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25.01.2022 BACK IN THE BOOKSHOP: REMEDIOS VARO (1999) Scarce, stunning Japanese catalogue on Spanish surrealist Remedios Varo (1908 1963), published on the occasion of a major touring retrospective of her work throughout Japan in 1999. Only available in the participating Japanese museums in the late 1990s and now long out-of-print, this book beautifully reproduces Varo's paintings and drawings (including preliminary sketches alongside final oils) with detailed captions and descripti...ons, accompanied by illustrated essays and other texts by Masayo Nonaka, Octavio Paz, Luis-Martin Lozano, and Walter Green, portraits of the artist, exhibition history, bibliography, work list and more. Texts in English, Spanish and Japanese. One copy available via our website. #worldfoodbooks #remediosvaro @ WORLD FOOD BOOKS See more
22.01.2022 BACK IN THE BOOKSHOP: JB BLUNK (2020) The first long-awaited monograph to explore the entire oeuvre of the great American sculptor JB Blunk, with previously unseen examples of his work in stone, clay, painting and jewelry. The design beautifully combines archival images of Blunk's work in situ, and his studio, with color plates of newly photographed pieces. In an essay, Lucy R. Lippard discusses Blunk's reverence for ancient art and places, while Smithsonian Curator of Cer...amics Louise Allison Cort details Blunk's formative years in Japan. Glenn Adamson, Senior Scholar at the Yale Center for British Art, contributes an essay that explores the essence of Blunk himself along with his artwork. Blunk maintained a Midwestern sensibility of hard work and plainspokenness throughout his career, with little regard for the distinction between art, craft and design. Rather, he was guided by the materials with which he worked to create large sculptural pieces that seem to exude their own powerful energy unique to organic matter. Born in Kansas, James Blain Blunk (1926-2002) was a California-based sculptor who worked primarily with wood and clay. Following a period in Japan, where he met sculptor Isamu Noguchi and served apprenticeships with Japanese potter Kitaoji Rosanjin (18831959) and Bizen potter and Living National Treasure Kaneshige Toyo (18961967), Blunk being the first American to apprentice into the line of descent of that country's great unglazed stoneware ceramic tradition, Blunk went on to settle near the Marin County town of Inverness, California, where he built his own studio, and developed a lifelong friendship with the painter Gordon Onslow Ford (19122003), one of the last surviving members of the 1930s Paris surrealist group. In addition to woodwork and ceramics, Blunk also worked with jewelry, painting, furniture-building, bronze and stonework. Edited by Mariah Nielson and Abake. Designed by Abake. Available via our website. #worldfoodbooks #jbblunk #dentdeleone @ WORLD FOOD BOOKS See more
21.01.2022 NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: BERNARD SCHULTZE (1966) First edition Bernard Schultze exhibition catalogue published in 1966 to accompany the exhibition "Bernard Schultze" at the Städtisches Museum Schloß Morsbroich, Leverkusen. A beautiful catalogue printed on various paper stocks throughout and lavishly illustrated with an overview of German artist Bernard Schultze's many works in vivid colour and b/w, accompanied by texts from Rolf Wedewer, Peter W. Jansen and Bernard Schultze. ...Bernard Schultze (19152005) was a German abstract painter and integral figure of the Art Informel movement. He was notably the founder of the Quadriga collective, which included such artists as Otto Greis Karl Otto Götz, and Heinz Kreutz. Characterized by their gestural abstraction, Shultze’s works regularly feature brilliant, fluorescent colors morphing in and out of implied representation, forming fantastical landscapes, figures, and languages. Often highly textural, he is noted for his use of textile and sculptural relief throughout his painting practice. Sadly all of Schultze's early works, produced before 1945, were destroyed as a result of a 1945 air raid on Berlin. On 7 July 1955 he married painter Ursula Bluhm. The artist died in 2005 in Cologne, Germany at the age of 89, having continued painting until the end of his life. One copy available via our website. #worldfoodbooks #bernardschultze @ WORLD FOOD BOOKS See more
21.01.2022 BACK IN THE BOOKSHOP: ART VIVANT #5 : EILEEN GRAY (1982) Issue 5 (1982) of Japan's great Art Vivant quarterly journal. This very special issue dedicated entirely to the work of Eileen Gray (1878-1976), Irish-born French-based pioneer modern architect and furniture designer. Heavily illustrated throughout with black and white and colour photographs of Gray's incredible buildings, interiors, furniture, plus gate-fold page of the E-1027 project plan, blueprints, tubular steel ...experiments design, biography, and much more. Very scarce and handsome copy of this collectible issue. Available in the bookshop today and via our website. #worldfoodbooks #eileengray #artvivant #1982 @ WORLD FOOD BOOKS See more
21.01.2022 NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: CY TWOMBLY - MAKING PAST PRESENT (2020) Luscious reproductions of more than 50 of Twombly's paintings, drawings and little-known sculptures, along with classical works of art, tell the story of an American abstractionist’s poetical dialogue with antiquity. Cy Twombly's first visit to Italy as a young man ignited a lifelong passion for classical culture that is everywhere present in his art. Painted canvases, works on paper and small-scale sculptures r...eveal the historical soul of Twombly's abstract compositions. Taking on myths and heroes as personal guides, he created a psychologically complex dialogue with the visual and literary art of antiquity. This sumptuously illustrated publication reproduces a carefully chosen selection of the artist's paintings, drawings and sculptures alongside works of classical antiquity, including a number from his personal collection. Illuminating essays by leading scholars and writers, including Anne Carson, Jennifer R. Gross, Brooke Holmes and Mary Jacobus, explore the often enigmatic engagement of Twombly's art with the world of the past. Edited with text by Christine Kondoleon, Kate Nesin. Text by Anne Carson, Jennifer R. Gross, Brooke Holmes, Mary Jacobus. Cy Twombly (1928-2011) was born in Lexington, Virginia, and lived and worked in New York in the early 1950s and at Black Mountain College in North Carolina. After traveling around North Africa, Spain and Italy, he settled in Rome, where he remained for the rest of his life. Available via our website. #worldfoodbooks #cytwombly @ WORLD FOOD BOOKS See more
20.01.2022 BACK IN THE BOOKSHOP: L'UTOPIE DU TOUT PLASTIQUE 1960-1973 (1994) Very rare first Belgian edition of "L'Utopie du Tout Plastique 1960-1973", published in Brussels in 1994 by Fondation pour l'Architecture. Long out of print, this comprehensive volume quickly became an invaluable bible for plastic collectors of the 1960s, 1970s period. In 1994, on the occasion of a major exhibition in Brussels, editors Philippe Decelle, Diane Hennebert, and Pierre Loze compiled the most detai...led printed survey of plastic products to date, from Art, Functional Furniture, Fiberglass, Inflatable PVC, Transparent PMMA, Pop and Radical Design, Cookware, Electronics, Mod Fashions, Utopian Arhitecture. Heavily researched and lavishly illustrated throughout with close to 200 of the finest examples, L Utopie has become the standard reference on 1960s plastic design - an essential aid in identifying the designers, companies and manufacture details of many classic plastic objects from this era. Includes detailed biographies of the artists, designers, architects, manufacturers, plus a chronology and bibliography. Features the work of Pierre Paulin, Sergio Mazza, Vico Magistretti, César, Studio 65, Nicola L, Piero Gilardi, Verner Panton, Arman, Gianfranco Frattini, Jonathan De Pas, Donato d'Urbino, Paolo Lomazzi, Gae Aulenti, Anna Castelli Ferrieri, Joe Colombo, Enzo Mari, Iseo Hosoe, Mario Bellini, Dorothée Maurer-Becker, Cesare Leonardi and Franca Stagi, Günter Beltzig, Maurice Calka, Eero Aarnio, Wendell Castle, Alberto Rosselli, Quasar Khanh, Rossi Molinary, Ennio Lucini, Ugo la Pietra, Ettore Sottsass, Superstudio, Archizoom, Roy Adzak, Studio Gruppo 14, Dieter Rams, Reinhold Weiss, Marco Zanuso, Rodolfo Bonetto, Roger Tallon, Pierre Cardin, Courreges, Frei Otto, Buckminster Fuller, Jean Maneval, Paolo Soleri, Archigram, and many more. One copy via our website. #worldfoodbooks #lutopiedutoutplastique @ WORLD FOOD BOOKS See more
20.01.2022 NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: HANS BELLMER - ARS EROTICA (1970) First edition, edited and designed by Galerie Sydow's Heinrich Sydow-Zirkwitz, this beautiful book of Hans Bellmer's graphic works was published as a special project between Studio 69 in Cologne and Galerie Sydow in Frankfurt to accompany the exhibition "Ars Erotica" in 1970. Handsomely printed with spot-colour over-printing and illustrated throughout with Bellmer's graphic famous graphic cycles "Bellmer à Sade" (1961),... "Petite Traité de Morale" (1965) and illustrations for Georges Bataille's "Madame Edwarda" (1965). Includes text by Horst Albert Glaser. A very handsome collection and one of the nicest Bellmer books. One copy available via our website. #worldfoodbooks #hansbellmer #galeriesydow #galeriestudio69 See more
