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Paperback. Zustand: Near fine. ON&BY ANDY WARHOL is an attempt to include everything written on Warhol and by him. It includes texts by about 40 writers and is edited by Gilda Williama. 271 pages, paper with stiff wraps. 8 1/4" x 5 7/8". Near fine condition.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 207 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Documents of Contemporary Art Series. Tight, clean copy. Previous owner's blind stamp/flyleaf, otherwise unmarked. *** "Art that seeks to produce situations in which relations are formed among viewers is placed in historical and theoretical context in key writings by critics and artists. The desire to move viewers out of the role of passive observers and into the role of producers is one of the hallmarks of twentieth-century art. This tendency can be found in practices and projects ranging from El Lissitzky's exhibition designs to Allan Kaprow's happenings, from minimalist objects to installation art. More recently, this kind of participatory art has gone so far as to encourage and produce new social relationships. Guy Debord's celebrated argument that capitalism fragments the social bond has become the premise for much relational art seeking to challenge and provide alternatives to the discontents of contemporary life. This publication collects texts that place this artistic development in historical and theoretical context. Participation begins with writings that provide a theoretical framework for relational art, with essays by Umberto Eco, Bertolt Brecht, Roland Barthes, Peter Bürger, Jen-Luc Nancy, Edoaurd Glissant, and Félix Guattari, as well as the first translation into English of Jacques Rancière's influential 'Problems and Transformations in Critical Art.' The book also includes central writings by such artists as Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica, Joseph Beuys, Augusto Boal, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Thomas Hirschhorn, and Rirkrit Tiravanija. And it features recent critical and curatorial debates, with discussions by Lars Bang Larsen, Nicolas Bourriaud, Hal Foster, and Hans-Ulrich Obrist. Copublished with Whitechapel Art Gallery, London." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.…

1st printing of 1st edition. Contributions by Peter Cook, Manfredo Tafuri, Dieter Rams, Benjamin Weil and others: 207 pages. A clean fine paperback book in decorative wrappers (soft cover book).

Paperback. Zustand: Fine. 1st. 271 pages; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. A fine copy of the first printing. *** "The socio-cultural impact of Andy Warhol painter, sculptor, printmaker, filmmaker, publisher, TV personality, socialite, graphic artist, collector, illustrator, rock impresario, photographer, model and author is incalculable. A pioneer in virtually every media in which he worked from his unmistakeable blotted-line advertising illustrations in the 1950s; to photography-based paintings of car wrecks and movie stars in the 1960s; to pre-Stonewall cult films that dared to explore sexually provocative subjects; to his re-invention of the celebrity magazine in the 1970s with Interview Andy Warhol also influenced such contemporary staples as reality TV, computer art and the rock-gig light show. As the inventor of the Polaroid selfie and master of the tweet-like short epithet (It's so nice to be invited to your own house by the person who's renting it you feel at home and you're still making money), Andy Warhol seems only to grow in cultural relevance in the twenty-first century." - Publisher. Size: 8vo. Collectible. …

Softcover, 240 pages; very good condition, light rubbing to covers; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Paperback. Zustand: Very good. First Edition. THE MAGAZINE: Documents of Contemporary Art edited by GWEN ALLEN with pieces by LUIS CAMNITZER, DAN GRAHNAM, MARTHA ROSLER, LUCY R. LIPPARD, CLEMENTE PADIN, RAYMOND PETTIBON and others. 240 pages, paper with stiff wraps. Index. VEry good condition.

Trade Paperback. First edition (first printing). A paperback copy in very good condition. The first major anthology to focus on relationships between science fiction and contemporary art, with topics ranging from accelerating technological change to global urbanization.Over the past two decades, artists and writers have increasingly used science fiction as a lens through which to search for fragments of truth emerging from the past or the future. The proliferation of science fiction in contemporary art practice and discourse reflects an increased understanding of how this narrative field continues to grow in relevance. This book is the first major anthology to focus on relationships between science fiction and contemporary art, and offers an essential read for all those exploring this vital genre. Organizing its contributions according to four distinct approaches--"estrangement," "futures," "posthumanism," and "ecologies"--this unique collection gathers key examples of the influence of science fiction in recent cultural development. It considers topics that include the integration and acceleration of technological change, global urbanization and concepts of futurity, the boundaries of social structures and nonhuman life, and the threatening evidence of climate change. Writers include Peio Aguirre, Margaret Atwood, J. G. Ballard, Tiffany E. Barber, Jean Baudrillard, Franco 'Bifo' Beradi, Rosie Braidotti, Rachel Carson, Jeffrey Deitch, Donna Haraway, Cathy Lane, Amna Malik, Tom McCarthy, Alondra Nelson, Gwyneth Shanks, Jan Tumlir, Xin Wang, Gilda Williams. …

Trade Paperback. First Edition. First edition (first printing). A paperback copy in very good condition. The first accessible reader on magic's generative relationship with contemporary art practice. From the hexing of presidents to a renewed interest in herbalism and atavistic forms of self-care, magic has furnished the contemporary imagination with mysterious and often disorienting bodies of arcane thought and practice. This volume brings together writings by artists, magicians, historians, and theorists that illuminate the vibrant correspondences animating contemporary art's varied encounters with magical culture, inspiring a reconsideration of the relationship between the symbolic and the pragmatic. Dispensing with simple narratives of reenchantment, Magic illustrates the intricate ways in which we have to some extent always been captivated by the allure of the numinous. It demonstrates how magical culture's tendencies toward secrecy, occlusion, and encryption might provide contemporary artists with strategies of remedial communality, a renewed faith in the invocational power of personal testimony, and a poetics of practice that could boldly question our political circumstances, from the crisis of climate collapse to the strictures of socially sanctioned techniques of medical and psychiatric care. Tracing its various emergences through the shadows of modernity, the circuitries of ritual media, and declarations of psychic self-defence, Magic deciphers the evolution of a "magical-critical" thinking that productively complicates, contradicts and expands the boundaries of our increasingly weird present. …

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Collection of art writing on the theme of participation, where spectators become active participants in art work, in dialogue both with their context and each other. 2x6cm strip not affecting the text cut from opening page, likely to remove a previous owner's name. Otherwise a clean, unmarked copy with no reading crease to spine. Not ex-library. Not a remainder. Binding is firm. 208 pages. s259. …

Softcover, 240 pages, very good condition; clean and crisp; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Trade Paperback. Later printing. A paperback copy in very good condition. Essays consider recent artistic and critical approaches to materiality, focusing on the moments when materials become willful actors and agents within artistic processes.Materiality has reappeared as a highly contested topic in recent art. Modernist criticism tended to privilege form over matter--considering material as the essentialized basis of medium specificity--and technically based approaches in art history reinforced connoisseurship through the science of artistic materials. But in order to engage critically with the meaning, for example, of hair in David Hammons's installations, milk in the work of Dieter Roth, or latex in the sculptures of Eva Hesse, we need a very different set of methodological tools. This anthology focuses on the moments when materials become willful actors and agents within artistic processes, entangling their audience in a web of connections. It investigates the role of materiality in art that attempts to expand notions of time, space, process, or participation. And it looks at the ways in which materials obstruct, disrupt, or interfere with social norms, emerging as impure formations and messy, unstable substances. It reexamines the notion of "dematerialization"; addresses materialist critiques of artistic production; surveys relationships between matter and bodies, from the hierarchies of gender to the abject and phobic; explores the vitality of substances; and addresses the concepts of intermateriality and transmateriality emerging in the hybrid zones of digital experimentation. Artists surveyed include Georges Adéagbo, Carl Andre, Janine Antoni, Amy Balkin, Artur Barrio, Helen Chadwick, Mel Chin, Mark Dion, Jimmie Durham, Tessa Farmer, Chohreh Feyzdjou, Romuald Hazoumè, Pierre Huyghe, Ilya Kabakov, Mike Kelley, Anthony McCall, Teresa Margolles, Robert Morris, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Tino Sehgal, Shozo Shimamoto, Santiago Sierra, Robert Smithson, Simon Starling, Paul Thek, Paul Vanouse, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Kara Walker Writers include Joseph D. Amato, Karen Barad, Judith Butler, Elizabeth Grosz, Georges Didi-Huberman, Natasha Eaton, Jens Hauser, Dieter Hoffmann-Axthelm, Tim Ingold, Wolfgang Kemp, Julia Kristeva, Esther Leslie, Jean-François Lyotard, Dietmar Rübel, Monika Wagner, Gillian Whiteley.…

Trade Paperback. Later printing. A paperback copy in very good condition. A survey of contemporary art and theory that proposes alternatives to outdated linear models of timeWhat does 'contemporary' actually mean? This is among the fundamental questions about the nature and politics of time that philosophers, artists and more recently curators have investigated over the past two decades. If clock time--a linear measurement that can be unified, followed and owned--is largely the invention of capitalist modernity and binds us to its strictures, how can we extricate ourselves and discover alternative possibilities of experiencing time? Recent art has explored such diverse registers of temporality as wasting and waiting, regression and repetition, déjà vu and seriality, unrealized possibility and idleness, non-consummation and counter-productivity, the belated and the premature, the disjointed and the out-of-sync--all of which go against sequentialist time and index slips in chronological experience. While such theorists as Giorgio Agamben and Georges Didi-Huberman have proposed "anachronistic" or "heterochronic" readings of history, artists have opened up the field of time to the extent that the very notion of the contemporary is brought into question. This collection surveys contemporary art and theory that proposes a wealth of alternatives to outdated linear models of time. Artists surveyed include Marina Abramovic, Francis Alÿs, Matthew Buckingham, Janet Cardiff, Paul Chan, Olafur Eliasson, Bea Fremderman, Toril Johannessen, On Kawara, Joachim Koester, Christian Marclay, nova Milne, Trevor Paglen, Katie Patterson, Raqs Media Collective, Dexter Sinister, Simon Starling, Hito Steyerl, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Tehching Hsieh, Time/Bank, Mark von Schlegell Writers include Giorgio Agamben, Mieke Bal, Geoffrey Batchen, Hans Belting, Walter Benjamin, Franco Berardi, Daniel Birnbaum, Georges Didi-Huberman, D?gen Zenji, Peter Galison, Boris Groys, Brian Dillon, Elena Filipovic, Joshua Foer, Elizabeth Grosz, Adrian Heathfield, Rachel Kent, Bruno Latour, George Kubler, Doreen Massey, Alexander Nagel, Jean-Luc Nancy, Daniel Rosenberg, Michel Serres, Michel Siffre, Nancy Spector, Nato Thompson, Christopher Wood, George Woodcock.…

Trade Paperback. Later printing. A paperback copy in very good condition. A secret history of craft told through lost and overlooked texts that illuminate our understanding of current art practice."Craft" is a contested concept in art history and a vital category through which to understand contemporary art. Through craft, materials, techniques, and tools are investigated and their histories explored in order to reflect on the politics of labor and on the extraordinary complexity of the made world around us. This anthology offers an ethnography of craft, surveying its shape-shifting identities in the context of progressive art and design through writings by artists and makers as well as poetry, fiction, anthropology, and sociology. It maps a secret history of craft through lost and overlooked texts that consider pedagogy, design, folk art, the factory, and new media in ways that illuminate our understanding of current art practice. Recently, the idea of craft has been employed strategically: to confront issues of gender or global development, to make a stand against artistic academicism, or to engage with making processes--some distinctly archaic--employed to suggest the abject and the everyday. Craft activism, or craftivism, suggests a new political purpose for the handmade. Deep anxieties drive today's technophilia, and artists, designers, and makers turn such anxieties into a variety of dynamic engagements. The contributors' reflections on new technologies and materials, lost and found worlds of handwork, and the politics of work all throw light on craft as process, product, and ideology. Craft will serve as a vital resource for understanding technologies, materials, techniques, and tools through the lens of craft in contemporary art. Artists surveyed include Magdalena Abakanowicz, Anni Albers, El Anatsui, Carl Andre, Aaron Angell, Ruth Asawa, Phyllida Barlow, Louise Bourgeois, Neil Brownsword, Annie Cattrell, Edmund de Waal, Harun Farocki, Lucio Fontana, Karl Fritsch, Martino Gamper, Theaster Gates, Gee's Bend Quiltmakers, Sabrina Gschwandtner, Sheila Hicks, Donald Judd, Ana Lupas, Lu Shengzhong, Enzo Mari, Mario Merz, Martin Puryear, Jessi Reaves, Bridget Riley, Ettore Sottsas, Studio Formafantasma, Francis Upritchard, Peter Voulkos Writers include Glenn Adamson, Elissa Auther, Reyner Banham, Jean Baudrillard, Susan S. Bean, Walter Benjamin, John Berger, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Giovanni Contini, Alfred Gell, Cathy Gere, Walter Gropius, Henry Heerup, bell hooks, Ulrich Lehmann, Lucy R. Lippard, Sarat Maharaj, Karl Marx, Sadie Plant, Nancy Princenthal, Rainer Maria Rilke, John Roberts, Kenneth E. Silver, Jenni Sorkin.…

Trade Paperback. Later printing. A paperback copy in very good condition. A definitive guide to the rising status of sound in art, through original critical writings and artists' statements.The "sonic turn" in recent art reflects a wider cultural awareness that sight no longer dominates our perception or understanding of contemporary reality. The background buzz of myriad mechanically reproduced sounds increasingly mediates our lives. Tuning into this incessant auditory stimulus, some of our most influential artists have investigated the corporeal, cultural, and political resonance of sound. In tandem with recent experimental music and technology, art has opened up to hitherto excluded dimensions of noise, silence, and the act of listening. Artists working with sound have engaged in new forms of aesthetic encounter with the city and nature, the everyday and cultural otherness, technological effects and psychological states. New perspectives on sound have generated a wave of scholarship in musicology, cultural studies, and the social sciences. But the equally important rise of sound in the arts since 1960 has so far been sparsely documented. This volume is the first sourcebook to provide, through original critical writings and artists' statements, a genealogy of sonic pathways into the arts, philosophical reflections on the meanings of noise and silence, dialogues between art and music, investigations of the role of listening and acoustic space, and a comprehensive survey of sound works by international artists from the avant-garde era to the present.…

Trade Paperback. First Edition. First edition (first printing). A paperback copy in very good condition. Considering art at the center of network theory, from the rise of the electronic media age in the 1960s to the present.The dawn of the electronic media age in the 1960s began a cultural shift from the modernist grid and its determination of projection and representation to the fluid structures and circuits of the network, presenting art with new challenges and possibilities. This anthology considers art at the center of network theory, from the 1960s to the present. Artists have used the "space of flows" as a basis for creating utopian scenarios, absurd yet functional propositions or holistic planetary visions. Others have explored the economies of reciprocity and the ethics of generosity, in works that address changed conditions of codependence and new sites of social negotiation. The "infra-power" of the network has been a departure point for self-organized counterculture and the creation of new types of agency. And a "poetics of connectivity" runs through a diverse range of work that addresses the social and material complexity of networks through physical structures and ambient installation, the mapping of the Internet, or the development of robots and software that take on the functions of artist or curator. Artists surveyed include Joseph Beuys, Ursula Biemann, Heath Bunting, Critical Art Ensemble, Fernand Deligny, Peter Fend, Gego, Jobim Jochimsen, Koncern, Christine Kozlov, Pia Lindman, Mark Lombardi, Diana McCarty, Marta Minujín, Aleksandra Mir, Tanja Ostojic, Ola Pehrson, Walid Raad, Artüras Raila, Hito Steyerl, Tomaso Tozzi, Suzanne Treister, Ultra Red, Wolf Vostell, Stephen Willats Writers include Jane Bennett, Hakim Bey, Luc Boltanski, Manuel Castells, Ève Chiapello, Guy Debord, Umberto Eco, Okwui Enwezor, Michael Hardt, Bruno Latour, Marshall McLuhan, Marcel Mauss, Reza Negarestani, Antonio Negri, Sadie Plant, Lane Relyea, Craig Saper, Saskia Sassen, Pit Schultz, Steven Shaviro, Tiziana Terranova, Paolo Virno.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Occasional pen markings to margins of six pages only. Creasing to spine. Otherwise a clean, tight copy with firm binding. 240 pages. s236.

Softcover. Zustand: Very good. Great condition. Glue is slightly exposed between front cover and first page, but binding is secure and inside is clean and unmarked.

Erste Auflage. 21 x 15 cm. 239 S. Illustrierter OKlappkarton. Sehr gutes Exemplar. ON&BY. Durchgehend mit meist farbigen Abbildungen versehen. Texte in englischer Sprache. Auswahl von Texten von und über Christian Marclay aus der Serie "ON&BY" der Whitechapel Gallery in London.

Soft cover. Zustand: As New. As new. Third Whitechapel and 5th MIT printing. Softcover with French folds. A pristine, new, unread copy. Includes contributions from Paul Auster ('Gotham Handbook' from Double Game), Andy Warhol, Mary Kelly, Nan Goldin, Maurice Blanchot, Sophie Calle, Marcel Duchamp, and many other prominent artists and writers. Whitechapel Gallery and the MIT Press: London, 2008. …

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Condition: Fine, unread, and excellent book, all pages and cover are excellent with no markings, no tears. // An investigation through texts, interviews, and documentation of the complex relationship between the urban, the rural, and contemporary cultural production. What, and where, is "the Rural"? From the rocks that break a farmer's plough on a field in Japan to digital infrastructures that organize geographically dispersed interests and ambitions, vast parts of our lives are still connected and dependent on resources, production, and infrastructures located within rural geographies, and the rural remains a shared cultural space. This anthology presents a timely and varied look at rural art, thinking, and practice, with writings that explore how artists respond to the socioeconomic divides between rural and urban areas, including reimagined farming practices, food systems, architecture, community projects, and transnational local networks. Edited by three artists who have worked in rural areas and communities for the last twenty years, this anthology serves as a document, tool, and navigation device for future artistic practice, where "the rural" is viewed through an audience-based model of art that works from within the culture it addresses. // 240 pages; format: 21,0 x 15,0 x 2,1 cm; Bookweight: 580 g.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Light wear to covers. No marks to inside pages and no reading crease to spine. Binding is firm. 239 pages. s247.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Very good. Bumping to spine and fore-edge tips. Second printing. Softcover with French flaps. Includes contributions from Paul Auster ('Gotham Handbook' from Double Game), Andy Warhol, Mary Kelly, Nan Goldin, Maurice Blanchot, Sophie Calle, Marcel Duchamp, and many other prominent artists and writers. Whitechapel Gallery and the MIT Press: London, 2008.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Paperback in very good condition. Light shelf and handling wear, including minor blemish to pageblock head. Within, pages are tightly bound, content unmarked. CN.

Softcover, 240 pages; very good condition; a few small scrapes to spine; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Condition: Near fine, unread, and excellent book, all pages excellent with no markings, cover with minor shelf rubbings, and no tears. // The first accessible reader on magic's generative relationship with contemporary art practice. From the hexing of presidents to a renewed interest in herbalism and atavistic forms of self-care, magic has furnished the contemporary imagination with mysterious and often disorienting bodies of arcane thought and practice. This volume brings together writings by artists, magicians, historians, and theorists that illuminate the vibrant correspondences animating contemporary art's varied encounters with magical culture, inspiring a reconsideration of the relationship between the symbolic and the pragmatic. Dispensing with simple narratives of reenchantment, Magic illustrates the intricate ways in which we have to some extent always been captivated by the allure of the numinous. It demonstrates how magical culture's tendencies toward secrecy, occlusion, and encryption might provide contemporary artists with strategies of remedial communality, a renewed faith in the invocational power of personal testimony, and a poetics of practice that could boldly question our political circumstances, from the crisis of climate collapse to the strictures of socially sanctioned techniques of medical and psychiatric care. Tracing its various emergences through the shadows of modernity, the circuitries of ritual media, and declarations of psychic self-defence, Magic deciphers the evolution of a "magical-critical" thinking that productively complicates, contradicts and expands the boundaries of our increasingly weird present. // 240 pages; format: 21,0 x 15,0 x 2,5 cm; Bookweight: 580 g.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 240 pages. Some creasing at the spine but tightly bound. A few page tips creased at bottom. Internally in excellent unmarked condition.

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Octavo. 239 pages.

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Near Fine. First Edition. Exhibition catalog for a show held at the publisher's gallery. Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows light scuffing to back cover only, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Small format paperback, illustrated cover. Features 9 color plates and 36 b&w plates and illustrations featuring photographic portraits and works by Annesley, David; Michael Blus; Phillip King; Roland Piche; Christopher Sanderson; Tim Scott; William Tucker; Isaac Witkin; Derrick Woodham. 88 pages.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. A fine, unmarked copy with no noticeable signs of use. 239 pages. s176.

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 336 pages. Light surface wear. Internally in excellent unmarked condition.