Gary Hume: Door Paintings - £14.95 (Exhibition price), £19.95 RRP
MODERN ART OXFORD ISBN ISBN 1-901352-38-2 / ISBN 978-1-901352-38-2
63pp, 290 x 240mm, 27 illustrations, 19 in colour, Hardback, Designed by Stephen Coates.
Featuring essays by Thomas Lawson and Suzanne Cotter, this fully-illustrated catalogue offers the chance to consider Gary’s Hume’s paintings from a broad and compelling perspective. Published by Modern Art Oxford.
Stella Vine - £19.50
MODERN ART OXFORD ISBN 978-1-901352-34-4
32 pages, Hardback, 73 Full colour images, designed by FUEL
Full colour limited edition book to accompany the exhibition. Essay by Germaine Greer.
Arrivals > Art from the new EU - £19.95
MODERN ART OXFORD ISBN 1901352331
Softback, 240 pages, 170 x 240mm
This publication documents the programme ARRIVALS > NEW ART FROM THE EU, a series of ten exhibitions over two years at Modern Art Oxford and Turner Contemporary, Margate introducing the work of artists from the expanded European Union. In addition it invites specific questions around what does it mean, if anything for artists, curators and cultural agents to be part of 'an expanded Europe.'
Prologue: Quoting Absence - £5
MODERN ART OXFORD ISBN 9781901352306
168 x 120mm, 56pp, Paperback
The first part of a new three-part work by Christodoulos Panayiotou based on the structure of the academic dissertation. Four speakers with connections to Oxford University were invited to have a conversation on the theme of absence.
A transcript of the recorded conversation which took place in Oxford in July 2006.
Dorothea Debus, Pedro Ferreira, Jem Finer, Caroline Humfress
LOCAL STORIES - £7.95
MODERN ART OXFORD ISBN 1901352277
Full colour, 45 illustrations, 210 x 147mm, 80pp, Paperback
Rory Carnegie, Daniel Guzman, Laura Lancaster, Nalini Malani, Mark Neville, Katerina Seda, Gillian Wearing
This publication discusses the work of seven international artists. Engaging and inspirational, they reassert through their work the importance of the local and the everyday.
Continuous Project #12 - £12.95 (Exhibition Price), £19.95 RRP
MODERN ART OXFORD ISBN 1-901352-32-3 or 978-1-901352-32-0
160 pages, hardback
The latest in a series of facsimile appropriations, pamphlets, performances and interventions by the collective Continuous Project, this illustrated volume, the second in their "institutional" series, marks the occasion of the exhibition Seth Price/Kelley Walker/Continuous Project at Modern Art Oxford. Here the past becomes an episode of the present: part catalogue and part anthology of writings, Continuous Project #12 combines commissioned texts with historical reprints.
Documenting the work of Seth Price and Kelley Walker with reproductions of their installation in Oxford, the book brings together new essays by art historian Robert Hobbs, writer Jan Avgikos and curator Suzanne Cotter with a contribution by religion scholar Joshua Dubler.
Public Time: A Symposium - £9.95
MODERN ART OXFORD ISBN 1-901352-31-5 or 978-1-901352-31-3
58 pages, Softback
Public Time serves as a second volume to the publication Out of Beirut, published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name organized by Modern Art Oxford between May and July 2006. This book contains the edited transcripts of the symposium Public Time, which took place in Oxford in May 2006. The symposium brought together an international panel of artists, curators, critics and writers with a view to giving voice to issues facing contemporary artists in Beirut.
Forward by Suzanne Cotter
Transcripts by Fadi Abdallah, Negar Azimi, Tony Chakar, Phil Collins, Suzanne Cotter, Catherine David, Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Joreige, Bilal Khbeiz, Rabih Mroué, Eugene Rogan, Walid Sadek, Alexis Tadié, Stephen Wright and Akram Zaatari
Edited by Suzanne Cotter
DANIEL BUREN: INTERVENTION II works in situ - £14.95
MODERN ART OXFORD ISBN 978-1-901352-29-0
56 Pages, Full Colour
Daniel Buren is one of the most renowned artists working in the world today. Since 1965, Buren has created dramatic, playful and thought-provoking interventions in museums, galleries and public spaces that question the relationship between art and the structures that frame it.
Published to coincide with the artist's first major exhibition in the UK in twenty years, this fully illustrated book features an interview with the artist, views of his work at Modern Art Oxford and documentation of projects realised in the UK since the early seventies.
OUT OF BEIRUT - £14.85
MODERN ART OXFORD ISBN 1-901352-28-5 (UK only)
Available from Modern Art Oxford. Design by Victoria Forrest for SMITH
Since the end of the civil war in 1990, Beirut has become a fertile ground for radical and innovative art making and critical thought. Out of Beirut introduces recent work by artists living in the city across the visual arts, film, performance and architecture. Fully illustrated and featuring artists’ writings, interviews and new essays by Simon Harvey, Kaelen Wilson-Goldie and Suzanne Cotter, Out of Beirut offers invaluable insight into artistic practice emerging from the city.
A sister publication, including transcriptions from the symposium Public Time organised by Modern Art Oxford on 25 to 26 May 2006 will be available from October 2006.
ANGELA BULLOCH - £30.00
MODERN ART OXFORD ISBN 3865600972
Full colour, 148 illustrations, 274 x 216mm, 287pp
The critical and playfully imaginative tenor of Angela Bulloch's work signals a singular artistic intelligence. Bulloch asks important questions about how we negotiate our place, and the place of others, within space and within culture. This publication documents four related projects at the Secession, Vienna; Modern Art Oxford; De Pont Museum, Tilburg; and The Power Plant, Toronto.
Co-published with Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln.
CECILY BROWN: PAINTINGS - £12.95
MODERN ART OXFORD ISBN 1901352250
Full colour, 18 illustrations, 240 x 190mm, 80pp, Softback
Cecily Brown is considered to be one of the most talented and exciting painters of her generation. Published on the occasion of Brown's exhibition at Modern Art Oxford and surveying the artist's work from 1999 to 2005. It features newly commissioned essays by Suzanne Cotter and writer and critic Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith.
FIONA TAN: COUNTENANCE - £9.95
MODERN ART OXFORD ISBN 1901352242
Black and White and Colour, 52 illustrations, 230 x 154mm, 96pp, Hardback
This book marks the first major solo exhibition in the UK by acclaimed international artist Fiona Tan. Using film as her medium, Tan creates poetic and thoughtful installations which address themes of identity, memory and the perception of cultural difference. Essay by Mark Godfrey.
JANNIS KOUNELLIS - £11.95
MODERN ART OXFORD ISBN 1901352234
Black and white and colour, 27 illustrations, 250 x 210mm, 79pp, Paperback
Since coming to prominence in the 1960s with his installations, performances, and his association with Arte Povera, Kounellis is considered to be one of the world's most important living artists. This book documents his first solo exhibition in Britain in over ten years.
Real World: The Dissolving Space of Experience - £11.95
MODERN ART OXFORD ISBN 1901352226
Full colour, 300 x 230mm, 56pp, Softback
Katie Grinnan, Wade Guyton, Christina Mackie, Bojan Sarcevic, Paul Sietsema, Hiroshi Sugito
Real World showcases new artistic terrain in which indeterminacy, resistance and the convergence of multiple spheres of experience are the new creative conditions for understanding space and the way we inhabit it.
Wherever I Am - £12.95
MODERN ART OXFORD ISBN 1901352218
49 illustrations, 23 in colour, 265 x 190mm, 96pp, Paperback
Addressing issues of national identity, displacement and personal freedom, Yael Bartana and Emily Jacir, Israeli and Palestinian respectively, are among the most impressive artists of their generation. This substantial book includes five essays including texts by novelist Linda Grant on Yael Bartana and Professor David Alan Mellor on the extraordinary photographs of Lee Miller.
Linda Grant, Galit Eilat, Tom Vanderbilt, David Alan Mellor and Edward W Said, with an introduction by Andrew Nairne.
MIKE NELSON: TRIPLE BLUFF CANYON - £8.95
MODERN ART OXFORD ISBN 190135220X
89 illustrations, 6 in colour, 210 x 170mm, 90pp, Paperback
Documenting one of the most critically acclaimed exhibitions of 2004, this unique book, created with the artist, includes over eighty images reflecting Nelson's themes: fiction, alchemy, geometry and a politicised reading of 1970s Land Art. With a new story by science fiction legend, Brian Aldiss and an extended essay on Nelson's practice by Jeremy Millar.
Jim Lambie: Male Stripper - £8.95
MODERN ART OXFORD ISBN 1901352196
18 illustrations, 12 in colour, 210 x 170mm, 34pp, Hardback
Michael Bracewell's brilliant extended essay captures the essence of one of the UK's most exciting contemporary artists. Jim Lambie transforms objects and materials gleaned from the high street and junk shops into environments of dizzying and bejewelled gorgeousness.
Candice Breitz: Re-Animations - £8.95
MODERN ART OXFORD ISBN 1901352188
Full Colour, 49 illustrations, 210 x 170mm, 44pp, Paperback
Coinciding with Breitz's first solo exhibition in the UK, Re-Animations includes full colour reproductions of recent work and the artist's new video installtion, Becoming and a new essay by Berlin-based writer Jennifer Allen.
Monica Bonvicini: Anxiety Attack - £8.95
MODERN ART OXFORD ISBN 190135217X
Full colour, 22 illustrations, 210 x 170mm, 43pp, Paperback
Through her objects, films and installations Bonvicini tears away at the order of architecture to reveal something intrinsically disordered and sexualised. Produced to accompany Bonvicini's exhibitions Anxiety Attack at Modern Art Oxford and Shotgun at Tramway Glasgow, this fully illustrated book features views of the artist's work produced for both exhibitions.
Jake and Dinos Chapman: The Rape of Creativity - £11.95
MODERN ART OXFORD ISBN 1901352161
Full colour, 45 illustrations, 210 x 170mm, 39pp, Hardback
Produced in collaboration with the artists, this subverse book records (with the help of children and throw-away cameras) the Chapman's major exhibition The Rape of Creativity. Writer Neal Brown and curator Suzanne Cotter take up the challenge in two new essays exploring their aesthetic of shock and provocation.
Tracey Emin: This is Another Place - SOLD OUT
MODERN ART OXFORD ISBN 1901352153
50 illustrations, 210 x 170mm, 100pp, Paperback
Conceived by Emin for her solo exhibition, This is Another Place, this artist's book features a compilation of images and writings reflecting her life, her sexual experiences and her desires and fears.
