Rachmaninoff's Books
Forthcoming 2008:
Looking at Display:
A Survey of London Exhibitions and Presentations
David Bussel
ISBN 0-9548240-5-9
112pp, 80 colour plates (approx), softcover, 265 x 190mm
published by Rachmaninoff's, Sept 2008
Price: £14.95
Looking at Display investigates the role of display in public and private venues that exhibit and promote contemporary art. Full of images of recent exhibitions and presentations of art in London Looking at Display examines how installation photographs circulate and are consumed, what they communicate about the work and its context, and how—in relation to curatorial and art practices—this context produces meaning. Like its predecessor, Display, the book also works as a selective history of recent contemporary art manifestations and seeks in parallel with the images’ documentary or archival function to act as a kind of visual memory itself open to interpretation.
BACK LIST:
the new art
ISBN 0-9548240-3-2
132pp, 85 colour, 19 b&w illustrations, softcover, 240x172mm
published by Rachmaninoff’s 2006, in association with Zoo Art Fair
Price: £14.95
the new art considers recent developments in contemporary art. Issues include: appropriation; melancholy; “spectres of the past”; contemporary staging of exhibitions involving video and installation (with reference to painting); visual and language intersections in artists’ works; the value of art fairs; the separate significance of works which explicitly involve themselves with the circumstance of their production and consequence of their dissemination; the slight denigration of performance and the reinstatement of forms of satire; “futurology”, “lacunae”, “ellipses” and so on.
Artists and projects discussed include: Tomas Saraceno, John Bock, Doug Fishbone, Tino Sehgal, Anne Bean, Man in the Holocene, pablo internacional magazine, Jonathan Monk, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Bonnie Camplin, Steven Claydon, Los Super Elegantes.
With writing by Andrew Hunt, Catrin Lorch, Miria Swain, Caoimhin Mac Giolla Léith, Sean Ashton, Jennifer Thatcher, Tom Morton, Maxine Kopsa, Maja Fowkes & Reuben Fowkes.
Display
recent installation photographs from London galleries and venues
edited by Pablo Lafuente
ISBN 0-9548240-2-4
124pp, 108 colour plates, softcover, 275x205mm
published by Rachmaninoff's 2005
Price: £19.95
Reproducing 108 photographs of exhibitions of contemporary art, edited and introduced by Pablo Lafuente, Display is a richly visual document surveying current strategies in the installation of contemporary art; documenting in situ
an extraordinary range of contemporary art works by international artists.
afterthought
new writing on conceptual art
edited by Mike Sperlinger
ISBN 0-9548240-1-6
96pp, 15 b&w illustrations, softcover, 212x143mm
published by Rachmaninoff's 2005
Price: £8.95
Writing by Mike Sperlinger, Stuart Comer, Andrea Fraser, Bettina Carl,
Ian White. afterthought represents an engagement on the part of a younger generation of writers, curators and artists with some of the conceptual strategies of the 1960s and 1970s which continue to influence contemporary art. The subjects covered include instruction pieces, conceptualism and curatorship, television and the museum, the politics of institutional critique; artists discussed include Yoko Ono, 'Orders & Co.', Gerry Schum, Hanne Darboven, and many others.
Criticism
Matthew Arnatt & Matthew Collings
ISBN 0-9548240-0-8
41pp, softcover, perfect bound, 210x148mm
published by Rachmaninoff's 2004
Price: £5.95
'What seems to be significant to artists is often what is significant to writers.
Nicolas Bourriaud and Art Monthly between them take care of significance.
I'm not just denigrating significance, many artists would be outraged if you stripped them of the association; thinking that the affective base of their work enlarges as it tends towards the status of 'engagement'. There's no escape - withdrawal into aestheticism is accompanied by streaming literary affectation (actually that accounts for a substantial market for writers about art).'
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