FINITE INFINITE
STURTEVANT
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2013, 144 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 14 × 6 cm, English
Price: €15

Published to accompany the exhibition LEAPS JUMPS AND BUMPS, this flip book focuses on one of Sturtevant’s more recent works, Finite Infinite (2010), a large scale projection that features a dog running in an endless loop across an expanse of grass. Finite Infinite, like many of Sturtevant’s video works, references the endlessly repeating imagery that has become so prevalent in the world we live in today. Looping and repetition, key themes throughout Sturtevant’s practice, are also elegantly drawn out in the insightful text by Daniel Birnbaum included in this book.

#2013 #sturtevant #verlagderbuchhandlungwaltherkonig
PIERRE KLOSSOWSKI
Published by Libro Port, Tokyo, 1991, 1 volume in cardboard slipcase and dust jacket 168 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 26 × 30.3 cm, Japanese
Price: €90 (Out of stock)

With a text by Jacques Henric, translated by Masashi Ogura.

Pierre Klossowski was a French writer, translator and artist. A prolific late in life artist who was internationally acclaimed for his writings and translations on Sadeian erotic expression, Klossowski is a pivotal yet underrepresented figure in the history of 20th-century art, often overshadowed by his earlier literary work and his younger brother, Balthus. Primarily working with pencil and charcoal, the laborious drawings he produced reference a variety of subjects, including Greek mythology, Sadean decadence, medieval fantasy and sexualized scenarios involving a recurring female figure, Roberte. These imagined scenes depict a perplexing and intriguing array of mature, familiar and fantastical situations involving cartoonish human figures set in fictitious landscapes that uniquely relate back to the dystopic realities he creates.

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

#1991 #pierreklossowski
Eyes Open in the Dark
Peter Hujar
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2026, 144 pp. (b/w ill.), 17 × 24 cm, German
Price: €25

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Peter Hujar, Eyes Open in the Dark at the Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, 27 February–23 August 2026.

Peter Hujar was a central figure in the downtown scene of 1970s and early 80s New York, but at his death in 1987 from AIDS-related pneumonia his photography was largely unknown to a broader art world. Hujar’s principal concern was with portraiture, whether photographing his friends and denizens of the downtown scene – whom he encountered on the street, shot in his apartment studio, and sought out at performance venues – or turning his attention to animals, architecture and landscapes.

#2026 #peterhujar #photography #verlagderbuchhandlungwaltherkonig
Portrait Mode
Moyra Davey
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2025, 128 pp. (b/w ill.), 16 × 25 cm, English/German
Price: €20

Portrait Mode presents a new essay by artist, photographer, writer, and filmmaker Moyra Davey. In aphoristic texts paired with her own photographs, Davey interweaves accounts of her experiences as a photographer with reflections on canonical practitioners and theorists of the medium. With a particular focus on framing, light, contingency, and temporality, she considers the work of photographers who have challenged conventions of (self-)portraiture and representation, connecting their approaches to contemporary queer and feminist protagonists of the genre.

#2025 #artistswritings #moyradavey #photography #verlagderbuchhandlungwaltherkonig
Roberte et Gulliver
Pierre Klossowski
Published by Fata Morgana, Languedoc-Roussillon, 1974, 56 pp., 14.5 × 22.5 cm, French
Price: €19

The dialogue-driven “Divertimento,” Roberte et Gulliver, features the character of Roberte, delivering her, under the watchful eyes of the schoolboys, to Gulliver’s schemes. The letter to Michel Butor that follows goes beyond a simple discussion about books and writing. Through its reflection on the “simulacrum,” it helps us understand the mysterious link that unites writing and drawing in Klossowski’s work.

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

#1974 #pierreklossowski
La monnaie vivante
Pierre Klossowski and Pierre Zucca
Published by Eric Losfeld éditeur, Paris, 1970, 100 pp. (b/w ill.), 26 × 33 cm, French
Price: €105 (Out of stock)

Artist, novelist and philosopher Pierre Klossowski’s 1970 essay La Monnaie vivante (Living Currency), first published in France in an edition with erotic photographs made in collaboration with Pierre Zucca.

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

#1970 #pierreklossowski #pierrezucca