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

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

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

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

The essays:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

Bachelors
by Rosalind E. Krauss

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Painting 2.0
Expression in the Information Age

2016, English
Hardcover, 280 pages, 31.6 x 3.1 x 26 cm
Published by Prestel / Munich

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The resurgent interest in contemporary painting in recent years has coincided with an explosion of new digital media and technologies. Contrary to canonical accounts premised on medium-specificity, painting’s most advanced positions since the 1960s have developed in productive friction with contemporaneous forms of mass media and culture. From the rise of television and computers to the Internet revolution, painting has assimilated precisely those cultural and technological developments that were held responsible for its presumed “death.” Moving far beyond its technical definition as “oil on canvas,” painting during the information age has consistently offered a site for negotiating the challenges of a mediated life-world.

Featuring over 230 works by 107 artists, Painting 2.0 is one of the largest and most comprehensive exhibitions of contemporary painting in recent years.

Artists include:
Kai Althoff, Ei Arakawa/Shimon Minamikawa, Monika Baer, Nairy Baghramian, Georg Baselitz, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lynda Benglis, Sadie Benning, Judith Bernstein, Joseph Beuys, Ashley Bickerton, Cosima von Bonin, KAYA (Debo Eilers & Kerstin Brätsch), Günter Brus, Daniel Buren, Merlin Carpenter, Leidy Churchman, William Copley, René Daniëls, Guy Debord/Asger Jorn, Carroll Dunham, Mary Beth Edelson, Thomas Eggerer, Michaela Eichwald, Nicole Eisenman, Jana Euler, Louise Fishman, Andrea Fraser, Isa Genzken, Mary Grigoriadis, Philip Guston, Wade Guyton, Guyton/Walker, Raymond Hains, Harmony Hammond, David Hammons, Keith Haring, Rachel Harrison, Mary Heilmann, Eva Hesse, Charline von Heyl, Ull Hohn, Jacqueline Humphries, Jörg Immendorff, Jasper Johns, Joan Jonas, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Yves Klein, Jutta Koether, Michael Krebber, Manfred Kuttner, Maria Lassnig, Sherrie Levine, Glenn Ligon, Lee Lozano, Konrad Lueg, Michel Majerus, Piero Manzoni, Kerry James Marshall, Hans-Jörg Mayer, John Miller, Joan Mitchell, Ree Morton, Ulrike Müller, Matt Mullican, Elisabeth Murray, Cady Noland, Hilka Nordhausen, Albert Oehlen, Laura Owens, Steven Parrino, Ed Paschke, Howardena Pindell, Sigmar Polke, Seth Price, Stephen Prina, R.H. Quaytman, Robert Rauschenberg, David Reed, Gerhard Richter, Mimmo Rotella, Niki de Saint Phalle, Mario Schifano, Amy Sillman, Sylvia Sleigh, Josh Smith, Joan Snyder, Reena Spaulings, Nancy Spero, Gruppe SPUR, Frank Stella, Walter Swennen, Paul Thek, Rosemarie Trockel, Cy Twombly, Jacques de la Villeglé, Kelley Walker, Andy Warhol, Sue Williams, Karl Wirsum, Martin Wong, Christopher Wool, Heimo Zobernig, u.a.

File under: Albert Oehlen Amy Sillman Andrea Fraser Andy Warhol Asger Jorn Ashley Bickerton Cady Noland Carroll Dunham Charline von Heyl Christopher Wool Cosima von Bonin Cy Twombly Daniel Buren David Hammons David Reed Ed Paschke Ei Arakawa Eva Hesse Frank Stella Georg Baselitz Gerhard Richter Glenn Ligon Gruppe SPUR Günter Brus Harmony Hammond Heimo Zobernig Hilka Nordhausen Howardena Pindell Isa Genzken Jacqueline Humphries Jacques de la Villeglé Jana Euler Jasper Johns Jean-Michel Basquiat Joan Jonas Joan Mitchell Joan Snyder John Miller Jörg Immendorff Joseph Beuys Josh Smith Judith Bernstein Jutta Koether Kai Althoff Karl Wirsum Keith Haring Kelley Walker Kerry James Marshall Konrad Lueg Laura Owens Lee Lozano Leidy Churchman Louise Fishman Lynda Benglis Manfred Kuttner Maria Lassnig Mario Schifano Martin Kippenberger Martin Wong Mary Beth Edelson Mary Grigoriadis Mary Heilmann Matt Mullican Merlin Carpenter Michael Krebber Michaela Eichwald Michel Majerus Mike Kelley Mimmo Rotella Monika Baer Nairy Baghramian Nancy Spero Nicole Eisenman Niki de Saint-Phalle Paul Thek Philip Guston Piero Manzoni R.H. Quaytman Rachel Harrison Raymond Hains Ree Morton Reena Spaulings René Daniëls Robert Rauschenberg Rosemarie Trockel Sadie Benning Seth Price Sherrie Levine Shimon Minamikawa Sigmar Polke Stephen Prina Steven Parrino Sue Williams Sylvia Sleigh Thomas Eggerer Ull Hohn Ulrike Müller Wade Guyton Walter Swennen William Copley Yves Klein Hansjörg Mayer Elizabeth Murray Achim Hochdörfer David Joselit Guy Debord Isabelle Graw John Kelsey Kerstin Stakemrich Lynne Coeier Manuela Ammer Wolfram Pichler Prestel / Munich Art Group Shows / Collections Painting Theory / Essay

REAL LIFE Magazine: Selected Writings and Projects 1979-1994

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

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

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

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

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

Ordinary Pictures

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

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

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

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

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