World Food Books

Jonas Mekas
I Had Nowhere to Go

2017, English
Softcover, 480 pages, 12.5 x 20.6 cm
Published by Spector Books / Leipzig

$50.00 - Out of stock

"Jonas Mekas' diaries have an aching honesty, puckish humor and quiet nobility of character. Many readers curious about the early years of this seminal avant-garde filmmaker will discover here a much more universal story: that of the emigrant who can never go back, and whose solitariness in the New World is emblematic of the human condition." - Phillip Lopate

"I was enormously moved by it." - Allen Ginsberg

Legendary filmmaker Jonas Mekas actually came to filmmaking relatively late in life, and his path to New York was a difficult one. In 1944, Mekas and his younger brother Adolfas had to flee Lithuania. They were interned for eight months in a labor camp in Elmshorn. Even after the war ended, Mekas was prevented from returning to his native Lithuania by the Soviet occupation. Classed as a "displaced person," he lived in DP camps in Wiesbaden and Kassel for years. It was only at the end of 1949 that Jonas and Aldolfas Mekas finally found their way to New York City.

A new edition of Mekas' acclaimed memoir, first published by Black Thistle Press in 1991, I Had Nowhere to Go tells the story of the artist's survival in the camps and his first years as a young Lithuanian immigrant in New York City. Mekas' memoir--the inspiration for a 2016 biopic by Douglas Gordon--tells the story of how an individual life can move through the larger 20th-century narratives of war and exile and tentatively put down new roots. In the words of Phillip Lopate, "This is a lyrical, essential spiritual anthropology."

Jonas Mekas (born 1922) lives and works in New York. Filmmaker, writer and poet, he is a cofounder of Anthology Film Archives, one of the world's largest and most important repositories of avant-garde film. An influential figure in New American Cinema and New York underground culture, he worked with Andy Warhol, George Maciunas, John Lennon and many others. Mekas' work has been exhibited in museums and festivals worldwide.

File under: Jonas Mekas Jonas Mekas Spector Books / Leipzig Art Theory / Essay Film / Video

Jonas Mekas
Scrapbook of the Sixties - Writings 1954-2010

2016, English
Softcover, 456 pages, 16 x 21.5 cm
Published by Spector Books / Leipzig

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Scrapbook of the Sixties is a collection of published and unpublished texts by Jonas Mekas, filmmaker, writer, poet, and cofounder of the Anthology Film Archives in New York. Born in Lithuania, he came to Brooklyn via Germany in 1949 and began shooting his first films there. Mekas developed a form of film diary in which he recorded moments of his daily life. He became the barometer of the New York art scene and a pioneer of American avant-garde cinema. Every week, starting in 1958, he published his legendary “Movie Journal” column in The Village Voice, writing on a range of subjects that were by no means restricted to the world of film. He conducted numerous interviews with artists like Andy Warhol, Susan Sontag, John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Erick Hawkins, and Nam June Paik. Some of these will now appear for the first time in his Scrapbook of the Sixties. Mekas’s writings reveal him as a thoughtful diarist and an unparalleled chronicler of the times—a practice that he has continued now for over fifty years.

Jonas Mekas (*1922, Semeniškiai / Lithuania), lives and works in New York. Film-maker, writer, poet and co-founder of the Anthology Film Archives one of the world’s largest and most important repositories of avant-garde film. Mekas’s work has been exhibited in museums and festivals worldwide.

File under: Andy Warhol Erick Hawkins Hermann Nitsch Jack Smith John Lennon Jonas Mekas Nam June Paik Susan Sontag Yoko Ono Jonas Mekas Spector Books / Leipzig Art Film / Video Photography Theory / Essay

Pamela M. Lee
Forgetting the Art World

2017, English
Softcover, 248 pages, 21 x 24 cm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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It may be time to forget the art world--or at least to recognize that a certain historical notion of the art world is in eclipse. Today, the art world spins on its axis so quickly that its maps can no longer be read; its borders blur. In Forgetting the Art World, Pamela Lee connects the current state of this world to globalization and its attendant controversies. Contemporary art has responded to globalization with images of movement and migration, borders and multitudes, but Lee looks beyond iconography to view globalization as a world process. Rather than think about the “global art world” as a socioeconomic phenomenon, or in terms of the imagery it stages and sponsors, Lee considers “the work of art’s world” as a medium through which globalization takes place. She argues that the work of art is itself both object and agent of globalization.

Lee explores the ways that art actualizes, iterates, or enables the processes of globalization, offering close readings of works by artists who have come to prominence in the last two decades. She examines the “just in time” managerial ethos of Takahashi Murakami; the production of ethereal spaces in Andreas Gursky’s images of contemporary markets and manufacture; the logic of immanent cause dramatized in Thomas Hirschhorn’s mixed-media displays; and the “pseudo-collectivism” in the contemporary practice of the Atlas Group, the Raqs Media Collective, and others.

To speak of “the work of art’s world,” Lee says, is to point to both the work of art’s mattering and its materialization, to understand the activity performed by the object as utterly continuous with the world it at once inhabits and creates.

About the Author
Pamela M. Lee is Professor of Art History at Stanford University and the author of Object to Be Destroyed: The Work of Gordon Matta-Clark and Chronophobia: On Time in the Art of the 1960s, both published by the MIT Press.

Endorsements
“Pamela Lee makes a major contribution to our understanding of art’s globalization through her brilliant exploration of ‘worlds’ as a medium and ‘worlding’ as a process by which unruly networks of financial, political, and spectacular forces are crystallized as works of art.”
—David Joselit, Carnegie Professor, History of Art, Yale University

“For those who want to chart the difference between the world and world markets, for those nostalgic for genuinely intellectual depth in art criticism, and for those wanting to understand the outer, digital limits of art, this book will be your guide. Forgetting the Art World sets a new stage—a picture theory for art practice.”
—Molly Nesbit, Professor of Art History, Vassar College

“Pamela Lee presents an exciting, highly original discussion of what constitutes an art world at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Forgetting the Art World examines not only the processes sustaining the reciprocal relationship between globalization and contemporary art, but also what the art world needs to forget in order to assume its current condition. The analysis is timely and provocative, and will be essential reading for anyone concerned with contemporary art.”
—Alexander Alberro, author of Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity

File under: Andreas Gursky Raqs Media Collective Thomas Hirschhorn Josephine Meckseper Allan Sekula The Atlas Group Bernd and Hilla Becher Bernadette Corporation Steve McQueen Takashi Murakami Pamela M. Lee The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Theory / Essay Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Photography

MAY #17

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

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This issue seeks to reflect the post-Trump, post-Brexit and French pre-election climates at a time of reconfiguration of habitual political representations and polarizations. We decided to favour reports, a more reactive writing format on issues of concerns in art schools, universities, institutions: Angela Davis and Gina Dent’s talk in Paris, the exhibition Soulèvements at the Musée du Jeu de Paume, The Color Line at the Musée du Quai Branly on African-American artists and segregation…

