World Food Books

The Box Catalogues of the Städtisches Museum Mönchengladbach 1967-78

2021, English / German
Hardcover, 392 pages, 28 x 22 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln Städtisches Museum Abteiberg / Mönchengladbach

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For the first time, the 35 legendary box catalogues of Städtische Museum Mönchengladbach have been published as a book. Museum director Johannes Cladders developed the idea of catalogues in the form of a box with Joseph Beuys in 1967. Understated in their initial appearance, the grey boxes provide an unconventional and pertinent overview of the international vanguard art of the period, including seminal movements such as Conceptual Art, Fluxus, Arte Povera, and Pop Art. Until 1978, Cladders worked closely with exhibiting artists to create such catalogues, which radically re-envisaged the traditional exhibition and museum publication. They embody the participatory approach of their time and instance a vision of a porous democratic work. Viewers are invited to actively participate in this artistic and institutional endeavour and engage both intellectually and physically. Some of the boxes include posters, booklets, documentation and texts, while others comprise multiples.

Artists included are Blinky Palermo, Daniel Buren, Marcel Broodthaers, Hans Hollein, Piero Manzoni, Hanne Darboven, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Stanley Brouwn, Brecht/Filliou, Jasper Johns, Richard Long, Panamarenko, James Lee Byars, Braco Dimitrijević, Jannis Kounellis, Lawrence Weiner, Giulio Paolini, and Gerhard Richter, among many others.

Researched by Susanne Rennert, designed by Petra Hollenbach, with photographs documenting all catalogues by Tobias Hohn & Stanton Taylor, and introductory essays by Susanne Rennert and Susanne Titz. English and German text.

File under: Jasper Johns Marcel Broodthaers Panamarenko James Lee Byars Gerhard Richter Braco Dimitrijevic Blinky Palermo Daniel Buren Hans Hollein Piero Manzoni Richard Long Jannis Kounellis Hanne Darboven Bernd and Hilla Becher Stanley Brouwn George Brecht Robert Filliou Lawrence Weiner Giulio Paolini Susanne Rennert Susanne Titz Walther König / Köln Städtisches Museum Abteiberg / Mönchengladbach Art Conceptual Art Arte Povera Fluxus Curatorial Group Shows / Collections Pop Art

Sex is Gay: Part Deux

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

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

Very limited print run.

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

The Botanical Mind - Art, Mysticism And The Cosmic Tree

2021, English
Softcover, 232 pages, 16 x 23 cm
Published by Camden Art Centre / UK

$98.00 - Out of stock

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Humanity’s place in the natural order is under scrutiny as never before, held in a precarious balance between visible and invisible forces: from the microscopic threat of a virus to the monumental power of climate change.

Drawing on indigenous traditions from the Amazon rainforest; alternative perspectives on Western scientific rationalism; and new thinking around plant intelligence, philosophy and cultural theory, The Botanical Mind investigates the significance of the plant kingdom to human life, consciousness and spirituality across cultures and through time. The Botanical Mind: Art, Mysticism and The Cosmic Tree was conceived as a trans-generational group exhibition by Gina Buenfeld and Matt Williams for the Camden Art Centre, bringing together surrealist, modernist, visionary, outsider, indigenous Amazonian, and contemporary works alongside historical and ethnographic artefacts, textiles and manuscripts spanning more than 500 years. Through the symbolism of diverse cultural artefacts and the works of mystics, artists and thinkers around the world, 'The Botanical Mind' reveals how the vegetal kingdom has metaphysical importance to the development of consciousness and spirituality.

This richly illustrated 224-page companion publication includes essays by the curators and contributions from scholars on the key themes of the exhibition – alchemy, art history, plant ontology, Gaian ecology, anthropology and ethnobotany – unifying philosophical, scientific, spiritual and artistic approaches to meditate on the cosmic significance of plants in different worldviews.

Edited by Gina Buenfeld and Martin Clark
Designed by Sara De Bondt studio.

Artists and Writers
Eileen Agar / Anni Albers / Josef Albers / Sarah Angliss / Consuelo "Chelo" González Amézcua / Gemma Anderson with Wakefield Lab and John Dupré / Anna Atkins / Kirk Barley / Jordan Belson / Annie Besant and Charles Leadbeater / Karl Blossfeldt / Carol Bove / Jagadish Chandra Bose / Kerstin Brätsch / Bernd Brabec De Mori / Hildegarde von Bingen / Andrea Büttner / Adam Chodzko / Ithell Colquhoun / Bruce Conner / Brenda Danilowitz / Das Institut / Mirtha Dermisache / Minnie Evans / Cerith Wyn Evans / Charles Filiger / Robert Fludd / Monica Gagliano / Giorgio Griffa / Brion Gysin / Friedrich Wilhelm Heine / Ernst Haeckel / Dr Stephan Harding / Anna Haskel / Tamara Henderson / Channa Horwitz / Textiles from the Huni Kuin (Kaxinawa) people / C.G. Jung / Joachim Koester / Rachid Koraïchi / Hilma af Klint / Emma Kunz / Yves Laloy / Ghislaine Leung / Linder / Simon Ling / Michael Marder / Agnes Martin / André Masson / John McCracken / Terence McKenna / Henri Michaux / Matt Mullican / Wolfgang Paalen / Paul Păun / Stefan A. Pedersen / Santiago Ramón y Cajal / Steve Reinke and James Richards / Edith Rimmington / Adele Röder / Daniel Rios Rodriguez / Rupert Sheldrake / Textiles and ceramics from the Shipibo-Conibo people / Penny Slinger / F. Percy Smith / Janet Sobel / Philip Taaffe / Priscilla Telmon and Vincent Moon / Fred Tomaselli / Delfina Muñoz de Toro / Alexander Tovborg / David Tudor / Lee Ufan / Scottie Wilson / Terry Winters / Adolf Wölfli / Bryan Wynter / Henriette Zéphir / Anna Zemánková / Unica Zürn / artists from the Yawanawá community

File under: Eileen Agar Anni Albers Josef Albers Karl Blossfeldt Carol Bove Das Institut Sarah Angliss Consuelo González Amezcua Anna Atkins Kirk Barley Jordan Belson Kerstin Brätsch Andrea Büttner Cerith Wyn Evans Adam Chodzko Ithell Colquhoun Bruce Conner Giorgio Griffa Brion Gysin Hilma af Klint Emma Kunz Henri Michaux Matt Mullican Wolfgang Paalen Penny Slinger Lee Ufan Terry Winters Adolf Wölfli Scottie Wilson Delfina Muñoz de Toro Alexander Tovborg Fred Tomaselli Priscilla Telmon and Vincent Moon Janet Sobel Philip Taaffe F. Percy Smith Joachim Koester Minnie Evans Mirtha Dermisache Ernst Haeckel Ghislaine Leung Linder Agnes Martin André Masson John McCracken Friedrich Wilhelm Heine Simon Ling Charles Filiger Anna Haskel Tamara Henderson Channa Horwitz Rachid Koraïchi Yves Laloy Adele Röder Daniel Rios Rodriguez Stefan A. Pedersen Edith Rimmington Steve Reinke James Richards Henriette Zéphir Anna Zemánková Sara De Bondt Bernd Brabec De Mori Gina Buenfeld Martin Clark Emanuele Coccia Stephan Harding C. G. Jung Terence McKenna Charles Webster Leadbeater Annie Besant Jagadish Chandra Bose Hildegarde von Bingen Brenda Danilowitz Michael Marder Robert Fludd Monica Gagliano Rupert Sheldrake Paul Păun Santiago Ramón y Cajal Camden Art Centre / UK Art Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections Surrealism Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Painting Sculpture / Installation Curatorial Photography Sound / Music Ecology / Earth

Memo Review 05 : 2021

2022, English
Softcover, 300 pages, 25 x 17.5 cm
Published by Monash Art Projects / Victoria

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What is it like to make art the way the world is today? What is it to write about art? Every review you read in 2022 will attempt to answer these questions, whether it knows it or not. You can see it if you look hard enough. And in thinking about this we perhaps hold a candle to the darkness, or perhaps these questions are the light that allows us to see the darkness around us. Thank you for reading Memo lit by the world’s candlelight.

