• current project

A Popular Western Story

Here's a short shaggy dog story about Ed Ruscha's painting Standard Station, Ten-Cent Western Being Torn in Half, 1964, the artist's book Twentysix Gasoline Stations, and a 10¢ rootin' tootin pulp periodical.

image from A Popular Western Story
  • recent objects
Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art : A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings
  • reference book
  • wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white
  • 25.2 x 17.8 cm.
  • 1003 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 0520202538
Beyond Recognition : Representation, Power, and Culture
  • critical theory
  • paper boards with dust jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white
  • 23.5 x 15.8 cm.
  • 386 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 0520077393

Beyond Recognition : Representation, Power, and Culture

[Hardcover]

Craig Owens, Scott Bryson, Barbara Kruger, Lynne Tillman, Jane Weinstock, Simon Watney

Critical anthology of the writings of Craig Owens, edited by Scott Bryson, Barbara Kruger, Lynne Tillman and Jane Weinstock. Foreward by Simon Watney. Covers designed by Barbara Kruger. A collection of essays spanning the 15 years in which Owens was an active writer. ... [details]

Berkeley / Los Angeles / Oxford, CA / United Kingdom: University of California Press,
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$45.00
Condition:  Very Good. Light wear to dust jacket and light edge wear including dust soiling. Discrete small rubber stamp logo on inside rear end papers otherwise contents clean and unmarked.
[Object # 25752]
Trevor Paglen : The Last Pictures
  • exhibition catalogue
  • paper boards with dust jacket
  • offset-printed
  • glue bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 23.5 x 21 cm.
  • 193 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 9780520275003

Trevor Paglen : The Last Pictures

Trevor Paglen, Katie Detwiler, Joel Weisberg, Rafael Núñez, Brian L. Wardle, Karl Berggren

Monograph on Trevor Paglen''s ambitious project "The Last Pictures." Foreword by Anne Pasternak and Nato Thompson. Texts by Katie Detwiler, Joel Weisberg, Rafael Núñez, Brian L. Wardle, Karl Berggren, with a statement by EchoStar Corporation. ... [details]

$10.00
Condition:  Very Good / Fine. Light rubbing of dust jacket edges and curling to top edge. Endpaper slightly unglued from title page. Contents otherwise as new, clean and unmarked. Due to large size and weight of this publication additional shipping charges will be required for international orders.
[Object # 38022]
Some Cities
  • artists' book
  • pictorial wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white
  • 23.4 x 15.6 cm.
  • 223 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 0520206363

Some Cities

Victor Burgin

"Victor Burgin recalls some of the cities he has known in a way familiar to all who have travelled, by showing photographs and telling anecdotes. 'Some Cities' gathers places and moments along a life route that the author has taken from the north of England to his present home in northern California. ... [details]

$25.00
Condition:  Very Good / Fine. Minimal rubbing of covers and light handling wear. Due to large size and weight of this publication additional shipping charges will be required for international orders.
[Object # 36785]
Marcia Tucker, A Short Life of Trouble : Forty Years in the New York Art World
  • monograph
  • cloth boards with dust jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white
  • 23.5 x 15.8 cm.
  • 215 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 9780520257009

Marcia Tucker, A Short Life of Trouble : Forty Years in the New York Art World

Marcia Tucker, Liza Lou

Memoir by Marcia Tucker, edited, and with an afterword, by Liza Lou. "This engrossing memoir brings to vivid life the behind-the-scenes struggles of Marcia Tucker, the first woman to be hired as a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the founder of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City. ... [details]

$44.95
Condition:  New
$1.86
Condition:  Used
Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees, Expanded Edition : Over Thirty Years of Conversations with Robert Irwin
  • critical theory
  • pictorial wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white & color
  • 20.3 x 15.5 cm.
  • 310 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • ISBN 9780520256095

Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees, Expanded Edition : Over Thirty Years of Conversations with Robert Irwin

Robert Irwin, Lawrence Weschler

"When this remarkable book first appeared in 1982, it introduced readers to Robert Irwin, the Los Angeles artist 'who one day got hooked on his own curiosity and decided to live it.' Now expanded to include six additional chapters and twenty-four pages of color plates, 'Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees' chronicles three decades of extraordinary conversation between Weschler and Light and Space master Irwin, taking us into the heart of what it can mean to be an artist. ... [details]

$25.69
Condition:  New
$20.41
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The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson : Secret Agents, Private I
  • exhibition catalogue
  • pictorial wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • other special feature[s]
  • black-and-white & color
  • 21.5 x 17.7 cm.
  • 229 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 0520239717

The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson : Secret Agents, Private I

[Book + DVD]

Lynn Hershman Leeson, Lynn Hershman, Meredith Tromble, Robin Held, Kyle Stephan, Howard N. Fox, Amelia Jones, Glenn Kurtz, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Jean Gagnon, David E. James, B. Ruby Rich, Marsha Kinder, Steve Dietz, Ryszard W. Klusczynski, Margaret Morse, Arturo Schwarz, Pierre Restany, Siegfried Zielinski

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show "Hershmanlandia : The Art and Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson," Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, November 5, 2005 - February 5, 2006. ... [details]

$50.01
Condition:  New
$1.91
Condition:  Used
Recording Conceptual Art : Early Interviews with Barry, Huebler, Kaltenbach, LeWitt, Morris, Oppenheim, Siegelaub, Smithson, Weiner
  • critical theory
  • wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white
  • 25.5 x 17.7 cm.
  • 162 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 0520220110

Recording Conceptual Art : Early Interviews with Barry, Huebler, Kaltenbach, LeWitt, Morris, Oppenheim, Siegelaub, Smithson, Weiner

Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, Stephen Kaltenbach, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, Dennis Oppenheim, Seth Siegelaub, Robert Smithson, Lawrence Weiner, Alexander Alberro, Patricia Norvell

In 1969 Patricia Norvell sat down individually with Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, Stephen Kaltenbach, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, Dennis Oppenheim, Seth Siegelaub, Robert Smithson, Lawrence Weiner [as well as Carl Andre and Joseph Kosuth] and conduced fresh and engaging interviews that are untainted by jargon, fetish, or much critical distance from the beginning of the Conceptual Art movement. ... [details]

$24.92
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$3.56
Condition:  Used
Minimal Art : A Critical Anthology
  • critical theory
  • pictorial wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • glue bound
  • black-and-white
  • 20.5.5 x 14 cm.
  • 454 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 0520201477

Minimal Art : A Critical Anthology

[Second Printing, 1995 Edition]

Gregory Battcock, Anne M. Wagner, Lawrence Alloway, Michael Benedikt, Mel Bochner, David Bourdon, Nicolas Calas, Michael Fried, Bruce Glaser, E.C. Goossen, Dan Graham, Clement Greenberg, Peter Hutchinson, David Lee, Allen Leepa, Lucy Lippard, Robert Morris, Toby Mussman, Brian O'Doherty, John Perreault, Yvonne Rainer, Barbara Rose, Harold Rosenberg, Irving Sandler, Willoughby Sharp, Elayne Varian, Samuel Wagstaff Jr., Richard Wollheim, Martial Raysse, Dan Flavin, Robert Smithson

An updated edition of this critical anthology of early writings on Minimal and Conceptual Art, originally published in 1968, with a new introduction by Anne M. Wagner. The original anthology was edited by Gregory Battcock, with early writings on Minimal and Conceptual Art. ... [details]

Berkeley / Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press,
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$34.00
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$2.12
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Made in U.S.A. : An Americanization in Modern Art, The '50s & '60s
  • exhibition catalogue
  • pictorial wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • glue bound
  • color
  • 28 x 21.5 cm.
  • 280 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 0520057570

Made in U.S.A. : An Americanization in Modern Art, The '50s & '60s

Sidra Stich, James Breslin, Thomas Schaub, Ben Bagdikian, James Elliott

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at the University Art Museum at the University of California, April 4 - June 21, 1987 and traveling. With texts by James Breslin, Thomas Schaub, Ben Bagdikian, and James Elliott. ... [details]

Berkeley / Los Angeles / London, CA / United Kingdom: University Art Museum / University of California Press,
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$21.68
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$2.86
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objects: 31