World Food Books

Minimal Art : A Critical Anthology
Edited by Gregory Battcock

1968, English
Softcover, 448 pages, 20 x 13.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average

$30.00 - Out of stock

Battock's definitive 1968 collection of writings by and about the work of the 1960s minimalists, generously illustrated with photographs of paintings, sculpture, and performance, published by E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc., New York.

A collection of twenty-eight seminal essays by both critics and artists across over 400 pages, analyzing all aspects of Minimal Art at it's height in the late 1960s. Includes Lawrence Alloway (Systemic Painting), Mel Bochner (Serial Art, Systems, Solipsism), David Bourdon (The Razed Sites of Carl Andre), Nicolas Calas (Subject Matter in the Work of Barnett Newman), Bruce Glaser (Questions to Frank Stella and Donald Judd), Lucy R. Lippard (Eros Presumptive), John Perreault (Minimal Abstracts), Irving Sandler (Gesture and Non-Gesture in Recent Sculpture), Peter Hutchinson (Mannerism in the Abstract0, Willoughby Sharp (Luminism and Kineticism), Elayne Varian (Schemata 7), Richard Wollheim (Minimal Art), and texts by Martial Raysse, Michael Fried, Clement Greenberg, Dan Flavin, Robert Smithson, and more.

Heavily illustrated throughout with 170 photographs featuring the work of Sol LeWitt, Lee Bontecou, Donald Judd, Hanne Darboven, Carl Andre, Claes Oldenburg, Yves Klein, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, John Chamberlain, Agnes Martin, Christo, Barnett Newman, Ellsworth Kelly, Edward Kienholz, Anne Truitt, Joseph Kosuth, Piet Mondrian, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Marcel Duchamp, Chryssa, Anthony Caro, Dan Flavin, Robert Smithson, Frank Stella, Robert Barry, Larry Bell, Carlo Belloli, William Anastasi, Richard Artschwager, Ronald Balden, John Cage, Walter De Maria, Stephen Antonakos, Walter Darby Bannard, Allan D'Arcangelo, Stuart Davis, Mark di Suvero, Helen Frankenthaler, Jim Dine, Al Held, Dan Graham, Robert Grosvenor, Hans Haacke, Ralph Humphrey, Eva Hesse, Douglas Huebler, Will Insley, Patricia Johanson, Allan Kaprow, Roy Lichtenstein, Morris Louis, Robert Mangold, Brice Marden, Yvonne Rainer, Julio Le Parc, David Smith, Richard Tuttle, Tony Smith, Keith Sonnier, James Raphael Soto, Clyfford Still, Les Levine, Victor Vasarely, Ad Reinhardt, John McCracken, Robert Morris, Kenneth Noland, Robert Whitman, Jules Olitski, Milton Resnick, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jackson Pollock, Larry Poons, Jack Youngerman, George Rickey, Dorothea Rockburne, James Rosenquist, Edward Ruscha, Jan van Eyck, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann, and many others.

Good with general wear and previous owner underlining / notation. Ex-library.

File under: Mel Bochner Martial Raysse Sol LeWitt Lee Bontecou Donald Judd Carl Andre Jasper Johns Robert Rauschenberg Barnett Newman Piet Mondrian Marcel Duchamp Anthony Caro Dan Flavin Robert Smithson Frank Stella Hanne Darboven Claes Oldenburg Yves Klein John Chamberlain Agnes Martin Christo Ellsworth Kelly Edward Kienholz Anne Truitt Joseph Kosuth Richard Anuszkiewicz Chryssa Robert Barry Larry Bell Carlo Belloli William Anastasi Richard Artschwager Ronald Balden John Cage Walter De Maria Stephen Antonakos Walter Darby Bannard Allan D'Arcangelo Stuart Davis Mark di Suvero Helen Frankenthaler Jim Dine Al Held Dan Graham Robert Grosvenor Hans Haacke Ralph Humphrey Eva Hesse Douglas Huebler Will Insley Patricia Johanson Allan Kaprow Roy Lichtenstein Morris Louis Robert Mangold Brice Marden Yvonne Rainer Julio Le Parc David Smith Richard Tuttle Tony Smith Keith Sonnier James Raphael Soto Clyfford Still Les Levine Victor Vasarely Ad Reinhardt John McCracken Robert Morris Kenneth Noland Robert Whitman Jules Olitski Milton Resnick Michelangelo Pistoletto Jackson Pollock Larry Poons Jack Youngerman George Rickey Dorothea Rockburne James Rosenquist Edward Ruscha Jan van Eyck Andy Warhol Tom Wesselmann Gregory Battcock Richard Wollheim Elayne Varian David Bourdon Irving Sandler Clement Greenberg Dan Flavin Robert Smithson Lawrence Alloway Willoughby Sharp Lucy R. Lippard John Perreault Bruce Glaser Nicolas Calas Michael Fried Eugene Goossen Peter Hutchinson Minimal Art Conceptual Art Theory / Essay Art Sculpture / Installation Painting Drawing Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater

Merce Cunningham

1975, English
Softcover, 220 pages, 27 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by E P Dutton / New York

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First 1975 edition of "Merce Cunningham", published by E P Dutton, New York.

Between 1967 and 1972, editor/photographer James Klosty traveled with and documented the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (MCDC). As the partner of dancer Carolyn Brown, he had unprecedented access to Cunningham, John Cage, and the Company as a whole, and his stunning photographs - first published here in his 1975 book - provide a unique, riveting, and intimate insight into both the work, and life on tour. Includes incredible documentation of the rehearsals, recitals and lives of Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Features contributions by Cunningham's close collaborators, dancers, composers, peers, including : Carolyn Brown, Viola Farber, Yvonne Rainer, Douglas Dunn, Paul Taylor, Richard Nelson, Lewis L Lloyd, John Cage, Gordon Mumma, Earle Brown, Pauline Oliveros, Christian Wolff, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Lincoln Kirstein, and Edwin Denby. Introduction by James Klosty.

A Very Good - Fine copy of the first edition.

File under: Merce Cunningham Carolyn Brown Viola Farber Yvonne Rainer Douglas Dunn Paul Taylor Richard Nelson Lewis L Lloyd John Cage Gordon Mumma Earle Brown Pauline Oliveros Christian Wolff Robert Rauschenberg Jasper Johns Lincoln Kirstein James Klosty E P Dutton / New York Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Photography Out-of-print / Rare Art

Is the Living Body the Last Thing Left Alive? : The New Performance Turn, Its Histories and Its Institutions
Edited by Cosmin Costinaș, Ana Janevski

2018, English
Hardcover, 240 pages, 22 x 28 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin Para Site / Hong Kong

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Contributions by Belkis Ayón, Claire Bishop, Boris Buden, Amy Cheng, Bojana Cvejić, Adrienne Edwards, Patrick D. Flores, Gauri Gill, Simryn Gill, Inti Guerrero, Tetsuya Ishida, Eisa Jocson, Firenze Lai, André Lepecki, Xavier Le Roy, Miguel A. López, Carol Yinghua Lu, Rabih Mroué, Ruth Noack, Fernanda Nogueira, Manuel Pelmuș, Goran Sergej Pristaš, Nelly Richard, David Riff, Emily Roysdon, Simon Soon, Mårten Spångberg, Catherine Wood, Yangjiang Group, Anthony Yung

The choreographic turn in the visual arts from 1958 to 1965 can be identified by the sudden emergence of works created by very different visual artists in very different places—artists such as Allan Kaprow, Robert Morris, Carolee Schneeman, and Robert Rauschenberg in the United States; Lygia Pape and Hélio Oiticica in Brazil; the Gutai group in Japan; and Yves Klein in France. Each explicitly or implicitly used dance or choreographic procedures to reinvent, reimagine, and reimage how the visual arts produced and conceived its images and objects—and therefore conceived itself both as practice and as discourse. Dedicated to the renewed encounter between dance and performance and the institutions of global contemporary art, Is the Living Body the Last Thing Left Alive? proposes that a “new performance turn” has emerged in the second decade of the century, and looks at its correlations with other shifts in practices, discourses, and broader society.

