FORMER WEST – Research Library

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:

Sort order:

A
Art History Versus Aesthetics	James Elkins and Michael Newman	Routledge	2006	AT
Art Power	Boris Groys	MIT Press	2008	AT
Art and Theory After Socialism	Mel Jordan and Malcom Miles	University of Chicago Press	2009	AT
Art and Its Institutions: Current Conflicts, Critique and Collaborations	Nina Möntmann	London: Black Dog Publishing	2006	AT
Art and Revolution: Transversal Activism in the Long Twentieth Century (Semiotext(e) Active Agents)	Gerald Raunig and Aileen Derieg	Semiotext(e)	2007	AT
Art and Contemporary Critical Practice: Reinventing Institutional Critique	Gerald Raunig and Gene Ray	MayFly Press	2009	AT
The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture	Hal Foster	New Press	2002	AT
Art after Modernism: Rethinking Representation (Art Criticism and Theory)	Brian Wallis	New Museum of Contemporary Art and David R Godine	1992	AT
Art School (Propositions for the 21st Century)	Steven Henry Mads	Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press	2009	AT
B
Being an Artist in Post-Fordist Times (Arts in Society)	Pascal Gielen and Paul De Bruyne	NAi Publishers	2009	AT
C
Column 4: Spaces of Art, Institutional and post-institutional practices in contemporary art	Reuben Keehan	Artspace	2009	AT
Curating and the Educational Turn	Paul O’Neil and Mick Wilson	Open Editions and de Appel	2010	AT
Citizens and Subjects: The Netherlands, for example. A Critical Reader	Rosi Braidotti, Charles Esche, and Maria Hlavajova	BAK, basis voor actuele kunst and JRP\|Ringier	2007	AT
Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination: Politics, Ethics, Affect	Marsha Meskimmon	Routledge	2010	AT
D
Design and Crime (and Other Diatribes)	Hal Foster	Verso	2003	AT
E
Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics	Rosalyn Deutsch	MIT Press	1996	AT
The End of Art Theory: Criticism and Post Modernity	Victor Burgin	Palgrave Macmillan	1986	AT
Escape the Overcode: Activist Art in the Control Society	Brian Holmes	Van Abbemuseum	2009	AT
The Exiles of Marcel Duchamp	TJ Demos	Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press	2007	AT
Experience, Memory, Reenactment	Anke Bangma, Steve Rushton, and Florian Wüst	Revolver and Piet Zwart Institute	2005	AT
G
Geopolitics and Geoculture: Essays on the Changing World-System (Studies in Modern Capitalism)	Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein	Cambridge University Press	1991	ATGLO
H
How to Do Things with Art: The Meaning of Art’s Performativity	Dorothea von Hantelmann	JRP\|Ringier	2010	AT
High Price: Art Between the Market and Celebrity Culture	Isabelle Graw	New York/ Berlin: Sternberg Press	2010	AT
L
The Language of New Media	Lev Manovich	Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press	2002	AT
M
The Murmuring of the Artistic Multitude: Global Art, Memory and Post-fordism	Pascal Gielen	Amsterdam: Valiz	2009	AT
MJ Manifesta Journal Vol 2: Journal of Contemporary Curatorship No. 4-5-6	Viktor Misiano and Igor Zabel	Silvana Editoriale	2008	AT
Modest Proposals [TR/EN]	Charles Esche	Baglan Press	2005	AT
MJ Manifesta Journal Vol 1: Journal of Contemporary Curatorship No. 1-2-3	Viktor Misiano and Igor Zabel	Silvana Editoriale	2008	AT
O
The Optical Unconscious	Rosalind Krauss	Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press	1994	AT
On Knowledge Production: A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art	Maria Hlavajova, Jill Winder, and Binna Choi	BAK, basis voor actuele kunst and Revolver	2008	AT
The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths	Rosalind Krauss	Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press	1999	AT
On (Surplus) Value in Art	Diedrich Diederichsen	Witte de With and Sternberg Press	2009	AT
On Criticism (Thinking in Action)	Noel Carrol	Routledge	2009	AT
P
Postproduction. Culture as Screenplay: How Art Reprograms the World	Nicholas Bourriaud	Berlin/New York: Lukas & Sternberg	2007	AT
Perpetual Inventory	Rosalind Krauss	Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press	2010	AT
R
The Return of Religion and Other Myths: A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art	Maria Hlavajova, Sven Lütticken, and Jill Winder	BAK, basis voor actuele kunst and post editions	2009	AT
Right about Now: Art and Theory since the 1990s	Margriet Schavemakers & Mischa Rakier	Amsterdam: Valiz	2007	AT
The Radicant	Nicolas Bourriaud	Berlin/New York: Lukas & Sternberg	2009	AT
The Return of the Real: Avant-Garde at the End of the Century	Hal Foster	Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press	2001	AT
Re-enchantment (Art Seminar)	James Elkins and Michael Newman	Routledge	2009	AT
S
The State of Art Criticism (Art Seminar)	James Elkins and Michael Newman	Routledge	2008	AT
T
Terra Infirma: Geography’s Visual Culture	Irit Rogoff	Routledge	2000	AT
Time Action Vision: Conversations in Cultural Studies, Theory, and Activism	Christian Höller	JRP\|Ringier	2008	AT
Thinking Worlds: The Moscow Conference on Philosophy, Politics, and Art	Joseph Backstein, Daniel Birnbaum, Sven-Olov Wallenstein	New York/ Berlin: Sternberg Press	2008	AT
Theory of the Avant-Garde (Theory and History of Literature Vol. 4)	Peter Bürger	University of Minnesota Press	1984	AT
Taking the Matter into Common Hands: Contemporary Art and Collaborative Practices	Johanna Billing, Maria Lind, and Lars Nilsson	London: Black Dog Publishing	2007	AT
U
Under Pressure: Pictures, Subjects, and the New Spirit of Capitalism	Daniel Birnbaum and Isabelle Graw	New York/ Berlin: Sternberg Press	2008	AT
V
Visual Display: Culture Beyond Appearances (Discussions in Contemporary Culture, No 10)	Lynne Cooke and Peter Wollen	New Press	1999	ATAH
Vision and Visuality: Discussions in Contemporary Culture	Hal Foster	New Press	1998	AT
W
The Wal-Mart Phenomenon: Resisting Neo-Liberal Power through Art, Design and Theory	Benda Hofmeyr	Jan van Eyck Academie	2008	AT
Wait to Wait: A Conversation	Boris Groys and Andro Wekua	JRP\|Ringier	2009	AT

This site is the web platform of the FORMER WEST project. The project is organized and coordinated by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst. BAK is responsible for the website content.

Research Library

A

B

C

D

E

G

H

L

M

O

P

R

S

T

U

V

W