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The Continuous Art Class
The Novi Sad Neo-Avantgarde of the 1960's and 1970's
Kuda.org
Frankfurt, Germany: Revolver. 2005
Accompanying an exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Novi Sad, this eponymous work traces the avant-garde activity and youth culture in the unique political context of communist, non-aligned Yugoslavia during the 1960’s and 1970’s. Includes 4 historiographic and analytic essays by Zoran Pantelic, Kristian Lukic, Katherine Carl, and Branka Curcic. Includes a few photographs of the exhibition space as it appeared in Stuttgart in 2005, and documents of conceptual and performance art from the early 1970s. The work also embarks upon a visual representation of Novi Sad as it is embedded in various branches of art and theory, linking figures like Art&Language, Critical Art Ensemble, and Stéphane Mallarmé and Marina Abramovic. Text published in both English and Serbian.
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$18.00
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ANNUAL REPORT
Andrew McLaren
Calgary, Canada: A. McLaren. 2006
This book presents absurd take on corporate office documents by mingling office supplies with materials and techniques tied to chance and game-based strategies. Pages consist of a melody of incorporated laminated objects including Las Vegas playing cards, matchsticks and fruit flies. The included texts draw on a mystical range of sources from dice rolling and phenomenology to Stéphane Mallarmé and Nostradamus.
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$100.00
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Un Coup de dés Jamais n'Abolira le Hasard : Sculpture
[paper edition]
Michalis Pichler
Berlin, Germany: Greatest Hits. 2008
Michalis Pichler’s Un Coup De Des Jamais N’Abolira Le Hasard adapts the 1914 edition of Stephane Mallarme’s poem of the same name, following the original typographic layout used by the French symbolist poet to create a complex arrangement of laser-cut pages. The book is
prefaced with the entire poem aligned in a rectangular format, a layout first transcribed by Marcel Broodthaers in 1969, and is followed by a number of pages that have been painstakingly cut to correspond with the word placement in Mallarme’s original articulation of the text. The resulting windows of missing text create a compelling play of shadows that emerge and recede as the pages are turned.
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$50.00
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Mallarmé, The Book
Klaus Scherübel
New York, NY: Printed Matter, Inc.. 2004
"Everything in the world exists in order to end up in a book." – Mallarme
Throughout the last thirty years of his life, French poet Stéphane Mallarmé (1842 – 1889) was engaged with a "wonderful work," that he simply called The Book ( Le Livre). He envisioned The Book as a cosmic text-architecture: an extremely flexible structure that would reveal nothing short of "all existing relations between everything." This "Grand Oeuvre," wholly freed from the subjectivity of its author and containing the sum of all books was, for Mallarmé, the essence of all literature and at the same time a "very ordinary" book. The realization of this "pure" work that he planned to publish in a bestseller edition never progressed beyond its conception and a detailed analysis of structural and material questions relating to publication and presentation. Yet to Mallarmé, The Book, which was to found the "true cult of the modern era," was by no means a failure. "It happens on its own," he explained of The Book’s unique action in one of his final statements."
In Mallarmé, The Book Scherübel acts as both editor and preserver of Mallarmé’s forgotten masterpiece. In a gesture that highlights The Book’s contradictory status as both impossible to realize (as a book) and fully realized (as a conceptual work), Scherübel produced a "cover" for The Book in the dimensions specified by Mallarmé more than one hundred years ago. Mallarmé, The Book bears all the hallmarks of an ordinary dust jacket, including an ISBN and a back cover text. This dust jacket wraps around a block of white styrofoam. The new English translation follows on Mallarmé, Das Buch, published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, in 2001.
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$30.00
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Lines of Thin Pale Blue and Red
Simon Cutts, Ian Hamilton Finlay
Nevers, France: Centre d'art contemporain APAC. 1990
Simon Cutts translates a line of Mallarmé and Ian Hamilton Finlay a line from André Chernier. The two lines are laid out in facing folded signatures, sewn into a fold-out cover with French text outside and English translation inside. The essay touches on the divergent meanings of the ostensibly similar lines and the complementary sensibilities of the artists and their chosen authors.
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For Publication
[Second Edition]
Dan Graham
New York, NY: Marian Goodman Gallery. 1991
The second edition of a catalog originally published by the Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles County in 1975, For Publication reproduces a series of Dan Graham's projects from the 1960s that both drew from and were made to be inserted into the mass media. His "Schema" deal with quantifying linguistic and stylistic information from magazine articles; "Detumescence" was one of many projects that Graham deployed in paid advertising space of various magazines, as was "Dan Graham Inc." and "Likes : A Computer-Astrological Dating -Placement Service." "Income Piece" and the proposal for Aspen Magazine are reproduced as is "Homes For America," originally published in Arts Magazine from December 1966 - January 1967. In a section on Information, Graham situates his data-organization practices in the context of Ramon Lull, Borges, Marshall McLuhan, Mallarmé and Roy Lichtenstein.
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Nonchaloir
Paul P.
Brooklyn, NY: Powerhouse Books. 2007
" Nonchaloir, the artist’s first monograph, collects over 100 of these stunning portraits in a small, intimate volume. P.’s subjects and their poses, at times languishing, wistful, or weary, are imbued with references to famed painters James McNeil, Whistler and John Singer Sargent. Even the title itself is referential: nonchaloir is a defunct French word suggesting repose and resignation, and is found in works by Mallarmé and Baudelaire." --from the publisher
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The Book, Spiritual Instrument
Jerome Rothenberg, David Guss, editors
New York, NY: Granary Books. 1996
Charles Bernstein, Professor of Poetry and Poetics at SUNY-Buffalo wrote the following about The Book, Spiritual Instrument: "Prefaced by Mallarmé's famous dictum that 'everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book,' this spirited collection demonstrates the reverse as well: everything in the book exists in order to end up in the world. Edited in 1982 by Jerome Rothenberg, the greatest American anthologist of the postwar years, and his associate, anthropologist and translator David Guss, The Book, Spiritual Instrument pushes the envelope not only on what books contain but also on what they are. Rothenberg and company read the book as metaphor for aesthetic framing devices, but they also read frames as metaphoric books. In a series of exemplary essays on, and demonstrations of, what might be called the ethnopoetics of the book, books from a wide range of cultural traditions are portrayed as radical extenders of form rather than neutral vessels of content. The result is a vision of books as laboratories for the invention and performance of perceptual systems: new worlds carved out of the wilderness of human thought and language."
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Mallarme
Bernard Villers
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