17.01.2022 BACK IN THE BOOKSHOP: GAYLEN GERBER (1995) Wonderful catalogue, and first monograph on the work of Gaylen Gerber, published on the occasion of an exhibition of Gerber's work at The Renaissance Society in 1992, marking the culmination of a ten-year period in which Gerber persistently painted the same opaque, monochromatic still-life over and over, in a bold artistic assertion that seeing is not believing but simply perceiving. This catalogue documents the artist's installati...ons of these paintings at various international exhibitions, including Documenta 9 in 1992, and Robbin Lockett Gallery in Chicago in 1988. At the Society's exhibition, Gerber hung a single row of his paintings abutted end to end on a wall crossing the entire gallery space. Jan Avgiko's catalog essay, written in close tandem with Gerber, is a brilliant investigation of the role perceptual aesthetic theories play in the modernist and postmodernist monochrome. One copy via our website. #worldfoodbooks #gaylengerber @rensoc @ WORLD FOOD BOOKS See more
16.01.2022 NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: HAJIME SORAYAMA - LATEX GALATEA (2003) First, deluxe edition of this rare Hajime Sorayama book published by Treville especially for the exhibition 'Hajime Sorayama - The Exhibition' at Ginza Graphic Gallery in 2003. Now out-of-print and collectible, this extra special copy is also signed by Sorayama himself on the cover "cleavage". Housed in an embossed, die-cut corset slipcase, with an illustrated, fold-out "pin-up" doubled-sided internal sleeve, both ...made from stiff card, this catalogue is profusely illustrated throughout with Japanese airbrush master Hajime Sorayama's erotic, futuristic, hyper-realistic illustrations with a heavy emphasis on latex and bondage mistresses. Includes his own commentary throughout (in English and Japanese), plus a special look inside his atelier. Hajime Sorayama (b. 1947) is a Japanese illustrator famed for his precisely detailed, erotic portrayals of feminine robots and fetish pin-ups, and also well-known for his design work on the original Sony AIBO. He describes his highly detailed style as "superrealism", which he says "deals with the technical issue of how close one can get to one's object." One copy available via our website. #worldfoodbooks #hajimesorayama #sorayama @ WORLD FOOD BOOKS See more
14.01.2022 NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: EDITION 69 - FRANTISEK HALAS, VITEZSLAV NEZVAL, JINDICH TYRSKÝ (2020) Launched in 1931 by Jindich tyrský, Edition 69 consisted of six volumes of erotic literature and illustration that followed the path marked out by Louis Aragons Irenes Cunt and Georges Batailles Story of the Eye. Including the first Czech translation of Marquis de Sades Justine and Pietro Aretino (both illustrated by Toyen), three volumes in the series were from Czech avant-ga...rde artists, and these were all illustrated by tyrský himself, who also contributed the text for the series' final volume. Brought together here in original English translations, Edition 69 comprises: Nezvals Sexual Nocturne; Halass erotic poetry collection Thyrsos; and tyrskýs Emilie Comes to Me in a Dream, including the original postscript from psychoanalyst and fellow Surrealist Bohuslav Brouk. For each, tyrský chose a different technique for the artwork, from pen and ink drawings to graphic collages to pornographic photomontages. Influenced by Max Ernsts collage-novels, André Massons illustrations, and the book as object, tyrskýs overall conception for the Edition 69 series rank it among the notable achievements of European Surrealism, representing as well a sustained attempt by the interwar Czech avant-garde to investigate the taboos of bourgeois culture. Available via our website. #worldfoodbooks @twisted_spoon_press @ WORLD FOOD BOOKS See more
14.01.2022 NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: HELIO OITICICA : DANCE IN MY EXPERIENCE (2020) One of the most radical and joyful artists of the 20th century, Helio Oiticica (1937-80) helped lead the charge in Brazilian art’s unique transition from abstract concrete art to performative objects and collective performance. As MoMA’s 2019 exhibition Sur Moderno demonstrated, one of Oiticica’s most revolutionary projects was the Parangole, wearable sculptures made from fabric, plastic or paper. The ...Parangole is meant to be worn, inhabited and danced by a participant, lending a physical spontaneity to the piece that entirely blurs the boundaries between the art object and those who experience it. Dance in My Experience, a lavishly illustrated major new monograph, traces the genealogy of this theme within the artist’s oeuvre, identifying rhythmic, choreographic and dance elements throughout his trajectory, from his first Metaesquemas through the Spatial Reliefs, Nuclei and Bolides, culminating in the Parangoles. Texts by Oiticica and numerous scholars in English. Edited with text by Adriano Pedrosa, Tomas Toledo. Available via our website. #worldfoodbooks #heliooiticica @ WORLD FOOD BOOKS See more
14.01.2022 BACK IN THE BOOKSHOP: HELIO OITICICA : DANCE IN MY EXPERIENCE (2020) One of the most radical and joyful artists of the 20th century, Helio Oiticica (1937-80) helped lead the charge in Brazilian art’s unique transition from abstract concrete art to performative objects and collective performance. As MoMA’s 2019 exhibition Sur Moderno demonstrated, one of Oiticica’s most revolutionary projects was the Parangole, wearable sculptures made from fabric, plastic or paper. The... Parangole is meant to be worn, inhabited and danced by a participant, lending a physical spontaneity to the piece that entirely blurs the boundaries between the art object and those who experience it. Dance in My Experience, a lavishly illustrated major new monograph, traces the genealogy of this theme within the artist’s oeuvre, identifying rhythmic, choreographic and dance elements throughout his trajectory, from his first Metaesquemas through the Spatial Reliefs, Nuclei and Bolides, culminating in the Parangoles. Texts by Oiticica and numerous scholars in English. Edited with text by Adriano Pedrosa, Tomas Toledo. Available via our website. #worldfoodbooks #heliooiticica @ WORLD FOOD BOOKS See more
13.01.2022 BACK IN THE BOOKSHOP: RON NAGLE - HANDSOME DRIFTER (2020) One of the most original artists working today, San Franciscobased Ron Nagle (born 1939)the enfant terrible of abstract expressionist ceramicshas made stunning, colourful, entirely unique small clay sculptures since the 1950s. In his sculpture, Nagle mixes allusions to modernism, middlebrow culture and the special pop sensibility of Northern California, making ceramic vessels no bigger than a few inches that dra...w on everything from Japanese tea ceremonies to Krazy Kat. Made with an overarching sense of playfulness and linguistic humor, a bodily and architectural sensibility, and Nagle’s keen attention to colour, these finely tuned, pitch-perfect sculptures condense sensory pleasure into perfect packages of experience and feeling. Their miniature scale makes these odd, elegant, sensual and sometimes abject little abstract sculptures endlessly charming models for the imagination. Lushly illustrated, Ron Nagle: Handsome Drifter is the most comprehensive and scholarly publication on the artist to date, with essays by curator Apsara DiQuinzio and Berlin-based art critic and theorist Jan Verwoert. A lively conversation about Nagle’s studio practice and unique process with curator and director Dan Byers of Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts rounds out this unmissable book. Includes sections of Naples drawings and visual inspiration. Available via our website for mail-order now. #worldfoodbooks #ronnagle @ WORLD FOOD BOOKS See more
13.01.2022 BACK IN THE BOOKSHOP: ROBERT MACPHERSON - 184 FROG POEMS 184 BOSS DROVERS (2001) Hardcover artist's book by the great Robert MacPherson (b. 1937, Brisbane, Queensland), published on the occasion of the major solo exhibition at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2001. Profusely illustrated throughout with colour, landscape-orientated reproductions of MacPherson's classic, expansive series of drawings of drovers. All deliberately executed as if by the hand of a ten-year-o...ld, over a 20-year period Robert MacPherson made these in the guise of his alter ego, Robert Pene, a grade 4 student at St Josephs Convent, Nambour, Queensland. Robert Pene has an obsession: he endlessly catalogues boss drovers in portraits that vividly evoke the resilient, determined spirit of the rugged individuals responsible for moving thousands of livestock and teams of stockmen and cooks along the great pastoral stock routes of Australia, travelling over vast distances from station to market, or finding feed and water in times of drought. The drovers series is an ongoing theme having detained MacPherson throughout much of his career as an artist. Over the course of his 40-year career, Robert MacPherson has explored the philosophical propositions of what constitutes a work of art. He often incorporates familiar imagery, everyday materials and visual elements from daily life, honouring the beauty of the mundane. MacPhersons fascination with systems of objects and language is manifested through broad fields of knowledge, including art history and social history, biology and mythology. One copy left, via our website. #worldfoodbooks #robertmacpherson #bossdrovers #frogpoems @ WORLD FOOD BOOKS See more
