World Food Books

Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Chemin de Croix (Stations of the Cross)

1988, French
14 illustrated prints in illustrated cardboard folio, 30 loose leaf pages, 21.5 x 26.5 cm
Ed. of 150,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Pour l’Art Contemporain / Bourbon-Lancy

$800.00 - In stock -

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Exquisite and extremely rare artist's portfolio, Chemin de Croix (Stations of the Cross), 14 drawings made by Marc Camille Chaimowicz at the Leighton Artists Colony, Parish of St Mary’s, Banff, during Easter 1988. Published in an edition of 150 copies and printed in full colour on warm, heavy paper stock, housed in illustrated cardboard folio, printed in Dijon on the presses of l'imprimerie Dips on behalf of the artist and Le Coin du Miroir, Dijon A Priori, Lyon Pour l'art contemporain, Bourbon Lancy. The 14 drawing series was created to be exhibited in the church of Lesme in Saône-et-Loire at the request of the association Pour l’Art Contemporain, Bourbon-Lancy, from July 1988—July 1989.

Born in 1947, Paris, Marc Camille Chaimowicz is a London-based artist whose cross-disciplinary work in painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, installation, furniture, lighting, ceramics, textiles, and wallpaper challenges the categorical divisions between fine and applied arts, masculine and feminine, public and private, past and present.

Very Good copy, with light age and corner/edge wear. Prints beautifully preserved within. Small chipping/closed tear to soft folio corners.

File under: Marc Camille Chaimowicz Pour l’Art Contemporain / Bourbon-Lancy Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V Posters / Prints Sculpture / Installation Painting Drawing Performance / Dance / Theater Art Architecture / Interior Furniture

Marc Camille Chaimowicz
The World of Interiors

2007, English
Hardcover (pressed cloth w. plastic sleeve), 218 pages, 21 x 26.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by JRP Ringier / Zürich Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst / Zürich

$1000.00 - Out of stock

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One of the great artist books of our time, Marc Camille Chaimowicz's The World of Interiors disappeared from existence immediately after its publication, becoming a book of legend.

Awarded "The Most Beautiful Swiss Book" in 2007, The World of Interiors was conceived and realized by Chaimowicz (b. post-war Paris) on the occasion of his solo exhibition at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich. In the guise of a perfectly reproduced copy of an issue of the famous World Of Interiors magazine, the artist conceived this publication as a reference monograph and a source catalogue, ranging from his first post-Pop scatter installations to works realized in the 1990s. Looking back over nearly 30 years of work, this issue of World Of Interiors is beautifully détourned by Chaimowicz through inserting and collaging his own work (drawings, designs, paintings, photographs of installations, sculptures, his own domestic interiors, furniture, objects), personal writings, clippings from other magazines, references to Cocteau, Proust, Flaubert, Grey, Genet, Giacometti, and texts by contributing writers throughout its glossy pages. Legend has it (and we have this from the best sources) that the publishers received a 'cease and desist' letter from World Of Interiors' publisher Conde Nast immediately after its release and the majority of the print-run was destroyed, making this a very scarce and sought after book. The perfect follow-up Chaimowicz book to his gorgeous "Café du Reve" from 1985.

Born in 1947, Paris, Marc Camille Chaimowicz is a London-based artist whose cross-disciplinary work in painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, installation, furniture, lighting, ceramics, textiles, and wallpaper challenges the categorical divisions between fine and applied arts, masculine and feminine, public and private, past and present. His works are in the Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, and Victoria and Albert Museum collections.

A fine example of a very collectable and special book, wrapped in original rose cloth hardcover, protected under mylar wrap..

File under: Marc Camille Chaimowicz JRP Ringier / Zürich Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst / Zürich Architecture / Interior Art Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Textiles Furniture Painting Drawing Performance / Dance / Theater

Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Reverie, Its Practice and Means of Display

2022, English
Flexcover (clothbound), 248 pages, 21 x 26 cm
Published by Les Presses Du Reel / Paris

$72.00 - Out of stock

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Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Marc Camille Chaimowicz – Zig Zag and Many Ribbons… at MAMC Saint-Etienne in 2022—2023, this reference monograph revisits the conceptual and sensorial developments pursued by the artist since the 1970s.

Includes a ribbon drawn by the artist as an inserted bookmark. Edited by Marc Camille Chaimowicz and Anna Clifford. Text by Marie Canet. Designed by Zak Kyes.

Born in the aftermath of World War II (in 1947 in Paris) of a Polish father and a French mother, Marc Camille Chaimowicz moved as a child to the United Kingdom. He studied at Ealing, Camberwell, and the Slate School of Art in London. In new artistic times, careful to bring art and life closer, often using performance, the life of Marc Camille Chaimowicz has become a great workshop. Living in the exhibition spaces, he sets up hotels entrances, decorates them with his own artefacts, and serves there some tea to visitors with musical background. When it became an official art practice which was no longer subversive, Chaimowicz abandoned performance art. From 1975 to 1979, he designed the interior of his Approach Road flat. Wallpapers, curtains, videos he made while performing in his own decor: everything had been tailored-imagined, drawn, and conceived to turn his interior into a room conducive to reverie. From the 1980s onwards, decors and furniture set like in a theatre scenography took their place in museums. Since then, hundreds of exhibitions have featured the interiors series of this international artist.

Marie Canet is a French art critic, independent curator and professor of aesthetics at the Villa Arson (Nice).

File under: Marc Camille Chaimowicz Anna Clifford Marie Canet Les Presses Du Reel / Paris Painting Drawing Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater Architecture / Interior Sculpture / Installation Curatorial Textiles Art

Willy Müller-Brittnau

1970, German
Softcover (staple-bound), 12 pages, 21 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Editions Bischoffberger / Zürich

$35.00 - Out of stock

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1970 catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition of Swiss artist Willy Müller-Brittnau (1938—2003) at the Galerie d'art Moderne, Basel; Editions Bischoffberger, Zürich; Galerie Riehentor, Basel, exhibiting the striking hard-edge/colour field works of Müller-Brittnau spanning 1964—1970, boldly illustrated throughout in full-colour. Like many Swiss artists of the period, Willy Müller-Brittnau started out as a graphic designer. First influenced by American action painting in 1958, he went on to develop a geometric pictorial language and made outstanding contributions to colour field painting and signal art in the 1960s and 1970s. In addition to painting, drawing and prints, he created numerous site-specific, sculptural works and developed colour schemes for buildings. Includes portraits of the artist and biography.

Good—Very Good copy with light pinching to spine/light cover/corner wear.

File under: Willy Müller-Brittnau Editions Bischoffberger / Zürich Minimal Art Art Painting Out-of-print / Rare

John McLaughlin
Paintings 1951—1966 (I) + Late Work (II)

1983 + 1985, English / Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound), 18 + 28 pages (w. fold-out), 25 x 19 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Gatodo Gallery / Japan

$150.00 - Out of stock

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Very rare set of two handsome Japanese catalogues on the work of American artist John McLaughlin, published in 1983 and 1985. The first volume is "John McLaughlin: Paintings 1951-1966", documenting an exhibition at Gatodo Gallery in Japan in 1983. It includes texts by the artist, portrait, biography, bibliography, a checklist of works exhibited, and 8 superb tipped-in colour plates. The second is "John McLaughlin : Late Work", documenting an exhibition at Gatodo Gallery in Japan in 1985. It includes texts by the artist, portrait, biography, bibliography, a checklist of works exhibited, and 5 superb tipped-in colour plates, including fold-out panel and exhibition view. Text in both Japanese and English.

John Dwyer McLaughlin (1898 – 1976) was a highly pivotal and significant American abstract painter. Based primarily in California, he was a pioneer in minimalism and hard-edge painting.

Good—Very Good condition, both volumes clean and very good throughout internally, only with small sticker peel to cover of vol. I, and some small markings to covers of vol. II.

File under: John McLaughlin Gatodo Gallery / Japan Art Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting

An Anthology of Concrete Poetry
Edited by Emmett Williams

1967, English
Hardcover, 342 pages, 23.5 x 15.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by edition hansjörg meyer / Düsseldorf

$220.00 - Out of stock

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Rare first 1967 European hardcover edition of An Anthology of Concrete Poetry, published by the legendary edition hansjörg meyer. The book's editor, Emmett Williams, "as one of the original practitioners of concrete poetry, has been in a unique position to observe the development of the movement since its beginnings, and the selection in this volume therefore reflects a view of this evolution from within the movement rather than from a distance." An Anthology of Concrete Poetry was the first anthology on the international movement of Concrete poetry, published subsequently by the legendary Something Else Press in 1967 in America. The movement itself began in the early 1950s, in Germany–through Eugen Gomringer, who borrowed the term “concrete” from the art of his mentor, Max Bill–and in Brazil, through the Noigandres group, which included the de Campos brothers and Decio Pignatari. Over the course of the 1960s it exploded across Europe, America and Japan, as other protagonists of the movement emerged, such as Dieter Roth, Öyvind Fahlström, Ernst Jandl, bpNichol, Mary Ellen Solt, Jackson Mac Low, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Bob Cobbing, Dom Sylvester Houédard, Pierre Garnier, Henri Chopin, Brion Gysin and Kitasono Katue. By the late 1960s, poet Jonathan Williams could proclaim: “If there is such a thing as a worldwide movement in the art of poetry, Concrete is it.” The work of the 77 writers collected in this anthology varies greatly in its aims and forms, but all can be said to emphasize the visual dimension of language, manipulating individual letters and minimal semantic units to produce poems that are for contemplating as much as for reading. Emmett Williams, the book’s editor, added explanatory commentary for the poems and biographies of their authors, making this volume–long out of print–the definitive anthology of this movement, which has so influenced artists and writers of subsequent generations.

Writers and artists included: Friedrich Achleitner, Alain Arias-Misson, H. C. Artmann, Ronaldo Azeredo, Stephen Bann, Carlo Belloli, Max Bense, Edgard Braga, Claus Bremer, Augusto de Campos, Haroldo de Campos, Henri Chopin, Carl Friedrich Claus, Bob Cobbing, Paul de Vree, Reinhard Döhl, Torsten Ekbom, Öyvind Fahlström, Carl Fernbach-Flarsheim, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Larry Freifeld, John Furnival, Heinz Gappmayr, Ilse and Pierre Garnier, Matthias Goeritz, Eugen Gomringer, Ludwig Gosewitz, Bohumila Grögerova and Josef Hiršal, José Lino Grünewald, Brion Gysin, Al Hansen, Václav Havel, Helmut Heissenbüttel, Åke Hodell, Dom Sylvester Houédard, Ernst Jandl, Bengt Emil Johnson, Ronald Johnson, Hiro Kamimura, Kitasono Katue, Jiri Kolar, Ferdinand Kriwet, Arrigo Lora-Totino, Jackson Mac Low, Hansjörg Mayer, Cavan McCarthy, Franz Mon, Edwin Morgan, Maurizio Nannucci, bp Nichol, Hans-Jørgen Nielsen, Seiichi Niikuni, Ladislav Novák, Yuksel Pazarkaya, Décio Pignatari, Vlademir Dias Pino, Luiz Angelo Pinto, Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd, Diter Rot, Gerhard Rühm, Aram Saroyan, John J. Sharkey, Edward Lucie Smith, Mary Ellen Solt, Adriano Spatola, Daniel Spoerri, Vagn Steen, Andre Thomkins, Enrique Uribe Valdivielso, Franz Van Der Linde, Franco Verdi, Emmett Williams, Jonathan Williams, Pedro Xisto and Fujitomi Yasuo.

