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Publications
For more information about Bard CCS publications, or to place an order, please conact the Center at 845-758-7598 or e-mail ccs@bard.edu.
2008
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The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art Release date: September 27, 2008
Maria Lind, Hito Steyerl (Eds.) Texts by T. J. Demos, Okwui Enwezor, Carles Guerra, Vít Havránek, Jörg Heiser, Stefan Jonsson, Maurizio Lazzarato, Olivier Lugon, Jean-Pierre Rehm, Hito Steyerl, and Jan Verwoert Documentary practices make up one of the most significant and complex tendencies within art during the last two decades. This anthology seeks to overcome the existing dispersion of texts on documentary practices and offer new perspectives on this crucial theme. Authors include T.J. Demos, Okwui Enwezor, Carles Guerra, Vít Havránek, Jörg Heiser, Stefan Jonsson, Maurizio Lazzarato, Olivier Lugon, Jean-Pierre Rehm, Hito Steyerl, and Jan Verwoert. They discuss issues such as what the function of documentary art forms is in the context of globalizing media and an expanding art world. What is the relationship between fact and fiction, media and mediation in these documentary practices? What role do the archive and activism play? How do the operations of documentary forms change in the age of digital reproduction? Co-published by The Center for Curatorial Studies and Sternberg Press. Softcover, 8.25 x 5 in./239 pages ISBN: 9781933128535 Release: 2006 Distributed by: Sternberg Press |
2007
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Keith Edmier: 1991 - 2007 Release date: October 20, 2007 Essays by Tom Eccles, Douglas Fogle, Caoihmin Mac Giolla Leith; a conversation with Keith Edmier and artist Matthew Barney; extensive "source materials" descriptions by the Edmier's longtime friend Jade Dellinger. Features a silicone cover, and on the interior, a limited edition resin rose, a booklet about the Bremen Towne installation created for the exhibition at CCS, and a photo-envelope containing Edmier's childhood photographs. Co-published by the Center for Curatorial Studies, and Booth-Clibborn Editions, London. Hardcover with limited edition silicone jacket, 12.15 x 10 in./178 pages Includes limited edition resin rose, Brementowne insert, and Edmier family photograph sleeve. ISBN: 9781861543035 Release: 2007 |
2006
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Witness to Her Art: Art and Writings by Adrian Piper, Mona Hatoum, Cady Noland, Jenny Holzer, Kara Walker, Daniela Rossell and Eau de Cologne Edited by Rhea Anastas with Michael Brenson Witness to Her Art presents and interprets six singular experimental works by Piper, Hatoum, Noland, Holzer, Walker, and Rossell along with an artists’ magazine, Eau de Cologne, published by the Cologne gallerist Monika Sprüth. The artists discussed in the book are represented in the Marieluise Hessel Collection, which is on permanent loan to the Center for Curatorial Studies. Witness to Her Art foregrounds the role of the artist in the process of the reception of her work, a critical history which is represented in the volume through its selection of artists’ writings, previously unpublished documents, and contemporaneous criticism. Many of the anthology’s texts are published, translated, or reprinted for the first time. The anthology’s emphases are illuminated by essays by Pamela Franks on Piper; Aruna D’Souza on Hatoum; Johanna Burton on Eau de Cologne; David Levi Strauss on Holzer; Hamza Walker on Kara Walker; and Cuauhtémoc Medina on Rossell.Published by the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College Hardcover, 10.5 x 8.5 in./336 pgs ISBN: 1931493553 RELEASE: 2006 Distributed by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers |
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Wrestle Exhibition Dates: November 12th, 2006 – May 27th, 2007 Essays by Tom Eccles, Trevor Smith, and Ivo Mesquita Wrestle is a compelling overview of the Hessel Collection focusing on works that challenge notions of self and others, offering connections in form and content among works from diverse artistic and social positions. This innovative two-volume catalogue continues the curatorial play of suggestive juxtapositions. All works in the exhibition are illustrated along with three specially commissioned artist projects. In addition to essays by Eccles, Smith and CCS faculty member Ivo Mesquita, independent critic Michael Brenson interviews Ms. Hessel and Tom Eccles. Published by the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College Paperback, 11.75 x 9 in. / 224 pgs and 64pgs ISBN: 1931493510 (2 Volumes) RELEASE: 2006 |
2003
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Slater Bradley: don't let me disappear Exhibition Dates: June 29 - September 7, 2003 Essays by Amada Cruz Composed of photographs taken between 1997 and 2003, Slater Bradley's don't let me disappear takes Holden Caulfield's admonition as its title in a compendium that is part travelogue and part personal photo album. In these color images, Bradley isolates the small events and intimate moments that punctuate daily life. Prefaced by a W.H. Auden poem that reminds us that suffering occurs "while someone else is eating or opening a window," this book is at once darkly romantic and emotionally evocative--and a reminder that the incidental is often the most meaningful. Published by the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College $29.95 Paperback,Paperback, 10.5 x 8.5 in./72 pgs / 68 color ISBN: 1931493197 ITEM: D20231 RELEASE: 2003 Distributed by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers |
2002
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Dave Muller: Connections Exhibition Dates: June 29 - September 7, 2003 Essays by Amada Cruz and Matthew Higgs. Dave Muller, known as a dynamic and multitalented force in the Los Angeles art scene, is the subject of the exhibition Dave Muller: Connections, curated by Amada Cruz, director of the CCS Museum. Muller's ongoing series of drawings-his personal interpretations of exhibition announcements and invitations for shows by artists whose work he admires-will be the centerpiece of the exhibition. Inspired by amateur flyers created by fans of indie-rock bands, Muller began producing watercolors based on the actual exhibition announcements of artists he admired. But these acts of homage are not merely copies, as Muller transforms them and makes them his own. He always retains the factual information, but subverts and reinterprets it with wry humor. This exhibition is supported by grants from the Peter Norton Family Foundation, Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, and Kenneth L. Freed. $29.95 Paperback, 11 x 9.5 in. / 78 pgs. / 182 color, 2 BW. ISBN: 1-931493-10-3 ITEM: D10544 RELEASE: 2003 PUBLISHED BY: Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, and distributed by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers |
2001
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David Shrigley Exhibition Dates: September 30 - December 14, 2001 Essays by Amada Cruz and Russell Ferguson. Best known for his childlike drawings, which have appeared in books and British newspapers, Glasgow-based artist David Shrigley also creates sculptures, photographs, and paintings, all employing black humor as a strategy for getting along in an absurd world. This publication accompanies an exhibition organized by the Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College. PUBLISHED BY: Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College FORMAT: Paperback, 10.5 x 8.5 in. / 88 pgs / 30 color ISBN: 193149309X RELEASE: 2003 |
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Sarah Sze Exhibition Dates: June 24 - September 9, 2001 Essays by Elizabeth A.T. Smith, Douglas Rushkoff. Introduction and interview by Amada Cruz. Sarah Sze inhabits architectural spaces with a spider-like thoroughness and ingenuity, weaving fragile webs of glue threads and matchsticks around junctures of commercially-bought ephemera: Q-tips, plastic flowers, beads and baskets, paper goods, and mini-video projectors. She infiltrates every crevice and corner and explodes off of walls with a construction always spontaneously, intuitively responsive to its given environment. This catalogue documents and contextualizes the recent departure from closed environments that Sze took in creating an outdoor project at Bard College in upstate New York, a move which necessitated a subtle shift to materials which could withstand the elements. Sze has said that the exhibition space becomes a studio during her installations; here, her studio is a meadow. $24.95 Paperback, 11 x 9.5 in. / 80 pgs / 24 color. ISBN: 1931493014 ITEM: C10951 RELEASE: 2002 PUBLISHED BY: Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. Distributed by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers |
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Tony Feher Exhibition Dates: June 24th, 2001 - September 9th, 2001 Texts by Bill Arning and John Lindell Tony Feher in conversation with Adam Weinberg Introduction by Amada Cruz Made of found materials, Tony Feher’s elegant site-specific installations mark both a divergence from and a confluence with canonic minimalist aesthetic. Relying on transitory experience and observation, his works demand that the viewer make the effort to slow down, look, and savor the moment. This catalogue documents Feher’s recent dramatic installation at the Center for Curatorial Studies and locates it within the context of his artistic development. Published by the Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, and distributed by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers $24.95. Paperback, 88 pages, 46 color illustrations, 9.25 X 10.5, ISBN: 1-931493-02-2 |
2000
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Ilya Kabakov: 1969-1998 Exhibition Dates: June 25 - September 3, 2000 Essay by Amei Wallach, foreward by Amada Cruz Ranging from 1969 through the early 1990s, the works in this volume have been rarely or never seen in this country. Ilya Kabakov's installations are complex environments called "total installations," which immerse viewers in other worlds: communal Soviet apartments, the studio of an untalented artist, or an old Russian school. Humorous and often melancholy narratives in the form of texts on paintings or drawings add to the poignancy of the works. This volume was published in conjunction with the 2000 CCS exhibition, Ilya Kabakov: 1969—1998 $25.00. Paperback, 108 pages, 44 illustrations, 43 in color, 9.5 x 8.5 in. ISBN: 0-941276-94-5 Published by the Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, and distributed by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers |
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The Film Art of Isaac Julien Exhibition Dates: September 24 - December 15, 2000 Texts by Isaac Julien, David Deitcher, and David Frankel; introduction by Amada Cruz The Film Art of Isaac Julien collects for the first time Julien's critical writings, which offer a challenging and exciting perspective on issues of cultural politics and aesthetics, particularly where questions of black and gay identity are concerned. Julien is Britain's preeminent black filmmaker, as well as an internationally recognized artist, writer, teacher, and scholar. His work employs a unique coupling of narrative and avant-garde strategies to explore issues of race, gender, and sexuality. The Film Art of Isaac Julien documents his 2000 CCS survey exhibition–including a trilogy of film/video installations that examine both the complexities and possibilities of eroticism and desire, as well as his latest work, The Long Road to Mazatlan, which explores the myth of the cowboy in gay culture. $24.95. Paperback, 120 pages, 20 color illustrations, 11 x 9.5 in. ISBN: 0-941276-90-2 Published by the Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College and distributed by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers. |
1999
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Takashi Murakami: The Meaning of the Nonsense of the Meaning Exhibition Dates: June 25 - September 12th, 1999 Essays by Amada Cruz, Dana Friis-Hansen, and Midori Matsui Takashi Murakami is one of the most thoughtful–and thought-provoking–Japanese artists of the 1990s. His work ranges from cartoony paintings to quasi-minimalist sculptures, giant inflatable balloons, performance events, and factory-produced watches, t-shirts, and other products, many emblazoned with his signature character, Mr. DOB. Murakami mixes and morphs images on canvases, light boxes, posters, and other media. His rich body of work reflects his voracious appetite for postwar history, art, and popular culture from Japan and the West, and has attracted the attention of the international art world. Takashi Murakami is the first monograph about this important artist. With reproductions of dozens of Murakami's works, insightful essays, and an exuberant Tokyo-pop design, this volume appeals to contemporary art fans as well as those interested in anime (animation films), manga (comics), and other aspects of Japanese popular culture. It was published in conjunction with the 1999 CCS survey exhibition Takashi Murakami: The Meaning of the Nonsense of Meaning. $22.50. Paperback, 98 pages, 110 illustrations, 93 in color, 9.5 x 11.5 in. ISBN: 0-810967-02-2 Published by the Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College and distributed by Harry N. Abrams |