12.01.2022 NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: I CONFESS by MOYRA DAVEY (2020) Over the past 40 years, Canadian artist Moyra Davey (born 1958) has perfected a unique synthesis of photography, film and text to critically engage with the past, present and future of the world around her. Based on Daveys eponymous 2019 film, I Confess unites three main sources in a chronicle of late 20th-century Quebec, shaped by themes of race, poverty, language and nationalism. Using American writer James Baldwins 1...962 novel Another Country as its point of departure, Daveys film also focuses on the life and work of Québécois revolutionary Pierre Vallières and Ottawa-based political philosopher Dalie Giroux. Published to accompany the exhibition Moyra Davey: The Faithful at the National Gallery of Canada, this deeply personal and highly political book seeks to examine an unresolved chapter of Québécois history from a uniquely interdisciplinary perspective that draws attention to contemporary issues of separatism, while reflecting the artist's understanding of photography and text as unique corollaries. This publication features writings by the artist, Dalie Giroux and National Gallery of Canadas Associate Curator Andrea Kunard, and a poster insert. Available via our website. #worldfoodbooks #moyradavey See more
12.01.2022 NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: THERE IS A GRAVEYARD THAT DWELLS IN MAN : MORE STRANGE FICTION AND HALLUCINATORY TALES edited by DAVID TIBET (2020) An arcane compendium of strange fiction and hallucinatory tales, There Is a Graveyard That Dwells in Man collects chilling stories by renowned innovators of the weird and by many little-known and underrepresented or forgotten scribes of the macabre. Selected by artist, writer, and musician David Tibet, this widely-sourced collection of s...upernatural rarities continues the bibliographic exhumation initiated with The Moons At Your Door (Strange Attractor Press, 2016), offering lyrical portals into worlds of strange beauty, elegant unease, and creeping decadence. Authors include HR Wakefield, HD Everett, LA Lewis, AC Benson, Thomas Ligotti, Lady Dilke, Arthur Machen, Colette De Curzon, Nugent Barker, Edna W. Underwood, EF Benson, Oliver Onions, AM Burrage, John Gower, Algernon Blackwood, Amyas Northcote, LP Hartley, Edith Wharton, RH Benson, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Richard Middleton and Walter De La Mare. The volume also includes a new introductory essay by David Tibet, incorporating original translations from the Akkadian. Comprehensive biographical and publication histories are provided by noted scholar of bibliographic arcana Mark Valentine. There Is a Graveyard That Dwells in Man offers an unnerving, serpentine tributary to the canon of supernatural literature. Available via our website. #worldfoodbooks @strangeattractorpress @davidtibet_current93 See more
10.01.2022 NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: TRAIN CROSSING by LOU HUBBARD (2020) A train derails in a Barcelona apartment. A video jerks on a barbecue grill. A pair of spectacles: ... a flip-book and a story that runs on tracks. Published by Zatezalo Press, a Melbourne based imprint focusing on paperback books from contemporary Australian artists. Each book is an edition of 100. Lou Hubbard is a Melbourne based artist and Senior Lecturer in Photography at the Victorian College of the Arts. Her practice encompasses painting, drawing, sculpture, photography and the moving image to interrogate the nature of training, submission and subordination. #worldfoodbooks #zatezatopress @lou_hubbard_art @sarahscoutpresents See more
10.01.2022 BACK IN THE BOOKSHOP: EILEEN GRAY : DESIGNER AND ARCHITECT (2020) A smartly designed and beautifully illustrated look at the life and work of an elusive and influential designer and architect Eileen Gray (18781976) was a versatile designer and architect who navigated numerous literary and artistic circles over the course of her life. This handsome volume chronicles Grays career as a designer, architect, painter, and photographer. The books essays, featuring copious new... research, offer in-depth analysis of more than 50 individual designs and architectural projects, accompanied by both period and new photographs. Born in Ireland and educated in London, Gray proceeded to Paris where she opened a textile studio, studied the Japanese craft of lacquer that would become a primary technique in her design work, and owned and directed the influential gallery and store known as Jean Desert. Gray struggled for acceptance as a largely self-taught woman in male-dominated professions. Although she is now best known for her furniture, lighting, and carpets, she dedicated herself to many architectural and interior projects that were both personal and socially driven, including the Villa E 1027, the iconic modern house designed with Jean Badovici, as well as economical and demountable projects, such as the Camping Tent. Cloe Pitiot is curator of Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and contemporary design at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris. Nina Stritzler-Levine is director of the gallery and curatorial affairs at the Bard Graduate Center, New York. Available via our website. #worldfoodbooks #eileengray @ WORLD FOOD BOOKS See more
