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Call of the Avant-Garde: Constructivism and Australian Art

2017, English
Hardcover, 162 pages, 23 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Heide Museum of Modern Art / Victoria

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For more than one hundred years, artists have drawn inspiration from the early twentieth-century avant-garde movement Constructivism. Its abstract forms, utopian ideals and vision of art’s vital role in constructing a new society have continued to act as a beacon for artists of successive generations in many countries. This extensive survey of over seventy artists explores how Australian artists have responded to this ground breaking modernist movement and its enduring call upon their imaginations from the 1930s to the present day.

Essay contributions by curators Sue Cramer, Lesley Harding plus additional focus texts by 24 acclaimed Australian writers and curators.

Works illustrated by Australian artists Ralph Balson, Frank Hinder, Inge King, Kerrie Poliness, Justin Andrews, Peter Cripps, Gunter Christmann, George Johnson, Robert Owen, Rose Nolan, John Nixon, Justene Williams and Zoë Croggon, among many others alongside those by key proponents of the original movement, such as Russian artists Rodchenko, Malevich, El Lissitzky and Alexandra Exter from Russia, and British artists Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth.

Hardcover catalogue published to accompany the exhibition of the same name 5 July - 8 October 2017 at Heide Museum of Modern Art, Victoria.

File under: Alexander Rodchenko El Lissitzky Kazimir Malevich Alexandra Exter Ben Nicholson Barbara Hepworth Justin Andrews Peter Cripps Kerrie Poliness Ralph Balson Frank Hinder Inge King Gunter Christmann George Johnson Robert Owen Rose Nolan John Nixon Justene Williams Zoë Croggon Sue Cramer Lesley Harding Heide Museum of Modern Art / Victoria Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Australian Art Group Shows / Collections SALE

Dan Graham
Theatre

2021, English
Softcover, 52 pages, 15 x 21cm
Published by Primary Information / New York

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Theatre is an artist book that documents seven early performances by Dan Graham taking place from 1969 to 1977 with notes, transcripts, or photographs for each work. Originally published in 1978, and produced here in facsimile form, the publication focuses on several key works that interrogate or undermine the psychological and social space created by, or between, individuals inside the performance venue.

Like most of Graham’s work, they also serve as a critique of cultural norms, with many of the performances utilizing quotidian, social acts that are amplified over time. For example, in Lax/Relax (1969), Graham’s subversion of West Coast new ageism, the artist chants “relax” in sync with a recording of a woman saying “lax” in a meditative manner, which implicates the audience into a group breathing exercise or hypnosis over the course of 30 minutes.

Throughout the ’70s, the artist engaged in a series of works that subverted the prescribed roles of the audience and performer by creating conditions in which each simultaneously functions as both (creating a type of feedback loop). Remarking on another work form this period, Graham once stated, “It begins with Minimal Art, but it’s about spectators observing themselves as they’re observed by other people.”* This paradigm is extended even further in Performer/Audience Sequence (1975) and Performer/Audience Mirror (1977), in which the artist performs by describing the audience as well as himself, creating conditions whereby the audience is performing for the artist as well as themselves.

Like (1971), Past Future Split Attention (1972), and Identification Projection (1977) are also featured in the publication.

Dan Graham (b. 1942) is an artist based in New York. Since the 1960s, he has produced a wide range of work and writing that engages in a highly analytical discourse on the historical, social, and ideological functions of contemporary cultural systems. Architecture, popular music, video, and television are among the focuses of his investigations, which he articulates through essays, performances, installations, videotapes, and architectural/sculptural designs.

Managing Editor: James Hoff
Managing Designer: Rick Myers

File under: Dan Graham Primary Information / New York Art Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art

HEALTH
Edited by Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz

2020, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 15.1 x 21.1 cm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts Whitechapel / London

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Part of the acclaimed Documents of Contemporary Art series of anthologies which collect writing on major themes and ideas in contemporary art.

The ethical, aesthetic and political significance of practices, positions and theories connected to health in contemporary art.

In an era of fitness programs, increasing antidepressant usage, nutrition counseling and health-management apps, wellness is one of the defining issues of contemporary life, dictating every intimate aspect of our lives. Historically, art has been entwined with the values of medicine, beauty, and the productive body that have defined western scientific paradigms; contemporary artists are increasingly confronting and reshaping these ideologies, critically tackling illness and impairment in their practice while challenging ableist institutional dynamics. In this volume, artists, curators, writers, and thinkers engage with the ways the vulnerability of our bodies reveals structural aspects of our societies.

At a moment at which epidemics and global warming menace all forms of life, we see clearly how health intersects with sexuality, ethnicity, gender, class, and coloniality. By reclaiming other realities, beyond a state of health as a norm, this book questions the myths, stigmas, and cultural attitudes that shape normative perceptions, revealing the interdependence of our entangled existences. The book includes four newly commissioned texts: by artists Mahmoud Khaled and Patrick Staff, by curator Clare Barlow on disability in the museum, and by curator Portia Malatjie on the work of Dineo Seshee Bopape. It also features two texts on the current COVID-19 pandemic, by Anne Boyer and Filipa Ramos.

Artists surveyed include :
Oreet Ashery, Lucy Beech, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Lorenza Böttner, Canaries & Taraneh Fazeli, Grupo Chaclacayo, Anne Charlotte Robertson, Patricia Domínguez, Dora García, Felix González-Torres, Luke Fowler, Alice Hattrick, Tamar Guimarães, Joseph Grigely, Gran Fury, Johanna Hedva, Mahmoud Khaled, Mujeres Creando, Carolyn Lazard, Simone Leigh, Park McArthur, Pedro Neves Marques, Tabita Rezaire, Jo Spence, Patrick Staff, Christine Sun Kim, Pedro Reyes, David Wojnarowicz

Writers include :
Aimar Arriola & Nanci Garín, Clare Barlow, Khairani Barokka, Dodie Bellamy, Anne Boyer, Rizvana Bradley, Eli Clare, Taraneh Fazeli, Theodore (ted) Kerr & Alexandra Juhasz, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, R.D. Laing, Miguel A. López, Catalina Lozano, Audre Lorde, Portia Malatjie, Margarida Mendes, Peter Pál Pelbart, Naomi Pearce, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, Filipa Ramos, Susan Sontag, Paul B. Preciado, Mary Walling Blackburn, Simon Watney & Sunil Gupta

