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Bettina Funcke
Pop or Populus
Art Between high and Low
The alienation between high culture and its public is a fundamental conflict of art in our times. Writer Bettina Funcke, the United States editor of the cutting-edge British art journal Parkett, develops a theory of contemporary art in response to our moment, when artists and critics must respond to art’s unprecedented popularity. Selecting texts from important philosophers and art theorists of the last century, including Friedrich Nietzsche, Jacques Rancière, Theodor W. Adorno, Clement Greenberg, Benjamin Buchloh, and Boris Groys, Funcke uses the theoretical framework they provide to explore a dialectic of art propelled by tension between the enduring history of art and the domineering presence of mass culture. Funcke’s work has also been published in Afterall, Artforum, Public and Texte zur Kunst.
220 pp / 15 b/w and 23 color
ISBN: 978-1-933128-89-4
Retail Price: $24.95
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Liam Gillick
How Are You Going to Behave? A Kitchen Cat Speaks
This book documents Gillick’s project for the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2009. It contains an introduction by the curator, a text by Liam Gillick about his work as well as the text spoken by the kitchen cat present in the show: “She speaks from the present and fights against the echoes of building’s interior. It’s history is one of misrepresentation, misunderstanding and desires. Thus, the pavilion becomes a location for endless self-circulating histories that—in the end—represents our history as well.”
164 pp / 6 x 9 inches / 40 color
ISBN: 978-1-933128-74-0
Retail Price: $19.95