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Benjamin Peret - The Leg of Lamb. Its Life and Works Wakefield Press 2011 ISBN 9780984115532 Acqn 19648 Pb 15x23cm 232pp 4ills 13.95 A foundational classic of Surrealist literature, The Leg of Lamb brings together the arch-Surrealist Benjamin Pret's short prose: a smorgasbord of automatic writing and fantastical narratives employing everything from the cinematic antics of Buster Keaton and slapstick animation to the storytelling devices of detective novels, alchemical operations and mythology. The Leg of Lamb consists of 24 delirious narratives, including the novella-length works "And the Breasts Were Dying" and "There Was a Little Bakeress." Pret's adult fairy tales bear equal allegiance to Lewis Carroll and the Marquis de Sade, and present one of the clearest examples of Surrealist humor, in which the boundaries between character and object blur, and where a coat rack, artichoke or a pile of manure is just as likely as Napolon, El Cid or Pope Pius VII to take on the role of hero and adventurer. Pret himself edited this collection toward the end of his life. Originally published in French in 1957, almost all of the stories in this collection had been written in the 1920s, half of them even preceding Andr Breton's Manifesto of Surrealism. The Leg of Lamb offers not only a highpoint of Surrealist automatic writing, but a key chapter in the genesis of the Surrealist movement.
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Dominique Figarella Life, Saint Nazaire 2011 ISBN 9782953303810 Acqn 20214 Hb 34x29cm 304pp 175ills 100col 38.95 Presented as a retrospective, the presentation of the works of an artist barely 40 years old might well have been premature. This exhibition brings together for the first time a selection of his works. This is a reference monograph on the works of Figarella (b. 1966) with two analyses by Catherine Perret, an essay by the artist and two interviews.
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Rearview Mirror - New Art from Central & Eastern Europe The Power Plant 2011 ISBN 9780889501607 Acqn 20714 Hb 24x29cm 100pp 34ills 22col 41.95 Curated by Christopher Eamon and subtitles New Art from Central & Eastern Europe this book brings together the work of a new generation of artists from diverse backgrounds and histories of Central and Eastern Europe. Looking both to the past and to the future, the artists included in the exhibition challenge accepted notions of Eastern Europe as being a social, political and art historical monolith. Artists include Pawe Althamer, Anna Molska, Ivan Moudov, Deimantas Narkeviius, Wilhelm Sasnal and many others.
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Asami Kiyokawa Little More 2011 ISBN 9784898153109 Acqn 20769 Hb 27x19cm 72pp 32col ills 21.50 Text in Japanese
Most people only think of drawing, painting and photography as the media for 2-D art works. Asami Kiyokawa, however, has chosen something different to enhance her work: embroidery. Kiyokawa is well known for combining photographs of beautiful women and illustrations with intricate stitching and beading to produce images of unusual texture and sparkle.
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Odd Nerdrum - Self Portraits Atlantis 2012 ISBN 9789173535212 Acqn 20921 Hb 25x31cm 160pp 108col ills 38.50
For a painter who took his earliest bearings from Rembrandt, and who has defiantly espoused the values of old master painting, the self-portrait is a natural enough genre to pursue. For Odd Nerdrum, the attractions of self-portraiture run much deeper, however. Nerdum has frequently alluded to the conflicted preoccupation with origins and personal identity that his paintings express, and traces this preoccupation to his discovery that his father was not the father he had known growing up, but a previous lover of his mothers. Also abandoned by his mother at an early age, he recollects of his early years: I was a beggar in a world ruled by others. The person I found in the mirror was myself, I saw myself reflected in my own eyes, not those of others. Nerdrums difficult childhood and the isolation he has endured as a painter have greatly intensified the relevance of the self-portrait, a genre at which he has excelled, and for which he has become particularly well known. This volume collects Nerdums self-portraits for the first time, with more than 100 color reproductions.