Copublish by MIT Press with Whitechapel Gallery, London

File under: Oreet Ashery Lucy Beech Dineo Seshee Bopape Lorenza Böttner Canaries & Taraneh Fazeli Grupo Chaclacayo Anne Charlotte Robertson Patricia Domínguez Dora García Felix González-Torres Luke Fowler Alice Hattrick Tamar Guimarães Joseph Grigely Gran Fury Johanna Hedva Mahmoud Khaled Mujeres Creando Carolyn Lazard Simone Leigh Park McArthur Pedro Neves Marques Tabita Rezaire Jo Spence Patrick Staff Christine Sun Kim Pedro Reyes David Wojnarowicz Clare Barlow Khairani Barokka Dodie Bellamy Aimar Arriola & Nanci Garín Anne Boyer Rizvana Bradley Eli Clare Taraneh Fazeli Theodore (ted) Kerr & Alexandra Juhasz Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick R.D. Laing Miguel A. López Peter Pál Pelbart Catalina Lozano Audre Lorde Portia Malatjie Margarida Mendes Simon Watney Sunil Gupta Naomi Pearce Filipa Ramos Susan Sontag Paul B. Preciado Mary Walling Blackburn María Puig de la Bellacasa The MIT Press / Massachusetts Whitechapel / London Art Theory / Essay Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater

Robert Breer
A to Z

2020, English
Softcover, 172 pages, 14 x 19 cm
Published by Light Cone Editions / Paris

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This new publication, Robert Breer A to Z, published by Light Cone Editions, is a self-portrait of Robert Breer. His life and work are presented as an imaginary lexicon, a form which he always admired as being emblematic of the joyous, unexpected, and chaotic nature of life itself.

Drawn from interviews, personal letters and public statements from 1957 to 2009, Robert Breer A to Z brings into a single volume the artist’s reflections on his films and his multiple forays into painting, drawing and kinetic sculpture.

Robert Breer has spent fifty years building up a totally atypical body of work which plays with different genres and abolishes the notions of space and time. Starting off as a painter, he then deconstructed his neoplastic works and ended up with kinetic objects. He dealt next with the thresholds of awareness and perception, both as a sculptor and a filmmaker. His films are composed of a jumble of images that pass at great speed, while his Floats move almost imperceptibly, in accordance with an unpredictable logic. Robert Breer developed his light yet rigorous style while associating with the New York underground in the Pop years. Continuing his subtle exploration of movement, his work still today causes the space of reality -irrevocably unstable- to waver.

Published under the direction of Scott Hammen with an introduction by Simon Rees, Robert Breer A to Z is co-published by Light Cone Editions and the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery.

File under: Robert Breer Scott Hammen Simon Rees Light Cone Editions / Paris Art Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay

Pierre Huyghe
At the Serpentine

2019, English
Softcover, 448 pages, 15 x 21cm
Published by Koenig Books / London Serpentine Gallery / London

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This already out-of-print major survey on renowned French artist Pierre Huyghe (born 1962) chronicles seminal works from the last decade, including his iconic Documenta 13 project "Untilled." An interview between Huyghe and Hans Ulrich Obrist and an essay by Dorothea von Hantelmann accompany drawings, diagrams, photographs, film stills and more.

As New with light cover wear (hence reduced price)

File under: Pierre Huyghe Melissa Larner Dorothea von Hantelmann Hans Ulrich Obrist Natalia Grabowska Rebecca Lewin Koenig Books / London Serpentine Gallery / London Art Sculpture / Installation Out-of-print / Rare SALE Film / Video Conceptual Art Ecology Ecology / Earth Occult / Esoterica Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay

Sound American 24 - The Sun Ra Issue

2020, English
Softcover, 116 pages, 15 x 23 cm
Published by Sound American / New York

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A quarterly journal founded in 2012 by Nate Wooley, providing in-depth interviews and essays, 'Sound American' starts from a simple desire to open the doors of experimental music to a wider audience. Their latest issue celebrates interstellar icon and generative force of nature, Sun Ra. Sun Ra (1914–1993) is an African-American experimental jazz pianist and composer. A prolific artist, he recorded over 100 albums with his band, the Sun Ra Arkestra.

Contributors include Taylor Ho Bynum, John Corbett, Naima Lowe, Luke Stewart with Thomas Stanley, and Ken Vandermark. The issue also features supplemental writing from Jessie Cox on Marshall Allen, Reg Bloor on Glenn Branca, Chris Pitsiokos on Miles Davis's On The Corner, Peter Margasak on Derek Bailey's On The Edge series, and a conversation between Audra Wolowiec and Freya Powell. The issue closes with the first exquisite corpse of the new season: a phenomenal text work by Camae Ayewa (Moor Mother).

File under: Sun Ra Marshall Allen Cecil Taylor Miles Davis Glenn Branca Taylor Ho Bynum Ken Vandermark Audra Wolowiec Chris Pitsiokos Taylor Ho Bynum John Corbett Naima Lowe Luke Stewart Thomas Stanley Ken Vandermark Peter Margasak Chris Pitsiokos Sound American / New York Sound / Music Periodicals Performance / Dance / Theater Art

The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader

2008, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 17 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Clouds / Auckland

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A comprehensive anthology, The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader provides a snapshot of digital art practice in Aotearoa New Zealand. Editors Stella Brennan and Su Ballard present essays, artists' pageworks and personal accounts that explore the production and reception of digital art. Ranging from research into the preservation of digital artworks to the environmental impact of electronic culture, from discussions of lo-tech aesthetics to home gaming, and from sophisticated data mapping to pre-histories of new media, this book presents a screen grab of digital art in Aotearoa New Zealand.

All contributors are members of Aotearoa Digital Arts (ADA), New Zealand's only digital artists' network. With its mix of work by artists, theorists and educators, this reader represents some of the best new thinking about digital art practices in Aotearoa New Zealand, reflecting the politics of location, yet highly relevant to the wider contexts of digital media art and culture.