"Emmett Williams, as one of the original practitioners of concrete poetry, has been in a unique position to observe the development of the movement since its beginnings, and the selection in this volume therefore reflects a view of this evolution from within the movement rather than from a distance. However it is far too soon to regard any anthology of Concrete Poetry as being definitive since the movement is extremely active and major new works have yet to appear in this most interesting of current poetry movements." -- from interior flap. Printed in black-and-white.

Very Good copy with some light edge wear to thick covers, general light age/tanning.

File under: Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd Bohumila Grögerova and Josef Hiršal José Lino Grünewald Václav Havel Helmut Heissenbüttel Åke Hodell Friedrich Achleitner Alain Arias-Misson H. C. Artmann Ronaldo Azeredo Stephen Bann Carlo Belloli Max Bense Edgard Braga Claus Bremer Augusto de Campos Haroldo de Campos Henri Chopin Carl Friedrich Claus Bob Cobbing Paul de Vree Reinhard Döhl Torsten Ekbom Öyvind Fahlström Carl Fernbach-Flarsheim Ian Hamilton Finlay Larry Freifeld John Furnival Heinz Gappmayr Ilse and Pierre Garnier Matthias Goeritz Eugen Gomringer Ludwig Gosewitz Dom Sylvester Houédard Ernst Jandl Bengt Emil Johnson Ronald Johnson Hiro Kamimura Kitasono Katue Jiri Kolar Ferdinand Kriwet Arrigo Lora-Totino Jackson Mac Low Hansjörg Mayer Cavan McCarthy Franz Mon Edwin Morgan Maurizio Nannucci bp Nichol Hans-Jørgen Nielsen Seiichi Niikuni Ladislav Novák Yuksel Pazarkaya Décio Pignatari Vlademir Dias Pino Luiz Angelo Pinto Diter Rot Gerhard Rühm Aram Saroyan John J. Sharkey Edward Lucie Smith Mary Ellen Solt Adriano Spatola Daniel Spoerri Vagn Steen Enrique Uribe Valdivielso Franz Van Der Linde Franco Verdi Emmett Williams Jonathan Williams Pedro Xisto Fujitomi Yasuo André Thomkins André Thomkins Friedrich Achleitner Alain Arias-Misson H. C. Artmann Ronaldo Azeredo Stephen Bann Carlo Belloli Max Bense Edgard Braga Claus Bremer Augusto de Campos Haroldo de Campos Henri Chopin Carl Friedrich Claus Bob Cobbing Paul de Vree Reinhard Döhl Torsten Ekbom Öyvind Fahlström Carl Fernbach-Flarsheim Ian Hamilton Finlay Larry Freifeld John Furnival Heinz Gappmayr Ilse and Pierre Garnier Matthias Goeritz Eugen Gomringer Ludwig Gosewitz Bohumila Grögerova and Josef Hiršal José Lino Grünewald Brion Gysin Al Hansen Václav Havel Helmut Heissenbüttel Åke Hodell Dom Sylvester Houédard Ernst Jandl Arrigo Lora-Totino Jackson Mac Low Hansjörg Mayer Cavan McCarthy Franz Mon Edwin Morgan Maurizio Nannucci bp Nichol Hans-Jørgen Nielsen Seiichi Niikuni Ladislav Novák Yuksel Pazarkaya Décio Pignatari Vlademir Dias Pino Luiz Angelo Pinto Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd Diter Rot Gerhard Rühm Aram Saroyan John J. Sharkey Edward Lucie Smith Mary Ellen Solt Adriano Spatola Daniel Spoerri Vagn Steen Andre Thomkins Enrique Uribe Valdivielso Franz Van Der Linde Franco Verdi Emmett Williams Jonathan Williams Pedro Xisto Fujitomi Yasuo Bengt Emil Johnson Ronald Johnson Jiří Kolář Hiro Kamimura Kitasono Katue Ferdinand Kriwet edition hansjörg meyer / Düsseldorf Concrete Poetry Conceptual Art Out-of-print / Rare Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Art Minimal Art Fiction / Poetry Poetry Fluxus

The Beauty of Light: An Interview
Etel Adnan & Laure Adler

2024, English
Softcover, 128 pages, 20.5 x 14 cm
Published by Nightboat Books / New York

$38.00 - Out of stock

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A lively and spontaneous interview with Etel Adnan about her absolute belief in the beauty of the world and the beauty of art.

In these interviews with journalist and editor Laure Adler, conducted in the months before her death in November 2021, Etel Adnan traces with depth and emotion the founding experiences of her artistic approach, between poetry and painting. From her youth in Lebanon, her American years in New York and California, to her late recognition at Documenta in 2012 and her life in France, the conversation covers philosophy, painting, poetry and aesthetics, as well Adnan's views on history and politics in Europe, the Middle East, and the United States. These transcripts usher the experiences and observations of Adnan's long and rich life into an intimate and spontaneous conversation with a dear friend―a window on the “universe” of her imagination.

File under: Etel Adnan Etel Adnan Laure Adler Nightboat Books / New York Fiction / Poetry Poetry Painting Art Theory / Essay

Paul Wunderlich und Karin Székessy
Correspondenzen

1977, German
Softcover, 128 pages, 33 x 24 cm
Out of print title / used / good
Published by Belser Verlag / Stuttgart

$68.00 - Out of stock

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Softcover edition of this wonderful over-sized publication on the unique collaboration between German artist Paul Wunderlich and photographer Karin Székessy, one of Germany's most important female photographers, who were married to each other. Published in Switzerland in 1977, this volumes collects an abundance of these iconic 'transpositions,' evocative, experimental nude photographs by Szekessy juxtaposed with Wunderlich's versions, or replies, in the form of paintings and prints. Profusely illustrated throughout in colour and b/w, the result is a fascinating dialogue of unconventional nude form. German literary critic Fritz J. Raddatz's illustrated introduction gives contextual and art historical references and background, accompanied by a full listing of works and exhibition history.

Good—VG copy with only light cover/edge wear.

