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  Walther König, Köln Allan Kaprow: A Bibliography This study catalogues and illustrates all of the artist’s books that Allan Kaprow published to accompany his happenings, from his first artist’s book in 1962 to his final anthology projects of the 1990s: a total of 35 books published over 40 years. Although Kaprow was the acknowledged pioneer of the happening from the 1950s on, he is less often recognized as a pioneer in the genre of artist’s books. Nonetheless, from the start Kaprow produced what he described as activity booklets”--publications intended to function as tools to help people understand and experience such performances. He likened these booklets to musical scores”: vehicles of opportunity rather than documents of past events. But the graphic layout of his books, the originality of their structure, the literary character of their texts and their aesthetic quality as objects elevates them from ostensibly practical scores to primary examples of first-generation book art. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Giorgio Maffei. Pbk, 6.75 x 9 in. / 128 pgs / 111 color / 4 b&w. Publication Date: 3/31/2012 List Price: US $35.00

  Siglio Amaranth Borsuk & Brad Bouse: Between Page and Screen A convergence of old and new technologies, an unlikely marriage of print and digital, Between Page and Screen chronicles a love affair between the characters P and S while taking the reader into a wondrous, augmented reality. The book has no words, only inscrutable black and white geometric patterns that, when coupled with a computer webcam, conjure the text. Reflected on screen, the reader sees himself with open book in hand, language springing alive and shape-shifting with each turn of the page. The story unfolds through a playful and cryptic exchange of letters between P and S as they struggle to define their passionate but fraught relationship. Rich with innuendo, anagrams, etymological and sonic affinities between words, Between Page and Screen takes an almost ecstatic pleasure in language and the act of reading. Merging concrete poetry with conceptual art and the tradition of the artist’s book with the digital future, Between . . . . [see book details]

  Pbk, 7 x 7 in. / 44 pgs / 16 b&w. Publication Date: 4/30/2012 List Price: US $24.95

  Evil Twin Publications Anna Craycroft: Developing Patterns In this five-volume box set, artist Anna Craycroft muses on how crystallography can serve as a metaphor for the idiosyncrasies of human behavior. Craycroft’s concise poetic prose is illustrated by an archive of vintage photographs, drawings and illustrations culled from a wide range of sources. Each book in Developing Patterns follows the format of a children’s picture board book. Published in a limited edition of 300 copies. . . . . [see book details]

  Slip Hbk, 5 vols., 5.25 x 7 in. / 130 pgs / 75 color / 75 b&w / ltd ed of 300. Publication Date: 1/15/2012 List Price: US $65.00

  Hatje Cantz Peter Downsbrough: The Books, 1968-2010 Like his contemporaries Lawrence Weiner, Robert Barry and Sol LeWitt, American Conceptualist Peter Downsbrough (born 1940) combines a fondness for geometric art and typography with the possibilities of the artist's book. Since the late 1960s he has worked across media (video, film and photography), but the artist's book has proved an enduring format, a place in which to incorporate other projects and compose with text, line drawings, maps and photographs. In 1993 the publisher, book collector and curator Guy Schraenen wrote of his work: One might call it the absolute zero of the book, since it presents itself in the simplest form.” This catalogue provides a comprehensive overview of the 85 artist's books that Downsbrough has published from 1972 to the present, including such classics of Conceptualist book art as And, A Place--New York, Beside, Notes on Location 2 and Two Pipes Fourteen Locations. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Moritz Küng. Text by Ira G. Wool. Hbk, 6 x 9 in. / 332 pgs / 272 color. Publication Date: 8/31/2011 List Price: US $45.00

  Granary Books Girl's Life, A A graphic melodrama of romance, crime and passion, A Girl's Life addresses adolescent angst in all of its fashionably gory details. The snares and pitfalls of contemporary life, which all girls must struggle to survive, are here revealed through darkly comic and fiendishly noir prose, accompanied by lurid collages and unusual typography. . . . . [see book details]

  By Susan Bee & Johanna Drucker. Paperback, 7 x 10 in. / 48 pgs / 40 color. Publication Date: 5/2/2002 List Price: US $24.95

  Walther König, Köln Bernadette Corporation: The Complete Poem The Bernadette Corporation was formed in a Manhattan nightclub in 1994, and began organizing social events that evolved into unofficial art carnivals in SoHo parking lots. From 1995 to 1997, the collective worked under the guise of an underground fashion label, later issuing the magazine Made in USA and authoring the collective novel Reena Spaulings. For this unique amalgam of poetry and fashion shoot, the Corporation alternates fashion photographer David Vasiljevic's 38 photographs of six male and female models with an epic poem structured on various formal constraints, such as (in one section) the inclusion of words beginning with the letters B and C in each line. Corporation member Jim Fletcher describes the poem's content as "A time and a place, New York... epic means, letting it in." Thus: "What's the beautiful chorus/I hear while basting my capers/It's Bellini on the CD..." The Complete Poem offers a rare synthesis of authors . . . . [see book details]

  Pbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 172 pgs / 40 color. Publication Date: 4/30/2011 List Price: US $39.95

  JRP|Ringier Black Noise Black noise is an acoustical term for a nearly inaudible frequency. It is a fitting title for this tribute to the respected New York painter and musician Steven Parrino, who died in a motorcycle accident on New Year’s Day, 2005, at the age of 46. This box set of 32 publications contains custom projects by some of the most innovative artists working today: Rich Aldrich, John M. Armleder, Fia Backström, Sophie Bernhard, Peter Coffin, Philippe Decrauzat, Vidya Gastaldon & Fabrice Stroun, Gabrielle Giattino & Sara Turner, Janine Gordon, Kim Gordon, Amy Granat, Drew Heitzler & Flora Wiegman, Jutta Koether, Alix Lambert, Balthazar Lovay, Brendan Majewski, Christian Marclay, Mass, John Miller, Thurston Moore, Olivier Mosset, Chuck Nanney, Genesis P-Orridge, Mai-Thu Perret, Carissa Rodriguez, Aura Rosenberg, Michael Scott, John Terhorst, Blair Thurman, John Tremblay, Elizabeth Valdez and Joan Wallace. Each artist was closely linked with Parrino in some way, through collaboration, exchange, friendship . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Amy Granat, John Armleder, Mai-Thu Perret. Boxed, 32 volumes, 7 x 10.5 in. / 480 pgs / 32 color / 480 b&w. Publication Date: 3/1/2008 List Price: US $135.00

  Granary Books No Longer Innocent: Book Art In America 1960-1980 This important history of the artist's book, a flourishing form which over the years has often been greeted with confusion by critics, collectors, historians and artists, aims to spell out its role in contemporary art and to claim for it a vital and heretofore unacknowledged status since the blossoming of the artform in the 1970s. Renowned scholar and curator Betty Bright takes an inclusive view of the varied field in order to redress its marginalization, identifying three distinct types: the fine press book, the deluxe book, and the bookwork. She covers crucial supporters of the form, like New York's Center for Book Arts, Franklin Furnace, and the Visual Studies Workshop Press in Rochester, New York, as well as key organizations and figures in Chicago, Atlanta, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Bright examines how artist's books have responded to specific movements, such as Pop, Fluxus and Conceptualism, and how the book arts' . . . . [see book details]

  By Betty Bright. Paperback, 7 x 10 in. / 350 pgs / 20 color / 95 b&w. Publication Date: 7/15/2005 List Price: US $39.95

  6 Decades Books Book as Artwork 1960-1972 Nearly three decades after its first printing, Book as Artwork 1960–1972 remains a widely-cited landmark in the critical literature on artists' books. Penned by legendary critic and curator Germano Celant to accompany an exhibition at Nigel Greenwood Gallery in London, and newly available for the first time in almost 40 years, this was the first critical consideration of the artist's book--a format that was being increasingly embraced in the 1960s and early '70s as artists turned from unique forms to the media of mass production (books, film, video and audio). Celant's dense text offers an exposition of the conceptual and historical factors that led artists to embrace publishing, and is just as essential now as when it was first written. A comprehensive bibliography lists over 300 historic artist-produced publications from the period, a golden age in the medium. . . . . [see book details]

  By Germano Celant. Pbk, 5.5 x 7 in. / 104 pgs. Publication Date: 1/31/2011 List Price: US $20.00

  Walther König, Köln Paul Chan: The Shadow and Her Wanda This artist’s book for children, commissioned by London’s renowned Serpentine Gallery on the occasion of Chan’s 2007 one-person exhibition there, will be equally delightful to smart, imaginative children and any parent with a even a passing interest in Western philosophy. With words, drawings and cheeky, smart footnotes (citing such diverse sources as Goethe, Nietzsche, Hegel and Google) by Chan, it tells the story of a young girl who is afraid of the night until her shadow shows her how the world can be transformed in the dark. Innovative and engaging--but not at all uptight--this sophisticated children’s book introduces ideas about language, art and contemporary culture with a lighthearted touch that keeps you flipping through the pages again and again. . . . . [see book details]

  Paperback, 8.25 x 8.25 in. / 64 pgs / 25 b&w. Publication Date: 1/15/2008 List Price: US $16.00

  Granary Books Some Forms of Availability: Critical Passages on The Book and Publication Dubbed the "Apollinaire of our times" by fellow poet and publisher Jonathan Williams, Simon Cutts, born in 1944, has tirelessly worked the fertile gaps between genres, issuing poems, prints, sculpture, artist's books and combinations of all of the above through Coracle, the imprint and sometime gallery he runs with book artist Erica Van Horn from their home in Southern Ireland. Through Coracle, Cutts has also championed artists such as Ian Hamilton Finlay, Anish Kapoor, Richard Tuttle and Trevor Winkfield, often long before their works found wider fame. Some Forms of Availability gathers speculative essays, interviews and other statements and texts by Cutts that address the legacy of the small presses and magazines of the 60s, from which milieu Coracle arose, as well as more recent developments in artists' books. Some Forms of Availability is illustrated with thumbnail images and facsimile reproductions of Coracle books and ephemera, and includes a useful chapter . . . . [see book details]

  By Simon Cutts. Contributions by Erica Van Horn. Paperback, 5.5 x 8.5 in. / 176 pgs / 72 color / 24 b&w. Publication Date: 6/1/2007 List Price: US $25.00

  Granary Books The Century Of Artists' Books Now Back in Print! Johanna Drucker's The Century of Artists' Books is the seminal full-length study of the development of artists' books as a twentieth-century art form. By situating artists' books within the context of mainstream developments in the visual arts, Drucker raises critical and theoretical issues as well as providing a historical overview of the medium. Within its pages, she explores more than two hundred individual books in relation to their structure, form, and conceptualization. This latest edition of the book features a new preface by Drucker and includes an introduction by New York Times senior art critic Holland Cotter. Prior praise for Johanna Drucker's The Century of Artists' Books: “[Drucker] locates the artists' book, in all of its multitudinous aspects, within every significant modern movement and draws on an extensive bibliography of scholarly references to reveal the philosophical and artistic connections among the several emerging avant-garde movements of the early twentieth . . . . [see book details]

  By Johanna Drucker. Introduction by Holland Cotter. Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 378 pgs / 200 b&w. Publication Date: 11/2/2004 List Price: US $29.95

  onestar press Fallen Books A Project by Melissa Dubbin and Aaron S. Davidson For book lovers, Fallen Books will have the grim fascination of a car wreck or crime scene. It collects photographs of toppled books and bookcases from libraries in seismically active areas, organized chronologically with the cool appraising eye of a mortician, with captions from newspapers or librarian's notes, and with the pages for each incident color-coded according to the Mercalli Scale. . . . . [see book details]

  Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 224 pgs / 224 color. Publication Date: 12/31/2009 List Price: US $40.00

  Walther König, Köln Olafur Eliasson: Printed Matter Catalogue Raisonné of the Books Take Your Time, Volume 2 With its exposed spine stitching and variety of paper stocks, this survey of Olafur Eliasson's very rarely seen artist's books elevates his work in bookmaking to the status of his better-known projects, such as his New York waterfalls, and is indeed an artist's book in itself. Printed Matter closely examines 25 of Eliasson's books dating back to 1997, and reveals a whole oeuvre of artist's books—57 titles in all—that will come as a revelation to those who may not closely identify the artist with this medium. Eliasson's exhibition catalogues are always designed with pronounced care, and many are already long out of print or hard to find. Here, in spreads and thorough annotations, we encounter his considered musings on book form and design, and the complex process of book collaboration. Printed Matter also supplies a bibliography of all of Eliasson's books to date, alongside an interview with the artist. . . . . [see book details]

  Foreword by Luca Cerizza. Text by Olafur Eliasson. Pbk, 8 x 10 in. / 142 pgs / 100 color. Publication Date: 2/28/2010 List Price: US $49.95

  Walther König, Köln Hans-Peter Feldmann: Voyeur Now reaching its fourth edition, Hans-Peter Feldmann's bestselling Voyeur trawls the image wreckage of our consumer-driven culture, making eccentric or sinister juxtapositions (shots of nude women next to aircraft crashes) and cataloging the blandness of media bombardment to render its toxic assault visible to us, its near-helpless voyeurs. . . . . [see book details]

  Pbk, 4.25 x 6.5 in. / 265 pgs / 800 b&w. Publication Date: 3/31/2010 List Price: US $19.95

  Walther König, Köln Gelitin: Das Kakabet This artist’s book by the Vienese collective Gelitin presents a new font: the kakabet. 240 loose sheets, each imprinted with one character, are arranged in 28 folded portfolios. Together they form a complete alphabet, including uppercase and lowercase letters, accents, numbers and more. . . . . [see book details]

  Hardcover, 9.75 x 12.50 in. / 240 pgs. Publication Date: 3/1/2008 List Price: US $299.00

  Walther König, Köln Gilbert & George: Art Titles 1967-2010 in Alphabetical Order Gilbert & George Art Titles offers a new spin on the catalogue raisonné: acomplete catalogue of the titles of all of the duo's works, from 1970 to the present, collated in the form of a continuous poetical index. Designed by the artists, and typeset in caps, it commences with their first performance at Nigel Greenwood Gallery in 1970, "3 Living Pieces"—flanking the title with the year on the left margin and the acronym "LS" ("living sculpture") on the right—and, gathering steam, opens out into the more poetical titles for which they are known, such as "And the Night Presumes Upon the Evening." The catalogue of works is also printed alphabetically, and each title is identified with an acronym indicating its format, from invitation card to living sculpture. Spanning more than 40 years of exhibitions, pictures, postcards, books and other formats, this volume constitutes an epic of accidental verse. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Inigo Philbrick. Pbk, 6 x 8.5 in. / 180 pgs / illustrated throughout. Publication Date: 6/30/2011 List Price: US $19.95

  JRP|Ringier/Vancouver Special Series Rodney Graham: The Rodney Graham Songbook Rodney Graham is internationally acclaimed for his literary and conceptual artworks, cinematic installations, costume dramas and as a singer-songwriter. Over the years, he has blurred the line between visual art and music with works such as How I Became a Ramblin' Man, Zabriskie Point and The Phonokinetoscope. In This Is the Only Living I've Got, Don't Take It Away From Me he compiles 37 songs from his CDs and records and transcribes them into sheet music with notations for piano, guitar tablature and lyrics. The form is that of a popular songbook, featuring images of the artist, his band and new artwork. The material includes "The Bed Bug," "Love Buzz, And Other Short Songs in the Popular Idiom," "Getting it Together in the Country," "Rock is Hard," and "Never Tell a Pal A Hard Luck Story." With a CD of rare covers and two brand new tracks. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Christoph Keller, Kathy Slade. Hardcover, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 172 pgs / 40 color / 15 b&w / with CD. Publication Date: 3/1/2007 List Price: US $39.00

  Evil Twin Publications Fritz Haeg: The Sundown Salon Unfolding Archive From 2001 to 2006, peripatetic artist Fritz Haeg (of Edible Estates fame) hosted a series of gatherings known as Sundown Salon in his geodesic domed residence in the hills of Los Angeles. Haeg's own activities include radical gardening, housing design, curation, grassroots education and political activism; such pursuits dovetail nicely with his salons, at which participants did everything from knitting to dancing. Over the years dozens of artists and orgnizations participated, including Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Anna Sew Hoy, Feral Childe, Eve Fowler, Katie Grinnan, Janfamily, Pipilotti Rist, robbinschilds and KnitKnit, LTTR, K48 and index magazines. Sundown Salon, a beautifully constructed document of those activities, is just as polymorphous, serving as both a book and an exhibition. Printed on a single accordion-folded page, the text (on one side) can be flipped through and read, or the pictures (on the other) can be unfurled to display a 140-foot artwork. Conceived by Haeg . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Fritz Haeg, Stacy Wakefield. Clth, 8.5 x 8.5 in. / 380 pgs / 800 color / 90 b&w. Limited edition of 500 copie Publication Date: 7/31/2009 List Price: US $150.00

  JRP|Ringier In Numbers Serial Publications by Artists Since 1955 In Numbers is the first volume to address an overlooked art form that is neither artist's book nor ephemera, but is entirely its own unique entity: the artist's serial publication. Across such groundswell moments as the small press boom of the 1960s, the correspondence art movement of the early 1970s and the DIY zine culture of the 1980s and early 1990s, artists have seized on magazine and postcard formats as forms in themselves. These are not publications that print criticism, manifestos or reproductions of artworks; rather, they are themselves artworks, in large part factured by younger artists operating at the peripheries of mainstream art cultures, or by established artists looking for an alternative to the marketplace. Dating from 1955 to the present, In Numbers begins with Wallace Berman's Semina and continues through Joe Brainard's C Comics, Situationist Times, Eleanor Antin's 100 Boots, File, Robert Heinecken's modified periodicals, the Japanese group Provoke's . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Andrew Roth, Philip Aarons. Text by Clive Phillpot, Neville Wakefield, Nancy Princenthal, William S. Wilson. Slip Hbk, 8.75 x 12.25 in. / 504 pgs / 300 color. Publication Date: 3/31/2010 List Price: US $90.00

