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Books by Tirdad Zolghadr
  | | Internal Necessity A Reader Tracing the Inner Logics of the Contemporary Art Field (Sternberg Press) by Tirdad Zolghadr, Bruce Hainley, Mariangela Mendez Prencke, Uriel Orslow, Erik Wenzel, Bettina Malcomess, Judith Raum, Claire Feeley Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2010 by Sternberg Press ISBN-13: 978-1-934105-05-4, ISBN: 1-934105-05-8 "This rich and extensive collection of writings, interviews, image spreads, letters, graphic essays and Skype conversations is the product of 2009's fertile ''summer academy'' at the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern. Guest curator, the Berlin-based writer/curator Tirdad Zolghadr, surprised participants by canceling the scheduled annual ''fellow exhibition'' that summer. Instead, participants were asked to contribute to this book, which makes a ..." |
 | | Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie Class Hegemony in Contemporary Art (Sternberg Press) by Nav Haq, Tirdad Zolghadr Plastic Comb, 180 Pages, Published 2009 by Sternberg Press Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-1-933128-88-7, ISBN: 1-933128-88-7 "Lapdogs of the Bourgeoisie investigates the latent issue of class underlying the field of contemporary visual art. On the one hand, it raises the question of whether a given socioeconomic background still helps define your artistic career―and to which point the said career might reflect or consolidate the hierarchies in question. On the other hand, the project asks whether the traditional analytical tools at our disposal are helpful in ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | Softcore by Tirdad Zolghadr Paperback, 215 Pages, Published 2007 by Telegram Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84659-020-7, ISBN: 1-84659-020-5 "The Promessa, a 1970s cocktail bar, is to be reopened in Tehran - not as the glamorous location it once was, but as a slick showroom for art, fashion, and corporate receptions - a heady mix of profit, culture, and metropolitan swagger. By and by, a hidden agenda among the key players emerges, involving an international network with gruesome intentions. Join the narrator, a young man with artistic ambitions who has no wish to disappoint ..." |
 | | Situational Diagram by Karin Schneider, Sabu Kohso, Jaleh Mansoor, Jean-Luc Nancy, Anne Querrien, Valentin Schaepelynck, Aliza Shvarts, Tirdad Zolghadr, Begum Yasar, Simon O'sullivan, Dominique Lã Vy, Dominique Lévy, Tirdad Solghadr Paperback, 262 Pages, Published 2017 by Dominique Lévy ISBN-13: 978-1-944379-09-4, ISBN: 1-944379-09-6 "Situational Diagram is a collection of essays and creative propositions by cultural theorists, philosophers, artists and activists. Contributors include Sabu Kohso, Aliza Shvarts, Jaleh Mansoor, Jean-Luc Nancy, Simon O’Sullivan, Anne Querrien, Abrahão de Oliveira Santos, Valentin Schaepelynck, Karin Schneider and Tirdad Zolghadr." |
 | | Chris Evans - Goofy Audit by Chris Evans, Penelope Curtis, Marina Vishmidt, Tirdad Zolghadr, Lisette Smits, Will Holder Hardcover, 185 Pages, Published 2011 by Sternberg Press / Thea Westreich-Ethan Wagner Publications ISBN-13: 978-1-934105-74-0, ISBN: 1-934105-74-0 "Contemporary British artist Chris Evans is all about encouraging conversations: helping artists forge social and working relationships with bureaucrats, corporations and other artists. This exhibition catalog, a comprehensive survey of his work since 1996, includes sculptures, letters, drawings, film scripts, commissioned essays and other writings. Evans gleefully confuses the roles of artist, collector, philanthropist, patron, art deal ..." |
 | | Amalia Pica by Joao Ribas, Julie Rodrigues Widholm, Madeleine Grynsztejn, Paul Ha, Ana Pinto, Tirdad Zolghadr, Amalia Pica Paperback, 126 Pages, Published 2013 by Museum Of Contemporary Art Chicago And Mit List Visual Arts Center ISBN-13: 978-1-938922-11-4, ISBN: 1-938922-11-5 "This volume accompanies the first major solo museum exhibition in the United States of the work of Argentinean-born, London-based artist Amalia Pica (born 1978). Pica explores metaphor, communication and civic participation through drawings, sculptures, large-scale photographic prints, slide projections, live performances and installations. Using simple materials such as photocopies, lightbulbs, drinking glasses, beer bottles, bunting a ..." |
 | | Softcore by Tirdad Zolghadr 208 Pages, Published 2013 by Saqi ISBN-13: 978-1-84659-177-8, ISBN: 1-84659-177-5 "A frenetic, compelling look at modern Tehran, conspiracy theories, political fashions and the omnivorous international art world. The most suprising novel I've read in years." |
 | | Selected Maria Lind Writing(1st Edition) (Sternberg Press) by Maria Lind, Brian Kuan Wood, Beatrice Von Bismarck, Ana Paula Cohen, Tirdad Zolghadr, Liam Gillick Etc Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2010 by Sternberg Press Abridged, Audiobook, Box Set, Illustrated, Large Print ISBN-13: 978-1-934105-18-4, ISBN: 1-934105-18-X "Working in a number of contexts and capacities has shown Maria Lind to be a curator who, over time, has engaged in a rethinking of the art institution and the formats and methodologies connected with it, taking art itself as a starting point. Following on the various endgames outlined by institutional critique, Lind has forged paths out of hegemonic institutional regimes precisely by identifying other ways of working through them, from ..." |
 | | Cabinet 30(1st Edition) The Underground by Tirdad Zolghadr, Irene Cheng, Joshua Foer, Sina Najafi Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2008 by Cabinet ISBN-13: 978-1-932698-28-2, ISBN: 1-932698-28-0 "Site of hidden infrastructure, source of material and energy, home to clandestine activity, buried landscape of darkness and silence: the physical and emotional space of the underground is at once prosaic and uncanny, rich with both functional potential and metaphorical meaning. Cabinet issue 30, with its special section on The Underground, features Irene Cheng on Thomas W. Knox's 1876 book Underground, or Life Below the Surface and the ..." |
 | | Heman Chong The Part In The Story Where We Lost Count Of The Days by Nav Haq, Ahmad Mashadi, Claudia Pestana, Tirdad Zolghadr, Pauline J. Yao Hardcover, 260 Pages, Published 2013 by Artasiapacific ISBN-13: 978-0-9845625-5-8, ISBN: 0-9845625-5-9 "Monograph on Singaporean artist Heman Chong" |
 | | Meg Cranston Hot Pants in a Cold Cold World. Works, 1987-2007. by Noel Daniel, Meg Cranston, Tirdad Zolghadr Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 2008 by Clouds Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-9582789-4-2, ISBN: 0-9582789-4-6 "It has taken me my whole artistic life to figure out why anyone gives a shit about form." (Meg Cranston, "Big Problems #1", 2006) Californian artist Meg Cranston's twenty-year career (1987-2007) is the subject of HOT PANTS IN A COLD COLD ..." |
 | | Printed Project 6 I Can't Work Like This by Anton Vidokle, Tirdad Zolghadr Paperback, 104 Pages, Published 2007 by Visual Artists Ireland Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-1-907683-06-0, ISBN: 1-907683-06-2 |
 | | Solution 168-185 America by Tirdad Zolghadr Paperback, 100 Pages, Published 2010 by Sternberg Press ISBN-13: 978-1-933128-90-0, ISBN: 1-933128-90-9 "Solution 168-185: America is part of the Solution series edited by Ingo Niermann and designed by Zak Kyes. ISBN 978-1-933128-90-0 Series editor: Ingo Niermann Book editor: Kari Rittenbach Proofreader: Matthew Evans Designer: Z.A.K. Zak Kyes with Sam Baldwin and Gregory Ambos www.zak.to Printed and bound by Brandenburgische Universitatsdruckerei Potsdam © 2010 Tirdad Zolghadr, Sternberg Press All rights reserved, including the right ..." |
 | | Hotel Theory Reader by Sohrab Mohebbi, Ruth Estévez, Chris Kraus, Snejanka Mihaylova, V-Girls, Cally Spooner, Tirdad Zolghadr, David Antin, Wayne Koestenbaum, Bruce Hainley, Ruth Estã Vez Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2017 by Fillip Editions / Redcat ISBN-13: 978-1-927354-27-8, ISBN: 1-927354-27-7 "Hotel Theory Reader explores the possibilities of theory as an art form, bringing together ideas initially explored in an exhibition organized in 2015 at REDCAT | CalArts’ Downtown Center for Contemporary Arts.The book assembles a collection of texts by David Antin, Art & Language, Ruth Estévez, Bruce Hainley, Wayne Koestenbaum, Chris Kraus, Snejanka Mihaylova, Sohrab Mohebbi, Cally Spooner, V-Girls, Danna Vajda and Tirdad Zolghadr. Tak ..." |
 | | Traction (Sternberg Press) by Tirdad Zolghadr Paperback, 264 Pages, Published 2016 by Sternberg Press ISBN-13: 978-3-95679-203-8, ISBN: 3-95679-203-3 "Following his futuristic novel Plot, polemical art theoretician Tirdad Zolghadr targets the moral economy of indeterminacy that makes curators and artists politically stunted, intellectually bankrupt and aesthetically predictable in his latest treatise. Curators, in particular, he sees as a necessary evil, at best offering one transgalactic statement, one buzzword after another. Even the mainstream is convinced it s better off doing the ..." |
 | | Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst(1st Edition) Collection 1978-2008 by Dan Fox, Jan Verwoert, Tirdad Zolghadr, Heike Munder, Tom Holert, Nicolas Bourriaud, Charles Esche, Philip Ursprung, Astrid Wege, Gisele Girgis, Hedy Graber, Lionel Bovier Hardcover, 416 Pages, Published 2008 by Jrp | Ringier ISBN-13: 978-3-905829-42-6, ISBN: 3-905829-42-8 "This overview of the renowned Swiss Migros Museum collection features artworks by international (and Swiss) contemporary artists such as Maurizio Cattelan, Christopher Wool, Katharina Sieverding, Rachel Harrison, Christoph Büchel, Paul Thek and Douglas Gordon." |
 | | Shahrzad History by Shirana Shahbazi, Tirdad Zolghadr, Rachid Tehrani, Manuel Krebs Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2006 by Jrp|Ringier ISBN-13: 978-3-905701-50-0, ISBN: 3-905701-50-2 ""Welcome to History," reads one of the endless opening pages of this dense paperback. The Shahrzad collective (Shirana Shahbazi, Manuel Krebs, Tirdad Zolghadr) once again tackles geopolitical aesthetics via idiosyncratic linkages of metonymy and allegory, textual poetics and iconic images, blunt content and overbearing design. In the words of the collective: "These days, it seems that even in those prosperous, provincial environs we cal ..." |
 | | The Human Snapshot 18.5 x 26.5 cm (Sternberg Press) by Tirdad Zolghadr, Thomas Keenan, Hal Foster, Luma Foundation, Eyal Weizman, Fondation Luma. Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2013 by Sternberg Press Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-3-943365-63-4, ISBN: 3-943365-63-8 "The Human Snapshot draws upon a conference of the same name organized by the LUMA Foundation and Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College that took place in Arles, France, in 2011. The conference contributions and subsequent essays examine contemporary forms of humanism and universalism as they circulate and are produced in art and photography. The look toward these two terms stems from theorist Ariella Azoulay's research on the se ..." |
 | | Ethnic Marketing by Tirdad Zolghadr, Charlotte Bydler, Michaela Kehrer Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2007 by Jrp|Ringier ISBN-13: 978-3-905701-88-3, ISBN: 3-905701-88-X "How to assess the vicissitudes of the gradually "globalizing" art circuit without repeating recent curatorial clichés? Having watched one example of critical internationalism after another reduce itself to postcolonial platitude or self-congratulating adventurism, the participants in this book and its accompanying exhibition took on that tricky subject with an inquiry into Euro-American xenophilia. Rather than trying to build the prover ..." |
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