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

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

$58.00 - In stock -

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

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

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

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

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

Mike Kelley
99.9998% Remaining

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

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

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

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

Martin Kippenberger
The Happy-End of Franz Kafka’s 'Amerika'

2021, English
Hardcover (w. obi-strip), 292 pages, 28 x 22 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln Museum Folkwang / Essen

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A detailed documentation of Kippenberger’s epic masterpiece. Kippenberger's largest and most complex work, The Happy End of Franz Kafka’s "Amerika" explores a utopia of universal employment, based on a section from Kafka’s titular novel in which the protagonist, Karl Rossmann, applies for a job at the “biggest theater in the world”: “whoever wants to become an artist should sign up!”.

Kippenberger spent several years preparing, researching and producing the epic installation, set out on a stylized football pitch, and made up of 50 table-and-chair ensembles. Alongside classic design icons and found objects, it also includes furniture especially produced by Kippenberger, as well as pieces by numerous artist friends, including Cosima von Bonin, Tony Oursler, Ulrich Strothjohann and Jason Rhodes. This profusely illustrated hardcover publication examines the work, and includes, for the first time, “biographies” of the individual objects, tracing the contexts of their creation, collection and integration into the installation.This volume therefore constitutes the definitive documentation of The Happy End of Franz Kafka’s "Amerika" and offers a new way to approach Martin Kippenberger’s life and oeuvre.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Museum Folkwang, Essen (2021).

File under: Martin Kippenberger Cosima von Bonin Jason Rhoades Tony Oursler Ulrich Strothjohann Gisela Capitain Lisa Franzen Peter Gorschlüter Rembert Hüser Sarah Khan Walther König / Köln Museum Folkwang / Essen Art Sculpture / Installation Furniture Painting

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

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

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

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

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

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

documenta X
The Book: Politics Poetics

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

$80.00 - Out of stock

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective

2018, English
Softcover, 304 pages, 19.4 x 27.9 cm
Published by Koenig Books / London

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Edited with text by Cathleen Chaffee. Text by Rachel Adams, Vera Alemani, Constance DeJong, Diedrich Diederichsen, Anthony Elms, David Grubbs, Henriette Huldisch, Branden W. Joseph, Andrew Lampert, Christopher Müller, Annie Ochmanek, Tony Oursler, Tina Rivers Ryan, Jay Sanders, Paige Sarlin, Christopher Williams.

Tony Conrad (1940-2016) was a pioneering American avant-garde video artist, experimental filmmaker, musician, composer, sound artist, teacher, and writer.

Throughout his six-decade career he forged a unique path through numerous artistic movements and defined a vast range of culture, including rock music and public access television.

In music, Conrad was an early member of the Theatre of Eternal Music (The Dream Syndicate), which included John Cale and La Monte Young. In the early 1960s he was also influential in the origins of the iconic band, The Velvet Underground. In film, Conrad was associated with the Structuralist movement which included filmmakers such as Paul Sharits and Hollis Frampton.

This richly illustrated catalogue offers an in-depth introduction to Conrad’s life and career: presenting his early Structuralist films projects in which he treated film as a sculptural and performative material; his Invented Acoustical Tools which presented as sculptures themselves; the ambitious films about power relations, set in the military and in prison; and his final sculptures and installations, which evoke and critique what he perceived as an emerging culture of surveillance, control, and containment.

This book also includes Conrad’s own writings writings from 1966 to 2016, as well as texts by curators, theorists and notable artists such as Tony Oursler, Christopher Müller, and Christopher Williams.

Accompanying the exhibition, Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective at Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York (2018), MIT List Visual Arts Center and Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Harvard University (2018/2019), and ICA, University of Pennsylvania (2019).