American Goodness - Elise Duryee-Browner

If our Lives are Black. On Angela Davis and Gina Dent’s conference at La Maison de l’Amérique Latine, Paris - Claire Fontaine

αντιanti

Interview with Ilaria Bussoni. On the symposium “Sensible Commons” at GNAM, Rome - May
Dynamis, 2016–2017 Athens and Kassel simultaneously and in continuum - Georgia Sagri

On Soulèvements by Georges Didi-Huberman at Jeu de Paume, Paris - Giovanna Zapperi

On the film Two A.M. by Loretta Fahrenholz at Museum Fridericianum, Kassel - Tobias Madison

On Amelie von Wulffen at Barbara Weiss, Berlin - Jay Chung

On Yuki Kimura at CCA Wattis, San Francisco - J. Gordon Faylor

Behind Enemy Lines: Black Power & Taboo. On The Color Line: African-American Artists and Segregation at Musée du Quai Branly, Paris - Kari Rittenbach

On Morag Keil at Eden Eden, Berlin - Nicholas Tammens

On Greg Parma Smith at MAMCO, Geneva - Enzo Shalom

Francis Picabia seen from Switzerland and America. On Francis Picabia’s retrospectives at Kunsthaus Zurich and at MoMA, New York - Carole Boulbès

Villa Noailles - Jeanne Graff

Weather report

Limited Editions by Jean-Luc Moulène and Bernadette Corporation with Benjamin Alexander Huseby

Reprint booklet: LGG$B

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: Claire Fontaine Morag Keil Tobias Madison Loretta Fahrenholz Jay Chung Amelie von Wulffen Yuki Kimura Greg Parma-Smith Jean-Luc Moulène Bernadette Corporation Benjamin Alexander Huseby Francis Picabia Nicholas Tammens Giovanna Zapperi Jay Chung Georges Didi-Huberman J. Gordon Faylor Kari Rittenbach Enzo Shalom Carole Boulbès Jeanne Graff May Revue / Paris Periodicals Art Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Painting Feminism SALE

Out of Actions
Aktionismus, Body Art und Performance 1949-1979

1998, German
Hardcover, 366 pages, 22.5 x 31 cm
1st German edition, Out of print title / used / very good,
Published by Hatje Cantz / Berlin

$70.00 - Out of stock

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The long out-of-print heavyweight "Out of Actions" book (First German hardcover edition) that was published to accompany the spectacular 1998 Paul Schimmel-curated travelling exhibition. "Out of Actions" surveyed the broad international history and influence of post-war Performance Art, and the objects that exist today as its documentation. It features significant texts by Schimmel, Kristine Stiles, Guy Brett, Hubert Klocker, Shinichiro Osaki, Leslie King-Hammond and Lowery Stokes Sims, and Keiko Okamura.
This important and heavily researched document is lavishly illustrated throughout in colour and black and white, capturing the work and actions of the artists featured in the exhibition and essays: Marina Abramovic, Marina Abramovic and Ulay, Vito Acconci, Genpei Akasegawa, Laurie Anderson, Eleanor Antin, Rasheed Arseen, Mowry Baden, Artur Barrio, Joseph Beuys, Mark Boyle and Joan Hills, George Brecht, Stuart Brisley, Robert Delford Brown, Gunter Brus, Chris Burden, James Lee Byars, John Cage, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Lygia Clark, Pinchas Cohen Gan, Collective Action Group, Houston Conwill, Paul Cotton, COUM Transmissions, Guy de Cointet, Jim Dine, John Duncan, Felipe Ehrenberg, Roberto Evangelista, Valie Export, Robert Filliou, Rose Finn-Kelcey, Sherman Fleming, Lucio Fontana, Terry Fox, Howard Fried, Gideon Gechtman, Gilbert & George, Alberto Greco, Ion Grigorescu, Victor Grippo, Red Grooms, Guerrilla Art Action Group, David Hammons, Al Hansen, Maren Hassinger, Lynn Hershman, Dick Higgins, Tatsumi Hijikata, Susan Hiller, Rebecca Horn, Tehching Hsieh, Joan Jonas, Kim Jones, Michel Journiac, Akira Kanayama, Tadeusz Kantor, Allan Kaprow, Mike Kelley, Juergen Klauke, Yves Klein, Milan Knizak, Alison Knowles, Komar & Melamid, Jannis Kounellis, Shigeko Kubota, Tetsumi Kudo, Yayoi Kusama, Leslie Labowitz, Suzanne Lacy, John Latham, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Lea Lublin, George Maciunas, Leopoldo Maier, Piero Manzoni, Tom Marioni, Georges Mathieu, Gordon Matta-Clark, Paul McCarthy, Bruce McLean, David Medalla, Cildo Meireles, Ana Mendieta, Gustav Metzger, Marta Minujin, Jan Micoch, Linda Montano, Robert Morris, Otto Muehl, Saburo Murakami, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Bruce Nauman, Paul Neagu, Senga Nengudi, Joshua Neustein, Hermann Nitsch, Helio Oiticica, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Orlan, Raphael Montanez Ortiz, Lorenzo Pace, Nam June Paik, Gina Pane, Lygia Pape, Giuseppe Pinot Gallizio, Adrian Piper, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jackson Pollock, William Pope L., Robert Rauschenberg, Carlyle Reedy, Klaus Rinke, Ulrike Rosenbach, Dieter Roth, Zorka Saglova, Niki de Saint Phalle, Alfons Schilling, Tomas Schmit, Carolee Schneemann, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Bonnie Sherk, Shozo Shimamoto, Ushio Shinohara, Kazuo Shiraga, Barbara T. Smith, Daniel Spoerri, Petr Stembera, Wolfgang Stoerchle, Jiro Takamatsu, Atsuko Tanaka, Mark Thompson, Jean Tinguely, Rasa Todosijevic, Kerry Trengove, Ulay, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell, Franz Erhard Walther, Peter Weibel, Franz West, Hannah Wilke, Emmett Williams, and Zaj.
Scarce first German edition, published by Hatje Cantz.

