World Food Books

Cosima von Bonin
Songs for Gay Dogs

2024, English / French
Softcover, 272 pages, 22 x 28 cm
Published by JRP Ringier / Zürich MUDAM / Luxembourg

$75.00 - In stock -

A book spanning Cosima von Bonin's work of the last decade, and a personal journey into her private world and references.

Published to accompany the German artist's comprehensive exhibition at Mudam Luxembourg (October 2024–March 2025), Cosima von Bonin's new monograph Songs for Gay Dogs is both a book spanning her work of the last decade, and a personal journey into her private world and references, designed by her long-time friend and collaborator Yvonne Quirmbach.

Introduced by Mudam Director Bettina Steinbrügge, it assembles a play by Australian writer and art critic Estelle Hoy that brings to life Cosima von Bonin's recurring characters, an essay by Mudam curator Clémentine Proby about the carnivalesque in her work, a contribution by Pop journalist and Cologne figure Clara Dreschler, and a "Privato" chapter comprising images, texts, and documentation from the artist's personal archive. The book includes 200 illustrations, previously unseen images, and pictures of Cosima von Bonin's newly commissioned installation in Mudam's Grand Hall.

Cosima von Bonin (born 1962 in Mombasa, lives in Cologne) began her career in the early 1990s, following in the footsteps of Martin Kippenberger. A prolific artist, she produced oversized stuffed animals and other fantastical creatures, as well as pseudo-Minimalist sculptures using comedy, cartoons, and pop culture to question social constructions and relations. She explores the relationship of the individual to work, the capitalist production system, and leisure society. She uses knitted and woven fabrics to create objects that enable her to mock industrial means of production, which she feels infantilize the individual. By advocating a life of dolce far niente, of carefree idleness, von Bonin is proposing a form of resistance against the consumerist regime. Her exhibitions include the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt and Mudam Luxembourg, both 2024; Magasin III Jaffa, Tel Aviv (2019); CCS Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson (2018); and Sculpture Center, New York (2016). She participated in the 59th Biennale di Venezia (2022); Skulptur Projekte Münster (2017); Glasgow International (2016); MUMOK, Vienna (2014); Artipelag, Sweden (2013); Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis (2011); Arnolfini, Bristol (2011); Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva (2011); Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2011); Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria (2010); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2008); and Documenta, Kassel (2007 & 1982).

Edited by Clémentine Proby and Cosima von Bonin.
Texts by Bettina Steinbrügge, Clara Dreschler, Clémentine Proby, Estelle Hoy.

File under: Cosima Von Bonin Cosima von Bonin Josef Strau Sergej Jensen Michael Krebber Mike Kelley Yvonne Quirmbach Martin Kippenberger Bettina Steinbrügge Clara Dreschler Clémentine Proby Estelle Hoy JRP Ringier / Zürich MUDAM / Luxembourg Sculpture / Installation Painting Art Textiles

Bob Flanagan: Supermasochist (RE/Search)

1993, English
Softcover, 126 pages, 22 x 28 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by RE/SEARCH / San Francisco

$100.00 - Out of stock

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First 1993 edition of the first (only) monographic book devoted to Los Angeles performance artist and poet Bob Flanagan. An indispensable document of one of the great outsider artists of the 20th Century. In this volume's deeply confessional interviews, Bob details his sexual practices and his extraordinary relationship with long-term partner and Mistress, photographer Sheree Rose. He tells how frequent near-death encounters modified his concepts of gratification and abstinence, reward and punishment, and intensified his masochistic drive. The most extreme narratives are infused with humor, honesty, and self-reflective irony. Bob's performances with partner Sheree Rose shocked and inspired audiences from Seattle to Boston to Berlin. Combining text, video, and live performance, Bob's performances are highly personal but universal in his deep commitment to deciphering philosophical issues regarding the body, childhood, power, sex, illness, and mortality.

Those who have read the text were overcome by the sincerity, humanity & warmth of Bob Flanagan. In his last days, Bob did a living performance installation at the New Museum in New York City; dozens of people consulted him as a (somewhat humorous) Oracle and Psychiatric Advisor before Cystic Fibrosis took him away…

Bob Flanagan (1952—1996) was an American poet and performance artist known for his work on sadomasochism and lifelong struggle with cystic fibrosis.

Very Good copy.

File under: Bob Flanagan Mike Kelley Sheree Rose Bob Flanagan Jack Skelley RE/SEARCH / San Francisco Eros Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Art Fiction / Poetry Poetry Fetishism / BDSM Transgressive / Visceral / Abject

FREAKOUT — The Art Magazine for the New Edge
8 magazine lot

1994—1997, Japanese
Softcover, various page count, 29.7 x 22.2 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by SDI nets / Tokyo

$200.00 - In stock -

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Rare lot of eight issues of the short-lived and now seldom seen 1990's Shibuya-kei / art subculture magazine from Japan, FREAKOUT, published between 1994—1997. Like a hysterical teenage pop fanzine version of Raygun, FREAKOUT ("The Art Magazine for the New Edge"), packed as much sugar-coated 90's nihilism into the little-known magazine's short life-span as possible. Showcasing a new generation of provocative international artists alongside their Japanese pop (counter)culture counterparts, filled with illustrations, manga, and early vector-art kitsch psychedelia — in short, a demonic embodiment of Shibuya-kei aesthetics — these issues include exclusive interviews and artist features, galleries and articles on Mike Kelley, Barbara Kruger, Suehiro Maruo, Richard Prince, Jenny Holzer, Kyoji Takahashi, Janine Antoni, Noritoshi Hirakawa, Matthew Barney, Nakamura Tetsuya, Manuel Ocampo, Miyamae Masaki, Akira, Junichiro Take, Nancy Burson, Makoto Aida, Jean-Michel Basquiat, KAORUKO, Richard Nonas, and much more... from doll-house TV gore to restroom portraiture.

