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

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

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

$120.00 - In stock -

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

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

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

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

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

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

Parkett Vol. 19 (1989)
Martin Kippenberger / Jeff Koons issue

1989, English / German
Softcover, 200 pages, 25.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Parkett / Zürich

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1989 issue of Parkett (Vol. 19), deluxe issue created in collaboration with artists Martin Kippenberger and Jeff Koons, lavishly illustrated with both artist's works alongside texts by with texts by Klaus Kertess, Burke & Hare, Jean-Christophe Ammann, Glenn O’Brien, Diedrich Diederichsen, Patrick Frey, Martin Prinzhorn, Bice Curiger. Anselm Stalder designed the insert. Also in this issue: exclusive Gerhard Richter interview, Annemarie Hürlimann “In Between,” Hanna Humeltenberg “The Magic of Reality,” on Thomas Ruff, Felix Philipp Ingold “The Speaking Image in Rémy Zaugg’s work.” Iwona Blazwick and Robert Gober are the authors of the Cumulus from Europe and America, in the Balkon Parkett celebrates its fifth anniversary.

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.

File under: Martin Kippenberger Jeff Koons Robert Gober Rémy Zaugg Gerhard Richter Thomas Ruff Klaus Kertess Glenn O'Brien Jean-Christophe Ammann Bice Curiger Diedrich Diederichsen Patrick Frey Martin Prinzhorn Anselm Stalder Felix Philipp Ingold Iwona Blazwick Parkett / Zürich Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Pop Art Conceptual Art Photography

Unfinished
Kelly Baum, Andrea Bayer, and Sheena Wagstaff

2016, English
Hardcover, 336 pages, 27 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art / New York

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This groundbreaking, award-winning book, long out-of-print, presents a multidisciplinary analysis that illuminates the making, meaning, and reception of the unfinished in art, from the Renaissance to the present day.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible, at The Met, New York, March18—September 4, 2016. Edited by Kelly Baum, Andrea Bayer, and Sheena Wagstaff with further essays by Carmen C. Bambach, Thomas Beard, David Bomford, David Blayney Brown, Nicholas Cullinan, Michael Gallagher, Asher Ethan Miller, Nadine M. Orenstein, Diana Widmaier Picasso, Susan Stewart, and Nico Van Hout.

This exhibition addresses a subject critical to artistic practice: the question of when a work of art is finished. Beginning with the Renaissance masters, this scholarly and innovative exhibition examines the term "unfinished" in its broadest possible sense, including works left incomplete by their makers, which often give insight into the process of their creation, but also those that partake of a non finito—intentionally unfinished—aesthetic that embraces the unresolved and open-ended. Unfinished features more than 200 works, created in a variety of media, by artists ranging from Leonardo, Titian, Rembrandt, Turner, and Cezanne to Picasso, Warhol, Twombly, Freud, Richter, and Nauman. Essays and case studies by major contemporary scholars address this key concept from the perspective of both the creator and the viewer, probing the impact that this long artistic trajectory which can be traced back to the first century has had on modern and contemporary art. The book explores the degrees to which instances of incompleteness were accidental or intentional, experimental or conceptual. Also included are illuminating interviews with contemporary artists, including Tuymans, Celmins, and Marden, and parallel considerations of the unfinished in literature and film. The result is a multidisciplinary approach and thought-provoking analysis that provide valuable insight into the making, meaning, and critical reception of the unfinished in art.

Very Good copy, only light wear/marks to boards.