Edited by Stella Brennan and Su Ballard
Texts by Adam Hyde, Andrew Clifford, Caroline McCaw, Danny Butt, Douglas Bagnall, Eu Jin Chua, Helen Varley Jameison, Jacquie Clarke, Janine Randerson, Julian Oliver, Julian Priest, Karl D.D. Willis, Kurt Adams, Lissa Mitchell, Maree Mills, Melanie Swalwell, Morgan Oliver, Sally Jane Norman, Sean Cubitt & Bevin Yeatman, Stella Brennan, Stephen Cleland, Su Ballard, Trudy Lane & Ian Clothier, Vicki Smith & Adam Hyde, Zita Joyce

Published by Aotearoa Digital Arts and Clouds

File under: Stella Brennan Su Ballard Clouds / Auckland Art Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay SALE

Andy Warhol

1969, English / Swedish
Softcover, 640 pages, 26.8 x 21 cm
2nd Ed. ,
Out of print title / used / good
Published by Moderna Museet / Stockholm

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Still the best Warhol catalogue ever made, the very collectible and iconic Warhol photo book published to accompany his first European museum show "Andy Warhol" at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, February - March, 1968, only three months before he was shot by Valerie Solanas. With virtually no text and adorned with Warhol's flower cover vividly printed in five spot colors, the concept of the catalogue was developed by the great German curator and museum director Kasper König, who commissioned Factory chronicler and inhabitant Billy Name, and a teenage Stephen Shore (!), to document Warhol's world and his co-conspirators living, working, and performing around his East 47th Street New York studio. Both Name and Shore composed rhythms of their own sequences, and neither of them added any captions: they felt the images should speak for themselves. This absence of text contributed to the object-status of the book. The result is one of the most historical photographic capsules of a pivotal time in the New York art scene of the late 1960s. Alongside hundreds of wonderful photographs from the studio, the film-sets, the Velvet Underground performances, the happenings, the road trips, the parties, including further photography by Rudy Burkhardt, Eric Pollitzer, and John Schiff, there are also selections of Warhol's artworks (where König's use of the xerox machine to reproduce Warhol's own work gives this catalogue its signature feel), and documentation of his exhibitions, including fantastic social imagery of the Moderna Museet proceedings not included in the first edition. The only text comes, fittingly, in the form of a series of introductory Warhol quotes and aphorisms.

Since Warhol himself had so much input into the production of this book, this catalogue-as-artist's-book-as-photobook can truly be considered a work of art in its own right. It quickly becoming a cult object, then a collector’s item.

Edited by Andy Warhol, Kasper König, Pontus Hultén, and Olle Granath.

This is the expanded 2nd edition, published in May 1969.
An excellent copy of a fragile book that is extremely prone to wear. Well preserved but with the common brittle binding issue from age and a bulky page count, with some loosening/disconnecting of sections from the spine glue. Much better than most copies out there! A tiny chip to the top back corner (spine corner), otherwise a very clean, presentable copy with only light corner wear and tanning to the newsprint.

File under: Andy Warhol The Velvet Underground Stephen Shore Nico Billy Name Lou Reed John Cale Kasper König Pontus Hultén Olle Granath Moderna Museet / Stockholm Art Pop Art Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Painting Out-of-print / Rare Film / Video

Zin Taylor
Lichen Voices/Stripes and Dots

2013, English
Softcover, 120 pages, 15 x 21cm
Published by Fogo Islands Arts / Newfoundland Sternberg Press / Berlin

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Writing is central to Zin Taylor’s practice. Parallel to a number of artist books, Taylor has made a series of sculptural works the artist proposes as a form of storytelling. How else to understand his project The Story of Stripes and Dots but to “read” the eponymous objects he makes to propel it forward? Taylor conceives of his sculptural components—stripes and dots in many variations—as words in a sentence, the articulation of which can be ongoing. By substituting objects for words, Taylor seeks not to assert equivalence between the two so much as establish the essentially spatialized perception he has of the way language functions. A striking clarity defines the artist’s vision. Taylor sees in language—in art—the highly defined dimensions of a world he can work within.

This catalogue accompanies Taylor’s exhibition “The Story of Stripes and Dots (Chapter 5)” at Fogo Island Gallery (September 27, 2013–March 23, 2014), which follows his two-part residency with Fogo Island Arts in 2010 and 2012. Featuring essays by Zoë Gray and Saelan Twerdy, and Taylor in conversation with Patrick Staff and Robin Simpson, the book also presents the artist’s portfolio An Index Describing the Individual 19 Thoughts about Stripes and Dots Arranged on a Vitrine Made of Brass and Glass.

Edited by ROSEMARY HEATHER, NICOLAUS SCHAFHAUSEN
Contributions by ZOË GRAY, ROBIN SIMPSON, PATRICK STAFF, SAELAN TWERDY

File under: Patrick Staff Zin Taylor Nicolaus Schafhausen Zoë Gray Fogo Islands Arts / Newfoundland Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay SALE

Project Phalanstère at CAC Brétigny, or “Of museum orgy or mixed omnigamy in composite and harmonic order”
Edited by Pierre Bal-Blanc

2017, English / French
Softcover, 268 pages, 25 x 18.9 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin CAC / Brétigny

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Contributions by Atelier Van Lieshout (AVL), Robert Breer, Daniel Buren, Maurizio Cattelan, Nicolas Chardon, Marie Cool Fabio Balducci, Lionel Estève, Esther Ferrer, Cyprien Gaillard, Jens Haaning, David Lamelas, François Laroche-Valière (Cie Studio Laroche-Valière), Mathieu Lehanneur, Teresa Margolles, Dominique Mathieu, Hans Walter Müller, Rainer Oldendorf, Roman Ondák, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Gianni Pettena, Pratchaya Phinthong, R&Sie(n) (François Roche, Stéphanie Lavaux, Jean Navarro), Matthieu Saladin, Gabriel Sierra, Santiago Sierra, Xavier Veilhan, VIER5, Annie Vigier & Franck Apertet (les gens d’Uterpan), Lois Weinberger

Organized by curator Pierre Bal-Blanc, the experimental architectural program “Project Phalanstère” consisted of a series of site-specific artworks in the Parisian suburbs. Taking place from 2003 to 2014, these projects developed a creative space extended in time. Here, in contrast with the duration of the work schedule, in which one task follows another, the simultaneity of life’s forces asserted its rhythm. Some works exceeded the conventional time and space of an exhibition: Lionel Estève’s myope et amnésique (2005), for example, was conceived to be larger than any one viewer can see; through the displacement of existing objects, both Cyprien Gaillard and Lois Weinberger reflected upon permanence and the monument; Christodolous Panayiotou and Jens Hanning made subtle alterations to existing architecture, playing with the material presence and experience of light; and so on.

