Bibliotheek: nieuwe aanwinsten - oktober 2008

Life on Mars : 55th Carnegie International / text Douglas Fogle, Daniel Birnbaum, Thomas Hischhorn. - Pittsburg : Carnegie Museum of Art, 2008. - 440 p. : ills. ; 23 cm
Catalogue published on the occasion of the 55th Carnegie International in the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, May 3, 2008 - Januari 11, 2009.
Kai Althoff, Ryan Gander, Paul Thek, Andro Wekua [...et al.]

 
Barbara Visser : The Complete Incomplete Series 2007-1987 / conversation with Robbert Dijkgraaf. - Amsterdam : in eigen beheer, 2008. - 269 p. : ills. ; 30 cm
This book is published on the occasion of the award to Barbara Visser of the Dr. A.H. Heinenken Prize for Art 2008, by the Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, Amsterdam.
 
Wim van der Linden fotograaf / samenstelling Adriaan Elligens, Hendrik Barents ; inleiding Guus Luijters. - Antwerpen : Uitgeverij Voetnoot, 2008. - 175 p. : ills. ; 20 x 28 cm
Het karakter van de reportage- en straatfotografie van Wim van der Linden uit begin jaren zestig staat met zijn vervreemding en confrontatie haaks op de gevestigde documentaire fotografie uit die tijd.
Dit boek bevat foto's van het leven in Amsterdam, Antwerpen, Parijs, Napels en New York.

 
West : Annual 01 / editing Marie-José Sondeijker ; text Philip Peters. - Den Haag : Galerie West, 2008. - 144 p. : ills. ; 24 cm
Includes artists biographies.
Harold de Bree, Harmen de Hoop, Miron Zownir [...et al.]

Diederik Gerlach : Promenade langs het gemis / tekst Philip Peters, Egbert van Faassen. - Voorburg : Stichting Haagse Beeldende Kunst en Kunstnijverheid, 2008. - 47 p. : ills. ; 22 cm. - (Deel 21 uit de serie Haags Palet)
 
Wonder Years : Werkplaats Typografie 1998-2008 / editors Lisette Smits, Alex DeArmond, Scott Ponik [...et al.] ; contributors Stuart Bailey, Paul Elliman, Karel Martens [...et al.]. - Amsterdam : Roma Publications, 2008. - 256 p. : ills. ; 30 cm
Wonder Years has been published on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Werkplaats Typografie, Arnhem.
Peter Bilak, Armand Mevis, Roger Willems [...et al.]


Brussels Biennial 1 : Re-Used Modernity / edited by Barbara Vanderlinden. - Cologne : Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2008. - 334 p. : ills. ; 26 cm
The first edition of Brussels Biennale includes a wide range of institutions and projects regrouped under the conceptual umbrella devised by its artistic director Barbara Vanderlinden. It is the result of a collaboration that crosses traditional boundaries between biennials, exhibitions, institutions, curators and artists.
Pawel Althamer, AMO (Rem Koolhaas and Rienier de Graaf), R. Buckminster Fuller [...et al.]

 
Ik ben Artis = I am Artis : Jaarboek Artis Den Bosch september 2006 - december 2007 = Yearbook Artis Den Bosch September 2006 - December 2007 / samenstelling Koenraad Dedobbelaar, Frido Evers, Janice McNab, Mieke van Schaijk. -
 's - Hertogenbosch : Artis Den Bosch, 2008. - 96 p. : ills. ; 27 cm
Bevat biografieën ; includes biographies.
Falke Pisano, Daragh Reeves, Tai Shani [...et al.]
 
Street Art Street Life  : From the 1950s to Now / essays by Katherine A. Bussard, Frazer Ward and Lydia Yee. - New York : Bronx Museum : Aperture Foundation, 2008. - 112 p. : ills. ; 26 cm
This book examines the street as subject matter, venue and source of inspiration for nearly forty international artists and photographers from the 1950s to the present.
Vito Acconci, Francis Alys, Joseph Beuys [...et al.]

