A.A. Bronson, Peggy Gale (eds.): Museums by Artists (1983) [English/French]

“An anthology of texts and works exploring the relationship of the artist to the museum, from Marcel Duchamp’s seminal Boite-en-Valise and Claes Oldenburg’s Mouse Museum to the critical work of Hans Haacke and Daniel Buren. Harald Szeemann’s proposal for the ‘Museum of Obsessions’ at a future Documenta is here reproduced in English for the first time.”

With texts / works by Jean-Christophe Ammann, Michael Asher, AA Bronson, Marcel Broodthaers, Benjamin Buchloh, Daniel Buren, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Filliou, Vera Frenkel, General Idea, Walter Grasskamp, Hans Haacke, Wulf Herzogenrath, Image Bank, Donald Judd, On Kawara, Gary Neill Kennedy, Joseph Kosuth, Les Levine, Glenn Lewis, George Maciunas, Piero Manzoni, Claes Oldenburg, Museum of Conceptual Art, N.E. Thing Company Limited, Garry Schum, and Harald Szeemann.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 2 Apr – 15 May 1983.

Cover by Daniel Buren
Publisher Art Metropole, Toronto, 1983
ISBN 0920956130, 9780920956137
287 pages
via j.eagleton

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Louise Bourgeois: Destruction of the Father / Reconstruction of the Father: Writings and Interviews, 1923–1997 (1998)

“‘Everyday you have to abandon your past or accept it and then if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor.’

Since the age of twelve, the internationally renowned sculptor Louise Bourgeois has been writing and drawing; first a diary precisely recounting the everyday events of her family life, then notes and reflections. Destruction of the Father — the title comes from the name of a sculpture she did following the death of her husband in 1973 — contains both formal texts and what the artist calls ‘pen-thoughts’: drawing-texts often connected to her drawings and sculptures, with stories or poems inscribed alongside the images. Writing is a means of expression that has gained increasing importance for Bourgeois, particularly during periods of insomnia. The writing is compulsive, but it can also be perfectly controlled, informed by her intellectual background, knowledge of art history, and sense of literary form (she has frequently published articles on artists, exhibitions, and art events). Bourgeois, a private woman ‘without secrets’, has given numerous interviews to journalists, artists, and writers, expressing her views on her oeuvre, revealing its hidden meanings, and relating the connection of certain works to the traumas of her childhood. This book collects both her writings and her spoken remarks on art, confirming the deep links between her work and her biography and offering new insights into her creative process.”

Edited and with texts by Marie-Laure Bernadac and Hans-Ulrich Obrist
Publisher MIT Press, with Violette Editions, London, 1998
ISBN 0262522462, 9780262522465
384 pages

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Spektakel – Kunst – Gesellschaft. Guy Debord und die Situationistische Internationale (2006) [German]

“Guy Debord und die Situationistische Internationale erfahren in den letzten Jahren auch im deutschsprachigen Raum vermehrte Aufmerksamkeit. In der Regel ging diese verstärkte Rezeption mit einer Reduzierung der Anliegen Debords und anderer Situationisten auf kunst-, kultur- oder auch medientheoretische Fragestellungen einher. Je größer die Begeisterung und das Interesse für die kunst- und kulturkritischen Schriften Debords wurde, desto weniger Beachtung fand die Gesellschaftskritik, die Debords Kunst- und Kulturkritik zugrunde liegt. Heute geht es zum einen darum, Debord und die SI in ihrem revolutionären Anspruch ernst zu nehmen. Zum anderen geht es um die Kritik ihrer Vorstellungen vor dem Hintergrund der gesellschaftskritischen Diskussionen der letzten 20 Jahre.

Dieser Band versammelt Vorträge, die auf dem gleichnamigen Symposium im Januar 2005 in der Kunsthalle Exnergasse in Wien gehalten wurden und wird durch weitere Beiträge ergänzt.”

Edited by Stephan Grigat, Günther Friesinger, and Johannes Grenzfurthner (eds.),
Publisher Verbrecher Verlag, Berlin, 2006
Open access
ISBN 3935843615, 9783935843614
250 pages
via philo.at

Review: Dieter Wenk (Textem 2006).

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