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Charted Patterns for Sweaters That Talk Back
Lisa Anne Auerbach
New York, NY: Printed Matter, Inc.. 2008
Published to coincide with Lisa Anne Auerbach's 2008 exhibition at Printed Matter, this artist's book brings together the various facets of Auerbach's artistic practice, which has included zine making, co-organizing the High Desert Test Sites project, and knitting. Political, relational, humorous, and instructive, it offers the reader step by step instructions on how to knit sweaters and skirts that feature a variety of snappy slogans ("When there's nothing left to burn, you've got to set yourself on fire" and "Yes we can! No we McCain't!" are two examples.) With full-color glossy photos of Auerbach and friends modeling her fashions on photoshoot that actually succeeds in making juggling and unicycling look cool.
Category: Book
$15.00
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Untitled (Fold)
[2009 Fundraising Edition]
Tauba Auerbach
New York, NY: Printed Matter, Inc.. 2009
Tauba Auerbach's two-tone screenprint is a visual cacophony of purple and yellow gridded dots that, when seen at a distance of 9 or 10 feet, resolve into an ingenious optical illusion suggesting a piece of paper that has been folded into sixteen segments.
Category: Printed Matter Edition
$1,000.00
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The Man in Black / Drone Harness
Matthew Barney, Jonathan Bepler
New York, NY: Printed Matter, Inc.. 2000
This provocative multiple by Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler is a fund-raising edition for Printed Matter. The 1970's-style twelve-inch vinyl picture-disc in a gatefold album cover features images from Barney's Cremaster 2. The record has two tracks, both audio remixes by Bepler from the soundtrack he composed for the movie. Side A is "The Man in Black" featuring Dave Lombardo (the drummer from the heavy metal band Slayer) and 200,000 honey bees. Side B is a dark and moody track entitled "Drone Harness." The edition is an amazing amalgam of sonic and visual vitality: a major contribution to Barney's ever-growing oeuvre. Each record is signed and numbered by both artists.
Category: Printed Matter Edition
$275.00
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A Field Guide To Weeds
[2nd edition]
Kim Beck
New York, NY: Printed Matter, Inc.. 2008
A Field Guide to Weeds masquerades as a 19th century pocket guide, but a guide in which the weeds themselves have taken over. Beck’s innovative project uses the physical form of the book as a metaphor for a crack in the city sidewalk: printed in luscious five-color printing, the common dandelion, pigweed, and poison ivy—the very plants we ignore, step over, ignore, dig up, or scrupulously avoid—creep out of the gutter, up pages, and overrun the book. Multiple silhouettes overlap and repeat, drawing the reader’s attention to the overlooked. The book features a brown silk ribbon marker. The thumbnail image shows a two-page spread from the contents of the book.
Category: Book
$25.00
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Dark Prospects
Charles Beronio
New York, NY: Printed Matter. 2008
Dark Prospects takes as its source material issues of People, Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News and World Report. While retaining the form of the magazine, the artist dismantles the medium’s visual language by blacking out all references to corporate branding, time (both textually and visually), textual references to location, and facial features of the magazines’ featured stars and advertising props. What’s left is an unforgiving and stuttering sequence of detonated images and textual fragments supporting a skewed visual narrative of lifestyle and politics—modern life stripped bare.
Category: Book
$10.00
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The Black Book
[Dust Jacket Edition]
Barbara Bloom
New York, USA: Printed Matter, Inc.. 1993
An edition of 1,000 offset-printed dustjackets allows you to create your own book by Barbara Bloom, simply by wrapping this cover around the book of your choice.
Category: Printed Matter Edition
$6.50
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Volition
Gregg Bordowitz
New York, NY: Printed Matter, Inc.. 2009
Consisting entirely of questions, Gregg Bordowitz's Volition is 142 pages of active, mind-bending engagement with the reader, who is led down paths of inquiry involving art, meaning, philosophy, choice, happiness, and identity. Bordowitz organizes his questions into lists, paragraphs, and stanzas, which are themselves organized into five chapters: Questions, Topics, Aesthetics, Beliefs, and Morals. The resulting text is something like a spiritual guide crossed with an epic poem crossed with a transcription of the meandering thoughts of a philosophic insomniac, kept awake by such questions as "How can I touch creation as a principle without reproach?" and "How does gratitude unfold from virtue?"
Category: Book
$22.00
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Performance Anxiety
[2006 NY Art Book Fair Edition]
Matthew Brannon
New York, NY: Printed Matter, Inc.. 2006
This limited edition by Matthew Brannon was created specially for the Printed Matter Benefit at the 2006 NY Art Book Fair. The print is silkscreened in 3 colors: a canary yellow, and a matte black, and a glossy black. Printed on heavy acid-free cream-colored paper. Signed and numbered edition of 200.
Category: Printed Matter Edition
$250.00
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Queer Zines
exhibition catalog
Philip Aarons and AA Bronson, editors
New York, NY: Printed Matter, Inc.. 2008
Queer Zines, the catalogue, collects the variegated practices of zine makers past and present, from North America and Europe, and lists them alphabetically, starting with Toronto's 88 Chins and ending with the Dean Sameshima zine Young Men at Play. In a riotous assemblage of more than 200 pages, we find comprehensive bibliographies and sinful synopses for more than 120 zines by Alex Gartenfeld, excerpted illustrations and writings by zine makers, reprints of important articles in and about queer zines, a directory of important zine archives, and a list of zine outlets around the world. It also includes a 1980 interview with Boyd McDonald by Vince Aletti, Bimbox's pop-up genitalia (alas, not popping up here), Adam Block's early writings on zines from the Advocate, a "Where are They Now?" section that charts the careers of various queer zine pioneers, and excerpted interviews with GB Jones, Vaginal Davis, and Bruce LaBruce. See more here: http://www.queerzines.com
Category: Book
$25.00
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