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A Field Guide To Weeds
[2nd edition]
Kim Beck
New York,
NY
: Printed Matter, Inc.. 2008
A Field Guide to Weeds masquerades as a 19th century pocket guide, but a guide in which the weeds themselves have taken over. Beck’s innovative project uses the physical form of the book as a metaphor for a crack in the city sidewalk: printed in luscious five-color printing, the common dandelion, pigweed, and poison ivy—the very plants we ignore, step over, ignore, dig up, or scrupulously avoid—creep out of the gutter, up pages, and overrun the book. Multiple silhouettes overlap and repeat, drawing the reader’s attention to the overlooked. The book features a brown silk ribbon marker. The thumbnail image shows a two-page spread from the contents of the book.
Category: Book
$25.00
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The Baader-Meinhof Affair
Erin Cosgrove
New York,
NY
: Printed Matter, Inc.. 2003
In the first publication from Printed Matter's Publishing Program for Emerging Artists, Erin Cosgrove takes the romance novel for a ride through revolutionary terrain to produce a tempestuous tale of terrorism and true love. In the cloistered environment of an exclusive East Coast college, the young and the restless fall in love while romancing the ghosts of the Baader-Meinhof gang active in 1970s Germany. It’s a hilarious send up of the romance genre complete with earnest interjections from the author who supplies historical cliff notes and commentary for the confused. A page-turning tour de force of the dangerous passions and politics of the privileged. From Printed Matter's Emerging Artists Publication Series.
Category: Book
$14.95
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Fierce Pussy
Fierce Pussy
New York,
NY
: Printed Matter, Inc.. 2008
Active in New York City from 1991 to 1995, fierce pussy was composed of a fluid and often-shifting cadre of dykes. Core members included Pam Brandt, Nancy Brooks Brody, Joy Episalla, Alison Froling, Zoe Leonard, Suzanne Wright, and Carrie Yamaoka. Adamantly low-tech, fast and low-budget, fierce pussy relied on modest resources: old typewriters, found photographs, their own baby pictures, and whatever material they could get donated. Much of the work was produced using the equipment at their day jobs. Emerging during a decade steeped in the AIDS crisis, activism, and queer identity politics, fierce pussy brought lesbian identity directly out into the streets in a manner characterized by the urgency of those years.
Published on the occasion of the collective's 2008 exhibition at Printed Matter, this poster book reproduces 16 classic posters from fierce pussy in an over-sized format with spiral binding, such that the reader can tear out a poster and install it wherever she wishes. fierce pussy encourages the dissemination of its posters worldwide.
Category: Book
$15.00
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Reverend Jen's Really Cool Neighborhood / Les Misrahi
Reverend Jen
New York,
NY
: Printed Matter, Inc.. 2003
Printed on pink papers, Reverend Jen's Reverend Jen's Really Cool Neighborhood is a travel guide for the poor, deviant and bored that takes readers on a whirlwind tour through the Lower East Side and treats them to the cheapest Budweiser, the greasiest pizza and the fanciest porcelain unicorn heads in the meighborhood. Filled with personal anecdotes of hellish roommates, loneliness and delusions of fame, the book is peppered with delightful illustrations and sultry photos, and is both educational and entertaining.
From Printed Matter's Emerging Artists Publication Series.
Flip the book over and you'll find a bonus - Les Misrahi, an epic musical puppet show that tells the story of Jen Valjean, an ex-convict who has just been freed after serving three years for stealing a glue stick from Kinkos. Jen Valjean is visited by a chorus of wise rats who tell her of an ancient oracle that predicts she will lead the Downtrodden and Tired in a revolution against greedy landlords and real estate developers. Filled with catchy songs like "Dogs are Nice" and "My Roommate is Frozen into a Block of Ice," this one is sure to inspire sing-alongs!
Category: Book
$14.95
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Like Ghosts
Adam Shecter
Gent /New York,
Belgium/USA
: Imschoot/Printed Matter, Inc.. 2006
This book uses a format that marries cinemascope with the illustrated book; technicolor double-page spreads hint at narratives that are woven together, non-sequentially, to reproduce a vision at once child-like and profound.
From Printed Matter's Emerging Artists Publication Series.
Category: Book
$28.00
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Mobility Agents
John F. Simon Jr.
