World Food Books

Kerb Your Dog 1992
Number 11 : TEXTBOOK : John Nixon, John Young (eds.)

1992, English
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 84 pages, 14.5 x 20.5 cm
Ed. of 500, 1st edition, Out of print title / As New,
Published by Kerb Your Dog / Sydney

$100.00 - Out of stock

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Kerb Your Dog was an artist-edited anthology of pages by contemporary Australian and International artists, published in Sydney, Australia. Edited by John Nixon and John Young and published in an edition of 500 copies, this volume from 1992 - "TEXTBOOK" - features pages by John Barbour, Eugene Carchesio, Tony Clark, Peter Cripps, Aleks Danko, John Dunkley-Smith, Clinton Garofano, Ross Harley, Tim Johnson, Lyndal Jones, Maria Kozic, Rosemary Laing, Shelley Lasica, Lindy Lee, Geoff Lowe, Robert Macpherson, John Nixon, Rose Nolan, Susan Norrie, David O'Halloran, Robert Owen, Mike Parr, Jacky Redgate, Carole Roberts, Vivienne Shark Lewitt, Peter Tyndall, Ken Unsworth, Geoffrey Weary, Wood / Marsh Architecture Pty. Ltd., John Young, and an essay by Janet Shanks. An invaluable collection of artist's texts from Australia in this very scarce document.

File under: Aleks Danko Carole Roberts Clinton Garofano David O'Halloran Eugene Carchesio Geoff Lowe Geoffrey Weary Jacky Redgate John Barbour John Dunkley-Smith John Nixon John Young Ken Unsworth Lindy Lee Lyndal Jones Maria Kozic Mike Parr Peter Cripps Peter Tyndall Robert Macpherson Robert Owen Rose Nolan Rosemary Laing Ross Harley Shelley Lasica Susan Norrie Tim Johnson Tony Clark Vivienne Shark LeWitt Janet Shanks Kerb Your Dog / Sydney Art Australian Art Fiction / Poetry Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting Periodicals Poetry Theory / Essay

John Nixon
Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery

1991, English
Softcover (stapled), 16 pages (colour ill.), 22.5 x 16
1st edition, Out of print title / As New,
Published by Pataphysics Books / Melbourne

$45.00 - Out of stock

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Published on the occasion of Roslyn Oxley’s participation in Art Cologne 1991
John Nixon is an Australian artist born in 1949, his Experimental Painting Workshop EPW – founded in 1990 – is not a physical workshop but an intellectual as well as a practical visual investigation into non-representational painting.

File under: John Nixon Pataphysics Books / Melbourne Art Australian Art Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting

John Nixon
La Crox et le Monochrome

1988, English/French
Softcover (stapled), 16 pages (b/w ill.), 26.5 x 21 cm
1st edition, Out of print title / As New,
Published by Villa Arson / Nice

$55.00 - Out of stock

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Catalogue for the 1988 exhibition La Crox et le Monochrome at Villa Arson, Nice
John Nixon is an Australian artist born in 1949, his Experimental Painting Workshop EPW – founded in 1990 – is not a physical workshop but an intellectual as well as a practical visual investigation into non-representational painting.

File under: John Nixon Villa Arson / Nice Art Australian Art Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting

John Nixon
EPW: Orange Esbjerg Kunstmuseum

1988, English
Softcover (stapled), 16 pages (colour + b/w ill.), 21 x 14.8 cm
1st edition, Out of print title / As New,
Published by Esbjerg Kunstmuseum / Esbjerg

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Catalogue for the 1988 exhibition EPW:ORANGE at Esbjerg Kunstmuseum
John Nixon is an Australian artist born in 1949, his Experimental Painting Workshop EPW – founded in 1990 – is not a physical workshop but an intellectual as well as a practical visual investigation into non-representational painting.

File under: John Nixon Esbjerg Kunstmuseum / Esbjerg Art Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting Australian Art

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

$70.00 - Out of stock

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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

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.

