"Between 1969 and 1974, the influential curator Lucy Lippard (born 1937) curated four decisive Conceptual art exhibitions, and in doing so reinvented the exhibition catalogue. 4,492,040 is a facsimile reprint of the extremely scarce and hugely important catalogues produced for those exhibitions: 557,087 (the Seattle Art Museum), 955,000 (the Vancouver Art Gallery), 7,500 (the California Institute of Art) and 2,972,453 (the Centro de Arte ..."
"Ed Ruscha, one of the most influential artists working today, and one of the great West Coast Pop artists, didn't start out as a painter. It was under the influence of teachers including Robert Irwin, Richards Ruben and Emerson Woelffer that he gave up his original goal of becoming a commercial artist to focus on fine art. This third volume in the ongoing documentation of his entire corpus of paintings captures him in his stride. As thr ..."
"Generated by a series of fertile exchanges between two artists, Jonathan Ellery and Lawrence Weiner, HERE IT IS HERE IT AINT is a quintessential artist book ? in that it has no foreword, appendages or footnotes; and the meaning, as ..."
77 Baroque Basslines For Double Bass (Cello or Viola Da Gamba) (University of Miami Press: The Frederick Zimmermann Memorial Series for Double Bass) by Lucas Drew, Compiler-Lucas Drew, LawrenceWeiner, Alfred Pub Co Paperback, 36 Pages, Published 2010 by Alfred Pub Co ISBN-13: 978-1-934993-01-9, ISBN: 1-934993-01-8
"Series: University of Miami Press: The Frederick Zimmermann Memorial Series for Double Bass Category: String - Bass Studies or Collection Format: Book Instrument: String Bass Instrumentation: Double Bass (Cello or Viola da Gamba) Drawn from the basso continuo lines of Baroque sonatas and chorales, these etudes will be of musical and technical benefit to the bass student. Appropriate for students who have learned positions, the etudes ha ..."
"Liam Gillick emerged as part of the generation of "Young British Artists" who energized the British art scene in the 1980s and 1990s. He is now one of the most influential (and perplexing) artists in all of contemporary art. Gillick's discursive mode of art practice--often associated with "relational aesthetics"--complicates object production, embraces the exhibition as med ..."
"A feisty conversation between Paul Chan and Martha Rosler on different strategies and positions of art making in relation to social and political engagement, as well as discussions on boredom, bodily suffering, Bertolt Brecht, Chris Marker, and The Passion of The Christ.14 color reproductions."
"An insightful essay by Peggy Gale introduces this transcription of historic talks by internationally known artists, recorded some 30 years ago at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Included are talks by Vito Acconci (1977), Carl Andre (1969), Joseph Beuys (1976), Daniel Buren (1973), James Lee Byars (1970), Paterson Ewen (1976), Robert Filliou (1973), Dan Graham (1973 and 1977), Douglas Huebler (1973), Jo ..."
"An uninhibited guffaw or a nervous giggle, a derisive snicker or the malign “bwahahaa” of the comic strip villain--each form suggests that laughter has many sources of inspiration. This issue of Cabinet addresses the cultural history of laughter through a sparkling mix of essays, interviews and artist projects. Slavoj Zizek tells us what jokes can teach about Hegel; an interview with Simon Critchley shows philosophy's attempts to unders ..."
"One of the premier institutions of contemporary art in the country, the Walker Art Center also holds an important collection of over 11,000 objects from the early 20th century to the present. These holdings reflect the Center's renowned multidisciplinary program, and include paintings, sculpture, prints, photography, film, video, installations, and digital arts that range in date from classic early modernist to cutting edge contemporary ..."
"Gillick is renowned for his brightly coloured Plexiglas and aluminium installations that mediate the visual languages of architecture, design and sculpture. The Wood Way is a sequence of propositions about the built world and the political ethics surrounding it. The structures refer to an evolving urban landscape, which is subject to negotiation, renovation and a continual state of change. The exhibition title is derived from the German ..."
Until it is(1st Edition) by LawrenceWeiner, Carlos Basualdo, Liz Kotz Spiral, 40 Pages, Published 2002 by Wexner Center For The Arts, The Ohio State University ISBN-13: 978-1-881390-32-9, ISBN: 1-881390-32-2
"The Werner and Elain Dannheisser Collection is a group of artworks--paintings, sculptures, texts, billboards, drawings, videos, neons, photomontages, installations, and photographs--that together provide a running account of the simultaneous attractions and provocations of contemporary art. Produced by 33 artists from Europe and America--among them Carl André, Richard Artschwager, Matthew Barney, Joseph Beuys, Sue Coe, Katharina Fritsch ..."
How To Touch What (Collector's Edition) by Eve Sonneman, LawrenceWeiner Hardcover, 56 Pages, Published 2001 by Powerhouse Books ISBN-13: 978-1-57687-080-8, ISBN: 1-57687-080-4
"Conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner and photographer Eve Sonneman have jointly produced a marriage of text and pictures that will keep the reader thinking, laughing and reading again and again."
"These are the first six provocative lectures on contemporary art initiated by the Dia Center. Artists discussed include Lawrence Weiner, Ketherina Fritsch, Robert Gober and Joseph Beuys."
"A book on the series of large, low sculptures from 1981-1982 which Chamberlain called "Gondolas," along with a large scale related work, "Dooms Day Flotina.""