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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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
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
Semiotext(e) 2007
272 pages. ISBN 9781584350460
15.7 x 22.9 cm English Text. Softcover
Gerald Raunig has written an alternative art history of the "long twentieth century," from the Paris Commune of 1871 to the turbulent counter-globalization protests in Genoa in 2001. Meticulously moving from the Situationists and Sergei Eisenstein to Viennese Actionism and the PublixTheatreCaravan, Art and Revolution takes on the history of revolutionary transgressions and optimistically charts an emergence from its tales of tragic failure and unequivocal disaster. By eloquently applying Deleuze and Guattari's idea of the "machine," Raunig extends the poststructuralist theory of revolution through to the explosive nexus of art and activism.
As hopeful as it is incisive, Art and Revolution encourages a new generation of artists and thinkers to refuse to participate in the tired prescriptions of marketplace and authority and instead create radical new methods of engagement. Raunig develops an indispensable, contemporary conception of political change--a conception that transcends the outmoded formulations of insurrection and resistance. Too much blood and ink has been shed for the art machines and the revolutionary machines to remain separate. Price: £11.95
Captains Of Industry 2007
48 pages B&W reproductions. No ISBN
15 x 21 cm English text. Softcover, Ltd Ed 300 copies
This hard-hitting and emotive chapbook collection contains poems by Ben Myers, Tony O'Neill and Adelle Stripe. Each writing about the respective Northern towns of their adolescence, it marks the public debut of The Brutalist poets. Their work has previously been published in The Guardian, Flux, Dazed & Confused, 3:AM etc. The themes of the poems are captured in refined illustrations by artist Lisa Cradduck.
This collection is highly limited to 300 copies and will not be reprinted in this format.
Press Reviews of Nowhere Fast
"Their style sits between the heartfelt sex and drugs scrapings of the beats and the Romantics' sense of rebelliousness and innate connection with place. We can smell Bukowski on their breath, alongside the grubby stink of the kitchen sink. They do not make use of complex metre, nor do they fiddle with traditional rhyme schemes. Similarly, there are few abstracted meanings or imbedded references, save a quote pulled from a George Romero movie and a namecheck for Joy Division. In short, this series of blank verse ruminations on the horrors of small town living are among the most open and direct poems in circulation today." The Roundtable Review March '08
"The symphony of the housing estates... a game of pass-the-parcel, with a dirty bomb at its center, wrapped in a pink bow." Susan Tomaselli, Dogmatika
"Remembering has rarely been so rewarding ..like postcards from places you've been to but long since forgotten" Shortlist February '08
"These are poems for the modern generation; they thrust the underbelly of Britain that we all try so desperately to ignore straight in our faces. With all the agony that these realisations bring, there is a constant beacon of hope bursting from the pages. You can get out. You can be something more. You can. We did." Caught in the Crossfire
"It makes for uncomfortable reading, but the truth often does (certainly O'Neill's portrait of Blackburn, near where I grew up, is exactly as I remember it) ..The poems are heavily biased towards the seedy side of small-town life, and the emphasis on sex, violence and alcohol has its forebears in the early work of poets such as Thom Gunn." Subba Cultcha
"Blackburn, Durham and Tadcaster are the three hometowns under the microscope in this heartfelt, emotional ode to experiences, people, and life from each author's memories of where they were born and bred. For Tony O'Neill, he painfully recalls his despair and utter contempt for the dead-end life he managed to escape. Ben Myers on Durham intimates for all its beauty; there ain't much to do around Durham but get drunk, talk to weirdos and try not to get in a fight. For Adelle Stripe, she provides humour and light-heartedness in this small but emotionally charged collection, and decides Tadcaster isn't all that bad; just don't live there - visit occasionally" The Crack Price: £5.95
Steidl 2007
112 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9783865212887
21 x 29 cm English text. Hardcover
Bettina von Zwehl has built an international reputation for her subtile and unnerving photographic portraits. Her concise series of images are highly controlled both in terms of their minimalist aesthetic and the exacting conditions she imposes on her subjects. Von Zwehl photographs them as they wake from deep sleep, hold their breath, recover from physical exertion, are drenched in rain or listen intently to music in a darkened room; orchestrating a climate in which the sitters relinquish control of the way they are represented. The portraits reveal not the conscious projection of an identity but a space between the subject's private and thoughtful world and their public appearance. With their pared-down backgrounds and balanced compositions, von Zwehl's portraits have the texture and poise of Renaissance paintings. Their stillness is arresting and demands the kind of attention and absorbtion from the viewer that we see depicted. We are directed to the slightest of details: blemishes on the skin, wrinkles, stray hairs, raised color in the cheeks, a striking variety of profiles. Surveyed in this comprehensive monograph, the fifth in the Photoworks Monograph series, Bettina von Zwehl's work forms a delicate and exquisitely detailed catalogue of human physiognomy. Price: £19.99
The New Museum / Merrell 2007
144 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9781858944470
21 x 24 cm English text. Softcover
The simplicity of collage, together with its strong graphic presence, lent the medium a sense of revolutionary possibility when it was first adopted by avant-garde artists almost 100 years ago. During the twentieth century collage gradually became identified with such artistic practices as Cubism, Dada and Surrealism, and today it has gained new momentum as an energetic art form with a strong political dimension. This stunning book explores the role of collage in contemporary visual culture. Featuring the work of both established talents and a new generation of artists, it examines how collage is used to confront and comment on a world that is dominated by the mass media and obsessed with conspicuous consumerism. Price: £17.95
AMMO Books 2007
421 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9780978607654
49 x 34 cm English text. Hardcover
Charley Harper is an American original who created his art from his home studio in Cincinnati, Ohio - until his death on June 10, 2007 at the age of 84. He is beloved for his delightful, graphic and often humorous illustrations of nature, animals, insects and people alike. Charley liked to say, that when he paints a bird, he doesn't count all the feathers in the wings - he just counts the wings. Minimal realism, he called it, and his unique and precise style continues to resonate and inspire his admirers. Charley Harper - An Illustrated Life, showcases his illustrations that appeared from 1950-1975 in the Ford Times magazines, as well as in books such as the beloved "The Giant Golden Book of Biology" in 1961, "Betty Crocker's Dinner for Two" in 1961, and " The Animal Kingdom" in 1968, among many others. His well loved book "Birds and Words", first published in 1974, is considered a classic. Remarkably, however, Charley's work has never before been published in one complete retrospective. Accordingly, this massive volume is the definitive Charley Harper book to have on your bookshelf! Price: £99.95
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
Steidl Verlag 2007
60 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9783865214515
21.8 x 23cm English text. Hardcover
After completing the shooting of Sleeping by the Mississippi in 2002, Alec Soth traveled to Bogotá, Colombia to adopt a baby girl. While the courts processed paperwork, he and his wife spent two months in the capital city waiting to take their new baby home.
"The baby's birth mother gave the new parents a book filled with letters, pictures and poems. I hope that the hardness of the world will not hurt your sensitivity," she wrote, "When I think about you I hope that your life is full of beautiful things."
With these words as a mission statement, Soth began making his own book for his daughter. Soth writes, "In photographing the city of her birth, I hope I've described some of the beauty in this hard place."
Beauty makes itself known through ramshackle architecture, the companionship of animals, and the perseverance of the human spirit. Yet, in Dog Days, Bogotá, Soth's photographs transcend the simple description of beauty and poetically roam through a cast of strays, tough souls, and hints of hope. Price: £17.50
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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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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.
RRP £12.00
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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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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
184 pages B&W reproductions. ISBN 9781584350439
15 x 22.5 cm English text. Softcover
First published in France in 1973, Good Sex Illustrated gleefully deciphers the subtext of a popular sex education manual for children produced during that period. In so doing, Duvert mounts a scabrous and scathing critique of how deftly the "sex-positive" ethos was harnessed to promote the ideal of the nuclear family. Like Michel Houllebecq, Duvert is highly attuned to all the hypocrisies of late twentieth century western "sexual liberation" mass movements. As Bruce Benderson notes in his introduction, Good Sex Illustrated shows that, "in our sexual order, orgasm follows the patterns of any other kind of capital…'good sex' is a voracious profit machine." But unlike Houllebecq, Duvert writes from a passionate belief in the integrity of unpoliced sex and of pleasure. Price: £9.95
Universe 2006
288 pages Colour reproductions. ISBN 9780789314970
24 x 31 cm English text. Softcover
Presented here in this visual anthology are the current boutique periodicals so cutting-edge, they will continue to flourish in print even as their mainstream contemporaries move to digital. Selected from more than 20 countries are preeminent covers and layouts from over 150 independent magazines that advance the medium through their presentation (Gum, Kilimanjaro), content (Re, Richardson), design (Uovo, Werk), and tailoring to a niche market (Fantastic Man, Me). Featuring essays from top industry thinkers such as Steven Heller (New York Times Book Review), Terry Jones (ID), and Robert Sacks (High Times, Time Inc.), this will be the sourcebook for magazine aficionados and professionals. The Last Magazine is published in association with the traveling exhibition, Magazines in Transition, which opens in New York in September, 2006 and travels to museums and galleries in ten cities worldwide including Barcelona, Paris, Luxembourg, Tokyo and Hong Kong Price: £27.50
onedotzero 2006
7 mins 20 secs extras 14 mins 12 page booklet B&W reproductions. 16.9 widescreen All regions
13.5 18.5 cm
"psychopathic, but in the best way possible"
tim noakes, dazed & confused
"this film is about who i am and what i want. it’s not about who you are and what you want. you always think everything i make is about you but it’s not. it’s all about me..."
The first film collaboration between acclaimed director chris shepherd and cult artist david shrigley. This highly collectible limited edition dvd single comes with an exclusive illustrated book by david shrigley, who is best known for his illustrations, art and sculptures, which have been exhibited throughout the world and published in more than 20 books. co-director chris shepherd's work has been nominated twice for the film bafta. Price: £9.78 Including VAT at 15%