File under: A.R. Penck AA Bronson Agnes Martin Alain Robbe-Grillet Alberto Giacometti Albrecht Dürer Alfred Hitchcock Alighiero Boetti Alison Knowles Allan Kaprow André Masson Andy Warhol Anne Truitt Ant Farm Anthony Caro Barbara Kruger Barnett Newman Brice Marden Bruce Conner Bruno Taut Carl Andre Chris Burden Cindy Sherman Claes Oldenburg Constantin Brâncuși Dan Flavin Dan Graham Daniel Buren David Hockney David Smith Diane Arbus Donald Judd Dorothea Rockburne Douglas Huebler Edward Kienholz El Lissitzky Ellsworth Kelly Eva Hesse Francis Bacon Francis Picabia Frank Stella Gerrit Rietveld Hairy Who Hans Haacke Henri Matisse Hollis Frampton Irving Penn Jackson Pollock James Rosenquist Jannis Kounellis Jasper Johns Jean Cocteau Jean Dubuffet Jean Tinguely Jo Baer Joan Jonas John Cage John Chamberlain John McCracken Jörg Immendorff Josef Albers Joseph Beuys Joseph Kosuth Karlheinz Stockhausen Ken Price Kenneth Noland Kurt Schwitters Larry Bell Larry Poons Lawrence Weiner Lee Bontecou Louise Bourgeois Louise Nevelson Lucas Samaras Lucio Fontana Luis Buñuel Lynda Benglis Marc Chagall Marcel Breuer Marcel Broodthaers Marcel Duchamp Mario Merz Mark Rothko Markus Lupertz Martial Raysse Max Bill Max Ernst Mel Bochner Michael Snow Nancy Graves Nancy Grossman On Kawara Pablo Picasso Paul Cézanne Paul Klee Paul Wunderlich Philip Glass Ree Morton René Magritte Richard Avedon Richard Serra Richard Tuttle Robert Grosvenor Robert Mapplethorpe Robert Morris Robert Motherwell Robert Rauschenberg Robert Ryman Robert Smithson Robert Venturi Roberto Matta Roman Polanski Roy Lichtenstein Saul Steinberg Sol Lewitt Sonia Delaunay Steve Reich Terry Fox Walker Evans Walter de Maria Walter Gropius Wolf Vostell Yvonne Rainer Michelangelo Antonioni Jean Arp (Hans Arp) James Lee Byars Merce Cunningham Oskar Schlemmer Gilbert & George Robert Barry Eduardo Paolozzi Ad Reinhardt Agnes Martin Allan Kaprow Andy Warhol Annette Michelson Anselm Kiefer Barbara Kruger Barbara Rose Billy Kluver Boris Groys Carl Andre Carter Ratcliff Cindy Nemser Claes Oldenburg Dan Flavin Dan Graham Dennis Adrian Don Factor Donald Kuspit Ed Ruscha Edit De Ak Hal Foster Harold Rosenberg Henry Geldzahler Henry T. Hopkins Hilton Kramer Hollis Frampton Ingrid Sischy J. Hoberman Jane Livingston Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe John Cage John Coplans Kate Steinitz Kathy Acker Kenneth Baker Laurie Anderson Lawrence Alloway Lawrence Weiner Lizzie Borden Louise Bourgeois Lucy R. Lippard Manny Farber Max Kozloff Mel Bochner Michael Fried Peter Plagens Peter Schjeldahl Philip Leider Richard Flood Richard Serra Robert Mapplethorpe Robert Morris Robert Pincus-Witten Robert Rosenblum Roberta Smith Roger Shattuck Roy Lichtenstein Sam Wagstaff Sidney Tillim Stuart Morgan Thomas McEvilley Walter De Maria Walter Hopps Rosalind E. Krauss Bertolt Brecht U.M.I. Research Press / Michigan Art Arte Povera Conceptual Art Counterculture Curatorial Dada Drawing Fashion Feminism Fiction / Poetry Film / Video Fluxus Group Shows / Collections Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals Photography Pop Art Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Theory / Essay

Tony Conrad
Two Degrees of Separation / Über zwei Ecken

2015, English / German
Softcover, 96 pages, 13 x 19.5 cm
Published by Kunsthalle Wien / Vienna Sternberg Press / Berlin

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Edited by Gareth Long, Nicolaus Schafhausen
Texts by Jonathan Walley, Tony Conrad, Diedrich Diederichsen

Tony Conrad, who can be described as an artist, composer, musician, filmmaker, and performer, might be considered the first true “crossover artist.” Two Degrees of Separation accompanies the eponymous exhibition by Tony Conrad at Kunsthalle Wien. In his essay “A Show That’s Almost Invisible,” the critic Jonathan Walley discusses how the main works in this exhibition relate to Conrad’s interest in the subgenre referred to as the woman-in-prison film, silent music, and the idea of perspective developed during the Italian Renaissance. A conversation between Tony Conrad and Diedrich Diederichsen provides insight into the thinking of the multitalented artist and his unique position in the field of contemporary art.

Copublished with Kunsthalle Wien

File under: Tony Conrad Diedrich Diederichsen Gareth Long Jonathan Walley Nicolaus Schafhausen Tony Conrad Kunsthalle Wien / Vienna Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Film / Video Minimal Art Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music

Tony Conrad
Doing the City / Urban Community Interventions

2014, English
Paperback (french-folds w. DVD), 80 pages, 28 x 24 cm
Published by 80WSE Gallery / New York

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Tony Conrad: Doing the City is the first monograph printed to cover this pioneering film, video, music and installation artist's oeuvre of the last 50 years. The copiously illustrated, full-color catalogue includes essays by noted Columbia University art historian and Conrad scholar Branden Joseph; Whitney Museum Performance Curator and 2012 Whitney Biennial Curator Jay Sanders; filmmaker and Anthology Film Archives Curator Andrew Lampert; Swiss digital archivist Tabea Lurke; as well as an in-depth interview between Conrad and exhibition curator Michael Cohen examining Conrad's life and career.

The catalogue also includes a bonus DVD disc, Tony Conrad: Live at 80wse. This disc includes live performances of Conrad's classic minimalist works "Chant" and "Early Minimalism: May 1965," as well as a lengthy video conversation with Conrad as he walks through his old haunts in the Lower East Side. This volume is a distillation, documentation and expansion of the acclaimed exhibition and series of concerts and educational lectures of the same name which was held at NYU's 80WSE Gallery in 2012.

File under: Tony Conrad Andrew Lampert Branden Joseph Jay Sanders Michael Cohen 80WSE Gallery / New York Art Film / Video Minimal Art Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music SALE

Donald Judd
Don Judd

1970, English / Dutch
1st Edition, Out of print title / Used*
1st edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by Van Abbemuseum / Eindhoven Whitechapel / London

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Rare, very early Donald Judd catalogue. First and only edition, published in 1970 by Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, and Whitechapel, London.
An important early exhibition, this catalogue was edited by Lucy L. Lippard, designed by Jan van Toorn and features an introductory text by J. Leering (in English and Dutch), a conversation/interview with Donald Judd and Frank Stella together, and early selected texts by Donald Judd (featuring Kenneth Noland, Jean Arp, etc.) Illustrated throughout with examples of Judd's work through black and white photographs and facsimiles of Judd's drawings and plans, with a stapled-in catalogue sheet of the work-list shown at the Whitechapel Gallery on the inside of the rear cover (as intended for distribution). And, of course, stapled together in the wonderful metallic golden cover wraps!

An important and striking early catalogue for any Judd collection.

Condition: Good (small scraping to the top-left spine corner on cover wrap, light handling wear and light edge tanning, but a very good copy throughout otherwise) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Donald Judd Frank Stella Jan van Toorn Jean Arp (Hans Arp) Kenneth Noland Donald Judd Frank Stella Lucy R. Lippard Van Abbemuseum / Eindhoven Whitechapel / London Art Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay

Jo Baer

1975, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 40 pages, 25 x 25 cm
1st edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by Whitney Museum of American Art / New York

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Rare Jo Baer catalogue from 1975, published to accompany a major mid-career retrospective of Jo Baer's work at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, May 1-July 13, 1975. Features colour and black and white reproductions of many of Baer's work, along with text by Barbara Haskell.

Jo Baer was born in Seattle, Washington in 1929. After completing graduate work in psychology at the New School for Social Research in New York, she began her career as an artist in Los Angeles in 1953. Seven years later, she returned to New York where she became a key participant in the Minimalist art movement. Her paintings were included with works by Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, Robert Morris, and Sol Lewitt in many of the first Minimalist art exhibitions in New York in the early 1960s.

Her unswerving commitment to painting as a radical art form brought her a one-person exhibition as early as 1966 at the Fischbach Gallery in New York. In 1975, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York held a mid-career retrospective of her work. In 1999, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam exhibited a large retrospective of her work. Recently the DIA Center for the Arts in New York also held a major exhibition of over 25 minimalist paintings and prints that she completed from 1960 to 1975.