File under: Rembrandt J. M. W. Turner Paul Cézanne Brice Marden Robert Gober Hanne Darboven Sol LeWitt Henry Fuseli James Abbott McNeill Whistler Jasper Johns Leonardo da Vinci Michelangelo Nicolas Poussin Edvard Munch Vija Celmins Felix González-Torres Cady Noland Robert Smithson Elizabeth Peyton Maria Lassnig Gustave Courbet Édouard Manet Alice Neel Alberto Giacometti Edgar Degas Janine Antoni Lygia Clark Jackson Pollock Robert Rauschenberg Titian Diego Velázquez Camille Corot Théodore Géricault Jacques-Louis David Piet Mondrian Kiki Picasso Piero Manzoni Barnett Newman Robert Morris Yayoi Kusama Kenneth Anger Sergei Eisenstein Hollis Frampton Helio Oiticica Hélio Oiticica Kerry James Marshall George Brecht Henri Matisse Vincent van Gogh Alina Szapocznikow Auguste Rodin Bruce Nauman Andy Warhol Hans Richter Rebecca Warren Luc Tuymans Marlene Dumas Honoré Daumier Kelly Baum Andrea Bayer and Sheena Wagstaff Carmen C. Bambach Thomas Beard David Bomford David Blayney Brown Nicholas Cullinan Michael Gallagher Asher Ethan Miller Nadine M. Orenstein Diana Widmaier Picasso Susan Stewart Nico Van Hout The Metropolitan Museum of Art / New York Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Painting Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Art Sculpture / Installation Film / Video

Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield
By Cynthia Burlingham and Robert Gober

2010, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 176 pages, 23.5 x 27.3 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Hammer / Los Angeles Prestel / Munich

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As New copy of this major hardcover catalogue on the work of Charles Burchfield, now out-of-print.

Although he lived next door to Niagara Falls, artist Charles Burchfield (1893–1967) chose to focus his nature-based art on the ground beneath his feet. Curated by artist Robert Gober, this exhibition features over one hundred major watercolors, drawings, oils on canvas, sketches, notebooks, journals, and doodles by this visionary American artist. Acclaimed by critics and known to a broad public audience during his lifetime, Burchfield is curiously under-appreciated today. Working almost exclusively in watercolor, Burchfield’s primary subject was landscape, often focusing on his immediate surroundings: his garden, the views from his windows, snow turning to slush, the sounds of insects and bells and vibrating telephone lines, deep ravines, sudden atmospheric changes, the experience of entering a forest at dusk, to name but a few. He often imbued these subjects with highly expressionistic light, creating at times a clear-eyed depiction of the world and, at other times, a unique mystical and visionary experience of nature.

The book includes drawings from his 1917 sketchbook, Conventions for Abstract Thoughts; watercolours from 1916–18 that were the focus of the first one-person exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, Germany, in 1930; camouflage designs from his tour in the army and wallpaper designs from the 1920s; watercolors from the 1940s showing the artist’s unique technique of expanding and reworking earlier works by pasting large strips of paper around them to dramatically increase their size; and finally Burchfield’s large, transcendental watercolours from the 1950s and 1960s.

Heat Waves in a Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield was organized by the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, in collaboration with the Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Buffalo, New York.

Edited by Cynthia Burlingham and Robert Gober, with contributions by Dave Hickey, Tullis Johnson, and Nancy Weekly.

As New copy, now out-of-print.

File under: Charles Burchfield Robert Gober Cynthia Burlingham Robert Gober Dave Hickey Tullis Johnson Nancy Weekly Hammer / Los Angeles Prestel / Munich Painting Out-of-print / Rare Drawing Art

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

$69.00 - Out of stock

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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

$70.00 - Out of stock

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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

STATUS OF SCULPTURE

1990, English / French
Softcover, 128 pages, 20.7 x 30.7 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Espace Lyonnais d'art Contemporain / Lyon

$80.00 - Out of stock

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Scarce catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition Status of Sculpture, curated by Bernard Brunon at Espace Lyonnais d’art Contemporain, Lyon, 1990. The exhibition featured the work of ten American artists: Robert Gober, Tishan Hsu, Laurie Parsons, Jon Kessler, Patty Martori, Cady Noland, Jennifer Bolande, Nancy Shaver, Christian Marclay, and Dustin Shuler. Profusely illustrated throughout with many reproductions of each artist's work in colour and b/w, accompanied by biographies, catalogue of exhibited works, and opening essay by Bernard Brunon.

Very Good copy.

