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Notable Days
Pavel Büchler London, England : Book Works. 1990
“Notable Days” is the Czech expatriate’s response to recent events in Eastern Europe and their transformation into history. The book looks at the ways we measure time and, through this, how we form views of events and construct a memory of them in the form of history. Buchler extracts fragments of newspaper phrases and photographs, made abstract through enlargement, and places them into a new context within the pages of the book, endowing them with their own “history.” Compelling for both its underlying ideas as well as its graphic presentation of them. Category: Book
$25.00
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The Blindings
Brian Catling London, England : Book Works. 1995
Catling created a series of performances 1993-1994; this book documents both his process and the results. Catling says in the preface: “I hope to keep these pages clear from the unsanitary condition of autobiography.“ Includes photographs, writings, and entries. Category: Book
$15.00
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Der Planet
Stepan Grygar, Zdenek Primus Prague, Czech Rep. : Umbrella Editions. 1993
Rolling through city streets and sidewalks, a large rubber ball picks up and deposits the detritus of the urban landscape. Nineteen black-and-white photographs document the shifting geographies of an earth surface comprised of that very detritus—leaves for its continents, rocks for it islands, blankness for it oceans. Viewing the microcosm as if the cosmos, this book speaks in the monumental language of outer-space photography and collapses an entire geographic history onto the surface of a rolling, rubber ball. Category: Book
$22.00
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The Price of Words : Places to Remember 1 - 26
Lily R. Markiewicz London, England : Book Works. 1992
The Price of Words : Places to Remember 1 - 26 opens with three double page spreads of photographs. The rich almost shimmering black and white images show some sort of vessel in extreme close up, its powdery contents spilling over to look at once like constellations of stars and grains of sand. After this wordless introduction, the book becomes a strange kind of alphabet book. Each letter sets off a paragraph of the artists meditations on place, memory, and language as they relate to her family's history as Jews. A mysterious and moving inquiry into the relationship of language and identity. Category: Book
$26.00
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Very Food
Silvia Ziranek London, England : Book Works. 1987
Six years ago Ziranek decided to transfer her culinary concoctions onto paper. What began as whimsical quasi-fairy stories incorporating an actual non meat/fish/egg recipe has developed into autobiographical accounts centered around edible occasions. Ziranek proffers humorous recipes not only to eat but to read. Twenty-two dishes each accompanied by one of Ziranek's unique photographic illustrations. �The book is printed offset litho in two colours, with soft cover and printed dust jacket. Published in an edition 750 copies, there is a special edition of 50 signed and numbered copies which includes an original screen print, and is hand bound in fifties fabric by Book Works and presented in a slip case"--Book Works. Category: Book
$16.50
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Diamond Sea
Doug Aitken London, England : Book Works. 2001
Diamond Sea is a photographic journey through Diamond Areas One and Two: a highly secure 70,000 square kilometre area along the coastline of the Namibian desert. This area, containing the world's richest diamond mine, has been sealed off from public access since 1907. Aitken struggled through bureaucratic red tape to obtain permission to film in the Diamond Areas. Aitken's photographs reveal how the man-made corporate-owned landscape and the vast topographic expanse of the Namibian desert are equally subject to narrative construction.
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Rule Book
Angela Bulloch London, United Kingdom : Book Works. 2001
A conceptual and multi-media artist, Angela Bulloch has been collecting sets of rules, instructions, and otherwise informative lists from a variety of sources. This sampling ranges from the banal (garbage collection), to the sublime (The Ten Commandments). By taking such disparate rules out of their original context and playing them against each other, the dependence of these codes on a specific social function or ideology becomes apparent. The result is a fascinating, often absurd and comic portrait of the regulation of contemporary life. In a final poetic and conceptual twist, interspersed throughout the rules are four different sets of color plates of the primary colors, each set in a slightly different hue. Category: Book
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Erasmus Is Late
Liam Gillick London, England : Book Works. 1995, 2000
"The central character of Erasmus is Late is Erasmus Darwin, opium-eater and brother of the more famous Charles who is indeed late. Late for a dinner party that he himself is giving and whose illustrious guests, already assembled around his table, include: Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense under Kennedy; Masura Ibuka, co-founder of Sony; and Murry Wilson, father of Brian Wilson.
Whilst the guests wait, Erasmus dawdles through contemporary London becoming waylaid by different sites, which represent for Gillick, the development of free-thinking; Gillian Gillick, the artist's mother, illustrates these sites with line drawings. Erasmus Darwin epitomises for Gillick the activity of free-thinking; a form of political pursuit dependent on wealth and leisure and problematic in its relationship to 'unfree' thought and the working classes.
On one level a guide to contemporary London seen through the eyes of a Georgian, Erasmus is Late is also an examination of pre-Marxist positions, an ill-researched investigation of a Utopian optimism that is struggling to predict the future." From the publishers. Category: Book
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Rex Reason
Simon Patterson London, United Kingdom : Book Works. 1994
Each page in this book features a different numerical symbol from the Periodical Element chart. Underneath each symbol is a new interpretation of the symbol: Cl stands for Cleopatra, Gd for Paulette Goddard, etc. Category: Book
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The Architect and the Housewife
Frances Stark London, United Kingdom : Book Works. 1999
“Frances Stark's The Architect & The Housewife unfolds as a sequence of inter-related texts that consider - amongst many other things - the varying roles that gender acts out in contemporary art practice." The book is broken into two parts: Part I orginally appeared in Michael Lin's book "Complementary" (Dimension Endowment of Art, Taiwan, 1998); while Part II was orginally commissioned for "Jorge Pardo" (Cantz, Germany, 1999). Category: Book
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