Specific & General Works
Lawrence Weiner
Published by Le Nouveau Musée/Institut d'Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, 1993, 734 pp. (b/w ill.), 17 × 24 cm, French/English/German/Dutch/Greek/Italian/Japanese/Swedish
Price: €95

Conceived as the second edition to Weiner’s Works (1977), Specific & General Works presents a broad selection of purely textual works by Lawrence Weiner from 1968 to 1993.

Weiner’s body of work has at its core a fundamental questioning of the conventions of objecthood in relation to the producer and its viewer. He used language as the primary medium for his works since the late 1960s. Presented in capital letters, his structures consisting of language, or text fragments, often accompanied by graphic marks and lines, have been exhibited around the world and interpreted into numerous languages.

#1993 #lawrenceweiner
The Body Decides
Franz Erhard Walther
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne; Wiels, Brussels & CAPC Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, 2014, 116 pp. with 6 pop-ups (colour & b/w ill.), 18 × 22 cm, English
Price: €290

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Franz Erhard Walther at Wiels, Brussels, 21 February–11 May, 2014 and Franz Erhard Walther: The Body Decides at CAPC, Bordeaux, 13 November, 2014–3 March, 2015.

A pop up book for adults, this catalogue on the work of Franz Erhard Walther sought its inspiration in the artist’s work in order to determine the publication-form that might most appropriately convey the centrality of action to the artist’s oeuvre. The performativity at the heart of Walther’s more than a half century long practice is underscored through the appearance of six brightly coloured elementary pop up forms spread throughout the book.

#capc #elenafilipovic #franzerhardwalther #verlagderbuchhandlungwaltherkonig #wiels
Objekte, Installationen, Wandarbeiten
Cady Noland & Félix González-Torres
Published by Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin, 1990, 72 pp. (b/w ill.), 20 × 20 cm, German / English
Price: €340

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Cady Noland & Félix González-Torres: Objekte, Installationen, Wandarbeiten at Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin, 17 December, 1990–30 January, 1991 and Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, 8 February–17 March, 1991.

With a textcollage by Robert Nickas, essays by Jan Avgikos Art/Artifact/Fact, Kirby Gookin From the (S)melting Stink Pot, David Deitcher Blue Jeans and Death by Gun and two interventions by the artists: Textpieces by Félix González-Torres and Arbeitskopien by Cady Noland.

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

#1990 #cadynoland #felixgonzaleztorres
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: €90 (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
Paleis voor Schone Kunsten Brussel/Palais des Beaux Arts Bruxelles
Jef Geys
Published by Stichting Kunst en Projecten, Zedelgem, 1992, 128 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 19 × 29.7 cm, Dutch/French
Price: €95

Produced on the occasion of Jef Geys’ retrospective at Paleis voor Schone Kunsten Brussel / Palais des Beaux Arts Bruxelles. With texts by Marie-Ange Brayer and Frederik Leen.

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

#1992 #jefgeys
Analogue
Zoe Leonard
Published by MIT Press, Cambridge, 2007, 186 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 27.3 × 33 cm, English
Price: €200

The photographs in Zoe Leonard’s Analogue trace the “layered, frayed, and quirky” beauty of a fading way of life. Zoe Leonard documents the vanishing face and texture of twentieth century urban life, as seen in the shop windows of mom-and-pop stores. Lacking the glamour of the shopping mall and the digitally manipulated perfection of mail order catalogs, these fading objects tenaciously hold on to their disappearing place on city streets. Recognizing that digital technology has transformed traditional photography just as chain stores and multinational corporations have changed the face of urban life, Leonard attempts to preserve the photographic realm of the analogic—the photograph’s distinct ability to record physical data into a corresponding image. Analogue is a testament both to vanishing city storefronts and to the endangered status of photography itself. Leonard also documents a twenty-first century phenomenon, the globalized rag trade. Her photographs follow a shipment of discarded clothing from a clearing station in her native Brooklyn to used clothing markets in Kampala—showing us, in the trajectory of one commodity, the economic and social forces that link us globally.

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

#2007 #mitpress #photography #zoeleonard