Small edition exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held in 1973. Artists include David Askevold, Robert Barry, Victor Burgin, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Hans Haacke, On Kawara, Joseph Kosuth, Piero Manzoni, Giuseppe Penone, Anne Poirier, Patrick Poirier, Peter Roehr, Salvo, and Marthe Wery, with sections on Art & Language and Art & Project. ... [details]
"Since the 1960s, the artist Bruce Nauman has developed a highly complex and pluralistic oeuvre ranging from discrete sculpture, performance, film, video, and text-based works to elaborate multipart installations incorporating sound, video recording and monitors, and architectural structures. ... [details]
First issue of the periodical Praxis. Articles include: "Bruno's Castle or Some Literary Misconceptions," by Gene H. Bell; "Art Against Imperialism," by E. San Juan; "Brecht, Godard and Epic Cinema," by Naomi Greene; "Reflections on Literary Theory and Culture,: by Jon Fekete; "A Shift in Weather (poem)," by Ruth Lechlitner; "Art, Censorship and Socialism," by Stefan Morawski; "Mayakovsky: Language and Death of a Revolutionary," by John Berger and Anya Bostock; "Art as Humanizing Praxis," by Marx W. ... [details]
Anthology of critical texts. Written contributions by Germano Celant, Lawrence Alloway, Art & Language, Mel Bochner, Robert Barry, Maurzio Calvesi, Michael Claura, Piero Gilardi, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Lucy Lippard, Robert Morris, Daniela Palazzoli, Nam June Paik, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Robert Smithson, Tommaso Trini, Buren-Mosset-Parmentier-Toroni, and Lawrence Weiner. ... [details]
Press catalogue published in conjunction with exhibition held June 22 - September 28, 1997. Show curated by Kasper König. Artists in the exhibition include Kim Adams, Michael Asher, Christine Borland, Janet Cardiff, Eduardo Chillida, Stephan Craig, Mark Dion, Stan Douglas, Maria Eichorn, Ayse Erkmen, Peter Fischli/David Weiss, Isa Genzken, Paul-Armand Gette, Douglas Gordon, Dan Graham, Marie-Ange Guilleminot, Raymond Hains, Thomas Hirschhorn, Rebecca Horn, Fabrice Hybert, Ilya Kabakov, Tadashi Kawamata, Martin Kippenberger, Per Kirkeby, Jeff Koons, Atelier van Lieshout, Olaf Metzel, Reinhard Mucha, Nam June Paik, Jorge Pardo, Hermann Pitz, Merjetica Potrc, Tobias Rehberger, Allen Ruppersberg, Karin Sander, Roman Signer, Andreas Slominski, Yutaka Sone, Diana Thater, Bert Theis, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Eulàlia Valldosera, herman de vries, Franz West, Elin Wikström, Anna Brag, Wolfgang Winter, Jeffrey Wisniewski, Andrea Zittel, and Heimo Zobernig. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held October 1982. Traveled February 16 - March 18, 1983, Language Plus, Québec, Canada, February 26 - March 27, 1983, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada; August 1 - April 30, 1983, Production Raélisations Indépendantes de Montréal, Canada. ... [details]
Sixteen cutting-edge performance artists discuss critical questions such as: how can you have a revolutionary feminism that encompasses wild sex, humor, beauty and spirituality plus radical politics? How can you have a powerful movement for social change that's inclusionary - not exclusionary? How is language based on dualisms (male/female, gay/straight, black/white, mind/body, personal/political) obstructing out visualization of a "better world"? [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at the Bibliothéque nationale de France, Paris, France, March 29 - June 26, 2011. Curated and with essays by Robert Rubin and Marie Minssieux-Chamonard. ... [details]
Critical theory text discussing themes and origins of contemporary art. The title, "Synnyt," refers to the Finnish word meaning 'birth' and 'to be born,' and also to Finnish mythology, in which the word alluded to a story that "explained the cause or origin of a given creature, disease or other phenomenon and it was believed that knowledge of the true 'synty' or origin gave its possessor power over the phenomenon in question. ... [details]
"In 1964, at age forty, Marcel Broodthaers (1924–1976) proclaimed that his years of writing poetry—of being "good for nothing," in his words—were over, and a brief but dazzling artistic career began. Considered a founding father of institutional critique, Broodthaers created hundreds of objects, books, films, photographs and exhibitions, including a "fictive" museum of modern art that evolved from an installation in his own home to a massive exhibition of over three hundred works representing eagles. ... [details]
