World Food Books' programme is largely produced on Kulin Nation land. We acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation as the first and continuing custodians of this land, and pay respect to their Elders past, present, and emerging.
World Food Books is an arts and special interests bookshop in Naarm / Melbourne. Founded in 2010, World Food Books is devoted to the presentation of a rotating, hand-selection of international art, design, literary and counterculture publications with an emphasis on the anti-traditional, the experimental, the avant-garde, the heretic, the marginal.
Presenting new titles alongside rare and out-of-print books, catalogues and journals spanning the fields of modern and contemporary art, design, photography, illustration, film, literature, poetry, cultural theory, philosophy, sexuality, popular and underground culture in its many radical forms, World Food Books wishes to encourage adventurous, thoughtful and open-minded reading, looking, writing, and exchange of publishing and ideas, both current and historical.
As well as our bookshop, located in Melbourne's historical Nicholas Building, all of our inventory is available internationally via our online mail-order service.
World Food Books semi-regularly co-ordinates "Occasions", a programme of exhibits and events at the bookshop and in partnership with other hosts (such as museums and art galleries) that develop out of the activities, relationships and content of the bookshop itself.
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Interested in selling your old books, catalogues, journals, magazines, comics, fanzines, ephemera? We are always looking for interesting, unusual and out-of-print books to buy. We only buy books in our fields of interest and specialty, and that we feel we can resell.
We base these prices on desirability, market value, in-print prices, condition and our current stock levels. We offer cash, store credit, and can take stock on consignment. All
about 25% of the price we expect to get when we sell them, or 30% in store credit. We base these prices on desirability, market value, in-print prices, condition and our current stock levels.
Sell your books any day of the week. You can drop them off and return later. If you have a lot of books, we can visit your Sydney home.
We buy books that we feel we can resell. We offer about 25 % of the price we expect to get when we sell them, or 30% in store credit. We base these prices on desirability, market value, in-print prices, condition and our current stock levels.
Philadelphia Wireman
03 August - 01 September, 2018
World Food Books is proud to announce our next Occasion, the first presentation of sculptures by Philadelphia Wireman in Australia.
The Philadelphia Wireman sculptures were found abandoned in an alley off Philadelphia’s South Street on trash night in 1982. Their discovery in a rapidly-changing neighbourhood undergoing extensive renovation, compounded with the failure of all attempts to locate the artist, suggests that the works may have been discarded after the maker’s death. Dubbed the "Philadelphia Wireman" during the first exhibition of this work, in 1985, the maker’s name, age, ethnicity, and even gender remain uncertain. The entire collection totals approximately 1200 pieces, all intricately bound together with tightly-wound heavy-gauge wire (along with a few small, abstract marker drawings, reminiscent both of Mark Tobey and J.B. Murry). The dense construction of the work, despite a modest range of scale and materials, is singularly obsessive and disciplined in design: a wire armature or exoskeleton firmly binds a bricolage of found objects including plastic, glass, food packaging, umbrella parts, tape, rubber, batteries, pens, leather, reflectors, nuts and bolts, nails, foil, coins, toys, watches, eyeglasses, tools, and jewellery.
Heavy with associations—anthropomorphic, zoomorphic, and socio-cultural responses to wrapped detritus—the totemic sculptures by Philadelphia Wireman have been discussed in the context of work created to fulfil the shamanistic needs of alternative religions in American culture. Curators, collectors, and critics have variously compared certain pieces to sculpture from Classical antiquity, Native American medicine bundles, African-American memory jugs, and African fetish objects. Reflecting the artist’s prolific and incredibly focused scavenging impulse, and despite—or perhaps enhanced by—their anonymity, these enigmatic objects function as urban artefacts and arbiters of power, though their origin and purpose is unknown. Philadelphia Wireman, whatever their identity, possessed an astonishing ability to isolate and communicate the concepts of power and energy through the selection and transformation of ordinary materials. Over the course of the past two decades, this collection has come to be regarded as an important discovery in the field of self-taught art and vernacular art.
Presented in collaboration with Fleisher-Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, and Robert Heald, Wellington.
Susan Te Kahurangi King
02 February - 10 March, 2018
Susan Te Kahurangi King (24 February 1951 - ) has been a confident and prolific artist since she was a young child, drawing with readily available materials - pencils, ballpoint pens and felt-tip markers, on whatever paper is at hand. Between the ages of four and six Susan slowly ceased verbal communication. Her grandparents William and Myrtle Murphy had developed a special bond with Susan so they took on caring responsibilities for extended periods. Myrtle began informally archiving her work, carefully collecting and storing the drawings and compiling scrapbooks. No drawing was insignificant; every scrap of paper was kept. The King family are now the custodians of a vast collection containing over 7000 individual works, from tiny scraps of paper through to 5 meter long rolls.
The scrapbooks and diaries reveal Myrtle to be a woman of great patience and compassion, seeking to understand a child who was not always behaving as expected. She encouraged Susan to be observant, to explore her environment and absorb all the sights and sounds. Myrtle would show Susan’s drawings to friends and people in her community that she had dealings with, such as shopkeepers and postal workers, but this was not simply a case of a grandmother’s bias. She recognised that Susan had developed a sophisticated and unique visual language and sincerely believed that her art deserved serious attention.