 
The Everyday / edited by Stephen Johnstone. - London ; Cambridge Mass. : Whitechapel : The MIT Press, 2008. - 240 p. : ills. ; 21 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Since the early 1990s numerous international exhibitions have attested to the range of contemporary art engaged with the everyday. Art has commemorated ordinary dignity, celebrated the accidentallly miraculous, explored new forms of ethnography or immersion in mass culture.
Francis Alys, Guy Debord, Hans-Peter Feldmann [...et al.]

 
Badlands : New Horizons in Landscape / edited by Denise Markonish ; text Ginger Strand, Gregory Volk, Tensie Whelan. - North Adams, MA. : Mass Moca, 2008. - 232 p. : ills. ; 22 cm
Includes biographies.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at Mass Moca, North Adams, MA., May 25, 2008 - April 12. 2009.
This publication writes a new chapter in the art of the landscape, as 21 artists approach the natural and built environments with a mix of humor, irony, amazement and sheer terror.
Alexis Rockman, Ed Ruscha, Center for Land Use Interpretation [...et al.]

 
Formless : A User's Guide / Yve-Alain Bois, Rosalind E. Krauss. - New York : Zone Books, 1997. - 296 p. : ills. ; 29 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
In this book the authors chart the persistence of the formless within a history of modernism that has always repressed it in the interest of privileging formal mastery, and they assess its destiny within current artistic production.
Jackson Pollock, Lucio Fontana, Robert Smithson, Mike Kelley [...et al.]

 
The Essential Joseph Beuys / Alain Borer ; edited by Lothar Schirmer. - Cambridge, Mass. : The MIT Press, 1997. - 239 p. : ills. ; 32 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
The book provides a definitive survey of the artist's work in every medium in which he worked - drawings and watercolors, sculpture and objects, environments and actions, and multiples ans printed work.
 
The Art Of Participation 1950 To Now / text Rudolf Frieling, Boris Groys, Robert Atkins, Lev Manovich. - San Francisco ; London : San Francisco Museum of Modern Art : Thames and Hudson, 2008. - 212 p. : ills. ; 26 cm
Includes index.
This catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition organized by Rudolf Frieling for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on view from November 8, 2008, through February 8, 2009.
Joseph Beuys, Vito Acconci, Raqs Media Collective [...et al.]

 
Updating Germany : 100 Projects for a Better Future / edited by Friedrich von Borries, Matthias Böttger ; text Sophie Lovell, Jochen Diekmann. - Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2008. - 291 p. : ills. ; 24 cm
This publication is released on the occasion of the german contribution to the tenth international architecture exhibition, Out There: Architecture Beyond Building, from September 14 to November 23, 2008, in Venice, Italy.
 
Studio and Cube : On the relationship between where art is made and where art is displayed / Brian O' Doherty. - New York : The Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture : Princeton Architectural Press, 2008. - 83 p. : ills. ; 22 cm. - (A FORuM Project Publication)
This book is part of the FORuM Project, dedicated to exploring the relationship of architectural form to politics and urban life.
Vito Acconci, Lucas Samaras, Piet Mondriaan [...et al.]

 
Architecture of the Off-Modern / Svetlana Boym. - New York : The Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture : Princeton Architectural Press, 2008. - 80 p. : ills. ; 22 cm. - (A FORuM Project Publication)
Includes bibliographical references.
Vladimir Tatlin's Monument to the Third International (1919-20), is perhaps the most resonant unmade building of the last century. It is the subject of this book, that proposes a reordering of historical categories and possible future uses for the ruins of the recent past -  the ruin, properly understood, being precisely the concept that undoes both futurism and nostalgia.
This book is part of the FORuM Project, dedicated to exploring the relationship of architectural form to politics and urban life.
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Robert Smithson, Komar and Melamid [...et al.]