Includes issue 4, 5, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 (1994—1997)
All Very Good copies, light cover wear.

File under: Mike Kelley Barbara Kruger Suehiro Maruo Richard Prince Jenny Holzer Kyoji Takahashi AKIRA Noritoshi Hirakawa Matthew Barney Nakamura Tetsuya Manuel Ocampo Junichiro Take Nancy Burson Makoto Aida Jean-Michel Basquiat Richard Nonas SDI nets / Tokyo Counterculture Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Sound / Music Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Sculpture / Installation Photography Japanese Photography Art Drawing

Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines
by Branden W. Joseph and Drew Sawyer

2024, English
Softcover, 448 pages, 27.2 x 20 cm
Published by Brooklyn Museum / Brooklyn Phaidon / London

$90.00 - Out of stock

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The first publication dedicated to artists' zines in North America, a revelatory exploration of an unexamined but thriving aesthetic practice

Copy Machine Manifestos captures the rich history of artists' zines as never before, placing them in the lineage of the visual arts and exploring their vibrant growth over the past five decades. Fully illustrated with hundreds of zine covers and interiors, alongside work in other media, such as painting, photography, film, video, and performance, the book also features brief biographies for more than 100 zine-makers including Beverly Buchanan, Mark Gonzales, G.B. Jones, Miranda July, Bruce LaBruce, Terence Koh, LTTR, Ari Marcopoulos, Mark Morrisroe, Raymond Pettibon, Brontez Purnell, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, and Kandis Williams. Accompanying a major exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, this expansive book, bound as a paperback with a separate jacket, focuses on zines from North America, celebrating how artists have harnessed the medium's essential role in community building and transforming material and conceptual approaches to making art across all media since 1970.

File under: Richard Kern Mark Morrisroe Beverly Buchanan Mark Gonzales G.B. Jones Miranda July Bruce LaBruce Terence Koh LTTR Ari Marcopoulos Raymond Pettibon Brontez Purnell Paul Mpagi Sepuya Kandis Williams Niagara Mike Kelley Destroy All Monsters Ed Templeton Barbara Ess Branden W. Joseph Drew Sawyer Brooklyn Museum / Brooklyn Phaidon / London Art Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Counterculture Photography Sound / Music Fetishism / BDSM LGBTQ+ Performance / Dance / Theater Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Film / Video Curatorial Drawing Drugs / Psychedelia Feminism Fiction / Poetry Graphic Design / Typography Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Poetry

Mike Kelley
Ghost and Spirit

2024, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 304 pages, 24.3 x 18.0 cm
Published by The Tate Gallery / London

$65.00 - Out of stock

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The first properly posthumous retrospective, this book highlights the significance of Kelley's influential four-decade career on the development of art since the 1970s

Mike Kelley (1954-2012) liked to play with how an artist appears, exists, and inhabits a role and how an artwork "communes" with a viewer. Central to his ambitious explorations of memory, history, and the future is his consideration of how one's individual subjectivity is shaped by familial and institutional power structures within society. Ghost and Spirit highlights the significant and prescient questions about the role of art, and of the artist, and about gender and class, in terms that stem from Kelley's own position as a white, heterosexual man in postmodern, capitalist America. Featuring a diverse range of voices, it explores the major works and themes of Kelley's career, while drawing attention to aspects of his practice associated with performance, activism, and collaboration, to emphasize his continual deflation of his own authority, and his willingness to invent and inhabit several identities. Covering over four decades of Kelley's work spanning performance, sculpture, video and installation, and articulating challenges to power, gender, class, and sexuality, this book is a pertinent presentation of the breadth, complexity, and significance of Kelley's influential practice.

File under: Mike Kelley Catherine Wood Fiontán Moran The Tate Gallery / London Art Sculpture / Installation Painting Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video

Beyond the Dream Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the Arts after Cage
by Branden W. Joseph

2008, English
Softcover, 489 pages, 15.3 x 22.8 cm
Published by Zone Books / New York

$58.00 - In stock -

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Tony Conrad is exemplary of the 1960s artist who remains inassimilable to canonic histories. Creator of the “structural” film, The Flicker, collaborator on Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures and Normal Love, follower of Henry Flynt’s radical anti-art, member of the Theatre of Eternal Music and the first incarnation of The Velvet Underground, and early associate of Mike Kelley, Tony Oursler, and Cindy Sherman, Conrad has significantly impacted cultural developments from minimalism to underground film, “concept art,” postmodern appropriation, and the most sophisticated rock and roll. Yet Beyond the Dream Syndicate does not claim Conrad as a major but under-recognized figure.

Rather, by drawing on Deleuzian notions of the “minor” and the Foucauldian problematization of authorship found in Conrad’s own artistic/musical project, Early Minimalism, it disperses him into an “author function.” Neither monograph nor social history, the book takes Conrad’s collaborative interactions as a guiding thread by which to investigate the contiguous networks and discursive interconnections amongst the arts of the time.

“A tour de force of both interpretative and historiographic acuity.”—Art Bulletin

File under: Jack Smith Henry Flynt Tony Conrad The Velvet Underground John Cage Tony Oursler Mike Kelley Cindy Sherman The Theatre of Eternal Music Branden W. Joseph Zone Books / New York Sound / Music Protest / Revolt Minimal Art Art Theory / Essay Fluxus Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Film / Video

Destroy All Monsters — Geisha This
Mike Kelley, Jim Shaw, Cary Loren, Niagara

1995, English
Softcover + 7" Flexi Disc (Sonosheet), unpaginated, 21 x 28 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Primary Information / New York

$400.00 - In stock -

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Rare very first (black and gold) 1995 edition, hand-assembled and limited to 800 copies!

