Research Library
- The Research Library is a continually expanding curated selection of exhibition catalogs, artist monographs, art theory, and cultural studies publications as well as works from theory, postcolonial studies, political history, geopolitics, and other fields. Together these materials seek to provide an overview of the key exhibitions, artists, theories, and discourses that made a significant contribution to charting the shifts in contemporary art and intellectual debates from 1989 till today. The physical Library is housed at BAK; an online version of it, complete with a short entry on each publication explaining why the book is relevant to FORMER WEST project research, can be accessed below. Please note that the selection of artist monographs and catalogs of solo exhibitions is not available online at this time. We are happy to receive suggestions for books to include in the Research Library. Please send an e-mail with the book title, publication data, and a short message to info@formerwest.org. If you would like to visit the physical library at BAK in Utrecht, please schedule an appointment (during visiting hours, Wednesday–Saturday 12.00–17.00 hrs, Sunday 13.00–17.00 hrs) by sending an e-mail to info@bak-utrecht.nl.
- Categories:
2010
European Cultural Policies 2015 Maria Lind and Raimund Minichbauer London, Stockholm, Vienna: Iaspis and eipcp 2010 AH The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader Amelia Jones Routledge 2010 AH 2009
A Brief History of Curating Hans Ulrich Obrist JRP|Ringier 2009 AH Continuing Dialogues. A Tribute to Igor Zabel Christa Benzer, Christine Bohler, Christiane Erharter JRP|Ringier 2009 AH The Fall of the Studio. Artists at Work Wouter Davidts and Kim Paice Amsterdam: Valiz 2009 AH The Global Art World. Audiences, Markets and Museums Peter Weibel and Andrea Buddenseig Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz 2009 AH Institutional Critique: An Anthology of Artists’ Writings Alexander Alberro and Blake Stinson Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press 2009 AH In the Shadow of Yalta: Art and the Avant-Garde in Eastern Europe Piotr Piotrowski London: Reaktion Books 2009 AH Interviews, Volume 2 Hans Ulrich Obrist Charta 2009 AH Thinking About Exhibitions Reesa Greenberg, Bruce W. Ferguson, and Sandy Nairne London: Routledge 2009 AH What is Contemporary Art? Terry Smith University of Chicago Press 2009 AH 2008
Antinomies of Art and Culture: Modernity, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity Nancy Condee, Terry Smith, and Okwui Enwezor Duke University Press 2008 AH Cold War Confrontations: US Exhibitions and the Cultural Cold War Jack Masey and Conway Lloyd Morgan Baden: Lars Müller Publishers 2008 AH Questioning History. Imagining the Past in Contemporary Art (Reflect #07) Frank van der Stok, Frits Gierstberg, Flip Bool NAi Publishers 2008 AH 2007
Art and Social Change: A Critical Reader Will Bradley, Charles Esche London: Tate Publishing 2007 AH Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism (2004) Hal Foster, Rosalind Krauss, Yve-Alain Bois, and Benjamin H.D. Buchloch London: Thames and Hudson 2007 AH Curating Subjects Paul O’Neill London: Open Editions 2007 AH Contemporary Art and the Museum: A Global Perspective Peter Weibel and Andrea Buddenseig Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz 2007 AH Collectivism After Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination after 1945 Blake Stimson and Gregory Scholette Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 2007 AH Talking Prices: Symbolic Meanings of Prices on the Market for Contemporary Art Olav Velthuis Princeton: Princeton University Press 2007 AH 2006
High Art Lite: The Rise and Fall of Young British Art Julian Stallabrass Verso 2006 AH Institutional Critique and After (SoCCAS Symposium vol. II) John C. Welchman JRP|Ringier 2006 AH Participation : Documents in Contemporary Art Claire Bishop London & Cambridge: Whitechapel and MIT Press 2006 AH 2005
Imaginary Economics: Contemporary Artists and the World of Big Money Olav Velthuis NAi Publishers 2005 AH Installation Art Claire Bishop Tate Publishing 2005 AH The Manifesta Decade: Debates on Contemporary Art Exhibitions and Biennials in Post-Wall Europe Barbara Vanderlinden and Elena Filipovic Cambridge, Mass.: Roomade & MIT Press 2005 AH Make Everything New: A Project on Communism Grant Watson, et al. Book Works 2005 AH Requiem for Communism (2003) Charity Scribner Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press 2005 AH 2004
Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity Alexander Alberro Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press 2004 AH Global Artworld, Inc.: On the Globalization of Contemporary Art (Figura Nova Series, No. 32) Charlotte Byder Uppsala University Press 2004 AH One Place after Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity Miwon Kwon MIT Press 2004 AH 2003
Interviews, Volume 1 Hans Ulrich Obrist Charta 2003 AH Neo-avantgarde and Culture Industry: Essays on European and American Art from 1955 to 1975 Benjamin H.D. Buchloh Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press 2003 AH Neo-Avantgarde and Culture Industry: Essays on European and American Art from 1955 to 1975 (October Books) Benjamin H. D. Buchloh MIT Press 2003 AH Privatising Culture: Corporate Art Intervention Since the 1980s Chin-Tao Wu Verso 2003 AH Postmodernism and the Postsocialist Condition: Politicized Art under Late Socialism Ales Erjavec University of California Press 2003 AH 2002
Conceptual Art (Themes and Movements) Peter Osborne Phaidon Press 2002 AH What Do You Expect from an Art Institution in the 21st Century? Mark Sanchez and Jerome Sans Paris: Palais de Toyko 2002 AH 2001
Als de kunst er om vraagt. De Sonsbeek tentoonstellingen Jeroen Boomgaard, Marga van Mechelen, Miriam van Rijsingen Stichting tentoonstellingsinitiatieven/Gemeenschap Beeldende Kunstenaars 2001 AH 2000
Bachelors Rosalind Krauss Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press 2000 AH Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology Alexander Alberro and Blake Stinson Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press 2000 AH Who Paid the Piper? CIA and the Cultural Cold War (1999) Frances Stonor Saunders London: Granta Books 2000 AH 1999
Art at the Turn of the Millennium Burkhard Riemschneider and Uta Grosenick Taschen 1999 AH Reading the Contemporary: African Art from Theory to the Marketplace Olu Oguibe and Okwui Enwezor Institute for International Visual Arts (INIVA) & MIT Press 1999 AH Visual Display: Culture Beyond Appearances (Discussions in Contemporary Culture, No 10) Lynne Cooke and Peter Wollen New Press 1999 ATAH 1998
Art of the Postmodern Era: From the Late 1960s to the Early 1990s (1996) Irving Sandler Boulder: Westview Press 1998 AH Be Magazin #5. Science and Surfaces Heike Dander, Michael Haerdter, Annette Sievert Berlin: Künstlerhaus Bethanien 1998 AH 1997
Beyond Ethics and Aesthetics. Voorbij ethiek en esthetiek Ine Gevers, Jeanne van Heeswijk Nijmegen: SUN 1997 AH Ruckblick auf das programm 96 der Shedhalle Marion von Osten Zürich: Shedhalle 1997 AH 1996
Be Magazin #4. Holodecks Heike Dander, Michael Haerdter, Annette Sievert Berlin: Künstlerhaus Bethanien 1996 AH Double Exposures: Subject of Cultural Analysis Mieke Bal Routledge 1996 AH 1995
Be Magazin #3. Boredom Heike Dander, Michael Haerdter, Annette Sievert Berlin: Künstlerhaus Bethanien 1995 AH 1994
Be Magazin #1. Photography Heike Dander, Michael Haerdter, Annette Sievert Berlin: Künstlerhaus Bethanien 1994 AH Museum Culture: Histories, Discourses, Spectacles Irit Rogoff and Daniel J. Sherman Routledge 1994 AH 1989
Blasted Allegories. An Anthology of Writings by Contemporary Artists Brian Wallis Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press 1989 AH