File under: Jennifer Bolande Robert Gober Tishan Hsu Jon Kessler Christian Marclay Patty Martori Cady Noland Laurie Parsons Nancy Shaver Dustin Shuler Espace Lyonnais d'art Contemporain / Lyon Art Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation

Robert Gober
Sculptures and Installations 1979-2007

2007, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 544 pages, 30.5 x 25.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Steidl / Göttingen Schaulager / Basel

$420.00 - Out of stock

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The monumental, and very rare catalogue raisonné of American artist Robert Gober's (b. 1954) sculptures and installations, published on the occasion of the retrospective exhibition "Robert Gober. Work 1976-2007" at Schaulager, Basel by the great Steidl publishing house with Schaulager. At 544 pages, this incredible, handsomely designed hardcover book catalogues Gober's work as he developed an iconography once beautifully described as 'The Poetics of the Drain'. It charts his journey through his heart breaking reaction to the emergence of AIDs in the New York community, whilst grappling with issues around childhood, domesticity, sexuality, victimization and religion, relative to the disenfranchised and spurned, melding the human body with the drain. The book firmly places him in the forefront of his generation of artists.

Lavishly illustrated with approximately 250 works, all of which are reproduced in large format along with behind the scenes production/studio photography and comprehensive descriptions complemented by the artist's own commentary on individual works, as well as technical information on their manufacture. With an introductory essay by Elisabeth Sussman, curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, this volume remains the most exhaustive and revealing volume on Gober's oeuvre.

A highly sought after book, especially in the more collectible English edition.
As New copy, still sealed.

File under: Robert Gober Theodora Vische Elisabeth Sussman Steidl / Göttingen Schaulager / Basel Art Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare

Robert Gober
The Heart Is Not a Metaphor

2014, English
Hardcover (clothbound w. dust jacket), 272 pages, 25.5 x 17.3 cm
Published by D.A.P. / New York MoMA / New York

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Introduction by Ann Temkin. Essay by Hilton Als. Chronology by Claudia Carson, Paulina Pabocha with Robert Gober. Afterword by Christian Scheidemann.

"Untitled" (1991) with "Forest" (1991) in background are reproduced from "Robert Gober: The Heart Is Not a Metaphor".Robert Gober rose to prominence in the mid-1980s and was quickly acknowledged as one of the most significant artists of his generation. Early in his career, he made deceptively simple sculptures of everyday objects--beginning with sinks and moving on to domestic furniture such as playpens, beds and doors. In the 1990s, his practice evolved from single works to theatrical room-sized environments. In all of his work, Gober's formal intelligence is never separate from a penetrating reading of the socio-political context of his time. His objects and installations are among the most psychologically charged artworks of the late twentieth century, reflecting the artist's sustained concerns with issues of social justice, freedom and tolerance. Published in conjunction with the first large-scale survey of the artist's career to take place in the United States, this publication presents his works in all media, including individual sculptures and immersive sculptural environments, as well as a distinctive selection of drawings, prints and photographs. Prepared in close collaboration with the artist, it traces the development of a remarkable body of work, highlighting themes and motifs that emerged in the early 1980s and continue to inform Gober's work today. An essay by Hilton Als is complemented by an in-depth chronology featuring a rich selection of images from the artist's archives, including never-before-published photographs of works in progress.

Robert Gober was born in 1954 in Wallingford, Connecticut. He has had numerous one-person exhibitions, most notably at the Dia Center for the Arts, New York; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and Schaulager, Basel. In 2001, he represented the United States at the 49th Venice Biennale. Gober's curatorial projects have been shown at The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; The Menil Collection, Houston; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. He lives and works in New York.

Ann Temkin is an American art curator, and currently the Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Hilton Als is an American writer and theater critic who writes for The New Yorker.

Claudia Carson is archivist and registrar to Robert Gober.

Paulina Pabocha is Assistant Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art.

Christian Scheidemann is the Senior Conservator and President of Contemporary Conservation Ltd.

File under: Robert Gober Robert Gober Ann Temkin Hilton Als Claudia Carson Paulina Pabocha Christian Scheidemann D.A.P. / New York MoMA / New York Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay Art Painting Drawing

Bad New Days : Art, Criticism, Emergency
by Hal Foster

2017, English
Softcover, 208 pages, 14.2 x 21.3 cm
Published by Verso / London

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One of the world’s leading art theorists dissects a quarter century of artistic practice.

Bad New Days examines the evolution of art and criticism in Western Europe and North America over the last twenty-five years, exploring their dynamic relation to the general condition of emergency instilled by neoliberalism and the war on terror.

