Nicolas Schoffer: A Selective Bibliography Compiled by Aileen Smith, June 2007 This bibliography consists of a selective list of books and articles relating to Nicolas Schoffer. Those books held within the AA Library are indicated with a shelfmark. Books (Alphabetically by title) 2 kinetic sculptors: Nicolas Schoffer and Jean Tinguely / Jewish Museum, New York New York: Jewish Museum, 1965 AA SHELFMARK: 73.036:92SCH JEW Architectures experimentales 1950-2000: collection au FRAC Centre / Marie-Ange Brayer Orleans: Hyx, 2003 ISBN 2910385302 (includes work by Nicolas Schoffer) AA SHELFMARK: 72.036 BRA (REF-MLC) Exhibition of kinetic art / Nicolas Schoffer 1968 (solo exhibition catalogue) Dusseldorf: Stadtische Kunsthalle, Exhibition of works / Nicolas Schoffer New York: Waddell Gallery, 1968 (solo exhibition catalogue) Exhibition of works / Nicholas Schoffer Paris: Galerie Denise Renee, 1970 Microtemps / Nicholas Schoffer Paris: Galerie Denise Rene, 1966 (solo exhibition catalogue) Nicolas Schoffer [space, light, time] / introduction by Jean Cassou; texts by Guy Habasque and Jacques Menetrier; translated from the French by Haakon Chevalier / Guy Habasque Neuchatel: Editions du Griffon, 1963 Nicolas Schoffer: ruimte, licht, tijd / Nicolas Schoffer Museum 1964 Amsterdam: Stedelijk
Nouvel esprit artistique. / Nicholas Schoffer Paris: Denoel/Gonthier, 1970 (Mediations, no.72) BRITISH LIBRARY CATALOGUE L oeil moteur: art optique et cinetique, 1950-1976 / Musee d art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg: Group Exhibition Catalogue (includes work by Nicolas Schoffer) Strasbourg: Musee d Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, 2005 Painting & sculpture of a decade 54-64 / organized by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation at the Tate Gallery London: Tate Gallery, 1964 (includes Chronos 5 by Nicolas Schoffer) AA SHELFMARK: 75.036+73.036 TAT (STORE) Schoffer / Nicolas Schoffer London: ICA, 1960 (solo exhibition catalogue) Schoffer / Musee des Arts Decoratifs Parsi: Le Musee des Arts Decoratifs, 1963 (solo exhibition catalogue) Schoffer: sculpture / Nicolas Schoffer Paris: Galerie Denise Rene, 1958 (solo exhibition catalogue) Spatiodynamisme / Nicolas Schoffer Boulogne: Editions AA, 1955 NATIONAL ART LIBRARY CATALOGUE Spatiodynamisme, luminodynamisme, chronodynamisme, cybernetique: 1948-1970 / Denise Rene Paris: Galerie Denise Rene, 1970 BRITISH LIBRARY CATALOGUE Theorie des miroirs / Nicolas Schoffer Paris: Pierre Belford, 1982 ISBN 2714414664 NATIONAL ART LIBRARY+BRITISH LIBRARY CATALOGUES Theories and documents of contemporary art: a sourcebook of artists writings / Kristine Stiles and Peter Selz Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1996 (includes The three stages of dynamic sculpture by Nicolas Schoffer) AA SHELFMARK: 7.036(08) STI
Tour lumiere cybernetique / Nicolas Schoffer Paris: Denoel/Gontheir, 1973 NATIONAL ART LIBRARY CATALOGUE Ville cybernitique / Nicolas Schoffer Paris: Tchou, 1969 NATIONAL ART LIBRARY + BRITISH LIBRARY CATALOGUES Journal Articles (Chronologically by year and month) 2005 Nicolas Schoffer, createur d idees / article by Sophie Roulet in Architecture Interieure (320) June/August 2005 / p.36 (text in Quand l art cinetique devait changer la vie / article by Valere Bertrand (on kinetic art, including work by Nicolas Schoffer) in Connaissance des Arts no.627 May 2005 / p.90-97 (text in Nicolas Schoffer / article by Paul-Louis Rinuy in Revue de l Art no.147 2005 / p.110-111 (text in 2004 Nicolas Schoffer: Villa Tamaris, Fondation Vasarely / article by Nikola Jankovic; translated by C Penwarden in Art Press no.305 October 2004 / p.80-81 (full text pdf via Art Index online) 1998 The oblique function meets electronic media / article by Claude Parent (Claude Parent discusses his work with Nicolas Schoffer) in Architectural Design vol.68 no.5/6 May/June 1998 / p.74-77 1993 Schoffer et Tinguely: aux deux poles de l art contemporain, FIAC 93: Galerie Denise Rene, Paris (exhibition) / article by Gilles Plazy in Cimaise vol.40 September/October 1993 / p.70-73 (text in
Nicolas Schoffer 1912-1992: obituary in Leonardo vol.26 no.1 1993 / p.9-10 1989 Nicolas Schoffer / article by Michel Faucher in Cimaise vol.36 September/October 1989/ p.105-108 Nicolas Schoffer exhibition at Galerie Denise Rene, Paris / article by Marielle Ernould-Gandouet in L Oeil (Lausanne, Switzerland) no.410 September 1989 / p.80-81 (text in 1985 Sonic and visual structures: theory and experiment / article by Nicolas Schoffer in Leonardo vol.18 no.2 1985 / p.59-68+ 1976 Schoffer per le Halles: how to use this framed excavation (project for an entertainment, sports and meditation center at the site of Les Halles, Paris; designed by Nicolas Schoffer) in Domus (561) August 1976 / p.4-5 (text in Italian) 1974 Cybernetics and architecture: an interview with Nicolas Schoffer / article by Marion Tournon-Branly in Architectes no.48 May 1974 / p.22-26 1966 Cybernetic City in Architectural Forum, 124 (1) January/February 1966 / p.95 Espace-lumiere-temps ; Architect: Nicolas Schoffer in Urbanisme, 35 (92) 1966 / within pp.12-81 (text in
1960 Nicolas Schoffer / article by John Ernest in Architectural Design no.12 December 1960 / p.517-520 1958 Theatre spatiodynamique: projet de Nicolas Schoffer in Aujourd hui, Art et Architecture no. 3 May 1958 / p.96 (text in 1955 Industrial aesthetics: does it exist? / article by Nicolas Schoffer and G Habasque (with special reference to structures connected with electricity hydro-electric stations and pylons) in Aujourd hui Art et Architecture no.4 1955 / p.44-94 (text in Website www.olats.org/schoffer Compiled by Aileen Smith, Deputy Librarian June 2007