This was an unorthodox attitude for the time. To provide some context, Jean Dubuffet coined the term Art Brut in 1945 to describe work created by self-taught artists – specifically residents of psychiatric institutions and those he considered to be visionaries or eccentrics. In 1972 Roger Cardinal extended this concept by adopting the term Outsider Art to describe work made by non-academically trained artists operating outside of mainstream art networks through choice or circumstance. Susan was born in Te Aroha, New Zealand in 1951, far from the artistic hubs of Paris and London that Dubuffet and Cardinal operated in. That Myrtle fêted Susan as a self-taught artist who deserved to be taken seriously shows how progressive her attitudes were.
Susan’s parents Doug and Dawn were also progressive. Over the years they had consulted numerous health practitioners about Susan’s condition, as the medical establishment could not provide an explanation as to why she had lapsed into silence. Dawn educated herself in the field of homeopathy and went on to treat all twelve of her children using these principles – basing prescriptions on her observations of their physical, mental and emotional state.
Doug was a linguist with an interest in philosophy who devoted what little spare time he had to studying Maori language and culture. To some extent their willingness to explore the fringes of the mainstream made them outsiders too but it was their commitment to living with integrity and their respect for individuality that ensured Susan’s creativity was always encouraged.
Even though Susan’s family supported her artistic pursuits, some staff in schools and hospitals saw it as an impediment to her assimilation into the community and discouraged it in a variety of ways. Her family was not always aware of this and therefore did not fully understand why Susan stopped drawing in the early 1990s. However, rather than dwell on the challenges that Susan faced in pursuit of her artistic practice, they prefer to highlight her achievements. In 2008 Susan began drawing again in earnest, after an almost 20 year interruption, and her work is now shown in galleries around the world.
Susan grew up without television and has been heavily influenced by the comics she read as a child. She is absolutely fearless in the appropriation of recognizable characters, such as Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse, in her work. She twists their limbs, contorts their faces, compresses them together, blends them into complex patterned backgrounds - always imbuing them with an incredible energy. Although Susan often used pop culture characters in her work they are not naive or childlike. These are drawings by a brilliant self-taught artist who has been creating exceptional work for decades without an audience in mind.
Mladen Stilinović
"Various Works 1986 - 1999"
02 February 16 - September 10, 2016
Various works 1986 - 1999, from two houses, from the collections of John Nixon, Sue Cramer, Kerrie Poliness, Peter Haffenden and Phoebe Haffenden.
Including: Geometry of Cakes (various shelves), 1993; Poor People’s Law (black and white plate), 1993; White Absence (glasses, ruler, set square, silver spoon, silver ladel with skin photograph and wooden cubes), 1990-1996; Exploitation of the Dead (grey and red star painting, wooden painting, black spoon with red table, red plate), 1984-1990; Money and Zeros (zero tie, paintings made for friends in Australia (Sue, John, Kerrie), numbers painting), 1991-1992; Words - Slogans (various t-shirts) - “they talk about the death of art...help! someone is trying to kill me”, “my sweet little lamb”, “work is a disease - Karl Marx”; Various artist books, catalogues, monographs, videos; Poster from exhibition Insulting Anarchy; "Circular" Croatian - Australian edition; Artist book by Vlado Martek (Dostoyevsky); more.
Thanks to Mladen Stilinović and Branka Stipančić.
Jonathan Walker
Always Will Need To Wear Winter Shirt Blue + Ochre Small Check Pattern
21 August - 21 September, 2015
Untitled
I am not a great reader of poetry but I always return to the work of Melbourne poet, Vincent Buckley (1925- 1988). Perhaps I find his most tantalising piece to be not a finished poem but a fragment left on a scrap of paper discovered on his desk after the poet’s death.
The poetry gathers like oil
In the word-core, and spreads
It has its music meet,
Its music is in movement.
This fragment is more the shell left behind from a volatile thought than a finished poem. I find the last two lines honest but awkward whereas the first two lines work like an arrow. Most likely he could not find a resolution so it was left. Still, in its present form, it remains an eloquent testimony to the ultimate failure of a medium to express mobile thought and sensation, in Buckley’s case, through verbal language. It’s an important matter because this is something all artists have to deal with regardless of the medium.
I have never written a poem, however, I am forever copying fragments from books on paper scraps in a vain effort to fix certain notions in my head. At first, they function as bookmarks that are sometimes returned to when I open the book. But before long, as they accumulate, they fall out littering the table interspersed with A4 photocopies, bills, books and medications.
To return to Buckley’s fragment, the first two lines very much evoke how I paint nowadays. As you age, detail diminishes and patches of light become more luminous and float. I feel the most honest way of dealing with this is by smearing the oil paint on the canvas with the fingers and working close-up, blind. Only if the patches coalesce into an approaching image can the work gain a life.
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Jonathan Walker was born in Melbourne, Australia and brought up on a dairy farm in Gippsland. In the 1970’s he studied painting at RMIT and won the Harold Wright Scholarship to the British Museum, London. During the 1980’s he exhibited at Pinacotheca Gallery, Richmond and had work shown at the NGV and Heidi City Art Gallery. Over the same period he designed the cover for the “Epigenesi” LP by Giancarlo Toniutti, Italy and conducted a mail exchange work with Achim Wollscheid, Germany. The work with artists through the post resulted in an article published in the bicentenary issue of Art and Australia 1988. He showed in artist run spaces such as WestSpace in the 90’s and 2000’s, and until 2012, taught painting at Victoria University, which is where we (Colleen Ahern and Lisa Radford) as organisers of the exhibition, among many others, had the privilege of being his student.
