{"title":"Olaf Breuning","description":"\u003cp\u003eArtist books, exhibition catalogues, and printed matter by Olaf Breuning. Original editions documenting Breuning's photography, video, performance, and installation work — including his early monograph \u003cem\u003eUgly\u003c\/em\u003e (Hatje Cantz, 2001) and subsequent publications. Collectible publications from one of contemporary art's most prolific image-makers, working across costume, parody, constructed identity, and visual excess.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"olaf-breuning-ugly-hatje-cantz-2001","title":"Olaf Breuning — Ugly — Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2001","description":"\u003cp\u003eHardcover. 160 pages. 22.5 × 30.5 cm. Colour and black-and-white illustrations throughout. Text in English. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2001.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished at the beginning of the 2000s, \u003cem\u003eUgly\u003c\/em\u003e gathers a decade of Olaf Breuning’s photographs, videos, performances, road trips, costumes, disguises, staged accidents, and constructed identities. Produced before social media but already operating within a culture of accelerated images, the publication records a practice built from excess, imitation, parody, and deliberate overproduction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book belongs to a moment when contemporary art absorbed material from television, advertising, youth culture, amateur photography, tattoo imagery, road movies, and early digital aesthetics. Breuning’s work moved freely between these territories, treating them less as subjects than as available material.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs an object, \u003cem\u003eUgly\u003c\/em\u003e functions somewhere between monograph, image archive, and personal inventory. Costumes appear. Vehicles appear. Performers appear. Temporary situations are staged, photographed, and retained. The publication becomes a storage device for events that otherwise existed only briefly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore than two decades later, the book reads as an unusually direct record of a period when contemporary art was beginning to mirror the speed, instability, and visual density of everyday image culture. A substantial early Olaf Breuning publication from the period that established the visual language for which he remains best known.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Good vintage condition. Light shelf wear to boards and edges. Minor handling marks. Clean interior.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included in the listed price.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The New Rare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53769767190866,"sku":"BREUNING-HATJECANTZ-CAT-2001","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Breuning_Olaf._Ugly._2001.jpg?v=1781645780"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/olaf-breuning.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}