These are the reviews from 2021, the fourth year of Melbourne's Memo Review. Memo Review is Melbourne's only weekly art criticism, publishing reviews of "a broad variety of art exhibitions at public art museums, commercial galleries and smaller artist-run spaces in Melbourne, offering new critical perspectives from an up-and-coming younger generation of Australian art scholars, writers and artists."

Featuring contributions by A. D. S. Donaldson, Adelle Mills, Amelia Winata, Amy May Stuart, Anna Parlane, Audrey Schmidt, Babs Rapeport, Cameron Hurst, Chelsea Hopper, David Wlazlo, Diego Ramírez, Francis Plagne, Giles Fielke, Hilary Thurlow, Jarrod Zlatic, Léuli Eshrāghi, Luke Smythe, Matt Marasco, Michelle Guo, Miriam La Rosa, Paris Lettau, Philip Brophy, Rex Butler Sofia Skobeleva, Tara Heffernan, Tara Mcdowell, Timmah Ball, Ursula Cornelia De Leeuw, Victoria Perin, and Vincent Le.

File under: A.D.S. Donaldson Diego Ramírez Adelle Mills Amelia Winata Amy May Stuart Anna Parlane Audrey Schmidt Babs Rapeport Cameron Hurst Chelsea Hopper David Wlazlo Francis Plagne Giles Fielke Hilary Thurlow Jarrod Zlatic Luke Smythe Matt Marasco Michelle Guo Miriam La Rosa Paris Lettau Philip Brophy Rex Butler Sofia Skobeleva Tara Heffernan Tara Mcdowell Timmah Ball Ursula Cornelia De Leeuw Victoria Perin Vincent Le Léuli Eshrāghi Monash Art Projects / Victoria Art Sculpture / Installation Film / Video Painting Group Shows / Collections Theory / Essay Periodicals Australian Art Australian Photography Conceptual Art Curatorial Ecology Performance / Dance / Theater Photography

I.M.U U.R.2
Julie Ault / Heinz Peter Knes / Danh Vo / Martin Wong

2013, English
Softcover, 208 pages, 17.8 x 22.8 cm
Ed. of 800,
Published by Galerie Buchholz / Köln

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Gorgeous book published on the occasion of the exhibition “Neptune Society, San Francisco Columbarium, 4th Fl., Dome Room, South Wall, Tier 4, Niche 2” organised by Danh Vo at Galerie Buchholz, Berlin, 2012. Edited by Julie Ault, Heinz Peter Knes, Danh Vo, Christopher Müller & Daniel Buchholz.

In this exhibition and publication Danh Vo, Julie Ault and Heinz Peter Knes enter into a dialogue with the work of Martin Wong whose estate and collection was at the time (2012) stored and administered by Martin Wong’s mother Florence Wong Fie in the Wong family house in San Francisco.

Martin Wong (1946-1999) was born in Portland Oregon as the only son of Chinese immigrants Benjamin Fie and Florence Wong Fie. An important representative of the art scene in New York's lower East side in the 80s Martin Wong's house, as pictured in this publication, is a unique document of his life's work. In a variety of ways the contents of the house on the one hand reflects the wealth of reference in Martin Wong’s works, and over and above that the unique relationship between Martin Wong and his parents with all the necessarily complicated projections and possible misunderstandings such relationships entail.

This catalogue documents the collection of the artist Martin Wong. In numerous colour illustrations, photographs that Heinz Peter Knes took together with Danh Vo, the book depicts the interiors of the Wong Fie family residency in San Francisco filled with paintings, sculptures, and multifaceted objects from very specific and diverse fields of interest such as asian antiques and americana that Martin Wong followed and collected together with his parents throughout is life. Accompanied by a text by Julie Ault who recalls the congruity of Martin owning a Piet Mondrian and storing it "close to splashing water in his sixth-floor walk-up apartment in a run-down building on New York's pre-gentrification Lower East Side...".

File under: Julie Ault Heinz Peter Knes Danh Vo Martin Wong Julie Ault Galerie Buchholz / Köln Art Painting Photography Group Shows / Collections LGBTQ+

Fantastic Painters
by Simon Watney

1977 / 1984, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 88 pages, 29 x 21 cm
1st UK Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Bracken Books / London

$45.00 - Out of stock

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Hardcover edition of Fantastic Painters by Simon Watney, first published in 1977, this 1984 edition published by Bracken Books, London. Includes the work of Hieronymus Bosch, Max Ernst, Lyonel Feininger, Luigi Russolo, Paul Delvaux, Arnold Böcklin, Odilon Redon, Gustave Moreau, Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, Caspar David Friedrich, Henri Rousseau, Paul Klee, Georde Frederic Watts, Giovanni Segantini, Edward Burne-Jones, John Anster Fitzgerald, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Richard Dadd, Francisco de Goya, Henry Fuseli, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Hubert Robert, William Blake, François de Nomé (Monsù Desiderio), Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Jacopo Pontormo, Matthias Grünewald, Luca Signorelli, David Hockney, and more.

Very Good in VG dust jacket.

File under: Hieronymus Bosch Max Ernst Lyonel Feininger Luigi Russolo Paul Delvaux Arnold Böcklin Odilon Redon Gustave Moreau Salvador Dali Rene Magritte Caspar David Friedrich Henri Rousseau Paul Klee Georde Frederic Watts Giovanni Segantini Edward Burne-Jones John Anster Fitzgerald Pieter Bruegel the Elder Richard Dadd Francisco de Goya Henry Fuseli Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Hubert Robert William Blake François de Nomé (Monsù Desiderio) Giuseppe Arcimboldo Jacopo Pontormo Matthias Grünewald Luca Signorelli David Hockney Simon Watney Bracken Books / London Surrealism Out-of-print / Rare Art Painting Group Shows / Collections

Peter Cripps Interviews
by Peter Cripps

1987, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 40 pages, 21 x 15 cm
Ed. of 250 copies,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by IMA / Brisbane

$40.00 - Out of stock

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Scarce 1987 booklet edited by Australian artist Peter Cripps and published in an edition of only 250 copies by the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, where Cripps was director at the time. Handsomely designed by Cripps and typeset by Ian Hodgkiss, this fantastic publication was published in dedication to artist Robert MacPherson, as sales from his survey catalogue had helped to fund its publication. Comprising entirely of nine short interviews by Peter Cripps with eight artists (Robert MacPherson, Peter Tyndall, Vivienne Shark LeWitt, Tim Johnson, Geoff Lowe, Bronwyn Clark-Coolee, Scott Redford, Mark Webb) who had all exhibited at the IMA, and one with curator Robyn McKenzie, whose exhibition "The Gothic: Perversity and Its Pleasure" was held at the institute in 1986. Includes source references.

Very Good copy, only light cover wear.

File under: Robert MacPherson Peter Tyndall Vivienne Shark LeWitt Tim Johnson Geoff Lowe Bronwyn Clark-Coolee Scott Redford Mark Webb Peter Cripps Robyn McKenzie Peter Cripps Robyn McKenzie IMA / Brisbane Art Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Theory / Essay Minimal Art Conceptual Art Painting Sculpture / Installation

Wir nennen es Ludwig. Das Museum wird 40! / We Call It Ludwig: The Museum Is Turning 40!
Edited by Yilmaz Dziewior

2017, English / German
Softcover, 431 pages, 20.3 x 27.1 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

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This publication documents the first forty years of exhibitions at the Museum Ludwig through an archive of installations and ephemera. It includes impressions from all the directors of the institution as well as the architects of the building. The conceptual starting point is the anniversary exhibition "We Call It Ludwig: The Museum Is Turning 40!" (2016), which is reflected here in a complete overview of all the works on display. For the anniversary exhibition, which was jointly conceived by the director and all the museum’s curators, twenty-five international artists and artist collectives were invited to engage in depth with the institution and to react to the question of what the Museum Ludwig means to them.

Participating artists included Georges Adéagbo, Ai Weiwei, Ei Arakawa & Michel Auder, Minerva Cuevas, Maria Eichhorn, Andrea Fraser, Meschac Gaba, Guerrilla Girls, Hans Haacke, Diango Hernández, Candida Höfer, Bodys Isek Kingelez, Kuehn Malvezzi, Christian Philipp Müller, Marcel Odenbach, Ahmet Ögüt, Claes Oldenburg, Pratchaya Phinthong, Alexandra Pirici & Manuel Pelmuş, Gerhard Richter, Avery Singer, Jürgen Stollhans, Rosemarie Trockel, Villa Design Group, Christopher Williams.

The expansive archive portion of this large book includes important work by countless artists spanning 40 years.

Edited by Yilmaz Dziewior

File under: Ai Weiwei Ei Arakawa Michel Auder Maria Eichhorn Andrea Fraser Meschac Gaba Hans Haacke Bodys Isek Kingelez Kuehn Malvezzi Christian Philipp Müller Marcel Odenbach Ahmet Ögüt Claes Oldenburg Gerhard Richter Avery Singer Jürgen Stollhans Rosemarie Trockel Villa Design Group Christopher Williams Georges Adéagbo Minerva Cuevas Guerrilla Girls Candida Höfer Diango Hernández Pratchaya Phinthong Yilmaz Dziewior Walther König / Köln Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Photography Film / Video Conceptual Art Feminism SALE

Exhibitions, Exhibits, Industrial and Trade Fairs

1968, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 208 pages, 23.2 x 16.7 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Architectural Press / London

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First edition of "Exhibitions, Exhibits, Industrial and Trade Fairs", published in 1968 by the Architectural Press in London.

Deeply researched and profusely illustrated with exceptional black and white photography, architectural plans and diagrams, with text by author Wolfgang Clasen, this unique and inspiring book makes the point that "Architectural documentation is particularly important when dealing with a category of works of architecture which are not built to last."

This book perfectly captures a special and most innovative period in modern design and architecture. As the jacket announces: "We are living in an Exhibition Age: Expo 67 in Montreal is scarcely over and we are already looking ahead to the next World Exhibition in Osaka in 1970. In addition to their primary function of communication, exhibitions have a secondary function of almost equal importance: for because of the temporary nature of most exhibition buildings they provide architects and designers with a testing ground where new ideas, new structures and techniques can be tried out.
This book illustrates and describes eighty examples of exhibitions of all kinds taken from thirteen countries and all five continents; the period covered is from 1960 to the present day. Particular emphasis is laid on the newest trends and on such things as nature of most exhibition buildings they provide architects and designers with a testing ground where new ideas, new structures and techniques can be tried out."

Amongst the many fine examples of cultural exhibitions, commercial and trade expos and temporary pavilions are examples of works by Gio Ponti, Buckminster Fuller, Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Le Corbusier, Ettore Sottsass Jr., Wim Crouwel, Total Design, Vittorio Gregotti, Eero Saarinen, Angelo Mangiarotti, Will Burtin, Charles and Ray Eames, Paolo Nestler, Henri Kay Henrion, Rolf Gutbrod, Xenakis, Frei Otto, Ulf Linde, Per-Olof Ultvedt, Will Burtin, Walter Kuhn, and many more.

Separate chapters on fair stands, display units and exhibit systems round off this exhaustive treatise on exhibition architecture with a full index of architects and designers.

Text in English and German.

Very good copy, with original Gio Ponti dust-jacket protected under mylar wrap. Light wear/tan/dust to edges.

File under: Gio Ponti Buckminster Fuller Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni Le Corbusier Wim Crouwel Total Design Vittorio Gregotti Eero Saarinen Angelo Mangiarotti Will Burtin Charles and Ray Eames Paolo Nestler Henri Kay Henrion Rolf Gutbrod Xenakis Frei Otto Ulf Linde Per-Olof Ultvedt Walter Kuhn Ettore Sottsass Wolfgang Clasen Architectural Press / London Architecture / Interior Furniture Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections

Women in Concrete Poetry: 1959-1979

2020, English
Softcover, 480 pages, 20.3 x 23 cm
Published by Primary Information / New York

$62.00 - Out of stock

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A massive, groundbreaking, international anthology of concrete poetry by women, from Mira Schendel to Susan Howe.

This expansive volume is the first collection of concrete poetry by women in the groundbreaking movement’s early history. It features 50 writers and artists from Europe, Japan, Latin America, and the United States selected by editors Alex Balgiu and Mónica de la Torre.

Women in Concrete Poetry: 1959-1979 takes as its point of departure Materializzazione del linguaggio—the groundbreaking exhibition of visual and concrete poetry by women curated by Italian feminist artist Mirella Bentivoglio for the Venice Biennale in 1978. Through this exhibition and others she curated, Bentivoglio traced constellations of women artists working at the intersection of the verbal and visual who sought to “reactivate the atrophied tools of communication” and liberate words from the conventions of genre, gender, and the strictures of the patriarchy and normative syntax.

The works in this volume evolved from previous manifestations of concrete poetry as defined in foundational manifestos by Öyvind Fahlström, Eugen Gomringer, and the Brazilian Noigandres Group. While some works are easily recognised as concrete poetry, as documented in canonical anthologies edited by Mary Ellen Solt and Emmett Williams in the late ’60s, it also features expansive, serial works that are overtly feminist and often trouble legibility. Women in Concrete Poetry: 1959-1979 revisits the figures in Bentivoglio’s orbit and includes works by women practicing in other milieus in the United States, Eastern Europe, and South America who were similarly concerned with activating the visual and sonic properties of language and experimenting with poetry’s spatial syntax.

This anthology celebrates their legacy and recontextualizes word-image compositions by other figures working independently. It gathers work by 50 writers and artists, including Lenora de Barros (Brazil), Mirella Bentivoglio (Italy), Amanda Berenguer (Uruguay), Suzanne Bernard (France), Tomaso Binga (Italy), Blanca Calparsoro (Spain), Paula Claire (UK), Betty Danon (Turkey), Mirtha Dermisache (Argentina), Ilse Garnier (France), Anna Bella Geiger (Brazil), Bohumila Grögerová (Czech Republic), Ana Hatherly (Portugal), Susan Howe (USA), Tamara Jankovic (Serbia), Annalies Klophaus (Germany), Barbara Kozlowska (Poland), Liliana Landi (Italy), Liliane Lijn (USA), Françoise Mairey (France), Giulia Niccolai (Italy), Jennifer Pike (UK), Giovanna Sandri (Italy), Mira Schendel (Brazil), Chima Sunada (Japan), Mary Ellen Solt (USA), Salette Tavares (Portugal), Colleen Thibaudeau (Canada), Rosmarie Waldrop (USA) and Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt (Germany).

