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Vendor:Prestel
Erwin Wurm: Bei Mutti
Hardcover | 23.65 x 1.6 x 27.64 cm | 128 pp Prestel | 2016 | 9783791355450 Text in English and German Viennese artist Erwin Wurm is known for his quirky and compelling art that occupies a special place in contemporary art. Since the late 1980s...- £25.00
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Andre Stitt: Small Time Life
Softcover | 21.6 x 1.3 x 25.4 cm | 144 pp Black Dog Press | 2001 | 9781901033670 Performance artist Andre Stitt has presented hundreds of performances - or 'akshuns' - which are invariably violent and cathartic, involving self-abuse, tantrums and exorcisms. His references are...- £5.00
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Reflections: Andrew Logan in Conversation with Andrew Lambirth
Hardcover | 19.69 x 3.05 x 24.13 cm | 368 pp Unicorn | 2022 | 9781914414459 describes himself first and foremost as a sculptor and his trademark is a celebration of colour, in whatever medium he is working in, with the primary aim to create beauty or bring...- £15.00
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Everything That Happened: Manchester International Festival
Softcover | 22.7 x 2.6 x 29.4 cm | 240 pp Unicorn Press | 2023 | 9781911397656 Manchester International Festival (MIF) has invited some of the world's greatest living artists to delight and often challenge crowds in spaces of all shapes and sizes; from...- £15.00
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Matthew Barney: Otto Trilogy
Hardcover | 20.83 x 28.45 x 2.29 cm | 200 pp Yale University Press | 2016 | 9780300223699 Celebrated for works blending performance, video, and sculpture, Matthew Barney has created complex narratives that emerge across series since his earliest exhibitions. Matthew Barney: OTTO Trilogy...- £30.00
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Walking Sculpture 1967-2015
Lexi Lee Sullivan Hardcover 27.18 x 24.13 x 1.27 cm | 88 pp Yale University Press | 2015 | 9780300212433 Artists have utilised walking as an autonomous form of art, a subject in their work, and as social practice since the early 20th century....- £15.00
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The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now
Rudolf Frieling & Boris Groys Hardcover | 20.6 x 2.8 x 26.2 cm | 212 pp Thames & Hudson | 2008 | 9780500238585 This survey covers the rich and varied history of participatory art, from early happenings and performances to current practices that demand audience interaction. As...- £17.50
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Nobody's Property: Art, Land, Space
Hardcover | 23.5 x 1.9 x 28.6 cm | 136 pp Princeton University Art Museum | 2010 | 9780300149289 This generously illustrated volume surveys a new chapter in the history of environmental art, one in which space, geopolitics, human relations, urbanism, and utopian dreamwork play as...- £7.50
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Mona Hatoum: Terra Infirma
Hardcover | 24.64 x 2.29 x 30.99 cm | 224 pp Yale University Press | 2018 | 9780300233148 The work of Mona Hatoum (b. 1952) addresses the growing unease of an ever-expanding world that is as technologically networked as it is fractured by war...- £15.00
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Brian Lane: The Printed Performance - Works 1966-99
Edited by Martin Rogers and Simon Cutts Softcover | 15.24 x 1.27 x 21.59 cm | 176 pp Coracle | 2001 | 9780954063900 Edition of 1000 Brian Lane's unique contribution to small-press publishing was begun in the mid nineteen-sixties at Gallery Number Ten in Blackheath, south-east London. This...- £5.00
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Paul Etienne Lincoln: The Purification of fagus sylvatica var pendula
Hardcover | 22.5 x 26.5 cm | 48 pp Coracle | 2005 Edition of 600 numbered copies The Purification of Fagus sylvatica var pendula is emblematic of Paul Etienne Lincoln's inquiry into the origin and production of memory - and our ethereal relationship to...- £15.00
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Rituals of Rented Island: Object Theater, Loft Performance, and the New Psychodrama - Manhattan, 1970-1980
Softcover | 16.51 x 1.91 x 24.13 cm | 176 pp Yale University Press | 2014 | 9780300195866 This important volume explores three unique performance art practices of the 1970s and early 1980s: 'Object Theater' (in which artists engage directly with the objects in...- £5.00
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Vendor:Onestar
Lori Waxman: 60 wrd/min Art Critic
Softcover | 13.97 x 1.27 x 21.59 cm | 148 pp Onestar | 2014 | 9782915359442 Operating from a small, single-room structure installed at Documenta 13, art historian and "60 wrd/min art critic" Lori Waxman offered free reviews to any artist who wanted one....- £5.00
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Sharon Hayes: There's So Much I Want to Say to You
Softcover | 22.96 x 0.97 x 27.89 cm | 88 pp Yale University Press | 2012 | 9780300180374 In her performances, videos, and installations, Sharon Hayes (b. 1970) explores the nexus between politics, history, speech, and desire. Her works modify or appropriate the language...- £10.00
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Jim Holl: The Landscape Painter - An Autobiography 1974 through 1994
Softcover | 24.13 x 1.27 x 17.15 cm | 128 pp Edizioni Charta | 2009 | 9788881587292 When Jim Holl moved to New York's SoHo district in the mid-1970s, he found himself in the epicentre of the city's booming art scene. Immersing himself in...- £5.00
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Manzoni in Holland
Softcover | 14.48 x 2.03 x 21.08 cm | 160 pp NAI Publishers | 2019 | 9789462085053 Italian artist Piero Manzoni (1933-1963) is seen as one of the pioneers of international conceptual art. During his short artistic career, he produced more than a thousand canvases, sculptures...- £20.00
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Lygia Pape
Hardcover | 21.59 x 3.18 x 27.94 cm | 244 pp Yale University Press | 2017 | 9781588396167 This books offers an exceptional overview of the experimental, political, and participatory artwork of an important, iconoclastic Latin American artistLygia Pape (1927–2004) was an influential Brazilian...- £27.50
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Rachel Kneebone: The Dance Project (Non-mint)
Hardcover | 14.8 x 0.7 x 21 cm | 64 pp Touchstones Rochdale | 2018 Rachel Kneebone’s work has been described as ‘sculptural choreography’, the expression of physical metamorphosis and dynamic movement. The Dance Project (Touchstones, Rochdale, 2018–19) was an exhibition of sculptures and...- £8.00
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Bruce Nauman
Hardcover | 22.61 x 3.81 x 29.46 cm | 133 pp Foundation Cartier | 2015 | 9782869251175 This beautifully produced book accompanied Bruce Nauman’s major exhibition at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain (Paris, 2015). Developed in close collaboration with the artist, the exhibition...- £25.00
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ON&BY Christian Marclay (Non-mint)
Softcover | 15 x 2.2 x 21 cm | 240 pp Whitechapel Gallery | 2014 | 9780854882304 Influencing a whole generation of artists, musicians and theorists, since the late 1970s Christian Marclay (b. 1955) has explored the interplay between sound, audio cultures and art...- £6.50
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