Walker’s knowledge was imparted to students through the careful selection of music, literature, and artists found in books that he himself had ordered for the library. Walker’s strategy was the generosity of sharing his vast knowledge with references specific to each student and their context.
Walker’s paintings share a similar focus and intimacy.
This exhibition presents a small selection of recent paintings alongside a publication that includes Walker’s writing. Observational and analytical, Walker’s work is a type of material notation — the time of day, colour and how it is blended, the both specific and fleeting location of a reflection on lino or the question of whether a chair leg should be included in a painting.
Please join us on Friday August 21 between 6-8pm to celebrate the opening of the exhibition.
Curated by Colleen Ahern and Lisa Radford.
B. Wurtz
Curated by Nic Tammens
March 26 - April 4, 2015
B.Wurtz works from a basement studio in his home on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
This local fact is attested to by the plastic shopping bags and newsprint circulars that appear in his work. As formal objects, they don’t make loud claims about their origins but nonetheless transmit street addresses and places of business from the bottom of this long thin island. Like plenty of artists, Wurtz is affected by what is local and what is consumed. His work is underpinned by this ethic. It often speaks from a neighborhood or reads like the contents of a hamper:
“BLACK PLUMS $1.29 lb.”
“Food Bazaar”
“USDA Whole Pork Shoulder Picnic 99c lb.”
“RITE AID Pharmacy, with us it’s personal.”
“H. Brickman & Sons.”
“Sweet Yams 59c lb."
Most of the work in this exhibition was made while the artist was in residence at Dieu Donne, a workshop dedicated to paper craft in Midtown. Here Wurtz fabricated assemblages with paper and objects that are relatively lightweight, with the intention that they would be easily transportable to Australia. This consideration isn’t absolute in Wurtz’s work, but was prescriptive for making the current exhibition light and cheap. Packed in two boxes, these works were sent from a USPS post office on the Lower East Side and delivered to North Melbourne by Australia Post.
Wurtz appears courtesy of Metro Pictures, New York.
Thanks to Rob Halverson, Joshua Petherick, Sari de Mallory, Matt Hinkley, Helen Johnson, Fayen d'Evie, Ask Kilmartin, Lisa Radon, Ellena Savage, Yale Union, and "Elizabeth".
John Nixon
"Archive"
December 15 - January 20, 2014
The presentation of John Nixon's archive offered a rare showcase of this extensive collection of the artist's own publications, catalogues, posters, ephemera, editions and more, from the mid 1980s onwards, alongside a selection of his artworks.
Organized by John Nixon, Joshua Petherick and Matt Hinkley.
"Habitat"
at Minerva, Sydney (organised by Joshua Petherick and Matt Hinkley)
November 15 - December 20, 2014
Lupo Borgonovo, Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley,
Lewis Fidock, HR Giger, Piero Gilardi, Veit Laurent Kurz,
Cinzia Ruggeri, Michael E. Smith, Lucie Stahl, Daniel Weil, Wols
Press Release:
“...It contained seven objects. The slender fluted bone, surely formed for flight, surely from the wing of some large bird. Three archaic circuitboards, faced with mazes of gold. A smooth white sphere of baked clay. An age-blackened fragment of lace. A fingerlength segment of what she assumed was bone from a human wrist, grayish white, inset smoothly with the silicon shaft of a small instrument that must once have ridden flush with the surface of the skin - but the thing’s face was seared and blackened.”
William Gibson, “Count Zero”, 1986
"Autumn Projects Archive"
Curated by Liza Vasiliou
March 6 - March 15, 2014
World Food Books, in conjunction with the Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival 2014, presented the Autumn Projects archive, consisting of a selection of early examples in Australian fashion with a particular interest in collecting designers and labels from the period beginning in the 1980’s, who significantly influenced the discourse of Australian Fashion.
Curated by Liza Vasiliou, the exhibition provided a unique opportunity to view pieces by designers Anthea Crawford, Barbara Vandenberg, Geoff Liddell and labels CR Australia, Covers, Jag along with early experimental collage pieces by Prue Acton and Sally Browne’s ‘Fragments’ collection, suspended throughout the functioning World Food Books shop in Melbourne.
H.B. Peace
presented by CENTRE FOR STYLE
November 14, 2013
"Hey Blinky, you say chic, I say same"
Anon 2013
H.B. Peace is a clothing collaboration between great friends Blake Barns and Hugh Egan Westland. Their pieces explore the divergences between 'character’ and ‘personality’ in garments....etc
Special Thanks to Joshua Petherick and Matt Hinkley of WFB and Gillian Mears
and a Very Special Thank you to Audrey Thomas Hayes for her shoe collaboration.
Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley
"Aesthetic Suicide"
May 10 - June 8, 2013
The first of our occasional exhibitions in the World Food Books office/shop space in Melbourne, "Aesthetic Suicide" presented a body of new and older works together by artists Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley, including videos, prints, a wall work, and publications.
During shop open hours videos played every hour, on the hour.
2013, English
Hardcover, 400 pages, 25.4 x 30.6 cm
Published by
Prestel / Munich
Stedelijk Museum / Amsterdam
$140.00 - Out of stock
From the mid-1970s, Mike Kelley assembled an incredibly diverse and often controversial body of work. A multi-disciplinary impresario, he created works on paper, paintings, sculpture, video, installation, and performance art that managed to be at once shocking yet humorous, and complex yet accessible. This companion volume to the much-anticipated 2013 exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam) brings a fresh understanding to the artist's work by seeking to address the more poetic aspects of Kelley's work through Eva Meyer-Hermann's unique curatorial approach. Here she presents individual works in new combinations that cross the boundaries of chronology, bodies of work, and former artistic project groups. Identifying themes such as architecture, language, identity, Informe, power, modernisms, nostalgia, and religion, the book represents ideas that have informed Kelley's work throughout his career. As a result, the overarching lines of his oeuvre become visible and accessible. This book features essays (by John C. Welchman, Eva Meyer-Hermann, Branden W. Joseph, and George Baker), a fully annotated plate section of abundant full-colour images of Kelley's history of work, and a newly researched and revised biography and bibliography of Kelley's work.
