Rosemarie Trockel

Published by Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, 1997, 52 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 18.5 × 24 cm, English / German

Price: €15

Rosemarie Trockel is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential conceptual artists in Germany. Her sculptures, collages, ceramics, knitted works, drawings and photographs are noted for their subtle social critique and range of subversive, aesthetic strategies—including the reinterpretation of “feminine” techniques, the ironic shifting of cultural codes, a delight in paradox, and a refusal to conform to the commercial and institutional ideologies of the art system.

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Bibliographica Textilia Historiae Seth Siegelaub

Published by International General, New York, 1997, 416 pages, clothbound hardcover, (b/w ill.), 21.5 × 30.5 cm, English

Price: €90

A comprehensive bibliography compiled by Seth Siegelaub, containing over 5,000 catalogued entries of books & articles, with a total of over 10,000 individual texts included in anthologies, reviews & magazines, published in all languages, mostly European (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish), 15th – 20th century, treating all aspects of the history of handwoven textiles as art, craft, technology, industry & commerce. All entries are given with full author & title, edition, publisher, date & series title, with most provided with collations, & over 3,000 with a descriptive annotation, including a list of each text contained in anthologies, reviews & magazines. The work concludes with a detailed subject index of the most important books in each subject area.

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Dead Letter Office Allan Sekula

Published by Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam, 1997, 56 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 20 × 24 cm, Dutch

Price: €22

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition, Dismal science, photoworks by Allan Sekula 1972-1996 at the Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam. With texts from Allan Sekula and Benjamin H.D. Buchloh.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

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Briefe aus New York Hanne Darboven

Published by Hate Cantz, 1997, 650 pages, clothbound in slipcase (colour & b/w ill.), 17.5 × 22.9 cm, German

Price: €38

Soon after completing her studies in Hamburg and embarking upon a two-year sojourn in New York, Darboven created “sketch sheets” on graph paper – early drafts of what would later form a system she would “write herself into” over the course of the ensuing years. In the letters written to her family during this time she goes yet a step farther. More firmly anchored in her own private sphere, they serve as a “lifeline” in her quest for objectivity in her existence through the medium of words and messages: encounters, questions regarding her own identity, her art and her efforts to come to terms with the self reflected in it. These letters from New York, which form both the core and the point of departure for important aspects of Hanne Darboven’s oeuvre, are reproduced in facsimile and in their entirety in this publication.

Numbered and signed with the artist’s initials.

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Parts: Band 2: Arcade Channel Fareed Armaly

Published by Kunstverein München, München, 1997, 24 pages (b/w ill.), 21 × 29.5 cm, German / English

Price: €7 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of Fareed Armaly – Parts at Kunstverein München, 17 October – 23 November, 1997. Edited by Fareed Armaly und Saskia Drechsel.

Interviews with Niels Clausnitzer, Helmut Draxler, Elizabeth Endriss, Zdenek Felix, Rainer Graefe, Martin Gretschmann, Bernd Hartwich, Eberhard Haug, Holger Hiller, Felix Knoth, Jürgen Koppers, Fred Maire, Susanne von Medvey, Michaela Melián, Thomas Meinecke, Pierre Peters-Arnolds, Moritz Reichelt, Dirk Snauwaert, Maria Thaler, Andi Toma, Arnold Walz, Jan St. Werner. Designed by Fareed Armaly.

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Arbeit/Freizeit Maria Eichhorn

Published by Generali Foundation, Vienna, 1997, 156 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 12 × 19 cm, German / English

Price: €18 (Temporarily out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of Maria Eichhorn’s exhibition Arbeit/Freizeit, at the Generali Foundation, 1994-1996. An exhibition of the staff of Generali Regional Office East, Berlin, consisting of 49 exhibits 47 objects (gifts, permanent loans and acquisitions) in cylindrical display case, beech wood, acrylic glass, 228 x ø 161 cm 1 round aquarium, 54.5 x ø 65 cm, with live fish (angelfishes and clown loaches) on plinth, beech wood, 70.5 x ø 67.2 cm Plant (Dracaena maginata).

With a preface by Hans Peer and Winfried Böttcher, texts by Sabine Breitwieser, Maria Eichhorn, John Miller, Annett Gröschner and Helmut Höge.

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