World Food Books

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

TEXTE ZUR KUNST
ISSUE NO. 112 / DECEMBER 2018 "NOISE/SILENCE"

2018, English / German
Softcover, 240 pages, 23 x 16.5 cm
Published by Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin

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Issue # 112 of Texte zur Kunst, “Noise/Silence,” focuses on these two sonic extremes that define the boundaries of the audible, framing all possible sonic expressions therein. Given the emergence of sound as its own field of inquiry within the arts, and the development of newer media forms for sound production, can we still reliably argue that noise and silence are open to artists and musicians today in the ways that they were for Luigi Russolo in his 1913 manifesto, “The Art of Noises;” or, in John Cage’s writings on silence? In our analysis and judgment on the contemporary significance of noise and silence within sound and music, we are also questioning the potential for radical gestures with sound tout court—the all or nothing. What is left for music and sonic interventions today? What kinds of subversive noises can be marshaled against the deafening silence? And where, if anywhere, can silence provide a shelter from the relentless noise from the outside? We assembled a group of media historians and philosophers to give us a theoretical orientation in this shifting sonic landscape, and also asked four artists/musicians to weigh in on the possibility for radical gestures in their own practice. The results offer a much-needed revision of the terms for sound in the arts today.

Issue No. 112 / December 2018 "Noise/Silence"

Table Of Contents
Forward
Preface

Rolf Grossmann - Silence, Sound, Noise / Aesthetic And Media-Technological Observations
Ute Holl - Excavating Silence
Fiona Mcgovern - Curating Sound
Sound Rules / Colin Lang And Cevdet Erek In Conversation
Michaela Melián - Electric Ladyland
Andrea Neumann - Production By Subtraction
Arto Lindsay
Puce Moment

New Development
Political Myth – Prefiguration – Brexit / Angus Nicholls On The Mythic Structures Behind Brexit

Rotation
Metabolismen Der Moderne / André Rottmann Über „Entgrenzter Formalismus. Verfahren Einer Antimodernen Ästhetik“ Von Kerstin Stakemeier
Migration Und Film Denken / Nanna Heidenreich Über Brigitta Kusters „Grenze Filmen“
The Third Persona / Amanda Schmitt On Ben Lerner And Anna Ostoya’s “The Polish Rider”

Klang Körper
Figuring Space / Steven Warwick On Catherine Christer Hennix

Reviews
This Is The Rented Moment / Nicolás Guagnini On Jack Smith At Artists Space, New York
Konzeptueller Fehlschlag / Fabio Cypriano Über Die 33. Biennale In São Paulo
Enjoy Your Sinthome / Sven Lütticken On Dora García At The Reina Sofía, Madrid
Artists Must Begin Helping Themselves / Pedro De Llano On Stephan Dillemuth At A Certain Lack Of Coherence, Porto
Der Traumzauberbaum / Inka Meißner Über Amy Lien & Enzo Camacho Im Kunstverein Freiburg
Burnt By The Sun / Colin Lang On Katarina Sieverding At Manifesta 12, Palermo
Star Alliance / Alida Müschen Über Ei Arakawa Im Kunstverein Für Die Rheinlande Und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Canon Fodder / Julia Pelta Feldman On Charline Von Heyl At Petzel Gallery, New York
Manspainting / Georg Imdahl Über Balthus In Der Fondation Beyeler, Basel
Case Of Urgency / Christina Catherine Martinez On Gerry Bibby At O-Town House, Los Angeles
Meshes Of The Platform Age / Jakob Schillinger On Loretta Fahrenholz At Mumok, Vienna
Re-Call, Re-Take, Represent / Rattanamol Singh Johal On Vivan Sundaram At The Kiran Nadar Museum Of Art, New Delhi And Haus Der Kunst, Munich
Grasping History / Frauke Zabel Über Karin Schneider Im Kunstverein Nürnberg
Stacked Cards / Ana Vogelfang On Pablo Accinelli At Malba, Buenos Aires
Computerkunst Jenseits Des Computers / Karel Císař Über „1968:Computer.Art“ In Brno
Abstraction Of The Body / Melissa Gordon On Amy Sillman At Camden Arts Centre, London
Feministischer Dekolonialismus Avant La Lettre / Michaela Wünsch Über Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Im Kulturzentrum Der Koreanischen Botschaft, Berlin
Where The Bodies Are Buried / Ana Teixeira Pinto On Roee Rosen At The Centre Pompidou, Paris
Chez Michel / Anke Dyes Über Henrik Olesen Im Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin

Obituary
Helena Almeida (1934–2018) / João Ribas
Klaus Herding (1939−2018) / Tom Holert

Edition
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
Jeanette Mundt
Wolfgang Tillmans

File under: Balthus Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster Jeanette Mundt Wolfgang Tillmans Klaus Herding Helena Almeida Henrik Olesen Roee Rosen Amy Sillman Vivan Sundaram Gerry Bibby Loretta Fahrenholz Charline Von Heyl Amy Lien & Enzo Camacho Ei Arakawa Stephan Dillemuth Dora García Jack Smith Cevdet Erek Arto Lindsay Tom Holert João Ribas Anke Dyes Ana Teixeira Pinto Melissa Gordon Rattanamol Singh Christina Catherine Martinez Jakob Schillinger Georg Imdahl Julia Pelta Feldman Pedro De Llano Sven Lütticken Nicolás Guagnini André Rottmann Amanda Schmitt Angus Nicholls Fiona Mcgovern Andrea Neumann Michaela Melián Ute Holl Rolf Grossmann Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin Art Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Painting Periodicals Theory / Essay Sound / Music

MAY #19

2018, English / French
Softcover, 220 pages, 240 x 175 mm
Published by May Revue / Paris

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This issue of May was conceived around a series of texts by three women writers/artists who express, through a bio-fictional-essayist form, their current conditions of living, thinking, and working. We worked on the current issue over a period of six months in New York as the debates emerging from the #MeToo movement and regarding cultural appropriation became more intense in art communities. Instead of addressing directly the moralistic and essentialist dimensions of these binary representations, this issue of May was first imagined as an attempt to initiate a space for writing, to offer some perpectives that could propose another understanding of the new form of “cultural war” we are experiencing now in the Western art world.

Thus, a text by Elise Duryee-Browner directly confronts the paradoxes and perversions of #MeToo and proposes alternate interpretations. The author has already published an essay in a previous issue of May on the effect of the election of Donald Trump on New York liberal society, where she deconstructed the dualist vision of the Left and Right political spheres by comparing this to the lateral activities of the human brain. In this issue, Duryee-Browner reflects upon her own situation as a young woman in an effort to understand women who, in acting like men in order to end male domination, ultimately ignore what they are destroying. Looking at the intense confrontations between men and women, she finds problematic the loss of the capacity to legislate—to make the laws, or in the Jewish religion, to interpret them—and pleads for “a cultural revolution that needs to happen, not simply women/non-Western cultures inhabiting the core of male/Western power” (to borrow her words).

Three short stories by Cecilia Pavón provide lucid insights into her life as a writer in Buenos Aires: the celebratory opening of a very well-known female British artist, Trish; the preparation of her own living room, where she teaches writing workshops; and a dystopic fiction piece featuring an H&M store being suddenly flooded, whereby she considers the relationship between conventions of clothing and gender that are imposed or assumed of women writers. Although the author’s writing style could seem lighthearted or even frivolous (“domestic poetry” as Chris Kraus puts it), she plays with a seemingly minor voice, using her everyday life as a way to circumvent the apparatus of institutionalized provincial literature.

Reflecting upon the replacement of human creativity by artificial intelligence, Georgie Nettell proposes further perspectives to preserve the conditions of creativity in a “hacked” neoliberal society. Within the context of Brexit, recalling that the referendum was manipulated by Cambridge Analytica with weaponized big-data programs, Nettell reflects on the progressive transformation of liberal democracy into a system that can be hacked, as with human creativity, like an electronic device.

CONTENTS:

Preface
— MAY

Trisha Erin
— CECILIA PAVÓN

Freestyle Rap
— CECILIA PAVÓN

A Perfect Day
— CECILIA PAVÓN

Morality Crisis: On the Legitimate Acquisition of Tons of Sex
— ELISE DURYEE-BROWNER

The Onset of Automation
— GEORGIE NETTELL

Out of the Box, on The Square (dir. Ruben Östlund)
— JASON SIMON

On “Seismography of Struggles, Toward a Global History of Critical and Cultural Journals” at INHA, Paris
— MORAD MONTAZAMI

Doors of Deflection, on Sam Pulitzer at Francesca Pia, Zürich
— DANIEL HORN

Paradiso, on Richard Maxwell at Greene Naftali, New York
— NICK IRVIN

Munch’s Flu, on Edvard Munch at MET Breuer, New York
— CLÉMENT RODZIELSKI

Why Do Jaguar, on Georgia Sagri at Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig
— ANKE DYES

On “Gianni Versace Retrospective” at Kronprinzenpalais, Berlin
— KARL HOLMQVIST

About MAY Revue:

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

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

File under: Edvard Munch Sam Pulitzer Gianni Versace Karl Holmqvist Georgia Sagri Richard Maxwell Ruben Östlund Georgie Nettell Jason Simon Daniel Horn Nick Irvin Anke Dyes Elise Duryee-Browner Cecilia Pavón Georgie Nettell Morad Montazami May Revue / Paris Periodicals Art Painting Theory / Essay Film / Video Fiction / Poetry SALE

Machines And Robots - Edition Digital Culture 5
Edited by Dominik Landwehr

2018, English / German
288 pages, 11 x 18 cm
Published by Christoph Merian / Basel

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Machines, automats, and robots have always exerted a special fascination on artists. Yet computers, digitisation, and the Internet have given this attraction entirely new impulses. Moreover, developments in artificial intelligence and robotics are of critical importance today. The fifth volume of this series provides insights into current research topics and investigates their artistic potential and possible issues. It contains illustrations and a detailed glossary of significant terms, in addition to contributions by Raffaello D’Andrea, Andreas Broeckmann, Roland Fischer, Martina Kammermann, Bruno Spoerri, Philipp Theisohn, Mads Pankow, and Roland Wetzel.

