World Food Books

Live In Your Head
'Curated by' Robert Nickas

1993, English / German
Softcover + invitation, unpaginated, 26.5 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst / Vienna

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Exceptionally rare, incredible 1993 catalogue for this elusive group exhibition 'curated by' Robert "Bob" Nickas, at the Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst and Galerie Metropol, Vienna, 1993, featuring the work of Vito Acconci, John Armleder, Robert Barry, Bill Bitting, Gudrun Wolfgruber, Laurie Parsons, Steve DiBenedetto, Gretchen Faust, Robert Gober, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Scott Grodesky, Peter Halley, Jon Kessler, Jutta Koether, Louise Lawler, Ken Lum, John Miller, Olivier Mosset, Chuck Nanney, Cady Noland, Steven Parrino, Raymond Pettibon, David Robbins, Lisa Ruyter, Sam Samore, Michael Scott, Rudolf Stingel, Joan Wallace, Dan Walsh. Profusely illustrated throughout in colour, accompanied by Nickas' introduction (in bi-lingual English and German), which alone makes the catalogue special.

Exhibition invitation card inserted.
Very Good copy.

File under: ito Acconci John Armleder Robert Barry Bill Bitting Gudrun Wolfgruber Laurie Parsons Steve DiBenedetto Gretchen Faust Robert Gober Felix Gonzalez-Torres Scott Grodesky Peter Halley Jon Kessler Jutta Koether Louise Lawler Ken Lum John Miller Olivier Mosset Chuck Nanney Cady Noland Steven Parrino Raymond Pettibon David Robbins Lisa Ruyter Sam Samore Michael Scott Rudolf Stingel Joan Wallace Dan Walsh Bob Nickas Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst / Vienna Group Shows / Collections Conceptual Art Sculpture / Installation Painting Art Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare

On The Museum's Ruins
by Douglas Crimp (photographs by Louise Lawler)

1995, English
Softcover, 368 pages, 17.8 x 234 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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First 1995 edition and printing of Douglas Crimp's classic, On The Museum's Ruins, published by MIT Press.

On the Museum's Ruins presents Douglas Crimp's criticism of contemporary art, its institutions, and its politics alongside photographic works by the artist Louise Lawler to create a collaborative project that is itself an example of postmodern practice at its most provocative. Crimp elaborates the new paradigm of postmodernism through analyses of art practices broadly conceived, not only the practices of artists—Robert Rauschenberg, Cindy Sherman, Marcel Broodthaers, Richard Serra, Sherrie Levine, and Robert Mapplethorpe—but those of critics and curators, of international exhibitions, and of new or refurbished museums such as the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart and the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin.

The essays:

Photographs at the End of Modernism.
On the Museum's Ruins.
The Museum's Old, the Library's New Subject.
The End of Painting.
The Photographic Activity of Postmodernism.
Appropriating Appropriation.
Redefining Site Specificity.
This is Not a Museum of Art.
The Art of Exhibition.
The Postmodern Museum.

Douglas Crimp is Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Art History at the University of Rochester. He is the author of On the Museum’s Ruins and Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics, both published by the MIT Press.

“Literate and provocative speculations about art, photography, postmodernism, homoeroticism, Rauchenberg and Mapplethorpe, museums and libraries.”

“Crimp's essays comprise one of the most interesting and incisive bodies of work on practices of contemporary art in relationships to art as institution.”
—Andreas Huyssen, Columbia University

File under: Cindy Sherman Louise Lawler Marcel Broodthaers Richard Serra Robert Mapplethorpe Robert Rauschenberg Sherrie Levine Douglas Crimp The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Conceptual Art Minimal Art Photography Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay

Exit Interview: Benjamin Buchloh in conversation with Hal Foster
By Benjamin H. D. Buchloh and Hal Foster

2024, English
Hardcover, 180 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 cm
Published by No Place Press / US

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Two of the most important voices in art history discuss their intellectual foundations, the changing role of criticism, and the possibilities for artistic practice today.

In Exit Interview, the prominent art critics and historians Hal Foster and Benjamin Buchloh discuss their intellectual foundations and the projects they've worked on together, from October magazine to Art Since 1900. Through three engaging conversations, Foster engages Buchloh on his early influences and aspirations, his formative years in Berlin, London, and Dusseldorf, and his career in North America, while exploring the impact of other art historians and critics. Buchloh candidly addresses his successes, critical significance, and unexplored avenues in art history, providing a unique window into his motivations and experiences. With a powerful postface by Buchloh, Exit Interview builds from biography and anecdote to important reflection on one's critical life as a whole.

File under: Hans Haacke Andy Warhol Polke Gerhard Richter Louise Lawler Marcel Broodthaers Jack Smith Blinky Palermo Daniel Buren Michael Asher Thomas Hirschhorn Gabriel Orozco Anselm Kiefer Yvonne Rainer Isa Genzken Jenny Holzer Dan Graham Martha Rosler Benjamin H. D. Buchloh Hal Foster No Place Press / US Theory / Essay Art Sociology / Politics Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Film / Video Conceptual Art Pop Art

QUEER FORMALISM: THE RETURN
by William J. Simmons

2021, English
Hardcover, 88 pages, 12 x 17 cm
Published by Floating Opera Press / Berlin

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Queer Formalism: The Return expands upon William J. Simmons’s original, influential essay Notes on Queer Formalism from 2013, offering novel ways of thinking about queer-feminist art outside of the critical-complicit and abstract-representational binaries that continue to haunt contemporary queer art. It therefore proposes a new kind of queer art writing, one that skirts the limits imposed by normative histories of art and film.

