search results for "the contemporary condition"
 
 
Wolf Vostell - Dé-Coll/Age Musik (CD)
2011
Tochnit Aleph
CD-Reissue of the rare 1983 LP by the pioneer of video-art, happening, and Fluxus.
Revue & Corrigée
2011
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
The visual score of L'Étonnement sonore by Carole Rieussec, Johann Maheut, and Guillaume Robert; Faire un bruit qui me ressemble, Vomir and Francisco Meirino, by Kasper T. Toeplitz; John Cage's Williams Mix reinterpretated by Valerio Tricoli and Werner Dafeldecker; Anna Halprin and Morton Subotnick's Parades and Changes; Quelques compositeurs du Royaume-Uni by Tim Parkinson; Ring Modulation 3, la pensée électronique by KTT...
Erik Niedling - The Future of Art - A Manual (+ DVD)
2011
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
In 1831 Honoré de Balzac wrote a short story, “The Unknown Masterpiece,” in which he invented the abstract painting. Almost 200 years later, writer Ingo Niermann tries to follow in his footsteps to imagine a new epoch-making artwork. Together with the artist Erik Niedling he starts searching for the future of art and, seeking advice, meets key figures of the art world.
Antje Majewski - The World of Gimel - How to Make Objects Talk (+ DVD)
2011
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A utopian and subversive take on how to make objects talk.
Jean Olivier Hucleux - Works & Process (DVD)
2011
French edition (English subtitles)
a.p.r.e.s editions - Works & Process (DVD)
25.00 20.00 €
Three films about Hucleux.
Feminine Futures – Valentine de Saint-Point - Performance, Dance, War, Politics and Eroticism
2011
French edition (texts in French, English, Italian, German)
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
A reexamination of the role of female avant-gardes in the fields of performance and dance: a comprehensive publication with over 2500 color illustrations, together with documentary material on Valentine de Saint-Point, Marinetti, Futurism, Canudo, Russian Ballets, German and American expressionism (original photographs, manuscript letters, drawings, woodcuts, manifestos, first editions and ephemera).
Tauba Auerbach - Folds
2011
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
Auerbach's eponymous painting series for the first time in book form.
Rita Ackermann - Fire by Days
2011
no text
Nieves
sold out
Rita Ackermann's eponymous new painting series (a highly distilled series of pictures based on two colours and a single composition) in book form.
Benjamin Sommerhalder - Ghost Knigi
2011
English edition
Nieves
sold out
A children's book by Nieves editor-in-chief.
Susanne Strassmann - Art People or Employees
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
39.60 19.00 €
This catalogue brings together a series of photographs by painter Suzanne Strassmann in which she deals with the specific codes of the art world and plays with the ambiguity of the interactions between artworks, art professionals, and the public.
Jean-Philippe Antoine - La traversée du XXe siècle - Joseph Beuys, l\'image et le souvenir
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
MAMCO - Monographs
First major monograph in French, fully illustrated, devoted to the key figure of Joseph Beuys, revealing the aesthetic ambition and political issues through a genealogy that retraces a whole part of the XXth century.
Pierre Joseph - Oui, non, peut-être
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
M/M (Paris)
Catalogue raisonné / first monograph of a key figure in the art scene since the late 1980s, this luxurious book (designed by M/M), lavishly illustrated, documents the whole Pierre Joseph's oeuvre, from the first group shows to most recent works.
Eduardo Kac - Life, Light, Language
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
CDA (Centre des Arts)
An investigation into Eduardo Kac's practice in 50 questions asked by digital art historian Dominique Moulon.
Thorsten Soltau - Grün wie Milch / Alamut (vinyl LP)
2011
Corvo Records
sold out
Thorsten Soltau musical cut-up piece Grün wie Milch stands alongside Preslav Literary School's drone tragedy Alamut in this wonderfully designed split album.
Oswald de Andrade - Manifeste anthropophage / Anthropophagie zombie
2011
French edition
BlackJack editions - Pile ou face
sold out
A dialogue between two singular appropriations of the concept of cannibalism at two key historical moments: a new translation of Oswald de Andrade's cult poem, advocating the symbolic ingestion of the colonizer and his culture, faced with an analysis by Suely Rolnik of a perverted contemporary cannibalism experience in the context of financial capitalism.
Standing on the Beach with a Gun in my Hand - Eternal Tour – Jerusalem
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
BlackJack editions - Catalogues
29.00 17.00 €
A set of contributions (archive texts, essays, literary texts, iconographic analysis, art works, interviews ...) by over thirty authors, scholars, writers, journalists, artists, Westerners, Middle Easterners, Jews, Muslims, Christians, atheists, to explore the complexities of contemporary Middle Eastern reality.
Philosophie des possessions
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Drama
A series of portraits of philosophers remained outside majority movements of contemporary thought (Gabriel Tarde, William James, Alfred North Whitehead, John Dewey, Charles Péguy, Etienne Souriau, Raymond Ruyer, and Gilbert Simondon), brought together around the theme of the “possession”.
Convivio
2011
French edition
Mix
This publication gathers a collection of twenty texts together with a selection of archives and photographs which examine the literary and artistic representations of the banquet.
Pierre Vadi - Hotel
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
35.00 19.00 €
First major monograph devoted to the Swiss artist: a retrospective of Pierre Vadi's work and exhibitions over fifteen years, with three essays.
Rencontre internationale d\'art performance 2010 - Regards sur l\'art action en Amérique latine et en Asie
2011
French edition
Intervention - Catalogues and anthologies
A complete survey of performance arts in Latin America and Asia today.
Veilleurs du monde 3
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
BlackJack editions - Catalogues
20.00 10.00 €
Seven artists (the duo Art Orienté Objet, Amy Balkin, Gilles Bruni, Seamus Farrell, Romain Pellas, and Akira Sunrise) explore the issues of the ecological crisis and how humanity is endangering itself, from a reflection on the territory of the bucolic valley of the Lot in France.
Cursif - Le dessin dans tous ses états
2011
French edition
miscellaneous
Immédiats / Analogues - Catalogues
19.00 10.00 €
The French and Belgian public collections of drawings.
Veit Stratmann - Data - 2006-2011
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
Galerie du jour agnès b. - Monographs & artists' books
Reference monograph, with two essays and an interview with the artist.
Inter - Art vs médias – 50 ans après
2011
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
50 years of “media arts”.
Lidwine Prolonge - Who had Virginia Woolf for dinner?
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
BlackJack editions - Monographs & artists' books
22.00 10.00 €
First monograph: thirteen projects conducted by French artist Lidwine Prolonge over the past five years, between literature, film, installations and performances.
Devant les images - Penser l\'art et l\'histoire avec Georges Didi-Huberman
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Perceptions
Thirteen texts (including an unpublished essay by Georges Didi-Huberman) to think art and history together, from the tools developed by the theorist of the future of images.
Toilet Paper - November 2011
2011
no text
Toilet Paper
sold out
May
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
May
sold out
Olivier Zahm / Hervé Legros / Axel Huber / Roberto Ohrt / Maija Timonen / Clara Schulman on Gerard Byrne / Karl Holmqvist on Ken Okiishi / François Aubard on Richard Prince / Rob MacKenzie on Emily Sundblad / Elisabeth Lebovici on Henrik Olesen / Karl Holmqvist on Rirkrit Tiravanija / Vincent Romagny on Koenraad Dedobbeleer / Scott Portnoy on Christopher d'Archangelo / Ei Arakawa & Tomoo Arakawa.
Maurizio Cattelan - Le Dictateur - Solid Sweat – Cattelan / Ferrari / Pepe / Presicce / Vascellari
2011
no text
Le Dictateur Press - Artists' books & editions / catalogues
Special issue: five new projects by Maurizio Cattelan, Pierpaolo Ferrari, Federico Pepe, Luigi Presicce, and Nico Vascellari (limited edition).
