Mayhem
Sherrie Levine
Published by Whitney Museum of American Art, New York & Yale University Press, New Haven, 2012, 216 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 24.7 × 31 cm, English
Price: €180

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Sherrie Levine, Mayhem at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 10 November, 2011–29 January, 2012.

Sherrie Levine’s work engages many of the core tenets of postmodern art, in particular challenging notions of originality, authenticity, and identity. Since she rose to prominence as a member of the Pictures Generation of artists in the late 1970s and 1980s, Levine has created a singular and complex body of work in a variety of media that often explicitly reproduces artworks and motifs from the Western art-historical canon as well as non-Western cultures.

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

#2012 #picturesgeneration #sherrielevine
Painting, Relief, Collage and Drawing
Prunella Clough
Published by Annely Juda Fine Art, London, 2012, folding card (colour & b/w ill.), 22 × 24.5 cm, English
Price: €13

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Prunella Clough, Painting, Relief, Collage and Drawing at Annely Juda Fine Art, London, 3 May–30 June, 2012, 2009.

Prunella Clough found her subjects by touring London’s industrial wastelands and bombsites – docks, power stations, factories and scrapyards – creating gritty, urban images. Her work – comprising paintings, collages, drawings, reliefs and graphics – increasingly centred on the components of the cityscape as her art, shifted away from representation through various influences including cubism and European abstraction.

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

#2012 #ephemera #invitecard #prunellaclough
Evaporation Essays
Nina Canell
Published by Distanz Verlag, 2012, 152 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 17 × 24 cm, English
Price: €55 (Temporarily out of stock)

Evaporation Essays brings forth a number of reflections on the artist’s work, drawing from scientific experiments, intuitive logic, friendship, and the poetic potential in oddments of thought. The publication is the first extensive monograph on the artist and includes reproductions of sculptural works. Edited by Melanie Bono and Annette Hans. Texts by Xander Karskens, Caomhín Mac Giolla Léith, Pádraic E. Moore, and Chris Sharp.

#2012 #chrissharp #ninacanell
Ken Price (card)
Published by Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, 2012, folding card (colour & b/w ill.), 12.7 × 17.7 cm, English
Price: €14

Invitation card produced on the occasion of Ken Price’s exhibition at Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, 26 September–10 November.

For over 50 years, Ken Price produced small-scale, brightly colored ceramic sculptures with exquisitely worked glazed and painted surfaces in which he achieved a balance between form and surface. In recent years, Price began making works in much larger sizes. His youthful experiences as a surfer in Los Angeles greatly influenced his art, which he explained as the manifestation of that which he found pleasurable.

#2012 #ceramics #ephemera #invitecard #kenprice #westcoastceramics
Sans titre (écoutant)
Raphaël Van Lerberghe
Published by (SIC), Brussels, 2012, 32 pp. (colour ill.), 21 × 29.7 cm, French
Price: €12 (Out of stock)

Born 1978 in Chimay, Raphaël Van Lerberghe lives and works in Havré (Belgium).

#sic #2012 #raphaelvanlerberghe
Kodachrome
Luigi Ghirri
Published by Mack Books, London, 2012, 88 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 21 × 27 cm, English
Price: €45

In 1978 Luigi Ghirri self-published his first book, an avant-garde manifesto for the medium of photography and a landmark in his own remarkable oeuvre. Part amateur photo-album, Ghirri presents his surroundings in tightly cropped images, making photographs of photographs and recording the Italian landscape through it’s adverts, postcards, potted plants, walls, windows, and people.

Long out of print and on the 20th anniversary of Ghirri’s death, MACK published the second edition. Now in its fifth reprint this volume is the first print of the second edition.

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

#2012 #luigighirri #mackbooks #photography