Gilbert and George: The Singing Sculpture

Performance artist team Gilbert and George performed "The Singing Sculpture" at New York's Sonnabend Gallery in 1971 and again at the gallery's new location in 1991. Mounting a table, their faces and hands painted in metallic colors and wearing neat, if ill-fitting suits, the famous duo executed automaton-like movements as a cassette recorder repeatedly played the Depression-era song "Underneath the Arches."

PERFORMANCE ART
HC, 64 pp., illus.
1993, ISBN 0-9635649-0-0
code: dap sing G-8
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Art of the Americas: The Argentine Project

This exhibition catalogue focuses on the works of four contemporary Argentine artists: Jacques Bedel, Norberto Comezto, Luis F. Benedit and Victor Grippo. Each of these artists stayed in their cultures, their homes, during the maelstrom of dictatorships from 1946 to 1983. orn into repressive systems, they addressed those systems and core beliefs through their work and are witness to the evolving democracy in Argentina today.

ART HISTORY
PB, 164 pp., illus.
1992, Baker & Co., ISBN 1-56466-036-2
code: dap art/am G-6

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Richard Artschwager: Up and Down/Back and Forth

[2003, PB w/ Hard Case, 62 pgs., illus., ISBN 3-9808810-0-8] Artschwager's charcoal drawings tamper with and tweak everyday sight, like showing a living room from a cat's perspective. With his visual puns, Artschwager makes us highly conscious of relationships between space and surface, the material and the illusionary. For him, art preserves our powers of cognition that refuse to reduce the world to a collection of simple dichotomies.
code: dap arts

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Cahier #6

Cahier #6, by the renowned Witte de With Contemporary Art Center in Rotterdam, explores some of the most innovative and exciting contemporary work created in the fields of art and architecture, and works that lie somewhere in between. Includes internationally renowned artists, such as Frederick Kiesler, Greg Lynn, Johanne Lamoureux, and many others. Texts in English, German, and French.

CONTEMPORARY ART
PB, 172 pp., illus.
2000, Witte de With, ISBN 3-928762-82-6
code: dap cah6

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Cahier #7

Cahier #7 includes many essays, exhibitions, projects and texts by architects and artists, and features the works of Tacita Dean and Michel Fran?ois, an essay on Arab aesthetics and the new media work of Pierre Bismuth. Texts in English, German and French.

CONTEMPORARY ART
PB, 184 pp., illus.
2000, Witte de With, ISBN 90-73362-40-7
code: dap cah7 G-4

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Carnegie International 1995

[1995, Carnegie Museum of Art, HC, 256 pgs., illus., ISBN 0-88039-028] More than 260 works by 36 artists from 16 countries were included in this exhibition, making it both a major survey show and an in-depth look at the key international trends in art today.
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Wouter Deruytter: Knights of the Impossible

Oil sheiks, circus people, cowboys and transvestites. One way or another they are all about the same thing: people who live according to their own rules and who, if necessary, turn nature on its head to do so. With these photographs, Deruytter offers to the viewer proof, in black and white, of these impossible-seeming lives. Some mature subject matter.

PHOTOGRAPHY
PB, 143 pp., b&w illus.
1997, ISBN 0-88268-184-2
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Glaube Hoffnung Anpassung: Sowjetische Bilder 1928-1945

This beautifully produced book surveys early picture art under Stalin, as the avant-garde's purely abstract artistic practices began to be replaced by different forms and contents after the mid-1920s. Author Margarita Tupitsyn examines the shift in Soviet imagery from utopian symbols that might inspire the working class to concrete political messages forced upon the Soviet population by the government. In German and English.

ART HISTORY
HC, 189 pp., illus.
1996, ISBN 3-980-2395-9-0
code: dap exem G-5

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From #1

"From" is a new art annual published by the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam. "From #1" features short critical essays, fictions, and photographs organized around the possibility of conceiving culture and identity as more than geographic circumstances. Beyond lands of origin and established communities, "From" is for those who want to know not only where they have come from, but where the future may lead.

CONTEMPORARY ART
PB, 128 pgs., illus.,
1999, Witte de With, ISBN 90-73362-44-x
code: dap from G-4

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A Book Based on Guillermo Kuitca

Guillermo Kuitca analyzes the spaces people make, measure, and occupy to gain an understanding of human nature. By looking at mechanisms that define and organize the world, such as mapping and architecture, his work explores the tenuous intersection between public and private spheres of life. This book combines his work with a series of short stories by Martin Rejtman.

CONTEMPORARY ART
HC, 208 pp., illus.
1993, Contemporary Art Foundation Amsterdam, ISBN 90-73170-03-6
code: dap kuitca G-6

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Sequence: New York/New Jersey 1990-1993, by George Segal

Widely known for his haunting and lonely figurative sculptures, George Segal here translates some of the same influences and drama into black and white photographs. The themes of isolation, darkness and light illuminate the inner states of the inhabitants of these photos.

CONTEMPORARY ART
HB, 28 pp., illus.
1993, ISBN 1-884167-00-4
code: dap nynj G-6

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On Paper: A Journal of Prints, Drawings, and Photography

Published bimonthly,"On Paper" offers the most extensive and international coverage available of prints, drawings and photography from all historical periods.
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On Paper: A Journal of Prints, Drawings, and Photography
Issue No. 5

Published bimonthly,"On Paper" offers the most extensive and international coverage available of prints, drawings and photography from all historical periods.


code: dap on5 G-3

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On Paper: A Journal of Prints, Drawings, and Photography
Issue No. 6

Published bimonthly,"On Paper" offers the most extensive and international coverage available of prints, drawings and photography from all historical periods.


code: dap on6 G-3

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Once by Wim Wenders

Wim Wenders ranks among the great artistic minds of contemporary film. Once consists of his short, autobiographical writings paired with the photographs he has taken on his trips around the world.

