World Food Books

Lawrence Abu Hamdan
[inaudible] A Politics of Listening in 4 Acts

2016, English
Softcover, 68 pages, 10.6 x 16 cm
Published by Portikus / Frankfurt Sternberg Press / Berlin

$18.00 - Out of stock

Edited by Fabian Schöneich
Contributions by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Emily Apter, Giovanni Carmine, Omar Kholeif, Fabian Schöneich

A “politics of listening” is an intervention into and a reorganization of forms that listening takes rather than a call for free speech or for a platform for voices to be heard. Listening is a political act, a pedagogical process, and an activity that can lead to the development of an organized protocol for engagement.

In his art and research, Beirut-based artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan explores the perception of language, sound, and listening. National identity, human rights, and the administration of justice are recurrent themes in his work. The techniques used in his audio-aesthetic practice have been used to conduct forensic audio analysis for several legal investigations. This monograph includes a series of transcripts of live speech from sermons, monologues, testimonies, and interviews made over the course of the last five years.

Copublished with Kunsthalle St. Gallen and Portikus, Frankfurt am Main
Design by David Bennewith, Colophon

File under: Portikus / Frankfurt Sternberg Press / Berlin Art Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Theory / Essay

Invisible Adversaries
edited by Lauren Cornell

2016, English
Hardcover, 312 pages, 22 x 29 cm
Published by Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College / New York

$67.00 - Out of stock

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'Invisible Adversaries' was a major exhibition curated by Lauren Cornell and Tom Eccles inspired by the 1976 feature film by the radical Austrian artist Valie Export. The film presents a woman’s struggle to retain her sense of self against hostile alien forces that appear increasingly ubiquitous, colonizing the minds of all those around her. Motifs from the film – among them, architecture’s influence on identity; feminist critique; and the power of political fantasy – operate as filters through which to consider significant pieces from the Marieluise Hessel Collection.

With works by over 50 artists including Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Chantal Akerman, Kai Althoff, Janine Antoni, Ida Applebroog, Phyllida Barlow, Lynda Benglis, Barbara Bloom, Paul Chan, Patty Chang, Anne Collier, Rineke Dijkstra, Trisha Donnelly, VALIE EXPORT, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Isa Genzken, Liam Gillick, K8 Hardy, Rachel Harrison, Mona Hatoum, Roni Horn, Emily Jacir, Annette Kelm, Leigh Ledare, Nikki S. Lee, Sarah Lucas, Tala Madani, Christian Marclay, Helen Marten, Ulrike Müller, Bruce Nauman, Tony Oursler, Philippe Parreno, William Pope.L, Seth Price, Magali Reus, Rachel Rose, Thomas Ruff, Ilene Segalove, Cindy Sherman, Stephen Shore, Diane Simpson, Lorna Simpson, Jo Spence, Hito Steyerl, Tunga, Gillian Wearing, Martha Wilson, and Krzysztof Wodiczko, amongst others.

This 300-page publication designed by Zak Group with original essays by nine influential writers, scholars and artists: Zach Blas, Johanna Fateman, Nav Haq, Vít Havránek, J. Hoberman, Alex Kitnick, Tavia Nyong’O, Lauren O’Neill-Butler, and Julian Rose. The catalogue also includes original interviews with VALIE EXPORT, Trevor Paglen, and Hito Steyerl.

File under: Anne Collier Annette Kelm Barbara Bloom Bruce Nauman Chantal Akerman Christian Marclay Cindy Sherman Diane Simpson Eija-Liisa Ahtila Emily Jacir Gillian Wearing Hans-Peter Feldmann Helen Marten Hito Steyerl Ida Applebroog Ilene Segalove Isa Genzken Janine Antoni Jo Spence K8 Hardy Kai Althoff Krzysztof Wodiczko Leigh Ledare Liam Gillick Lorna Simpson Lynda Benglis Magali Reus Martha Wilson Mona Hatoum Nikki S. Lee Patty Chang Paul Chan Philippe Parreno Phyllida Barlow Rachel Harrison Rachel Rose Rineke Dijkstra Roni Horn Sarah Lucas Seth Price Stephen Shore Tala Madani Thomas Ruff Tony Oursler Trisha Donnelly Tunga Ulrike Müller Valie Export William Pope.L Alex Kitnick J. Hoberman Johanna Fateman Julian Rose Lauren Cornell Lauren O’Neill-Butler Nav Haq Tavia Nyong’o Vit Havranek Zach Blas Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College / New York Art Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Photography Sculpture / Installation Group Shows / Collections

Louise Lawler
A Movie Will Be Shown Without The Picture

2014, English
Softcover (stapled), 64 pages (colour & bw ill>), 21 x 27 cm
Published by If I Can’t Dance / Amsterdam

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Louise Lawler's 'A Movie Will Be Shown Without the Picture' (1979) presents a movie in a regular cinema environment, but without any moving images. This publication is the result of an extensive research project into 'A Movie' and its 2012 iteration, undertaken with researcher Sven Lütticken and Louise Lawler. The publication includes a research essay by Lütticken that places 'A Movie' in the context of cultural developments in the 1970s and works by the Pictures Generation, and contributions by art historians Debbie Broekers, Eve Dullaart, and Daniël van der Poel.

File under: Louise Lawler Sven Lütticken If I Can’t Dance / Amsterdam Art Performance / Dance / Theater Photography

Karl Holmqvist
Skyline is the By-Linezz......................

2014, English
Softcover (leporello book in slipcase), 18 pages, 17 x 24.5 cm
Ed. of 800,
Published by Motto / Berlin

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Artist book published by Karl Holmqvist, Swedish artist known for his text based works, poetry and reading, with Motto Books in 2014. Publication comes in the form of an 18 panel leporello text work that makes up a language constructed city skyline. Folded into a card slipcase and printed in an edition of 800 copies.

File under: Karl Holmqvist Karl Holmqvist Motto / Berlin Art Fiction / Poetry Performance / Dance / Theater Poetry

René Block
Ich Kenne Kein Weekend. Schriften und Dokumente Seit 1964

2016, English / German
Softcover, 540 pages, 22 x 30 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

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Having represented Beuys, Richter and Polke, German gallery owner , art publisher, art collector and curator René Block (born 1942) ranks among the central figures of the 1960s avant-garde. This publication collects writings by and interviews with Block, scanned from their original publications and organized chronologically, as well as an illustrated published history, artist portraits (taken by Block), performance ephemera, bibliography, and more. An enormous book that, via Block, encompasses the work of so many important movements and figures of 1960s - 1990s art.
Although primarily a German language publication, many of the original articles are in English. Regardless of language, the valuable historical listings translate.

File under: Allan Kaprow Andy Warhol Bernhard Hoeke Blinky Palermo Carolee Schneemann Dieter Roth Gerhard Richter Gunther Uecker Henning Christiansen Ivan Wyschnegradsky John Cage Jörg Immendorff Joseph Beuys Konrad Lueg Lawrence Weiner Marcel Broodthaers Nam June Paik Percy Grainger Sigmar Polke Terry Fox Wolf Vostell Yoko Ono K. P. Brehmer René Block Walther König / Köln Art Conceptual Art Curatorial Film / Video Fluxus Minimal Art Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Photography Pop Art Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections

KAYA
Eva Birkenstock (Ed.) Kunsthaus Bregenz A r e n a 1

2017, English / German
Softcover (w. printed plastic wraps), 340 pages, 16.5 x 23.4 cm
Published by Kunsthaus Bregenz / Austria Walther König / Köln

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The present book – the fourth and last volume in the series of KUB Arena publications – goes far beyond a documentation of KAMP KAYA’s activities. Rather it is the very first comprehensive publication on KAYA, a joint project initiated by the painter Kerstin Brätsch and the sculptor Debo Eilers in 2010, in collaboration with the then 13-year-old Kaya Serene. In addition to a comprehensive and carefully compiled catalogue raisonné, the publication documents all of KAYA’s past exhibitions and includes seminal essays by Boško Blagojević, Scott Roben, and Kerstin Stakemeier – who have all been following KAYA’s work for many years – as well as a conversation with Burmamyanmar aka Daniel Chew. Altogether the publication provides profound insights into this important and exceptional artistic collaboration. In a similar manner to the volumes that have been published to date (On Performance, Anfang Gut. Alles Gut. Actualizations of the futurist opera Victory Over the Sun (1913), and Art and Ideology Critique After 1989), this last volume in the series could also potentially become one of the key references on the topic.

Edited by Eva Birkenstock
with texts by Boško Blagojević, Scott Roben, and Kerstin Stakemeier
Graphic design: HIT Berlin

File under: Debo Eilers KAYA Kerstin Brätsch Bosko Blagojevic Kerstin Stakemeier Scott Roben Kunsthaus Bregenz / Austria Walther König / Köln Art Fashion Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay

On Performance
Eva Birkenstock (Ed.) Kunsthaus Bregenz A r e n a 1

2013, English / German
Softcover, 165 pages, 23.5 x 16.5 cm
Published by Walther König / Köln

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On Performance is the first volume published in this series; it not only documents the performance project that took place in the KUB Arena in the winter of 2010/11, but also contains in-depth essays by Giles Bailey and Eva Meyer examining the theory and history of performance. Artists’ contributions especially created for the publication by Ruth Buchanan, “Coming to Have A Public Life, Is It Worth It?”, Simon Fujiwara, Suchan Kinoshita, Kooperative für Darstellungspolitik, Falke Pisano, and Ian White appear alongside an interview with the participating artists by Eva Birkenstock and Joerg Franzbecker, with accompanying comments by Marina Vishmidt.” (KUB)

File under: Falke Pisano Ian White Ruth Buchanan Simon Fujiwara Suchan Kinoshita Eva Birkenstock Joerg Franzbecker Marina Vishmidt Walther König / Köln Art Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay

Personal Cuts
Art Scene in Zagreb 1950s to Now

2014, English / French
Hardcover, 240 pages, 21 x 26 cm
Published by Carré d'art / Nîmes

$48.00 - Out of stock

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Edited by Branka Stipančić.
Texts by Jean-Marc Prevost, Branka Stipančić, Igor Zabel, Ana Devi.

Personal Cuts focus is conceptual tendencies, in the broadest sense of the term, starting with the neo-avant-garde from the periods of 1950s and 1960s, the “New Art Practice” of the 1970s and expands to include some art of today that has a strong conceptual background. “Conceptual Art” in Zagreb is understood differently to the “western canon” and covers an enormous range and means of expression, a wide array of works and practices. The artists moved towards new materials, media, methods and behavior they shifted their interests from objects to the “conduct” of making art in search of a redefinition of the role of the artist towards social, political, and economical realities and within the places they were (and are) living.
After the Croatian cultural season in France in 2012 and the entry of this state in the European Union in 2013, Carré d'Art-Musée d'Art Contemporain de Nimes hosting in 2014 an exhibition with a historical perspective on contemporary artistic production from Zagreb both innovative and committed. This publication is a direct extension of the show, opening with the chronology of radical production and its context, in which Branka Stipančić backs on the 1950s to 1970s, notably with the Gorgona Group, Exat 51 and to contemporary productions.

Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at Carré d'art, Nîmes, from October 17, 2014 to January 11, 2015.

Works by Gorgona Group, Josip Vaništa, Julije Knifer, Dimitrije Bašičević, Mangelos, Ivan Kožarić, Tomislav Gotovac, Goran Trbuljak, Sanja Iveković, Dalibor Martinis, Mladen Stilinović, Vlado Martek, Boris Cvjetanović, Igor Grubić, David Maljković, Andreja Kulunčić, &, Božena Končić, Badurina.

Branka Stipančić, curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb from 1983 to 1993, director of the Soros Center for Contemporary Art in Zagreb from 1993 to 1996, she is now an art historian, curator and editor based in Zagreb. She holds degrees in art history and literature at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Zagreb.

File under: Andreja Kulunčić Badurina Boris Cvjetanović Božena Končić Dalibor Martinis David Maljkovic Dimitrije Bašičević Goran Trbuljak Gorgona Group Igor Grubić Ivan Kožarić Josip Vaništa Julije Knifer Mangelos Mladen Stilinovic Vlado Martek Tomislav Gotovac Sanja Iveković Ana Devi Branka Stipančić Igor Zabel Jean-Marc Prevost Carré d'art / Nîmes Art Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater Photography Theory / Essay

O Nepoznatim Radovima / An Unknown Work

2006, English / Croatian
Softcover (staple-bound), 56 pages, 16.5 x 23.5 cm
Published by Galerija Nova / Zagreb

$24.00 - Out of stock

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'O nepoznatim radovima' / 'An Unknown Work' was an exhibition curated by Branka Stipančić in 2006, featuring the work of Boris Cvjetanović, Antonio Gotovac-Lauer (Tomislav Gotovac), Sanja Iveković, Zeljko Jerman, Julije Knifer, Vlado Martek, Dalibor Martinis, Mladen Stilinović, Sven Stilinović, Goran Trbuljak, Joseph Vaništa.

"The artists of this exhibition have a significant and long career.... Nevertheless, each of them at home has works that are rarely or never exhibited, works in the studio or apartment - somehow always left aside. These works probably did not fit in solo exhibitions of artists, or did not correspond to curatorial themes and concepts, or are perhaps not sufficiently reflect a trend in which they wanted to see the work of individual artists.... I focused attention on works from the time of the seventies and eighties of several artists such as Boris Cvjetanović, Antonio Gotovac Lauer (Tomislav Gotovac), Sanja Iveković, Jerman, Julius Knifer, Vlado Martek, Dalibor Martinis, Mladen Stilinović, Sven Stilinovic, Goran Trbuljak Joseph Vaništa. There are works on paper, photographs, artists' books, films and videos. Paradoxically, some of the exposed 'unknown' works once were printed in the edition of daily newspapers, and yet no one remembers them and there is no account. A few of them to this day remain unknown because they were unavailable to the artists themselves... A few newer works are also exhibited - these are works by artists of the older generation who rarely exhibit at exhibitions of contemporary art and therefore just their newer works remain unknown...

Branka Stipančić, Curator

Catalogue published to accompany this very interesting and curious exhibit of well-known Croatian artists from the avant-garde and conceptual scene of the 1970s-1980s.

File under: Boris Cvjetanović Dalibor Martinis Goran Trbuljak Joseph Vaništa Julije Knifer Mladen Stilinovic Sven Stilinović Vlado Martek Zeljko Jerman Tomislav Gotovac Branka Stipančić Galerija Nova / Zagreb Art Performance / Dance / Theater Photography

Mladen Stilinović
Artist at Work 1973-1983

2005, English / Croatian
Softcover, 120 pages, 16.5 x 23.5 cm

$35.00 - Out of stock

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Edited by Branka Stipančić and Alenka Gregorič, Mladen Stilinović - Artist at Work 1973-1983, published in 2005 looks in depth this period of works exhibited in the artists work rooms, including texts about the exhibits, all the works reproduced in colour throughout the bulk of the book (paintings, collages, text works, sculptures, photographs), a worklist, interview and biography.

Mladen Stilinović (April 10, 1947 - July 18, 2016) was one of the leading figures of the so-called "New Art Practice" in Croatia and a founding member of the informal neo-avantgarde, Group of Six Artists (1975-1979), together with Vladimir Martek, Boris Demur, Željko Jerman, Sven Stilinović and Fedomir Vučemilović. He lived and worked in Zagreb, Croatia.

File under: Mladen Stilinovic Alenka Gregorič Branka Stipančić Art Conceptual Art Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation

ARTFORUM
LOOKING CRITICALLY: 21 YEARS OF ARTFORUM MAGAZINE

1984, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 342 pages, 270 x 280 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / Used*,
Published by U.M.I. Research Press / Michigan

$150.00 - Out of stock

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First, hardcover edition of "LOOKING CRITICALLY: 21 YEARS OF ARTFORUM MAGAZINE", the heavy 342 page volume anthology of the first 21 years of the world's most important modern and art journal. An incredibly valuable collection of art theory.

Edited by Amy Baker Sandback, designed by Roger Gorman and Mary Beath and published in 1984 by U.M.I. Research Press, this dense volume, bound in hardcover to the dimensions of a copy of ARTFORUM, begins with an Ed Kienholz review at the Ferus Gallery from ARTFORUM's June 1962 inaugural issue, and ends with Barbara Kruger reviewing the film "TRON" for the November 1982 issue. An amazing compendium of articles and reviews from the magazine's important first 21 years, featuring contributions by the likes of John Cage, Robert Morris, Kate Steinitz, Henry T. Hopkins, Don Factor, Robert Pincus-Witten, Dennis Adrian, John Coplans, Hilton Kramer, Harold Rosenberg, Henry Geldzahler, John Cage, Walter Hopps, Ed Ruscha, Allan Kaprow, Robert Rosenblum, Dan Flavin, Boris Groys, Sam Wagstaff, Billy Kluver, Lucy R. Lippard, Robert Rosenblum, Roger Shattuck, Ad Reinhardt, Mel Bochner, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Barbara Rose, Manny Farber, Michael Fried, Robert Morris, Philip Leider, Hollis Frampton, Carl Andre, Richard Serra, Lawrence Alloway, Barbara Kruger, Jane Livingston, Lizzie Borden, Kenneth Baker, Laurie Anderson, Agnes Martin, Cindy Nemser, Sidney Tillim, Annette Michelson, Rosalind Krauss, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Roberta Smith, Peter Plagens, Peter Schjeldahl, J. Hoberman, Hal Foster, Richard Flood, Carter Ratcliff, Stuart Morgan, Max Kozloff, Donald Kuspit, Dan Graham, Walter De Maria, Komar & Melamid, Edit De Ak, Lawrence Weiner, Kathy Acker, Robert Mapplethorpe, Anselm Kiefer, Thomas McEvilley, Louise Bourgeois, Ingrid Sischy, and too many more to list. Artists featured include: Josef Albers, Richard Tuttle, Jo Baer, Carl Andre, Ant Farm, Hans Arp, Max Bill, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Lee Bontecou, Constantin Brancusi, Bertholt Brecht, Richard Avedon, Francis Bacon, Diane Arbus, Michaelangelo Antonioni, Lynda Beglis, Larry Bell, Terry Fox, James Byers, Rober Barry, Marcel Breuer, AA Bronson, Luis Buñel, Daniel Buren, Chris Burden, Joseph Beuys, Anthony Caro, Marcel Broodthaers, John Chamberlain, Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall, Jean Cocteau, Merce Cunningham, Sonia Delauney, Walter de Maria, Bruce Connor, Jean Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Walker Evans, Dan Flavin, Marcel Duchamp, Albrecht Dürer, Lucio Fontana, Hollis Frampton, Alberto Giacometti, Eva Hesse, Gilbert & George, Philip Glass, John Cage, Nancy Graves, Dan Graham, Robert Grosvenor, Nancy Grossman, Walter Gropius, Hans Haacke, Hairy Who, David Hockney, Douglas Huebler, Jorg Immendorff, Donald Judd, Jasper Johns, Joan Jonas, Allan Kaprow, On Kawara, Ellsworth Kelly, Edward Keinholz, Paul Klee, Alison Knowles, Joseph Kosuth, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, André Masson, Henri Matisse, Roberto Matta, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Barbara Kruger, Jannis Kounellis, Markus Lüpertz, El Lissitzky, Rene Magritte, Robert Mapplethorpe, John McCracken, Mario Merz, Robert Morris, Robert Motherwell, Ree Morton, Louise Nevelson, Barnett Newman, Kenneth Noland, Claes Oldenburg, Eduardo Paolozzio, A. R. Penck, Irving Penn, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Larry Poons, Ken Price, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg, Martial Raysse, Roman Polanski, Jackson Pollock, Steve Reich, Gerrit Rietveld, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Dorothae Rockburne, James Rosenquist, Mark Rothko, Robert Ryman, Lucas Samaras, Kurt Schwitters, Oscar Schlemmer, Richard Serra, Cindy Sherman, David Smith, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Robert Venturi, Wolf Vostell, Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, Saul Steinberg, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Bruno Taut, Jean Tinguely, Anne Truitt, Paul Wunderlich, Lawrence Weiner, Louise Bourgeois, Alfred Hitchcock, and so many more.

Very uncommon hardcover edition, with dust jacket.

Condition: Very Good (light wear to very good book and dust jacket, protected under acid-free plastic wrap. Small ex-library markings, stickers) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

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

Pleasure of The Gaze
Image and Appearance in Recent Australian Art

1985, English
Softcover, 60 pages, 21 x 28 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / Used*,
Published by The Art Gallery of Western Australia / Perth

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Scarce Australian catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition "Pleasure of The Gaze : Image and Appearance in Recent Australian Art", held at the The Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, 1985, and curated by Bruce Adams.
Profusely illustrated in colour and black and white across exhibiting artist biographical sections and essay accompaniment illustrations, this publication features the work of Julie Brown-Rrap, Peter Callas, Richard Dunn, Merilyn Fairskye, Marinka Kordis, Maria Kozic, Lindy Lee, John Lethbridge, Akio Makigawa, Sue Paull, Stieg Persson, Robert Randall and Frank Bendinelli, Carol Rudyard, Peter Tyndall, Vicki Varvaressos, and John R. Walker. Essays include "Eye, Image, Picture, Screen (and all that Junk)" by Adrian Martin; "Sticky Television" by Meaghan Morris; "Re Re-Orientation: The Image as Fantasy and Furniture in Japan" by Peter Callas. Plus an introduction by Adams.

Design by Wohlnick Design.

Condition: Good-Very Good (tight, clean copy throughout, light wear to cover, inc. small sticker tear) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Akio Makigawa Carol Rudyard Frank Bendinelli John Lethbridge Julie Brown-Rrap Lindy Lee Marinka Kordis Meaghan Morris Merilyn Fairskye Peter Callas Peter Tyndall Richard Dunn Robert Randall Stieg Persson Sue Paull Vicki Varvaressos John Walker Adrian Martin Bruce Adams Meaghan Morris Peter Callas The Art Gallery of Western Australia / Perth Art Australian Art Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Photography Theory / Essay Film / Video Group Shows / Collections Australian Photography

Anything Goes
Art in Australia 1970-1980

1984, English
Softcover, 170 pages, 21 x 30 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / Used*,
Published by Art & Text / Beverley Hills Art & Text / Prahran

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First printing of "Anything Goes : Art in Australia 1970-1980", published by Art & Text in 1984. Edited by Paul Taylor, founder of Art & Text, this large, valuable volume of essays by leading writers of those years - covering all aspects of painting, sculpture, photography and experimental art forms since 1970 - features contributions by Janine Burks, Mary Eagle, Christine Godden, Robert Lindsay, Ian Burn, Julie Ewington, Memory Holloway, Terry Smith, Ann Stephen, Margaret Plant, Patrick McCaughey, Daniel Thomas.

"The 1970s were years of unprecedented change in Australian art and culture, and Anything Goes is the first book about that decade's remarkable variety of art."

Includes the work of: →↑→, Mike Parr, Howard Arkley, Jenny Watson, Donald Judd, Ian Burn, John Lethbridge, John Davis, Mel Bochner, Joseph Beuys, Mel Ramsden, Women's Domestic Needlework Group, Andy Warhol, Tim Johnson, Nigel Lendon, Artsworkers Union, Robert Rooney, Clive Murray-White, Tony McGillick, Fred Williams, John Firth-Smith, George Haynes, Donald Laycock, Michael Taylor, Fred Cress, Ron Robertson-Swann, David Aspden, Sydney Ball, Roger Kemp, Paul Partos, Trevor Vickors, Robert Hunter, Robert Jacks, Vivienne Binns, Bonita Ely, Marie McMahon, Virginia Cuppaidge, Imants Tillers, Les Kossatz, Ti Parks, Peter Cripps, Ken Searle, Jan Senbergs, George Baldessin, John Armstrong, Janet Dawson, Dale Hickey, Tony Coleing, Marr Grounds, Chips Mackinolty, Ann Newmarch, Colin Little, Jan Mackay, Toni Robertson, Jenny Hill, Christo, Ross Grounds, Ken Unsworth, Kevin Mortensen, Stelarc, Jillian Orr, Hossein Valamanesh, W. Thomas Arthur, Ewa Pachucka, Vicki Varvaressos, Carol Jerrems, Elizabeth Gower, Geoff Hogg, Ann Newmarch, Peter Kennedy, Jon Rhodes, Bill Henson, Stephen Lojewski, Robert Owen, Mark Johnson, Peter Booth, John Dunkley-Smith
, Ron Robertson-Swann, Alun Leach-Jones, Michael Johnson, Lesley Dumbrell, Fred Cross, John Walker, David Aspden, and many more.

Paul Taylor (Melbourne, 1957–7 September 1992) was an Australian art critic, curator, editor and publisher. In 1981, he founded Art & Text, the contemporary art journal considered to be responsible for generating and promoting postmodernist discourse in Australian art.

Condition: Very Good (tight, clean copy, tanning to cover edges/spine) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: →↑→ Alun Leach-Jones Andy Warhol Ann Newmarch Artsworkers Union Bill Henson Bonita Ely Carol Jerrems Christo Clive Murray-White Colin Little Dale Hickey David Aspden Donald Judd Donald Laycock Elizabeth Gower Ewa Pachucka Fred Williams Geoff Hogg George Baldessin George Haynes Hossein Valamanesh Howard Arkley Ian Burn Imants Tillers Jan Mackay Jan Senbergs Janet Dawson Jenny Hill Jenny Watson Jillian Orr John Armstrong John Davis John Dunkley-Smith John Firth-Smith John Lethbridge John Walker Jon Rhodes Joseph Beuys Ken Searle Ken Unsworth Kevin Mortensen Les Kossatz Lesley Dumbrell Marie McMahon Mark Johnson Marr Grounds Mel Bochner Mel Ramsden Michael Johnson Michael Taylor Mike Parr Nigel Lendon Paul Partos Peter Booth Peter Cripps Peter Kennedy Robert Hunter Robert Jacks Robert Owen Robert Rooney Roger Kemp Ron Robertson-Swann Ross Grounds Stelarc Stephen Lojewski Sydney Ball Ti Parks Tim Johnson Toni Robertson Tony Coleing Tony McGillick Trevor Vickers Vicki Varvaressos Virginia Cuppaidge Vivienne Binns Women's Domestic Needlework Group Ann Stephen Christine Godden Daniel Thomas Ian Burn Janine Burke Janine Burks Julie Ewington Margaret Plant Mary Eagle Memory Holloway Patrick McCaughey Paul Taylor Robert Lindsay Terry Smith Art & Text / Beverley Hills Art & Text / Prahran Art Australian Art Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Photography Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay

Texte Zur Kunst #104
DECEMBER 2016 "THE INDIVIDUAL"

2016, English / German
Softcover, 248 pages, 23 x 16.5 cm
Published by Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin

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Issue #104 of TzK examines a key protagonist of the modern age: the individual. As our cover suggests, there is an inherent tragedy to this being who, however autonomous, is beholden to a program that it must internalize at the price of suffering enormously. This issue takes up the individual not as a fixed subject, but as a mode of the self that shifts according to the current form of governance, asking how 15-some years of the "new spirit of capitalism" has shaped her – as an artist, as an entrepreneur, as a "productive" contemporary self.

ISSUE NO. 104 / DECEMBER 2016 “THE INDIVIDUAL”

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE

INVEST YOURSELF! / Wendy Brown in conversation with Isabelle Graw

NINA POWER
FROM THE ONE TO THE MANY

CAN THE ENTREPRENEURIAL SELF TWEET? / An interview with Ulrich Bröckling

BUFFERING OF THE SELF: GUISING IN THE MID-’00S / Storm van Helsing, André Rottmann, Sarah Nicole Prickett, Reena Spaulings, @lilinternet, i.i.i., Luther Blissett -- on -- Luther Blissett, JT LeRoy, Reena Spaulings, @lonelygirl15, Claire Fontaine, An Hero, Lee Williams, and Strom van Helsing

SVEN LÜTTICKEN
SPEECH GESTURES / Notes on the individual and the socialization of language after Gutenberg

WOLFGANG RUPPERT
PRODUCING INDIVIDUALITY / The Artist among his Contemporaries

I’M NOT PUNK / Alex Israel in conversation with Texte zur Kunst
BILDSTRECKE

ANNA HAIFISCH
PORTFOLIO
ROTATION

FEEDBACK FÜR BLINDE FLECKE / Karin Gludovatz über „Jenseits des Spiegels. Das Sehen in Kunstgeschichte und Visual Culture Studies“ von Susanne von Falkenhausen

WORLD WIDE WEB / Anthony Vidler on Felicity D. Scott’s “Outlaw Territories”
LIEBE ARBEIT KINO

LANGSAMER ABSCHIED / Esther Buss über Albert Serras „La mort de Louis XIV“

DAS SICH SELBST TRÄUMENDE INTERNET / Sulgi Lie über Werner Herzogs „Lo and Behold. Reveries of the Connected World“
KLANG KÖRPER

SHARING ANGST / Gaby Tront on Anne Imhof's "Angst II" at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin

SHORT WAVES
Mikael Brkic on Alex Israel at the Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo / Steven Warwick on Morag Keil at Eden Eden, Berlin / Hanna Magauer über Dana Schutz bei Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin / Tonio Kröner über Amelie von Wulffen in der Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin / Kari Rittenbach on Margaret Lee at Jack Hanley Gallery, New York / Susanne von Falkenhausen über „Die zu sein scheint, die bin ich.“ Birgit Jürgenssen, Cindy Sherman, Katharina Sieverding und Francesca Woodman in der Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin

REVIEWS
INDIVIDUELLER ORIENT / Diedrich Diederichsen über Michael Buthe im Haus der Kunst, München

ÜBERBLENDUNGSVERHÄLTNISSE / Sabeth Buchmann über Ellen Cantor im Künstlerhaus Stuttgart

… MY MERE SELF / Rachel Haidu on Kai Althoff at the Museum of Modern Art, New York

DIE KUNST DER STUNDE / Susanne Leeb über Kader Attia im Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt / M.

RUBY STERLING ZEIGT STERLING RUBY / Tanja Widmann und Inka Meißner über Sterling Ruby im Winterpalais Wien

DAS VIRTUELLE IM PHYSISCHEN / Hanne Loreck über Katrin Mayer und Eske Schlüters in der Kunsthalle Lingen

WHY BOTHER WITH SHOW BUSINESS? / Bosko Blagojevic on Antek Walczak at Real Fine Arts, New York

WERKE / Nikola Dietrich über Karl Holmqvist und Klara Lidén im Kunstverein Braunschweig
OBITUARY

BIRD OF PARADISE / Frank Wagner (1958–2016) in the words of Julie Ault

EDITION
ROBERT LONGO
OSCAR MURILLO
COSIMA VON BONIN

File under: Alex Israel Amelie von Wulffen Antek Walczak Birgit Jürgenssen Cindy Sherman Claire Fontaine Cosima von Bonin Dana Schutz Ellen Cantor Francesca Woodman Julie Ault Kader Attia Kai Althoff Karl Holmqvist Katharina Sieverding Margaret Lee Michael Buthe Morag Keil Oscar Murillo Robert Longo Sterling Ruby Werner Herzog Klara Lidén Anthony Vidler Bosko Blagojevic Diedrich Diederichsen Esther Buss Felicity D. Scott Gaby Tront Hanna Magauer Hanne Loreck Isabelle Graw Julie Ault Kari Rittenbach Mikael Brkic Nikola Dietrich Rachel Haidu Reena Spaulings Sabeth Buchmann Steven Warwick Susanne Leeb Tanja Widmann Tonio Kröner Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin Art Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals Photography Theory / Essay

Illusion and Reality

1977, English
Softcover, 111 pages, 25 x 30 cm
1st edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by Australian Gallery Directors Council / Canberra

$38.00 - Out of stock

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Major Australian touring exhibition exploring realism and illusion in art (across new realist painting, pop, photography, conceptualism, minimalism, abstraction, ceramics, even architecture) with a catalogue of 71 works by 44 international artists and groups. Introduction and notes on the artists by John Stringer; statements by Audrey Flack, Stephen Posen and Josef Raffael; biographical notes on the artists, including exhibitions and collections; statement on realism by Raymond Williams. Exhibition organized by the Australian National Gallery, Canberra, and shown at seven locations throughout Australia.

Artists: Ian Burn, Gerhard Richter, Ed Ruscha, Joseph Kosuth, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Marilyn Levine, Dale Hickey, Jenny Watson, Jan Dibbets, Chuck Close, SITE, Michael Snow, Tom Wesselman, Claudio Bravo, Malcolm Morley, Michael Snow, Robert Bechtle, Tom Blackwell, Christian Boltanski, Santiago Cardenas, John Clem Clarke, William Delafield Cook, Robert Cottingham, Don Eddy, Richard Estes, Audrey Flack, Ralph Goings, Jan Groover, Duane Hanson, Peter Kennedy, Ron Kleeman, Richard Larter, Victor Lance Henderson, Terry Schoonhoven, Richard McLean, Jud Nelson, John Okulick, Philip Pearlstein,, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Liliana Porter, Stephen Posen, Joseph Raffael, Ben Schonzeit, Paul Sharits, Sonia Landy Sheridan, and more.

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

File under: Audrey Flack Ben Schonzeit Bernd and Hilla Becher Christian Boltanski Chuck Close Claudio Bravo Dale Hickey Don Eddy Duane Hanson Ed Ruscha Gerhard Richter Ian Burn Jan Dibbets Jan Groover Jenny Watson John Clem Clarke John Okulick Joseph Kosuth Joseph Raffael Jud Nelson Liliana Porter Malcolm Morley Marilyn Levine Michael Snow Michelangelo Pistoletto Paul Sharits Peter Kennedy Philip Pearlstein Ralph Goings Richard Estes Richard Larter Richard McLean Robert Bechtle Robert Cottingham Ron Kleeman Santiago Cardenas SITE Sonia Landy Sheridan Stephen Posen Terry Schoonhoven Tom Blackwell Tom Wesselmann Victor Lance Henderson William Delafield Cook John Stringer Australian Gallery Directors Council / Canberra Art Australian Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Photography Group Shows / Collections

PERMAFO 1970-1981

2013, English
Hardcover, 456 pages, 30.5 x 22.5 cm
Ed. of 500,
Published by Motto / Berlin Wroclaw Contemporary Museum / Poland

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First published in Polish in 2012 on the occasion of the exhibition Where is PERMAFO? at Wroclaw Contemporary Museum (30 November 2012- 4 February 2013). Shortly after this 2013 English edition was published in an edition of only 500 copies.

Young, vivid and unpretentious art of Wrocław of the 70s has resisted both musealization and academic discourses of art history. The artists of PERMAFO – as other Wrocław galleries of the 70s – didn’t think about making history, but about changing their lives and enjoying life. The PERMAFO gallery was founded after the famous symposium Wrocław ’70 considered to be a founding demonstration of conceptual art. After years a famous Poznań based critic has meanly said, that it is the inertia of Wrocław infrastructure what become a quantum leap of popularising conceptualism. Because almost none of the symposium projects has been realized.

That’s why the history of modern art in Wrocław is yet to be written.

An exhibition Where is PERMAFO? is the Wrocław Contemporary Museum’s attempt to tell the founders’ myth of the young, open city, through the figures of two artists Natalia LL and Andrzej Lachowicz. A beautiful and deeply in love couple makes a space and atmosphere and creates art anew – a surprising, even impossible combination of conceptual art with pop-art. In the splice of art and joie de vivre, tiny revelations appear that change the confines imposed by The People’s Republic of Poland into absurd usurpation. Soon, people appear in PERMAFO, without divisions into artists, scientists, dilettantes and devotees, discussions till dawn and certainty that all “begun in Wrocław” – modernity, art and life in a fresh context and mutual relation. The PERMAFO artists chose democratic means like photo cameras. One of the main ideas of PERMAFO – permanent registration – was completely transparent towards life. It’s life attitude that was becoming a form. Participation in art, with the preference of participating, not the work itself, caused the work become a trace of real experience and that (an not the aesthetic form) protected against ideology.

This generous monograph serves as the first and only major book to document PERMAFO.

File under: Andrzej Lachowicz Natalia LL Motto / Berlin Wroclaw Contemporary Museum / Poland Art Performance / Dance / Theater Photography Group Shows / Collections Feminism Conceptual Art

Theatrical Fields : Critical Strategies in Performance, Film, and Video
edited by Ute Meta Bauer

2016, English
Hardcover, 252 pages, 26 x 20 cm
Published by Koenig Books / London NTU Contre for Contemporary Art Singapore / Singapore

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Theatrical Fields brings together a selection of seminal texts, commissioned essays and exhibition materials that explore the political potential of ʻtheatricalityʼ.

This reader stems from a long-term curatorial research examining the deep-rooted connection between theatre and theory, juxtaposing artists and theoreticians from different generations and backgrounds who share a communal interest in the ʻtheatricalityʼ as a methodology to address questions of ideology, gender, power and resistance.

In this conception, ʻtheatricalityʼ does not refer strictly only to the theatre and the theatrical arts; rather, it also points to the constructedness of everyday life. Theatrical forms make visible how our realities are staged, and also how our histories are constructed and performed.

This reader has been conceived and edited by renowned curator, Ute Meta Bauer – Artistic Director of the 3rd Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2004); Co-Curator of documenta 11 (2001/2002); Professor and Dean of the School of Fine Art at the Royal College of Art, London (2012/2013); and since 2005 she has been an Associate Professor at MIT, Cambridge, United States.

Includes texts by: Antonin Artaud, Mikhail Bakhtin, Ute Meta Bauer, Bertolt Brecht, Giuliana Bruno, Jacques Derrida, Regis Durand, Josette Féral, Jean-François Lyotard, Eva Meyer, Timothy Murray, Katarina Pierre, Katharina Sykora, Marina Warner

File under: Eva Meyer Joan Jonas Judith Barry Stan Douglas Ulrike Ottinger Anca Rujoiu Antonin Artaud Bertolt Brecht Eva Meyer Giuliana Bruno Jacques Derrida Jean-François Lyotard Josette Féral Katarina Pierre Katharina Sykora Marina Warner Mikhail Bakhtin Regis Durand Timothy Murray Ute Meta Bauer Koenig Books / London NTU Contre for Contemporary Art Singapore / Singapore Art Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Theory / Essay

1953 : Shedding Light on Art in Japan

1997, Japanese
Softcover, 280 pages, 19 x 26 cm
1st Edition, out of print title / Used*,
Published by Tama Art University / Japan

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Scarce 1st edition of this heavy book published on the occasion of the exhibition "1953 : Shedding Light on Art" at Meguro Museum of Art Tokyo, June 8 - July 21, 1996, an exhibition that looked deeply into the important transitional years of the early 1950s post-war Japanese and the climate of new modern design, architecture and the society that surrounded it. Giving birth to a new avant-garde in Japan, including Mono-ha, Gutai, Jikken Kobo (Experimental Workshop) and other avant-garde movements, this books covers the vast array of artistic activity taking place in Japan in this period, across painting, sculpture, performance, design, architecture, photography, crafts, and more. Illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. All texts in Japanese.
Includes inserted exhibition stub.

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

File under: Gutai Isamu Noguchi Jikken Kobo Mono-ha Tama Art University / Japan Art Drawing Out-of-print / Rare Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Photography Sculpture / Installation Theory / Essay

124,908
Tara McDowell (Ed.)

2016, English
Softcover, 212 pages, 12.7 x 20.3 cm
Ed. of 70,
Published by 3-Ply / Victoria

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124,908 by Tara McDowell, with photography by Daro Sulakauri, experiments with how to document exhibitions in an embodied way. It deals with an exhibition that unfolded throughout the postindustrial city of Rustavi in the Republic of Georgia, in conjunction with the 2nd Tbilisi Triennial. The exhibition was titled for Rustavi’s population – 124,908 – and featured works by Xin Cheng, Leone Contini, Eliza Dyball, Clementine Edwards, George Egerton-Warburton, Cevdet Erek, Debris Facility, Emma Fitts, Amy Franceschini, Helen Grogan, Susan Jacobs, Ash Kilmartin, Ieva Misevičiūtė, Virginia Overell, and Kateřina Šedá. Echoing the model of Lucy R. Lippard’s numbers exhibitions from the early 1970s, Tara McDowell and assistant curator Nicholas Tammens invited artists to propose temporary artworks, which were installed in the city center, factory square, museum, theaters, pyramid and zoo, working with local artists, students, and Rustavi residents.

The images within the publication 124,908 were taken by photojournalist Daro Sulakauri over a single day (October 3, 2015) of the exhibition. The fragmented text that intersperses this image narrative reflects the fractured, time-skipping nature of the project’s composition. Lucy R. Lippard has reacted to the project as the “best understood account” of her numbers exhibitions, but 124,908 could also be characterised as facing the impossibilities of re-curation.

Design by Žiga Testen

File under: Amy Franceschini Ash Kilmartin Cevdet Erek Clementine Edwards Debris Facility Eliza Dyball Emma Fitts George Egerton-Warburton Helen Grogan Ieva Misevičiūtė Katerina Šedá Leone Contini Susan Jacobs Virginia Overell Xin Cheng Tara McDowell 3-Ply / Victoria Art Performance / Dance / Theater

Body Psyche & Taboo
Vienna Actionism and Early Vienna Modernism

2016, English
Softcover, 154 pages, 28 x 23.5 cm
Published by Mumok / Vienna Walther König / Köln

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The central concepts of Body, Psyche, and Taboo is a presentation of both the intellectual and the formal links between Vienna Actionism and artistic developments in early 20th century Vienna.

Works by Günter Brus, Otto Muehl, Hermann Nitsch, and Rudolf Schwarzkogler – the ‘scandal artists’ of the 1960s – are compared and contrasted with pieces by their equally controversial colleagues working at the dawn of the twentieth century, including Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, and Egon Schiele, among others.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Body, Psyche, and Taboo: Vienna Actionism and Early Vienna Modernism at mumok, Vienna, 4 March – 16 May 2016.

Striking and heavily illustrated catalogue featuring the work of Artists Günter Brus, Richard Gerstl, Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Koloman Moser, Otto Muehl, Hermann Nitsch, Max Oppenheimer, Anton Romako, Egon Schiele, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, and accompanying texts by Eva Badura-Triska, Brigitte Borchhardt-Birbaumer, Rosemarie Brucher, and Bernadette Reinhold.

File under: Anton Romako Egon Schiele Günter Brus Gustav Klimt Hermann Nitsch Koloman Moser Max Oppenheimer Oskar Kokoschka Otto Muehl Richard Gerstl Rudolf Schwarzkogler Bernadette Reinhold Brigitte Borchhardt-Birbaumer Eva Badura-Triska Rosemarie Brucher Mumok / Vienna Walther König / Köln Art Eros Film / Video Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Photography Theory / Essay Group Shows / Collections

Franz Erhard Walther
Arbeiten 1969-1976

1977, English / German / Portuguese
Softcover, 226 pages, 21 x 29.5 cm
Signed / Out of print title / Used*,
Published by XIV Internationale Biennale São Paulo / Brazil

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Signed copy of the major exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with the XIV Internationale Biennale São Paulo, Brazil, October 1 - December 18, 1977.
Profusely illustrated throughout with 232 illustrations of the work of Franz Erhard Walther, including his actions and drawings, alongside text by Götz Adriani, a biography, bibliography, and exhibition history. In English, German and Portuguese.

This special copy is inscribed by the artist on the title page in pencil with the words "ein anderer werkbegriff - Walther", which translates roughly to English as "a different work concept" or "a different concept of the work". This is a term Walther used in relation to his work, seeing it as something that does not end with the object of the artist, but with the construction of action. This means that the observer is replaced by the acting recipient who becomes a producer at the same time. The artists are the instruments at hand, with which he can act. In action execution it is then not only an active subject in the work experience, but primarily in the work of creation.

Having participated in Harald Szeemann’s legendary When Attitudes Become Form (1969) and dOCUMENTA V (1972) as well as the Museum of Modern Art’s landmark Spaces (1970), Walther’s remarkable coupling of elementary forms with conceptual ideas and a radical rethinking of the relationship between sculpture and action, has become so influential to the contemporary practices of young artists today.
The German conceptualist and sculptor Franz Erhard Walther counts among those artists who, in the 1960s, sought to undermine the authorial role of the artist in favour of a more democratic aesthetic dependent on the interaction of viewer and object; simple and individual acts such as folding and lying, leaning and stepping are either the source of his often minimal works or the means by which individual viewers may interact with them. His means of sculptural expression often involved the use of soft materials. His canvas sculptures are simply meant to be held, worn, lain in or stood under, usually by two or more people, creating strange moments of social intimacy and spatial awareness.

Condition: Very Good (some light cover wear, rubbing and very light bumping, inside bright and clean throughout) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Franz Erhard Walther Götz Adriani XIV Internationale Biennale São Paulo / Brazil Art Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Signed Books

Texte Zur Kunst #103
SEPTEMBER 2016 “POETRY”

2016, English / German
Softcover, 264 pages, 23 x 16.5 cm
Published by Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin

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TZK #103 addresses "poetry," a language form central to the recent shift toward affect in contemporary critical writing. Seeing the “artist-poet” as a vital site for the intersection of politics, affect, and digitality, we consider her voice and her currency from various perspectives, pro and con, across generations, analyzing her rising success, also asking what is gained and lost in this move from "rational" thought to what one feels? Scanning populist poetry, anarchist poetry, post-millennial net-poetry, the poetry of surplus-language and social media, the art historical poetic/poet-turned-object, and shades of fading Poesie, this issue, conceived by the editors with John Kelsey and Isabelle Graw explores how the seeming immediacy of #poetry and the suggestion of a hyper-personal voice correlates with current economic demand to claim visibility.

ISSUE NO. 103 / SEPTEMBER 2016 “POETRY”

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE

TIM GRIFFIN
WHAT IS POETRY?

JOSHUA CLOVER
OBJECTIVELY SPEAKING / Remarks on Subjectivity and Poetry

ISABELLE GRAW
THE POET'S SEDUCTION / Six Theses on Marcel Broodthaers’s Contemporary Relevance

LIZ KOTZ
WORD PIECES, EVENT SCORES, COMPOSITIONS

MONIKA RINCK
THE PROMISE OF POETIC LANGUAGE

ADA O'HIGGINS
IF YOU DON’T LIKE THE REFLECTION. DON’T LOOK IN THE MIRROR. I DON’T CARE.

CHRIS KRAUS AND ARIANA REINES
THE FEELINGS I FAIL TO CAPITALIZE, I FAIL / Chris Kraus and Ariana Reines in conversation on auto-fiction and biography

FELIX BERNSTEIN
THE IRREPROACHABLE ESSAY / On the Amazon Discourse of Hybrid Literature

DANIELA SEEL
IMMEDIACY, I MEET WITH SKEPTICISM / Three questions for Daniela Seel

MICAELA DURAND
DEVIL SHIT

KAROLIN MEUNIER
HEARING VOICES / On the reading and performance of poetry

DENA YAGO
EMPIRE POETRY

SHORT CUT

FOUR THESES ON BRANDING / David Joselit on Berlin Biennale 9
MANTRAS DER GEGENWART / Hanna Magauer über die Berlin Biennale 9
ROTATION

SEHNSUCHT NACH DER VERLORENEN STADT / Johannes Paul Raether über "spiritus" von Honey-Suckle Company
BENJAMIN BUCHLOH, ART HISTORIAN / Christine Mehring on Benjamin H. D. Buchloh’s “Formalism and Historicity: Models and Methods in Twentieth-Century Art”
ES WAR ZWEIMAL SAGTE SIE / Vojin Sasa Vukadinovic über Eva Meyers „Legende sein“
LESS IS MORE? / John Miller on Justin Lieberman’s “The Corrector’s Custom Pre-Fab House”
SO MACHEN WIR'S / Eva Geulen über „The Use of Bodies“ (Homo Sacer IV.2) von Giorgio Agamben

SHORT WAVES

Gunter Reski über Victor Man bei MD 72, Berlin / Harry Burke on Dean Blunt at Arcadia Missa, London / Rhea Dall on Stephen G. Rhodes at Eden Eden, Berlin / Tobias Vogt über Thea Djordjadze bei Sprüth Magers, Berlin / Deanna Havas on Marc Kokopeli at Lomex, New York / Martin Herbert on Fredrik Værslev at Bergen Kunsthall, Norway

REVIEWS

HABEAS CORPUS / Simon Baier über Francis Picabia im Kunsthaus Zürich
MARCEL BROODTHAERS, ART HISTORIAN’S ARTIST / Trevor Stark on Marcel Broodthaers at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
MALEREI ALS SOZIALES HANDELN? / Christian Spies über Fernand Léger im Museum Ludwig, Köln
SIMULIERTE MUSEALISIERUNG / Philipp Kleinmichel über Isa Genzken im Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
ELEGANCE IS RESISTANCE / Stephanie LaCava on Lukas Duwenhögger at Artists Space, New York

NACHRUFE / OBITUARIES

TONY CONRAD (1940–2016)
by Diedrich Diederichsen
by Jay Sanders

EDITION
MARTHA ROSLER
AMY SILLMAN
AMY SILLMAN

File under: Amy Sillman Dean Blunt Eva Meyers Fernand Léger Francis Picabia Fredrik Værslev Honey-Suckle Company Isa Genzken John Miller Justin Lieberman Lukas Duwenhögger Marc Kokopeli Marcel Broodthaers Martha Rosler Thea Djordjadze Tony Conrad Victor Man Ada O'higgins Ariana Reines Chris Kraus Christian Spies Daniela Seel David Joselit Deanna Havas Dena Yago Diedrich Diederichsen Eva Geulen Felix Bernstein Giorgio Agamben Gunter Reski Hanna Magauer Harry Burke Isabelle Graw Jay Sanders Johannes Paul Raether John Miller Joshua Clover Karolin Meunier Liz Kotz Martin Herbert Micaela Durand Monika Rinck Philipp Kleinmichel Simon Baier Stephanie Lacava Tim Griffin Tobias Vogt Trevor Stark Benjamin H. D. Buchloh Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin Art Dada Fiction / Poetry Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals Photography Poetry Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Theory / Essay

Sturtevant
The Brutal Truth

2005, English / German
Softcover, 376 pages, 21 x 27 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / Used*,
Published by Hatje Cantz / Berlin

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Volume one of the two-part major publication on the artist Sturtevant, both long out of print.

Sturtevant's investigations into the duality of original and copy, object and image, similarity and difference are contributions of outstanding importance to contemporary art.

Elaine Sturtevant (1930--2014), has been concerned since the mid-1960s with one of the most important themes in Western art - the aspect of originality. Her works are reproductions of existing works by such artists as Marcel Duchamp, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, and Frank Stella, to name only a few. Often indistinguishable from the originals, they call attention to the crucial issues of origin and difference. Designed and produced in close collaboration with the artist, this opulently illustrated publication (produced and published consecutively with another catalogue rainsonné volume) offers an unprecedented overview of the unique and unparalleled work of this American artist. This special book functions somewhat like an artist's scrapbook, reproducing rarely seen photographs of Sturtevant in her studio producing the above-mentioned works, alongside promotional imagery, exhibitions views, and sketches, drawings, plans, notes, and photos from her work production throughout her entire career. An incredible insight into her working. Edited by Udo Kittelmann, Mario Kramer and Lena Maculan, this particular book also features a great interview between Sturtevant and the great artist/film director John Waters!
Published on the largest exhibition of the artists work at the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/Main, September 25, 2004-January 30, 2005

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

File under: John Waters Sturtevant John Waters Lena Maculan Mario Kramer Udo Kittelmann Hatje Cantz / Berlin Art Out-of-print / Rare Conceptual Art Painting Sculpture / Installation Performance / Dance / Theater

Hippie Modernism
The Struggle for Utopia

2016, English
Softcover, 448 pages, 24 x 29.7 cm
Published by Walker Art Centre / Minneapolis

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Published by Walker Art Center
Edited with text by Andrew Blauvelt. Text by Greg Castillo, Esther Choi, Alison Clarke, Hugh Dubberly, Ross Elfline, Craig Peariso, Tina Rivers Ryan, Catharine Rossi, Simon Sadler, Felicity Scott, Lorraine Wild with David Karwan. Interviews by Adam Gildar, Susan Snodgrass, Elizabeth Glass.

"Hippie Modernism" examines the art, architecture and design of the counterculture of the 1960s and early 1970s. The catalogue surveys the radical experiments that challenged societal norms while proposing new kinds of technological, ecological and political utopia. It includes the counter-design proposals of Victor Papanek and the anti-design polemics of Global Tools; the radical architectural visions of Archigram, Superstudio, Haus-Rucker-Co and ONYX; the installations of Ken Isaacs, Joan Hills, Mark Boyle, Hélio Oiticica and Neville D'Almeida; the experimental films of Jordan Belson, Bruce Conner and John Whitney; posters and prints by Emory Douglas, Corita Kent and Victor Moscoso; documentation of performances by the Diggers and the Cockettes; publications such as "Oz" and "The Whole Earth Catalog"; books by Marshall McLuhan and Buckminster Fuller; and much more. While the turbulent social history of the 1960s is well known, its cultural production remains comparatively under-examined. In this substantial volume, scholars explore a range of practices such as radical architectural and anti-design movements emerging in Europe and North America; the print revolution in the graphic design of books, posters and magazines; and new forms of cultural practice that merged street theater and radical politics. Through a profusion of illustrations, interviews with figures including: Gerd Stern of USCO; Ken Isaacs; Gunther Zamp Kelp of Haus-Rucker-Co; Ron Williams and Woody Rainey of ONYX; Franco Raggi of Global Tools; Tony Martin; Clark Richert and Richard Kallweit of Drop City; as well as new scholarly writings, this book explores the conjunction of the countercultural ethos and the modernist desire to fuse art and life.

Huge, generous and vividly illustrated volume!

File under: Ant Farm Archigram Barney Bubbles Bruce Conner Buckminster Fuller Emory Douglas Ettore Sottsass Franco Raggi Francois Dallegret Free City Collective Global Tools Haus-Rucker-Co Hélio Oiticica Ira Cohen Judith Williams Ken Isaacs Lucas Samaras Nancy Holt Neville D'Almeida Provo Robert Smithson Stewart Brand Sture Johannesson The Cockettes The Diggers Ugo La Pietra USCO Sister Corita Kent Öyvind Fahlström Alison Clarke Buckminster Fuller Catharine Rossi Craig Peariso David Karwan Esther Choi Hugh Dubberly Lorraine Wild Marshall McLuhan Ross Elfline Simon Sadler Tina Rivers Ryan Felicity D. Scott Walker Art Centre / Minneapolis Architecture / Interior Art Graphic Design / Typography Eros Film / Video Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Group Shows / Collections Feminism Ecology Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism Sculpture / Installation