World Food Books

Wade Guyton
Das New Yorker Atelier

2017, English / German
Hardcover (w. dust jacket and slipcase), 356 pages, 31.8 x 29 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

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In the last two years, Wade Guyton has created a compelling new series of artworks, which this publication presents in all its breadth and complexity.

In the series, he opens his art to new modes of visual depiction as well as the world around him by adopting the practices of taking snapshots and screen captures common to our increasingly digital experience.

In so doing, he follows the rapid extension and ramification of the digital code into all areas of life, through recording the daily reading of the newspaper, the view from his window, the act of reflecting on his paintings and sculptures, as well as a view into their magnified digital matrix.

English and German text.

File under: Wade Guyton Walther König / Köln Art Painting

Eva Hesse
by Lucy Lippard

1976, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 249 pages, 28.2 x 18.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by New York University Press / New York

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One of the great artist monographic books.
Eva Hesse (January 11, 1936 - May 29, 1970), was a German-born American sculptor, known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics. "As Lippard points out, Hesse's use of obsessive repetition in her works served to increase and exaggerate the absurdity she saw in her life. In many ways, her works were "psychic models," as Robert Smithson has said, of "a very interior person." In pioneering the use of "soft" materials, her sculptures betrayed her awareness of the manner in which her experience as a woman altered her art and career. Although she died before feminism affected the art world to any great extent, her major works have since become talismans for succeeding generations of women artists.
Eva Hesse was designed by Hesse's friends and colleagues Sol LeWitt and Pat Stier; her sculptures, drawings, and paintings are reproduced throughout the entire book and discussed; and the text includes numerous quotations from her diaries."

Long out-of-print, this classic text is both an insightful critical analysis and a tribute to an artist whose genius has become increasingly apparent with the passage of time.

Rare hardcover first edition of this wonderful book.
Ex-library, but only a couple of minor stamps suggest this, otherwise a very handsome, clean copy throughout, with dust jacket in great condition.

File under: Eva Hesse Robert Smithson Sol LeWitt Lucy R. Lippard New York University Press / New York Art Sculpture / Installation Drawing Painting Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare

Blinky Palermo
Abstraction of an Era

2009, English
Hardcover (cloth-bound), 320 pages, 20.3 x 25.4 cm
Published by Yale University Press / New Haven

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Twenty-one-year-old Peter Heisterkamp began signing his colorful and playful abstract artworks Palermo in 1964, when peers noted his resemblance to the American gangster Frank “Blinky” Palermo. This handsome book—a historical and critical study of Palermo’s painting from the time he entered Joseph Beuys’s now famous class at the Düsseldorf academy in 1964 to his death in 1977—explores his significance for postwar and abstract art.

Christine Mehring notes that over the course of Palermo’s brief career he created five concurrent but distinct bodies of work: objects, cloth-pictures, wall-paintings, metal-pictures, and collaborative projects, primarily with his friend and colleague Gerhard Richter. Mehring shows how each of these groups demonstrates Palermo’s efforts to lead German art out of its international isolation and to transform modernist painting into historically resonant abstraction by incorporating artifice, humor, period colors, and play.

(Blinky) Palermo (1943–1977) was born Peter Schwarze in Leipzig. In 1962, he entered the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he studied with Bruno Goller and then with Joseph Beuys and, in 1964, appropriated the name Blinky Palermo from the American boxing promoter-cum-mafioso Frank “Blinky” Palermo, famous for managing heavyweight champion Sonny Liston. Over the course of his short life, Palermo participated in more than seventy exhibitions worldwide, including Documenta in 1972 and the Venice Biennale in 1975. He has had posthumous retrospectives at the Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (1984); Kunstmuseum Bonn (1993); Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) (2002); Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (2007); and Dia:Beacon and the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (CCS Bard) (2011).

File under: Blinky Palermo Christine Mehring Yale University Press / New Haven Art Minimal Art Painting Theory / Essay

Blinky Palermo
Retrospective 1964-1977

2010, English
Hardcover (cloth-bound), 192 pages, 23.5 x 28.6 cm
Published by Yale University Press / New Haven

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Edited by Lynne Cooke, Karen Kelly, and Barbara Schröder. Texts by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Lynne Cooke, Suzanne Hudson, Susanne Küper, and James Lawrence

The first retrospective in the U.S. to feature German artist Blinky Palermo (1943–1977) includes more than 60 works, most of which have never before been shown in North America. This beautifully illustrated volume spans the breadth of Palermo’s brief but significant career and explores each phase, beginning with objects and paintings created shortly after he graduated from Joseph Beuys’s class at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in the early 1960s and culminating with paintings he produced during his last years in both Germany and New York City.

