Publications

NEW PUBLICATIONS

Mike's World: Michael Smith & Joshua White (and other collaborators)
Underscoring the hybrid nature of Michael Smith's art, the works reproduced in this colorful paperback book highlight his last decade of video and installation collaborations with artist-director Joshua White. With contributions by Michael Smith, Jay Sanders, Mike Kelley, Ingrid Schaffner and Regine Basha. Softcover, full color, $30.00

Drawings: Simple, Obscure and Obtuse
This artist's book chronicles a lifetime of drawings by performance/video/installation artist Michael Smith. Smith is best known for his alter ego, "Mike," whose blend of satisfaction and yearning, humor and pathos make him an all-American anti-hero. Drawings: Simple, Obscure and Obtuse gives a keyhole view into Smith's production and process with sketches, notations, diagrams and storyboards, many if which have never before been exhibited or published. Softcover, full color, $30.00

Ensemble, Curated by Christian Marclay
Ensemble is a group exhibition of sound art curated by artist and musician Christian Marclay. Likening his approach to that of a composer rather than a curator, Marclay chose sculpture and installations based on their sound quality and sonic compatibility. An ambient sound environment resulted, with iconic works by 27 artists such as Harry Bertoia, Yoko Ono and Michelangelo Pistoletto, mixed in with newer pieces. This publication includes a CD featuring a once-in-a-lifetime gathering of artist/musicians, including Shelly Hirsch, Alison Knowles, Alan Licht, Marina Rosenfeld and Mika Tajima “playing” the show. Edited by Christian Marclay. Introduction by Claudia Gould. Sound mix by Aaron Igler. Softcover, 5 x 5 in. / 16 pgs / 16 color / CD Audio, $30.00

Eileen Neff: Between Us
In conjunction with "Eileen Neff: Between Us," organized by Ingrid Schaffner, Senior Curator, and Patrick Murphy, Director, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland, this full color catalog includes an introduction by Schaffner, a conversation with the artist and Murphy and an essay by Jeremy Sigler, a New York-based poet. Hardcover, 10 x 9 1/2 in./ 64 pages/ full color, $30.00

Karen Kilimnik
Karen Kilimnik, a fully illustrated catalog, accompanies ICA's spring 2007 exhibition. It features an essay by the curator analyzing the development of the artist's work and its historic contexts. A series of brief commissioned essays on related themes will also be included by dance historian Joel Lobenthal, art historian Scott Rothkopf and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, curator Dominic Molon. The catalog also includes a complete bibliography and an illustrated exhibition chronology. $45.00

Locally Localized Gravity
For 10 weeks, ICA was transformed into a space of production. Both an exhibition and a program of events, “Locally Localized Gravity” focused on the phenomenon of artists working as producers. Eight artist and artists’ groups were invited to create installations that would play host to over 75 special events. During its run over 100 artists, musicians, lecturers, performers, writers, and many other creators participated and many contributed to this catalog which documents each event.

Fertilizers: Olin/Eisenman
"Fertilizers: Olin/Eisenman," documents their collaborative works, and is published on the occasion of a commissioned project for the Institute of Contemporary Art in 2006. An essay by historian Julia Czerniak chronicles Eisenman and Olin’s built and unbuilt projects. Also included are an introduction by Claudia Gould, ICA Daniel W. Dietrich, II Director, and texts and images detailing the collaborative projects. Softcover, 7.75 x 10 in./ 96 pgs / full color, $25.00

John Armleder, About Nothing. Works On Paper 1962-2007
John Armleder, About Nothing. Works On Paper 1962-2007 presents drawings by an artist whose work offers vital formulations on the history of abstraction. Includes essays by John Armleder, Parker Williams, Beatrix Ruf, Christopher Cherix, and acknowledgements by Claudia Gould, ICA Director. Softcover, 7.75 x 10 in./67 pgs / 11 b & w , $10.00

Make Your Own Life: Artists In and Out of Cologne
Make Your Own Life: Artists In and Out of Cologne looks at the mythic and art historical significance of the Cologne art scene, one of the most important centers for contemporary art during the 1980s and 1990s. Includes essays by Guest Curator Bennett Simpson, Associate Curator at ICA, Boston, Joseph Strau, and artist roundtable excerpts. Softcover, 8.25 x 11.5 in./96 pgs / 50 b & w , $15.00

Candida Hofer: Architecture of Absence
Candida Hofer: Architecture of Absence is the first major English-language examination of Hofer's work surveying over thirty years. This publication features over 50 color plates and three illustrated essays by Constance W. Glenn, Mary-Kay Lombino and Virginia Heckert. Hardcover, 9.75 x 11.5 in./112 pgs / 50 color plates, $35.00

Rodney Graham: A Little Thought (SOLD OUT)
Rodney Graham: A Little Thought tracks the career of a brilliant, idiosyncratic artist whose work spans a range of media including photography, film, book works, installation, and pop music. In this volume, amply illustrated with many never-before-seen images from early in Graham's career as well as new photography of his most recent works. Essays by Cornelia Butler, Grant Arnold, Jessica Bradley, Lynne Cooke, Diedrich Diedrichsen, Sara Krajewski and Shepherd Steiner. Hardcover, 9.75 x 11.75 in./208 pgs / 150 color, 50 b & w & 20 duotones, $39.99

Forty Years at the Institute of Contemporary Art
This publication is a tribute to the past 40 years. Documented are six ICA public programs beginning in fall 2003 that brought back past directors to speak with, and of, the artists with whom they worked. Softcover, 6 x 8 in./96 pgs. 2005, $10

Accumulated Vision, Barry Le Va
A fully illustrated catalog featuring 300 images, Le Va's exhibition history, a bibliography, and 4 scholarly essays by exhibition curator Ingrid Schaffner, philosopher Paul Virilio and art historians Pamela Lee and Rhea Anastas. This is the definitive survey of Le Va's work.
Softcover, 9.5 x 11.5 in./256 pgs. 2005, $45

Richard Pettibone: A Retrospective
This full-color catalog replicates in size and style the early issues of Artforum. Exhibition co-curator, Michael Duncan writes an essay tracking the development of Pettibone's long career, co-curator Ian Berry offers an interview with the artist, and art historian Francis Naumann provides an essay discussing Pettibone's relationship to Marcel Duchamp. Published by The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College and the Laguna Art Museum.
Softcover, 192 pgs., 2005, $40

Ant Farm (SOLD OUT)
A comprehensive catalogue, published by UC press. It includes essays by Caroline Maniaque, Michael Sorkin, Steve Seid, a conversation among Constance Lewallen, Chip Lord, Doug Michels, and Curtis Schreier, an Ant Farm-designed timeline, and a reprint of Lord's essay on American car culture, Automerica.
188 pgs., $30

The Big Nothing
A two-color catalog publication featuring essays by the exhibition curators, Ingrid Schaffner, Bennett Simpson and Tanya Leighton, and Paula Marincola, Director of the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative. Acknowlegments by ICA Director Claudia Gould. Annotated checklist.
88 pages, 40 two-color images. $15

Sarah McEneaney (SOLD OUT)
A full-color catalog publication featuring an essay by ICA Senior Curator Ingrid Schaffner, as well as contributions from Nathalie Anderson, Aella Diamantopoulos, Elyse Gonzales, Darielle Mason, Sarah McEneaney, Janine Mileaf, Eileen Neff, Rob Nixon, Sheila Pepe, Susan Rosenberg and Lisa Sewell. Acknowledgments by ICA Director Claudia Gould and Sarah McEneaney.
80 pages, 50 color images, including 40 plates.

Yoshitomo Nara: Nothing Ever Happens (SOLD OUT)
This beatiful publication by Perceval Press includes essays by curator Kristin Chambers, Josh Kun and ICA's Ingrid Schaffner and contributions by Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day, Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney, John Doe of X, author Dave Eggers, Lars Frederickson of Rancid, Deborah Harry, Nara, Leonard Nimoy and others.
Softcover, 96 pages, 45 color plates. 2003

Strange Messenger: The Work of Patti Smith
Include's essays by Patti Smith, curator John Smith and David Greenberg. Published by The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh with over 50 full color illustrations.
Softcover, 6.5 x 9 in./80 pgs. 2002, $20

Gillian Wearing: Mass Observation
This full-color monograph represents the most eagerly anticipated, up-to-date, and incisive survey yet published of Wearing's work, and covers the period 1992 to 2002. With essays by Dominic Molon and Barry Schwabsky. Published by Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Hardcover, 10.5 x 9.5 in./120 pgs. 2002, $30

Polly Apfelbaum
ICA's latest publication, this beautiful catalog documents Apfelbaum's largest museum survey ever organized, jointly curated by ICA Director Claudia Gould and ICA Senior Curator Ingrid Schaffner. With over 70 full color illustrations and a fold out 26" x 30" cover, the catalog is a gorgeous tribute to this amazing artist. Features an interview with Apfelbaum by Gould and essays by Schaffner, Art Forum editor Tim Griffin and art historian Irving Sandler.
Softcover, 8 x 10.5 in./88 pgs. 2003, $25

Intricacy, A Project by Greg Lynn FORM
A beautifully constructed publication documenting this exhibition curated by architect Greg Lynn. Intricacy demonstrates the subtle correspondence between art and architecture, sculpture and building, painting and CAD drawing. Includes an essay by Greg Lynn and introduction by ICA Director Claudia Gould.
Softcover, 9.25 x 12.5 in./50 pgs / 20 color 10 BW duotones. 2003, $25

Edna Andrade: Optical Paintings, 1963-1986
This beautiful catalog documents the first large-scale survey of Edna Andrade's optical and geometric works. It examines a 23-year period in Edna's oeuvre-a time in which abstraction and visuality were radically rethought by minimalism, op art, and pattern and decoration painting. Includes essays by Debra Bricker Balken and Ingrid Schaffner.
Softcover, 76 pages, 38 full color illustrations. 2003, $25

Pictures, Patents, Monkeys, and More...On Collecting (SOLD OUT)
Examines the collecting impulse in its variegated manifestations, raising fundamental questions about why we collect and whether it matters what we collect. Surprising and eccentric, this publication features three utterly different collections: Pictures (and other contemporary art objects) from the renowned Robert Shiffler foundation in Ohio; the stunningly beautiful Patents -- the Smithsonian's collection of patent models submitted to the US Patent Office in the 19th century; and finally Monkeys -- from a private, New York-based collection of approximately 1,600 sock monkeys. Running the gamut from high art to the unmapped inspirations hidden in the dregs of American culture. Includes essays by Werner Muensterberger, Ingrid Schaffner, and Fred Wilson.
Hardcover, 72 pages, 45 full color illustrations. 2001

Charles LeDray, Sculpture 1989-2002
Documenting this American artist's first solo museum exhibition, Charles LeDray, Sculpture 1989-2002 focuses on his meticulously crafted miniature sculptures in a variety of media, including textiles, ceramics, seashells, and bone, that reflect on childhood, gender, sexuality, and autobiography. Includes an interview with the artist by Claudia Gould, ICA Director, and an essay by Russell Ferguson.
Hardcover, 116 pages, 43 full-color illustrations. 2002 $25.00

Rudi Gernreich
Fashion Will Go Out of Fashion
Introduction and acknowledgments by Claudia Gould with essays by Brigitte Felderer (Curator), Elfriede Jelinek, Layne Nielson, Victoria Steele, and Johannes Porsch and Tanja Widmann, and interviews, with Harry Hay by Stuart Timmons and Peter Weibel by Brigitte Felderer.
86 pgs., 10 illus., 2001, $30 for original Austrian publication and translation supplement, $15 for each individually

   
Richard Tuttle, In Parts, 1998-2001
This catalog is designed to be torn apart! Each of the 13 folios opens up into a small poster showing works now on view in the galleries at home in two private collections. Take advantage of ICA's special offer and buy 2 copies: keep one intact for the bookshelf, rip the other apart and pin it to the wall. Includes an essay by ICA Senior Curator Ingrid Schaffner and a 13-part poetic text by University of Pennsylvania Professor Charles Bernstein.
$25 each, 2 copies for $40

WALL POWER publications:

• A Brief History of Philadelphia Wall Art
  Text by Thora Jacobson and Robin Rice
  27pp., 25 illus., $10

• Voices of the Community: The Murals of Philadelphia
  Text by the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program
  19pp., 24 illus., free with tour

• Billboards are Art in the Money Economy and The Harsh Reality: Billboard Subversion and Graffiti
  Text by Alex Baker, Sharon Zukin and Timothy W. Drescher
  17 pp., 8 illus., $5

• Joseph Bartscherer: Forest
  Text by Judith Tannenbaum
  16 pp., 10 illus., $10.

Terry Adkins: Relay Hymn
Text by Alex Baker, A.M Weaver with Terry Adkins
32pp., 21 illus., 1999, $15.

Robert Arneson: Guardians of the Secret II
Text by J. Tannenbaum
1992, brochure. $2

Richard Artschwager's Themes
Text by R. Armstrong, L. Cathcart, and S. Delehanty.
104 pgs., 83 illus. 1979, $10.

