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George Herms - The River Book. 2 Vols + DVD Hamilton Press 2014 ISBN 9780615953915 Acqn 23918 Hb 22x28cm 408pp 398ills 154col 69.50 George Herms: The River Book is the first-ever comprehensive publication on acclaimed and pivotal California assemblage artist George Herms (born 1935). The handsome, two-volume slip-cased book covers his earliest works from the 1960s, through his influential assemblages from the 1970s to today, as well as his work on such films as Easy Rider, his set designs for poet and playwright Michael McClure and dancer/choreographer Fred Herko, and his fascinating collaborations with, among others, Diane di Prima and Wallace Berman, for his LOVE Press series of hand-printed books. Interspersed throughout are comments by Herms on various works and on his creative ethos. Also included is a trove of never-before-seen archival photographs of Herms' friends, such as Wallace and Tosh Berman, Fred Herko, Diane di Prima, Kirby Doyle and Ray Johnson, as well as of Herms himself. A bonus DVD showcases the entirety of Herms' opera The Artist's Life. Renowned art critic Dave Hickey provides an insightful look at the artist and his milieu, and the artist himself offers witty and informative text throughout. This is truly an essential book for anyone interested in California art, the Beats, avant-garde theatre and film, and fine-art printing.

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Une Histoire - Art, Architecture, Design Des AnnEes 1980 A Nos Jours Centre Georges Pompidou 2014 ISBN 9782844266910 Acqn 24027 Pb 21x28cm 288pp 330ills 300col 36 Text in French Art, architecture, design from the 1980s until today, a new presentation of the contemporary collections of the Centre Pompidou, provides an overview of contemporary art since the Eighties through a circuit of almost 400 works and objects by nearly 200 artists, architects and designers. With paintings, sculptures, installations, videos, films, drawings, photographs, architecture and design, this new presentation offers a new approach to the art of the last thirty years.

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Sean Scully - Kind of Red Timothy Taylor Gallery 2014 ISBN 9780992930905 Acqn 24123 Hb 29x31cm 42pp 24col ills 18.75 Since the 1970s, Sean Scully has gained international prominence as one of the most admired and significant contemporary abstract painters working today. Monumental in scale, the works featured in this exhibition demonstrate a mature confidence and unwavering drive for experimentation. Indeed the focal point of the show, Kind of Red, 2013, a powerful five-panel installation on aluminium, is unlike any work previously made by the artist.

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Edmund de Waal - Atmosphere Catalogue Gagosian Gallery (NY) 2014 ISBN 9781938748011 Acqn 24132 Pb 31x27cm 28pp 13ills 9col 28.50 Published on the occasion of Edmund De Waal's 'Atmosphere' (March 29 2014-February 8 2015) exhibition at Turner Contemporary Margate. This new work, commissioned specially for our ground floor gallery space overlooking the North Sea, has been created in response to the changing landscape and clouds viewed from the gallery and the architecture of the space. De Waal, who grew up in Canterbury, is renowned for his work in ceramics, in particular his large-scale installations of porcelain vessels, and is the author of the bestselling The Hare with the Amber Eyes (which won the 2010 Costa biography award). Vessels are suspended in the gallery, to capturing the changing light. The piece is accompanied by Bauspiel, a plinth based work, and a new text installation spanning the entire corridor adjacent to the Sunley Gallery featuring quotes by Turner, Constable, Baudelaire and Ruskin.

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Therese Oulton Elsewhere Marlborough Fine Art 2014 ISBN 9781909707115 Acqn 24233 Pb 30x24cm 52pp 39ills 29col 12.50 Elsewhere extends the already radical shift seen in Thrse Oultons Territory paintings, which were exhibited in London in 2010 and consist of landscapes that threaten our sense of gravity and leave the viewer dislocated. Elsewhere disorients the viewer in different ways; it is unsettling both in its intense scrutiny of the infinite variety of the earth's surface and as it presents a lost intimacy of the spaces we inhabit. As Jacqueline Rose writes in the catalogue introduction, What does it mean to imagine the world destroyed? How to paint the earth lovingly but without false solace, a world in which love might be impotent? Elsewhere has another meaning. It refers, more simply but no less disquietingly, to rootlessness as the condition of our times. In paintings of often stunning luminosity, Thrse Oulton manages to paint us into the darkest spaces of our times, displaying once again her exceptional, on-going relevance, for anyone trying to understand them.

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The Brancusi Effect - An Archival Impulse Sternberg Press 2014 ISBN 9783956790829 Acqn 24235 Pb 20x26cm 152p 152pp 57ills 12col 19.95 The Brancusi Effect begins with the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi. Cited as one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, Brancusis considerations of the pedestal launched a reorientation of the relationship between object, viewer, and space, influencing Minimalism and the aesthetic of the installation as a whole. Brancusis work, its modular structure and adaptability, can be seen as a point of departure; the autonomy of artworks abates in favor of a reflection on their historical and institutional positioning. Taking this influence into account, the exhibition and publication collect Brancusis original photographic documentation. The installation reflects the recent currency of the sculptural within contemporary art while referencing Brancusis sensibility.

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Bulletins of The Serving Library #7 Sternberg Press 2014 ISBN 9783956790850 Acqn 24236 Pb 17x24cm 180pp 50ills 11.95 This issue concerns itself with numbers, ranging from a brief note on The Psychology of Number by John Dewey and John McLellan, to Vincenzo Latronicos historical overview of the ongoing attempt to conjure truths from thin air (such as proof of the existence of god). In between are essays and articles by Cory Arcangel, Perrine Bailleux, Rosie Cooper, Dan Fox, Angie Keefer, Mathew Kneebone, James Langdon, Philip Ording, Katherine Pickard, David Reinfurt, and Justin Warsh, plus an indexical book review by the late David Foster Wallace.

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Kruger And Pardeller - Aesthetic Basic Chronicle Vol I Sternberg Press 2014 ISBN 9783956790287 Acqn 24237 Hb 18x23cm 424pp 275ills 220col 28.50 Contributions by Sabeth Buchmann, Johan Frederik Hartle, Kathi Hofer, Ilse Lafer, Martin Prinzhorn, Ruth Sonderegger, Georg Toepfer This publication is a work of both art and theory, and aligns itself with a socially activated, political understanding of aesthetics. A concept of production emergesin the words of Kruger & Pardeller, concrete openness. The artist duo, to ensure that this is retained in book form, offers the readers and authors the precise aesthetic space of experience that constitutes their artistic practice. Crucially, this openness does not only stand for a transgression of the traditional concept of work, but also brings the concrete rules and conditions of a participative practice into play, a work form invested with continuation and completion. Together with the authors, Kruger & Pardeller experiment with developing a theoretical and carnal thinking that condenses on the pages of the book and, as a visual and conceptual encyclopaedia, opens up for further use.

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Liz Magic Laser - Public Relations/Offentlichkeitsarbeit Sternberg Press 2014 ISBN 9783956790690 Acqn 24238 Pb 28x22cm 144pp 130ills 30col 15 Edited by Kristina Scepanski Contributions by Kristina Scepanski, Jordan Troeller, Tom Williams Liz Magic Lasers performances and videos intervene in semi-public spaces such as bank vestibules, movie theatres, and newsrooms. Published on the occasion of her eponymous exhibition at the Westflischer Kunstverein in Munster, this book focuses on her recent work examining the techniques of news production and the studied gestures of politicians. By using television news as theatrical dialogue, Laser confronts us with the mechanisms at play in the presentation and reception of current events. Benedikt Reichenbachs unique design offers varied entry points to Lasers practice, including video scripts written in collaboration with Sofia Pontn and essays by Kristina Scepanski, Jordan Troeller, and Tom Williams.

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Ines Lechleitner - The Imagines Sternberg Press 2014 ISBN 9783956790713 Acqn 24239 Pb 15x21cm 120pp 77ills 58col 15 Contributions by Agnieszka Gratza, Batrice Gross, Chantal Pontbriand, Allen S. Weiss The Imagines is based on the texts of four writers that each engage with a recent project by Ines Lechleitner. In response to each critical contribution, Lechleitner develops a visual section where elements and fragments of the selected projects build up their own narrative in relation to the specific space of this book. The title borrows from a pedagogical text by Philostratus, a Greek sophist. The purpose of the original text was to act as a guide for Roman students on the paintings of their culture. The paintings are described in such a detailed and sensory manner that the reader can imagine standing in front of them. Paradoxically, it is not known if these paintings ever existed. Lechleitners The Imagines started with an invitation to the writers and then to its readers to think about these works, and can be seen as a collective reflection on verbal and nonverbal communication, hospitality, and dialogic exchanges.

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Museum Off Museum Sternberg Press 2014 ISBN 9783956790720 Acqn 24240 Hb 25x35cm 192pp 232col ills 22 Edited by Thomas Thiel, Bielefelder Kunstverein Contributions by O zlem Altin, Kader Attia, Eric Baudelaire, Juana Berro, Beatrice von Bismarck, Peggy Buth, Nikita Yingqian Cai, Cathy Carpenter, Isabelle Cornaro, Jeremy Deller, Sam Durant, Dirk Fleischmann, Lucie Fontaine, Simon Fujiwara, Camille Henrot, Luis Jacob, Anna Jehle, Cynthia Krell, Bruce Lacey, Dainius Lis kevi ius, Antonia Marten, Chus Martnez, Doreen Mende, Mihnea Mircan, Yuki Okumura, Karl-Josef Pazzini, Philippe Pirotte, Kevin Schmidt, Slavs and Tatars, Barbara Steiner, Nora Sternfeld, Thomas Thiel, Steven ten Thije, Peter Weibel, Ricardo Valentim Museum Off Museum, the two-part exhibition at Bielefelder Kunstverein, explored the concept of the museum from an artistic and outside perspective. The exhibition investigated the subjective potential of museum-based narratives and the current interest among artists in the museum as a space of reflection within global circumstances. This book documents each of the exhibition phases and outlines all of the contributions to this substantial project. Lavishly illustrated, with colour throughout, it contains more than thirty artistic and scientific statements in form of essays, interviews, visual statements, and exhibition documentations.

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Past Realization - Essays On Contemporary European Art. XXXXI, Vol. 1 Sternberg Press 2014 ISBN 9783956790133 Acqn 24241 Pb 16x22cm 400pp 140ills 70col 19.95 This volume collects more than a dozen essays written over the last decade on a range of contemporary European artists. While all were composed in the twenty-first century, the first, on the Hungarian-American artist Orshi Drozdik, and the second, on the London-based American artist Susan Hiller, anchor the volume in concerns that emerged within the first generation to follow the Conceptual and Minimalist movements at the end of the 1960s. The remaining essays discuss the recent work of twelve artists, several only in midcareer, mostly produced immediately before and after 2000. The essays are focused by the authors careful attention to how these artists receive and negotiate with the historiesboth social and aestheticthat they have inherited and through which they live and work. The artists discussed include Cosima von Bonin, Andy Hope 1930, Nathaniel Mellors, Thomas Raat, and Nicola Stglich, among others.

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Yarisal And Kublitz - Bling blang, ching chang, give me some of that yin yang Sternberg Press 2014 ISBN 9783956791031 Acqn 24242 Pb 24x28cm 96pp 42ills 10col 12.95 Contributions by Marius Ekvedt, Alex Gartenfeld, Elizabeth Grady, Joshua Simon In this monograph the Swiss and Danish duo give us a deeper look into the emblematic and enigmatic, imaginative and often humorous works that the artists are known for. By mixing the inorganic with the organic, traditional religious symbols and their New Age counterparts with common everyday references and popular culture, the line between what is considered holy or secular becomes blurry. At once commonplace and strange, the sculptures compel their audience toward expanded associations by releasing iconography from accustomed paradigms. Elizabeth Grady writes, Ultimately, their work as a whole explores the territory of the human condition; from our physical embodiment to our metaphysical state of being. Bling blang, ching chang, give me some of that yin yang is the first survey of Yarisal & Kublitzs works from 2010 to 2014.

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Artist Novels - The Book Lovers Publication Sternberg Press 2014 ISBN 9783956790768 Acqn 24243 Pb 17x21cm 200pp 25ills 15col 21 Edited by David Maroto, Joanna Zieliska Texts by Roland Barthes, Liam Gillick, Kenneth Goldsmith, Tom McCarthy, Ingo Niermann, Seth Price, Seth Siegelaub, et al.; excerpts from artist novels by Guy de Cointet, Henry Joseph Darger, Yayoi Kusama, Jill Magid, et al. This publication is devoted to the phenomenon of the artist novel, and whether it can be considered to be a medium in its own right within the visual arts. Visual artists create different strategies to integrate their novels into their practice. Introducing traits that are particular to narrative literature into the visual arts implies the accentuation of some features over others, such as narration, fiction, identification, and the act of reading and its protracted engagement, as well as distribution in public space. An artists approach comes fundamentally from the visual arts. The creation of an artist novel doesnt differ from any other artwork. Both processes feed into each other as they evolve within the same body of works. Thanks to the contributions of a selected group of artists, writers, curators, and scholars this publication strives to demonstrate that literature, when treated by visual artists, can take place well beyond the space of the book.

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Eva Grubinger - Cafe Nihilismus Sternberg Press 2014 ISBN 9783956790867 Acqn 24257 Pb 20x29cm 28pp 12col ills 4.95 Text by Martin Herbert A rapid development of technology and science, a resultant feeling that reality is speeding up and even out of control: the mood and texture of our current moment strongly resemble those of a century ago. In Eva Grubingers exhibition Caf Nihilismus, the two eras interweave. Framed by yellow neon writing, the sequence of sculptures and 2-D works suggests a phantasmal bar: coffee culture and the discursive space around it being central, not least to Vienna, in the early twentieth century and now a staple of twenty-first-century life. As culture looks back a hundred years to the outset of the First World War, Caf Nihilismusits very title pointing to a doubting of established cultural valuessuggests a larger, questioning relationship between then and now, evoking such figures as Egon Friedell, Sigmund Freud, Karl Kraus, and Adolf Loos. This slender catalogue simply and beautifully documents Grubingers exhibition at Kerstin Engholm Gallery in Vienna (May 16June 21, 2014), and includes a text contribution by Martin Herbert.

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Pauline Boudry, Renate Lorenz Aftershow Sternberg Press 2014 ISBN 9783956790492 Acqn 24258 Pb 21x28cm 190pp 131ills 130col 20 Edited by Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz, Anja Casser, in collaboration with Electra. As an artist book, Aftershow engages with the recent film installations of Pauline Boudry/Renate Lorenz. Installation shots, research material, scripts, and film stills give an insight into the artists investigation of performance in film and their dense net of references to experimental film, the history of photography, sound, and underground (drag) performances. The books title alludes to an interest in opaque events that are belated, left backstage or off-screen. A number of (fictitious) letters to friends and collaborators such as Sharon Hayes, Yvonne Rainer, Ginger Brooks-Takahashi, and Jack Smith place the work of Boudry/Lorenz in a context of debates around temporalities, activism, the archival, decolonizing practices, and queer histories.

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Isa Genzken - I'm Isa Genzken, the Only Female Fool Sternberg Press 2014 ISBN 9783956790812 Acqn 24265 Pb 14x21cm 114pp 48col ills 15 Edited by Kunsthalle Wien Foreword by Nicolaus Schafhausen; texts by Joshua Decter and Tom McDonough The Only Female Fool is how Isa Genzken describes herself in the self-chosen title of her exhibition at the Kunsthalle Wien. This statement is typical of the fluid boundaries between deep seriousness and the exuberant, eccentric spirit that pervades her work. Genzkens artistic practice is characterized by a wide spectrum of media and forms, although her roots in sculpture always remain visible. The exhibition and catalogue focus on specific aspects of her oeuvre, including the mirror motif, the examination of architecture, and space as a social sphere; where early works are juxtaposed with series from later creative periods. Genzkens collaboration with other artists and her admiration for certain artistic positions is also brought into focus, and selected works by Dan Graham, Gordon Matta-Clark, Jasper Johns, Gerhard Richter, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Lawrence Weiner are presented in dialogue with Genzkens multilayered work.

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Assign And Arrange - Methodologies Of Presentation In Art And Dance Sternberg Press 2014 ISBN 9783943365900 Acqn 24266 Pb 15x21cm 280pp 24ills 15 Contributions by Ina Blom, Franziska Bork Petersen, Andrea Boi, Gabriele Brandstetter, Ramsay Burt, Maren Butte, Fiona McGovern, Adrian Heathfield, Liz Kotz, Kirsten Maar, Marie-France Rafael, Jrn Schafaff, Nina Schallenberg, Minnie Scott, Gregor Stemmrich, Christian Tecker Assign & Arrange: Methodologies of Presentation in Art and Dance aims to map the exchanges and transgressions between art and dance that characterize the manifold variety of relations between art and dance that can be observed today: dance performances taking place in art galleries or public spaces, for example, or visual artists developing specific presentational formats or exhibition displays that generate dimensions of dramaturgy and choreography for their visitors. Terms like mise-en-scne, situation, setting, choreography, and installation are being almost coevally used not only by theoreticians but also by contributors from both art and dance in order to define modes of presentation or to specify visitors aesthetic experience. Taking into account historical and current examples, and involving perspectives from art history, dance studies, and architecture, the book explores similarities and differences in the respective practices, as well as in the theoretical concepts they correspond with.

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