EMILY WARDILL AND IAN WHITE

We Are Behind

Created to accompany British artist/filmmaker Emily Wardill’s solo exhibition windows broken, break, broke together, this rich book (presented as blueprints for three public lectures by Wardill and curator Ian White), uses distinctly different approaches to propose alternative routes through the artist’s work, all framed as an ongoing dialog between the authors. Fragmented by dialogic turns, appropriated texts, images, a score and quotations, and containing extensive reproductions of Wardill’s work, the book’s content and design reflects the labyrinthine, and sometimes hallucinogenic quality of her films and their radical combination of form, content and idea. An innovative and satisfying approach to embodying the work of a complex and compelling artist between the covers of a book.

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WHITENESS, A WAYWARD CONSTRUCTION

Tyler Stallings

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WHO TOLD YOU SO?!

The Collective Story vs. the Individual Narrative

Freek Lomme (Ed.)

We live in times of great social ambiguity. A recent exhibition, curated by Onomatopee director Freek Lomme, used the work of a wide range of contemporary artists to illustrate the dichotomy between the collective and the individual in ever-changing contemporary society. Tipping the scales at 438 pages with more than 600 color reproductions, Who Told You So?! provides the crafted feel of an artist’s book, the rigor of a theoretical reader, and the high quality reproductions of an exhibition catalog. Featuring 40 international artists, both emerging and established, from the last quarter century, including: Monika Löve, Slavs and Tartars, Elena Bajo, Hank Willis Thomas, Gillian Wearing, Ken Lum, Matthijs Bosman, Keren Cytter, Nadine Byrne, and Sebastian Friedman. Writings from Matteo Lucchetti, Markus Miessen, and Tanja Baudoin, among others, and a sticker from Heath Bunting round out this can’t-miss volume.

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WILDERNESS SURVIVAL GUIDE

A Guide to the Aesthetics of Survivalism

Anna Bak (Ed.)

An intriguing meditation on the politics and aesthetics of survivalism assembled by Danish contemporary visual artist Anna Bak, this project began with her fascination with the North Pond Hermit, a man who lived in the wilderness for over 30 years. During the solitary and self-reliant but collaborative atmosphere of an artist residency in Maastricht, Bak decided to imagine the notion of survival through her artistic practice. She is joined by four other artists in this slender volume of texts and images exploring how one might survive real or speculative dangers as a poetic, contemporary, historic, social or creative act. Together with Bak’s curious essay—part allegory, part guidebook—Dutch artist Joris Lindhout, Swedish art historian Niels Henriksen, Swiss artist Francois Dey and Irish writer, curator and art historian Padraic E. Moore contribute stories, letters, objects and installations illustrated here in black-and-white and full-bleed color photographs.

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ALISON WILDING

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ALISON WILDING

Art School Drawings from the 1960s and 70s

Turner Prize-nominee Alison Wilding rose to prominence in the late 1970s, counting among her cohort Richard Deacon and Tony Cragg. Though she is best known for abstract sculptures that incorporate unlikely materials like alabaster, beeswax, silk and PVC, this slim exhibition catalog from London’s Karsten Schubert Gallery focuses on 12 drawings from Wilding’s days as an art student. The nine drawings known as “Ethos of the Petrol Station” are accompanied by a revealing text from Peter Cartwright, who relates both his memories of teaching Wilding and the student project that inspired the drawings. An intimate glimpse into at important artist’s origins and growth.

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ALISON WILDING

Vanish & Detail

British artist Alison Wilding’s conceptual sculptures combine forms and techniques such as modeling, carving and casting to defuse and challenge the viewer’s expectations, revealing her philosophical and perceptual interest in light, boundary and territory. This unique artist monograph selects more than 20 works featured in the ambitious 2013 exhibition at Tate Britain, London. Each of the five major works on display brings together contrasting materials—from copper and alabaster to rubber and PVC—while testing the relationship between scale and weight. In this rich overview, lush illustrations complement an artist interview with Tate curator Carmen Julía, along with a survey text by art historian Anna Moszynska that explores Wilding’s 40-year career.

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WILLIAM ANTHONY

War is Swell

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WILLIAM BRICE

A Selection of Paintings & Drawings, 1947-1986

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FRED WILSON

A Critical Reader

Doro Globus

An anthology of critical texts and interviews with the fascinating American conceptual artist Fred Wilson, who describes himself as of “African, Native American, European and Amerindian” descent. Recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant, Wilson’s subject is social justice and his medium is museology. This publication focuses on the artist’s pivotal exhibitions and projects, and includes a wide range of significant texts that mark the critical reception of Wilson’s work over the last two decades. Concentrating on some of the most significant moments of Wilson’s career, the book will also include extracts from seminal exhibition catalogues such as Mining the Museum and Speak of Me as I Am – Wilson’s installation in the American Pavilion at the 50th Venice biennale exhibition.

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