World Food Books

Eau de Cologne Nr. 1
Edited by Monika Sprüth

1985, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 64 pages, 40 x 26 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Monika Sprüth / Cologne

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Very rare, inaugural issue of the iconic and enormously influential magazine published and edited by Cologne-based gallery owner Monika Sprüth, who opened her first gallery in 1983 with a focus on female artists. Emblematic of this perspective, Sprüth launched Eau de Cologne, an “effervescent, shape-shifting magazine, featuring almost exclusively women artists and art practitioners.” Three issues were published between 1985 and 1989, along with accompanying exhibitions, representing an international female discourse on art. With early cover artwork by Cindy Sherman, this first issue was published on the occasion of an all-female exhibition presentation of the same name, held by Monika Sprüth Galerie in Cologne in 1985, featuring the work of Ina Barfuss, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman, Rosemarie Trockel, and Anne Loch. Combining theoretical discourse with visual practice, the large-format magazine was created in collaboration with the artists Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Louise Lawler, Cindy Sherman, and Rosemarie Trockel, featuring artist pages, essays, interviews, texts, quotes, portraits by an incredible list of contributors including Louise Bourgeois, Hanne Darboven, Cady Noland, Dominique Gonzalez Foerster, Ileana Sonnabend, Annette Messager, Susan Hiller, Ulrike Rosenbach, Elaine Sturtevant, Kathe Burkhart, Marian Goodman, Mary Boone, Georgia O'Keefe, Marisa Merz, Astrid Klein, Jutta Koether, Jenny Holzer, Maria Lassnig, Holly Solomon, Nancy Spero, Jo-Anna Isaak, Hilary Lloyd, Holly Solomon, Bärbel Grässlin, Annina Nosei, Tanja Grunert, Pat Hearn, Bice Curiger, Edit DeAk, Rosalind Krauss, Isabelle Graw, Linda Nochlin, Ingrid Oppenheim, Barbara Gladstone, and many more. Texts in German and English. It really doesn't get much better!

“The exhibition and the catalogue “Eau de Cologne” fulfil the claim of my gallery to show the most interesting aspects of contemporaneous art. This exhibition presents five female artists: Ina Barfuss, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman and Rosemarie Trockel, and the catalogue which includes many more young and older female artists, writers, critics and art-dealers want to show art in its social context. I see this exhibition as an example. According to my subjective observation and based on the experiences and contacts of almost three years work as art-dealer I have made a selection. The time of working on this catalogue was limited, too, and it is for these reasons that some artists, curators and art-critics are not mentioned. I approve of realizing this “idea” now, 1985.”—from introduction by Monika Sprüth

Very Good copy with light wear and age to extremities, small chip to back-cover edge.

File under: Ina Barfuss Jenny Holzer Barbara Kruger Cindy Sherman Rosemarie Trockel Anne Loch Louise Lawler Louise Bourgeois Hanne Darboven Cady Noland Dominique Gonzalez Foerster Ileana Sonnabend Annette Messager Susan Hiller Ulrike Rosenbach Elaine Sturtevant Kathe Burkhart Marian Goodman Mary Boone Georgia O'Keefe Marisa Merz Astrid Klein Jutta Koether Maria Lassnig Holly Solomon Nancy Spero Jo-Anna Isaak Hilary Lloyd Bärbel Grässlin Annina Nosei Tanja Grunert Pat Hearn Bice Curiger Edit DeAk Rosalind Krauss Isabelle Graw Linda Nochlin Ingrid Oppenheim Barbara Gladstone Monika Sprüth Ileana Sonnabend Barbara Gladstone Jo-Anna Isaak Holly Solomon Isabelle Graw Pat Hearn Bice Curiger Rosalind Krauss Bärbel Grässlin Marian Goodman Mary Boone Monika Sprüth / Cologne Periodicals Feminism Art Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Photography Painting Minimal Art Curatorial Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare

MAGIC
Edited by Jamie Sutcliffe

2021, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 14.5 x 21 cm
Published by Whitechapel / London The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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From the hexing of presidents to a renewed interest in herbalism and atavistic forms of self-care, magic has furnished the contemporary imagination with mysterious and complex bodies of arcane thought and practice. This volume brings together writings by artists, magicians, historians, and theorists that illuminate the vibrant correspondences animating contemporary art's varied encounters with magical culture, inspiring a reconsideration of the relationship between the symbolic and the pragmatic.

Dispensing with simple narratives of re-enchantment, Magic illustrates the intricate ways in which we have to some extent always been captivated by the allure of the numinous. It demonstrates how magical culture's tendencies toward secrecy, occlusion, and encryption might provide contemporary artists with strategies of remedial communality, a renewed faith in the invocational power of personal testimony, and a poetics of practice that could boldly question our political circumstances, from the crisis of climate collapse to the strictures of socially sanctioned techniques of medical and psychiatric care.

Tracing its various emergences through the shadows of modernity, the circuitries of ritual media, and declarations of psychic self-defence, Magic deciphers the evolution of a 'magical-critical' thinking that productively complicates, contradicts and expands the boundaries of our increasingly weird present.

Artists surveyed:
Holly Pester, Katrina Palmer, Ithell Colquhoun, Anna Zett, Monica Sjoeo, Sofia Al-Maria, Jack Burnham, Jeremy Millar, Susan Hiller, Mike Kelley, Morehshin Allahyari, Center for Tactical Magic, David Steans, Porpentine, Travis Jeppesen, Linda Stupart, Caspar Heinemann, Elizabeth Mputu, Faith Wilding, David Hammons, Ana Mendieta, Henri Michaux, Kenneth Anger, Benedict Drew, Mark Leckey, Robert Morris, Jenna Sutela, Haroon Mirza, Zadie Xa, Saya Woolfalk, Ian Cheng, Tabita Rezaire, Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth, Elijah Burgher, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Sahej Rahal

Writers:
Charles Fort, Victoria Nelson, Gary Lachman, Yvonne P. Chireau, Randall Styers, Isabelle Stengers, Alan Moore, Simon O' Sullivan, Lucy Lippard, Louis Chude Sokei, Patricia MacCormack, Mark Pilkington, AE, Annie Besant & C.W. Leadbeater, Michel Leiris, Aime Cesaire, Austin Osman Spare, Erik Davis, Mark Dery, Elaine Graham, Jeffrey Sconce, Giulia Smith, Esther Leslie, Alice Bucknell, Gary Zhexi Zhang, Hannah Gregory, Kristen Gallerneaux, Mahan Moalemi, Jamie Sutcliffe, Gregory Sholette, Aaron Gach, Eugene Thacker, Diane Di Prima, Allan Doyle, Aria Dean, Emily LaBarge, Lou Cornum, Joy KMT, Scott Wark, McKenzie Wark, Phil Hine, Jackie Wang, Sean Bonney

File under: Pier Paolo Pasolini Holly Pester Katrina Palmer Ithell Colquhoun Anna Zett Monica Sjoeo Sofia Al-Maria Jack Burnham Jeremy Millar Susan Hiller Mike Kelley Morehshin Allahyari Center for Tactical Magic David Steans Porpentine Travis Jeppesen Linda Stupart Caspar Heinemann Elizabeth Mputu Faith Wilding David Hammons Ana Mendieta Henri Michaux Kenneth Anger Benedict Drew Mark Leckey Robert Morris Jenna Sutela Haroon Mirza Zadie Xa Saya Woolfalk Ian Cheng Tabita Rezaire Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth Elijah Burgher Sahej Rahal Charles Fort Victoria Nelson Gary Lachman Yvonne P. Chireau Randall Styers Isabelle Stengers Alan Moore Simon O' Sullivan Lucy Lippard Louis Chude Sokei Patricia MacCormack Mark Pilkington AE Annie Besant & C.W. Leadbeater Michel Leiris Aime Cesaire Austin Osman Spare Erik Davis Mark Dery Elaine Graham Jeffrey Sconce Giulia Smith Esther Leslie Alice Bucknell Gary Zhexi Zhang Hannah Gregory Kristen Gallerneaux Mahan Moalemi Jamie Sutcliffe Gregory Sholette Aaron Gach Eugene Thacker Diane Di Prima Allan Doyle Aria Dean Emily LaBarge Lou Cornum Joy KMT Scott Wark McKenzie Wark Phil Hine Jackie Wang Sean Bonney Whitechapel / London The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Painting Surrealism Occult / Esoterica Ecology / Earth Ecology Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Drawing Feminism Theory / Essay

Not without My Ghosts

2021, English
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 112 pages, 22.23 x 14.61 cm
Published by Hayward Gallery Publishing / London

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The abiding presence of spiritualism in art, from af Klint to Susan Hiller.

