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Give Up Art
Collected Writings (2005-15)
by Maria Fusco
Hardcover, 152 Pages, Published 2018 by New Documents
ISBN-13: 978-1-927354-25-4, ISBN: 1-927354-25-0

"Give Up Art is the first collected anthology of Belfast-born writer Maria Fusco (born 1972).Operating across the genres of fiction, criticism and theory, Fusco’s work has helped forge a contemporary space for critical art writing in the UK and beyond. This interdisciplinary mode allows her to “write through the art object,” collapsing her art and writing practice. Give Up Art brings together nearly two dozen essays, reviews and smaller ..."






Paul Winstanley(Updated)
Art School
by Paul Winstanley, Jon Thompson, Maria Fusco
Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2013 by Ridinghouse
ISBN-13: 978-1-905464-78-4, ISBN: 1-905464-78-9

"Filled with photographs of unpopulated studios, Paul Winstanley’s exploration of British art schools highlights their importance at a time when the art school system’s existence is more fraught than ever.In his latest series, Paul Winstanley documents undergraduate studio spaces from over 50 art colleges across the United Kingdom. These rough and ready, nearly neutral spaces are photographed as found: empty between school years. Collect ..."






Maria Fusco
Nine Qwerty Bells: Fiction for Live Voice
by Maria Fusco, Whitechapel Art Gallery
Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2019 by Whitechapel Gallery
ISBN-13: 978-0-85488-274-8, ISBN: 0-85488-274-X

"Glasgow-based writer Maria Fusco (born 1972)―a writer of fiction, criticism, theory and screenplays―curates the second exhibition in Whitechapel Gallery’s four-part series highlighting key works from Spain’s "la Caixa" Collection. This publication presents Fusco’s selections and a new work of fiction written in response."






Judgment and Contemporary Art Criticism(Updated)
Folio Series: A
by Tirdad Zolghadr, Maria Fusco, Diedrich Diederichsen, Melanie O'brian, Jeff Khonsary, Jeff Derksen, James Elkins, Artspeak Gallery
Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2011 by Fillip Editions/Artspeak
ISBN-13: 978-0-9738133-6-4, ISBN: 0-9738133-6-9

"Matters of value and judgment are the subject of recently intensified debate within art criticism. Has art criticism suffered a collective failure of nerve as names and styles boom and bust with increasing rapidity? Conversely, does a discourse that traffics in value judgments risk being coopted into serving--or perhaps even serve outright--as a consumer guide to a bloated contemporary art market in which commerce and critical discourse ..."






Bomb Culture
50th Anniversary Edition (Strange Attractor Press)
by Jeff Nuttall, Douglas Field, Maria Fusco, Iain Sinclair, Jay Jeff Jones
Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2019 by Strange Attractor Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-907222-70-2, ISBN: 1-907222-70-7

"Out of print for fifty years, Jeff Nuttall's legendary exploration of radical 1960s art, music, and protest movements.“Bomb Culture is an abscess that lances itself. An extreme book, unreasonable but not irrational. Abrasive, contemptuous, attitudinizing, ignorant and yet brilliant.”  ―Dennis PotterOut of print for fifty years, Jeff Nuttall's Bomb Culture has achieved legendary status as a powerful, informative, and spirited exploration ..."






Put About
A Critical Anthology on Independent Publishing
by Maria Fusco, Ian Hunt, Lucy R. Lippard, Michael Bracewell, Stewart Home, Book Works
Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2006 by Book Works
ISBN-13: 978-1-870699-70-9, ISBN: 1-870699-70-X

"Primarily looking at publishing by and for artists, Put About casts a wide net and considers literature, blogging, magazines and various other distribution models. Key features of the book include specially commissioned artists' pages by Maurizio Cattelan, David Osbaldeston and Aleksandra Mir; an exchange between Stewart Home and Lynne Tillman; historical overviews by Paul Claydon and Michael Bracewell; and contextualising essays by Luc ..."






With A Bao A Qu Reading When Attitudes Become Form(1st Edition)
by Maria Fusco
Paperback, 142 Pages, Published 2013 by New Documents
ISBN-13: 978-1-927354-14-8, ISBN: 1-927354-14-5

"With A Bao A Qu Reading When Attitudes Become Form. Maria Fusco. New Documents. Experimenting with the form and register of contemporary art writing, With A Bao A Qu Reading When Attitudes Become Form reconfigures the seminal artist's book / catalog When Attitudes Become Form (1969). Originally edited by Harald Szeemann to accompany the Kunsthalle Bern exhibition of the same name, When Attitudes Become Form brought together new tendenc ..."






Copy Work
by Steve Edwards, Maria Fusco, John O'brian, Jennifer Papararo, John Edwards Roberts
Paperback, Published 2007 by Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
ISBN-13: 978-1-897302-16-3, ISBN: 1-897302-16-9






The Happy Hypocrite
Volatile Dispersal Issue 3: For and About Experimental Art Writing (Speed and Reading)
by Maria Fusco, Robert Hemenway, Great Books Foundation
Paperback, 164 Pages, Published 2009 by Book Works
ISBN-13: 978-1-906012-11-3, ISBN: 1-906012-11-3

"Issue 3, Spring/Summer 2009. 164 pages. Includes a reprint in its entirety of 'A Great Book Primer: Essays on Liberal Education, the Uses of Reading and the Rules of Reading' published by the Great Books Foundation, Chicago (1955)."






Master Rock
(Co-Series)
by Maria Fusco
Hardcover, 92 Pages, Published 2016 by Book Works
ISBN-13: 978-1-906012-74-8, ISBN: 1-906012-74-1

"In what is both archival document and poetic homage, Belfast-born writer MariaFusco evokes Ben Cruachan, the largest peak on the west coast of Scotlandthrough three historical voices the tunnel tigers, the Irish explosives expertswho carved out the mountain for a power station; Elizabeth Falconer, the artistwho created a mural inside that only the site s workers see; and Granite, the450-million-year-old rock of Cruachan itself. This art ..."






THE HAPPY HYPOCRITE ISSUE 1, SPRING 2008
LINGUISTIC HARDCORE, FOR AND ABOUT EXPERIMENTAL ART WRITING
by Maria Fusco
Paperback, 102 Pages, Published 2008 by Book Works
ISBN-13: 978-1-870699-02-0, ISBN: 1-870699-02-5






The Happy Hypocrite
What Am I? (Issue 5)
by Maria Fusco
Paperback, 168 Pages, Published 2010 by Book Works
ISBN-13: 978-1-906012-24-3, ISBN: 1-906012-24-5

"What am I? Roland Barthes. As if. Garbed in a sequence of paradigmatic structures such as the joke, the notebook, the novel and the script, this latest issue of the ever-engrossing, ever-puzzling Happy Hypocrite offers a range of contributions that defy the innate obsolescence of classification through their embrace of poetic analysis. Drawing theme and method from a new translation of Barthes's essay The Preparation of the Novel, which ..."






Maria Fusco
The Mechanical Copula
by Maria Fusco
Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2011 by Sternberg Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-934105-19-1, ISBN: 1-934105-19-8

"''The first thing you notice is nothing. It takes your eyes a little while to get used to this, after ten seconds you can't remember looking at anything else,'' writes Maria Fusco, founding editor of The Happy Hypocrite, in ''How You Lost the Stars,'' part of her first collection of short stories. Stripping bare the accord of culture and commodity, this sequence of stories tracks the slimy path of social mobility with serious playfulnes ..."






Legend of the Necessary Dreamer
by Maria Fusco
Paperback, 86 Pages, Published 2017 by Vanguardeditions
ISBN-13: 978-1-84861-406-2, ISBN: 1-84861-406-3

"'A modest epic written in real-time, Maria Fusco’s Legend of the Necessary Dreamer records some weeks in June 2013 when her narrator went every day to Lisbon’s Palácio Pombal in order to write about it. But 'it', of course, isn’t only the building, but the wraparound sensual act of perceiving. As she writes, I am trying to turn myself into a recording device…. Fusco’s book brilliantly examines what it means not just to look, but to thin ..."






Jonathan Owen
by Maria Fusco
Hardcover, Published 2016 by Ingleby Gallery
ISBN-13: 978-0-9931551-4-7, ISBN: 0-9931551-4-6






Who Is This Who Is Coming?
by Maria Fusco
Published 2011
ISBN-13: 978-1-873352-10-6, ISBN: 1-873352-10-7






The Sheffield Pavilion
by Maria Fusco, Jeanine Griffin, Designers Rupublic, Site Gallery
Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2007 by Site Gallery
ISBN-13: 978-1-899926-86-2, ISBN: 1-899926-86-0

""The Sheffield Pavilion" is a new variation on a small series of city or location-specific interpretations of the national pavilion construct of the Venice Biennale. A pavilion in book-form is a structure curiously attentive to the roots of the word, in the Latin for 'butterfly', and in its subsequent usage to signifiy a 'tent' or 'temporary structure' used for leisure, entertainment or exhibition. "The Sheffield Pavilion" is similarly ..."






The dream that kicks
transdisciplinary practice in action
by Maria Fusco
15 Pages, Published 2006
ISBN-13: 978-0-907730-71-2, ISBN: 0-907730-71-X






Something Wonderful Is Going to Happen
by Maria Fusco
Paperback, 68 Pages, Published 1999 by Maria Fusco
ISBN-13: 978-0-9535026-0-8, ISBN: 0-9535026-0-0






Cosey Complex Reader
by Richard Birkett, Maria Fusco, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Clunie Reid, Zak Kyes
Spiral, 75 Pages, Published 2010 by Ica
ISBN-13: 978-1-900300-63-6, ISBN: 1-900300-63-X

"This is the first edition of a book that has recently been republished in a different format. This edition published to accompany an event at the ICA in March 2010. Includes a conversation between Tutti and Maria Fusco. Red metal ring binding."



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