"This book brings together new texts written to accompany 79 exhibitions organized by Bob Nickas between 1984 and 2011. Nickas chose one work to represent the memory of each exhibition, and through this visual "lens" he reflects on his activity as a curator, offering many behind-the-scenes views to the art world of the 1980s and 90s, as well as intimate recollections of the artists he worked with, and the art works he encountered over the years. ... [details]
Two volume facsimile reprint of all fifteen issues of the periodical "Documents" published in Paris from 1929 to 1930. Preface by Denis Hollier. Artists include Georges Bataille, Jacques Baron, Alejo Carpentier, Robert Desnos, Carl Einstein, Roger Gilbert-Lecomte, Marcel Griaule, Eugène Jolas, Marcel Jouhandeau, Maurice Leenhardt, Michel Leiris, Georges Limbour, Marcel Mauss, Jacques Prévert, Raymond Queneau, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Paul Rivet, Georges Henri Rivière, André Schaeffner, Roger Vitrac, Hans Arp, Jacques-André Boiffard, Georges Braque, Giorgio de Chirico, Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Juan Gris, Jean Hugo, Paul Klee, Henri Laurens, Fernand Leger, André Masson, Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso. ... [details]
Winter 1937 issue of the periodical "Transition," edited by Eugene Jolas, associate editor James Johnson Sweeney. Front cover design by Marcel Duchamp reproducing the Readymade "Comb." Includes "In Memory of My Father," by James Agee; "Resurgent," by Forrest Anderson; "The Skeleton of the Day," by Hans Arp; "Le Pont Brisé," by Paul Eluard; "Two Poems," by Randall Jarrell; "Planetarische Reise," by Eugene Jolas; "Chêne et Chien," by Raymond Queneau; "Anonyme," by André de Richaud; "Lover as Fox," by Muriel Rukeyser; "Cactus Gardens," by Sanders Russell; "Séparation," by Camille Schuwer; "work in Progress. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held January 9 - February 20, 1993. Curated and with texts by Christian Leigh. Artists included Pedro Almodóvar, Janine Antoni, Lutz Bacher, Jo Baer, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Raymond Bellour, Philipe Venault, Janet Biggs, Nayland Blake, Ross Bleckner, Peter Bogdanovich, Louise Bourgeois, Richmond Burton, Laurie Ann Campbell, Larry Clark, Chuck Close, Robert Colescott, George Condo, Maureen Connor, John Coplans, James Croak, Brian De Palma, Walt Disney, Jiri Georg Dokoupil, Christian Eckart, Robert Feintuch, Dan Flavin, Llyn Foulkes, Frank Gehry, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Graham, Peter Greenaway, Robert Greene, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Zaha M. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show organized by James Corcoran Gallery in cooperation with Shoshana Wayne Gallery and Pence Gallery, Santa Monica, California. "The First Generation, 1940-1962," held at James Corcoran Gallery; "The Second Generation: The Narrative, 1957 - 1987," held at Shoshana Wayne Gallery; and "The Second Generation: Form and Idea, 1960 - 1987," held at Pence Gallery. ... [details]
Critical theory edited by Fernando Puma. Contributions by Fernando Puma, Max Brod, George Rouault, James T. Ferrell, Gottfried von Einem, Howard Carroll, Theodore Roszak, Merce Cunningham, Henry Miller, Sigfried Giedion, Theodore Roetke, Dorothy Parker, Lee Richard Hayman, Robert M. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held in 1980. Essays by Dieter Ronte, Wolfgang Drechsler, Dieter Schrage, Erwin Meichart, Gudrun Hempel, Eva Badura-Triska, Monkia Faber, and Detlev Kreidl. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held August 22 - November 2, 1980. Written contributions by Felix A. Baumann, Sabine Kricke-Güse, Ernst Gerhard-Güse, Carola Giedion-Welcker, Sigrid Braunfels-Esche, Margit Rowell, Wulf Herzogenrath, Willy Rotzler, Eduard Trier, and Thomas Deecke. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at Gallery Hauser & Wirth, Zürich, June 14 - September 16, 1995. Travled to Galerie David Zwirner, New York, October 21 - November 25, 1995. ... [details]
"Far from frowning on literary rules and formulas, the contributors to this anthology see such constraints as stimuli for creativity. They belong to the Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle (Workshop of Potential Literature), or Oulipo. ... [details]
