The Record as Artwork: From Futurism to Conceptual Art (1977) [EN, FR]

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held at Fort Worth Art Museum, Texas, 4 December 1977 – 15 January 1978; Moore College of Art Gallery, Philadelphia, 3 February – 8 March 1978; Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, 7 September – 22 October 1978; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, no dates listed.

Text by Anne Livet and Germano Celant. Artists include Kurt Schwitters, Marcel Duchamp, Hugo Ball, Jean Dubuffet, Yves Klein, Raoul Hausmann, Jean Tinguely, Allan Kaprow, Billy Kluver, Lawrence Weiner, Eliane Radigue, Jan Dibbets, Joseph Beuys, Dick Raaijmakers, Braco Dimitrijević, Antonio Dias, Sarkis, Michael Snow, Topor, Jack Goldstein, Art & Language, and others. Includes discography, index of record producers, and list of works.

Edited by Germano Celant
Publisher Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1977
121 pages

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Braco Dimitrijević: Tractatus Post-Historicus (1976/2009) [EN, DE]

“Tractatus Post-Historicus (1976), a philosophical manifesto about the idea of “post history,” as well as other early writings including Why I Paint Like Pollock (1972), are newly reprinted in this comprehensive publication by and about conceptual artist Braco Dimitrijević. His works are accompanied by accessible commentary by leading critics and curators, including Nicolas Bourriaud, Dan Cameron, Lóránd Hegyi, Jean-Hubert Martin, Catherine Millet, Achille Bonito Oliva, and others, as well as extensive reproductions of the artist’s visual works and installations, in particular his ongoing Casual Passer-By series (1971-). Working furtively in urban spaces saturated with messages of advertising and cultural industry, the artist hopes to transform and restructure the meaning of public images by inhabiting and defunctionalizing them. As with his work in general, he seeks to create another space, a counter-model to dominant thought, one that creates not just a reversal in meaning but also a rupture in perception.”

Edited by Aaron Levy
Publisher Slought Books, Philadelphia, and University of Pennsylvania, 2009
Contemporary Theory series, 3
ISBN 9780981540955
263 pages

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Removed From the Crowd: Unexpected Encounters 1 (2011)

“Bringing together newly commissioned essays predominantly from an emerging generation of researchers and writers, this reader focuses on conceptual and experimental artistic, curatorial and institutional practices that have rarely or never been brought into relation with potential parallels outside their respective context, in this case Latvia, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, Chile, Peru, Poland and Romania.

The discussed practices explored the interstices between the collective and individual, private and public, action and escapism, art and non-art, artist and curator, nature and urban space, the visible and the invisible. Many of them were taking place in private spaces, in solitude, in nature, or camouflaging themselves as non-art, as part of everyday life, a protest, a crowded street, radically redefining or ignoring the idea of audience.”

Edited by Ivana Bago and Antonia Majača with Vesna Vuković
Publisher BLOK & DeLVe, Zagreb, 2011
ISBN 9539531748, 9789539531742
312 pages

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