Rachmaninoff's books
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Looking at display, images of contemporary art in London galleries
edited by David Bussel
ISBN13: 9780954824051
ISBN10: 0954824059
96pp, 74 colour plates, softcover, 275 x 205mm
published by Rachmaninoff's, 2009
Price: £16.95
Looking at display, images of contemporary art in London galleries reproduces seventy-four installation views of exhibitions photographed for fifty of London’s contemporary art galleries. Showing works from an impressive list of international artists exhibiting in London, Looking at display catalogues a range of contemporary practices as well as installation methods and contributes an informed critical understanding of relations between them.
the new art
ISBN13: 9780954824037
ISBN10: 09548240 32
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
ISBN13: 9780954824020
ISBN10: 0954824024
124pp, 108 colour plates, softcover, 275x205mm
published by Rachmaninoff's 2005
Price: £12.50
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
ISBN13: 9780954824013
ISBN10: 0954824016
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
ISBN13: 9780954824006
ISBN10: 0954824008
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).'