Dichter en kunstenaar
Marcel Broodthaers
Published by Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven and Weserbrug Museum, Bremen, 2015, 144 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 21.5 × 28 cm, German
Price: €28 (Out of stock)

Documents more than seventy books and works on paper by the Belgian poet and conceptual artist Marcel Broodthaers from the Schmidt collection. With texts by Viola Hildebrandt-Schat and Anne Thurman-Jajes.

Marcel Broodthaers worked primarily as a poet until 1963, when for the last twelve years of his life he made a richly varied, elusive, and influential body of work. The work he created in this albeit too brief time period was enormously influential to future generations of artists. Known for his associations in which he explores the nature and meaning of language, word and image, and rhetoric, his work encompasses poetry, writing, books, film, photography, slides, drawing, painting, and sculpture.

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

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Dichter en kunstenaar / Poet and artist (card)
Marcel Broodthaers
Published by Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 2015, card (colour & b/w ill.), 21 × 14.7 cm, Dutch/English
Price: €12

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Marcel Broodthaers: Dichter en kunstenaar / Poet and artist at Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 24 February–9 May, 2015. An exhibition of more than seventy books and works on paper by the Belgian poet and conceptual artist Marcel Broodthaers from the Schmidt collection, together with some of the works from the Van Abbemuseum collection.

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CvB Singles Uptown Remix
Cosima von Bonin
Published by Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, 2015, 38 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 20.1 × 27.3 cm, English
Price: €18

Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at Petzel Gallery, New York, September 16–October 31, 2015. CvB Singles Uptown Remix presents a survey of work created since 2000—rags, mushrooms, a “soft” fence, an enormous octopus and other curious objects from Cosima’s diverse oeuvre.

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Fuck Seth Price
Seth Price
Published by Leopard, New York, 2015, 124 pp., 11.7 × 17.7 cm, English
Price: €80

A provocative, moving novella about what it means to be a creative person under today’s digital regime. In the course of a gripping, headlong narrative, Price’s unnamed protagonist moves in and out of contemporary non-spaces on a confounding and enigmatic quest, all the while meditating on art in the broadest sense: not simply painting and sculpture but also film, architecture, literature, and poetry. From boutique hotels and highway bridges to PC terminals and off-ramps; from Kanye West and Jeff Koons to George Bush and Patricia Highsmith; from the playground to the internet to the mirror, Price’s hybrid of fiction, essay, and memoir gets to the central questions not only of art, but of how we live now.

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

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Foregrounds, Distances
Ull Hohn
Published by Sternberg Press, Berlin; Galerie Neu, Berlin & The Estate of Ull Hohn, 2015, 332 pp. hardcover with dust jacket (colour & b/w ill.), 22.5 × 26.5 cm, English/German
Price: €48 (Out of stock)

After his studies at the arts academies in Berlin and Düsseldorf, Ull Hohn (1960–1995) moved to New York to attend the Whitney Independent Study Program in 1987. Engaging with current theoretical debates and cultural issues, his work from the late 1980s and early 1990s frequently invokes questions of gender and homosexuality, as well as their representation. It interrogates the history of painting, traditional notions of virtuosity, the conventions of value and taste inherent to education, and the distinction between high and popular culture.

Ull Hohn: Foregrounds, Distances aims not only to offer the first comprehensive overview of his work, but also to contribute to a history of painting-based practices, which occupy a marginal place in the established narratives of the art of the 1980s and 1990s.

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Die schmutzigen Puppen von Pommern
Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys
Published by Sternberg Press, Berlin, 2015, 40 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 20 × 28.5 cm, English
Price: €21 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at The Power Station, Dallas,  April 8 – June 12, 2015.

Part document, part photographic album, this artists’ book by Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys captures the sculptural revisionings of the descendants of an executioner family from Greifswald in the historical province of Pomerania.

Designed by Boy Vereecken and Harald Thys.

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