Artists addressed in Queer Formalism: The Return include: Sally Mann, David Lynch, Lars von Trier, Math Bass, Lorna Simpson, Laurie Simmons, Alex Prager, Lana Del Rey, Jessica Lange, and Louise Lawler, among others.

File under: Sally Mann David Lynch Lars von Trier Math Bass Lorna Simpson Laurie Simmons Alex Prager Lana Del Rey Jessica Lange Louise Lawler William J. Simmons Floating Opera Press / Berlin LGBTQ+ Theory / Essay Art

F.R. David Spring 2023 (Zeros and Ones)
Edited with Kathrin Bentele, Anna Gritz, and Ghislaine Leung

2023, English
Softcover, 180 pages, 12 x 19 cm
Published by Uh Books / Amsterdam KW Institute for Contemporary Art / Berlin

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Riffing off the title, this volume includes Catherine Damman interviewing Carolyn Lazard – an artist whose conceptual and often spare videos, sculptures, installations, and performances explore the full amplitude of relation, in addition a feature on contemporary artist Tishan Hsu, whose practice examines the “embodiment of technology”, plus contributions by time-based media artist Silvia Kolbowski, for whom political resistance, the unconscious, and structures of spectatorship are a central concern of all her projects; choreographer and dancer Yvonne Rainer; and science fiction author Octavia Butler. [...] Lee Lozano, Sturtevant, Margarethe Raspé, Jef Geys, Martin Wong, Bernadette Mayer, Louise Lawler, Sarah Rapson, Ketty La Rocca, Stanley Brouwn, Lutz Bacher, Hanne Darboven, Pope L., Silvia Kolbowski, Ilmari Kalkkinen, Henrik Olesen, Otto Wagner...

File under: Ghislaine Leung Will Holder Tishan Hsu Yvonne Rainer Lutz Bacher Carolyn Lazard Silvia Kolbowski Bernadette Mayer Stanley Brouwn Pope.L William Pope L. William Pope.L Lee Lozano Sturtevant Margarethe Raspé Jef Geys Martin Wong Louise Lawler Sarah Rapson Ketty La Rocca Hanne Darboven Pope L. Ilmari Kalkkinen Henrik Olesen Otto Wagner Octavia Butler Will Holder Kathrin Bentele Anna Gritz Ghislaine Leung Catherine Damman Bernadette Mayer Uh Books / Amsterdam KW Institute for Contemporary Art / Berlin Periodicals Conceptual Art Fiction / Poetry Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Theory / Essay Art

Pierre Leguillon
The Barefoot Promise

2023, English
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 196 pages, 20 x 24 cm
Published by Triangle Books / Brussels

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The Barefoot Promise is a study on foot fetishism through set photographs of Western films. From Hollywood Golden Age to French Nouvelle Vague, the motif of the foot reveals the hidden fantasies and gender norms conveyed by European and American filmmakers. Structured as a film itself, the book is the first printed version of the Promise of the Screen, a screening device developed by Pierre Leguillon since 2007 to look at the marginal aspects of cinema. All lobby cards and press photographs reproduced in this publication belong to the collections of the Museum of Mistakes, Brussels. The book comes with an intermission and a bonus by Louise Lawler!

File under: Pierre Leguillon Louise Lawler Triangle Books / Brussels Fetishism / BDSM Film / Video Conceptual Art Photography

May #20

2021, English / French
Softcover, 256 pages, 17.5 x 24 cm
Published by May Revue / Paris

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I will not interpret Jack Smith. I will not interpret Jack Smith. I will not interpret Jack… — Felix Bernstein

Finally, a new issue of long standing favourite May revue, with a cover feature on American filmmaker, actor, performance artist and pioneer of underground cinema, Jack Smith (1932 –1989)!

Jack Smith (Michael Krebber, Felix Bernstein, Enzo Shalom, Branden W. Joseph), Gary Indiana, Bruce Hainley and Sohrab Mohebbi, Jean-Luc Godard by Ferdinand Gouzon, Leilah Weinraub by Juliana Huxtable, Nina Könnemann by Megan Francis Sullivan, Louise Lawler by Nick Irvin, Claire Fontaine by Anita Chari, Robert Malaval by Valentin Gleyze, Afuma (Stefan Tcherepnin & Taketo Shimada) by Keith Connolly, Park McArthur by Noah Barker, Ken Okiishi by Felix Bernstein...

Conceived as a collective space in which to develop thoughts and confront positions on artistic production, May magazine examines, twice a year, contemporary art practice and theory in direct engagement with the issues, contexts and strategies that construct these two fields. An approach that could be summed up as critique at work – or as critique actively performed in text and art forms alike.
Featuring essays, interviews, art works and reviews by artists, writers and diverse practitioners of the arts, the magazine also intends to address the economy of the production of knowledge – the starting point of this reflection being the space of indistinction between information and advertisment typical of our time. This implies a dialogue with forms of critique produced in other fields.