  Walther König, Köln Christian Jankowski: Strip The Auctioneer at Christie's Designed to mimic a Christie's catalogue, this artist's book documents Christian Jankowski's auction-performance in which the auctioneer sells off the artist's clothes (which he wears during the auction) and even, finally, his hammer. The book alternates the transcription of this comical event with a description of items sold. . . . . [see book details]

  Pbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 96 pgs / 39 color. Publication Date: 3/31/2011 List Price: US $35.00

  Kerber Ilya Kabakov: Catalogue Raisonné Artist Books 1958-2009 The book form has played a consistently pivotal role in the art of Russian conceptualist Ilya Kabakov (born 1933). Initially successful as an illustrator of children's books in the Soviet Union, Kabakov made his transition into art from his book-based activities. The form has remained Kabakov's constant companion, deployed to present new projects, and then to document them once realized. In this spirit, Kerber's massive and luxurious clothbound catalogue raisonné of Kabakov's artist's books—companion to their previous two-volume catalogue raisonné of the paintings—is both an artist's book and an academic resource. Providing full-color spreads from books published between 1958 to the present, it reproduces and annotates Kabakov's earliest austere, lo-fi samizdat publications and the gradual introduction of black-and-white photography into his books, and his later transformations of exhibition catalogues into superb works of book art. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Matthias Haldemann. Slip Clth, 9 x 12 in. / 552 pgs / 725 color. Publication Date: 2/28/2011 List Price: US $175.00

  JRP|Ringier Kiosk: Modes of Multiplication Kiosk, Christoph Keller's famous art publications archive, has been exhibited at 27 institutions and biennials internationally since 2001, including the ICA (London), the Witte de With (Rotterdam), Artists' Space (NY), the Emily Carr Institute (Vancouver), MUDAM (Luxembourg) and biennials such as Manifesta 4, the 25th Graphic Biennial of Ljubljana and the Istanbul Biennial. To date, it contains more than 7,000 publications by approximately 500 independent art publishing projects, from magazines, fanzines, newspapers, journals, audio and video labels to institutional publishing, covering the entire bandwidth of publishing possibilities. On the occasion of the archive's final public presentation at the Kunstbibliothek, Berlin, this overview on independent art publishing activities today surveys the Kiosk project. This catalogue contains documentary illustrations and provides information on the contributing publishing projects. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Christoph Keller. Text by Michael Lailach, Anita Kühnel, Daniel Baumann. Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 344 pgs / 70 color / 115 b&w. Publication Date: 3/31/2010 List Price: US $55.00

  D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. Annotated Catalogue Raisonné Of The Books By Martin Kippenberger 1977-1997 Roberta Smith called him the madcap bad boy of contemporary German art” and also one of the three or four best German artists of the postwar period.” Martin Kippenberger disrupted the status quo throughout his brief, excessive life, not just by making art of every variety and medium but also by conducting an extended performance in the vicinity of art that involved running galleries, organizing exhibitions, collecting the work of his contemporaries and overseeing assistants. He published books and catalogues, played in a rock-and-roll band and cut records, ran a performance-art space during his early years in Berlin, became part owner of a restaurant in Los Angeles during six months he spent there preparing for an exhibition, and collaborated extensively with other artists. This particular volume considers his output of artist's books, as well as his exhibition catalogues and all the publications whose content he either created or edited. More than . . . . [see book details]

  Artwork by Alex Katz, Martin Kippenberger. Edited by Uwe Koch, Roberto Ohrt. Text by Diedrich Diederichsen. Clothbound, 8.25 x 11 in. / 368 pgs / 150 color / 46 b&w. Publication Date: 3/2/2003 List Price: US $55.00

  Glenn Horowitz Bookseller Sean Landers: [sic] Say for instance that I thought my life was worth describing every ugly detail of and that I was deluded enough to think my jerking off in my studio was something higher than what it is... So begins Sean Landers' [sic], an artist's book that reproduces a single extended writing performance piece from the early 1990s, as it was written out by hand. . . . . [see book details]