In search of a more substantive art, Baer exiled herself from the New York art world with a move to Ireland in 1975. By 1983, she took a stance against abstract art as an avant-garde form with a polemical article in Art in America. Since 1984, she has lived and worked in Amsterdam. Baer continues to develop the formal content of her paintings in a quasi-figurative manner that she considers radical figuration — without pre-eminence of image or space.

Condition: Good-Very Good (general light tanning and wear to covers) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Jo Baer Barbara Haskell Whitney Museum of American Art / New York Art Minimal Art Painting Sculpture / Installation

Art In The Seventies

1980, English
Softcover, 128 pages, 28 x 21.5 cm
Out of print title / used*,
Published by Cornell Paperbacks / London Phaidon / London

$38.00 $15.00 - Out of stock

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"Edward Lucie-Smith, a critic and historian of art who is deeply immersed in the works and trends of the seventies here provides the first general survey of the decade. In a volume alive with visual images that are often surprising and sometimes disturbing, he analyzes the development both of old forms and of new ones, and provides a coherent framework for the general reader."

Contents: The Popular Arts; Post Pop and Mandarin Taste; Abstract Painting; Illusionary Art; Figurative Painting; Fetish Art and Happenings; Political Art; Art as Environment and Architecture; High-Tech and the Third World, plus a biographical list of the artists featured and a "further reading" list.

Includes the work of: Stephen Willats, Lawrence Weiner, Brice Marden, Robert Mapplethorpe, Vito Acconci, Jo Baer, Joseph Beuys, Lynda Benglis, Bob Law, Philip King, Alan Kessler, On Kawara, Douglas Huebler, John Kacere, Richard Long, Robert Mangold, Philip Guston, Hans Haacke, Nancy Grossman, Robert Grosvenor, Nancy Graves, Walter de Maria, U-Fan, Claude Viallet, Nancy Spero, Peter Saul, Robert Ryman, James Rosenquist, Joel Shapiro, Sylvia Sleigh, Robert Stackhouse, Paul Thek, Giulio Paolini, Nam June Paik, Bruce Nauman, Roman Opalka, Dennis Oppenheim, Tony Cragg, Judy Chicago, Larry Bell, Daniel Buren, Chuck Close, and many more.

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

File under: Alan Kessler Bob Law Brice Marden Bruce Nauman Chuck Close Claude Viallat Daniel Buren Dennis Oppenheim Douglas Huebler Giulio Paolini Hans Haacke James Rosenquist Jo Baer Joel Shapiro John Kacere Joseph Beuys Judy Chicago Larry Bell Lawrence Weiner Lynda Benglis Nam June Paik Nancy Graves Nancy Grossman Nancy Spero On Kawara Paul Thek Peter Saul Philip Guston Richard Long Robert Grosvenor Robert Mangold Robert Mapplethorpe Robert Ryman Robert Stackhouse Roman Opalka Stephen Willats Sylvia Sleigh Tony Cragg U-Fan Vito Acconci Walter de Maria Phillip King Edward Lucie-Smith Cornell Paperbacks / London Phaidon / London Art Arte Povera Conceptual Art Feminism Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting Photography Pop Art Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections SALE

Heimo Zobernig
Books & Posters: Catalogue Raisonne 1980-2015, 114 Books, 117 Posters

2016, English
Softcover, 432 pages, 21 x 29.7 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

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Catalogue Raisonne of Heimo Zobernig's vast history of Books & Posters: 1980-2015, including reproduction and detailed information on 114 books, and 117 bosters, alongside texts by Diana Baldon, Moritz Küng. An essential aspect of Zobernig's work and a must-have heavy archive document for any fan.

Published by Verlag Der Buchhandlung Walther Konig.

Heavy book may require additional postage.

File under: Heimo Zobernig Diana Baldon Moritz Küng Walther König / Köln Art Graphic Design / Typography Painting Sculpture / Installation Minimal Art

Apocalypse + Utopia
curated by John Nixon

1984, English
Softcover, 14 pages, 17.8 x 23.7 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / Used*,
Published by University Art Gallery / Melbourne

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WE ARE AT AN EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS. THE GALLERY HAS BECOME THE CAVE. IT IS A TIME OF THE APOCALYPSE + UTOPIA. THE ARTISTS HAVE 'HEWN THEIR PAINTINGS INTO THE WHITENESS OF THE WALLS'. IT IS ONCE AGAIN A PRIMITIVE SOCIETY. THE PICTURES TELL THEIR OWN STORIES.