Palermo’s oeuvre is customarily divided into four principal groupings: the Objects; the Cloth Pictures (Stoffbilder), the in situ Wall Paintings and Drawings, and the late Metal Pictures, including the epic To the People of New York City (1976), now in the collection of Dia Art Foundation. Blinky Palermo also addresses the artist’s works on paper, including watercolors, sketches, preparatory studies, and prints that he made throughout his career.

Essays by distinguished authors position the artist’s work in relation to postwar American art and culture, which he greatly revered. Topics include the influence of the American milieu on the Metal Pictures; space and time in the Wall Drawings and Paintings; and the insights into Palermo’s concerns and process afforded by his works on paper. The most comprehensive volume on Palermo’s career to date, this important book offers a rare opportunity to explore in-depth the work of a remarkably innovative artist, pointing to Palermo’s relevance and influence on a new generation of artists.

Palermo

(Blinky) Palermo (1943–1977) was born Peter Schwarze in Leipzig. In 1962, he entered the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he studied with Bruno Goller and then with Joseph Beuys and, in 1964, appropriated the name Blinky Palermo from the American boxing promoter-cum-mafioso Frank “Blinky” Palermo, famous for managing heavyweight champion Sonny Liston. Over the course of his short life, Palermo participated in more than seventy exhibitions worldwide, including Documenta in 1972 and the Venice Biennale in 1975. He has had posthumous retrospectives at the Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (1984); Kunstmuseum Bonn (1993); Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) (2002); Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (2007); and Dia:Beacon and the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (CCS Bard) (2011).

File under: Blinky Palermo Benjamin H. D. Buchloh Lynne Cooke Suzanne Hudson Susanne Küper James Lawrence Yale University Press / New Haven Art Minimal Art Painting

Destruction
Edited by Sven Spieker

2017, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 21 x 23 cm
Published by Whitechapel / London The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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The effects and meanings of destruction are central to the work of many of our most influential artists. Since the early 1960s, artists have employed destruction to creative ends. Here destruction changes from a negative state or passive condition to a highly productive category. The destructive subversion of media imagery aims to release us from its controlling effects. The self-destructing artwork extinguishes art’s fixity as arrested form and ushers in the ephemeral and contingent "open work."

This anthology explores artworks that convey the threat of destruction an how they have disrupted the perceived integrity of built structures and institutions. Artistic acts of iconoclasm or risk to the self have raised consciousness of authoritarian oppression. More understated works explore the theme of destruction in armed conflict, media violence, and threats to the environment. These text make up the first collection to be focused systematically on destruction in modern and contemporary art.

Artists surveyed include
Ai Weiwei, John Baldessari, Monica Bonvicini, Alexander Brener, Stuart Brisley, Douglas Gordon, Huang Yong Ping, Enrique Jezik, Milan Knizak, Paul McCarthy, Piero Manzoni, Gordon Matta-Clark, Gustav Metzger, Otto Mühl, Yoko Ono, Raphael Montañez Ortiz, Petr Pavlensky, William Pope.L, Walid Raad, Arnulf Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, Carolee Schneemann, Song Dong, Jean Tinguely, Wolf Vostell

Writers include
Alain Badiou, Walter Benjamin, Horst Bredekamp, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Medina Cuauthémoc, Dario Gamboni, Richard Galpin, Caleb Kelly, Bruno Latour, Sven Lütticken, Antonio Negri, Sophie O’Brien, Kristine Stiles, Jennifer Walden

About the Editor
Sven Spieker is Professor of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and editor of ARTmargins. His books include The Big Archive: Art from Bureaucracy (MIT Press).

File under: Ai Weiwei John Baldessari Monica Bonvicini Alexander Brener Stuart Brisley Douglas Gordon Huang Yong Ping Enrique Jezik Milan Knizak Paul McCarthy Piero Manzoni Gordon Matta-Clark Gustav Metzger Otto Mühl Yoko Ono Raphael Montanez Ortiz Petr Pavlensky William Pope.L Walid Raad Arnulf Rainer Robert Rauschenberg Carolee Schneemann Song Dong Jean Tinguely Wolf Vostell Alain Badiou Walter Benjamin Horst Bredekamp Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev Medina Cuauthémoc Dario Gamboni Richard Galpin Caleb Kelly Bruno Latour Sven Lütticken Antonio Negri Sophie O’Brien Kristine Stiles Jennifer Walden Whitechapel / London The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Fluxus Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater Painting Sculpture / Installation Arte Povera Theory / Essay

Max Ernst
Galeries Nationales du Grand-Palais 1975

1975, French
Softcover, 170 pages, 27 x 21cm
1st edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by Galeries Nationales du Grand-Palais / Paris

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First printing of this comprehensive and profusely illustrated catalogue produced to accompany a major exhibition of the work of German artist Max Ernst, at Galeries Nationales du Grand-Palais, in Paris in 1975.

Designed in landscape form, this curious and very generous catalogue is illustrated throughout with colour and black and white reproductions of Ernst's paintings, drawings, sculptures, collages, frottage, graphics, etching, etc., running chronologically and featuring columns of autobiographical testimonies and theoretical writings of Max Ernst, memories of friends, poetry, reflections, and correspondences with other artists, writings by critics or other artists (Tristan Tzara, Hans Ary, Paul Eluard, Patrick Waldberg, Benjamin Péret, André Breton, Louis Aragon, Dorothea Tanning, Hns Richter, George Bataille, and many others), etc. set in parallel, relating to reproductions of his work, social photographs, and other imagery. Also features a bibliography, list of works, and texts by Werner Spies and others. A very interesting monograph on the artist. All texts are in their original French.

Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976) was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealism.

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

File under: Dorothea Tanning Hans Richter Max Ernst Tristan Tzara Jean Arp (Hans Arp) Andre Breton George Bataille Louis Aragon Paul Eluard Tristan Tzara Werner Spies Galeries Nationales du Grand-Palais / Paris Art Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Surrealism Painting Dada

MAX ERNST
1983/1984

1983, Japanese / German / English
Softcover, 164 pages, 24 x 25 cm
1st edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by Yomiuri Shimbun / Tokyo

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Incredibly scarce Japanese book on the work of German artist Max Ernst, published to accompany the traveling solo exhibition (Sapporo, 15 September-23 October, 1983; Kokura, 28 October-13 November, 1983; Osaka, 18 November -6 December, 1983; Shimane, 7 January-29 January, 1984; Tokyo, 3 February-15 February, 1984; Kamakura, 25 February-25 March, 1984)

With an introduction by German art historian Werner Spies, in German and Japanese, this profusely illustrated book is quite a valuable volume on Ernst as it concentrates its pages on a huge collection of his lithography, frottage, collage, drawing, etching, and other graphic works, rather than his more well-known works in painting and sculpture, bringing to the surface many lesser-seen works of the artist. A very visual book, containing over 300 colour and black and white reproductions.

Text by Werner Spies.
In Japanese and German, with titles and introduction in English.
Includes bibliography.

Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976) was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealism.

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

File under: Max Ernst Werner Spies Yomiuri Shimbun / Tokyo Art Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Surrealism Painting Dada

October : The First Decade 1976-1986
Annette Michelson, Rosalind Krauss, Douglas Crimp, Joan Copjec (eds.)

1987, English
Hardcover (w. dustjacket), 456 pages, 22.3 x 17.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by October Books / New York The MIT Press / Massachusetts

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First edition of the heavy "OCTOBER: The First Decade, 1976 - 1986", which brings together a selection of some of the most important and representative texts, many from issues long out of print, that have appeared in one of the foremost journals in art criticism and theory - October.

Contributors include Rosalind Krauss, Sergei Eisenstein, Peter Handke, Georges Didi-Huberman, Mary Ann Doane, and Hans Haacke. Their essays are organized under the categories of "the index, historical materialism, the critique of institutions, psychoanalysis, rhetoric, and the body." -- publisher's statement.

Texts by Annette Michelson, Rosalind Krauss, Douglas Crimp, Joan Copjec, Nadar, Georges Didi-Huberman, Roger Caillois, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Sergei Einstein, Maria-Antonietta Macciocchi, Rosalyn Deutsche, Cara Gendel Ryan, Yve-Alain Bois, Daniel Buren, Louise Lawler, Christopher Philips, Homi Bhabha, Mary Ann Doane, Joel Fineman, Babette Mangolte, Peter Handke, Anette Michelson, Georges Bataille, Hollis Frampton, Robert Morris, Hans Haacke, and Trisha Brown.

"October is among the most advanced journals of the 1970s and 1980s in the fields of art theory, criticism, history, and practice. [Its editors] are intimately familiar with the cultural and political avant-garde of Europe and the U.S. and are able to attract its best thinkers.... Few, if any, journals could receive a higher recommendation."—Choice

File under: Hollis Frampton Robert Morris Hans Haacke Trisha Brown Daniel Buren Louise Lawler Marcel Duchamp Annette Michelson Rosalind Krauss Douglas Crimp Joan Copjec Nadar Georges Didi-Huberman Roger Caillois Benjamin H.D. Buchloh Sergei Einstein Maria-Antonietta Macciocchi Rosalyn Deutsche Cara Gendel Ryan Yve-Alain Bois Daniel Buren Louise Lawler Christopher Philips Homi Bhabha Mary Ann Doane Joel Fineman Babette Mangolte Peter Handke Anette Michelson Georges Bataille Hollis Frampton Robert Morris Hans Haacke Trisha Brown October Books / New York The MIT Press / Massachusetts Art Theory / Essay Out-of-print / Rare Photography Conceptual Art Curatorial Dada Film / Video Group Shows / Collections Minimal Art Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals Sculpture / Installation

Sanya Kantarovsky
No Joke

2016, English
Hardcover, 192 pages, 30. 5 x 23.5 cm
Out of print title / as new
Published by Koenig Books / London Studio Voltaire / London

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Now out of print.

Kantarovsky’s practice encompasses painting, drawing, sculpture and occasionally film. His signature works often have thinly applied, wiped, or scraped layers of paint, and feature narrative scenes populated by isolated, sinewy figures. His paintings frequently include indirect sociopolitical commentary and a critical look at the idea of the suffering artistic genius. The publication, his first monograph will feature a selection of recent works alongside his Studio Voltaire commission, Apricot Juice. A collaboration between Kantarovsky and Lithuanian-born performance artist leva Misevičiūtė, Apricot Juice was devised around two distinct parts – a language and movement based performance by Misevičiūtė and a group of five largescale paintings by Kantarovsky. The point of departure for the collaborative project was Mikhail Bulgakov’s enigmatic masterpiece novel The Master and Margarita, a narrative woven around a visit by the Devil to the aggressively atheist Soviet Union.

File under: Sanya Kantarovsky Allison Katz Angie Keefer Eli Diner Sanya Kantarovsky Koenig Books / London Studio Voltaire / London Art Drawing Painting Out-of-print / Rare

Ellen Cantor
"I’m Still Coming" : COMING TO POWER 2016 & 1993

2017, English
Softcover, 196 pages, 20 x 28 cm
Published by Capricious / New York

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A dual catalogue and archival exposé that explores the pivotal exhibition, Coming to Power: 25 Years of Sexually X-Plicit Art By Women, originally curated by the late artist, Ellen Cantor, in 1993, along with its re-staging in 2016 by curator Pati Hertling and artist, Julie Tolentino.

The book also chronicles the unprecedented partnership amongst five New York City institutions. Exhibitions and programming of Cantor’s work were offered by 80WSWE, Maccarone, Foxy Productions, Participant Inc., Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), Skowhegan School of Painting, and MOMA—highlighting the lush, visionary, and audacious aspects of Cantor’s drawings, paintings, curatorial projects, sculpture, assemblage, video, film, and evocative writing. Another section features a reprint of an interview between Cantor and Cerith Wyn Evans, a conversation between Lia Gangitano/Jonathan Berger and Julie Tolentino/Pati Hertling, as well as archival material from Cantor’s diary entries and never-seen sketches from Cantor’s personal papers.

LIST OF ARTISTS:

PAINTING/SCULPTURE/PHOTOGRAPHS: Lynda Benglis, Judith Bernstein, Louise Bourgeois, Ellen Cantor, Patricia Cronin, Mary Beth Edelson, Nicole Eisenman, Nancy Fried, Nan Goldin, Nancy Grossman, Pnina Jalon, G.B. Jones, Doris Kloster, Joyce Kozloff, Zoe Leonard, Monica Majoli, Marilyn Minter, Alice Neel, Lorraine O’Grady, Yoko Ono, Carolee Schneemann, Joan Semmel, Cindy Sherman, Nancy Spero, and Hannah Wilke

VIDEO/FILM: Peggy Ahwesh, Maria Beatty, Lynda Benglis, Abigail Child, Cicciolina, Kate Dymond, Azian Nurudin, Barbara Hammer, Holly Hughes, Julia Kunin, Blush Productions, Annie Sprinkle, and Ona Zee

PERFORMANCES: FlucT, luciana achugar, Kia Labeija, Xandra Ibarra/La Chica Boom, Zackary Drucker & Orlando Tirado, Jim Fletcher, Narcissister, niv Acosta, and Jen Rosenblit and their collaborators

File under: Lynda Benglis Judith Bernstein Louise Bourgeois Ellen Cantor Patricia Cronin Mary Beth Edelson Nicole Eisenman Nancy Fried Nan Goldin Nancy Grossman Pnina Jalon G.B. Jones Doris Kloster Joyce Kozloff Zoe Leonard Monica Majoli Marilyn Minter Alice Neel Lorraine O’Grady Yoko Ono Carolee Schneemann Joan Semmel Cindy Sherman Nancy Spero Hannah Wilke Julie Tolentino Peggy Ahwesh Maria Beatty Abigail Child Cicciolina Kate Dymond Azian Nurudin Barbara Hammer Holly Hughes Julia Kunin Blush Productions Annie Sprinkle Ona Zee FlucT luciana achugar Kia Labeija