World Food Books

Vision and Visuality: Discussions in Contemporary Culture #2
Edited by Hal Foster

1988, English
Softcover, 136 pages, 20.5 x 13.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by Dia Art Foundation / New York

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A Village Voice Best Book of the Year, this seminal work presents new models of vision and examines modern theories of seeing in the context of contemporary critical practice.

With contributions by: Norman Bryson, Jonathan Crary, Martin Jay, Rosalind Krauss, Jacqueline Rose

Discussions in Contemporary Culture is an award-winning series co-published with the Dia Center for the Arts in New York City. These volumes offer rich and timely discourses on a broad range of cultural issues and critical theory. The collection covers topics from urban planning to popular culture and literature, and continually attracts a wide and dedicated readership.

Average—Good copy with tanning to spine and wear to extremities.

File under: Norman Bryson Jonathan Crary Martin Jay Rosalind Krauss Jacqueline Rose Hal Foster Dia Art Foundation / New York Theory / Essay Art Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Curatorial Out-of-print / Rare Painting Photography Film / Video Dada

Minimal Art in Australia

1987, English
Softcover, 46 pages, 27.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by MOCA / Brisbane

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Rare catalogue for the 1987 exhibition Minimal Art In Australia: A Contemplative Art, edited by curator and founder of Melbourne's legendary Pinacotheca Gallery, Bruce Pollard, and published by MOCA, Brisbane. Illustrated throughout with the work of exhibiting artists Peter Booth, Dale Hickey, Robert Hunter, Michael Johnson, Tony McGillick, Paul Partos, John Peart, Trevor Vickers, Dale Watkins, accompanied by biographies, an introduction by Pollard, plus reproduced notes for the Minimalism Exhibition at Ewing Gallery (1973) by Pollard and Minimal Art Exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria (1976) by Jennifer Phipps, bibliography, plus additional text extracts by Doris L. Bell and Hal Foster.

Bruce Pollard (b. 1936), gallerist, established the Pinacotheca Gallery in a dark St Kilda bayside Edwardian mansion in 1967, and relocated it to an "austere, almost dungeon like" old hat factory in Richmond in 1970. Pinacotheca's avant-garde stance was paralleled only by Sydney's Inhibodress and Watters galleries, and was the only gallery in Victoria showing experimental work in the late 1960s and 1970s, exhibiting works by Art Language artists Ian Burn, Roger Cutforth and Mel Ramsden, Dale Hickey, Peter Booth, Dale Hickey, Robert Hunter and Robert Rooney. Pinacotheca's exhibitors were in the vanguard of Conceptualism; during The Field, the controversial NGV show of Australian conceptual abstraction, Pinacotheca concurrently advertised 'for viewing' 15 of The Field artists in its stockroom alongside a solo by Rollin Schlicht. Focussing on artists interested in post-object, conceptual and other non-traditional art forms, amongst the more than 300 artists who showed there included Rosalie Gascoigne, James Gleeson, Ti Parks, John Nixon, Bill Henson, Tim Johnson, Tony Tuckson, Paul Partos, Joseph Kosuth, Stelarc... Purposely, there was little documentation accompanying exhibitions.

Very Good copy with some light wear.

File under: Peter Booth Dale Hickey Robert Hunter Michael Johnson Tony McGillick Paul Partos John Peart Trevor Vickers Dale Watkins Bruce Pollard Jennifer Phipps Doris L. Bell Hal Foster MOCA / Brisbane Art Australian Art Painting Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections

Exit Interview: Benjamin Buchloh in conversation with Hal Foster
By Benjamin H. D. Buchloh and Hal Foster

2024, English
Hardcover, 180 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 cm
Published by No Place Press / US

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Two of the most important voices in art history discuss their intellectual foundations, the changing role of criticism, and the possibilities for artistic practice today.

In Exit Interview, the prominent art critics and historians Hal Foster and Benjamin Buchloh discuss their intellectual foundations and the projects they've worked on together, from October magazine to Art Since 1900. Through three engaging conversations, Foster engages Buchloh on his early influences and aspirations, his formative years in Berlin, London, and Dusseldorf, and his career in North America, while exploring the impact of other art historians and critics. Buchloh candidly addresses his successes, critical significance, and unexplored avenues in art history, providing a unique window into his motivations and experiences. With a powerful postface by Buchloh, Exit Interview builds from biography and anecdote to important reflection on one's critical life as a whole.

File under: Hans Haacke Andy Warhol Polke Gerhard Richter Louise Lawler Marcel Broodthaers Jack Smith Blinky Palermo Daniel Buren Michael Asher Thomas Hirschhorn Gabriel Orozco Anselm Kiefer Yvonne Rainer Isa Genzken Jenny Holzer Dan Graham Martha Rosler Benjamin H. D. Buchloh Hal Foster No Place Press / US Theory / Essay Art Sociology / Politics Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Film / Video Conceptual Art Pop Art

ZONE : Fragments for a History of the Human Body, Part 1—3 (complete set)
Edited by Michel Feher with Ramona Naddaff and Nadia Tazi

1989, English
3 Vols. softcovers, 500 + 560 + 584 pages, 23.5 x 18.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Zone Books / New York

$190.00 - Out of stock

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Complete set (3 volumes) of ZONE : Fragments for a History of the Human Body, published in 1989 by Zone Books, and all long out-of-print. The forty-eight essays and photographic dossiers in these three volumes examine the history of the human body as a field where life and thought intersect. They show how different cultures at different times have entwined physical capacities and mental mechanisms in order to construct a body adapted to moral ideas or social circumstances — the body of a charismatic citizen or a visionary monk, a mirror image of the world or a reflection of the spirit.