File under: Jack Smith Michael Krebber Jean-Luc Godard Juliana Huxtable Nina Könnemann Ken Okiishi Robert Malaval Louise Lawler Megan Francis Sullivan Claire Fontaine Leilah Weinraub Park McArthur Afuma (Stefan Tcherepnin and Taketo Shimada) Bernadette Van-Huy Stefan Tcherepnin Taketo Shimada Felix Bernstein Enzo Shalom Branden W. Joseph Bruce Hainley Sohrab Mohebbi Ferdinand Gouzon Megan Francis Sullivan Nick Irvin Anita Chari Keith Connolly Noah Barker Valentin Gleyze Gary Indiana May Revue / Paris Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Painting Periodicals Theory / Essay Art Sculpture / Installation

Art After Conceptual Art
Edited by Alexander Alberro and Sabeth Buchmann

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

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

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

Bachelors
by Rosalind E. Krauss

2000, English
Softcover, 228 pages, 178 x 229 cm
Published by October Books / New York

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Since the 1970s Rosalind Krauss has been exploring the art of painters, sculptors, and photographers, examining the intersection of these artists' concerns with the major currents of postwar visual culture. These essays on nine women artists are framed by the question, born of feminism, "What evaluative criteria can be applied to women's art?" In the case of surrealism, in particular, some have claimed that surrealist women artists must either redraw the lines of their practice or participate in the movement's misogyny. Krauss resists that claim, for these "bachelors" are artists whose expressive strategies challenge the very ideals of unity and mastery identified with masculinist aesthetics. Some of this work (such as that of Louise Bourgeois or Cindy Sherman) could be said to find its power in strategies associated with such concepts as écriture feminine. Bachelors attempts to do justice to these and other artists (Claude Cahun, Dora Maar, Louise Lawler, Francesca Woodman) in the terms their works demand.

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).

"[S]timulating, difficult, and often dazzling...Bachelors is a smart and often profound book that makes avaluable contribution to the gendered field it abhors." Carol Zemel, Women's Review of Books.

Contents: By way of introduction, Claude Cahun and Dora Maar; portrait of the artist as "fillette", Louise Bourgeois; the "cloud", Agnes Martin; contingent, Eva Hesse; untitled, Cindy Sherman; problem sets, Francesca Woodman; bachelors, Sherrie Levine; souvenir memories, Louise Lawler.

File under: Agnes Martin Cindy Sherman Claude Cahun Dora Maar Eva Hesse Francesca Woodman Louise Bourgeois Louise Lawler Sherrie Levine Rosalind E. Krauss October Books / New York Art Photography Theory / Essay

Question The Wall Itself
Fionn Meade (Ed.)

2017, English
Softcover (die-cut), 244 pages, 19 x 26 cm
Published by Walker Art Centre / Minneapolis

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Edited with text by Fionn Meade. Foreword by Olga Viso. Texts by Jordan Carter, Adrienne Edwards, Isla Leaver-Yap, Robert Wiesenberger.

Question the Wall Itself examines ways that interior spaces and décor can be fundamental to the understanding of cultural identity. It showcases 23 international artists who explore the political and social dimensions of interior architecture as well as its complicated relationship to history and their own backgrounds. The featured artists are Jonathas de Andrade, Uri Aran, Nina Beier, Marcel Broodthaers, Tom Burr, Alejandro Cesarco, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Theaster Gates, Ull Hohn, Janette Laverrière, Louise Lawler, Nick Mauss, Park McArthur, Lucy McKenzie, Shahryar Nashat, Walid Raad, Seth Siegelaub, Paul Sietsema, Florine Stettheimer, Rosemarie Trockel, Cerith Wyn Evans, Danh Vo and Akram Zaatari.
The book and the exhibition it accompanies take as its guiding principle what Marcel Broodthaers termed “esprit décor”: a critique of ideas of nationality, globalization and the space of the institution through constructed interior scenes. Recasting our conception of interior space and design, the featured works exist between art, prop, and set or stage. Espousing this mise-en-scène approach, Question the Wall Itself plugs readers into material that expands the show in the form of book-as-exhibition. It includes an extensive photographic walk-through of the installations, and essays by Jordan Carter, Adrienne Edwards, Isla Leaver-Yap, Fionn Meade, and Robert Wiesenberger, as well as contributions from participating artists.

