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Stanleypickergallery: Public Lectures on Art Sex, Magik, Utopia, Finance
Series Editor: Dean Kenning
Published by The Centre for Useless Splendour
Price £2
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1. COSEY FANNI TUTTI in conversation with ANDREW WHEATLEY
2. DAVID BURROWS (Plastique Fantastique) & ANDY SHARP (English Heretic). Chaired by John Cussans
3. CHAD MCCAIL in conversation with ESTHER LESLIE
4. ANTHONY DAVIES & BENEDICT SEYMOUR. Chaired by Ian Hunt
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Picpus
Published by Picpus Press
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Picpus, published quarterly, will offer you content that acknowledges the inspiring links between the historic, the modern and the contemporary, something that regular art titles have neglected. Included in this issue is a celebration of Van Gogh’s wooded landscape by Alessandro Raho, an appreciation of William Nicholson’s alphabet by Christian Flamm and a personal take on Le Corbusier by architect Philip Gumuchdjian. We also hope you enjoy the late Ian Hamilton Finlay’s erudite and acerbic response to a critic, which we unearthed and publish in full above, and a never-before-published portrait of the writer Sacheverell Sitwell by Cecil Beaton.
* The publication is scented with a perfume called Neuville. (Grass, hay and wind over stone).
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A Season in Hell
By Arthur Rimbaud, Patti Smith,
Robert Mapplethorpe
Translation by Oliver Bernard,
Published by
Morel
Price £20
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Arthur Rimbaud’s legendary prose poem with illustration of Rimbaud by Patti Smith as well a selection of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe. Designed in the same manor as Rimabud’s 1873 self published edition. Rimbaud’s status has remained legendary and his influence runs through literature into the heart of the arts and out the mouth of Rock and Roll!
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50 Envelope Windows
By Sara MacKillop
Price £15
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Artists book depicting 50 varying security patterns from envelopes framed by the shape of the window the pattern was found within. Black and White lithographically printed.
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Lagniappe
By Nick Santos-Pedro
Artwork by Neil Porter
Series Editor: Eleanor Vonne Brown
LET 4
Published by X marks the Bök
Price £3
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Lagniappe refers to a small gift given to a customer by a merchant at the time of a purchase, or more broadly, "something given or obtained gratuitously or by way of good measure." Nick Santos-Pedro creates and applies his own poetic lagniappe as footnootes to his life and offers them to you in this issue of LET.
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The Coming Insurrection
by The Invisible Committee
Semiotext(e)
Price £9.95
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The Coming Insurrection is an eloquent call to arms arising from the recent waves of social contestation in France and Europe. Written by the anonymous Invisible Committee in the vein of Guy Debord—and with comparable elegance—it has been proclaimed a manual for terrorism by the French government (who recently arrested its alleged authors). One of its members more adequately described the group as “the name given to a collective voice bent on denouncing contemporary cynicism and reality.” The Coming Insurrection is a strategic prescription for an emergent war-machine to “spread anarchy and live communism.
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Bad Reputation: Performances, Essays, Interviews
By Penny Arcade
MIT press
Price £14.95
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Bad Reputation is the first book by and on Penny Arcade. The complete scripts are accompanied by a new interview with Penny Arcade by Chris Kraus, a range of archival photographs of the East Village scene and Arcade’s performances, an introduction by playwright Ken Bernard, and contributions by Sarah Schulman, Steve Zehentner, and Stephen Bottoms
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Revolution of the Mind: The Life of Andre Breton
By Andre Breton
Black Widow Press
Price £16.99
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Lauded internationally upon its publication in 1995 as “the most complete portrait available in English or French of Surrealism’s magister ludi” (New York Times Book Review) Revolution of the Mind is being re-issued by Black Widow Press in an updated version, extensively revised and augmented by the author incorporating the wealth of new information that has emerged about Breton, his interactions within the Surrealist movement, and personal relationships. Not just a biography of Andre Breton this is still the best overall survey of the Surrealist movement as a whole.
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Arte Povera 1966-1980
Libri E Documenti
by Giorgio Maffei
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Anselmo, Boetti, Calzolari, Fabro, Kounellis, Mario and Marisa Merz, Paolini, Pascali, Penon, Pistoletto, Prini, Zorio: the protagonists of the Italian art movement’s most important postwar works are presented from the vantage point of their published output. Artist books designed, constructed and reinvented as “works” in itself “. A comprehensive introduction and detailed analysis across the Arte Povera movement and each artist is then presented individually through the review of their books and personal exposures, with a rich array of images of the documents described.
The volume has an accurate history of group shows (1966-2005) and an extensive bibliography of essays and articles.
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Sol Lewitt. Artist’s Books
by Giorgio Maffei
Corrani
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From the beginning in 1967 until 2002, Sol LeWitt’s artist books are collected in this volume. In his works the systematic rationalism, in its extreme consequences, is translated in a sort of immaterial mysticism.
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Chene De Weekend 2006-2009
Lucy Mckenzie
Walther Koenig, Köln
With an Afterword by Kasper König and Texts by Lucy McKenzie & Barbara Engelbach
Price £28 |
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Scenes
David Noonan
Hardcover
The book comes in a limited print run.
Published with Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York
Price £29.95 |
David Noonan often works with found photographic imagery taken from performance manuals, textile patterns, and archive photographs to make densely layered montages. These works at once suggest specific moments in time and invoke disorientating a-temporal spaces in which myriad possible narratives emerge. Published after David Noonan’s exhibition at the Chisenhale, London in 2008, this book is a collaboration between Noonan and the designer Marcus Werner Head. The exhibition featured a series of works comprised of monochrome silkscreen on linen collages and clusters of freestanding figurative sculptures which expand Noonan’s graphic images into a more theatrical space of display. .
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Performance Nude
Fiona Banner
Published by Other Criteria
Hardback with a limited edition photograph
Essay by Michael Bracewell
Conversation with Fiona Banner, Stewart Home, and Cosi Fanni Tutti
Price £45 |
From ‘The Birth of Venus’ to art school classrooms across the globe, artists have, over time, employed life models in an attempt to capture the essence of the female nude. One such artist is Fiona Banner. As this book Performance Nude illustrates, Banner uses paint and line to portray her models; however, she renders them not in figurative gestures, but in words. Straying further from traditional methods, she specifically uses ‘real’ women rather than practiced life models as her subject, choosing to capture the strain and tension created in the room by the presence of a novice. Whatever discomfort is revealed in the relationship is tested further by introducing an audience to the room and filming the scene for up to an hour. The effect is at times poetic, at others searching and critical. By portraying her nudes in this way, Banner questions the difference between looking and perceiving; the separation between experiencing something, and the language we use to understand it.
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Joseph Churchwood,
By David Bennewith,
Clouds, Jan van Eyck Academie, Colophon, 2009
Softcover.
Price £45 |
This beautiful new publication presents an overview of the work of Samoan-born New Zealand-based alphabet and advertising designer, Joseph Churchward. The publication compiles archive material, correspondence, realised and un-realised designwork and alphabet designs, as well as essays on Churchward by designers from around the world.
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Jack Goldstein
by Klaus Gorner, Chrissie Iles, Shepherd Steiner
Walther Koenig
Price £40 |
Jack Goldstein (1945 – 2003) is one of the most important artists-artists of the past 30 years. Priced by colleagues and a specialist audience around the world, his work remained inaccessible to the wider public for a long time.
In the 1980s, Goldstein was considered one of the most important exponents of the so-called Picture Generation, alongside Richard Prince, Sherrie Levine, Robert Longo and David Salle. His extraordinary oeuvre is characterised by its diversity and independence: it encompasses performances, films, LPs, paintings, graphically designed aphorisms and texts.
The exhibition in MMK is the first comprehensive Goldstein museum exhibition in Germany since 1985.
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Sound Commitments: Avant Garde Music and the 60’s
By Robert Adlington
Oxford University Press
Price £16.99 |
Sound Commitments , examines the encounter of avant-garde music and “the Sixties” across a range of genres, aesthetic positions and geographical locations. Through music for the concert hall, tape and electronic music, jazz and improvisation, participatory “events,” performance art, and experimental popular music, the essays in this volume explore developments in the United States, France, West Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, the Soviet Union, Japan and parts of the “Third World,” delving into the deep richness of avant-garde musicians’ response to the decade’s defining cultural shifts. Featuring new archival research and/or interviews with significant figures of the period in each chapter.
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The Ballad of Britain
By Will Hodgkinson
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Journalist Will Hodgkinson sets out on a journey to find the songs that make up modern Britain. He looks at the unique relationship the British have with music, and tries to understand how the country has represented itself through song. He visits remote pubs in the West Country where families have been passing down local songs for generations, monasteries in Oxfordshire where monks use plainsong to commune with God. Will goes from the heart of the mainstream music scenes to the very fringes as part of his quest, visiting in turn remote musical heartlands and great urban musical cities.
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Cosmic Dreams at Play
by Dag Erik Asbjornsen
Strange Vertigo
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New, updated and revised version of comprehensive guide to progressive and electronic german music of the 1960‘s and 1970’s. Previously long out of print. Features A-Z listings of groups, index of musicians, listing of more important labels, a guide for beginners in this genre & suggestions for further reading.
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Sensational Fix Zine #1 – Silence¹
Sonic Youth
Being the first of a series, SENSATIONAL FIX ZINE #1 Silence¹ sets the standard for the following volumes: its size is 148 x 148 mm and the edition 500 numbered copies in offset print. The first zine will be printed in black and white, and has 28 pages (cover included).
Price £14.00
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Silence¹ has contributions of thirteen of the artists who participate in the exhibition SONIC YOUTH etc: SENSATIONAL FIX (Chris Habib; Cameron Jamie; Richard Kern; John Miller; Maya Miller; Thurston Moore; Michael Morley; Tony Oursler; Lee Ranaldo; Leah Singer; Dennis Tyfus; Nate Young & Alivia Zivich; and Zeloot).
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The Hacienda: How not to run a club
By Peter Hook
Simon and Schuster Ltd
Price £18.95 |
As young and naive musicians, the members of New Order were thrilled when their record label Factory opened a club. Yet as their career escalated, they toured the world and had top ten hits, their royalties were being ploughed into the Hacienda and they were only being paid GBP20 per week. Peter Hook looked back at that exciting and hilarious time to write HACIENDA. All the main characters appear – Tony Wilson, Barney, Shaun Ryder – and Hook tells it like it was -
a rollercoaster of success, money, confusion and true faith.
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A Cultural Dictionary of Punk: 1974-1982
by Nicholas Rombes
Continuum
Price ££14.99 |
A Cultural Dictionary of Punk: 1974-1982 is a bold book that examines punk as a movement that is best understood by placing it in its cultural field. It contains myriad critical-listening descriptions of the sounds of the time, but also places those sounds in the context of history. Drawing on hundreds of fanzines, magazines, and newspapers, the book is—in the spirit of punk—an obsessive, exhaustively researched, and sometimes deeply personal portrait of the many ways in which punk was an artistic, cultural, and political expression of defiance.
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DISBAND
Audio CD
31 minutes
edition of 1000
Price £9.95 |
Long-lost recordings culled from performances between 1979 and 1982 from the loose group of feminist performers known as DISBAND. Ilona Granet, Donna Henes, Barbara Kruger, Ingrid Sischy, Diane Torr, and Martha Wilson screamed, shouted, sang, and stomped through the heyday of New York City's new- and no-wave scenes, blurring the line between performance art and live music. Mirroring the chaos and temporarity of that time, the band split up in 1982 having never produced a record. This is the first comprehensive look at their all-too brief career.
This CD features 21 recordings captured from the band’s live performances between 1979-1982.
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Les Evening Gowns Damnees
Jack Smith
CD
Price £12.99 |
A screaming excerpt from Conrad’s innovative soundtrack to Smith’s notorious 1963 film FLAMING CREATURES–the infamous “earthquake orgy” scene–sets the mood. In his unique piping drawl, Smith reads, improvises and giddily free-associates routines involving him and/or his “best friend” Frances Francine, a middle-aged drag queen whose last chance towear an expensive evening gown inspires the long, poignant narrative that closes the disc. Throughout, Conrad, John Cale and original Velvet Underground drummer Angus Maclise provide suitably exotic musical accompaniment.
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Warp Box Set
Warp
Price £119.99 |
Released to commemorate the 20th anniversary of warp music. The package features new songs, older previously unreleased material from Warp artists, tracks selected as some of his personal favorites by co-founder Steve Beckett and the top ten pieces voted for by Warp fans on Warp20.net. It also includes a beautifully produced book showcasing the label’s rich design history, along with an exclusive hour-long mix and a locked-groove vinyl set.
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Cameron Jamie Poster
Destroy All Monsters,
Silkscreen Limited Edition signed,
The End is Here/Book Beat
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From a total edition of 125 silkscreens , this 18×24″ 3 color glow-in-the-dark poster was designed by artist Cameron Jamie in Paris and printed in the Detroit area, September, 2009.
The poster was produced for the Destroy All Monsters archive exhibit “Hungry for Death” at White Flag Projects, St. Louis, Sept./Oct. 2009. From the edition of 125 there were 50 copies signed by the artist, the edition was printed on antiqued/French cream paper.
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Love, Sex, Fear, Death
The Untold Story of The Process Church of the Final,
by Timothy Wyllie,
FERAL HOUSE
Price £17.99 |
The Process Church is one of the most controversial cults of modern times. Its apocalyptic ideas and powerful literature brought on extreme allegiances and shocking accusations. Here, the secretive group’s history is finally revealed for the first time. Through its various incarnations, the Process Church has kept its history sealed for decades. Though the church was not as horrifying as some made it out to be, its actual history is truly unexpected and sensational.
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Portraits of American Biker- Life in the Sixties
by Beverley V. Roberts
Flash Productions
Price £19.95 |
Back in the 1960s, using a Graflex Speed Graphics Press Camera, Jim “Flash” Miteff shot several hundred photographs of the Outlaws 1%er Motorcycle Club. The photographs in the book were specifically selected from his collection. These never before published images are taken directly from the original negatives that had been in storage for over 40 years.
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Spacesuits. The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Collection
By Amanda Young,
Photographs by Mark Avino,
Powerhouse Books , 2009
Hardback
Price £22 |
Documenting the development of Spacesuits within the Collections of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.This book features dramatic photographs of the Smithsonian’s collection, as well as never-before-published historical images of spacesuit development and testing—range-of-motion studies, for example, in which researchers wore spacesuits while playing baseball and football. The book also includes a group of advanced spacesuits, which, though never used on a mission, are in many respects the most exciting suits ever created. One suit glove has steel fingernails and sharkskin pads, in an attempt to harness the abilities of the human hand. Spacesuits provides a behind-the-scenes look at the history of these remarkable creations, including some that have never before been publicly displayed.
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Maison Martin Margiela
Written by Maison Martin Margiela,
Contribution by Jean-Paul Gaultier, Susannah Frankel, Andree Putman and Vanessa Beecroft,
Rizzoli
Price £60
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Graduating from Antwerp’s Royal Academy of Fine Arts in the 1980s, Martin Margiela transformed global fashion with his aggressive restatement of traditional fashion design and a polemical approach to luxury trends. This book provides an inside look at the design process from a craftsman who creates pieces prized for their originality, delicacy, and daring. In the spirit of Margiela’s garments, the book is a work of art in itself, designed exclusively by Margiela and complete with silver inks, ribbon markers, a variety of lush paper types, twelve booklets, and an embroidered white-linen cover. This book provides a window onto the intimate, handmade world of a unique designer.
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Hellen Van Meene
New Photographs
Schirmer/Mosel Verlag GmbH
Price £59 |
Dutch photographer Hellen van Meene’s new book invites you to enter her world. Tout va disparaître (French for “Everything will disappear”, presents dreamlike portrait studies of really young people in their own individual surrounding environments. Photographed in the USA, Russia and the Netherlands, these young people in carefully planned poses, with muted light seem to be hovering between melancholy and an atmosphere of departure. In addition to an introductory essay by astrophysician and writer Jörg M. Colberg, the book is the first to include a selection of her interiors, still lifes and panoramic shots.
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The Happy Hypocrite - Volatile Dispersal, Speed and Reading, Issue 3
edited by Maria Fusco
Printed offset in an edition of 2,000 copies. 96 pages with a colour soft cover. Designed by A Practice For Everyday Life. 167 x 230 mm. ISBN 9781906012113
Price £8
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Presenting: a reprint in entirety of A Great Book Primer: Essays on Liberal Education, the Uses of Reading and the Rules of Reading, published by the Great Books Foundation, Chicago (1955). Seemingly useless when divorced from the complete series of Great Books, this primer exists as both an archaic set of rules, and open-ended set of possibilities. In this spirit the editing process happens outside the journal in the form of a parley-based art writing festival at the Whitechapel Gallery, London in August 2009, with new commissions selected from invitation and open submission.
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The young people visiting our ruins see nothing but a style
48 pages b&w, published by FormContent
Price £7
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I giovani che visitano le nostre rovine non vi vedono che uno stile translated as The young people visiting our ruins see nothing but a style, includes texts by FormContent, Elena Volpato, Jan Debbaut + poster colour. Concept by Paulus M. Dreibholz.
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JSBJ / Taxis Pleins, Taxis Vides
Full cabs, empty cabs
JSBJ, 2009, softcover
76 Pages, Soft Cover, Full Colour OffsetFirst edition, limited and numbered to 500 copies.
Printed in France. 2009
ISBN: 978-2-9533506-0-9
Price £20
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Photo journal featuring pictures by ALANA CELII, AURELIEN ARBET, DANIEL AUGSHOELL, DUSTIN AKSLAND, HANNAH MODIGH, JEREMIE EGRY, JIMMY LIMIT, KOURTNEY ROY, MARTEN DAMGAARD, NICOLAS POILLOT, PHILIPPE GERLACH, STEPAN HANDZA. Preface by JEFF RIAN.
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Control Magazine
Issue Eighteen
Pages 28
Illustration illustrated in b&w
Dimensions 296 x 210 mm
Price £10
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Despite the forwarding of new forms of socially based and engaged art practice by artists, a feature of culture in the last decades has been the ethos surrounding the possession of art objects. Art as property has not only persisted in our culture but has been celebrated and projected as a dominate emulative icon.
Control Magazine feels that now (midway through 2009) is precisely the moment for art practices that offer a vision, a way forward which connects with people, to externalize their work into the real world today.
Issue Eighteen features a group of texts presented by artists that are considered to have responded to recent cultural events and are offering strategies for the expression of social and community values in art practice.
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Slavoj Zizek
The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic?
416 pages. 22.9 x 15.7 cm. Hardback. . MIT Press ISBN: 9780262012713.
Price £18.95
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A militant Marxist atheist and a 'Radical Orthodox' Christian theologian square off on everything from the meaning of theology and Christ to the war machine of corporate mafia. In this corner, philosopher Slavoj Zizek, a militant atheist who represents the critical-materialist stance against religion's illusions; in the other corner, 'Radical Orthodox' theologian John Milbank, an influential and provocative thinker who argues that theology is the only foundation upon which knowledge, politics, and ethics can stand. In "The Monstrosity of Christ", Zizek and Milbank go head to head for three rounds, employing an impressive arsenal of moves to advance their positions and press their respective advantages. By the closing bell, they have not only proven themselves worthy adversaries, they have shown that faith and reason are not simply and intractably opposed. The debate centers on the nature of and relation between paradox and parallax, between analogy and dialectics, between transcendent glory and liberation.
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Martin Duberman
Black Mountain: An Exploration in Community
614 pages. 20.1 x 13.5 cm. Paperback. Northwestern University Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780810125940
Price £22.50
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With faculty and alumni that included John Cage, Robert Creeley, Merce Cunningham, Buckminster Fuller, Charles Olson, Josef and Anni Albers, Paul Goodman, and Robert Rauschenberg, Black Mountain College ranked among the most important artistic and intellectual communities of the twentieth century. In his groundbreaking history, Martin Duberman uses interviews, anecdotes, and research to depict the relationships that made Black Mountain College what it was. Duberman creates a nuanced portrait of this community so essential to the development of American arts and counterculture. |
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Liam Gillick
All Books
Printed offset in an edition of 1,500 copies, b/w and 6pp spot colour, with a soft cover. Dust jacket image by M/M (Paris). Designed by Liam Gillick, 179 x 130mm.
ISBN: 9781906012175
Price £15
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Collected here for the first time are Liam Gillick’s major fictional texts: ‘McNamara Papers’, Ibuka’, ‘Discussion Island/Big Conference Centre’, ‘The Winter School’, with Erasmus is Late and Literally No Place. Within each history and the utopias and alternative visions of society envisioned by writers, filmmakers, philosophers, and scientists are presented and speculated on, often through the fictionalised voices of secondary historical characters. Traversing genres of fiction and critical discourse, ideas are explored in a nonlinear, open-ended discursive format, in which the textual structure mirrors the structuring of the presented ideas. In each text Gillick’s concern is to explore complex, paradoxical historical moments and the ideologies that shaped, reflecting on how the redundant utopian elements of the past continue to structure contemporary society and remain impulses within speculations of our post-utopian future.
All Books is published by Book Works, as part of Book Works Opus Series.
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Eduardo Kac & Avital Ronell
Life Extreme
Paperback. 128 pages. 70 Colour illustrations. 8.6x11”. ISBN: 9782914563345
Price £19.50
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For thousands of years hybrid inter-species creatures have populated our imaginary. Today, 20 years or so after the appearance of the first transgenetic animal, they are created daily in laboratories. What used to be a myth has now become a reality. At the junction of art and science, LIFE EXTREME intends to present new living beings created by man, beings no longer produced solely by “nature”. This is not a book-essay but a “poetic” proposition, a guide to new lives amongst the most astonishing that have appeared at the beginning of the twenty-first century. For this book, the artist Eduardo Kac – pioneer of “bio-art” and internationally recognized for his “transgenic works” like GFP Bunny (the transgenic rabbit with the fluorescent green protein) – has chosen to meet the philosopher Avital Ronell – a well-known figure on the American new philosophy scene – to have exchanges on these very controversial questions inspired by scientific actuality in the biotechnological field, challenging the limits of what’s human, its boundaries, its possibilities and questioning the fundamental distinction between the natural and artificial, nature and technology, and the human and the machine.
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Jana Leo
Rape New York
Printed offset in an edition of 1,000 copies, b/w, 128 pages with a soft cover, and colour dust jacket. Designed by Fraser Muggeridge, 130 x 195 mm. ISBN: 9781906012144 Book Works (2009)
Price £8
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Starting with a rape in the author’s own apartment, this experimental autobiographic novel defies traditional rape narratives by exploring the complex relationship between domestic violence, urban planning and a corrupt property market. Moving from police distinterest and landlord culpability, via way of a Robocop narrative, prison statistics and a B-movie hit-and-run ending, Jana Leo maps the fault lines of capitalist property speculation and the intersection of sexual crime, class vulnerability and the US justice system.
Rape New York is published as part of Book Works’ Semina series (No.4) edited by Stewart Home. |
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Vince Aletti
MALE
From the collection of Vince Aletti. Text by Collier Schorr. Unpaginated. 300 b/w and colour illustrations. Edition of 1500. PPP Editions NY 2008
ISBN: 9780971548060
Price £80
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MALE features photographs and artifacts from the collection of the renowned photography critic, curator and collector, Vince Aletti. Amassed over the last 30 years, the collection features a blend of anonymous and iconic imagery from the present back into the nineteenth century. This visual cacophony distinguishes Aletti's taste and appetite as a collector. He surrounds himself with his collection in his apartment, but for the first time, in February, 2008, Aletti assembled a selection of images at White Columns in New York. A sampling from this public display is featured in MALE along with a gatefold documenting the collection as it is installed in his home. |
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John Stezaker
The 3rd Person Archive
300 pages. 296 colour illustrations. 240 x 155 mm. Walther Konig, 2009. ISBN: 9783865603715
Price £39.95
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John Stezaker has been collecting photographic city views from the 1920s and 1930s for 30 years. His interest lies in the people that were usually photographed by chance.
In his The 3rd Person Archive, he records hundreds of mostly stamp-size details. He describes the archive as a possibility to travel in time. For the viewer, these “miniatures”, four-colour reproductions of the black-and-white originals, unfold an enormous imaginative power. One feels like a voyeur observing, in an uninvolved way, the fates and encounters of people in urban labyrinths, a surreal situation that is as disconcerting as it is fascinating.
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Collier Schorr
There I Was
72 pages, Steidl (2009), ISBN: 9783865216168, 12.1 x 9.7 x 0.5 inches
Price £20
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There I Was marks both a shift in medium and a conceptual departure for Collier Schorr. Beginning with her father's images of Snyder at work and Snyder's own snapshots from Vietnam, Schorr then draws on professional reportage pictures to literally sketch out Snyder's monumental journey from Queens to Vietnam and back. These drawings are contrasted with reproductions of vintage car-magazine articles and Schorr's own photographs and portraits. Based entirely on photography, this volume engages with the medium and simultaneously challenges the role of the photograph as document of the past. |
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Danny Lyon
Memories of Myself
208 pages. Phaidon Press, 2009. 29.5 x 25.7cm. ISBN: 9780714848518
Price £45
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This book presents a collection of Lyon's photo essays, published in their complete form for the first time, accompanied by texts written by Lyon in his own distinctive voice. These short bodies of work range from his early colour work made in Colombia in 1966 to his recent work made in Cuba. Sexy, edgy, visceral, and rough, most of this work has never been seen before and this book also includes lesser-known examples of Lyon's work in colour. Each of the nine photo essays includes 15 to 20 photographs, and the topics include his 1966 series on the women living in a brothel in a Colombian barrio, a beautiful 1965 series on a gang of young boys from Chicago, a mesmerising and joyful black and white series on Haiti from 1983, a humorous project on derby cars and their contestants from the late 1980s, a series on the troubled youth living in the Bushwick neighbourhood of Brooklyn in the 1990s, and a stunning colour series from Cuba in 2002.An introduction by Lyon gives an insight into his motivations and his career and an interview with the highly influential photography curator, Hugh Edwards, completes the portrait of this rebellious and important figure of American photography.
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Takashi Homma
First, Jay comes
24 pages, self cover, color offset 5.5 x 8 in., saddle-stitched.
Edition of 500
Hassla, ISBN: 9780980093582
Price £10
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The deer hunter shoots its prey and immediately opens the deer with a cleaver. Jays fly down first to consume the remains of the deer. First, jay comes. by Takashi Homma features new photographs and drawings that capture these traces of hunting.
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Paul Graham
A Shimmer of Possibility
376 pages. 24.2 x 31.8 cm. Softcover.
ISBN: 9783865218629. steidlMACK, 2009
Price £42
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Paul Graham’s a shimmer of possibility was quickly hailed as “one of the most important advances in contemporary photographic practice that has taken place in a long while”, that it “redefines what a photobook can be”, and marked a “paradigm shift in photography”. The first edition (2007), comprising 12 individual hardback books in an edition of 1,000 copies, sold out immediately. This second edition brings together the 12 books in one single volume at an accessible price.
Loosely inspired by Chekhov’s short stories, a shimmer of possibility comprises a series of photographic short stories of everyday life in today’s America. |
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Martin d’Orgeval
Touched by Fire
80 pages. 29 x 33 cm. Colour illustrations throughout. Clothbound hardcover with dustjacket.
ISBN: 9783865218551. Steidl, 2009.
Price £29
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On 1 February 2008 at 5.00 a.m., a fire ripped through Deyrolle, the famous old entomology and taxidermy store in the heart of Paris. Its historic collections of thousands of butterflies and rare insects, stuffed animals and minerals, built up since it opened in 1831, went up in smoke, and with them the memories of generations of schoolchildren, dreamers and enthusiasts fascinated by their motionless beauty. Stuffed, mounted and classified, the specimens of a wide range of species conserved by this world-renowned institution were at best singed and at worst reduced to ashes. That which Man and science had taken from the natural cycle of life and death and fixed forever for our wide-eyed pleasure was partially brought back to its original destiny: the fading and disappearance that awaits any creature. Time had been made to stand still, and Nature had reclaimed its rights. Martin d’Orgeval’s photographs show the animals and insects that survived the disaster in situ, against a background of charred woodwork in the shop that had been their habitat since their ‘natural’ death. |
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Tanya Marcuse
Undergarments and Armor
Three hardcover volumes in a slipcased set, 6.5 x 10.5, 112 pages, 53 duotone plates. Nazraeli Press. ISBN: 1590050983
Price £32
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From the bizarre steatopygous forms of Victorian bustles to the haunting facial masks on medieval helmets, Tanya Marcuse has illuminated the complex relationship between body and clothes, with all the ambiguities this entails. Tanya Marcuse’s fascinating photographs show that although |
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Watanabe Katsumi
Gangs of Kabukicho
160 pages. 29.2 x 21.1 cm. Text by Iizawa Kotaro. An edition of 3,000 copies. 2006. ISBN: 978-0971548039
Price £45.50
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Designed by Alexander Gelman and Andrew Roth. Watanabe Katsumi was an itinerant portrait photographer working primarily in Shinjuku in Tokyo. Gangs of Kabukicho reproduces 155 photographs taken in the 60s and 70s in the blue light district of Shinjuku called Kabukicho. The title of the book reflects the title of his first book published in 1973 called simply The Gangs of Shinjuku.
