Book Works 2009
248 pages ISBN 9781933751092
14 x 21.5 cm English text. Softcover
A striking, newly published collection of Liam Gillick's major texts in one volume! Book designed by M/M (Paris), Liam Gillick and Book Works including:
Erasmus is Late - The central character of Erasmus is Late is Erasmus Darwin, opium-eater and brother of the more famous Charles who is indeed late. Late for a dinner party that he himself is giving and whose illustrious guests, already assembled around his table, include: Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense under Kennedy; Masura Ibuka, co-founder of Sony; and Murry Wilson, father of Brian Wilson. Whilst the guests wait, Erasmus dawdles through contemporary London becoming waylaid by different sites, which represent for Gillick, the development of free-thinking; Gillian Gillick, the artist's mother, illustrates these sites with line drawings. Erasmus Darwin epitomises for Gillick the activity of free-thinking; a form of political pursuit dependent on wealth and leisure and problematic in its relationship to 'unfree' thought and the working classes.
The Winter School - Last year. 1996. A winter scenario. Before the main event. A moment spared for thinking back to another time. 1971. A new structure could have been created, a kind of school. A place to set action into action. A projection into the near future. Changing everything. It’s just that no-one can remember the details. Three people are looking for the original report. And they’ll have to shift and flicker in order to reclaim that old forward-thinking. It’s 1971. In a room, overlooking the lake, a series of reports are being written. But we only have access to fragments of this emerging structure. The voice of the report co-ordinator is indistinct and presently hard to identify. For the moment we will only be able to make out the first few lines. First a cough and then. “Discussion Island is a lost Celtic place, no longer missing. Clans maintained this shared site, each taking turns to farm it in yearly rotation. In the event of any dispute between them, people gathered on Discussion Island to thrash out and reorganise crisis. An example of a desire for negotiated solutions that is part of a suppressed history. In parallel to this we now have a report that exposes an interest in people and situations where the location for action and analysis is focused upon the centre. A reclamation of the near future through an understanding of the middle ground” ...
Literally No Place - Three characters return to a desert commune to tell three stories. Each one continuing until they reach a solution or a dilemma. Developing narratives that could be described as significant and marginal simultaneously. Addressing the urban/non-urban, the border zone and the locations of pre/post-presentation.
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The Kitchen, NY 2009
96 pages B&W reproductions ISBN
23 x 29 cm English text. Softcover
Exploring the intersection of drawing and sound, this publication includes experimental scores by more than thirty composers who relinquish traditional musical notation in favor of their own invented visual systems of pictorial or "graphic" elements. Their musical compositions take the form of abstract drawings, videos, and digital renderings filled with complex pictograms, evocative mark-making, gestural symbols, and intricate codes of numbers, letters, and color. These highly personal vocabularies are the catalysts for a social process of translation and open-ended interpretation between composer and performer. Among the artists included in the exhibition are: Robert Ashley, James Beckett, David Behrman, Earle Brown, Cornelius Cardew, Tony Conrad, John Driscoll, Morton Feldman, Jon Gibson, Tom Johnson, Alison Knowles, Joan La Barbara, Annea Lockwood, Meredith Monk, Gordon Mumma, Anthony Jay Ptak, Steve Roden, Marina Rosenfeld, Michael J. Schumacher, Elliott Sharp, Wadada Leo Smith, David Tudor, Stephen Vitiello, and Christian Wolff, among many others. Price: £10.00
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Book Works 2005
156 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 1870699815
19 x 25.5 cm English text. Softcover
This is a book about the creative life of Britain and the first attempt since the Festival of Britain to document the popular and folk art of the present day. Compiled and selected by Alan Kane and Jeremy Deller Folk Archive: Contemporary Popular Art from the UK, presents a personal selection of objects, actions, and things, authored by individuals or collectives who would not normally consider themselves as artists. The work ranges from scarecrows and needlework to activist and trade union banners-from the apparently mundane to the humorously bizarre.
Conceived in response to the question of what might constitute present day folk art the Folk Archive treads a path between anthropology and artistic practice, considering how folk art has adapted in light of social, cultural and technological changes. Comparable in spirit to Harry Smith's legendary Anthology of American Folk Music Kane and Deller re-present undervalued, overlooked, and often un-credited work-that lies outside of the recognized cultural industries-and bring its producers to the forefront. Finding elements of ambition, humour, pathos and resistance, they present us with invaluable evidence of creative life in Britain today.
Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane are London based artists who have worked independently and collaboratively on various projects. Jeremy Deller has exhibited throughout Europe and America, and was the winner of the 2004 Turner Prize. Alan Kane has exhibited widely and has present projects at The Showroom Gallery, London, Norwich Art Gallery and The Modern Institute in Glasgow.
Jeremy Millar is an artist and writer and his essay Poets of Their Own Affairs presents this project in a historical and theoretical context. He is the author of Confessions, published by Book Works in 1996 Price: £14.50
COLONY 2007
200 pages Colour and B& W reproductions. ISBN 9780955741104
17 x 23cm English text. Softback
Major publication by COLONY, featuring all text commissions to date, plus new visual and text based commissions by emerging and established artists and writers.
featuring Terry Atkinson, Simon Bedwell, Amanda Beech, Vincent Honore, Andy Hunt, Mark Hutchinson, Ryan McClelland, Juneau Projects, Flavia Muller Medeiros, Paul O'Neill, Sally O'Reilly, David Osbaldeston, Michael Schwab, Claire Shallcross, and more... Price: £15.00
Walther Konig, Cologne 2008
308 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9783865602602
25 x 31 cm English text. Hardcover
Pin-up girls, weight-lifting studies, newspaper clippings, baby pictures... Hans-Peter Feldmann tells stories with pictures. Accordingly, apart from the title page, this photo album contains no text. Even the frontispiece is a photograph of boxes from Feldmann's picture archive--amassed over many years and comprising images from magazines, advertising supplements, photography books, postcards and collectibles. Travel photos, family snapshots and pictures of friends play their part as well. In recent years, Feldmann has become increasingly noted for his commentary on the way we archive photos, sending up the everyday from a very personal perspective. He seeks out the trivial incidents, the unnoticed moments, and keeps them close at hand. According to Feldmann, Works of art should not be expensive, nor unique, but cheap and fast to produce. A painting immediately acquires a sort of importance, whereas a photo is much more arbitrary, as it's a lot easier to throw away.
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Dent-De-Leone 2009
96 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9780956188502
17.5 x 25.5 cm English text. Hardcover
What is exciting is that it is like a ladybird book but the size of a National Geographic magazine. It is stuffed with 96 pages of incredibly colourful fluorescent pictures of naked men and ladies sculptures by Francis Upritchard. As sculptures have a tendency to show a unique view in publications, they decided to go full frontal and backside for most, side view for some.
Four Corners Books 2007
128 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 9780954502546
Oscar Wilde's classic book-his only novel- follows the fortunes of a young man of leisure in fin-de-siecle London after he makes a deal with the devil: that he shall always stay young, while his portrait grows old in his place. Artist Gareth Jones re-imagines the story as a costume drama set in 1970s Paris, in a large format edition that returns the book to its origins in a magazine. Price: £11.95
JRP 2008
160 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9783905829846
22 x 26 cm English/French text. Softcover
In her drawings, films, and sculptures, the French artist (*1974) living in Geneva deploys an aesthetic of "states" rather than of formal or theoretical references, in which notions of pleasure and experience find a new force. In this book of drawings she invites the reader on a journey into her universe imbued by hippie and psychedelic traits as much as by New Age evocations and memories of Minimalist abstraction. Price: £21.00
Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, 2007
64 pages. B&W reproductions. ISBN: 9788361156369
15.5 x 16.5cm. English/Polish text. Softcover.
Essay by Mike Sperlinger (Afterthought: New Writing on Conceptual Art) and interview by Stuart Bailey (dot dot dot) Prose poem by Douglas Park 'Dream Key Zodiak/Pandora's Ark'
This publication traverses both sides of Mark Aerial Waller's practice, a glimpse into his oeuvre of video works as well as the event based project The Wayward Canon, founded by Waller in 2002.
'The Flipside of Darkness' is a video work based on the ancient Greek tragedy 'Oresteia' by Aeschylus, shot entirely in Warsaw within Stalin's Palace of Cuture and Science and nearby neo-classical Lazienki park. The grandure of Soviet architecture is overlayed with Aeschylus epic narrative of the emergence of justice from barbarism.Mike Sperlinger's essay draws relationships between the survival of mythology, 'cult' culture and the contamination of the present within waller's video work. Stuart Bailey investigates the mechanisms of salon culture and the relationships between audience, space and event structure in his interview with Waller, a rare document of the emergence of The Wayward Canon. Price: £5.00
JRP Ringier 2007
304 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9783905829020
19 x 24.5 cm English text. Hardcover
This publication is concerned with play, mapping, and the experience of a collective writing. Thought of as a history, geography, and contemporary art book, it is the result of a series of delegations, invitations, and programs of those who conceived the event. Bringing together 70 "players" from around the world, divided into two groups according to whether they are artists or critics and exhibition curators, the project was developed around a central question: How to define the current decade. If the task of the first group was to choose responses among those proposed by artists today, the second group, benefiting from an open curatorial proposition, had to sequence these choices or confront them with others. Altogether, these subjectivities, framed by a few rules of presentation find themselves here as participants in an exercise of determining, repositioning, and reframing a decade and an object-art-the course of which is, as the yardstick of all-purpose concepts today, more and more indispensable.
The publication is accompanied by previously unpublished essays by and interviews with Mehdi Belhaj-Kacem, Stefano Boeri, François Cusset, Okwui Enwezor, Michel Houellebecq, Anselm Jappe, Paul Veyne, and Ralph Rugoff.
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JRP | Ringier 2009
160 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9783905829907
16.5 x 22 cm English text. Softcover
This publication presents an overview of the work of the Swiss artist duo Sabina Lang and Daniel Baumann (L/B), who have collaborated since 1993 and have regularly exhibited in biennials, museums, and art venues all over the world. Their work can be described as on the edge of art, architecture, and design.
This book stuctures their work into seven groups: Mobile (containing movable objects, among them the one-room-hotel Everland), Comfort (inflatable objects), Perfect (modular objects), Surface (sharp-edge paintings), Flat (wall paintings), Space (stage objects), and Field (interventions in the real world).
The chapters are introduced and discussed by Marc-Olivier Wahler, Philip Ursprung, Giovanni Carmine, Jacqueline Burckhardt, Diedrich Diederichsen, Gianni Jetzer, and Rein Wolfs.
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Violette Editions 2007
296 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9781933045696
14 x 19 cm English text. Hardcover
The original edition of Double Game, published by Violette Editions in 1999, was the first important book by Sophie Calle to be published in English and earned fervent international praise for its concept, content and stunning design. Writing for Bookforum, Barry Schwabsky called "this elegant, ribbon-wrapped compendium … My vote for the most beautiful art book of 1999." And Eye magazine judged it, "That rare thing, an artist's monograph that is actually a work of art in and of itself, a furthering of Calle's vision." That edition quickly sold out and has since been out of print.
This new edition, published to coincide with the 2007 Venice Biennale, at which Calle will represent France, is identical in content to the first, and reprises all of the cherished qualities of the original in a smaller hardback format--including the signature ribbon around its middle.
The story begins with Maria, the fictional character in Paul Auster's novel, Leviathan. Most of Maria's "works" are, in fact, based on those of Sophie Calle. The first section of Double Game takes us through the few original works by Maria that Sophie makes her own, shown both in their fictional context and illustrated by Calle's actual reproduction of them. The second section takes the story further into the heart of Calle's world, with a series of Calle's seminal narrative and abstract works in text and images that were appropriated by Maria in Leviathan. The third section of the book takes the dialogue directly to Maria's inventor, Paul Auster, who in turn takes Calle as his subject, inventing for her the Gotham Handbook, which offers "Personal Instructions for SC on How to Improve Life in New York City (Because she asked...)."
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Tramway 2008
76 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9781899551422
20.5 x 28.5 cm Hardcover
In this artist’s book Jonathan Monk playfully mixes visual material from children’s TV and the elite, avant-garde art world.
Its format is an unusual facsimile of a Blue Peter children’s TV annual to which, on every page, the artist has collaged private view invitation cards to exhibitions by major international artists of the 1960s and 1970s, such as Mario Merz, Lawrence Weiner, Sol Le Witt, Bruce Nauman and Joseph Kosuth amongst others. Price: £10.00
96 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9781906012199
20 x 26 cm English text. Softcover
Kidnapping Mountains is a playful and informative, exploration of the muscular stories, wills, and defeat inhabiting the Caucasus region. Comprising two parts: an eponymous section addressing the complexity of languages and identities on the fault line of Eurasia, and Steppe by Steppe, a restoration of the regions seemingly reactionary approaches to romance.
Slavs and Tatars are a collective devoted to an area east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China known as Eurasia, who redeem an oft-forgotten, romantic sphere of influence between Slavs, Caucasians and Central Asians. With texts by Victoria Camblin and Payam Sharifi.
Book Works 2007
80 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9781870699914
16.5 x 23 cm English text. Softcover three pamphlets with gatefold binding
Stanley Green, 'The 'Protein Man' is embroiled in an argument. He trawls the city streets campaigning for the suppression of desire through diet. His self-published pamphlet, 'Eight Passion Proteins with Care' outline the connections between nutrition, sedentary life and human sexuality. A second constellation recounts the history of a non-conformist group founded on action-analysis and bohemian schedules. Elsewhere, socialist-utopian Charles Fourier forms the basis of a discussion about the occupation of Sealand, His passional series and visionary designs of the Phalanx rouse the search for an islet of resistance.
3 Communiqués is a documentary fiction charting a journey through the marginal histories of communalism, self-presentation and collective agency. It forges a subjunctive archaeology that renegotiates utopian propositions as a way of both making art and as a tool for progressive thinking.
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Hatje Cantz 2008
392 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9783775722438
23 x 26.5 cm English text. Hardcover
Gerhard Richter has time and again drawn on photographs as the basis for works in his multifaceted oeuvre, and art historians have frequently studied his blurred paintings of photographs. However, Richter has also painted directly on commercial prints in oil. Inspired by the accidental spots and traces of paint on the source material, he produced pictorial overpaintings. These kinds of overpaintings appeared in works as early as his Atlas.
Practically all of these mostly small-format paintings are in private collections and rarely exhibited in public. In these subjects, covered with a painterly veil, Richter continues to prove that he is a “master at keeping his distance,” as Robert Storr once formulated it. This monograph offers a unique opportunity to honor what has previously been a neglected but copious complex of works in the artist’s oeuvre.
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Hatje Cantz 2007
368 pages Colour Reproductions. ISBN 9783775720557
20.8 x 28.6cm English Text. Hardcover
Richard Prince has been at the forefront of the most innovative art being produced in the United States over the past thirty years, single handedly ushering in an entirely new, critical approach to art making-one that questioned notions of originality and the privileged status of the unique aesthetic object while simultaneously embracing and critiquing a quintessentially American sensibility: the Marlboro Man, muscle cars, biker chicks, off-color jokes, gag cartoons, and pulp-fiction novels.
This fully illustrated catalogue accompanies the traveling retrospective, Richard Prince: Spiritual America, organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, which is the most comprehensive examination of the artist's work to date. Highlighting key examples from Prince's oeuvre in addition to work created specifically for the exhibition, the catalogue features a critical overview by Nancy Spector, Chief Curator of Contemporary Art and Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Guggenheim Museum, and an essay by Jack Bankowsky discussing the artist's environmental installations. In addition, Glenn O'Brien conducts a series of interviews with individuals such as Annie Proulx, Phyllis Diller, John Waters, Michael Ovitz, Kim Gordon, and Robert Mankoff, among many others, forming a composite portrait of the artist's themes and providing an insider's view of the formation of mass-cultural taste. Price: £35.00
72 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9781906012137
20 x 25 cm English text. Softcover
Teignmouth Electron deals with the tragic and extraordinary story of the amateur yachtsman, Donald Crowhurst. A particpant in the 1968 Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, a single-handed non-stop around the world yacht race, Crowhurst secretly abandoned the race but filed false reports of his progress and position to suggest his continued participation. Two weeks before he was due home to a hero's welcome, his yacht, Teignmouth Electron, was found adrift and empty.
Today his boat lies beached and abandoned at its final resting place, Cayman Brac, an island in the Caribbean. Piecing together the fragments of Crowhurst’s story from books, articles, films and recorded testimonies from people who knew him, as well as her own visit to the island, Tacita Dean negotiates the pathos and tragedy of events by constructing a loosely woven narrative of striking texts and images. Price: £14.95
The Everyday Press 2009
224 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 9780956173805
14 x 22.5 cm English text. Softcover
A transimile of the French 1st edition published by Grasset, Paris, 1954.
Judo is, in fact, the discovery by the human body of a spiritual space. Yves Klein, May 1958
In 1952 the 24-year-old Yves Klein left Paris for Japan, to pursue his first love; not art but judo. After becoming one of very few Europeans to receive a coveted 4th dan black belt from the Kodokan in Tokyo, Klein returned to France and opened the Judo Académie de Paris. In 1954 the prestigious firm of Grasset published his book Les Fondements du Judo, illustrated with hundreds of photographs of Klein and the leading Japanese teachers demonstrating the six major Kata of judo.
Now this extraordinary work has finally been translated into English. Price: £16.00
Book Works 1995, 6th edition 2005
96 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 187069922X
15 x 21 cm English text. Softcover
David Shrigley, an artist based in Glasgow, has achieved international recognition; the success of this book has increased as his work has reached an ever-wider audience.
Shrigley's work has been described as having the ability to make one laugh and cry at the same time. Working across different media - drawing, sculpture, photography and painting - Shrigley's output defies categorisation and, indeed, resists analysis.
Err illustrates the moral and artistic conundrums at the heart of contemporary commentary, using drawings full of bleak humour, that confound the brain and unsettle the soul. This edition, published to mark its 10th anniversary, has a new cover designed by the artist.
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Rizzoli 2009
296 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9780847831968
22 x 28.5 cm English text. Hardcover
Ryan McGinness is an internationally exhibited artist whose skate-punk aesthetic incorporates carefully rendered personal iconography, contemporary semiotics, and layered neo-baroque compositions. His works are in multiple mediums and his signature symbols and visual code have influenced an entire generation of graphic designers. Ryan McGinness Works. is a collection of the artist’s most recent pieces, including installations, prints, sculpture, and paintings. Each body of work is illustrated and discussed in lavish detail, and the process behind each project is told through the use of sketches, diagrams, details, and photographs.