Considering the work of artists such as Thomas Hirschhorn, Tacita Dean, and Isa Genzken, and the writing of thinkers like Jacques Rancière, Bruno Latour, and Giorgio Agamben, Hal Foster shows the ways in which art has anticipated this condition, at times resisting the collapse of the social contract or gesturing toward its repair; at other times burlesquing it.

Against the claim that art making has become so heterogeneous as to defy historical analysis, Foster argues that the critic must still articulate a clear account of the contemporary in all its complexity. To that end, he offers several paradigms for the art of recent years, which he terms “abject,” “archival,” “mimetic,” and “precarious.”

File under: Isa Genzken Robert Gober Thomas Hirschhorn Tacita Dean Hal Foster Jacques Rancière Bruno Latour Giorgio Agamben Verso / London Art Theory / Essay Sculpture / Installation

Forrest Bess
Seeing Things Invisible

2013, English
Hardcover, 112 pages, 25 x 28 cm
Published by Yale University Press / New Haven

$96.00 - Out of stock

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Out of print.

The eccentric visionary artist Forrest Bess (1911-1977) spent most of his life on the Texas coast working as a commercial fisherman. In his spare time, however, he painted prolifically, creating an extraordinary body of work rich with enigmatic symbolism. Bess experienced hallucinations that both frightened and intrigued him, and he incorporated images from these visions into small-scale abstract paintings starting in the mid-1940s. His canvases attracted an underground following, and between 1949 and 1967, Betty Parsons organized six solo exhibitions of Bess's work at her prominent New York City gallery. Since then, the art world has periodically rediscovered his work, most recently through a 2012 Whitney Biennial installation by American sculptor Robert Gober, which further exposed Bess's psychological, medical, and religious theories. Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible is the artist's first museum retrospective with catalogue in the United States and offers a fresh look at Bess's work and a better understanding of this curious and complicated artist.

File under: Forrest Bess Robert Gober Clare Elliott Robert Gober Yale University Press / New Haven Art Painting Out-of-print / Rare Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic

Einleuchten: Will, Vorstel und Simul in HH.
Harald Szeemann

1989, German
Softcover, 289 pages, 32 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Christians / Hamburg

$48.00 - Out of stock

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Large catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition "Einleuchten: Will, Vorstel und Simul in HH." curated by Harald Szeemann, 11 November 1989 to 18 February 1990, Hamburg.

Profusely illustrated in full-colour and b&w with biographies on all exhibiting artists, alongside texts by Harald Szeemann, Heinz Liesbrock, Christoph Schenker, and Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen

Artists include : Carl Andre, Giovanni Anselme, Donald Baechler, Georg Baselitz, Joseph Beuys, Christian Botanski, Daniel Buren, Lawrence Carroll, Hanne Darboven, Thierry De Gordier, David Deutsch, Martin Disler, Jiri Georg Dokoupil, Etienne-Martin, Dan Flavin, Günther Förg, Isa Genzken, Robert Gober, Thomas Grünleid, Tishan Hsu, Donald Judd, On Kawara, Ellsworth Kelly, Harald Klingelhöller, Wollgang Laib, Cary S. Leibowitz, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Ingeborg Lüscher, Gerhard Merz, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Reinhard Mucha, Bruce Nauman, Max Neuhaus, Cady Noland, Holt Quentel, David Rabinowitch, Royden Rabinowitch, Ulrich Rückriem, Robert Ryman, Richard Serra, Keith Sonnier, Serge Spitzer, Niele Toroni, Rosemarie Trockel, Richard Tuttle, Cy Twombly, Jan Vercruysse, Michel Verjux, Didier Vermeiren, Bill Viola, Mark Wallinger, Lawrence Weiner, Franz West, Rachel Whiteread, Jerry Zeniuk, Otto Zitko

Very good copy with some bumping to top right corner.

