings into focus the full impact of the art, artists, and political and cultural ruptures of this paradigm-shifting decade. More than 200 full-color reproductions of works in a range of media, including drawing, painting, photography, and sculpture, illustrate this ambitious guide to a period of artistic transformation.

File under: Adrian Piper Albert Oehlen Alex Garry Alfredo Jaar Allan McCollum Annette Messager Ashley Bickerton Barbara Kruger Black Audio Film Collective Cady Noland Candy Jernigan Carrie Mae Weems Carroll Dunham Charlie Ahearn Christian Marclay Christopher Williams Christopher Wool Christy Rupp Cindy Sherman David Hammons David Robbins David Salle David Wojnarowicz Deborah Bright Donald Moffett Doris Salcedo Dotty Attie Doug + Mike Starn Eugenio Dittborn General Idea Gerhard Richter Gran Fury Gregg Bordowitz Gretchen Bender Group Material Haim Steinbach Hans Haacke Isaac Julian Jack Goldstein Jack Leirner James Welling Jeff Koons Jeff Wall Jennifer Bolande Jenny Holzer Jimmie Durham Jimmy De Sana Juan Sánchez Judith Barry Julian Schnabel Krzysztof Wodiczko Lari Pittman Laurie Simmons Leigh Bowery Lorna Simpson Lorraine O'Grady Louise Lawler Marlene Dumas Marlon Riggs Martin Kippenberger Martin Puryear Mary Heilmann Mary Kelly Mike Kelley Nan Goldin Paper Tiger Television Paul McCarthy Peter Hujar Peter Nagy Raymond Pettibon Richard Prince Robert Colescott Robert Gober Robert Mapplethorpe Rosemarie Trockel Rotimi Fani Kayode Sherrie Levine Silvia Kolbowski Sophie Calle Stephen Prina Tim Rollins & K.O.S. Tony Tasset Felix Gonzalez-Torres Guerrilla Girls Peter Halley G.B. Jones Elisabeth Lebovici Frazer Ward Helen Molesworth Johanna Burton Kobena Mercer Sarah Schulman William Horrigan Yale University Press / New Haven Art Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections Theory / Essay Painting Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater