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Adam Pendleton: Pasts, Futures, and Aftermaths Introduction by Adam Pendleton. Interviews with Thomas Hirschhorn, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Joan Jonas, Lorraine O’Grady, and Joan Retallack.

In 2011, artist Adam Pendleton (born 1984) assembled Black Dada Reader, a compendium of texts, documents and positions that elucidated a practice and ethos of "Black Dada." Resembling a school course reader, the book was >>more
DABA/Koenig Books
ISBN 9781734681710
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Clth, 7.75 x 10.25 in. / 448 pgs / 200 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/28/2021 In stock

Black Phoenix: Third World Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture Edited by Rasheed Araeen, Mahmood Jamal.

Published in three issues between 1978 and 1979, Black Phoenix: Journal of Contemporary Art & Culture in the Third World (the subtitle was changed to Third World Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture for its >>more
Primary Information
ISBN 9781736534670
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Pbk, 8.25 x 11.75 in. / 104 pgs / 59 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/10/2022 In stock

Camino Road By Renée Green.

Originally published in 1994, Camino Road is the debut novel of acclaimed New York–based artist and writer Renée Green (born 1959). Set between the late 1970s and early 1980s, and combining the genres of road >>more
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ISBN 9781734489781
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Pbk, 4 x 7 in. / 120 pgs / 12 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/13/2021 In stock

Constance DeJong: Reader Edited by Rachel Valinsky.

A leading figure of the 1970s and ‘80s downtown New York performance scene, Constance DeJong has channeled time and language as her mediums for the last four decades. The artist’s experimental prose, multimedia spoken text >>more
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ISBN 9781736534694
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 216 pgs.
Pub Date: 08/09/2022 In stock

Dan Graham: Theatre

Originally published in 1978 and produced here in facsimile form, Theatre is an artist’s book documenting seven early performance works by Dan Graham (born 1942) taking place from 1969 to 1977, with notes, transcripts and >>more
Primary Information
ISBN 9781736534632
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Pbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 52 pgs / 16 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/22/2021 In stock

Eecchhooeess By N.H. Pritchard.

American poet Norman H. Pritchard’s second and final book, EECCHHOOEESS was originally published in 1971 by New York University Press. Pritchard’s writing is visually and typographically unconventional. His methodical arrangements of letters and words >>more
DABA
ISBN 9781734681703
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Clth, 5.5 x 8 in. / 64 pgs.
Pub Date: 02/23/2021 In stock

Eva Hesse: Diaries Edited by Barry Rosen with Tamara Bloomberg.

“Giving life to a once white piece of linen stretched on 4 pieces of wood, to create a rich visual experience is indeed an intriguing complete experience,” wrote Eva Hesse in a 1957 diary entry >>more
Hauser & Wirth Publishers
ISBN 9783906915586
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Flexi, 5.5 x 8 in. / 904 pgs / 1 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/12/2020 In stock

Excerpts from the 1971 Journal of Rosemary Mayer Edited with introduction by Marie Warsh. Foreword by Maika Pollack.

Rosemary Mayer (1943–2014) produced a vast body of work that includes sculptures, outdoor installations, drawings, illustrations, artist’s books, lyrical essays and art criticism. In 1971 she began to focus on the use of fabric as >>more
Soberscove Press
ISBN 9781940190259
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Pbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 164 pgs / 22 color.
Pub Date: 05/12/2020 In stock

Let's Have a Talk: Conversations with Women on Art and Culture Interviews by Lauren O'Neill-Butler.

This massive volume comprises over 80 interviews published across a 13-year span of Lauren O’Neill-Butler’s career as a writer, educator, editor and cofounder of November magazine. The majority of the interviews first appeared on Artforum.com’s >>more
Karma Books, New York
ISBN 9781949172539
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9 in. / 456 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/15/2022 In stock

Michael Asher: Writings 1973–1983 on Works 1969–1979 Edited with text by Benjamin Buchloh.

Originally published in 1983, Writings 1973-1983 on Works 1969-1979, by Los Angeles artist Michael Asher (1943-2012) presents select documentation of 33 works through writings, photographs, architectural floor plans, exhibition announcements and other ephemera.

For most of >>more
Primary Information
ISBN 9781732098640
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Pbk, 8.5 x 12 in. / 230 pgs / 3 color / 297 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/16/2021 In stock

Painting is a Supreme Fiction: Writings by Jesse Murry, 1980–1993 Edited with introduction by Jarrett Earnest. Foreword by Hilton Als.

This unprecedented collection compiles the writings of artist and poet Jesse Murry (1948–93), an extraordinary thinker who believed in the capacity of painting to hold the complexity of human meaning. Painting Is a Supreme Fiction >>more
Soberscove Press
ISBN 9781940190303
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Pbk, 6.5 x 8 in. / 312 pgs / 15 color / 11 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/28/2021 In stock

The Letters of Rosemary & Bernadette Mayer, 1976–1980 Edited by Gillian Sneed, Marie Warsh. Preface by Eva Birkenstock, Robert Leckie, Laura McLean-Ferris, Stephanie Weber. Text by Bernadette Mayer, Rosemary Mayer, Gillian Sneed.

This collection of the correspondence between artist Rosemary Mayer (1943–2014) and poet Bernadette Mayer (born 1945) occurs between the years of 1976 and 1980, a period of rich creativity in New York's artistic avant-garde, and >>more
LENBACHHAUS/LUDWIG FORUM/SPIKE ISLAND/SWISS INSTITUTE
ISBN 9780999505960
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 373 pgs / 35 color / 21 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/09/2022 Out of stock

The New York Tapes: Alan Solomon’s Interviews for Television, 1965–66 Edited with text by Matthew Simms. Interviews by Alan Solomon.

This substantial volume publishes for the first time a series of interviews conducted with seminal East Coast artists and their associates, including Kenneth Noland, Jim Dine, Roy Lichtenstein, Marcella Brenner, Helen Jacobson, Clement Greenberg, Helen >>more
Circle Books/Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 9780578635286
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Pbk, 5 x 7.5 in. / 672 pgs / 399 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/31/2023 In stock

The Saddest Thing Is That I Have Had to Use Words: A Madeline Gins Reader Edited with introduction by Lucy Ives.

Poet, philosopher, speculative architect and transdisciplinary artist, Madeline Gins is well known for her collaborations with her husband, the artist Arakawa, on the experimental architectural project Reversible Destiny, in which they sought to arrest mortality >>more
Siglio
ISBN 9781938221248
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Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 328 pgs / 184 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/21/2020 In stock

Upgrade Available By Julia Christensen. Edited by Karen Kelly, Barbara Schroeder. Conversations with Ravi Agarwal, Cory Arcangel, Lori Emerson, Jessica Gambling, Rick Prelinger, Bobbye Tigerman, Laura Welcher.

This volume documents an ongoing investigation by artist Julia Christensen (born 1976) into how our relentless "upgrade culture"—the perceived notion that we need to constantly upgrade our electronics to remain relevant—fundamentally impacts our experience of >>more
Dancing Foxes Press
ISBN 9781733688925
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Pbk, 7.75 x 9.5 in. / 144 pgs / 56 color.
Pub Date: 06/23/2020 In stock

Why I Make Art: Contemporary Artists' Stories About Life & Work Introduction and interviews by Brian Alfred. Foreword by Hrishikesh Hirway.

This compelling volume explores the practices and life stories of artists across multiple mediums, including painting, photography, sculpture and land art. Offering readers an intimate, contemplative view of each remarkable creator, Why I Make Art >>more
Atelier Éditions
ISBN 9781733622097
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8 in. / 336 pgs / 120 color.
Pub Date: 07/05/2022 In stock

William N. Copley: Selected Writings Edited by Anthony Atlas.

For readers interested in the extraordinary life, work, and artistic milieu of the great American surrealist and proto-pop painter William Nelson Copley (1919-96), this volume will come as a thrilling revelation and a long-awaited peek >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783960987765
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Pbk, 5.75 x 8.75 in. / 270 pgs / 6 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/18/2020 In stock

Wolfgang Tillmans: A Reader Edited by Roxana Marcoci and Phil Taylor.

This volume offers a panoramic collection of interviews and writings from an artist for whom language has always been a significant means of creative expression. Arranged chronologically, the assembled texts reflect Tillmans’ thinking on photography, >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633451124
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.75 in. / 352 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 02/08/2022 In stock