Destroy All Monsters started out as an anti-rock band: four midwestern art students — Jim Shaw, Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, and Niagara — with a mission to subvert the airwaves. Between 1975 and 1979, they produced six issues of DAM Magazine, a barrage of Kelley's perverse cartoons, Shaw and Loren's wild Xeroxed collages, and shots of the band; Niagara did a lot of the cover designs, and everything was crudely printed on cheap paper. "The images that drove us were the strange combinations of film noir, monster movies, psychedelia, thrift-shop values, and the relentless anarchy of an over-stimulated pop culture", recalls Cary Loren. This compilation is the definitive DAM document: hundreds of drawings, photos, Xeroxed artwork, collages, reviews, profiles, and personal manifestos, many works unpublished and unseen before — plus a flexi-record bound into the book (first printing and first pressing of this 1975 recording).

A total of three editions of “Geisha This” were produced and all are out-of-print. Each version was printed in different colours, with a different metallic cover and hand collated in a different sequence, containing new and different contents.

This version (the very first edition), has a cover design by Niagara printed in GOLD metallic ink on BLACK cardboard cover stock. The entire first printing was 800 copies, strikingly printed with dozen’s of multicoloured inks (fluros, metallics), silk-screened and spray-painted pages, with many paper stocks, all hand-assembled, printed, designed and edited by Cary Loren, with artwork and texts by Mike Kelley, Jim Shaw, Loren and Niagara.

Very Good copy of the first edition in black, a stunning document, complete with the brand new Flexi Disc (Sonosheet) in its first pressing.

File under: Destroy All Monsters Jim Shaw Mike Kelley Cary Loren Niagara Primary Information / New York Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Art Sound / Music Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Painting Counterculture Drugs / Psychedelia

Mike Kelley
Catholic Tastes

1993, English
Softcover, 256 pages, 24 x 16.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Whitney Museum / New York Harry N. Abrams / New York

$300.00 - Out of stock

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Still, and will probably always be, the best book on Mike Kelley. First edition, now very collectible. This definitive survey was published in 1993 in conjunction with "Mike Kelley", a travelling exhibition held at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA; and Moderna Museet, Stockholm, throughout 1994. Mike Kelley, one of the leading Californian artists of the 1990s, was a proponent of abject or pathetic art, an anti-aesthetic, anti-heroic movement, which criticized social and artistic issues through banality and humour. Exploring the work of this great and controversial performance artist and sculptor at the mid-way point in his career, this dense book presents thirteen essays, plus an introduction, discussing Kelley's projects, performances, and the ideas and diverse influences that motivate his work - contemporary art, rock and roll, social commentary and pop culture. Profusely illustrated throughout in colour and black and white, with texts by Elizabeth Sussman, David Marsh, Richard Armstrong, Timothy Martin, Howard Singerman, Colin Gardner, Dennis Cooper & Casey McKinney, John Miller, Ralph Rugoff, Kim Gordon, Howard N. Fox, Diedrich Diederichsen, Jutta Koether, Martin Prinzhorn, Paul Schimmel, John G. Hanhardt. No less! Includes a bibliography and exhibition history. Catalogue designed by Lorraine Wild and ReVerb.

Highly recommended.

Very Good copy, tightly bound, no spine creases. Light cover edge wear.

File under: Mike Kelley Elizabeth Sussman David Marsh Richard Armstrong Timothy Martin Howard Singerman Colin Gardner Dennis Cooper & Casey McKinney John Miller Ralph Rugoff Kim Gordon Howard N. Fox Diedrich Diederichsen Jutta Koether Martin Prinzhorn Paul Schimmel John G. Hanhardt Whitney Museum / New York Harry N. Abrams / New York Art Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Painting Drawing Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Film / Video

The Uncanny
by Mike Kelley

1993, English
Softcover, 150 pages, 24 x 17 cm
1st UK Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Sonsbeek / Arnhem

$550.00 - Out of stock

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First 1993 edition of one of the great art books, by one of the great artists. This provocative, copiously illustrated catalogue by renowned American artist Mike Kelley is a meditation on Sigmund Freud's "Uncanny", and its relation to the grotesque in art and everyday life. Published to accompany the exhibition curated by Kelley as part of the "Sonsbeek 93" exhibition in Arnhem, The Netherlands, June 5 - September 26, 1993, Kelley presents (like a photo scrapbook) an arresting mix of modern and contemporary artists alongside bizarre figurative, prosthesis, animatronic, and mannequin-related imagery throughout history. Artists included : Hans Bellmer, Robert Gober, Tetsumi Kudo, Zoe Leonard, Paul McCarthy, Nayland Blake, John Miller, Bruce Nauman, Tony Oursler, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, Duane Hanson, Man Ray, Guillaume Bijl, Dennis Oppenheim, Edgar Degas, Piero Manzoni, Marcel Broodthaers, Goya, Nam June Paik, Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamp, Dorothea Lange, Thom Puckey, Charles Ray, Edward Kienholz, Martin Kippenberger, Laurie Simmons, Jeff Koons, Yayoi Kusama, Paul Thek, Mike Kelley himself, and many more. Includes Kelley's accompanying essay, "Playing with Dead Things". The exhibition took on mythical status and was re-staged in Liverpool in 2004. The Uncanny has become one of the most desired of Kelley's books.

Very Good copy with only light cover wear.

