World Food Books

E.A.T. (Experiments In Art and Technology)

2018, English / Korean
Softcover, 380 pages, 21 x 26 cm
Published by National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art / Seoul

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Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, this volume delves into the groundbreaking activities of E.A.T., a non-profit organisation that began actively promoting and exploring the union of art and technology in 1966. The brainchild of artists Robert Rauschenberg and Robert Whitman and engineers Billy Klüver and Fred Waldhauer, it aimed to expand the social role of artists and counteract feelings of alienation brought on by rapid technological advancement. The group hoped to inspire new directions for research, and also to serve as a catalyst in fostering technologies more attuned to the needs of the individual.

Profusely illustrated throughout with photographic documentation and archival material.

File under: Robert Breer Claes Oldenburg John Cage Robert Rauschenberg Robert Whitman National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art / Seoul Sound / Music Art Sculpture / Installation Fluxus Pop Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic

VINYL : Records & Covers by Artists
Edited by Guy Schraenen

2005, English / German
Softcover, 270 pages, 19 x 27 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen / Bremen

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This large, detailed catalogue forms a unique and important document, which was produced to accompany an exhibition at Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Bremen, 21.8. - 27.11.2005 and Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, 16.5. - 1.10.2006 showcasing a selection of some 800 pieces from the collection of Guy Schraenen. The main of this collection comprises vinyl records and covers by artists, musicians and poets in LP, single and other formats, alongside other sound media (tapes and CDs). Posters and books are also included. The exhibition shows artists (such as Hanne Darboven, Jean Dubuffet, Dieter Roth, Joseph Beuys, Laurie Anderson, John Cage, Yoko Ono, Yves Klein, Roman Opalka, Lawrence Weiner, Mike Kelley, Öyvind Fahlström, Art & Language and Hermann Nitsch) and artistic movements of the second half of the twentieth century through this complex medium of the vinyl cover, with its dual visual and audible components. Here Guy Schraenen has edited together an extensive visual catalogue of these historical objects.

A wonderful book for anyone interested in the history of modern sound art and the artistic medium of the vinyl sleeve, especially in the fields of Avantgarde, Electro-Acoustic, Modern Classical, Musique Concrète, Sound-Poetry, Art Rock, Industrial, Power-Electronics....

Henri Chopin, A.R. Penck, Brion Gysin, George Brecht, Marcel Duchamp, Arman, Karel Appel, Öyvind Fahlström, Pierre Henry, Art & Language, Peter Brötzmann, Red Krayola, Ernst Jandl, Vito Acconci, Hanne Darboven, Jean Dubuffet, Dieter Roth, Joseph Beuys, Laurie Anderson, Yves Klein, Roman Opalka, Hermann Nitsch, Yoko Ono, Tony Conrad, Andy Warhol, John Cage, Pierre Schaeffer, Derek Bailey, Han Bennink, Jean Tinguely, Steve Reich, Meredith Monk, Terry Fox, Terry Riley, Sun Ra, Pandit Pran Nath, Albrecht/d., Robert Ashley, Bob Cobbing, Lawrence Weiner, Philip Glass, La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, Poly Bury, Charlemagne Palestine, Carl Andre, Brian Eno, Mike Kelley, Sonic Youth, Henry Flynt, Jon Gibson, Michael Snow, Roland Topor, Michael Nyman, Harold Budd, Robert Filliou, Nam June Paik ... just the tip of the iceberg.

Very Good copy of the rare first printing from Bremen.

File under: A.R. Penck Albrecht/d. Andy Warhol Arman Bob Cobbing Brian Eno Brion Gysin Carl Andre Charlemagne Palestine Derek Bailey Dieter Roth Ernst Jandl George Brecht Han Bennink Hanne Darboven Harold Budd Henri Chopin Henry Flynt Hermann Nitsch Jean Dubuffet Jean Tinguely John Cage Jon Gibson Joseph Beuys Karel Appel La Monte Young Laurie Anderson Lawrence Weiner Marcel Duchamp Marian Zazeela Meredith Monk Michael Nyman Michael Snow Mike Kelley Nam June Paik Pandit Pran Nath Peter Brötzmann Philip Glass Pierre Henry Pierre Schaeffer Pol Bury Red Krayola Robert Ashley Robert Filliou Roland Topor Roman Opalka Sonic Youth Steve Reich Sun Ra Terry Fox Terry Riley Tony Conrad Vito Acconci Yoko Ono Yves Klein Öyvind Fahlström Art & Language Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen / Bremen Art Dada Graphic Design / Typography Fiction / Poetry Fluxus Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Poetry Pop Art Sound / Music Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic

Boooook: The Life And Work Of Bob Cobbing

2015, English
Softcover, 208 pages, 17 x 24 cm
Published by Occasional Papers / London

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This is the first comprehensive overview of the life and work of the pioneering British concrete and sound poet Bob Cobbing (1920-2002). 'Boooook' addresses all aspects of Cobbing's career, with essays detailing his key roles in Better Books, London Film-makers' Co-op and the abAna trio, as well as his involvement in the Destruction in Art Symposium, Fylkingen and Writers Forum. Edited by William Cobbing and Rosie Cooper – and illustrated with reproductions of artworks, documents, posters, poems and film stills from the Bob Cobbing family collection – Boooook features contributions by Adrian Clarke, Arnaud Desjardin, Sanne Krogh Groth, Will Holder, Gustav Metzger, Andrew Wilson, and others.

File under: Bob Cobbing Will Holder Adrian Clarke Andrew Wilson Arnaud Desjardin Gustav Metzger Sanne Krogh Groth Will Holder Occasional Papers / London Art Fiction / Poetry Performance / Dance / Theater Poetry Sound / Music

TEXTE ZUR KUNST
ISSUE NO. 112 / DECEMBER 2018 "NOISE/SILENCE"

2018, English / German
Softcover, 240 pages, 23 x 16.5 cm
Published by Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin

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Issue # 112 of Texte zur Kunst, “Noise/Silence,” focuses on these two sonic extremes that define the boundaries of the audible, framing all possible sonic expressions therein. Given the emergence of sound as its own field of inquiry within the arts, and the development of newer media forms for sound production, can we still reliably argue that noise and silence are open to artists and musicians today in the ways that they were for Luigi Russolo in his 1913 manifesto, “The Art of Noises;” or, in John Cage’s writings on silence? In our analysis and judgment on the contemporary significance of noise and silence within sound and music, we are also questioning the potential for radical gestures with sound tout court—the all or nothing. What is left for music and sonic interventions today? What kinds of subversive noises can be marshaled against the deafening silence? And where, if anywhere, can silence provide a shelter from the relentless noise from the outside? We assembled a group of media historians and philosophers to give us a theoretical orientation in this shifting sonic landscape, and also asked four artists/musicians to weigh in on the possibility for radical gestures in their own practice. The results offer a much-needed revision of the terms for sound in the arts today.