Sean Landers - 1990-1995, Improbable History
2011
English edition
JRP|Editions
Landers' early oeuvre.
Mai-Thu Perret -
2011
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Reference monograph, including most of Mai-Thu Perret's projects so far, introduced by short captions she has written, as well as newly commissioned essays by Elisabeth Lebovici and Diedrich Diederichsen.
Thierry Davila - Natacha Lesueur - Surfaces, merveilles et caprices
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
MAMCO - Monographs
First monograph on French artist-photographer Natacha Lesueur who develops a very coherent and personal work on the themes of the body, food, and the photographic image itself: a complete overview of a work both uncanny, disturbing and attractive, because seductive.
Ben Patterson - Methods & Processes
2011
English edition
Incertain Sens - Artist's books and editions
sold out
The reprint of the publication pioneer in the artistic experimentations of the 1960s, published by the artist in 1962 (leporello).
Mark von Schlegell - New Dystopia
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
CAPC
New Dystopia is contemporary author Mark von Schlegell's illustrated screenplay-as-science fiction novel. In conjunction with the curator Alexis Vaillant, von Schlegell curated an exhibition of contemporary art at CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, “Dystopia,” based on his novel's dystopian-present.
Damien Cabanes -
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
Immédiats / Analogues - Monographs
A retrospective of Damien Cabanes' paintings, sculptures and installations, with 150 illustrations and two essays.
Vincent Ganivet -
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
Yvon Lambert - Monographs and artists' books
(last copies available!)
First monograph dedicated to the young French artist's “sculpture at work”,, as fragile as spectacular, with an interview.
Won Sou-Yeol -
2011
trilingual edition (English / French / Korean)
Jannink - Wide Open
First monograph dedicated to Korean artist's paintings.
Raymond Gervais - 3 x 1
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University
28.00 25.00 €
Reference monograph.
Pascal Grandmaison - Half of the darkness
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
Casino Luxembourg
First comprehensive monograph dedicated to Canadian artist (photography, video and sculpture), with about 250 images, five essays and an interview.
Gil Pellaton - On Vient Quand Même!
2011
no text
Nieves
13 oils on canvas by Swiss artist.
Merlin Carpenter - The Opening
2011
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Focused on a series of exhibitions entitled The Opening—marked by the fact that all the paintings presented were produced at the galleries during the exhibition openings—the book documents all six events via text and snapshot-like images.
Isabelle Cornaro -
2011
French edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
(last copies available!)
Exhibition catalogue.
Isabelle Cornaro -
2011
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Exhibition catalogue.
Pierre Keller -
2011
French edition
JRP|Editions - Anthologies & Art Theory
An exhaustive documentation of Pierre Keller's work and trajectory.
Patrick Weidmann -
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
First photographic monograph, including newly commissioned essays by Joerg Bader, Nicolas Buri, Philippe Cuénat, Emmanuel Grandjean, and Gauthier Huber.
Pierre Denan - AH AH AH
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
miscellaneous
M19
14.00 5.00 €
1st issue of the art magazine published by M19, gathering works, articles, documents, and lists, featururing 42 artists, curators, art historians, critics, choreographers, musicians, plus one chef.
Brice Dellsperger - Body Double
2011
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Artist's book (an hallucinated portrait gallery of most of the characters created by Brice Dellsperger for his film remakes) / first substantive study of his work, with an essay by Marie Canet.
Carlfriedrich Claus - Einem luftigen akustischen Kosmos entgegen (CD)
2011
Tochnit Aleph
15.00 11.00 €
Collaboration performance by this two infamous German visual artists, writers & sound-poets.
Mounir Fatmi - Ghosting
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
35.00 17.00 €
Artist's book / first comprehensive publication dedicated to Franco-Moroccan artist.
Sung Hwan Kim - Ki-Da Rilke
2011
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Artist's book in which Sung Hwan Kim engages with the work of Rainer Maria Rilke.
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