The Project of Autonomy : Politics and Architecture within and agianst Capitalism / Pier Vittorio Aureli. - New York : The Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture : Princeton Architectural Press, 2008. - 120 p. : ills. ; 22 cm. - (A FORuM Project Publication)
In this book the author examines how post-1968 political events and a rethinking of Marxist theory by intellectuals like Mario Tronti influenced a variety of that era's architectural projects and writings.
This book is part of the FORuM Project, dedicated to exploring the relationship of architectural form to politics and urban life.
Aldo Rossi, Archizoom.

 
Magastructure Reloaded : Visionary Architecture and Urban Design of the Sixties Reflected by Contemporary Artists = Visionäre Stadtentwürfe der Sechzigerjahre Reflektiert von Zeitgenössischen Künstler / edited by Sabrina van der Ley, Markus Richter. - Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2008. - 286 p. : ills. ; 26 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition Megastructures Reloaded at Ehemalige Staatliche Münze, Berlin,20. September - 2. November 2008.
Archigram, Constant, Yona Friedman, Superstudio, Ryan Gander, Gorden Matta-Clark [...et al.]

 
Vrije Ruimten Zuidas 2008 : Artists in Residence / tekst Meinke Horn, Marina de Vries. - Amsterdam : d' jonge Hond, 2008. - 72 p. : ills. ; 24 cm
Publicatie ter gelegenheid van de openbare presentatie van plannen en ideeën van kunstenaars die een residency hadden in Vrije Ruimten Zuidas, Amsterdam. Georganiseerd door Virtueel Museum Zuidas op 25 september 2008.
Tentoonstelling Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam 4 oktober t/m 2 november 2008.
Bik Van der Pol, Justin Bennett, Yael Davids, 2012 Architecten, Jon Mikel Euba.

 
Die Balkan-Trilogie = The Balkan Trilogy / edited by René Block, Marius Babias ; text by Boris Buden, Barbara Heinrich, Natasa Ilic [...et al.]. - München : Verlag Silke Schreiber, 2007. - 448 p. : ills. ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
This book is published on the ocassion of the project The Balkan Trilogy at Kunsthalle Fridericianum Kassel, from September 2003 to September 2004. It reformulates political and cultural relations to the "Balkans" from the viewpoint of art, it documents the exhibition 'In the Gorges of the Balkans: A Reportage' at Kunsthalle Fridericianum, the series of projects 'In the Cities of the Balkans', and the symposium 'The Reinvention of the Balkans'.
 
CEAU / concept and editing by Christoph Büchel and Giovanni Carmine. - Göttingen : Steidl, 2008. - 350 p. : ills. ; 21 cm
The photographs in this publication show artworks of the Ceausescu era, preserved in the storage of the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest, Romania.
 
Der Soziale Garten : Das Grüne Manifest / Leberecht Migge ; mit einem Nachwort von Jürgen von Reuss. - Berlin : Gebr. Mann Verlag, 1999 (oorspronkelijk : "Deutsche Binnenkolonisation - Sachgrundlagen des Siedlungswesens", 1926). - 212 p. : ills. ; 22 cm
Mit Literatur.
Leberecht Migge fordert auf mit dem Stadtland eine neue städtische Siedlungsform zu denken, anders als die kritisierte Stadt, besser als das beklagte Land.
 
Merz World : Processing the Complicated Order / edited y Adrian Notz, Hans-Ulrich Obrist ; text Stefano Boeri, Dietmar Elger, Yona Friedman [...et al.]. - Zrich : JRP Ringier, 2008. - 124 p. : ills. ; 17 cm
This book has been published on the occasion of the Symposium Merzbau, "Historical Dimensions and Contemporary Potential" at Cabaret Voltaire in Zürich, May 7 2005.
Gregor Schneider, Thomas Hirschhorn [...et al.]

 
Sam Durant / contributors Michael Darling, Rita Kersting, Kevin Young. - Ostfildern-Ruit : Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2002. - 120 p. : ills. ; 26 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
This publication accompanies the exhibitions 'Sam Durant', organized by Michael Darling and presented at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 13 October 2002-9 February 2003; and 'Sam Durant' organized by Rita Kersting and presented at the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 18 January - 30 March 2003.