Rule Without Exception

Nice overview of the career of Lewis Baltz, the founder of the New Topographics movement. Exhibition organized by Julia Brown Turrell with text by numerous writers, critics and artists. 156 pages; 110 b&w and 25 color plates; 9.75 x 13.25 inches. Chronology. List of monographs. Exhibition list. Bibliography. Bios of the contributors.

Baltz, Lewis

Univ of New Mexico Pr

Lewis Baltz is an artist whose work has always sythesized broader cultural issues. Breaking from his past serial formats, this striking exhibition catalog tackles the job of documenting the artists monumnetal color installations created from 1991 through 1995. Baltz moves from the phsical landscape into the virtual and veiled landscape of contemporary global culture. Featured are all three trilogies, Ronde de Nuit , Docile Bodies and The Politics of Bacteria Essay by curator Cornelia H. Butler.

The Politics of Bacteria, Docile Bodies, Ronde de Nuit

Arts & Photography

Butler, Cornelia H.

Photography & Video

Ram Publications

First edition thus (The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, California was originally published in 1974 by Castelli Graphics, New York, with a second edition published by RAM Publications and Steidl in 2001. The Tract Houses. The Prototype Works are the first edition), first printing. Hardcover. Volume One (The Tract Houses): black cloth-covered boards and title blind-stamped on cover and spine; Volume Two (The Prototype Works): white cloth-covered boards with title blind-stamped on cover and stamped in black on spine. Volume Three (The New Industrial Parks near Irvine, California): gray cloth-covered boards with title blind-stamped on cover and stamped in black on spine. Each volume in a white dust jacket with title printed in black and gray on cover and spine. The three volumes are housed in a sturdy black paper-covered slipcase with "BALTZ" stamped in white on the front. Photographs by Lewis Baltz. Essay (in English and German) by Sheryl Conkelton (in Volume One). Introduction by Adam

Baltz (English and German Edition)

Individual Artists

Ram Pubns & Dist

LEWIS BALTZ COFFRET 3 VOL THE TRACT HOUSES/THE PROTOTYPE WORKS/THE NEW INDUSTRIAL PARKS NEAR IRVINE

Steidl

First edition, first printing. 10 volumes. Limited edition of 1,100 numbered copies, with a certificate (bound in Volume 9), signed and numbered in pencil by Baltz. Gray linen cloth-covered boards with title stamped in white on spine; no dust jacket as issued; contained in a matching slipcase with title stamped in white on front. The slipcase is further contained in a white printed cardboard case with carrying handle, and the outer case is packed in a printed cardboard shipping box. Photographs by Lewis Baltz. Volume 1: The Prototype Works, 1967-76. Text by Matthew S. Witkovsky. 188 pp., with quadratone plates. --- Volume 2: The Tract Houses, 1971. Foreword by Adam D. Weinberg. Text by Sheryl Conkelton. 60 pp., with quadratone plates. --- Volume 3: The New Industrial Parks near Irvine, California, 1974. 108 pp., with quadratone plates. --- Volume 4: Maryland, 1976. Text by Jane Livingston. 56 pp., with quadratone plates. --- Volume 5: Nevada, 1977. Text by Robert Sobieszek. 44 pp., with quadratone plates. --- Volume 6: Park City, 1980. Text by Hubertus von Amelunxen. 216 pp., with quadratone plates. --- Volume 7: San Quentin Point, 1986. 120 pp., with quadratone plates. --- Volume 8: Near Reno, 1986. 32 pp., with quadratone plates. --- Volume 9: Continuous Fire Polar Circle, 1986. 20 pp., with quadratone plates. --- Volume 10: Sites of Technology, 1989-91. Text by Antonello Frongia. 120 pp., with quadratone and four-color plates. The set includes a certificate signed and numbered by Baltz. Beautifully printed by Steidl, Göttingen.

Works

Beginning in 1965, but especially in the years between 1967 and 1971, Lewis Baltz made a body of work concentrated on the dialectic between simple, regular geometric forms found in the postwar industrial landscape, and the culture that generated such forms. Stucco walls, parking lots, the sides of warehouse sheds or disused billboards baked in the steady Californian sunlight. Baltz called his works "Prototypes," by which he meant replicable social conventions as well as model structures of replicable manufacture. Marking Baltz's preliminary forays into a minimal aesthetic, The Prototype Works continued his work to capture the reality of a sprawling Western ecology gone wild.

The Prototype Works

In the late 1960s and early 1970s Lewis Baltz became fascinated by the stark, repellent, man-made landscape that was rolling over California's then still-agrarian terrain. Baltz made a number of projects on this subject, the best known, The new Industrial Parks near Irvine, California was published as a limited edition book by Leo Castelli in 1974. With this book Baltz took his place near the centre of the New Topographic movement, a newly coined term emblematic of a cool, distanced, yet critical view of the emerging man-altered landscape. The Topographic position, detached and glacial, has influenced photographic practice in the United States, Germany and Japan for the past 25 years.Out of print since 1980, The new Industrial Parks near Irvine, California is once again available in a facsimile edition of the original publication.

THE NEW INDUSTRIAL PARKS NEAR IRVINE, CA

Rule without exception =: Regel ohne Ausnahme (German Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Scalo Verlag

Candlestick Point

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