File under: Hans Bellmer Robert Gober Tetsumi Kudo Zoe Leonard Paul McCarthy Nayland Blake Duane Hanson Edward Kienholz Martin Kippenberger Jeff Koons John Miller Bruce Nauman Tony Oursler Cindy Sherman Kiki Smith Paul Thek Mike Kelley Laurie Simmons Guillaume Bijl Thom Puckey Dennis Oppenheim Marcel Broodthaers Marcel Duchamp Man Ray Dorothea Lange Yayoi Kusama Francisco Goya Edgar Degas Nam June Paik Andy Warhol Mike Kelley Sonsbeek / Arnhem Art Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Pop Art Surrealism Theory / Essay

Hysteric Fifteen — Destroy All Monsters
by Sue Rynski

2006, English
Hardcover (debossed faux leather bound + 7"), 26 x 23 cm
600 numbered copies,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Hysteric Glamour / Tokyo

$120.00 - In stock -

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Published in 2006 by fashion brand Hysteric Glamor in a numbered edition of 600 copies, bound in padded debossed faux leather hardcover with a 7" record, "the book is a monograph of my late 1970s photographs of my friends, the avant-garde rock group Destroy All Monsters."—Sue Rynski, Detroit photographer. Described by legendary critic Lester Bangs as "anti-rock", Destroy All Monsters was an influential Detroit rock band formed in 1973 by University of Michigan art students Mike Kelley, Jim Shaw, legendary femme fatale Niagara, and filmmaker Cary Loren, existing to 1985 with shifting personnel and sporadic performances since. Performing their first concert at a comic book convention in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on New Year's Eve of 1973, the group combined elements of punk, psych, metal and noise rock with a heavy dose of experimentation and performance art, influenced as much by ESP-Disk, Sun Ra and The Velvets, as monster movies and Futurism. The cult group earned a measure of notoriety through their coveted DAM Magazine, also due to members of The Stooges and MC5 joining the band, and Sonic Youth singer/guitarist Thurston Moore compiling a three compact disc set of the group's music in 1994.

"Born in 1954, year of the birth of rock and roll, I grew up immersed in the high energy music of my hometown Detroit. This loud, physical, emotional music took hold and became a part of me."—Sue Rynski

A stunning book published by Hysteric Glamor director Nobuhiko Kitamura, with editorial direction by : Osamu Wataya, Michitaka Ota (Sokyusha), and Koichi Hara. 7" includes the tracks "Rocking the Cradle" and "Little Boyfriend" by Destroy All Monsters.

Near Fine copy.

File under: Destroy All Monsters Sue Rynski Jim Shaw Mike Kelley Cary Loren Niagara Larry Miller Ben Miller Roger Miller Mike (Jett) Powers Ron Asheton Michael Davis The Stooges MC5 Hysteric Glamour / Tokyo Art Out-of-print / Rare Photography Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Painting Counterculture Drugs / Psychedelia Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Objects / Ephemera / A/V

Mike Kelley
Timeless Painting

2020, English
Hardcover, 200 pages, 26.7 x 33 cm
Published by Hauser & Wirth / Zurich

$120.00 - Out of stock

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Featuring paintings from series that span from 1994 through 2009, this volume traces Mike Kelley's (1954–2012) engagement with the medium through bodies of work including The Thirteen Seasons (Heavy on the Winter), a series of oval-shaped paintings on wood; Timeless Painting, which marked Kelley's distinct return to painting in colour, and which he described as "mannerist take-offs on Hans Hofmann's compositional theory of ‘push and pull'"; and the Horizontal Tracking Shots series.

File under: Mike Kelley Hauser & Wirth / Zurich Art Painting Sculpture / Installation

Parkett Vol. 31 (1992)
David Hammons / Mike Kelley issue (Candida Höfer insert)

1992, English / German
Softcover, 200 pages, 25.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Parkett / Zürich

$80.00 - Out of stock

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1992 issue of Parkett (Vol. 31), deluxe issue created in collaboration with artists David Hammons and Mike Kelley, lavishly illustrated with both artist's works alongside texts by with texts by Robert Farris Thompson, Iwona Blazwick & Emma Dexter, John Ffarris, Lynne Cooke, Louise Neri in conversation with David Hammons, Diedrich Diederichsen, Lane Relyea, Bernard Marcadé, Mike Kelley & Julie Sylvester talking about “Failure.” The Insert artist is Candida Höfer and the spine artist is Niele Toroni. Also in this issue: Vija Celmins by Sheena Wagstaff, Larry Clark, What is This? by Jim Lewis, Jean-Pierre Bordaz “Imi Knoebel, Isa Genzken, Gerhard Merz,” Claude Ritschard “Rémy Zaugg.” Imi Knoebel: Working With Success – Working With Unsucces by Rudolf Bumiller, Imi Knoebel and Grace Kelly, The High by Rainer Crone & David Moos, Imi Knoebel First Impressions by Lisa Liebmann, Sherrie Levine: The Transgressions of Sherrie Levine by Daniela Salvioni, Presence Withdrawn by Erich Franz, Looking After Sherrie Levine by Howard Singerman, Damien Hirst — Insert, Making Work and Turning Your Back on it : Bethan Huws by Liam Gillick, The Work of Art as the Ideal Center for Human Beings, Walter de Maria’s The 2000 Sculpture by Thomas Kellein, International Time Capsule Society, Les Infos du Paradis, Inside the White Cube, Cumulus from America by Ralph Rugoff, Cumulus from Europe by Robert Fleck, Talk o’ the Town by Jeanne Sliverthorn.

Founded in the early 1980s in Zurich, with an office also in New York City, Parkett was international art magazine that aimed to foster an open dialogue between the artistic communities of Europe and America, with the goal to actively and directly collaborate with important international artists whose oeuvre was explored in several essays by leading writers and critics in both German and English. By 2017, Parkett had published 100 volumes with some 180 monographs and over 1500 in-depth texts making it one of the most comprehensive libraries on contemporary art worldwide. Critics, curators, art historians, and other commentators join in the conversation contained within its pages. Many write on the collaborating artists; some write opinions under a variety of topic headings that recur issue to issue; others write on additional artists and ideas. The result is more of a curated event-between-covers than a typical art magazine with reviews and news items.

Average—Good copy with some marking and wear. Ex-sticker resudue to cover.

File under: David Hammons Mike Kelley Niele Toroni Liam Gillick Damien Hirst Imi Knoebel Larry Clark Sherrie Levine Vija Celmins Candida Höfer Walter de Maria Isa Genzken Rémy Zaugg Diedrich Diederichsen Lane Relyea Bernard Marcadé Julie Sylvester Thomas Kellein Hans Ulrich Obrist Sheena Wagstaff Robert Fleck Rudolf Bumiller Rainer Crone David Moos Lisa Liebmann Daniela Salvioni Erich Franz Howard Singerman Robert Farris Thompson Iwona Blazwick Emma Dexter John Ffarris Lynne Cooke Louise Neri Claude Ritschard Jean-Pierre Bordaz Kim Lewis Parkett / Zürich Periodicals Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Minimal Art Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Art Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Photography

Crossings – Kunst zum Hören und Sehen (Art to Hear and See)

1999, German
Softcover + CD, 230 pages, 20.5 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Kunsthalle Wien / Vienna

$30.00 - In stock -

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First edition w. CD, published in 1998 to accompany the exhibition Crossings – Art to Hear and See, Kunsthalle Wien, curated by Cathrin Pichler and Edek Bartz. "CROSSINGS" is about the meeting of music and visual arts. An encounter that was expressed in many facets and forms in the 20th century, featuring works by: Mario Airò, Richard Artschwager, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Joseph Beuys, Angela Bulloch, John Cage, Henning Christiansen, Martin Creed, Jeremy Deller, Stan Douglas, Daniel Egg, Angus Fairhurst, Jochen Gerz, Douglas Gordon, Franz Graf, Dan Graham, Henrik Hakansson, Russel Haswell, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Dick Higgins, Gary Hill, Noritoshi Hirakawa, Arto Lindsay, Stephan von Huene, Lee Jaffe, Mike Kelley, Jon Kessler, Milan Knízák, Bernhard Leitner, Hans-Peter Litscher, Christian Marclay, Charles Long, Alvin Lucier, Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid, Bruce Nauman, Max Neuhaus, Flora Neuwirth with Olga Neuwirth & NICJOB, Yoko Ono, Albert Oehlen, Nam June Paik, Paul Panhuysen, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Stephen Prina, Alan Rath, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Sarkís, Christoph Steinbrener, Wolfgang Stengel, Ned Sublette, Lawrence Weiner, Peter Weibel.

Very Good with audio CD featuring many of the artists above.

File under: Mario Airò Jean-Michel Basquiat Richard Artschwager Joseph Beuys Angela Bulloch John Cage Henning Christiansen Martin Creed Jeremy Deller Stan Douglas Daniel Egg Angus Fairhurst Jochen Gerz Douglas Gordon Franz Graf Dan Graham Henrik Hakansson Russel Haswell Carl Michael von Hausswolff Dick Higgins Gary Hill Noritoshi Hirakawa Arto Lindsay Stephan von Huene Lee Jaffe Mike Kelley Jon Kessler Milan Knížák Sarkis Bernhard Leitner Hans-Peter Litscher Christian Marclay Charles Long Alvin Lucier Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid Bruce Nauman Max Neuhaus Flora Neuwirth with Olga Neuwirth & NICJOB Yoko Ono Albert Oehlen Nam June Paik Paul Panhuysen Michelangelo Pistoletto Stephen Prina Alan Rath Gerwald Rockenschaub Christoph Steinbrener Wolfgang Stengel Ned Sublette Lawrence Weiner Peter Weibel Cathrin Pichler Edek Bartz Kunsthalle Wien / Vienna Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Minimal Art Fluxus Art Sound / Music

Mike Kelley
Foul Perfection : Essays and Criticism

2003, English
Softcover, 258 pages, 20.3 x 22.5 cm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

$65.00 - Out of stock

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Critical writings and commentary by the Los Angeles based artist Mike Kelley.

The work of artist Mike Kelley (b. 1954) embraces performance, installation, drawing, painting, video, and sculpture. Drawing distinctively on high art and vernacular traditions, including historical research, popular culture, and psychology, Kelley came to prominence in the 1980s with a series of sculptures composed of craft materials. His recent work offers dialogues with architecture and with repressed memory syndrome, and a sustained inquiry into his own aesthetic and social history. The subjects on which Kelley has written are as varied as his artistic media. They include the work of fellow artists, sound, caricature, the uncanny, UFOlogy, and gender-bending.

This book offers a diverse collection of Kelley's writings from the last twenty-five years. It contains major critical texts on art, film, and the wider culture, including his piece on the aesthetic he calls "urban Gothic." It also contains essays, mostly commissioned for exhibition catalogs and journals, on the artists and groups David Askevold, OEyvind Fahlstroem, Douglas Huebler, John Miller, Survival Research Laboratories, and Paul Thek, among others. Kelley's voices are passionate, analytic, and ironic, and his critical intelligence is leavened with touches of whimsy.

“This collection proves that [Kelley] has not only helped write history but has had an effect on it.” — Diedrich Diederichsen, Artforum

File under: David Askevold Douglas Huebler John Miller Mike Kelley Paul Thek Survival Research Laboratories Divine Öyvind Fahlström John C. Welchman Mike Kelley The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Film / Video Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Theory / Essay

Mike Kelley
Materialist Aesthetics and Memory Illusions

2021, English
Softcover, 244 pages, 13 x 20 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Mousse / Milan

$90.00 - Out of stock

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Now out-of-print, Mike Kelley — Materialist Aesthetics and Memory Illusions is a critical appraisal of Mike Kelley’s politics of culture as expressed in his visual art and writings. An essay by Laura López Paniagua, with an introduction by John Miller.

American artist Mike Kelley (1954–2012) was the mastermind behind some of the most bizarre and instantly recognizable artistic projects of the 1990s. Dedicated as he was to visual art, Kelley was also an insightful theorist who wrote prolifically about his own creations as well as the historical context in which he worked. His writing reveals a matrix of deeply felt theories regarding the aesthetics of the 1980s, ’90s and 2000s, and his concern with victim culture and repressed memory syndrome.

This book presents a new perspective on the life and work of the artist, assessing his personal philosophy via art as well as writing. Art historian Laura López Paniagua places Kelley’s work in conversation with the theories of thinkers such as Georges Bataille, Walter Benjamin, Pierre Bourdieu, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Through Paniagua’s transdisciplinary approach, Kelley’s oeuvre emerges as a stance based in materialist aesthetics.

As New.

File under: Mike Kelley John Miller Laura López Paniagua Mousse / Milan Art Sculpture / Installation Painting Sound / Music Film / Video Theory / Essay

 Too Negative No. 10
July 1997

1997, Japanese
Softocver, 208 pages, 21 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tom Shobo / Japan

$130.00 - Out of stock

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 Too Negative No. 10 July 1997. Now rare and highly collectible, Too Negative, the "Forbidden Picture Book", was a visceral and visually explosive glossy cult arts magazine that reflected the gory-depraved-beyond salvation-bad taste expressions visible in international subculture at the height of 1990s underground publishing, a time when art was pushing the limits of taste and morality. Edited solely by legendary Japanese publisher and gallery owner Kotaro Kobayashi and published by Tom Publication Inc. between 1994—2000, each thick, glossy volume takes on the aesthetics of a vibrant fashion magazine in the great Japanese "mook" format (the magazine book) packed cover to cover with themes of Eros and Thanatos, such as fetishism, erotica, medical/autopsy photography, death journalism, Japanese bondage, grotesque and neo-surrealist art, crime scene photography, tattooing/irezumi, piercing, and all things of the mondo, macabre, bizarro realm. Frequent collaborators and featured artists were Kiyotaka Tsurisaki, Joel-Peter Witkin, Trevor Brown, Kiyoshi Ikejiri, to name a few. With a Japanese publishing lineage that may be found in earlier bounding-pushing periodicals such as the 1920s erotic grotesque magazine Hentai Shiriou (Pervert Documents), Tasuhiko Shibusawa’s incredible 1960s avant-garde journal Le Sang Et La Rose, or Fiction Inc’s SALE2 journal published from 1980—mid 1990s, Too Negative, and affiliated periodicals such as ORG, Spiral, Schizo, etc. took their subjects to another level of extremism, even by Japanese standards.

Not for the faint hearted.

This issue,  Too Negative No. 10 July 1997, focuses around the special anniversary art galley that runs throughout the issue—" Welcome to the Feast of Immorality"—an almost cover-to-cover feature of artworks and photo documents spurred on by the question to editor Kotaro Kobayashi, "where lies the boundary between the grotesque and art", featuring the art of Andres Serrano, Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, Cindy Sherman, Joel-Peter Witkin, Joe Coleman, and so many more, a feature gallery of Japanese gore illustrator Shin Taga, pre-execution photographic portraits in Vietnam, "torture in the Edo period" with reference to Yoshihiko Sasama and featuring the ukiyo-e shunga of Yoshikazu Hayashi, vintage corpse/death photography, medical photography, lots of erotica, grotesque artworks, collage, bady manipulation, plus plus plus.  

Very Good copy.

File under: Kotaro Kobayashi Joel Peter Witkin Andres Serrano Mike Kelley Paul McCarthy Cindy Sherman Joe Coleman Shin Taga Yoshikazu Hayashi Kiyotaka Tsurisaki Trevor Brown Kiyoshi Ikejiri Tom Shobo / Japan Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Eros Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Counterculture Fetishism / BDSM Photography Japanese Photography Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Film / Video Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Art

Clinic of Phantasms : Writings 1994-2002
by Giovanni Intra

2023, English
Softcover, 224 Pages, 23.5 x 18 cm
Published by Semiotext(e) / Los Angeles

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Edited by Robert Leonard
Foreword by Chris Kraus

Artist, gallerist, and writer Giovanni Intra's inventive approach to art writing provides a guide to the New Zealand and Los Angeles art scenes of his era.

Everything you read about Los Angeles is true. The city adapts to its own mythology. It's such a ludicrously discussed place that I always feel slightly idiotic in my attempts to produce a serious discourse about it. Raves in the desert, however, are superb. And ecstasy is a great drug. Also, if you hadn't heard, music sounds better when you're high. And the desert surrounding LA is wondrous.—Giovanni Intra, "LA Politics"

Before his early death in 2002, Giovanni Intra enjoyed a rollercoaster ride through the art world. He was an artist and gallerist-cofounding two legendary galleries, the artist-run space Teststrip in Auckland and China Art Objects Galleries in Los Angeles-as well as a writer. Clinic of Phantasms provides a guide to the New Zealand and Los Angeles art scenes of the day, including texts on key artists from New Zealand (John Hurrell, Fiona Pardington, Denise Kum, Ava Seymour, Ann Shelton, Gavin Hipkins, Daniel Malone, and Slave Pianos) and Los Angeles (Charles Ray, Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, Dave Muller, Evan Holloway, John McCracken, and Julia Scher).

