The MIT Press 1990
224 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 9780262023115
23.5 x 30 cm English text. Hardcover
Typological, repetitive, at times oddly humorous, Bernd and Hilla Becher's photographs of industrial structures are, in their cumulative effect, profoundly moving. The Becher's serenely cool, disarmingly objective, and notoriously obsessive images of watertowers, gas tanks, grain elevators, blast furnaces, and mine heads have been taken over a period of almost thirty years, under overcast skies, with a view camera that captures each detail and tonality of wood, concrete, brick, and steel.
Blast Furnaces represents a continuation of, but also a counterpoint to the Bechers' earlier book Watertowers. There basic functional elements were hidden or clothed in disguises, whereas the 256 duotone prints included here record a purely functional and exposed architecture, built to contain heat, pressure, and accumulations of gases and unhindered by any outside constraints.
The blast furnace is the symbol of the steel industry. Like other building types which attract the Bechers, it is also an endangered industrial species. Essentially giant, cone-shaped circular stoves, blast furnaces dominate the cityscapes of Pittsburgh, Youngstown, and Birmingham much as religious structures dominated medieval cities. These photographs, taken between 1961 and 1989, convey the unique characteristics, physical complexity, and eerie presence in the landscape of blast furnaces in Great Britain, Belgium, France, Austria, Germany, and the United States.
Bernd and Hilla Becher teach at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. They began their collaborative photographic enterprise in 1957, when they did a study of workers' houses in their native Germany. The Bechers follow in a distinguished line of German photographers that includes August Sander, Albert Renger-Patzsch, and Werner Manz, all of whom contributed in different ways to the definition of "objective" photography. A selection of their photographs is on view throughout 1990 at the Dia Art Foundation galleries in New York, and they will represent Germany in the 1990 Venice Biennale. Price: £325.00
Book Works 2000
128 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9781870699440
16.5 x 23 cm English text. Softcover
Rule Book is an extensive collection of guides, instructions, manuals and rules that have been amassed by Angela Bulloch. They are taken from sources as disparate as: parking restrictions, the Ten Commandments, the standing order of the House of Commons, hankie colour codes, Birkenstock care tips and the detoxification diet.
By displacing these rules from their social and political context Bulloch reveals their 'man-made structure' as well as a society that, in order to maintain a stable social structure, imposes regulations and controls on every conceivable form of activity. As such, the book forms an intriguing snapshot of society at the close of the twentieth century. Price: £40.00
Phaidon 2005
224 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 0714845078
22 x 25 cm English text. Hardcover
In 1972, Stephen Shore left New York City and set out with a friend to Amarillo, Texas. He didn't drive, so his first view of America was framed by the passenger's window frame. He was taken aback by the fact that his experience of life as a New Yorker had very little in common with the character and aspirations of Middle America. Later that year he set out again, this time on his own, with a driver's licence and a Rollei 35 - a point-and-shoot camera - to explore the country through the eyes of an everyday tourist. The project was entitled American Surfaces - referring to the superficial nature of his brief encounters with places and people and the underlying character of the images that he hoped to produce. With such an easy-to-use camera, he photographed relentlessly. 'In American Surfaces, I was photographing almost every meal I ate, every person I met, every waiter or waitress who served me, every bed I slept in, every toilet I peed in. But also, I was photographing streets I was driving through, buildings I would see.' Shore returned to New York triumphant, with hundreds of rolls of film spilling from his bags. In order to remain faithful to the conceptual foundations of the project, he followed the lead of most tourists of the time and sent his film to be developed and printed in Kodak's labs in New Jersey. The result was hundreds and hundreds of exquisitely composed colour pictures, whose subject became the benchmark for documenting of our fast-living, consumer-orientated world - a body of work that followed on from Walker Evans and Robert Frank's experiences of crossing America and that influenced reams of photographers such as Martin Parr and Bernd & Hilla Becher, who introduced a generation of students to Shore's work. Price: £50.00
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Fuel 2008
308 pages Colour reproductions. No ISBN
13 x 20 cm English text. Softcover in Box with FREE HAND COLOURED SIGNED AND NUMBERED ETCHING edition of 250
In his first work of fiction, artist Jake Chapman slashes the romantic novel down to bare bone and constructs is own disfigured version from the slaughtered remains.
Chlamydia Love is gifted her very own tropical island by her fiancé, where she develops a grudging adoration for its real owner, the enigmatic bestselling author, Helmut Mandragorass. A battle between her fiancé and Helmut ensues, for ownership of the island and ultimately for the love of Chlamydia.
This mercilessly subversive tale is illustrated by Chlamydia’s watercolours entitled Visions of Morass, images inspired by the island as she struggles with her feelings of agony and ecstasy. Price: £395.00
Modern Art 2002
48 pages Colour reproductions. No ISBN
28.5 x 21 cm English text. Softcover
As painting's capacity to produce credible representations of reality became increasingly questionable, artists engaged with landscape tended to turn to mediums that seemed more immediately connected to the real (photography, Land Art), leaving the painters to their visions of an unspecified sublime, as in certain manifestations of the monochrome. Nigel Cooke feels the pull of this seductive sublimity--more to the point, he knows how to make the viewer feel it--but he distrusts it; he wants his paintings to contradict their own grandeur. Typical results of these mixed intentions can be found in Scandalous Magic Par Excellence, 2001, in which a gorgeous expanse of pitchblack sky is riven down the middle by a bolt of lightning emanating from a tiny dark humanoid eye. At the bottom of the canvas, immensely difficult to see--the edge of the big painting is so close to the floor that it's hard to make out the details even from a kneeling position--lies a landscape of rubble, toxic-looking and barren yet rendered w ith obsessive precision. The devil, we're told, is in the details, and the same has been said of God, but here the desolate world of earthly minutiae seems almost infinitely far from either spiritual power, malignant or benign. Almost unnoticeably, a head emerges from the earth--a cross between Samuel Beckett's Winnie and one of George Romero's living dead, perhaps.
Barry Schwabsky Price: £40.00
Book Works 2004
138 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 1870699742
16 x 20 cm English text. Softcover
"For me, it's like buying gifts for myself and some are really fantastic: occasionally I am really amazed by what I have bought when it arrives, as often the catalogue description does not do justice to the physical object itself."
Jonathan Monk is an artist who loves other artists. His work draws on oblique autobiographical references and personal anecdotes together with art historical strategies and legacies to express a critical camaraderie in his subject. Cover Version features a selection of seminal publications from Monk's extensive collection of artists' books. Sol Le Witt, Lawrence Weiner and Ed Ruscha are represented side by side to form a cogent series, which presents a contemporary investigation into materiality and the problems of signification in conceptual art publishing. An integral section of Cover Version is a transcribed telephone conversation between Jonathan Monk and Seth Siegelaub, which unfolds and discusses their mutual obsession with book making and collecting whilst speculating on the nature of the object. This 'collectable' book also has three different covers designed with its monetary value in euros, dollars and pounds, a direct reference to Lawrence Weiner's 1968 publication Statements. Price: £50.00
Counter Gallery 2003
40 pages B&W reproductions. No ISBN
16 x 15.5 cm English text. Sodtcover SIGNED AND NUMBERED EDITION OF 1000
An autobiographical short story which goes from Emin¹s conception to age thirteen originally published in 1994 in an edition of 200. In 2003, the book was re-released as an edition of 1000 by Counter Editions. Price: £75.00
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, Koln 1999
CD-ROM ISBN 3883753211
1st Edition. scarce cd-rom in english and german. features the full length version of the experimental film: syntagma as well as sequences of more than 50 films and video works, photos, texts, quotes, and poems.
Still in original shrinkwrap Price: £80.50 Including VAT at 15%
Buchhandlung Walther König 1986
45 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 3883750557
11 x 18 cm English/German text. Softcover
Synopsis: "Martin Kippenberger found himself at the turn of 1985 / 86 in the Rio jail. When he went to the Copa, for daily exercise, he couldn't believe his eyes, but his belief. The T-shirts (prison-garb) seemed to him to have slogans that were too primitive, until he realized that these were codes. He deciphered them. BOY, BOY, BOY."
Price: £150.00
Buchbunderei Grafik-Druck 1994
42 pages B&W reproductions. No ISBN
12.5 x 19 cm English/German text. Hardcover
Price: £80.00
Alberta Press 2004
Fold-out paper sheet with attached 64 page booklet B&W reproduction. ISBN 3883756873
Boxed set with free SIGNED AND NUMBERED PRINT
This is copy #28 of only 40 boxed sets containing a signed copy of the book / map, and a signed, numbered and dated stone lithograph . as-new condition. one of the great obsessive-compulsive artists of our time. Price: £2,000.00
The MIT Press 1999
303 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 026204174X
17x 24.5 cm Englsih text. Hardcover
"I want to make art about the commonplace, art that illumines social life. I want to enlist art to question the mythical explanations of everyday life that take shape as an optimistic rationalism and to explore the relationships between individual consciousness, family life, and the culture of monopoly capitalism."
Since the late 1960s, American artist Martha Rosler has produced seminal works in the fields of photography, performance, video, installation, critical writing, and theory. Committed to an art that engages a public beyond the confines of the art world, Rosler investigates how socioeconomic realities and political ideologies dominate ordinary life. Her astute critical analyses are often cloaked in deadpan wit.
This book, which accompanies the first retrospective exhibition of Rosler's work, contains seven color photo essays by Rosler; an excerpt from the curatorial project "If You Lived Here"; essays by Alexander Alberro, Catherine de Zegher, Sylvia Eiblmayr, Jodi Hauptman, and Annette Michelson; a conversation between Rosler and Benjamin Buchloh; and a biography/bibliography along with a complete list of art works. Price: £80.00
Maureen Paley 1997
ISBN 1499272685
Price: £65.00
Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris 2002
208pp Colour reproductions throughout. ISBN 2879006031
16 x 23 cm English/French text. Softcover
Why, today, should we start looking at painting again? This exhibition catalogue, which brings together 30 international artists, does not set out to proclaim the emergence of new tendencies or movements, but aims to present some of the work which is most characteristic of current painting in its questioning of the function and autonomy of art.
Including works by: Adam Adach, Nathan Carter, Verne Dawson, Yayoi Deki, Tatjana Doll, Vladimir E Dubossarsky and Alexander A Vinogradov, Carrol Dunham, Andreas Eriksson, Franz Gertsch, Liam Gillick, Katherine Grosse, Arturo Herrera, Frederico Herrero, Sergej Jenson, Surasi Kusolwong, Karen Leo, Michael Lin, Miltos Manetas, Michaela Math, Julie Mehretu, Beatriz Milhazes, Sarah Morris, Laura Owens, Stephane Pencreac'h, Matthew Ritchie, Wilhelm Sasnal, Alain Sechas, Shahzia Sikander, Vasily Tzagolov, and Anton Vidokle.
Price: £70.00