  Pbk, 5.5 x 7 in. / 454 pgs. Publication Date: 7/31/2010 List Price: US $25.00

  Edizioni Corraini Sol LeWitt: Artist's Books Books are the best medium for many artists working today,” Sol LeWitt (1928–2007) once declared. A pioneer of artist's books, and co-founder of New York's Printed Matter bookstore in 1976, LeWitt is closely identified with the book as an art form. Starting with 1967's Serial Project No. 1 (from Aspen magazine), and closing with Chicago (Morning Star Publications, 2002), this book reproduces covers and spreads from Sol LeWitt's massive oeuvre of artist's books, almost all of which are now rarities. As artist's book historian Clive Phillpot notes, the principle attribute of LeWitt's books is one common to all books: a dependence upon sequence, whether of families of marks or objects, or of single or permuted series which have clear beginnings and endings.” Critical observations from LeWitt himself and a variety of scholars make this volume the most sustained treatment of LeWitt's prolific activity in this area to date. . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Giorgio Maffei, Emanuele De Donno, Didi Bozzini, Cecilia Metelli, Marilena Bonomo. Pbk, 6.25 x 7.5 in. / 144 pgs / 105 color / 150 b&w. Publication Date: 2/28/2010 List Price: US $40.00

  Granary Books/Coracle Paul Etienne Lincoln: The Purification Of Fagus Sylvatica Var Pendula The Purification of Fagus Sylvatica Var Pendula is emblematic of Paul Etienne Lincoln's inquiry into the origin and production of memory--and our ethereal relationship to that intangible evidence of our consciousness. In this pursuit Lincoln has employed diverse forms and themes, ranging from examination of historical figures to detailing anything from New York City infrastructure to household” machines that dispense gin-and-tonics (mixed at varying strengths). Comprised of photographs, diagrams and text, The Purification records the series of experiments and performances which detail the afterlife of a specimen of local vegetation. The book begins: Situated at the perimeter of Weeping Beach Tree Park in Queens, New York, was a small pavilion looking on to a stump of the oldest Weeping Beach in America. In 1847 Samuel Bowne Parsons, a Quaker and a nurseryman, purchased a shoot of Weeping Beach, Fagus sylvatica var pendula, in Belgium while traveling in search of unusual plants. . . . . [see book details]

  Artwork by Paul Etienne Lincoln. Clothbound, 9 x 8.5 in. / 48 pgs / 50 b&w. Publication Date: 11/2/2004 List Price: US $35.00

  Primary Information Lee Lozano: Notebooks 1967-70 Transiting Pop art, Feminist Expressionism, Conceptualism and Minimalism, Lee Lozano (1930–1999) sits alongside Eva Hesse and Hannah Wilke as a radical and influential model for younger generations of female artists. Lozano's notebooks, which she approached as drawings, and which were later dismantled and sold as individual pages, became a part of her artmaking at the height of her fame in the late 1960s. Reproduced here for the first time, as an affordably-priced facsimile reprint, the three notebooks collected here, which were kept between 1967–1970, contain sketches for her Wave paintings, writings about the trajectory of her artistic process and the language pieces that she became famous for prior to her withdrawal from the art world. They thus constitute the fullest and richest document on an artist whose relevance and profile have recently seen a steady ascent. . . . . [see book details]

  Pbk, 8.5 x 10.75 in. / 224 pgs / 108 b&w. Publication Date: 4/30/2010 List Price: US $24.00

  Aperture Christian Marclay: Shuffle Christian Marclay is known for using a range of media--video, sculpture, installation and performance--in his artwork to address the ways that music and sound impact our experience of the world. While he frequently uses photograms and found images in his work, most people don't realize the extent to which photography has become a tool of choice for this subtle but influential artist. For this project, a limited-edition boxed card set, Shuffle, Marclay photographed the appearance of musical notation in his everyday wanderings--finding examples on shop awnings, chocolate tins, T-shirts, underwear and other unexpected places. This body of work reveals Marclay to be an obsessive photographic note-taker with a flair for uncovering musical "clues" hidden in the landscape and adorning our world--musical notes just waiting to be called into action. Each of the 75 images collected here is presented on an oversized playing card, and the entire deck is enclosed in a . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Christian Marclay. Boxed Set of Cards, 7 x 4.75 in. / 75 pgs / 75 color. Publication Date: 6/1/2007 List Price: US $29.95

  Aspen Art Press Kris Martin: Idiot Each new work by Belgian artist Kris Martin puts a fresh spin on the roles of process and duration in art. In this artist's book, Martin has written out the entirety of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Idiot, substituting his own name for that of the book's hero, Myshkin, in an extreme act of adulation and identification with Myshkin's desire for spiritual transformation. . . . . [see book details]

  Flexi, 4.25 x 5.75 in. / 1,496 pgs. Publication Date: 11/30/2009 List Price: US $15.00

  JRP|Ringier/Christoph Keller Editions Helen Mirra: Cloud, the, 3 Helen Mirra, born in 1970 in Rochester, New York, creates work from simple materials--including worn clothing and wood recovered from transportation palettes--at the intersection of influences including Arte Povera and Fluxus. She also writes, and for the past few years her writing has come in the form of indexes. Dislocated from a source text, the entries, lettered on long strips of cloth tape that resemble typewriter ribbons, unspool into the world at large. Like clash, 247, her index to a volume of William James essays, this volume tracks words and ideas through John Dewey's Reconstruction in Philosophy (1920). If the original text, in this case, is largely about the conceptualization of ideas, Mirra's index is a materialization of conceptualization, under the auspices of a spare poetics. Mirra, who had a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2002 and participated in the 2003 Venice Biennale, also teaches at . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Christoph Keller. Text by Lyn Hejinian. Hardcover, 5 x 7.5 in. / 304 pgs. Publication Date: 7/1/2007 List Price: US $45.00

  Charta/Wunternaum Press Yoko Ono: The Other Rooms The Other Rooms is a sequel to Yoko Ono's Grapefruit, a now classic artist's book that was first published in 1964 and became a cult classic following its wider distribution after 1970. Matching the satisfyingly compact size of Grapefruit, and beautifully bound in white cloth, The Other Rooms is conceived as a series of rooms that unfold the story of, in the words of the artist, the life of a woman seeing through the eyes of her son.” On page after page, or room after room, Ono walks the reader through her unique expression of motherly utopian pedagogy, providing observations and instruction pieces” such as the following, for Balance Piece”: a) Politicians should wear pink transparent loose robes or pajama-like outfits without the bottoms at all times. b) A priest should wear a bright red suit with one sleeve and bell-bottom pants with his penis exposed at all times. c) The . . . . [see book details]

  Clth 5.5 x 5.5 in. / 252 pgs. Publication Date: 1/31/2010 List Price: US $39.95

  JRP|Ringier Oliver Payne & Nick Relph Bells and whistles beware, there's a new noisemaker in town: Oliver Payne and Nick Relph's new book--which is jacketed in the durable, stain-resistant patterned fabric of London Underground seat upholstery--rings like a cell phone when it is opened. In this fuzzy tome, published on the occasion of the artists' exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, London, Payne and Relph offer the first print transcripts of their 2004 films Driftwood, Gentlemen and Comma, Pregnant Pause, as well as their notes on 2005's Sonic the Warhol, which they call their most successful work because "The last album is always the best album." Their own writing is intermixed with pieces from a whole crowd of authors addressing topics that have inspired them and their work, including Matthias Connor on Scottish glam-rock; Tim Nash on riding the bus in London; and Ian Svenonius on the political history of drinking. An unconventional interview conducted by coordinating questions . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Rochelle Steiner. Essays by Matthias Connor, Matthew Higgs, Sarah McCrory, Tim Nash, Scott Portnoy and Ian Svenonius. Other, 6 x 8.5 in. / 196 pgs / 120 color. Publication Date: 8/15/2006 List Price: US $38.00

  Blind Pony Books To Die No More Alcoholism, decay, demons, disappearance, disease, crows, ghosts, loss, maggots, nothingness, orphans, silence, the void and worms are some of the topics offered in this singular artist's book. Designed to pay homage to the fairytale forest of death with parables and fragments from sources both known and long-forgotten, this riveting compendium of dark quotations, illustrated by Herbert Pfostl and James Walsh, borrows from such illustrious figures as Samuel Beckett, Herman Melville, Mozart, James Joyce, Ludwig Wittgenstein, William Shakespeare, Adolf Loos, Jorge Luis Borges, Emily Dickinson, Gustav Mahler, Friedrich Nietzsche, William Butler Yeats, Goethe, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Homer, Francis Bacon, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Joseph Conrad, W.G. Sebald, August Strindberg, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rainer Maria Rilke, William Blake, Rudyard Kipling and Walter Benjamin. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Kristofor Minta, Herbert Pfostl. Paperback, 5.5 x 6.5 in. / 217 pgs / 25 color / 1 b&w. Publication Date: 3/1/2008 List Price: US $30.00

  Walther König, Köln Gerhard Richter: Sindbad Since publishing War Cut in 2004, Gerhard Richter has made an increasing number of artist's books, produced autonomously from his ostensibly more conventional exhibition catalogues. Sindbad is the title of a series of 98 lacquer pictures made in 2008, painted on the back of 12 x 10-inch panes of glass. For their first public exhibition, Richter paired them as 49 diptychs, which resembled 49 book-page spreads, pointing towards the possible ideal incarnation of these works as a large-format artist's book. Using silkscreen printing, this volume reproduces all 98 of the pictures at their original dimensions. Seven texts, on the theme of Sindbad the Sailor (in German only), are interleaved with these magnificent images, and a bellyband around the book offers a concise introduction to the work. Please note that only limited copies of this title are available. . . . . [see book details]

  Hbk, 10.25 x 12.5 in. / 116 pgs / illustrated / limited edition of 800 copies. Publication Date: 3/31/2011 List Price: US $200.00

  Edizioni Periferia Dieter Roth: Advertisements 1971-1972 During the 1970s, Dieter Roth published a series of ads twice-weekly in a Swiss newspaper called the Luzerner Stadtanzeiger-ads which consisted of such aphorisms as "A good beginning is an evil end," "A tear is as evil as a good word" and "Two tears are better than five stones." This is the first complete publication of Roth's ads, previously only published as artist's books. . . . . [see book details]

  Text by Dieter Roth, Barbara Wien. Pbk, 4.5 x 8 in. / 280 pgs / illustrated throughout. Publication Date: 3/31/2010 List Price: US $19.00

  JRP|Ringier Allen Ruppersberg: You and Me or the Art of Give and Take Allen Ruppersberg (born 1944) came of age as an artist in late-1960s Los Angeles, where he was part of the burgeoning L.A. Conceptual movement—that unique band of artists that included Bas Jan Ader, Ger van Elk, William Leavitt, Allan McColllum and William Wegman. Like these artists and other L.A. Conceptual pioneers such as Ed Ruscha and John Baldessari, Ruppersberg used photographs (both made and found) in combination with text and narrative strategies to mingle, blend and upend both fiction and fact—most famously in Where's Al?” (1972) and Between the Scenes” (1973). In this wonderfully designed spiral-bound artist's book, Ruppersberg repurposes a 1956 Guest Informant” book from the Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco as a backdrop for a selection of photographs and postcards from 1985–1989, culled from his own collection, and alluding to earlier works such as Al's Grand Hotel.” You and Me also includes new essays on Ruppersberg by such . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Constance Lewallen. Text by Margaret Sundell, Greil Marcus, Tim Griffin, John Slyce. Spiralbound, 8.75 x 11.25 in. / 192 pgs / 105 color / 60 b&w. Publication Date: 1/31/2010 List Price: US $59.00

  preromanbritain & monitor gallery Alexandre Singh: The Marque of the Third Stripe New York-based artist Alexandre Singh's Faustian novella reimagines the life of Adi Dassler, founder of Adidas, in a world of reversed time and geography in which America is the Old World, and Europe a new frontier populated by geometry-worshipping primitives. This limited and signed edition includes Singh's 1080-page Dictionary of a Synæsthetic Language,” nine Wikipedia-style essays, the original story and 18 hand-tipped color photographs. . . . . [see book details]

  Edited by Ella Christopherson. Clth, 5.25 x 7.75 in. / 1208 pgs / 18 color / 2008 b&w. Publication Date: 2/28/2010 List Price: US $57.00

  Granary Books Erica Van Horn: The Book Remembers Everything Erica Van Horn's books offer miniaturist celebrations of small rituals and everyday civic and household matter, from shop signs, cook books and French lessons to napkins and envelope interiors. I use the portability of the printed sheet, mostly in book form,” Van Horn writes, to construct a narrative around the incidental parts of my life.” The artist weaves together her methods and preoccupations into a common fabric of artistic practice and subject. Her interest in exploring the daily aspects of her life though her art, for instance, is informed and/or determined by her frequent use and reuse of ordinary materials as the raw materials of her work. Many of her books have been collaborations with poets, artists and bookmakers such as Laurie Clark, Simon Cutts and Harry Gilonis. Van Horn’s work insists that the book is to be valued as a record—of an event, a landscape, a creative vision, an obsession, . . . . [see book details]

  Edited and with text by Nancy Kuhl. Hbk, 7 x 5.25 in. / 122 pgs / 112 color / 10 b&w. Publication Date: 1/31/2011 List Price: US $20.00

  Onestar Press Lawrence Weiner: Deep Blue Sky/Light Blue Sky Lawrence Weiner’s trademark graphic text and sign pieces are here juxtaposed with a few erotic and/or marine-ish photographs. First published in 2003, this artist’s book is now available again in an edition of 600 numbered copies. The first edition was printed all in black. The new one is all in blue. . . . . [see book details]

  Paperback, 5.5 x 9 in. / 160 pgs / 1 color. Publication Date: 3/1/2008 List Price: US $45.00