File under: Carl Andre Donald Baechler Georg Baselitz Joseph Beuys Christian Botanski Daniel Buren Lawrence Carroll Hanne Darboven Thierry De Gordier David Deutsch Martin Disler Etienne-Martin Dan Flavin Günther Förg Isa Genzken Robert Gober Thomas Grünleid Tishan Hsu Donald Judd On Kawara Ellsworth Kelly Harald Klingelhöller Wollgang Laib Cary S. Leibowitz Sol LeWitt Richard Long Ingeborg Lüscher Gerhard Merz Mario Merz Marisa Merz Reinhard Mucha Bruce Nauman Max Neuhaus Cady Noland Holt Quentel David Rabinowitch Royden Rabinowitch Ulrich Rückriem Robert Ryman Richard Serra Keith Sonnier Serge Spitzer Niele Toroni Rosemarie Trockel Richard Tuttle Cy Twombly Jan Vercruysse Michel Verjux Didier Vermeiren Bill Viola Mark Wallinger Lawrence Weiner Franz West Rachel Whiteread Jerry Zeniuk Otto Zitko Giovanni Anselmo Jiří Georg Dokoupil Harald Szeemann Heinz Liesbrock Christoph Schenker Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen Christians / Hamburg Art Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Arte Povera Conceptual Art Minimal Art

Documenta IX
COMPLETE 3 VOLUME BOXSET, HARDCOVER ED.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sculpture on the Move: 1946-2016
Kunstmuseum Basel

2016, English
Hardcover, 240 pages, 26.5 x 20 cm
Published by Hatje Cantz / Berlin Kunstmuseum Basel / Basel

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What new paths have sculptors opened up since the end of World War II? Based on late works by Constantin Brancusi and Alberto Giacometti, this comprehensive volume illustrates the exciting and multifaceted developments in this dynamic art form. The long list of the first-class artists presented ranges from Pablo Picasso, Henry Moore, and Jean Tinguely to Franz West, Damien Hirst and Monika Sosnowska. Sculpture on the Move demonstrates how the classic notion of form and sculpture was set in motion, became more abstract, came closer to the ordinary everyday object, dissolved spatial or conceptual boundaries, and even reconstituted itself, returning to figurative traditions. On the basis of selected works from the Kunstmuseum Basel and from international museums and private collections, the book opens up a dense, extremely rich world of contrasts. Featured artists include Absalon, Carl Andre, Jean Arp, Max Bill, Louise Bourgeois, Constantin Brancusi, Alexander Calder, John Chamberlain, Eduardo Chillida, Peter Fischli und David Weiss, Katharina Fritsch, Alberto Giacometti, Robert Gober, Duane Hanson, Eva Hesse, Damien Hirst, Donald Judd, Mike Kelley, Jeff Koons, Mario Merz, Henry Moore, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Gabriel Orozco, Pablo Picasso, Charles Ray, Richard Serra, Monika Sosnowska, David Smith, Jean Tinguely, Oscar Tuazon, Danh Vo and Franz West.

File under: Absalon Alberto Giacometti Alexander Calder Bruce Nauman Carl Andre Charles Ray Claes Oldenburg Constantin Brâncuși Damien Hirst Danh Vo David Smith Donald Judd Duane Hanson Eduardo Chillida Eva Hesse Franz West Gabriel Orozco Henry Moore Jean Arp (Hans Arp) Jean Tinguely Jeff Koons John Chamberlain Katharina Fritsch Louise Bourgeois Mario Merz Max Bill Mike Kelley Monika Sosnowska Oscar Tuazon Pablo Picasso Peter Fischli & David Weiss Richard Serra Robert Gober Hatje Cantz / Berlin Kunstmuseum Basel / Basel Art Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections

Rober Gober
2000 Words series

2016, English
Softcover, 80 pages (colour ill.), 24.5 x 18.5 cm
Published by Deste Foundation / Athens Walther König / Köln

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In placing us at a remove from our relationships to familiar, domestic objects and environments, Robert Goberʼs labor-intensive work defies our understanding of accepted conventions and draws attention to the movement of meaning between materials and across personal histories.

Part of the 2000 Words series, conceived and commissioned by Massimiliano Gioni, and published by the Deste Foundation, Robert Gober: 2000 Words presents the entirety of the sculptorʼs works in the Dakis Joannou Collection and includes an essay by Johanna Burton that examines how the artistʼs work alloys personal histories with collective experience.

Published by the Deste Foundation.

File under: Robert Gober Johanna Burton Deste Foundation / Athens Walther König / Köln Art Sculpture / Installation

Nest issue 2
Fall 1998

1998, English
Softcover (die-cut w. flocking), 154 pages, 23 x 28 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / Used*,
Published by Nest / New York

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Nest: A Quarterly of Interiors was a unique and ground-breaking magazine published from 1997 to 2004, for a total run of 26 issues.

Marketed as an interior design magazine, and edited by Joseph Holtzman, Nest generally eschewed the conventionally beautiful luxury interiors showcased in other magazines, and instead featured photographs of nontraditional, exceptional, and unusual environments. Fred A. Bernstein, writing in the New York Times, wrote that Joseph Holtzman "believed that an igloo, a prison cell or a child's attic room (adorned with Farrah Fawcett posters) could be as compelling as a room by a famous designer." During its run, Nest showed the room of a 40-year-old diaper lover, the lair of an Indonesian bird that decorates with coloured stones and vomit, the final resting place of Napoleon’s penis, the quarters of Navy seamen, a barbed-wire-trimmed bed that doubled as a tank, and a Gothic Christmas card from filmmaker John Waters. Noted architect Rem Koolhaas called it "an anti-materialistic, idealistic magazine about the hyperspecific in a world that is undergoing radical leveling, an 'interior design' magazine hostile to the cosmetic." Artist Richard Tuttle was quoted as saying that Mr. Holtzman "channeled the collective unconscious, to give us the pleasure of ornament before we even knew we wanted it."

Nest issue 2, Fall 1998 features, amongst much more: artist Rosemarie Trockel (including a unique flocked cover design by Trockel), Igloo's by photographer Richard Harrington, sculptor Robert Gober on architect Jan Pol, master decorator Renzo Mongiardino, inmates reflect on the decor of a New Mexico Womens Correctional Facility, the temporary lodgings of novelist Muriel Spark, artist Vincent Fecteau an scholar Michael Lobel look at the work of actor-turned-decorator Hasi Hester, the apartment of Pierre et Gilles, and much more... A magazine like no other before or since.

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

File under: Robert Gober Rosemarie Trockel Vincent Fecteau Nest / New York Architecture / Interior Art Graphic Design / Typography Fashion Furniture Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Photography

Robert Gober

1990, English / Dutch
Hardcover, 88 pages, 22 x 27.5 cm
1st Edition of 2500, Out of print title / Used*,
Published by Kunsthalle Bern / Bern Museum Boymans-van Beuningen / Rotterdam

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Hardcover catalogue raisonné catalogue of the idiosyncratic American sculptor Robert Gober. Published by Museum Boymans-van Beuningen & Kunsthalle Bernin in conjunction with a comprehensive 1990 touring European Museum retrospective, this informative catalogue contains a full chronological catalogue raisonné of ninety-one sculptural objects created by Gober since 1980, as well as copious photographic documentation of installation works in colour and black and white. It also contains colour pages of documentation of his metamorphosing studio "chests" painting project. Along with texts by Ulrich Loock, Karel Schampers, and Trevor Fairbrother, the book contains an exhibition history, bibliography and biography of the artist. A very generous and very uncommon, major book on the work of this great American artist.

Condition: Very Good (some bumping to spine corners, otherwise internally a clean, tight book in fine condition)– All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Robert Gober Kunsthalle Bern / Bern Museum Boymans-van Beuningen / Rotterdam Art Out-of-print / Rare

Texte Zur Kunst #97
March 2015 “Bohemia”

2015, English / German
Softcover, 264 pages, 23 x 16.5 cm
Published by Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin

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Exile and marginality, network availability, mass- versus subcultural identities, privilege, opting (versus dropping) out – these are elements this issue takes on. The fading of bohemia’s appeal is no doubt linked in part to a growing preference for the web’s promise of total-connectivity. Though could another factor be at work here too: an underlying sense that perhaps the real displacement and disenfranchisement after which romantic notions of “bohemia” were later formed may again be a very real threat?