The publication promises to be the definitive work on the artist.
A huge publication! Extra shipping charges may apply.
2002, English / German
Softcover, 58 pages, 25.5 x 18 cm
Ed. of 800,
Published by
Daniel Buchholz Galerie / Köln
$40.00 - Out of stock
First monograph of the artist Lucy McKenzie, published on the occasion of her solo exhibit "Global Joy" at Daniel Buchholz in Cologne in 2002. With various colour reproductions of paintings/works and reference materials, foldout-pages, texts and interviews by the artist in English and German.
Lucy McKenzie is a Scottish artist, based in Brussels. She is represented by Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne; Cabinet, London and Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Brussels.
2008, Italian / English
Hardcover, 64 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 17 x 24cm
Published by
Silvana / Milan
$35.00 - Out of stock
Giorgio Griffa (born in Turin, March 29, 1936) is an extraordinary Italian abstract painter living and working in Turin, associated with the Arte Povera generation.
2016, English
Softcover, 14 pages, 15 x 20 cm
Published by
Neon Parc / Melbourne
$8.00 - In stock -
Catalogue produced on the occasion of the exhibition "The effect that is propagated is not from the communication of speech but from the displacement of discourse" at Neon Parc, 25 June - 13 August 2016 by Melbourne artist Elizabeth Newman. Features full-colour documentation of the exhibition installation and individual paintings, alongside an essay by Rex Butler.
Design by Yanni Florence
2013, English
Hardcover, 160 pages, 21 x 29 cm
Published by
Artists Space / New York
Culturgest / Lisbon
Hatje Cantz / Berlin
Museum für Gegenwartskunst / Basel
$85.00 - Out of stock
Julie Ault is an artist, curator, writer, and editor, whose work emphasizes and celebrates the complex interrelationships between cultural production and politics. Ault cofounded the New York artists' collaborative Group Material, which between 1979 and 1996 explored this relationship between art, activism and politics through socially themed exhibitions and publicly-sited projects. The collection of artworks Ault has assembled over the last 30 years speaks to her practice as one built on exchange, friendship and a critical notion of mutable histories.
Tell It To My Heart – Collected by Julie Ault is published by Hatje Cantz in collaboration with Artists Space, New York; Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel; and Culturgest, Lisbon, and accompanies a three-part exhibition staged around the artworks in Ault's possession. The exhibition was initiated by Nikola Dietrich and Scott Cameron Weaver at Museum für Gegenwartskunst, and was presented in Basel, Lisbon and New York between 2013 and 2014. The first volume of the publication was published to coincide with the exhibitions, and centers on an index of works along with detailed commentary on these works from the diverse voices of the book's editors – Julie Ault, Martin Beck, Nikola Dietrich, Heinz Peter Knes, Rasmus Røhling, Jason Simon, Scott Cameron Weaver, Danh Vo and Amy Zion. Over the course of her 35-plus years at the forefront of New York's art culture, Ault has amassed a superb collection of contemporary art, most of it given to her by artist friends and admirers. Almost more of an interiors book in the style of "Apartamento" magazine, "Tell It to My Heart" takes us through Ault's New York apartment, reproducing works by artists such as Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roni Horn, Tim Rollins & K.O.S., Andres Serrano, Nancy Spero and Danh Vo among many others. Together, and in situ, the artworks disclose a highly personal experience of an art community, initially centered in New York during Ault's formative years, but with a reach that has long since transcended regional classifications.
2016, English
Hardcover, 156 pages, 21 x 29 cm
Published by
Hatje Cantz / Berlin
$89.00 $60.00 - In stock -
Julie Ault is an artist, curator, writer, and editor, whose work emphasizes and celebrates the complex interrelationships between cultural production and politics. Ault cofounded the New York artists' collaborative Group Material, which between 1979 and 1996 explored this relationship between art, activism and politics through socially themed exhibitions and publicly-sited projects. The collection of artworks Ault has assembled over the last 30 years speaks to her practice as one built on exchange, friendship and a critical notion of mutable histories.
Tell It To My Heart – Collected by Julie Ault is published by Hatje Cantz in collaboration with Artists Space, New York; Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel; and Culturgest, Lisbon, and accompanies a three-part exhibition staged around the artworks in Ault's possession. The exhibition was initiated by Nikola Dietrich and Scott Cameron Weaver at Museum für Gegenwartskunst, and was presented in Basel, Lisbon and New York between 2013 and 2014. Over the course of her 35-plus years at the forefront of New York's art culture, Ault has amassed a superb collection of contemporary art, most of it given to her by artist friends and admirers. The "Tell It to My Heart" books take us through Ault's collection in different contexts, reproducing works by artists such as Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roni Horn, Tim Rollins & K.O.S., Andres Serrano, Nancy Spero and Danh Vo among many others. Together, and in situ, the artworks disclose a highly personal experience of an art community, initially centered in New York during Ault's formative years, but with a reach that has long since transcended regional classifications.
