World Food Books

FANTASTIC ARCHITECTURE

1970, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 200 pages, 13 x 20 cm
1st US Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Something Else Press / New York

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First US edition of this seminal, now very collectable book, "Fantastic Architecture", published in 1970 by Something Else Press, New York (and first published in 1969 by Droste Verlag in German with the title "Pop Architektur". Edited by Dick Higgins and Wolf Vostell, this artist’s book/anthology explores the boundaries between pop art and architecture through writings and projects by key artists and thinkers of the 1960s and earlier—from John Cage and Buckminster Fuller to Kurt Schwitters and Joseph Beuys.

Contributors to this publication are Ay-O, Joseph Beuys, Erich Buchholz, Pol Bury, John Cage, Philip Corner, Jan Dibbets, Robert Filliou, Buckminster Fuller, Geoffrey Hendricks, Richard Hamilton, Raoul Hausmann, Michael Heizer, Jan Jacob Herman, Bici Hendricks, Dick Higgins, K.H. Hoedicke, Hans Hollein, Douglas Huebler, Milan Knizak, Alison Knowles, Addi Koepcke, Franz Mon, Claes Oldenburg, Dennis Oppenheim, GerhardRühm, Diter Rot, Carolee Schneemann, Kurt Schwitters, Daniel Spoerri, Frances Starr, Jean Tinguely, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell, Lawrence Weiner, Stefan Wewerka.

Very Good copy of the first English edition, with Very Good dust jacket and all mylar pages intact.

File under: Dieter Rot Ay-O Joseph Beuys Erich Buchholz Pol Bury John Cage Philip Corner Jan Dibbets Robert Filliou Buckminster Fuller Geoffrey Hendricks Richard Hamilton Raoul Hausmann Michael Heizer Jan Jacob Herman Bici Hendricks Dick Higgins K.H. Hoedicke Hans Hollein Douglas Huebler Milan Knizak Alison Knowles Addi Koepcke Franz Mon Claes Oldenburg Dennis Oppenheim Gerhard Rühm Carolee Schneemann Kurt Schwitters Daniel Spoerri Frances Starr Jean Tinguely Ben Vautier Wolf Vostell Lawrence Weiner Stefan Wewerka Something Else Press / New York Art Pop Art Architecture / Interior Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Fluxus Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Out-of-print / Rare

Practice
Edited by Marcus Boon and Gabriel Levine

2018, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 21 x 23 cm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts Whitechapel / London

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The first anthology to investigate what contemporary notions of practice mean for art, tracing their development and speculating on where this leads.

“Practice” is one of the key words of contemporary art, used in contexts ranging from artists' descriptions of their practice to curatorial practice, from social practice to practice-based research. This is the first anthology to investigate what contemporary notions of practice mean for art, tracing their development and speculating on where this leads.

Reframing the question of practice offers new ways of reading the history of art and of evaluating particular forms of practice-based art. Once used to denote “doing,” as distinct from thinking and making, today the term can convey associations of political action (praxis), professional activity, discipline, or rehearsal, and signal a shift away from the self-enclosed artwork or medium to open-ended actions, series, processes, and projects. Although the turn to practice might promise freedom from finality or eventfulness, it also reflects the neoliberal pressures to train oneself, to perform, and to rehearse a marketable set of skills. This book offers an indispensible guide to the art history and theoretical framework of art-as-practice, clarifying the complex issues at stake in thinking about and enacting practice.

Artists surveyed include Francis Alys, Arakawa, Rebecca Belmore, AA Bronson, Judy Chicago, Lygia Clark, Andrea Fraser, Madeline Gins, Tehching Hsieh, Mary Kelly, Henri Michaux, Linda M. Montano, Pauline Oliveros, Yoko Ono, Adrian Piper, Raivo Puusemp, Rammellzee, Gerhard Richter, Miriam Schapiro, Carolee Schneemann, Gregory Sholette, Aliza Shvarts, Situationist International, Jonas Staal, Stelarc, Fiona Tan, Min Tanaka, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Cecilia Vicuña

Writers include Kathy Acker, Giorgio Agamben, Louis Althusser, Hannah Arendt, Alain Badiou, Lauren Berlant, Gregg Bordowitz, Pierre Bourdieu, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Judith Butler, Jennifer Doyle, Okwui Enwezor, Saidiya V. Hartman, Maulana Karenga, Julia Kristeva, Saba Mahmood, Viktor Misiano, Fred Moten, Paul B. Preciado, Lane Relyea, Suely Rolnik, Peter Sloterdijk, Isabelle Stengers, Winnie Won Yin Wong

Part of the Whitechapel Documents of Contemporary Art series

File under: Francis Alÿs Rebecca Belmore AA Bronson Judy Chicago Lygia Clark Andrea Fraser Madeline Gins Tehching Hsieh Mary Kelly Henri Michaux Pauline Oliveros Yoko Ono Adrian Piper Raivo Puusemp Rammellzee Gerhard Richter Miriam Schapiro Carolee Schneemann Gregory Sholette Aliza Shvarts Situationist International Jonas Staal Stelarc Fiona Tan Min Tanaka Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Cecilia Vicuña Shusaku Arakawa Linda Montano The MIT Press / Massachusetts Whitechapel / London Art Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Feminism Theory / Essay Film / Video Sound / Music Fluxus Dada

Destruction
Edited by Sven Spieker

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

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The effects and meanings of destruction are central to the work of many of our most influential artists. Since the early 1960s, artists have employed destruction to creative ends. Here destruction changes from a negative state or passive condition to a highly productive category. The destructive subversion of media imagery aims to release us from its controlling effects. The self-destructing artwork extinguishes art’s fixity as arrested form and ushers in the ephemeral and contingent "open work."

This anthology explores artworks that convey the threat of destruction an how they have disrupted the perceived integrity of built structures and institutions. Artistic acts of iconoclasm or risk to the self have raised consciousness of authoritarian oppression. More understated works explore the theme of destruction in armed conflict, media violence, and threats to the environment. These text make up the first collection to be focused systematically on destruction in modern and contemporary art.

Artists surveyed include
Ai Weiwei, John Baldessari, Monica Bonvicini, Alexander Brener, Stuart Brisley, Douglas Gordon, Huang Yong Ping, Enrique Jezik, Milan Knizak, Paul McCarthy, Piero Manzoni, Gordon Matta-Clark, Gustav Metzger, Otto Mühl, Yoko Ono, Raphael Montañez Ortiz, Petr Pavlensky, William Pope.L, Walid Raad, Arnulf Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, Carolee Schneemann, Song Dong, Jean Tinguely, Wolf Vostell

Writers include
Alain Badiou, Walter Benjamin, Horst Bredekamp, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Medina Cuauthémoc, Dario Gamboni, Richard Galpin, Caleb Kelly, Bruno Latour, Sven Lütticken, Antonio Negri, Sophie O’Brien, Kristine Stiles, Jennifer Walden

About the Editor
Sven Spieker is Professor of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and editor of ARTmargins. His books include The Big Archive: Art from Bureaucracy (MIT Press).

File under: Ai Weiwei John Baldessari Monica Bonvicini Alexander Brener Stuart Brisley Douglas Gordon Huang Yong Ping Enrique Jezik Milan Knizak Paul McCarthy Piero Manzoni Gordon Matta-Clark Gustav Metzger Otto Mühl Yoko Ono Raphael Montanez Ortiz Petr Pavlensky William Pope.L Walid Raad Arnulf Rainer Robert Rauschenberg Carolee Schneemann Song Dong Jean Tinguely Wolf Vostell Alain Badiou Walter Benjamin Horst Bredekamp Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev Medina Cuauthémoc Dario Gamboni Richard Galpin Caleb Kelly Bruno Latour Sven Lütticken Antonio Negri Sophie O’Brien Kristine Stiles Jennifer Walden Whitechapel / London The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Fluxus Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater Painting Sculpture / Installation Arte Povera Theory / Essay SALE

What is Appropriation?
An Anthology of Writings on Australian Art in the 1980s & 1990s

1996 / 2004, English
Softcover, 315 pages, 21 x 25cm
Published by IMA / Brisbane

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The classic anthology, What Is Appropriation?: An Anthology of Writings on Australian Art in the 1980s & 1990s, on contemporary Australian art. It was first published in 1996 and a second edition was issued in 2014.

It was probably Ad Reinhardt, though it could have been Sherrie Levine or even Andy Warhol, who remarked that you only know you are doing something original when everybody else is doing it. This book explores this and other paradoxes raised by the practice of appropriation the quotation and use of other artists’ work that became widespread in the 1980s. Why was the practice so uniquely popular in Australia? What did it say about the relationship of Australian art to the art of other countries; about white art to Aboriginal art; and about contemporary art to the art of the past? How and why does appropriation fundamentally challenge habitual ways of looking at pictures and thinking about art? The essays and pictures in this book provide answers to these questions, but always in the knowledge that the enigma of appropriation remains.

File under: Ian Burn Peter Cripps Imants Tillers Juan Davila Janet Burchill Maria Kozic John Nixon A.D.S. Donaldson Richard Dunn Jenny Watson Robert Rooney Peter Tyndall Lyndal Jones Lindy Lee John Young Linda Marrinon Rose Nolan Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri Tim Johnson Michael Nelson Jagamara Narelle Jubelin Hany Armanious Gordon Bennett Kathy Temin Julie Rrap Adam Cullen Robyn Stacey Anne Ferran Mark Jackson Geoff Weary Susan Norrie Rex Butler Judy Annear Ian Burn Edward Colless Peter Cripps Juan Davila Juliana Engberg Paul Foss Memory Holloway Tim Johnson Vivien Johnson Adrian Martin Chris McAuliffe Eric Michaels Ingrid Periz Nelly Richard Terry Smith Paul Taylor Imants Tillers Roger Benjamin Naomi Cass Richard Dunn Jeff Gibson Catriona Moore Tony Fry Anne-Marie Willis IMA / Brisbane Theory / Essay Australian Art Art Painting Conceptual Art

Minimal Art : A Critical Anthology
Edited by Gregory Battcock

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

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

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

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

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

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

Documenta IX
COMPLETE 3 VOLUME BOXSET, HARDCOVER ED.

1992, German / English
Hardcover (in original slipcase), Vol. 1 : 255 pages; Vol. 2 : 310 pages; Vol. 3 : 619 pages, 18.5 x 27 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Hatje Cantz / Berlin

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Hardcover edition, three volume exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany, June 13 - September 9, 1992.

Documenta 9 is remembered as one of the most popular of all documenta exhibitions, thanks not least of all to the influence of its artistic director, the charismatic Belgian curator Jan Hoet. Hoet wanted to make the human being and our sensual, perceptual, agonized corporeality, which had been progressively displaced by the digitized, virtual world, the focus of attention at his exhibition. “From body to body to bodies” was the meaningful, poetic motto of documenta 9. Hoet described his curatorial mission in the following words: “At a time in which the human race is confronted more than ever with such dangers as AIDS and multinational wars, nuclear catastrophes, and global climate disasters, at a time in which threats are growing increasingly abstract and the fears more and more diffuse, I see reflection on the physical conditions of life as an appropriate answer.”

Texts by Jan Hoet, Denys Zacharopoulos, Bart de Baere, Pier Luigi Tazzi, Claudia Herstatt, Joyce Carol Oates, Jacques Roubaud, Cornelius Castoriadis, Heiner Müller, Paul Robbrecht, Hilde Daem.

Artists include Marina Abramovic, Absalon, Richard Artschwager, Francis Bacon, Marco Bagnoli, Nicos Baikas, Miroslaw Balka, Matthew Barney, Jerry Barr, Lothar Baumgarten, Jean-Pierre Bertrand, Joseph Beuys, Michael Biberstein, Guillaume Bijl, Dara Birnbaum, Jonathan Borofsky, Louise Bourgeois, Herbert Brandl, Ricardo Brey, Tony Brown, Marie José Burki, Jean-Marc Bustamante, Michael Buthe, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Waltercio Caldas, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Ernst Caramelle, Lawrence Carroll, Saint Clair Cemin, Tomasz Ciecierski, Tony Clark, James Coleman, Tony Conrad, Patrick Corillon, Damian, Richard Deacon, Thierry De Cordier, Silvie Defraoui & Chérif Defraoui, Raoul De Keyser, Wim Delvoye, Braco Dimitrijevic, Eugenio Dittborn, Helmut Dorner, Stan Douglas, Marlene Dumas, Jimmie Durham, Mo Edoga, Jan Fabre, Luciano Fabro, Belu-Simion Fainaru, Peter Fend, Rose Finn-Kelcey, FLATZ, Fortuyn/O'Brien, Günther Förg, Erik A.Frandsen, Michel François, Vera Frenkel, Katsura Funakoshi, Isa Genzken, Gaylen Gerber, Robert Gober, Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, Angela Grauerholz, Michael Gross, George Hadjimichalis, David Hammons, Georg Herold, Gary Hill, Peter Hopkins, Rebecca Horn, Geoffrey James, Olav Christopher Jenssen, Tim Johnson, Andrej N. Joukov, Ilya Kabakov, Anish Kapoor, Kazuo Katase, Tadashi Kawamata, Mike Kelley, Ellsworth Kelly, Bhupen Khakhar, Per Kirkeby, Harald Klingelhöller, Kurt Kocherscheidt, Peter Kogler, Vladimir Kokolia, Joseph Kosuth, Mariusz Kruk, Guillermo Kuitca, Suzanne Lafont, Jonathan Lasker, Jac Leirner, Zoe Leonard, Eugène Leroy, Via Lewandowsky, Bernd Lohaus, Ingeborg Lüscher, Attila Richard Lukacs, James Lutes, Marcel Maeyer, Brice Marden, Cildo Meireles, Ulrich Meister, Thom Merrick, Gerhard Merz, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Meuser, Jürgen Meyer, Liliana Moro, Reinhard Mucha, Matt Mullican, Juan Muñoz, Christa Näher, Hidetoshi Nagasawa, Bruce Nauman, Max Neuhaus, Pekka Nevalainen, Nic Nicosia, Moshe Ninio, Jussi Niva, Cady Noland, Manuel Ocampo, Jean-Michel Othoniel, Tony Oursler, Panamarenko, Giulio Paolini, A. R. Penck, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Hermann Pitz, Stephen Prina, Richard Prince, Martin Puryear, Royden Rabinowitch, Rober Racine, Philip Rantzer, Charles Ray, Martial Raysse, readymades belong to everyone, José Resende, Gerhard Richter, Ulf Rollof, Erika Rothenberg, Susan Rothenberg, Ulrich Rückriem, Thomas Ruff, Stephan Runge, Edward Ruscha, Reiner Ruthenbeck, Remo Salvadori, Joe Scanlan, Eran Schaerf, Adrian Schiess, Thomas Schütte, Helmut Schweizer, Maria Serebriakova, Mariella Simoni, Susana Solano, Ousmane Sow, Ettore Spalletti, Haim Steinbach, Pat Steir, Wolfgang Strack, Thomas Struth, János Sugár, Yuji Takeoka, Robert Therrien, Frederic Matys Thursz, Niele Toroni, Thanassis Totsikas, Addo Lodovico Trinci, Mitja Tušek, Luc Tuymans, Micha Ullman, Juan Uslé, Bill Viola, Henk Visch, James Welling, Franz West, Rachel Whiteread, Christopher Wool, KeunByung Yook, Heimo Zobernig, Gilberto Zorio, and Constantin Zvezdochotov.

Very Good condition volumes in hardcover (much less common edition than usual softcover), preserved in their original illustrated slipcase (with common repaired splitting and bumping damage).

File under: Absalon Richard Artschwager Francis Bacon Marco Bagnoli Nicos Baikas Miroslaw Balka Matthew Barney Jerry Barr Lothar Baumgarten Jean-Pierre Bertrand Joseph Beuys Michael Biberstein Guillaume Bijl Dara Birnbaum Jonathan Borofsky Louise Bourgeois Herbert Brandl Ricardo Brey Tony Brown Marie José Burki Jean-Marc Bustamante Michael Buthe Pedro Cabrita Reis Waltercio Caldas Pier Paolo Calzolari Ernst Caramelle Lawrence Carroll Saint Clair Cemin Tomasz Ciecierski Tony Clark James Coleman Tony Conrad Patrick Corillon Damian Richard Deacon Thierry De Cordier Silvie Defraoui & Chérif Defraoui Raoul De Keyser Wim Delvoye Braco Dimitrijevic Eugenio Dittborn Helmut Dorner Stan Douglas Marlene Dumas Jimmie Durham Mo Edoga Jan Fabre Luciano Fabro Belu-Simion Fainaru Peter Fend Rose Finn-Kelcey Fortuyn/O'Brien Günther Förg Erik A.Frandsen Michel François Vera Frenkel Katsura Funakoshi Isa Genzken Gaylen Gerber Robert Gober Dan Graham Rodney Graham Angela Grauerholz Michael Gross George Hadjimichalis David Hammons Georg Herold Gary Hill Peter Hopkins Rebecca Horn Geoffrey James Olav Christopher Jenssen Tim Johnson Andrej N. Joukov Ilya Kabakov Anish Kapoor Kazuo Katase Tadashi Kawamata Mike Kelley Ellsworth Kelly Bhupen Khakhar Per Kirkeby Harald Klingelhöller Kurt Kocherscheidt Peter Kogler Vladimir Kokolia Joseph Kosuth Mariusz Kruk Guillermo Kuitca Suzanne Lafont Jonathan Lasker Jac Leirner Zoe Leonard Eugène Leroy Via Lewandowsky Bernd Lohaus Ingeborg Lüscher Attila Richard Lukacs James Lutes Marcel Maeyer Brice Marden Cildo Meireles Ulrich Meister Thom Merrick Gerhard Merz Mario Merz Marisa Merz Meuser Jürgen Meyer Liliana Moro Reinhard Mucha Matt Mullican Juan Muñoz Christa Näher Hidetoshi Nagasawa Bruce Nauman Max Neuhaus Pekka Nevalainen Nic Nicosia Moshe Ninio Jussi Niva Cady Noland Manuel Ocampo Jean-Michel Othoniel Tony Oursler Panamarenko Giulio Paolini Michelangelo Pistoletto Hermann Pitz Stephen Prina Richard Prince Martin Puryear Royden Rabinowitch Rober Racine Philip Rantzer Charles Ray Martial Raysse readymades belong to everyone José Resende Gerhard Richter Ulf Rollof Erika Rothenberg Susan Rothenberg Ulrich Rückriem Thomas Ruff Stephan Runge Edward Ruscha Reiner Ruthenbeck Remo Salvadori Joe Scanlan Eran Schaerf Adrian Schiess Thomas Schütte Helmut Schweizer Maria Serebriakova Mariella Simoni Susana Solano Ousmane Sow Ettore Spalletti Haim Steinbach Pat Steir Wolfgang Strack Thomas Struth János Sugár Yuji Takeoka Robert Therrien Frederic Matys Thursz Niele Toroni Thanassis Totsikas Addo Lodovico Trinci Mitja Tušek Luc Tuymans Micha Ullman Juan Uslé Bill Viola Henk Visch James Welling Franz West Rachel Whiteread Christopher Wool KeunByung Yook Heimo Zobernig Gilberto Zorio Constantin Zvezdochotov FLATZ Marina Abramovič A.R. Penck Hatje Cantz / Berlin Art Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Sound / Music Theory / Essay Curatorial Out-of-print / Rare Conceptual Art Feminism Arte Povera Group Shows / Collections Australian Art

Adrian Piper
Out of Order, Out of Sight Vol. 1

1996, English
Softcover, 371 pages, 25.5 x 20 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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Adrian Piper joins the ranks of writer-artists who have provided much of the basic and most reliable literature on modern and contemporary art. Out of Order, Out of Sight is an artistic and intellectual autobiography and an (occasionally scathing) commentary on mainstream art, art criticism, and American culture of the last twenty-five years. Piper is an internationally recognized conceptual artist and the only African American in the early conceptual art movement of the 1960s. The writings in Out of Order, Out of Sight trace the development of her thinking about her artwork and the art world, and her evolving awareness of herself as a creative, racial, and gendered subject situated in an often limiting and always absurd cultural and social context. The meta-art essays in Volume I document and examine her artistic practice – often humorous, frequently disturbing.

This publication is now out-of-print.

File under: Adrian Piper The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Conceptual Art Feminism Performance / Dance / Theater Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay

Work
Edited by Friederike Sigler

2017, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 145 x 210 mm
Published by Whitechapel / London The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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Warhol’s Factory of the 1960s, Minimalism’s assembly-line aesthetics, conceptual and feminist concern with workers’ conditions in the 1970s—these are among the antecedents of a renewed focus on the work of art: labor as artistic activity, as artistic method and as object of artistic engagement. In 2002, the “Work Ethic” exhibition curated by Helen Molesworth at the Baltimore Museum of Art took its cue from recent art to spotlight this earlier era of artistic practice in which activity became as valid as, and often dispensed with, object-production. Revealed through this prism was “dematerialized” art’s close and critical relation to the emergent information age’s criteria of management, production and skill.

By 2015, the Venice Biennale reflected artists’ wider concern with global economic and social crises, centered on exploitative and precarious worlds of employment. Yet while art increasingly engages with human travail, work’s significance in itself is seldom addressed by critics. This anthology explicitly investigates work in relation to contemporary art, surveying artistic strategies that grapple with the complexities of being an art worker in the new economy, a postproducer, a collaborator, a fabricator, a striker, an ethical campaigner, or would-be transformer of labor from oppression to liberation.

Artists surveyed include
Pawel Althamer, Francis Alÿs, Marwa Arsanios, Chto Delat, Alice Creischer, Ana de la Cueva, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Jeremy Deller, Maria Eichhorn, Harun Farocki, Claire Fontaine, Andrea Fraser, Liam Gillick, Melanie Gilligan, Gulf Labour Coalition, Tehching Hsieh, Lamia Joreige, Lee Lozano, Goshka Macuga, Teresa Margolles, Adrian Melis, Annette Messager, Gustav Metzger, Jean-Luc Moulène, Ahmet Ögüt, Philip Rizk, Martha Rosler, Tino Sehgal, Santiago Sierra, Tamas St. Auby, Mladen Stilinovic, W.A.G.E., Artur Zmijewski

Writers include
Claire Bishop, Luc Boltanski, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Sabeth Buchmann, Ève Chiapello, Kodwo Eshun, Silvia Federici, Isabelle Graw, Maurizio Lazzarato, Achille Mbembe, Antonio Negri, Jacques Rancière, Gerald Raunig, Dietmar Rübel, Paolo Virno, Joseph Vogl

About the Editor
Friederike Sigler is a researcher and lecturer at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Dresden. She is the author of Work/Strike.

File under: Francis Alÿs Marwa Arsanios Chto Delat Alice Creischer Ana de la Cueva Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Jeremy Deller Maria Eichhorn Harun Farocki Claire Fontaine Andrea Fraser Liam Gillick Melanie Gilligan Gulf Labour Coalition Tehching Hsieh Lamia Joreige Lee Lozano Goshka Macuga Teresa Margolles Adrian Melis Annette Messager Gustav Metzger Jean-Luc Moulène Ahmet Ögüt Philip Rizk Martha Rosler Tino Sehgal Santiago Sierra Tamas St. Auby Mladen Stilinovic W.A.G.E. Artur Zmijewski Paweł Althamer Claire Bishop Luc Boltanski Julia Bryan-Wilson Sabeth Buchmann Ève Chiapello Kodwo Eshun Silvia Federici Isabelle Graw Maurizio Lazzarato Achille Mbembe Antonio Negri Jacques Rancière Gerald Raunig Dietmar Rübel Paolo Virno Joseph Vogl Friederike Sigler Whitechapel / London The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Film / Video Theory / Essay

Brian O'doherty / Patrick Ireland
Word, Image and Institutional Critique

2018, English
Softcover, 302 pages, 17 x 23 cm
Published by Valiz / Amsterdam

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This volume assembles different perspectives on Brian O’Doherty’s/Patrick Ireland’s seminal work: his visual art practice, art criticism, institutional leadership and critique, media work and literary writing. The contributing authors provide fresh perspectives on his versatile oeuvre. O’Doherty’s role in and for conceptual art and minimalism in New York is as much a theme as his seminal critique of the Modernist white cube gallery (also expressed in his influential book Inside the White Cube: Ideologies of the Gallery Space, 1976), his art-historical ventures and Irish origins.

Edited by Christa-maria Lerm Hayes

File under: Brian O'doherty Patrick Ireland Christa-maria Lerm Hayes Valiz / Amsterdam Art Minimal Art Conceptual Art Theory / Essay

Tell Them I Said No
by Martin Herbert

2016, English
Softcover, 128 pages, 12.8 x 19.7 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

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This collection of essays by Martin Herbert considers various artists who have withdrawn from the art world or adopted an antagonistic position toward its mechanisms. A large part of the artist’s role in today’s professionalized art system is being present. Providing a counterargument to this concept of self-marketing, Herbert examines the nature of retreat, whether in protest, as a deliberate conceptual act, or out of necessity. By illuminating these motives, Tell Them I Said No offers a unique perspective on where and how the needs of the artist and the needs of the art world diverge. Essays on Lutz Bacher, Stanley Brouwn, Christopher D’Arcangelo, Trisha Donnelly, David Hammons, Agnes Martin, Cady Noland, Laurie Parsons, Charlotte Posenenske, and Albert York.

Martin Herbert is a writer and critic living in Berlin. He is associate editor of ArtReview and writes for international art journals. Previous books include The Uncertainty Principle (2014) and Mark Wallinger (2011).

Design by Fraser Muggeridge studio

File under: Lutz Bacher Stanley Brouwn Christopher D’Arcangelo Trisha Donnelly David Hammons Agnes Martin Cady Noland Laurie Parsons Charlotte Posenenske Albert York Martin Herbert Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Group Shows / Collections Theory / Essay Conceptual Art Minimal Art Painting Sculpture / Installation

Sandra Bridie
b. 19--, Eight Fictions

2018, English
Softcover, 200 pages, 21 x 15 cm
Published by Self-Published / Melbourne

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In Sandra Bridie b. 19--, Eight Fictions, artist Sandra Bridie presents eight fictional artists who bear her own name, but with different birthdates, imagined into the Melbourne art landscape of the 20th and 21st centuries. The artists are presented via interviews and documentation of their artwork. The oeuvres of the eight artists represented here include: photography, conceptual art, sculpture, performance, crafting, curatorship and text-based work. The artists range in age and ability from emerging artists to a grand dame of Melbourne abstract art. By presenting often tragi-comic characters who have to deal with good fortune, destiny, disaster, boredom, malaise, envy, distractions and lack of faith, Sandra hopes to present the artist as a recognisable creature in a familiar locale or milieu.

Self published and designed by Yanni Florence.

File under: Yanni Florence Sandra Bridie Self-Published / Melbourne Australian Art Performance / Dance / Theater Photography Conceptual Art Curatorial Art

Arte Povera 1966-1980. Libri e documenti / Books and Documents
Edited by Giorgio Maffei

2007, English / Italian
Softcover, 285 pages, 24 x 17 cm
Published by Corraini / Italy

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The critical catalogue raisonné of artist's books from the Arte Povera movement 1966-1980, compiled by Giorgio Maffei.

Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Luciano Fabro, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Giulio Paolini, Pino Pascali, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Emilio Prini and Gilberto Zorio: the protagonists of the most important Italian artistic movement after World War II are presented not through "traditional" works, but from the point of privileged view of their editorial production. Artist books conceived, constructed and reinvented as works "in itself", some of them with a programmatic value that makes them extremely important for the comprehension of the whole movement. A rich and in-depth introduction transversely analyzes the current of Arte Povera for people, times, places and texts, while each artist is presented individually through the review of their books and personal exhibitions, richly illustrated with the documents described. This generous volume is completed by an accurate chronology of collective exhibitions (1966-2005) and a vast bibliography of essays and articles that appeared in books and art magazines (1966-2006).

"The task this book faces is to provide news, data, and stories through documents, if not certain, at least considered reliable, and to overcome the temptation to penetrate events and present them in the simplest way possible." - from Giorgio Maffei's introduction.

Text in English and Italian.

File under: Giovanni Anselmo Alighiero Boetti Pier Paolo Calzolari Luciano Fabro Jannis Kounellis Mario Merz Marisa Merz Giulio Paolini Pino Pascali Giuseppe Penone Michelangelo Pistoletto Emilio Prini Gilberto Zorio Giorgio Maffei Corraini / Italy Arte Povera Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Art Minimal Art Curatorial

File Megazine Vol.4 No.2 Fall 1979
"TRANSGRESSIONS"

1979, English
Softcover, 64 pages, 28 × 36 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Art Official Inc. / Toronto

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FILE Megazine (published 1972–1989) was a quarterly, then irregularly published art and culture magazine, written, edited and published primarily by members of General Idea (AA Bronson, Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal).

The visual design and identity of FILE Megazine was a deliberate appropriation of LIFE Magazine. FILE's initial logo was the white block letters on red rectangle of the LIFE logo, with the letters re-arranged. This corresponded with the group's desire that the magazine be a “parasite within the world of magazine distribution”. The familiarity of the format would entice a broad range of unsuspecting readers outside the art- or mail-art worlds (including LIFE readers) to pick it up from newsstands. Initially the magazine served a dual purpose. It was a record and site of activity for the international mail/correspondence-art movement - the first mail-art project in magazine format. It was also the mouthpiece of General Idea, with editorials for each issue written by the group, elaborating on the group's core conceptual principles. The writing style of these editorials is noteworthy for its heavily ironic use of language, a parody of advertising copy, laced with double-entendres. Over the years the focus of FILE Megazine broadened to include the wider arts, culture and entertainment world, as General Idea's founders moved increasingly among the New York downtown circles of the 70s and 80s.

This "TRANSGRESSIONS" issue (edited by General Idea and Rodney Werden) includes Kathy Acker, Guy Hocquenghem, David Byrne, Jean Genet, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Colin Campbell, Francesco Clemente, The Clichettes, Robert Mapplethorpe, Martha and the Muffins, and others. Features the famous Nazi Milk Glass cover by General Idea.

General Idea was a collective of three Canadian artists, Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal and AA Bronson, who were active from 1967 to 1994. As pioneers of early conceptual and media-based art, their collaboration became a model for artist-initiated activities and continues to be a prominent influence on subsequent generations of artists. General Idea's work inhabited and subverted forms of popular and media culture, including boutiques, television talk shows, trade fair pavilions, mass media, beauty pageants and publishing (they published the highly acclaimed FILE magazine). From 1987 through 1994 their work addressed the AIDS crisis, creating numerous public works and making some of their most iconic works of art. After publishing FILE Megazine for two years and amassing a large collection of artists books and multiples, General Idea founded Art Metropole in 1974, a non-profit space dedicated to contemporary art in multiple format: artists books, multiples, video, audio and electronic media. Both Partz and Zontal died of AIDS in 1994. Bronson continues to work and exhibit as an independent artist, and was the director of Printed Matter, Inc in New York between 2006 and 2011. The General Idea Archive now resides at the Library of the National Gallery of Canada.

Note: this issue has a few photographs of male and female genitals hand censored (with black marker) in a feature by Jim Dawson. Quite likely by the international distributor or Japanese vendor who originally sold this title. A common practice in Japan for imported publications at the time.

Good copy throughout, general wear for age/size.

File under: General Idea Francesco Clemente The Clichettes Robert Mapplethorpe David Byrne Pier Paolo Pasolini Kathy Acker Jean Genet David Byrne Guy Hocquenghem Art Official Inc. / Toronto Art Conceptual Art Fiction / Poetry Fashion Film / Video Sound / Music Periodicals Performance / Dance / Theater

Institutional Critique : An Anthology of Artists' Writings

2009, English
Hardcover, 512 pages (60 b&w ills), 178 x 229 mm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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"Institutional critique" is an artistic practice that reflects critically on its own housing in galleries and museums and on the concept and social function of art itself. Such concerns have always been a part of modern art but took on new urgency at the end of the 1960s, when--driven by the social upheaval of the time and enabled by the tools and techniques of conceptual art--institutional critique emerged as a genre. This anthology traces the development of institutional critique as an artistic concern from the 1960s to the present by gathering writings and representative art projects of artists from across Europe and throughout the Americas who developed and extended the genre. The texts and artworks included are notable for the range of perspectives and positions they reflect and for their influence in pushing the boundaries of what is meant by institutional critique. Like Alberro and Stimson's Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology this volume will shed new light on its subject through its critical and historical framing. Even readers already familiar with institutional critique will come away from this book with a greater and often redirected understanding of its significance.Artists represented include Wieslaw Borowski, Daniel Buren, Marcel Broodthaers, Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel, Hans Haacke, Robert Smithson, John Knight, Graciela Carnevale, Osvaldo Mateo Boglione, Guerilla Art Action Group, Art Workers' Coalition, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Michael Asher, Mel Ramsden, Adrian Piper, The Guerrilla Girls, Laibach, Silvia Kolbowski, Andrea Fraser, Fred Wilson, Mark Dion, Maria Eichhorn, Critical Art Ensemble, Bureau d'Etudes, WochenKlausur, The Yes Men, Hito Steyerl, Andreas Siekmann.

File under: Adrian Piper Andrea Fraser Andreas Siekmann Art Workers' Coalition Bureau d'Etudes Critical Art Ensemble Daniel Buren Fred Wilson Graciela Carnevale Guerilla Art Action Group Hans Haacke Hito Steyerl John Knight Marcel Broodthaers Maria Eichhorn Mark Dion Mel Ramsden Michael Asher Mierle Laderman Ukeles Osvaldo Mateo Boglione Robert Smithson Silvia Kolbowski The Yes Men Wieslaw Borowski WochenKlausur Guerrilla Girls Alexander Alberro Blake Stimson Adrian Piper The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Theory / Essay Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Sculpture / Installation Feminism SALE

K P Brehmer
Real Capital-Production

2018, English
Hardcover, 176 pages, 31 x 24 cm
Published by Raven Row / London Walther König / Köln

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This is the first monograph on K. P. Brehmer to appear in English and the first major publication on the artist since the Museum Friedericianum Kassel catalogue in 1998.

Part of Capitalist Realism – the initiative centred around Galerie René Block in Berlin in the mid to late 1960s, that included fellow artists Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter – KP Brehmer is increasingly recognised as a key figure in postwar German art in his own right.

Richly illustrated with previously unpublished archival images as well as more recent exhibition photographs, the texts by leading specialists (Jürgen Becker, René Block, KP Brehmer, Mark Fisher, Doreen Mende, Alex Sainsbury, Kerstin Stakemeier) focus on his practice during the 1960s and 1970s when he was developing his unique graphic representations of capital which anticipate todayʼs ubquitious data visualisation systems.

File under: K. P. Brehmer Jürgen Becker René Block Mark Fisher Doreen Mende Alex Sainsbury Kerstin Stakemeier Raven Row / London Walther König / Köln Art Painting Conceptual Art Sculpture / Installation Pop Art

Charlotte Posenenske / Peter Roehr
dasselbe anders / immer dasselbe

English / German
Hardcover, 96 pages, 22 x 28 cm
Published by Distanz / Berlin

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dasselbe anders/immer dasselbe [the same thing another way/always the same thing]: that is the title of Charlotte Posenenske (1930–1985) and Peter Roehr’s (1944–1968) joint exhibition at the Kunsthaus, Wiesbaden. Both artists, who contributed to documenta, did not achieve fame until after their early deaths. Against the zeitgeist of 1967, both recognized that repetition constituted the law of natural, industrial, and social processes, and found in it the guiding principle of their art. They worked in series, stripping their productions of subjective qualities and liquidating the traditional status of the artist as the creator of unique objects on which the commercial art world is based. “Less is more:” that was true for both artists, whose works are now widely acknowledged as representative of a radical late-modern critique of commercialism. Their art, which was rarely shown during their lifetime, is now included in the collections of leading museums in Germany and abroad. The exhibition of Posenenske’s work is accompanied by a program of events featuring Michael Reiter’s Swinging Geometry and Martina Wolf’s Moving Images.

File under: Charlotte Posenenske Peter Roehr Distanz / Berlin Art Sculpture / Installation Painting Conceptual Art Minimal Art

Mutlu Çerkez
1988–2065

2018, English
Hardcover, 294 pages, 29.5 x 23.5cm
Ed. of 500,
Published by MUMA / Victoria

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Mutlu Çerkez: 1988–2065 is the first major monograph published on the art and life of Mutlu Çerkez, the Turkish Cypriot Australian artist who lived and worked in Melbourne until his untimely death in 2005. This limited edition, deeply researched volume forms a catalogue raisonné of Çerkez's work and was published by MUMA to accompany their phenomenal 2018 survey exhibition of the artist.

Çerkez was an influential artist who, during his lifetime, had a significant impact on the Australian and international art worlds. His work incorporated traditions of conceptual art, minimalism and monochrome painting but made its own internal logic its primary reference point while strenuously resisting a reduction to any single style. Mutlu Çerkez: 1988–2065 brings together the artist’s key remaining works loaned from public and private collections across Australia as well as from the artist’s family.

This accompanying monograph reproduces all the works exhibited alongside newly commissioned essays by Francis Plagne, Max Delany and the exhibition’s curators, Charlotte Day, Helen Hughes and Hannah Mathews, archival texts and essays, an illustrated catalogue raisonné, chronology, biography, bibliography, exhibition history.

Designed by Yanni Florence and published in an edition of only 500 copies.

File under: Mutlu Çerkez Damiano Bertoli Yanni Florence Rose Nolan Helen Hughes Charlotte Day Hannah Mathews Francis Plagne Max Delany Michael Graf Rex Butler MUMA / Victoria Conceptual Art Australian Art Art Painting Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Theory / Essay

Yayoi Kusama
Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, 1958-1968 / In Full Bloom: Yayoi Kusama, Years in Japan

1999, Japanese
Softcover (2 volumes in slipcase), 154 + 194 pages, 21 x 29 cm
1st edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by Museum of Contemporary Art / Tokyo

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The original two-volume Japanese slipcase edition, published in conjunction with the exhibition "Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, 1958-1968" which travelled between Japan and the US in 1999. This edition was available for the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo staging of the exhibition, and has been long out of print. Both volumes here are lavishly illustrated throughout with colour photographs of Yayoi Kusama's history of work - the first book ("Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, 1958-1968") being a catalogue for the exhibition, featuring essays and documentation of the works in the exhibit spanning the years 1958-1968, including her New York happenings, whilst the second book ("In Full Bloom: Yayoi Kusama, Years in Japan") illuminates many rarely seen works outside of Japan. Accompanied by texts, an interview and an exhibition history, this book is broken into the sections 1945-1959, 1970-1999 and is densely illustrated with colour documentation of her work created in Japan. Together chronicling Kusama's life of creating work across painting, collage, soft sculpture, performance art, and environmental installations, of which most exhibit her thematic interest in psychedelic colours, repetition, and pattern, this comprehensive and collectable publication illustrates an extremely influential artist's life of work. Based in conceptual art, Kusama's work shows attributes of Feminism, Minimalism, Surrealism, Art Brut, Pop Art, Nouvelle Tendence (Op, Kinetic, etc.) and Abstract Expressionism, and is infused with autobiographical, psychological, and sexual content. Kusama is truly uncategorizable, and is celebrated as one of the most important living artists to come out of Japan, and an important voice of the avant-garde.

Condition: Very good (light wear only) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Yayoi Kusama Museum of Contemporary Art / Tokyo Art Conceptual Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Pop Art Sculpture / Installation

Louise Lawler
(October Files)

2013, English
Softcover, 160 pages, 153 x 23 cm
Published by October Books / New York The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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Edited by Helen Molesworth
With Taylor Walsh

Louise Lawler has devoted her art practice to investigating the life cycle of art objects. Her photographs depict art in the collector’s home, the museum, the auction house, and the commercial gallery, on loading docks, and in storage closets. Her work offers a sustained meditation on the strategies of display that shape art’s reception and distribution. The cumulative effect of Lawler’s photographs is a silent insistence that context is the primary shaper of art’s meaning. Informed by feminism and institutional critique, Lawler’s witty, poignant, and trenchant photos frequently pay attention to a host of overlooked details—almost Freudian slips—that ineffably and tacitly shore up what we conventionally think of as art’s “power.”

This book includes the earliest published text on Lawler’s work; an examination of her ephemera (Lawler produced, among other things, matchbooks and paperweights); a rare interview with the artist, conducted by Douglas Crimp; a conversation between George Baker and Andrea Fraser on Lawler’s work; and essays by writers including Rosalind Krauss, Rosalyn Deutsche, and Helen Molesworth, the volume’s editor. The book traces the changing reception of Lawler’s work from early preoccupations with appropriation to later discussions of affect.

About the Editor
Helen Molesworth is Chief Curator at the Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston. She edited Louise Lawler’s Twice Untitled and Other Pictures (looking back), published by the Wexner Center for the Arts and distributed by the MIT Press.

File under: Louise Lawler Andrea Fraser Douglas Crimp George Baker Helen Molesworth Rosalyn Deutsche Rosalind E. Krauss October Books / New York The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Conceptual Art Photography Theory / Essay

Robert Filliou
The Secret of Permanent Creation

2017, English
Softcover, 320 pages, 24 × 19 cm
Published by Mousse / Milan Editions Lebeer Hossmann / Brussels M HKA / Antwerp

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Foreword by Anders Kreuger, essay by Irmeline Lebeer, translated transcript of conversation between Robert Filliou and Irmeline Lebeer

“The absolute secret of permanent creation: not deciding, not choosing, not wanting, not owning, aware of self, wide awake. SITTING QUIETLY DOING NOTHING.” — Robert Filliou.

Published to document the recent Filliou retrospective at M HKA, the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, this book centres on the transcript of an extensive conversation between the French artist and the Brussels-based art critic Irmeline Lebeer, recorded on seven cassette tapes in August 1976 in Flayosc in Southern France. This conversation is structured as an abécédaire and touches on a variety of topics to do with Filliou’s art and thinking, from amitié (friendship) to zen. It was supposed to become an extensive monograph but was never published until now.
Robert Filliou: The Secret of Permanent Creation gives today’s reader direct insight into the mind and the practice of this extraordinary artist, whose influence on subsequent generations cannot be overestimated. Now, in the second decade of the twenty-first century, is the time to realise that Robert Filliou was one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century, apart from being a significant playwright and poet. This book helps contemporary readers grasp his significance. It contains many black-and-white illustrations and colour plates of nearly all the 192 works in the exhibition at M HKA.

Designed by Sara De Bondt
Copublished with M HKA, Antwerp, and Editions Lebeer Hossmann, Brussels

File under: Robert Filliou Anders Kreuger Irmeline Lebeer Mousse / Milan Editions Lebeer Hossmann / Brussels M HKA / Antwerp Art Fluxus Drawing Fiction / Poetry Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay

Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985

2017, English
Hardcover, 408 pages, 23.3 x 27.3 cm
Published by Hammer / Los Angeles Prestel / Munich

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This stunning reappraisal offers long overdue recognition to the enormous contribution to the field of contemporary art of women artists in Latin America and those of Latino and Chicano heritage working during a pivotal time in history. Amidst the tumult and revolution that characterized the latter half of the 20th century in Latin America and the US, women artists were staking their claim in nearly every field. This wide ranging volume examines the work of more than 100 female artists with nearly 300 works in the fields of painting, sculpture, photography, video, performance art, and other experimental media. A series of thematic essays, arranged by country, address the cultural and political contexts in which these radical artists worked, while other essays address key issues such as feminism, art history, and the political body. Drawing its design and feel from the radical underground pamphlets, catalogs, and posters of the era, this is the first examination of a highly influential period in 20th-century art history.

About the editor:
CECILIA FAJARDO-HILL is an independent British-Venezuelan art historian and curator of modern and contemporary art, currently based in Southern California. ANDREA GIUNTA is a Buenos Aires-based writer, curator, Professor of Art History at the University of Buenos Aires, and Principal Researcher at CONICET, Argentina. She is also a visiting scholar at the University of Texas in Austin.

File under: Andrea Giunta ‎ Cecilia Fajardo-Hill Hammer / Los Angeles Prestel / Munich Performance / Dance / Theater Painting Art Film / Video Conceptual Art Feminism Group Shows / Collections Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay

Christopher Williams
(RED)

2014, English
Softcover, 372 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 27 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Walther König / Köln

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In the 1970s, Christopher Williams emerged as a key figure in the first wave of American West Coast conceptual artists, which included John Baldessari and Douglas Huebler.

Williams' work is a critical investigation of the medium of photography and more broadly the vicissitudes of industrial culture, in particular its structures of representation and classification. Using the process of reproduction as a point of entry, he manipulates the conventions of advertising, the superficiality of surface, and ultimately the history of Modernism.

This unique artist’s book is available in three editions, each with different ISBNs and different colour covers: red, yellow and green. It reproduces a carefully curated selection of the artist’s painstakingly constructed photographs and features striking graphic design in the near-complete absence of language, with no essay, captions, or even a title page. With the exception of differing cover photographs, the content of each edition is identical.

Published to coincide with Williams’ first major survey exhibition, The Production Line of Happiness at The Art Institute of Chicago, and then at The Museum of Modern Art, New York – both in 2014. The exhibition travels to Whitechapel Gallery, London in 2015.

RED edition.
Now out-of-print.

File under: Christopher Williams Walther König / Köln Art Photography Conceptual Art Out-of-print / Rare

William Leavitt
THE PARTICLES (of White Naugahyde)

2017, English
Softcover, 64 pages, 14 × 21 cm
Published by Edition Patrick Frey / Zürich

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THE PARTICLES (of White Naugahyde) is the first publication of a play by William Leavitt (b. 1941). Leavitt is one of the pioneers of conceptual art in Los Angeles, helping significantly to establish the genre in the late 1960s and the 1970s. His works make use of narrative elements drawn from LA architecture and popular culture as well as from the movie and television industries. The artist works in various media, including sculpture, painting, drawing, photography and theatre.

Framed as a sitcom setting, the narrative of THE PARTICLES (of White Naugahyde) tells the story of a family auditioning for a NASA program, which sends them to a newly planned space colony. The demanding admission process makes them live in a security-free community in the desert together with other applicants. These two weeks in the desert result in anxiety and anti-social behavior among the participants.

Published in the series STUDIOLO / Edition Patrick Frey.

File under: William Leavitt Edition Patrick Frey / Zürich Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater Art

MAY #18

2017, English / French
Softcover, 220 pages, 240 x 175 mm
Published by May Revue / Paris

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The Exhibitionary Complex. Exhibition, Apparatus, and Media from Kulturhuset to the Centre Pompidou, 1963–1977
Kim West 1977
Yann Chateigné

London, London London, London Richard Parry
 An Image that Can Be Inhabited. On the film Enquête sur le/notre dehors by Alejandra Riera Lotte Arndt

Visual Insert : The Hiking Trail Around the Airport by Peter Fischli

On Thinking of readymades belong to everyone® at Greene Naftali, New York
By Liam Considine

On Show Me Your Archive and I will Tell You Who is in Power at KIOSK, Ghent
By Giovanna Zapperi

On Tobias Kaspar at kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga
By Oleg Frolov

On Till Megerle at Christian Andersen, Copenhagen
By Anke Dyes

On Juliana Huxtable at Reena Spaulings, New York
By Christian Haye

On Charges (The Supplicants) by Elfriede Jelinek
By Camilla Wills

Clifton Clifton
By Jeanne Graff

Limited Editions
By Merlin Carpenter

About MAY Revue:

Conceived as a collective space in which to develop thoughts and confront positions on artistic production, May magazine examines, quaterly, contemporary art practice and theory in direct engagement with the issues, contexts and strategies that construct these two fields. An approach that could be summed up as critique at work – or as critique actively performed in text and art forms alike.

Featuring essays, interviews, art works and reviews by artists, writers and diverse practitioners of the arts, the magazine also intends to address the economy of the production of knowledge – the starting point of this reflection being the space of indistinction between information and advertisement typical of our time. This implies a dialogue with forms of critique produced in other fields.

File under: Juliana Huxtable Peter Fischli Philippe Thomas Tobias Kaspar Till Megerle Elfriede Jelinek May Revue / Paris Art Periodicals Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Feminism Theory / Essay SALE