World Food Books

Dancing Ledge
by Derek Jarman

2010, English
Softcover, 256 pages, 21.6 x 15.2 cm
Published by University of Minnesota Press / Minnesota

$38.00 - Out of stock

Derek Jarman’s stunning account of his life and art

From his sexual awakening in postwar England to life in the sixties and beyond, Derek Jarman tells his life story with the in-your-face immediacy that became his trademark style in his films and writing. Accompanied by photographs of Jarman, his friends, lovers, and inspirations, the candid accounts in Dancing Ledge provide intimate and vivid glimpses into his life and times.

The clarity with which Derek Jarman offered up his life and the living of it, particularly since the epiphany—I can call it nothing less—of his illness was a genius stroke, not only of provocation, but of grace.—Tilda Swinton

File under: Derek Jarman Derek Jarman University of Minnesota Press / Minnesota Film / Video Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry LGBTQ+

Modern Nature
by Derek Jarman

2009, English
Softcover, 320 pages, 14 x 21.6 cm
Published by University of Minnesota Press / Minnesota

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This text is the iconoclastic and controversial filmmaker Derek Jarman's candid journals from 1989 to 1990. In 1986 Derek Jarman discovered he was HIV positive and decided to make a garden at his cottage on the barren coast of Dungeness. Facing an uncertain future, he nevertheless found solace in nature, growing all manner of plants. While some perished beneath wind and sea-spray others flourished, creating brilliant, unexpected beauty in the wilderness.

Modern Nature is both a diary of the garden and a meditation by Jarman on his own life: his childhood, his time as a young gay man in the 1960s, his renowned career as an artist, writer and film-maker. It is at once a lament for a lost generation, an unabashed celebration of gay sexuality, and a devotion to all that is living.

'An essential - urgent - book for the 21st Century' — Hans Ulrich Obrist

File under: Derek Jarman Derek Jarman University of Minnesota Press / Minnesota LGBTQ+ Fiction / Poetry Theory / Essay Film / Video

documenta X
The Book: Politics Poetics

1997, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 830 pages
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by documenta / Kassel

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First English edition of this monumental 830 page book for documenta X, the last documenta of the twentieth century and the first directed by a woman, the French curator Catherine David, brings together the work of more than 100 of the world's foremost thinkers, writers, and artists in an extraordinary anthology of seminal texts and images of, on, and about the development of Western cultural and critical theory since 1945.

The book "seeks to indicate a political context for the interpretation of artistic activities at the close of the twentieth century, through a montage of images and documents from the immediate post-war period to the present. The range of material treated here is not encyclopaedic; it represents a polemical attempt to isolate specific strands of artistic production and political endeavour which can be taken as references in the contemporary debate over the evolution of our societies. Drawing from distinct yet interrelated territorial and linguistic domains, the book singles out complex cultural responses to the unifying processes of global modernity."—from the book jacket.

A comprehensive work in itself, rich with enmeshed texts and illustrations of artworks, film stills, historical documents throughout in colour and in black and white.

Writers include: Theodor W. Adorno, Maurice Blanchot, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Paul Celan, Amílcar Cabral, Masao Miyoshi, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Jacques Rancière, Tadao Sato, Youssef Ishaghpour, Josef Beuys, Samuel Beckett, Albert Camus, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Rem Koolhaas, Sandra Álvarez de Toledo, Witold Gombrowicz, Herve Joubert-Laurencin, Jean-François Chevrier, Marguerite Duras, Edward Said, Henri Alleg, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Uwe Johnson, Jerzy Grotowski, James Clifford, Primo Levi, Pierre Clastres, Andrea Branzi, Fabrizio Gallanti, Gérard Chaliand, Stig Björkman, Daniel Defert, Saskia Sassen, Catherine David, Benjamin Buchloh, Paul Virilio, Serge Daney, Étienne Balibar, Nadia Tazi, and many others.....

Artists include : Archigram, Martin Kippenberger, Archizoom Associati, Art & Language, Hans Haacke, Oyvind Fahlström, Samuel Beckett, Franz West, Andrea Zittel, Heimo Zobernig, Nancy Spero, Jean-Luc Godard, Marcel Broodthaers, Lygia Clark, Jörg Herold, Fischli & Weiss, Dan Graham, Robert Adams, Peter Friedl, Paweł Althamer, Liam Gillick, Mike Kelley & Tony Oursler & Diedrich Diederichsen, Stan Douglas, Harun Farocki, Ed van der Elsken, Walker Evans, Aldo van Eyck, Heiner Goebbels, William Kentridge, Ulrike Grossarth, Richard Hamilton, Vito Acconci, Raymond Hains, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Siobhán Hapaska, Ecke Bonk, Carsten Höller & Rosemarie Trockel, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Lois Weinberger, Hélio Oiticica, Gabriel Orozco, Olaf Nicolai, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Gerhard Richter, Thomas Schütte, Marc Pataut, Gordon Matta-Clark, Christian Philipp Müller, Matt Mullican, Antoni Muntadas, Jean-Luc Moulène, Reinhard Mucha, Álvaro Siza, Toyo Ito, John C. Portman Jr., Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Mariella Mosler, Josef Beuys, Steve McQueen, Chris Marker, Lothar Baumgarten, Jean Dubuffet, Kerry James Marshall, Maria Lassnig, Rem Koolhaas, Joachim Koester, Suzanne Lafont, Sigalit Landau, Helen Levitt, Garry Winogrand, Brassaï, Le Corbusier, Antonin Artaud, and so many more...

