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Linder Sterling

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Linder: Danger Came Smiling

HAYWARD GALLERY PUBLISHING
Foreword by Ralph Rugoff. Introduction by Rachel Thomas. Essays by Chris Kraus, Marina Warner. Interview by Gilly Fox. Chronology by Katie Guggenheim.

Five decades of work from the subversive feminist artist known for her photomontages exploring the body and representations of femininity

Hbk, 7.75 x 10.5 in. / 208 pgs / 150 color / 25 bw. | 7/29/2025 | Awaiting stock
$50.00


   

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Linder

RIDINGHOUSE
Text by Dawn Ades.

Clth, 8.88 x 11.25 in. / 270 pgs / 255 color. | 7/1/2015 | In stock
$60.00


        

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Linder Sterling: Linderism

WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
Text by James Boaden, Alyce Mahon, Amy Tobin, Sarah Victoria Turner.

A career retrospective on a punk collagist who has defied the confines of career

Pbk, 8 x 11.25 in. / 128 pgs / 50 color / 50 bw. | 8/18/2020 | Not available
$35.00


Linder: Woman / Object

WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
Edited and with foreword by Fabrice Hergott, Veit Görner. Text by Heinrich Dietz, Fabienne Dumont, Emmanuelle de l’Écotais, Veit Görner, Fabrice Hergott, Linder, Morrissey.

Pbk, 8 x 11 in. / 144 pgs / 98 color / 23 bw. | 10/31/2013 | Not available
$35.00


Linder Sterling: What Linder Saw

WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN

Postcards, 4.25 x 5.75 in. / 12 pgs / 12 color. | 9/1/2008 | Not available
$32.00


Linder: Works 1976-2006

JRP|RINGIER
Essays by Philip Hoare, Morrissey, Jon Savage, Andrew Renton and Lynne Tillman.

Hardcover, 11 x 10.75 in. / 144 pgs / 60 color and 60 bw. | 8/15/2006 | Not available
$70.00


Linder: Danger Came SmilingLinder: Danger Came Smiling

Published by Hayward Gallery Publishing.
Foreword by Ralph Rugoff. Introduction by Rachel Thomas. Essays by Chris Kraus, Marina Warner. Interview by Gilly Fox. Chronology by Katie Guggenheim.

British artist Linder Sterling (born 1954) first emerged in the late 1970s as a prominent figure within the dynamic landscapes of punk and post-punk music, and later went on to become an internationally recognized artist renowned for her multifaceted practice. Throughout her career, Linder has used photomontage as a potent instrument for dissecting and reshaping the portrayal and commercialization of gender norms and sexual identity. Drawing from source materials extracted from magazines of the late 20th century, she exposes the weighty stereotypes imposed on both ends of the gender spectrum: automobiles, DIY culture and pornography for men; fashion and domesticity for women. In addition to using found images from magazines, Linder has also used photographs of herself taking on various feminine personae, which navigate concepts of personal invention and the performative dimensions of identity. Her art is informed by a rich tapestry of influences spanning religious art, surrealism, mysticism and the ever-evolving landscape of social media.
With an introduction by Rachel Thomas, new essays by Chris Kraus and Marina Warner, a new interview with Gilly Fox and a chronology by Katie Guggenheim, this book is the comprehensive guide to Linder’s world and work.



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Hayward Gallery Publishing

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Hardcover, 7.75 x 10.5 in. / 208 pgs / 150 color / 25 bw.

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Forthcoming

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Catalog: SPRING 2025 p. 84   

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STATUS: Forthcoming | 7/29/2025

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Linder Sterling: LinderismLinder Sterling: Linderism

Published by Walther König, Köln.
Text by James Boaden, Alyce Mahon, Amy Tobin, Sarah Victoria Turner.

The art of Linder (born 1954) made its public debut not in galleries but in punk fanzines and as art for the sleeve of the Buzzcocks' first single, "Orgasm Addict." Accompanying the first in-depth survey of Linder’s work in the UK, Linderism reproduces works from across her career, from her punk collages to her recent work, and offers four new perspectives on her wide-ranging practice by James Boaden, Alyce Mahon, Amy Tobin and Sarah Victoria Turner.

The essays address Linder’s early photomontages forged in the crucible of punk and postpunk culture in the North-West of England, as well as more recent shifts in her practice encompassing spirituality, the occult and the surreal. Linderism includes extensive documentation of working drawings and research images—the materials that have long formed the basis of her practice—as well as documentation of works included in the survey exhibition.



PUBLISHER
Walther König, Köln

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 8 x 11.25 in. / 128 pgs / 50 color / 50 bw.

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Out of print

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Catalog: FALL 2020 p. 114   

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ISBN 9783960987680 FLAT40
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LinderLinder

Published by Ridinghouse.
Text by Dawn Ades.