Beyond Belief: Contemporary Art from East Central Europe
Text by Judith Tannenbaum, Alex Baker
36 pp., 25 illus., 1999, $14.

Biographies: Philadelphia Narratives
Texts by Laszlo Beke, Iaroslava Boubnova, Ludvik Hlavacek, Ada Krnacova-Gutleber, Roxana Marcoci, Piotr Piotrowski, Anda Rottenberg, Jiri Sevcik and Jana Sevcikova
164 pp., illus., 1996, $24.95.

Peter Campus: Selected Works 1973-1987
Text by D.S. Rubin and J. Tannenbaum
Published by Freedman Gallery, Albright College. 36 pgs., 24 illus. 1987, $8.

Cho Duck-Hyun Text by P. Murphy
40 pgs., 21 illus. 1995, $12.
Korean artist's first American museum exhibition.

Connections: Bridges/Ladders/Ramps/Staircases/Tunnels. Text by H. Foster and J. Kardon
72 pgs., 99 illus. 1983, $10
Passage as theme and motif by 29 artists including Aycock, Trakas, Serra.

Dorothy Cross: Power House
Text by M. Feldman
32 pgs., 27 illus. 1991, $15
Irish sculptor mines abandoned powerhouse to examine male-female power relationships.

Tacita Dean
Text by Patrick Murphy, Sean Rainbird, Jeremy Millar
48 pp., 13 illus., 1998, $15.

Drawings: The Pluralist Decade Text by J. Kardon, E. deAk, H. Fox, R. Krauss and others; in Italian and English
112 pgs., 68 illus. 1980, $14
Exhibition for U.S. Pavilion at 1980 Venice Biennale. 67 artists. (Also American traveling exhibition featuring same artists and authors. 96 pgs., 73 illus. 1980, $14.)

The East Village Scene
Text by C. McCormick, J. Kardon, and I. Sandler
64 pgs., 55 illus. 1984, $12
22 artists including Basquiat, Greenblat, Haring and others

Face-Off: The Portrait in Recent Art
Text by M. Feldman and B. Buchloh
80 pgs., 47 illus. 1994, $20
22 American and European artists including Boltanski, Hammons, Sherman.

Terra Incognita: The Recent Sculpture of Charles Fahlen Text by S. Westfall and J. Jackson
48 pgs., 13 illus. 1991, $15

Rodney Alan Greenblat's Reality and Imagination: Two Taste Treats in One
Published by the Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University
56 pgs., 55 illus. 1987, $15

High Flying
Text by H. Jackson
6 pgs. 1993, brochure $2
28 artists use athletic footware as material and topic.

ICA Street Sights
Text by P. Marincola
24 pgs., 38 illus. 1980, $7
Art in Philadelphia public spaces by Colette, Oleszko and others

Image Scavengers: Painting
Text by J. Kardon
40 pgs., 27 illus. 1982, $10
Appropriated imagery in works by Longo, Salle and others

Image Scavengers: Photography
Text by D. Crimp and P. Marincola
40 pgs., 21 illus. 1982, $10
Kruger, Levine, Sherman and others

Inside Out: Four Artists from Korea
Text by P. T. Murphy, Junmo Chung and others
56 pgs., 22 illus. 1997, $12
Contemporary Korean artists explore issues of identity within an environment of cultural upheaval.

Interactions Text by J. Tannenbaum
Newspaper format, 20 pgs. 1991, $2.
Collaborations between visual and performing artists.

Investigations1983 Text by J. Kardon, P. Marincola and D. Webster.
5 brochures, $7.50
First of a series of exploratory exhibitions featuring emerging artists and issues. Dowell, Haring, Holzer, Kozloff, Paul.

Investigations1984
Text by J. Kardon, P. Marincola and G. Silk
5 brochures, $7.50
Painters Brown, Colescott, Garet, Pinto; Portrait photography by Coplans, Mapplethorpe and others.

Investigations1985
Text by D. Cameron and others
5 brochures, $7.50
Ahearn & Torres, Fischer, Larson, Scharf, Wojnarowicz

Investigations1986
Text by A. Fraser, L. Liebmann and J. Tannenbaum
4 brochures, $7.50
Applebroog, Glier, McCollum, Reichek

Investigations1987
Text by D. Cameron, G. Indiana and J. Tannenbaum
3 brochures, $7.50
Hajamadi, Hardesty, Kessler.