As New copy with some bumping.

File under: Lenora de Barros Mirella Bentivoglio Amanda Berenguer Suzanne Bernard Tomaso Binga Blanca Calparsoro Paula Claire Betty Danon Mirtha Dermisache Ilse Garnier Anna Bella Geiger Bohumila Grögerová Ana Hatherly Susan Howe Tamara Jankovic Annalies Klophaus Barbara Kozlowska Liliana Landi Liliane Lijn Françoise Mairey Giulia Niccolai Jennifer Pike Giovanna Sandri Mira Schendel Chima Sunada Mary Ellen Solt Salette Tavares Colleen Thibaudeau Rosmarie Waldrop Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt Primary Information / New York Art Fiction / Poetry Feminism Group Shows / Collections

Ellipsis : Chantal Akerman, Lili Dujourie, Francesca Woodman
Curated by Lynne Cooke

2008, English
Softcover, 132 pages, 15 x 21 cm
Ed of 1000,
Published by Museo Tamayo Arte contemporáneo / Mexico City Dundee Contemporary Arts / Dundee Lunds Konsthall / Sweden

$39.00 - Out of stock

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Ellipsis features photography, film and video from the 1970s and the early 1980s by Chantal Akerman (b. 1950), Lili Dujourie (b. 1941) and Francesca Woodman (1958–81). This is the first joint exhibition of their work, curated by Lynne Cooke, Chief Curator at Dia Center for the Arts in New York. Gorgeous catalogue published to accompany the exhibition held at Lunds Konsthall, 9 February – 13 April 2008 and Dundee Contemporary Arts, 23 April – 22 June 2008, co-published with Museo Tamayo Arte Contempor´neo, Mexico. Illustrated throughout with works by all artists alongside texts by Jan Avgikos, Lynne Cooke, Ramiro Martinez, Åso Nacking and Judith Winter.

Lynne Cooke writes: Although born ten years apart and in very different circumstances, the three artists featured in this exhibition each profited from the turn to still photography, and other lens-based technologies – film, slide projection and the newer medium of video – that dominated vanguard art practice in the late 1960s. Taking themselves – their bodies and their immediate circumstances – as their point of departure, during the 1970s all three made performative work for the camera. Tellingly, the sites they favored were mostly their own studios or domestic interiors. Beyond this quite evident concurrence of interest in the self as both artist and model, as subject and object of the gaze, there runs a deeper if more elusive thread that links their art from this period. Less a mood than a state of being, or frame of mind, its content could be described in existential terms as the estranged relation of the female subject to her world; in the terminology of current critical discourse, their abiding preoccupations centered on the construction and representation of identity.

The words Hommage à followed by an ellipsis (…) form the title of the first five of the seventeen videos Lili Dujourie produced between 1972 and 1981. Numerous names come to mind to complete this phrase, among them the Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni. Of particular interest to this exhibition is the proposal of a relation between the artworks of Akerman, Dujourie and Woodman and the films of Antonioni. The fragility and precariousness of his principal characters is evidenced in the ways in which their identities seem to split, double or dissipate so that each becomes unable to find coherence in a shifting amorphous world, and so verges on alienation. Through a signature language centered in an innovative treatment of space and time, Antonioni forged new formal and conceptual means to explore the identities of his subjects, means which resonate tellingly in the works of these three artists.

File under: Chantal Akerman Lili Dujourie Francesca Woodman Jan Avgikos Lynne Cooke Ramiro Martinez Åso Nacking and Judith Winter Museo Tamayo Arte contemporáneo / Mexico City Dundee Contemporary Arts / Dundee Lunds Konsthall / Sweden Art Group Shows / Collections Australian Photography Film / Video

Information (50th Anniversary Edition)
By Kynaston McShine. Text by Lucy Lippard, et al.

2019, English
Softcover, 208 pages, 20.3 x 25.4 cm
Published by MoMA / New York

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The 50th anniversary edition of MoMA's landmark book on conceptual art.

In the summer of 1970, the Museum of Modern Art in New York mounted the now legendary exhibition Information, one of the first surveys of conceptual art. Conceived by MoMA’s celebrated curator Kynaston McShine as an “international report” on contemporary trends, the show and attendant catalog together assembled the work of more than 150 artists from 15 countries to explore the parameters and possibilities of the emerging art practices of the era. Noting the participating artists’ attunement to the “mobility and change that pervades their time,” McShine underscored their interest in “ways of rapidly exchanging ideas, rather than embalming the idea in an ‘object.’” Indeed, much of the work in the exhibition engaged mass-communications systems, such as broadcast television and the postal service, and addressed viewers directly, often encouraging their participation in return.

The catalog, rather than merely document the show, functioned autonomously: it included a list of recommended reading, a chance-based index by critic Lucy Lippard, and individual artist contributions in the form of photographic documentation, textual description, drawings and diagrams—some relating to work in the exhibition and others to artworks as yet unrealized. This facsimile edition of the original Information catalog, which has long been out of print, invites reengagement with MoMA’s landmark exhibition while illuminating the early history of conceptual art.

Kynaston McShine was formerly Chief Curator at Large at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Artists include Vito Acconci, Carl Andre, Siah Armajani, Keith Arnatt, Art & Language Press, Art & Project, Richard Artschwager, David Askevold, Terry Atkinson, David Bainbridge, John Baldessari, Michael Baldwin, Barrio, Robert Barry, Frederick Barthelme, Bernhard & Hilla Becher, Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, Bill Bollinger, George Brecht, Stig Broegger, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Donald Burgy, Ian Burn and Mel Ramsden, James Lee Byars, Jorge Luis Carballa, Christopher Cook, Roger Cutforth, Carlos D'Alessio, Hanne Darboven, Walter de Maria, Jan Dibbets, Gerald Ferguson, Rafael Ferrer, Barry Flanagan, Group Frontera, Hamish Fulton, Gilbert & George, Giorno Poetry Systems, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Ira Joel Haber, Randy Hardy, Michael Heizer, Hans Hollein, Douglas Huebler, Robert Huot, Peter Hutchinson, Richards Jarden, Stephen Kaltenbach, On Kawara, Joseph Kosuth, Christine Kozlov, John Latham, Barry Le Va, Sol Lewitt, Lucy Lippard, Richard Long, Bruce McLean, Cildo Campos Meirelles, Marta Minujin, Robert Morris, N.E. Thing Co., Bruce Nauman, New York Graphic Workshop, Newspaper, Group Oho, Helio Oiticica, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Panamarenko, Giulio Paolini, Paul Pechter, Giuseppe Penone, Adrian Piper, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Emilio Prini, Alejandro Puente, Markus Raetz, Yvonne Rainer, Klaus Rinke, Edward Ruscha, J.M. Sanejouand, Richard Sladden, Robert Smithson, Keith Sonnier, Ettore Sottsass Jr., Erik Thygesen, John Van Saun, Guilherme Magalhaes Vaz, Bernar Venet, Jeff Wall, Lawrence Weiner, Ian Wilson.

File under: Vito Acconci Carl Andre Siah Armajani Keith Arnatt Art & Language Press Art & Project Richard Artschwager David Askevold Terry Atkinson David Bainbridge John Baldessari Michael Baldwin Barrio Robert Barry Frederick Barthelme Bernhard & Hilla Becher Joseph Beuys Mel Bochner Bill Bollinger George Brecht Stig Broegger Stanley Brouwn Daniel Buren Victor Burgin Donald Burgy Ian Burn and Mel Ramsden James Lee Byars Jorge Luis Carballa Christopher Cook Roger Cutforth Carlos D'Alessio Hanne Darboven Walter de Maria Jan Dibbets Gerald Ferguson Rafael Ferrer Barry Flanagan Group Frontera Hamish Fulton Gilbert & George Giorno Poetry Systems Dan Graham Hans Haacke Ira Joel Haber Randy Hardy Michael Heizer Hans Hollein Douglas Huebler Robert Huot Peter Hutchinson Richards Jarden Stephen Kaltenbach On Kawara Joseph Kosuth Christine Kozlov John Latham Barry Le Va Sol Lewitt Lucy Lippard Richard Long Bruce McLean Cildo Campos Meirelles Marta Minujin Robert Morris N.E. Thing Co. Bruce Nauman New York Graphic Workshop Group Oho Helio Oiticica Yoko Ono Dennis Oppenheim Panamarenko Giulio Paolini Paul Pechter Giuseppe Penone Adrian Piper Michelangelo Pistoletto Emilio Prini Alejandro Puente Markus Raetz Yvonne Rainer Klaus Rinke Edward Ruscha J.M. Sanejouand Richard Sladden Robert Smithson Keith Sonnier Erik Thygesen John Van Saun Guilherme Magalhaes Vaz Bernar Venet Jeff Wall Lawrence Weiner Ian Wilson Ettore Sottsass Newspaper Ettore Sottsass Jr. Kynaston McShine Lucy R. Lippard MoMA / New York Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Conceptual Art Arte Povera Photography Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Art Fluxus Minimal Art

Art-Rite

2019, English
Softcover, 678 pages, 21.5 x 27.5 cm
Ed. of 2000,
Published by Primary Information / New York

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Out of print.

Edited by Walter Robinson, Edit DeAk, and Joshua Cohn, Art-Rite was published in New York City between 1973 and 1978. The periodical has long been celebrated for its underground/overground position and its cutting, humorous, on-the-streets coverage and critique of the art world. Art-Rite moved easily through the expansive community it mapped out, paying homage to an emergent generation of artists, including many who were—or would soon become—the defining voices of the era. Through hundreds of interviews, reviews, statements, and projects for the page—as well as artist-focused and thematic issues on video, painting, performance, and artists’ books—Art-Rite’s sharp editorial vision and commitment to spotlighting the work of artists stands as a meaningful and lasting contribution to the art history of New York City and beyond.

All issues of Art-Rite are collected and published here.

Featured artists include Vito Acconci, Kathy Acker, Bas Jan Ader, Laurie Anderson, John Baldessari, Gregory Battcock, Lynda Benglis, Mel Bochner, Marcel Broodthaers, Trisha Brown, Chris Burden, Scott Burton, Ulises Carrión, Judy Chicago, Lucinda Childs, Christo, Diego Cortez, Hanne Darboven, Agnes Denes, Ralston Farina, Richard Foreman, Peggy Gale, Gilbert & George, John Giorno, Philip Glass, Leon Golub, Peter Grass, Julia Heyward, Nancy Holt, Ray Johnson, Joan Jonas, Richard Kern, Lee Krasner, Shigeko Kubota, Les Levine, Sol LeWitt, Lucy Lippard, Babette Mangolte, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Gordon Matta-Clark, Rosemary Mayer, Annette Messager, Elizabeth Murray, Alice Neel, Brian O’Doherty, Genesis P-Orridge, Nam June Paik, Charlemagne Palestine, Judy Pfaff, Lil Picard, Yvonne Rainer, Judy Rifka, Dorothea Rockburne, Ed Ruscha, Robert Ryman, David Salle, Carolee Schneemann, Richard Serra, Jack Smith, Patti Smith, Robert Smithson, Holly Solomon, Naomi Spector, Nancy Spero, Pat Steir, Frank Stella, Alan Suicide (Vega), David Tremlett, Richard Tuttle, Andy Warhol, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, Hannah Wilke, Robert Wilson, Yuri, and Irene von Zahn.

File under: Vito Acconci Kathy Acker Bas Jan Ader Laurie Anderson John Baldessari Gregory Battcock Lynda Benglis Mel Bochner Marcel Broodthaers Trisha Brown Chris Burden Scott Burton Ulises Carrión Judy Chicago Lucinda Childs Christo Diego Cortez Hanne Darboven Agnes Denes Ralston Farina Richard Foreman Peggy Gale Gilbert & George John Giorno Philip Glass Leon Golub Peter Grass Julia Heyward Nancy Holt Ray Johnson Joan Jonas Richard Kern Lee Krasner Shigeko Kubota Les Levine Sol LeWitt Babette Mangolte Brice Marden Agnes Martin Gordon Matta-Clark Rosemary Mayer Annette Messager Genesis P-Orridge Brian O'Doherty Judy Pfaff Lil Picard Yvonne Rainer Judy Rifka Dorothea Rockburne Ed Ruscha Robert Ryman David Salle Carolee Schneemann Richard Serra Jack Smith Patti Smith Robert Smithson Holly Solomon Naomi Spector Nancy Spero Pat Steir Frank Stella David Tremlett Richard Tuttle Andy Warhol William Wegman Lawrence Weiner Hannah Wilke Robert Wilson Yuri Irene von Zahn Elizabeth Murray Alice Neel Nam June Paik Charlemagne Palestine Alan Vega Gregory Battcock Brian O’Doherty John Giorno Patti Smith Kathy Acker Lucy R. Lippard Babette Mangolte Primary Information / New York Feminism Art Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Fluxus Sculpture / Installation Painting Fiction / Poetry Conceptual Art Minimal Art Photography Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections Pop Art Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video

The Conditions of Being Art
Pat Hearn Gallery & American Fine Arts, Co.

2018, English
Softcover, 304 pages, 23 x 17 cm
Published by Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College / New York Dancing Fox Press

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The Conditions of Being Art is the first book to examine the activities of groundbreaking contemporary art galleries Pat Hearn Gallery and American Fine Arts, Co. (1983–2004), and the transnational milieu of artists, dealers and critics that surrounded them.

Drawing on the archives of dealers Pat Hearn and Colin de Land—both, independently, legendary players on the New York art scene of the 1980s and '90s, and one of the great love stories of the art world—this publication illustrates their distinctive artistic practices, significant exhibitions and events, and daily business. Hearn and de Land championed art that challenged the business of running an art gallery; artists like Renée Green and Susan Hiller, Andrea Fraser and Cady Noland, who employed conceptualism and installation, social and institutional critique.

Contributing to the history of exhibitions, institutions and curating, The Conditions of Being Art addresses a significant gap in this literature around experimental commercial spaces in recent art history. This publication is the first book-length critical account of the alternative commercial gallery practices of the 1990s, a moment and a scene that is extremely influential to many of today's art dealers, curators and artists.

Hearn and de Land's gallery practices explored new experimental and ethical possibilities within the selling of art, testing the relationship of contemporary art to its markets. In this volume, full-colour images, in-depth scholarly investigations and detailed gallery histories vibrantly document how Hearn and de Land tested new notions of what an art gallery could be.

Edited with text by Jeannine Tang, Lia Gangitano, Ann Butler. Text by Johanna Burton, Jill Casid, Lauren Cornell, Diedrich Diederichsen, Jennifer King, Mason Leaver-Yap, Kobena Mercer.