Each volume emphasizes a particular perspective. Part 1 explores the human body’s relationship to the divine, to the bestial, and to the machines that imitate or simulate it. Part 2 covers the junctures between the body’s “outside” and “inside” by studying the manifestations — or production — of the soul and the expression of the emotions and, on another level, by examining the speculations inspired by cenesthesia, pain, and death. Part 3 brings into play the classical opposition between organ and function by showing how organs or bodily substances can be used to justify or challenge the way human societies function and, conversely, how political and social functions tend to make the bodies of the persons filling them the organs of a larger body — the social body or the universe as a whole.

Among the contributors to Fragments for a History of the Human Body are Mark Elvin, Catherine Gallagher, Françoise Héritier-Augé, Julia Kristeva, William R. LaFleur, Thomas W. Laqueur, Jacques Le Goff, Nicole Loraux, Mario Perniola, Hillel Schwartz, Jean Starobinski, Jean-Pierre Vernant, and Caroline Walker Bynum.

“ZONE is unequivocally the most innovative, informative, and intellectually stimulating journal I have ever encountered…It belongs in all but the smallest personal, public, and academic collections.” —Library Journal

Very Good copies all, only light wear, light page tanning. All first editions, second printings.

File under: Michel Feher Ramona Naddaff Nadia Tazi Hal Foster Mark Elvin Catherine Gallagher Françoise Héritier-Augé Julia Kristeva William R. LaFleur Thomas W. Laqueur Jacques Le Goff Nicole Loraux Mario Perniola Hillel Schwartz Jean Starobinski Jean-Pierre Vernant Caroline Walker Bynum Zone Books / New York Theory / Essay Psychoanalysis Health Ancient / Medieval / Gothic Renaissance / Neoclassicism / Romanticism Art Eros Fashion Group Shows / Collections Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Occult / Esoterica Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Philosophy Periodicals Sociology / Politics Feminism LGBTQ+

Compulsive Beauty
by Hal Foster

1995, English
Softcover, 314 pages, 23 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts October Books / New York

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First 1995 edition of this long out-of-print study by Hal Foster, published The MIT Press and October Books. In Compulsive Beauty, Foster reads surrealism from its other, darker side: as an art given over to the uncanny, to the compulsion to repeat and the drive toward death.

Surrealism has long been seen as its founder, André Breton, wanted it to be seen: as a movement of love and liberation. In Compulsive Beauty, Foster reads surrealism from its other, darker side: as an art given over to the uncanny, to the compulsion to repeat and the drive toward death. To this end Foster first restages the difficult encounter of surrealism with Freudian psychoanalysis, then redefines the crucial categories of surrealism—the marvelous, convulsive beauty, objective chance—in terms of the Freudian uncanny, or the return of familar things made strange by repression. Next, with the art of Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, and Alberto Giacometti in mind, Foster develops a theory of the surrealist image as a working over of a primal fantasy. This leads him finally to propose as a summa of surrealism a body of work often shunted to its margins: the dolls of Hans Bellmer, so many traumatic tableaux that point to difficult connections not only between sadism and masochism but also between surrealism and fascism. At this point Compulsive Beauty turns to the social dimension of the surrealist uncanny. First Foster reads the surrealist repertoire of automatons and mannequins as a reflection on the uncanny processes of mechanization and commodification. Then he considers the surrealist use of outmoded images as an attempt to work through the historical repression effected by these same processes. In a brief conclusion he discusses the fate of surrealism today in a world become surrealistic. Compulsive Beauty not only offers a deconstructive reading of surrealism, long neglected by Anglo-American art history, but also participates in a postmodern reconsideration of modernism, the dominant accounts of which have obscured its involvements in desire and trauma, capitalist shock and technological development.

Very Good copy.

File under: Giorgio de Chirico Max Ernst Alberto Giacometti Hans Bellmer Raoul Ubac Man Ray Brassaï Hal Foster André Breton The MIT Press / Massachusetts October Books / New York Out-of-print / Rare Surrealism Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Eros Sculpture / Installation Painting Art Drawing Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Dada

The Return of The Real
by Hal Foster

1996, English
Softcover, 328 pages, 18 x 22.2 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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In The Return of the Real Hal Foster discusses the development of art and theory since 1960, and reorders the relation between prewar and postwar avant-gardes. Opposed to the assumption that contemporary art is somehow belated, he argues that the avant-garde returns to us from the future, repositioned by innovative practice in the present. And he poses this retroactive model of art and theory against the reactionary undoing of progressive culture that is pervasive today. After the models of art-as-text in the 1970s and art-as-simulacrum in the 1980s, Foster suggests that we are now witness to a return to the real -- to art and theory grounded in the materiality of actual bodies and social sites. If The Return of the Real begins with a new narrative of the historical avant-garde, it concludes with an original reading of this contemporary situation -- and what it portends for future practices of art and theory, culture and politics.

