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.

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Raphaël Van Lerberghe
Published by (SIC), Brussels, 2012, 32 pp. (colour ill.), 21 × 29.7 cm, French
Price: €12

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

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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.

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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.

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Date Painting(s) in New York and 136 Other Cities
On Kawara
Published by Ludion, Brussels & David Zwirner, New York, 2012, 280 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 25 × 28 cm, English
Price: €85 (Out of stock)

This book contains more than 180 ‘date paintings’ (monochrome canvases painted with the date on which they were done). The first part of the catalogue contains the complete series of paintings On Kawara did in New York, while the second part shows the work he created in 136 other cities.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership (some damage to the dust jacket).

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The Stuff That Matters, textiles collected by Seth Siegelaub for the CSROT
Published by Raven Row, London, 2012, 70 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 17.5 × 26.2 cm, English
Price: €45

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition The Stuff That Matters. Textiles collected by Seth Siegelaub for the Centre for Social Research on Old Textiles at Raven Row, London, 1 March–5 May, 2012. Which presented the first exhibition of the collection of historic textiles assembled by Seth Siegelaub over the past thirty years for the Center for Social Research on Old Textiles (CSROT). The exhibition featured over 200 items from the collection and included woven and printed textiles, embroideries and costume, ranging from fifth-century Coptic to Pre-Columbian Peruvian textiles, late medieval Asian and Islamic textiles, and Renaissance to eighteenth-century European silks and velvets.

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