Collector's Shit : Detachment from the Collection Todd Alden New York, NY: Ted Donald Editions. 1993 In 1961, Italian artist Piero Manzoni collected his own excrement in tins which he sold for the price of gold on the day of the sale. Beginning in 1993, Todd Alden embarked on a project in response to Manzoni, in which he invited some 750 contemporary art collectors to conserve their own feces for canning and collection. A total of 81 collectors participated in this consideration of abjection, market relations, scatological taboos, and authenticity. Alden situates the collector as artist creator, while his own role becomes that of collector fetishist. Bound in a file folder, this publication consists of meticulously organized copies of correspondence with an anonymous collector, support materials, and essays by Alden and Ted Donald. Category: Book $75.00 [-10% discount to Printed Matter members at the Member level]

100 German Men Mary Ellen Carroll New York, NY: Presse Endémique. 1998 After more than a year's worth of nearly one thousand encounters with men on the street, Carroll collected photographs of one hundred men who responded "Germany" when asked where they were from (implying their heritage), and who then also agreed to be photographed. In this investigation of ethnicity, Carroll examines the effects of history on the development of Germany's cultural identity. The back cover reprints a passage from Norbert Elias, “The Germans, Civilization and Informalization” (in German). References: Umbrella v.21, no.3/4, December 1998, p. 123. Category: Book $10.00 [-10% discount to Printed Matter members at the Member level]

36 Views of Mt. Fuji Steen Bach Christensen Copenhagen, Denmark: Space Poetry. 2008 Throughout history, Mt. Fuji has been the subject of countless works of art and has captured the imagination of poets and artists from all over the world. 36 Views of Mt. Fuji is a part of this tradition, but it also takes into account the role the mountain has played in Japanese advertising, public works, fast food, and children's science lessons. Christensen's lush color photographs were taken while the artist was in Japan and includes these "views" of the mountain alongside more traditional landscape photographs. Category: Book $26.00 [-10% discount to Printed Matter members at the Member level]

FILE Megazine [Complete Reprint] General Idea Zurich, Switzerland: JRP Ringier. 2008 "Among artists' magazines and periodicals, FILE Megazine occupies a very unique position: between 1972 and 1989, the celebrated Canadian artists collaborative General Idea (active 1969–1994) published 26 issues of this sophisticated, though self-published, magazine, which had a distribution extending far beyond its Toronto underground origins. Its name and logo adapted those of the famous LIFE—whose heyday was in the 1950s and early 1960s—demonstrating an already very Pop strategy of appropriation. As it was retrospectively put by AA Bronson, one of the members of the collective, the magazine's purpose has been the search of 'an alternative to the Alternative Press,' a subversive concept of infiltration within mainstream media and culture. Thus the early issues' manifestos, lists of addresses, and letters from friends, were rapidly replaced by General Idea's scripts and projects as well as cultural issues (as in the famous 'Glamour' or 'Punk' issues), while never loosing a cutting-edge attention to emerging practices on the art scene and experimental layouts. "The present six-volume reprint features all the issues, reproduced page by page, in a slightly modified format. It provides the rare opportunity for an art, design, and culture-orientated audience to own these long out-of-print and much sought-after magazines in a complete box-set edition. "This publication is part of the Ringier Collection Artists' Series, edited by Beatrix Ruf." --from the publisher Category: Book $280.00 [-10% discount to Printed Matter members at the Member level]

The Holy Bible : Old Testament David Hammons London, England: Hand / Eye Projects. 2002 This publication is an appropriation of Arturo Schwarz's The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp and has been rebound in leather to resemble a Bible, with gilt edging, gold tooling, a ribbon placeholder, and a slipcase. Category: Multiple $4,500.00 [-10% discount to Printed Matter members at the Member level]