Includes the work of David Hammons, Robert Gober, Mike Kelley, Marcel Duchamp, Alexander Rodchenko, Vladimir Tatlin, Dan Flavin, Carl Andre, Jasper Johns, Daniel Buren, Marcel Broodthaers, Michael Asher, Hans Haacke, Fred Wilson, Silvia Kolbowski, Larry Bell, Sol Lewitt, Richard Serra, Eva Hesse, Donald Judd, Tony Smith, Robert Morris, Robert Smithson, Jeff Koons, Haim Steinbach, Peter Halley, Ashley Bickerton, Ross Bleckner, Barbara Kruger, Sherrie Levine, Vito Acconci, Bruce Nauman, Gordon Matta-Clark, Frank Stella, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Allan McCollum, Gerhard Richter, Richard Estes, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, John Miller, Zoe Leonard, Gran Fury, Renée Green, Dan Graham, Martha Rosler, Allan Sekula, Mary Kelly, Silvia Kolbowski, Lothar Baumgarten, Fred Wilson, Jimmie Durham, and many more.

File under: David Hammons Robert Gober Mike Kelley Marcel Duchamp Alexander Rodchenko Vladimir Tatlin Dan Flavin Carl Andre Jasper Johns Daniel Buren Marcel Broodthaers Michael Asher Hans Haacke Fred Wilson Silvia Kolbowski Larry Bell Sol Lewitt Richard Serra Eva Hesse Donald Judd Tony Smith Robert Morris Robert Smithson Jeff Koons Haim Steinbach Peter Halley Ashley Bickerton Ross Bleckner Barbara Kruger Sherrie Levine Vito Acconci Bruce Nauman Gordon Matta-Clark Frank Stella Robert Rauschenberg Andy Warhol Allan McCollum Gerhard Richter Richard Estes Richard Prince Cindy Sherman Kiki Smith John Miller Zoe Leonard Gran Fury Renée Green Dan Graham Martha Rosler Allan Sekula Mary Kelly Lothar Baumgarten Jimmie Durham Hal Foster The MIT Press / Massachusetts Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Film / Video Photography Conceptual Art Minimal Art Pop Art Dada

Endgame : Reference and Simulation in Recent Painting and Sculpture
Yve-Alain Bois, Thomas Crow, Hal Foster, David Joselit, Elisabeth Sussman, Bob Riley

1986, English
Softcover, 116 pages, 27 x 18 cm
Out of print title / used / good
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts ICA / Boston

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Scarce copy of this long out-of-print seminal catalogue published by MIT Press on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at the ICA Boston in 1986, curated by Yve-Alain Bois and Elisabeth Sussman.

The six illustrated essays by some of today's most noted art historians and critics which comprise Endgame provide the first comprehensive discussion of reference in contemporary art and the commodification of the art object. The interrrelated concerns of painters Sherry Levine, Ross Bleckner, Peter Halley, and Philip Taaffe — who ironically adapt the visual strategies of earlier modern artists—and those of sculptors Jon Kessler, General Idea, Jeff Koons, Joel Otterson, and Haim Steinbach—who use consumer objects and their mode of representation as the raw material of their sculpture—are the sources of the authors' varied and acute arguments on this theme of the political and social economy of the image.

Contents: The return of Hank Herron / by Thomas Crow; Painting, the task of mourning / by Yve-Alain Bois; The last picture show / by Elisabeth Sussman; Modern leisure / by David Joselit; The future of an illusion, or, The contemporary artist as cargo cultist / by Hal Foster; Notes on new media theater / by Bob Riley. Includes an exhibition checklist. Preface by David A. Ross

Good copy, with some tanning to cover, light wear/marking.

File under: Marcel Duchamp Meret Oppenheim Richard Baim Gretchen Bendes Perry Hoberman General Idea Jon Kessler Jeff Koons Joel Otterson Haim Steinbach Sherry Levine Ross Bleckner Peter Halley Philip Taaffe Andy Warhol Piet Mondrian Robert Ryman Victor Burgin Mary Kelly Bridget Riley Frank Stella Donald Judd Yve-Alain Bois Thomas Crow Hal Foster David Joselit Elisabeth Sussman Bob Riley David A. Ross The MIT Press / Massachusetts ICA / Boston Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Minimal Art Art Pop Art

Isa Genzken
October Files book — Edited by Lisa Lee

2015, English
Softcover, 216 pages, 15 x 22.6 cm
Published by October Books / New York The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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Since the late 1970s, the Berlin-based contemporary artist Isa Genzken (b. 1948) has produced a body of work that is remarkable for its formal and material inventiveness. In her sculptural practice, Genzken has developed an expanded material repertoire that includes plaster, concrete, epoxy resin, and mass-produced objects that range from action figures to discarded pizza boxes. Her heterogeneous assemblages, a New York Times critic observes, are “brash, improvisational, full of searing color and attitude.” Genzken, the recent subject of a major retrospective at MoMA, offers a highly original interpretation of modernist, avant-garde, and post minimalist practices even as she engages pressing sociopolitics and economic issues of the present.

These illustrated essays address the full span of Genzken’s work, from the elegant floor sculptures with which she began her career to the assemblages, bursting with color and bristling with bric-a-brac, that she has produced since the beginning of the millennium. The texts, by writers including Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, and the artist herself, consider her formation in the West German milieu; her critique of conventions of architecture, reconstruction, and memorialization; her sympathy with mass culture; and her ongoing interrogation of public and private spheres. Two texts appear in English for the first time, including a quasi-autobiographical screenplay written by Genzken in 1993.

Contributors: Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Diedrich Diederichsen, Hal Foster, Isa Genzken, Isabelle Graw, Lisa Lee, Pamela M. Lee, Birgit Pelzer, Juliane Rebentisch, Josef Strau, Wolfgang Tillmans, Lawrence Weiner.

Contents: Isa Genzken: Two Exercises (1974)
Birgit Pelzer: Axiomatics Subject to Withdrawal (1979)
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh: Isa Genzken: The Fragment as Model (1992)
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh: Isa Genzken: Fuck the Bauhaus. Architecture, Design, and Photography in Reverse (2014)
Isa Genzken: Sketches for a Feature Film (1993)
Isabelle Graw: Free to Be Dependent: Concessions in the Work of Isa Genzken (1996)
Diedrich Diederichsen: Subjects at the End of the Flagpole (2000)
Pamela M. Lee: The Skyscraper at Ear Level (2003)
Benjamin H. D. Buchloh: All Things Being Equal (2005)
Wolfgang Tillmans: Isa Genzken: A Conversation with Wolfgang Tillmans (2003)
Diedrich Diederichsen: Diedrich Diederichsen in Conversation with Isa Genzken (2006)
Lisa Lee: “Make Life Beautiful!” The Diabolic in the Work of Isa Genzken (A Tour Through Berlin, Paris, and New York) (2007)
Lawrence Weiner: Isa Genzken Again (2010)
Juliane Rebentisch: The Dialectic of Beauty: On the Work of Isa Genzken (2007)
Yve-Alain Bois: The Bum and the Architect (2007)
Josef Strau: Isa Genzken: Sculpture as Narrative Urbanism (2009)
Hal Foster: Fantastic Destruction (2014)

File under: Isa Genzken Josef Strau Lawrence Weiner Wolfgang Tillmans Benjamin H. D. Buchloh Birgit Pelzer Diedrich Diederichsen Hal Foster Isa Genzken Isabelle Graw Josef Strau Juliane Rebentisch Lawrence Weiner Lisa Lee Pamela M. Lee Yve-Alain Bois October Books / New York The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay

TEXTE ZUR KUNST #122
JUNE 2021 "FIGURATION"

2021, English / German
Softcover, 286 pages, 23 x 16.5 cm
Published by Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin

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This June issue of Texte zur Kunst undertakes a wide-ranging inquiry into the figurative in art. The human body, and the figure more generally, is undoubtedly among the most widely depicted subjects in the history of art. Browsing the exhibition programs of museums and galleries today, one cannot fail to notice that figurative art and rhetoric are experiencing a renaissance. In cooperation with TzK’s publisher Isabelle Graw and artist Jutta Koether, the editors have conceived an issue that takes up figuration both literally – as the subject of figurative representation in painting, literature, performance, theater, and social media – and in the broader sense, as the materialization and apprehension of social phenomena. Traditional figure-ground relationships in painting are examined, as well as the mass-mediated production of the celebrity through identity politics and questions of representation in Black figuration.

Includes a conversation between editor Isabelle Graw and artist Kerry James Marshall, essays by art theoreticians Amelia Jones and Robert Slifkin, as well as writings by artists: “Figuring,” by Jutta Koether; an essay by Annette Weisser about Alina Szapocznikow; a text by Amy Sillman on Elizabeth Murray, curator Mahret Ifeoma Kupka in conversation with Bani Abidi, Silke Otto-Knapp, and Anta Helena Recke, plus reviews of Hal Foster's "Brutal Aesthetics : Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, Oldenburg", "Seth Siegelaub. : Better Read Than Dead. Writings and Interviews 1964–2013", exhibitions by Amelie von Wulffen, Lorraine O'Grady, Alice Neel, Loretta Fahrenholz, Michaela Eichwald, Rindon Johnson, Julie Mehretu, "Cybernetics of the Poor", and much more.

File under: Amelie von Wulffen Lorraine O'Grady Alice Neel Loretta Fahrenholz Michaela Eichwald Rindon Johnson Julie Mehretu Alina Szapocznikow Jutta Koether Amy Sillman Elizabeth Murray Kerry James Marshall Bani Abidi Silke Otto-Knapp Amelia Jones Robert Slifkin Isabelle Graw Annette Weisser Hal Foster Seth Siegelaub Amy Sillman Anta Helena Recke Mahret Ifeoma Kupka Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin Periodicals Art Painting Conceptual Art Theory / Essay

What Comes After Farce?
by Hal Foster

2020, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 224 pages, 14 x 21 cm
Published by Verso / London

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If farce follows tragedy, what follows farce? Where does the double predicament of a post-truth and post-shame politics leave artists and critics on the left? How to demystify a hegemonic order that dismisses its own contradictions? How to belittle a political elite that cannot be embarrassed, or to mock party leaders who thrive on the absurd? How to out-dada President Ubu? And, in any event, why add outrage to a media economy that thrives on the same? What Comes After Farce? comments on shifts in art, criticism, and fiction in the face of the current regime of war, surveillance, extreme inequality, and media disruption. A first section focuses on the cultural politics of emergency since 9/11, including the use and abuse of trauma, paranoia, and kitsch.

A second reviews the neoliberal makeover of art institutions during the same period. Finally, a third section surveys transformations in media as reflected in recent art, film, and fiction. Among the phenomena explored here are “machine vision” (images produced by machines for other machines without a human interface),“operational images” (images that do not represent the world so much as intervene in it), and the algorithmic scripting of information so pervasive in our everyday lives.

Hal Foster is the author of numerous books, including The Art-Architecture Complex (Verso, 2011), The First Pop Age: Painting and Subjectivity in the Art of Hamilton, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Richter, and Ruscha (Princeton, 2012), Bad New Days: Art, Criticism, Emergency (Verso, 2015), and, with Richard Serra, Conversations about Sculpture (Yale, 2018). A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he delivered the 2018 Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery in Washington. He teaches at Princeton University, co-edits the journal October, and contributes regularly to the London Review of Books.

File under: Hal Foster Verso / London Theory / Essay Art Sculpture / Installation Film / Video

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Brutal Aesthetics : Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, Oldenburg
By Hal Foster

2020, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 296 pages, 19.1 x 26 cm
Published by Princeton University Press / New York National Gallery of Art / Washington

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How artists created an aesthetic of "positive barbarism" in a world devastated by World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bomb.

In Brutal Aesthetics, leading art historian Hal Foster explores how postwar artists and writers searched for a new foundation of culture after the massive devastation of World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bomb. Inspired by the notion that modernist art can teach us how to survive a civilization become barbaric, Foster examines the various ways that key figures from the early 1940s to the early 1960s sought to develop a "brutal aesthetics" adequate to the destruction around them.

With a focus on the philosopher Georges Bataille, the painters Jean Dubuffet and Asger Jorn, and the sculptors Eduardo Paolozzi and Claes Oldenburg, Foster investigates a manifold move to strip art down, or to reveal it as already bare, in order to begin again. What does Bataille seek in the prehistoric cave paintings of Lascaux? How does Dubuffet imagine an art brut, an art unscathed by culture? Why does Jorn populate his paintings with "human animals"? What does Paolozzi see in his monstrous figures assembled from industrial debris? And why does Oldenburg remake everyday products from urban scrap?

A study of artistic practices made desperate by a world in crisis, Brutal Aesthetics is an intriguing account of a difficult era in twentieth-century culture, one that has important implications for our own.

Published in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

File under: Jean Dubuffet Asger Jorn Eduardo Paolozzi Claes Oldenburg Hal Foster Georges Bataille Princeton University Press / New York National Gallery of Art / Washington Art Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Arte Informale / Haute Pâte / Tachism Painting Pop Art Sculpture / Installation Surrealism Theory / Essay

Thomas Demand
The Complete Papers

2018, English
Embossed hardcover (in slipcase), 504 pages, 24 x 29 cm
Published by MACK / London

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The Complete Papers is an extensive catalogue raisonné volume encompassing all of Thomas Demand’s work over the past 28 years, together with the primary texts written about his practice. The book includes previously unseen early works from 1990, together with reference reproductions on every one of his pieces. A newly commissioned interview with Russell Ferguson, new texts by Jeff Wall and Alexander Kluge, contributions by Parveen Adams, Francesco Bonami, Teju Cole, Beatriz Colomina, Jeffrey Eugenides, Julia Franck, Hal Foster, Rachel Kushner, Ben Lerner, Jacques Rancière, Gary Shteyngart, Neville Wakefield, to name a few, is concluded by a complete exhibition listing and bibliography.

This hardback volume, housed in a printed and embossed slipcase, which also includes a Demand work printed on the interior lining, is the primary authority on the work of one of the most important artists of the 21st century.

File under: Thomas Demand Jeff Wall Jeffrey Eugenides Neville Wakefield Julia Franck Russell Ferguson Adrian Searle Francesco Bonami Christy Lange Jeff Wall Alexander Kluge Parveen Adams Teju Cole Beatriz Colomina Hal Foster Rachel Kushner Ben Lerner Jacques Rancière Gary Shteyngart MACK / London Photography Sculpture / Installation Art SALE

Gerhard Richter
Painting After All

2020, English
Hardcover, 270 pages, 24.7 x 26.6 cm
Published by Yale University Press / New Haven The Metropolitan Museum of Art / New York

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A lavishly illustrated monograph that spans the entire career of one of the most celebrated contemporary artists. Over the course of his acclaimed 60-year career, Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) has employed both representation and abstraction as a means of reckoning with the legacy, collective memory, and national sensibility of post-Second World War Germany, in both broad and very personal terms. This handsomely designed book features approximately 100 of his key canvases, from photo paintings created in the early 1960s to portraits and later large-scale abstract series, as well as select works in glass. New essays by eminent scholars address a variety of themes: Sheena Wagstaff evaluates the conceptual import of the artist's technique; Benjamin H. D. Buchloh discusses the poignant Birkenau paintings (2014); Peter Geimer explores the artist's enduring interest in photographic imagery; Briony Fer looks at Richter's family pictures against traditional painting genres and conventions; Brinda Kumar investigates the artist's engagement with landscape as a site of memory; Andre Rottmann considers the impact of randomization and chance on Richter's abstract works; and Hal Foster examines the glass and mirror works. As this book demonstrates, Richter's rich and varied oeuvre is a testament to the continued relevance of painting in contemporary art.

File under: Gerhard Richter Gerhard Richter Sheena Wagstaff Benjamin H. D. Buchloh Briony Fer Hal Foster Peter Geimer Yale University Press / New Haven The Metropolitan Museum of Art / New York Painting Art

Conversations about Sculpture
Richard Serra and Hal Foster

2018, English
Softcover, 272 pages, 17.8 x 25.4 cm
Published by Yale University Press / New Haven

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“The rhythm of the body moving through space has been the motivating source of most of my work.”—Richard Serra

Drawn from talks between celebrated artist Richard Serra and acclaimed art historian Hal Foster held over a fifteen-year period, this volume offers revelations into Serra’s prolific six-decade career and the ideas that have informed his working practice. Conversations about Sculpture is both an intimate look at Serra’s life and work, with candid reflections on personal moments of discovery, and a provocative examination of sculptural form from antiquity to today. Serra and Foster explore such subjects as the artist’s work in steel mills as a young man; the impact of music, dance, and architecture on his art; the importance of materiality and site specificity to his aesthetic; the controversies and contradictions his work has faced; and his belief in sculpture as experience. They also discuss sources of inspiration—from Donatello and Brancusi to Japanese gardens and Machu Picchu—revealing a history of sculpture across time and culture through the eyes of one of the medium’s most brilliant figures.

Introduced with an insightful preface by Foster, this probing dialogue is beautifully illustrated with duotone images that bring to life both Serra's work and his key commitments.
Richard Serra is an internationally renowned artist, best known for steel sculptures that engage audiences through material, form, structure, and site specificity. He has exhibited widely since his first solo exhibition in 1966 and has work publicly sited in Amsterdam, London, San Francisco, Bilbao, Berlin, Qatar, and elsewhere. Serra has been awarded the title of Chevalier de l’Ordre national de la Legion d’honneur and the J. Paul Getty Medal, among many other honors. Hal Foster is Townsend Martin, Class of 1917, Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. An award-winning author, his publications include Bad New Days, The Art-Architecture Complex, and The Return of the Real.

File under: Richard Serra Hal Foster Yale University Press / New Haven Art Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay

The Artist As
Producer, Quarry, Thread, Director, Writer, Orchestrator, Ethnographer, Choreographer, Poet, Archivist, Forger, Curator, and Many Other Things First

2018, English
Softcover, 328 pages, 12.5 x 20 cm
Published by IMA / Brisbane Sternberg Press / Berlin Curatorial Practice at MADA / Victoria

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How do artists work today? What kinds of roles do they occupy; have these roles changed over the years; and how does this impact the ecology of art? Has the pluralism of art given way to a pluralism of roles that artists may occupy?

These are some of the questions that led to this volume, The Artist As. It began as a lecture series, co-produced by the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, and Curatorial Practice at Monash University, Melbourne, and the essays by Brook Andrew, Tara McDowell, Emily Pethick, and Cecilia Vicuña, and conversations between Tirdad Zolghadr and Suhail Malik and Isabel Lewis and Adam Linder, began as lectures within that series. New commissions by Heman Chong, Helen Hughes, and Helen Johnson, and previously published by Walter Benjamin, Ekaterina Degot, Hal Foster, and Terry Smith complete the reader.

File under: Brook Andrew Helen Johnson Heman Chong Walter Benjamin Suhail Malik Tirdad Zolghadr Tara McDowell Ekaterina Degot Emily Pethick Hal Foster Helen Hughes Terry Smith Helen Johnson Isabel Lewis and Adam Linder Cecilia Vicuña Heman Chong IMA / Brisbane Sternberg Press / Berlin Curatorial Practice at MADA / Victoria Theory / Essay Art Curatorial Painting Australian Art

Art and Subjecthood - The Return of the Human Figure in Semiocapitalism
Isabelle Graw, Daniel Birnbaum, Nikolaus Hirsch (Eds.)

2011, English
Softcover with dustjacket, 98 pages, 12 x 19 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

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Isabelle Graw, Daniel Birnbaum, Nikolaus Hirsch (Eds.)

Texts by Ina Blom, Oliver Brokel, Caroline Busta, Stefan Deines, Hal Foster, Stefanie Heraeus, Jutta Koether, Magdalena Nieslony, Michael Sanchez

Many contemporary artworks evoke the human figure: consider the omnipresence of the mannequin in current installations of artists like John Miller, Thomas Hirschhorn, Heimo Zobernig, or David Lieske. Or consider the revival of a minimalist vocabulary, which embraces anthropomorphism as in the works of Isa Genzken and Rachel Harrison. This book brings together contributions from the eponymous conference, all of which seek to speculate on the reasons as to why, since the turn of the millennium, we have encountered so many artworks that tend to reconcile Minimalism with suggestions of the human figure. It proposes that this new artistic convention becomes rather questionable when discussed in the light of Franco Berardi’s theory of semiocapitalism—a power technology that aims squarely at our human resources. The participants of this conference were asked to offer possible explanations for this wide acceptance of anthropomorphism—could it be that this is a manifestation of the increasingly desperate desire for art to have agency?

File under: David Lieske Heimo Zobernig John Miller Jutta Koether Thomas Hirschhorn Michael Krebber Caroline Busta Daniel Birnbaum Hal Foster Ina Blom Isa Genzken Isabelle Graw Jutta Koether Magdalena Nieslony Michael Sanchez Nikolaus Hirsch Oliver Brokel Rachel Harrison Stefan Deines Stefanie Heraeus Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Theory / Essay Sculpture / Installation Painting

ARTFORUM
LOOKING CRITICALLY: 21 YEARS OF ARTFORUM MAGAZINE

1984, English
Softcover, 342 pages, 270 x 280 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by U.M.I. Research Press / Michigan

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Softcover 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.

A Good copy throughout, with cover rubbing and corner bumping. Tightly bound and clean copy internally.

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 Lynda Benglis 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 Feminism Fiction / Poetry Film / Video Fluxus Group Shows / Collections Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals Photography Poetry Pop Art Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Theory / Essay

On Things As Ideas
Robert Stadler, Alexis Vaillant (Eds.)

2017, English
Softcover, 224 pages, 17.3 x 22 cm
Published by MUDAM / Luxembourg Sternberg Press / Berlin

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Contributions by Carl Andre, Charles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, Barbara Bloemink, Jan Boelen, Louise Bourgeois, Sheldon Cheney and Martha Candler Cheney, Alex Coles, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby, Hal Foster, Sigmund Freud, Dan Graham, Isabelle Graw, Sebastian Hackenschmidt and Dietmar Rübel, Graham Harman, G. W. F. Hegel, Martin Heidegger, Dave Hickey, Matthew Higgs, Donald Judd, Immanuel Kant, Frederick J. Kiesler, Sven Lütticken, Alessandro Mendini, W. J. T. Mitchell, Jasper Morrison, Bruno Munari, Robert Nickas, Alice Rawsthorn, Jeff Rian, Richard Rinehart, Anthony Vidler

This collection of more than thirty texts, which were originally published between 1790 and the present day, explores man’s rich relationship with material things. Devised largely in response to the gradual breakdown of the divide between art and design that began over a century ago, this book sheds light on the ways that the concept of the thing as idea has been considered over time. Writers from different fields explore how things interact with materials, structures, and production processes while defining and registering the intangible qualities of the material world. Each author considers the different relationships between the context of a thing and its thingness, describing the ways in which things and ideas intersect.

Copublished with MUDAM Luxembourg
Design by Florence Richard

File under: Alessandro Mendini Bruno Munari Carl Andre Dan Graham Donald Judd Jasper Morrison Jeff Rian Louise Bourgeois Sigmund Freud W. J. T. Mitchell Alessandro Mendini Alex Coles Alexis Vaillant Alice Rawsthorn Anthony Dunne Anthony Vidler Barbara Bloemink Bruno Munari Carl Andre Charles Baudelaire Dan Graham Dave Hickey Dietmar Rübel Donald Judd Fiona Raby Frederick J. Kiesler G. W. F. Hegel Graham Harman Hal Foster Immanuel Kant Isabelle Graw Jan Boelen Jasper Morrison Jeff Rian Louise Bourgeois Martha Candler Cheney Martin Heidegger Matthew Higgs Richard Rinehart Robert Stadler Sebastian Hackenschmidt Sheldon Cheney Sigmund Freud Sven Lütticken W. J. T. Mitchell Walter Benjamin Bob Nickas MUDAM / Luxembourg Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Conceptual Art Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay

TEXTE ZUR KUNST #109
ISSUE NO. 109 / MARCH 2018 "ART WITHOUT RULES?“

2018, English / German
Softcover, 240 pages, 23 x 16.5 cm
Published by Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin

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The March issue of Texte zur Kunst considers art’s relation to rules — or rather, the exceptions to them that art and its agents seem to claim. How can we speak of rules in the context of art, where transgressions are lauded even while traditional hierarchies (class, gender, race, sexuality) continue to assert their influence? And would we demand anything less of art than the promise of disobedience, rule breaking both in terms of formal restrictions and normative regulations? Therefore, in this issue we ask: by what rules does the art world play, and how are transgressions made visible/invisible therein?

ISSUE NO. 109 / MARCH 2018 "ART WITHOUT RULES?“
Table Of Contents

Preface
Katharina Hausladen - My, Your, Our #Metoo Moment / Human Megaphones And Their Bodies
Josephine Pryde - Men On The Left
Christoph Menke - Beyond Autonomy
Lucy Mckenzie - They Steal Your Watch And Then Tell You The Time
Hal Foster - Transgression & Vigilance
Coco Fusco - Learning The Rules Of The Game
Bildstrecke
Megan Francis Sullivan
New Development
The Corrupt State Of Artificial Intelligence / Clemens Apprich On Machine Learning And Bias
Rotation
Kathy Kommt Wieder / Vojin Sasa Vukadinovic Über Chris Kraus' "After Kathy Acker. A Biography"
What Cinema, Which Alliances, Now? / Nicole Wolf On Sohail Daulatzai's "Fifty Years Of 'The Battle Of Algier': Past As Prologue"
Work-Life Imbalance / Melanie Gilligan On Jasper Bernes's "The Work Of Art In The Age Of Deindustrialization"
Angelology / Sulgi Lie On Eyal Peretz's "The Off-Screen: An Investigation Of The Cinematic Frame"
Klang Körper
Jetzt "Andere Menschen Denken" / Marietta Kesting Über Den 3. Berliner Herbstsalon
Prä-Apokalypse Ist Auch No Future / Anke Dyes Über Susanne Kennedys "Women In Trouble" In Der Volksbühne Berlin
Reviews
Her Too / Georg Imdahl Über Carmen Herrera Im K20, Düsseldorf
Cure For The Common Cold (War) / Ana Texeira Pinto On "Parapolitics: Freedom And The Cold War," Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin; And "The Kids Want Communism," Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin
Untitled / Avery Singer On Laura Owens At The Whitney Museum Of American Art
The Distance Between Stanley Brouwn And Yourself / Sven Lütticken On Stanley Brouwn
Die Bilder Heraus Aus Diesem Winkel! / Jenni Tischer Über R. H. Quatyman, Secession, Wien
The Work Of Non-Representation / Julia Elizabeth Neal On Frank Bowling At Haus Der Kunst, Munich
Mausklick Auf Die Tränendrüse / Tina Schulz Über Ed Atkins Im Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Rose-Colored Glasses / Nicolás Guagnini On Stephen Prina At Capitain Petzel, Berlin
Willem De Rooij In Einer Espischen Reflexion Über Den Tod (Dem Augenschein Nach) / Ariane Müller Über Willem De Rooij In Den Kunst-Werken, Berlin
Oberflächenrauschen / Melanie Ohnemus Über Julia Haller In Der Galerie Meyer Kainer, Wien
The Effects Of Good And Bad Trolling / Mikael Brkic On Matias Faldbakken At The Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo
Hallo Moabit! / Robert Müller Über Stefan Thater Bei Éclair, Berlin
Raumerweiterung / Anna Voswinckel Über Marianne Wex Bei Tanya Leighton, Berlin
Nachruf
Peter Bürger (1936-2017). Ein Nachruf Von Regine Prange
Edition
Katharina Grosse
Yngve Holen

File under: Stefan Thater Katharina Grosse Yngve Holen Marianne Wex Willem De Rooij Julia Haller Matias Faldbakken Stephen Prina Ed Atkins Stanley Brouwn Laura Owens Josephine Pryde Lucy Mckenzie Megan Francis Sullivan Clemens Apprich Vojin Sasa Vukadinovic Eyal Peretz Susanne Kennedy Avery Singer R.H. Quaytman Hal Foster Kathy Acker Chris Kraus Nicole Wolf Josephine Pryde Christoph Menke Katharina Hausladen Lucy Mckenzie Coco Fusco Nicolás Guagnini Sven Lütticken Jenni Tischer Tina Schulz Melanie Ohnemus Robert Müller Anna Voswinckel Mikael Brkic Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin

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

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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

The Human Snapshot
Thomas Keenan, Tirdad Zolghadr (Eds.)

2013, English
Hardcover (w. cloth binding), 320 pages (134 b/w and 32 color ills.), 18.5 x 26.5 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College / New York LUMA Foundation / Zürich

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With contributions by Ariella Azoulay, Bassam El Baroni, Roger M. Buergel, George Didi-Huberman, Michel Feher, Hal Foster, Anselm Franke, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, Maja Hoffmann, Denis Hollier, Thomas Keenan, Alex Klein, Suhail Malik, Marion von Osten, Katya Sander, Hito Steyerl, Eyal Weizman, Tirdad Zolghadr

The Human Snapshot draws upon a conference of the same name organized by the LUMA Foundation and Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College that took place in Arles, France, in 2011. The conference contributions and subsequent essays examine contemporary forms of humanism and universalism as they circulate and are produced in art and photography. The look toward these two terms stems from theorist Ariella Azoulay’s research on the seminal exhibition “The Family of Man,” first installed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1955, which she frames as a lens through which to view universalism at play. These values have been under conceptual assault in recent years, yet they continue to proliferate—even through the visual arts, where humanism and universalism are customarily dismissed. The Human Snapshot takes these themes and wrestles with their application in the use of photography, the exhibition format, contemporary democracy, human rights discourse, and the power of the image at large.

Copublished by the LUMA Foundation and the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard)
Design by Zak Group

File under: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster Hito Steyerl Alex Klein Anselm Franke Ariella Azoulay Bassam El Baroni Denis Hollier Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster Eyal Weizman Hal Foster Hito Steyerl Katya Sander Maja Hoffmann Marion von Osten Michel Feher Roger M. Buergel Sandi Hilal Suhail Malik Thomas Keenan Tirdad Zolghadr Georges Didi-Huberman Sternberg Press / Berlin Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College / New York LUMA Foundation / Zürich Art Curatorial Photography Theory / Essay SALE

Claire Fontaine
Foreigners Everywhere

2012, English/German
Softcover, 168 pages, 215 x 273 mm
Published by Walther König / Köln

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In this publication Claire Fontaine show both old and new works that deal with economic structures as a closed and irrational system that is intent on defending the status quo using any necessary means and at any price. The artist collective Claire Fontaine was formed in Paris in 2004. The name is taken from a well-known French manufacturer of school notebooks and writing paper. Claire Fontaine describe themselves as "ready-made-artists" who work with existing forms and materials. They analyse the crisis of individuality in contemporary art using video, installation, sculpture and text, denouncing the passivity of politics in the process.

File under: Claire Fontaine Bernard Blistene Hal Foster John Kelsey Nicolas Liucci-Goutnikov Walther König / Köln Art Sculpture / Installation