JOHN NIXON

Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Apocalypse + Utopia" at University Art Gallery, Melbourne, Feb 23 - April 8, 1984, curated by artist John Nixon and featuring the work of Gunter Christmann, Geoff Lowe, Dick Watkins and Jenny Watson.

Condition: Good (tight and internally clean with staple binding, but rubbing to front cover and a little on back - discolouring) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Dick Watkins Geoff Lowe Gunter Christmann Jenny Watson John Nixon University Art Gallery / Melbourne Art Australian Art Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting Group Shows / Collections

Impresario: Paul Taylor
The Melbourne Years, 1981–1984

2013, English
Softcover, 400 pages, 13.4 x 20 cm
Edition of 1000,
Published by Monash University Museum of Art / Melbourne Surpllus / Melbourne

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Impresario: Paul Taylor, The Melbourne Years, 1981–1984 brings together a diverse body of texts focused on Paul Taylor, the Australian editor, writer, curator and impresario, and in particular his important and influential early years in Melbourne between 1981 and 1984. The dates of the texts included span some thirty years and take a variety of different forms — critical essays, reviews, short reflective texts, interviews, transcriptions of lectures — the combination of which seeks to analyse Taylor’s impact on Australian art history in the early 1980s, when he founded Art & Text and curated the landmark exhibition ‘POPISM’ at the National Gallery of Victoria, and the subsequent ripples that continue to encircle us in his wake, thirty years on.

Edited and introduced by Helen Hughes and Nicholas Croggon, and featuring contributions by Ashley Crawford, Adrian Martin, Charles Green & Heather Barker, Chris McAuliffe, David Chesworth & Jon Dale, David Pestorius, Graham Willett, Ian McLean, Judy Annear, Janine Burke, Juan Davila, Jonathan Holmes, John Nixon & David Homewood, Jenny Watson & Kelly Fliedner, Lyndal Jones, Merryn Gates, Maria Kozic, Philip Brophy, Paul Foss, Patrick McCaughey, Peter Tyndall, Rex Butler & Susan Rothnie, Ralph Traviati, Imants Tillers, Edward Colless, Russell Walsh, Sue Cramer, Denise Robinson and Vivienne Shark LeWitt.

Editors: Helen Hughes and Nicholas Croggon
Design: Brad Haylock

File under: David Chesworth Elizabeth Gower Howard Arkley Jenny Watson John Nixon Keith Haring Lyndal Jones Peter Tyndall Philip Brophy Vivienne Shark LeWitt Adrian Martin Ashley Crawford Charles Green Chris McAuliffe David Chesworth David Pestorius Denise Robinson Edward Colless Graham Willett Heather Barker Helen Hughes Ian McLean Imants Tillers Janine Burke Jenny Watson John Nixon Jon Dale Jonathan Holmes Juan Davila Judy Annear Kelly Fliedner Lyndal Jones Maria Kozic Merryn Gates Nicholas Croggon Patrick McCaughey Paul Foss Peter Tyndall Philip Brophy Ralph Traviati Rex Butler Russell Walsh Sue Cramer Susan Rothnie Vivienne Shark LeWitt Monash University Museum of Art / Melbourne Surpllus / Melbourne Art Australian Art Minimal Art Painting Theory / Essay

Robert Morris
October Files book - Julia Bryan-Wilson (Ed.)

2013, English
Softcover, 212 pages, 15.2 x 23 cm
Published by October Books / New York The MIT Press / Massachusetts

$42.00 - Out of stock

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This October Files volume gathers essays, an interview, and a roundtable discussion on the work of Robert Morris, one of the most influential American artists of the postwar period. It includes a little-known text on dance by Morris himself and a never-before-anthologized but influential catalog essay by Annette Michelson. Often associated with minimalism, Morris (b. 1931) also created important works that involved dance, process art, and conceptualism. The texts in this volume focus on Morris's early work and include an examination of a 1971 Tate retrospective by Jon Bird, an interview with the artist by Benjamin Buchloh, a conversation from a 1994 issue of October about resistance to 1960s art, and an essay by this volume's editor, Julia Bryan-Wilson, on the labor involved in installing the massive works in Morris's 1970 solo exhibition at the Whitney. Spanning 1965 to 2009, these writings map the evolution of critical thought on Morris over more than four decades.