ISSUE NO. 97 / MARCH 2015 “BOHEMIA”

ENGLISH CONTENTS include:

DIEDRICH DIEDERICHSEN
THE PHYSIOGNOMY OF DISENFRANCHISEMENT
“Faces of bohemia at one hundred and fifty”

THE POSSIBILITY OF LIFE AT THE SYSTEMIC EDGE
Three questions for Saskia Sassen

AT THE END OF ALTERNATIVES
An interview with Cornelia Koppetsch

PHILIPP EKARDT
FIORUCCI MADE ME NORMCORE / Five observations on art, style, and scenes today

DOUGLAS COUPLAND
BOHEMIA = UTOPIA?

DANIEL KELLER
HOTTEST NEW ALT MARRIAGE STACK SOLUTIONS / Paratext and Glossary by Ella Plevin

CAROLINE BUSTA
BASIC INSTINCT / Cyber-channels and the female pose

STEPHAN DILLEMUTH
WHAT’S YOUR NAME, BOHEMIA?

THE DEATH OF ILLUSION / An interview with Noura Wedell

MORAG KEIL
BOHEMIA COMMISSION

O CRONENBERG! (A SPOILER) / Mark von Schlegell on David Cronenberg’s recent movie “Maps to the Stars” and novel “Consumed”

Nick Zedd on Greer Lankton at Participant Inc, New York
Tess Edmonson on Amalia Ulman at James Fuentes, New York
Ana Teixeira Pinto on Oliver Laric at Tanya Leighton, Berlin

NOT ONLY THE HEART IS NOT A METAPHOR / Rachel Haidu on Robert Gober at the Museum of Modern Art, New York

TOTAL CONFUSION / Christian Naujoks on Cosima von Bonin at Mumok, Vienna

GLOOM / Amy Lien and Enzo Camacho on the Taipei Biennial 2014

A GLIMPSE AT THE SOCIAL LIFE OF PAINTINGS / Catherine Chevalier on Marcel Duchamp at Centre Pompidou, Paris

LEWIS BALTZ (1945–2014)
by Jeff Rian

EDITION

TOMMA ABTS
AVERY SINGER

File under: Amalia Ulman Amy Lien Avery Singer Cosima von Bonin Daniel Keller David Cronenberg Enzo Camacho Jana Euler Lewis Baltz Oliver Laric Robert Gober Stephan Dillemuth Tomma Abts Ana Teixeira Pinto Caroline Busta Christian Naujoks Diedrich Diederichsen Douglas Coupland Jess Rian Mark Von Schlegell Philipp Ekardt Rachel Haidu Tess Edmonson Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin Art Periodicals Theory / Essay

The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things
Mark Leckey Curates

2013, English
Softcover, 144 pages (colour ill.), 24.1 x 34.5 cm
Published by Hayward Gallery Publishing / London

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Turner Prize-winning artist Mark Leckey presents the latest in Hayward Touring's celebrated series of artist-curated exhibitions. "The Universal Addressibility of Dumb Things" will explore the theme of transformative technology, a kind of techno-animism, where the inanimate comes to life, and no distinction is drawn between things mental and things material, the sacred and the profane. Contemporary works of art, mechanical objects, historical material from science and archaeological museums, factory prototypes and imagery from internet sites will coexist in the pages of this book, creating 'a colossal body across time and space'. The artist also intends this to be a book in which the greatest thinkers and writers in this field are brought together - as well as his own introductory text, fiction, cultural criticism and the history of technology will be brought together in three unique, authoritative new texts.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8QWrLt2ePI&feature=player_embedded

File under: Elad Lassry Jim Shaw John Gerrard Jonathan Monk Louise Bourgeois Mark Leckey Martin Creed Nicola Hicks Peter Coffin Pierre Molinier Prunella Clough Richard Hamilton Richard Prince Robert Gober Roger Hiorns William Blake Hayward Gallery Publishing / London Art Graphic Design / Typography

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bob Nickas
Catalog of the Exhibition 1984-2011

2011, English
Softcover, 166 pages, 9.25 x 11"
Edition of 500, 1st printing,
Published by 2nd Cannons / Los Angeles

