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Art Metropole, Catalogue No. 5, Fall 1977

1977, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 47 pages, 27.7 x 20.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by Art Metropole / Toronto

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Exceptionally rare, excellent reference work on artists' publications issued in 1977 by Art Metropole in Toronto, the first large-scale distributor of artists' books and publications in North America. This valuable catalogue, featuring "European titles, publications, periodicals, records, special editions, videos and films", offers works by European and American artists such as Beuys, Rainer, Polke, Art & Language, Hans Haacke, Terry Riley, Lamonte Young, Marian Zazeela, Douglas Huebler, Broodthaers, Kaprow, Piper, Buren, Reich, Cage, Snow, Darboven, Matta-Clark, Dibbets, Brion Gysin, Simone Forti, General Idea, Claes Oldenburg, Jimmy De Sana, Vito Acconci, Gilbert & George, Robert Filliou, Sol Lewitt, Ehrenberg, Filliou, Fulton, Graham, Rebecca Horn, Mel Bochner, William Burroughs, Ugo La Pietra, Urs Luthi, Hansjörg Mayer, Merz, Robert Cumming, Willats, Al Hansen, Richard Long, Philip Glass, George Brecht, Image Bank, Robert Barry, Nannucci, Donald Judd, Maria Reiche, Dennis Oppenheim, Dieter Rot, Kurt Schwitters, Giorgio Ciam, Daniel Spoerri, Ed Ruscha, Ray Johnson, Philip Corner, Bob Cobbing, Lawrence Weiner, Klaus Rinke, Les Levine, Lea Vergine, Baldessari, Ant Farm, Emmett Williams, Robert Wilson, UFO Group, Vostell, etc. with each item concisely described, and for the books, essential bibliographical information is provided. Publications from Art Metropole, periodicals, records, and videos are also listed for sale, with prices. Cover artwork features Viennese actionist Rudolf Schwarzkogler's Portfolio of the 3rd Action, which is among the selections of European artists' books. Selected b/w illustrations throughout of items listed, and full-page ads for Art Metropole's "FETISH" t-shirt and General Idea's FILE magazine.

Issued privately as a mail-out catalogue, this copy includes the AM ink stamp and Canadian postage stamp on the verso, posted in 1977 to American conceptualist photographer Les Krim, in Buffalo, New York.

Average—Good copy, some chipping to extremities, small closed tear to top-left corner of cover, generally tanned/aged newsprint.

File under: Rudolf Schwarzkogler Marina Abramovič Joseph Beuys Christian Boltanski Alison Knowles Marcel Broodthaers Mario Merz Rebecca Horn Hansjörg Mayer Dan Graham Hanne Darboven Daniel Buren Felipe Ehrenberg Jan Dibbets Hamish Fulton Maurizio Nannucci Dieter Rot Daniel Spoerri Kurt Schwitters Sigmar Polke Wolf Vostell Maria Reiche Lea Vergine Yvonne Rainer Adrian Piper Stephen Willats Steve Reich John Cage Michael Snow Ed Ruscha Robert Wilson Emmett Williams Donald Judd Alan Kaprow Ray Johnson Les Levine Claes Oldenburg Gordon Matta-Clark Sol LeWitt Sol Lewitt Jimmy De Sana Hans Haacke Douglas Huebler General Idea Simone Forti Robert Cumming Robert Barry Al Hansen John Baldessari Ant Farm Mel Bochner William S. Burroughs Philip Corner Bob Cobbing Ian Burn Mel Ramsden Art & Language Brion Gysin Robert Filliou Gilbert & George Vito Acconci Ugo La Pietra Urs Lüthi Richard Long Dennis Oppenheim Lawrence Weiner Klaus Rinke UFO Group Marian Zazeela La Monte Young Terry Riley Philip Glass George Brecht Image Bank Giorgio Ciam Seth Siegelaub William S. Burroughs Achille Bonito Oliva Art Metropole / Toronto Art Performance / Dance / Theater Fluxus Conceptual Art Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Arte Povera Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Concrete Poetry Group Shows / Collections Minimal Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Periodicals Photography Sound / Music

Culture of Curating and the Curating of Culture(s)
Paul O'Neill

2012, English
Hardcover, 200 pages, 23 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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" O’Neill – a Bristol-based artist, curator and writer – has edited several useful books, including Curating and the Educational Turn (2010), and this latest publication is certainly one of the most invaluable histories of contemporary curating that I’ve come across. Though relatively slim, it combines a good deal of primary research (such as interviews with Seth Siegelaub and Brian O’Doherty) with wide-ranging case studies and an impressive synthesis of the now-vast body of related writing. The book tracks a shift from the curator as a behind-the-scenes carer, to a nomadic, semi-autonomous and very public figure – a cultural producer as diplomat. O’Neill identifies three key postwar developments: what Siegelaub calls the ‘demystification’ of the curatorial role during the late 1960s (when the terms Austellungsmacher and faiseur d’expositions first emerged, signifying an organizer of large exhibitions unaffiliated with a museum); the primacy of the curator-as-author model of the late 1980s (Harald Szeemann, Jean-Hubert Martin, Rudi Fuchs); and, most recently, the consolidation of a curator-centred discourse in the 1990s."—Sam Thorne, Frieze magazine, 01/01/13

"Paul O'Neill guides us through the conflicting claims that surround the development of curating as an implicated set of roles. Focusing on the debates and differences that are part of curatorial practice, this book shows what is still required and may be possible. By exposing the historical origins and congested terrain of contemporary curatorial practice, O'Neill will stir a new generation to action."--Liam Gillick, Artist

"In this timely book, Paul O'Neill provides a much-needed overview of the historical development and central issues of contemporary curating. In clear, jargon-free prose he mines the curatorial literature to discuss disparate exhibition strategies and critically analyze the changing self-conception of the curator. This is a book that should be read by anyone interested in exhibitions and exhibition-making."--Bruce Altshuler, Director of New York University's Museum Studies Program

"This book is a thorough and convincing survey of the curatorial. It covers the changing relations between the curator and the artist or art institution over the last fifty years and shows how this triangle has been crucial to the way the public perceives the possibilities of art. It offers readers a digestible history of a phenomenon that profoundly influences our perception of art and how it is understood today." -- Charles Esche, Director, Van Abbemuseum; Eindhoven/Co-editorial Director, Afterall, London

Once considered a mere caretaker for collections, the curator is now widely viewed as a globally connected auteur. Over the last twenty-five years, as international group exhibitions and biennials have become the dominant mode of presenting contemporary art to the public, curatorship has begun to be perceived as a constellation of creative activities not unlike artistic praxis. The curator has gone from being a behind-the-scenes organizer and selector to a visible, centrally important cultural producer. In The Culture of Curating and the Curating of Culture(s), Paul O'Neill examines the emergence of independent curatorship and the discourse that helped to establish it. O'Neill describes how, by the 1980s, curated group exhibitions--large-scale, temporary projects with artworks cast as illustrative fragments--came to be understood as the creative work of curator-auteurs. The proliferation of new biennials and other large international exhibitions in the 1990s created a cohort of high-profile, globally mobile curators, moving from Venice to Paris to Kassel. In the 1990s, curatorial and artistic practice converged, blurring the distinction between artist and curator. O'Neill argues that this change in the understanding of curatorship was shaped by a curator-centered discourse that effectively advocated--and authorized--the new independent curatorial practice. Drawing on the extensive curatorial literature and his own interviews with leading curators, critics, art historians, and artists, O'Neill traces the development of the curator-as-artist model and the ways it has been contested. The Culture of Curating and the Curating of Culture(s) documents the many ways in which our perception of art has been transformed by curating and the discourses surrounding it.

Paul O'Neill is a curator, artist, and writer who has curated or co-curated more than fifty projects. As author and editor, he has published widely in books, anthologies, journals, and art magazines. He lives in Bristol, U.K.

File under: Paul O’Neill Seth Siegelaub Harald Szeemann Jean-Hubert Martin Rudi Fuchs The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Curatorial Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare SALE

Hans Ulrich Obrist
A Brief History of Curating

2014, English
Softcover, 246 pages, 15 x 21 cm
Published by JRP Ringier / Zürich

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This publication is dedicated to pioneering curators and presents a unique collection of interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist: Anne d'Harnoncourt, Werner Hofman, Jean Leering, Franz Meyer, Seth Siegelaub, Walter Zanini, Johannes Cladders, Lucy Lippard, Walter Hopps, Pontus Hultén, and Harald Szeemann are gathered together in this volume.

The contributions map the development of the curatorial field, from early independent curating in the 1960s and 1970s and the experimental institutional programs developed in Europe and in the USA at this time, through Documenta and the development of biennales.

The book is part of the Documents series, co-published with Les presses du réel and dedicated to critical writings.

File under: Hans Ulrich Obrist Anne d'Harnoncourt Werner Hofman Jean Leering Franz Meyer Seth Siegelaub Walter Zanini Johannes Cladders Lucy Lippard Walter Hopps Pontus Hultén Harald Szeemann JRP Ringier / Zürich Art Curatorial Theory / Essay SALE Conceptual Art

Documenta 5
by Harald Szeemann

1972, German / English / French
Vinyl ring-binder (screen printed w. design by E. Ruscha), 650 pages +, 32 x 27 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by documenta / Kassel

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Scarce copy of the only edition of the most elaborately designed, and lowest circulated Documenta catalogue, conceived by curator Harald Szeemann to accompany the fifth edition of Documenta, a quinquennial contemporary art exhibition held in Kassel, Germany.

Subtitled "100 Days of Inquiry into Reality -- Today's Imagery," curated by the team of Harald Szeemann, Jean-Christophe Ammann and Arnold Bode, Documenta 5 followed a lineage of comprehensive shows documenting conceptually and minimally charged artworks curated by Szeemann including Live in Your Head (Kunsthalle Bern, 1969), and Happenings and Fluxus (Kunstverein, Köln), 1970. The largest, most expensive and most diverse of any exhibition anywhere, Documenta 5 was criticized in 1972 as being “bizarre…vulgar…sadistic” by art critic and essayist Hilton Kramer and “monstrous… overtly deranged” by art historian and art critic Barbara Rose, yet it still resonates today as one of the most important exhibitions in history. Featuring the works of over 170 artists and an equally expansive variety of materials and subjects drawn from popular cultural materials, architecture, science fiction, kitsch objects, film, advertising, children's art, etc. in addition to the more anticipated international survey of new painting and sculpture - Documenta 5 valiantly attempted to bridge the gap between art, culture, science and the broader society. This massive tome is housed in the iconic orange vinyl-covered, two-ring binder screen printed with the famous ant design by Edward Ruscha. The binder holds a tabbed index of illustrated artist's pages and associated texts and material, largely in German, but also many in English. All registers are present apart from the usual missing 19-25 which were not directly integrated into the catalogue and had to be ordered by the visitor separately to become their own contribution. This very complete copy also includes the additional 80 page, hole-punched Documenta 5 guide book, with floor plans, complete listing of exhibited artworks, list of exhibitions, bibliography, and many gallery, museum and other related advertisements. More than a catalogue, this publication is a piece of art history in itself.