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Taschen 2009
592 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9783836503280
25 x 33.5 cm English/French/German text. Hardcover
This title discusses the Post-Pop superstar. It is an in-depth study of Koons' entire oeuvre to date. It is an unlimited popular edition. From kinky to kitsch to conceptual, Jeff Koons' art is anything but conformist. Since he stirred up the art world establishment in the 1980s with his unapologetic basketball sculptures and stainless steel toy blow-ups, Koons has been known as somewhat of a bad boy - a reputation he confirmed in the early 90s via works depicting him having sex with then-wife Cicciolina, the Italian porn star-cum-politician. Following this torrid phase, he changed gears to produce the gargantuan Puppy, the 43-foot tall floral terrier that now resides at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. Koons' exploitation of the banal, in the aggrandizement and/or embodiment of kitsch and pop imagery, has become his trademark; detractors may delight in their naysaying, but Koons' work commands millions at auction and his position at the forefront of contemporary art is indisputable. This exhaustive monograph begins with a biographical essay by "Interview" magazine editor-in-chief Ingrid Sischy that puts his work into context and tells his personal story, as well as a text by Eckhard Schneider's analyzing Koons from a European perspective. Arranged in chronological chapters by work groups, the main body of the book features art historian and critic Katy Siegel's detailed analyses alongside hundreds of large-format images tracing Koons' career from 1979 to today. Rounding off the book are an extended bibliography and a lavishly illustrated biography. Fans of Jeff Koons' work will find in this publication not only a sumptuous book-object, but also the most comprehensive study of the artist's work ever published. This unlimited popular edition is for readers on a budget or who were unable to get their hands on the original limited Collector's and Art Edition. Price: £39.99
64 pages B&W reproductions ISBN 9783905829952
10.5 x 16.5 cm English text. Softcover
Anxiety & Depression is an unusual and quirky 'self-help' manual for the 21st century, created by Scott King. Trained as a graphic designer King worked as Art Director of i-D and Creative Director of Sleazenation magazines, for which he was awarded 'Best Cover' and 'Best Designed Feature of the Year' prizes.
King occasionally produces work under the banner 'CRASH!' with writer and historian Matt Worley. King’s work has been exhibited widely in London, New York and European galleries including the ICA, KW Berlin, Portikus, White Columns, Kunstverein Munich and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
'I suggest you burn this copy of ‘Anxiety & Depression.’ I believe it is a dangerous and revelatory book, this fuck-you manual for the terminally deranged, that describes, in some unflinching detail, to many of us, the way we live now. You see those people, making their shameful early morning pilgrimages to the corner shop, rolling around in dog shit in the cemetery grass, or furtively jiggling the pub doors at ten thirty in the morning. These are their stories. They are lonely, depressed, and need a drink. After reading about them, so do I.'
— David L Hayles, author of The Suicide Kit.
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64 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9783905829983
21.5 x 29 cm English/German text. Hardcover
In her paintings and drawings, Dawn Mellor (*1970 in UK) uses black humour to deconstruct the cult of the star (which appears to have been chosen in our society as a substitute for religion) and its believer–the fan. The majority of female protagonists in her works are music icons such as Madonna, Courtney Love or Britney Spears, but there are also appearances by film actresses and figures such as Audrey Hepburn, Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz (alias Judy Garland), or "glamourous" politicians such as Hilary Clinton or Condoleezza Rice. All are subordinated to new narrative contextualization and equipped with new symbolisms and iconographies. The painting style Mellor uses refers simultaneously to Surrealism, the colorfulness of Pop art and the underground trashiness of a Joe Coleman. The artist functions as a link, by drawing out a fictive role–whether she plays a lovelorn, a sadistic voyeur, a pathological pornographer, or a murderous stalker. Through these self-attributed "painting" roles Mellor explores the moral codes communicated through mass entertainment.
Published with the migros museum für gegenwartskunst, Zurich.
PAMBooks 2008
32 pages Colour reproductions. No ISBN
Ray Fong AKA Robert Pimple AKA Barry McGee is a San Franciscan graffiti artist turned artist turned graffiti artist turned artist.
Tramp art, surfing, tagging, bicycles and 'youth gone mad' are combined to give Ray Fong his visual language of anguish, triumph, and fun. Barry has exhibited worldwide at Dietch NYC, Walker Art Centre Minneaopolis, NGV Melbourne and Watari Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. And many alleyways, fire hydrants, phone booths, back doors and bus shelters throughout many cities.
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Spector Books 2008
196 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9783940064851
23 x 30 cm English/German text. Softcover (Edition of 300)
The book ›A–Z/ A=A (s. Identität)‹ approaches the tasks and abilities of images as carriers of information and ideas. Images that transmit theories and construct themes form the book's basis: 136 tables show motifs from a variety of sources in continuously changing constellations. The momentum of repetition, association, comparison and reference to other images and topics keeps the constellations together and shows how the perception of an image is influenced directly by its respective context. The book is comprised of 180 subjects, that are found at the head of each page and which are explained on seperate pages in alphabetical order. The subjects are not explained and defined in general, but are rather dissected into single aspects, recombining their concepts, mainly in the form of quotes. Words and images represent a subjective selection of themes in literature, art theory and history. The combination of those themes forms a whole new dimension of meaning, contents are extended and mixed and thus develop their own dynamics. Image and subject meet on the pages, their combination is random. The subjects extend the spectrum of the image's readability by another layer. Price: £40.00
The MIT Press 2008
288 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9781933751092
23 x 30 cm English text. Hardcover
Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997) is a special case in art. His life and works were inextricably linked in a remarkable practice that centered on the role of the artist within both the culture and the system of art. With his larger-than-life persona, Kippenberger cast himself as impresario, entertainer, curator, bohemian, collector, architect, and publisher. He collected art, set up clothing companies and nightclubs, and ran art-world scams. Nothing was sacred to this iconoclast except the right to satisfy his enormous appetite for life, appropriate anything for his art, and create continual chaos around himself. This book, which accompanies the first major U.S. retrospective exhibition of Kippenberger's work, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, documents Kippenberger's extraordinary twenty-year career with works in many media—paintings, sculptures, works on paper, installations, photographs, collaborations with other artists, posters, postcards, books, and music. Among the major works reproduced are key selections from the I.N.P. Bilder (Is Not Embarrassing Pictures) and No Problem paintings of the 1980s; the landmark 1987 exhibition of sculpture "Peter. Die russische Stellung" ("Peter. The Russian Position"); self-portraits in a variety of media; Laterne an Betrunkene (Street Lamp for Drunks); the Raft of the Medusa cycle of the 1990s; the renowned Hotel drawings; and the monumental installation, The Happy End of Franz Kafka's "Amerika." Accompanying the artworks is an essay by exhibition curator Ann Goldstein; newly commissioned texts by art historian Pamela Lee, Kippenberger scholar Diedrich Diederichsen, and curator Ann Temkin; reprinted excerpts from a 1991 interview with Kippenberger by artist Jutta Koether; and an illustrated exhibition history, chronology, and bibliography. Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective offers readers the most comprehensive view yet of this legendary artist's body of work.
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Tangent Books 2007
96 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9781906477004
20 x 20 cm English text. Hardcover
Home Sweet Home is a celebration of Banksy's street art in his home city of Bristol. This book places him in the context of 3D, John Nation from the Barton Hill Settlement, Inkie, Nick Walker and the other artists and musicians who were instrumental in linking Bristol to the original New York hip hop scene.
It is the most revealing account of Banksy's formative years and contains more than one hundred images of his Bristol art, as well as pictures of Banksy at work, many of which have never been published before.
Steve Wright, Venue magazine's Art Editor, traces Banksy's roots back to the rave culture of the Nineties and draws a rounded picture of an artist who is most famous for being anonymous. Price: £12.00
Miguel Abreu Gallery 2007
96 pages B&W reproductions. No ISBN
23 x 29 cm English text. Softcover Price: £10.00
The MIT Press 2009
384 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9781933751122
23.5 x 31 cm English text. Softcover
Dan Graham is one of the most significant figures to emerge from the 1960s moment of Conceptual art, with a practice that pioneered a range of art forms, modes, and ideas that are now fundamental to contemporary art. The thrust of his practice has always pointed beyond: beyond the art object, beyond the studio, beyond the medium, beyond the gallery, beyond the self. Beyond all these categories and into the realm of the social, the public, the democratic, the mass produced, the architectural, the anarchic, the humorous. Graham's early work, Homes for America—a series of snapshots of suburban New Jersey tract housing accompanied by short parodic texts, made as a page layout for Arts magazine—announced a critical art grounded in the everyday, and it merged the artist's interest in cultural commentary with art's most advanced visual modes. His 1984 "video-essay" Rock My Religion traced a continuum of separatism and collective ecstasy from the American religious sect the Shakers to hard-core punk music.
This volume, which accompanies a major retrospective organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 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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DAP 2008
128 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9781931955089
23.5 x 31 cm English text. Hardcover
Absorbing Roman poet Ovids tales of transformation in Metamorphosis and adding his own dash of art historical figuration and contemporary Pop Culture, Mark Ryden broaches new terrain with The Tree Show. Arcadian Gothic might hint at the nature of this new work, and fans of Ryden will find familiar preoccupations in these new paintings, drawings and sculptures established since his first solo show in 1998 transposed to new pastures. Never reluctant to freight his work with layers of reference that range from Renaissance landscape and Neoclassic portrait painting to occultism and literature, in his latest works Ryden combines the arcane with popular cultural images as ground from which to make his carefully executed leaps into fantasy. Rydens series includes depictions of oak trees consuming children, floating tree stumps with seeing eyes, imaginary wood nymphs, and mythological characters who personify Nature herself. Ryden paints his characters with a masterful, porcelain glow reminiscent of Ingres, and renders his trees with a care that evokes Audubons botanical illustration, and has put several of his paintings in elaborately carved frames that project their narratives beyond the canvas. The Tree Show shows these paintings and sculptures alongside the fruits of Rydens research on the tree as myth, from the Buddhas Bodhi tree, to Adam and Eve, the Sephiroth of the Kabbalah and matters of ecological science. As such, it constitutes an enticing dossier on Rydens encyclopedic exploration of the subject and reproduces in its entirety this series centered around the arboreal world. Price: £45.00
48 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9781870699983
17.5 x 24 cm English text Softcover
Callanan’s work explores apparatuses of power. Gathered here are the responses to his mass letter writing. Each letter poses a deceptively simple question or even inane rhetorical statement and the collected responses reveal the absurdity of bureaucracy and the egos of those that claim power.
Collected here are a selection of responses to a series of letters mailed between 2004-06, ranging from the bemused response of the Secretary to the Archbishop of Canterbury to the question “When will it end?” to appreciative letters from the offices of President Mubarak of Eygpt in response to the declaration “I respect your authority”.
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Ikon Gallery 2008
137 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9781904864370
21 x 29.5 cm English text. Softcover
This catalogue thoroughly tackles the diverse conceptual work of Ryan Gander. With forewords by Jonathon Watkins, Ikon's Director, and Nigel Prince, curator. Includes contributions from Rebecca May Marston and Brian Sholis, giving an expansive insight into Gander's practice.
The catalogue is fully illustrated, containing colour photographs from the exhibition - including reconstructed maps of Birmingham, 'All White' Adidas tracksuits, worn by the invigilators during the course of the show; as well as sculptural elements, involving pieces of paper encased in glass balls.
The catalogue's presentation is unique, containing fold out pages, words struck out or underlined, and numerous narrators throughout.
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28.5 x 35 cm English text. Softcover
Oscar Wilde's classic book - his only novel - follows the fortunes of a young man of leisure in fin-de-siecle London after he makes a pact with the Devil: that he shall always stay young, whilst his portrait grows old in his place. Garath Jones re-imagines the story as a costume drama set in 1970s Paris, in a large format edition that returns the book to its origins in a magazines Price: £11.95
Verso 2007
120 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 9781844671663
11 x 15.5 cm Hardcover
Spontaneous, abrupt and wickedly humorous, Dan Perjovschi is fast becoming one of the world’s most influential cartoonists. He presents here a skeptical commentary on contemporary global conflicts and dilemmas, military and economic imperialism, and the complexities and contradictions of social and political life in a post-cold war world. Drawing on popular forms of newspaper cartoons and comics for his often unpalatable truths, his drawings are disorderly and disrespectful, puncturing the world of the mass media and their trivial, bizarre products. Perjovschi is a master of the punchline, his command of language unique, infused with puns and multiple meanings. The result is at once hilarious and subversive. Price: £7.99
Hatje Cantz/Kunstmuseen Krefeld/Moderna Museet, Stockholm/Vancouver Art Gallery 2008
272 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9783775723381
20 x 26 cm English/German text. Hardcover
Andreas Gursky has ranked for many years among the world’s leading photographic artists. Now, for the first time ever, an attempt is being made to unfurl the artist’s oeuvre in all its encyclopedic glory. Gursky has chosen over 150 works from his fund of photographs, reaching back in time to his student days at the Folkwang Hochschule Essen, followed by the period in which he studied in the class run by Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Beginning with the earliest exposures, such as the Desk Attendants and other unpublished photographs, the publication describes an enormous trajectory that takes us to his most recent works, which were conceived specially for the monograph. Every single exposure in Gursky’s encyclopedic morphology is a vital piece in the puzzle, which over some 28 years has resulted in a sweeping view of the global world.
160 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9783775722490
26.5 x 35 cm English text. Hardcover
Painting—its principles, boundaries, and possibilities—is the central theme of the extensive body of work by Gerhard Richter (*1932 in Dresden), an oeuvre has been characterized by stylistic contrasts since the very beginning.
This elegant volume of color plates featuring profound essays by Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Beate Söntgen, and Gregor Stemmrich focuses on the artist’s abstract paintings, which have comprised a dominant portion of his collective works since the eighties. The book does not trace the development of form and content in the paintings, but concentrates instead on the paintings that thematically comprise a homogenous body of work. It is based on the assertion that Richter’s abstract paintings are the results of various painterly processes that are not guided in a particular direction by a content-related precept. The featured paintings were produced between 1986 and 2006 and place emphasis on large-format paintings characterized by a prodigious painterly density.
Four Corners Books 2008
416 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 9780954502577
15 x 24 cm English text. Hardcover
This new edition of the most famous of vampire stories has been illustrated by James Pyman and has been designed by John Morgan, in collaboration with the artist. Although the figure of Dracula has long loomed large in the public consciousness, for this edition, Pyman returned to the original text, illustrating a line or phrase from each of the book's 27 chapters in a series of beautiful pencil drawings.
The novel, made up of a series of diaries, letters and newspaper cuttings, has been typeset by designer John Morgan with a different typeface for each character, the fonts based on those in use at the time of the book's original publication. The yellow clothbound cover echoes that of the first UK edition. Price: £13.95
Analogue 2008
32 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9780955628412
"The drawings in this book are an edited collection from the past few years.
Documenting small time adventures and excursions outwith a mile radius from where I call home. From train rides facing backwards, to crammed bus rides in tiny hill-top towns, to bike rides through the backyards of Europe. Records of the vast, unyielding concrete miles of Shanghai, to the paths between mountains and forests in late night French countryside to the old paint splattered wooden floor in London that I sleep on from time to time. In addition to this there are also some imaginings of possible places - cities built from train tunnels and underground arches to invisible concrete cities.
Some of the maps are drawn a couple of months after the occasion and others begin as a scribble in thin card-covered sketchbooks in desolate airports on overnight waits. The drawings are of the micro and the macro, the colourful and the monotone, the fragments and the nearing complete."
About Nigel Peake
Nigel Peake is a former RIBA silver award commended architecture student from the University of Edinburgh, where he has also tutored and assisted in the design units. Last year a collection of his work was published as 'Sheds.'
From his attic studio on a quiet road he continues to enjoy making and drawing things. He has recently exhibited in Antwerp, Shanghai, Philadelphia and Los Angeles and his drawings have been used for a variety of commercial projects.
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Actes Sud
424 pages 4 free DVDs Colour and B&W reproductions ISBN 9782742768936
21 x 30 cm English text. Hardcover
In this remarkable artist's book, French conceptual artist/provocateur Sophie Calle presents 107 outside interpretations of a "break-up" email she received from her lover the day he ended their affair. Featuring multiple paper changes, very special bound-in booklets and even Braille endpapers, it is a deeply poignant investigation of love and loss, published to coincide with the 2007 Venice Biennale--where Calle served as the French representative. All of the interpreters of Calle's break-up letter were women, and each was asked to analyse the document according to her profession-so that a writer comments on its style, a justice issues judgment, a lawyer defends Calle's ex-lover, a psychoanalyst studies his psychology, a mediator tries to find a path towards reconciliation, a proof-reader provides a literal edit of the text, etc. In addition, Calle asked a variety of performers, including Nathalie Dessay, Laurie Anderson and Carla Bruni, among others, to act the letter out. She filmed the singers and actresses and photographed the other contributors, so that each printed interpretation stands alongside at least one riveting image of its author. The result is a fascinating study and a deeply moving experience--as well as an artwork in its own right. Already a collector's item, this is a universal document of fixation and sorrow.
Exhibition Schedule: French Pavilion La Biennale di Venezia: 52 Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte 10 June - 21 November 2007
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Thames & Hudson 2008
256 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. SBN 9780500093443
25.5 x 30 cm English text. Hardcover
Published for the first time, a unique collection of Francis Bacon's source material and working documents.
In 1949 Francis Bacon found his subject – the human body – and from then on it remained his principal theme. But he did not paint from life. Instead he appropriated images from the mass media that he manipulated into his ‘studies’. His paintings bore witness to the shattered psychology of the time and shot him to a prominence that hardly diminished over the next fifty years, and that continues to rise.
This book presents many of the ‘working documents’ about which Bacon was entirely secretive but which, it emerges, were integral to his creative process. Culled from thousands of pieces of original material found in his studio, including newspapers, magazines, books and photographs, these items have each been exhaustively and minutely researched, providing for the first time comprehensive details of the artist’s sources.
Nearly all previously unseen, these visually thrilling documents demonstrate Bacon’s unerring eye for seeking out visual stimulation in the most unexpected places. His paintings emerged from a dialogue between great art of the past, photographic imagery of the present and early cinema.
This unique selection of material – thoroughly researched, meticulously documented and compellingly presented – will provide an invaluable insight into both the artist’s work and working methods.
‘Fascinating ... the aftermath of a visual orgy’
The Guardian
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Mead Gallery 2006
96 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9780902683808
22 x 26 cm English text. Special perspex covers
With its equal elements of craft and creativity, colour and scale, and its knowing nod towards art history, DJ Simpson’s work uses the language of painting and the techniques of drawing. His work critiques minimalist sensibilities on a monumental scale, using cheap, low-tech materials to produce high-value contemporary art products. Simpson’s work presents a challenge to the exhibition space, their massive scale sitting awkwardly within the gallery. These works are dynamic, loud, their cartoon-like scale dwarfing the solemn gallery architecture. Simpson's art within such a setting is like organizing a rave in a church.
This book re-presents and explores DJ Simpson’s first solo museum show, held at Mead Gallery in 2006.
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Charta 2008
436 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9788881586776
17 x 24 cm English text. Softcover
This publication--at once a daybook, a survey (it accompanies the artist's first exhibition in Ireland) and an artist's book--collects eight previous publications on the American artist Jack Pierson, several of which are long out of print. Pierson was among the first photographers to print pages with the imagery bleeding out of its usual white frame, and to deploy a bleached-out and overexposed style of photography that connotes a longing for a recent but already dimming past, littered with the props and players of yesterday's parties. By small increments, an emotional tone builds that is both warmly homoerotic and unabashedly wistful. All of these books were designed by the artist and are here reproduced in their original size and in chronological order.
Jack Pierson makes photographs, word sculptures, installations, drawings and artist's books that excavate the emotional undercurrents of everyday life, from the intimacy of romantic attachment to the remote idolizing of the famous. Pierson has often engaged celebrity culture, refusing ironic treatment of the subject to instead confess, or seem to confess, his own attraction to the fantasy life depicted in his artworks. He has had recent solo exhibitions at Cheim & Read, New York; Alison Jacques Gallery, London and Regen Projects, Los Angeles. His work is held in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Price: £24.99
Rizzoli 2008
552 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9780847831395
28.5 x 30.5 cm English text. Hardcover
Closely based on Haring’s own concept for the monograph he wanted to publish before his untimely death, this volume represents more than a decade of research and contains a wealth of unpublished photographic and written material including drawings, studio photographs, and journal entries. From chalk drawings deep in the New York City subways to murals in Pisa and Berlin; collaborations with William Burroughs and the famous body painting of Grace Jones, this book follows the incredible trajectory of Keith Haring’s artistic career: how a young man from a small town in rural Pennsylvania came to revolutionize the art world—and the course of art history—within little more than a decade. An incredibly prolific artist, Keith Haring created countless bold, provocative, endearing, and unforgettable images that continue to inspire artists—and delight children—worldwide. Tracing the arc from his early subway "tags" to his poignant work on social issues as diverse as AIDS, illiteracy and apartheid, this visually stunning book is the definitive work on Keith Haring.
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teNeues 2008
368 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9783832792459
28.5 cm x 37 cm English/German/French/Spanish/Italian text. Hardcover
This book offers us a privileged glimpse into the artistic process used by top fashion photographer Tim Walker. This comprehensive overview of his work brings us deep inside his glamorous world of adventure. Featuring a wide array of sketches, contacts and Polaroids—we share in source materials normally hidden within the photographer's studio.
The evocative images are rich with textured nuance and intriguing details. Walker gives full rein to his playful side and intersperses collages among the photographs. The over-sized format showcases some of the most imaginative and exuberant art being produced today.
Tim Walker's work appears in trend-setting magazines such as Vogue and W. He has also created advertising campaigns for exclusive clients such as Comme des Garcons. Price: £70.00
84 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 9780954502560
14.5 x 20.5 cm English text. Hardcover
For the third in the Familiars series, David Musgrave has chosen a little-known novella left unfinished by Kafka and concerning a man who comes home to find that two bouncing plastic balls have invaded his home.
The book is illustrated with a series of pencil drawings of curious artefacts and archaeological fragments invented by the artist. The text is set in Walbaum, Kafka's preferred typeface.
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JRP|Ringier 2008
164 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9783905770513
20 x 23.5 cm English text. Hardcover
The drawings, sculptures, music experiments, and videos of the Icelandic artist Gabriela Fridriksdottir create a surreal microcosm populated by hybrid and sexually charged creatures who can be read as metaphors for melancholy and excess. In recent years her work has been brought to a wide audience through her collaborations with singer/songwriter Bjork.
Fridriksdottir's video work is distinguished by a fanciful narrative structure, which draws heavily on Norse myths and is notable for its break with rational logic. Her fields of activity, which can be defined in terms of a scientific curiosity in the irrational and mysterious, are reflected at a material level in her sculptures. Her distinctive joy in experimenting with ephemeral materials leans toward, on the one hand, the tradition of Dieter Roth who has exercised a great influence on art production in Iceland, and on the other, her mystical interests. Thus, unusual materials such as mud, hay, and bread dough feature in her works alongside more conventional ones such as fur, plaster, and found pieces of wood.
Hamburger Bahnhof—Museum für Gegenwart—Staatliche Museen zu Berlin 2008
400 pages Colour reproductions ISBN 9783775721875
26 x 30.5 cm English/German text. Hardcover
For the first time in one volume—the new, abstract photographic works by “one of the most famous German artists in the world,” according to DIE ZEIT magazine.
Over the past few years, abstraction has gained considerable importance in the multifaceted oeuvre of Turner Prize–recipient Wolfgang Tillmans. Following Blushes, the monumental Freischwimmer series, and the monochromatic Silver series, his most recent abstract works—of which the creased and folded Lighter series (starting in 2005) is the most significant—treat the photograph no longer as a reproductive medium, but as a material object. Tillmans’s paper drop photographs feature the actual prints in almost geometrical compositions that become practically tangible.
Constantly oscillating between photograph and object, these most recent works are assembled by Wolfgang Tillmans for the first time in this new book. Unprecedented in this publication is an extensive section of installation views, taken by Tillmans himself, thus enabling the reader to directly experience his visual cosmos as it was presented in recent exhibitions, including his last retrospective, seen at various venues in the United States.
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Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford and Art Works in Wimbledon 2006
192 pages Colour and B&W reproductions
23.5 x 30.5 cm English text. Hardcover, each edition is unique, incorporating two boards taken directly from Woods' work
Introductory price £120.00, available exclusively through Artwords Bookshop
This SPECIAL EDITION of 'Richard Woods' is the first monograph on his remarkable work, one of a younger generation of artists whose sculptures and installations operate on the boundary between art, architecture and design. Whatever structures he takes as his starting point - the floor of a domestic house, the walls of a gallery, the courtyard of a convent or the external walls of a public building - are all used as flat surfaces to be embellished with paint.
A graduate of the Slade School of Fine Art, Woods has shown extensively in Britain, continental Europe, Japan and the USA. Over the past five years, he has designed a spectacular store interior for the fashion house Comme des Garçons in Osaka and the mock Tudor refit of a private family home in upstate New York. In 2003, Import/Export Sculpture, Woods's impressively large crazy paving of a cloistered courtyard, formed the centrepiece of The Henry Moore Foundation's Stopover project at the 50th International Venice Biennale of Art.
Drawing on unpublished interviews with the artist and previously unseen documentation of earlier sculptures and installations, the art historian and independent curator Marco Livingstone charts the development of Woods's work since his days as an art student. The book focuses on the building-based projects completed since 2000, and many of these are further explored in extracts from an illuminating conversation between Woods and the writer and novelist Gordon Burn. The publication is lavishly illustrated, and comprises a beautifully produced record of all the artist's major works to date.
This SPECIAL EDITION of 'Richard Woods' has been assembled in consultation with the artist, each incorporating unique and individually coloured sections of Woods's work forming the front and back covers of the book. Each book is also signed by the artist. Price: £120.00
Chris Boot 2008
176 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9781905712083
19 x 24 cm English text. Hardcover
As well as being an internationally renowned photographer, Martin Parr is an addicted collector of photographs, books, postcards and – as are presented this book – eccentric objects and ephemera.
Featuring almost 500 items gathered by Parr over 30 years, many from online auctions, they are "his highly personal reflection upon history – shadows of human foible", as he describes their connecting thread in his introduction.Subjects and themes in the collection include: Maggie Thatcher; the British miners’ strike of 1984–5; Saddam Hussein; Russian cosmonauts; the Spice Girls; and household photographic trays.
The collection ranges from the trivial and banal to the hilarious and poignant... welcome to his world!
From the introduction by Martin Parr:
I have a very strong collecting gene, and the pages of this book are testimony to this condition. It started early. When I was very young I gathered together a museum of items such as pellets (balls of fur and bones, spat out by birds of prey), fossils and birds’ nests in the cellar of our semi in Chessington, Surrey.
Over the years, these collecting habits have shifted and become more refined. I have collected stamps, bus tickets, Victorian pennies and, my biggest collection to date, photographic books.
This book contains a suite of collections that are interlinked. They echo the themes of my work as a photographer, which I also define as a form of collecting. By applying some order to our chaotic world, and assembling things into categories and ultimately into a book or a show, I can make a more coherent statement about my relationship to the world.
I am also very attracted to objects which are ephemeral. Their significance and cultural context changes as the world moves on. Many of these objects are associated with people or events that are bound up with the glories of a certain time and place. When these glories fade, the object takes on a certain resonance, and that is the driving force behind the collections represented here.
You may wonder what exactly it is that fuses all these items together into one resolved collection. It all seems very obvious and logical to me. These are the items that are left behind after momentous and not-so momentous events, or after world leaders are long gone. They are shadows of human foible.
128 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9780500287354
23 x 22 cm English text. Softcover
Street artist Blek le Rat is revered and acknowledged by the international graffiti community, and his work has influenced CD design, advertising and graphics, as well as the work of many urban artists around the world.
From small, simple stencils to complex multimedia events, Blek’s distinctive art is showcased here for the first time, demonstrating the development of his technique and creativity over two decades. Whether it’s his unique images of Lady Diana and kidnapped French journalist Florence Aubenas or his iconic silhouette of a rat, we see why ‘The Genius of Blek’ is hailed in King Adz’s film about this elusive, deeply creative figure.
The book features photographs of hundreds of Blek’s works and an in-depth exploration of the method and meaning behind his stencils, as well as a look at the evolution of urban art from New York, Paris, Barcelona and Buenos Aires to London, Taipei, Naples and Berlin. It will inspire anyone interested in design or contemporary urban culture. Price: £11.95
Flammarion 2006
208 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9782080305534
21.5 x 29 cm English text. Hardcover
The work of acclaimed artist Louise Bourgeois, still active and working at the age of 95, is presented in this long-awaited monograph on the doyenne of contemporary art. This French-born artist emigrated to the United States in 1938. Bourgeois has produced a body of work that spans more than five decades, including over twenty worldwide exhibitions in 2005 alone. Famous for her highly experimental and autobiographical sculptures, Bourgeois' work also includes intimate drawings, paintings, and personal writings. She is a pioneer in tackling issues of empowerment, sexuality, and the roles of women in her diverse oeuvre. Her art can be found in the permanent collections of prestigious institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Modern in London, and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. In 1993, Bourgeois represented the United States at the Venice Biennial. This long-awaited new edition presents Bourgeois' long and productive career through a retrospective text, the artist's own writings, and over 150 images that represent her output from her earliest work to her most recent projects. This comprehensive volume pays tribute to an original and influential artist and is an essential addition to every contemporary art lover's collection.
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Phaidon 2007
464 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 0714843148
25 x 29 cm English text. Hardcover
Contemporary sculpture is a wide-ranging and fascinating subject, surprisingly unrepresented in the current marketplace. This beautifully illustrated book is a comprehensive overview of developments in the world of sculpture during the past fifty years, and follows the successful, highly illustrated formula of Phaidon’s best-selling volumes Art Today and Architecture Today.
In the great sea-change marking the end of Modernism -- a general set of views and assumptions about art which reigned during the first half of the twentieth century -- critical opinion began to shift from painting to sculpture. Sculpture was felt to be more socially engaging because it occupied actual space rather than creating an illusionistic realm using perspective and other techniques.
In recent years sculpture has become a capacious and enormously inventive category that includes an astonishing range of phenomena. These encompass installations, environments, staged video displays and even choreographed humans. This sheer array of materials, forms and techniques that has been -- and continues to be -- presented under the term of ‘sculpture’ in the twenty-first century indicates that the discipline is not an immutable art form with fixed boundaries and commandments, but rather that it can expand its terms of reference with unflagging energy, and is apparently inexhaustible.
Judy Collins’s authoritative yet accessible text explores the various subjects, materials, techniques and styles utilized by contemporary sculptors and celebrates both the vitality and sheer diversity of this wide-ranging art form.
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Redstone Press 2007
208 pages B&W reproctions. ISBN 9781870003544
1.5 x 18 cm English text. Softcover
like it when you speak to me in a high-pitched voice. I like it when you say things like 'let's pretend we're in a tunnel'. I like it when you suggest we crawl. I like it when you extinguish the lights. I do not like it when you bite me. Price: £9.99
Abrams 2007
240 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9780810930865
13 x 17 cm English text. Hardcover + free Audio CD
Anyone who knows R. Crumb's work as an illustrator knows of his passion for music. And all those who collect his work prize the Heroes of the Blues, Early Jazz Greats, and Pioneers of Country Music trading card sets he created in the early-to-mid-1980s. Now they are packaged together for the first time in book form, along with an exclusive 21-track CD of music selected and compiled by Crumb himself (featuring original recordings by Charlie Patton, "Dock" Boggs, "Jelly Roll" Morton, and others). A bio of each musician is provided, along with a full-color original illustration by the cartoonist. A characteristically idiosyncratic tribute by an underground icon to the musical innovators who helped inspire him, R. Crumb's Heroes of Blues, Jazz, & Country is a must-have collection for Crumb aficionados, comics fans, and music lovers alike.
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Royal Jelly Factory 2007
48 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9780954636524
10.5 x 15 cm English text. Softcvover
The book features 32 carefully selected illustrations of artworks spanning the Chapmans' career, including their disturbing early mannequin pieces, the epic 'Hell' project, and their more recent reworkings of Goya's etchings and large bronze sculptures. Also included are less-familiar works, as well as images of early sculptures that have since been destroyed.
The interview with the Chapmans focuses on their working methods, their intentions in using such controversial material, and, ultimately, their understanding of the purpose of art itself.
The book also includes a short biography and further reading list, as well as explanatory notes covering the Chapmans' influences and the ideas that lie behind each featured work. Price: £4.99
EMP 2007
48 pages B&W reproductions. No ISBN
13 x 21 cm English text. Softcover
" When I first opened I Like Aerials and leafed through it, as you do, my first reaction was hardly a reaction at all so slight and seemingly flimsy is this minimal book. It's by Ian McDonnell and published by the EMP; the images first seen in the much beloved McSweeny's quarterly. It's so simply designed it doesn't seem to be designed at all (nothing wrong in that); there's hardly any information apart from the index of where the aerials were seen and no page numbers. The images of different aerials mostly from New York and London (and Newcastle) are tiny on the page, black and white and look a bit pixillated (or look similar to when there's a problem with your printer). Try using a loupe and you'll see."
From a review by Paul Davis in Varoom Magazine Price: £10.00
160 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9780714845043
25 x 29 cm English text. Softcover
Survey by Adrian Searle, Interview by Kitty Scott, Focus by Catherine Grenier, Artist`s Choice by Hannes Schneider & Arnold Fanck, Writings by Peter Doig
Whether painting a mysterious bearded figure floating on a flat wash of blue or a winter landscape glimpsed through a thick web of branches, Peter Doig harnesses the materiality of his medium to create what he calls ‘abstractions of memories’, distilling recollected sensations into moments of pure sentience, like scenes in a series of mysterious narratives. In Gasthof zur Muldentalsperre (2000-2) two costumed figures stand guard at a low stone wall while behind them a reservoir reflects a twinkling starry sky. The young man bundled up against the cold in Blotter (1993) contemplates his reflection in a frozen pond, while in Red Boat (Imaginary Boys) (2004) six men in white shirts navigate upstream through a dense tropical landscape.
Doig’s work has been exhibited at the world’s top museums, including The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, and has been selected for contemporary art’s most important international exhibitions, such as the SITE Santa Fe Biennial (2006), the Tate Triennial (2003 and 2006) and the Venice Biennale (2003). Although his work has had an enormous impact on contemporary painting, paving the way for a whole generation of idiosyncratic figurative painters, his painted worlds are without parallel. Raised in Canada, based in London for two decades and now living in Trinidad, Doig has tallied a wide range of references, not only geographic (from French modernist architecture to the ski slopes of Quebec) but also artistic (from Ernst Kirchner to Philip Guston) and musical (from punk to calypso). Sometimes these references lurk in plain sight – Figure in Mountain Landscape (1997-8) is based on a photograph of Group of Seven painter Franklin Carmichael – but most often they lie deep below the churning surface of the canvas.
In the Interview Kitty Scott asks the artist about his shifting sense of place and the way it continues to shape his work. In the Survey Adrian Searle considers how the paradoxical union of highly charged technique and muted subject matter lend the artist’s paintings their unique ‘emotional weather’. Catherine Grenier’s Focus centres on the painting 100 Years Ago, examining its movement along axes of time and place, both historical and imaginary. In the Artist’s Choice, Hannes Schneider & Arnold Fanck’s text on skiing recalls the artist’s longtime fascination with the sport while evoking the grace and physicality of his painting. Artist’s Writings include a 2001 interview featuring questions from a range of artists, curators and critics; an appreciation of the work of Pierre Bonnard; and the artist’s ten favourite ‘house painters’.
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Domaine de Kerguehennec 2006
208 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9782906574069
18 x 24 cm English/French text. Hardcover
Jonathan Monk, born in the UK in 1969, is a dry-humored mischief-maker who explores 1960s influences in installations, photography, film, sculpture and performance. He has met with success--in 2006 his work appeared in New Photography at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and at the Tate Triennial. Interviewed here, he tells the respected artist David Shrigley, "it is sometimes difficult to understand where it [art] all begins and ends… the unanswerable question keeps us all going." His work is just as quotable, including signs that read, "Meeting point" and "This painting should ideally be hung to the left of an Ed Ruscha." Not coincidentally, this volume includes contributions from influential supporters including Mr. Ruscha and John Baldessari.
Interviews and contributions by Pierre Bismuth, David Shrigley, Ed Ruscha, Ceal Floyer, Claude Closky, John Baldessari.
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Thames & Hudson 2007
276 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9780500093405
This book is the authoritative text on Eliasson as well as a lasting resource on contemporary installation art.
Nearly 200 colour reproductions offer a rich visual survey of Eliasson’s most significant works from 1990 to the present, while a series of original essays investigate the complex origins and implications of his practice, from the legacy of the Light and Space movement to the artist’s recent forays into architectural design.
• This comprehensive survey accompanies a major exhibition at MoMA? San Francisco and MoMA New York
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JRP/Ringier 2007
192 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9783905770193
21.5 x 28 cm English text. Softcover
Appendix Appendix is conceived as the sequel to Ryan Gander and Stuart Bailey's 2003 book Appendix. Like its predecessor, it attempts ‘a translation of practice’ based on Ryan Gander's recent body of work. Neither straight documentation, nor an ‘artist's book’, it pushes for a third way, editing and presenting each individual piece of work in a manner appropriate to its specific nature. In the years since Appendix, Gander's work has increasingly encompassed sound and the moving image in addition to the earlier objects and installations. This shift will directly affect the form of this new TV series project.
Ryan Gander lives and works in London and Amsterdam. His photographs, films, installations and sculptures draw on multiple layers of facts and fiction. Stuart Bailey has forged a formidable creative base for himself in Amsterdam where he works as a writer, critic, editor, and graphic designer.
This publication is part of the series of artists’ projects edited by Christoph Keller.
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Fondation Cartier pour l'Art 2007
452 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9782742764969
23 x 28 cm English text. Hardcover
The Air is on Fire is the largest exhibition devoted to David Lynch as a visual artist. Exploring the multiple facets of this work, this exhibition catalogue brings together paintings, photographs, drawings, experimental films, and sound created since 1960. The book offers an exceptional occasion to discover and to revisit his creations with never-before-seen works.
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864 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9780500970171
16.5 x 21.5 cm English text. Hardcover
Right from the beginning, Gerhard Richter closely links his creative artistic work, his painting as well as other visual works, with the collection of their image models. Mostly it is a matter of photographic ‘images’ of various kinds which, along with other visual notes such as sketches and collages, have been entered in his Atlas.
'I see countless landscapes, photograph scarcely one in 100000, painting hardly one in 100 photographed landscapes—I am therefore looking for something quite specific; from this I can conclude that I know what I want.'
The photographs which Richter collects and makes provide him with models for paintings which offer the advantage of already having reached a high degree of ‘stylisation’ before he goes in search of his own painting. The conceptual character of Gerhard Richter’s art becomes plain not least from the multitude of different formal and substantial approaches which the Atlas unifies within itself as a work composed of sheets.
The present Atlas is published in a revised version and format, actualized and created by the artist himself. Gerhard Richter conceptualized the new format for this presentation, providing a single page for each panel thereby developing a new book format.
The revised publication presents 733 panels, including the War Cut series, with a text by Helmut Friedel.
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Regionalgalerie Sdhessen im Regierungsprsidium Darmstadt, 2005
32 pages, 18 Colour and 8 B&W reproductions. No ISBN
25 x 19 cm German/English text. Softcover
The work of german artist Stefan Bressel is focused on ornament/pattern and repetition with the eyes of a painter, looking closer on the terms and their distinction. Technically repetition for him can mean redoing his own paintings or working on two paintings at the same time by repeating each brushstroke. But it comprises also copying/mocking a found strukture, story or object in a sense of consideration and appropriation thus transforming the find into an image. As repetition is one of the major principles of ornament, Stefan Bressel?s work is continiously questioning the borderline between image and pattern by either pushing an ornament towards becoming a painting/image or - vice versa - using struktures of repetition and repeat
within a painting to ornamentalize it. The result is a whole range of heterogeneous works like two-piece canvases, collages and photographs, as well as wall covering drawings and three-dimensional objects, e.g. a painted door or a painted table (with dedication to R.Artschwager). In shows, paintings and three-dimensional pieces are often combined with site-specific walldrawings or murals shifting the concept of a painting exhibition towards installation.
The book at hand has been developed in close colaboration between the artist and designers of wuffdesign/desres (www.desres.de) and resulted in a hybrid of catalogue and artist book. 'Painted Paterns' has been awarded by the DDC (german design club) for its design and shows nice details like a removable book jacket with a patterned inside printed in fluorescent colours - related to a recent wall piece completed in a baroque pavillion.
The two texts accompanying the book are written by Hamburg and Frankfurt/Giessen based curators Meike Behm and Markus Lepper. Price: £12.00
Rizzoli 2006
352 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9780847828777
24 x 32 cm English text. Hardcover
The most highly publicized of the infamous Young British Artists, Emin has stirred as much controversy as she has acclaim, being both highly personal and extremely original in her art. Emin's work is engaging, titillating, disturbing, and startlingly confessional. One of her most famous pieces is Everyone I Ever Slept With 1963-1995, a tent appliquéd with names. Another notorious work, My Bed-the scene where she spent four days contemplating suicide-was exhibited at Tate Britain when the artist was short-listed for the Turner prize in 1999. Though denounced by conservative critics at the outset, Emin's work has attracted serious critical attention for more than a decade. In the words of Art in America, "What brought Emin to prominence was shock value, but what keeps her work powerful as she continues is the strength and nuance of its form and content." Compiled in close collaboration with the artist herself-and unprecedented in its scope-this is the definitive book on Emin, featuring drawings, paintings, sculptures, appliqués and embroideries, neon and video stills as well as her own writing.
Tracey Emin was born in London in 1963 and attended the Royal College of Art where she attained an MA in Painting in 1989. Emin exhibits in galleries and museums around the world. She lives in London. Carl Freedman is a renowned critic and curator who has followed the careers of Emin and other prominent YBAs for more than a decade. He has written for Frieze, Parkett, and The Guardian as well as many catalogue texts. Honey Luard is head of publications and press at White Cube gallery in London. Price: £40.00
Princeton Architectural Press 2006
192 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9781568985695
23 x 24 cm English text. Softcover
One cold December morning, Dori Hadar—DJ by night, criminal investigator by day—was digging through crates of records at a flea market in Washington, D.C. There he stumbled into the elaborate world of Mingering Mike—a soul superstar of the 1960s and '70s who released an astonishing 50 albums and at least as many singles in just 10 years. But Hadar had never heard of him, and he realized why on closer inspection: every album in the crates was made of cardboard. Each package was intricately crafted, complete with gatefold interiors, extensive liner notes, and grooves drawn onto the "vinyl." Some albums were even covered in shrinkwrap, as if purchased at actual record stores.
The crates contained nearly 200 LPs and 45s by Mingering Mike, as well as other artists like Joseph War, the Big "D," and Rambling Ralph, on labels such as Sex Records, Decision, and Ming/War. There were also soundtracks to imaginary films, a benefit album for sickle cell anemia, and a tribute to Bruce Lee.
Hadar put his detective skills to work and soon found himself at the door of the elusive man responsible for this alternate universe of funk. Their friendship blossomed and Mike revealed the story of his life and his many albums, hit singles, and movie soundtracks. A solitary boy raised by his brothers, sisters, and cousins, Mike lost himself in a world of his own imaginary superstardom, basing songs and albums on his and his family's experiences. Early teenage songs obsessed with love and heartache soon gave way to social themes surrounding the turbulent era of civil rights protests and political upheaval—brought even closer to home when Mike himself went underground dodging the Vietnam War. In Mingering Mike, Hadar tells the story of a man and his myth: the kid who dreamed of being a star and the fantastical "careers" of the artists he created. All of Mingering Mike's best albums and 45s are presented in full color, finally bringing to the star the adoring audience he always imagined he had.
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Four Corners 2006
128 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 0954502523
"Sister Corita did for bread and wine what Andy Warhol did for tomato soup."
The New York Times
Admired by Charles and Ray Eames, Buckminster Fuller and Saul Bass, Sister Corita Kent (1918-1986) was one of the most innovative and unusual pop artists of the 1960s, battling the political and religious establishments, revolutionising graphic design and encouraging the creativity of thousands of people - all while living and practicing as a Catholic nun in California.
Marking twenty years since Corita's death, Julie Ault's lavishly illustrated book is the first to examine her life and career, following her artistic and political development throughout the 1960s and tells the story of her battles with - and departure from - religious life. The book contains more than 90 illustrations, many reproduced for the first time, capturing Corita's use of eye-popping and day-glo colour.
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JRP Ringier 2006
96 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9783905701548
20.5 x 25.5 cm English/German text. Hardcover
After studying at Yale University where she explored the relationship between cinema, art, literature, and music, Daria Martin (*1973) has resolutely opted for making films.
Borrowing from a universe of everyday popular references (sport, games, shows, etc.), in her work she combines elements from avant-garde dance and cinema with a formidable formal elegance. Without falling into the trap of being seduced by the forms, movements, and abstract themes that she uses and one could make her own the words of Jacques Rancière about political work, in the sense that it reveals a "distribution of sensitivity in the social sphere."
Essays by Yilmaz Dziewior, Daria Martin, Catherine Wood
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448 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9780847828654
25.5 x 33 cm English text. Hardcover slipcase
One of the leading figurative painters of his generation, Currin's influences range from Italian and Northern Renaissance paintings to popular illustrations from the mid-20th century. Whether portraits of older women, buxom girls, nudes with elongated bodies, or group scenes of domestic life, his works are characterized by baroque gestures, loose brushstrokes, unorthodox palettes, and detailed backgrounds that startle the viewer into a reconsideration of the tradition of painting. His "old master" techniques and individual style have earned him accolades from critics and collectors worldwide.
John Currin has a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University (1984) and an MFA from Yale University (1986). His paintings are in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou in Paris; Tate Gallery in London; and Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. He lives and works in New York. Allison Gingeras is an art critic who is adjunct curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. Dave Eggers is the author of the best-selling A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and the editor of McSweeney's.
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Walther Koenig 2006
288 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3865600972
21.5 x 27.5 cm English/German text. Softcover
The critical and playfully imaginative tenor of Angela Bulloch’s work signals a singular artistic intelligence. It not only expresses the nature of contemporary experience as informing perception but also asks important questions about how we negotiate our place, and the place of others, within space and within culture. Bulloch’s most recent work uses pixel boxes as fundamental units which can present themselves as object, picture, light, colour, sound or space, sculpture or film. Her pieces blur the lines between separate mediums and disciplines, and are loaded with references from the history of Modernism, abstraction and the moving image through to minimal art and psychedelic decoration. The viewer must decide how the object is to be experienced and understood – as formal, media or referential elements.
This publication documents four related projects at the Secession, Vienna; Modern Art Oxford; De Pont Museum, Tilburg; and The Power Plant, Toronto. Includes interviews with the artist by Cerith Wyn Evans and Michael Archer, essays by Helmut Draxler, Branden W. Joseph, Juliane Rebentisch, Dominic Eichler
144 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9780847828166
29 x 28 cm English text. Hardcover
Partners in both life and art, Noble and Webster entered the international art scene in the mid 1990s with their first critically acclaimed show—"British Rubbish." It was received as a kind of subversive reaction to their art world peers. Ironically it gained them worldwide notoriety. Extravagant, sometimes coarse, and always sharply clever, Wasted Youth is a both a paean to and sly denunciation of modern consumer culture. Their art, deemed "beautiful Baroque Kitsch" by the London Daily Telegraph, challenges our sense of conventional beauty by "rehabilitating the detritus of society and turning it into something pleasing."—the Guggenheim.
Tim Noble and Sue Webster's work has been exhibited at many museums and galleries in the US and UK, including the Royal Academy of Arts in London, MoMA's P.S. 1 in New York, and the Museum of Fine Arts, in Boston. Their work is part of the permanent collection at MoMA, the Guggenheim, and Saatchi. In addition to managing Deitch Projects galleries, Jeffrey Deitch is an art writer and art advisor to collectors. Norman Rosenthal has been the Exhibitions Secretary at the Royal Academy of Art in London for more than twenty-five years. Contribution by Jeffrey Deitch and Norman Rosenthal
SIGNED BY THE ARTISTS!! Price: £49.95
Lund Humphries 2006
23.5 x 30.5 cm English text. Hardcover
This is the first monograph on Richard Woods' remarkable work, one of a younger generation of artists whose sculptures and installations operate on the boundary between art, architecture and design. Whatever structures he takes as his starting point - the floor of a domestic house, the walls of a gallery, the courtyard of a convent or the external walls of a public building - they are all used as flat surfaces to be embellished with paint.
Drawing on unpublished interviews with the artist and previously unseen documentation of earlier sculptures and installations, the art historian and independent curator Marco Livingstone charts the development of Woods's work since his days as an art student. The book focuses on the building-based projects completed since 2000, and many of these are further explored in extracts from an illuminating conversation between Woods and the writer and novelist Gordon Burn. The publication is lavishly illustrated, and comprises a beautifully produced record of all the artist's major works to date. Price: £28.50
Tate Liverpool 2006
152 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9781854377159
19.5 x 26 cm English text. Hardcover
This book presents for the first time works from all phases of the artists' career, including sculpture, installation, drawing and prints. It engages a variety of critical voices to the art historical contect of their work, as well as the themes and concerns that continue to underpin it. Tate Liverpool director Christoph Grunenberg's essay provides an overview of the artists' career while other authors examine themes including use of shock in contemporary art, the aesthetics of ugliness, carnival excess and foul language.
Book desgned by FUEL
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Hatje Cantz 2006
226 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9783775718011
19.5 x 24 cm English/German text. Softcover
Early paintings by Daniel Richter (*1962), one of the stars on the young German painting scene, describe a colorful, hallucinatory cosmos somewhere between graffiti and non-referential abstraction. A few years ago, the artist devoted himself entirely to figuration and history painting. By introducing a supposedly forgotten genre, Richter re-politicized painting as a medium under contemporary auspices, and at the same time linked to the art of the 1980s. Richter's most recent works combine set pieces from art history, mass media, and pop culture to create his own worlds of visual narrative.
This publication, conceived and designed with the help of the artist, presents selected works from the past five years, including Richter's latest works. Price: £24.99
Revolver 2006
156 Pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3865882331
21.5 x 26.5 cm English/German text. Hardcover
The works of Jonathan Monk (born 1969 in Leicester, lives in Berlin) combine lightness, nostalgia and irony with precise exactness and a highly developed understanding of the fundamental elements in the volution of twentieth century art to form a fascinating and always very personally primed cosmos. The search for the Archimedean point from which private and personal experiences can be gainfully tied to artistic generalization and abstraction is at the center of the artist's contemplations. It is therefore not surprising that bars, beer and soccer play such an important role in the early phase of his work. As everyday places and epicenters of collective recreation, they are perfect shields against an anemic "l'art pour l'art" pallor in his artistic interventions. Beer drinking records are set and documented with beer-soaked T-shirts, one pisses one's own name in the sand after guzzling ten pints of beer, befriended artists are asked to occupy themselves with Monk's private toilet, even if it means making it overflow (My Little Toilet). Monk's works are accompanied by an unmistakably British sense if humor with which he turns typical human foibles into the subject of artistic statements. Just as significant, however, are his reflections on the creation of art and the rules according to which artworks are made as well as on the myths and stories regarding the genesis of many important xamples of modern art that have become as important as the works themselves. The demands for autonomy and the strict regulations aimed at objectivity inherent in Concept Art and Minimal Art during the 1960s and 1970s form the essential reference point of Monk's own artistic deliberations. Monk consciously subjects works by Mondrian and Sol LeWitt to Richard Serra to an interpretive and appropriative repetition that bridges their absolutistic and purist demands with his own biography and personal environment. The outcome is a captivating balancing of the demystification of the purist dogmas of the 1960s and 1970s and their personally biased and thus productively contaminated revitalization.
This exhibition catalogue presents a comprehensive overview of Jonathan Monk's oeuvre since the early 1990s. Price: £22.50
Koenig Books 2006
352 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3865600573
16 x 23 cm English text. Softcover
This work contains a foreword by Anne Pontegnie, and essays by Clemens Krummel, Emily Speers Mears, and Andrew Renton. Sophie von Hellerman is a German-born, London-based artist whose paintings have a general appearance of nonchalance and naivety while drawing their content from a sophisticated appropriation and re-imagination of art history. "The subject matter of her essentially narrative paintings in at the intersection of a personal and collective history, without there being any clear boundaries between the two...No topic is any more serious than any other for von Hellermann; there is only a contamination and simultaneous construction of the individual and the collective, reality and fiction" - Anne Pontegnie. Price: £19.00
Baltic 2006
70 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 1903655269
20 x 27.5 cm English text. Softcover
This work contains essays by Penelope Curtis, and Roland Van de Sompel. Dutch artist, Mark Manders' first UK solo exhibition takes the form of an ambitious new commission for BALTIC. "Short Sad Thoughts" showcases work from Manders' ongoing exploration Self-Portrait as a Building, a project the artist has been working on since he was 18 years old. Manders uses clay, cast in bronze, painted to look like clay again, to represent the human and the animal, and uses readymade materials to make the environment or setting for his installations. His Self Portrait as a Building is not, however, an autobiographical site, but refers to a literary character invented by the artist, an imaginary double who lives in a logically designed and constructed world. Price: £17.99
Kerber 2006
80 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3938025816
27.5 x 22 cm English/German text. Hardcover
The Leipzig painter Aris Kalaizis does not work according to sketches, but rather creates a script like a screenwriter. All of the objects which we see on the final painting are creations which arise from a written form. For him, writing is an intimate journal, a kind of record of thought. After completing this "script" he does not work according to a single photograph but follows several images which he has taken himself. Text by Carol Strickland, Tom Mustroph, Jan Siegt Price: £21.00
342 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3883758248
17.5 x 24.5 cm English text. Hardcover
The Walk Book offers some associative aids to Janet Cardiff’s binaural audio walks, in which participants are equipped with a portable CD player or video camera, and directed through a site. These works draw on aspects of performance art, installation, and sound art, creating a ‘physical cinema’.
Janet Cardiff creates immersive, experiential events which frequently have a strong narrative component that plays out in a three-dimensional soundtrack, allowing the audience to become part of the story. Price: £44.50
NSCAD 2006
104 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 9780919616462
28 x 20 cm English text. Softcover
In this book, photographer and critic Martha Rosler traces the ways in which art draws its meaning from within its social and political frameworks. The book’s two artworks and a related essay exemplify and investigate the social embeddedness of art. They suggest how changing times and changing circumstances affect not only the form and meaning of photography but also its effects on its audience, including its ability to activate its viewers.
The artwork, the restoration of high culture in chile (1977) is a photo and text work that, in fictionalized form, examines the various degrees of political anaesthesia and moral corruption implied by a successful adaptation to unquestioned and abstract notions of high culture. It shows how a political crisis can reveal the way types of cultural production appeal to sharply divided audiences and does so in part by adopting a hybrid form of enunciation, between short story and political tract. The photo-and-text work The Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems (1974-1975) throws into question the ability of contemporary urban photography to continue the historical potential of social documentary photography. Its accompanying work, “in, around, and afterthoughts,” written especially for the first edition of 3 works, is a fully developed critical essay in which this question is explored more systematically. In this work, Rosler attempts to develop criteria that could define contemporary photographic activities as meaningful social and aesthetic practices.
Included in the 2006 edition of 3 works is an additional critical essay that describes the conception and evolution of the original book. In “afterword: a history” Rosler also revisits issues raised by 3 works, explores debates within photographic practice from the time of the book’s original publication in 1981, and further refines her views on the history of documentary practices and the enduring significance of these forms of expression. Price: £16.50
Slatkine Press 2006
40 pages Colour reproductions. No ISBN
18 x 24 cm English text. Softcover
Edition of 400
An artist book by the young Swiss artist Vanessa Billy, known for her three-dimensional work, where the idiosyncrasies of her thought process are exposed through the articulation of disparate objects in space. Her artist's book evidences this same sensibility, focusing instead on how we order two-dimensional visual material throughout the duration of a book. Juxtaposing collage, found material and photographs, it is an artefact that requires repeated readings. Over time, initial relationships, be they formal or intellectual, give way and are replaced by others that exist on more subtle perceptual levels.
Her one concession to an explanatory text is an insert that contains an interview with a geographer. She asks him the questions that she seeks to address in her work. The result reveals not only a similarity in methodology but also the intention to expose underlying patterns of logic through investigating the surficial. Price: £6.50
Hatje Cantz/Parasol Unit 2006
96 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9783775718684
22.5 x 31.5 cm German/English text. Hardcover
David Schnell (*1971) usually employs elements of landscape in his paintings. Indeed, first-time viewers might be under the impression that they are looking at landscape paintings, but in reality they are witnessing Schnell’s obsessive treatment of space—something he frequently intensifies by painting in large formats that seem to engulf the viewer. Equally striking is Schnell’s compelling use of linear perspective and the vanishing point to create pictorial order. However, this order is often counteracted by the artist’s almost subliminal desire for action. These conflicting elements of order and explosion give the paintings an extraordinary energy and dynamism that never leave the viewer's eye or mind at rest. The landscape in Schnell’s works provides a framework against which he explores his thoughts, ideas and artistic concerns. Price: £19.99
Steidl MACK / Artangel 2006
168 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3865212360 ISBN-13 9783865212368
18 x 24.5 cm English text. Hardcover
From 2 October 2004, Die Familie Schneider took up residence in neighbouring identical houses in a very ordinary street in London's East End. This book is the artist Gregor Schneider's extension of the original work, a document and exploration of Schneider's obsession with repression, reproduction and repetition in images and text. "Die Familie Schneider" was a disturbing and claustrophobic work which generated enormous public and critical interest. Internationally renowned for his unnerving presentation of normality, Schneider's medium is the room - kitchen, living room, bedroom, bathroom - and cellar. In his work the domestic environment becomes the site of an unrelenting existential confrontation. Up until now, Schneider has mainly focused on Dead House ur, the 20-year ongoing transformation of his parents' former home in Rheydt, Germany. Dead House ur was reconstructed in the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2001 when Schneider was awarded the Golden Lion for Sculpture. Price: £19.99
104 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 9783775718332
22.5 x 29 cm German/English text. Hardcover
Fragmented and morbid, yet full of yearning and sensitivity, Douglas Kolk’s drawings and collages show people who seem to be at odds with themselves and on the verge of collapse. Influenced by Pop art and media images, his works have titles like Lifedeathlife; Green Girls Die; A Boy Named Deth, A Girl Named Sic; Hi Sunflower!, and Ladies + Gun Shoes, and deal intensively with popular youth culture.
Kolk grew up in a senior citizens’ home led by his father, a Baptist preacher. He studied graphic design, worked as an assistant to Robert Longo, and then as curator of a bank-owned art collection. In the mid-1990s his increasing success as an artist brought along with it the pressure of raised expectations, compelling him to stop working as an artist for a while. In the past few years he has resumed drawing. Price: £19.99
Milwaukee Art Museum 2006
96 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 0944110835
24 x 29 cm English text. Softcover
This title features images of nearly all Bruce Nauman's signs and room installation using neon and fluorescent light, from "Window or Wall Sign" (1967) to the monumental "One Hundred Live and Die" (1984), accompanied by interpretive essays. Intrigued and inspired by the neon beer signs on shopfronts in his San Francisco neighbourhood, Bruce Nauman created his first neon piece, "Window or Wall Sign", in 1967. He wanted, he said, to achieve "an art that would kind of disappear - that was supposed to not quite look like art." Light offered Nauman a medium both elusive and effervescent, but one that could also aggressively convey a message. Over the first three decades of his career, Nauman used the medium of light to explore the twists and turns of perception, logic, and meaning with the earnest playfulness that characterises all his art. "Elusive Signs" focuses on the discrete body of Nauman's work that uses neon and fluorescent light in signs and room installations, and includes images of nearly all Nauman's work with light. After "Window or Wall Sign", Nauman embarked on a series of neons that grappled with the semiotics of body and identity, and with "My Name as Though it Were Written on the Surface of the Moon" (1968), he forces the viewer to contemplate the role of naming in forming identity. Language - signs and symbols - plays an important role in Nauman's art. His later neon works emphasise the neon as a sign, presenting provocative twists of language and offering harsh and humorous sociopolitical commentary in such pieces as "Run from Fear", "Fun from Rear" (1972). This series culminates in the monumental, billboard-size "One Hundred Live and Die" (1984), which employs overwhelming scale to bombard the viewer with sardonic aphorisms. In incisive essays that accompany the images of Nauman's work, Joseph Ketner II of the Milwaukee Art Museum (which originated the exhibit this book accompanies) and critics Janet Kraynak and Gregory Volk analyse the works in light, both as a body of work and as an access point to Nauman's entire career. Price: £17.95
Kerber Verlag 2006
80 pages colour reproductions. ISBN 3938025557
21 x 28 cm English/German text. Hardcover
The artistic work of Sven Drühl should be understood as conceptual painting, in the sense of a remix or a transformation that reinterprets – or rather, investigates artistically – historical and contemporary paintings (from Caspar David Friedrich though Ferdinand Hodler to Eberhard Havekost). His work belongs to the tradition of Serial Art and Appropriation Art and focuses on the experimental rearrangement of paintings.
A further progression of the concept is the large-format diptychs, triptychs and works on paper as well as neon-light art. The diptychs and triptychs, in particular, represent a continuation of the remix theme; they are created from separate painting fragments, and are quotations ‘once removed’ – copies of copies – and at the same time, are also novel landscape collages. This monograph covers Drühl’s work from 2001 to 2005. Price: £23.00
Moderna Museet, Stockholm 2006
688 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3865213006
16.5 x 23 cm English text. Softcover
The 688-page, richly illustrated catalogue contains an introductory essay by the curator, Magnus af Petersens and two new essays by Iwona Blazwick head of the Whitechapel Gallery in London, and Thomas McEvilley, art historian and philologist affiliated to the Rice University, USA.
In his essay, Thomas McEvilley reviews Paul McCarthy’s films and progress from the early 1970s to the present day, dividing his development into four stages. The first of these he calls the “structural phase”. The early films do not incorporate a narrative but consist of the artist’s monotonous movements to attain a kind of primordial state. The artist’s abundant use of body fluids and other liquids is also associated with the early mythological stages of humanity, as well as with the foetus surrounded by fluid. Subsequently, McCarthy moves on to a “ritualistic phase”, inspired by ancient death and fertility rites. But, as McEvilley points out, the “blood sacrifice” in McCarthy’s works is merely Heinz ketchup.
In the third phase that McEvilley identifies, another character appears, as yet enacted by McCarthy, but transformed into what McEvilley calls the “Sacred Clown”, an archetype that appears in pre-colonial America. The films in the fourth phase relate more to the real world and popular culture than to rites and introspection. At this point, McCarthy is no longer an actor in his own films but operates as a Hollywood director. McEvilley also clarifies in his essay how McCarthy’s film imagery develops towards increasingly sophisticated visual techniques.
Iwona Blazwick writes about Paul McCarthy’s sculptures and masks. The latter, she claims, are associated with tribal rituals where the individual forsakes his identity. All McCarthy’s works involving masks suggest a role reversal, according to Iwona Blazwick. The actors become a form of cameras that edit, crop and captivate the onlookers. In McCarthy’s works sacred symbolic figures, such as those in the classical Greek drama, are replaced by Madonna, Pinocchio or George Bush. The entertainment industry, multinational corporations and politics depend on cult figures, such as celebrities and comic strip characters, in order to operate. Thanks to the mass media and information technology, these idols are recognisable throughout the world. McCarthy mixes the idol images up and affixes them to male and female bodies. He reveals them as interchangeable, ephemeral signs for a deeply-rooted ideology based on consumerism and political passivity.
When McCarthy has discarded his mask it often ends up among other performance props and is converted into a sculptural object. Objects symbolise lust and death. Some objects are equipped with genitals and all are splattered with some fluid, ketchup or chocolate sauce, that resembles blood or excrement. Unlike his shabby, down-scaled props, scattered on a table or stage floor, McCarthy moved on in the 1990s to make figures and heads, most of which are pure and over-sized, such as Spaghetti Man and Tomato Heads. Like the “cute” Disney characters, their heads are disproportionately large in relation to their bodies, but they are nearly always blind or have detachable eyes, and the dreamlike, eerie quality arouses both delight and terror. As Blazwick points out, they imitate the over-refined surfaces of American corporate culture. Price: £30.00
Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht 2005
96 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3865600174
24.5 x 28 cm English/German text. Softcover
This work accompanies the exhibition Monika Baer at Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich and Ausstellungshalle zeitgenossische Kunst, Munster, 2006. This catalogue for Monika Baer's first large solo exhibition features her latest works, masterful paintings which cause a deep visual impact. Since the early 1990s, in her paintings, drawings and collages, Baer has developed a surreal, mysterious world that she seems to relate to earlier epochs. In her work, a new romantic era characterised by subjectivity, sensibility and visual opulence has begun. Price: £18.00
Volume Editions 2005
104 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 0976853337
15 x 20.5 cm English text. Softcover
For 10 years, Danica Phelps has been documenting and drawing her life, in visual codes that tracked first her monetary and then later also her erotic activity. Calendars chart the daily comings and goings of an artistic existence, watercolors illuminate amounts spent and gained, and sinuous graphite line drawings record quotidian intimacy between Phelps and her lover Debi. As Julie Caniglia wrote in Artforum “there’s a mild voyeuristic thrill in scanning the minutae of her daily life, but she epitomizes restraint compared to the self-indulgent tell-all nature of some other female artists her age... This refusal to reveal everything throws the spotlight from her life onto the work itself and the system she’s built around it: getting and spending, and doing what one must do not only to get by, but to get something one values--art.” Price: £17.50
Buchhandlung Walther Konig 2006
48 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 386560028X
31.5 x 31.5 cm English text. Boxed Set
“I didn’t make a record. It would have been too difficult. It was easier not to make a record,” Shrigley writes on the LP sleeve that contains a book of song lyrics, shaped in the form of a record. He connects the three spheres of his work - art, books and music – with the utmost ease. The lyrics show a thriving will to understand; they are simple, ambiguous poetry, bribing, self ironic and honest. David Shrigley was born in Macclesfield in 1968 and lives and works in Glasgow. Price: £18.00
144 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3775715797 ISBN-13 9783775715799
21 x 27 cm English/German text. Softcover
This book documents a cross-section of Jenny Holzer's light-art oeuvre, featuring works in which the artist projected texts from her famous Truisms, Inflammatory Essays, Survival and Mother and Child pieces. Price: £24.95
Phaidon 2006
256 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 0714844071
Alex Katz is a towering figure in contemporary painting, a key New York-based artist since the early 1960s. Katz was an independent figure during the heyday of Abstract Expressionism and Pop when he first emerged -- and remains a unique, though highly influential figure to this day. Alex Katz is best known for his distinct portraits of sophisticated, irresistible women, masterfully painted using precise, broad areas of colour. Alongside these unmistakably 'Katzian' female portraits are portraits of men, group portraits, landscapes and interiors rendered in painting, drawing, collage and metal cut-outs. All attest to the artist's attention to detail, economy of means and consummate technique. Bigger-than-life paintings such as The Black Dress (1960), Blue Umbrella (1972), Red Coat (1982) and White Visor (2003) have entered the collective conscience as the epitome of a particular, late 20th century feminine ideal: icons of fashion, yet miraculously resilient to the prevailing fashions of contemporary art. Katz has exhibited widely all over the world; a major, touring retrospective originating at New York's Whitney Museum of American Art was held in 1986. Alex Katz's work is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C., The Tate Gallery, London, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and the Nationalgalerie, Berlin, among many others. Price: £29.95
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 2005
80 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 1921034009
21.5 x 26 cm English text. Softcover
Comprises images from Kutlug Ataman's exhibition, including forty battered thrift-store TV screens, each with their own domestic chair: not unlike we might see in the homes of the people they document. On each, one person tells their story straight to the camera: an intimate conversation. Price: £21.00
Centre Pompidou, Paris 2005
80 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 2844262759
17 x 22 cm English/French text. Softcover
This is the first comprehensive monograph on the Danish artist, who became well known for his fountain in front of the railroad station in Venice during the 50th Biennale in 2005. He was also noticed for his moving benches and the Moving Walls or the monumental spherical channel at Aachen. Price: £13.95
160 pages Duotone reproductions. ISBN 3775717722 ISBN-13 9783775717724
24.5 x 17.5 cm English/German text. Hardcover
Dutch artist Marcel van Eeden has completed a drawing a day since 1993. This book features a collection of approximately 140 virtuoso drawings, in which he provides a fictitious biography of K M Wiegand, who, history verifies, was actually a botanist. Price: £17.99
Other Criteria 2005
256 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 1904212115
22 x 28 cm English text. Hardcover
A solo exhibition presented in book form. This is a core collection of art works by German artist Thomas Scheibitz, selected and sequenced by himself. Designed by Jason Beard, this book presents an overview of the artist's work as retold by him. Price: £55.00
Steidl Mack 2006
48 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN-10 3865212409 ISBN-13 9783865212405
22 x 27 cm English text. Softcover
Trafalgar Square is full of military statues, and one ghostly empty pedestal that’s been waiting, undefended, for more than 150 years. Of late, the fourth plinth isn’t so lonely: it’s become the most significant public art space in the United Kingdom. Marc Quinn recently unveiled the sculpture that will grace it for the next 18 months to resounding tabloid disgust and critical acclaim. Allison Lapper Pregnant is a 13-ton, 12-foot high model of the disabled artist Allison Lapper eight months along. She has said, “I regard it as a modern tribute to femininity, disability, and motherhood. It is so rare to see disability in everyday life, let along naked, pregnant, and proud. The sculpture makes the ultimate statement about disability, that it can be as beautiful and valid a form of being as any other.” Fourth Plinth traces Quinn’s creative process, the piece’s creation, and public responses, including calls to leave it in the square permanently. Price: £9.99
Kunsthalle Vienna 2005
216 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3938821191
21.5 x 22 cm English/German text. Harcover
The exhibition Aller – Retour at Kunsthalle Wien (November 2005 – February 2006) showed the artist’s later works as a dialogue between sculpture and drawing. Since the 1980s, the works of Louise Bourgeois have followed the prevalent notion of art that rejects universal style and formal understanding in favour of a personal approach. The artist’s central concern lies in overcoming conflicts and the establishment of an intense, open discussion on the dialectics of thoughts and feelings. The exhibition focused on the artist’s works from the last 10 years, the majority of which are diary-like drawings in which text and symbols frequently mix. Price: £27.00
Cabinet Books 2005
96 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 1932698264
23 x 27 cm English text. Softcover
In the summer of 1973, artist Gordon Matta-Clark discovered that the city of New York occasionally auctioned improbably tiny and frequently inaccessible parcels of land created by zoning eccentricities. Fascinated by these spaces, he bought 15 of them (14 in Queens, and 1 in Staten Island) for between $25 and $75 each, photographed them, and collated the photographs with the appropriate deeds and maps. He called the project Fake Estates. Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark’s “Fake Estates” further documents and advances this seminal work, and accompanies Cabinet magazine’s exhibition at the Queens Museum of Art and White Columns in New York. Included here are responses to Matta-Clark’s original artwork by 20 contemporary artists including Francis Alÿs, Jimbo Blachly, Mark Dion, Sarah Oppenheimer, Dan Price, and Mierle Ukeles. Odd Lots also provides the definitive Fake Estates history, thus adding new dimension to the scholarship on this important artist—all within the spirit of collaboration and experimentation that marked Matta-Clark’s short, but influential career Price: £17.50
212 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 208030514X
21.5 x 28.5 cm English text. Hardcover
Pierre Bismuth, Oscar-winning screenwriter and video artist, is making conceptual art more approachable for the general public. Bismuth uses the power of language and image to morph rational ideas into absurd situations, and vice versa. Drawing from art history and cultural references - from fashion to cinema - Bismuth uses all art mediums available, from origami and collage to screenwriting and art installations. Bismuth has exhibited his work extensively throughout Europe and North America, including solo exhibitions at the Kunstmuseum Thun in Basel, Switzerland in April 2005, the Witte de With Museum of Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, the Sprengel Museum in Hannover, Germany, and at the 49th Venice Biennial. Bismuth is the first contemporary artist to win an academy award, which he received for co-authoring the 2004 Oscar-winning Best Original Screenplay, "Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind". This volume charts the artist's development through an analytical text, a visual gallery of works and an interview by a renowned art critic. A through and insightful reference, it provides a portrait of Bismuth's past and present work, and many of his works are assembled together for the first time. Price: £25.00
212 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 2080305158
Jean-Marc Bustamante is transforming art appreciation from a passive to an active experience. After working with American photographer and filmmaker William Klein, Bustamante held his first exhibition in 1982 and met the sculptor Bazile. They collaborated as Bazilbustmante for three years, which lead Bustamante to experiment with other media. His work revolves around a reciprocal relationship between artist and spectator, in which both parties engage in the aesthetic definition of a piece. He rejects notions of documentary and fixed aesthetics, relying instead on the fluid and meditative nature of art. Bustamante's work has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the world including The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the Jeu de Paume in Paris, the Documenta in Kassel, Germany, and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, as well as a solo exhibition at the Tate Gallery in London. Bustamante represented France at the 50th Venice Biennial in 2003. This book is comprised of a series of essays, each offering a distinct perspective on the artist's work and career, as well as a retrospective, an interview, and over 150 illustrations which together represent a complete collection of the artist's creation. Price: £25.00
212 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 2080305166
Internationally acclaimed Swiss artist John Armleder defies the limitations of style and media by mixing them in refreshing combinations. John Armleder's furniture-sculptures combine painting and sculpture, drawing liberally from traditional art references, from modernist art, modern design, constructivism; and art deco, to minimalism, op art, music, and film. The resulting images, sculptures, and installations often involve the viewer's active participation; his art is as much experienced as it is viewed. Armleder has exhibited his work extensively throughout Europe and North America. His work Untitled (FS 181) is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The artist curated the exhibition None of the Above (winter 2004-2005) at the Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art in New York. A solo exhibition of his work opened in May 2005 at the Cosmic Galerie in Paris. This comprehensive book charts Armleder's career through an interview, an analytical retrospective text, and 150 images, which present the artist's eclectic output from his early work to his current projects. His theoretical texts and critical pieces are published here together for the first time. Price: £25.00
Contemporary Fine Arts Berlin 2005
112 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3931355306
24.5 x 32.5 cm English/German text. Hardcover
Published to accompany the exhibition The Blue Rider at Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, 2005, this series of paintings and sculptures by the London-based artist Chris Ofili takes its name from the seminal art publication by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc. The catalogue alternates image and text; and includes quotations from Ralph Ellison, Bessie Smith, Lonnie Johnson and Blind Willie McTell. Ofili won the Turner prize in 1998, with his controversial paintings which mixed religious iconography and elephant dung. Price: £36.00
ARTicle Press 2006
96 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 1873352298
In the publication, public works revisit the project Park Products and take up the theme of community by exploring the space of networks and, in particular, the informality of networks found in institutions and public space. The book contains an interview with Andreas Land & Kathrin Böhm of public works and an essay by Diona Petrscu, Working towards a real public space, addressing the theme of community. Price: £6.99
96 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 1873352395
For the publication, Richard Woods has developed his first booked- based artwork that maps urban habitats, examining branding and vernacular languages within cities and towns. The book also contains an interview with the artist and an essay, The Manufacturing of Authenticity, by Sarah Chaplin and Eric Holding, which highlights the architectural and cultural contrivance at work in creating new city identities. Price: £6.99
Rchter Verlag 2005
323 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 1933045299
24.5 x 30.5 cm English text. Hardcover
Price: £39.00
Book Works 2006
128 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 1870699904
12.5 x 17.5 cm Softcover
Commissioned to make a new work for the Norwegian Parliament in Oslo, Fiona Tan collected family photograph albums from as broad and varied a background as possible, eventually selecting two hundred and sixty-seven images that would be individually framed and presented in the Parliament building. For this book, she revisits the entire collection of images—intimate family portraits that capture private if familiar moments: the birth of a child, birthdays, family gatherings, adolescence, holidays, brothers and sisters, first loves, favourite places. Loosely arranged within three familiar strains—Portrait, Home and Nature—unexpected cross-references and playful associations unfold.
While a visual document of a country’s people, there is nothing obvious that would identify VOX POPULI, Norway as being Norwegian. The reader is drawn into a seductive and popular ethnography where images of the private and intimate challenge the ideology of official national portraits, and yet also assume a master narrative that defines the whole. Price: £11.95
92 pages 44 colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3775717420
21.50 x 28.50 cm English/German text. Hardcover
Eva Weinmayr's art makes use of the sensationalist headlines blared out in the populist British press day after day.
Artist Eva Weinmayr, who works with leftovers, designs, and fragments of the information society, is primarily interested in language. For years she has been collecting "teaser bills" - those abbreviated and exaggerated posters hawking the headlines of the day - from the London Evening Standard, and using them as a starting point for her work. In a fragmentary and associative text written especially for this book, artist Gustav Metzger reflects on Weinmayr's work and documents the ongoing dialogue between their very different artistic positions, which both focus on social processes. This artist's book, edited by Florian Matzner and designed by Zylvia Auerbach, succeeds in capturing this fleeting dialogue and the exciting tension underlying it. Price: £14.99
64 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 1870699858
11.5 x 17.5 cm English text. Softcover
“I try to get into spaces, ones I convince myself I can fit limbs in. I photograph myself doing it, camera on tripod, timer on camera. I explain each experience, building up a loose taxonomy of the places I’ve been in. From my pillowcase to the shifting shadow of a tree.”— Siôn Parkinson
Documenting his physical interventions into small spaces with both photographs and text, Head in the Railingsis at first glance a series of humorous encounters between the human body and residual architectural spaces. In the process of making familiar the holes, cracks and voids found in buildings and the streets, Parkinson’s images and text examine the sensations of claustrophobia and repulsion, and reveal a disturbing sense of pain and absurdity. Price: £6.00
David Krut Publishing 2006
160 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 0958486042
26 x 28 cm English text. Softcover
William Kentridge Prints is the first book to focus solely on Kentridge's formidable print oeuvre, filling a gap in published work on the artist to date. It is also the first major publication on William Kentridge to be published in South Africa. The book includes over 180 works and presents the full range and complexity of Kentridge's printmaking, from his linocuts of the 1970s to his recent sophisticated and distinctive Thinking Aloud drypoints created while he was working on his production of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute, which premiered in Brussels in April 2005. Price: £27.00
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig 2005
184 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3883759805
15 x 21 cm English/German text. Softcover
Published on the occasion of the lecture Puberty in Painting by Michael Krebber. Krebber reproduces numerous book covers taken from the literature of Dandyism, as well as postcards, album covers, posters and business cards. Born in Cologne in 1954, Krebber studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste and worked as an assistant to Georg Baselitz and Martin Kippenberger and is a central figure in the Cologne art world. His work deals with the shape of the relationships between signs: ‘How figure and ground, form and format, surface and space, colour and object, frame and wall, object and installation, light and place, material and reference, title and context, original and found material can be related to one another.’ (Helmut Draxler). Includes a booklist on Dandyism by Oswald Wiener. Price: £14.80
Verlag fur Moderne Kunst Nurnberg 2005
104 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3938821116
27.5 x 21 cm English/German text. Softcover
This book of chronologically arranged, format-filling colour pictures takes you on a journey through the past five years of the exhibition-and-picture world of Daniela Brahm. Views of rooms are combined with reproductions of single pictures and photographs from her archive ‘backstage’. In harmony with the material – which the artist herself photographed or found and that she calls ‘backstage’ – a visual narrative thread emerges that retraces the original link between her observations and their thematic transformation. The book’s central picture section is framed by texts, quotations and statements. The texts document Brahm’s way of going about painting as well as the themes specific to her picture worlds. Includes a discussion on painting between Les Schlieber and Daniela Brahm. Essays by Andreas Spiegl and Raimar Strange. Price: £17.00
Kerber Verlag 2005
128 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3938025298
30 x 23 cm English/German text. Hardcover
Although the works of painter Christoph Ruckhäberle have been compared with those of George Grosz and Max Beckman, his paintings bridge the gap between the past and the present – his relationship with tradition is full of ambiguity. Classical motifs are subverted by figures that break the traditional form, thematically as well as technically. Although perspective is present in his work, one cannot escape the feeling that the background is as flat as the canvas. Like a set piece for a film production it serves no purpose besides acting as a backdrop for the depicted subjects. His paintings dissolve space and time; they are mysterious and seem hermetically closed around themselves, only slowly giving away their meaning. Ruckhäberle, who studied in Leipzig, has won several prizes and awards in recent years. This catalogue documents Ruckhäberle’s artistic development from 2002 – 2005 and is accompanied by a text from Hans-Werner Schmidt, Director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig. Price: £26.00
MoMA New York 2006
112 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 0870700855
23.5 x 28 cm English text. Hardcover
An ever-increasing number of artists, such as Mona Hatoum, Shirin Neshat, and Shahzia Sikander, have come from the Islamic world to live in Europe and the United States. Without Boundary brings together some of these major contemporary voices. The exhibition catalogue features the work of artists of diverse backgrounds—Algerian, Egyptian, Indian, Iranian, Iraqi, Lebanese, Pakistani, Palestinian, and Turkish—across a variety of mediums, including painting, sculpture, video, animation, photography, carpet and textile, and comic strips.
The exhibition catalogue seeks to emphasize diversity by questioning the use of artists’ origins as the sole determining factor in the consideration of their art. To examine the various ways in which these artists’ works diverge from popular expectations, the catalogue examines the visual treatment of texts and miniature painting on one hand, and issues of identity and faith or spirituality on the other. The intention is not to imply uniformity based on a collective identity but rather to highlight complex, idiosyncratic approaches. Works by Mike Kelley and Bill Viola, two American artists, are included to prevent simplistic conclusions based purely on origin. Other artists featured include Jananne Al-Ani, Ghada Amer, Kutlug Ataman, the Atlas Group/Walid Raad, Shirazeh Houshiary and Pip Horne, Emily Jacir, Y.Z. Kami, Rachid Koraïchi, Marjane Satrapi, Shirana Shahbazi, and Raqib Shaw.
Catalogue essays by Fereshteh Daftari and Homi Bhabha (Harvard), with a prose piece by novelist Orhan Pamuk. Price: £17.95
Nationalegalerie im Hamburger Banhof / Steidl 2005
152 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3865211747
19.5 x 26 cm English/German text. Softcover
The most recent work of the Iranian-American artist Shirin Neshat is a film entitled "Women without Men" - a poetic vision in five parts about five women who, after a difficult and uncomfortable journey, find themselves in a deceptively paradisiacal garden. The film is based on a novella of the same name by Shahrnush Parsipur, which is a provocative allegory on the situation in Iran today. This volume documents Neshat's development from her groundbreaking photographic works Women of Allah and Unveiling to her creations of more recent years, particularly the still incomplete project "Women without Men". She has repeatedly devoted her unmistakable work to the relationship between gender and culture, home and exile and to the situation of women in post-revolution Iran. Price: £17.50
Guggenheim Bilbao / Steidl 2005
212 pages Duotone reproductions. ISBN 3865211372
25 x 30 cm English text. Hardcover
Richard Serra, renowned for his challenging and inventive work, is widely considered to be one of the greatest sculptors of the contemporary era. The Matter of Time documents Serra's recent commission by the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao of seven monumental sculptures for the largest gallery of the museum. Together with Snake (1994-97), the work that Serra created for the museum's grand opening, the sculptures create a permanent, site-specific installation of a scale and ambition unrivalled in modern history. Through a revealing interview-essay by Hal Foster, and writings and statements by the artist about his recent series Torqued Ellipses and the present, unprecedented commission, the book discloses the last 25 years of this sculptor's oeuvre and the evolution of his sculptural vocabulary as it relates to this installation. Other writings by Carmen Gimenez and a chronology by Kate Nesin help contextualize Serra's work. Price: £40.00
Deutsche Guggenheim 2005
128 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 089207339X
28 x 22 cm English text. Hardcover
Published to accompany the exhibition at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin, this book showcases William Kentridge's installation, composed of a mechanized theatre in miniature, animated film projections, charcoal drawings and sculptural elements, collectively entitled "Black Box / Chambre Noire". Price: £25.00
La Biennale di Venezia 2005
112 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3851600606
18 x 23 cm English/German text. Softcover
Resembling a mountain from the outside, Schabus’ interior incorporates tunnels, shafts, holes and corridors. The building has to be explored from the inside, as the visitor gradually perceives a sense of space, and experiences the work in time, through active participation with the environment.
This large installation work was made in collaboration with the architect Josef Hoffman for the Austrian pavilion of the Venice Biennial 2005.
Essays by Max Hollein, Elke Krasny, Franz Xaver Baier and August Ruhs Price: £13.50
Turner Contemporary 2005
72 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3865600395
23 x 22 cm English text. Hardcover
For Turner Contemporary Mike Nelson has constructed an elaborate installation in a previously derelict building in Margate's Old Town. The work explores the themes of intoxication and sensual overload, partly as a response to the history and spirit of Margate and the host building.
Mike Nelson was born in Loughborough in 1967. He studied at Reading University from 1986-90 and went on to complete an MA in Sculpture at Chelsea College of Art & Design, London, in 1992-3. He has exhibited extensively within the UK and overseas - most recently at the British School in Rome and at the Musee d'Art Moderne et Contemporain in Geneva. In 2001 Nelson was short-listed for the Turner Prize. Price: £16.95
Photoworks Steidl 2005
112 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3865210880
30 x 22.5 cm English text. Hardcover
Sophy Rickett’s subjects are primarily photographed at night, often located in peripheral and mundane environments. In both color and black and white, her work uses landscape to explore narrative and formal possibilities while it examines and ponders on the potential of photography to conceal as much as it reveals.
Essays by David Chandler, Mark Durden, and Urs Stahel.Interview by Charlotte Cotton. Price: £19.99
Kerber Verlag Edition Young Art 2005
72 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3938025328
21 x 27 cm English/German text. Hardcover
Tom Fabritius takes his motifs from the flood of images emanating from television. Armed with his camera, hopping from channel to channel he quickly and intuitively photographs individual pictorial moments. He then selects individual images and paints them in watercolour to create simple and reductive images in front of a stylised background. The transfer of images into the medium of watercolour fixes what is typical in such pictorial worlds. This title has been published on the occasion of the exhibition of Tom Fabritius at the Open Art München in September 2005. Price: £19.00
Damiani Editore 2005
112 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 8889431288
24 x 28 cm English/Italian/Chinese text. Softcover
Price: £19.00
Charta 2005
252 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 8881585510
28 x 28 cm English text. Hardcover
From a photographic camera to a TV camera to narrate—with lucidity and without submission—the suffering of mankind. From the photographs of veiled women with old poems traced on their hands and feet, and from the Leone d'Oro award (Venice Biennial 1999), Iranian artist Shirin Neshat has never stopped working. She shows the world harmonious videos, mixing reality and oneiric visions, metaphors and provocations, delicate stories and rational analysis. This is the only monograph that thoroughly documents her video production; a fundamental tool for people who already appreciate her work and want to approach the art and commitment of an extraordinary artist in constant evolution. Price: £42.00
The National Gallery 2005
80 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 1857093313
20 x 24.5 cm English text. Softcover
Tom Hunter has become internationally renowned for creating engaging, distinctive and often provocative photographic reworkings of paintings from the past. In 1998 he won the Kobal Photographic Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery, London, for Woman Reading a Possession Order, a beautifully crafted photograph based on a composition by the Dutch Master, Johannes Vermcer (1632 - 1675). This book presents some of the striking images that have established Hunter's reputation, together with new work created especially for the exhibition Tom Hunter: Living in Hell and Other Stories at the National Gallery, London (7 December - 12 March 2006). Many of these images draw on the lives of the ordinary residents of Hackney, East London, as captured in the headlines of Hunter's local newspaper, the Hackney Gazette. These startling, sometimes tragic, stories are retold in carefully staged photographs, whose compositions are frequently derived from paintings in the National Gallery's collection. An essay by Tracy Chevalier examines Hunter's story-telling, while Colin Wiggins discusses the relationship between Hunter's work and Old Master paintings in the National Gallery and elsewhere. Price: £12.99
Firstsite 2005
148 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 0948252227
17 x 22 cm English text. Softcover
Leo Fitzmaurice's first solo publication considers a body of work developed from packaging, flyers and magazines. By subtly reworking printed matter such as Malborough cigarette packets, Tesco Value cereal boxes and Littlewoods' catalogues, Fitzmaurice questions how the world around us is constructed and considers our place within it. No longer blinded by information, the viewer concentrates on these remarkable objects and images, transformed into delicate sculptures and dramatic floor pieces. Price: £12.00
Artangel 2005
144 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 1902201183
21.5 x 30 cm English text. Hardcover
Through conversation, essays, photos and drawings, this book documents and explores Francis Alÿs' project Seven Walks
Over the past 5 years, Francis Alÿs has been walking the streets of London: Hyde Park; the City of London; the National Portrait Gallery; the streets close to Regents Park. His walks involve a diverse range of collaborators from 64 Coldstream Guards to London commuters, as he delves into the everyday rituals and habits of the metropolis. The ensuing films, videos, paintings and drawings form Alÿs' first major public presentation in Britain. Price: £19.95
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg / Hatje Cantz 2005
128 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3775716513
20.5 x 27 cm English/German text. Softcover
Eberhard Havekost (born 1967) has been considered one of the most respected German artists worldwide for several years. What is it that makes the images of the Dresden-based artist so disquieting, so ambiguous? Photographic perspectives with large-format brushwork, and controlled distortion with a sense of precise sectioning are part of it. Yet most of all, it is a sort of impenetrability, which continually forces the gaze used to viewing painting-the lingering gaze-to slip and slide over the surfaces of faces, emotions, and buildings. Havekost often appropriates media images from television and newspapers in his paintings, and, most recently, also adapts motifs from his own photographs. However, unlike Gerhard Richter, Havekost is not involved in a painter's skeptical attempt to increase the value of the photographic subject, but with media's skeptical way of dealing with the photograph as a document.
The publication is the first one to collect Eberhard Havekost's paintings from the last seven years, whose central themes are the figure and housing, windows and façades, and "leisure-time vehicles." Price: £19.99
Hatje Cantz 2005
104 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3775717331
This extraordinary book allows the reader to discover a new side of Richard Prince's oeuvre. There are no smoking cowboys swinging their lassoes or bare-breasted blondes on heavy motorcycles in this droll collection of highly expressive drawings and watercolors, whose inventive shapes and joyful colors recall children's drawings or paintings by the mentally ill. Half-figures of indeterminable gender with staring eyes, big ears, and frizzy hair challengingly smirk at the viewer and become an inventory of possibilities that later find their way into the joke paintings of the same period. This lavishly printed publication presents these apparently funny, yet sinister works to a larger public for the first time. Texts by Richard Brautigan Price: £19.99
Compton Verney 2005
664 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 0954654587
12.5 x 17 cm English text. Hardcover
Susan Hiller's 'The J-Street Project' is a complex study documenting every street in Germany whose name contains a reference to Jews.
The resulting installation contains both video and photographic works, mapping the whole of Germany and containing an extraordinary 303 place names. The images are haunting, often sparse yet dramatic, and conjure up feelings of distinct unease. Some images are occupied with people; others are empty but equally compelling in the feeling of sadness and absence they evoke.
The J-Street Project took three years to complete. Hiller's thoroughness in her research was immaculate and nothing was missed. The cumulative effect of all these images seen together acts as an important documentary about a controversial period in European history, with the camera acting as a witness to past events.
Hiller was born in the USA in 1940 and rose to prominence in London during the 1970s. She is regarded as an immensely influential figure for a younger generation of British artists. Her work was recently presented in a major survey exhibition at the Baltic, Gateshead, which travelled to Museu Serralves, Porto and Kunsthalle, Basel. Price: £25.00
Photoworks 2005
64 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 1903796164
15.5 x 20 cm English text. Softcover
The first publication devoted to the work of British artist Neeta Madahar, this book and DVD focuses on two recent works: the first, a series of fifteen colour photographs called Sustenance, was made in 2004, while the other, entitled Falling, is a new work that comprises a video and five still photographs, co-commissioned by Photoworks, Fabrica and inIVA.
Although very different in form, both Sustenance and Falling are thematically related and, in part, this book attempts to draw out those connections and suggest the wider concerns of an important emerging artist. Both works are a response to nature but both are also finely balanced on a sense of artificiality, on a heightened sense of drama and even fantasy in commonplace situations. It is this detachment, or odd counterpoint to reality that also releases and enriches the works. They resist categorisation, matching something naïve and childlike in their vision to a knowing sophistication that has strong echoes of Surrealism, and that also hints at something darker, more threatening, around and above us.
Includes a DVD of the film Falling. Essays by David Chandler and Carlo McCormick Price: £9.99
Zazie Press 2005
88 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 0955122708
Seventeen artists, writers and other creative individuals have contributed to this book, the outcome of a project based on Victim, dir. Basil Dearden 1961, starring Dirk Bogarde and Sylvia Simms.
Victim is a blackmail drama with a political ambition; made before the de-criminalization of homosexuality, it uses the device of detective fiction as a tool to put forward it’s pro-gay message. The multiple bit characters that the genre requires each have a secret past or a chip on their shoulder, and each gives a little speech at some point to illustrate this. These mini narratives contain nuggets of liberal opinion while maintaining the action of the story. In this way a network of hidden lives is alluded to without being fleshed out and this is where Victim the film finishes and where Victim the project begins.
Each character has been separately assigned to a writer and these writers (artists, friends, colleagues) have been themselves “cast”. The choice of writers echoes the characters in various ways. For example David Piper, well known on London’s stylish burlesque and cabaret scene, writes the parts of the actor Tiny Calloway and his partner Lord Charles Fullbrook, bringing together the theatrical and the aristocratic as he often does at his own clubs. Min Hogg, founder editor of World of Interiors magazine, writes the part of the PH and Mickey who are forever lamenting their lovely house in Cheltenham. The novelist Sebastian Roach writes the marginal character Mandrake, because his own works centralize the peripheral characters of life.
Hooper has set no rules for her writers other than to say that the scenes of the film will not be repeated; the parts of the story ‘left out’ of the film are the parts they each invent. Style, form and content are in their hands. This is a book of individual pieces of writing, disconnected from the original film and from each other. The film, the plot and character development it contains, is a physical structure not to be penetrated but turned inside out and adorned, extended by an un-predeterminable form. Hooper is herself a blackmailer, a confessor setting up a specific place in which a hidden story can be told, a story which without the originating constraints would not be hidden and so would not exist. All of the writing originates in a “reading” of the film and its structural and historical restraints.
RRP £8.00 Price: £7.20
Century 2005
192 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 1844137864
15 x 21 cm English text. Hardcover
Artistic genius, political activist, painter and decorator, mythic legend or notorious graffiti artist? The work of Bansky is unmistakable, except maybe when it's squatting in the Tate or New York's Metropolitan Museum. Bansky is responsible for decorating the streets, walls, bridges and zoos of towns and cites throughout the world. Witty and subversive, his stencils show monkeys with weapons of mass destruction, policeman with smiley faces, rats with drills and umbrellas. If you look hard enough you'll find your own. His statements, incitements, ironies and epigrams are by turns intelligent and cheeky comments on everything from the monarchy and capitalism to the war in Iraq and farm animals. His identity remains unknown, but his work is prolific. And now for the first time, he's putting together the best of his work - old and new in a fully illustrated colour volume. Price: £20.00
Irish Museum of Modern Art 2005
72 pages Colour and B&W reproductions.ISBN 190381149X
21.5 x 28 cm English text. Hardcover
Franz Ackermann's work comprises a series of large brightly coloured paintings and installations which reflect the changing nature of today’s increasingly globalised society. A publication with essays by Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith, curator and art critic, Daniel Birnbaum, Director of Portikus, Frankfurt, and Rachael Thomas, Senior Curator: Head of Exhibitions, IMMA, accompanies the exhibition. Price: £19.99
Windsor Press 2005
176 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3883759910
22.5 x 27 English text. Hardcover
Peter Doig’s paintings are variously described as uneasy, enigmatic and dreamlike. Though less well known, Doig’s works on paper are equally haunting and explore many of the same themes and images as his paintings. However, they are not merely a preamble to the canvases but are vehicles for innovation in their own right. Doig distills images to create works that possess an ephemeral, timeless quality, while he visits notions of recollection and fantasy. This, the first major collection of the artist’s works on paper, catches the creative process as it happens. Peter Doig was born in Scotland and now lives and works in Trinidad. In 1994 he was nominated for the Turner Prize. Price: £37.00
Black Dog Publishing 2005
144 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 1904772293
23 x 28 English text. Softcover
Vera's Room is the first monograph on the artist Maria Chevska. Most celebrated for her evocative, almost edible, treatment of language in her paintings, Chevska explores the rich historical relationship between art and words. Her early work featured fictional extracts from Beckett, Kafka, and Raymond Carver poured onto the canvas in gestures echoing those of Jackson Pollock. More recently Chevska has incorporated new methods of working including sculpture and complex installation. The book also contains Chevska’s latest project, the eponymous Vera’s Room. This takes the exclusive shape of a scratch book printed on newsprint and forms the central piece of the book. It is a visual as well as textual collage where the artist and her alter ego, Vera Kasmiach, take a journey through film stills, press cuttings, found photographs and other ephemera.
Vera’s Room traces and documents Chevska’s rich and complex work through texts and illustrations. Two specially commissioned essays provide an art historical and philosophical context to the work, while the lavishly illustrated art work section offers an exciting overview of Chevska’s oeuvre to date.
Essays by Hélène Cixous and Tony Godfrey Price: £19.95
Thames & Hudson 2005
272 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 0500543143
24.5 x 30 cm Engliah text. Hardcover
Candida Höfer's photographs of libraries are sober and restrained – the atmosphere is disturbed by neither visitors nor users, especially as she forgoes any staging of the locations. The emptiness is imbued with substance by a subtle attention to colour, and the prevailing silence instilled with a metaphysical quality that gives voice to the objects, over and above the eloquence of the furnishings or the pathos of the architecture.
This sumptuous volume contains Höfer’s famously ascetic images of the British Library in London, the Escorial in Spain, the Whitney Museum and the Pierpoint Library in New York, the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, the Villa Medici in Rome and the Hamburg University Library, among others.
Umberto Eco introduces the collection with a witty reflection on the role of libraries in all our lives.
Almost completely devoid of people, as is Höfer’s trademark, these pictures radiate a comforting serenity that is exceptional in contemporary photography. Price: £42.00
Daniel Eatock & Flavia Muller Medeiros 2005
60 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 0955119405
The visual structure of the book appropriates that of an animated flip book. Each artwork is documented with a number of images on sequential pages. A selection of works are juxtaposed on each spread. The book can be read by repeatedly turning the pages back and forth, becoming performative and reflecting the nature of the works.
The book was designed and developed in collaboration with Daniel Eatock and includes an introduction by curator Lisa Le Feuvre. Price: £5.00
Rachmaninoff's 2005
124 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 0954824024
20.5 x 27 cm English text. Softcover
19.95
Reproducing 108 installation photographs of exhibitions and events in London between December 2003 and July 2005, edited and introduced by Pablo Lafuente, Display records specific documents of contemporary art. Price: £19.95
Steidl mm 2005
186 pages 2 vols. Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3865211216
17.5 x 23.5 cm English text. Softcover Slip Case
This publication catalogues and explores the latest sculptural installation by Robert Gober, one of contemporary art's most highly-regarded figures. Unlike anything that has been seen before, this new work explores questions of sexuality, religion, relationships, nature, and memory, all informed by the current political climate. Loosely following the floorplan of a church, the installation brings together many of Gober's known sculptural motifs and introduces new ones as Gober continues into uncharted artistic territory. The first of the two volumes includes a comprehensive essay by Brenda Richardson written over the course of the two years of the installation's development. Richardson spent hours in the studio in conversation with Gober, and her Lexicon provides an unprecedented glimpse at the working process and multiple layers of meaning in Gober's complex work. The lavishly-illustrated second volume reproduces over 50 full-color photographs of the completed work. Price: £35.00
The MIT Press 2005
224 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 0262195186
21 x 23.5 cm English text. Hardcover
Stelarc is the most celebrated artist in the world working within technology and the visual arts. He is both an artist and a phenomenon, using his body as medium and exhibition space. Working in the interface between the body and the machine, employing virtual reality, robotics, medical instruments, prosthetics, and the Internet, Stelarc's art includes physical acts that don't always look survivable -- or, as science fiction novelist William Gibson puts it in his foreword, "sometimes seem to include the possibility of terminality."
Stelarc's projects include Third Hand, a grasping and wrist rotating mechanism with a rudimentary sense of touch that is attached to the artist and activated by EMG from other body areas; Amplified Body, in which the artist performs acoustically with his brainwaves, muscles, pulse, and blood flow signals; and the Stomach Sculpture, a device -- or "aesthetic adornment" -- placed in the artist's stomach and presented through video. Works in progress include the Extra Ear Project, a soft prosthesis of skin and cartilage to be constructed on the artist's arm. Stelarc's work both reflects and determines new directions in performance art and body art. Although there have been hundreds of articles written about Stelarc since he began performing in the late 1960s, Stelarc: The Monograph is the first comprehensive study of Stelarc's work practice in over thirty years. Gathering a range of writers who approach the work from a variety of perspectives, it includes William Gibson's account of his meetings with Stelarc, Arthur and Marilouise Kroker's emphatic "WE ARE ALL STELARCS NOW," and Stelarc himself in conversation with Marquard Smith. Taken together, these writers give us a multiplicity of ways to think about Stelarc.
With contributions by Julie Clarke, Timothy Druckrey, Jane Goodall, Amelia Jones, Arthur Kroker, Marilouise Kroker, Brian Massumi and Stelarc Price: £19.95
Rizzoli 2005
256 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 0847827526
25.5 x 30.5 cm English text. Hardcover
The portrait is the major subject matter of the American painter Elizabeth Peyton. Her list of models includes not only friends and acquaintances but also celebrities such as Princess Diana, Andy Warhol or Leonardo DiCaprio. For her small-format, seemingly "realistic" paintings, Elizabeth Peyton uses both "public" photographs taken from the print media as well as "private" ones shot by herself. All her works are characterized by a distinct intimacy also reflected in titles which usually reveal only the first name of the respective model. Price: £29.95
176 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 0500512620
21 x 25 cm English text. Hardcover
Antony Gormley Inside Australia showcases Turner Prize-winning artist Gormley's stunning 51-statue installation on Lake Ballard, a 10 square kilometre dry salt lake in a remote region of Western Australia. Photographs, maps and drawings present the entire creative process in detail, while commentaries explain its different stages and place the work in the wider context of Gormley's sculptural oeuvre. The centrepiece of the book is a photographic section showing the figures standing sentinel on the parched salt plains. Price: £24.95
82 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 0892073330
11.5 x 15.5 cm English text. Specially designed box
Douglas Gordon's work epitomises a new fluidity which has developed between video and film in contemporary art. His installation "The Vanity of Allegory" at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin includes loans from the "Guggenheim" and private collections, as well as examples of his own work and that of his peers. By combining historical and contemporary art and film, Gordon has created a visual collage that narrates issues of self-representation and double identity. This catalogue illustrates each object in the show along with Gordon's rationale for including it in "The Vanity of Allegory". Price: £25.00
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo / Hatje Cantz 2005
368 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3775716408
26.5 x 28.5 cm English text. Hardcover
This exquisite monograph is the first to offer an impressive cross-section from all of the series by the great master of silence.
The spectacular series by Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto (*1948 in Tokyo) are characterized by matchless clarity and presence. His works are always an absolute embodiment of his chosen visual motif, reduced to its essence.
Our exquisite monograph is the first to feature works selected from all of the series produced to date - including, of course, his most famous: Sugimoto's celebrated portraits of wax figures seem to face up to their living audiences; his "Seascapes" show us nothing less than a person's first conscious view of the ocean; the extremely long exposures of "Theaters" elevate the white, luminescent cinema screen, transforming it into a magical image of an altar; and the fascinating "Dioramas" - photographs of scientific display cases - allow us to travel with the artist far into the past to observe extinct animal species or the daily life of early man. Price: £60.00
Phaidon 2005
160 pages Colour and B&W repoductions. ISBN 0714843237
Fischli and Weiss are highly prestigious, bluechip contemporary artists who work with sculpture, photography and video, positioned at the very cutting edges of new art. They represented Switzerland in the Venice Biennales of 1995 and 2003, and won the Leone d’Oro prize in the latter for their slideshow Will Happiness Find Me?
The style of the work is extremely varied; what remains consistent throughout is an air of quiet unpredictability. The mood of the work ranges from the humorous (a clay figure group of 1981, for example, entitled Mick Jagger and Brian Jones Going Home Satisfied after Composing ‘I Can’t Get No Satisfaction’); to the banal (a photographic series devoted to Airports); and even the apparently invisible (their Untitled installation, simulating through minutely detailed polyurethane sculptures an unfinished exhibition site).
Fischli & Weiss’ work can be immune to the rules of gravity, for example in the Quiet Afternoon series, photographs of miraculously balanced objects. The pair’s work also seems able to overcome the constraints of time and space, for example in their apparently endless journeys, resulting in the innumerable Visible World picture-postcard photographs of cities all over the world. With a truly unique body of work which is sometimes childishly thrown together, sometimes a virtuoso triumph of sculpture and moving image, this is the first book to draw together the mystery and contradiction of Fischli & Weiss.
Fischli & Weiss have exhibited extensively worldwide. Their solo exhibitions include the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1992), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1988) and the Tate Modern, London (2005). Price: £24.95
Taschen 2005
220 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3822846406
22.5 x 30 cm English/French/German text. Softcover
The underbelly of the world and the pursuit of impossible truth.
In his third TASCHEN book, celebrated artist photographer and winner of the 2000 Turner Prize Wolfgang Tillmans takes his exploration of the visible world to a new level. The title truth study center is a tongue-in-cheek reference to the paradox of our desire to find a universal truth and the impossibility of doing so. From evocative nude studies and candid personal portraits of Tony Blair to astronomical views of planet Venus passing over the disc of the sun, for the first time the full width of Tillmans's world is brought together in one book. Also included is an extensive selection of striking new abstract works, which through their vivid colors and compositions evoke bodily as well as atmospheric sensations. From nightlife to still life, Tillmans shows us another side of the world we live in today. Price: £14.99
Redstone Press 2005
224 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 1870003241
21 x 28.5 cm English text. Softcover
In the beginning was the world and an innocent young Shrigley made drawings of it in his sketchbooks. Sometimes he added words to the drawings. Sometimes he just wrote words. And the world he draws is dark indeed - but funny and true. True about such things as the vanity of human wishes, the certainty of night, the bad temper of pets and the strangeness of love. Not the whole truth, maybe. But true enough to make you uncomfortable, and to make you laugh out loud when you’re not wincing.
THE BOOK OF SHRIGLEY contains over 150 new drawings, sketchbook entries from student days, sad and funny ephemera, and texts that illuminate his work with a sideways light. Price: £20.00
Kunsthalle Zurich / Serpentine Gallery 2005
192 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 1905190050
16 x 22 cm English text. Softcover
London film-makers Oliver Payne (born 1977) and Nick Relph (born 1979) are chroniclers of contemporary culture. Their film-making merges aspects of several moving-image genres, and their sources of inspiration range from BBC documentaries, popular films and music, to high-street shopping, town planning, technology, and public transport.
Payne and Relph came to critical attention with a trilogy of engaging, and at times satirical, films focusing on contemporary life in Britain – not only in city centres and suburbs, but also in the countryside beyond. Together, Driftwood, 1999, House & Garage, 2000, and Jungle, 2001, form a group of works known as The Essential Selection. Price: £16.99
88 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 1903811430
19 x 26.5 cm English text. Hardcover
A publication, with essays by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Curator of Contemporary Art, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Rachael Thomas, Senior Curator: Head of Exhibitions, IMMA, and Marta Kuzma, Curator of Manifesta 5, accompanies the exhibition. Price: £19.99
128 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 1870699807
15.5 x 28.5 cm English text. Hardcover
Recalling André Breton's short lived Bureau de recherches surréalistes of 1924-part information centre and 'public relations' office, and part surrealist archive and 'glossary of the marvellous'-Mark Dion has trawled The Manchester Museum's own collections and found the raw material for this book and a new installation in The Manchester Museum.
Museums' attempts to classify and present the world in miniature inevitably mean that much of their collections are forgotten and marginalized. Renowned for his work exploring taxonomy, archaeology and ecology, Mark Dion's Bureau documents his opportunistic encounters with the Museum of Manchester's neglected drawers and overlooked recesses that are home to redundant labels, orphaned mounts, defunct teaching models, botanical freaks, Egyptian fakes and the minutiae that have fallen through the cracks of museum practice and lain abandoned. Dion's Bureau of the Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacy is both a repository for the detritus of museum life and a working process, classifying the museum's un-classifiable whilst exploring the bureaucratic workings of the institution.
Mark Dion is an American artist, based in Pennsylvania. Exhibiting internationally since the late 1980's, his publications include Mark Dion, Phaidon Press, 1997, Natural History and Other Fictions, Ikon Gallery, 1997, and Archeology, Black Dog, 1999.
A co-publication between Book Works and the Surrealism Centre Price: £15.00
Douglas Hyde Gallery 2005
32 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 0907660940
14.5 x 21.5 cm English text. Hardcover
For the past four years, Tal R has been working on House of Prince. This is a distinct project that consists of roughly two hundred paintings. They will be seen for the first time at this exhibition, his first one-person show in Ireland.
Tal R takes his inspiration from popular and high culture. He works in several media, ranging from paintings, sculpture and installations to collage and artworks made of fabric. They share an unmixed, bold use of colour and child-like simplicity. At first glance, his images appear straightforward, but if you look beyond their simple patterns and narratives, the works reveal a darker world that hints at deceit, betrayal and lost innocence.
House of Prince was created in a room next door to the artist's main studio. Following a constant structure - a base panel, four oblique corner shapes and a centre field - the paintings are both the essence and the residue of his main body of work. They form a more abstract world that seeks to harmonise discord, and in that respect they have a direct relationship with Hilma af Klint’s paintings in Gallery 2. Unlike the latter, though, they never abandon a sense of raw physicality. www.artfacts.net Price: £10.95
Revolver 2005
132 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3865881092
18.5 x 27.5 cm English text. Hardcover
Inspired by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Jean-Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni, Ingmar Bergman and others, Runa Islam takes as her point of departure a place, a sequence of scenes or technical analysis borrowed from the history of film. She challenges the traditional narrative process of film by deconstructing it to create her completely new interpretations. Runa Islam explores moments and elements of tension at the point where something is just about to happen: displacement in time and space, symbol-laden landscapes and places, psychological reactions and physical presence, glances and thoughts. Moments are frozen in time and the focus is shifted to everyday situations in combination with dreamlike states allowing for the exploration of the limits of the language of film. This is seen in her early work Tuin (16 mm, 1998), for instance, where she re-works Rainer Werner Fassbinder's famous 360 degree shot from Martha, to expose the construction of the making of the film and show exactly what, as well as who, is involved in the process.
The symbolic name of the exhibition – Visages & Voyages – refers to the French words for faces and journeys as well as to the process of filmmaking, with references to the classic techniques of close-ups and longshots. Price: £18.50
Navado Press 2005
60 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 8890145757
21 x 27 cm English text. Softcover
This book presents the most recent paintings from the Berlin based artist whose artworks will be on show at the Barbara Gladstone Gallery in New York and the Chicago Art Institute.
Everyday objects and scenes reflect a shadowy inner realm: isolated figures, architectural structures, water, empty rooms, a wooden horse or the occasional still life appear repeatedly. occasionally the paintings veer so close to a tough layaered abstraction that only their titles make clear their tenuous relationship to something you can touch - Jennifer Higgie
What we see in paintings depends on what occupies our minds. . . .my imagination is as physical to me as my hands or other parts of my body, as physical as the chair on which I sit on or the plant I see in front of me - Magnus von Plessen Price: £16.00
The University of California Press 2005
208 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 0520245547
23 x 30.5 cm English text. Hardcover
In 1970 Robert Smithson (1938-1973), one of the most innovative and provocative artists of the twentieth century, created the landmark earthwork Spiral Jetty at Rozel Point on Utah's Great Salt Lake. This dramatic and highly influential work forms a coil 1,500 feet long and 15 feet wide and stretches out counterclockwise into the lake's translucent red water. Composed of black basalt rocks and earth, the sculpture comprises the materials of its location: mud, salt crystals, rocks, water.
The contributors to this comprehensive publication consider the sculpture in relation to its eponymous companions--a text work and a film. These essays situate this renowned series of works alongside Smithson's critical writings, proposals, drawings, sources, and models. Amply illustrated with archival and new photographs of the Jetty and many comparative illustrations, this book makes evident why Smithson's art and writings have had such a powerful impact on art and art theory for over thirty years. Price: £26.95
Modern Art Oxford
80 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 1901352250
19 x 24 cm English text. Softcover
12.95
Cecily Brown is among the most talented painters of her generation. With a formal repertoire indebted as much to porn magazines, comic books and Hollywood movies as it is to the work of De Kooning, Bacon and Hogarth, Brown not only addresses the subject of painting as inextricable from its own history, she engages with the experience of painting as an intensely physical act. Published to accompany Brown’s first major exhibition in Britain at Modern Art Oxford, this fully illustrated book features reproductions of key paintings from the last five years. Two new essays by the exhibition’s curator, Suzanne Cotter and writer and critic Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith offer an overview of Brown’s work to date and consider her work within the context of current painting. Also included is the artist’s biography Price: £12.95
42 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 1870699823
11.5 x 21 cm English text. Softcover
In Yara El-Sherbini's new book, deliberately stereotyping muslim jokes and colour drawings are offset by an apparently indecipherable stream of conscience. Exploring the nuances of language, dialect, speech and comedy, El-Sherbini playfully buries coded messages into the stream of misspelt words, which, juxtaposed with the visual puns, quips and malapropisms confront the reader with the tensions of religious and racial identities. Price: £5.99
152 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 8881585308
21 x 30 cm English text. Softcover
An architect interested in ephemeral structures, a photographer who has grown increasingly suspicious of pictures, Jaar's most telling gesture is to relinquish the camera by placing it, figuratively and sometimes literally, in the public's hands. In other words, Jaar is a master of indirection. And no wonder. His work was shaped at the outset by the need to speak clearly and forcefully against murderous injustice, using language of the most lucid obliquity. Jaar's work declares that daring to connect and participate is our last, best hope. Price: £24.99
Kunsthaus Bregenz 2005
124 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3883759357
20 x 26 cm English text. Hardcover
Rachel Whiteread’s working principle is to reverse negative space into positive forms, to make reliefs from architectural elements and thus transpose the function of the surrounding architecture into auratic artworks. The work groups shown in the Kunsthaus Bregenz (9 April to 29 May 2005) are described in this accompanying catalogue by four well-known international authors and the many illustrations systematically explore the most important groupings: the stairs, rooms, doors and floors in her work. The installations in the Kunsthaus, which reflect Whiteread’s engagement with the museum building designed by the Swiss architect Peter Zumtor, are documented in the photographs by Nic Tenwiggenhorn. Walter Nikkel’s graphic design echoes the severity and minimalism of the works.
essays by Mario Codognato, Richard Cork, Richard Noble and Juhani Pallasmaa Price: £36.00
128 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3883759074
22 x 27.5 cm English/German text. Hardcover
Let’s get lost: Best known for his installations and artistic explorations, often recorded on video, Hans Schabus here transforms the entire Peter Zumthor-designed Kunsthaus Bregenz into a complex and convoluted architectonic and mental path of discovery in search of both the self and the building’s history. At the museum Schabus blocks the main entrance, requiring admission through a loading dock; the ground floor holds pond liner, topped with puddles, fire hoses, and pumps to recall the deluge of 1999, when the Kunsthaus was flooded by Lake Constance; the darkened second floor’s projection space documents Schabus’s train trips to the museum; and he transforms the third floor into a disorienting "white cube," undermining the standard notion of exhibition space.~This book, designed in cooperation with the artist, traces his strategy through images, conceptual plans, and texts (including Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s short story "The Tunnel", and provides a complete record of this highly-regarded emerging artist’s most ambitious work to date. Price: £33.50
Kunsthaus Graz 2005
312 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3883759309
22 x 28 cm English/German text. Softcover
Michel Majerus (born 1967) was considered one of the most promising new artists before his untimely death in a plane crash in 2002. He produced an unusual oeuvre that oscillated between painting and installation, combining digital media with references to Minimal Art and Pop Art. This catalogue relates to 5 exhibitions that approach the artist’s work in different ways (Kunsthaus Graz; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; kestnergesellschaft Hanover; Deichtorhallen Hamburg; Mudam Luxembourg). Price: £21.50
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston / Prestel 2005
248 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3791333976
24.5 x 29.5 cm English text. Harfdcover
This first comprehensive publication on the influential contemporary artist focuses on the experimental nature of Andrea Zittel's signature objects, inhabitable sculptures, and other projects. In her work as an artist, Zittel investigates domestic and urban life in Western societies. Exploring the various aspects of living, the artist designs her own household settings to serve as a test case for her experimental living structures. Her work has provoked debates about the changed meaning of domestic and collective space and the possibilities for new adaptations to urban conditions today.
Richly illustrated, Andrea Zittel: Critical Space includes nearly two hundred reproductions of Zittel's works of art, many of which are published here for the first time. The book includes over one hundred sculptures and drawings, documentation of early work, and recent site-specific work in the Mojave Desert of California. With essays that touch upon urbanism, architecture, design, and consumer culture, this catalog offers an extensive analysis of Zittel's contribution to contemporary trends in art and architecture. Price: £22.99
Steidl 2005
500 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3865211364
25 x 30 cm English text.Hardcover
The Jeff Wall Catalogue Raisonne traces the gradual evolution of Wall's pictorial concept. In an allusion to Charles Baudelaire's dictum on Manet, Wall describes his work as the "painting of modern life". Wall's color photographs consist of large-format transparencies, mounted in aluminium boxes and illuminated from behind. Since 1996, the artist has also produced large-format black-and-white photographs. This book is the first systematic compilation of information and materials on Wall's individual works, comprising works from 1978 to 2004 and containing 120 catalogue entries. It includes technical data as well as information on their history and commentaries by the artist. Price: £65.00
Hauser & Wirth 2005
56 pages Colour & B&W reproductions. ISBN 3039390376
24 x 28 cm English text. Hardcover
The Catalogue of Micheal Raedecker's exhibition at Hauser & Wirth, Zurich entitled 'Show'. Now the only book in print of Raedecker's work. Colour plate of each work in the exhibition. Catalogue essay Shadow and Shroud' by Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith, and interview 'Painting, Power and Propoganda' by Alison M Gingera. Biography abd Bibliogarphy. Price: £24.95
Domaine de Kerguehennec 2004
136 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 2906574058
17.5 x 24 cm English / French text. Hardcover
Beatriz Milhazes - Gauguin made the voyage to seek out "paradise lost" and he brought these elements into his paintings. The Brazilian modernist project did the reverse: it nourished itself with Eropean art in order to disseminate it in the tropics. Beauty in thralls me, but I think taht, even if my work can be pretty, it represents a world of claustrophobia... Price: £21.50
148 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3865211054
45 x 32 cm English text. Hardcover
Between 1962 and 1978, Ed Ruscha produced eighteen small artist's books. Usually self-published and in small print runs, these publications have become seminal works in the history of conceptual art and the photography book. THEN & NOW is the first artist's book that Ruscha has independently created since 1972. One of the most well-known of Ruscha's books from that early period is Every Building on The Sunset Strip, showing a famous stretch of real estate along Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, published in 1966. In July, 1973 he followed the same procedure while documenting Hollywood Boulevard. Loading a continuous strip of 33 feet of Ilford FP-4 black & white 35mm film into his motor-drive Nikon F2 and then mounting it on a tripod in the bed of a pickup truck, he drove back and forth across the 12 miles of the street shooting, frame-by-frame, both the north and south sides of its entire length. The negatives were developed, contact sheets were made, and the materials were placed in storage. Thirty years later, in 2003, a digital record of Hollywood Boulevard was created and it served as a reference guide for the traditional film/still documentary of 2004. For this shoot, the same type of camera equipment was used to re-photograph the street on 35mm color-negative film. The resulting material of both shoots - 4500 black & white and 13,000 color images - have been scanned and digitally composed into four panoramics of the complete 12 miles. In THEN & NOW, the original 1973 North side view is shown along the top of the page and juxtaposed with its 2004 version underneath. Along the bottom of the page, you find the original 1973 South side view shown upside down, also juxtaposed with its 2004 version. The panoramics face each other and they are aligned. The result is what Ruscha refers to as a piece of history...a very democratic, unemotional look at the world. While it is a significant historical document which succinctly conflates and renders the passage of time, it is also a project that spans the career of one of the truly original artists of our time and brings his work full circle. Price: £80.00
Miami Art Museum / Aperture 2005
294 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 1931788405
22 x 26 cm English text. Hardcover
Innovative and playful, Muniz is equally at home working with images of chocolate sauce, spaghetti marinara, or the detritus of hole punchers. In doing so, he has carved out a unique niche within contemporary photography: one of trickster and philosopher as well as the creator of compelling, delightful images. From "Equivalents," his fluffy, sculpted cotton "clouds," to his latest color work, "Magazines," Muniz accompanies each series with in-depth writing that tickles our minds with amusing anecdotes detailing his inspiration for each; fascinates by revealing his methodology and working process; and enlightens by unveiling the thinking and historical influences behind each image. Price: £22.00
128 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3775716165
14.5 x 20 cm English/German text. Hardcover
A book for all the senses, exuding the flowery scent of wallflower, tufted violet, vanilla, calamint, lavender, and sage.
Olafur Eliasson (*1967 in Copenhagen) ranks among the most renowned artists of his generation. The Icelandic-Danish artist takes up various aspects of the essence of nature in his installations and realizes these contemporary interpretations in museums and landscaped parks. The Dufttunnel he created for the Autostadt in Wolfsburg exemplifies a fascinating interplay of nature and technology that conspires with visitors' wide-ranging sensory perceptions to form a single whole.
This publication documents this work throughout an entire season, and besides listing the various flowering times of the plants in the tunnel, it also features a consideration of the olfactory phenomenon from the point of view of both science and art history. Price: £19.99
USA Pavilion, 51st Venice Biennale, 2005
64 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3775716548
25.5 x 12.5 cm English text. Softcover
Inspired by the symmetrical, Jeffersonian layout of the American Pavilion' s neo-classical architecture, Ed Ruscha s installation for the 2005 Venice Biennale will comprise ten paintings: five in color, five in black and white, the color paintings mirroring the black and white in both subject matter and placement.
Leaving the pavilion's entry rotunda, "C," empty, Ruscha will install a combination of pictures, based on his 1992 "Blue Collar" group, as follows: In the pavilion's lefthand, "D & E" galleries: the original five, 1992 "Blue Collar" pictures, black and white canvases depicting urban landscapes. In the opposite "A & B" galleries: five new pictures depicting an accelerated, aged version of the same urban landscapes, possibly to the point of deterioration, painted in color. Price: £9.99
Sadie Coles/Modern Institute 2005
128 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3883758302
Voidoid is the first monograph on the Scottish artist Jim Lambie whose work carries strong references to music in his use of actual objects like record players, record inserts and vinyl records. This lavishly illustrated book presents a chronological overview of Lambie’s career starting with his shamanistic objects made of found material via his iconic floor pieces of vibrantly coloured tape to his three-dimensional sculptural room installations. The works are accompanied by essays by Rob Tufnell and critic Will Bradley. Price: £25.00
Generali Foundation 2005
312 pages Colour and B&W reproductions. ISBN 3775716505
19.5 x 25 cm English text. Hardcover
Gustav Metzger, who was born in Nuremberg in 1926, has had a pointedly radical and revolutionary approach to art since the early sixties. His artistic production is firmly rooted in current political, economic, and ecological topics; in his manifestos and demonstrations, for example, Metzger reacts to the threat posed by the global nuclear arms race. His aesthetic concept of auto-destructive art, which addresses the destructive potential of the twentieth century, was intended as an attack on the capitalist system and the art industry.
This monograph is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of Metzger's career, also taking into account more recent works such as his series Historic Photographs, which are closely linked to Metzger's experience as a survivor of the Holocaust. A detailed chronology presents the artist's activity in the context of historical and political developments, honoring Metzger for the first time not just as an artist, but also as an activist. Price: £29.99
Fruitmarket Gallery / Hauser & Wirth 2005
1100 pages (5 Vols) Colour reproductions. No ISBN
15.5 x 12 cm English text. Sofcover
Published in collaboration with Hauser & Wirth on the occasion of the artist's exhibition at the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh, Murmur is a single book that comprises five magnetically bound volumes. The book illustrates the four animated films of Ellen Gallagher made in collaboration with Edgar Cleijne; Watery Ecstatic, Super Boo, Monster and Blizzard of White. An additional volume entitled ORBUS contains an essay by Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith and is accompanied by illustrations of Gallagher's large-scale drawings from the Watery Ecstatic series. Each of the five volumes is bound together by thin invisible magnets to form a cohesive block of deceptively simple appearance. This extraordinary publication is the product of the creative collaboration between the artist and graphic designer Irma Boom. Born in the Netherlands in 1960, Boom has won international acclaim for her unique approach to book design. Price: £50.00
JRP / Ringier 2005
64 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 3905701170
20.5 x 28.5 cm English text. Hardcover
19.00
When Mark Handforth turns the lights down, he turns them down all the way to the ground. Lamppost, from 2003, is a massive industrial streetlight, originally 45 feet tall, that is folded in two places so that its five-armed light cluster rests on the ground; it’s one of a series that recalls the work of Martin Kipperberger, who bent a few lampposts in his day. Handforth’s practice, illuminated in this monograph, employs everyday urban objects like benches, street signs, and Vespas (in addition to street lights) and recontextualizes them so that we see them anew. Light infuses almost all his works, which also include fluorescent-tube stars and circles in bright colors, adding a little South Beach flava to a Flavin quote. Essay by Eric Troncy. Price: £19.00
Electa / MACRO 2005
120 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 8837036159
17.5 x 24.5 cm English/Italian text. Softcover
Works by the Chilean artist, architect and film-maker Alfredo Jaar, active on the international scene since the mid-1980s, will be on display at the MACRO in Rome from May 2005. Jaar is concerned with urgent issues of prime importance that are generally not confronted by the mass media, thus making art an alternative to the usual public information channels. For instance, he gave a face to the victims and witnesses of the genocide in Rwanda. Every one of his works reiterates art's commitment in the social context. His projects have been exhibited in some of the most important international contemporary art museums and at major exhibitions like the Paris and Venice Biennales and various Documenta in Kassel. Price: £19.99