File under: Niki de Saint-Phalle Cosey Fanni Tutti Vito Acconci Genpei Akasegawa Laurie Anderson Eleanor Antin Rasheed Arseen Mowry Baden Artur Barrio Joseph Beuys Mark Boyle Joan Hills George Brecht Stuart Brisley Robert Delford Brown Chris Burden James Lee Byars John Cage Marc Camille Chaimowicz Lygia Clark Pinchas Cohen Gan Collective Action Group Houston Conwill Paul Cotton COUM Transmissions Guy de Cointet Jim Dine John Duncan Felipe Ehrenberg Roberto Evangelista Valie Export Robert Filliou Rose Finn-Kelcey Sherman Fleming Lucio Fontana Terry Fox Howard Fried Gideon Gechtman Alberto Greco Ion Grigorescu Victor Grippo Red Grooms Guerrilla Art Action Group David Hammons Al Hansen Maren Hassinger Lynn Hershman Dick Higgins Tatsumi Hijikata Susan Hiller Rebecca Horn Tehching Hsieh Joan Jonas Kim Jones Michel Journiac Akira Kanayama Tadeusz Kantor Allan Kaprow Mike Kelley Yves Klein Milan Knizak Alison Knowles Komar & Melamid Jannis Kounellis Shigeko Kubota Tetsumi Kudo Yayoi Kusama Leslie Labowitz Suzanne Lacy John Latham Jean-Jacques Lebel Lea Lublin George Maciunas Leopoldo Maier Piero Manzoni Tom Marioni Georges Mathieu Gordon Matta-Clark Paul McCarthy Bruce McLean David Medalla Cildo Meireles Ana Mendieta Gustav Metzger Jan Micoch Linda Montano Robert Morris Otto Muehl Saburo Murakami Natsuyuki Nakanishi Bruce Nauman Paul Neagu Senga Nengudi Joshua Neustein Hermann Nitsch Claes Oldenburg Yoko Ono Orlan Raphael Montanez Ortiz Lorenzo Pace Nam June Paik Gina Pane Lygia Pape Giuseppe Pinot Gallizio Adrian Piper Michelangelo Pistoletto Jackson Pollock William Pope L. Robert Rauschenberg Carlyle Reedy Klaus Rinke Ulrike Rosenbach Dieter Roth Zorka Saglova Alfons Schilling Tomas Schmit Carolee Schneemann Rudolf Schwarzkogler Bonnie Sherk Shozo Shimamoto Ushio Shinohara Kazuo Shiraga Barbara T. Smith Daniel Spoerri Petr Stembera Wolfgang Stoerchle Jiro Takamatsu Atsuko Tanaka Mark Thompson Jean Tinguely Rasa Todosijevic Kerry Trengove Ulay Ben Vautier Wolf Vostell Franz Erhard Walther Peter Weibel Franz West Hannah Wilke Emmett Williams Zaj Marina Abramovič Günter Brus Gilbert & George Jürgen Klauke Marta Minujín Hélio Oiticica Paul Schimmel Kristine Stiles Guy Brett Hubert Klocker Shinichiro Osaki Leslie King-Hammond Lowery Stokes Sims Keiko Okamura Hatje Cantz / Berlin Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Painting Arte Povera Minimal Art Feminism Art Dada Film / Video Fluxus Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Pop Art Sound / Music Photography Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic

William E. Jones
Selections from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

2008, English
Softcover, 1st printing, 43 pages, 11 x 8.5"
Edition of 500,
Published by 2nd Cannons / Los Angeles

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Selections from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton telescopes 350 years, the period from the 1620s to the 1970s. It is what artist William E. Jones imagined Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy would have looked like had it appeared in the pages of Drummer magazine. In preparing the book, Jones condensed Burton’s vast 450,000-word masterpiece of 17th Century English literature to a small fraction of its length, and paired the excerpts with vintage images of leather men at work and play. Robert Burton was fascinated by the variations of human sexuality, albeit more as an observer than as a participant. He wrote about sex in covert Latin passages that are newly translated in Jones’s book. Selections from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton is a delightfully perverse condensation of Burton’s speculations on the sexual proclivities that subsequent generations of gay men put into exuberant practice.

File under: William E. Jones William E. Jones 2nd Cannons / Los Angeles Art Eros Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare SALE LGBTQ+

William E. Jones
Heliogabalus

2009, English
Softcover, 43 pages, 21.5 x 28 cm
Edition of 500,
Published by 2nd Cannons / Los Angeles

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The third release in a series of books by William E. Jones, Heliogabalus pays tribute to the most decadent Roman Emperor. Who was this creature who called himself Elagabalus, after El Gabal, god of the sun? What to make of his addiction to luxury, his overbearing mother, his controversial genitals? Enlightening texts can be found in the latest 2nd Cannons publication. The book features accounts of Heliogabalus by Edward Gibbon, Herodian, Cassius Dio, and the spurious Aelius Lampridius. It also contains a contemporary text, “This Necrophilic Strategy Entails Some Risk,” a collaboration by Bruce Hainley and William E. Jones, previously published only in expurgated form, and now presented with all lurid details intact.

Varius Avitus Bassanius, later known in his infamy as Heliogabalus, ruled Rome from 218 to 222 of the Common Era. After he was murdered by the soldiers who had formerly supported him, his successor, Alexander Severus, ordered that all sculptures of Heliogabalus be desecrated. The iconoclasm directed against Heliogabalus was so nearly complete that very few portraits of him still exist. William E. Jones has somewhat opportunistically dealt with the paucity of images of this imperial person by inserting advertisements from a bygone era at intervals in Heliogabalus. These advertisements, and the book’s design in general, derive from the pages of that avatar of 1970s urban culture, After Dark.

File under: William E. Jones Bruce Hainley William E. Jones 2nd Cannons / Los Angeles Art Eros Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare SALE LGBTQ+

Texte Zur Kunst No. 106
JUNE 2017 : "THE NEW NEW LEFT“

2017, English / German
Softcover, 248 pages, 23 x 16.5 cm
Published by Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin

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The theme of this issue - The New New Left - is not entirely “new new,” as indeed it relates to the old anti-capitalist Left in its insistence on a theoretical analysis of capitalism and the price paid by many in such a system. But as the discourses and strategies long associated with the Left (workerism, identity politics, or the mode of the avant-gardist troll) have been adopted by anti-progressive outlets, it has become increasingly complex to locate a Left stance from which to effectively speak and act. This issue explores the affective mechanisms and media strategies – from the rise of viral content (memes) to the harvesting and right-wing politicization of emotions – that are producing our post-millennial, post-financial crisis, post-Brexit/Trump present.

Issue No. 106 / June 2017 "The New New Left“

Table Of Contents

Preface
Cultural Resources / Sabine Hark And Sighard Neckel In Conversation On Feelings Of Resentment And Revenge

Verena Dengler
Fake Left, Punch Right

Jaleh Mansoor
Unveiling And/Or Re-Masking / Notes On The Political Dialectics Of The Opacity Of The Sign

Seth Price
Wrong Seeing, Odd Thinking, Strange Action

Matt Goerzen
Notes Toward The Memes Of Production

Diedrich Diederichsen
The Tough Stuff / “Populism," "Political Correctness," And The Like

Simon Denny
Face The Market On Your Own

Klaus Walter
Liberté, Egalité, Beyoncé?

Dan Bodan
Europe, 2016-17 / Selected Status Updates Of Recent Months
Bildstrecke

Kayode Ojo
Become What You Fear

New Development
Ana Teixeira Pinto
Artwashing / Nrx And The Alt-Right

Rotation
Obsessive, Compulsive, Disorder / Johanna Burton On Douglas Crimp’s “Before Pictures”
Probing Attitudes / Philipp Ekardt On “Putting Rehearsals To The Test” (Buchmann, Lafer, Ruhm, Eds.)
In Experimenten Seine Vernunft Aufs Spiel Setzen / Stefan Römer Über Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, „Der Kupferstecher Und Der Philosoph. Albert Flocon Trifft Gaston Bachelard“

Reviews
Nachrichten Aus Der Ideologischen Antike / Georg Imdahl Über Wade Guyton Im Museum Brandhorst
Schwere Verspannungen Lösen / Eva Scharrer Über Nairy Baghramian Im S.M.A.K. In Gent
Deviant Art / Dena Yago On Danny Mcdonald At House Of Gaga, Los Angeles
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is / Tina Schulz Über Nora Schultz Bei Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
Reverse Cubism Als Betrachtungsirrtum / Gunter Reski Über Pieter Schoolwerth Bei Capitain Petzel, Berlin
Mad World / Steven Warwick On Liz Craft & Pentti Monkkonen At Liszt, Berlin
Public Viewing / Moritz Scheper Über Sadie Benning In Der Kunsthalle Basel
Eye In The Sky / Ilya Lipkin On Ned Vena At Societé, Berlin
Kritische Stoffe, Shoppinglust Und Andere Ambivalenzen / Ines Kleesattel Über Ines Doujak (Und John Barker) Im Württembergischen Kunstverein
In Einem Anderem Land / Christian Kravagna Über „The Color Line“ Im Musée Du Quai Branly, Paris
Mehr Epistemischer Ungehorsam! / Susanne Witzgall Über „Postwar: Kunst Zwischen Pazifik Und Atlantik 1945–1965“ Im Haus Der Kunst, München
With Or Without / Christian Philipp Müller On Yuji Agematsu At Miguel Abreu Gallery, Nyc
Kommunikation Ist Kein Objekt / Fiona Geuß Über Ian Wilson In Den Kw Institute For Contemporary Art, Berlin

Nachruf
Gustav Metzger (1926–2017): Ein Nachruf Von Sabine Breitwieser

Edition

Anne Imhof
Sean Landers

File under: Anne Imhof Danny McDonald Dena Yago Ian Wilson Liz Craft Nairy Baghramian Ned Vena Nora Schultz Pentti Monkkonen Sadie Benning Sean Landers Simon Denny Wade Guyton Yuji Agematsu Ana Teixeira Pinto Christian Philipp Müller Dan Bodan Dena Yago Diedrich Diederichsen Douglas Crimp Eva Scharrer Ilya Lipkin Johanna Burton Kayode Ojo Klaus Walter Matt Goerzen Philipp Ekardt Sabine Hark Sighard Neckel Steven Warwick Tina Schulz Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin Art Film / Video Periodicals Theory / Essay

Giger's Alien
Film Design

1979, English
Softcover, 76 pages, 29.7 x 29.7 cm
2nd 1994 print, out of print title / used*,
Published by Morpheus International / US

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"Giger's Alien provides a complete record of the months and months of painstaking work that resulted in two hours of terrifying celluloid. Sketches, original paintings, photographs of scenery and the Alien under construction and scenes from the film are linked by Giger's detailed diary of his thoughts and actions at the time".
First published in 1979, here the Morpheus International second printing, "Giger's Alien" is a visually stunning and wonderfully insightful book for any fan of the art of H.R. Giger or in the production of science-fiction.

Condition: Good (general light creasing wear to covers and inscription by previous owner to front endpaper, otherwise tight and clean throughout) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: H.R. Giger Morpheus International / US Art Graphic Design / Typography Drawing Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation

F.R. David
Spring 2017 : Inverted Commas

2017, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 12 x 19 cm
Published by KW Institute for Contemporary Art / Berlin Uh Books / Amsterdam

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F.R.DAVID is a typographical journal, edited by Will Holder, dealing with the organisation of reading and writing in contemporary art practises. This 13th issue of F.R.DAVID is edited with Riet Wijnen, and has its origins in her Registry of Pseudonyms, an online database which accounts for who is who and why who is who. ‘Inverted Commas’ follows ‘pseudonym’ through names, naming, bodies, brains, self, author, other, reader, labour.

Includes: Michael Asher, Joan Didion, Harun Farocki, Sven Lütticken, Lucy Lippard, Barbara Guest, A.H. Nijhoff, Will Holder, Pauline Oliveros, and many more.

File under: Harun Farocki Michael Asher Pauline Oliveros Will Holder A.H. Nijhoff Barbara Guest Harun Farocki Joan Didion Sven Lütticken Will Holder Lucy R. Lippard KW Institute for Contemporary Art / Berlin Uh Books / Amsterdam Art Graphic Design / Typography Fiction / Poetry Film / Video Periodicals Poetry Sound / Music Theory / Essay

Film As A Subversive Art
by Amos Vogel

2005, English
Softcover, 335 pages, 22.5 x 16 cm
2005 edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by D.A.P. / New York

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The now scarce 2005 reprint edition of one of the greatest books on film. A classic returns! The original edition of Amos Vogel's seminal book, Film as a Subversive Art was first published in 1974, and has been out of print since 1987. According to Vogel--founder of Cinema 16, North America's legendary film society--the book details the "accelerating worldwide trend toward a more liberated cinema, in which subjects and forms hitherto considered unthinkable or forbidden are boldly explored."
So ahead of his time was Vogel that the ideas that he penned some 30 years ago are still relevant today, and readily accessible in this classic volume. Accompanied by over 300 rare film stills, Film as a Subversive Art analyzes how aesthetic, sexual and ideological subversives use one of the most powerful art forms of our day to exchange or manipulate our conscious and unconscious, demystify visual taboos, destroy dated cinematic forms, and undermine existing value systems and institutions. This subversion of form, as well as of content, is placed within the context of the contemporary world view of science, philosophy, and modern art, and is illuminated by a detailed examination of over 500 films, including many banned, rarely seen, or never released works.
This 2005 edition, published by D.A.P./C.T. Editions, also quickly went out of print and it has not been available since.