This book proposes to adopt a new syntax. It does not simply call for a renewal of the terminology used in the field of contemporary art programming. Its syntax has taken shape by progressively building on the complex materiality of artworks in a specific context—an art center located in the Parisian suburbs—and not by contriving itself with the help of words and discourses uttered from an abstract perspective. The political aims of “Project Phalanstère” appear in the ungrammatical formulas that the works articulate and in the active resistance that they manifest against a normative authority that, although it accepts the play of words, continues to enforce the disciplinary activity of arts administration. Over one hundred pages of images of the installed works opens the volume, followed by the individual artworks according to a score that denotes use, nature, and location, annotated to place each work within a larger cultural context. A comprehensive timeline of the exhibitions concludes the volume.

Copublished with CAC Brétigny and Work Method, Paris
Design by VIER5

File under: Atelier Van Lieshout Robert Breer Daniel Buren Maurizio Cattelan Nicolas Chardon Marie Cool Fabio Balducci Lionel Estève Esther Ferrer Cyprien Gaillard Jens Haaning David Lamelas François Laroche-Valière Mathieu Lehanneur Teresa Margolles Dominique Mathieu Hans Walter Müller Rainer Oldendorf Roman Ondák Christodoulos Panayiotou Gianni Pettena Pratchaya Phinthong Matthieu Saladin Gabriel Sierra Santiago Sierra Xavier Veilhan Lois Weinberger Pierre Bal-Blanc Sternberg Press / Berlin CAC / Brétigny Group Shows / Collections Art Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Conceptual Art Curatorial Theory / Essay SALE

Sharon Hayes
Echo

2019, English
Paperback, 88 pages, 17 x 23.5 cm
Published by Koenig Books / London Moderna Museet / Stockholm

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In 1996, Sharon Hayes undertook her Lesbian Love Tour, during which she visited and photographed 45 "lesbian living rooms" in nearly as many cities. Hayes is interested in how political goals or desires can be manifested in concrete terms and, starting from individuals or smaller groups, can grow into larger movements. The trained journalist and anthropologist is currently one of the most influential politically and socially committed artists of the United States.

The exhibition, Echo at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, explores the gallery space as an echo chamber: with voices and materials reverberating between different historic events. It also references a feminist interpretation of the classical myth of Echo, the nymph who is cursed for her conversational skills. She is condemned to only repeat fragments said by others, sounds devoid of meaning.

The echo resonates as both material and form throughout the work, including a new work made for the exhibition as part of the artist’s ongoing Ricerche project, made in dialogue with Comizi d’amore (1965), Pier Paolo Pasolini’s interview on sex and relations.

Hayes video piece, Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) (2003), is one example of what the artists calls anachronisms – where an unresolved issue or conflict from the past is approached from a different moment in time. In this instance Hayes reads messages to a live audience from the kidnapped Patty Hearst to her parents that were aired on the radio in 1974.

Other ‘oral translations’ of texts and acts of speech by Hayes are replicated in the gallery for a contemporary audience.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Sharon Hayes: Echo at Moderna Museet, Stockholm (13 April – 11 August 2019).
Co-published by Moderna Museet and Koenig Books.
English and Swedish text.

File under: Sharon Hayes Lena Essling Ann-Sofi Noring Koenig Books / London Moderna Museet / Stockholm Art Conceptual Art Feminism Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater

Disordering the Establishment : Participatory Art and Institutional Critique in France, 1958–1981
by Lily Woodruff

English, 2020
Softcover, 336 pages, 23.5 x 16 cm
Published by Duke University Press / North Carolina

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In the decades following World War II, France experienced both a period of affluence and a wave of political, artistic, and philosophical discontent that culminated in the countrywide protests of 1968. In Disordering the Establishment Lily Woodruff examines the development of artistic strategies of political resistance in France in this era. Drawing on interviews with artists, curators, and cultural figures of the time, Woodruff analyzes the formal and rhetorical methods that artists used to counter establishment ideology, appeal to direct political engagement, and grapple with French intellectuals' modeling of society. Artists and collectives such as Daniel Buren, André Cadere, the Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel, and the Collectif d’Art Sociologique shared an opposition to institutional hegemony by adapting their works to unconventional spaces and audiences, asserting artistic autonomy from art institutions, and embracing interdisciplinarity. In showing how these artists used art to question what art should be and where it should be seen, Woodruff demonstrates how artists challenged and redefined the art establishment and their historical moment.

“Lily Woodruff's examination of conceptual painting in France is at once timely and long overdue. She offers a satisfying total narrative of the artworks situated in relation to the changing dynamics of both the state and the market as they came to determine culture without losing focus of the specificity of the aesthetic dimension of these interventions. She situates artwork as a vehicle for an intellectual and sensual proposition charged with capacity. I learned a tremendous amount from this book.” — Jaleh Mansoor, author of Marshall Plan Modernism: Italian Postwar Abstraction and the Beginnings of Autonomia

“This extraordinarily lucid book is required reading for anyone wondering how the 1960s—and even ‘democracy’ itself—still matters. As Lily Woodruff demonstrates, the top-down instrumentalization of participation was countered in that decade by an artistic landscape ranging from kinetic painting and wearable objects to handheld props and logos. In beautifully readable prose, she replaces French artistic practice in a geopolitical terrain that negotiates both Soviet and Maoist histories, making those practices once again urgently contemporary.” — Rachel Haidu, author of The Absence of Work: Marcel Broodthaers, 1964–1976

File under: Daniel Buren André Cadere Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel Collectif d’Art Sociologique BMPT Olivier Mosset Michel Parmentier Niele Toroni Lily Woodruff Duke University Press / North Carolina Art Conceptual Art Anarchism Minimal Art Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay

Melbourne Artist Facilitated Biennial publication (Endless Lonely Planet 9)

2020, English
Softcover, 150 pages, 21 x 29.7
Ed. of 100,
Published by Endless Lonely Planet / Melbourne

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Melbourne Artist Facilitated Biennial publication by Melbourne artist Christopher LG Hill is both the ninth issue of his ongoing publishing imprint Endless Lonely Planet, and a major survey art book marking the end of his 12 year artist facilitated biennale project, spanning 2008-2020.

