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WORLD FOOD BOOKS Established in 2009 World Food Books is a contemporary art and design bookshop and mail-order servic

We are dedicated to presenting a quality selection of international contemporary art and design journals, monographs and artists’ editions to Melbourne and beyond. As well as specialising in contemporary art and design publishing we stock a selection of theory, fashion, architecture, sub-culture and fiction titles. We also present select rare and out-of-print books, journals, monographs, catalogue

s and ephemera. Our online store and mailorder service is open 24/7, with dispatches all week long. Physical store closed fort he summer, re-opening February 2016

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WORLD FOOD BOOKS also has outlets at Westspace and MUMA

Available via www.worldfoodbooks.comNEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: TEXTE ZUR KUNST #120 “THE FEMINIST" (2020)•"Exactly three deca...
13/02/2021

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NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: TEXTE ZUR KUNST #120 “THE FEMINIST" (2020)
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"Exactly three decades after the inaugural issue of TZK was published, we return to the question of where the hard-won and still-embattled rights of women* stand. With this issue, entitled ‘The Feminist’, we celebrate 30 years of controversial discussions about contemporary art and culture. We have invited 30 artists, critics, curators, and theorists of art and culture to talk about a cultural object that they believe is currently of particular interest from a feminist perspective. In highlighting feminist discourses that are especially relevant to the present moment, this issue should illustrate the plurality of thinkers who contribute to feminist projects today. A gesture to the unity and the alliances that critique grounded in solidarity can build!” —from the editorial by Isabelle Graw, Katharina Hausladen, and Genevieve Lipinsky de Orlov.
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With contributions by Isabelle Graw, Jeanetta Rich, Mirjam Thomann, Amanda Schmitt, Christian Liclair, Juliane Rebentisch, Jessica Aimufua, Katharina Hausladen, Nikita Gale, Beate Söntgen, Stacey Gillian Abe, Genevieve Lipinsky de Orlov, Taylor Le Melle, Victoria Sin, Julia Heldt, Nadja Abt, Alina Astrova, Astrid Mania, Hanna Magauer, Brigitte Weingart, Paul Niedermayer, Keren Cytter, Steven Warwick, Bini Adamczak, Raphaela Vogel, Miriam Zeh, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Violaine Huisman, Trakal …

Available via www.worldfoodbooks.comNEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: DESTINY (2020)•Australian artist Destiny Deacon, a Kuku and Eru...
13/02/2021

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NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: DESTINY (2020)
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Australian artist Destiny Deacon, a Kuku and Erub/Mer (North-East Cape York and Torres Strait) woman, is known for having coined the term ‘blak’, in a reclaiming and recasting of a word with myriad connotations of colonialism and prejudice. Her work sits in the uncomfortable but compelling space between comedy and tragedy. Working across photography, video, printmaking, mixed media and installation, Deacon interrogates the way in which Aboriginal people have been, and continue to be, misrepresented within popular culture.
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This publication, edited by Myles Russell-Cook, Curator, Indigenous Art at the NGV and curator of the exhibition DESTINY, is the largest in-depth study of Deacon’s practice ever to appear in book form. Through all-blak scholarship and images of Deacon’s work spanning more than thirty years, we gain a strong sense of Deacon as artist and person, and of her enduring fascination with the human condition.

Available via www.worldfoodbooks.comBACK IN THE BOOKSHOP: SETH SIEGELAUB: BETTER READ THAN DEAD - WRITINGS AND INTERVIEW...
12/02/2021

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BACK IN THE BOOKSHOP: SETH SIEGELAUB: BETTER READ THAN DEAD - WRITINGS AND INTERVIEWS 1964–2013 (2020)
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An essential sourcebook on conceptual art’s famed champion, reproducing his texts as scans to immerse the reader in this deep archival dive.
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“Better Read Than Dead” was the title that the great American art dealer, curator, author and researcher Seth Siegelaub (1941-2013) had chosen for an anthology of his own writings—one of the projects for which he never found the time, busy as he was running his global one-man operation. Here, happily, that project is now fulfilled.
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The selected writings, interviews, extended bibliography and chronology gathered in this Siegelaub sourcebook fill the historical gaps in the sprawling network of exhibitions, publications, projects, and collections that constitute Siegelaub’s life’s work.
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Here, Siegelaub’s writings are reproduced as scans in order to convey the variety of the documents and to give a sense of archival immersion. Interspersed with these “writings” are interviews and talks, several newly transcribed. The majority of interviews from 1969-1972 are reprinted here.

BACK IN THE BOOKSHOP: HÉLIO OITICICA : DANCE IN MY EXPERIENCE (2020)•One of the most radical and joyful artists of the ...
12/12/2020

BACK IN THE BOOKSHOP: HÉLIO OITICICA : DANCE IN MY EXPERIENCE (2020)
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One of the most radical and joyful artists of the 20th century, Hélio Oiticica (1937-80) helped lead the charge in Brazilian art’s unique transition from abstract concrete art to performative objects and collective performance.
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As MoMA’s 2019 exhibition Sur Moderno demonstrated, one of Oiticica’s most revolutionary projects was the Parangolé, wearable sculptures made from fabric, plastic or paper. The Parangolé is meant to be worn, inhabited and danced by a participant, lending a physical spontaneity to the piece that entirely blurs the boundaries between the art object and those who experience it.
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Dance in My Experience, a lavishly illustrated major new monograph, traces the genealogy of this theme within the artist’s oeuvre, identifying rhythmic, choreographic and dance elements throughout his trajectory, from his first Metaesquemas through the Spatial Reliefs, Nuclei and Bólides, culminating in the Parangolés. Texts by Oiticica and numerous scholars in English. Edited with text by Adriano Pedrosa, Tomás Toledo.
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NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: HÉLIO OITICICA : DANCE IN MY EXPERIENCE (2020)•One of the most radical and joyful artists of the 2...
12/12/2020

NEW IN THE BOOKSHOP: HÉLIO OITICICA : DANCE IN MY EXPERIENCE (2020)
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One of the most radical and joyful artists of the 20th century, Hélio Oiticica (1937-80) helped lead the charge in Brazilian art’s unique transition from abstract concrete art to performative objects and collective performance.
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As MoMA’s 2019 exhibition Sur Moderno demonstrated, one of Oiticica’s most revolutionary projects was the Parangolé, wearable sculptures made from fabric, plastic or paper. The Parangolé is meant to be worn, inhabited and danced by a participant, lending a physical spontaneity to the piece that entirely blurs the boundaries between the art object and those who experience it.
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Dance in My Experience, a lavishly illustrated major new monograph, traces the genealogy of this theme within the artist’s oeuvre, identifying rhythmic, choreographic and dance elements throughout his trajectory, from his first Metaesquemas through the Spatial Reliefs, Nuclei and Bólides, culminating in the Parangolés. Texts by Oiticica and numerous scholars in English. Edited with text by Adriano Pedrosa, Tomás Toledo.
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BACK IN THE BOOKSHOP: HAIM STEINBACH - OBJECT AND DISPLAY (ONCE AGAIN THE WORLD IS FLAT)(2015)•Primarily known for his p...
12/12/2020

BACK IN THE BOOKSHOP: HAIM STEINBACH - OBJECT AND DISPLAY (ONCE AGAIN THE WORLD IS FLAT)(2015)
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Primarily known for his paradigmatic "shelves" displaying everyday objects, Haim Steinbach (born 1944) has developed a practice that evolved from early minimalist painting with grids and monochromes to later large-scale installations that have seldom been seen in the US. Growing out of a traveling exhibition that features works drawn from throughout Steinbach's career, as well as archival materials and new site-specific installations, Object and Display urges readers to take a closer look at this seminal artist's works. Hundreds of full-color illustrations document the exhibition, which included photographs, models and recreations from past works, along with photography of the site-specific installations that appeared at each institution. New essays by writers Johanna Burton and Germano Celant explore the evolution of Steinbach's practice and his investigations into what constitutes an art object and how art and objects are displayed. Interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Tom Eccles, Beatrix Ruf.
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BACK IN THE BOOKSHOP: RON NAGLE - HANDSOME DRIFTER (2020)•One of the most original artists working today, San Francisco–...
11/12/2020

BACK IN THE BOOKSHOP: RON NAGLE - HANDSOME DRIFTER (2020)
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One of the most original artists working today, San Francisco–based Ron Nagle (born 1939)—the enfant terrible of abstract expressionist ceramics—has made stunning, colourful, entirely unique small clay sculptures since the 1950s.
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In his sculpture, Nagle mixes allusions to modernism, middlebrow culture and the special pop sensibility of Northern California, making ceramic vessels no bigger than a few inches that draw on everything from Japanese tea ceremonies to Krazy Kat. Made with an overarching sense of playfulness and linguistic humor, a bodily and architectural sensibility, and Nagle’s keen attention to colour, these finely tuned, pitch-perfect sculptures condense sensory pleasure into perfect packages of experience and feeling. Their miniature scale makes these odd, elegant, sensual and sometimes abject little abstract sculptures endlessly charming models for the imagination.
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Lushly illustrated, Ron Nagle: Handsome Drifter is the most comprehensive and scholarly publication on the artist to date, with essays by curator Apsara DiQuinzio and Berlin-based art critic and theorist Jan Verwoert. A lively conversation about Nagle’s studio practice and unique process with curator and director Dan Byers of Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts rounds out this unmissable book. Includes sections of Naples drawings and visual inspiration.
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