Includes Luis Buñuel, Dusan Makavejev, Luis Buñuel, Stan Brakhage, Bruce Connor, Roman Polanski, Vera Chytilova, Alfred Hitchcock, Carolee Schneemann, Peter Watkins, Tony Conrad, Jonas Mekas, Andrei Tarkovsky, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Bresson, Luchino Visconti, Chris Marker, Federico Fellini, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Kate Millett, John Cassavettes, Shuji Terayama, William Klein, Russ Meyers, Louis Malle, Woody Allen, Yoko Ono, Michelangelo Antonioni, Agnes Varda, Walerian Borowczyk, Andy Warhol, Ingmar Bergman, Jacques Rivette, Sergei M. Eisenstein, Ingmar Bergman, Lindsay Anderson, Roberto Rossellini, Marguerite Duras, Charlie Chaplin, Paul Morrissey, Joseph Losey, Otto Muehl, Hans Richter, Fritz Lang, Jean Genet, Kenneth Anger, Maya Deren, Jean-Luc Godard, Frans Zwartjes, Arrabal, Jack Smith, Stan Vanderbeek, Werner Herzog, Morgan Fisher, Jean Renior, Michael Snow, Robert Frank, Jan Svankmajer, Sam Peckinpah, Paul Sharits, Akira Kurosawa, Yoko Ono, Orson Welles, Frederick Wiseman, Ken Jacobs, Martin Scorcese, Jean Cocteau, Manuel Octavio Gomez, Stanley Kubrick, Norman McLaren, Albert Maysles and David Maysles, to name only a few of the hundreds of film-makers whose works are featured in this essential film book.

Condition: Good (tight, clean copy throughout with only light creasing to covers and light wear) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Agnès Varda Akira Kurosawa Albert Maysles and David Maysles Alfred Hitchcock Andrei Tarkovsky Andy Warhol Arrabal Bruce Conner Carolee Schneemann Charlie Chaplin Chris Marker Dušan Makavejev Federico Fellini Frans Zwartjes Frederick Wiseman Fritz Lang Hans Richter Ingmar Bergman Jack Smith Jacques Rivette Jan Svankmajer Jean Cocteau Jean Genet Jean-Luc Godard Jean Renior Jonas Mekas Joseph Losey Kate Millett Ken Jacobs Kenneth Anger Lindsay Anderson Louis Malle Luchino Visconti Luis Buñuel Manuel Octavio Gomez Marcel Duchamp Marguerite Duras Martin Scorcese Maya Deren Michael Snow Michelangelo Antonioni Morgan Fisher Norman Mclaren Otto Muehl Paul Morrissey Paul Sharits Peter Watkins Rainer Werner Fassbinder Robert Bresson Robert Frank Roberto Rossellini Roman Polanski Russ Meyers Sam Peckinpah Sergei Eisenstein Shuji Terayama Stan Brakhage Stan VanDerBeek Stanley Kubrick Tony Conrad Vera Chytilova Walérian Borowczyk Werner Herzog William Klein Woody Allen Yoko Ono John Cassavetes Amos Vogel D.A.P. / New York Art Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Surrealism Theory / Essay

Trisha Donnelly
Wolfgang-Hahn-Preis 2017

2017, English
Softcover, 32 pages, 20 x 27
Published by Ludwig Museum / Cologne Walther König / Köln

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Catalogue published on the occasion of Trisha Donnelly's 2017 solo exhibition at Cologne's Ludwig Museum (organised by Suzanne Cotter) and her award of the Wolfgang-Hahn-Preis.

Trisha Donnelly was born in 1974 in San Francisco, California. She completed the Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of California in 1995 and the Master of Fine Arts at the Yale University School of Art in 2000. Since 1999, she has participated in exhibitions, having held several institutional exhibitions at Villa Serralves in Porto (2016), the Serpentine Gallery in London (2014), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2013), Portico, Frankfurt (2010), the Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna (2009), the Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia (both in 2008), the Modern Art Oxford (2007) 2005). In the last ten years, she has appeared in numerous group exhibitions, including at the 54th and 55th Venice Biennale (2011 and 2013), at dOCUMENTA (13) (2012), in The Quick and the Dead at the Walker Art Center (2009) and Il Tempo del Postino (2007 in Manchester, 2009 in Basel). In Germany, Donnelly had her first institutional solo exhibition in 2005 at the Kölnischer Kunstverein within the framework of the Central Art Prize awarded to her in 2004. In 2015 the Julia Stoschek Collection showed Trisha Donnelly's work as an exhibition number ten. Early exhibitions took place, among others, at her Galerie Air de Paris in Paris, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, and Casey Kaplan in New York. There she caught the eye in 2002 with her performance, When she dressed as a messenger of Napoleon on a horse, she rode before Casey Kaplan's gallery and read a mysterious message. An action that was repeated in the Cologne Kunstverein in 2005, in that a black horse was supposed to have been guided through the exhibition hall - an event whose facticity the artist likes to leave open.

This play with the unknown and the production of situations in which the viewer is completely thrown back to his own individual perception without a reference frame may be one of the most important features of Trisha Donnelly's work. An approach to their partly also immaterial work can ultimately only happen if one encounters them. Donnelly's avoidance of the public, explanatory texts, or title-bearing titles points to a strategy that is not oriented towards events and spectacles. It is rather the inexplicable, rumorous experiences or experiences that Donnelly tries to make experience in her works. In an interview with Cathrin Lorch in 2005 (Kunstbulletin, September, 2005), Donnelly once mentioned that they are trying to condense things. Each piece of work was created in an attempt to search for patterns that created a "mental sculpture". In addition to the already mentioned Central Art Prize, Donnelly received the Rob Pruitt's Art Award, the Prix de la Fondation Luma in Arles in 2010, the 10th Prize of the Sharjah Biennial in 2011 and the International Faber-Castell Prize for Drawing in 2012. In 2011 she was among the finalists for the Hugo Boss Prize 2012, awarded by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. In addition to the already mentioned Central Art Prize, Donnelly received the Rob Pruitt's Art Award, the Prix de la Fondation Luma in Arles in 2010, the 10th Prize of the Sharjah Biennial in 2011 and the International Faber-Castell Prize for Drawing in 2012. In 2011 she was among the finalists for the Hugo Boss Prize 2012, awarded by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. In addition to the already mentioned Central Art Prize, Donnelly received the Rob Pruitt's Art Award, the Prix de la Fondation Luma in Arles in 2010, the 10th Prize of the Sharjah Biennial in 2011 and the International Faber-Castell Prize for Drawing in 2012. In 2011 she was among the finalists for the Hugo Boss Prize 2012, awarded by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.

File under: Trisha Donnelly Barbara Engelbach Suzanne Cotter Ludwig Museum / Cologne Walther König / Köln Art Film / Video Photography Sculpture / Installation

Hans Ulrich Obrist
Conversations in Mexico

2016, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 352 pages, 28.7 x 20 cm
Published by Fundación Alumnos47Cosentino / Mexico City

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Edited by Karen Marta. Text by Patrick Charpenel, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, Teodoro González de León, Graciela Iturbide, Esquivel!, Santiago Genovés, Carlos Fuentes, Margo Glantz, Elena Poniatowska, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Leonora Carrington, Felipe Ehrenberg, Pedro Friedeberg, Juan Soriano and Eduardo Terrazas

In 2002 Hans Ulrich Obrist began his conversation with a diverse and influential group of Mexican pioneers during an exhibition at Luis Barragán's house in Mexico City. Over a decade in the making, Conversations in Mexico beautifully captures how the Mexican cultural scene has pivoted several times--perhaps most importantly around the student protests at the 1968 Olympic Games--to cultivate a wholly radical and innovative aesthetic, one that is illuminated in the iconic buildings of Pedro Ramírez Vázquez and Teodoro González de León; the people and landscapes photographed by Graciela Iturbide; the music of Esquivel!; the incredible voyages of Santiago Genovés; the utopian politics and literature of Carlos Fuentes, Margo Glantz and Elena Poniatowska; the singular vision of Alejandro Jodorowsky; and the uncompromising art of Leonora Carrington, Felipe Ehrenberg, Pedro Friedeberg, Juan Soriano and Eduardo Terrazas.