"Multiple sites and moments, artist facilitated biennials extending on structures and limitations set by Signs of life: Melbourne International Biennial 1999. Abstracting and bringing new meaning to the form of a biennial as a more casual and independent entity, the project has seen many participants and collaborators over the last 12 years. This book hopes to document some of these moments, but more so to be a catalyst for different modes and models that it may inspire." — publisher

Includes extensive photographic documentation of The (self initiated, Artist funded) second (fourth) Y2K Melbourne Biennial of Art (& Design), TCB art inc., 2008; The First & Final Y3K Second (third) Inaugural Melbourne Biennial of International Arts, Y3K, 2011 (curated by Joshua Petherick, James Deutsher, and Christopher L G Hill); Third/Fourth Melbourne Biennial, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, 2013; 4th/5th Melbourne Artist Facilitated Biennial, TarraWarra Museum of Art, 2016 (as part of TarraWarra Biennial 2016: Endless Circulation curated by Victoria Lynn and Helen Hughes/Discipline); 5th/6th final Melbourne Artist Facilitated Biennial, Dec 2018 -Dec 2020 (co-facilitated by Virginia Overell and Christopher L G Hill in their apartment/ the ex-Telecom building that was the site of the Melbourne International Biennial 1999)

Includes the work of ACW, Liz Allen, Animal Charm, Dan Arps, Sean Bailey, Liv Barrett, Matthew Brown, Ruth Buchannan, Jon Campbell, Jane Caught, Xin Cheng, Fiona Connor, Ying Lan Dann, James Deutsher, Daniel du Bern, Ida Ekblad, ffiXXed, Pat Foster & Jen Berean, Justin K Fuller, Matt Griffin, Ardi Gunawan, Hao Guo, Bianca Hester, Christopher L G Hill, Matt Hinkley, Helen Johnson, Lisa Kelly, Devin Kenny, Taree Mackenzie, Simon McGlinn, Rob Mckenzie, Nick Mangan, Scott Mitchell, Tahi Moore, Kate Newby, Geoff Newton, John Nixon, OSW, Alexander Ouchtomsky, Damon Packard, Spiros Panigriakis, Sean Peoples/ Cheese Peoples, Joshua Petherick, Kain Picken, Janneke Raaphorst, Nick Selenitsch, Christopher Schueler & Matthew Hopkins, Gregory P Sharp, Kate Smith, Sriwhana Spong, Dylan Statham, Masato Takasaka, Ben Tankard, Simon Taylor, Alex Vivian, Annie Wu, Hany Armanious, Andreas Banderas, Mikala Dwyer, Katherine Huang, Tobias Kaspar, Piotr Łakomy, Taree Mackenzie, Tahi Moore, Michael O’Connell, Ester Partegas, Natalie Rognsoy, John Spiteri, Dan Arps, Sean Bailey, Olivia Barrett, Matthew Benjamin, Jon Campbell, Trevelyan Clay, Fiona Connor and Michala Paludan, James Deutsher, DoubleFly, George Egerton-Warburton, Endless Lonely Planet, ffiXXed, Alicia Frankovich, Justin K Fuller, Marco Fusinato, Greatest Hits, Ardi Gunawan, Hao Guo, Christopher L G Hill, Matt Hinkley, David Homewood, Matthew Hopkins, Lou Hubbard, Renee Jaeger, Helen Johnson, Kenneth Biennale (curated by Kenny Pittock and Amy May Stuart: Chris Clarke, Christo Crocker, Christina Hayes, Chris L G Hill, Christine Pittock, Christopher Sciuto), Legendary Hearts (Kieran Hegarty and Andrew Cowie), S.T. Lore, Patrick Lundberg, Carrie McGrath, Rob McKenzie, Taree McKenzie, Nick Mangan, Gian Manik, Kate Meakin, Adelle Mills, Tahi Moore, Kate Newby, Elizabeth Newman, Virginia Overell, Sean Peoples, Joshua Petherick, Kain Picken, Lisa Radford and Sam George, Nick Selenitsch, Kate Smith, Studio Masatotectures, Sydney (Esther Edquist), Masato Takasaka and Madeline Kidd, Ben Tankard, Alex Vivian, Nicki Wynnychuk, y3k, Lauren Burrow, Counterfeitnessfirst, James Deutsher, Laurel Doody, George Egerton-Warburton, ELP3 Vine, Endless Lonely Planet, Lewis Fidock, Aurelia Guo, Christopher L G Hill, Lou Hubbard, Lucina Lane, Kate Meakin, Tahi Moore, Elizabeth Newman, Liam Osborne, Virginia Overell, Joshua Petherick, Lisa Radford, Zac Segbedzi, Nick Selenitsch, Nicholas Tammens, Alex Vivian, Rudi Williams, Gavin Bell, Jarrah de Kuijer and Simon McGlinn, Candida ((Gian Manik and Ricarda Bigolin) in collaboration with Agnieszka Chabros, Samuel Heatley and Jaala Jensen), Xin Cheng, Fiona Connor, Renee Cosgrave, Christo Crocker, Ying Lan Dann, Endless Lonely Planet, Richard Frater, Aurelia Guo, HB Peace, Hoggle, Lou Hubbard, Olivia Koh, Spencer Lai, Laurel Doody Library Supply, Patrick Lundberg, Kate Meakin, Olivia O’Donnell, Jason Willers, and more...

