{"product_id":"sherrie-levine-galerie-nachst-st-stephan-vienna-1988","title":"Sherrie Levine — Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, 1988","description":"\u003cp\u003eSoftcover exhibition catalogue, 14 × 20 cm, 68 pages, offset printed with colour and black-and-white illustrations. Texts by Dieter Schwarz and Sherrie Levine (\u003cem\u003eA Simple Heart\u003c\/em\u003e), published in English and German. Good vintage condition: light age toning to covers, minor surface marks and shelf wear, gentle handling throughout. Internally clean and complete.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProduced for Sherrie Levine’s May 1988 exhibition at Galerie nächst St. Stephan in Vienna, shortly after Rosemarie Schwarzwälder assumed ownership of the gallery and expanded its programme around international conceptual and post-minimal practices. By this point Levine had established herself as one of the defining figures of the Pictures Generation through works such as \u003cem\u003eAfter Walker Evans\u003c\/em\u003e, fundamentally reshaping debates around originality, authorship, and appropriation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe publication documents this pivotal moment, reproducing key photographic and geometric works from the 1980s alongside critical writing and Levine’s literary intervention, \u003cem\u003eA Simple Heart\u003c\/em\u003e — itself an appropriation of Gustave Flaubert’s famous parrot narrative. More than a straightforward exhibition catalogue, the book belongs to a generation of publications that carried postmodern discourse beyond the gallery walls.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring the late 1980s, printed catalogues were essential vehicles through which conceptual art circulated internationally, functioning simultaneously as exhibition record, theoretical text, and portable artwork. Many remained in academic collections or institutional libraries, making well-preserved trade copies increasingly uncommon today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA compact but significant publication from one of the defining artists of late twentieth-century conceptual practice, documenting a period when appropriation art moved from controversy into the centre of contemporary art history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShipping and handling included in the listed price.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Galerie nächst St. Stephan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53783306338642,"sku":"LEVINE-NACHST-CAT-1988","price":65.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Levine_Sherrie._Vienna_Galerie_Nachst_St._Stephan_1988._1988_front.jpg?v=1781758385","url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/products\/sherrie-levine-galerie-nachst-st-stephan-vienna-1988","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}