Includes artists: Vito Acconci, Vincenzo Agnetti, Peter Alexander, John de Andrea, Giovanni Anselmo, Arbeitszeit, Archigram, Chuck Arnoldi, Art & Language, Richard Artschwager, Michael Ashkin, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Georg Baselitz, Lothar Baumgarten, Robert Bechtle, Gottfried Bechtold, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Joseph Beuys, Karl Oskar Blase, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Christian Boltanski, Claudio Bravo, George Brecht, K.P. Brehmer, Marcel Broodthaers, Stanley Brouwn, Günter Brus, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Michael Buthe, James Lee Byars, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Luciano Castelli, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Chuck Close, Tony Conrad, Ron Cooper, Bill Copley, Joseph Cornell, Robert Cottingham, Paul Cotton, Hanne Darboven, Walter De Maria, David Deutsch, Jan Dibbets, Herbert Distel, Gino de Dominicis, Marcel Duchamp, John Dugger, Don Eddy, Franz Eggenschwiler, Ger van Elk, Richard Estes, Luciano Fabro, John C. Fernie, Robert Filliou, Jud Fine, Joel Fisher, Terry Fox, Howard Fried, Hamish Fulton, Franz Gertsch, Gilbert & George, Ralph Goings, Hubert Gojowczyk, Dan Graham, Walter Grasskamp, Nancy Graves, Hans Haacke, Duane Hanson, Guy Harloff, Michael Harvey, Haus-Rucker-Co, Auguste Herbin, Eva Hesse, Rebecca Horn, Jean Olivier Hucleux, Douglas Huebler, Jörg Immendorff, Will Insley, Rolf Iseli, Ken Jacobs, Neil Jenney, Alfred Jensen, Jasper Johns, Joan Jonas, Max G. Kaminski, Howard Kanovitz, Edward Kienholz, Imi Knoebel, Christof Kohlhofer, Jannis Kounellis, Tom Kovachevich, Piotr Kowalski, David Lamelas, Barry Le Va, Jean LeGac, Alfred Leslie, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Ingeborg Luscher, Inge Mahn, Robert Mangold, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Etienne Martin, Richard McLean, David Medalla, Fernando Melani, Jim Melchert, Mario Merz, Gustav Metzger, Bernd Minnich, Malcolm Morley, Ed Moses, Bruce Nauman, Hermann Nitsch, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Blinky Palermo, Panamarenko, Giulio Paolini, A.R. Penck, Giuseppe Penone, Vettor Pisani, Sigmar Polke, Stephen Posen, Markus Raetz, Arnulf Rainer, Gerhard Richter, Klaus Rinke, Dorothea Rockburne, Peter Roehr, Allen Ruppersberg, Edward Ruscha, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Ulrich Ruckriem, Robert Ryman, John Salt, Salvo, Lucas Samaras, Paul Sarkisian, Jean-Frederic Schnyder, Ben Schonzeit, Werner Schroeter, HA Schult, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Fritz Schwegler, Richard Serra, Paul Sharits, Allan Shields, Katharina Sieverding, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Keith Sonnier, Klaus Staeck, Paul Staiger, Jorge Stever, Robert Strubin, Paul Thek, Wayne Thiebaud, Andre Thomkins, David Tremlett, Richard Tuttle, Ben Vautier, W + B Hein, Franz Erhard Walther, Robert Watts, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, John Wesley, H.C. Westermann, William Wiley, Rolf Winnewisser, Tom Wudl, Klaus Wyborny, La Monte Young, Peter Young, Gilberto Zorio.

Catalogue also includes Bob Projansky and Seth Siegelaub's "The Artist's Reserved Rights Transfer and Sale Agreement." This "Agreement form has been drafted by Bob Projansky, a New York lawyer, after my [Siegelaub] extensive discussions and correspondence with over 500 artists, dealers, lawyers, collectors, museum people, critics and other concerned people involved in the day-to-day workings of the international art world. The Agreement has been designed to remedy some generally acknowledged inequities in the art world, particularly artists' lack of control over the use of their work and participation in its economics after they no longer own it. The Agreement for has been written with special awareness of the current ordinary practices and economic realitites of the art world, particularly its private, cash and informal nature, with careful regard for the interests and motives of all concerned. It is expected to be the standard form for the transfer and sale of all contemporary art, and has been made as fair, simple and useful as possible. It can be used either as presented here or slightly altered to fit your specific situation. If the following information does not answer all your questions consult your attorney." -- from Agreement's cover. Copies of the contract are individually included in English, Germany, and French editions.

Very Good, complete (as issued) copy. Very minor wear.

File under: Vito Acconci Vincenzo Agnetti Peter Alexander John de Andrea Giovanni Anselmo Arbeitszeit Archigram Chuck Arnoldi Art & Language Richard Artschwager Michael Ashkin John Baldessari Robert Barry Georg Baselitz Lothar Baumgarten Robert Bechtle Gottfried Bechtold Joseph Beuys Karl Oskar Blase Mel Bochner Alighiero Boetti Christian Boltanski Claudio Bravo George Brecht Marcel Broodthaers Stanley Brouwn Günter Brus Daniel Buren Victor Burgin Michael Buthe James Lee Byars Pier Paolo Calzolari Luciano Castelli Chuck Close Tony Conrad Ron Cooper Bill Copley Joseph Cornell Robert Cottingham Paul Cotton Hanne Darboven Walter De Maria David Deutsch Jan Dibbets Herbert Distel Gino de Dominicis Marcel Duchamp John Dugger Don Eddy Franz Eggenschwiler Ger van Elk Richard Estes Luciano Fabro John C. Fernie Robert Filliou Jud Fine Joel Fisher Terry Fox Howard Fried Hamish Fulton Franz Gertsch Gilbert & George Ralph Goings Hubert Gojowczyk Dan Graham Walter Grasskamp Nancy Graves Hans Haacke Duane Hanson Guy Harloff Michael Harvey Haus-Rucker-Co Auguste Herbin Eva Hesse Rebecca Horn Jean Olivier Hucleux Douglas Huebler Jörg Immendorff Will Insley Rolf Iseli Ken Jacobs Neil Jenney Alfred Jensen Jasper Johns Joan Jonas Max G. Kaminski Howard Kanovitz Edward Kienholz Imi Knoebel Christof Kohlhofer Jannis Kounellis H.C. Westermann William Wiley Rolf Winnewisser Tom Wudl Klaus Wyborny La Monte Young Peter Young Gilberto Zorio Franz Erhard Walther Robert Watts William Wegman Lawrence Weiner John Wesley Tom Kovachevich Piotr Kowalski David Lamelas Barry Le Va Jean LeGac Alfred Leslie Richard Long Ingeborg Lüscher Inge Mahn Brice Marden Yoko Ono Dennis Oppenheim Blinky Palermo Panamarenko Giulio Paolini A.R. Penck Giuseppe Penone Vettor Pisani Sigmar Polke Stephen Posen Markus Raetz Arnulf Rainer Gerhard Richter Klaus Rinke Dorothea Rockburne Peter Roehr Allen Ruppersberg Edward Ruscha Reiner Ruthenbeck Ulrich Ruckriem Robert Ryman John Salt Salvo Lucas Samaras Paul Sarkisian Jean-Frederic Schnyder Ben Schonzeit Werner Schroeter HA Schult Rudolf Schwarzkogler Fritz Schwegler Richard Serra Paul Sharits Allan Shields Katharina Sieverding Robert Smithson Michael Snow Keith Sonnier Klaus Staeck Paul Staiger Jorge Stever Robert Strubin Paul Thek Malcolm Morley Ed Moses Bruce Nauman Hermann Nitsch Claes Oldenburg Agnes Martin Etienne-Martin Richard McLean David Medalla Fernando Melani Bernd and Hilla Becher K. P. Brehmer Christo & Jeanne-Claude Seth Siegelaub Harald Szeemann Jean-Christophe Ammann Bob Projansky Arnold Bode documenta / Kassel Art Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V Arte Povera Conceptual Art Feminism Theory / Essay Architecture / Interior Performance / Dance / Theater Fluxus Dada Curatorial Film / Video Minimal Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Painting Photography Pop Art Sculpture / Installation Counterculture Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic

Douglas Huebler
November 1968

1968, English
Softcover (stapled), 20 pages, 20.4 x 20.2 cm
Edition of 1000,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Seth Siegelaub / New York

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Very rare artist book by Douglas Huebler, published in 1968 by Seth Siegelaub, New York. This important historical catalog is the 1st for a show in which the catalog was the show itself.

First and only printing, in an edition of 1000 copies.

“The existence of each sculpture is documented by it’s documentation.
The documentation takes the form of photographs, maps, drawings and descriptive language.
The marker “material“ and the shape described by the location of the markers have no special significance, other than tot o demark the limits of the piece.
The permanence and destiny oft he markers have no special significance.
The duration pieces exist only in the documentation of the marker’s destiny within a selected period of time.
The proposed projects do not differ from the other pieces as idea, but do differ to he extent of their material substance." - from introduction by Douglas Huebler.

Very Good copy with light wear to covers, rubbing to bottom right corner.

File under: Douglas Huebler Douglas Huebler Seth Siegelaub Seth Siegelaub / New York Art Conceptual Art Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Photography Minimal Art

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

Seth Siegelaub: Better Read Than Dead
Writings and Interviews 1964–2013

2020, English
Softcover, 384 pages, 19 x 27.5 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln Stichting Egress Foundation / Amsterdam

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An essential sourcebook on conceptual art’s famed champion, reproducing his texts as scans to immerse the reader in this deep archival dive.

“Better Read Than Dead” was the title that the great American art dealer, curator, author and researcher Seth Siegelaub (1941-2013) had chosen for an anthology of his own writings—one of the projects for which he never found the time, busy as he was running his global one-man operation. Here, happily, that project is now fulfilled.

The selected writings, interviews, extended bibliography and chronology gathered in this Siegelaub sourcebook fill the historical gaps in the sprawling network of exhibitions, publications, projects, and collections that constitute Siegelaub’s life’s work.

Here, Siegelaub’s writings are reproduced as scans in order to convey the variety of the documents and to give a sense of archival immersion. Interspersed with these “writings” are interviews and talks, several newly transcribed. The majority of interviews from 1969-1972 are reprinted here.

File under: Seth Siegelaub Walther König / Köln Stichting Egress Foundation / Amsterdam Art Theory / Essay Conceptual Art Minimal Art Curatorial

Books and Ideas after Seth Siegelaub
Michalis Pichler (Ed.)

2016, English
Softcover, 128 pages, 17 x 24 cm
Published by Center for Book Arts / New York Sternberg Press / Berlin

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Contributions by Regine Ehleiter, Michalis Pichler, Seth Siegelaub

Books and Ideas after Seth Siegelaub spans an arc of tension between the works of Seth Siegelaub and contemporary cultural production. It features an interview with Seth Siegelaub, two essays by Regine Ehleiter and Michalis Pichler, and an extensively illustrated catalogue with bibliographic details.

In preparation for the project, Siegelaub and Pichler met twice in Amsterdam, where they had a long recorded conversation about books, living with books, being intimately connected with books, and producing books, and about the recent emergence of contemporary publications that show clear reference to books Siegelaub had produced, both piracies and homages, and not always to his delight.

Books by Siegelaub that are often paraphrased include the Xerox Book (1968), which was printed in offset and has since been xeroxed by various artists and publishers in many different ways, the catalogue exhibitions from 1969, as well as Lawrence Weiner’s Statements (1968). These publications are often taken as starting points for new projects, which are derivative and yet substantial artworks in their own right. Also, Siegelaub’s engagement with the Art Workers’ Coalition and subsequent draft of The Artist’s Reserved Rights Transfer and Sale Agreement has had wide reception and reaction in contemporary art and activism.

“The works presented in Michalis Pichler’s catalogue Books and Ideas after Seth Siegelaub reinvent Siegelaub’s renowned distinction between primary and secondary information.”
—Annette Gilbert, editor of Reprint: Appropriation (&) Literature and Publishing as Artistic Practice

“This anthology provides a welcome overview of the highly innovative exhibition and distribution practices developed by Seth Siegelaub in the late 1960s and the 1970s.”
—Alexander Alberro, author of Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity

“Seth Siegelaub was largely responsible for publicizing and promoting Conceptual art in the 1960s, but as Books and Ideas documents, he has continued to be a provocation and inspiration almost half a century after his abrupt exit from the art world he helped to create. Moreover, this book provides a context for Pichler’s own brand of conceptual practices. If part of Siegelaub’s genius was to reconceive exhibition as publication, Pichler gives us a catalogue of catalogues exhibiting the proliferation of mirrors which line the hall of Conceptual art’s legacy. In the pages of Books and Ideas, secondary information, accordingly, becomes primary.”
—Craig Dworkin, author of No Medium and Reading the Illegible

Copublished with the Center for Book Arts, New York
Design by Burak Yilmaz Kececiler

File under: Adrian Piper Art Workers' Coalition Carl Andre Douglas Huebler Jan Dibbets Jonathan Monk Joseph Kosuth Lawrence Weiner Maria Eichhorn Robert Barry Robert Morris Sol Lewitt Germano Celant Michalis Pichler Regine Ehleiter Seth Siegelaub Steven Leiber Lucy R. Lippard Center for Book Arts / New York Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Graphic Design / Typography Theory / Essay Conceptual Art Group Shows / Collections SALE

The Joke Book
Collected By Seth Siegelaub

2018, English
Softcover, 216 pages, 20 x 13 cm
Published by Kunstverein / Amsterdam

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'The Joke Book' is the first printed edition of the complete jokes & messages file that was found on the computer of famed American art dealer, curator, author, researcher and champion of conceptual art Seth Siegelaub (1941-2013) by his partner Marja Bloem. It contains jokes, quotes, and pieces of advice, that he collected since 1999 and regularly redistributed via email amongst his friends.

With contributions by Alex Alberto, John Baldessari, Marja Bloem, Myrna Bloom, Martin Browne, Alan Kennedy, David Kunzle, Joel Miller, Loren Miller, Kay Robertson, Laurent Sauerwein, Seth Siegelaub, Joan Simon, Kira Simon-Kennedy, Peter Sinclair, Steven Wright, and an introduction by Huan Hsu (written after a long conversation with Marja Bloem).

File under: John Baldessari Seth Siegelaub Kunstverein / Amsterdam Curatorial Theory / Essay Conceptual Art Art Fiction / Poetry

Textiles
Open Letter

2015, English / German
Hardcover, 312 pages (47 b/w and 128 color ill.), 20 x 24.5 cm
1st edition, Out of print title / New,
Published by Generali Foundation / Vienna Museum Abteiberg / Mönchengladbach Sternberg Press / Berlin

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In collaboration with Sabine Folie, Georgia Holz, Susanne Titz
Texts by Elissa Auther, Sabeth Buchmann, Rike Frank, Judith Raum, Seth Siegelaub, T’ai Smith, Georg Vasold, Leire Vergara, Grant Watson

One essential characteristic of textiles is their richly intertextual nature. Their contemporary appeal and historicity derive from their place in the history of art and culture as well as in the history of media, society, and technology. Representing traditions found in both applied and fine arts, textiles hover between formalism and functionalism; as objects and techniques, they mediate between relations to the self and relations to the world, between affect-driven and knowledge-driven processes of appropriation. Functionally versatile—as objects of utility and media of an abstract (visual) language—textiles read as the fulcrum of an ensemble of activities, and illustrate specific entanglements that, since the beginning of modernity, have transformed the relations between subject and object, the material and the immaterial, artistic and artisanal labor, and different cultures.

This publication examines the referential and analytical qualities of textiles through both contemporary and historical works. The contributions in this book reflect on the complex interplay between the various functions and connotations of textiles—such as the emphasis on their tactile qualities or the artistic value attributed to them—and the attendant conflicts and antagonisms that articulate relations of power and value and of the interaction of artistic processes with their overarching contexts.

Textiles: Open Letter stems from an exhibition at the Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, and a research project (2010–14) initiated by Rike Frank and Grant Watson. Including the following artists; Magdalena Abakanowicz, Anni Albers, Carl Andre, Leonor Antunes, Tonico Lemos Auad, Thomas Bayrle, Jagoda Buic, Heinrich Clasing, Yael Davids, Sofie Dawo, Ria van Eyk, Hans Finsler, Elsi Giauque, Sheela Gowda, Eva Hesse, Sheila Hicks, Loes van der Horst, Johannes Itten, Elisabeth Kadow, Paul Klee, Benita Koch-Otte, Heinrich Koch, Beryl Korot, Konrad Lueg, Agnes Martin, Katrin Mayer, Cildo Meireles, Kitty van der Mijll Dekker, Nasreen Mohamedi, Walter Peterhans, Edith Post-Eberhardt, Josephine Pryde, Florian Pumhösl, Grete Reichardt, Elaine Reichek, Willem de Rooij, Desirée Scholten, Johannes Schweiger, Gunta Stölzl, Lenore Tawney, Rosemarie Trockel

Copublished with Generali Foundation, Vienna, and Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
Design by Martha Stutteregger

Now out of print.

File under: Agnes Martin Anni Albers Benita Koch-Otte Beryl Korot Carl Andre Cildo Meireles Desirée Scholten Edith Post-Eberhardt Elaine Reichek Elisabeth Kadow Elsi Giauque Eva Hesse Florian Pumhösl Grete Reichardt Gunta Stolzl Hans Finsler Heinrich Clasing Heinrich Koch Jagoda Buic Johannes Itten Johannes Schweiger Josephine Pryde Katrin Mayer Kitty van der Mijll Dekker Konrad Lueg Lenore Tawney Leonor Antunes Loes van der Horst Magdalena Abakanowicz Nasreen Mohamedi Paul Klee Ria van Eyk Rosemarie Trockel Sheela Gowda Sheila Hicks Sofie Dawo Thomas Bayrle Tonico Lemos Auad Walter Peterhans Willem de Rooij Yael Davids Elissa Auther Georg Vasold Grant Watson Judith Raum Leire Vergara Rike Frank Sabeth Buchmann Seth Siegelaub T’ai Smith Generali Foundation / Vienna Museum Abteiberg / Mönchengladbach Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Out-of-print / Rare Textiles

CARL ANDRE ROBERT BARRY DOUGLAS HUEBLER JOSEPH KOSUTH SOL LEWITT ROBERT MORRIS LAWRENCE WEINER [also known as the 'Xerox Book']
Seth Siegelaub

2015, English
Softcover (w. clear plastic dust-jacket), 372 pages, 21 x 28 cm
Published by De Appel / Amsterdam Roma / Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum / Amsterdam

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Originally published by Siegelaub/Wendler in 1968. Republished in December 2015 on the occasion of the exhibition Seth Siegelaub: Beyond Conceptual Art at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.

This exhibition in book form was originally published and organised to show work outside of the gallery setting by American curator and art dealer Seth Siegelaub. The book presents several artists (Carl Andre, Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, Sol Lewitt, Robert Morris, Lawrence Weiner) associated with Siegelaub’s curatorial practice, and applies unconventional modes for the exhibition and distribution of art. Siegelaub asked each participating artist to create 25 pages of work that responded to the photocopy format, which was new at the time. A pivotal exhibition for conceptual art in the 1960s, it has now been republished in a second edition through a collaboration by Roma Publications, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, De Appel arts centre, and Egress Foundation.

File under: Carl Andre Douglas Huebler Joseph Kosuth Lawrence Weiner Robert Barry Robert Morris Sol Lewitt Seth Siegelaub De Appel / Amsterdam Roma / Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum / Amsterdam Art

From Conceptualism to Feminism
Lucy Lippard's Numbers Shows 1969–74

2012, English
Softcover, 304 pages (140 b&w ill.), 215 x 156mm
Published by Afterall / London Van Abbemuseum / Eindhoven Walther König / Köln

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Four exhibitions of contemporary art curated by Lucy Lippard have become renowned as her 'numbers shows'. Each took the population of the city in which it was shown as its title: 557,087 in Seattle, 955,000 in Vancouver, 2,972,453 in Buenos Aires and c.7,500 opening in Valencia, California, before touring the US and to London.

This book follows Lippard's curatorial trajectory, analysing her transition from a writer about art to a maker of exhibitions, and tracing her growing political engagement and involvement with feminism.

Extensive photographic material is complemented by a major new essay by Cornelia Butler and interviews with Seth Siegelaub and artists Agnes Denes, Alice Aycock, Eleanor Antin and Mierle Laderman Ukeles.

The volume also includes critical responses written at the time by Peter Plagens and Griselda Pollock, and an analysis of artists initiatives in Argentina that give a context for Lippard's emerging political consciousness by Pip Day.

This is the third publication in the Exhibitions Histories series, co-published with Afterall Books, London.

File under: Agnes Denes Alice Aycock Eleanor Antin Mierle Laderman Ukeles Agnes Denes Alice Aycock Cornelia Butler Eleanor Antin Griselda Pollock Mierle Laderman Ukeles Peter Plagens Pip Day Seth Siegelaub Lucy R. Lippard Afterall / London Van Abbemuseum / Eindhoven Walther König / Köln Art Theory / Essay Feminism Conceptual Art Curatorial Group Shows / Collections

Culture of Curating and the Curating of Culture(s)
Paul O'Neill

2016, English
Softcover, 200 pages, 178 x 229 mm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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First paperback edition of Paul O'Neill's "Culture of Curating and the Curating of Culture(s)" (2012).

" O’Neill – a Bristol-based artist, curator and writer – has edited several useful books, including Curating and the Educational Turn (2010), and this latest publication is certainly one of the most invaluable histories of contemporary curating that I’ve come across. Though relatively slim, it combines a good deal of primary research (such as interviews with Seth Siegelaub and Brian O’Doherty) with wide-ranging case studies and an impressive synthesis of the now-vast body of related writing. The book tracks a shift from the curator as a behind-the-scenes carer, to a nomadic, semi-autonomous and very public figure – a cultural producer as diplomat. O’Neill identifies three key postwar developments: what Siegelaub calls the ‘demystification’ of the curatorial role during the late 1960s (when the terms Austellungsmacher and faiseur d’expositions first emerged, signifying an organizer of large exhibitions unaffiliated with a museum); the primacy of the curator-as-author model of the late 1980s (Harald Szeemann, Jean-Hubert Martin, Rudi Fuchs); and, most recently, the consolidation of a curator-centred discourse in the 1990s." -- Sam Thorne, Frieze magazine, 01/01/13

"Paul O'Neill guides us through the conflicting claims that surround the development of curating as an implicated set of roles. Focusing on the debates and differences that are part of curatorial practice, this book shows what is still required and may be possible. By exposing the historical origins and congested terrain of contemporary curatorial practice, O'Neill will stir a new generation to action."--Liam Gillick, Artist

"In this timely book, Paul O'Neill provides a much-needed overview of the historical development and central issues of contemporary curating. In clear, jargon-free prose he mines the curatorial literature to discuss disparate exhibition strategies and critically analyze the changing self-conception of the curator. This is a book that should be read by anyone interested in exhibitions and exhibition-making."--Bruce Altshuler, Director of New York University's Museum Studies Program

"This book is a thorough and convincing survey of the curatorial. It covers the changing relations between the curator and the artist or art institution over the last fifty years and shows how this triangle has been crucial to the way the public perceives the possibilities of art. It offers readers a digestible history of a phenomenon that profoundly influences our perception of art and how it is understood today." -- Charles Esche, Director, Van Abbemuseum; Eindhoven/Co-editorial Director, Afterall, London

Once considered a mere caretaker for collections, the curator is now widely viewed as a globally connected auteur. Over the last twenty-five years, as international group exhibitions and biennials have become the dominant mode of presenting contemporary art to the public, curatorship has begun to be perceived as a constellation of creative activities not unlike artistic praxis. The curator has gone from being a behind-the-scenes organizer and selector to a visible, centrally important cultural producer. In The Culture of Curating and the Curating of Culture(s), Paul O'Neill examines the emergence of independent curatorship and the discourse that helped to establish it. O'Neill describes how, by the 1980s, curated group exhibitions--large-scale, temporary projects with artworks cast as illustrative fragments--came to be understood as the creative work of curator-auteurs. The proliferation of new biennials and other large international exhibitions in the 1990s created a cohort of high-profile, globally mobile curators, moving from Venice to Paris to Kassel. In the 1990s, curatorial and artistic practice converged, blurring the distinction between artist and curator. O'Neill argues that this change in the understanding of curatorship was shaped by a curator-centered discourse that effectively advocated--and authorized--the new independent curatorial practice. Drawing on the extensive curatorial literature and his own interviews with leading curators, critics, art historians, and artists, O'Neill traces the development of the curator-as-artist model and the ways it has been contested. The Culture of Curating and the Curating of Culture(s) documents the many ways in which our perception of art has been transformed by curating and the discourses surrounding it.

Paul O'Neill is a curator, artist, and writer who has curated or co-curated more than fifty projects. As author and editor, he has published widely in books, anthologies, journals, and art magazines. He lives in Bristol, U.K.

File under: Brian O’Doherty Harald Szeemann Jean-Hubert Martin Paul O’Neill Rudi Fuchs Seth Siegelaub The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Curatorial Theory / Essay

Artist Novels

2015, English
Softcover, 200 pages (10 b/w and 15 color ill.), 17 x 21 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

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Edited by David Maroto, Joanna Zielińska
Texts by Roland Barthes, Liam Gillick, Kenneth Goldsmith, Tom McCarthy, Ingo Niermann, Seth Price, Seth Siegelaub, et al.; excerpts from artist novels by Guy de Cointet, Henry Joseph Darger, Yayoi Kusama, Jill Magid, et al.

This publication is devoted to the phenomenon of the artist novel, and whether it can be considered to be a medium in its own right within the visual arts. Visual artists create different strategies to integrate their novels into their practice. Introducing traits that are particular to narrative literature into the visual arts implies the accentuation of some features over others, such as narration, fiction, identification, and the act of reading and its protracted engagement, as well as distribution in public space. An artist’s approach comes fundamentally from the visual arts. The creation of an artist novel doesn’t differ from any other artwork. Both processes feed into each other as they evolve within the same body of works. Thanks to the contributions of a selected group of artists, writers, curators, and scholars this publication strives to demonstrate that literature, when treated by visual artists, can take place well beyond the space of the book.

www.thebooklovers.info

Copublished with Cricoteka on the occasion of the exhibition “Reads Like A Book: The Book Lovers Project,” January 23–March 15, 2015.
Design by Jakub de Barbaro

File under: Guy de Cointet Henry Joseph Darger Yayoi Kusama Ingo Niermann Kenneth Goldsmith Liam Gillick Roland Barthes Seth Price Seth Siegelaub Tom McCarthy Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Theory / Essay

EXHIBITION
Lucy Steeds (Ed.) - Documents of Contemporary Art Series

2014, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 145 x 210 mm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts Whitechapel / London

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This anthology provides a multivocal critique of the exhibition of contemporary art, bringing together the writings of artists, curators, and theorists. Collectively these diverse perspectives are united by the notion that although the focus for modernist discussion was individual works of art, it is the exhibition that is the prime cultural carrier of contemporaneity. The texts encompass exhibition design and form; exhibitions that are object-based, live, or discursive; projects that no longer rely on a physical space to be visited in person; artists’ responses to being curated and their reflections on the potential of acting curatorially. Set against the rise of the curator as an influential force in the contemporary art world, this volume underlines the crucial role of artists in questioning and shaping the phenomenon of the exhibition.

Artists surveyed include:
Rasheed Araeen, Art & Language, AA Bronson, Daniel Buren, Graciela Carnevale, Andrea Fraser, Piero Gilardi, Group Material, Richard Hamilton, Huang Rui, Laboratoire Agit-Art, Louise Lawler, Glenn Ligon, Konrad Lueg, Matsuzawa Yutaka, Palle Nielsen, OHO (Marko Pogagnik), Hélio Oiticica, Philippe Parreno, Victor Pasmore, Raqs Media Collective, Gerhard Richter, Ruangrupa, Situationist International, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Andy Warhol, Katsuhiro Yamaguchi

Writers include:
Judith Barry, Martin Beck, Charles Esche, Patricia Falguières, Elena Filipovic, Patrick Flores, Liam Gillick, Thelma Golden, Hou Hanru, Geeta Kapur, Pablo Lafuente, Lisette Lagnado, Lucy R. Lippard, Miguel A. López, Stuart Morgan, Chika Okeke-Agulu, Yvonne Rainer, Moira Roth, Seth Siegelaub, Wan-kyung Sung, El Hadji Sy, David Teh, Margarita Tupitsyn, Marion von Osten, Anton Vidokle, Peter Wollen

About the Editor:
Lucy Steeds is Pathway Leader in Exhibition Studies at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London.

File under: AA Bronson Andrea Fraser Andy Warhol Art & Language Daniel Buren Gerhard Richter Glenn Ligon Graciela Carnevale Group Material Hélio Oiticica Huang Rui Katsuhiro Yamaguchi Konrad Lueg Laboratoire Agit-Art Louise Lawler Matsuzawa Yutaka Mierle Laderman Ukeles Palle Nielsen Philippe Parreno Piero Gilardi Raqs Media Collective Rasheed Araeen Richard Hamilton Ruangrupa Situationist International Victor Pasmore Anton Vidokle Charles Esche Chika Okeke-Agulu David Teh El Hadji Sy Elena Filipovic Geeta Kapur Hou Hanru Judith Barry Liam Gillick Lisette Lagnado Lucy R. Lippard Margarita Tupitsyn Marion von Osten Martin Beck Miguel A. López Moira Roth Pablo Lafuente Patricia Falguières Patrick Flores Peter Wollen Seth Siegelaub Stuart Morgan Thelma Golden Wan-kyung Sung Yvonne Rainer The MIT Press / Massachusetts Whitechapel / London Art Theory / Essay