The new performance turn is closely related to, on one hand, the increasing tendency to bring contemporary dance into the museum, with more artists working in and around dance, and more museums, art centers, and biennials striving to deepen their commitment to performance in order to develop new aesthetic forms and new modes of production; on the other hand, this “turn” is also related to specific developments in dance and choreography that took place in the mid-1990s. This publication tries to think about performance as more than a medium, beyond its liveness and ephemerality, and rather as a series of questions and reflections about how art mediates social relations among people.

Is the Living Body the Last Thing Left Alive? is expanded from the eponymous 2014 conference organized by Para Site.

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File under: Belkis Ayón Claire Bishop Boris Buden Amy Cheng Bojana Cvejić Adrienne Edwards Patrick D. Flores Gauri Gill Simryn Gill Inti Guerrero Tetsuya Ishida Eisa Jocson Firenze Lai André Lepecki Xavier Le Roy Miguel A. López Carol Yinghua Lu Rabih Mroué Ruth Noack Fernanda Nogueira Manuel Pelmuș Goran Sergej Pristaš Nelly Richard David Riff Emily Roysdon Simon Soon Mårten Spångberg Catherine Wood Yangjiang Group Anthony Yung Yvonne Rainer Oskar Schlemmer Allan Kaprow Jo Spence Vito Acconci Mark Leckey Suzanne Lacy Gerard Byrne Mladen Stilinovic Paulina Olowska Vaslav Nijinsky Cosmin Costinaș Ana Janevski Sternberg Press / Berlin Para Site / Hong Kong Theory / Essay Art Performance / Dance / Theater Curatorial Feminism SALE

Yvonne Rainer
Moving And Being Moved

2017, English
Softcover, 128 pages, 20 x 28 cm
Published by Roma / Amsterdam

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Edited by Yvonne Rainer, this selection of texts and images by Rainer and various authors offers a retrospective portrait of her work, focusing on some of her most notable performances and projects from both the late 1960s (‘Trio A’, ‘The Mind Is a Muscle’) and since her return to dance with the White Oak Dance Project in 2000. Rainer is known for her challengingly experimental and sometimes minimalist work as a dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker, which spearheaded the rise of postmodern dance. An essay by Rainer frames things from the perspective of an ageing dancer who is aware of her physical limitations. With a conversation between Rainer and dancer Trisha Brown.

File under: Yvonne Rainer Trisha Brown Yvonne Rainer Roma / Amsterdam Art Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay

The Concrete Body : Yvonne Rainer, Carolee Schneemann, Vito Acconci
by Elise Archias

2017, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 240 pages, 20.3 x 25 cm
Published by Yale University Press / New Haven

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Offering an incisive rejoinder to traditional histories of modernism and postmodernism, this original book examines the 1960s performance work of three New York artists who adapted modernist approaches to form for the medium of the human body.

Finding parallels between the tactility of a drip of paint and a body's reflexive movements, Elise Archias argues convincingly that Yvonne Rainer (b. 1934), Carolee Schneemann (b. 1939), and Vito Acconci (b. 1940) forged a dialogue between modernist aesthetics and their own artistic community's embrace of all things ordinary through work that explored the abstraction born of the body's materiality. Rainer's task-like dances, Schneemann's sensuous appropriations of popular entertainment, and Acconci's behaviorist-inflected tests highlight the body's unintended movements as vital reminders of embodied struggle amid the constraining structures in contemporary culture. Archias also draws compelling comparisons between embodiment as performed in the work of these three artists and in the sit-ins and other nonviolent protests of the era.

File under: Carolee Schneemann Vito Acconci Yvonne Rainer Elise Archias Yale University Press / New Haven Art Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay

Boredom
Edited by Tom McDonough

2017, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 21 x 23 cm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts Whitechapel / London

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Without boredom, arguably there is no modernity. The current sense of the word emerged simultaneously with industrialization, mass politics, and consumerism. From Manet onwards, when art represents the everyday within modern life, encounters with tedium are inevitable. And starting with modernism’s retreat into abstraction through subsequent demands placed on audiences, from the late 1960s to the present, the viewer’s endurance of repetition, slowness or other forms of monotony has become an anticipated feature of gallery-going.

