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Gore ot Uma
[Woe from Wit]
AES Group : Tatiana Arzamosova, Lev Evzovich, and Evgeny Svyatsky
Moscow, Russia: Ilbi. 1995
Gore ot Uma (which translates into Woe from Wit) consists of two volumes bound back-to-back and housed in a cardboard slipccase. The first volume is a reprint of A. Griboedov's 1823 comedy Wit Works Woe, a "classical Russian Comedy written in verse at the beginning of the nineteenth century by a contemporary of Pushkin's, a Russian ambassador in Persia. ...This play is one of those frequently interpreted on the Russian and Soviet stage. ...In the Twentieth Century the play was staged by Stanislavsky in the Russian Art Nouveau style, by Meyerhold in the style of the revolutionary avant-garde, and by a few directors in the Stalin era and in the 'thaw' of the sixties and after." The text is entirely in Russian.
The second volume, The Golden Notebook, is full of color sketches, photographs, pull-out mini posters, notes, and selected English translations of the original play. "It is a graphic interpretation of the political and cultural archetypes of Russian life up to the postmodern outlook of the eighties ...It might be called an intellectual game with the play's contents and the cultural layers of its subsequent treatments."
Category: Small Book
$100.00
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99 Cent Dreams
Doug Aitken
Aspen, CO: Aspen Art Museum. 2008
"This lavishly illustrated artist's book is the largest and most ambitious publication yet produced by the Los Angeles-based video artist and photographer Doug Aitken--an artist known for his groundbreaking publications. Featuring a short text by Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, Director and Chief Curator of the Aspen Art Museum, it focuses on Aitken's still images, more than half of which have never been reproduced before. Known primarily for his multi-screen video installations, Aitken has gained international recognition for his immersive explorations of the experience of time and location. His exhibition at the Aspen Art Museum was the first dedicated solely to his photography. From nighttime cityscapes to deserted gas stations, airports and bus depots, Aitken's dreamlike photographs contain the same spatial and temporal dislocation and narrative suggestion as his installations." --from the publisher
Category: Book
$75.00
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Write-in Jerry Brown President
Doug Aitkin
New York, NY: Library Council of the Museum of Modern Art. 2008
Housed within a signed and numbered display box, Write–In Jerry Brown President is a die-cut hexagon-shaped accordion-style book. A celebration of Brown’s commitment to modesty in government, the book contains quotations of Brown’s populist approach accompanied by pictures and half-toned reproductions of said campaign interspersed with pictures of Aitken’s natural and artificial landscapes (coastline, sky, billboards, satellite dishes), creating a tone of existential inquiry.
Category: Book
$1,000.00
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Damaged by Water, Financed by Insurance
AKassen
Copenhagen, Denmark: Space Poetry. 2008
This water-damaged artist's book features documentary photographs of four installation/performances conducted by art collective AKassel in 2006-2007.
Category: Book
$26.00
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XXX
Joseph Akel
Brooklyn, NY: J. Akel. 2009
Despite its suggestive title, XXX is a relatively subdued collection of minimally composed black and white collages made from artfully cropped vintage beefcake photographs and geometric line drawings. Incorporating the torn edge and adhesive materials into his compositions, Akel's work is more concerned with aesthetic pleasure than titillation.
Category: Book
$10.00
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Love Takes Two/The Other Side
[A Sara Ranchouse Back-To-Back Romance]
Sally Alatalo writing as Anita M-28 and Sal Clarke
Chicago, IL: Sara Ranchouse Publishing. 2006
"She gasped like a startled child as his hand, strong as a bronze statue, came to rest on her neck, hot and flushed as a ripe-peach ready to be plucked from a sun-drenched tree."
The first half of this pocket-sized paperback presents a romance anthology that amalgamates popular similes used to describe racy moments of lust and fulfillment, creating a metatext of romantic encounters. The book can then be flipped over to read a complimentary publication which includes an essay titled, "A Comparative Analysis of the Simile in Heterosexual and Lesbian Popular Romance Fiction".
Category: Book
$15.00
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Unforeseen Alliances
Sara Ranchouse Romance Series #3
Anita M-28 (Sally Alatalo)
Chicago, IL: Sara Ranchouse Publishing. 2001
"The romance novel stood alone, forgotten on a separate shelf, resigned to a studied appearance of singular, autonomous text. It seemed there was no hope of reviving her timeworn story. Then, unexpectedly, a timid hand appeared to reposition first one book, and then another. Fate had finally arrived to give the romance novel a new place in life, to forge unforseen alliances."
Don't be fooled by this "timid hand"; it belongs to none other than the intrepid Sally Alatalo, who fearlessly takes on genre after pulp fiction genre in a fight to reclaim pleasure and possibility from exhausted forms. Here, her deft arrangements of romance titles create condensed love stories in five line poems. An appendix of 1,878 titles at the back invites the reader to try his or her hand at this cut and paste approach to romance.
Category: Book
$10.00
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Astronomie Populaire
Jean-Michel Alberola
Ghent, Belgium: Imschoot. 1990
Subtitled, "Grandeur Nature," Alberola's book is both a critique and a meditation on the nature of disseminating information. Beginning with a dialogue from the Marx Brothers and ending with a quote from Deleuze, it pairs a series of watercolors on place mats with a selection of fait-divers. A little red book for the nineties, the book's juxtaposition of image and text is an incisive commentary on the use of "disinformation" in the previous decade.
Category: Book
$25.00
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Instructions Aux Domestiques
Jean-Michel Alberola
Paris, France: Onestar Press. 2002
In 1990 a laboratory in Charlotte, North Carolina discovered that Perrier water contained traces of benzene. Although it was later proved that the naturally occurring traces had not been filtered out due to a human error, the company never recovered its credibility in the United States. The size and scope of the hysteria surrounding the discovery caused some people to wonder who organized the analysis of the Perrier in the first place. Who told the press? Guillaume Dasquié, author of a book on the subject of secret corporate practices, claimed that between 1980 and 1989 the growth of Perrier threatened US superpower Coca-Cola. Taking off from there the author of this book construes a plot from Atlanta to bring down its competition. Full of citations from people on the inside he makes his case convincingly and with biting humor, prefacing his entire exposé with Jonathan Swift's Instructions to Domestic Servants. In French.
Category: Book
$55.00
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Giga C.
Hans Albrecht, Ward Denys, Pascal De Pauw, Johan Gelper, and Pieter Vermeersch
Gent, Belgium: MER. Paper Kunsthalle. 2008
Category: Book
$100.00
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