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L’Equerre - L’édition integrale - The complete edition Author: Pierre Charlier (Ed.) Publisher: Fourre-Tout Editions Language: French / English Pages: 1350 Weight: 3.5 kg Price: $95.00 Product Description Published between 1928 and 1939, along with “Opbouwen”, “L’Equerre” served as a platform for the Belgian and international avant-garde and for the theories developed by the CIAM from 1928 onwards. It showcased the proponents of Belgian and international modernism (V. Bourgeois, LH De Koninck, Le Corbusier …) and nurtured a special relationship with the Italian architect Alberto Sartoris. In close collaboration with the poet and critic Georges Linze, and aware of the transversal dimension of architecture, the authors gave significant coverage in their columns to the diverse expressions of modern art (poetry, sculpture, painting, etc.). Sensitive and pragmatic, the editorial line advocated dialogue between all disciplines that could be used as building blocks for a “better architecture.” Lawyers, teachers and political representatives were thus invited to share their experiences and to stimulate reflection on a logical and functional architecture meeting the needs of a “healthy man in a healthy city.” The section dedicated to international developments, the position of its members in charge of the Belgian secretariat of the CIAM, as well as its regular issues, made this journal stand out head and shoulders above the plethora of Belgian publications dedicated to modern architecture. Today still, it is widely considered as one of the most significant journals circulating in Europe at the time.  In addition to the republication of 115 issues of the journal in facsimile form, giving the informed reader a personal perspective and, above all, perpetuating a wealth of knowledge, the work also takes on a didactic perspective. A critical production makes it possible to understand the context, the strategies, the actors and questioning of a movement whose theories were to leave a lasting mark on post-war architects.   “The lunatics are on the loose …” EUROPEAN FLUXUS FESTIVALS 1962-1977 Author: - Publisher: Down With Art Language: English Pages: 592 Weight: 1.4250 kg Price: $60.00 Product Description Publication in English on the occasion of the exhibition “The lunatics are on the loose …” EUROPEAN FLUXUS FESTIVALS 1962-1977Extensive documentation of 32 selected European Fluxus events in Aachen, Aberystwyth, Amsterdam, Berlin, Budapest, Copenhagen, Düsseldorf, London, Madrid, Nizza, Oslo, Paris, Prague, Poznan, Rotterdam, Scheveningen, Stockholm, Vilnius, Wiesbaden, WuppertalContributions by Jennifer Burkard, Myriam Kroll, Peter van der Meijden, Susanne Rennert, Henar Rivière Ríos, Heike Roms, Vanja Sisek, Petra Stegmann, Caroline UgelstadArtistic contributions by Eric Andersen, Philip Corner, Alison Knowles, Jarosław Kozłowski, Larry Miller, Ann Noël, Ben Patterson, Tamas St.Turba ABCDCAP Author: CAP (Crew Against People) Publisher: Bigg Boss Pages: 290 Price: $45.00 Product Description CAP (Crew Against People) is a Czech collective comprised of Graffiti artists Blez, Mosd, Masker, Dize, Key, and Crap. Since 2005, their tags have appeared on the walls of abandoned buildings and old factories throughout Eastern Europe, where they have established themselves as anti-graffiti graffiti artists, working in a raw, spontaneous style that relies on simplicity of form and ironic detachment. This book provides a survey of CAP’s work from 2005-2007, including over 200 color photographs with a separate index of dates and locations, an essay by Václav Magid printed in both Czech and English, and a dust jacket that folds out into a pink and black poster designed by CAP. For Lal, or Henry Author: Sean Edwards Publisher: The Block Language: English Price: $25.00 Product Description Six booklets that fold out into posters.Contents:Cabinet Making and the Kit of Tools On the Life of Forms - Anne McQuayThe Moments Before the Banal Became Something You Could No Longer Believe In Context for Reading - Sara MacKillop I Saw Something Else (CBS)Maybe Something Like the Way It Should Have Been - Ryan GanderPublished in London 2012Designed by Wolfram Wiedner studio Dossier Fernand Baudin Author: Coline Sunier, Charles Mazé (Ed.) Publisher: Prix Fernand Baudin Prijs. Language: French, English, Dutch Price: $28.00 Product Description Drawing from Fernand Baudin’s collection kept in the rare books and manuscripts section at the Université libre de Bruxelles, the DOSSIER FERNAND BAUDIN gathers texts written or translated by Baudin, previously unreleased or published in various journals, or read in conferences, covering a period going from 1958 to 1998. Presented in a chronological order, this selection of texts conveys a panorama of his various activities, the ideas he developed and advocated, and gives a glimpse on the network of friendly and professional relationships Baudin established during his entire career. NOTES FROM A REVOLUTION: COM/CO, THE DIGGERS & THE HAIGHT Author: David Hollander, Kristine McKenna (Eds.) Publisher: Fulton Ryder & Foggy Notion Language: English Price: $60.00 Product Description The social upheaval of the sixties gave rise to many fascinating coalitions and communes, but the Diggers, a little-known and short-lived group, stand apart from them all. Formed in Haight-Ashbury in 1966 by members of R. G. Davis’s subversive theater company, the San Francisco Mime Troupe, the Diggers took their name from the English Diggers, a seventeenth century agrarian collective devoted to creating a utopian society free of ownership and commerce.The San Francisco Diggers – under the leadership of Peter Berg, Emmett Grogan, Peter Coyote, and Billy Murcott – were true anarchists, with roots in the Theater of the Absurd, Existentialism, and strategies of direct action. They coined slogans designed to prod people into participating and staged art happenings, public interventions, and street theater infused with wicked humor. The Diggers also provided free food, clothing, medical care and lodging to anyone in need as part of their effort to create a unified and mutually supportive community.A critically important part of their methodology were the hundreds of broadsides that they regularly produced and distributed throughout the Haight, printed by the Communication Company, a maverick, short-lived publishing outfit founded by Chester Anderson and Claude Hayward. A selection of these graphically inventive, lacerating and sometimes funny broadsides are gathered together for the first time in Notes From a Revolution, which offers a fascinating and oddly moving record of the counterculture in its early bloom. Le catalogue et ses hybrides / The Catalog’s Mongrels Author: Charlotte Cheetham Publisher: Charlotte Cheetham Language: French / English Price: $25.00 Product Description Le catalogue et ses hybrides / The Catalog’s Mongrels is a proposal of one possible way to document/trace the same name exhibition.The exhibitions The Catalog and its hybrids - curated by Charlotte Cheetham - introduced publishing projects reflecting the diversity of publications that are associated with the exhibition context… The catalog of the project, designed by officeabc, tries to embody its own statement…These printed sites of encounter – a format of interaction between an art space (art center, gallery, museum…), a curator, an artist, a graphic designer, a theorist… – question, particularly, the potential of the book object to be an alternative to the exhibition space.From a documental object – the catalogue – to a composite printed form – the artist book - some of these publications offer a more complex treatment of the documentation of artistic production and curatorial practices.A source, trace or extension of the ephemeral, each of these printed experiences, which are reactivated at each new reading, constitute an alternative space of living memory, a new context for the existence of a work of art. Content:- Introduction & Promenade (Charlotte Cheetham)- A kind of bibliography The Catalog and its hybrids- An extract of the The Catalog and its hybrids collection- Seth Siegelaub: to exhibit, to publish… (Jérôme Dupeyrat)- A case of tic, tac, toe et Notes about a flyer (officeabc)Extra• a tumblr bookmark• sticker Museum of Museum• cards “teaser/clue to a catalogue”Design: officeabcTypography: Devanture par Sarah KremerTranslation: Mafalda Dâmaso & officeabcPrint: Print itA project supported by Toulous’up, label et bourse de la ville de Toulouse. Glotzt Nicht so Romantisch! Author: Dubravka Sekulic Publisher: Jan van Eyck Academie Language: English Binding: Softcover Price: $20.00 Product Description In the extra-territory of the Belgrade roof extensions, things are not quite what they appear to be at first glance. This book, which starts from the enigmatic extensions of the so-called Russian Pavilions, scrutinizes this extra-territory. Not only are the pavilions not Russian, but more importantly the act of extending them in the 2000s follows particular shady negotiations between inhabitants, developers and municipal authorities, which placed the extensions beyond simple (il)legality. “Glotzt Nicht so Romantisch!” delves into the political and legal origins of this extra-territory, through which the housing policy of socialist Yugoslavia is traced, during the 1990s with property turning from “ours” into “mine”, and the 2000s when the attitude of transgressing urban regulations became the norm, which explains much of the vast extra-legal urban interventions that shape the city today.Edited by Dubravka Sekulic, designed by Žiga Testen with photographs by Luka Knežević – Strika, Marko Marović and Andreja Mirić and illustrations by Walter Warton (Karl Nawrot). EP Author: Lace Curtain Publisher: DFA Records Design: Maximage Price: $15.00 Product Description Lace Curtain is James, David & Mikey from Total Control, Rat Columns, Rank/Xerox, Eddy Current Suppression Ring et al, exploring an electronic world of pleasure, frustration and sadness. Bedroom dancers, synthetic singers, basement kicks in a romantic void. Influenced by the Germans, the Italians, pale British button pushers, glamorous alien pop futurists, Mid-Western sweat, NYC disco dreamers, undercover kings and queens escaping a dull grey world with rhythm and noise, sound and vision. Courtesy of Motto’s own James Vinciguerra.  Billowing Author: Lisa Oppenheim Publisher: argobooks Binding: Hardcover Price: $20.00 Product Description For their exhibition Everyones Camera in Kunstverein Göttingen Lisa Oppenheim explores the history of photography. The artist’s book shows Billowing smoke natural phenomena alongside developments in demonstrations and events of the war. Here, the images are created without a camera but, for example, created from negatives or Solarisiationen created. . Photograms of protests, among volcanic eruptions, silver gelatin prints by bombing in World War II alongside harmless cloud formations means of artistic appropriation, visual reduction and serial arrangement, the artist tried subtly disputes that, until today, the photograph: the conflicts between the documentary and the symbolic , between representation and abstraction. (Laura Schleussner) A Circular #2 Author: Pedro Cid Proenca (Ed.) Publisher: A Circular Language: English Binding: Softcover Price: $20.00 Product Description ContentsReal Estateby David AntinEmpty Words (Part III) (1.18–1.28)by David MorrisFlags, Stars and Signsby Richard Hollis1972by Pedro Neves MarquesDieter Roth’s Trophies Rotatedby James LangdonThe poet is a fake fancying feigner who feign and conceal is a faker pretender a feigner a forger a forger pretender are liars inventor pretending a feigner pretend is a fakerby Patrick CoyleOut in the Streets (0.00–0.10)by David MorrisExtract from ‘Fugue’, a Biographyby Roger LaportePositioning the ResidualWayne Daly in conversation with Sean LynchTo Art (Reg. Intrans. V.)by Adrian PiperMiddle of Nowhereby Will HolderHappily Ever After (2.06–2.16)by David Morris Sounds Like Silence. John Cage - 4’33” – Silence Today Author: Dieter Daniels / Inke Arns (ed.) Publisher: Spector Books Language: English Binding: Softcover Price: €28.00 Product Description The title of this book and the exhibition it documents—Sounds Like Silence—is ambiguous. On the one hand, silence effectively “sounds”—or as Cage put it, “There is no such thing as silence.” On the other hand, sound needs silence in order to be heard. Even if complete silence does not exist, every sound implicitly conveys the notion of silence: there is no presence without absence. The double meaning of Sounds Like Silence therefore touches upon the central issues at stake in this project: what do we hear when there is nothing to hear; to what extent do we long for silence; and how much silence can we cope with—provided it even exists?John Cage’s 4’33” (four minutes, thirty-three seconds) premiered on August 29, 1952. This book presents new theoretical writings and artistic works referring to this groundbreaking work, together with original scores and the composer’s own variations, derivatives, and sequels of the “silent piece” in the years from 1962 to 1992. Notes from the Cosmic Typewriter: The Life and Work of Dom Sylvester Houedard  Author: Nicola Simpson (Ed.) Publisher: Occasional Papers Language: English Binding: Softcover Price: $37.50 Product Description This book is the first since the early 1970s devoted to the extraordinary British Benedictine monk, scholar, translator, concrete poet and artist Dom Sylvester Houédard (1924–92). Edited by Nicola Simpson, with new essays by Gustavo Grandal Montero, Rick Poynor, David Toop and Charles Verey, ‘Notes from the Cosmic Typewriter’ offers a broad and richly illustrated introduction to this major artistic and theological figure. Triin Tamm: Bookcatalogtest Author: Triin Tamm Publisher: Rollo Press Language: English Binding: Ringbound Price: $35.00 Product Description Based on Swiss psychiatrist Moritz Tramer’s “Bücherkatalogtest” from the 1950s, this personality test “tries to evoke different interests that lie buried deep down in each of us” using 432 book titles as a method of examination. An comprehensive user’s manual is included. — This book was published as an edition for the Contemporary Artists’ Book Conference during the New York Art Book Fair 2012, in order to help keep their two-day symposium free to the public. Black Mirrors Author: Julien Langendorff Publisher: Shelter Press Language: English/ French Binding: Hardcover Price: $35.00 Product Description Black Mirrors is the first monography dedicated to Julien Langendorff’s works.His work combines collage, pen and ink drawings and paper cut-outs of 1970’s erotic imagery and often conjures up dark, dream-like visions influenced by gothic and hippie cultures, Black Sabbath, spiritism and diary-art. Langendorff’s work is both minimal and psychedelic with a free, stream of conscious sensibility. Included in the show are three collaborative pieces with artist and band-mate, Jason Glasser. The title of the series ‘Goddess Fuzz Fantasy’ originated from a line of one of Langendorff’s poems.Published in conjunction with his solo show at Agnès B New York, the book includes texts by Agnes B, Sinziana Ravini, Peter Sutherland.