Art July 2013

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The Hanging On Union Square Kaya Press 2013 ISBN 9781885030092 Acqn 21389 Pb 13x23cm 244pp 14 Originally self-published in 1935, H.T. Tsiangs hallucinatory, quasi-experimental novel Hanging on Union Square explores leftist politics in Depression-era New York--an era of union busting and food lines--in an ambitious style that brilliantly blends Gertrude Steins playful language with the political satire of Carl Sandbergs prose fables. It follows the peripatetic musings of a young man throughout a single day that takes him from a workers cafeteria to a world of dinner clubs and sexual exploitation in the highest echelons of society, and back again to the streets of Greenwich Village, where starving families rub shoulders with the recently evicted. Each chapter comprises a single hour of the day. Tsiangs style combines satirical allegory with snatches of poetry, newspaper quotations, non-sequiturs and slogans, as well as elements of classical and contemporary Chinese literature. Adventurous and unclassifiable in its combination of avantgarde and proletarian concerns, Hanging on Union Square is a major rediscovery of a uniquely American voice. Poet, playwright, and novelist. Hsi Tseng Tsiang (H.T. Tsiang) was born in China in 1899 and came to America as a child. He was involved with the Greenwich Village literary scene in the 1920s and 1930s, and self-published a number of books which he would hawk at downtown political meetings. Tsiang also appeared as an actor in Hollywood, most notably in the film Tokyo Rose. He died in 1971 in Los Angeles, CA. This is a voice to which the White world will have to listen more and more as time passes. I do not mean to this particular young Chinese Poet, but to the movement which he voices. Upton Sinclair.
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Fauvisme Centre Georges Pompidou 2013 ISBN 9782844265487 Acqn 21578 Pb 19x19cm 96pp 60col ills 11.50 Text in French Part of a series of essays to help the general reader discover the world of the greatest movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries based on a selection of iconic works taken mainly from the prestigious collection of the Muse national d'art moderne, Centre Pompidou.
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Frederic Bruly Bouabre - 4 Vols Editions Xavier Barral 2013 ISBN 9782915173864 Acqn 21632 Hb 21x27cm 1436pp 611col ills 250 Frdric Bruly Bouabr was born in 1919 in Zprgh, on the Ivory Coast. He is a thinker, philosopher, researcher, seeker, pedagogue, prophet, poet, artist, designer, encyclopaedist and more. The origins of his whole uvre is linked to a "celestial" vision on March 11, 1948. From this day on, he was charged with the mission of communicating the knowledge of the world, and particularly to his Bt people. He thus invented an alphabet to transcribe his language and retranscribe all of the languages of the world. Thodore Monod published Alphabet for the first time in 1958. It is through his series of drawings that he came to fame on the international art scene when Andr Magnin presented them at the exhibition "Magiciens de la Terre" at the Centre Pompidou and at the Grande Halle de la Villette in 1989. His work has since been largely exhibited in Europe and in the United States.
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Karen Green - Bough Down Siglio 2013 ISBN 9781938221019 Acqn 22065 Hb 15x20cm 188pp 53col ills 28 With fearlessness and grace, Bough Down reports from deep inside the maelstrom of grief. In this profoundly beautiful and intensely moving lament, artist and writer Karen Green conjures the inscrutable space of love and loss, clarity and contradiction, sense and madness. She summons memory and the machination of the interior mind with the emotional acuity of music as she charts her passage through the devastation of her husbands suicide. In crystalline fragments of text, Greens voice is paradoxically confessional and non-confessional: moments in her journey are devastating but also luminous, exacting in sensation but also ambiguous and layered in meaning. Her world is haunted by the unnameable, and yet she renders that world with poetic precision in her struggle to make sense of not only of death but also of living. In counterpoint, tiny visual collages punctuate the text, each made of salvaged language and scraps of the material world pages torn from books, bits of paper refuse, drawings and photographs, old postage stamps and the albums which classify them. Each collage--and the creative act of making it--evinces the reassembling of life. A breathtaking lyric elegy, Bough Down uses music and silence, colour and its absence, authority of experience and the doubt that trembles at its centre to fulfil a humane artistic vision. This is a lapidary, keenly observed work, awash with the honesty of an open heart.
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Denis Wood - Everything Sings, 2nd Revised Edition Siglio 2013 ISBN 9781938221026 Acqn 22066 Pb 27x22cm 152pp 72ills 25 The acclaimed geographer Denis Wood has written numerous books (including the influential bestseller The Power of Maps) that reorient his readers to our neighborhoods, homes and bodies. At the heart of Woods investigations is a near-legendary endeavor: the Boylan Heights maps, begun in 1982, and first presented in Everything Sings (2010). Surveying his century-old, halfsquare mile neighborhood Boylan Heights in Raleigh, North Carolina, Wood began by paring away the inessential map crap (scale, orientation, street grids), then found elegant ways to represent such phenomena as radio waves permeating the air, the light cast by street lights and Halloween pumpkins on porches. As radio host Ira Glass writes in his introduction to this volume, we see which homes have wind chimes and which ones call the cops. We see the route of the letter carrier and the life cycle of the daily paper. Wood is writing a novel where we never meet the main characters, but their stuff is everywhere. This second edition includes eight new maps (including one of barking dogs!), other new visual material plus original essays by Ander Monson and Albert Mobilio and an interview with Blake Butler that appeared in a more abbreviated form in The Believer.
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Abraham Cruzvillegas: The Autoconstruccion Suites Walker Art Center 2013 ISBN 9781935963059 Acqn 22078 Pb 21x36cm 240pp 160ills 80col 46.95 Published on the occasion of the artists first major survey, this volume explores the rich terrain of Abraham Cruzvillegas (born 1968) work over the past ten years, rooting his sculptural language within the volcanic landscape of his childhood home in Ajusco, Mexico. The publication elaborates on Cruzvillegas interest in autoconstruccin, a construction method arising from the constraints of poverty, in which parts are recycled and adapted for new purposes. Developed in collaboration with the artist, the volume features five essays examining autoconstruccin through the lens of art history, politics, architecture and urban migration in Mexico in the 1960s. Along with these texts, the publication includes sculptures by Cruzvillegas; snapshots of Ajusco, Mexico, taken by the artist; archival images of Ajusco from the Cruzvillegas Fuentes family album; titles that inform and inspire the artist's thinking about autoconstruccin; silkscreened posters of liberation movements in Latin America; and the artist's index of concepts and song lyrics written as allegories of his childhood. Bilingual (English/Spanish).
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Frantiek Skala - Headlands, The Land Of Heads Arbor Vitae 2013 ISBN 9788087164907 Acqn 22148 Hb 24x24cm 152pp 163col ills 15.50 Headlands is Czech artist Frantiek Sklas (born 1956) homage to the Headlands of Marin County, north of San Francisco, where he lived in the 1990s. It contains his journal entries and reproduces his sculptural heads made out of the local kelp seaweed--a range of human types reminiscent of ancient Egyptian, Chinese, Greek and African masks. Edited and with text by Frantiek Skla.
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Simon Hantai Centre Georges Pompidou 2013 ISBN 9782844265999 Acqn 22268 Hb 24x28cm 320pp 350ills 250col 47.50 Text in English Published on the occasion of the vast retrospective on Simon Hanta, this catalogue covers the entire career of the artist: his complex, poetic and singular oeuvre. It is the most complete publication on the exceptional works of Hanta, under the directions of the curators, with nearly 300 reproductions. The exhibition illuminates Hanta's development over his career, from the first Surrealist canvases to the astonishing writings-paintings. Then, beginning in 1960, the successive series of works proceeding from "pillage as a method" reveal him as a great colourist.
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Simon Hantai ALBUM Centre Georges Pompidou 2013 ISBN 9782844265982 Acqn 22269 Pb 27x27cm 60pp 65ills 60col 9.50 An itinerary in pictures of the Simon Hanta retrospective at the Pompidou Centre, consisting of a selection of his major works accompanied by brief descriptions. This retrospective of the work of Simon Hanta, one of the major artists of the second half of the 20th century, gives us for the first time the opportunity to discover the totality of his complex, poetic and singular oeuvre. The exhibition illuminates Hanta's development over his career, from the first Surrealist canvases to the astonishing writings-paintings. Then, beginning in 1960, the successive series of works proceeding from "pillage as a method" reveal him as a great colourist.
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Miro - Pompidou Collection Centre Georges Pompidou 2013 ISBN 9782844266040 Acqn 22273 Pb 19x19cm 96pp 60col ills 11.50 Text in French Part of a series of essays to help the general reader discover the world of the greatest artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries based on a selection of iconic works taken mainly from the prestigious collection of the Muse national d'art moderne, Centre Pompidou.
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Francis Upritchard - Potato Poem Foil Co. Ltd 2013 ISBN 9784902943832 Acqn 22288 Hb 15x23cm 112pp 52ills 40col 29.95 This Artists Book coincides with Francis Upritchards first solo exhibition in Japan being held at the Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art. The publication includes installation views of her colourful and playful sculptures along with her drawings and plenty of texts. The book includes a critical text by the Turner Prize winning-artist Simon Starling and David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas.
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David Lynch - Chaos Theory Of Violence And Silence Akaaka Art Publishing 2013 ISBN 9784903545936 Acqn 22403 Pb 23x30cm 136pp 125ills 95col 33 Published with the exhibition Chaos Theory of Violence and Silence at the Aomori Museum of Art, this catalogue includes the most recent body of work produced by acclaimed director David Lynch. In addition to his cinematic work, Lynch is also a prolific artist whose talent ranges from sketches and painting to photography and short films. His work is profoundly influenced by the darkness and chaos that lurks beneath our consciousness, waiting to be exposed by any small deviation in the boundary between dreams and reality something which Lynch directly confronts and dissolves. Numerous artworks and film stills are included, along with an essay by curator Takayo Iida.
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Adrian Paci Transit Les Presses Du Reel 2013 ISBN 9788867490400 Acqn 22411 Hb 24x29cm 184pp 180ills 150col 42.95 Adrian Pacis work is strongly informed both by his own experiences and by social and political occurrences in his native Albania. It integrates social reality into visions of everyday reality in which, according to museum directors Paulette Gagnon and Marta Gili, fragments of life come up against universality, always on a rigorous and equal footing. Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition co-produced by the Jeu de Paume, Paris, and the Muse dart contemporain de Montral, this engaging catalogue presents a comprehensive look at Pacis oeuvre, an interview with the artist, and critical texts by Edna Moshenson, Edi Muka, and others.
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The Human Snapshot Sternberg Press 2013 ISBN 9783943365634 Acqn 22497 Hb 19x27cm 320pp 166ills 32col 30.00 With contributions by Ariella Azoulay, Bassam El Baroni, Roger M. Buergel, George DidiHuberman, Michel Feher, Hal Foster, Anselm Franke, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, Maja Hoffmann, Denis Hollier, Thomas Keenan, Alex Klein, Suhail Malik, Marion von Osten, Katya Sander, Hito Steyerl, Eyal Weizman, Tirdad Zolghadr The Human Snapshot draws upon a conference of the same name organized by the LUMA Foundation and Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College that took place in Arles, France, in 2011. The conference contributions and subsequent essays examine contemporary forms of humanism and universalism as they circulate and are produced in art and photography. The look toward these two terms stems from theorist Ariella Azoulays research on the seminal exhibition The Family of Man, first installed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1955, which she frames as a lens through which to view universalism at play. These values have been under conceptual assault in recent years, yet they continue to proliferateeven through the visual arts, where humanism and universalism are customarily dismissed. The Human Snapshot takes these themes and wrestles with their application in the use of photography, the exhibition format, contemporary democracy, human rights discourse, and the power of the image at large.
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David Wiseman R 20th Century Gallery 2013 ISBN 9780970460868 Acqn 22498 Hb 29x29cm 78pp 48ills 40col 52 This publication accompanies the first-ever solo exhibition of works by Los Angeles-based designer David Wiseman (born 1981). Inspired by the rich classical history of decorative objects and sumptuous table settings, Wiseman explores a multilayered vocabulary of manmade and biomorphic forms such as a blossoming tree, a spider web or a glacier. His limited-edition designs range from place-card holders, vases and chandeliers to furniture and architectural installations. Constantly exploring new ways of working with media such as porcelain, metals and exquisite Czech crystal, Wiseman is extraordinarily hands-on, and his works extremely labor-intensive. He recently created installations for Christian Dior flagship stores in Shanghai and New York, and is soon to install a permanent environmental installation for the West Hollywood public library. A stunning overview of Wisemans career to date, the publication reveals an artist of extraordinary ability and depth. Foreword by Rodman Primack. Text by Brooke Hodge.
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Yasumasa Morimura - Self-Portrait Money Game Akio Nagasawa 2012 no ISBN Acqn 22504 Hb 22x30cm 72pp 68ills 60col 59.95 Japanese artist Yasumasa Morimura demonstrates his clever mastery of mimicry by portraying himself as famous artists, artworks, political figures, celebrities and others on a range of banknotes and postal stamps, plus full-page original portraits. Frida Kahlo, Ghandi, Marilyn Monroe, Rembrandt, Vladimir Lenin, Albert Einstein, Vermeers Girl with a Pearl Earring, Caravaggios Medusa, Mao Zedong and Che Guevara are all pictured here in stunning colour, detail and likeness.
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Bookcatalogtest Rollo Press 2012 ISBN 9789949306626 Acqn 22506 Pb 22x30cm 144pp 432ills 24.95 Based on the 'Bcherkatalogtest' published by Swiss psychiatrist Moritz Tramer in 1953, this personality test uses 432 book titles to determine the character of test subjects. The objective is to choose ten titles from the list in under twenty minutes. Each book title is connected to a certain category, so by examining and comparing the test subject's choices, a portrait of their method of thinking and associations emerges. According to artist Triin Tamm, who redeveloped the test catalog for this publication, the goal is to evoke different interests that lie buried deep down in each of us. The catalog includes a comprehensive user's manual and circle graph to map the results of each test.
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Hreinn Fridfinnsson - First House Second House Third House Crymogea 2012 ISBN 9789935420220 Acqn 22509 Hb 17x25cm 96pp 88ills 53col 42.75 Published in conjunction with the exhibition House at Hafnarborg, the Hafnarfjordur Centre of Culture and Fine Art, this catalogue includes both new and older work by the Icelandic artist Hrein Frifinnsson. The series First House, Second House and Third House, some of his bestknown works, are shown here together for the first time. Each plays with the notions of inside/outside and enclosed/exposed. Starting from the concept of an inside out house, the works can be said to include the entire universe within but also to simultaneously shut it out. Mirroring each other, each series creates a unique dynamic when juxtaposed with the others.
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Nayoungim And Gregory Maass - Unfucking Real. Works 2009-2012 Nayoungim And Gregory Maass 2012 ISBN 9788994027272 Acqn 22510 Pb 21x30cm 248pp 375ills 300col 32.95 The artist couple of Nayoungim and Gregory Maass are known for producing a broad spectrum of conglomerates of contradictions in their work, which primarily entails objects and groups of objects arranged in such a way as to promulgate ambivalences, playing upon the ability of the observer to adapt and subverting the functional structures of the art world itself. This substantial monograph explores the artists prolific exhibition activity, and features special segments focused on the display of their artworks in a number of locations, in addition to several stand-alone series of works. Included are critical analyses of their work by Clemens Kruemmel, Claudia Pestana and Sumi Kang.
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Audience As Subject Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2012 ISBN 9780982678954 Acqn 21485 Pb 15x23cm 142pp 60col ills 21 Audience as Subject is the catalogue to a two-part exhibition that considers the audience broadly as a living organism of participating viewers of live events. The two parts, Part 1: Medium and Part 2: Extra Large examine audiences at gatherings of corresponding sizes. Participating artists include Andreas Gursky, Ryan McGinley, Paul Pfeiffer and Melanie Smith. Text by BettiSue Hertz, Nick Kaye, Gabriella Giannachi, Andrew Weiner, Stephen Wright.
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Judy Chicago Deflowered Foundation 20 21 2013 ISBN 9781934171158 Acqn 22085 Hb 31x31cm 158pp 88ills 82col 39 Before she coined the term feminist art and produced the movements most iconic work, The Dinner Party, Judy Chicago (born 1939) was living in Los Angeles and making work partly inspired by the citys Finish Fetish and Light and Space schools--serial abstract pieces characterized by throbbing colour, logo-like geometricism and slick production values. Unlike the sculpture of her male Los Angeles contemporaries, however, Chicagos early sculptures and paintings revelled in bodily--specifically genital--references that distanced her from their concerns and instead began to define the possibilities of a new feminist art. This phase in Chicagos career, sometimes described as her Minimal Period, produced several innovative series: the Hood paintings on Chevy car hoods, which featured heavily stylised vaginas and penises in brightly coloured mirrored patterns; abstract sculptural game boards that riffed on childrens games and building blocks; several series of small, iridescent acrylic domes arranged in groups of three; and the Flesh Gardens and Fresno Fan series of sprayed acrylic lacquer on acrylic and Prismacolor on paper. Many of these early works exhibit Chicagos early technical mastery (she attended auto body school and apprenticed with boat workers and pyro-technicians after her graduate student days at UCLA). Spanning the years between 1961 and 1973, Judy Chicago: Deflowered is the first to gather and examine these seminal early works. It includes a DVD of three of her Atmosphere performances, which also date from the same era. Edited by Katherine Chan. Introduction by Tim Nye, Lexi Brown. Text by Saul Ostrow. Interview by Lucy Lippard.
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Munch, Warhol And The Multiple Image The American-Scandinavian Foundation ISBN 9780971949386 Acqn 22102 Hb 26x29cm 96pp 70ills 60col 35 Edvard Munch (18631944) and Andy Warhol (19281987), two of the most prolific and inventive printmakers of the twentieth century, are brought together in this volume, which examines four lithographic series Munch produced at the turn of the century--The Scream, Madonna, The Brooch. Eva Mudocci and Self-Portrait with Skeleton Arm--and a little-known but extraordinary series of unpublished silkscreens created by Warhol in 1984 that appropriate and re-envision Munchs motifs. The comparison reveals remarkable affinities between the two artists: both Munch and Warhol were preoccupied with themes of anxiety and alienation, ideal beauty, sex and mortality, and both skillfully mined the iconic power of the image, crafting their myths in selfportraits and in life. Published to coincide with an exhibition at Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America in New York, Munch/Warhol includes 75 color reproductions, and marks the sesquicentennial of Edvard Munchs birth.
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Eddie Peake White Cube 2013 ISBN 9781906072797 Acqn 22344 Pb 17x23cm 56pp 45ills 33col 12.50 Eddie Peakes varied artistic vocabulary encompasses performance, video, photography, painting, sculpture and installation. Peake's main focus lies in the lapses and voids inherent in the process of translating between verbal language and any nonverbal mode of communication. It is in the discrepancy between words and any other language, say, images, emotions, bodily movements or sounds, that his art is located. Peakes work is an often-energetic spectacle in which the absurd and the erotic each find a place, and in which the artist plays a central role. Pursuing his exploration of the bodys potential as a sculptural and an erotic object, Peake asks the viewer to examine their own responses to the piece; how the language of music and movement are affecting their perception of what is taking place, and how they are implicated as voyeurs of this erotic spectacle.
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