File under: Raffaello D’Andrea Andreas Broeckmann Roland Fischer Martina Kammermann Bruno Spoerri Philipp Theisohn Mads Pankow Roland Wetzel Dominik Landwehr Christoph Merian / Basel Art Theory / Essay Film / Video Architecture / Interior Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater

Amalia Ulman
Excellences & Perfections

2018, English
Hardcover, 240 pages, 195 x 240 cm
Published by Prestel / Munich

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Foreword by Farkas Rozsa
Contributions by Hito Steyerl, Hannah Black and Natasha Stagg

Amalia Ulman's performance "Excellences & Perfections", which unfolded on Instagram in 2014, follows an aspiring it-girl who undergoes a series of cosmetic surgeries and lifestyle changes to help jumpstart her career. For six months Ulman mesmerized her followers with nearly daily posts that documented a young woman trying on different personas in order to make her way in the world. Finally, the real Amalia Ulman revealed the fiction that she had created-a performance piece about identity, gender, class, sexuality, and lifestyle porn. The illustrations are presented in chronological order to give readers the experience of viewing the work as an uninterrupted stream, in the way her followers first saw them on social media. A forerunner of a new brand of performance art, Ulman has made a significant statement about the intersection of life and art-one that couldn't be more timely or compelling.

File under: Amalia Ulman Farkas Rozsa Amalia Ulman Hito Steyerl Hannah Black Natasha Stagg Prestel / Munich Art Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video SALE

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

Seth Price
Price, Seth

2010, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 108 pages, 20.2 x 23.8 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Kunsthalle Zürich / Zürich Kölnischer Kunstverein / Köln JRP Ringier / Zürich

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The out-of-print first monograph dedicated to the artist Seth Price, includes an essay by Michael Newman as well as Price's own critical take on his practice, given in the form of a videotaped conference that structures the presentation of his works.

Through paintings, sculpture, video, and media work, Seth Price (*1973 East Jerusalem, lives and works in New York) underlines the production strategies, dissemination modes, and valuation patterns of art. His appropriationist work, which he rather calls a "redistribution" of (often) pirated materials, disrupts the operations of commodity culture. Among his formats and tactics one should mention the recycling of iconic illustrations, reduplication (from digital to vacuum-formed techniques), the reenactment of projects, and the collaborative actions with Continuous Project (formed in 2003 with Bettina Funcke, Wade Guyton, and Joseph Logan) or other artists.

Published by JRP-Ringier with Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich and the Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne.

File under: Seth Price Kunsthalle Zürich / Zürich Kölnischer Kunstverein / Köln JRP Ringier / Zürich Art Sculpture / Installation Film / Video

Ces Dessins qui Bougent / These drawings that move : 1892-1992
Cent Ans de Cinema d'Animation / One hundred years of Animated Film by René Laloux

1996, French
Softcover, 200 pages, 26 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / Used*,
Published by Dreamland Éditeur / Paris

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Written by one of the finest in the field, René Laloux, this scarce French book published in 1996 traces the history of animated cinema. "Ces Dessins qui Bougent : 1892-1992 - Cent Ans de Cinema d'Animation" (These drawings that move : 1892-1992 - One hundred years of Animated Film) is richly illustrated throughout with some of the best historical examples in animated film, dissecting the form through the work of Bruno Bozzetto, Jan Svankmajer, Paul Grimault, Walt Disney, Hayao Miyazaki, Yuri Norstein, Norman Mclaren, Walérian Borowczyk, Jiri Trnka, Ralph Bakshi, Jean Giraud (Mœbius), Philippe Caza, Osvaldo Cavandoli, Peter Foldes, and so many more. Includes a great illustrated chronology of important works. Texts in French.

René Laloux (July 13, 1929 – March 14, 2004) was a French animator and film director, well known for his animated films including The Snails (Les Escargots, 1965), Time Masters (1982), Gandahar (1988), and his most famous, Fantastic Planet (La Planète Sauvage, 1973), collaborating with artists Roland Topor, Jean Giraud (Mœbius) and Philippe Caza.

Condition: Good (some general cover and page wear from reading) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Bruno Bozzetto Hayao Miyazaki Jan Svankmajer Jean Giraud (Mœbius) Jiří Trnka Norman Mclaren Osvaldo Cavandoli Paul Grimault Peter Foldes Philippe Caza Ralph Bakshi René Laloux Walérian Borowczyk Walt Disney Yuri Norstein Dreamland Éditeur / Paris Art Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées

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

Mathias Poledna
Substance

2017, English
Softcover (in slip-case), 132 pages, 31 x 23.5 cm
Published by Galerie Buchholz / Köln The Renaissance Society / Chicago

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This catalogue documents Mathias Poledna’s exhibition at the Renaissance Society in Chicago in 2014/2015. Conceived and designed by the artist, it features new essays by Amy Knight Powell, Bennett Simpson and Andrew Weiner.