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John Currin - The Dogwood Thieves A.S.A.P 2012 ISBN 9780979764257 Acqn 20941 Hb 18x24cm 88pp 40col ills 30 In 2004, John Currin (born 1962) began a large-scale painting that would eventually be titled The Dogwood Thieves. What ensued was six years of humorous missteps, uncomfortable secondguesses and painterly faux pas, all visually presented here in 39 previously unreproduced and no longer extant iterations of a single painting. John Currin: The Dogwood Thieves is an entertaining portrait of the sometimes agonizing artistic process, and follows the artists initial inspiration from the photograph of a magazine advertisement to what would become dozens of paintings atop paintings. Currin shows how he went about changing night skies into ocean horizons, how a Russian bra evolved upon a pair of bare breasts and why his wifes face underwent a lengthy transformation and traded features with a 1980s newscaster and then a 1970s Danish porn star. It also displays the delicate balancing act Currin maintains more generally in his work as he maneuvers between a broad range of cultural references, from womens magazine photography and photorealist kitsch to Renaissance oil painting drapery and personal narrative. Combining visual documentation with a lecture Currin gave at the Acadia Summer Arts Program in 2010, this book is, as the artist puts it, partly just to show kind of what I go through to make a painting, but also to dispel any notion that its a good thing to work on a painting for six years.
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Painting Between The Lines California College for the Arts 2012 ISBN 9780980205534 Acqn 20959 Hb 15x20cm 72pp 21col ills 18.50 Writing and painting have been intertwined throughout history, but literature has of late become a diminished subject in the medium of painting, which has looked more to history, society and politics for inspiration. With Painting Between the Lines, the CCA Wattis reinvigorates the relationship between these two fields by commissioning 14 contemporary artists to create works based on descriptions of paintings in historical and contemporary novels. Here, art that until now has only existed in the minds eye can now be seen, as interpreted by the likes of Fred Tomaselli (on Samuel Becketts Watt) and Marcel Dzama (on Haruki Murakamis Kafka on the Shore). Additional materials include images of first edition book covers and installation images from the accompanying exhibition. Enclosed in a slipcase, the catalogue is itself a take on the library practice of rebinding classic books in hardcover. Text by Jens Hoffmann.
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Merce Cunningham - A Pictures Book for John Cage Xmas 1984 The John Cage Trust 2012 ISBN 9781935202790 Acqn 20961 Pb 23x15cm 80pp 39ills 33 A Pictures Book for John Cage Xmas 1984 is a facsimile edition of a spiralbound notebook filled with choreographic notation by Merce Cunningham (19192009), a leader of the American avantgarde throughout his 70-year career and one of the most important choreographers and dancers of all time. This previously unpublished document is one of the most extensive elaborations of Cunninghams choreographic notation in print, offering a rare glimpse into his methods, and in particular the stage work Pictures (1984). Originally presented as a holiday gift from Cunningham to his lifetime partner, John Cage, this lovingly reproduced edition now in turn serves as a gift from the John Cage Trust to the Cunningham Dance Foundation, on the occasion of the dance companys final performance, New Years Eve 2011. With exquisite color notations that blend drawing and dance, it will also make a perfect gift for any fan of modern art or music.
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Anri Sala Centre Georges Pompidou 2012 ISBN 9782844265616 Acqn 21067 Pb 24x32cm 160pp 100ills 55col 31.95 Text in French and English Catalogue published on the occasion of the Anri Sala exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, Galerie Sud, 2012. With texts by Christine Macel, Jessica Morgan, Michael Fried and Philippe Parreno.
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Vital Beauty - Reclaiming Aesthetics In The Tangle Of Technology And Nature NAi 2012 ISBN 9789056628567 Acqn 21141 Pb 16x23cm 256pp 46ills 37col 21 In Vital Beauty, leading philosophers, anthropologists, political thinkers and artists take a closer look at what the idea of beauty can mean to their disciplines, in an effort to redefine what beauty is and what it means to the design practice and art. The book focuses on the question of how the ageold notion of beauty can regain an importance appropriate to the 21st century. Our need for beauty has not diminished, as hard as modernism tried to erase it from art and life and supplant it with the sublime. It was a sublime that increasingly associated itself with negation and deconstruction. In contrast, vital beauty, as defined by John Ruskin more than 150 years ago, is a beauty of sympathies and affinities with life forms. Yet vital beauty must be reinvented, since life forms today can be technological as well as natural. The concept of vital beauty raises the question of how we should design our environments, our objects and even our lives, and of how we might one day invent a politics of beauty.
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Open 23 - Autonomy. New Forms of Freedom and Independence in Art and Culture NAi 2012 ISBN 9789056628581 Acqn 21142 Pb 17x24cm 176pp 26ills 17col 18.50 Can autonomy be a means to reinforce the public relevance of art and culture? Open 23 examines this question and discusses new forms and meanings of autonomy for artistic and cultural practice. In this time of ideological and political crises, in which people and things are increasingly thrown back on their own resources, autonomy is becoming attractive again. But how does autonomy, the wish to take matters into ones own hands and have significance independent of old structures, relate to the call for engagement and performativity? This issue, made in collaboration with Sven Ltticken, examines autonomy from the standpoints of art, art history, philosophy, political theory and cultural criticism, and attempts to escape the limitations of thinking in terms of engagement on the one hand and autonomy on the other.
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Auke de Vries - Sculptures, Drawings, And Work In Public Space NAi 2012ISBN 9789056628604 Acqn 21143 Hb 23x32cm 464pp 700ills 350col 42 Dutch artist Auke de Vries (b. 1937) is best known for the elegant and whimsical sculptures he constructs in public space, both in the Netherlands and around the world. His striking permanent sculptures such as the Maasbeeld in Rotterdam, the Hollands Spoor Station sculpture in The Hague, the work in the pond of the Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam, on the roof of the Daimler-Chrysler Building in Berlin, and many projects in cities such as Istanbul, Johannesburg, Aberdeen, Frankfurt make him one of the most well-known artists of work in public space. Less well-known is that De Vriess artistic spectrum extends far beyond sculpture, ranging from tiny sketches to large-scale spatial design studies. This book presents, for the first time, an overview of the oeuvre De Vries has produced over the course of more than 50 years. Auke de Vries: Sculptures, Drawings and Work in Public Space provides a richly illustrated chronological account of the evolution in the visual work and the artistic career of Auke de Vries.
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F.R.David 9 - This Is Not New Of Course De Appel 2012 noISBN Acqn 21230 Pb 12x19cm 240pp 120ills 10.75 The biannual publication from de Appel arts centre in Amsterdam, F.R. DAVID focuses on the status of (reading and) writing in contemporary art practice. Includes contributions by Adam Chodzko, H.G. Widdowson, Marjorie Perloff, Kirschner & Panos, Lydia Davis and Dan Lepard, among others.
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Wild Park - Commissioning The Unexpected Jap Sam 2012 ISBN 9789076936284 Acqn 21275 Hb 13x19cm 98pp 11ills 11.95 Wild Park is an essay that explores the varying quality of art in public space. An artwork is not only defined by form and iconography but also by the functions and meanings assigned to it beforehand. In understanding what art can mean for the public domain, Jeroen Boomgaard goes in search of works that succeed in eluding the interests and intentions that encumber a location, and whose escape route describes an unexpected pattern in the air. Jeroen Boomgaard is an art historian attached to the University of Amsterdam. He has also held the post of lector at the Research Group Art and Public Space of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam since 2003. This position facilitated the research which was the foundation for this essay. Within the framework of this research Boomgaard published Highrise Common Ground. Art and the Amsterdam Zuidas Area in 2008.
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Volume 4 - What You See Is What You Hear Les Presses Du Reel 2012 ISBN 9782919217069 Acqn 21302 Pb 21x27cm 128pp 100ills 50col 20 Fourth issue of the contemporary art journal about sound: Mark Leckey, Ruth Ewan, Tom Marion and the sonic explorations in San Francisco Bay, notes on Robert Morris 21.3, interview with Pierre Henry, the Louie Louie project, and special interventions by Dora Garcia and Hannah Rickards.
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Julien Langendorff - Black Mirrors Galerie du Jour Agnes B 2012 ISBN 9782365820011 Acqn 21312 Hb 17x24cm 64pp 47col ills 28.95 Black Mirrors is the first monograph dedicated to the work of Julien Langendorff. It includes depictions of many of his works, from bold and abstract paintings to photo-collages, all of which demonstrate a fascination with counterculture groups of decades past and female sexuality through an array of juxtapositions. Published in conjunction with his solo exhibition at Agns B New York, the book includes texts by Agns B, Sinziana Ravini and Peter Sutherland.
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Angel Vergara Feuilleton Ludion 2011 ISBN 9789055448524 Acqn 21314 Hb 26x36cm 112pp 75ills 69col 31.50 Short-listed for the International Art Exhibition of the 2011 Venice Biennale, artist Angel Vergaras Feuilleton was ultimately selected as the Belgian contribution. It is a project with a universal and timeless theme a resolutely contemporary vision of the Seven Deadly Sins. With an introduction by Luc Tuymans, curator of the Belgian Pavilion, this book chronicles the artists inspiration, creative process and appropriation of images in the tradition of Western iconography for the artwork itself a so-called phantom reality of repeated, superimposed and moving images that suggests infinite possibility.
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Kinjo - Les Grand Oeuvres Images En Manoeuvres Editions 2011 ISBN 9782849952320 Acqn 21316 Hb 25x31cm 96pp 54ills 50col 31 Text in French A comprehensive look at the work of Polish-born artist Ladislas Kijno, who moved to France at an early age, where he was also educated and began painting. Known especially for his signature use of creased paper and crumpled canvases, which give his paintings relief and texture, he also incorporates elements of graffiti and industrial techniques in his style. The publication contains numerous full-colour prints of his artworks, as well as a biographical timeline and introductory text by Frdric Ballester, Director of the Centre d'Art la Malmaison.
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Stan Douglas Entertainment The Power Plant 2011 ISBN 9781894212342 Acqn 21318 Pb 12x19cm 72pp 25ills 14 'Entertainment' is a critical reader that accompanies and addresses the exhibition 'Stan Douglas: Selections from Mid-century Studio' at the Power Plant. The work in the exhibition continues the artist's practice of re-examining historical, site-specific layers, particularly the imaging of postwar North American diversions from cabaret to sports. The reader includes reproductions of the works in the exhibition, as well as new texts by Louis Kaplan and Maria Muhle.
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Coming After The Power Plant 2011 ISBN 9781894212359 Acqn 21319 Pb 13x20cm 122pp 39ills 32col 24 'Coming After' is a response to the recent renewal of interest in the period from the mid 1980s to the early 1990s that was decisive for North American cultural politics. This time period witnessed the Culture Wars, the birth of queer as an identity and theory, and the rise of a direct-action AIDS activist movement. This exhibition and publication focus on the artists that grew up in the shadow of the crisis. Their work evidences a sense of having come after or missed out on something. Artists featured are among others, Glen Fogel, Christian Holstad, Tim Leyendekker, Dean Sameshima and Jonathan VanDyke.
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How To Love - Graphic Novellas By Actus Comics Christoph Merian Verlag 2011 ISBN 9783856165413 Acqn 21331 Hb 24x17cm 144pp 30col ills 28.95 Six draughtsmen and women from Tel Aviv explore the theme of love in a restless country. The proffer six different perspectives while at the same time narrating stories that loosely merge to form a striking portrait of present-day Tel Aviv, urban and secular. With cartoons by the five Actus artists Batia Kolton, Mira Friedmann, Itzik Rennert, Rutu Modan and Yirmi Pinkus. Catalogue that accompanies an exhibition in the Cartoon Museum in Basel.
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Colonel Baxter's Dutch Safari De Harmonie 2012 ISBN 9789061695325 Acqn 21332 Hb 17x22cm 48pp 42col ills 18.50 The Netherlands has always been one of English cartoonist Glen Baxters favourite topics. Included here is almost every Dutch theme one can think of, from tulips to herring, and Mondrian to Rietveld, all drawn in Baxters well-recognized absurdist style. The book is prefaced by Wim de Bie, director of the Dutch Glen Baxter Museum.
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Cy Twombly - The Last Paintings Gagosian 2012 ISBN 9781935263630 Acqn 21333 Hb 27x35cm 56pp 28ills 19col 68 Essays by Achim Hochdrfer and Julie Sylvester; Photo essay by Sally Mann.
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Moscow Symposium: Conceptualism Revisited - e-flux Journal Sternberg Press 2012 ISBN 9783943365115 Acqn 21347 Pb 11x18cm 176pp 11ills 9.95 With an introduction by Boris Groys and essays by Claire Bishop, Keti Chukhrov, Ekaterina Degot, Jrg Heiser, Terry Smith, Anton Vidokle, and Sarah Wilson Beyond the view that multiple, globally dispersed conceptual art practices provide a heterogeneity of cultural references, Andrei Monastyrski and Collective Actions propose much more: other dimensions altogether, other spatiotemporal politics, other timescales, other understandings of matter, other forms of lifenot only as works, but as a basic condition for being able to perceive artworks in the first place. Could it be that the Moscow Conceptualists were so elusive or saturated with the particularities of life in a specific economic and intellectual culture that they precluded integration into a broader art historical narrative? If so, then their simultaneously modest and radical approach to form may present a key to understanding the resilience and flexibility of a more general sphere of global conceptualisms that anticipate, surpass, or even bend around their purported origins in canonical European and American regimes of representation, as well as what we currently understand to be the horizon of artistic practice.
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Aesthetics Of Installation Art Sternberg Press 2012 ISBN 9783943365191 Acqn 21348 Pb 13x21cm 296pp 15.95 In recent years, debates surrounding the concept of art have focused in particular on installation art, as its diverse manifestations have proven to be incompatible with the modern idea of aesthetic autonomy. Defenders of aesthetic modernism repudiated installation-based work as no longer autonomous art, whereas advocates of aesthetic postmodernism abandoned the concept of aesthetic autonomy altogether. Juliane Rebentisch asserts that installation art does not, as is often assumed, dispute aesthetic autonomy per se, and rather should be understood as calling for a fundamental revision of this very concept. Aesthetics of Installation Art thus proposes a new understanding of art as well as of its ethical and political dimension.
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Maria Loboda - Oh, Wilderness Sternberg Press 2012 ISBN 9783943365214 Acqn 21349 Pb 17x25cm 88pp 56col ills 18 With essays by Isobel Harbison, Lars Bang Larsen, and Caterina Riva Verbal sculptures and strange archaeologiesMaria Lobodas recent works expose prior events through sparse details of entangled secrets, material contradictions, and masked collusions. Her sculpture is both indulgently verbal and obstinately reserved. Oh, Wilderness also demonstrates the artists aesthetic equation between language and materiality as it works the other way around, translating materials expressive of a certain weak semiotics to language. The book contains a Q&A between Loboda, Caterina Riva, and Isobel Harbison, which traces the artists work and context. An essay by Riva highlights Lobodas use of antagonisms, duality, and enigmas in her practice; Lars Bang Larsen points to a state of echoing and spiritualization in Lobodas works; and Harbison analyzes the engagement with history and artifact in Lobodas new approach to sculpture. Oh, Wilderness is Lobodas first monograph and contains work from 2009 to 2012.
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Yorgos Sapountzis - A Statue Has Remembered Me Sternberg Press 2012 ISBN 9783943365207 Acqn 21350 Pb 17x23cm 256pp 530ills 201col 23.50 Edited by Katja Schroeder and Caroline Eggel. With essays by Rosalyn Deutsche, Chris Kraus, Veit Loers, and Katja Schroeder; and an interview with the artist by Willem de Rooij In his work, Yorgos Sapountzis appropriates public space and the statues, monuments, and memorials that inhabit it. The Athens-born artist concentrates less on their historical-political meanings and much more on their function as a medium of recollection. Sapountzis consciously tries to ignore historical information about the sculptures and instead allows them to speak through their gestures, poses, and ornaments. A statue has remembered me gives an in-depth survey of his work in ten chapters from 2000 to the present. It is published on the occasion of his two-part solo exhibition, Videos and Picnic at the Ursula Blickle Foundation (May 19July 8, 2012) and The Gadfly Festival at Westflischer Kunstverein Mnster (June 16September 2, 2012).
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Interiors - CCS Readers: Perspectives On Art And Culture Sternberg Press 2012 ISBN 9783943365061 Acqn 21355 Pb 19x25cm 322pp 153ills 15col 21 Encounters with art engage various conditions of interioritywhether through psychic spaces or specific physical environments, such as museums and private residences. The exhibition If you lived here, youd be home by now, presented at the Hessel Museum of Art, CCS Bard, in 2011, was the catalyst for the current volume, providing a paradigmatic case study for probing issues of the personal and subjective within realms of the sociological and the cultural. Through diverse discursive modescommissioned essays, conversations and talks, historical writings, and artistic projectsthis anthology, the first CCS Readers volume, examines the poetics and politics of interior experience within the frame of contemporary art. With contributions by Anni Albers, Doug Ashford, Gaston Bachelard, Angelo Bellfatto, Nova Benway, Gregg Bordowitz, Johanna Burton, Theresa Choi, Beatriz Colomina, Lynne Cooke, Moyra Davey, Tom Eccles, Diana Fuss, Jennifer Gross, Elizabeth Grosz, Roni Horn, Jenny Jaskey, Susanne Kper, Elisabeth Lebovici, Nathan Lee, Zoe Leonard, Dorit Margreiter, Josiah McElheny, Helen Molesworth, Georges Perec, Juliane Rebentisch, David Reed, Lisa Robertson, Joel Sanders, Virginia Woolf, Amy Zion.
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Marianne Heier Surplus Sternberg Press 2012 ISBN 9783943365092 Acqn 21356 Hb 13x20cm 212pp 28ills 13 col 26 Edited by Marianne Heier, Solveig vsteb, and Steinar Sekkingstad Texts by Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Marianne Heier, Ranjit Hoskote, Loretta Napoleoni, Solveig vsteb, and Kim West Although Marianne Heier abandons the traditional exhibition spaces in connection with her projects, Art with a capital A is still always measured against other social constructs. At this point of intersection, Heier looks at the typical features of the various economies or values of given fields and how they overlap and collide. What, for example, characterizes the value of art compared with the concept of value in the global market economy? What can be translated? What is not for sale? With this approach, Heier turns the focus on distinctions between cultural and economic capital, which are further problematized inasmuch as the physical works or interventions often end up as gifts to the institution with which she works. The gift economy as a phenomenon and theoretical entity is therefore central to Heiers art production. Through Surplus, an extensive physical intervention in front of Bergen Kunsthall, Heier demonstrated an unbudgeable faith that art has a value different from the one that can simply be negotiated on a market. Surplus can, from this perspective, also refer to a kind of surplus value.
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The Future of Art: A Diary Sternberg Press 2012 ISBN 9783943365023 Acqn 21357 Pb 14x20cm 256pp 146ills 15.95 With texts by Tom McCarthy, Erik Niedling, Ingo Niermann, and Amy Patton A kind of Atkins diet for the soul. Tom McCarthy, author of Remainder and C Average life expectancy can fool you into thinking you still have many years ahead. But what would it be like if you had only one left? What would you want towhat could youexperience in this limited period of time? Artist Erik Niedling would like to be buried in Pyramid Mountain, the largest tomb of all time, conceived by writer Ingo Niermann. To make this goal a reality, Niedling lives one year as though it were his last. The Future of Art: A Diary recounts the joys and horrors of that year. A letter by Tom McCarthy examines the social and philosophical implications. The Future of Art: A Diary is the sequel to The Future of Art: A Manual (2011), in which Niedling joined Niermann on his search for a new, epic artwork. The book is published on the occasion of the exhibition 18.10.197329.02.2012 at the Neues Museum Weimar.
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Andre Kruysen - Ouborgprijs 2011 Stroom Den Haag 2011 ISBN 9789073799004 Acqn 21360 Hb 21x28cm 120pp 220ills 200col 21.50 Andr Kruysen, winner of the 2011 Ouborg Award, is inspired by the daily chaos that surrounds modern man. In his sculptures he seeks to find the beauty in contemplation. In this catalogue readers are introduced by the wide range of Kruysens works: site specific installations and sculptures in and around the city of The Hague.
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Robert Zandvliet - I Owe You The Truth In Painting NAi 2012 ISBN 9789056628673 Acqn 21408 Pb 23x31cm 112pp 70ills 57col 32 I Owe You the Truth in Painting 1650-2012 offers an overview of the recent series of work by Dutch painter Robert Zandvliet (Terband, 1970), accompanied by inspiring reflections on painting by Louise Schouwenburg, Robert Zandvliet and others. This publication, designed by Irma Boom, is published simultaneously with the exhibition in the GEM in The Hague. Robert Zandvliet (b. 1970) gained international fame with large paintings of everyday objects, rendered in clear outlines and large monochrome blocks. He tried to capture the essence of an object with as few means as possible. Until now he concentrated on the great painting genres, like the still life, the landscape and the portrait. In his most recent paintings Zandvliet goes a step further in his exploration of the art of painting, engaging in a dialogue with existing paintings from various periods in art history. In his search he endeavours to crawl inside the heads and under the skin of such painters as Van Gogh, Czanne, Mondriaan and Pollock. I Owe You the Truth in Painting 1650-2012 presents over 30 paintings from this series. In parallel, the publication features text fragments containing reflections on painting by Robert Zandvliet and author Louise Schouwenberg and other artist and theorists.
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Paul Sietsema - Interviews On Films And Works Sternberg Press 2012 ISBN 9783943365245 Acqn 21496 Pb 21x26cm 144pp 81ills 31col 24 Edited by Quinn Latimer With interviews by Andrew Berardini, Anne Collier, Gintaras Didiapetris, Bruce Hainley, Carter Mull, Ali Subotnick, Adam Szymczyk & Quinn Latimer, The Wrong Times Published on the occasion of his solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel (JuneAugust 2012), this publication includes interviews and images of the work of the Los Angeles-based artist Paul Sietsema. The residual aesthetics of Sietsema's art practice result from the translation of visual information between mediumsfor instance, his sculptures and paintings appear on film rather than in their original media. Through the accumulation of conversations with the artist spanning from 2006 to 2012primarily reproductions of earlier material with the addition of a new interview by Adam Szymczyk, director of Kunsthalle Basel, and Quinn Latimer, an art critic and the books editorthe discursive texts in Interviews on Films and Works obliquely encompass the issues central to the artists work, including the perception of present time and the relationship of materials to form. Also featured in the publication are stills from newly produced films, Telegraph (2012) and Encre Chine (2012), as well as reproductions of paintings and works on paper developed from the recurring visual motif of a photograph of a sailboatcontinuing Sietsemas ongoing investigation into the mechanics of knowledge and history within image culture.

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