Published by Fundación Alumnos47Cosentino, Mexico City

File under: Alejandro Jodorowsky Eduardo Terrazas Felipe Ehrenberg Graciela Iturbide Juan Soriano Leonora Carrington Pedro Friedeberg Pedro Ramírez Vázquez Teodoro González de León Luis Barragán Hans Ulrich Obrist Fundación Alumnos47Cosentino / Mexico City Architecture / Interior Art Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Photography Sound / Music Theory / Essay

Spike #51
Spring 2017 "Can Art Help?"

2017, English / German
Softcover, 180 pages, 21.7 x 28 cm
Published by Spike / Berlin

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Spike #51 raises the question of the social role of art, and many more, with: Grzegorz Kowalski; Bob Flanagan's Visiting Hours; Angela Bulloch on Damien Hirst; Cyprien Gaillard's Desniansky Raion; a roundtable with Chus Martínez, Michaela Meise and Dieter Lesage; Dorothea Von Hantelmann; Kenny Schachter; Daniel Baumann; the portraits of Dorothy Iannone, Tetsumi Kudo, and Marie Angeletti; an interview with Josef Strau; an essay by Jan Verwoert; the TV series The Crown; Andrew Berardini on Jimmie Durham's retrospective in LA…

The power of art and its social role are the subjects of a roundtable discussion with curator Chus Martínez, artist Michaela Meise and philosopher Dieter Lesage at Spike Berlin. Josef Strau talks about how art saved him, while Kenny Schachter finds it both a remedy and a defence. Daniel Baumann delves into the promise of form, and for the critic Jan Verwoert a key function of art is that it teaches forms of conduct. Profiles on the painter Dorothy Iannone and her connections to Fluxus, and the Japanese artist Tetsumi Kudo and his “philosophy of impotence”, are joined by pieces taking on the decline of the supermodel, the Netflix series The Crown, Jimmie Durham's retrospective at the Hammer Museum, and much more.

Founded by the artist Rita Vitorelli in 2004, Spike Art Quarterly is a quarterly magazine on contemporary art published in English and German which aims at sustaining a vigorous, independent, and meaningful art criticism. At the heart of each issue are feature essays by leading critics and curators on artists making work that plays a significant role in current debates. Situated between art theory and practice and ranging far beyond its editorial base in Vienna and Berlin, Spike is both rigorously academic and stylishly essayistic. Spike's renowned pool of contributing writers, artists, collectors and gallerists observe and reflect on contemporary art and analyse international developments in contemporary culture, offering its readers both intimacy and immediacy through an unusually open editorial approach that is not afraid of controversy and provocation.

File under: Bob Flanagan Cyprien Gaillard Damien Hirst Dorothy Iannone Grzegorz Kowalski Jimmie Durham Josef Strau Marie Angeletti Michaela Meise Tetsumi Kudo Andrew Berardini Angela Bulloch Chus Martínez Daniel Baumann Dieter Lesage Dorothea von Hantelmann Jan Verwoert Kenny Schachter Spike / Berlin Art Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals Photography Theory / Essay

Mousse 58
Learning from Athens : An Issue about documenta 14. April-May 2017

2017, English / Italian
Softcover, 296 pages, 24 x 35 cm
Published by Mousse Publishing / Milan

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This issue dedicated to documenta 14 addresses themes, artists, and projects spanning between Athens and Kassel. Including: Moyra Davey by Quinn Latimer; Vivian Suter & Elisabeth Sussman; Roee Rosen; “Preliminary notes for a Black manifesto” by Rasheed Araeen; Khvay Samnang “; The Globalised Museum?” by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung; articles by Kirsty Bell, Irena Haiduk, Pierre Bal-Blanc, Neni Panourgiá, Dieter Roelstraete, and more.

Mousse is a bimonthly magazine published in Italian and English. Established in 2006, Mousse contains interviews, conversations, and essays by some of the most important figures in international criticism, visual arts, and curating today, alternated with a series of distinctive articles in a unique tabloid format. Mousse keeps tabs on international trends in contemporary culture thanks to its city editors in major art capitals such as Berlin, New York, London, Paris, and Los Angeles.
Mousse (Mousse Publishing) is also publisher of catalogues, essays and curatorial projects, artist books and editions.

File under: Geoffrey Farmer Irena Haiduk Khvay Samnang Moyra Davey Rasheed Araeen Roee Rosen Vivian Suter Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung Dieter Roelstraete Elisabeth Sussman Kirsty Bell Neni Panourgiá Pierre Bal-Blanc Quinn Latimer Mousse Publishing / Milan Art Curatorial Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals Photography Theory / Essay

Mousse 57
February-March 2017

2017, English / Italian
Softcover, 296 pages, 24 x 35 cm
Published by Mousse Publishing / Milan

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Dean Daderko, Arthur Jafa and Sondra Perry on blackness, technology and Alien ontologies; Stefanie Hessler exchanges oceanic ideas with Heidi Ballet; Puppies Puppies talk to Tenzing Barshee; Hannah Black as seen by Rahel Aima; essays by Alexander Provan, Orit Gat and Jens Hoffmann; William Pope.L and Mia Locks; Sam Thorne with Marianna Simnett; Anna Gritz and Eric Baudelaire; Luke Willis Thompson; Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme; Raúl de Nieves, and more.

Mousse is a bimonthly magazine published in Italian and English. Established in 2006, Mousse contains interviews, conversations, and essays by some of the most important figures in international criticism, visual arts, and curating today, alternated with a series of distinctive articles in a unique tabloid format. Mousse keeps tabs on international trends in contemporary culture thanks to its city editors in major art capitals such as Berlin, New York, London, Paris, and Los Angeles.
Mousse (Mousse Publishing) is also publisher of catalogues, essays and curatorial projects, artist books and editions.

File under: Arthur Jafa Eric Baudelaire Hannah Black Jana Euler Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys Lucie Stahl Puppies Puppies Raúl de Nieves Sondra Perry William Pope.L Dean Daderko Jens Hoffmann Orit Gat Stefanie Hessler Tenzing Barshee Mousse Publishing / Milan Art Curatorial Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals Photography Theory / Essay

Mousse 56
2006-2016 A Small Anthology

2017, English / Italian
Softcover, 440 pages, 18.5 x 26.5 cm
Published by Mousse Publishing / Milan

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10-year anniversary special issue: a selection of essays, interviews, conversations, and projects appeared in the first ten years of Mousse.

