| | | | Fall 2013 Featured Literature, Criticism & Writings Andrew Wyeth: A Spoken Self-Portrait Richard Meryman began an enduring friendship with Andrew Wyeth (1917–2009) while on the job as a Life magazine editor in 1964. For Meryman, this unique friendship yielded more than four decades of recorded conversations with >>more
National Gallery of Art, Washington/D.A.P.
ISBN 9781938922183
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Hbk, 7.5 x 9.75 in. / 128 pgs / 75 color.
Pub Date: 10/31/2013 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
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|  Duchamp: A Biography By Calvin Tomkins. First published to great acclaim in 1996, New Yorker writer and art critic Calvin Tomkins’ biography of the influential artist Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) has been out of print for many years. Now, The Museum of >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870708923
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.75 in. / 560 pgs / 119 b&w.
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|  Living Well Is the Best Revenge By Calvin Tomkins. First published in 1971 and now available for a younger generation with a new introduction by the author, Living Well Is the Best Revenge is Calvin Tomkins' now-classic account of the lives of Gerald and >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870708978
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.75 in. / 156 pgs / 83 b&w.
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|  Understanding a Photograph By John Berger. Edited and with introduction by Geoff Dyer. John Berger’s explorations of the relationships between the individual and society, culture and politics, and experience and expression through the written word, films, photographic collaborations and performances are unmatched in their diversity, ambiti >>more
Aperture
ISBN 9781597112567
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Clth, 6 x 8.5 in. / 256 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 11/30/2013 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
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|  The Situationist Times Edited by Johan Kugelberg, Jacqueline de Jong. Jacqueline de Jong published the first issue of The Situationist Times in August 1962, a few months after leaving the Situationist International. That year saw the escalation of the longstanding friction between the artistic and >>more
Boo-Hooray
ISBN 9781938265099
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Slip, Pbk, 7 vols 8.75 x 11.75 / 734 pgs / 206 color / 506 b&w / Ed of 1,000
Pub Date: 06/30/2013 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
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|  The Conductor and Other Tales By Jean Ferry. Illustrations by Claude Ballaré. Translation by Edward Gauvin. First published in French in 1950 in a limited edition of 100 copies, then republished in 1953 (and enthusiastically praised by André Breton), The Conductor and Other Tales is Jean Ferry’s only published book of >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663016
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 152 pgs / 20 b&w.
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|  A Handbook for the Perfect Adventurer By Pierre Mac Orlan. Translation by Napoleon Jeffries. Pierre Mac Orlan’s 1920 Handbook for the Perfect Adventurer was at once a paean to the adventure story, a tongue-in-cheek guidebook to the genre’s real-life practitioners and a grim if unspoken coda to the disasters >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663009
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 104 pgs / 1 b&w.
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|  Georges Perec and the Oulipo: Winter Journeys By Georges Perec, Michèle Audin, Marcel Bénabou, Jacques Bens, Paul Braffort, François Caradec, Frédéric Forte, Paul Fournel, Michelle Grangaud, Jacques Jouet, Etienne Lécroart, Daniel Levin Becker, Harry Mathews, Ian Monk, Hervé Le Tellier, Jacques Roubaud. Introduction by Alastair Brotchie. Translation by John Sturrock, Harry Mathews, Ian Monk. In 1979, Georges Perec (1936–1982) wrote a brief entertainment called “The Winter Journey” for a publisher’s catalogue. It quickly became his most frequently reprinted short story. Set on the eve of World War II, it >>more
Atlas Press
ISBN 9781900565646
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Hbk, 6.75 x 7.5 in. / 344 pgs / 18 b&w.
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|  The Tutu By Léon Genonceaux. Introduction and translation by Iain White. The nineteenth-century French writer and publisher Léon Genonceaux (1856—?) is as much of an enigma as those two legendary enfants terribles whom he was the first to publish: Arthur Rimbaud and the Comte de Lautréamont. >>more
Atlas Press
ISBN 9781900565639
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Hbk, 6.75 x 7.5 in. / 176 pgs / illustrated throughout.