File under: Mathias Poledna Amy Knight Powell Bennett Simpson Andrew Weiner. Galerie Buchholz / Köln The Renaissance Society / Chicago Art Photography Sculpture / Installation Film / Video

Texte Zur Kunst
Issue No. 111 / SEPTEMBER 2018 "AMERIKA"

2018, English / German
Softcover, 240 pages, 23 x 16.5 cm
Published by Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin

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The September issue of Texte zur Kunst focuses on Amerika (U.S. America principally): the land, the idea, and all that seems to come with it. What is Amerika today other than a contradiction between brute political reality and a largely fictional self-image, where fiction says as much about fact as “alternative facts” say about the truth? Within this contradiction, this issue tries to imagine modes of engaging with the current political machinery without opting for the one-dimensional dive into micropolitics that has plagued much recent activist discourse. The Trump regime has introduced a new form of politics whose tactics are closer to artistic practice—inventing parallel truths and questioning facts—than anything like traditional governance. As such, those familiar with art are in a unique position to offer an analysis of the specific forms that define contemporary politics in Amerika. We have thus commissioned artists and critics to come up with new strategies for analyzing the rampant barbarism, resisting the urge to sink into paralysis and defeat in the face of the endless onslaught.

Issue No. 111 / September 2018 "America"

Table Of Contents :
Foreword
 Prefaces
 Colin Lang  - The Horror, Vacui
 Ken Okiishi -  Liberty and Justice For All, Not Us
Aria Dean -  Trauma And Virtuality
 Letter To A Friend In New York / By Isabelle Graw
The Golden Hoard / Conversation With Andrea Fraser
 Sina Najaf - i The American Dream State
 Robert F. Reid-Pharr -  What We Dare Not Remember

New Development
 Is Space The Place? / Eva Díaz On Feminist Futures In The Anthropocene
Love Work Cinema
 Between Bildersturm And Artistic Research / Rainer Bellenbaum About Films From The Years Around 1968 In The Historical Program Of The Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen

Reviews
Decolonialized Narrative In The National Art Temple / Susanne Von Falkenhausen On "Hello World" At Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
 That Fluctuating Moment / Jesi Khadivi At The 10Th Berlin Biennale
 The Silent Ship / Övül Ö. Durmusoglu On Manifesta 12 In Palermo
 Love And Salt / Adrienne Rooney On Adrian Piper At The Museum Of Modern Art, New York
Tracks Of Disappearance / Tobi Maier About Bruce Nauman In The Schaulager, Basel
 Man In The Mirror / Dan Kidner On "Picasso 1932 - Love, Fame, Tragedy" At Tate Modern, London
 In The Bure Of The Circle / Marietta Kesting About Raster-Noton In The Kunstbau Lenbachhaus, Munich
 Looking But Not Seeing? / Darla Migan On Faith Ring Gold At Weiss Berlin
 Mad / Ame / Jenny Nachtigall About Jutta Koether At The Museum Brandhorst, Munich
 If You Are Once Big / Nadja Abt About Philip Wiegard At Between Bridges, Berlin
 Marked By Trade / Sven Lütticken On "Trade Markings" At The Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
 Amazone Retired / Tina Schulz On Astrid Klein In The Falckenberg Collection, Hamburg
 Born To Die / Colin Lang On Jeanette Mundt At Société, Berlin
 Limitations Of Utopia / Christina Irrgang On Cyril Lachauer In The Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
 Hereditary Peers / Saim Demircan On Luke Willis Thompson At Kunsthalle Basel
Zoology Of The Falls / Niklas Lichti On Peter Wächtler With Lars Friedrich, Berlin
 Below The Surf / Steven Warwick On Georgie Nettell At The Kunstbunker Forum For Contemporary Art, Nuremberg
 The Hour Of The Historics / Ariane Müller About Valie Export At The Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
 Foreign Powers / Johanna Burton On Zoe Leonard At The Whitney Museum Of American Art
Committee Criteria / Kerstin Stakemeier On Henrike Naumann At The Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
 Related Practices / Sandra Neugärtner On Anni Albers In The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
 Term (s) Of Endearment / Kathi Hofer On "Milieu" At After The Butcher, Berlin

Obituary
 Claude Lanzmann (1925-2018) 
 
Edition
Cecily Brown 
Mark Leckey

File under: Ken Okiishi Anni Albers Valie Export Zoe Leonard Georgie Nettell Bruce Nauman Andrea Fraser Cecily Brown Mark Leckey Henrike Naumann Peter Wächtler Cyril Lachauer Jeanette Mundt Astrid Klein Jutta Koether Faith Ring Gold Philip Wiegard Adrian Piper Raster-Noton Saim Demircan Aria Dean Susanne von Falkenhausen Isabelle Graw Sven Lütticken Steven Warwick Johanna Burton Jesi Khadivi Tobi Maier Marietta Kesting Övül Ö. Durmusoglu Adrienne Rooney Dan Kidner Darla Migan Niklas Lichti Ariane Müller Colin Lang Christina Irrgang Tina Schulz Nadja Abt Jenny Nachtigall Rainer Bellenbaum Eva Díaz Robert F. Reid-Pharr Aria Dean Kerstin Stakemeier Kathi Hofer Sandra Neugärtner Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin Art Theory / Essay Periodicals Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Painting

Bruce Nauman
Disappearing Acts

2018, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 356 pages, 22.8 x 26.8 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln MoMA / New York

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With a magician’s sleight of hand, Nauman’s art makes disappearance visible.

At 76 years old, Bruce Nauman is widely acknowledged as a central figure in contemporary art whose stringent questioning of values such as good and bad remains urgent today. Throughout his 50-year career, he has explored how mutable experiences of time, space, sound, movement and language provide an insecure foundation for our understanding of our place in the world.