File under: Akram Zaatari Alejandro Cesarco Cerith Wyn Evans Danh Vo Florine Stettheimer Janette Laverrière Jonathas de Andrade Louise Lawler Lucy Mckenzie Marc Camille Chaimowicz Marcel Broodthaers Nick Mauss Nina Beier Park McArthur Paul Sietsema Rosemarie Trockel Seth Siegelaub Shahryar Nashat Theaster Gates Tom Burr Ull Hohn Uri Aran Walid Raad Adrienne Edwards Fionn Meade Isla Leaver-Yap Jordan Carter Olga Viso Robert Wiesenberger Walker Art Centre / Minneapolis Art Theory / Essay Sculpture / Installation Painting Conceptual Art Group Shows / Collections SALE

TEXTE ZUR KUNST #116
DECEMBER 2019 "EVIL"

2019, English
Softcover, 272 pages, 23 x 16.5 cm
Published by Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin

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"EVIL," the theme of this latest issue of TEXTE ZUR KUNST is often understood as simply the opposite of “good,” and as pure immorality, evil is everywhere today, and somehow also nowhere. It is the “other” par excellence; something we ourselves never are, but by which one always measures one’s own distance. “Evil is over there, not here, not with me.” Given its ubiquity today, we offer texts that investigate what this thing we call “evil” is, as it so often functions as the polar opposite of that which people hold to be just and right. Indeed, who could argue that point, and yet. In this issue, we look specifically at evil’s manifestations in the art world, and in film, politics, and theory, always with an eye toward evil as something potentially playful and ironic.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
OLIVER PRECHT
TALKING ABOUT EVIL / Reflections on Moral Judgment
SUPERNATURE / Amanda Schmitt in Conversation with Loretta Fahrenholz, Madeline Hollander, and Monica Mirabile
MAX CZOLLEK
EVIL / Some Thoughts on the Contemporaneity of a Category
REMAIN IN DARK / Interview between Colin Lang and Stephen O’Malley
A BRIEF GLOSSARY OF SOCIAL SADISM / by Ana Teixeira Pinto and Kerstin Stakemeier
NEW DEVELOPMENT
BESEELTE GABEN IM TAUSCHSYSTEM / Überlegungen zur Malerei von Jack Whitten anlässlich der Ausstellung “Jack Whitten. Jack’s Jacks“ im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
ROTATION
BEING POROUS / Alice Blackhurst on Chantal Akerman’s My Mother Laughs
IMPURITY AND ENTANGLEMENT / Adam Butler in Conversation with Ben Lerner
REVIEWS
A CHIROGRAPHIC IMAGINARY / Colin Lang on Edmund de Waal at Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
ANDERE ORTE / Elisa R. Linn über Ariane Müller bei Schiefe Zähne, Berlin
ARCHIVING INSPIRATION / Dave Beech on Albert Oehlen at the Serpentine Gallery, London
MYALGIE / Jessica Aimufua über Diamond Stingily im Kunstverein München
GO TELL IT ON THE ISLAND / Nadja Abt über die 16. Istanbul Biennale
INTIMATE INVESTIGATIONS / Jesi Khadivi on Sharon Hayes at Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin
ICH BIN ELEKTRISCH / Hans-Christian Dany über Puppies Puppies (Jade Kuriki Olivo) in der Halle für Kunst Lüneburg
HUNGRY MINDS / Rachel Haidu on Leidy Churchman at the Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson
VERFREMDEND NAH / Stephanie Holl-Trieu über „The Making of Husbands: Christina Ramberg in Dialogue“ in den KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
POETS AND ARTFANS / Pujan Karambeigi on Sarah Rapson at Essex Street, New York
EROSION UND WACHSTUM / Markues über „Soil Is an Inscribed Body. Über Souveränität und Agrarpoesien“ bei SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin
MATERIAL FUTURES / Adrienne Ange Rooney on Lubaina Himid at the New Museum, New York
DIES IST KEIN PHALLUS / Francesca Raimondi über „Maskulinitäten. Eine Kooperation von Bonner Kunstverein, Kölnischem Kunstverein und Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf“
WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON? / Chris Reitz on Latoya Ruby Frazier at the Renaissance Society, Chicago
MAGISCHE POLITIK / Fiona Geuß über Andrea Bowers in der Weserburg, Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen
MOTHER OF PEARL / Enzo Shalom on Nicolás Guagnini at Bortolami, New York
(BE-)ZEUG DICH! / Alida Müschen über Julia Phillips im Kunstverein Braunschweig
GHOSTS NOT WELCOME / Nina Prader on Omer Fast at the Salzburger Kunstverein
CRITICAL AFFECTIONS / Sophie Goltz über „Awakenings: Art in Society in Asia 1960s–1990s“ in der National Gallery in Singapur
ZWISCHEN ALLEN STÜHLEN / Dorothea Zwirner über Senga Nengudi im Lenbachhaus, München
NACHRUFE / OBITUARIES
SARAH SCHUMANN (1933−2019) by Vojin Saša Vukadinović
DOUGLAS CRIMP (1944–2019) by Marc Siegel
DOUGLAS CRIMP (1944-2019) by Louise Lawler
DOUGLAS CRIMP (1944-2019) by Juliane Rebentisch
EDITION
JESSICA STOCKHOLDER
RAPHAELA VOGEL
JORINDE VOIGT

File under: Jessica Stockholder Raphaela Vogel Jorinde Voigt Louise Lawler Omer Fast Andrea Bowers Nicolás Guagnini Lubaina Himid Sarah Rapson Puppies Puppies (Jade Kuriki Olivo) Christina Ramberg Chantal Akerman Latoya Ruby Frazier Sharon Hayes Leidy Churchman Stephen O’malley Loretta Fahrenholz Madeline Hollander Monica Mirabile Diamond Stingily Jack Whitten Douglas Crimp Marc Siegel Juliane Rebentisch Dorothea Zwirner Hans-Christian Dany Pujan Karambeigi Rachel Haidu Jesi Khadivi Colin Lang Stephen O’malley Amanda Schmitt Adam Butler Ben Lerner Ana Teixeira Pinto Kerstin Stakemeier Max Czollek Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin Periodicals Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Film / Video Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Photography

Other Mechanisms

2018, English
Softcover, 144 pages, 22 x 21 cm
Published by Secession / Vienna

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This catalogue accompanies "Other Mechanisms", a major group show at Secession in Vienna, 2018, that continues on from the exhibition "Mechanisms", held at CCA Wattis in San Francisco.

"Other Mechanisms" points to a present moment when machines don't look much like machines. Many aren't even called machines. Heavy and greasy machinery is absent from the smooth surfaces of digital interfaces and the weightlessness of cloud computing. Tool, appliance, device, apparatus, instrument, computer, hardware, software, program, server, processor, microchip, setting, algorithm, infrastructure, system, logistic, protocol, parameter - the terms for today's machines accumulate, evolve, and overlap.

Machines are part of the air we breathe, overseeing our lives and our bodies, from the way we communicate and consume to the way we trade and travel. Some are made of metal, but many others are made of rules or algorithms, which are infinitely more fluid and flexible. Some are objects or devices, but others are systems and infrastructures - a machine can be a thing as well as a method for organizing things. Objects yield to infrastructure. Work turns to management. Machines become mechanisms.

The works in this exhibition reflect on what it could mean to contest the regime of the machine. They compromise its tools, misuse its technologies, reroute its engineering, complicate its measurements. These other mechanisms add detours or dead ends to circulation routes, or insert delinquent trajectories that create distortions over time. They are made of knots, blanks, and incompatible settings. They demand more from their "users," forgoing protocols of convenience and immediate intelligibility. They reinsert the awkwardness of the human body, with all of its irregularities and inefficiencies.

Art can't stop the machine - nothing can. The question is not whether or not to embrace the machine - it's too late for that - but how to complicate it by testing existing systems with impossible tools and elaborate protocols that misalign outputs from their inputs.

Texts by: Jennifer Alexander, Franco Berardi, Benjamin H. Bratton, Gilles Châtelet, Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari, Keller Easterling, Vilém Flusser, Sigfried Gideon, Martin Heidegger, Anthony Huberman, K.G. Pontus Hultén, Maurizio Lazzarato, Pamela Lee, Les Levine, Jean-François Lyotard, Robert King Merton, Meredith Meredith, Lewis Mumford, Gerald Raunig, Nishant Shah, Robert Snowden, and Joseph Vogl.

With works by artists: Zarouhie Abdalian, Lutz Bacher, Nairy Baghramian, Eva Barto, Patricia L. Boyd, Nina Canell & Robin Watkins, Jay DeFeo, Trisha Donnelly, Harun Farocki, Howard Fried, Aaron Flint Jamison, Jacob Kassay, Garry Neill Kennedy, Frederick Kiesler, Pope.L, Louise Lawler, Sam Lewitt, Park McArthur, Jean-Luc Moulène, Cameron Rowland, Sturtevant, and Danh Vo.

File under: Zarouhie Abdalian Lutz Bacher Nairy Baghramian Eva Barto Patricia L. Boyd Nina Canell & Robin Watkins Jay DeFeo Trisha Donnelly Harun Farocki Howard Fried Jacob Kassay Garry Neill Kennedy Frederick Kiesler Louise Lawler Sam Lewitt Park McArthur Jean-Luc Moulène Cameron Rowland Sturtevant Danh Vo William Pope.L Jennifer Alexander Franco Berardi Benjamin H. Bratton Gilles Châtelet Keller Easterling Vilém Flusser Sigfried Gideon Martin Heidegger Anthony Huberman K.G. Pontus Hultén Maurizio Lazzarato Pamela Lee Les Levine Jean-François Lyotard Robert King Merton Meredith Meredith Lewis Mumford Gerald Raunig Nishant Shah Robert Snowden Joseph Vogl Gilles Deleuze Felix Guattari Secession / Vienna Art Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Group Shows / Collections Curatorial

Mechanisms

2017, English
Paperback, 288 pages, 22 x 21 cm
Published by Roma / Amsterdam

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This catalogue accompanies a major group show at CCA Wattis in San Francisco, curated by Anthony Huberman. It reflects on ways the “machine” determines how we live and what we believe in. A machine is also a mechanism, not just a physical object but also an abstract ideology. The artworks point to the forms and instruments that make up our technological infrastructure, as well as to the values they are designed to enforce. Contesting a world that rewards efficiency, speed, and productivity, the participating artists test existing systems with inefficient machines, impossible tools, wasted time, and elaborate protocols that misalign outputs and inputs.

Artists: Zarouhie Abdalian, Terry Atkinson, Lutz Bacher, Eva Barto, Neïl Beloufa, Patricia L. Boyd, Jay DeFeo, Trisha Donnelly, Harun Farocki, Richard Hamilton, Aaron Flint Jamison, Jacob Kassay, Garry Neill Kennedy, Louise Lawler, Park McArthur, Jean-Luc Moulène, Pope.L, Charlotte Posenenske, Cameron Rowland, Danh Vo

Designed by Julie Peeters and Scott Ponik this catalogue accompanies the exhibition and includes an essay by the curator as well as sections created by each artist. It is co-published with Roma Publications (Amsterdam).

File under: Zarouhie Abdalian Terry Atkinson Lutz Bacher Eva Barto Neïl Beloufa Patricia L. Boyd Jay DeFeo Trisha Donnelly Harun Farocki Richard Hamilton Aaron Flint Jamison Jacob Kassay Garry Neill Kennedy Louise Lawler Park McArthur Jean-Luc Moulène Charlotte Posenenske Cameron Rowland Danh Vo Julie Peeters Scott Ponik William Pope.L Anthony Huberman Roma / Amsterdam Group Shows / Collections Art Photography Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art

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

The Photographic II: Signal or Noise
Martin Germann, Tanja Boon (editors)

2019, English
Softcover, 64 pages, 20 x 27 cm
Published by Roma / Amsterdam

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Catalog accompanying the second part of a diptych exhibition in S.M.A.K., Ghent, curated by Martin Germann and Tanja Boon. Contains an introduction by the exhibition’s curators together with additional essays and texts on the artists participating.

The first chapter, Other Pictures, questioned the special potential of the still image. In Signal or Noise the gaze is turned inwards and explores the camera as a metaphor for human existence. Photography is to a large extent produced by machines. The reading of an image thus also requires knowledge of the technological development of the discipline, especially because photography has gradually anchored itself in the social sphere. The more images and their environment merge, the more signal and noise become interchangeable. Readable, manipulated and hidden information are increasingly difficult to distinguish from one another, yet are of equal importance in our visual culture. The myth of photographic transparency seems to be irreversibly lost in a mass of pixels, bits and algorithms.

Artists : Tony Cokes, Forensic Architecture, Lynn Hershman Leeson, David Horvitz, Aaron Flint Jamison, Louise Lawler, Sharon Lockhart, Hana Miletić, Jean-Luc Moulène, Sondra Perry, Marina Pinsky, Seth Price, R. H. Quaytman and Thomas Ruff

Design: Roger Willems.

File under: Roger Willems Tony Cokes Forensic Architecture Lynn Hershman Leeson David Horvitz Aaron Flint Jamison Louise Lawler Sharon Lockhart Hana Miletić Jean-Luc Moulène Sondra Perry Marina Pinsky Seth Price Thomas Ruff R.H. Quaytman Martin Germann Tanja Boon Roma / Amsterdam Photography Group Shows / Collections Art Periodicals Painting Sculpture / Installation

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

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

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

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

With a conversation between Bénédicte Savoy and Johan Holten.

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

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

Louise Lawler
(October Files)

2013, English
Softcover, 160 pages, 153 x 23 cm
Published by October Books / New York The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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Edited by Helen Molesworth
With Taylor Walsh

Louise Lawler has devoted her art practice to investigating the life cycle of art objects. Her photographs depict art in the collector’s home, the museum, the auction house, and the commercial gallery, on loading docks, and in storage closets. Her work offers a sustained meditation on the strategies of display that shape art’s reception and distribution. The cumulative effect of Lawler’s photographs is a silent insistence that context is the primary shaper of art’s meaning. Informed by feminism and institutional critique, Lawler’s witty, poignant, and trenchant photos frequently pay attention to a host of overlooked details—almost Freudian slips—that ineffably and tacitly shore up what we conventionally think of as art’s “power.”

This book includes the earliest published text on Lawler’s work; an examination of her ephemera (Lawler produced, among other things, matchbooks and paperweights); a rare interview with the artist, conducted by Douglas Crimp; a conversation between George Baker and Andrea Fraser on Lawler’s work; and essays by writers including Rosalind Krauss, Rosalyn Deutsche, and Helen Molesworth, the volume’s editor. The book traces the changing reception of Lawler’s work from early preoccupations with appropriation to later discussions of affect.

About the Editor
Helen Molesworth is Chief Curator at the Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston. She edited Louise Lawler’s Twice Untitled and Other Pictures (looking back), published by the Wexner Center for the Arts and distributed by the MIT Press.

File under: Louise Lawler Andrea Fraser Douglas Crimp George Baker Helen Molesworth Rosalyn Deutsche Rosalind E. Krauss October Books / New York The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Conceptual Art Photography Theory / Essay

The Big Nothing

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

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

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

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

October : The First Decade 1976-1986
Annette Michelson, Rosalind Krauss, Douglas Crimp, Joan Copjec (eds.)

1987, English
Hardcover (w. dustjacket), 456 pages, 22.3 x 17.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by October Books / New York The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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First edition of the heavy "OCTOBER: The First Decade, 1976 - 1986", which brings together a selection of some of the most important and representative texts, many from issues long out of print, that have appeared in one of the foremost journals in art criticism and theory - October.

Contributors include Rosalind Krauss, Sergei Eisenstein, Peter Handke, Georges Didi-Huberman, Mary Ann Doane, and Hans Haacke. Their essays are organized under the categories of "the index, historical materialism, the critique of institutions, psychoanalysis, rhetoric, and the body." -- publisher's statement.

Texts by Annette Michelson, Rosalind Krauss, Douglas Crimp, Joan Copjec, Nadar, Georges Didi-Huberman, Roger Caillois, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Sergei Einstein, Maria-Antonietta Macciocchi, Rosalyn Deutsche, Cara Gendel Ryan, Yve-Alain Bois, Daniel Buren, Louise Lawler, Christopher Philips, Homi Bhabha, Mary Ann Doane, Joel Fineman, Babette Mangolte, Peter Handke, Anette Michelson, Georges Bataille, Hollis Frampton, Robert Morris, Hans Haacke, and Trisha Brown.

"October is among the most advanced journals of the 1970s and 1980s in the fields of art theory, criticism, history, and practice. [Its editors] are intimately familiar with the cultural and political avant-garde of Europe and the U.S. and are able to attract its best thinkers.... Few, if any, journals could receive a higher recommendation."—Choice

File under: Hollis Frampton Robert Morris Hans Haacke Trisha Brown Daniel Buren Louise Lawler Marcel Duchamp Annette Michelson Rosalind Krauss Douglas Crimp Joan Copjec Nadar Georges Didi-Huberman Roger Caillois Benjamin H.D. Buchloh Sergei Einstein Maria-Antonietta Macciocchi Rosalyn Deutsche Cara Gendel Ryan Yve-Alain Bois Daniel Buren Louise Lawler Christopher Philips Homi Bhabha Mary Ann Doane Joel Fineman Babette Mangolte Peter Handke Anette Michelson Georges Bataille Hollis Frampton Robert Morris Hans Haacke Trisha Brown October Books / New York The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Photography Conceptual Art Curatorial Dada Film / Video Group Shows / Collections Minimal Art Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals Sculpture / Installation

REAL LIFE Magazine: Selected Writings and Projects 1979-1994

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

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

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

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

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

Louise Lawler
A Movie Will Be Shown Without The Picture

2014, English
Softcover (stapled), 64 pages (colour & bw ill>), 21 x 27 cm
Published by If I Can’t Dance / Amsterdam

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Louise Lawler's 'A Movie Will Be Shown Without the Picture' (1979) presents a movie in a regular cinema environment, but without any moving images. This publication is the result of an extensive research project into 'A Movie' and its 2012 iteration, undertaken with researcher Sven Lütticken and Louise Lawler. The publication includes a research essay by Lütticken that places 'A Movie' in the context of cultural developments in the 1970s and works by the Pictures Generation, and contributions by art historians Debbie Broekers, Eve Dullaart, and Daniël van der Poel.

File under: Louise Lawler Sven Lütticken If I Can’t Dance / Amsterdam Art Performance / Dance / Theater Photography

Ordinary Pictures

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

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

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

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

EXHIBITION
Lucy Steeds (Ed.) - Documents of Contemporary Art Series

2014, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 145 x 210 mm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts Whitechapel / London

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This anthology provides a multivocal critique of the exhibition of contemporary art, bringing together the writings of artists, curators, and theorists. Collectively these diverse perspectives are united by the notion that although the focus for modernist discussion was individual works of art, it is the exhibition that is the prime cultural carrier of contemporaneity. The texts encompass exhibition design and form; exhibitions that are object-based, live, or discursive; projects that no longer rely on a physical space to be visited in person; artists’ responses to being curated and their reflections on the potential of acting curatorially. Set against the rise of the curator as an influential force in the contemporary art world, this volume underlines the crucial role of artists in questioning and shaping the phenomenon of the exhibition.

Artists surveyed include:
Rasheed Araeen, Art & Language, AA Bronson, Daniel Buren, Graciela Carnevale, Andrea Fraser, Piero Gilardi, Group Material, Richard Hamilton, Huang Rui, Laboratoire Agit-Art, Louise Lawler, Glenn Ligon, Konrad Lueg, Matsuzawa Yutaka, Palle Nielsen, OHO (Marko Pogagnik), Hélio Oiticica, Philippe Parreno, Victor Pasmore, Raqs Media Collective, Gerhard Richter, Ruangrupa, Situationist International, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Andy Warhol, Katsuhiro Yamaguchi

Writers include:
Judith Barry, Martin Beck, Charles Esche, Patricia Falguières, Elena Filipovic, Patrick Flores, Liam Gillick, Thelma Golden, Hou Hanru, Geeta Kapur, Pablo Lafuente, Lisette Lagnado, Lucy R. Lippard, Miguel A. López, Stuart Morgan, Chika Okeke-Agulu, Yvonne Rainer, Moira Roth, Seth Siegelaub, Wan-kyung Sung, El Hadji Sy, David Teh, Margarita Tupitsyn, Marion von Osten, Anton Vidokle, Peter Wollen

About the Editor:
Lucy Steeds is Pathway Leader in Exhibition Studies at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London.