File under: Robert Morris Annette Michelson Jon Bird Julia Bryan-Wilson Benjamin H. D. Buchloh October Books / New York The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Theory / Essay Sculpture / Installation Minimal Art

Primary Views
Stephen Bram, Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley, Juan Davila

2009, English
Softcover, 30 pages, 17 x 20 cm

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Catalogue produced on the occasion of the exhibition, "Primary Views" at MUMA, Monash University Museum of Art in 2008, curated by artists Stephen Bram, Janet Burchill and Jennifer McCamley, and Juan Davila, with co-ordinating curator Kirrily Hammond.
Primary Views invited the insights of four artists represented in the Monash University collection. Each has been invited to curate a self-contained exhibition from the Monash University collection, according to their own areas of interest, expertise and aesthetic/discursive predilections. Alternative to classical or canonical art-historical readings, Primary Views considers the role of the artist as curator, encouraging new readings of the collection, and more partial, polemical and aberrant artistic historiographies.
Features texts by the curating artists and Max Delany.

Artists featured in the exhibition were: Howard Arkley, Paul Bai, Chris Barry, Charles Blackman, Peter Booth, Arthur Boyd, Stephen Bram, Horace Brodzky, Janet Burchill & Jennifer Mccamley, Ian Burn, Jane Burton, Domenico De Clario, Clyde Clinton, Noel Counihan, Mutlu Cerkez, Juan Davila, John Dunkley-Smith, Richard Dunn, Louise Forthun, John Heartfield, Bill Henson, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Ronnie Van Hout, Raafat Ishak, Rosemary Laing, Robert Macpherson, Tracey Moffatt, John Nixon, Jacky Redgate, William Robins, Paul Saint, Dada Samson, Jan Senbergs, Wolfgang Sievers

File under: Arthur Boyd Bill Henson Charles Blackman Chris Barry Clyde Clinton Dada Samson Domenico De Clario Horace Brodzky Howard Arkley Ian Burn Jacky Redgate Jan Senbergs Jane Burton Janet Burchill Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley Jennifer McCamley John Dunkley-Smith John Heartfield John Nixon Juan Davila Louise Forthun Lynn Hershman Leeson Mutlu Çerkez Noel Counihan Paul Bai Paul Saint Peter Booth Richard Dunn Robert Macpherson Ronnie Van Hout Rosemary Laing Stephen Bram Tracey Moffatt William Robins Wolfgang Sievers Raafat Ishak Max Delany Art Australian Art Curatorial Minimal Art Painting Group Shows / Collections Drawing Sculpture / Installation SALE

Supports / Surfaces
dans les collections du Centre Georges Pompidou

2000, Japanese
Softcover, 200 pages, 29.8 x 23.5 cm
1st edition, Out of print title / Used*,
Published by Museum of Contemporary Art / Tokyo

$90.00 - Out of stock

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Supports/Surfaces developed away from Paris, in the south of France, with the first major exhibition held in 1969 at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. In June 1969, during an exhibition at the Havre Museum entitled "La peinture en question", Vincent Bioulès, Louis Cane, Marc Devade, Daniel Dezeuze, Noël Dolla, Jean-Pierre Pincemin, Patrick Saytour, André Valensi, Bernard Pagès and Claude Viallat write in the catalog: "The subject of the painting is the painting itself and paintings on display refer only to themselves. They make no appeal to an "elsewhere" (the personality of the artist, his biography, history of art, for example). Early exhibtions took place in towns like Coaraze, Montpellier, Nimes and Nice in the mid-1960s. After the student revolts of 1968, the movement ratcheted up its activities, exploding in such exhibitions as "Supports/Surfaces," which took place at ARC in Paris in September 1970. These shows occurred at or around the same time as those of other French artist groups like GRAV and BMPT (Daniel Buren, Olivier Mosset, Michel Parmentier and Niele Toroni). Like them, Supports/Surfaces questioned the role of painting as both an art object and a social one.
As its name suggests, Supports/Surfaces was interested in articulating what its artists felt were all too readily ignored aspects of painting: basic concepts like 'support' and 'surface,' for example, and the presence of painting as a product of individual labor. At the same time, these artists were very much interested in painting and its own peculiar history. Daniel Dezeuze points out that he was looking for a means of “revolting against the art world and the world in general without having to make anti-art.” (Raphael Rubinstein, Polychrome Profusion: Selected Art Criticism: 1990 – 2002.) In fact, those involved with Supports/Surfaces, as Rubinstein also notes, were some of the few French artists of the period to engage directly with American Painting from Abstract Expressionism to Color Field, albeit doing so within the context of their Maoist discourse.

This scarce, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo catalogue gives a generous overview of the many works of the artists of Supports/Surfaces, through colour and black and white photographs across 200 pages. It also provides texts (in Japanese), interviews, historical photos of the group and their installations, work list, a chronology and a biography. This catalogue was produced to accompany a major travelling exhibition of Supports/Surfaces in Tokyo in 2000, which presented the vast collection of work from the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. The exhibition was also staged in Paris in 1998, for which a French edition of this book exists.

*Condition: Very Good/Fine – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: André Valensi Bernard Pagès Claude Viallat Daniel Dezeuze Jean-Pierre Pincemin Louis Cane Marc Devade Noël Dolla Patrick Saytour Supports/Surfaces Vincent Bioulès Museum of Contemporary Art / Tokyo Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting Conceptual Art Sculpture / Installation Minimal Art

Heimo Zobernig
Untitled, 2006 (Signed Edition for Pacemaker)

2006, English
Softcover, 74 pages, 21 x 29.5 cm
Edition of 40 (signed and numbered, w. 5 artist's proofs and 2 printer's proofs), As New,
Published by David Pestorius / Brisbane

$270.00 - Out of stock

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Heimo Zobernig
Untitled, 2006

Edition for Pacemaker
Artist's book, b&w, offset + photocopied, perfect bound

Edition of 40 (signed and numbered, w. 5 artist's proofs and 2 printer's proofs)

Published by David Pestorius Projects on the occasion of Heimo Zobernig's exhibition at Artspace, Sydney (7 April - 6 May, 2006), and as a special edition for the free French and English quarterly Pacemaker.

Print Production by The Printing Office, Brisbane.

This book includes offset printed photo-documentation by Richard Stringer of Heimo Zobernig's exhibition at the Pestorius Sweeney House, Brisbane (18 June - 23 July, 2005), together with, amongst other things, photocopies of pages from the following publications: Conceptual Art and Conceptual Aspects. ed. Ian Burn and Joseph Kosuth, New York City: New York Cultural Centre, 1970; Art & Language: Catalogue Raisonné November 1965 - Feb 1969. Leamington Spa and Zurich: Art and Language Press and Galerie Bischofberger, 1970; Ian Burn, Dialogue: Writings in Art History. ed. Geoffrey Batchen. North Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1991; Paul Maenz Koln 1970 - 1980 - 1990: An Avant-GardeGallery And The Art of Our Time. ed. Gerd de Vries. Koln: DuMont, 1991 (with the permission of Paul Maenz).

Acknowledgements: The Power Institute, Catherine Chevalier, Eva Svennung, Paul Maenz, Nick Tsoutas.

File under: Heimo Zobernig David Pestorius / Brisbane Art Objects / Ephemera / A/V Out-of-print / Rare Painting Sculpture / Installation Signed Books Minimal Art

Heimo Zobernig
Kunsthaus Graz

2013, English
Softcover, 256 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 29.7 x 21 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

$58.00 - Out of stock

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Heimo Zobernig uses a variety of media, including painting, sculpture, video, installations, architectural interventions and performance art. His works seem to question the usual art narrative, in media such as architecture, design and theatre, by stirring up the underlying ideological positions and reinterpreting them with a characteristic economy of means, materials and methodologies. In this beautifully designed publication accompanying and documenting the exhibitions at the Palacio Velázquez/Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid and at the Kunsthaus Graz, all of the works presented are traced back historically to the beginning of the 1980s with regard to their origins. Alongside a contextualising text by the exhibition's curator, Jürgen Bock, commenting on the oeuvre of this internationally renowned Austrian artist are Achim Hochdörfer on the meaning of painting, Andrew Renton on Beckettian theatricality and Gertrud Sandqvist on its art-historical aspects.

File under: Heimo Zobernig Achim Hochdörfer Andrew Renton Jürgen Bock Walther König / Köln Art Sculpture / Installation Painting Minimal Art

ART & TEXT 2
Winter 1981

1981, English
Softcover, 68 pages, 18.5 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by Art & Text / Prahran

$45.00 - Out of stock

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ART & TEXT 2
Winter 1981

Edited by Paul Taylor
CONTENTS:
"On Some Alternatives to the Code in the Age of Hyperreality: the Hermit and the City—Dweller" by John Young and Terry Blake
"The Desire of Maria Kozic" by Adrian Martin
"David Wilson’s New Sculpture" by Patrick McCaughey
"Modernism and Realism: Some Orientations" by Terry Smith
"Culture Corner" by Peter Tyndall
Manifestos:
"Manifesto for a future Sculpture Triennial" by Judy Annear
"Manifesto for a Renewed Art Practice 1980" by John Nixon (missing)
Book Reviews:
"About Looking by John Berger" by Ian North
"The Shock of the New: Art and the Century of Change by Robert Hughes" by David Bromﬁeld
"The Years of Hope: Australian Art and Criticism 1959 — 1968 by Gary Catalano" by Noel Hutchison
note: this copy is missing the insert manifesto "Manifesto for a Renewed Art Practice 1980" by John Nixon

Art & Text, one of the landmark contemporary art magazines of the 1980s and 1990s. Founded in Melbourne, Australia, in 1981 by Paul Taylor (1957–92), who soon moved to New York City to make his mark as an art critic, the magazine went on to become one of a handful of international art magazines that succeeded in capturing the turmoil and passing brilliance of that period of postmodernism.

Very Good - general wear/tanning.

File under: John Nixon Maria Kozic Peter Tyndall Adrian Martin David Bromﬁeld Ian North John Young Judy Annear Maria Kozic Noel Hutchison Patrick McCaughey Peter Tyndall Terry Blake Terry Smith Art & Text / Prahran Art Australian Art Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting Periodicals Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay

John Nixon
Music 1979 - 1999

1999, English
Softcover (stapled), 20 pages (b/w ill.), 21 x 14.8 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / Used*,
Published by David Pestorius / Brisbane

$80.00 - Out of stock

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This catalogue was printed on the occasion of the following exhibitions

John Nixon Music 1979 - 1999
Kunstler haus Bethanien
4th - 21st March 1999

John Nixon EPW: Orange
David Pestorius Gallery
Berlin
11th March - 10th April 1999

Text by David Pestorius and John Nixon

Condition: Very Good (a clean copy with only very minor bumping) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: John Nixon David Pestorius / Brisbane Art Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting

John Nixon
EPW Demonstration Room Sydney (The Berlin Project)

1995, English
Softcover (stapled), 16 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 21 x 14.8 cm
1st edition, Out of print title / As New,
Published by BARBERism / Sydney

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Catalogue for the exhibtion EPW Demonstration Room, Sydney (The Berlin Project) Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sydney
John Nixon is an Australian artist born in 1949, his Experimental Painting Workshop EPW – founded in 1990 – is not a physical workshop but an intellectual as well as a practical visual investigation into non-representational painting.

File under: John Nixon BARBERism / Sydney Art Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting

John Nixon
Piano 1 1992

1992, English
Softcover (unstapled), 6 pages (b/w ill.), 21 x 14.8 cm
1st edition, Out of print title / As New,
Published by Self-Published

$40.00 - Out of stock

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Single issue magazine from 1992
John Nixon is an Australian artist born in 1949, his Experimental Painting Workshop EPW – founded in 1990 – is not a physical workshop but an intellectual as well as a practical visual investigation into non-representational painting.

File under: John Nixon Self-Published Art Australian Art Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting

Abstract Art
curated by John Nixon

1992, English
Softcover (stapled), 16 pages (no ill.), 21 x 14.8 cm
1st edition, Out of print title / As New,
Published by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery / Sydney

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Catalogue for the exhibition Abstract Art at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery in 1992.
Organised by John Nixon featuring; Stephen Bram, Vincente Butron, Eugene Carchesio, Bronwyn Clark-Coolee, A.D.S. Donaldson, Clint Doyle, Melinda Harper, Stephen Little, Anne Marie May, Rose Nolan, Kerrie Poliness, Elizabeth Pulie, Gary Wilson

File under: A.D.S. Donaldson Anne-Marie May Bronwyn Clark-Coolee Clint Doyle Elizabeth Pulie Eugene Carchesio Gary Wilson John Nixon Kerrie Poliness Melinda Harper Rose Nolan Stephen Bram Stephen Little Vincente Butron Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery / Sydney Art Australian Art Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting