Alastair R. Noble
Mapping Arcadia
Artist's book. Noble's 2007 installation at THE LAND, with an accompanying text by Jorge Luis Borges. Color photographs. Signed by the artist.
Price: $30
Alastair R. Noble and Michael J. Howard
Wittgenstein's Flights
Artist's book. A meditation on the writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein after wandering the moorland of Glossop, near the Grouse Inn, the site of Wittgenstein's kite-flying experiments and meteorological research of 1908-11. Color photographs. Signed by Alastair Noble.
Price: $35
Steve Peters
Here-ings: A sonic geohistory
La Alameda Press. With photographs by Margot Geist. Composer/sound artist Steve Peters' project at THE LAND. Wishing to develop an intimate relationship with the site rather than impose his own noise upon it, Peters devoted himself to the act of listening to the sounds that were there during each hour of the day and night over the course of one year. Here-ings spans the disciplines of acoustic ecology, environmental and performance art, poetry, sculpture, installation, and contemplative practice. Includes CD.
Price: $20
Miriam Sagan
Map of the Lost
University of New Mexico Press. Centered in northern New Mexico, this collection of poetry describes a series of journeys that create maps of place and memory. Author of more than twenty books, Sagan recently completed a residency at THE LAND/an art site.
Price: $25
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Robert Smithson
Catalog to the comprehensive 2004 exhibit. 280 pp., lavishly illustrated.
Special price: $14.95
Lynne Cooke and Karen Kelly, Editors
Robert Smithson: Spiral Jetty
True Fictions, False Realities
Dia Art Foundation, University of California Press. Essays on the most iconic of earthworks. 208 pp., illustrated throughout.
Special price: $19.95