Christian Marclay

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CHRISTIAN MARCLAY: THINGS I'VE HEARD
FRAENKEL GALLERY/PAULA COOPER GALLERY
ISBN: 9781881337355 | US $45.00
Pub Date: 6/30/2013
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CHRISTIAN MARCLAY: CYANOTYPES
Edited by David Louis Norr. Text by Noam Elcott, Margaret A. Miller.
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783037642191 | US $55.00
Pub Date: 2/29/2012
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CHRISTIAN MARCLAY: FOURTH OF JULY
Text by Jean-Pierre Criqui.
PJC, NEW YORK
ISBN: 9780975392133 | US $35.00
Pub Date: 11/30/2010
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ENSEMBLE
Edited by Christian Marclay. Introduction by Claudia Gould. Sound mix by Aaron Igler.
INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, PHILADELPHIA
ISBN: 9780884541127 | US $20.00
Pub Date: 4/1/2008
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CHRISTIAN MARCLAY: REPLAY
JRP|RINGIER
ISBN: 9783905770575 | US $39.95
Pub Date: 9/1/2007
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CHRISTIAN MARCLAY: THE BELL AND THE GLASS
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART/RELÇCHE, INC.
ISBN: 9780876331736 | US $29.95
Pub Date: 3/2/2004
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Christian Marclay

Christian Marclay: Things I've Heard

Published by Fraenkel Gallery/Paula Cooper Gallery

Internationally acclaimed visual artist, filmmaker, experimental musician and composer Christian Marclay (born 1955) has exhibited his work for more than three decades in museums around the world. Photography has been an integral element of Marclay’s practice since his earliest years as an artist. With an eye keenly attuned to sound-related visual subject matter, Marclay has a unique relationship to photography: his photographs function both as source material for his works in other media as well as sophisticated, subtle works of art on their own terms. His travels have provided the artist with a rich array of sound-related subject matter: a bin of second-hand record albums in Michigan; a marching band outside a window in London; a painted ear on a brick wall in Montreal; a “Honk If You Love Silence” bumper sticker in Chicago, for example. Things I’ve Heard gathers together 60 of these images, edited and sequenced with a brief interview with the artist.

Christian Marclay: Cyanotypes

Edited by David Louis Norr. Text by Noam Elcott, Margaret A. Miller.
Published by JRP|Ringier

Cyanotypes documents six series of cyanotypes by artist, performer and composer Christian Marclay. In the course of his career Marclay has often repurposed older or defunct audio technologies as works of collage, sculpture, installation, photography, video and performance. Here he reclaims and combines two near-obsolete technologies at once--the audio cassette and the cyanotype. Invented in the 1840s, and commonly known as a “blueprint” because of its distinctive Prussian blue color, the cyanotype is created by a cameraless photographic process in which objects are placed directly onto a photosensitive surface, producing a silhouetted image similar to a photogram. Marclay’s cyanotypes, made in collaboration with Graphicstudio, record the abstract tangles made by cassette tapes unspooled onto the print surface, resulting in images and tones that equally evoke the paintings of Jackson Pollock and the monochromes of Yves Klein.

Christian Marclay: Fourth of July

Text by Jean-Pierre Criqui.
Published by PJC, New York

On 4 July 2005, Christian Marclay photographed a marching band at an Independence Day parade in Hyde Park, New York. He then produced eight photographs as large prints, and proceeded to tear them up into more than 40 pieces. The result is this artist's book, which composes Marclay's chaotic photo-fragments into a visual and narrative equivalent of a sound-art work.

Ensemble

Edited by Christian Marclay. Introduction by Claudia Gould. Sound mix by Aaron Igler.
Published by Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

New York-based Christian Marclay has been a pioneering DJ since the 1970s, when he began to rock turntables and even old gramophones--bending, breaking and mixing records in the creation of a brand new instrument. Since then, in addition to DJing, he has exhibited his sound-based artwork internationally. Ensemble is a group exhibition of sound art at the ICA, which Marclay organized. Likening his approach to that of a composer rather than a curator, Marclay chose sculpture and installations based on their sound quality and sonic compatibility. An ambient sound environment resulted, with iconic works by such artists as Harry Bertoia, Yoko Ono and Michelangelo Pistoletto, mixed in with newer pieces. This publication includes a CD featuring a once-in-a-lifetime gathering of artist/musicians, including Shelly Hirsch, Alison Knowles, Alan Licht, Marina Rosenfeld and Mika Tajima “playing” the show.

Christian Marclay: Replay

Edited by Jean-Pierre Criqui. Text by Philippe-Alain Michaud, Rosalind E. Krauss, Peter Szendy, Emma Lavigne.
Published by JRP|Ringier

Christian Marclay was born in 1955 in California, but he grew up in Geneva and didn't live in the U.S. again until he returned in 1977 to study art. By 1979, music was Marclay's material of choice. He has since turned a fascination with all aspects of popular recorded sound and cinema into a brilliant career as an artist. As a collector of audio and film, he harnesses his eclectic interests and expansive archive to a practice spanning aural and visual collage and performance, in a layering and sampling aesthetic that has come to be called, after the DJ's tool, turntablism. He has collaborated with musicians including John Zorn, the Kronos quartet, DJ Spooky and Sonic Youth, and appeared or shown his work at venues including The Museum of Modern Art and P.S. 1 in New York. Replay, the first book to focus on his moving image work, gathers his most important films and projections to date. If Marclay's craft of reconstruction is itself musical (the pauses and absences being as much part of the work as the shots and beats), his recompositions also follow a rich heritage of montage within cinema and experimental film.

Christian Marclay: The Bell And The Glass

Edited by Susan Rosenberg. Conversation with Christian Marclay, Thomas Y. Levin, Ann Temkin and Thaddeus A. Squire.
Published by Philadelphia Museum of Art/RelÇche, Inc.

Two of Philadelphia's most famous cracked icons, The Liberty Bell and Marcel Duchamp's “The Large Glass,” are perhaps rarely thought of as having anything at all to do with one another, save for the fact that they are both cracked and both situated in Philadelphia. Nevertheless, here they are, joined together in an innovative book by renowned installation artist and composer Christian Marclay. This curious volume, unusually (and thus appropriately) bound with an exposed binding, features several musical scores by Marclay, Duchamp, John Philip Sousa and others, as well as multiple pairings of images of the Bell and the Glass. Full of surprising and often humorous affinities between these wildly unrelated subjects, The Bell and the Glass is published on the occasion of the installation and performances by Marclay and the Relâche Ensemble at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in late spring 2003.