Issue No. 112 / December 2018 "Noise/Silence"

Table Of Contents
Forward
Preface

Rolf Grossmann - Silence, Sound, Noise / Aesthetic And Media-Technological Observations
Ute Holl - Excavating Silence
Fiona Mcgovern - Curating Sound
Sound Rules / Colin Lang And Cevdet Erek In Conversation
Michaela Melián - Electric Ladyland
Andrea Neumann - Production By Subtraction
Arto Lindsay
Puce Moment

New Development
Political Myth – Prefiguration – Brexit / Angus Nicholls On The Mythic Structures Behind Brexit

Rotation
Metabolismen Der Moderne / André Rottmann Über „Entgrenzter Formalismus. Verfahren Einer Antimodernen Ästhetik“ Von Kerstin Stakemeier
Migration Und Film Denken / Nanna Heidenreich Über Brigitta Kusters „Grenze Filmen“
The Third Persona / Amanda Schmitt On Ben Lerner And Anna Ostoya’s “The Polish Rider”

Klang Körper
Figuring Space / Steven Warwick On Catherine Christer Hennix

Reviews
This Is The Rented Moment / Nicolás Guagnini On Jack Smith At Artists Space, New York
Konzeptueller Fehlschlag / Fabio Cypriano Über Die 33. Biennale In São Paulo
Enjoy Your Sinthome / Sven Lütticken On Dora García At The Reina Sofía, Madrid
Artists Must Begin Helping Themselves / Pedro De Llano On Stephan Dillemuth At A Certain Lack Of Coherence, Porto
Der Traumzauberbaum / Inka Meißner Über Amy Lien & Enzo Camacho Im Kunstverein Freiburg
Burnt By The Sun / Colin Lang On Katarina Sieverding At Manifesta 12, Palermo
Star Alliance / Alida Müschen Über Ei Arakawa Im Kunstverein Für Die Rheinlande Und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Canon Fodder / Julia Pelta Feldman On Charline Von Heyl At Petzel Gallery, New York
Manspainting / Georg Imdahl Über Balthus In Der Fondation Beyeler, Basel
Case Of Urgency / Christina Catherine Martinez On Gerry Bibby At O-Town House, Los Angeles
Meshes Of The Platform Age / Jakob Schillinger On Loretta Fahrenholz At Mumok, Vienna
Re-Call, Re-Take, Represent / Rattanamol Singh Johal On Vivan Sundaram At The Kiran Nadar Museum Of Art, New Delhi And Haus Der Kunst, Munich
Grasping History / Frauke Zabel Über Karin Schneider Im Kunstverein Nürnberg
Stacked Cards / Ana Vogelfang On Pablo Accinelli At Malba, Buenos Aires
Computerkunst Jenseits Des Computers / Karel Císař Über „1968:Computer.Art“ In Brno
Abstraction Of The Body / Melissa Gordon On Amy Sillman At Camden Arts Centre, London
Feministischer Dekolonialismus Avant La Lettre / Michaela Wünsch Über Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Im Kulturzentrum Der Koreanischen Botschaft, Berlin
Where The Bodies Are Buried / Ana Teixeira Pinto On Roee Rosen At The Centre Pompidou, Paris
Chez Michel / Anke Dyes Über Henrik Olesen Im Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin

Obituary
Helena Almeida (1934–2018) / João Ribas
Klaus Herding (1939−2018) / Tom Holert

Edition
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
Jeanette Mundt
Wolfgang Tillmans

File under: Balthus Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster Jeanette Mundt Wolfgang Tillmans Klaus Herding Helena Almeida Henrik Olesen Roee Rosen Amy Sillman Vivan Sundaram Gerry Bibby Loretta Fahrenholz Charline Von Heyl Amy Lien & Enzo Camacho Ei Arakawa Stephan Dillemuth Dora García Jack Smith Cevdet Erek Arto Lindsay Tom Holert João Ribas Anke Dyes Ana Teixeira Pinto Melissa Gordon Rattanamol Singh Christina Catherine Martinez Jakob Schillinger Georg Imdahl Julia Pelta Feldman Pedro De Llano Sven Lütticken Nicolás Guagnini André Rottmann Amanda Schmitt Angus Nicholls Fiona Mcgovern Andrea Neumann Michaela Melián Ute Holl Rolf Grossmann Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin Art Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Painting Periodicals Theory / Essay Sound / Music

The Archive Series: #002 Action Time Vision
Punk & Post-Punk 7" Record Sleeves [Unit 26]

2016, English
Softcover, 320 pages, 23cm × 17cm
Ed. of 2000,
Published by Unit Editions / London

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The punk era transformed the world of music. If you could play three chords, you could make records. You didn’t even need a record label. You could start your own.

The same thing happened in graphic design. All you needed were a few a sheets of Letraset and access to a photocopier, and you could make your own record covers. And lots of people did just that.

The work in this book is culled from the record collections of designer (and Unit Editions co-founder) Tony Brook, and leading punk scholar Russ Bestley. As one of the world’s leading authorities on punk and post-punk music, Russ has contributed an insightful essay to the book.

The book also features interviews with designer Malcolm Garrett, Mute founder Daniel Miller and Sniffin’ Glue editor and musician Mark Perry.

United Edition's 'The Archive Series' is a bibliographic celebration of hidden and neglected visual archives. The Archive Series views graphic design as one of the ways to understand the semiotics of culture. United Editions is committed to the collection and preservation of printed specimens and graphic design artefacts to open up possibilities of decoding the past.

Edited by Tony Brook & Adrian Shaughnessy
Consultant Editor - Russ Bestley
Design by Spin

Edition of 2000

File under: Mark Perry Malcolm Garrett Malcolm Garrett Daniel Miller Mark Perry Unit Editions / London Graphic Design / Typography Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Sound / Music

Percy Grainger
by John Bird

1977, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 318 pages, 24 x 16 cm
Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Macmillan Company / South Melbourne

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With a prefatory note by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears, and an appreciation by Leopold Stokowski.

John Bird's acclaimed 1976 biography of the Australian-born composer and pianist Percy Grainger gives the first full account of the life and works of one of the strangest figures in twentieth-century music. Behind Grainger's highly original compositional achievements, folksong collecting, and glittering career as a virtuoso concert pianist lay a tragic and chaotic personal life--long domination by his mother, unorthodox sexual predilections, an eccentric athleticism, a demonic spiritual drive, and a wildly inconsistent personal philosophy with Anglo-Saxon obsessions such as his famous "Blue-Eyed English." A list of published compositions, a current discography of performances by Grainger, and a selection of his seminal writings complete what has already proved to be a standard work.
This fully revised edition includes much new biographical material from John Bird's continuing research. Grainger's reputation and popularity as a uniquely individual composer continue to grow, and this book remains the definitive biography.

First Australian hardcover edition from 1977, Very Good-Fine, with inlayed collected Grainger press clippings, brochures, ticket stubbs, etc.

File under: Percy Grainger John Bird Benjamin Britten Leopold Stokowski Peter Pears Macmillan Company / South Melbourne Australian Art Art Sound / Music Out-of-print / Rare

Sonic Agency : Sound and Emergent Forms of Resistance
by Brandon LaBelle

2018, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 224 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 cm
Published by Goldsmiths Press / London

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A timely exploration of whether sound and listening can be the basis of political change.

In a world dominated by the visual, could contemporary resistances be auditory? This timely and important book from Goldsmiths Press highlights sound's invisible, disruptive, and affective qualities and asks whether the unseen nature of sound can support a political transformation. In Sonic Agency, Brandon LaBelle sets out to engage contemporary social and political crises by way of sonic thought and imagination. He divides sound's functions into four figures of resistance—the invisible, the overheard, the itinerant, and the weak—and argues for their role in creating alternative “unlikely publics” in which to foster mutuality and dissent. He highlights existing sonic cultures and social initiatives that utilize or deploy sound and listening to address conflict, and points to their work as models for a wider movement. He considers issues of disappearance and hidden culture, nonviolence and noise, creole poetics, and networked life, aiming to unsettle traditional notions of the “space of appearance” as the condition for political action and survival.

By examining the experience of listening and being heard, LaBelle illuminates a path from the fringes toward hope, citizenship, and vibrancy. In a current climate that has left many feeling they have lost their voices, it may be sound itself that restores it to them.

Brandon LaBelle is Professor in New Media in the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design at the University of Bergen. He is the author of Lexicon of the Mouth: Poetics and Politics of Voice and the Oral Imaginary, Diary of an Imaginary Egyptian, Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life, and Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art.

File under: Brandon LaBelle Goldsmiths Press / London Art Theory / Essay Sound / Music

ARTFORUM
LOOKING CRITICALLY: 21 YEARS OF ARTFORUM MAGAZINE

1984, English
Softcover, 342 pages, 270 x 280 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average
Published by U.M.I. Research Press / Michigan

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Softcover 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.

A Good copy throughout, with cover rubbing and corner bumping. Tightly bound and clean copy internally.

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 Lynda Benglis 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 Feminism Fiction / Poetry Film / Video Fluxus Group Shows / Collections Minimal Art Out-of-print / Rare Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Periodicals Photography Poetry Pop Art Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Theory / Essay

Harald Szeemann
Museum of Obsessions

2018, English
Hardcover, 432 pages, 25x 31 cm
Published by Getty Publications / Los Angeles

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Texts by Glenn Phillips, Doris Chon, Pietro Rigolo, Philipp Kaiser

Harald Szeemann is associated with some of the most important artistic developments of the postwar era. A passionate advocate of avant-garde movements like conceptualism and post minimalism, he collaborated with artists such as Joseph Beuys, Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra, and Cy Twombly, developing new ways of presenting art that reflected his sweeping vision of contemporary culture.

Szeemann once stated that his goal as an exhibition maker was to create a "Museum of Obsessions." This richly illustrated volume is a virtual collection catalogue for that imaginary institution, tracing the evolution of his curatorial method through the materials he collected and produced while researching and organising his exhibitions, including letters, drawings, personal datebooks, installation plans, artists' books, posters, photographs, and handwritten notes.

This book documents all phases of Szeemann's career, from his early stint as director of the Kunsthalle Bern, where he organized the seminal Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form (1969); to documenta 5 (1972) and the intensely personal exhibition he staged in his own apartment using the belongings of his hairdresser grandfather (1974); to his reinvention as a freelance curator who realised projects on wide-ranging themes until his death in 2005.

The book contains essays exploring Szeemann's curatorial approach as well as interviews with collaborators. Its more than 350 illustrations include previously unpublished installation photographs and exhibition documents as well as many other materials from the curator's archive.

File under: Meret Oppenheim Markus Raetz Walter De Maria Klaus Rinke Christo Andy Warhol Marcel Broodthaers Marcel Duchamp Joseph Beuys Bruce Nauman Richard Serra Cy Twombly Ernst Fricke Charlotte Bara Karl Gräser Emma Kunz Ferdinand Cheval Ben Vautier Ed Ruscha Oskar Schlemmer Kurt Schwitters Thomas Hirschhorn Eva Hesse Dick Higgins Mario Merz Marisa Merz Sol LeWitt Nancy Graves Robert Filliou Donald Judd László Moholy-Nagy Man Ray Francis Picabia Elisar von Kupffer Charles Ives Paul Thek Panamarenko Edward Kienholz Guerilla Art Action Group John Cage Allan Kaprow Charlotte Moorman George Maciunas Haus-Rucker-Co Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn Nam June Paik Harald Szeemann Glenn Phillips Doris Chon Pietro Rigolo Philipp Kaiser Raymond Roussel Alfred Jarry Lucy R. Lippard Getty Publications / Los Angeles Curatorial Art Group Shows / Collections Conceptual Art Minimal Art Theory / Essay Fluxus Film / Video Sculpture / Installation Dada Arte Povera Architecture / Interior Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Bauhaus

Happening & Fluxus

1970, English / German
Softcover, 300 pages, 23 x 15 cm
1st edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by Kölnischer Kunstverein / Köln

$85.00 - Out of stock

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The great "Happening & Fluxus" book, published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at the Kölnischer Kunstverein in 1970, curated by Harald Szeemann.
This exhaustive Fluxus document is illustrated heavily throughout and broken into two important sections : 1. Chronology 1959-1970 (a detailed cataloguing of this incredible period of happenings, actions, concerts, meals, exhibitions and any related events, illustrated with photography along with dates, locations, those involved, and reproductions of the related ephemera), 2. Bibliography 1959-1970 (again heavily illustrated with detailed cataloguing of printed material about Fluxus and related actions, artists, exhibitions, performances, as well as a detailed listing for each featured artist of their publications, writings, art editions, etc). Book includes works by Wolf Vostell, Daniel Spoerri, Nam June Paik, Tetsumi Kudo, Tadeusz Kantor, Dick Higgins, George Brecht, Allan Kaprow, Yoko Ono, Claes Oldenburg, Alison Knowles, Robert Filliou, Stanley Brouwn, Bazon Brock, Joseph Beuys, Eric Anderson, Viennese Actionists, Charlotte Moorman, Günter Brus, Emmett Williams, Ben Vautier, Carolee Schneemann, Otto Muehl, Robert Watts, Al Hansen, Henry Flynt, Philip Corner, Henning Christiansen, Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, and many more.

First major compilation of this material compiled by Harald Szeemann to accompany a now legendary exhibition.

"There is neither here nor in the exhibition, a fix-ready answer to the question: What is happening, what is Fluxus."

Condition: Good (light cover rubbing/wear, otherwise tight and clean throughout) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Al Hansen Alison Knowles Allan Kaprow Bazon Brock Ben Vautier Carolee Schneemann Charlotte Moorman Claes Oldenburg Daniel Spoerri Dick Higgins Emmett Williams Eric Andersen George Brecht Günter Brus Henning Christiansen Henry Flynt John Cage Joseph Beuys Nam June Paik Otto Muehl Philip Corner Robert Filliou Robert Rauschenberg Robert Watts Stanley Brouwn Tadeusz Kantor Tetsumi Kudo Wolf Vostell Yoko Ono Harald Szeemann Kölnischer Kunstverein / Köln Art Fluxus Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art

Fourth Biennale of Sydney 1982
Vision in Disbelief

1982, English
Softcover, 224 pages, 21 x 30 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / Used*,
Published by Biennale of Sydney / Sydney

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Catalogue published on the occasion of the Fourth Biennale of Sydney 1982, 7 April – 23 May 1982. Under the artistic direction of William Wright the 1982 Biennale was titled "Vision in Disbelief" and featured the work of Jörg Immendorff, Dan Graham, Brian Eno, Sue Ford, Joan Jonas, Lyndal Jones, John Baldessari, Robert Ashley, Billy Apple, Gary Hill, Fiona Hall, Philip Guston, General Idea, Bill Henson, Slave Guitars, Michael Snow, Severed Heads, Martha Rosler, Nam June Paik, Mike Parr, Tony Oursler, Davida Allen, Dale Frank, Rebecca Horn, Gareth Sansom, Lucas Samaras, Pe Kirkeby, Maria Kozik, Laughing Hands, Bertrand Lavier, Liz Magor, Anne Marsh, Markus Lupertz, William Wegman, Bill viola, Niele Toroni, Ken Unsworth, Marina Abramovic, John Ahearn, Vivienne Binns, Ian Breakwell, Georg Baselitz, Frank Auerbach, Claus Bohmler, Sydney Ball, Anti-Music, Laurie Anderson, Terry Allen, →↑→ and many more.
This catalogue includes colour and black and white examples of the work of all participating artists alongside texts and biographies.

Condition: Good – light general use/shelf wear and small marking to cover, good copy otherwise) – All care is taken to provide accurate condition details of used books, photos available on request.

File under: Jörg Immendorff Dan Graham Brian Eno Sue Ford Joan Jonas Lyndal Jones John Baldessari Robert Ashley Billy Apple Gary Hill Fiona Hall Philip Guston General Idea Bill Henson Slave Guitars Michael Snow Severed Heads Martha Rosler Nam June Paik Mike Parr Tony Oursler Davida Allen Dale Frank Rebecca Horn Gareth Sansom Lucas Samaras Laughing Hands Bertrand Lavier Liz Magor Anne Marsh Markus Lupertz William Wegman Bill viola Niele Toroni Ken Unsworth John Ahearn Vivienne Binns Ian Breakwell Georg Baselitz Frank Auerbach Claus Bohmler Sydney Ball Anti-Music Laurie Anderson Terry Allen →↑→ Marina Abramovič Per Kirkeby Maria Kozic Biennale of Sydney / Sydney Art Film / Video Out-of-print / Rare Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Group Shows / Collections Painting

Brion Gysin : His Name Was Master
Texts And Interviews By Genesis Breyer P-Orridge & Peter Christopherson

2018, English
Softcover, 350 pages, 15 x 22 cm
Published by Trapart / Stockholm

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Texts and Interviews by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, with Peter Christopherson. Edited with notes by Andrew M. McKenzie. Introductions by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge & Carl Abrahamsson.

Brion Gysin (1916–86) has been an incredibly influential artist and iconoclast: his development of the “cut-up” technique with William S. Burroughs has inspired generations of writers, artists and musicians. Gysin was also a skilled networker and revered expat: together with his friend Paul Bowles, he more or less constructed the post-beatnik romanticism for life and magic in Morocco, and was also a protagonist in an international gay culture with inspirational reaches in both America and Europe. Not surprisingly, Gysin has become something of a cult figure.

One of the artists he inspired is Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, who collaborated with both Gysin and Burroughs in the 1970s, during his work with Throbbing Gristle and COUM Transmissions. The interviews made by P-Orridge have since become part of a New Wave/Industrial mythos. This volume presents them in their entirety alongside three texts on Gysin by P-Orridge, plus an introduction. This book is an exclusive insight into the mind of a man P-Orridge describes as “a kind of Leonardo da Vinci of the last century,” and a fantastic complement to existing biographies and monographs.

File under: Genesis P-Orridge Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson Brion Gysin COUM Transmissions Genesis P-Orridge Peter Christopherson Trapart / Stockholm Art Sound / Music Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry Painting Performance / Dance / Theater

Solar Lice 2xLP
Tobias Madison, Emmanuel Rossetti, Stefan Tcherepnin, Jeanne Graff

2013, English
2 x LP
Ed. of 1000,
Published by The Power Station / Dallas

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Solar Lice double LP / Catalogue produced in an edition of 1000 copies to accompany the exhibition, Tobias Madison, Emmanuel Rossetti, and Stefan Tcherepnin, "Drip Event" at The Power Station, Dallas, April 10 - July 12, 2013. Features writer / curator Jeanne Graff on vocals.

The Power Station is a not-for-profit contemporary art space in Exposition Park, Dallas, Texas, founded by Janelle and Alden Pinnell in 2011. It is housed in a former Dallas Power & Light building which was constructed in 1920, and hosts large scale exhibitions which compliment the building's raw architecture. For each of its international exhibitions, The Power Station works with the artists to produce a publication in conjunction with their project, limited to 1000 copies. Its programming also includes a summer exhibition and additional events each year. The building includes an apartment where artists can live as they create and build their installations. The first exhibitor was American artist Oscar Tuazon.

File under: Emmanuel Rossetti Stefan Tcherepnin Tobias Madison Jeanne Graff The Power Station / Dallas Art Objects / Ephemera / A/V Sound / Music SALE Sculpture / Installation

Coda June/July 1975
Sun Ra / John Gilmore

1975, English
Softcover (staple-bound) 38 pages, 27 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Coda / Toronto

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June / July 1975 issue of Coda, "Canada's Jazz magazine".

Wonderful issue largely dedicated to the cover features of Sun Ra and John Gilmore (1931– 1995) the great avant-garde jazz saxophonist who worked with keyboardist/bandleader Sun Ra from the 1950s-1990s. Two in-depth articles on both, alongside a comprehensive discography of Gilmore, followed by the usual lengthy reviews of live performances, records and books, plus reports on the Jazz scene from around the world.

Coda was a Canadian magazine devoted to covering all things related to jazz. Founded in 1958 by publisher and record producer John Norris, the magazine produced 6 publications a year on a bi-monthly basis, known for publishing "lengthy descriptions of recordings and live performances in which writers extemporized (sometimes in pyrotechnical style) by sharing experiences and insights germane to the music." ( - The Oxford Companion to Jazz)

File under: Sun Ra John Gilmore Coda / Toronto Sound / Music Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare

ART & VINYL

2018, English
Hardcover, 464 pages, 31.8 x 31.8 cm
Published by Fraenkel Gallery - Editions Antoine De Beaupré / San Francisco

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Art & Vinyl is an exhilarating new look into the history of the vinyl record as a medium for modern and contemporary visual art. This beautifully designed and printed publication is the first book to focus in-depth on works of art created specifically for an album, composer or musician.

With reproductions of more than 200 LPs from the mid-20th century to the present, Art & Vinyl traces the trajectory of how the record album has been considered by artists as material for a work of art. The book begins with Pablo Picasso’s 1949 depiction of the dove of peace, printed directly on an audio disc. Significantly, the recording was Paul Robeson’s Chante Pour La Paix (Singing for Peace). Art & Vinyl also includes works by artists as disparate and wide-ranging as Ed Ruscha, Marlene Dumas, Cy Twombly, Yoko Ono, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Barbara Kruger, Robert Rauschenberg, Sol LeWitt, Sophie Calle and Andy Warhol.

Highlights include Gerhard Richter’s extraordinary oil painting made directly on a recording of Glenn Gould’s Bach: The Goldberg Variations (1984), as well as Allan Kaprow’s LP How to Make a Happening (1966). Also featured are albums of original recordings by Joseph Beuys, Yves Klein, Jean Dubuffet, Christian Marclay and Wolfgang Tillmans, among others. Some of the better-known artists’ covers for rock, pop and jazz albums featured here are Jann Haworth and Peter Blake’s Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band; Jim Dine’s cover for The Best of Cream; Lee Friedlander’s portrait of Miles Davis for In a Silent Way; Warhol’s cover for Sticky Fingers and Robert Frank’s Exile on Main Street; Mapplethorpe’s classic Patti Smith portrait for Horses; Robert Longo’s cover for Glenn Branca’s The Ascension; Fischli/Weiss’s Liliput; and Alec Soth’s cover for Dolorean’s The Unfazed.

Art & Vinyl has been assembled over the course of nearly a decade by curator and collector Antoine de Beaupré, author of Total Records and founder of Librarie Galerie 213 in Paris.

File under: Pablo Picasso Joseph Beuys Dieter Rot Dieter Roth Philip Glass John Cage Robert Mapplethorpe Fischli & Weiss Peter Fischli Peter Fischli & David Weiss David Weiss Glenn Branca Alec Soth Patti Smith Robert Longo Raymond Pettibon Keith Haring Malcolm McLaren Ed Ruscha Marlene Dumas Cy Twombly Yoko Ono Jean-Michel Basquiat Barbara Kruger Robert Rauschenberg Sol LeWitt Sophie Calle Andy Warhol Allan Kaprow Glenn Gould The Rolling Stones Gerhard Richter Yves Klein Jean Dubuffet Christian Marclay Wolfgang Tillmans Jim Dine Lee Friedlander Miles Davis Sonic Youth Antoine de Beaupré Jeffrey Fraenkel Fraenkel Gallery - Editions Antoine De Beaupré / San Francisco Art Sound / Music Pop Art Fluxus

Tony Oursler + Mike Kelley
Poetics Project

1997, English / Japanese
Hardcover (cardboard box covers w. glued in booklets, fold-outs, inserts), 84 pages plus fold-outs, 12.5 x 14 cm
1st edition, Out of print title / used*,
Published by Wateri Museum of Contemporary Art / Tokyo

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Very scarce Tony Oursler + Mike Kelley exhibition catalogue / artists' book published in conjunction with a major two-person exhibition held 1997 - 1998 in Tokyo. Includes colour installation images of the exhibition as installed at Documenta X, June 21 - September 28, 1997. "The ongoing 'Poetics Project' serves up a rich mix of visual and aural experiences, while inviting viewers to question the reliability of the shows as history. Artist Mike Kelley says, 'If you don't create your own history, someone else will." Kelley and Tony Oursler's the 'Poetics Project 1977-1997' is a retrospective work that draws from their collaborative efforts in painting, video, sculpture, drawing and music. Although the ostensible subject of this project is Kelley and Oursler's early experiences as performers in a loose-knit musical group called the Poetics, its broader concerns are the processes by which history is constructed, and the reciprocal relationship between the fine arts and popular culture. The conflation of past and present in the 'Poetics Project' makes it difficult at first for the viewer to penetrate the work. Video installations and taped interviews with visual artists, rock musicians and critics are intermingled with paintings, sculptures and stacks of drawings. A precise checklist and diagram prepared by Kelley and Oursler methodically pinpoint the authorship of each work, while serving as a serf-guided tour and critical record of the project. Only with this didactic help do viewers come to realize that the 'Poetics Project' is almost entirely made up of works created in 1997 and 1998, though based on what Kelley and Oursler tell us is a single notebook of sketches and a collection of audio recordings--some little more than notations for never-performed works--which date from the late 1970s and early '80s (the Poetics disbanded in 1983). Filled with irony and steeped in serf-reflexive practice, this work builds upon the radical autobiographical prose of William S. Burroughs and art works and performances by artists such as John Baldessari, Allan Kaprow and Andy Warhol. Reminiscent of Warhol's A:A Novel, which records one day in the life of the artist in 384 pages, the 'Poetics Project' is an expanding template of art works which explores how the past can be reconstructed to shed light on the present." -- Diane Shamash, Art in America, October 1998

First and only edition of this unique Japanese publication from these two American artists. Cardboard covers feature decal artwork reproducing the Oursler/Kelley collaborative artwork "Poetics Country", 1997.

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

File under: Mike Kelley Tony Oursler Mike Kelley Tony Oursler Wateri Museum of Contemporary Art / Tokyo Art Drawing Painting Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Sound / Music Theory / Essay

John Cage: 4'33''– Sounds Like Silence
Silence Today

2018, English
Softcover, 288 pages, 33.5 x 24.1 cm
Published by Spector Books / Leipzig

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Edited with text by Dieter Daniels, Inke Arns. Text by Brandon LaBelle, David Toop, Dörte Schmidt, Julia H. Schröder, Jan Theben.
Contributions by Hans-Friedrich Bormann, William Letterman, Kyle Gann, Branden W. Joseph, et al.

John Cage's (1912–92) 4'33" premiered on August 29, 1952, distilling the composer's philosophical explorations of silence into four minutes, thirty-three seconds of performed, charged silence. Elegantly, provocatively, the piece asked: what does silence sound like?

Cage's questions about the nature of silence and sound continue to reverberate decades later; this volume—the most comprehensive on the piece to date—brings together new theoretical writings and artistic works exploring Cage's composition. A wide-ranging list of contributors, contemporary and historical—from Merce Cunningham to Rage Against the Machine—weigh in on Cage's work alongside Cage's original scores and the composer's own subsequent engagements with his most famous piece.

File under: John Cage David Tudor Dieter Daniels Inke Arns. Text by Brandon LaBelle David Toop Dörte Schmidt Julia H. Schröder William Letterman Kyle Gann Branden W. Joseph Jan Theben. Contributions by Hans-Friedrich Bormann Jan Theben Hans-Friedrich Bormann David Tudor Spector Books / Leipzig Sound / Music Art Fluxus

Tacet 4
Sound in The Arts : The Sounds Of Utopia

2017, English / French
Softcover, 560 pages, 16 x 23 cm
Published by Les Presses Du Reel / Paris

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Edited by Matthieu Saladin and Yvan Etienne

Tacet is a research publication dedicated to sound arts and experimental music. Published annually and bilingually (French, English), its ambition is to create an interdisciplinary and international space of reflection for this practices, in all its aesthetic diversity. The fourth issue is on the theme of utopias. Mixing science-fiction short stories, theoretical analysis and artists' writings, this issue addresses utopian and dystopian futures of our sound cultures. Includes: J.G. Ballard, Henry Flynt, Luc Ferrari, Francoise J. Bonnet, Loic Bertrand, Anne Zeitz, Max Neuhaus, Thibault Walter, Cornelius Cardew, Filipe Barros Beltrao, Andrew Gray, Jonathan Sterne, Christophe Levaux, John Cage, Henry A. Flynt, Jr., Andy McGraw, Scott Gleason and many more.

File under: Cornelius Cardew Henry Flynt John Cage Luc Ferrari Max Neuhaus J.G. Ballard Les Presses Du Reel / Paris Art Fiction / Poetry Periodicals Sound / Music Theory / Essay

Tacet 3
Sound in The Arts : From Sound Space

2014, English / French
Softcover, 448 pages, 16 x 23 cm
Published by Les Presses Du Reel / Paris

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3rd issue of the sound arts and experimental music annual review, devoted to the question of sound space.
Featuring: Alvin Lucier, Kirsi Peltomäki, Michael Asher, Seth Cluett, Jeffrey Mansfield, Michael Gallagher, María Andueza Olmedo, Arthur Stidfolde, Éric La Casa & Jean-Luc Guionnet, Christina Kubisch, Maryanne Amacher, Paul Panhuysen, Douglas Kahn, Emmanuel Holterbach, Christian Wolff, Paul Hegarty, Ivana Miladinović Prica, Tom Mays...
Tacet is a new research publication dedicated to sound arts and experimental music. Published annually and bilingually (French, English), its ambition is to create an interdisciplinary and international space of reflection for this practices, in all its aesthetic diversity.

Tacet, as John Cage showed so well in 4'33'', designates a moment of silence observed by an instrumentalist during the whole period of a movement. By extension, it becomes, as the title of this publication, a moment of introspection, of reflectivity and reflection, where music interrupts itself to give way to research and theoretical questioning.

Tacet aims, in this way, on the side of sound arts and experimental music, to contribute to the renewal of theoretical research by confronting and intersecting artists and musicians' speeches, studies coming from aesthetics and philosophy of art, from the critical renewal of musicology, from cultural studies and gender studies, from political thought, from social sciences and geography.

Tacet is part of the Ohcetecho series, dedicated to sound arts and experimental music, published by Les presses du réel (editorial board: Matthieu Saladin and Yvan Etienne).

File under: Maryanne Amacher Michael Asher Paul Panhuysen Alvin Lucier Seth Cluett María Andueza Olmedo Christina Kubisch Emmanuel Holterbach Christian Wolff Paul Hegarty Douglas Kahn Kirsi Peltomäki Arthur Stidfolde Paul Hegarty Ivana Miladinović Prica Les Presses Du Reel / Paris Art Periodicals Sound / Music Theory / Essay

Texte Zur Kunst #110
June 2018 "Performance Evaluation"

2018, English / German
Softcover, 272 pages, 23 x 16.5 cm
Published by Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin

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In the 18 years since Texte zur Kunst first turned its attention to the field of performance, a lot has happened, to say the least. Today, performance refers to almost any act, willing or forced, and is used by the institutions the world over whose aim is often to solicit performative acts from consumers, whether they are an audience at an art event or a user of social media. With performance today comes the inevitable system of evaluation—likes, ratings, grades, followers, etc.—a fact that has made separating performance as an art, and its popularity, from the overpowering influence of the culture of evaluation. For this issue of Texte zur Kunst, "Performance Evaluation," we investigate the overlapping definitions of performance, following their ubiquity and uses in particular, in order to evaluate what performance means today, and what we mean when we call something a "performance."

Issue No. 110 / June 2018 "Performance Evaluation"

Table Of Contents
Vorwort
Preface

Sabeth Buchmann
Feed Back: Performance In The Evaluation Society

Steffen Mau And Uwe Vormbusch
Likes And Performance / A Conversation Between Uwe Vormbusch And Steffen Mau On The Quantification Of The Social

Alexandra Pirici
Performance As Conjuring / Artist Statement

Stefan Hölscher
(Re-)Evaluating Performance Since 1990

Evelyn Annuss
On The Future Of The Volksbühne –  Failure Is An Option

Andreas Gelhard
Notes On The Competence Society
Working With Performance / A Conversation About Collaboration, Collectivity, And The Value Of Performance

New Development :
Amanda Schmitt
Miranda Warning

Rotation :
Nach Dem Metabolischen Bruch / Martin Müller Über „Molekulares Rot. Theorie Für Das Anthropozän“ Von Mckenzie Wark
Klang Körper
Äpfel Und Birnen / Wolfgang Seidel Über „Underground Und Improvisation. Alternative Musik Und Kunst Nach 1968“ In Der Akademie Der Künste, Berlin
Stunt / Anke Dyes Über Georgia Sagri Im Portikus Frankfurt/M.
Brighten The Corners / Colin Lang On “Res·O·Nant” At The Jewish Museum Berlin
Anke Dyes, Luisa Kleemann Und Tina Schulz  Über Das Gallery Weekend In Berlin

Reviews :

Endstation Selbstbezug / Hans-Christian Dany Über „Harald Szeemann: Museum Of Obsessions“ Und „Grandfather: A Pioneer Like Us“ Im Getty Center Und Ica In Los Angeles
Forward In This Generation / Eva Díaz On The New Museum Triennial
Archivarisch Verdichtet / Agnieszka Roguski Über „Left Performance Histories“  In Der Neuen Gesellschaft Für Bildende Kunst, Berlin
Broken Lineage / Gregory H. Williams On “Inventur: Art In Germany, 1943–55” At The Harvard Art Museums
Geld Ist Sein Pinsel / Verena Dengler Über Damien Hirst Bei Gagosian, Beverly Hills
Antipathy & Ecstasy / Kari Rittenbach On Ilya Lipkin At Svetlana, New York
Museum In Progress / Barbara Hess Über „Von Da An. Räume, Werke, Vergegenwärtigungen Des Antimuseums 1967–1978“ Im Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
Composition As Explanation / Annie Godfrey Larmon On Cally Spooner At The Centre D’art Contemporain Genève
Ikonisches Nachleben / Johannes Bennke Über James Benning Bei Neugerriem-Schneider, Berlin
Game Of Thrones / Chris Reitz On Geta Bratescu At Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles
Park, Blicke / Benjamin Meyer-Krahmer Über Maya Schweizer Im Kunstverein Leipzig
Humanity’s Last Hopf / Mikael Brkic On Judith Hopf At Kunst-Werke Berlin
Memes, Schönheit Und Verfremdung / Jessica Aimufua Über Arthur Jafa In Der Julia Stoschek  Collection Berlin
Unendliche Arbeit / Hans-Jürgen Hafner Über Catherine Christer Hennix  Im Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Relentless Applause / Carmen Gray On Katrina Daschner At The Neue Galerie Graz
Karikaturen Ohne Pointe / Michael Franz Und Franziska Ipfelkofer Über Matthias Noggler Bei Emanuel Layr, Wien
Administrativer Papierkram / Fiona Geuß Über „Paperwork“ In Der Sammlung Haubrok, Fahrbereitschaft, Berlin

Nachrufe :

Linda Nochlin (1931–2017)
Kynaston Mcshine (1935–2018)
Peter Gorsen (1933–2017)

Edition :

Tauba Auerbach
Eliza Douglas
Hans Haacke

File under: Damien Hirst Tauba Auerbach Eliza Douglas Hans Haacke Georgia Sagri Ilya Lipkin Cally Spooner James Benning Geta Bratescu Arthur Jafa Catherine Christer Hennix Judith Hopf Andrea Fraser Evelyn Annuss Andreas Gelhard Alexandra Pirici Steffen Mau Uwe Vormbusch Sabeth Buchmann Mckenzie Wark Harald Szeemann Hans-Christian Dany Agnieszka Roguski Eva Díaz Kari Rittenbach Barbara Hess Jessica Aimufua Texte Zur Kunst / Berlin Art Performance / Dance / Theater Film / Video Sound / Music Periodicals Theory / Essay

Practice
Edited by Marcus Boon and Gabriel Levine

2018, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 21 x 23 cm
Published by The MIT Press / Massachusetts Whitechapel / London

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The first anthology to investigate what contemporary notions of practice mean for art, tracing their development and speculating on where this leads.

“Practice” is one of the key words of contemporary art, used in contexts ranging from artists' descriptions of their practice to curatorial practice, from social practice to practice-based research. This is the first anthology to investigate what contemporary notions of practice mean for art, tracing their development and speculating on where this leads.

Reframing the question of practice offers new ways of reading the history of art and of evaluating particular forms of practice-based art. Once used to denote “doing,” as distinct from thinking and making, today the term can convey associations of political action (praxis), professional activity, discipline, or rehearsal, and signal a shift away from the self-enclosed artwork or medium to open-ended actions, series, processes, and projects. Although the turn to practice might promise freedom from finality or eventfulness, it also reflects the neoliberal pressures to train oneself, to perform, and to rehearse a marketable set of skills. This book offers an indispensible guide to the art history and theoretical framework of art-as-practice, clarifying the complex issues at stake in thinking about and enacting practice.

Artists surveyed include Francis Alys, Arakawa, Rebecca Belmore, AA Bronson, Judy Chicago, Lygia Clark, Andrea Fraser, Madeline Gins, Tehching Hsieh, Mary Kelly, Henri Michaux, Linda M. Montano, Pauline Oliveros, Yoko Ono, Adrian Piper, Raivo Puusemp, Rammellzee, Gerhard Richter, Miriam Schapiro, Carolee Schneemann, Gregory Sholette, Aliza Shvarts, Situationist International, Jonas Staal, Stelarc, Fiona Tan, Min Tanaka, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Cecilia Vicuña

Writers include Kathy Acker, Giorgio Agamben, Louis Althusser, Hannah Arendt, Alain Badiou, Lauren Berlant, Gregg Bordowitz, Pierre Bourdieu, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Judith Butler, Jennifer Doyle, Okwui Enwezor, Saidiya V. Hartman, Maulana Karenga, Julia Kristeva, Saba Mahmood, Viktor Misiano, Fred Moten, Paul B. Preciado, Lane Relyea, Suely Rolnik, Peter Sloterdijk, Isabelle Stengers, Winnie Won Yin Wong

Part of the Whitechapel Documents of Contemporary Art series

File under: Francis Alÿs Rebecca Belmore AA Bronson Judy Chicago Lygia Clark Andrea Fraser Madeline Gins Tehching Hsieh Mary Kelly Henri Michaux Pauline Oliveros Yoko Ono Adrian Piper Raivo Puusemp Rammellzee Gerhard Richter Miriam Schapiro Carolee Schneemann Gregory Sholette Aliza Shvarts Situationist International Jonas Staal Stelarc Fiona Tan Min Tanaka Nadezhda Tolokonnikova Cecilia Vicuña Shusaku Arakawa Linda Montano The MIT Press / Massachusetts Whitechapel / London Art Performance / Dance / Theater Sculpture / Installation Conceptual Art Feminism Theory / Essay Film / Video Sound / Music Fluxus Dada

Minimal Art : A Critical Anthology
Edited by Gregory Battcock

1968, English
Softcover, 448 pages, 20 x 13.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / average

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Battock's definitive 1968 collection of writings by and about the work of the 1960s minimalists, generously illustrated with photographs of paintings, sculpture, and performance, published by E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc., New York.

A collection of twenty-eight seminal essays by both critics and artists across over 400 pages, analyzing all aspects of Minimal Art at it's height in the late 1960s. Includes Lawrence Alloway (Systemic Painting), Mel Bochner (Serial Art, Systems, Solipsism), David Bourdon (The Razed Sites of Carl Andre), Nicolas Calas (Subject Matter in the Work of Barnett Newman), Bruce Glaser (Questions to Frank Stella and Donald Judd), Lucy R. Lippard (Eros Presumptive), John Perreault (Minimal Abstracts), Irving Sandler (Gesture and Non-Gesture in Recent Sculpture), Peter Hutchinson (Mannerism in the Abstract0, Willoughby Sharp (Luminism and Kineticism), Elayne Varian (Schemata 7), Richard Wollheim (Minimal Art), and texts by Martial Raysse, Michael Fried, Clement Greenberg, Dan Flavin, Robert Smithson, and more.

