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Charted Patterns for Sweaters That Talk Back
Lisa Anne Auerbach
New York,
NY
: Printed Matter, Inc.. 2008
Published to coincide with Lisa Anne Auerbach's 2008 exhibition at Printed Matter, this artist's book brings together the various facets of Auerbach's artistic practice, which has included zine making, co-organizing the High Desert Test Sites project, and knitting. Political, relational, humorous, and instructive, it offers the reader step by step instructions on how to knit sweaters and skirts that feature a variety of snappy slogans ("When there's nothing left to burn, you've got to set yourself on fire" and "Yes we can! No we McCain't!" are two examples.) With full-color glossy photos of Auerbach and friends modeling her fashions on photoshoot that actually succeeds in making juggling and unicycling look cool.
Category: Book
$15.00
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Charted Patterns for Sweaters That Talk Back
[Signed]
Lisa Anne Auerbach
New York,
NY
: Printed Matter, Inc.. 2008
Published to coincide with Lisa Anne Auerbach's 2008 exhibition at Printed Matter, this artist's book brings together the various facets of Auerbach's artistic practice, which has included zine making, co-organizing the High Desert Test Sites project, and knitting. Political, relational, humorous, and instructive, it offers the reader step by step instructions on how to knit sweaters and skirts that feature a variety of snappy slogans ("When there's nothing left to burn, you've got to set yourself on fire" and "Yes we can! No we McCain't!" are two examples.) With full-color glossy photos of Auerbach and friends modeling her fashions on photoshoot that actually succeeds in making juggling and unicycling look cool.
Category: Book
$40.00
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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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Dark Prospects
Charles Beronio
New York,
NY
: Printed Matter. 2008
Dark Prospects takes as its source material issues of People, Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News and World Report. While retaining the form of the magazine, the artist dismantles the medium’s visual language by blacking out all references to corporate branding, time (both textually and visually), textual references to location, and facial features of the magazines’ featured stars and advertising props. What’s left is an unforgiving and stuttering sequence of detonated images and textual fragments supporting a skewed visual narrative of lifestyle and politics—modern life stripped bare.
Category: Book
$10.00
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Volition
Gregg Bordowitz
New York,
NY
: Printed Matter, Inc.. 2009
Consisting entirely of questions, Gregg Bordowitz's Volition is 142 pages of active, mind-bending engagement with the reader, who is led down paths of inquiry involving art, meaning, philosophy, choice, happiness, and identity. Bordowitz organizes his questions into lists, paragraphs, and stanzas, which are themselves organized into five chapters: Questions, Topics, Aesthetics, Beliefs, and Morals. The resulting text is something like a spiritual guide crossed with an epic poem crossed with a transcription of the meandering thoughts of a philosophic insomniac, kept awake by such questions as "How can I touch creation as a principle without reproach?" and "How does gratitude unfold from virtue?"
Category: Book
$22.00
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Queer Zines
exhibition catalog
Philip Aarons and AA Bronson, editors
New York,
NY
: Printed Matter, Inc.. 2008
Queer Zines, the catalogue, collects the variegated practices of zine makers past and present, from North America and Europe, and lists them alphabetically, starting with Toronto's 88 Chins and ending with the Dean Sameshima zine Young Men at Play. In a riotous assemblage of more than 200 pages, we find comprehensive bibliographies and sinful synopses for more than 120 zines by Alex Gartenfeld, excerpted illustrations and writings by zine makers, reprints of important articles in and about queer zines, a directory of important zine archives, and a list of zine outlets around the world. It also includes a 1980 interview with Boyd McDonald by Vince Aletti, Bimbox's pop-up genitalia (alas, not popping up here), Adam Block's early writings on zines from the Advocate, a "Where are They Now?" section that charts the careers of various queer zine pioneers, and excerpted interviews with GB Jones, Vaginal Davis, and Bruce LaBruce. See more here: http://www.queerzines.com
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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The Ann Scales Postcards : March 14, 1973 - March 14, 1975
Joseph Gabe, Mary Jean Kenton, Ann Chapman Scales
New York,
NY
: Printed Matter. 1976
The Ann Scales Postcards is the record of a two-year mail art project edited into book format. Handwritten postcards discussing Ann Scales' life as an artist and the nature of art itself are interspersed with literary fragments and citations from various texts on the habits of birds.
Category: Book
$5.00
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It Has Only Just Begun
Hans Ulrich Obrist, Joseph Grigely, and Rirkrit Tiravanija
New York,
NY
: Printed Matter Inc.. 2010
For anyone who missed the keynote address given by Hans Ulrich Obrist in conversation with Joseph Grigely and Rirkrit Tiravanija at the 2008 New York Contemporary Artists' Book Conference, this artist's book, designed by Grigely, provides a complete transcription, beautifully printed in a range of cyan tones and accompanied by images taken from Grigely and Tiravanija's sizable output of artist's books.
In his introduction, Obrist asserts the need for a study of artists' books made in the 1990s, when a small number of artists were using cheap or antiquated methods to revisit a medium made popular in the 1960s and 70s. What follows is a relaxed and yet in-depth and thoroughly researched conversation in which Obrist, Grigely, and Tiravanija discuss the concepts and methodologies that have informed their respective book-making practices over the years. With an introduction by AA Bronson.
Category: Book
$10.00
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