Volume 2 follows a more reflective and distanced mode than its predecessor, including installation images of the exhibitions, and a series of essays from scholars and curators that respond to the overall character and process of Tell It To My Heart. The publication also includes a comprehensive checklist of artworks exhibited across the three venues, as well as those works included in the film programs accompanying each exhibition.
Tell It To My Heart – Collected by Julie Ault, Volume 2 is edited by Richard Birkett, Martin Beck and Julie Ault, and includes texts by curator Richard Birkett; art historian Patricia Falguières; writer Sarah Schulman; and archivist Marvin J. Taylor, with graphic design by Project Projects, New York.
2016, English / German
Softcover, 448 pages, 24 x 30.5 cm
Published by
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite / Berlin
K.M Kunstverein / Munich
$56.00 - Out of stock
Edited by Bart van der Heide and Manuel Raeder.
This book is an overview of the exhibition program of Bart van der Heide from 2010 – 2015, which he realised as the director of Kunstverein München. This program includes exhibitions by Silke Otto-Knapp, Ian Kiaer, Tobias Madison, Keren Cytter, Cathy Wilkes, Group Affinity, Willem de Rooij, Trisha Baga, Richard Tuttle, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Simon Denny, Nicolas Ceccaldi, Ger van Elk, James Richards, and others. Each exhibition is presented by a corresponding booklet, containing all texts and images. These accompanying publications were designed individually for each exhibition in cooperation with Studio Manuel Raeder. The different designs play with various fonts, formats, and graphic elements. Together with these publications, a variety of coloured images of exhibition views conveys the curatorial direction as well as the identity of the Kunstverein in those years. A reflection by Bart van der Heide and all booklet texts are included in both German and English.
designed by Studio Manuel Raeder
2014, English
Hardcover, 304 pages, 17.8 x 22.9 cm
Published by
Semiotext(e) / Los Angeles
$76.00 - In stock -
Asked to sum up her artistic pursuit, the American artist Elaine Sturtevant once replied: 'I create vertigo.' Since the mid-1960s, Sturtevant has been using repetition to change the way art is understood. In 1965, what seemed to be a group show by then 'hot' artists (Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, George Segal, and James Rosenquist, among others) was in fact Sturtevant's first solo exhibit, every work in it created by herself. Sturtevant would continue to make her work the work of others, focusing her career on the artistic copy. The subject of major museum exhibitions throughout Europe and awarded the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the 54th Venice Biennale, she will have a majorsurvey at the MoMA, New York, in 2014. In Under the Sign of, Bruce Hainley unpacks the work of Sturtevant, providing the first book-length monographic study of the artist in English. Hainley draws on elusive archival materials to tackle not only Sturtevant's work but also the essential problem that it poses. Hainley examines all of Sturtevant's projects in a single year (1967); uses her Gonzalez-Torres Untitled (Go-Go Dancing Platform) from 1995 as a conceptual wedge to consider contemporary art's place in the world; and, finally, digs into the most occluded part of her career, from 1971 to 1973, when she created works by Michael Heizer and Walter de Maria, and had her first solo American museum exhibit.
Under the Sign of is ostensibly a study of the haunting American artist Elaine Sturtevant, but what Bruce Hainley has written, really, is a poem about postwar American art and the woman who remade it in her own image by 'appropriating,'which is to say, reconfiguring, the distinctly male and sometimes male queer vision that informed the work of artists such as Warhol, Oldenburg, Johns, and the rest. As the first book-length monograph in English of a baffling, moving, and mysterious artist -- 'I create vertigo,' Sturtevant said about herself -- Hainley has written a splendid study not only of the artist's work but also of the atmosphere of change it helped foster. - The New Yorker
Bruce Hainley lives and works in Los Angeles. A contributing editor atArtforum, he is the author of two books of poetry, one of which, Foul Mouth, was a finalist in the National Poetry Series. With John Waters, he wrote Art -- A Sex Book. He teaches in the MFA programs of Art Center College of Design and the Roski School of Fine Arts, University of Southern California.
2016, English / German
Softcover, 240 pages, 23 x 16.5 cm
Published by
Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin
$32.00 - Out of stock
Art and fashion have always been interrelated. And it’s due to fashion’s ability to quickly capture social shifts that the art world has repeatedly turned to it. But as Texte zur Kunst No. 102 proposes, it is fashion’s protagonists, recently, that have been markedly drawing on art conceptual practices (e.g., parasitism, collective authorship, détournement, and forms of institutional critique) as they push back against the pressures of a hyper-accelerated fashion market. In this issue, TzK examines, also, how the industry’s current volume is a product of its late-'00s promise of online democratization; the changing function of such long-held value designations as “luxury,” “discount,” and “underground,” and the role of “real”-er bodies in a climate wherein models are preferably “nodels” or “othered” bodies, hyper-individualised to stand out in the stream.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
ROBERT KULISEK & DAVID LIESKE
FASHION PROFILES OF:
69 WORLDWIDE / NASIR MAZHAR / KYLE LUU / BERNADETTE VAN-HUY / LIAM HODGES / TELFAR / NIK KOSMAS & JEANNE-SALOMÉ ROCHAT / MARTINE ROSE / JULIANA HUXTABLE / ECKHAUS LATTA / DIS / NHU DUONG /
with texts by Harry Burke, Tess Edmonson, Jack Gross, and Bianca Heuser
INGEBORG HARMS "CRYSTAL MESH / Existential imagery in current fashion"
COLLECTIVE SOUL / Jessica Gysel in conversation with Lotta Volkova Adam and Atelier E.B. (Beca Lipscombe & Lucy McKenzie)
CAROLINE BUSTA "NEO-BODIES"
NATASHA STAGG "ACCESS CODING"
PHILIPP EKARDT "DRESSING AFTER THE GREAT DIVIDE / The emancipation of Jonathan Anderson"
CALLA HENKEL & MAX PITEGOFF "LAST NIGHT"
ROTATION
IN DER FRÜHE / Peter Geimer über Friedrich Kittlers „Baggersee“
RETURNS OF THE STONE AGE / Sven Lütticken on the exhibition publications for “Kunst der Vorzeit” and “Allegory of the Cave Painting”
ZUR KULTURPOLITISCHEN BEKÄMPFUNG DER MODERNEN KUNST / Otto Karl Werckmeister über die neue Ausgabe von Hitlers „Mein Kampf“
LIEBE ARBEIT KINO
DURATIONAL FASHION / Sara Marcus on K8 Hardy’s “Outfitumentary”
KLANG KÖRPER
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN TO ELECTRIC LADYLAND / Barbara Vinken über Michaela Melián im Lenbachhaus, München
EINE KULTURGESCHICHTE DER ENTGRENZUNGEN / Daniel Martin Feige über „I Got Rhythm. Kunst und Jazz seit 1920“ im Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
SHORT WAVES
Jens Hoffmann on “Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible” at the Met Breuer, New York / Magdalena Nieslony über Agnes Martin im K20, Düsseldorf / Dena Yago on Ei Arakawa, Gela Patashuri, and Sergei Tcherepnin at Midway Contemporary, Minneapolis / Eva Wilson on Das Institut at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London / Julia Moritz on Tobias Madison at Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover
REVIEWS
MARIUS UND DIE INFORMATION / Hans-Christian Dany über „Nervöse Systeme. Quantifiziertes Leben und die soziale Frage“ im Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
DIE KUNST VERACHTEN, DEN REST DER WELT ANKLAGEN /Susanne von Falkenhausen über Boris Lurie im Jüdischen Museum Berlin
DEUTSCHES VITRINENGLAS / Steffen Zillig über Dierk Schmidt bei KOW, Berlin
NOTHING BUT KINDNESS / Verena Dengler über Lili Reynaud-Dewar in der Galerie Emanuel Layr, Wien
EARLY SYSTEMS ESTHETICS / Craig Buckley on Les Levine at Buell Hall, GSAPP, Columbia University, New York
WHAT A BODY CAN’T DO / Sophie Goltz über Regina José Galindo im Frankfurter Kunstverein und Maria José Arjona in der Kunsthalle Osnabrück
NACHRUFE / OBITUARIES
PIERRE BOULEZ (1925–2016)
by Björn Gottstein
ZAHA HADID (1950–2016)
by Than Hussein Clark
EDITION
JOHN MILLER
TORBJØRN RØDLAND
2013, English
Softcover, 400 pages, 13.4 x 20 cm
Edition of 1000,
Published by
Monash University Museum of Art / Melbourne
Surpllus / Melbourne
$30.00 - Out of stock
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
2015, English/German
Hardcover, 264 pages (colour ill.), 28.2 x 28.2 cm
Published by
Walther König / Köln
$84.00 - Out of stock
This is a large-scale survey of the iconic artist Joan Mitchell (1925–1992), which focusses on painting, from the early work of the 1950s to her last years, presenting nearly 30 paintings by one of 20th century art’s most significant protagonists.
A large part of the exhibition and this accompanying publication is dedicated to the first extensive public presentation of archival materials, providing an extraordinary insight into the artist’s fascinating life. Film, photographs, and other ephemera shed light on Joan Mitchell's personality and her relationship to such cultural figures as Elaine de Kooning, Frank O’Hara, and Samuel Beckett.
Mitchell's early work displayed an affiliation to the New York School, but her gestural application of paint changed by the end of the 1950s on moving to France when she began citing such painters as Vincent van Gogh as role models. This retrospective gathers together works from the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, and from private collections, some of which have rarely or never been publicly shown before.
Yilmaz Dziewior, in his essay, locates Mitchell’s work within an art historical context, whilst the current relevance of her painting is discussed, in conversation, by Isabelle Graw and Jutta Koether and in a separate text by Ken Okiishi, as a representative of a younger generation. An illustrated timeline, compiled by Laura Morris, once again interweaves Mitchell's life and work.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Joan Mitchell: Retrospective – Her Life and Paintings at Kunsthaus Bregenz, 10 July – 25 October 2015.
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2016, English / German
Softcover, 264 pages, 23 x 16.5 cm
Published by
Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin
$29.00 - Out of stock
ISSUE NO. 101 / MARCH 2016 “POLARITIES”
Issue No. 101 of Texte zur Kunst takes “Polarities” as its theme – a term we associate with what’s unfolding around us right now: ideological polarization, from Pegida to Donald Trump. How do we understand the growing gap between the ideals of tech/smooth space (where the art world tends to reside, swiftly neutralizing any resistance as “content”) and the striated regions of material unrest? How do we understand “polarization” despite our dominant, and inherently continuous, neoliberal system? Given these macro conditions in which art critical and art historical discourses are currently being formed, and within which they will need to position themselves, could the image of polarization be something not to avoid but to engage; perhaps even a potentially generative model for times that are anything but ideology-free?