Investigations1988 Text by J. Bankowsky and others
4 brochures, $7.50
Diller + Scofidio, Ericson and Ziegler, Jaar, Lawler

Investigations1989 Text by M. Feldman and J. Tannenbaum
4 brochures, $7.50
Kabakov, Kippenberger, Sugimoto, Wexler

KarenKilimnik: Escape in Time
Text by M. Feldman
newspaper format, 8 pgs. 1992, $2
Pop culture-inspired ephemera and drawings

Robert Kushner
Text by J. Kardon and D.Kuspit. 64 pgs.
46 illus. 1987, $18
Mid-career survey
(Deluxe edition. With handmade-paper cover, signed and numbered by the artist. $50.)

Jonathan Lasker: Paintings 1985-1992>
Text by M. Feldman
1992, brochure, $2

Stacy Levy Introduction by J. Tannenbaum
1998, 32 pgs., 38 illus., $10
This sculptor and installation artist combines the seemingly disparate disciplines of art and science, giving visible form to natural phenomena.

Glenn Ligon: Unbecoming
Text by J. Tannenbaum, R. Meyer, T. Golden, B. Kim, G. Ligon
64 pgs., 36 illus. 1998, $18
Works from 1988-1997, addressing representation, autobiography, racial and sexual identity.

lumen: Ann Hamilton
Text by J. Tannenbaum
1995, brochure $2
Site-specific installation at ICA.

Machineworks: Vito Acconci, Alice Aycock, Dennis Oppenheim
Text by J. Kardon and K. Larson
64 pgs., 100 illus. 1981, $14
Documents three major new works.

Made in Philadelphia 7
Text by J. Tannenbaum
44 pgs., 22 illus. 1987, $10

Vessels Talismans
Text by J. Kardon
40 pgs., 30 illus. 1979, $8
Neoprimitivism in works by Graves, Pinto, Wiley and others

Arnold Mesches: Painting History, Works from 1982-1994
Text by D. Desmett, J. Tannenbaum and H. Zinn
52 pgs., 27 illus. 1994, $15

Boris Mihailov: After the Fall Text by D. Neumaier
32 pgs., 27 illus. 1995, $12
Documentary-style photographs by Ukrainian artist.

Eileen Neff: The Mountain, a Bed, and a Chair Text by J. Tannenbaum
1992, brochure, $2 Exploration of Cezanne's obsession with Mont Sainte-Victoire.

Time Flies: Stuart Netsky
32 pgs., 20 illus. 1993, $15
Sculptor explores gender identity, AIDS, and consumerism.

Photography: A Sense of Order
Text by J. Kardon and others
60 pgs., 39 illus. 1981, $15
The formalist impulse in photographic works by 15 artists.

Pieces and Performances. Featuring Bark, Wilson, The Bird and the Dirt
8 pgs., 13 illus. 1975, folder $2.

Judith Schaechter: Heart Attacks>
Text by R. Moody and M. Porges
32 pgs., 23 illus. 1995, $15
Gothic-inspired imagery in stained glass and related drawings.

Signs of Life: Process and Materials 1960-1990
Text by M. Feldman
64 pgs., 42 illus. 1990, $16
23 artists including Long, Mendieta, Smithson.

Mimi Smith: Steel Wool Politics
Text by J. Tannenbaum
36 pgs. 26 illus. 1994, $12
Smith addresses social and technological issues using domestic materials.

Sticker Shock
Text by Alex Baker.
24 pp., 28 illus., 1999, $5.

"Success is a job in New York:" The Early Art and Business of Andy Warhol
Pub. by the Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, NYU; and the Carnegie Museum of Art
92 pgs., 144 illus. 1989, $25

Paul Thek: Processions (SOLD OUT)
Text by S. Delehanty
64 pgs., 74 illus. 1977, $12
Catalog of "Processions" project and other installations

Three Stanzas: Miroslaw Balka, Robert Gober, Seamus Heaney
Text by Patrick Murphy
32 pp., 1999, $8.

Urban Encounters: Art, Architecture, Audience
Text by L. Alloway, N. Foote and others
64 pgs., 85 illus. 1980, $15
Assessment of public art.

Venturi Scott Brown: Two Responses to Some Immediate Issues
Folio, 12 pgs. 1993, $5
Essays by the architects accompanying exhibition "About Architecture."

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