En cas de Reclamation les Sentiments Vous Seront Remoursés Martin Kippenberger Geneva, Switzerland: Halle Sud. 1989 Translated as In Case of Complaint, Your Feelings Will Be Reimbursed, this is a catalogue raisonné of cards from 1978 to 1989 published according to Kippenberger's concept and design to accompany the 1989 exhibition of the same name at the Halle Sud in Geneva. A text entitled "Kippenberger, verstehen!" by Jutta Koether runs throughout the book in German and French. The book's design is based on the catalogue Meisterwerke des Museums São Paulo issued by the Berner Kunstmuseum in 1954. References: Uwe Koch, Annotated catalogue raisonné of the books by Martin Kippenberger 1977-1997, 2003. p. 188. Category: Book $750.00

Psychobuildings Martin Kippenberger Cologne, Germany: Walter König. 1988 Kippenberger’s prolific output of books over the last few years has been remarkable. This work is a small perfect-bound book of black-and-white photographs, all of them postcard-size, acting as a visual journal of sorts. Containing no text, this book is an international inventory of oddball architectural details cleverly, and sometimes randomly, juxtaposed with public sculptures, the artist’s own installations, and portraits of the artist. Category: Book $500.00

Virtuosen vor dem Berg Martin Kippenberger Frankfurt, Germany: Galerie Grässlin-Ehrhardt. 1991 This book was created in 1991 as a collaboration with the "Kippenberger Class" from when Kippenberger was teaching at the St$#228;del Art School in Frankfurt. He (along with Matti Braun, Andreas Höhne, Adam Kuczynski, Martin Liebscher, Tobias Rehberer, Matthias Schaufler, Markus Schneider, Tatjana Steiner, Ronald Wullems and Christian Zickler) created this travelogue about the highs and lows of the art market in the form of a Baedeker travel guide. It was published to accompany the 1991 exhibition "Virtuosen ihrer Zeit. 2 Sester Kippenberger" at the Galerie Grässlin-Erhardt. References: Uwe Koch, Annotated catalogue raisonné of the books by Martin Kippenberger 1977-1997, 2003. p. 226 Category: Book $150.00 [-10% discount to Printed Matter members at the Member level]

Il Mare Come Artigiano Bruno Munari Mantova, Italy: Corraini Editore. 1995 This small elegant book contains the artist's responses to the work of the Japanese 19th artist Hokusai. Category: Book $12.00 [-10% discount to Printed Matter members at the Member level]

The Newpaper. Issue #2 Eleanor Vonne Brown, editor London, England: T/EXT/ART/. 2008 The Newpaper is a newspaper about newspapers. It mirrors the style and content of a newspaper while dissecting the formal elements and narrative structure of this ubiquitous format. Issue 2 contains collages, eye-movement charts, concrete poems, crosswords and essays investigating the many ways in which newspapers exist in our lives, from the sociopolitical antecedents of dadaist poetry to an account of the smell of a printing press. Contributors include Iganasi Aballi, Eleanor Brown, Matt Bryans, Craig Burnett, Celine Duval, Kenneth Goldsmith, Savannah Gorton, Jochem Hendricks, Hugh Mendez, Michalis Pichler, Michele Robecchi, Vibeke Tandberg, Anke te Heesen, (un) limited store, Lucy Woodhouse and others. Category: Zine $5.00 [-10% discount to Printed Matter members at the Member level]

Working Drawings And Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant To Be Viewed Michalis Pichler, editor Chatou, France: cneai. 2008 The title Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to be Viewed is a paraphrase of Mel Bochner's landmark project from 1966 with the last two words "as art" omitted from the title. It is a compilation of sketches, source photographs, notes, and other artifacts from the studio practices of the artists who contributed work (either wittingly or not, as some "working drawings" were found objects.) These contributors include AA Bronson, Inaki Bonillas, Mel Bochner, Marcel Broodthaers, Heath Bunting, Alice Creischer, Brad Downey, Kenneth Goldsmith, Ellen Harvey, Douglas Huebler, Burkhard Holdorff, Deborah Kelly, Sol LeWitt, Akim Nguyen, Edgar Orlaineta, Grisha Perelman, Michalis Pichler, Peter Piller, Adrian Piper, Johannes Raether, Allen Ruppersberg, Stefan Schuster, Andreas Siekmann, Evgenia Tsalagrada, Haegue Yang, and Adam Zaretsky. Category: Book $25.00 [-10% discount to Printed Matter members at the Member level]

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