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Marcel Duchamp

Duchamp & co.   Pierre Cabanne. Paris : Terrail, c1997.
The world of Marcel Duchamp, 1887-1968 by Calvin Tomkins and the editors of Time-Life Books.

 

Isamu Noguchi

Isamu Noguchi, spaceof akari & stone. San Francisco : Chronicle Books, 1986.
Isamu Noguchi text by Sam Hunter. New York : Abbeville Press, [1978]
A sculptor's world Isamu Noguchi ; foreword by R. Buckminster Fuller. Gottingen : Steidl, 2004.
 Noguchi Museum 

  

Joseph Beuys

Arena : where would I have got if I had been intelligent! edited by Lynne Cooke and Karen Kelly. New York : Dia Center for the Arts, c1994.
The essential Joseph Beuys - Alain Borer ; edited by Lothar Schirmer.
MoMA on Joseph Bueys

 

Robert Irwin   

Artist talk on YouTube.
Seeing is forgetting the name of the thingone sees : a life of contemporary artist Robert Irwin by Lawrence Weschler. Berkeley : University of California Press, c1982. 
Robert Irwin exhibition organized by Richard Koshalek and Kerry Brougher. Los Angeles, Calif. : Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles ; New York : Rizzoli, c1993. 

 

James Turrell    

James Turrell : Geometrie des Lichts =James Turrell : geometry of light edited by Ursula Sinnreich, Kulturbetriebe Unna. Ostfildern, Germany : Hatje Cantz, c2009.
James Turrell : light & space an exhibition organized by Barbara Haskell. New York : Whitney Museum of American Art, c1980.
 Turrell on ART21.

 

Olafur Eliasson

Olafur Eliasson Madeleine Grynsztejn, Daniel Birnbaum, Michael Speaks. London : Phaidon, c2002.
Olafur Eliasson : your lighthouse : works with light 1991-2004. Ostfilden-Ruit : Hatje Cantz Verlag, c2004.
Eliasson website.

 

Andy Goldsworthy  

Rivers and tides [DVD] : Andy Goldsworthy working with time: a film by Thomas Riedelsheimer. c2006.
Wood / Andy Goldsworthy ; introduction by Terry Friedman. New York : Harry N. Abrams, 1996.
 Andy Goldsworthy : a collaboration withnature. New York : Abrams, 1990.
 Hand to earth : Andy Goldsworthy sculpture, 1976-1990 / [edited by Terry Friedman andAndy Goldsworthy]. New York : H.N. Abrams, 1993. 
Studio visit - youTube video by Tate Modern

 

Wolfgang Laib 

Wolfgang Laib : somewhere else. Ostfildern : Cantz, c1999.
Wolfgang Laib : a retrospective / Klaus Ottmann, with an essay by Margit Rowell, and a conversation between the artist and Harald Szeemann. New York : American Federation of Arts and Hatje Cantz, 2000.
Wolfgang Laib: Returning to What Is. An Interview with Wolfgang Laib.

 

Ann Hamilton  

Ann Hamilton by Joan Simon. New York : Harry N. Abrams, 2002.
Ann Hamilton : an inventory of objects Joan Simon. New York : Gregory R. Miller & Co., c2006. 
Hamilton on ART21.

 

Diana Thater

Diana Thater - the artist's museum - on Vimeo from MOCA
Diana Thater : between science and magic. [Santa Monica] : Santa Monica Museum of Art : Distributed by r.a.m. publications + distributions, 2010. 
Thater's website.

 

Cai Gui Qiang 

Cai Guo-Qiang: Dana Friis-Hansen, Octavio Zaya, Serizawa Takashi. London ; New York, NY : Phaidon, 2002. 
Cai Guo-Qiang : I want to believe: Thomas Krens and Alexandra Munroe. New York : Guggenheim Museum : D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers [distributor], 2008.
Qiang website. 
Cai Guo-Qiang: Mystery Circle - on Vimeo from MOCA

 

John Cage

Silence; lectures and writings, by John Cage. Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press 1973.
John Cage / edited by Richard Kostelanetz. New York : Praeger, c1970.
Cage's website.
John Cage and David Tudor in Concert in San Francisco, Jan. 16, 1965. (audio)

 

Meredith Monk 

Ellis Island and Book of days on DVD conceived and directed by Meredith Monk.
Book of Days, excerpt on YouTube
Monk website.

 

Robert Rauschenberg 

 Robert Rauschenberg, a retrospective : Walter Hopps and Susan Davidson ; with essays by Trisha Brown ... [et al.]. New York : Guggenheim Museum, c1999.
Off the wall : Robert Rauschenberg and the art world of our time : Calvin Tomkins. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1980.
Robert Rauschenberg on the Art Story

 

Robert Wilson 

Robert Wilson's vision : an exhibition of works by Robert Wilson with a sound environment by Hans Peter Kuhn : Trevor Fairbrother. Boston : Museum of Fine Arts ; New York : H.N. Abrams, 1991.
Robert Wilson, the theater of images : The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, The Byrd Hoffman Foundation, New York. New York : Harper, c1984.
 Wilson website. 
 
 

Janet Cardiff


Janet Cardiff : a survey of works including collaborations with George Bures Miller : Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. Long Island City, NY : P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center ; New York : Available through D.A.P./Distributed Arts Publishers, [2001?]
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller. Opera for a Small Room.
Cardiff website.

 

Gordon Matta Clark  

Gordon Matta Clark : you are the measure edited by Elisabeth Sussman. New York : Whitney Museum of American Art ; New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007.
Gordon Matta-Clark : works and collected writings: Gloria Moure. Barcelona : Ediciones Poligrafa, c2006.
Gordon Matta-Clark exhibit walk-through with Jane Crawford on Vimeo by Howard Silver

 

Christian Marclay  

Christian Marclay : Jennifer Gonzalez, Kim Gordon, Matthew Higgs. London ; New York :Phaidon, c2005.
Link to The Clock  youtube links.... 
The Clock - installation on YouTube
Christian Marclay - a mini-documentary
 
 

Damian Ortega

Do it yourself: Damian Ortega. New York, N.Y. : Skira Rizzoli ; Boston, Mass. : Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 2009.
On Damian Ortega on Artcube

 

 

Bill Viola    

Bill Viola : curated by David A.Ross and Peter Sellars ; with contributions by Lewis Hyde ... [et al.]. New York : Whitney Museum of American Art in association with Flammarion, Paris-New York, 1997.
Reasons for knocking at an empty house : writings 1973-1994: Bill Viola ; edited by Robert Violette in collaboration with the author ; introduction by Jean-Christophe Ammann. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press ; London : Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1995.
Bill Viola videorecording : selected works [DVD] : [all works conceived and produced byBillViola]. Los Angeles, CA : Voyager Press, c1986.

 

Martin Puryear   

Martin Puryear : by Neal Benezra ; with an essay by Robert Storr. New York : Thamesand Hudson ; Chicago : The Art Institute, c1991.
Martin Puryear : John Elderfield ... [et al.]. New York : Museum of Modern Art, c2007.
Martin Puryear on Art21

 

Pipilotti Rist  

Die farbe deiner Socken] : ein jahr mit Pipilotti Rist = The color of your socks : a year with Pipilotti Rist. [DVD] San Francisco, CA : Microcinema International, c2011.
Pipilotti Rist / Peggy Phelan, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Elisabeth Bronfen. London ; New York : Phaidon, 2001.
Pipilotti Rist - Ever is Over All on YouTube

 

Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman / Coosje van Bruggen. New York : Rizzoli, 1988.
Bruce Nauman : topological gardens / Carlos Basualdo and Michael R. Taylor. Philadelphia, PA : Philadelphia Museum of Art ; New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009.
Bruce Nauman at Art21

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