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Stephen Gill
44 Photographs, Trinidad
115 copies, each containing 44 loose prints, all books signed and numbered.
Price £280
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This book features 44 loose c type prints and a dry point etching, all housed within the shell of a scooped out 1964 publication.
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The Mock
FormContent
Price £3
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The Mock and other superstitions is a quarterly journal exploring the relation of artists, writers and curators with written words.
The new issue includes contributions by Olivier Castel, Alex Cecchetti, Michael Dean, Marcelline Delbecq, Sarah Elliott, Simon Fujiwara, Charlotte Moth, extracts from Matteo Terzaghi and Marco Zürcher's book Da qualche parte sulla Terra and F/M's hand-written interpretation of Pierre Guyotat's Body of the Text. |
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Bubble Entendre
Mark Waugh
Bookworks
Price £8
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1. A terrorist siege at Claridge’s in 2012 replaces the Olympics as end of the world TV spectacle. An en suite novel is curated around a series of subjects forced to strip naked and perform like pornstars for a watching world.
2. Hard-boiled noir meets classic French theory as a zombie author transgresses the outer limits of postmodern fiction. The warped narrative plunges from art house to grindhouse and back again.
3. An insanely unofficial fictional updating of Derrida's ‘Of Grammatology’. Think ‘24 Hour Party People’ as directed by Kenneth Anger after he'd croaked and crawled on all fours through the furthest recesses of hell.
Brazen sadists, high-flying hopheads, invisible strippers and the destiny of objects are just some of the themes tackled by Mark Waugh in Bubble Entendre, a tripartite, literary bender. Dirty, dingy and drug fuelled, Willhelm Reich might have penned this book if he'd been force-fed LSD and subjected to a steady diet of dubstep and grime. |
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The Naked Eye
Erica Baum
Excerpts from No. 111.2.7.93-10.20.96 Kenneth Goldsmith,
Free Association (Paperback)
Edition of 500 |
The first title from the free Associations new Notebook Series, published on the occasion of photographer Erica Baum's exhibition at the Dispatch Bureau gallery in New York. In this series Baum explores both the poetic and the painterly qualities of photography by shooting vintage paperbacks from the mid-20th Century with their pages fanned open to reveal fragmented and beautiful narratives in strips of color, image, and text. Her work is complemented by a selection of poems by ubuweb.com founder Kenneth Goldsmith. |
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Last days of W (Newspaper)
Alex Soth
Self Published
Price £11.95
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A 48-page photobook, on newsprint, of pictures Soth had taken in America during the eight years of George W's administration. The photos, and the method of delivery, act as a commentary on the mess W leaves behind. Though the collection is primarily landscapes and still lifes, there are a number of startling portraits. |
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Scenografi
New Print International Published in collaboration with Nieves Books
Price £20
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Annika Larsson, Samuel Nyholm made a film shot in Berlin in a constructed set The film, shot in Berlin inspired by the typical kind of rudimentary cartoons you find in the marigin of newspapers or cross word magazines. Along with the construction and deconstruction, the Scenografi of wood became an arena for performances, dinners, friendly meetings, arguments, tears, nudity and general decadence, including interference from invited and uninvited guests such as: Tobias Bernstrup, Saralunden, SNOWP, Körner Union,
Michael Portnoy and the Sect of Wood.The book, and the poster, made together with Nazareno Crea, consists of outtakes from the film, transcripts of dialogue and documentation of the process. In total 162 pages b/w offset, hand binded with analogue interventions. |
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Beyond
Dan Graham (Paperback)
Edited by Bennett Simpson and Chrissie Iles
Price £28.95
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This volume accompanies a major retrospective organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. It offers the first comprehensive survey of Graham's work. The book's design evokes magazine format and style, after Graham's important conceptual work from the 1960s in that medium. Generously illustrated in color and black and white, Dan Graham: Beyond features eight new essays, two new interviews with the artist, a section of reprints of Graham's own writing, and an animated manga-style "life of Dan Graham" narrative. It examines Graham's entire body of work, which includes designs for magazine pages, drawing, photographs, film and video, and architectural models and pavilions. |
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Paul Thek, Artist's Artist (Hardback)
Edited by Harald Falckenberg and Peter Weibel
Price £32.95
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Paul Thek occupied a place between high art and low art, between the epic and the everyday. During his brief life (1933-1988), he went against the grain of art world trends, humanizing the institutional spaces of art with the force of his humor, spirituality, and character.
This book charts Thek's journey from legendary outsider to foundational figure in contemporary art. In their antiheroic diversity, Thek's works embody the art revolution of the 1960s; indeed, Susan Sontag dedicated her classic Against Interpretation to him. Thek's treatment of the body in such works as "Technological Reliquaries," with their castings and replicas of human body parts, tissue, and bones, both evoke the aura of Christian relics and anticipate the work of Damien Hirst. The book, with more than 500 images (300 in color) and nineteen essays by art historians, curators, collectors, and artists, investigates Thek's work on its own terms, and as a starting point for understanding the work of the many younger artists Thek has influenced.
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Enrico David
Price £36.95
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This is the first major publication by artist Enrico David, including paintings, works on paper, sculptures and vitrines from the last five years, as well as two large-scale installation photos. In his essay Simon Thompson demonstrates some of the ongoing strands within Enrico Davids work, which borrows from craft and design techniques and often features stylised figures staged within erotic or tragic-comic scenarios. |
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Axial Age (Hardback)
Sigmar Polke
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Axial Age is the title of a series of seven paintings completed by Sigmar Polke between 2005 and 2007. With his camera, Polke created a fascinating photo documentary of the painting process, including 187 images specially selected by the artist to be featured in this large-format book.
Axial Age is a reference to the term coined by Karl Jaspers to describe the period between 800 BC and 200 BC, during which the world was reinvented based on the principle of transcendence – a principle that finds full expression in this series of paintings.
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Every Colour by Itself
Francis Upritchard
Designed by åbäke, published in the UK by Dent-De-Leone, 2009.
£16.95
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Le Corbusier and the Occult (Hardback)
By J. K. Birksted
Price £28.95
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Through exhaustive research that challenges long-held beliefs, J. K. Birksted's Le Corbusier and the Occult traces the structure of Le Corbusier's brand of modernist spatial and architectural ideas based on startling new documents in hitherto undiscovered family and local archives. Le Corbusier and the Occult thus answers the conundrum set by Reyner Banham (Birksted's predecessor at the Bartlett School of Architecture) who, fifty years ago, wrote that Le Corbusier's book Towards a New Architecture "was to prove to be one of the most influential, widely read and least understood of all the architectural writings of the twentieth century. |
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Bunker Archeology (Paperback)
By Paul Virilio
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In Bunker Archeology, urban philosopher and cultural theorist Paul Virilio turns his attention—and camera—to the ominous yet strangely compelling German bunkers from WW II that lie abandoned on the coast of France. These ghostly reminders of destruction and oppression prompt Virilio to consider the nature of war and existence, in relation to both the Second World War and contemporary times.
This is the first English-language translation of the French edition published in 1975 to accompany the exhibition of Paul Virilio's photographs at the Pompidou Center. The author's haunting photographs are accompanied by his analysis of the architecture of war in both philosophical and concrete terms. Virilio discusses fortresses and military space in general and the bunkers themselves, including facsimiles of original military maps and extracts from Hitler's "Directives of War." He also examines the role of Albert Speer, Hitler's architect, in the rise of the Third Reich. |
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Obelisk: A History (Paperback)
By Brian A. Curran, Anthony Grafton, Pamela O. Long and Benjamin Weiss
Price £18.95
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Nearly every empire worthy of the name—from ancient Rome to the United States—has sought an Egyptian obelisk to place in the center of a ceremonial space. Obelisks—giant standing stones, invented in Ancient Egypt as sacred objects—serve no practical purpose. For much of their history their inscriptions, in Egyptian hieroglyphics, were completely inscrutable. Yet over the centuries dozens of obelisks have made the voyage from Egypt to Rome, Constantinople, and Florence; to Paris, London, and New York.
The history of obelisks is a story of technical achievement, imperial conquest, Christian piety and triumphalism, egotism, scholarly brilliance, political hubris, bigoted nationalism, democratic self-assurance, Modernist austerity, and Hollywood kitsch—in short, the story of Western civilization. |
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Camps (Paperback)
A Guide to 21st-Century Space
By Charlie Hailey
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W, Charlie Hailey examines the space and idea of camp as a defining dimension of 21st-century life. The ubiquity and diversity of camps calls for a guidebook. Not only does he establish a typology of camps, but he also embeds within his narrative a key to camp ideology. Thus we see how camp spaces are informed by politics and transform the ways we think about and make built environments. Hailey describes camps of diverse regions, purposes, and forms, and navigates the inherent paradoxes of zones that are neither temporary nor permanent: camps of choice, including summer camps, protest camps, drift camps (research stations on Arctic ice floes), and LTVA (Long-Term Visitor Area) More than 150 diagrams, sketches, building and site plans, photographs, political cartoons, video game screenshots, aerial and satellite images, and maps illustrate camp space in unprecedented complexity and variety. |
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Voids (Hardback)
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"Voids. A Retrospective" is a paradoxical exhibition: by re-actualizing nine “empty exhibitions,” it is simultaneously an experimental project that refuses the classic rules of the visual arts and an historical object which confronts the projects of Art & Language, Robert Barry, Stanley Brouwn, Maria Eichhorn, Bethan Huws, Robert Irwin, Yves Klein, Roman Ondák, and Laurie Parsons. At once the support and an extension of the event, this publication outlines the concept of the void in art, aesthetics, philosophy, religion, science, popular culture, architecture, and music, and broaches the subject of nothing, of vacuity, of the invisible and the ineffable, of rejection and destruction.
Essays by Benjamin Buchloh, Jean-François Chevrier, Stuart Comer, Lucy Lippard, Bob Nickas, Brian O’Doherty, Sadie Plant, Ralph Rugoff, Jon Savage, and Sarah Wilson thus intersect with interviews conducted with Robert Barry, Morgan Fisher, Claude Parent, and Jacques Villeglé, and the propositions of Hans Haacke, Malcolm McLaren, Olivier Mosset, Yoko Ono, Sturtevant, and Lawrence Weiner. |
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Barragan House
Luis Barragan
ADA EDITA
Price £38.95
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Easier than catching an airplane to Mexico, this large format edition provides the viewer an opportunity to extensively visit Barragán's self-designed house through a rich collection of both interior and exterior images. Filled with full-page colour, and black and white photographs that capture both the contemplative spaces and rich details of this influential building, the publication is accompanied by floor plans and a short introductory text |
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Text
Gerhard Richter (Hardback)
Edited by Dietmar Elger, Hans Ulrich Obrist
Price £36.00
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Writings, Interviews and Letters 1961-2007 This substantial volume makes available a comprehensive selection of Richter's texts, several published for the first time. The book forms a brilliantly illuminating commentary on Richter's art, as well as providing a thought-provoking discussion on the status of art and the artist in society today.
These texts come from all periods of his career: letters and interviews; public statements about specific exhibitions; private reflections drawn from personal correspondence; answers to questions posed by critics; and excerpts from journals discussing the intentions, subjects, methods and sources of his work from various periods. |
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The Pure Society: From Darwin to Hitler (Hardback)
Andre Pichot
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How did the notions of “race” and “ethnic group,” under the cover of scientific legitimacy, get used for political ends? This work retraces the history of biological conceptions of society and their racist and eugenicist applications from the end of the nineteenth century to the post-Second World War epoch. André Pichot analyzes the relationship between science, politics and ideology, through the examination of specific cases: from Nazism to the various eugenicist research programs launched or financed by eminent scientific organizations from the beginning of the twentieth century onwards. And, today, with the mapping of the human genome and rapid advances in gene therapies, he warns that the dream of a “pure society” is in danger of resurrection.André Pichot researcher at the CNRS in Strasbourg, is one of France’s leading historians of science and a frequent contributor to journals and national newspapers. He is the author of numerous works, including Histoire de la notion de vie and Histoire de la notion de gene.
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SHE, Works by Wallace Berman and Richard Prince
Exhibition catalogue, 2009
Essay by Kristine McKenna
Price £39.95
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She traces these overlaps and sympathies with reproductions of previously unseen works by Berman and new images from Prince's Girlfriends and de Kooning series. Also including an interview with Prince, She is edited by Kristine McKenna, whose ongoing work on Wallace Berman and his contemporaries continues to yield exciting discoveries.
The use of heterosexual pornography or soft erotica in collage and assemblage is often all too uncritical, but for a few of the California artists who came of age in the early 1950s, its applications were much more nuanced. For example, Wallace Berman's 1957 "Cross" assemblage features a close-up photograph of heterosexual penetration that affirms sex as a "factum fidei" ("true fact," as Berman's inscription went)--its explicitness serving simply as realism. This approach to "girlie magazine" imagery and its polar opposite--the impulse to decommodify sexuality--can both be found in the photographs, paintings and books of Richard Prince, an artist whose fondness for the era of Berman is well known. |
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Munari’s Books
Bruno Munari
Corraini edition (Soft Cover)
1st English edition
Price £39.95
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Much more than a mere catalogue or bibliography, this book includes a rich introduction dedicated to the different possible courses in Munari’s multi-faceted production, that helps to consider it side by side with his contemporary works in the fields of painting, sculpture, design, photography and didactics, crossing their different poetics. Also, a bibliographical index of critical essays about Munari is a useful instrument to analyze in depth Munari’s works. |
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Mt Fuji
Naoki Ishikawa
Price £29.95
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'Mt. Fuji', the mountain attracts widespread popularity and seen as the symbol of Japan.
For Ishikawa who had challenged to scale the peaks of the highest mountains of the world's seven continents at his young age, Mt. Fuji was the mountain more to scale than to view. This book includes the photos which have ever been shown such as the landscapes in the winter mountain, the dynamic panorama of the mountain from the air view, the sceneries of the strange festival in surrounding area based on Mt. Fuji worship and so on. |
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Siedlung
Erik van der Weijde
Price £28.95
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Van der Weijde's photographic project documents over 220 houses built in Germany between 1933 and 1945 in order to eventually provide a house for every working-class NSDAP member. In turn this ‘Siedlungpolitiek' was both a powerful Nazi propaganda tool and a way to provide living space to loyal members. Most of these houses still exist, however unless one knows their full history they retain an unassuming normalcy. |
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Mountain Dream Tarot
Bea Nettles
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A sampling of the first known complete photographic Tarot deck created with multiple negatives in 1970 decades before Photoshop. Internationally exhibited photographer and book-artist Bea Nettles (beanettles.com) used herself, her family and friends for models. Her 3 of Swords is the disc icon on Bruce Springsteen's Magic. |
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Daniel Johnson (Hardback)
Philippe Vergne
Rizzoli
Price £25
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Daniel Johnston only ever dreamt of two things: he wanted to be a rock star and he wanted to be a famous artist. Amazingly enough, he succeeded at both. Today he is an acclaimed indie music star whose charmingly twisted songs have been covered by the likes of Beck, Yo La Tengo, and TV on The Radio. His artwork appears in galleries throughout the world and was featured in the 2006 Whitney Biennial. Johnston’s pen and colored marker drawings contain a range of characters, some benign or heroic, and others quite disturbing. In his complex world, good battles evil attended to by an assortment of playful characters. Johnston’s world is also informed by his conservative Christian upbringing, and filled with depictions of biblical vengeance and salvation. Looking at his work, we are reminded of Heironymous Bosch as much as DC Comics. Daniel Johnston contains over 150 full color illustrations, many taken from the artist’s private archives and never seen before. There is also commentary and analysis by the Walker Art Center’s Philippe Vergne, alt-rock luminary Jad Fair, and underground comic legend, Harvey Pekar. "I see him as an artist on the periphery of the art world, but not an outsider artist . . . It’s impressive when you see the consistency of the work."—Philippe Vergne |
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The Disco Files 1973-78: New York's Underground, Week By Week
Vince Aletti
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With reviews of every disco record worth knowing about, weekly reports from New York’s club scene, classic magazine articles and 800 contemporary club charts, this is the definitive chronicle of disco. It's the personal memoir of Vince Aletti, the very first writer to cover the emerging scene, bringing to life the clubs, the characters, and above all the music. |
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Allegorical Decoys
Rebecca Quaytman
Publisher MER. Paper Kunsthalle vzw
Price £17.00
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The Foundations of Judo (Softcover)
by Yves Klein
Tranlsated by Ian Whittlesea
Published by The Everyday Press
Price £16.00
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An Ambiguous Case: Casco Issues XI
Edited by Emily Pethick, Marina Vishmidt and Tanja Widmann
Publisher: Casco, Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utreht episode publishers, Rotterdam
Price £10.95
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A Brief History of Curating (Paperback)
By Lucy Lippard (Author), Walter Hopps (Contributor), Pontus Hulten (Contributor), Harald Szeeman (Contributor), Hans Ulrich Obrist (Editor)
Publisher: JRP|Ringier
Price £11.95
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Lucky Kunst: The Story of YBA (Paperback)
By Gregor Muir
Publisher: Aurum Press Ltd
Price £14.95
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Seth Price: How to Disappear in America (Hardcover)
Price £16.95
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