der:die:das:, Issue a for apple
Softcover, 96 pp., offset 4/4, 200 x 270 mm
English and German
Edition of 1000
ISSN 1663-2508
Published by der:die:das:
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Some words on, and images of, the apple.
Alexander Palacios, Apple, Art, der:die:das:, Design, Desiree Good, Distribution, Flurina Rothenberger, Hin Van Tran, Jon Bischoff, Katharina Rippstein, Nadja Aebi, Photography, Sandi Kozjek, Sasa Kohler, Sasha Haettenschweiler, Shirana Shahbazi, Veronique Hoegger, Wolfgang Tillmans
Man Ray, La Photographie N’Est Pas L’Art
Softcover, 64 pp., offset 4/1, 160 x 245 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-3-902675-30-9
Published by Fotohof Editions
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Photography is not art, proclaims Man Ray in the essay re-published here as an impeccable facsimile edition of the 1937 original. A pamphlet of loose sheets and 12 images, this publication re-visits an issue that was hotly controversial during the first half of the 20th century — Is Photography Art? — as examined in the influential Paris magazine L’Art. Despite the fact that Man Ray’s provocative works were among the photographs generally agreed by critics to be, in fact, art, Man Ray himself seems barely interested in considering the question. “There’s no point trying to find out if it’s an art,” he said. “Art is a thing of the past. We need something else. You’ve got to watch light at work. It’s light that creates. I sit down in front of my sheet of photographic paper and I think.”
Art, Fotohof Editions, Man Ray, Photography, RAM
Dan Graham, Rock/Music Writings
Softcover, 224 pp., offset 4/1, 5.5 x 8.25 inches
Edition of 3000
ISBN 978-0978869-73-1
Published by Primary Information
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As admired for his writing as for his work in art, photography and architecture, Dan Graham was one of the first contemporary artists to embrace Punk, Postpunk and No Wave, becoming a figurehead for those movements, and an early supporter of (and friend to) Glenn Branca and Sonic Youth among many others. Rock/Music Writings collects 13 of Graham’s most influential writings, on bands ranging from The Kinks to Bow Wow Wow, first published in art journals such as Real Life, Open Letter and ZG between 1968 and 1988, and in the now rare volume Rock My Religion. It includes such landmark essays as “Punk as Propaganda,” which explicates the self-packaging and media critique of The Ramones, Devo, the Sex Pistols, the Desperate Bicycles and others; “Rock My Religion,” in which Graham traces themes of ecstatic reverie in rock performance (with a focus on Patti Smith), through a beautiful composite of quotation, commentary and photography; and “New Wave Rock and the Feminine,” which discusses the onstage personae of Lydia Lunch, Debbie Harry and Siouxsie Sioux, and the gender politics of all-female groups such as The Slits, The Raincoats, Bush Tetras and others. Throughout Rock/Music Writings, Graham’s appraisals are clear-eyed, sophisticated and poetically constructed, a genre of their own within artists’ writings.
Art, Culture, Dan Graham, DAP, Debbie Harry, Design, Glenn Branca, Lydia Lunch, Music, Primary Information
Mariana Castillo Deball and Irene Kopelman, A for Alibi
Softcover + dust jacket, 240 pp., offset 2/2, 160 x 240 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-1-933128-33-7
Published by Sternberg Press
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A for Alibi explores the boundaries of scientific practice and art. The Uqbar Foundation invited a group of artists to perform research and develop projects using the impressive collection of historical instruments and optical devices. Fully illustrated, this book documents the artists’ projects as well as a symposium of the same name, where scientists and art historians lectured on the origins of modern visual culture.
Brian O’Connell, Irene Kopelman, James Beckett, Manuel Raeder, Maria Barnas, Mariana Castillo Deball, RAM, Sebastian Diaz Morales, Sternberg Press, Suchan Kinoshita, Tiemen Cocquyt, Tine Melzer, Uqbar Foundation
Dexter Sinister, Portable Document Format
Hardcover, 200 pp., offset 4/1, 4.25 x 6.75 inches
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-1-933128-85-6
Published by Sternberg Press
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Over the past few years, Dexter Sinister has been interested in exploring contemporary publishing in its broadest, most exploded sense. The first part of this book consists of pieces of writings written since the conception of their New York basement workshop and bookstore in the summer of 2006. These writings were previously published online as PDFs in the Library at www.dextersinister.org. They were primarily written by Dexter Sinister or by one of a circle of regular collaborators, often for their house journal
Dot Dot Dot, or as supplements to other books or exhibitions.
The second part consists of reproductions of a series of lithographic proof prints. Accompanying these prints are extended captions individually produced for different exhibitions in 2008. Each caption was composed in line with the manner of its accompanying image. Although never intended as a set, a number of generic themes emerged, such as abstraction, mathematics, logic, and cooperation. The book intends to demonstrate how ideas from the first part have been rechannelled in the second.
Anthony Huberman, David Reinfurt, David Senior, Dexter Sinister, Edgar Allan Poe, Giles Weaver, Louis Kaplan, RAM, Rob Giampietro, Seth Price, Sternberg Press, Stuart Bailey, Walead Beshty
Josephine Meckseper, The Josephine Meckseper Catalogue
Softcover, 64 pp., offset 4/4, 240 x 240 mm
English and German
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-1-933128-00-9
Published by Sternberg Press
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“Politics and aesthetics morph seamlessly in a world where politics confuses itself with representation, where all attention is swallowed in the communication of a message rather than in the intensity of an event. … In Meckseper’s gallery installation, where fashion images share space with protest documentation, where an idea of relational space rubs shoulders with an idea of lifestyle or boutique design, where an idea of the social morphs into an idea of the commodity relation, many of the elements on display also double as mechanisms of display: shelves, rugs, windows, magazine covers, and wallpaper are the products here. Here, display displays itself. Covers and wrappings conceal nothing, they only reveal themselves. And, reappropriating the very mechanisms of commodity transmission in this way, and in particular by conflating politicized symbols with such functions … , by relocating non-art in art and vice versa, by this orgiastic displacement, this diabolical Feng Shui of signifying forms and materials, the artist also goes to work (like the peasant in her field, the posing model) in the production of her anti-world.”
—John Kelsey
Andrew Ross, Art, Design, Fashion, John Kelsey, Josephine Meckseper, RAM, Sternberg Press
Zoë Gray, Nicolaus Schafhausen and Monika Szewczyk, Billy Apple
Softcover, 112 pp., offset 4/1, 125 x 200 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-90-73362-89-5
Published by Witte de With
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Billy Apple was created in 1962 as a work by the New Zealand-born artist Barrie Bates, who changed his name to become a living brand after graduating from London’s Royal College of Art. For this volume, four writers combine to discuss the brand, providing a chronology, a contextualization of Apple’s practice within institutional critique and his enduring significance for younger generations.
Art, Barrie Bates, Bénédicte Ramade, Billy Apple, Christina Barton, DAP, Design, Michelle Menzies, Monika Szewczyk, Nicolaus Schafhausen, William Wood, Witte de With, Zoë Gray
Mark Manders, Traducing Ruddle
Newspaper, 16 pp., web offset 1/1, 350 x 480 mm
Insert, 48 pp., offset 1/1, 215 x 280 mm
Edition of 3000
ISBN 978-0-9738133-7-1
Published by Fillip Editions, Roma Publications
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Traducing Ruddle is the fifth in a series of “fake” newspapers by Dutch artist Mark Manders. Using a nonsensical combination of English words,
Traducing Ruddle creates a pretense of legibility that dissolves upon closer inspection. The newspaper is supplemented by
Two Connected Houses, a 48 page insert developed in conjunction with the exhibition
Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum.
Sheets from Manders’ Traducing Ruddle form the central element of the artist’s Window with Fake Newspapers project, a site-specific public work on view through March 28th.
Architecture, Art, Design, Distribution, Fillip, Guggenheim Museum, Hans Gremmen, Jeff Khonsary, Mark Manders, Roma Publications
Edwyn Collins, Some British Birds
Softcover, 72 pp., offset 1/1, 210 x 297 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-1-907071-07-2
Published by Mörel Books
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Foreword by Edwyn Collins and Vivienne Gaskin. Illustrations of native British Birds by Collins, after suffering two cerebral hemorrhages.
Aron Morel, Art, Birds, British, Distribution, Drawing, Edwyn Collins, Harry Farrell, Illustration, Morel Books, Vivienne Gaskin
Jonnie Craig, Untitled
Softcover, 72 pp., offset 4/4, 210 X 286 mm
Edition of 750
ISBN 978-1-907071-05-8
Published by Mörel Books
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Foreword by Andy Capper.
Andy Capper, Aron Morel, Culture, Distribution, Harry Farrell, Jonnie Craig, Morel Books, Photography, Ryan McGinley
Sara De Bondt and Fraser Muggeridge, The Form of the Book Book
Softcover, 96 pp., offset 2/1, 140 x 230 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-0-9562605-1-2
Published by Occasional Papers
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A collection of essays on book design by Catherine de Smet, James Goggin, Jenni Eneqvist, Roland Früh, Corina Neuenschwander, Sarah Gottlieb, Richard Hollis, Chrissie Charlton, Armand Mevis.
Armand Mevis, Calverts Printers, Catherine de Smet, Chrissie Charlton, Corina Neuenschwander, Criticism, Design, Distribution, Fraser Muggeridge, James Goggin Jenni Eneqvist, Occasional Papers, Richard Hollis, Roland Früh, Sara De Bondt, Sarah Gottlieb, Typography
Mario Ybarra Jr., Capp Street Project
Softcover, 48 pp., offset 4/2, 6.5 x 9.25 inches
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-0-9725080-7-0
Published by CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art
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When referred to as a Chicano artist in the Los Angeles Times, Mario Ybarra Jr. once protested, “I make contemporary art that is filtered through a Mexican-American experience in Los Angeles.” Filled with graffiti, restaurant signage and stills from music videos, with sweeping graphic lines and lyric abstractions, his outrageous, multicolored murals speak about his particular experience as an artist and a Mexican-American, both politically and aesthetically. Compactly designed by Jon Suede/Stripe, this slim, dynamic catalogue with paper changes features an essay on the artist’s entire oeuvre by Jens Hoffmann, along with an engaging text by Claire Fitzsimmons. Produced to accompany Ybarra’s installation at San Francisco’s Capp Street Project, this volume is the artist’s first monograph, as well as a thorough document of the mural he produced over the course of his residency there.
Anna Helwing Gallery, Art, Capp Street Project, CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art, Claire Fitzsimmon, DAP, Jens Hoffman, Mario Ybarra Jr.
Robert Adams, Summer Nights, Walking
Softcover, 84 pp., offset 1/tritone, 8.75 x 9 inches
Edition of 2000
ISBN 9781597111171
Published by Aperture
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In this exquisitely produced book, the influential American photographer Robert Adams revisits the classic collection of nocturnal landscapes that he began making in the mid-1970s near his former home in Longmont, Colorado. Originally published by Aperture in 1985 as Summer Nights, this new edition has been carefully reedited and resequenced by the photographer, who has added 39 previously unpublished images. Illuminated by moonlight and streetlamp, the houses, roads, sidewalks and fields in Summer Nights, Walking retain the wonder and stillness of the original edition, while adopting the artist’s intention of a dreamy fluidity, befitting his nighttime perambulations. The extraordinary care taken with the new reproductions also registers Adams’ attention to the subtleties of the night, and conveys his appeal to look again at places we might have dismissed as uninteresting. Adams observes, “What attracted me to the subjects at a new hour was the discovery then of a neglected peace.”
Aperture, Art, Photography, Robert Adams, Yale University Art Gallery
Hans Ulrich Obrist, Interviews Volume I
Softcover, 968 pp., offset 1/1, 140 x 205 mm
Edition of 2000
ISBN 9788881584314
Published by Charta
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It is not an exaggeration to write that Hans Ulrich Obrist is everywhere, has curated everything and has interviewed everyone. If “peripatetic” is the word most overused to describe him, it is not inappropriate. The Swiss-born, everywhere-based curator and head of the Programme Migrateurs at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris has an unstoppable wanderlust and a related symptom: his penchant for interviewing anyone and everyone who piques his curiosity, be they artist, scientist, writer, curator, composer, architect, thinker, etc. Since 1993, Obrist has conducted more than 300 interviews, 75 of which are collected here in a selection that respects the cultural and professional diversity of the interviewees. Each interview is introduced by a short text outlining the biography of the interviewee and giving some contextual information on the recording of the interview.
Art, Brian Eno, Charta, Daniel Buren, DAP, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Gerhard Richter, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Interviews, Jonas Mekas, Lawrence Weiner, Mario Merz, Matthew Barney, Maurizio Cattelan, Olafur Eliasson, Rem Koolhaas, Vito Acconci, Walter Hopps, Yoko Ono, Zaha Hadid
Hans Haacke, We Are Who We Are
Softcover, 192 pp., offset 4/1, 195 x 250 mm
English and German
Edition of 2000
ISBN 9783901107344
Published by Generali Foundation
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Long known for bringing trenchant analyses of sociopolitical structures into museum contexts, Hans Haacke has in the past exposed corporations who use art sponsorship to booster their image and slum landlords who hide behind diversified corporations. In his first exhibition in Vienna, the title of which gives its name to this book, Haacke tackles Austria’s emotionally laden understanding of its own history and national identity. A larger discourse on “the culture of memory” weaves its way through selected historical works of Haacke’s, including his 1999 project for the Reichstag, as well as through the artist’s own writings, available here for the first time.
Art, Christian Kravagna, DAP, Dietrich Karner, Generali Foundation, Hans Haacke, Heidemarie Uhl, Philo Fine Arts, Sabine Breitwieser
Martin Kippenberger, Multiples 1982-1997
Softcover, 144 pp., offset 4/4, 215 x 270 mm
Edition of 2000
ISBN 9783883756783
Published by Walther König
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This latest reference work on Kippenberger catalogues all of the multiples produced between 1982 and 1997, documented by title, year, format, motive, edition, signature, and production. Here you will find many hard-to-describe works, including Mirror Babies, ELITE ‘88, Upside Down And Turning Me, Disco Bombs, and Kippen Seltzer.
Art, DAP, Karola Grässlin, Martin Kippenberger, Martin Prinzhorn, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Walther König
Harald Szeemann, Individual Methodology
Softcover, 240 pp., offset 2/1, 160 x 230 mm
Edition of 2000
ISBN 9783905829099
Published by JRP|Ringier
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We owe our idea of the contemporary exhibition to Harald Szeemann — the first of the jet-setting international curators. From 1961 to 1969, he was Curator of the Kunsthalle Bern, where in 1968 he had the foresight to give Christo and Jeanne-Claude the opportunity to wrap the entire museum building. Szeemann’s groundbreaking 1969 exhibition When Attitudes Become Form, also at the Kunsthalle, introduced European audiences to artists like Joseph Beuys, Eva Hesse, Richard Serra and Lawrence Weiner. It also introduced the now-commonplace practice of curating an exhibition around a theme. Since Szeemann’s death in 2005, there has been research underway at his archive in Tessin, Switzerland. An invaluable resource, this volume provides access to previously unpublished plans, documents and photographs from the archive, along with important essays by Hal Foster and Jean-Marc Poinsot. There is also an informative interview with Tobia Bezzola — curator at the Kunsthauz Zurich and Szeemann’s collaborator for many years. Two of Szeemann’s most ambitious exhibitions are presented as case studies: Documenta V (1972) and L’Autre, the 4th Lyon Biennial (1997). A biography, an illustrated chronology of Szeemann’s exhibitions and a selection of his writings complete this exhaustive survey.
Art, Criticism, DAP, Florence Derieux, Hal Foster, Harald Szeemann, Jean-Marc Poinsot, JRP|Ringier, Theory, Tobia Bezzola
Gregory Williams, Art from Los Angeles: From the 60s-90s
Softcover, 48 pp., offset 4/4, 215 x 270 mm
English and German
Edition of 2000
ISBN: 9783865603241
Published by Walther König
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Since the 1960s, Los Angeles has been a hub for groundbreaking art. This slim volume features work by Bas Jan Ader, Michael Asher, John Baldessari, Chris Burden, Douglas Huebler, Larry Johnson, Mike Kelley, William Leavitt, Paul McCarthy, Bruce Nauman, Maria Nordman, Raymond Pettibon, Stephen Prina, Allen Ruppersberg, Ed Ruscha and Christopher Williams.
Allen Ruppersberg, Art, Bas Jan Ader, Bruce Nauman, Chris Burden, Christopher Williams, DAP, Douglas Huebler, Ed Ruscha, Gregory Williams, John Baldessari, Karola Grässlin, Larry Johnson, Maria Nordman, Michael Asher, Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, Raymond Pettibon, Stephen Prina, Walther König, William Leavitt
Frances Stark, The Collected Works
Softcover, 160 pp., offset 4/1, 220 x 280 mm
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978386560263
Published by Walther König
$54.00 · add to cart
The Los Angeles-based artist and art writer Frances Stark has gathered an international cult following for her prolific prose and her smart, honest and intimate artwork. This engaging artist’s book is conceived as a companion piece to Stark’s Collected Writings 1993–2003, fashioning itself as a graphic counterpart that draws from the artist’s paintings, collages, drawings, videos, poetry and more, from 1993 to the present. Through provocative and diaristic text notes printed alongside Stark’s sometimes humorous, often self-scrutinizing images, The Collected Works addresses the paradox of reproducing visual art that is essentially non-photogenic by nature — because of its tactility, detail or scale. The book formally addresses how verbiage flows in and out of the work(s), and leaves no space for the legitimizing language of the critic or curator. Neither a typical catalogue nor monograph, it pushes for a third form, a new art work constructed from existing pieces.
Art, DAP, Frances Stark, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Marc Foxx, Van Abbemuseum, Walther König
Robert Venturi, Complexity And Contradiction In Architecture
Softcover, 136 pp., offset 1/1, 11 x 8.5 inches
Edition of 5000
ISBN 9780870702822
Published by MoMa
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First published in 1966, and since translated into 16 languages, this remarkable book has become an essential document of architectural literature. A “gentle manifesto for a nonstraightforward architecture,” Venturi’s Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture expresses in the most compelling and original terms the postmodern rebellion against the purism of modernism. Three hundred and fifty architectural photographs serve as historical comparisons and illuminate the author’s ideas on creating and experiencing architecture.
Architecture, Arthur Drexler, Criticism, DAP, MoMa, Robert Venturi, Vincent Scully
Lawrence Weiner, Something To Put Something On
Hardcover, 44 pp., offset 4/4, 255 x 215 mm
Edition of 5000
ISBN 9783865214911
Published by Steidl
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Something to Put Something On poses direct questions about art-making to and for young readers. Generously endowed with its maker’s legendary wit, it is also, appropriately, the first title in the Little Steidl program. Neither storybook nor autobiography,
Something to Put Something On is rather a “questioning book” for children, at once moving and intriguing in its candor:
I WAS A CHILD & AS MOST CHILDREN I DID MAKE THINGS
I TRIED TO FIND A PLACE TO PUT THE THINGS I HAD MADE
AGAIN & AGAIN I FOUND THAT THE SUPPORT OR PLINTH OR TABLE
ALL RESTED UPON THE EARTH & I REALIZED THAT ALL PEOPLE OF ALL AGES
WHO HAD MADE SOMETHING HAD TO FIND A PLACE TO PUT
WHAT THEY HAD MADE
THOSE PEOPLE WHO ASK THE QUESTION & THOSE PEOPLE WHO TRY
TO ANSWER THE QUESTION ARE FUNCTIONING AS ARTISTS.
I WAS A CHILD & DECIDED TO BE AN ARTIST.
—Lawrence Weiner
Art, DAP, Education, Jerry Sohn, Lawrence Weiner, Margaret Seaworthy Gothic, Nina Holland, Simon Johnson, Steidl
Bas Morsch, This is Work
Softcover, 10 posters/80 pp., offset 4/1, 210 x 297 mm
Edition of 1000
Published by Bas Morsch
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A compilation of one and a half years of Art & art.
Art, Bas Morsch, Design, Distribution, Isabella Rozendaal, Meinhard Spoor, Melanie Bonajo, Music, Nicole Martens
Geoff McFetridge, Recent Work
Softcover, 16 pp., offset 4/4, 195 x 255 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-3-905714-74-6
Published by Nieves
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This book is a small collection of some of the work I have done for Spike Jonze’s film adaptation of the book Where the Wild Things Are.
Design, Distribution, Geoff McFetridge, Nieves, Spike Jonze
Wilhelm Hein, You Killed the Underground Film or the Real Meaning of Kunst bleibt… bleibt…
Softcover, 120 pp., offset 1/1, 150 x 210 mm
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978-3-00-020345-9
Published by Passenger Books
$25.00 · add to cart
The texts in this book relate to Wilhelm Hein’s eponymous film project, which he has been working on since 1989. The film now comprises about 15 hours of 16mm film, in black-and-white and color. “Wilhelm Hein demands that the viewer of his film be free of any preconceived idea of cinema,” writes critic Cecile Chich in the first of two excellent essays on this epic work-in-progress. The book also includes black and white photos, a lengthy interview with the German auteur and a filmography. Includes texts by Cécile Chich and Marc Siegel, an interview with Wilhelm Hein and photographs by Annette Frick.
Annette Frick, Art, Cecile Chich, Film, Marc Siegel, Passenger Books, RAM, Wilhelm Hein
Jim Shaw, Dreams
Softcover, 288 pp., offset 1/1, 6 x 8 inches
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978-0-9646426-0-7
Published by Smart Art Press
$30.00 · add to cart
Most people consider their dreams private property — too personal, too scary, and too weird to share — but not internationally renowned Los Angeles artist Jim Shaw. In Dreams, a monumental compendium of painstaking pencil drawings that bring his nocturnal dream world to life, the artist unflinchingly reveals his innermost fears, obsessions, and sexual fantasies. A diarylike picture book, Dreams is an in-depth look at one of the most important facets of this seminal artist’s work.
Jim Shaw, RAM, Smart Art Press
Jim Shaw, Everything Must Go
Softcover, 150 pp., offset 4/1, 8.25 x 10 inches
English and French
Edition of 2000
ISBN 2-919893-23-8
Published by Smart Art Press
$25.00 · add to cart
A survey of his career from 1974 to the present, Everything Must Go is the first catalogue to incorporate the full range of Jim Shaw’s profoundly original and idiosyncratic work. From the massive 170-piece multimedia work My Mirage to his Thrift Store Paintings, Dream Drawings, and Dream Objects, Shaw has created a fantastic visual narrative that references diverse outside sources, moments of personal history, and fragments of our collective cultural consciousness. His highly individualized “outsider” perspective has established Shaw as a seminal figure in Europe and the United States, and he has contributed significantly to the influence of Los Angeles in the international art community. Essays by Amy Gerstler, Doug Harvey, Mike Kelley, Noëllie Roussel, and Fabrice Stroun.
Amy Gerstler, Art, Doug Harvey, Fabrice Stroun, Jim Shaw, Mike Kelley, Noëllie Roussel, RAM, Smart Art Press
Lewis Baltz, The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, California
Hardcover/slipcase, 112 pp., offset 1/duotone, 285 x 275 mm
English and German
Edition of 2000
ISBN 0-9630785-6-9
Published by RAM, Steidl
$55.00 · add to cart
Lewis Baltz, with his iconic, minimalist photos of suburban landscape, is considered the founder of the New Topographics movement. Reproduced for the first time, his earliest portfolio, The Tract Houses (1971), and his preliminary forays into a minimal aesthetic, The Prototype Works (1967-1976), illuminate Baltz’s drive to capture the reality of a sprawling Western ecology gone wild. Together with The New Industrial Parks near Irvine, California, this trilogy reveals the indelible importance of Baltz in the development of contemporary photography. “Baltz turned his camera on the virtually featureless built environment of California … He pushed his compositions to an astringent minimum,” writes curator Sheryl Conkelton in an informative essay.
Art, Lewis Baltz, Photography, RAM, Sheryl Conkelton, Steidl, Whitney Museum