More info at http://www.christopherlghill.com

File under: ACW Liz Allen Animal Charm Dan Arps Sean Bailey Liv Barrett Matthew Brown Ruth Buchannan Jon Campbell Jane Caught Xin Cheng Fiona Connor Ying Lan Dann James Deutsher Daniel du Bern Ida Ekblad ffiXXed Pat Foster & Jen Berean Justin K Fuller Matt Griffin Ardi Gunawan Hao Guo Bianca Hester Christopher L G Hill Matt Hinkley Helen Johnson Lisa Kelly Devin Kenny Taree Mackenzie Simon McGlinn Rob Mckenzie Nick Mangan Scott Mitchell Tahi Moore Kate Newby Geoff Newton John Nixon OSW Alexander Ouchtomsky Damon Packard Spiros Panigriakis Sean Peoples/ Cheese Peoples Joshua Petherick Kain Picken Janneke Raaphorst Nick Selenitsch Christopher Schueler & Matthew Hopkins Gregory P Sharp Kate Smith Sriwhana Spong Dylan Statham Masato Takasaka Ben Tankard Simon Taylor Alex Vivian Annie Wu Hany Armanious Andreas Banderas Mikala Dwyer Katherine Huang Tobias Kaspar Piotr Łakomy Michael O’Connell Ester Partegas Natalie Rognsoy John Spiteri Olivia Barrett Matthew Benjamin Trevelyan Clay Fiona Connor and Michala Paludan DoubleFly George Egerton-Warburton Endless Lonely Planet Alicia Frankovich Marco Fusinato Greatest Hits David Homewood Matthew Hopkins Lou Hubbard Renee Jaeger Christo Crocker Christina Hayes Chris L G Hill Christine Pittock Christopher Sciuto) Legendary Hearts (Kieran Hegarty and Andrew Cowie) S.T. Lore Patrick Lundberg Carrie McGrath Rob McKenzie Taree McKenzie Gian Manik Kate Meakin Adelle Mills Elizabeth Newman Virginia Overell Sean Peoples Lisa Radford and Sam George Studio Masatotectures Sydney (Esther Edquist) Masato Takasaka and Madeline Kidd Nicki Wynnychuk y3k Lauren Burrow Counterfeitnessfirst Laurel Doody ELP3 Vine Lewis Fidock Aurelia Guo Lucina Lane Liam Osborne Lisa Radford Zac Segbedzi Nicholas Tammens Rudi Williams Gavin Bell Jarrah de Kuijer and Simon McGlinn Renee Cosgrave Richard Frater HB Peace Hoggle Olivia Koh Spencer Lai Laurel Doody Library Supply Olivia O’Donnell Jason Willers Amy May Stuart Kenny Pittock Madeline Kidd A Constructed World Agnieszka Chabros Ricarda Bigolin Samuel Heatley and Jaala Jensen Chris Clarke Christopher Sciuto Candida Esther Edquist S.T. Lore Endless Lonely Planet / Melbourne Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Australian Art Australian Photography Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Curatorial Group Shows / Collections Periodicals Sound / Music Textiles

Yves Klein
The Foundations of Judo

2009, English
Softcover, 224 pages, 22.5 x 14 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by The Everyday Press / London

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"In 1952 the 24-year-old Yves Klein left Paris for Japan to pursue his first love; not art but judo. After becoming one of very few Europeans to receive a coveted 4th dan black belt fro the Kodokan in Tokyo, Klein returned to France and opened the Judo Académie de Paris. In 1954 the prestigious firm of Grasset published his book Les Fondements du Judo, illustrated with hundreds of photographs of Klein and the leading Japanese teachers demonstrating the six major Kata of judo. Now this extraordinary work has finally been translated into English."

Yves Klein (1928 – 1962) was a French artist and an important figure in post-war European art. He was a leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme founded in 1960 by art critic Pierre Restany. Klein was a pioneer in the development of performance art, and is seen as an inspiration to and as a forerunner of minimal art, as well as pop art.

First and only English edition, published by The Everyday Press, now long out-of-print. Last copies.

File under: Yves Klein The Everyday Press / London Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Conceptual Art Painting Minimal Art Performance / Dance / Theater

Hélio Oiticica : Dance in My Experience

2020, English
Hardcover, 328 pages, 21.3 x 28.2 cm
Published by MASP / São Paulo

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One of the most radical and joyful artists of the 20th century, Hélio Oiticica (1937-80) helped lead the charge in Brazilian art’s unique transition from abstract concrete art to performative objects and collective performance.

As MoMA’s 2019 exhibition Sur Moderno demonstrated, one of Oiticica’s most revolutionary projects was the Parangolé, wearable sculptures made from fabric, plastic or paper. The Parangolé is meant to be worn, inhabited and danced by a participant, lending a physical spontaneity to the piece that entirely blurs the boundaries between the art object and those who experience it.

Dance in My Experience traces the genealogy of this theme within the artist’s oeuvre, identifying rhythmic, choreographic and dance elements throughout his trajectory, from his first Metaesquemas through the Spatial Reliefs, Nuclei and Bólides, culminating in the Parangolés. Texts by Oiticica and numerous scholars.

Edited with text by Adriano Pedrosa, Tomás Toledo. Text by Adrian Anagnost, Cristina Ricupero, Evan Moffitt, Fernanda Lopes, Fernando Cocchiarale, Sergio Delgado Moya, Tania Rivera, Vivian A. Crockett, Hélio Oiticica.

File under: Hélio Oiticica Adriano Pedrosa Tomás Toledo Adrian Anagnost Cristina Ricupero Evan Moffitt Fernanda Lopes Fernando Cocchiarale Sergio Delgado Moya Tania Rivera Vivian A. Crockett Hélio Oiticica. MASP / São Paulo Art Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Minimal Art Theory / Essay Textiles

Trisha Brown: Choreographing Life

2020, English
Hardcover, 240 pages, 18.3 x 25.4 cm
Published by MASP / São Paulo

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A comprehensive tribute to one of the central figures of postmodern dance in America. Edited with text by André Mesquita. Texts by Adriana Banana, David M. Sperling, Susan Rosenberg, Babette Mangolte, Yvonne Rainer, Trisha Brown.

A founding member of the legendary Judson Dance Theater, American choreographer and dancer Trisha Brown (1936-2017) helped build the tenets of postmodern dance and is now considered one of the most influential figures in American choreography. Trisha Brown: Choreographing Life presents a sizable archive of Brown’s career, with photographs, drawings and video stills that illustrate her lifelong contributions to the world of contemporary dance.

Brown established her own dance company in 1970 and continued to dance until 2008, during which time she created over 100 dances and six operas. One of her most famous pieces was the product of a creative partnership with artists Laurie Anderson and Robert Rauschenberg; after the 1983 premiere of Set and Reset at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival, Brown was launched into international acclaim. Brown’s choreography demonstrates an unparalleled cognizance of space and visuality, as indicated by the artistic process apparent in the drawings and diagrams included in this publication. Her work conveys the extent to which movement is an artistic language reflective of the complex relationship between body and mind.

File under: Trisha Brown Babette Mangolte Yvonne Rainer Judson Dance Theater Laurie Anderson Robert Rauschenberg Adriana Banana David M. Sperling Susan Rosenberg Babette Mangolte Yvonne Rainer Trisha Brown MASP / São Paulo Art Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay

Australia: Nine Contemporary Artists

1984, English
Softcover, 90 pages, 29 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by LAICA / Los Angeles

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Scarce catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition "Australia: Nine Contemporary Artists" at Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, June 30 - August 14, 1984. To coincide with the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, LAICA director Robert Smith invited nine Australian artists (John Davis, John Dunkley-Smith, Marr Grounds, Lyndal Jones, John Nixon, Mike Parr, Redback Graphix, Stelarc) to create site-specific installations at the gallery. This generous catalogue profiles the work of each artist with reproductions of past works, artist writings, and document of their various outcomes in Los Angeles. Includes biographies.

Very Good copy with some tanning to covers and sticker residue to bottom of spine/front. Sticker on verso reading "Exhibitions Australia".

File under: John Davis John Dunkley-Smith Marr Grounds Lyndal Jones John Nixon Mike Parr Redback Graphix Stelarc LAICA / Los Angeles Art Australian Art Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Painting Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections

Cosey Fanni Tutti
Art Sex Music

2017, English
Softcover, 512 pages, 15.3 x 23.4 cm
Published by Faber & Faber / London

$35.00 - Out of stock

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Art Sex Music is the wise, shocking and elegant autobiography of Cosey Fanni Tutti.

Art Sex Music is the autobiography of a musician who, as a founding member of the avant-garde group Throbbing Gristle and electronic pioneers Chris & Cosey, has consistently challenged the boundaries of music over the past four decades.

It is the account of an artist who, as part of COUM Transmissions, represented Britain at the IXth Biennale de Paris, whose Prostitution show at the ICA in 1976 caused the Conservative MP Nicholas Fairbairn to declare her, COUM and Throbbing Gristle 'Wreckers of Civilisation'...shortly before he was arrested for indecent exposure, and whose work continues to be held at the vanguard of contemporary art.

And it is the story of her work as a pornographic model and striptease artiste which challenged assumptions about morality, erotica and art.

File under: Chris Carter Cosey Fanni Tutti Genesis P-Orridge Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson Cosey Fanni Tutti Faber & Faber / London Art Eros Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music

Performance Works
Edited by Joanna Zielińska

2020, English
Softcover, 272 pages, 17 x 24 cm
Published by Mousse / Milan Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art / Warsaw

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The publication is an anthology of both newly commissioned and reprinted essays, as well as interviews and fiction that reflect on performance today. It is structured around four major sections that investigate the new performance phenomenologies by looking at artistic institutions, curatorial practices, and exhibition formats, as well as the technological turn and performative fiction. Over recent decades, the definition of performance has changed. Performance Works examines changes taking place in the traditional exhibition format, which has recently taken a back seat to hybrid forms that link the visual arts with the performing arts, literature, and music. The book reflects on the changing role of the viewer, who increasingly has become a performer and active participant. Authors also analyze the role of the performer’s body and the work that is involved in extended performative exhibitions. Additionally, Performance Works presents the research outcomes linked to the performance program launched in 2016 at Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw, which examined the performative turn in visual arts and its consequences for art institutions, as well as artistic and curatorial practices.

Edited by Joanna Zielińska
Texts by Oreet Ashery, Pierre Bal-Blanc, Claire Bishop, Marie de Brugerolle, Yann Chateigné, Korina Giaxoglou, Michał Grzegorzek, Shannon Jackson, Eliel Jones, Chris Kraus, Laura Lima, David Maroto, Ingo Niermann, Kathy Noble, Johannes Paul Raether, Mark von Schlegell, Agnieszka Sosnowska, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Transformella, and Joanna Zielińska

File under: Oreet Ashery Pierre Bal-Blanc Claire Bishop Marie de Brugerolle Yann Chateigné Korina Giaxoglou Michał Grzegorzek Shannon Jackson Eliel Jones Chris Kraus Laura Lima David Maroto Ingo Niermann Kathy Noble Johannes Paul Raether Mark von Schlegell Agnieszka Sosnowska Ana Teixeira Pinto Transformella Joanna Zielińska Mousse / Milan Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art / Warsaw Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry Performance / Dance / Theater Art

The Aesthetics Of Ambiguity - Understanding And Addressing Monoculture
Edited by Nav Haq and Pascal Gielen

2020, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 13 x 22 cm
Published by Valiz / Amsterdam

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In The Aesthetics of Ambiguity: Understanding and Addressing Monoculture Pascal Gielen and Nav Haq argue that multiculturalism is paradoxically based on monocultural thinking. The publication explores this paradox by exploring monoculture in a variety of contemporary contexts. The book sets out to analyse monoculture using a multifaceted approach, by bringing together historical, social, cultural and ideological perspectives, using the dual role of art as tool for reconciliation and division in societies. The Aesthetics of Ambiguity gives stage to artists, thinkers and institutional practices who dare to play with the rules of a broader society and thus generate ambiguity ‘at large’. The book represents a quest for (more) ambiguity in order to avoid rigid borders or black-and-white polarities between cultures, as well as between practices of art and scientific thinking. By doing so, the artists, activists and researchers featured in this book plea for a politics and aesthetics of ambiguity to deal with the complexity of our living together on Earth.

Contributors: Paolo S.H. Favero, Pascal Gielen, Christine Greiner, Max Haiven, Nav Haq, Hedwig Houben, Iman Issa, Bojana Piškur, Public Movement, Jonas Staal, Mi You and Tirdad Zolghadr
Design: Metahaven

Pascal Gielen is professor of sociology of culture and politics. He is based at the Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (ARIA) of Antwerp University. There he leads the research group Culture Commons Quest Office (CCQO). He is editor of the international book series Antennae-Arts in Society, published by Valiz.

Nav Haq is Associate Director at M HKA, responsible for the development of its artistic programme. At M HKA he co-curated Don’t You Know Who I Am? Art After Identity Politics (2014). He was previously Exhibitions Curator at Arnolfini, Bristol and Curator at Gasworks, London. Haq has organized numerous monographic exhibitions and in 2012 he was the recipient of the Independent Vision Award for Curatorial Achievement, awarded by Independent Curators International, New York.

File under: Metahaven Nav Haq Pascal Gielen Paolo S.H. Favero Christine Greiner Max Haiven Hedwig Houben Iman Issa Bojana Piškur Public Movement Jonas Staal Mi You Tirdad Zolghadr Valiz / Amsterdam Art Theory / Essay Performance / Dance / Theater

Blank Forms 05 - Aspirations of Madness

2020, English
Softcover, 242 pages, 15 x 20.2 cm
Published by Blank Forms / New York

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Edited by Lawrence Kumpf with Joe Bucciero.

Contributors and featured artists include Masayuki Takayanagi, Louise Landes Levi, Joseph Jarman, Catherine Christer Hennix, Charles Stein, Henry Orlov, Maryanne Amacher, Alan Cummings, Bill Dietz, Peter Kastakis, Art Lange, Leo Svirsky, Satoru Obara, and Tomoyuki Chida.

Aspirations of Madness, Blank Forms’ fifth collection of archival, unpublished, or newly translated texts, takes its title from a series of interviews with Japanese free jazz pioneer Masayuki Takayangi that were published in Japanese in 1975–76 and are published here in English for the first time. The interviews provide a rare look at Takayanagi’s eccentric practice and personality, both long under-recognized by audiences outside (and often, inside) of Japan. In this respect, the interviews speak to the goals of Blank Forms’ publication enterprise, that is, to expand upon our work in performance programming, record production, and archival preservation, and to foster new dialogues on vanguard art and music from the past 50-plus years.

Aspirations of Madness considers the work of Masayuki Takayanagi, the poet Louise Landes Levi, musician and writer Joseph Jarman, polymath Catherine Christer Hennix and her one-time student the poet Charles Stein, Russian musicologist Henry Orlov, and Maryanne Amacher—brilliant and overlooked artists whose work Blank Forms will continue to champion in a variety of contexts. Aspirations of Madness features additional contributions by Alan Cummings, Bill Dietz, Peter Kastakis, Art Lange, Leo Svirsky, Satoru Obara, and Tomoyuki Chida, and is edited by Lawrence Kumpf with Joe Bucciero.

File under: Masayuki Takayanagi Louise Landes Levi Joseph Jarman Catherine Christer Hennix Henry Orlov Maryanne Amacher Alan Cummings Bill Dietz Peter Kastakis Art Lange Leo Svirsky Satoru Obara Tomoyuki Chida Lawrence Kumpf Joe Bucciero Blank Forms / New York Art Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry

Physical Culture
curated by Shelley Lasica

1989, English
Softcover (single fold-out card), 210 x 297
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by 200 Gertrude Street / Melbourne

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Scarce catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition Physical Culture: A Series Of Performances And An Exhibition Of Visual Culture, curated by Shelley Lasica, at 200 Gertrude Street in 1989. Introductory text by Lasica alongside a full list of performance and exhibited works by Stephen Bram, Elizabeth Newman, Louise Forthun, Mutlu Hassan, Melbourne Research Group, John De Silentio and Aleks Danko, Rosslynd Piggott, Shiralee Saul, Trevor Patrick, Teresa Blake and Dan Wilton, Jacqui Rutten, Sarah Ritson, Andrew Browne, Richard Todd.

Fine copy.

File under: Shelley Lasica Elizabeth Newman Louise Forthun Mutlu Hassan Melbourne Research Group John De Silentio Aleks Danko Rosslynd Piggott Shiralee Saul Trevor Patrick Teresa Blake Dan Wilton Jacqui Rutten Sarah Ritson Andrew Browne Richard Todd Stephen Bram 200 Gertrude Street / Melbourne Art Group Shows / Collections Performance / Dance / Theater Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Australian Art Painting

Tetsumi Kudo

1986, Japanese
Softcover (folded cardboard card w. inserted press clippings), 21 x 30 cm
1st edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by Gallery Kobayashi / Tokyo

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Very scarce Tetsumi Kudo exhibition card/publication produced on the occasion of his solo exhibition at Gallery Kobayashi in Ginza, Tokyo, in 1986. Alongside a detail shot of one of Kudo's "Chromosomes and Souls", and a text in Japanese, inserted into the folded card are copies of press clippings from Japanese newspapers relating to the exhibition.

Born in Osaka, Japan, in 1935 Kudo first gained notoriety in the Tokyo art scene of the late 50s. He began exhibiting his work at the Salon of Independents, Yomiuri and had his first solo exhibition at the Galerie Blanche, Tokyo. He was awarded the Grand Prize and a travel grant to Paris through his painting participation in the 1962 Second International Young Artists Exhibition in Tokyo. Immigrating to Paris, he immediately started working in a range of media--objects, sculpture, installation, drawing and painting--and presenting numerous Happenings and performances. Kudo's work and activities intersect with many important postwar artistic trends--including French Nouveau Realisme, Fluxus, Pop art, 60s anti-art tendencies and 80s Postmodernism. Throughout his life and career, Kudo remained particularly Japanese while his art and vision were consistently and uniquely transcultural, internationalist and cosmopolitan. His work made international appearances at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1972), Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany, (1970), Venice Biennial (1976), and the Biennial São Paulo (1977, awarded a special mention) while also appearing frequently in museums and galleries throughout Japan and France, with a growing recognition in the Netherlands.

File under: Tetsumi Kudo Gallery Kobayashi / Tokyo Art Objects / Ephemera / A/V Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic

Tetsumi Kudo
Contestation / Création

1994, Japanese / French
Softcover, 199 pages, 29.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / as new
Published by The National Museum of Art / Osaka

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Wonderful, scarce, out of print monographic catalogue published in conjunction with a show of Tetsumi Kudo's work, held at the National Museum of Art in Osaka, October 6 - November 29, 1994.
Heavily illustrated with text by Keiji Nakamura and Didier Semin. Includes list of works in the exhibition, biography, and bibliography. Black-and-white and colour images throughout.
Text in Japanese and French.
As New copies.

Born in Osaka, Japan, in 1935 Kudo first gained notoriety in the Tokyo art scene of the late 50s. He began exhibiting his work at the Salon of Independents, Yomiuri and had his first solo exhibition at the Galerie Blanche, Tokyo. He was awarded the Grand Prize and a travel grant to Paris through his painting participation in the 1962 Second International Young Artists Exhibition in Tokyo. Immigrating to Paris, he immediately started working in a range of media--objects, sculpture, installation, drawing and painting--and presenting numerous Happenings and performances. Kudo's work and activities intersect with many important postwar artistic trends--including French Nouveau Realisme, Fluxus, Pop art, 60s anti-art tendencies and 80s Postmodernism. Throughout his life and career, Kudo remained particularly Japanese while his art and vision were consistently and uniquely transcultural, internationalist and cosmopolitan. His work made international appearances at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1972), Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany, (1970), Venice Biennial (1976), and the Biennial São Paulo (1977, awarded a special mention) while also appearing frequently in museums and galleries throughout Japan and France, with a growing recognition in the Netherlands.

File under: Tetsumi Kudo Didier Semin Keiji Nakamura The National Museum of Art / Osaka Art Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Fluxus Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic