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Santa Monica: Smart Art Press, 1999. First Edition. Softcover. New. New copy. First Edition. 64 pages, Softcover, 9 x 11 1/2 inches, 1999. ISBN #0965058352. A comprehensive designer, Alan Rath makes interdisciplinary art that incorporates his studies of human behavior, sociology, physics, chemistry, art history, artificial intelligence, and a fair dose of humor. Robotics documents the full range of his creativity, featuring cathode ray–tube sculptures that display close-up images of blinking eyes, noses,licking lips, and hand signals; games that use LED numerals programmed to engage in mathematical equations and puzzles; esoteric number systems; and haunting robotic sculptures—his most recent and engaging body of work. Essay by critic David Ebony and an appreciation by Nobel Laureate Murray Gell-Mann of the Santa Fe Institute.

Santa Monica: Smart Art Press, 2002. First Edition. Softcover. New. New copy. First Edition. 36 pages, Softcover, 9 x 6 inches, 2002. Alan Rath's "Stereo" project originated from his unending interest in all forms of electronics-both audio and video-from his pre-teen years through his studies at MIT and his current artistic output. Rath has worked in various forms of new media: LEDs, audio woofer speakers, cathode ray tubes (CRTs), a new generation of robotics, and recently an amalgam of these different bodies of work. For Rath, the sound of a blaring electric guitar epitomized the analog sound of the 1970s and he is now paying homage to these electronic roots. The exhibition includes eight handmade stereos that feature the power amplifiers he designed and built. Though state-of-the-art, Rath's stereos are housed in a variety of "sculptures," from vintage suitcases to gleaming aluminum towers to a Chinese wall shrine, which, taken together, use sound reproduction to span both history and culture.. .… Read More

Using technology as both subject and medium of his artistic inventions, Alan Rath's deft hands animate industrial detritus with a curious life force. His sculptures—part botanical, part anthropomorphic, part mechanical—conflate the disparate realms of technology and nature. With a substantial dose of humor, the objects operate as emotional and psychological metaphors, illuminating the ways in which technology shapes our perception of the world. With essays by Peter Boswell, Louis Grachos, John Hanhardt, and Donna Karkavy.
48 pages, Softcover/Paperback, 10 x 7 1/2 inches, 1995

Santa Monica: Smart Art Press, 1995. Softcover. New. New copy. . 48 pages, Softcover, 10 x 7 1/2 inches, 1995. ISBN #096464262x. Using technology as both subject and medium of his artistic inventions, Alan Rath's deft hands animate industrial detritus with a curious life force. His sculptures—part botanical, part anthropomorphic, part mechanical—conflate the disparate realms of technology and nature. With a substantial dose of humor, the objects operate as emotional and psychological metaphors, illuminating the ways in which technology shapes our perception of the world. With essays by Peter Boswell, Louis Grachos, John Hanhardt, and Donna Karkavy.

Santa Monica: Smart Art Press, 2007. First Edition. Softcover. New. New copy. First Edition. 84 pages, Softcover, 4.5 x 6.5 inches, 2007. ISBN #9788493423636. White Wine Press No. 8. . Art & Language proposes a scathing answer to what they see as a deliberately misinformed and vicious attack by a woman critic, Rosalind Krauss, who misreads not only their work but also their intentions and professional relations in favour of her own personal agenda. . . In English and in Spanish. The book can be turned upside down and read in the reverse direction for the two different versions.. . The name Art & Language was first adopted in 1968, to refer to a collaborative practice that had developed over the previous two years between Michael Baldwin and Terry Atkinson, in association with David Bainbridge and Harold Hurrell. In 1970 Ian Burn and Mel Ramsden merged their separate collaboration with Art & Language. The journal "Art-Language" was first published in May 1969 and a second journal "The Fox was… Read More

Santa Monica: Smart Art Press, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. New. New copy. First Edition. 102 pages, Softcover, 11 x 9 inches, 1998. ISBN #1889195251. As the title suggests, Amnesia explores South America as a forgotten continent within the context of a dominantly Western art world, examining how the issues reflected in contemporary discourse have been formed, shaped, and processed through a colonial history. Serving as the first major introduction of many of these artists to an international audience, this exhibition catalogue traces a variety of artistic, political, and cultural issues through the work of sixteen contemporary artists from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela. Essays by Monica Amor, Dan Cameron, Charles Merewether, and Adriano Pedrosa.

Santa Monica: Smart Art Press, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. New. New copy. First Edition. 90 pages, Hardcover, 10.5 x 10.5 inches, 2000. ISBN #1889195456. "Anthony Hernandez’s Pictures for Rome (1998-99), made while he was a fellow at the American Academy, make no reference to any iconic images of that historic city and its famous edifices. Instead, these elegantly disturbing color photographs examine what could be considered a series of unofficial urban monuments composed from the distressed architectural elements and detritus found inside abandoned buildings. It may seem like an exaggeration to speak of the monumental aspect of such lost and lowly artifacts, but Hernandez’s photographs prompt us to view the things he shows us with fascination, deference, and even, on occasion, awe....". --Ralph Rugoff

Santa Monica: Smart Art Press, 1999. First Edition. Softcover. New. New copy. First Edition. 64 pages, Softcover, 8 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches, 1999. ISBN #1889195413. At the Curve of the World is a catalogue of an exhibition that examines current feminist strategies in art. The eight artists featured in the catalogue—Mariana Botey, E.V. Day, Laurie Dahlberg and Anne Fishbein, Diana López, Gertrudis Rivalta, Elena del Rivero, and Sandra Vivas—share a fierce dedication to engendering social disturbance and demanding new terms of engagement with traditional historical narratives. Through a variety of media, they confront the intellectual strategies of contemporary art with resonant human feeling to stimulate a vital dialogue on gender and history. Contributors include Jan Avgikos, Rubén Gallo, Lynell George, Rita González, Carlos Lizarralde, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Kevin Power, and Linda Yablonsky. Edited by Pilar Perez.

Santa Monica: Smart Art Press/Plug In Editions, 1996. First Edition. Softcover. New. New copy. First Edition. 84 pages, Softcover, 4 x 6 inches, 1996. ISBN #1889195928. Rotterdam-based artist Joep van Lieshout creates engaging but enigmatic containers-streamlined, curvilinear molds decorated with occasional dashes of paradoxical materials like fur and liqueur bottles-which mimic sterile architectural spaces like mobile homes, office units, deprivation chambers, washbasins, toilet bowls, and shelving units. This jewel-like book accompanied a 1996 traveling exhibition of Van Lieshout's work. .

Santa Monica: Smart Art Press, 2006. First Edition. Softcover. New. New copy. First Edition. 52 pages, Softcover, 4.5 x 6.5 inches, 2006. ISBN #8493423653. White Wine Press No. 2. . Santiago Bose was a major Philippine artist, highly conscious of the weight and legacy of the Colonial past on the Archipelago. His text centers on his early education on an American army base in Baguio and its cultural impact.. . In English and in Spanish. The book can be turned upside down and read in the reverse direction for the two different versions.. . "Santiago Bose has always been known in Philippine contemporary art as an innovator and a bricoleur who explored the shifting archipelago of his culture. It is a culture shaped by the domination of empire in its various guises in history as well as the creative struggles against empire which generated a lively makeshift strategy of resisting exhaustion. Bose thought of himself as a drifter whose oeuvre and life made up a diary full of incident, diverse engagement,… Read More

Santa Monica: Smart Art Press, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. New. New copy. First Edition. 72 pages, Softcover, 11 x 10 inches, 1998. ISBN #1889195219. Since 1989, the New York–based duo of Drew Beattie and Daniel Davidson has pursued an unusual creative partnership, working together and in alternation on densely layered, freewheeling paintings and collages that reflect Beattie and Davidson’s improvisational approach and blur conventional lines of authorship. Essays by David Humphrey and Larry Rinder.

Santa Monica: Smart Art Press/Plug In, 1998. 2nd printing. Softcover. New. New copy. 2nd printing. 124 pages, Softcover, 10 1/2 x 9 inches, 1998. ISBN #0921381131. Featuring collages, assemblages, drawings, facsimile texts, and never-before-seen photographs, Beck and Al Hansen: Playing with Matches examines the artistic relationship between Grammy-winning musician Beck and his grandfather Happenings/Fluxus artist Al Hansen. Al Hansen’s collages incorporate the artist’s love of found objects—Hershey bar wrappers, girlie magazine portraits, cigarette butts, and of course, matches—as the raw materials for his performances and assemblage sculptures. Beck Hansen is best known for his multiplatinum-selling recordings like Odelay, which exhibit a "junkman’s passion for discarded styles and stances." Both artists seek to transform and elevate the base, often nasty detritus of everyday life into a dynamic aesthetic experience. Essay by Wayne Baerwaldt, interview with Beck by Carlo McCormick. . .… Read More

Santa Monica: Smart Art Press, 1997. First Edition. Softcover. New. New copy. First Edition. 112 pages, Softcover, 9 x 6 inches, 1997. ISBN #1889195146. Three exhibits of protest graphics held in 1997 at Track 16 Gallery in Santa Monica. A catalogue in three separate volumes bound in vellum, Blood, Sweat and Tears documents a trio of exhibitions that look at the graphics of protest, locally and internationally. The first "Los Angeles: At the Center & On the Edge" explores the graphic making machines that marked the decades from the 60s to the 90s. Also includes an essay by Carol Wells, who founded the Center for the Study of Political Graphics. Next is "Shouts from the Wall" an exhibition of posters and photographs from the Spanish Civil War by American Volunteers and includes an essay by Cary Nelson. And finally, "No Justice No Peace" documenting the bloody conflict of Northern Ireland with an introduction by Trisha Ziff and and text by Don Mullan. Vellum cover includes a manifesto by Tom Patchett.

Santa Monica: Smart Art Press/Semiotext(e), 2000. First Edition. Softcover. New. New copy. First Edition. 64 pages, Softcover, 7 x 4 1/2 inches, 2000. ISBN #1889195359. Los Angeles writer and artist Bob Flanagan created performances with partner Sheree Rose which shocked and inspired audiences from Seattle to Boston to Berlin. He combined text, video, and live performance to create a highly personal but universal exploration of childhood, sex, illness, and mortality. The Pain Journal, Flanagan’s last complete work, is an extraordinary chronicle of the last year of his life before his death from cystic fibrosis at the age of forty-three. Whereas Flanagan’s notorious book The Fuck Journal (Hanuman Press, 1994) celebrated the erotics of pain, The Pain Journal is a close-up view of his ragged coexistence with the inescapable, intimate pain of his own disease.

Santa Monica: Smart Art Press, 1994. First Edition. Spiral-Bound. New. New copy. First Edition. 22 pages, Spiral-Bound, 10 x 6 1/2 inches, 1994. ISBN #1889195863. This is the exhibition catalogue from Payne's first show at Track 16 Gallery. It was also the gallery's inaugural exhibition and defined many of the ideas that the Santa Monica gallery would explore in the years to come. The work of Burt Payne 3 juxtaposes layers of meaning and materials to derive humor from a harsh, often unforgiving world. This exhibition catalogue of Payne’s early work bursts with social commentary and conceptual wit. Essay by Tom Patchett..

Santa Monica: Smart Art Press/Dryhouse Books, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. New. New copy. First Edition. 90 pages, Hardcover, 11 x 8 1/4 inches, 1994. ISBN #0963332104. Payne's infamous book based on his CalArts MFA thesis that explored the school's admissions process. He secretly applied to the school under four aliases and documented each one’s journey through the admission process. Who is allowed to study at our country's most prestigious art schools? Follow the rise and fall of these ambitious fictitious artists.

Santa Monica: Smart Art Press, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. New. New copy. First Edition. 36 pages, Softcover, 8 7/8 x 6 inches, 1998. The inspiration for Cameron Jamie’s Rugburn is a late-sixties phenomenon known as "apartment wrestling," in which participants staged wrestling matches at home, photographed them, and sent the photographs to wrestling magazines—a kind of homemade soft porn. In Jamie’s lurid take on the sport we see the artist—in long johns, a mask, and a plastic derriere—pitted against a number of bizarre competitors in various domestic locales. With heavy S/M overtones and an uneasy sense of voyeurism, these photographs blur the boundaries between reality and play, between identity and character. With short fiction by David A. Greene.

Santa Monica: Smart Art Press, 2001. First Edition. Softcover. New. New copy. First Edition. 72 pages, Softcover, 8 x 8 inches, 2001. ISBN #1-889195-46-4. "Within this catalogue, Smart Art Press is proud to champion the provocative political work of 57 individual artists. We thank them and the organizers of this exhibition, who feel a deep responsibility to draw attention to oppressive conditions that can only be changed with unrelenting protest." -- Tom Patchett. . Over 60 black and white images. Some of the artists featured are Sandow Birk, John Outterbridge, Robbie Conal, Dread Scott, Diane Gamboa, William Beccio and Daniel Martinez. Writings by Mariana Botey, Martin Espada, Mike Ladd, Mark LeVine, Jerry Quickley, Zack de la Rocha and Sergio Munoz-Sarmiento.

Santa Monica: Smart Art Press, 1995. First Edition. New. New copy. First Edition. 16 x 20 inches, 1995. CHAIN REACTION - CHECKLIST. An Abbreviated Survey of Idea-Based Art. Curated By Steven Leiber. October 6, 1995 - December 22, 1995. Chain Reaction is an exhibit that examines the line of descent beginning with Picasso's Cubist experiments in the 1920s and extends through tangential branches of 20th century art to the advent of California idea-based art of the 1960s and 70s. Following a path of vanguard thinkers, Chain Reaction begins with works by Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp. On view will be Cubist prints by Picasso and a range of works by Duchamp including a Boite en Valise, Coeur Volant and A Poster Within a Poster (Duchamp's "Wanted" poster from the Pasadena Museum of Art's retrospective of 1963). How Pop Art is descended from Duchamp's opening up the subject of art to include the notion of the "readymade" can be viewed in works by Andy Warhol and others who fully explored the worlds of… Read More

Santa Monica: Smart Art Press/ArtCenter College of Design, 1996. First Edition. Softcover. New. New copy. First Edition. 40 pages, Softcover, 9 3/4 x 7 inches, 1996. ISBN #1889195057. Chance is a catalogue that documents the spectacular philosophical rave and summit meeting between artists and philosophers, chaosophists and croupiers, mathematicians and musicians, which was produced by Chris Kraus for Art Center College of Design in November 1996 at Whiskey Pete’s in the Nevada desert. Includes writing by Fred Dewey and Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe.