A BIBLIOGRAPHY
Allan Kaprow
Published by Mousse Publishing, Milan & Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2012, 126 pages (colour & b/w ill.), softcover, 23 × 17 cm, English
Price: €75

This bibliography catalogues and illustrates, with a wide selection of images, Allan Kaprow’s entire body of published work: from his first artist’s book in 1962, to his last anthological projects in the 1990s. This lesser-known side of his oeuvre unfolds through 32 books, booklets, and pamphlets produced over a period of 40 years. Kaprow’s work moved along two parallel tracks: Happenings—of which he was an unchallenged pioneer, starting in the 1950s—and “Activity Booklets,” which functioned as a tool to help people understand and experience these performances.

The layout of his books, the originality of their structure, the literary stature of their texts, and their aesthetic quality as objects shifted his exploration of print into a higher realm, where the book became a fully-fledged work of art.

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Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2006, 88 pages (colour ill.), 26.5 × 21.3 cm, English/German
Price: €100

Marc Camille Chaimowicz subtly intervenes in the gallery space, altering the atmosphere and décor of the environment. This catalogue, devised in collaboration with the graphic designer Adeline Morlon, reflects his working method, developing quiet, multi-perspective views of a spatial installation. Chaimowicz’s environments embrace the domestic sphere, incorporating interior design, ceramics, wallpaper and textiles. The exhibition at Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen documented in this book shows works spanning the years 1975 to 2005 and includes objects, drawings, photo collages and paintings.

‘Spaces and their potentialities of allowing ideas to come into being forms the central pillar of interest for the artist Marc Camille Chaimowicz… for the first time ever in a German institution, he has realized his ideas in a richly faceted manner and shown his work to an interested and curious audience.’—Rita Kersting

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Diagrams: Images from Ten Films
Harun Farocki
Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2014, 384 pages (colour & b/w ill), 24.4 × 16.8 cm, English
Price: €40 (Out of stock)

This publication attempts to map a visual approach to one of the world’s foremost documentary and essay filmmakers, Harun Farocki.

Unlike the many other, more theoretical publications about his work, this book operates with still images beyond an illustrative or documentary purpose.

By means of repetition, interruption and displacement, the configurations pursue specific movements within each film, taking into account mechanisms of order and open-endedness that are characteristic for Farocki’s work in general.

Diagrams traces the dynamics in ten of Farocki’s films and presents them along with each film’s complete commentaries, dialogues and intertitles, celebrating their major critical gesture: the exposition of mediality.

Edited by Benedikt Reichenbach. Text by Thomas Elsaesser, Maren Grimm, Jan Verwoert, Christa Blümlinger, Dietrich Leder, Ute Holl, Benedikt Reichenbach, Matthias Rajmann, Hila Peleg, Anselm Franke.

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