World Food Books

André Cadere
Peinture sans fin

2008, English / French / German
Softcover, 168 pages (ill colour and b&w), 27 x 21.5 cm
1st edition, Out of print title / As new,
Published by Walther König / Köln

$200.00 - Out of stock

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Now out of print, this wonderful catalogue was published to accompany a retrospective exhibition at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (October 2007 –January 2008) of the work of André Cadere (1934 – 1978). It is one of the finest monographs on Cadere's career.
Cadere, who lived in Paris from 1971 belongs – alongside Daniel Buren, Niele Toroni and François Morellet – to the most important protagonists of French Minimal and Concept Art of the 1970s.

His work combines a reduced formal sculptural language with a conceptual approach that questions the workings of the art system – a combination which has become of major importance to a younger generation of artists in recent years. His premature death was preceded by an intense albeit short working period of about eight years. His consistent refusal to bow to the rules of the art market might explain why his work has been underestimated to this day.

File under: André Cadere Alexander von Grevenstein Fabrice Hergott Karola Grässlin Walther König / Köln Art Out-of-print / Rare Conceptual Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Minimal Art

Francis Picabia

1976, French
Softcover, 202 pages, 30 x 23 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Galeries Nationales du Grand-Palais / Paris

$85.00 - Out of stock

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First edition of this great 200 pages French monographic catalogue on Francis Picabia, published on the occasion of the major exhibition at National Galleries of the Grand Palais, 23 January-29 March, 1976.

Lavishly illustrated throughout with reproductions of over 200 of Picabia's paintings, drawings, designs, typography, poems, alongside many photos, portraits, texts (in French), biography, bibliography, and much more.

Francis Picabia (22 January 1879 – 30 November 1953) was a French avant-garde painter, poet, typographist, self-described funny guy, idiot, failure, pickpocket, and anti-artist par excellence. After experimenting with Impressionism and pointillism, Picabia became associated with Cubism. His highly abstract planar compositions were colourful and rich in contrasts. He was one of the defining figures in the Dada movement in the United States and in France; indeed, Andre Breton called Picabia one of the only "true" Dadas. He was later briefly associated with Surrealism, but would soon turn his back on the art establishment.

*Good - some wear to cover edges, corners, spine, otherwise very good throughout.

File under: Francis Picabia Jean-Hubert Martin Hélène Seckel Galeries Nationales du Grand-Palais / Paris Painting Art Dada Surrealism Drawing Out-of-print / Rare Fiction / Poetry Performance / Dance / Theater

John Davis
The Sculpture of John Davis: Places and Locations

1988, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 216 pages, 235 x 260
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Hyland House / Victoria

$65.00 - In stock -

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"The Sculpture of John Davis traces the development of his work from the early wood carvings produced while he was a young man living in Mildura in the early 1960's through many changes of style, until he became a major Australian sculptor exhibiting in Venice, Delhi, Tokyo and Los Angeles. John Davis moved through a variety of styles and media from 'Organic Wood Carvings' to an interest in 'Repetitions, Grids, Multiples and Processes' before becoming fascinated by 'Low Technology and Cheap Materials', using 'Twigs, Paper and String'."

John Davis (16 September 1936 – 17 October 1999) was an Australian sculptor and pioneer of Environmental art. An Australian exponent of Arte povera, he famously developed a new mode of Site-specific art at the Mildura Sculpture Triennial in the early 1970s. John Davis established a critically acclaimed reputation as an influential sculptor and installation artist whose practice synthesised material diversity with an idiosyncratic concept of landscape and ecology. Davis travelled widely and exhibited regularly in America, Japan and Australia. As well as participating in the inaugural Mildura Sculpture Triennial, and he represented Australia at the Venice Biennale in 1978. Davis initially worked in wood and later in fibreglass and aluminium, becoming known for his multiples and for his distinctive formalist style. By 1973, Davis had become increasingly interested in conceptual, process-based and land art practices, and his mature works reflect his sensitivity to elemental forces, the organic world, and his profound connection to the ecological fragility and beauty of landscape.
First edition of this major hard-cover monograph on Davis' work, deeply and personally researched with documentation of his works rarely seen anywhere else.

File under: John Davis Ken Scarlett Hyland House / Victoria Art Australian Art Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Conceptual Art Ecology Out-of-print / Rare Arte Povera

Dada in Japan 1920 - 1970

2005, Japanese
Softcover, 170 pages, 22 x 30.5 cm
Revised Ed.,
Published by Suiseisha / Tokyo

$70.00 - Out of stock

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This book documents the Dada movement in Japan from 1920s to 1970s through a collection of photos, artists' statements and recollections. It is a revised 2005 edition of a book first published in Japan in 1988 (following on from a publication 'Dada in Japan: Japanische Avantgarde, 1920-1970: Eine Fotodokumentation' from a large exhibition held at Kunstmuseum Duesseldorf in Germany in 1983). It covers the rarely seen photographic documentation of the avant-garde movements of Mavo, Gutai and more, featuring imagery and ephemera from installations, happenings, theatre performances, rallies, and protests including the work of artists Genpei Akasegawa, Atsuko Tanaka, Kazuo Shiraga, Nakanishi Natsuyuki, Shozo Shimamoto, Tomoyoshi Murayama, Yoshimura Masanobu, Tetsumi Kudo, and many others.

File under: Atsuko Tanaka Genpei Akasegawa Gutai Kazuo Shiraga Mavo Nakanishi Natsuyuki Shozo Shimamoto Tetsumi Kudo Tomoyoshi Murayama Yoshimura Masanobu Yoshio Shirakawa Suiseisha / Tokyo Art Dada Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Sculpture / Installation Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Conceptual Art

Dada in Japan 1920 - 1970

1988, Japanese
Hardcover (w/ pulped dust jacket), 163 pages, 22 x 30.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / Used*,
Published by Hatsubaimoto Hakuba Shobo / Japan

$110.00 - Out of stock

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This first edition hard-cover book (in fine pulped, recycled paper dust jacket) documents the Dada movement in Japan from 1920s to 1970s through a collection of photos, artists' statements and recollections, published in Japan in 1988 (following on from a publication 'Dada in Japan: Japanische Avantgarde, 1920-1970: Eine Fotodokumentation' from a large exhibition held at Kunstmuseum Duesseldorf in Germany in 1983). It covers the rarely seen photographic documentation of the avant-garde movements of Mavo, Gutai and more, featuring imagery and ephemera from installations, happenings, theatre performances, rallies, and protests including the work of artists Genpei Akasegawa, Atsuko Tanaka, Kazuo Shiraga, Nakanishi Natsuyuki, Shozo Shimamoto, Tomoyoshi Murayama, Yoshimura Masanobu, Tetsumi Kudo, and many others.

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

File under: Atsuko Tanaka Genpei Akasegawa Gutai Kazuo Shiraga Mavo Nakanishi Natsuyuki Shozo Shimamoto Tetsumi Kudo Tomoyoshi Murayama Yoshimura Masanobu Yoshio Shirakawa Hatsubaimoto Hakuba Shobo / Japan Art Dada Out-of-print / Rare Group Shows / Collections Sculpture / Installation Painting Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater

Out of Actions
Aktionismus, Body Art und Performance 1949-1979

1998, German
Hardcover, 366 pages, 22.5 x 31 cm
1st German edition, Out of print title / used / very good,
Published by Hatje Cantz / Berlin

$70.00 - Out of stock

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The long out-of-print heavyweight "Out of Actions" book (First German hardcover edition) that was published to accompany the spectacular 1998 Paul Schimmel-curated travelling exhibition. "Out of Actions" surveyed the broad international history and influence of post-war Performance Art, and the objects that exist today as its documentation. It features significant texts by Schimmel, Kristine Stiles, Guy Brett, Hubert Klocker, Shinichiro Osaki, Leslie King-Hammond and Lowery Stokes Sims, and Keiko Okamura.
This important and heavily researched document is lavishly illustrated throughout in colour and black and white, capturing the work and actions of the artists featured in the exhibition and essays: Marina Abramovic, Marina Abramovic and Ulay, Vito Acconci, Genpei Akasegawa, Laurie Anderson, Eleanor Antin, Rasheed Arseen, Mowry Baden, Artur Barrio, Joseph Beuys, Mark Boyle and Joan Hills, George Brecht, Stuart Brisley, Robert Delford Brown, Gunter Brus, Chris Burden, James Lee Byars, John Cage, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Lygia Clark, Pinchas Cohen Gan, Collective Action Group, Houston Conwill, Paul Cotton, COUM Transmissions, Guy de Cointet, Jim Dine, John Duncan, Felipe Ehrenberg, Roberto Evangelista, Valie Export, Robert Filliou, Rose Finn-Kelcey, Sherman Fleming, Lucio Fontana, Terry Fox, Howard Fried, Gideon Gechtman, Gilbert & George, Alberto Greco, Ion Grigorescu, Victor Grippo, Red Grooms, Guerrilla Art Action Group, David Hammons, Al Hansen, Maren Hassinger, Lynn Hershman, Dick Higgins, Tatsumi Hijikata, Susan Hiller, Rebecca Horn, Tehching Hsieh, Joan Jonas, Kim Jones, Michel Journiac, Akira Kanayama, Tadeusz Kantor, Allan Kaprow, Mike Kelley, Juergen Klauke, Yves Klein, Milan Knizak, Alison Knowles, Komar & Melamid, Jannis Kounellis, Shigeko Kubota, Tetsumi Kudo, Yayoi Kusama, Leslie Labowitz, Suzanne Lacy, John Latham, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Lea Lublin, George Maciunas, Leopoldo Maier, Piero Manzoni, Tom Marioni, Georges Mathieu, Gordon Matta-Clark, Paul McCarthy, Bruce McLean, David Medalla, Cildo Meireles, Ana Mendieta, Gustav Metzger, Marta Minujin, Jan Micoch, Linda Montano, Robert Morris, Otto Muehl, Saburo Murakami, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Bruce Nauman, Paul Neagu, Senga Nengudi, Joshua Neustein, Hermann Nitsch, Helio Oiticica, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Orlan, Raphael Montanez Ortiz, Lorenzo Pace, Nam June Paik, Gina Pane, Lygia Pape, Giuseppe Pinot Gallizio, Adrian Piper, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jackson Pollock, William Pope L., Robert Rauschenberg, Carlyle Reedy, Klaus Rinke, Ulrike Rosenbach, Dieter Roth, Zorka Saglova, Niki de Saint Phalle, Alfons Schilling, Tomas Schmit, Carolee Schneemann, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Bonnie Sherk, Shozo Shimamoto, Ushio Shinohara, Kazuo Shiraga, Barbara T. Smith, Daniel Spoerri, Petr Stembera, Wolfgang Stoerchle, Jiro Takamatsu, Atsuko Tanaka, Mark Thompson, Jean Tinguely, Rasa Todosijevic, Kerry Trengove, Ulay, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell, Franz Erhard Walther, Peter Weibel, Franz West, Hannah Wilke, Emmett Williams, and Zaj.
Scarce first German edition, published by Hatje Cantz.

File under: Niki de Saint-Phalle Cosey Fanni Tutti Vito Acconci Genpei Akasegawa Laurie Anderson Eleanor Antin Rasheed Arseen Mowry Baden Artur Barrio Joseph Beuys Mark Boyle Joan Hills George Brecht Stuart Brisley Robert Delford Brown Chris Burden James Lee Byars John Cage Marc Camille Chaimowicz Lygia Clark Pinchas Cohen Gan Collective Action Group Houston Conwill Paul Cotton COUM Transmissions Guy de Cointet Jim Dine John Duncan Felipe Ehrenberg Roberto Evangelista Valie Export Robert Filliou Rose Finn-Kelcey Sherman Fleming Lucio Fontana Terry Fox Howard Fried Gideon Gechtman Alberto Greco Ion Grigorescu Victor Grippo Red Grooms Guerrilla Art Action Group David Hammons Al Hansen Maren Hassinger Lynn Hershman Dick Higgins Tatsumi Hijikata Susan Hiller Rebecca Horn Tehching Hsieh Joan Jonas Kim Jones Michel Journiac Akira Kanayama Tadeusz Kantor Allan Kaprow Mike Kelley Yves Klein Milan Knizak Alison Knowles Komar & Melamid Jannis Kounellis Shigeko Kubota Tetsumi Kudo Yayoi Kusama Leslie Labowitz Suzanne Lacy John Latham Jean-Jacques Lebel Lea Lublin George Maciunas Leopoldo Maier Piero Manzoni Tom Marioni Georges Mathieu Gordon Matta-Clark Paul McCarthy Bruce McLean David Medalla Cildo Meireles Ana Mendieta Gustav Metzger Jan Micoch Linda Montano Robert Morris Otto Muehl Saburo Murakami Natsuyuki Nakanishi Bruce Nauman Paul Neagu Senga Nengudi Joshua Neustein Hermann Nitsch Claes Oldenburg Yoko Ono Orlan Raphael Montanez Ortiz Lorenzo Pace Nam June Paik Gina Pane Lygia Pape Giuseppe Pinot Gallizio Adrian Piper Michelangelo Pistoletto Jackson Pollock William Pope L. Robert Rauschenberg Carlyle Reedy Klaus Rinke Ulrike Rosenbach Dieter Roth Zorka Saglova Alfons Schilling Tomas Schmit Carolee Schneemann Rudolf Schwarzkogler Bonnie Sherk Shozo Shimamoto Ushio Shinohara Kazuo Shiraga Barbara T. Smith Daniel Spoerri Petr Stembera Wolfgang Stoerchle Jiro Takamatsu Atsuko Tanaka Mark Thompson Jean Tinguely Rasa Todosijevic Kerry Trengove Ulay Ben Vautier Wolf Vostell Franz Erhard Walther Peter Weibel Franz West Hannah Wilke Emmett Williams Zaj Marina Abramovič Günter Brus Gilbert & George Jürgen Klauke Marta Minujín Hélio Oiticica Paul Schimmel Kristine Stiles Guy Brett Hubert Klocker Shinichiro Osaki Leslie King-Hammond Lowery Stokes Sims Keiko Okamura Hatje Cantz / Berlin Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Painting Arte Povera Minimal Art Feminism Art Dada Film / Video Fluxus Group Shows / Collections Out-of-print / Rare Pop Art Sound / Music Photography Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic

MURAKAMI SABURO
Through The 70's

2013, Japanese / English
Hardcover, 160 pages (colour & bw ill.), 19 x 26 cm
Published by Seigensha Publishing / Kyoto

$60.00 - Out of stock

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Published in conjunction with an exhibition at ARTCOURT Gallery in Osaka, this broad survey explores the expression and diverse changes through the career of this central member of the Gutai Art Association. While his ‘Paper-Breaking’ events were internationally renowned as pioneering examples of performance art, his “individuality was embodied in his boldest and most unique methodologies” during the 1970s. The book therefore offers a particularly in-depth re-examination of his solo exhibitions and independent work in that period. Numerous paintings, photos, and film stills accompany critical essays, an interview by Kōzu Yoshinori, and texts by Saburō himself. Certainly in our opinion this is nicest monograph on Murakami Saburo.

File under: Murakami Saburo Seigensha Publishing / Kyoto Art Performance / Dance / Theater Painting

Tetsumi Kudo

1978, German
Softcover (staple-bound), 8 pages, 21 x 30 cm
1st edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by Wunderland Gallery / Berlin

$160.00 - Out of stock

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Very rare Tetsumi Kudo catalogue produced on the occasion of his exhibition at Wunderland Gallery, Berlin, in 1978. Contains colour and black and white reproductions of Kudo's cages and other works, alongside texts in German.

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 Wunderland Gallery / Berlin Art Out-of-print / Rare Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater Objects / Ephemera / A/V Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic

I AM BUILT INSIDE YOU
Julia Grosse, Elke Aus Dem Moore, Yvette Mutumba (Eds.)

English, 2017
Hardcover, 194 pages, 11 x 18 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

$59.00 $15.00 - Out of stock

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Contributions by Naomi Beckwith, Clare Davies, Aïcha Diallo, Gabriele Genge, Thelma Golden, Gugulective, Elsa Guily, EJ Hill, Euridice Kala, Basia Lewandowska Cummings, Youssef Limoud, Misheck Masamvu, Walther Mignolo, Patrick Mudekereza, Senga Nengudi, Gabi Ngcobo, An Paenhuysen, Thiago de Paula Souza, Adriana Quiñones León, Luciane Ramos-Silva, Tabita Rezaire, Magnus Rosengarten, Sidney Santiago Kuanza, Helen Sebidi, Lucélia Sergio, Olufemi Terry, Wana Udobang

Over the past four years, the art magazine Contemporary And (C&) has called attention to exhibitions, artists, and curators from diverse African perspectives while boosting new areas of debate. I am built inside you, C&’s first book, is a compilation of eighteen pieces published since the magazine was launched in 2013. The point of departure is a conversation with the great South African artist Helen Sebidi that took place on the occasion of the 32rd São Paulo Biennial in 2016. The volume collects significant pieces from the C& archive that expand upon and contextualize Sebidi’s concepts of home, history, and spirituality. Included as well are interviews with emerging South African artist Tabita Rezaire; Senga Nengudi, artist and core member of the African-American avant-garde in 1970s and ’80s Los Angeles; Thelma Golden, legendary director of the Studio Museum in Harlem; and pathbreaking academic Walter Mignolo.

Copublished with Contemporary And (C&), ifa Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen
Design by Studio Matthias Görlich

File under: Helen Sebidi Senga Nengudi Tabita Rezaire Julia Grosse Elke aus dem Moore Yvette Mutumba Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay SALE

Dissect 3

2016, English
Softcover, 302 pages, 13 x 19 cm
Published by Dissect / Melbourne

$20.00 - Out of stock

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The cultural framework and biopolitics of capitalist globalisation has resulted in an increased concentration on the body as a site of production—in contemporary art as in life. Just as the historical avant-gardes sought to overcome art’s autonomous and isolated relationship to society by way of inviting in the ‘praxis of life’; so do contemporary artists whose focus is bodies and subjectivities. In an ever-emergent bio-economy, it is not just the body, but subjects and their lives that are crucial to value creation.

Contributors
Philip Auslander, Dodie Bellamy, Eva Birch, Cristine Brache, Ramsay Burt, Travis Chamberlain, Amy Charlesworth, James Ferraro, Karen Finley, Andrea Fraser, Tim Gentles, Isabelle Graw, Amelia Groom, Aurelia Guo, K8 Hardy, Chris Kraus, Ruth O’Leary, Tanja Ostojic, Carol Que, Ander Rennick, Audrey Schmidt, Phebe Schmidt, Eleanor Ivory Weber, Katie West, Amelia Winata, Jarrod Zlatic

Designed by Clare Wohlnick
Edited by Audrey Schmidt, Chloe Sugden and Zoe Theodore

File under: Ander Rennick Andrea Fraser Aurelia Guo Bunny Rogers Chris Kraus James Ferraro Jarrod Zlatic K8 Hardy Phebe Schmidt Ruth O’Leary Amelia Groom Audrey Schmidt Aurelia Guo Carol Que Chris Kraus Cristine Brache Dodie Bellamy Eleanor Ivory Weber Eva Birch Isabelle Graw Jarrod Zlatic Philip Auslander Ramsay Burt Tanja Ostojic Tim Gentles Dissect / Melbourne Art Australian Art Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals Theory / Essay

Florine Stettheimer
Painting Poetry

2017, English
Hardcover, 168 pages, 21 x 24 cm
Published by Yale University Press / New Haven

$69.00 - Out of stock

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A new look at the art of one of the most charming and idiosyncratic personalities of early 20th-century New York Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944) was a New York original: a society lady who hosted an avant-garde salon in her Manhattan home, a bohemian and a flapper, a poet, a theater designer, and above all an influential painter with a sharp satirical wit. Stettheimer collaborated with Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson, befriended (and took French lessons from) Marcel Duchamp, and was a member of Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O'Keeffe's artistic and intellectual circle.

Beautifully illustrated with 150 color images, including the majority of the artist's extant paintings, as well as drawings, theater designs, and ephemera, this volume also highlights Stettheimer's poetry and gives her a long overdue critical reassessment. The essays published here-as well as a roundtable discussion by seven leading contemporary female artists and curator Jens Hoffmann-overturn the traditional perception of Stettheimer as an artist of mere novelties. Her work is linked not only to American modernism and the New York bohemian scene before World War II but also to a range of art practices active today.

Flamboyant and epicurean, she was an astute documenter of New York and parodist of her social milieu; her highly decorative scenes borrowed from Surrealism and contributed to the beginnings of a feminist aesthetic.

File under: Cecily Brown Ella Kruglyanskaya Florine Stettheimer Jamian Juliano-Villani Jutta Koether Katharina Wulff Silke Otto-Knapp Valentina Liernur Florine Stettheimer Georgiana Uhlyarik Jens Hoffmann Painting Poetry Stephen Brown Yale University Press / New Haven Art Drawing Fiction / Poetry Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Poetry

Open Spatial Workshop
Converging in Time

2017, English
Softcover (saddle-stitch w. acrylic book cover), 384 pages, 26 cm x 20 cm
Published by MUMA / Victoria

$44.00 - Out of stock

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Open Spatial Workshop: Converging in Time was published on the occasion of the first major museum exhibition by Open Spatial Workshop (comprising artists Terri Bird, Bianca Hester and Scott Mitchell). The exhibition is part of MUMA's much anticipated annual survey exhibition series that presents the practices of Australia's most exciting and innovative mid-career artists. Converging in Time continues OSW's sculptural investigation into the forces of material formation. Drawing on earth sciences research and studies of the Anthropocene, this major book explores the relationship between the mineral make-up of a site and the societies they produce and sustain.

Designed by Paul Mylecharane and Ziga Testen
Artists: Open Spatial Workshop (comprising of Terri Bird, Bianca Hester and Scott Mitchell)
Text: Open Spatial Workshop, Saskia Beudel, Kathryn Yusoff, Matt Poll

File under: Bianca Hester Open Spatial Workshop Paul Mylecharane Scott Mitchell Terri Bird Žiga Testen Bianca Hester Kathryn Yusoff Matt Poll Saskia Beudel Scott Mitchell Terri Bird MUMA / Victoria Art Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay Australian Art

Sydney Underground Movies
Ubu Films 1965-1970

1997, English
Softcover, 288 pages, 28 x 22 cm
1st edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by UNSW Press / Sydney

$80.00 - Out of stock

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This book is a chronicle of the Ubu Films group. Formed by Albie Thoms, David Perry, Aggy Read and John Clark in Sydney 1965, it was Australia's first group devoted to making, exhibiting and distributing experimental films. Throughout the 1965-1970 period, Ubu produced Australia's first lightshows, published this country's first underground newspaper (Ubunews), and persistently advocated for the reform of censorship laws and the need for government support for the arts.
Flamboyant, controversial and resolutely independent, Ubu Films instigated an extensive network of Australia's underground activity at aa time when Australia's cultural and political landscape was in transition. For only a brief period, Ubu established a viable proposition that film, performance, painting and political action could coalesce into a vibrant interactive community. What follows is the story of its rise and fall.

Reproducing Ubu ephemera (posters, programmes, handbills, Ubunews articles and newspaper pages), countless newspaper and magazine articles, reviews and cartoons advocating and denouncing the many activities (film, performance, music, publishing, etc.) of Ubu, legal documents, behind the scenes photography, film-stills, biographies, film lists and intimate reflections - this amazing, visually-dense and informative chronological volume that is essential reading for anyone interested in Australia's history of underground film, but also for independent film-making in general.

Edited by Peter Mudie.
Peter Mudie is a Canadian born filmmaker, artist and academic. Previously a member of filmmaker cooperatives in London, Toronto and Vienna, he has exhibited his work in galleries and film festivals around the world since 1980. He has written a number of monographs on avant-garde and experimental film (including Dusting the Other; Albie Thoms and David Perry: Films/Dialogues; Below the Centre/ Unterhalb des Mittelpunkts; and Michael Snow: Filmworks). He has presented a number of international touring film exhibitions, in Australia and overseas ―― currently he lives in Perth and lectures in Fine Arts at the University of Western Australia.

Condition: Very Good (tight, clean copy) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on reques

File under: Aggy Read Albie Thoms Bruce Beresford Bruce Conner David Perry Ed Emshwiller Frank Zappa George Kuchar Harry Smith John Clark Jonas Mekas Len Lye Martin Sharp Mike Kuchar Norman Mclaren Pip Proud Richard Neville Stan Brakhage Tamam Shud The Fugs Tully Peter Mudie UNSW Press / Sydney Art Australian Art Eros Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music

Film As A Subversive Art
by Amos Vogel

2005, English
Softcover, 335 pages, 22.5 x 16 cm
2005 edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by D.A.P. / New York

$95.00 - Out of stock

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The now scarce 2005 reprint edition of one of the greatest books on film. A classic returns! The original edition of Amos Vogel's seminal book, Film as a Subversive Art was first published in 1974, and has been out of print since 1987. According to Vogel--founder of Cinema 16, North America's legendary film society--the book details the "accelerating worldwide trend toward a more liberated cinema, in which subjects and forms hitherto considered unthinkable or forbidden are boldly explored."
So ahead of his time was Vogel that the ideas that he penned some 30 years ago are still relevant today, and readily accessible in this classic volume. Accompanied by over 300 rare film stills, Film as a Subversive Art analyzes how aesthetic, sexual and ideological subversives use one of the most powerful art forms of our day to exchange or manipulate our conscious and unconscious, demystify visual taboos, destroy dated cinematic forms, and undermine existing value systems and institutions. This subversion of form, as well as of content, is placed within the context of the contemporary world view of science, philosophy, and modern art, and is illuminated by a detailed examination of over 500 films, including many banned, rarely seen, or never released works.
This 2005 edition, published by D.A.P./C.T. Editions, also quickly went out of print and it has not been available since.

Includes Luis Buñuel, Dusan Makavejev, Luis Buñuel, Stan Brakhage, Bruce Connor, Roman Polanski, Vera Chytilova, Alfred Hitchcock, Carolee Schneemann, Peter Watkins, Tony Conrad, Jonas Mekas, Andrei Tarkovsky, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Bresson, Luchino Visconti, Chris Marker, Federico Fellini, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Kate Millett, John Cassavettes, Shuji Terayama, William Klein, Russ Meyers, Louis Malle, Woody Allen, Yoko Ono, Michelangelo Antonioni, Agnes Varda, Walerian Borowczyk, Andy Warhol, Ingmar Bergman, Jacques Rivette, Sergei M. Eisenstein, Ingmar Bergman, Lindsay Anderson, Roberto Rossellini, Marguerite Duras, Charlie Chaplin, Paul Morrissey, Joseph Losey, Otto Muehl, Hans Richter, Fritz Lang, Jean Genet, Kenneth Anger, Maya Deren, Jean-Luc Godard, Frans Zwartjes, Arrabal, Jack Smith, Stan Vanderbeek, Werner Herzog, Morgan Fisher, Jean Renior, Michael Snow, Robert Frank, Jan Svankmajer, Sam Peckinpah, Paul Sharits, Akira Kurosawa, Yoko Ono, Orson Welles, Frederick Wiseman, Ken Jacobs, Martin Scorcese, Jean Cocteau, Manuel Octavio Gomez, Stanley Kubrick, Norman McLaren, Albert Maysles and David Maysles, to name only a few of the hundreds of film-makers whose works are featured in this essential film book.

Condition: Good (tight, clean copy throughout with only light creasing to covers and light wear) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Agnès Varda Akira Kurosawa Albert Maysles and David Maysles Alfred Hitchcock Andrei Tarkovsky Andy Warhol Arrabal Bruce Conner Carolee Schneemann Charlie Chaplin Chris Marker Dušan Makavejev Federico Fellini Frans Zwartjes Frederick Wiseman Fritz Lang Hans Richter Ingmar Bergman Jack Smith Jacques Rivette Jan Svankmajer Jean Cocteau Jean Genet Jean-Luc Godard Jean Renior Jonas Mekas Joseph Losey Kate Millett Ken Jacobs Kenneth Anger Lindsay Anderson Louis Malle Luchino Visconti Luis Buñuel Manuel Octavio Gomez Marcel Duchamp Marguerite Duras Martin Scorcese Maya Deren Michael Snow Michelangelo Antonioni Morgan Fisher Norman Mclaren Otto Muehl Paul Morrissey Paul Sharits Peter Watkins Rainer Werner Fassbinder Robert Bresson Robert Frank Roberto Rossellini Roman Polanski Russ Meyers Sam Peckinpah Sergei Eisenstein Shuji Terayama Stan Brakhage Stan VanDerBeek Stanley Kubrick Tony Conrad Vera Chytilova Walérian Borowczyk Werner Herzog William Klein Woody Allen Yoko Ono John Cassavetes Amos Vogel D.A.P. / New York Art Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Surrealism Theory / Essay

Guy de Cointet

2016, English
Hardcover, 160 pages, 17 x 24 cm
Published by JRP Ringier / Zürich

$88.00 - Out of stock

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The book, written by Marie de Brugerolle and published with the Estate of Guy de Cointet, is the first to offer an overview of Cointet's enigmatic and influential oeuvre.

Guy de Cointet (American, b. France. 1934–1983) was fascinated with language, which he explored primarily through performance and drawing. His practice involved collecting random phrases, words, and even single letters from popular culture and literary sources—he often cited Raymond Roussel's novel "Impressions of Africa" as influential—and working these elements into non-linear narratives, which were presented as plays to his audience.
Paintings and works on paper would then figure prominently within these performances. In his play "At Sunrise . . . A Cry Was Heard" (1976), a large painting depicting letters bisected by a white sash served as a main subject and prop, with the lead actress continuously referring to it and reading its jumble of letters as if it were an ordinary script. His drawings likewise are almost readable but just beyond comprehension.
De Cointet is recognized as one of the major figures in the Conceptual art movement that emerged in Los Angeles in the 1970s, having strongly influenced a number of prominent artists working in southern California today, including Paul McCarthy and Mike Kelley, for whom both drawing and performance figure significantly in their artistic practices.

Edited by Clément Dirié.
Text by Larry Bell, Marie de Brugerolle, Gérard Wajcman.

File under: Guy de Cointet Larry Bell Gérard Wajcman Larry Bell Marie de Brugerolle JRP Ringier / Zürich Art Drawing Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation

Hearings: A Reader
Contour Biennale 8

2017, English
Softcover, 248 pages, 15 x 22 cm
Published by Sternberg Press / Berlin

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Edited by Natasha Ginwala

The Contour Biennale 8, “Polyphonic Worlds: Justice as Medium,” curated by Natasha Ginwala, brings together twenty-five international and local artists and art collectives working in lens-based media, sound, performance, drawing, and installation, to address questions related to the nation-state system and the realm of justice today. Taking place in Mechelen, Belgium, “Polyphonic Worlds” embraces the communal spirit of the biennale by including the many-sided voices that assemble in collective formations as well as discrete, individual creative positions.

This reader proposes a series of beginnings—it is a polyphonic approach that borrows from juridical and musical spheres. Launched as the online journal of the biennial, Hearings pairs texts or image-based contributions, allowing for a sense of tension and affinity to develop in the feedback loop of the two voices. Relationships around the artwork as site of evidence and testimony are thus reoriented. The multidimensional readings are not restricted to the active apparatus of law and discipline, but instead seek to unravel the synchronies of our times—the mesh of injustice in our midst.

Featuring texts and illustrated contributions by Agency, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Eric Baudelaire, Rossella Biscotti, Hunter Braithwaite and Trevor Paglen, Filipa César, Cooking Sections, Council, T. J. Demos, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Pedro Gómez-Egaña, Rana Hamadeh, Louis Henderson, Adelita Husni-Bey, Ho Tzu Nyen, inhabitants, Arvo Leo, Sven Lütticken, Basir Mahmood, Samuel Mareel, Dirk de Meyer, Otobong Nkanga, Pallavi Paul and Anish Ahluwalia, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Judy Radul, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam, Madonna Staunton, Ana Torfs, Trinh Thi Nguyen, Susanne M. Winterling and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and Ghassan Zaqtan.

Copublished with Contour Biennale on the occasion of Contour Biennale 8: “Polyphonic Worlds: Justice as Medium” (March 11–May 21, 2017).

Design by Studio Remco van Bladel

File under: Natasha Ginwala Sven Lütticken T. J. Demos Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Performance / Dance / Theater Photography Sound / Music Theory / Essay SALE

Hans Ulrich Obrist
Conversations in Mexico

2016, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 352 pages, 28.7 x 20 cm
Published by Fundación Alumnos47Cosentino / Mexico City

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Edited by Karen Marta. Text by Patrick Charpenel, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, Teodoro González de León, Graciela Iturbide, Esquivel!, Santiago Genovés, Carlos Fuentes, Margo Glantz, Elena Poniatowska, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Leonora Carrington, Felipe Ehrenberg, Pedro Friedeberg, Juan Soriano and Eduardo Terrazas

In 2002 Hans Ulrich Obrist began his conversation with a diverse and influential group of Mexican pioneers during an exhibition at Luis Barragán's house in Mexico City. Over a decade in the making, Conversations in Mexico beautifully captures how the Mexican cultural scene has pivoted several times--perhaps most importantly around the student protests at the 1968 Olympic Games--to cultivate a wholly radical and innovative aesthetic, one that is illuminated in the iconic buildings of Pedro Ramírez Vázquez and Teodoro González de León; the people and landscapes photographed by Graciela Iturbide; the music of Esquivel!; the incredible voyages of Santiago Genovés; the utopian politics and literature of Carlos Fuentes, Margo Glantz and Elena Poniatowska; the singular vision of Alejandro Jodorowsky; and the uncompromising art of Leonora Carrington, Felipe Ehrenberg, Pedro Friedeberg, Juan Soriano and Eduardo Terrazas.

Published by Fundación Alumnos47Cosentino, Mexico City

File under: Alejandro Jodorowsky Eduardo Terrazas Felipe Ehrenberg Graciela Iturbide Juan Soriano Leonora Carrington Pedro Friedeberg Pedro Ramírez Vázquez Teodoro González de León Luis Barragán Hans Ulrich Obrist Fundación Alumnos47Cosentino / Mexico City Architecture / Interior Art Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Photography Sound / Music Theory / Essay

Spike #51
Spring 2017 "Can Art Help?"

2017, English / German
Softcover, 180 pages, 21.7 x 28 cm
Published by Spike / Berlin

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Spike #51 raises the question of the social role of art, and many more, with: Grzegorz Kowalski; Bob Flanagan's Visiting Hours; Angela Bulloch on Damien Hirst; Cyprien Gaillard's Desniansky Raion; a roundtable with Chus Martínez, Michaela Meise and Dieter Lesage; Dorothea Von Hantelmann; Kenny Schachter; Daniel Baumann; the portraits of Dorothy Iannone, Tetsumi Kudo, and Marie Angeletti; an interview with Josef Strau; an essay by Jan Verwoert; the TV series The Crown; Andrew Berardini on Jimmie Durham's retrospective in LA…

The power of art and its social role are the subjects of a roundtable discussion with curator Chus Martínez, artist Michaela Meise and philosopher Dieter Lesage at Spike Berlin. Josef Strau talks about how art saved him, while Kenny Schachter finds it both a remedy and a defence. Daniel Baumann delves into the promise of form, and for the critic Jan Verwoert a key function of art is that it teaches forms of conduct. Profiles on the painter Dorothy Iannone and her connections to Fluxus, and the Japanese artist Tetsumi Kudo and his “philosophy of impotence”, are joined by pieces taking on the decline of the supermodel, the Netflix series The Crown, Jimmie Durham's retrospective at the Hammer Museum, and much more.

Founded by the artist Rita Vitorelli in 2004, Spike Art Quarterly is a quarterly magazine on contemporary art published in English and German which aims at sustaining a vigorous, independent, and meaningful art criticism. At the heart of each issue are feature essays by leading critics and curators on artists making work that plays a significant role in current debates. Situated between art theory and practice and ranging far beyond its editorial base in Vienna and Berlin, Spike is both rigorously academic and stylishly essayistic. Spike's renowned pool of contributing writers, artists, collectors and gallerists observe and reflect on contemporary art and analyse international developments in contemporary culture, offering its readers both intimacy and immediacy through an unusually open editorial approach that is not afraid of controversy and provocation.

File under: Bob Flanagan Cyprien Gaillard Damien Hirst Dorothy Iannone Grzegorz Kowalski Jimmie Durham Josef Strau Marie Angeletti Michaela Meise Tetsumi Kudo Andrew Berardini Angela Bulloch Chus Martínez Daniel Baumann Dieter Lesage Dorothea von Hantelmann Jan Verwoert Kenny Schachter Spike / Berlin Art Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals Photography Theory / Essay

Mousse 58
Learning from Athens : An Issue about documenta 14. April-May 2017

2017, English / Italian
Softcover, 296 pages, 24 x 35 cm
Published by Mousse Publishing / Milan

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This issue dedicated to documenta 14 addresses themes, artists, and projects spanning between Athens and Kassel. Including: Moyra Davey by Quinn Latimer; Vivian Suter & Elisabeth Sussman; Roee Rosen; “Preliminary notes for a Black manifesto” by Rasheed Araeen; Khvay Samnang “; The Globalised Museum?” by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung; articles by Kirsty Bell, Irena Haiduk, Pierre Bal-Blanc, Neni Panourgiá, Dieter Roelstraete, and more.

Mousse is a bimonthly magazine published in Italian and English. Established in 2006, Mousse contains interviews, conversations, and essays by some of the most important figures in international criticism, visual arts, and curating today, alternated with a series of distinctive articles in a unique tabloid format. Mousse keeps tabs on international trends in contemporary culture thanks to its city editors in major art capitals such as Berlin, New York, London, Paris, and Los Angeles.
Mousse (Mousse Publishing) is also publisher of catalogues, essays and curatorial projects, artist books and editions.

File under: Geoffrey Farmer Irena Haiduk Khvay Samnang Moyra Davey Rasheed Araeen Roee Rosen Vivian Suter Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung Dieter Roelstraete Elisabeth Sussman Kirsty Bell Neni Panourgiá Pierre Bal-Blanc Quinn Latimer Mousse Publishing / Milan Art Curatorial Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals Photography Theory / Essay

Mousse 57
February-March 2017

2017, English / Italian
Softcover, 296 pages, 24 x 35 cm
Published by Mousse Publishing / Milan

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Dean Daderko, Arthur Jafa and Sondra Perry on blackness, technology and Alien ontologies; Stefanie Hessler exchanges oceanic ideas with Heidi Ballet; Puppies Puppies talk to Tenzing Barshee; Hannah Black as seen by Rahel Aima; essays by Alexander Provan, Orit Gat and Jens Hoffmann; William Pope.L and Mia Locks; Sam Thorne with Marianna Simnett; Anna Gritz and Eric Baudelaire; Luke Willis Thompson; Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme; Raúl de Nieves, and more.

Mousse is a bimonthly magazine published in Italian and English. Established in 2006, Mousse contains interviews, conversations, and essays by some of the most important figures in international criticism, visual arts, and curating today, alternated with a series of distinctive articles in a unique tabloid format. Mousse keeps tabs on international trends in contemporary culture thanks to its city editors in major art capitals such as Berlin, New York, London, Paris, and Los Angeles.
Mousse (Mousse Publishing) is also publisher of catalogues, essays and curatorial projects, artist books and editions.

File under: Arthur Jafa Eric Baudelaire Hannah Black Jana Euler Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys Lucie Stahl Puppies Puppies Raúl de Nieves Sondra Perry William Pope.L Dean Daderko Jens Hoffmann Orit Gat Stefanie Hessler Tenzing Barshee Mousse Publishing / Milan Art Curatorial Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals Photography Theory / Essay

Mousse 56
2006-2016 A Small Anthology

2017, English / Italian
Softcover, 440 pages, 18.5 x 26.5 cm
Published by Mousse Publishing / Milan

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10-year anniversary special issue: a selection of essays, interviews, conversations, and projects appeared in the first ten years of Mousse.

Featuring: Chantal Akerman, Cecilia Alemani, Jennifer Allen, Kai Althoff, Bruce Altshuler, Ed Atkins, Lutz Bacher, Darren Bader, Alex Bag, John Baldessari, Phyllida Barlow, Kirsty Bell, Andrew Berardini, Jonathan Berger, Michael Bracewell, Tom Burr, Maurizio Cattelan, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Stuart Comer, Lauren Cornell, Nicholas Cullinan, Roberto Cuoghi, Nick Currie, Massimo De Carlo, Gino De Dominicis, Gigiotto Del Vecchio, Simon Denny, Brian Dillon, Jimmie Durham, Dominic Eichler, Peter Eleey, Matias Faldbakken, Luigi Fassi, Elena Filipovic, Morgan Fisher, Isa Genzken, Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi, Liam Gillick, Massimiliano Gioni, Isabelle Graw, Ed Halter, Jens Hoffmann, Judith Hopf, William E. Jones, Omar Kholeif, Alexander Kluge, Jiří Kovanda, William Leavitt, Elisabeth Lebovici, Andrea Lissoni, Helen Marten, Chus Martínez, Nick Mauss, Lucy McKenzie, Fionn Meade, Simone Menegoi, John Menick, Ute Meta Bauer, Massimo Minini, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Trevor Paglen, Stefania Palumbo, Francesco Pedraglio, Otto Piene, Laura Poitras, Elizabeth Price, Seth Price, Laure Prouvost, Alessandro Rabottini, Carol Rama, Filipa Ramos, Jason Rhoades, Dieter Roelstraete, Esperanza Rosales, Nicolaus Schafhausen, Fender Schrade, Stuart Sherman, Frances Stark, Jamie Stevens, Hito Steyerl, Sturtevant, Sabrina Tarasoff, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Oscar Tuazon, Giorgio Verzotti, Jan Verwoert, Francesco Vezzoli, Adrián Villar Rojas, Peter Wächtler, Ian Wallace, Klaus Weber, Cathy Wilkes, Christopher Williams, Jordan Wolfson.

Mousse is a bimonthly magazine published in Italian and English. Established in 2006, Mousse contains interviews, conversations, and essays by some of the most important figures in international criticism, visual arts, and curating today, alternated with a series of distinctive articles in a unique tabloid format. Mousse keeps tabs on international trends in contemporary culture thanks to its city editors in major art capitals such as Berlin, New York, London, Paris, and Los Angeles.
Mousse (Mousse Publishing) is also publisher of catalogues, essays and curatorial projects, artist books and editions.

File under: Alex Bag Carol Rama Cathy Wilkes Chantal Akerman Christopher Williams Darren Bader Ed Atkins Frances Stark Helen Marten Hito Steyerl Ian Wallace Isa Genzken Jason Rhoades Jimmie Durham Jiri Kovanda John Baldessari Jordan Wolfson Judith Hopf Kai Althoff Laure Prouvost Lauren Cornell Liam Gillick Lucy Mckenzie Lutz Bacher Marc Camille Chaimowicz Matias Faldbakken Maurizio Cattelan Morgan Fisher Nick Mauss Oscar Tuazon Peter Wächtler Phyllida Barlow Seth Price Simon Denny Stuart Sherman Sturtevant Tom Burr William E. Jones Brian Dillon Cecilia Alemani Chus Martínez Dieter Roelstraete Dominic Eichler Elena Filipovic Filipa Ramos Fionn Meade Frances Stark Hans Ulrich Obrist Hito Steyerl Isabelle Graw Jan Verwoert Jennifer Allen Jens Hoffmann Jimmie Durham Jonathan Berger Kirsty Bell Lauren Cornell Liam Gillick Michael Bracewell Nicolaus Schafhausen Peter Eleey Peter Wächtler Seth Price Ute Meta Bauer Mousse Publishing / Milan Art Conceptual Art Curatorial Film / Video Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals Photography Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay

John Latham
A World View

2017, English
Hardcover, 440 pages, 20.5 x 17 cm
Published by Koenig Books / London Serpentine Gallery / London

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John Latham (1921 – 2006) is widely considered a pioneer of British conceptual art.

His multifaceted practice encompasses sculpture, installation, painting, film, land art, engineering, found-object, assemblage, performance happenings and theoretical writings, the diversity of which is galvanised by his unique understanding of our place in the universe.

This publication traces the trajectory of Latham’s practice and brings together archival material, including documentary photographs, texts, correspondence and various ephemera, in order to build a picture of the artist’s life and work. Latham saw the artist as holding up a mirror to society: an individual whose dissent from the norm could lead to a profound reconfiguration of reality as we know it.

Latham has been associated with several national and international artistic movements, including the first phase of conceptual art in the 1960s. He was an important contributor to the Destruction in Art Symposium of 1966, and also a co-founding member of the Artist Placement Group APG (1966-89).

The Serpentine Gallery exhibition (and this accompanying catalogue) spans Latham’s career to include his iconic spray and roller paintings; his one-second drawings; films such as Erth (1971), and Latham’s monumental work, Five Sisters (1976) from his Scottish Office placement with APG.

Texts by Rita Donagh, Amira Gad, Richard Hamilton, Katherine Jackson, Elisa Kay, Adam Kleinman, Noa Latham, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Yana Peel, Cally Spooner, Barbara Steveni, David Toop.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition, A World View: John Latham at Serpentine Gallery, London, 2 March – 21 May 2017.

File under: John Latham Adam Kleinman Amira Gad Barbara Steveni Cally Spooner David Toop Elisa Kay Hans Ulrich Obrist Katherine Jackson Noa Latham Richard Hamilton Rita Donagh Yana Peel Koenig Books / London Serpentine Gallery / London Art Conceptual Art Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation

Claire Lambe
Mother Holding Something Horrific

2017, English
Softcover, 112 pages, 24 x 17 cm
Ed. of 500,
Published by ACCA / Melbourne

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Claire Lambe: Mother Holding Something Horrific, was published to accompany the Melbourne-based, English-born artist Claire Lambe's exhibition at ACCA, 8 April – 25 June, 2017. Curated by ACCA’s Artistic Director, Max Delany and Curator, Annika Kristensen, Claire Lambe: Mother Holding Something Horrific charges ACCA’s gallery spaces with a series of corporeal sculptures and dramatic installations that are at once uncanny, anarchic and full of life and libido.

As the most significant publication on Claire Lambe’s practice to date, the catalogue features a forward by Max Delany, a republished poem from 2011 by fellow artist Elizabeth Newman, a newly commissioned essay by author Emma Jane Unsworth, and Claire Lambe in conversation with Max Delany and Annika Kristensen, alongside an extensive colour documentation of Lambe’s work in progress, production stills, studio views, artist notes and reference materials.

File under: Claire Lambe Elizabeth Newman Annika Kristensen Emma Jane Unsworth Max Delany ACCA / Melbourne Art Australian Art Performance / Dance / Theater Photography Sculpture / Installation

The Concrete Body : Yvonne Rainer, Carolee Schneemann, Vito Acconci
by Elise Archias

2017, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 240 pages, 20.3 x 25 cm
Published by Yale University Press / New Haven

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Offering an incisive rejoinder to traditional histories of modernism and postmodernism, this original book examines the 1960s performance work of three New York artists who adapted modernist approaches to form for the medium of the human body.

Finding parallels between the tactility of a drip of paint and a body's reflexive movements, Elise Archias argues convincingly that Yvonne Rainer (b. 1934), Carolee Schneemann (b. 1939), and Vito Acconci (b. 1940) forged a dialogue between modernist aesthetics and their own artistic community's embrace of all things ordinary through work that explored the abstraction born of the body's materiality. Rainer's task-like dances, Schneemann's sensuous appropriations of popular entertainment, and Acconci's behaviorist-inflected tests highlight the body's unintended movements as vital reminders of embodied struggle amid the constraining structures in contemporary culture. Archias also draws compelling comparisons between embodiment as performed in the work of these three artists and in the sit-ins and other nonviolent protests of the era.

File under: Carolee Schneemann Vito Acconci Yvonne Rainer Elise Archias Yale University Press / New Haven Art Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay