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Endless
ISBN: PB: 9780945323273, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, January 2021
124 pp., 22x14.5 cm, 51 colour plates, 26 halftones
For over fifteen years, Karen Reimer has dedicated her artistic life to reconsidering modernist ideals and minimalist embodiment through the intriguing quirks of handmade and everyday objects".Endless", offers over seventy-five gorgeous reproductions...
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£21,00
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More Alive Than Those Who Made Them
ISBN: PB: 9780945323266, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, July 2015
54 pp., 24.8x17.2 cm, 24 colour plates
This book brings together for the first time an influential series of sculptures made with department store mannequins that American artist and writer John Miller created, often in collaboration with Austrian artist Richard Hoeck. The book is built a...
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£15,00
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Edge Habitat Materials
ISBN: HB: 9780945323259, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, June 2015
145 pp., 22.8x16.5 cm, illustrated in colour throughout
Chicago-based artist Helen Mirra creates works that explore the relationship between the natural world and the everyday lives and activities of the people who live in it. Aesthetically minimalist, her works deploy repetition and a large range of refe...
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£19,00
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Modular Objects Civil Society
ISBN: HB: 9780945323235, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, May 2015
152 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 143 halftones
"Modular Objects Civil Society" creatively reimagines the ways in which communities collectively produce meaning through the social environments they inhabit – and thereby cultivate. At its heart, the book is a reflection on the performance of living...
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£19,00
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Shimmering Beast
ISBN: PB: 9780945323211, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, April 2012
120 pp., 18.3x11.7 cm
By turns funny and abstruse, "The Shimmering Beast" is the newest book by accomplished video artist Steve Reinke, which brings together his best pieces of prose. Hybrids of criticism, fiction, and personal essays, each chapter takes on another's work...
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£15,00
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Blast Counterblast
ISBN: PB: 9781926627175, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, February 2012
192 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm, 7 line illus.
"Blast Counterblast" is a multifaceted, fascinating examination of the way intellectuals interact – through influence, through argumentation, and through criticism. Looking at both Wyndham Lewis's modernist publication "BLAST" and Marshall McLuhan's...
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£18,00
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Anne Wilson: Wind/Rewind/Weave
ISBN: PB: 9780945323228, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, January 2012
163 pp., 25.1x20.3 cm, throughout illus.
"Anne Wilson: Wind/Rewind Weave" documents an exhibition of the same title organized by the Knoxville Museum of Art and visual artist Anne Wilson to investigate the global crisis of production and skill-based textile labor. This volume includes evoca...
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£22,50
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Traveling the Spaceways Sun Ra, the Astro Black and other Solar Myths
ISBN: PB: 9780945323150, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, December 2010
91 pp., 23.9x16.8 cm, 70 colour illus.
Sun Ra (1914-1993) – self-proclaimed visionary extraterrestrial of the "Angel Race", prophetic jazz band leader and composer, and lyrical proponent of Afro-futurism – was one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century music. Though many of...
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£19,00
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Proximity to Power, American Style
ISBN: PB: 9780945323181, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, December 2008
108 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 77 colour plates, 45 halftones
Just in time for the 2008 election, WhiteWalls presents a comprehensive collection of Silvia Kolbowski's wry and searching responses to the questionable actions of the American government, as well as recent national shifts in legal, corporate, and cu...
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£11,50
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With Love From Haha Essays and Notes on a Collective Practice
ISBN: PB: 9780945323136, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, September 2008
172 pp., 22.6x19 cm, 120 colour plates, 27 halftones
Since its inception in 1988, the art collective Haha has created twenty-one projects – including sculptural installations, community-based projects, and video works – in the United States and Europe. Members Richard House, Wendy Jacob, Laurie Palmer,...
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£19,00
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