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
ET SOUS LA PLAGE … ? / Philipp Felsch interviews Timothy Brennan on the state of left theory
HELMUT DRAXLER
ALWAYS POLARIZE? / Conditions and limitations of a model of argumentation
LIBERTY, EQUALITY, SECURITY / Four questions for Carolin Emcke
ENTER THE VOID / Roy Scranton and @LILINTERNET on hyperreality and reflexive narrative
DANIEL COLUCCIELLO BARBER AND DAVIS RHODES
THE TERROR WITHIN
ANTEK WALCZAK
GLOBALLY POSITIONED
GABRIELE WERNER
HEIMAT / Notes on the enduring renaissance of an idea
BILDSTRECKE
GERHARD RICHTER
"12 PHOTOGRAPHS OF ULRIKE MEINHOF" / Taken in October 1966 for "Konkret" by Inge-Maria Peters
NEW DEVELOPMENT
NATIONAL CUSTOMS / Sven Lütticken on Germany's Kulturgutschutzgesetz
ROTATION
IST DER MENSCH DOCH NOCH ZU RETTEN? / Svenja Bromberg über Nina Powers Aufsatzsammlung „Das kollektive politische Subjekt“
HEY MOTHERFUCKERS, HERE IS YOUR GENERATIONAL NOVEL / Tobias Madison über Seth Prices Roman „Fuck Seth Price“
SHORT WAVES
Hans-Jürgen Hafner über Daniel Richter in der Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/M. / Astrid Mania über Verena Pfisterer bei Exile, Berlin / Ana Teixeira Pinto on Július Koller at the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw / Beate Söntgen über Joan Mitchell im Museum Ludwig, Köln / Daniel Keller on Peter Fend at Barbara Weiss and Oracle, Berlin / Manfred Hermes über Anne Speier bei Silberkuppe, Berlin
REVIEWS
SPERRIGE NAHEVERHÄLTNISSE / Eva Kernbauer über „to expose, to show, to demonstrate, to inform, to offer. Künstlerische Praktiken um 1990“ im Mumok, Wien
DER GESCHMACK DES PRIVATEN / Barbara Buchmaier und Christine Woditschka über die Sammlung Würth im Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
BENEFITS / Sarah Lookofsky on “Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner” at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
NOBODY EVER DID WHAT WE DID / David Rimanelli on Dash Snow at the Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich, Connecticut
MALEREI MALGRÉ TOUT / Maria Muhle über „Painting 2.0“ im Museum Brandhorst, München
PUNK’S NOT DEAD, JUST DIFFERENT / Gili Tal on “Rum, sodomy, and the lash” at Eden Eden, Berlin
WITHIN YOU WITHOUT YOU / Jenny Nachtigall on Carolee Schneemann at Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
FREMDE ZUNGEN / Yilmaz Dziewior über „Slip of the Tongue“ in der Punta della Dogana, Venedig
LOCAL UNION / Rhea Anastas on Union Gaucha Productions at Artists Space, New York
EDITION
THEA DJORDJADZE
DANA SCHUTZ
2002, English
Softcover, 234 pages, 15 x 22.6 cm
Published by
October Books / New York
The MIT Press / Massachusetts
$48.00 - Out of stock
Eva Hesse’s distinctive process-based art exerted a powerful influence on minimalist artists of the 1960s and continues to inspire artists today. Using industrial materials such as latex and fiberglass, she exploited their flexibility to produce works with an unsettling psychic and corporeal resonance. Hesse, who was born in Germany in 1936 and raised in New York City, died of cancer in New York in 1970.Eva Hesse focuses on the body of criticism that has developed since the last major retrospective of Hesse’s work, at the Yale University Art Gallery in 1992. The book’s publication coincides with a major exhibition organized jointly by the San Francisco Museum of Art and the Wiesbaden Museum. Eva Hesse contains a 1970 interview by Cindy Nemser, a discussion between Mel Bochner and Joan Simon, and essays by Briony Fer, Rosalind Krauss, Mignon Nixon, and Anne M. Wagner.
1997, English
Softcover, 157 pages, 21.5 x 26 cm
1st edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by
MACBA / Barcelona
$150.00 - Out of stock
First edition of this late 1990s, long out-of-print, comprehensive catalogue/artist monograph on the great Mike Kelley, published in conjunction with a substantial 1997 Mike Kelley retrospective held at the Museu D'Art Contemporani De Barcelona (MACBA).
Profusely illustrated with a history of sculptures, paintings, videos, installations and performances by Mike Kelley, this book also features text contributions by Jose Lebrero Stals, Anthony Vidler, Elizabeth Sussman, Timothy Martin, and Mike Kelley himself (all texts in English), along with an exhibition checklist, exhibition history and bibliography.
A fantastic and generous book on one of the most important artists of our time.
2015, English
Softcover, 160 pages, 15 x 21 cm
Published by
The Renaissance Society / Chicago
$50.00 - Out of stock
The second of two books published alongside Strau's 2014 Renaissance Society exhibition, The New World, Application for Turtle Island, this features an essay by Jay Sanders alongside introductions to different aspects of Strau’s practice by artists with whom he has recently collaborated: Bernadette Van-Huy, Stefan Tcherepnin, Antek Walczak, Fernando Mesta, and José Rojas. Also included are full color images of the installation and an exhibition checklist, as well as an introduction by Solveig Øvstebø and a text by Strau.