Bringing together more than 30 international artists from the late 19th century to the present day, Not without My Ghosts surveys work inspired by spiritualism and its rich cultural history.

With original essays by art historian Susan L. Aberth and curators Simon Grant and Lars Bang Larsen, this publication explores the anti-authoritarian political agendas of 19th-century spiritualism and the movement’s close association to the history of feminism, as well as its continued influence on contemporary practitioners. Spanning diverse artistic approaches, Not without My Ghosts offers a unique insight into the ties that bind spirit and mediumistic art across the centuries.

Artists: William Blake, Cameron, Ann Churchill, Ithell Colquhoun, Louise Despont, Casimiro Domingo, Madame Fondrillon, Chiara Fumai, Madge Gill, Susan Hiller, Barbara Honywood, Georgiana Houghton, Anna Mary Howitt, Victor Hugo, Augustin Lesage, Pia Lindman, Ann Lislegaard, André Masson, Grace Pailthorpe, František Jaroslav Pecka, Olivia Plender, Sigmar Polke, Lea Porsager, Austin Osman Spare, Yves Tanguy, Suzanne Treister with The Museum of Blackhole Spacetime Collective

File under: William Blake Cameron Ann Churchill Ithell Colquhoun Louise Despont Casimiro Domingo Madame Fondrillon Chiara Fumai Madge Gill Susan Hiller Barbara Honywood Georgiana Houghton Anna Mary Howitt Victor Hugo Augustin Lesage Pia Lindman Ann Lislegaard André Masson Grace Pailthorpe František Jaroslav Pecka Olivia Plender Sigmar Polke Lea Porsager Austin Osman Spare Yves Tanguy Suzanne Treister with The Museum of Blackhole Spacetime Collective Susan Aberth Simon Grant Lars Bang Larsen Hayward Gallery Publishing / London Art Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Drawing Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Group Shows / Collections Theory / Essay Film / Video Occult / Esoterica Feminism

The Happy Hypocrite – Freedom, issue 6
GUEST EDITED BY LYNNE TILLMAN

2013, English
Softcover, 96pages, 16.5 x 23 cm
Published by Book Works / London

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‘I think: Protect me from people who want to protect me; but more, save me from people who know what upsets others.’ – Lynne Tillman

Issue 6 of The Happy Hypocrite challenges the restraining notions found in art and writing about who and what can and cannot speak. What can and cannot be said or thought. In part a response to Kafka – to that which we don’t know has damaged us – freedom is presented as an important and urgent concept, and a complicated word, in which and beside which hypocrisy also resides. (Hypocrisy can be construed as a freedom). The Happy Hypocrite offers its pages to ingenious fictional, nonfictional, and visual responses to the various meanings of ‘freedom’.

There is a range of new contributions, from Gregg Bordowitz, Paul Chan, Gabriel Coxhead, Lydia Davis, Yasmine El Rashidi, Chloé Cooper Jones, James Jennings, Allison Katz, Robin Coste Lewis, the late Craig Owens, Sarah Resnick, Ranbir Singh Sidhu, Abdellah Taïa, an interview between Lynne Tillman and Thomas Keenan, a cover by Susan Hiller, and archival material from Paranoids Anonymous Newsletter.

Lynne Tillman is a novelist, short story writer and critic based in New York. Her sixth novel, Men and Apparitions, was published by Soft Skull Press 2018; Peninsula Press (UK) 2020; her previous novel, American Genius, A Comedy, was said to be, by The Millions, one of the best books of the new millennium. Other novels include Haunted Houses and No Lease on Life, a National Book Critics Circle finalist in Fiction. Her most recent collection of stories and essays, her fifth, is The Complete Madame Realism and Other Stories (Semiotexte). Her stories and essays appear frequently in magazines and artists’ books/museum catalogues, most recently: on Stephen Shore, On Kawara, Anne Collier, Andy Warhol, Susan Hiller, Laurie Simmons, Steve Locke, Amy Sillman, and Kaitlin Maxwell et al. She lives in New York.

File under: Susan Hiller Paul Chan Allison Katz Lynne Tillman Gregg Bordowitz Paul Chan Gabriel Coxhead Lydia Davis Yasmine El Rashidi Chloé Cooper Jones James Jennings Robin Coste Lewis Craig Owens Sarah Resnick Ranbir Singh Sidhu Abdellah Taïa Thomas Keenan Book Works / London Fiction / Poetry Theory / Essay Art Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals SALE

IT IS ALMOST THAT : A Collection of Image+Text Work by Women Artists & Writers
Edited by Lisa Pearson

2011, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 296 pages, 21 x 26 cm
Published by Siglio Press / Los Angeles

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It Is Almost That collects is a phenomenal collection of twenty-six visionary image+text works by women artists and writers. Supremely imaginative in their use of word and image, these hybrid works are steeped in narrative play and subversion, inviting readers to engage in multiple modes of reading. It Is Almost That features substantial excerpts or the works in their entirety—many previously unpublished, difficult to find, or long out-of-print—by renown, little known, forgotten, and emerging artists.

The works include a painted autobiographical novel by a young artist who died in the Holocaust (Charlotte Salomon); the transformation of the front pages of newspapers into alchemical drawings (Suzanne Treister); a computer-generated chance operation that “imagines” houses and their inhabitants (Alison Knowles); the pseudo-scientific examination of mother-daughter conversations (Eleanor Antin); and drawings called “body maps,” inscribed with stories of HIV-positive South African women (Bambanani Women’s Group), among almost two dozen others.

Arranged as a constellation with various kinds of connective tissue, It Is Almost That eschews traditional categories in order to reorient the reader to see the works outside or beyond their recognizable affiliations. Both literary and art audiences will discover new works, new artists and writers, as well as new ways of reading.

"Because the frame is image+text, we’re reminded that all of us generally do more. Female artists don’t just stay in their disciplines; we experience, we forage, we play. Intuitively and practically speaking, It Is Almost That is, in effect, a handbook. It, by presenting female art history, shows us how to be an artist."—EILEEN MYLES, The Poetry Foundation

CONTRIBUTORS: Eleanor Antin, Bambanani Women’s Group, Fiona Banner, Louise Bourgeois, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Cozette de Charmoy, Ann Hamilton, Jane Hammond, Susan Hiller, Dorothy Iannone, Bhanu Kapil & Rohini Kapil, Helen Kim, Alison Knowles, Ketty La Rocca, Bernadette Mayer, Adrian Piper, Charlotte Salomon, Geneviéve Seillè, Molly Springfield, Cole Swensen & Shari DeGraw, Suzanne Treister, Erica Van Horn & Laurie Clark, Carrie Mae Weems, Hannah Weiner, Sue Williams, and Unica Zürn.

File under: Ketty La Rocca Eleanor Antin Fiona Banner Louise Bourgeois Susan Hiller Dorothy Iannone Alison Knowles Adrian Piper Unica Zürn Bambanani Women’s Group Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Cozette de Charmoy Ann Hamilton Jane Hammond Carrie Mae Weems Charlotte Salomon Geneviève Seillé Molly Springfield Cole Swensen Suzanne Treister Lisa Pearson Bernadette Mayer Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Cozette de Charmoy Hannah Weiner Bhanu Kapil Erica Van Horn Siglio Press / Los Angeles Art Fiction / Poetry Feminism Conceptual Art Theory / Essay Fluxus Surrealism

F.R. David
Autumn 2018 "What I Mean Is -"

2018, English
Softcover, 118 pages, 12 x 19 cm
Published by Uh Books / Amsterdam

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This issue examines the impartation of meaning through visible language, whether informative, instructive, transformative, narrative, or other. Contributions include Peter Culley’s restructuring of a botanical text as lyrical poetry, a vignette by Octavia E. Butler, a preface to ‘The Art of Science Writing’ by Worsley and Mayer, Daniel Victor’s report on an Oxford comma dispute, a wall text for ‘High Speed Geology’ at Museum für Naturkunde, ‘In the Shadow of the American Dream’ by David Wojnarowicz, ‘26 Theses on Craft’ by Sharon H. Poggenpohl, a report Charles and Ray Eames drew up for the Indian government to promote quality in small industries, and much more.

File under: Emily Wardill Susan Hiller David Wojnarowicz Rosa Aiello Jacqueline Humbert R.H. Quaytman Charles Eames Ray Eames Susan Howe Octavia E. Butler Daniel Victor Sharon H. Poggenpohl Peter Culley Bernadette Mayer Danny Hayward Driss Chraïbi Anne Moeglin-Delcroix Antoine Cazé Lisa Robertson Uh Books / Amsterdam Art Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry Periodicals

Out of Actions
Aktionismus, Body Art und Performance 1949-1979

1998, German
Hardcover, 366 pages, 22.5 x 31 cm
1st German edition, Out of print title / used / very good,
Published by Hatje Cantz / Berlin

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The long out-of-print heavyweight "Out of Actions" book (First German hardcover edition) that was published to accompany the spectacular 1998 Paul Schimmel-curated travelling exhibition. "Out of Actions" surveyed the broad international history and influence of post-war Performance Art, and the objects that exist today as its documentation. It features significant texts by Schimmel, Kristine Stiles, Guy Brett, Hubert Klocker, Shinichiro Osaki, Leslie King-Hammond and Lowery Stokes Sims, and Keiko Okamura.
This important and heavily researched document is lavishly illustrated throughout in colour and black and white, capturing the work and actions of the artists featured in the exhibition and essays: Marina Abramovic, Marina Abramovic and Ulay, Vito Acconci, Genpei Akasegawa, Laurie Anderson, Eleanor Antin, Rasheed Arseen, Mowry Baden, Artur Barrio, Joseph Beuys, Mark Boyle and Joan Hills, George Brecht, Stuart Brisley, Robert Delford Brown, Gunter Brus, Chris Burden, James Lee Byars, John Cage, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Lygia Clark, Pinchas Cohen Gan, Collective Action Group, Houston Conwill, Paul Cotton, COUM Transmissions, Guy de Cointet, Jim Dine, John Duncan, Felipe Ehrenberg, Roberto Evangelista, Valie Export, Robert Filliou, Rose Finn-Kelcey, Sherman Fleming, Lucio Fontana, Terry Fox, Howard Fried, Gideon Gechtman, Gilbert & George, Alberto Greco, Ion Grigorescu, Victor Grippo, Red Grooms, Guerrilla Art Action Group, David Hammons, Al Hansen, Maren Hassinger, Lynn Hershman, Dick Higgins, Tatsumi Hijikata, Susan Hiller, Rebecca Horn, Tehching Hsieh, Joan Jonas, Kim Jones, Michel Journiac, Akira Kanayama, Tadeusz Kantor, Allan Kaprow, Mike Kelley, Juergen Klauke, Yves Klein, Milan Knizak, Alison Knowles, Komar & Melamid, Jannis Kounellis, Shigeko Kubota, Tetsumi Kudo, Yayoi Kusama, Leslie Labowitz, Suzanne Lacy, John Latham, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Lea Lublin, George Maciunas, Leopoldo Maier, Piero Manzoni, Tom Marioni, Georges Mathieu, Gordon Matta-Clark, Paul McCarthy, Bruce McLean, David Medalla, Cildo Meireles, Ana Mendieta, Gustav Metzger, Marta Minujin, Jan Micoch, Linda Montano, Robert Morris, Otto Muehl, Saburo Murakami, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Bruce Nauman, Paul Neagu, Senga Nengudi, Joshua Neustein, Hermann Nitsch, Helio Oiticica, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Orlan, Raphael Montanez Ortiz, Lorenzo Pace, Nam June Paik, Gina Pane, Lygia Pape, Giuseppe Pinot Gallizio, Adrian Piper, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jackson Pollock, William Pope L., Robert Rauschenberg, Carlyle Reedy, Klaus Rinke, Ulrike Rosenbach, Dieter Roth, Zorka Saglova, Niki de Saint Phalle, Alfons Schilling, Tomas Schmit, Carolee Schneemann, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Bonnie Sherk, Shozo Shimamoto, Ushio Shinohara, Kazuo Shiraga, Barbara T. Smith, Daniel Spoerri, Petr Stembera, Wolfgang Stoerchle, Jiro Takamatsu, Atsuko Tanaka, Mark Thompson, Jean Tinguely, Rasa Todosijevic, Kerry Trengove, Ulay, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell, Franz Erhard Walther, Peter Weibel, Franz West, Hannah Wilke, Emmett Williams, and Zaj.
Scarce first German edition, published by Hatje Cantz.

File under: Niki de Saint-Phalle Cosey Fanni Tutti Vito Acconci Genpei Akasegawa Laurie Anderson Eleanor Antin Rasheed Arseen Mowry Baden Artur Barrio Joseph Beuys Mark Boyle Joan Hills George Brecht Stuart Brisley Robert Delford Brown Chris Burden James Lee Byars John Cage Marc Camille Chaimowicz Lygia Clark Pinchas Cohen Gan Collective Action Group Houston Conwill Paul Cotton COUM Transmissions Guy de Cointet Jim Dine John Duncan Felipe Ehrenberg Roberto Evangelista Valie Export Robert Filliou Rose Finn-Kelcey Sherman Fleming Lucio Fontana Terry Fox Howard Fried Gideon Gechtman Alberto Greco Ion Grigorescu Victor Grippo Red Grooms Guerrilla Art Action Group David Hammons Al Hansen Maren Hassinger Lynn Hershman Dick Higgins Tatsumi Hijikata Susan Hiller Rebecca Horn Tehching Hsieh Joan Jonas Kim Jones Michel Journiac Akira Kanayama Tadeusz Kantor Allan Kaprow Mike Kelley Yves Klein Milan Knizak Alison Knowles Komar & Melamid Jannis Kounellis Shigeko Kubota Tetsumi Kudo Yayoi Kusama Leslie Labowitz Suzanne Lacy John Latham Jean-Jacques Lebel Lea Lublin George Maciunas Leopoldo Maier Piero Manzoni Tom Marioni Georges Mathieu Gordon Matta-Clark Paul McCarthy Bruce McLean David Medalla Cildo Meireles Ana Mendieta Gustav Metzger Jan Micoch Linda Montano Robert Morris Otto Muehl Saburo Murakami Natsuyuki Nakanishi Bruce Nauman Paul Neagu Senga Nengudi Joshua Neustein Hermann Nitsch Claes Oldenburg Yoko Ono Orlan Raphael Montanez Ortiz Lorenzo Pace Nam June Paik Gina Pane Lygia Pape Giuseppe Pinot Gallizio Adrian Piper Michelangelo Pistoletto Jackson Pollock William Pope L. Robert Rauschenberg Carlyle Reedy Klaus Rinke Ulrike Rosenbach Dieter Roth Zorka Saglova Alfons Schilling Tomas Schmit Carolee Schneemann Rudolf Schwarzkogler Bonnie Sherk Shozo Shimamoto Ushio Shinohara Kazuo Shiraga Barbara T. Smith Daniel Spoerri Petr Stembera Wolfgang Stoerchle Jiro Takamatsu Atsuko Tanaka Mark Thompson Jean Tinguely Rasa Todosijevic Kerry Trengove Ulay Ben Vautier Wolf Vostell Franz Erhard Walther Peter Weibel Franz West Hannah Wilke Emmett Williams Zaj Marina Abramovič Günter Brus Gilbert & George Jürgen Klauke Marta Minujín Hélio Oiticica Paul Schimmel Kristine Stiles Guy Brett Hubert Klocker Shinichiro Osaki Leslie King-Hammond Lowery Stokes Sims Keiko Okamura Hatje Cantz / Berlin Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Painting Arte Povera Minimal Art Feminism Art Dada Film / Video Fluxus Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Pop Art Sound / Music Photography Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic

John C. Welchman
Past Realization: Essays on Contemporary European Art XX–XXI, Vol. 1

2016, English
Softcover (w. banderole), 512 pages, 16 x 22 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

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This volume is a collection of dynamic and engaged writings by art historian John C. Welchman on a range of contemporary European artists: Vasco Araújo, Cosima von Bonin, Jan De Cock, Orshi Drozdik, Susan Hiller, Andy Hope 1930, Michael Kunze, Nathaniel Mellors, Miguel Palma, José Álvaro Perdices, Sascha Pohle, Thomas Raat, Nicola Stäglich, and Xavier Veilhan. Anchored in concerns that emerged in the late 1960s and 1970s, Welchman poses thoughtful and provocative questions about how these artists receive and negotiate the social and aesthetic histories through which they live and work.