What makes Intra's work of enduring significance is his inventive approach to art writing, which was informed by his interest in punk, surrealism, and Daniel Paul Schreber, the famous case study in paranoia and hallucination. This volume features writing on Intra from Chris Kraus and Mark von Schlegell, Andrew Berardini, Roberta Smith, Tessa Laird, Will Bradley, Joel Mesler, and Robert Leonard.

"He emerged the radically elegant punk, whip-crack smart and charming as hell . . . The hilarious honesty and sharp intelligence of Giovanni was to me a breeze, a knife, a wonder."—Andrew Berardini, "Everything You Read About Giovanni Intra is True"

Published by Bouncy Castle and Semiotext(e).

File under: John Hurrell Fiona Pardington Denise Kum Ava Seymour Ann Shelton Gavin Hipkins Daniel Malone Slave Pianos Charles Ray Mike Kelley Paul McCarthy Dave Muller Evan Holloway John McCracken Julia Scher Daniel Paul Schreber Chris Kraus Mark von Schlegell Andrew Berardini Roberta Smith Tessa Laird Will Bradley Joel Mesler Robert Leonard Giovanni Intra Semiotext(e) / Los Angeles Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Theory / Essay Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Film / Video Photography

Mike Kelley
99.9998% Remaining

2012, English
Softcover, 96 pages, 21.8 x 28.7 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

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Rare English edition of this 1992 monograph on American artist Mike Kelley.

Harald Falckenberg, one of the most important collectors of Mike Kelley's works, gives in his essay a detailed overview over the various periods in the development of this artist. In detail Falckenberg investigates the influences of the art-market on Kelley's production and the reasons for the suicide of the artist in January, 2012. Beside documentary photographs of important exhibitions of Mike Kelley between 1982 and 2011, and reproductions of seminal works from various periods the book offers numerous stills from the legendary videos by and/or with Mike Kelley, like Banana Man (1983), Heidi (1992) in collaboration with Paul McCarthy, EVOL (1984) by Tony Oursler, Sir Drone (1989) by Raymond Pettibon.

File under: Mike Kelley Raymond Pettibon Tony Oursler Paul McCarthy Harald Falckenberg Walther König / Köln Art Performance / Dance / Theater Painting Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fifth Biennale of Sydney 1984
Private Symbol : Social Metaphor

1984, English
Softcover, 250 pages, 21 x 30 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Biennale of Sydney / Sydney

$70.00 - Out of stock

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Catalogue published on the occasion of the Fifth Biennale of Sydney 1984, 11 April – 17 June 1984. Under the artistic direction of Leon Paroissien the 1984 Biennale was titled "Private Symbol: Social Mataphor" and featured the work of Davida Allen, Armando, Art & Language, Terry Atkinson, Breda Beban, Joseph Beuys, Tony Bevan, Annette Bezor, Francois Boisrond, Peter Booth, Tomasz Ciecierski, Tony Cragg, Juan Davila, Antonio Dias Gonzalo Diaz, Eugenio Dittborn, Felix Droese, Marlene Dumas, Edward Dwurnik Mimmo Germana, Gilbert & George, Mike Glier, Hans Haacke, Jenny Holzer, Ralph Hotere, Jorg lmmendorff, Berit Jensen, Birgit Jürgenssen, Mike Kelley, Peter Kennedy, Anselm Kiefer, Karen Knorr, Barbara Kruger, Robert Longo, Colin McCahon, Syoko Maemoto, Sandra Meigs, Cildo Meireles, Gianni Melotti, Marisa Merz, Annette Messager, Olaf Metzel, Sara Modiano, Michael Mulcahy, Josef Felix Müller, Christa Näher, Annick Nozati, Anna Oppermann, Andy Patton, A.R. Penck, Robert Randall & Frank Bendinelli, Jytte Rex, Georges Rousse, Klaudia Schifferle, Hubert Schmalix, Cindy Sherman, Vincent Tangredi, Peter Taylor, Dragoljub Raéa Todosijevié, Vicki Varvaressos, Jenny Watson, Michiko Yano, Eva Man-Wah Yuen
This catalogue includes colour examples of the work of all participating artists alongside texts by Leon Paroissien, Annelie Pohlen, Carter Ratcliff, Jean-Louis Pradel, Leon Paroissien.

Condition: Good – light shelf wear and slight tanning to book with age, good copy otherwise) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: A.R. Penck Andy Patton Anna Oppermann Annette Bezor Annette Messager Annick Nozati Anselm Kiefer Armando Art & Language Barbara Kruger Berit Jensen Birgit Jürgenssen Breda Beban Cildo Meireles Cindy Sherman Colin McCahon Davida Allen Dragoljub Raéa Todosijevié Edward Dwurnik Eugenio Dittborn Eva Man-Wah Yuen Felix Droese Francois Boisrond Frank Bendinelli Georges Rousse Gianni Melotti Hans Haacke Hubert Schmalix Jenny Holzer Jenny Watson Jörg Immendorff Josef Felix Müller Joseph Beuys Juan Davila Jytte Rex Karen Knorr Klaudia Schifferle Marisa Merz Marlene Dumas Michael Mulcahy Michiko Yano Mike Glier Mike Kelley Mimmo Germana Olaf Metzel Peter Booth Peter Kennedy Peter Taylor Ralph Hotere Robert Longo Robert Randall Sandra Meigs Sara Modiano Syoko Maemoto Terry Atkinson Tomasz Ciecierski Tony Bevan Tony Cragg Vicki Varvaressos Vincent Tangredi Gilbert & George Christa Näher Annelie Pohlen Carter Ratcliff Jean-Louis Pradel Leon Paroissien Biennale of Sydney / Sydney Art Australian Art Conceptual Art Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Photography Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Group Shows / Collections Curatorial

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

The BiNational, Amerikanische Kunst der späten 80er Jahre / Deutsche Kunst der späten 80er Jahre (2 Vol.)
The BiNational, American Art of the Late 80s / German Art of the Late 80s (2 Vol.)

