DALET, CHAPTER 24
R.H. Quaytman
Published by Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, 2012, Hardcover boxed set of 61 color cards and 3 booklets (colour & b/w ill.), 16.5 × 21 cm, English / French / German
Price: €48

Chapter 24 illustrates 61 paintings from the exhibition of the same name at the Museum Abteiberg in Mönchengladbach, Germany, 3 June–4 November, 2012. This latest chapter employs a variety of images directly related to Museum Abteiberg and Mönchengladbach. Many of the paintings are made from the museum’s image archive, and photographs taken by the artist of works in the permanent collection. These images are presented alongside several small portraits of their custodian, chief curator Hannelore Kersting.

The boxed set of 61 cards depicts each painting accompanied by corresponding notes written by the artist about each image. Additionally, the box includes an essay on Chapter 24 by Mark Godfrey, a facsimile of Yve-Alain Bois’ early essay The Tree and the Square, plus the original 1977 version L’arbre et le carré, and a new German translation. The box format is a direct reference to the famous catalogues published by the Museum in Mönchengladbach under the direction of Johannes Cladders.

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Drawings
Anne Truitt
Published by Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, 2012, Clothbound with dust jacket, 103 pages (colour ill.), 25 × 30 cm, English
Price: €28 (Out of stock)

Drawing was of primary importance to Truitt throughout her life as an artist. The earliest works in this book, the first exclusively devoted to her works on paper, date from the early 1960s, when she first developed the sculptures in painted wood for which she is best known, while the latest works date from 2002, the year before she died. Illustrated in full colour, these drawings include the full range of Truitt’s drawing techniques, including graphite, ink, pastel, and acrylic on paper.

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The Poor Stockinger, the Luddite Cropper and the Deluded Followers of Joanna Southcott
Luke Fowler
Published by Film and Video Umbrella, London, 2012, 80 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 10.8 × 17.8 cm, English
Price: €9

This companion publication to Luke Fowler’s film of the same name features essays by architecture critic and cultural commentator Owen Hatherley and historian Tom Steele.

Lending additional context to Fowler’s study of the activist/historian E.P. Thompson, it brings further illuminating insights to Thompson’s life and times, and his lingering influence as a champion of workers’ education. Evoking the design of a Workers Educational Association textbook from a similar era, this illustrated pocket-sized publication acts as a resonant echo of Fowler’s work.

A trailer for the film can be seen here.

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Retour d'y voir #05: Retraits de l'artiste en Philippe Thomas
Published by Mamco, Geneva, 2012, 368 pages (b/w ill.), 17 × 24 cm, French
Price: €18 (Temporarily out of stock)

Retour d’y voir is the art history review published by the Mamco, Geneva. The 5th issue is entirely dedicated to Philippe Thomas: analysis (Michel Gauthier, Jean-Philippe Antoine, Robert Storr, Stéphane Sauzedde, Christophe Kihm, Érik Verhagen, Guillaume Leingre, Claire Fontaine, Judith Ickowicz, Émeline Jaret) and testimonies (Claire Burrus & Émeline Jaret, Sylvie Breton & Dominique Païni, Daniel Bosser, Jacques Salomon, Bernard Blistène, Daniel Soutif, Ghislain Mollet-Viéville).

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Surfing with the Attractor
Stephen Willats
Published by South London Gallery, London, 2012, 47 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 21 × 27 cm, English
Price: €17

Stephen Willats has made work examining the function and meaning of art in society since the 1960s. His work has involved interdisciplinary processes and theory from sociology, systems analysis, cybernetics, semiotics and philosophy. This manifests in wall installations, project works, films & computer simulations, drawings & diagrams, bookworks and texts.

Produced on the occasion of Stephen Willats’ exhibition, Surfing with the Attractor at South London Gallery, 1 June–15 July, 2012. Containing essays by John Kelsey, Tom Morton and Stephen Willats and a conversation between Stephen Willats and Margot Heller.

More information on the exhibition can be found here.

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Use of Time
Richard Tuttle
Published by Hatje Cantz, Berlin, 2012, hardcover in slipcase, 36 pages, (colour & b/w ill.), 17.3 × 24.7 cm, English
Price: €95

An elaborate artist book with 18 cards, loosely bound by a weaver knot.

Richard Tuttle has worked in close collaboration with the Kunsthaus Zug as the “in-house artist” for almost twenty years. Through fragile, mostly small, subtle paintings as well as sculptural objects and three-dimensional installations, he continues to explore special features of the museum’s architecture or selected works from its collection. Tuttle poses questions about endurance and continuity, rhythm and repetition in the various cultures of contemporary global society.

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