2015, English
Softcover, 108 pages, 15 x 21 cm
Published by
The Renaissance Society / Chicago
$40.00 - Out of stock
The first of two books published alongside Strau's Renaissance Society exhibition, The New World, Application for Turtle Island, this imagines itself as a more personal petition for immigrant status in lieu of formal legal paperwork.
Text has often played a role in Strau’s previous sculptural and installation-based work; however, here his writings for the first time take the form of an independent book (described by him as “a kind of treasure island adventure novel”) that serves a structuring function, determining the production and selection of objects on view in the exhibition.
2009, English
Softcover, 30 pages, 17 x 20 cm
$10.00 $5.00 - In stock -
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
2011, English
Softcover, 432 pages, 22 x 27.4 cm
Published by
Drill Hall Gallery / Canberra
Griffith University / Brisbane
MUMA / Victoria
$10.00 - Out of stock
Heavily-illustrated with Chilean/Australian artist Juan Davila's paintings in full-colour, this catalogue was produced on the occasion of Davila's solo exhibition "The Moral Meaning of Wilderness" at Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA Caulfield campus, 4 August - 1 October 2011. Includes essays by Dr. Kate Briggs, and a conversation with Juan Davila.
The Moral Meaning of Wilderness features recent work by Juan Davila, one of Australia’s most distinguished artists. The exhibition sees Davila turn to the genres of landscape and history painting, at a time when the environment is as much a political as a cultural consideration. With technical virtuosity, Davila’s striking representations of nature achieve monumental significance, depicting beauty and emotion while addressing modern society’s ambivalence to nature and increasing consumerism.
The Moral Meaning of Wilderness represents a radical shift in Davila’s practice, whilst continuing to explore art’s relationship to nature, politics, identity and subjectivity in our post-industrial age. Davila pursues his exploration of the role of art as a means of social, cultural and political analysis. While many contemporary artists turned away from representation of the landscape, due to its perceived allegiance to outmoded forms of national identity and representation, Davila has recently sought to revisit and reconsider our surroundings au natural.
His paintings are, at first view, striking representations of nature. The paintings, created since 2003, are undertaken en plain air, a pre-modern technique based on speed of execution in situ, and the use of large scale canvases characteristic of history painting. He has also employed other techniques such as studio painting and representations of the landscape with reference to the sublime, the historical, memory and modernity.
Presented in association with Drill Hall Gallery, The Australian National University, and Griffith University Art Gallery.
2015, English
Hardcover, 120 pages, 23 x 23 cm
Published by
Ceysson-Editions d'Art / Saint-Etienne
$55.00 - Out of stock
Perhaps the most under-recognized French art movement of the twentieth century, Supports/Surfaces emerged amid the intellectual and political upheaval of 1960s France, on the cusp of modernity and postmodernity. Steeped in the philosophy of Derrida, Lacan and Barthes, and inspired in their political militancy by figures such as Marx, Freud and Mao, 15 artists from the South of France converged around a shared ideological and artistic goal: the dismantling and demystifying of the painting as object, both physically and philosophically. Artists such as Louis Cane, Daniel Dezeuze, Bernard Pagès, Patrick Saytour, Claude Viallat, André-Pierre Arnal and Noël Dolla explored the physicality of the painting's stretchers and canvases, deconstructing it so as to question and reaffirm the medium and its implications.
This first-ever English publication on Supports/Surfaces, includes a poster with a timeline of key works.
Foreword by Joe Fyfe, Contributions by Rachel Stella and Bernard Ceysson.
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
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.
2015, English
Softcover, 260 pages, 30 x 23 cm
Published by
Bergen Kunsthall / Norway
$67.00 - In stock -
Published on the occasion of the first major institutional show by American artist Will Benedict, held at the Bergen Kunsthall in Norway, 31 October–14 December 2014, this heavy, visually-encompassing volume documents this exhibition along with many exhibits across the last few years. All designed by Will and Theodoros Gennitsakis, edited by Martin Clark and Steiner Sekkingstad.
Corruption Feeds is Will Benedict’s largest and most ambitious exhibition to date. It demonstrates the full breadth of his practice as an artist, curator and, most recently, filmmaker. Dividing the galleries at Bergen Kunsthall into a solo exhibition and a curated group show, his own works are brought into dialogue with an eclectic selection of found visual material, as well as works by a number of artists invited by Benedict, including Wolfgang Breuer, Clegg & Guttmann, Howard Finster, Gaylen Gerber,Tom Humphrey, Inventory, Fredrik Kolstø, David Leonard, Michele Di Menna, Pentti Monkkonen, Puppies Puppies, Lin May Saeed, Lucie Stahl, Anders Svarstad, Sergei Tcherepnin, Paul Theriault and Karl Uchermann.
Across the various different aspects of the exhibition, Benedict addresses themes of global distribution, agriculture, marketing and trade. The group section of the exhibition includes a new video, commissioned by Bergen Kunsthall and made by Benedict in collaboration with the artist and journalist David Leonard. Shot in various locations in France, Norway, India and the USA, it explores the transnational politics of food distribution through reportage, interviews and analysis, with various protagonists featuring a talking dolphin, giant rats and human rain. Other works in this section of the show further develop these ideas, and go on to address the marketing and advertising languages of the last three decades, revealing the symbiotic, or perhaps cannibalistic, relationship between contemporary art and commercial design and advertising—a space which Benedict’s own work frequently inhabits and explores.
Will Benedict (b. 1978) lives and works in Paris.
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
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.
2013, English
Softcover, 256 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 29.7 x 21 cm
Published by
Walther König / Köln
$58.00 - Out of stock
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.
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
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.