Past Realization inaugurates XX–XXI, John C. Welchman’s two-part series on European art from this and the last century, which will be followed by a series on West Coast artists and one on the work of Mike Kelley.

Design by Metahaven

File under: Andy Hope 1930 Cosima von Bonin Jan De Cock José Álvaro Perdices Metahaven Michael Kunze Miguel Palma Nathaniel Mellors Nicola Stäglich Orshi Drozdik Sascha Pohle Susan Hiller Thomas Raat Vasco Araújo Xavier Veilhan John C. Welchman Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Photography Theory / Essay

WACK!
Art and the Feminist Revolution

2007, English
Hardcover, 400 pages, 235 x 263 mm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts The Museum of Contemporary Art / Los Angeles

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There had never been art like the art produced by women artists in the 1970s ;and there has never been a book with the ambition and scope of this one about that groundbreaking era. WACK! documents and illustrates the impact of the feminist revolution on art made between 1965 and 1980, featuring pioneering and influential works by artists who came of age during that period ;Chantal Akerman, Lynda Benglis, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Valie Export, Mary Heilmann, Sanja Ivekovič, Ana Mendieta, Annette Messager, and others ;as well as important works made in those years by artists whose whose careers were already well established, including Louise Bourgeois, Judy Chicago, Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, Lucy Lippard, Alice Neel, and Yoko Ono.The art surveyed in WACK! includes work by more than 120 artists, in all media ;from painting and sculpture to photography, film, installation, and video ;arranged not by chronology but by theme: Abstraction, "Autophotography," Body as Medium, Family Stories, Gender Performance, Knowledge as Power, Making Art History, and others. WACK!, which accompanies the first international museum exhibition to showcase feminist art from this revolutionary era, contains more than 400 color images. Highlights include the figurative paintings of Joan Semmel; the performance and film collaborations of Sally Potter and Rose English; the untitled film stills of Cindy Sherman; and the large-scale, craft-based sculptures of Magdalena Abakanowicz. Written entries on each artist offer key biographical and descriptive information and accompanying essays by leading critics, art historians, and scholars offer new perspectives on feminist art practice. The topics ;including the relationship between American and European feminism, feminism and New York abstraction, and mapping a global feminism ;provide a broad social context for the artworks themselves. WACK! is both a definitive visual record and a long-awaited history of one of the most important artistic movements of the twentieth century.

Essays by: Cornelia Butler, Judith Russi Kirshner, Catherine Lord, Marsha Meskimmon, Richard Meyer, Helen Molesworth, Peggy Phelan, Nelly Richard, Valerie Smith, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Jenni Sorkin.

Artists include: Marina Abramovič, Chantal Akerman, Lynda Benglis, Dara Birnbaum, Louise Bourgeois, Judy Chicago, Lygia Clark, Jay DeFeo, Mary Beth Edelson, Valie Export, Barbara Hammer, Susan Hiller, Joan Jonas, Mary Kelly, Maria Lassnig, Linda Montano, Alice Neel, Senga Nengudi, Lorraine O'Grady, Pauline Oliveros, Yoko Ono, Orlan, Howardena Pindell, Yvonne Rainer, Faith Ringgold, Ketty La Rocca, Ulrike Rosenbach, Martha Rosler, Betye Saar, Miriam Schapiro, Carolee Schneemann, Cindy Sherman, and Hannah Wilke.

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File under: Alice Neel Barbara Hammer Betye Saar Carolee Schneemann Chantal Akerman Cindy Sherman Dara Birnbaum Faith Ringgold Hannah Wilke Howardena Pindell Jay DeFeo Joan Jonas Judy Chicago Ketty La Rocca Linda Montano Lorraine O'Grady Louise Bourgeois Lygia Clark Lynda Benglis Maria Lassnig Marina Abramovič Martha Rosler Mary Beth Edelson Mary Kelly Miriam Schapiro Orlan Pauline Oliveros Senga Nengudi Susan Hiller Ulrike Rosenbach Valie Export Yoko Ono Yvonne Rainer Abigail Solomon-Godeau Catherine Lord Cornelia Butler Helen Molesworth Jenni Sorkin Judith Russi Kirshner Marsha Meskimmon Nelly Richard Peggy Phelan Richard Meyer Valerie Smith The MIT Press / Massachusetts The Museum of Contemporary Art / Los Angeles Art Feminism Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay