Criminal Investigations
Daniel Spoerri
Published by Sabine Wachters Fine Arts, Knokke, Brussel, Deurle, 1991, 32 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 29.7 × 21 cm, Dutch
Price: €20

Produced on the occasion of Daniel Spoerri’s exhibition at Sabine Wachters Fine Arts, Knokke, Brussel, Deurle, 8 September–15 November, 1991.

Daniel Spoerri is a Swiss artist and writer, best known for his “snare-pictures”, a type of assemblage or object art, in which he captures a group of objects, such as the remains of meals eaten by individuals, including the plates, silverware and glasses, all of which are fixed to the table or board, which is then displayed on a wall.

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

#1991 #danielspoerri
Le choix des femmes
Published by Le Consortium and Frac Bourgogne, Dijon, 1991, 100 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 23 × 27 cm, French
Price: €18

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Le choix des femmes at Le Consortium and Frac Bourgogne, Dijon. Including Hanne Darboven, Gretchen Faust, Isa Genzken, Marthe Wéry, Laurie Parsons, Jessica Stockholder, Judith Barry, Annette Messager, Cindy Sherman, Rosemarie Trockel, François Vergier. With texts by Eric Colliard, René Denizot, Xavier Douroux, Franck Gautherot, Bernard Marcadé.

#1991 #annettemessager #cindysherman #hannedarboven #isagenzken #jessicastockholder #juliascher #laurieparsons #leconsortium #rosemarietrockel
Selected Video Works (1970–1991)
Michel Auder
Published by Anthology Film Archives, New York, 1991, 96 pp. (b/w ill.), 13.8 × 21.2 cm, English
Price: €30 (Temporarily out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of the screenings Selected Video Works (1970-1991) of Michel Auder’s work that took place at Anthology Film Archives, from 20 May–22 June, 1991. This publication includes an introduction by Jonas Mekas, and descriptions of the screenings, along with corresponding film stills.

#1991 #anthologyfilmarchives #experimentalfilm #film #michelauder
1952–1956, Tokyo
On Kawara
Published by Parco Co., Tokyo, 1991, unpaginated, hardcover in slipcase (colour & b/w ill.), 28 × 21.7 cm, Japanese/English
Price: €290

This publication focuses on On Kawara’s previously unstudied five-year stay in Tokyo, where he was part of influential avant-garde art student associations and wrote many pieces of art criticism. His violent and grotesque imagery from this period is in stark contrast to his streamlined conceptual date paintings.

Reproducing the complete Bathroom series (1953–54), Events in a Warehouse (1954), and a number of figurative paintings and drawings executed in Japan. The latter half of this book is a collection of newspaper headlines from 1952 to 1956 in both languages, printed on newsprint.

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

#1991 #japaneseavantgarde #onkawara
How to Read Donald Duck
Published by International General, New York, 1991, 120 pp. (b/w ill.), 17.5 × 25.6 cm, English
Price: €8

“The Chilean people began to ask these and other questions in revolutionary Chile 1970. How To Read Donald Duck was first published as Para Leer al Pato Donald in Chile 1971, and during the fascist period it was banned and burned there with other literature. A product of the political struggle, the book is a profound and imaginative critique of the sacred cow of children’s culture: the Disney Myth. With a new preface by the authors, an updated introduction by David Kunzle, an annotated bibliography of left writings on cultural imperialism and the comics, and an appendix by John Shelton Lawrence on the U.S. government’s censorship and the legal-political right to criticise Disney.” Published by Seth Sieglaub’s imprint International General.

#1991 #internationalgeneral #sethsiegelaub
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: €88 (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.

#1991 #pierreklossowski