1988, English / German
Hardcover (w. dust jacket in slipcase) / Softcover, 320 + 256 pages, 23 x 28 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by DuMont / Köln

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Heavy bi-lingual 2 volume catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition "The BiNational, American Art of the Late 80s / German Art of the Late 80s" that traveled between the Institute of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Sept 23 — Nov 27, 1988 and Städtische Kunsthalle, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf 10 Dec 1988 — 22 Jan, 1989. A major survey of contemporary art from both nations, the two catalogues (one for the American artists, the other for the German) are heavily illustrated throughout in colour and b/w with examples of all artists work, alongside texts in English and German by Trevor Fairbrother, David Joselit, and Elizabeth Sussman, with artist interviews, biographies and much more.

Includes Christopher Wool, Constance DeJong, Robert Gober, Mike Kelley, Georg Herold, Rosemarie Trockel, Werner Büttner, Peter Halley, Andreas Slominski, Tishan Hsu, Jeff Koons, Thomas Ruff, Imi Knoebel, Annette Lemieux, Jorg Immendarff, David McDermott and Peter McGough, Tony Oursler, Stephen Prina, Richard Prince, Tim Rollins + K.O.S., Albert Oehlen, Lorna Simpson, Haim Steinbach, Katherina Fritsch, Philip Taaffe, James Welling, and many more.

Please note: German artist volume in Hardcover (w. dust jacket and publisher's slipcase); American volume in softcover. Both Good-Very Good copies, only light wear, age.

File under: Ti Shan Hsu Tishan Hsu Mike Kelley Christopher Wool Constance DeJong Robert Gober Georg Herold Rosemarie Trockel Werner Büttner Peter Halley Andreas Slominski Jeff Koons Thomas Ruff Imi Knoebel Annette Lemieux Jorg Immendarff David McDermott and Peter McGough Tony Oursler Stephen Prina Richard Prince Tim Rollins + K.O.S. Albert Oehlen Lorna Simpson Haim Steinbach Katherina Fritsch Philip Taaffe James Welling Trevor Fairbrother David Joselit Elizabeth Sussman DuMont / Köln Sculpture / Installation Painting Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Art Conceptual Art

THE CUTE (WHITECHAPEL DOCUMENTS OF CONTEMPORARY ART series)
Edited by Sianne Ngai

2022, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 20.9 x 15 cm
Published by Whitechapel / London

$40.00 - Out of stock

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The Cute tracks the astonishing impact of a single aesthetic category on post-war and contemporary art, and on the vast range of cultural practices and discourses on which artists draw. From robots and cat videos to ice cream socials, The Cute explores the ramifications of an aesthetic 'of' or 'about' minorness - or what is perceived to be diminutive, subordinate, and above all, unthreatening - on the shifting forms and contents of art today. This anthology is the first of its kind to show how contemporary artists have worked on and transformed the cute, and in ways that not only complexify its meaning, but reshape their own artistic practices.

Artists surveyed include Peggy Ahwesh, Cosima Von Bonin, Nayland Blake, Paul Chan, Henry Darger, Adrian Howells, Juliana Huxtable, Larry Johnson, Mike Kelley, Dean Kenning, Wyndham Lewis, Jeff Koons, Sean-Kierre Lyons, Mammalian Diving Reflex, Tala Madani, Annette Messager, Mariko Mori, Charlemagne Palestine, Mika Rottenberg, Allen Ruppersberg, Jack Smith, Carolee Schneeman, Kara Walker, Andy Warhol, Yoshitomo Nara

Writers include Sasha Archibald, Roland Barthes, Leigh Claire La Berge, Ian Bogost, Lauren Berlant, Jennifer Doyle, Lee Edelman, Stephen Jay Gould, Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy, Bridget Minamore, Juliane Rebentisch, Frances Richard, John Roberts, Friedrich Schiller, Peter Schjeldahl, Kanako Shiokawa

is the author of Ugly Feelings (Harvard, 2005), Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting (Harvard, 2012), and Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form (Belknap/Harvard, 2020). She is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English at the University of Chicago.

File under: Peggy Ahwesh Cosima Von Bonin Nayland Blake Paul Chan Henry Darger Adrian Howells Juliana Huxtable Larry Johnson Mike Kelley Dean Kenning Wyndham Lewis Jeff Koons Sean-Kierre Lyons Mammalian Diving Reflex Tala Madani Annette Messager Mariko Mori Charlemagne Palestine Mika Rottenberg Allen Ruppersberg Jack Smith Carolee Schneeman Kara Walker Andy Warhol Yoshitomo Nara Sasha Archibald Roland Barthes Leigh Claire La Berge Ian Bogost Lauren Berlant Jennifer Doyle Lee Edelman Stephen Jay Gould Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy Bridget Minamore Juliane Rebentisch Frances Richard John Roberts Friedrich Schiller Peter Schjeldahl Kanako Shiokawa Whitechapel / London Painting Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay Art Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic

documenta X
The Book: Politics Poetics

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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