"This book brings together new texts written to accompany 79 exhibitions organized by Bob Nickas between 1984 and 2011. Nickas chose one work to represent the memory of each exhibition, and through this visual "lens" he reflects on his activity as a curator, offering many behind-the-scenes views to the art world of the 1980s and 90s, as well as intimate recollections of the artists he worked with, and the art works he encountered over the years. ... [details]
Large-scale exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, April 9 - June 18, 1989. Traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, July 9 - October 22, 1989; Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, January 20 - March 18, 1990; and Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, April 15 - June 24, 1990. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held January 12 - February 27, 2021. Edited and with an essay by Dieter Schwarz. With additional texts by Samuel J. Wagstaff Jr. and Harold Rosenberg. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held November 14, 1987 - January 30, 1988. Loose leaf catalogue housed in a corrugated plastic slipcase. Includes an illustrated title page, staple bound essay by Martin Mosebach, and illustrated single sided loose pages printed with captions and featuring tipped in postcards. ... [details]
First publication of a project "Concerning the Sale of a Kilogram of Fine Gold in the Ingot," planned by Marcel Broodthaers in 1971 and published in 1987 by his estate. Includes the contract for the sale, quotes by Broodthaers and an interview with Broodthaers. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at Haus der Kunst, Munich, August 3 - December 10, 1997. Traveled to Nationalgalerie SMPK, Berlin, December 1997 - January 1998; Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf in the Ehrenhof, February 1998; P. ... [details]
Artist's book by Marcel Broodthaers. First of three variations of the trade edition of the title. "Before cutting the pages the reader had better beware of the knife he will be wielding for the purpose. ... [details]
Large-scale exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held June 6 - August 29, 1999. Essays by Vicente Todolí, João Fernandes, Miguel Wandschneider, Germano Celant, Robert Pincus-Witten, Antje von Graevenitz, Marita Sturken, Maria José Fazenda. ... [details]
![La Conquête de l'espace, Atlas à l'usage des artistes et des militaires / The Conquest of Space, Atlas for the use of Artists and the Military [aka: ATLAS]](/objects/images/s6463.jpg "La Conquête de l'espace, Atlas à l'usage des artistes et des militaires / The Conquest of Space, Atlas for the use of Artists and the Military [aka: ATLAS]")
"Measuring just 1 x 1.5 inches with a simple black slipcase and housed in a cloth-clamshell case, 'The Conquest of Space' [aka 'ATLAS'] is an artist’s book by Marcel Broodthaers originally published by Lebeer Hossmann Éditeurs, Brussels and Hamburg in 1975 in an edition of 50 numbered copies. ... [details]
"The work of the late Belgian artist and poet Marcel Broodthaers analyzes the instituitional conditions of art production at the end of the modernist period and is central to current debates on postmodernism. ... [details]