10.01.2022 NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: TETSUMI KUDO - CULTIVATION (2020) The eerily prescient work of a near-forgotten Japanese artist, whose 1960s and ’70s sculptures anticipate contemporary ecological anxieties. Edited by Lærke Rydal Jørgensen and Tine Colstrup. Texts by Tetsumi Kudo and Joshua Mack. Contemplating Japanese artist Tetsumi Kudo’s (1935-90) work in the 21st century provokes a sense of the uncanny on multiple levels: grotesquely beautiful on their own, his abject sculptures ...seem to foretell today’s environmental concerns with their depictions of ecological decay. Born in Osaka, Kudo’s life was greatly impacted by the aftermath of the atomic bomb in 1945; this trauma compounded by the Vietnam War’s ever-present atmosphere of destruction led to a consistent focus on dystopia and decomposition in his work. Kudo’s fluorescent birdcages and blacklight terrariums are furnished with an assortment of sculptures and found objects: melted plastic flowers, colorful phallic chrysalises and dismembered resin body parts come together to convey a distinctly modern anxiety in regard to our ailing world. Kudo’s work does not intend to provide comfort in the midst of crisis; rather, his pieces urge viewers to reflect on how we may or may not continue to survive in a world that we ourselves have ruined through pollution and consumerism. As the artist’s work reaches a peak of topicality, this volume presents a focused selection of Kudo’s pieces from the 1960s and 1970s that demonstrate a postwar awareness of the atomic bomb’s effect on reproduction and the environment. Available via our website. #worldfoodbooks #tetsumikudo @ WORLD FOOD BOOKS See more
10.01.2022 NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: INFERNO: VOLUME 1 : THE TRASH PROJECT by KEN HOLLINGS (2020) A journey deep into the heart of the trash experience: tales from the underground and exploitation movie scene in America during the 1960s. ... Trash has always served me wellover the years it has become the outer form and material expression of my dreams: of tomorrow, of life in space, of the blissful alienation from this world that I have always craved.from Inferno So begins the first part of this personal inquiry into the world of trash by writer and theorist Ken Hollings. Why do we find ourselves so attracted to the cheap and vulgar, the discarded, the misshapen and the abject? What do we really mean when we say that something is so bad its good, and what finally does it say about us? Part personal confession and part historical roadmap of tales from the underground and exploitation movie scene in America during the 1960s, Inferno takes the reader on a journey deep into the heart of the trash experience. With Inferno, Hollings offers a complex and intricate timeline of connections, coincidences, and resonances that have mostly gone unnoticed. He traces the transmission of the Purple Death, a deadly and exotic virus first depicted in an old episode of a Flash Gordon movie serial, through the films of Jack Smith, Andy Warhol, and Kenneth Anger and into the output of such exploitation pioneers as Ray Dennis Steckler, Hershel Gordon Lewis, and Russ Meyer. Hollings also turns his idiosyncratic gaze upon key aspects of teenage culture during the 1960s, including hot rods, Rat Fink, surfers, bikers, and beach parties, uncovering a secretive and hidden universe of masks, fake identities, and secret desires. Even Dante would think twice about taking this trip into Hell. Available via our website. #worldfoodbooks @strangeattractorpress @hollingsville See more
09.01.2022 Available via www.worldfoodbooks.com BACK IN THE BOOKSHOP: SETH SIEGELAUB: BETTER READ THAN DEAD - WRITINGS AND INTERVIEWS 19642013 (2020) An essential sourcebook on conceptual art’s famed champion, reproducing his texts as scans to immerse the reader in this deep archival dive.... Better Read Than Dead was the title that the great American art dealer, curator, author and researcher Seth Siegelaub (1941-2013) had chosen for an anthology of his own writingsone of the projects for which he never found the time, busy as he was running his global one-man operation. Here, happily, that project is now fulfilled. The selected writings, interviews, extended bibliography and chronology gathered in this Siegelaub sourcebook fill the historical gaps in the sprawling network of exhibitions, publications, projects, and collections that constitute Siegelaub’s life’s work. Here, Siegelaub’s writings are reproduced as scans in order to convey the variety of the documents and to give a sense of archival immersion. Interspersed with these writings are interviews and talks, several newly transcribed. The majority of interviews from 1969-1972 are reprinted here. See more