File under: Paul Wunderlich Karin Székessy Fritz J. Raddatz Belser Verlag / Stuttgart Photography Eros Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Surrealism Painting Drawing Art Out-of-print / Rare

Unlimited: Comme des Garçons

2005, English / Japanese
Softcover (w. printed acetate dust jacket), 270 pages, 20 x 22.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Heibonsha / Tokyo

$160.00 - Out of stock

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First edition of Unlimited: Comme des Garçons, a unique and lavish compilation book about Comme des Garçons and designer Rei Kawakubo, published in Japan in 2005 and edited by Sanae Shimizu and NHK. Shimizu explains in the afterword: "the present book is a compilation based on reporting for two television programs, the NHK Special, "What the World Values in Her Fashion: REI KAWAKUBO and Comme des Garçons," and the Hi-Vision Special, "Fashion Revolutinonary: REI KAWAKUBO and the World of Comme des Garçons." Single frames of video filmed with a Hi-Vision camera were captured, and transformed into static images, after which the images were digitally printed". The book combines rare collection, store interior, and Comme workshop imagery with interviews, reflections, and commentary from a range of people, including fashion designers (Alexander McQueen, Junya Watanabe, Azzedine Alaïa, Jean Paul Gaultier, Paul Smith, Walter van Beirendonck, etc.), Comme des Garçons production staff, choreographers (Merce Cunningham, etc.), photographers (Paolo Roversi, etc.), fashion journalists and editors (Vogue, Dazed, Purple, etc.) and many from Rei Kawakubo herself. One of the most insightful books on Comme and Rei, The images of Comme des Garçons workspaces and insight into the production and pattern-making process provided by staff make this an invaluable book for any fan.

Very Good copy with light wear and usual bind issue (tightly stitch bound in perfect shape and working order, but glue of no use)

File under: Rei Kawakubo Comme des Garçons Steve McQueen Walter van Beirendonck Alexander McQueen Junya Watanabe Azzedine Alaïa Jean Paul Gaultier Paul Smith Merce Cunningham Paolo Roversi Sanae Shimizu Olivier Zahm Heibonsha / Tokyo Fashion Theory / Essay Art Out-of-print / Rare Textiles

Comme des Garçons SIX/Sixth Sense No. 1

1988, English / Japanese
Softcover, oversized, loose-leaf pages, 42 x 29.7 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Comme des Garçons / Tokyo

$440.00 - Out of stock

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First 1988 edition, first printing of the inaugural issue of the cult, privately distributed Comme des Garçons publication. The incredible first issue of Comme des Garçons' 'Six' magazine (1988) features the work of Hungarian photographer André Kertész, Comme des Garçons by photographer Peter Lindbergh, photography by Sachiko Kuru, features on artist Jean Cocteau, architect Eileen Gray, artist Michel Sauer, and an interview with fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto, plus additional photography by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Arthur Elgort, Tony Mendoza, Sachiko Kuru, Shinji Mori, Serge Lido and Gisele Freund. Beautiful first-edition printing of this over-sized magazine vision of Rei Kawakubo, including die-cut features throughout and de-bossed cover title.

Between 1988 and 1991, Comme des Garçons explored the theme of the sixth sense via eight special biannual oversized, unstapled magazines titled 'Six'. These magazines were launched to coincide with Comme des Garçons fashion collections and were privately printed and distributed by Comme. The magazine visually represented the brand in a way that no other fashion company had before. Rei Kawakubo invited Tsuguya Inoue to art direct and Atsuko Kozasu to edit the issues, whilst contributions came from a diverse array of leading designers and artists. Issues of Comme des Garçons 'Six' have become very sought after collectors items.

Very Good / Near Fine copy.

File under: Arthur Elgort Comme des Garçons Eileen Gray Jean Cocteau Peter Lindbergh Rei Kawakubo Sachiko Kuru Yohji Yamamoto Comme des Garçons / Tokyo Architecture / Interior Art Graphic Design / Typography Fashion Out-of-print / Rare Photography Japanese Photography

H.R. Giger
Poëtenz, 1967 (poster)

1967, German
Offset poster (double-sided), 83.5 x 59 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good

$600.00 - Out of stock

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Where it all started.... H.R. Giger's first ever poster! Rare vintage original and never reprinted.

Published in a limited edition to accompany the The-Telllife-No-mads-presents: Poëtenz happening/exhibition, organized by young Giger's friend and collaborator, Swiss writer, artist and publisher Urban Gwerders. Gwerders was the publisher of Swiss underground counterculture magazine Hotcha (1968—1971), to which Giger was also a contributor. The poster folds-down into a catalogue/program for the event with original cover artwork by Giger and collage contents, poems, photographs (including pics of Giger, Li, et al) and Poëtenz information, all designed in the montage style of Hotcha, and the "poster" side entirely reproducing Giger's incredible early "Astreunuchen" masterpiece, pre-dating ALIEN by over ten years.

A stunning collector's item and piece of Giger history, ready to frame.

Dimensions : 83.5 x 59 cm
Very Good condition, never mounted/pinned, well preserved in folded state as issued.

File under: H.R. Giger Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Art Surrealism Out-of-print / Rare Posters / Prints Objects / Ephemera / A/V Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Film / Video

Patty Chang
The Wandering Lake

2017, English
Softcover, 124 pages, 24 x 16.5 cm
Published by Dancing Foxes Press / Brooklyn Queens Museum / Queens

$50.00 $30.00 - In stock -

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Integrating video, photography, sculpture, writing, and performance into one expansive body of work, Los Angeles–based artist Patty Chang examines the complex way stories develop through geography, history, cultural mythology, fiction, and personal experience. Accompanying her project A Wandering Lake that was in part inspired by turn-of-the-century colonial explorer Sven Hedin’s book Wandering Lake (1938)—which tells the story of a migrating body of water in the Chinese desert—this artist’s book, combining Chang’s writings and travel photographs with historic and theoretical text excerpts as well as photographs of her sculptures and watercolors, is a personal, associative, narrative meditation on mourning, caregiving, and landscape.

Copublished with the Queens Museum in 2017
Edited by Karen Kelly and Barbara Schroeder
With an afterword by Hitomi Iwasaki
Design by Leftloft

This is a guide to mourning; but Chang widens the scope to include political conflict and environmental degradation, and argues that, despite the losses we’ve incurred, we are still collaborators in the making of our worlds.”—Erin Schwartz, The New York Review of Books

File under: Patty Chang Hitomi Iwasaki Karen Kelly Barbara Schroeder Patty Chang Dancing Foxes Press / Brooklyn Queens Museum / Queens Film / Video Art Fiction / Poetry Theory / Essay Sculpture / Installation Photography SALE Painting

Hitomi Watanabe
'77 LOOK Calendar

1977, Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound), 28 pages, 36.5 x 26 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Nisshindo Optical Shop / Nagoya

$140.00 - In stock -

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Extremely rare calendar issue from acclaimed Japanese photographer and representative of the Provoke movement, Hitomi Watanabe. Issued privately by a small eyeglasses shop in Nagoya, Nisshindo Optical Shop, this 1977 "LOOK" Calendar presents the rarely seen personal 1970s work of Watanabe. Watanabe began her career photographing in the Tokyo neighbourhood of Shinjuku, home to Japan’s 1960s counter culture. She came to prominence during the Zenkyoto student movement in the late 1960s, occupied the University of Tokyo campus in 1968-69 and participated in the 10.21 International Anti-War Day protests and 1970 Anpo protests against the renewal of the Japan-US Mutual Security Treaty. Her candid photographs of the everyday lives of the protesters, the state violence, and the aftermath of rioting from her insider’s vantage on this tumultuous moment afforded her work an undeniable, enduring power. Her famed "Kaihoku '68 / Liberated Area '68" a testament to this. When the Japan-US Mutual security treaty was renewed in 1970, Watanabe, heartbroken that they had not been able to prevent it, began her long travels through Asia, particularly India and Nepal, from which these beautiful, atmospheric colour photographs are taken. Reproduced in large format across the 12 months of 1977.

Very Good copy with some light wear and light cover tanning. Has been previously hung.

File under: Hitomi Watanabe Nisshindo Optical Shop / Nagoya Japanese Photography Photography Out-of-print / Rare Objects / Ephemera / A/V Art

Issy Wood
Study for No

2023, English / French
Softcover, 190 pages, 25.5 x 21 cm
Published by Lafayette Anticipations / Paris

$70.00 - Out of stock

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Lafayette Anticipations presents Study for No, Issy Wood's first solo exhibition in France, featuring over 60 paintings by the English artist, most of which have never been shown before.

The body of work presented in the catalogue speaks of a refusal to accept a certain order, and expresses unease at the systems of oppression, both conscious and unconscious, that govern human beings, especially the most vulnerable. The exhibition catalogue includes an essay by art critic Barry Schwabsky, a portrait of the artist by Kaitlin Phillips, and an interview between Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel and Issy Wood.

Bilingual French / English

File under: Issy Wood Kaitlin Phillips Barry Schwabsky Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel Lafayette Anticipations / Paris Painting Art

In the Time of Kiarostami: Writings on Iranian Cinema
by Godfrey Cheshire

2022, English
Softcover, 309 pages, 20.5 x 15 cm
Published by Woodville Press / New York

$52.00 - Out of stock

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“Essential”—Indiewire

“What’s most remarkable about this volume is its transparency. Throughout, in new, rewritten and republished pieces, you can see Godfrey’s questing and questioning mind latching onto a subject for which he has a deep affinity, learning as much as he can about it—by pondering the works themselves, talking to their creators, and absorbing the culture that birthed the scene—and then figuring out a way to transmit his enthusiasm to the widest American audience possible.”—Matt Zoller Seitz

“I admire Godfrey for his strong support of Iranian cinema and his efforts to introduce Iranian films to American audiences. Although movies are shown by distributors and exhibitors, it’s really the critics who bring the audience. Godfrey’s reviews also help us in Iran by providing critical support against those who attempt to suppress us and keep us from working.”—Jafar Panahi, filmmaker

“So impressed by his first encounters with contemporary Iranian films, Godfrey Cheshire decided to do a deep dive into Iranian literature, art and society, not to mention film history. The happy result is this book, displaying an incredible range of knowledge about what is the most remarkable film movement of the past decades, while offering a deep exploration of both this cinema’s deep roots as well as its celebrated achievements.”—Richard Pena, Professor of Film and Media Studies, Columbia University

“Godfrey Cheshire has been the preeminent American critic on Iranian cinema for decades. With rare access to master filmmakers, Cheshire weaves together rich, personal stories, with history, culture and his brilliant insights. His passion is infectious. This is his definitive book.”—Ramin Bahrani, Oscar-nominated filmmaker

“There is no better way to discover Iranian cinema than to immerse yourself in Godfrey Cheshire’s beautifully written 30 year personal cinematic journey. This is an important, informative and compelling book at this global political moment. It is vital to know these filmmakers of purpose through the perception of an outsider with whom we can identify and to lose ourselves to the wonder, humanity, and artistry of a culture and cinema that demands our attention now more than ever.”—Michael Barker, Sony Pictures Classics

File under: Godfrey Cheshire Matt Zoller Seitz Woodville Press / New York Theory / Essay Film / Video Art Sociology / Politics

Conversations with Kiarostami
by Godfrey Cheshire

2022, English
Softcover, 188 pages, 19 x 12.5 cm
Published by Woodville Press / New York

$40.00 - Out of stock

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“In many respects the best book yet published on the director.”—Cineaste

“For Kiarostami’s own overview of his early career, I’d recommend Conversations with Kiarostami.”—Richard Brody, The New Yorker

Conversations with Kiarostami collects for the first time a far ranging series of interviews with the celebrated director Abbas Kiarostami by film critic, and Iranian cinema expert, Godfrey Cheshire.