File under: AA Bronson Andrea Fraser Andy Warhol Art & Language Daniel Buren Gerhard Richter Glenn Ligon Graciela Carnevale Group Material Hélio Oiticica Huang Rui Katsuhiro Yamaguchi Konrad Lueg Laboratoire Agit-Art Louise Lawler Matsuzawa Yutaka Mierle Laderman Ukeles Palle Nielsen Philippe Parreno Piero Gilardi Raqs Media Collective Rasheed Araeen Richard Hamilton Ruangrupa Situationist International Victor Pasmore Anton Vidokle Charles Esche Chika Okeke-Agulu David Teh El Hadji Sy Elena Filipovic Geeta Kapur Hou Hanru Judith Barry Liam Gillick Lisette Lagnado Lucy R. Lippard Margarita Tupitsyn Marion von Osten Martin Beck Miguel A. López Moira Roth Pablo Lafuente Patricia Falguières Patrick Flores Peter Wollen Seth Siegelaub Stuart Morgan Thelma Golden Wan-kyung Sung Yvonne Rainer The MIT Press / Massachusetts Whitechapel / London Art Theory / Essay

Reinventing The Wheel: The Readymade Century

2013, English
Softcover, 128 pages, 17 x 21 cm
Published by MUMA / Victoria

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Publication to accompany the exhibition "Reinventing The Wheel: The Readymade Century", 3 October – 14 December 2013, Monash University Museum of Art, Victoria, Australia.

Arguably the most influential development in art of the twentieth century, the use of the readymade was set in motion 100 years ago with Marcel Duchamp’s Bicycle Wheel. Giving birth to an entire artistic language, Duchamp’s conversion of an unadorned, everyday object into a figure of high art completely inverted how people considered artistic practice. Suddenly, art was capable of being everywhere and in everything. It was a revolutionary moment in modern art, and the ripples from this epochal shift still resonate today.

Reinventing the Wheel: the Readymade Century pays tribute to this seminal work and traces the subsequent elaboration of neo-dada practices, with a particular focus upon everyday and vernacular contexts; the mysterious and libidinous potential of sculptural objects; institutional critique and nominal modes of artistic value; pop, minimalism and industrial manufacture. These discursive contexts will also provide a foundation to explore more recent tendencies related to unmonumental and social sculpture, post-fordism and other concerns, particularly among contemporary Australian artists.

Bringing together works by over 50 artists – from Duchamp and Man Ray to Andy Warhol and Martin Creed, along with some of Australia’s leading practitioners – this is a one-of-a-kind salute to an idea that continues to define the very nature of contemporary art.
Artists:

Carl Andre, Hany Armanious, Nairy Baghramian, Ian Burn, John Cage, Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Tony Cragg, Michael Craig-Martin, Martin Creed, Aleks Danko, Julian Dashper, Simon Denny, Marcel Duchamp, Sylvie Fleury, Ceal Floyer, Claire Fontaine, Gilbert & George, Félix González-Torres, Agatha Gothe-Snape, Greatest Hits, Matthew Griffin, Richard Hamilton, David Hammons, Matt Hinkley, Lou Hubbard, Barry Humphries, Jeff Koons, Joseph Kosuth, Louise Lawler, Klara Lidén, Andrew Liversidge, James Lynch, Robert MacPherson, Rob McKenzie, Callum Morton, John Nixon, Meret Oppenheim, Joshua Petherick, Kain Picken, Rosslynd Piggott, Man Ray, Scott Redford, Stuart Ringholt, Peter Saville, Charlie Sofo, Haim Steinbach, Ricky Swallow, Masato Takasaka, Peter Tyndall, Alex Vivian, Danh Vo, Andy Warhol, and Heimo Zobernig.

Curatorial team:
Max Delany (former MUMA director), Charlotte Day, Francis E. Parker, and Patrice Sharkey.With texts by Rex Butler, Charlotte Day, Francis Parker, Patrice Sharkey, and a never before published text by Thierry de Duve.

File under: Agatha Gothe-Snape Aleks Danko Andrew Liversidge Andy Warhol Barry Humphries Callum Morton Carl Andre Ceal Floyer Charlie Sofo Christo & Jeanne-Claude Claire Fontaine Danh Vo David Hammons Felix Gonzalez-Torres Greatest Hits Haim Steinbach Hany Armanious Heimo Zobernig Ian Burn James Lynch Jeff Koons John Cage John Nixon Joseph Kosuth Joshua Petherick Julian Dashper Kain Picken Lou Hubbard Louise Lawler Man Ray Marcel Duchamp Martin Creed Masato Takasaka Matt Hinkley Matthew Griffin Meret Oppenheim Michael Craig-Martin Nairy Baghramian Peter Saville Peter Tyndall Richard Hamilton Ricky Swallow Rob McKenzie Robert Macpherson Rosslynd Piggott Scott Redford Simon Denny Stuart Ringholt Sylvie Fleury Tony Cragg Gilbert & George Klara Lidén Charlotte Day Francis Parker Patrice Sharkey Rex Butler Thierry de Duve MUMA / Victoria Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay Dada Surrealism Arte Povera Conceptual Art Fluxus Group Shows / Collections