Featuring: Chantal Akerman, Cecilia Alemani, Jennifer Allen, Kai Althoff, Bruce Altshuler, Ed Atkins, Lutz Bacher, Darren Bader, Alex Bag, John Baldessari, Phyllida Barlow, Kirsty Bell, Andrew Berardini, Jonathan Berger, Michael Bracewell, Tom Burr, Maurizio Cattelan, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Stuart Comer, Lauren Cornell, Nicholas Cullinan, Roberto Cuoghi, Nick Currie, Massimo De Carlo, Gino De Dominicis, Gigiotto Del Vecchio, Simon Denny, Brian Dillon, Jimmie Durham, Dominic Eichler, Peter Eleey, Matias Faldbakken, Luigi Fassi, Elena Filipovic, Morgan Fisher, Isa Genzken, Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi, Liam Gillick, Massimiliano Gioni, Isabelle Graw, Ed Halter, Jens Hoffmann, Judith Hopf, William E. Jones, Omar Kholeif, Alexander Kluge, Jiří Kovanda, William Leavitt, Elisabeth Lebovici, Andrea Lissoni, Helen Marten, Chus Martínez, Nick Mauss, Lucy McKenzie, Fionn Meade, Simone Menegoi, John Menick, Ute Meta Bauer, Massimo Minini, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Trevor Paglen, Stefania Palumbo, Francesco Pedraglio, Otto Piene, Laura Poitras, Elizabeth Price, Seth Price, Laure Prouvost, Alessandro Rabottini, Carol Rama, Filipa Ramos, Jason Rhoades, Dieter Roelstraete, Esperanza Rosales, Nicolaus Schafhausen, Fender Schrade, Stuart Sherman, Frances Stark, Jamie Stevens, Hito Steyerl, Sturtevant, Sabrina Tarasoff, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Oscar Tuazon, Giorgio Verzotti, Jan Verwoert, Francesco Vezzoli, Adrián Villar Rojas, Peter Wächtler, Ian Wallace, Klaus Weber, Cathy Wilkes, Christopher Williams, Jordan Wolfson.

Mousse is a bimonthly magazine published in Italian and English. Established in 2006, Mousse contains interviews, conversations, and essays by some of the most important figures in international criticism, visual arts, and curating today, alternated with a series of distinctive articles in a unique tabloid format. Mousse keeps tabs on international trends in contemporary culture thanks to its city editors in major art capitals such as Berlin, New York, London, Paris, and Los Angeles.
Mousse (Mousse Publishing) is also publisher of catalogues, essays and curatorial projects, artist books and editions.

File under: Alex Bag Carol Rama Cathy Wilkes Chantal Akerman Christopher Williams Darren Bader Ed Atkins Frances Stark Helen Marten Hito Steyerl Ian Wallace Isa Genzken Jason Rhoades Jimmie Durham Jiri Kovanda John Baldessari Jordan Wolfson Judith Hopf Kai Althoff Laure Prouvost Lauren Cornell Liam Gillick Lucy Mckenzie Lutz Bacher Marc Camille Chaimowicz Matias Faldbakken Maurizio Cattelan Morgan Fisher Nick Mauss Oscar Tuazon Peter Wächtler Phyllida Barlow Seth Price Simon Denny Stuart Sherman Sturtevant Tom Burr William E. Jones Brian Dillon Cecilia Alemani Chus Martínez Dieter Roelstraete Dominic Eichler Elena Filipovic Filipa Ramos Fionn Meade Frances Stark Hans Ulrich Obrist Hito Steyerl Isabelle Graw Jan Verwoert Jennifer Allen Jens Hoffmann Jimmie Durham Jonathan Berger Kirsty Bell Lauren Cornell Liam Gillick Michael Bracewell Nicolaus Schafhausen Peter Eleey Peter Wächtler Seth Price Ute Meta Bauer Mousse Publishing / Milan Art Conceptual Art Curatorial Film / Video Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals Photography Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay

Ordinary Man of Cinema
By Jean Louis Schefer

2017, English
Softcover, 224 pages, 15.2 x 22.9 cm
Published by Semiotext(e) / Los Angeles The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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When it was first published in French in 1980, The Ordinary Man of Cinema signaled a shift from the French film criticism of the 1960s to a new breed of film philosophy that disregarded the semiotics and post-structuralism of the preceding decades. Schefer describes the schizophrenic subjectivity the cinema offers us: the film as a work projected without memory, viewed by (and thereby lived by) a subject scarred and shaped by memory. The Ordinary Man of Cinema delineates the phenomenology of movie-going and the fleeting, impalpable zone in which an individual’s personal memory confronts the cinema’s ideological images to create a new way of thinking.

It is also a book replete with mummies and vampires, tyrants and prostitutes, murderers and freaks—figures that are fundamental to Schefer’s conception of the cinema, because the worlds that cinema traverses (our worlds, interior and exterior) are worlds of pain, unconscious desire, decay, repressed violence, and the endless mystery of the body. Fear and pleasure breed monsters, and such are what Schefer’s emblematic “ordinary man” seeks and encounters when engaging in the disordering of the ordinary that the movie theater offers him. Among other things, Schefer considers “The Gods” in 31 brief essays on film stills and “The Criminal Life” with reflections on spectatorship and autobiography.

While Schefer’s book has long been standard reading in French film scholarship, until now it has been something of a missing link to the field (and more broadly, French theory) in English. It is one of the building blocks of more widely known and read translations of Gilles Deleuze (who cited this book as an influence on his own cinema books) and Jacques Rancière.

Translated by Max Cavitch, Noura Wedell and Paul Grant

About the Author
Jean Louis Schefer (born in 1938) is a prolific and influential scholar of art history, theology, philosophy, music, and linguistics, as well as an author of fiction.

File under: Jean Louis Schefer Semiotext(e) / Los Angeles The MIT Press / Massachusetts Film / Video Theory / Essay

Kate Cooper
LOOK BOOK

2016, English
Softcover, 80 pages, 24 x 33 cm
Published by KW Institute for Contemporary Art / Berlin Sternberg Press / Berlin

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Edited by Ellen Blumenstein, Heike Catherina Mertens
Texts by Hannah Black, Ellen Blumenstein, Christina Weiss, Catherine Wood

This publication accompanies the first institutional solo show by Kate Cooper, winner of the 2014 Schering Stiftung Art Award. Exploring the format and presentation inherent to image production, Cooper returns to the CGI female models used in her exhibition at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, to create a new series of works situated within the fictional space of the lookbook.

Through her videos, exhibitions, and photographic works, Cooper explores the role of gender and what agency images might possess in and of themselves. Producing images becomes akin to building infrastructure; her computer-generated bodies are imbued with power and put to work. The imagery of advertising is hacked. The female labor inherent in these modes of production becomes refocused in an economy of withdrawal, enacting a refusal of representation.

Along with Cooper’s new series of images, LOOK BOOK includes a new short story by Hannah Black titled “Personal Trainer,” appendices by KW curator Ellen Blumenstein, an introduction by Christina Weiss, and subtitles and slogans (“Is seeing everything? Are you all-unseeing?”) by Catherine Wood.

Copublished with KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Design by Michael Oswell

File under: Hannah Black Kate Cooper Catherine Wood Christina Weiss Ellen Blumenstein Hannah Black KW Institute for Contemporary Art / Berlin Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Film / Video Photography

Invisible Adversaries
edited by Lauren Cornell

2016, English
Hardcover, 312 pages, 22 x 29 cm
Published by Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College / New York

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'Invisible Adversaries' was a major exhibition curated by Lauren Cornell and Tom Eccles inspired by the 1976 feature film by the radical Austrian artist Valie Export. The film presents a woman’s struggle to retain her sense of self against hostile alien forces that appear increasingly ubiquitous, colonizing the minds of all those around her. Motifs from the film – among them, architecture’s influence on identity; feminist critique; and the power of political fantasy – operate as filters through which to consider significant pieces from the Marieluise Hessel Collection.

With works by over 50 artists including Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Chantal Akerman, Kai Althoff, Janine Antoni, Ida Applebroog, Phyllida Barlow, Lynda Benglis, Barbara Bloom, Paul Chan, Patty Chang, Anne Collier, Rineke Dijkstra, Trisha Donnelly, VALIE EXPORT, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Isa Genzken, Liam Gillick, K8 Hardy, Rachel Harrison, Mona Hatoum, Roni Horn, Emily Jacir, Annette Kelm, Leigh Ledare, Nikki S. Lee, Sarah Lucas, Tala Madani, Christian Marclay, Helen Marten, Ulrike Müller, Bruce Nauman, Tony Oursler, Philippe Parreno, William Pope.L, Seth Price, Magali Reus, Rachel Rose, Thomas Ruff, Ilene Segalove, Cindy Sherman, Stephen Shore, Diane Simpson, Lorna Simpson, Jo Spence, Hito Steyerl, Tunga, Gillian Wearing, Martha Wilson, and Krzysztof Wodiczko, amongst others.

This 300-page publication designed by Zak Group with original essays by nine influential writers, scholars and artists: Zach Blas, Johanna Fateman, Nav Haq, Vít Havránek, J. Hoberman, Alex Kitnick, Tavia Nyong’O, Lauren O’Neill-Butler, and Julian Rose. The catalogue also includes original interviews with VALIE EXPORT, Trevor Paglen, and Hito Steyerl.

File under: Anne Collier Annette Kelm Barbara Bloom Bruce Nauman Chantal Akerman Christian Marclay Cindy Sherman Diane Simpson Eija-Liisa Ahtila Emily Jacir Gillian Wearing Hans-Peter Feldmann Helen Marten Hito Steyerl Ida Applebroog Ilene Segalove Isa Genzken Janine Antoni Jo Spence K8 Hardy Kai Althoff Krzysztof Wodiczko Leigh Ledare Liam Gillick Lorna Simpson Lynda Benglis Magali Reus Martha Wilson Mona Hatoum Nikki S. Lee Patty Chang Paul Chan Philippe Parreno Phyllida Barlow Rachel Harrison Rachel Rose Rineke Dijkstra Roni Horn Sarah Lucas Seth Price Stephen Shore Tala Madani Thomas Ruff Tony Oursler Trisha Donnelly Tunga Ulrike Müller Valie Export William Pope.L Alex Kitnick J. Hoberman Johanna Fateman Julian Rose Lauren Cornell Lauren O’Neill-Butler Nav Haq Tavia Nyong’o Vit Havranek Zach Blas Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College / New York Art Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Photography Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections

Film
Vol. 51 Spring 1968

1968, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 42 pages, 14 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / Used*,
Published by Contemporary Films Limited / London Federation of Film Societies / London

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Film was the magazine of the Federation of Film Societies, published in London.
Vol. 51 Spring 1968 features articles on Alain Robbe-Grillet, Eric Rohmer, Kirsten Stenbaek, Jonas Cornell, Vera Chytilova, Dusan Makavejev, Jean Renoir, B. P. Schulberg, and much more.
Cover image: Vera Chytilova's "Daisies"

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

File under: Alain Robbe-Grillet Dušan Makavejev Éric Rohmer Vera Chytilova Contemporary Films Limited / London Federation of Film Societies / London Art Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay

René Block
Ich Kenne Kein Weekend. Schriften und Dokumente Seit 1964

2016, English / German
Softcover, 540 pages, 22 x 30 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

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Having represented Beuys, Richter and Polke, German gallery owner , art publisher, art collector and curator René Block (born 1942) ranks among the central figures of the 1960s avant-garde. This publication collects writings by and interviews with Block, scanned from their original publications and organized chronologically, as well as an illustrated published history, artist portraits (taken by Block), performance ephemera, bibliography, and more. An enormous book that, via Block, encompasses the work of so many important movements and figures of 1960s - 1990s art.
Although primarily a German language publication, many of the original articles are in English. Regardless of language, the valuable historical listings translate.

File under: Allan Kaprow Andy Warhol Bernhard Hoeke Blinky Palermo Carolee Schneemann Dieter Roth Gerhard Richter Gunther Uecker Henning Christiansen Ivan Wyschnegradsky John Cage Jörg Immendorff Joseph Beuys Konrad Lueg Lawrence Weiner Marcel Broodthaers Nam June Paik Percy Grainger Sigmar Polke Terry Fox Wolf Vostell Yoko Ono K. P. Brehmer René Block Walther König / Köln Art Conceptual Art Curatorial Film / Video Fluxus Minimal Art Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Photography Pop Art Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections

Hito Steyerl
Beyond Representation / Jenseits der Reprasentation

2017, English / German
Softcover, 168 pages, 16 x 23 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

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German filmmaker, visual artist and writer Hito Steyerl (born 1966) is a leading voice on media and the global circulation of images. In this new essay collection, she deals with images and sounds that create new relationships to objects, and themselves become and produce other objects.

File under: Hito Steyerl Walther König / Köln Art Film / Video Theory / Essay

ARTFORUM
LOOKING CRITICALLY: 21 YEARS OF ARTFORUM MAGAZINE

1984, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 342 pages, 270 x 280 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / Used*,
Published by U.M.I. Research Press / Michigan

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First, hardcover 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.

Very uncommon hardcover edition, with dust jacket.

Condition: Very Good (light wear to very good book and dust jacket, protected under acid-free plastic wrap. Small ex-library markings, stickers) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

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