09.01.2022 NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: UNICA ZÜRN ET HANS BELLMER (1992) Stunning, very rare Japanese publication collecting the works of married Surrealist artist-couple Unica Zürn and Hans Bellmer, issued in a limited edition of 950 copies by Taito Vision in 1992. This copy scarcer still, being one of the first edition of 50 hand-numbered copies (no.19/50). Contents include colour reproductions of Unica Zürn's print series "Oracles et Spectacles", published in 1967 after a series of drawin...gs created by Zürn during a 1960 hospitalization caused by a clinically diagnosed psychotic episode. They are accompanied here by a selection of her anagrammatic poetry and a hommage to Zürn by husband Bellmer. These are followed by colour reproductions of Hans Bellmer's "Petit Traité de Morale" print series from 1966-68. Accompanied by biographies, a series of texts in Japanese, a full catalogue and portraits of the artists. A stunning book making these wonderful print editions by two important Surrealists available together in book-form. One perfect copy with publisher’s parchment jacket and obistrip. Available via our website. #worldfoodbooks #unicazürn #hansbellmer @ WORLD FOOD BOOKS See more
08.01.2022 BACK IN THE BOOKSHOP: HAIM STEINBACH - OBJECT AND DISPLAY (ONCE AGAIN THE WORLD IS FLAT)(2015) Primarily known for his paradigmatic "shelves" displaying everyday objects, Haim Steinbach (born 1944) has developed a practice that evolved from early minimalist painting with grids and monochromes to later large-scale installations that have seldom been seen in the US. Growing out of a traveling exhibition that features works drawn from throughout Steinbach's career, as well as ...archival materials and new site-specific installations, Object and Display urges readers to take a closer look at this seminal artist's works. Hundreds of full-color illustrations document the exhibition, which included photographs, models and recreations from past works, along with photography of the site-specific installations that appeared at each institution. New essays by writers Johanna Burton and Germano Celant explore the evolution of Steinbach's practice and his investigations into what constitutes an art object and how art and objects are displayed. Interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Tom Eccles, Beatrix Ruf. Available via our website. #worldfoodbooks #haimsteinbach @ WORLD FOOD BOOKS See more
08.01.2022 BACK IN THE BOOKSHOP: HEIMO ZOBERNIG (1998) Catalogue published on the occasion of Heimo Zobernig's solo exhibition at Renaissance Society in 1996. Austrian Heimo Zobernig's work intervenes, rearranges, recontextualizes, and down-right makes fun of the architecture of museum/gallery spaces so as to demystify its illusory potential and reinscribe it with self-referentiality. Zobernig is among several significant contemporary artists such as Michael Asher, General Idea, and D...aniel Buren who have made it their mission to critique sites of modern art. In Zobernig's 1996 installation, the gallery walls from the Society's preceding exhibition were laid flat on the floor-a neat-handed figure/ground reversal turning support into sculpture. In another provocative turn, Zobernig brought the outside in to this altered gallery space via video - he had himself filmed cavorting around the Renaissance Society hallway naked in front of walls that were painted video back-drop blue; this image was then super-imposed on footage shot while driving around Chicago. This informative and engaging book, designed by Zobernig, serves as a valuable pictorial document, and an insightful critical analysis of this important work. Walker's essay speaks to the challenge Zobernig's art poses for art history and the implications of that challenge for the future of art. In addition, the catalog features a transcript of the panel discussion: Planned Obsolescence, in which a group of critics, curators and architectural historians gathered to discuss how Zobernig's practice differs from, or further informs, practices that have made an art out of calling for an end of art. One copy via our website. #worldfoodbooks #heimozobernig @rensoc @ WORLD FOOD BOOKS See more