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|  Madame Bovary By Gustave Flaubert. Illustrated by Marc-Camille Chaimowicz. Translation by Eleanor Marx-Aveling. For this eighth installment in Four Corners’ Familiars series, Marc Camille Chaimowicz has chosen Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary. Flaubert’s bestselling masterpiece was first translated into English by Eleanor Marx-Aveling (the youngest d >>more
Four Corners Books
ISBN 9780956192899
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Pbk, 8.25 x 10.5 in. / 536 pgs / 240 color / 12 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/31/2013 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
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|  The Prisoner Of Zenda By Anthony Hope. Illustrated by Mireille Fauchon. The seventh in Four Corners’ Familiars series takes us to Ruritania, a land reminiscent of many Central European countries. A new king is about to be crowned, but his brother drugs him and attempts to >>more
Four Corners Books
ISBN 9780956192851
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Hbk, 3.75 x 6 in. / 272 pgs / 5 color / 27 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/31/2013 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
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|  Incredible Tretchikoff By Boris Gorelik. Vladimir Tretchikoff (1913–2006) lived a life as colorful as his instantly recognizable paintings. Born to a deeply religious Siberian family, he fought poverty, tragedy, captivity and near death to become one of the most celebrated >>more
Art / Books
ISBN 9781908970084
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8.5 in. / 304 pgs / 53 color / 30 b&w.
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|  American Canyon By Amarnath Ravva. Blending myth with interviews and first-person narrative, California-based writer Amarnath Ravva’s American Canyon uses prose, documentary footage and still photos to recount the fragmented and ever-evolving story of one person’s apprehension of t >>more
Kaya Press
ISBN 9781885030160
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Pbk, 6 x 7.25 in. / 180 pgs / 120 color.
Pub Date: 09/30/2013 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
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|  Kippenberger By Susanne Kippenberger. Translation by Damion Searls. Over the course of his 20-year career, Martin Kippenberger (1953–1997) cast himself alternately as hard-drinking carouser and confrontational art-world jester, thrusting these personae to the forefront of his prodigious creativity. He was also very much >>more
J&L Books
ISBN 9780982964286
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 592 pgs / 25 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/31/2013 Active/In stock
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|  Women's Work. Is Never Done By Catherine de Zegher. Introduction by Griselda Pollock, Jean Fisher. As perhaps the preeminent international feminist director and curator of her generation, Catherine de Zegher has made some of the most significant exhibitions of women artists of the past 25 years, most famously the groundbreaking >>more
AsaMER
ISBN 9789490693473
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Pbk, 8 x 10 in. / 240 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 10/30/2013 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
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|  Nuggets By Dan Graham. Edited by Kathy Slade. Dan Graham (born 1942) began his career directing the John Daniels Gallery in New York City in 1964, where he mounted Sol LeWitt’s first one-man show. His acclaimed group shows included works by artists such >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783037641989
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 240 pgs / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/30/2013 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
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|  Parachute: The Anthology, Volume II Edited by Chantal Pontbriand. Text by Nora M. Alter, Jim Drobnick, Stephen Horne, Ruth Kerkham, Johanne Lamoureux, Marc James Léger, Kate Linker, Birgit Pelzer, Bruce Hugh Russell, William Wood, Alexander Alberro. In 1975, a small group of enterprising, discontented members of the international art community in Quebec posed the question: “What do we know of contemporary art outside of Quebec, in Canada or abroad? Do we >>more
JRP|Ringier
ISBN 9783037642832
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Pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 180 pgs / 16 b&w.
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|  Play & Prosume Edited by Brigitte Felderer, Margarete Jahrmann. Text by Gerald Bast, Martha Blassnigg, Rudmer Canjels, Brigitte Felderer, Bert Hogenkamp, Margarete Jahrmann, Fares Kayali, Johann Lurf, Thomas Macho, Robert Pfaller, Bernhard Seiter, Gejus van Diggele, Martyn Woodward et al. Play & Prosume is a research project conducted by the Universities of Plymouth, Amsterdam, Applied Arts Vienna, the EYE Film Institute Amsterdam and the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. Through various texts, this book >>more
Moderne Kunst Nürnberg
ISBN 9783869844114
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 120 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 09/30/2013 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
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|  Smoky Pokership Edited by Sibylle Omlin. Over the past ten years or so, performance art has seen a shift in emphasis, away from the performer’s body to the relational space and context of the performance. In tandem with this shift, the >>more
Moderne Kunst Nürnberg
ISBN 9783869844138
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 245 pgs / 50 color.
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|  The School of Public Life By Fred Dewey. Drawing on two decades of interventions in politics and culture, Fred Dewey’s The School of Public Life records the author’s efforts to revive and rethink public space from Los Angeles to Berlin and beyond. Drawing >>more
Errant Bodies/Doormats
ISBN 9780988937512
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 174 pgs.
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|  By Reason or By Force By Valentina Montero. Chilean journalist and independent curator Valentina Montero (born 1973) left her native country five years ago, relocating to Europe just in time for the continent’s financial crisis. “I felt myself not only as someone coming >>more
Errant Bodies/Doormats
ISBN 9780988937505
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 96 pgs.
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|  Recent Writings by Walter Benjamin Conceived by an anonymous conceptual artist as a collection of recent texts by Walter Benjamin written between 1986 and the present, this book includes interviews by Beti Zerovc, Maxine Kopsa and Milo Rau as well >>more
New Documents
ISBN 9781927354117
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Hbk, 4.25 x 7 in. / 160 pgs.
Pub Date: 10/31/2013 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
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|  Gerald A. Matt: Artists Talks Edited by Gerald A. Matt, Synne Genzmer. During his long and illustrious career as a curator and former director of Kunsthalle Wien, Gerald A. Matt has conducted many insightful interviews with the leading contemporary artists of our time. This latest volume of >>more
Moderne Kunst Nürnberg
ISBN 9783869844299
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 360 pgs / 50 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2013 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
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|  Institutional Attitudes Edited by Pascal Gielen. Text by Kenny Cupers, Bart De Baere, Ann Demeester, Jimmie Durham, Alex Farquharson, Mark Fisher, Pascal Gielen, Marc Jacobs, Sonja Lavaert, Thijs Lijster, Isabell Lorey, Markus Miessen, Chantal Mouffe, Gerald Raunig, Patricia Reed, Nicolaus Schafhausen, Blake Stimson. Today’s networked society offers us many possibilities for transmitting information, for interactive communication, mobility and flexibility. It also has a latent side effect: it renders the world ‘flat.’ Time-honored hierarchies, traditions, elites and >>more
Valiz/Antennae Series
ISBN 9789078088684
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Pbk, 5.25 x 8.25 in. / 272 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 07/31/2013 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
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|  Self-Organised Edited by Stine Herbert, Anne, Szefer Karlsen. Text by Julie Ault, Maibritt Borgen, Céline Condorelli & Johan Frederik Hartle, Anthony Davies, Stephan Dillemuth & Jakob Jakobsen, Charles Esche, Barnaby Drabble, et al. The current economic situation and society’s low confidence in its institutions demands that artists become more imaginative in their self-organization. If labels such as ‘alternative,’ ‘non-profit’ and ‘artist-run’ dominated the self-organized art scene >>more
Open Editions/Hordaland Art Centre
ISBN 9780949004178
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Flexi, 6.25 x 8.5 in. / 168 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 09/30/2013 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
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|  The State of Things Edited by Marta Kuzma, Pablo Lafuente, Peter Osborne. Introduction by Angela Vettese. Text by Jacques Ranciere, Leo Bersani, Vandana Shiva, Jan Egeland, Fawaz A. Gerges, Eyal Weizman, Judith Butler, Franco Berardi, Saskia Sassen, T.J. Clark. The State of Things, part of Norway’s official representation in the 2011 Venice Biennale, addresses today’s broad political and cultural climate through a series of lectures by some of today’s foremost art historians, philosophers, sociologists, >>more
Office for Contemporary Art Norway OCA
ISBN 9788292495186
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Pbk, 4 x 7 in. / 272 pgs / 6 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/31/2013 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
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|  Making Art Global 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
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783863352585
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Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 304 pgs / 107 color / 28 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/31/2013 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
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|  The Crisis of Values By Giulio Carlo Argan. Edited by Cesare Birignani. The art and architectural historian Giulio Carlo Argan (1909–1992) played a major role in Italy’s cultural life for six decades--in his scholarly work and cultural criticism, his direction of academic and state institutions and his >>more
GSAPP Books
ISBN 9781883584764
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Pbk, 4 x 7 in. / 325 pgs / illustrated throughout.
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|  Re/New Marxist Art History Edited by Warren Carter, Barnaby Haran, Frederic J. Schwartz. From the early decades of the twentieth century until the 1980s, Marxist art history was at the forefront of radical approaches to the discipline. But in the last two decades of the century and into >>more
Art / Books
ISBN 9781908970114
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Hbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 480 pgs / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/31/2013 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
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