New York,
NY
: Printed Matter, Inc and the Whitney Museum of American Art. 2005
"Mobility Agents is a beautiful interactive sketchbook and drawing board that gives invaluable insight into how software translates data into marks on the computer screen. Educational without being didactic, the sketchbook invites users to explore the basic variables of drawing by means of a computer. Mobility Agents perfectly illustrates that every mark on the screen is the result of many creative decisions and can be a highly individual form of expression." -Christiane Paul, Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art
From Printed Matter's Emerging Artists Publication Series.
Category: CD-ROM
$20.00
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Persistent Huts
Derek Sullivan
New York,
NY
: Printed Matter, Inc.. 2008
An accordion fold-out book based on ed Ruscha's famous Every Building on the Sunset Strip. However, the photos inside are of structures built out of multiple copies of another famous artist's book, Psychobuildings by Martin Kippenburger.
Category: Book
$15.00
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Persistent Huts
[deluxe signed edition]
Derek Sullivan
New York,
NY
: Printed Matter, Inc.. 2008
An accordion fold-out book based on ed Ruscha's famous Every Building on the Sunset Strip. However, the photos inside are of structures built out of multiple copies of another famous artist's book, Psychobuildings by Martin Kippenburger. This deluxe limited edition of 26 lettered copies includes one of the original photos, plus a unique text, an (often humorous) anagram of the title, each one unique.
Category: Book
$150.00
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Group Work
Temporary Services
New York,
NY
: Printed Matter. 2007
Based on a pamphlet published by Temporary Services in 2002 titled Group Work: A Compilation of Quotes About Collaboration from a Variety of Sources and Practices, this publication provides a multitude of perspectives on the theme of Group Work by practitioners of artistic group practice from 1960s to the present. The publication presents interviews with Canadian collective General Idea; Chicago collective Haha; the dutch punk band The Ex; the Vienna-based WochenKlausur; Croatian artist group What, How & for Whom (WHW); Funkadelic album designer Pedro Bell; and Political Art Documentation/Distribution (PAD/D); along with essays on The Abortion Counseling Service of the Chicago Women’s Liberation Union (better known as Jane) and the anarchist guerrilla street theater group The Diggers. A list of words used to describe group practices and a working list of hundreds of collectives from the last four decades rounds out the publication.
Category: Book
$19.95
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Absence
J. Meejin Yoon
New York,
NY
: Printed Matter, Inc. and the Whitney Museum of American Art. 2003
2004 winner of I.D. Magazine's Design Distinction award, Absence is the third book to come out of Printed Matter’s Publishing Program for Emerging Artists, a program made possible through the generous support of New York City's Department of Cultural Affairs, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, and the Heyday Foundation. The generosity of Whitney trustees Melva Bucksbaum and Raymond J. Learsy was instrumental to the Museum’s participation in the publication of this exciting new work.
From Printed Matter's Emerging Artists Publication Series.
Both a book and a sculptural object, Absence is a memorial to the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Yoon, an architect and designer who is currently an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, chose not to produce a traditional design proposal for the World Trade Center Memorial Competition. Instead she created a non-architectural, non site-specific space of remembrance: a portable personal memorial in the form of book.
At almost two pounds, Absence has a considerable physical presence, but it is in every way the ghost of a presence, and it is this ghostliness that gives it its particular emotional weight. A solid white block of thick stock cardboard pages, the book’s only "text" consists of one pinhole and two identical squares die-cut into each of its one-hundred-and-twenty pages – one for each story of the towers including the antenna mast. These removed elements lead the reader floor by floor through the missing buildings towards the final page where the footprint of the entire site of the World Trade Center is die-cut into a delicate lattice of absent structures.
Of all of the proposed monuments and grand designs for the twin towers to emerge in the last two years, Absence is remarkable for its employment of an under-used strategy: restraint. The simplicity of Yoon’s materials and her use of repetition speak, without words, about unspeakable loss. Quiet, respectful, mournful, the book does not aim to represent the magnitude of the disaster. Instead it appeals to the vastness of the reader’s imagination and capacity to grieve. The human scale of her memorial operates on a personal level – it delivers the memory of lives lost into the reader’s hands. At the same time, as a scale model of a vanished architectural site, it operates on a larger cultural level by commemorating the site itself.
Category: Book
$30.00
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