Very Good coy, light wear. Good dust jacket with some creasing and edge wear.

File under: Mike Kelley Tony Oursler Carsten Höller Rosemarie Trockel Archigram Martin Kippenberger Archizoom Associati Art & Language Hans Haacke Samuel Beckett Franz West Andrea Zittel Heimo Zobernig Jean-Luc Godard Marcel Broodthaers Lygia Clark Jörg Herold Fischli & Weiss Dan Graham Robert Adams Peter Friedl Öyvind Fahlström Paweł Althamer Liam Gillick Stan Douglas Harun Farocki Ed van der Elsken Walker Evans Aldo van Eyck Siobhán Hapaska Reinhard Mucha Mariella Mosler Steve McQueen Chris Marker Lothar Baumgarten Kerry James Marshall Maria Lassnig Rem Koolhaas Joachim Koester Suzanne Lafont Sigalit Landau Helen Levitt Garry Winogrand Jean-Luc Moulène Hélio Oiticica Thomas Schütte Christian Philip Muller Gabriel Orozco Olaf Nicolai Michelangelo Pistoletto Gerhard Richter Marc Pataut Gordon Matta-Clark Matt Mullican Antoni Muntadas Heiner Goebbels William Kentridge Ulrike Grossarth Richard Hamilton Vito Acconci Raymond Hains Ecke Bonk Carl Michael von Hausswolff Lois Weinberger Carsten Höller Pier Paolo Pasolini Joseph Beuys Nancy Spero Le Corbusier Brassaï Jean Dubuffet Alvaro Siza Toyo Ito Rainer Werner Fassbinder Paulo Mendes Da Rocha John C. Portman Jr. Antonin Artaud Diedrich Diederichsen Catherine David Yana Milev Klaus Biesenbach Nancy Spector Hans-Ulrich Obrist Theodor W. Adorno Maurice Blanchot Pier Paolo Pasolini Paul Celan Amílcar Cabral Masao Miyoshi Hannah Arendt Michel Foucault Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari Jacques Rancière Tadao Sato Youssef Ishaghpour Josef Beuys Samuel Beckett Albert Camus Rainer Werner Fassbinder Rem Koolhaas Sandra Álvarez de Toledo Witold Gombrowicz Herve Joubert-Laurencin Jean-François Chevrier Marguerite Duras Edward Said Henri Alleg Pierre Vidal-Naquet Uwe Johnson Jerzy Grotowski James Clifford Primo Levi Pierre Clastres Andrea Branzi Fabrizio Gallanti Gérard Chaliand Stig Björkman Daniel Defert Saskia Sassen Benjamin Buchloh Paul Virilio Serge Daney Étienne Balibar Nadia Tazi and many others documenta / Kassel Art Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Australian Photography Performance / Dance / Theater Protest / Revolt Theory / Essay Architecture / Interior Conceptual Art Film / Video Sound / Music Painting Photography Ecology

Post-Soviet Art And Architecture

1994, English
Softcover, 144 pages, 28 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by A.D. (Architectural Design) / London

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Published in 1994 and long out-of-print, this volume presents a view of recent developments in Russian art and architecture in the context of the critical debates of postmodernism and national cultures. The return to popular national sources in the 1960s through the 1980s was a means for Soviet artists in a multi-ethnic state to avoid submersion in the official ideology of "Socialist-Realism". The transition from totalitarianism to pluralism is evident in the diversity of work featured by both artists and architects from different regions of the former USSR. The essays presented here are by leading Russian and Western art and literary critics, including Charles Jencks, Alexander Rappaport, Alexei Tolstoy, and Nadezhda Yurasovskaya. They provide a critical, historical and personal context for a survey of the work produced in Russia since the fall of Communism.

Very Good copy, only light wear, small split to spine edge.

File under: Charles Jencks Alexander Rappaport Alexei Tolstoy Nadezhda Yurasovskaya A.D. (Architectural Design) / London Art Performance / Dance / Theater Architecture / Interior Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Film / Video Theory / Essay Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism

Carceral Capitalism
By Jackie Wang

2018, English
Softcover, 360 pages, 11.4 x 17.8 cm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts Semiotext(e) / Los Angeles

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Essays on the contemporary continuum of incarceration: the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, predatory policing, the political economy of fees and fines, and algorithmic policing.

What we see happening in Ferguson and other cities around the country is not the creation of livable spaces, but the creation of living hells. When people are trapped in a cycle of debt it also can affect their subjectivity and how they temporally inhabit the world by making it difficult for them to imagine and plan for the future. What psychic toll does this have on residents? How does it feel to be routinely dehumanized and exploited by the police?—from Carceral Capitalism

In this collection of essays in Semiotext(e)'s Intervention series, Jackie Wang examines the contemporary incarceration techniques that have emerged since the 1990s. The essays illustrate various aspects of the carceral continuum, including the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, predatory policing, the political economy of fees and fines, cybernetic governance, and algorithmic policing. Included in this volume is Wang's influential critique of liberal anti-racist politics, “Against Innocence,” as well as essays on RoboCop, techno-policing, and the aesthetic problem of making invisible forms of power legible.

Wang shows that the new racial capitalism begins with parasitic governance and predatory lending that extends credit only to dispossess later. Predatory lending has a decidedly spatial character and exists in many forms, including subprime mortgage loans, student loans for sham for-profit colleges, car loans, rent-to-own scams, payday loans, and bail bond loans. Parasitic governance, Wang argues, operates through five primary techniques: financial states of exception, automation, extraction and looting, confinement, and gratuitous violence. While these techniques of governance often involve physical confinement and the state-sanctioned execution of black Americans, new carceral modes have blurred the distinction between the inside and outside of prison. As technologies of control are perfected, carcerality tends to bleed into society.

File under: Jackie Wang The MIT Press / Massachusetts Semiotext(e) / Los Angeles Art Film / Video Theory / Essay

Sally Smart
Mad Woman In The Attic

1989, English
Softcover (single, double-sided card), 21 x 29.7 cm
1st UK Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by 200 Gertrude Street / Melbourne

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Scarce catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition Sally Smart — Mad Woman In The Attic, December, 1989. Illustrated offset printed double-sided card with artist C.V. on verso.

Sally Smart (b. 1960) is an Australian contemporary artist known for her large-scale assemblage installations that incorporate a range of media, including felt cut-outs, painted canvas, drawings, screen-printing, printed fabric and photography, performance and video. Her art addresses gender and identity politics and questions the relationships between body and culture, including trans-national ideas that shaped cultural history. She has exhibited widely throughout Australia and internationally, and her works are held in major galleries in Australia and around the world.

Fine copy.

File under: Sally Smart 200 Gertrude Street / Melbourne Art Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Australian Art Out-of-print / Rare

Jack Smith / Antonius Höckelmann
Michael Krebber

2012, English / German
Softcover (silkscreened), 48 pages, 21.3 x 22.5 cm
Ed. of 800,
Published by Galerie Buchholz / Köln

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Wonderful publication documenting an exhibition that took place in 2010 in the window of Galerie Buchholz's antiquarian bookstore in Cologne, Germany. Michael Krebber presented here, in collaboration with Sebastian Höckelmann, works by artists Antonius Höckelmann and Jack Smith.

Produced in an edition of 800.

Antonius Höckelmann (1937 – 2000) was a German postwar artist. Höckelmann trained as a wood sculptor from 1951 to 1957 in his native city of Oelde, and studied from 1957 to 1961 at the College of Fine Arts in Berlin with Karl Hartung. In 1977 he participated in the documenta 6, and in 1982 at documenta 7 in Kassel. Many of his works combine sculpture and painting. Wooden sculptures and sculptures made of other materials (bronze, silver foil, straw) were often completely painted.

Jack Smith (1932 – 1989) was an American filmmaker, artist, actor, and pioneer of underground cinema. He is generally acclaimed as a founding father of American performance art, and has been critically recognized as a master photographer, though his photographic works are rare and remain largely unknown. Apart from appearing in his own work, including the legendary Flaming Creatures (1963), Smith played the lead in Andy Warhol's unfinished film Batman Dracula, Ken Jacobs's Blonde Cobra, and appeared in several theater productions by Robert Wilson.

File under: Antonius Höckelmann Jack Smith Michael Krebber Michael Krebber Galerie Buchholz / Köln Art Sculpture / Installation Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video

Lutz Bacher
Open the Kimono

2018, English
Softcover (blind embossed), 324 pages, 30.5 x 22 cm
Published by Koenig Books / London 80 Washington Square East / New York

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This artist book is a chronological record of some remarks from cable TV ads movies news radio novels airplanes subways sidewalks and elevators from 2013–2018.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition The Long March at 80 Washington Square East, New York University, 2018, Organized by Nicola Lees and Robert Snowden.

The American artist Lutz Bacher – who has concealed her identity beneath a masculine pseudonym throughout her career – works conceptually in a range of media. A longtime resident of California who now lives in New York, the artist has based her work since the 1970s on found objects as well as texts and images pulled from the minutiae of popular culture. Soundtracks from Hollywood films, props from television shows, and unedited cell phone videos find their way into her works along with discarded objects from different spheres of consumption.

Through techniques of rearrangement, distortion, and estrangement, Bacher destabilizes the appearance and alters the impact of her materials, creating ruptures and making new constellations possible. Addressing the strong influence of the mass media on everyday social and political life, issues of identity, power structures, and violence are central aspects of her artistic practice.

File under: Lutz Bacher Koenig Books / London 80 Washington Square East / New York Art Sculpture / Installation Fiction / Poetry Film / Video

Marco Fusinato
DESASTRES

2022, English
Softcover, 408 pages, 21 x 28 cm
Published by Lenz Press / Milan

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This major new catalogue is published to accompany Marco Fusinato’s DESASTRES presentation at the Venice Biennale 2022, curated by Alexie Glass-Kantor, running from April 23 to November 27, 2022. DESASTRES is an experimental noise project that synchronises sound with image and takes the form of a durational solo performance as installation. The artist will be performing during the opening hours of the Biennale—a total of 200 days. The presentation will be the first time the Australian Pavilion, located in the historic Giardini della Biennale, has been the site for a live durational performance.

Originally from the Veneto region in Italy, Marco Fusinato’s parents migrated to Australia where he was born. He currently lives and works in Naarm/Melbourne. Fusinato (b. 1964) is a contemporary artist and noise-musician whose work takes the form of installation, photographic reproduction, design, performance and recording. DESASTRES is a culmination of his interests in noise/experimental music, underground culture, mass media images and art history. He uses an electric guitar as a signal generator into mass amplification to improvise slabs of noise, saturated feedback and discordant intensities that trigger a deluge of images onto a freestanding floor-to-ceiling LED wall. The images are sourced via a stream of words that have been put into an open search across multiple online platforms. There is no theme as such, rather the immersion of sound and image is open for the audience to interpret and make sense of. The intent is to create some kind of hallucination, elation in disorientation and exhaustion from confusion. The work is an invitation for audiences to come together within a high-intensity concentration of energy. What can’t be seen, can be felt: sound as physical matter which creates a transformative experience.

This expansive publication features a new essay by Branden W. Joseph, professor of art history at Columbia University and an extensive interview by curator Alexie Glass-Kantor with Marco Fusinato. It also includes texts by critical theorist and filmmaker Elizabeth Povinelli, AI researcher and author Kate Crawford, writer and curator Chus Martínez, and musicians/outre-guitarists Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Stephen O’Malley (SUNN O)))) and Bruce Russell (Dead C).

Marco Fusinato (b. 1964) is an Australian contemporary artist and noise-musician based in Naarm/Melbourne whose work takes the form of installation, photographic reproduction, design, performance and recording.

As an artist, he conceives his work as a succession of interrelated projects, some of which continue across numerous iterations. Within these projects the works are almost always serial and use specific frameworks for experimentation, as if demonstrating a thesis. Working across disciplines and cultural fields, Fusinato explores the tensions and contradictions of opposing forces: underground culture/institutions, noise/silence, minimalism/maximalism, purity/contamination. He creates dynamic situations in which these energies are captured by combining allegorical appropriation with an interest in the intensity of a gesture or event.

Fusinato's work has been presented in many international exhibitions, including All the World's Futures, 56th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (2015); The Imminence of Poetics, 30th Sao Paulo Biennale (2012); SUPERPOSITION: Art of Equilibrium and Engagement, 21st Biennale of Sydney (2018); and Australia: Antipodean Stories, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan (2019). His work was also included in Soundings: A Contemporary Score, the first ever exhibition of sound at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013) and Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix (2008–10), a European travelling exhibition of artists who have collaborated with the New York rock band, Sonic Youth.

File under: Marco Fusinato Thurston Moore Stephen O’malley Bruce Russell (Dead C) Alexie Glass-Kantor Chus Martinez Elizabeth Povinelli Branden W Joseph Thurston Moore Stephen O’malley Kate Crawford Bruce Russell (Dead C) Lenz Press / Milan Sound / Music Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Art Theory / Essay

ALIEN

1979, English
Softcover, unpaginated, 27.5 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Avon Books / New York

$140.00 - Out of stock

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First edition of the incredible oversized cult classic ALIEN graphic novel by Richard J. Anobile, the first full-colour movie book specially designed to capture all the magnificence of the Film! A powerful story with overpowering visual effects, ALIEN comes to life as no movie ever has before in over 1,000 color photos that present the full range of the ingenious space vehicle, the Nostromo, the grotesque creature, and the utterly fantastic settings—conceived and created by such talents as Swiss surrealist painter H.R. Giger, Heavy Metal artist Moebius, and Ron Cobb, one of the designers of Star Wars. The result is was a new dimension in epic space adventure, a masterpiece in cinema history. This wonderful book is a cover-to-cover printed form of the film.

Richard J. Anobile (b. 19470 pioneered the use of the movie frame blow-up technique to recreate entire films in book form. His books were valuable resources especially in a time before VCR's and DVD's and the internet. While they might be viewed as simplistic picture books now, they were an attempt at curating film at a time when it was often still an after-thought. Anobile has spent much of the rest of his life in film production.

File under: Dan O'Bannon H.R. Giger Richard J. Anobile Avon Books / New York Film / Video Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Photography Out-of-print / Rare

H.R. Giger
WWW HR Giger Com: Biomechanical World

1997, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 240 pages, 31 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Taschen / Cologne

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First hardcover English-language edition of this exceptionally in-depth and comprehensive book by H.R. Giger, published by Taschen in 1997.

“I paint what frightens me,” says H.R. Giger, who compiled and designed this comprehensive retrospective himself, documenting and describing his work from the early 1960s to the late 1990s. Lavishly illustrated with reproductions of his biomechanical visions, accompanied by his own detailed commentaries offering privileged insight into a uniquely imaginative mind. The book cover Giger's life and working methods, followed by page after page of Giger's artworks and various lesser-seen creations from the deepest recesses of the mind and of the Giger personal archives — from his early oil experiments to the Giger Bar in Tokyo to his killer condoms to his nightmare garden train! Includes an extensive illustrated chronology. An uncommon book in the original, long out-of-print foiled hardcover issue with English text (not a later reprint). Highly recommended resource for any Giger fan.

Very Good copy in VG dust jacket.

File under: H.R. Giger Taschen / Cologne Art Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Surrealism Out-of-print / Rare Painting Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Drawing

Nicholas Mangan
Termite Economies

2021, English
Softcover, 154 pages, 24.5 x 17.5 cm
Published by Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite / Berlin

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This publication assembles three phases of Termite Economies, a major series of artworks produced between 2018 and 2020 by the Australian artist Nicholas Mangan.

In Termite Economies (Phase 1) Mangan researched an anecdote that termite abilities might one day lead humans to gold deposits. Phase 2 explored termite eusociality, pheromonal communication, building behavior, biomimicry, superorganism and swarm intelligence. Phase 3 deployed termite collectivism as a speculative model for rerouting human neural pathways. Within each phase, Mangan developed specific methods to explore these phenomena formally, spatially, and through moving images.

Termite Economies grappled with the potentiality of collective social behavior and complexities of systematic exploitation of non-human intelligence.

The book presents each phase in the order of the exhibition series. It includes process and research photographs, diagrams, installation and detailed imagery. It includes an essay by Artist Mariana Silva, a fictional text by writer ST.Lore, a conversation between Mangan and cultural theorist Ana Teixeira Pinto, and a republished essay by Dr. Guy Theraulaz Research Director Member of Team CAB: Collective Animal Behavior Center for Research on Animal Cognition, CNRS.

Alert to both history and science, Nicholas Mangan (born 1979, Geelong, Victoria, lives and works in Melbourne) is a multi-disciplinary artist known for interrogating narratives embedded in a diverse range of objects. With a keen interest in the processes of forming meaning from objects, culture and natural phenomena, Mangan creates unnerving drawings, montages, sculptures and installations. His work addresses a wide range of themes, including the ongoing impacts of colonialism, humanity's fraught relationship with the natural environment, contemporary consumptive cultures and the complex dynamics of the global political economy.

Mangan completed a two year studio residency at Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, in 2002. He has been awarded numerous international residencies, including Recollets Artist Residency, Paris, 2011 and Australia Council's New York Green Street Residency, 2006. In 2007 he was a recipient of the Anne and Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship, resulting in post graduate studies at Universität der Künste in Berlin, Germany.

Edited by Nicholas Mangan and Žiga Testen.
Texts by Nicholas Mangan, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Guy Theraulaz, Mariana Silva.

Graphic design: Žiga Testen.

File under: Žiga Testen Nicholas Mangan Nicholas Mangan Ana Teixeira Pinto Guy Theraulaz Mariana Silva Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite / Berlin Art Theory / Essay Sculpture / Installation Ecology Ecology / Earth Film / Video

Florian Pumhösl
6 7 8

2011, English
Hardcover (cloth bound), 152 pages, 28.5 x 23 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

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Florian Pumhösl’s latest production focuses on abstract films and paintings and their interaction with the surrounding space.

6 7 8 is made up of three new pieces: In his picture cycle Diminution, Pumhösl is concerned with the possibilities of portraits, the representation of individual characteristics and profiles.

The film installation Expressive Rhythm refers to Alexander Rodchenko’s painting of the same name from 1942/43.

Dance notations are the theme of the second film project Tract, an abstract animation.

File under: Florian Pumhösl Eric de Bruyn Jaleh Mansoor Matthias Michalka Walther König / Köln Art Sculpture / Installation Film / Video Painting SALE

Pasolini – The Apocalyptic Anarchist
by Hans Ulrich Reck

2021, English
Softcover, 160 pages, 23 x 16 cm
Published by Spector Books / Leipzig

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From today’s perspective, Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922 – 1975) comes across as one of the most productive and exhilarating talents in twentieth-century art. He continues to be both an inspiring and provocative figure not only for his wide-ranging virtuosity as a linguist, writer, journalist, and film-maker but also on account of the themes that he addressed. In modern-day Europe with all its levelling processes, regulations, and a hypocrisy protected by the code of political correctness, the loss of his voice is keenly felt. Pasolini never simply glorified the ancient ways of isolated regions and decried progress; rather, by adopting both extremes, he created an all-embracing poetics of experimental thinking. Hans Ulrich Reck’s book shows the relevance of his work today: that Pasolini was proved bitterly right in so many things is an expression of his far-sightedness in not reading the hidden signs of his time in terms of “grand theses” and “narratives”.

File under: Pier Paolo Pasolini Hans Ulrich Reck Spector Books / Leipzig Film / Video Theory / Essay Art

Moomin : The Art and The Story

2019, Japanese
Hardcover (cloth), 312 pages, 195 x 130 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Asahi Shimbun / Japan

$120.00 - Out of stock

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Stunning new hardcover catalogue published on the occasion of the largest traveling Moomin exhibition ever staged, Moomin: The Art and The Story, Japan, 2019. Beautifully designed by the exhibition designer Yuria Oshima, this comprehensive book delves into the world of Tove Marika Jansson's Moomins in such detail that only a Japanese book could. Made in collaboration with the Moomin Museum in Tampere, who loaned 500 works for the exhibition, almost every exhibited item is captured here in in print across various paper stocks, including a miniature inlayed facsimile of the marvellous Trollvinter, first published in 1957. There is so much material captured in this book that has not been previously published, including countless original sketches and illustrations, paintings, first-edition Moomin books, all the original Moomin dolls, products and animations, commercial Moomin work, personal photographs of Jansson and much more, all thoroughly indexed. 2019 also marked the 100th Anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and Finland, Tove Jansson’s native country. Jansson visited Japan twice, in 1971 and 1990, each time making social and professional connections, sketches, and photographs. She also passionately collected the prints of 19th Century woodcut masters like Hiroshige, Hokusai and many more, which are captured here alongside her own artwork, drawing out the obvious influence, and admiration Jansson had for Japanese art. Also includes her Japanese hotel drawings, correspondences and photographs of her visits. An invaluable and inspiring resource for any Moomin fan.

Tove Marika Jansson (1914 – 2001) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish author, novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author. Brought up by artistic parents, Jansson studied art from 1930 to 1938 in Stockholm, Helsinki and Paris. Her first solo art exhibition was in 1943. She continued to work as an artist and a writer for the rest of her life, and it was with the creation of her much-loved Moomin characters that she become known around the world. Jansson wrote the Moomin books for children, starting in 1945 with The Moomins and the Great Flood. Her books became international classics translated to 35 languages. For her work as a children's writer she received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1966.

As New.

File under: Tove Jansson Tove Jansson Asahi Shimbun / Japan Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Film / Video Art Painting Drawing

A Couple Thousand Short Films About Glenn Gould
Cory Arcangel, Dexter Sinister, Paul Morley, Steven Bode

2008, English
Softcover, 255 pages, 19.5 x 12.6 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Film and Video Umbrella / UK

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"1/ 210 possible first lines/openings to a book about the relationship between the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century ..."

Produced in a limited edition in 2008 by New York artist Cory Arcangel in collaboration with leading design duo Dexter Sinister (David Reinfurt and Stuart Bailey), this lovely, now very collectible artist's book was published as an accompaniment to Arcangel’s installation, A Couple Thousand Short Films About Glenn Gould, commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella.

The book was released in an edition of 1106 unique copies – this figure representing the total number of separate video clips that Arcangel used in putting together the double-channel video installation 'A couple thousand short films about Glenn Gould'. (A different image of one of the many musical instruments that feature in the piece appears on the first inside page).

Extemporising around the theme of that project, while highlighting the artist’s innovations with digital technology and his experiments with sound, the book features texts by writer and music critic Paul Morley, curator Steven Bode, and an interview/Q&A between Arcangel and curator Michael Connor.

Published by Film and Video Umbrella and funded by Arts Council England, with additional support from Max Wigram Gallery and London Newcastle.

Very Good copy with some light page edge tanning, and light shelf wear.

File under: Cory Arcangel Dexter Sinister David Reinfurt Stuart Bailey Paul Morley Cory Arcangel Michael Connor Steven Bode Film and Video Umbrella / UK Art Film / Video Sound / Music Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Graphic Design / Typography Sculpture / Installation

LÄRM Fanzine Second Issue

2022, English / German
Softcover, 148 pages, 20 x 12 cm
Published by Lärm Publications / Berlin

$28.00 - Out of stock

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The second issue of LÄRM fanzine! Once more, it’s a journey to the fringes. Recalling resistant and peculiar aesthetics, wondrous and forgotten outgrowths of music and cultural history of the last seventy years – a search for works with inherent value, often contrary to a semblance of seriosity. Among them are Vox Populi!, Takahisa Zeze, Antediluvian, Unica Zürn, Wolfgang Hilbig, Sergio Martino and others.

Lärm Fanzine focuses on things marginal, strange or excessive in music and film culture. Lärm Publications is based in Berlin.

File under: Vox Populi! Takahisa Zeze Antediluvian Unica Zürn Wolfgang Hilbig Sergio Lärm Publications / Berlin Sound / Music Periodicals Art Film / Video Theory / Essay

Sex is Gay: Part Deux

2021, English
Softcover, 21 x 29.7 cm
Published by Centre d'editions / Melbourne Guzzler / Rosanna

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Very limited edition informal magazine/catalogue published on the occasion of ‘Sex is Gay: Part Deux’, a group exhibition presented by Zac Segbedzi at Guzzler, Rosanna, 20 Nov — 5 Dec, 2021. Features the work of Ramsay Alderson, Richard Hawkins, Paul Levack, Mathieu Malouf, Heji Shin, and Alex Vivian. Lavishly colour illustrated on glossy stock with work images, video stills and installation photography from the exhibition, followed by 20 pages of erotic photos shot by Ramsey Alderson and Richard Hawkins of famed pornstar Tom Faulk during Mathieu Malouf's 2016 show ‘Toilet’ at Jenny's in Los Angeles.

Very limited print run.

File under: Ramsay Alderson Richard Hawkins Paul Levack Mathieu Malouf Heji Shin Alex Vivian Zac Segbedzi Tom Faulk Centre d'editions / Melbourne Guzzler / Rosanna Painting Art Film / Video LGBTQ+ Eros Group Shows / Collections Australian Art Photography

Dan Graham (October Files)
Edited by Alex Kitnick

2011, English
Softcover, 232 pages, 15.2 x 23 cm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

$55.00 - Out of stock

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A collection of essays on a key figure in postminimalist art, with texts spanning thirty years.

Since the 1960s, Dan Graham's heterogeneous practice has touched on such disparate subjects as tract housing, the Shakers, punk music, and architectural theory; he has made videos, architectural models, closed-circuit installations, and glass pavilions. Graham, who came of age during the emergence of earth art, minimalism, and conceptualism, has situated his work on the borders between these different strains of contemporary practice. Although varying widely in subject and medium, Graham's artwork and writings display a consistent interest in spectatorship, public-private relationships, and the constructed environment. Graham's extensive writings on his own work (collected in Rock My Religion and Two-Way Mirror Power, both published by the MIT Press) have made him, by default, the primary interpreter of his own art. This October Files volume provides a counterweight, gathering key texts by critics and theorists that offer alternative accounts of Graham's art. The essays span thirty years and include hard-to-find texts from exhibition catalogs and journals. The authors include such distinguished theorists, critics, and artists as Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Beatriz Colomina, Thierry de Duve, and Jeff Wall.

File under: Dan Graham Alex Kitnick The MIT Press / Massachusetts Theory / Essay Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Film / Video Conceptual Art Art

Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys
30 Jahre Kunst

2017, German / English
Softcover, 192 pages, 21 x 30 cm
Published by Roma / Amsterdam

$45.00 - Out of stock

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The eighth instalment in Kunstverein München’s ‘Companion’ series, this “Verkaufskatalog” contains images, prices, material descriptions, and gallery designations for each of the works by artists Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys included in the exhibition ‘30 Jahre Kunst’. The diverse spectrum of the duo’s collaborative practice – drawings, paintings, sculptures, photographs, kinetic objects, and videos – is represented over the book’s 192 pages, all printed in black and white. In addition, a number of lost, destroyed, or forgotten works are featured, as well as new works that were specially commissioned for the exhibition.

Highly recommended.

File under: Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys Roma / Amsterdam Art Drawing Film / Video Painting Sculpture / Installation

Janet Burchill / Jennifer McCamley

1993, English / German
Softcover, 36 pages, 24 x 16.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Künstlerhaus Bethanien / Berlin

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Wonderful early catalogue of an exhibition held at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Nov. 27-Dec. 13, 1993 by Australian artists Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley. Illustrated throughout in colour and b/w with essay in English and German by Rex Butler.

As New copy.

File under: Janet Burchill Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley Jennifer McCamley Rex Butler Künstlerhaus Bethanien / Berlin Art Australian Art Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Painting Film / Video Conceptual Art

François Truffaut

1993, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 208 pages, 21 x 14.8 cm
Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Haga Bookstore / Japan

$80.00 - Out of stock

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The wonderful Japanese photo-book / "Cine Album" that documents the work of François Truffaut, father of French new wave, profusely illustrated with all of his films illustrated with lush colour and b/w photographs, photofiles on all the stars of his films, many behind the scenes images, interviews with actresses Isabelle Adjani and Sabine Haudepin, even a chapter on Truffaut's film company Les Films du Carrosse, complete filmography, and much more. Absolutely exploding with hundreds of images crammed into over 200 pages. The 400 Blows (1959), Jules and Jim (1962), Fahrenheit 451 (1966), Shoot the Piano Player (1960), Day for Night (1973), Two English Girls (1971), The Bride Wore Black (1968), The Soft Skin (1964), et al. A must for any fan. Published by the great Haga Bookstore imprint.

Fine copy in dust jacket.

File under: François Truffaut Isabelle Adjani Sabine Haudepin Jean-Pierre Léaud Haga Bookstore / Japan Film / Video Art Out-of-print / Rare Photography

KwieKulik (Zofia Kulik / Przemyslaw Kwiek)

2013, English
Hardcover, 576 pages, 30 x 24 cm
Published by Museum of Modern Art / Warsaw ERSTE Foundation / Vienna The KwieKulik Archive / Warsaw JRP Ringier / Zürich

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Since the 1970s Zofia Kulik and Przemyslaw Kwiek (KwieKulik) have pioneered the transformation of artistic practice into social experimentation. KwieKulik sought to reconcile artistic praxis with everyday life, essentially based on the premise that form is a fact of society. The couple’s pioneering approach to film, photography, and multi-screen slide projection epitomises their unique variation of expanded cinema.

This comprehensive monograph documents their collective works from 1971 to 1987, illuminating the radically unique position of the artists in the history of neo-avant-garde in Central Europe. The book covers and documents more than 200 events, and includes a ‘KwieKulik Glossary’, the collection of concepts introduced and applied by the artists.

Published with the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, BWA Wroclaw-Galleries of Contemporary Art, ERSTE Foundation and The KwieKulik Archive, Warsaw-Lomianki.

Edited by Lukasz Ronduda and Georg Schöllhammer.
Texts by Jacek Dobrowolski, Maciej Gdula, Klara Kemp-Welch, Zofia Kulik, Przemyslaw Kwie, Ewa Majewska, Pawel Moscicki, Luiza Nader, Maryla Sitkowska, Tomasz Zaluski.

File under: KwieKulik (Zofia Kulik / Przemyslaw Kwiek) Zofia Kulik Przemyslaw Kwiek KwieKulik Jacek Dobrowolski Maciej Gdula Klara Kemp-Welch Zofia Kulik Przemyslaw Kwie Ewa Majewska Sitkowska Maryla Pawel Moscicki Luiza Nader Tomasz Zaluski Lukasz Ronduda Georg Schöllhammer Museum of Modern Art / Warsaw ERSTE Foundation / Vienna The KwieKulik Archive / Warsaw JRP Ringier / Zürich Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay Art Film / Video

FILM Quarterly No. 6, 1970

1970, Japanese
Softcover, 180 pages, 26 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Film Art Inc. / Tokyo

$100.00 - Out of stock

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Scarce copy of issue no. 6 of Film Quarterly, an important but short-lived film theory periodical published out of Tokyo in the late 1960s—early 1970s. With incredible psychedelic covers by graphic designer Kiyoshi Awazu, this issue is dedicated largely to three leading European film directors of the avant-garde — Jean-Luc Godard, Federico Fellini, and Michelangelo Antonioni, but also features articles on Takahiko Iimura and Alain Resnais, amongst much more. Includes interviews and many essays in Japanese, with illustrations, film stills and collages scattered throughout. Contributioning editorial committee of Japanese critics, film-makers and composers includes Takahiko Iimura, Toru Takemitsu, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Yusuke Nakahara, Toshio Matsumoto, Koichi Yamada. Say no more!

Good copy with repaired, closed tear to back-cover, otherwise Very Good rest with only light wear.

File under: Jean-Luc Godard Federico Fellini Michelangelo Antonioni Alain Resnais Takahiko Iimura Toru Takemitsu Hiroshi Teshigahara Yusuke Nakahara Toshio Matsumoto Koichi Yamada Film Art Inc. / Tokyo Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Film / Video Theory / Essay Art