File under: Tony Conrad Christopher Williams Tony Oursler Cathleen Chaffee Rachel Adams Vera Alemani Constance DeJong Diedrich Diederichsen Anthony Elms David Grubbs Henriette Huldisch Branden W. Joseph Andrew Lampert Christopher Müller Annie Ochmanek Tony Oursler Tina Rivers Ryan Jay Sanders Paige Sarlin Christopher Williams Koenig Books / London Art Sound / Music Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater

Fourth Biennale of Sydney 1982
Vision in Disbelief

1982, English
Softcover, 224 pages, 21 x 30 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / Used*,
Published by Biennale of Sydney / Sydney

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Catalogue published on the occasion of the Fourth Biennale of Sydney 1982, 7 April – 23 May 1982. Under the artistic direction of William Wright the 1982 Biennale was titled "Vision in Disbelief" and featured the work of Jörg Immendorff, Dan Graham, Brian Eno, Sue Ford, Joan Jonas, Lyndal Jones, John Baldessari, Robert Ashley, Billy Apple, Gary Hill, Fiona Hall, Philip Guston, General Idea, Bill Henson, Slave Guitars, Michael Snow, Severed Heads, Martha Rosler, Nam June Paik, Mike Parr, Tony Oursler, Davida Allen, Dale Frank, Rebecca Horn, Gareth Sansom, Lucas Samaras, Pe Kirkeby, Maria Kozik, Laughing Hands, Bertrand Lavier, Liz Magor, Anne Marsh, Markus Lupertz, William Wegman, Bill viola, Niele Toroni, Ken Unsworth, Marina Abramovic, John Ahearn, Vivienne Binns, Ian Breakwell, Georg Baselitz, Frank Auerbach, Claus Bohmler, Sydney Ball, Anti-Music, Laurie Anderson, Terry Allen, →↑→ and many more.
This catalogue includes colour and black and white examples of the work of all participating artists alongside texts and biographies.

Condition: Good – light general use/shelf wear and small marking to cover, good copy otherwise) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Jörg Immendorff Dan Graham Brian Eno Sue Ford Joan Jonas Lyndal Jones John Baldessari Robert Ashley Billy Apple Gary Hill Fiona Hall Philip Guston General Idea Bill Henson Slave Guitars Michael Snow Severed Heads Martha Rosler Nam June Paik Mike Parr Tony Oursler Davida Allen Dale Frank Rebecca Horn Gareth Sansom Lucas Samaras Laughing Hands Bertrand Lavier Liz Magor Anne Marsh Markus Lupertz William Wegman Bill viola Niele Toroni Ken Unsworth John Ahearn Vivienne Binns Ian Breakwell Georg Baselitz Frank Auerbach Claus Bohmler Sydney Ball Anti-Music Laurie Anderson Terry Allen →↑→ Marina Abramovič Per Kirkeby Maria Kozic Biennale of Sydney / Sydney Art Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Group Shows / Collections Painting

Tony Oursler + Mike Kelley
Poetics Project

1997, English / Japanese
Hardcover (cardboard box covers w. glued in booklets, fold-outs, inserts), 84 pages plus fold-outs, 12.5 x 14 cm
1st edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by Wateri Museum of Contemporary Art / Tokyo

$90.00 - Out of stock

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Very scarce Tony Oursler + Mike Kelley exhibition catalogue / artists' book published in conjunction with a major two-person exhibition held 1997 - 1998 in Tokyo. Includes colour installation images of the exhibition as installed at Documenta X, June 21 - September 28, 1997. "The ongoing 'Poetics Project' serves up a rich mix of visual and aural experiences, while inviting viewers to question the reliability of the shows as history. Artist Mike Kelley says, 'If you don't create your own history, someone else will." Kelley and Tony Oursler's the 'Poetics Project 1977-1997' is a retrospective work that draws from their collaborative efforts in painting, video, sculpture, drawing and music. Although the ostensible subject of this project is Kelley and Oursler's early experiences as performers in a loose-knit musical group called the Poetics, its broader concerns are the processes by which history is constructed, and the reciprocal relationship between the fine arts and popular culture. The conflation of past and present in the 'Poetics Project' makes it difficult at first for the viewer to penetrate the work. Video installations and taped interviews with visual artists, rock musicians and critics are intermingled with paintings, sculptures and stacks of drawings. A precise checklist and diagram prepared by Kelley and Oursler methodically pinpoint the authorship of each work, while serving as a serf-guided tour and critical record of the project. Only with this didactic help do viewers come to realize that the 'Poetics Project' is almost entirely made up of works created in 1997 and 1998, though based on what Kelley and Oursler tell us is a single notebook of sketches and a collection of audio recordings--some little more than notations for never-performed works--which date from the late 1970s and early '80s (the Poetics disbanded in 1983). Filled with irony and steeped in serf-reflexive practice, this work builds upon the radical autobiographical prose of William S. Burroughs and art works and performances by artists such as John Baldessari, Allan Kaprow and Andy Warhol. Reminiscent of Warhol's A:A Novel, which records one day in the life of the artist in 384 pages, the 'Poetics Project' is an expanding template of art works which explores how the past can be reconstructed to shed light on the present." -- Diane Shamash, Art in America, October 1998

First and only edition of this unique Japanese publication from these two American artists. Cardboard covers feature decal artwork reproducing the Oursler/Kelley collaborative artwork "Poetics Country", 1997.

Condition: Very Good (tight, clean copy throughout with only light wear) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Mike Kelley Tony Oursler Mike Kelley Tony Oursler Wateri Museum of Contemporary Art / Tokyo Art Drawing Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Theory / Essay

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

Invisible Adversaries
edited by Lauren Cornell

2016, English
Hardcover, 312 pages, 22 x 29 cm
Published by Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College / New York

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'Invisible Adversaries' was a major exhibition curated by Lauren Cornell and Tom Eccles inspired by the 1976 feature film by the radical Austrian artist Valie Export. The film presents a woman’s struggle to retain her sense of self against hostile alien forces that appear increasingly ubiquitous, colonizing the minds of all those around her. Motifs from the film – among them, architecture’s influence on identity; feminist critique; and the power of political fantasy – operate as filters through which to consider significant pieces from the Marieluise Hessel Collection.

With works by over 50 artists including Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Chantal Akerman, Kai Althoff, Janine Antoni, Ida Applebroog, Phyllida Barlow, Lynda Benglis, Barbara Bloom, Paul Chan, Patty Chang, Anne Collier, Rineke Dijkstra, Trisha Donnelly, VALIE EXPORT, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Isa Genzken, Liam Gillick, K8 Hardy, Rachel Harrison, Mona Hatoum, Roni Horn, Emily Jacir, Annette Kelm, Leigh Ledare, Nikki S. Lee, Sarah Lucas, Tala Madani, Christian Marclay, Helen Marten, Ulrike Müller, Bruce Nauman, Tony Oursler, Philippe Parreno, William Pope.L, Seth Price, Magali Reus, Rachel Rose, Thomas Ruff, Ilene Segalove, Cindy Sherman, Stephen Shore, Diane Simpson, Lorna Simpson, Jo Spence, Hito Steyerl, Tunga, Gillian Wearing, Martha Wilson, and Krzysztof Wodiczko, amongst others.

This 300-page publication designed by Zak Group with original essays by nine influential writers, scholars and artists: Zach Blas, Johanna Fateman, Nav Haq, Vít Havránek, J. Hoberman, Alex Kitnick, Tavia Nyong’O, Lauren O’Neill-Butler, and Julian Rose. The catalogue also includes original interviews with VALIE EXPORT, Trevor Paglen, and Hito Steyerl.

File under: Anne Collier Annette Kelm Barbara Bloom Bruce Nauman Chantal Akerman Christian Marclay Cindy Sherman Diane Simpson Eija-Liisa Ahtila Emily Jacir Gillian Wearing Hans-Peter Feldmann Helen Marten Hito Steyerl Ida Applebroog Ilene Segalove Isa Genzken Janine Antoni Jo Spence K8 Hardy Kai Althoff Krzysztof Wodiczko Leigh Ledare Liam Gillick Lorna Simpson Lynda Benglis Magali Reus Martha Wilson Mona Hatoum Nikki S. Lee Patty Chang Paul Chan Philippe Parreno Phyllida Barlow Rachel Harrison Rachel Rose Rineke Dijkstra Roni Horn Sarah Lucas Seth Price Stephen Shore Tala Madani Thomas Ruff Tony Oursler Trisha Donnelly Tunga Ulrike Müller Valie Export William Pope.L Alex Kitnick J. Hoberman Johanna Fateman Julian Rose Lauren Cornell Lauren O’Neill-Butler Nav Haq Tavia Nyong’o Vit Havranek Zach Blas Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College / New York Art Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Photography Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections

Kim's Bedroom
by Kim Gordon

2000, English
1st Edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by Purple Books / Paris

$160.00 - Out of stock

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The great Kim Gordon hardcover book and CD from Purple Books, published in 2000 to accompany the exhibition 'Kim's Bedroom', curated by Kim Gordon at Mu - De Witte Dame, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Superbly balanced range of work from Gordon herself, along with Mike Kelley, Raymond Pettibon, Spike Jonze, Sofia Coppola, Jutta Koether, Susan Cianciolo, Rita Ackermann, Sadie Benning, Thurston Moore, Tamra Davis, Mark Gonzalez, Kathleen Hanna, Cameron Jamie, Richard Kern, Dave Markey, Loren Mazzacane Connors, Tony Oursler and many more.
CD is included with the book/catalogue "Kim's Bedroom" published for the exhibition 'Kim's Bedroom', curated by Kim Gordon at Mu - De Witte Dame, Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

From the press release: "In Kim's Bedroom, conceptualizer and guest curator Kim Gordon introduces the spectator to an extraordinary, personal world in which visual arts, photography, film/video, fashion and music have come together. The project included an exhibition, a music performance, and a film night. During the opening of the exhibition, a publication designed by the Paris-based 'Purple' was presented. This publication contains works by most of the artists participating in Kim's Bedroom, plus a CD."

CD includes tracks by: Mike Kelley, John Fahey, Laetitia Sadier, Kim Gordon, Ikue Mori, DJ Olive, Cat Power, Raymond Pettibon, Andrew Tull, Raymond Pettibon, Jutta Koether, Jim O'Rourke, Ikue Mori, Adris Hoyos, Tom Verlaine, Loren Mazzacane Connors, Yoshimi P. We, Rita Ackermann, Atari (Boredoms), David Nuss (No Neck Blues Band), Yoshida (Psycho Ba Ba) and Shoji (Japan Overseas).

Condition: Very Good (tight, clean copy with only light cover wear, includes CD in new condition) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Adris Hoyos Andrew Tull Boredoms Cameron Jamie Cat Power Dave Markey David Nuss Ikue Mori Jim O'Rourke John Fahey Jutta Koether Kathleen Hanna Kim Gordon Laetitia Sadier Loren Mazzacane Connors Mark Gonzales Mike Kelley No Neck Blues Band Raymond Pettibon Richard Kern Rita Ackermann Sadie Benning Sofia Coppola Spike Jonze Susan Cianciolo Tamra Davis Thurston Moore Tom Verlaine Tony Oursler Yoshimi P. We Mike Kelley Purple Books / Paris Art Fashion Out-of-print / Rare Photography Sound / Music

Kim Gordon
Is It My Body?: Selected Texts

2014, English
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 182 pages (36 b/w ills.), 12 x 19 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

$24.00 - Out of stock

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Edited by Branden W. Joseph

Throughout the 1980s and early ’90s, Kim Gordon—widely known as a founding member of the influential band Sonic Youth—produced a series of writings on art and music. Ranging from neo-Conceptual artworks to broader forms of cultural criticism, these rare texts are brought together in this volume for the first time, placing Gordon’s writing within the context of the artist-critics of her generation, including Mike Kelley, John Miller, and Dan Graham. In addressing key stakes within contemporary art, architecture, music, and the performance of male and female gender roles, Gordon provides a prescient analysis of such figures as Kelley, Glenn Branca, Rhys Chatham, Tony Oursler, and Raymond Pettibon, in addition to reflecting on her own position as a woman on stage. The result—Is It My Body?—is a collection that feels as timely now as when it was written. This volume additionally features a conversation between Gordon and Jutta Koether, in which they discuss their collaborations in art, music, and performance.

Institut für Kunstkritik series
Design by Surface

File under: Dan Graham Glenn Branca John Miller Jutta Koether Kim Gordon Mike Kelley Raymond Pettibon Rhys Chatham Tony Oursler Branden W. Joseph Kim Gordon Sternberg Press / Berlin Art