World Food Books

The Art of Drawing
[100 drawings from the Print Room of the National Gallery of Victoria and some other Collections]

1969, English
Softcover (stapled), 20 pages, 20.5 x 26.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by NGV (National Gallery of Victoria) / Victoria

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Wonderful and scarce catalogue for the exhibition "The Art of Drawing", a major survey of drawing through the centuries, held in 1969 at the National Gallery of Victoria.

Introduction by Ursula Hoff with full exhibition check-list across blue textured paperstock. Illustrated pages featuring works by William Blake, Andreas del Sarto, Parmigianino, Jacques de Gheyn, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Annibale Carracci, Aert de Gelder, Rembrandt, Thomas Gainsborough, François Boucher, Pablo Picasso, William Dobell. Exhibition also included Eric Thake, Henri Matisse, Arthur Boyd, Carlo Maratta, Annibale Carracci, Russell Drysdale, Jacob Epstein, Rupert Bunny, Eduardo Paolozzi, John Brack, Percy Wyndham Lewis, Jan Brueghel The Elder, Jean Francois Millet, Hans Heysen, Ben Nicholson, Auguste Rodin, Robert Klippel, Inge King, Henry Moore, Albert Dürer, Léon Bakst, Margaret Stones, and many others.

Ursula Hoff (1909-2005) was an Australian scholar, academic, curator, writer, critic, and lecturer. She was Deputy Director of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (1968–1973).

Good-Very Good ex-Australian National Gallery reference copy.

File under: William Blake Andreas del Sarto Parmigianino Jacques de Gheyn Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione Annibale Carracci Aert de Gelder Rembrandt Thomas Gainsborough François Boucher Pablo Picasso William Dobell Eric Thake Henri Matisse Arthur Boyd Carlo Maratta Russell Drysdale Jacob Epstein Rupert Bunny Eduardo Paolozzi John Brack Percy Wyndham Lewis Jan Brueghel the Elder Jean Francois Millet Hans Heysen Ben Nicholson Auguste Rodin Robert Klippel Inge King Henry Moore Léon Bakst Margaret Stones Albrecht Dürer Ursula Hoff NGV (National Gallery of Victoria) / Victoria Art Drawing Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Out-of-print / Rare Australian Art

Speculations on Anonymous Materials
Edited by Susanne Pfeffer

2018, English / German
Softcover, 502 pages, 29.6 x 22.2 cm
Published by Koenig Books / London

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Speculations on Anonymous Materials for the first time worldwide brings together approaches in international art that reinterpret the anonymous materials created by rapid and incisive technological change.

Art’s brief is no longer to generate unique, original images, but to seek reflection in a desubjectivized approach to the existing stocks of objects, images and spaces nature after nature presents artistic works using materials that surround us and constitute nature.

Differentiations between synthetic and organic, manmade and natural are rejected. The exhibition demonstrates a nature after nature that, in its complex, global transformations, can only be grasped in fragments.

A nature that disassociates itself from an idealized and ideologized term and must be considered anew. Inhuman offers visions of the human being as a socially trained yet resistant body, transcending biologically or socially determined gender classifications, as a digitally immortal entity, or as a constantly evolving self. They visualize the constructs that define what is human and shift existing perspectives on them.

Published retrospectively after the exhibition, Speculations on Anonymous Material at Fridericianum, Kassel, 29 September 2013 – 26 January 2014.

English and German text.

Artists:
Michele Abeles, Ed Atkins, Alisa Baremboym, Juliette Bonneviot, Björn Braun, Dora Budor, Nina Canell, Alice Channer, Simon Denny, Nicolas Deshayes, Aleksandra Domanović, David Douard, Kerstin Brätsch & Debo Eilers, Jana Euler, Cécile B Evans, GCC, Melanie Gilligan, Sachin Kaeley, Josh Kline, Oliver Laric, Sam Lewitt, Jason Loebs, Tobias Madison, Marlie Mul, Katja Novitskova, Ken Okiishi, Johannes Paul Raether, Jon Rafman, Magali Reus, Pamela Rosenkranz, Nora Schultz, Timur Si-Qin, Avery Singer, Trisha Baga, & Jessie Stead Ryan Trecartin Anicka Yi

Authors:
Stacy Alaimo, Kirsty Bell, Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Antoine Catala, Andrew Durbin, Yuk Hui, David Joselit, Josh Kline, Jean-François Lyotard, Flora Lysen, Tobias Madison, Katja Novitskova, Jussi Parikka, Susanne Pfeffer, Gregor Quack, Pamela Rosenkranz, Susanne M. Winterling

File under: Michele Abeles Ed Atkins Alisa Baremboym Juliette Bonneviot Björn Braun Dora Budor Nina Canell Alice Channer Simon Denny Nicolas Deshayes Aleksandra Domanović David Douard Kerstin Brätsch Debo Eilers Jana Euler GCC Melanie Gilligan Sachin Kaeley Josh Kline Oliver Laric Sam Lewitt Jason Loebs Tobias Madison Marlie Mul Katja Novitskova Ken Okiishi Johannes Paul Raether Jon Rafman Magali Reus Pamela Rosenkranz Nora Schultz Timur Si-Qin Avery Singer Trisha Baga Cécile B. Evans Stacy Alaimo Kirsty Bell Franco “Bifo” Berardi Antoine Catala Andrew Durbin Yuk Hui David Joselit Josh Kline Jean-François Lyotard Flora Lysen Tobias Madison Katja Novitskova Jussi Parikka Susanne Pfeffer Gregor Quack Pamela Rosenkranz Susanne M. Winterling Koenig Books / London Art Sculpture / Installation Film / Video Theory / Essay Painting Group Shows / Collections Curatorial

Why Exhibit? Positions on Exhibiting Photographies

2018, English
Softcover, 368 pages, 17 cm x 23 cm
Published by Fw: Books / Amsterdam

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This publication offers a spectrum of views on how the myriad forms of exhibiting photographies can increase our understanding of how images operate today, as well as what they do to us when we interact with them. In the Digital Age, “photography” is best described with adjectives connoting a medium in constant flux: liquid, fluid, flexible, unstable. As such, there is no primary format for displaying photographs. By drawing upon the diverse perspectives of a group of curators, scholars, photographers, and artists based in the field of contemporary photography, this volume aims to provide a foundation for a wider discourse about exhibiting photographies in the twenty-first century.

File under: Anna-Kaisa Rastenberger Iris Sikking Ahmed Alalousi Gigi Argyropoulou Taco Hidde Bakker Lisa Barnard Natasha Caruana Mark Curran Nicolò Degiorgis Doris Gassert Marko Karo Kim Knoppers Robert Knoth Suvi Lehtinen Bettina Leidl Tanvi Mishra Niclas Östlind Marina Paulenka Rune Peitersen Krzysztof Pijarski Karolina Puchała Rojek Tumo Rainio Susan Schuppli Jules Spinstsch Anna Tellgren Penelope Umbrico Anni Wallenius Lars Willumeit Fw: Books / Amsterdam Theory / Essay Photography Curatorial

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

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

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

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

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

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

Class Reunion: Schürmann Collection
Edited by Karola Kraus

2018, English / German
Softcover, 176 pages, 21.5 x 27 cm
Published by Mumok / Vienna Walther König / Köln

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Gaby and Wilhelm Schürmann do not see their collection as just private property or a prestige object, but rather as an item of cultural value that needs exchange with the public. Their collection has been constantly growing since the late 1970s, and it provides an incomparable view of the development of contemporary art from the 1980s onward. This is a progressive statement on behalf of contemporary art that is anchored in social issues and sees itself as a form of communication. The rationale behind the collection, which is held in Herzogenrath near Aachen and in Berlin, is both creative and productive, and the two collectors’ practice can be described as a particularly free-spirited form of cultural production. The act of collecting is realized less in the processes of keeping and completing artworks and is instead understood mainly as an invitation to participate in the public production of connections. This very pragmatic and hands-on approach is manifested in sensual and unconventional gestures of presenting, including the principle of “comparative seeing.” In this sense, the Class Reunion exhibition, the title of which refers to a 2008 installation of the same name by Berlin artist Nairy Baghramian, will unravel an exciting, humorous, and surprising dialogue between the diverse artistic positions in the collection, establishing unexpected points of contact. One focus in this is on Viennese influences on this international collection and its networks.

This book has been published to document the collection on the occasion of an exhibition curated by Wilhelm Schürmann at Mumok, Vienna, June 23, 2018 - November 11, 2018.
Edited by Karola Kraus and illustrated throughout in colour, with accompanying texts and full collection catalogue.

Participating artists:
Nairy Baghramian, Silvia Bächli, Monika Baer, John Baldessari/Meg Cranston, Francesco Barocco, Jennifer Bornstein, Nicola Brunnhuber, Ernst Caramelle, Kate Davis, Heinrich Dunst, Marina Faust, Morgan Fisher, Jef Geys, Ralph Gibson, Julian Göthe, Trixi Groiss, Gerhard Gronefeld, Julia Haller, Rachel Harrison, Lone Haugaard Madsen, Georg Herold, Nicolas Jasmin, Raimer Jochims, Mike Kelley, , Martin Kippenberger, Silke Otto Knapp, Alwin Lay, Brandon Lattu, Michael Light, Sonia Leimer, Anita Leisz, Jochen Lempert, Zoe Leonard, Chris Martin, Park McArthur, Paul McCarthy, Meuser, Lisette Model, Oswald Oberhuber, Albert Oehlen, Anna Oppermann, Anna Ostoya, Jens Preusse, Rebecca Quaytman, Susanne Paesler, Laurie Parsons, Stephen Prina, Deborah Remington, Lin May Saeed, Pentti Sammallahti, Stefan Sandner, Arlene Shechet, Sigune Siévi, Michael Simpson, Michael E. Smith, Lewis Stein, Jana Sterbark, Esther Stocker, Walter Swennen, Alice Tippit, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Nora Turato, Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, Miriam Visaczki, Franz West, Tristan Wilczek, Christopher Williams, Heimo Zobernig

File under: Nairy Baghramian Silvia Bächli Monika Baer John Baldessari Meg Cranston Francesco Barocco Jennifer Bornstein Nicola Brunnhuber Ernst Caramelle Kate Davis Heinrich Dunst Marina Faust Morgan Fisher Jef Geys Ralph Gibson Julian Göthe Trixi Groiss Gerhard Gronefeld Julia Haller Rachel Harrison Lone Haugaard Madsen Georg Herold Nicolas Jasmin Raimer Jochims Mike Kelley Martin Kippenberger Silke Otto Knapp Alwin Lay Brandon Lattu Michael Light Sonia Leimer Anita Leisz Jochen Lempert Zoe Leonard Chris Martin Park McArthur Paul McCarthy Meuser Lisette Model Oswald Oberhuber Albert Oehlen Anna Oppermann Anna Ostoya Jens Preusse Susanne Paesler Laurie Parsons Stephen Prina Deborah Remington Lin May Saeed Pentti Sammallahti Stefan Sandner Arlene Shechet Sigune Siévi Michael Simpson Michael E. Smith Lewis Stein Jana Sterbark Esther Stocker Walter Swennen Alice Tippit Joëlle Tuerlinckx Nora Turato Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven Miriam Visaczki Franz West Tristan Wilczek Christopher Williams Heimo Zobernig R.H. Quaytman Karola Kraus Wilhelm Schürmann Kito Nedo Mumok / Vienna Walther König / Köln Art Group Shows / Collections Sculpture / Installation Painting Drawing Curatorial

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

Le Surréalisme en 1947
Exposition Internationale de Surréalisme présentée par André Breton et Marcel Duchamp

1947, French
Softcover, 142 pages, 24 x 20.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Maeght Editeur / Paris

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Very scarce copy of the legendary "Le Surréalisme en 1947 : Exposition Internationale de Surréalisme présentée par André Breton et Marcel Duchamp", published by Maeght Editeur, Paris, in conjunction with an important exhibition of Surrealist artists in 1947. Features the cover design by Marcel Duchamp - a photographic reproduction by Rémy Duval of "Prière de toucher (Please touch)", the famous Duchamp rubber breast edition, created with Italian-born painter Enrico Donati, that adorned the first 999 copies of the catalogue. This gorgeous catalogue features the work of artists from 24 countries including Victor Brauner, Max Ernst, Leonora Carrington, Jacqueline Lamba, Jacques Hérold, Wilfredo Lam, Joan Miró, Hans Bellmer, Marcel Jean, Maria Martins, Yves Tanguy, Dorothea Tanning, Hans Arp, Hector Hyppolite, Serge Brignoni, Alexander Calder, Bruno Capacci, Elizabeth van Damme, Jacques Halpern, Julio de Diego, Enrico Donati, Francis Bouvet , David Hare, Iaroslav Serpan, Jacqueline Lamba, Taro Okamoto, Roberto Matta, Kay Sage, Toyen, Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen, Leonard Baskin, Jindrich Heisler, Jeanne Reynal, Roger Brielle, Jindrich Styrsky, Bruno Capacci, Jean Guerin, Isamu Noguchi, Gerome Kamrowski, Eugenio Granell, Francis Picabia, Remedios Varo, Hans Richter, Arshile Gorky, and many more,, along with the folding sheet catalogue loosely inserted.

Good copy considering age. Very tanned edges and wear to corners, edges and spine.

File under: Victor Brauner Max Ernst Jacques Hérold Joan Miró Hans Bellmer Marcel Jean Maria Martins Yves Tanguy Dorothea Tanning Serge Brignoni Alexander Calder Bruno Capacci Elizabeth van Damme Julio de Diego Enrico Donati David Hare Jacqueline Lamba Roberto Matta Kay Sage Toyen Jean Arp (Hans Arp) Wifredo Lam Leonora Carrington Hector Hyppolite Jacques Halpern Francis Bouvet Iaroslav Serpan Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen Leonard Baskin Jeanne Reynal Roger Brielle Jean Guerin Isamu Noguchi Gerome Kamrowski Eugenio Granell Francis Picabia Remedios Varo Hans Richter Arshile Gorky Marcel Duchamp Jindrich Heisler Jindřich Štyrský Tarō Okamoto Andre Breton Marcel Duchamp Maeght Editeur / Paris Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Surrealism Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Photography Theory / Essay

More Than Real : Art In The Digital Age
Edited by Daniel Birnbaum and Michelle Kuo

2018, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 20 x 11 cm
Published by Koenig Books / London

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This is the second in the Summit publication series, disseminating key insights of the 2018 Summit and extending a global dialogue on an important social issue: art in the digital age. The multidisciplinary perspectives come together through the inspirational book design of Irma Boom.

Acting as a cultural incubator for innovative ideas and change, the Verbier Art Summit is an international platform erected to optimise the role of art in a global society. Their mission is to connect thought leaders to key figures in the art world and thus position the Summit as a catalyst for innovation and change. Their vision is to create an influential platform in a non-transactional context for artists, curators, museum directors, private and corporate collectors, art critics, gallerists, art historians and art consultants – Verbier Art Summit 2018

Contributors : Karen Archey, Ed Atkins, Douglas Coupland, Olafur Eliasson, Lars Bang Larsen, Pamela Rosenkranz, John Slyce, Dado Valentic, Paul F.M.J Verschure, Jochen Volz, Anicka Yi

Edited by Daniel Birnbaum and Michelle Kuo

File under: Dado Valentic Anicka Yi Ed Atkins Olafur Eliasson Pamela Rosenkranz Daniel Birnbaum Michelle Kuo Douglas Coupland Karen Archey Lars Bang Larsen Paul F.M.J Verschure Jochen Volz John Slyce Koenig Books / London Group Shows / Collections Theory / Essay Art Film / Video Curatorial

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

The Constituent Museum
Constellations Of Knowledge, Politics And Mediation. A Generator Of Social Change

2018, English
Hardcover, 384 pages, 17 x 24 cm
Published by Valiz / Amsterdam

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What would happen if museums put relationships at the centre of their operations? This question inspires this publication, which offers a diverse, rigorous, and experimental analysis of what is commonly known as education, mediation or interpretation within museum institutions. It regards the visitor not as a passive receiver of predefined content, but as an active member of a constituent body, whom it facilitates, provokes, inspires and learns from. Moving beyond the practice of mediation as such, the publication situates constituent practices of collaboration and co-production within the existing social-political (neoliberal) context. It does this to reimagine and affect both the physical and organizational structures of museums and galleries.

Understanding the challenges of a constituent practice in an integral, interdisciplinary manner is what this publication aspires to. This is explored by placing the museum's constituents—museum professionals, active audience/co-curator, local and political agencies, operational structures and contexts—at the centre of the museum organization and looking at how their positions in society start to shift and change.

Issues that are addressed: ownership and power dynamics, collective pedagogy, pedagogy of encounter, collaboration, assent, dissent and consent, co-labour and co-curation (economies of exchange), precarity, and working with interns, archives and how to activate them, broadcasting, digital cultivation, crowdsourcing, and many other topics.

Editors: John Byrne, Elinor Morgan, November Paynter, Aida Sánchez de Serdio, Adela Železnik

Contributors: Azra Akšamija, Alberto Altés Arlandis, Burak Arikan, James Beighton, Manuel Borja-Villel, Sara Buraya, John Byrne, Jesús Carrillo, Alejandro Cevallos Narváez, Céline Condorelli, Sean Dockray, Özge Ersoy, Carmen Esbrí, Oriol Fontdevila, Amy Franceschini, Janna Graham, Nav Haq, Yaiza Hernández Velázquez, Emily Hesse, John Hill, Alistair Hudson, Adelita Husni-Bey, Kristine Khouri, Nora Landkammer, Maria Lind, Isabell Lorey, Francis McKee, Elinor Morgan, Paula Moliner, November Paynter, Manuela Pedrón Nicolau, Elliot Perkins, Bojana Piškur, Tjaša Pogačar Podgornik, Alan Quireyns, RedCSur, Rasha Salti, Francesco Salvini / pantxo ramas, Raúl Sánchez Cedillo, Aida Sánchez de Serdio, Somateca, Igor Španjol, Nora Sternfeld, Subtramas, Tiziana Terranova, Piet Van Hecke, Onur Yıldız, Adela Železnik

File under: John Byrne Elinor Morgan November Paynter Aida Sánchez de Serdio Adela Železnik Azra Akšamija Alberto Altés Arlandis Burak Arikan James Beighton Manuel Borja-Villel Sara Buraya Jesús Carrillo Alejandro Cevallos Narváez Céline Condorelli Sean Dockray Özge Ersoy Carmen Esbrí Oriol Fontdevila Amy Franceschini Janna Graham Nav Haq Yaiza Hernández Velázquez Emily Hesse John Hill Alistair Hudson Adelita Husni-Bey Kristine Khouri Nora Landkammer Maria Lind Isabell Lorey Francis McKee Paula Moliner Manuela Pedrón Nicolau Elliot Perkins Bojana Piškur Tjaša Pogačar Podgornik Alan Quireyns RedCSur Rasha Salti Francesco Salvini / pantxo ramas Raúl Sánchez Cedillo Somateca Igor Španjol Nora Sternfeld Subtramas Tiziana Terranova Piet Van Hecke Onur Yıldız Valiz / Amsterdam Theory / Essay Curatorial Art

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

Exhibiting the Exhibition
From the Cabinet of Curiosities to the Curatorial Situation

2018, English / German
Hardcover, 222 pages, 22 x 31 cm
Published by Hatje Cantz / Berlin Staatliche Kunsthalle / Baden Baden

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Exhibiting the Exhibition investigates the history of exhibiting up to the present day. The show at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden begins with predecessors to the modern museum and early art collections, then moves on to twentieth-century exhibition methods and the curatorial positions of today. The catalogue expands upon the exhibition concept: instead of photographing the exhibits for publication, various illustrators were hired to draw them, so that the book itself becomes an entirely independent instrument of “display.”

Besides the essays and interviews, the volume features works by John Bock, Mariana Castillo Deball, Andrea Fraser, Jeppe Hein, Julian Irlinger, Friedrich Kiesler, Louise Lawler, El Lissitzky, Karin Sander, Sebastian Thewes, Kaari Upson, Pae White, Fred Wilson, and many others.

With a conversation between Bénédicte Savoy and Johan Holten.

Texts by Beatrice von Bismarck, Regine Ehleiter, Stefanie Heraeus, Johan Holten, Moritz Scheper.

File under: John Bock Mariana Castillo Deball Andrea Fraser Jeppe Hein Julian Irlinger Louise Lawler El Lissitzky Karin Sander Sebastian Thewes Kaari Upson Pae White Fred Wilson Frederick Kiesler Beatrice von Bismarck Regine Ehleiter Stefanie Heraeus Johan Holten Moritz Scheper Hatje Cantz / Berlin Staatliche Kunsthalle / Baden Baden Art Curatorial Group Shows / Collections Theory / Essay Sculpture / Installation

How Institutions Think : Between Contemporary Art and Curatorial Discourse
Edited by Paul O'Neill, Lucy Steeds and Mick Wilson

2017, English
Softcover, 256 pages, 210 x 298 cm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College / New York

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Contemporary art and curatorial work, and the institutions that house them, have often been centers of power, hierarchy, control, value, and discipline. Even the most progressive among them face the dilemma of existing as institutionalized anti-institutions. This anthology–taking its title from Mary Douglas’s 1986 book, How Institutions Think–reconsiders the practices, habits, models, and rhetoric of the institution and the anti-institution in contemporary art and curating. Contributors reflect upon how institutions inform art, curatorial, educational, and research practices as much as they shape the world around us. They consider the institution as an object ofienquiry across many disciplines, including political theory, organizational science, and sociology.

Bringing together an international and multidisciplinary group of writers, How Institutions Think addresses such questions as whether institution building is still possible, feasible, or desirable; if there are emergent institutional models for progressive art and curatorial research practices; and how we can establish ethical principles and build our institutions accordingly. The first part, “Thinking via Institution,” moves from the particular to the general; the second part, “Thinking about Institution,” considers broader questions about the nature of institutional frameworks.

Contributors include
Nataša Petrešin Bachelez, Dave Beech, Mélanie Bouteloup, Nikita Yingqian Cai, Binna Choi and Annette Kraus, Pip Day, Clémentine Deliss, Keller Easterling and Andrea Phillips, Bassam El Baroni, Charles Esche, Patricia Falguières, Patrick D. Flores, Marina Gržinić, Stefano Harney, Alhena Katsof, Emily Pethick, Sarah Pierce, Zahia Rahmani, Moses Serubiri, Simon Sheikh, Mick Wilson

About the Editors
Paul O’Neill is an artist, curator, educator, and writer, and has cocurated more than fifty exhibition projects around the world. The author of The Culture of Curating and the Curating of Culture (MIT Press) and coeditor of The Curatorial Conundrum: What to Study? What to Research? What to Practice? (MIT Press), he is Artistic Director of Publics, Helsinki.

Lucy Steeds is Pathway Leader in Exhibition Studies at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London, and editor of Exhibition (MIT Press/Whitechapel Gallery London). She is coeditor of The Curatorial Conundrum: What to Study? What to Research? What to Practice? (MIT Press).

Mick Wilson is an artist, educator, and writer based in Sweden and Ireland, and the first Head of the Valand Academy of Art, University of Gothenburg. He is coeditor of The Curatorial Conundrum: What to Study? What to Research? What to Practice? (MIT Press).

File under: Nataša Petrešin Bachelez Dave Beech Mélanie Bouteloup Nikita Yingqian Cai Binna Choi Annette Kraus Pip Day Clémentine Deliss Keller Easterling Andrea Phillips Bassam El Baroni Charles Esche Patricia Falguières Patrick D. Flores Marina Gržinić Stefano Harney Alhena Katsof Emily Pethick Sarah Pierce Zahia Rahmani Moses Serubiri Simon Sheikh Mick Wilson Paul O'Neill Lucy Steeds The MIT Press / Massachusetts Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College / New York Art Theory / Essay Curatorial SALE

Is the Living Body the Last Thing Left Alive? : The New Performance Turn, Its Histories and Its Institutions
Edited by Cosmin Costinaș, Ana Janevski

2018, English
Hardcover, 240 pages, 22 x 28 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin Para Site / Hong Kong

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Contributions by Belkis Ayón, Claire Bishop, Boris Buden, Amy Cheng, Bojana Cvejić, Adrienne Edwards, Patrick D. Flores, Gauri Gill, Simryn Gill, Inti Guerrero, Tetsuya Ishida, Eisa Jocson, Firenze Lai, André Lepecki, Xavier Le Roy, Miguel A. López, Carol Yinghua Lu, Rabih Mroué, Ruth Noack, Fernanda Nogueira, Manuel Pelmuș, Goran Sergej Pristaš, Nelly Richard, David Riff, Emily Roysdon, Simon Soon, Mårten Spångberg, Catherine Wood, Yangjiang Group, Anthony Yung

The choreographic turn in the visual arts from 1958 to 1965 can be identified by the sudden emergence of works created by very different visual artists in very different places—artists such as Allan Kaprow, Robert Morris, Carolee Schneeman, and Robert Rauschenberg in the United States; Lygia Pape and Hélio Oiticica in Brazil; the Gutai group in Japan; and Yves Klein in France. Each explicitly or implicitly used dance or choreographic procedures to reinvent, reimagine, and reimage how the visual arts produced and conceived its images and objects—and therefore conceived itself both as practice and as discourse. Dedicated to the renewed encounter between dance and performance and the institutions of global contemporary art, Is the Living Body the Last Thing Left Alive? proposes that a “new performance turn” has emerged in the second decade of the century, and looks at its correlations with other shifts in practices, discourses, and broader society.

The new performance turn is closely related to, on one hand, the increasing tendency to bring contemporary dance into the museum, with more artists working in and around dance, and more museums, art centers, and biennials striving to deepen their commitment to performance in order to develop new aesthetic forms and new modes of production; on the other hand, this “turn” is also related to specific developments in dance and choreography that took place in the mid-1990s. This publication tries to think about performance as more than a medium, beyond its liveness and ephemerality, and rather as a series of questions and reflections about how art mediates social relations among people.

Is the Living Body the Last Thing Left Alive? is expanded from the eponymous 2014 conference organized by Para Site.

Design by Wkshps, New York

File under: Belkis Ayón Claire Bishop Boris Buden Amy Cheng Bojana Cvejić Adrienne Edwards Patrick D. Flores Gauri Gill Simryn Gill Inti Guerrero Tetsuya Ishida Eisa Jocson Firenze Lai André Lepecki Xavier Le Roy Miguel A. López Carol Yinghua Lu Rabih Mroué Ruth Noack Fernanda Nogueira Manuel Pelmuș Goran Sergej Pristaš Nelly Richard David Riff Emily Roysdon Simon Soon Mårten Spångberg Catherine Wood Yangjiang Group Anthony Yung Yvonne Rainer Oskar Schlemmer Allan Kaprow Jo Spence Vito Acconci Mark Leckey Suzanne Lacy Gerard Byrne Mladen Stilinovic Paulina Olowska Vaslav Nijinsky Cosmin Costinaș Ana Janevski Sternberg Press / Berlin Para Site / Hong Kong Theory / Essay Art Performance / Dance / Theater Curatorial Feminism SALE

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

Working Art : A Survey of Art in the Australian Labour Movement in the 1980's
Curated by Ian Burn

1985, English
Softcover, 96 pages, 30 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Art Gallery of New South Wales / Sydney

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Very scarce catalogue and unique valuable resource published to accompany the exhibition "Working Art: A Survey of Art in The Australian Labour Movement in The 1980's", curated by Australian conceptual artist, curator and writer Ian Burn for the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1985. Designed by Michael Davies of the Art Workers Union (AWU), this heavily illustrated (in colour and black and white) catalogue surveys the Banners, Posters, Graphics, Photographs, and Media of the Australian Labour movement during the 1980's, as well as a detailed "Historical Sketch" written and compiled by Ian Burn and Sandy Kirby that illustrates the rich history of the Arts in Australian unionism and communities. Alongside the many exhibited prints and textiles, there is photo documentation throughout of marches, performances, artist's at work, historical exhibitions, plus reproductions of newsletters, newspapers, cartoons, announcements, along with further accompanying introductory texts and a bibliography.

Includes inserted Trade Union Information Kit "Art and Working Life : The Victorian Trades Hall Council Arts Workshop" booklet that takes an illustrated look at the activities of the VTHC Workshop in the 1980s. A perfect accompaniment to this catalogue. Also, errata slip enclosed from the NSW catalogue.

Ian Burn (1939-1993) was an Australian conceptual artist, curator and writer who spent the first part of his career working in London and New York. It was here that he began working with Art & Language, a collaborative group who produced the publication Art-Language and whose members included artists Roger Cutforth, Joseph Kosuth and Mel Ramsden. Returning to Australia in 1977 Burn became involved in the Art Workers Union (AWU), a political and social platform that championed artists’ rights and helped change the landscape and expectations under which artists worked in Australia. From 1980 onwards, together with artist and social activist Ian Millis, he worked on a number of initiatives to further the cause of the labour movement, including Union Media Services and the Art and Working Life program. Burn died by accidental drowning in 1993.

A great copy of an important resource on Australia's cultural, industrial and political history, and also an important publication by Ian Burn.
Light general reading/handling creasing to oblong pages, otherwise tight and clean throughout. Previous owner's name penned to title page.

File under: Ian Burn Ian Burn Cliff Dolan Sandy Kirby Art Gallery of New South Wales / Sydney Art Theory / Essay Feminism Curatorial Out-of-print / Rare Australian Art Graphic Design / Typography Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Counterculture Group Shows / Collections Textiles

Optik Schröder II
Works from the Alexander Schröder Collection

2018, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 22.5 x 28.5 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

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Curated by Karola Kraus, the exhibition Optik Schröder II presents a representative selection from the collection of Alexander Schröder to date. This includes important works by Kai Althoff, Tom Burr, Bernadette Corporation, Claire Fontaine, Gelitin, Isa Genzken, Anne Imhof, Sergej Jensen, Pierre Klossowski, Manfred Pernice, Martha Rosler, and Reena Spaulings, and is one of the most important German private collections of contemporary art.

These works illustrate some of the key conceptual trends and positions in the development of Western art in the past three decades, including references to social issues, queer lifestyles, the critique of institutions and the economy, critical investigation of public spaces and architecture, poetry, and contemporary forms of critical painting. The prominently represented artists’ collectives exemplify endeavors to challenge and transform the traditional roles and systems of the artist, of art production, and of the sale of art.

This comprehensive overview shows a collection built up consistently since the mid-1990s and based on close proximity to the artists and sensitivity for new developments. The collection illustrates an exemplary philosophy of collecting focusing on the nature of the contemporary, on curiosity, expertise, humor, independence, and outstanding aesthetic judgement.

Participating Artists:
Kai Althoff, Lutz Bacher, Cosima von Bonin, KP Brehmer, Tom Burr, Merlin Carpenter, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Anne Collier, Bernadette Corporation, Lukas Duwenhögger, Jana Euler, Cerith Wyn Evans, Claire Fontaine, Gelitin, Isa Genzken, Ull Hohn, Karl Holmqvist, Alex Hubbard, Peter Hujar, Anne Imhof, Sergej Jensen, Martin Kippenberger, Pierre Klossowski, John Knight, Michael Krebber, Mark Leckey, Klara Lidén, Lucy McKenzie, Christian Philipp Müller, Henrik Olesen, Paulina Olowska, Dietrich Orth, Manfred Pernice, Josephine Pryde, Martha Rosler, Cameron Rowland, Andreas Slominski, Reena Spaulings, Katja Strunz, Philippe Thomas, Danh Vo, Peter Wächtler

Designed by Studio Manuel Raeder.

File under: Kai Althoff Lutz Bacher Cosima von Bonin Tom Burr Merlin Carpenter Marc Camille Chaimowicz Anne Collier Bernadette Corporation Lukas Duwenhögger Jana Euler Cerith Wyn Evans Claire Fontaine Gelitin Isa Genzken Ull Hohn Karl Holmqvist Alex Hubbard Peter Hujar Anne Imhof Sergej Jensen Martin Kippenberger Pierre Klossowski John Knight Michael Krebber Mark Leckey Klara Lidén Lucy McKenzie Henrik Olesen Paulina Olowska Dietrich Orth Manfred Pernice Josephine Pryde Martha Rosler Cameron Rowland Andreas Slominski Reena Spaulings Katja Strunz Philippe Thomas Danh Vo Peter Wächtler Manuel Raeder K. P. Brehmer Karola Kraus Walther König / Köln Art Painting Drawing Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Feminism Film / Video Photography

Optik Schröder
Werke aus der Sammlung Schröder

2006, English / German
Softcover, 240 pages, 220 x 270 mm
Published by Walther König / Köln

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Catalogue from Optik Schröder, Werke aus der Sammlung Schröder, 2006 exhibition at Kunstverein Braunschweig.

Now out-of-print, this comprehensive book surveys the private art collection of gallerist Alexander Schröder, built up since the mid-1990s and featuring important artworks by Andreas Hofer, Andreas Slominski, Cerith Wyn Evans, Christian Flamm, Christian Philipp Müller, Clegg & Guttmann,Cosima von Bonin, Diedrich Orth, Guillaume Bijl, Henrik Olesen, Isa Genzken, Jan Timme, Jochen Klein, Josephine Pryde, Kai Althoff, Katharina Wulff, Katja Strunz, Keith Farquhar, Lucy McKenzie, Lukas Duwenhögger, Manfred Pernice, Mark Handforth, Martha Rosler, Michael Krebber, Paulina Olowska, Reena Spauling, Sergej jensen, Sharon Lockhart, Stephan Dillemuth, Thilo Heinzmann, Tom Burr, Torsten Slama, Ull Hohn, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Enrico David, Mark Leckey ...

Profusely illustrated throughout with texts by Dominic Eichler, Isabelle Graw, and Karola Grasslin.

Designed by Manuel Raeder.

File under: Andreas Hofer Andreas Slominski Cerith Wyn Evans Christian Flamm Clegg & Guttmann Cosima von Bonin David Lieske Enrico David Guillaume Bijl Henrik Olesen Isa Genzken Jan Timme Jochen Klein Josephine Pryde Kai Althoff Katharina Wulff Katja Strunz Keith Farquhar Lucy Mckenzie Lukas Duwenhögger Manfred Pernice Marc Camille Chaimowicz Mark Handforth Mark Leckey Martha Rosler Michael Krebber Paulina Olowska Reena Spaulings Sergej Jensen Sharon Lockhart Stephan Dillemuth Thilo Heinzmann Tom Burr Torsten Slama Ull Hohn Manuel Raeder Dietrich Orth Alexander Schröder Dominic Eichler Isabelle Graw Karola Grässlin Walther König / Köln Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting Sculpture / Installation Film / Video Feminism Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Photography Drawing

The Flood of Rights
Thomas Keenan, Suhail Malik, Tirdad Zolghadr (Eds.)

2017, English
Hardcover (clothbound), 248 pages, 18.5 x 26.5 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin LUMA Foundation / Zürich Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College / New York

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Contributions by Amanda Beech, Rony Brauman, David Campbell, Olivia Custer, Rosalyn Deutsche, Thomas Keenan, Eric Kluitenberg, David Levine, Suhail Malik, Sohrab Mohebbi, Sharon Sliwinski, Hito Steyerl, Bernard Stiegler, Tirdad Zolghadr

It is difficult to imagine making claims for human rights without using images. For better or worse, images of protest, evidence, and assertion are the lingua franca of struggles for justice today. And they seem to come in a flood, more and more, day and night. But through which channels does the torrent pass? The Flood of Rights examines the pathways through which these images and ideas circulate—routes that do not merely enable, but actually shape human-rights claims and their conceptual background. What are the technologies and languages that structure the global distribution of humanism and universalism, and how do they leave their mark on these ideas themselves? Which narratives and imageries have proven easier to export and import, and whose interests are at stake in the configurations in question?

The Flood of Rights draws on a conference of the same name, organized by the LUMA Foundation and Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, which took place in Arles, France, in 2013.

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Beyond the Globe : 8th Triennial of Contemporary Art U3
Boris Groys (Ed.)

2016, English
Softcover, 168 pages, 19.5 x 26 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

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Texts by Zdenka Badovinac, Jože Barši, Boris Beja, Goran Bertok, Irena Borić, Blaž Božič, BridA (Tom Kerševan, Sendi Mango, Jurij Pavlica), Chang Tsong-Zung and Gao Shiming, Keti Chukhrov, Jasmina Cibic, Femkanje (Bojana S. Knežević, Katarina Petrović), Vadim Fishkin, Boris Groys, Ida Hiršenfelder, Maja Hodošček, IRWIN, Sergej Kapus, Staš Kleindienst, Nina Koželj, Tanja Lažetić, Gregor Mobius, Lívia Páldi, Marko & Marika Pogačnik, Uroš Potočnik, Marjetica Potrč, Tatjana Pregl Kobe, Lina Rica & Boštjan Čadež, Sašo Sedlaček, Miha Turšič, Ali Van, Anton Vidokle, Arseny Zhilyaev, Dragan Živadinov, Dunja Zupančič

In our cultural imagination, the cosmos is a harmonious, utopian universe, but it is also uncontrollable, even unknown, and the source of a specifically modern fear or uneasiness—one that could be described as “cosmic anxiety.” It’s no accident that mass culture today is obsessed with visions of asteroids coming out of space, causing the destruction of the earth. At the same time, space is the last frontier—the final chance for a genuine human endeavor. This catalogue presents many possibilities for the artistic exploration of the topic at hand: the connection between artistic and scientific imagination, the cosmos as analysis of sci-fi culture, perspectives of corporeal immortality, and the critique of contemporary technology.

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Terms of Exhibiting (from A to Z)
Petra Reichensperger (Ed.)

2013, English/German
Softcover, 320 pages (81 b/w ills.), 17 x 24 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

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Introduction by Petra Reichensperger; essays by Anke te Heesen, Kirsten Maar, Markus Miessen, Ursula Panhans-Bühler, Jan Verwoert, Choy Lee Weng; interviews by Dóra Maurer/ Cassandra Edlefsen Lasch, Channa Horwitz/Petra Reichensperger, Yael Davids/Adam Szymczyk, Brian O'Doherty/Dominikus Müller, Carl Michael von Hausswolff/Thibaut de Ruyter, Karl Holmqvist/Dominikus Müller, Daniel Knorr/Katharina Groth, Jaroslaw Kozlowski/Petra Stegmann, Hans Schabus/Kathrin Rhomberg, Steven Claydon/Lea Schleiffenbaum, Karin Sander/Anne Schreiber, Martin Germann/Petra Reichensperger/Renate Wagner

This publication explores themes of the exhibition through its terms—not, however, to confine into isolated conceptual categories, but to interconnect. These terms characterize exhibiting and emphasize a “between-ness.” Examining a term lays bare its ruptures, shifts, or recreations, as well as social, societal, and cultural changes that have the power to structure through historical conjecture.

Almost fifty terms relevant to the making and discussion of exhibitions today have been compiled in Terms of Exhibiting (from A to Z), contributed by Liam Gillick, Manfred Hermes, Wojciech Kosma, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Tobias Vogt, Jochen Volz, and June Yap, among others. Six essays investigate key terms raised by the three-part exhibition series “Terms of Exhibiting, Producing, and Performing” at Kunsthaus Dresden in 2012. Jan Verwoert reflects on the division of labor in artistic production, while Anke te Heesen presents a survey of the museum, collection, and exhibition. Markus Miessen discusses the advantages of curating institutions and inventing structures rather than merely implementing or appropriating them. The book also includes essays by Kirsten Maar, Ursula Panhans-Bühler, and Lee Weng-Choy. Each of the twelve conversations with various artists places one term under scrutiny within the context of their own artistic interests and practices—with reference to the term presence, Daniel Knorr explains the significance of materialization for his own creative process, while Brian O’Doherty discusses invention in relation to his practice. Each term generates further insight and reflection into each individual art practice.

Including glossaries written by Friedrich von Borries, Hans-Christian Dany, Stefanie Diekmann, Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Liam Gillick, Manfred Hermes, Ulrike Jordan, Vera Knolle, Wojciech Kosma, Verena Kuni, Pablo Larios, Oona Lochner, Fiona McGovern, Andrea Meyer, Ana Ofak, Christian Rattemeyer, Petra Reichensperger, Dietmar Rübel, Thibaut de Ruyter, Jörn Schafaff, Lea Schleiffenbaum, Anne Schreiber, Nora Sdun, Vera Tollmann, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Tobias Vogt, Jochen Volz, Renate Wagner, Friederike Wappler, June Yap

File under: Karl Holmqvist Steven Claydon Anke te Heesen Choy Lee Weng Jan Verwoert Kirsten Maar Markus Miessen Petra Reichensperger Ursula Panhans-Bühler Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Curatorial Theory / Essay SALE

Dealing with - Some Texts, Images, and Thoughts Related to American Fine Arts, Co.
Valérie Knoll, Hannes Loichinger, Magnus Schäfer (Eds.)

2012, English
Softcover, 80 pages (18 b/w ill.), 21.5 x 28 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

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With contributions by Andrea Fraser, Manfred Hermes, Karl Holmqvist and Tobias Kaspar, Isla Leaver-Yap, Jackie McAllister, James Meyer and Christian Philipp Müller, Magnus Schäfer, Axel John Wieder, Phillip Zach; a conversation between Colin de Land, Josef Strau, and Stephan Dillemuth; and an introduction by Hannes Loichinger and Magnus Schäfer

The New York gallery American Fine Arts, Co.—whose name today is largely synonymous with that of its gallerist, Colin de Land (1955–2003)—represents a gallery practice in which a decided deviation from conventional models overlaps with successful activities within the framework of the art market. Today, American Fine Arts, Co. and de Land figure as uncontested projection screens for the desire for independence from or bohemian resistance against the dictate of the market. Particularly in retrospect, a consistent image of the gallery is not discernible. Faced with the obvious risk of romanticization, it appears all the more important to pursue an understanding of how American Fine Arts, Co. functioned as a gallery.

This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition “Dealing with—Some Books, Visuals, and Works Related to American Fine Arts, Co.” at Halle für Kunst Lüneburg and Kunstraum of Leuphana University of Lüneburg (May 28–July 7, 2011), which was developed by Valérie Knoll, Hannes Loichinger, Julia Moritz, and Magnus Schäfer.

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