Greybull Press 2002
Price: £39.95
White Cube 2005
80 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 0954236335
13 x 21 cm English text. Softcover
Originally published in 2002 now available again!
Price: £20.00
Zach Feuer Gallery/Grinnell College 2004
150 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 096718273
18 x 24 cm English text. Softcover
When Phelps put out a call for critics and scholars to write about a subject found in her work--not about her work itself, but one of its themes--and then to trade their piece for a drawing of their choosing, it set off her third barter-based project. The first enmeshed her in a system of mutual indebtedness with other Brooklyn artists, the second with her compatriots in representation by Chelsea’s LFL Gallery, and this last puts critics from Adrian Dannatt (the Art Newspaper) to Frances Richard (Artforum) in her pocket. Each participant gets a new object and the goodwill generated by the unusual transaction, but Phelps remains in some sense the owner of the deal itself, which she sells in new work documenting it, including this book.
Essays by Regine Basha, Barry Blinderman, Deborah Bright, Bruce Brown, Adrian Dannatt, Ranier Ganahl, Kirby Gookin, Kim Levin, Deborah Lynn, Cedar Lorca Nordbye, Ingo Nussbaumer, Raphaela Platow, Frances Richard, Katy Siegel, et al. Price: £16.95
160 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 0907738737
17 x 22.5 cm English text. Softcover
Over the past 30 years Victor Burgin’s work has established him as both a highly influential artist and a renowned theorist of the still and moving image. After 13 years in the United States, Burgin recently returned to live and work in Britain.
Burgin came to prominence as an originator of conceptual art, and was nominated for the Turner Prize shortly before his departure for the USA. This book offers a critical overview of a body of work that combines conceptual rigour with poetic elegance, and remains an essential reference for succeeding generations of artists.
Texts by Catsou Roberts, Stephen Bann, Peter Osbourne, Françoise Parfait and Victor Burgin Price: £14.95
Artangel 2002
132 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 1902201159
21.5 x 26.5 cm English text. Hardcover
In his most ambitious film project to date, Steve McQueen connects two different experiences of falling. Carib’s Leap is based on a historical episode in Grenada in 1651, when a group of native Caribs threw themselves from a cliff rather than surrender to the colonising French forces. Western Deep is contained within the South African gold mine where workers descend some two miles into the body of the earth.
The book includes approximately 80 stills from the two films and includes an introduction by James Lingwood and an essay by Jean Fisher. Price: £19.95
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth 2003
272 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 0500093083
24.5 x 30.5 cm English text. Hardcover
Philip Guston (1913–1980) had been a successful abstract painter for almost two decades when he boldly returned to figurative work in the late 1960s. His uncompromising late paintings, which broke taboos, baffled his admirers, and shocked the art establishment, ultimately inspired succeeding generations of artists, invigorating painting with a new sense of mission.
This book, the most comprehensive survey of Guston’s art to date, brings together for the first time the different aspects of the artist’s work, exposing the connective threads between them. In-depth essays by a group of noted critics and art historians explore Guston’s early influences and the emergence of symbols that resurfaced and played prominent roles in his late work. Here is real insight into Guston’s philosophy regarding abstraction, his role within its development, and the social and art historical context from which his so-called ‘Klan’ paintings emerged. Also included are one of Guston’s own essays on art and innovation, selections of drawings that act as both prelude and restatement at each stage of the artist’s career, and a number of works from Guston’s Estate that have never been exhibited before and that shed new light on his development.
With essays by Dore Ashton, Michael Auping, Bill Berkson, Andrew Graham-Dixon, Philip Guston, Joseph Rishel, Michael E. Shapiro . Foreword by Marla Price Price: £35.00
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 2002
120 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3775791205
20 x 26 cm English/German text. Softcover
Sam Durant's works address utopias and their failures. They cross past events to create relationship between art-historical, pop- cultural, and political phenomena that have come to define popular, particularly American, culture during the last thirty- five years. Durant's conceptually conceived, multimedia installations refer to specific guiding figures and ideas; artist Robert Smithson and his work on entropic processes, rock stars Mick Jagger and Neil Young, as well as Black Panther co-founder Huey Newton, are in different ways integrated into his work. The enormous enthusiasm with which Durant's work has been received in Germany thus far is surprising on first sight, given his preoccupation with specifically American issues. However, when considered in relation to Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Dennis Hopper, or Mike Kelley, Durant extends Germany's fascination with American art.
The publication provides a fundamental survey on Durant's work and contains a detailed and knowledgeable essay by Michael Darling, an enlightening interview between Rita Kersting and Sam Durant, as well as a poetic text by Kevin Young.
Texts by Michael Darling, Kevin Young, interview with the artist by Rita Kersting Price: £15.95
Skira Editore 2003
56 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 8884914310
17 x 28 cm English/Italian text. Softcover
The catalogue of the first Italian solo-exhibition devoted to the German artist Thomas Demand, born in Munich in 1964. Thomas Demand (b. 1964 in Munich) lives and works in Berlin. From 1987 to 1989 he studied at the Akademie der bildenden Kunste of Munich and from 1989-1991 at the Kunstakademie of Dusseldorf. In 1992 he moved to Paris and the following year he attended Goldsmiths College in London where he received a Master of Arts in 1994. Demand has received widespread recognition and has participated in numerous group exhibitions including: New Photography 12, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1996; Stills: Emerging Photography in the 1990s, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1997; Carnegie International 1999/2000, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 1999. He has held solo exhibitions in various museums including the Tate Gallery, London, in 1999, the Fondation Cartier pur L'Art Contemporain of Paris in 2000 and the Sprengel Museum of Hannover, the Aspen Art Museum (Colorado) and the De Appel in Amsterdam in 2001. The volume examines Demand's unique photographs which are characterized by a continuous shifting between reality and fiction. Photography, sculpture and architecture are combined in his works depicting life-size cardboard models created by the artist, according to a complex passage that leads from the three dimensions of sculpture to the two dimensions. His photographs are ambiguous screens placed at the boundary between abstraction and detail, between formal materiality and two-dimensional illusion. Entering Demand's images is easy, what is difficult here is finding one's way out. Price: £12.95
Kunsthaus Bregenz 2003
128 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3883756660
26.5 x 22 cm English text. Softcover
New Ocean, conceived as a work that transcends spatial bounds, uses several video installations to develop the theme of the tension between urban concentration and emptiness, between man and nature, emotionality and distance. New Ocean is a modular cycle of works. Each work and each level of the exhibition hall is its own self-contained work, but at the same time part of a larger cycle. Accompanies the travelling exhibition showing at Kuntshaus Bregenz, Bregenz and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in 2003. Price: £30.00
112 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3905509466
22 x 28 cm Softcover
Non comprises 100 letter paper-size drawings by artist Annelies Coste, who was born in Marseille and works in Zurich. They add up to a radical artist's book imbuing the medium of drawing with an extremely energetic, innovative impetus. "With fragile lines Annelies Coste comments the ways of the world. On a single letter paper-size sheet she can fit the whole world, a part of the solar system, and a little bit of politics. Iconic images on handwriting with a French touch. With their florid swirls they are reminiscent of Brunhoff's Babar or Ben Vautier's bonmots. Each sheet one topic. A serial novel without end. Coste' drawings are at the same time a vision of the world and the expression of her emotional state: Me and the world; My mother and Saturn; Berlusconi and art. (...) With her feelings at the center Coste investigates the world. Sizing up the big issues, mixing sensitivity and carefree ease, sadness and confidence in victory." (Gianni Jezer, catalogue Kunsthalle Basel, 2002) Price: £19.95
National Gallery 2003
72 Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 1857091671
20.5 x 26.5 cm English text. Softcover
Accompanying the exhibition that mark the end of Mueck’s tenure at the National Gallery, this book illustrates the artist’s new sculptures for the first time - and discusses in detail the work of a sculptor whose subjects are traditional, although his treatment of them sometimes is not.
For Mueck the making of each sculpture is fundamental to its meaning, and the perfect execution of each piece crucial to its psychological impact. Here, Colin Wiggins, Deputy Head of Education at the National Gallery, his work is made, and at the artist’s chief inspirations from the Gallery’s collection. The writer and curator Susanna Greeves, who worked closely with Mueck for several years, then considers his sculpture as part of a wider tradition. Price: £12.99
Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Roma 2003
120 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 8843583573
25 x 30.5 cm English/Italian text. Softcover
Tony Oursler has been strongly influenced by the expressive potential of cinema in his early work. During the eighties, he moved from video to installations whilst later work saw him utilising headless dummies, dolls and puppets to explore his interest in the human pysche. This publication of 70 works accompanies the major exhibition at the new Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Roma (Macro), October 2002 - January 2003. Price: £35.00
ARTicle Press 2002
78 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 1873352530
24.5 x 30 cm English text. Softcover
Jemima Stehli investigates the problems that emerge from the depiction of the nude female body. In her work Stehli refers to well known works by artists from Helmut Newton to Francis Bacon, combining this approach with an unsettling use of self-portraiture.
The book includes reproductions of numerous well-known works. Stehli photographs herself whilst she is photographing other women, the female subject becomes the object of the camera in spite of her own control over the picture. In another recent work, 'Strip', Stehli invited male writers and critics to watch her and photograph themselves watching her as she removed her clothes before them. Their reactions to this stripping show were then photographed. Matthew Collings, Adrian Searle and others were included as subjects in this series. In another new series the nude female is made out to be both dynamic and clumsy as she photographs herself performing actions from Francis Bacon paintings against a monochromatic background.
Texts by David Burrows, John Slyce and Stella Santacatterina. Price: £15.00
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