Features the work of: Mark Morrisroe, Jimmy de Sana, Art Club 2000, Moyra Davey, Alex Bag, Lutz Bacher, John Knight, J. St. Bernard, John Miller, Renée Green, Jutta Koether, Phillip Taaffe, Christian Philipp Müller, Gregg Bordowitz, Tom Burr, Susan Hiller, Andrea Fraser, Cady Noland, Mark Dion, Julia Scher, Kirsten Mosher, Dan Flavin, Jack Pierson, Stephen Dillemuth, Mary Heilmann, Joan Jonas, Cindy Sherman, Robert Smithson, Jessica Diamond, Rapid Response (Christina Cobb, Peter Fend, Julia Fischer, William Meyer), Lincoln Tobier, Ted Byfield, and many others.

File under: Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College / New York Dancing Fox Press Group Shows / Collections Art Curatorial Performance / Dance / Theater

Not without My Ghosts

2021, English
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 112 pages, 22.23 x 14.61 cm
Published by Hayward Gallery Publishing / London

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The abiding presence of spiritualism in art, from af Klint to Susan Hiller.

Bringing together more than 30 international artists from the late 19th century to the present day, Not without My Ghosts surveys work inspired by spiritualism and its rich cultural history.

With original essays by art historian Susan L. Aberth and curators Simon Grant and Lars Bang Larsen, this publication explores the anti-authoritarian political agendas of 19th-century spiritualism and the movement’s close association to the history of feminism, as well as its continued influence on contemporary practitioners. Spanning diverse artistic approaches, Not without My Ghosts offers a unique insight into the ties that bind spirit and mediumistic art across the centuries.

Artists: William Blake, Cameron, Ann Churchill, Ithell Colquhoun, Louise Despont, Casimiro Domingo, Madame Fondrillon, Chiara Fumai, Madge Gill, Susan Hiller, Barbara Honywood, Georgiana Houghton, Anna Mary Howitt, Victor Hugo, Augustin Lesage, Pia Lindman, Ann Lislegaard, André Masson, Grace Pailthorpe, František Jaroslav Pecka, Olivia Plender, Sigmar Polke, Lea Porsager, Austin Osman Spare, Yves Tanguy, Suzanne Treister with The Museum of Blackhole Spacetime Collective

File under: William Blake Cameron Ann Churchill Ithell Colquhoun Louise Despont Casimiro Domingo Madame Fondrillon Chiara Fumai Madge Gill Susan Hiller Barbara Honywood Georgiana Houghton Anna Mary Howitt Victor Hugo Augustin Lesage Pia Lindman Ann Lislegaard André Masson Grace Pailthorpe František Jaroslav Pecka Olivia Plender Sigmar Polke Lea Porsager Austin Osman Spare Yves Tanguy Suzanne Treister with The Museum of Blackhole Spacetime Collective Susan Aberth Simon Grant Lars Bang Larsen Hayward Gallery Publishing / London Art Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Drawing Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Group Shows / Collections Theory / Essay Film / Video Occult / Esoterica Feminism

Broken Music

2019, English
Softcover (w. flexi-disc), 280 pages, 26 x 21 cm
Ed. of 2500,
Published by Primary Information / New York

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Broken Music is an essential compendium for records created by visual artists. The publication was edited by Ursula Block and Michael Glasmeier and originally published in 1989 by DAAD. Broken Music focuses on recordings, record-objects, artwork for records, and record installations made by thousands of artists between WWII and 1989.

It also includes essays by both editors as well as Theodor W. Adorno, René Block, Jean Dubuffet, Milan Knizak, László Moholy-Nagy, Christiane Seiffert, and Hans Rudolf Zeller, as well as a flexi disc of the Arditti Quartet performing Knizak’s “Broken Music.” The centerpiece of the publication is a nearly 200-page bibliography of artists’ records.

Works chosen for the publication revolved around four criteria: (1) record covers created as original work by visual artists; (2) record or sound-producing objects (multiples/editions/sculptures); (3) books and publications that contain a record or recorded-media object; and (4) records or recorded media that have sound by visual artists.

Artists documented in the volume include Vito Acconci, albrecht/d., Laurie Anderson, Guillaume Apollinaire, Karel Appel, Arman, Hans Arp, Antonin Artaud, John Baldessari, Hugo Ball, Claus van Bebber, John Bender, Harry Bertoia, Jean-Pierre Bertrand, Joseph Beuys, Mel Bochner, Claus Böhmler, Christian Boltanski, KP Brehmer, William Burroughs, John Cage, Henri Chopin, Henning Christiansen, Jean Cocteau, William Copley, Philip Corner, Merce Cunningham, Hanne Darboven, Jim Dine, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Fischli and Weiss, R. Buckminster Fuller, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Glass, Jack Goldstein, Peter Gordon, Hans Haacke, Richard Hamilton, Bernard Heidsieck, Holger Hiller, Richard Huelsenbeck, Isidore Isou, Marcel Janco, Servie Janssen, Jasper Johns, Joe Jones, Thomas Kapielski, Allan Kaprow, Martin Kippenberger, Per Kirkeby, Cheri Knight, Milan Knizak, Richard Kriesche, Christina Kubisch, Laibach, John Lennon, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Annea Lockwood, Paul McCarthy, Meredith Monk, Josef Felix Müller, Piotr Nathan, Hermann Nitsch, Albert Oehlen, Frank O’Hara, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Dennis Oppenheim, Nam June Paik, Charlemagne Palestine, A.R. Penck, Tom Phillips, Robert Rauschenberg, The Red Crayola, Ursula Reuter Christiansen, Gerhard Richter, Jim Rosenquist, Dieter Roth, Gerhard Rühm, Robert Rutman, Sarkis, Thomas Schmit, Conrad Schnitzler, Kurt Schwitters, Selten Gehörte Musik, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Keith Sonnier, Strafe für Rebellion, Jean Tinguely, Moniek Toebosch, Tristan Tzara, Ben Vautier, Yoshi Wada, Emmett Walsh, Andy Warhol, William Wegman, and Lawrence Weiner.

Ursula Block is a curator living in Berlin, Germany. From 1981 until 2014, she ran gelbe Musik, a gallery and record shop in Berlin that featured work by artists at the crossroads between music and art.

Michael Glasmeier is a professor, writer, and editor living in Berlin, Germany. Since the early 1980s, he has curated dozens of shows that explore the intersection between the visual arts, music, film, and language.

File under: Vito Acconci albrecht/d. Laurie Anderson Karel Appel Arman Antonin Artaud John Baldessari Hugo Ball Claus van Bebber John Bender Harry Bertoia Jean-Pierre Bertrand Joseph Beuys Mel Bochner Claus Böhmler Christian Boltanski John Cage Henri Chopin Henning Christiansen Jean Cocteau William Copley Philip Corner Merce Cunningham Hanne Darboven Jim Dine Marcel Duchamp Max Ernst Lawrence Ferlinghetti Buckminster Fuller Fischli & Weiss Peter Fischli Peter Fischli & David Weiss David Weiss Allen Ginsberg Philip Glass Jack Goldstein Peter Gordon Hans Haacke Richard Hamilton Bernard Heidsieck Holger Hiller Richard Huelsenbeck Isidore Isou Marcel Janco Servie Janssen Jasper Johns Joe Jones Thomas Kapielski Allan Kaprow Martin Kippenberger Per Kirkeby Cheri Knight Milan Knizak Richard Kriesche Christina Kubisch Laibach John Lennon Sol Lewitt Roy Lichtenstein Annea Lockwood Paul McCarthy Meredith Monk Josef Felix Müller Piotr Nathan Hermann Nitsch Albert Oehlen Frank O’Hara Claes Oldenburg Yoko Ono Dennis Oppenheim Nam June Paik Charlemagne Palestine A.R. Penck Tom Phillips Robert Rauschenberg The Red Crayola Ursula Reuter Christiansen Gerhard Richter Jim Rosenquist Dieter Roth Gerhard Rühm Robert Rutman Sarkis Thomas Schmit Conrad Schnitzler Kurt Schwitters Selten Gehörte Musik Richard Serra Robert Smithson Michael Snow Keith Sonnier Strafe für Rebellion Jean Tinguely Moniek Toebosch Tristan Tzara Ben Vautier Yoshi Wada Emmett Walsh Andy Warhol William Wegman Lawrence Weiner Jean Arp (Hans Arp) K. P. Brehmer William S. Burroughs Ursula Block Michael Glasmeier Theodor W. Adorno René Block Jean Dubuffet Milan Knizak László Moholy-Nagy Christiane Seiffert Hans Rudolf Zeller Guillaume Apollinaire William S. Burroughs Primary Information / New York Art Sound / Music Fluxus Conceptual Art Dada Arte Povera Counterculture Bauhaus Performance / Dance / Theater Minimal Art Pop Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Curatorial Group Shows / Collections Objects / Ephemera / A/V

