World Food Books

Studio International
February 1974, Vol. 187, No. 963

1974, English
Softcover, 104 pages, 30.5 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Studio International / London

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February 1974 issue of Studio International with specially designed covers by Robert Natkin. Includes articles : "The situation of the artist in Yugoslavia since 1945" by Cyril Barrett, "'Art-Language' at the Lisson Gallery" by Paul Wood, "Ivan Karp on Marcel Duchamp / an interview with Moira Roth", "Definition and theory 'Of the current avant garde / materialist / structural film" by Peter Gidal, "Edvard Munch: scene, symbol and allegory" by Frank Whitford, "Profile : Hans Haacke", "The shape of colour" by Patrick Heron, and the first of a three-part major article series on the work of Robert Ryman titles "Unfinished 1 (Materials)" by Barbara Reise. Reviews section. Correspondence. Much more.

An issue from the great Peter Townsend as editor years.

As editor of Studio International magazine from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s, Peter Townsend oversaw its transformation from a mainstream Britain-centric publication into a vanguard journal chronicling some of the most radical artistic endeavours in the UK and internationally.

Robert Natkin (November 7, 1930 – April 20, 2010) was an American born abstract painter whose work is associated with Abstract expressionism, Colour field painting, and Lyrical Abstraction.

Very Good copy, with light general wear.

File under: Hans Haacke Marcel Duchamp Edvard Munch Robert Natkin Robert Ryman Peter Townsend Cyril Barrett Barbara Reise Peter Gidal Ivan Karp Paul Wood Frank Whitford Studio International / London Art Painting Theory / Essay Conceptual Art Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Minimal Art

Studio International (Belgian Issue)
October 1974, Vol. 188, No. 974

1974, English
Softcover, 152 pages, 30.5 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Studio International / Studio International / London

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The special "Belgian Issue" of Studio International, with famous front and back covers designed by Marcel Broodthaers, with text by Broodthaers on page 114 ("Wiertz Museum"). Also includes a long and rich essay entitled "'Incredible' Belgium : Impressions" by Barbara Reise, focussing on the years 1973-1974 and reviews the important events that marked the contemporary art scene in galleries or private collections, plus articles on Pol Bury and André Balthazar's "The Daily Bul" by André Balthazar, "Museums, Collectors, Policies" by Karl Geirlandt, "Some Notes on Hyper-realists" by Karl Geirlandt and Jean-Pierre van Tieghem, Panamarenko by Irmaline Lebeer, "Construction and Structure in Form and Colour" by Phil Mertens, "Aspects of the Avant-Garde in Belgium" by Michael Baudson and Yves Gevaert, and much more. Artist pages by Younger Belgian Artists: Paul De Gobert, Guy Mees, Maurice Roquet, Malcolm Lauder, Krokus, Jan Dries, Group Cap. Belgian comics. Reviews section.

A now very collectable issue from the great Peter Townsend as editor years.

As editor of Studio International magazine from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s, Peter Townsend oversaw its transformation from a mainstream Britain-centric publication into a vanguard journal chronicling some of the most radical artistic endeavours in the UK and internationally.

Marcel Broodthaers (28 January 1924 – 28 January 1976) was a Belgian a polymorphic artist, poet, visual artist, filmmaker, photographer, who anticipated the reflection on the relationship between the artwork, the museum and the public.

Good copy, but with previous owner inscription on cover and decent age/rubbing to covers.

File under: Marcel Broodthaers Paul De Gobert Guy Mees Maurice Roquet Malcolm Lauder Krokus Jan Dries Group Cap Raoul De Keyser René Magritte Panamarenko Karl Geirlandt Barbara Reise Frank Whitford André Balthazar Jean-Pierre van Tieghem Irmaline Lebeer Phil Mertens Francis Strauven Michael Baudson Yves Gevaert Micheline van Lier Peter Townsend Studio International / Studio International / London Art Conceptual Art Sculpture / Installation Painting Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Minimal Art

ZERO

2015, English / German / Dutch
Softcover, 560 pages, 25cm x 25cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

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Fire, light, movement, space, demonstrations, and performances: this major publication forms a historic survey of the innovative, international avant-garde artists’ group, ZERO.

In 1957, Heinz Mack and Otto Piene devised the name ZERO for a new art movement and magazine. The brevity of the term ZERO and the fact that it retained its meaning in many languages helped the group to become an international “brand” in the ‘60s. After the Second World War and the grim years of post-war reconstruction, the term ZERO marked the coming of a new, optimistic, experimental, and pioneering kind of art. Piene described it as “a zone of silence and of pure possibilities for a new beginning.” While the ZERO movement was under formation, Dutch artists Armando, Jan Henderikse, Henk Peeters, Jan Schoonhoven, and herman de vries established the Nul group in the Netherlands. Like-minded artists in France, Italy, and Belgium – such as Jean Tinguely, Yves Klein, Daniel Spoerri, Jesús Rafael Soto, Lucio Fontana, Pierre Manzoni, Dadamaino, and Christian Megert – were also formulating similar artistic strategies - many affiliated with other movements such as Nouveau réalisme, Arte Povera, Minimalism, Op Art, Land Art and Kinetic art. They joined up with the trio of artists from Dusseldorf: Mack, Piene, and Günther Uecker. Together, the artists began to organize exhibitions in galleries, museums, and in their own studios. They also co-created artworks, experimenting with the most innovative materials and media, as well as gave performances and happenings, produced multiples, and published magazines and other publications. In 1962, the Stedelijk Museum staged the first museum presentation of ZERO. A few years later, a more comprehensive survey, Nul 1965, followed, a presentation widely considered as one of the movement’s highlights. Precisely fifty years later, in 2015, the Stedelijk presented an historical survey that sheds light on how the network’s artists redefined the meaning and form of art forever.

This extensive, deeply researched and richly illustrated (over 900 plates) publication, edited by curator Margriet Schavemaker, and Dirk Poerschmann, academic staff member of the ZERO Foundation, includes essays by Antoon Melissen, Johan Pas, Francesca Pola & Thekla Zell, and the transcript of a conversation between Mattijs Visser and Daniel Birnbaum. Organized by the ZERO foundation and including some 200 objects, ZERO is one of the most comprehensive resources available on this self-consciously avant-gardist international movement.

Includes the work of Arman, Armando, Bernard Aubertin, Pol Bury, Enrico Castellani, Gianni Colombo, Dadamaino, Lucio Fontana, Hermann Goepfert, Gerhard von Graevenitz, Gotthard Graubner, Hans Haacke, Jan Henderikse, Paul van Hoeydock, Oskar Holweck, Yves Klein, Yayoi Kusama, Walter Leblanc, Adolf Luther, Heinz Mack, Piero Manzoni, Almir Mavignier, Christian Megert, François Morellet, Saboro Murakami, Henk Peeters, Otto Piene, Uli Pohl, George Rickey, Dieter Roth, Hans Salentin, Jan Schoonhoven, Jesús Raphael Soto, Daniel Spoerri, Jean Tinguely, Gunther Uecker, Jef Verheyen, Nanda Vigo, herman de vries.

File under: Arman Armando Bernard Aubertin Pol Bury Enrico Castellani Gianni Colombo Dadamaino Lucio Fontana Hermann Goepfert Gerhard von Graevenitz Gotthard Graubner Hans Haacke Jan Henderikse Paul van Hoeydock Oskar Holweck Yves Klein Yayoi Kusama Walter Leblanc Adolf Luther Heinz Mack Piero Manzoni Almir Mavignier Christian Megert François Morellet Henk Peeters Otto Piene Uli Pohl George Rickey Dieter Roth Hans Salentin Jan Schoonhoven Daniel Spoerri Jean Tinguely Gunther Uecker Jef Verheyen Nanda Vigo herman de vries Jesus Raphael Soto Saburo Murakami Margriet Schavemaker Dirk Pörschmann Antoon Melissen Johan Pas Francesca Pola Thekla Zell Daniel Birnbaum Walther König / Köln Art Minimal Art Arte Povera Sculpture / Installation Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic

Piero Manzoni
by Germano Celant

1991, English
Softcover, 242 pages, 22.5 x 27.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Arnoldo Mondadori Arte / Milan Musee D'Art Moderne De La Ville De Paris / Paris

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Large comprehensive English-language catalogue that was published in the occasion of a major 1991 retrospective survey of the late, hugely influencial, Italian Conceptual artist Piero Manzoni held at the Musee D'Art Moderne De La Ville De Paris, curated by the Italian art critic, author and curator Germano Celant.
This rare monographic volume spans 242 pages profusely illustrated in colour and black and white images of Manzoni's painting, releifs, sculpture and editioned works, performances, printed ephemera, and more, as well as additional texts by Germano Celant, Jean Pierre Criqui, Jens Hendrik Sandberg, Francisco Calvo Seraller, Nancy Spector, and Suzanne Page. Also includes an exhibition checklist, chronology, bibliography and exhibition history, with all texts in English.

Piero Manzoni (July 13, 1933 – February 6, 1963) was an Italian artist best known for his ironic approach to avant-garde art. Often compared to the work of Yves Klein, his own work anticipated, and directly influenced, the work of a generation of younger Italian artists brought together by the critic Germano Celant in the first Arte Povera exhibition held in Genoa, 1967. Manzoni is most famous for a series of artworks that call into question the nature of the art object, directly prefiguring Conceptual Art. His work eschews normal artist's materials, instead using everything from rabbit fur to human excrement in order to "tap mythological sources and to realize authentic and universal values". His work is widely seen as a critique of the mass production and consumerism that was changing Italian society (the Italian economic miracle) after World War II. Italian artists such as Manzoni had to negotiate the new economic and material order of post-war Europe through inventive artistic practices which crossed geographic, artistic, and cultural borders.

A fine example of this very scarce book on the great Piero Manzoni.

Condition: Fine (an almost as new copy, very light wear) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Piero Manzoni Francisco Calvo Seraller Germano Celant Jean Pierre Criqui Jens Hendrik Sandberg Nancy Spector Suzanne Page Arnoldo Mondadori Arte / Milan Musee D'Art Moderne De La Ville De Paris / Paris Art Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Arte Povera Conceptual Art Minimal Art

Lee Lozano
Private Book 4

2018, English
Softcover (spiral-bound), 198 pages, 7.6 x 12.7 cm
Published by Karma / New York

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This is the fourth volume in Karma's 11-volume facsimile printing of Lee Lozano's Private Book project. It is primarily a calendar of Lozano's personal, artistic and chemical interactions in 1969-70. A prolific writer and documenter of both her art and her relationships, the public and private, the painter Lee Lozano kept a series of personal journals from 1968 to 1970 while living in New York's SoHo neighbourhood. In 1972 she rigourously edited these books, thus completing the project. Eleven of these private books survive, containing notes on Lozano's work, detailed interactions with artist friends and commentary on the alienations of gender politics, as well as philosophical queries into art's role in society and humorous asides from daily life.

Printed as facsimiles with spiral binding, the notebooks contain notes on her work, detailed interactions with artist friends and commentary on the alienations of gender politics, as well as philosophical queries into art's role in society and humourous asides from daily life. In the decade before her infamous "dropout piece" -- culminating in a move to Dallas where she would remain until her death -- Lozano returned to these notebooks, editing the entries, sometimes blacking out entire pages.

File under: Lee Lozano Karma / New York Art Painting Feminism Conceptual Art Theory / Essay

Lee Lozano
Private Book 5

2018, English
Softcover (spiral-bound), 198 pages, 7.6 x 12.7 cm
Published by Karma / New York

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This is the fifth volume in Karma's 11-volume facsimile printing of Lee Lozano's Private Book project. A prolific writer and documenter of both her art and her relationships, the public and private, the painter Lee Lozano kept a series of personal journals from 1968 to 1970 while living in New York's SoHo neighbourhood. In 1972 she rigourously edited these books, thus completing the project. Eleven of these private books survive, containing notes on Lozano's work, detailed interactions with artist friends and commentary on the alienations of gender politics, as well as philosophical queries into art's role in society and humorous asides from daily life.

File under: Lee Lozano Karma / New York Art Painting Conceptual Art Theory / Essay

The Name of Philippe Thomas / Philippe Thomas’ Name
by Elisabeth Lebovici

2018, English / German
Softcover, 112 pages, 11.5 x 18 cm
Published by Kunsthalle Bern / Bern Sternberg Press / Berlin

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With an introduction by Hanna Magauer

In the artistic activities of Philippe Thomas (1951–1995), there was a determination to disappear: it was his procedure to transfer his title of author onto his collectors. This was the case when selling an artwork, or whenever the author’s credit was needed for a commissioned text, and in the institutional co-operations that Thomas was a participant of. With this strategy Thomas worked against his own historicization, erasing his name from the reigning European and North American art fields and with prescience Thomas “put up obstacles to block his future ‘googleability’” (Hanna Magauer). In recent years, the works and writings of the artist, who also acted on behalf of the semi-fictional agency readymades belong to everyone®, again gained greater visibility and as of current are being assigned a place in art history.

With this book, Elisabeth Lebovici elaborates on Thomas’s strategy to cede and fictionalize authorship and suggests a reading of his work that incorporates questions of gender and reproduction, the multiplicity of the subjects involved, and the unbearable disappearance of Thomas (who died of AIDS-related complications), into the process of enunciation. It is Lebovici’s suggestion that the performativity of Thomas’s work requires two versions at once: “the one where one enters into the fiction and the one where one observes the beauty of the arrangement and the plot at work. The one where one is inside and the one where one contemplates it.”

Schriftenreihe by Kunsthalle Bern, ed. by Valérie Knoll and Hannes Loichinger

Design by HIT

File under: Philippe Thomas Elisabeth Lebovici Hanna Magauer Valérie Knoll Kunsthalle Bern / Bern Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Theory / Essay Conceptual Art

ARTFORUM
LOOKING CRITICALLY: 21 YEARS OF ARTFORUM MAGAZINE

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

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

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

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

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

ART POVERA
CONCEPTUAL, ACTUAL OR IMPOSSIBLE ART? GERMANO CELANT (ED.)

1969, English
Hardcover (clothbound), 240 pages, 21 x 22 cm
1st US Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Praeger Publishers Inc. / New York

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First hardcover US printing of "Art Povera", the now legendary critical/photographic book by Germano Celant (Italian art historian, critic and curator) documenting the so-called "Art Povera /Arte Povera" movement (meaning "poor art", coined by Celant in 1967) and published by Studio Vista, London in 1969 and Praeger, New York, the same year.

Includes profiles of major artists of the movement, including a short text followed by pages of full-page photographs for each artist.

Artists featured: Walter de Maria, Michelangelo Pisteletto, Stephen Kaltenbach, Richard Long, Mario Merz, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Beuys, Eva Hesse, Michael Heizer, Ger van Elk, Lawrence Weiner, Luciano Fabro, Bruce Nauman, Joseph Kosuth, Jan Dibbets, Giovanni Anselmo, Robert Barry, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Dennis Oppenheim, Barry Flanagan, Robert Smithson, Giulio Paolini, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Alighiero Boetti, Giuseppe Penone, Franz Erhard Walther, Hans Haacke, Gilberto Zorio, Robert Morris, Marinus Boezem, Carl Andre, Emilio Prini, Richard Serra.

"This book does not aim at being an objective and general analysis of the phenomenon of art or life, but is rather an attempt to flank (both art and life) as accomplices of the changes and attitudes in the development of their daily becoming. This book does not attempt to be objective since the awareness of objectivity is false consciousness. The book, made up of photographs and written documents, bases its critical and editorial assumptions on the knowledge that criticism and iconographic documents give limited vision and partial perception of artistic work. The book, when it reproduces the documents of artistic work, refutes the linguistic mediation of photography. The book, even though it wants to avoid the logic of consumption, is a consumer's item. ... This book produces a collection of already old material. ... In this book there is no need to reflect in order to seek a unitary and reassuring value, immediately refuted by the the authors themselves, rather there is the necessity to look into it for the changes, limits, precariousness and instability of artistic work." -- text from Celant's introduction "Stating That.

Good ex-library copy with light associated markings, without dust jacket. Otherwise clean, tightly bound Very Good copy throughout (never loaned).

File under: Walter de Maria Stephen Kaltenbach Richard Long Mario Merz Douglas Huebler Joseph Beuys Eva Hesse Michael Heizer Ger van Elk Lawrence Weiner Luciano Fabro Bruce Nauman Joseph Kosuth Jan Dibbets Giovanni Anselmo Robert Barry Pier Paolo Calzolari Dennis Oppenheim Barry Flanagan Robert Smithson Giulio Paolini Reiner Ruthenbeck Alighiero Boetti Giuseppe Penone Franz Erhard Walther Hans Haacke Gilberto Zorio Robert Morris Marinus Boezem Carl Andre Emilio Prini Richard Serra Michelangelo Pistoletto Praeger Publishers Inc. / New York Art Arte Povera Conceptual Art Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Fluxus Performance / Dance / Theater

Harald Szeemann
Museum of Obsessions

2018, English
Hardcover, 432 pages, 25x 31 cm
Published by Getty Publications / Los Angeles

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Texts by Glenn Phillips, Doris Chon, Pietro Rigolo, Philipp Kaiser

Harald Szeemann is associated with some of the most important artistic developments of the postwar era. A passionate advocate of avant-garde movements like conceptualism and post minimalism, he collaborated with artists such as Joseph Beuys, Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra, and Cy Twombly, developing new ways of presenting art that reflected his sweeping vision of contemporary culture.

Szeemann once stated that his goal as an exhibition maker was to create a "Museum of Obsessions." This richly illustrated volume is a virtual collection catalogue for that imaginary institution, tracing the evolution of his curatorial method through the materials he collected and produced while researching and organising his exhibitions, including letters, drawings, personal datebooks, installation plans, artists' books, posters, photographs, and handwritten notes.

This book documents all phases of Szeemann's career, from his early stint as director of the Kunsthalle Bern, where he organized the seminal Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form (1969); to documenta 5 (1972) and the intensely personal exhibition he staged in his own apartment using the belongings of his hairdresser grandfather (1974); to his reinvention as a freelance curator who realised projects on wide-ranging themes until his death in 2005.

The book contains essays exploring Szeemann's curatorial approach as well as interviews with collaborators. Its more than 350 illustrations include previously unpublished installation photographs and exhibition documents as well as many other materials from the curator's archive.

File under: Meret Oppenheim Markus Raetz Walter De Maria Klaus Rinke Christo Andy Warhol Marcel Broodthaers Marcel Duchamp Joseph Beuys Bruce Nauman Richard Serra Cy Twombly Ernst Fricke Charlotte Bara Karl Gräser Emma Kunz Ferdinand Cheval Ben Vautier Ed Ruscha Oskar Schlemmer Kurt Schwitters Thomas Hirschhorn Eva Hesse Dick Higgins Mario Merz Marisa Merz Sol LeWitt Nancy Graves Robert Filliou Donald Judd László Moholy-Nagy Man Ray Francis Picabia Elisar von Kupffer Charles Ives Paul Thek Panamarenko Edward Kienholz Guerilla Art Action Group John Cage Allan Kaprow Charlotte Moorman George Maciunas Haus-Rucker-Co Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn Nam June Paik Harald Szeemann Glenn Phillips Doris Chon Pietro Rigolo Philipp Kaiser Raymond Roussel Alfred Jarry Lucy R. Lippard Getty Publications / Los Angeles Curatorial Art Group Shows / Collections Conceptual Art Minimal Art Theory / Essay Fluxus Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Dada Arte Povera Architecture / Interior Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Bauhaus

Craft
Edited by Tanya Harrod

2018, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 210 x 145 mm
Published by Whitechapel / London The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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Part of the acclaimed Documents of Contemporary Art series of anthologies which collect writing on major themes and ideas in contemporary art.

"Tanya Harrod is our leading scholarly voice on craft. [This] invaluable anthology...is an ideal introduction to the intellectual landscape of craft, and an essential tool for those already invested in the topic." - Glenn Adamson, Senior Scholar at the Yale Center for British Art

Craft is a contested concept in art history and a vital category through which to understand contemporary art. Through ‘craft’, materials, techniques and tools are investigated and their histories explored in order to reflect on the politics of labour and on the extraordinary complexity of the made world around us. This anthology offers an ethnography of craft, surveying its shape-shifting identities in the context of progressive art and design through writings by artists and makers, and drawing on poetry, fiction, anthropology and sociology. Reflections on new technologies and materials, lost and found worlds of handwork and the politics of work all throw light on ‘craft’ as process, product and ideology.

Artists surveyed include Anni Albers, El Anatsui, Aaron Angell, Ruth Asawa, Phyllida Barlow, Louise Bourgeois, Annie Cattrell, Edmund de Waal, Harun Farocki, Lucio Fontana, Theaster Gates, Gee’s Bend Quiltmakers, Sabrina Gschwandtner, Sheila Hicks, Ana Lupas, Lu Shengzhong, Enzo Mari, Martin Puryear, Jessi Reaves, Bridget Riley, Ettore Sottsass, Studio Formafantasma, Peter Voulkos.

Writers include Glenn Adamson, Elissa Auther, Reyner Banham, Jean Baudrillard, John Berger, Walter Benjamin, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Joan Key, Ulrich Lehmann, Sarat Maharaj, Karl Marx, Sadie Plant, Rainer Maria Rilke, John Roberts, Jenni Sorkin.

Tanya Harrod is an independent design historian who lives in London and who writes widely on craft, art and design. She is co-editor of The Journal of Modern Craft and is author of The Crafts in Britain in the Twentieth Century (1999), The Last Sane Man: Michael Cardew (2012) which won the 2013 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography, and The Real Thing: Essays on Making in the Modern World (2015).

File under: Anni Albers El Anatsui Aaron Angell Ruth Asawa Phyllida Barlow Louise Bourgeois Annie Cattrell Edmund de Waal Harun Farocki Lucio Fontana Theaster Gates Gee's Bend Quiltmakers Sabrina Gschwandtner Sheila Hicks Ana Lupas Lu Shengzhong Enzo Mari Martin Puryear Jessi Reaves Bridget Riley Ettore Sottsass Studio Formafantasma Peter Voulkos Glenn Adamson Elissa Auther Reyner Banham Jean Baudrillard John Berger Walter Benjamin Julia Bryan-Wilson Joan Key Ulrich Lehmann Sarat Maharaj Karl Marx Sadie Plant Rainer Maria Rilke John Roberts Jenni Sorkin Tanya Harrod Whitechapel / London The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Theory / Essay Textiles Conceptual Art Minimal Art Ceramics / Glass Arte Povera Painting Sculpture / Installation

The Camera: Essence and Apparatus
by Victor Burgin

2018, English
Softcover (w. french flaps), 260 pages, 22.8 x 14 cm
Published by MACK / London

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Victor Burgin is one of the most influential artists and writers working today. He came to prominence as a key ﬁgure in the Conceptual Art movement of the late 1960s. After turning to photography in his artistic practice he produced a series of groundbreaking theoretical essays that drew on semiotics, psychoanalysis and feminism in order to think through the ideological role of photographs in the production of beliefs and values, and in the understanding of memory, history, subjectivity and space. This collection brings together for the ﬁrst time Victor Burgin’s writings related speciﬁcally to the camera, following the shifts and nuances in his thinking over nearly ﬁve decades. Moreover, it allows us to chart the evolution of what the camera was and is, and how its affects are to be understood.

File under: Victor Burgin Victor Burgin MACK / London Photography Film / Video Theory / Essay Art Conceptual Art

The Artist as Curator - An Anthology
Edited by Elena Filipovic

2017, English
Softcover, 416 pages, 21 x 28 cm
Published by Mousse / Milan Walther König / Köln

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With texts by Alexander Alberro, Monica Amor and Carlos Basualdo, Biljana Ciric, Ekaterina Degot, Elena Filipovic, Claire Grace, Anthony Huberman, Dean Inkster, Alhena Katsof, William Krieger, Elisabeth Lebovici, Ana Longoni, James Meyer, Isabelle Moffat, Nina Möntmann, Natalie Musteata, Sandra Skurvida, Dirk Snauwaert, Lucy Steeds, Monika Szewczyk, and Kaelen Wilson-Goldie

Edited by Elena Filipovic.

Taking that ontologically ambiguous thing we call “the exhibition” as a critical medium, artists have often radically rethought conventional forms of exhibition making. This anthology surveys seminal examples of such exhibitions from the postwar to the present, including rare documents and illustrations. It includes an introduction and the twenty essays that first appeared in Mousse, a newly commissioned afterword by Hans Ulrich Obrist, and two additional essays that appear here for the first time.

The publication focuses on the following artists: Avant-Garde, the Argentinean artist group - Mel Bochner - Marcel Broodthaers - Hank Bull, Shen Fan, Zhou Tiehai, Shi Yong, and Ding Yi - John Cage - Judy Chicago, Miriam Schapiro, and the CalArt's Feminist Art Program - Collaborative Projects Inc. (Colab) - Alice Creischer, Andreas Siekmann, and Max Jorge Hinderer - Liam Gillick and Philippe Parreno - Group Material - Richard Hamilton and Victor Pasmore - David Hammons - Martin Kippenberger - Mark Leckey - Goshka Macuga - Lucy McKenzie and Paulina Olowska - Hélio Oiticica - Walid Raad and Akram Zaatari - Martha Rosler - Avdey Ter-Oganyan - Philippe Thomas - Andy Warhol.

File under: Cosima von Bonin Group Material Marcel Broodthaers Martin Kippenberger Faith Wilding Mladen Stilinovic Sandra Orgel Judy Chicago Miriam Schapiro CalArt's Feminist Art Program Mel Bochner Hank Bull Shen Fan Zhou Tiehai Shi Yong Ding Yi John Cage Collaborative Projects Inc. (Colab) Alice Creischer Andreas Siekmann Max Jorge Hinderer Liam Gillick Philippe Parreno Richard Hamilton Victor Pasmore David Hammons Mark Leckey Goshka Macuga Lucy McKenzie Paulina Olowska Hélio Oiticica Walid Raad Akram Zaatari Martha Rosler Avdey Ter-Oganyan Philippe Thomas Andy Warhol Hans Ulrich Obrist Alexander Alberro Biljana Ciric Ekaterina Degot Elena Filipovic Claire Grace Anthony Huberman Dean Inkster Alhena Katsof William Krieger Elisabeth Lebovici Ana Longoni James Meyer Isabelle Moffat Nina Möntmann Natalie Musteata Sandra Skurvida Dirk Snauwaert Lucy Steeds Monika Szewczyk Kaelen Wilson-Goldie Monica Amor Carlos Basualdo Mousse / Milan Walther König / Köln Art Curatorial Theory / Essay Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Feminism Group Shows / Collections

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

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

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

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

Copublished with MUDAM Luxembourg
Design by Florence Richard

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

Stephen Willats
The House That Habitat Built

1989, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 16 pages, 21.5 x 15 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Cornerhouse / Manchester

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Artist's book by British artist Stephen Willats, published by Cornerhouse, Manchester, in 1989.
Presents one of Willats' unique illustrated photo-collage systems of cropped photographs and texts at play using objects and language associated with the advertising of the iconic homewares company Habitat. A work that Willats developed with the assistance of the staff of the Purley Way, Croyden, South London Habitat store.

Since the 1960s, Stephen Willats is identified as one of the most influential protagonists of international conceptual art in England. One of the main focuses of his work has always been the examination of urban realities by means of communication processes, network formation, and self-organising structures. Willats illustrates various systems of social interaction through an array of drawings, diagrams, photo-collages, computer-operated communication-devices, and animations. The artist works directly with people: their relationships to each other – be it in a private or professional environment – as well as their relationship to an omnipresent system of everyday symbols; from architectural structures to objects, materials, and sounds that surround us continually. Willats poses the question as to how the personal values and lebensraum of the individual are perceived within society, and how society defines and adopts them.

Ex-library copy w. ex-librīs to inside front cover, few stamps, and plastic coated covers. Otherwise nicely preserved and undamaged.

File under: Stephen Willats Cornerhouse / Manchester Conceptual Art Art Out-of-print / Rare

Stephen Willats
Conscious-Unconscious : In and Out the Reality Check

2013, English
Softcover, 48 pages, 22 x 17 cm

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British artist Stephen Willats’ visually intense works explore the nature of human interaction, communication and connection between individuals and communities.

CONSCIOUS – UNCONSCIOUS the artist’s fourth exhibition at Modern Art Oxford, and continues a connection with the gallery which began in 1968. This latest exhibition examines social interaction, the influence of technology on daily life and the way we look at and think about our surroundings.

Unique to this exhibition is The Oxford Community Data Stream, a new commission that presents alternative and highly personal perspectives on life in Oxford through a collaboration with residents of Kennington and Blackbird Leys.

This catalogue includes an interview between Stephen Willats and Ute Meta Bauer.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition CONSCIOUS – UNCONSCIOUS: in and out the reality check at Modern Art Oxford, 27 April – 16 June 2013.

File under: Stephen Willats Astrid Wege Julia Friedrich Ute Meta Bauer Art SALE Conceptual Art Photography

Charlotte Poseneske

2005, English / German
Softcover, 128 pages, 24 x 17 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Revolver – Archiv für aktuelle Kunst / Frankfurt am Main

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Catalogue published to coincide with a large retrospective exhibition of German artist Charlotte Posenenske held at Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, March 19 - May 15, 2005. Edited by Silvia Eiblmayr and Astrid Wege, and including further texts by Eva Schmidt, Gerald Schröder, Astrid Wege and a conversation between Konstantin Adamopoulos and Burkhard Brunn (in both German and English), this heavily illustrated catalogue follows the exhibitions ambition to present Posenenske’s development over a short span of time, primarily the 1960s, leading from painting to real space. Feature paintings from the late 1950s and early 1960s, Striped Pictures and Three-Dimensional Pictures from the mid-1960s, Reliefs (1967) as well as the Square Tubes that she presented both indoors and outdoors (1967) and her Revolving Vanes (1967/68) – the last group of works Posenenske produced before she gave up art in 1968. Posenenske’s both radical and multi-facetted artistic approach is rounded off by her stage set designs from the 1950s, her art-in-architecture projects from the 1960s and in particular her two film strips from 1968 that were created with the active participation of Peter Roehr and Paul Maenz on a drive through Holland in spring 1968. Also includes list of works and biography.

Charlotte Posenenske (1930–1985) was a German artist associated with the minimalist movement who predominately worked in sculpture, but also produced paintings and works on paper.

Posenenske worked in a variety of mediums, her practice becoming more abstract through the course of the 1960s. While other artists of the period worked in multiples, where a finite edition of a work could be produced, Posenenske worked in series, meaning that there was no limit to the editions. Posenenske rejected the commercial art market, offering her work for sale at its material cost. Reconstructions authorised by the artist’s estate are not replicas, and they are outwardly identical to the original prototype. Only the certificate differentiates the unsigned work from other commodities.

In 1968 Posenenske published a statement in the journal Art International referencing the reproducibility of her works, and her desire for the concept and ownership of the piece to be accessible:

I make series
because I do not want to make individual pieces for individuals,
in order to have elements combinable within a system,
in order to make something that is repeatable, objective,
and because it is economical.
The series can be prototypes for mass-production.
[...]
They are less and less recognisable as "works of art."
The objects are intended to represent anything other than what they are.
Poseneske stopped working as an artist in 1968, no longer believing that art could influence social interaction or draw attention to social inequalities. She retrained as a sociologist and became a specialist in employment and industrial working practices until her death in 1985. During this period of self-imposed exile Posenenske refused to visit any exhibitions, and did not show her work.

File under: Charlotte Posenenske Silvia Eiblmayr Astrid Wege Eva Schmidt Gerald Schröder Revolver – Archiv für aktuelle Kunst / Frankfurt am Main Minimal Art Drawing Out-of-print / Rare Conceptual Art Sculpture / Installation

Andrea Fraser

2015, English
Softcover, 304 pages. 24 x 28 cm
Published by Hatje Cantz / Berlin

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Text by Sabine Breitwieser, Andrea Fraser, Shannon Jackson, Sven Lütticken.

Controversial, provocative and poignantly humorous, American artist Andrea Fraser (born 1965) is one of the most influential and pioneering figures of her generation and has been captivating a devoted audience for more than 30 years. She employs a wide range of media, including prints, photographs, installations and performances as well as texts and videos, time and again reformulating the same fundamental questions: what do we want from art, how do we view it and how does the art market distribute it? Fraser's brand of performance during the 1990s popularized the institutional critique art movement, a loosely formed artistic practice meant to critique the very institutions that are involved in the sale, display, and commerce of art. Fraser's work typically comments on the politics, commerce, histories, and even the self-assuredness of the modern-day art museum, including the hierarchies and the exclusion mechanisms of art as an enterprise. Her performances, despite having serious undertones, are often presented in a humorous, ridiculous, or satirical manner. Fraser was a founding member of the feminist performance group, The V-Girls (1986-1996); the project-based artist initiative Parasite (1997-1998); and the cooperative art gallery Orchard (2005-2008). She was also co-organizer, with Helmut Draxler, of Services, a “working-group exhibition” that has been conceived at Kunstraum of Lüneburg University and toured to eight venues in Europe and the United States between 1994 and 2001.

This richly illustrated catalogue presents a full overview of the artist's career for the first time. It assembles the early Four Posters (1984) as well as her famous performances such as Museum Highlights (1989), Inaugural Speech (1997), Official Welcome (2001/03), and Untitled (2003) linking them with her most recent videos.

File under: Andrea Fraser Hatje Cantz / Berlin Conceptual Art Feminism Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Photography Theory / Essay Art

The Future of Public Space
SOM Thinkers Series

2018, English
Softcover, 144 pages, 10.8 x 17.8 cm
Published by Metropolis Books / New York

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Introduction by Allison Arieff. Text by Michelle Nijhuis, Jaron Lanier, Rachel Monroe, China Miéville, Christopher DeWolf, Ben Davis, Sarah Fecht. Contributions by Lawrence Weiner.

Routine discussions on public space typically omit a gamut of possibilities ripe for critical discussion. This book, the latest in the SOM Thinkers series, aims to address these questions. Here, Rachel Monroe challenges American preconceptions of the wild, wide-open West by addressing issues of surveillance; the series’ first fictional piece, by China Miéville, covers an under-examined area of public space under the guise of detective fiction; a study of public art by Ben Davis sheds light on the myths and stigmas that have accrued to public art, also asking what it can become; Christopher DeWolf shares a sensory navigation trip through a directionless Hong Kong; Michelle Nijhuis writes on the shifting ecologies of national parks; Sarah Fecht explores architecture and social life beyond Earth; while Jaron Lanier meditates on the idea of public space online, linking the prevailing, free-for-all model of the internet with a characteristically American yearning for freedom and repudiation of rules and structure. Also included are examples of public art works by Lawrence Weiner.

File under: Lawrence Weiner China Mieville Rachel Monroe Ben Davis Christopher DeWolf Terry Tempest Williams Jaron Lanier Metropolis Books / New York Architecture / Interior Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry Art Conceptual Art

Joseph Beuys
Greetings from the Eurasian

2017, English
Softcover, 142 pages, 20 x 28.7 cm
Published by Koenig Books / London Museum of Contemporary Art / Antwerp

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Edied by Antony Hudek

Joseph Beuys was captivated by Eurasia, the vast expanse connecting East and West. Through drawings, sculptures, installations, performances, films and multiples, Beuys sought to imagine the fluid contours of Eurasia, a space built upon history and myths yet firmly grounded in the present.
This book takes Beuys’ 1968 Eurasienstab action, performed with Henning Christiansen at the Wide White Space Gallery in Antwerp, as a starting point for a reflection on territories, real and imagined. It is through Beuys’ connections to the Wide White Space that he first met fellow artists Marcel Broodthaers and James Lee Byars.

File under: Joseph Beuys Henning Christiansen Marcel Broodthaers James Lee Byars Antony Hudek Koenig Books / London Museum of Contemporary Art / Antwerp Art Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Arte Povera Performance / Dance / Theater

Oceans of Love : The Uncontainable Gregory Battcock

2016, English
Softcover, 224 pages, 24 x 17 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

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The publication is the first book to present a selection of Gregory Battcock's prefaces and essays (from Minimalism, Idea Art, Why Art?, and other books), as well as columns published in underground newspapers in the 1970s.

Edited by Joseph Grigely, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Grazer Kunstverein.
With an introduction by Joseph Grigely, published by König Books.

By chance, Joseph Grigely (1956 in East Longmeadow, Massachusetts) discovered the collected estate of Gregory Battcock abandoned in a warehouse in 1992. Battcock (1937 in New York, †1980 in San Juan, Puerto Rico) was a critic and key figure of the New York art scene of the 1960s and 70s. He wrote on Minimal Art, Concept Art, video and performance art, and championed artists who newly defined the borders of contemporary art. Prompted by this fortunate find, Grigely began academically and artistically engaging with the life and work of Battcock, an endeavor lasting until today.

File under: Gregory Battcock Walther König / Köln Art Minimal Art Eros Theory / Essay Conceptual Art

Einleuchten: Will, Vorstel und Simul in HH.
Harald Szeemann

1989, German
Softcover, 289 pages, 32 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Christians / Hamburg

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Large catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition "Einleuchten: Will, Vorstel und Simul in HH." curated by Harald Szeemann, 11 November 1989 to 18 February 1990, Hamburg.

Profusely illustrated in full-colour and b&w with biographies on all exhibiting artists, alongside texts by Harald Szeemann, Heinz Liesbrock, Christoph Schenker, and Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen

Artists include : Carl Andre, Giovanni Anselme, Donald Baechler, Georg Baselitz, Joseph Beuys, Christian Botanski, Daniel Buren, Lawrence Carroll, Hanne Darboven, Thierry De Gordier, David Deutsch, Martin Disler, Jiri Georg Dokoupil, Etienne-Martin, Dan Flavin, Günther Förg, Isa Genzken, Robert Gober, Thomas Grünleid, Tishan Hsu, Donald Judd, On Kawara, Ellsworth Kelly, Harald Klingelhöller, Wollgang Laib, Cary S. Leibowitz, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Ingeborg Lüscher, Gerhard Merz, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Reinhard Mucha, Bruce Nauman, Max Neuhaus, Cady Noland, Holt Quentel, David Rabinowitch, Royden Rabinowitch, Ulrich Rückriem, Robert Ryman, Richard Serra, Keith Sonnier, Serge Spitzer, Niele Toroni, Rosemarie Trockel, Richard Tuttle, Cy Twombly, Jan Vercruysse, Michel Verjux, Didier Vermeiren, Bill Viola, Mark Wallinger, Lawrence Weiner, Franz West, Rachel Whiteread, Jerry Zeniuk, Otto Zitko

Very good copy with some bumping to top right corner.

File under: Carl Andre Donald Baechler Georg Baselitz Joseph Beuys Christian Botanski Daniel Buren Lawrence Carroll Hanne Darboven Thierry De Gordier David Deutsch Martin Disler Etienne-Martin Dan Flavin Günther Förg Isa Genzken Robert Gober Thomas Grünleid Tishan Hsu Donald Judd On Kawara Ellsworth Kelly Harald Klingelhöller Wollgang Laib Cary S. Leibowitz Sol LeWitt Richard Long Ingeborg Lüscher Gerhard Merz Mario Merz Marisa Merz Reinhard Mucha Bruce Nauman Max Neuhaus Cady Noland Holt Quentel David Rabinowitch Royden Rabinowitch Ulrich Rückriem Robert Ryman Richard Serra Keith Sonnier Serge Spitzer Niele Toroni Rosemarie Trockel Richard Tuttle Cy Twombly Jan Vercruysse Michel Verjux Didier Vermeiren Bill Viola Mark Wallinger Lawrence Weiner Franz West Rachel Whiteread Jerry Zeniuk Otto Zitko Giovanni Anselmo Jiří Georg Dokoupil Harald Szeemann Heinz Liesbrock Christoph Schenker Stephan Schmidt-Wulffen Christians / Hamburg Art Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Arte Povera Conceptual Art Minimal Art

Adam Saroyam
Complete Minimal Poems

2016, English
Softcover, 288 pages, 15.25 x 20.25 cm
Published by Primary Information / New York

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Complete Minimal Poems collects Aram Saroyan’s groundbreaking Concrete and minimalist poems of the 1960s in a single volume. First published in 2008, Complete Minimal Poems includes the entire contents of Aram Saroyan (Random House, 1968), Pages (Random House, 1969), The Rest (Telegraph, 1971), as well as Saroyan’s contribution, “Electric Poems,” to the anthology All Stars (Goliard-Grossman, 1972), and a sequence, “Short Poems,” which hasn’t appeared previously. With ties to the work of such writers and artists as e.e. cummings, Andy Warhol, Gertrude Stein, Donald Judd, Ian Hamilton Finlay, and Steve Reich, this collection confirms Aram Saroyan’s place among the most daring and engaging figures in modern poetry. Aram Saroyan is a writer well known for his early minimalist, conceptual, and Concrete poetry of the 1960s. Over the course of the last five decades, Saroyan has written over 30 books in a variety of forms.

File under: Adam Saroyam Primary Information / New York Art Conceptual Art Fiction / Poetry Poetry

Games at the Cedilla or the Cedilla Takes Off
by George Brecht and Robert Filliou

1967, English
Hardcover, 160 pages, 20.5 x 14 x 2 cm
Ed. of 1945,
Published by Something Else Press / New York

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First edition (one of 1945 copies) of the great "Games at the Cedilla or the Cedilla Takes Off" by George Brecht and Robert Filliou, published by Something Else Press, New York, in 1967.

"This book is a selective distillate of the notebooks kept by George Brecht and Robert Filliou, the one an American artist and scientist (in whose name there are a number of industrial patents at Washington, D.C.) and the second a southern French sceptic, Robert Filliou, among whose other credits are work on the United Nations white paper on the post-Korean War economic recovery for South Korea and also other economic theses, as well as various uniquely reputed poems, plays, art exhibitions and revolutionary exploits. The Cedilla itself is la Cedille qui Sourit, a shop they operate at Villefranche-sur-mer on the cote d'azure where small works of avant-garde art are sold along with postcards, jewelry (by Donna Jo Brewer/Jones) and all kinds of things which do or do not have a cedilla in their (French) name. And at the Cedilla the notebooks are kept, as the researches are developed, in the manner appropriate to the investigations, with a bottle of either the cheapest pleasant wine or the pleasantest cheap wine, depending upon the occasion. In this way that dread disease to all artists, humorlessitis, is prevented from appearing, and the artists involved (and the others too) remain in good aesthetic health.”

George Brecht (1926 – 2008), was an American conceptual artist and avant-garde composer, as well as a professional chemist who worked as a consultant for companies including Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and Mobil Oil. He was a key member of, and influence on, Fluxus, the international group of avant-garde artists centred on George Maciunas, having been involved with the group from the first performances in Wiesbaden 1962 until Maciunas' death in 1978.

Robert Filliou (1926 – 1987) was a French artist associated with Fluxus, who produced works as a filmmaker, "action poet," sculptor, and happenings maestro.

White cloth with red and black printed spine. Missing dust jacket, ex-library copy from the U.S. International University of Performing Arts Library. Apart general stamps and loan slip, a very good copy throughout. Light tanning from age.

File under: George Brecht Robert Filliou Dick Higgins Daniel Spoerri George Maciunas Claes Oldenburg Marianne Staffels Something Else Press / New York Art Fluxus Fiction / Poetry Out-of-print / Rare Conceptual Art