In contemporary art, boredom is no longer viewed as a singular experience; rather, it is contingent on diverse social identifications and cultural positions, and exists along a spectrum stretching from a malign condition to be struggled against to an something to be embraced or explored as a site of resistance. This anthology contextualizes the range of boredoms associated with our neoliberal moment, taking a long view that encompasses the political critique of boredom in 1960s France; the simultaneous aesthetic embrace in the United States of silence, repetition, or indifference in Fluxus, Pop, Minimalism and conceptual art; the development of feminist diagnoses of malaise in art, performance, and film; punk’s social critique and its influence on theories of the postmodern; and the recognition, beginning at the end of the 1980s, of a specific form of ennui experienced in former communist states. Today, with the emergence of new forms of labor alienation and personal intrusion, deadening forces extend even further into subjective experience, making the divide between a critical and an aesthetic use of boredom ever more tenuous.

Artists surveyed include:
Chantal Akerman, Francis Alÿs, John Baldessari, Vanessa Beecroft, Bernadette Corporation, John Cage, Critical Art Ensemble, Merce Cunningham, Marcel Duchamp, Fischli & Weiss, Claire Fontaine, Dick Higgins, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, Ilya Kabakov, Boris Mikhailov, Robert Morris, John Pilson, Sigmar Polke, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, Ad Reinhardt, Gerhard Richter, Situationist International, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Andy Warhol, Faith Wilding, Janet Zweig

Writers include:
Ina Blom, Nicolas Bourriaud, Jennifer Doyle, Alla Efimova, Jonathan Flatley, Julian Jason Haladyn, The Invisible Committee, Jonathan D. Katz, Chris Kraus, Tan Lin, Sven Lütticken, John Miller, Agné Narušyté, Sianne Ngai, Peter Osborne, Patrice Petro, Christine Ross, Moira Roth, David Foster Wallace, Aleksandr Zinovyev

About the Author
Tom McDonough is Associate Professor of Art History at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He is the author of “The Beautiful Language of My Century”: Reinventing the Language of Contestation in Postwar France, 1945–1968 (MIT Press)

From the "Documents of Contemporary Art" series.

File under: Ad Reinhardt Andy Warhol Bernadette Corporation Boris Mikhailov Chantal Akerman Claire Fontaine Critical Art Ensemble David Weiss Dick Higgins Donald Judd Faith Wilding Francis Alÿs Gerhard Richter Ilya Kabakov Janet Zweig Jasper Johns John Baldessari John Cage John Pilson Marcel Duchamp Merce Cunningham Mierle Laderman Ukeles Peter Fischli Peter Fischli & David Weiss Robert Morris Robert Rauschenberg Sigmar Polke Situationist International Vanessa Beecroft Yvonne Rainer Agné Narušyté Aleksandr Zinovyev Alla Efimova Chris Kraus Christine Ross David Foster Wallace Ina Blom Jennifer Doyle John Miller Jonathan D. Katz Jonathan Flatley Julian Jason Haladyn Moira Roth Nicolas Bourriaud Patrice Petro Peter Osborne Sianne Ngai Sven Lütticken Tan Lin The Invisible Committee Tom McDonough The MIT Press / Massachusetts Whitechapel / London Art Sound / Music Theory / Essay

ARTFORUM
LOOKING CRITICALLY: 21 YEARS OF ARTFORUM MAGAZINE

1984, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 342 pages, 270 x 280 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / Used*,
Published by U.M.I. Research Press / Michigan

$150.00 - Out of stock

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First, hardcover edition of "LOOKING CRITICALLY: 21 YEARS OF ARTFORUM MAGAZINE", the heavy 342 page volume anthology of the first 21 years of the world's most important modern and art journal. An incredibly valuable collection of art theory.

Edited by Amy Baker Sandback, designed by Roger Gorman and Mary Beath and published in 1984 by U.M.I. Research Press, this dense volume, bound in hardcover to the dimensions of a copy of ARTFORUM, begins with an Ed Kienholz review at the Ferus Gallery from ARTFORUM's June 1962 inaugural issue, and ends with Barbara Kruger reviewing the film "TRON" for the November 1982 issue. An amazing compendium of articles and reviews from the magazine's important first 21 years, featuring contributions by the likes of John Cage, Robert Morris, Kate Steinitz, Henry T. Hopkins, Don Factor, Robert Pincus-Witten, Dennis Adrian, John Coplans, Hilton Kramer, Harold Rosenberg, Henry Geldzahler, John Cage, Walter Hopps, Ed Ruscha, Allan Kaprow, Robert Rosenblum, Dan Flavin, Boris Groys, Sam Wagstaff, Billy Kluver, Lucy R. Lippard, Robert Rosenblum, Roger Shattuck, Ad Reinhardt, Mel Bochner, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Barbara Rose, Manny Farber, Michael Fried, Robert Morris, Philip Leider, Hollis Frampton, Carl Andre, Richard Serra, Lawrence Alloway, Barbara Kruger, Jane Livingston, Lizzie Borden, Kenneth Baker, Laurie Anderson, Agnes Martin, Cindy Nemser, Sidney Tillim, Annette Michelson, Rosalind Krauss, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Roberta Smith, Peter Plagens, Peter Schjeldahl, J. Hoberman, Hal Foster, Richard Flood, Carter Ratcliff, Stuart Morgan, Max Kozloff, Donald Kuspit, Dan Graham, Walter De Maria, Komar & Melamid, Edit De Ak, Lawrence Weiner, Kathy Acker, Robert Mapplethorpe, Anselm Kiefer, Thomas McEvilley, Louise Bourgeois, Ingrid Sischy, and too many more to list. Artists featured include: Josef Albers, Richard Tuttle, Jo Baer, Carl Andre, Ant Farm, Hans Arp, Max Bill, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Lee Bontecou, Constantin Brancusi, Bertholt Brecht, Richard Avedon, Francis Bacon, Diane Arbus, Michaelangelo Antonioni, Lynda Beglis, Larry Bell, Terry Fox, James Byers, Rober Barry, Marcel Breuer, AA Bronson, Luis Buñel, Daniel Buren, Chris Burden, Joseph Beuys, Anthony Caro, Marcel Broodthaers, John Chamberlain, Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall, Jean Cocteau, Merce Cunningham, Sonia Delauney, Walter de Maria, Bruce Connor, Jean Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Walker Evans, Dan Flavin, Marcel Duchamp, Albrecht Dürer, Lucio Fontana, Hollis Frampton, Alberto Giacometti, Eva Hesse, Gilbert & George, Philip Glass, John Cage, Nancy Graves, Dan Graham, Robert Grosvenor, Nancy Grossman, Walter Gropius, Hans Haacke, Hairy Who, David Hockney, Douglas Huebler, Jorg Immendorff, Donald Judd, Jasper Johns, Joan Jonas, Allan Kaprow, On Kawara, Ellsworth Kelly, Edward Keinholz, Paul Klee, Alison Knowles, Joseph Kosuth, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, André Masson, Henri Matisse, Roberto Matta, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Barbara Kruger, Jannis Kounellis, Markus Lüpertz, El Lissitzky, Rene Magritte, Robert Mapplethorpe, John McCracken, Mario Merz, Robert Morris, Robert Motherwell, Ree Morton, Louise Nevelson, Barnett Newman, Kenneth Noland, Claes Oldenburg, Eduardo Paolozzio, A. R. Penck, Irving Penn, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Larry Poons, Ken Price, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, Martial Raysse, Roman Polanski, Jackson Pollock, Steve Reich, Gerrit Rietveld, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Dorothae Rockburne, James Rosenquist, Mark Rothko, Robert Ryman, Lucas Samaras, Kurt Schwitters, Oscar Schlemmer, Richard Serra, Cindy Sherman, David Smith, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Robert Venturi, Wolf Vostell, Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, Saul Steinberg, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Bruno Taut, Jean Tinguely, Anne Truitt, Paul Wunderlich, Lawrence Weiner, Louise Bourgeois, Alfred Hitchcock, and so many more.

Very uncommon hardcover edition, with dust jacket.

Condition: Very Good (light wear to very good book and dust jacket, protected under acid-free plastic wrap. Small ex-library markings, stickers) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: A.R. Penck AA Bronson Agnes Martin Alain Robbe-Grillet Alberto Giacometti Albrecht Dürer Alfred Hitchcock Alighiero Boetti Alison Knowles Allan Kaprow André Masson Andy Warhol Anne Truitt Ant Farm Anthony Caro Barbara Kruger Barnett Newman Brice Marden Bruce Conner Bruno Taut Carl Andre Chris Burden Cindy Sherman Claes Oldenburg Constantin Brâncuși Dan Flavin Dan Graham Daniel Buren David Hockney David Smith Diane Arbus Donald Judd Dorothea Rockburne Douglas Huebler Edward Kienholz El Lissitzky Ellsworth Kelly Eva Hesse Francis Bacon Francis Picabia Frank Stella Gerrit Rietveld Hairy Who Hans Haacke Henri Matisse Hollis Frampton Irving Penn Jackson Pollock James Rosenquist Jannis Kounellis Jasper Johns Jean Cocteau Jean Dubuffet Jean Tinguely Jo Baer Joan Jonas John Cage John Chamberlain John McCracken Jörg Immendorff Josef Albers Joseph Beuys Joseph Kosuth Karlheinz Stockhausen Ken Price Kenneth Noland Kurt Schwitters Larry Bell Larry Poons Lawrence Weiner Lee Bontecou Louise Bourgeois Louise Nevelson Lucas Samaras Lucio Fontana Luis Buñuel Lynda Benglis Marc Chagall Marcel Breuer Marcel Broodthaers Marcel Duchamp Mario Merz Mark Rothko Markus Lupertz Martial Raysse Max Bill Max Ernst Mel Bochner Michael Snow Nancy Graves Nancy Grossman On Kawara Pablo Picasso Paul Cézanne Paul Klee Paul Wunderlich Philip Glass Ree Morton René Magritte Richard Avedon Richard Serra Richard Tuttle Robert Grosvenor Robert Mapplethorpe Robert Morris Robert Motherwell Robert Rauschenberg Robert Ryman Robert Smithson Robert Venturi Roberto Matta Roman Polanski Roy Lichtenstein Saul Steinberg Sol Lewitt Sonia Delaunay Steve Reich Terry Fox Walker Evans Walter de Maria Walter Gropius Wolf Vostell Yvonne Rainer Michelangelo Antonioni Jean Arp (Hans Arp) James Lee Byars Merce Cunningham Oskar Schlemmer Gilbert & George Robert Barry Eduardo Paolozzi Ad Reinhardt Agnes Martin Allan Kaprow Andy Warhol Annette Michelson Anselm Kiefer Barbara Kruger Barbara Rose Billy Kluver Boris Groys Carl Andre Carter Ratcliff Cindy Nemser Claes Oldenburg Dan Flavin Dan Graham Dennis Adrian Don Factor Donald Kuspit Ed Ruscha Edit De Ak Hal Foster Harold Rosenberg Henry Geldzahler Henry T. Hopkins Hilton Kramer Hollis Frampton Ingrid Sischy J. Hoberman Jane Livingston Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe John Cage John Coplans Kate Steinitz Kathy Acker Kenneth Baker Laurie Anderson Lawrence Alloway Lawrence Weiner Lizzie Borden Louise Bourgeois Lucy R. Lippard Manny Farber Max Kozloff Mel Bochner Michael Fried Peter Plagens Peter Schjeldahl Philip Leider Richard Flood Richard Serra Robert Mapplethorpe Robert Morris Robert Pincus-Witten Robert Rosenblum Roberta Smith Roger Shattuck Roy Lichtenstein Sam Wagstaff Sidney Tillim Stuart Morgan Thomas McEvilley Walter De Maria Walter Hopps Rosalind E. Krauss Bertolt Brecht U.M.I. Research Press / Michigan Art Arte Povera Conceptual Art Counterculture Curatorial Dada Drawing Fashion Feminism Fiction / Poetry Film / Video Fluxus Group Shows / Collections Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals Photography Pop Art Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Theory / Essay

Performing the Sentence
Research and Teaching in Performative Fine Arts

2014, English
Softcover, 224 pages (b/w ill.), 16.5 x 22 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

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Contributions by Philip Auslander, Sabeth Buchmann, Margarit von Büren, Barbara Clausen, Carola Dertnig, Andrea Fraser, Sabine Gebhardt Fink, Simone Forti, Sabina Holzer, Amelia Jones, Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Marie-Luise Lange, Suzana Milevska, Lilo Nein, Susanne Neuburger, Yvonne Rainer, Constanze Ruhm, Dietmar Schwärzler, Stefanie Seibold, Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein, Mechtild Widrich, Martha Wilson Performing the Sentence brings into dialogue the ways that “performative thinking” has developed in different national and institutional contexts, within different disciplines in the arts, and the conditions under which it has developed in experimental art schools. This anthology is a collection of twenty-one essays and conversations that weave in and out of the two key areas of research and teaching within performative fine arts. They bring to light the conventions involved in the production, presentation, reception, and historicization of performance art, as well as the specific cultural and political implications. The various contributions also show how these conventions are produced through or within each artwork, independent from their specific contexts, offering ways of thinking beyond their usual frames of reference. At the same time they recognize the substantial work carried out by artists, critics, and theorists who have built on the meanings, references, and implications of performative thinking since the beginning of the “performative turn.” Publication Series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, vol. 13 Design by Surface

File under: Andrea Fraser Simone Forti Yvonne Rainer Amelia Jones Andrea Fraser Barbara Clausen Carola Dertnig Carrie Lambert-Beatty Constanze Ruhm Dietmar Schwärzler Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein Lilo Nein Margarit von Büren Marie-Luise Lange Martha Wilson Mechtild Widrich Philip Auslander Sabeth Buchmann Sabina Holzer Sabine Gebhardt Fink Simone Forti Stefanie Seibold Susanne Neuburger Suzana Milevska Yvonne Rainer Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Theory / Essay

The Contemporary, the Common: Art in a Globalizing World
by Chantal Pontbriand

2013, English
Softcover, 456 pages (115 color and 30 b/w ills.),15.5 x 22 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

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The essays in this collection were written in the first decade of the new millennium by the critic, editor, and curator Chantal Pontbriand. Pontbriand examines themes of being-in-common in today’s world and their relation to the development of art practices. As these practices are implemented, other ways of seeing, understanding, and making appear. Contemporaneity functions as a flow, a space-time being that cannot be fixated. The body is in the forefront—a thermometer of the world lived in and with, marked by dynamics of change and sharing.

The work of Claire Fontaine, Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno, Ion Grigorescu, Carsten Höller, Mike Kelley, Sigalit Landau, Rabih Mroué, Yvonne Rainer, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Jeff Wall, among other artists, is examined in this book, together with Pontbriand’s insights into the seminal issues stirring the field of contemporary art.

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File under: Carsten Höller Claire Fontaine Douglas Gordon Ion Grigorescu Jeff Wall Mike Kelley Philippe Parreno Rabih Mroué Rirkrit Tiravanija Sigalit Landau Yvonne Rainer Chantal Pontbriand Sternberg Press / Berlin Art 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

Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia?

2012, English
Softcover, 526 pages (282 colour ill.), 210 x 277 mm
Published by Walther König / Köln

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"Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia?" is a reader that brings together essays, artists' writings and works, and countercultural publications to examine the juncture of the political and the erotic during the 1960s and 70s. Adopting as its starting point the postwar perception of Scandinavia as a socialist utopia of sexual freedom, it explores how the avant-garde artistic and cultural production of the time gravitated towards sexual and political liberation. "Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia?" is the conclusion of a four-year research project, and includes many texts published in English here for the first time, by philosophers, artists, psychologists and theorists such as Knut Ove Arntzen, Stan Brakhage, Norman O. Brown, Valie Export, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Herbert Marcuse, Jonas Mekas, Henry Miller, Juliet Mitchell, Katti Anker Moller, Jorgen Nash, Havard Friis Nilsen, Claes Oldenburg, Elise Ottesen-Jensen, Wilhelm Reich, Yvonne Rainer, Jacqueline Rose, Barney Rosset, Barbara Rubin, Jens Jorgen Thorsen and Otto Weininger.

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