Le carnet des nuits
Marie Laurencin
Published by Pierre Cailler, Geneva, 1956, 98 pp. (b/w ill.), 11 × 17.3 cm, French
Price: €175

Better known as a painter and printmaker than for her writing, at the beginning of 1956, which would be the year of her death, Marie Laurencin published the definitive version of Carnet des nuits an autobiography where she mixes prose, aphorisms, poems, pages of personal diary, notations gleaned over time, and embellishes it with three drawings.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

#1956 #marielaurencin
Marie Laurencin
Published by Galerie Buchholz, Köln, 2021, 48 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 21 × 29.5 cm, English
Price: €20 (Temporarily out of stock)

This catalogue documents the Marie Laurencin exhibition organized by Jelena Kristic at Galerie Buchholz New York in Spring 2020. Alongside numerous illustrations of the exhibited works, the book features texts by Hirohisa Takano-Yoshizawa, director of the Musée Marie Laurencin, Tokyo, and the curator Jelena Kristic. The book is designed by Mathias Poledna.

#2021 #galeriebuchholz #marielaurencin #mathiaspoledna
Art Gallery Contemporary World Art
Marie Laurencin
Published by Shueisha, Tokyo, 1985, 100 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 30.5 × 30.5 cm, Japanese
Price: €58

Marie Laurencin (31 October 1883–8 June 1956) was a French painter and printmaker. She became an important figure in the Parisian avant-garde as a member of the Cubists associated with the Section d’Or.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

#1985 #marielaurencin
The Hard Way to Enlightenment
Stephan Dillemuth
Published by Revolver Publishing, Berlin, 2012, 128 pp., 12 × 16.2 cm, English/German
Price: €15 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of Stephan Dillemuth’s exhibtion Öffentliche Verkehrsmittel at Secession, Vienna, 3 May–17 June, 2012.

#2012 #revolverpublishing #secession #stephandillemuth
Glass Urinary Devices
Patty Chang
Published by A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam, 2024, 32 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 17 × 21 cm, English
Price: €12

In 2015, artist Patty Chang (1972) followed the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, the longest aqueduct in the world, which brings water from southern to northern China. While walking, she collected her urine in plastic bottles, drinking their contents before refilling them, in turn drawing a connection between the large-scale infrastructural attempt to control the flow of water and the uncontrollable flows of her own body. Once back in Boston, Chang began making a series of portable urinary devices from discarded plastic bottles, which were then hand-blown in New York by glass-blower Amy Lemaire.

Designed by Sabo Day, this indexical publication is the first book dedicated to depicting the series of sixty-four sculptures in its entirety. It was published on the occasion of Patty Chang’s exhibition at A Tale of A Tub, which ran from September 14–November 3, 2024.

#2024 #ataleofatub #pattychang #saboday
Unto This Last
Published by Raven Row, London, 2010, unpaginated (colour & b/w ill.), 14.8 × 21 cm, English
Price: €10 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Unto This Last at Raven Row, 19 May – 24 July, 2010, taking its cue from John Ruskin’s eponymous book to consider the complicated relationships between contemporary art and craft. With work by Thomas Bayrle, Sarah Browne, Andrea Büttner, Alice Channer, Isabelle Cornaro, Dewar & Gicquel, Pernille Kapper Williams and Běla Kolářová.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

#2010 #alicechanner #andreabuttner #belakolarova #isabellecornaro #ravenrow #thomasbayrle