AUSTRALIAN PERSPECTA 1991
Curated by Victoria Lynn

1991, English
Softcover, 168 pages
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by Art Gallery of New South Wales / Sydney

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Catalogue published on the occasion of the AUSTRALIAN PERSPECTA 1991, curated by Victoria Lynn, held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 7 August — 15 September, 1991. The biennial 'Australian Perspecta' presents the unprecented opportunity to experience and evaluate the intriguing breadth of contemporary Australian art. This exhibition was the sixth in a series which began in 1981. Profusely illustrated throughout with texts by Victoria Lynn, Nicholas Zurbrugg, Linda Wallac, and artist profiles for all participating artists : Brad Allen-Waters, Craige Andrae, Hany Armanious, Robyn Backen, Adam Boyd, Irene Briant, Peter Callas, Kevin Draper, John Gilles and The Sydney Front, Richard Goodwin, Fiona Gunn, Fiona Hall, Gail Hastings, Virginia Hilyard, Joyce Hinterding, Stephen Holland, David Jensz, Mathew Jones, Queenie Kemarre, Lucky Kngwarreye, Maria Kozic, Juliet Lea, Jon McCormack, Bette Mifsud, Wendy Mills, Simeon Nelson, Bronwyn Oliver, Lin Onus, Bill Petyarre, Ani Purhonen, Carole Roberts, Luke Roberts, Ashley Scott, Michael Snape, Laurens Tan, Jennifer Turpin, Deborah Vaughan, Paddy Fordham Wainburranga, David Watt, Barbara Wulff.

Ex-library copy, with plastic covering and associated markings.

File under: Brad Allen-Waters Craige Andrae Hany Armanious Robyn Backen Adam Boyd Irene Briant Peter Callas Kevin Draper John Gilles and The Sydney Front Richard Goodwin Fiona Gunn Fiona Hall Gail Hastings Virginia Hilyard Joyce Hinterding Stephen Holland David Jensz Mathew Jones Queenie Kemarre Lucky Kngwarreye Maria Kozic Juliet Lea Jon McCormack Bette Mifsud Wendy Mills Simeon Nelson Bronwyn Oliver Lin Onus Bill Petyarre Ani Purhonen Carole Roberts Luke Roberts Ashley Scott Michael Snape Laurens Tan Jennifer Turpin Deborah Vaughan Paddy Fordham Wainburranga David Watt Barbara Wulff Art Gallery of New South Wales / Sydney Australian Art Art Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections SALE

CATPC — Cercle d’art des travailleurs de plantation congolaise/Congolese Plantation Workers Art League
Edited by Eva Barois De Caevel and Els Roelandt

2017, English / French
Softcover, 456 pages, 15 x 21.5 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

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This book offers a first report on the activities of the Cercle d’art des travailleurs de plantation congolaise (CATPC), an association based in Lusanga, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. CATPC brings together a unique gathering of individuals—along with its members and partner institutions that are engaged in dialogue with it—and attempts to rethink postcolonial power relations within the global art world. Initiated in 2014 by Renzo Martens, an Amsterdam-based artist whose radical and controversial practice feeds into many current debates, and René Ngongo, a Kinshasa-based biologist and environmental activist, this cooperative continues to develop independently and to redefine the relations between art, agriculture, industry, and value creation.

The publication CATPC—Cercle d’art des travailleurs de plantation congolaise/Congolese Plantation Workers Art League is part of an artistic research project initiated by Renzo Martens, affiliated as a researcher at KASK/School of Arts of University College Ghent, from 2012 to 2016.

Edited by Eva Barois De Caevel and Els Roelandt. Texts by Ariella Azoulay, Eva Barois De Caevel, Eléonore Hellio, Ruba Katrib, Alexander Koch, J. A. Koster, Renzo Martens, René Ngongo, Els Roelandt, Charles Sikitele Gize, Charles Tumba, Françoise Vergès
Photos by Léonard Pongo

Design by Jurgen Maelfeyt, Jonas Temmerman, 6'56''

File under: Eva Barois De Caevel Els Roelandt Ariella Azoulay Eléonore Hellio Ruba Katrib Alexander Koch J. A. Koster Renzo Martens René Ngongo Charles Sikitele Gize Charles Tumba Françoise Vergès Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Theory / Essay SALE Film / Video Painting Group Shows / Collections Curatorial

United States of Latin America
Edited by Jens Hoffmann

2016, English
Softcover, 148 pages, 15.24 x 20.23 cm
Published by Kadist Art Foundation / San Francisco Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit / Detroit Sternberg Press / Berlin

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This publication documents the exhibition “United States of Latin America,” held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD), in collaboration with the Kadist Art Foundation. Bringing together their shared and ongoing engagement with artistic practices from Latin America, Jens Hoffmann and Pablo León de la Barra have assembled one of the most significant contemporary survey’s of recent art from the region.

Hoffmann and de la Barra’s project draws attention not only to the geographic territories of Latin America itself, but also to its relation within the wider scope of the Americas, and its position in a global artistic context. This book offers a framework for critical insight into artworks dealing with crucial social, industrial, or ecological concerns, and also for interrogating the very categories and terminologies used to construct the notion of Latin America.

Edited by Jens Hoffmann. Contributions by Stefan Benchoam, Fernanda Brenner, Eduardo Carrera, Jens Hoffmann, Pablo Léon de la Barra, Camila Marambio, Heidi Rabben, Marina Reyes Franco

This catalogue includes a conversation between Stefan Benchoam, Fernanda Brenner, Eduardo Carrera, Camila Marambio, and Marina Reyes Franco (moderated by Heidi Rabben), a glossary, a reflective essay by Hoffmann “after the fact,” and images from the exhibition.

Copublished between Sternberg Press, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit and Kadist Art Foundation

Design by Jon Sueda/Stripe SF

File under: Camila Marambio Eduardo Carrera Fernanda Brenner Heidi Rabben Jens Hoffmann Marina Reyes Franco Pablo Léon de la Barra Stefan Benchoam Kadist Art Foundation / San Francisco Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit / Detroit Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Theory / Essay SALE Curatorial Group Shows / Collections

Geometry and Gesture

2010, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 20 pages
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by David Findlay Jr. Fine Art / New York

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Out-of-print exhibition catalogue published on the occasion of Geometry and Gesture, an exhibition of abstract expressionist painters at David Findlay Jr. Fine Art, New York, April 8 through 29, 2010. Illustrated throughout, the catalogue reproduces in colour the works of the exhibiting artists: Alcopley, Charles Cajori, Herman Cherry, Howard Daum, Hans Hofmann, Richard Hunt, Emily Mason, George Mcneil, Robert Richenburg, Nína Tryggvadóttir.