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This book brings together new texts written to accompany 79 exhibitions organized by Bob Nickas between 1984 and 2011. Nickas chose one work to represent the memory of each exhibition, and through this visual "lens" he reflects on his activity as a curator, offering many behind-the-scenes views to the art world of the 1980s and 90s, as well as intimate recollections of the artists he worked with, and the art works he encountered over the years. The book, then, can be seen as a sort of memoir. Always placing the artists and their works within a social milieu, while also aware of how art travels across time, he reminds us that both lead multiple lives, as an exhibition can reanimate a work from the past, and occasion the discovery of forgotten and marginalized figures among those who are very well-known. This retrospective catalog is also in many ways an ideal exhibition — or collection — 27 years in the making.

With 90 color and black-and-white reproductions, the book features works by:

Vito Acconci . Richard Aldrich . John M Armleder . Barry X Ball . Lisa Beck . Alan Belcher . Ben Berlow . Walead Beshty . Huma Bhabha . Doug Biggert . Marcel Broodthaers . Henri Cartier Bresson . Graham Caldwell . Vija Celmins . Art Chantry . Larry Clark . Verne Dawson . Jules de Balincourt . Jessica Diamond . Trisha Donnelly . Moira Dryer . Gardar Eide Einarsson . William Gedney . Robert Gober . Daan van Golden . Wayne Gonzales . Felix Gonzalez-Torres . Peter Halley . Richard Hawkins . Adam Helms . Eva Hesse . Peter Hujar . Jacob Kassay . On Kawara . Yves Klein . Louise Lawler . Mark Leckey . Sherrie Levine . Judy Linn . Lee Lozano . Chris Martin . Allan McCollum . McDermott & McGough . Adam McEwen . Ryan McGinley . John Miller . Olivier Mosset . Dave Muller . Chuck Nanney . Bruce Nauman . Cady Noland . Amy O'Neill . Steven Parrino . Laurie Parsons . Raymond Pettibon . Jean Prouvé . David Ratcliff . Alex Rose . Sally Ross . Allen Ruppersberg . Sam Samore . Tom Sandberg . Joan Semmel . Stephen Shore . Harry Smith . Jack Smith . Robert Smithson . Mark Stahl. Haim Steinbach. Rudolf Stingel . Lily van der Stokker . Aaron Suggs . Philip Taaffe . Paul Thek . Wolfgang Tillmans . Betty Tompkins . Josh Tonsfeldt . John Tremblay . Alan Uglow . Kelley Walker . Jeff Wall . Joan Wallace . Wallace & Donohue . Dan Walsh . Andy Warhol . Christopher Wool

File under: Aaron Suggs Adam Helms Adam McEwen Alan Belcher Alan Uglow Alex Rose Allan McCollum Allen Ruppersberg Amy O'Neill Andy Warhol Art Chantry Barry X Ball Ben Berlow Betty Tompkins Bruce Nauman Cady Noland Chris Martin Christopher Wool Chuck Nanney Daan van Golden Dan Walsh Dave Muller David Ratcliff Doug Biggert Eva Hesse Felix Gonzalez-Torres Gardar Eide Einarsson Graham Caldwell Haim Steinbach Harry Smith Huma Bhabha Jack Smith Jacob Kassay Jean Prouvé Jeff Wall Jessica Diamond Joan Semmel Joan Wallace John Miller John Tremblay Josh Tonsfeldt Judy Linn Kelley Walker Larry Clark Laurie Parsons Lee Lozano Lily van der Stokker Lisa Beck Louise Lawler Marcel Broodthaers Mark Leckey McDermott & McGough Moira Dryer Olivier Mosset On Kawara Paul Thek Peter Halley Peter Hujar Philip Taaffe Raymond Pettibon Richard Aldrich Richard Hawkins Robert Gober Robert Smithson Rudolf Stingel Ryan McGinley Sally Ross Sam Samore Sherrie Levine Stephen Shore Steven Parrino Tom Sandberg Trisha Donnelly Verne Dawson Vija Celmins Vito Acconci Walead Beshty Wallace & Donohue Wayne Gonzales William Gedney Wolfgang Tillmans Yves Klein John Armleder Henri Cartier-Bresson Bob Nickas 2nd Cannons / Los Angeles Art