07.01.2022 NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: KRAUTROCK : COSMIC ROCK AND ITS LEGACY (2009) First edition of the quickly out-of-print, now rarely seen Krautrock : Cosmic Rock and Its Legacy. The late 1960s in West Germany was a period of profound breakthroughs, upheavals and reversals. Communes were spreading, protests organised throughout the entire country, the desire to begin everything anew permeating the young. Out of this climate, a music scene exploded that would forever change the face of... western rock; at times anarchic, at others mystical, magickal, or utopian, it pushed rock beyond any known limits.Never a genre or a movement per se, Krautrock encompassed a very wild and diverse range of sounds, attitudes, and past musics, from free jazz to Karlheinz Stockhausen, from dada to Fluxus, from German Romanticism to the Mothers of Invention. The musicians operated outside any known categories, breaking new ground and turning their backs to both their country's past and the conventions of Anglo-American rock. Their vision fired the imaginations of generations of musicians after them: Cabaret Voltaire, Brian Eno, Nurse with Wound, PiL, DAF, Einsturzende Neubauten, to only name a few, have all acknowledged their deb to Krautrock's uncompromising ethics and innovative sounds. Profiling diverse key musical groups of the period, including Amon Düül (I & II), Can, Faust, Ash Ra Temple, Gila, Limbus, Walter Wegmüller, Cluster, Popol Vuh, Xhol, Between/Hamel, Guru Guru, Anima, Et Cetera/Wolfgang Dauner, Agitation Free, Harmonia, Embryo, Tangerine Dream, and many more, alongside the key producers (Plank, Dirks, Augustin, Kaiser) and records labels (Brain, Pilz, OHR, Kuckuck, etc.), and also a timeline of the period, this book quickly became a valuable resource. Profusely illustrated with with concert, studio and press photos, posters, record cover art... Texts by Archie Patterson, Michel Faber, Erik Davis, David Stubbs, David Keenan, Ken Hollings, Brian Morton, Steve Krakow, Mark Pilkington, Gavin Russom, Stephen Thrower, and Ann Shenton make this is an essential compendium to a music whose spirit and ideas still vibrate through contemporary culture today. One copy via our website. @ WORLD FOOD BOOKS See more
04.01.2022 NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: GOORI READER NO.1 by DR. GARY FOLEY (2020) Goori Reader No.1: History, Memory and the Role of Cultural Organisations in Entrenching Colonisation in Australia and Beyond is an introductory reader of republished texts by Gumbainggir activist, academic and writer Dr. Gary Foley, exploring Australian cultural institutions problematic relationship to owning how Indigenous artefacts and artworks are woven into local and global narratives; with an introductor...y text by Léuli Eshrghi. Published by Common Room, Melbourne. Available via our website. #worldfoodbooks #garyfoley @commonroom.editions @ WORLD FOOD BOOKS See more
03.01.2022 BACK IN THE BOOKSHOP: JOS DE GRUYTER & HARALD THYS - OBJECTS AS FRIENDS (2013) "Objects as Friends" - the collaborative work of Belgian artists Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys - consists of some 300 digital photographs of identical proportions depicting seemingly random, brightly lit assemblies of cheap, battered objects shot against a recurring gray background and standing or lying on a dust-stained floor. A tire, a stool, a rubber boot, a dismembered umbrella; many things ap...pear broken, picked up from the street, or bought in one of those one-euro shops whose garish interior lighting is so successfully duplicated in these bleak, underwhelming stilllives. The Belgian artists Jos de Gruyter (b. 1965) and Harald Thys (b. 1966) have collaborated for more than two decades on artworks in a variety of media, including film, photography, drawing, painting, and sculpture; they are known for thought-provoking works, often imbued with an antic sense of humor. Depression, autism, power games, psychosis, sexual tensions and idolatry are just a few of the interests that Jos De Gruyter & Harald Thys have cited as crucial to their dark repertoire. Available via our website. #worldfoodbooks #josdegruyterandharaldthys @ WORLD FOOD BOOKS See more
01.01.2022 NEW IN THE BOOKAHOP: CREATIVE THEORIES OF (JUST ABOUT) EVERYTHING : A JOURNEY INTO ORIGINS AND IMAGINATIONS (2020) Creativity has been hailed as the driving force and most important skill of the twenty-first centurya power to be taught, understood and deployed on all levels of society. Debate concerning the origins and potential of creativity is mostly confined to the realms of the natural and social sciences, with insights ranging from neurology to theoretical physics to ...psychology and educational sciences. Here, using insights from these fields, and also delving into the ideas of Parmenides, Spinoza, Goethe, Emerson, Nietzsche, Freud, Benjamin, Bergson, Deleuze, Spivak, and many others, Jeroen Lutters argues that creativity should be explicitly enforced in education and society, to open up new perspectives. Creative Theories of (Just About) Everything explores and defines a possible world in which creativity is part of everything in nature. Knowing and using this creative source should be a formative force, not only in the arts and in education, but in rethinking our society at large. Available via our website. #worldfoodbooks @valiz_books_projects See more
