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JRP|Ringier’s Documents Series is dedicated to writings by critics
and curators who question and explore the current state of artistic
and curatorial practices. We announce the two latest titles below.
Parachute: The Anthology
Volume I
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Booktrek
Selected Essays on Artists’ Books since 1972
By Clive Phillpot.
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edited by Alexander Alberro, Chantal Pontbriand.
In 1975, a small group of enterprising, discontented members of Quebec’s art community posed the question:
“What do we know about contemporary art outside of Quebec, in Canada or abroad? Do we know what contemporary
art exists in montreal? How does information about art circulate?” By way of an answer, the artistically
unconventional and theoretically cutting-edge magazine Parachute was launched, founded by Chantal pontbriand
and France morin. artists such as Jeff Wall, Bill viola, Stan Douglas, eija-Liisa ahtila and many others
had the first significant critical reception of their work in Parachute. Similarly, figures such as Douglas Crimp,
thomas Crow, thierry de Duve, georges Didi-Huberman, Hal Foster, reesa greenberg, Serge guilbaut and
Laura mulvey published highly pertinent essays in the journal early on in their careers. the essays collected in
this volume have been selected from the first 25 years of Parachute’s publication history, from 1975 to 2000.
978-3-03764-196-5
pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 180 pgs / 15 b&w.
U.S. $29.95 CDn $29.95
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edited by Lionel bovier. Introduction by Lionel bovier, Christophe Cherix.
Clive phillpot has been a tireless advocate for the artist’s book for more than 40 years—both as a critic, curator
and editor, and in his tenure as director at the library of the museum of modern art in the late 1970s, where he
built the library’s collection of artist’s books and mapped out the field with influential essays that traced its ancestry
and distinguished it from seemingly similar genres such as the livre d’artiste. as he has delineated the genre:
“artists’ books are understood to be books or booklets produced by the artist using mass-production methods,
and in (theoretically) unlimited numbers, in which the artist documents or realizes art ideas or artworks.” also
collaborating with printed matter and Franklin Furnace, among other places dedicated to the medium of the
book, phillpot helped raise awareness of artists’ books, endowing them with the critical credentials to enter the
collections of museums. Booktrek gathers for the first time phillpot’s essays on the definition and development of
artists’ books from 1972 to the present—historical texts, manifestos, catalogue entries and essays on works by ed
ruscha, Sol LeWitt, Dieter roth and richard Long. Booktrek will prove an invaluable reference for all those interested
in the evolution of the artist’s book, and offers a crucial account of the genre’s ascent.
978-3-03764-207-8
pbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 160 pgs / 15 b&w.
U.S. $29.95 CDn $29.95
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Sculpture Now
A Collection of Contemporary Artists’
Writings and Interviews
Thinking Contemporary
Curating
By Terry Smith.
IndePendenT CurATors InTernATIonAL (ICI)
Introduction by kate fowle.
What is contemporary curatorial thought? Current
discourse on the topic is heating up with a new cocktail
of bold ideas and ethical imperatives. these include:
cooperative curating, especially with artists;
the reimagination of museums; curating as knowledge
production; the historicization of exhibitionmaking;
and commitment to extra-artworld
participatory activism. Less obvious, but increasingly
of concern, are issues such as rethinking spectatorship,
engaging viewers as co-curators and the challenge
of curating contemporaneity itself. In these five
essays, art historian and theorist terry Smith surveys
the international landscape of current thinking by curators;
explores a number of exhibitions that show
contemporaneity in recent, present and past art; describes
the enormous growth world wide of exhibition
infrastructure and the instability that haunts it; re-examines
the contribution of artist-curators and questions
the rise of curators utilizing artistic strategies;
and, finally, assesses a number of key tendencies in
curating as responses to contemporary conditions.
Thinking Contemporary Curating is the first book to
comprehensively chart the variety of practices of curating
undertaken today, and to think through, systematically,
what is distinctive about contemporary
curatorial thought.
978-0-916365-86-8
pbk, 6.25 x 8.5 in. / 256 pgs / 25 b&w.
U.S. $19.95 CDn $19.95
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edited by Julia kelly, Jon wood.
Sculpture Now assembles essays, statements, interviews,
letters, poems and other texts by artists from
all over the world on sculpture as it has been developed
and practiced from 1990 to the present. Illustrated
with works by the contributing artists, this
publication covers every facet of sculpture today: the
processes used to create it, its various means of figuration
and the growing number of exhibition venues
now devoted to the medium. edited by Julia Kelly and
Jon Wood, and intended for a broad audience of
artists, curators, art historians, students and art
lovers, this volume will serve both as an important
reference book as well as a source of inspiration.
artists represented include edward allington, Francis
alÿs, John Bock, mel Brimfield, anthony Caro, Jan de
Cock, tony Cragg, matthew Crawley, richard Deacon,
michael Dean, mark Dion, elmgreen and Dragset,
Chris evans, Katharina Fritsch, ryan gander,
Francesco gennari, thomas Hirschhorn, Ilya
Kabakov, mike Kelley, Hew Locke, Sarah Lucas, paul
mcCarthy, Jonathan monk, ron mueck, mike nelson,
patricia piccinini, Falke pisano, Bettina pousttchi,
marc Quinn, gregor Schneider, thomas Schütte,
roman Signer, Florian Slotawa, Kiki Smith, Bob and
roberta Smith, Didier vermeiren, Franz West, Keith
Wilson, erwin Wurm and Carey Young.
978-3-7757-3347-2
pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 296 pgs / 50 color.
U.S. $55.00 CDn $55.00
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Vital Beauty
Reclaiming Aesthetics in the Tangle of
Technology and Nature
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Text by Thierry bardini, Caroline van eck, Lars
spuybrock, Gustav fechner, Mark frost, George
Gessert, Tim Ingold, et al.
as defined by the great art writer John ruskin more
than 150 years ago, “vital beauty” denotes an aesthetic
of “sympathies”—that is, a beauty that embodies
and demonstrates affinity with sentience in all its
forms. ruskin effectively liberated beauty from classical
perfectionism by envisaging a world of currents
and forces, rather than immobile ideals, and by celebrating
nature’s abundant diversity. today, this wonderful
conception requires some rethinking, since
sentience now encompasses technological as well as
organic entities—raising the question of how we
should design our environments, our objects and
even our lives. In Vital Beauty, leading philosophers,
anthropologists, theorists and artists thierry Bardini,
Caroline van eck, gustav Fechner, mark Frost,
george gessert, tim Ingold, arjen mulder, Steven
Shaviro, Lars Spuybroek, Wendy Steiner, Daniel n.
Stern and ruskin himself examine what this idea of
beauty might mean for their respective disciplines.
978-90-5662-856-7
pbk, 6.25 x 9 in. / 256 pgs.
U.S. $35.00 CDn $35.00
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