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
$18.00 ·
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, Glenn Branca, Lydia Lunch, Music, Primary Information
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
$15.00 ·
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, 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
$18.00 ·
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
Seth Fluker, Before Things Change
Softcover, 28 pp. + fold-out, offset 4/4, 7.5 x 9.5 inches
Edition of 500
ISBN 978-0-9813947-0-1
Published by Schnauzer
$17.00 ·
Before Things Change is a small insight into Seth Fluker’s undesirable occupation at Whole Foods Market Soho. Each image slowly evolved and quickly disappeared within his workspace while washing grimy kitchen utensils and haphazardly disposing customer waste. Through the sequencing of this edition, Seth aimed to represent the ever-changing emotions he felt during each shift.
Art, Distribution, Photography, Schnauzer, Seth Fluker
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 · out of stock
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
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
$35.00 ·
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
Michael Kim, Bicycles
Softcover, 48 pp., offset 1/1, 4 x 5.75 inches
Edition of 500
Published by Tramnesia
$8.00 ·
After Modern History is a report on world events that re-edits the news of the day by linking together images according to a totally idiosyncratic perspective of pattern recognitions and typologies.
After Modern History lifts photos from daily newspapers and re-organizes disparate, often atomized subjects into newly imagined affinities. For most people caught on the hard end of luck, the newspaper can be a lonely place. But in this second draft of history, bad news is no longer so isolated. There is no dateline.
Bicycles is a collection of newspaper clippings where bicycles appear incidentally to the photograph subject.
After Modern History, Art, Culture, Distribution, Graphics, Michael Kim, Photography, Tramnesia
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
out of print
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.
Distribution, Geoff McFetridge, Nieves, Spike Jonze
Zuni Halpern and Erik Steinbrecher, Ital Thai Chinese and Paint
Softcover, 16 pp., offset 4/4, 112 x 178 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-3-905714-73-9
Published by Nieves
$8.00 ·
Ital Thai Chinese and Paint is a compilation of the first collaborative work by Zuni Halpern and Erik Steinbrecher. The booklet shows montages of photographs and paintings. All the photographed advertisings are collected in the streets. The paintings on paper are studio works. Both materials, views of fusion food and plates of abstract designs are melted. These “painted meals” can be considered as ornaments in the urban context of fast gastronomy and catering.
Art, Distribution, Erik Steinbrecher, Nieves, Zuni Halpern
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 ·
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
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 ·
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
Lewis Baltz, The Prototype Works
Hardcover, 112 pp., offset 1/tritone, 285 x 275 mm
English and German
Edition of 2000
ISBN 0-9703860-5-2
Published by RAM, Steidl
$70.00 ·
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
Lewis Baltz, The Tract Houses
Hardcover, 68 pp., offset 1/tritone, 285 x 275 mm
English and German
Edition of 2000
ISBN 0-9703860-4-4
Published by RAM, Steidl
$65.00 ·
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