PHOTOGRAPHY
PB, 272 pp., illus.
2001, ISBN 1-891024-25-6
code: dap once B-6

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The Quiet in the Land: Everyday Life, Contemporary Art and Projecto Axe by France Morin

Independent curator Francis Morin brought together an impressive roster of international artists to live in Salvador, Brazil. The artists developed individual projects with the children and educators of Project Axe, an organization that uses cultural and artistic practice to give street children a novel opportunity to visually express themselves and their lives. In English and Portugese

CONTEMPORARY ART
HC, 261 pp., illus.
2000, Museo del Arte Moderna de Bahia, ISBN 1-56466-080-X
code: dap quiet

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Revue Noire Magazine: Issue 33/34, Maroc-Morocco

Revue Noire is a Paris-based magazine devoted to contemporary African arts and culture around the world. Double issue 33/34 focuses on Morocco, through essays on local and diasporic photography, dance, cinema, and theatre. In English and French.
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Karin Sanders: Wordsearch

Enthusiastic about the patterns of meaning of the stock listings in The New York Times Business Section, Sanders decided to create her own listings of all the languages spoken in New York. With 220 words in 220 languages, Sander's chart imitates the visual approach of the stock tables, but her choice of words, all basic concepts like bread, thunder, hat, and heart, give an alternative ideal of commodities and values.

CONTEMPORARY ART
Newspaper and magazine in case, illus.
2002, ISBN 3-00-010053-9
code: dap sand G-4

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George Woodman: Museum Pieces

George Woodman was a painter for most of his career, but in 1989 photography became his medium of choice. His subjects are other artists' works, and he does't hesitate to take liberties with their appearances. As the title suggests, Woodman marries postmodern practices with museum artworks in order to fashion new photographs whose meanings linger between "something old" and "something new."

PHOTOGRAPHY
PB, 80 pp., illus.
1996, Lo Specchio D'Arte, ISBN 1-881616-80-0
code: dap wood G-5

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The Words of Gilbert & George

Gilbert & George were among the most original, profound, and notoriously controversial artists of their generation. These statements, writings, interviews and manifesto artworks from 1969 to 1997, collected here for the first time in one volume, continue the great tradition of English visionaries who are both remarkable artists and remarkable poets.

CONTEMPORARY ART
PB, 312 pp., illus.
1997, Violette, ISBN 190082800-6
code: dap words G-6

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Distemper: Dissonant Themes in the Art of the 1990s

This brilliant exhibition catalogue presents the work of ten younger artists whose work reflects the distemper of the times. Although their artistic agendas vary widely, they share a sense of being cultural barometers. Text by Neal Benezra and Olga Viso.

CONTEMPORARY ART
1996, 8.5 x 11 inches, 144 pp., 37 color and 61 b&w illus.
Softcover, ISBN 1881616738
code: dap dis G-4

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Double Happiness: Photographs by Chien-Chi Chang

For Taiwanese photographer Chien-Chi Chang, Double Happiness is an extremely personal project: “For years, my folks had been bugging me to get married,” he says, “and I wanted to show them how I view marriage in Taiwan. I’m not anti-marriage . . . but I had to do something to protest.” That was in 1994, and thus began Chang’s fascination with the Taiwanese wedding industry.

Double Happiness is the maturation of this original impetus. His first work on the topic was classically photojournalistic in approach, following the mainstream wedding industry as it manufactured strangers into brides and grooms. Almost ten years later, the work and his approach has evolved enormously, resulting in a body of work that addresses the fringes of the wedding industry: the voluntary importation of women from Vietnam and other poorer Asian countries into Taiwan for the purpose of brokered marriages. A selection of young women are displayed to the men who sign up for the service; if a man chooses one of the girls and she accepts the proposal, the marriage takes place within three days. The marriage broker handles the entire affair from selection process to ceremony. In Double Happiness, Chang offers a series of portraits of the women and men involved in the process, tracing the progression from selection, application and paperwork, to ceremony. The images are accompanied by interviews with the brokers, the men and women, and sample “interviews” that take place between the potential bride and grooms as they determine the suitability of their partners. Double Happiness is fully illustrated in black and white, and is accompanied by one essay by Claudi Glenn Dowling.

PHOTOGRAPHY
2005, 9 x 6 inches, 136 pp, b&w illus
Hardcover, ISBN: 1-931788-56-1, ISBN-13: 9781931788564
code: dap dh G-5

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Time Taken: The Work of Time in the Work of Art

This book features an expansive exposé of contemporary art’s intimate interplay with time. Functioning both as a philosophical and art historical text, Time Taken discusses political time, gendered time, and other multitudes of time and its artistic meanings. The book highlights the work of artists Anri Sala, Gabriel Orozco, Cerith Wyn Evans, and Thomas Demand, among others.

CONTEMPORARY ART
2009, 6 x 8 inches, 169 pp, 34 color illus.
Softcover, ISBN: 978-2-916545-62-2
code: dap time G-5