Conducted in the 1990s, these in-depth conversations offer a film-by-film account of Kiarostami’s views of his artistic development from his first short “Bread and Alley” in 1970 to the 1999 feature The Wind Will Carry Us, covering his lesser known, and seldom written about, shorts from earlier in his career, along with the masterworks that made him world famous, such as the Koker Trilogy (Where Is the Friend’s House?, And Life Goes On, Through the Olive Trees), Close-Up and Taste of Cherry. The book includes a Foreword by Ahmad Kiarostami, the director’s son, as well as an introduction from Cheshire that contextualizes the interviews and discusses his relationship with the director.

“During Godfrey’s several visits to Iran throughout a decade, he formed a relationship with my father that I had rarely seen him having with other writers. I believe this is because of Godfrey’s ability to go beyond the surface; his unique views and interpretations…It is well-known that Godfrey was one of the first people who introduced the Iranian cinema to America and, yet, there is no trace of the usual “exotic” approach…That is what you will find in this book: a refreshing conversation with Abbas that has substance, and is far from cliché.”—Ahmad Kiarostami, from his foreword.

File under: Ahmad Kiarostami Godfrey Cheshire Woodville Press / New York Film / Video Sociology / Politics Theory / Essay Art

Time Tells, Vol. 1
by Masha Tupitsyn

2023, English
Softcover, 296 pages, 19 x 14 cm
Published by Hard Wait Press / New York

$55.00 $35.00 - Out of stock

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Named one of the best books of 2023 by The Paris Review
Named one of the best books of 2023 by Sight & Sound

Time Tells is a grand study of time, technology, performance, the attention economy, and comedy. Using the cinematic time-jump, "a numerical shorthand for a fated intermission," to weave a narrative of chronopolitics, memoir, and cultural study, Masha Tupitsyn constructs a unique literary and visual phenomenology on the loss of time, presence, and attention in the digital age. Structured into two interlocked inquiries—Time and Acting—Time Tells focuses on the internet to talk about the ethics of presence and attention, comedy to talk about timing and the language of critique, and lying masculinity, the double, and acting to talk about performance and the reign of falsehood. Both volumes intersect to examine our inability to experience coherence and integration in the post-truth era.

In the first volume, Time, Tupitsyn covers wide-ranging cultural touchstones such as the ’90s TV show Felicity, Hitchcock’s Vertigo, Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name, Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking, Pretty Woman, Wong Kar-wai’s 2046, David Fincher’s Zodiac, Jean-Luc Godard, the Beastie Boys, Wim Wenders, the art of style, memory and music in the post-internet age, and the lost ontology of cinema. Using what Tupitsyn terms “screen-shot criticism,” Time Tells makes innovative critical thinking accessible to anyone interested in American culture today.

Afterword by Felix Bernstein.

“Time Tells is a mesmerizing work about art, life, chronology, and magical thinking. Masha Tupitsyn is a treasure.”—Matt Zoller Seitz

“Masha Tupitsyn rescues films of our generation from the memory hole to which everything but box office is now consigned. Her writing is intimate and analytical, laced with radiant perceptions about movie stars, memory, and lost time.”—A. S. Hamrah

“I have been searching for books during the pandemic that will saddle up with me in my middle-aged sorrow. A sorrow having something to do with “before television went online, days of the week mattered.” Books about the state of the global crisis haven’t done it for me. Masha Tupitsyn’s Time Tells is the book I am looking for. I’m keeping that in the present tense to suggest my ongoing and vital relationship to an extraordinarily generous and profound hybrid text and manual that I will keep on hand at all times. As a poet, I am obsessed with how art can sequence events to expand or contract our sense of time. Mid-way through Tupitsyn’s treatise, she has placed one of the brightest and most innovative pieces of film criticism I have ever read. I would teach her writing on the film Zodiac as a list poem. She writes, ‘In Zodiac, time is forensic.’ I gasped with a little horror and a little joy.”—Stacy Szymaszek

File under: Felix Bernstein Masha Tupitsyn Hard Wait Press / New York Literary Theory / Semiotics / Language Art Film / Video Theory / Essay SALE

Roberte Ce Soir and The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (Two Novels)
by Pierre Klossowski

1971, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 214 pages, 20 x 13.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Calder and Boyars / London

$45.00 - Out of stock

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First 1971 hardcover edition of the first English edition of Roberte Ce Soir and The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, published in London by Calder and Boyars. Together these two novels comprise the most fascinating, obsessive, and erotic works of contemporary French fiction. Like the works of Georges Bataille, and those of the Marquis de Sade before him, Klossowski's fiction explores the connections between the mind and the body through a lens of sexuality. Both of these novels feature Octave, an elderly cleric; his striking young wife Roberte; and their nephew, Antoine in a series of sexual situations. But Klossowski's books are about theology as well, and this merging of the sexual with the religious makes this book one of the most painstakingly baroque and intellectual novels of our time.

Pierre Klossowski (August 9, 1905, Paris – August 12, 2001, Paris) was a French writer, translator and artist. He was the eldest son of the artists Erich Klossowski and Baladine Klossowska, and his younger brother was the painter Balthus.

As a writer, Pierre Klossowski wrote full length volumes on the Marquis de Sade and Friedrich Nietzsche, a number of essays on literary and philosophical figures, and five novels. Roberte Ce Soir (Roberte in the Evening) provoked controversy due to its graphic depiction of sexuality.[1] He translated several important texts (by Virgil, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger, Friedrich Hölderlin, Franz Kafka, Nietzsche, and Walter Benjamin) into French, worked on films and was also an artist, illustrating many of the scenes from his novels. Klossowski participated in most issues of George Bataille's review, Acéphale, in the late 1930s.

His 1969 book, Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle, greatly influenced French philosophers such as Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Jean-François Lyotard.

Very Good copy in VG dust jacket, preserved under mylar wrap.

File under: Pierre Klossowski Pierre Klossowski Calder and Boyars / London Fiction / Poetry Eros Out-of-print / Rare Art Theory / Essay

The Suspended Vocation
by Pierre Klossowski

2020, English
Softcover, 76 pages, 21 x 14 cm
Published by Small Press / New York

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Made available in English for the very first time by NY based Small Press, Pierre Klossowski's debut novel from 1950, The Suspended Vocation, fictionalizes and satirizes the great erotic artist, philosopher, and iconoclast's brief, wartime flirtation with the priesthood, portraying the Church as a haven for conspiracy, idolatry, perversion, and even atheism.

Written in the form of a disapproving monograph on an anonymous, confessional novel (itself titled The Suspended Vocation), it is the story of the hapless Jérôme, whose lust for holiness leads him astray in a cloistered world full of ideological and physical temptations.

Sometimes a knowing critique of "religious fiction," sometimes a wicked self-parody of Klossowski's own lifelong obsessions, and sometimes a sacerdotal spy novel, The Suspended Vocation is one of the strangest and most audacious debuts in twentieth-century literature.

Translated by Jeremy M. Davies and Anna Fitzgerald, with an introduction by Brian Evenson.

File under: Pierre Klossowski Pierre Klossowski Small Press / New York Fiction / Poetry Eros Art

The Manhattan Art Journal
Vol. 1, Issue 1, Summer 2023

2023, English
Softcover, 189 pages, 28 x 20.5 cm
Ed. of 700,
Published by The Manhattan Art Journal / New York

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The long-awaited premiere issue of The Manhattan Art Journal, the printed edition of The Manhattan Art Review. Edited by Sean Tatol and designed by Becca Abbe, Vol. 1, Issue 1 features writings, letters, interviews, reviews, The Melbourne Art Review, comics, and literary quotes, with contributions by Jessica Almereyda, Anthony Atlas, Brian Block, Chris Camperchioli, Noah Dillon, Marguerite Duras, Michael Eby, Andy Giannakakis, Laszlo Horvath, Ella Howells, Cameron Hurst, Domenic Hutchins, Carmen-Sibha Keiso, Bill Kemmler, Eydís Klej, Adam Lehrer, Mathieu Malouf, Marc Matchak, Lucas Matheson, Christian Oldham Tannon Reckling, Libby Rothfeld, Jake S., Audrey Schmidt, Sophy Schulman, Mitzi Sfarzada, Myles Starr, Sean Tatol, Dylan Taylor, Luka Usmiani, Adrian Wilson, and Jarrod Zlatic, interviews by Ryan Cullen, Famous Art Guy, Carmen-Sibha Keiso, and Ross Simonini, and comics by Andrew Newell Walther.

Edition of 700 copies.

File under: Andrew Newell Walther Becca Abbe Jessica Almereyda Anthony Atlas Brian Block Chris Camperchioli Noah Dillon Marguerite Duras Michael Eby Andy Giannakakis Laszlo Horvath Ella Howells Cameron Hurst Domenic Hutchins Carmen-Sibha Keiso Bill Kemmler Eydís Klej Adam Lehrer Mathieu Malouf Marc Matchak Lucas Matheson Christian Oldham Tannon Reckling Libby Rothfeld Jake S. Audrey Schmidt Sophy Schulman Mitzi Sfarzada Myles Starr Sean Tatol Dylan Taylor Luka Usmiani Adrian Wilson Jarrod Zlatic yan Cullen Famous Art Guy Ross Simonini The Manhattan Art Journal / New York Periodicals Art Theory / Essay Australian Art Painting Sculpture / Installation

Paul Thek
Artist's Artist

2009, English
Hardcover, 550 pages, 22 x 28 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

$400.00 - Out of stock

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First edition of the scarce, highly sought after, and most comprehensive book ever published on American artist Paul Thek, published in 2009 by MIT Press. Edited by Harald Falckenberg and Peter Weibel, this enormous 550 page monograph contains more than 300 works by this groundbreaking artist, documenting his journey from legendary outsider to central figure in many contemporary art movements.

Paul Thek occupied a place between high art and low art, between the epic and the everyday. During his brief life (1933-1988), he went against the grain of art world trends, humanizing the institutional spaces of art with the force of his humor, spirituality, and character. Twenty years after Thek's death from AIDS, we can now recognize his influence on contemporary artists ranging from Vito Acconci and Bruce Nauman to Matthew Barney, Mike Kelley, and Paul McCarthy, as well as Kai Althoff, Jonathan Meese, and Thomas Hirschhorn. This book brings together more than 300 of Thek's works—many of which are published here for the first time—to offer the most comprehensive display of his work yet seen. The book, which accompanies an exhibition at ZKM ? Museum of Contemporary Art presenting Thek's work in dialogue with contemporary art by young artists, includes painting, sculpture, drawing, and installation work, as well as photographs documenting the room-size environments into which Thek incorporated elements from art, literature, theater, and religion. These works chart Thek's journey from legendary outsider to foundational figure in contemporary art. In their antiheroic diversity, Thek's works embody the art revolution of the 1960s; indeed, Susan Sontag dedicated her classic Against Interpretation to him. Thek's treatment of the body in such works as “Technological Reliquaries,” with their castings and replicas of human body parts, tissue, and bones, both evoke the aura of Christian relics and anticipate the work of Damien Hirst. The book, with more than 500 images (300 in colour) and nineteen essays by art historians, curators, collectors, and artists, investigates Thek's work on its own terms, and as a starting point for understanding the work of the many younger artists Thek has influenced.

Essays by Jean-Christophe Ammann, Margrit Brehm, Bazon Brock, Suzanne Delehanty, Harald Falckenberg, Marietta Franke, Stefan Germer, Kim Gordon, Roland Groenenboom, Axel Heil, Gregor Jansen, Mike Kelley, John Miller, Susanne Neubauer, Kenny Schachter, Harald Szeemann, Annette Tietenberg, Peter Weibel, Ann Wilson.

Good copy with heavy tanning to spine and covers (esp. fluro spot colour), some bumping to cover corners, light page edge tanning. Internally Very Good, clean throughout.

File under: Paul Thek Harald Falckenberg Peter Weibel Jean-Christophe Ammann Margrit Brehm Bazon Brock Suzanne Delehanty Marietta Franke Stefan Germer Kim Gordon Roland Groenenboom Axel Heil Gregor Jansen Mike Kelley John Miller Susanne Neubauer Kenny Schachter Harald Szeemann Annette Tietenberg Ann Wilson The MIT Press / Massachusetts Arte Povera Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Painting Drawing Performance / Dance / Theater Art Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic

Formalism and Historicity : Models and Methods in Twentieth-Century Art
By Benjamin H. D. Buchloh

2015, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 592 pages, 24 x 18.5 cm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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Essays spanning three decades by one of the most rigorous art thinkers of our time grapple with formal and historical paradigms in twentieth century art.

These influential essays by the noted critic and art historian Benjamin Buchloh have had a significant impact on the theory and practice of art history. Written over the course of three decades and now collected in one volume, they trace a history of crucial artistic transitions, iterations, and paradigmatic shifts in the twentieth century, considering both the evolution and emergence of artistic forms and the specific historical moment in which they occurred.

Buchloh's subject matter ranges through various moments in the history of twentieth-century American and European art, from the moment of the retour à l'ordre of 1915 to developments in the Soviet Union in the 1920s to the beginnings of Conceptual art in the late 1960s to the appropriation artists of the 1980s. He discusses conflicts resulting from historical repetitions (such as the monochrome and collage/montage aesthetics in the 1910s, 1950s, and 1980s), the emergence of crucial neo-avantgarde typologies, and the resuscitation of obsolete genres (including the portrait and landscape, revived by 1980s photography). Although these essays are less monographic than those in Buchloh's earlier collection, Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry, two essays in this volume are devoted to Marcel Broodthaers, whose work remains central to Buchloh's theoretical concerns. Engaging with both formal and historical paradigms, Buchloh situates himself productively between the force fields of formal theory and historical narrative, embracing the discrepancies and contradictions between them and within individual artistic trajectories.

Contents
Formalism and Historicity (1977) • Marcel Broodthaers: Allegories of the Avant-Garde (1980) • Figures of Authority, Ciphers of Regression: Notes on the Return of Representation in European Painting (1981) • Allegorical Procedures: Appropriations and Montage in Contemporary Art (1982) • The Museum Fictions of Marcel Broodthaers (1983) • From Faktura to Factography (1984) • Readymade, Objet Trouvé, Idée Reçue (1985) • The Primary Colors for the Second Time: A Paradigm Repetition of the Neo-Avantgarde (1986) • Cold War Constructivism (1986) • Conceptual Art 1962–1969: From the Aesthetics of Administration to the Critique of Institutions (1989) • Residual Resemblance: Three Notes on the Ends of Portraiture (1994) • Sculpture: Publicity and the Poverty of Experience (1996)

File under: Benjamin H. D. Buchloh The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Theory / Essay Painting Conceptual Art Sculpture / Installation

Paris, When It's Naked
by Etel Adnan

1993 / 2022, English
Softcover, 115 pages, 14 x 20.3 cm
Published by Post Apollo Press / US

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Etel Adnan's novel PARIS, WHEN IT'S NAKED amazes our retinas, ears, lips, fingertips, and noses with sensing, talking, and envisioning the city of Baudelaire and Delacroix, Mallarme and Picasso, Sartre and Djuna Barnes, Miller and Nin, Vietnamese and African refugees, revolutions and Bohemia. This tale of the Creative Now is told through the fine-tuned sensibility of Etel Adnan, the expatriate poet-painter who knows the French Capital as wholly as she does Beirut and San Francisco, her other homes. She is also the author of SITT MARIE-ROSE, an underground novel of the Lebanese Civil War, and many books of poetry. Her new work is a philosophically charged lyric in prose. The elan vital of every word evokes the eternal present of this wise woman. A highly personal, life-enhancing masterpiece in a deathly age of impersonality.

An indespensable book by an indispensable writer — Morgan Gibson.

File under: Etel Adnan Etel Adnan Post Apollo Press / US Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry Art

Who does not envy with us is against us: three essays on being working-class
by Maria Fusco

2023, English
Softcover, 38 pages, 12.7 x 20.32 cm
Published by Broken Sleep Books / UK

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Who does not envy with us is against us is a collection of essays on working-classness that demonstrates Maria Fusco's exceptional talent for weaving together the analytical and the poetic to create an affecting and profound work. With expressive prose, Fusco deftly captures the experiences of the global working class, illuminating emotions that unite them across borders and lines. This is a tribute to the resilience and tenacity of working-class communities, and an invitation to readers to join in a deeper understanding of their struggles and triumphs. Through her masterful storytelling, Fusco utilises the power of language to elevate the voices of those who have long been silenced, creating a symphony of words that will echo long after the final page.

"I love this book with my entire life and beyond. Fact that I grew up a thousand miles south of Belfast, but, days after reading, feel like I'm - or should be - from there is testament to Fusco's analytic and lyric genius, and her ability to move and affect. Fusco mobilises a previously unnamed mood shared by the international, intergalactic working classes, I've never seen anything like it. Read this book."—Isabel Waidner, Corey Fah Does Social Mobility

Maria Fusco is an award-winning working-class writer, born in Belfast and living in Scotland. Her interdisciplinary work spans the registers of critical, fiction and performance writing. Her work has been commissioned by bodies including: Artangel, BBC Radio 4, National Theatre Wales and supported by Arts Council England, Creative Scotland and the Royal Opera House. She is currently Professor of Interdisciplinary Writing at the University of Dundee, previously holding posts at the University of Edinburgh and Goldsmiths, University of London.

File under: Maria Fusco Broken Sleep Books / UK Theory / Essay Sociology / Politics Socialism / Communism / Capitalism Art