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Afterall Exhibition Histories

Art and Its Worlds: Exhibitions, Institutions and Art Becoming Public
Art and Its Worlds: Exhibitions, Institutions and Art Becoming Public
Introduction by Charles Esche, Lucy Steeds, David Morris.

This critical anthology explores the myriad histories and worlds through which art is produced and experienced. It is guided by the following questions: How are the “global” and the “located” shaped and understood in disparate >>more

Walther König, Köln/Afterall Books
ISBN 9783960989172
US $35.00 CAN $47.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 288 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 11/09/2021 In stock


Artist-to-Artist: Independent Art Festivals in Chiang Mai 1992–98
Artist-to-Artist: Independent Art Festivals in Chiang Mai 1992–98
Edited with text by David Teh. Text by Patrick D. Flores, May Adadol Ingawanij, Uthit Athimana, Thasnai Sethaseree.

Founded on an ethos of friendship, and emerging from a regional constellation of artists' initiatives and independent spaces, the series of art festivals known as Chiang Mai Social Installation (1992–98) staged contemporary Thai art within >>more

Koenig Books
ISBN 9783960982296
US $29.95 CAN $39.95 TRADE
Pbk, 6.25 x 8.5 in. / 240 pgs / 150 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/19/2019 In stock


Anti-Shows
Anti-Shows
Edited with text by Margarita Tupitsyn, Victor Tupitsyn. Introduction by David Morris. Text by Valerie Smith, et al. A collective of artists, a gallery and a movement, APTART was a series of self-organized “anti-shows” that took place in a private apartment and outdoor spaces in Moscow between 1982 and 1984. These covert and >>more

Afterall Books
ISBN 9783960980230
US $27.50 CAN $37.50 FLAT40
Pbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 240 pgs / 50 color / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/26/2017 In stock


Exhibition, Design, Participation
Exhibition, Design, Participation
Edited with text by Elena Crippa. Text by David Sylvester, Martin Beek, Owen Hatherly, Lucy Steeds. The radical project an Exhibit (mounted in 1957 at Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London) emerged from a decade of testing the formats and possibilities of exhibition making, resulting in a >>more

Afterall Books
ISBN 9783863358976
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Pbk, 6.75 x 8 in. / 240 pgs / 75 color / 75 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/27/2016 In stock


Cultural Anthropophagy
Cultural Anthropophagy
Introduction by Pablo Lafuente. Text by Lisette Lagnado, Renato Sztutman, Mirtes Marins de Oliveira, Carmen Mörsch, Catrin Seefranz. Interviews by Paulo Herkenhoff. The 1998 Bienal de São Paulo remade art history from a Brazilian perspective, and presented a new model for exhibition-making in the era of postcolonial globalization. The show employed the Brazilian notion of anthropophagy as >>more

Afterall Books
ISBN 9783863355548
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Pbk, 6 x 8.5 in. / 216 pgs / 95 color / 7 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/27/2015 In stock


Exhibition as Social Intervention
Exhibition as Social Intervention
Introduction by David Morris, Paul O'Neill. Text by Joshua Decter, Helmut Draxler, Joe Scanlan, Haf?ór Yngvason. Contributions by Mary Jane Jacob and interviews with artists Mark Dion, Simon Grennan, Daniel J. Martinez, Michael Brenson. A show challenging conventional understandings of public art, Culture in Action in Chicago had a new social agenda, and rethought what an exhibition of contemporary art might be. Through eight projects by artists initiated in >>more

Afterall Books
ISBN 9783863354480
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Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 224 pgs / 72 color.
Pub Date: 10/31/2014 In stock


Making Art Global (Part 1)
Making Art Global (Part 1)
Text by Rachel Weiss, Luis Camnitzer, Coco Fusco, Geeta Kapur, Charles Esche. The second installment in Afterall's Exhibition Histories series, Making Art Global, Part 1 focuses on the third Havana Biennial, which took place in 1989. In the core essay, Rachel Weiss examines the ways in which >>more

Afterall Books
ISBN 9783865609939
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Pbk, 6.25 x 8.75 in. / 250 pgs / 105 color / 18 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/31/2012 Not available


Making Art Global (Part 2)
Making Art Global (Part 2)
Introduction by Pablo Lafuente. Text by Lucy Steeds, Jean-Marc Poinsot, Rasheed Araeen, Jean Fisher, Thomas McEvilley, Jean-Hubert Martin, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Barbara Kruger. Interview with Jean-Hubert Martin, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Alfredo Jaar, Francisco Godoy Vega. Magiciens de la Terre was an exhibition held at the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Grande Halle at the Parc de la Villette in 1989. Curated by Jean-Hubert Martin, it aimed to counter the ethnic >>more

Afterall Books
ISBN 9783863352585
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Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 304 pgs / 107 color / 28 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2013 Not available


Exhibiting the New Art
Exhibiting the New Art
Edited by Christian Rattemeyer. Texts by Wim Beeren, Charles Harrison, Harald Szeemann, Tommaso Trini, Claudia Di Lecce, Steven ten Thije. Introduction by Teresa Gleadowe. Afterall Books' new Exhibition Histories series responds to an increased interest in exhibition history with its inaugural volume on two of the most famous exhibitions of the 1960s: Wim Beeren's Op Losse Schroeven (Stedelijk Museum, >>more

Afterall Books
ISBN 9783865608598
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Pbk, 6.25 x 8.75 in. / 280 pgs / 15 color / 106 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/31/2011 Not available


From Conceptualism to Feminism
From Conceptualism to Feminism
Text by Cornelia Butler with Peter Plagens, Griselda Pollock, Pip Day. Interviews with Lucy Lippard, Seth Siegelaub, et al. Between 1969 and 1974, Lucy Lippard curated four exhibitions of contemporary art, which have become renowned as her “numbers shows.” Each took the population of the city in which it was shown as its title: >>more

Afterall Books
ISBN 9783863351021
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Pbk, 6.25 x 8.75 in. / 304 pgs / 140 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/31/2012 Not available