Essays by Jennifer Doyle. Photography by Michael Wells.
Municipal de Fútbol
Hardcover/boxed, 192 pp., offset 4/1, 260 x 350 x 40 mm
two books, one poster, nine artist lithographs, and a fútbol jersey, in cloth box
English and Spanish
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-0-9816325-0-6
ISBN 978-0-9816325-1-3
ISBN 978-0-9816325-2-0
Published by Christoph Keller Editions, Textfield
$80.00 $40.00 ·
Distributed in North America by
Distributed Art Publishers
Municipal de Fútbol is a collaborative edition about amateur soccer in Los Angeles—the everyday experience of playing in pick-up games, weekend and night park leagues. Jennifer Doyle, a contributor to frieze and author of Sex Objects: Art and the Dialectics of Desire, has contributed two essays to the books, both with Spanish translation. Housed in an embossed green clothbound box with black ribbon pulls, the edition includes two clothbound books (one of which studies the game as it is played throughout Los Angeles, on hijacked baseball fields, back lots and public squares, and the other of which focuses on one field in particular, the ultra-scrappy and always animated Lafayette Park); one poster; artist lithographs by As-Found, Roderick Buchanan, Mari Eastman, General Idea, Jakob Kolding, Jonathan Monk, Arthur Ou, Peter Piller and Michael Wells; and a European National team adidas fútbol jersey with a “Municipal de Fútbol/Los Angeles Recreation and Parks” embroidered patch and a reflective silk-screened number. The edition is designed by Jonathan Maghen and photography is by Michael Wells.
“Fútbol bubbles up from the ground. It rains down on parks and leaks through walls. It rises like an irrepressible tide, and recedes only when everybody has to go earn some money for themselves and their families. Nobody playing here thinks it’s going to make them rich. Or famoso. It is what happens instead of work.” — Jennifer Doyle
AA Bronson, Art, Arthur Ou, As-Found, Christoph Keller Editions, Criticism, Culture, DAP, Distribution, Fashion, General Idea, Jakob Kolding, Jennifer Doyle, Jonathan Maghen, Jonathan Monk, Mari Eastman, Michael Wells, Peter Piller, Roderick Buchanan, Sandy Yang, Sport, Textfield, Typography
Frédéric Bonnet, General Idea: A Retrospective 1969-1994
Hardcover, 224 pp., offset 4/4, 174 x 238 mm
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978-3-03764-162-0
Published by JRP|Ringier
$40.00 · out of stock
This volume presents an overview of the Canadian collective oeuvre — an oeuvre still haunted by Miss General Idea, a fictive character who was at once muse and object, image and concept. Founded in Toronto in 1969 by Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal — both disappeared in 1994 — and AA Bronson, the trio adopted a generic identity that “freed it from the tyranny of individual genius.” Their complex intermingling of reality and fiction took the form of a transgressive and often parodic take on art and society. Treating the image as a virus infiltrating every aspect of the real world, General Idea set out to colonize it, modify its content and so come up with an alternative version of reality.
Paintings, installations, sculptures, photographs, videos, magazines, and TV programs: General Idea’s is an authentically multimedia oeuvre, that has lost nothing of its freshness and can now be seen as anticipating certain aspects of a current art scene undergoing radical transformation. The book covers the collective’s main areas of concern and themes, such as the artist and the creative process, glamour as a creative tool, art’s links with the media and mass culture, architecture and archaeology, sexuality and AIDS, etc. Including newly commissioned essays and republished texts, it is richly illustrated with documents and reproductions of the most important projects realized by General Idea from 1969 to 1994.
AA Bronson, Art, Clare Manchester, Clement Dirie, DAP, David Moos, Design, Elisabeth Lebovici, Felix Partz, Gavillet & Rust, General Idea, Jean-Christophe Ammann, Jorge Zontal, JRP|Ringier, Lionel Bovier, Louise Dompierre
William Leavitt, Theater Objects
Softcover, 148 pp., offset 4/4, 230 x 300 mm
Edition of 5000
ISBN 978-1-933751-18-4
Published by MOCA
$40.00 · out of stock
A pioneer of Conceptual art in Los Angeles during the late 1960s and 1970s, the painter, installation artist and theater director William Leavitt (born 1941) is above all an artist of narrative devices. Since 1969, his works in all the above media have employed abrupt fragments of popular and vernacular culture and depictions of modernist architecture to construct elusive narratives of cityscapes and environments. The culture and atmosphere of Los Angeles has played a significant role in Leavitt’s handling of these themes; classic southern Californian motifs of ever-present artifice and almost washed-out brightness recur throughout his work. Surveying the artist’s 40-year career, this volume includes sculptural tableaux, paintings, works on paper, photographs and performances from the late 1960s to the present. Leavitt has created a remarkable oeuvre that has influenced generations of artists, and this volume is both long overdue and highly anticipated.
Ann Goldstein, Annette Leddy, Art, Bennett Simpson, DAP, Elizabeth Hamilton, Erik Bluhm, Lisa Mark, Michael Worthington, William Leavitt
Betty Bright, No Longer Innocent: Book Art in America 1960-1980
Softcover, 320 pp., offset 4/1, 7 x 10 inches
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978-1-887123-71-6
Published by Granary Books
$40.00 ·
This important history of the artist’s book, a flourishing form which over the years has often been greeted with confusion by critics, collectors, historians and artists, aims to spell out its role in contemporary art and to claim for it a vital and heretofore unacknowledged status since the blossoming of the artform in the 1970s. Renowned scholar and curator Betty Bright takes an inclusive view of the varied field in order to redress its marginalization, identifying three distinct types: the fine press book, the deluxe book, and the bookwork. She covers crucial supporters of the form, like New York’s Center for Book Arts, Franklin Furnace, and the Visual Studies Workshop Press in Rochester, New York, as well as key organizations and figures in Chicago, Atlanta, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Bright examines how artist’s books have responded to specific movements, such as Pop, Fluxus and Conceptualism, and how the book arts’ own mini-art world of the 1970s was shaped by seminal exhibitions, fledgling nonprofit organizations and collectors.
Art, Betty Bright, DAP, Dieter Roth, Ed Ruscha, Emily McVarish, John Latham, Lucas Samaras, Marcel Broodthaers, Marcel Duchamp, Phillip Gallo, Richard Tuttle, Sol LeWitt
Germano Celant, Book as Artwork 1960-1972
Softcover, 104 pp., offset 1/1, 5.5 x 7 inches
Edition of 800
ISBN 978-0-9829694-0-3
Published by 6 Decades Books
$20.00 · out of stock
Nearly three decades after its first printing,
Book as Artwork 1960-1972 remains a widely-cited landmark in the critical literature on artists’ books. Penned by the critic and curator Germano Celant to accompany an exhibition at Nigel Greenwood Gallery in London, it was the first critical consideration of the artist’s book. A bibliography lists over 300 historic artist-produced publications from this golden age of the medium.
The book is a medium that requires no visual display, other than to be read, and the active mental participation of the reader. The book imposes no information system but the printed image and the word; it is a complete entity in which both public and private documents are reproduced. The book is a collection of photographs, writings, and ideas — it is a product of thought and of imagination. It is a result of concrete activities, and serves to document, and to offer information as the means and the material of art. It is considered an object of study and of testimony and does not appear esoteric or unreal, but fits into the daily communications system without any aesthetic or artistic pretension. It is only another space… and can therefore be considered an art work.
— Germano Celant
6 Decades Books, Art, Art & Project, Charles Harrison, Daniel Templon, DAP, Filippo Passigli, Franco Toselli, Germano Celant, Gian Enzo Sperone, Heiner Friedrich, Ileana Sonnabend, Jorge Glusberg, Konrad Fischer, Leo Castelli, Lisson Gallery, Lynda Morris, Michael Sonnabend, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, Paul Maenz, Situation Gallery, Walther König
Asher Penn, Nothing Nothing Nothing Nothing 2004-2007
Softcover, 494 pp., offset 4/4, 6.75 x 9 inches
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-0-982100-60-8
Published by An Art Service
$35.00 ·
In the style of Wolfgang Tillmans and Roe Ethridge, New York-based Asher Penn, born in Vancouver in 1982, captures the quotidian. As an anthology of artist books self-published by Asher Penn between 2004 and 2007 — an anthology that is effectively an artist book itself. Made between Providence, New York, Philadelphia and Vancouver, these ‘zine-like publications are rephotographed page by page on top of painted works that Penn was producing at the time of their re-publication. In rephotographing these original editions on the surface of recent work, Penn cleverly illustrates the creative vertigo capable of creeping up on artists while they look back at the artist that they have become. The artist books collected in this anthology include the following: 1. Just Say Maybe; 2. Go Fuck Yourself With Your Atomic Bomb; 3. Bad Hound, Buddha; 4. School; 5. Asher Mixtape Hell; 6. Elisa Penn Hero One; 7. Institutional Critique; 8. The Heart Wants What The Heart Wants; 9. Before And After; and 10. (Untitled).
An Art Service, Art, Asher Penn, Brendan Dugan, Culture, DAP, Photography, Richard Prince, Roe Ethridge, Wolfgang Tillmans
Ingrid Schaffner, Douglas Blau
Softcover, 88 pp., offset 4/4, 8.5 x 10 inches
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978-0-884541-15-8
Published by the Institute of Contemporary Art
$30.00 ·
Douglas Blau, who originally emerged as a critic and curator in tandem with the Pictures Generation, offers up a series of picture epics and episodes from uniformly framed collages of printed matter like postcards, film stills, images of paintings and photographs. Pictures of all kinds are cut and pasted into individual collage elements.
Aaron Igler, Art, Claudia Gould, DAP, Douglas Blau, Henk van Assen, Ingrid Schaffner, Institute of Contemporary Art, Jenelle Porter, Kate Kraczon, Photography
Christopher Williams, 97,5 Mhz
Softcover, 24 pp., offset 4/1, 320 x 235 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-3-905829-04-4
Published by JRP|Ringier
$25.00 ·
Los Angeles conceptualist Christopher Williams, born in 1956, studies the conditions of presentation and representation in order to call into question spoon-fed perceptions, “realistic” reproductions, communication mechanisms and aesthetic conventions that influence our perception and understanding of reality. This volume presents works from 2003-2007.
Art, Beatrix Ruf, Christopher Williams, DAP, Gudrun Meier, JRP|Ringier, Katharina Pilz, Kunsthalle Zürich, Photography, Rahel Blattler, Yvonne Quirmbach
Hans-Peter Feldmann, Zeitungsphotos
Softcover, 48 pp., offset 4/4, 150 x 210 mm
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978-3865601-77-3
Published by Walther König
$22.00 ·
Hans-Peter Feldmann’s idiosyncratic field research investigates the momentum of human perception and the processing of images. This tight collection includes found images of an erupting volcano, a red-eyed ape, a competitive swimmer and celebrity shoes, among others–all taken from journalistic sources.
Art, DAP, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Norbert Schmalen, Photography, Walther König
Mike Slack, Ok Ok Ok
Hardcover, 80 pp., offset 4/4, 7 x 9 inches
Second edition
ISBN 978-09776481-2-2
Published by The Ice Plant
$30.00 ·
A series of beautifully composed Polaroids taken by Mike Slack into a wordless trip around the country. Sequenced like a dream, the nameless places and close-up abstractions are anchored to no narrative, but relate to each other through their use of color. They belong to a different time, or maybe a different world.
— Printed Matter
DAP, Louis Pasteur, Mike Slack, Photography, The Ice Plant
Christopher Wool, Pattern Paintings 1987-2000
Softcover, 48 pp., offset 2/1 duotone, 210 x 297 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-0-970909-07-7
Published by Luhring Augustine/Skarstedt Gallery
$25.00 · out of stock
Published on the occasion of Christopher Wool’s exhibition at New York’s Skarstedt Gallery, this concise collection of 17 black-and-white pattern paintings made between 1987 and 2000, set alongside 10 installation shots, serves as historic documentation of works that have rarely been shown or published, but which remain perennially influential. Born in Chicago in 1955, Wool came to prominence in New York in the 1980s with his graffiti-like text paintings, which are full of slang, song lyrics and action painting drips. Loved and loathed by critics, Wool has been described by the Village Voice’s Jerry Saltz as, “a very pure version of something dissonant and poignant. His all-or-nothing, caustic-cerebral, ambivalent-belligerent gambit is riveting and even a little thrilling. It’s what makes him one of the more optically alive painters out there.”
Art, Christopher Wool, DAP, Hans Werner Holzwarth, Jerry Saltz, Larry Lamay, Luhring Augustine, Skarstedt Gallery
Eric Wesley, Eric Wesley
Softcover, 60 pp., offset 4/4, 8 x 10 inches
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978-0-914357-97-1
Published by MOCA
$25.00 · out of stock
West Coast artist Eric Wesley was born in 1973 in Los Angeles. His work, which can take the form of sculpture, painting, drawing, architectural model or public artwork proposal, often uses decrepit materials and conveys a humorous take on the world and his own identity within it. For the Whitney Biennial, he created scale sets for a faux reality show; his kinetic sculpture Kicking Ass was a mechanized donkey that kicked holes in the gallery wall behind it. This small monograph is the first publication dedicated solely to the artist’s work, and is published on the occasion of his exhibition as part of the MOCA Focus series.
Art, Cornelia Butler, DAP, Elizabeth Hamilton, Eric Wesley, Jane Hyun, Lisa Mark, Michael Worthington, MOCA, Sculpture, Yasmin Khan
Richard Prince, Jokes & Cartoons
Softcover, 216 pp., offset 4/1, 218 x 280 mm
Edition of 2000
ISBN 978-3-905701-83-8
Published by JRP|Ringier
$35.00 ·
Conceived by the artist, this book gathers together the raw material to his “Joke Paintings” for the first time: unpublished manuscripts, well-known as well as unshown works from his personal collection, cartoons, and jokes. The project comments as much on the perception of his own work through the filter of a devaluated form of humor, as on the popular material appropriated through it.
“Jokes and cartoons are part of any mainstream magazine. Especially magazines like the New Yorker or Playboy. They’re right up there with the editorial and advertisements and table of contents and letters to the editors. They’re part of the layout, part of the “sights” and “gags.” Sometimes they’re political, sometimes they just make fun of everyday life. Once in awhile they drive people to protest and storm foreign embassies and kill people.”
— Richard Prince
Art, Beatrix Ruf, Culture, DAP, Ines Hany, JRP|Ringier, Richard Prince