Heavily illustrated throughout with 170 photographs featuring the work of Sol LeWitt, Lee Bontecou, Donald Judd, Hanne Darboven, Carl Andre, Claes Oldenburg, Yves Klein, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, John Chamberlain, Agnes Martin, Christo, Barnett Newman, Ellsworth Kelly, Edward Kienholz, Anne Truitt, Joseph Kosuth, Piet Mondrian, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Marcel Duchamp, Chryssa, Anthony Caro, Dan Flavin, Robert Smithson, Frank Stella, Robert Barry, Larry Bell, Carlo Belloli, William Anastasi, Richard Artschwager, Ronald Balden, John Cage, Walter De Maria, Stephen Antonakos, Walter Darby Bannard, Allan D'Arcangelo, Stuart Davis, Mark di Suvero, Helen Frankenthaler, Jim Dine, Al Held, Dan Graham, Robert Grosvenor, Hans Haacke, Ralph Humphrey, Eva Hesse, Douglas Huebler, Will Insley, Patricia Johanson, Allan Kaprow, Roy Lichtenstein, Morris Louis, Robert Mangold, Brice Marden, Yvonne Rainer, Julio Le Parc, David Smith, Richard Tuttle, Tony Smith, Keith Sonnier, James Raphael Soto, Clyfford Still, Les Levine, Victor Vasarely, Ad Reinhardt, John McCracken, Robert Morris, Kenneth Noland, Robert Whitman, Jules Olitski, Milton Resnick, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jackson Pollock, Larry Poons, Jack Youngerman, George Rickey, Dorothea Rockburne, James Rosenquist, Edward Ruscha, Jan van Eyck, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann, and many others.

Good with general wear and previous owner underlining / notation. Ex-library.

File under: Mel Bochner Martial Raysse Sol LeWitt Lee Bontecou Donald Judd Carl Andre Jasper Johns Robert Rauschenberg Barnett Newman Piet Mondrian Marcel Duchamp Anthony Caro Dan Flavin Robert Smithson Frank Stella Hanne Darboven Claes Oldenburg Yves Klein John Chamberlain Agnes Martin Christo Ellsworth Kelly Edward Kienholz Anne Truitt Joseph Kosuth Richard Anuszkiewicz Chryssa Robert Barry Larry Bell Carlo Belloli William Anastasi Richard Artschwager Ronald Balden John Cage Walter De Maria Stephen Antonakos Walter Darby Bannard Allan D'Arcangelo Stuart Davis Mark di Suvero Helen Frankenthaler Jim Dine Al Held Dan Graham Robert Grosvenor Hans Haacke Ralph Humphrey Eva Hesse Douglas Huebler Will Insley Patricia Johanson Allan Kaprow Roy Lichtenstein Morris Louis Robert Mangold Brice Marden Yvonne Rainer Julio Le Parc David Smith Richard Tuttle Tony Smith Keith Sonnier James Raphael Soto Clyfford Still Les Levine Victor Vasarely Ad Reinhardt John McCracken Robert Morris Kenneth Noland Robert Whitman Jules Olitski Milton Resnick Michelangelo Pistoletto Jackson Pollock Larry Poons Jack Youngerman George Rickey Dorothea Rockburne James Rosenquist Edward Ruscha Jan van Eyck Andy Warhol Tom Wesselmann Gregory Battcock Richard Wollheim Elayne Varian David Bourdon Irving Sandler Clement Greenberg Dan Flavin Robert Smithson Lawrence Alloway Willoughby Sharp Lucy R. Lippard John Perreault Bruce Glaser Nicolas Calas Michael Fried Eugene Goossen Peter Hutchinson Minimal Art Conceptual Art Theory / Essay Art Sculpture / Installation Painting Drawing Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater

Night Fever
Designing Club Culture 1960-Today

2018, English
Softcover, 400 pages, 20 x 26.5 cm
Published by Vitra Design Museum / Weil am Rhein

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The nightclub as avant-garde architecture: from Studio 54 to the Double Club

Nightclubs and discotheques are hotbeds of contemporary culture. Since the beginning of the twentieth century, they have been centres of the avantgarde that question social norms and experiment with different realities, merging interior and furniture design, graphics and art with sound, light, fashion, and special effects to create a modern Gesamtkunstwerk.

Night Fever. Designing Club Culture 1960 – Today is the first book to offer a comprehensive overview of the design history of the nightclub, examining its cultural context and international scope. Examples range from the Italian clubs of the 1960s created by the protagonists of Radical Design to the legendary Studio 54 where Andy Warhol was a regular and the Palladium in New York, designed by Arata Isozaki, as well as more recent concepts by architecture studio OMA for the Ministry of Sound II in London.

Featuring films and vintage photographs, posters, flyers, and fashion, Night Fever takes the reader on a fascinating journey through a world of glamour, subculture, and the search for the night that never ends.

Edited by Mateo Kries, Jochen Eisenbrand, Catharine Rossi, Katarina Serulus.
Texts by Jörg Heiser, Tim Lawrence, Ivan Lopez Munuera, Catharine Rossi, Sonnet Stanfill, Alice Twemlow, et al.
Interviews with Ben Kelly, Peter Saville, Ian Schrager, et al.

File under: Andy Warhol Jean-Michel Basquiat Gruppo 9999 Studio 65 Gufram Keith Haring UFO UFO Group Lapo Binazzi Chermayeff & Geismar Tomi Ungerer Ben Kelly Peter Saville Grace Jones OMA Rem Koolhaas Arata Isozaki Halston Jörg Heiser Tim Lawrence Ivan Lopez Munuera Catharine Rossi Sonnet Stanfill Alice Twemlow Mateo Kries Jochen Eisenbrand Katarina Serulus Vitra Design Museum / Weil am Rhein Architecture / Interior Sound / Music Performance / Dance / Theater Fashion Furniture Italian Radical Design / Postmodernism

Merce Cunningham

1975, English
Softcover, 220 pages, 27 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by E P Dutton / New York

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First 1975 edition of "Merce Cunningham", published by E P Dutton, New York.

Between 1967 and 1972, editor/photographer James Klosty traveled with and documented the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (MCDC). As the partner of dancer Carolyn Brown, he had unprecedented access to Cunningham, John Cage, and the Company as a whole, and his stunning photographs - first published here in his 1975 book - provide a unique, riveting, and intimate insight into both the work, and life on tour. Includes incredible documentation of the rehearsals, recitals and lives of Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Features contributions by Cunningham's close collaborators, dancers, composers, peers, including : Carolyn Brown, Viola Farber, Yvonne Rainer, Douglas Dunn, Paul Taylor, Richard Nelson, Lewis L Lloyd, John Cage, Gordon Mumma, Earle Brown, Pauline Oliveros, Christian Wolff, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Lincoln Kirstein, and Edwin Denby. Introduction by James Klosty.

A Very Good - Fine copy of the first edition.

File under: Merce Cunningham Carolyn Brown Viola Farber Yvonne Rainer Douglas Dunn Paul Taylor Richard Nelson Lewis L Lloyd John Cage Gordon Mumma Earle Brown Pauline Oliveros Christian Wolff Robert Rauschenberg Jasper Johns Lincoln Kirstein James Klosty E P Dutton / New York Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Photography Out-of-print / Rare Art