This richly illustrated catalog offers a comprehensive view of Nauman’s work in all mediums, spanning drawings across the decades; early fiberglass sculptures; sound environments; architecturally scaled, participatory constructions; rhythmically blinking neons; and the most recent 3D video that harks back to one of his earliest performances. A wide range of authors—curators, artists and historians of art, architecture and film—focus on topics that have been largely neglected, such as the architectural models that posit real or imaginary sites as models for ethical inquiry and mechanisms of control. An introductory essay explores Nauman’s many acts of disappearance, withdrawal and deflection as central formal and intellectual concerns. The 18 other contributions discuss individual objects or themes that persist throughout the artist’s career, including the first extensive essay on Nauman as a photographer and the first detailed treatment on the role of color in his work. A narrative exhibition history traces his reception, and features a number of rare or previously unpublished images.

Edited by Kathy Halbreich, Isabel Friedli, Heidi Naef, Magnus Schaefer, Taylor Walsh.
Text by Thomas Beard, Briony Fer, Nicolás Guagnini, Kathy Halbreich, Rachel Harrison, Ute Holl, Suzanne Hudson, Julia Keller, Liz Kotz, Ralph Lemon, Glenn Ligon, Catherine Lord, Roxana Marcoci, Magnus Schaefer, Felicity Scott, Martina Venanzoni, Taylor Walsh, Jeffrey Weiss.

Bruce Nauman was born in Indiana in 1941 and raised near Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He studied math, music and physics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison before switching his major to visual art, and received an MA in sculpture from the University of California, Davis, in 1966. In 1979 he moved to New Mexico, where he continues to reside. Nauman’s work has been the subject of two previous retrospectives, in 1972 and 1994. In 2009 he represented the United States at the Venice Biennale, where he won the Golden Lion.

File under: Bruce Nauman Kathy Halbreich Isabel Friedli Heidi Naef Magnus Schaefer Taylor Walsh Thomas Beard Briony Fer Nicolás Guagnini Rachel Harrison Ute Holl Suzanne Hudson Julia Keller Liz Kotz Ralph Lemon Glenn Ligon Catherine Lord Roxana Marcoci Felicity Scott Martina Venanzoni Jeffrey Weiss Walther König / Köln MoMA / New York Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Art Drawing Film / Video

Bruce Nauman
A Contemporary

2018, English
Softcover, 224 pages, 12.7 x 19.7 cm
Published by Laurenz Foundation / Schaulager

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Bruce Nauman: A Contemporary presents the artist as contemporary in a double sense. First, the works of Nauman's 50-plus-year career are placed in the context of contemporary positions and discourses. Second, the publication analyses the extent to which Nauman's themes, media and forms have forged connections to the present, remaining of enduring importance for artists of subsequent generations. This publication seeks to counter the tendency to cast Bruce Nauman as an outstanding, solitary figure of postmodernism by putting the artist's work back in context. Nauman's early works were originally discussed in the context of contemporary practices and discourses, such as minimal music, postmodern dance, conceptual art, Gestalt therapy or the philosophy of language. But soon Nauman's reputation came to precede him, and his more recent work has largely been appraised independently of any artistic, social, historical or theoretical context. Critical consideration of Nauman's work has narrowed to a relatively small selection of the artist's works and ideas. Bruce Nauman: A Contemporary redresses this imbalance by focusing on thematic concerns shared by Nauman and his contemporaries. Scholarly essays explore how Nauman and his works enter contemporary conversations on the relationship of art and work, art and globalisation, and corporeality in the digital age.

File under: Bruce Nauman Ed Atkins Hito Steyerl Francis Alÿs Lynn Hershman Leeson Steve McQueen Wilfredo Prieto Giuseppe Penone Ryan Trecartin Laurenz Foundation / Schaulager Art Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Theory / Essay

Andy Warhol - Films and Paintings
By Peter Gidal

1971, English
Softcover, 160 pages, 18.5 x 12.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Studio Vista / London E P Dutton / New York

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"In 1961 a fashionable commercial artist named Andy Warhol created an artistic furor in New York with his deadpan versions of the Campbell’s Soup can. Since then he has become the most talked about but least understood artist of the late 20th century. Warhol made acceptable the use of industrial techniques in the creation of paintings obsessed with modern clichés—car crashes, Coke bottles, sex symbols such as Marilyn Monroe and Liz Taylor. At the same time, his films—Blowjob, Sleep, Chelsea Girls, Lonesome Cowboys—forced us to look at the object/subject, transformed the bizarre into the banal, and remade the form and content of cinematic experiment and production."

First edition, published in 1971 by the mighty Studio Vista (and out of print since 1980), Peter Gidal’s Andy Warhol was the first book written on Warhol’s films and paintings, a concise and astute analysis of an artistic revolution. "Idol of the jet set," "trend-maker," superstar, Warhol was taken at more than face value in Gidal’s unconventional and insightful exploration. Decades later, Andy Warhol remains a seminal text, essential for a serious understanding of the artist and the work. Still the best thing written on Andy Warhol, according to art historian Benjamin Buchloh. Illustrated with over 100 b/w photographs, many of which caused great censorship problems at the time of distribution.

File under: Andy Warhol Peter Gidal Studio Vista / London E P Dutton / New York Art Painting Pop Art Film / Video Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Eros

Daniel von Sturmer
Set Piece

2011, English
Hardcover, 56 pages, 210 x 210mm
Published by Self-Published

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Published on the occasion of Daniel von Sturmer's exhibition, Set Piece at Site Gallery, Sheffield, September 2009

Design by Yanni Florence

File under: Daniel von Sturmer Charlotte Day Self-Published Art Australian Art Sculpture / Installation Film / Video SALE

The Camera: Essence and Apparatus
by Victor Burgin

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

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

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

THE AVANT-GARDE FILM : A Reader of Theory and Criticism
Edited by P. Adams Sitney

1978, English
Softcover, 296 pages, 22.6 x 15.2
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by New York University Press / New York

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Incredible collection of film texts compiled in 1978 and published by the Anthology Film Archives Series. First edition.

Features the writings of Dziga Vertov, Sergei Eisenstein, Hans Richter, Jean Epstein, Germaine Dulac, Antonin Artaud, Joseph Cornell, Maya Deren, Sidney Peterson, James Broughton, John and James Whitney, P. Adams Sitney, Harry Smith, Carel Rowe, Stan Brakhage, Peter Kubelka, Stephen Koch, Andy Warhol, Annette Michelson, Michael Snow, Jonas Mekas, Ernie Gehr, Anthony McCall, Paul Sharits, Tony Conrad, Hollis Frampton.

"This anthology offers for the first time an extensive survey of the theoretical contributions of avant- garde ﬁlm-makers and essays about their cinematic achievements. Several texts appear in print, or in English, for the first time here. Because of the diversity of the materials—manifestoes, letters, a scenario, program notes, lectures, interviews—and because of the stylistic peculiarities of some of the authors, no attempt has been made to standardize spellings, punctuation, or footnoting throughout the book. Each contribution conforms to its original manuscript or printed form..." - P. Adams Sitney

About the editor:
P. Adams Sitney is Co-Director of the Anthology Film Archives in New York City and teaches cinema at New York University. He has also lectured extensively on film at museums of modern art, universities, and cinematheques in Europe and in South America. An editor of Film Culture magazine, he is the editor of the Film Culture Reader.

File under: Dziga Vertov Sergei Eisenstein Hans Richter Jean Epstein Germaine Dulac Antonin Artaud Joseph Cornell Maya Deren Sidney Peterson James Broughton John and James Whitney P. Adams Sitney Harry Smith Carel Rowe Stan Brakhage Peter Kubelka Stephen Koch Andy Warhol Annette Michelson Michael Snow Jonas Mekas Ernie Gehr Anthony McCall Paul Sharits Tony Conrad Hollis Frampton New York University Press / New York Art Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay

Underground Film : A Critical History
By Parker Tyler

1971, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 250 pages, 23.5 x 16 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd / London

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First hardcover edition of Underground Film: A Critical History by Parker Tyler and published in London in 1971.

Parker Tyler (1904-1974), one of the few great American film critics, was intimate with and enormously respected by many of the underground and experimental filmmakers of his time. In this book, Tyler evaluated the Underground in general (from "Le Folie de Docteur Tube" by Abel Gance (1915) to "I Am Curious (Yellow)" by Vilgot Sjoman (1969)) and the seminal films in particular, covering the history and scope of the genre with insight and verve. Like Tyler's Screening of the Sexes: Homosexuality in the Movies, Underground Film is one of the masterpieces of cinema literature.

From the book jacket:
Parker Tyler was the first critic to write seriously about the early Underground cinema, especially about Stan Brakhage, Sidney Peterson, Gregory Markopoulos, Willard Maas and Maya Deren. Here he assesses their work, together with that of Kenneth Anger, Stan Vanderbeek, Andy Warhol, Bruce Connor, Paul Sharis, Charles Boultenhouse and other new film-makers. He discusses specific films, showing the variety of aims and techniques, and tracing their origins in Dada and Surrealism and in the classics of Bunuel, Cocteau, Clair, Eisenstein and Wiene. Parker Tyler's early criticism (e.g. Magic and Myth of the Movies) was concerned with the hidden dreams within the Hollywood commercial "establishment". The dreams have now come to the surface in the Underground cinema, which is concerned with new ways of perceiving, new inventions in unusual form the sound, new experiences of a clandestine or libertine nature, new theories of aesthetics. With taste and judgement Mr Tyler picks his way through the achievements and failures of a desperate, fertile, explosive period in the history of the cinema.

Chapters:

The Underground versus the Taboo on Reality 2. The Exploding Peephole of the Underground /3. Toward Exhibition and Exhibitionism 4. Popularizing Peepshows: the Infantile Gimmick 5. No Establishment at all? 6. Underground Climb: from Exhibitionism to Art 7. Underground Infantilism: Surfacing Superstars 8. Superstar Space: the Playroom 9. Can the Technician Escape the Pad? 10. The Pad Can Be Commercialized 11. Performing Children, Performing Madmen 12. The Paranoiac-Critical Kick 13. The Pad's Predecessor: an Archetype 14. Underground Film Is Primitive Film 15. Where the Rub is 16. The Abstractness of Avant-Gardes 16. Extensive filmography from avant-garde to underground film, from "Le Folie de Docteur Tube" by Abel Gance (1915) to "I Am Curious (Yellow)" by Vilgot Sjoman (1969).

File under: Jean Cocteau Sergei Eisenstein Luis Buñuel Stan Brakhage Sidney Peterson Gregory Markopoulos Willard Maas Maya Deren Kenneth Anger Stan Vanderbeek Andy Warhol Paul Sharis Charles Boultenhouse Bruce Conner Parker Tyler Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd / London Film / Video Art Theory / Essay Dada Surrealism Eros Out-of-print / Rare

Experimental Cinema
A Fifty-Year Evolution

1971, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 168 pages, 25.5 x 14.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Studio Vista / London

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First hardcover edition of this classic book by David Curtis, published by the great Studio Vista in 1971.

"In this wide-ranging survey, David Curtis traces the development of film experimentation from the pioneer narrative efforts of Edwin S. Porter and the fantasmagoric and special effects of Emile Cohl and Norman Dawn early in the twentieth century to the New American Cinema films of Stan Brakhage, Gregory Markopoulos, Ron Rice, and Andy Warhol in the 1960s and now in the 1970s. Mr Curtis regards the experimental film as a dynamic contribution to modern art, and he describes the excitement and struggle of film-makers discovering and expanding their medium. Among the many forms, styles, and ways of working that he illustrates and analyses are Abel Gance's rapid-cutting technique, Walter Ruttmann's 'city symphonies', Oskar Fischinger's abstract approaches, Len Lye's hand-painted images and kinetic use of colour separations, Curtis Harrington's introspective cinema, Francis Thompson's artistry of distortion, the collage animations of Stan Vanderbeek, Mike Durford, and Victor and Silvio Loffredo, Bruce Conner's adaptation of montage, Scott Bartlett's and Pat O'Neill's use of the optical printer, the computer films of Vanderbeck, Ken Knowlton, Marc Adrian, and Denys Irving, and the structural films of Kurt Kren, George Landow, and Mike Snow. Also examined are the accomplishments of such significant figures as Viking Eggeling, Hans Richter, Man Ray, Fernand Léger, and Dimitri Kirsanov in the 1920s; Jean Cocteau, Watson and Webber, and Mary Ellen Bute in the 1930s, and the key American experimentalists Maya Deren, Kenneth Anger, and the Whitney Brothers among them, and the Canadian Norman McLaren in the 1940s, as well as the shifting cinematic approaches of Luis Buñuel. Represented are film-makers from Japan, England, Russia, Canada, and the United States, in addition to many previously uncharted independent film-makers of Austria, France, Germany, Italy, and other countries of Europe."

File under: Norman McLaren Viking Eggeling Hans Richter Man Ray Fernand Léger Dimitri Kirsanov Stan Vanderbeek Mike Durford Victor and Silvio Loffredo Kurt Kren George Landow Michael Snow Jean Cocteau James Sibley Watson Melville Webber Mary Ellen Bute Luis Buñuel Abel Gance Ken Knowlton Marc Adrian Denys Irving Oskar Fischinger Scott Bartlett Pat O'Neill Walter Ruttmann Edwin S. Porter Emile Cohl Norman Dawn Stan Brakhage Gregory Markopoulos Ron Rice Andy Warhol David Curtis Studio Vista / London Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Art Surrealism Dada Eros

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

Ellen Cantor
A history of the world as it has become known to me

2018, English / German
Softcover, 328 pages, 21 x 28.2 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts / San Francisco Künstlerhaus Stuttgart / Stuttgart Participant Inc. / New York

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Edited by Lia Gangitano, Fatima Hellberg, Jamie Stevens
Contributions by Dodie Bellamy, Jonathan Berger, John Brattin, Ellen Cantor, Lia Gangitano, Cy Gavin, Joseph Grigely, Clara López Menéndez, John Maybury

Ellen Cantor (1961–2013) combined ready-made materials with diaristic notes and drawings to probe her perceptions and experiences of personal desire and institutional violence. This book is concerned with, and a document of, Cantor’s work through the lens of Pinochet Porn (2008–16) and its making—an epic experimental film embodying and radically extending her multifaceted artistic practice. Taking the form of an episodic narrative about five children growing up under the regime of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile, and shot between her dual hometowns of London and New York, history is observed through Cantor’s fictive speculations on private experience within a totalizing political order. A history of the world as it has become known to me brings together writings and archival materials of Cantor’s, including a reproduction in full of her drawing-based script Circus Lives from Hell (2004), alongside contributions by writers, artists, collaborators, and friends reflecting on Cantor’s practice, Pinochet Porn, and a singularly transgressive vision: explicitly feminist, remorselessly emotional, dramatic in tone, and, as Cantor herself liked to put it, adult in subject matter.

This publication follows the exhibitions “Cinderella Syndrome,” CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (December 8, 2015–February 13, 2016) and “Ellen Cantor,” Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (April 2–July 31, 2016).

Copublished with Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Participant Inc., and CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts
Design by Pedro Cid Proença

File under: Ellen Cantor Lia Gangitano Fatima Hellberg Jamie Stevens Ellen Cantor Dodie Bellamy Jonathan Berger John Brattin Cy Gavin Joseph Grigely Clara López Menéndez John Maybury Sternberg Press / Berlin CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts / San Francisco Künstlerhaus Stuttgart / Stuttgart Participant Inc. / New York Art Theory / Essay Film / Video Feminism LGBTQ+

Andrea Fraser

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

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

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

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

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

Texte Zur Kunst #110
June 2018 "Performance Evaluation"

2018, English / German
Softcover, 272 pages, 23 x 16.5 cm
Published by Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin

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In the 18 years since Texte zur Kunst first turned its attention to the field of performance, a lot has happened, to say the least. Today, performance refers to almost any act, willing or forced, and is used by the institutions the world over whose aim is often to solicit performative acts from consumers, whether they are an audience at an art event or a user of social media. With performance today comes the inevitable system of evaluation—likes, ratings, grades, followers, etc.—a fact that has made separating performance as an art, and its popularity, from the overpowering influence of the culture of evaluation. For this issue of Texte zur Kunst, "Performance Evaluation," we investigate the overlapping definitions of performance, following their ubiquity and uses in particular, in order to evaluate what performance means today, and what we mean when we call something a "performance."

Issue No. 110 / June 2018 "Performance Evaluation"

Table Of Contents
Vorwort
Preface

Sabeth Buchmann
Feed Back: Performance In The Evaluation Society

Steffen Mau And Uwe Vormbusch
Likes And Performance / A Conversation Between Uwe Vormbusch And Steffen Mau On The Quantification Of The Social

Alexandra Pirici
Performance As Conjuring / Artist Statement

Stefan Hölscher
(Re-)Evaluating Performance Since 1990

Evelyn Annuss
On The Future Of The Volksbühne –  Failure Is An Option

Andreas Gelhard
Notes On The Competence Society
Working With Performance / A Conversation About Collaboration, Collectivity, And The Value Of Performance

New Development :
Amanda Schmitt
Miranda Warning

Rotation :
Nach Dem Metabolischen Bruch / Martin Müller Über „Molekulares Rot. Theorie Für Das Anthropozän“ Von Mckenzie Wark
Klang Körper
Äpfel Und Birnen / Wolfgang Seidel Über „Underground Und Improvisation. Alternative Musik Und Kunst Nach 1968“ In Der Akademie Der Künste, Berlin
Stunt / Anke Dyes Über Georgia Sagri Im Portikus Frankfurt/M.
Brighten The Corners / Colin Lang On “Res·O·Nant” At The Jewish Museum Berlin
Anke Dyes, Luisa Kleemann Und Tina Schulz  Über Das Gallery Weekend In Berlin

Reviews :

Endstation Selbstbezug / Hans-Christian Dany Über „Harald Szeemann: Museum Of Obsessions“ Und „Grandfather: A Pioneer Like Us“ Im Getty Center Und Ica In Los Angeles
Forward In This Generation / Eva Díaz On The New Museum Triennial
Archivarisch Verdichtet / Agnieszka Roguski Über „Left Performance Histories“  In Der Neuen Gesellschaft Für Bildende Kunst, Berlin
Broken Lineage / Gregory H. Williams On “Inventur: Art In Germany, 1943–55” At The Harvard Art Museums
Geld Ist Sein Pinsel / Verena Dengler Über Damien Hirst Bei Gagosian, Beverly Hills
Antipathy & Ecstasy / Kari Rittenbach On Ilya Lipkin At Svetlana, New York
Museum In Progress / Barbara Hess Über „Von Da An. Räume, Werke, Vergegenwärtigungen Des Antimuseums 1967–1978“ Im Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
Composition As Explanation / Annie Godfrey Larmon On Cally Spooner At The Centre D’art Contemporain Genève
Ikonisches Nachleben / Johannes Bennke Über James Benning Bei Neugerriem-Schneider, Berlin
Game Of Thrones / Chris Reitz On Geta Bratescu At Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles
Park, Blicke / Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer Über Maya Schweizer Im Kunstverein Leipzig
Humanity’s Last Hopf / Mikael Brkic On Judith Hopf At Kunst-Werke Berlin
Memes, Schönheit Und Verfremdung / Jessica Aimufua Über Arthur Jafa In Der Julia Stoschek  Collection Berlin
Unendliche Arbeit / Hans-Jürgen Hafner Über Catherine Christer Hennix  Im Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Relentless Applause / Carmen Gray On Katrina Daschner At The Neue Galerie Graz
Karikaturen Ohne Pointe / Michael Franz Und Franziska Ipfelkofer Über Matthias Noggler Bei Emanuel Layr, Wien
Administrativer Papierkram / Fiona Geuß Über „Paperwork“ In Der Sammlung Haubrok, Fahrbereitschaft, Berlin

Nachrufe :

Linda Nochlin (1931–2017)
Kynaston Mcshine (1935–2018)
Peter Gorsen (1933–2017)

Edition :

Tauba Auerbach
Eliza Douglas
Hans Haacke

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Practice
Edited by Marcus Boon and Gabriel Levine

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

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

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

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

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

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

Part of the Whitechapel Documents of Contemporary Art series

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