Kippenberger - the Artist and His Families

Published by Walther Konig

2012 (Hardcover)

Price £26

Over the course of his 20-year career, Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997) cast himself alternately as hard-drinking carouser and confrontational art-world jester, thrusting these personae to the forefront of his prodigious creativity. He was also very much a player in the international art world of the 1970s right up until his death in 1997, commissioning work from artists such as Jeff Koons and Mike Kelley, and acting as unofficial ringleader to a generation of German artists. Written by the artist's sister, Susanne Kippenberger, this first English-language biography draws both from personal memories of their shared childhood and exhaustive interviews with Kippenberger's extended family of friends and colleagues in the art world. Kippenbergergives insight into the psychology and drive behind this playful and provocative artist.

From Aalto to Zumthor: Furniture by Architects

Published by Walther Konig

2012 (Hardcover)

Price £30

Product design is a design branch in its own right, but renowned architects often design their ideal furniture themselves. What makes furniture designed by architects special? Examples from the last 100 years from the MAK design museum’s own rich collection will be on display to look into this question. The exhibits will include designs by Alvar Aalto, Marcel Breuer, Norman Foster, Daniel Libeskind, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, and many others.

Nick Relph: Vestiarium Scoticum

John Sobieski Stuart; Charles Edward Stuart; Celtus

2011 (Softcover)

Price £35

Vestiarium Scoticum is an intentionally flawed reprint of an intentionally misleading and fantastical book. The original Vestiarium Scoticum was itself claimed to be a reproduction of earlier documentation surveying 'ancient' tartan patterns and their connections to various clans. The tartans inside were laregely the inventions of two English brothers, John Sobieski Stuart and Charles Edward Stewart.
The images for this printing of the book were taken from Wikipedia, and had been uploaded by a user called 'Celtus' who is no longer active on Wikipedia. He, along with the Stuart brothers and myself are all credited as authors.
The book was printed on a Riso using Red Green and Blue only for the tartans.

The Exhibitionist #4
Published by Archive Books

2011

The Exhibitionist is a new journal focusing solely on the practice of exhibition making. The objective is to create a wider platform for the discussion of curatorial concerns, encourage a diversification of curatorial models, and actively contribute to the formation of a theory of curating.

book as artwork 1960/1972
By Germano Celant
Brooklyn, NY: 6 Decades, 2010. 

Price £14.50

Originally published in 1972 by the Nigel Greenwood Gallery, Book as Artwork 1960/1972 was the first catalogue devoted to the then new medium of the artist’s book and it remains a canonical reference (though one that, due to its scarcity, is not as well known as it should be).

With this new edition it is possible to regain the perspective of 1972. It was a period when, as Celant describes it, the “the rules used for the identification of the art object were destroyed” and thus “medium became significant in itself.” Artists’ books were emblematic of the new multidisciplinary approach taken by the era’s avant-garde and, as that approach continues to be the predominant mode among artists working today, it is increasingly clear that artists' books have been, and continue to be, integral to the practice of art in the contemporary era. 

Artist Magazines
An Alternative Space for Art

By Gwen Allen

Price £25.95

Magazine publishing is an exercise in ephemerality and transience; each issue goes out in the world only to be rendered obsolete by the next. To publish a magazine is to enter into a heightened relationship with the present moment. During the 1960s and 1970s, magazines became an important new site of artistic practice, functioning as an alternative exhibition space for the dematerialized practices of conceptual art. Artists created works expressly for these mass-produced, hand-editioned pages, using the ephemerality and the materiality of the magazine to challenge the conventions of both artistic medium and gallery. In Artists' Magazines, Gwen Allen looks at the most important of these magazines in their heyday (the 1960s to the 1980s) and compiles a comprehensive, illustrated directory of hundreds of others.

The Woodmill Print Portfolio
Edition of 100

Price £55

48 artists from The Woodmill were asked to contribute a work in an edition of 100 to this box set, works range from laser print to DVD to hand printed to stamped. All are early career artists, each of the editions are signed and numbered.


Railway Mania
by Bonnie Camplin

Price £7.50

As part of her ongoing investigation into the deeper meaning of science, technology and rational thought, this publication (in reference to a recent exhibition) incorporates aesthetic and historical material relating to the industrial revolution and in particular the birth of the railways.

This 88 page book for artist Bonnie Camplin features three essays and an insert of black and white plates.

Was Ist Los
By Seth Price

Price £10

"Facsimile reproduction of a 2003 essay by Seth Price. Previously published as "Decor Holes,"

Austin Osman Spare
By Phil Baker

Published by Strange Attractor

Temporarily Out of Stock

An engaging, thought-provoking biography which charts the rise and fall and rise again of British art's darkest star. ''Spare's medicine is too strong for the average man'' said George Bernard Shaw, and there was always something uncanny about him. Fascinated with mysticism and spiritualism from an early age, Spare practiced a unique system of magic before retreating a life of poverty and obscurity. And as Spare the artist went underground, so the myth of Spare the magus began to grow; tales of black magic cloaked themselves around him, as he played the role of sorceror.