Linder’s photomontages violate, liberate and celebrate the human body to question the mechanics of gender and its ties to consumer culture and media.

Linder is best known for her pioneering photomontages that replace the sexualised imagery of soft-focus pornographic centrefolds with commodities of domestic middle-class life. Surprising, humorous, and at times shocking, these precise compositions bring to light the powerful fantasies and repressions that underlie our social expectations of identity.

Spanning almost four decades, this monograph interweaves numerous photomontage series throughout Linder’s career, demonstrating the artist’s manipulation of disparate source material – from brightly saturated male pornographic imagery to softly lit portraits of ballerinas. Accompanying over 250 illustrations, a conversation between the artist and Dawn Ades reconciles her work with the history of photomontage.



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Ridinghouse

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Clth, 8.88 x 11.25 in. / 270 pgs / 255 color.

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Linder: Woman / ObjectLinder: Woman / Object

Published by Walther König, Köln.
Edited and with foreword by Fabrice Hergott, Veit Görner. Text by Heinrich Dietz, Fabienne Dumont, Emmanuelle de l’Écotais, Veit Görner, Fabrice Hergott, Linder, Morrissey.

Published fanzine-style on newsprint with a cloth-tape spine, in close collaboration with the artist, Linder: Woman/Object celebrates the career of a protagonist of British punk. Linder’s activities over the past 35 years have encompassed art, music, dance and fashion, deploying collage, photography, video and performance. Throughout, she has pursued an uncompromising feminist critique of gender and the sexual marketing of the female body, most famously in her collages derived from pornography, which were first published on the sleeves of Buzzcocks records. Over the past decade or so, Linder’s work has emerged as a crucial precedent for many artists addressing the image politics of consumerism. This volume gathers a large sampling of collages from across Linder’s career (many reproduced as bound-in color plates), as well as self-portraits and various texts, including a conversation between Linder and Morrissey.

PUBLISHER
Walther König, Köln

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 8 x 11 in. / 144 pgs / 98 color / 23 bw.

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Out of print

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Catalog: SPRING 2014 p. 118   

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ISBN 9783863353926 TRADE
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Linder Sterling: What Linder SawLinder Sterling: What Linder Saw

Published by Walther König, Köln.

A skeptical, sexy maternity ward nurse staring at a rose-headed father; a French maid with another rose for her head, down on her knees with the vacuum; a trio of mermaids watching a rose-headed scuba-diver swim near... This smart and brightly subversive collection of 12 slipcased postcards by the radical, Feminist, Manchester punk artist, performer and musician Linder Sterling (born in Liverpool in 1954) is published on the occasion of her first solo show--at Linn Lƒhn gallery, Cologne. Known for her collaged work, for the past 30 years Sterling, also known simply as Linder, has been creating photomontages that combine imagery from men's magazines and the objectification of women. By juxtaposing and overlaying nude figures with oversized flowers, cakes, cameras and sewing machines, she creates striking and graphic compositions, employing objects generally associated with domesticity to highlight and challenge notions of power, femininity and consumer culture.

PUBLISHER
Walther König, Köln

BOOK FORMAT
Postcards, 4.25 x 5.75 in. / 12 pgs / 12 color.

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Pub Date
Out of print

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Catalog: MID WINTER 2008

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ISBN 9783865604583 FLAT40
List Price: $32.00 CAD $40.00

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STATUS: Out of print | 5/1/2009

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Linder: Works 1976-2006Linder: Works 1976-2006

Published by JRP|Ringier.
Essays by Philip Hoare, Morrissey, Jon Savage, Andrew Renton and Lynne Tillman.

Linder Sterling's work had its first exposure in the punk fanzine The Secret Public and as art for the sleeve of the Buzzcocks' first single, "Orgasm Addict." Soon she had her own band, Ludus, founded with Ian Divine. Her visuals and her performances have remained legendary in the musical world--for example, a costume consisting of raw meat and a black vibrator, worn for a special evening at the Hacienda--but these formative contributions to the aesthetics of punk and its offshoots have only recently received wider recognition. With no clear academic career path, without institutional or curatorial support, Linder has continued to make multidisciplinary work, work that has led observers to call her the missing link between Yoko Ono and Tracey Emin. This first book, a rediscovery and a debut at once, includes contributions from writers and cultural figures including Philip Hoare, Jon Savage, Andrew Renton, Lynne Tillman, Paul Bailey and Morrissey.

PUBLISHER
JRP|Ringier

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 11 x 10.75 in. / 144 pgs / 60 color and 60 bw.

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Pub Date
Out of print

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D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: FALL 2006 p. 73   

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ISBN 9783905701609 TRADE
List Price: $70.00 CAD $92.50

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STATUS: Out of print | 00/00/00

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