Very Good copy.

File under: Alcopley Charles Cajori Herman Cherry Howard Daum Hans Hofmann Richard Hunt Emily Mason George Mcneil Robert Richenburg Nína Tryggvadóttir David Findlay Jr. Fine Art / New York Art Painting Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections SALE

Sweet Sixties: Specters and Spirits of a Parallel Avant-Garde
Georg Schöllhammer, Ruben Arevshatyan (Eds.)

2014, English
Hardcover, 528 pages (350 color and b/w ills.), 17 x 24.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

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Out-of-print, now collectible.

Sweet Sixties Specters and Spirits of a Parallel Avant-Garde Sweet Sixties is a long-term trans-regional research initiative working between art, research, media, and educational contexts in Europe, the Middle East, western and central Asia, Latin America, and northern Africa. Involving a particular group of experimentally oriented arts and research groups as well as individual artists, researchers, and media, Sweet Sixties investigates hidden histories or underexposed cultural junctions and exchange channels in the revolutionary period of the 1960s.

In the 1960s, the landscapes and cities of protectorates and former colonies from India to the Maghreb, from the Soviet Republics to the new states in the southern hemisphere were replete with the spirit and forms of modernity, forms that transmogrify and then dissolve into the thin air of the vernacular. The star maps that are used to survey these artificial worlds often serve to navigate the boundaries between private and public domains. The world full of eerie displacements, gestures of the uncanny, and the constellation of the real exists in a plethora of doubled forms. Question marks and meanderings are all part of this picture. Instruments of communication emerge and are locked away before they have a chance to become immaterial, disappear, and corrode in postmodernity.

The air of the 1960s echoes a spirit of emancipation. And the newly arising art-scapes are interspersed with double agents: diasporas bring their academies; the streams between Soviet, North and South American, Western European, Non-Aligned, etc., are full of interlocutions, hidden pathways, and narratives of trade routes beyond the seemingly stable hegemonies of the blocs.

The stories and spirits of a parallel avant-garde, whose silhouettes have yet to be found on the walls of the Western canon, are the theme of this publication.

As New with some general shelf wear.

File under: Georg Schöllhammer Ruben Arevshatyan Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Theory / Essay SALE Counterculture Group Shows / Collections Protest / Revolt

Future Eaters

2017, English
Softcover, 117 pages, 17 x 23cm
Ed. of 600,
Published by MUMA / Victoria

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Catalogue published to accompany the exhibition "Future Eaters", curated by Charlotte Day at MUMA (Monash University Museum of Art), 22 July - 23 September, 2017.

The exhibition explored artists' approaches to three-dimensional form and materiality in the age of systems rather than artefacts, software rather than hardware, and associated processes of virtual transmission. The exhibition asked: how is sculpture evolving and responding to our increasingly technologised existence?

Artists: Hany Armanious (AUS); Benjamin Armstrong (AUS); Damiano Bertoli (AUS); Nina Cannell (SWE); Marley Dawson (AUS); Aleksandra Domanović (SVN); Hannah Donnelly (AUS); Alex Dordoy (GBR); Lewis Fidock & Joshua Petherick (AUS); Mira Gojak (AUS); Guan Xiao (CHN), Yngve Holen (NOR); Alex Israel (USA); Magali Reus (NLD); Anna Uddenberg (SWE); Anicka Yi (KOR)

Texts: Charlotte Day, Damiano Bertoli, Tara McDowell, Gail Priest, Hannah Donnelly

File under: Hany Armanious Damiano Bertoli Nina Canell Lewis Fidock Joshua Petherick Mira Gojak Guan Xiao Yngve Holen Alex Israel Magali Reus Anna Uddenberg Anicka Yi Benjamin Armstrong Marley Dawson Hannah Donnelly Alex Dordoy Aleksandra Domanović Charlotte Day Tara McDowell Damiano Bertoli Gail Priest Hannah Donnelly MUMA / Victoria Art Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections

Memo Review 02 : 2018

2020, English
Softcover, 241 pages, 25 x 17.5 cm
Published by Monash Art Projects / Victoria

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These are the reviews from 2018, the second year of Melbourne's Memo Review. Memo Review is Melbourne's only weekly art criticism, publishing reviews of "a broad variety of art exhibitions at public art museums, commercial galleries and smaller artist-run spaces in Melbourne, offering new critical perspectives from an up-and-coming younger generation of Australian art scholars, writers and artists."

As readers engage with this second year of reviews, they might see a group of art writers coming to grips with the particular limitations and opportunities of the weekly review format and even the particularities of its online delivery. Some will track the successive mentions of the same artist or gallery space, seeing what different writers make of them. Others will follow the progress of individual writers, finding and developing their own style and argument.

Contributions by Amelia Winata, Anna Parlane, Audrey Schmidt, Benison Kilby, Chelsea Hopper, David Wlazlo, Eva Birch, Francis Plagne, Giles Fielke, Helen Hughes, Hester Lyon, Jane Eckett, Kate Warren, Nicholas Tammens, Paris Lettau, Philip Brophy, Rex Butler, Shelley Mcspedden, Sophie Knezic, Tiarney Miekus, Tim Alves, Victoria Perin.

File under: Amelia Winata Anna Parlane Audrey Schmidt Benison Kilby Chelsea Hopper David Wlazlo Eva Birch Francis Plagne Giles Fielke Helen Hughes Hester Lyon Jane Eckett Kate Warren Nicholas Tammens Paris Lettau Philip Brophy Rex Butler Shelley Mcspedden Sophie Knezic Tiarney Miekus Tim Alves Victoria Perin Monash Art Projects / Victoria Theory / Essay Painting Group Shows / Collections Curatorial Australian Art Photography Australian Photography Sculpture / Installation Art Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals

Memo Review 03 : 2019

2020, English
Softcover, 241 pages, 25 x 17.5 cm
Published by Monash Art Projects / Victoria

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The third hardcopy Memo publication, collecting the 52 reviews from 2017 published by Melbourne's Memo Review. Memo Review is Melbourne's only weekly art criticism, publishing reviews of "a broad variety of art exhibitions at public art museums, commercial galleries and smaller artist-run spaces in Melbourne, offering new critical perspectives from an up-and-coming younger generation of Australian art scholars, writers and artists."

Contributions by Amelia Winata, Aneta Trajkoski, Anna Parlane, Audrey Schmidt, Brendan Casey, Chelsea Hopper, David Homewood, David Wlazlo, Ella Cattach, Elyssia Bugg, Francis Plagne, Giles Fielke, Helen O'toole, Jane Eckett, Luke Smythe, Maddee Clark, Marnie Edmiston, Matthew Linde, Paris Lettau, Philip Brophy, Rex Butler, Sophie Knezic, Stephen Palmer, Victoria Perin.

File under: Amelia Winata Aneta Trajkoski Anna Parlane Audrey Schmidt Brendan Casey Chelsea Hopper David Homewood David Wlazlo Ella Cattach Elyssia Bugg Francis Plagne Giles Fielke Helen O'toole Jane Eckett Luke Smythe Maddee Clark Marnie Edmiston Matthew Linde Paris Lettau Philip Brophy Rex Butler Sophie Knezic Stephen Palmer Victoria Perin Monash Art Projects / Victoria Theory / Essay Film / Video Australian Photography Periodicals Sculpture / Installation Painting Art Curatorial Group Shows / Collections Performance / Dance / Theater Australian Art Photography